Iconic Wow! Signal May Finally Have An Explanation (It’s Still Not Aliens)
After 47 Years, Cause Of The Mysterious Wow! Signal May Finally Be Solved
The cause of the most mysterious signal in the hunt for extraterrestrial intelligence may finally have been solved, and it’s only taken 47 years.Stephen Luntz (IFLScience)
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International astronomy group joins calls for a lunar clock to keep time on the moon
International astronomy group joins calls for a lunar clock to keep time on the moon
An international group of astronomers has joined calls to create a standard for keeping time on the moon, where seconds tick by faster.ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN (AP News)
“To our horror”: Widely reported study suggesting divorce is more likely when wives fall ill gets axed
A widely reported finding that the risk of divorce increases when wives fall ill — but not when men do — is invalid, thanks to a short string of mistaken coding that negates the original conclusions, published in the March issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.
The paper, “In Sickness and in Health? Physical Illness as a Risk Factor for Marital Dissolution in Later Life,” garnered coverage in many news outlets, including The Washington Post, New York magazine’s The Science of Us blog, The Huffington Post, and the UK’s Daily Mail .
But an error in a single line of the coding that analyzed the data means the conclusions in the paper — and all the news stories about those conclusions — are “more nuanced,” according to first author Amelia Karraker, an assistant professor at Iowa State University.
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“To our horror”: Widely reported study suggesting divorce is more likely when wives fall ill gets axed
A widely reported finding that the risk of divorce increases when wives fall ill — but not when men do — is invalid, thanks to a short string of mistaken coding that negates the origina…Retraction Watch
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Note that the retraction happened in 2015. I had heard of the original study but not the retraction. (I expect that I would have heard of neither the study nor the retraction if the study wasn't about a politically charged topic).
People who left the study were actually miscoded as getting divorced.
At least it was a stupid mistake rather than poor study design.
What we find in the corrected analysis is we still see evidence that when wives become sick marriages are at an elevated risk of divorce ... in a very specific case, which is in the onset of heart problems. So basically its a more nuanced finding. The finding is not quite as strong.
This on the other hand... I haven't read the corrected study but I suspect this does not account for the fact that four different classes of illness were looked at, both because that's a common mistake and because it makes no sense to me that men would divorce women with heart disease but not with cancer, stroke, or lung disease.
(The probability that at least one study out of four would have significance > 95% simply by chance is 1 - 0.95^4 = 0.18549375.)
Edit: Now I'm scared that I didn't do the math correctly. That tends to happen when I try to be pedantic. Also there were eight categories, not four. (They also looked at women divorcing men.)
In theory for multiple comparisons they “share” a value of P such that a significant result adjusted for four comparisons is evaluated against a P-value of (0.05/4) = 0.0125. This correction (called the Bonferroni correction) is the most restrictive method used for controlling family-wise error rate. Most researchers would adjust P using a less restrictive method, which is not necessarily wrong to do. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multip…
Otherwise I agree with your logic
At least it was a stupid mistake rather than poor study design.
And one that kind of makes sense how it'd happen, too.
"We don't have any more data on these couples after a few sessions. What does that mean?"
"Oh, well we don't follow up with divorced couples, so we wouldn't have more data after the divorce date. Tag them as divorced."
Disclaimer: Hypothetical scenario I've imagined to explain the error. Not based in reality.
Interesting. The corrected data still leans in that direction.
Anecdotally, a friend of mine worked a few years helping people after traumatic brain injuries. She noticed the women always had a husband to help with their care, but all the men were devorced and alone.
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Your anecdotal experience doesn't take into account weather the patients were divorced following the injury or if they were unmarried before the injury to begin with.
The study was looking into something totaly different.
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I wonder if some of that nuance is medical debt. If you divorce before the bills come in, can you get away with only the ill person getting the debt? If it's terminal, do you have a way to deny debt collectors by saying you're divorced?
Of course, the gender angle still suggests otherwise, but I imagine that's mostly a breadwinner/power dynamic that hopefully is changing with more women in the workforce.
I wonder if that plays any part in it.
