UN experts urge United Kingdom not to misuse terrorism laws against protest group Palestine Action
GENEVA – UN experts* today urged the United Kingdom not to ban the “direct action” group Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation under the Terrorism Act 2000.
“We are concerned at the unjustified labelling of a political protest movement as ‘terrorist’,” the experts said. “According to international standards, acts of protest that damage property, but are not intended to kill or injure people, should not be treated as terrorism.”
The Government asserts that the group is “terrorist” because some members have allegedly caused criminal damage to property, including at military bases and arms companies, with the aim of progressing its political cause and influencing the Government. Proscription would trigger a range of criminal offences relating to support for the group.
UN experts urge United Kingdom not to misuse terrorism laws against protest group Palestine Action
GENEVA – UN experts* today urged the United Kingdom not to ban the “direct action” group Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation under the Terrorism Act 2000.
“We are concerned at the unjustified labelling of a political protest movement as ‘terrorist’,” the experts said. “According to international standards, acts of protest that damage property, but are not intended to kill or injure people, should not be treated as terrorism.”
The Government asserts that the group is “terrorist” because some members have allegedly caused criminal damage to property, including at military bases and arms companies, with the aim of progressing its political cause and influencing the Government. Proscription would trigger a range of criminal offences relating to support for the group.
Please for gods sake dont use CasaOS
- It is a For-profit without any means of Generating income (unlike Truenas or Suse which have a paid enterprise version)
- Since there is no way of making money, it is apparent they will pull a Plex and Enshittify once they have the noobs on board
- At least it uses docker, so you can export the images, but who knows when this will change
- It uses discord as forum. They cant even get themselves to use their own OS to install a matrix server on there.
- They are not even Private. Their FAQ literally says „They will try to limit data collection“
You want to use some shitty OS by some shitty company? Go sign your soul to Windows Server you lobotomite
Thanks for coming to my ted talk.
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How Zohran Mamdani Stunned New York and Won the Primary for Mayor
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/32570131
Mr. Mamdani’s victory upended city politics and reverberated nationally. He relied on a memorable message, charisma and a strong ground game.By Nicholas Fandos, Benjamin Oreskes, Emma G. Fitzsimmons and Jeffery C. Mays
July 1, 2025 Updated 3:58 p.m. ET"Where Mr. Cuomo lectured from a distance, Mr. Mamdani took his campaign to the streets and asked questions. When other #progressives traded 10-point plans, Mr. Mamdani offered simple, concrete ideas for a city buckling under spiraling costs: free buses, child care and a rent freeze. He may have been outspent on TV and dismissed by newspaper editorial boards, but he turned his candidacy into something closer to a movement that jumped from social media to an army of volunteers."
How Zohran Mamdani Stunned New York and Won the Primary for Mayor
Mr. Mamdani’s victory upended city politics and reverberated nationally. He relied on a memorable message, charisma and a strong ground game.By Nicholas Fandos, Benjamin Oreskes, Emma G. Fitzsimmons and Jeffery C. Mays
July 1, 2025 Updated 3:58 p.m. ET"Where Mr. Cuomo lectured from a distance, Mr. Mamdani took his campaign to the streets and asked questions. When other #progressives traded 10-point plans, Mr. Mamdani offered simple, concrete ideas for a city buckling under spiraling costs: free buses, child care and a rent freeze. He may have been outspent on TV and dismissed by newspaper editorial boards, but he turned his candidacy into something closer to a movement that jumped from social media to an army of volunteers."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/nyregion/how-mamdani-won-campaign-mayor.html
How Zohran Mamdani Stunned New York and Won the Primary for Mayor
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/32570131
Mr. Mamdani’s victory upended city politics and reverberated nationally. He relied on a memorable message, charisma and a strong ground game.By Nicholas Fandos, Benjamin Oreskes, Emma G. Fitzsimmons and Jeffery C. Mays
July 1, 2025 Updated 3:58 p.m. ET"Where Mr. Cuomo lectured from a distance, Mr. Mamdani took his campaign to the streets and asked questions. When other #progressives traded 10-point plans, Mr. Mamdani offered simple, concrete ideas for a city buckling under spiraling costs: free buses, child care and a rent freeze. He may have been outspent on TV and dismissed by newspaper editorial boards, but he turned his candidacy into something closer to a movement that jumped from social media to an army of volunteers."
