Descent 3: Piccu Engine is a new open source build focused on quality-of-life improvements
Descent 3: Piccu Engine is a new open source build focused on quality-of-life improvements
Thanks to Descent 3 being officially open source, developers can do almost anything with it now and this has given rise to the Descent 3: Piccu Engine.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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Cristoforo Colombo. Il DNA risolve misteri sull'origine e sui resti
DNA study confirms Christopher Columbus’s remains are entombed in Seville
Scientists have ‘definitively’ proved identity of remains – with navigator’s precise origins to be revealedSam Jones (The Guardian)
US spends a record $17.9 billion on military aid to Israel since last Oct. 7
Unlike the United States' publicly documented military aid to Ukraine, it was impossible to get the full details of what the U.S. has shipped Israel since last Oct. 7, so the $17.9 billion for the year is a partial figure, the researchers said.They cited Biden administration "efforts to hide the full amounts of aid and types of systems through bureaucratic maneuvering."
US spends a record $17.9 billion on military aid to Israel since last Oct. 7
The United States has spent a record of at least $17.9 billion on military aid to Israel since the war in Gaza began and led to escalating conflict around the Middle East.ELLEN KNICKMEYER (AP News)
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Wayland Protocols 1.38 released
This full packed release comes with three new staging protocols:
- system bell - allowing e.g. terminal emulators to hand off system bell alerts to the compositor for among other things accessibility purposes
- fifo - for implementing first in first out surface content update behavior
- commit timing - for adding time constraints to surface content update
Other than this, the presentation timing protocol protocol got a version minor bump describing how to deal with variable refresh rate.
Other protocols saw the regular clarifications and bug fixes, and some deprecated events is now properly indicated as such in the XML. Please see individual commits for details.
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Wayland Protocol 1.38 released
This full packed release comes with three new staging protocols:
- system bell - allowing e.g. terminal emulators to hand off system
bell alerts to the compositor for among other things accessibility
purposes - fifo - for implementing first in first out surface content update
behavior - commit timing - for adding time constraints to surface content
update
Other than this, the presentation timing protocol protocol got a version
minor bump describing how to deal with variable refresh rate.
Other protocols saw the regular clarifications and bug fixes, and some
deprecated events is now properly indicated as such in the XML. Please
see individual commits for details.
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Fifa is ‘ignoring human rights report’ into Saudi Arabia’s 2034 World Cup bid
Fifa is ‘ignoring human rights report’ into Saudi Arabia’s 2034 World Cup bid
Lawyers identified four areas Saudis are breaching Fifa policies but they have had no response from world governing body after five monthsPaul MacInnes (The Guardian)
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"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." -Upton Sinclair
Fifa is getting paid so much they don’t care.
Germany's Scholz announces more military aid as Zelenskiy visits Berlin
Zelenskiy has been meeting allies in Europe this week to present a "victory plan" to end the war while also pressing to use long-range weapons that can strike deeper into Russian territory.The details of his plan have not been divulged publicly. A U.S. official has previously described it as a repackaged request for more weapons and a lifting of restrictions on the use of long-range missiles.
A European diplomatic source also said that there appeared to be nothing especially new in the victory plan.
Nicaragua severs diplomatic relations with Israel over ongoing atrocities in Gaza
The government of Nicaragua has stated that it is breaking off diplomatic relations with Israel over the ongoing genocidal war against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, which has killed over 42,000 people, more than half of them women and children.
Nicaraguan Vice President Rosario Murillo announced the move to state media on Friday.
The Central American nation’s Congress had, earlier in the day, passed a resolution requesting Nicaragua take action to coincide with the one-year anniversary of the Gaza war.
The conflict, the Nicaraguan government said, now also “extends against Lebanon and gravely threatens Syria, Yemen and Iran.”
Murillo, who is President Daniel Ortega’s wife, said her husband instructed the government to sever diplomatic relations with the “fascist” and “genocidal” Tel Aviv regime.
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Budget 2025: Germany (Bundestag) increases funding for the Sovereign Tech Fund
Haushalt 2025: Bundestag erhöht die Mittel für den Sovereign Tech Fund
Der Sovereign Tech Fund spielt als Förderprogramm eine zentrale Rolle für Open-Source-Projekte und digitale Basistechnologien. Dafür gibt es nun mehr Geld.Stefan Krempl (heise online)
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I don't really get the argument of Microsoft being cemented. I mean, firstly they are pretty much everywhere, so I can't see how it's getting worse. Secondly, the German state partly uses Linux, even outside of servers, which is already more than I expected. You can't expect a state to "just switch" to anything. We are talking hundreds of thousands of users and computers here...
