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AutoTL;DR@lemmings.world · 2 days ago

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Selaco is easily one of the biggest highlights of the year, with its mixture of over-the-top action and chunky retro visuals.

Added “Resume Game” button in the main menu.

They also mentioned a save issue between Steam Deck / Linux and Windows that should be solved now too.

So if you’ve swapped between Proton and the Native Build (Or a Windows PC and a Steam Deck), it shouldn’t lose any saves.

Improvements to the save system are welcome, especially with it being in Early Access and many updates are expected, it’s nice to see they’re working to ensure progress isn’t lost.

Altered Orbit Studios mentioned they’re taking a short vacation now but after that expect work on the Randomizer Mode, more story elements and production for Chapter 2 to continue.

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AutoTL;DR@lemmings.world · 2 days ago

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While there’s been a clear drop, the Linux user share on Steam for June 2024 still remains about 2% showing the clear upwards trend overall.

Interestingly, this is another month where Simplified Chinese as a language on Steam saw a jump, and quite often we see Linux drop when this happens.

According to Valve the latest operating system details are:

For Linux, the Steam Deck with SteamOS continues propping up the numbers with it being the most popular by far.

Freedesktop SDK 23.08 (Flatpak runtime) 64 bit 6.71% +0.66%

Ubuntu Core 22 64 bit (Steam Snap) 2.97% +0.35%

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AutoTL;DR@lemmings.world · 3 days ago

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Bazzite is one of the best options to get Linux on various gaming handhelds, and the 3.5.0 release is out now that has improvements pretty much everywhere with expanded hardware support.

Games that do not support controller disconnection (e.g., Super Meat Boy) will no longer break after suspend!

Handheld Daemon will now send fake accelerometer values to the emulated controller, ensuring games cant calibrate without moving the gyro incorrectly.

There’s also a new boot video and suspend animation, Bazzite updates are smaller in size, bluetooth controller fixes, Wallpaper Engine works again,

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AutoTL;DR@lemmings.world · 5 days ago

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Temu—the Chinese shopping app that has rapidly grown so popular in the US that even Amazon is reportedly trying to copy it—is “dangerous malware” that’s secretly monetizing a broad swath of unauthorized user data, Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin alleged in a lawsuit filed Tuesday.

Griffin fears that Temu is capable of accessing virtually all data on a person’s phone, exposing both users and non-users to extreme privacy and security risks.

In their report, Grizzly Research alleged that PDD Holdings is a “fraudulent company” and that “Temu is cleverly hidden spyware that poses an urgent security threat to United States national interests.”

Investigators agreed, the lawsuit said, concluding “we strongly suspect that Temu is already, or intends to, illegally sell stolen data from Western country customers to sustain a business model that is otherwise doomed for failure."

Researchers found that Pinduoduo “was programmed to bypass users’ cell phone security in order to monitor activities on other apps, check notifications, read private messages, and change settings,” the lawsuit said.

A Temu spokesperson provided a statement to Ars, discrediting Grizzly Research’s investigation and confirming that the company was “surprised and disappointed by the Arkansas Attorney General’s Office for filing the lawsuit without any independent fact-finding.”

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AutoTL;DR@lemmings.world · 5 days ago

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Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI, said this week that machine-learning companies can scrape most content published online and use it to train neural networks because it’s essentially “freeware.”

Shortly afterwards the Center for Investigative Reporting sued OpenAI and its largest investor Microsoft “for using the nonprofit news organization’s content without permission or offering compensation.”

Also, in 2022, several unidentified developers sued OpenAI and GitHub based on claims that the organizations used publicly posted programming code to train generative models in violation of software licensing terms

Most people posting content online as individuals will have compromised their rights in some way by accepting the Terms of Service agreements offered by major social media platforms.

The fact that OpenAI and others making AI models are striking content deals with major publishers shows that a strong brand, deep pockets, and a legal team can bring large technology operations to the negotiating table.

People will stop making work available online, they predict, if it just gets used to power AI models that reduce the marginal cost of content creation to zero and deprive creators of the possibility of any reward.

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AutoTL;DR@lemmings.world · 6 days ago

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Odencat developer of Bear’s Restaurant, Fishing Paradiso and Meg’s Monster recently revealed their next little adventure game with Mousebusters.

The day after moving into your new living space, you wake up to find that you’ve been inexplicably transformed into a mouse.

Luckily, you soon meet a hard-boiled rodent with a crass but loveable manner of speaking who asks you to call him “Chief.” He claims he can help you turn back into a human…if you’re willing to undertake a few missions for him in return.

Together, you’ll form the titular team, and embark on expeditions to bust the ghosts that haunt each unit and break the curse on the apartment building.

It will have full Native Linux support and Steam Deck support.

