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Giving up on all the fancy stuff and just transitioned my newsletter back to a simple Mailman operation. There's a form at the bottom of my website: nathanschneider.info/
Bye, bye, tracking and formatting.
Okay I knew Opera browser was bad but I had no idea how crazy the situation was until reading this.
spacebar.news/stop-using-operaโฆ
Stop using Opera Browser and Opera GX
Opera Browser and Opera GX are bloated web browsers, and the company behind them has tried to cover up its controversies.Corbin Davenport (The Spacebar)
Gnome's Icon Theme Is Objectively Broken
For the longest time on Linux we've had the ability to set a default icon theme for our applications but in the journey of GNOME trying to be different this ...YouTube
Some people like to portrait AI technology as essentially benign. It is not. It is being used to profile people for arrest, eliminate jobs, spread disinformation and propaganda, and to commit violence against women.
youtu.be/VMWYyrUkDH0?si=Pn2PzIโฆ
Rep. AOC on the DEFIANCE Act and the Fight Against AI Porn
As we see an explosion in the use of artificial intelligence, we are quickly seeing the dark side too.Did you know that 90% to 95% of ALL deepfake videos mad...YouTube
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Stolon is a lightweight, flat-file HTML, CSS, JS web code playground.
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Raphaรซl Bastide / Stolon ยท GitLab
Lightweight HTML, CSS, JS web IDE build with PHP. It generates flat files code prototypes that can be shared. https://stolon.raphaelbastide.comGitLab
Primitive purine biosynthesis connects ancient geochemistry to modern metabolism
nature.com/articles/s41559-024โฆ
#evolution #OriginOfLife #geochemistry
Primitive purine biosynthesis connects ancient geochemistry to modern metabolism - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Constructing a biosphere-scale model of the evolutionary history of metabolism based on >12,000 biochemical reactions, the authors show that a bottleneck in purine synthesis prevents metabolic expansion from geochemical precursors.Nature
NEODUEL: Backpack Monsters blends an inventory PvP auto-battler with a monster-fusing twist gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/neodโฆ
NEODUEL: Backpack Monsters blends an inventory PvP auto-battler with a monster-fusing twist
Inventory management games are becoming another popular thing at the moment. We've had all those survivor-like bullet-heaven games and now another genre is springing to life. NEODUEL: Backpack Monsters looks like a sweet spin on the idea.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Zelda 64: Recompiled, the Majora's Mask PC port v1.1 brings various upgrades gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/zeldโฆ
Zelda 64: Recompiled, the Majora's Mask PC port v1.1 brings various upgrades
Zelda 64: Recompiled was pretty interesting news recently, a PC port of Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask using the new N64: Recompiled tool and now a fresh update is out to improve it further.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
The EUโs Digital Markets Act (DMA) includes new enforcement tools to finally apply the GDPR to US tech giants.
The problem? Big Tech is actively refusing to comply.
The EFF states, "Apple and Meta are daring the EU to enforce its democratically enacted laws..."
eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/big-โฆ
Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead"
The European Unionโs new Digital Markets Act (DMA) is a complex, many-legged beast, but at root, it is a regulation that aims to make it easier for the public to control the technology they use and rely on.Electronic Frontier Foundation
A little fun from the FT. Apparently they don't care for American paper sizes in comparison to ISO 216 and I appreciate the poetry with which they express this. ๐
EDIT: A kind person has provided this link ft.com/content/bb9bf7c6-1785-4โฆ although much of the other language employed smacks of desperation to claim credibility as a younger person and is quite cringeworthy in its use.
We tried to design the perfect sellside note. How did we do?
Notes on notes on notesLouis Ashworth (Financial Times)
VoxeLibre (formerly MineClone2) v0.87 released moving away from Minecraft gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/voxeโฆ
VoxeLibre (formerly MineClone2) v0.87 released moving away from Minecraft
VoxeLibre (formerly MineClone2), a free and open source sandbox game, has a brand new release available as they begin more movement to end the Minecraft clone wars.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
I have a lot of sympathy for students who see themselves getting bad value from their degrees & find trying to balance staying financially solvent & studying a sometimes impossible challenge;
But I also have sympathy with university staff trying to encourage in-person attendance (knowing as I do how degraded on-line learning can be).
