Chrysalis is a unique hybrid of tower defense and rogue-lite RPG action where you posses plants and creatures gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/chryโฆ
#Chrysalis #IndieGame #LinuxGaming
Chrysalis is a unique hybrid of tower defense and rogue-lite RPG action where you posses plants and creatures
Chrysalis from developer Metamorph Games wins top marks for some originality here, and if you're a fan of cute tower defense games that mix in some exploration this is one for you.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Steampunk bullet heaven auto-shooter Airships: Lost Flotilla releases January 23 gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/steaโฆ
Steampunk bullet heaven auto-shooter Airships: Lost Flotilla releases January 23
Airships: Lost Flotilla from developer David Stark and Metaroot has been announced for release on January 23, a bullet heaven survivor-like spin off from Stark's previous highly rated game Airships: Conquer the Skies.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Steam Beta for Dec 11 brings new game update options plus a new downloader style gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/steaโฆ
Steam Beta for Dec 11 brings new game update options plus a new downloader style
The latest Steam Client Beta for Desktop and Steam Deck has been released, and Valve have given us new options for managing game updates and there's a new downloader style.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
A few times a year I get someone reporting rare and mysterious Timeout::Errors in @sidekiq jobs. I wonder if this is underlying cause:
github.com/sidekiq/sidekiq/pulโฆ
Change Sidekiq's default thread priority to -1 by mperham ยท Pull Request #6543 ยท sidekiq/sidekiq
Ruby's default 100ms timeslice can cause significant delays in threading if the user has configured high concurrency with CPU heavy jobs (e.g. the old Sidekiq default of 25 threads). Worst case...GitHub
#myphoto #spider #australia
St Andrew's Cross Spider
St Andrew's Cross Spiders are named for their bright web decorations - zig-zag ribbons of bluish-white silk that form a full or partial cross through the centre of the orb web.The Australian Museum
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Those zig-zags she has spun actually reflect ultra-violet light. Perhaps to catch insects who are looking for that colour to find pollen.
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Proton 9.0-4 is out now bringing big compatibility improvements for Steam Deck / Linux gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/protโฆ
#Proton #SteamDeck #LinuxGaming #Linux #OpenSource
Proton 9.0-4 is out now bringing big compatibility improvements for Steam Deck / Linux
The latest stable version of the compatibility layer to run Windows games on Steam Deck / Desktop Linux from Valve, Proton 9.0-4 is out now.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Devious Deckbuilders Encore
Ante up! This bundle of ingenious deck builders includes games like Book of Hours, Dungeon Drafters, and more! Your purchase helps support Cool Effect.Humble Bundle
Take control of your privacy with open-source AI! ๐
Did you know proprietary AI tools can come with hidden features like data harvesting and using your private data without your consent?
Explore how open-source AI can help you reclaim your privacy.
Nextcloud.com/blog/how-open-soโฆ
Open-source AI models that give you privacy back - Nextcloud
In this article, we find out how open-source AI models give you privacy back and explore the examples of reliable AI for your ecosystem.Mikhail Korotaev (Nextcloud)
Overall, I appreciate Nextcloud so much, but seriously, hard pass on anything that's "AI," Nextcloud team.
NLP? Sure, let's stick to that.
Cyberpunk 2077 gets another big upgrade with more customisation and secrets in update 2.2 gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/cybeโฆ
#Cyberpunk2077 #PCGaming #Gaming
Cyberpunk 2077 gets another big upgrade with more customisation and secrets in update 2.2
CD PROJEKT RED put up another free big upgrade for Cyberpunk 2077, so is it time to dive back into Night City for another run? You may want to.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Una utopรญa rodeada de basura
Las grandes corporaciones se han apoderado de Internet, y en su bรบsqueda de la rentabilidad, han degradado sus usos.
Ballionaire is annoyingly good and I want to play it all the time gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/ballโฆ
#Ballionaire #Godot #IndieGames #SteamDeck #Linux
Ballionaire is annoyingly good and I want to play it all the time
Ballionaire from developer newobject and publisher Raw Fury scratches all the right places in my brain, and I want more of it.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Advanced genetic techniques and #microscopy offer new insights into anaerobic ciliate and methanogen #symbiosis phys.org/news/2024-10-advancedโฆ
Methanogenic #symbionts of anaerobic #ciliates are host and habitat specific academic.oup.com/ismej/articleโฆ #ISEPpapers by @joro
"This study provides a clearer understanding of how anaerobic ciliates have evolved a mix transmission mode to both maintain and replace their symbionts over time"
#microbes #protists #bacteria #archaea #methanogenesis #biology
Advanced genetic techniques and microscopy offer new insights into anaerobic ciliate and methanogen symbiosis
A recent study has uncovered critical details about the association between anaerobic ciliates and methanogenic archaea, a relationship that has fascinated scientists for over decades.Charles University (Phys.org)
Moon Watch mixes up the bullet heaven survivor genre with time-stopping and deck-building into something strategic gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/moonโฆ
#MoonWatch #IndieGames #Linux #SteamDeck
Moon Watch mixes up the bullet heaven survivor genre with time-stopping and deck-building into something strategic
Moon Watch is a new release now in Early Access from developer Jaspel, who also made Backpack Hero, and they're mixing genres together again into something new.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
"Jacques Ranciรฉre tells a mythical story about how the separation of signal and noise might have been accomplished in Ancient Greece. Sounds produced by affluent male locals were defined as speech, whereas women, children, slaves, and foreigners were assumed to produce garbed noise. The distinction between speech and noise serves as a kind of political spam filter."
