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Conquest is an open source strategy game similar to Risk and written in Godot. https://github.com/argosopentech/Conquest There is a public multiplayer server running at: conquestgame.online Produced by Argos Open Technologies, LLC Developed by Wamiq Ur Rehman

Xonotic is an addictive arena-style first person shooter with crisp movement and a wide array of weapons. It combines intuitive mechanics with in-your-face action to elevate your heart rate. Xonotic will always be free to play and modify under the copyleft GPLv3+ license.

wget is an open source utility for scraping websites. In this video I give a quick tutorial for using wget and explain why web archiving is important.

Xonotic is an addictive arena-style first person shooter with crisp movement and a wide array of weapons. It combines intuitive mechanics with in-your-face action to elevate your heart rate. Xonotic will always be free to play and modify under the copyleft GPLv3+ license. https://xonotic.org/

In this video I play "The Witness" by Jonathan Blow and narrate my experience with the game. "You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you. You don't remember who you are, and you don't remember how you got here, but there's one thing you can do: explore the island in hope of discovering clues, regaining your memory, and somehow finding your way home. The Witness is a single-player game in an open world with dozens of locations to explore and over 500 puzzles. This game respects you as an intelligent player and it treats your time as precious. There's no filler; each of those puzzles brings its own new idea into the mix. So, this is a game full of ideas." - https://store.steampowered.com/app/210970/The_Witness/ "The Witness is a 2016 puzzle video game developed and published by Thekla, Inc. Inspired by Myst, the game involves the exploration of an open world island filled with natural and man-made structures. The player progresses by solving puzzles, which are based on interactions with grids presented on panels around the island or paths hidden within the environment. The game provides no direct instructions for how these puzzles are to be solved, requiring the player to identify the meaning of symbols in the puzzles. A central design element to the game was how these puzzles are presented so that the player can achieve a moment of inspiration through trial and error and gain that comprehension themselves. Announced in 2009, The Witness had a lengthy development period. Jonathan Blow, the game's lead designer, started work on the title in 2008, shortly after releasing Braid. The financial success of Braid allowed him to hire a larger production team without ceding creative control over the final product. To create the game's visual language, the team developed their own game engine and retained artists, architects, and landscape architects to design the structures on the island. This required a protracted development process, and the game's release was delayed from 2013 to 2016. Blow desired to create a game around non-verbal communication, wanting players to learn from observation and to come to epiphanies in finding solutions and leading to a greater sense of involvement and accomplishment with each success. The game includes around 650 puzzles, though the player is not required to solve them all to finish the game. " - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witness_(2016_video_game)

DIY 3D Printable Robotic Arm "Thor is an Open Source and printable robot arm with six degrees of freedom. Its configuration (yaw-roll-roll-yaw-roll-yaw) is the same used by most of the manipulator robots on the market. In its extended position, Thor is about 625mm high and can lift loads up to 750 grams." ## Links - https://github.com/AngelLM/Thor - http://thor.angel-lm.com/ - https://hackaday.io/project/12989/ - https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1743075

Playing 0 A.D. Empires Ascendant, a free and open source real time strategy game, on single player against the Hard AI difficulty

Playing on Xonotic, a free first person shooter, multiplayer servers https://xonotic.org/

00:00:00 LBRY Intro 00:11:30 SEC vs. LBRY and crypto security regulations in the United States of America 00:49:00 Reviewing the LBRY open-source codebase 01:20:28 Final thoughts

Live coding stream 00:00:00 Speech to Text Hero Python app 00:19:10 Multiprocessing Audio in Python 01:02:00 Xonotic free and open source first person shooter game

4 way battle against three computer players on the Corsica and Sardinia map > 0 A.D. is a free and open-source real-time strategy video game under development by Wildfire Games. It is a historical war and economy game focusing on the years between 500 BC and 1 BC, with the years between 1 AD and 500 AD planned to be developed in the future. The game is cross-platform, playable on Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD. -Wikipedia https://play0ad.com/ https://twitter.com/play0ad

I try to compile id Software's Doom on Linux Mint 0:00:00 Xonotic Gameplay 0:28:40 Compiling DOOM 1:46:40 Freedoom

#FOSSGaming Stream Xonotic and 0AD From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Xonotic Developer(s) Team Xonotic Publisher(s) Team Xonotic Designer(s) Team Xonotic and Community Engine DarkPlaces engine Platform(s) Linux, FreeBSD, OS X and Windows Release Initial release date: 8 September 2011 – Current release version: 0.8.6[1]; 20 June 2023; 6 months ago Genre(s) First-person shooter Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer Xonotic (/zoʊˈnɒtɪk, ksoʊ-/) is a free and open-source first-person shooter video game. It was developed as a fork of Nexuiz, following controversy surrounding the game's development. The game runs on a heavily modified version of the Quake engine known as the DarkPlaces engine. Its gameplay is inspired by Unreal Tournament and Quake, but with various unique elements.

