I've heard people talking about e.g. not subscribing to lemmy.world communities (because they are the largest instance), and others like Lemmygrad seems to be defederated by quite many instances. But what about lemmy.ml? Should that instance and those communities also be avoided? The "issue" is that many large communities seem to be based on that instance. Like !privacy@lemmy.ml and !linux@lemmy.ml
It uses its resources to provide funding and intelligence to pedophile rings and terrorist groups to help them continue their horrible activities while avoiding the authorities to catch them.
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An improvise as you go classic.
Once there were three adults whose names were Michael, Freddie, and Saskia. This story is about something that happened to them when they decided to do something to help raise awareness for New Social in the UK.
I think I need to call ICE and turn myself in. I'm from somewhere like Barbados, New Zealand, Uruguay or Italy....I've been living in the US for sooooo long that my English is practically perfect. Please deport me. My home country misses my economic contributions.
UPDATE: Resolved by deleting all files in /var and ~/.local that are related to bottles. It did not work until I deleted them from the repos directory too.
I tried to install bottles via flatpak, but I get the error:
Error: Error pulling from repo: While pulling app/com.usebottles.bottles/x86_64/stable from remote flathub: Opening content object fdb9f1f85b66889bd0dcced24c4fda571f2fcbddfe0af7176fa33a46953d2038: Opening content object fdb9f1f85b66889bd0dcced24c4fda571f2fcbddfe0af7176fa33a46953d2038: Couldn't find file object 'fdb9f1f85b66889bd0dcced24c4fda571f2fcbddfe0af7176fa33a46953d2038'
error: Failed to install com.usebottles.bottles: Error pulling from repo: While pulling app/com.usebottles.bottles/x86_64/stable from remote flathub: Opening content object fdb9f1f85b66889bd0dcced24c4fda571f2fcbddfe0af7176fa33a46953d2038: Opening content object fdb9f1f85b66889bd0dcced24c4fda571f2fcbddfe0af7176fa33a46953d2038: Couldn't find file object 'fdb9f1f85b66889bd0dcced24c4fda571f2fcbddfe0af7176fa33a46953d2038'
I have received such an error before, and usually running flatpak repair fixes it. But that is not working right now.
What else I tried?
flatpak uninstall --unused flatpak update flatpak update --appstream running all the commands as root
More about my system: I am using gentoo, but I did not think it would matter since the point of flatpak is this separation layer it has.
Is there enough space on your filesystem? That includes your home folder and main root file system?
If so then i'd deletenor rename folders associated with bottles and try again. If its a user level install check ~/.local/share/Flatpak/app and ~/.var/app and deleteor rename the bottles folder. If its a system wide install look in /var/lib/Flatpak/app
Then try and install it again. It will create a new set of folders.
thanks for the tip about storage space, although I do seem to have 100 GB of free space so I do not think this is the issue?
However I noticed I have a filesystem /run/user/1000 it seems to be created by flatpak, and it has 1.6 GB of total space. Should this be a source of worry?
The other advice about deleting the directories does not seem to work either 🙁
Update: Following your advice, I proceeded to delete the files for "bottles" from the repo folder in /var/lib/.... and that seems to solve the issue! thanks for the help! 😀
“Ukrainska Pravda” attributed this statement to Budanov, citing anonymous officials at the closed meeting, but other lawmakers say the publication distorted it. HUR has also denied the claim.
I'm going with Oscar mostly because I'm constantly finding weed bits all over myself. I also really enjoy the idea of the "grouch" toking away in his little hideaway while everyone thinks he's angry.
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More the family and office job type but I feel like people would just assume I was the fed anyway. I used to play in bands and even then I had a "how do you do fellow kids" vibe. Its hopeless
The linked article has a screenshot with a link to a post about openKylin getting removed. OP title is "Facebook ban on discussing Linux?" including the question mark. I don't think it is accurate. At the same time I'm not defending Facebook in any way.
Consider yourself corrected then. I've skimmed your comment history. Your go-to insult is "bootlicker" or alternatively, a simple clown emoji. In your comments you seem to provide very little context as to why you think that, it's just, "I deem you to be a BOOTLICKER! Next!"
So maybe a little guidance for you:
The very, very, first thing you do when dealing with perceived propaganda - be it on mainstream media, online, or wherever - is to remove all the emotion and insults and see what's left. You know what I see when I parse your comments like that? Very little.
Thus I conclude you have nothing of importance to say, and you become background noise that gets tuned out.
Actually your comments do have some small value. I check your bootlicker-comment-score and if it's greater than 5, I know the community you posted in isn't worth my time.
Anyone else remember when the Bush administration considered people who read Linux Journal to be targeted for extra surveillance because they labelled Linux Journal an extremist forum for merely discussing the existence of Tor and Tails?
Further, anyone else remember when the Bush admin pushed Total Information Awareness, a program that was collecting the kind of information on US citizens that those same citizens give away freely to Facebook without needing to be surveilled?
