Former magistrate, 81, faces six months in jail for Palestine Action vigil
Former magistrate, 81, faces six months in jail for Palestine Action vigil
Cornish pensioner arrested at Truro cathedral falls foul of government’s labelling of direct action group as a terrorist organisationJon Ungoed-Thomas (The Observer)
Podolyaka: Trump struck the stock exchanges with nuclear submarines — and nothing more
Podolyaka: Trump struck the stock exchanges with nuclear submarines — and nothing more: EADaily
EADaily, August 2nd, 2025. The statement by US President Donald Trump about the redeployment of two nuclear submarines, which is now being replicated by the world's media, is a provocation by a stock swindler who uses his position for personal enrich…EADaily
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Turkey has launched the supply of Azerbaijani gas to Syria, – TRT Haber
Turkey has launched the supply of Azerbaijani gas to Syria, - TRT Haber
The gas connection from Kilis to Aleppo was completed in May. Up to 6 million cubic meters of Azerbaijani gas will be supplied to Syria through Turkey every day.newsmaker newsmaker (English News front)
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not often talked about is the illegal Turkish occupation and effective annexation of Northern Syria.. This is basically Turkey and other comprador states seizing the $$$ opportunity in the midst of sanctions against Russia and Iran from the West while also muzzling Syria and putting it on an economic leash, so to speak.
more details on this in particular that I found insightful: turkey.news-pravda.com/en/worl…
what's funny/sad is that Syria's effectively a comprador state, the West finally got what they wanted and despite this, sanctions haven't vanished. So they rely on scraps like these.
Azerbaijan's New Geopolitical Weapon? Launching Gas Exports to Syria
On August 2, 2025, a solemn ceremony was held in the Turkish city of Kilis to mark the beginning of the supply of Azerbaijani gas to Syria through the territory of Turkey. At the first stage of the project, it is planned to...Pravda Turkey
After Ukraine, is this country the West’s next project?
After Ukraine, is this country the West’s next project?
Moldova – one of the most volatile countries in the post-Soviet space – now risks becoming Europe’s next front lineRT
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‘No defense against’ Russia’s Oreshnik missile – ex-Pentagon analyst
‘No defense against’ Russia’s Oreshnik missile – ex-Pentagon analyst
The new weapon could shift the balance of power in favor of Moscow, Michael Maloof has told RTRT
two PMOS installs with LUKS
So I'm trying to setup peppermint os , I have two disks and I want them both to have full disk encryption. After a couple of reinstalls using different approaches, searches and llm questions , still can't get it to work.
First boot gets to encryption of SDA (I believe) , then to grub menu and I'm able to load the first one.
Managed to get new entries but then I get: server error you need to load the kernel first.
I believe both installs are fine and that it is a LUKS thing. UEFI, disabled secure boot.
Sda1 EFI
Sda2 root
Sdb1 EFI
Sdb2 root
Maybe EFI should only be on one of them?
SoundHound’s Conversational AI Talking in Cars Across North America | auto connected car news
SoundHound’s Conversational AI Talking in Cars Across North America | auto connected car news
SoundHound AI, Inc., a California-based innovator in voice artificial intelligence, has quietly accelerated the future of in-car communication.Bryan Johnston (auto connected car news)
I Will Take 'Crony-Capitalism' For 500
Trump is building a new $200 million ballroom at the White House
Construction on the project will start in September.Hannah Demissie (ABC News)
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Police in German state to use controversial software by Palantir | dpa international
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/45358033
Police in the south-western German state of Baden-Württemberg are to be allowed to use the analysis software from US firm Palantir, which is controversial among data protection advocatesThe software was specifically developed for security agencies and is used by intelligence services, the military and police.
Palantir was founded in 2003 in the United States, notably by tech billionaire Peter Thiel. He is known for his libertarian and conservative positions, his closeness to US President Donald Trump and his criticism of liberal democracies.