Designed in Ergogen and KiCAD. Basically remade the Zilpzalp using the rufous Ergogen config then cut down the thumbs. Build the rest with jcmkk3’s great footprints and using the hummingbird matrix. Made firmware for ZMK but should also just work with standard hummingbird firmware. Lot’s of love to apfel, weteor, and PJE66 as well.
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GitHub - grassfedreeve/akohekohe: 26-key, column-staggered, unibody-split keyboard
26-key, column-staggered, unibody-split keyboard. Contribute to grassfedreeve/akohekohe development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
I might be a grumpy old keyboard enthusiast, but I am amazed by how keyboards just keep getting smaller and smaller.
Just out of interest, what is the benefit of having exactly as many keys as the alphabet?
EDIT: just looked at the keymaps and now I understand that you use key chords to replicate the missing keys. But I still don't get the benefit of using chording instead of a clearly marked key, for example for /.
Happy to answer as someone on the low key count side, simply put the benefit for me is comfort. Having a two key inner column reduces that awkward reach which is a pretty big improvement. I personally have pinkie pain so reducing pinkie keys completely down to just one key each lowers load and any reaches.
As noted you get rid of having dedicated keys as a side effect. By design those keys are low frequency or fit well with combos. Q and Z for example are super uncommon.
V is an almost a special case that works really well as a combo. V almost exclusively interacts with vowels, especially “e” and “i”. So with optimized layouts, it gets pushed to one of the worse positions on the consonant side. Usually top pinky or top inner.
The combo position is easier to reach and use over the pinkie or inner index. It is predictably preceded and followed by a vowel (or space), it is easy to keep a typing flow with the combo. (This V explanation is stolen and reworded from jcmkk3)
I’d say the same for / and quotes ring and middle move together and those combos are very comfortable compared to using your pinkies or at least my pinkies.
First biolab in South America for studying world’s deadliest viruses is set to open
First biolab in South America for studying world’s deadliest viruses is set to open
Construction is underway for the maximum-security Brazilian facility, which will face cost and regulatory hurdles.Rodrigues, Meghie
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I have no idea how this lab will operate, but these types of labs are often used by government agencies whose own countries have prohibited certain types of extremely dangerous and risky research.
There's actually a lot of good circumstantial evidence that the really big Ebola outbreak some years ago likely originated from a lab in neighboring country, that was being used by US government funded scientists, doing work that they were not legally allowed to do on US soil.
It's late and I'm tired so I am not going to dig up the reporting on that, but there has been some great coverage on the topic in the few years that it's worth reading up on.
Whether or not any of that has any relevance to this specific laboratory, or how they'll operate, I have no idea. Just pointing out that whatever upside can be gained by this type of research, is also accompanied by serious risks.
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Did West Africa's Ebola Outbreak of 2014 Have a Lab Origin? - Independent Science News | Food, Health and Agriculture Bioscience News
Were virologists covering up the role of a US funded pathogen lab in Sierra Leone when they blamed the 2014 West African Ebola outbreak on a Guinean boy?Jonathan Latham (Independent Science News)
I've read the reporting, looked into the journalists and researchers behind it, and find them credible.
If you don't, it doesn't affect me any.
Those are both pretty through examples of indepth investigative reporting, by credentialed and experienced independent journalists and researchers. There's plenty of threads to pull on once you start reading into it.
It's also been covered by Ryan Grim, former DC Beauru Chief for The Intercept. I believe he has recorded interviews up with either researchers from those articles, or some other journalists specializing in covering scientific and medical fields, I forget which.
They aren't conspiracy theories, at least, not according to the US Government and Biden's DoE:
nytimes.com/2023/02/26/us/poli…
Circumstantial evidence, not conclusive either way, but clearly the Biden administration feels the evidence is weighted slightly more on the side you just called a conspiracy theory.
Which again, is all they allege for ebola, but unlike the co-author of that first paper I linked, I don't have a PhD in virology, so what do I know.
Someone else posted that link as well, see my response: midwest.social/comment/1185376…
Having a PhD doesn’t automatically make someone a reliable source, and the site it is published on isn’t exactly a respected journal.
Other direct quote:Some officials briefed on the intelligence said that it was relatively weak and that the Energy Department’s conclusion was made with “low confidence”
An article from a well-respected journal: thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/…It really seems like the evidence points towards natural origins. And the article you linked doesn’t actually have the evidence, it only waves toward the existence of classified intelligence.
