My first real hike this year didn't go quite as expected (I chose a slightly shorter route and took the train home so I could relax on the couch for a few more hours), but I had fun and enjoyed the peace and quiet of nature.
#hiking #outdoors #photography #landscapephotography #naturephotography #mastoart #moon #austria #loweraustria #nature #nikonz6
7900 MIDI files for free!
This chord and chord progression pack is an Open Source project providing all the chords and chord progressions you'll ever need.
It's free and #FOSS and you can get it here: github.com/ldrolez/free-midi-c….
Fellow #musicians enjoy.
#musicproduction #music #mixing #daw ##audio
GitHub - ldrolez/free-midi-chords: A collection of free MIDI chords and progressions ready to be used in your DAW, Akai MPC, or Roland MC-707/101
A collection of free MIDI chords and progressions ready to be used in your DAW, Akai MPC, or Roland MC-707/101 - GitHub - ldrolez/free-midi-chords: A collection of free MIDI chords and progressions...GitHub
👩🚀🌎: go.nasa.gov/3JeaLfv
#NASAEarth
Rio Grande, Meet the Gulf of Mexico
Colorful waterways and wetlands are visible along the river that defines a portion of the U.S.-Mexico border.go.nasa.gov
Tenured/Tenure Track Faculty Position in Microbiomes
As part of a major, multi-year initiative to expand research activities across the IU Bloomington campus, the Microbiology program in the Department of Biology at Indiana University Bloomington (IUB) invites applications at the Associate or Full Prof…indiana.peopleadmin.com
"The world looks marvelous from up here, so peaceful, so wonderful and so fragile."
These are the words of Ilan Ramon, the first Israeli astronaut, and one of the 7 astronauts to fly on Columbia 20 years ago for STS-107. #NASARemembers
#NASAhistory
Counter Cloud Strategies
"trans*feminist counter-cloud practices that reclaim the possibilities for organising collective life across scales, refusing the depletion from infinite upscaling."
A panel with Cristina Cochior, Maria Dada, Miriyam Aouragh, Femke Snelting
Friday 03/02 @ 18:00
2023.transmediale.de/en/event/…
#8M #transmediale #DeCloudify #Berlin @ccl
"We can't afford poverty in a world in which there are environmental limits."
#TimJackson, Professor at the University of Surrey, Director of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity
rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/…
#podcasts #RNZ #KimHill #deGrowth #sustainability #poverty
Prof Tim Jackson: Imagining life after Capitalism
Sustainable growth was the focus of the recent World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, but how realistic is this goal, and what would it look like? The idea of degrowth, as a counter to the status quo of aiming for exponential growth, has also …RNZ
Check out this interview with @ProfTimJackson
rnz.co.nz/audio/player?audio_i…
#degrowth #economics
Moha likes this.
Valve fixed up Dead Space on Steam Deck
Article: gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/valv…
Video: youtu.be/liIh1i7vE1E
#DeadSpace #Gaming #SteamDeck #Linux
Valve fixed up Dead Space on Steam Deck
For those of you waiting for news on Dead Space becoming more playable on Steam Deck — Valve have already delivered.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Pioneering geologist & oceanographer Marie Tharp changed our understanding of the ocean.
When Tharp sought a geology job at Columbia in 1948, women couldn’t go on research ships. So, she was hired to assist male grad students.
Back then, many scientists still assumed the bottom of the ocean was featureless. Tharp figured out how to use data to create sketches of the ocean floor. Her hand-drawn maps helped develop plate tectonic theory. theconversation.com/marie-thar… #science #history #HistoryRemix
Marie Tharp pioneered mapping the bottom of the ocean 6 decades ago – scientists are still learning about Earth's last frontier
Born on July 30, 1920, geologist and cartographer Tharp changed scientific thinking about what lay at the bottom of the ocean – not a featureless flat, but rugged and varied terrain.The Conversation
APOD: 2023 January 29 – Barnard 68: Dark Molecular Cloud
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
Barnard 68: Dark Molecular Cloud
Image Credit: FORS Team, 8.2-meter VLT Antu, ESO
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230129.ht… #APOD
APOD: 2023 January 29 – Barnard 68: Dark Molecular Cloud
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
Liblast 0.1.7 pre-alpha is here!
codeberg.org/Liblast/Liblast/r…
An iterative release bringing a few fun new features and lots of small fixes all over the place.
You can now host a game in a local network, start Liblast on other machines and within a few seconds they should discover the running server and let everyone connect to it with a single click!
