today's leftovers
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SteamOS 3.4 Beta Updates Linux Version, Improves Performance and Stability
Valve has just released an all-new beta build of software for the Steam Deck as part of the SteamOS 3.4 preview suite. Deck users who are subscribed to the beta update track have been able to enjoy a wide variety of crucial improvements and feature additions ahead of those sticking with stable SteamOS versions, and the latest new update may be one of the most important ones yet.
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The Death of Twitter? (And the move to Mastodon)?
I’ve researched leaving Twitter several times. The biggest alternative is Mastodon. However, Mastodon isn’t Twitter. It is different. It has a different intent. It functions differently.
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Collecting and Analyzing Mastodon Data
It has been a wild view days on Twitter after Elon Musk took over. The future of the platform is unclear and many users are looking for alternatives, a popular one being mastodon. I also decided to give it a try and signed up. I quite quickly became interested in its API and realized that there is only a seemingly unmaintained R package on github. So I decided to write a new one. Fast forward a week(!!!!) and the package rtoot was accepted by CRAN.
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Reflections on SRECon EMEA 2022
Though I’ve been involved with SRECon EMEA many times before, this time was unique for two reasons: firstly and most importantly, we hadn't been physically together since late 2019, and secondly, I was program co-chair (alongside Daria Barteneva) - a new experience for me. With the freshness of the experience still in mind, I thought it was the perfect moment to write up my reflections.