Israel lobbies Washington to restart war on Yemen
Israel lobbies Washington to restart war on Yemen: Report
Sources told Hebrew media that Tel Aviv is calling for the formation of a new coalition against Sanaathecradle.co
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This Week in Plasma: tablet dials and day/night cycles
This Week in Plasma: tablet dials and day/night cycles
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! Every week we cover the highlights of what’s happening in the world of KDE Plasma and its associated apps like Discover, System Monitor, and more.This Week in Plasma: tablet dials and day/night cycles
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Piss away an obscene amount of money, can't even make a hypersonic missile, get a crap f-35,etc...
Iran hits the genocide entity over plenty US ships and AD and they can't even stop the Houthi from hitting them LOL
All they're good for is cowardly murdering and carpet bombing civilians from a safe distance.
That is also true, they really aren't very smart.
And in a complex thing as war it definitely shows.
They reeally suck at it, always have.
And they must get really confused when they hear about the Alhambra
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For the USA exist the USA and the rest is Mexico
Trump ridiculed for blanking on world leader’s name, calling him ‘Mr. Japan’: ‘Dangerously embarrassing’
"Dear Mr. Japan, here's the story: you're going to pay a 25% tariff on your cars..."Howard Koplowitz | hkoplowitz@al.com (al)
Who declare themselves 'the international community', with their great 'western values' such as imperialist wars, unconditional support for genociders and keeping immigrants out.
imperialist wars, unconditional support for genociders and keeping immigrants out.
What is the US doing currently. Sorry for the people living in the US, they have 2 options
- Taking out the bastards, criminals and Billonarians outside the government
- Or emmigrate to an civilized country, because the US is not and a danger for the whole world and the environment and the creator of this walled world
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The reason the GOP won is because the DNC ran to the right in a country where the working class is increasingly radicalized. The largest block of society outright doesn't vote because they don't see a material difference in the outcome of the election, or because voting in their state doesn't matter as its solidly red or blue to begin with. Both parties support the bourgeoisie. Even if the DNC won, we would still be in the same mess, because the problems with our system is that it's a dying capitalist empire.
The only one supporting horseshoe theory is you, as you blame Marxists for the problems caused by both parties in a dying capitalist empire.
The DNC has also been actively socially pushing away one the largest voter demographics, white men.
All the messaging about white guilt, all men are toxic, and should pay reparations for the sins of people who did bad things 200 years ago is insane. Imagine telling a child "you parents did crimes, so you must also to go to jail".
Who's gonna vote for a party that seems to hates you? That's like asking the lgbt community to vote republican, a party activity trying to erase them.
The choice was vote for a party that hates you, or vote for a party that hates your friends.
If they truly wanted to win, they'd have to focus less on skin color and gender (but not ignore) and more on economical inequality. It shouldn't matter what skin color you have; if you need help, you get help.
No, this is a very bad frame of analysis.
- Settler-colonialism is absolutely still a massive issue. It isn't a thing of the past.
- The patriarchial structure of society still oppresses men and women everywhere.
You're erasing very real issues, strawmanning what people believe, and plugging your ears. This is the "I don't see color" problem, that's you ignoring systemic problems, not getting rid of them!
What your tactic would result in is a large portion of women, ethnic minorities, and queer folk being further alienated just to potentially win more white men, but that wouldn't happen either. Focus on liberation along all lines, economic, social, and more, and allow these coalitions to strengthen our position. You're furthering division by shutting down the voices of oppressed peoples, strawmanning what they say, just because its uncomfortable for you to hear.
They could have helped us by including the public option in the bill, as it was originally designed to include by republican Mitt Romney. Instead, they simply used it as an opportunity to shovel 25 million Americans right into the pockets of insurance companies. Then-senator Biden dropped the public option before negotiations even began, as a “show of good faith to his esteemed Republican colleagues.” They left the insurance requirement in though, and even tried to add a system where we had to report it with taxes if we wanted refunds.
The part BBB is fucking up is honestly a travesty to begin with. It’s what allows Walmart to operate without insuring their employees, specifically training them to earn under certain amounts and work limited hours so that they can go on Medicare instead of the giant multinational corporation paying their fair share for their employees’ health.
Do you see the pattern here? Fuck these corporations for buying our government and using it against us to rob us blind. Both parties do help them with this, and it has got to stop because we’re at a breaking point.
RustDesk, probably one of the best TeamViewer Alternatives
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When I tried RustDesk it was not able to easily function on headless systems, including servers and my desktop PC if the monitor was powered off. Has that changed?
Anydesk and Teamviewer don't have that problem, but both companies have had hacking incidents and Teamviewer actually blamed their users instead of taking responsibility. Allowing 3rd parties of any type remote access to my computers is IMO just asking for trouble, especially for always-on systems.
Wireguard plus VNC isn't as seamless but it works fine the vast majority of the time. When I occasionally need features that VNC doesn't support, NoMachine is a full-featured, free for non-commercial use alternative that works great with WG.
Edit: It looks like the latest release of NoMachine now offers a intermediate network service that operates like Teamviewer and Anydesk. Access via intermediate network ID is not enabled by default, so with it disabled it should theoretically be more secure than the other apps.
Yeah if you still run into an issue for some reason add a virtual monitor in Windows, or "sudo rustdesk --option allow-linux-headless Y" (it's in the GUI as well) and it should take care of it, but I haven't had to do that
github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/w…
Headless Linux Support
An open-source remote desktop application designed for self-hosting, as an alternative to TeamViewer. - rustdesk/rustdeskGitHub
I was not doing very high end stuff though.
I was talking with my brother who was supporting our mother on her Windows laptop. He was using TeamViewer for years but that company now requires to subscribe to an expensive license on top of this is a really security- and privacy-sensitive kind of access.
His main requirements are that the new solution are:
- safe
- very easy to use for the supported person
- better works without VPN, public ports etc though this isn't mandatory.
So, it needs to be easy. I was first thinking in VNC but while I have been using TigerVNC for years in Home Office, this looks not exactly as easy as TeamViewer.
Last week was talking with our stand-in admin at work who turns out to know Linux well. He said he has very good experiences with RustDesk, uses it for home office and also for remotely accessing Windows machines.
What are your experiences?
There was a bit of controversy about them a couple of years back that put me off.
- They used to disable Wayland and force X11 - that was a pain.
- They didn't fully open source all components I think.
- There was some concerns about where it was being developed, I think it's entirely Chinese devs.
- There was some concerns about where it was being developed, I think it's entirely Chinese devs.
Ha, I am thinking since a while that for preventing one's internet access being hacked by a foreign power, it's probably best to chain an American-made router with a Chinese one so that they can firewall each other 😉
On a more serious note... yes, nation-state attacks on infrastructure like xz-utils do exist, and as Stuxnet has shown, they are also being used against high-profile targets like Iranian nuclear faculities..
Such attacks against infrastructure are to be taken serious. But the xz-utils case and Stuxnet also have shown a few things:
- Such attacks are incredibly time-consuming and expensive to mount.
- Once sn attacker hits such a target, they have blown their powder - they can't continue to use it.
- The xz-utils case shows that open source's many-eyed principle works astoundingly well.
- xz-utils also confirms that in open source software, you can close a detected backdoor within hours - even if the maintainer of the software does not want that, since you can fork it in seconds. (And using Rust only makes this easier).
So, this topic of foreign state-actor backdoors is less a thing for individuals to worry about. (I agree that lawmakers of democratic states should absolutely worry about this, here a good article be Bert Hubert on the topic.)
However what is actually dangerous is the erosion of privacy and the rising amount of mandated surveillance. But if one is worried about that, one should not use closed-source software in the first place.
Cyber Security: A Pre-War Reality Check - Bert Hubert's writings
This is a lightly edited transcript of my presentation today at the ACCSS/NCSC/Surf seminar ‘Cyber Security and Society’.Bert Hubert's writings
Wish guacamole didn't look like total ass. Otherwise a great product.
Looking for a modern alternative though.
China’s High-Speed Rail in Numbers
China’s High-Speed Rail in Numbers
China has built the world's largest high-speed rail system, which continues transforming the trajectory of people's lives.sha liu (China Minutes)
[JS] How does a screen work?
From electron guns to tiny electric crystals - digital displays have always been the unsung hero of computing.
Hispanic support for Donald Trump's deportations surges
The poll found that more than 60 percent of all voters now support deportation of undocumented migrants, with Hispanic voters showing a notable uptick. In contrast, 34.7 percent opposed deportations, and four percent were unsure. Among Hispanic voters, 50 percent supported deportations and 48 percent opposed. There was a seven percent increase in overall support since May among this demographic, with an 11 percent rise among those who said they "strongly support" the policy. Among Black voters, 53 percent supported deportations, while 37 percent opposed. Overall support among this demographic increased by three percent since May. Meanwhile, support among White voters was 65 percent, while 31 percent opposed. Overall support fell by three percent since May.
Hispanic Support For Donald Trump's Deportations Surges
The percentage of Hispanic voters that strongly support deportations of people in the U.S. illegally rose by 11 percent in two months, according to a new poll.Jordan King (Newsweek)
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Doesn't matter, god bless 'em, they're American through and through*.
*As in, I'd Fuck over my neighbor for a shit sandwich.
Cool. We all should support the legal process to deal with people who have broken laws.
Now ask if they support picking people up off the street and throwing them into foreign jails without ever having to provide any evidence that they’re here illegally. Or even when we know for a fact that people are here legally, if they support arresting them and kicking them out too.
I’m exhausted with this fucking bullshit. No one supports people breaking the laws.
Ask people if they support the constitution and if they believe the government is free to ignore it.
Also. Fuck Newsweek. Here’s the link to the poll cygn.al/poll-karens-freak-out-…
POLL: “Karens” Freak Out Over ICE Raids as Hispanic Support for Deportations Surges - Cygnal
WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 9, 2025) – Cygnal, one of the nation’s fastest growing and most accurate private polling firms, released the following monthly National Voter Trends (NVT) poll (conducted July 1-2) of 1,500 likely 2026 midterm election voters.Ryan Shucard (Cygnal)
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No one supports people breaking the laws.
What about these laws? Or these laws? Don't you support people breaking unjust laws?
I think what you're really saying is that you think US immigration laws are generally just.
Opinion only. But my guess is individualism grew from a increase in cut throat people.
Capitalist billionaires gaining control of world governments. Then using it to move the world to a modern reinteretation of feudalism. Is IMHO the actual cause of the increase.
In theory. And if you look at post war UK. It Def lead to a greater support for socialism, the forming of new party etc. removing our past 2 party system with a different one. The very one that no longer supports socialism.
But socialism cannot and will not grow it of nowhere. The US has never had a large support for it. The UK and much of Europe had people with respect pushing socialism in the 50 to 60. Ex soldiers seeing a whole new way of doing things built the very socialism we understand now.
The US just dose not have anyone effectively making arguments for this. Without such leaders. And honestly we also have non effective left in Europe anymore either.
Add to that. Their is absolutely no evidence of capitalism losing control. It is actually doing very well by it's own standards. As instead ideas like socialism are losing power while capitalism is effectively moving wealth into the hands of the few and most powerful.
It is only failing by the opinion of those of us that disagree with it.. and expecting that to start socialism without some major change. Is just wishful thinking.
This is a very myopic, eurocentric point of view. Capitalism in the global north is sustained by imperialism. The global south, and its suffering, is what keeps prices artificially low in the global north. This system is crumbling, and disparity is rising faster than ever in the global north as a consequence. Countries like Burkina Faso are kicking out occupiers like France, and BRICS is gaining as the west is falling in relevance.
Further, the UK did not go socialist, unless I'm misreading your meaning. Socialism, as it exists in the real world, can be found in countries like the PRC, Cuba, and former USSR. I'm not talking about welfare.
Further, the US is seeing normalization of socialism. Mamdani may be a socdem, but has implied a far more socialist line, ie collectivizing production. The assassination of the United Healthcare CEO is being met with united support among the working class, and parties like the Party for Socialism and Liberation are reporting record member growth.
Opinions aren't what drive social change, material conditions evolving and changing do. The material conditions of capitalism in the west are declining, and socialism is gaining. The global south is increasingly throwing off the shackles of imperialism. If you take a very myopic, eurocentric view, then it can be easy to only see companies getting larger and larger and disparity rising, but if you zoom out this very system is pushing the profit motive and capitalism with it to the brink.
Imperialism - ProleWiki
Imperialism is the highest stage of the capitalist mode of production, in which monopolies and cartels become the prevalent economic force of society. Lenin synthesized...ProleWiki
But what are the conditions that are changing? Do we have all the information?
