Hopefully with 100% fewer zombies than a game that it looks like.

Hey all. I've recently swapped to Linux and I've been really enjoying it so far. I'm still pretty new to basically every aspect of it, though, so I'm not super sure what things I should be wary of with regard to hardware, in particular with Mint.

I was looking at buying a newer laptop to keep up with my main game, but it occurred to me that newer hardware may come with either a host of issues or be less supported than older hardware.

Any advice for laptops in this regard?

Of all the crazy parts of our crazy system, the craziest part is where taxpayers pay for the research, then pay private companies to publish it, and then pay again so scientists can read it. We may not agree on much, but we can all agree on this: it is time, finally and forever, to get rid of for-profit scientific publishers.

Press photographers were reportedly barred from Pentagon press briefings after Pete Hegseth‘s staff became irked over unflattering photos of the defense secretary. The office of the notoriously vain Cabinet member — a former Fox News host who had a hair and makeup studio built in the Pentagon shortly after being confirmed — should probably have more important things on his mind, chiefly the war in Iran, and, perhaps, the elementary school there that the United States appears to have bombed.

According to a Wednesday report from The Washington Post, press pool photographers were banned from briefings on March 4 and March 10 after taking and publishing what sources described as “unflattering” images of Hegseth. The Post noted that the White House had declined to comment on the decision to exclude the photographers. The White House took exception, with Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly sharing an email reply to the publication with an off-topic quip over the newspaper’s recent layoff of more than 300 journalists, but no actual response to the Post’s question about the concern over Hegseth’s image.

The National Press Club responded on Wednesday, with President Mark Schoeff Jr. writing that the Pentagon’s decision “is deeply troubling and runs counter to the fundamental principles of transparency in a democratic society,” adding that “when the government decides which images the public is allowed to see, transparency is replaced by control.” PEN America also responded, calling the decision to bar photographers a “petty act of retaliation.”

Computer Worlds is a showcase for indie computer games whose distinctiveness would make it hard for them to reach their audience. In the words of Gil Lawson, the brain behind the showcase:

There's something happening that I want to tell you about.
For the last few years, game studios across the world have been getting downsized and demolished. Massive, expensive AAA games are being met with disinterest and dispassion on release, and the culture around games has been choked by algorithm driven feeds and collapsing forum for public conversation. The mood has been a little grim.
In spite of that, though, there is a growing movement of developers often often working alone around very small teams, making beautiful, fun, strange, distinctive games that find large, enthusiastic audiences on release.
In a moment where both independent developers and massive teams are trying to hedge their bets and play it safe, these developers are swinging for the fences and finding that's what people want to play.
Those people and those games don't always have the easiest time finding one another though. The games press has been gutted, there's almost no infrastructure left for curation and criticism, and even publishers don't know how to publicize a game today.
If you want play a game in a specific genre, there's probably a steam tag for that, but if you're looking to play a game that is specifically distinctive and unique and unlike anything else, it can be hard to know where to start.
I don't think it should be that hard. So I reached out to a number of other developers working in this vein, and we did something about it ourselves. I'm very excited to show it to you. It's called Computer Worlds.

Please, take a peek for yourself! There is a treasure trove of cool games in here, including something that will probably become your personal GOTY for the coming year.

COMPUTER WORLDS - A New Showcase Celebrating Strange & Distinctive Games

I have three networked Win10/11 PCs at our small family business that occasionally need to be accessed and maintained from my Fedora PC at home. I’ve used Google Remote Desktop for a while but it’s unreliable and also F Google.

Was looking at the Gl-Inet Comet products which look promising as they say they work without cloud access, but they’re a tad spendy. If it’s the best option I’m willing to drop the coin.

Are there better options?

Thanks!

Hacker News.

The agency once said that pieces of space debris “pose a significant risk,” but the Trump administration has backed off a rule that would have required companies like Elon Musk’s SpaceX to remove rocket parts from orbit within 25 years of launch.

Le militant tué à Lyon gravitait depuis plusieurs années dans les cercles néofascistes locaux. Des milliers de posts anonymes sur X retrouvés par « Mediapart » montrent l’étendue de sa pensée raciste et antisémite, construite autour d’une glorification du fascisme et une nostalgie du nazisme.

lIl y a d’abord eu les hommages, élogieux. « Quentin est un nouveau converti au catholicisme engagé pour le bien commun […] avec une noblesse d’âme impressionnante », décrivait son ami Baptiste Claudin le 16 février sur CNews.

Puis est arrivée la minute de silence à l’Assemblée nationale. À 15 heures, le lendemain, tout l’hémicycle s’est levé pour le « jeune Quentin » – les mots de la présidente Yaël Braun-Pivet. Le militant d’extrême droite venait d’être déclaré mort après avoir été passé à tabac par des militants antifascistes, en marge d’un affrontement entre deux bandes rivales. Allait suivre un débat national jetant notamment l’opprobre sur le mouvement de La France insoumise (LFI), accusé de proximité avec le mouvement antifasciste.