Is the Biden administration lead by conspiracy theorists as well?
Again, inclusive and circumstantial, but pretty far removed from crackpot conspiracy theories and tinfoil hats.
Direct quote from that NYT article I linked:
*In addition to the Energy Department, the F.B.I. has also concluded, with moderate confidence, that the virus first emerged accidentally from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a Chinese lab that worked on coronaviruses.*
Other direct quote:
Some officials briefed on the intelligence said that it was relatively weak and that the Energy Department’s conclusion was made with “low confidence”
An article from a well-respected journal: thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/…
It really seems like the evidence points towards natural origins. And the article you linked doesn’t actually have the evidence, it only waves toward the existence of classified intelligence.
Can't wait for people to blame it for the next outbreak.
"It came from the same area as the lab!"
"Where would you put a lab designed to look for these kinds of things?"
"U so dumb."
Good, we need more BSL4 labs. The more we cut down forests and push into remote areas where bacteria, viruses, and fungi have always been endemic, the more we risk a catastrophic spillover event that will be magnified by rapid, worldwide flights and climate change making animals and diseases more present around humans. Fungi, for example, are thriving in warmer and wetter winters. We must be hypervigilant about new and evolving diseases, especially ones that might not yet have vaccines developed for them.
These labs will keep churning out research even in the event of catastrophic calamity in areas were most of our BSL4 labs reside (Europe, and North America).
Moon Was Once A Fiery Ball Of Molten Rock: ISRO Confirms In New Study
Moon Was Once A Fiery Ball Of Molten Rock: ISRO Confirms In New Study
The team has published the first scientific results from the instruments that flew to the Moon onboard the Pragyan Rover.NDTV
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Ancient tree resin artifacts provide earliest-known evidence of humans dispersing through the Pacific
Ancient tree resin artifacts provide earliest-known evidence of humans dispersing through the Pacific
Exactly when and how humans dispersed into and through the Pacific remains an intensely debated topic.Sandee Oster (Phys.org)
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NASA’s Webb Telescope Finds Evidence For An Ocean World Around Uranus
NASA’s Webb Telescope Finds Evidence For An Ocean World Around Uranus
NASA's Webb Telescope finds evidence for an underground ocean on Uranus moon Ariel, raising interest in future missions to explore the seventh planet and its moons.Jamie Carter (Forbes)
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Whatever you think you know about the future, guaranteed you're wrong.
Your science is the best we got right now, just like the science was in the past. Your predictions are the best we got right now. Your cool shit's going to look just as dumb to your grandchildren as those rubber monster suits in old movies. Your guesses about the future are going to look as dumb as an episode of the Jetsons.
Physicists reveal the role of ‘magic’ in quantum computational power – Physics World
Physicists reveal the role of ‘magic’ in quantum computational power – Physics World
Entanglement and magic interact in ways that impact quantum algorithms and physical systemsDaniele Iannotti (Physics World)
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It's always been magic, from the moment we convinced lightning to live inside rocks and do math for us. Every line of code: an incantation. Every monitor: a new orb to ponder.
Quantum computers are just deeper magicks than we have had before.
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Hidden Consciousness Detected in 25% of Unresponsive Patients Tested
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/18838026
Up to one in four patients who are unresponsive after suffering serious brain injuries might actually still be conscious – indicating more patients may be aware of their surroundings than previously realized, new research suggests.This state of 'hidden consciousness' is now officially known as cognitive motor dissociation (CMD), where cognitive (or thinking) abilities aren't connected to motor (or movement) abilities. Researchers have been looking into CMD for several years.
However, 62 percent of an additional 112 patients who were visibly responding to instructions at the bedside didn't exhibit the expected brain signals showing responsiveness – so the researchers suggest their methods still don't detect everyone with cognitive function.
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However, 62 percent of an additional 112 patients who were visibly responding to instructions at the bedside didn't exhibit the expected brain signals showing responsiveness – so the researchers suggest their methods still don't detect everyone with cognitive function.
AKA: kinda bullshit science. ~50% of the time they're seeing the wrong thing? That's not even in the range of what people would consider to be a hypothesis I'd say.
