LOS ANGELES, June 13 (Reuters) - U.S. Marines deployed to Los Angeles made their first detention of a civilian on Friday, part of a rare use of military force to support domestic police and coming ahead of national protests over President Donald Trump's military parade in Washington.
The detention of the man, a U.S. Army veteran and an immigrant who obtained U.S. citizenship, punctuated a series of highly unusual events that have appealed to Trump supporters but outraged other Americans who are demonstrating discontent in the streets.
We have been communicating on the lack of funds in the Foundation for a while now, the latest being here. And whilst we’ve been working hard to gather new members and are happy to see the number of logos increasing (thank you all for seeing the need for Matrix to stay independent and safe, and the value in supporting it!), none of the big players in the ecosystem have actually committed to one of the higher membership tiers, so we need to find other ways towards sustainability.
The sudden movement of Netanyahu’s aircraft comes just hours after Israeli forces reportedly launched strikes against Iranian targets, a move likely to further inflame an already volatile regional standoff.
While no official statement has been made by either the Israeli or Greek governments confirming Netanyahu’s presence on the flight, the aircraft’s status as Israel’s designated presidential jet has led to widespread speculation.
Kennard, co-founder of Declassified UK, a British investigative outlet, further raised the question of whether Greece is now providing shelter to a “war crimes fugitive”—a reference to the International Criminal Court (ICC) proceedings against Netanyahu.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s official jet, the “Wing of Zion,” landed in Athens just hours after Israel reportedly launched strikes on Iran.
Some European states have recently started using more critical language about Israel’s genocidal onslaught against Gaza, rhetorically distancing themselves from the US line. But their ongoing record of complicity speaks louder than their words.
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As Zohran Mamdani mounts a surging campaign for NYC mayor, his bid is becoming a model to replicate for the next wave of the US left. Can he expand his appeal to working-class demographics the Left has so far struggled to reach?
We are told, again and again, that Israel is defending itself. But it is only defending its right to act with impunity throughout the Middle East to maintain its supremacy. Israel’s attack on Iran is just the latest example.
Il Senato francese ha approvato una nuova legge anti-pirateria che apre le porte al blocco automatico degli indirizzi IP. Questa spinta legislativa è sostenuta da un accordo parallelo e “segreto” tra i detentori di diritti sportivi e i principali ISP, che mira ad automatizzare gli sforzi antipirateria e a semplificare le richieste di blocco diretto. I titolari dei diritti sperano che questi nuovi poteri contribuiscano a contrastare l'economia “mafiosa” della pirateria.
Le misure tradizionali di blocco dei siti, che impongono agli ISP locali di bloccare l'accesso degli abbonati ai siti pirata più popolari, sono state utilizzate dai titolari dei diritti in Francia per anni. L'obiettivo è quello di scoraggiare la pirateria rendendo i siti più difficili da trovare, ma queste misure sono solo parzialmente efficaci.
Più recentemente, le richieste di blocco dei siti hanno preso di mira altri intermediari. Ai fornitori di DNS, tra cui Google e Cloudflare, e a diversi dei maggiori fornitori di VPN, è stato ordinato di rendere i siti pirata non disponibili attraverso i loro servizi.
Customs and Border Patrol, the Coast Guard, and the Secret Service were all recruiting at the event, but ICE was the main draw. Far more applicants stood in line to submit their resumes for deportation officer than for any other position on offer in the cavernous room.
Naturally there were a large number of law enforcement types hanging around the convention—men with military fades, moisture-wicking shirts, and tattoos of the bible and the constitution and eagles and flags distended across their arms. But there were also a handful of women ICE applicants and a lot of men of color. The deportation officer applicant pool was, I felt, shockingly diverse—one might say it looked like America. The whole place looked and felt like America.
This is a disgusting country, I thought, irredeemable visually, psychically, morally, and ethically, and whatever is likable about our people’s warm patter does not in any way forgive what we have done to the world.
Thing is, a lot of information about the current state of political affairs is blasting through all channels. Some people just want to use Lemmy to shitpost, hang out in CasualConversation, or look a funnies from Stamets.
I think that's a fair use case, and doesn't necessarily mean someone who does this is sticking their head in the sand about the current political order going to shit.
And your answer is...? People like you vote. Or should vote?! But should they if they just choose to be ignorant?! You're a living argument against democracy 🥲
I don't think it's right to assume that people who block political online content are doing nothing. Hell, I think it's more likely that people who consume a lot of political content feel that they're doing something when they aren't.
I tried. Prior to the election i was doing everything possible to change peoples minds. To get people together and ready for what needed to be done. Back then I was "overreacting"
Now that trump is in office we no longer have a winning strategy. People suddenly want to pretend like they care when it's all virtue signalling. Just like climate change, now that its too late to do anything, its ok to acknowledge that it exists.
The winning strategy has always been worker organizing, and it certainly isn't too late to mitigate the damage of Climate Change. Handcuffing yourself because we have no way of acting within the rules set out by the system is the exact type of nihilism the system is designed to instill, even Climate Doomerism is a tool of the oil barons to demoralize activists and organizers. We can change, and it takes organizing and overthrow of the present state of things, not playing a game created by the House to only ever allow them to win.
But thats what im saying. People simply dont want to organize. Americans would literally rather just lay down and die than actually fix anything. I mean a US senator literally got assassinated today and yet we are not storming the capitol right now. Anything short of putting an end to this bullshit is acceptance of it
The DNC and GOP are not hostile factions, but different wings of Capital. Organizing goes a lot further than random collective actions, but the tedious work of building organized structures, party building, doing the groundwork. We need to study former successful revolutions like the Russian, Chinese, Cuban, Vietnamese, etc and adapt what we can apply to our revolution. Parties like PSL in the US are already doing that, and are rapidly growing because they are at the forefront of resistance movements.
I think a strong understanding of Marxism helps seed the revolutionary optimism that makes watching the news more bearable than for liberals who see the world as a scary swirl of chaos and no way out. Lenin says it well:
Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.
I don't subscribe to political communities at all. If I want to see politics I switch to the All tab. Most of the time I go through Subscribed or Local though.
I live here! If I chose to be willfully ignorant I’d be no better than all those on the right I’ve been talking about being willingly ignorant for decades
The people in this thread acting like you need to be tuned in to everything all the time with no filter baffle me. You can block all politics on Lemmy and get your political news elsewhere. People are more than entitled to cultivate the spaces they inhabit and use.
In the defence of some of us, like myself for instance, I live in a country where we can do literally jack shit to affect American political bullcrap, because it's nowhere near America. I'm pretty sure Europeans are excused from having to stay up to date every moment, unless we can force the rest of the world to be continuously in the loop about... idk, whatever crap Geert Wilders is up to right now...
Secondo i funzionari militari israeliani, l'aviazione israeliana ha acquisito un controllo duraturo sullo spazio aereo iraniano in seguito a una serie di attacchi coordinati contro i sistemi di difesa aerea, le basi militari e i siti di lancio di Teheran.
Dopo un'importante salva iniziale nelle prime ore del 13 giugno, gli aerei israeliani hanno continuato le operazioni in profondità nel territorio iraniano, eliminando sistematicamente i sistemi missilistici terra-aria (SAM) e neutralizzando le strutture militari ritenute in grado di minacciare le forze o il territorio israeliano.
In un filmato appena pubblicato, le Forze di Difesa Israeliane (IDF) hanno mostrato attacchi di precisione contro risorse chiave iraniane, tra cui la distruzione di un sistema di difesa aerea Tor-M1 di fabbricazione russa e di un lanciamissili balistici Fateh-110. Entrambi sarebbero stati colpiti da missili da crociera lanciati dall'aria israeliana durante le ondate successive dell'operazione.
La campagna in corso, lanciata nell'ambito della risposta israeliana all'escalation delle minacce iraniane, sembra focalizzata a degradare la rete di difesa aerea integrata della Repubblica Islamica, in gran parte sviluppata con la tecnologia e il supporto russo.
Capitalism: If you have two cows, your landlord decides they're tenants late on rent, then your landlord sells your cow, buys a bull. Then your landlords shoots your other cow and tells you it was attacking him and acted only on self defense. As punishment, he gets to eat your cow. You protest and then he shoots you.
Trump is ONLY bringing us THE FUTURE that George Orwell showcased to us in 1949! That's 60 years ago! ABSURD! We were supposed to get this in 1984!! Thank you, President Trump!
And dictators are installed by the uber wealthy and sometimes are a product of imperialism and foreign influence. Really, what we should be focusing on is the inner circle and the ultra-wealthy. These are the people that actually call the shots. A dictatorship is just there to create kind of like a brand and a environment of fear. Dictators aren't actually in charge. So, who is really scared? Those with all the wealth. Pigs get fed, Hogs get slaughtered.
I don't understand why protestors would even show up in Washington DC during the fascist parade like is being implied in the article.
The union protests and social unrest currently underway are not really related to Trump's authoritarian birthday bash except for how the media paints them as a "warm up".
