‘Like the Gestapo’: trailblazing immigration judge on Ice brutality and Trump’s damage to the courts
‘Like the Gestapo’: trailblazing immigration judge on Ice brutality and Trump’s damage to the courts
Dana Leigh Marks had a long and notable tenure on the bench. Now she’s watching the Trump administration trash her institution – and raising the alarmIsabeau Doucet (The Guardian)
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I am a big fan of Notepad++ in windows and I have been using Notepadqq, a linux clone. Lately though, I have been experiencing more and more crashes and bugs with it. Looking for advice and wisdom. Is there something better? Should I stick it out and try and troubleshoot my problems with Notepadqq?
Edit: Just wanted to thank everyone for all the great advice! I know people can sometimes be territorial and/or religious about their choices here, but people in this thread were helpful and informative, so thank you!
I am trying out Notepad Next but I also installed Notepad++ with Wine. Both seem promising, thanks.
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A 160-year-old campaign against civil rights heads to the supreme court
What did Reconstruction do for us, anyway?
Because the executive and legislature branches seem to have jumped the constitutional shark, some people continue to hold out hope that the judicial branch, with the supreme court at its apex, will offer a way out of this mess. That would be a mistake: like Congress, the Republican majority on the supreme court has lined up behind most of the president’s sweeping assertions of novel powers. The supreme court has blocked lower federal court rulings that had reined in the president’s authority to withhold federal medical research grants for ideological reasons. It has allowed the executive branch to deploy roving immigration patrols to engage in racial profiling; to expel noncitizens to countries on the brink of civil wars where they could face torture, trafficking or death; to fire non-regime friendly officials (in violation of federal law); to dismantle entire departments and more.But one specific case on the court’s docket for this term illustrates its role in a more far-reaching rightwing project that goes back all the way to the end of the civil war.
Louisiana v Callais is a major challenge to what remains of the Voting Rights of Act of 1965, and could radically rework the structure of political representation in the United States. A successful challenge to the VRA would allow the Republican party to further cheat democracy by engaging in even more partisan gerrymandering and erasing several legislative districts held by Democratic officials, many of whom are racial minorities.
Remember to call your rep... oh, right.
A 160-year-old campaign against civil rights heads to the supreme court
Louisiana v Callais could roll back what remains of the Voting Rights Act, putting the future of America’s multiracial democracy at stakeGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
TP Link Router wants to share client info with third parties
My router (TP Link) said it had a firmware update. I'm a responsible adult, so I update my firmware. When I log back in, I get this popup that they'd like to share my clients info.
cool...
![A screenshot with text on top, a generic red background image in the middle, and buttons on bottom saying "Maybe Later" and "Authorize". The text on top says "We are now better at identifying clients! To accurately identify your connected clients, we will share your clients' information to a third-party service if you authorize it. We won't save your private information. For more details, refer to the Privacy Policy [in red, presumambly a hyperlink]".](https://poliverso.org/photo/preview/640/60382538 "A screenshot with text on top, a generic red background image in the middle, and buttons on bottom saying \"Maybe Later\" and \"Authorize\". The text on top says \"We are now better at identifying clients! To accurately identify your connected clients, we will share your clients' information to a third-party service if you authorize it. We won't save your private information. For more details, refer to the Privacy Policy [in red, presumambly a hyperlink]\".")
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One of two things happened:
- They implemented it just now, and it's nice of them to ask
Or:
- They've been doing it for years, and now legal told them they need to ask
I've never personally used that one, but it gets recommended a lot.
I've been using DD-WRT for 15+ years, but that's for no particular reason other than It's what I found first and haven't had any reason to switch.
I used DD-WRT for 9 years and had no reason to switch until I was forced to. At some point after a firmware upgrade my routers began to occasionally lose their configurations after power failures. Months of troubleshooting, logging errors and recreating configs made no difference. I had been concerned for some time that the project seemed to rely on one guy, and although what he's doing is amazing, it is not possible for him to thoroughly test each firmware release. When one of my routers lost its config when I was 200 miles away and I lost alarm monitoring I was forced to make a change.
Open-WRT has been a really pleasant surprise. It's completely stable on the same routers and the feature set is unbelievably broad. The learning curve was a bitch though.
I was on DD-WRT back when WRT54G but the DD-WRT devs don't really get it,
They make the bad compromises, and most of their initial contributors appears to have moved on to OpenWRT.
At this point DD-WRT isn't just another alternative, it's very stale while OpenWRT is still evolving rapidly and has the larger contributor community. And they put as much emphasis on performance, bloat reduction and efficiency as they do new features.
I have a 8MB nvram TP link archer C7 and it's actually faster in the latest version, that's basically unheard of in all of software !
Well, TP Link have never been trustworthy. Cheap and trustworthy rarely exist together.
I have the best smart plugs I could acquire - Kasa brand. They're great adapters, but the moment their API call doesn't get a response from their servers, they restart themselves every ten minutes. We all have to make some sacrifices in the journey to net security and independence, and keeping their API unblocked is one of mine.
If anyone wants smart plugs for monitoring purposes the Kasa brand is operable without the TP-Link app. Tapo is far worse. Never go full Tapo.
Yup, bought a bunch of TP-Link mesh towers. Turns out that they take down the whole WiFi when the main node looses internet connection. That's just not acceptable, I might have an unstable internet connection but still want access to my local devices, such as my streaming server or router.
On that node, does anyone know of a brand of mesh towers that can survive unstable/no internet connections and don't use custom firmware? DD-WRT works just fine, but I'm not gonna flash custom firmware onto friends' devices.
I have kasa switches and everything is blocked on my firewall so they can't phone home.
Overall they function fine. But I have 1 pesky switch that is constantly in a disconnected state (red light) no matter what I do. Every time I reconnect it it disconnects not too long later. It functions fine though, possibly because its a 3 way and the paired switch is fine.
I have another set of 3 way switches that have disconnected a few times but reconnecting them works just fine for a long while (years).
So my questions are, that pesky red light switch sounds kind of like your situation. When you say they reset themselves, do the lights go red?
Secondly, yours reset every 10 minutes? Most of mine seem fine. I'm not sure what's different between our setups.
I haven't seen the lights go red, only off, then orange, then green if they were already on.
Of my KP105 and KP115 plugs, only one has misbehaved, only once when their server was unreachable. The main culprit is the Kasa 303 I think it's called? The 3-outlet adapter.
They are great devices! But I'm waiting for a Zigbee or Matter alternative with energy monitoring so these can be swapped out
Kasa Smart Wi-Fi Power Strip, 3-Outlets
With 3 independently controllable outlets and 2 USB ports. Just plug your appliances into the smart power strip and remotely turn them on and off from anywhere with the Kasa Smart app.www.tp-link.com
Gotcha. So with a few exceptions they overall seem perform well across the board.
Once upon a time I dreamed of switching them all out for something better, and was actually looking forward to Tapo with matter support.
But for my uses I'm basically pulling the plug. My switches are smart enough. I can do schedules, profiles, and control with the app.
I don't need more than that and there's not really a privacy focused option as far as I know. Blocking internet is my solution to keep things contained.
…a third-party services…
Now, what is it, one or many!?
tp link routers tend to run openwrt pretty well.
Of course, I have the TP-Link router that isn't well-supported 😖
I kind of miss my old Linksys routers, which officially supported third-party firmware.
