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Ukraine says it uncovers major drone procurement corruption scheme | CNN


Ukraine’s anti-corruption bodies said on Saturday they had uncovered a major graft scheme that procured military drones and signal jamming systems at inflated prices, two days after the agencies’ independence was restored following major protests.

The independence of Ukraine’s anti-graft investigators and prosecutors, NABU and SAPO, was reinstated by parliament on Thursday after a move to take it away resulted in the country’s biggest demonstrations since Russia’s invasion in 2022.

In a statement published by both agencies on social media, NABU and SAPO said they had caught a sitting lawmaker, two local officials and an unspecified number of national guard personnel taking bribes. None of them were identified in the statement.

“The essence of the scheme was to conclude state contracts with supplier companies at deliberately inflated prices,” it said, adding that the offenders had received kickbacks of up to 30% of a contract’s cost. Four people had been arrested.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/02/europe/ukraine-corruption-drone-scheme-latam-intl



Hamas vows not to lay down arms after Witkoff reportedly says it’s ready to demilitarize


Hamas on Saturday said it would not disarm “as long as the occupation exists,” denying reported remarks to the contrary by US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and blasting him for visiting an aid site run by the controversial, US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

In a statement, Hamas vowed to continue its violent struggle, saying its right to do so was guaranteed by international law until Palestinians’ “national rights” were realized, “foremost among them… the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with full sovereignty and Jerusalem as its capital.”

https://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-vows-not-to-lay-down-arms-after-witkoff-reportedly-says-its-ready-to-demilitarize/

in reply to geneva_convenience

Ah yes, thank you Times of Israel for your unbiased and fair look into the thoughts of the people fighting against complete eradication by the hands of the country you are propagandists for.
in reply to geneva_convenience

The Zionists should lay down their arms. They are a militaristic colony of genocidal terrorists.
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What are "points"?


I noticed on a comment that I got 3 "points". Is it like upvotes?
in reply to july

There is an option in your settings so you don't see upvotes or downvotes.

None of these imaginary points matter.

(Lemmy is rad)

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in reply to UltraGiGaGigantic

To be honest I find myself sometimes skipping comments which are down-voted to oblivion on other platforms.. 🤐. It doesn't help that the down voted comment also gets hidden. Sometimes they are rightfully down voted but other times the mass opinion is against OP's message which doesn't mean OP is necessarily wrong.
Do upvotes even matter? They are just indicators of good/bad but that doesn't prove anything. It's up to the perceiver to declare.




Nazis murdered my family in the Holocaust. Now Germany is punishing me for protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza.




GNOME AI Virtual Assistant "Newelle" Reaches Version 1.0 Milestone


in reply to VITecNet

For some reason, these local LLMS are straight up stupid. I tried deepseek R1 through ollama and it was straight up stupid and gave everything wrong. Anyone got the same results? I did the 7b and 14b (if I remember these numbers correctly), 32 straight up didn't install because I didn't have enough RAM.
in reply to DonutsRMeh

Did you use a heavily quantized version? Those models are much smaller than the state of the art ones to begin with, and if you chop their weights from float16 to float2 or something it reduces their capabilities a lot more
in reply to DonutsRMeh

I've had good experience with smollm2:135m. The test case I used was determining why an HTTP request from one system was not received by another system. In total, there are 10 DB tables it must examine not only for logging but for configuration to understand if/how the request should be processed or blocked. Some of those were mapping tables designed such that table B must be used to join table A to table C, table D must be used to join table C to table E. Therefore I have a path to traverse a complete configuration set (table A <-> table E).

I had to describe each field being pulled (~150 fields total), but it was able to determine the correct reason for the request failure.
The only issue I've had was a separate incident using a different LLM when I tried to use AI to generate golang template code for a database library I was wanting to use.
It didn't use it and recommended a different library.
When instructed that it must use this specific library, it refused (politely).
That caught me off-guard. I shouldn't have to create a scenario where the AI goes to jail if it fails to use something.
I should just have to provide the instruction and, if that instruction is reasonable, await output.

in reply to DonutsRMeh

The performance is relative to the user. Could it be that you're a god damned genius? :/
in reply to DonutsRMeh

I had more success with Qwen3 14b/8b,But it still does small mistakes(like for me I asked It to compare Gstreamer and ffmpeg it got the licensing wrong)
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in reply to VITecNet

From the title I thought Gnome foundation made a Ai Client for a sec, Until I read the article.
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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.

in reply to captainlezbian

To shift to manufacturing america needs to move to machine manufacturing and not just goods manufacturing since they are already being done very well in china, american labour cannot compete with china for cheap items the Chinese are just too good. But when it comes to advanced stuff like cars, solar panels, machineries etc that's where USA needs to work on.