Protesters would be better served popping up all over the country except in Washington DC during their synchronized goose stepping contest.
Trump's parade was so limp dicked. No one fucking showed up, and his little bitch face was about to cry. You could see it when they zoomed in. And this makes it glaringly obvious that all he's doing is pissing away money. Also, the people in charge, like the people in charge, know that we're not going to win any of these wars he's trying to start. If they start a draft, this would be the time to overthrow the government. You might even have some right wingers on your side. At the end of the day, it's about material conditions and not so much dogma. I'm not confused of my position in the hierarchy.
Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were fatally shot Saturday morning in Brooklyn Park in what Gov. Tim Walz said “appears to be a politically motivated assassination.” Walz said another Democratic lawmaker, state Sen.
We got these shirts for the eclipse last year (we traveled to Dallas and viewed from Perot MoS). None of us noticed this then. It seems so obvious, now that my kid pointed it out to me.
Disclosure: I do street photography on Fuji Instax color and monochrome, B&W film, and color and B&W edited digital. My username is accurate, I have low vision.
What we now call street photography - that many of us do as a hobby or with a focus on art - came from journalism and documentary photography, right? The Leica and black and white workflow was good for professionals documenting current events.
As photographic technology progressed, photojournalism moved to color film, then to digital as those became more appropriate for the workflow and for the reader.
In general broad strokes, photojournalists have been capturing current events with the technology of their time, therefore they’ve been representing their times with the look that technology brings. If the early 1900s happened in black and white, and so much of the rest of the century happened in Kodachrome, the 21st century is happening in whatever “color science” means. Sharp lens - lacking in character? - and balanced - realistic? - colors.
With all that context, when we use film simulations, edit in black and white or - gasp! - shoot on film, are we documenting our own time or are we bound to nostalgia? Magnum Photos was all about the most effective technology to capture the moment, not charcoal sketches. Are we effectively capturing the spirit and visual aesthetics of the 2020s or are confusing future historians? Or… are we just really enjoying ourselves and creating art, while we leave the documentation to people using their smartphones and PJs?
What are your thoughts? I’d love to hear from hobbyists and pros alike. Are you editing for a nostalgic feel or focusing on focusing on sharp realism? Both? Why and when? And how do you feel about others’ work? Do you miss a more current look in street and documentary photography?
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There is a trend currently were fan translaters are paywalling the latest chapters, with poor translations. What are your thoughts on this? I don't mind asking for donations, but asking for money with mediocre translation is scammy.
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Exactly, this opens up legal problems. This is the exact reason that Nintendo was able to go after Yuzu, because they started taking money from people. Donations are fine, but when you are profiting this opens up legal troubles. What's funny is that these fan translater have a DCMA reporting email like they are not profiting from copyrightable content.
Most of them are just machine translated work with little editorial. The only good thing about them is they came out faster than the official translation (which usually will be free anyway).
This is not a fan translation anymore, just plain opportunistic business venture.
Sadly, this can be said about actual streaming services as well. There's some episodes on Crunchyroll on even big name titles like One Piece is very clear that they took the episode and threw it through some sort of subtitle auto generator because it won't line up with what they're saying. And I don't mean like they don't align or they're out of sync. That does happen as well. What I mean is like it will say Fred on the show, but it will say the word bread on the screen.
I don't get it, because a service that is licensing the shows shouldn't need to use a service like that, because shouldn't the original source have that information? It makes me wonder if those big streaming services are still pirating the smaller things, like subtitles.
I've talked to a few translators who work on official subs and my understanding is that for simulcast subs like One Piece, they end up having to ship subpar translations with no editing because the deadlines are so ridiculous. So if they mishear a word or make a typo, they usually don't have time to fix it.
That is dumb, it is fine if the release it a few days after. Management is horrible in Crunchyroll, fun fact though crunchyroll used to be a pirate site.
I remember that. They actually had quite a bit of trouble when they first tried to establish as an officially licensed company because of the fact that their initial user base was sailing the seas.
I don't doubt it with some of the translations I've seen. I think it would be better for them to just release the main content and then release subtitles further on down the road, But I assume there's probably some sort of accessibility law that forbids them from doing that.
It just gets super annoying watching a show and either having poor quality subtitles or subtitles that blatantly spoil parts of the series.
For example, in one piece
::: spoiler Early on one piece spoiler When you first meet Blackbeard, from memory, he doesn't say who he is. He just stands there as an old drunkard. And you're meant to expect that he's just some crazy drunk person that's interacting with the main party. You don't actually find out who he is for a good 5-10 episodes. However, if you had subtitles on, they clearly label him as Blackbeard during the first encounter, so it ruins that entire revelation. ::: I use subtitles because I have ADHD, And as part of that, it makes it so I struggle to keep up with audio versus comprehending it and subtitles give me a short delay of being able to catch up and still be able to read the text to understand what happened. when the subtitles are broken, I end up hard focusing on that. or get lost requiring me to rewind. Super annoying.
Nothing in any of those three words precludes payment (it's work after all) but it's still notoriously scummy. A donation jar would make far more sense.
That's the part we have to combat. The idea that being a fan of something means any contribution you do to the fandom has to be treated as essentially unpaid workforce for the franchise. In truth, it's nothing in the fact that you are a fan, but rather the fact that the thing you are a fan of is defended by some of the vilest scume of the earth (lawyers) that is a problem.
People also shouldn't just be able to make money off of other people's creations without limits.
IMO, ideally we would implement a system of 'open licensing' where people could freely use others IP as long as they pay a public, standardized percent of revenue based on the usage.
I should clarify it depends on your definition of fan. When you're making a derivative work, there's two versions. There's fan which is The person is enthusiastic about the content and then there is the intellectual property variation of it, which is someone who is doing it for non-commercial reasons under fair use(or said countries equivalent). However, once you start requiring money for said process, it removes the protections the creator has shielding it and generally changes the definition to that version.
Additionally, I agree a donation jar would be much better, but even then it's been shown that that doesn't resolve all liability because fan projects have been taken down for having a donation button even though the project itself is free, heck projects have been taken down for having advertisements on the projects website despite having nothing to do with said project
Rightsholders have to compete with pirates, but the inverse is true too.
Pirates typically win on price, but if they deliver a sub-par product, or make it more inconvenient to access, then it makes sense to go through official channels instead.
Yeah, history has repeatedly proven that piracy is largely a convenience/cost calculation. Each individual person will have a different way that they measure convenience or cost, but that’s ultimately what it boils down to. And piracy’s biggest benefit is that the financial side of the “cost” equation is low.
Maybe the cost has other factors that people consider, like time spent searching for decent sources, malware risk, potential legal issues, moral objections, etc… All of that gets lumped into the cost side of the equation, and weighted based on the individual’s unique situation. For someone like a 12 year old kid with no financial freedom, the “price” side of the cost calculation will be weighted very heavily.
Meanwhile, the convenience has its own factors too. Download speed, ease of access, quality of the media being consumed, etc… All of these factors get weighted and lumped into the “convenience” side of the equation.
It ultimately just boils down to “does the convenience outweigh the cost?” And if piracy becomes less convenient/more costly, (or legit sources become more convenient/less costly) then people will reconsider their decision.
Doubt it, only a small part will go the originl author which is the price required to purchase the chapter which is a few coins on Naver equivalent to $0.10, while manga is equivalent to $1 or $2. Some will go to the translator, but judging by the horrible quality of the translation probably not much and the editers, and the rest will go the owners of the site.
Not to defend scummy Business practices but as an avid reader of asura scans i gotta give them Credit for free to read and actually good translations (i haven’t bought a subscription). My experience was good and in my eyes while there is hiccups here and there they tend to put in the effort.
I think charging money for pirated content is crossing the line. Once you do it for profit, you put a target on your back for the work's author to aim for.
Yeah pretty awful. If this stuff was around when I started reading manga in the mid 2000s who knows how many series I might've skipped out on. Even though most of these are just early access, I feel like it totally goes against one of the main purposes of fan translations, accessibility. My favorite part of translating manga is knowing I'm providing otherwise unknown series to others and helping people discover something new. Not everyone can just pick up Japanese (日本語上手！！) so helping people access their hobbies is really fulfilling and gating that behind a patron is shitty. I know the pain of being a poor kid whose parents wouldn't support their interests.
To me it seems fine, especially if there's still a free version that's basically the same or it gets released after a delay. I don't think I'd pay for something like this myself, and maybe they're taking some legal risk, but if the money lets them spend time making media accessible, how is there a problem that outweighs the good?
Two Minnesota state lawmakers were shot in apparent "targeted" incidents on Saturday that left them in grave condition, officials said, and a manhunt is now underway for the gunman.
A source familiar with the matter tells ABC News that the victims are state Sen. John Hoffman and state Rep. Melissa Hortman.
Both were shot at their homes and authorities believe the shooter was impersonating law enforcement, the source said.