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i have always wondered how this works from the legal point. what if you disagree, should you sue to get your money back? you are buying product with some expectations, they can't just change that after you paid, can they?
it is similar with cars, what if you buy new car and the car's infotainment asks you to accept some outrageous terms and conditions, you do bother to actually read them and then decline. can you get your money back? has anyone ever tried?
aggregocttica moria senza soluzioni più spumose (l’Aggregoctt è morto e a fatica trovo alternative)
Settimane fa, o qualcosa del genere, mi era passato di mente il dover segnalare che l’Aggregoctt è fallito. Nel senso, funziona ancora — abbastanza a magia tra l’altro, devo dire, perché è assurdo che non si sia ancora rotto… cioè, in realtà è successo già tipo 2 volte, ma ogni volta ho potuto aggiustarlo senza […]
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aggregocttica moria senza soluzioni più spumose (l’Aggregoctt è morto e a fatica trovo alternative)
Settimane fa, o qualcosa del genere, mi era passato di mente il dover segnalare che l’Aggregoctt è fallito. Nel senso, funziona ancora — abbastanza a magia tra l’altro, devo dire, perché è assurdo che non si sia ancora rotto… cioè, in realtà è successo già tipo 2 volte, ma ogni volta ho potuto aggiustarlo senza fare cambiamenti radicali, il che è sorprendente — ma il problema è che, per come l’ho fatto, con questa roba del sito statico che deve compilarsi a partire da infiniti file HTML (ormai credo diverse centinaia di migliaia, al punto che GitHub si rifiuta di indicizzare la repo), prima o poi raggiungerà per forza un tetto pratico… e a quel punto fallirà davvero. 🥴Certo, potrei implementare la purga periodica di post vecchi, ma io che sono un’accumulatrice seriale mi sentirei proprio male… e poi, questa non è l’unica rogna. Infatti, per giunta, per quanto sia figo che funzioni interamente senza un server di hosting dinamico, aggiornandosi in automatico solo grazie alla CI gratuita di GitHub, un bel problemino che ho visto è che certi feed non si aggiornano lì sopra, perché il sito sfigato di turno sarà stato settato a minchia, con una protezione bot che blocca gli IP non-domestici pure per le richieste del feed… quindi, quella manciata di siti particolari non si aggiorna mai. 💔
Temo allora che la mia paura iniziale, cioè che l’Aggregoctt fatto con Jekyll e uno script Python vibe-codato rischiasse di essere solo un ripiego, si è confermata. In realtà, per chi è a posto con queste limitazioni, il template costruito fino ad ora rimane alquanto valido, e ancora consiglierei di forkarlo a chiunque vorrebbe farsi il proprio sito aggregatore (inserendo i propri URL nel file della lista) senza un server e senza grossi smanettamenti (anche se forse, per evitare che qualcuno si trovi in sorprendenti difficoltà, farei bene ad implementare quella maledetta purga, oltre a maggiori ottimizzazioni per il caricamento dei dati)… però io, avendo il serverino, potrei permettermi di più. 🙄
Problema: non c’è niente di ideale già fatto (altrimenti non avrei certamente speso tempo a creare l’Aggregoctt, avrei direttamente preso quel qualcosa e tanti saluti)… quindi dovrò vedere di fare io qualcosa e bla bla bla, mannaggia al mio tempo che scompare. Però, giusto per non cadere nella più totale disperazione (e in parte anche per assimilare passivamente idee di design simili alle mie ma lievemente diverse, per questo specifico tipo di applicazione), da qualche giorno sto provando un aggregatore trovato cercando nelle liste più improbabili di top aggregatori di feed selfhostabili: RSS. Si, il creatore — che stranamente non è uno scappato di casa, bensì è lo stesso che ha creato BookStack — lo ha veramente chiamato solo “RSS”, con la scusa che è un progetto a bassa manutenzione e creato principalmente per uso personale… vergognoso, ma lasciamo stare. 😕
Oh, sembrava bellino, e dopo averlo provato devo confermare che effettivamente lo è… ma allo stesso tempo ho percepito una puzza, quindi per ora l’ho messo sul mio classico dominio usa-e-ricicla di ; non si merita (per ora?) un dominio permanente. È simpatico, perché non ha login o permessi, e quindi replica bene la filosofia del primo Aggregoctt per cui il lettore personale funge anche da blogroll (cioè, una cosa del decennio scorso attraverso cui chi segue me può scoprire altre persone da seguire, potendo banalmente vedere una lista di chi seguo io… o, in certi casi non “seguo“, bensì “tengo d’occhio“, lieve differenza), e l’interfaccia è pulita e funzionale. Purtroppo è anche antipatico, visto che per funzionare richiede JavaScript moderno (zio pera, è una maledizione con tutti ‘sti cosi web), e quindi non si può usare sul Kindle (o anche, in generale dispositivi utili da riciclare per leggere, che però hanno browser web antichi); ma non ha neanche la modalità di lettura integrata, quindi comunque su Kindle e compagnia sarebbe un incubo da usare. (Ah e, edit: ho dimenticato di dirlo, la gestione di errori in questo coso è inesistente, e alcuni feed misteriosamente non caricano.) 😴Vabbè, alla fine il bilancio netto è comunque positivo, perché ora nel mondo esistono tecnicamente ben 2 Aggregoctti, e se non riesco a fare pace con tutto ciò prima o poi ne dovrà uscirà pure un terzo (e speriamo non di più, perché sennò veramente sarebbe la fine… cioè, la tragedia della mancanza di una fine, l’eterno ritorno dell’Aggregoctt)… Il fatto è che, a parte funzionalità improbabili che ora nemmeno vorrei ri-descrivere ma che sarebbe figo implementare, di piccole cose da poter fare per avere un’esperienza davvero epica ce ne sono a bizzeffe… come un’ottimizzazione per i feed dei social in modo che i post si vedano meglio rispetto agli articoli di blog classici, o un’ottimizzazione per i feed di YouTube per cui viene mostrato automaticamente l’embed per i video… ed è tutta roba semplice, ma, avendo il primo Aggregoctt le difficoltà che ho detto, più che spendere tempo a metterle lì farei bene a creare questa v3. (Aiutatemi!!!) 😽
#aggregator #Aggregoctt #feed #RSS
Memo by ██▓▒░⡷⠂𝚘𝚌𝚝𝚝 𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚒𝚍𝚎 𝚞𝚛 𝚠𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚜⠐⢾░▒▓██
RSS by Dan Brown, A simple, opinionated twitter-feed-style RSS aggregator written in PHP: + https://codeberg.org/danb/rss Memos
[SOLVED] I cannot add flatpaks as user, what am I doing wrong?
SOLUTION: add Flathub as a user remote too:
flatpak remote-add --user --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak lets you install applications as user vs system. I want to install as user because my .var is full.
example: flatpak install --user org.fcitx.Fcitx5 returns error: No remote refs found for ‘org.fcitx.Fcitx5’
flatpak remotes returns flathub system
I'm logged in as user5. whoami returns user5
I don't know what remote I have to add or if I have to add user5 as a remote
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What’s happening here is that you only have a system-wide remote configured, but you’re trying to install as user. Flatpak keeps two separate sets of remotes:
System remotes (available to all users)
User remotes (only for the logged-in user)
Since you have no user remotes defined, Flatpak can’t find anything when you do --user.
You need to add Flathub as a user remote. Run:
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists --user flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
I could be wrong but no remote refs refers to not finding a repo for what you are trying to install, so either the flathub repo isnt added which it sounds like it is, or the app you want isnt in that repo.
So you may need to add the repo for that app:
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what are these books?
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The top book is illegible. The bottom book appears to say “Aurelius Augustinus Bel…” DDG auto corrects that to “aurelius augustinus belijdenissen”. Seems to be some kind of Dutch Christian text.
Edit: The “Ambo” at the end I think connects it to this publisher amboanthos.nl/boek/belijdeniss…
Are Rooftop Solar Panels the Solution to America’s Growing Energy Crisis?
Are Rooftop Solar Panels the Solution to America’s Growing Energy Crisis?
Electric grids are increasingly under strain, and demand for energy is soaring. But not everyone sees the virtue in dotting homes across the country with solar panels.Ivan Penn (The New York Times)
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Part of it, yes. Agrivoltaics is another good part. Charging for electricity on a sliding scale is another part. Stop giving data centers discounts on electricity.
Also can we stop making all black rooftops?
US revokes Colombian president's visa after UN visit
US revokes Colombian president's visa after UN visit
Gustavo Petro told US soldiers to "disobey Trump's orders" while addressing a protest in New York.Stuart Lau (BBC News)
How do you get yourself to do anything?
