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Ladybug on a rosemary leaf.
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Italian Green Toad (Bufotes lineatus or Bufotes balearicus)
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Gentoo Linux Offers First Party Binary Repo
Gentoo Linux is known as a source based distro but that doesn't mean that it's the only thing it can offer and just recently it has started offering alongsid...YouTube
DVD Resurgence To Prevent Films From Disappearing - Slashdot
smooth wombat writes: The advent of streaming services heralded a new era of movie watching. No longer tied to an inconvenient time at a theater, movies could now be watched at your convenience any time of the day or night in your own home.hardware.slashdot.org
Rolling Stone just put up an article about the 150 Greatest Science Fiction Movies of All Times.
I am happy to see some of their inclusions, such as:
Silent Running
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Brother from Another Planet
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
After Yang
The Iron Giant
Wall-E
Paprika
Forbidden Planet
Fahrenheit 451
Primer
They Live
Godzilla
Metropolis
2001: A Space Odyssey
I am disappointed they didn't include:
Nausicaa (Studio Ghibli)
Laputa (Studio Ghibli)
Alien Nation
Tremors
Slaughterhouse-Five (they may have included it, but I don't remember seeing it)
The Lathe of Heaven
American Astronaut
The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
The Adventures of Adele Blanc-sec
Bigbug
The Quiet Earth
The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey
Look Up
Mostly I came away disturbed at how hyper-masculinist the list was. Even the women were hyper-masculine! And so much post-apocalyptic stuff. There's a science fiction genre known as Sensawunda. I would like to see more of it.
Do you know anything that should have made the Rolling Stone list? Rocky Horror Picture Show is certainly science fiction, and it's not included.
The 150 Best Sci-Fi Movies of All Time
From space odysseys to star wars, alien invaders to guardians of the galaxy — the best science films since the genre first took a trip to the moon.Rolling Stone
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i've read through the entirety of supermegacomics twice and i think this panel is my favourite
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I could hardly believe that statistic I just reposted was true: more than half of U.S. adults 16 to 74 read at below a 6th grade level?
But I checked, and Snopes says it's true. snopes.com/news/2022/08/02/us-…
How discouraging and infuriating.
Do More Than Half of Americans Read Below 6th-Grade Level?
A keen reminder to analyze data with a careful eye.Madison Dapcevich (Snopes.com)
The most frustrating thing is that I feel there's little I can do; aside from giving books to my nieces, nephews, and friends' kids and encouraging reading and writing.
#exit-to-community stories | HackerNoon
Read the latest exit-to-community stories on HackerNoon, where 10k+ technologists publish stories for 4M+ monthly readers.hackernoon.com
"... the website loads in a special browser built into the app, rather than your phone’s default browser. In 2022, privacy researcher Felix Krause found that Meta injects special “keylogging” JavaScript onto the website you’re visiting that allows the company to monitor everything you type and tap on, including passwords. Other apps including TikTok do the same thing."
What the hell?? This is so creepy.
#Meta #JavaScript #Privacy #web #SocialMedia #News #Threads
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Meet ‘Link History,’ Facebook’s New Way to Track the Websites You Visit
Facebook introduces a confusing new setting as the walls close in on Zuckerberg’s data machine.Thomas Germain (Gizmodo)
A hopeful start to the new year—a library of cases demonstrating that community ownership of startups is possible and powerful. Now we just need to make it easier.
New at HackerNoon: hackernoon.com/now-we-know-exi…
Now We Know: Exit to Community Is Possible
There is widespread craving for a better kind of exit—and the creativity to back it up. But better exits will require structural change.Nathan Schneider (hackernoon.com)
Fred Wilson: “AI and Web3 are two sides of the same coin. AI will help make web3 usable for mainstream applications and web3 will help us trust AI.”
What do you think this means? He doesn’t really explain it in the blog post: avc.com/2024/01/what-will-happ…
What Will Happen In 2024 - AVC
As we enter 2024, the capital markets have found their footing and are moving higher. The Fed has taken interest rates as far as they want at this time and inflation has come down. It seems that a “soft landing” is likely.Fred Wilson (AVC)
Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make the Science Fiction They Grew Up on Real
Today’s Silicon Valley billionaires grew up reading classic American science fiction. Now they’re trying to make it come true, embodying a dangerous political outlookCharles Stross (Scientific American)
Outright Heroes of Film & Television
The Heroes of Film & TV bundle includes awesome titles featuring DC’s Justice League, DreamWorks Dragons, Transformers & more! Your purchase supports Unicef UK.Humble Bundle
I'm cackling at the latest developer post from Mike Blumenkrantz.
He's now the Working Group Chairs of OpenGL at Khronos, and naturally because he loves memes, his official photo is basically a meme.
