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"AMS event # 238-2025 caught from Wichita US"

youtube.com/watch?v=bwXXorz02F…

#meteor #cats




Busting myths: Dual booting Linux and Windows is easier than you think!

itsfoss.com/dual-boot-myths/

#linux #windows



Impressive colony building sim Songs of Syx is getting ready to leave Early Access with a big new Beta gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/impr…

#SongsofSyx #IndieGame #LinuxGaming #PCGaming



alright, I'm seeing renewed interest in #pixelfed so I figured I'd explain the #fediverse in a way that makes sense to people. with pictures. sit back, it'll be interesting, I promise! 🧵

(note that this isn't about bluesky. they're built different and I don't know enough about how they work)




Australia has been falling down the US rabbit-hole as well.

youtu.be/zfhCiFmtO8g?si=jMWUe9…



Play Chess♟️ in the terminal, powered by Rust! 🦀

Features:

🔹 2-player local mode 👫
🔹 Online multiplayer 🌐
🔹 Battle a bot 🤖
🔹 Easy-to-follow helper menu 📜

Project link - github.com/thomas-mauran/chess-tui

#linux #terminal

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Positively rated immersive-sim FPS Fortune's Run is on hold as the developer is going to prison gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/posi…

#FortunesRun #Gaming #IndieGame #PCGaming



50 Years Ago: Preparing the Final Saturn Rocket for Flight nasa.gov/history/50-years-ago-… #NASA #JohnsonSpaceCenter #ApolloSoyuz #NASAHistory


NASA Solar Observatory Sees Coronal Loops Flicker Before Big Flares science.nasa.gov/science-resea… #NASA #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #Heliophysics #HeliophysicsDivision #SpaceWeather #TheSun



Offline AI for PDFs and docs? Here are 5 tools to try.

itsfoss.com/local-ai-docs-tool…

in reply to It's FOSS

LM Studio also can implement Qwen visual model now, unfortunately not yet for Linux, though.
in reply to It's FOSS

you're starting to lose me with these 'AI' posts... Maybe you should put those on LinkedIn instead, people can't get enough of that shit there.


Northwest Africa (NWA) 4022 Meteorite Thin Section - XPL HDR Pathscan Enabler.

Solar Anamnesis, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2hPZVrV

#meteorite




Anyone else on KDE have the Discover store repeatedly have the top bar with window controls just not there?

KDE v6.1.5
Frameworks 6.6.0
Wayland
Kubuntu 24.10
Plastik window decorations



Forest Reigns is a post-apocalyptic FPS set in Paris from former Stalker devs gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/fore…

#ForestReigns #PCGaming #Gaming



NASA HEAT Student Activity Featured in TIME’s Top 100 Photos of 2024 science.nasa.gov/learning-reso… #NASA #2024SolarEclipse #Heliophysics #ScienceActivation


Use the “mv” command to move/rename files in Linux.

itsfoss.com/mv-command/



How It Started, How It’s Going: Johnson Space Center Edition nasa.gov/general/how-it-starte… #NASA #JohnsonSpaceCenter #General #PeopleOfJohnson
in reply to NASA

Aren't you afraid President Musk is going to replace your employees with Hi-B contractors?


I've now started linkifying my discussion of how the Nintendo Entertainment System compares to the hardware I designed for web browsing.

In particular the small microprocessor I added for checksums, symmetric crypto, randomness, reading/writing numbers, counting, comparisons, SFX, etc.

You've provided some good 6502 links, thank you!
Beyond that Rodrigo Copetti is my main source: copetti.org/writings/consoles/…

I think I'll run some polls of your favourite NES games!

  • Faxanadu (0%, 0 votes)
  • SMB3 (100%, 1 vote)
  • Crystalis (0%, 0 votes)
  • Monsters In My Pocket (0%, 0 votes)
1 voter. Poll end: 11 months ago

This entry was edited (11 months ago)
in reply to Fionnáin

@ephemeral I love thinking through how things could be different!

I do appreciate solid-state drives, & I can see the value in fully-programable GPUs... Or widespread fiber... I don't think I appreciate much else in computing since mid-2000s...

Cryptography improved, & we have CRDTs & DGGS now. But that's software!

