Achilleas gioypi @gioypi@qoto.org

Would you play a #steampunk puzzle game with this kind of artwork?

#gaming #NumbTopHat

#TIL that the fashion industry’s emissions represent 10% of global total, exceeding those of all international flights and shipping combined. 🙃

#climatechange

If you have a #Wordpress website and use the File Manager plugin, update it ASAP.

A vulnerability has been giving access to hackers to execute commands in File Manager's /plugins/wp-file-manager/lib/files/ installation directory.
Around 350,000 sites affected.

https://alternativeto.net/news/2020/9/wordpress-file-manager-plugin-exploit-is-being-used-on-over-350-000-websites/

Game developers use motion-capture tech to teach autonomous cars to understand hand gestures and body language.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/transportation/self-driving/selfdriving-cars-learn-to-read-the-body-language-of-people-on-the-street?utm_source=roboticsnews&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=roboticsnews-09-01-20&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWXpNMlpqZGpNemxtTnpjMyIsInQiOiJjZGhzWTVOOEhUbGltVDg3TlNBWXpIVUlyT1RcL2lsM3dxdlRnR1ozZGoyQ0NBRk1rcU9PdXNCdUx6QlRaNVRkeUNLRlVFS2M1QTZUaWQ4dEd1ZUZ2dDRGQjA4RXc2ZnVrSlgrKzZueHNrRE1HYW4ycGhPNEUrUWgzeHBxXC9DZmZnIn0%3D

Source: IEEE Spectrum
Illustration by Chris Philpot

Photos from recent #XR events:

1. Protest in Cambridge to encourage the university to drop shady relationships with fossil fuel lobbies.
2. XR Doctors about the health impacts of air pollution.
3. "Faceless" bureaucrats with fake blood on their hands at Birmingham HS2 offices.

Chromium security feature that counters hijacking misspelled URLs is responsible for half of the global DNS traffic.

https://alternativeto.net/news/2020/8/new-chromium-security-feature-accidentally-creating-massive-load-on-dns-servers/

How not to love Telegram when that sticker exists?

#FreeBelarus

The EU does not recognize Lukashenko as the president of Belarus anymore! ✌️
#FreeBelarus

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/19/belarus-crisis-eu-leaders-emergency-talks-lukashenko-protests

Charles Michel, the European council president: “The European Union stands in solidarity with the people of Belarus.”

Just a reminder that "Rome: Total War" had 24-bit audio in 2004, while Unreal supports only 16-bit audio today.

#gaming

Apparently kutt.it is considered malicious by Google since today and Firefox won't let me use it. Does that mean there was something dangerous about kutt itself or that users linked malicious sites through it? Neither Google nor Firefox give an explanation.

Anyway, even if you use it, anyone who clicks your links with Firefox or Chrome will think they are malicious as well.

Can you suggest alternatives? Is Polr worth it?

Update: 2 protesters have died until now.

#FreeBelarus

Thousands of arrests and a good dose of police brutality in Belarus during the protests.

As a EU citizen, I would like the EU to support the people of Belarus against Lukashenko's dictatorship. ✌️

#FreeBelarus

If anyone knows more about the nature and dynamics of the protests right now, you are more than welcome to share some insight.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/12/belarus-protesters-and-police-clash-for-third-night-as-eu-threatens-sanctions

[Photo: Women show support for detained and injured protesters in Minsk, by Natalia Fedosenko/Tass | the Guardian]

Photograph by Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP/Getty Images taken from a Guardian arcticle. Location: Politika, Evia island.

At least 8 dead by the floods on Evia, Greece. I think this kind of weather was rare here. The thunderstorm was extraordinary.

#climatechange

Under the 1837 Slave Compensation Act, the UK government borrowed £20m (over £2 billion in today's terms, £300b by some accounts) to pay off the families of slave-owners for releasing their slaves. This borrowing was only paid off in 2015 by British taxpayers.

The newly liberated people had received nothing.

University College London estimated that somewhere between 10-20% of Britain's wealthy can be identified as having had significant links to slavery.

#BLM #UK #slavery