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Canadians using Twitter/X are being bombarded by misleading right-wing posts designed to boost Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and tarnish the reputation of Mark Carney.

The FT’s analysis finds a growing volume of that misinformation is coming not from Russia or China, but the United States.

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#tech #canada #cdnpoli #twitter #x #elonmusk #misinformation #cdnelxn #cdnelection


Canadians bombarded with rightwing content on Musk’s X ahead of election

FT analysis finds network of social media accounts attacking Liberal leader Mark Carney
Joel Suss (Financial Times)
#tech #Twitter #Misinformation #elonmusk #Canada #cdnpoli #x #cdnelxn #cdnelection

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Linux vs. Windows: 10 things that set Linux apart.

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10 Things You Can do on Linux but not on Windows

Windows, can you do this? Linux gives you superpowers you didn't know you had.
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Mat
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Mat
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Unfortunately, gaming is still primarily unaccessible with Linux, as well as some commercial engineering software. For everything else, Linux is 10/10
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stone
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I do like that Linux can do these out of the box, but none of them really make Linux "better" for it. You can accomplish most of these with PowerToys, oh-my-posh, etc. that let you customize Windows beyond the out-of-the-box experience. The article feels like it's comparing against Windows Vista tbh.

Now, the fact that Linux is FOSS where Windows is not and uniquely has its own Desktop options like Cosmic are definitely big pluses for me.

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BTW 🐧

#linux

Tell me you're a Linux desktop user without telling me you're a Linux desktop user.
#linux
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TeflonTrout he/him
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Hold on, I have a meme for this on one of my desktops but can't remember which face of the cube it's on

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I am currently considering these maps. Looking at these do you have any thoughts?

How Red or Blue is Your State?

Population by US State

Where Are Fortune 500 Companies Located?

By numbers the blue states are potentially quite powerful. However, many of them have a layer of corporate governance.


The Number of Fortune 500 Companies by State - Brilliant Maps

The map above shows shows the number of Fortune 500 companies that are headquartered in each state. The data comes from the 2024 edition of the Fortune 500 , which ranks America’s top companies by revenue (and not by profit).
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Deb Zaccaro-Rojas
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I was relieved to see PA is mainly blue. Not as Blue as say, NYS or RI...but no pink, but blue - tho there have been times I've been concerned. (Some parts of Central PA have been referred to as 'backward mountain southern-acting people'. I only know Southeastern PA, and thankfully much of this area is blue.
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Joyce Donahue
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Now I am trying to recall why so many people in blue states voted for Bush in '88. I guess Michael Dukakis was not popular. i really don't remember that election...

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1. Today I learned that my collaborator @jjinsing had his NSF postdoctoral position terminated in yesterday's round of cuts.

Jay is the lead author on a fascinating paper I was involved in, about how male mimicry by female hummingbirds provides the first example of a type of signaling system that we predicted from theoretical principles over a decade ago.

This is infuriating.

And I believe it's due to anti-trans bias.

Why do I say that?

A small fraction of the female birds of this species — and in fact, many other hummingbird species as well — adopt male plumage. It's a fascinating phenomenon and probably evolved because that females with male plumage are less likely to be chased away form food sources.

Photo: Michel Gutierrez, Macaulay Library.

A hummingbird with blue head, green back, and white belly sits on a branch against a green background. Photo Michel Gutierrez / Macaulay library.
@jjinsing
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Balaji Srinivasan is speaking at CU Boulder right now. Argues that world history is running in reverse, laying the groundwork for an explosion in state creation.
Balaji Srinivasan on a screen in a sparsely populated auditorium.

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"This is a Hubble Space Telescope photo of a small portion of the Rosette Nebula."

ESA/Hubble, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

#hubble #nebula

"This is a Hubble Space Telescope photo of a small portion of the Rosette Nebula." ESA/Hubble, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
#hubble #nebula

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"The Way to Nirvāṇa" by Louis de La Vallée-Poussin (1917).

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#buddhism


The Way to Nirvāṇa : Louis de La Vallée-Poussin : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

The Way to Nirvāṇa.By L. de La Vallée Poussin, professeur à l'Université de Gand.Six Lectures on Ancient Buddhism as a Discipline of Salvation.Hibbert...
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#buddhism

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fedi meta, fosstodon apologia

Sensitive content

#FediBlock #fosstodon @Kev Quirk @Mike Stone
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Time for a dry subject: dehumidifiers

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Work with your docs using these 5 local AI tools.

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A new @ThisWeekinLinux has dropped! (308) 😎🐧▶️
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@MichaelTunnell talks about COSMIC Alpha 7, OpenMandriva 6.0, CRUX 3.8, A Modern-Retro OS & more Linux news on Your Source for #Linux GNews!

