Unified launcher for Windows games on Linux (UMU) v1.1.3 out now gamingonlinux.com/2024/10/unifโฆ
#Linux #LinuxGaming #OpenSource
Unified launcher for Windows games on Linux (UMU) v1.1.3 out now
Continuing to improve compatibility with Windows games on Linux outside of Steam, the Unified launcher for Windows games on Linux (UMU) has another release out now.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Escape Simulator gets a free Talos Principle DLC out now, plus a paid DLC in December gamingonlinux.com/2024/10/escaโฆ
Escape Simulator gets a free Talos Principle DLC out now, plus a paid DLC in December
Escape Simulator from Pine Studio continues doing some really cool additions, with The Talos Principle getting a little free crossover DLC out now.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
As a 20-year user of #ubuntu I find concerning that the page celebrating the 20 years of the OS is full of references to LinkedIn and twitter: what a disconnect between Ubuntu the company and ubuntu the enthusiast user base. The page, the celebration itself even, is then not for non-paying users but for the enterprise-level users that pay. Makes sense, of course โ a company needs to pay its bills โ, but it is nonetheless an upsetting reminder.
While sending dozens upon dozens of bug reports over the years surely doesn't pay the bills, it is also free labour ubuntu got from me. Fair deal, though: I got a free, stable OS out of it, for 20 years, for all our servers, desktops and laptops.
And the "ISV" acronym (independent software vendor) finally explains why the rise of the snap packages, which as a user I don't want anything to do with โ they have consistently brought trouble. Only makes sense, again, from the perspective of an enterprise with bills to pay.
20 years of Canonical Ubuntu | Ubuntu
We're celebrating 2 decades of innovation and charting a course for our future. And we want you to celebrate with us.Ubuntu
Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan
Born poor in colonial India and dead at 32, Ramanujan had fantastical, out-of-nowhere visions that continue to shape the field today.
By Jordana Cepelewicz via @QuantaMagazine
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Cambridge University welcomes excellent candidates who can teach and perform research in Plant Ecology and will complement our expertise in forest ecology, conservation, and evolution.
#PlantSciJobs @plantscijobs
University Assistant/Associate Professor - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
University Assistant/Associate Professor in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Cambridge.botany.fyi
Functional reorganization of brain regions supporting artificial grammar learning across the first half year of life
Infants have impressive auditory learning capabilities, even from the newborn stage. This study provides neuroimaging evidence that both newborns and 6โ7-month-olds already learn and detect grammar-like rules, and that the underlying brain networks aโฆplos.io
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I actually think you may be right about the blackbird.
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1 dead, dozens sickened in E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald's Quarter Pounders
First They Help Trump Photo Op And Now They Make People Literally Sick!
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U.S. intel officials say Russia is behind attempts to smear Tim Walz
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Thank you for posting this. There are a lot of people that need to see this.
I just find myself saying DUH!
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Giuliani must turn over $6m NYC apartment to election workers
And He Has 7 Days to Hand Them Over....
#Giuliani #NY #MakeTheNastyManPay #ServeTrumpLoseItAll #News #BBC #Election2020 #ElectionFraud
Giuliani ordered to turn over NYC apartment to Georgia election workers
He has a week to also hand over watches and sports memorabilia to two election Georgia workers who successfully sued him for defamation.Rachel Looker (BBC News)
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Very pleased that my wood engraving 'Forcan Ridge' has been selected for the Society of Wood Engravers 2025 exhibition. It starts at the Bankside Gallery in London (next door to the Tate) in February before traveling the UK.
All prints in the 2024 exhibition (including another of mine) can be seen here:
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And other prints of mine here:
johnaltringham.co.uk
Watercolours & engravings
Watercolour and ink paintings and sketches, most often of Scottish mountains and coasts and other landscapes in the UK and IrelandWatercolours & engravings
Oh, yeah! Home development rocks!
Finally I can shoot B&W without having to pay 11โฌ for development!
#photography #analogphotography #filmphotography #filmisnotdead #believeinfilm #blackandwhite
JOMO, el antรญdoto para dejar de estar constantemente conectado a las redes sociales
"la alegrรญa de perderse las cosas" es una respuesta a la presiรณn de estar constantemente al dรญa con cada evento, tendencia o experiencia social que surge a nuestro alrededor.
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Redes sociales: JOMO, el antรญdoto para dejar de estar constantemente conectado
Este concepto es una respuesta a la necesidad de estar todo el dรญa conectado a nuestra vida virtual.Oliver Serrano Leรณn (BBC News Mundo)
Nextcloud Hub 9 is here! ๐
Introducing federated video calls, Nextcloud Whiteboard, process automation engine Nextcloud Flow, a more natural Nextcloud AI Assistant, ... and so much more!
Collaboration, #decentralization, #datasovereignty & #privacy! โจ
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Be connected with Nextcloud Hub 9 - Nextcloud
Nextcloud Hub 9 lets you stay connected: new federation features, workflow automation, big design overhaul and much much moreMikhail Korotaev (Nextcloud)
Announcing a new sponsor of the Nextcloud Enterprise Day: SpaceNet ๐
SpaceNet is a Munich-based provider of managed services and data center solutions with focus on security and performance. We are excited to welcome SpaceNet as a sponsor!