This 6 mile out and back trail will take you past the Sulphur Gates into the , a cool looking geological feature shaped by water, to a waterfall that has carved the rock into an intriguing spiral pattern.
A photo showing the lower and middle sections of Eaton falls as you approach from a distance.
The way the small canyon warps up around the waterfall is hard to convey. Me for scale.
The Sulphur gates, formed as water cut through the ridgeline to merge the rivers below.
Kind of out of the way to get to, I mostly went here as I was stalling for time for snowmelt. The waterfall itself was very cool though.
May miss tomorrow, not sure if I’ll get back to service or not (Kootenai NP).
“The Wikimedia Foundation has been exploring ways to make Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects more accessible to readers globally,” a Wikimedia Foundation spokesperson told me in an email. “This two-week, opt-in experiment was focused on making complex Wikipedia articles more accessible to people with different reading levels. For the purposes of this experiment, the summaries were generated by an open-weight Aya model by Cohere. It was meant to gauge interest in a feature like this, and to help us think about the right kind of community moderation systems to ensure humans remain central to deciding what information is shown on Wikipedia.”
Some very out of touch people in the Wikimedia Foundation. Fortunately the editors (people who actually write the articles) have the sense to oppose this move in mass.
Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash
The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization which hosts and develops Wikipedia, has paused an experiment that showed users AI-generated summaries at the top of articles after an overwhelmingly negative reaction from the Wikipedia editors community.
“Just because Google has rolled out its AI summaries doesn't mean we need to one-up them, I sincerely beg you not to test this, on mobile or anywhere else,” one editor said in response to Wikimedia Foundation’s announcement that it will launch a two-week trial of the summaries on the mobile version of Wikipedia. “This would do immediate and irreversible harm to our readers and to our reputation as a decently trustworthy and serious source. Wikipedia has in some ways become a byword for sober boringness, which is excellent. Let's not insult our readers' intelligence and join the stampede to roll out flashy AI summaries. Which is what these are, although here the word ‘machine-generated’ is used instead.”
Two other editors simply commented, “Yuck.”
For years, Wikipedia has been one of the most valuable repositories of information in the world, and a laudable model for community-based, democratic internet platform governance. Its importance has only grown in the last couple of years during the generative AI boom as it’s one of the only internet platforms that has not been significantly degraded by the flood of AI-generated slop and misinformation. As opposed to Google, which since embracing generative AI has instructed its users to eat glue, Wikipedia’s community has kept its articles relatively high quality. As I recently reported last year, editors are actively working to filter out bad, AI-generated content from Wikipedia.
A page detailing the the AI-generated summaries project, called “Simple Article Summaries,” explains that it was proposed after a discussion at Wikimedia’s 2024 conference, Wikimania, where “Wikimedians discussed ways that AI/machine-generated remixing of the already created content can be used to make Wikipedia more accessible and easier to learn from.” Editors who participated in the discussion thought that these summaries could improve the learning experience on Wikipedia, where some article summaries can be quite dense and filled with technical jargon, but that AI features needed to be cleared labeled as such and that users needed an easy to way to flag issues with “machine-generated/remixed content once it was published or generated automatically.”
In one experiment where summaries were enabled for users who have the Wikipedia browser extension installed, the generated summary showed up at the top of the article, which users had to click to expand and read. That summary was also flagged with a yellow “unverified” label. An example of what the AI-generated summary looked like. Wikimedia announced that it was going to run the generated summaries experiment on June 2, and was immediately met with dozens of replies from editors who said “very bad idea,” “strongest possible oppose,” Absolutely not,” etc.
“Yes, human editors can introduce reliability and NPOV [neutral point-of-view] issues. But as a collective mass, it evens out into a beautiful corpus,” one editor said. “With Simple Article Summaries, you propose giving one singular editor with known reliability and NPOV issues a platform at the very top of any given article, whilst giving zero editorial control to others. It reinforces the idea that Wikipedia cannot be relied on, destroying a decade of policy work. It reinforces the belief that unsourced, charged content can be added, because this platforms it. I don't think I would feel comfortable contributing to an encyclopedia like this. No other community has mastered collaboration to such a wondrous extent, and this would throw that away.”
A day later, Wikimedia announced that it would pause the launch of the experiment, but indicated that it’s still interested in AI-generated summaries.
“The Wikimedia Foundation has been exploring ways to make Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects more accessible to readers globally,” a Wikimedia Foundation spokesperson told me in an email. “This two-week, opt-in experiment was focused on making complex Wikipedia articles more accessible to people with different reading levels. For the purposes of this experiment, the summaries were generated by an open-weight Aya model by Cohere. It was meant to gauge interest in a feature like this, and to help us think about the right kind of community moderation systems to ensure humans remain central to deciding what information is shown on Wikipedia.”
“It is common to receive a variety of feedback from volunteers, and we incorporate it in our decisions, and sometimes change course,” the Wikimedia Foundation spokesperson added. “We welcome such thoughtful feedback — this is what continues to make Wikipedia a truly collaborative platform of human knowledge.”
“Reading through the comments, it’s clear we could have done a better job introducing this idea and opening up the conversation here on VPT back in March,” a Wikimedia Foundation project manager said. VPT, or “village pump technical,” is where The Wikimedia Foundation and the community discuss technical aspects of the platform. “As internet usage changes over time, we are trying to discover new ways to help new generations learn from Wikipedia to sustain our movement into the future. In consequence, we need to figure out how we can experiment in safe ways that are appropriate for readers and the Wikimedia community. Looking back, we realize the next step with this message should have been to provide more of that context for you all and to make the space for folks to engage further.”
The project manager also said that “Bringing generative AI into the Wikipedia reading experience is a serious set of decisions, with important implications, and we intend to treat it as such, and that “We do not have any plans for bringing a summary feature to the wikis without editor involvement. An editor moderation workflow is required under any circumstances, both for this idea, as well as any future idea around AI summarized or adapted content.”
I knew AI would eventually come for one of the greatest things humans have ever used the internet for, but I'm so disappointed that it has come from within.
I've cancelled my monthly donations. We can't trust the Wikimedia Foundation at all, ever again. Genuinely sickening anti-human sentiment from those freaks.
It is so concerning given that they're entrusted with something so collaborative and so amazing.
Meta devised an ingenious system (“localhost tracking”) that bypassed Android’s sandbox protections to identify you while browsing on your mobile phone — even if you used a VPN, the browser’s incognito mode, and refused or deleted cookies in every session.
This is the process through which Meta (Facebook/Instagram) managed to link what you do in your browser (for example, visiting a news site or an online store) with your real identity (your Facebook or Instagram account), even if you never logged into your account through the browser or anything like that.
Meta accomplishes this through two invisible channels that exchange information:
(i) The Facebook or Instagram app running in the background on your phone, even when you’re not using it.
(ii) Meta’s tracking scripts (the now-pulled illegal brainchild uncovered last week), which operate inside your mobile web browser.
But the conversation is unique in each community. And each community may not have federated to every instance. This is the Fediverse, not a single site with sub communities.
I do think it would be nice if a client/backend could: - Take any cross-post link from the main post - Query any description/comments for cross posts - Add to the currently displayed comments - Tack on descriptions as comment blocks with an @ to the cross posting OP to the displayed description - Mark cross-posts as read when main is read
This would be easier in Lemmy, but could be done with a client, Thunder might be interested.
It was posted 3x to the Privacy@lemmy.ml community. Or at least it looks to me like 3 different accounts posted the same thing to this very community.
I don't really care about how it works, I'm just tired of the chan-esque experience where I have to question my sanity because I see the same posts every day.
Just because people that don't actually participate in a given community, thus not seeing the older posts, share the same article because they look for a community that fits and dump it there.
Some subreddits had bots that detected and removed reposts and guided OP to the original post for them to add their discussion points.
Same Unfortunately, I use Marketplace for some things and Meta made it damn near impossible to use a browser for posting marketplace listings and responding to DM's
This is a big factor for me. Attracting local people means that I can meet up in person and not have to spend additional money for shipping ,or worry that the item arrived damaged or is lost during transit.
This is the problem with the network effect, everybody using marketplace is saying the same thing. I’m not trying to shame you in particular for this or anything but I think it’s important to consider that at some point if we don’t just make the move off anyway, nobody ever will
Since January Google has been using browser fingerprinting and IP triangulation to track across incognito windows.
Meta wants in the game as well. Nothing done on a phone with Meta apps is done in isolation.
Edit: seems like only vanilla mobile browsers affected. Brave was not vulnerable, DDG minimally so, and I expect Iron/Waterfox with uBlock would also not have allowed tracking.
Researchers found Meta and Yandex secretly tracked Android users via localhost, linking web activity to app IDs, even in Incognito. This widespread abuse bypassed privacy controls.
Let's say you use a VPN, and all your internet traffic comes from an IP in London. 178.238.10.1.
