Why the US is "letting" China win on energy innovation
Why the US is letting China win on energy innovation
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NASA won't publish key climate change report online, citing 'no legal obligation' to do so
NASA won't publish key climate change report online, citing 'no legal obligation' to do so
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The worst mistake I could have possibly made with Linux...
So I chose to install Ubuntu and Ubuntu studio on top (which as I understand is just adding a bunch of apps and maybe doing some configuring). I am a musician and visual creative. I'd like to know why I made the wrong choice in distro. Hit me with it!
Why is your distro of choice better than the one I picked at random for myself?
What bottleneck am I to expect due to my non archyness?
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Ubuntu (and also Debian that it derives from) are always behind on the software release cycles and contain "stale" packages. This is desirable if you're running a server, but if you're wanting a modem day desktop experience a non-rolling release distro is just leaving performance/usability of your hardware on the table.
Think of Ubuntu/Debian and all their derivatives as the Jitterbug of the phone industry. They work perfectly fine, but if you want a real phone you're probably going to be happier with an iPhone or Android phone just because they make use of newer technology and get updates constantly.
Depends on how you install it
You basically chose one of the more complicated ways to do it, short of compiling the source code lol
Get your head out of installing apps via their websites like Windows. While it's often possible, it's preferable to use your distros package manager. If it's not in the repo, try flathub. Finally, if they have an Appimage, use that, many distros will integrate Appimages automagically. All that stuff gets taken care of for you.
Last resort is what you ended up doing and having to install/update manually. I mean, it depends on the package but if you're using a common distro like Ubuntu/Fedora/Arch, there should be a package ready to go for nearly anything that supports Linux.
Plasma has incredible defaults and you can click around in it to fine tune to your liking. Plug things into plasma is just works at least for me. I’ve plugged midi controllers, audio interface, dock, hdmi, game controllers first try no fuss.
Oh I’m sure other distros have this as well but fun fact if your bt is on and the laptop is connected to a speaker you can just connect your phone (or any other bt source) and use your laptop as a bt speaker. And I mean it just works again. Yeah sure you need to pair it first. But boy oh boy Im playing on the tv and i can just bt to it and play my tunes like it’s nothing.
Back to the question in hand.
I have a windows version of Ableton 11 that I installed there with 3rd party vst 2 and 3 plugins figuring that one out took me longer but it was in front of me all the time so in hindsight that wasn’t too hard either.
So that was my new generation Arch btw xD aka NixOS btw.
The tl dr is that I find Nixos with KDE Plasma 6 having very friendly defaults that can be built on if and when you ready
New user comes to ask question about their distro: gets "use NixOS; it's totally simple".
Weirdos.
Ps.: Im self aware if you read the last few lines
You just went on about how easy nix is to configure, then about adding bluetooth devices, then jumped to installing ableton on windows.
Op specified they are a musician using a studio distro for studio tasks. You didn't address any of that.
I get that you're impressed with nix and want to share, and nothing wrong with that. But let's at least stay on topic.
Ableton - Digital Audio Workspace
MIDI - Musical Instrument Digital Interface
Scarlette 2i2 - Audio interface
Compatibility,dependencies are the most important things when it comes to digital studio machines. At least that’s what my 15yrs of audio engineering experience taught me. Not sure how I didn’t addressed any of that my dude but if you wanna hate I’m here for it. You hate my choices for the sake of it I love yours for the same reason
Ubuntu Studio is an excellent choice to get you ~~started~~ busy doing your things. It's a work of love, from passionate people, going at it for many years now.
The only drawback is that the bundle is overstuffed, for my use case there's just too much stuff in there lol (sound eng)
Enjoy yourself, test your creativity against the available tools, and make stuff. That's the important part: making!
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Eh, every distro is trade-offs. There’s not a straightforward “better or worse”.
The worst mistake you could make? Making it hard for you to change your mind later.
So take notes on what you modify, try to keep your data/configs consolidated so you could easily migrate to a new distro, etc.
And ideally have your hardware set up so that you can try booting a new distro without losing your existing setup.
The biggest problem of ubuntu is snaps.
However, if you're into audio, you can install linux mint, which is ubuntu-based, and then install the ubuntu-studio-pipewire-something (sorry, can't remember how the package is actually called), which FIXES pipewire to work properly with high end audio apps. For example, on my vanilla Linux Mint, Bitwig Studio would not make a peep! After installing that package, it produces sound. With that fixed, you can do everything on Mint.
you did nothing wrong. ubuntu is a perfectly fine distro for beginners. the reason i dont use ubuntu anymore is the age of the packages started to bother me. also its kinda annoying that releases hit eol at some point. i like arch for the rolling release (no eol) and the fresher packages.
if ubuntu worka for you, keep using it. there is no correct distro.
I think everyone's basically hit my complaints with Ubuntu. It's a very bloated OS with a hard dedication into snaps, which I dislike(but I also hate flatpak so yea)
Being said if this is your first Linux distribution, you can't go wrong with Ubuntu. It's a very beginner-friendly distro. The only other one that I would have recommended aside from that would have probably been Mint. But Ubuntu is going to have quite a bit more tutorials and guides for it.