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I guess they’d argue that none of those pesky little data protection laws apply to competent authorities like the police and they’re probably justifying it with the criminal prosecution clause.
Great.
I stand with Israel
Whether or not an ethnostate is good depends on the ethnicity of the people of the ethnostate.
(/s, it is POV of a racist)
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The American civil war was about states rights (states right to white supremacy)
Our new government['s]...foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests upon the great truth, that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery—subordination to the superior race—is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.
States rights people hate it when pointing out slavery was enshrined in the state constitutions as a requirement for being part of the confederacy.
Or when showing the south was pushing the north to ignore their states rights by forcing them to only follow southern slavery laws
this is rather dumb considering Israel is more ethnically diverse than any of it's neighbors
73.2% (about 7,208,000 people) are Jews, including about 503,000 living outside the self-defined borders of the State of Israel in the West Bank
21.1% (around 2,080,000 people) are Israeli citizens classified as Arab, some identifying as Palestinian, and including Druze, Circassians, all other Muslims, Christian Arabs, Armenians (which Israel considers "Arab")
[2] An additional 5.7% (roughly 554,000 people) are classified as "others". This diverse group comprises those with Jewish ancestry but not recognized as Jewish by religious law, non-Jewish family members of Jewish immigrants, Christians other than Arabs and Armenians, and residents without a distinct ethnic or religious categorization.[2][1]
In a 2012 ruling by the Supreme Court on the issue, some of the judges on the panel discussed demography, and were inclined to accept that demography is a legitimate consideration in devising family reunification policies that violate the right to family life.Those in favor of the law say the law not only limits the possibility of the entrance of terrorists into Israel, but, as Ze'ev Boim asserts, allows Israel "to maintain the state's democratic nature, but also its Jewish nature" (i. e., its Jewish demographic majority).
Ethnically diverse? Motherfucker, they're all kinds of WHITE EUROPEANS. It occupies Palestine with that in mind, using religion to hide behind it and justify it.
The other 30 percent were either kidnapped children from various operations (with the help of the West) that grew up to be dogs of the Euroanglo-zionazis and become Zionazis themselves or straight up opportunist compradors from all around the world. Oh and to top it off, they sterilize them no matter how much they try to be a good dog, because they're not white enough.
That's not diversity, that's a settler-colonial ethnostate playing population control, trying to get just enough brown to justify their occupation to the public, but not too much to maintain Pan-Europa whiteness.
considering Israel is more ethnically diverse
Apartheid South Africa was ethnically diverse...... Still an ethno-state.
Ethno-states aren't defined as lacking diversity, they are defined by an ethnic creating and maintaining a dominant hierarchy of that diversity.
It's because he's attempting to utilize the fact that America was and potentially still is an ethno-state to lessen the culpability of the Israeli ethno-state.
While modern America uses systemic racism to establish an ethnic hierarchy, unlike Israel it doesn't expressly by law prohibit the movement or upward mobility of different ethnicities. Even if it did, that fact would not lessen the culpability of another state doing the same.
Context and nuance is important.
it started inthe 70's and passed all the ratification hurdles in 2020; that's how long people have been trying to push for it and proves how little things change within the american system.
in typical democrat fashion, biden made much ado about ratifying it, but without supporting it against the technical hangups so that it would die on its own and doing so paved the way for project 2025.
the democrats kept control of the house for the entirety of biden's tenure as president while they had control of the senate for half of it and the aca fell apart anyways despite the democrats having a majority .... again.
no one expects the republicans to follow through on welfare programs, so it's silly to hold them to account on it on something like the equal rights amendment; the democrats do claim to care and that's why we expect progress from them.
maybe your expectations for Republicans are too low
i almost forgot why i had instance blocked .ml on my lemm.ee account and neglected to do so on my piefed account. my bad. i keep getting reminded what a waste of time it is to talk to tankie chuds.
Trump orders US nuclear subs repositioned over statements from ex-Russian leader Medvedev
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Good job Mr president. Now you've helped Russia with a few things.