How Zohran Mamdani Stunned New York and Won the Primary for Mayor
Mr. Mamdani’s victory upended city politics and reverberated nationally. He relied on a memorable message, charisma and a strong ground game.By Nicholas Fandos, Benjamin Oreskes, Emma G. Fitzsimmons and Jeffery C. Mays
July 1, 2025 Updated 3:58 p.m. ET"Where Mr. Cuomo lectured from a distance, Mr. Mamdani took his campaign to the streets and asked questions. When other #progressives traded 10-point plans, Mr. Mamdani offered simple, concrete ideas for a city buckling under spiraling costs: free buses, child care and a rent freeze. He may have been outspent on TV and dismissed by newspaper editorial boards, but he turned his candidacy into something closer to a movement that jumped from social media to an army of volunteers."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/nyregion/how-mamdani-won-campaign-mayor.html
GE-Proton10-8 Released
- Fix doom eternel black screen regression when using wine-wayland
- disable steam input and xalia in wine-wayland (they dont work with it) and enable sdl instead
- add protonfixes for Blade & Soul NEO -- game is now playable but there is a known crash in-game when you open the settings. Opening the settings at character select works fine
- add protonfix to set SteamOS=1 for Wuthering Waves --game is now playable
Release GE-Proton10-8 Released · GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom
Fix doom eternel black screen regression when using wine-wayland disable steam input and xalia in wine-wayland (they dont work with it) and enable sdl instead add protonfixes for Blade & Soul NEO -...GitHub
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ICE detains immigrants and Wall Street gets rich running private prisons. Thats the game.
ICE detains immigrants and Wall Street gets rich running private prisons. Thats the game.
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Democratic Party lawmakers are refusing to endorse Zohran Mamdani and are spreading lies about him in the process
Democrats would rather lose to a Republican, to a conservative, to a fascist, to Trump, than address the material conditions of the American people.
Democratic Party lawmakers are refusing to endorse Zohran Mamdani and are spreading lies about him in the
Despite his decisive primary victory and impressive campaign, many Democratic lawmakers are refusing to endorse Zohran Mamdani and are spreading baseless lies and smears in the process.Michael Arria (Mondoweiss)
It’s Official: Mamdani Defeats Cuomo
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/32566109
Ken Klippenstein
Jul 01, 2025"In a paragraph, let’s review: A machine politician, former governor and scion of a political dynasty lost to a 33-year-old Muslim, immigrant, and socialist who is unapologetically critical of Israel. The political ruling class and the news media assumed Andrew Cuomo, but more than that, they dismissed the people’s choice, assembling their pipe dream on the it’s-the-party-elder’s-turn proposition.
I didn’t expect Mamdani to win. I thought the Party machinery was unbeatable. I was wrong. I’ve learned some mind-bending lessons.
- Money Doesn’t Decide.
- Young People Do Vote.
- Saying Controversial Things is Okay "
It’s Official: Mamdani Defeats Cuomo
Ken Klippenstein
Jul 01, 2025"In a paragraph, let’s review: A machine politician, former governor and scion of a political dynasty lost to a 33-year-old Muslim, immigrant, and socialist who is unapologetically critical of Israel. The political ruling class and the news media assumed Andrew Cuomo, but more than that, they dismissed the people’s choice, assembling their pipe dream on the it’s-the-party-elder’s-turn proposition.
I didn’t expect Mamdani to win. I thought the Party machinery was unbeatable. I was wrong. I’ve learned some mind-bending lessons.
- Money Doesn’t Decide.
- Young People Do Vote.
- Saying Controversial Things is Okay "
It’s Official: Mamdani Defeats Cuomo
Three lies the election shattered (I believed them)Ken Klippenstein
It’s Official: Mamdani Defeats Cuomo
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/32566109
Ken Klippenstein
Jul 01, 2025"In a paragraph, let’s review: A machine politician, former governor and scion of a political dynasty lost to a 33-year-old Muslim, immigrant, and socialist who is unapologetically critical of Israel. The political ruling class and the news media assumed Andrew Cuomo, but more than that, they dismissed the people’s choice, assembling their pipe dream on the it’s-the-party-elder’s-turn proposition.