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A question for everyone regarding AI calculations
MotoGP Giappone 2025: a Motegi vince Bagnaia, Márquez campione del mondo per la nona volta
Bagnaia domina il GP del Giappone 2025 a Motegi, davanti a Marc Márquez e Mir. Márquez vince il mondiale. Classifica completa della gara.
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US set for largest mass resignation in history as Trump continues deep cuts
Federal workers say they have little choice but to depart, with 100,000 leaving under deferred resignation program
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Pfizer sued in US over contraceptive that women say caused brain tumours
US class action lawsuit alleges company failed to warn about risks of using contraceptive injection Depo-Provera
The stripper who ushered in the modern subscription-based internet
In the 1990s, nobody knew how to make money through Internet subscriptions. It took an entrepreneurial porn star to crack the code.
Ukraine's Foreign Ministry responds to Hungarian official suggesting Ukraine give up territory for peace
Georgii Tykhyi, spokesperson for Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has said Ukraine does not need advice from Hungarian officials on exchanging territory or sovereignty.
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How a Travel YouTuber Captured Nepal’s Revolution for the World
Harry Jackson went into Kathmandu as a tourist. He ended up being one of the main international sources of news on Nepal’s Gen Z protests.
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‘Huge energy challenges’: how can India make the leap to become a green, clean country?
As deadly heatwaves become more frequent, demand for life-saving cooling is further straining India’s generation capacity
To avoid climate catastrophe, we must take on Big Oil
To avoid climate catastrophe, we must take on Big Oil
Fossil fuel companies are making a packet while the world burns, writes Mike Berners-Lee. The only way to stop that is to start hitting them in the pocketMike Berners-Lee (The Independent)
Trump officials shut off funding for climate adaptation centers
A third of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Climate Adaptation Science Centers are expected to drastically wind down and possibly close after Sept. 30.
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Americans to their government: Do you expect us to Adapt on our own?
Government to Americans: No. I expect you to die.
Judge who reviewed James Comey's indictment was confused by prosecutor's handling of case, transcript shows
U.S. Magistrate Judge Lindsey Vaala expressed confusion and surprise at some points during the seven-minute court session when a federal grand jury impaneled in Alexandria, Virginia, returned the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey Thursday night.
According to a transcript of the proceedings obtained by CBS News, Judge Vaala asked the newly named interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan — a former Trump personal lawyer — why there were two versions of the indictment.
A majority of the grand jury that reviewed the Comey matter voted not to charge him with one of the three counts presented by prosecutors, according to a form that was signed by the grand jury's foreperson and filed in court. He was indicted on two other counts — making false statements to Congress and obstructing a congressional proceeding — after 14 of 23 jurors voted in favor of them, the foreperson told the judge.
Judge who reviewed James Comey's indictment was confused by prosecutor's handling of case, transcript shows
A magistrate judge expressed confusion and surprise at some points during a Thursday night court session when a federal grand jury returned James Comey's indictment.Jacob Rosen (CBS News)
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I second this, particularly slskd, Navidrome and Beets for the server, Symfonium for the client. Lidarr and Tubifarry would be nice to grab new releases but it's not functioning very well.
Industry-wise, seriously just use Tidal, it's cheaper by way of better value. Tidal has had CD quality (24bit 44.1kHz, 1411kbps) as a base and 320kbps mp3 minimum since before Spotify started promising they'll add HiRes soon while offering 320kbps as a maximum.
The only reason someone would prefer Spotify is its partnership with three mainstream smart speaker brands, whereas Tidal is partnered with just one, Sonos. Bluesound too, but that's more niche
Tardozzi stucchevole su Bagnaia: "Ha ritrovato la felicità negli occhi"
Ai microfoni di Sky, Tardozzi ha evidenziato soprattutto l’atteggiamento del pilota: “Quello che fa più piacere è vedere la confidenza che ha trovato e la felicità negli occhi”.
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Bagnaia veloce a Motegi: miglior tempo nelle FP1 - Quotidiano Motori
Bagnaia a Motegi nelle FP1 miglior tempo e accede direttamente alla Q2. Tardozzi: "Ritrovata fiducia e serenità dopo i test a Misano".Mario Roth (Quotidiano Motori)
'Can you imagine the disdain?' Ex-GOP insider says Pete Hegseth setting stage for a 'coup'
'Can you imagine the disdain?' Ex-GOP insider says Pete Hegseth setting stage for a 'coup'
As U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth orders military brass from all around the world to meet with him for unstated reasons, he may be facing a form of military uprising, according to an independent political strategist who worked on former Presiden…David McAfee (Raw Story)
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domain: CATFLIX.SU
nserver: ns1.ddos-guard.net.
state: REGISTERED, NOT DELEGATED
$ host catflix.su
Host catflix.su not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
hm... i am not sure if this can be config error, or some ~~censorship~~ child protection is happening here.
i am in eu, in a relatively liberal country where no one cares about a torrent (yet), but i am in the vodafone network, so the latter would be not out of the realm of possibility.
$ host catflix.su ns1.ddos-guard.net
Using domain server:
Name: ns1.ddos-guard.net
Address: 185.129.101.200#53
Aliases:
catflix.su has address 186.2.163.75
$ host catflix.su 94.247.43.254
Using domain server:
Name: 94.247.43.254
Address: 94.247.43.254#53
Aliases:
Host catflix.su not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
giving about 5 clear indications that you’re from Ireland
now i am really curious, you wouldn't be able to put red circle around these 5 clear indications, would you?
I have this in my PiHole:
186.2.163.75 catflix.su
186.2.163.75 www.catflix.su
Just tried, it works.
There's no DNS record at any of the major servers: whatsmydns.net/#A/catflix.su
Even the registrar doesn't seem to have any record.
DNS Propagation Checker - Global DNS Checker Tool
Instant DNS Propagation Check. Global DNS Propagation Checker - Check DNS records around the world.www.whatsmydns.net
Are they encouraging sharing passwords now? I thought they did a big crackdown on that after being okay with it for years.
Edit: oh I went back and read the date.
They encourage whatever gets them more money.
In 2017 they hadn't saturated market share and were still trying for conversions from people who weren't using their product.
Think about it let like this,
When you open a port on your router you’re allowing inbound connections from the internet to that port via your WAN IP, with a VPN however, that typically does not work since you’re forcing all your traffic through a specific data centre with its own firewall. Most well developed VPN providers will offer Port Forwarding as a feature which usually opens a random port for people to make those inbound connections, you instruct your download client to use the port your VPN provider gives you so that people can leech from you without exposing your WAN IP.
Hope that makes it easier to understand.
There are plenty of resources online, but to get started I would go the easy route that I went and use docker.
Look to set up an “arr” stack. Make sure you have it set up gluetun and link to a VPN.
Essentially, you’ll buy a VPN connectio. Ensure this has P2P and Port Forwarding support.
You then set up docker in a way that first connects the vpn. If the vpn doesn’t work then it won’t start the download client like qbittorrent.
If you wait until after work I can share my docker compose file to give you an idea, but honestly if you’re somewhat capable with a keyboard then you can google you’re way to getting set up.
Please don't laugh but I was to scared to google yet XD I guess I kinda thought someone would knock the same minute as I start my research about it
I'd take any advice 😀
I would never lack at someone for not knowing something.
Where are you based? Happy to help you when I have some free time.
Try to understand it's not about reaching some arbitrary upload goal.
It's about speeding up the P2P network.
China-Linked PlugX and Bookworm Malware Attacks Target Asian Telecom and ASEAN Networks
Cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/43105573
ArchivedTelecommunications and manufacturing sectors in Central and South Asian countries have emerged as the target of an ongoing campaign distributing a new variant of a known malware called PlugX (aka Korplug or SOGU).
"The new variant's features overlap with both the RainyDay and Turian backdoors, including abuse of the same legitimate applications for DLL side-loading, the XOR-RC4-RtlDecompressBuffer algorithm used to encrypt/decrypt payloads and the RC4 keys used," Cisco Talos researchers Joey Chen and Takahiro Takeda said in an analysis published this week.
