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Recommendations for audio production software?


I have literally zero experience with creating audio, but I want to try something new for me.

I know most people who are "properly" into music production are just using a Mac, because it just works and where a lot of the software is available.

Thing is, I have zero expectations.
I don't need a lot of features, plug-ins, and whatever. Most stuff will probably just be fine for me.

Heck, I don't even know what I need in the first place to get a full "stack" of audio production software.

For the start, I'd prefer something simple.
Mostly just something where I can arrange a few recorded audio tracks onto each other and maybe edit them a bit.
Something where I can record the tracks with my microphone (and some time later maybe an input device like a piano keyboard, e-guitar, etc.) and listen them at the same time, preferably in the same program.

What are your experiences with making music on Linux?
What software would you recommend?

in reply to Günther Unlustig 🍄

I have been on the same quest. I have used Ableton on mac/windows and I’m eyeing Bitwig. I tried Ardour for a little bit, but never gelled with it. Ardour would probably be fine if I did some effort on learning the interface, but I didnt find it that intuitive.


Chat Control is back & we've got only a few weeks to stop the EU CSAM scanning plans.


The Dastardly Danes and Ursula are at it again.

fightchatcontrol.eu/

in reply to Korkki

And there it is, an oppressive weapon camouflaged as a nicely packaged present. What I seem to realise is our "dependancy" on the governments perspective - it's like they already speak the ultimate truth, testing the limits of what is democracy.

Is it really right to be weaponising children and minors into essentially constructing a totalitarian regime? Because, in my perspective they are using our young people as human shields to justify their hideous acts against humanity.

It is best not to forget who's the actual enemy. Because, in the future no one will be safe - no matter the age.

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Pidgin 3.0 Experimental 4 (2.93.0) has been released!


We are ecstatic to announce that we have released the fourth experimental version of Pidgin 3.0!!! This is a pre alpha release with an official version number of 2.93.0. We will continue releasing in this fashion until we are ready for 3.0.0 which will be the release we consider ready for end users.

The release can be found on SourceForge and should show up on Flathub Beta shortly.

If you don’t want to use the Flathub Beta method, there are build instructions in the README for building a flatpak locally or installing into a meson devenv. Both methods avoid installing directly to your OS installation which is the preferred method as there is no easy way to uninstall.

About


Just like the previous experimental releases, this is a timed release. It is a snapshot of what we currently have and is something we think other tinkerers and developers may want to start playing with, but again, it is not meant for end users.

Most things are not implemented, the user interface has not been polished at all, and there are so so many bugs. As such we are asking that packagers please do not package this for your users yet as the potential support requests will be too much for us to handle at this time.

There's a number of things that unfortunately went unfinished for this release so you may notice more bugs than previous experimental releases. But like usual, there's still been plenty of progress for everyone to check out!

Looking forward, Experimental 5 is scheduled for 2025-12-31 and will have a version number of 2.94.0.

We have a bunch of tickets entered for Experimental 5, and you can keep an eye on the Burndown Chart for Experimental 5 to stay informed. As always, priorities and possibilities can and will change, so even if something is listed for this release that doesn’t mean it will be in the release until it’s actually completed.

If you would like monthly updates, be sure to check out the #state-of-the-bird posts!

Highlights


We have a bunch of highlights this release, but some are hard to show in text, but we'll do our best!

Developer Migration Guide


We have started the huge task of describing how to migrate code from Purple 2 to Purple 3. That document is available at docs.imfreedom.org/purple3/migrating.html.

This is for migration only. We're still looking at doing some sort of compatibility layer, but we don't want to put a lot of time into that until we're much more confident in the APIs not changing. We are also looking to do an architecture document as well that will explain some of the finer details of the APIs.

Backends


Many of our data sources need to be persisted when the program isn't running. We've done this a number of ways over the years, but in this release we have created a new pattern of using backends to abstract this out.

For example, a user interface can tell Purple.ConversationManager to not persist conversations or to persist them in a SQLite database using Purple.ConversationManagerSeagullBackend. Many more of these will be popping up in the future for the other managers.

Conversation Persistence


As mentioned above Purple now keeps track of your open conversations assuming the conversation manager was told to use a backend that persists data which Pidgin does by default.

This means you no longer have to add a channel to your contact list and tell it to auto join, it will just automatically happen for all conversations (dms, group dms, channel, etc) that were still open when you closed the program which matches the behavior of many modern clients.