Is there another example of this happening in Facebook aside for the openKylin post? I looked around and every article is only talking about this specific DistroWatch issue.
I reckon, given the extent of voluntary submission to constant surveilance from corporations and the continued march deeper into oligarchy, that it's only a matter of time until platforms that aren't explicitly anti-privacy are going to be reframed as extremist and dangerous as a part of the global political conversation. Perhaps this will end up being the leading edge of that.
I already VPN 99% of my traffic out of the country and use non-US services wherever I can. When Trump was first elected I started wondering if they’re going to start a China-style firewall out of the country and it’s been in the back of my mind since.
So what's going on here? Is this related to the new US administration? Or Microsoft and Meta exchanging money to silence the competition? Genuinely confused, but it seems fairly important whatever the motivations.
Folks that run OSs other than Windows and Mac are usually not passive sheep. If you want folks to just sit back and ignore what is going on you probably don’t want agitators in the mix.
maybe it's the same reason some banks don't work on rooted android phones: they want to prevent you to control how your system works bc they count on being able to extract as much information as possible from your computer usage without your consent
There's also the issue that some android and iOS features don't work on rooted, like integrity check. We implemented it to prevent some malicious actors spamming our sms services, requiring them to use actual phones to access the service.
In the end we went with a captcha because we didn't want to exclude rooters but I can see it being a choice not all companies make.
US President Donald Trump is facing widespread criticism and accusations of proposing ethnic cleansing after stating that he would like to “just clean out” Gaza and relocate its Palestinian population to neighbouring countries.
Marxism developed in 19th century. Maybe we have to rethink a bit what we want to stand for. None of these models still apply to our current time. There is no workers class anymore like it used to exist in the 19th century. Everybody is either job-hopping or doing gigs. Demand for workers is going to drop due to an end of world-wide growth. Either abandon the free market and give people more than they deserve (in a "free labor market" sense), or drop your birth rates (to lower supply of work and therefore increase wages).
They are not specifically anarchist, probably democratic socialist, though I’ve been pushing them more and more to the left (they started off as neolib), and I think Trump getting elected really disillusioned them with the prospect of reformism actually making meaningful change.
They basically asked me, “It’s fucking crazy over here. People are dying and Trump is fucking up everything. I feel so helpless and hopeless. Do you have any resources on things to do?”
I've decided to try installing PieFed with Docker again and I was finally able to log in now without a CSFR Token warning. I was able to test federation with the remote server scan and that seems to be working. I was also able to create a text post just fine but when I tried to post a picture to my own instance, I got the following error:
Your post was not accepted because [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'app/static/media/posts'
I'm using a Raspberry Pi 5 with Pi OS (Debian 12, ARM64). I didn't change anything in compose.yml. Besides that, I think everything else is working fine. I'm not sure what would be causing this issue.
I had this problem too. See how in the root of the site there is a directory called 'media', owned by root?
rimu@debian:~/docker/piefed/site$ ls -l
total 196
drwxr-xr-x 23 rimu rimu 4096 Dec 14 15:00 app
-rw-r--r-- 1 rimu rimu 51 Dec 14 14:06 babel.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 rimu rimu 271 Dec 14 14:06 celery_worker.default.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 rimu rimu 112 Dec 14 14:06 celery_worker_docker.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 rimu rimu 1107 Jan 28 09:00 compose.yaml
-rw-r--r-- 1 rimu rimu 2898 Dec 14 14:06 config.py
lrwxrwxrwx 1 rimu rimu 39 Dec 14 14:06 contributing.md -> docs/project_management/contributing.md
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rimu rimu 89 Dec 14 14:06 daily.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rimu rimu 287 Dec 14 14:06 deploy.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 rimu rimu 1003 Dec 14 14:06 dev_notes.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 rimu rimu 487 Dec 16 09:22 Dockerfile
drwxr-xr-x 4 rimu rimu 4096 Dec 14 14:06 docs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rimu rimu 148 Dec 14 14:06 email_notifs.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rimu rimu 73 Dec 14 14:06 entrypoint_celery.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rimu rimu 144 Jan 28 09:03 entrypoint.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 rimu rimu 711 Dec 14 14:06 env.sample
-rw-r--r-- 1 rimu rimu 2308 Dec 14 14:06 FEDERATION.md
-rw-r--r-- 1 rimu rimu 283 Dec 14 14:06 gunicorn.conf.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 rimu rimu 20047 Dec 14 14:06 INSTALL.md
-rw-r--r-- 1 rimu rimu 4502 Dec 14 14:06 interests.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 rimu rimu 34472 Dec 14 14:06 LICENSE
drwxr-xr-x 2 rimu rimu 4096 Dec 14 15:03 logs
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 16 09:30 media
drwxr-xr-x 3 rimu rimu 4096 Dec 14 14:06 migrations
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rimu rimu 79 Dec 14 14:06 mini_deploy.sh
drwx------ 19 ollama root 4096 Jan 28 09:03 pgdata
-rw-r--r-- 1 rimu rimu 1622 Dec 14 14:06 profile_app.py
drwxr-xr-x 2 rimu rimu 4096 Dec 14 15:00 __pycache__
-rw-r--r-- 1 rimu rimu 4067 Dec 14 14:06 pyfedi.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 rimu rimu 799 Dec 14 14:06 README.md
-rw-r--r-- 1 rimu rimu 42 Dec 14 14:06 regional.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rimu rimu 91 Dec 14 14:06 remove_orphan_files.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 rimu rimu 624 Dec 14 14:06 requirements.txt
drwxr-xr-x 2 rimu rimu 4096 Dec 14 14:06 testing_data
-rw-r--r-- 1 rimu rimu 353 Dec 14 14:06 test_interest_parse.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 rimu rimu 1524 Dec 14 14:06 test_signature.py
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rimu rimu 91 Dec 14 14:06 weekly.sh
That needs to be owned by me/you instead of root. Shut down the containers, then run
sudo chown -R rimu:rimu ./media (but change 'rimu' to your user name).
