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Experimenting with moving some of my smart home stuff more "in-house" where it is handled in my local network without relying on internet services and involving more open source solutions has led me to a fun little experiment that helps with meetings in remote work, check out what I did and how I did it on my blog here nickmoline.com/2024/11/13/yourโ€ฆ


Half-Life: Blue Shift remake mod Black Mesa: Blue Shift - Chapter 5: Focal Point released gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/halfโ€ฆ

#Linux #LinuxGaming #PCGaming





Plymouth #Marine Laboratory (PML) has amazing new PhD studentships at the laboratory! Find out more:

pml.ac.uk/Working-with-us/PhD-โ€ฆ

#remotesensing #ocean #AI



I'll be playing some Isonzo over at cast.samsai.eu/ in about 15 minutes. There's a new expansion with a new level, so let's see how it plays. See you in the chat!



How is the C balance of #plants and #ecosystems regulated: We assume that C #sequestration under future #climate conditions will follow #optimality principles that balance #water and #carbon resources to maximize growth in the long term nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doโ€ฆ


I went to the Lamberton Conservatory in Rochester, NY yesterday. Well worth the paltry $3 entry fee. Cool plants and also turtles and tortoises and little birds crawling and hopping around underfoot.
#LambertonConservatory
in reply to dillyd

A sploot of turtles. My new collective noun of the day.
#SplootOfTurtles #turtles
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wanna see a real weird light bulb?
youtube.com/watch?v=dHskIsOYZ8โ€ฆ

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Made yesterday a couple very quick rough mockups of how lists on Mastodon could be extended to be public and/or used as starter packs. I think it could be one of the easiest way to share follow recommandations with a minimum of change from the bits Mastodon already has? (another could be being able to generate a CSV of a specific set of people and then share that to be imported, but thatโ€™s much more technical)



I know it is seemingly criminal to some to mention other social networks on Mastodon, however would like to mention I am on Bluesky at bsky.app/profile/joshuastrobl.โ€ฆ

Liam (Gaming on Linux) has been doing a lot of fantastic work creating / maintaining lists for gaming, Linux, and open source (yours truly is also on there). I would suggest using those to follow a bunch of people and filter down after that. Also be sure to ask Liam to add you on the list if you do Linux / OpenSource things!

Open Source one: bsky.app/profile/gamingonlinuxโ€ฆ

Gaming: bsky.app/profile/gamingonlinuxโ€ฆ

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There's some good stuff happening over at Bluesky. It's the first time in a while the community seems pretty excited and positive about something.

Liam @gamingonlinux put together a starter pack for Linux and open source accounts that you can use to get rolling.

bsky.app/starter-pack/gamingonโ€ฆ


in reply to Frank Aylward

such rail tracks ๐˜ด๐˜ถ๐˜ฃ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฐ evoke the same associations for me as long highways...




LDN 1471: A Windblown Star Cavity apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap241117.htโ€ฆ #APOD
#APOD


Why is YouTube's Next Video button so big? Double-tapping to skip 10 seconds is like threading the needle. Which MBA-having middle manager has "numbers of videos loaded" as their KPI?
in reply to Annika Backstrom

I noticed this and that's what I suspect too. It's basically unusable these days โ€” the double-tap 10-second skip was one of the best features of youtube, but I guess it's 'not commercially viable'.


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in reply to Muse

Friends of my parents recently got a poodle a wel, also black and tan, first time I saw them. He's adorable as well and so relaxed




Quite pleased with my current lock screen.

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in reply to Eugen Rochko

I imagine her raising her right hand, and pointing at the time hovering above the horizon.



Weโ€™re now in the โ€œGuy on Substack saying Bluesky is a rejection of Big Techโ€ phase of the hype.

in reply to Jen Sorensen

so, what do we do now? You have been a voice of realism these past few years. Is there any hope not built on a mountain of dead bodies?

... God, fuck accelerationists.

in reply to ManVsXerox: Resistful Dingus

@manvsxerox Take care of ourselves and others, seek out trustworthy sources of information, and try to keep the flame alive. That's all I've got.
in reply to Jen Sorensen

Brush with? ???
Many of us have felt like we've been living under a police state since at least Reagan, and the Democrats have been happy to pile on. They certainly ran away from defund, even though the real referendum was and continues to be the working class economy. I'll thank the Democrats for some more liberal policies on environment and social justice, but those still take a backseat to the interests of capitalists. Plus we should think of authority globally.



They really are each other's best friend, as well as accomplices in crime. One of them will excavate the plants while the other is the lookout. Little Criminals.

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon






This is my beautiful house. It is up for sale. Bye-bye beautiful house! I will miss you.

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in reply to Muse

Let me know your new address when you have it for Christmas cards! Best of luck!


"If you're tired of algorithms deciding what you see, Bluesky might be the relief you're looking for. Like Mastodon, Bluesky has no central algorithm feeding you posts based on some popularity contest. Instead, what you see comes from genuine engagement: posts gain visibility based on how many users like and "re-skeet" them (Bluesky's version of a retweet)."


Tell me you don't know what an algorithm is without telling me you don't know what an algorithm is.



Time to rebuild my follower base from Twitter on Mastodon!

Iโ€™m Vidar, founder of Street Art Utopia, curating the most inspiring street art from around the world.

Every new follower who comments here will receive a high-quality street art photo as a thank-you reply! Feel free to request a specific theme for your photo!

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Terrain3D is an incredible add-on for Godot 4. Thank you @TokisanGames !

This is part of R&D for Liblast and Liblast Framework.
Based on CGI data from #NASA, that was interpreted frivolously to an 8x8 km area and then sclupted over to add detail that was missing from the original textures.

- unfa

#Liblast #IndieGame #Godot #GodotEngine #GameDev



So there's a kind of, tick-tock, feel to this, that won't be present in the final game, but I'm convinced is absolutely critical at this phase.

If your systems can't tick along this discretely, like a well-oiled clock, then they won't feel right once you cover them up with more ease/interp/curves๐Ÿญโš”

in reply to Megan Fox

Suffices to say I am very freaking happy with this. It's so crisp! There's a smooth turn toward each attack dir that SNAPS in when the movement frames actually begin, like a perfectly machined part snapping into place. That's what I want a combat system to be.

That's what DMC is, as a random example, but this also applies to a ton of fighting games.

(where say Veilguard, bless its heart, is more like controlling a bag of soft cheese)

in reply to Megan Fox

This looks really fun and responsive! This is very similar to what Iโ€™m going for in the game I just started on, except Iโ€™m doing 2D isometric. Iโ€™m enjoying your progress posts, keep โ€˜em coming!


NASA Receives 14th Consecutive โ€˜Cleanโ€™ Financial Audit Opinion nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-recโ€ฆ #NASA #NASAHeadquarters #BudgetAnnualReports #OfficeOfTheChiefFinancialOfficerOCFO


Half-Life 2 free to keep until November 18th, Episodes One & Two now included with a huge update gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/halfโ€ฆ

#Linux #LinuxGaming #PCGaming

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

unrelated, I would love if valve made half life 3 and portal 3 into an asymetric coop game where glados send chell to get ride of the rogue core aboard the ship, gather the sweet test data and maybe steal some black mesa tech data while Dr Freeman is here to get technology to... I lost the half life plot.

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