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Day One . Of Record Keeping , with intent .
#searching still doesn’t work on individual blogs#siliconprairienews#linux foundation#linux hardware benchmarks#unfinished business#marteyforever#scam likely#scamlikely4you#command line#cmdlne#on the cmdlne#5g#linux mint#linux tips#linux vps#linux-kernel#linuxfan#linuxmasterrace#android SDK#2cellphones#infinaught#crystalpeacock#intelligentinternetofeverything#iioe#texodus.io#siliconprairie.io#CCChomeservices#couplecousinsfromcalifornia#ABnC#AirBnClean
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The Linux Foundation Collaborates with OpenTF to Launch OpenToFu
In the ever-evolving landscape of open-source software development, collaboration and innovation go hand in hand. The latest groundbreaking partnership in the realm of DevOps and infrastructure automation is the Linux Foundation’s alliance with OpenTF, giving birth to OpenToFu. In this article, we delve into the exciting developments that this collaboration brings to the world of…
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Linux users what's your opinion on Snapd ?
I can't be the only one who thinks it's actually fine.
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chromebooks ruined the technological literacy of an entire generation.
I will never forgive.
I will never forget.
and frankly, trying to replace the chrome books with VR is even Worse
#and I LOVE vr#but nothing beats a good old PC/MAC/LINUX in terms of teaching foundational tech literacy#chromebooks have less funtionality than fucking smartphones#no wonder thats the only thing gen alpha and late gen z want to use!!#the magic of desktops is entirely lost to so many of them in favor of IPAD and CONSOLE
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I love when I write all my code. It takes hours everything works. And then I put it into a different operating system and it just. Completely breaks
#I do all my shit on macOS. I’m using xcode#It gets tested on a Linux sys#normally I have zero problems with this#but today the world went#oh? you want to get a bunch of shit done?#oh you are super busy?#then I’m going to make you spend three extra hours on this shut#I’m exaggerating but literally all my code just stopped working and I’m having bugs I wasn’t having before#I want to fucking cry I’m so done with#this. look I like. programming. I really enjoyed doing this work#but when shit just breaks for zero actual logical reason it’s not fun it’s just distracting#ffs like. my fucking fgets were just broken when I first tried to run it#like. the fucking FOUNDATIONAL ELEMENT FOR THIS#why? idk. I just changed a single parameter on the fgets (the last of four) that was breaking ( I guess???) and it works now#literally for zero reason#bc if you google the only shit that comes up is mixing scanf and fgets but I already know not to do that AND I DIDNT#there is no scanf#now all my sorting algos. which I already am fucking shit at#just are breaking eachother for no reason#oh they work separately? yeah no fuck you#they don’t work when you run one after another#why? bc you switched to Linus#ughhhhhh#trying to hard not to punch a wall rn#I’m so fucking done
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Find Out What's New in X4: Foundations with the Timelines Expansion
X4: Timelines has a new game expansion and major 7.00 update for the space odyssey on Linux and Windows PC. Thanks to the dedicated team at Egosoft for their hard work and effort once again. Coming to both Steam and GOG.
Let's dive into the world of X4: Foundations and its upcoming expansion, X4: Timelines.
X4: Foundations is a space simulation that's been around for five years. It's not just any regular game; it's a whole universe takes place in space where you can explore, trade, fight, and build. Think of it as being a captain of your own spaceship in a vast galaxy. The developers, Egosoft, have been working on this for quite a while, adding new things to make the experience better on Linux.
Now, let's talk about the big news – the 7.00 update and the new expansion X4: Timelines. An update is a major upgrade to your favorite app. It brings in new features, fixes any issues, and overall, makes the title smoother and more fun. The 7.00 update for X4: Foundations is expected to be huge, with a lot of changes and new things to explore.
X4: Timelines, on the other hand, is an expansion. Almost like getting a whole new story within the same universe. This new content is special since it's going to introduce a storyline that's a bit different from what players are used to in X4: Foundations. It promises new adventures, challenges, and even some history from the X series.
