New idea for the new year https://pages.sadmansk.com/new-idea-for-the-new-year
WSJ really used a picture of western tourists captioned Irani women not wearing a hijab in the streets... https://www.wsj.com/articles/irans-islamic-leaders-face-a-crisis-of-faith-as-protests-swell-11670709247
NYTimes: Al Jazeera Journalist Is Killed During Clashes in West Bank - Al Jazeera Journalist Is Killed During Clashes in West Bank https://nyti.ms/3kXjSnc
@Gargron fuck fuck FUCK people really need to knock it off with this poorly thought through performative shit. Ticket removed from github, but it links here now: https://snippet.host/kvcb
Software may be immaterial, but it runs on hardware and determines its energy consumption. Making software energy efficient is crucial. Let's build energy-efficient Free Software together!
A big congrats to our friends at @valvesoftware on the release of the #SteamDeck! With it comes a new #SteamOS, complete with a brand new A/B design for seamless system updates, for which Collabora helped #Valve implement! Read more: https://col.la/deck @ondeck #Linux #gaming
Building an information ingestion system https://pages.sadmansk.com/building-an-information-ingestion-system
Proton Experimental fixes Elden Ring plus Persona 4 Golden for Linux and Steam Deck https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/02/proton-experimental-fixes-elden-ring-plus-persona-4-golden-for-linux-and-steam-deck #OpenSource #SteamPlay #SteamDeck #Steam #Valve #Meta
This is important, so reboosting myself, because shit like this is proposed:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2022/02/27/critics-reject-rep-swalwells-idea-to-expel-all-russian-students/
Russian people are not the aggressor. Students studying in the West are not a threat. Putin is.
And the biggest threat to him is an educated population able and willing to govern itself.
Almost 5000 Russians got arrested in Russia for anti-war and pro-Ukraine protests.
Russian people are not the aggressor. Punishing them (as opposed to Putin) is only going to make matters worse.
What do you think about using Jami as a decentralized, secure messaging tool for communication when an authoritarian regime tries to cut the whole nation away from the Internet?
I guess we better prepare options now, before it's too late and we can't communicate with our Russian and Ukrainian friends any more...
ELDEN RING is out and Verified for Steam Deck https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/02/elden-ring-is-out-and-verified-for-steam-deck #HumbleStore #NewRelease #SteamPlay #SteamDeck #Action #Steam #HOWTO #RPG
@Gargron Are there any plans (or already existing ways) for finding curated/discovering interesting accounts? wondering if there is an easy way for me to discover accounts whether in a target instance (like mastodon.social) or across instances.
I had dreams about getting receiving steam deck in the mail and I was playing stardew valley on it 🥺 #gaming #linuxgaming #SteamDeck
#np Polar Opposite - Sick Puppies
https://music.amazon.com/albums/B004MUKE7I?ref=dm_sh_e2db-688f-e817-5ec8-b88c8
One of my all-time favorite live acoustic albums. I miss the original band members 😢
I find it so interesting to see how every argument saying high refresh rates don't matter just dissipated as monitors got cheaper. Humans are weird, we have too much pride. 🤦♂️
I wonder if audio quality will go through the same pattern. Spotify fanbois can change too, right?
engineer, writer, musician, cyber security and privacy nut. occasional gamer.
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