New Application Icon


The one and only Hykle Bons has come out of retirement to create a new application icon for Pidgin 3 which you can see below. If you have any comments regarding it, there is a post for that over here.

Color Scheme Preference


You can finally chose to have Pidgin follow the system theme or force it into light or dark mode!

ChangeLog

General:


  • Update to Ibis 0.14.0 (RR 4043) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Tell meson about our license (RR 4045) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Add a test to make sure the flatpak dependencies have been updated (RR 4044) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Only add the flatpak dependencies test when compiling for linux (RR 4049) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Fix some Since tags (RR 4059) (Elliott Sales de Andrade)
  • Deprecate ChangeLog.API (RR 4128) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Port the protocols to the birb string functions (RR 4139) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Ignore the meson subproject .wraplock file (RR 4145) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Stop setting XDG_RUNTIME_DIR in devenv (RR 4170) (Elliott Sales de Andrade)


macOS:


  • Fix some issues with the macOS native files (RR 4165) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Hide duplicate menu items (RR 4166) (Gary Kramlich)


libpurple:


  • Serialize conversations and their tags (PIDGIN-17989) (RR 4048) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Load conversations back in from the database (PIDGIN-17989) (RR 4051) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Replace PurplePlugin by GPluginPlugin (RR 4063) (Elliott Sales de Andrade)
  • Add Purple.ConversationManager.get_all_for_account (RR 4065) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Remove a bunch of unused and unnecessary preferences code (RR 4066) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Delete conversations from the database when the user leaves them (RR 4064) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Create Purple.ScheduleTask (PIDGIN-18105) (RR 4072) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Create Purple.Scheduler (PIDGIN-18105) (RR 4073) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Tell gir to ignore the Purple.Request functions that aren't bindable (RR 4076) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Delete the purple_gdk_pixbuf api (RR 4075) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Remove searching from Purple.ProtocolContacts (RR 4078) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Remove Purple.CircularBuffer (RR 4083) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Clean up and modernize PurpleImage (RR 4074) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Replace Purple.Avatar with Purple.Image (RR 4084) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Add an avatar-for-display property to Purple.ContactInfo (RR 4086) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Fix some broken logic in Purple.Conversation.send_message_async (RR 4095) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Fix the birb header path (RR 4097) (Gong Zhile)
  • Add builtin library dependency for introspection (RR 4098) (Gong Zhile)
  • Create Purple.Contacts (PIDGIN-18106) (RR 4077) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Create Purple.ProtocolDirectory (PIDGIN-18108) (RR 4079) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Add Purple.ConversationMembers.find_first_other (RR 4087) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Move Purple.Conversation.find_or_add_member to Purple.ConversationMembers (RR 4100) (Gong Zhile)
  • Convert Purple.Tags to a Gio.ListModel (PIDGIN-18002) (RR 4088) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Some tweaks for Purple.ConversationMember and Purple.ConversationMember (RR 4102) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Fix up the account manager (RR 4090) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Add default handlers to Purple.Account to manage the online state of conversations (RR 4092) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Add a Purple.ContactInfo:badges property (PIDGIN-18114) (RR 4103) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Many updates for Purple.ProtocolContacts (PIDGIN-18112 PIDGIN-18115 PIDGIN-18116) (RR 4105) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Clean up some stuff in Purple.Protocol (RR 4109) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Check for the MESON_TEST_ITERATION envvar before adding our default plugin paths (PIDGIN-18121) (RR 4115) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Add vfuncs to Purple.Protocol for setting display names (PIDGIN-18117) (RR 4107) (Gary Kramlich)
  • A Bunch of cleanups for the credential manager (RR 4116) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Fix some minor issues in protocol directory (RR 4122) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Add Purple.Conversation::displayed (RR 4093) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Add an id property to Purple.Command (PIDGIN-18118) (RR 4106) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Remove all of the proxy code (RR 4120) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Move the saved-plugins preference to GSettings (RR 4121) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Remove the preferences API (RR 4123) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Remove Purple.AccountManager.foreach (RR 4124) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Add a unit test for Purple.CommandManager.get_commands_for_conversation (PIDGIN-18119) (RR 4108) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Remove Purple.ContactInfo:username (RR 4114) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Add Purple.AccountManagerBackend (RR 4125) (Gary Kramlich)
  • A bunch of random cleanups for Purple.Ui (RR 4126) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Rename Attachment:inline to Attachment:is-inline to fix some compiler errors on Windows (RR 4131) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Add Purple.Account.disconnect_with_new_error (RR 4133) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Create a Noop AccountManagerBackend (RR 4134) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Update Purple.AccountManager to use Purple.AccountManagerBackend (RR 4135) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Create Purple.SchedulerBackend (PIDGIN-18105) (RR 4127) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Port libpurple to the birb string functions (RR 4140) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Remove some unused utility functions (RR 4142) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Remove the network API (RR 4141) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Create Purple.AccountSetting (RR 4143) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Remove the private PurpleAccountSetting type (RR 4144) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Add Purple.AccountSettings (RR 4146) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Add Purple.Protocol.get_default_account_settings (RR 4147) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Create Purple.AccountSettingStringList (RR 4153) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Update the default account settings handler to include user splits (RR 4154) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Add Purple.Account:disconnected to complement Purple.Account:connected (RR 4157) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Fix settings initialization in network prefs (RR 4161) (Elliott Sales de Andrade)
  • A first pass at documenting how to migrate from purple 2 (RR 4155) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Remove the last remnants of GdkPixbuf (RR 4169) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Add remove all and update methods to Purple.AccountSettings (RR 4159) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Make sure accounts have names when saving and loading (RR 4171) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Ignore a libxml deprecation (RR 4177) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Replace the debug subsystem with macros to the glib counter parts (RR 4178) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Clean up the plugins API (RR 4179) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Update libpurple to use Purple.Account:name when referring to accounts (RR 4174) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Remove the History API (RR 4176) (Gary Kramlich)
  • A few cleanups in the account api (RR 4182) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Rename Purple.AccountManager.get_connected to get_connected_accounts and return a Gio.ListModel (PIDGIN-18120) (RR 4183) (Elliott Sales de Andrade)
  • Add implements functions to Purple.ProtocolFileTransfer (RR 4180) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Create Purple.ConversationManagerBackend (PIDGIN-18128) (RR 4184) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Update Purple.ConversationManager to use a Purple.ConversationManagerBackend (RR 4185) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Create Purple.ConversationManagerSeagullBackend (RR 4189) (Gary Kramlich)