X4: Timelines Expansion Reveal Teaser
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In the X4: Timelines expansion, you'll step into the shoes of Harper Donel, a trader who's used to taking risks. A surprising encounter will change not just your immediate plans, but also your entire view of the universe. This storyline design is full of surprises and revelations, perfect for anyone who loves a good space mystery.
Apart from the gripping story, X4: Timelines expansion will also have various scenarios that showcase different parts of the game's mechanics. By playing these, you can unlock new missions and bonuses for your journey in the larger X4 universe. It's like getting rewards for exploring different paths in the story.
With X4: Timelines, whether you're new to this universe or a seasoned explorer, the expansion will offer something exciting. It's not just any content; it's a whole new chapter in the X4 universe, combining mystery, adventure, and strategy.
Let's not forget the free update 7.00 for X4: Foundations, coming along with the expansion. This update is all about making your experience in space even better. It will include redesigned ships, new areas to explore, and changes to the camera system for a better view of space. Also, a new challenge for those who like a good space battle.
So, in spring 2024, get ready for an unforgettable journey with the X4: Timelines expansion and the 7.00 update. Of course, giving players access to the public beta for it, as you have come to expect. It's going to be a game-changer for the X4 universe. Keep an eye out for more news, and prepare for a whole new space adventure!
Also, a fun fact: the development of this expansion is being supported by the German government with a biginvestment, showing just how much potential it has. So be sure to Wishlist on Steam and GOG. Coming to Linux and Windows PC.
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Software Livre: Entenda as quatro liberdades essenciais
Software Livre: Entenda as quatro liberdades essenciais
Software livre é um termo utilizado para descrever programas de computador que são distribuídos junto com seu código-fonte, permitindo que os usuários estudem, modifiquem e distribuam esses programas de acordo com suas necessidades. Porém, para que um programa possa ser considerado software livre, é necessário que ele atenda a quatro…
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#Ética do software#Código-fonte#Comercialização de software livre#Desenvolvimento de software livre#Distribuição de software#Free Software Foundation#General#GNU#GNU/Linux#GPL#Liberdade de software#Licença Pública Geral#Licenças de software#Propriedade intelectual#Public License#Richard Stallman#Software livre
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e401 — You CAN Go Home(Pod) Again
#metaverse standards @TheOpenMV, #ChatGPT, new #HomePod tech, modem dialup sounds, Ice Cube and Ivory clients and #3Dprinting replacement body parts
Photo by Francesca Tosolini on Unsplash
Michael and Michael start things off for this edition of Games at Work with an announcement that a new logo / podcast icon will be coming soon to a podcast with over 400 episodes soon. Then, things get rolling in earnest with an article about the forthcoming Open Metaverse Foundation, and the open source software and standards that the Linux Foundation…
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#ChatGPT#Fediverse#HomePod#Ice Cube#Ivory#Linux#mastodon client#metaverse#modem#open#Open Metaverse Foundation#OpenAI#sound#standards#Whisper
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Hi guys,
I've created an ebook for students and working professionals who wish to grab a skill in Linux system administration.
Go n grab the above deal for just less than half a dollar 💰 a power pack of basic to intermediate level Linux commands used to rewind and at your best can prepare for the interviews.
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Raspberry Pi Retro-Konsole mit RetroPie: Anleitung für die Installation und Einrichtung (Tutorial)
In dieser Anleitung basteln wir uns eine Retro-Konsole zum Zocken für ältere Spieleklassiker (ROMs) von Nintendo, Sega, Amiga, Sony PlayStation und viele weitere Spielekonsolen aus unserer Kindheit und Jugend. Wir verwenden dafür einen günstigen Raspberry Pi und das bereits vorkonfigurierte Gaming-Betriebssystem RetroPie...[Weiterlesen]
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Why enshittification happens and how to stop it.
The enshittification of the internet and increasingly the software we use to access it is driven by profit. It happens because corporations are machines for making profits from end users, the users and customers are only seen as sources of profits. Their interests are only considered if it can help the bottom line. It's capitalism.