In October 2024, we initiated discussions with Meta regarding accessibility regressions on Facebook. The most critical concern was the deprecation of the MBasic Facebook site.
The US military drafted plans to commit heinous acts against American citizens to provoke war with Cuba in the 1960s, a declassified CIA document reveals. Here are the shocking details.
Some thoughts from this Loops user on why the Fediverse matters. I've seen some people push back on the idea of "It's like email, but for X", but that way of explaining it really makes sense to me.
I agree with the thesis that centralization is bad. Centralization breeds concentration of power, and power corrupts, or something like that
Auf Matrix heißt er mf_h. Ist ein kleiner Joke zwischen uns, dass das für "Motherfucking HURENSOHN" steht, mit der Betonung. Ist er natürlich nicht. Hier heißt er nur "mf" (ich bin mir zumindest zimlich sicher, dass er das ist), also nur "Motherfucker".
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Ohh... I hope we will not importe the weird subtitles culture from TickTock into Loop. We need real accessibility not some high paced text diverting attention.
The US military drafted plans to commit heinous acts against American citizens to provoke war with Cuba in the 1960s, a declassified CIA document reveals. Here are the shocking details.
The assassination of Major General Peter Cirimwami marks a critical escalation in the conflict in DRC, amid a geopolitical scramble for the country’s vast mineral wealth.
Major General Peter Cirimwami, the military governor of North Kivu province, was shot near Kasengezi this past Thursday and later succumbed to his injuries. The incident occurred as he visited the frontline to assess the deteriorating security situation. His visit occurred while DRC President Félix Tshisekedi was attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, Speaker of Parliament Vital Kamhere was in Vietnam, and the Minister of Communication Patrick Muyaya was in France.
And AI, and general manufacturing, and science....etc.
US done and fucked up because would rather vote for MAGA fuckwits and remain stupid as can be to feel more in tune with their shithead upbringings than think about the future.
My grandpappy got to work in the mines with a high school education! He got paid well, he could raise a family, and he only died from black lung at 43! I deserve to work a shit job for lower wages than I deserve to be able to pretend I'm getting a good deal out of society like my grandpappy pretended until he croaked! That's when grandma got to stop pretending, too, and she married her neighbor Ruth. Fucking women ruining men's lives and killing them young with black lung is the real issue!
Or something like that. A big big part of it seems to be genuinely a deep resentment for anyone educated and skilled, and a feeling of being deserving of a certain quality of life while not contributing much... which is wild because like... How do they not see that everyone deserves a decent quality of life even if they don't have a great education? Because they can't feel positive about their quality of life if they're not lording it over someone who has it worse than them? It feels like all these things that they rail against like higher minimum wage and unions and whatnot all would give them what they want but they're somehow too fuckstupid to put it together. It's such a deeply fucking broken way to live, and it must be really lonely.
Pretty much. Social norms in the US have been eroded by the rich as they were by the CCCP/Russians post-WWII.
If everyone isn't equally stupid, we'll make them stupid to bring down the averages. All of this is about Russian playbooks on dumb fucking influencer people on the Internet. So sad.
Chinese dominate EV production, but they also need it the most. Other countries recognized the problem of being dependent on oil imports, such as Japan, and Singapore. Necessity is the mother of invention and innovation.
Human exploitation and subsidies are hardly innovative nor invented in China. All major innovations in EV are made in other countries for them. If anything, innovation puts you at the losing end because China will just copy you cheaper.
Europeans and Americans can't make EVs cheap enough, period. Joe Biden's subsidizes luxury cars for the rich and upper middle class. China makes cars for everybody. Califonia recently had to repeal EV truck mandate or else face a economic disaster in future.
i would much rather have a chinese ev with that long range battery tech and framework than an american car company's ev option not including tesla which i don't even consider a car company. they're a shit tech company that makes shit cars shittily.
