This is the ultimate. My TV is no longer supported by Netflix. They actually expect me to buy a new TV to see their crummy service! Canceling today.
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Elections 2024: What the independent candidates have to say https://www.groundup.org.za/article/elections-2024-what-the-independent-candidates-have-to-say/
#GroundUp #News #Journalism #Africa #SouthAfrica
Elections 2024: What the independent candidates have to say
We put five questions to each of the five independent candidatesGroundUp News
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RIP Louis Gossett Jr.
Unforgettable Drac in Enemy (1985), Gerak in Stargate SG-1, he was also in The Invaders (1968), Matthew Star (1982), Captain Planet and the Planeteers (1991), Half-Life 2 (2004), Extant (2014), Watchmen (2019), among many others.
He was 87.
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@The Spaceshipper 🚀
And in a few of these "Keep It Real" ads for Windhoek Lager
(it's the only beer I drink)
I'd like to introduce the project that I've been working on since the end of last year. TerraForma is a blend of Survival/Crafting and Extraction Horror dungeons with cooperative multiplayer (if I can manage it).
The gameplay is heavily inspired by titles such Valheim, Rimworld, Lethal Company, and Half-Life.
https://www.geouug.com/development-blog/introducing-terraforma
Introducing TerraForma | Development Blog | GEOUUG.COM
TerraForma is a multiplayer survival crafting game, with a focus on immersion and a game loop involving crafting, exploration, and a little bit of terror.GEOUUG.COM
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ons kruisig die wyse
en wys na die kruise
as bewyse van ons menslikheid
#SouthAfrica #Rock #Fokofpolisiekar
Fokofpolisiekar - Selfoontoring van Babel (OFFICIAL lyric video)
Selfoontoring van Babel is track 5 off our latest release titled Selfmedikasie.Buy a digital copy: http://smarturl.it/selfmedikasieBuy the vinyl: http://bit....YouTube
I need to edit an svg file so I just typed sudo apt install inkscape and a few seconds later the svg is open in a professional-level vector graphics application. I sometimes forget why I love open source so much, but then I do something like this and appreciate how lucky we are to have so many devs and packagers and testers etc working on open source operating systems and applications.
So thanks everyone. Thanks for making Linux and open source so great.
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"A person of courage today is a person of peace. The courage we need is to refuse authority and to accept only personally responsible decisions. Like war, growth at any cost is an outmoded and discredited concept. It is our lives which are being laid to waste. What is worse, it is our children's world which is being destroyed. It is therefore our only possible decision to withhold all support for destructive systems, and to cease to invest our lives in our own annihilation."
- Bill Molison, "Permaculture: A Designer's Manual"
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Statement about the EU Cyber Resilience Act
Debian Public Statement about the EU Cyber Resilience Act and the Product Liability Directive The European Union is currently preparing a regulation "on horizontal cybersecurity requirements for products with digital elements" known as the...Debian Project
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It's a weird feeling to be rooting for the enemy to win
#SouthAfrica #RWC #AllBlacks vs #Argentina
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![A comic about "Why I love free software" by Sacha Chua: Free software is like having more gifts that I can even imagine (with image of person reaching for presents). Each first is a building block that I can have fun with (image of blocks). More than that -- each block is a glimpse into someone else'e life (image of same blocks with talking people inside). I can combine things with bubblegum and string to make something that fits me so well (image of blocks combined with gun; then image of glove). [...] at the end it says, "So, bit by bit, we grow. Free software."](https://librenet.co.za/photo/preview/640/2493253 "A comic about \"Why I love free software\" by Sacha Chua: Free software is like having more gifts that I can even imagine (with image of person reaching for presents). Each first is a building block that I can have fun with (image of blocks). More than that -- each block is a glimpse into someone else'e life (image of same blocks with talking people inside). I can combine things with bubblegum and string to make something that fits me so well (image of blocks combined with gun; then image of glove). [...] at the end it says, \"So, bit by bit, we grow. Free software.\"")
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Am I the enemy?
Great piece this:
"We can’t rely on the developers of a proposed new solution, who may present a report outlining only the benefits of their new-fangled idea. We need critical reviews and comprehensive assessments before commencing new projects, and hear from opponents who may have relevant knowledge and experience.
"Green solutions are often nowhere nearly as green as they seem at first glance. Many turn out to be grand follies."
https://dailyfriend.co.za/2023/08/25/the-long-term-harm-of-green-follies/
The long-term harm of green follies - Daily Friend
Green solutions are often nowhere near as green as they seem at first glance. Following green fashions is de rigueur these days, not only forIvo Vegter (Daily Friend)
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in today's episode of "Forgotten Ancient Knowledge" -
How to install a program locally on your personal or work computer
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Depressing but succinct analysis.