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John Scalzi’s got you covered:
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LOCK IN | Kirkus Reviews
In the near future, a meningitislike disease has killed millions and left a small percentage of survivors locked in—fully conscious, but unable to move any part of their bodies.Kirkus Reviews
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Metallica's first ever video. My teenage ass stumbled in one night, turned on Mtv's Headbanger Ball and saw, "The world premiere of Metallica's ONE!"
Jesus help me, did not expect that.
(For those not around at the time, Metallica swore to never sell out and do an Mtv video. Ever.)
Metallica swore to never sell out
They tricked me too. Then that Napster thing happened.
The banana apocalypse is near, but biologists might have found a key to their survival
The banana apocalypse is near, but biologists might have found a key to their survival
The bananas in your supermarket and that you eat for breakfast are facing functional extinction due to the disease Fusarium wilt of banana (FWB), caused by a fungal pathogen called Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense (Foc) tropical race 4 (TR4).Science X (Phys.org)
"Banana apocalypse" my ass, I'm not a banana.
Call me when bananas start falling from the sky, oceans turn into banana juice, and the Son of Banana returns.
Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team
Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team
Well, this is surprising isn't it. Microsoft are handing over the Mono Project to the Wine developers with a thank you note.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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As in
“We’ve finished taking all we need from the Mono project and implemented it into our ~~proprietary~~ .NET implementation for Linux, Android and iOS. Instead of getting flack for killing off Mono (which is open source and would’ve been forked anyways) we graciously give this old husk to the Wine project. We recommend that active Mono users and maintainers of Mono-based app frameworks migrate to .NET. kthnxbye!”
Good thing that it went to Wine I guess, as they do lots of work to get old Windows programs up and running in Linux and that often involves Mono.
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It's MIT and actually a fork of Mono. Reading the article helps.
GitHub - dotnet/core: .NET news, announcements, release notes, and more!
.NET news, announcements, release notes, and more! - dotnet/coreGitHub
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Good thing that it went to Wine I guess, as they do lots of work to get old Windows programs up and running in Linux and that often involves Mono.
I see this as the main purpose of this transfer of ownership. When it comes to developing new software, MS has their modern tech stack for creating cross-compatible code, and the recommendation is to use that. But that is not helpful when trying to get old legacy software running on a modern system. So MS is giving this "outdated" technology to the WINE team. A team whose primary goal is getting incompatible software to run in the "wrong" environment. This should allow WINE to continue to properly handle older Mono software for the foreseeable future.
as in “your fork is official now, we have our own compatability in .net and there’s no need to maintain it”
The recognition is nice, but there hadn’t been a major release in over 5 years. I’d guess the outcome is mostly paperwork
Okay, a suspicious thanks to you, Microsoft...
...So when can we get this treatment for WMR so all our VR headsets don't become useless bricks kthaaaanks!
For that reason, Mono was avoided by linux app developers. But since MS had acquired the company that made and developed Mono
"You don't like it? Fine then, we buy it and force it on you!"
Classic Microshit.
Yes, Mono is used by Wine to support Windows .NET applications since it's a) open source and b) contains support for Windows Forms and other Windows-only APIs.
They can't ship the regular .NET framework by default for licensing reasons but it can be installed with winetricks to replace Mono, which is sometimes necessary for compatibility reasons.
What’s the difference?
Technicalities... it has been cross-posted, i hadn't noticed it.
Yea I know. But I still can't believe it.
Microsoft finally sees they can't code.
No.
Microsoft maintains what is essentially the “real” version of Mono within their official .NET project. It is up to version 8.
The version of Mono represents by “The Mono Project” still targets .NET Framework ( stuck on version 4.x for years now ). Microsoft does not care about the real version, nevermind the Open Source replica.
What Microsoft is “donating” is pure legacy. It is a good fit for Wine though.
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The “fork” is the real version of Mono and Microsoft is not giving it up.
The repository managed by “The Mono Project” still targets .NET Framework. Microsoft does not care about the official version of that. Why would they want to manage an Open Source replica of it.
In some ways though, this is good. Nobody should be seeing the Mono Project as a viable cross-platform development framework at this point. It is nothing more than a support layer for running legacy software that was originally Windows only. That makes it a good fit for Wine.
