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Retos y oportunidades para la comunicación comunitaria indígena en Centroamérica

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"Mountain in the Jungle, Habitable exomoon."

Ekaterina Valinakova, Public domain via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2aUp7my



La Pluralité des Mondes Habités by Camille Flammarion (1877 Didier edition).

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Nous sommes heureux de voir que ces recherches nouvelles s'ajoutent en faveur de la théorie de l'existence de la vie sur les autres globes de l'espace, et nous croyons intéressant de présenter ici cette importante communication.

« Certains météores, remarque d'abord l'expérimentateur [M. Berthelot], renferment une matière charbonneuse, dont l'existence et l'origine soulèvent un problème des plus intéressants. Cette matière contient du carbone, de l'hydrogène et de l'oxygène, et peut être rap...


in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

I guess that's what most people who actually play games feel about console VS PC. Just pick what work best for you and have fun, there's no need to justify that your purchase is better than others.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

I think encouraging developers to provide native Linux builds is important, but there are definitely some technical details which we need to figure out on our side first.

Hopefully, with the growing popularity of Flatpak, this may eventually be solved.

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Free Stars: Children of Infinity, sequel to The Ur-Quan Masters now on Kickstarter gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/free…

#PCGaming #Linux #FreeStars #StarControl

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

#Alt4You
Screenshot of conversation from FS: COI with a purple amoeba-like alien and spider-like robot saying "Trust us. Not Them."

Response options:
• For the sake of diplomacy, and because the other guy is right there.
• I trust you both.
• Given what you've just told me, trusting either of you is difficult.
• Trust is earned. Preferably with Us.

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Cartography of generative AI · The popularisation of AI has given rise to imaginaries that invite alienation & mystification ..

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I do not think people should keep octopuses as pets, but I did enjoy the phrase “it’s expensive, wet chaos”. nytimes.com/2024/04/11/us/tikt…


PAC-MAN Mega Tunnel Battle: Chomp Champs launches in early May gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/pac-…

#SteamDeck #Linux #PACMAN



It took about 15 years but epic roguelike Caves of Qud is nearly done gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/it-t…

#Roguelike #IndieGame #Linux #SteamDeck

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

It's a shame that in less then 24 hours Dwarf Fortress will have the beta out for their adventure mode with a tile set.


Emulation tool RetroDECK brings in Ryujinx for Nintendo Switch, many other improvements gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/emul…

#Linux #SteamDeck #Emulation



Telegram founder and notorious weirdo Pavel Durov says he's given an interview to Tucker Carlson.
in reply to Eugen Rochko

@Gargron Nothing disappointing, if you know a little about Durov’s history.
It would be interesting if he talked about his funding sources or the business that allowed him to fund Telegram _only_ from his “personal savings,” with hundreds of $mln a year over the years (as the official court documents for his cryptocurrency Ton say).
And how TG became de facto official in Russia after massive blockings and “digital resistance,” at the end of which Putin said “we have an agreement.”


Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) Beta released gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/ubun…

#Ubuntu #Linux

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

Guess it's getting near that time to update the rack server. Could wait till 2027... but might as well keep thing's current.


Descent 3 has been made open source gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/desc…

#FOSS #OpenSource #Descent3



POV: You made the mistake of trying to track a package in 2024


1. I'm supposed to be finishing my taxes but I've got another four hours. So let's talk about an absolute disaster in the US science ecosystem.

The NIH's BRAIN (Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) suffered catastrophic budget cuts—under Biden, no less—and now is unlikely to fund any new grants and will likely cut funding to existing grantees.

braininitiative.nih.gov/news-e…


in reply to Eugen Rochko

Hi, Do you happen to have this bigger picture? or another of that kind? I'm loving the fediverse!


