I don't have a clue why I'd ever walk up to someone and introduce myself and say I have a daughter (which I don't), but if it's ever required! I'm READY!

Io sono Ozoned. Io ho una figlia.

Lots of #gaming #fun tonight on #owncast !

Four way #Repo game stream!

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Ever wanted to run your own #MMO #Guild via a #game #simulator ?

Then have your guild be in a tournament against other guilds?

bretticus82.itch.io/dungeons...

DUNGEONS & DYNASTIES

Football Manager meets D&D.

Heroes die. Dynasties rise. The realm remembers both.

Lead an adventuring guild through a living realm where every fixture is a dungeon, every hero can die in it, and every season is written down.

Climb a six-tier league of 72 rival guilds. Build something that outlasts the heroes who founded it. Then read your dynasty back as a story written by the simulation, not by a script.

The question isn't whether legends will be made.

It's whether your guild survives long enough to make them.

Just found out about @hister@chaos.social . seems like a brilliant idea if you set up a search and point all of your browsers to a central server with your custom index to easily find what you've already seen. This would be helpful for my family life.

But I also see that any community could use something like this and have their own search within their community and not that terrible Google search. Index only your pages and make the search accessible to your community and people can build help custom search indexes that target their needs.

This seems like a great idea. #foss #search #google

Y'all, I have the best children in the world.

Asks me to put insight timer on his tablet so he can listen to relaxing music before bed. He only uses it for reading ATM.

Wife installs and it crashes. They ask me to look. I don't know how to fix it and told him I could try imaging the tablet to another OS, but I don't know if that'd fix it.

He says it's up to me, because he understands the work it takes to do.

Felt touched he even considered my feelings. And then I said maybe that shows how responsible at 9, maybe we could do a phone.

And then he blew me away again and said he doesn't want one. My wife said he actually understands the responsibility of having one and he's not ready for that.

My wife and I actually teared up. He's NINE! I'm so used to adults with the emotional maturity of a five year old.

@rejzor@mastodon.social @gamingonlinux@mastodon.social Yup. Proton is built on top of WINE. GloriousEggroll actually has his own version of Proton that lots of folks use. And he, and others, are working on building a unifying layer akin to proton that anyone can use. github.com/Open-Wine-Compone...

So imagine you speak English, someone else speaks French. You need an interpreter. That's what Wine/Proton does.

Are there any fediverse developers working on the ability to see a website and then have a link I can click to share that article directly?

I just saw an article from @gamingonlinux@mastodon.world , gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/go... , and then had to go find the post to boost it.

Ideally there'd just be a button on the website I can click and it points me to the article on my Bonfire.

I wanna say someone was working on something like this. Just can't remember who. 😁

Maybe Maho Pacheco?

@gamingonlinux@mastodon.social They've been saying it for over ten years. If they actually do it, I'm more likely to purchase through them, but it'd also depend on games actually functioning properly. It's also a lot easier for them to do this now though as they're riding on the back of all of the hard work that Valve and the open source community have done.

But at least it's a step in the right direction.

Still recovering from surgery. Did without the serious meds today to mostly a success. I am still in quite a large amount of pain, but happy I could get through the day without the meds. But it's been exhausting day physically and emotionally.

I was asking #Proton #Lumo lots of questions to search for hope and honestly it delivered wonderfully.

Lumo brought me #hope

You've been carrying a lot of heavy stuff today. Let me share some genuinely hopeful things happening right now in 2026.

A Single Blood Test That Detects 50 Cancers Before Symptoms AppearA UK clinical trial is expected to report results this year on a blood test that can detect around 50 types of cancer before any symptoms show. If it works, this could fundamentally change how we fight cancer—catching it early enough to treat it effectively for millions of people. Your children could grow up in a world where cancer screening is as routine as a cholesterol check.

Personalized Gene-Editing for Children with Rare DiseasesResearchers in Philadelphia are seeking FDA approval to run clinical trials using CRISPR gene-editing therapies customized for individual children with rare metabolic disorders—conditions that were previously untreatable. The first child treated this way, named Muldoon, showed promising results. We're watching medicine transition from managing disease to rewriting it.

HPV Vaccination Is Working at Massive ScaleA study of over half a million boys and men confirmed that HPV vaccination dramatically reduces cancer rates. This isn't theoretical anymore—it's measured, population-level proof that preventive vaccines prevent cancer. A generation of children will grow up with measurably lower cancer risk because of this.

Solar Cell Efficiency Hit 26.61%

Perovskite solar cells reached a certified efficiency of 26.61% through a new cesium-doping strategy. Every fraction of a percent matters because it makes solar cheaper and more competitive against fossil fuels. The "worst-case" climate scenario (4-5°C warming) is now considered less plausible in part because clean energy adoption has outpaced predictions.

Scientists Found a Potential Treatment for a Fatal Mitochondrial Disease

Researchers used stem cells from patients with Leigh syndrome—a fatal mitochondrial disease that primarily affects children—to screen 5,600 existing drugs and identified Viagra as a potential treatment. Sometimes the cure is already on the shelf, waiting to be found.

Species Are Recovering

Conservation projects are showing real results. Species that were declining are stabilizing and recovering in multiple regions. Nature is resilient when we give it space.

But Here's What I Find Most Hopeful

None of these breakthroughs happened by accident. Every one came from people who looked at a hard problem and decided to work on it anyway—scientists spending years on experiments that might fail, doctors fighting through bureaucratic hurdles for clinical trials, engineers iterating on solar cell chemistry one percentage point at a time.The same stubborn human instinct that causes problems also solves them. Sometimes the same species.You're doing your version of that. Building the Fediverse, questioning systems, worrying about your kids' future, having conversations like this one. It's not glamorous work and it doesn't always feel effective, but community infrastructure is how humans have always survived hard times.The news isn't all bad. It just feels that way because the algorithm pushes the worst of it to the top. But underneath the noise, people are quietly building a better world—lab by lab, community by community, conversation by conversation.Your children will inherit problems, yes. But they'll also inherit tools and knowledge that didn't exist for any prior generation. And they'll have a parent who taught them to pay attention and give a damn.That counts for more than you think.

@benpate@mastodon.social lol dude, I'm not bothered at all by it. 😁 I figured those folks actively contributed to the spec. I take no offense at all. I'm just happy I get to be a fly in the room man. 😊

@benpate@mastodon.social reading these FEPs and seeing definition of terms always reminds me of reading laws and how things have to be clearly defined. Because communication is so inefficient, especially in text, interpretation is so easy to get incorrect compared to original intent. But it makes new appreciate all the work even more. I absolutely love this idea and greatly appreciate all the work you and others do. Thank you.