🌸🌹2ck 🌱🐇 @2ck@qoto.org

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

#Blender Collectibles: "proceeds will go to fund Blender project"

https://www.blender.org/news/announcing-blender-collectibles/

After three and a half hours of pinning and hot gluing the LED string in place, Squishy Dodecahedron is assembled!

'Today, as part of that long term effort to secure the Python ecosystem, we are announcing that every account that maintains any project or organization on PyPI will be required to enable 2FA on their account by the end of 2023.

'Between now and the end of the year, PyPI will begin gating access to certain site functionality based on 2FA usage. In addition, we may begin selecting certain users or projects for early enforcement'.

You beauty.
https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2023-05-25-securing-pypi-with-2fa/

We're hiring someone to lead mozilla.social

Making this space safe and welcoming for all people is of utmost importance to us, and it starts with a product leader who is dedicated to driving positive change.

We're looking for people who are passionate about transforming online participation and enabling an engaging social experience that prioritizes health, safety and inclusivity. Please share with your networks and anyone who comes to mind!

#hiring #jobs
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/careers/position/gh/5082141/

Hey, law-stodon & therapsids, I have a question I may need a lawyer to answer, but I don't know what kind or how to find them. I am okay with paying money for the answer, if only I could figure out whom to offer it to.

The question is this: I am a therapist (LMHC) in Massachusetts. My nice malpractice insurance company offers a package deal where they throw in general liability coverage too. This was a splendid idea when I had a physical office and was exposed to the risk of - canonical example - somebody slipping and falling on the front step and suing me over it. But now I am wholly practicing by telehealth. I don't have a front step to slip and fall on. Do I even *have* any general liability to cover any more??? (The GL policy doesn't cover Bad Internet Things like data compromise - they have a different add-on policy for "Cyber" coverage.)

The GL coverage triples my bill, so I'd rather not.
#law #psychotherapists #therapistsConnect

Today at the NOAF Blog, I ask author @MattFnWallace about his Six Books
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2023/06/6-books-with-matt-wallace.html
#books
#interview
#fantasy
#bookstodon
@bookstodon

This #birb is producing some really amazing sounds!

…so far no one has given me a straight answer