The cybersecurity company noted that the configuration associated with the PlugX variant diverges significantly from the usual PlugX configuration format, instead adopting the same structure used in RainyDay, a backdoor associated with a China-linked threat actor known as Lotus Panda (aka Naikon APT). It's also likely tracked by Kaspersky as FoundCore and attributed to a Chinese-speaking threat group it calls Cycldek.
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China-Linked PlugX and Bookworm Malware Attacks Target Asian Telecom and ASEAN Networks
PlugX and Bookworm campaigns strike Asian telecom and ASEAN targets using DLL side-loading and modular RATs.The Hacker News
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Il Supermercato Come Labirinto Psicologico: Trucchi Svelati!
Ti è mai capitato di entrare in un supermercato per comprare solo due cose e uscirne con un carrello pieno e la sensazione di aver perso ...Giuliano (Blogger)
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L'esempio di come sia facile e dannoso contrastare l'ansia in un solo modo, quando non serve
Le Benzodiazepine: La Dolorosa Cartina Tornasole di una Società ansiosa
Parlare di Benzodiazepine ci avvolge in una certa ansia, tanto che forse sarebbe utile assumerne qualcuna... ma, scherzi a parte, il proble...Giuliano (Blogger)
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X-ray scans reveal the hidden risks of cheap batteries
X-ray scans reveal the hidden risks of cheap batteries
Lumafield scanned 1,054 lithium-ion batteries using X-rays and found serious manufacturing defects in cells from low-cost and counterfeit brands.Andrew Liszewski (The Verge)
Linux Distribution "NixOS" drama: Moderation Team resigns in protest over Interference of Leadership; Elected Leader works for US Military Company, fearing alignment with US fascistic development
Short Summary of the Community Drama of the Linux Distribution "NixOS", so that you can get the big picture and form your own opinion with the provided sources.
Clarification of the "Steering Comittee" as Project Leadership
Moderation Team resigns in Protest
- Resignation Post, with examples of interference: discourse.nixos.org/t/a-statem…
- Conflict due different interests:
- the Moderation Team desires being independent. otherwise, they can't moderate the behavior of people in positions of power.
- the Moderation Team is currently accountable to the Steering Comittee: discourse.nixos.org/t/a-statem…
Technical Leadership works for Military Company, causing Fear of Alignment with Facism.
- Steering Committee works for Military Company discourse.nixos.org/t/sc-membe…
- People in the community feel uncomfortable with that, since the US and its military are heading towards facsism: mstdn.games/@KFears/1152756764…
- The Steering Committee made a public Post about that, explaining the Situation: discourse.nixos.org/t/statemen…
A statement from members of the moderation team
We resign, effective immediately, in protest of the Steering Committee’s ongoing pattern of attempting to interfere with moderation team operation, membership and specific moderation decisions.NixOS Discourse
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Can we avoid calling taking action against valid moral objections "drama"? It only serves to make the people doing the right thing sound like they're being immature, even when they're obviously right.
Objecting to a fascist government's influence over very powerful build infrastructure used around the world is the right thing to do.
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Most people when they hear "drama" they think things like the brain dead hissy fits on reality TV. The kind of pointless fighting we should avoid. Destigmatizing the word would legitimatize that stuff.
We really need a better word for this posts topic where there's very public back and forth but it's a much more valid moral disagreement.
I think I've been on the internet longer than you, and drama has always applied to any kind of spat between parties.
Look at the youtube channel DramaAlert for countless examples.
You would say that because that's how tribalism works.
Bunch of average people in here being average.
It’s The Nutshack memes
Aah meme history memory flashbang
valid moral objections
That's the thing, whether or not they're valid depends on the person you're asking.
I personally think this is a load of bullshit and just another instance of slacktivists trying to guilt people into doing their bidding.
Hopefully the leader in question doesn't change a single thing due to this pressure. He would be a helpless child if he didn't have the strength to resist this kind of peer pressure from online drama.
Are you joking? They're stepping down as mods for an extremely niche community.
That is prime slacktivism, but since it's for something you support you're going to lie and pretend it's not.
"Direct action" so many of you people love using vague language because you know the specifics make your argument look asinine.
"Direct action" doesn't mean anything specific. "They’re stepping down as mods for an extremely niche community" does.
Work on your reading comprehension.
You should probably just shut up.
Throw a tantrum harder as well.
2 day old account shilling for Nazis and calling calm replies explaining their positions “temper tantrums”
You fucking spineless shitbags are insufferable
shilling for Nazis
Yeah, this is my point about saying vague shit.
Of course I get censored due to the dogpile. Another reason not to take mods seriously.
That's the thing, whether or not they're valid depends on the person you're asking.
No it fucking doesn't! There are people who think that, but they're wrong.
Moral relativism is bullshit.
Steering Committee works for Military Company
It's only one SC member, and they switched jobs after being elected last year. I think the Nix community is generally very much against US MIC, and unlikely to actually elect someone working for them. Although it was well-known that tomberek (and johnringer) are US-military-aligned.
After reading a bit more into the modteam situation, I have to say I'm on the mod team's side here.
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For full independence, why not simply detach development from community?
You can even have multiple independent communities with multiple independent moderation teams all about the same software.
As a developer I've never needed to engage a particular community on a personal level in order to make a PR to a project.. if the technical maintainers want to accept the change, they will, if they won't then that's fine, they probably have their reasons. It's ok to communicate with communities to get feedback, but I'm not making contributions for the social approval, I'm making them when I believe they are useful, and most of the times I write them because I want to have that change myself. If it's rejected and enough other people are interested in the change, it can be forked. That doesn't mean I hate the maintainers or that I don't want the original to exist or anything, it's not personal.
But well, I understand that some communities wanna make software and they intertwine development and social relationships. However, if you do this then I don't see how can independence be a thing. Either separate them and don't intermix them or mix them and don't expect them to be separate.
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They're kind of welcoming and accomodating with that. I've sent some drive-by PRs towards NixOS and it was always very easy and productive interactions.
But I guess it's more complicated at that scale. You can't just do whatever like in smaller projects. Someone needs to be in charge of money and finances, there will be dissent that doesn't just go away on its own. And mid- to longterm decisions need to be made. Architecture decisions and sometimes that's not easy and might be contrary to what the community needs and wants right now. It's just a lot of overhead, but larger projects work quite differently from smaller ones.
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You have to look at the history of NixOS for it to make sense.
It started out small and there was a small group of people hacking away on a cool project in their free time. Of course they had shared interests and so would like to hang out together to discuss. That is how the community formed.
At first neither the community nor the distro were big, and so there wasn't much tensions. When something needed to be done/paid for, some member of the community just took it up and did it, doocracy-style.
Then as time went on and both the software world and Nixpkgs got more complex, the resource usage got outside the realm of "some dude just runs a build box in their basement" and "some other dude hosts a binary cache on their Uni's servers". There were commercial players willing to donate money and resources, but that needed some management, both financially and logistically. This is how the Foundation was formed, at first just by the project's founder and some trusted friends.
Simultaneously, as the community attracted more and more people, it started to feel less like a tight-knit group of friends and more like a town square: you know a couple folks well, kinda recognize most usernames, but can't say you're familiar with everyone. Some discussions got heated, and it became clear we would need moderation; that's how the moderation team formed.
Another aspect of community growing was that you could no longer just host a meetup at a local cafe and needed a dedicated space and such for everyone to fit it. This is how NixCon started, and since it costs money to rent a space, there were calls for sponsorship.
At some point, Anduril (a US MIC company with suspiciously fascist-like opinions and tech) started using Nix. Since they wanted to hire Nix engineers and in general wanted to do have sway in the Nix community, they sponsored a conference. People really didn't like that, there was a huge drama with open letters and maintainers leaving. The drama also uncovered some other rifts in the now quite massive community, e.g. contributors were unhappy with the direction Eelco (the project's founder) was taking Nix itself, and how many PRs into Nix, including crucial bugfixes, remained unreviewed for months.
