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Time for an #introduction... again!
My name is Christine Lemmer-Webber, I'm co-author/co-editor of the ActivityPub standard which connects together the fediverse (Mastodon, Peertube, Sharkey, GotoSocial, etc). In other words, I'm one of several people who worked on the specification by which you're getting this very message!
I'm also Executive Director of the Spritely Institute! We're making next-generation decentralized tech spritely.institute
I moved here from @cwebber@octodon.social! Hello again!
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g'day mate, i'll need to see your internet license before you can sign in to your playstation account, no worries mate it's simple as, just need to be over 16, yeah nah it's super secure, just need to link your government ID to your youtube account mate, what's the harm in that, and don't worry about a data breach, that's illegal
Not just kids: Everyone to be age verified for social media
Proposed under-16s ban has wider implications for Australians.Information Age
Old Skies from Wadjet Eye Games looks like one to remember with a new trailer gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/old-…
#PCGaming #Linux #LinuxGaming #AdventureGames
Old Skies from Wadjet Eye Games looks like one to remember with a new trailer
If you're a lover of point and click adventure games, you're going to want to watch the new trailer for Old Skies from Wadjet Eye Games.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Federation: Collaborate without compromise! 🌏
Nextcloud Hub 9 introduces federated video calls, enabling meetings across Nextcloud instances while keeping your data private.
Let's champion decentralization & interoperability together! 🦾
nextcloud.com/blog/federation-…
Federation: a foundational concept for digital sovereignty? - Nextcloud
Learn how federation features in self-hosted apps work and how federation can help businesses and governments achieve digital sovereignty.Mikhail Korotaev (Nextcloud)
The latest from Prime Gaming - November 14 edition - lots for Steam Deck / Linux gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/the-…
#PrimeGaming #Gaming #PCGaming
The latest from Prime Gaming - November 14 edition - lots for Steam Deck / Linux
Here we go again! Each week Prime Gaming, part of what you get with a subscription to Amazon Prime, add and remove various games you can claim to keep.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
The article "Classic Unreal Tournament and Unreal now easier to download free thanks to OldUnreal" was updated, with a statement from Epic Games to confirm it's totally fine gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/clas…
#UnrealTournament #Gaming #PCGaming #EpicGames
Classic Unreal Tournament and Unreal now easier to download free thanks to OldUnreal
Epic Games announced back at the end of 2022 that they were pulling a whole bunch of classics like Unreal Tournament and Unreal from stores, along with turning off servers, but now it's a bit easier to get them running again.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Minimalismo técnico y ecolobits.
A más localidad, más autonomía, más privacidad y más ecolobits.
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Minimalismo técnico y ecolobits
Uno de los criterios comunicativos de Komunikilo hace referencia a la voluntad de minimizar el impacto ambiental de las tecnologías digit...Komunikilo
Temtem: Swarm is a survivor-like bullet heaven with cute creatures to evolve out now gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/temt…
#TemtemSwarm #Linux #SteamDeck
Temtem: Swarm is a survivor-like bullet heaven with cute creatures to evolve out now
Available now in Early Access, survivor-like bullet heaven Temtem: Swarm is another game entering the crowded but popular genre from developer Crema.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Innovation amnesia: Technology as a substitute for politics
This paper outlines a theory of amnesia in the face of innovation: when apparent technological innovations occasion the disregard of preexisting cultural, legal, and infrastructural norms.firstmonday.org
I've been thinking back to a couple pieces I wrote last time Trump came to town—reminders that Trumpism is part of broader American pathologies.
The cult of the presidency: americamagazine.org/politics-s…
Inequality is an American strategy: americamagazine.org/politics-s…
How to survive Trump: End the cult of the presidency
The presidency has become a cult to which we are expected to constantly direct our attention; the result is a disenchantment with democracy.America Magazine
Minecraft-like free and open source game VoxeLibre (formerly MineClone2) hits over 500K downloads gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/mine…
#VoxeLibre #Gaming #Linux #Minecraft #FOSS
Minecraft-like free and open source game VoxeLibre (formerly MineClone2) hits over 500K downloads
Originally called MineClone2, VoxeLibre is a free and open source sandbox game that's inspired by Minecraft and it recently hit a big milestone.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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Where do jets go when they no longer fly? What happens to shipping containers when they aren’t useful anymore for cargo? The answer is invisible to most of us, but for Cássio Vasconcellos, abandoned trains, planes, and automobiles are far from forgotten.
Photographing and stitching together composites, Vasconcellos condenses details of urban infrastructure like highways and parking lots into sprawling, all-over compositions.