- If they know where the sub's are, they now know if you lie or tell the truth about the sub's.
- If they didn't know where the sub's are, they now know where they probably weren't, and where they may be going
- In either case, they know you've fucked with their patrol routes, which may give them yet another advantage with finding them; or seeing how you influence their routes
How can ufw do me like that?
EDIT: Thanks for the help guys!
Something strange happened just now, im trying to figure out how exactly did it happen. On my server I was suddely able to bypass my VPN! I looked around what did happened and found that my VPN service had sent me an email that my subscription expired. What is strange is that I have ufw rules like
To Action From
[VPN server] ALLOW OUT Anywhere
Anywhere ALLOW OUT Anywhere on tun0So it should be not allowed to access the internet outside of tun0. Why exactly did it happen? Does the VPN service change iptables or something? Any ideas? I was able to ping, wget, even surf on w3m. The thing is that when I rebooted the server, nothing could connect outside the tunnel, as it should be. Here is the whole ufw table.
Status: active
Logging: on (low)
Default: deny (incoming), deny (outgoing), disabled (routed)
New profiles: skip
To Action From
-- ------ ----
22/tcp ALLOW IN 192.168.1.0/24
53 ALLOW IN 192.168.1.0/24
80 ALLOW IN 192.168.1.0/24
9091 ALLOW IN 192.168.1.0/24 # Transmission
2049 ALLOW IN 192.168.1.0/24 # nfs
[VPN server] ALLOW OUT Anywhere
Anywhere ALLOW OUT Anywhere on tun0
192.168.2.77 22 ALLOW OUT Anywhere
2049 ALLOW OUT Anywhere # nfsSo how in the world did my VPN company do something to bypass my ufw??? Or was it something else completely?
TIA
DIY cyborg (Nerdforge)
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/50536830
DIY cyborg rule (Nerdforge)
- YouTube
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
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GitHub - kefir500/apk-editor-studio: Powerful yet easy to use APK editor for PC and Mac.
Powerful yet easy to use APK editor for PC and Mac. - kefir500/apk-editor-studioGitHub
People have mentioned NextDNS (just a DNS setting) and TrackerControl (connects as a VPN on android/grapheneos)
I can mention also DNSNet (which actually also uses a VPN) and PCAPdroid
There are other options, with more features. Lists exist online
Hamas Wants Gaza to Starve [Please first read, then comment]
By Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib
E: Please read the article before commenting.
Hamas Wants Gaza to Starve
Starvation only helps Hamas end the war in a way that advances its aims.Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib (The Atlantic)
The article says that Hamas wants Israel to starve Gazans, it doesn't say that Israel doesn't starve Gazans.
It literally says Israel uses hunger as weapon (against Hamas and against –or at least not caring about– civilians): "Hamas has benefited from Israel’s decision to use food as a lever against the terror group, because the catastrophic conditions for civilians have generated an international outcry, which is worsening Israel’s global standing and forcing it to reverse course."
E: You partly approve the article yourself and I'm aware of the fact it's Israel committing the genocide.
Not I nor the article have said that Israel isn't committing genocide. The only thing said is that Hamas profits by it and that Gazans are furious about looters and the Hamas. I don't understand why so many people downvote this, claim I would be paid, claim I would deny the genocide or write 6 comments where 1 would be enough, if not you want to deny Hamas is a terrorist organization which only cares about its own survival.
So why did Hamas agree to a ceasefire in March which Israel broke?
Why is Hamas bending over to accept ceasefire conditions? You are spreading Zionist blood libel and genocide propaganda.
Israeli author David Grossman says his country is committing genocide in Gaza
Israeli author David Grossman says his country is committing genocide in Gaza
Writer says for many years he has refused to use word but now must ‘with immense pain and with a broken heart’Lorenzo Tondo (The Guardian)
France suspends Gaza evacuations over antisemitic posts by Palestinian student
France suspends Gaza evacuations over antisemitic posts by Palestinian student
French authorities have halted evacuations from Gaza after a Palestinian student, Nour A., was found to be under investigation for antisemitic content on social media.Sophia Khatsenkova (Euronews.com)
How Did Hunger Get So Much Worse in Gaza?