Pidgin:


  • Re-enable links in Pidgin.Message (RR 4047) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Update Pidgin.DisplayWindow to load existing conversations (RR 4050) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Move the input box to a GtkSourceView (RR 4071) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Use the presence message of a contact for the subtitle of DM's (RR 4081) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Update Pidgin.InfoPane a bit and expose the avatar (RR 4085) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Don't show the presence icon in messages (RR 4089) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Remove the toplevel plugins menu (RR 4113) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Use the account's username in Pidgin.AccountDisplay (RR 4112) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Add Pidgin.Application:can-join-channel and bind actions to it (PIDGIN-18122) (RR 4110) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Update pidgin to use the birb string functions (RR 4138) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Add a Pidgin.Badges widget to contacts in the contact list (RR 4136) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Import our new application icon from the one and only Hylke Bons (RR 4137) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Fix parenting of Account Manager window on initial startup (RR 4162) (Elliott Sales de Andrade)
  • Remove the old broadway backed tests (RR 4167) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Remove pidginprivate.h (RR 4168) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Add a dark/light color scheme setting (PIDGIN-18085) (RR 4163) (Elliott Sales de Andrade)
  • Add the account name to the account editor (RR 4172) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Update Pidgin.AccountDisplay to use the Purple.Account:name property (RR 4173) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Update pidgin to use Purple.Account:name when referring to accounts (RR 4175) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Don't tell gtk to register the application with the session manager (RR 4187) (Gary Kramlich)


Demo:


  • Mark messages sent in the demo protocol as delivered (RR 4094) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Port the demo protocol to ProtocolDirectory (RR 4080) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Make the demo protocol plugin use the active presence (RR 4091) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Add an external contact ot the Demo protocol (PIDGIN-18101) (RR 4101) (Gary Kramlich)


IRCv3:


  • Implement the /me command (RR 4070) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Fix an issue where the status messages weren't being written (RR 4111) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Port IRCv3 to the new account settings (RR 4156) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Only send WHO on our own joins (RR 3986) (Gary Kramlich)


SIP:


  • Remove sofia as a dependency as we're not going to use it (RR 4046) (Gary Kramlich)
  • Silence a warning in the sip protocol skeleton (RR 4082) (Gary Kramlich)


KWallet:


  • Remove moc file generation for kwallet plugin (RR 4186) (Markus Fischer)


Thank You!


