A new open source game engine appears.
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First Good News of 2026! COCOS 4 Game Engine Goes Open Source
Previously proprietary, this game engine is now fully open source.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
Dig Dig Die sounds like a hilarious grave-robbing co-op horror game gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/dig-โฆ
#DigDigDie #Coop #Gaming #PCGaming
Dig Dig Die sounds like a hilarious grave-robbing co-op horror game
If you're after more funny and frightening co-op games to play with friends, the recently announced Dig, Dig, Die could be a good one for you.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
007 First Light gets PC specifications released and that's a lot of RAM needed gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/007-โฆ
#007FirstLight #Gaming #PCGaming
007 First Light gets PC specifications released and that's a lot of RAM needed
We are truly entering a time in gaming where it feels like optimizations are a thing of the past, and the specifications needed to run 007 First Light are nuts.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
The best Linux distributions for gaming in 2026 gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/the-โฆ
#Linux #Gaming #LinuxGaming #GamingOnLinux
The best Linux distributions for gaming in 2026
Here is your up to date list of what distro you should be picking if you want to start gaming on Linux in 2026. The latest edition of you telling me I'm wrong.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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Steam Deck is literally the main character of Linux gaming. ๐ฅ
Do you agree? ๐ค
What are you most looking forward to in our next release? ๐ก
Nextcloud Hub 26 Winter goes live soon, and we want to hear from you!
Let us know what your expectations are. ๐ And don't forget to join!
๐ Feb 18, 2 PM CET
๐ Online global premiere
๐ Register now! nextcloud.com/special-event-wiโฆ
PS: Free instant trial access after the launch for all registrants!
Nextcloud Special Event Winter 2026 edition
Be the first to experience the new must-watch Nextcloud Hub 26 Winter launch keynote, press conference and businesses-oriented key updates.Nextcloud
- Nextcloud Talk updates (12%, 22 votes)
- The latest developer tools and APIs (2%, 5 votes)
- Performance enhancements (76%, 140 votes)
- Other (please comment) (9%, 17 votes)
2025 Steam Awards winners have been revealed gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/2025โฆ
2025 Steam Awards winners have been revealed
The time is here - you helped to pick the nominations and then you voted for your favourites. The 2025 Steam Awards winners have now been revealed.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
![This result shows s the total number of Stack Overflow questions asked each month. THE SQL query is https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1926661#graph:
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This starts out nice. Great to see Cyndi Lauper is still around. Then, IT TAKES OFF!!!
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Ummm...let me think...2024?
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Logged Forests Thrive, While Palm Oil Leaves Little Alive
Research finds selective logging alters forest structure, but palm oil conversion causes more severe damage to biodiversity. Take action boycott palm oil!Palm Oil Detectives
"This Is What Alien Life Might Actually Look Like"
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- YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.www.youtube.com
Btop++ is the glow-up top always needed.
Btop++: Linux System Monitoring Tool That is Definitely Better than Top
A sleek terminal-based system monitor that gives you detailed insights to your resources and processes.Abhishek Prakash (It's FOSS)
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Yes it is. If you want a language that is not European the safest bet would be Quechua. It is still spoken in the Andes.
Butโฆ I doubt many will like the idea.
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!
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Highly recommended reading. A great framing of how far biomedicine has come in a short time, and how weโre still striving for more progress every day
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-ghoโฆ
Jupiter's Ghost - Away Mission (GBC) by Andrew Roach
Explore The Galaxy with the crew of the starship Jupiter's Ghostitch.io
In #Mexico, big #cats like #jaguars ๐ 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/โฆ
Jaguars and Pumas Eat More Monkeys in Damaged Forests
In fragmented forests of Mexico, big cats find it hard to locate prey ungulates instead seeking tree-dwelling #monkeys โ thatโs bad news for primates!Palm Oil Detectives
New data reveals how Australiaโs threatened reptiles and frogs are disappearing โ and what we have to do
Australia is home to many endangered reptiles and frogs. This national snapshot shows their numbers have dropped sharply. But itโs possible to reverse this trend.The Conversation
We Rate Dogs is ALWAYS great fun! This week they have a dog that was raised by cats...Yes, I bust my gut!
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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!
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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'".
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.
Why isn't my time zone highlighted on the world map? - The Old New Thing
In the original release of Windows 95, you could change your time zone by clicking on the map, and the time zone you selected would highlight. Similarly, you could change your Region Settings by clicking on the world map.Raymond Chen (The Old New Thing)
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 ๐บ๐ธ or ๐ฌ๐ง? because i speak the ๐ฆ๐บ version of english -- "colour" instead of "color", but "program" instead of "programme".
do you want to use this app in ๐ฎ๐ณ hindi, ๐ฎ๐ณ bengali, or ๐ฎ๐ณ telugu?
It's been done before, but:
๐ฌ๐ง English (traditional)
๐บ๐ธ English (simplified)
To which I might add
๐จ๐ฆ English (polite)
๐ฆ๐บ English (profane)
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
tz/asia at main ยท eggert/tz
Time zone database and code. Contribute to eggert/tz development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Goals for 2026? How about a major privacy cleanup? ๐งน
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:
๐ zdnet.com/home-and-office/workโฆ
7 apps that helped me escape the cloud - and protect my data privacy
If you're tired of knowing that a third party has access to your data and content, it's time to move away from cloud services that may be selling your information or using it to train their LLMs.Jack Wallen (ZDNET)
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.
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