I didn’t expect Mamdani to win. I thought the Party machinery was unbeatable. I was wrong. I’ve learned some mind-bending lessons.
- Money Doesn’t Decide.
- Young People Do Vote.
- Saying Controversial Things is Okay "
It’s Official: Mamdani Defeats Cuomo
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/32566109Ken Klippenstein
Jul 01, 2025"In a paragraph, let’s review: A machine politician, former governor and scion of a political dynasty lost to a 33-year-old Muslim, immigrant, and socialist who is unapologetically critical of Israel. The political ruling class and the news media assumed Andrew Cuomo, but more than that, they dismissed the people’s choice, assembling their pipe dream on the it’s-the-party-elder’s-turn proposition.
I didn’t expect Mamdani to win. I thought the Party machinery was unbeatable. I was wrong. I’ve learned some mind-bending lessons.
- Money Doesn’t Decide.
- Young People Do Vote.
- Saying Controversial Things is Okay "
It’s Official: Mamdani Defeats Cuomo
Three lies the election shattered (I believed them)Ken Klippenstein
It’s Official: Mamdani Defeats Cuomo
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/32566109
Ken Klippenstein
Jul 01, 2025"In a paragraph, let’s review: A machine politician, former governor and scion of a political dynasty lost to a 33-year-old Muslim, immigrant, and socialist who is unapologetically critical of Israel. The political ruling class and the news media assumed Andrew Cuomo, but more than that, they dismissed the people’s choice, assembling their pipe dream on the it’s-the-party-elder’s-turn proposition.
I didn’t expect Mamdani to win. I thought the Party machinery was unbeatable. I was wrong. I’ve learned some mind-bending lessons.
- Money Doesn’t Decide.
- Young People Do Vote.
- Saying Controversial Things is Okay "
It’s Official: Mamdani Defeats Cuomo
Ken Klippenstein
Jul 01, 2025"In a paragraph, let’s review: A machine politician, former governor and scion of a political dynasty lost to a 33-year-old Muslim, immigrant, and socialist who is unapologetically critical of Israel. The political ruling class and the news media assumed Andrew Cuomo, but more than that, they dismissed the people’s choice, assembling their pipe dream on the it’s-the-party-elder’s-turn proposition.
I didn’t expect Mamdani to win. I thought the Party machinery was unbeatable. I was wrong. I’ve learned some mind-bending lessons.
- Money Doesn’t Decide.
- Young People Do Vote.
- Saying Controversial Things is Okay "
It’s Official: Mamdani Defeats Cuomo
Three lies the election shattered (I believed them)Ken Klippenstein
It’s Official: Mamdani Defeats Cuomo
Ken Klippenstein
Jul 01, 2025
"In a paragraph, let’s review: A machine politician, former governor and scion of a political dynasty lost to a 33-year-old Muslim, immigrant, and socialist who is unapologetically critical of Israel. The political ruling class and the news media assumed Andrew Cuomo, but more than that, they dismissed the people’s choice, assembling their pipe dream on the it’s-the-party-elder’s-turn proposition.
I didn’t expect Mamdani to win. I thought the Party machinery was unbeatable. I was wrong. I’ve learned some mind-bending lessons.
- Money Doesn’t Decide.
- Young People Do Vote.
- Saying Controversial Things is Okay "
It’s Official: Mamdani Defeats Cuomo
Three lies the election shattered (I believed them)Ken Klippenstein
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Technology giants Alphabet (GOOGL.O), opens new tab, Amazon (AMZN.O), opens new tab, Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab, and IBM (IBM.N), opens new tab were named as "central to Israel's surveillance apparatus and the ongoing Gaza destruction."