It doesn't matter if you have a VPN, if you log in to anything with any account tied to your real name (yourname@gmail.com), your email and anything done on that London IP are all linked. Google builds a profile on you based on the activity on that IP. AND your browser profile. Private/incognito window or not, if there's a Google tracker on the site, they connect it all. Google doesn't care about private windows. If you go to reddit in a private window on the same IP as your gmail, Google sees that and tracks every page you look at.
So let's say that you log into your email from work. Google now has a treasure trove of new info about you and people you know. Same for FB, who uses the fact that you and someone else were logged on from the same IP range to suggest new friends.
Let's pretend that you live in China and still have access to a VPN and want to learn about the Tienanmen Square Massacre. But the government can ask Google about you. What do you need?
an IP never ever used with an account associated with an account with your real name.
a no-log VPN that won't tattle on you if asked what sites did you access on a specific date.
a browser fingerprint never ever associated with an account tied to your real name.
Nah, the script connects to a server run by the Instagram or Facebook app and feeds it info, bypassing isolation mechanisms entirely. I think ublock or other script-blocking add-ons might work though.
A robot told me: The Meta/Yandex exploit worked by having JavaScript running on a website (such as Meta Pixel) connect from the browser to a native app on the same device via the localhost (127.0.0.1) interface, using HTTP, WebSocket, or WebRTC. This communication occurs entirely within the device and does not traverse the network in a way that browser extensions like uBlock Origin can intercept or block. Browser extensions generally cannot block or even see requests made to localhost sockets, especially when those requests are initiated by scripts running in the browser and targeting native apps on the same device
Be brave, do it. I just did it a few months ago. Just push the trigger and delete it. Let it go. They will of course keep the data, but at least not legally anymore.
I haven't deleted it because there are a couple of people I might theoretically need to get in touch with at some point that I don't have contact with otherwise.
I held on to this possibility for similar reasons for years, but after some honest self reflection I cannot say there would be anyone from my past life who is still important and I have no other means to contact, my Facebook bubble from 10 years ago and more is long dead, i.e. similarly inactive.
Maybe giving people an email address, phone number or username somewhere else via Facebook message before leaving for good could also be a solution.
Yeah, but they'll still create a shadow profile on you and track your data anyway. Have a friend with an account? Your name and phone number is known to them. Even without a true identity attached, they will track you from your own devices, and then correlate that with everything else they can at every opportunity.
Also, Facebook is preinstalled as a system app (cannot be uninstalled without adb) on various manufacturer's and carrier's android builds.
IIRC Facebook was not installed by default on my Samsung A32, and there is no trace of it now so I don't think I removed it. shrug Otherwise, use privacy features in your browser/on your device
I can't remember which one of my phones, probably a Samsung that had Facebook installed and couldn't get rid of it. People were like, you can just not open it or something. There's a good reason I don't want it on my device.
I did a 'download all your data' on Facebook a while back and there wasn't anything about my tracked browser history. Does this mean they've also violated the "users should be able to see the data you have on them" article of the GDPR as well?
I'm guessing they're trying to hide behind weasel shit about the ids being anonymized or something as though it wasn't trivially easy for them to deanonymize....
I have my own company that helps companies websites. There is a company called 6sense that scares the crap out of me. They are able to use Facebook, insta, and reddit. They are able to assign an id to you, even in incog.
They have some crazy algorithm that can eventually match you to the real you. Then stick you in a cohort to sell to you.
It's actually kind of amusing and pathetic to me that they're doing all this malignant privacy breaching, and putting such massive effort into it, but then only using it to serve you advertising, which I largely ignore anyway.
Why software do you use in your day-to-day computing which might not be well-known?
For me, there are ~~two~~ three things for personal information management:
for shopping receipts, notes and such, I write them down using vim on a small Gemini PDA with a keyboard. I transfer them via scp to a Raspberry Pi home server on from there to my main PC. Because it runs on Sailfish OS, it also runs calendar (via CalDav) and mail nicely - and without any FAANG server.
for things like manuals and stuff that is needed every few months ("what was just the number of our gas meter?" "what is the process to clean the dishwasher?") , I have a Gollum Wiki which I have running on my Laptop and the home Raspi server. This is a very simple web wiki which supports several markup languages (like Markdown, MediaWiki, reStructuredText, and Creole), and stores them via git. For me, it is perfect to organize personal information around the home.
for work, I use Zim wiki. It is very nice for collecting and organizing snippets of information.
oh, and I love Inkscape(a powerful vector drawing program), Xournal (a program you can write with a tablet on and annotate PDFs), and Shotwell (a simple photo manager). The great thing about Shotwell is that it supports nicely to filter your photos by quality - and doing that again and again with a critical eye makes you a better photographer.
xpipe – I use it to SSH into any of my servers, cluster nodes or directly into docker containers without having to remember hostnames, IPs, users. It can also bring your useful scripts to said ssh session without "installing" them on the target device, which is great because you don't have to set it up for every new server. Also the dev is a really nice guy.
Portmaster + SPN – I use it to route each app through different VPN paths with multihop support and per app firewall rules. (e.g. one app via Denmark, another via a random country, third app no VPN, fourth app gets no internet at all etc.) It really gives you full control over the traffic. afaik there is no other all in one app like this.
wdfs - It's an old project that is patched by this random github user. It's the only way I found to mount a webDAV storage cleanly into a directory from a bash script without fucking with my fstab or being root or giving specific privileges to my user. I mount it from a bash script because that way I can use KDE wallet to store the credentials instead of having a plain text file somewhere on my fs, the script waits until the wallet is unlocked, then reads the credentials from it and mounts the webDAV to a path in my home. That is more accessible to apps and other scripts (e.g. recent files) instead of doing it via Dolphin, which generates a random string in the path every time when opening network storage.
XPipe is a new type of connection hub that allows you to access your entire sever infrastructure from your local machine. It works on top of your installed command-line programs and does not require any setup on your remote systems.
Can rclone mount it transparently? I thought it is more like a one time copy / sync.
What I mean by that is that the remote storage should look like a normal directory to the rest of the system and any reads and writes should go over the network directly to the remote without occupying local disk space.
Also it seems to me that you have to write your credentials to the rclone config file, which I explicitly don't want.
Herbstluftwm, the window manager. I used i3 for a decade, then bspwm for a few months, then landed on hlwm which I've been happily using for over a year. I don't foresee changing until I'm forced to switch to Wayland. I've used almost every window manager and DE available for Linux and Solaris. Hlwm has things I can no longer live without:
It's entirely configuration-file-less, which means the CLI client is the first class citizen for C&C.
It's tiled and keyboard controllable is, again, a first-class citizen
It has a sane tree model, with no weird exceptions
It's stable
It's fast and small. You never see it in top, sorting either by CPU or memory
Zsh, the shell, in which I run 90% of my applications (the regular exceptions being the Luakit browser and Factorio, the game. everything else is CLI or a TUI). Zsh is bash backwards compatible, and it has a bunch of extra convenience syntax that makes scripting more powerful, pushing out the border where switching to a real programming language is necessary. I have lived in sh, bash, and csh over my life, and I've tried fish and a number of others; the rich data model for process communication is compelling, but I've always discovered it lacking, so on zsh I remain.
Tmux, the terminal multiplexer, which is (almost) invariably the first child of every terminal (rio -e 'tmux attach -t#'). Because terminals crash, because it survives session restarts, because it lets me log in remotely and continue what I started in my desktop, and because it works over ssh and having a consistent multiplexer environment across machines is nice. I used sceen for years before discovering tmux, and have tried almost every other terminal multiplexer; and none add any significant value for me over tmux.
Helix, the editor in which I spend most of my time. Because I started with emacs and used it for years before switching to vim. Then I used vim for decades before switching to Kakoune. Then I used Kakoune for about 2 years before switching to helix. Kakoune was too much like Emacs for my taste: heavy on chording, light on modality. Helix is much more like vim: lighter on chording, more mode-driven. Chording aggravates my carpel tunnel, and I'm more comfortable in modal editors. I switched from vim because the plugins necessary to be a competent development environment got insane, and my vim was starting to take as long to start up as emacs, which was unacceptable. Also, LSP integration was super flaky and broke every six months; it's what initially drove me to Kakoune.
I'm currently using Rio as my terminal. It has bugs, but it's actively developed and regularly releases will fix one more thing. It has both ligature and sixel support, and it's wildly fast and far, far less memory intensive than either kitty or ghostty, which are both pretty fat. I am not including it in "the list" because some remaining bugs are pretty big, like randomly crashing when it gets resized or sees some sequence of asci escape codes. It's not much of an issue because I run everything in tmux, and it crashes less with every release, but I hesitate to recommend it until it's more stable.
That's one I don't remember, but I probably wouldn't have: the config file is in Lisp. Not only is Lisp something I never use anymore, which gives it a high cognitive load, but I don't particularly care for Lisp-like syntax.
I'm certain there are several less common WMs that I haven't tried. It'd probably be almost impossible to try every WM every written for X; it seems to be a common hobby project for folks interested in the X protocol.
