Steam smashes its peak players online record to over 34 million gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/steaโฆ
Steam smashes its peak players online record to over 34 million
Starting 2024 off strong, Valve has seen Steam smash the all-time record once again for users actually online showing that weekends are a busy time for gamers.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Linux on the desktop breaks 4% for the first time on Statcounter gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/linuโฆ
Linux on the desktop breaks 4% for the first time on Statcounter
Another month down according to Statcounter at least, Linux on the desktop is doing better than ever. Take it with your usual little pinch of salt like any survey sampling though.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Steam Survey for February 2024 shows a big bump in Simplified Chinese gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/steaโฆ
Steam Survey for February 2024 shows a big bump in Simplified Chinese
Seems like once again we're seeing an Asia influx on Steam, as the February 2024 Steam Hardware & Software Survey showed a big +7.62% bump in Simplified Chinese.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
when this happened before a few times, Valve looked into it and saw it was cyber cafes: gamingonlinux.com/2018/05/the-โฆ
but that was repeating monthly, not one offs here and there
The Steam Hardware Survey had some flaw causing cyber cafes to be over-counting users
Well this sure is interesting, Valve have announced some flaws in their Steam Hardware Survey that caused cyber cafes to over-count users.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Found a little misprint in this scanned book from 1820-something I'm reading. Someone put the L type in upside down.
I love frozen little accidents like this 0u0
Informed responses to Jakob Nielsenโs less informed article:
โข jakobnielsenphd.substack.com/pโฆ (the comments page, not the article itself)
โข linkedin.com/posts/sheribyrnehโฆ
โข linkedin.com/posts/khallconsulโฆ
โข briandeconinck.com/jakob-nielsโฆ
โข axbom.com/nielsen-generative-uโฆ
โข conffab.com/elsewhere/accessibโฆ
On Nielsen's ideas about generative UI for resolving accessibility
"Accessibility has failed as a way to make computers usable for disabled users." Thus begins a newsletter by Jakob Nielsen.Per Axbom (Axbom โข Digital Compassion)
Someone linked to a bug in the screenshot tool in plasma 6 in the arch linux matrix room (i think in offtopic one), which is pretty bad enough. In some cases, black boxes are shown instead of selecting the screenshot area. It was something like that, dont remember exactly. This might be a reason why things are held back.
Will try to see if I can find the bug report once again on kde's bugtracker
they are probably waiting for the 6.0.1 release tomorrow.
There are a bunch of bugfixes in 6.0.1: pointieststick.com/2024/03/02/โฆ
See here for plasma 6 release dates: community.kde.org/Schedules/Plโฆ
This week in KDE: a smooth release
Last Tuesday, the KDE Mega-Release came out, and Iโm happy to report that it went well. Initial impressions seem to be overwhelmingly positive! Iโve been doing extra bug triage and sociโฆAdventures in Linux and KDE
NVK is now ready for prime time
As of today, NVK is now a conformant Vulkan 1.3 implementation on Turing (RTX 2000 and GTX 1600 series), Ampere (RTX 3000 series), and Ada (RTX 4000 series) GPUs.Collabora | Open Source Consulting
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Amilcar de Lafage, from "Les merveilles de la science," vol. 4 by Louis Figuier, Paris: 1870 #illustration #art oldbookillustrations.com/illusโฆ
The Plague Of Modern Light Themes
Everyone complains about how much light themes suck but I don't think that's actually the case, I think the real problem is that modern light thems absolutel...YouTube
preach brother!
it is crazy that in the light theme of LibreOffice Writer, I can barely see the difference between the paper and the background... now they have some contour around, but for a few versions there wasn't...
what is going on with all the white and grey???
YES. I have turned my #RaspberryPi into the most wonderful media/music server. It's basically my own little super charged and non-capitalistic Spotify.
Here's how it works.
Playing music: It runs #Jellyfin (in a docker container). This is so amazing โ it even has a phone app (this is how I listen mostly).
Adding more music:
The Pi has an external drive connected to it (mount at boot) with all my music, shared as a samba server on our home network, this makes it easy to manage the files.
very nice!
Two years ago I did a kodi install with a touchscreen and attached it to a tower that houses my sub, and it's a home music centre that everyone in the house loves. Media players are a great pi project and really reliable โ I haven't had a single issue.
Latest cartoon on Alabama decision that IVF embryos are people
#theorcracy #reproduction #ivf #health #medicine #science
I know it's a joke, but it does occur to me that there are cases where encouraging the employees to anthropomorphosize non-people like this is a good idea. Like, in a cryo facility, you want all the workers to operate on the belief that every single body is a person who may be revived some day, and that allowing them to thaw would be the end of their life, not when they were frozen: you don't want workers who think they are just working fancy storage for dead bodies, which was what a lot of the early scams did.
Good comic. Makes my brain do things.
coloradosun.com/2024/03/03/sunโฆ
โGovernable Spacesโ examines worrisome trends in social networks โ and solutions
Author Nathan Schneider looks at governance in the online "wilderness" and how toxic polarization has led to atrophy of democratic skills.Nathan Schneider (The Colorado Sun)
Air pollution from palm oil deforestation is a human rights issue affecting everyone in Asia
Forest-fire haze drifting from Indonesia to neighbouring countries every dry season has eluded efforts to curb it. Land clearing by burning is prohibited in Indonesia and Malaysia. However, penalisโฆPalm Oil Detectives
Inspired by Ubuntu release 24.04 LTS which is scheduled for release in April 2024!
