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S01E02. Relativity

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/…

#borg #braxton #captain #continuity #curiosity #eastman #episode #fuller #janeway #phase #sagan #sevenOfNine #spaceSickness #taylor #technologicalProgression #temporalMechanics #temporalPrimeDirective #timeTravel #timeyWimeyStuff #trust #voy



Thoroughly enjoying #Helldivers2 on #Linux thanks to Proton.

Lots of fun. Friendly fire is painful 💀



Grab a free copy of FlatOut during the GOG Love at First Pixel sale gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/grab…

#GOG #PCGaming




By the way, if you enjoy my toots and tools consider dropping me a tip. I'm a starve hacker 😏

I have a personal ko-fi in my boi and linked below 👇🏿

I use this for personal emergencies and to do mutual aid work in my community.

In return, I'll keep the fedi-verse full of posts about local news, breaking politics and nerd shit 🖤

ko-fi.com/nullagent

#BlackMastodon #CommunityJournalism #Politics

in reply to nullagent

If you're here for the nerdy hacker toys, consider donating to the Black hacker collective I founded with @rekcahdam. And be sure to follow our team accounts @dataparty + @rfparty

Donations made here go to helping us start a Black owned software company.

In return we're building open source linux mobile apps and games and need help getting off the ground so we can make more content and tools.

ko-fi.com/dataparty

#gamedev #appdev #cybersecurity #opensource #linuxmobile

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Just putting this out here: I've been working on #Forgejo for #Codeberg for the past couple of months, and am loving it. So much so, that I would like to do more of it, more than what Codeberg can pay me for.

So if anyone wishes to sponsor me (or knows any company or organization who might), to implement a particular feature, or fix something, or in general help them with anything Forgejo related, I'm available, please get in touch!

For reference, my work has been described as:

Long-standing issues are now finally resolved, and the progress feels like a rocket booster.


This is based on my the first two months of my work. I started out with only vague knowledge of Go and Forgejo. Imagine what I can do now that I'm much more familiar with both.

Anyhow, more information about my Forgejo-related work, and links to my resume, and other useful bits of information are available here.

Boosts appreciated!

#GetFediHired #FediHire #Job



El Rol del #SoftwareLibre en la Seguridad Digital

“como una manera simple y accesible de hacer frente a este tipo de amenazas mediante la transparencia y colaboración”

por @somos_CAD

autonomia.digital/2024/01/19/f…



The happiest kids in the world have social safety nets. “In a country like the Netherlands where parents like my sister receive ample parental leave, childcare stipends, a four-day work week, and universal healthcare, the low-level anxiety that many American parents feel isn’t as common.” mother.ly/parenting/social-saf…
in reply to kottke.org

it is also important we teach kids that the outside world is not their enemy. Japanese kids are taught that if they have a problem they should ask any adult. In contrast, we spend our time telling our kids to beware of strangers because they are nasty. Leaving aside the fact that a child doesn’t make a distinction between people they know and people they don’t, it is terrible to bring children up believing the world is evil.


Cultist Simulator gets much improved Steam Deck support gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/cult…

#SteamDeck #Linux

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

I really like the setting, writing and visuals. Just couldn't get into the gameplay, sadly. Maybe this time around...


I asked DALL-E to draw me a flowchart that explained how to make a decision. Look closely. This is spot on.
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Paradox confirm no Linux support for Prison Architect 2 but investigating Steam Deck gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/para…

#ParadoxInteractive #PrisonArchitect2 #PrisonArchitect

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

It's completely anecdotal, I know, but:
Last time I tried playing Stanley Parable, the 'native' Linux version just did not run for me.
Running the windows version using Proton, it ran flawlessly.
Basically, Proton is great, not sure why people have issues with "oh but it's not native so bla bla"


OH MY GOD IT'S VALENTINE'S DAY?!!

(bonus panel in the thread!)



Check out the demo for Silence of the Siren a rich sci-fi strategy game gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/chec…

#Steam #Linux #PCGaming




DOSBox Staging 0.81.0 out now with new CRT shaders and lots of graphics improvements gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/dosb…

#DOSBOX #FOSS #Emulation



Steam Next Fest 2024 was the biggest for Valve and game devs yet gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/stea…

#SteamNextFest #Steam #PCGaming



Fortune Avenue is a new take on a Monopoly-like experience gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/fort…

#Godot #IndieGame #PCGaming #Linux




If anyone wants to help #Ruffle get on #FlatHub

github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/pu…

I need someone who understands #GitHub #Actions to auto-update the meta info with each nightly release 🥺️





Fascinating story about the Uros People of South America.