I did say "almost every", but perhaps even that was exaggeration. I do think I've tried the majority, though.
My differentiator for hlwm, the killer feature, shared by only two other projects that I'm aware of, is that hlwm has no configuration file. All configuration is performed through client commands. Every command interaction that can be performed by a user input - and much that can't - can also be performed on the CLI. All (?) windowing events can also be monitored on the command line, and therefore scripted. The other two WMs that share at least some of these features are bspwm and river.
+1 for helix. I was new to linux and TUI editors. The vim tutor was a good intro to the concept of modal editors, but needed lsp and syntax highlighting. At the time I struggled a lot with configs, so neovim was out. Helix is just a fantastic, batteries included experience. Approachable for beginners, but feature rich for novices.
Right now jeena.github.io/recoder/ which I just released and here is why (copied from the website):
🎬 Why Recoder?
I used to edit family videos in Kdenlive without a problem — it handled footage from all our devices without complaining. But then I switched to DaVinci Resolve, and suddenly nothing worked right. My Sony Alpha 7C, my Galaxy S24, and my wife's iPhone all produced files that Resolve couldn’t handle without transcoding.
😤 Too Much Fuss, Too Many Steps
Every time I wanted to edit, I had to hunt down the right ffmpeg settings and manually run them on each video — a frustrating and repetitive task.
My typical workflow is simple: I create one folder per event on an external HDD and drop in videos from all our cameras. A script renames the files based on the date and time so I can easily sort them. But for Resolve, everything has to be transcoded to DNxHD — which only supports resolutions like 1920×1080 and 1280×720.
🔄 Vertical Videos? Extra Pain
That also meant vertical videos couldn’t work. So now, I rotate them during transcoding to preserve resolution and rotate them back in Resolve during editing.
✨ Enter Recoder
I built Recoder to automate this annoying step — so I could spend more time editing memories and less time fiddling with command-line tools.
GNU parallel, to run commands on all cores, and for its filename pattern substitution.
For example: ls *.flac | parallel ffmpeg -i {} {.}.mp3 encodes a directory of FLAC files to MP3. parallel -a <(ls *.flac) -a <(ls *.mp3) --xapply copytags {1} {2} then copies each FLAC file's metadata to the corresponding MP3 file (which ffmpeg already does, just to illustrate the --xapply option).
KDE's Dolphin + Konsole's integration to Dolphin is great for seamlessly managing files with an UI and terminal hybrid.
Though closed source (overly dramatic music plays), the text editor Sublime Text works great, and at least with major version 3 (last I checked it was in version 4), it can be converted to AppImage without major issues (at worst, paths with spaces have issues).
Firejail is great for starting specific programs offline.
Newsboat is the best RSS feed reader I could find for Linux, specifically due to, with its inbuilt macros, I can set it up to open in new tabs several posts from a comically large amount of feeds.
Whoa, I had no idea! I knew about alt+shift+F4 to open a terminal in the current folder, but that spawns a whole separate konsole instance, F4 is amazing, thank you!
You press F4 and a window within Dolphin comes up, already "cd-ed" to the current directory, the terminal working as Linux's default bash terminal: media.ani.social/01/97/74/79/4…
Seems like a simple thing? Indeed. But it's a small detail that saves a lot of time in the long run for helping with the workflow. No need to switch back and forth between two different windows.
and the konsole is kept automatically in the dir you are currently. is very handy when you need do do something in the terminal and you need immediate feedback.
Download FreeFileSync 14.3. FreeFileSync is a free open source data backup software that helps you synchronize files and folders on Windows, Linux and macOS.
Qalculate!, the calculator I use every time I need to do a calculation, especially if it involves units or currency conversion. Does everything I've ever needed out of an everyday calculator (even symbolic calculation and exact results), while keeping the usual simple calculator interface.
FreeTube, a desktop client to watch YouTube videos, without an account. Why not use a browser without an account? Well, it has a watch history, favorites and subscriptions as if you had an account - but its all "offline" account, without Google involved (besides watching their video). So it manages an account with subscriptions, without YouTube account. Plus it integrates an ad blocker and SponsorBlock, and has a few more features on its sleeve.
kdotool, a xdotool like program for KDE on Wayland. Just learned about it when setting up another application. But I will use it for independently too.
There are more, but this is what came to my mind right now.
I like game emulation and to manage my ROM library, I use Geode-GEM. It is simple but cusomizable app to manage your ROM based on console and emulator you have.
I've used it a lot just to control audio or video playing on my computer from my phone. (Sometimes when I'm sat at my computer with multiple windows and workspaces open, I even find it easier just to hit my phone's lockscreen to pause the music.)
I'm starting to use some of its other features, too. E.g. copying & pasting and sharing files between phone and computer.
KDE connect can be good too but I like localsend for sharing files with any and all devices like when I'm moving phones and need to send a file to the new one or between my PCs. You're not wrong though, KDE connect works well for fileshare too.
Espanso Text Expander. Its not Linux specific but its got so many uses. You can even use it with bash scripts to have essentially alises/text shortcuts for short or massive amounts of text. I use it for so many code snippets and template texts in Neovim and other applications that involve typing.
I've used espanso for about 4, maybe 5 years and haven't encountered this issue. I even have to compile it myself because it's daemon mode uses systemd on Linux and I dont run a distro that uses systemd and had to modify the source code slightly. I do run it in managed mode, essentially invoking it from a startup script when my window manager starts up.
Long story short, what you encountered might have been related to how it integrates with the init system and you might try and run it directly from a startup script. Simple test is to just try and install the latest version and see if you have the same issue.
Thanks for the feedback - It was a systemd issue. Something caused it to continue generating slices for espanso until the machine locked up - probably spawned with each terminal. It happened on out of date fedora install 36 (when 41 was out) with gnome on it.
Since then I've moved to a window manager for all my machines and would likely invoke it the same way - perhaps now it's time to revisit!
Transparent proxy server that works as a poor man's VPN. Forwards over ssh. Doesn't require admin. Works with Linux and MacOS. Supports DNS tunneling. - sshuttle/sshuttle
Run Windows apps such as Microsoft Office/Adobe in Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora) and GNOME/KDE as if they were a part of the native OS, including Nautilus integration. Hard fork of https://github.com/Fmst...
FreshRSS - Self-hosted RSS feed aggregator with multi-user support, mobile API, and custom tags.
AudioBookShelf - Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server with mobile apps and progress syncing across devices.
PhotoPrism - AI-powered photo management platform with facial recognition, geo-tagging, and automatic organization.
Jellyfin - Free media server for streaming movies, TV shows, music, and photos with no licensing restrictions.
Karakeep - Personal data backup and synchronization tool for maintaining local copies of online content. AI tagging, lists, easy to use interface. Really good stuff, especially combined with a browser plugin.
Productivity, Documents & Task Management
Vikunja - Task management app with Kanban boards, Gantt charts, multiple views, and team collaboration features.
Memos - Self-hosted memo hub for capturing and sharing thoughts with markdown support.
Docker Obsidian - Containerized version of Obsidian knowledge management app for browser access.
Stirling PDF - Comprehensive PDF manipulation tool with 50+ operations including merge, split, convert, and OCR.
Paperless-ngx - Document management system with OCR, tagging, and full-text search capabilities.
LanguageTool - Grammar and spell checking service with support for multiple languages and integration APIs.
Good Deeds
Archive Team Warrior - Docker container for contributing computing power to internet archiving projects.
I have been running Jellyfin for a while now with great success, and prefer Immich over Photoprism. The rest look real interesting, especially Sterling PDF.
I was using it for auto tagging of categories. I haven't tried immich but I just moved my photos to my snapraid, so I might give it a shot. It looks like it's come far since I looked last.
It does work really well. Backs up everything, the mobile app works. Though I am having trouble with it auto switching URL dependant on local or remote but I think that's a me thing
It is really good for organizing and distributing text, media and files like with gopher. And I think due to its simplicity, it is perfect for using it in a home or lab network.
Gemini is kinda a modernized version to the old Gopher protocol. Its purpose is to share hyper-linked text documents and files over a network - in the simplest way possible. It uses a simple markup language to create text documents with links, headings etc.
It is much, much easier to write hyper-linked documents than in HTML
a server is much much smaller and easier to set up than a web server serving HTML. It can easily and securely run on a small Raspberry Pi without special knowledge on server security.
in difference to gopher, it supports modern things like MIME and Unicode
There are clients for every platform including Android and iOS
also, there are Web gateways which allow to view stuff in a normal web browser
unlike Wikis, it is only concerned about distributing content, not modifying files. This means that the way to store and modify content can be matched to the use case: Write access to content can be via an NFS or Samba server, or via an SFTP client like WinSCP or Emacs.
the above means that it does not need user authentication
the protocol is text-centric and allows for distraction-free reading, which makes it ideal for self-hosted blogs or microblogs.
Practically, for example, I use it to share vacation photos with family.
