US warns countries not to join French, Saudi UN conference on Palestine: Report
The US is lobbying foreign governments not to attend a UN conference next week sponsored by France and Saudi Arabia on a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to a US diplomatic cable reported by Reuters.
The cable, sent to countries on Tuesday, warns them against taking "anti-Israel actions" and says attending the conference would be viewed by Washington as acting against US foreign policy interests.
France, a permanent member of the UN Security Council, is a US ally in Nato. Saudi Arabia is one of the US’s closest Middle East partners.
Can you be tracked for marketing purposes on a "dumb-phone"?
I'm aware that carrying a phone means that I can be tracked with cell towers and that's fine.
But is there some sort of tracking that can be done on modern dumb-phones that make relevant ads show up(on spotify/youtube) that are based on where the phone has been?
Thanks I'm a newb
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I would unironically love if there were enough people in my life that also wanted to live that way to make it viable... Also the lack of functioning payphones these days would be challenging.
The place (at least in the USA) where I've found the most functional-looking payphones was actually Hawaii... And even then, so many are decaying and non-functional. I've had a silly idea to go back and just roam around and photograph as many as I can.
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Republicans Want to Defund NPR. To Survive, It Needs To Do Some Soul-Searching.
Republicans Want to Defund NPR. To Survive, It Needs To Do Some Soul-Searching.
NPR's job is to produce news for every American. Its partisan lean is undermining that mission.Zaid Jilani (The American Saga)
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My wife and I listen to NPR fairly regularly, she donates, I do not.
My argument is as long as they are taking money from companies like Archer Daniels Midland and the Koch Foundation, they don't need MY money.
Local stations (not NPR, but NPR affiliates) even take money from fucking Monsanto(!)
Use supervisor or desktop Linux for TV gaming PC + NAS?
To give a bit of context : I'm upgrading my whole desktop computer so I now have a spare computer for gaming on the TV. I'm thinking of using it mainly as a gaming "console", but might be interested in embedding a NAS as well, and possibly some Docker containers for Home Assistants etc...
So the question : should I just install a normal Distro like Arch, setup a network share and Docker containers, or should I use a proper hypervisor like Unraid and have a VM for couch gaming etc...?
What issues could I expect with both? Are performances impacted with the hypervisor? (I don't plan on doing competitive games on the TV) or is troubleshooting going to be easier on a standard distro?
Did someone do such a setup and have some feedback?
Never properly used Linux before, but I'm a Windows power-user and am looking to transition part of my setup to Linux.
The GPU is going to be an RTX3070 if that matters
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Have you considered/tried streaming games from your primary desktop PC? Obviously very dependent on your situation's specifics, but that's one of the things I do with the Linux htpc I have set up.
And then you wouldn't have to worry about games and NAS stuff competing for system resources.
I'd personally go the hypervisor route (I'm using proxmox, truenas, and an arr stack on my NAS). It keeps things compartmentalized (especially network configurations) and usually keeps me from breaking *everything at the same time.
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There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.
-Commander William Adama, Battlestar Galactica (2004)
Top Chinese scientists flee Boston area as Harvard, MIT fall in rankings; Silicon Valley also hit
- Thousands of Chinese researchers and scientists are leaving top jobs in leading US universities and companies, to take positions in China.
- The Cambridge area of Massachusetts is home to Harvard, MIT, and scores of leading companies, and was the number one source of returning Chinese research and engineering talent.
- In second place is the Palo Alto-Berkeley cluster, which includes Stanford, University of California, and Silicon Valley.
- The migration of top scientific and engineering talent back to China is accelerating, but began nearly a decade ago. And while the political situation between China and the United States certainly is a major motivation for many scientists to return, more important is the quality of the education systems.
- Chinese universities are now claiming the top spots across all the hard science disciplines, while American colleges are tumbling.
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It's both stupid expensive and the jobs don't pay enough anymore. I can make the same salary as an engineer working a trade or any other white collar job.
