We're seeing excitement build up from the Vulkan API release 1.4.340, with a new extension that should eventually improve DirectX performance on Linux.
After cancelling the newer Nexus Mods app that had Linux support to refocus on the older Vortex, the Nexus Mods team now say Vortex will support SteamOS.
Assam Rabbit (Hispid Hare) Caprolagus hispidus Red List Status: Endangered Locations: Bhutan; India (West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Assam); Nepal. Presence Uncertain: Bangladesh; India (Madhya Pradeshโฆ
Valve have given their accessibility categories on Steam for discovering games a small overhaul, along with a big new Steam client update for everyone.
It has potential but is unfinished. The web app feels quite unintuitive. It has no CMYK support as far as I can see, so forget using it for print. That's a shame because otherwise it looks like it might be quite good when its finished. At the moment though I'd stick with Vectorpea and Photopea for online design apps that will be familiar to Adobe users, even though not fully open source.
๐งโTo make the #WeddellSea a protected marine area, we need to demonstrate that what the area has to offer is of great value to humans.โ
On 15 December, Oceanographer Jacqueline Stefels and marine biologist Maria van Leeuwe (UG) boarded the icebreaker #Polarstern of @awi for an expedition to Antarctica.โ๏ธ
Jacqueline Stefels en Maria van Leeuwe, onderzoekers van de RUG, vertrokken op 15 december expeditie naar Antarctica aan boord van de ijsbreker Polarstern....
โWhen it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the systemโs game. The establishment will irritate you โ pull your beard, flick your face โ to make you fight. Because once theyโve got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they donโt know how to handle is non-violence and humor.โ โ John Lennon Plan To Be Nonviolent Resistor Vic youtu.be/aRI7MSXrmOU
Soon after the emergence of COVID-19, the International Committee of the Fourth International made the correct analysis that the pandemic had to be understood as a trigger event in world history. It did not create a crisis in public health, but rather exposed and accelerated longstanding processes: the erosion of life expectancy, the dismantling of scientific institutions, and the subordination of human life to the profit requirements and military-strategic interests of the financial oligarchy.
The world has now entered the seventh year of the COVID pandemic, with the United States facing the 12th major wave of infections. Conservative estimates place cumulative COVID deaths in the United States at over 1.2 million, while excess-mortality analyses indicate a substantially higher toll. Globally, excess-mortality modeling places the true pandemic death toll in the tens of millions, with c
Soon after the emergence of COVID-19, the International Committee of the Fourth International made the correct analysis that the pandemic had to be understood as a trigger event in world history. It did not create a crisis in public health, but rather exposed and accelerated longstanding processes: the erosion of life expectancy, the dismantling of scientific institutions, and the subordination of human life to the profit requirements and military-strategic interests of the financial oligarchy.
The world has now entered the seventh year of the COVID pandemic, with the United States facing the 12th major wave of infections. Conservative estimates place cumulative COVID deaths in the United States at over 1.2 million, while excess-mortality analyses indicate a substantially higher toll. Globally, excess-mortality modeling places the true pandemic death toll in the tens of millions, with central estimates near 27 million worldwide, far exceeding official counts. Transmission continues at high ratesโpresently at roughly 1 million infections per day, with more than 240 million infections recorded in 2025 alone. Reinfections are widespread, and Long COVID remains a mass disabling condition affecting millions.
What has ended is not the pandemic, but any acknowledgement by the political and media establishment that COVID-19 remains a major threat. There is zero political commitment to even the meager combination of mitigation, surveillance and data-gathering. This was not and is not an oversight. It is a decision to conceal the ongoing harm that is affecting the entire global population.
The systematic dismantling of public health services in the United States, including childhood vaccinations that have saved millions of lives, is a historic crime committed by the US ruling elite.
Almost all the masks I see are properly worn by people who either: Don't want to give you whatever disease they have. Who absolutely can't have whatever disease you might be carrying.
Oh gee. No wonder the fascists want to murder all us Minnesotans. ;P
I have worn a kn95 style mask since the beginning and so far, never knowingly caught covid. I also have yearly fit testing for hazmat respirators, so I know how to wear a mask like my life depends on it. After being in immediately lethal environments a few times, you become very aware masks save lives in total comfort.
I think the whole respiratory protection thing was fumbled along with physical distancing. Instead of videos on wiping groceries there should have been shorts on masks and how to demonstrate effectiveness to yourself. And KN95 should have been the norm rather than the surgical style. No one wants something randomly touching your lips.
This bizarre, hurried cut-and-paste Bluesky clone called "W" (wsocial.eu) says it will fill this huge gap in Europe where no social media platforms exist.
A curated selection of well-moderated Open Social providers that are are open for registration and serving specific countries, regions or cities.