It’s a very different picture in the US, where the economic case for EVs without subsidies is weaker, he added, because gas is “extraordinarily cheap” and Americans prefer “absolutely massive vehicles.”
That preference may be true to some degree, but at least some of it is due to federal regulation, which as-structured creates an incentive to sell larger vehicles.
Since 2012, manufacturers have faced GHG emissions requirements that depend on the mix of vehicles sold; a manufacturer that sells larger vehicles and light trucks rather than cars faces less stringent requirements for GHG emissions. This regulatory structure incentivizes manufacturers to shift their product offerings to avoid strict GHG requirements, which potentially increases emissions.
Since the adoption of size-based standards in 2012, new vehicles have been getting larger, and sales have shifted from cars to light trucks. Between 2011 and 2022, the average vehicle footprint (roughly, the area defined by the four wheels) increased by about 4 percent, and the share of cars in total sales dropped from about 65 percent to 40 percent. In the GHG standards that EPA proposed in April this year, the agency notes that the increasing size and shift from cars to trucks has increased average emissions rates by about 10 percent.
EPA regulations require a vehicle with X emissions to be relatively X size -- the size is relative to emissions.
This means that to meet modern American emissions standards, for a vehicle to get the kind of gas mileage a pickup should get while still being useful, it needs to be huge to fit in the emissions bracket. The only way around this is to have a hybrid or have an electric vehicle, but even then, it is incredibly hard to fit within these regulations, which get tighter every period especially while still being remotely "affordable."
Auto manufacturers have skewed toward producing larger vehicles in recent years, in part because of vehicle regulations and consumer demand. Exactly how much have emissions standards incentivized a shift to larger vehicles?
I'm on KDE Plasma using wayland, and I'm annoyed with KDE's emoji picker. Well, the interface is fine, I just want emojis to immediately be pasted into the text field that was in focus when I used the shortcut to launch the emoji picker. Basically I want the behavior to be as close to the Windows emoji picker as possible.
Does anyone know of an alternative that allows me to quickly type 2 different emojis in succession? Bonus points when it's easily available on arch.
Not exactly what you may be looking for, but one of the first things I set up in Linux is the "Compose" key. Sun keyboards in the 90's had a dedicated Compose key, and you can enable the functionality still. I usually set it to Right Alt.
The Compose key is kind of like an extended shift key, so 'Compose' + "c" + "/" for example will give you "¢".
The key combinations and characters can be edited in a config file (can't remember off the top of my head).
Not as versatile and an "Emoji picker", but allows quick insertion of Unicode glyphs into text. Useful for ¢£€¥™×° type characters.
That's exactly why I always enable the Compose key. It's the fastest and easiest way to just type a variety of Unicode glyphs. The key combinations trend to be intuitive as well.
There's a good chance the default config file will have a pretty decent selection. Although I have edited the config in the past, I haven't done it under KDE. The KDE article on setting up the compose key seems to say that KDE uses a different config file anyways.
Turning on the Compose key is pretty straightforward as I recall, just another setting under Keyboard settings. Finding that config file is still useful if you can't guess the right combo for your desired glyph.
Very useful for using character common in math and science.
After install just set up a keyboard shortcut to quickly change between input languages, and you can just type your emojis effortlessly. As it's an input method it doesn't matter what DE you use. Demo gif from Github:
This is definitely a good contender. I do already use 2 different keyboard layouts regularly, so I think it might get annoying when I'm trying to switch between those two. I'll give it a go though, thank you!
Doesn't auto insert though, but puts it in the clipboard. Paste as many times as you need. If you figure out how to get it to insert into the focused application, do let me know 😁
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Its working by tapping into a woman's animal brain, and forces her to act on her deepest, darkest sexual desires, in such a way that she literally loses control of her decision-making ability, and has to fuck with you. You just need to communicate with the girl just like normal talking. But it works like a magic for you. I have uploaded a video on this you can watch it from my profile. I wish you all the best for your fucking future.
I created a "Trusted Users" category to restrict some privileges to users that have reached a certain reputation level. I'd like to control category privileges using this group. However, I'm not seeing it in the Group list on the relevant admin page:
Starting on January 19, 2025 Facebook's internal policy makers decided that Linux is malware and labelled groups associated with Linux as being "cybersecurity threats". Any posts mentioning DistroWatch and multiple groups associated with Linux and Linux discussions have either been shut down or had many of their posts removed.
We've been hearing all week from readers who say they can no longer post about Linux on Facebook or share links to DistroWatch. Some people have reported their accounts have been locked or limited for posting about Linux.
The sad irony here is that Facebook runs much of its infrastructure on Linux and often posts job ads looking for Linux developers.