You're good. If you like your setup please don't feel like you need to change. Ubuntu will serve you just fine.
Now if you just like tinkering or configuring....
The main drawback of Ubuntu is mainly that people don't like Canonical, the company behind it. They can be very opinionated in their decisions. Also many prefer rolling-release distros (like Arch, or OpenSUSE Tumbleweed) where you get much quicker software updates over Ubuntu and other traditional distros.
Just get endeavoros. It's Arch with an install process like any other easy Linux distro.
Aur is useful for people that don't want to build packages.
That combined with flatpak and you can basically have an easy install of anything.
The first rule of Linux is that you always picked the wrong distro and here is why mine is better.
If it works for you then it's good enough. Just focus on learning what you're on and a lot of that knowledge will transfer to any other distro if you want to try others.
Exactly! Also many people especially early on, seem to think distros are vastly different. They’re really not, so much as they’re a different assortment of bits and pieces from mostly the same pool. Some things differ significantly across I wouldn’t say distros but across like, kernel bases? Like Debian, Arch, etc. The big thing is if it has 99% of what you wanted straightaway, then there’s nothing wrong with just using it, optimizing it for your preferences, and learning what distinguishes it, if you’re interested.
When I got a new laptop, I was psyched because it was not long after Debian had finally dropped that whole opposition to things that aren’t 100% open source, as of v 12. I like Debian but prior to 12 I often had driver issues. BUT: lo and behold, my laptop was so new that Debian didn’t have drivers for the audio yet. Nothing did except Ubuntu. They’re usually very quick to get stuff compatible, and so I installed Kubuntu so I could be on my fav desktop right off the start.
Now, quite some time later, Debian almost certainly has my audio drivers by now, but I’m not rushing to change because what I have works. End of story.
Whatever is working for you, enjoy it.
If you like "unlikely to break, don't mind my software and kernel a bit behind", anything Debian or Ubuntu based will be fine. Now, if you want cutting edge, even if you have to get pissed and confused a bit, Arch or Fedora based, in my opinion.
At the end of the day it comes down to taste and need. They all work (mostly 😋).
My most used distro in the past few years is CachyOS.
Recently swapped to Bazzite because I got tired of the papercuts of running Arch. I also wanted to move to one of the official supported Distros that is supported by my laptop in case I ever need to make a support ticket.
You made a great choice of distro for media creation.
Some background information and other options are below.
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Ubuntu studio is a distro targeted at creatives(audio, visual).
Ubuntu is touted as a 'high ease of use' distro, but as a company, it is a user-data collector and advertising injector.
For a similar audio/visual targeted distro, but one that is free/libre and includes no spyware or tracking, you could try Dynebolic.
Can be booted as a LiveUSB (or LiveDVD) to test.
* NB. Any hardware connected to your PC, that needs proprietary drivers, will probably not work because those drivers are not included in any Libre Distros.
Also NB, Dynebolic is made by friendly, neighborhood, activist, Rastafarians.
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Using Linux isn't something you need to defend towards others.
As long as something is comfortable for you, keep using it.
So I tried windows tiling...
And omg! I have slept on this feature for so long. I assumed it was just dragging windows to corners and they snap on to the left or right back or top.
Then, I installed PopOS and saw an explicit button to turn on windows tiling but I was already using the drag function, so I was confused. I turned it on and omg! I have not felt more stupid and happily surprised by a piece of tech in a while.
It just works. I don’t have to be worry about arranging windows a special way for multitasking or for following guides. So much time saved.
How to make the most of it? Have you had a similar experience with something?
I believe pop does a river style tiling system. Look up videos on Niri, Cosmic, or PaperWM.
There are many other tiling types too. River is however my favorite and I think most intuitive. Other popular ones are Sway, i3, and HyprLand.
Edit: my bad, seems like I misunderstood. PopOS used/is still using GNOME and has a Auto-Tiling plugin that behaves like i3wm (?). I guess this is what OP is talking about!
Not entirely sure what you mean. PopOS, developed by System76, uses the Cosmic DE, which is itself also developed by System76.
River is a dynamic tiling WM which is known for it's customizability among Wayland WMs, as it doesn't distinguish itself with it's "layout generator" (though it does come with a very basic one), but instead let's the user write their own or use an existing, third-party one. This way you can achieve essentially any dynamic tiling behavior with River.
How does PopOS use a system like that? Or do you mean that Cosmic is DWM-style, i.e., dynamic and with tags?
I do agree that River is wonderful though!
And PaperWM is a gnome plugin I thought was developed by System76 as a prototype for Cosmic.
Edit: seems i just made that up too lol
I've tried out a bunch, but at the moment I've mainly been playing around with hyprland, cause it's also a dynamic tiler and im used to that layout now
The main advantage to me tbh is that certain windows don't overflow the assigned tile space like in pop-shell (this is also fixed in cosmic), but there are other things like having all your move/resize actions on the main mod layer instead of needing to enter adjust mode (super + enter is the default keybind on pop-shell), and the fact it uses wayland instead of x11
Of course there are also things that can be downsides depending on how you see it, like the fact it's a TWM not a desktop, which means if you want to adjust any setting you'll need to manually adjust config files, and that it doesn't come with things like a top bar or app launcher etc. So it can take a while to get up and running
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What do you use it for?