It took over a month to paint this artwork. I made it with my favorite open source tools, Krita & Blender. deviantart.com/sylviaritter/arโฆ #art #mastoart #fediart #illustration #krita #blender3d
#TheAirWeShare #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives
palmoildetectives.com/2024/03/โฆ
Air pollution from palm oil deforestation is a human rights issue affecting everyone in Asia
Forest-fire haze drifting from Indonesia to neighbouring countries every dry season has eluded efforts to curb it. Land clearing by burning is prohibited in Indonesia and Malaysia. However, penalisโฆPalm Oil Detectives
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The Problem with Sarcasm - GoodTherapy.org Therapy Blog
Sarcasm is often revered as a high form of humor, but itโs actually just hostility. Next time someone is sarcastic with you, ask yourself if it feels good.Sarah Swenson (GoodTherapy.org Therapy Blog)
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"See you soon, Aunty, he said and closed the door
Aunty? When did i give him permission to call me Aunty? One cultural-awareness workshop and suddenly I've got 12 million nephews"
An Insane Use Case For Pipewire
Pipewire is an incredible project that makes managing audio on Linux considerably plus it let's you do some insane things like turns a bunch of phones into a...YouTube
PipeWire routing is godlike. For years I used to have a super convoluted #JACK + #VoiceMeeter Potato setup to handle all my stupid routing on Windows (for music production).
It was very much a botched together solution from pieces that weren't really designed to do what I was trying to do and just barely sorta worked.
Then #PipeWire and #yabridge happened and ever since I tried it, I haven't looked back (not just at Windows, but also at PulseAudio).
YAY! Another CWG Ops Team Meeting! And this time with so many new, lovely faces (and voices!)
Here are the minutes: loomio.com/d/yh0aFRbU/communitโฆ
note: they are only available to those who are members of social.coop loomio members so if you can't see 'em it's because you haven't joined our governance platform!
They are long but JUICY. Read to the end for the latest goss on the spam wave ;)
Looking forward to collaborating with MORE lovely people moving forward!
Converting rainforest to plantation impacts food webs and biodiversity
Every day, new areas of rainforests are converted into plantations, drastically changing tropical biodiversity and the way the ecosystem functions.ScienceDaily
I started work on a Gamescope backend that uses Wayland xdg-shell, subsurfaces, viewporter, single pixel buffer, ..., etc so that eventually nested Gamescope on Wayland will basically never have to composite and can use hw planes. 
dmabufs from gamescope clients are passed straight through to host compositor.
It's also on my to-do to implement pre-emptive commits for the baseplane which should remove the 1.x ms latency cost that nested Gamescope incurrs. 
Anyway, here's glxgears + mangoapp rendered as subsurfaces! 
github.com/ValveSoftware/gamesโฆ
Draft: Wayland/XDG Shell + Subsurface Backend by Joshua-Ashton ยท Pull Request #1168 ยท ValveSoftware/gamescope
SteamOS session compositing window manager. Contribute to ValveSoftware/gamescope development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Colombian Red Howler Monkey Alouatta seniculus
Red howlers are the largest of the howler monkey species. They have dense fur that ranges from brown to dark red, with gold or bright orange undersides โ the colour can vary based on their agโฆPalm Oil Detectives
As oil palm plantations encroach on rainforests, wild primates increasingly enter them to forage, where they face the threat of being eaten by feral dogs, killed for raiding crops, or caught by traffickers for the pet trade.
A new study from Peninsular Malaysia finds that exposure to oil plantations also significantly increases the risk of death among infant southern pig-tailed macaques.
by Spoorthy Raman
news.mongabay.com/2024/02/shocโฆ
#NEws #Conservation #Environment #Wildlife #PalmOil
โShockingโ mortality of infant macaques points to dangers of oil palm plantations
For 12 years, primatologist Nadine Ruppert and her colleagues have had one recurring task on their calendar: tagging along with a group of southern pig-tailed macaques in Segari, Peninsular Malaysia, as these primates hop between native rainforests aโฆIsabel Esterman (Conservation news)
Converting rainforest to plantation impacts food webs and biodiversity
Every day, new areas of rainforests are converted into plantations, drastically changing tropical biodiversity and the way the ecosystem functions.ScienceDaily
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Lovely and humorous song!
youtu.be/SZuN2QzKUtA?si=Q_aFWjโฆ
@Katherine Bond @Joyce Donahue
The Kiffness x Chai Kichi - Ha Hee (Singing Cat Song)
Pre-save here (OUT 8 MARCH): https://onerpm.link/HaHeeEUROPE SEPT/OCT 2024 TOUR DATES: https://linktr.ee/thekiffness 18/09 - Munich ๐ฉ๐ช19/09 - Cologne ๐ฉ๐ช2...YouTube
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@Mark Wollschlager Those would be Cretaceous crumbs!
@Ted I was thinking you probably should be more worried about it eating you, but then it's looking pretty round and happy. Maybe it has just eaten a nice fluffy bun!
@Karl Auerbach Yum!!!
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