You can follow it on Steam.

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AutoTL;DR@lemmings.world · 6 days ago

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While every month Valve has been posting a fresh set of the most played Steam Deck games for the previous month, they’ve now added a dedicated Steam Chart for it.

Like the most played for May and again for April.

So you no longer have to wait for Valve to post about what’s currently hot, you can just go and see for yourself.

Like other Steam Charts you can filter it and with the Steam Deck chart it lets you view the most played games over the last week, month and year based on player counts.

For example, this is for the last week, and handily it shows the Deck Verified rating too:

While you’re here, why not hop on over to our Forum to talk about Your favourite game so far of 2024?

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AutoTL;DR@lemmings.world · 7 days ago

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Nasa has selected Elon Musk’s SpaceX company to bring down the International Space Station at the end of its life.The California-based company will build a vehicle capable of pushing the 430-tonne orbiting platform into the Pacific Ocean early in the next decade.A contract for the work, valued at up to $843m (£668m), was announced on Wednesday.The first elements of the space station were launched in 1998, with continuous crewed operations beginning in 2000.The station circles the Earth every 90 minutes at an altitude just above 400km (250 miles) and has been home to thousands of scientific experiments, investigating all manner of phenomena from the aging process in humans to the formula for new types of materials.

Engineers say the laboratory remains structurally sound, but plans need to be put in place now for its eventual disposal.

Without assistance, it would eventually fall back to Earth on its own, however this poses a significant risk to populations on the ground.

"Selecting a US De-orbit Vehicle for the International Space Station (ISS) will help Nasa and its international partners ensure a safe and responsible transition in low Earth orbit at the end of station operations.

Nasa has studied various options for end-of-life disposal, external.These include disassembling the station and using the younger elements in a next-generation platform.

Another idea has been to simply to hand it off to some commercial concern to run and maintain.But these solutions all have varying complications of complexity and cost, as well as the legal difficulty of having to untangle issues of ownership.Neither Nasa nor SpaceX have released details of the design for the de-orbiting “tug boat”, but it will require considerable thrust to safely guide the station into the atmosphere in the right place and at the right time.The platform’s great mass and extent - the dimensions roughly of a football pitch - mean some structures and components are bound to survive the heat of re-entry and make it all the way to the surface.Controllers will allow the orbit of the ISS to naturally decay over a period of time, and after removing the last crew will command the tugboat to execute the final de-orbit manoeuvre.Redundant spacecraft are aimed at a remote location in the Pacific known as Point Nemo.Named after the famous submarine sailor from Jules Verne’s book 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, the target graveyard is more than 2,500km from the nearest piece of land.Nasa is hopeful that a number of private consortia will have started launching commercial space stations by the time the ISS is brought out of the sky.The focus of the space agencies will shift to a project to build a platform called Gateway that will orbit the Moon.

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AutoTL;DR@lemmings.world · 7 days ago

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Another big upgrade for Steam desktop and Steam Deck fans, with Game Recording now in Beta allowing you to easily clip your favourite moments with no external apps needed.

It even makes sharing the clips relatively simple too with you being able to send it to different devices, like from a Steam Deck to desktop PC.

Valve said to expect more “upcoming features, including individualized game settings (coming soon)”.

Here’s a quick clip I recorded directly via Steam on my Kubuntu Linux desktop (game is Rack and Slay):

And a clip recorded from my Steam Deck LCD 512GB, which I then used the built-in feature to send it to my desktop and upload (game is Brotato):

Pictured - me editing the Brotato video clip included above, directly on Steam Deck.

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AutoTL;DR@lemmings.world · 7 days ago

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A South Korean media outlet has alleged that local telco KT deliberately infected some customers with malware due to their excessive use of peer-to-peer (P2P) downloading tools.

The number of infected users of “web hard drives” – the South Korean term for the online storage services that allow uploading and sharing of content – has reportedly reached 600,000.

Malware designed to hide files was allegedly inserted into the Grid Program – the code that allows KT users to exchange data in a peer-to-peer method.

The incident has reportedly drawn enough attention to warrant an investigation from the police, which have apparently searched KT’s headquarters and datacenter, and seized evidence, in pursuit of evidence the telco violated South Korea’s Communications Secrets Protection Act (CSPA) and the Information and Communications Network Act (ICNA).

The investigation has reportedly uncovered an entire team at KT dedicated to detecting and interfering with the file transfers, with some workers assigned to malware development, others distribution and operation, and wiretapping.

Of course, given files shared on P2P are notoriously targeted by malware distributors, perhaps KT the telco assumed its web hard drive users wouldn’t notice a little extra virus here and there.

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AutoTL;DR@lemmings.world · 7 days ago

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The owner of a pizza restaurant in the US has discovered the DoorDash delivery app has been selling his food cheaper than he does - while still paying him full price for orders.

