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A volcano in southeastern Iran has nudged upward by about 3.5 inches (9 centimeters) in 10 months. This might sound like a small rise but it has big significance.

A new study used satellite data to spot the change and argues that pressure is building near the summit.

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Building A Steam Loco These Days Is Nothing But Hacks (hackaday.com)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by cm0002@ttrpg.network to c/trains@midwest.social

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The Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR)’s T1 class is famous for many reasons: being enormous, being a duplex, possibly having beaten Mallard’s speed record while no one was looking… and being in production in the 21st century. That last fact is down to the redoubtable work by the PRR T1 Steam Locomotive Trust, who continued their efforts to reproduce an example of these remarkable and lamentably unpreserved locomotives in the year 2025.

They say that 2025 was “the year of the frame” because the frame was finally put together. We might say that for the PRR Trust, this was the year of welding. Back when the Baldwin and Altoona works were turning out the originals, the frames for steam locomotives were cast, not welded. There might not be anywhere on Earth to get a 64′ long (19.5 m), 71,000 lbs steel casting made these days. Building it up with welded steel might not be perfectly accurate, but it’s the sort of hack that’s needed to keep the project moving.

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First Public 2026 Build of RPCS3, the Best PS3 Emulator, Is Now Available to Download (www.dsogaming.com)

submitted 1 month ago by cm0002@ttrpg.network to c/emulation@sh.itjust.works

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Improving the Flatpak Graphics Drivers Situation (blog.sebastianwick.net)

submitted 1 month ago by cm0002@ttrpg.network to c/flatpak@programming.dev

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Graphics drivers in Flatpak have been a bit of a pain point. The drivers have to be built against the runtime to work in the runtime. This usually isn’t much of an issue but it breaks down in two cases:

If the driver depends on a specific kernel version

If the runtime is end-of-life (EOL)

The first issue is what the proprietary Nvidia drivers exhibit. A specific user space driver requires a specific kernel driver. For drivers in Mesa, this isn’t an issue. In the medium term, we might get lucky here and the Mesa-provided Nova driver might become competitive with the proprietary driver. Not all hardware will be supported though, and some people might need CUDA or other proprietary features, so this problem likely won’t go away completely.

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Improving the Flatpak Graphics Drivers Situation (blog.sebastianwick.net)

submitted 1 month ago by cm0002@ttrpg.network to c/linux@programming.dev

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Graphics drivers in Flatpak have been a bit of a pain point. The drivers have to be built against the runtime to work in the runtime. This usually isn’t much of an issue but it breaks down in two cases:

If the driver depends on a specific kernel version

If the runtime is end-of-life (EOL)

The first issue is what the proprietary Nvidia drivers exhibit. A specific user space driver requires a specific kernel driver. For drivers in Mesa, this isn’t an issue. In the medium term, we might get lucky here and the Mesa-provided Nova driver might become competitive with the proprietary driver. Not all hardware will be supported though, and some people might need CUDA or other proprietary features, so this problem likely won’t go away completely.

Two Linux Distributions I'm Watching Closely in 2026 by cm0002 in c/linux@programming.dev

[-] cm0002@ttrpg.network 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I specified already, people see the instances you post from and builds recognition for that due to the volume with which i post. So I rotate around which ones I post from

when you use these accounts to post to huge instances like lemmy.world (which you do frequently)

I haven't posted to a .world comm (with the exception of linux_gaming) since the JL fallout and have moved quite a few of the comms I created there off it and am planning to move some of the larger ones I mod off there

although I'm not convinced it's really a problem.

It actually did happen to me, and they were spouting right-winger Nazi bullshit sooo yea. Turned out it was UM (unsurprisingly) lmao

And btw some of those accounts in your screenshot are the imposter accounts like Lonestar, az.social and pawn

But some of the others I don't post from much if at all and just make comms with them

Two Linux Distributions I'm Watching Closely in 2026 by cm0002 in c/linux@programming.dev

[-] cm0002@ttrpg.network 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Oh I don't do that for that, there's multiple reasons, but one of the bigger ones is to promote smaller instances because of the volume of posting it makes smaller instances more recognizable.

Other reasons for the multitude of accounts include making comms on fitting smaller instances (I make programming related comms on programming.dev or retro related on retrolemmy for example), protecting against the imposter problem and better interconnecting wayward smaller instances (you'd be surprised at the number of, even common comms, that smaller instances are missing out on that I discover just through my posting)

Two Linux Distributions I'm Watching Closely in 2026 by cm0002 in c/linux@programming.dev

[-] cm0002@ttrpg.network 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I do crosspost all .ml content and tag the user if it's OC, as part of boycotting efforts against .ml. It shows in the crosspost section of your client

Not that it's relevant in this particular case, this is my own sourced article not posted before to the Threadiverse

Why am I cross-posting .ml content?

