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Classic Unreal Tournament and Unreal now easier to download free thanks to OldUnreal gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/clasโ€ฆ

#UnrealTournament #FPS #Gaming

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Awesome! Would love to finally finish Unreal Gold on Linux box- never quite figured out how to get it properly patched and running again.


Old School Rally gets split-screen support, new stages and a new car gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/old-โ€ฆ

#Gaming #SteamDeck #Linux



Godot Engine 4.4 dev 4 released with interactive in-game editing gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/godoโ€ฆ

#GodotEngine #Godot #GameDev

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

If I understood that correctly it will add something like the Unity debugging utility. This is awesome, sometimes seeing the state of the game and beeing able to debug the code in parallel is really helpful
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Little Big Adventure โ€“ Twinsen's Quest a remake of the original classic is out now gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/littโ€ฆ

#LittleBigAdventure #Gaming #PCGaming

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Looks cool but I've just noticed a worrying trend.

One of my browser plugins highlights when a game is excluded from the Family Sharing service and this is the 4th I've seen in the last day or so. It used to be the odd AAA release but now it's a bunch of smaller indie games.

As a Dad with 2 kids starting to get into regular gaming the new version of the family sharing on Steam has been wonderful but it will be seriously kneecapped if Devs are seeing it as a bad thing for them



Train finally returns to Counter-Strike 2 in the latest big update gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/traiโ€ฆ

#CS2 #FPS #Linux #PCGaming



literally who hurt genomics to make you all encode one specific kind of number as the ASCII characters from ! to ~ as an integer input to some logarithm function, but then others of you changed the function but kept encoding it as a single ASCII character ranging from -5 to 62 (???), and then later they decided that -5 to 62 was silly and so they changed that to 0-62 and throwing away half the original range for no reason, except actually it's 0-40 by convention.

did anyone consider "encoding it as a number"

doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkp1137

#DataStandards #FileFormats #Genomics

in reply to jonny (good kind)

There's no memory advantage to encoding it as a character vs a number, is there?
in reply to Dr. Angus Andrea Grieve-Smith

@grvsmth filesize advantage. Quality as a number would require minimum two characters (single digit plus delimiter) and maximum of 3 characters (two numbers plus delimiter). Fixed width 0 led would still require two characters. ASCII coding makes it one character per quality score. Minimizes cold file sizes.

Now the multiple FASTQ quality ASCII coding specs are an artifact of Illumina choices. Sanger phred scale should have been the standard all along.



Mesa 24.2.7 out now and Mesa 24.3 may come sooner than expected gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/mesaโ€ฆ

#Linux #Mesa #OpenSource



GOG are doubling down on game preservation, and making it easier to see which games run well on modern PCs | Rock Paper Shotgun

GOG harkening back to "Good Old Games".
It's a great way to differentiate themselves on top of "no DRM".

Maybe someday someone will be able to get some lawyer to find the paperwork for who owns "No One Lives Forever" so it can be updated and preserved.
None of my current laptops even have a CD-ROM drive to read my disks and the hacks to get them running still leave them at an ancient, tiny resolution.

in reply to J. R. DePriest :EA DATA. SF:

@jerry @Gargron Honestly, how am I supposed to expand this collapsed post without activating the link to another website?

(This is using /deck mode)

I was curious to see the post, but I don't open random links like this. This seems like a security issue.

in reply to tsk

infosec.exchange is running a fork of Mastodon with design and UI modifications. I am not responsible for this. Posts do not collapse like this in upstream.





I took my kitty to the vet today. We officially adopted her and found out sheโ€™s a boy, so Isabel has become Is-a-boy lol

#cats #CatsOfMastodon #pets

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I had no idea that my favorite French glassware is made by a cooperative. theconversation.com/la-cooperaโ€ฆ

in reply to Nathan Schneider

@ntnsndr @Hyolobrika on face, that seems like a reasonable hypothesis! maybe in the open source world, we grew too comfortable with โ€œbenevolent dictator for lifeโ€. and obviously, surveillant commercial platforms.
in reply to Steve Randy Waldman

@Hyolobrika And then, before long, the former president becomes a sysadmin and, by teaming up with another sysadmin, becomes president again.




Our new website is live! Take a look here: inner-worlds.ghost.io/

I've set up a whole lot of redirects so noone should get lost trying to find their favourite story.