If you want what Mono used to be, a cross-platform application framework, you can just use the actual .NET from Microsoft. It includes the Mono runtime for targeting mobile platforms and Microsoft continues to actively develop it. They are not passing control of that to anybody.
Used thinkpad ok for casual retro gaming?
Hi, want to buy some used hardware to run with Linux (Gnome DE ON Mint, Debian OR ElementaryOS). Mainly Office use, transcoding, but also for casual gaming Half-life 2 and maybe some more modern games.
Are Thinkpads with integrated GPUs sufficient for that?
Any nice alternatives which are sturdy and can be upgraded?
TIA!
EDIT: thank you for all the helpful input. Will check AMD options!
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I've been enjoying my Thinkpad E16 that I got brand new from Best Buy. startrek.website/post/13283869
Liking my new Thinkpad E16 AMD
Another update: startrek.website/post/13283869 I found a fix for my issue. I'm annoyed that I had it in the first place, but I overall still like my laptop.Important update in this post: startrek.website/post/14075369
I still consider this a good laptop, but this is an important fix if you're using this on Debian 12. When 13 comes out next year, the out-of-box support of this laptop should be basically perfect.Anyhow, back to the original post:
I recently got a brand new laptop, a Thinkpad 21JT001PUS, to consolidate/replace my array of various on-the-go-Linux devices, and I have to say, I'm impressed. I know Thinkpad and Linux aren't news, but for such a recent device, I am surprised how well it works. The price wasn't bad (which makes up for the fact that it's a Zen 3 chip with DDR4, in my opinion), it has good upgradability (I'll touch a bit on my experience later), and hardware support was really good.I initially tested hardware support with Debian Testing Trixie XFCE (as that was the Live USB I happened to have on hand, since I often test devices and also keep it around as a backup for my desktop, which runs Testing). At first I couldn't get it to boot, but then I found the BIOS setting to enable non-Microsoft certificates. After that, I booted in and found everything worked out of the box (except the fingerprint sensor, of course, but that's extremely rare for any laptop anyway). However, after experience with my previous portable devices, I learned I prefer stable distributions on those, as during some parts of the year, I can go months without opening the laptop.
Thus, I retested with Bookworm. Almost everything worked still, except for the Wi-Fi (which seems to have been introduced in later kernel versions). Luckily, this thing has an ethernet port (From which it is HECK to remove cables - I've found I had to twist the end up a bit to get it out), so I was able to do an install and then add the Backports kernel to get Wi-Fi working.
One minor issue I had (a software fault rather than a hardware/kernel one) was Bluetooth headphones, but as it turned out, it was just that PulseAudio was installed instead of Pipewire, so after switching, it worked flawlessly with Blueman).
As for battery life, so far it seems okay (as I write this, it says 3:29 left at 51%), but I haven't rigorously tested it yet (though I threw on the usual tlp and stuff like that for good measure).
For performance, I once again haven't tested it too rigorously, but I did play some Civ VI, which it was keeping up with just fine.
The upgrabability of this laptop does have one caveat, though. The bottom is a bother to remove, and most Youtube crap conveniently glosses over them. For one, some of the screws would get loose but not come out all the way. I eventually found the trick was to throw some pry tool under the screw head to hold it up so I could get it the rest of the way out. After they were all out, the bottom cover STILL wouldn't budge. This too ended up being a matter of jamming a pick in one corner of the case and running another one to slowly pry up the bottom case on all sides. I lost a plastic tab or two in the process, but that doesn't show up on the outside, and I think 24 GB of RAM (and 2 TB of NVME 2280 storage + 256 GB, the Windows drive that I left in the 2242 bay) will be plenty for a long time.
Overall, I would say this is a great laptop for those who don't want to go the route of purchasing a used laptop for Linux. I'll say an 8.5 out of 10 due to the hard-to-remove bottom cover and weird ethernet port (Update: 8 out of 10 now due to the nasty Wi-Fi bug I had to fix with a few module options, see posts linked in top of page).
Here's the Linux Hardware probe: linux-hardware.org/?probe=1e50…
Stay away from the Thinkpad T580 with the Geforce MX150. It's horribly throttled and can't even run Quake 3 properly although it should actually be capable of running Doom 2016.
Might be the same with the T480.
