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Steam sets a new record with 37.2 million concurrent users online gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/stea…

#Steam #Valve #PCGaming



Phage & Bacteria: A Space for Mutual Co-Existence
by Roberto — Phage-bacteria population dynamics can be remarkably complex. This is reflected in the natural history of both; new phage defense systems in bacteria and anti-defense systems in phage seem to be discovered daily. Behind these intricate strategies to help in the reproductive success of each lies the basic problem of any predator-prey relationship.
Read more > tinyurl.com/2e9fyj6w
#microbiology


I was young, maybe 12 years old. My dad had a computer for work, and internet was just being rolled out to most people in rural Ireland.

I copied some HTML source code from some other site and started tinkering with it, and made a website about music. I got frustrated when I couldn't figure out how to get it online. It was basic HTML and I had no idea how to put in images or anything like that.

I remember feeling like I was doing something that could get me in trouble.

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in reply to FionnƔin

I can't remember if I followed any guide. I don't think I did.

I had taken some books out from the library about making websites, but I found them very confusing and think I just somehow figured it out on the computer.

In those days, there never seemed any limit to what I could do with a computer if I just kept mucking about. These days I think I rely too much on online forums or guides, although that also speeds things up a lot.



'ā€œI’m not an artist; I can’t draw anything else,ā€ she said in a recent interview with Quanta. It was ā€œa lot of draw and erase, draw and erase, draw and erase.ā€ After a year of trial and error, she homed in on elegant sheets and looping ribbons to represent atomic structures. These drawings, which first appeared in the journal Advances in Protein Chemistry in 1981, became known as ribbon diagrams.'

quantamagazine.org/how-colorfu…



Long-distance Southern Ocean environmental DNA (eDNA) transect provides insights into spatial marine biota and invasion pathways for non-native species

sciencedirect.com/science/arti…

#eDNA

#eDNA
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in reply to Muse

Oops! I misspelled that from imagining it being named after the need to have citrus fruits on old wooden sailing ships, in order to keep scurvy at bay. Nope, named after the navel like indentation on the bottom!
So: "Navel Gazing" it is!



Dhofar 535 Meteorite Thin Section Gigapixel

Ungrouped Chondrite

Visible light. Camera: Nikon Z6. Zerene Stacker. Picture Window Pro. GIMP. Image Magick. digiCamcontrol.

Solar Anamnesis, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2kuQ8zR

#meteorite



How to create your own lofi mic using an old rotary telephone.
THIS IS SO COOL! I want to DO EEEET!

youtu.be/HZBbGDUgcSs?si=Ahzu4S…

in reply to Muse

The trick is finding a rotary phone.
in reply to Muse

They're collectors items now! Doubly so if made of bakelite.


I have no way to show a preview of this video. IT IS SO CUTE AND HILARIOUS!
Babies have the weirdest senses of humor. Watch this little one laugh until their sides hurt!

twitter.com/i/status/182716454…



DYK not only fish or insects glow? #Research has found that most amphibians glow as well – even if it’s not visible to human eyes. Protect #amphibians and #reptiles every time you shop and #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife palmoildetectives.com/2024/06/… via
@palmoildetectives






French authorities arrest Telegram’s CEO theverge.com/2024/8/24/2422767…


"Pillars of Creation AKA Eagle nebula/M16."

PJ Singh, CC BY 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2qbWfia

#astrophotography



"Messier 16 - The Eagle Nebula region."

Giuseppe Donatiello, CC0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2pXMaSu

#astrophotography



A judge has forced Elon Musk to disclose who helped him buy Twitter.

And to no one's surprise: Two rich Russians from Putin's inner circle were part of the deal. Their names are Petr Aven and Vadim Moshkovich, and allegedly they are related to companies on the list.

And clearly, EU parliamentarian Guy Verhofstadt is not having it.

fortune.com/2024/08/22/elon-mu…

Obviously, indirect Russian relations in itself is not proof of Russian influence.

I will do some more digging.