Thank you everyone for your continued support of Pidgin, it means a lot to us!

If you’re interested in contributing, you can check out our Contributing Guide to get started.

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Discuss this on our forum.





How McKinsey and Climate Change Wrecked Insurance


A secret report shows that Florida underwriters were banking massive profits while stiffing customers. Welcome to insurance in the era of climate collapse.


Archived copies of the article:
* archive.today
* ghostarchive.org

in reply to silence7

merriam-webster.com/dictionary…

prof·​i·​teer·​ing ˌprä-fə-ˈtir-iŋ
the act or activity of making an unreasonable profit on the sale of essential goods especially during times of emergency


(which is normal and desirable in capitalist free market systems)



Mystery fleet of US Air Force tankers crossing Atlantic stirs war fear


So ahead of the loyalty pledge ceremony to Trump, support aircraft are heading to the Middle East. Either a war with Iran or the end of Gaza is nigh.




Octopuses Invade the English Coast, ‘Eating Anything in Their Path’ | The highly intelligent cephalopods filled fishing nets and gobbled up crabs and lobsters in Devon and Cornwall this summer.


According to Steve Simpson, a professor of marine biology at the University of Bristol, “climate change is a likely driver” of the population boom. “We are right on the northern limit of the octopus species range, but our waters are getting warmer, so our little island of Great Britain is becoming increasingly favorable for octopus populations,” he said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/world/europe/octopus-invasion-england-uk.html?unlocked_article_code=1.pk8.VnNG.2NEHmV3ee1IW

in reply to silence7

I think this is happening to sharks too. Its not an "invasion", these animals habitats are being destroyed. They are looking for food. We are invading them. Climate change, netting and other mass food gathering methods destroying their reefs and other biomes.

in reply to LiveLM

i used to have one of these and it was the first time i went with linux fulltime.

i was an employee of fry's electronics so i got a discount with it as well. lol

EDIT: mine didn't come with speakers, but that keyboard made me feel nostalgic. and speaking of penny pinching: fry's never updated their sales/inventory system past msdos 6.22

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in reply to eldavi

Did you stick to Linspire? Or did you switch to someone else?
in reply to LiveLM

I put mandrake on it and used the machine for another 6 years; one of the best buys I ever made.
in reply to LiveLM

Can’t read ”Linspire” without this starting to play in my head, dammit:

youtu.be/IIYtKHnU4mQ



Public and Planet to 'Pay the Price' as Trump Props Up Coal With $625 Million Bailout


Trump's Department of Energy announced it is investing $625 million in the coal industry, sparking backlash from climate advocates.
#USA


in reply to BrikoX

What the hell is this website? Why isn't this a news link?
in reply to P03 Locke

I have no idea, but it was one of a few forums that reported it first before news sites even were aware of it. I posted follow-up here lemmy.zip/post/49951704


Imgur blocks UK users after regulator threatens fine over child data use


Imgur is one of the world's largest image-sharing communities, originally created in 2009 by Alan Schaaf as a gift to Reddit users. The service grew into a massive platform, boasting over 60 billion memes, GIFs, and images viewed by its 150 million monthly users. Now, it has pulled out of the UK following a warning of potential fines from the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). Users in the region trying to access the site are met with the error message: Content not available in your region.


Follow up to: lemmy.zip/post/49898832








Despite bomb threats, war fears, and disinformation, Moldovans still show up to reject Russia


In a country haunted by Soviet memory and threatened by Russian influence, ordinary voters chose the path toward Europe.


Archived version: archive.is/newest/kyivindepend…


Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.




df showing a full (99%) ssd, but du only showing a fraction of that? UPDATED


I noticed the root drive of my home server (Debian) is at 99% capacity, which was odd to be because I don't store anything on the root ssd. sudo df -h confirms that 99% of my 256gb drive is full. But sudo du -sh * all added up, only comes to about 30gb.

This is a pc that only runs docker containers and one virtual machine for home assistant. And yes I have restarted, Any ideas as to how to find the missing 200+ gigabytes?

EDIT: sudo ncdu allowed me to find a 72gb [long string of characterless]-json.log file in /var/lib/docker/containers and many 1gb+ files in /var/lib/docker/overlay2. I'm not sure what to do with this information (or what's safe to delete) but I'm getting somewhere.

