TIL. In April 1974, in the middle of the night, a small group of conspirators secretly installed a large tensegrity icosahedron made from discarded telephone poles on the campus of Twente University in the Netherlands.
It’s still there. People call it Het Ding (“the thing”).
utwente.nl/en/alumni/inspiring…
*poetry*
It's not that we don't know a better world is possible.
It's that so many are trapped in the flypaper of despair manufactured by the oligarchs and the fearful.
First, free your mind.
Next, join hands.
Then, work for change.
Every one of us who does this builds that better world.
The original Zombie Panic! arrives on Steam with various upgrades gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/the-…
#ZombiePanic #Gaming #HalfLife #PCGaming
The original Zombie Panic! arrives on Steam with various upgrades
The original classic survival-horror cooperative Half-Life 1 modification, Zombie Panic! has arrived on Steam with a number of upgrades.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Hack-and-slash RPG adventure Regions of Ruin: Runegate arrives April 14 gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/hack…
#IndieGames #PCGaming #Linux #RegionsofRuin
Hack-and-slash RPG adventure Regions of Ruin: Runegate arrives April 14
Regions of Ruin: Runegate from Gameclaw Studio and Raw Fury set to arrive on April 14th, bringing more RPG hack-and-slash adventuring to Linux.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
📢 Call for research participants! 📢
Are you a parent of school-going children, or a teacher, in Dublin city? Then you are needed to support cycling data for Dublin city schools.
This relates to a research project commissioned by Dublin City Council's Active Travel Team. Find out more at:
dublincycling.com/cycling/are-…
🚲 📊
cc @rothar @dublincyclingcampaign
#Rothar #Cycling #BikeTooter #Dublin #MastoDaoine #School #Children
Europe cannot expose its most sensitive data to external powers. 🚫
Our digital systems hold some of our most valuable assets, yet Europe still relies heavily on foreign tech.
What does it take to break the pattern and build #digitalsovereignty?
Read more 👇 nextcloud.com/blog/why-digital…
Why digital sovereignty is Europe's defining challenge - Nextcloud
Digital sovereignty in Europe is becoming a strategic priority. Explore how and why Europe should reduce reliance on foreign tech.Katrin Goethals (Nextcloud)
Open-air #space #museum near the National Space Centre, #Astana, #Kazakhstan.
#photo #photography
#spring #outdoors
#city #history
#darktable
#creativecommons #ccbysa
Valve detail Steam Frame and Steam Machine Verified requirements at GDC 2026 gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/valv…
#SteamFrame #SteamMachine #VR #SteamOS #Linux #Steam
Valve detail Steam Frame and Steam Machine Verified requirements at GDC 2026
GDC 2026 is going on and Valve are doing some talks giving more info on lots of things - like how games will be Verified for the Steam Frame and Steam Machine.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
palmoildetectives.com/2021/02/…
Another WIP from the bonsai calendar for this year
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#bonsai #bonsaitree #12bonsai #bonsaiArt #bonsaiDrawing #painting #commissionsopen #traditionalart #deerbard #art #ink #inkdrawing #ilustracjapolska #illustration #illustrator #watercolor #aquarelle #akwarela #wesprzyjartystę #kalendarz #kalendarz2026 #calendar #calendar2026
PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 is getting improved handheld PC support gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/play…
#PS3 #Emulation #Gaming #SteamDeck
PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 is getting improved handheld PC support
The popular PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 is set for some upgrades that will make it better on handheld gaming PCs like the Steam Deck and Legion Go.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
The multiplayer update for Dome Keeper arrives in April gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/the-…
#DomeKeeper #Godot #IndieGames #PCGaming
The multiplayer update for Dome Keeper arrives in April
Developer Bippinbits have revealed Dome Keeper is set for online and local multiplayer to arrive on April 13th.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
System76 fighting for open source being excluded from Colorado age checks gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/syst…
#Linux #OpenSource #LinuxGaming
System76 fighting for open source being excluded from Colorado age checks
There's a lot of age checking / age assurance bills going around right now, and System76 have entered the fight in Colorado to help open source.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
RE: mastodon.social/@fj/1162085011…
So many legal and policy experts blindly trust PhotoDNA as a useful tool to act on illegal content. It’s good to see technical experts deep dive into this!