Marvel's Midnight Suns and Two Point Campus headline Humble Choice for January 2024 gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/marv…
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Marvel's Midnight Suns and Two Point Campus headline Humble Choice for January 2024
Humble Choice for January 2024 is a pretty damn good selection of games, so here's a run over what's included and the compatibility for Linux desktop and Steam Deck.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
S01E01. First Contact
Before the Future Came is a podcast that looks at the ideals of Star Trek as we voyage from one episode or film to the next, following a breadcrumb trail of motifs. How is the universe portrayed in Star Trek a truly egalitarian utopia, and how does the world subtly uphold the hegemonic values of our present day?
beforethefuture.space/podcast/…
#bondage #borg #borgQueen #braga #cochrane #collectivism #data #destiny #exceptionalism #fantasy #figuredWorlds #film #frakes #laForge #locutus #lore #moore #picard #temporalPrimeDirective #timeTravel #tng
Here's the top Steam Deck games for December 2023 gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/here…
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Here's the top Steam Deck games for December 2023
Recently Valve revealed the top Steam Deck games overall for 2023, but they only just posted up what the most-played were just for December 2023 which we have now.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Contribute To KDE Without CODE
Whilst programming is the most obvious way to help out a project like KDE, just because you don't know how to code doesn't mean you can't help. There are so ...YouTube
KDE Plasma 6 hits initial funding goal gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/kde-…
KDE Plasma 6 hits initial funding goal
The KDE team are currently running a funding campaign to help bring in more monies to support Plasma desktop development, and thankfully well ahead of the Plasma 6 release they've managed to hit the initial goal.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Interesting article on the bizarre Musk biography by Walter Isaacson. I liked Isaacson's Da Vinci book and considered reading some others that he wrote, but it's a bit hard to take his other work too seriously after reading this.
theverge.com/2023/10/1/2389506…
How the Elon Musk biography exposes Walter Isaacson
Walter Isaacson’s Elon Musk is a strangely incurious book. Its shallow reporting and bizarre skew left me with more questions than I had before I read it.Elizabeth Lopatto (The Verge)
Linux hits nearly 4% desktop user share on Statcounter gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/linu…
Linux hits nearly 4% desktop user share on Statcounter
According to Statcounter, which should be taken with a pinch of salt of course like any sampling, the Linux share on the desktop hit nearly 4% in Decemeber 2023.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Yo! Linux it's getting more and more popular, that's both good and bad.
Good, because that means more software aimed to linux.
Bad, because that means more malware for linux it's gonna be made.
The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall remake Daggerfall Unity 1.0 out now gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/the-…
#RPG #Retro #Daggerfall #FOSS
The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall remake Daggerfall Unity 1.0 out now
Another really impressive project that just got a big final release is The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall game engine remake Daggerfall Unity which has hit the 1.0 meaning it's now complete!Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Deaths from hydroxychloroquine used to treat #Covid have been calculated.
It's over 15,000.
This is what #SloppyThinking, #BadScience and #Trumpism does.
ScummVM 2.8.0 released with new game support and plenty of upgrades gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/scum…
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ScummVM 2.8.0 released with new game support and plenty of upgrades
Just before the end of 2023 the ScummVM team released ScummVM 2.8.0 bringing with it support for running various new games along with improvements to other already supported classics.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Baldur's Gate 3 wins Game of the Year in the 2023 Steam Awards gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/bald…
Baldur's Gate 3 wins Game of the Year in the 2023 Steam Awards
Not really a big surprise here and thoroughly deserved! The 2023 Steam Awards are over and Baldur's Gate 3 has won Game of the Year. Here's all the results for you.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Troll awards, more like.
Starfield, the blandest Bethesda game so far wins for "innovation", Rockstar wins "labor of love" as Rockstar has left support for it die for over a year, Hogwarts doesn't run well on PC, sure as hell doesn't do well on the Steam Deck, and no one in the SD community at large cares about it. It was only voted to shove it in a "good game" category, which it is not.
This is basically a happy song. It's just so touching that I'm in tears any time I watch the video.
Be Yourself by Melinda Schneider
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@Joyce Donahue Do anything for you?
Be Yourself
Please Subscribe to my channel and check out https://www.MelindaSchneider.com for more!Come see Melinda Schneider LIVE: https://www.melindaschneider.com#Tour...YouTube
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Under-the-radar late night launch: RSS Parrot is live! It talks like Mastodon, but it doesn't walk like Mastodon. BUT! It will relay any RSS feed straight into your timeline.
Turn Mastodon into your very own feed reader. Follow anything that has an RSS feed and get a toot about new posts.
How? Mention @birb with the address you want to follow.
More details at rss-parrot.net. Boost for visibility 😀
#RSS #Atom #FeedReader #Fediverse
The Uncomfortable Truth Of Wayland Adoption
Whilst I am hopeful for the adoption Wayland there is one issue that I have to acknowledge, there are some desktops that simply are never going to be ported,...YouTube
Jony Ive imagined the Vision Pro giving you Zoom eyes and sunglasses
A new patent granted to Apple details how the company has thought about ways an external screen on a head-mounted display could be used to indicate what you’re looking at.Jay Peters (The Verge)
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