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Culture-supported ecophysiology of the SAR116 clade demonstrates metabolic and spatial niche partitioning biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20…



**A new community update has just gone live!**
This month we report on some news concerning the PineVox, what the community have been up to with their PineNotes and the brand-new 1.15 InfiniTime update. We would like to wish our community a happy New Year and hope you all had a good end of 2024!

pine64.org/2025/01/11/january_…

in reply to leighelse{}

@leighelse @Anachron For clarification, no. These require a user to self host a home assistant server (which is easy!). You're able to use any SBC for this.

The idea behind this is that rather than spending 80 dollars on one speaker, you could buy two speakers + sbc.

Home Assistant do the same thing with their own speaker. (They also do cloud, although that's not the point of the PineVox.)

(their speaker: home-assistant.io/voice-pe/ )

The PineVox CAN do voice wake up detection locally though.

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in reply to PINE64

@Anachron Thanks for the clarification. My concern has always been the cloud connection, at least to Big Tech services, so this still looks promising.


Prime Gaming January 11th 2025 edition round-up for Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/prim…

#SteamOS #SteamDeck #Linux #PrimeGaming




An Evening Sky Full of Planets apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250111.ht… #APOD
#APOD


in reply to Muse

Self talk:
That's terrible!
That's fine, I'm still learning.
Why can't I get this to work?
It's fine, just keep being myself and keep practicing!
It doesn't have to be perfect. It just needs to be done!
in reply to Muse

Gotta put the 'self' away, just do the work!

I was looking at possibly getting a digital stylus for the Pixel Tablet I got last week but am not sure I'd use it as I'm pretty tuned in to using my Wacom on my desktop.



I quite like Gustav Klimt's paintings. @Joyce Donahue
They can also be a bit saucy!


Camel Donga Meteorite Thin Section in Cross Polarized Light.

Solar Anamnesis, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/NWFAqA

#meteorite


in reply to It's FOSS

@Linux_Is_Best ....is.... is that... good? I only ask because, in my experience, keeping fire away from computers has been one of my most reliable keys to success.


In which I follow Ivan Illich down a thought experiment about what it would look like to tabulate the cost of inventing words, and price out my own coinages.

"An Accounting for Words," just out in Flaming Hydra: flaminghydra.com/an-accounting…



PeaZip is a powerful file archiver with some neat features. 🚀

news.itsfoss.com/peazip/



Here are some nice ChatGPT alternatives:

itsfoss.com/open-source-chatgp…



First NASA Neurodiversity Network Intern to Present at the American Geophysical Union Annual Conference science.nasa.gov/learning-reso… #NASA #CitizenScience #Heliophysics #PlanetaryGeosciencesGeophysics #ScienceActivation


Los Angeles Fires Seen from International Space Station nasa.gov/image-article/los-ang… #NASA #InternationalSpaceStationISS #NaturalDisasters #Wildfires





NASA Awards 2025 Innovative Technology Concept Studies nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-awa… #NASA #NASAInnovativeAdvancedConceptsNIACProgram #SpaceTechnologyMissionDirectorate


NASA Sets Coverage for Firefly First Commercial Robotic Moon Launch nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-set… #NASA #Missions #Artemis #CommercialLunarPayloadServicesCLPS




TOBIAS: Tethered Observatory for Balloon-based Imaging and Atmospheric Sampling nasa.gov/directorates/stmd/nia… #NASA #NASAInnovativeAdvancedConceptsNIACProgram #NIACStudies


NIAC 2025 Selections nasa.gov/directorates/stmd/nia… #NASA #NASAInnovativeAdvancedConceptsNIACProgram #NIACStudies


SUPREME-QG: Space-borne Ultra-Precise Measurement of the Equivalence Principle Signature of Quantum Gravity nasa.gov/directorates/stmd/nia… #NASA #NIACStudies #NASAInnovativeAdvancedConceptsNIACProgram


LEAP – Legged Exploration Across the Plume nasa.gov/directorates/stmd/nia… #NASA #NIACStudies #NASAInnovativeAdvancedConceptsNIACProgram


PULSAR: Planetary pULSe-tAkeR nasa.gov/directorates/stmd/nia… #NASA #NIACStudies #NASAInnovativeAdvancedConceptsNIACProgram


Inflatable Starshade for Earthlike Exoplanets nasa.gov/directorates/stmd/nia… #NASA #NIACStudies #NASAInnovativeAdvancedConceptsNIACProgram



El diseño gráfico en los proyectos comunitarios de software libre

victorhckinthefreeworld.com/20…

in reply to Victorhck

buena reflexión!
sí hay que darle una vuelta a lo del diseño...
😊
acá tenemos un directorio de personas que se dedican a ello:
sursiendo.org/diseno-con-softw…


New interview with me in CU Boulder Today: "Why Meta fired its fact-checkers and what you can do about it" colorado.edu/today/2025/01/10/…

Basically, shilling the fediverse.

in reply to Nathan Schneider

Personally, I'd regulate them along boundaries, so US free speech absolutism cannot leak out of the US. EU rules apply in EU, say, and are rigorously applied in each geography. If that means these corporations see no business model in EU, then great!

I'd at the very least legislate (preferably universally) that the algorithm be open and subject to scrutiny and legal control.



New Guide: How to check game compatibility for Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck gamingonlinux.com/guides/view/…

#Linux #SteamOS #SteamDeck



The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav adventure game from Daedalic added Linux / Steam Deck support gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/the-…

#AdventureGames #LinuxGaming #SteamDeck #SteamOS



Thoroughly charming adventure game The Night of the Rabbit added Linux / Steam Deck support gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/thor…

#AdventureGames #LinuxGaming #SteamDeck #DaedalicEntertainment



New Math Suggests 'Impossible' Third Type of Particle Could Exist


Quantum mechanics has long classified particles into just two distinct types: fermions and bosons.
Now physicists from Rice University in the US have found a third type might be possible after all, at least mathematically speaking. Known as a paraparticles, their behavior could imply the existence of elementary particles nobody has ever considered.


Physics Finds A Way

#News #Physics #ParticlePhysics #QuantumMechanics






New: Meta has deleted trans and nonbinary Messenger themes, as well as the blog posts announcing them. Happens the same week that it has changed its rules to allow users to say LGBTQ+ people are "mentally ill"

404media.co/meta-deletes-trans…



NASA Wallops to Support January Sounding Rocket Launch nasa.gov/centers-and-facilitie… #NASA #WallopsFlightFacility

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