“Our work demonstrates that 𝑃ℎ𝑜𝑡𝑜𝐷𝑁𝐴 is unreliable for the detection of illicit content: it is easy to incriminate someone by sending them false content with a hash value close to illicit content (a false positive) and to avoid detection of illicit content with minimal modifications to an image (a false negative)”White-Box Attacks on PhotoDNA Perceptual Hash Function
𝑃ℎ𝑜𝑡𝑜𝐷𝑁𝐴 is a widely deployed perceptual hash function used for the detection of illicit content such as Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM).IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive
“Our work demonstrates that 𝑃ℎ𝑜𝑡𝑜𝐷𝑁𝐴 is unreliable for the detection of illicit content: it is easy to incriminate someone by sending them false content with a hash value close to illicit content (a false positive) and to avoid detection of illicit content with minimal modifications to an image (a false negative)”
White-Box Attacks on PhotoDNA Perceptual Hash Function
𝑃ℎ𝑜𝑡𝑜𝐷𝑁𝐴 is a widely deployed perceptual hash function used for the detection of illicit content such as Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM).IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive
Turns out we've all been saying Linus differently...
But here's how Linus Torvalds himself says it! 😆
Global surge in ultra-processed foods sparks urgent health warning
Ultra-processed foods are rapidly becoming a global dietary staple, and new research links them to worsening health outcomes around the world.ScienceDaily
Saw the news that Jello Biafra had a stroke. Glad he's recovering well, at least. Everyone knows Dead Kennedys but if you haven't listened to Prairie Home Invasion, the album he did with Mojo Nixon, then you should change that! I didn't know about it for way too long.
youtube.com/watch?v=5acQqDx9ZF…
- YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.www.youtube.com
Protecting The Rare, Precious Red Colobus Will Safeguard Africa’s Forests
Very few people have heard of the rarest primate in #Africa – The Red Colobus. Featuring funky hairstyles and expressive faces they daringly leap between trees to search for food. Every speci…Palm Oil Detectives
This is Mycena rosoflava. A species of agaric mushroom in the family Mycenaceae. It is a wood-inhabiting mushroom native to New Zealand.
It is also quite beautiful in my opinion, which is the real reason why I'm posting it ...
📷 Photographed by Aucklander Jay Lichter at Hunua Falls in May 2024
Abortion bans reshaped reproductive health, and now the rental market
"The paper is part of a growing body of research showing how abortion bans are reshaping communities. Other studies have linked abortion bans to higher rates of poverty and higher property crime rates, and found that they may be driving young people to leave their home states. Surveys have shown that aspiring doctors — especially those training to OBGYNs — are less likely to choose residencies in states with abortion bans...
"But the paper’s findings suggest access to reproductive health care is influencing a meaningful share of people in the United States regarding where they want to live — especially renters, who have more mobility than homeowners. Rental prices declined more as time progressed, which suggests the trend may continue as long as states’ approaches to abortion continue to diverge."
In post-Dobbs era, abortion bans reshape the rental market
New research found that abortion bans resulted in lower rental prices and higher vacancies.Shefali Luthra (19th News)
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Catlang programming language idea: Rejoice
It's like Joy, but instead of a stack, it's a multiset, and transformations are local rewriting rules.
The program state is a bag of unordered things, transformations are represented as fractions where the denominator indicates things to remove from the bag, and the numerator, things to add. Evaluation consists of applying fractions from left to right, each to exhaustion, until the bag stabilizes.
wiki.xxiivv.com/site/rejoice.h…
Loved the depictions of the network family and the way the main character internalizes the data streams they use to make decisions. An optimistic vision of the future that highlights that issues we're working on now will still be relevant a hundred years from now. I totally fell for Rhamnetin too! Pleased to read the depictions of first contact from the physically intimate point of view.
(comment on A Half-Built Garden)
NVIDIA 580.142 released for Linux - the new recommended driver gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/nvid…
#NVIDIA #Linux #LinuxGaming #Drivers
NVIDIA 580.142 released for Linux - the new recommended driver
While NVIDIA continue working on the new 595 Beta series, they've just released driver 580.142 for Linux as the latest recommended stable driver.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Stardock announce an expansion into indie game publishing gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/star…
#Stardock #IndieGames #PCGaming #Gaming
Stardock announce an expansion into indie game publishing
Stardock Entertainment just announced they're expanding their publishing business for indie game developers, so they might end up funding some cool stuff.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
life goes on.
the runner ducks have laid their first egg, one night after Buba's passing. 🥹
Hello friends, we lost access to our old Varia fediverse account, but we are now back and ready to federate!
This is our new account, please follow us on here to connect with us again.
For those who don't know us, Varia is a member-based collective that maintains a ground floor space at Gouwstraat 3, Charlois Rotterdam, since 2017. Together we experiment with creating and maintaining physical and digital infrastructures needed for collective, cultural work. More about what we do here: varia.zone/en/
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