In honor of Meta's latest announcement, a thread on 175 years of 3D failure.
Let's first go all the way back to 1851 with the Brewster Stereoscope. No less a person than Queen Victoria was impressed, kicking off a fad that quickly sold over 250,000 units. Turns out it was not the future of photography.
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Despite global retail giant Colgate-Palmolive forming a coalition with other brands in 2020, virtue-signalling that they will stop all deforestation, they continue to do this โ destroying raiโฆPalm Oil Detectives
I am a dual US/Australian citizen. That doesn't mean I am half one and half the other. I am 100% a citizen of both countries. I even have to turn in tax forms and potentially pay both countries every year. I also vote in all the elections for both countries. Last year I laughed and felt really good about voting for who was going to manage Kent city sewerage in Washington State. That is an immensely important job, because it protects all our health!
Right now, I would like to gift this song to everyone in the US. It's an Australian song, and at this moment it speaks words we need to hear.
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A little bit of good cheer!
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Blonde Capuchin Sapajus flavius
Only rediscovered in 2006, Blonde Capuchins are highly intelligent critically endangered primates of Brazil threatened by palm oil and meat deforestationPalm Oil Detectives
Find files faster on Linux with these powerful search apps!
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9 GUI Search Tools for Desktop Linux Users Who Don't Want to Use Find, Grep and Xargs Commands
Sure you can search in the Linux terminal. And sure, you don't have to do that if you don't want too. Use a graphical interface for your comfort.Roland Taylor (It's FOSS)
Good ideas, and many thanks for the suggestions. We'll try that. It came from a grandfather, and we can well imagine it could be a gardening tool of some sort
if you look at modern handheld rotating hoes, they do have a design like that, but always with a longer handle. Just from reading online they seem to have been for weed removal. I wonder as the grandfather was a gardener if yours might have been a short one for getting under bushes or taller plants. But that's just an uneducated guess.
It's a lovely object anyway, and I hope you find a definitive answer! I would love to know too, so I'll check back on this thread later.
If you love tiny CLI tools, Eget might become your new best friend.
Easily Install Binaries in Linux Terminal With This Tool
Easy way to get binaries from GitHub repositories and install the applications. Learn more about eget.Pulkit Chandak (It's FOSS)
Latest comic on the broligarghs' extremist fantasies of colonizing #Greenland
#tech #authoritarianism #imperialism #autocracy
if only our politicians would follow the 3 laws of robotics.
Stephen Byerley for president!
Brewing Collectives
This text can support you when starting a permacomputing collective. It isnโt a strict recipe but more of a loose framework that can be freely modified to suit local tastes and conditions.brewing.permacomputing.net
Probably their whole reasoning behind the naming scheme.
The NASA Artemis II mission is targeted for launch as early as Feb. 6.
NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen will complete a 10-day journey around the Moon and back (no moon landing) to test systems and hardware, in preparation for future lunar landing missions.
It will be the first crewed mission to the vicinity of the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972.
Launch vehicle: Space Launch System (SLS)
Spacecraft: Orion
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NASA Invites Media to Cover Artemis Mission from Johnson Space Center - NASA
Media accreditation is open to attend Artemis II mission activities at NASAโs Johnson Space Center in Houston. Johnson is where flight controllers in missionNASA
NASA Artemis II is on the move this morning!
Not to the moon yet, but crawling at less than 1 mph to the launch pad for tests and wet rehearsals in the coming days.
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Valve tweak Steam AI disclosure form for developers to clarify it's for content consumed by players gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/valvโฆ
Valve tweak Steam AI disclosure form for developers to clarify it's for content consumed by players
Back in early 2024, Valve put up new rules for game developers on Steam to pull in some information about generative AI, and they now seem to have tweaked it.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Proton Experimental brings updates for MonoGame, Rockstar Launcher and more gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/protโฆ
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Proton Experimental brings updates for MonoGame, Rockstar Launcher and more
Valve launched a new update for Proton Experimental for January 16th to improve various games and launchers working on SteamOS / Linux.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Hallo zusammen! Ich bin #Kรผnstlerin aus #Graubรผnden (#Schweiz) und nun endlich auch #neuhier. ๐จ
Ich male alpine Landschaften in รl und bin am liebsten in der Natur unterwegs.
Hier mรถchte ich meine Werke teilen und mich mit anderen Kreativen/Berglern vernetzen.
Ich freue mich auf Inspiration und Austausch! ๐
#introduction #mastoart #fediart #kรผnstler #รถlmalerei #pleinair #Bergler #Alpen #Mesolcina #Stille #Friede #Freiheit #Ruhe #Natur #Berge #Schรถnheit
Deforestation and Mining Threaten Rare Species at Lake Poso
Deforestation, mining, and palm oil expansion are pushing rare endemic species at Indonesiaโs Lake Poso to the brink. Urgent action needed, boycott palm oil!Palm Oil Detectives
Grab one of these 7 ready-to-go Raspberry Pi laptops and tablets!
