No, this conflict is not “Israel vs. Hamas”
No, this conflict is not “Israel vs. Hamas”
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Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service
Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service
"Thundermail" will be part of a suite of Thunderbird Pro services, as the team behind the venerable Mozilla email client begins building a complete ecosystem.Forbes
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Firefox runs slower on Arch than on Windows?
I recently got a new Dell Inspiron 660s and it had Windows on it, I played around with Windows and eventually got around to putting Arch on it.
Now I've installed Arch on multiple systems but I'm no expert at Arch, I mainly like it because it's bleeding edge.
I opened Firefox on it and started to pull up Tetr.io and Friday Night Funkin - browser games, and it was noticably slower on Arch than it was on Windows.
According to Fastfetch, I have a "Radeon HD 5000/6000/7350/8350 Series" (???) and a "Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller" (my iGPU i think)
What can I do to fix this? Please tell me if I need to provide more info.
wiki.archlinux.org/title/Firef…
Firefox is a bit annoying on wayland, you often have to force enable hw accel.
If you cant figure it out send me a DM, ill be glad to help you through signal/matrix/discord
Rand Paul Fears Trump Tariffs Could Mean 1930s-Style Republican Wipeout: ‘We Lost the House and Senate for 60 Years’
Rand Paul Fears Trump Tariffs Could Mean 1930s-Style Republican Wipeout: ‘We Lost the House and Sena ...
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) warned that President Donald Trump's tariffs could result in the Republican Party being wiped out in both the House and Senate.Charlie Nash (Mediaite)
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I wish American Voters had memories longer than 4 years. But they don't.
They got pissed at Bush and the Republicans in 2006 for the war and in 2008 for crashing the economy.
And 2 years later in 2010 they voted in a red wave not seen since reconstruction.
Donald Trump tried to overthrow the government and 4 years later they gave him another chance. If Trump shot a crowd of people on 5th avenue the kids of the victims would vote for him 4 years later.
People are not motivated to vote for the lesser of two evils.
Neoliberals and centrists need to get this through their firewall of condescencion towards leftists, no matter how much y'all hate leftists (and laugh at leftists with your more conservative friends) you need to understand the average person in the US hates you and your leaders far more than than they hate genuine leftists that actually fight for the working class instead of spitting on them and publicly calling them stupid.
Leftists in America are a tiny minority that happens to be in a kingmaker role because the Dems and Repubs are nearly evenly matched. There is no vast silent majority of Leftists. You're in an internet bubble.
YOU need to get onboard with OUR ideas.
Sure!
- All people are equal before the law. Discrimination is abhorrent, and people's personal freedoms should be respected until they harm others. Liberals and Leftists pretty much agree 100% on this so I won't spend more time on it.
- Capitalism is the most powerful social engine for beneficial progress that the world has ever seen, but we need to keep it under control. It's like an engine - harnessed, throttled, and controlled explosive power to drive us forward at a manageable pace. Strong regulations, strong unions, progressive taxes, and heavy government incentives are the ways we keep capitalism under control. Currently, it is OUT of control and is doing far more harm than good.
- Taxes on the rich should be higher, loopholes should be closed, and enforcement should be stepped up. There's no consensus on exactly how much higher, but they all agree they should be higher.
- At the same time, we recognize the potential economic effects of taxing the rich. If we're not careful, they'll just move their money elsewhere. So we want to raise taxes to the extent possible without triggering flight of the wealthy.
- Everyone deserves a minimum standard of living. Food, shelter, and healthcare are human rights and should be free for those who can't afford it.
- Immigrants are good for the economy. Even the illegal ones. We should be making immigration easier.
- Climate change is real, is man-made, and it is our duty as humans to do our best to fix it. However, we can do so to a large extent without causing hardship among everyday people, by making intelligent changes upstream from consumers. We can have economic growth AND tackle climate change, if we're smart about it.
Obviously, left-leaning liberalism is a wide-ranging ideology but these are the main ones that came to mind immediately. The biggest difference between liberalism and Leftism is that Leftists want to tear down capitalism and Liberals want to control it.
This is what a lot of young leftists hand wave away
Everyone deserves a minimum standard of living. Food, shelter, and healthcare are human rights and should be free for those who can't afford it. - Immigrants are good for the economy. Even the illegal ones. We should be making immigration easier.
Taking in infinite immigrants and providing food shelter and healthcare for them and their lineage until the end of time ALONG WITH all of the disadvantaged citizens is not economically sustainable. You’d effectively be turning the U.S. into the world’s homeless shelter. At some point, likely sooner than later, all the raised taxes in the world on the businesses that don’t leave won’t be enough to care for everyone.