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in reply to Jediwan

Where are you running du -sh *? (I.e. what directory, are you definitely scanning the whole file system?) I'm sure it's obvious, but can never hurt to check!

What does du -sh / show? (Generally, the * glob pattern in the shell will not match hidden dot-files, so is it possible they are being excluded?)

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in reply to lucas

EDIT sudo ncdu allowed me to find a 72gb [long string of characterless]-json.log file in /var/lib/docker/containers and many 1gb+ files in /var/lib/docker/overlay2. I'm not sure what to do with this information (or what's safe to delete) but I'm getting somewhere.

~~sudo du -sh / shows a list of three du: cannot access '/run/user/1000/gvfs' Permission denied and du: cannot access No such file or directory and a few cannot read directory invalid argument and at the end it shows 5.4T / which I assume is my root drive combined with what's in mnt.~~

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in reply to Jediwan

If you're using BTRFS, check if you don't have any stray snapshots.



Linus Torvalds Removes The Bcachefs Code From The Linux Kernel


in reply to John

Definitely not going anywhere near the comments section on that phoronix article. It's guaranteed to be pure poison.
in reply to jaxxed

Tbh, what phoronix comment section isn't pure neurological poison?
in reply to John

Kent is such a dumbass. It's a pitty because it's a great filesystem.


Proposition 50: Authorizes Temporary Changes to Congressional District Maps in Response to Texas’ Partisan Redistricting. Legislative Constitutional Amendment. [NOV 05 2025 | California]


cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/36665946

Proposition 50


Authorizes Temporary Changes to Congressional District Maps in Response to Texas’ Partisan Redistricting. Legislative Constitutional Amendment.


ANALYSIS OF MEASURE
BACKGROUND
U.S. Congress


U.S. Congress. The U.S. Congress is the part of the federal government that makes laws. Congress has two parts: the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives (House). Each of the 50 states is represented by 2 senators, with 100 senators in total. The House has 435 members. The number of representatives in the House for each state depends on how many people live in that state. Each member in the House represents an area of the state called a congressional district. California currently has 52 congressional districts. Voters who live in each congressional district elect one member of the House every two years to represent them. The next election for all 435 representatives will be in 2026.

U.S. Census Counts States’ Populations Every Ten Years. The number of people living in an area goes up and down over time. Every ten years, the U.S. Census counts the number of people who live in the U.S. The last census was in 2020, and the next census is in 2030. This count is used to determine how many people live in each state and how many representatives in the House each state gets for the next ten years.

Congressional Redistricting

Each State Draws Congressional District Maps Following the U.S. Census. Every ten years, after the U.S. Census is completed, states draw new congressional district maps to reflect their number of House representatives and where people live. This process is called “redistricting.” Each state decides what process to use to draw its new district maps. When drawing new maps, each state must follow federal laws. For example, each congressional district in the state must represent about the same number of people.

States Typically Do Not Redistrict Sooner Than Every Ten Years. States typically only draw congressional district maps every ten years, unless a court orders changes to comply with the law. In August 2025, however, the Texas Legislature passed a bill to adopt new maps for the 2026 elections without a court order. Several other states also are considering changes to their maps before the 2026 elections.

Congressional Redistricting in California. State legislatures draw congressional district maps in most states, but some states use commissions to do this job. Before 2010, the California Legislature drew the state’s congressional district maps. In 2010, California voters gave this job to an independent commission known as the California Citizens Redistricting Commission (Commission). The Commission includes 14 members: 5 Democratic members, 5 Republican members, and 4 members who are not registered with either of those political parties. When the Commission draws new congressional district maps, it must follow federal and state laws. For example, state law requires, among other things, the Commission to avoid splitting up neighborhoods or local communities of interest to the extent possible. State law also prohibits the Commission from considering political parties, current office holders, or people running for office when it draws the maps.

Current California Congressional Districts. The Commission drew the current maps for California’s 52 congressional districts. These maps were based on the 2020 U.S. Census and have been used since the 2022 congressional elections.

PROPOSAL


California’s Congressional District Maps

Use Legislatively Drawn Congressional District Maps Until After the Next Census. Proposition 50 replaces California’s current congressional district maps with new, legislatively drawn maps. (The total number of districts would not change.) Proposition 50’s maps must follow federal law, but they are not required to follow the state requirements placed on the Commission. The state would use Proposition 50’s maps for congressional elections starting in 2026. The state would use these maps until the Commission draws new district maps, following the 2030 U.S. Census.

