Plants are often seen as passive organisms, rooted in one place and largely unable to react to the world around them.But a new field of research is challenging these assumptions and showing that plants are as sophisticated as animals in detecting and adjusting to environmental signals.
Plants can perceive light through specialised proteins, detect sound vibrations and respond to touch via mechano-sensitive channels, recognise chemical signals released by neighbouring plants, and even retain memories of past experiences through changes in their DNA.
My own research focuses on how plants detect the passage of time as part of their seasonal cycle, but that is merely one aspect of a major reconsideration of their sensory capacity – and the parallels with animal senses.
The secret sensory life of plants: researchers are discovering how they see, hear, feel – and even remember
Plants can tune into the sound of water to direct their roots towards it, or release toxins to make themselves less palatable to browsing animals.The Conversation
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Cal.com's proprietary switch, yay or nay? 🧐
itsfoss.com/news/cal-com-goes-…
Cal.com Goes Close Source Because "AI Can Easily Exploit Open Source Software"
That said, the old codebase will live on as Cal.diy under the MIT license.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
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I'm sure that I've put this up before, but it is relevant to a couple conversations.
Brilliant song. Brilliant animation!
like this
@Simon J Ashcroft that sounds like something straight out of on olde timey music hall!
I remember hearing about this one music hall singer, perhaps from the Edwardian era, who was taken to court for singing a song that had the lyric, "She sits among the cabbages and peas." This was considered licentious. So, she was fined and told she could no longer sing that particular line. She went back to the music hall and instead sang, "She sits among the cabbages and leeks!"
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Ooooh, the leeks are so much more innocent than the lewd peas...
"She who cooks beans and peas in the same pot is not hygienic"
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oh my fucking god i just realised.
blue prince. blueprints.
it sucks up top too, it's cold and windy, and the mast is ice cold, and you're swinging heavy vice-grips over your head while someone down below is shouting instructions you can't hear.
I wish we had mast steps.
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Algorithmic feeds on the fediverse? Controversial. I get it.
But here's the thing: we can build them ethically. Transparent. Opt-in. Default to reverse-chron followers (and local, if you want it).
Did it with Loops. 1M+ unique video views in 4 months.
Build healthy. Keep users happy. Listen to your community.
Obsidian + Git = simple version control for my ideas.
itsfoss.com/git-with-obsidian/
How I am Using Git and Obsidian for Note Version Management
Integrating Git with Obsidian is a great way of syncing your notes in the cloud without additional cost.Sreenath (It's FOSS)
But Obsidian isn't really "free" (as in "free speech") and it's not open source either.
Try Zettrl.
Finite and Infinite Games: James P. Carse
Everyday Utopia: Kristen Ghodsee
What are people for: Wendell Berry
One Straw Revolution: Masanobu Fukuoka
A Pattern Language: Christopher Alexander
How To Do Nothing: Jenny Odell
The Long Way: Bernard Moitessier
Animal Liberation: Peter Signer
Don't Sleep There Are Snakes: Daniel L. Everett
Walden Two: B. F. Skinner
Erewhon: Samuel Butler
Watership Down: Richard Adams
Ishmael: Daniel Quinn
Island: Aldous Huxley
Nothing like an honest review from the community to kick off the weekend. 🤗
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GitHub - MoritzGlantz/Google-Meet-Theme-For-Nextcloud-Talk-Toolbar
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New River Gorge National Park & Preserve (U.S. National Park Service)
A rugged, whitewater river flowing northward through deep canyons, the New River is among the oldest rivers on the continent.www.nps.gov
Accidentally stumbled across a fascinating escape hatch from some of the more annoying limits of symbolic rewriting engines, by allowing the count of items in a multiset to be a pointer to the number of some other items in the bag. Tiny change, huge ramifications.