Everything? Lol. I mean.. I just run my desktop in hyprland, no matter what im doing. Which for me I guess is gaming, drawing, some coding, and writing.. oh and tinkering with linux (though honestly I mostly do that in VMs)
How much does it make your experience better?
I'd say it's an improvement over GNOME 😛.. though I have enough issues with the configs that I wouldn't really recommend it unless you have issues with GNOME that majorly bother you.. or unless you use one of the premade dotfile configs that people make lol..
For me being able to adjust the windows with my keyboard without needing to enter a special mode for it, and having windows forced into the tile size was worth it, as it was something that was a pet peeve of mine (and now I get to be annoyed by trying to set up my waybar vertically, tradeoffs lol)
Not quite hah :3
It's actually not one of the things I've tried when looking for the best DE/WM for me, though I might at some point just to see if im missing out on anything
Windows Tiling is just having specific zones or regions defined on the screen where windows can be placed or configured to open in, correct?
I should try it out. There is a part of me that wonders if it would be worth it on a 1080p 15in laptop screen.
Yeah, it was a revelation when I discovered tiling. I was always doing work with two windows open, and i'd spend so much time fiddling and resizing the windows. Then i'd open a third window and wouldn't know what to do with it.
I used i3 for many years and switched to sway when migrating to wayland. It does what I need and see no reason to try hyprland or other tilers.
This first paragraph is so me.
Any good wayland implementation? I'm OS hopping to fedora kinoite. I never used tiling now I see the difference from your reply. I'm the dummy.
That's where workspaces come in place, I usually have a single full screen application per workspace, so Meta+1 is my browser, Meta+3 is my IDE, Meta+4 is slack, etc. Some workspaces have more than one application, e.g. I usually keep a few terminals in Meta+2.
This means that I usually work with things occupying all of my screen and in a short keystrokes I'm in whatever I want to be. But if I ever need to open a terminal or a random application it will occupy half my screen and whatever I was doing would resize to the other half, so I never have to grab my mouse to move stuff over to be able to see what I was doing.
I usually have a single full screen application per workspace
Forgive my ignorance but doesn't that just defeat the purpose?
It depends, up to four works for some apps depending on monitor size, but otherwise I do the same thing as @Nibodhika@lemmy.world.
Overlapping window managers, the most common type in use by far, just seem crazy to me. Windows almost never use the available monitor space, and they have to constantly be wrangled around each other so that… you can drag something instead of using the clipboard, I guess?
I use this for KDE tilling github.com/anametologin/krohnk…
Edit: It is the active fork of krohnkite, the official repo is dead since 2022.
GitHub - anametologin/krohnkite: A dynamic tiling extension for KWin
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You could try also:
- GNOME PaperWM, a GNOME extension with tiling and endless horizontal scrolling
- niri
- StumpWM, a tiling WM with Emacs-like keybindings (and zero eyecandy and waste of screen estate)
- HerbstluftWM
Yup, came here to mention PaperWM. I used xmonad in the past, but I executed it on top of Mate to have an "easy" desktop environment.
Nowadays Gnome extensions providing tiling is the equivalent "easy" method. Gnome is not for everyone, but it works out of the box- then you add the fancy tiling window management on top.
For people who have bounced off systems that require much more set up, I think they are a good option.
I've used i3wm for a long time now before switching to hyprland.
The top useful thing: Workspaces. Even without tiling, workspaces give a massive productivity boost.
You can have email clients open on one, monitoring systems on another, browsing on a third, gaming on a fourth.
When you combine with tiling, everything is in its own perfect space and nothing overlaps.
This is especially useful on single-monitor or laptop setups as you don't need multiple monitors to keep track of everything.
I also see people struggle with notifications tiling.
You probably don't want a bluetooth connected message to take up half your screen, so you'll want to make sure to properly configure those things.
At least in i3wm/hyprland, you can use the window class name to exclude a window from tiling (ex. for_window [class="mako"] floating enable or windowrulev2 = float,class:^(mako)$).
Buy a large 4k tv (like 48"+) to use as a monitor and use it without scaling. It'll have similar DPI to am average 2.5k monitor, but you'll have way more real-estate.
Window tiling lets you break the large display surface up into reasonably sized pieces.
Pop OS tiling is awesome. What I always try to do on tiling WM: set workspaces and spawn specific applications on specific workspaces. Not sure if Pop OS can do it, but on i3/dwm/sway...etc. you can freely spawn your applications wherever you like.
Try to play around with those DIY tiling environment. You will have a lot of fun if you like tinkering with stuff. Maybe one day you will run EXWM
How to make the most of it?
Use workspaces, I almost never used it before because I was set in my ways, but after switching to tiling WM it's a must and increases productivity by a LOT, I've grown so used to it that using windows with a mouse feels super clunky and cluttered.
Neigsendoig (my producer) and I have used i3 for a while... and we've probably stayed on that since we first started using WMs.
That said, we've attempted the likes of Xmonad (configured in Haskell), Awesome (configured in Lua), HerbstluftWM, BSPWM, Hypr (not Hyprland), JWM, Ratpoison and even SXWM.
