XPUB (the Experimental Publishing Master in Rotterdam) organizes two open days in February: one online and one in person!
Join us on Monday 6th of February, 2023 for the online open day 🖥️ : we will host two online sessions at 10:00 (UTC+1) and 17:00 (UTC+1). Register by writing to l.j.drost-robbins@hr.nl.
And/or join us on Saturday 11th of February, 2023 at the XPUB studio 🍵 : we will be around from 10:00 to 15:00. You can find us on the 4th floor in the WdKA/PZI building at Wijnhaven 61, Rotterdam.
#publishing #design #art #computers #research #education #rotterdam #floss #freesoftware #publicdomain
“Practice any #art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.”
- Kurt Vonnegut, in his letter to students at New York's Xavier High School in 2006
From 1979 to Jan. 1983, 2 remotely piloted, experimental Highly Maneuverable Aircraft Technology (HiMAT) vehicles were used at what is now @NASAArmstrong, to develop high-performance fighter technologies.
Each aircraft was about 1/2 the size of an F-16: go.nasa.gov/3RpEEeZ
#NASAhistory
NASA Armstrong Fact Sheet: Highly Maneuverable Aircraft Technology
Two remotely piloted, experimental Highly Maneuverable Aircraft Technology (HiMAT) vehicles were used at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards, CA, to develop high-performance fighter technologies.NASA
Free Minecraft-like game MineClone2 v0.82.0 for Minetest out now
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#MineClone #Minecraft #Gaming #FreeGame #OpenSource
Free Minecraft-like game MineClone2 v0.82.0 for Minetest out now
A free and open source survival sandbox game pack for the voxel game engine Minetest, MineClone2 is as close to Minecraft as you can get without playing Minecraft. A big new release has rolled out with version 0.82.0 with lots added.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Slavic fantasy-adventure The End of the Sun gets a demo
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#IndieGame #Gaming #Linux #PCGamer
Slavic fantasy-adventure The End of the Sun gets a demo
In the mood for something just a bit different? The End of the Sun is a Slavic-fantasy adventure and you can try it out now.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory open source project ET: Legacy has a new release
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#Gaming #FOSS #FreeGame #OpenSource
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory open source project ET: Legacy has a new release
ET: Legacy continues carrying the torch of the classic multiplayer title Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, with a new release out that has lots of fixes.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Adventure puzzler Myst now Steam Deck Verified, will adjust graphics automatically
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#SteamDeck #Linux #Gaming #PCGaming
Adventure puzzler Myst now Steam Deck Verified, will adjust graphics automatically
Myst, the remake of the 1993 classic, has been updated and is now Steam Deck Verified so you can go and get as confused as I was by it.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
GE-Proton 7-48 out now with updates to DXVK, VKD3D-Proton
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#Gaming #Proton #Linux #SteamDeck
GE-Proton 7-48 out now with updates to DXVK, VKD3D-Proton
GE-Proton v7-48, the community supported version of the Proton translation layer, is out now with upgrades to various components to continue making Steam Deck and Linux gaming better.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Issues · ValveSoftware/Proton
Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components - Issues · ValveSoftware/ProtonGitHub
Job opportunities - Fondation pour la recherche sur la biodiversité
Créée en 2008, la FRB recherche régulièrement de nouveaux collaborateurs. Elle constitue un point de convergence entre la science et la société, autour des défis que doit aujourd’hui relever la recherche sur la biodiversité.Fondation pour la recherche sur la biodiversité
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APOD: 2023 January 30 – Globular Star Cluster NGC 6355 from Hubble
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
Using the "Our Galaxy" app, we show where the globular cluster NGC 6355 is located in our galaxy. The cluster is deeply embedded in the galactic bulge and is heavily obscured from our point of view. We turn on a wire frame rendering of the bulge so the cluster can be better seen.
The free "Our Galaxy" app can be found at otherwise.com.
#astronomy, #galaxy, #astrodon, #APOD
Where is NGC 6355?