How Did Hunger Get So Much Worse in Gaza?
Less food is going into Gaza now than during most other times in the war. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed while heading toward aid sites.Aaron Boxerman (The New York Times)
Arab States Call for Hamas to Disarm Amid Push for a Palestinian State
Protesters demand release of draftees in Vinnytsia, break into detention facility
Protesters demand release of draftees in Vinnytsia, break into detention facility
The online newspaper Ukrainska Pravda reported that hundreds of protesters joined the rally, while police put the number at 80. The police then arrested some of the demonstrators.Kateryna Denisova (The Kyiv Independent)
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multi boot - Hibernating and booting into another System or Distribution: will my filesystems be corrupted?
Short answer is: yes, as soon as more than one OS mounts a file system in read-write mode.
The kernel of a modern OS (I am generously including Windows here) caches file system data structures in memory. When you hibernate the computer, the content of that memory is written into a large file because that speeds-up a later restart.
Now, if you boot up another OS, and modify these partitions (without mounting them read-only), you alter the file systems data structures. That happens already when you view folders because this modifies access times stored in the inodes.
When you now shut down the second OS, and resume the first OS, the restarted kernel will have and use cached file system metadata which id loaded from the image into the kernel, that does not match that of the files on disk. And this causes file system corruption by definition.
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No, I mean hibernate, with the PC turned off. In sleep state, you return to the running kernel/OS, so no possibility to boot into another distro, therefore no risk of filesystem damage.
The crucial thing is that file systems need to be unmounted before they can be accessed by another distribution or OS.
see
askubuntu.com/questions/55527/…
Dual boot and sleep/hibernate issues?
I set up a dual boot before, but I've never thought about how or if putting a laptop to sleep or hibernate will affect grub or the OSes. For example, if I dual boot windows 7 and ubuntu, then use w...Ask Ubuntu
Changes according to the new UK, USA, EU laws?
So, im kinda curious ~~(preocupied)~~, regarding how is the feddi-verse standing in regards to this new threath to freedoms and privacy in general. To the point in which some of us are seriously considering leaving the "clear" net altogether in favor of freenet, tor (even if already kinda compromised by the feds), etc.
So... what now?
Ik, but even then is better than having' no privacy at all. I got kicked from my first university for participating in protests regarding the "grape" of a student by a faculty member, i was one of the unlucky ones selected to be "examples", hell its even a law now that all protest are illegal and reason to inmediate expulsion.
So yeah, liberty and privacy, nothing less.
Changing GTK theme vis Gnome Tweaks
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Running a business/working in 2025
How do I make money - self-employed - without using corporate social media?
I was coasting along on an extremely minimal income and I embraced an ethical position of using only privacy-compatible technology.
I subsequently had a wonderful little person come into my life who has made me want to have more material capability & flexilibilty. And so I have turned to trying to sell my skills again.
By refusing to use to use corporate social media to promote my services, I am handicapping myself in getting work.
I also struggle to bring myself to cooperate with powers which are working to undermine my child's opportunity to have a good life.
Would appreciate your thoughts
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First, congratulations on the new family member.
Not knowing exactly the nature of your entrepreneurial skills, I have found good success with meet n' greet, press the flesh as it were. Some businesses need a lot of advertising, some don't need any. Join your local Chamber of Commerce or Business Association. Keep your ears open. Treat every interaction as an opportunity to grow your business.
For example, I am getting along in years so farming 20 acres got to be a bit much for one old guy. I started leasing acreage to other local farmers mainly for growing silage. I was at one of our local farmer's market one day and by chance overheard/eavesdropped a conversation a small group was having. They were talking about looking for small plots of land that they could all go in on together and have a communal garden. You help with the labor, you get a share of the grow type of thing.
