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We adopted Gizmo today!! ❤️❤️❤️ #Cats #TuxedoCat #CatsOfMastodon

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If you take a social media sabbatical, don’t announce it. Just make your last post something fun like “I wonder if there’s a bear in this cave?”

We moved into our neighbourhood in 2009 and, for most of the time we’ve been here, we have been regularly greeted by Jasper, who keeps an eye on the end of our road from his vantage point just above it.

I noticed a little plaque today where there had not been one before, and now I know why I haven’t seen him for a little while. It’s technically #Caturday, but I hope this place won’t mind if today I observe #Saturdog, instead. He was a much-loved part of this place, and we all miss him.

I am in a mood tonight to remember a man I met only once and whose name I never learned.

Making a form so to make the logistics easier. ;)

OSTP has a request for public comment on the topic of automated worker surveillance and management. I believe that automated worker surveillance is a tool of exploitation and control. I want to write a public comment saying so, but I'm a little intimidated.

So! I'm hosting a (super informal) hangout **Monday, 8-9 ET** to work on my comment alongside others who want to submit comments.

To join us, send me your email: https://forms.gle/X2TDvb8MHxtQSwAW6

Blues, once a popular and influential musical genre, has become scarce in many Black communities, with seeming abandonment by young Black-Americans. At just 24 years years old, Kingfish (Christone Ingram), represents a resurgence of the blues due to his remarkable talent, life story, youthful energy, & dedication to the blues.

The Blues is in safe hands.

https://youtu.be/AXUI6d8hZwA

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#BlackMastodon #BlackFriday #History #histodons #Music #Mississippi #Blues @blackmastodon@a.gup.pe @BlackMastodon@chirp.social

Calling all #Python library maintainers! 🐍

Python 3.12 is in beta! 🎉

This means no new features are allowed in and it's now time to start testing your code. You might find things in your code to fix, or even better, you might find things to fix in Python itself!

Here's how to do it:

https://dev.to/hugovk/help-test-python-312-beta-1508 #python312 #beta #test #CI #GitHubActions

Where are you on the political scale? Please boost wildly!* 😃​

(*) Yes I mean Wildly not just widely

Eating sushi while sitting on the ground, 35km from the frontlines. I asked the cashier where they get the fish from. She said that the supplier just picks it up locally and she has no idea where they get it from

is there any place that has tracked how much itch.io raised in total for charity? like for all the bundle efforts combined?

JWST Sees Organic Molecules Ludicrously Far Away

Life on Earth depends on various organic molecules, many of which astronomers have detected in space. But now, JWST has seen them in a galaxy less than two billion years after the Big Bang. The detection was made using a gravitational lens, where a foreground galaxy acts as a natural lens to magnify the light from a more distant object. With this lens's help, JWST could differentiate between the infrared signals of dust grains in the galaxy and the hydrocarbon molecules.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/991479

Did you know that pretty much every game starting with Quake III Arena has some pretty neat filesystem related console variables that can help store user specific information in more sensible places?

fs_homedir is the one to know! It works on Windows too! I primarily use this so we can make games play nicer with user files on UNIX when playing through stuff like Wine.

Example: Call of Duty

Win32 game. Ditched OpenGL for Direct3D - not even aware of the user folder on Windows as it was a pre Vista app - simply dumps savefiles, configs into its own game directory. Normally a lost cause, let’s educate it!

If you own the game on Steam and play it with Steam Play there, you can put this into your launch options: +set fs_homepath "Z:\home\username\Save Games\Call of Duty"

…and it’ll start looking for config files, savegames and all that in $HOME/Save Games/Call of Duty. Only user data, nothing else. This works with Call of Duty 2 and later titles as well. However there it starts to get janky with the multiplayer player profile and progression in games like Modern Warfare. It’ll actually only write to fs_homepath but not read from it. So that’s a bug that’s preventing us from doing anything useful in that game - grr!

The cvar was not changed in later id Tech games as far as I can tell (they still exist in MachineGames’ titles), so depending on if games managed to break it, it should still work.

I use this A LOT because this makes backing up save files, as well as configs, very easy. Hope this is useful to somebody!

#XDG #UNIX #videogames #idtech

NASA says its metal mission Psyche is back on track for an October liftoff

"We believe Psyche is on a positive course for an October 2023 launch."

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/06/nasa-says-its-metal-mission-psyche-is-back-on-track-for-an-october-liftoff/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social