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For All That Is Good About Humankind, Ban Smartphones



in reply to Godric

If one tribe is bad, the other one must automatically be the good one.

There can never be such a thing as TWO bad tribes fighting each other.



Bypass paywalls clean update issues


Although my version of Bypass hasn't been updated for over a year, it has been working fine.

But my latest attempt to read the New York Times indicates that it has been detected and/or blocked.

When I try to update it via gitflic.ru/ I can't seem to manually update it either. Firefox says the file is corrupt when I drag it into the browser or update (add) file via settings.

I'm assuming it's because it's a zip file but when I unzip the folder there are no files in there that firefox recognises for me to add (only a changelog, licence and readme).

Can someone please clarify - for me and anyone else likely to encounter similar issues in the future - what I might be doing wrong.

thank you!

in reply to anamethatisnt

thanks for the clarification and link.

So which of the many xpi files should I be manually adding please?

I'm assuming its the one that says latest.xpi (and not the previously numbered files).



De viktigaste vänsterkanalerna på nätet är webbtidningar, organisationshemsidor och de stora sociala medierna som Facebook, X, Youtube, Instagram och TikTok. Av mindre betydelse är Bluesky, Mastodon och andra sociala medier.

blog.zaramis.se/2025/06/14/van…



Emoji problems


I can't see emojis anymore, they don't work on librewolf.

I first noticed this under a post titled something like "try telling a story using only emojis". The comments were empty.

If I open the same page in brave browser, they work as intended. I can't see emojis in apps like libreoffice either. Is there a way to get system-wide emoji support?

(I am on Fedora 42)

in reply to gay_sex

I had a similar thing happen recently following a NixOS upgrade. I wonder if it's something that changed in Firefox.

In my case, the solution was to set useEmbeddedBitmaps = true in fontconfig. Which is unlikely to be directly helpful to you on Fedora, but maybe there's an equivalent option somewhere?





This Week in Plasma: Wayland PiP and accessibility!


in reply to LainTrain

Until then, you have to live with the issues of Xorg, which won't be ironed out. 😛
in reply to thingsiplay

I don't have any issues with Xorg honestly, it just works and always has for me. I tried Wayland as a default in plasma and I couldn't get gaming to work at all, and I had weird issues watching video in the browser. Really odd that it's a default in kde imho when even the steamdeck is all Xorg (or gamescope. in gamemode.)
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Cancers can be detected in bloodstream three years prior to diagnosis




How Do I Prepare My Phone for a Protest?


Shared here for public benefit.

Before going to a protest, demonstrators or observers should note that their cellphones may subject them to surveillance tactics by law enforcement. If your cellphone is on and unsecured, your location can be tracked and your unencrypted communications, such as SMS, may be intercepted. Additionally, police may retrieve your messages and the content of your phone if they take custody of your phone, or later by warrant or subpoena.
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How Do I Prepare My Phone for a Protest?


Shared here for public benefit.

Before going to a protest, demonstrators or observers should note that their cellphones may subject them to surveillance tactics by law enforcement. If your cellphone is on and unsecured, your location can be tracked and your unencrypted communications, such as SMS, may be intercepted. Additionally, police may retrieve your messages and the content of your phone if they take custody of your phone, or later by warrant or subpoena.
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Iran launches 4th round of retaliatory attacks on Israel


You guys gotta stop letting me nail the first one of these, anyways 𝐒𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐌 𝐈𝐅 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 🇾🇪 𝐘𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐍 🇾🇪


in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

I never even tried, and none of my former employers took me seriously. "Oh, isn't it cool, we have a Punk now, too!"

Thoroughly enjoyed surprising them by doing exactly what anyone else would expect: quitting the instant they started doing shady shit. Blindsided the lot of'em.



NO KINGS! Tomorrow on Trump's birthday, we protest across the entire nation. Check the website for No Kings events near you!


No Kings Event Map: nokings.org/#map

Find one near you, write down the address and time, and head out tomorrow. (You don't have to sign up for anything, all you need is the address).

Recommended that you bring a mask, hat, water and snacks. Safety Goggles or Glasses would also be a good idea if you have them.

Bring a sign or the US Flag if you have one.

For privacy reasons you may want to avoid bringing your phone, or place it inside a faraday bag (a really well sealed tinfoil pouch will work, and put it in airplane mode to avoid draining your battery) until you get home.

