Sacred 2 Remaster announced from THQ Nordic gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/sacrโฆ
#Sacred2Remaster #Sacred2 #RPG #Gaming #PCGaming
Sacred 2 Remaster announced from THQ Nordic
We really are in the era of remasters aren't we? Sacred 2 Remaster was just recently revealed by THQ Nordic.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Frostliner announced recently is basically Snowpiercer as a survival city-builder gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/frosโฆ
#Frostliner #IndieGames #Gaming #PCGaming
Frostliner announced recently is basically Snowpiercer as a survival city-builder
Okay, now this is cool. Frostliner puts you in charge of a train in this survival city builder on rails that's practically Snowpiercer.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
I'm updating satellite numbers for yet another talk.
There now 8,077 Starlink satellites in orbit, 1,240 have already been burned up in the atmosphere, depositing all their metal, plastic, and computer bits in the stratosphere as weird vapour (data from planet4589.org/space/con/conliโฆ)
12,238 active satellites now catalogued. The fraction of Starlinks is actually holding pretty steady lately because so many other operators have started launching. Over 200 satellites launched this month.
Click through the joy of opening up mystery boxes in Unboxathon gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/clicโฆ
#Unboxathon #IndieGames #PCGaming #Gaming
Click through the joy of opening up mystery boxes in Unboxathon
If you love your chilled casual clicker games, Unboxathon could be a good one for you with a demo available to try.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Dice A Million channels Balatro vibes into game-breaking dice rolling gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/diceโฆ
#DiceAMillion #Gaming #IndieGames #PCGaming
Dice A Million channels Balatro vibes into game-breaking dice rolling
With a fresh demo released, Dice A Million looks like it will grab a lot of my time in future.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Gyro through a collection of handcrafted mazes in the Steam Deck exclusive Game With Balls gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/gyroโฆ
#GameWithBalls #SteamDeck #IndieGames #Gaming #SteamOS
Gyro through a collection of handcrafted mazes in the Steam Deck exclusive Game With Balls
The second game from Geert Verhoeff that's only meant to be played on a Steam Deck is Game With Balls, a collection of handcrafted mazes to gyro through.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Queer Games Bundle 2025 is live on itch.io gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/queeโฆ
Queer Games Bundle 2025 is live on itch.io
At a time where supporting creators of anything that might be deemed adult content or NSFW is more important than ever, the Queer Games Bundle 2025 is live.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
ZOOM Platform also had payment processor issues, say they "have no plans to remove any titles" gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/zoomโฆ
#ZOOMPlatform #Gaming #PCGaming
ZOOM Platform also had payment processor issues, say they "have no plans to remove any titles"
ZOOM Platform that sell a lot of retro games, as well as publish upgrades for games, announced they've also been a target of payment processors for adult games.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Heroes of Might and Magic 2 project fheroes2 version 1.1.10 has been released gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/heroโฆ
#fheroes2 #HoMM2 #Gaming #OpenSource
Heroes of Might and Magic 2 project fheroes2 version 1.1.10 has been released
A fresh upgrade to the Heroes of Might and Magic 2 game engine fheroes2.fheroes2 (GamingOnLinux)
In our last video, I said navigating Chongqing is like being trapped inside a dream. This video shows exactly what I meant.
(Sources is hughchonqing from TikTok, I think)
The Rarest Rhino: The Two Last Northern White Rhinos of Kenya
The rarest rhino in the world can be found wallowing in the mud at the Ol Pejeta Nature Conservancy in Kenya. Constantly guarded by vigilant rifle-clad guards, these two animals have no idea that tโฆPalm Oil Detectives
The last two females. The last male Northern White rhino, Sudan, is extinct.
#photography
#rhinos
#extinction
#Kenya
If you donโt onboard contributors proactively, then you're selecting project members for their social engineering abilities.
New blog post on #onboarding in #FOSS projects, reflecting on the "Pull Request Hack":
antonin.delpeuch.eu/posts/the-โฆ
The Pull Request Hack is not enough
Years ago, I read The Pull Request Hack, a blog post advocating for a radical way of collaborating on FOSS: โWhenever somebody sends you a pull request, give them commit access to your project.โ The post is really worth a read.Antonin Delpeuch
Thank you SO much Conversation! I've been trying to tell people for a number of years now that their worries about a declining birth rate are not well founded.