I'm sure the growing distrust in science and general stupidity didn't help either.
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The legislation was opposed by companies such as Amazon and the statewide nonprofit Oregon Ambulatory Surgery Center Association, an industry group, where executives see private investment as vital to their business strategy.
“We universally agree that the way to protect clinics from closure and maintain the broadest patient access to outpatient care is to keep the existing, and multi-ownership models alive and well,” wrote Ryan Grimm on behalf of the association and the Portland Clinic, a private multispecialty medical group, in a March letter to lawmakers.
“In some communities, there is no hospital to swoop in to the rescue, or no hospital in a financial position to save a clinic,” he wrote.
The bill does not go into effect immediately and it contains a three-year adjustment period for clinics to comply with the restrictions. Institutions such as hospitals, tribal health facilities, behavioral health programs and crisis lines are exempted.
Mein Gott, a ray of sanity! Listen it's not everything a constituent can hope for but it's a giant step in the right direction. Congratulations, Oregon!
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Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
Musk targets June 22 launch of Tesla's long-promised robotaxi service
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said his company will start offering public rides in driverless vehicles in Austin, Texas, on June 22.
Nintendo says your bad Switch 2 battery life might be a bug
It might just be the Switch 2, though.
Nintendo says your bad Switch 2 battery life might be a bug
If you’re dealing with what appears to be poor battery life on the Nintendo Switch 2, the company has a support document with steps you can try to fix it.Jay Peters (The Verge)
Musk’s threat to sue firms that don’t buy ads on X seems to have paid off
Some advertisers return to avoid suits, but Lego and Pinterest rebuffed threats.
Wikipedia pauses AI-generated summaries pilot after editors protest
Editors almost immediately criticized the pilot, raising concerns that it could damage Wikipedia's credibility.
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Apple’s updated parental controls will require kids to get permission to text new numbers
More child safety features.
Apple’s updated parental controls will require kids to get permission to text new numbers
Apple is introducing new child safety features, including one that will give parents more control over who their kids can communicate with.Jay Peters (The Verge)
US government's vaccine website defaced with AI-generated content
The content of a vaccines information website owned by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services was swapped with gay-themed spam.
US government's vaccine website defaced with AI-generated content | TechCrunch
The content of a vaccines information website owned U.S. Department of Health and Human Services was swapped with gay-themed spam.Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (TechCrunch)
John L. Young, the Guy Who Created Wikileaks Before Wikileaks, Dies at 89
The unsung whistleblower, died on March 28 in New York City, where he resided with his partner, Deborah Natsios. Some called him an under-recognized hero of the digital age.
As 75 Democrats Vote to Praise ICE, Ilhan Omar Wants to Hold Police Accountable for Protest Abuses
Trying to pass laws to defend protesters’ rights is a lonely battle on Capitol Hill.
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Roll Call 158 Roll Call 158, Bill Number: H. Res. 488, 119th Congress, 1st Session
VOTE QUESTION: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Agree, DESCRIPTION: Denouncing the antisemitic terrorist attack in Boulder, Colorado, VOTE TYPE: 2/3 Yea-And-Nay, STATUS: PassedOffice of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives
Man Says ICE Isn’t Treating His Cancer — and His Isn’t the Only Case of Neglect
At least six people have died in ICE custody since Trump took office. José is worried that he could be next.
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Trump Threatens Those Planning to Protest His Military “Birthday” Parade With “Very Big Force”
Polling shows that three-quarters of Americans oppose Trump’s decision to hold a military parade this weekend.
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The Biggest Recent Union Wins Were in Art and Bacon
The labor movement improves lives for all kinds of workers, and the two largest National Labor Relations Board elections of the month of May were at two very different workplaces: the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and Dold Foods in Wichita, Kansas.
The Biggest Recent Union Wins Were in Art and Bacon
The labor movement improves lives for all kinds of workers, and the two largest National Labor Relations Board elections of the month of May were at two very different workplaces: the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and Dold Foods in Wichita,…jacobin.com
Democrats Are Throwing In the Towel on Rural America
Since 2016, Democrats have operationally withdrawn from rural America. No party can win nationally without rural voters, and progressive economics have plenty to offer, if only the party would embrace them.
