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    Looks like the demos of the new ones arent up anymore, but the old shareware versions are available. Avernum 2 Homepage Character creation may seem intimidating but it’s not far off from Fallout in many regards. Choosing a premade class is totally fine. Other modern spiderweb stuff may also be wort [...]
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    穴: What’s the most common hidden gem? As in, what game is the most basic example of the games people bring up when discusing “hidden gems”? It seems to me the term has become such a cliché that the only time it is used is in sort of an advertising context; not literally “this is an ad for a [...]
    | LWN
    Vojtěch Polášek has announced an unofficial effort to create a Fedora-based distribution designed for visually impaired users: My ultimate vision for this project is "NO VOJTUX NEEDED!" because I believe Fedora should eventually be fully accessible out of the box. We aren't there yet, which is whe [...]
    | MetaFilter
    Video here The greatest metalcore band of all time, Converge, play a couple songs, talk about the craft of music, and shred for Audiotree. Simply one of the best mixed live performances around, by absolute giants.Kicking things off with "We Were Never The Same," a track from their upcoming eleventh [...]
    | ScienceDaily
    Consciousness evolved in stages, starting with basic survival responses like pain and alarm, then expanding into focused awareness and self-reflection. These layers help organisms avoid danger, learn from the environment, and coordinate socially. Surprisingly, birds show many of these same traits, f [...]
    | ScienceDaily
    A new theory proposes that the universe’s fundamental forces and particle properties may arise from the geometry of hidden extra dimensions. These dimensions could twist and evolve over time, forming stable structures that generate mass and symmetry breaking on their own. The approach may even expla [...]
    | LWN
    Despite depending heavily on tools, the kernel project often seems to under-invest in the development of those tools. There has been progress in that area, though. At the 2025 Maintainers Summit, Konstantin Ryabitsev, who is (among other things) the author of b4, led a session on ways in which the [...]
    | url.town
    A coding language that's relatively quick and easy to learn.Added by @chilli in Computers › development.
    | url.town
    A development language that includes in-built memory and safety features.Added by @chilli in Computers › development.
    | VOGONS
    HiI wanted to build a computer on PVI-486SP3 motherboard. It is Rav. 1.2 (version A4 SIS chips MU, MW). I have some ancient (second from the bottom on Retroweb) BIOS and it is not recognizing my AMD 5X86. I would like to have some newer version but all of them on The Retroweb are .AWD format (or so [...]
    | Zoologyverse
    The Nautilus, a majestic marine mollusk, is often revered as a “living fossil” for its remarkable survival through multiple mass extinctions over an evolutionary history spanning nearly 500 million years. It is the sole living genus of the subclass Nautiloidea, a lineage that once dominated the anci [...]
    | Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
    [Revised entry by Thomas Williams on December 15, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] John Duns Scotus (1263/66 - 1308) was one of the most important and influential philosopher-theologians of the High Middle Ages. His brilliantly complex and nuanced thought, which earned him the honorific [...]
    | VOGONS
    Got myself a neat asus tusl2-c mainboard with a tualtin celeron 1,3 mhz cpu. I want to turn it into an high end win98se gaming rig for years 1998 to 2001.Which gpu would be quite powerful for win98se but still ballanced for my mobo chipset and the gpu?The usual suspects, gf3, geforce 4, or the [...]
    | The Daily WTF
    Today's anonymous submitter sends us a short snippet. They found this because they were going through code committed by an expensive third-party contractor, trying to track down a bug: every report in the database kept getting duplicated for some reason. This code has been in production for over a d [...]
    | indieblog.page
    Chinese chemistry Note: I've only taken Chemistry for two years so inaccuracies may appear. I'm only accepting corrections in factual errors. I don't care if you have a different opinion. I have a lot to yap about how learning Chemistry in Chinese is just. A lot better than learning it in English [...]
    | indieblog.page
    The last couple of weeks have been a whirl. Recap Why does this matter We could dismiss what is happening here as your Tuesday YouTube drama. However, I think that it has some larger impact. Sports science peer review is bottom of the barrel tier. The field is already criticised for poor studie [...]
    | The World War II Database
    Choshu Airfield was a military airfield located south of the town of Choshu (now Chaozhou) in southern Taiwan. It was built in the 1930s, with only grassy strips, without paved runways. After the war, the hangars and revetments were removed, and most of the land was returned to agricultural use...
    | OpenBenches
    In Loving Memory of Jackie Myers "But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you." -A.A. Milne
    | MelonLand Forum
    I have lived in Austin TX for the last 8 years and at first we had to use a "CapMetro" app that I cannot access anymore, but now we use "UMO" app.Our Public Transit is controlled by a Private company. I ask my bus drivers about this. theyre not employed by the city. It's someone else. there are ofte [...]
    | MelonLand Forum
    I am trying to make an image gallery (you can view it here) and a lot of my drawings are an insane size and i don't want to sacrifice the quality of my images and while i admit, some of them are huge, but i wish to have the images load faster. I have already compressed the png's but i still feel lik [...]
    | ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ Bear
    One of the fun side projects I've taken on this year has been powRSS, the public RSS feed aggregator for the Indieweb. As 2025 comes to a close, I want to put together a summary of the things that went on. I'm a strong believer of building in public, and that includes talking about the goals, succes [...]
    | Wikinews
    Sunday, December 14, 2025   Sports Related articles 14 December 2025: Football: Nottingham Forest beat FC Utrecht 2-1 11 December 2025: 10-man Preston North End draw with Coventry City in Championship fixture 4 November 2025: India wins 2025 Women's Cricket World Cup, defeating South Africa [...]
    | ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ Bear
    If you’re a Bear user, chances are you’ve come across my theme Bearming at some point. You may even have used it. Or maybe you’re still using it. I had a look at the changelog the other day. It showed that the theme was first released on August 17, 2024. The last update was February 20, 2025... unti [...]
    | i.webthings directory
    Intertapes 📌roger Obscure tape finds and their stories [...] an updating collection of found cassette tapes from different locations Size of Life 📌bekishore From an amoeba to a blue whale
    | Search My Site
    The new X/Twitter algorithim is hard to predict, but I’ve had one go viral with over a million views now, a quote-tweet of a cool demo video of Apple’s website builder from 2009, with t…
    | OpenBenches
    IN LOVING MEMORY OF KARYN MARGARET SNEYD NEE BEAVER SADLY MISSED BY FAMILY AND FRIENDS 1964 TO 2015 49 YEARS RIP
    | The Good Old Days
    By the Power of Grayskull! Just calling your indie game just Masters of the Universe, without any further distinguisher or indication what kind of game this may be, might not be the greatest idea in mankind’s history. Nevertheless, applying this theme to a typical game of the time seems appropriat [...]
    | geograph
    This is currently just a �hold the date� message, but our 2026 annual meeting will held be in Nottingham on 2-4 June, with the formal company AGM on the morn...