#podcasts #technews #opensource #tech


308: COSMIC Alpha 7, OpenMandriva 6.0, CRUX 3.8, A Modern-Retro OS & more Linux news - This Week in Linux - TuxDigital

This week in Linux, COSMIC Alpha 7 has been released. We also have some new releases for some distributions. We have Open Mandriva, also Crux, and even somet...
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"the crisis of our institutions’ contradictions has long been brewing. Merely defending the status quo will win us no new friends. Standing for what we *should be* will reveal the absurdity of what we are up against." americamagazine.org/faith/2025…

The battle between universities and Trump is on

Universities need to change. But Trump is attacking the wrong problems.
America Magazine
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Jed Brown
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Also, your article pointing to costs and empty promises reminded me of this excellent interview with Tressie McMillan Cottom, especially the part discussing "the education gospel".
hachyderm.io/@jedbrown/1136823…

Jed Brown (@jedbrown@hachyderm.io)

TMC: The education gospel remains most powerful among the most vulnerable groups of people. It is still core to how immigrants and the children of immigrants think that they will be integrated into American citizenship.
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@jedbrown Thanks. I tend to think upper admin interests are downstream of the funding structures. They care about donors, etc, because that is a big part of their job when there is such limited public support.

I certainly am with you on the need for collective power.

@Jed Brown

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"No amount of extortion in the world (or D.E.I. trainings, for that matter) will produce universities that better reflect our society without removing the barriers to entry." americamagazine.org/faith/2025…

The battle between universities and Trump is on

Universities need to change. But Trump is attacking the wrong problems.
America Magazine
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Nathan Schneider
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@lucybeahere I think I make quite clear that I regard their position as disingenuous. But I also would like to see more reasonable politically conservative voices in academia.
@Lucy B

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"The deepest problem with American higher education, which I see every day in my classrooms, is its cost." americamagazine.org/faith/2025…

The battle between universities and Trump is on

Universities need to change. But Trump is attacking the wrong problems.
America Magazine

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"The problem of antisemitism is only made much worse when institutions fail to allow space for honest, necessary critiques of U.S.-Israeli policy toward Palestinians. As a person of Jewish descent, I have never experienced treatment like what I have seen Palestinian students endure." americamagazine.org/faith/2025…

The battle between universities and Trump is on

Universities need to change. But Trump is attacking the wrong problems.
America Magazine

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Guys Night Out.
In Kichijoji, Tokyo with a Fuji TX-1 and Tri-X.
#film #filmphotography #bnw #bw #blackandwhite #panorama #panoramic #35mm #pub #izakaya #tokyo #kichijoji #street
#blackandwhite #Film #Tokyo #35mm #street #filmphotography #bw #panorama #bnw #panoramic #pub #Izakaya #kichijoji

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Yes! I do want to know what happens when you reply to spam email!
hehehe!
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🇪🇺 Europe’s future AI rules are at stake!

30 MEPs demand a clear, strict #OpenSourceAI definition to stop Meta’s “open” Llama models from exploiting loopholes. Will the EU defend openness or let #BigTech rewrite the rules? 🕵🏼

#AI #EUTechPolicy #EUAIAct

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Club of MEPs demand strict AI Act open source definition

Meta is singled out by lawmakers for not doing enough on open source AI.
Jacob Wulff Wold (EURACTIV)
#AI #BigTech #euaiact #opensourceai #eutechpolicy

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📚 “To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.” - Victor Hugo

Today is World Book and Copyright Day. Publishing is one of the largest cultural industries in Europe, with 575 000 books published every year.

Books inspire, spark curiosity, and broaden horizons. Under Creative Europe, we want to help people access the richness and diversity of European literature.

Find out more: europa.eu/!MhQmBr

A photo of a public bookcase made from the front half of a small boat, standing upright against a rocky background with the sea in the distance. The boat is filled with various books, and there’s a sign in Italian that reads, “Prendi un libro lascia un libro,” which means “Take a book leave a book.”
A photo of a public bookcase resembling a lighthouse with books inside and the word “Biblioteka,” which means library in Lithuanian, at the top. It’s placed on a grassy area next to a red brick pathway leading towards the sea.
A photo of a little bookcase labelled "Biblioteca," which means “library” in Spanish. It resembles a small house with a red roof and blue trim, and it’s filled with books. In the background is the beach and the ocean.
A photo of a red wooden cart with four wheels. It’s filled with many books. The cart is parked in a grassy area with trees in the background, under clear skies.