Unfortunately, there isn't anything we can do about this, apart from advising people to get their Linux-related information from sources other than Facebook. I've tried to appeal the ban and was told the next day that Linux-related material is staying on the cybersecurity filter. My Facebook account was also locked for my efforts.
We went through a similar experience when Twitter changed its name to X - suddenly accounts which had been re-posting news from our RSS feeds were no longer able to share links. This sort of censorship is an unpleasant side-effect of centralized communication platforms such as X, Facebook, Google+, and so on.
In an effort to continue to make it possible for people to talk about Linux (and DistroWatch), as well as share their views and links, we are providing two options. We have RSS news feeds which get updates whenever we post new announcements, stories, and our weekly newsletters. We also now have a Mastodon account where I will start to post updates - at least for new distributions and notice of our weekly newsletter. Over time we may also add news stories and updates about releases. Links for the feeds and the Mastodon account can be found on our contact page.
Starting on January 19, 2025 Facebook's internal policy makers decided that Linux is malware and labelled groups associated with Linux as being "cybersecurity threats". Any posts mentioning DistroWatch and multiple groups associated with Linux and Linux discussions have either been shut down or had many of their posts removed.
We've been hearing all week from readers who say they can no longer post about Linux on Facebook or share links to DistroWatch. Some people have reported their accounts have been locked or limited for posting about Linux.
The sad irony here is that Facebook runs much of its infrastructure on Linux and often posts job ads looking for Linux developers.
Unfortunately, there isn't anything we can do about this, apart from advising people to get their Linux-related information from sources other than Facebook. I've tried to appeal the ban and was told the next day that Linux-related material is staying on the cybersecurity filter. My Facebook account was also locked for my efforts.
We went through a similar experience when Twitter changed its name to X - suddenly accounts which had been re-posting news from our RSS feeds were no longer able to share links. This sort of censorship is an unpleasant side-effect of centralized communication platforms such as X, Facebook, Google+, and so on.
In an effort to continue to make it possible for people to talk about Linux (and DistroWatch), as well as share their views and links, we are providing two options. We have RSS news feeds which get updates whenever we post new announcements, stories, and our weekly newsletters. We also now have a Mastodon account where I will start to post updates - at least for new distributions and notice of our weekly newsletter. Over time we may also add news stories and updates about releases. Links for the feeds and the Mastodon account can be found on our contact page.
He was not allowed to enter switzerland because Fedpol feared that he calls for violence and actively promotes Hamas (which Switzerland considers a terror organisation). As he crossed the border anyway, he got arrested and deported.
You can’t enter a country without a visa and wonder why you get arrested…
Ali Abunimah hatte unter anderem Raketenangriffe Irans gegen Israel als «humanitären Akt» bezeichnet. Gegen den Amerikaner war eine Einreisesperre verhängt worden.
I have not enough knowledge about him to say if it was reasonable to not let him in, but his post on X seemed to celebrate destruction and murder.
I think it is in the manner of “better safe than sorry” it is reasonable to not give this man a visa. And I very much hope that a person celebrating Israel’s attacks would neither.
Then why does you answer to my comment have nothing to do with the point of my comment.
Maybe it have to spell it out: My point was that western media use the word "islamist" utterly arbitrary to attack brown people of any ideology, thus rendering the term useless. And that is discussingly racist. This is especially true for far right media like the NZZ that you cited.
Your point was that you apparently presume that I defend him, which I didn't. He blocked me ten years ago in Twitter after a heated discussion.
I now presume that your are discussing with bad intentions, trying to derail a discussion by intentionally misinterpreting someone's arguments. A classical right wing populist tactic.
If that's the conclusion you've arrived at after reading nazi-friendly content, then you're probably a nazi too.
Ali Abunimah was born and raised in the U.S., so we can safely assume he possesses the U.S. citizenship and passport. What does Switzerland's official immigration website have to say about U.S. citizens? Oh yeah, that's right, you get full-on red carpet drawn for you:
And if the state designates an organization as a terrorist group, then that's that right? We can just throw away our critical thinking (assuming we had any in the first place) and let the state known for rubbing elbows with nazis do the thinking for us, right? Piss off with that racist bullshit.
Note that while entering the Schengen area does not require a visa for USA citizens, you do have to get a visa waiver which is subject to limitations. See this document.
That's true, starting from this year. I couldn't find more information about this through primary sources of how tedious it is compared to your average long-and-arduous visa procedures that Global South countries are subjected to, but it appears to be a relatively quick non-process: axa-schengen.com/en/visa/visit…
The reason for his deportation wasn't because "he didn't have a visa" like the original comment purported as one of the points, or a lack of a visa-waiver for that matter. It was clear-cut "he's too brown for our liking" but with glitter all over.
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So i messed up that “Einreiseverbot” and “visa” is not the same. I think any non Swiss person can be refused to enter the country, if you are popular enough that fedpol fears about safety of the people in Switzerland.
