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Unified launcher for Windows games on Linux (UMU) v1.1.3 out now gamingonlinux.com/2024/10/unifโ€ฆ

#Linux #LinuxGaming #OpenSource



Escape Simulator gets a free Talos Principle DLC out now, plus a paid DLC in December gamingonlinux.com/2024/10/escaโ€ฆ

#SteamDeck #Linux #Gaming



As a 20-year user of #ubuntu I find concerning that the page celebrating the 20 years of the OS is full of references to LinkedIn and twitter: what a disconnect between Ubuntu the company and ubuntu the enthusiast user base. The page, the celebration itself even, is then not for non-paying users but for the enterprise-level users that pay. Makes sense, of course โ€“ a company needs to pay its bills โ€“, but it is nonetheless an upsetting reminder.

While sending dozens upon dozens of bug reports over the years surely doesn't pay the bills, it is also free labour ubuntu got from me. Fair deal, though: I got a free, stable OS out of it, for 20 years, for all our servers, desktops and laptops.

And the "ISV" acronym (independent software vendor) finally explains why the rise of the snap packages, which as a user I don't want anything to do with โ€“ they have consistently brought trouble. Only makes sense, again, from the perspective of an enterprise with bills to pay.

ubuntu.com/20years



Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan

Born poor in colonial India and dead at 32, Ramanujan had fantastical, out-of-nowhere visions that continue to shape the field today.

By Jordana Cepelewicz via @QuantaMagazine

quantamagazine.org/srinivasa-rโ€ฆ

#books #mathematics



Assistant or Associate Professor
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Cambridge University welcomes excellent candidates who can teach and perform research in Plant Ecology and will complement our expertise in forest ecology, conservation, and evolution.
#PlantSciJobs @plantscijobs



Infants have impressive #auditory learning capabilities, even at day 1. Study shows that #newborns & 6โ€“mo-olds already learn & detect #grammar-like rules; the underlying #BrainNetworks reorganize to be more adult-like after the first half-year #PLOSBiology plos.io/3UiaGMg
in reply to PLOS Biology

Interesting that this study on infant brain development is not done with fMRI but with fNIRS (functional near-infrared spectroscopy [1]). And concerning to read about the complete reliance on software provided opaquely by a company for the analysis: "As all fNIRS data preprocessing was carried out on MATLAB-based toolboxes, no custom scripts are available."

[1] fNIRS measures more or less the same as fMRI: blood flow. "Using fNIRS, brain activity is measured by using near-infrared light to estimate cortical hemodynamic activity which occur in response to neural activity." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functionโ€ฆ

#neuroscience

in reply to Albert Cardona

Why is it concerning that the analysis relies entirely on Matlab toolboxes?

1. Reproducing the analysis requires access to the exact toolbox with the exact version number. May also have platform dependencies (e.g., outputs slightly different results on macos, linux, and windows).
2. Often the version of the toolbox is not reported. It isn't in this paper.
3. Increased use of the toolbox may lead to price gouging, excluding many who can't afford to purchase it. Besides the unfairness, this impacts the ability of just about anyone to reproduce the analysis from the raw data.
4. After some years the toolbox may not be available at all, for example if the company considers its maintenance a burden with negative returns on investment.

If you are a reviewer or an editor: at the very least demand the reporting of the toolbox version and the operating system version where it was run. And ideally demand enough specification of the algorithms used by the functions provided in the toolbox that an independent reimplementation and reanalysis is possible.

#reproducibility #academia




๐ŸŒ Join the future of collaboration with new supercharged federation in Nextcloud!

Connect your private Nextcloud with servers worldwide, enabling collaboration without sacrificing control over your data or privacy.

#decentralization #datasovereignty

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Whose little former home is this? Found it on my walk a day ago. It certainly has a lovely paint job!
#egg #bird #myphoto


in reply to Joseph Teller

Thank you for posting this. There are a lot of people that need to see this.

I just find myself saying DUH!

in reply to Joseph Teller

BTW, I think that's because of when I grew up. We knew Russia (USSR back then) was fucking with us.


Bring back this style of UI, you cowards. Let me compute with whimsy :neofox_laptop:



Very pleased that my wood engraving 'Forcan Ridge' has been selected for the Society of Wood Engravers 2025 exhibition. It starts at the Bankside Gallery in London (next door to the Tate) in February before traveling the UK.

All prints in the 2024 exhibition (including another of mine) can be seen here:
societyofwoodengravers.co.uk

And other prints of mine here:
johnaltringham.co.uk




โ€œAn Apple employee demonstrates a new 30-inch flat panel displayโ€

Just a random Apple employee.

in reply to sdw

Sounds like the kind of image description that LLMs generate.



