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Hey, any of my former UNR students who are following me, answer your phone tonight! It could be someone trying to cure your ballot.

(And hello. I think of you often and hope you're all doing well. ๐Ÿ’™)



"The United States elects a new president on Tuesday 5 November. The outcome, of course, interests also elsewhere in the world due to the resulting choice having sizeable ramifications for the rest of the world too. The United States does not exist in a vacuum.

"Many pollsters have asked in various European nations what does their populace think of the race and who would they, should they have the right to do so, vote."

Europe Elects

in reply to Muse

Eyup. Cats and books and games here.


New comic is up early on Daily Kos! dailykos.com/stories/2024/11/5โ€ฆ


Illustration from The Cat Who Went to Sea by Kathryn and Byron Jackson, pictures by Aurelius Battaglia. 1950.


Continuing public service cat pictures. This is a twofer - two shots of the Wonder Twins, Sir Wobbles (orange cat) and his sister Cupcake. (black and white cat). #CatsOfMastodon


Open Source AI has been defined, and we think that's something to celebrate! ๐Ÿง 

It is an important milestone for the Open Source movement, for AI, and for users โ€” helping you choose the right #AI tools for your needs.

Read our opinion for details:

nextcloud.com/blog/open-sourceโ€ฆ

#AI
in reply to Nextcloud ๐Ÿ“ฑโ˜๏ธ๐Ÿ’ป

I don't want open washed Grand Theft Autocomplete LLMs anywhere near my data. OSI hasn't defined open source AI, just open-washed proprietary AI. You should have nothing to do with it.
This entry was edited (1 year ago)
in reply to Nextcloud ๐Ÿ“ฑโ˜๏ธ๐Ÿ’ป

my need is for this "AI" crap to get tossed into the sun and stop turning every single application and service I use not only tremendously worse but also a direct attack vector on my privacy


Humble Choice for November has Persona 4 Golden, Warhammer Darktide, Cassette Beasts and more gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/humbโ€ฆ


Lucky Tower Ultimate is an absurdly funny dungeon crawler you need to play gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/luckโ€ฆ

#SteamDeck #Gaming #Linux

Unknown parent

@LinuxAndYarn ya, taking a sip of ur drink is unhealthy, expect death


Enjoyed this #CallOfCthulhu campaign by the @ApocPlayers, Dead Light. It's now complete with 3 episodes.

youtube.com/watch?v=Em6YmWOE4nโ€ฆ



Redes Comunitarias: sobre conectividad y empoderamiento

@Colnodo presenta nuevo documental sobre conectividad en zonas rurales de #Colombia

apc.org/es/news/redes-comunitaโ€ฆ



Hola,
Querรญa comentaros que existe Briar, una app de mensajerรญa descentralizada, que NO requiere torres de comunicaciรณn y que puede ser muy รบtil en caso de desastres naturales, cortes de comunicaciones, etc.

Echadle un ojo

briarproject.org/




Check out the spooky new Two Point Museum trailer gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/checโ€ฆ


Iโ€™m pretty sure Sylvester (tuxedo) was asleep when Simon (orange) took up this position, because he usually doesnโ€™t tolerate Simon being quite that close. #Cats #CatsOfMastodon #TuxedoCats #OrangeCats


Croc Legend of the Gobbos remaster to release in December gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/crocโ€ฆ

#Gaming #Retro




How Mozilla lost the Internet (& what's next)

Nebula: nebula.tv/videos/techaltar-howโ€ฆ

YouTube version coming later.



Playing with special beans in Bean To Me! is messing with my brain gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/playโ€ฆ

#IndieGames #PCGaming



Crusader Kings III free upgrade and new Wandering Nobles event pack out now gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/crusโ€ฆ

#CK3 #Paradox #PCGaming



Stardew Valley 1.6.9 released with a new friend to help you find lost items gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/starโ€ฆ

#StardewValley #SteamDeck



Retro racing throwback Classic Sport Driving adds Linux support gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/retrโ€ฆ

#Linux #Racing



SuperTuxKart 1.5 Beta released with a benchmark mode, graphics tweaks and more gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/supeโ€ฆ

#FreeGame #OpenSource



Manjaro Linux want your system info with their new data collection tool gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/manjโ€ฆ

#Manjaro #Linux



Have you heard of a mineral called Ulexite?
The block itself has quite an interesting structure and looks translucent when polished but if you lay it down on a surface you suddenly can see a clear picture from what is underneath!





This funny fellow was too shy, and my camera too slow. Every time he poked his head up, I would snap a pic that wouldn't take until after he had put his head back down! Echidnas! Amiright?!
in reply to Muse

Put a smile on your dial, ya bludger!
(give me a moment, I may think of some more colourful Aussie phrases)
in reply to Muse

Without meaning to, you captured his darling personality perfectly. "..too shy.."



this month's reading for the MAL is Blockchain Chicken Farm from Xiaowei Wang - feel free to read along with us! #MALbookclub othernetworks.net/2024/11/04/nโ€ฆ


Just published at the wonderful (open access) journal First Monday, my long-in-progress article on a general theory of how innovation events train us to forget: "Innovation amnesia: Technology as a substitute for politics" firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/โ€ฆ
This entry was edited (1 year ago)
in reply to Nathan Schneider

#Alt4You Screenshot of linked publication header. Logo for "First Monday: Peer-reviewed journal on the internet."
Publication title: "Innovation amnesia: Technology as a substitute for politics" by Nathan Schneider.

Please consider adding alt text to your images, it helps keep the fedi accessible! Feel free to use or adapt this alt text.

in reply to Eliot Lash

@Eliot_L Will do, thanks. Unfortunately my auto-poster doesn't yet support alts.


What do you know, it comes down in the end to anti-Blackness.


Steam Deck SteamOS 3.6.20 update released for everyone gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/steaโ€ฆ

#SteamDeck #SteamOS



youtube.com/watch?v=nZftVjs-Jdโ€ฆ


The BenQ beCreatus GR10 USB4 Steam Deck Dock is simply great gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/the-โ€ฆ

#SteamDeck #BenQ #beCreatus



Chiapas: miles exigen justicia por asesinato del padre Marcelo

y que se frene la violencia desbordada en #Chiapas #Mรฉxico

jornada.com.mx/noticia/2024/11โ€ฆ



Netflix is going all in on using generative AI to build games, weeks after the company shut down an internal studio focused on creating "AAA" games. pcmag.com/news/netflix-focusesโ€ฆ
in reply to PCMag

I already canceled my subscription a while back. Glad I did!


Start the countdown for the increase in the number of deeply inaccurate citations


Don't miss this webinar with @ntnsndr and Jessica Gordon-Nembhard, happening in 45 minutes!

How Has Structural Racism Held Back the Co-op Movement?
colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2024/1โ€ฆ

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