Me: *clicks play in Steam*
My PC: Best I can do is say it's now playing but not display anything.
A cost-effective, scalable & available solution to reduce the #climate impact of flying?
Yes please. blog.google/technology/ai/ai-a…
Contrails - those thin, white lines behind airplanes - account for ~35% of aviation's #ClimateChange impact.
New research reveals how #AI & satellite imagery can help us reduce their warming effects.
How AI is helping airlines mitigate the climate impact of contrails
We used AI to help airlines choose routes that are less likely to cause contrails, minimizing the environmental impact of flights.Carl Elkin (Google)
NVIDIA driver 535.98 now available for Linux
NVIDIA GPU owners may want to go and grab some updates as driver 535.98 is out now. Here's a look over what's changed.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#NASASolarSystem
It's interesting to see the balance of fail and success in this #openweb project/community in the small picture we seced in the big picture we fail, a recurring #geekproblem. How to care about this is something we don't think about much. Maybe this should be a part of our SocialHub Community Values, how can we embedded something like this, is it even possible.
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SocialHub Community Values Policy
It’s interesting to see the balance of fail and success in this openweb project/community in the small picture we secede in the big picture we fail, a recurring #geekproblem.SocialHub
#TIL of this wild event, when, in 1961, a bomber carrying two nuclear bombs crashed in North Carolina and the bombs did not detonate.
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The night two atomic bombs fell—on North Carolina
Sixty years ago, at the height of the Cold War, a B-52 bomber disintegrated over a small Southern town. An eyewitness recalls what happened next.National Geographic
#modteam this instance is costing : $39.00/month we don't get in a fraction of this from here opencollective.com/open-media-… this is completely unsuitable. Please put in a monthly donation to keep the #OMN instances online, thanks.
Support the #openweb
"The depiction of Africa as the place without history was the product rather than the cause of the enslavement and forced migration of over 12 million Africans, followed by the colonial conquest of the continent."
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Africa, the Center of History | Adom Getachew | The New York Review of Books
W.E.B. Du Bois, the African American sociologist and historian and a cofounder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, was fondThe New York Review of Books
LIVE NOW: Join @SenBillNelson, the #Artemis II astronauts, and other NASA leaders as they provide updates on the first crewed Artemis mission around the Moon. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1BRKj…
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#NASA
Now official: you can buy a refurbished Steam Deck from Valve
After it was leaked a bit too early, Valve have now confirmed and put up all three Steam Deck models to buy refurbished direct from the Steam store.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Another round of speculative-execution vulnerabilities
There is a newly disclosed set of vulnerabilities in Intel processors that have been given the name Downfall attacks.lwn.net
Solo Indie Game Dev Essentials Bundle
This comprehensive curriculum of online courses from GameDev.tv will help you jumpstart your solo indie dev ambitions! Your purchase supports One Tree Planted.Humble Bundle
#ISS
Cancer Therapy, Agriculture Studies One Day Before Spacewalk
Stem cells and space botany were the top research objectives for the Expedition 69 crew on Tuesday while still working to unpack a new U.S. cargo craft.blogs.nasa.gov
83 of the top 100 most played Steam games work on Steam Deck
Taking a look at the most-played games on Steam by player-count, here's how many of them should be playable on Steam Deck and desktop Linux.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Cosmic collision!
Seen in this #HubbleClassic view, the galaxy IC 883 is likely the result of two gas-rich galaxies merging.
This collision likely triggered a burst of star formation, as seen by the bright star clusters in the central region: go.nasa.gov/4452W2m
#Hubble
#Tecnoafecciones Acciones para (re)conectar y transformar las tecnologías🤳🌿
Durante cinco semanas recorrimos momentos del proceso de producción y consumo de tecnologías: extractivismo, infraestructura, trabajo, usos y desechos ¡Conoce nuestra campaña!
👇👇 👇
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Tecnoafecciones. Acciones para (re)conectar y transformar las tecnologías
La campaña #tecnoafecciones, derivada del proyecto, se plantea como un recorrido por cada una de las dimensiones que hemos decidido abordar en el proceso de producción y consumo de tecnologías…Sursiendo
Revolutionary!
The GRACE mission, launched on March 12, 2002, flew twin spacecraft around Earth to measure tiny variations in gravity, and revolutionized our view of how water moves on our planet over its 15 years of operation.
A retrospective: go.nasa.gov/47e6HoZ
#NASAhistory
GRACE Mission: 15 Years of Watching Water on Earth
In 15 years of operations, the GRACE satellite mission has dramatically changed our view of how water moves and is stored on Earth.NASA
The Dirty Secret of ‘Secret Family Recipes’
Surprisingly often, they're copied from mayo jars and famous cookbooks.Alex Mayyasi (Atlas Obscura)
People are getting paid for #publishing #AI-written #books, in an #author's name, when in fact the author did not, and knew nothing about this happening.
Then, when the author tries to do something about it to stop this obvious #abuse, they are told no.
On Aug. 9 at approximately 10:45am ET (1445 UTC), cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin will conduct a spacewalk to make updates to the @Space_Station's Rassvet module.