In this videos I discuss Vanguard, and the rise of low-fee passive investing. I also look at Vanguard's unique corporate structure and what that means for investors. Links: - https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/15551/how-are-vanguard-directors-chosen - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vanguard_Group - https://corporate.vanguard.com/content/corporatesite/us/en/corp/who-we-are/sets-us-apart/our-management-team.html#tabs-2be5cbb156-item-ee3d637a8a-tab - https://corporate.vanguard.com/content/corporatesite/us/en/corp/how-we-advocate/investment-stewardship/investment-stewardship-insights.html Image Links: - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Photo_of_a_John_C._Bogle_By_Bill_Cramer.jpg - https://corporate.vanguard.com/content/dam/corp/what-sets-us-apart/images/tim_buckley_bio.jpg - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_York_Stock_Exchange_1882.jpg

Thomas Edison invented the Phonograph in 1877, a machine that could record sound onto a piece of tinfoil and play it back. Alexander Graham Bell improved the device in the 1880s using wax-coated cardboard cylinders. This is a recording of Thomas Edison reciting "Mary Had a Little Lamb" in 1929. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Edison_and_phonograph_edit1.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Edison_Mary_had_lamb.ogg

Demo gameplay of a 0 A.D. Empires Ascendant match. 0 A.D. is a free and open-source real-time strategy video game under development by Wildfire Games. It is a historical war and economy game focusing on the years between 500 BC and 1 BC, with the years between 1 AD and 500 AD planned to be developed in the future. The game is cross-platform, playable on Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD. It is composed entirely of free software and free media, using the GNU GPLv2 (or later) license for the game engine source code, and the CC BY-SA license for the game art and music. - Wikipedia Replay file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MBRzDgQrzsxAicQHGXNsLfr6kJ_o5Vvr/view?usp=sharing

> Xonotic is a free and open-source first-person shooter video game. The game runs on a heavily modified version of the Quake engine known as the DarkPlaces engine. Its gameplay is inspired by Unreal Tournament and Quake, but with various unique elements. - Wikipedia John Carmack (developer of Quake) photo credit: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Carmack_at_GDCA_2017_--_1_March_2017_(cropped).jpeg

In this video I train a custom language model for translation using Argos Train. This model can then be used with OpenNMT, Argos Translate, or LibreTranslate. https://github.com/argosopentech/argos-train Steps: 1. Download and package custom data 2. Rent a GPU from Vast.ai 3. Run Argos Train 4. Download trained model

"How to Find Your Latitude Using Polaris" by Household Science Projects https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Onh6cNj5-E The entire globe is covered by a human made grid of latitude and longitude, latitude shows how far north or south you are, and longitude shows how eastern or western you are. This system allows every single point on earth to have a unique set of coordinate. For example Manhattan is Latitude: N 40° 47.986585' Longitude: W 73° 57.350464' in this experiment you will only be able to accurately determine the first number in the latitude so if you were doing this from Manhattan you would find that Polaris is 40° above the horizon. This method and others like it using the sun and stars were the way people had to navigate until the invention of the GPS. *Warning* You can only do this experiment in the northern hemisphere because in the southern hemisphere Polaris will be below the horizon. For help finding Polaris go to http://www.skymaponline.net/ To find actual longitude and latitude go to http://www.findlatitudeandlongitude.com/ Produced in 2014 using iMovie

