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You may find yourself thinking, as I did, "I'm already paranoid, so I can drink the juice no problem." Friends, this was a bad idea. #comics


I asked this new ‘AI UI design tool' startup to make me a pro iPhone camera app UI and it literally calls itself Halide in its Settings UI without any prompting from me. uhhh...


"But here's the thing: being able to say, 'wherever you get your podcasts' is a radical statement. Because what it represents is the triumph of exactly the kind of technology that's supposed to be impossible: open, empowering tech that's not owned by any one company, that can't be controlled by any one company, and that allows people to have ownership over their work and their relationship with their audience."

@anildash

anildash.com/2024/02/06/wherev…



"VDB 142 - The Elephant's Trunk Nebula Credits (in alphabetical order): Eric Coles, Paolo Demaria, Giuseppe Donatiello, Carlo Fanuli, Marco Favuzzi, Agostino Lamanna, Rolando Ligustri, Alessandro Elio Milani, Zlatko Orbanic, Andrea Pistocchini, Bert Scheuneman, Tim Stone."

Giuseppe Donatiello, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

#astrophotography



"Dolphin Head Nebula. SH2-308 or Shapless 308."

Jimdelillo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.



"LBN 534 Vdb 158."

Carsten Frenzl from Deutschland, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons or Flickr: flic.kr/p/2pedpCD



The Orion Molecular Cloud Complex & Orion OB1 Association.

DSS/WISE/Giuseppe Donatiello, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.



"Sky Cave."

Anthony's astro, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.



in reply to Muse

Wow! So were you! Such dedicated and caring Cat Parenting!
in reply to Muse

@Deb Zaccaro-Rojas Aw, these things happen. I grew up in part in farm country. Ringworm gets into the soil and there's not much you can do about it but medicate and clean. Moki came from a caring breeder--who lived on a farm.





Request: Does anyone have an old Clare GAA top (size L)they're no longer wanting and would be willing to post to Scotland?

I'm after one and went looking at O'Neills and it's £54! 😲 ebay's not looking great either 😬

I have a Wexford top which is apparently "traitorous" as my partner is from An Clár.

We once tried to recitify it but the parcel was delivered to the wrong adress and it was never seen again.

#Mastodaoine #AnClár #CountyClare #GAA

in reply to Rí Rua nan Earraich 🐦‍⬛

they pop up in charity shops from time to time and I'll keep an eye out. My partner's family is also from Clare so I will ask around too.

Does it matter what era, or does it have to be from the Davy Fitz golden years? Or does any of that matter?

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Fionnáin

think it's just monopoly and good old fashioned GAA greed to be honest. But no hassle — I'll keep an eye out. Will let you know soon, or pop a message here if you find one.

And there's only one banner!



Microsoft Ruins Day Of Ubuntu 18.04 Users! #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/rf3k3nBmy54
in reply to Brodie Robertson

Brodie do you think Mastodon should have an anime girl mascot



"A famous climate scientist is in court, with big stakes for attacks on science" by Julia Simon for NPR @NPR

npr.org/2024/02/06/1228720142/…

in reply to Michael E. Mann

Love that you continue to speak for science & the planet!

Will I see you at AAAS this year?



First Artemis Moon Crew Trains for Return to Earth nasa.gov/image-article/first-a… #NASA
#NASA


Gamma-ray Bursts: Harvesting Knowledge From the Universe’s Most Powerful Explosions science.nasa.gov/universe/gamm… #NASA #Astronomy #Astrophysics #BlackHoles #ComptonGammaRayObservatoryCGRO #FermiGammaRaySpaceTelescope #GalaxiesStarsBlackHoles #GammaRays #GammaRayBursts #NeutronStars #Stars


Humble Choice for February has Scorn, Life is Strange: True Colors, Destroy All Humans 2 gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/humb…

#Gaming #PCGaming #SteamDeck #Linux



Estación de trabajo de audio digital hecha con #softwarelibre

#radiosComunitarias

hayqueverlo.com/es/blog/daw-es…




NEW: WhatsApp will soon make it possible to chat with people who use other messaging apps. It's revealed some more details on how that will work.

