UK moves jets to Middle East as Starmer refuses to rule out defending Israel
Military assets to provide ‘contingency support’ as PM repeats call for de-escalation after Iran’s retaliatory strikes
Archived version: archive.is/20250614174505/theg…
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UK | Keir Starmer to launch national inquiry into grooming gangs
PM says new statutory inquiry was ‘right thing to do’ after findings of review submitted by Louise Casey
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Democratic lawmaker killed and another wounded in Minnesota in apparently ‘politically motivated’ attacks
Two Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota shot in their separate homes
Governor Tim Walz was briefed on ‘ongoing situation’ in which Minneapolis-area state senator and representative were attackedRachel Leingang (The Guardian)
Police say suspect dressed as law enforcement and shot at responding officers before escaping
I’m just gonna say. Might the suspect have been a police officer? I wouldn’t trust the police to disclose that.
I mean if they are wearing a uniform and emerged from a cop car as eyewitness accounts suggest…
The gunman was still at large, law enforcement said on Saturday, and the city of Brooklyn Park was still under a shelter-in-place order. The shooter was impersonating a police officer, dressed in a uniform that would appear to be real to most people, police said.“They did drive a vehicle that looked exactly like an SUV squad car,” Brooklyn Park’s police chief, Mark Bruley, said at a press conference. “It was equipped with lights, emergency lights, that looked exactly like a police vehicle, and yes, they were wearing a vest with Taser, other equipment, a badge very similar to mine, that, no question, if they were in this room, you would assume that they are a police officer.”
Hmmmmmmmm
US | DOT To Delay Biden Administration's New Airline Wheelchair Standards
The rule was supposed to become effective on January 16th, but has been delayed since the Trump administration was sworn in.
Flight Attendant Jailed For Secretly Filming Colleague In Hotel Room Toilet
A flight attendant has been jailed in Singapore, after he placed a camera in his colleague's hotel room bathroom, when invited over.
Salt Lake City, plans to implement AI-assisted 911 call triaging to handle ~30% of about 450K non-emergency calls per year
When you phone 911 in SLC and Sandy, AI soon may take your call
SLC eyes moving to AI for handling nonemergency 911 callsThe Salt Lake Tribune
India & Japan Order Safety Inspections On Boeing 787 Fleets After Tragic Crash
The news comes shortly after Air India’s tragic Boeing 787 crash, which claimed all lives except one.
Kazakh-Chinese Container Terminal Launches in Almaty
Kazakh-Chinese Container Terminal Launches in Almaty - The Times Of Central Asia
The Zhetysu container terminal, a new logistics hub jointly developed by Kazakhstan and China, officially opened in Almaty on June 10, marking a significantSergey Kwan (The Times Of Central Asia)
Anker recalls over a million power banks due to fire and burn hazards
Anker recalls over a million power banks due to fire and burn hazards
Anker has recalled its PowerCore 10000 power bank (model A1263) due to the risk of fire and burns.Steve Dent (Engadget)
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Israeli fire kills 35 people in Gaza, many at aid site, medics say
CAIRO, June 14 (Reuters) - Israeli fire and airstrikes killed at least 35 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, most of them near an aid distribution site operated by the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, local health authorities said.
Medics at Al-Awda and Al-Aqsa Hospitals in central Gaza areas, where most of the casualties were moved to, said at least 15 people were killed as they tried to approach the GHF aid distribution site near the Netzarim corridor.
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Salt Lake City, plans to implement AI-assisted 911 call triaging to handle ~30% of about 450K non-emergency calls per year
When you phone 911 in SLC and Sandy, AI soon may take your call
SLC eyes moving to AI for handling nonemergency 911 callsThe Salt Lake Tribune
US Marines make first detention in LA as more protests expected
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.
Netanyahu’s Official Jet Touches Down in Athens Following Israeli Strikes
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.