So I approached them and listened to them talk and suggested that I may have the solution they were looking for. Long story short, I now have four, one acre plots that I lease to locals for their communal gardens. I provide the pipe stand for a water supply with bib to split off different watering troughs and I plow the plot for you. All you have to do is work the soil, grow your veggies, and profit.
So basically now, I have positive cash flow with moderate to minimal work. I still maintain a one acre plot for my personal grow but in all honesty it's far to much for just one person to eat. I usually donate most of that to local food banks in town. Which is another good thought to keep in mind. We all get help along the way in life. No one is self made. Pay it forward. Give something back to the community local to you.
How do i set up arch linux, with another distro already installed, without wiping the disk?
Games no longer launching with same gamescope command
Cross-posted from "Games no longer launching with same gamescope command" by @Blxter@lemmy.zip in !linux_gaming@lemmy.world
My normal command is
gamescope -f -W 2560 -H 1440 -r 144 --force-grab-cursor --mangoapp -- %command%and games would work just fine. as of yesterday or so games would no longer launch no matter the game. If I remove gamescope it launches fine. I would Like to keep using gamescope but I did some research and apparently there used to be problems with NVIDIA and gamescope. I have used gamescope for many many games with no issues till now
I originally tried on my Endeavour OS install that I have been using for some time but then since I have been meaning to try out cachyos I then tried same thing there and it still does not work with gamescope. I have looked through the proton logs but if im being honest no idea what im looking for. Any help would be appreciated 😀
- GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
- NVIDIA driver 575.64.05
- OS: CachyOS x86_64
Edit: pastebin for steam + games
pastebin.com/4Rs7mHhi
opening Mass effect
pastebin.com/0NuUr6qd
Stop resisting
[happy character pointing at a painting of a french resistance fighter holding a molotov cocktail]
Freedom fighters!
Those people were heroes for fighting against oppression
[angry character shoving their smartphone in our face with a picture of a palestinian holding a rock]
Evil terrorists!
Those people are monsters for fighting against oppression
thebad.website/comic/stop_resi…
bsky.app/profile/thebad.websit…
Here another helpful solution for people who want to evaluate and compare different Linux distributions: GNOME Boxes, a software to easily create virtual machines
.... virtual machines where you only have to select which accompanying image of Arch / Tumbleweed / Ubuntu / Fedora you want to try.
In addition, the combination of a very stable base system (say, Debian or SuSE Leap) with a fast-moving, bleeading edge virtualized system (say, SuSE Tumbleweed, Arch or Guix) on top can be surprisingly useful. And because small virtual machines, when not running, are nothing else than files on your computer, you can have many versions of them, alter things, try stuff out, then delete it and go back to the tidy original state.
Boxes – Apps for GNOME
Virtualization made simple – Select an operating system and let Boxes download and install it for you in a virtual machine. Features: Download freely available operating systemsAutomatically install CentOS Str...apps.gnome.org
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Keep our Apple data encrypted
Keep our Apple data encrypted
It is reported that the Home Office has ordered Apple to build a backdoor into its encrypted services so that they can get hold of content that any Apple user has upload to the cloud. Encryption keeps our private information safe and secure.38 Degrees
FWIW the transition is :
- rely on OS default hosting, e.g iCloud
- disable iCloud and use another "cloud" provider
- self-host as cloud provider
- give up on Apple devices entirely, and go on to remove any other device that tries to do so
- enjoy, help others to do the same
La chiesa favolosamente ornata in grado d'incarnare il sincretismo della religione armena - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
La chiesa favolosamente ornata in grado d'incarnare il sincretismo della religione armena - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Oltre l’alto portale in pietra, il visitatore viene trasportato in un piano d’esistenza memorabile, dove ogni scorcio dello sguardo incontra e viene incentivato ad assorbire il sacro.Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
Russia launches 6,400 drones, missiles into Ukraine in record-breaking month
Russia launches 6,400 drones, missiles into Ukraine in record-breaking month
The scale of Russia's nightly strikes has been steadily increasing.David Brennan (ABC News)
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NixOS, ProxMox, Debian or Ubuntu for Docker installation
Sorry.
