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NVIDIA open source driver to use NVK + Zink for OpenGL on newer GPUs gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/nvid…

#NVIDIA #OpenGL #Vulkan #FOSS



The new Apple Sports app for iPhone is pretty good but isn’t great for keeping up with football — MLS & the European leagues are there, but no Champions/Europa Leagues, national teams, etc. Hopefully that’ll change. apple.com/newsroom/2024/02/int…


Spring 2024 Pathways Vacancies nasa.gov/general/spring-2024-p… #NASA #General


Snap store from Canonical (Ubuntu) hit with another crypto scam app gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/snap…

#Ubuntu #Canonical #Crypto



Fanatical Bundle Fest launched with a new Steam Deck game bundle gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/fana…

#SteamDeck #Linux #PCGaming



Cross-platform development library SDL3 gets a Vulkan Renderer and camera API gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/cros…

#GameDev #FOSS #OpenSource #Vulkan #SDL

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Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮
@dotoscat this is literally brand new, as per the PR


The Pencil Nebula Supernova Shock Wave apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240223.ht… #APOD
#APOD



My Life in Science by Katalin Karikó – “The reasons for the undermining of her research are left open, despite hints that science suffers because it requires practitioners to publish papers in numbers rather than merit & seek grants for safe research”

theguardian.com/books/2024/feb…




android phones with 6GB of RAM and 4+4 CPU cores when they have to keep two browser tabs and a chat client open simultaneously

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"You WON'T Believe the INCREDIBLE Agates that Formed INSIDE These Corals! (+ FL Foraging & Fishing)"

youtube.com/watch?v=rqhs9m7oLi…

#coral



dear community!

Uppon popular request+ due to some technical problems 🛠️:

The Open Call for the upcoming Art Meets Radical Openness (AMRO) festival 2024 is now EXTENDED !

The new application deadline is: *** Friday, March 1st, 20:00 CET ***

GO to 👉🏼 art-meets.radical-openness.org/call and APPLY !

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The future hometown of William Riker from Star Trek: The Next Generation
is raising money to build a statue to Billy R!

Riker Maneuver

in reply to Muse

That image is not meant to be a comment on their efforts! I just thought it was funny like "Riker Maneuver" is funny!


"STROMATOLITES: Discovering the Oldest Fossils on Earth | CGI Documentary"

youtube.com/watch?v=Ht5qNgelYA…




The Pencil Nebula Supernova Shock Wave

Image Credit & Copyright: Helge Buesing

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240223.ht… #APOD

#APOD


"Magic Rocks!? A Journey into Fluorescent Crystals, Gems & Minerals with The Crystal Collector."

youtube.com/watch?v=WsMfQGI_FG…




The Suffering Of Upstream Developers #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/nLb5wjcXEl0


Michigan's Billion-Year-Old Glowing Rocks | "Yooper" Stones.

youtube.com/watch?v=5SDVJU_B0s…




"Underwater Fluorescence."

youtube.com/watch?v=gn0MsXWDSp…


in reply to Eugen Rochko

Yay, Finnish band 👍 Cosmic Truth is my favorite song from them. youtu.be/6uHPHn5Zwmo?si=vxztxn…
in reply to Eugen Rochko

I think you should give a go to Octopus Diver, Stone Rebel and King Weed trio.

All of them are on BandCamp

Kinda harder, but not abrasive.

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in reply to NASA

Paging @badastro to this post on the off-chance he hasn’t seen this yet.


We're probably finishing Neptunia today so I'm thinking God Of War 2 next youtube.com/watch?v=5ttJVmKPPD…


Do you struggle with modern slang? Are you confused by stuff like "level 5" and "rizzler"?