Books and Publishing

The main objectives of the Creative Europe programme for the books and publishing sector are to increase the circulation and linguistic diversity of literary works in Europe and beyond, diversify the audience of European literature and strengthen the…
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Street Art Utopia
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This is the Cutest Bookstore on Wheels (7 photos)!: streetartutopia.com/2024/03/09…
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In southern Italy, in the region of Basilicata, a van-motorbike turned into a mobile library roams the streets of its remote villages spreading a love of reading. They call it the Bibliomoto.
A charming light blue three-wheeled van-motorbike transformed into a mobile library, known as the "Bibliomoto," parked in a sunny Italian square. The vehicle's rear is fitted with glass-paneled wooden shelves packed with colorful books, topped with a red-tiled roof resembling a miniature house. The scene is set against elegant historic buildings in the Basilicata region of southern Italy, where the Bibliomoto brings literature to remote villages.

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The legendary trio. 😂

#linux

In the first pic, a lady asks, "Why is it that whenever there's a 'new' Linux distro, it's always based on one of you three? In the second pic, three people are seen standing, Debian, Arch Linux, and Fedora.
#linux

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Perplexity wants to do what!? 😧

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mariob
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but aren't all the AI powered search engines doing the same?

Isn't this hype all about becoming better than humans to stop them from being paid a salary?

Itsfoss content could easily be generated by AI in the future, therefore, no employee needed. And this is just one example.

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Game anywhere with Moonlight on Raspberry Pi.

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How I Managed to Play AAA Games on Raspberry Pi

You can utilize your Raspberry Pi to experience games too, with a catch!
Abhishek Kumar (It's FOSS)

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Valerie

THEY FOUND HER! Valerie the dachshund has finally been captured and returned to her family!

Here's the little Aussie girl! She survived more than five hundred days alone on Kangaroo Island after being lost.

'Finally safe': Valerie the dachshund found 'fit and well' after 529 days on the run

The volunteer-led Kangala Wildlife Rescue group said the miniature dachshund is "finally safe and able to begin her transition back to her loving parents".
Niv Sadrolodabaee (SBS News)
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clarice overhere
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hahaha! i guess she has been Livin Wild n Free!

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Robotic Gummi Bears?!!!

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Noam נעם
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It's more the synthetic nature of it all than the moving parts. And, yes, I'm aware of how much synthetic food is in most of our diets.
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Muse
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Oh, I stay away from synthetic food. I just like to laugh!

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Just out: I argue that if the Trump administration were actually trying to do the things it says it is doing, it is doing it all wrong. americamagazine.org/faith/2025…

The battle between universities and Trump is on

Universities need to change. But Trump is attacking the wrong problems.
America Magazine
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Laure
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why would you think the Trump admin cares about anything but far right ideology and corrupt oligarchy??? They do not care about Universities. The took a page from Viktor Orban.

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the jetbrains 2025.1 update "enhances" the local completion LLM, which previously only suggested completions for a single line of code, to autocomplete your comments! fun!!

find some code, write // this code is, and see what the AI thinks† of you! it's usually negative!‡

† AI does not actually think.
‡ negative comments are a result of most comments in the training data starting with // this code is being self-deprecating.

i wrote "this code is", the AI suggested "a bit messy, but it's not really worth refactoring it"
i wrote "this code is", the AI suggested "pretty ugly, but it works"
i wrote "this code is", the AI suggested "awful"
i wrote "this code is", the AI suggested "a bit hacky, but it works"

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Camelia :tranarchy_a_nonbinary: 🇵🇸
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Camelia :tranarchy_a_nonbinary: 🇵🇸
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oh that's hilarious! it's so true that everytime i write a comment starting with "this code is" it's always negative
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Lynnesbian
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@camelia if i saw some code prefaced with // this code is genius. i've outdone myself, i would immediately distrust it
@camelia
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IAG
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// this code is ass, session terminated
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Oh no! The ear thief has struck our house! #rabbitsofmastodon #BunnyToots #bunniesofmastodon #ZeldaSugar #EarThief
A small white rabbit is sitting on a patterned rug, in front of a gray pet gate with hay visible in the background. The rabbit has large ears and a round body, appearing calm and attentive.
#rabbitsofmastodon #bunniesofmastodon #bunnytoots #zeldasugar #earthief

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Shall we push for Platinum once again in 2025? 😇

Last year, your support placed Nextcloud at the top of the CloudComputing-Insider IT Awards. Let's get there once again! Here's how to cast your vote:

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Vote for Nextcloud in the CloudComputing-Insider IT Awards 2025 - Nextcloud

Help Nextcloud win as the best Cloud Content Management platform for the CloudComputing-Insider Awards 2025! Cast your vote now — here’s how.
Katrin Goethals (Nextcloud)

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Telar: tecnologías populares para el cuidado, la autonomía y la vida colectiva.