Neigsendoig and I wouldn't recommend any Wayland compositor due to new security risks (despite an attempt to fix X11 security issues), though a lot of people want Wayland to be shoved down our throats. We personally use X11 due to many things that Wayland devs can't/won't fix.
This is also part of the reason why the two of us are excited about XLibre (as much as some will hate the control of IBM, GNOME and FreeDesktop with their Wayland, Systemd and PipeWire push). Sure, its main developer left the project from what we've heard, but otherwise, there are a lot of contributions to it, and it will improve big time.
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100%. Learning a crossplatform thing is always better, especially when using proprietary OS.
How useful is tmux as compared to regular tiling? It might be a bit janky, I suppose.
how much data does google grab about you in the EU? and questions about pkpass files and foss for android (like fdroid)
My employer sent me to Germany, where he subsidizes 50% of my public transportation costs, the so called Deutschland-Job-Ticket.
However, my employer only signed a deal wit the local transportation authority for digital tickets, the kind of ticket you'd store on a digital wallet like fosswallet.
Except that the local transportation authority doesn't offer pkpass files to download, the kind of file you need to work with fosswallet and similar apps, and the only way to use this digital card is to create a google account and download google wallet. I have no idea what an apple user would have to do, as they won't offer pkpass files to no one.
Google is a company I don't trust, but so far every German I've talked to about this doesn't seem to value privacy ¯(ツ)/¯
I'm looking for a workable, practical solution because as much as I'd like to show google the finger it seems that's simply not an option here.
Some suggested to get a second android device to use exclusively for this Deutschland-Job-Ticket, but that seems overkill.
I also contacted my employer to ask if they'd allow me have a physical transportation card and still receive their subsidy.
And yet another option would be to buy a pixel, install GrapheneOS, download googlewallet and sandbox it, but I'm not sure I want to spend 700 Euros to make google even richer. Has any of you ever done this? does it work?
The other end of the equation is, how much information google grabs about me in the EU because if I go GrapheneOS, I still need to give google my data. I've never had a google account:
Do I need to give them my real name? A telephone number? my real address? An Email address? my social security number? passport? Will they send me unwanted ads and spam me if I create an account with them?
All this because my employer or the transportation authority won't work with pkpass files...
For more information, you may read my history.
I feel like I read here a couple months back if you visit it in a browser (maybe with a user agent extension) that you can download the pkpass that way.
But I could be misremembering honestly.
You might want to look into Island/Insular.
f-droid.org/packages/com.oasis…
Depending on your level of commitment to privacy, this might be a suitable solution for you.
Insular | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
Isolate your Big Brother appsf-droid.org
Does the local transportation company provide an app for iOS itself? Maybe that could be an option for you to not use google wallet.
I have chosen a local transportation company to not use the DB navigator app which is a privacy nightmare and support my local transportation company financial.
the local transportation authority doesn’t offer pkpass files to download, the kind of file you need to work with fosswallet and similar apps, and the only way to use this digital card is to create a google account and download google wallet.
I'd go to an actual kiosk of the local transportation authority and explain that I do not have a phone yet hope to use the Deutschland-Job-Ticket or whatever my employer currently pays for and let them figure it out. Germany is actually pretty big on NOT being tracked, that's why cash is still pretty important there, more than in most places, so I'd be surprise if they expect everybody (not 99.99% of people, but actually 100%) to have a smartphone that is up to date. In Belgium for example there are usually physical card equivalents for most things that usually require a smartphone. It usually requires going through extra hoops, e.g. paying for the physical token and eventually get the money back when given back, but there are actually alternatives.
Best of luck, please share results here and elsewhere if you do, or do NOT, manage as it's showing to others a pragmatic path and if not where to push back.
Not sure if this will work in your case, but there's a tool which could be run locally to convert between formats: github.com/google-wallet/pass-…
Also, you should be able to get a pixel much cheaper if it's 2-3 models behind. Pixel 6 for example can be had used for under $200, sometimes even around $100. That is in the US however - I'm not aware of what the secondary market would be like where you're at.
Could they not provide a physical pass?
GitHub - google-wallet/pass-converter: Tool to convert passes for different wallet apps from one format to another
Tool to convert passes for different wallet apps from one format to another - google-wallet/pass-converterGitHub
A letter to the CalyxOS community
Sad news - I have been very happy with CalyxOS, and not sure if I would want to continue using it without security updates or move to another ROM on my Fairphone 4. It seems perhaps that I would anyway need to reflash when they get to the point of resuming updates? Anyone get a clearer reading on that than me?
I have been contemplating trying out Ubuntu Touch which has according to their site 100% compatability with Fairphone 4 now, but there are some functionality that I think would struggle without, and if I can't get it working as I want, I wouldn't be able to reflash CalyxOS now. Getting a new phone to install GrapheneOS is not an option for me.
What are other people here using CalyxOS going to do to maintain a modicum of privacy on their mobile devices?
The way that was going, I thought they were going to announce the end of the project. Glad to see it's just a temporary pause on updates!
The best Android alternative from a privacy standpoint forr the Fairphone 4 is iodéOS, which is a privacy-focused fork of LineageOS that fully supports the device (including re-locking of the bootloader). LineageOS isn't really a privacy-focused project, but it would also come with some improvements over stock. You can also get a version of LineageOS with microG here.
