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Note: Today I implemented auto-posting of our news to BlueSky, so for anyone who is on it feel free to follow there as it should post to it right after I hit publish on an article.
bsky.app/profile/gamingonlinuxโ€ฆ


The latest on human total body cell count and cell size derived from >1,500 sources
--Men ~36 trillion cells
--Women ~28 trillion cells
--an inverse relationship between cell size and count pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...


Check out the demo for Beacon Patrol based on the popular board game gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/checโ€ฆ

#Linux #PCGaming #BoardGame



Ok wow, they are making Kristen Roupenian's Cat Person into a movie? And if you read the original short story in the New Yorker, you'll find the movie poster very familiar. lithub.com/the-cat-person-moviโ€ฆ
in reply to kottke.org

I just received a bit of a shock that this store was from 2017. It feels like a different lifetime.


HH 211: Jets from a Forming Star apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230919.htโ€ฆ #APOD
#APOD


Embracer Group continues cuts with Beamdog shedding 26 people gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/embrโ€ฆ

#Embracer #Beamdog

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

I could have seen myself getting Mythforce if they put in any kind of offline multiplayer. Looking at the number of reviews on Steam, it looks like that game did NOT sell many copies.


Comedy point and click The Will of Arthur Flabbington releases November 10 gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/comeโ€ฆ

#Linux #Gaming #AdventureGame



Microsoft leak shows Fallout 3 and Oblivion Remasters, DOOM Year Zero and more gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/micrโ€ฆ

#Gaming #PCGaming

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

The Doom 30th anniversary is coming up, good to know something has been on the cards. Maybe they planned a release on Dec 10th.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

oblivion is my fav bethesda game so thats great but it better be a joke theyre doing fallout 3 which is a fucking shit game, and not new vegas



If you've not read it yet, Nate Graham put together a great piece on the current state of Wayland pointieststick.com/2023/09/17/โ€ฆ


Curl Creator Goes To War With NVD #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/Ls9WPgzK61c


Usernetes now supports running Kubernetes inside Rootless Podman and Rootless nerdctl, in addition to Rootless Docker

github.com/rootless-containersโ€ฆ



HH 211: Jets from a Forming Star

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Webb; Processing: Tom Ray (DIAS Dublin)

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230919.htโ€ฆ #APOD

#APOD


"Bright Meteor Fireball in Northwest Germany."

youtube.com/watch?v=kxe-QPLyD-โ€ฆ

#meteor





fediblock, transmisogyny directed against me
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in reply to ch0ccyra1n is leaving fedi soon

re: fediblock, transmisogyny directed against me
I've been thinking about how nobody was willing to stand up for me when I originally made this post.
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On phony "allyship" and "solidarity"
@victor yeah I'm quite certain you weren't following me at the time either. In all fairness, "allyship" is mostly if not entirely talk and nothing more. Words are cheap, and I'm not sure if I should be disappointed or if I should have expected this. I've been trying to be better at taking real actions in a more genuine and practical approach to solidarity more often lately. (Hell, I even wrote an article about that for Insurgent) studentinsurgent.org/articles/โ€ฆ


Don't have airline miles but have an internet connection ๐Ÿ›ซ ?

If that's the case, then you will be excited by this news! I am excited to announce that we are adding a remote registration option for the 2023 Ubuntu Summit in Riga. You'll can watch our main plenary room, submit questions during live Q&A sessions, and you might even get to see me in a vlog ๐Ÿ˜‰

Check out this link for the official announcement: discourse.ubuntu.com/t/announcโ€ฆ


in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Skyrim was nothing but trouble on PS3. It had a bug where the larger the save file got, the worse it lagged until it was unplayable. Never fixed. Yes, still bitter.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

aaaaaaaaand that's why the Activision-Microsoft deal shouldn't be finalized.

Bobby Kodick Mr. Sexual Harassment gets a big bonus and no one gives a fuck about how toxic and sexist the workspace in Activision is.




Dojo4, an amazing tech co-op in Boulder CO, is looking for an aqui-hire opportunity. Learn more about this fabulous team here: dojo4.com/opportunity


Got bored with having a normal background ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ˜

reshared this




NASA Finalizes Coverage for First US Asteroid Sample Landing nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-fiโ€ฆ #NASA
#NASA


Humble Bundle offering another bunch of royalty-free audio for your projects, games and whatever else you're making humblebundle.com/software/audiโ€ฆ (partner link)


Portal 2 VR mod gets an early release gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/portโ€ฆ

#Portal2 #VR #Linux

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

I wish I knew how you were able to play VR under linux. Mine never worked at all until I finally switched to an AMD card, and even then half the time it doesn't recognize my headset unless I turn one monitor off, games are significantly worse quality than under windows, if they work at all, and I constantly experience crashes.
I just tried the portal 2 mod and could barely get into menu before the whole thing froze and had to be killed. It makes VR exhausting.
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Happening NOW: Hundreds & hundreds of people have entirely shut down the Federal Reserve of New York City.