Fears that falling birth rates in US could lead to population collapse are based on faulty assumptions
"...The population collapse narrative hinges on three key misunderstandings. First, it misrepresents what standard fertility measures tell us about childbearing and makes unrealistic assumptions that fertility rates will follow predictable patterns far into the future. Second, it overstates the impact of low birth rates on future population growth and size. Third, it ignores the role of economic policies and labor market shifts in assessing the impacts of low birth rates..."
I would add to the faulty reasoning:
~ the replacement theory concerning POCs.
~ fear of women in the work force
~ loss of a base for pyramid scheme capitalists
~ environmental stress from loss of habitat to housing, etc.
Fears that falling birth rates in US could lead to population collapse are based on faulty assumptions
While the changes in population structure that accompany low birth rates are real, the impact of these changes has been dramatically overstated.The Conversation
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EXTREME adorbs!
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Playing Video Games Has an Unexpected Effect on Kids' IQ, Study Discovers
#News #ScienceAlert #Humans #Intelligence #Learning #Games #Gaming #VideoGames #Children
Playing Video Games Has an Unexpected Effect on Kids' IQ, Study Discovers : ScienceAlert
Researchers have linked spending more time playing video games with a boost in intelligence in children, which goes some way to contradicting the narrative that gaming is bad for young minds.David Nield (ScienceAlert)
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@Jay Bryant I agree, its not just video games, but games of any sort have this value in maintaining and boosting intelligence, advancing neuron connections, pattern recognition, mathematical prowess etc. Video games add the ability to do so at one's own timing pace when there is no one locally to participate with.
This why games like Scrabble, Chess, etc. are also important learning tools, whether in traditional form or as videogames. The same of course applies to even more complex games and systems in computer games and online games where you have to deal with numerous other factors and adapt and develop strategies on the go due to random things like terrain in movement, resource management etc.
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Home.
#analogphotography #filmphotography #analog #home #livingspaces #newzealand #nz #eos500 #canoneos500 #minoltasr7 #sr7
Recent comic: Cutting out the Middleman
I suspect that some readers might interpret this cartoon as a call for Luddism, but mostly it's a reflection of thoughts I've been having lately about out-of-control data harvesting and a growing surveillance state.
#tech #technology #privacy #data #comic #cartoon #surveillance #consumers #corporations
Focusing on being a little bit more Neo Luddite and cooperate with our peers
That's the key, IMHO.
At the beginning it took a lot of time to shop for palmfree products; I had to read all information printed on my grocery's to make the right choice!
Luckely more and more products are palmoil-free! But it should be: Every Product is Palmfree!
For wildlife and forests to stay untouched and thereby help climate change stop! ๐๐๐๐
This is a view taken from the roadside on my way home from Portree. I do this journey at least twice a week. It never fails to thrill me.
Itโs a view looking towards the coast of Minginish from a point high above the main road between Sligachan and Dunvegan near Struan.
We do this drive of necessity as we need to collect laundry and food several times a week. Portree is the nearest supermarket. This is the shortest route...
#isleofskyescotland #MistyIsle #view #Minginish #scenic
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Cool wood carving art by Romanian artist!
Click link to see more awesomeness!
Enchanting Chainsaw Sculptures by Gabi Rizea
Gabi Rizea is a Romanian artist who wields a chainsaw as his sculptor's blade. The above work from a few years ago is what has most captured the Internet's attention and drawn appreciation from around the world.Neatorama
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This article is adorable! Patrick Schlott is a hero!
"According to Pew Research Center, 98% of Americans own a mobile phone. Despite how common they are, cell service can be spottyโor even nonexistentโin many areas, such as long stretches of rural Vermont. Patrick Schlott, an electrical engineer, realized this after moving to the area. Hoping to help the community, he used his skills to install free public telephones in strategic locations. โThink payphones without the โpayโ part,โ writes Schlott..."
Man Installs Free Pay Phones in Parts of VT Without Cell Service
Patrick Schlott, an electrical engineer, installed free-to-use public telephones in a rural area of Vermont without cell service.Regina Sienra (My Modern Met)
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These engineers have waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much time!
Does anyone else hear The Sorcerer's Apprentice playing in the background?
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Monitoring your system doesnโt have to be ugly. Btop++ proves it.
Btop++: Linux System Monitoring Tool That is Definitely Better than Top
A sleek terminal-based system monitor that gives you detailed insights to your resources and processes.Abhishek Prakash (It's FOSS)
A compost heap in Finland has yielded the countryโs first giant virus. Bigger than some bacteria and packed with hundreds of mysterious genes, it might hold clues to early life and new biotech tools.