Isn't there also some EU cloud thing going on?
Nice! Leaves me wondering why the funding was increased tho. Is it because the SFT projects have been successful so far? Or because they were not moving fast enough? Or perhaps simply because more money was needed to achieve this year's aims?
Granted, 4 mil might not be an enormous amount for an institution this size.
“Sorry if is difficult but I have a weird thing. I need about 5 minutes, when I wake up, to just be in my own little world. Would you please not talk to me right after I’ve woken up?”
Things like this can have an enormous effect on one’s stress levels. If you know it stresses you, that’s enough cause for you to benefit from getting the people around you to give you a little space in the morning.
You should ask for what you need. Even if people refuse, at least it’s an outright refusal which is more clear than not having asked.
It feels uncomfortable, but the payoff for this kind of boundary-drawing is enormous.
Cat owners will know this is actually reversed.
Cats are like HUMAN!! It is 4AM and my food bowl isn't full.
I'm a school bus driver and I regularly get infuriated by people who drive past me when I have my red flashers on and stop sign out, wishing there was a cop around. Only once so far have I gotten my wish ... and unfortunately it was the cop driving past me at 40 mph just as some of my kids were about to cross the road. I looked down and saw him with his phone in his right hand and his left hand on the wheel, not paying the slightest attention to what was in front of him.
I'm lucky he didn't run over any kids, because I probably would have gotten shot.
The Quebec Secession Crisis Is Coming, and Canada Isn’t Ready
The Quebec Secession Crisis Is Coming, and Canada Isn’t Ready | The Walrus
Why sovereigntists see their chance nowGerald Butts (The Walrus)
Monster pickup trucks accelerate into Europe as sales rise despite safety fears
Monster pickup trucks accelerate into Europe as sales rise despite safety fears
A Dodge Ram 1500 is bigger than a Panzer I tank and campaigners say heavy trucks are ‘lethal’ in collisionsAjit Niranjan (The Guardian)
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Low resource system activity reporting tool? i.e. "What caused that CPU spike on my laptop 10 mins ago?"
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Trade with Asean can mitigate irresponsible tariffs from the West
Trade with Asean can mitigate irresponsible tariffs from the West
With the halls of power in Washington and Brussels rumbling with regular talk of higher trade tariffs and allegations of Chinese dumping, it would be fair to acknowledge globalisation is well and truly no longer de rigueur.SCMP Editorial (South China Morning Post)
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Scientists Reconstruct Terrifying Face of Car-Sized Millipede That Roamed Prehistoric Earth
Scientists Reconstruct Terrifying Face of Car-Sized Millipede That Roamed Prehistoric Earth
Arthropleura were huge, had a bunch of legs, and likely scavenged on dead bodies. How charming. And now we know what their faces looked like, thanks to new research.Adam Kovac (Gizmodo)
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Three Different Disco Elysium Successors Revealed On The Same Day
Three Disco Elysium Successors Revealed At Different Studios
Three new games from former Disco Elysium devs are revealed on the same day, all from different studios, leaving ZA/UM behind.Rhiannon Bevan (TheGamer)
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in reply to NocturnalMorning • • •It's worse than that. Israel is absolutely ineligible for aid under the Leahy Law. Biden, Blinken, and Sullivan have actively ignored any and all evidence of war crimes. Even when it was our own intelligence and state department agencies generating the evidence. He doesn't need to veto any of it. He could literally just cite the law and freeze the aid. Then it stays there ready for Israel to show it can operate without war crimes.
They're literally ignoring our own laws to support this genocide.
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in reply to rockSlayer • • •It’s literally 80 years of policy, but y’all are absolutely fixated on Biden/Democrats and can not fathom how worse it’s going to be under Trump. You are offended at the very idea you could be mistaken about this; fingers in your ears, “nyah nyah nyah”…
Here’s my prediction: once Trump wins, the Gaza protests will wither and stop. Because the way high up directive on these protests is about the Democrats losing, not about Gaza.
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in reply to ModestMeme • • •What the fuck are you talking about? Are you trying to tell me that the overwhelming Muslim or leftist progressive protesters want a Trump presidency? How the fuck does that make sense?
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in reply to regul • • •I too want Univeraal Healthcare to be a thing in the U.S. That being said one thing that I think people don't fully understand about this is that we are sending them Military Equipment that we already spent money on. We aren't just sending them that in cash.
We should definitely have a conversation around how much we spend on the MilItaly Indusrial Complex in America and the better ways we could spend that money to help our own citizens.
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in reply to redeyejedi • • •Oh cool, sunk-cost genocide 😐
“Military vs healthcare” is a red herring, because . We can have one or the other, or both, or neither.
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