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New year's resolution to do more exercise? A business man? Then this 1917 book, Physical Training for Business Men, may be the perfect January read. (And for everyone else, you can just look at the spellbinding photos). More here: buff.ly/3pJoD46


Andrew and I watched Good Fortune last night. What a TERRIFIC movie! It was funny, insightful, and packed a punch about real world problems. I give it an all my thumbs up!

youtu.be/SAMkXY2Ja80



Highly recommended reading. A great framing of how far biomedicine has come in a short time, and how we’re still striving for more progress every day

scientificdiscovery.dev/p/medi…




Hey!

I'm looking for people who do video game reviews, and especially people who focus on retro game or indie releases who might be interested in receiving a copy of Jupiter's Ghost: Away Mission as a digital download or physical cartridge to consider for review.

Do you know someone/are you someone who does that?

ajroach42.itch.io/jupiters-gho…

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In #Mexico, big #cats like #jaguars 🐆 and #pumas can't find ungulate prey due to #palmoil #mining #meat #deforestation. They've switched to a diet of #monkeys, putting them in peril. Help them, be #vegan #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect

palmoildetectives.com/2026/01/…



#News: #Australia’s threatened #reptiles and frogs are vanishing, 94% & 97% declines since 1985. Urgent action is needed now to save them! 🧐🚫 #Deforestation #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social theconversation.com/new-data-r…


#Palmoil 🌴🪔 and #meat 🥩🍖💀 are ultra-processed unhealthy foods 🍔🍟 that are harmful to health and harmful to the planet 🌏🔥 Here's how to avoid them. Be #vegan for the animals, and the planet! #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect palmoildetectives.com/2023/05/…




We Rate Dogs is ALWAYS great fun! This week they have a dog that was raised by cats...Yes, I bust my gut!

youtu.be/aGlILYSeDWU



Our Hurstbridge house had a handsome front porch with lace brackets on the posts. The outside wall was a series of tall windows that looked across from our hill top to the beautiful forested hill top to our south. HOWEVER! When people climbed our driveway to get to the door (and climb they did), from their angle of entry it was hard to tell where the door was. To remedy this I bought some alpine strawberries, and put them on either side of the door for decoration and to provide a few fruits to sprinkle on my morning breakfast.

We brought the strawberries with us when we moved. They no longer serve the purpose of signalling, "Hey! This is a door!" Nevertheless, they are still fruiting. Desmond in one of the photos is there to provide scale. He is a small cat, and the berries are smaller still!

in reply to Muse

yum... Trying to picture the climb to the door - and how welcoming this must be.
in reply to Muse

@Michael Fenichel It was darn close to a 45 degree angle! No wonder the place was such a bargain!




It's so fascinating to see the changes in one company's logo over the years.

reshared this




if you're looking for interesting low-volume newsletters to subscribe to, i highly recommend the IANA timezone announcements mailing list.

two or three times per year, you get to learn interesting yet utterly useless facts such as "baja california didn't observe daylight savings up until 1952, used californian daylight savings rules in 1953, went back to using standard time year-round in 1954, observed DST again from 1961 through to 1975, then stopped entirely" and "the Asia/Choibalsan timezone is now synonymous with the Asia/Ulaanbaatar timezone due to, quote, 'wildly conflicting information about mongolia's timezone history'".

in reply to Lynnesbian

the timezone database is one of those really fun cases where the need for computers (and bureaucracy) to categorise and classify everything butts up against the infinite chaos of human nature. even better, because timezones belong to administrative regions (often countries), and their usage is mostly defined by the world's governments, we get the even more fun intersection of computers and politics!

windows 95 used to let you pick your timezone from a map. they removed this feature from a later version due to political disagreements.

the tzinfo database (the subject of the parent post) recently updated all timezone definitions to use post-1970 names to describe timezones, which caused some pretty major arguments.

in reply to Lynnesbian

that reminds me I need to ship updated timezone data for Solaris 10, since the /usr/share/zoneinfo on there right now is probably out of date by a considerable amount
in reply to Lynnesbian

semi-related: you're writing a GUI for language selection, and you come up with the cute idea to use flags for languages. which flag is english? is it 🇺🇸 or 🇬🇧? because i speak the 🇦🇺 version of english -- "colour" instead of "color", but "program" instead of "programme".