I know that this or a similar question has been asked many times, and trying to find a decent answer i get redirected to reddit and blocked because of my VPN.
I am looking for the preferred version of the above OS's for installing Docker based on easiness and stability/reliability once installed.
Is there such a distro as DockerOS or a Distro with Docker preinstalled?
I thought I read something like that last year when I was threatening to pull my finger out the first time and get something up and running, but now I am not sure whether or not I have imagined it.
TIA
Are you going to dedicate an entire machine to this?
First, you can run Docker on any distro. Although Debian is great, the version of Docker in the repos is not. So, for Debian, you are going to want to download and install Docker from Docker. Docker is a company.
There is also Podman. This is a competitor to Docker written by Red Hat. It has some technical advantages. I use Podman myself. The command line is basically the same. They host the same containers (OCI images).
If you are going to run a lot of images on a single machine, management can get complicated. many people like Portainer for that.
thenewstack.io/an-introduction…
However, if you are going to dedicate a machine, I recommend Proxmox.
Proxmox takes over the hardware. It runs a hypervisor that lets you deploy virtual machines and containers easily. It gives you a great web-based UI to manage everything. Technically, it runs on Debian but you do not even need to know that. It deploys as on OS.
Proxmox actually has nothing to do with Docker. It allows you to deploy virtual machines (eg. Full Linux distributions or even Windows or other operating systems). It also allows you to create containers. However the container technology is not Docker but actually LXC.
When you deploy an LXC container in Proxmox, it is like launching a Linux VM. You get a full Linux distro that looks like a virtual machine and that shows up on your network like a full computer. But, it shares the kernel with Proxmox and so is incredibly light and resource efficient.
You can connect to Proxmox via a web browser and see any of your virtual machine or container desktops in your web browser (even if just command line).
Proxmox itself is always online. But you can start and stop individual machines (vm or container) whenever you want.
You really cannot appreciate how powerful all this is until you try it.
So, how does this help you run Docker?
Well, for many things, you may actually find it easier to just use a VM or LXC to install and run whatever it is you want. For many applications, I find it easier to manage a Linux distro than a Docker container.
Or, you create a VM or an LXC and run Docker inside of it. You can even run Portainer. You can run many Docker containers in a single VM. Or, create a new VM or LXC if that makes things easier.
But it is so much easier to manage in Proxmox.
For example, I run a Debian LXC container to run PiHole as an ad blocker on my network. It is super lightweight and I launched it by running a script like they suggest on the PiHole website. And I created a VM (with its own virtual disk for storage) to run Immich (photo management). Even though I run Immich with Docker compose, it is just nicer and easier to manage when it is the only thing running on the “machine” (a QEMU VM in Proxmox) with its own filesystem. I can pull up the Immich machine whenever I want and I am at the command-line where the last command was the the Docker up that I ran months ago). Same story for Jellyfin.
Do you also want a NAS? You can run one under Proxmox. But another thing to consider would be running TrueNAS as a NAS and using its built-in Docker support to run your containers.
truenas.com/truenas-community-…
TrueNAS Community Edition | Free Open Source Storage
TrueNAS Community Edition is the world's most deployed storage software. Free, flexible and build on OpenZFS with Docker.Ladislav Sirový (TrueNAS Open Enterprise Storage)
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Proxmox it is so.
I was going with NixOS and definitely going to try Podman as I've been reading all about that while downloading and copying the Isos. I will be dedicating an entire machine and if I don't do it today, I fear it will be another year before I come back to it. 🥴
I'm going to start it now . Thanks again.
Hopefully I'll have a few hours to myself after dinner.
One of my favourite things about having Proxmox on my network is how fast and easy it is to try out new distros.