Also gibbing 😁
#Liblast #Godot #Godot4 #GodotEngine #Game #IndieGame #IndieDev #GameDev #FPS #Multiplayer #OpenSource #FOSS #Libre #FreeSoftware
Liblast
A Libre Multiplayer FPS Game built with Godot 4 engine and a fully open-source toolchainCodeberg.org
【KH 358/2】Got Bored, Time To Finish The Game
Tip: https://streamlabs.com/brodierobertsonplaysPaypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/BrodieRobertsonVideoPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/brodierobertsonT...YouTube
Taking the afternoon off to go watch some animation shorts:
silver.afi.com/Browsing/Movies…
22nd Annual Animation Show of Shows
After a two-year COVID hiatus, the Animation Show of Shows returns to theaters. This 22nd edition comprises 10 films — nine recent, along with one restored classic — which deal with both the anxieties and hopes of a world faced with a seemingly endle…AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center
Borbness is more than a matter of shape. It's a matter of attitude.
#borb #birding #birdphotography #birdwatching
@Muse Yes, Lluís Domènech i Montaner works are inspired by arab buildings, but there were other catalonian architects which were also inspired partly by arabic mosaics and art. Eg. Antoni Gaudi's Casa Vicens is an another example of a building inspired by Mudéjar architecture
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa_Vic…
Overall Modernisme was the catalonian interpretation of Art noveau.
#MarineBiology #Virology #sflorg
sflorg.com/2023/01/mb01262301.…
New virus discovered in whales, dolphins across the Pacific
A novel virus, potentially fatal to whales and dolphinswww.sflorg.com
Important to note that this study of whale circovirus only looked at beached whales.
👀 Surprisingly, it found the virus in 50% of animals. 69% of those showed virus in the brain.
Whales are intelligent creatures and probably don't "accidentally" beach themselves on land. If they beach themselves on land, there may be a logical evolutionary explanation.
...Such as fulfilling the need to separate infected individuals from the rest of the group?
#virus #virology
doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.945…
Targeted surveillance detected novel beaked whale circovirus in ten new host cetacean species across the Pacific basin
The first cetacean circovirus, beaked whale circovirus (BWCV), was recently reported in a Longman’s beaked whale (Indopacetus pacificus) stranded in Hawai‘i and represents an emergent disease with unknown population impacts.Frontiers
‘Reckless, Spiteful’ Pipeline Project May Stumble on Failing Gas Markets
The Coastal GasLink pipeline is trampling Indigenous communities, destroying ecosystems, running over budget, and violating provincial permits. What happens when natural gas demand starts to collapse?
like this
Lake Albert in southern Oregon is drying up due to years of water withdrawals and dry weather.
The lake is also becoming too salty to support the flies and brine shrimp that serve as a food source for migrating birds.
Full story: go.nasa.gov/3kPwsIE
#NASAEarth
Shrinking Lake Abert
As the lake in southern Oregon dries up, the remaining water is becoming too salty to support key food sources for birds.go.nasa.gov
To understand why the lake is drying up, scientists analyzed two decades of @nasa’s Terra satellite data.
They found that between 2001 and 2021, fewer days of snow cover and higher surface temperatures led to more evaporation over Lake Albert. go.nasa.gov/3kPwsIE
#NASAEarth
Shrinking Lake Abert
As the lake in southern Oregon dries up, the remaining water is becoming too salty to support key food sources for birds.go.nasa.gov
Mining metatranscriptomes reveals a vast world of viroid-like circular RNAs
I wonder what phenotypes these viroids may produce in the host, or possible interactions with viruses or other selfish genetic elements?
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/366969…
Mining metatranscriptomes reveals a vast world of viroid-like circular RNAs - PubMed
Viroids and viroid-like covalently closed circular (ccc) RNAs are minimal replicators that typically encode no proteins and hijack cellular enzymes for replication. The extent and diversity of viroid-like agents are poorly understood.PubMed
Chess Is Booming! And Our Servers Are Struggling.
Dear chess community, On December 31, we had seven million active members on Chess.com in a single day for the first time. On January 20, we had ten million active members. Traffic on Chess.Chess.com
Phylodynamics of deer tick virus in North America
academic.oup.com/ve/advance-ar…
Phylodynamics of deer tick virus in North America
Abstract. The burden of ticks and the pathogens they carry is increasing worldwide. Powassan virus (POWV, Flaviviridae: Flavivirus), the only known North AmericMcMinn, Rebekah J (Oxford University Press)
Well what do you know... The community backlash actually worked and #WotC not only is backing off on getting rid of #OGL 1.0a and forcing bad terms on creators through a much more restrictive 1.1 or 1.2, but they even took a step forward by also publishing the SRD 5.1 under a Creative Commons CC-BY-4.0 license as well!
dndbeyond.com/posts/1439-ogl-1…
OGL 1.0a & Creative Commons
Over the past few weeks you, the community, have made your voices heard. And we’ve listened. OGL 1.0a will remain untouched AND the entire SRD 5.1...OGL 1.0a & Creative Commons
Seriously CC-BY-4.0 is such a permissive license, commercial content, derivative works, even republishing the 5.1 SRD wholesale is something you can now do forever and WotC can't ever change their minds on this.