For social media it's users are mainly seen by the companies that run the sites as a way for getting advertisers to pay money that can profit the shareholders. And social media is in a bit of death spiral right now, since they have seldom or never been profitable and investor money is drying up as they realize this.
So the social media companies. are getting more and more desperate for money. That's why they are getting more aggressive with getting you to watch ads or pay for the privilege of not watching ads. It won't work and tumblr and all the other sites will die eventually.
But it's not just social media companies, it's everything tech-related. It gets worse the more monopolistic a tech giant is. Google is abusing its chrome-based near monopoly over the web, nerfing adblockers, trying to drm the web, you name it. And Microsoft is famously a terrible company, spying on Windows users and selling their data. Again, there is so much money being poured into advertising, at least 493 billion globally, the tech giants want a slice of that massive pie. It's all about making profits for shareholders, people be damned.
And the only insurance against this death spiral is not being run by a corporation. If the software is being developed by a non-profit entity, and it's open source, there is no incentive for the developers to fuck over the users for the sake of profits for shareholders, because there aren't any profits, and no shareholders.
Free and Open source software is an important part of why such software development can stay non-corporate. It allows for volunteers to contribute to the code and makes it harder for users to be secretly be fucked over by hidden code.
Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird are good examples of this. There is a Mozilla corporation, but it exists only for legal reasons and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the non-profit Mozilla foundation. There are no shareholders. That means the Mozilla corporation is not really a corporation in the sense that Google is, and as an organization has entirely different incentives. If someone tells you that Mozilla is just another corporation, (which people have said in the notes of posts about firefox on this very site) they are spreading misinformation.
That's why Firefox has resisted the enshittification of the internet so well, it's not profit driven. And people who develop useful plugins that deshitify the web like Ublock origin and Xkit are as a rule not profit-driven corporations.
And you can go on with other examples of non-profit software like Libreoffice and VLC media player, both of which you should use.
And you can go further, use Linux as your computer's operating system.. It's the only way to resist the enshitification that the corporate duopoly of Microsoft and Apple has brought to their operating system. The plethora of community-run non-profit Linux distributions like Debian, Mint and Arch are the way to counteract that, and they will stay resistant to the same forces (creating profit for shareholders) that drove Microsoft to create Windows 11.
Of course not all Linux distributions are non-profits. There are corporate created distros like Red Hat's various distros, Canonical's Ubuntu and Suse's Opensuse, and they prove the point I'm making. There has some degree of enshittification going on with those, red hat going closed source and Canonical with the snap store for example. Mint is by now a succesful community-driven response to deshitify Ubuntu by removing snaps for example, and even they have a back-up plan to use Debian as a base in case Canonical makes Ubuntu unuseable.
As for social media, which I started with, I'm going to stay on tumblr for now, but it will definitely die. The closest thing to a community run non-profit replacement I can see is Mastodon, which I'm on as @[email protected].
You don't have to keep using corporate software, and have it inevitably decline because the corporations that develop it cares more about its profits than you as an end user.
The process of enshittification proves that corporations being profit-driven don't mean they will create a better product, and in fact may cause them to do the opposite. And the existence of great free and open source software, created entirely without the motivation of corporate profits, proves that people don't need to profit in order to help their fellow human beings. It kinda makes you question capitalism.
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Sunny Day Jack Report 07/11/2023
Wednesday means it's time for our weekly development report, and this one's a nice big one for everyone to enjoy! Those of you who have been following us on Twitter may have noticed that we redesigned our logo for SDJ. The majority of the devlog will talk about our process behind that, so read it for free on Patreon or click the readmore for the important bits!
Unity Demo Version 0.03
Changelog:
Fixed video rendering while playing on the Steamdeck (via Windows Proton Compatibility)
Added missing CGs
Game extended slightly past the kissing on couch scene
Select narration from Y/N reworded for clarity
Macintosh OS compatible version has been added
Known bugs:
Certain voice lines may be missing or cut-off
This update was largely focused on ensuring stability before adding in more content. Those who backed the SDJ Kickstarter can access their beta testing keys via this link, while SnaccPop Patrons who pledge a minimum of $12/mo can access their beta testing key over here.