I'd say if you get a Ryzen, yeah. I have a P14s gen4 AMD that I use for my primary machine, and game on successfully. But I also have an old T14s gen1 AMD that work let me keep when I got refreshed. Right now I have Windows on it, to play some games that don't work well in Proton, but it works fine in Linux as well.
If you can swing it, the T14s gen3 with a Ryzen 7 6850u was a truly excellent machine, it's what I have for work right now. But we won't see it coming off lease for another couple years, so it's a bit early for good prices on the used market.
I've got a 2015 T540p with integrated graphics. It's fine for low-spec gaming. I only run Linux-native games and haven't managed to get any Windows games running in compatibility mode yet. Here are the games that have "just worked" for me so far.
Dwarf Fortress
Cataclysm: Dark Day Ahead
Darkest Dungeon
Baldur's Gate 1 and 2
Caves of Qud
Unity of Command
Stardew Valley
Planescape: Torment
Shovel Knight
If that's the kind of retro gaming that floats your boat, an old Thinkpad is just fine.
I have an X220 with an i5-2520M, I don't use it for gaming but I have briefly played Half-Life 2 with it and it was comfortably playable.
So I would say mid-2000s titles and before will be fine. It really depends on the age the Thinkpad you want is, and the age of the games you want to play.
Polisen uppger att de avvärjt 200 våldsdåd. För att rädda liv har Polismyndigheten enligt dem själva utvecklat förmågan att avvärja våldsdåd som planeras av personer inom den organiserade brottsligheten. Det handlar exempelvis om att stoppa planer på att genomföra skjutningar och sprängningar, men även om brandattentat.
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Polisen uppger att de avvärjt 200 våldsdåd - Svenssons Nyheter
Polisen uppger att de avvärjt 200 våldsdåd. För att rädda liv har Polismyndigheten enligt dem själva utvecklat förmågan att avvärja våldsdåd.Anders_S (Svenssons Nyheter)
DeltaTouch 1.6.0 is out, finally bringing basic Webxdc
DeltaTouch is a DeltaChat client for UbuntuTouch.
DeltaTouch 1.6.0 is out, finally bringing basic Webxdc support as well as bugfixes and minor improvements 🎉Many Webxdc apps just work already.
Some apps like Webxdc Store (via xstore@testrun.org) need stuff that's not there yet (add apps as file attachments for now). For a few others, touch input isn't working (e.g., ChessBoard). Will tackle that in the next months.
Webxdc support in DeltaTouch is generously funded by @nlnet / @NGIZero.
#DeltaTouch #DeltaChat #UbuntuTouch #Webxdc
I’ve had a few great interviews in the last couple of weeks. I decided I wanted to track them on a media page on my own site.
I’m going to try to keep them more organized, but for now I just want to get them linked.
Media
So, I am trying to keep track of interviews and other articles where I play an important role. Print Audio VideoEvan Prodromou's Blog
Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team
The Mono Project (mono/mono) (‘original mono’) has been an important part of the .NET ecosystem since it was launched in 2001. Microsoft became the steward of the Mono Project when it acquired Xamarin in 2016.The last major release of the Mono Project was in July 2019, with minor patch releases since that time. The last patch release was February 2024.
We are happy to announce that the WineHQ organization will be taking over as the stewards of the Mono Project upstream at wine-mono / Mono · GitLab (winehq.org). Source code in existing mono/mono and other repos will remain available, although repos may be archived. Binaries will remain available for up to four years.
Microsoft maintains a modern fork of Mono runtime in the dotnet/runtime repo and has been progressively moving workloads to that fork. That work is now complete, and we recommend that active Mono users and maintainers of Mono-based app frameworks migrate to .NET which includes work from this fork.
We want to recognize that the Mono Project was the first .NET implementation on Android, iOS, Linux, and other operating systems. The Mono Project was a trailblazer for the .NET platform across many operating systems. It helped make cross-platform .NET a reality and enabled .NET in many new places and we appreciate the work of those who came before us.
Thank you to all the Mono developers!
Explanation of the differences between all the versions of mono from a Hacker News comment
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I think the WINE project was maintaining a fork of Mono that was used to support running certain Windows applications:
So in addition to translating traditional WIN32 system calls, WINE also supports .NET applications, which a number of Windows programs require.
