Linux smashes past 5% on the Steam Survey for the first time gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/linuโฆ
#Steam #Linux #LinuxGaming #SteamOS
Linux smashes past 5% on the Steam Survey for the first time
After rubbing away the sleep from my eyes in disbelief, Valve have updated the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for March 2026 showing explosive Linux growth.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
From M&S to Tony's Chocolonely, these are the palm-oil free Easter eggs to buy this year
We've scoured through the results of our big GHI Easter egg taste test, and these are our top-scoring palm-oil free Easter eggs.Melanie Giandzi (Good Housekeeping)
Democratic lotteries put power in the hands of the people
A democratic lottery fairly selects a group of representatives that matches the makeup of the population. It selects from all citizens who meet basic requirements and are willing and able to serve a limited term.
And because lotteries remove campaigning, they remove parties, politicians, super PACs, and so much of what is tearing America apart.
We can use democratic lotteries instead of elections to fill legislatures like Congress, and to transform how we choose executives like the President.
In recent decades, democratic lotteries have been used hundreds of times to call on citizens to develop policy on challenging issues. And they were central to government in Ancient Athens.
But few have had the chance to see this transformative paradigm for themselves. Until nowโฆ
The US documentary about democratic lotteries is set to be released soon.
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Make AppImage easier with these 5 tools.
5 Tools to Enhance Your AppImage Experience on Linux
Love using AppImages but hate the mess? Check out these handy tools that make it super easy to organize, update, and manage AppImages on your Linux system.Sreenath (It's FOSS)
World's oldest known tortoise, Jonathan, dies aged 193
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Jonathan the tortoise, world's oldest known land animal, dies aged 193
The vet who cared for the giant tortoise said he had left behind a "legacy of resilience and longevity".Anna Lamche (BBC News)
Claude Code codebase leaked
And Some Ironic Revelations...
#Computing #AI #Worm #Claude #GamingUsers #GamblerTrick #Uncopyrightable
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Anger. Anger. Hate. Hate. Hate. Defeatism. Cynicism. More hate and anger. Pessimism. YELLING! Vicious put-downs. Talk of violence. Anger. Anger.
Does this sound healthy? What does this do to a person's sense of well-being? Does it help anyone? How demotivating is this? This isn't just MAGA. Plenty of other people wallow in this stuff.
Find even the smallest amount of caring and courage inside, then go outside and help build a better world!
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Good post @Muse.
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This looks hilarious! I just need a translation!
Sesamstrasse does Snow White
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@Aladรกr Mรฉzga Sure is!
Now if I can just keep my German in-laws from teasing me when I try!
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We want to port Haiku to the RK356x platform ๐
It's a long term plan but once Haiku port for RK356x is done and ready, we'll:
- Deprecating our ALARM-based Linux distro in favor of Haiku.
- All new PineTab2 will ship with Haiku instead of traditional ALARM-based Linux distro.
- Existing users will still remain on ALARM, however there'll not be any updates (user will receive "there is nothing to do" when they tried to update it)
it's great, well done!
I remember seeing the artist Ben Grosser speak a few years ago, where he said something along the lines of 'I'm not a good programmer, but I am good enough to figure out a way to do what I want to do'. I think this is a great way to think about code.
Archinstall has gotten a makeover.
itsfoss.com/news/arch-installeโฆ
Arch Installer Goes 4.0 With a New Face and Fewer 'Curses'
The release drops curses in favor of Textual, but that's just the highlight.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
NVIDIA announce a preview of "DRM Per-Plane Color Pipeline API" support on Linux (good for HDR) gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/nvidโฆ
NVIDIA announce a preview of "DRM Per-Plane Color Pipeline API" support on Linux (good for HDR)
NVIDIA just announced something quite interesting, in the form of an upcoming update for their GPU drivers for Linux.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
"we used Claude Sonnet/Opus to dramatically reduce (...) quality code."
Norbert - sleeping balanced on the headrest of a chair
One of his favourite spots
#cats #CatsOfMastodon #animals
Grab some great strategy games in the Strategy Minds Collection Humble Bundle gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/grabโฆ
#PCGaming #LinuxGaming #Gaming #GameBundle
Grab some great strategy games in the Strategy Minds Collection Humble Bundle
Another nice set of games available here in the Strategy Minds Collection Humble Bundle, giving you multiple games together for cheaps.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Our Center for Media, Religion, and Culture's next conference is on the radical arts of gathering. Join usโalong with Fred Moten, Stefano Harney, and more speakers TBA.
The call for abstracts is out, due May 1: colorado.edu/cmrc/2026/03/26/wโฆ
What Digital Isolation and Censorship Evasion Look Like In Wartime Iran
The countryโs government implemented a nationwide internet blackout shortly after the United States and Israel struck, Laura Scherling writes.Laura Scherling (Tech Policy Press)
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Get a beautiful Hyprland desktop without any complicated configuration work.