Classic Unreal Tournament and Unreal now easier to download free thanks to OldUnreal gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/clas…
#UnrealTournament #FPS #Gaming
Classic Unreal Tournament and Unreal now easier to download free thanks to OldUnreal
Epic Games announced back at the end of 2022 that they were pulling a whole bunch of classics like Unreal Tournament and Unreal from stores, along with turning off servers, but now it's a bit easier to get them running again.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Old School Rally gets split-screen support, new stages and a new car gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/old-…
Old School Rally gets split-screen support, new stages and a new car
Old School Rally is properly awesome. Bringing back some fond memories for me of playing Colin McRae Rally on the original PlayStation and now it just got a whole lot better.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Godot Engine 4.4 dev 4 released with interactive in-game editing gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/godo…
Godot Engine 4.4 dev 4 released with interactive in-game editing
An exciting new feature for game developers has begun to land in the free and open source Godot Engine, with the start of interactive in-game editing.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Little Big Adventure – Twinsen's Quest a remake of the original classic is out now gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/litt…
#LittleBigAdventure #Gaming #PCGaming
Little Big Adventure – Twinsen's Quest a remake of the original classic is out now
Little Big Adventure – Twinsen's Quest from [2.21] and Microids is out now. It's a remake of the original classic with a graphical makeover and modernized gameplay.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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/trai…
Train finally returns to Counter-Strike 2 in the latest big update
Train! It's back! A fan favourite map returns that was annoyingly missing from the release of Counter-Strike 2. But it's now back and looking better than ever in the latest update to Valve's FPS.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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"
#DataStandards #FileFormats #Genomics
@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/mesa…
#Linux #Mesa #OpenSource
Mesa 24.2.7 out now and Mesa 24.3 may come sooner than expected
The latest update for the open source graphics drivers is here with Mesa 24.2.7 out now. Plus we might see Mesa 24.3 a bit sooner than expected.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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.
GOG are doubling down on game preservation, and making it easier to see which games run well on modern PCs
GOG have announced the GOG Preservation Program, restoring and relaunching over 100 classic games to run smoothly on modern hardware.James Archer (Rock Paper Shotgun)
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World’s largest coral found in the Pacific near Solomon Islands
The coral could be 500 years old and is bigger than a blue whale, scientists say.Georgina Rannard (BBC News)
Hey! Here is my painting "Tux & Sprinkles: blue (fairy) penguins" You can see it at the Eltham Library as part of the DiversArty exhibition for the next couple of weeks!
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I took my kitty to the vet today. We officially adopted her and found out she’s a boy, so Isabel has become Is-a-boy lol
La coopérative : une solution contre les faillites d’entreprise ?
Le modèle de la coopérative semble à nouveau avoir le vent en poupe, notamment depuis la transformation de Duralex et son rachat par les employés.The Conversation
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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 💖🎉🙌🏻
If you would like to support Inner Worlds you can now subscribe via our shiny new website from just £2 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."
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Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X
We will stop posting from our official editorial accounts on the platform, but X users can still share our articlesThe Guardian
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-…
How to Restore Community Economies: Reestablishing the Right to Associate - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly
Growing US corporate economic control has impeded people’s capacity to self-organize. The time to rebuild community-scale economic institutions is now.Aine Creedon (Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly)
🎙️ 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 👇🏽
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Open source and Nextcloud in government: Insights from Sven Thomsen, Schleswig-Holstein's CIO - Nextcloud
In this episode, we explore how open source solutions are revolutionizing the way governments work, from collaboration and knowledge sharing to digital sovereignty and artificial intelligence.Nextcloud
🔗 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!
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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/…
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)
Highlighting journalism on Mastodon
Today we're launching a new feature that will highlight writers and journalists that are active on the fediverse when their articles are being shared.Mastodon Blog
Yawnoc is chaotic top-down shooter rogue-lite inspired by Conway's Game of Life and other cellular automata gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/yawn…
Yawnoc is chaotic top-down shooter rogue-lite inspired by Conway's Game of Life and other cellular automata
With the source code available along with the game, Yawnoc is a chaotic top-down shooter rogue-lite inspired by Conway's Game of Life and other cellular automata that's out now.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Suecia se había convertido en punta de lanza de la digitalización en las aulas. Ahora ha comenzado a dar marcha atrás
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Suecia se había convertido en punta de lanza de la digitalización en las aulas. Ahora ha comenzado a dar...
La digitalización parece un recorrido de una única dirección. Las herramientas digitales están cada vez más presentes en nuestras vidas, desde los ordenadores...Pablo Martínez-Juarez (Magnet)
GOG launch their Preservation Program to make games live forever with hundreds of classics being 're-released' gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/gog-…
GOG launch their Preservation Program to make games live forever with hundreds of classics being 're-released'
GOG going back to their roots a little here with the announcement of the GOG Preservation Program, with an aim to ensure various games get to live on forever.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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.
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