No dejes de leer nuestra más reciente #entrevista de la serie "Las personas detrás de las #tecnologías que queremos"

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Telar: tecnologías populares para el cuidado, la autonomía y la vida colectiva | Sursiendo

Conversamos con Nanagui y Dani, integrantes de Telar, para conocer cómo entretejen comunidad, herramientas y pensamiento crítico desde la acción cotidiana.
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#tecnologías #entrevista

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System76 COSMIC Alpha 7 is out with new accessibility features, global shortcuts and more gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/syst…

#Linux #OpenSource


System76 COSMIC Alpha 7 is out with new accessibility features, global shortcuts and more

System76 continue building up their desktop environment COSMIC, with a 7th Alpha release now available for testing built on top of Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS alpha.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#opensource #linux

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Dune: Awakening set for a public playtest May 9-12 but the anti-cheat concerns me for Linux / Steam Deck gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/dune…

#DuneAwakening #MMO #AntiCheat #Linux #SteamDeck #SteamOS


Dune: Awakening set for a public playtest May 9-12 but the anti-cheat concerns me for Linux / Steam Deck

Dune: Awakening from Funcom is set to release on June 10th, and to ensure their servers are working well they've announced a major public playtest will go live in May.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#linux #steamos #mmo #SteamDeck #anticheat #duneawakening
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chfkch
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Also the tech demo, which looked like SWTOR quality-wise, but still was very laggy. Let's hope the release will do _alot_ better.

#DuneAwakening #MMO #AntiCheat #Linux #SteamDeck #SteamOS

#linux #steamos #mmo #SteamDeck #anticheat #duneawakening

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Love board games and pure chaos? Fortune Avenue is a new spin on Monopoly out in Early Access gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/love…

#FortuneAvenue #IndieGames #Linux #SteamDeck


Love board games and pure chaos? Fortune Avenue is a new spin on Monopoly out in Early Access

Out now with Native Linux support and it's Steam Deck Verified, Fortune Street is the latest game from Binogure Studio (City Game Studio, Sneak In) that puts a fresh, fast and chaotic spin on the classic Monopoly.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#linux #indiegames #SteamDeck #fortuneavenue

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Where are open networks heading?

I had an inspiring day yesterday at Ahoy!, predominantely a ATProto developer meeting in Hamburg.

Some thoughts (and a pic by @samvie which I was very happy to meet)...

#SaveSocial

Björns (on the right in a blue shirt) presentation about "strengtening alternative platforms)
#savesocial @samvie
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@ntnsndr @andypiper your work has been a huge inspiration Nathan 😀 encouraged the developers in my presentation to read Governable Spaces if they're looking for an in depth social science perspective
@Nathan Schneider @Andy Piper

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Lost For Swords is a unique deck-building dungeon crawler that's different each time gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/lost…

#LostForSwords #IndieGame #Linux #Gaming


Lost For Swords is a unique deck-building dungeon crawler that's different each time

There's a lot of dungeon crawlers and deck-builders but Lost For Swords manages to come off a little more unique thanks to the way it shuffles everything together.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#linux #gaming #indiegame #lostforswords

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Master returning values from Bash functions with our straightforward guide.

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How to Make Bash Function Return Value

By default, functions in bash do not return value. There are a couple of workarounds that may help to some extent.
Sagar Sharma (It's FOSS)

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Replicube is an open-ended programming puzzle game about making 3D voxels gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/repl…

#IndieGames #Linux #Gaming #PuzzleGame #Programming


Replicube is an open-ended programming puzzle game about making 3D voxels

Walaber Entertainment LLC (JellyCar Worlds, Parking Garage Rally Circuit) have just released Replicube, an open-ended programming puzzle game where you make 3D voxel-based objects.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#linux #indiegames #gaming #programming #puzzlegame

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Well, well, well. ☠️

PS: Don't run this.

Source: tldrtech

#linux

#linux
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Z-Ray Entertainment
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rm -rf /* Always fails for me. With some obscure "Read only filesystem" error message 😞
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hello_there_
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🙁){ :|:& };: no context
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Point and click adventure Casebook 1899 - The Leipzig Murders launches later this year gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/poin…

#Gaming #Linux #IndieGames #AdventureGames


Point and click adventure Casebook 1899 - The Leipzig Murders launches later this year

Casebook 1899 - The Leipzig Murders from Homo Narrans Studio is now on the road to release, with it being confirmed a GOG and Steam release will happen this year with Native Linux support.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#linux #indiegames #gaming #adventuregames

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FBC: Firebreak from Remedy releases June 17, aiming to be Steam Deck Verified gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/fbc-…

#FBCFirebreak #Gaming #Linux #SteamDeck


FBC: Firebreak from Remedy releases June 17, aiming to be Steam Deck Verified

Good news for people wanting to play Remedy Entertainment's new game FBC: Firebreak, as it's releasing June 17th and it will be playable on Steam Deck (and so Desktop Linux too thanks to Valve's Proton).
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#linux #gaming #SteamDeck #fbcfirebreak
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Warriormaster
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Oh man, I might ask for more info in the next IGDA if someone from Remedy will attend the event

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