Netanyahu’s Official Jet Touches Down in Athens Following Israeli Strikes
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s official jet, the “Wing of Zion,” landed in Athens just hours after Israel reportedly launched strikes on Iran.Kowalenko Charlie (Greek City Times)
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Dynasty Reader » Jyoshikou Dakara Safe
Online manga reader for scanlations released by Dynasty Scans and other Yuri groups.dynasty-scans.com
Bocchi the Rock Side Story Manga Is Great for Kikuri Hiroi Fans
Bocchi the Rock Side Story Manga Is Great for Kikuri Hiroi Fans - Siliconera
If you like Bocchi the Rock and Kikuri Hiroi, her manga can be a fun read, but it also brings up her alcoholism and Spirals of Happiness.Jenni Lada (Siliconera)
La Francia intensifica la guerra alla pirateria sportiva con il blocco degli IP in tempo reale
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.
France Escalates War on Sports Piracy with Real-Time IP Blocking * TorrentFreak
The French Senate has passed a new anti-piracy bill bolstered by a "secret" agreement to automate and streamline direct blocking requests.Ernesto Van der Sar (TF Publishing)
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Two Days Talking to People Looking for Jobs at ICE
cross-posted from: piefed.social/post/930949
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.
Two Days Talking to People Looking for Jobs at ICE | Yanis Varoufuckice
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.n+1
oh you must be somehow dodging the countless anime and furry communities that are alive and "well"
Idk who the fuck Moe is but this cartoon gal has quite an imaginative and loyal following
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.
People like you vote. Or should vote?! But should they if they just choose to be ignorant?!
You're a living argument against democracy 🥲
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing. - Burke.
Yes it's miserable, and I'm not sure if I'm doing anything at all, but turning away seems worse.
Implying Lemmy is the best/only place to get political news. :/
Some of us come here for fun and get our doom elsewhere.
Doomscrolling can decrease the motivation to act, contribute to anxiety and analysis paralysis.
Banning communities can be helpful to avoid those that fuel doomscrolling rather than action.
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.
If you look at my comment history, you'll see how, on the boost app at least, to mute keywords and phrases, as well as a list that I use.
To save a click through my history: settings > filters and block > filter words
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.
This fits the liberal nihilism to a T.
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
I’m no hypocrite
I didn't even realise my instance did this (I didn't do research)
But if this is it minimised, I don't want to see the full amount
I also don’t live anywhere near the US. Do I feel like I can’t do anything? Not at all.
I deleted my PayPal account
I deleted my Amazon account
I deleted my Instagram account
I switched to a Linux distribution which is mainly developed in Europe
I deleted my Google account
I deleted my WhatsApp account
I try to boycott as many American products (physical or digital) as possible.
Israele ottiene il dominio aereo sull'Iran
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.
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Minnesota politician shot and killed, another injured in "targeted political violence"
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/66814240
How is this not bigger news?
'Targeted shootings' in eastern Minnesota, Gov. Walz says
There have been "targeted shootings" in eastern Minnesota, according to Gov.Mirna Alsharif (NBC News)
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Trump Is Rapidly Expanding the Surveillance State as Protests Grow
Trump Is Rapidly Expanding the Surveillance State as Protests Grow
Immigrants are only the first target of a rapidly expanding digital dragnet that can track our individual movements.Mike Ludwig (Truthout)
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At least the normie has nothing to hide. Good thing they didn't waste last 5 years of their lifes hardening their set up.
They dindu nuffing wrong they tots he safe 🤡
It's valid though.
Maybe more important.
You remember elliot spitzer and 'keeps his socks on during sex"? That was steven miller. The current actual-president.
hahaha good onion article can you imagine if this really happened haha
r...right?
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\
Because I was not a socialist.Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\
Because I was not a trade unionist.Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\
Because I was not a Jew.Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
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.
Minnesota House DFL leader Melissa Hortman, husband killed in apparent 'politically motivated' shooting; second lawmaker wounded
Minnesota House DFL leader Hortman, husband killed in apparent 'politically motivated' shooting; Sen. Hoffman, wife wounded
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.MPR News Staff (MPR News)
[Discussion] Does nostalgic editing rob us of the documentary aspect of street photography?