I’m all for compassion but it has to be reasoned compassion. You can’t just look at what your version of Utopia is and say that’s what we should do. Humanity is not perfect and neither will any society it builds be. But at the same time we can’t let perfect be the enemy of the good, and so we engage in these discussions.
Taking in infinite immigrants and providing food shelter and healthcare for them and their lineage until the end of time ALONG WITH all of the disadvantaged citizens is not economically sustainable.
I disagree.
You’d effectively be turning the U.S. into the world’s homeless shelter.
Fuck yeah we would.
Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
Here's the thing about immigrants: they start businesses. They get degrees. They make money. They pay taxes. They drive the economic engine forward. They're not helpless fucking children, they are smart and driven and capable adults who happen to not speak your language and may have browner skin than you.
Actually, no. Obviously any immigrant set is going to be diverse. Contributions all coming on a spectrum from nothing to multi millionaire business starting.
The trick is to have a firm enough analytics handle on where you are as a country to handle all of the aforementioned needs of all of them that need it. You WILL eventually hit a point where you have to turn people away to break even economically . Then they start to come in illegally and you’re pushed past the breaking point.
How do you propose, in a world where we have that data (that may or may not exist yet I really don’t know if it’s possible to nail all of that information perfectly), that we handle the excess? If a church takes in too many people, they ask for more donations. If a country takes in too many people, who do they turn to?
What breaking point are you imagining? Our ability to feed people? The US produces enough food to feed the entire world.
Not the entire world a US meat based diet, but yes the entire world.
House people? That's more challenging, I admit, but the people coming here are a fraction of our population.
If conditions deteriorate because of overcrowding, you will have fewer people make the trip. I get that outbreaks of war, political oppression, and maybe disease could push people to make even dangerous futile attempts, but economic migrants will find an equilibrium.
Population growth is falling worldwide. There is no danger of overcrowding beyond the point of the land to sustain life. That could be a concern for a nation like Iceland, but not the US, which is one of the most productive and least populated places on earth.
There is a possibility of deteriorating living conditions, in the short term, but those are challenges I am willing to face.
The scope of the original statement was food shelter and healthcare. That’s a tall order for open borders with no concern for logistics.
Consider what the country looks like if conditions have deteriorated so much that it deters people from coming here. We will have zoomed past the equilibrium stage. What does life look for the average citizen much less immigrant at that point?
I’m sorry to wrap it up there but I only have so much bandwidth. However, these are conversations that people used to be able to have to tease out nuance, but somehow the zeitgeist has devolved to adversarial tone, name calling, and cultish behaviors. Hopefully I’ll find more when I have more time.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency terminated thousands of experienced public health professionals in an April Fools’ Day massacre. We’re all about to pay the price.Katherine Eban (Vanity Fair)
L'eclettismo zig-zagante del serpente che accompagnò la rinascita berlinese - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
L'eclettismo zig-zagante del serpente che accompagnò la rinascita berlinese - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
C’è stato un tempo e un luogo in cui a Berlino, volendo indicare in modo informale il luogo in cui abitavano, taluni e talune dipendenti della macchina governativa avrebbero potuto affermare: prima/seconda/terza ansa dello Sprea; prima/seconda/terza …Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
Israeli strike kills 12 members of Gaza family as offensive widens
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By Ahmed Aziz in Khan Younis, occupied Palestine
Published date: 2 April 2025 16:09 BST"An Israeli air strike on Khan Younis has killed at least 12 displaced Palestinians from the same family, relatives told Middle East Eye, as Israel expanded its offensive on Wednesday to seize "large areas" of Gaza.
“They were hanging out at our place, and wanted to wish their mother a happy Eid,” Basma al-Qaoud, a relative of the victims, told MEE.
“They left, and an hour or two later, we receive a call telling us the Bari family home was bombed, which was the home they were renting.”"
Israeli strike kills 12 members of Gaza family as offensive widens
By Ahmed Aziz in Khan Younis, occupied Palestine
Published date: 2 April 2025 16:09 BST"An Israeli air strike on Khan Younis has killed at least 12 displaced Palestinians from the same family, relatives told Middle East Eye, as Israel expanded its offensive on Wednesday to seize "large areas" of Gaza.
“They were hanging out at our place, and wanted to wish their mother a happy Eid,” Basma al-Qaoud, a relative of the victims, told MEE.