This prompted a bunch of relatively trusted people in the community coming together and drafting up the constitution, which formed a new formal, elected governance body for the community, the Steering Committee, who had the final authority to manage all aspects of community governance (except finances). After the first SC election things calmed down a bit. Eelco semi-voluntarily left the Foundation and most other positions of power, the Nix maintainer team grew and that helped a bit with PR reviews, etc.
But it seems now Anduril has hired a member of the SC (after they were elected), once again prompting people to be rightfully upset about them trying to insert themselves in the community. There's also some mostly unrelated thing with SC trying to control the moderation team (the control which they do have according to constitution), to do some potentially shady things.
Hopefully this lets you see why NixOS needs a community, and community governance, in order for things to work at all. Someone has to host the binary cache, run the builders (which needs some entity to manage finances - the Foundation); review PRs (that needs discussions and those discussions need the moderation teem to keep them productive); and merge them (that needs committers, which requires deciding who's trustworthy enough to do that).
And yes, you can just make PRs or send patches without community participation. Most folks in the community are both super nice and technically knowledgeable, regardless of their political stances. But the community has to be there. I really hope that both theses things get resolved during the next SC election (which is in a month or so).
If it’s rejected and enough other people are interested in the change, it can be forked.
And actually both the Nix project (as in, the codebase) and the community had seen multiple notable "forks" over the years: GNU Guix started out as a Nix fork, there's also Tvix which is a Rust rewrite, Lix which is a code/community fork that happened after the first Anduril drama, etc. The latter two kind of rely on Nixpkgs and the associated build/cache infrastructure because maintaining that is expensive.
I see, thanks for the overview.
If NixOS really does need a community in order for things to work at all, and it cannot be independent from it, then it looks like the moderation team asking for independence is a hard ask. It'll require restructuring it.
However, with this context it looks to me that what they are asking is not really independence for the moderation team, but independence from Anduril.. which are 2 completely different things. The message is misleading.
Well, yes, there are two separate contentious points.
The Anduril thing actually happened a month or so ago. I feel like this will be resolved at the next election, since tomberek's term is ending and I don't think he will be reelected, knowing how much most people in the community hate US MIC.
The moderation team independence is more complicated. It looks like the Steering Committee tried to remove a member from the moderation team, and also tried to push a new member onto it. I don't know the exact details there. If we just read the constitution, the SC has that power, but the moderation team was very unhappy with what they see as meddling in their affairs for political reasons, and decided to quit out of protest. I feel like the new member was a right-wing (in the context of the kinda leftist Nix community anyway) political appointment (since the stated reason was "to balance things out politically" and the mod team was mostly leftist), but don't know for sure and this is pure speculation. In any case, I think the moderation team is special and should not be under complete control of the SC (unlike purely technical teams). I don't know how that would look like, and indeed as you say a restructuring is needed. Maybe the SC should only be able to veto people joining the team, but the candidates have to be chosen by the mod team themselves, and in order to disband the mod team the SC must disband themselves too. Otherwise the moderators will have no good way to moderate any discussion involving SC.
First things first: a simple search for "anduril nixos" shows that NixOS and Anduril Industries (defense technology) have been entangled for years.
So, pretty sure there's plenty history & dissent here, but I never dived into it.
In detail this looks like just another community drama, but when you zoom out a different picture emerges: commercial interest, a will to silence dissent (and I will give them the benefit of the doubt that it isn't for ideological reasons but simple worry about money). The Enshittification of a distro. With a military/fascist twist.
Here's an interesting detail:
Unfortunately, the Constitution does not provide a meaningful recourse to SC overreach
So they have a flawed "constitution" which - judging by its name - should supersede the steering committee. It's not like it's really a constitution though, with all that would entail. It sounds more like, hm, "communitywashing" to me. Still, I wonder if they're willing to take that colorful terminology one step further and make an amendment to said constitution.
So yeah, political bias and unilateral decisions.
I've always been leery of NixOS, and I mean since they started pushing it over a decade ago, always claiming it's revolutionary better than $STANDARD_LINUX_DISTRO.
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First things first: a simple search for “anduril nixos” shows that NixOS and Anduril Industries (defense technology) have been entangled for years.
It's more like Anduril using Nix{OS} and trying to insert themselves into the community. There's been a lot of opposition to that, including an open letter and maintainers quitting; this was a big part of the reason for Steering Committee formation in the first place. The SC has since voted on some based things, like banning Anduril from job posting on community forums and sponsoring conferences. I was hoping they would just ban any mention of Anduril anywhere, but that's going too far for them unforutenately; and banning technical contributions wouldn't make sense.
An SC member joining Anduril (after being elected, not before, mind you) is really bad, but I bet they will lose their seat in a month's time when there's a new election. The community is mostly antifascist and thus anti-MIC. It's like one of the most leftist technical communities I've seen, perhaps more so than Rust.
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It’s like one of the most leftist technical communities I’ve seen, perhaps more so than Rust
Rust is on the left? That's (cough) GNUs to me ;).
Rust is socially vaguely on the left/progressive side, yes. Not so much economically of course, because of all the corporate involvement.
GNU has some right-wing libertarian culture in it, but is also vaguely leftist and anti-corporate otherwise. I would actually say Rust is slightly more progressive than GNU on social issues, but not by much; and GNU is more anti-corporate, but also not by much.
I know there some other more certainly leftist FOSS projects out there (like the one we're chatting on right now 😉) but overall Nix is pretty good on that front.
How so? I feel like if we're making jokes based on the language itself it would be more like the "straightest" language because of how strict it's type system is. It seems like a sort of "there are two genders" sort of thing. Rust seems like the homophobic language.
(And to be clear, this is just a joke based on the language, not a commentary on the Rust community.)
The most ridiculous thing in the conversations I read was someone arguing that the fact that Anduril has a member at SC (Steering Committee) weakens their position. The mental gymnastic is so insane to me because it completely naively expect people who have a conflict of interest to do the right thing. What if they don't ?
There is real smart fascists out there. they won't kindly "recuse themselves" and weaken Anduril positions. Very suspicious that someone would argue that Anduril gets weaker at SC by having people there.
The most ridiculous thing in the conversations I read was someone arguing that the fact that Anduril has a member at SC (Steering Committee) weakens their position. The mental gymnastic is so insane to me because it completely naively expect people who have a conflict of interest to do the right thing. What if they don't ?
The argument there was that they would be excluded of any votes related to said company.
It reads as an "honor" system rather than any objective exclusionary mechanism. Steering committee members are expected, and to their credit, were considered to have done so, but it all seems like judgement calls.
It is fully possible that grey areas or instances where other SC members didn't personally care, were not met with recusal.
It would overall be better to not have those conflicts be likely or even possible.
Didn't this exact situation, for this exact same reason happen last year already?
The current political climate really is making people be stupid.
Endurance will determine who wins these battles.
The current political climate is really stupid making people unsure about what to do.
FTFY
I've been saying this for years: Just switch to Guix.
- An official GNU project;
- Herd instead of systemd;
- Uses Linux Libre and only 100% free software;
- Big, friendly, helpful community;
- Regular meetups, unconferences and other events;
- Config is done in an established language (Scheme) instead of an idiosyncratic DSL.
Quite trivial
Nonguix / nonguix · GitLab
Guix channel for packages that can't be included upstream. Please do NOT promote or refer to this repository on any official Guix communication channels.GitLab
Also, a fraction of packages, users and guides.
I think Guix is great, but as a NixOS enthusiast who genuinely wanted to try it out, I gave up in the face of the lack of docs for people who aren't working in lab or have a PhD in computing of some sort.
Also, how is shepherd better than systems? Genuinely curious.
Lastly, I agree Nix is not a very enjoyable language, but scheme doesn't look like a very beginner friendly option either. Could be wrong, I'm not a programmer.