Half-Life remake Black Mesa has a big upgrade with DXVK 2.3.1, optimizations and bug fixes gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/half…

#BlackMesa #HalfLife #Linux #SteamDeck

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

"switching over Linux support to Proton"

Yeah... Not so much a fan of this. It might be easier but it's not the intended route.

in reply to pieceofthepie

@pieceofthepie if it works and works well, it makes no difference for players, only zealots demand native
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

@pieceofthepie Agreed.

I definitely want something that is supported well and targets the latest native libraries (even via API translations) instead of a not-well-supported build that statically links old libraries (and even older graphics libraries, like SDL1.x instead of SDL2.x, OpenGL instead of Vulkan), has input issues (lack of gamepad, odd mouse support), and doesn't necessarily work across different distributions.

(Former is Proton; latter is a typical "native port".)

in reply to Garrett LeSage

@garrett @pieceofthepie "Only zealots demand native" is such a bad take.

There are several problems with Linux depending on Windows for the long-term health of Linux as a gaming platform. One of which is that we're constantly playing catchup with Windows APIs, we're also reinforcing Windows' dominance ("better Windows than Windows" doesn't work), and when there's a significant impedance mismatch (Wayland vs everything else), we're basically screwed in some respects.

in reply to Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ)

@Conan_Kudo @garrett @pieceofthepie it's the most realistic take, most developers don't care - and why should they, we're not even 2% of the market on Steam, it's wildly ridiculous to go around demanding native ports that require development time and support time that costs money for such little return

You need to take a step back, take off the bias glasses you're wearing and look at the market.

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

@Conan_Kudo @garrett @pieceofthepie Yes, the IDEAL situation, is that developers target Linux directly and support it directly - but there's basically little reason for them to

That won't happen with less than 2% market, and hasn't happened for the massive vast majority of titles people want to play for the entire time i've run gamingonlinux.

Wine / Proton are also game preservation tools, and great ones too. They're also open source. Remember, most games are proprietary.

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

the bigger killers are probably companies and games that explicitly go out of their way to prevent functioning on Linux/Wine/Proton. These compatibility layers have done pretty well for non-hostile games over time.
in reply to Pyral

@Pyral @garrett @pieceofthepie So what... we should give up then? Because we only got this far with idealism. Idealism is the only thing really holding us to even making this work at all. There is no business sense for anything we're doing right now.

Idealism is how we're getting a more open and integrated NVIDIA driver. Idealism is how we're getting more places to use Linux. Idealism is how we actually make progress. There are varying degrees, but it's extremely important.

in reply to Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ)

@Pyral @garrett @pieceofthepie I'm not saying that we can do it *now*, but we absolutely need to prioritize and start working toward native games *now*, because that is absolutely required for the long-term health of Linux as a gaming platform.
in reply to Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ)

gaming is a very different cut-throat market, i have to be honest but it’s just really naive to keep demanding it

Big publishers want big money, we’re not that. Small indie devs work for scraps often, and putting time into a tiny market for so little gain is not worth it

It’s not like a console, where it makes sense to have dedicated games, be realistic, Proton/Wine are open source and work *now*

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in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

@Conan_Kudo @Pyral @garrett @pieceofthepie and long-term health of the platform…because of what? The only games that break are those constantly updated, and those again are not going to care about the 2% market, for basically all others Wine/Proton will run them basically forever (and at times even better than on Windows)
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

@Conan_Kudo @Pyral @garrett @pieceofthepie the actual saner idea is to try to get more devs to do open source, THEN get them native where they can keep being updated for all the times Linux distro and kernel devs decide something has to change that breaks everything again
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

I'm thinking on opposite way, like devving on linux and expecting people to use WSL on windows.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

@Conan_Kudo @pieceofthepie I'm also super happy that devs are embracing Linux — Proton and native — thanks to wanting to make sure their games work on a Steam Deck *somehow*.

Linux definitely isn't a lot of the market share on Steam, but it's still the second largest, under Windows and above macOS.