A simple guide to help you apply for a Switzerland Schengen Visa. Follow the steps with detailed explanations for each stage to make the Swiss visa application process easy to understand.
So i messed up that “Einreiseverbot” and “visa” is not the same. I think any non Swiss person can be refused to enter the country, if you are popular enough that fedpol fears about safety of the people in Switzerland.
A simple guide to help you apply for a Switzerland Schengen Visa. Follow the steps with detailed explanations for each stage to make the Swiss visa application process easy to understand.
So i messed up that “Einreiseverbot” and “visa” is not the same. I think any non Swiss person can be refused to enter the country, if you are popular enough that fedpol fears about safety of the people in Switzerland.
A simple guide to help you apply for a Switzerland Schengen Visa. Follow the steps with detailed explanations for each stage to make the Swiss visa application process easy to understand.
If you're talking about October 7, Hamas was restrained beyond belief, given that they have the right to resist their occupiers and torturers by any means necessary.
Reminder: Palestine was liberated once before from the Crusaders and not by convincing the European invaders of human rights or any other value but through force.
No one should be delusional that a western colonial project backed by western powers will someday recognize the humanity of Palestinians. The only principle that the west understands is might makes right. That is the principle they have applied towards colonized peoples. Everything they say above human rights is a thin veneer over that brutal truth.
In the post it is explained that it is meant for reusing wine bottles not buying new ones. And it mostly doesn't matter that it can't be used under pressure because it is for syrups and other non pressure stuff.
Thrift stores, virgil's root beer sells some of their drinks in swing tops, trader joe's ginger beer is in a swing top. Or you can just buy them online.
If swingtops that are shaped for beer work for you, find a local independent bar or pub. Stop by before opening and ask if they'd mind saving their swingtops for you.
When I did this, the answer "Sure, just bring one back for me with your first brew." More, they already had a box of them set aside.
Grolsch bottles are by far the most common and will be 450ml, green, and with a raised glass patterning. Those are the most common. 9 ounce bottles from small commercial breweries will be smooth clear or brown with paper labels you'll want to soak off, and they'll have significantly fewer of these.
No idea where you're from but in UK they sell beer in lithuanian/polish/Russian shops with these caps, use one as a water bottle, would love this mechanism on a larger necked glass bottle.
Bonus you get a free beer with purchase of a bottle.
I've had varying luck with bottles like that, sometimes they don't hold pressure and you end up drinking flat beer. Using those lids on standard wine bottles and carbonating in them is a recipe for creating high velocity glass shrapnel.
The kit would probably have to be used with a certain style of bottle, since if that collar slides up too far you aren't going to get a seal. So the flared end on the bottle would need to be a measured amount or there will be too little or too much tension on the cap when it's flipped.
Any idea what's going on here? It seems to be a different bug than the one where Discourse generates duplicate posts for a Create that later gets Announced back at it.
Starting on January 19, 2025 Facebook's internal policy makers decided that Linux is malware and labelled groups associated with Linux as being "cybersecurity threats". Any posts mentioning DistroWatch and multiple groups associated with Linux and Linux discussions have either been shut down or had many of their posts removed.
We've been hearing all week from readers who say they can no longer post about Linux on Facebook or share links to DistroWatch. Some people have reported their accounts have been locked or limited for posting about Linux.
The sad irony here is that Facebook runs much of its infrastructure on Linux and often posts job ads looking for Linux developers.
Unfortunately, there isn't anything we can do about this, apart from advising people to get their Linux-related information from sources other than Facebook. I've tried to appeal the ban and was told the next day that Linux-related material is staying on the cybersecurity filter. My Facebook account was also locked for my efforts.
We went through a similar experience when Twitter changed its name to X - suddenly accounts which had been re-posting news from our RSS feeds were no longer able to share links. This sort of censorship is an unpleasant side-effect of centralized communication platforms such as X, Facebook, Google+, and so on.
In an effort to continue to make it possible for people to talk about Linux (and DistroWatch), as well as share their views and links, we are providing two options. We have RSS news feeds which get updates whenever we post new announcements, stories, and our weekly newsletters. We also now have a Mastodon account where I will start to post updates - at least for new distributions and notice of our weekly newsletter. Over time we may also add news stories and updates about releases. Links for the feeds and the Mastodon account can be found on our contact page.
I'm guessing it's automated stupidity. Meta has cut staff and we're seeing the results.
Much of the big tech companies have done this over the past year or two, and also been pushing "AI" to replace roles like moderation. I think we're seeing the results of over relying on AI and cutting staff to boost share prices.
Lets face it, Meta is dying; Facebook is declining, and Instagram seems to be in decline too, the pivot to VR failed and the pivot to AI will fail. It's best chance seems to be trying to get its hands on TikTok in the US and even that is hardly going to drive the company forward.
Could be strategic, since Linux does not have as much telemetry as it's proprietary competition, which would hinder some Project 2025 dreams, but we got zero evidence for it so far...