Capitalism is not the only process at play. Settler ontology will nurse capitalism back to health because the supposed weakening of capitalism isn't going to upend material settler realities in a way that forcloses it's usual reactions.
And furthermore, imperialism has not collapsed. There is no reason to believe the BRICS, or any other contemporary developments, actually challenges imperialism meaningfully. We should remind ourselves that there have been moments when people feared the collapes, and even when people suffered catastrophic collapse before. Capitalism remains. Settler-colonialism remains. Imperialism remains. All because we have no clue what America is and are incapable of addressing it without reconsituting it in new ways.
You are failing to understand my point.
I don't disagree with the birth of capitalism. Although it is basically a new name for imperialism. It is the obvious effect of the post fudal middle class becoming the leadership post aristocratic rule. But it can also be an idea independent of its birth and leadership.
Where I disagree that anything currently existing can push those processes towards socialism. BRICC members are far from a socialist majority. Most nations in BRICC are equally supporting of the ideas of Capitalism. At least the ideas sold by those that use it for imperialism.
It is entirely possible. (Although far from probable) That BRICCs or a descendent from it. Will lead to the global south rising to take over from the current western default rule.
But for that future to be socialist it will need the leadership of those nations to think on socialist ways. And most simply do not do so ATM. Nor dose any probable event indicate a change in how these nations would run the world economy.
Unfortunately for Socialism to thrive. Yes you need opinions to have a major effect on world politics. Without it socialism as an ideal is impossible.
I'm not misunderstanding you, I simply disagree with you and your frame of analysis. Not everyone you speak to that disagrees is misunderstanding you, same with me.
You have a very idealist frame of analysis. Capitalism's persistence is not due to ideas, but material conditions. The compulsion for socialism isn't something won over because some people have socialist ideas, but because capitalism necessarily paves the way for socialism and creates its own demise.
Plus, the PRC is the largest economy in BRICS, and is a socialist country. Even if your frame of analysis requiring BRICS to have large socialist elements to supplant capitalism was correct, it's already correct, China eclipses every other economy in BRICS.
Polling company Cygnal. If you go to their website their clients are all Republican organizations. Pretty much ALL of their clients are Republican.
That doesn't seem like they are impartial at all.
Privacy in rete.
Privacy in rete.
Tempo fa, un amico mi chiese: "Perché preoccuparsi tanto della privacy in rete? Tanto se vogliono, ti fregano lo stesso".
Gli risposi: "È come avere una bella auto. La lasci incustodita, con le chiavi nel quadro, magari a finestrini aperti … o la tieni nel box, con antifurto e telecamere? Certo, se vogliono, la rubano ugualmente, ma devono essere preparati e attrezzati per farlo, non dei rubagalline qualsiasi".
Il gioco deve valere la candela.Silenzio🤫
GE-Proton10-9 Released
- Added ntsync support:
Enable with PROTON_USE_NTSYNC=1
NOTES:
- Your kernel must be patched with ntsync patches. If your system does not have /dev/ntsync then your kernel does not have the patches required to use ntsync.
- Some applications, mostly 32 bit, may also need PROTON_USE_WOW64=1 when using ntsync
- Added FSR4 upgrade support via PROTON_FSR4_UPGRADE=1 (auto upgrades from amd directly download.amd.com/dir/bin/amdxc…)
- Added fixes from upstream for flicker/rendering issue when using wine-wayland
- Refactored a lot of the patches section and cleaned up outdated or merged patches
- Update wine-wayland patches
- Updated wine to latest bleeding edge
- Updated dxvk to latest git
- Updated vkd3d-proton to latest git
- Imported all upstream proton changes
- protonfixes: added a fix for winetricks wget gnutls failing inside fex
- protonfixes: add fix for sifu freeze (thanks UsernamesAreNotMyThing)
Release GE-Proton10-9 Released · GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom
Added ntsync support: Enable with PROTON_USE_NTSYNC=1 NOTES: 1. Your kernel must be patched with ntsync patches. If your system does not have /dev/ntsync then your kernel does not have the patc...GitHub
nice! i just updated to the 9000 series myself! specifically for this reason.
it just has made such great leaps in the realms of FSR and encoding.
i can attest, FSR4 looks incredible. i'm using it on Lies of P, which you just need the parameter for. any game with FSR3 support you only need the parameter.
i'm also using it on Returnal. Returnal only has FSR2, so for games like that, you need some assistance from OptiScaler.
you can scope out my video here as an example if you want to see!
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GitHub - optiscaler/OptiScaler: OptiScaler bridges upscaling/frame gen across GPUs. Supports DLSS2+/XeSS/FSR2+ inputs, replaces native upscalers, enables FSR3 FG on non-FG titles. Supports Nukem mod for DLSSG-to-FSR3 FG.
OptiScaler bridges upscaling/frame gen across GPUs. Supports DLSS2+/XeSS/FSR2+ inputs, replaces native upscalers, enables FSR3 FG on non-FG titles. Supports Nukem mod for DLSSG-to-FSR3 FG. - optisc...GitHub
lol it's really not bad. its bark is worse than its bite. XD
ok, CyP2077. looks like it has FSR3 already, that's good. so add this launch parameter in steam:
PROTON_FSR4_UPGRADE=1 %COMMAND%
and set it to FSR3 in-game.
that should auto download the FSR4 dll to the game folder and you'll be good to go. note that the settings in game will still say FSR3, but it will be FSR4, since FSR4 only needs a dll drop-in to update from FSR3.
that will not work with FSR2 games, however.
yeah, the menu will never change. that kind of stuff in-game would need to be done by the game devs.
you'd need other tools, like Optiscaler, to tell you that FSR4 is running.
alternatively, you can check the folder where the executable is. you should see this dll there: amdxcffx64.dll
otherwise, if it's an FSR3 game, if you don't want to check you can just assume it's working.
%command% after them in games' launch options (e.g. PROTON_FSR4_UPGRADE=1 PROTON_USE_NTSYNC=1 %command%).
Is there much benefit at all in using vpn on Google Android OS?
I have a normal Googled Android phone and tinkered with a bunch of settings so that only what I can't uninstall or disable remains on it.
If I run a vpn on it then the Googled OS may still know my location(from wifi and bluethooth scanning that it may be doing nonstop) and browser searches.
In that case, would the vpn only mask my activity from my internet service provider?
Thanks in advance
PS: This is a locked phone and I understand that it's spyware but I can't afford an unlocked one yet thanks
But why give your ISP (or any wifi you connect to) all your browsing habits?
like i wrote under your last post, install netGuard as a VPN and activate "manage system apps" which will permit you to block google calling home
also, with ADB you can uninstall almost anything (be careful!)
you can also choose a dns which would block those (mullvad, for example
It can mask your ip from other sites, some have adblocking on them too.
I personally use PiVPN which gives me access to PiHole so I have adblocking on the go.
So like Google still gets stuff, but I figure in trying to get privacy, every little helps.
If I run a vpn on it then the Googled OS may still know my location(from wifi and bluethooth scanning that it may be doing nonstop)
The VPN has nothing to do with your phone's location settings.
would the vpn only mask my activity from my internet service provider?
Yes, plus it's a shared server so it makes it harder for websites to know your location or to track your activities across sites.
Have you tried searching before commenting?
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GitHub - Universal-Debloater-Alliance/universal-android-debloater-next-generation: Cross-platform GUI written in Rust using ADB to debloat non-rooted Android devices. Improve your privacy, the security and battery life of your device.
Cross-platform GUI written in Rust using ADB to debloat non-rooted Android devices. Improve your privacy, the security and battery life of your device. - Universal-Debloater-Alliance/universal-andr...GitHub
If your opsec was so great you'd realise I was not the OP and just found the comment to be dismissive.
Communities thrive on dialogue and providing context and links can help with longevity for the community and platform.
Jeffrey Epstein Had 1,000+ Victims far larger than previously believed is revealed in new document
Twenty years after Jeffrey Epstein was exposed for his child sex abuse enterprise, the Justice Department this week made a startling revelation. Rather than the “dozens” of victims previously alleged by the government and media, Justice now says that there were “over one thousand” victims.
Jeffrey Epstein Had 1,000+ Victims
Industrial scale abuse enterprise far larger than previously believed is revealed in new documentKen Klippenstein
I'm surprised they didn't go for their signature move.
"Here's the list. Aheam:
- Biden
- Biden
- Biden
- Clinton
...
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And everyone who helped cover up his crimes and those of his accomplices.
Or better yet, we could punish them in real life instead of engaging in fantasy.
Justice says it reviewed “more than 300 gigabytes of data and physical evidence,” including “over ten thousand downloaded videos and images of illegal child sex abuse material.”
I refuse to believe that 300GB of material yielded no additional suspects.
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Israel condemns new plaques "distorting history" at site of Jedwabne pogrom in Poland
Israel’s official Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem, has condemned the installation of new plaques in Poland at the site of the Jedwabne pogrom, during which hundreds of Jews were burned alive in World War Two.
It says that the inscriptions – which were installed as part of a crowdfunded alternative memorial and not by any official body – “falsify history” by trying to absolve Poles of blame for the massacre.
On Wednesday, Gazeta Wyborcza, a leading Polish newspaper, reported that seven large boulders had been placed near the official Jedwabne memorial.
The objects had appeared there shortly before today’s commemoration of the 84th anniversary of the pogrom, which occurred when Poland was under Nazi-German occupation.
Official findings by Poland’s state Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) have established that the direct perpetrators of the massacre were ethnic Poles who lived in the area. But it also noted that broader responsibility for the crime rested with the German occupiers.
However, many in Poland – in particular on the political right – question those findings, arguing that the pogrom was entirely the work of the Germans and claiming that the tragedy has been used as part of efforts to falsely shift blame onto Poles for Holocaust crimes.
One of the newly installed plaques reads, in Polish and English, that “evidence and witness accounts disprove the claims of Polish perpetration of the murder of Jews in Jedwabne…In reality, this crime was committed by a German unit”.
Another says that the fact Poland disappeared from the map of Europe for 123 years between 1795 and 1918 was “an unimaginable tragedy for Poles…[but] a source of satisfaction for many Jews”.
A further one says that, in the interwar period, “many Jews openly sympathised with communism, identified with the Soviets, who were hostile to Poland”, reports Gazeta Wyborcza.
The newspaper notes that Wojciech Sumliński – an author who has written books questioning the official findings regarding Jedwabne – spoke two years ago about installing such plaques as part of an alternative “monument” that would recognise the “truth” about Jedwabne.
Sumliński himself confirmed on Wednesday in a social media post that he was behind the new installation, which was paid for through a crowdfunding campaign. On Thursday, he and a large crowd of supporters gathered for the official opening of the new memorial, marking the occasion with a Catholic mass.
On Thursday, Yad Vashem issued a statement saying that it is “profoundly shocked and deeply concerned by the desecration of historical truth and memory at the Jedwabne memorial site in Poland”.
It says that the new plaques are “an apparent attempt to distort the story of the massacre of Jews” in order to “absolve the perpetrators” through the “blatant falsification of history”.
“Yad Vashem calls on the relevant Polish authorities to remove this offensive installation and to ensure that the historical meaning of the site is preserved and respected,” they wrote.
The new plaques were also condemned by Poland’s chief rabbi, Michael Schudrich, who told Gazeta Wyborcza they are a “disgrace” and a “manifestation of the disease that is antisemitism”.
Systemd's Nuts and Bolts - A Visual Guide to Systemd
Systemd’s Nuts and Bolts — A Visual Guide to Systemd | Medium
If you’re an intermediate or advanced Linux user or sysadmin, you might have felt an odd fascination with the myth of systemd. I invite you to this deep dive into systemd's nuts and bolts. I'm not…Sebastian Carlos (Medium)
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I started reading that because I want to learn more about systemd and ended up wanting to go back to DOS. Presumably it all makes sense, but when I tried to read it my brain stopped working and my eyes slid off the bottom of the screen.
I don't know why but I just found it incomprehensible.
I have yet to read this, but. But the first part is like the internals of systemd, you won't immediately need it.
If you want to make use of systemd, you can skip directly to where it explains unit files. You'll soon see just how much it can do for you
I don't know why but I just found it incomprehensible.
#alwaysHasBeen, but for us graybeards the confusion has been "this is a solution with no problem" and "it's eaten WHAT now?"
