Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make the Science Fiction They Grew Up on Real
Today’s Silicon Valley billionaires grew up reading classic American science fiction. Now they’re trying to make it come true, embodying a dangerous political outlookCharles Stross (Scientific American)
Outright Heroes of Film & Television
The Heroes of Film & TV bundle includes awesome titles featuring DC’s Justice League, DreamWorks Dragons, Transformers & more! Your purchase supports Unicef UK.Humble Bundle
I'm cackling at the latest developer post from Mike Blumenkrantz.
He's now the Working Group Chairs of OpenGL at Khronos, and naturally because he loves memes, his official photo is basically a meme.
Marvel's Midnight Suns and Two Point Campus headline Humble Choice for January 2024 gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/marv…
#Gaming #SteamDeck #Linux #PCGaming
Marvel's Midnight Suns and Two Point Campus headline Humble Choice for January 2024
Humble Choice for January 2024 is a pretty damn good selection of games, so here's a run over what's included and the compatibility for Linux desktop and Steam Deck.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
S01E01. First Contact
Before the Future Came is a podcast that looks at the ideals of Star Trek as we voyage from one episode or film to the next, following a breadcrumb trail of motifs. How is the universe portrayed in Star Trek a truly egalitarian utopia, and how does the world subtly uphold the hegemonic values of our present day?
beforethefuture.space/podcast/…
#bondage #borg #borgQueen #braga #cochrane #collectivism #data #destiny #exceptionalism #fantasy #figuredWorlds #film #frakes #laForge #locutus #lore #moore #picard #temporalPrimeDirective #timeTravel #tng
Here's the top Steam Deck games for December 2023 gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/here…
#SteamDeck #SteamDeckOLED #PCGaming #Linux
Here's the top Steam Deck games for December 2023
Recently Valve revealed the top Steam Deck games overall for 2023, but they only just posted up what the most-played were just for December 2023 which we have now.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Contribute To KDE Without CODE
Whilst programming is the most obvious way to help out a project like KDE, just because you don't know how to code doesn't mean you can't help. There are so ...YouTube
KDE Plasma 6 hits initial funding goal gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/kde-…
KDE Plasma 6 hits initial funding goal
The KDE team are currently running a funding campaign to help bring in more monies to support Plasma desktop development, and thankfully well ahead of the Plasma 6 release they've managed to hit the initial goal.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Interesting article on the bizarre Musk biography by Walter Isaacson. I liked Isaacson's Da Vinci book and considered reading some others that he wrote, but it's a bit hard to take his other work too seriously after reading this.
theverge.com/2023/10/1/2389506…
How the Elon Musk biography exposes Walter Isaacson
Walter Isaacson’s Elon Musk is a strangely incurious book. Its shallow reporting and bizarre skew left me with more questions than I had before I read it.Elizabeth Lopatto (The Verge)
Linux hits nearly 4% desktop user share on Statcounter gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/linu…
Linux hits nearly 4% desktop user share on Statcounter
According to Statcounter, which should be taken with a pinch of salt of course like any sampling, the Linux share on the desktop hit nearly 4% in Decemeber 2023.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Yo! Linux it's getting more and more popular, that's both good and bad.
Good, because that means more software aimed to linux.
Bad, because that means more malware for linux it's gonna be made.
The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall remake Daggerfall Unity 1.0 out now gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/the-…
#RPG #Retro #Daggerfall #FOSS
The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall remake Daggerfall Unity 1.0 out now
Another really impressive project that just got a big final release is The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall game engine remake Daggerfall Unity which has hit the 1.0 meaning it's now complete!Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Deaths from hydroxychloroquine used to treat #Covid have been calculated.
It's over 15,000.
This is what #SloppyThinking, #BadScience and #Trumpism does.
ScummVM 2.8.0 released with new game support and plenty of upgrades gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/scum…
#ScummVM #Retro #RetroGaming #FOSS #Linux
ScummVM 2.8.0 released with new game support and plenty of upgrades
Just before the end of 2023 the ScummVM team released ScummVM 2.8.0 bringing with it support for running various new games along with improvements to other already supported classics.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Baldur's Gate 3 wins Game of the Year in the 2023 Steam Awards gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/bald…
Baldur's Gate 3 wins Game of the Year in the 2023 Steam Awards
Not really a big surprise here and thoroughly deserved! The 2023 Steam Awards are over and Baldur's Gate 3 has won Game of the Year. Here's all the results for you.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Troll awards, more like.
Starfield, the blandest Bethesda game so far wins for "innovation", Rockstar wins "labor of love" as Rockstar has left support for it die for over a year, Hogwarts doesn't run well on PC, sure as hell doesn't do well on the Steam Deck, and no one in the SD community at large cares about it. It was only voted to shove it in a "good game" category, which it is not.
A SAR Arc from New Zealand
Image Credit & Copyright: Tristian McDonald; Text: Tiffany Lewis (Michigan Tech U.)