National Congressional Redistricting

Call for Change in Federal Law. Proposition 50 asks the U.S. Congress to change federal law and propose an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to require redistricting be done by “fair, independent, and nonpartisan redistricting commissions nationwide.” Proposition 50 expresses voter support for this idea, but does not change federal law or require any particular action of Congress or the California Legislature.

FISCAL EFFECTS

Minor One-Time Costs to County and State Elections Officials. Counties run elections, and the state oversees them. Because most congressional districts in California would change at least some under the new maps, county and state elections officials would need to update election materials. This would result in one-time costs to counties of up to a few million dollars statewide and one-time costs to the state of roughly $200,000. The state amount is much less than one-tenth of 1 percent (0.1 percent) of the state’s roughly $220 billion General Fund budget. (The General Fund is the account the state uses to pay for most public services, including education, health care, and prisons.)

CURRENT AND PROPOSED CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT MAPS

This section shows maps of the current and proposed congressional districts (1) statewide, as shown in Figures 1 and 2; (2) in the northern part of the state, as shown in Figures 3 and 4; and (3) in the southern part of the state, as shown in Figures 5 and 6. A description of the census blocks represented by each district in the proposed maps can be found at the following website: leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/fac…

Figure 1 - Current Congressional Districts

Notice of Correction. Figure 2 in the analysis of Proposition 50 contained a typographical error. District 27, which is to the right of District 26, was incorrectly labeled as District 22. This typographical error has been corrected.

Figure 2 - Proposed Congressional Districts

Figure 3 - Current Northern Congressional Districts

Figure 4 - Proposed Northern Congressional Districts

Figure 5 - Current Southern Congressional Districts

Figure 6 - Proposed Southern Congressional Districts

YES/NO STATEMENT

A YES vote on this measure means: The state would use new, legislatively drawn congressional district maps starting in 2026. California’s new maps would be used until the California Citizens Redistricting Commission draws new maps following the 2030 U.S. Census.

A NO vote on this measure means: Current congressional district maps drawn by the California Citizens Redistricting Commission (Commission) would continue to be used in California until the Commission draws new maps following the 2030 U.S. Census.

SUMMARY OF LEGISLATIVE ANALYST'S ESTIMATE OF NET STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT FISCAL IMPACT

  • One-time costs to counties of up to a few million dollars statewide. County costs would be to update election materials to reflect new congressional district maps.

BALLOT LABEL

Fiscal Impact: One-time costs to counties of up to a few million dollars statewide to update election materials to reflect new congressional district maps.^[[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20250918004136/https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=50&year=2025]


Edit:


  1. Fixed hyperlink for [1]


Insights from the 2025 FreeBSD Community Survey | FreeBSD Foundation


Insights from the 2025 FreeBSD Community Survey | FreeBSD... #
freebsdfoundation.org/insights…


California Governor Newsom signs landmark AI safety bill SB 53


in reply to misk

This is fluff. SB 243 is the real deal, which he already vetoed once.

The governor is also weighing another bill – SB 243 – that passed both the State Assembly and Senate with bipartisan support this month. The bill would regulate AI companion chatbots, requiring operators to implement safety protocols, and hold them legally accountable if their bots fail to meet those standards.


F-Droid says Google’s new sideloading restrictions will kill the project


In a blog post, F-Droid staff say that Google's plan to force devs outside Google Play to register with the company threatens to kill alternative app stores like F-Droid.


[Feed] BSD-related users and communities


[Feed] BSD-related users and communities #interstellar, #feed
This feed is a collection of BSD (Kind of like an operation system) related communities and users. No communities from .ml as my instance is defederated from them. It's more of a test feed so it's pretty small.
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How the Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Decision Legitimized Stephen Miller


Miller’s role, The Guardian notes, helps account for the shaky legal justification the administration has provided for the attacks: The Trump administration claims the president was using his authority under Article II of the Constitution, based on the notion that the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua is a foreign terrorist organization. This recalls Miller’s repeated assertions that TdA is “running Venezuela” in his argument for deporting Venezuelan immigrants under the Alien Enemies Act.

The revelation about Miller’s role also recalls reports that he mused about bombing unarmed immigrants in boats as an adviser in the first Trump administration.