I still haven’t kicked the tires on NixOS though.
What level of involvement are you looking for in setting up the host os?
I'm a NixOS fan because once you painstakingly get the configuration file set up you basically never need to do it again. If you don't need anything outside of nixpkgs it's easy, otherwise it's terrible. Docker is available in nixpkgs.
The impossibility of banning encrypted communication?
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Do you really think that they still are monitoring an paleolitic, forgotten since almost 50 years (1971), pre-internet command line protocol, like Finger, transmitted with a Ping not even over web? They have enough with monitoring high tech steganographic encrypted chats and socialnet, I2P and TOR network. It's something like a knock on the door, asking if someone is at home, serve for short text messages Often the best hideout is a plain sight,
Type in your command line
finger zerush@happynetbox.com
Linux on a 2014 macbook air?
A friend of mine has an old macbook air. It still works, more or less, but the OS isn't getting any updates anymore, and updating to the latest OS seems dicey.
Has anyone had experience installing linux on an old macbook? From a quick internet search it looks like you can just make a bootable USB and have at it. Thinking mint because it's popular and my friend is a pretty basic user. The laptop will be mostly used for like youtube/netflix and basic web browsing.
Edit: a little extra context: I am moderately comfortable with Linux. I ran mint for a while on my desktop, and I've done software development for a job. I can install docker and start a python project fine, but I'd use a GUI for like partitioning a hard drive.
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Try some debian or antix they go well with older stuff. I have a old 2015 laptop. I run gnome debian 12. Ran antix prior. Its pretty solid.
The installers come with gui partition stuff so don't worry.
Update: installed mint. Seems work. Had a problem where it couldn't see the HD. Had to change an option in grub
Pasting what I found online to fix it:
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thank you so much! what was the solution!
for anyone might read this in the future: in the bootmenu where u can select which version of linux u wanna boot u can press "e" and then u need to add intel_iommu=off at the end of the line of the "linux" row - i had some double dashes at the end for me it did the job when I add them before the double dashes.
Then I could see the harddrive and install mint mate on my old macbook air
also needed later on to set the parameter permantent by opening a terminal and used this command
sudo nano /etc/default/grub
edited this line like this: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash intel_iommu=off"
then save and exit nano and this command for updating the boot thingy
sudo update-grub
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Best game engine to start with as a beginner to gamedev and linux?
Hi, game developer here.
If you're just starting out, Unity is a bit more mature and established - and it works fine on Linux. There are also quite a few resources for getting started that apply to the current version out there (E.g. It isn't rapidly changing too much at the moment for someone just starting out). It also has the best mobile support of any engine out there, so if you want to test your game on a phone that's your best bet.
Godot is popular among hobbyists, and could be a fun start, but I don't know of any serious games being made in it yet (having said that, I know quite a few folk who are currently evaluating it, so maybe in a few years).
But, really, my recommendation is to focus on learning a programming language first. Figure out the ins and outs of basic C#, then start learning about an engine that utilizes it.
I'm only saying this because it sounds like you're looking into how to build games, not just one specific role of the process: if that's the case, starting with some basic C# tutorials/classes would help a lot.
Once you know the be basics it will be much simpler to work with an established Engine, and jumping from one to another will also have less friction.
Finally, remember that scratch is a good tool to learn about how to program. If you're feeling like you've mastered it, now is a great time to move on to a proper programming language.
AMOLED Linux?
I havent used Ubuntu in a long time but im guessing its a similar process to Debian. Open terminal and type
sudo apt install gnome-tweakssudo apt install gnome-shell-extensions
sudo apt install gnome-shell-extension-manager
Go into the extension manager. Click browse and search for and get blur my shell, and User Themes. Go to gnome-look.org and go to the gnome shell section and find a theme you like. Place it in the /.themes folder (located in Home create this folder if needed), then click the gear next to User Themes and select the theme you added.