Two more use cases that come first to my mind:
When I did my masters thesis, our lab with about 40 people had a HTTP page hosted on a file server that listed tools, data resources, software, and contact persons. That would be easier to do with Gemini because the markup is simpler. Also, today it would not be feasible to give every student write access to a wen server's content because of the complexity of web servers, and the resulting security implications.
One time at work, we had a situation with a file server with many dozens of folders, and hundreds of documents. And because all the stuff had been growing kinda organically over many years, specific information was hard to find. A gemini server would have made it easy to organize and browse the content as collaboratively edited hypertext which serves as an index.
Thanks... I had no idea this existed. I can now connect to the work remote desktop software with a single window perfectly integrated. This is incredibly helpful. Moreover I can now say I'm using Winapps in order to run Windows App. I guess now they can rename the remote desktop app again to Winapp to go full circle. Or maybe Winamp, just to confuse people. Or just App, to make it impossible to ever troubleshoot.
EDIT: At any rate, this works really beautifully. It's a bit of a PITA to set up if you're having the VM via virt-manager but hell if it's not as smooth as native.
Topgrade - Upgrade all your system packages and dependencies in one command.
Keeping your system up to date usually involves invoking multiple package managers.
As someone who worked build/rel before working OS security: if you're intentionally breaking Single Source of Truth for software state management, then you're in for a bad time. This can only delay the inevitable, but the technical debt comes at a high credit cost on top.
Building an RPM is SO trivial to do, even without some LLM feeding it to you; and maintaining an existing one or rebuilding it to suit another distro or version even more trivial. Save your sanity and avoid out-of-band 'package' managers!
For me it's Perl's rename, which of course cones in a variety of package names depending on the distro you use. In trying to find a link, I landed on this stack exchange answer that gives a great overview of how the tool works and the different packages available on different distros.
I have to bulk rename files every day, and using regex and the other features of Perl's rename makes it so much easier to do.
ed (which is the more frugal, older brother of vi/vim) might indeed be a bit under-hyped. Which advantages does it have for you?
Funny thing a while ago I had a small side-project for a data collection task in my PDA - a kind of minimal database to record daily stuff. So, a PDA has limited screen space and typing speed, and I tried to make the UI with as little typing as possible. And then it dawned to me that I was essentially replicating ed's interface!
I started on Logseq, because I'm a contributing open source advocate. I fully intended to stay with Logseq.
However, it seems to indent everything in the markdown including headings, bullet points and so on. When one loads a document into a markdown editor, one ends up removing all these indents before the document becomes 'valid'. They've made some other unusual design choices that mean the markdown doesn't read very well in plain text. I used Logseq for a year.
There's also a difficulty for me with getting help. For some reason Logseq help community seems to be based around the Discuss (sp?). It's not easy to read because the lines are very short as it's a messaging platform. The community is very very active though.
I eventually got frustrated with trying to debug my Markdown outside Logseq, and went looking for another vehicle.
Rather distressed, I installed Obsidian. It's been designed with a more logical approach. To link to a heading in another document, the document is linked in a Wiki-like way (if you've chosen that format) with the heading separated by a hash symbol; in Logseq you get an unintelligible UUID plus all that indenting.
There's a lot of help within the Obsidian community but some of it is locked down in medium paid-for content. However, the hundreds of Obsidian YouTube channels and videos, obsidianrocks and obsidian.md sites are very well authored. AI searches augment the rest, TBF I don't really use Google proxies anymore.
Even though I'm a personal user, it's worth it to me to buy a commercial licence to show my appreciation for the work that the two(?) developers have put in.
The plugins use the published API and are all (?) open source AFAICT.
Most of the issues I have with Obsidian are just related to my workflow. I think that there are probably plugins that will solve them.
I don't expect to be looking for another note-taking app anytime soon and it's been over a year since I started with Obsidian. Understanding templates opened my world up enormously. I haven't started data-mining in any meaningful sense yet.
I tried logseq to manage my notes at work and it just didn't click with me.
I ended up using QOwnNotes qownnotes.org/ which might be not as polished, but it is very easy to start with. I don't need nor want cloud/sync, and since this ones notes are plain .md files in a folder, it's easy to back up (or edit) externally when needed. I like it for what it does.
As far as I’m aware, Logseq also just uses .md files. I back those up regularly and I do use the cloud sync. The cloud sync lets me alternate use between my computer and my tablet for work. I could use just one device, but this was a significant advantage for me.
I also keep a separate log for personal work which I can add to via special shortcuts from my phone.
Great topic. I'm going to have to investigate some of these suggestions later.
Since my first pick, helix, was already mentioned here and i commented on it, I'll add gitui. Git can be very overwhelming for me. Gitui arranges frequently used git commands in a sensible, visual layout and makes it easy for me to understand and interact with git.
For doing more complex tasks with git, you could have a look at jujutsu. It is really good and provides most of git's power in an conceptually much simpler CLI interface.
Thanks for the rec! The anonymous branches and working-copy-as-commit subsuming git stashes is intriguing. I'll give it a closer look when I have a chance.
Pinta is the main one that comes to mind. I don't use it every day, far from it, and that's a part of why I love it. On the rare occasion that I have to do some image editing, I load up Gimp and then proceed to fight against it for at least a whole day to make it do the simplest of things before finally ragequitting. Then I load up Pinta and actually get the task done in either minutes or hours at most.
It's like old school MS Paint, but better. Simple, intuitive, no huge learning curve, just enough features to get my nonprofessional tasks done. It should be a distro default.
Pinta is a free, open-source program for drawing and image editing. It combines powerful features with an easy-to-use interface, making creativity seamless. Available for Linux, Mac, Windows, and *BSD.
digiKam was the first Linux application I encountered that was so polished and useful for what it does that I tried to shoe-horn it into any and every DE I experimented with, as well as installing it onto my windows machines under KDE4Win.
Sorry to thread jack. One little app I miss from Windows is a simple screengrab annotator? Wondering if people have anything to recommend.
Eg to circle some on screen text, add an arrow and maybe add some of my own text.
I cant get my Loigtech KB to screen grab, so I just use the Screengrab app in Mint, which is fine but zero annotation abilities.
I have tried Flameshot but it is a shitshow and doesn't work properly and is unstable (for me) and doesn't allow me to put it in the clipboard and paste in say Signal.
Nah, I've had no issues pasting from the clipboard into signal, from either the Mint screenshot tool or Flameshot. Not sure what issue the top commenter is having...
I don't have issues you are describing with flameshot, however a clipboard manager greatly enhanced the copy-ability between apps and certain websites (looking at you JIRA and Slack), including when the source is flameshot.
dealing with logitech devices. i love their hardware, but i feel like they’re really bad at doing any kind of software… i know that there are alternatives for configuring logitech devices, but i quite enjoy solaar.
System restore tool for Linux. Creates filesystem snapshots using rsync+hardlinks, or BTRFS snapshots. Supports scheduled snapshots, multiple backup levels, and exclude filters. Snapshots can be re...
It could be helpful if you explain what they do and how they relate to your computing needs. For example, I have been using Linux for over 25 years, and the only name in yor list which I have an idea about what it does is Deja Dup (personally, I use tar for backups, in a simple incremental setup).
I know Strawberry, because I use it too. It's a music player, forked from Clementine years ago. I find it the best for my use case, as it can handle library by tags, do folder view for separate locations, do tag editing, lyrics and art download, etc. Can highly recommend!
UpNote. I use it like a combination of the gollum wiki described by OP, but I just put everything in there. I have watch and reading lists for things I want to check out, writing projects, notes for TTRPG games, I keep extensive notes on healthcare-related stuff, and so on. I like UpNote because it's lightweight, has windows, linux, and android apps, and because it has a one-time $25 lifetime membership that does free syncing forever instead of a monthly subscription like most other things seem to. I've tried OneNote, Evernote, Obsidian, Joplin, AnyType, and a bunch of others and didn't like them for various reasons, but UpNote is both pretty small and also has a pretty full-featured editor that can do rich text, all kinds of formatting, media files, etc.
The only thing I've run into that UpNote wasn't ideal for is I started writing a novel a couple months ago and managing the structure and notes and all that got a little unwieldy so I picked up Scrivener. Still wish they had an updated linux client or there was some good, complete, feature-rich linux-native equivalent, but it runs pretty good under wine, so.
UpNote is a clean and beautiful app for writing and organizing notes. It’s easy to use with rich features and delightful experience. Available on Mac, iOS, Android, Windows and Linux.
Well, my main reason to use Zim Wiki and Gollum is that all the information stays on my computers -no sync service is needed, I sync via git + ssh to a Raspberry Pi that runs in my home. And this is a critical requirement for me since as a result of many experiences, my trust in commercial companies that collect data to respect data privacy has reached zero.