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If you’re a new or intermediate Linux user or sysadmin, you might have felt an odd fascination with the myth of systemd. I invite you to this deep dive into systemd's nuts and bolts. I'm not gonna beat around the bush: It's a hairy business, it will be hard, but I promise juicy and satisfying rewards if you keep pumping through this guide.Let’s start by uncovering the “D” of systemd, the secret sauce that doesn't get the love it deserves: D-Bus.
Okay, those innuendos have to be intentional!
- Take a non-stop Linux box where even the kernel can be patched while it's hot
- Glance at d-bus sideways
- Now you must reboot.
I've very barely dipped my toes in dbus before, and the option to have something else is on its face attractive (not a fan of XML and the late 90s/early aughties style of oop), but JSON for a system interface?
I mean, Kubernetes shows that yaml can work, but in this day and age I'd expect several options for serialisation, and for the default to be binary, not strings.
String serialisations are primarily for humans IMO, either as readers or writers. As writers we want something with comments (and preferably no "find the missing }" game), so for that most of us would prefer something like TOML if the data is simple enough, and actually Yaml for complexity at the level of Kubernetes—JSON manages to be even more of a PITA at that level.
But machine-to-machine? Protobuf, cap'n'proto, postcard, even CBOR should all be alternatives to examine
100%
JSON is not the optimal solution for either humans nor for machines... it's a compromise in-between that is more complex to parse than most binary alternatives (and even some text-based ones, if the data can be represented in CSV tables for example), while also often requiring post-processing through beautifiers and similar to be able to visualize it cleanly for humans.
There are situations where it's the format that makes the most sense.. like in the web, where you are already working with javascript anyway. But it's not a golden bullet to use everywhere.
Sorry American readers, we in the real world use soccer metaphors, we are manly like that, even our women
As a European reader I highly doubt all claims in that sentence. refe what?
Actually I would have thought its the Americans that do this.
Yes, I do get paid. Sometimes considerably (for what tech writing can provide).
Indeed, writing tech articles on Medium has allowed me to get some extra income/free-time in between jobs, which I use to upskill myself and then share what I learn with the community (with some amount of friction regarding the paywall). This self-reinforcing loop is quite appealing to me, and - I would argue - aligns somewhat with my take on the Kantian categorical imperative.
For what it's worth, I like the typesetting. Medium also has extremely good SEO, likely from some direct negotiation with search engines, I assume. Eventually I plan to move my tech writings to my own blog, with some sort of minimal ad system, no paywalls. Also, I usually unpaywall my tech articles after the window of high income dries up.
I updated the post to use the "friend link" which should allow you to read for free. (I didn't realize you could edit the link on lemmy after publishing).
in which case I’d much rather pay directly to the authors.
All my stories have a link to my ko-fi at the end, but the income from that is significantly less than what I get from Medium directly.
Edit: Thanks @hayk@lemmy.ml for donating! Much appreciated!
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If you’re an intermediate or advanced Linux user or sysadmin, you might have felt an odd fascination with the myth of systemd. I invite you to this deep dive into systemd's nuts and bolts. I'm not…Sebastian Carlos (Medium)
re: Medium
I was genuinely curious why people use it, thanks for the clarification.
still as someone who writes only open source codes, it goes a bit against my religion, but I totally understand if your income depends on it! thanks for the text, and for the "friend link". as promised... ; )
Metadata Shows the FBI’s ‘Raw’ Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Was Likely Modified
Metadata embedded in the video and analyzed by WIRED and independent video forensics experts shows that rather than being a direct export from the prison’s surveillance system, the footage was modified, likely using the professional editing tool Adobe Premiere Pro.
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I can't tell if you're joking or not, so I'll leave this here just in case.
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Unironically, if all they did was just cut out parts they didn't want, using open source ffmpeg to rencode and strip metadata would have been the best way to do it.
Using Adobe is just fucking sloppy. Not to mention, I'm pretty sure Adobe own any content that got uploaded to their servers during the edit. They likely have at least frames of it sitting on their servers if not the whole video.
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I don't want to live in a world where Adobe can blackmail the goverment.
Oh they're 1000% already doing that, have you seen their goddamn prices?
"We hope you are enjoying the apps and services in your Government subscription. We want to share an important update about your subscription.
The price of the your plan will suffer an 57986% increase on your next renewal date.
Your subscription will renew automatically.
Price subject to change at renewal.
Footage of you-know-who getting you-know-what subject to leakage during cancelation.
You may cancel at any time via Adobe Customer Support. Adobe does not recommend cancelation during your current situation."
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some rich guy paid a couple guards to kill him
If that were the case then they wouldn't have the fucking government covering it up. It literally is a conspiracy
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I believe in conspiracies as a general concept, like the two guards, and I believe governments have classified programs. When it gets to a certain point where vast numbers of people are involved in covering up something huge perfectly, you run into the problem of everything being possible and nothing being falsifiable, though.
In practice, people don't believe in conspiracy theories because they honestly assess it's the neatest way to explain the world, it's because they get emotional satisfaction out of the community and the feeling that they know something which other people don't. There's psychology literature about it and everything.
What I said is my goto answer when I suspect I'm about to be arguing about melting steel beams or whatever, because that's just a waste of time.
There is an additional psychological mechanism at play here to be aware of, which is that some criminal actions taken by the government (in order to protect ruling class interests) would destroy the legitimacy of their claim to power if admitted to. The importance of controlling the narrative around so-called State Crimes Against Democracy therefore becomes existential.
Marxists are more aware of this dynamic because they understand the nature of power structures. It's also to be the same reason their theories are viciously attacked by the ruling class.
Edit: Did I say something rude?
As I understand the headline, it could just as easily be someone in the prison that tampered with the data. That would be the simplest explanation, then.
After reading the article, it's not even clear it was tampering, as opposed to conversion and compilation of the original file formats. And apparently, if the footage is what it appears to be, he actually did kill himself.
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What you described is a conspiracy.
When does a conspiracy become "grand" in your book? When it involves more than four people? When the people hold high offices?
The article mentions that. They supposedly released 2 versions, one "enhanced" to help make the relevant parts of the image easier to see, which certainly matches the description of "modified" and the other, the same footage but described as "raw" implying that it wasn't "modified" in that way.
There are a lot of plausible and likely explanations for the Adobe metadata schema information that is in the file that don't involve deceptively manipulating footage to hide something that was in that footage before public presentation, then again, given the circumstances and supposed rationale behind publicly presenting this footage, failing to release it with untouched unmodified metadata from the camera original source files is not a good look. Failing to then answer questions about that makes it look even worse. This is is especially true when, although there is no answer they could give that would actually totally convince everyone, there are as I said many plausible explanations they could have offered and yet they were just silent.
Ironically, as is so often the case with anything like this, depending on the interpretive lens you're using this issue with the metadata helps confirm either assertion, that there was cover up and Epstein was murdered, or that there was no such cover up and he really did kill himself. Obviously, the fact that it's modified lends credence to the idea they're hiding something because one might expect that if they weren't it'd be easy to just supply the footage with metadata more reflective of a surveillance system than Adobe software. However one could also say that, modifying metadata in a way that is undetectable should actually be relatively easy and the fact that they couldn't be bothered to do that, or didn't know how, or never thought of metadata being present in the first place could suggest it's not deceptive skullduggery so much as technical incompetence and sloppiness - too sloppy for competent conspiracists. On the other hand, they could also be sloppy and incompetent conspiracists who just did an awful job. That's not altogether unlikely either since the entire supposed suicide they potentially conspired to have people believe is a very suspicious cover story to begin with so not exactly an expertly conceived plan, more improvisational and done in a hurry which would kind of track with them botching later actions to take the heat off.
There is already a substantial part of the world that believes the wild conspiracy theory that Epstein killed himself.
For those stuck behind a paywall:
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Metadata Shows the FBI’s ‘Raw’ Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Was Likely Modified
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The United States Department of Justice this week released nearly 11 hours of what it described as “full raw” surveillance footage from a camera positioned near Jeffrey Epstein’s prison cell the night before he was found dead. The release was intended to address conspiracy theories about Epstein’s apparent suicide in federal custody. But instead of putting those suspicions to rest, it may fuel them further.
Metadata embedded in the video and analyzed by WIRED and independent video forensics experts shows that rather than being a direct export from the prison’s surveillance system, the footage was modified, likely using the professional editing tool Adobe Premiere Pro. The file appears to have been assembled from at least two source clips, saved multiple times, exported, and then uploaded to the DOJ’s website, where it was presented as “raw” footage.
Experts caution that it’s unclear what exactly was changed, and that the metadata does not prove deceptive manipulation. The video may have simply been processed for public release using available software, with no modifications beyond stitching together two clips. But the absence of a clear explanation for the processing of the file using professional editing software complicates the Justice Department’s narrative. In a case already clouded by suspicion, the ambiguity surrounding how the file was processed is likely to provide fresh fodder for conspiracy theories.
Any aspect of the official story that isn’t fully explained will be co-opted by conspiracy theorists, says Mike Rothschild, an author who writes about conspiracy theories and extremists. “So whatever your flavor of Epstein conspiracy is, the video will help bolster it.”
For months leading up to the joint memo the DOJ and FBI published Monday, attorney general Pam Bondi had promised the release of records related to Epstein, raising expectations that new, potentially incriminating details might surface about the disgraced financier’s death and his ties to powerful individuals. However, rather than revealing new information, the memo largely confirmed conclusions reached years earlier: that Epstein was found in a Manhattan prison cell on August 10, 2019, and died by suicide while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
To support its conclusion, the FBI reviewed surveillance footage overlooking the common area of the Special Housing Unit (SHU) at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC), where Epstein was held. The FBI enhanced the footage by adjusting contrast, color, and sharpness, and released both the enhanced and what it described as the “raw” version. Both versions of the video appear to have been processed using Premiere and include much of the same metadata. According to the FBI, anyone entering the area containing Epstein’s cell during the relevant time frame would have been visible on that camera.
Working with two independent video forensics experts, WIRED examined the 21-gigabyte files released by the DOJ. Using a metadata tool, reporters analyzed both Exchangeable Image File Format (EXIF) and Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) data to identify signs of postprocessing.
The “raw” file shows clear signs of having been processed using an Adobe product, most likely Premiere, based on metadata that specifically references file extensions used by the video editing software. According to experts, Adobe software, including Premiere and Photoshop, leaves traces in exported files, often embedding metadata that logs which assets were used and what actions were taken during editing. In this case, the metadata indicates the file was saved at least four times over a 23-minute span on May 23, 2025, by a Windows user account called “MJCOLE~1.” The metadata does not show whether the footage was modified before each time it was saved.
The embedded data suggest the video is not a continuous, unaltered export from a surveillance system, but a composite assembled from at least two separate MP4 files. The metadata includes references to Premiere project files and two specific source clips—2025-05-22 21-12-48.mp4 and 2025-05-22 16-35-21.mp4. These entries appear under a metadata section labeled “Ingredients,” part of Adobe’s internal schema for tracking source material used in edited exports. The metadata does not make clear where in the video the two clips were spliced together.
Hany Farid, a professor at UC Berkeley whose research focuses on digital forensics and misinformation, reviewed the metadata at WIRED’s request. Farid is a recognized expert in the analysis of digital images and the detection of manipulated media, including deepfakes. He has testified in numerous court cases involving digital evidence.
Farid says the metadata raises immediate concerns about chain of custody—the documented handling of digital evidence from collection to presentation in a courtroom. Just like physical evidence, he explains, digital evidence must be handled in a way that preserves its integrity; metadata, while not always precise, can provide important clues about whether that integrity has been compromised.
“If a lawyer brought me this file and asked if it was suitable for court, I’d say no. Go back to the source. Do it right,” Farid says. “Do a direct export from the original system—no monkey business.”
Farid points to another anomaly: The video’s aspect ratio shifts noticeably at several points. “Why am I suddenly seeing a different aspect ratio?” he asks.
Farid cautions that while the metadata clearly shows the video was modified, the changes could be benign—for example, converting footage from a proprietary surveillance format to a standard MP4.
While there may be uncontroversial explanations for the metadata artifacts, such as stitching together multiple days of footage during compilation, or the routine export of surveillance footage to an mp4 format, the FBI did not respond to specific questions about the file’s processing, instead referring WIRED to the DOJ. The DOJ in turn referred inquiries back to the FBI and the Bureau of Prisons. The BOP did not respond to a request for comment.
According to a 2023 report from the DOJ Office of the Inspector General (OIG), MCC, the detention facility where Epstein was found hanged, had around 150 analog surveillance cameras—but starting on July 29, 2019, a technical error prevented roughly half of them from recording, including most inside the SHU.
