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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

#TerraForma #IndieDev



ons kruisig die wyse
en wys na die kruise
as bewyse van ons menslikheid

https://youtu.be/mx_TbVW0YNM

#SouthAfrica #Rock #Fokofpolisiekar


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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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Can we appreciate for a minute that at some point great people came together and created top tier free software that in the past would cost you thousands of dollars?
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Children who have never been vaccinated definitely lead healthier lives.

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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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Rooting for the AllBlacks always reminds me of my childhood. This time, I didn’t immediately do it because I was rooting for our guys to take a knee or wear an armband for the 7,000 victims of IDF in #Palestine. Then I just tagged my hopes as #thingsthatneverhappened and switched back to AlJazeera

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We love free software. With much thanks to the talented @SachaChua @sachac for illustrating the reasons. See https://www.sachachua.com/blog/ for emacs news and more! #FreeSoftware

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I am ashamed to admit that #ChatGPT really helped me to clean up a very messy spreadsheet today.
Am I the enemy?


the guitar solo from Comfortably Numb is unequivocally my favourite ever.

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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/

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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/

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@amerika Bullshit. It has nothing to do with diversity or a lack thereof. It has everything to do with corruption and incompetence, which comes in all shapes, sizes and colours.
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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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@ArdainianRight My greatest aspiration is to one day be listed right there alongside Shadowman.




I don't know who needs to hear this, but ...

#microsoft and #google are not the internet's "official authority" on #email (or any-fucken-thing else)



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?

#power #battery #solar #offgrid #AskFedi

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@DeManiak 🇿🇦 I genuinely expected my PC (+ monitor) alone to be drawing 300W+ while active
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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


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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!

Wrong definition of Open Source on Dev.to

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.

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It’s unfortunate to hear that Dev.to has provided an incorrect definition for the Open Source tag. Hope the fnf staffs fix it as soon as possible.



#FuckOffGoogle


::: Steam to ditch Google Analytics! :erogun: :google:

Valve's own replacement coming in - another reason to favor Steam in gaming :thinkhappy:

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


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First Steam enabled us to get rid of Microsoft - and now Google is losing ground.

Are we dreaming or what :thinkhappy:



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Sneak peek: Gajim 1.8 will integrate OMEMO encryption! In the past, we moved the most popular plugins into Gajim's core: image preview, plugin installer, HTTP upload, syntax highlight, and now OMEMO encryption as well. This brings tighter integration and better user experience :xmpp:

#xmpp #gajim #encryption

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A database is one of the most critical components for almost every application. Making sure it is running with the expected read and write latencies is paramount. Learn how to monitor your MS-SQL instances with the new integration for Grafana Cloud https://grafana.com/blog/2023/04/11/how-to-monitor-microsoft-sql-server-performance-with-grafana-cloud/?mdm=social

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@Grafana Labs
you guys are really pushing your own cloud
would love to see a tutorial on doing this in a self-hosted (well, self-hosted gitlab) instance

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While the world watches trump ...


Just a few facts:

- South Africa will host the #BRICS Summit in 2023
- BRICS population - 3,2 billion (G7 population - 777 million)
- 🇸🇦, 🇦🇪, 🇪🇬,🇩🇿, 🇦🇷, 🇲🇽,🇳🇬 are among countries that are interested in joining BRICS
- BRICS countries have overtaken G7 in share of world PPP GDP



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