Original question and text by @MostlyBlindGamer@rblind.com
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?
Official Livestream for "No Kings" protest
Millions rise up to say: In America, we don't do Kings
Millions are rising up in more than 2,000 cities and towns across the country to defend democracy, reject authoritarian overreach, and stand up for our commu...YouTube
A Musician’s Brain Matter Is Still Making Music—Three Years After His Death
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A Musician’s Brain Matter Is Still Making Music—Three Years After His Death
In collaboration with the artist, the installation examines the ideas of creativity and the moral quandary of extending someone’s life beyond their biological death.Darren Orf (Popular Mechanics)
Fan translators asking for payment for latest chapters for comics, webtoons, manhwa, manga...
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.
Examples:
asuracomic.net/
madarascans.com/
nightsup.net/
casacomic.com/
Casa Comic
Immerse yourself in a world of passion, heartache, and unforgettable love stories with the best shoujo, romance, and drama manhwa on Casa Comic — where every page is filled with emotions, stunning art, and characters that will steal your heart! - Cas…Casa Comic
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I hate it..hate it..really hate it
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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"Fan"
That's the part that precludes payment. Fan works legally have to be free, that's what makes it not copyright infringement.
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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.
Down with copyright law!
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.
as long as they pay
To who?
To the IP licensors? Nah. Pass. Prefer piracy.
To the creators? Arguably much better.
How to control intermediaries in those cases?
Also payment processor information usually requires KYC crap and puts people in lots of danger of fire from trigger-happy companies (or governments).
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.
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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.
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It's only crossing the line because they expect me to pay for it.
I don't give 2 shits about what the 'owners' have to 'aim for.'
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2 Minnesota lawmakers shot in apparent 'targeted' incidents, in grave condition; manhunt underway
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.
2 Minnesota lawmakers shot in 'targeted' incident: Officials
They took place in Champlin and Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, officials said.Jon Haworth (ABC News)
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Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash
cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/20524171
“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.”
The Editors Protecting Wikipedia from AI Hoaxes
WikiProject AI Cleanup is protecting Wikipedia from the same kind of misleading AI-generated information that has plagued the rest of the internet.Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
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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.
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Impatto economico globale del conflitto Israele-Iran: rischi e scenari
Impatto economico globale del conflitto Israele-Iran: rischi e scenari
Le conseguenze economiche globali del conflitto tra Israele e Iran Il conflitto tra Israele e Iran sta destabilizzando i mercati internazi...Antonio Marano (Blogger)
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Meta could track your browser sessions even in incognito and link them with your real identity
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.
“Localhost tracking” explained. It could cost Meta 32 billion.
You just can't finish off Zuckerberg.Jorge García Herrero (Zero Party Data)
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Meta is under investigation for a privacy violation called localhost tracking.
“Localhost tracking” explained. It could cost Meta 32 billion.
You just can't finish off Zuckerberg.Jorge García Herrero (Zero Party Data)
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.
Meta is cancer for any platform.
I feel my mobile becomes dirty once I download any of that shit.
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
I live in a slightly less developed country where as far as 90% of the population are concerned, Facebook is the internet.
I hate it with a passion, but if I don't have a login then there's no way for me to find details of pretty much any business or event in the city.
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.
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Android's Secret Tracking: Meta & Yandex Abused Localhost for User Data
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.Ddos (Penetration Testing)
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.
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I think ublock or other script-blocking add-ons might work though.
presumably it would block entire thing at the loading of the pixel script. talking out of my ass
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Fair enough.
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.
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Who says any of my ~~stalking~~ OSInt accounts is my real identity?
Edit: /s ofc. Who would use those crappy apps on phone anyway.
Can they do this on iPhone
Also they can only do this if you got fb installed right? Cause I uninstalled insta a while ago
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.
Even if you use brave or Firefox. Doesn't matter.
What is your most useful Linux app which others might not know about (please don't just give the name but a link and why it is good for you) ?
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 - Your entire server infrastructure at your fingertips
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.xpipe.io
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.
Every day?
- 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.