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Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.www.youtube.com
Gaming on Linux Experience (Arch Btw)
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Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.www.youtube.com
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Probably is Linus face on the thumb
People often judge the book by its cover
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People don't like Linus that much now... although I was wondering who likes him in the first place.
I don't care either way as long as he shills what I like lol
If he explaining to people about Linux, that's a W in my book. Some of his other work is mehh tho
I don't hate that much but I don't watch him because of the shady selling business hr often does and apparent sponsored content which is not always disclosed (been a while but his channel misrepresented graphics cards benchmarks for example).
It's like the British yellow press for me: his face alone is enough to discredit the quality of the source. Could it be good? Sure! Will I ever find out? Not anymore.
Battlefield 1 will now include EA's kernel-level anti-cheat, making the game unplayable on Linux
EA anticheat and Battlefield
Updating Battlefield 2042, Battlefield V and Battlefield 1 with EA anticheatElectronic Arts
My EA account was hijacked months ago, I couldn't get it back. Now learning that even if I had it back I wouldn't play BF1, definetly makes it less of a pain.
Tho still sucks for its enjoyers.
I've had EA blocked on Steam for YEARS!
Best decision I've ever made when it comes to gaming.
Ah, so all of them have been delisted on GoG. Black Hawk Down was delisted on Steam, however the rest remain available.
delistedgames.com/delta-force-…
Delta Force titles likely leaving GOG and Steam today [UPDATE: Gone on GOG, still on Steam]
[UPDATE 06/11/24] Several days on and we haven’t seen any Steam releases disappear yet but we did see the debut of Delta Force: Hawk Ops, a new entry in the series. Although the new game made…Delisted Games
Weird for someone to bring that up in a linux community, then.
Anyways buy Ravenfield.
Battlefield 1.
Battlefield™ 1 on Steam
Battlefield™ 1 takes you back to The Great War, WW1, where new technology and worldwide conflict changed the face of warfare forever.store.steampowered.com
I quit playing that years ago. It was overrun with cheats and got sick of players getting kills at distances with zero bloom/deviation that literally should have been impossible.
Maybe they’ll ban a bunch, not that it will affect my gameplay any.
Now if they could just find a way to ban people using Xim/Chronos devices on 2042 that would be great. Too many people getting no-miss headshots at 90m with an SMG. I know there are some legit uses, but lately in TDM in particular it has become unplayable for several matches in a row because of players using aim assist devices.
tomshardware.com/pc-components…
If you use this hardware, I would reconsider using any kernel level anticheat. It would only take one of them to get compromised to brick your machine.
This malware persists between new OS installs. You'd need to reflash your CPU and I think only factories have that equipment.
AMD still rocks, don't let this dissuade you from buying them over intel/nvidia
AMD won't patch all chips affected by severe data theft vulnerability — Ryzen 3000, 2000, and 1000 will not get patched for 'Sinkclose'
AMD says some chips fall outside of the software support window.Jowi Morales (Tom's Hardware)
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in reply to mozz • • •I swear that every year for the past 20 years:
- A signal from aliens is found
- A "structure" is discovered in space (the structure is gas)
- AIDS is cured
- Cancer is cured
- Evidence of water is found on Mars
My brain has boy-who-cried-wolf'd itself into ignoring stories about these topics because I've been trained to believe that they're bullshit lol
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in reply to poo • • •At least one of those has come true. Frozen water has 100% been confirmed on Mars.
Now, the wishful part this year is liquid water being detected underground by seismometers (sp?)
Ashelyn
in reply to just_another_person • • •tl;dr the signal appears to have been from a cold hydrogen cloud "resonating" off of radiation bursts; namely, those emitted by neutron stars. The stronger the burst through the cloud, the louder the signal on equipment. The WOW! signal appears to have been the result of a particularly powerful event, but by observing the same/similar (?) gas cloud(s), they've been able to spot signals with the same signature, albeit weaker due to being hit by less rare (and less powerful) phenomena.
Some clarification might be needed on whether it's a specific cloud that produces this signal, or if any cold hydrogen clouds are capable of it. I couldn't seem to find any in the article itself. Maybe there's something in the published research paper that provides further information.
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