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Did my first print run of our Solar-Powered Media zine! It's looking bright with riso floro pink ink in the mix.

Folks who won't be attending our local Book and Zine Fest here in Peterborough can find it online at: lowcarbonmethods.com/zine.html



What happens when #ChatGPT tries to write a basic #Famicom / #NES initialization in #6502 #Assembly?

It's certainly impressive that it can output anything valid-ish at all, but it clearly doesn't really understand what it needs to do.

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Pick up some sweet deals during the We Love Games Sale on GOG gamingonlinux.com/2023/02/pickโ€ฆ #Gaming #PCGaming #Linux
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Used your link to pick up Stellaris - tried it on the Steam Deck using Heroic launcher but no joy - I'm not having much luck finding info on this - hoping you might be able to point me in the right direction. Tried the linux version first and it failed - got further with windows version and proton experimental but it still crashed out without starting.
#SteamDeck #HeroicGamesLauncher #Stellaris
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Will second @gamingonlinux 's (implicit) recommendation of Cat Quest. (Skip the sequel. Co-op should have made it better but... Didn't.)

Cat Quest offers a super simple dungeon crawler action RPG with kid friendly content but buried jokes written well enough to keep it engaging at all ages. (And prolly free with Apple whatever+)



You may want to run system updates, after a recent sudo security flaw gamingonlinux.com/2023/02/you-โ€ฆ #Linux


Want to learn how to create your own widgets on the Nextcloud Dashboard?

In our new tutorial, we teach you how with Vue.js.

#developertutorials #widgets #vuejs

nextcloud.com/blog/developer-tโ€ฆ



D8VK is an in-progress implementation of Direct3D 8 for DXVK gamingonlinux.com/2023/02/d8vkโ€ฆ #Linux #Gaming #Vulkan



Elon is so unhinged on Twitter heโ€™s basically force-feeding his tweets to people now ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ

theverge.com/2023/2/14/2360035โ€ฆ

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

He has become the Microsoft Edge of social media, he will be hardbaked into the app and you can't get rid of him.

Musk used Twitter as free advertising for his business interests; if people are shutting him out he is loosing money across the board

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

my first reaction is doubt. Iโ€™d wait for some fact checking first. This would be too crazy.


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Nextcloud offers a modern, easy-to-use content collaboration platform accessible through mobile, desktop, and web interfaces!

โœ… Donโ€™t hand your data to a third party
๐Ÿ˜ Fully auditable code
โ˜๏ธ No vendor lock-in
๐Ÿ” Full security features

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Airglow Sky over France

Image Credit & Copyright: Julien Looten

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230215.htโ€ฆ #APOD

#APOD



โ€œThere is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.โ€

โ€” Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994 planetary.org/worlds/pale-blueโ€ฆ #science #space



Weโ€™re feeling the love today while looking at this image of our Pale Blue Dot. ๐Ÿ˜ Voyager 1 took this photo of Earth from about 3.7 billion miles (6 billion kilometers) away on #ValentinesDay in 1990.

go.nasa.gov/3YnoZiN
#NASAEarth

in reply to NASA

Quick & dirty calculation: it would take a Human about 114,000 years to walk that distance, without stopping.


Weโ€™re feeling the love today while looking at this image of our Pale Blue Dot. ๐Ÿ˜ Voyager 1 took this photo of Earth from about 3.7 billion miles (6 billion kilometers) away on #ValentinesDay in 1990.

go.nasa.gov/3YnoZiN
#NASAEarth



We'd love to! #Landsat means the world to us ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ›ฐ
#NASAEarth


You make us feel out of this world, @NASASpacePlace! ๐Ÿคฉ
#NASAEarth



I wonder what his billionaire co-investors think about Elon Musk buying Twitter and turning it into his personal blog? platformer.news/p/yes-elon-musโ€ฆ
in reply to kottke.org

Thank god we can still block Musk, but donโ€™t tell him or heโ€™ll change that too.
in reply to kottke.org

I still keep looking at this Twitter fiasco as a lesson that all of our children must understand. Owning a huge social media platform is truly a platform and platforms enable someone to stand above others.