Installation - iodé
Automatically (via our installer) iodéOS is installable within a few clicks! The installer is available for all official devices listed here (and soon for the GSI).iodé
I didn't realise iodé supported relocking on FP4. I don't suppose it'd also happen to support microG in work profile only, deleted from the personal profile?
Because I'd love to return to ethical hardware from Graphene/Pixel, and the lack of FDE on Ubuntu Touch really rubs me the wrong way.
Why iodeOS over GrapheneOS?
Edit: oh you said for the FairPhone, not Android in general. GraphenOS is Pixel only at the moment, at least until they launch their own device
It has options to deny network access to apps, though it's a bit hidden in the network settings for each app instead of thru a "Firewall" app
You can check out RethinkDNS for blocking or isolating apps.
Try /e/OS
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How do you manage private phones with work necessities?
If anyone has examples of things they’ve tried and what’s worked, that would be great. TIA!
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It's different in my own situation (I don't have a boss) but would I be employed I would not mix work and personal. Ever. Phone, friendship, or whatever else as there is a too high probability some shit will happen.
I would have my own phone and next to it the job would provide me another one with whatever shitty apps they require me to use, if they rely want me to use it. And I would turn that bastard off the moment my work day is finished (aka the moment they stop giving me money in exchange of my time).
Exactly like I would not use my own computer for work. It's mine.
I agree with @Libb@piefed.social. I would not mix the two at all. If they want me to have a phone with their apps on it, they can provide me one.
Also, for your privacy, it may not be actually the best idea to switch back to a dumb phone, because then you are limited to SMS, which is not secure, and phone calls, which are not secure.
On a smartphone you have things like signal.
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I have a second cheap second hand phone for work only purposes.
My employer has their device attestation set to only allow intune / Microsoft products to sign in if you are running stock android.
Graphene nogo.
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This is the correct answer. If they want you to do any work in a mobile, remote, out of hours capacity, they need to provide the device.
I used to help manage MDM at my old company and I can tell you there is a shit load they can do once you install their utilities. For example:
- remotely wipe your phone
- block your ability to copy/paste between applications
- view all web traffic to/from it (even encrypted traffic since we installed a proxy that put its own trusted root certificate in)
Yeah, as far as I am concerned, there's a direct conflict of interest between myself and my company when it comes the usage of a device that doubles as a personal and professional device. I understand the company's need to take measures to control sensitive information, and when I do whatever I do on my spare time, I am unnecessarily (from the point of view of the company) endangering the information I have access to. And because of the safe-guards they put in place, they are taking an unacceptable amount of control of a device I keep my personal sensitive data.
Because of this I find it a bit baffling that BYOD ever became accepted practice, both from the employer's side and the employee's side.
Executives don't see why they have to approve a giant bill for company devices when people have their own already.
Regardless of how much we point out the risks.
Blue whales are going eerily silent—and scientists say it’s a warning sign
Blue whales are going eerily silent—and scientists say it’s a warning sign
A six-year study off California’s coast shows how marine heat waves and noise pollution are silencing the ocean’s largest singers. Does saving the ocean start with hearing it?Avery Schuyler Nunn (Animals)
🐝 Billionaire Dies After Swallowing a Bee During Polo Match
Billionaire Dies After Swallowing a Bee During Polo Match
Indian auto parts billionaire Sunjay Kapur died after reportedly swallowing a bee during a polo match at the Queen’s Cup in Windsor.Luis Prada (VICE)
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The bee took one for the team.
With any luck, there's a hive of like-minded bees near the White House.
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In the photo: Coldplay's Singer.
US tech company Astronomer's CEO resigns after being caught having an affair with CPO at Coldplay concert
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He deserves a goddamned posthumous award. There will never a death more ‘billionaire’ than this. I mean this is cartoon level, over the top, absurdist level perfection.
I mean tell me, if you just saw the headline “Man dies after swallowing a bee at a Polo match” that your reaction is anything but “I wonder which billionaire that was.”
Little dude makes us honey, AND kills our oppressors?? May you spend eternity in an infinite field of wildflowers.
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There is an option in your settings so you don't see upvotes or downvotes.
None of these imaginary points matter.
(Lemmy is rad)
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.
GNOME AI Virtual Assistant "Newelle" Reaches Version 1.0 Milestone
GNOME AI Virtual Assistant "Newelle" Reaches Version 1.0 Milestone
Newelle is a virtual AI assistant developed for the GNOME desktop that supports voice chat and can handle carrying out web searches, terminal command execution, website reading, file management, document editing, and morewww.phoronix.com
Or, ORRRR....just do the stuff yourself and don't further perpetuate this dumbshit until it doesn't require an entire months worth of energy for an efficient home to run to search "Hentai Alien Tentacle Porn" for you.
Buncha savages.
search “Hentai Alien Tentacle Porn” for you
This is suspiciously specific 🙂
I haven't tested this but TBH as someone who has run Linux at home for 25 years I love the idea of an always alert sysadmin keeping my machine maintained and configured to my specs. Keep my IDS up to date. And so on.