If you are still trying to find the best guide, I recommend this one
thiscute.world/en/posts/my-exp…
OS as Code - My Experience of NixOS
It’s February 2024, exactly 10 months since I started using NixOS. The beginner notes I wrote initially have received a lot of positive feedback and some sponsorships, becoming one of the most popular entry-level tutorials in the entire community.Ryan Yin (ryan4yin)
How do you do Flakes with Guix? That's probably the most important feature Nix has.
Big, ... helpful community
Not sure I would agree with that lol
I was trying to package Typst for them once. The IRC barely gave me any help, nor did the mailing list, so I had to guess a lot of things on my own. I ended up spending several hours working on it and fine tuning it to what the documentation wanted as much as I could. Then I finally made the submission, which was ignored for an entire year, before finally being rejected. It's clear that the package repository has a severe lack of packages, but if there's no clear way to contribute, then idk how anyone can take the project seriously.
I've also encountered bugs that made the tools unusable on my laptop that similarly got no response on IRC and the mailing lists.
Meanwhile on Nix, if I submit an issue on Nixpkgs, it will usually get resolved by the maintainer in 24 hours, or at most a week if it's a larger change, and I don't even have to do anything, and things aren't constantly broken on aarch64.
I've been eyeing Guix for a while but haven't jumped in yet. Honestly, I feel like I'm finally getting comfortable with nixos and flakes over the years. There's quite a bit of un/relearning to do, and I can't tell if the flow of Guix's channels/inferiors would match the ease of composability that I like with flakes. The lock system really does it for me and I don't like the idea of hunting down refs to pin manually or maintaining my own frankenstein repo (other than my config).
That said, I do use emacs and actually like lisp, so I'm torn right now.
I'm not familiar with NixOS
However, short reminder that the internet was largely funded by the US military. It's not uncommon that the US military brings significant developments for the internet. This is nothing new. The latest outcry is solely because the US is sliding into fascism, not because of the involvement with the US military.
Can't the MIC just use any existing Linux distro?
I am trying to understand what the injury here is?
Is it mostly about reputational damage from association? Kinda like why are we eating the same food as MIC and at the same table? Is there an injury here beyond this that I am not seeing?
Couldn't the MIC shut down every FOSS project by declaring they love them and use them? I hope no FOSS dev is so simpleminded as to knee jerk like that.
We have to accept living in a dirty world with dirty people, to some extent. People we don't like will use our favorite projects sometimes. That's par for the course.
Where I would draw the line is implemeting some change into the distro that is either only or primarily useful for nefarious purposes, and is largely useless to 99% of normal/ethical use cases. Now THAT would be a real problem, and a real red line, imo.
And now DHH is getting involved in this shitshow. For those not chronically online enough, DHH is one of the developers of Rails, has a rap sheet of drama, and has his own dirty laundry full of racism, transphobia, and has managed to drive his own company into the shitter.
So really a bunch of winners are coming out of the woodwork for this one.
As a happy Debian user i'm not hearing any of it.
Breaking Camp
Basecamp announced it would ban “societal and political discussions” at work. But the hardest conversations at work were about the company itself. Platformer’s Casey Newton spoke with half a dozen employees about the controversy.Casey Newton (The Verge)
Sounds like interpersonal bullshit reframed as politics. Honestly impressed at the resignation letter being able to use so many words while avoiding actually directly explaining what they're upset about. Of course it would take something really egregious and extraordinary for me to give a shit, because..
The steering committee or board of trustees or whatever should be sitting the rules for the organization, up to an including adding or removing mods from a forum if they want. That's what they exist for. The idea that a mod team should be independent of the actual organizational structure of an institution is ridiculous.
Scientists want to treat complex bone fractures with a bone-healing gun - Ars Technica
In more complex bone problems like severe, irregular fractures or resections done as part of bone cancer treatment, the bone won’t heal on its own. The most common means of stabilizing the injured site and making recovery possible is metal-based grafts, implants usually made with titanium alloys.The problem with such implants is that they are difficult and expensive to manufacture, and it’s very hard to make them patient-specific. “3D printing has been highlighted as a novel approach to make such personalized implants, but this also requires substantial time and money,” said Jung Seung Lee, a biomedical engineering researcher at the Sungkyunkwan University in Korea. So his team wanted to find a way to make bone implants that would be faster and cheaper than a 3D printer.
What they came up with was a modified glue gun. The idea was to make the implant right at the injured site during surgery. The surgeon would point the bone-healing gun at the fractured bone, pull the trigger, and create a stabilizing scaffold by extruding a filament that would solidify in the fracture and hold the bone together. “It was basically a tweaked commercially available hot glue gun. We modulated the temperature, and by adjusting the tip module, we could control the resolution of the extruded scaffold,” Lee said.
Coming up with the gun design, though, was the easy part. The hard part was figuring out the ammo.
Scientists want to treat complex bone fractures with a bone-healing gun
It’s a bit like a handheld 3D printer, with all the accuracy challenges that implies.Jacek Krywko (Ars Technica)
Réunion d'accueil en commun, organisée par Extinction Rebellion Montpellier et le comité local des Soulèvements De La Terre Montpellier
Envie de nous rencontrer et pourquoi pas de nous rejoindre ❓❗
Tu ne peux ou ne veux pas nous rejoindre sur le terrain ❓❗
Tu peux nous soutenir financièrement 💶😉
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My dear furry friends!
For those who engage in a bit of furry-centric AI chat RP, where do you find your cards? I typically use Chub but I was hoping to find a new place for some interesting characters.
Edit: I genuinely don't understand the downvotes here. Is this is the wrong forum or something? I'm happy to remove it if needed.
I use Chub for this purpose too, so can't really help there
If you're using SillyTavern it also supports import from janitorai, so I take cards from there pretty often
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the more you know...
Oh shit it's the same in Polish
Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds
Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds
Sentient Media reveals less than 4% of climate news stories mention animal agriculture as source of carbon emissionsJoe Fassler (The Guardian)
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About this article, one thing that I don't like is that once more the focus is on personal decisions. This shifts the focus from a systemic problem to personal problem. It's the industry that dictates regulations and policies through lobbying. Let's keep our eyes on the goal.
Edit: Of course boycotting the industry would be a great solution, and this doesn't even mean that someone needs to be vegan, or that they are loaded wth money. Or even avoiding bying these products would be great. Still, the most important thing imo is that industries stop doing what they do.
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I mean that's sort of the point of the article. Stopping climate change is going to require both systemic and personal change. Media likes to focus on the systemic parts:
mining, manufacturing, and energy production (55.9%); fossil fuels (47.9%); and transportation (34%)
And ignore the personal parts because people don't like to be told "this thing that brings you joy is killing the planet" and are more open to the idea that it's all just the big corporations faults and if we could just control/regulate them we can have a sustainable future without having to change our lifestyle.
We are going to have to change our lifestyle though and meat consumption is going to be a big part of that change. It's also a personal choice, it's not like cars where the system is basically forcing you to drive. You can become vegan or vegetarian tomorrow and the only cost would be to your taste. Sure there are some subsidies nudging you towards consuming meat, but rice and beans is still the cheapest diet there is and no amount of beef subsidies will make a burger the cheaper option.
It'd be able to pretty easily sustain the current population with more sustainable lifestyles and renewable infrastructure in the most polluting countries.
Industrial meat, consumerism, and fossil fuel use are all driven by capitalism. If we get rid of that and work on addressing those problems, we'd be chill.
This factually incorrect. Earth can sustain the current population easily - just not with our current death-spiral of capitalism.
It's also one of the core eco-fascist talking points.
Give me everything you've got!
I drank from a water hose as a kid, and I love to drink straight from the hose of knowledge.
Decent living for all: Can we meet basic needs and save the planet?
Modern life, with its many comforts and practicalities, relies on the extensive use of energy. While many places in the world need more energy to achieve higher standards of living, many countries still struggle to provide their populations with basi…Yale Environment Review
Malthus was a fascist and you're a fascist for repeating his bullshit.