I am going to be upgrading my server within the next couple of months and am trying to do some prior planning. My current setup is as follows: - Case: Fractal Define R5 - Mothberboard: Gigabyte Z170X-Designare-CF - CPU: i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz - Memory: 32 GiB DDR4 - Storage: 15TB spread across 4 HDDs (10x2x2x1) + 1HDD at 10TB for Parity. - OS: Unraid 🧡
While this setup as served me well, I am completely hooked on these mini-racks(Rackmate T1) and am thinking of getting one eventually. Fortunately I'll be getting my hand on my first mini-pc soon, a ASUS ExpertCenter PN52. This little badboy has the following specs: - CPU: AMD Ryzen™ 9 5900HX - Memory: 32 GiB DDR4 - Storage: Comes with one NVMe SSD 1TB
From my little cpu knowledege this one is superior in almost all ways, so it feels like an easy choice to swith out the old one. This leads me to my question. I need an enclosing for my 5 HDDs that connects to this minipc. What are your suggestions?
::: spoiler Pictures of the mini-pc for those interested:
Descriptions: 10-inch 4U rack External dimensions: 280mm*200mm*274mm Internal dimensions: 222mm*200mm*241mm The maximum installation depth of this 10-inch rack is 20cm Easy to install: 4U rack is shipped assembled, saving you the trouble of installat…
I am going to be upgrading my server within the next couple of months and am trying to do some prior planning. My current setup is as follows: - Case: Fractal Define R5 - Mothberboard: Gigabyte Z170X-Designare-CF - CPU: i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz - Memory: 32 GiB DDR4 - Storage: 15TB spread across 4 HDDs (10x2x2x1) + 1HDD at 10TB for Parity. - OS: Unraid 🧡
While this setup as served me well, I am completely hooked on these mini-racks(Rackmate T1) and am thinking of getting one eventually. Fortunately I'll be getting my hand on my first mini-pc soon, a ASUS ExpertCenter PN52. This little badboy has the following specs: - CPU: AMD Ryzen™ 9 5900HX - Memory: 32 GiB DDR4 - Storage: Comes with one NVMe SSD 1TB
From my little cpu knowledege this one is superior in almost all ways, so it feels like an easy choice to swith out the old one. This leads me to my question. I need an enclosing for my 5 HDDs that connects to this minipc. What are your suggestions?
::: spoiler Pictures of the mini-pc for those interested:
Descriptions: 10-inch 4U rack External dimensions: 280mm*200mm*274mm Internal dimensions: 222mm*200mm*241mm The maximum installation depth of this 10-inch rack is 20cm Easy to install: 4U rack is shipped assembled, saving you the trouble of installat…
We are closing the voting on this topic a couple of days early as the result is already conclusive., Our threshold for passing the motion was for 2/3 of voting members in favor. We have far exceeded that threshold (see below) and have a good number of overall responses, so the proposed policy change has now been approved and takes effect immediately.
Our new policy on Xitter links
No Xitter links are to be posted on this instance from the date of this announcement.
Workarounds such as link shorteners and alternative front-ends that resolve to Xitter posts are also banned.
Screenshots will still be permitted as per the overwhelming number of comments in support of this option.
Exception: In rare cases there may be a need to verify the veracity of a Xitter post. If this need arises, then you may post a xcancel.com/ version of the link. Please note this option should only be used sparingly and exclusively for fact-checking purposes.
We will begin communicating this instance policy change to all our users today.
Please try to be helpful to anyone who accidentally posts a Xitter link who may not yet be aware of the policy change, and/or feel free to report in the usual way.
N.B.: For the loopholers - by "Xitter links" we mean any links to content hosted on X (formerly Twitter). Alternative Xitter front-ends are also banned under this policy, unless exception #4 applies. Edit: The ban also applies to other Xitter-owned domains such as their photo blobstore (pbs) domain at pbd.twimg.com
Thanks to everyone involved for participating in the vote!
**The final tally is as follows: **
For: (2), (7), (5), (3), (2), (1)
Against:
Local Community: +2.6
Outsider sentiment: Very Positive
Total: +22.6
Percentage: 100.00%
To break this down a little differently:
Home instance users voted 93% in favor of the proposal (284/307)
External instance users voted 97% in favor of the proposal (70/72 note: these are not counted, but good to know)
Donating and vouched for users voted 100% in favor of the proposal (20/20 votes).
Community vote on banning X/Twitter links aka "Twitter in the shitter?"
Ahoy me hearties!
We were thinking this might be a good test run topic for instance voting in our !div0_governance@lemmy.dbzer0.com community. Please be patient with us if anything breaks or isn't working properly. Feedback is welcome.
The voting topic
Given the current political backdrop and recent video of Elon Musk performing clearly identifiable Nazi salutes at the Presidential inauguration, some communities have started banning all links to X/Twitter. A couple of examples I noticed yesterday:
The vote is on whether our instance should follow suit and implement an instance-wide ban on X/Twitter links in posts and comments.