Jury is still out on what they will publish #OneD&D 's SRD under because they didn't promise to do the same with that, but for #5e we are good.
I consider this enough to end the boycott and I've resubscribed to my Dndbeyond membership.
published my first blog post: "Modeling virtual social spaces: in this house we post cat pics on Saturday" - ryanatkn.com/blog/modeling-vir…
One of its main influences is "Modular Politics: Toward a Governance Layer for Online Communities" by @ntnsndr and colleagues - arxiv.org/abs/2005.13701
One thing I like about the post is the explicit focus on power. Seems important as I'm building software for social spaces
Modular Politics: Toward a Governance Layer for Online Communities
Governance in online communities is an increasingly high-stakes challenge, and yet many basic features of offline governance legacies--juries, political parties, term limits, and formal debates, to name a few--are not in the feature-sets of the softw…arXiv.org
to clarify, "steward" is just the name for a role in the default hub template and a convenient way to reference the idea, they can be constrained with fine-grained permissions like any other customizable role - this contrasts with Slack (no customizable roles) and Discord (coarse-grained permissions)
given this API you could design a set of roles that split powers, separating/balancing concerns
hub templates make it easy to share pre-fab designs with the initial roles/permissions/etc
Stop Saying Linus Torvalds Wrong
Everytime I say Linus Torvalds someone complains that I say it wrong, today we set the record straight on how Linus says his name is pronounced==========Supp...YouTube
Check out this fun Hardware Addicts #74!
😀 ❤ 🧑💻
We talk about the state of AR/VR, is it alive and well or is it on the way out?
& Wendy will discuss budget telephoto prime lenses that will have you seeing out of this world! 📷
youtube.com/watch?v=_anLlK52vV…
Is AR/VR Alive And Well Or On Its Way Out?
Welcome to Hardware Addicts, a proud member of the TuxDigital Network. Hardware Addicts is the podcast that focuses on the physical components that powers ou...YouTube
@Kaea oh, did not know lol and i do not care if dev is even 5 years. as long as it works. im gonna like it
only downside is I need to reinstall my whole os unlike bedrock
Oh my god, so much traffic! people like my server
Or people ddos my server 🤔 😂
@revvy ok, let's say I will do it. convince me that some other Egyptian will do it 😂
I will offer I2P mirrors when it becomes more easier and accessible.
It's like Gemeni for me. Looks good but not a lot of users still
Mastodon founder and CEO Eugen Rochko tells Engadget: “Third party applications are incredibly valuable for a platform because that's where the power users go … it benefits everybody because the power users are the people who create the content that everybody reads.”
THANK YOU 👏👏👏
engadget.com/twitter-client-de…
Like users, app developers are fleeing Twitter for Mastodon
Former Twitter developers join a growing group of independent app makers who have embraced Mastodon..Karissa Bell (Engadget)
behold, a penguin
(too tired to figure out the colors now, good night)
how are you going to login, WHY NO ONE ENABLED AUTO LOGIN
And, If it works then I might consider to buy one of these
#NASA
Hubble Views a Stellar Duo in Orion Nebula
The bright variable star V 372 Orionis takes center stage in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.Andrea Gianopoulos (NASA)
As Falconet explains, the word bætyle was incorrectly translated from the original Phoenician. Instead of "animated stones," it should be "anointed stones." This makes sense as the meteorites were always anointed with oils and from the fact that most types of meteorites are covered with a black, matte, fusion crust: therefore making these stones appeared to be stones swallowed and vomited up by the Gods.
Pausanias: "... they pour oil on it every day ..." (Levi 1988)
Did COVID affect climate change? Climate change-causing greenhouse gases only decreased a little, so these gases continued to build in our atmosphere.
@NASAClimate scientist Leslie Ott explains go.nasa.gov/3D1MoO5
#NASAEarth
Emission Reductions From Pandemic Had Unexpected Effects on Atmosphere
Earth’s atmosphere reacted in surprising ways to the lowering of emissions during the pandemic, showing how closely climate warming and air pollution are linked.Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet
Peat Bog
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