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?

in reply to hankthetankie [none/use name]

Have you tried asking on the Peppermint forums? People there might be more familiar with the specifics of the distro.



in reply to crankyrebel

Better to get upset about a stupid ballroom than any other, more damning issue in the current news cycle that the current administration might prefer you forgot about...
in reply to crankyrebel

So, I've been going through making profiles for everybody, starting with Jeffrey Epstein, and generating a new, connected note when I see new information (Obsidian). I'm running with the hypothesis and framework that "The Establishment" is a real criminal enterprise. What I've found seems to be five branches, ranging from finance to intelligence, all interconnected. Two prevalent philosophies beyond greed and power: Christen Zionism and Transhumanism. Basically, it is a big coherent effort by lots of individuals and agencies with like goals. Trump, I call the disruptor. Basically, Trump seems to be so full of himself that he thinks he can take on the system AND be a dictator, from what I've gathered (189 profiles, including individuals, agencies, events, timeline, doctrines)
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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 advocates

The 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.


in reply to schizoidman

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.

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in reply to 0xtero

Exactly. Only small businesses and individuals have to honour the GDPR, not them.
in reply to schizoidman

Germany has been one of the biggest supporters of the genocide, they’re cracking down on minor dissent, they’re targeting minorities (including anti-Zionist Jews specifically). The Nazis are controlling Germany again.
in reply to surph_ninja

Sadly they always have been. USSR shouldn't have stopped at Berlin.
in reply to surph_ninja

I'll just throw in the mandatory 'always on the wrong side of history' cliché.
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in reply to surph_ninja

Is it because they’re ashamed of their past they now fully encourage Israel?
in reply to july

No. It’s that the Nazis never really left power. They simply ruled under US supervision. And the Nazis always cooperated with the Zionist project.


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)

in reply to YappyMonotheist

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.
in reply to skaarl

Even dumb and murderous racists have gone downhill in the US, lol. These ones at least seem literate!
in reply to skaarl

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

in reply to skaarl

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]


en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demogr…

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in reply to peregrin5

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).

in reply to peregrin5

more ethnically diverse
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in reply to peregrin5

Israel sterilized Ethiopian Jews without their consent stfu cracker.
in reply to peregrin5

The whites need the others to do all the hard work. Can't have a fascist settler colonial project without exploiting the natives. The ones that haven't been murdered in the genocide yet, of course.
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in reply to woodenghost [comrade/them]

They need comprador tokens for PR brownie points to convince the libs of the diversity lie too
in reply to peregrin5

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.

in reply to peregrin5

And everybody has the same rights there? Or are some higher than others???
in reply to peregrin5

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.

in reply to TranscendentalEmpire

not disagreeing but want to point out by that definition America is an ethnostate. Which again I'm not disagreeing with.
in reply to peregrin5

For the vast majority of its history absolutely. It wasn't until the civil rights movement where that was even somewhat debatable.
in reply to peregrin5

I don't know why you're getting down voted. It's just a historical fact.
in reply to Saymaz

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.

in reply to TranscendentalEmpire

I thought they were just agreeing on the fact that the USA is also an ethno-state that was founded on genocide.
in reply to Saymaz

They were, but when evaluated against their original claim its pretty apparent they were doing it to establish a whataboutism.
in reply to peregrin5

by that definition America is an ethnostate.


🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

in reply to ShinkanTrain

what do you think white Republicans and project 2025 are doing hunty?
in reply to peregrin5

as well as most of the democrats and their refusal to enact the equal rights amendment.
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in reply to peregrin5

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.

in reply to eldavi

i doubt it would have made it past the republican owned Congress that Biden experienced during his tenure. has very little to do with lack of Democrat support. this just smells like anti-Democrat whataboutism to me.
in reply to peregrin5

democrats had majority control of the house, senate and presidency in 2020; there was nothing stopping them from pushing this through.
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in reply to eldavi

looking at the history it looks like in 2020 democrats were trying to push this through but via a state ratification process. keep in mind dems only had congress for two years and there were other things they were trying to get done such as ACA. reading through the history though it seems everytime it is put forward or progress is made toward it, it is being pushed forward by democrats. what are you bitching about now? that biden didnt dictator it in like Trump does? why do types like you only ever bitch about dems and not repubs? how much is putin paying you? or is he just holding your family in front of a window?
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in reply to peregrin5

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.

in reply to eldavi

it's silly to expect basic humanity from Republicans so you bitch about democrats having basic humanity but not doing enough (in your opinion). lol ok then.
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in reply to peregrin5

why would anyone complain about something they're not expecting?
in reply to eldavi

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.

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in reply to zero

Good job Mr president. Now you've helped Russia with a few things.

  1. If they know where the sub's are, they now know if you lie or tell the truth about the sub's.
  2. If they didn't know where the sub's are, they now know where they probably weren't, and where they may be going
  3. 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 tun0

So 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                   # nfs

So how in the world did my VPN company do something to bypass my ufw??? Or was it something else completely?

