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We're pleased to be featured again as one of the best open-source productivity tools! ๐Ÿฅณ

@TechCrunch recommends Nextcloud "if you want to escape the proprietary clutches of Big Tech."

In human-first technology, all roads lead to #opensource ๐ŸŽฏ

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There's still time to join our GOVERNABLE SPACES #booktalk TODAY, with NATHAN SCHNEIDER & LILLY IRANI, โฐ starting in just one hour. Register now for this free, virtual event.

๐Ÿ“… Aug 22
โฐ 10am PT/1pm ET - NOW! ๐Ÿ˜€

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#democracy @internetarchive



NASA Moves Artemis II Rocket Adapter, Prepares for Shipment nasa.gov/image-article/nasa-moโ€ฆ #NASA #Artemis #Artemis2 #HumansInSpace #MarshallSpaceFlightCenter #SpaceLaunchSystemSLS


"Galactic Twin NGC 6744."

Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA Image processing: R. Colombari & M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab), CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

#galaxy



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Looking Back on Looking Up: The 2024 Total Solar Eclipse science.nasa.gov/science-reseaโ€ฆ #NASA #EarthScience


acรก algunas ideas:

12 lรญneas de actuaciรณn para combatir la apropiaciรณn corporativa de internet

lamarea.com/2024/08/22/12-lineโ€ฆ



"Perseid Meteor shower and aurora borealis over Westhavelland nature park."

Manolo Gรณmez from Berlin, Deutschland, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons or Flickr: flic.kr/p/2q9Q79V



The Dark Tower in Scorpius apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240822.htโ€ฆ #APOD
#APOD



Later today, join @ntnsndr for the book talk of Governable Spaces

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#ucsd



What's your favorite way to host your Nextcloud?

nextcloud.com/install/#instrucโ€ฆ

  • Managed with a trusted cloud provider (9%, 64 votes)
  • Self-hosted with a VPS (27%, 175 votes)
  • Professionally with our organization's IT experts (2%, 16 votes)
  • At home! (60%, 389 votes)
644 voters. Poll end: 1 year ago



Dragon Age: The Veilguard devs talk up their PC features, optimisations and Steam Deck verification gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/dragโ€ฆ

#SteamDeck #DragonAge



Update on NASA Wallops Aircraft and Airfield Operations nasa.gov/centers-and-facilitieโ€ฆ #NASA #WallopsFlightFacility




The Last Universal Common Ancestor of Ribosome-Encoding Organisms: Portrait of LUCA

link.springer.com/article/10.1โ€ฆ

#evolution #microbiology #science #microbes



Steam now shows who played mostly on Steam Deck in user reviews gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/steaโ€ฆ

#SteamDeck #Steam

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

so Valve knows I use their highly capable hard core handhelt gaming machine almost exclusively to play Stardew Valley (and they want me to share that fact)


#DRIVE Rally enters Early Access on September 25 gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/drivโ€ฆ

#IndieGame #PCGaming #Linux #SteamDeck


in reply to Eugen Rochko

You certainly captured the essence of Bristol, what a great photo!


D.O.T. Defence looks like a fun spin on the RTS genre gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/dot-โ€ฆ

#RTS #IndieGame #Godot




I'm quite excited for the Starship Troopers: Extermination single-player gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/im-qโ€ฆ

#FPS #StarshipTroopers

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

I absolutely adore the original film. That said something that often seems to be missing from franchise spinoffs after, including this trailer, is the sense of satire suggesting that the Federation may actually be a propaganda spewing cause of the war with the bugs rather than just the "might is right" good guys.

I miss the poking fun at unthinking American militarism that I loved in Starship Troopers.

#StarshipTroopers



Proton 9.0-3 now in testing to bring more game compatibility to Steam Deck / Linux gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/protโ€ฆ

#SteamDeck #Linux #Proton



If you are using Linux-Windows dual boot machines, beware: Linux maybe won't boot after the latest Windows updates are installed (and they usually install themselves automatically)
arstechnica.com/security/2024/โ€ฆ


Wednesday while the car was being repaired, I went for a visit to the Ian Potter Centre: National Gallery of Victoria. These images are of a single painting by First Nations artist Guruwuy Murrinyina.
@Girl Of The Sea @Kenny Chaffin @clarice overhere
in reply to Muse

some pics of the Top End's stringybark trees and flowers (and bark)
territorynativeplants.com.au/eโ€ฆ


From their new album: Princess II
"Is this the real life...is this just fantasy?"
Photo by Nuelle Flipse




The Dark Tower in Scorpius

Image Credit & Copyright: Mike Selby

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240822.htโ€ฆ #APOD

#APOD


It's nice to see someone talking sense about the whole blue light silliness!

How much does your phoneโ€™s blue light really delay your sleep? Relax, itโ€™s just 2.7 minutes


Itโ€™s one of the most pervasive messages about technology and sleep. Weโ€™re told bright, blue light from screens prevents us falling asleep easily. Weโ€™re told to avoid scrolling on our phones before bedtime or while in bed. Weโ€™re sold glasses to help filter out blue light. We put our phones on โ€œnight modeโ€ to minimise exposure to blue light.

But what does the science actually tell us about the impact of bright, blue light and sleep? When our group of sleep experts from Sweden, Australia and Israel compared scientific studies that directly tested this, we found the overall impact was close to meaningless. Sleep was disrupted, on average, by less than three minutes.

in reply to Muse

...and it probably has nothing to do with the color of the light but the activity, interest, arousal etc.
in reply to Muse

I wonder how much of the perceived sleep disruption was psychosomatic? (i.e. you are told blue light can have a detrimental effect on sleep quality, and so you subconsciously make it so.)



It's happening! My book about Mastodon and the fediverse is now entering the production phase!

My editor at Oxford is asking what sort of cover image I would like. Any suggestions? Boosts appreciated!

More about the book here:

fossacademic.tech/2024/02/11/Mโ€ฆ

#fediverse #mastodon #bookstodon



All I'm saying is DJT would never do this!

youtu.be/GMIf8KqOKdA?si=-ZeLK0โ€ฆ


in reply to Eugen Rochko

The boy must be somewhere in there but I haven't spotted him yet ๐Ÿง


The Marshall Star for August 21, 2024 nasa.gov/centers-and-facilitieโ€ฆ #NASA #MarshallSpaceFlightCenter


"There's no machine known that is more efficient than a human on a bicycle. Bowl of oatmeal, thirty miles. You can't come close to that."

โ€”Not surprising that Bill Nye, the Science Guy, has known about the efficiency of the bicycle for a long time.



2025 Human Lander Challenge nasa.gov/general/2025-human-laโ€ฆ #NASA #General #GetInvolved #OpportunitiesToContributeToNASAMissionsGetInvolved


Celebrating 6 years since Valve announced Steam Play Proton for Linux

gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/celeโ€ฆ

#Linux #SteamDeck #Proton

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