Gabriel Almeida explains in the eLife Podcast: elifesciences.org/podcast/episโฆ
Episode 99: June 2025
In this episode, we hear about giant viruses, monkeys who wash their food, sepsis in infant pigs, how cancers can cause extra tentacles to grow in hydra, and the impact of speaking multiple languages on the structure of the cortex.eLife
quizรกs... busques el "equilibrio digital"?
materialidad? minimalismo? sostenibilidad?
algunas pistas en nuestro repaso mensual de #SรกbadodeComunes
sursiendo.org/2025/08/hay-un-sโฆ
Hay un sรกbado de comรบn denominadores | Sursiendo
En el presente #SรกbadodeComunes abordamos temas tan diversos como las luchas laborales frente a las grandes plataformas, el control estatal sobre la tecnologรญaโฆsursiendo (Sursiendo)
I was just doing some random reading and learned that the artwork we see for shows on Netflix is personalized by the algorithm! ๐คฏ
gibsonbiddle.medium.com/a-brieโฆ
A Brief History of Netflix Personalization - Gibson Biddle - Medium
This essay details Netflixโs progress from its launch in 1998 to the recent launch of its โI feel luckyโ buttonโa merchandising tactic in which Netflix members rely totally on NetflixโsโฆGibson Biddle (Medium)
90% of people on this planet use languages with non-Latin or accented scripts. We should support international characters in usernames on the Fediverse so that people can use their own names or words in their own languages as their usernames.
github.com/swicg/activitypub-wโฆ
Tracking support for non-ascii characters
One of the benefits of using Webfinger is that it's possible, at least in theory, to use non-ascii characters for usernames. Unfortunately, there are not a lot of services that support them -- at l...evanp (GitHub)
A username has, in my view, two requirements:
1. It must possible to type
2. It must be easy to disambiguate
Unicode fails these two requirements. A Japanese user would have trouble typing an Arabic username, a Chinese user would have trouble typing a Russian username. Even a Japanese username for a Japanese user might not be straightforward, as the input systems are quite complicated. On the other hand, everyone has access to the Latin alphabet. Secondly, Unicode is full of homoglyphs.
@Gargron Hackers and scammers are having a field day with homoglyphs because they allow links to be invisibly faked, making phishing attacks so much easier.
The price of being online is eternal vigilance!
@Gargron
The display name supporting Unicode is probably sufficient; but I'm no expert on i18n.
Debian had a discussion about non-ASCII usernames recently: lwn.net/Articles/1000485/
@evan
Debian opens a can of username worms
It has long been said that naming things is one of the hard things to do in computer science. T [...]LWN.net
Protect Nature to Avoid Future Pandemics
Research from University of Queensland and published in The Lancet: Planetary Health finds that the COVID-19 pandemic is linked to the decline of ecosystems and biodiversity, creating a cycle that โฆPalm Oil Detectives
sometimes, i think about all the airplanes flying around, and i can hardly believe it...
i'm not too far from ORD, and some days i can hear a plane taking off every few seconds.
En este #SรกbadodeComunes abordamos temas de #SoftwareLibre, de โMinimalismo digitalโ, de la materialidad de las tecnologรญas, Fediverso, #CulturaLibre... y mรกs...
con aportes desde
@derechosdigital
@ElSaltoDiario
@gastonsitio
@ElenaMusk
@matizeta
@tunubesecamirio
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Hay un sรกbado de comรบn denominadores | Sursiendo
En el presente #SรกbadodeComunes abordamos temas tan diversos como las luchas laborales frente a las grandes plataformas, el control estatal sobre la tecnologรญaโฆsursiendo (Sursiendo)
Fedicon Livestream
Let's get this party started!
Day 1 of FediCon
Take it from someone who's already been through this.
Prof. Sam Lawler
in reply to Prof. Sam Lawler • • •It's been 3 days since I put in these numbers and just to make sure I am super angry as I go to bed, I checked again.
There area now 8,093 Starlink satellites in orbit, out of 12,308 total active satellites. 1,243 Starlink satellites have burned up.
As with almost everything else happening, this is so fucking stupid, and I'm going to keep yelling about it. To calm myself down, I'd go outside and look up, but guess what I'd see?
Who needs post-apocalyptic scifi books?