First as tragedy, then as… also tragedy. IBM and the Holocaust
IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation is a book by investigative journalist and historian Edwin Black which documents the strategic technology services rendered by US-based multinational corporation International Business Machines (IBM) and its German and other European subsidiaries for the government of Adolf Hitler from the beginning of the Third Reich through to the last day of the regime, at the end of World War II when the US and Germany were at war with each other.Published in 2001, with numerous subsequent expanded editions, Black outlined the key role of IBM's technology in the Holocaust genocide committed by the German Nazi regime, by facilitating the regime's generation and tabulation of punched cards for national census data, military logistics, ghetto statistics, train traffic management, and concentration camp capacity.
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Trump tours 'Alligator Alcatraz' immigration detention center in Florida Everglades
Trump tours 'Alligator Alcatraz' immigration detention center in Florida Everglades
President Trump visited a migrant detention center in a reptile-infested Florida swamp dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" on July 1, 2025.USA TODAY Staff (USA TODAY)
In an Attack at Sunset, Israelis Set a Palestinian Village Ablaze
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/32561522
The violence last week in Kafr Malik, in the West Bank, comes amid a surge in assaults by Israeli settlers. It also set off a chain of violence in the area.By Fatima AbdulKarim
July 1, 2025 Updated 1:56 p.m. ET
[A Palestinian friend who lived in my neighborhood in the US is there now, in his family's home. He said it was like 3 nights in a war zone.]
"The attackers threw another firebomb into the bedroom where Mr. Afeef’s newborn nephew was being lulled to sleep, scorching furniture and leaving blackened marks on the floor and walls, the family said. The damage was visible when Times reporters visited on Friday.
[...]
Soon after, Israeli forces arrived and opened fired at Palestinians instead of stopping the rioters, according to multiple witnesses.The soldiers killed three people, according to the Palestinian health ministry. [...]Nine others were injured, some gravely..."
In an Attack at Sunset, Israelis Set a Palestinian Village Ablaze
The violence last week in Kafr Malik, in the West Bank, comes amid a surge in assaults by Israeli settlers. It also set off a chain of violence in the area.By Fatima AbdulKarim
July 1, 2025 Updated 1:56 p.m. ET"The attackers threw another firebomb into the bedroom where Mr. Afeef’s newborn nephew was being lulled to sleep, scorching furniture and leaving blackened marks on the floor and walls, the family said. The damage was visible when Times reporters visited on Friday.
[...]
Soon after, Israeli forces arrived and opened fired at Palestinians instead of stopping the rioters, according to multiple witnesses.The soldiers killed three people, according to the Palestinian health ministry. [...]Nine others were injured, some gravely..."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/world/middleeast/israel-west-bank-palestinians-attack.html
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In an Attack at Sunset, Israelis Set a Palestinian Village Ablaze
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/32561522
The violence last week in Kafr Malik, in the West Bank, comes amid a surge in assaults by Israeli settlers. It also set off a chain of violence in the area.By Fatima AbdulKarim
July 1, 2025 Updated 1:56 p.m. ET"The attackers threw another firebomb into the bedroom where Mr. Afeef’s newborn nephew was being lulled to sleep, scorching furniture and leaving blackened marks on the floor and walls, the family said. The damage was visible when Times reporters visited on Friday.
[...]
Soon after, Israeli forces arrived and opened fired at Palestinians instead of stopping the rioters, according to multiple witnesses.The soldiers killed three people, according to the Palestinian health ministry. [...]Nine others were injured, some gravely..."
In an Attack at Sunset, Israelis Set a Palestinian Village Ablaze
The violence last week in Kafr Malik, in the West Bank, comes amid a surge in assaults by Israeli settlers. It also set off a chain of violence in the area.By Fatima AbdulKarim
July 1, 2025 Updated 1:56 p.m. ET"The attackers threw another firebomb into the bedroom where Mr. Afeef’s newborn nephew was being lulled to sleep, scorching furniture and leaving blackened marks on the floor and walls, the family said. The damage was visible when Times reporters visited on Friday.
[...]