If you have a first aid kit, it wouldn't hurt to bring it, just in case.

cross-posted from: 50501.chat/post/330808

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US Army signs up Band of Tech Bros with a suitably nerdy name: Execs from Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI join Detachment 201


The four new Army Reserve Lt. Cols. are Shyam Sankar, Chief Technology Officer for Palantir; Andrew Bosworth, Chief Technology Officer of Meta; Kevin Weil, Chief Product Officer of OpenAI; and Bob McGrew, advisor at Thinking Machines Lab and former Chief Research Officer for OpenAI.
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US Army signs up Band of Tech Bros with a suitably nerdy name: Execs from Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI join Detachment 201


The four new Army Reserve Lt. Cols. are Shyam Sankar, Chief Technology Officer for Palantir; Andrew Bosworth, Chief Technology Officer of Meta; Kevin Weil, Chief Product Officer of OpenAI; and Bob McGrew, advisor at Thinking Machines Lab and former Chief Research Officer for OpenAI.




Beaverton/Hillsboro line, OR


I have a confession. Every single photograph before this one was captured on either an iPhone 6+, or an iPhone 11 Pro Max.

For a very, very long time, I had justified to myself “oh, I don’t need an actual camera, my phone is just as good.” However, three weeks ago I picked up a DSLR for the first time and I fell in love with the sheer power and expression such a tool has.

So I got a small one, a baby, a Canon Rebel T7. After a bunch of crappy shots because I was still getting used to it, I think this one is good enough to share. It doesn’t meet the par of my previous work, but it feels like I have much more control over what I create now. This is magnificent and wondrous.

Thank you for seeing me make art with actual relevant tools!



[Lefty Cartoons] MALES do that!


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    > In the background is a store with a window display, slowly revealed as the comic progresses. From right to left: Close-ups of enormous fruit (berries, a banana, a kiwi) sitting or floating over a bed of ice, with water and juice splashing dynamically upwards.


A closely-cropped image of a woman’s face, so we just see one eye and the corner of her mouth. One hand is on her cheek. Her lips and nails are icy pink. The transom above the door has an exotic flower decal.

On the front door, in an artsy font treatment, it says: “Are we a smoothie shoppe? A NAIL salon? A DISPENSARY? YOU DON’T KNOW!”



[Lefty Cartoons] MALES do that!


  • Source.
    > In the background is a store with a window display, slowly revealed as the comic progresses. From right to left: Close-ups of enormous fruit (berries, a banana, a kiwi) sitting or floating over a bed of ice, with water and juice splashing dynamically upwards.


A closely-cropped image of a woman’s face, so we just see one eye and the corner of her mouth. One hand is on her cheek. Her lips and nails are icy pink. The transom above the door has an exotic flower decal.

On the front door, in an artsy font treatment, it says: “Are we a smoothie shoppe? A NAIL salon? A DISPENSARY? YOU DON’T KNOW!”



[Lefty Cartoons] MALES do that!


  • Source.
    > In the background is a store with a window display, slowly revealed as the comic progresses. From right to left: Close-ups of enormous fruit (berries, a banana, a kiwi) sitting or floating over a bed of ice, with water and juice splashing dynamically upwards.


A closely-cropped image of a woman’s face, so we just see one eye and the corner of her mouth. One hand is on her cheek. Her lips and nails are icy pink. The transom above the door has an exotic flower decal.

On the front door, in an artsy font treatment, it says: “Are we a smoothie shoppe? A NAIL salon? A DISPENSARY? YOU DON’T KNOW!”


in reply to TheImpressiveX

I remember being new...now I'm just barely a step above new. Keeping up is the fun part now.
in reply to TheImpressiveX

me when the ratio gets to 25.0 knowing i could stop it but also feeling bad because i want to keep it available to everyone else



Iran becomes first country to shoot down fifth-gen F-35 fighter jets belonging to Israel


in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

The 35 is vulnerable to passive infrared systems. Not to mention other issues.



Trump fails to overturn $5m damages award to E Jean Carroll for defamation


Donald Trump has lost his latest legal attempt to challenge the $5m in damages awarded against him for defaming E Jean Carroll, the New York writer who a jury found was sexually abused by the president in the 1990s, before he embarked on his political career.

A US appeals court in New York City on Friday denied Trump’s request to reconsider its decision in December to uphold the jury’s award of $5m to Carroll. The court was divided in its opinion, with two Trump-appointed judges, Steven Menashi and Michael Park, dissenting.

Carroll, a former magazine columnist, accused Trump of attacking her around 1996 in a department store dressing room in Manhattan. In 2023, a civil jury trial concluded that Trump did sexually abuse her and then defamed her in 2022 when he denied the allegations as a hoax and said that Carroll was “not my type”.

#USA