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APOD: 2024 January 3 – A SAR Arc from New Zealand
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
APOD: 2024 January 3 – A SAR Arc from New Zealand
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
This is basically a happy song. It's just so touching that I'm in tears any time I watch the video.
Be Yourself by Melinda Schneider
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Be Yourself
Please Subscribe to my channel and check out https://www.MelindaSchneider.com for more!Come see Melinda Schneider LIVE: https://www.melindaschneider.com#Tour...YouTube
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Under-the-radar late night launch: RSS Parrot is live! It talks like Mastodon, but it doesn't walk like Mastodon. BUT! It will relay any RSS feed straight into your timeline.
Turn Mastodon into your very own feed reader. Follow anything that has an RSS feed and get a toot about new posts.
How? Mention @birb with the address you want to follow.
More details at rss-parrot.net. Boost for visibility 😀
#RSS #Atom #FeedReader #Fediverse
The Uncomfortable Truth Of Wayland Adoption
Whilst I am hopeful for the adoption Wayland there is one issue that I have to acknowledge, there are some desktops that simply are never going to be ported,...YouTube
Jony Ive imagined the Vision Pro giving you Zoom eyes and sunglasses
A new patent granted to Apple details how the company has thought about ways an external screen on a head-mounted display could be used to indicate what you’re looking at.Jay Peters (The Verge)
A tiny fraction of all species forms most of nature: Rarity as a sticky state
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the curl maintainers are receiving bogus security issue reports based on LLM hallucinations:
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/01/02…
i recommend reading the second issue in particular, it's so obviously written by an LLM. every time it gets told it's wrong, it comes out to "clarify" by repeating the same information in a different order.
bogus security issue reports are already a bad enough issue with people reporting impossible "bugs" identified by automated fuzz tests, but this is only going to make it worse.
this has been happening a lot lately in many open source projects and different platforms. I have friends who have received these in the projects they maintain. I can only guess what are the goals of the people behind it...
Anyway, it's extremely unfair and unethical to burden open source maintainers with having to spend time dealing with these.
BISHI on Instagram: "Calling all classical music nerds, who love AI & Lego. (It’s a vibe) These images have been created by Tarik O’Regan. He’s picked the best pioneers and pieces in my humble opinion. 💖🎶🙏🏾🌈 #bishiofficial #tarikoregan #ailego #deliaderb
2,987 likes, 61 comments - bishiofficial on December 17, 2023: "Calling all classical music nerds, who love AI & Lego. (It’s a vibe) These images have been cre..."Instagram
It's hard to believe it's been 10 years since #CasualtiesOfCool was released. I've listened to that album about 110 times since then. If I remember correctly, this was the first song anyone heard, as a preview on their PledgeMusic campaign. PledgeMusic doesn't even exist anymore.
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Forgive Me
Provided to YouTube by Republic of MusicForgive Me · Devin Townsend · Ché Aimee DorvalCasualties of Cool℗ 2014 HevyDevy RecordsAuto-generated by YouTube.YouTube
Crescent Moon Over NASA’s Kennedy Space Center - NASA
The crescent moon, along with Jupiter (top right of Moon) and Venus (below Moon) appeared over the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center inNASA
Payroll - NASA
The NASA Shared Services Center (NSSC) Payroll Office (NPO) reviews, validates, and delivers time and attendance data to the Department of the Interior (DOI)NASA
Linux use on Steam ends 2023 with a multi-year high (thanks Steam Deck) gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/linu…
Linux use on Steam ends 2023 with a multi-year high (thanks Steam Deck)
Valve's latest Steam Hardware & Software Survey is out now for December 2023, and it shows that Linux and Steam Deck overall finished 2023 on a very positive note.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
APOD: 2024 January 2 – Rocket Transits Rippling Moon
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
January's Night Sky Notes: Connecting the ‘Dots’ with Asterisms - NASA Science
Have you ever noticed how some stars, when arranged, can form shapes in the night sky? Trace asterisms along with us!science.nasa.gov
We knew little about the presence of pharmaceuticals in river waters, despite a growing body of evidence about their harmful effects on the environment. A large group of scientists addressed this gap by sampling 258 rivers in 104 countries on all continents:
💊 doi.org/10.1073/pnas.211394711…
All samples were collected using the same equipment, with strict adherence to a single methodology + all samples were delivered and analysed in one place! 👏 This is what #openscience looks like today!
"Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in WebSocket Handling".
A bot? An AI? Just a silly reporter? Another fine waste of #curl maintainer time.
curl disclosed on HackerOne: Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in...
## Summary: Hello security team, Hope you are doing well :) I would like to report a potential security vulnerability in the WebSocket handling code of the curl library. The issue is related to...HackerOne
How To Join A KDE Network
Now that you know about what a KDE network is, how would you go about either joining an existing network or possibly starting your own if one doesn't happen ...YouTube
"Nektar und Ambrosia" by Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (1883).
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Nektar und Ambrosia : Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Nektar und Ambrosia:Mit einem Anhang über die Grundbedeutung der Aphrodite und Athene.Von Dr. Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher,Professor und Konrektor am Kgl....Internet Archive
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