Soon after, Israeli forces arrived and opened fired at Palestinians instead of stopping the rioters, according to multiple witnesses.The soldiers killed three people, according to the Palestinian health ministry. [...]Nine others were injured, some gravely..."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/world/middleeast/israel-west-bank-palestinians-attack.html
Republicans test a new red line: Denaturalization
Republicans test a new red line: Denaturalization
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked about the possibility of revoking Zohran Mamdani’s citizenship status and didn’t say no.David Weigel (www.semafor.com)
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Trump Dismisses Extension of July 9 Tariff Deadline, Hits Japan
Trump Says He Won't Delay July 9 Tariff Deadline, Criticizes Japan
President Donald Trump said he is not considering delaying his July 9 deadline for higher tariffs to resume and renewed his threat to cut off talks and impose duty rates on several nations, including Japan.Jennifer A Dlouhy (Bloomberg)
Lugansk People's Republic: Freed and Fueling a New Future
Lugansk People's Republic: Freed and Fueling a New Future
Now that the LPR is fully liberated, it's ready to shift back to peaceful economic growth.What's the region's potential?Sputnik International
First Victory In Dnepropetrovsk Region: Russian Forces Won Dachnoe
First Victory In Dnepropetrovsk Region: Russian Forces Won Dachnoe
The Russian military has secured significant territorial gains in June 2025 through systematic offensive operations, especially in the southern Donbas...Anonymous103 (South Front)
Maybe the downvoters are just waiting for a credible western media outlet to pick up the story.
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Date systems in Excel - Microsoft Support
Learn about the 1900 and 1904 date systems and how to change the default if necessary.support.microsoft.com
I thought about that, but decided to leave it as an exercise for the reader.
Don’t forget that Integer8 (the middle dragon) counts increments of 100 nanoseconds, because… reasons.
And don’t forget that 1900 still is a leap year in Excel.
I have been able to outsource low level parsing to third party libraries
Hahaha!!!
Today I watched a Java server crash because a library decided it needed more than 3GB of heap space to read a 10MB file. That was after manually removed background colors from around 100,000 cells, which apparently caused the parser to create even more objects in its internal representation of the sheet.
Yeah, I get it. I've had many libraries fail me in as many ways, which is why I consider it lucky to not have to implement my own. I work in .net these days, but there have been times where I had to just dig into the xml inside the xlsx and use xml tools. Those were mostly one-offs, thankfully.
Back when I did Java I had a frustrating experience with IBM's libxml causing our app to crash after several days due to a memory leak. I didn't have access to the production environment so it took me probably 3 weeks to find the cause and only after digging through a crash dump provided by the sysadmin. Not related, but you triggered my traumatic memory 😀
And don’t forget that 1900 still is a leap year in Excel.
Thank you! Saying this finally made me realize why I always need to add/subtract one day when I’m trying to convert dates to and from the Excel representation. 🤦
Converting numbers is easy
Explanation (which might be wrong, since I’m writing this after banging my head against a wall. Please do correct me if I’m wrong):
In regular numbering systems (i.e., decimal), we exhaust all 10 digits (0–9) before we reach two-digit numbers. The first number to require 3 digits is 10². The first to use 4 is 10³, and so on.
In music intervals, there is no “0”. The interval c’–c’, for instance, is called a prime (1). This has the funny consequence that moving by a fifth and then by a fourth doesn’t land you on the ninth, but the octave (8). Moving by an octave and then another octave gets you to the 15th, not the 16th.
In Excel, shit hits the fan when you need to convert column names (A, B, C…) to numbers (0, 1, 2…). Since we use 26 characters as our ‘digits’, we’re in the hexavigesimal system. Knowing what I told you in the first paragraph, you’d expect the first double-digit column (AA) to be 26. And you’re right.
However, when do we need 3 digits? Which column is column AAA? A sane person would say it’s 26², so 676. Ha! No. Column number 676 is actually ZA. What gives? Well, we only ditch the zero for single digit numbers. All subsequent columns actually use 27 different characters, the ‘empty character’ being one of them. That’s where we get the ‘single digit’ – there actually is a second digit, only it’s empty.
So the column AAA actually has index 702, or 26×27. Which index does the column AAAA have? 26×27². The system of adding powers of the base works, only we changed bases midway through.