The mysterious origins of Peru’s oldest indigenous people



Game time, we're planning to use #VNyan on #Linux while playing #Palworld over on both #Twitch and #YouTube !!!

#Vtuber #ENVtuber #Tech #Gaming

youtube.com/live/NlojkNrvf4c?s…

twitch.tv/itsrogueren



Some crafty friends and myself like sending each other homemade Valentine's Day cards. This is from one of these friends!


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if you can read this, i successfully posted this entirely from my Haiku virtual machine

you can use Mastodon on this thing!

#noretr because i accidentally retranslated thing i already drafted



Ranting About The GNOME Desktop #Linux youtu.be/liPLDWro7QQ


excited about our upcoming CHI paper [PDF being finalized soon] ... it turns out that programmers often draw a wide variety of ASCII diagrams in their code as a form of documentation and knowledge-sharing ... they're inline, checked-in with version control, stays with their code, and can express ideas that are hard to do in text alone


authy just moved their desktop app EOL date forward - authy desktop will cease to function on the 19th of march!

they have no official way of exporting your data (of course 🙃), but there's an unofficial tool for getting your data out. i'll probably move to keepassXC to prevent something like this from happening again

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Remember the new @mozilla CEO whose first action was to post a link to her Linkedin profile?

Some said I was harsh that we should let her the benefit of doubt.

So here are the first true actions: firing 60 people working on useless products to focus the company on its true mission.

The useless products?
- Relay (privacy, protection against spam)
- VPN (privacy)
- Mozilla.social (Mastodon)
- Monitor (privacy)

True mission to focus:
- AI (???)

You can’t made that up

techcrunch.com/2024/02/13/mozi…



currently writing a mastodon bot thing in rust using megalodon

it is... a very okay API wrapper. for some reason it takes ownership of everything you pass into it in every API call, so you have to constantly clone string parameters, which is very much not in the vibe of rust.

i found elefren, which has a much nicer design and properly supports pagination (unlike megalodon), but it hasn't been updated in three years, and the upstream repo was deleted, so i can't really use that

i miss mastodon.py :blobsob:

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made some more tongue-in-cheek ha-ha no-seriously images to help you manage replies in lieu of affordances to help you manage replies please steal and use if you find useful or so help me funny

1. Do not reply unless you have direct experience
2. Do not reply with a software suggestion
3. This is an observation. Do not attempt to help. No reply necessary.

YOU MAY REPLY if you have a suggestion or request for another helpful informational message.

more in thread + flic.kr/s/aHBqjBdZ8F

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Fedora Finally Fixes Its Worst Mistake!! #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/hki69kmhj2U


Brilliant Labs is selling a pair of fully open-source AI glasses called Frame. Image recognition & manipulation, written & speech translation, etc. And they don’t look terrible either. “What if your glasses gave you AI superpowers?” brilliant.xyz/
in reply to kottke.org

When they offer eyeglasses with, I dunno, nanobots(?), that keep my glasses clean, give me a call


“We are this wondrous walking machine. We have evolved to set one foot in front of the other. We are exquisitely tuned to do this.” —Paul Salopek
Listen to an interview with Paul, “A Path Older Than Memory.” emergencemagazine.org/intervie… Photo by Paul Salopek, National Geographic.


ok so apparently wasabi says you shouldn't use them if your egress exceeds your stored file size, and that if it does, they reserve the right to "suspend your service" (?!)

but they also provide no way to check your egress on the dashboard

so i looked up how to check, and found this: knowledgebase.wasabi.com/hc/en…

what the fuck, wasabi

in reply to Lynnesbian

is there any reason to use wasabi over backblaze?
just curious to hear experiences :neocat_cute:
in reply to december flower

@likeazir back when i set my instance up, almost everyone who was self-hosting ended up going with wasabi because they were really cheap

looking at backblaze's website, they seem to be about the same price as wasabi was back then, so either they used to cost more, or people just didn't know about them, which seems unlikely given how big a name they are

who knows :blobcatgooglyshrug:



Winners of the 59th Annual Wildlife Photographer of the Year Contest kottke.org/24/02/winners-of-th…


Oh no!

For some silly reason you forgot to have a gift for your partner or loved one? Worry not, I got the perfect solution for you... Silly Animal Redraw Valentine Cards! Perfect for your true love

If it wasn't obvious, these are free to use!

#MastoArt #FediArt #PixelArt #ValentinesDay #ValentineCard #Cats #Animals



I'm a big fan of the Heartstopper graphic novel series and the Netflix television series. This is a terrific review by one of my former students about the series!

Why Heartstopper is Gen Z’s defining publishing phenomenon

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