I've noticed some people suggesting allowing screenshots to still be used (e.g. for memes). Feel free to drop a comment if you have an opinion on that.
How to vote
Simply upvote or downvote this post. The /0 Bot will automatically calculate and update a tally of votes every 15 mins or so according to the voting rules (so don’t expect instant updates). An upvote is counted in favour of the resolution. A downvote is counted as against the resolution.
Note regarding crossposting: please be aware that only votes on the original post in !div0_governance@lemmy.dbzer0.com will be counted.
When to vote
Voting starts as of now. We'll close voting once the flow of votes stops - not sure exactly when that will be yet, but I'd like to keep the topic open for at least 2 or 3 days (maybe a week?) to give everyone a chance to vote.
Who can vote
TLDR here is that anyone can vote, but your votes will be weighted differently depending if you are a financial supporter, local instance member or external instance member.
As discussed in the announcement post, the initial plan was that only stakeholders can vote and open threads. That now includes everyone who is supporting us with any monthly donation amount.
Voting rights have also been extended so that votes of other local instance members who otherwise have no voting rights will be accounted at a rate of 1/100 from a random sample of up to 1000 of their votes. This means that a vote can go up to max +/- 10 from local community votes and it’s a fractional count (i.e. +1.1, or -0.7) which should make the local community sentiment an excellent tiebreaker, without overwhelming the people who are directly supporting the instance. Furthermore, I decided to display the “outsider sentiment” which is votes from non-valid-voting users from other instances. The outsider sentiment is only flavour (“Positive”, “Negative” etc) and is disregarded from the total. This is just shown for reference of the outsider sentiment which I think might be useful.
What constitutes a successful vote on a topic?
We are totally open to debate on this. I was thinking for this topic, a 2/3 majority vote would be a good target to aim for so we can be certain the community vote represents a clear majority of our users' opinions.
My thinking here is that if some topics are split close to 50/50 then achieving a 51% vote for example does not produce a clear mandate and may simply cause unnecessary division.
Having said that, I acknowledge a 2/3 majority is an arbitrary choice, but unless we implement a more complex voting system hopefully it is "good enough" to indicate a clear majority. As mentioned previously, feedback is very welcome and we will review and make adjustments where necessary.
Community participation
I strongly encourage all our instance members as well as subscribers from different instances to vote on this topic. If we only get a small handful of votes it's not going to be very representative of overall sentiment. This is a test run, so if things don't work out in terms of participation we will re-assess and perhaps revisit the topic.
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In un momento in cui le piattaforme di social media consolidate stanno affrontando critiche e turbolenze (dalla chiusura temporanea di TikTok al ritiro di Meta dal fact-checking, fino alle crescenti critiche sulla moderazione dei contenuti politici), un nuovo approccio ai social media sta guadagnando una certa attenzione.
"Aiutateci a restituire il controllo alle persone!" dichiara lo sviluppatore canadese Daniel Supernault, le cui piattaforme open source mirano a fornire alternative incentrate sulla privacy ai social media tradizionali.
La campagna Kickstarter di Supernault , lanciata il 24 gennaio, ha già superato il suo obiettivo iniziale di CA$50.000, secondo quanto riportato da TechCrunch , raccogliendo CA$93.022 (circa US$64.839) alle 11:02 PT di oggi. Il finanziamento sosterrà lo sviluppo di tre piattaforme all'interno di Fediverse, una rete decentralizzata di servizi di social media interconnessi. Queste piattaforme includono Pixelfed, Loops e Sup, progettate come alternative incentrate sulla privacy a Instagram, TikTok e WhatsApp, rispettivamente. Ogni piattaforma rifiuta i tradizionali finanziamenti di capitale di rischio e modelli di ricavi basati sulla pubblicità a favore dello sviluppo guidato dalla comunità.
Alternative a Instagram, TikTok e WhatsApp
Per quanto riguarda le app alternative in sé, Pixelfed è il più maturo dei progetti di Supernault, che offre un'alternativa senza pubblicità a Instagram, che ha lanciato le sue app mobili il 14 gennaio . La piattaforma fornisce le tradizionali funzionalità di condivisione di foto come filtri e album, mantenendo al contempo una rigorosa politica di non tracciamento e di non vendita di dati. La sua istanza principale, Pixelfed.social, ha accumulato più di 200.000 utenti e ha raggiunto il 6° posto nella categoria social media nell'App Store di Apple, diventando il secondo server più grande nel Fediverse dietro Mastodon.social, secondo le statistiche di rete di FediDB .
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in reply to Shide • • •I avoid it because I don’t like authoritarians and genocide denial. But you do you.
I personally refuse to participate in an instance that will ban me from FOSS communities because I mentioned Tiannmen square on their news community.