โ Hito Steyerl: Duty free art, pp. 50-50
The reference here is to a part of Ranciรฉre's "Ten Theses on Politics".
Duty free art - BookWyrm
"Where can contemporary art go under global war and fascism?"--bookwyrm.social
Please spare a moment to consider Human Rights Day and what it stands for!
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Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog is a seriously cool visual novel love-letter to retro anime and 80s Sci-Fi gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/storโฆ
#Gaming #IndieGames #PCGaming #LinuxGaming
Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog is a seriously cool visual novel love-letter to retro anime and 80s Sci-Fi
I don't play many visual novels, but I might have to break that habit again soon with Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog because it looks and feels like playing through a classic Gundam Anime story.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Ruffy and the Riverside is a unique action-adventure where you have the power to copy and paste textures gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/ruffโฆ
#IndieGames #LinuxGaming #SteamDeck
Ruffy and the Riverside is a unique action-adventure where you have the power to copy and paste textures
This is such a fun idea for a game. Ruffy and the Riverside is a colourful hand-drawn action-adventure where you've got a special power called SWAP, that lets you copy and paste textures in the game.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Mystery adventure Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping announced gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/mystโฆ
#DuckDetective #Linux #IndieGames #AdventureGames
Mystery adventure Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping announced
The Duck returns for another mystery adventure in Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping coming sometime in 2025 with Native Linux support.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Epic Games update the Unreal Tournament website linking to the free downloads from OldUnreal gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/epicโฆ
#UnrealTournament #EpicGames #Unreal
Epic Games update the Unreal Tournament website linking to the free downloads from OldUnreal
Back in November, I reported on Epic Games giving their approval for Unreal 1 and Unreal Tournament becoming completely free to download. Now, Epic Games have updated the official Unreal Tournament website to link to the OldUnreal community.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
The Talos Principle: Reawakened announced that rebuilds and expands the original in Unreal Engine 5 gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/the-โฆ
#Croteam #Gaming #TheTalosPrinciple
The Talos Principle: Reawakened announced that rebuilds and expands the original in Unreal Engine 5
The much loved puzzle adventure The Talos Principle is being remade in Unreal Engine 5, with Croteam / Devolver Digital announcing The Talos Principle: Reawakened.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Generative AI is an abomination.
youtube.com/watch?v=OY2x0TyKzIโฆ
- YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.www.youtube.com
I wonder if all of this now slop, but eventually "great", AI crap will start pushing people back to using #lynx and the like, or even #gopher. Why bother with images and videos any more when signal-to-noise ratio gets below a certain point.
With browsers we learned to use #adblock and the like, but how to #aiblock?
At this rate the only winning move might be just not to play, and move back to text based tools. Or enjoy your new friends if you never left ๐
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@Katherine Bond @Joyce Donahue @๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ฆ
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If you don't want AI spying on your phone, there are options besides continually disabling it. One great one is, next time you need a new device, get one with e/OS. Android minus the spying. murena.com/america/products/smโฆ
Update: See below for some very compelling critiques of e/OS.
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The Power of Beautiful Solutions
Discover insightful articles on The Power of Beautiful Solutions. Join us in exploring solutions for a just, sustainable, and compassionate world. #The Power of Beautiful SolutionsEli Feghali (YES! Magazine)
If the Institute for Scientific Information of Coffee says coffee is good for the brain, body, and soul (that last is my addition), it's got to be true.
sciencealert.com/giant-study-lโฆ
Giant Study Links Drinking Coffee With Almost 2 Extra Years of Life : ScienceAlert
Many of us enjoy a cup of coffee (or four) to perk up during the day, and new research offers evidence that the popular beverage may bring numerous benefits along with it โ including potentially the chance of living a longer, healthier life, researchโฆDavid Nield (ScienceAlert)
News just in: company's new console will be more powerful. Truly incredible scenes.
I'm begging gaming sites to hire people that understand what they're talking about.
"Even more impressive, though, is that 12 GB of RAM for the Switch 2 would mean it's more powerful than the Xbox Series S, which would be significant."
RAM amount = power now apparently.
Valve now sell refurbished Steam Deck OLED models gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/valvโฆ
Valve now sell refurbished Steam Deck OLED models
Valve announced today that they've added the Steam Deck OLED 512GB and 1TB models into their Valve Certified Refurbished program, so you can grab one a bit cheaper.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
UnitedHealth recently helped kill single-payer health care legislation in California.
Gov. Gavin Newsom backed off his previous support of the idea -- after he & Dems received huge money from UnitedHealth donors. buff.ly/3ZPLOPu
Newsomโs Big Choice: Single Payer Or His Insurance Donors?
Californiaโs governor is caught between his campaign pledge and the health care companies that bankroll him.The Lever
I appreciate that @eLife decision to provide a 'partial feed' of work judged "solid" in order to get indexed was made in consultation with the community, and it serves researchers' interests to have their papers indexed. But, it does feel like likely that many will perceive this as more like traditional pre-publication peer review rather than an experiment in post-publication peer review, which is a shame.
(Edited because I think my original formulation of this post was too negative.)
fediscience.org/@eLife/1136291โฆ
eLife (@eLife@fediscience.org)
After listening to community feedback, we will provide a partial feed allowing 93% of eLife authors to continue being indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection.FediScience.org
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