Autumnal colours at the footbridge over the River Dee at the Cambus oโ€™May. This one is a scan of a negative taken with an Olympus Trip 35 loaded with a reel of Kodak Gold 200 film #Aberdeenshire #Scotland #OldSchool #Kodak


I got help in diagnosing my server issues :Blobhaj:

#plushtodon

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JOMO, el antรญdoto para dejar de estar constantemente conectado a las redes sociales

"la alegrรญa de perderse las cosas" es una respuesta a la presiรณn de estar constantemente al dรญa con cada evento, tendencia o experiencia social que surge a nuestro alrededor.

bbc.com/mundo/articles/cz04v0kโ€ฆ




Nextcloud Hub 9 is here! ๐Ÿš€

Introducing federated video calls, Nextcloud Whiteboard, process automation engine Nextcloud Flow, a more natural Nextcloud AI Assistant, ... and so much more!

Collaboration, #decentralization, #datasovereignty & #privacy! โœจ

nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-hโ€ฆ

in reply to Nextcloud ๐Ÿ“ฑโ˜๏ธ๐Ÿ’ป

so, does the new white board replace the previous spacedeck integration? Cancelling my Miro subscription is Nextcloudโ€™s killer app for me.
in reply to Nextcloud ๐Ÿ“ฑโ˜๏ธ๐Ÿ’ป

I think Nextcloud development is going too fast. Apps developers can't keep up and we must delay upgrade. Even the Roundcube app, despite Roundcube being now developed by Nextcloud, is stuck on version 28.




Announcing a new sponsor of the Nextcloud Enterprise Day: SpaceNet ๐Ÿš€

SpaceNet is a Munich-based provider of managed services and data center solutions with focus on security and performance. We are excited to welcome SpaceNet as a sponsor!

nextcloud.com/blog/spacenet-joโ€ฆ



Steam Deck Reddit:

Meme posts and random "i got a deck!" photos: 90000 upvotes

A post I took a while to make individually going over titles: reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/commentโ€ฆ ..... it's at 0



NVIDIA 565.57.01 Beta has Wayland and HDR improvements, plus DXVK and VKD3D optimizations gamingonlinux.com/2024/10/nvidโ€ฆ

#NVIDIA #Linux

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Hi, I hope maybe you have some better information and insight into the situation with Nvidia drivers. Has Nvidia solved the shared memory problem? On Windows, the GPU can use RAM if VRAM is fully utilized. On Linux, this feature does not exist


Science fantasy roguelike epic Caves of Qud releases December 5 gamingonlinux.com/2024/10/scieโ€ฆ

#Roguelike #Linux #SteamDeck



We live in the dumbest possible era of content moderation theverge.com/2024/10/22/242765โ€ฆ
in reply to Administrator

I do regret the lack of mention in this particular article, but I feel like overall it's not true. The Verge and TechCrunch have consistently had the most positive coverage of the fediverse so far.
in reply to Eugen Rochko

They're definitely the most positive, but the lack of mention in an article like this is strange, considering there was already the whole snafu with the elonjet creator moving to masto. The Verge covered it at the time: theverge.com/2022/12/15/235118โ€ฆ

One would think it would be relevant to mention in this article today!



Auto-battler dungeon crawler Skull Horde announced by dev of BORE BLASTERS gamingonlinux.com/2024/10/autoโ€ฆ

#SteamDeck #Linux #IndieGames



Frozen waffles from Kodiak, Target, Walmart recalled due to potential listeria contamination


I don't shop at these stores or buy this brand, but folks who do should pay attention to this.

Get Rid Of These If You Have Them

#FoodRecall #Target #Walmart #Kodiak #TreeHouseFoods #Publix #FoodLion



[New paper]: Two subtle problems with over-representation analysis.
ORA is a type of enrichment analysis that analyses over-represented functional categories in gene lists. These tools have accumulated ~190k citations, but they have subtly different behaviours. Here we unpack the differences and investigate two subtle problems in some implementations, which may have negatively impacted those 190k research papers.
doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbae159
#genomics #bioinformatics
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Happy #autumn everyone! My neighbor across the street Iโ€™m sure thinks Iโ€™m nuts, this time every year I go outside first thing in the morning and start taking pictures of his tree ๐Ÿ˜…

#fall #fallleaves #fallfoliage #denver #colorado



Learn some Linux with the latest Humble Bundle: humblebundleinc.sjv.io/9gbqKE (partner link)


Steam Deck Verified round-up, your late October 2024 highlights gamingonlinux.com/2024/10/steaโ€ฆ

#SteamDeck #Linux #Gaming



Get over 60 games free with Prime Gaming right now - many work on Steam Deck / Linux, some ending soon! gamingonlinux.com/2024/10/get-โ€ฆ

#SteamDeck #Linux #Gaming



Nextcloud has been recognized with the Platinum Award at the prestigious #ITAWARDS 2024 ๐ŸŽ‰

We owe this honor to our amazing team and everyone who voted for us ๐Ÿ’™ Thank you for your support!

Celebrate with us:

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