do you want to use this app in 🇮🇳 hindi, 🇮🇳 bengali, or 🇮🇳 telugu?

in reply to Lynnesbian

i kind of want to release an app with multiple languages and use the australian flag for english. i wrote my app in australian english, after all! if you click the australian flag, you know what you're signing up for. don't come crying to me when you misinterpret the passage about how my parents take their thongs off to swim in the public pool.
in reply to Lynnesbian

spending 10 minutes trying to decide between 🇦🇺 and 🇳🇿
in reply to Lynnesbian

It's been done before, but:

🇬🇧 English (traditional)
🇺🇸 English (simplified)

To which I might add
🇨🇦 English (polite)
🇦🇺 English (profane)

in reply to Lynnesbian

my favourite is that for some reason on one website i use they use flags to illustrate currency and the flag they show for euros is: Andorra

Because I guess if you look at the list of all countries that use the euro, sorted by alphabet, that one is first

in reply to Lynnesbian

most of these discussions are preserved in the text of the tzinfo files themselves - I recall being made aware of the Palestine entry, dealing with timezone turmoil for Israel, Gaza and the West Bank (I'm probably mangling naming things) but ... it's so hecking complex - and the answer to "what's the time?" really does depend on who you ask ... from line 3149 in github.com/eggert/tz/blob/main…


We coined a new term on today's ramble, after a "beaverful" morning, seeing more than a dozen of our favorite critters. They were in all their habitat niches, in the lake, the creek, the marshy kettles. They did some nice posing. Also noticed new green marsh grass growth, it's been a mild winter. #Hiking #AltText
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Goals for 2026? How about a major privacy cleanup? 🧹

Jack Wallen from ZDNET shares 7 tools to help you move away from proprietary cloud services that may be selling your information or using it to train their LLMs:

👇 zdnet.com/home-and-office/work…



This hurts. It was at GSFC NASA Goddard Library that I learned I had a gift for technology, and, better still, I could explain it to laypeople. My career as a technology journalist began here. This closure is a disgrace.

nytimes.com/2025/12/31/climate…



I just installed @nextcloud on our VPS together with my dad, as a replacement for our Seafile server that started misbehaving a bit after an upgrade. While it took some time to figure out the nginx and docker configuration, the whole process was pretty smooth and I imagine someone who's more used to setting up such things could do it in less than an hour.

Now that we have it, there is so much cool stuff that's included: photo albums, calendars, collaborative editing, Doodle-style polls, synced bookmarks, and many more (see apps.nextcloud.com/).

So far there's just a few small things that could be improved: syncing softlinks is not supported, and history is only on a per-file basis (not a whole directory). But overall I'm really happy with the quality and feature set.

#NextCloud #SelfHosting #OpenSource

in reply to Jesper Agdakx 🔸

writes "I just installed @nextcloud "

Nice.

A couple of months ago my 15-year old son installed nextcloud for me in our Linux server at home.

This was mostly for being able to use Saber [1] to write notes by hand on both Android and iPad tablets, and having the notes visible in all computers, at home and at university.

It works like a charm. I can write notes at university in the Android tablet I keep there, and then continue writing at home in my iPad. And I can read the notes from my laptop.

It just works, thanks to both nextcloud and Saber. Thanks both!

@nextcloud

[1] saber.adil.hanney.org/

And both are free, and also rather professional. More professional than e.g. what Apple provides on an iPad or a Mac.