“They left, and an hour or two later, we receive a call telling us the Bari family home was bombed, which was the home they were renting.”"
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Israeli strike kills 12 members of Gaza family as offensive widens
By Ahmed Aziz in Khan Younis, occupied Palestine
Published date: 2 April 2025 16:09 BST
"An Israeli air strike on Khan Younis has killed at least 12 displaced Palestinians from the same family, relatives told Middle East Eye, as Israel expanded its offensive on Wednesday to seize "large areas" of Gaza.
“They were hanging out at our place, and wanted to wish their mother a happy Eid,” Basma al-Qaoud, a relative of the victims, told MEE.
“They left, and an hour or two later, we receive a call telling us the Bari family home was bombed, which was the home they were renting.”"
Massie Bill Demands Federal Candidates Reveal Dual Citizenship
Massie Bill Demands Federal Candidates Reveal Dual Citizenship
ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zeroTyler Durden (www.zerohedge.com)
Recommendations for an inexpensive DIY backup?
Hi there, I've been meaning to go get more serious about my data. I have minimal backups, and some stuff is not backed up at all. I'm begging for disaster.
Here's what I've got:
2 8tb drives almost full in universal external enclosures
A small formfactor PC as a server, with one 8tb drive connected.
An unused raspberry pi.
No knowledge of how to properly use zfs.
Here's what I want:
I've decided I don't need raid. I don't want the extra cost of drives or electricity, and I don't need uptime. I just need backups.
I want to use what drives I have, and an additional 16tb drive I'll buy.
My thought was that I would replace the 8tb drive with a 16tb one, format it with zfs (primarily to avoid bit rot. I'll need to learn how to check for this), then back it up across the two 8tb drives as a cold backup. Either as two separate drives somehow? Btrfs volume extension? Or a jbod connected to the raspberry pi, that I leave unplugged except for when it's time to sync the new data?
Or do you have a similarly cheap solution that's less janky?
I just want to back up my data, with an amount of rot protection, cheaply.
I understand that it might make sense to invest in something a bit more robust right now, and fill it with drives as needed.
But the thing I keep coming to is the cold backup. How can you keep cold backups over several hard drives, without an entire second server to do the work?
Thanks for listening to my rambling.
A pet subject of mine.
Firstly - sit down and consider what you need to backup.
- Tier 1 - unique data. Stuff you created that doesn't exist elsewhere.
- Tier 2 - Stuff that would take a few days to repeat. Local configs, etc.
- Tier 3 - Stuff you can just download again. (Steam library, media etc)
Don't backup Tier 3. I'm betting the size of data you need to back up shrinks a lot.
Secondly - automate it. If there's anything manual, then you'll eventually stop doing it. Automate, automate, automate - and throw in some manual or automated checks of the backups to verify they're actually usable.
Thirdly - airgap it if you can, and if there's much Tier 1 data. Offline disks. This gives you some protection against ransomware. Consider the risks and how to protect yourself. Obviously media failure, accidental deletion and ransomware, but also consider theft and fire. Do you really want your backups in the same location? Do they need encryption?
I wrote quite a long blog on the subject if you're interested in more.
Thanks for this!
This is a really rundown.
One question on the media though. While things like games and media can be redownloaded, that's a significant effort. And also, how do I know what I've lost once it's gone? Do I backup a directory of what I had somehow? I have a terrible memory, and will forget things ever existed.
You're welcome.
Yes, you can create a list of files that takes little space, in linux that's just "tree" to produce a list of directories and files (I don't know about Windows, sorry)
But only you can answer what you need to back up. If you judge the effort to re-download this data is more than the effort of backing it up (especially if you're on a slow link), then backing it up makes more sense. Everyone has their own appetite for risk and their own shape of what they can spend in both time and money in sorting this. The important thing is that you're thinking about it before you need it, that's good!
I agree with this, though if you have something like Sonarr or Radarr, the titles you have (or had) would all be on there, so reaquiring isn't quite as significant a task.
Unfortunately I've recently had to put this into practice because I didn't understand hardlinks and zfs subpools...
I recently lost a media drive and Radarr was a godsend. I've made database backups a priority. It's also much easier to recover from a dead drive with access to a private BitTorrent tracker that allows free leeching.
After I stopped other programs except for Radarr and qBitTorrent, I let those two with for two days and got most of everything back. There are a few more movies that I need to manually recover and I should properly back those up. Besides that, it worked very well.