The system was scheduled for repairs on August 9, the night before Epstein was found dead. But the technician assigned to fix it couldn’t access the necessary equipment because the corrections officer required to escort him was nearing the end of their shift.
As a result, only two cameras were operational near the SHU at the time MCC staff found Epstein hanging in his cell: one covering the common area and stairwells near the entrance to the adjacent 10 South Unit, and another monitoring a ninth-floor elevator bay. Neither captured Epstein’s cell door.
According to the DOJ’s memo, the footage confirms that from the time Epstein was locked in his cell at approximately 8 pm on August 9, 2019, and between around 10:40 pm and 6:30 am the next morning, no one entered the tier where his cell was located. However, the recording includes a notable gap: Approximately one minute of footage is missing, from 11:58:58 pm to 12:00:00 am. The video resumes immediately afterward.
The OIG’s report found no evidence of a conspiracy to kill Epstein. Instead, it documented years of chronic staffing failures and system breakdowns at MCC. The facility was temporarily closed in 2021 after the DOJ essentially deemed conditions unfit for incarceration.
At a press conference on Tuesday, Bondi attributed the missing minute to a flaw in the surveillance system’s daily cycle, claiming that one minute is missing from every night’s recording.
Given the years of high-profile conspiracy theories surrounding Epstein, any perceived inconsistency in the official narrative is likely to draw intense scrutiny. Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones called the DOJ memo “sickening.” “Next the DOJ will say, ‘Actually, Jeffrey Epstein never even existed,’” he wrote in a post on X.
“In the world of conspiracy theories, evidence that disproves something happened becomes proof that something happened,” says Rothschild. He explains that the case of Epstein's death is a good example of this phenomenon. “Every piece of evidence that points to him taking his own life—the negligence of the prison staff, the disrepair of the cameras, the coroner's report—is turned into evidence that he was killed by powerful figures who weren't competent enough to cover up the crime correctly.”
The apparent gaps in the video, Rothschild says, will naturally inflame these suspicions.
One media forensics expert, who reviewed the metadata and agreed with WIRED’s analysis but requested anonymity due to privacy concerns and a desire to avoid having their name publicly associated with anything related to the Epstein case, put it bluntly: “It looks suspicious—but not as suspicious as the DOJ refusing to answer basic questions about it.”
Or how about you think for yourself. Don’t plop your brain in a jar and outsource your own mental processes.
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Polish far-right leader declares Auschwitz gas chambers to be "fake"
Polish prosecutors have launched an investigation into far-right leader Grzegorz Braun after he declared the gas chambers at Auschwitz to be “fake” and said it is a “fact” that Jews have committed ritual slaughter of Christians. Denial of Nazi crimes is an offence in Poland that carries a jail sentence of up to three years.
Braun, who finished fourth in the recent presidential elections with 6.3% of the vote, made his remarks during an interview today with radio station WNET. The veteran far-right politician, who is a member of the European Parliament, has a long history of hateful and conspiratorial rhetoric regarding Jews and other minorities.
During the interview, Braun referred to what he claimed are the “lies of the Talmud, the Haggadah [two Jewish religious texts], and the Holocaust”. He said that Jewish organisations “condemn those who tell the truth that ritual murder is a fact and Auschwitz with its gas chambers is a lie”.
A longstanding antisemitic canard is that Jews murder Christians, in particular children, and use their blood for religious rituals. Meanwhile, many modern antisemites deny the fact that gas chambers were used at Auschwitz and other German-Nazi camps to murder Jews during the Holocaust.
After the interviewer contested Braun’s remarks, he reiterated them, saying that the Auschwitz Museum provides a “pseudo-historical account” about what happened at the camp and blocks research into the gas chambers. He also cited a book by an Israeli historian that he says proves Jews carried out ritual murder.
That led the interviewer to immediately cut short the broadcast, saying that there “are limits to political cynicism and sensationalism when it comes to several million victims and their memory”.
Subsequently, Anna-Maria Żukowska, head of the parliamentary caucus of The Left (Lewica), one of the groups that make up Poland’s ruling coalition, announced that she was filing a complaint to prosecutors regarding Braun’s remarks.
She accused him of violating article 55 of Poland’s law on the Institute of National Remembrance, which criminalises public denial of Nazi and communist crimes. Those found guilty can be punished by up to three years in prison.
Late on Thursday afternoon, the district prosecutor’s office in Warsaw announced that it had initiated an investigation into whether Braun had committed the offence of denying Nazi crimes.
Meanwhile, Piotr Cywiński, the director of the Auschwitz Museum, which is a Polish state institution, issued a statement condemning Braun’s “scandalous” comments, which he said were not only a violation of the law but also “an insult to the memory of the victims of the camp”.
“Grzegorz Braun’s words are not a ‘political provocation’, but a conscious lie and an act of ideological, antisemitic hatred,” said Cywiński. “They cannot remain without a decisive response from the state and all decent people – for whom the memory of Auschwitz is of particular importance.”
The museum director noted that, while it was primarily Jews who were victims of the gas chambers of Auschwitz, ethnic Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, and Roma were also murdered in them.
At least 1.3 million prisoners were transported to Auschwitz during the war, with at least 1.1 million of them killed at the camp. Around one million of those victims were Jews, most of whom were murdered in gas chambers immediately after their arrival. The second largest group of victims were ethnic Poles.
Cywiński said that the museum would itself file a notification to prosecutors regarding Braun’s remarks. He also appealed to Polish media to stop giving space to Braun, who “has repeatedly shown that he cannot function in the public space without vandalism, lies, hate speech and racism”.
Last week, Braun was presented by prosecutors with seven sets of charges relating to four incidents, including his attack on a Jewish religious celebration in parliament two years ago.
He is also being investigated over a series of incidents during the recent presidential election campaign, including when he vandalised an LGBT+ exhibition, made antisemitic remarks during a televised debate, and removed a Ukrainian flag from a public building.
The... lies of the Haggadah? The book so benign I can get copies published by ShopRite? Oh no, he's going to out the dark truth that Pesach was never meant to come with a 4 drink minimum and the secret to singing Chad Gadyah in a round while plastered! What's next? Will he expose the ancient Jewish secret to a good brisket is actually Dr. Pepper?
Edit: Obviously this dude is a dangerous Neo-Nazi and the Earth shouldn't suffer him breathing it's precious oxygen, but we gotta laugh or else we'll cry, right?
Jewish brisket is different from Texas smoked brisket. First of all, it's braised rather than smoked. It's cooked with carrots, celery and onions in a mixture of crushed tomatoes and wine and seasoned relatively simply with salt, garlic, pepper, thyme and bay leaves. While I think the smoked kinds are generally better sliced thin on a sandwich, a braised Jewish brisket is such a core memory of the Passover Sedar (the ceremonial meal described in the Haggadah) that I savor it in its own way. I've made em for Rosh Hashanah as well. All that's to say, your milage may vary and so you might not find it to your liking.
BUT, the method is fairly simple.
Season a whole brisket with salt and pepper, brown it in a large roasting pan. Once browned, remove it and add in your aromatics (onion, carrot, garlic, celery, whatever you want) and brown those slightly too. Deglaze with wine, add in Dr. Pepper or cola, add in tomatoes and ketchup (use less if using soda). Add the brisket back in, your herbs, then roast low and slow at around 275°F to 300°F for 3 to 4 hours, should be fork tender. Once it's cooked, pull it out, let it rest for like a half hour, slice it thin, put it back in the roasting pan with the juices, baste it, cover it, let it sit somewhere warm for another half hour while it soaks up the braising liquid.
Ideally you want a brisket with the deckle, but if you got a first cut brisket, don't trim the fat, you wanna render that out during the cook. You can skim it off the resulting braising liquid after the cook if you'd like.
Also the recipe isn't set in stone. Play with it! It's supposed to be a bit sweet, so I've thrown in figs and apricots, seasoned the top of sumac and pomegranate, za'atar isn't unwelcome here, if atypical.
He also appealed to Polish media to stop giving space to Braun, who “has repeatedly shown that he cannot function in the public space without vandalism, lies, hate speech and racism”.
we could all take a leaf of this advice, fascist says fascist shit, shock horror. I'm so tired of people in 'my community' inadvertantly promoting fascists. It's exactly what fascists want.
A few people are ruining the internet for the rest of us
I can't abide an unnecessary question hed.
When I scroll through social media, I often leave demoralized, with the sense that the entire world is on fire and people are inflamed with hatred towards one another. Yet, when I step outside into the streets of New York City to grab a coffee or meet a friend for lunch, it feels downright tranquil. The contrast between the online world and my daily reality has only gotten more jarring.Since my own work is focused on topics such as intergroup conflict, misinformation, technology and climate change, I’m aware of the many challenges facing humanity. Yet, it seems striking that people online seem to be just as furious about the finale of The White Lotus or the latest scandal involving a YouTuber. Everything is either the best thing ever or the absolute worst, no matter how trivial. Is that really what most of us are feeling? No, as it turns out. Our latest research suggests that what we’re seeing online is a warped image created by a very small group of highly active users.
Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us?
Why does the online world seem so toxic compared with normal life? Our research shows that a small number of divisive accounts could be responsible – and offers a way outGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
Mastering jq
Mastering JQ: Part 1
This is the first part of an ongoing series on mastering jq. jq is a valuable tool that every fast coder has in their tool chest. It contains depths of immense power. In part 1, we'll start off with the basics.Tyler Adams (CodeFaster)
jq scriptlet for me today. It wasn't even complicated, it just beat working it out/trying to craft the write string to search Stackoverflow for.
I tried and failed to get an LLM to write jq code to do a regex based matcher for finding if one json object was a subset of another.
Gave up and learned it enough to get it going. jq is nutso powerful.
jq to manipulate JSON I'd recommend a helper CLI tool like ijq. It allows you to experiment without needing too lines in your terminal history.
I don't know if we should call someone a master of jq if they do
echo '{"k1": [{"k2": [9]}]}' | jq '.k1 | .[0] | .k2 | .[0]'
Instead of just
echo '{"k1": [{"k2": [9]}]}' | jq '.k1[0].k2[0]'
Both are bad. Make it readable.
And if you often resort to jq, better use python or at least something like nushell.
Introducing Operese(demo)
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Jon Stewart Tears Apart Dems’ ‘Idiotic’ Project 2029 Plan
Jon Stewart Tears Apart Dems’ ‘Idiotic’ Project 2029 Plan
Stewart predicted the plan will likely be “a rehash” of “careful nonsense.”Eboni Boykin-Patterson (The Daily Beast)
Blender 4.5 RC1 Released With Much Better Vulkan Support
Blender 4.5 RC1 Released With Much Better Vulkan Support
The release candidate of the Blender 4.5 3D modeling software is now available for testingwww.phoronix.com
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If only Cycles would ever work on AMD Polaris…
Though honestly, I’ll probably get around to a GPU upgrade eventually.
Rocm packaging looks to be pretty much done on Debian, although they still seem to need time on the problem of keeping it reasonably up to date in Testing and Sid - momentum will probably pick up after Trixie leaves hard freeze and goes stable.
Honestly, it’d be kind of nice to have a project with a repo that does nothing most of the time except during the Testing freeze, in which it would deliver package updates and keep Testing as a rolling release during that time.
I get why Debian doesn’t do this themselves - they tried and found it hell to both prepare a stable release and package new versions.
Call for Support: Bottles Team Needs Funding to Sustain Development
Call for Support: Bottles Team Needs Funding to Sustain Development
Despite massive adoption, Bottles faces funding shortages. The team shares its reality and asks users to help shape the project’s future.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
I see the advantages that.
- Libadwaita Themed (good for Gnome bad for other Desktops)
- Sandboxed (Only flatpak)
Lutris is for managing games, and can use multiple different engines. Proton is one, but also Linux native games, dos, ScummVM, etc. Lutris also interfaces with popular stores like Steam, Epic, GOG etc. It's a game and gaming library tool.
Bottles is a general purpose wrapper for Wine. You can run games but also any wine software. It's a general purpose wine tool.
Lutris makes running games in proton easy. Bottles makes running apps in wine easy.
You can do lots of things with both, but that doesn't necessarily mean you should.
People have used Lutris for other apps because it was a more convenient wrapper for Wine than the defaults offered but it's not primarily designed for it and support will be limited. Lutris is designed to be a games library and that's it's focus.
I personally wouldn't recommend wine newbies to be using Lutris to run everything because if nothing else it would be annoying for the Lutris dev team to be dealing with "I can't get Microsoft Word working".
I also personally wouldn't recommend Bottles for games because of all the other features Lutris offers. I have a huge library of games and I wouldn't want to manage that in the Bottles interface. But I'm aware people use it for that and Lutris is one of its supported runners.