You can see the lopsidedness in the index lookup table (I’m not displaying all characters for brevity). Sane number systems have square tables. Excel’s is 26×27 (shown are 4×5).
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Major reports about how climate change affects the US are removed from websites
WASHINGTON (AP) — Legally mandated U.S. national climate assessments seem to have disappeared from the federal websites built to display them, making it harder for state and local governments and the public to learn what to expect in their backyards from a warming world.
Scientists said the peer-reviewed authoritative reports save money and lives. Websites for the national assessments and the U.S. Global Change Research Program were down Monday and Tuesday with no links, notes or referrals elsewhere. The White House, which was responsible for the assessments, said the information will be housed within NASA to comply with the law, but gave no further details.
Searches for the assessments on NASA websites did not turn them up. NASA did not respond to requests for information. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which coordinated the information in the assessments, did not respond to repeated inquiries.
Kurdish PKK leader says Israel secretly promised them a state for 30 years
Ocalan’s anti-Israel stance is well-known, as his group was based in the Bekaa Valley in the 1980s, cooperating with the leftist Palestinian liberation groups. In the document, Ocalan presents himself as the leader who could stop Israel from becoming a hegemonic power in the Middle East.
"Israel has been at this for 30 years. For three decades, Israel has been secretly promising us a state," Ocalan said during the meeting, according to the document.
He added that Israel was using the media to encourage Kurds to establish an independent state. "Whoever aligns the Kurds with themselves will gain dominance in the Middle East," he said. "They realized this before I did."
He also described an exchange of messages with then-Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir in 1982, when Ocalan was based in Damascus under the protection of Syrian President Hafez al-Assad.
A series of Israeli governments lent political and military support to Turkey in the 1990s, establishing a close alliance with secularist generals at that time.
But under Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the relationship has deteriorated, and Ankara has occasionally accused Israel of indirectly supporting the PKK.
In November, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar openly called for closer relations between Israel and Kurdish communities, saying that his country should reach out to Kurds and other regional minorities that are "natural" allies. Ocalan said the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad also contacted him in Moscow, where he was seeking refuge from Turkish authorities in 1998, telling him they could hide him even in Russia.
PKK's Abdullah Ocalan: 'No Israeli dominance through Kurds'
Since the Israel-Iran conflict erupted last year, Turkey has found an unexpected ally: Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).Ragip Soylu (Middle East Eye)
If you’re not deliberately min-maxing the CAP Theorem or doing EDA, there’s no reason to use microservices and every reason not to.
It is not just an implementation detail or a matter of preference. There are fundamental UX implications.
That can be a net positive for users (and developers). But if you’re doing it “just cuz”, you’re gonna have a bad time.
Italy limits outdoor work as heatwave breaks records across Europe
Outdoor working has been banned during the hottest parts of the day in more than half of Italy’s regions as an extreme heatwave that has smashed June temperature records in Spain and Portugal continues to grip large swathes of Europe.
The savage temperatures are believed to have claimed at least three lives, including that of a small boy who is thought to have died from heatstroke while in a car in Catalonia’s Tarragona province on Tuesday afternoon.
In Palermo, Sicily, a 53-year-old woman died on Monday after fainting while walking along a street. She had reportedly suffered from a heart condition.
Italy limits outdoor work as heatwave breaks records across Europe
June temperature records have been broken in Portugal and Spain, as French schools close amid heatAngela Giuffrida (The Guardian)
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Chairman of Azerbaijan-Ural organization detained in Yekaterinburg
Chairman of Azerbaijan-Ural organization detained in Yekaterinburg
Law enforcement agencies did not specify the reason for the detentionTASS
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in reply to Luffy • • •What do you have against the project and the people behind it? It sounds personal.
There are plenty of non-commercial Linux distributions. Some managed better than others. Some generic, some with niches. OpenWRT is a favourite of mine.
Luffy
in reply to Joe • • •Its my experience with server software for beginners in general, which gets my enshittification senses tingling. I just dont trust in a company providing a hell of a service (like, getting tens if not hundreds of docker images to work with the click of a button) for free.