Sadly, this crisis in higher education is driven by external forces that are pitting students & staff against each other.
theguardian.com/education/artiโฆ
โI see little pointโ: UK university students on why attendance has plummeted
About half the students who got in touch skip lectures, with many โdisappointedโ with the experience and others forced to prioritise paid workJedidajah Otte (The Guardian)
Terraria: The Board Game live on Kickstarter - goal met almost instantly gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/terrโฆ
Terraria: The Board Game live on Kickstarter - goal met almost instantly
Terraria the smash-hit indie game is being turned into a tabletop experience with Terraria: The Board Game. It's crowdfunding on Kickstarter, and obviously it was going to do well.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Faire Terraria 2 qu'on attend depuis 10 ans โ
Faire un jeu plateau que personne demande โ
This Saturday I'll be part of a panel discussing creative processes and change at Ardnaculla Summer School, Co. Clare, Ireland.
We will be considering collaborative art as worldmaking, and I'll be focussing on work that addresses challenges in computing and network technologies.
hometree.ie/ardnacullasummerscโฆ
Ardnaculla Summer School โ Hometree
Three days of workshops, discussions, and hands-on events for community, landowners, and farmers to explore and learn about the benefits of native woodlands and biodiversity restoration.hometree
Inspired by immersive RPGs from the 90s Sonar Shock looks great gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/inspโฆ
Inspired by immersive RPGs from the 90s Sonar Shock looks great
Sonar Shock looks a bit System Shock-like and that's a great thing, as it was inspired by various immersive RPGs from the 90s.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
MangoHud performance monitor v0.7.2 out now gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/mangโฆ
MangoHud performance monitor v0.7.2 out now
MangoHud, the performance monitor you can put on top of games on Linux has a brand new release available with new features and fixes. This is the tech that powers the performance overlay on Steam Deck!Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
staging: Add xdg-toplevel-icon to allow windows to set dedicated icons (!269) ยท Merge requests ยท wayland / wayland-protocols ยท GitLab
Hi everyone! Here is yet another controversial protocol, but I think it is a lot easier to discuss pros and cons if there is a concrete...GitLab
Co-op tower defense beat 'em up ChronoDojo adds various Steam Deck improvements gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/co-oโฆ
Co-op tower defense beat 'em up ChronoDojo adds various Steam Deck improvements
ChronoDojo blends together two genres that I didn't think would work. Putting together tower defense and a beat 'em up sounds a bit odd, but I've seen a lot stranger.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Physics-based roguelite bullet-hell Cosmo Rider improves Steam Deck controls gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/physโฆ
Physics-based roguelite bullet-hell Cosmo Rider improves Steam Deck controls
Cosmo Rider is a bhysics based roguelite bullet-hell-and-heaven horde-survivor action game. Upgrade your spaceship and traverse procedurally generated galaxies in this space survivors game.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine fheroes2 v1.1.0 released with a new integrated editor gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/heroโฆ
#Retro #OpenSource #Linux
Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine fheroes2 v1.1.0 released
Dear fans of Heroes of Might and Magic 2 and fheroes2 project supporters! The team is excited to present to you the release ofย version 1.1.fheroes2 (GamingOnLinux)
No leaving a Steam account in a will after you die according to Valve gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/no-lโฆ
No leaving a Steam account in a will after you die according to Valve
Doing the rounds right now is a post from Valve's Steam support, when a user asked about what would happen to their Steam account when they died and it's not great news for anyone hoping to pass on your Steam account.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
It's simply against the law, at least in Germany.
They have to give you access to the account if you can provide the necessary documents.
You will not be able to make new purchases.
Facebook tried to fight this on court and lost.
hehehe!
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โEverybody has not wonโ: trickle-down economics was an idiotic idea. How do we fix the inequality it causes?
Forty years of the neoliberal experiment have created a world of vast and increasing inequality. But this can and should change.The Conversation
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All together now: Wealth tax, wealth tax, wealth tax.
Let's save the planet by removing some of those incentives, shall we?