Bottles and Lutris complement each other and work together well. But lutris is designed to be a games libaray while Bottles is designed to be for everything.
I personally use Lutris for games (most of my wine use) and Bottles for a few other windows apps.
But the real star of the show is under the hood - it's wine and Proton doing the heavy lifting. Lutris and Bottles are tools to get the most out of them and it's choice which you use and how.
It's not a catch-all game launcher.
It's a wine environment manager. And it is becoming increasingly good at simplying the complexity of setting up wine bottles for different things.
It's basically winetricks on steroids, with a really nice GUI to boot.
Running windows games is just one use-case.
Obviously. It too does wine environment management. But it's meant for games, and for wine specifically, Bottles is just nicer.
Lutris is massive overkill if you just want run the windows version of python in order to compile python code to windows binaries. Not to mention it just isn't as slick in terms of UX as a wine manager.
WINEPREFIX environment variable?
Calibre 8.6 released
New features
- Content server: Add a checkbox in content server user preferences to prevent a user account from changing its own password via the web interface
- Restoring database: Improve performance by an order of magnitude
- Add a tweak to Preferences->Tweaks to permit displaying the sort value for series in the Tag browser
- Welcome wizard: Change default output format to AZW3 for Kindle as MOBI is obsolete and all Kindles released within the last decade plus support AZW3
- Add 'Search "not in"' and 'Filter "not in'" buttons to Manage authors and Manage Items
Bug fixes
- Windows: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused terminal windows to popup momentarily when adding PDF files or converting them
Closes tickets: 2115246- E-book viewer: Fix a regression in 8.4 that broke fading of the background image
Closes tickets: 2115057 - Tag browser: Fix clicking on categories to search for books by first letter of series not working correctly for non-English language books
Closes tickets: 2116006 - Edit metadata individually: Ensure Next/Previous buttons work even if something re-orders the books in the book list. They will now iterate over the books as they were at the time the dialog is created
Closes tickets: 2115111 - Windows: Generate catalog: Workaround for systems where a broken antivirus or similar holds open files in the catalog library causing a permission denied error
Closes tickets: 2115084
- E-book viewer: Fix a regression in 8.4 that broke fading of the background image
New news sources
- La Presse by quatorze
Improved news sources
- Economist
- 1843
- Financial Times
- PC World
- Muy Interesante Mexico
- Hindu Business Line
- Business Standard
- Hindustan Times
- The Week
- Times of India
- Hindustan
- Financial Times
- Reason
calibre - What's new
calibre: The one stop solution for all your e-book needs. Comprehensive e-book software.calibre-ebook.com
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Calibre is one of the great pieces of FOSS software, and demonstrates everything good about FOSS: it has regular updates; it's been around for simply ages; it works really, really well; it gets updates and new features and yet has never in my memory had a breaking, non-backwards-compatible release... it's stable; and it resists - in its way - the attempt by publishers to steal our rights and ownerships of our media.
I ~~contribute~~ donate to Calibre. I hope that Goyal has a successor lined up to take the helm who can continue such an outstanding contribution when he finally retires from the project.
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I just found this creator who is super excited about the new Bash version. He goes through some aspects of the new changes and features. There is something funny about a guy getting so excited about a new Bash version, that I wanted to share it because of that. 😁
Also its nice to see the changes in action and have an explanation from someone who (seemingly) knows what he is doing.
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Source Code: github.com/bahamas10/bash-changes
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Bash v5.3 Released! New features and syntax in the latest version of the Bash Shell. - SkipVids
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Honestly this made me really sad that we're stuck with this archaic, awful language as a primary way of programmatically interacting with our computers. And I don't mean to say anybody has done anything wrong here - sh and bash were revolutionary and amazing for their respective times, and maintainers who are keeping bash alive now are heroes who deserve praise. However, many decisions made when sh was originally developed turned out to be footguns, still creating bugs today (despite shellcheck et al).
nushell is somewhat promising but flawed (because it has to be built on the same system interfaces as sh, after all). The most annoying is that there's no facilities for setting any metadata on data streams (in particular there's no way to set the format of the data) so everything has to be marshalled manually, which would be OK for a proper programming language but really annoying for a shell. At least it fixes most of the quoting, escaping, interpolation, substition etc awfulness, and allows for manipulating data in a more structured way.
I really don't know if it's even possible to make a language that would be a good convenient shell and at the same time not prone to bugs which are easily noticeable in other languages. I hope that something like this becomes a reality at some point.
If you want to do a Bash like management and programming, that is not dramatically different but fixes some irritations, then Fish is an alternative. Obviously it will not fix all issues, but there is no paradigm shift in handling streams. nushell is dramatically different and at that point, I would rather use a programming language to do the stuff. Speaking of programming language, there is also Xonsh (basically Python+Bash like combination as a system shell).
All these alternatives have a singular big flaw to me: they are not the standard tools on the system, which defeats the purpose of a system shell to me. In the end, without changing the core system that these shells are built on, I don't think its possible to make a really well made language that interoperates on system level like a shell does at the moment.
That's the reason why I got a bit more into Bash to understand some flaws, to understand how to use regexes inside Bash and variable substitutions and a few other concepts that are very useful to know. But man... there are so many traps... like looping over a wildcard for files (such as for file in *.txt) and if the wildcard does not match, then the loop consists of the wildcard as a literal word as if "*.txt" was a filename. What a stupid idea. There is an option to change that, but that's the issue. The language is filled with traps and optional options and you have to know all of them.
Edit: Added example code why default behavior sucks:
$ for file in *.ABCD; do echo "${file}"; done
*.ABCD
shopt -s nullglob
$ for file in *.ABCD; do echo "${file}"; done
shellcheck is pretty cool. I have written my fair share of bash and yet still get caught off-guard by its warnings - and it's right most of the time!
Yes, I use shellcheck in the editor. Its pretty useful. But running (a little bit more complex commands) in the terminal directly won't help with shellcheck. That's why I also have a functionality to directly load and edit the current command in the terminal in (Neo)vim and edit and when closing Vim the command gets executed. The benefit doing this is getting checked by shellcheck in the editor and also it makes it easier to one-off complex commands.
Thanks to shellcheck I got in the habbit to always enclose variables in ${var}. And recently learned from a community member that using [[ expr ]] style has basically no downsides against using [ expr ] directly.
Search for survivors after Yemen Houthis sink second Red Sea cargo ship in a week
Yemen Houthis sink second Red Sea cargo ship in a week
At least three of the 25 people on board the Eternity C were killed after it was attacked by the Iran-backed group.David Gritten (BBC News)
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[SOLVED] How come I've got my NVIDIA GPU to work for every game except Hogwarts Legacy? (More details in post body)
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/41923801
So, I have this new laptop I got which has an NVIDIA RTX 4090M GPU, and also an integrated Intel GPU. Obviously, I only want to use the Intel GPU for less intensive apps, and to use the NVIDIA GPU for games or other intensive applications, such as AI.Through trial, error, and lucky searches on the internet, I figured out some things that do and don't work.
- Plugging in the laptop makes the NVIDIA GPU run much faster
- The default Fedora NVIDIA drivers work fine, I don't need to install any alternatives
- To make a normal app use the GPU, all I have to do is right click the icon and click 'Launch with discrete GPU' (on GNOME), or to make it open with discrete GPU by default (and launching with the integrated GPU would be an option in the context menu), I have to copy the desktop file to ~/.local/share/applications, and edit the .desktop file so it contains the line PrefersNonDefaultGPU=true
- For Steam apps, the previous method doesn't work (for some reason - maybe it uses a custom launch process?), but after trying many different ways, I was able to get most Steam apps to use the correct GPU (GPU 0) by adding the custom launch option PROTON_USE_WINED3D=0 %command%
- For some reason, this doesn't work for Hogwarts Legacy. It, of all games, really wants to use the Intel graphics - even with the custom launch command, PrefersNonDefaultGPU=true, and in game setting the preferred GPU to my NVIDIA one - yes, it is listed and recognised in game - I can tell both from the Resources app and the abysmal performance that my NVIDIA GPU is not being used and my Intel GPU is
- Other apps like Portal RTX, The Witcher 3, ComfyUI (running through Krita AI Diffusion), Blender, and Civilisation 6 are running great with the NVIDIA GPU
- I do not have prime-run installed and do not need it
My laptop model is MEDION Beast X40.
I'm honestly at my wits end.
Any suggestions?
VPNs for UK users?
So the UK is going to start requiring IDs to view adult content. I'm in the US, but I've got a friend in the UK who obviously doesn't want to deal with this.
I suggested he use a VPN, but he's apparently heard they sell your personal data. Can anyone recommend a reliable VPN that collects as little data as possible?
ETA: thanks for the suggestions, everyone! I'm gonna research em and pass the info along. 😀
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PIA is run by a sketchy company with ties to zionists. Please do not support them.
If you need a cheap VPN go with AirVPN or even Nord over PIA.
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Mullvad VPN if you're prepared to pay; ProtonVPN or Windscribe if you aren't.
None of the services keep logs or require any personal info.
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It's not just UK, but Europe-wide soon. I imagine that the various (other) -eyes countries will be joining with similar legislation.
And then The law of unintended consequences will strike.
Mullvad and Proton!
But not these:
‘Cause these VPNs may have ties to…
These free VPNs may have ties to China’s military – and they are still hidden in Apple and Google app stores
New research reveals 17 VPN apps with undisclosed Chinese ownership, and big tech may be making a profitChiara Castro (TechRadar)
Okay... And what's China going to do with your encrypted data running through their VPN servers?
Maybe that's all the more incentive to use them, since they deffo won't tattle on you to the UK or Canadian govt.
That being said, they did just send an unrequested marketing notification to my phone out of the blue... So might have to look elsewhere tbh 🤷♂️
Laggy performance on fedora linux
Hello all. I've recently installed Fedora 42 on my laptop, it's a microsoft surface laptop studio so it's running with the custom surface kernel. The feature matrix on their github page says that everything should be supported for my laptop and that's pretty much been my experience so far but I've been having issues when testing out games.
The laptop has a 3050TI and is more than capable of running most of the games that I usually play on windows, and I've almost gotten it working on Fedora. They'll launch and run just fine, everything even looks pretty decent graphically, but it just has really bad stuttery input lag, even in more lightweight games that I've tested such as balatro and stardew valley.
I'm not sure what would be causing this, as far as I'm aware I'm running the right gpu driver, I've double checked that they're using the dedicated gpu rather than the integrated one with nvidia-smi, but honestly that's about the extent of my knowledge. Does anyone have any thoughts / suggestions? It would be much appreciated.
GitHub - linux-surface/linux-surface: Linux Kernel for Surface Devices
Linux Kernel for Surface Devices. Contribute to linux-surface/linux-surface development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Get resource usage under utilization and nvidia-smi output and post here.
Also, are you sure it's input lag, or is the entire machine pausing and hiccuping?
This kind of problem is going to require some deep debugging of the surface kernel drivers. This isn't going to be a simple or quick fix. Somebody is going to need to do some extensive debugging and analysis to chase down an issue like this. A solution to this problem could take a few hours, or it could take a few months of meticulous trial and error to narrow down the problem space and gather enough data to enable somebody to zero in on the problem.
If you want to dive into tracking down the problem yourself, I suggest starting with the kernel's own docs on the driver architecture and debugging tools, etc.
Two things:
- What input device(s) are you using? Are you using the built-in laptop keyboard, or a gamepad of sorts. (By Balatro, I'd assume it might even be happening with mouse.)
- Are you running these games on a platform like Steam, or are you running another way? (I'm assuming the answer is yes to Steam, by Balatro and Stardew.)
For Steam, try messing around with Steam input settings and see what happens.
I realized something was "off" when I found out that they counted my donations and sent me a letter saying that I was behind.
K through 8th grade and then I dipped.
Laika at 60: What happens to all the dogs, monkeys and mice sent into space? | The Independent
Stray dog sent into space in 1957 was first living creature to orbit EarthTom Batchelor (The Independent)
ICBMs are spaceflight rockets, imo it's best to count them. The US hasn't had such large accidents with ICBMs, mostly minor ones.
Even if we exclude those it's not true. The US has sent significantly more people into space than the Soviets did, so NASAs accident rate was lower (hence safer), even if the absolute number of deaths was higher.
Spaceflight rockets are ICBMs, if we are being pedantic. The space program was the civilian-facing part of the broader rocketry programs.
