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London artist Nick Gentry takes old recording media (VHS tapes, cassette tapes, floppy disks) and turns them into portraits. And you can contribute your old floppies & tapes to future artworks. kottke.org/23/09/repurposed-reโ€ฆ


Happy to finally say Luro is open for business ๐Ÿš€๐ŸŽ‰

- Track your component adoption ๐Ÿ“ˆ
- Lightning fast component import from Figma โšก
- Keep track of historical insights that inform your components and pages ๐Ÿง 
- Get weekly #a11y and #webperf data for every page โ™ฟ๏ธ ๐ŸŽ๏ธ

Sign up or go pro today luroapp.com/

in reply to Dave Rupert

A few lifetimes worth of consulting and #designsystems work has gone into building Luro. If you build for the web, we think it's something you're going to really love. Thanks again to everyone who has given feedback.

If all goes well, tomorrow I'll do a Twitch stream and give a little grand tour of how it all works. I can answer questions if you got 'em.

If you miss it, that's okay, I'll make it a regular thing and do more video content. Thanks and hope you find it useful.โœŒ๏ธ๐Ÿงก

in reply to Dave Rupert

I'll probably miss the live stream but would watch a recording.


I was gonna play Starfield tonight but this whole Unity thing is true popcorn level stuff for the entire games industry. Unity has claws sunk into so many devs and it just keeps getting worse when you see their execs sold a whole lot of shares shortly before the revenue change news.

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Doesn't look great, but looking at his history he sold off twice that much in July, and more than twice that in June.

That doesn't mean he hasn't been selling his interest because he knew this was coming, but it means he didn't just suddenly dump a bunch of stock last week out of nowhere, either.

in reply to Thad

@Thad this type of decision wouldn't have been suddenly made, it would have been worked out for months and longer
@Thad
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Sure, but it makes the "5 days ago" timestamp pretty meaningless if he's been doing it for months.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

There are lots of ways senior execs do regular stock sales, or sales set up long in advance to avoid insider trading. That may well be co-incidence, and you'd want to look at what they sold in what patterns over the years before.

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

so if you want to screw with a competitor, just buy their game and continuously install/delete/reinstall it?
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Good time to remind you on this in progress project to import assets from UnityPackage files into Godot... github.com/barcoderdev/unitypaโ€ฆ


Planning on moving from #Unity to #godotengine? Last year I wrote a guide "From Unity to Godot: Game Objects and Components in Godot?"

#GameDev

alfredbaudisch.com/blog/gamedeโ€ฆ

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Las tecnologรญas que imaginamos y queremos existen ๐Ÿ™Œ y detrรกs de ellas hay personas que, ademรกs de utilizarlas, colaboran para su puesta en marcha ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ป

Les invitamos a la lectura de una conversaciรณn que mantuvimos con Fabiola Maurice de @guardianproject

โžก๏ธ sursiendo.org/2023/09/guardianโ€ฆ

#TecnologรญasLibres

in reply to Sursiendo

Hola sursiendo, estoy en CDMX y me encantarรญa charlar con vosotres si fuera posible. ยฟTendrรญais algun hueco durante estos dรญas para charlar?
in reply to ana vldv

Hola @ana_valdi, puedes escribirnos al mail sursiendo@sursiendo.org y combinamos! Saludos!


Steam goes green as Valve celebrate 20 years gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/steaโ€ฆ

#Steam #Valve




NASA Sets Coverage for Launch, Docking of New Space Station Crew nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-seโ€ฆ #NASA
#NASA


NASA, Partners Clear Axiom Spaceโ€™s Third Private Astronaut Crew nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-paโ€ฆ #NASA
#NASA


A couple free & open-source Engines and game frameworks you can use today as alternatives. Feel free to comment with more.

Godot - godotengine.org
Defold - defold.com/
FNA - fna-xna.github.io/
SDL - libsdl.org/
SFML - sfml-dev.org/
Adventure Studio - adventuregamestudio.co.uk/
bgfx - github.com/bkaradzic/bgfx
armory3d - armory3d.org/
ogre3d - ogre3d.org/
Renpy - renpy.org/

#gamedev


in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

can I pay some people on Fiverr to mass install a game? how difficult would it be to install bomb it?
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

It's actually a bit worse than that because if you sell a million copies, they aren't all billed at the lower rate, the first 100k are billed at the higher rate first, then the excess is billed at the next tier's lower rate.


Big, wonky win for #FairUse in US #copyright:

https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/5A2E1191A4B2D49785258A28004F2532/$file/22-7063-2016393.pdf

TLDR: If a tech standard becomes part of a legal standard, you can share it freely online without fear of liability for infringement.

โ€œMany private organizations develop and copyright suggested technical standards ... We hold that the non-commercial dissemination of such standards, as incorporated by reference into law, constitutes fair use and thus cannot support liability for copyright infringement.



The open source Godot Engine has a new Godot Development Fund gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/the-โ€ฆ

#GodotEngine #Godot #GameDev



NASA Receives Decadal Survey on Biological, Physical Sciences Research nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-reโ€ฆ #NASA
#NASA


NASA to Release, Discuss Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Report nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-toโ€ฆ #NASA
#NASA


Western Digital announce the SN770M NVMe for handhelds like the Steam Deck gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/westโ€ฆ

#SteamDeck #PCGaming #ROGAlly



Have a wonderful-filled day
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Hallo Fediverse
Dezentral und Open Source sind gute Eigenschaften. Ab heute werde ich darum auf diesem Account รผber wichtige Entscheide und Themen des Bundesrates informieren. Ich bin neugierig auf die Reaktionen und โ€“ im Rahmen des Mรถglichen โ€“ den Austausch. Mehr Info zu diesem befristeten Projekt hier: admin.ch/gov/de/start/dokumentโ€ฆ


Watch an expert freestyle skier joyfully attack a mountain in the French Alps. kottke.org/15/01/a-fun-run-dowโ€ฆ
in reply to kottke.org

Wow. I literally said, โ€œnoโ€ฆ too fastโ€ out loud as he's zipping through the trees. Fun video.
in reply to kottke.org

Really Candide is mind blowing, every move looks so gentle and calm yet CRAZY



In 1916, 23 yr old chemist Alice Ball discovered a breakthrough in treatment for Leprosy (Hansenโ€™s Disease). She was the 1st woman & 1st Black chemistry professor at UHawaii.