The differences between Zim and Gollum are gradual: Zim is tailored as a Desktop Wiki, so each page is already in editing mode which is slightly quicker, while Gollum is more like a classical server-based wiki, which is normally accessed over the browser (but by default, without user authentication). The difference is a bit blurry since both just modify a git repo, and Gollum can be run in localhost, so it is good for capturing changes on a laptop while on the road, and syncing them later. A further difference is that Zim is a but better for the "quick but not (yet) organized" style of work, while Gollum is better for a designed and maintained structure.
Both can capture media files and support different kinds of markup, while always storing in plain text. Gollum can also handle well things like PDFs which are displayed in the browser, and supports syntax highlighthing in many programming langages, which makes it nice for programming projects - it is perfect for writing outlines and documentation of software, and I often work by writing documentation first.
Yeah, I have since discovered pCloud as a replacement for OneDrive and that I could just have everything saved to a pCloud directory to auto-sync.. but IMO UpNote is worth the $25 anyway so I don't mind. Also it requires considerably less effort to just install the android app vs setting up some kind of multi-device syncing with pCloud/equivalent and managing that myself. I guess I value convenience over privacy in this one area.
Thanks for the explanation re:gollum/zim, I was curious why you were using 2 different sets of software to accomplish what seemed like the same thing. My notes are definitely more of the 'scribble some shit down and organize it later if I get around to it' variety, but I stopped using zim because I wanted synced notes with multiplatform apps and also it felt a little archaic, and I wasn't really using the real star feature of wikis (cross-linking) anyway, I just wanted something with a traditional tree structure.
in other distributions, these packages normally have the same names.
Also, if you need something, I've found it often to be a good strategy to sit and write down what you personally need from a software - what are your requirements, and then go and search which available software matches these. The other way around, there are just too many alternatives: Any larger distro has tens of thousands of packages, and you won't have time to try them all.
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You’ve heard of it for sure, but shout out to Audacity. I used Cool Edit Pro for years before having to switch to Adobe Audition. The UI in Audacity feels surprisingly familiar and it does what I need it to do.
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AutoKey automation / word expander tool. - I reconfigure ALT + i/j/k/l to ↑←↓→ globally, and more similar shortcuts. - It expands abbreviations of one's choice like "gCo" to git commit -m ' - One can assign scripts to abbreviations and hotkeys. E.g., when I press CTRL + Shift + [ it surrounds the selected text with a tag:
text_selected = clipboard.get_selection()
text_input = dialog.input_dialog(title="Wrap with a tag.", message="E.g., type cite to get <cite>x</cite>.", default="")
keyboard.send_key("<delete>")
clipboard.fill_clipboard(f"<{text_input[1]}>{text_selected}</{text_input[1]}>")
keyboard.send_keys("<ctrl>+v")
I'm likely not even harnessing AutoKey's full capabilities and it's already absolutely indispensable for being a huge time-saver and annoyance reducer.
Steam added an excellent screen capture feature to their overlay, but I like being able to capture my screen anytime, not just when playing games with the steam overlay.
gpu-screen-recorder is the perfect tool for this, you set up a command to run at startup and the software records the last X minutes in the background, with barely any hardware utilization. Add a hotkey for another command that saves the recorded clip to a file, and boom, simple and efficient replay recorder. I'm honestly surprised this app wasn't mentioned yet.
units is really powerful. I worked with the team there to appropriately support Gaussian units since it seems no other tool would—took a bit of retrofitting to support fractional exponents like "grams^1/2", but I have yet to find another tool that handles this even remotely correctly.
If you don't want to bother with a CLI app and specific syntax to follow, there's rofi-calc, it's super fast to load since it's just rofi and it understands natural language. When I stumbled upon it I found the idea of a calculator that understands you when you type "30 feet in mm" or "10 usd in euros" completely mindblowing. Props to qalc for making it possible
I mean the syntax for gnu units is literally the same unit expression used in math. m^2, cm, m/s etc. the ft;in looks weird because it's two units combined.
Your example in it would be units 30ft mm , use -t for terse results that's just the final value.
It's definitely usable if you know the right abbreviations to use, and it seems a lot more concise which much be convenient if you're used to the syntax! But I find natural language also has a lot of advantages, especially for converting units you don't see often and have no clue how to abbreviate, like when watching videos that give you measurements in weird units. Plus my brain tends to freeze when something looks like maths, so natural language is easier to use for me (even though I know it's THE EXACT SAME calculation 😅 ).
Again, you can type feet instead of ft and it'll work. You can write 'feet per second' instead of 'ft/s' and it'll work. Natural language has its benefits but when you have a very simple syntax model then there's less chances of it making a mistake.
I would say Rymdport (github.com/Jacalz/rymdport). It's a GUI for the magic-wormhole tool (another recommendation in itself). It let's you easily and safely transfer files to another computer.
I use Localsend to send files between my computers. Also to family and friends if they are local at the time. I keep seeing magic-wormhole mentioned on Lemmy. Do you know if wormhole is better somehow? Is it worth me trying it?
Biggest difference is that wormhole will pass traffic between devices on different networks as long as both are routable. So it's not limited to a local network connection.
Very different tool. Magic-wormhole is dead simple, works over CLI and requires no setup. It's not dependant on computers being within the same LAN. I wouldn't use it with non-technical people. For users with some skill Rymdport is an option for them to interface with magic-wormhole. The tool is great for transferring secrets when setting up computers for example.
gnome-network-displays let's you cast your screen to a wireless display (Miracast) or to a Chromecast device.
It works with KDE no problem and even under Wayland.
It creates a virtual display that can be organized like any other display: unify with another screen or extend the desktop using your DE's default method/UI. And then it uses standard screen sharing conventions to send content to that virtual display.
I don't know what kind of dark arts the developer(s) employed to make this possible, but the end result is simple wireless display in Linux that just works! A MUST for using Linux in a business setting.
Damn... I might consider swapping the other way then. KDE is great. Especially the file browser and "KDE connect" for android is fantastic. There's just issues like these now and then
Doesn't even work well on a single monitor on Wayland. It gets confused with screen size or sth, fills a small area on top left with screen contents and lot of black space
Last windows I used was 10,and I've always found it lacking in the screen capture arena. Full disclosure, I had no idea Flameshot had a windows version.
It's like apt for installing directly from Github releases. A plug, sure, but I still use it regularly for things like FreeCAD, Cura, OrcaSlicer, and so on.
Boxbuddy makes it incredibly easy to use distrobox, a great way to install software that might not be available for your distro, but is available on another distro, or just a way to keep a piece of software in a stable state (like DaVinci Resolve with davincibox).
If you use a "gaming distro", I'm sure you've seen Input Remapper. It's a neat utility that can create macros for all your peripherals or rebind keys as you like. Want to bind you controller so it works like a mouse? Possible. Want to macro key pressed by using the forward button on your mouse? Possible.
Did you leave Foobar2000 behind when you switched to Linux? Why not give Fooyin a try. It's a relatively new audio player with aspirations of becoming just as configurable as FB2K. For me replaygain is quite important, and while some other FOSS audio players support it, not many has replaygain generation. And Fooyin does. While also being just as easy to set up and use as Foobar. Worth a look.
GNU Stow, definitely. I can't stress enough how wonderful this app has been for my sanity. I use it to manage my dotfiles and personal data.
I made one dotfiles folder, which contains home, etc and usr subfolders. I put all my configs in it (dotfiles, themes, custom keyboard layouts, etc) in the relevant subfolders, then with Stow I symlink dotfiles/home to /home/username, dotfiles/etc to /etc and dotfiles/usr to /usr, and poof symlinks are created for everything in it. That way all my configs are in one folder, I can sync it to my NAS easily, make it a git repo for version control, and even upload it to github. It's amazing 🥰 I also made a personal folder which contains Documents, Pictures, Videos, etc, all symlinked to /home/username/Documents and such, so I only have one folder to back up for my personal data. Yes I'm very lazy and hate doing backups 😅
Rofi (or here for the X11 version) : It's the best app launcher by miles, even if I used a DE I'd still use rofi. But I also use it for a lot of other stuff that it's much less well known for: the run mode for launching scripts and other executables, the ssh mode for ssh, rofi-calc for a very light and fast calculator that understand natural language, rofi-games as a games launcher, rofi-emoji as emoji selector... Rofi is life, rofi is love, rofi is God.
Libation to liberate audiobooks from Audible. There's tons of apps to download and un-DRM your files from various platforms, but most only work on Windows. This one does work on linux 🥳
Lots of self-hosted apps for my media server, but they are all pretty well known (Jellyfin, Audiobookshelf, Komga) except maybe Suwayomi Server for manga (it can sync progress to AniList, and there are plugins to enable downloading from online manga reading sites)
ani-cli for watching anime because I'm a crazy person who grew up with MS-DOS and TUI apps make me happy. Also it's often more convenient than having to check ten different websites to find the one anime you want to watch only to discover that half of them have been taken down.
yt-dlp to download videos from YouTube. I use wrapper scripts to make it more convenient to use because I'm lazy, but it's great.