@mia found this beautiful single-fraction implementation of fib(n).
wiki.xxiivv.com/etc/rejoicerep…
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n^9
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This actually is a pretty critical result in models of computation: indirection is one of the most powerful operators you could add to any counter machine (which is what multiset rewriting's sequential cousin is)!
Once you add indirection, you become able to access arbitrary amounts of memory. Instead of encoding data within the counters like stacks of bits, you instead just reach for another counter that you assume exists. Indirection does require you to have an infinite number of counters, or at least as many as your number type can handle.
If you try to reach for a counter that doesn't exist, you can just fail the rule match. Benefits of guarded computation. 😀
yes! and as a side effect it also allows to match on the lack of something, which is a HUGE game changer.
eq/[x^y y^x], combinator found by @andnull
PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 can now auto-configure games for you gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/play…
#PlayStation #Emulation #RPCS3 #OpenSource
PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 can now auto-configure games for you
Emulating the Sony PlayStation 3 just got even better, with the open source RPCS3 now configuring games for you.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
The first major update for Slay the Spire 2 is out now gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/the-…
#SlaytheSpire2 #Godot #IndieGames #PCGaming #LinuxGaming
The first major update for Slay the Spire 2 is out now
After running an opt-in Beta for a while, Mega Crit have released the first major gameplay content update for the deck-builder Slay the Spire 2.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
A new secure cloud storage option for you to try.
itsfoss.com/news/tuta-drive-cl…
#tuta #cloud #privacy #opensource
Privacy Email Service Tuta Now Also Has Cloud Storage with Quantum-Resistant Encryption
Tuta Drive is almost here, and it makes Google Drive and OneDrive look sus. I explored the early access release.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
If I were dictator of the world I would make it illegal to use the words secure and cloud in the same sentence.
If you don't own the hardware you don't own the data, simple as.
Death Stranding 2 patch 1.4 should make it look better on lower settings gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/deat…
#DeathStranding2 #PCGaming #SteamDeck #SteamOS #Linux
Death Stranding 2 patch 1.4 should make it look better on lower settings
Nixxes and KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS are continuing to improved the PC release of Death Stranding 2, with patch 1.4 out now and there's more to come.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
📰 Serie "Desde la redacción": mirada sobre cómo la IA transforma el periodismo en América Latina—oportunidades, riesgos de automatización y la necesidad de ética y formación para saldar brechas. journalismcourses.org/es/serie… 🔗
✊ Exijamos formación local, fondos para medios comunitarios y redes de colaboración que sostengan periodismo crítico y autónomo.
Serie “Desde la redacción” arranca con una mirada a cómo la IA está transformando el periodismo en América Latina - Journalism Courses by Knight Center
El Centro Knight para el Periodismo en las Américas se enorgullece de anunciar “Desde la redacción”, una nueva serie virtual dedicada a analizar la innovación y las oportunidades en el periodismo latinoamericano.Knight Center (Journalism Courses by Knight Center)
Properly funny chaotic dungeon crawler Lucky Tower Ultimate 1.0 has launched gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/prop…
#LuckyTowerUltimate #IndieGames #PCGaming #Gaming
Properly funny chaotic dungeon crawler Lucky Tower Ultimate 1.0 has launched
If you enjoy replayable games that have plenty of action, exploration and comedy - Lucky Tower Ultimate is one you need to pick up.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Nintendo 64 emulator Gopher64 adds RetroAchievements support gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/nint…
#Gopher64 #Emulation #Nintendo #Nintendo64
Nintendo 64 emulator Gopher64 adds RetroAchievements support
If emulation is your thing - check out the Gopher64 emulator for the Nintendo 64, as a major new release of the open source project has arrived.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
METRO 2039 gets revealed for release this Winter gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/metr…
#METRO2039 #Metro #FPS #Gaming
METRO 2039 gets revealed for release this Winter
Going deep into post-apocalyptic Moscow, 4A Games and Deep Silver have now fully revealed METRO 2039. It's going to release sometime this Winter.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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