Learn where to watch live: go.nasa.gov/440aNy0
#NASA
NASA Sets Coverage of Roscosmos Spacewalk Outside Space Station
NASA will provide live coverage beginning at 10:15 a.m. EDT Wednesday, Aug. 9, as two Roscosmos cosmonauts conduct a spacewalk to upgrade the International Space Station. The spacewalk is expected to begin about 10:45 a.m.Roxana Bardan (NASA)
APOD: 2023 August 8 – Moon Meets Jupiter
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
Seasonal warmth led to the rapid disintegration of sea ice near two large outlet glaciers in Greenland. 🌊🧊
A pocket of persistent open water – or polynya – had formed within the sea ice on July 21 (left). By July 25 (right), the sea ice had broken out. go.nasa.gov/3YntuL7
#NASAEarth
Summer Breakout in Northeast Greenland
Seasonal warmth led to the rapid disintegration of sea ice near the junction of two large outlet glaciers.go.nasa.gov
One of my favourite roguelikes Jupiter Hell adds modding support
Oh hell! Time for another few runs then I think. Jupiter Hell, one of my favourite roguelikes with seriously slick movement design now has modding support.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
WhatsApp introduces screen sharing during video calls, rolling out on iOS, Android, and Windows, and support for landscape mode on video calls (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
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WhatsApp introduces screen-sharing during video calls | TechCrunch
WhatsApp has introduced screen sharing and support for landscape mode as its latest features to enhance video calling.Jagmeet Singh (TechCrunch)
We've got cosmic kitty content covered for #InternationalCatDay!
Captured by @chandraxray in 2002, this is actually two supernova remnants in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy: go.nasa.gov/47nlzRT
#meow
#NASAhistory
Steam Deck is SMASHING IT for Linux and takes over macOS
Your latest #SteamDeck and #Linux news video is here and FINALLY we’re seeing some real true progress on getting more people into it! Get excited you guys!Bu...YouTube
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The first beta of #Mastodon 4.2.0 is now available for testing! There are too many improvements to count. See the extensive changelog and upgrade instructions here:
github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r…
Release v4.2.0-beta1 · mastodon/mastodon
⚠️ This is a beta release! This is primarily aimed at server administrators who are willing to report issues, and may be less reliable than stable releases, although it is still tested on mastodon....GitHub
Ancient Legacy Code Causes Nothing But Pain
When a project has been around for as long as Kodi/XBMC there's always going to be ancient code that nobody has touched for a very long and sometimes that co...YouTube
Looks like Valve will sell refurbished Steam Decks
Valve seemed to let slip a bit early that they plan to sell refurbished models of Steam Deck for cheaper prices but the store pages were quickly hidden.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Celebrate the end of Summer with this Capcom Steam Sale
The summer season is coming to an end; students are heading back to school and tech deals are popping up from left to right. Capcom has seen fit to get in on the season with the Capcom End of Summer Steam Sale.Smellbringer (GamingOnLinux)
Suppose you were trying to invent a bright orange powder that could easily dye clothes and be hard to wash off. Using your knowledge of quantum mechanics you'd design this symmetrical molecule where an electron's wavefunction can vibrate back and forth along a chain of carbons at the frequency of green light. Absorbing green light makes it look orange! And this molecule doesn't dissolve in water.
Yes: you'd invent turmeric!
Or more precisely 'curcurmin', the molecule that gives turmeric its special properties.
The black atoms are carbons, the white are hydrogens and the red are oxygens.
Read on and check out what pure curcurmin looks like.
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Develop for Nextcloud: App development tutorials
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Turn-On Found
I’ve waited a long time for this. In 1969, producers George Schlatter and Ed Friendly wanted to create another monster comedy hit like they had with Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, a cha…cabel.com
Turn-On History: An Infamous Show Hits YouTube
The infamous cancelled-during-the-first-episode show, a lost-media legend, is on YouTube, which makes it the perfect time to analyze its legacy.Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet.
Unfortunately due to an upcoming #furlough, I will need to look for other work (full-time or otherwise). If you or someone you know need a senior #frontend / full-stack dev, in #EU (I live in Finland, remote work), please boost, ping, slide into DMs or email me (in CV).
I put together an image with some tech. info and what I do in my free time, CV posted below with link as well. Requirements and preferences in 🧵
Boosts greatly appreciated ❤️
Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 31: The Fear of Loss
I was trawling through the old web one evening, looking for additional resources on early Linux gaming, when I came across a freeware game I had never heard of before.Hamish (GamingOnLinux)
#PerseveranceRover
NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Flies Again After Unscheduled Landing
The helicopter performed a short hop to help the team better understand why its previous flight was interrupted.NASA Mars Exploration
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Amid a push to improve efficiency and facilitate remote work through online collaboration technology, enterprises counter a growing compliance, cost and data leak risk by strategic deployments of Nextcloud.Nextcloud
"The Temple of Artemis (Diana)" by Ferdinand Knab (1886).
Ferdinand Knab (1834-1902), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
"A reconstruction of the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus (in modern-day Turkey), one of the seven wonders of the Ancient world."
Barry Goldman
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •The Air Whisperer
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •Referencing Jet Contrails:
They are only indicative of the waste heat from the expanding gas combustion exhaust and its reaction products from jet engines impacting high altitude humidity / ice etc.
Eliminating that waste heat and the combustion products would provide a solution for the issue for certain at least in my opinion.
Guyamrllg
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •Polishing my crystal ball: Airline traffic in 2050 - International Council on Clean Transportation
Gary Gardner (International Council on Clean Transportation)