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Official Civilization VII feedback survey by Firaxis


Developers of the upcoming Civilization VII game, Firaxis, are looking for some feedback regarding the game. This is our opportunity to show them there are many players on GNU/Linux and that integrating Denuvo anti-cheat rootkit would be a big no-no (it's mentioned in one of the questions).
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in reply to Jure Repinc

Thanks for sharing this.

Here's hoping they listen to feedback.

I left this series because it became a buggy mess.
I added "stop making a buggy mess" anywhere I could.
I'm not holding my breath, but I would love to get back into playing Civ again.

I guess there's always Civ II, though. It's quite stable, now, and runs everywhere.

in reply to MajorHavoc

Same. I've played all the Civs. But I feel like the same issues with something like the Sims is creeping into the Civ franchise. The game has more features but somehow is less fun.
I got into Humankind a little while ago and had loads of fun with that.



Palestinian families killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza

Zein was the youngest member of the al-Najjar family, a common surname in Gaza meaning “Carpenter” in Arabic. They lived in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.

On October 10, 2023, 18 members of the family – including five children and three women – were killed and 23 others injured in an Israeli air strike on their home. Zein was just two months old.

You can read more here:

aljazeera.com/news/longform/20…

@palestine
#Gaza
#genocide

in reply to earthling

Nativity scene of Evangelical Lutheran Church in West Bank.

#Christianity
#babies
#Gaza

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Ich glaube das #ActivityPub Plugin für #Wordpress macht wohl gerade eine Pause. Kommentare vom Fediverse landen gerade nicht im Blog. Keine Ahnung warum. Ich habe nichts daran geändert, ein Wordpress Udpate gab es auch nicht und auch sonst hielten sich Updates für Plugins zur Zeit in Grenzen.

Ich glaube ich werfe den ganzen Kram wieder raus. Dann muss ich die Beiträge zwar wieder manuell teilen aber das habe ich ja vorher auch gemacht.

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Liking the new features in the latest Mastodon, especially grouped notifications! I just wish they didn't feel the need for construction sign styled CW's and introducing excessive borders in what was previously a clean looking design. It's reminiscent of what @kde seem to have been trying to get rid of for years and here we are introducing it on Masto.

Still, these gripes are just a CSS file change away on what is otherwise a great release,

#Mastodon #Design #UX



Vor kurzem erschien im NatureMedicine ein Paper, laut dem die Impfungen nur einen kurzfristigen Schutz vor #SARSCoV2 bieten würden. Das gefiel sowohl den Antivaxxern als auch der "Wer Impfungen propagiert, verharmlost #COVID19, denn nur Masken bieten echten Schutz" Gruppe.

@enirenberg widerspricht. Das Studiendesign sei gar nicht in der Lage, die Behauptung zu stützen.

deplatformdisease.substack.com…

in reply to Edward Nirenberg

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@enirenberg
> these vaccines reduce transmission

So would staying home when you're sick. Paying people to do so would likely cost the public health system less than 'flu/ 'rona vaccines do.

> vulnerable groups the added boost in protection provided each season can literally be the difference between life and death

Eccepting this for the sake of argument, this is a good reason for those people to have the vaccines. Not everyone.

in reply to Strypey

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@enirenberg
> potentially averting the inconvenience of relatively mild illness in otherwise healthy people and associated economic losses

Can you point me to any peer-reviewed evidence that those economic losses are greater than economic losses from paying pharmaceutical companies to produce 'flu/ 'rona vaccines? Again, I think it would be cheaper and kinder to do what Asian countries routinely do, support people to mask up and/or isolate when they have symptoms of respiratory illness.



Recent expeditions in Vietnam and China have unveiled two new species of toads with teeth: the Mount Po Ma Lung toothed toad and the Yanyuan toothed toad. These toads, characterized by an unusual row of tiny teeth on the roof of their mouths, belong to the rare Oreolalax genus, known mainly from the two countries. With these discoveries, there are now 21 known toothed toad species.

By Kristine Sabillo
news.mongabay.com/short-articl…

#News #Conservation #Environment #Wildlife #Frogs


in reply to Andreas vom Zwenkauer See

heh, Cymotion Master von Cherry? :D Von denen habe ich 2 durch gebracht 🤣

…meine haben allerdings n Tux da links unten 🤓




Many people in jail have the right to vote. So do many felons


People who are in jail and haven't been convicted of a crime — and even many who have been convicted — retain their right to vote. But it's often challenging for them to exercise it.

#news #npr #publicradio #usa
posted by pod_feeder_v2




Everyone is distancing themselves from NaNo given the AI policy, but I'm very attached to the ritual of writing 50k words every November. So I created my own version called WAFLS (Write a Fucking Long Story) and anyone can join: forms.gle/BrapeFWVeFCki2hu9

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Das Londoner Start-up #Notpla hatte 2022 für seine plastikfreie Alternative auf Basis von #Algen und Pflanzen den #EarthshotPrize gewonnen und damit 1 Million Pfund erhalten. Die Verpackungen von Notpla sind vollständig biologisch abbaubar und eignen sich für eine Vielzahl von Anwendungen, von Flüssigkeitskapseln bis hin zu Lebensmittelbehältern.

Inzwischen kann man sie kaufen.

#Nachhaltigkeit #Plastikalternative #Meeresalgen #Umweltschutz #Plastikflut

euronews.com/green/2022/12/19/…



EDRi-gram, 9 October 2024





When upgrading #Mastodon #Docker to version 4.3.0, you may need to run bin/rails db:encryption:init to generate new secrets and assign the environment variables:

ACTIVE_RECORD_ENCRYPTION_DETERMINISTIC_KEY
ACTIVE_RECORD_ENCRYPTION_KEY_DERIVATION_SALT
ACTIVE_RECORD_ENCRYPTION_PRIMARY_KEY

If you're a Docker user, navigate to the Mastodon directory with `cd /app/www`, run `bin/rails db:encryption:init` to generate the required variables, and then add them to your Docker configuration. #update



Does anyone have any #FOSS alternitives to machinations.io?

Heck even alternatives at all tbh cuz I cant find any and its super expensive if you want any slightly more advanced features

#foss


#Python Pop Quiz 🐍❓

What is the output of this code?

A) SyntaxError
B) TypeError
C) {"py": None, "th": None, "on": None}
D) {'p': 'y', 't': 'h', 'o': 'n'}