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7 Raspberry Pi-Based Laptops and Tablets for Tinkerers
Raspberry-powered laptops and tablets can be the perfect pick for your projects, and portable computing needs. Here's a list of options.Ankush Das (It's FOSS)
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Violence is a last resort to escape an untenable situation.
So advocating for stochastic terrorism (say, like every time there's a mass shooting or directing discomfort away from capitalism to random sub-groups) feels pretty relevant tbh.
Do I think people should die? No.
Do I think people who currently feel comfortable with conservative ideas are irredeemable? No.
Do I think it's at all surprising that Charlie Kirk advocated for exactly what he got? Not really, no.
Yep, a human is dead, his partner is upset, etc. (*and kids. I don't wish losing a parent on anyone.) Just like the people he argued didn't deserve understanding.
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10:20 omg yes. In the UK, people keep asking when I 'automatically' got citizenship. The cheapest for the APPLICATION for UK citizenship was ยฃ1200. It's now ยฃ1700. I didn't have enough then and I don't now.
"But you've lived here for how long?" Evidently they've been reading Daily Mail / Sun nonsense for how long.
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"PANSPERMIA: The Radical Theory of Life's Origins"
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Deforestation Devastates Tesso Nilo National Parkโs Endangered Creatures
Act now to save Tesso Nilo Park. This vital Indonesian park has lost 78% of its primary forest, threatening the habitat of Sumatran tigers and elephantsPalm Oil Detectives
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Head's up, if you want to disconnect the bridge to Bluesky, here are the instructions. I exercised this option today, as a result of them "blue checking" ICE. I'd never allow Federation of an ActivityPub instance with Nazis on it, and Bluesky is no exception. #Bluesky
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Bridgy Fed
Bridgy Fed is a bridge between decentralized social networks like the fediverse, Bluesky, and web sites and blogs.fed.brid.gy
Duckduckgo has a survey for pro/anti-AI and I cackled so hard at the (current) results
Are you YES AI or NO AI? Vote now.
Big Tech doesn't care if you want AI or not. They should.voteyesornoai.com
The Companies Behind ICE
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has grown its network of private industry partners since the start of the second Trump administration to support its agents as they storm into cities and detain people they suspect of being undocumented immigrants.
Last year, the ICE agency obligated more money than ever to private contractors, and this year itโs on pace to easily top last yearโs record. More than 600 companies have been working with Trumpโs ICE, including businesses in nearly every state...
This list includes Palantir. One of Australia's largest supermarket chains Coles contracts Palantir to help them with information gathering on their customers and more.
The Companies Behind ICE
Sludge built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration.Donald Shaw (Sludge)
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Home - Citizens' Impeachment
Citizensโ Impeachment is a grassroots, nonpartisan effort to impeach, convict, & remove officials who violate their oath to the ConstitutionCitizens' Impeachment
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Message from our CEO | New Art Exchange | NAE | Nottingham
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Over the holidaya my daughter and I made "trash soup".
We sterilized some compostable paper, tea leaves, coffee grounds, etc in a pot, let it cool, and then mixed in oyster mushroom mycelia. A few weeks later, we have over 500 g!
#FungiFriday #mushrooms #growYourOwn
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Trump threatens new tariffs on countries opposed to Greenland takeover
Does he really think that there will be no consequences? Take Greenland and lose access to all the European Markets. Bases In Europe, and American Companies can leave with their tails between their legs without their assets.
He is Clueless.... If he Screws NATO he Screws ALL HIS Trade With the NATO Nations and EU
#OurModernTimes #PariahPresidentOfAmerica #Greenland #EU #Trade #Tariffs #Threats
Trump threatens new tariffs on countries opposed to Greenland takeover as US lawmakers visit Denmark to ease tensions
The president made the threat while a bipartisan group of US lawmakers were visiting Denmark in the hope of easing tensions over the territory.Daniel Bush (BBC News)
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So? Until congress grows a spine, who's going to stop him?
Our nation is coming apart around our ears as a madman takes a sledgehammer to it.
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[Feature Request] Repeating tasks
Repeating tasks, like calendar items, would be a really useful feature. Right now I'm putting repeating tasks in the calendar (stuff like taking out the trash weekly) but really that'd be better as...stoopidJSON (GitHub)
Update: Shortly after releasing maintenance version 32.0.4 we followed up with a hotfix, version 32.0.5.
Please keep your server up to date!
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New maintenance updates are available for Nextcloud Hub 10 (31.0.13) and Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn (32.0.4 ). Keep your server up-to-date!Mikhail Korotaev (Nextcloud)
Ho remeber now why I wouldn't update on friday my own instance and leave for the week end away from keyboard. ๐
If I read well the changelog problem is only on a index deletion that does not exist in some cases. I can wait.
Third-person mech-action shooter roguelike RIG Riot gets a demo gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/thirโฆ
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Third-person mech-action shooter roguelike RIG Riot gets a demo
Give me some of that sweet mech combat action - RIG Riot looks pretty fantastic, and now there's a demo available for you to try.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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