Either way, if we exclude them, it is still true, but you can also measure by ratio. It just goes to show that you can manipulate real data to be presented in any way you want, and add or subtract context as needed for your angle.
Laika at 60: What happens to all the dogs, monkeys and mice sent into space? | The Independent
Stray dog sent into space in 1957 was first living creature to orbit EarthTom Batchelor (The Independent)
I know this. NASA’s animal fatalities were fewer and less often.
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Laika and Her "Children"---Animals in the Space Race | Saving Earth | Encyclopedia Britannica
Saturday, Nov. 3, 2007, marked the 50th anniversary of the flight of the first animal to be sent into Earth orbit.LMurray (Saving Earth | Encyclopedia Britannica)
That what? That the US sent animals into space?
American and Russian scientists utilized animals—mainly monkeys, chimps and dogs—in order to test each country’s ability to launch a living organism into space and bring it back alive and unharmed.
Per NASA.
A Brief History of Animals in Space - NASA
Before humans actually went into space, one of the prevailing theories of the perils of space flight was that humans might not be able to survive long periodsMichele Ostovar (NASA)
I'm a Marxist, sure, very openly so. I don't really think anyone cares about who you've sniffed out to be a commie or not, especially considering I have it plastered all over my profile and frequently outright state it. I wouldn't say "pro-Russian," either, the Russian Federation is deeply flawed and has tragically fallen from their far more progressive Soviet heritage.
I'm very anti-NATO, like the vast majority of Marxists, and I don't fall for the hysteria around the Russian Federation as some ultimate evil, though, so if that's all it takes to be "pro-Russian" for you then that's funny.
Maybe it's because it's because I just finished reading this section in Range, but I think it's more than the engineers knew.
When sociologist Diane Vaughan interviewed NASA and Thiokol engineers who had worked on the rocket boosters, she found that NASA’s own famous can-do culture manifested as a belief that everything would be fine because “we followed every procedure”; because “the [flight readiness review] process is aggressive and adversarial”; because “we went by the book.” NASA’s tools were its familiar procedures. The rules had always worked before. But with Challenger they were outside their usual bounds, where “can do” should have been swapped for what Weick calls a “make do” culture. They needed to improvise rather than throw out information that did not fit the established rubric.Roger Boisjoly’s unquantifiable argument that the cold weather was “away from goodness” was considered an emotional argument in NASA culture. It was based on interpretation of a photograph. It did not conform to the usual quantitative standards, so it was deemed inadmissible evidence and disregarded. The can-do attitude among the rocket-booster group, Vaughan observed, “was grounded in conformity.” After the tragedy, it emerged that other engineers on the teleconference agreed with Boisjoly, but knew they could not muster quantitative arguments, so they remained silent. Their silence was taken as consent. As one engineer who was on the Challenger conference call later said, “If I feel like I don’t have data to back me up, the boss’s opinion is better than mine.”
I think most of us believe decisions should be data driven, but in some edge cases gut instinct is valuable.
It is easy to say in retrospect. A group of managers accustomed to dispositive technical information did not have any; engineers felt like they should not speak up without it. Decades later, an astronaut who flew on the space shuttle, both before and after Challenger, and then became NASA’s chief of safety and mission assurance, recounted what the “In God We Trust, All Others Bring Data” plaque had meant to him: “Between the lines it suggested that, ‘We’re not interested in your opinion on things. If you have data, we’ll listen, but your opinion is not requested here.’”
I think most of us believe decisions should be data driven, but in some edge cases gut instinct is valuable.
What you call gut instinct, I call the output of an immensely complex yet efficient organic neural network that has been trained on years to decades of relevant experience.
If business leaders think AI is so great, they need to get in on this shit while they can still afford it!
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no one makes the wheels not capitalism stop rolling! ~~profit~~ progress at all costs!
I am honestly not sure what you're trying to say here but I'm curious what NASA is selling that you threw capitalism in there.
The crew didn't blow up(src).
The flight, and the astronauts’ lives, did not end at that point, 73 seconds after launch. After Challenger was torn apart, the pieces continued upward from their own momentum, reaching a peak altitude of 65,000 feet before arching back down into the water. The cabin hit the surface 2 minutes and 45 seconds after breakup, and all investigations indicate the crew was still alive until then.
We were led out of our classrooms to watch it since we lived in FL. When the launch went pear-shaped, nobody really understood what had happened, we just thought it was part of the fuel tanks dropping away. We went back in, sat down and continued our day. I don't think the teachers ever told us something went wrong and I found out about it that night at home.
7 myths about the Challenger shuttle disaster
A quarter-century after the Challenger shuttle tragedy, the disaster is often remembered in ways that owe more to myth and misconception than to the truth.James Oberg (NBC News)
Um, actually!
The crew didn't blow up instantly at all, at that exact moment! They spent another three minutes falling back to Earth, where they blew up instantly upon hitting the surface!
I mean, it would be pretty undeniable. When Henson died, he died in a hospital room, not while performing Kermit or Rowlf or any of his beloved characters.
If Caroll Spinney had been on Challenger, in character as Big Bird, on live TV, in front of a nation of schoolchildren, it would be crass to pretend it had never happened.
I watched it in person, sort of.
I was living on the Florida Gulf Coast at the time. From the Gulf Coast, a shuttle launch was just a bright bead drawing a thin line up from the horizon, so it wasn't any sort of spectacle, but it was something interesting to watch if you happened to be outside, which I was.
And it was obvious even from there what had likely happened, since the bright bead suddenly flashed, then went out, and the line went off sideways.
Could have been worse. They wanted to send Big Bird.
Also, I wasn’t in kindergarten yet or I’d have seen it. I think this is a core Gen X memory that Millennials don’t have.
There's speculation that Reagan was the impetus behind the "go fever" that caused the Challenger disaster. The idea is that he wanted to have a live uplink to Challenger during his State of the Union, and that his desire to use them as props was why NASA was in such an all-fired hurry to launch no matter the consequences.
No idea how grounded in reality the speculation is, but it tracks for Reagan.
I was only 4 years and 4 months old, I can barely remember anything of that time.
But when Columbia was en route to enter the atmosphere, I was outside on the front lawn watching, since it was re-entering over my area of Texas at a pretty favorable viewing angle.
I was so fucking happy to see such a momentous occasion...until it started breaking up. I knew something was wrong, but my brain couldn't piece it together, until the ship started breaking apart into visibly distinct fireballs. It passed over the horizon, and I was stunned. I ran back into my friend's living room, and continued watching the coverage, now very sombre.
It was 17 years and 4 days after Challenger. I was 21. That shit is burned into my memory. Especially since 9/11 was less than 18 months prior, which I also watched live.
always.
I mean… not really.
🛰️ Space Race Fatalities Comparison: Soviet Union vs United States
| Aspect | 🇺🇸 United States | 🇷🇺 Soviet Union |
|---|---|---|
| Total astronaut/cosmonaut deaths | 9–10 (incl. test/training accidents) | 8 (official) |
| On-mission fatalities | 3 (Apollo 1, ground test) | 4 (Soyuz 1, Soyuz 11) |
| Training/test deaths (astronauts) | 6+ (e.g. Theodore Freeman, C.C. Williams) | 4+ (e.g. Valentin Bondarenko, others possibly unacknowledged) |
| Deaths among ground personnel | <10 | 100+ (notably the Nedelin disaster) |
| Transparency | High (accidents publicized and investigated) | Low (many incidents hidden until after 1989) |
| Major catalyst event | Apollo 1 fire | Soyuz 1, Nedelin disaster |
Key Takeaways
- 🇺🇸 U.S. suffered more astronaut fatalities, including test pilots and training accidents.
- 🇷🇺 Soviets had higher total human losses, especially among engineers and soldiers during explosive launch and fuel testing incidents.
- 🔥 The Apollo 1 fire led to sweeping design and safety reforms in NASA.
- 🚨 The Soyuz 1 and Soyuz 11 tragedies were fatal in-flight accidents; Soyuz 11 remains the only in-space human fatality.
- 🕵️ The Nedelin disaster, one of the worst rocket catastrophes in history, killed over 100 but was kept secret for decades.
- 🧾 Transparency and institutional accountability were key differences: NASA publicly investigated accidents; the USSR often concealed failures.
It's true that all deaths on both sides were caused by people with JEWISH names. Coincidence? Not likley. Hitler killed less people. Elon is god. Sieg. Sieg!1!!!1
Grok, probably
I'm very anti-NATO, like the vast majority of Marxists, and I don't fall for the hysteria around the Russian Federation as some ultimate evil, though,
You in another comment. The Russian federation is currently occupying multiple neighbouring countries, bombing civilians, and generally having a war crime of a time. And you're saying they're not evil?
You're off the deep end, my friend.
Eastern Ukraine, the Donbass region, is very pro-Russia and very anti-Ukraine. Western Ukraine was shelling them for a decade, post-2014 coup, due to the hard shift from being aligned with Russia to being aligned with NATO. For these citizens, Russian presence is a good thing. Western Ukraine certainly hates that Russia has invaded, but the "hysteria" I am referring to is the kind that thinks even Eastern Ukraine opposes the Russian Federation.
So no, this isn't a "pro-Russian" stance, in my opinion. Recognizing western-Ukraine's shelling of civilians in eastern-ukraine for a decade, and the overwhelming support for Russian annexation of the Donbass region among Donbass residents in Donetsk and Luhansk, is something that even pro-NATO people need to recognize in order to figure out how to best deal with that underlying fact.
I can't believe you've fallen for the "dey dombed bombas" story, you really are that brainwashed. All of Ukraine voted to leave Russia, most of it quite overwhelmingly.
And there was no coup, that was entirely orchestrated by Russia.
You really need to read some media from outside your bubble.
New York Times, reporting on Kiev using cluster bombs in the Donbass region in 2014
According to wikipedia, the vast majority of the donbass region voted for independence from Ukraine.
Wikipedia article, going over the Euromaidan coup from a pro-western perspective
Vice news, 9 years ago,
All of these are pro-Western sources that do a better job of acknowledging the reality of the situation better than you do. You seem to not only only accept pro-western news, but exclusively pro-western news that goes against the western consensus on the Donbass Region.
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Pro-Russia separatists in Donetsk were found with 100,000 pre-marked ‘Yes’ ballots the day before the vote.[35][36][37]
From the Wikipedia article you clearly didn't read.
I'm embarrassed for you.
Oh don't worry, I read it. Pro-western outlets like Kyiv Post reported that story, while at the same time failing to produce evidence that the referendums were unpopular after all.
- The Donbass region is largely pro-Russian, and is ethnically Russian.
- The Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics have been fighting Kyiv for a decade
- Kyiv has been shelling Donetsk and Luhansk for a decade.
All of these are not only widely reported in non-western media, but also acknowledged by western media as well. It's something the west and non-west can agree on, which means you rejecting it is akin to conspiracy theory.
My entire school was gathered in the cafeteria for the event, televised live.
We were all sent home for the day (some took the week) in the ensuing chaos.
You know who could have been on that shuttle instead of a teacher? A Muppet.
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What if Big Bird was on the Challenger space shuttle that exploded on January 28th, 1986? - r/HistoricalWhatIf
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Which could have been the weirdest tangent on a Wikipedia page. Jim Henson, Muppets, Sesame Street, retired characters, Big Bird, oh was that an early version of Abelardo?, Challenger shuttle dis-- what. What? What the fuck?!
When the guy who played Mr. Hooper died, they worked that into the show. The cast, sincerely grieving, had to explain to a seven-foot-tall canary that he wasn't coming back. That's not really he same kind of intrusion from reality, as acknowledging the same giant fowl fucking exploded on national television.
The only possible comparison would be if some show had a gimmicky live episode that happened to be scheduled for 9 AM, on a Tuesday, in September of 2001.
Even Boeing, a private company that with all their failures and criminal behavior should definitely be bankrupt, gets massive help bcs they're a military contractor.
By then shuttle flights were so routine I didn't even get up to watch the liftoff. My mom called me before work and told me it blew up.
Christa McAuliffe trivia: she was the only one in her training group who didn't throw up on the "Vomit Comet".
Turns out risky business has risks.
The interesting thing isn't how many fatalities NASA has had but rather how few they have had. Exploration has always gotten people killed.
The issue was that they knew there were issues with the shuttle and had been warned by several engineers about launching in the cold weather they were having at the time, but NASA ignored them and sent the Challenger on its way anyways. It's been awhile so I forget the details of exactly what it was that was wrong, but I think it ~~was the metal in some screws~~ that wasn't able to deal with the differences in temperatures and the engineers said shit would go wrong if they didn't replace them and nobody listened. It was a very preventable disaster that only happened due to laziness and impatience on NASA's part.
