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2025 Steam Awards winners have been revealed
The time is here - you helped to pick the nominations and then you voted for your favourites. The 2025 Steam Awards winners have now been revealed.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
![This result shows s the total number of Stack Overflow questions asked each month. THE SQL query is https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1926661#graph:
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This starts out nice. Great to see Cyndi Lauper is still around. Then, IT TAKES OFF!!!
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Ummm...let me think...2024?
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Logged Forests Thrive, While Palm Oil Leaves Little Alive
Research finds selective logging alters forest structure, but palm oil conversion causes more severe damage to biodiversity. Take action boycott palm oil!Palm Oil Detectives
"This Is What Alien Life Might Actually Look Like"
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Btop++ is the glow-up top always needed.
Btop++: Linux System Monitoring Tool That is Definitely Better than Top
A sleek terminal-based system monitor that gives you detailed insights to your resources and processes.Abhishek Prakash (It's FOSS)
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Yes it is. If you want a language that is not European the safest bet would be Quechua. It is still spoken in the Andes.
Butโฆ I doubt many will like the idea.
Andrew and I watched Good Fortune last night. What a TERRIFIC movie! It was funny, insightful, and packed a punch about real world problems. I give it an all my thumbs up!
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Highly recommended reading. A great framing of how far biomedicine has come in a short time, and how weโre still striving for more progress every day
Hey!
I'm looking for people who do video game reviews, and especially people who focus on retro game or indie releases who might be interested in receiving a copy of Jupiter's Ghost: Away Mission as a digital download or physical cartridge to consider for review.
Do you know someone/are you someone who does that?
ajroach42.itch.io/jupiters-ghoโฆ
Jupiter's Ghost - Away Mission (GBC) by Andrew Roach
Explore The Galaxy with the crew of the starship Jupiter's Ghostitch.io
In #Mexico, big #cats like #jaguars ๐ and #pumas can't find ungulate prey due to #palmoil #mining #meat #deforestation. They've switched to a diet of #monkeys, putting them in peril. Help them, be #vegan #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect
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Jaguars and Pumas Eat More Monkeys in Damaged Forests
In fragmented forests of Mexico, big cats find it hard to locate prey ungulates instead seeking tree-dwelling #monkeys โ thatโs bad news for primates!Palm Oil Detectives
New data reveals how Australiaโs threatened reptiles and frogs are disappearing โ and what we have to do
Australia is home to many endangered reptiles and frogs. This national snapshot shows their numbers have dropped sharply. But itโs possible to reverse this trend.The Conversation
We Rate Dogs is ALWAYS great fun! This week they have a dog that was raised by cats...Yes, I bust my gut!
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Our Hurstbridge house had a handsome front porch with lace brackets on the posts. The outside wall was a series of tall windows that looked across from our hill top to the beautiful forested hill top to our south. HOWEVER! When people climbed our driveway to get to the door (and climb they did), from their angle of entry it was hard to tell where the door was. To remedy this I bought some alpine strawberries, and put them on either side of the door for decoration and to provide a few fruits to sprinkle on my morning breakfast.
We brought the strawberries with us when we moved. They no longer serve the purpose of signalling, "Hey! This is a door!" Nevertheless, they are still fruiting. Desmond in one of the photos is there to provide scale. He is a small cat, and the berries are smaller still!
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if you're looking for interesting low-volume newsletters to subscribe to, i highly recommend the IANA timezone announcements mailing list.
two or three times per year, you get to learn interesting yet utterly useless facts such as "baja california didn't observe daylight savings up until 1952, used californian daylight savings rules in 1953, went back to using standard time year-round in 1954, observed DST again from 1961 through to 1975, then stopped entirely" and "the Asia/Choibalsan timezone is now synonymous with the Asia/Ulaanbaatar timezone due to, quote, 'wildly conflicting information about mongolia's timezone history'".
the timezone database is one of those really fun cases where the need for computers (and bureaucracy) to categorise and classify everything butts up against the infinite chaos of human nature. even better, because timezones belong to administrative regions (often countries), and their usage is mostly defined by the world's governments, we get the even more fun intersection of computers and politics!
windows 95 used to let you pick your timezone from a map. they removed this feature from a later version due to political disagreements.
the tzinfo database (the subject of the parent post) recently updated all timezone definitions to use post-1970 names to describe timezones, which caused some pretty major arguments.
Why isn't my time zone highlighted on the world map? - The Old New Thing
In the original release of Windows 95, you could change your time zone by clicking on the map, and the time zone you selected would highlight. Similarly, you could change your Region Settings by clicking on the world map.Raymond Chen (The Old New Thing)
semi-related: you're writing a GUI for language selection, and you come up with the cute idea to use flags for languages. which flag is english? is it ๐บ๐ธ or ๐ฌ๐ง? because i speak the ๐ฆ๐บ version of english -- "colour" instead of "color", but "program" instead of "programme".
do you want to use this app in ๐ฎ๐ณ hindi, ๐ฎ๐ณ bengali, or ๐ฎ๐ณ telugu?
