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Friday 2023-02-03 – Link List

Blogging Intensifies Link List for Friday 2023-02-03

02-Feb-2023 – The Xbox 360 store won’t be closing down, despite what an Xbox support page says

Brief Summary: “An Xbox 360 and a Kinect. | Photo by Sam Byford / The VergeMicrosoft will not be closing down the Xbox 360 Marketplace, the company tells The Verge, e”

02-Feb-2023 – Now ChatGPT Can Make Breakfast For Me

Brief Summary: “The world is abuzz with tales of the ChatGPT AI chatbot, and how it can do everything, except perhaps make the tea. It seems it can write code, which “

02-Feb-2023 – On the state of Android apps

Brief Summary: “Unlike the title may suggest, this is not a post about the fact that Android apps are being released later than iOS apps, or that Android apps are get”

02-Feb-2023 – New Humble Bundle celebrates Black Creators and Characters

Brief Summary: “To go along with Black History Month, the folks at Humble Bundle have put up a bundle of games to celebrate Black Creators and Characters.”

02-Feb-2023 – Elon’s New API Pricing Plan Seems Perfectly Designed… To Help Send More Users And Developers To Mastodon

Brief Summary: “Huh. It had actually felt like quite some time since Elon Musk had last done something so stupid as to send a new bunch of users to Mastodon. But, app”

02-Feb-2023 – Twitter’s Latest Chaotic Move Will Kill the Site’s Best Bots, Account Owners Say

Brief Summary: “On Wednesday, Twitter announced that starting on February 9th, it would no longer be supporting free Application Program Interface (API) access, which”

02-Feb-2023 – MicroPython: Send Sensor Readings via email with the ESP32/ESP826 (BME280)

Brief Summary: “In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to program the ESP32 and ESP8266 boards with MicroPython to send sensor readings to your email. As an example, we’l”

02-Feb-2023 – The Blacklist Season 10 Will Be the End of a TV Era

Brief Summary: “After a few days of fan frenzy over an unverified Instagram photo announcing the final season of The Blacklist, NBC confirmed on Feb. 1, 2023, that se”

02-Feb-2023 – [Epic] Dishonored: Death of the Outsider & City of Gangsters (Free / 100% Off)

Brief Summary: “submitted by /u/Musth [link] [comments]”

02-Feb-2023 – [Humble] So you want to try out Pathfinder? Bundle. Includes PF2e Core Rulebook, Bestiary, Gamemastery Guide, Abomination Vaults Adventure Path, Secrets of Magic, etc. ($25 / 94% off)

Brief Summary: ” submitted by /u/WannabeCuteGayGirl [link] [comments] “

02-Feb-2023 – Din Djarin wields the Darksaber on The Mandalorian season 3 poster

Brief Summary: “With just a month to go until The Mandalorian returns for its third season, a new poster has arrived online for the acclaimed live-action Star Wars se”

21-Jan-2023 – Pluralistic: Tiktok’s enshittification (21 Jan 2023)

Brief Summary: ”
Today’s links
Tiktok’s enshittification: The company manually allocates surplus to creators, and they can take it away again, too.

Hey look at this:”

02-Feb-2023 – The 5 Best Prompt Engineering Tips for Beginners

Brief Summary: “Are you ready to level up your prompt engineering game? This blog post will give you the inside scoop on the 5 best tips for beginners in prompt engin”

30-Jan-2023 – ChatGPT Prompt Engineering – How to Build a Strong “Sequence Prompt”

Brief Summary: “ChatGPT Prompt Engineering is a crucial area in tech that involves designing and creating AI prompts to enhance user experience. 

One type of promp”

12-Jan-2023 – How to Write 10x Better Prompts in ChatGPT

Brief Summary: “Are you tired of getting irrelevant or nonsensical responses from ChatGPT? Want to know the secret to crafting prompts that guarantee 10x better respo”

02-Jan-2023 – How to Create Consistent Characters in Midjourney

Brief Summary: “Are you struggling to create consistent character designs in Midjourney?

It can be a challenge to get your images to stay consistent when using Gen”

Wednesday 2023-02-01 – Link List

Blogging Intensifies Link List for Wednesday 2023-02-01

01-Feb-2023 – Evangelion Stage Play to Tell Original Story

Brief Summary: “New story casts Eva pilots trying to find new energy source on devastated Earth”

01-Feb-2023 – [Humble] Celebrating Black Creators & Characters: Mafia III, Shadow Man Remastered, Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn, Jay and Silent Bob: Mall Brawl, An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs, Swimsanity!, Marlow Briggs and the Mask of Death, and Semblance

Brief Summary: ” submitted by /u/epeternally [link] [comments] “

01-Feb-2023 – [IndieGala] Hamsterdam ( 100% OFF / FREE )

Brief Summary: ” submitted by /u/aniruddhdodiya [link] [comments] “

01-Feb-2023 – Bad Boys 4 Announced By Will and Martin

Brief Summary: ”
The Baaad Boooys are back! Yes, that’s right Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are returning for Bad Boys 4! Will Smith and Martin Lawrence first appear”