Enfin, les rares portraits étoffés sont apparus dans la presse conservatrice, décrivant Quentin Deranque à travers les témoignages de ses ami·es proches. « Quentin est devenu catholique pour des raisons identitaires : le patriotisme et l’amour de Dieu sont liés chez lui », a ainsi résumé Domitille Casarotto dans Le Figaro.

Le jeune « consacrait ses nuits à l’aide aux sans-abri et à la lecture », affirme encore l’avocat de sa famille Fabien Rajon, qui a dénoncé le 11 mars « le harcèlement de certains médias dont les prétendues “enquêtes” ne visent qu’à salir sa mémoire ». Contacté par Mediapart, il n’a pas répondu à nos sollicitations.

Un aspect de la personnalité du militant néofaciste, qui s’était porté volontaire pour faire partie d’un service d’ordre bénévole du groupe de fémonationalistes Némésis le 12 février, a pourtant jusqu’ici été complètement éclipsé. Un activisme en ligne d’une rare brutalité, qui laisse peu de doute sur les convictions néonazies qu’il avait développées.

Mediapart a identifié des milliers de posts que Quentin Deranque a publiés sous pseudonyme ces deux dernières années sur le réseau social X. Si elles confirment le portrait de fervent catholique et intellectuel appliqué que ses ami·es ont dressé, ces publications donnent aussi à voir l’étendue vertigineuse d’une pensée structurée autour d’un racisme et d’un antisémitisme décomplexés, ainsi qu’une glorification assumée du fascisme et de la nostalgie du nazisme.

Police body camera and weapons juggernaut Axon is reporting blockbuster earnings amid the Trump administration’s explosive spending on immigration policing. The company is resisting efforts to make it disclose its political spending strategy.

They were going to get £55 from me but now they're getting nothing!

Hey Everyone, I'm currently wanting to switch from Headscale to Netbird. It looks like Netbird is much easier to self host now except I can't get it working with my current Traefik v3.6 config. Here is my config.yaml file for the routers and headers. Any ideas?

Everything loads up fine (from the logs) however I can't go to the domain address. I have a CNAME record in cloudflare not proxied. The documentation says to set an A record of "netbird.mydomain.com" however wouldn't that defeat the purpose of the reverse proxy? I have an A record setup already pointing to my public ip and everything gets sent to my traefik reverse proxy.

` ###http:

routers:

netbird-dashboard:
  rule: Host(`netbird.mydomain.com`)
  entryPoints:
    - https
  tls: {} 
  service: dashboard
  priority: 1

netbird-grpc:
  rule: >
    Host(`netbird.mydomain.com`)
    && (PathPrefix(`/signalexchange.SignalExchange/`)
    || PathPrefix(`/management.ManagementService/`))
  entryPoints:
    - https
  tls: {} 
  service: netbird-server-h2c
  priority: 100

  netbird-backend:
  rule: >
    Host(`netbird.mydomain.com`)
    && (PathPrefix(`/relay`)
    || PathPrefix(`/ws-proxy/`)
    || PathPrefix(`/api`)
    || PathPrefix(`/oauth2`))
  entryPoints:
    - https
  tls: {} 
  service: netbird-server
  priority: 100

services:

 dashboard:
  loadBalancer:
    servers:
      - url: "http://netbird/"

 netbird-server:
  loadBalancer:
    servers:
      - url: "http://netbird/"

netbird-server-h2c:
  loadBalancer:
    servers:
      - url: "h2c://netbird:80"

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A user asked on the official Lutris GitHub two weeks ago "is lutris slop now" and noted an increasing amount of "LLM generated commits". To which the Lutris creator replied:

It's only slop if you don't know what you're doing and/or are using low quality tools. But I have over 30 years of programming experience and use the best tool currently available. It was tremendously helpful in helping me catch up with everything I wasn't able to do last year because of health issues / depression.

There are massive issues with AI tech, but those are caused by our current capitalist culture, not the tools themselves. In many ways, it couldn't have been implemented in a worse way but it was AI that bought all the RAM, it was OpenAI. It was not AI that stole copyrighted content, it was Facebook. It wasn't AI that laid off thousands of employees, it's deluded executives who don't understand that this tool is an augmentation, not a replacement for humans.

I'm not a big fan of having to pay a monthly sub to Anthropic, I don't like depending on cloud services. But a few months ago (and I was pretty much at my lowest back then, barely able to do anything), I realized that this stuff was starting to do a competent job and was very valuable. And at least I'm not paying Google, Facebook, OpenAI or some company that cooperates with the US army.

Anyway, I was suspecting that this "issue" might come up so I've removed the Claude co-authorship from the commits a few days ago. So good luck figuring out what's generated and what is not. Whether or not I use Claude is not going to change society, this requires changes at a deeper level, and we all know that nothing is going to improve with the current US administration.