Two requirements:
1 Be an open source local model with no telemetry
2 Let me review proposed changes to my system and explain why they should be made
2) You can certainly have unattended updates without an LLM in the mix.
Even if it was open source (it isn't, because no model is really open source ultimately) and even if it let you review what it says it's gonna do, AI is known for pulling all kinds of shit and lie about it.
Would you really trust your system to something that can do this? I wouldn't...
Would you really trust your system to something that can do this? I wouldn't...
I wouldn't trust a Sales team member with database permissions, either. This is why we have access control in sysadmin. That AI had permission to operate as the user in Replit's cloud environment. Not a separate restricted user, but as that user and without sandboxing. That should never happen. So, if I were managing that environment I would have to ask the question: is it the AI's fault for breaking it or is it my fault for allowing the AI to break it?
AI is known for pulling all kinds of shit and lie about it.
So are interns. I don't think you can hate the tool for it being misused, but you certainly can hate the user for allowing it.
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Do you use IDCS? If not, why not?
Have you taken care of automating encryption and backup to cloud?
There's a new open source shared media server, are you interested in configuring, securing, and testing it?
It's mostly set and forget, Earth is mostly harmless, etc
Idk why people don't read the article before commenting.
Newelle supports interfacing with the Google Gemini API, the OpenAI API, Groq, and also local large language models (LLMs) or ollama instances for powering this AI assistant.
So you configure it with your prefered model which can include a locally run one. And it seems to be its own package not something built into gnome itself so you an easily uninstall it if you won't use it.
Seems fine to me. I probably won't be using it, but it's an interesting idea. Being able to run terminal commands seems risky though. What if the AI bricks my system? Hopefully they make you confirm every command before it runs any of them or something.
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While I definitely do not want a LLM (especially not Open AI or whatever) to have access to my terminal or other stuff on my PC, and in general don't have any use for that, I find it cool that something like this is available now.
Remember, it's totally optional and nobody forces you to download that stuff. You have the choice to ignore it, and that's the great thing about Linux!
While I definitely do not want a LLM (especially not Open AI or whatever) to have access to my terminal or other stuff on my PC, and in general don't have any use for that, I find it cool that something like this is available now.
Remember, it's totally optional and nobody forces you to download that stuff. You have the choice to ignore it, and that's the great thing about Linux!
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.
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.
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.
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?
You want to install the same OS twice? But booting the first one doesn't work?
Two EFIs are fine, if you want to switch using your motherboard's boot selection. If you want to switch between the two using Grub one unencrypted boot partition after the first EFI is probably easier. But if your motherboard's boot loader is easy to reach using that to switch is probably the easiest way.
But apparently you cannot even boot into one OS. i would abandon all thoughts of two OSs and concentrate on getting one to boot. Did it work before you installed the second one?
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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That is not only not helpful but actually bad. You're just muddying the waters.
The communists disdain to hide their views and aims
You are doing the opposite of blatantly calling it out you are reinforcing those who may be still struggling to understand in their assumption that this is the "bad" capitalism and leaving open the idea there is some sort of "good" capitalism.
I agree with you 100%, and Marx was very clear that capitalism is filled with theft and oppression. It's nice that Marx also at times rested his critique of capitalism abstracting all the crony-ness and analyzed capitalism with 'good intentions,' showing that even without the oppression/theft it's a failed system.
edit: misread!
You already have the make-up part & ridiculous hair-do down so well.
Midas Touch.
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That's why i crossed "can". I know he can be stopped.
Last time i checked, he's not Invincible ( read it silently, like in the animation opening )
Since day 1:
certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Can't survive, let alone pursue happiness, without healthcare and can't have liberty without either.
mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government
You are here.
Source: transcription of the US Declaration of Independence
Declaration of Independence: A Transcription
Note: The following text is a transcription of the Stone Engraving of the parchment Declaration of Independence (the document on display in the Rotunda at the National Archives Museum.) The spelling and punctuation reflects the original.National Archives
- will be paid for by Trump and unidentified donors
lol like that fat ass will ever pay for anything with his money.
I hope it doesn't........
I'd rather see it burn to the ground deliberately.
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Trump's version of "Let them eat cake."
A real opposition party would be screaming "class divide" from the rooftops, but we all know the Democrats are no more interested in raising class consciousness than the Republicans.
You didn't read the article I guess. There is already one at Mar a Lago.
It also says he and donors will pay for it. Does anyone believe that I wonder.
Better cutting something else
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Police in German state to use controversial software by Palantir | dpa international
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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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They're pointing to the other states already doing it.
Here's hoping our constitutional court will get around to this quickly.
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
You don’t really need to reposition nuclear subs as a show of power - that’s not how they work.
They play a specific role in nuclear deterrence, in that they stay hidden and provide retaliation capability in case the mainland gets attacked and nuclear silos in Montana, etc. get destroyed.
Yeah we can nuke the goddamn moon with a missile controlled from earth. We have hypersonic jets that can carry nuclear payloads from bases all across the planet. Those are the first strike legs of the nuclear triad. The subs are terrible at first strike capacity, but so long as they remain hidden they can't really be prevented from assuring mutual destruction.
But also Trump didnt know the nuclear triad in 2016 and his brain was only mostly pudding back then
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
Are you running docker?