Content strategist Ranjan Roy blogged about the anonymous restaurateur, who is his friend - he later named the business, which has outlets in Manhattan and Topeka, Kansas, US.

Mr Roy said he first heard about the situation in March 2019, when his friend started receiving complaints about deliveries, even though his outlets did not deliver.

At that point , he discovered he had been added to DoorDash - and noticed it was charging a lower price for one of his premium pizzas.

The next time, the restaurant prepared his friend’s order by boxing up the pizza base without any toppings, maximising the “profit” from the mismatched prices.

"Third-party delivery platforms, as they’ve been built, just seem like the wrong model, but instead of testing, failing, and evolving, they’ve been subsidised into market dominance.

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AutoTL;DR@lemmings.world · 8 days ago

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HORI, a manufacturer of popular gaming accessories have today revealed the Wireless Horipad for Steam.

The main thing that concerns me here for Linux and Steam Deck support, is their mention of a dedicated app for it.

We’ve seen before from the likes of 8BitDo, that certain buttons on their controllers (like back paddles) require a dedicated app and so cannot be configured directly on Linux / Steam Deck.

Back paddles and 2 extra custom buttons on the bottom.

Rapid fire ability on face buttons (ABXY).

Price according to their page is 9,780 Japanese Yen, so about £50 GBP / $60 USD.

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AutoTL;DR@lemmings.world · 8 days ago

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Guy Beahm, better known by his streamer persona Dr Disrespect, said he was banned from Twitch four years ago due to private messages he sent to a minor that “sometimes leaned too much in the direction of being inappropriate.”

Beahm shared details of the ban in a lengthy post to X, marking the first time he’s directly addressed the reason for his removal.

“Everyone has been wanting to know why I was banned from Twitch, but for reasons outside of my control, I was not allowed to say anything for the last several years,” Beahm posted on X.

Yesterday, Midnight Society, a video game studio Beahm co-founded in 2021, announced that it ended its relationship with the creator.

In a post on X, Robert Bowling, studio head at Midnight Society, wrote, “If you inappropriately message a minor.

In a statement to The Verge, Maclean Marshall, Turtle Beach’s senior director of global communications, wrote, “We will not be continuing our partnership with Guy Beahm/DrDisRespect.”

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AutoTL;DR@lemmings.world · 8 days ago

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For starters, SteamIDFinder is using the current sale price of every game in your unplayed library, as confirmed by looking at a half-dozen “Pile of Shame” profiles.

Steam and I disagree on whether I’ve launched and played Baldur’s Gate II: Enhanced Edition (I definitely did and was definitely overwhelmed), Mountain, and SteamWorld Dig.

Even if they’re not dedicated tools, Steam libraries sometimes end up with little bits of game that you didn’t ask for and might never play, like Half-Life Deathmatch: Source.

So nobody I could easily poll had fewer than 25 percent of their games unplayed, and those with higher numbers tended to have bought into bundles, sales, add-ons, and other entry generators.

If you’ve looked up your own stats and feel surprised, you can keep your unplayed games as a dedicated collection in Steam, and it might inspire you to check out the most intriguing left-behinds.

Play what interests you when you have the time, and if your unplayed count helps you stave off your worst sale impulse buys or rediscover lost gems, so be it.

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AutoTL;DR@lemmings.world · 9 days ago

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A sale I missed that started last week you might want to jump in and find some big discounts in the Fanatical Red Hot Sale which goes on all this week too!

There’s over 8,000 deals currently live, and of course various game bundles that look pretty good as always with Fanatical.

Some big games with nice discounts include (all of these work on Linux / Steam Deck):

Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition - 60% off

If you’re specifically after games for your Steam Deck, Fanatical now even have a Steam Deck Games page that you can toggle between Verified and Playable making it even easier to spot some good deals.

Don’t forget the Capcom Monster Hunter Bundle which runs until tomorrow.

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AutoTL;DR@lemmings.world · 9 days ago

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NHS England has confirmed its patient data managed by blood test management organisation Synnovis was stolen in a ransomware attack on 3 June.Qilin, a Russian cyber-criminal group, shared almost 400GB of private information on their darknet site on Thursday night, something they threatened to do in order to extort money from Synnovis.

In a statement, NHS England said there is “no evidence” that test results have been published, but that “investigations are ongoing”.

“Patients should continue to attend their appointments unless they have been told otherwise and should access urgent care as they usually would,” NHS England said.A sample of the stolen data seen by the BBC includes patient names, dates of birth, NHS numbers and descriptions of blood tests, something cyber security expert Ciaran Martin told the BBC was "one of the most significant and harmful cyber attacks ever in the UK.