- it was the rubber in the O-ring seals that couldn't handle the differences in temperature.
From Wikipedia:
Cecil Houston, the manager of the KSC office of the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, set up a three-way conference call with Morton Thiokol in Utah and the KSC in Florida on the evening of January 27 to discuss the safety of the launch.Morton Thiokol engineers expressed their concerns about the effect of low temperatures on the resilience of the rubber O-rings. As the colder temperatures lowered the elasticity of the rubber O-rings, the engineers feared that the O-rings would not be extruded to form a seal at the time of launch. The engineers argued that they did not have enough data to determine whether the O-rings would seal at temperatures colder than 53 °F (12 °C), the coldest launch of the Space Shuttle to date. During this discussion, Lawrence Mulloy, the NASA SRB project manager, said that he did not accept the analysis behind this decision, and demanded to know if Morton Thiokol expected him to wait until April for warmer temperatures. Morton Thiokol employees Robert Lund, the Vice President of Engineering, and Joe Kilminster, the Vice President of the Space Booster Programs, recommended against launching until the temperature was above 53 °F (12 °C).
When the teleconference prepared to hold a recess to allow for private discussion amongst Morton Thiokol management, Allan J. McDonald, Morton Thiokol's Director of the Space Shuttle SRM Project who was sitting at the KSC end of the call, reminded his colleagues in Utah to examine the interaction between delays in the primary O-rings sealing relative to the ability of the secondary O-rings to provide redundant backup, believing this would add enough to the engineering analysis to get Mulloy to stop accusing the engineers of using inconclusive evidence to try and delay the launch. When the call resumed, Morton Thiokol leadership had changed their opinion and stated that the evidence presented on the failure of the O-rings was inconclusive and that there was a substantial margin in the event of a failure or erosion. They stated that their decision was to proceed with the launch.
When McDonald told Mulloy that, as the onsite representative at KSC he would not sign off on the decision, Mulloy demanded that Morton Thiokol provide a signed recommendation to launch; Kilminster confirmed that he would sign it and fax it from Utah immediately, and the teleconference ended. Mulloy called Arnold Aldrich, the NASA Mission Management Team Leader, to discuss the launch decision and weather concerns, but did not mention the O-ring discussion; the two agreed to proceed with the launch.
Dunno about you, but it sounds a lot like NASA, especially Lawrence Mulloy, practically twisted Morton Thiokol's arms until one of them (Joe Kilminster) relented and signed off on the launch. Mulloy even lied by omission at the end there to get his way. I wonder how he could sleep at night after this stunt.
Not only did they broadcast the explosion they also caused it. Haha(not funny)
Richard Feynman was the one who let slip innocently what the cause was during an international press conference and made a lot of people in Washington very very mad.
Basically, the Whitehouse pushed NASA to launch despite the weather being too cold and that caused an expansion joint of an SRB to fail.
Feynman showed the world what happens to the expansion joint material by putting it in some ice water for five minutes during the press conference and showed it crumbled after he took it out of the glass.
That man was an international treasure and I miss him very much.
Arizona study finds car dependency reduces life satisfaction
Depending on a car could be impacting your life satisfaction | ASU News
A viral research study led by Rababe Saadaoui, a PhD planning student in Arizona State University's School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, has uncovered a link between car dependency and life satisfaction in the United States.news.asu.edu
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Could someone help me setup local file sharing? [Fixed]
So I have things working for me at this point. I was never able to get Samba worling properly. My initial issue was not having a / at the end of my folder path in the Samba config file. After fixing that issue I was able to see the shared folder but was prompted to log in each time, which was an issue in my use case. I ended up abandoning Samba and setting up Jellyfin which has been a much smoother experience, but also is providing many more features. So, if you are looking to share media on your local network, my recommendation would be Jellyfin!
Thank you so much to everyone that commented and helped me a long. I hope I get to return the favor in some way.
Hello, I've been working towards fully migrating to linux, but this is one issue I'm having a hard time with. I have a couple of folders on a storage drive that I share on my local network to stream movies and TV, but I can't figure out how to do it in my Linux install. I'm running Linux Mint 22, have installed Samba, and have tried a few different walkthroughs with no success. Can anyone point me in the right direction to get this set up?
Thanks for your time!
Well I tried the UI approach of right clicking the folder and going to share options, which is when I was prompted to install Samba, but there is warning that states "The permission for prevent othersl users from accessing this share". I did some digging on that error, and everything I came across basically said that wouldn't work. My next attempt was modifying the Samba config file, I added
[FolderName]path = (file directory path I see in properties, /media/username/lettersandnumbersfordrive?/FolderName)browseable = yes
read only = yes
guest ok = yes
create mask =0775
As instructed by a tutorial I found. When running testpram I don't get any errors, but I'm not seeing the folder in VLC like I do when sharing from Win10. That's as far as I have gotten. If there's anything else that I can provide please let me know, and on that note, the drive I'm sharing from is NTFS if that has any impact.
Thanks again!
Similar issue: serverfault.com/questions/5753…
Adding
[global]
map to guest = bad userto smb.conf and restart the service.
If that doesn't work there are a few other suggestions in the thread.
This is actually what I did. I never could get Samba working, so I setup Jellyfin and it's been a breeze ever since. What an amazing piece of software! I just wanted to access my files, but having them categorized with images, cast and crew, ratings, and even recommended is just fantastic. The Xbox app works fine but it's basically just a web wrapper, and the cursor never goes away which is mildly annoying, but it's still a way better experience than the VLC Xbox app.
Thanks for the help!
path = /home/user/Public
but I had to change it to
path = /home/user/Public/
You're path in your reply looks like it's missing that / at the end. After you update, don't forget to restart the service.
[theoretical] What would the real impacts of FOSS software becoming more prevalent in all segments of society?
Thumbing through the feed, the news on how this or that organization letting go of commercial options for day to day operations are mounting.
This led me to wonder what would be the impact if FOSS, be it on the OS front, productivity front or whatever, was to become truly a relevant option.
I'm painfully aware of the difficulties I've faced trying to take a few online courses to be faced with borderline desdain for not using Windows/Office/Etc and opting for FOSS solutions.
Paying/supporting a FOSS solution does not offend me. I'm happier when giving money directly to a developer or project than to an opaque company. But I'm just one.
But what could happen if the ones became millions, actively contributing with a few coins per year to projects we use daily?
What could/would happen in the short term (under a year), medium-long (one to three years) and the long term (over ten years)?
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From enduser perspective the most visible change would be that all software wouldn't be hostile to users because with propreitary you have to be very picky to get that.
In the long term we would see that companies could not build walled gardens to block off competition. Contrast Windows & MacOS vs Linux with its different distros, DEs, toolkits etc.
The least difference would be for enterprise because support is expensive either way.
The scalability problem with FOSS is monetary and motivation.
The successful products need longterm financial security in order to plan and support their peoduct(s) - so, do we start seeing more subscriptions as corp. sponsorship fades away?
And, just like XKCD 2347, FOSS needs to step up and support the components they rely on
That's going to need some more maturity from the developers too: it's a great feeling doing something new and interesting, but - like having a pet - you can't just abandon something when you're bored of it, or too busy, without rehoming your project(s)...
That's where I see the industry needs to improve before they're really ready for the big time.
One huge impact mass FOSS adoption would have is that there would be a lot less software and hardware churn. Commercial nature of proprietary technology is the main driver for constant upgrade cycles we see. Companies need to constantly sell products to stay in business, and this means you have to deprecate old software and hardware in order to sell new versions of the product.
Windows 11 roll out is a perfect example. Vast majority of Windows 10 users are perfectly happy with the way their computer works currently, they're not demanding any new features, they just want their computer to continue to work the way it does currently. However, Microsoft is ending support for Windows 10 and now they're forced to buy a new computer to keep doing what they've been doing.
This problem goes away entirely with open source because there is no commercial incentive at play. If a piece of software works, and there is a community of users using it, then it can keep working the way it does indefinitely. Furthermore, in cases where a software project goes in a directions some users don't like, such as the case with Gnome, then software can be forked by users who want to go in a different direction or preserve original functionality. This is how Cinnamon and Mate projects came about.
Another aspect of the open source dynamic is that there's an incentive to optimize software. So, you can get continuous performance improvements without having to constantly upgrade your hardware. For most commercial software, there's little incentive to do that since that costs company money. It's easier to just expect users to upgrade their hardware if they want better performance.
I would argue that non technical software users would be far better off if they had the option to fund open source software instead of buying commercial versions. Even having to pay equal amounts, the availability of the source puts more power in the hands of the users. For example, building on the example of Gnome, users of an existing software project could also pull funds together to pay developers to add features to the software or change functionality in a particular way.
This is precisely what makes licenses like GPL so valuable in my opinion. It's a license that ensure the source stays open, and in this way inherently gives more power to the users.
Northern Arizona resident dies from plague
A resident of northern Arizona has died from pneumonic plague, health officials said Friday.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/12/health/plague-death-arizona
'Unforgivable': FEMA Missed Thousands of Calls from Texas Flood Victims After Noem Fired Contractors
FEMA missed two-thirds of calls from Texas flood victims after DHS Sec. Kristi Noem allowed hundreds of call center employees to be fired. "They are intentionally breaking government," said Sen. Chris Murphy.
'Unforgivable': FEMA Missed Thousands of Calls from Texas Flood Victims After Noem Fired Contractors
"They are intentionally breaking government—even the parts that help us when we are deep in crisis," said Sen. Chris Murphy.stephen-prager (Common Dreams)
[Opinion] Firefox is fine. The people running it are not
Opinion: Mozilla's management is a bug, not a feature
Europe is slowly ditching Microsoft: why it's happening & why it could fail.
Europe is slowly ditching Microsoft: why it's happening & why it could fail.
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I wouldn't be so sure this time around.
The world is a big uncertainly and the force in Europe for digital sovereignty is something I never seen before.
The initiative to protect Europes boarders and data information is justified.
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It's different this time around.
The previous attempts were about freeing themselves from an abusive unprincipled data-hungry big data monopoly,
This attempt is about freeing themselves from an abusive unprincipled data-hungry big data monopoly operating in a fascist country and in cahoots with the regime.
I reckon it's serious this time.
Life long windows user. I switched to Arch
Fuck. That's like going straight from English breakfast tea to hash oil.
I've been using Linux almost exclusively both in my personal and professional life for a decade and a half. I only installed Arch a month or two ago.
The digital dependence on the US is much like the energy dependence on Russia.
Europe is ditching Russian energy. They may ditch US tech.
I don't know about the whole Europe but Spain is buying more energy from Russia than before the war and sanctions.
Don't get me wrong, I hope that would be the case but Europe is also Corporativist.
The European Union regulates the market so much it's hard to call it capitalism, the biggest european companies are basically EU projects like Airbus (every government funds it) or too big too fail like Siemens and/or they would use: "strategic industry" and be done with it.
Edit oh and I almost forgot it, or they are like Inditex, basically not European it's just an European getting rich while exploiting poor people all around the world, but I think this is actually capitalism and that guy isn't exactly appreciated by ruling dictator, I mean party, in Spain.
murciatoday.com/spain_is_now_t…
As they article points out it's all maskerading by the fact that they heavily increased the import in 2023 and now is "reduced"
Spain is now the second-largest importer of Russian gas in Europe
Spain Is Now The Second-largest Importer Of Russian Gas In Europe Keep up with the Latest News In English Murcia Costa Calida Spainmurciatoday.com
Thank you for the article. It brought up something quite interesting that i wasn't aware off before:
But why does Spain rely so heavily on Russia despite the almost global disapproval? The answer lies in this country’s extensive regasification capacity, which stands at 67.1 bcm - the largest in all of Europe. This enables Spain to receive LNG shipments on behalf of other countries that lack the necessary infrastructure, making it a critical hub for European energy trade.
looking a bit into it i found this article:
rbac.com/spains-role-as-a-natu…
So it seems that Spain is also taking the flak here for other EU countries that want to profit from Russian gas but not be directly associated with it.
Spain's Role as a Natural Gas Importer and Re-Exporter - RBAC Inc.
How Spain Uses Natural Gas Europe is one of the most important markets in terms of natural gas and is home to some of the largest consumers of the fuel in the world.Bradley Churchman (RBAC Inc.)
Sure but they are in Spanish. Murcia today is for the local brit community.
elmundo.es/economia/2023/12/01…
The same stuff over 200% increase in 2023 so others can say we dont buy stuff to Russia we buy it to Spain (who bought it to Russia). This source even points out the liquid gas that arrived by boat from Russia wasn't sanctioned.