"The Western Cape government has tried to enforce what laws it can to maintain safety on public roads and public transport, but it cannot do anything about national laws, or national law enforcement.
"The ruling ANC is the architect of the taxi mafia, so we cannot look to it for help, either."
https://dailyfriend.co.za/2023/08/08/government-created-the-taxi-mafia/
Government created the taxi mafia - Daily Friend
The taxi industry is a law unto itself. Its strike, to make the Western Cape ungovernable, is therefore hard to break. As I write thisIvo Vegter (Daily Friend)
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#TakeAlot
Same PC, same VPN:
Vivaldi => you're blocked! fuck all the way off! (Cloudflare)
Firefox => yeah, you're fine, come right in
WTF
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there is just one thing about #Clementine music player that annoys me:
When I load my "entire library" as a playlist, or select "dynamic random mix" - it plays the same friggin songs over and over again.
I have 10's of thousands of songs but I hear the same damn tunes 3 times a day ...
I have:
- desktop PC with Ryzen 5 + SSD + NVME + SATA
- 32" 2560x1080 Ultra-wide monitor
- Wifi Router + Fibre adapter
- Laptop with Ryzen 7
- 2.1 Speaker system blasting Maiden
- 2 cellphones charging
All running off 2 x 100ah batteries (in series) through a 3kVa inverter
My inverter tells me I am drawing only 75W
That can't be right?
This is a request to all FOSS projects who only use matrix for communicating with the community.
Please consider bridging your rooms with IRC or XMPP.
India has banned Element, the most widely used Matrix client. I know it's just a client, but to be safe it's wiser to stay away from matrix for a while. So please help us in this regard.
#foss #libre_software #floss #opensource #free_software #india #mastindia #element #matrix #xmpp #jabber #irc #communicate #community #government #communication
Dev.to misses Open Source definition
I just joined Dev.to. As usual, I look for things related to Free/Libre software. I realized there is a tag for OpenSource and if I try to make a see tag page for FreeSoftware, it redirects me to #OpenSource. That is OK I try to understand it, but quickly something very wrong took my attention: the definition provided for the tag was wrong!
Open Source came to provide an alternative term to avoid confusion over the meaning of #FreeSoftware (free as in freedom, not free beer). Despite having clear official definition, many people take open-source literally as software with publicly available code. Providing the source code is the second of the 10 conditions for software to be considered as Open Source one. I do strongly suggest going through the definition and reading all the 10 criteria.
Here my question is why does a platform like dev.to send such a wrong message about Open Source definition? I try to contact admins and I hope to see change.
Mostafa Ahangarha — DEV Community Profile
Full-stack Web Developer | Rails, Laravel, React | Software Freedom Advocate | Looking for new opportunitiesMostafa Ahangarha (DEV Community)
FNF - FNF GAMES - FNF MODS
FNF - Friday Night Funkin Mods - Play thousands of FNF mods online for free. In this rhythm game, you must defeat different opponents in rapping contests to continue dating your Girlfriend.FNF
::: Steam to ditch Google Analytics!
Valve's own replacement coming in - another reason to favor Steam in gaming
PLAYER PRIVACY FIRST:
"As time has gone on we’ve come to realize that Google’s tracking solutions don’t align well with our approach to customer privacy, and so with the migration to GA4 we’ve made the decision to end our support of Google’s analytics systems on Steam."
Valve is one of the prime supporters of Linux too - SteamOS powers their also "Microsoft-free" handheld Steam Deck.
=> https://store.steampowered.com/news/group/4145017/view/3719453992486109638
#Valve #deleteGoogle #Steam #SteamOS #Google #Analytics #player #privacy #gaming
Steamworks Development - The future of traffic reporting on Steam - Steam News
New Steamworks tools coming to help understand your store traffic and to protect player privacystore.steampowered.com
First Steam enabled us to get rid of Microsoft - and now Google is losing ground.
Are we dreaming or what 
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in reply to Emmanuel Goldstein • • •Peter Mount
in reply to stux⚡ • • •@stux I stopped using the apps on the TVs, and recently been using just web access.
Going to move stay from TVs when they fail & just got to monitor's, get better quality with them anyhow & not getting the "please wait whilst we update" when turning it on to watch something
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in reply to Emmanuel Goldstein • •#Transmission
#Kodi