Edit: typo, grammer
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).
edit: copytags is github.com/DarwinAwardWinner/c… if that's useful for anyone.
GitHub - DarwinAwardWinner/copytags
Contribute to DarwinAwardWinner/copytags development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Parallel is great!
Alternatively your second command can be written as: parallel "copytags {1} {2}" ::: *.flac :::+ *.mp3.
Also it is nice to exec commands on multiple devices.
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.
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:
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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.
is very handy when you need do do something in the terminal and you need immediate feedback.
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Not Linux exclusive, but freefilesync.org/ and goaccess.io/ my beloved
Easy file sync and easy log checking
FreeFileSync
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.FreeFileSync.org
GitHub - Qalculate/libqalculate: Qalculate! library and CLI
Qalculate! library and CLI. Contribute to Qalculate/libqalculate development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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.
GitHub - jinliu/kdotool: xdotool-like for KDE Wayland
xdotool-like for KDE Wayland. Contribute to jinliu/kdotool development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Upvoted for FreeTube.
What do you use to send YouTube links to FreeTube? Personally I'm using LibRedirect libredirect.github.io/
LibRedirect - Privacy-friendly Redirector
A web extension that redirects YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, etc. requests to alternative privacy-friendly frontendslibredirect.github.io
KDE Connect
- kdeconnect.kde.org/
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.
There's more too I need to explore.
- community.kde.org/KDEConnect
(Unfortunately, sometimes I get a 'device unreachable' error when both devices clearly have a working connection to the same router.)
KDE Connect
KDE Connect: A project that enables all your devices to communicate with each other.KDE Connect
It's the best.
Being able to communicate with apple users who are still clinging on to sms with a keyboard is great. I detest typing on touchscreens.
Localsend is rad, super useful: localsend.org/
Send any file across different devices over the network. FOSS and fast. Highly recommend.
LocalSend: Share files to nearby devices
LocalSend is a free, open-source, cross-platform file sharing tool that allows you to share files to nearby devices.localsend.org
KDE Connect also works on Mac & Windows.
Definitely should use whatever software you're comfortable with.
But I seriously cannot recommend KDE Connect highly enough. It's a great piece of software
GitHub - nozwock/packet: Quick Share client for Linux
Quick Share client for Linux. Contribute to nozwock/packet development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
I used eapanso for a few years, but kept running in to issues with it spawning hundreds of versions of itself.
I really miss it though. Would you say it has matured?
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!
sshuttle
github.com/sshuttle/sshuttle
need it all the time, super minimal, easy to usw
GitHub - sshuttle/sshuttle: 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.
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/sshuttleGitHub
Aside from ones listed here:
System Tools
- WinApps - Run Windows applications seamlessly integrated into your Linux desktop environment, like native including Adobe products.
- Waydroid - Run Android applications in a container on Linux with full hardware access.
- Topgrade - Upgrade all your system packages and dependencies in one command.
- AM (AppImage Manager) - Easy AppImage management for installing, updating, and organizing portable applications.
- Starship - Fast, customizable cross-platform shell prompt with Git integration and status indicators.
- InShellisense - IDE-style IntelliSense autocomplete and suggestions for your terminal.
- Tabby - Modern terminal emulator with tabs, split panes, and extensive customization options.
- Zeit - Qt GUI frontend for scheduling tasks using at and crontab utilities.
- KWin Minimize2Tray - KDE extension that allows minimizing windows to the system tray instead of taskbar.
- Flameshot - Feature-rich screenshot tool with built-in annotation and editing capabilities.
- CopyQ - Advanced clipboard manager with searchable history and custom scripting support.
- Safing Portmaster - Free open-source application firewall with per-app network control, DNS-over-TLS, and system-wide ad/tracker blocking.
Productivity Tools
- DSNote - Offline speech-to-text, text-to-speech and translation app for note-taking.
- NAPS2 - User-friendly document scanning application with OCR and PDF creation capabilities.
- Morphosis - Simple document converter supporting PDF, Markdown, HTML, DOCX and more formats.