TIA

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in reply to blobjim [he/him]

curl ifconfig.me shows my ip address and I have full rawdog access to the internet lol


DIY cyborg (Nerdforge)


cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/50536830

DIY cyborg rule (Nerdforge)

Pro doesn't like this.


in reply to BoredGamer

It's "food stamps" or "SNAP" (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program).
in reply to BoredGamer

OK this is creepy. My son JUST watched this episode 10 min again. Either a coincidence or my grapheneOS pixel and Lemmy are spying on me.

in reply to hankthetankie [none/use name]

Unsustainable if the app needs to be updated and not guaranteed to work, but I have ripped out the network and other unnecessary permissions of APKs before using APK Editor Studio.
in reply to monovergent 🛠️

BTW you don't neee an external app to remove network permission on GrapheneOS
in reply to hankthetankie [none/use name]

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.

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in reply to jordanlund

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.

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in reply to Petersson

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.




France suspends Gaza evacuations over antisemitic posts by Palestinian student


in reply to ikt

Oh no the victims are not perfect. This means they deserve to be genocided!


How Did Hunger Get So Much Worse in Gaza?


How Did Hunger Get So Much Worse in Gaza?
nytimes.com/interactive/2025/0…
in reply to zero

Must be a bad harvest. No idea what could have caused this NYT.

in reply to mrdown

Yeah, but people are desperate and die of hunger.

Unknown parent

lemmy - Collegamento all'originale
mumblerfish
That would be an impressive addition to the standard model.


Protesters demand release of draftees in Vinnytsia, break into detention facility




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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in reply to HaraldvonBlauzahn

When you say hibernate do you mean sleep, because my understanding was proper hibernate writes the image to disk of the memory, and reads that back in on next boot. PC is totally off during proper hibernate
in reply to BCsven

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/…

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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?

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in reply to SinJab0n

I always hanged around non-mainstream forms of social media. The main issue with that is that the lack of "normies" soon transforms them in bubbles where extreme or controversial ideas are normalized.
in reply to JumpyWombat

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.

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in reply to AlpBerNil

I wouldn't be surprised if said uncle asked to be made into a guitar or something.


Changing GTK theme vis Gnome Tweaks


I am trying to change my GTK theme via gnome tweaks buy that is no actual option to change the Theme via the appearance tab. I believe it is now listed under "legacy" and while the command line lists that my GTK theme is indeed changed to Material Black (the one I downloaded) the system windows still look like the default system settings. What is going on here
in reply to malfisya

I just REALLY want a pure black theme and apparently Gnome with Ubuntu is not the answer
in reply to WaffleWarrior

Just install XFce (no need to reinstall the OS). XFce is very themeable.


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

in reply to oeuf

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.

in reply to oeuf

What kind of business are you looking to start? I dream of being my own boss too.

in reply to gdog05

gee whiz! by jingo! jiminy cricket! crikey! blimey! goodness gracious!
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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

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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…

in reply to Bad

The peaceful guillotine protest must be brought back


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.

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in reply to HaraldvonBlauzahn

I really like Boxes, but since it can only run VMs in the unprivileged qemu:///session, it simply doesn't support features like PCI passthrough, autostart or even slightly sophisticated networking setups. :/
in reply to HaraldvonBlauzahn

I moved to virt manager from boxes as I it let me down too many times with bugs. VMs would not restart and snapshots would fail to launch.


Keep our Apple data encrypted


This could get very dire very quickly, if anyone here is interested in supporting digital rights globally, in a modern age of copycat law, I thought this petition should gain some attention, especially that this could grow into something that has more overreach then just Apple devices.
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in reply to astute

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
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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

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in reply to Babalugats

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.

linuxcontainers.org/

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-…

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in reply to LeFantome

Thank you for a great, detailed answer.
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.
in reply to Babalugats

If it is a little home server Proxmox is difficult to beat.
in reply to typhoon

Yep, that's the plan. Still didn't get around to it today. My "free" day and I've not sat down other than the few minutes earlier to write the OP and look at some of the replies l.
Hopefully I'll have a few hours to myself after dinner.
in reply to Babalugats

I hope it goes (or went) well. If you use Proxmox, you can still through NixOS on a VM and play to your hearts content. But you also run a nice, simple Debian LXC alongside it for something else. And if you break your NixOS install, it does not impact any of your other containers and VMs. That is what makes Proxmox so awesome.
in reply to LeFantome

This is how I handle my server, I have an older Mac Mini with a SSD and 16GB of RAM running Proxmox. I’ve got a Debian VM for Docker stuff (all pretty lightweight containers right now), a VM with Debian for a remote VS Code environment and LXC’s for Plex and PiHole. I also wanted to learn about NixOS, so I fired up a VM and installed it to test it out. I will say, I want to learn more NixOS… that’s not an easy or simple solution! Awesome OS and I love the concept, but you really have to be dedicated to learn the syntax and maintain it!
in reply to async_amuro

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.

in reply to Babalugats

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.