A huge thank you to our wonderful subscribers who have made this possible ๐Ÿ’–๐ŸŽ‰๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿป

If you would like to support Inner Worlds you can now subscribe via our shiny new website from just ยฃ2 per month

#SFF #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Horror #SpeculativeFiction #Horror #LitMag #ShortStories #ShortFiction



The Guardian is no longer posting on X due to "the often disturbing content promoted or found on the platform, including far-right conspiracy theories and racism."

theguardian.com/media/2024/novโ€ฆ



Do you really have the right to associate, asserted by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

Now out in Nonprofit Quarterly: A call for the policy strategies that we need to really have the right to meet our collective needs through association. This has been many months in the work. Let me know what you think: nonprofitquarterly.org/how-to-โ€ฆ



๐ŸŽ™๏ธ Governments turn to Nextcloud for citizen data privacy and sovereignty!

Join us for this Nextcloud Podcast as we learn about the world of open source in government with Sven Thomsen, CIO of federal state Schleswig-Holstein in Germany ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿฝ

nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-iโ€ฆ



๐Ÿ”— Seems like people are moving around between social media apps so new profile link options now available on your account settings page: You can set Bluesky, Mastodon, and Threads accounts by revealing the "More Links" section. All of these links will appear on your profile page.

Links added will have "rel=me" inserted on your profile so you can get a green check mark on your mastodon profile!

reshared this

in reply to itchio

One more update: The `fediverse:creator` metatag is now inserted into game and blog post pages that you have authored when you assign a Mastodon username to your account.

This will enable itch.io link embeds on Mastodon to show author attribution of your fediverse account. Learn more here: blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/07/โ€ฆ

You must opt-in to the domains that are eligible for attribution from Edit Profile > Public Profile > Verification (and scroll to the bottom, add itch.io and your own subdomain)



Yawnoc is chaotic top-down shooter rogue-lite inspired by Conway's Game of Life and other cellular automata gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/yawnโ€ฆ

#Gaming #Linux #SteamDeck



Suecia se habรญa convertido en punta de lanza de la digitalizaciรณn en las aulas. Ahora ha comenzado a dar marcha atrรกs

xataka.com/magnet/suecia-se-haโ€ฆ



GOG launch their Preservation Program to make games live forever with hundreds of classics being 're-released' gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/gog-โ€ฆ

#PCGaming #GOG #Gaming

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in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

I see exactly 100 games?

Noticeably absent is Shogo, which fits their criteria, but I couldn't get it working on any modern Windows machine. Had to run it on my rebuilt Win98 college computer instead.

I'm honestly not really sure what the point of this is. Working with the community on fixes would be better, since the fixes may rot again if/when gog stops maintaining them.



Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy โ€“ The Definitive Edition gets updated, needs a fix on Steam Deck gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/granโ€ฆ

#SteamDeck #Linux #GTA



Chrono is a puzzler about time-controlling objects in the world gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/chroโ€ฆ

#Gaming #Linux #SteamDeck




Get 3+ games for ยฃ1 each from the Fanatical Build your own Triple Pack bundle gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/get-โ€ฆ

#Gaming #Linux #SteamDeck

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

don't forget that you can add on 4 mystery games for a few more bucks.

At least I got:
Geometric Sniper - Blood in Paris
Buckshot Roulette
Pure Farming 2018 Deluxe
PAGO FOREST: TOWER DEFENSE



Check out the demo for Into The Grid that blends dungeon-crawling hacking, deck-building and combat gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/checโ€ฆ

#PCGaming #Linux #SteamDeck #Unity

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

not sure if itโ€™s an automation issue or something else, but I see the same news being posted twice (same link, different text though)


Face off against mutated snacks as a Banana in Bronana which aims to be the next Brotato gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/faceโ€ฆ

#SteamDeck #Linux #Godot



Vehicle combat in Scaravan 66 looks nuts and I want it now gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/vehiโ€ฆ

#PCGaming #Linux #SteamDeck



in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Right now I'm itching to find out what is happening for the Half Life 2 anniversary. Lots of activity in the Steam depo.


in reply to Muse

This morning Ruby was lying on the pillow next to my head.
Very quietly waiting for me to get up.
She thoughtfully placed one of her toys next to my head.



Tomorrow, come join us in putting out MEDLab's latest (NSF funded!) zine, a tarot-infused exploration of governance transitions in communities.

Governance, as you may have noticed, is weird. colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2024/1โ€ฆ



โ€œIf more of us valued food & cheer & song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.โ€

J.R.R. Tolkien



"C-2023 A3 (Tsuchinshanโ€“ATLAS)."

Omersastro, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

#comet #astrophotography



๐Ÿ“ท Canon EOS7
๐ŸŽž๏ธ Fuji Superia 200 expired 2006

#35mm #filmphotography #film #prague

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