For our MacOS players, you may encounter issues launching the game due to Apple security, so please follow this tutorial to temporarily disable Gatekeeper (we recommend turning it back on afterwards). We're investigating ways to avoid Gatekeeper flagging the game, so please bear with us! As for our Linux/Steamdeck players, for the time being, please use the Windows version and use Proton Compatibility to play the game.
Logo Graphic Redesign
Like with the previous SnaccPop Studios logo, the SDJ logo was due for a makeover. For starters, the old logo was tiny.
Yes, that's literally the largest size we have on hand for the original SDJ logo source file, and everything else is just blown up bigger in size if need be. Astute viewers may also notice that the Something's Wrong With portion of the logo was also slightly off-center this entire time, as With was hanging off the edge a lot more than Something's. Another issue that came up as we continued working with our translators was the fact that we'd most likely need logos in the target language too; adapting the old logo was near impossible because all we had left of it was a .png file. At this point, making a new logo just made sense.
The new logo largely retains the important elements of the original one. Using the Buddy Belt motif as the background image and the use of two distinct fonts, a formal serif for SWW and a more bubbly sans-serif for the SDJ that essentially captures the essence of Jack's dual personality, were ideas Sauce carried over. Additionally, his signature primary colors palette is much more clear in the text, making this logo more easily identifiable. After nailing down a good foundation and centering the text, Sauce overlaid faint scanlines reminiscent of old CRT display monitors then splashed some blood here and there; all in all, the new logo is a nice visual of the ludonarrative dissonance the game itself aims to achieve.
We'll pass the mic to Gureii here when it comes to the localized logos!
Translation & Localization
Hey there! Gureii (she/her) here. You might know me from one of the previous devlogs posted here on Patreon not so long ago.
I’ve been asked by BáiYù to present you a tiny (okay, not that tiny) little treat for both the Russian and the Japanese-speaking folks out there who are interested in our upcoming game, Something’s Wrong With Sunny Day Jack.
Let me introduce you to the new localized logos real quick:
One of the most interesting aspects of working on these was the brainstorming session behind both of them. As the Lead Russian translator of this project, one of my main concerns was to come up with the title translation that would be both both simplistic and catchy, hence the name change from a statement to a question. The localized version of the title - «Что с тобой, Джек?» - includes both the questions a player would ask to Jack himself: “What happened to you?” and “What’s wrong with you?”, either depending on their opinion towards him or both of these at the same time.
The Japanese translation team, on the other hand, opted for something much more laconic, to which I was happy to comply! They're only using Katakana to translate the commonly abbreviated title into【サニー・デー・ジャック】, which will be easy for Japanese speakers to read (it'd be pronounced "Sanī dē Jakku"). It's short and punchy, and it's not unusual for Japanese logos to have the English text as well.
Another aspect (a tricky one this time!) was looking up the Cyrillic and Kana fonts that would match the mood of the English logo we got: it gets quite tricky when we talk about anything but Latin fonts, and it gets even harder when we talk about something that is as bold, youthful and bright as it is. For example, with the katakana transcription the Japanese translation team and I had to search for something that would not scare the person interested in playing the game, something much more inviting than the crimson lettering used on the English logo. The bloody Buddy Belt portion of the logo will still indicate to potential players that this is a horror game, so it works out.
By the way, you might be asking yourself, "Why isn't there a Spanish version of the logo?" Both Pierre and Nana expressed that translating the title wouldn't sound nearly as good as the original English title (a literal Latin Spanish translation would be "Algo Malo Pasa Con Día Soleado Jack"). Luckily, both English and Spanish share similar alphabets, so it's as big of a difference compared to Russian or Japanese.
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And that's all we got for this week. Thanks again for your continued support of SnaccPop Studios!