No I wasn't aware of it but it looks interesting! It seems to have a lot more features than GNU Stow. It says it requires a GitHub repo though, so it wouldn't do for personal data, but for configs it looks interesting!
It doesn't require a github repo, you can use any personal git repository. I personally have set it up with a selfhosted gitea instance. I also assume you could setup a git repo on the device.
I'm a chezmoi user and I'll be honest: as powerful as it is, it's way too clunky to get right. I spend too much time configuring and then am too worried I'll mess it up if I need to add or remove anything.
I'm going to give stow a try to see if it fits my workflow better.
You can install it via flatpak and use selinux as well if you need. You can also encrypt and password protect the database, which can also be held in your keyring.
As with any app its up to you to decide and mitigate any perceived risks.
I don't know if it has been already mentioned but I love bat a lot. It's like the cat command but with colors and line numbers. Makes things a little bit easier.
It's software for budgeting. You can run it entirely local, or set it up as a server. It stores everything in an SQLite dB, let's you import and export CSV files, and it gives you great options for querying and seeing reports on your financial records.
I've got a handful of accounts, so I set up a small python utility to parse the CSVs my banks give me to something actually sensible and readable for Actual. I do that once a month, add a reconciliation entry here and there, and it's all kept on sync very well.
I have one morbid report titled "money pissed down the landlord drain", and it's far higher than I'd like to be. But it's got close to every penny I've ever spent on that bullshit in one place.
Capitalism is violence. Having billionaires while people starve is violence. Denying healthcare while spending billions on military is violence. Supplying weapons or finances to states commiting genocide is violence.
Right now, if you are passive, you are complicit in immense amounts of violence.
Somehow this is lost on liberals. (Or alternatively they believe the once every 4 years elite propaganda contest [elections] or strongly worded petitions are the only effective ways of dissent).
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Changes to the laws around the use of electric scooters, including the introduction of a minimum age limit, will come into force next Tuesday, 17 June.
Changes to the laws around the use of electric scooters, including the introduction of a minimum age limit, will come into force next Tuesday, 17 June.
Bill Atkinson, the computer engineer at Apple who played a critical role in the development of the Macintosh operating system in 1984 and the ubiquity of the desktop metaphor of files and folders in personal computing, died on June 5 at the age of 74…
Bill Atkinson, the computer engineer at Apple who played a critical role in the development of the Macintosh operating system in 1984 and the ubiquity of the desktop metaphor of files and folders in personal computing, died on June 5 at the age of 74…
Ireland has made moves to become the first European Union country to ban trade with Israeli-occupied territories, while its prestigious university Trinity College has cut all ties with Israel.
Rule 1: Israel is never the aggressor. If Israel attacks someone it’s either a response to an aggression that happened in the past, or a preemptive attack to thwart an imminent aggression in the future.Rule 2: History automatically restarts at the date of the last act of aggression against Israel. If someone attacks Israel it was completely unprovoked, because nothing happened before the attack on Israel.Rule 3: Anything bad that Israel does is justified by Rule 2.
L'articolo proviene da #StartMag e viene ricondiviso sulla comunità Lemmy @informatica Il New York Times ha visto crollare negli ultimi tre anni la sua quota di traffico proveniente dalla ricerca organica verso i siti desktop e mobile del giornale dal 44% al 36,5% registrato nell'aprile 2025: tutta colpa, dice il Wall Street
L'articolo proviene da #StartMag e viene ricondiviso sulla comunità Lemmy @Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁) Il New York Times ha visto crollare negli ultimi tre anni la sua quota di traffico proveniente dalla ricerca organica verso i siti desktop e mobile del giornale dal 44% al 36,5% registrato nell'aprile 2025: tutta colpa, dice il Wall Street
Non c'è. In fondo, i giornali devono essere leggibili, gratuitamente o a pagamento, e nessuno vorrebbe mai sottoscrivere un abbonamento per fruire di una schermata protetta, non copiabile o magari illeggibile come un captcha 😅
As some of you may know, a new bittorrent tracker/site platform built with Rust/VueJS is in the works. Here is the announcement and a progress report.
When this started, my motivation was high and things went fast. I'm still very motivated to bring arcadia to a production-ready level, but I need at least 1 other "core" dev to work with me. Since this is a community project, I'm not expecting instant replies, daily commits, etc. But a buddy to share the pain and the fun with 😀 we are humans after all, social beings! Some people already made very nice contributions (and I thank you all again!), but it's not the same as having someone who knows the codebase well, can take informed decisions, etc.
So if you are (or know someone who might be) interested in building what could be the next big thing in the torrenting realm, please dm me here or on discord (@FrenchGithubUser) and let's chat! I will happily give more details and assistance for whatever is needed! Also feel free to post on your private tracker forums/irc to let other know about arcadia! I believe that coding with others is paramount for projects of this size!
As a reminder, arcadia is a programming project, aiming at bringing a tool to the community. We are not going to host you typical private tracker (although some might). However, I recently rolled out a demo site for the ones interested in testing/developing arcadia. If you are interested, join the discord server.
Una nuova mostra collettiva sarà esposta a partire da questo sabato e per tutta l’estate al Museo Ugonia: “Connessioni 2” non è solo il titolo dell’esposizione, ma anche la rappresentazione dell’intenzione che i quattro artisti mettono in queste opere. Le suggestioni contenute in questi dipinti lasciano spazio a visioni e forme evocative, in un racconto corale figurativo dove gli oggetti quotidiani costituiscono un varco verso nuove e inesplorate dimensioni. Gli artisti – Antonio Bertoni, Filippo Maestroni, Luca Casadio e Martino Neri – portano i visitatori in un viaggio di “metamorfosi pittoriche”, come le descrive nel suo testo critico Tommaso Ortolani. “Ogni forma, ogni luce, ogni ombra si trasforma sotto lo sguardo e nel dialogo silenzioso tra le tele – continua Ortolani – In un tempo che ha spesso rimosso la pittura figurativa come lingua del presente, questa mostra ne rivendica invece la vitalità e la necessità.”
L’inaugurazione si terrà al Museo sabato 14 giugno alle 18.00, alla presenza degli artisti e delle autorità locali. La mostra sarà visitabile fino al 14 settembre, durante gli orari di apertura del Museo Ugonia: tutti i festivi e prefestivi, ore 10-12 e 16-19.
Una nuova mostra collettiva sarà esposta a partire da questo sabato e per tutta l’estate al Museo Ugonia: “Connessioni 2” non è solo il titolo dell’esposizione, ma anche la rappresentazione dell’intenzione che i quattro artisti mettono in queste oper…
A causa di quella che sto adesso subendo io, mi è tornata in mente l’esistenza della muta come concetto. Ci sono purtroppo poche mute (da non confondere quindi con le multe, che sono tante), ma tutte di diverse categorie… C’è la muta umana normale, per cui ogni giorno perdiamo nell’aria quantità allucinanti di cellule morte […]
A causa di quella che sto adesso subendo io, mi è tornata in mente l’esistenza della muta come concetto. Ci sono purtroppo poche mute (da non confondere quindi con le multe, che sono tante), ma tutte di diverse categorie… C’è la muta umana normale, per cui ogni giorno perdiamo nell’aria quantità allucinanti di cellule morte di epidermide — che fa assolutamente schifo, perché queste finiscono in giro per casa a contribuire alla formazione della classica polvere, costringendo a spolverare e quindi faticare senza che da questo lavoro scaturisca alcun prodotto — c’è quella dei serpenti, che è elegante perché c’è proprio la pellicola vecchia consumata che si stacca per essere sostituita con la nuova già perfettamente applicata, che poi a sua volta sarà cambiata… …E infine poi, appunto, c’è la muta arsa viva, che io sto subendo solo adesso dopo il famoso incidentino. Se fosse vetro su di un display, questa cosa si chiamerebbe spacc, quindi il livello in questione è alto pregio. A pensarci è buono anche per il semplice fatto che fa molto femcel, rappresentando sostanzialmente in modo immediatamente visibile la disgregazione continua della mia anima, e focalizzando la generale permanente imperfezione del mio corpo su di un particolare punto oggettivamente percepibile. È in ogni caso simpatica però, perché è una via di mezzo tra le altre mute di cui sopra… e infatti fa schifo comunque, perché i compromessi sono sempre un po’ così. Ma purtroppo, se un giorno sono gatto e l’altro ragno, questo è il massimo a cui posso aspirare…
A wetland habitat which was "almost exclusively a birder reserve" until the Covid-19 pandemic is marking its 30th anniversary.
Kingfishers Bridge, a 300-acre (121-hectare) reserve between Wicken and Stretham, Cambridgeshire, went from having 2,000 visitors a year to 21,000 in 2023.
The dog-friendly reserve now has a car park, cafe, visitor centre and shop, as well as offering regular visitor tours of its rare habitats.
A chiudere la terza e ultima giornata di “Pianeta 2030”-il Festival è stato il ministro dell’Ambiente e della Sicurezza energetica in dialogo con Daniele Manca.
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