Tuesday 2023-01-31 – Link List

Blogging Intensifies Link List for Tuesday 2023-01-31

23-Jan-2023 – JWST Heralds a New Dawn for Exoplanet Science

Brief Summary: “The James Webb Space Telescope is opening an exciting new chapter in the study of exoplanets and the search for life beyond EarthAn illustration of th”

31-Jan-2023 – Overwatch 2 is making it easier and cheaper for you to get older skins

Brief Summary: “Image: Blizzard EntertainmentTo coincide with the release of season 3, Overwatch 2 is reintroducing Overwatch credits, giving players ways to earn tho”

31-Jan-2023 – Colossal Cave returns from the 1970s in a 3D reimagining

Brief Summary: “Colossal Cave, originally released in 1977 from Will Crowther and Don Woods has been revived and reimagined for modern audiences.”

30-Jan-2023 – Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer – Part 23: Ready, Set, Go!

Brief Summary: “If you look at the commercial Linux gaming catalogue at the turn of the millennium, in amongst all of the 3D shooters and strategic simulations being “

30-Jan-2023 – Free Minecraft-like game MineClone2 v0.82.0 for Minetest out now

Brief Summary: “A free and open source survival sandbox game pack for the voxel game engine Minetest, MineClone2 is as close to Minecraft as you can get without playi”

31-Jan-2023 – Rest in Virtual Peace, AltspaceVR: 2013 – 2023

Brief Summary: “I love VR. I’ve loved it for years, and I am excited to see what it still has to offer in the years and decades to come as an immersive, interactive d”

31-Jan-2023 – Netflix’s Password Sharing Cash Grab Finally Arrives In The States

Brief Summary: “After years of saying password sharing wasn’t really a big deal and was akin to free advertising, Netflix recently announced it would be cracking down”

30-Jan-2023 – Twitter Sued For Not Paying Rent On Its SF Headquarters And Its London Offices

Brief Summary: “There have been a bunch of stories about how one of Elon’s big “cost saving” techniques was to stop paying for basically anything, including rent.

To”

30-Jan-2023 – Asteroid’s sudden flyby shows blind spot in planetary threat detection

Brief Summary: “The discovery of an asteroid the size of a small shipping truck mere days before it passed Earth on Thursday, albeit one that posed no threat to human”

30-Jan-2023 – Hacker finds bug that allowed anyone to bypass Facebook 2FA

Brief Summary: “Hacker finds bug that allowed anyone to bypass Facebook 2FAA bug in a new centralized system that Meta created for users to manage their logins for Fa”

31-Jan-2023 – Will Smith and Martin Lawrence announce Bad Boys 4

Brief Summary: “They ride together. They Die Together. And now Will Smith and Martin Lawrence have announced Bad Boys 4 together.  Taking to Instagram, Will Smith, ak”

30-Jan-2023 – Mario battles Donkey Kong in The Super Mario Bros. Movie promo

Brief Summary: “Illumination has released a new TV spot for the animated feature adaptation of the iconic Nintendo video game series, The Super Mario Bros. Movie whic”

Saturday 2023-01-28 – Link List

Blogging Intensifies Link List for Saturday 2023-01-28

28-Jan-2023 – American Truck Simulator DLC will head to Kansas after Oklahoma

Brief Summary: “American Truck Simulator hasn’t yet received its already-announced Oklahoma DLC, but work is underway on the state that will follow it: Kansas. You’ll”

28-Jan-2023 – Dungeons and Dragons scraps new OGL plans after backlash

Brief Summary: “Wizards of the Coast has scrapped their plans for a new Dungeons and Dragons Open Game License (OGL) after massive backlash from players, content crea”

28-Jan-2023 – Wine 8.0 Released — and Plenty of Improvements are Included

Brief Summary: “An anonymous reader shares this report from OMG! Ubuntu:

Developers have just uncorked a brand new release of Wine, the open source compatibility lay”

28-Jan-2023 – D&D Won’t Change Its Original 1.0 OGL License, Reference Document Enters Creative Commons

Brief Summary: “An anonymous reader shares a report from PC Gamer:

In a blog post published Friday, Wizards of the Coast announced that it is fully putting the kibos”

27-Jan-2023 – Reverse-Engineering the Conditional Jump Circuitry in the 8086 Processor

Brief Summary: “The condition PLA evaluates microcode conditionals.As simple as a processor’s instruction set may seem, especially in a 1978-era one like the Intel 80”

09-Jan-2023 – Neon Modem Overdrive

Brief Summary: “Neon Modem Overdrive

Neon Modem Overdrive is a BBS-style command line client that
supports Discourse, Lemmy, Lobsters and
Hacker News as backends, an”

25-Jan-2023 – Factorio is about to increase in price so be quick

Brief Summary: “The developers of the awesome Factorio have announced that the price is about to go up, so if you still haven’t purchased it now is the time.”