#sdj#sunny day jack#somethings wrong with sunny day jack#gamedev#vndev#yandere#minors dni#visual novel
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Introduction to Armchair Activism
Fundamentals
"Yes, Everyone on the Internet Is a Loser." Luke Smith. Sep 3, 2022. YouTube.
An activist movement can be a place to build community with like-minded people, but action is its foremost purpose, not community. To allow yourself and other activists to remain effective, you are obliged to abandon your personal dislikes of other individual activists. Disagreements are worth discussion, but interpersonal toxicity is not.
Connect with in-person community and do not unhealthily over-prioritize online community. Over-prioritization of online community is self-harm.
Luke is a loser, but his channel is teeming with entry-level digital literacy information and advice pertaining to healthy use of technology for us cyborgs.
"Surveillance Self-Defense: Tips, Tools and How-Tos For Safer Online Communication." Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Hackblossom, outdated, is discontinued. The EFF project Surveillance Self-Defense is up-to-date, comprehensive, and follows personal educational principles of simplicity and concision.
To learn more about general (not focused solely on personal action) cybersecurity, visit Cybersecurity by Codecademy and Cyber Security Tutorial by W3Schools. Both contain further segueways into other important digital literacies.
Direct recommendation: Install and set up the linux distribution Tails on a cheap flash drive.
Direct recommendation: Develop your own home network security schema.
Direct recommendation: Always enable 2FA security for Tumblr, disable active / inactive status sharing, and learn to queue reblogs and posts to protect against others' interpretations of your time zone.
Direct recommendation: It's both possible and relatively simple to host your own instance of a search engine using SearXNG.
Zero-Knowledge Architecture.
As a remote activist (even if also a hybrid activist), none of your action should be taken on, using, or interfacing with non-zero-knowledge-architecture services. Tumblr is, of course, a risk in and of itself, but you should not be using services provided by companies such as Google, Microsoft, or any others based in or with servers hosted in 13-eyes agreement nations.
Search for services (email, word processor, cloud storage) which emphasize zero-knowledge architecture. Businesses whose services are structured as such cannot hand over your data and information, as they cannot access it in the first place. If they cannot access the majority of your metadata, either - all the better.
Communications for Armchair Activism
"Technical Writing." Google.
Contained within the linked page at Google Developers, the self-paced, online, pre-class material for courses Technical Writing One, Technical Writing Two, and Tech Writing for Accessibility teach activists to communicate technical concepts in plain English.
"Plain Language." U.S. General Services Administration.
Plain language is strictly defined by U.S. government agencies, which are required to communicate in it for simplicity and quick, thorough comprehension of information.
"Explore Business Law." Study.com.
Extensive courses are offered to quickly uptake principles of business law such as antitrust law, contract law, financial legislation, copyright law, etc. Legal literacy is often the difference between unethical action of a business and its inaction. Legal literacy is also often the difference between consideration and investment in your policy idea and lack thereof.
"Business Communication." Study.com.
Now that you're able to communicate your prioritized information, you may also initiate writing with bells and whistles. While other activists care most about the information itself, business communication allows you to communicate your ideas and needs to those who you must convince worthiness of investment to and win over.
Logic.
Learn it through and through. Start with fallacies if you're better at language and work your way backwards to discrete mathematics; start with discrete mathematics if you're better at maths and work your way forwards to fallacies, critical literacy, and media literacy. State that which you intend to state. Recognize empiricism and rationalism for what they are. Congratulations: you are both a mathematician and a law student.
Economic Literacy for Armchair Activism
"Microeconomics." Khan Academy.
"Macroeconomics." Khan Academy.
The globe operates on profitability. Women's unpaid labor is a massive slice of the profitability pie. While it's possible to enact change without understanding all that drives the events around you, it's impossible to direct or meaningfully manipulate the events around you beyond your scope of comprehension.
Understand economics or be a sheep to every movement you're active in and to every storm that rolls your way.
#masterpost#armchair activism#remote activism#hybrid activism#cybersecurity#literacy#digital literacy#women in tech#radical feminist community#mine
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