Using the "Our Galaxy" app, we show where the globular cluster NGC 6355 is located in our galaxy. The cluster is deeply embedded in the galactic bulge and i...YouTube
Ukraine: Boris Johnson says Putin threatened him with missile strike
#News #BBC #Putin #Boris #UK #Russia #ThereWasNeverAChanceForPeace
Ukraine: Boris Johnson says Putin threatened him with missile strike
Boris Johnson says he had an "extraordinary" call with President Putin before the Ukraine invasion.By James Landale, diplomatic correspondent, & William McLennan (BBC News)
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I am used to taking people by the name they identify, just as I do by the pronouns they choose. My wife changed her name from the one she was given at birth long before I met her (she was handed a ‘family name’ originally which did not in any way suit her, to honor someone else’s religious beliefs that she does not follow), and instead has a name that there are only a handful of people have in the country with.
So, he can be Boris if he wants to, it doesn't matter to me. He could be John Johnson if he wants to, just so we have a unique identifier to hang his actions, Lies or Starbucks orders to.
Nextcloud will rock @fosdem again! Join us THIS weekend in Brussels, come and chat with us at our booth and have fun! 🥰
In a government rapport about options for digital collaboration platform technologies for the public sector, the Swedish government put Nextcloud front and center as the key solution in this space!
nextcloud.com/blog/swedish-gov…
Swedish Government: Nextcloud premier digital collaboration platform - Nextcloud
In a government rapport about options for digital collaboration platform technologies for the public sector, the Swedish government put Nextcloud front and center as the key solution in this space.Jos Poortvliet (Nextcloud)
"When Zeus was born, however, Rhea hid him in Crete and tricked Cronus into swallowing a stone instead." Britannica: Cronos.
Rhea in this picture holds a meteorite, the stone disguised as a wrapped-up baby.
Cronos and Rhea by Karl Friedrich Schinkel - Karl Friedrich Schinkel; 1781-1841, Public domain, attraverso Wikimedia Commons.
The inspiration of this painting (and the one on the cover of von Dalberg's book) originates from a stone monument: arachne.dainst.org/entity/1250…
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Globular Star Cluster NGC 6355 from Hubble
Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, E. Noyola, R. Cohen
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230130.ht… #APOD
APOD: 2023 January 30 – Globular Star Cluster NGC 6355 from Hubble
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
Using the "Our Galaxy" app, we show where the globular cluster NGC 6355 is located in our galaxy. The cluster is deeply embedded in the galactic bulge and is heavily obscured from our point of view. We turn on a wire frame rendering of the bulge so the cluster can be better seen.
The free "Our Galaxy" app can be found at www.otherwise.com.
This thread explains the {quartodon} R 📦 (see quartodon.opens.science).
The #rstats quartodon 📦 allows you to post a Mastodon thread from a plain text file (e.g., a blog post from a Quarto, {blogdown}, or {distill} website, another Quarto or R Markdown file, or just a plain text file).
This effectively allows you to post blog posts to Mastodon in a thread of toots 📑➡️🪄➡️🐘🐘🐘
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Extract and Post Mastodon Threads From Text Files
To compose Mastodon posts, a plain text file can be used. Given the functionality offered by packages such as quarto, blogdown, and distill, it makes sense to compose toot threads as blog posts.quartodon.opens.science
LinuxBeaver - Overview
GEGL Effects and Custom Bevel are the two prime must have text styling filters that resemble Adobe's Layer Effects. Everything else is more specialized. - LinuxBeaverGitHub
I would love me some #GEGL #LinuxBeaver plug-ins right about now.
I'm trying to make Liblast playable in the browser, but I am having trouble configuring the site to provide required headers.
I'm hosting using nginx.
Can anybody help me satisfy these secure context requirements?
docs.godotengine.org/en/latest…
#Liblast #HTML5 #Godot #Nginx #JavaScript #IndieGame #IndieDev
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Exporting for the Web
HTML5 export allows publishing games made in Godot Engine to the browser. This requires support for WebAssembly and WebGL in the user's browser. WebGL version: Depending on your choice of renderer,...Godot Engine documentation
Folks who use RSS podcast readers: anyone want to check this to see if it works as expected?
