Venezuelan opposition candidate González has left the country for asylum in Spain
The departure of Edmundo González, who Venezuela’s opposition and several foreign governments consider the legitimate winner of July’s presidential race, was announced by Venezuela's vice president.
#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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After six years of development and $70M spent, Black Myth: Wukong is a hit whose initial sales run has outpaced Elden Ring and recent Zelda games.
This is in contrast to Sony’s Concord which was shit down within 2 weeks of launch after almost eight years of development.
AAA game development is now as expensive and hit-driven as movie making while taking even longer to bring to market. It’s no surprise the industry is in turmoil as this isn’t sustainable.
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1984: “ELIZA”, you’re kind of cute for a few rounds, but getting “what did you mean by ‘x’?” over and over again gets pretty old, pretty fast.
2024: Welcome back, “ELIZA”. You’ll be very helpful when trying to deal with pesky gen-“AI” bots.
I got the chance to #interview the #developer behind #junkstore - it gives you a way to play your redeeemed and purchased #epicgames and #gog games on your #steamdeck via a plugin.
The developer is so lovely, and quickly became one of my favorite projects on #Linux and #Steam.
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I hope someone here finds it interesting, I think the important thing in #gaming is to remember the people behind the apps and programs we love so much!
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25 Years of Exploring the Universe with NASA's Chandra Xray Observatory
#astrophotography
#NASA
#Chandra
On the day that Trump announces that he'll remove sanctions from Russia, Vance says it's time to sanction Ukraine.
It's time for Americans to understand that Russia truly owns these guys completely.
The Republican Party welcomes foreign manipulation of democratic institutions in the United States, particularly by fascist Russia.
This is treason. But, the American judiciary and civil society are completely hopeless when it comes to dealing with treason.
they spent 60 years calling any social policy that helped workers a Russian conspiracy to destroy America. Now they love Russian dictators.
Make it make sense.
Socialism is what nazi criminals say to control you so they can steal the tax money for themselves. Nazis want socialism all to themselves.
“Aysenur passed away while carrying out her noble message in solidarity and support for the legitimate and just rights of the Palestinian people.”
People gathered near the site where US-Turkish activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, was shot, in Beita, in the occupied West Bank on Saturday [Ammar Awad/Reuters]
@palestine
#WestBank
#activists
#Aysenur
Thank you to everyone for joining @LinuxSaloon tonight for our News Flight. It was a very enjoyable conversation.
Next week, we are going to talk about how our experience with @wavetermdev, an open-source, cross-platform, modern terminal.
Is there a white label, "preconfigurable" AP client already?
Usecase: a network of blogs in a single domain (say a wordpress multisite with activitypub preset) is set up for a trade union.
There's HQ, someones local branch and a few hundred other branches.
A new member of org gets a link to a client app with their account pre-configured, and set up to follow their branch and HQ, could see all other in the instance view.
The no-config part would be crucial.
I'm building #Emissary, which is pretty close to what you're describing.
It's a full #ActivityPub server and CMS that lets you build custom applications using just HTML and JSON configs. emissary.dev
Right now, I'm building bandwagon.fm on Emissary, focused on musicians, and am planning to follow through with a custom apps for artists, blogs, event registrations, etc..
If you have bandwidth, I'd love to talk more about your ideas. I think Emissary could handle it.
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why the sky color is blue pale.. not orange ?
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in reply to Dare Obasanjo • • •TBH game development was unsustainable already 20 years ago.
A good friend of mine worked for Rockstar in '04-'05 and would regularly complain about how overworked the staff was, the unrealistic demands of management, and how everyone was just "expected" to live in crunch mode.
And don't forget the "EA Spouse", who had to move heaven and earth to make sure her partner got home regularly. That was 2004!
It would be a small mercy if the wheels fall off, if even for just a year.
Jeroen-bart Engelen
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in reply to Dare Obasanjo • • •The successes and failures aren't random, though. Black Myth: Wukong gave people what they wanted. Concord did not. One problem with the games industry is that executives are making decisions not based on what their customers want but rather on the monetization models that are most attractive to CEOs
Anyone who actually knew games knew a year ago that if properly executed, Black Myth: Wukong would be a hit and that Concord would fail.