The Fed needs to force Wall Street to stop funding climate chaos!

#Biden #Climate #fossilfuels



Unity Considers Tentative Changes To Controversial Policies gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/unitโ€ฆ

#Unity #GameDev

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Is this a case of leopards ate my face, so maybe I should stop putting meat on my beard?

Or the community surrounding Godot and support a public option?

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Lol too late, the damage is already done. Any dev looking at making a project that could potentially bring in the kinds of numbers Unity is talking about is not going to bother with Unity in fear they change their policies again


Contributor Week is here! All this week we'll be:

๐Ÿ’ป Developing with peers
๐Ÿ‘ฅ Meeting new people
๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ’ป Engaging with the open-source community!

Let's see what we can envision, create and do when we come together.

nextcloud.com/conference-2023/

in reply to Nextcloud ๐Ÿ“ฑโ˜๏ธ๐Ÿ’ป

Might contribute to nextcloud this week. Got any "good first" low-hanging fruit issue for a PHP boobies like me? ๐Ÿ˜‡


In this ASMR stop motion cooking video, a chef butchers a huge Lego salmon and prepares a salmon and rice bowl. This video is surprisingly visceral, what with the sound effects and the (Lego) blood. kottke.org/23/09/cutting-up-a-โ€ฆ


Hey guys, itโ€™s been a minute. Iโ€™m excited to tell you about a new @biorxiv_pubd preprint about the Entomophthora muscae genome! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20โ€ฆ (1/n)
in reply to Carolyn Elya

Huge thanks to the efforts of some pretty fun guys and gals that made this collaborative effort possible: @hyphaltip, @Lovettbr, @kasson_wvu, @debivort, plus several folks not on the 'don (Angie, Emily, Ann & Henrik!). Go Entomophthorales! (n/n)


fediblock, racism, antisemitism, transphobia

With all the other drama going on over the bad space, you may not have noticed that a certain site, minds.com recently added ActivityPub support.

developers.minds.com/docs/deceโ€ฆ

Some notable accounts on minds include Tim Pool's Podcast, Alex Jones and A Front Organization for Falun Gong

Yeahhh, this one's a pretty easy #fediblock if I've ever seen one



@Framasoft I love using your online services.... but why do so many of the sites feel hostile to English speakers?

I go to the EN page for framaforms: framaforms.org/abc/en/
and then choose to create a form, and I land on a french speaking page with no language selector either.

framindmap and framacarte also both redirect to the FR version if you're on the EN landing page.

in reply to Moha

I'm Dutch (Belgian)... I'm not complaining, I was just pointing out that this might result in people not using the tool because they land on a language they might not speak.
No need to feel so emotional about it
in reply to Thibaultmol ๐ŸŒˆ

Good for you. Maybe that's not their main market at least now, I actually welcome more diverse and localized online tools.


We are hiring an Accessibility Specialist! The W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) is seeking a full-time staff member to work on digital accessibility standards and supporting materials.

Please share this within your networks and to qualified candidates
w3.org/careers/2023-accessibilโ€ฆ


in reply to Nathan Schneider

@muzej

You'd probably like this! ๐Ÿ˜ What a cool idea, how cute! ๐Ÿ˜›



Question for @Gargron or other #Mastodon experts: I subscribe to a traffic analytics service called Clicky. For some reason traffic from Mastodon links doesn't seem to show up in their reports. When I inquired, all they could suggest was this. Please advise? Thanks!
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in reply to Eugen Rochko

Hmmm ok, so traffic to my site from various social media platforms is likely somewhat higher than Clicky thinks...but the *total* traffic should still be measured accurately, yes? That is, if it's from a SM app it just wouldn't know where they came from, or might categorize it as a "direct visit?"
in reply to Charles Gaba

Yeah, they'd be counted as direct visits, I believe. Though I'm not sure how Clicky counts visits, for example, I have browser extensions that block third party scripts from loading, so perhaps my visits would not be recorded if Clicky relies on that.


โ€œIf more of us valued food & cheer & song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.โ€

J.R.R. Tolkien

in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

fun fact about Hobbits from a Tolkienist. This one is in the Appendix on Languages in HoMe XII (History of Middle-earth - The Peoples of Middle-earth). Shirriff = Shire + reeve. Not sure what made me say this but I hope it brings you some joy or something like that! (That appendix has a lot of great material and HoMe XII does in general including an essay on lembas and two on Glorfindel - plus the sequel to LR). HoMe VII (or was it VIII)? has the epilogue to LR - also delightful.)


Doppler 3.1 is now live on the App Store. ๐ŸŽ‰

Doppler is a music player for Mac and iPhone designed for people who buy music. It supports MP3, FLAC and other formats.

Today's update adds support for iOS 17, interactive Home Screen widgets, StandBy, and adjustable text sizes.

Learn more and download: blog.brushedtype.co/doppler-3-โ€ฆ

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