Now back on topic: I'm pretty sure the couple companies that are mostly based on fossil fuels being responsible for around 90% of greenhouse gases are the main contributors to climate change, not meat production, even if it contributes too.
Someone who is "fairly certain" has done, I assume, their own research. If in the end they discover Malthusianism and found it so fitting that they ascribe to it, they have ascribed to fascist ideology.
I understand where you're coming from, but at some point we have to stop saying that people who have every information at their fingertips(the internet), and a world-vetted source if information (wikipedia) very accessible to them, it becomes a farcical ritual to keep defending them via ignorance, when it is, at best, learned incompetence and at worst full throated Nazi ideology.
in a world of anonymity, I like to judge people by their actions. And repeating fascist ideology makes someone fascist, in my eyes, especially when they double-down after it's pointed out.
Fascism is a far right ideology.
I'm very far left.
You seem to use "fascist" as an ad hominem fallacy.
you can claim whatever the shit you want. Doesn't change that you repeat fascist talking points, which makes you a fascist.
I am using fascist as a descriptor, not a repeat of claimed identity.
You're using it to attempt to discredit my statement.
That's the ad hominem logical fallacy.
If I'm wrong, show me data, and I'll retract my statement.
So you're telling me I could live in a world without meat but almost 10 times more people? Why would anyone want that?
I have to buy more steaks.
Beef industry groups take an active approach to messaging, including staffing a 24/7 “command center” in Denver that scans social media for negative stories and deploys counter-messaging.
Damn, as if watching out for Russia bots and Israel bots wasn't enough now we gotta watch out for beef bots.
I've gotten to 42% vegan, 42% lacto-vegetarian, and 14% omnivore, but I can and should do better.
But, I don't think individual action is the "right" solve for this. I think we have to cap emissions by regulation. We could do cap and trade if will had really good measures for removal and capture, but we can't depend on self-reporting for that.
Tradies leaving trucks running all day because they aren't paying for the fuel is an emissions source.
Buses idling at stops for tens of minutes at a time is an emissions source.
Target the people that are wilfully wasting resources.
If you look at the source of the data for emissions it's unclear that it's all from meat production: ourworldindata.org/greenhouse-…
Even if we take at face value that meat accounts for 60% of industrial agriculture emissions, as a proportion of total emissions that is still only 0.6 * 26% = ~16%. It's sizable, but perhaps we should be addressing the elephants in the room, in the "non-food" section, first.
How much of global greenhouse gas emissions come from food?
Estimates of food emissions can range from one-quarter to one-third. Where do these differences come from?Hannah Ritchie (Our World in Data)
As wasteful as our AI usage is it still has a function that couldn't be substituted. There's no other tool that could be used for, say, a certain subset of public health analysis or massive archival projects or image analysis.
Granted if we were using it in only those cases we'd need a fraction of the capacity. But the emissions we'd cut are much, much smaller than the savings from the meat industry. Last I checked all US datacenters (not just AI) were less than 3% of emissions. Building and running a computer isn't as disruptive as constantly moving millions of tons of meat + feed + equipment and minutae.
Commercial meat is a luxury because it can be entirely replaced by other calories + nutrients + supplements. And this is just a discussion on emissions but the other benefits of going meatless are just as notable (eg: agriculture is the #1 cause of ecosystem collapse; large public health benefits)
Commercial meat is a luxury
This is a take I've never heard before, it's not how I think luxury goods are defined, and I'm now genuinely curious as to what you consider a luxury product. Do you think that eating some chicken is the same as wearing a Hermes handbag, or driving a Lamborghini?
because it can be entirely replaced by other calories + nutrients + supplements.
This reads to me like it cannot be replaced without supplementation, which seems to be a critical flaw for people who are unable to supplement. I'm also of the opinion that calories are not a useful measure for nutrition, since our bodies are not bomb calorimeters.
A luxury is something pleasant or enjoyable but not strictly necessary. It's not a matter of how much more enjoyable it is but just that it can be functionally replaced (Lambo -> Toyota Corolla; Designer bag -> any other bag; Meat -> Plant proteins). Unless there's some rare medical condition that prevents eating anything but animal proteins, we have the means to replace it (as a massive commercial industry at the very least).
WRT alternative diets it really depends on what you replace it with. I believe there are technically some entirely vegan diets without supplements but if you're buying your meat from the store you could just as easily buy supplements from the same place and not worry about it.
I went meatless recently and even as an unabashed meat lover it really wasn't that bad. Vegan/vegetarian meat substitutes have advanced a ton in the past few years when I do get the craving, but I don't notice a day-to-day difference. The main annoyances have been limited restaurant menus and rebuilding my recipe catalog.
I see, so your definition of luxury good is "something that can be functionally replaced." I was thinking of the economic definition.
I don't think meat to be functionally replaceable with plant proteins. Heme-iron alone makes it very difficult to do, since iron from plants is far less bioavailable. What does a vegan diet do for Vitamin B12? Conspicuous consumption is not necessary for survival, but B12 very much is.
I don’t notice a day-to-day difference.
Changes from nutrition can take a long time to become manifest. I wish you longevity and good health.
IIRC there is exactly one variety of lentil that can supply B12, but otherwise it's mass produced via bacteria fermentation. At a certain age, most doctors recommend a daily vitamin supplement anyway so it's really a matter checking a few labels before you pick one to make sure your multivitamin matches your meatless diet.
I appreciate the well wishes, my doctor is already much happier with my visits 😂
The problematic nutrients are B12, D and Omega-3.
Food specifically for vegans such as plant milk is usually fortified with B12 and D. Vitamin D can also be gotten by touching grass. Linseed is a good Omega-3 source.
To quote my own comment on this post:
Animal farming is a waste of farmland, just grow human food directly without the mass murder and extreme inefficiency
It's strange how that same site, in a different article with the same author, lists a very different number of 18.4% for all Agriculture, of which livestock and manure makes up just 6%:
ourworldindata.org/ghg-emissio…
I suppose the difference depends on how things are defined and categorized.
Sector by sector: where do global greenhouse gas emissions come from?
Globally, we emit around 50 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases yearly. Where do these emissions come from? We take a look, sector-by-sector.Hannah Ritchie (Our World in Data)
That is misunderstanding the graph. That's only counting direct emissions. Feed production is a major source of emissions for animal agriculture
From the article:
“Livestock” emissions here include direct emissions from livestock only — they do not consider impacts of land use change for pasture or animal feed.
Yeah, because for the majority of the public it's a lost cause.
I haven't eaten meat in so long and I sincerely don't miss it but anytime I mention it to my friends it's unconscionable. I wasn't even pitching for them to be a vegetarian, I was pitching for them to eat smaller portions.
I brought up that we should stop subsidizing red meat so heavily so we can subsidize healthier foods, I might as well have been Judas himself.
The meat industry propaganda runs deep.
Download Eden a Switch emulator as long as you can
**cross-posted from beehaw.org/post/22388618**
It's reported that the Google Play store entry of Eden emulator (a Switch emulator) is no longer available. We don't know the reason, but my educated guess is that Nintendo might have striked. I recommend to download current official clean builds and source code for backup, just in case you want to use it later.
- Homepage: eden-emu.dev/
- Downloads: github.com/eden-emulator/Relea…
- Source: git.eden-emu.dev/eden-emu/eden
I personally still use last official build of Yuzu, even today (playing Tears of the Kingdom). I never tried Eden, but it might be useful to archive it, so I do not need to download builds of others if I can't build it from source for any reason.
Here is a random article about this subject: androidauthority.com/play-stor…
Switch emulator Eden is now on the Play Store (Update: Confirmed)
One of the best Nintendo Switch emulators is now on the Google Play Store, becoming the first to accomplish the feat.Ryan McNeal (Android Authority)
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Push the code to radicle and they won't be able to take it down.
Never heard of this. Why use it over Torzu?
A google play store entry already leads me to believe the developers are morons.
Shein chiude e delocalizza in Polonia
Il colosso cinese SHEIN ha confermato la chiusura del polo logistico di Stradella ed il trasferimento delle attività in Polonia.