Make sure you get a gnome theme that is made for your current version of gnome or itll look janky. Blur my shell will take your desktop background and fill in some of the dead space with that. There are other nice extensions too. Lock screen Background, AppIndicator and KstatusNotifierItem Support, Caffeine, Weather O'Clock, are some i use.
Mess around with it a bit and get a feel for it is my suggestion. It should be easily reversible so dont be afraid to try stuff out. (You can turn extensions on/off with a click)
Mac OS brew librewolf deprecated?
I reinstalled Librewolf via brew on my Mac and got this message:
Warning: librewolf has been deprecated! It will be disabled on 2026-09-01.
Any idea what's happening there?
Would love to have another way to use Librewolf on Mac OS btw... it has to be reinstalled regularly with "brew reinstall librewolf --no-quarantine" because the installation "is broken". Very annoying, but I love Librewolf!
brew install --no-quarantine.
Should the Ghidra cask be removed due to quarantine issues?
Verification This issue's title and/or description do not reference a single formula e.g. brew install wget. If they do, open an issue at https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/new/choose...matt-phylum (GitHub)
How to test Wayland from a live USB? (Ubuntu/Kubuntu)
Does anyone know how to test a Wayland session with a Kubuntu 24.04 live USB? I'm testing it out now, but I see that it's using an X11 session. I'd like to test how the laptop would work under Wayland instead, before installing Kubuntu or Ubuntu for good.
Some web search lead to this post, which gives quite involved instructions but it's from 2020. Hopefully it's more straightforward now?
Cheers!
Try Wayland on 20.04 live USB
I want to try out Wayland from a live USB session of 20.04.1. I tried the steps in https://askubuntu.com/a/988579/428527 which is regarding 17.04 without success (system settings still indicate X11...Ask Ubuntu
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Thank you. This live USB defaulted to X11 for some reason, but I was able to change to Wayland after the session started.
It turns out Wayland doesn't support my touch/pen-screen: ""Unsupported platform detected. Currently only X11 is supported". So X11 it is.
wheezy
in reply to crankyrebel • • •While I appreciate the liberals calling balls and strikes in the Trump administration I am frustrated at this point that that is all that is being done.
Like, there is a point at which pointing to a broken judicial, electoral, and economic system and saying "hey! They are fucking this up" is just a shield to that administration to make people feel like something is being done to resist it. And they are not.
It's like, if I was a investigator and I kept pointing to the stabbing victim and saying "I know exactly who is at fault!" But I never actually opened a case and those guilty never saw their day in court. All I did was give people a false sense that justice would be served when they saw the victim. So, those that heard me shout "I know who is at fault" are left with the false satisfaction of justice (or at the very least resistance) and never look much beyond that and continue with their life wondering why there are so many people on the street getting stabbed still.
That's what it feels like when I listen to the Democratic party and it's leadership. It feels like they are the party of "acknowledging bad things" and nothing more.
Like, you can call balls and strikes. But if you're going to tell us for years that "Trump is a threat to democracy" and have zero plan or effort to throw him out of the game when he charges the pichters mound. Then you're not an "umpire" for democracy. You're just an announcer in a game without an ump.
Edit: sorry, double analogy in my scattered brain.
MoonMelon
in reply to wheezy • • •BurningRiver
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in reply to crankyrebel • • •As someone with a career in manufacturing who lived in the rust belt most of my life: I knew I was fucked financially each time Trump won, even without the needing to move to avoid hostile laws. What American manufacturing needs is affordable housing, reasonable trade, subsidies to start, and to accept that thr future of american manufacturing is high tech manufacturing that relies on our high numbers of engineers and our skilled tradespeople. Well paid, unskilled manufacturing jobs aren't coming back, but sensible forward thinking policies can ensure we have plenty of jobs designing, building, operating, and maintaining advanced and modern manufacturing systems.
Also the fact that our currency is highly valued isnt the best strategy for manufacturing, but it's an excellent strategy for other industries like finance and provides us a powerful ability to purchase foreign goods.
tfowinder
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