With Truenas I know that their community branch is an ad for their enterprise service because no single person will key thousands for the caliber of support their enterprise has, so they make their money by offering cloud services. So that explains how it is still feasable for them to give me their dataset and UI and everything frontend for free.
But with Casa, I just dont know where the money comes from. I dont see how they can keep up their operations and make a profit with this kind of effort. So I can only assume that many non essential services will be put behind a paywall.
And if they do it, I still know that they use docker and ZFS, and I can spend a day or 2 learning how to set up a software raid and an ssd as a ZFS buffer for it, and everything else i‘ve set up with their OS.
But thats the problem: Beginners dont know. Its like with the Iphone: If the user dosent learn how to deploy a docker instance from a compose file themselves, they will be bound to that frontend and all the enshittification that happens to it.
Therefore I would like it way more if Selfhosting was more like the AUR. First learn how the Process of pulling an image and makepkg‘ing works firsthand, then you can use the frontend like yay. Not the other way around.
But if no one learns how to do something the old fashioned way and relies on a frontend for everything, at some point the company behind the frontend will vendor lock everyone into their system, since there is no competition anyway
Allero
in reply to Luffy • • •Beginners will always gravitate to what is easier.
The upstream tools (Docker in this case) must orient themselves more towards the newbies, not only the pros, if we want to see the progress here.
Personally, as a non-IT guy, I find myself fighting uphill battles every time I want to do something seemingly simple, because the basic tools we're offered are not made with common folk in mind. And I'm sort of an enthusiast - most people just won't bother if it's not plug&play, they don't have time and energy to figure everything out.
atzanteol
in reply to Luffy • • •You couldn't figure out how they make money? This took me like 1 minute to find.
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Creat
in reply to Luffy • • •So you're basically saying "I don't have any proof of any of this, but I'm scared so I'm scaring others as well".
Your first point makes zero sense: it can't be both "for profit" and have "no means of generating income".
Their way of generating income is the reason they created the distro/OS in the first place: selling hardware. To my knowledge, they wanted to ship their mini servers (ZimaBoard) and later NAS-like devices (ZimaCube I think?) with an easy to use OS that can do all basic home server tasks. That didn't exist, so they made one. They didn't need to make money from the OS, it's a catalyst to bring able to sell (more) hardware. I personally think that is a great way to use Linux as a company and contribute to the wider ecosystem, why does it scare you so much? They could've closed this of much more, but made it for available to everyone, on any hardware.
From what I heard, they did achieve their design goals. It's a bit simplistic for me personally, but probably great for a beginner.
I get that enshittyfication is everywhere these days, but maybe don't try to stop people from using things that haven't actually seen ANY yet, just because they might? With no indication that they will, either.
4&5 might be fair points though, I for know enough about the details.
BruisedMoose
in reply to Creat • • •It also isn't an operating system. It's an application that you install on an existing OS.
Could the company decide to lock it to only their hardware? Probably. Could they take money in exchange for preferred listings? Yup.
And if it gets shitty, like OP said, it is just a layer on top of Docker. You can leave it.
CasaOS was key in easing me into the world of Docker. I understand general use enough to be comfortable installing without Casa and jumping into compose files and such. But I'll still check out the store for apps sometimes just for ease of use.
Whole post is just a rant against something that OP apparently doesn't know anything about.
RedWizard [he/him]
in reply to Creat • • •Are you for real? The entire concept of Enshittification hinges on the real fact that most internet services start out with a net negative "profit" and are kept alive through large injections of VC capital. This allows them to offer the service for free or close to free to gain a massive user base, which they then leverage for profit later on through measures that make the service worse for consumers. The entire reason Mastodon, Lemmy, and the federated social network exist is because of this contradiction.
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in reply to Luffy • • •Casaos is a Chinese commercial "loss leader" software added to tons of Chinese brands. It is not intended to make money by itself, it is intended to sell more home nas market gear like zimaboards.
It's also not an os, despite its claims and confusing terms on Wikipedia.
Last, casaos sends telemetry to Chinese IPs, a fair amount more than most software, based on what I saw with tcpdump alone.
I'm not sure how casaos made its way into the "open source os" space, but none of what you're saying is new.
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