Centinaia di lavoratori il primo gennaio prossimo si troveranno senza impiego.
glistatigenerali.com/economia-…
SHEIN conferma: chiude l'hub di Stradella - Gli Stati Generali
“Tra i lavoratori serpeggia un mix di rabbia e depressione” mi racconta Sergio Antonini, segretario della Filt CGIL di Pavia. Fiege Logistik, gruppoMarco Veruggio (Gli Stati Generali)
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in reply to TurboWafflz • • •Eugenia
in reply to xylogx • • •cRazi_man
in reply to xylogx • • •andrewd18
in reply to cRazi_man • • •FYI Kate and Kwrite use the same code base under the hood but display with different UIs.
kate-editor.org/post/2022/2022…
Kate ate KWrite
Kate ate KWritecRazi_man
in reply to andrewd18 • • •db2
in reply to xylogx • • •xylogx
in reply to db2 • • •I see it is Platinum on WineHQ, will give that a try thanks.
appdb.winehq.org/objectManager…
WineHQ - Notepad++
appdb.winehq.orgbrucethemoose
in reply to xylogx • • •VSCodium, or some similar VSCode build/derivative.
I know, I know, but the critical mass is just so useful. As a random example, there are specific extensions to support game modding in Paradox scripting language, or Rimworld XML. Nothing else has so many random niches filled.
It's fast with big files (faster than anything I've tried other than 'specialized' log readers and such), it's a fast search, it's got good git support, it's got support for sudo file editing...
xylogx
in reply to brucethemoose • • •Jerkface (any/all)
in reply to brucethemoose • • •I don't know the VSCode ecosystem at all -- but you you know the emacs one?
Señor Mono
in reply to xylogx • • •lefaucet
in reply to Señor Mono • • •TurboWafflz
in reply to Señor Mono • • •Señor Mono
in reply to TurboWafflz • • •If three out of three platforms isn’t enough, you might want to go with vim. I guess it is ported to all platforms available.
Sublime is a text-editor on steroids. It has so many good extensions, it feels like an IDE.
Anyhow: paying for good software is a no-brainer, if it safes you troubles and time, and especially if yourself are a dev, too (depending on others to also pay for your work). Also there are fair company licenses in case a firm is involved.
And finally: you can use sublime without paying. There will he a pop up dialog every 50 start or so. It’s really not annoying and fair.
TurboWafflz
in reply to Señor Mono • • •A_norny_mousse
in reply to xylogx • • •Try Geany if you don't want a heavyweight; it's in the repos. IMHO pretty similar to notepadqq.
BTW, I also have trouble with Qt apps crashing/freezing on Debian Stable. What distro/version are you on?
non_burglar
in reply to xylogx • • •The Solaris version of vi, hardened against escape to shell and with no quality of life improvements. Builds character.
I also recommend giving up electricity and motor vehicles, real men calculate subnet masks by hand.
anon5621
in reply to xylogx • • •GitHub - dail8859/NotepadNext: A cross-platform, reimplementation of Notepad++
GitHubxylogx
in reply to anon5621 • • •bacon_pdp
in reply to xylogx • • •Scite is the notepad++ replacement on Linux.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciTE
As it shares the same source code as notepad++ (for the editing libraries)
Although the traditional recommendation is either Vim or Emacs as they are much more powerful
free and open text editor
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)A_norny_mousse
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in reply to xylogx • • •xylogx
in reply to StrawberryPigtails • • •Fair point. I have worn many hats through my IT career, I started out as a Windows NT admin back when it was cutting edge technology in the 90s. I fell in love with a text editor called Ultraedit that my org had a site license for. When I left that org after many years I missed Ultraedit and was delighted to find Notepad++ had most of features I loved. Now the course of my career has found me become a Linux admin and personal linux user for many years now. I have been using Notedpad-qq for years, but recently it seems to have gotten worse and I have had instances where crashes resulted in lost data. I liked the idea of having the same general UI and features as Notepad++ because I still need to use Windows at work. But I am reluctantly admitting maybe it is a time for a change.
Apologies for the digression, but I wanted to share some of the waypoints in my journey that influenced my personal choice.
communism
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in reply to communism • • •Ŝan
in reply to xylogx • • •It depends on what you are doing wiþ it. Programming? Taking notes? Writing books?
For all-around, vim is a good choice. Þere's even gvim, which helps get over þe learning curve a little. Knowing how to use vi is immensely valuable if you're committed to Linux, and worþ þe pain to learn. And it is a pain to learn.
Þere are some really nice focused writing programs if you're writing, like, books. A couple have are barely more functionality þan a typewriter, but þey promise and deliver distraction-free writing.
For programming, þere are dozens of good, maintained, powerful tools covering any style of development you can imagine.
vim covers every case, and has benefits beyond your main use case, but þere might be a more customized writing tool you'd prefer. What sorts of þings are you writing?
jbrains
in reply to xylogx • • •rozodru
in reply to xylogx • • •Honestly just use whatever you want whenever you want. I mean for myself I'm currently using DOOM Emacs but that'll change in a month or two when I decide to use something else. I'll routinely rotate through Neovim/LazyVim, DOOM Emacs, Zed, Kate, whatever really. if something new comes along, i'll use that for a bit. Hell sometimes I just can't be bothered and will just use Nano.
But yeah, they're all fine. use whatever you want.
Starkon
in reply to xylogx • • •- Vim keybinds: yes, we take more time editing then actually writing text/code so it's faster to use a modal text editor, you just have to learn it a bit at the start. Vim language is easy, you just tell it what you want it to do (ie. diw: delete inner word, ciw: change inner word etc.)
- highly customisable, even if you don't want to cherry pick your plugins and choose a config, there are many out of the box configured (lazyvvim comes to mind but there are many)
- if you're a developer you can find plugins for everything you need, debugger, lsp, autocompletion etc.
Treczoks
in reply to xylogx • • •If push comes to shove, you can still use Notepad++ under Wine. It works.
I use Kate for my editing needs, fast and good regexp work, which is important for me.
juipeltje
in reply to xylogx • • •whysofurious
in reply to xylogx • • •Textadept
Textadeptpineapple
in reply to xylogx • • •Vim!
If you really don't want to then try kwrite for something more simple or kate for a full IDE. There both developed by kde and been around for a while.
PotatoesFall
in reply to xylogx • • •What kind of text editing do you do? Coding? Config files? Hard to recommend if we don't know the use case 😛
If you want to get into terminal text-editors, I recommend helix-editor.com/ . It's modal like vi/vim/neovim etc., but has much easier and more intuitive keybinds, and comes batteries-included and doesn't require extensions.
Downsides: Not fully mature, there's no extension support so not suited for very niche use-cases. And if you ever have to administrate a server through SSH, it will likely only have vim which has different motions and keybinds.
Been using it for 99% of my coding for three ish years, very happy.
Helix
helix-editor.comMatt
in reply to xylogx • • •Zed — The editor for what's next
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in reply to callcc • • •I used it for a couple of years then stopped 🫣
org mode was nice. except for on mobile. except if you wanted images. and discovering the right packages was a bit of a chore
it was fun while it lasted tho
brax
in reply to JAPHacake • • •Fuck you.
Love,
Neovim
(Just meming, emacs is actually pretty cool tbh and you probably are too.)
lastweakness
in reply to xylogx • • •HouseWolf
in reply to xylogx • • •I also used Notepadqq for the first year I used Linux, I ended up switching to Kate since it did everything I liked about Notepad++ and it came installed with my KDE desktop soooo.
Also for the few times I gotta use a terminal text editor I use Micro (It really should be the default instead of Nano)
golden_zealot
in reply to xylogx • • •Helix, Kakoune, build Codium from source would be my suggestions.
I use Helix now mainly - I use Codium if I need a graphical editor for something, or one of it's plugins.
At work the systems use VSCode but I use the Dance plugin with Helix bindings to get some of that functionality back.