UFW is a popular iptables front end on Ubuntu that makes it easy to manage firewall rules. But when Docker is installed, Docker bypass the UFW rules and the published ports can be accessed from outside.
github.com/chaifeng/ufw-docker
GitHub - chaifeng/ufw-docker: To fix the Docker and UFW security flaw without disabling iptables
To fix the Docker and UFW security flaw without disabling iptables - chaifeng/ufw-dockerGitHub
Best bet would be that something reloaded/changed the underlying ip/nftables bypassing ufw (ufw is just a frontend, I do not know if it periodically verifies the current rules are correct and it would feel extraneous to me if it did). Or it didn't apply it correctly.
You can get the actual rules with iptables-save (dunno about respective nftables command)
curl ifconfig.me shows my ip address and I have full rawdog access to the internet lol
If you're ok with doing some selfhosting, a DNS filter like PiHole or Adguard Home should take care of those. A nice bonus is that these can also block most in-app ads 😀
If you setup a VPN like Tailscale you can even make your phone traffic go through a DNS filter you serve at home, so your privacy is always protected.
alternatively, you can use adaway to get the same blocklists directly on your phone.
its better with root but it works rootless.
FYI Sentry is for failure reports. It’s not a spyware.
Application Performance Monitoring & Error Tracking Software
Application performance monitoring for developers & software teams to see errors clearer, solve issues faster & continue learning continuously.Sentry
GitHub - TrackerControl/tracker-control-android: TrackerControl Android: monitor and control trackers and ads.
TrackerControl Android: monitor and control trackers and ads. - TrackerControl/tracker-control-androidGitHub
VPN over VPN? I suppose. It's not obvious how you'd set ðat up.
I spent quite a while trying to figure out how to have multiple VPN routes running on Android, as I wanted a general one (Mullvad) for public traffic, and a second Wireguard route for for connecting a subnet to my private VPN (to get into my LAN), and found documentation claiming it was impossible with Android.
With TrackerControl I've setup port forwarding to inviZible Pro. But this is up to the app to support it.
Another way is to use Android work profile which enables to use two VPN, one on each account.
My setup is TrackerControl + inviZible Pro.
Try givin a look on the web for some foss vpn client for android which supports port forwarding.
Maybe you should find some guides on how to setup multiple of them too with work profile or just port mapping.
Explained: How to run 2 VPNs on Android simultaneously
I had been looking on the internet a method that would enable me to run 2 VPN apps on the same device simultaneously, but just got to solve this.My setting: I was trying to route all my firewalled traffic (ReThink Firewall) through a proxy to another vpn app. Psiphon Pro (FOSS) can accept traffic from inbound proxy but itself establishes a VPN profile and thus the firewall can't connect (which too requires to function as a VPN).
VPN app in main profile: Rethink Firewall (FOSS, Fdroid)
VPN app in work profile: Psiphon Pro (Free VPN, Playstore)
Shelter app lets you clone apps using the work profile feature and takes only a few MBs
I used this setup on Android 13 and it works.
Solution:
Using the open source app, Shelter (Fdroid) create a work profile. A work profile can have its own VPN app running along with main (personal) profile's VPN.
Install and configure the Rethink Firewall on Main profile.
In Shelter, set the Psiphon app to "Allow Cross-Profile Interaction"
Run the Psiphon VPN (app that would accept inbound traffic). In its logs section, see the SOCKS proxy port.
Set the proxy port to the same in Rethink Firewall in the correct way. As, 127.0.0.1:{port}
Now Rethink Firewall is able to tunnel all its traffic into Psiphon Pro (running in work profile)
Its called signal
Or just get a second phone / use a seperate profile
Molly would be the independent and FOSS Android client
But that's not a replacement for WhatsApp + Signal was funded by Radio Free Asia (under CIA control), which is something to consider
In addition to my answer to your original request, I can inform about stuff related to WhatsApp.
You can use WhatsApp on a Matrix server with a bridge. You can either selfhost or find a server which has the WhatsApp bridge.
There is also Beeper - now acquired by Automattic (WordPress, ...) - which is a company matrix server with many bridges (they employed the person developing most of them). You can use a FOSS matrix client like Element X or their own client which is not FOSS but requires far fewer permissions than the WhatsApp app
If you have the possibility to self host -> PiHole (or adguard)
If not -> TrackerControl (a.k.a. TC)
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)
Fouad Alkatib is a Zionist who lives in America who works for an American Zionist think tank. He gets paid to do Israeli propaganda.
Isn't for me?
E: Maybe this one? theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
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 last line absolutely nails it:
"The best way to undermine Hamas’s position is to instead flood Gaza with food, and to alleviate the suffering of its people."
So why doesn't Israel do it? If that would undermine Hamas' position, why is Israel maintaining the supply blockade they started back in the 90s?
Why is Israel intent on shooting people lining up for aid, including children, if that just re-enforces the negative opinion Hamas wants everyone to have about Israel?
pbs.org/newshour/world/uns-wor…
pbs.org/newshour/world/israeli…
That's not Hamas doing that, it's Israel doing that.