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SpaceNet joins as a sponsor for Nextcloud Enterprise Day 2024 in Frankfurt - Nextcloud
Announce SpaceNet as a sponsor of the Nextcloud Enterprise Day 2024 in Frankfurt, Germany! Read this article for details.Mikhail Korotaev (Nextcloud)
Steam Deck Reddit:
Meme posts and random "i got a deck!" photos: 90000 upvotes
A post I took a while to make individually going over titles: reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/commentโฆ ..... it's at 0
NVIDIA 565.57.01 Beta has Wayland and HDR improvements, plus DXVK and VKD3D optimizations gamingonlinux.com/2024/10/nvidโฆ
NVIDIA 565.57.01 Beta has Wayland and HDR improvements, plus DXVK and VKD3D optimizations
NVIDIA today released two new Linux drivers. The big one is the NVIDIA 565.57.01 Beta, along with a one-liner update in the stable 550.127.05 release.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Science fantasy roguelike epic Caves of Qud releases December 5 gamingonlinux.com/2024/10/scieโฆ
Science fantasy roguelike epic Caves of Qud releases December 5
Freehold Games and Kitfox Games have announced the thoroughly strange and unique science fantasy roguelike epic Caves of Qud is leaving Early Access on December 5.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Celebrity jet-tracking accounts disappear from Threads and Instagram
Meta has suspended several accounts that track the private jets of celebrities like Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Kim Kardashian, and Donald Trump.Jess Weatherbed (The Verge)
They're definitely the most positive, but the lack of mention in an article like this is strange, considering there was already the whole snafu with the elonjet creator moving to masto. The Verge covered it at the time: theverge.com/2022/12/15/235118โฆ
One would think it would be relevant to mention in this article today!
Twitter suspends Mastodon after it tweeted about Elonโs jet
Twitter has suspended Mastodonโs official Twitter account. The account appears to have been suspended for violating Twitterโs new policy against sharing live locations.Jay Peters (The Verge)
Auto-battler dungeon crawler Skull Horde announced by dev of BORE BLASTERS gamingonlinux.com/2024/10/autoโฆ
Auto-battler dungeon crawler Skull Horde announced by dev of BORE BLASTERS
BORE BLASTERS developer 8BitSkull have announced their next game, Skull Horde, which will be released in 2025 with Linux and Steam Deck support.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Frozen waffles from Kodiak, Target, Walmart recalled due to potential listeria contamination
I don't shop at these stores or buy this brand, but folks who do should pay attention to this.
Get Rid Of These If You Have Them
#FoodRecall #Target #Walmart #Kodiak #TreeHouseFoods #Publix #FoodLion
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ORA is a type of enrichment analysis that analyses over-represented functional categories in gene lists. These tools have accumulated ~190k citations, but they have subtly different behaviours. Here we unpack the differences and investigate two subtle problems in some implementations, which may have negatively impacted those 190k research papers.
doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbae159
#genomics #bioinformatics
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Reflection from Venus, surprisingly bright to the naked eye.
#venus #ocean #space #astro #astrophotography
Happy #autumn everyone! My neighbor across the street Iโm sure thinks Iโm nuts, this time every year I go outside first thing in the morning and start taking pictures of his tree ๐
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Steam Deck Verified round-up, your late October 2024 highlights gamingonlinux.com/2024/10/steaโฆ
Steam Deck Verified round-up, your late October 2024 highlights
Here's your next run over some recent Steam Deck Verified games, those that should just be click and play on both Steam Deck and Desktop Linux.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Get over 60 games free with Prime Gaming right now - many work on Steam Deck / Linux, some ending soon! gamingonlinux.com/2024/10/get-โฆ
Get over 60 games free with Prime Gaming right now - many work on Steam Deck / Linux
Another round up of some free games you can get to play on Steam Deck and Desktop Linux thanks to Prime Gaming.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Nextcloud has been recognized with the Platinum Award at the prestigious #ITAWARDS 2024 ๐
We owe this honor to our amazing team and everyone who voted for us ๐ Thank you for your support!
Celebrate with us:
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Nextcloud wins Platinum at the IT Awards 2024! - Nextcloud
Nextcloud has been awarded Platinum at the IT Awards 2024. Today, we celebrate this win together!Kim Pohlmann (Nextcloud)


Albert Cardona
in reply to PLOS Biology • • •Interesting that this study on infant brain development is not done with fMRI but with fNIRS (functional near-infrared spectroscopy [1]). And concerning to read about the complete reliance on software provided opaquely by a company for the analysis: "As all fNIRS data preprocessing was carried out on MATLAB-based toolboxes, no custom scripts are available."
[1] fNIRS measures more or less the same as fMRI: blood flow. "Using fNIRS, brain activity is measured by using near-infrared light to estimate cortical hemodynamic activity which occur in response to neural activity." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functionโฆ
#neuroscience
optical technique for monitoring brain activity
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Albert Cardona
in reply to Albert Cardona • • •Why is it concerning that the analysis relies entirely on Matlab toolboxes?
1. Reproducing the analysis requires access to the exact toolbox with the exact version number. May also have platform dependencies (e.g., outputs slightly different results on macos, linux, and windows).
2. Often the version of the toolbox is not reported. It isn't in this paper.
3. Increased use of the toolbox may lead to price gouging, excluding many who can't afford to purchase it. Besides the unfairness, this impacts the ability of just about anyone to reproduce the analysis from the raw data.
4. After some years the toolbox may not be available at all, for example if the company considers its maintenance a burden with negative returns on investment.
If you are a reviewer or an editor: at the very least demand the reporting of the toolbox version and the operating system version where it was run. And ideally demand enough specification of the algorithms used by the functions provided in the toolbox that an independent reimplementation and reanalysis is possible.
#reproducibility #academia