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in reply to Martin Escardo

wow! What a nice story, thank you for sharing with us. We are happy our tools serve you well both at home and at the uni!
in reply to Jesper Agdakx 🔸

thanks for sharing your story and the honest feedback. Glad you are enjoying our apps, and for the parts that need improvement – always happy to make things better 😀


This week, I have been recording with my colleague @lehtimaeki a podcast about our experience migrating to from Google to @nextcloud. Check it out here:

YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=xgP12vYmvF…

PeerTube: peertube.wtf/w/5ZP4EWmBCL1JzSd



#Reptiles 🦎🐍🐢🐊 are fascinating creatures who are sadly feared, misunderstood and persecuted by humans. It's time we stand up for #lizards #snakes #crocodiles #turtles, here's how, be #vegan and #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🩸☠️ #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social palmoildetectives.com/2023/11/…


The 2026 Carnage Collection from Humble Bundle brings some fun games to begin the year gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/the-…

#Gaming #PCGaming #Linux #SteamDeck #GameBundle


in reply to It's FOSS

While humorous, a book is a better reference for unix than a man page for it uses virtually zero energy and therefore is more efficient. I can read it a million times simply by relying on the energy from the sun or even with a candle it's still far more efficient than all the power plants required to power a single laptop while I sit there like a vegetable reading one word at a time.


D7VK v1.1 is out with experimental Direct3D 6 support via Vulkan for Windows games on Linux gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/d7vk…

#Linux #OpenSource #Vulkan #Direct3D #D7VK #DXVK



Epilogue reveal the SN Operator to play real SNES cartridges on various platforms gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/epil…

#SNOperator #SNES #Gaming #Emulation #PCGaming



Valve reveal the most popular Steam games of 2025 gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/the-…

#Gaming #LinuxGaming #Linux #PCGaming

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

It is very interesting how top played games are small survival indies while rest of them are live service.


Native Linux support for Hytale will be launched as "experimental" gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/nati…

#Hytale #Linux #PCGaming #Gaming



Bazzite Linux gets a spring cleaning update to end 2025 gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/bazz…

#Bazzite #Linux #LinuxGaming #PCGaming #OpenSource

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

Very nice. I did notice some weird WiFi stability issues when I first installed, so I've been on Ethernet. That's going to be very nice for handhelds and laptoos that don't have that option.


in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

Looks like it was already delisted from GOG:

gog.com/game/river_city_ransom…

Trying to click through just redirects to the main page



5 x 1 mil intervals for today. There was a strong headwind and I really struggled to keep up the pace in the last 2 reps.

I also skipped the gels today, and given the weather conditions it was not a very smart move 😕

Some days are just not optional and that's ok.

Follow me on Strava (and get a follow back, just make sure to comment Mastodon): strava.app.link/RtsdodPnBZb

#runnersofmastofon #running



GE-Proton 10-28 brings fixes for Duet Night Abyss, World of Tanks, games with spatial audio and more gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/ge-p…

#Proton #GEProton #Linux #SteamDeck #SteamOS



Steam survey for December 2025 shows Linux holding to 3.19% gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/stea…

#Steam #Linux #SteamOS #LinuxGaming #SteamDeck

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

Feels funny looking MacOs that is getting more niche than Linux in this area, when nevertheless Apple still stand a key company in the computer and devices world.
I wonder, if Linux statistics are however affected that for some stuff with DRMs, you have to run Steam itself under Wine, making it count as "Windows version".



youtube.com/watch?v=FmOtrCRrlD…


#Fungi disarm #BarkBeetle chemical shields by converting their plant-derived toxins phys.org/news/2025-12-fungus-b… pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2525…

"a bark beetle can co-opt a tree's defensive compounds to make defenses against its own enemies. However, since one of the enemies, the #fungus Beauveria bassiana, has developed the ability to detoxify these antimicrobial defenses, it can successfully infect the #BarkBeetles and thus actually help the tree in its battle against bark #beetles"

#Fungi #Symbiosis

in reply to Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

very cool! I worked on this a bit for my PhD work - the bacteria likely play a role too - a symbiotic consortia journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.1…


Job alert 🚨

Tenure track group leader position Experimental freshwater ecologist (f/m/x) (Deadline 26/03/15) @LeibnizIGB

karriere-igb.softgarden.io/job…

#ecology
#biodiversity
#science



Healthy #rivers 🌊🫧 are vital to community wellbeing, and culture. In #India 🇮🇳🪷 and #Bangladesh 🇧🇩pollution can be mitigated by recognising rivers as legal persons. #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect Story: @360info_global wp.me/pcFhgU-77U?utm_source=ma…

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