23-Jan-2023 – Free open source RPG ‘FreedroidRPG’ arrives on Steam

Brief Summary: “It’s not going to win any awards on style but some of you may want to know that the classic free and open source RPG FreedroidRPG is now on Steam.”

27-Jan-2023 – Selfie: An educational platform for teaching systems engineering

Brief Summary: “Comments”

22-Jan-2023 – PHP Will Not Die

Brief Summary: “PHP, the programming language that has been declared dead more times than a cat has lives, is still very much alive and kicking. Despite what some eli”

27-Jan-2023 – Mumbling actors, bad speakers or lazy listeners? Why everyone is watching TV with subtitles on

Brief Summary: “Subtitles aren’t just for the hard of hearing, with Netflix reporting 40% of its viewers regularly use them. But do we just enjoy them or is there a m”

27-Jan-2023 – Taylor Swift has shared a video for ‘Lavender Haze’ – watch

Brief Summary: “Taylor Swift has released a video for ‘Lavender Haze’. The latest visual from her 2022 album, ‘Midnights’, features transgender activist and actor Lai”

27-Jan-2023 – Maisie Peters is kicking off a new era with her track ‘Body Better’

Brief Summary: “Maisie Peters has dropped a new single, ‘Body Better’.

The first single from her soon-to-be-announced second album, it was penned alongside Ines Du”

26-Jan-2023 – Zara Larsson has dropped her massive new single, ‘Can’t Tame Her’

Brief Summary: “Zara Larsson has released her new single, ‘Can’t Tame Her’.

The track was co-written by the artist herself alongside MNEK and MTHR and produced by”

26-Jan-2023 – PVRIS has dropped her new single ‘Goddess’

Brief Summary: “PVRIS has released a new single, ‘Goddess’.

The track coincides with a bunch of UK and European dates, with Lynn Gunn commenting: “It’s a celebrati”

27-Jan-2023 – Adam Driver battles dinosaurs in new trailer for sci-fi 65

Brief Summary: “Sony Pictures has released a new trailer for writer-directors Scott Beck and Bryan Woods’ upcoming sci-fi thriller 65. The film follows pilot Mills (A”

Friday 2023-01-20 – Link List

Blogging Intensifies Link List for Friday 2023-01-20

20-Jan-2023 – [GOG] Haven Park (-100%, FREE)

Brief Summary: ” submitted by /u/n_wolf6 [link] [comments] “

20-Jan-2023 – [ITCH] 100+ solo RPG and journaling games bundle for charity ($10)

Brief Summary: “submitted by /u/JavierLoustaunau [link] [comments]”

20-Jan-2023 – Factorio will increase in price next week “to account for the level of inflation”

Brief Summary: “New games have become more expensive in recent years, but older games have continued to remain the same price or to get cheaper. Excellent factory con”

20-Jan-2023 – GTA Trilogy – Definitive Edition is rubbish on the Steam Deck, too

Brief Summary: ”
Now that the Rockstar-embarrassing, staccato-titled Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – Definitive Edition is out on Steam, this terrible trio of remaste”

20-Jan-2023 – Deep Rock Galactic’s Lunar Festival event is now available

Brief Summary: “Deep Rock Galactic is no stranger to seasonal events, with the Halloween and Holiday events happening a few months ago, but the space rig never stays “

20-Jan-2023 – Suiting Up for Their First Spacewalk

Brief Summary: “Expedition 68 Flight Engineers Nicole Mann of NASA and Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency are pictured on Jan. 12, 2023, during a”

20-Jan-2023 – NASA Observes Day of Remembrance Ahead of Columbia 20th Anniversary

Brief Summary: “The agency will honor members of the NASA family who lost their lives while furthering the cause of exploration and discovery, including the crews of “

18-Jan-2023 – Rebecca Black has shared a new album taster, ‘Sick To My Stomach’

Brief Summary: “Rebecca Black has shared her brand new single ‘Sick To My Stomach’.

The track, which is from her highly anticipated debut album, is an honest and “

18-Jan-2023 – Watch Soccer Mommy’s NPR Tiny Desk Concert

Brief Summary: “Soccer Mommy has shared a new NPR Tiny Desk Concert.

The Nashville-based singer-songwriter performed four tracks from her three full-length albums”

19-Jan-2023 – [Ubisoft] Rayman Raving Rabbids (Free/100% off)

Brief Summary: ” submitted by /u/wayward_wanderer [link] [comments] “

19-Jan-2023 – [Epic] Epistory – Typing Chronicles (Free/100% off)

Brief Summary: “submitted by /u/Musth [link] [comments]”

19-Jan-2023 – [Itch.io] Will Glow the Wisp: (100% off)

Brief Summary: “submitted by /u/KeySam [link] [comments]”

19-Jan-2023 – [GX.games] Princess Farmer (free/100% off) | ends Feb 2nd

Brief Summary: ” submitted by /u/TheBubu22 [link] [comments] “