Miles Taylor, a former Department of Homeland Security official who resigned in Trump’s first term and became a vocal critic of the president, recounted an exchange between Miller and the then-commandant of the Coast Guard—which Miller vehemently denies—in his book Blowback.



OpenAI takes on Google, Amazon with new agentic shopping system | TechCrunch


in reply to lmr0x61

Are you using a time machibe to access Amazon in the past? Because for me the experience looks more like this:

  1. I type in "amazon.com" in my browser
  2. I use the search bar and get a bunch of sponsored results that are not what I was searching for at all and all use the same garbage photoshopped photos
  3. I scroll through pages upon pages of irrelevant dropshipped garbage offered by companies like JHUVOY, BRILGOVA and other random letters.
  4. I finally find something that looks like it's not a cheap knockoff
  5. I add it to my shopping cart and click through offers for Amazon prime and offers for dropshipped garbage that I might want to add to my cart.
  6. I proceed to payment

Sigh, I really miss the old internet, I truly do...

in reply to doctortofu

  1. The package arrives and it's yet another cheap knockoff.


Jones Manoel x Fernando Haddad: neoliberalismo e privatizações


cross-posted from: lemmy.eco.br/post/16975384


Media and Medics Boat to Gaza to Launch Oct 1


NOTE 🚨: this is in addition to the current Global Sumud Flotilla coalition making its way to Gaza

The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) will launch a dedicated boat carrying international journalists and medical professionals to Gaza on October 1, 2025

The boat is scheduled to sail by October 1 and plans to join the other FFC and Thousand Madleens to Gaza boats on their journey.

For nearly two years, Israel has denied foreign journalists entry into Gaza, creating one of the most severe press blackouts in recent history… At the same time, Gaza’s health system has been systematically dismantled under Israel’s siege and bombardment.

In response, the FFC is assembling a boat of journalists and healthcare professionals to:

  • Provide the international press an opportunity to report directly from Gaza
  • Deliver urgently needed medical expertise and solidarity alongside Gaza’s decimated health workforce.


Buon Compleanno LibreOffice


LibreOffice compie 15 anni! Una suite libera, potente e comunitaria che ha rivoluzionato il modo di lavorare con i documenti. #LibreOffice #OpenSource #Linux #DocumentiLiberi #TDF

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Buon Compleanno LibreOffice


LibreOffice compie 15 anni! Una suite libera, potente e comunitaria che ha rivoluzionato il modo di lavorare con i documenti. #LibreOffice #OpenSource #Linux #DocumentiLiberi #TDF


Thoughts on stremio? And more generally, when should I worry about trackers?


Hi,

I've seen stremio pop up a few times in my feed recently and decided to give a look. It's seems like I could use it with torrentio, but my concern is that the apps comes with a few trackers, amongst which 3 facebook trackers (share, login & analytics).

I don't know much about trackers, how they work, and what I should worry about, so I mostly try to avoid them, but could someone here tell me if I should worry about these facebook trackers (I don't use fb, but since it's pretty much the Devil itself...), and maybe suggest resources on how to get informed on trackers, what they do, and when to worry about it?

Thank you for your help.

Cheers,



Upgrading video quality for non-English content?


I find myself downloading a lot of movies that are dubbed in latino Spanish. I've checked fmhy torrents, but unfortunately, there just isn't a lot of latino Spanish content available on torrents.

(Yes, there is a lot of Spanish Spanish content... but... meehhh...)

However, I have had better luck with fmhy streaming. It's not the best quality, 720p or 1080p if I'm lucky. But it's better than nothing.

I was recently wondering, how does dubbing actually work? Is there a video difference between English and Spanish movies? Or is there just literally an audio track being swapped out?

Could I take an audio track from a 720p stream and add it to a 4K torrented movie file and expect the audio and video to line up?

in reply to paequ2

For content from streaming platforms like Netflix, the audio and video lines up most of the time. The dub might be a bit longer at the end, but that doesn't matter; it's only the credits.

For Blu-ray and DVDs, it's a bigger problem. The audio and video lines don't usually line up: different production company logos of different lengths and maybe minor regional differences. You could probably adjust the audio delay in the video player to get a decent experience.

mpv is good video player where it is easily possible to play the video from one file and the audio from another.

in reply to paequ2

You already had some good advices but something I haven't seen mentioned. If you use Kodi (and probably a couple others media player), you could use some sub plugin like open subtitle (forgot other names) to fetch subtitles on the fly when you will play video. It can be hit or miss at first, but subtitles name are like release name (title, quality, release group). So if you often encounter a release group that do your sub language. Try to download video from same release group, so you will have better chance that audio/sub sync properly.