Israel's typical over-reaction to October 7th is what Hamas wanted, and Israel played into it. They chose to commit genocide, murder tens of thousands of innocent people, and used snipers to shoot children in the head and heart.
dci-palestine.org/israeli_snip…
theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…
france24.com/en/tv-shows/t%C3%…
"The doctor went on to claim that Israeli snipers are deliberately shooting children in Gaza, citing his observation of two children who were shot twice. "No child gets shot twice by mistake," he said."
That's not Hamas. That's a deliberate choice made by Israel. They could stop today. They will not, but they absolutely could.
Tête à tête - US surgeon claims Israel targets Gaza children: 'No child gets shot twice by mistake'
In an interview with FRANCE 24, US surgeon Mark Perlmutter claimed that Israeli snipers are deliberately targeting children in Gaza.Marc Perelman (FRANCE 24)
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
Gulf states which collaborate with Israel collaborate with Israel.
Hamas already has an offer to disband if a two state solution is reached. This is one-siding the blame.
Also the PA is a dictatorship backed by the West and Israel.
Sure but hamas is more popular than the palestinian autority, most palestinians do not support hamas dropping arms
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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And, this is another reason to use virtual machines, like GNOME Boxes or virt-manager. Put your sweet little Windows sleeping beauty in a VM so that it wakes up without scratches.
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
So, in fact, the short answer is no.
The answer is only yes if the question is “Hibernating and booting into another OS and modifying the same partition externally: will my filesystems be corrupted?”.
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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Other than gnome, I don't think there is any DE that restrict theming. You can go with Plasma, if you want to use GTK theme then there is Budgie, Cinnamon and Xfce.
Fun fact: Budgie on Solus used to be default using Plata-Noir which is material design inspired theme with pure black color scheme. It is not anymore becase the theme got unmaintained.
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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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Do local networking the way we used to do it before social media — make up business cards with QR codes advertising what you can do, and leave the on public and semi-public bulletin boards (community centers, sports and fitness places, churches and shopping malls, parks that have boards set up, farmers markets, etc.). If you need to, try going door to door. If you can afford it, buy bulk mail and distribute a flyer locally. Let your friends and neighbors know what you can do. Take a few jobs below cost at first ifyou need to, listing your regular rate and a promotional or loyalty discount.
Personally I never made enough money to survive on doing this, but it was enough to keep me above water between contracts.
Yeah, that's pretty much what I'm doing at the moment (haven't quite got to door-to-door though - maybe it will come to that). Those are some good ideas for locations for placing ads - thanks. I'm out of that headspace and need to get back in it!
I can't help noticing how much work is coming in to my peers from instagram though. I'm getting the impression that it has become the standard medium/conduit for professionals.
just make business accounts on mainstream social media. idk what your job is or if you can do it but in parallel you can also have business accounts on federated/private/ethical whatever you call it social media and with that you are also promoting other networks etc. if u have more people working with you use some federated chat xmpp for example instead of slack, stuff like that
it's not your fault, there is no "ethical" production/consumption in capitalism
For running a public-facing business where your customer leads have to come from online, I don't have a good answer, except maybe to take an attitude that it's your company rather than you who is using the social media. I did a similar thing when I had to do some windows development for a client. I don't run windows on my own computers, but the client supplied a windows laptop that I did the work on, so it was their computer rather than mine, ok fine. I realize it's possible to overstretch that concept but it's a matter of your personal comfort level.
As an ordinary working stiff working privately for companies or clients but not seeking public exposure, I haven't had significant problems despite not using the big social media including linkedin and github. Just respond to advertisements and stuff like that to get jobs, and self-host a public code repo if you want one. Once someone commented on it but it still wasn't an issue.
You create business accounts.
Use them exclusively for business.
Use a separate browser to access those accounts.
Create a firewall as much as you can between the personal and professional online.
Business is inherently ethically dirty. Doing work for money is already an ethical step down. But in the environment you live in, it's necessary to survive. So you do it. For you and your kid.
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.
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
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opening Mass effect
pastebin.com/0NuUr6qd
I have tried
- Experimental
- Experimental bleeding edge
- 9.0-4
- 10.0-2 (beta)
- proton-CachyOS (native package)
none have worked
Stop resisting
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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
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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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For example in Debian Bookworm:
packages.debian.org/bookworm/g…
If you want a more complex way of creating and managing VMs, there is also virt-manager. But I feel that one is more suited for, say, professional use.
Debian -- Details of package gnome-boxes in bookworm
Simple GNOME app to access virtual systemspackages.debian.org
That's right, virt-manager is a GUI with many, many options. It is more tailored to run several VMs at once, give limited network access into or out of them, and so on.
Also very handy to run tiny, outdated Windows systems with an app you can't get rid off isolated from the net because it runs your grandpa's heart-lung machine or so.
Someone else brought up Virt Manager here, which is my preferred; if you’ve ever used VirtualBox, you’ll probably be fine on Virt Manager. I like Virt Manager for using GTK3, as I’m in XFCE. I wouldn’t be surprised if both applications have similar settings, as they’re both LibVirt front ends, it seems.
Also, DistroBox, while a different sort of thing, is great for the sort of thing OP mentioned in that last paragraph. I usually just use command line, but there seems to be an unofficial GUI out there.
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