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As @NASA_Orion continues its journey home, we're also celebrating the 50th anniversary of the iconic "Blue Marble" photo of Earth, taken on Dec. 7, 1972 by the crew of Apollo 17.

Get the full-size image: go.nasa.gov/3VDWmg1
#NASA

#NASA


Don't forget to sign-up for the Steam Deck giveaway from Valve: gamingonlinux.com/2022/11/valvโ€ฆ



50 years after Apollo 17, other cameras in space have captured stunning, distant views of our home. Take a look: earthobservatory.nasa.gov/collโ€ฆ
#NASAEarth



Blender 3.4 is out now with Wayland support on Linux, Intel's Open Path Guiding added gamingonlinux.com/2022/12/blenโ€ฆ #FOSS #OpenSource



Look up!

Mars slips behind the Moon tonight (called an "occultation") for viewers in most of the U.S. If you're in the East Coast or the Southeast, the Moon will appear to just barely graze past Mars.

Check out stargazing tips for the December here: go.nasa.gov/3zLnOgh
#NASAJPL

in reply to NASA

In Valencia (Spain) the occultation of Mars by the Moon will occur at 6:21:49 CET and will end at 7:08:06 CET tomorrow, December 8, but unfortunately it will be cloudy.
in reply to NASA

I guess Iโ€™ll miss the occultation of Mars by the moon tonight - too much moisture in the airโ€ฆ


"Vivaldi Browser Now Boasts Mastodon Integration" from @omgubuntu

omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/12/vivaldโ€ฆ

Very nice.

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

@kiteless This is super cool. Vivaldi is the browser I use across Windows, Linux and Mac. Itโ€™s also Apple Silicon native. Keen to give this a try very soon.


boerder gateway protocol:

for when you are really tired of routing packets.


fedi.9til.de/@binarycat/109473โ€ฆ



border gateway protocol posting?

not what i expected, but i'm here for it.


fedi.9til.de/@binarycat/109473โ€ฆ



Here's how to fix Grounded from Obsidian on Steam Deck gamingonlinux.com/2022/12/hereโ€ฆ #Gaming #SteamDeck
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

THANK YOU! Me and my partner have been unable to play this sense I started using Linux (not a big deal, we've been playing valheim instead) so it'll be great to finally go back to this after we finish our mistlands play through
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

This fixes both the freeze on loading, and also fixes the invisible Xbox Login Screen. Happy gaming.
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Germany raids far-right group over plot to install prince in coup


Germany on Wednesday detained 25 members and supporters of a far-right group that the prosecutor's office said was preparing a violent overthrow of the state to install as national leader a prince who had sought support from Russia.

Prosecutors said the group was inspired by the deep state conspiracy theories of Germany's Reichsbuerger and QAnon, whose advocates were among those arrested after the storming of the U.S. Capitol in January 2021.

Members of the Reichsbuerger (Citizens of the Reich) do not recognise modern-day Germany as a legitimate state. Some of them are devoted to the German empire under monarchy, while some are adherents of Nazi ideas and others believe Germany is under military occupation.


Reuters Report On the Raid & Arrests

#Germany #FarRightConspiracy #Reichsbuerger #CitizensOfTheReich #Nazis #QAnon #Monarchists #Russia

in reply to Joseph Teller

Yes the royalty of Germany and Austria had their titles made moot and their lands seized at the end of the war, as did the Ottoman Empire, but still they kept track of these things among themselves etc. Nothing new, same happened when the French Revolution happened (not all of them were inside the country to be beheaded), and the collapse of other monarchies at various points in history. Still they and some amount of surviving retinues and descendants evidently hold on to their history and hope (and history has shown weirder things, Remember that Charles I of England was Beheaded, and then so was the man who did the deed, and then Charles II took the throne after him).
in reply to Joseph Teller

Will their first order of business be to chase away the Romans? Or to fight Napoleon, perhaps.


โ€œThe Blue Marble,โ€ one of the most reproduced and influential images in history, was taken #50YearsAgo today by the #Apollo17 crew on their way to the Moon. #Apollo50th #photography
#NASAhistory


#DestinationLinux video #podcast 303! ๐Ÿ˜‚โค๐Ÿง

Holiday Gift Guide for everyone . . . this is the episode you want your spouse to listen to!
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& New COSMIC Desktop Updates from @system76@twitter.com.

+ our tips, tricks & app pics!

#Linux #OpenSource #podcast
youtu.be/uWQsvVzzEhU



Today's full moon coincides with the 50th anniversary of the launch of #Apollo17 from @NASAKennedy. This was the first night launch of a Saturn V rocket. Learn more: go.nasa.gov/3URHDwR
#NASAMoon
in reply to NASA

AND there will be a rare occultation of Mars by the full moon this evening.

But I live in Ohio.

And it's raining.

๐Ÿ˜ž

in reply to NASA

Of course you had to launch it at night. How else would you be able to see the moon?

And yes, I know you can see the moon during the day sometimes. But it's hard, and that makes navigation hard.

#science



Content warning: splatoon 3


hey remember how in 2 you always got stuff for leveling up (either weapons or super sea snails)?

yeah what happened to that. like what's the point of exp food now.


fedi.9til.de/@binarycat/109472โ€ฆ



We have liftoff!