This apart, +1 for private tracker as already mentioned, you may need some searching to find one but worth it.



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But as photos and social media posts surfaced showing Sanford in a camouflage Trump 2020 shirt that read “Make Liberals Cry Again,” and a Trump-Pence sign still visible on his front lawn just months ago, the political implications became harder to ignore.

So far, Republican leaders have said nothing.



Hungary bans 12 Ukrainian media outlets


Hungary blocked 12 Ukrainian media outlets in response to Kyiv's earlier ban on several foreign publications over Russian narratives, Hungarian Cabinet Minister Gergely Gulyas said on Sept. 29.

Several Hungarian media outlets were among those temporarily restricted in Ukraine by an order by the State Special Communications Service on Sept. 8

According to Gulyas, Ukraine blocked the Hungarian outlets Origo and Demokrata because they "dared to write critically about the policy of sanctions against Russia, Ukraine's armed support, and portray the EU and NATO as fragmented and ineffective organizations."

Gulyas described the ban on Hungarian outlets in Ukraine as "a completely unjustified attack."

The list of 12 banned Ukrainian media outlets in Hungary includes several popular sources such as Ukrainska Pravda, European Pravda, NV, hromadske and TSN.

"With Ukraine's accession, the EU would only become more fragmented," Gulyas wrote on Facebok.

The news marks the most recent point of tension amid strained relations between Kyiv and Budapest.

Hungary is broadly seen as the most Kremlin-friendly government in the EU and NATO. The country has consistently obstructed aid to Ukraine and sanctions against Russia throughout the full-scale war.

Ukraine applied for EU membership shortly after Russia launched its war in 2022 and was granted candidate status within months.

As an EU member, Hungary has veto power over further progress.

Last week, reconnaissance drones likely belonging to Hungary had violated Ukraine's airspace along the border, President Volodymyr Zelensky said. Budapest rejected the allegations.



Quarta Repubblica, documenti inediti sul caso Garlasco: anticipazioni e ospiti del 29 settembre 2025


Nicola Porro torna questa sera, lunedì 29 settembre 2025, con un nuovo appuntamento di Quarta Repubblica, il talk show di approfondimento politico ed economico in onda in prima serata su Rete 4.

Dopo i quotidiani 10 Minuti nel preserale, il giornalista guiderà il dibattito su alcuni dei temi più caldi dell’attualità italiana, tra politica, giustizia e cronaca.

TUTTE LE ANTICIPAZIONI: Quarta Repubblica, documenti inediti sul caso Garlasco: anticipazioni e ospiti del 29 settembre 2025



Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say


PeakMetrics grabbed a sample of 52,000 posts made on X within the first 24 hours of Cracker Barrel’s announcement that it would be modernizing its logo to an admittedly very plain and generic design. In that timeframe, it found that 44.5% of all mentions of Cracker Barrel were flagged as likely or higher bot activity. Those numbers climb even higher when a boycott is mentioned. About 1,000 posts in that first 24-hour period called on people to stop eating at Cracker Barrel, and 49% of those posts got flagged as likely coming from bots. In its report, PeakMetrics states that the boycott was unlikely to be an organic grassroots response but a “bot-assisted amplification seeded by meme/activist accounts.”


More than 100,000 federal workers to quit on Tuesday in largest ever mass resignation


Workers preparing to leave the government have described how months of “fear and intimidation” left them feeling like they had no choice but to depart.

“Federal workers stay for the mission. When that mission is taken away, when they’re scapegoated, when their job security is uncertain, and when their tiny semblance of work-life balance is stripped away, they leave,” a longtime employee at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) told the Guardian. “That’s why I left.”



Giulia Salemi inviata di Pechino Express 2026 insieme a Lillo e Guido Meda


Cambio di squadra per la nuova edizione di Pechino Express 2026, il celebre reality di Sky Original condotto da Costantino Della Gherardesca: a sorpresa, l’influencer e conduttrice Giulia Salemi torna nello show che l’aveva vista concorrente nel 2015, ma questa volta nel ruolo di inviata. Sarà affiancata dal comico Lillo e dal giornalista sportivo Guido Meda.

LEGGI L'ARTICOLO: Giulia Salemi inviata di Pechino Express 2026 insieme a Lillo e Guido Meda