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You calling Kristen Sinema and Joe Manchin “centrists” just shows you have no idea what you are talking about. They are 100% corporate Democrats who took millions from oil or pharmaceuticals lobby to kill bills that were unfairable to them
Yeah. centrists.
John Fetterman voted with Republicans more than he voted with Democrats. He’s a a simple sellout to a foreign country and primarify funded by The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). He should be treated as a traitor.
Yeah. A centrist.
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Unionizing NYC’s Board Game Cafés
Following the lead of Starbucks workers, employees at board game cafés across New York City unionized in 2023 as Tabletop Workers United. After impressive shows of customer support and a credible strike threat, TWU has just won its first tentative agreement.
Texas Dept. of Transportation breached, 300k crash records stolen
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is warning that it suffered a data breach after a threat actor downloaded 300,000 crash records from its database.
Zero-click AI data leak flaw uncovered in Microsoft 365 Copilot
A new attack dubbed 'EchoLeak' is the first known zero-click AI vulnerability that enables attackers to exfiltrate sensitive data from Microsoft 365 Copilot from a user's context without interaction.
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Israel accused again of the crime against humanity of extermination as governments and MSM fail
A blistering report from UN experts has determined that Israel is committing the crime against humanity of extermination.
Archived version: archive.is/newest/thecanary.co…
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Israel carrying out crime of extermination, says UN
Mainstream media remain silent while UN determines Israel is exterminating Palestinians as thousands set off on a convoy to RafahMaryam Jameela (The Canary)
Anxiety is the most common mental health problem – here’s how tech could help manage it
Anxiety is the most common mental health problem – here’s how tech could help manage it
Devices that deliver mild, constant electrical current can alter our brain activity.The Conversation
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World first: brain implant lets man speak with expression ― and sing, Device translates thought to speech in real time.
World first: brain implant lets man speak with expression ― and sing
Device translates thought to speech in real time.Naddaf, Miryam
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Study co-author Maitreyee Wairagkar, a neuroscientist at the University of California, Davis, and her colleagues trained deep-learning algorithms to capture the signals in his brain every 10 milliseconds. Their system decodes, in real time, the sounds the man attempts to produce rather than his intended words or the constituent phonemes — the subunits of speech that form spoken words.
This is a really cool approach. They're not having to determine speech meaning, but instead picking up signals after the person's brain has already done that part and is just trying to vocalize. I'm guessing they can capture nerve impulses that would be moving muscles in the face, mouth, lips, and possibly larynx and then using the AI to quickly determine which sounds that would produce in those few milliseconds those conditions exist. Then the machine to produces the sounds artificially. Because they're able to do this so fast (in 10 milliseconds) it can get close to human body response and reproduction of the specific sounds.
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What is the catch with Epic Games' free games?
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DOOM: The Dark Ages on Steam
DOOM: The Dark Ages is the prequel to the critically acclaimed DOOM (2016) and DOOM Eternal that tells an epic cinematic story worthy of the DOOM Slayer’s legend.store.steampowered.com
Standard resolution for me is FHD. Heavy duty games 
If it is true, that is. Any source? DOOM: The Dark Ages requires 16 GB in GPU on recommended and ILL's system requirements are TBA.
When I read your comment, I could not stop thinking about those exclusive games that Epic Games have every now and then. I highly dislike that!
Hardware companies need money. Yes, Doom need at least 16GB Ram for running the game in 1024x768 pxs, as said windowed and ILL for sure need more when the release it. It's programmed onsolence, while current PC can survive almost 15 years or more, they try it with the soft to make these obsolete. Apart of the prices for these games, DOOM>€100 and ILL for sure isn't cheaper. OK. the graphics are stunning, but this don't make a game better than others, these games anyway, apart of the graphics, offers normally an gameplay pretty lineal.