Itโ€™s been a great 51 years with you, @NASA_Landsat! Thanks for helping us study our home planet. ๐ŸŒ

Happy #ValentinesDay!
#NASAEarth



We love this picture Orion snapped of us, @NASAMoon. ๐Ÿฅฐ

Happy #ValentinesDay!
#NASAEarth



Hey, @NASAOcean!

Can you believe itโ€™s already been about two months since SWOT launched? We canโ€™t wait for it to help us get to know you better. ๐Ÿ’™
#NASAEarth



A @NASASpinoff technology called FINDER has been deployed to aid first responders after the devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. This technology helps rescue teams locate people trapped in rubble. go.nasa.gov/3I4uj3y
#NASA
#NASA



From Chladni's book, "Feuer-Meteor":

"The Parian Chronicle (Marmora Oxoniensia, P. 2. inscr. 23, p. 21) provides information about this in the 18th and 19th lines and says: the Image of the Mother of the Gods (which was probably nothing other than this stone) appeared on the Cybelian Mountains 1241 years before the writing of the inscription, at the time when Erichthonius was reigning in Athens... This event, which would have happened about 297 years before the destruction of Troy, ..."

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Elon Musk ordered major changes to the Twitter ranking algorithm this weekend after ... President Biden's tweet about the Eagles got higher engagement than his did.

Inside the secret system that's showing you all his tweets first, from @zoeschiffer and me. platformer.news/p/yes-elon-musโ€ฆ



The stock market is broken. "In an ideal world, there would be no continuous trading. A series of auctions would be much more effective at providing investors with the liquidity they need." axios.com/2023/02/04/the-stockโ€ฆ
in reply to kottke.org

I remember being around for that flash crash in like 08 or 09 and thinking โ€œwell theyโ€™ll do something to address thatโ€

Isnโ€™t that something? Having a belief theyโ€™ll react to a negative thing by addressing it?

Anyways. Glad we still have high speed trading and people being โ€œfairโ€ by measuring out loops of fiber in the data center they sublease to clients next door to the exchanges.

Forget periodic auctions, we havenโ€™t even gotten HFT to stop. Itโ€™s gross.



Earth is a tiny dot from 3.7 million miles away. Imagine looking for worlds *trillions* of miles away!
You look great, btw๐Ÿ’–
#NASAExoplanets
in reply to NASA

Source: Wikipedia:

"... From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives ... on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."
โ€”โ€‰Carl Saga



My Smithsonian Magazine story on the plight of Atlantic puffins โ€” and the extraordinary efforts that folks in Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland are making to save them. Photography by @chrislinder smithsonianmag.com/science-natureโ€ฆ
#seabirds #puffins


Need a #virus or #phage bioinformatics tool?

Have a #virus or #phage bioinformatics tool?

Check out this google sheet and add your new tools

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The Exp 68 crew worked on a bio-printer and an ultra-high res camera, packed cargo ships, and prepped for the next @SpaceX crew swap mission. blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/20โ€ฆ
#ISS
#iss


New Liblast development update!

youtu.be/vRysnWzC0k0

Liblast is an open-source multiplayer FPS game made with Godot 4.

#Liblast #GameDev #IndieDev #IndeGame #Godot4 #GodotEngine #Godot #FPS #multiplayer #online #FOSS #OpenSource #Libre #unfa



Psst, @NASAEarth, you're the best! We've discovered 5,250 exoplanets and not a single one is exactly like Earth, with all your delicious oxygen. Happy #ValentinesDay!๐Ÿ’™๐ŸŒŽ
#NASAExoplanets


Itโ€™s spring on Mars, and love โ€“ make that ozone โ€“ is in the air! In this image from our MAVEN orbiter, the magenta color indicates the presence of ozone, which warms the region and causes the dynamic weather visible in the clouds. Details: bit.ly/417OGWz
#NASAMars


@esmail 10 new instances in less than 12 hours, try to beat that. ;)

Tried to go for one more but ran out of disk space lol.
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in reply to Muse

This happened with my cellphone. The wireless bluetooth keyboard was in in the trunk of the car. I removed the association as soon as I got home.

in reply to Muse

Ours comes running at the sound of a bag of treats being opened.
in reply to Muse

I lived in a house with a cat that licked away about 1/3 of a pound of butter left unguarded on the counter. And didn't seem to suffer for it.

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