If yes, my new app is right for you! Rizzference has just entered public TestFlight, so give it a try before anyone else: testflight.apple.com/join/hSVt…

It can:
- Pull slang out of an entire sentence + define multiple words at once
- Do 👆 through Shortcuts
- Show multiple possible definitions for words
- Run on #iOS and #macOS

Built in #SwiftUI for iOS 17 and macOS 13

#iosdev #showcase #macdev #buildinpublic


in reply to clarebee

Gorgeous. Is/was this in Yorkshire? I'm down south and it's been a shockingly mild winter.
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Mastodon Has A Serious SPAM Problem #YouTube

Thank you to @cappy and everyone else over at @hq who was involved in this research

youtu.be/_KCwq9e-H5M

in reply to Brodie Robertson

Is this generalised across all Mastodon or is it mainly targeting "popular" users?
I ask because I haven't seen any of the spam here yet, but then I rarely visit the federated feed.

So I presume I will only see it if someone I follow actually posts the spam or boosts it.
Otherwise the spammer would have to "at" me for it to be in my mentions or notifications.

BUT I don't want to downplay the problem, is there anything else going on that I've not covered?

in reply to Paul L

@prlzx It's mainly targetting the Japanese servers as they're trying to ruin another Japanese kids life
in reply to Brodie Robertson

I was also interested in the aspect of spoofing as their intended target, and hoping that retaliation from 3rd parties is what actually overwhelms their intended target rather than solely relying on direct methods.

In the network space we've had distributed amplification attacks which work on the same concept but in terms of (say) IP or DNS protocol amongst others.

Smurf and
DNS amplification attacks are 2 of the better known (and old) ones.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-o…



Meet the Creators, Part 4: Two New 2024 Total Eclipse Posters science.nasa.gov/solar-system/… #NASA #2024SolarEclipse #Eclipses #Skywatching #SolarEclipses


NASA Awards Spaceflight Development, Operations Contract nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-awa… #NASA #GlennResearchCenter


Nvidia’s new app doesn’t require you to log in to update your GPU driver

Removing little-used features also improved responsiveness and shrank the size.

arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/02…

in reply to Ars Technica

personally i think you should have to log in and earn achievements in select RTX enabled titles to earn credits that you can redeem for driver updates



NASA Center Boosted YF-12 Supersonic Engine Research nasa.gov/centers-and-facilitie… #NASA #GlennResearchCenter #Aeronautics #ArmstrongFlightResearchCenter #NASAHistory


“I found a special kinship between the work that I do in virtue ethics and in running.” A philosopher and ultrarunner considers virtue in athletics. kottke.org/24/02/the-examined-…


NASA Invites Media to Speak with Artemis II Moon Crew, Recovery Team nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-inv… #NASA #Missions #Artemis2 #Astronauts #ChristinaHKoch #GReidWiseman #HumansInSpace #VictorJGlover


Webb Finds Evidence for Neutron Star at Heart of Young Supernova Remnant science.nasa.gov/missions/webb… #NASA
#NASA


Need advice on a flashing animated gif for book promotion

Any good? (It won't upload to Mastodon)

share.mayfirst.org/s/45otQR7Nf…

in reply to Nathan Schneider

I don't pretend to completely understand w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understandin…. I've just avoided flashing of any kind since <blink> was deprecated. If you have access to a Windows machine, you can test to see if that gif exceeds the threshold with trace.umd.edu/peat/.
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in reply to Nathan Schneider

I wasn't 100% sure what you are asking...

Could you clarify and also mention your progress about that?



University co-operative governance:

theconversation.com/universiti…

Way to go!

in reply to Nathan Schneider

@ntnsndr Thanks for the link.

Somehow universities need a return to broad-spectrum learning that isn't wholly driven by money, doctrinaire politics, and testing mania.

Homeschooling is a similar cooperative venture among households, though not at the same scale as a formal cooperative educational environment.

Would K-12 schools cooperatively managed by parents and staff, free from interference by politics and money, be possible as community centers?

in reply to Andrew Shead

one thing kind of sad is that one of the big problems with US public schools is their resemblance to community cooperatives. Since they are funded by property taxes, they vary widely by the incomes of their constituents, along with the contributions to PTAs. This might be a situation where a less cooperative model (uniform funding per student) would be fairer.

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