[[https://jaz.co.uk/projects/mastodon-near-me/|Project Home/Message me]]
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Easily track event attendance with Nextcloud Attendance: real-time check-ins, reminders, and a dashboard widget. Find out more about the app here! ๐apps.nextcloud.com/apps/attendโฆ
When does @nextcloud finally improves this toolbar on iOS?! These small icons are horrifying and sometimes even not touchable as they often stuck in the rounded corners of the device. #Nextcloud
It is built with the Oscean static site engine written in Uxn by @neauoire, who along with @prahou and their respective websites, have inspired me to develop my own.
I have set a goal to write a long form essay once a month with my first being โThe Stars in Your Eyes Are Stolen: รon Flux and Decentralized Power Systemsโ found here: https://ominous.net/รon_Flux.html
I hope folks enjoy my little corner of the internet. I intend to expand it often.
I have to write a separate block of code for the parser for each rss feed because they all look different. If you think you can automatize it, more power to you.
@aleph I really love that you included links to the other galleries.
I was considering adding this as a feature to my gallery tool, but then I thought it might be even cooler to have a public list hosted somewhere in a repo where people could add their gallery links via pull requests. I would add an option to the generator that pulls the list and adds it to the gallery every time a picture is added. This way, the list would automatically stay updated. Any thoughts?
Basically I need to pull out two things, a direct link to image/thumbnail, and date.
in the ideal world, the filenames would be in unix-epoch so I could only look for a single line per post. But I know this isn't ideal - I don't like it either, some people use semantic file names, or tags, which makes more sense for accessibility.
But! As long as the feed has <link>direct://url.to.image and <pubDate>(that's rss valid) That's fine.
Also if pubDate was in UTC-0, I wouldn't have to do magemathical formulas :')
@tml This is not my own writing, and I doubt this is what C. H. Ting is suggesting either(that was written prior to openfirmware), but keep pulling on that thread and it may lead to why this language was chosen as a front-end for users to interface with.
No, no, this book is like a .. early "Learning X for idiots", the author says you don't need to rely on a language's high priests to learn how to do any one thing, the language will enable the average cretin to get where they want to go.
@lritter Relative to 1984 it might be accurate, however. Like BASIC is not really that easy. It's easy to learn but that's not the same as it being easy to do things in.
@mcc the key is datalog. i saw an inkscape in there, a game engine, a database system, the important bit is flattened composition, and a visualizable approach. hard to explain. i go entirely by intuition.
I have both, but I meant to share this segment when the guest says none of the standard programming languages are appropriate for the end user, not even BASIC.
forth shares a weird attribute I also see in scheme: It allows for neat high level DSLs and very abstract code and it's clear that's the intention of the language, but the fundamentals are in some ways even lower level than C
it has "spatiality" which fires a part of my brain that only some 2D cellular automata do, which I find quite interesting from a UX perspective since it's usually not something that we content with in most programming languages.
โฐ If youโre heading to #FOSDEM2026 and feel like ending the day with good conversations and Belgian beer ๐ป, weโre getting close to closing registrations.
Together with @nextcloud @openproject and @passbolt weโre hosting an informal evening in Brussels. No talks, no pitches โ just people from the open-source ecosystem catching up after a long conference day.
๐ Brussels ๐ Saturday, Jan 31, 2026 ๐ From 20:00
NEWS! Native Americans intrigued by Trump's claim that 'landing boats' doesnโt grant you ownership of the entire country newsthump.com/2026/01/19/nativโฆ
Native American leaders have expressed sudden and intense interest in Donald Trumpโs legal theory that a country does not automatically own land simply because โsome boats turned up a few hundred yโฆ
While compatibility isn't perfect, it's sufficient for getting a feel of the program (if that's your desire) and even potentially for using it to do real work.
In 2020, global retail giant Unilever unveiled a deforestation-free supply chain promise. By 2023 they would be deforestation free. This has been and gone and they are still causing deforestation. โฆ
Starship is the minimal, blazing fast, and extremely customizable prompt for any shell! Shows the information you need, while staying sleek and minimal.
A hands-on review of the Elecrow CrowPanel Rotary Display, exploring its hardware quality, DIY setup, and real-world use with Home Assistant and smart devices.
@dianawastaken @rspfau "Iโve decided to push back on the pressure to publish by making a rule for myself: I will no longer publish more than seven papers per year." LOL
It's a bit strange to talk about, because so many scientists work their butt off to publish maybe few papers a year. But hyper-publication in a relatively small number of labs skews standards and expectations for everyone else. And, depending on the scale, it compromises the integrity of the whole peer review process, without necessarily producing any meaningful products.
@dodecadron @rspfau I genuinely gagged when I read that. Silly me, thinking I could pursue research without publishing over 20 articles per year on the regular
I put together a playlist of some of my favourite songs. Feel free to shuffle, they're in no particular order. Let me know if you discover something you like through it ๐
Did you consider to change your music provider to an European solution?
Schneckbert ๐
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