- Obsidian - Powerful knowledge management app with bidirectional linking and graph visualization.
- BeeRef - Minimalist reference image viewer designed for artists and designers.
Media & Entertainment
- Popcorn Time - Stream movies and TV shows via torrent with built-in media player.
- Nicotine+ - Modern Soulseek P2P client for sharing and discovering music files.
- XnView - Versatile image viewer, organizer, and converter supporting hundreds of formats.
Happy to list out the self hosted stuff too if there is interest.
GitHub - winapps-org/winapps: 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 github.com/Fmstrat/winapps/
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...GitHub
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Media & Content Management
- 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.
FreshRSS, a free, self-hostable feeds aggregator
FreshRSS is lightweight, easy to work with, powerful, and customizable.freshrss.org
You could give a try to running a gemini server like agate. It is text + file serving protocol similar to gopher.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini…
geminiprotocol.net/docs/faq.gm…
github.com/kr1sp1n/awesome-gem…
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.
GitHub - kr1sp1n/awesome-gemini: A collection of awesome things regarding the gemini protocol ecosystem.
A collection of awesome things regarding the gemini protocol ecosystem. - kr1sp1n/awesome-geminiGitHub
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.
Here is a FAQ
Main differences with similar technologies are:
- 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.
I invented WinApps. nowsci.com/winapps
I had a conversation started with the org fr their takeover and they just dropped off. If anyone from there is reading this, please reach out.
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 Along with rlwrap it gives me a very fast and powerful workflow.
Rlwrap It wraps around a program and gives it the ability to make use ofthe readline lib.
Screen I use it when I boot without X. Gives a very fast workflow, being able to switch between programs.
Mpv Multimedia powerhouse. Even works (pretty) well without X, with a framebuffer.
Ecasound Cli daw. Have several scripts to make a recording on the fly or to be able to jam.
GitHub - hanslub42/rlwrap: A readline wrapper
A readline wrapper. Contribute to hanslub42/rlwrap development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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 primarily edit groff-, shell- and (small) c-files.
I like it to simply search a line make the edit and move on.
All my groff and c projects have makefiles, with 'm' being an alias for 'make'. So a simple 'w' and '!m' will do.
I use 'z' a lot to view portions of the file.
If I need to transfer a part of a file to another file I simly write that part to a temporary file and import it.
There are some situations when I open vi instead. Primarily when I have to escape a lot of characters to make the edit.
Fun thing by the way, one can use Emacs without X, and then it is like screen - only with an editing window at the outermost shell.
And also, one can have the same space efficiency in text mode within X: Using the ratpoison or Stumpwm window managers.
I simply never tried emacs. No special reason for it.
Moved from Kate to Vim to Vi to Ed. And kept using the last two from then on.
Maybe I'll take a look at it someday.
Logseq for notes and task tracking. It’s an open source alternative to obsidian. Life saver for tracking stuff at work.
A privacy-first, open-source knowledge base
A privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge management and collaboration.logseq
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.
Just my tuppence.
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.
Glad you found one that worked for you.
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.
GitHub - gitui-org/gitui: Blazing 💥 fast terminal-ui for git written in rust 🦀
Blazing 💥 fast terminal-ui for git written in rust 🦀 - gitui-org/gituiGitHub
You mean Qalculate, right? If so, I agree.
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qalc in the terminal.
GitHub - svenstaro/rofi-calc: 🖩 Do live calculations in rofi!
🖩 Do live calculations in rofi! Contribute to svenstaro/rofi-calc development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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: Painting Made Simple
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.Pinta
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.
Thought you meant 'app for Windows'.
Like mentioned here, I usually tap PrintScreen and then annotate elsewhere, usually in Gimp.
GitHub - ksnip/ksnip: ksnip the cross-platform screenshot and annotation tool
ksnip the cross-platform screenshot and annotation tool - ksnip/ksnipGitHub
I use what's built in KDE - Spectacle: github.com/KDE/spectacle
Does everything I need.