Hyprland Made Easy: Preconfigured Beautiful Distros
Here are the projects that lower the entry barrier by providing a preconfigured Hyprland option.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
![A bridge stretches across a bay behind a sign which reads "parks for all forever". [Ricoh GR III]](https://keybored.me/photo/preview/640/1417851 "A bridge stretches across a bay behind a sign which reads \"parks for all forever\". [Ricoh GR III]")
๐ El silencioso regreso del control central
Internet naciรณ descentralizado: protocolos abiertos, servidores propios. Hoy la IA centraliza en el punto de interpretaciรณn: ya no navegamos, recibimos respuestas sintetizadas. Google/Meta concentraron atenciรณn, ahora OpenAI/Anthropic median conocimiento. La tecnologรญa descentralizada existe (ActivityPub, RSS), el problema es cultural. Soluciรณn: autoalojar, federarse, diversificar.
๐ autonomia.digital/2026/03/02/iโฆ
ยฟQuรฉ delegas a las Big Tech?
Just released the list of changes to the Hundred Rabbits projects for March 2026 
100r.ca/site/home.html#mar2026
if midi information as output is valid, and you consider orca a CA, then I'd say yes, it's very useful. It's likely the most efficient UX in terms of density for livecoding beating 1d textual representation. And it allows for the encoding of data in a very dense way.
llllllll.co/t/orca-livecoding-โฆ
Someone else mentioned wireworld which works the same way, if you use the edge of the world as IO
youtube.com/watch?v=m5kT47US7eโฆ
Neural nets are not too far from cellular automata too, only they don't map to a rigid grid. But for tasks that aren't sequential, or can be distributed, CA are very efficient, think of Green Arrays for example.
wiki.xxiivv.com/site/neural_neโฆ
You can also consider the memory model behind BQN and APL as CA, as state changes on memory is applied non-deterministically.
mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/commenโฆ
the experiments with making a Turing machine in orca were definitely on my mind! And neural networks merge with CAs inti neural CAs, so yeah, itโs there.
Thanks for the reference!
Owlbrick console announced ๐
youtube.com/watch?v=RQkb31_R19โฆ
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Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.www.youtube.com
ONLYOFFICE feels like Microsoft Office, while LibreOffice does more. Pick your poison. ๐
itsfoss.com/comparison/libreofโฆ
#opensource #onlyoffice #libreoffice #microsoftoffice
LibreOffice vs ONLYOFFICE - Which One Is Right For You?
Both are solid open source office suites but which one should you choose? This in-depth article compares LibreOffice and ONLYOFFICE across features, usability, and real-world experience.Roland Taylor (It's FOSS)
And ONLYOFFICE project has been forked, so now there is an alternate open source version. I think its called Euro-Office (?).
Supported by a whole fleet of European open source companies, including NextCloud.
It will be interesting to see how that project develops.
The Internet Phone book. A printed book for personal websites by by Kristoffer Tjalve and Elliott Cost
Add yours: internetphonebook.net/
Internet Phone Book โ Back in stock!
An annual publication for exploring the vast poetic web, featuring essays, musings and a directory with the personal websites of hundreds of designers, developers, writers, curators, and educators. Published since 2025.Internet Phone Book
OptiScaler tool gets a huge new release with more upscaling and frame generation goodies gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/optiโฆ
#OptiScaler #OpenSource #AMDFSR #FSR #DLSS #Gaming
OptiScaler tool gets a huge new release with more upscaling and frame generation goodies
OptiScaler is probably one of the most interesting open source tools around, allowing you to upgrade and mix various tech together in lots of games.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Philippine Eagle Pithecophaga jefferyi
Apex predator and flying royalty of the jungle, Philippine #Eagles are critically endangered from #climatechange, #palmoil, #timber and #cacao #deforestation and illegal #hunting. There are estimatโฆPalm Oil Detectives
GNOME has had to drop Google Drive support.
itsfoss.com/news/gnome-drops-gโฆ
GNOME 50 Drops Google Drive Integration (For a Valid Reason)
Nobody stepped up to maintain a key package, and its security baggage eventually led to this.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
Gnome drops a google functionality. ๐
They did it for boring non ideological reasons. ๐
Sprint City from the creators of SpeedRunners arrives on Steam gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/spriโฆ
#SprintCity #Gaming #IndieGames #PCGaming #SpeedRunners
Sprint City from the creators of SpeedRunners arrives on Steam
Sprint City is a new Early Access release from the original creators of SpeedRunners, a shared-world competitive 2D platformer with explosive speed.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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But any improvement is at least a step in the right direction, even if it is positively glacial.