Also: Some games run so well in Proton compared to natively on Windows, that Windows folks are pulling pieces (like DXVK) over to Windows to get the games to run better (or at all).

in reply to Garrett LeSage

@garrett @Conan_Kudo @pieceofthepie "support" is the main thing we want, it doesn't matter if it's "native" or run through Proton.

All games eventually end up having the developer move on from it, so in the end, Proton/Wine basically always win since you can just update that to improve the game for modern systems, unless the game is open source (which most are not)



Steam FPS Fest 2024 is live with tons of great discounts gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/stea…

#Steam #FPS #Linux #SteamDeck





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@andresmh @cyberlyra There are some things that only humans can do
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@cyberlyra @ntnsndr do LLMs also forget to unmute? That’s the ultimate Turing test


Just 13 short years after inviting #BoulderCouncil candidates over to the Masala Co-op for tea and cakes to discuss repealing occupancy limits that discriminate against unrelated people, and 28 years after Cedar Barstow got busted for living in an intentional community in her own home and was sentenced to community service, which she used to help found the Boulder Housing Coalition.

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#CoLeg #Housing

in reply to Nathan Schneider

@ntnsndr I am bitter and scarred and anticipate living out the rest of my days in exile.


What Would You Do As The Wayland BDFL #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/LvZCYVjAkhE


Reproducible Builds: Final Step In FOSS Validation #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/fPUSssZwvLQ
in reply to Brodie Robertson

I did looked into reproducible builds on alpine though!

And found that the package metadata is file system dependant...



When did you start offering swimming lessons @BrodieOnLinux@linuxrocks.online?


I wrote four thousand words on the follies of Humane, theories of what happened, and why you can't build Apple within the Venture Capital system. Enjoy.

sandofsky.com/humane/



What an amazing story. It would make a great movie!

How German Librarians Finally Caught an Elusive Book Thief


In the afternoon of February 21, 2006, Norbert Schild sat down at a desk in the reading room of the City Library of Trier, in western Germany, and opened a 400-year-old book on European geography. Working quickly, Schild laid a piece of blank white paper on top of the book, took a boxcutter from his lap, and discreetly sliced out a map of Alsace from pages 375 and 376.

Schild hadn’t noticed that the desks of two librarians, who were normally tasked with locating books for readers, were raised about three feet above the floor—giving them a clear view of his movements. They approached Schild and asked him what he was doing.

“It was worth a try,” Schild told them. He tossed his library card down on the table and hurried out of the building, taking the map with him.


in reply to Gerhard Hallstein

Das eine ist eine Einstellung, damit der Kontakt nicht auf der Netzwerkseite erscheint. Das andere ist eine Liste mit Kontakten. Ich sehe da nicht die Gemeinsamkeit.


“May thy knife chop and shatter.” A quick update on Choppke’s (my chopped sandwich restaurant chain): a new ad that features one of our snazzy looking hoodies. instagram.com/reel/C5wficAv3VR…


Deliberately friend-sized and friend-shaped, with a soft surface material and soft, squishy stuffing, you will soon be able to have a #Mastodon in your home:

blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/04/…

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@Gargron Is the mailing list sign-up the same one as the one for the other merch mails or is it the same list? Just want to know if I need to sign up again 😀


GE-Proton article updated as GE-Proton 9-4 was released shortly after the last release for some fixes gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/ge-p…

#Proton #GEProton #SteamDeck #Linux



So kottke[dot]org had some significant downtime this weekend but it seems to be humming along nicely now. In celebration, we’re not planning on having any significant downtime today! 🤞 kottke.org/


Paradox announce Stellaris: Season 08, with Stellaris: The Machine Age launching May 7th gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/para…

#Stellaris #Paradox #PCGaming



Get your Deckbuilder fix in this latest Humble Bundle gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/get-…

#Linux #SteamDeck



Bazzite v2.5 has fixes for Lenovo Legion Go and ASUS ROG Ally, plus smoother installs gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/bazz…

#Bazzite #Linux #HandheldGaming

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