Henrietta โEttyโ Darwin was born in 1843, the eldest of Charles Darwinโs daughters to reach adulthood.
She became a key editor of her fatherโs scientific writing, most notably The Descent of Man & Selection in Relation to Sex, published in 1871.
Charles Darwin considered Etty a โdear coadjutor, fellow-labourerโ & lively member of an intellectually stimulating household. cam.ac.uk/research/news/unpublโฆ #science #HistoryRemix
Unpublished journal offers new take on Darwinโs daughter
A small, lockable leather diary - kept in the vast archives of Cambridge University Library - has led to a reassessment of one of the key relationships inUniversity of Cambridge
She looks FAB!
Terrific work.
And check out that pendant โฅ๏ธ
I think I would have loved growing up in such a family.
NetBSD Completely Bans AI Generated Code
Whether you like the direction that AI is going or not you have to decide how you're going to use or not use it, it's no longer enough to just ignore the tec...YouTube
Google promised a better search experience โ now itโs telling us to put glue on our pizza
via Tom Scott
"As the AI content apocalypse rumbles on โ yes, apparently Google really did suggest that people can eat glue โ Facebook has announced that they're going to train models on everyone's old posts. Some people (like me) still need a Facebook account for social or business reasons, so if you're one of them and you want to opt out of that model training, the page is here. In the UK, you only need to put a simple one-sentence message like "I object to this processing" in the "how this impacts you" box and it'll be approved. In countries with less strict privacy laws, that may not be the case!"
(not sure the Facebook link works)
Google promised a better search experience โ now itโs telling us to put glue on our pizza
Googleโs new AI Overviews feature is delivering a litany of mistakes for its billions of users, citing Reddit jokes as serious sources for some and hallucinating others.Kylie Robison (The Verge)
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Excellent article!
Why is the Gaza war tearing us apart?
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"And this perhaps leaves us with the final ethical concern. Even if it is right, sometimes, to judge people based on their group membership, and to be sensitive to the role of systemic power, people are individuals, too. It still matters how each individual is treated, not as a place-holder for a group, and not as responsible for the groupโs sins.
"Just because a person might be in the right politically doesnโt mean that what they are doing for their cause is permissible morally.
"There are no easy answers here. In a multicultural and pluralistic country, we canโt prevent others having different views, and we canโt shy away from the sharp disagreements those differences will create.
"But we can at least remember we are all human, and put limits on intimidating, haranguing, ostracising and threatening others, even as we tolerate their rights to protest and criticise the things we hold most sacred."
Why is the Gaza war tearing us apart?
Each side is righteously sensitive to any perceived hate speech from the other, but seems unwilling to limit their own punitive strategies or inflammatory language.The Conversation
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Steam's Open World Survival Crafting Fest is live now gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/steaโฆ
Steam's Open World Survival Crafting Fest is live now
The Steam Open World Survival Crafting Fest is live now showing off demos, discounts, upcoming games and much more in another event that will swallow up your time.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
2 Ship 2 Harkinian, another unofficial PC port of Zelda: Majora's Mask is out now gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/2-shโฆ
2 Ship 2 Harkinian, another unofficial PC port of Zelda: Majora's Mask is out now
While we only recently had the Zelda 64: Recompiled release, we've now also got another PC port of Zelda: Majora's Mask thanks to the Harbour Masters team with 2 Ship 2 Harkinian.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
I'd like to remind all Mastodon users that you can add a language filter to any follow relationship on Mastodon.
If you follow me and you don't speak German, you can easily remove my German posts from your timeline by adjusting the language settings.
Go to my profile page, select the dot menu and click "Change subscribed languages". Then select the languages that you speak.
This really is a hidden gem ๐ on Mastodon and not many people seem to know this feature 
Los encuentran en el siguiente enlaceโ๏ธ:
al.internetsocialforum.net/repโฆ
The Cozy Space Survivors post-release update has some simple lessons for indie devs gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/the-โฆ
The Cozy Space Survivors post-release update has some simple lessons for indie devs
Released on May 3rd, Cozy Space Survivors is a cute survival roguelite in space, one for those of you who don't have a lot of free time. It's a little gem and the developer has posted up some post-release thoughts.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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