It's been done before, but:
๐ฌ๐ง English (traditional)
๐บ๐ธ English (simplified)
To which I might add
๐จ๐ฆ English (polite)
๐ฆ๐บ English (profane)
my favourite is that for some reason on one website i use they use flags to illustrate currency and the flag they show for euros is: Andorra
Because I guess if you look at the list of all countries that use the euro, sorted by alphabet, that one is first
tz/asia at main ยท eggert/tz
Time zone database and code. Contribute to eggert/tz development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Goals for 2026? How about a major privacy cleanup? ๐งน
Jack Wallen from ZDNET shares 7 tools to help you move away from proprietary cloud services that may be selling your information or using it to train their LLMs:
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7 apps that helped me escape the cloud - and protect my data privacy
If you're tired of knowing that a third party has access to your data and content, it's time to move away from cloud services that may be selling your information or using it to train their LLMs.Jack Wallen (ZDNET)
This hurts. It was at GSFC NASA Goddard Library that I learned I had a gift for technology, and, better still, I could explain it to laypeople. My career as a technology journalist began here. This closure is a disgrace.
I just installed @nextcloud on our VPS together with my dad, as a replacement for our Seafile server that started misbehaving a bit after an upgrade. While it took some time to figure out the nginx and docker configuration, the whole process was pretty smooth and I imagine someone who's more used to setting up such things could do it in less than an hour.
Now that we have it, there is so much cool stuff that's included: photo albums, calendars, collaborative editing, Doodle-style polls, synced bookmarks, and many more (see apps.nextcloud.com/).
So far there's just a few small things that could be improved: syncing softlinks is not supported, and history is only on a per-file basis (not a whole directory). But overall I'm really happy with the quality and feature set.
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Nice.
A couple of months ago my 15-year old son installed nextcloud for me in our Linux server at home.
This was mostly for being able to use Saber [1] to write notes by hand on both Android and iPad tablets, and having the notes visible in all computers, at home and at university.
It works like a charm. I can write notes at university in the Android tablet I keep there, and then continue writing at home in my iPad. And I can read the notes from my laptop.
It just works, thanks to both nextcloud and Saber. Thanks both!
And both are free, and also rather professional. More professional than e.g. what Apple provides on an iPad or a Mac.
This week, I have been recording with my colleague @lehtimaeki a podcast about our experience migrating to from Google to @nextcloud. Check it out here:
YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=xgP12vYmvFโฆ
PeerTube: peertube.wtf/w/5ZP4EWmBCL1JzSd
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Reptiles Facing Extinction: How to Help
#Reptiles are fascinating creatures who are sadly feared, misunderstood and persecuted by humans. It is high time that we stand up for #lizards, #snakes, #terrapins, #crocodiles, caimans, #turtles โฆPalm Oil Detectives
The 2026 Carnage Collection from Humble Bundle brings some fun games to begin the year gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/the-โฆ
#Gaming #PCGaming #Linux #SteamDeck #GameBundle
The 2026 Carnage Collection from Humble Bundle brings some fun games to begin the year
A fresh new Humble Bundle to begin 2026 with some quality games and they're highly rated too, and they should all work on Linux / SteamOS.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
When you start learning Linux commands and realize that the best resource is the man page. ๐
D7VK v1.1 is out with experimental Direct3D 6 support via Vulkan for Windows games on Linux gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/d7vkโฆ
#Linux #OpenSource #Vulkan #Direct3D #D7VK #DXVK
D7VK v1.1 is out with experimental Direct3D 6 support via Vulkan for Windows games on Linux
The D7VK project for providing Direct3D 7 support on Linux with Wine / Proton has expanded in the version 1.1 release to add experimental Direct3D 6 support.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Epilogue reveal the SN Operator to play real SNES cartridges on various platforms gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/epilโฆ
#SNOperator #SNES #Gaming #Emulation #PCGaming
Epilogue reveal the SN Operator to play real SNES cartridges on various platforms
Much like Epilogue did with the GB Operator for playing actual Game Boy cartridges, they've recently revealed the SN Operator for the SNES.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Valve reveal the most popular Steam games of 2025 gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/the-โฆ
#Gaming #LinuxGaming #Linux #PCGaming
Valve reveal the most popular Steam games of 2025
Now that 2025 is done and finished with, we can see what the most popular games were overall on Steam, and for Steam Deck the list is no big surprise at all.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Native Linux support for Hytale will be launched as "experimental" gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/natiโฆ
#Hytale #Linux #PCGaming #Gaming
Native Linux support for Hytale will be launched as "experimental"
A fresh update on the upcoming game Hytale which will no doubt be quite popular, and it will have what they now say is "experimental" Linux support.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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