I cross-post from .ml to the nearest relevant non-.ml comm to reduce the influence of .ml comms and indirectly, the instance as a whole, to make it an easier decision for other instance admins to defederate because one key reason I identified that admins don't want to defederate is because .ml still has some very large comms and some niche comms.

Megathread on the issue

Some highlights from the link:

"Don't worry guys, the Uyghur Genocide was REALLY just birth control! ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/30580167

"See! nobody died IN Tiananmen Square, just AROUND it, so it doesn't count!!" ~ Davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/30673342

.ml admin, Nutomics continued transphobia https://lemmy.world/post/29222558 The original transphobic Comment from Nutomic: https://lemmy.world/post/18236068

"NK is actually good and anything counter to that is Western propaganda!" ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/31595035

General negative sentiment to other instances who haven't "seen the way" yet ~davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/27426510

"If you don't support Russia then you just don't understand geopolitics" ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/27352415

And so so much documentation on clear heavy handed censorship and bias also on the link. So much I can't even put them all here because this comment would be really long.

I believe the behavior of its admins (the main admins are Lemmy devs) does harm to the overall growth of the Lemmy-verse and maybe even the Thrediverse (since Lemmy kinda kicked off the Thrediverse) because of its association with the devs of Lemmy and their insistence to use .ml as their personal political platform to spread harmful propaganda

On the outside, bringing up Lemmy frequently leads to comments like "Lemmy? Isn't that the place with a bunch of tankies?" Or "Tried Lemmy, but found it full of pro Russia crap so I left". The best way forward from that I see is to either widely defederate from .ml like the rest of the Triad, or pressure them to put a fair and unbiased as possible admin team.

Alternative to Google Family: timelimit by cm0002 in c/parenting@lemmy.world

[-] cm0002@ttrpg.network 5 points 1 month ago

I use this, I like it. I have it coupled with a device management platform that enforces it. (ManageEngine Endpoint Central, free up to 25 devices)

You can also self-host the "connected mode" server and is way more flexible than Family Link in regards to app limits. You can even set time limits for individual app activities. So if your kid likes a certain app, but has features you'd prefer they have less or no access at all to and it's broken into a separate activity you can just add that activity to a stricter limit

Domain registrar NameCheap bans Zionism Observer website two weeks promoting new Israeli linked CEO Hillan Klein by cm0002 in c/technology@lemmy.zip

[-] cm0002@ttrpg.network 9 points 1 month ago

If it's just a domain, you can transfer registrars pretty eaily

No answers by cm0002 in c/Memes@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[-] cm0002@ttrpg.network 12 points 2 months ago

Stamets is a BOT I KNEW it caught in 4K 📸

Military officials tell troops 168 commissaries could close next month by cm0002 in c/usa@midwest.social

[-] cm0002@ttrpg.network 4 points 3 months ago

Not sure what your area was or what, but it's definitely way cheaper. I still have the ability to go and make a 45-minute monthly trek to do so. Meat alone is, on average, 50% cheaper than Walmart and about 30-40% cheaper than the cheapest place I have in town

There are a few exceptions like certain canned veggies/beans if you can buy in bulk at Sam's Club or Costco can be a bit more expensive at the Commissary on a per ounce basis and name brand frozen/pantry "convenience" foods tend to have little savings

But by and large it's dirt cheap compared to off-base

Military officials tell troops 168 commissaries could close next month by cm0002 in c/usa@midwest.social

[-] cm0002@ttrpg.network 20 points 3 months ago

Commissary groceries are subsidized, it's going to have a pretty big impact. Not only will they have to go off-base, it'll be a lot more expensive.

Coupled with the not getting paid part...lmao

Missing Link: How Linux would continue without Linus Torvalds by cm0002 in c/linux@programming.dev

[-] cm0002@ttrpg.network 14 points 3 months ago

I updated the post with an archive link, sorry I always forget this website is like that because my ad blocking makes it appear clean to me

Missing Link: How Linux would continue without Linus Torvalds by cm0002 in c/linux@programming.dev

[-] cm0002@ttrpg.network 40 points 3 months ago

I updated the post with an archive link, sorry I always forget this website is like that because my ad blocking makes it appear clean to me

3 games you can play in the Linux terminal by cm0002 in c/linux@programming.dev

[-] cm0002@ttrpg.network 22 points 3 months ago

Lol these are for games the work in the terminal

Or

Does RetroArch now have a TUI‽ Because that would be genuinely cool if it did lmao

U.S. Tech Layoffs Hit Two-Decade High in October by cm0002 in c/usa@midwest.social

[-] cm0002@ttrpg.network 11 points 3 months ago

In a just, reasonable world it wouldn't matter because the governments would be doing logical things like rolling out some sort of UBI program to catch people or ensuring basic needs are met job or no job, setting up retraining programs for people to easily pivot etc.

It is useful, it's the governments of the world response to its job elimination that's the problem