My favoritefirst person game since almost 10 years is The Dark Mod, nice graphics, not worse as in commercial games, intelligent gameplay, it don't need an NASA computer to run it, almost any cheap Laptop is enough, works on Windows, Linux and Mac and is 100%free. 170 community made missions, more released every few month, you can download and add these in the same game menu.
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THE DARK MOD is a FREE first person stealth game inspired by the Thief series by Looking Glass Studios. Download and play hundreds of missions for free.The Dark Mod
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Thanks! Will try them out sometime 😀 Last time I tried download missions (which was maybe 2 months ago), I got 404. Hopefully that issue will be fixed now.
Edit: the error was not 404, but "Cannot connect to server". I had to execute a command to make it work. Will give one of these missions a shot now.
Apple expands tools to help parents protect kids and teens online
Apple expands tools to help parents protect kids and teens online
Apple today shared an update on new ways to help parents protect kids and teens online when using Apple products.Apple
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in reply to asudox • • •Fedora. There's a video of him explaining why he uses Fedora instead of Debian.
Edit: Link to Fedora's pages and a Youtube video on why Linus does not use Debian (or debian-based distros)
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in reply to GNUmer • • •Also, incase you're wondering, Richard Stallman uses Trisquel GNU/Linux.
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in reply to Resplendent606 • • •Why not just Debian without non-free, at that point?
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in reply to PenguinCoder • • •Because Debian does not meet the strict requirements of the FSF. It includes non-free blobs in the kernel and the FSF claims Debian "steers" users with recommendations for installing non-free plugins or codecs. Some "contrib" packages, while free themselves, exist primarily to load separately distributed proprietary programs. There are also references in the Debian documentation and official channels that suggest obtaining non-free software for functionality.
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in reply to PenguinCoder • • •I saw an interview where he was saying he objected to Debian adding non-free blobs so he had them put on GNU's shit list.
Dude is cuckoo for coco puffs.
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in reply to kemnz • • •While I think it would be too hard for most people to be completely free of proprietary software, atleast he is practicing what he preaches. It is a nice goal to someday get there, but I don't think its realistic at the moment.
Kind in mind, though, he is 72 and I don't think he even codes anymore. His computer use probably only consists of mostly Emac (for all text based work) and a web browser (which I read he has a very particular method that involves something similar to wget, lynx, and konqueror). His computer use is very light (I imagine) compared to many Linux users.
While I aspire to and appreciate what the FSF advocates, I don't see a realistic path for myself as a Linux gamer. The proprietary firmware limitations alone would keep you on 2015 hardware.
Source: kottke.org/15/05/how-richard-s…
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in reply to Resplendent606 • • •I’m not just talking about the free software stuff.
He’s on the record blaming victims of Epstein and chastising a developer for stepping back for the birth of his child, amongst a host of other crazy things.
Truly crazy stuff.
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in reply to kemnz • • •I knew about the Epstein thing and it is pretty offensive but unsurprising. What is surprising is what I just read about the developer in 2005 who mentioned taking time off for the birth of his daughter, essentially implying that contributing to Emacs was a more valuable contribution than having children. That is messed up.
Even worse, apparently there were also old blog posts where he discussed the legalization of sex with minors and child pornography, arguing that certain acts should be legal "as long as no one is coerced" and are only illegal due to "prejudice and narrow-mindedness."
He's not a great guy. I appreciate the work he has lead with free software, but he's said some pretty screwed up stuff.
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in reply to kemnz • • •Yes...
Stallman is nutty, obsessive, and drunk on his own fame. 🙄 🤡 🤦♀️ 🖕 💩
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in reply to Resplendent606 • • •I once gave Trisquel a try back in the day. It's one of those FSF approved distros right? My use case was more ahem, standard rather than anything programming related. Either case, one evening, I ran into a dependency hell trying to install a simple Direct Connect client onto it and no matter how much I tried I couldn't succeed.