Going back to 1980s meanwhile, I think (if your software supported that hardware) most people would probably complain about the limited memory before the limited CPU!

in reply to alcinnz

that's fair. It's hard to imagine what people might think in that hypothetical. Maybe 'the web' would have remained a bunch of computers tethered together at CERN and a mild curiosity for people who read encyclopaedias.

I don't think I know enough about computing to know what hasn't advanced, and I appreciate your thoughts there.

And I guess lot of the fiber that affected the day-to-day was already rolled out in the late 90s, so even that predates your timeline.

This entry was edited (11 months ago)

in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

Antivaccine bullshit is most likely to be blamed.

But also, are vaccines provided for free in the U.S.? Do you have to pay for them? If so, could many of those known as working poors be unable to afford them?



Northwest Africa (NWA) 2824 Meteorite Thin Section in Cross Polarized Light.

Solar Anamnesis, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/RChmux

#meteorite



techcrunch.com/podcast/social-…

Had a great time chatting with @Gargron on today's episode of Equity about Meta's content policy changes and the future of decentralized social media.



Unleash your creativity with Nextcloud Whiteboard!

Collaborate in real-time, draw stunning diagrams, brainstorm ideas, and create project plans together.

Sketch, share, and inspire with your team's imagination! 🎨✏️

#Collaboration #Creativity

youtu.be/xfzu98kPdh0



New Guide: An idiots guide to setting up Minecraft on Steam Deck / SteamOS with controller support gamingonlinux.com/guides/view/…

#Minecraft #SteamDeck #SteamOS



Intel and NVIDIA drivers holding back a public SteamOS release, Valve not trying to compete with Windows gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/inte…

#SteamOS #SteamDeck #LegionGoS #Gaming #Linux

This entry was edited (11 months ago)
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

those steam machines are probably a natural extension of the development work already being done. It'll be interesting to see what the future holds 😀




Langley’s Propeller Research Tunnel nasa.gov/image-article/langley… #NASA #Aeronautics #LangleyResearchCenter


Which secure file sharing features do you use the most in Nextcloud?

Mention other tools you use in replies!

See more of what Nextcloud's file sharing can do: nextcloud.com/files/

  • Password protection 🔐 (43%, 115 votes)
  • Expiring links 🔗 (66%, 176 votes)
  • Secure File Drop 📥 (28%, 74 votes)
  • Access restrictions 👥 (39%, 105 votes)
264 voters. Poll end: 11 months ago



unicode proposal: you should be able to send an emoji with a specifier for which image set and version you want.

sometimes you want to send 😔, and you don't mind which version is displayed. but sometimes you want to send 😔, and have it specifically be the Samsung TouchWiz 7.0 (2016) version.

no other iteration of 😔 captures the feeling of "sigh... if only my girlfriend Chiaki Nanami from Danganronpa 2 was real... then i could be her Ultimate Gamer Husband instead of studying for this lame physics exam..." quite like this one

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in reply to Inga stands with 🇺🇦 🇵🇸

@IngaLovinde yes but ideally every client would have to contain every iteration of every emoji set, so i could just send U+1F614 PENSIVE FACE followed by U+200D ZERO WIDTH JOINER and U+EA07 TOUCHWIZ SEVEN MODIFIER
in reply to Lynnesbian

or, U+1F914 THINKING FACE followed by U+200D ZERO WIDTH JOINER and U+EA08 BLOBCAT ONE MODIFIER :blobcatthinking:

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NASA’s Hubble Tracks Down a ‘Blue Lurker’ Among Stars science.nasa.gov/missions/hubb… #NASA #Astrophysics #AstrophysicsDivision #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #HubbleSpaceTelescope #Stars


Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 45: Free as in Beer gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/buil…

#RetroGaming #Retro #Linux #LinuxGaming






2 events in Boulder I'm super excited about:

1/28 master class by the great tech activist Coraline Ada Ehmke:
vast.colorado.edu/coraline-ada…

2/4 launch of my book Beautiful Solutions with two solidarity economy leaders, Yessica Holguin and Minsun Ji, at the worker-owned Trident bookstore:
tridentcafe.com/events/2025/2/…

Join us!



You may not like it, but this is what the ideal freezer looks like
in reply to David Imel

It’s the photography equivalent of Scrooge McDuck’s vault.


Dhofar 461 Meteorite Thin Section - XPL HDR Pathscan Enabler.

Solar Anamnesis, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2ihCRb5

#meteorite #moon

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