Using Linux,i just got an Xtb drive, set it up with btrfs, then with a little bit of scripting that took less than an hour i setup automated daily incremental backups using copy on write method.
I can see backups on a per day basis for years back now
New modelling reveals full impact of Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs – with the US hit hardest
Modelling of how Trump’s tariffs will hit global trade suggests the US will be the biggest loser – while a few nations may emerge as surprising winners.
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Trump announces new US tariffs on Mexican... beer
Mexico dodged a trade bullet Wednesday as Donald Trump's tariffs on Mexican products added one surprising item to the list: beer in cans.
'Catastrophic for American families’: Business leaders react as Trump imposes ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs on world
‘Catastrophic for American families’: Reaction as Trump imposes ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs on world
Tariff announcements prompted worldwide financial anxiety and opposition from some Republicans on Capitol HillJosh Marcus (The Independent)
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WordPress maker Automattic lays off 16% of staff
WordPress maker Automattic lays off 16% of staff | TechCrunch
Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, Tumblr, WooCommerce, and a range of other online services, is reducing its workforce. The layoffs willSarah Perez (TechCrunch)
A new security fund opens up to help protect the fediverse
A new security fund aims to help apps in the fediverse — like Mastodon, Threads, and Pixelfed — to pay researchers for disclosing security bugs.
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How MAHA is Helping Poison Americans While Claiming to Save Them
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[JP] Floorp 12 の開発記録：ユーザーエクスペリエンスとインタフェースの改善
Floorp 12 の開発記録：ユーザーエクスペリエンスとインタフェースの改善
これは https://blog.ablaze.one/4694/2025-02-20/ の内容の続きで、Floorp 12 がどの程度進んでいるのか、ある程度すらーぷの妖精 (ABlog)
Republicans join Democrats in Senate vote to rescind Trump Canada tariffs
Resolution that would block tariffs passes 51-48 in Senate, in vote that shows Republican unease over president’s plans
How multinational dairy companies convinced ministers to back away from new rules for baby formula
New baby formula standards were designed to prioritise infant nutrition and take the pressure off parents. But for formula companies, profits were at stake. And that's when the lobbying kicked in.Concerns about misleading marketing claims on the tins was one of the reasons public health experts from New Zealand and Australia spent the past decade writing a set of regulations that would prioritise infant nutrition above all other interests.
Over 11 years, officials commissioned 36 public reports, five consumer studies and 40 stakeholder workshops, and wrote draft after draft. The regulations were all but signed and due to be implemented this year.
But in August, the government opted out of the trans-Tasman proposal last-minute, citing costs to exporters. While Australia will implement the new standards in 2030, New Zealand now intends to develop its own.
This RNZ investigation uses background interviews with industry insiders, officials and experts as well as documents obtained under the Official Information Act to show how the formula industry lobbied the government to put private profit before public health, and won.
How multinational dairy companies convinced ministers to back away from new rules for baby formula
Tougher guidelines were 11 years in the making. But for multinational dairy companies, profits were at stake.Anusha Bradley (RNZ)
Why does Trump and his administration want to deport so many immigrants?
I think that Trump and his party are driven purely by personal benefit and greed. The policies of Trump and his cronies reflect this and show how they want to control all the wealth among a ruling class. However, I don’t see how deporting immigrants (employees) would help this cause
Are they doing this for popular support? Why would they prioritize xenophobia over capital? Is it simply that they’re hateful and scared?
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Obligatory reminder that this fucking ad exists
https://www.reddit.com/r/CommunismMemes/comments/1jnr1i4/revolution_according_to_libs/
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They were too busy trying to figure out how to maximalist product placement shots than to actually make scene or even just fucking make sense
IstALLAH (SWT) when the artists are finally freed from the economic slavery of working in Starbucks and the writers are finally provided a decent union-guaranteed pay, the explosion of art will grow the hearts and minds for decades
Diabolik in mostra a Palazzo Pallavicini
Diabolik in mostra a Palazzo Pallavicini
Diabolik: il genio delle sorelle Giussani, la sua evoluzione e la grande mostra di Bologna Nel novembre 1962, nelle edicole di Milano, appar...Antonio Marano (Blogger)
“Pokémon Scalpers Are the Worst…” — “Gli Speculatori Pokémon Sono il Peggio…”
Minchia e che situazioncina questa con le carte Pokémon negli ultimi mesi… Ehh signora mia, è semplicemente tornata la pokemania; cicli e ricicli storici di livello infinito… ma davvero, non mi aspettavo ci fossero di questi problemi. Forse non in Italia, e molto probabilmente non in edicola o in fumetteria, ma comunque qualcuno sta esagerando […]
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“Pokémon Scalpers Are the Worst…” — “Gli Speculatori Pokémon Sono il Peggio…”
youtube.com/watch?v=eh0T2MLJr2…Minchia e che situazioncina questa con le carte Pokémon negli ultimi mesi… Ehh signora mia, è semplicemente tornata la pokemania; cicli e ricicli storici di livello infinito… ma davvero, non mi aspettavo ci fossero di questi problemi. Forse non in Italia, e molto probabilmente non in edicola o in fumetteria, ma comunque qualcuno sta esagerando se si parla di scalping di pacchetti chiusi di carte giapponesi.