— Apps will need to sign an agreement with Meta, then connect to its servers.
— Meta wants people to use the Signal Protocol, but also says other encryption protocols can be used if they can meet WhatsApp's standards
— WhatsApp has been testing with Matrix in recent months, although nothing is agreed yet. Swiss app Threema says it won't become interoperable

wired.com/story/whatsapp-inter… #tech #whatsapp #dma #infosec #news #technology




Also on Threads too babes: threads.net/@gaming0nlinux


NGC 1566: A Spiral Galaxy from Webb and Hubble apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240206.ht… #APOD
#APOD


Any folks in #Oxford interested in electronic and/or computer music?

We're doing another event at #EOF tonight!

Please come by and/or boost!

eventbrite.co.uk/e/oxford-gene… #Oxford #UK #Music

(please pardon the title of the event, we're not focusing on generative music in specific but the title of the event hasn't been updated)



How Quora Died. “The once-beloved forum is now home to a never-ending avalanche of meaningless, repetitive sludge, filled with bizarre, nonsensical, straight-up hateful, and A.I.-generated entries along with a slurry of all-caps non-questions…” slate.com/technology/2024/02/q…
in reply to kottke.org

I liked Quora until 2016 or so… back when it was stuff like Steve Case answering questions about AOL free cd’s



Bluesky is finally open to all.

So if that’s your thing: bsky.app/profile/gamingonlinux…

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

Nice, took them long enough. Here's hoping they take a decent chunk out of twitter.

Still going to stick with Mastodon for now, though that's only to avoid fragmenting my already broken attention span any further.



Open source simulation game OpenTTD (based on Transport Tycoon Deluxe) has a big new v14 update coming gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/open…

#OpenSource #FreeGame #OpenTTD



Over at my mum and dad’s and it’s Trevor’s birthday


Safe In Our World Charity Bundle 2024 has some real treats inside gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/safe…

#Gaming #PCGaming



From Glory To Goo is a new base-building RTS where you defend against gooey aliens gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/from…

#RTS #Strategy #PCGaming #Linux



Thanks to Cornell Graduate School for inviting me to contribute to their Faculty Who Failed series. Important to share wins and losses and remember we are all humans with complicated lives gradschool.cornell.edu/announc…


World War Z disables Vulkan on Steam Deck, which means no FSR 2.2 (but you can get it back) gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/worl…

#SteamDeck #WorldWarZ #Linux



Apple's 2014 Game of the Year puzzler Threes! now on Steam with Steam Deck support gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/appl…

#Threes #2048 #PuzzleGame #SteamDeck

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

Finally, real thing not cheap knockoffs! It's a shame that 2048 got more spotlight than Threes but maybe steam release will give it?


Proton Hotfix gets Persona 3 Reload performance improvements for Steam Deck / Linux gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/prot…

#SteamDeck #Linux #Persona3Reload #Persona

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

Binging through Persona 5 Royal at the moment. After that, this is gonna be my next game on the Deck.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

The Portable Version works fine with the Steam Deck and it doesn't cost that much ... 😀


Have you ever had neck ache from looking down at your phone? Artist Dasha Ilina- founded The Center for Technological Pain (CTP), a mock company that uses humorous interventions to draw attention to the social and health consequences of our ‘always on’ culture. Ilina is one of the artists included in the #EverythingWillBeFine Exhibition that explores how society responds to crisis through the lens of technology. Explore the virtual exhibition: everythingfine.org/en/berlin-0…
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Hat tip to @morix for this thread on the Other Place. Lichen surviving and prospering in space (no stasis) twitter.com/annethegnome/statu…

@ephemeral for your attention, too

in reply to VI

I know, it's wild! Nice pictures in that tweet.

The ESA have run a few projects on this over the past 20 years, and have had a few successes. esa.int/Science_Exploration/Hu…

@morix

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