I then decided to move back to Debian. Either case, most distros have Eiskaltdcpp (as one example of a client) in their repos, except for Trisquel. This was multiple years ago. I am currently on Void.
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in reply to kirk781 • • •This is the experience I imagine I would have trying it. It is probably what anyone with a modern system would experience with proprietary firmware. From what I read, Trisquel's core philosophy is to include only free software and Eiskaltdcpp most likely relies on some non-free dependencies.
I like Debian. I am currently trying Fedora and it has been good, too. Void is on my list of "distros to someday try" as it sounds super interesting using runit, XBPS, and not relying on systemd.
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in reply to Resplendent606 • • •Yes, Trisquel can be a pain to be used as a daily driver. Whilst I admire the philosophy behind it's concept, it definitely leaves a lot of end work to be done by the user.
I have used Fedora for quite some time in the past . I think Fedora and now discontinued Cent OS were two RPM based distros (I think Fedora now uses Dnf as well) I have used. Cent OS I liked decently, it wasn't as bleeding edge as Fedora and for a long time I dual booted Cent OS and Debian.
Void is decent independent distro. Ironically I don't have any anti systemd feelings and just gave it a try for heck of it and stuck to it. I think there is a musl version of Void as well but that makes things only complicated.
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in reply to kirk781 • • •I feel the same way about Artix. I had it on my laptop for a while, and it was a regular PITA. I think I may have made it harder on myself, because while getting rid of systemd was fine, I was also trying to do without NetworkManager and on a laptop that wasn't a great idea. I never did find a good, reliable set-up that managed access point hopping as well as nm.
Really, thinking back, Artix was fine; it really was just the roaming WiFi handling that gave me grief, and I did that to myself.
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in reply to kirk781 • • •(I'm replying to you twice b/c totally different topics)
Tell me more about your Void experience. I've been meaning to give it a shot, except I don't get as much enjoyment out of fussing with distros as I used to. What are the pain points? Under Artix, I used dinit which I really liked, but I tried s6 first and absolutely hated it. I didn't try runit; how is it?
What I'm most interested in is xbps, because IMO it's the package manager that makes or breaks a system. I'm quite fond of pacman and have encountered far fewer dependency hell situations than I did with either rpm or deb, and rolling release is a must. xbps looks kind of like a rolling stable release?
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in reply to 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍 • • •Void is rolling release IIRC. The package manager is quite fast and gets the job done. The pain point is that Void has a lower selection of package in its repos compared to say, Arch. Some good stuff is there (for example I was looking for a third party Spotify client ncspot? Back in the day and it was packaged in Void's repos) but if someone uses niche stuff a lot, there can be issues.
Of course there is Flatpak support. And the system itself is comparatively lean and fast. I don't think my installation of Void came with plenty of pre-installed apps.
It ships in two builds : glibc or musl. The latter one is less favored because it only makes life tougher honestly. Runit support is a strong point of it though personally I don't have any anti systemd qualms.
The documentation is basic and okayish. I still often go to Arch Wiki since that's honestly the most detailed. Also, I just found that it's the highest rated distro on Distro Watch. I have distro hopped a long time and Void is decent. I still hold Debian in higher regard since it's slightly easier for a novice to get used to (though it's repos can be hold often old versions of software) and also because it was my main entry point to the Linux world.
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in reply to kirk781 • • •That's what I thought, but the main website says Void focuses on stability over being cutting edge, which would imply some sort of release cycle. Or, maybe they just update packages less frequently.
It's hard to beat Mint as a novice distro, for sure.
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in reply to kirk781 • • •Mint eschews all of the Snap crap, though, doesn't it?
Jesus, please tell me it does. I've been recommending it to beginners. I thought it was sanitized.
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in reply to asudox • • •I'm not an expert, but I believes he codes the Linux Kernel on Asahi these days.
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Linus Torvalds uses an Arm-powered M2 MacBook Air to release latest Linux kernel
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in reply to asudox • • •He does not use any distro, he uses the Kernel directly 😀
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