"There are also business account spreadsheets detailing financial arrangements between hospitals and GP services and Synnovis being taken.

The ransomware hackers infiltrated the computer systems of the company, which is used by two NHS trusts in London, and encrypted vital information making IT systems useless.As is often the case with cyber-criminals, they also downloaded as much private data as they could to further extort the company for a ransom payment in Bitcoin.It is not known how much money the hackers demanded from Synnovis or if the company entered negotiations.

But the fact Qilin has published some, potentially all, of the data means they did not pay.The cyber-attackers told the BBC on an encrypted messaging service they had deliberately targeted Synnovis as a way to punish the UK for not helping enough in an unspecified war.In NHS England’s statement it said it “continues to work with Synnovis and the National Crime Agency”.NHS England said it had set up a helpline to support people impacted by the attack and it will continue to share updates, but “investigations of this type are complex and take time”.

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AutoTL;DR@lemmings.world · 9 days ago

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A brand-new campaign from @DARwins1 with an original story taking place before the events of the main game: “Set out under the command of renowned General Edmund Clayde with the goal of laying the foundations of a new world.

A brand-new campaign from @DARwins1 with an original story taking place before the events of the main game:

“Set out under the command of renowned General Edmund Clayde with the goal of laying the foundations of a new world.

A brand-new campaign from @DARwins1 with its own self-contained story: “After crash-landing in the territory of a once powerful kingdom, you must navigate your way through the various factions fighting over what remains.

There’s also a new in-game guide you can bring up any time, and a classic feature returns with formation speed limiting.

For people who enjoy online play there’s several big improvements there too including a new UI for joining games, there’s advanced port mapping so you can now use PCP, NAT-PMP, and UPnP to improve the ability to successfully host games.

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The chances of your hardware being recognized, activated, and working properly right after install was akin to getting a straight flush in poker.

Broadcom provided no code for its gear, so Finger helped reverse-engineer the necessary specs by manually dumping and reading hardware registers.

He summarizes his background: Fortran programmer in 1963, PDP-11 interfaces to scientific instruments in the 1970s, VAX-11/780 work in the early 1980s, and then Unix/Linux systems, until retiring from the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, DC, in 1999.

The mineral Fingerite is named for Finger, whose work in crystallography took him on a fellowship to northern Bavaria, as noted in one Quora answer about the Autobahn.

He joined the computer club, which had a growing number of Windows PCs sharing a DSL connection through one of the systems running WinGate.

In a 2023 Quora response to someone asking if someone without “any formal training in computer science” can “contribute something substantial” to Linux, Finger writes, “I think that I have.”

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AutoTL;DR@lemmings.world · 10 days ago

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Data elsewhere show fewer opportunities for people to fill software development and tech roles after the US labor market is no longer as hot as it was a few years ago.

“The tech job market has undeniably slowed since the end of 2022, cooling after a few years of rapid hiring during the pandemic recovery,” Daniel Zhao, Glassdoor’s lead economist, said in a written statement.

“Rising interest rates, the end of pandemic-era trends and a slowing economy overall has crimped demand for tech workers.”

“There was a slowdown in software developer hires in 2020, and then we had a couple bounce backs, and I think that’s reflective of how the pandemic really spurred this increase into digital service offerings,” Richardson said.

Nick Bunker, economic research director for North America at the Indeed Hiring Lab, told BI, “it’s unlikely we’ll see levels of demand like we saw in '21, in '22 for software development anytime soon.”

Data from Handshake, a platform where students can look for work, suggests a cooler demand for software developers or engineers.

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AutoTL;DR@lemmings.world · 12 days ago

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In an update released late Friday evening, NASA said it was “adjusting” the date of the Starliner spacecraft’s return to Earth from June 26 to an unspecified time in July.

The announcement followed two days of long meetings to review the readiness of the spacecraft, developed by Boeing, to fly NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to Earth.

“We are letting the data drive our decision making relative to managing the small helium system leaks and thruster performance we observed during rendezvous and docking."

The NASA update did not provide any information about deliberations during these meetings, but it is clear that the agency’s leaders were not able to get comfortable with all contingencies that Wilmore and Williams might encounter during a return flight to Earth, including safely undocking from the space station, maneuvering away, performing a de-orbit burn, separating the crew capsule from the service module, and then flying through the planet’s atmosphere before landing under parachutes in a New Mexico desert.

“We are strategically using the extra time to clear a path for some critical station activities while completing readiness for Butch and Suni’s return on Starliner and gaining valuable insight into the system upgrades we will want to make for post-certification missions,” Stich said.

They can gather more data about the performance of the vehicle on long-duration missions—eventually Starliner will fly operational missions that will enable astronauts to stay on orbit for six months at a time.

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