What Does the Inverted Yield Curve Mean? Currently, on May 28th 2023, the yield curve for U.S. Treasury Bonds is inverted. This means that the interest rates for short term debt are higher than the interest rates for long term debt. For example, the interest rates for 1 month bonds are 6.02%, the interest rates for 1 year bonds is 5.25%, and the interest rates for 30 year bonds is 3.96%. In contrast, typically the yield curve slopes the opposite direction with longer duration riskier bonds having higher interest rates than shorter duration bonds. The yield curve being inverted indicates that something unusual is happening in the economy. Why does this matter? An inverted yield curve implies that the bond market in U.S. Government debt, which is a very large and liquid market, is predicting that interest rates are going to decrease substantially over the coming months and years. Interest rates normally decline when the Federal Reserve, which is the central bank of the U.S., lowers them by buying bonds or using other policy tools. Since the Federal Reserve normally lowers interest rates in response to a recession many people believe that an inverted yield curve is an indicator that a recession is coming. In fact, an inverted yield curve has historically been an accurate predictor of recessions. The difference between the interest rates on 10 year and 2 year treasury bonds has gone negative before all of the 6 recessions in the last 45 years. And there are no periods in the last 45 years where the yield curve inverted and there wasn’t a recession within 2 years. Yield curve inversions correctly predicted the Dot Com Bust in 2001, the Great Recession in 2008, and the COVID-19 Recession in 2020. Does this mean that a recession is imminent? A recession in the next few years is likely but may not happen; predicting recessions is extremely difficult so no one knows for certain. However, there are other signs we may be heading in to a time of economic turbulence. For example, so far in 2023 there has been a banking crisis centered on regional banks that have become insolvent as interest rates increased. There is also currently escalating political uncertainty in the U.S. and around the World. If there is a recession what would it look like? If I had to guess the biggest difference between a recession today and past recessions would be that demand in the labor market will stay stronger now than it has in the past. America currently has an aging population and declining labor force participation rates meaning the supply of labor that the economy needs to run is shrinking. If there was a recession today I think there would still be jobs available but with higher inflation. This trend seems to have already started; over the past year the economy has declined but wages have remained high. While recessions are painful I think there are some good things that could come out of this one. In particular I think this is an opportunity for wealth to flow to young people. Over the past 10 years there have been very low interest rates, which have benefited asset holders, while wages have stayed stagnant. This meant that if you were a working age person trying to save assets were expensive and putting your savings in a bank would yield -2% real interest rates. If there’s an inflationary recession with expensive labor this gives people who are able to work a lot of leverage to negotiate their wages and conditions of employment. References: - https://www.ustreasuryyieldcurve.com/ - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/T10Y2Y#

In this video I talk about different date formats for computer programs and their advantages and disadvantages. This includes Unix Time, ISO dates, and American vs European date formats. Gregorian Calendar graphic by Wikipedia:BasZoetekouw

# Using Argos Train - Extended Tutorial In this video I package machine translation data for Argos Train and train a language model for Chinese. I also explain how Argos Translate works and do a live demonstration of training Argos Translate models. https://github.com/argosopentech/argos-train https://community.libretranslate.com/t/improving-chinese-translations/364/4 https://opus.nlpl.eu/

In this video I install Graphene OS on a Pixel Android Phone using the WebUSB installer. This includes enabling developer options, enabling OEM unlock, flashing the Graphene OS image, and locking the bootloader. > GrapheneOS is a privacy and security focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility developed as a non-profit open source project. It's focused on the research and development of privacy and security technology including substantial improvements to sandboxing, exploit mitigations and the permission model. > GrapheneOS improves the privacy and security of the OS from the bottom up. It deploys technologies to mitigate whole classes of vulnerabilities and make exploiting the most common sources of vulnerabilities substantially more difficult. It improves the security of both the OS and the apps running on it. The app sandbox and other security boundaries are fortified. GrapheneOS tries to avoid impacting the user experience with the privacy and security features. Ideally, the features can be designed so that they're always enabled with no impact on the user experience and no additional complexity like configuration options. It's not always feasible, and GrapheneOS does add various toggles for features like the Network permission, Sensors permission, restrictions when the device is locked (USB peripherals, camera, quick tiles), etc. along with more complex user-facing privacy and security features with their own UX. > GrapheneOS also develops various apps and services with a focus on privacy and security. Vanadium is a hardened variant of the Chromium browser and WebView specifically built for GrapheneOS. GrapheneOS also includes our minimal security-focused PDF Viewer, our hardware-based Auditor app / attestation service providing local and remote verification of devices, our modern privacy / security focused camera app, and the externally developed Seedvault encrypted backup which was initially developed for inclusion in GrapheneOS. > GrapheneOS will never include either Google Play services or another implementation of Google services like microG. It's possible to install Play services as a set of fully sandboxed apps without special privileges via our sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer. See the FAQ section for more details on our plans for filling in the gaps from not shipping Play services and Google apps. https://grapheneos.org/ android, open source, free software, privacy, security

This is my jerry-rigged home greenhouse setup. It’s a 5 gallon plastic bucket with a cotton bag and hydroponic clay pebbles, water, and fertilizer. I have an electric light on a timer as a grow light and I use two larger plastic totes and a blanket to keep the light contained. Image: “The Biomes of Eden” by Rob Farrow

MineClone 2 is a survival sandbox game that is still a work in progress. Survive, gather, hunt, mine for ores, build houses, explore, and do much more. The goal of this project is to create a free clone (or imitation) of Minecraft.