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Do you know MediaDive, the world’s largest collection of cultivation media for microorganisms 🧫? It contains detailed introductions how to prepare the medium you need for your strain. In addition to the provision of all media used at the DSMZ, you can also create your own media or search for a medium suitable for your strain. Give it a try šŸ˜‰
mediadive.dsmz.de/

#database #microbiology #research #DSMZDigitalDiversity #bacteria #fungi



It is a beautiful morning with the sun shining after a hard rain. We all went outside to see how our flowers held up.
A few were down like one beautiful pink dahlia, but for the most part, the flowers survived.
Our world is very small now, but I do believe we get just as much enjoyment from the flowers we grow ourselves as we would seeing them anywhere else in the universe.
We all found comfort in the fact that most of our flowers weathered the storm.
Now, off to surprise my husband. Every day, he requests bacon and eggs for breakfast and gets something approved on his diet instead, but today, he gets the real deal.
He will be so excited.
#Dahlias #BloomScrolling


Canned pears and pear sauce from our tree. Not even all of them! #canning #growYourOwn
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in reply to Frank Aylward

Yes, we can! šŸ’Ŗ (I still have 6 glasses of apple sauce from last year's harvest and the next harvest is due soon. šŸ™ˆ)


The diel disconnect between cell growth and division in Aureococcus is interrupted by giant virus infection

frontiersin.org/journals/micro…

#viruses #algae #microbiology



Daniel's summer "lion cut" is starting to grow back in. But his tail is still especially adorable. #Caturday #catsofmastodon


Weekend #Plankton #Factoid 🦠🦐
Bythotrephes longimanus (cederstrƶemi), is called the Spiny Water Flea for obvious reasons. It is an invasive species introduced to #GreatLakes in the 1980s from Europe. They are a large (1.5 cm) and highly predaceous #cladoceran #zooplankton that eat 75% of their weight/d. They peak late in the year to huge densities at times. While they compete with planktivorous fishes, they are also a desired prey for fishes like Alewife and Yellow Perch.
nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/GreatL…


  • If a product requires a subscription to work, you don't own it and it could stop working at any time.
  • If a product needs to connect to a server to work, you don't own it and it could stop working at any time.
  • If a product needs an app to work, you don't own it and it could stop working at any time.

-- pe1, in a comment on Ars Technica
(Emphasis added)



Valve made it even easier to see who played on Steam Deck in user reviews gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/valv…

#SteamDeck #Steam #Valve

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux šŸ§šŸŽ®

That's pretty useful. I hope they expand this to some more granular options eg "Played on system similar to mine" (Using hardware survey data) or "Played on Windows/Mac/Linux (Proton)/ Linux (Native)"


Deadlock from Valve no longer a secret - store page is up and we can finally talk about it gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/dead…

#Deadlock #Steam #Valve



Steam Deck gets a global resolution override in latest Beta, plus more desktop Steam fixes gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/stea…

#SteamDeck #Steam

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux šŸ§šŸŽ®

I wish they'd let you set a custom resolution, I have an older TV with a non-standard 1368x768 resolution which is frustrating to use to the deck because it just doesn't scale properly...



Wine 9.16 released with more Wayland work and an initial Driver Store implementation gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/wine…

#Wine #Linux



NVIDIA driver with Linux kernel 6.10 causing kernel oops gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/nvid…

#NVIDIA #Linux



"This repository contains a collection of various lists of #academics on Mastodon. These lists are curated by many awesome folks across various disciplines, so make sure to give them kudos as well!"

nathanlesage.github.io/academi…



"Meteor spotted across Middle TN."

youtube.com/watch?v=mlRnE0OkYs…

#meteor



"Emu In The Sky."

Barnaby Norris, Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International via Wikimedia commons.



"Stunning fireball over south of Spain (Aug. 21) // Gran bola de fuego sobre AndalucĆ­a (21 agosto)"

youtube.com/watch?v=cMMBS5-m2P…

#meteor



Valve officially announces Deadlock, a game ā€˜in early development’ theverge.com/2024/8/23/2421905…


Yesterday's webinar on the new book Governable Spaces - Democratic Design for Online Life by @ntnsndr is now available to view on the Internet Archive.

It was a great conversation.

archive.org/details/governable…



How true, indeed. @Alice @Gargron

ā€žNo one’s ready for thisā€œ iphoneblog.de/2024/08/23/no-on…


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