GitHub - KDE/spectacle: Screenshot capture utility
Screenshot capture utility. Contribute to KDE/spectacle development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
if you need to set an mx master, the logiops is the way.
github.com/PixlOne/logiops
i had it integrated with my tilimg wm and it was damm fast to do stuff.
you can configure gestures for both the thumb button ans the dpi button.
also you can can configure touch of the horizontal scroll wheel.
GitHub - PixlOne/logiops: An unofficial userspace driver for HID++ Logitech devices
An unofficial userspace driver for HID++ Logitech devices - PixlOne/logiopsGitHub
Man, I have so many apps, but here are a couple that I install first thing on a new install:
Timeshift is possibly at the top of the list.
Then Deja Dup.
GitHub - linuxmint/timeshift: 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 restored while system is runni
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...GitHub
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.
Best Notes App - Write and Organize with UpNote
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.getupnote.com
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 that case, the curated list of applications in the Arch wiki could be invaluable for you:
wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_…
- 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.
I do a fair amount of pentesting and I'm on mobile, so I'll just list software.
Trufflehog & nosey parker (both kinda suck, but there's nothing better)
Subfinder
Nuclei
Credmaster
To name a few.
Check out earlybird as an alternative to trufflehog.
github.com/americanexpress/ear…
GitHub - americanexpress/earlybird: EarlyBird is a sensitive data detection tool capable of scanning source code repositories for clear text password violations, PII, outdated cryptography methods, key files and more.
EarlyBird is a sensitive data detection tool capable of scanning source code repositories for clear text password violations, PII, outdated cryptography methods, key files and more. - americanexpre...GitHub
Audacity ® | Free Audio editor, recorder, music making and more!
Audacity is the world's most popular audio editing and recording app. Edit, mix, and enhance your audio tracks with the power of Audacity. Download now!www.audacityteam.org
The name of the fork is: Tenacity
tenacityaudio.org/
The developers of the fork have a detailed history explaining why the fork happened:
tenacityaudio.org/docs/_conten…
Their mastodon account
floss.social/@tenacity
auto-cpufreq to automatic CPU speed & power optimizer to improve battery life for Laptops.
Syncthing for syncing folders and files directly between your devices.
Also whatever software or driver I loaded to make this HP Thunderbolt Docking Station work with Linux.
GitHub - AdnanHodzic/auto-cpufreq: Automatic CPU speed & power optimizer for Linux
Automatic CPU speed & power optimizer for Linux. Contribute to AdnanHodzic/auto-cpufreq development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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.
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GitHub - autokey/autokey: AutoKey, a desktop automation utility for Linux and X11.
AutoKey, a desktop automation utility for Linux and X11. - autokey/autokeyGitHub
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.
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Reading your comment I got worried about disk writes, so I'm glad this info is on the website:
Replay data is stored in RAM by default but there is an option to store it on disk instead.
Sensible design decision, because writing video to your SSD 24/7 wouldn't do anything good for the lifespan of the drive.
ocenaudio
The ocenaudio is a cross-platform audio editor, easy to use, fast and functional.www.ocenaudio.com
units. It feels much better to use than the calculator that pops up after a Google search.~ $ units '190 cm' 'ft;in'
6 ft + 2.8031496 in
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.
GitHub - svenstaro/rofi-calc: 🖩 Do live calculations in rofi!
🖩 Do live calculations in rofi! Contribute to svenstaro/rofi-calc development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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.
GitHub - Jacalz/rymdport: Cross-platform application for easy encrypted file, folder, and text sharing between devices.
Cross-platform application for easy encrypted file, folder, and text sharing between devices. - Jacalz/rymdportGitHub
LocalSend: Share files to nearby devices
LocalSend is a free, open-source, cross-platform file sharing tool that allows you to share files to nearby devices.localsend.org
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.
GNOME / gnome-network-displays · GitLab
Screencasting for GNOME. Supports the Miracast and Chromecast protocols.GitLab
Any chance you got it working with multiple monitors on kde Wayland? That's seriously my single biggest issue right now
I honestly haven't tried on KDE, but I can give it a shot this coming weekend and report back. I'm up for a distro hopping round anyway.