Tragically, Ball passed away months after her discovery due to complications from a lab accident.

What happened next? Arthur Dean, head of her dept, continued the work publishing Ballโ€™s process as โ€œDeanโ€™s method.โ€

Fortunately, a colleague spoke up & the name was changed to โ€œBallโ€™s method.โ€ #HistoryRemix #science #history

in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

I want to know more about this "lab accident" given that Dean subsequently grabbed credit for her work. If only Hercule Poirot had been available to investigate. ๐Ÿ˜‰


Unity introduces new fees for game devs based on revenue and game installs gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/unitโ€ฆ

#Unity #GameDev

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

The more I think on it, the worse it sounds. How exactly are they tracking installs? We need it to be clear on what they're tracking, otherwise that's a big privacy red flag.

And how accurate will it be? What about pirated installs? Charity keys? Etc. So many bits unclear.

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

What about families who install a single purchase on multiple computers and consoles? And yes, what are they tracking to identify a unique install?
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Obviously this can be different for Unity, but aren't most of revenue thresholds etc. usually self-reported?
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

A comment on the article brings up an interesting point: what about GOG offline installers? Add to that Epic Store freebies? The list of uncertain ways this could be a problem just keep appearing.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

I don't see this working without the installer phoning home. New games will need to be online-once or always online. Either way, unless this is reversed, I think this is the end of Unity as a platform for low-to-moderately successful indies as we know it.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Since I'm usually low on space in my internal hdd's I uninstall and reinstall some of my favorite games a lot.. will that actually cost money to the devs now?
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Figure out the unity tracking, make a patcher that sends epic-bliz-micro-vision account keys for all your indie games.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

That has been my question. I doubt publishers and stores are going to want to track this information, so that leaves Unity phoning home...



The state of Georgia has indicted over 60 protesters on organized crime and racketeering charges over their involvement in the movement to stop the construction of a $90 million police training facility in Atlanta that opponents have dubbed โ€œCop City.โ€

...

RICO charges can result in a fine or a five to 20 year prison sentence in Georgia.


#StopCopCity
theappeal.org/cop-city-protestโ€ฆ





This call for papers may interest #scholars and people on the Fediverse: "Content #moderation on digital platforms: beyond states and firms"

policyreview.info/node/1717

Deadline October 31.

#SocialNetworks #SocialSciences #digitalHumanities



โ€œBy blindly prioritising discovery and public-facing algorithms over peer-to-peer connection in pursuit of cultural dominance, little remains of what made people join social media in the first placeโ€ theguardian.com/technology/202โ€ฆ

in reply to Open Science โœ…

so true! lie, lie, lie for decades then say there is nothing we can do. thanks for posting!
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mastodon - Link to source
Open Science โœ…

@cobratbq I agree that in a world with a multitude of sources and players, it can be hard for some to differentiate between data and opinion.

I disagree with that this post is "shaming" anyone.



Happy Birthday to Steam as it turned 20 today gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/happโ€ฆ

#Steam #Valve

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

I remember thinking it probably wouldn't last - who didn't like those big PC game retail boxes?

Now that I'm older and surrounded by other junk, I'm quite happy the digital delivery worked out for Steam.

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

This means HL2โ€™s quickly approaching being able to buy its own beer in the US. Half Life 2 canโ€™t be almost 20 years old now, oh my god.


Donโ€™t be part of the problem; be the whole problem.


Foldseek Release 8: supporting searches against clustered databases (with prebuilt DBs for AFDB50 and PDB100) and protein-complexes. HTML output was improved by
Cameron Gilchrist. In the webserver, you can download and (re)upload results.
๐Ÿ’พ github.com/steineggerlab/foldsโ€ฆ or bioconda ๐Ÿ


arXiv, the open-access repository of electronic preprints and postprints, is experiencing a DDOS attack. Over a million email change requests were received from 200 IP addresses in China, overwhelming the arXiv email service.

Browsing and submitting papers on arXiv are not affected. Daily emails, new account registrations, and legitimate email address changes are all impacted by this disruption.

What would be the motivation?

blog.arxiv.org/2023/09/11/arxiโ€ฆ
#arXiv #ddos

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Embracer's troubles continue as they may sell off Borderlands dev Gearbox gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/embrโ€ฆ

#Gaming #PCGaming #Gearbox #Embracer

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

They were approached with offers, so if those offers were attractive, anyone would consider selling. It's possible they truly are in trouble, but alternatively, the layoffs were only related to the one deal that fell through (which is how they put it) and Volition, who haven't had a hit game in a decade. Their strategy is to put out a ton of game offerings like publishers used to rather than like 3 games filled with MTX, so if that strategy doesn't work out, I'll be very sad.


Fanatical have great bundles live with Deathloop, Skyrim, Metro Exodus and more gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/fanaโ€ฆ

#SteamDeck #Linux #PCGaming



Galaxy Cluster Abell 370 and Beyond apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230912.htโ€ฆ #APOD
#APOD
in reply to NASA

This is the one where you can see one of the galaxies behind it three different times?

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