#OTD in 1972, #Apollo17 set out for the Moon, carrying with it astronauts Gene Cernan, Jack Schmitt, and Ron Evans. #Apollo50th

Experience the launch in real time: apolloinrealtime.org/17
#NASAhistory



Want some application suggestions or tips & tricks for #linux? We share these kinds of picks each week on #DestinationLinux!

You can now see all of the picks we've ever done by going to destinationlinux.org/picks

#opensource #linuxtips #tech



If you love old Amiga stuff like me this video from @vkc is really cool

youtube.com/watch?v=ACj7P5oOlHโ€ฆ



New video is live!

I re-cased my Amiga 500 with a shiny new case from A1200!

tilvids.com/w/3cYR6RsQYMt8th84โ€ฆ

in reply to vkc // Veronica Explains

My new Amiga 500 video is also live on YouTube, if you prefer to get your videos that way. ๐Ÿ˜€

youtu.be/ACj7P5oOlHw

in reply to vkc // Veronica Explains

Love this video! Great work, I grew up with the Amiga 600 and 1200 ๐Ÿ˜
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emerald mine and moonstone were great games


Vampire Survivors: Legacy of the Moonspell arrives December 15th gamingonlinux.com/2022/12/vampโ€ฆ #Gaming #IndieGame



NGC 7293: The Helix Nebula apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap221207.htโ€ฆ #APOD
#APOD


Assassin's Creed Valhalla is impressive on Steam Deck gamingonlinux.com/2022/12/assaโ€ฆ
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in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

gettin' my deck this week or the next one, wondering if anyone played elden ring on it, how does it fare given that the pc version has been a mess for the longer part of its existence


Humble Choice for December includes Wasteland 3 and GreedFall and other deals gamingonlinux.com/2022/12/humbโ€ฆ


Proton 7.0-5 is out now improving gaming on Steam Deck & Linux desktop gamingonlinux.com/2022/12/protโ€ฆ
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Video overview: youtu.be/Nf2UGHsgzIo


Weโ€™ve added another tutorial to our app development series!

Tutorial #3 is how to develop a simple interface-only app.

Check out our blog to get started!

#appdevelopment #Nextcloud

nextcloud.com/blog/learn-how-tโ€ฆ



Our article on the Death Stranding Director's Cut issue where the Steam Deck can reboot was updated, Valve has a fix in testing gamingonlinux.com/2022/12/deatโ€ฆ


I think paypal loves me again ๐Ÿ˜… so I will re-add it in my website again as way to donate.

paypal.me/esmailelbob


in reply to Muse

I had a weird (for me) encounter with my dentist last week. I had a sore on my gum, so I went in. I was told to stop brushing so hard. I was all panicked that I had an infection or something serious. Heh.


Luxembourg provides its teachers with a fast, GDPR-compliant, and productive cloud collaboration platform, thanks to our Gold partner HKN.

Check the case study for the full story!

nextcloud.com/blog/15k-teacherโ€ฆ

in reply to Michael

@mika83ac @bfdi @bsi
Luckily that is not entirely true, the German federal government actually has bought Nextcloud - and could deploy it even more widely if they wanted to, also in schools. And some states already do! Also many hundreds of individual schools already use Nextcloud.

Sadly, yes, this isn't as well known as it should be.

in reply to Nextcloud ๐Ÿ“ฑโ˜๏ธ๐Ÿ’ป

@bfdi @bsi thx for this statement about some slow but at least happening progress on this topic ๐Ÿ˜ŠโœŒ๏ธ
@BfDI @BSI


The story about Benjamin, the last Australian thylacine always breaks my heart. Interesting that they found a female that out lasted him. She might have even been able to mate with him.
Remains of Last Surviving Tasmanian Tiger Discovered in Museum Cabinet


This is another winner of the Australia Birdlife Photography competition.
Galahs are such clowns! We have lots of them around here.



NGC 7293: The Helix Nebula

Image Credit & Copyright: Tommaso Stella

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap221207.htโ€ฆ #APOD

#APOD


It's official! ๐Ÿš€ NEO Surveyor has passed a major milestone and is now slated to launch no later than June 2028 to discover some of the most hard-to-find asteroids and comets in our solar system.
#NASAJPL
in reply to NASA

In case it strays too far away: please make sure not to let it into the path of #Oumuamua's second refugee ship with the sleeping people on board.
You almost woke the last one up.
try to avoid a crash if you can.

(Writing a SciFi story to place it on Patreon soon. That`s why you get this Mastodon post into your reply/mention, dear NASA bot. Don`t be alarmed, someone is just preparing their (new and to be set up) Patreon account and as a part of this, developing the content right now.)



"Water is my happy place."

Meet Cedric David, a freshwater scientist who will use data from the international Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite (SWOT). SWOT will track water on more than 90% of Earth's surface โ€” and it launches next week! #TrackingWorldWater
#NASAJPL



๐Ÿ“Œ Want to learn more about SWOT?
Tune into the JPL Instagram account tomorrow at 12pm PT for a live conversation with Cedric as we gear up for launch next week โžก๏ธ instagram.com/stories/nasajpl/โ€ฆ
#NASAJPL

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