As we say in Spain "hecha la ley, hecha la trampa"
larazon.es/economia/espana-com…
Says it decrease 25%, but it's 25% from that almost 200% in 2023.
España compra más gas ruso que americano en los últimos 12 meses
Tras Argelia, es el segundo proveedor desde enero de hace un año por el desplome del 32% de las compras a EE UUH. Montero (La Razón)
And now "La Sinrazón"🤦
You do know Marhuenda was the press chief of Rajoy, don't you?
Attacking the source instead of disproving the article.
You have hands, you can sources of your favorite side of the political spectrum, or ask an LLM.
But here are morejust because it's Saturday and I like the apple I am eating for breakfast and I am trying to make lemmy a better place than reddit: 20minutos.es/noticia/5168224/0…
theobjective.com/economia/ener…
20minutos.es/lainformacion/mer…
20minutos.es/noticia/5682026/0…
España ha pagado 8.900 millones de euros a Rusia por su gas desde que comenzó la guerra
El próximo 26 de febrero se cumplirán tres años de la invasión rusa de Ucrania. En medio de ese escenario, el Centro de Investigación sobre EnergíaJavier Leal (The Objective)
Bruselas defiende la legalidad del veto al gas ruso ante dudas de importadores como Naturgy y Repsol
It looks like the problem are the contracts. They could go faster breaking the contracts? Yes. But it's Naturgy and Repsol, both private, not the government. Or are you suggesting that the government has to do a take over of the energy enterprises? 😉
Bruselas defiende la legalidad del veto al gas ruso ante dudas de importadores como Naturgy y Repsol - Forbes España
Prohibirá importaciones en virtud de nuevos contratos desde el 1 de enero de 2026 y cortará por completo en 2027 BRUSELAS, 17 (EUROPA PRESS) La ComisiónForbes / EP (Forbes)
First you doubt the claim. Then you attack the source, now you find excuses.
Did they or didn't they increase almost 200% the acquisition of energy from Russia in 2023? Is the Russian Federation a major provider of gas and oil for Spain (and other European countries) or not?
If you notice I am here only to point the hypocrisy of Europe, which they undoubtedly are and Spain is no different.
I don't know if you work for a company with business in Russia, I did when this whole thing started and contracts didn't matter much when sanctions came but I guess we weren't big enough to make excuses.
You gave your sources and I gave you mine. And sadly I'm not working.
About the hypocrisy of the Union and the Spanish government, I know both have a truckload of it. But to each its own. The main problem are Naturgy and Repsol. And yes, the Spanish government should grow some balls and tell them to stop at one. But there aren't balls enough in this government to do the right thing.
[Some*] Europeans just can’t get over their Arab and Muslim-hate despite neither Qatar nor Saudi Arabia posing any threat to Europe and actually being good trading partners. No tariffs, no restrictions, no unfair competition. They adopt many European standards and are a huge market for European goods and services. Yet still the hate is constantly being peddled.
* hopefully a minority but the hate seems to be universal regardless of the political leaning.
Are they democracies? No. Do they respect human rights? Also no.
I don't care as much about them as I care about pointing out the hypocrisy of my people. I have a thing against islam but that has nothing to do with this conversation.
Hell, I'm in Silicon Valley here in California, and some of my friends are also jumping off the proprietary ship because those large firms are willing to work hand in hand with federal agencies.
If you've read the NSA document disclosures by Edward Snowden, it's apparent that there is an open door for data requests. The current administration isn't a huge fan of California's diversity, so we might as well minimize our chances of being targetted...
None of what you listed is a viable alternative for a myriad of reasons. Only GNU+Linux can replace Windows.
- Android: a mobile OS first and foremost with very limited usability as a general purpose desktop operating system.
- MacOS: hardware from one vendor only.
- *BSD: more niche with even lesser support than GNU+Linux.
What's wrong with going back to pen and (e-)paper for office? My point is, if you are going to post something in the community, the word "linux" shall at least be in the title.
Good title example: Europe is slowly ditching Microsoft for Linux
It's nobody's fucking business when someone ditching Microsoft, then adopt BSD, Solaris whatnot. What matters to this community is someone adopting or ditching Linux, or they do something remotely related to it.
I don't. This is how it looks like on my Voyager.
Point is (again), it takes zero effort to cross post a video or article here. Windows is historically having a high market share ratio, and people are migrating to Linux nowadays. That's good news to the Linux world. Even someone merely mentioning ditching Windows has an implication of adopting Linux instead.
But what if more and more posts implying this by only mentioning how bad Windows is? Is this a community for Windows circlejerk, or do we share informative stuff that's directly related to Linux? How about we share more article about how great Linux is (or can be), instead of how bad the competitors are becoming?
Agree on the Linux. You do not need the GNU though.
Chimera Linux is based in Spain. Maybe use that.
Actually, most of them already do have deals for a limited time. Skype is still available; they needed a new contract since teams does not work without communicating with Microsoft.
OTOH most things they do is via webclient.
If Microsoft was to release a mandatory update that has a single thing that required it to communicate with the organization, by law the whole governmental EU would not be able to use it.
And at the same time we have the Jugendmedienstaatsvertrag in Germany (and with Germany as a strong force in the EU most likely everywhere in the EU soon) that will make all operating systems without fully integrated age restrictions illegal
heise.de/en/news/Minors-protec…
Manufacturers of operating systems must then
ensure that "only apps that correspond to the
age specification or that have been individually
and securely activated can be used". The
installation of programs should only be possible
via distribution platforms such as app stores
that take the age rating into account and have
an automated rating system recognized by the
Commission for the Protection of Minors in the
Media (KJM).
This part of the law alone is impossible to implement on a open platform like Linux.
Minors' protection: State leaders mandate filters for operating systems
According to the revised Interstate Treaty on the Protection of Minors in the Media, operating systems must soon ensure they include a "youth protection device".Stefan Krempl (heise online)
This part of the law alone is impossible to implement on a open platform like Linux.
What makes you think they won't simply make it illegal to use linux?
To make something illegal by law it is needed to have a valid reason for that law to exist.
This is the case at least in every jurisdiction that has a somewhat functional separation of powers.
Due to this can't just make it illegal to use Linux, but with a Law like the Jugendmedienstaatsvertrag it comes as a free bonus.
Since it is impossible to implement on Linux, it may just be flagged as adult-only software.
But, there is still hope. What if Snaps and Flatpaks get properly flagged, allowing Ubuntu and/or Fedora to be legal?
So it is already possible in Windows.
I mean it's impossible on all computers.
Windows should ensure you can only use app-store and make it impossible to install an exe from online as example
MacOS even funnier. If I save a bash script I found online mac is supposed to refuse, unless I am using a vpn that is!
I don't think they will prohibit side loading. This will cause serious issues to developers, and other professionals.
Like, I cannot use the X tool from Github, just because the Y developer refuses to publish it in an organized store?
Since it is impossible to implement on Linux, it
may just be flagged as adult-only software.
This would render Linux unfit for use in Schools, Public Libraries, Youth Centers and other places where Children and Teenagers have access to PCs.
It is, in addition to that, possible that internal regulation of government offices prohibit the use of adult software. Not sure about it, but it would IMHO fit the mindset of bureaucrats
It is in ratification, and will (most likely) become binding law by 1st of December 2025 in Germany
German link:
rundfunkkommission.rlp.de/rund…
I think that if Linux is to be more widely adopted a more easily used distro needs to become mainstream. Let's face it, the average computer user barely knows how to use Windows, just because you find Linux easy doesn't mean they will.
Do you think you could teach Linux to your grandmother?
Do you think you could teach Linux to your grandmother?
Yes. Set automatic package updates, Install firefox with ublock and put it on the taskbar, and bookmark Facebook and Youtube for her. It is the same thing as under Windows.
I would argue that for the most "tech illiterate" users the Linux experience can be made even easier than the windows experience, because you have to set up everything for them anyways.
Completely "tech illiterate" broser-only users are fine. It gets difficult once they happen to actually want to do something.
I have an older relative in that boat, and she was doing fine until she wanted to install some VPN to access foreign Netflix libraries. That was more difficult. Especially because she already paid for the service and that service didn't support her distro, thus there was no guide on how to use it.
Do you think you could teach Linux to your grandmother?
My 50+ yo mother uses Linux Mint daily with fewer problems that when she used Windows. Her crowning achievement in IT is learning how to use email.
I helped my 93 yo friend switch from Windows 10 to Linux 2 years ago. He called me 3 times in the first 2 weeks to ask how to do something, but hasn't had a single problem since that's related to the OS.
Linux Mint, Bazzite, Fedora, and several other Linux distros are already easier to use than Windows. The only thing holding most people back is fear of change.
There are some people who have specific setups in Windows or a large number of "Windows only" apps, but these people are in the minority. The average person can't even tell you which operating system they're currently using, and wouldn't notice the difference if you swapped the OS but kept the same web browser.
Actually, my mother knew how to use Debian before she could use Windows. Her first pc came with Windows XP, switched that for Debian as its been my main OS since 2000.
Yes, you can teach your grandmother to use Linux.
My mother, 80 years old, uses Linux Mint.
It is a myth that Windows is easier to use than Windows. It is just what you know and it came with your computer.
We already have those. Arguably Windows is much more of a hassle to use than your average "works out of the box" distro. And don't start talking about the terminal, that's comparing apples and organges. A more apt comparison to the need of using the terminal on Linux is the need to apply registry tweaks or use powershell on Windows. As if "average users" would need to do that. They install software via the "app store", change settings via the GUI and run updates when prompted, all of which are seamless on most of these distros. If something breaks, they can't fix it themselves, but then they just go to someone else to help them, just like on Windows, which they also can't fix by themselves. Maybe they manage to reinstall, which isn't any harder than on Windows, if not easier these days.
The group you're actually talking about (and likely belong to) are the Windows power-users that would need to rethink things, and would be capable of rethinking things, if they wanted, which they don't. I know some of these people myself, complaining all day about Microsoft and the privacy nightmare that they put in huge effort to mitigate, but sadly they absolutely need to rely on this one "critical" piece of freeware from the 2000s that they are sure won't run on wine (not that they've tried) or a cracked copy of Photoshop they use for cropping and changing the brightness of desktop backgrounds, but it's the industry leader, so they obviously won't use "inferior" software for that, face the facts Linux users. They think package managers are much harder than downloading and clicking through Setup.exe for the 100th time in a row, and they've had this one bad experience with "rm -rf /" 10 years ago which is why they don't "trust" the terminal, yet routinely double-click on downloaded .bat files without thought. 🤷
I can't wait until Lemmy's Peertube integration is released ^[1]^. Then, iiuc, this comment section should be able to happen directly on The Linux Experiment's videos within Lemmy.
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1. Type: Comment. Author: "Nutomic". Publisher: [Type: Post. Title: "Better federation for Peertube content". Author: "Kalcifer" ("K4LCIFER"). Publisher: ["GitHub". "LemmyNet/lemmy".]. Published: 2023-08-06T21:41:29.000Z. URI: github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issu….]. Published: 2025-03-27T08:28:52.000Z. Accessed: 2025-07-11T00:59Z. URI: github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issu….
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[…] I hope it’s really coming🤞
A change regarding Peertube federation with Lemmy certainly does appear to be coming in Lemmy 1.0 ^[1]^, but it's currently unknown to me if it does actually fix the issue.
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1. Type: Comment. Author: "Nutomic". Publisher: [Type: Post. Title: "Better federation for Peertube content". Author: "Kalcifer" ("K4LCIFER"). Publisher: ["GitHub". "LemmyNet/lemmy".]. Published: 2023-08-06T21:41:29.000Z. URI: github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issu….]. Published: 2025-03-27T08:28:52.000Z. Accessed: 2025-07-14T06:03Z. URI: github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issu….
- > #5509 fixes this, it will be released as part of Lemmy 1.0
- This is referring to code that was pushed to the repository that allegedly fixes the issue with Peertube federation.
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I will believe it when I see it for China. They will probably just keep pirating Windows.
India is at something like 15% Linux though and probably going up.
Kylin Linux to replace WIndows in China - news
Homegrown OS Kylin Linux is gaining prominence in China as the final 20% of Windows used by Chinese government is retired.Dashveenjit Kaur (TechHQ)
Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Electra 10E May Have Been Found Under The Waters Of This Uninhabited Island
The university where Amelia Earhart taught is going to find out if her legendary plane is sitting at the bottom of the ocean near her likely final resting place.
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