Ma proprio, boh. Io, quando ho ri-smesso con il gambling digitale con le carticelle virtuali, non è che ho provato a riconvertirmi a quello fisico, perché fortunatamente sono tirchia… ma a questo punto ci ripenserei minimo 3 volte, casomai dovesse venirmi un’idea. Questi qui (americani brutta razza…) fanno le guerre civili per prendere i pacchetti scontati di mezzo dollaro, fanno togliere intere sezioni agli ipermercati perché il casino che si genera altrimenti è troppo, e la cosa più spiacevole è che poi i bambini rimangono senza carte, perché gli adulti se le pijano tutte (qualcuno pensi ai bambini!!!)… Non si fa.
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Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
I was thinking of creating a safe place for people who are in abusive relationships, for both women and men, queer or not, and to provide support, guidance and indications on how to deal legally, mentally and emotionally with these issues.
A community like it may already exist but I did not found one yet.
and Thank you.
Piattaforme multi-sided e P2P Lending: innovazione e impatto economico
Piattaforme multi-sided e P2P Lending: innovazione e impatto economico
Le piattaforme multi-sided e il Peer-to-Peer Lending: evoluzione e impatto economico Nel contesto attuale, dove la digitalizzazione permea s...Antonio Marano (Blogger)
Temporary relief for migrant children as judge rules to reinstate legal funding
Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín’s order runs through April 16 and requires the Trump administration to resume funding for the Acacia Center for Justice and other nonprofit groups.
Martínez-Olguín determined that nonprofit groups have legal standing to sue the government to preserve funding. Plaintiffs are arguing that they’re entitled to funds through the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008.
Martínez-Olguín’s order prevents the termination of funding for legal representation for these children, allowing the Acacia Center for Justice to continue its services while legal proceedings continue.
Temporary relief for migrant children as judge rules to reinstate legal funding
A federal judge rules that the Trump administration must temporarily restore funding for the Acacia Center, ensuring legal representation for vulnerable unaccompanied children.Justin Boggs (News Channel 5 Nashville (WTVF))
Musk ‘Stepping Back’? Don’t Bet on It.
Musk ‘Stepping Back’? Don’t Bet on It.
So is Elon really out, as the White House is claiming to beltway news outlets? Don’t bet on it. First of all, he’s almost certainly not leaving DOGE.Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
Justices let FDA denial of vape flavorings stand - SCOTUSblog
Simon harris posted an Ai image with the word "penis" in irish in it by mistake.
Simon Harris forced to delete social media post over X-rated blunder
An opposition TD said the social media gaffe showed that the Fine Gael leader was focused on "superficial photo-ops and online trends for likes instead of doing his job effectively"Irish Mirror
Anyone know if CC Home Made Karaoke moved, or are they just gone?
For years an absolute champion named CC created great karaoke tracks and kept a Mega archive updated monthly. The Mega link is dead now. If anyone knows a new location I'd appreciate a tip.
CC if you are reading this, and it's all over, thanks for the good times. Your work was epic, and you really helped my karaoke parties.
Looking at the YouTube page, if it's the same person, they're moving to a new channel and are on hiatus until May:
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in reply to 0x0 • • •Email isn’t going anywhere. It’s the ipv4 of communication. You can list 100 things bad about it and none of it matters, too many things are now built on top of it, no competitor can possibly have a chance without first reimplementing email, and then they’re just adding extensions which everyone else ignores, and email continues.
The more plausible threat to email is that it gets siloed into the top 5 or 6 providers and everyone else gets filtered out as spam (ie you need gmail, hotmail, etc or your emails will never reach anyone)
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It's almost like you didn't read my comment and went straight to angry. This has been suggested for years with 0 response from Thunderbird team and there's no way to extend it without forking and patching everything yourself.
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