But in Gnome, dual screens, it works like a charm, also on Wayland.
Gnome has an extension called GSConnect which is their re-implementation of KDE Connect. I have in my tablet and phone, and it's flawless.
But don't change yet, give me until the weekend, I'll spin Fedora with KDE in my laptop, and come back with my experience with FlameShot.
No need to change if that's what you like and it ends up working.
Flameshot does require some tweaking to work anyway, so I'll need check if it's the same in KDE.
GitHub Application Manager (GAM): github.com/fmstrat/gam
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.
GitHub - Fmstrat/gam: GitHub Application Manager
GitHub Application Manager. Contribute to Fmstrat/gam development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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.
GitHub - lbonn/rofi: Rofi: A window switcher, run dialog and dmenu replacement - fork with wayland support
Rofi: A window switcher, run dialog and dmenu replacement - fork with wayland support - lbonn/rofiGitHub
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.
Plain text double-entry bookkeeping for home finance and budgeting. Pretty sweet, once you get used to it.
ledger, a powerful command-line accounting system - ledger
Website and documentation for the open source command-line double-entry accounting system named ledgerledger-cli.org
Awesome TOTP app that can import your Aegis Authenticator database, which then you can keep in sync with your phone and desktop.
Super handy.
GitHub - paolostivanin/OTPClient: Highly secure and easy to use OTP client written in C/GTK3 that supports both TOTP and HOTP
Highly secure and easy to use OTP client written in C/GTK3 that supports both TOTP and HOTP - paolostivanin/OTPClientGitHub
Running a TOTP app on desktop seems like a potential security issue. Get a malware on your desktop and you're fucked
I believe the reason we use mobile devices is that they have better isolation and are generally less vulnerable
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.
GitHub - sharkdp/bat: A cat(1) clone with wings.
A cat(1) clone with wings. Contribute to sharkdp/bat development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
github.com/actualbudget/actual
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.
GitHub - actualbudget/actual: A local-first personal finance app
A local-first personal finance app. Contribute to actualbudget/actual development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
there is also:
github.com/maybe-finance/maybe
looks promising and it SHOULD support bank connection.
GitHub - maybe-finance/maybe: The personal finance app for everyone
The personal finance app for everyone. Contribute to maybe-finance/maybe development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
this is more a selfhosted thing but i adore it: github.com/silverbulletmd/silv…
you can write your own Javascript functions (will be lua in the near future) and use them directly in the editor.
GitHub - silverbulletmd/silverbullet: An open source personal productivity platform built on Markdown, turbo charged with the scripting power of Lua
An open source personal productivity platform built on Markdown, turbo charged with the scripting power of Lua - silverbulletmd/silverbulletGitHub
Liberals right now...
Cross-posted from "Liberals right now..." by @return2ozma@lemmy.world in !politicalmemes@lemmy.world
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).
If You're Going to Protest, Watch This!
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Finland to fine parents if their underage child drives an e-scooter
Finland to fine parents if their underage child drives an e-scooter
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.Yle News
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Finland to fine parents if their underage child drives an e-scooter
Finland to fine parents if their underage child drives an e-scooter
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.Yle News
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Bill Atkinson, visionary engineer behind the Apple Macintosh operating system, dies at 74
Bill Atkinson, visionary engineer behind the Apple Macintosh operating system, dies at 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…World Socialist Web Site
Bill Atkinson, visionary engineer behind the Apple Macintosh operating system, dies at 74
Bill Atkinson, visionary engineer behind the Apple Macintosh operating system, dies at 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…World Socialist Web Site
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Ireland moves to ban Israeli imports, as university severs ties with Israel
Ireland moves to ban Israeli imports, as university severs ties with Israel
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.RFI
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Refresher On The Rules For Discussing Israeli Wars
Refresher On The Rules For Discussing Israeli Wars
Rule 4: Israel has a right to defend itself, but nobody else does.Caitlin Johnstone
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