I'm hosting the files on Linode object storage to not muck up WordPress, and I'm hoping this worked OK.
One of my favorite #birds is the endangered southern cassowary.
These shy birds don’t fly, but run fast & swim well. They have a dagger-like middle claw up to 12cm giving them a reputation as the most dangerous bird alive.
The female is larger & more colorful than the male. He incubates the eggs & raises chicks.
Cassowaries play a vital role in Australia by spreading seeds. They are among the closest living species to dinosaurs. Photo: David Clode australiazoo.com.au/wildlife/o… #nature #SharedPlanet
Cassowary - Australia Zoo
Plan your adventure by learning about the Cassowary and find out some great facts about this and other birds you can meet here at Australia Zoo!Australia Zoo
Birds — all birds — are dinosaurs. We can get comfortable with the fact. It’s okay to say it!
youtu.be/k6SC_UpHX04
More on how to think of the cassowary in evolutionary ‘descent’ terms:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratite#E…
Black Stone of Heliogabalus can be seen in this work entitled: The Temple of Mithras, Heliogabalus and Elsinoe by Artwińska, Maria (~1912).
National Library of Poland, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Based on a scene from "Irydion" by Zygmunt Krasiński.
My column about apps on Mastodon appears in print today. I'm told it did very well on the web after publishing on Friday. It got MANY boosts and Favorites here on Mastodon (thank you!), so I assume that's where a lot of traffic came from. It'll be very interesting to see what kind of print-reader feedback I get via email.
This is a gift link to the story, so it should get at least some of you past the paywall if you don't have a subscription. If not, use archive.ph.
houstonchronicle.com/business/…
As Twitter kills third-party apps, new life blooms on Mastodon
Developers who crafted now-defunct apps for Twitter can devote their attention to the network that’s become the primary bird site refuge.Dwight Silverman (Houston Chronicle)
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Über den Ursprung der von Pallas gefundenen und anderer ihr ähnlicher Eisenmassen, und über einige damit in Verbindung stehende Naturerscheinungen.
Von Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni, 1794.
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Über den Ursprung der von Pallas gefundenen und anderer ihr ähnlicher Eisenmassen, und über einige damit in Verbindung stehende Naturerscheinungen : Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Über den Ursprung der von Pallas gefundenen und anderer ihr ähnlicher Eisenmassen, und über einige damit in Verbindung stehende Naturerscheinungen.Von Ernst...Internet Archive
The preprint of Sam's our '3rd generation' pangenome tool, ggcaller, is now out.
Useful for bacterial genomes, which annotates and clusters bacterial genes in a single step, using population de Bruijn graphs
i.e. go from assemblies/reads -> pangenome and annotations
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20…
Accurate and fast graph-based pangenome annotation and clustering with ggCaller
Bacterial genomes differ in both gene content and sequence mutations, which can cause important clinical phenotypic differences such as vaccine escape or antimicrobial resistance.bioRxiv
My “be gay do crime” coffee broke on the move to California so I have replaced it with this goblet made from the skulls of my enemies.
And by enemies I mean anyone who’s ever denied my public records requests
#skull #foia #deadthings
This Dev Made Rust Run On PowerPC Mac OS 9?!?
Rust is a popular language and if you want to rewrite everything in Rust you need rust to run on everything even an ancient system like a Mac OS 9 system on ...YouTube
We're sending a new crew to the @Space_Station!
NASA's @SpaceX #Crew6 mission is scheduled to launch from @NASAKennedy no earlier than Sunday, Feb. 26. Get to know our four Crew-6 travelers and what they'll be working on over their six months in orbit: go.nasa.gov/3WNJhQI
#NASA
What You Need to Know about NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 Mission
A new set of four crew members are preparing to launch to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission.Mark Garcia (NASA)
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Resume Writing Tips to Land Your Dream Job - University of the People
Resume writing tips improve your resume, get that interview and land your dream job.madhu nair (University of the People)
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