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Israeli settlers beat Palestinian-American to death, fatally shoot another

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By Fayha Shalash in Ramallah, occupied Palestine
Published date: 12 July 2025 15:49 BST
"The attack began when a large group of settlers targeted dozens of #Palestinians attempting to access their land between the villages of Sinjil and al-Mazra'a al-Sharqiya, east of Ramallah.
Such assaults have become a regular occurrence, taking place almost every Friday, as part of efforts to intimidate villagers and drive them off land targeted for settlement."
"'Musalat owned a home in the area and died trying to defend it' - Abdul Samad Abdul Aziz, al-Mazra'a al-Sharqiya municipality member"

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Israeli settlers beat Palestinian-American to death, fatally shoot another

By Fayha Shalash in Ramallah, occupied Palestine
Published date: 12 July 2025 15:49 BST
"The attack began when a large group of settlers targeted dozens of #Palestinians attempting to access their land between the villages of Sinjil and al-Mazra'a al-Sharqiya, east of Ramallah.
Such assaults have become a regular occurrence, taking place almost every Friday, as part of efforts to intimidate villagers and drive them off land targeted for settlement."
"'Musalat owned a home in the area and died trying to defend it' - Abdul Samad Abdul Aziz, al-Mazra'a al-Sharqiya municipality member"

Israeli settlers beat Palestinian-American to death, fatally shoot another
Israeli settlers beat a Palestinian-American man to death and fatally shot another during a coordinated assault on villagers in the occupied West Bank on Friday.
^{Fayha Shalash (Middle East Eye)}

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Israeli settlers beat Palestinian-American to death, fatally shoot another

By Fayha Shalash in Ramallah, occupied Palestine
Published date: 12 July 2025 15:49 BST

"The attack began when a large group of settlers targeted dozens of #Palestinians attempting to access their land between the villages of Sinjil and al-Mazra'a al-Sharqiya, east of Ramallah.

Such assaults have become a regular occurrence, taking place almost every Friday, as part of efforts to intimidate villagers and drive them off land targeted for settlement."

"'Musalat owned a home in the area and died trying to defend it' - Abdul Samad Abdul Aziz, al-Mazra'a al-Sharqiya municipality member"

Israeli settlers beat Palestinian-American to death, fatally shoot another

Israeli settlers beat a Palestinian-American man to death and fatally shot another during a coordinated assault on villagers in the occupied West Bank on Friday.

^{Fayha Shalash (Middle East Eye)}

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Open webUI connected to ollama can do this. In openwebui, if you edit any one of your responses, it forks the conversation. You can flip between each branch using the arrows below any of your responses. If you click the 3 dot menu and click overview, it opens a graph view that shows the branches of the conversation visually.

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BBC bosses pulled our film on Israel attacking Gaza’s medics. Here’s why

A BBC editorial policy representative said he thought a UN report on hospital attacks cited in our film should not be included because, he said, “the UN is not a trusted independent organisation”. The same had been repeatedly said about Amnesty International.

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So my question is why did I set up two seperate services for this?

Unfortunate side effect of buying someone else's product instead of just making your own.

can I reply to incoming emails from the aliases created in proton pass without them revealing my address?

Yes. It's called a relay for a reason. When you receive an email it will come from a relay address, not the actual sender. You reply to that relay address and then the other party receives your relay address (alias).

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There's no reason to sign up for DuckDuckGo's service, since OP already uses Proton (which owns SimpleLogin). It would just be unnecessarily increasing their footprint.

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Ahh, apologies then.
I thought OP wanted to de-google. I use DuckDuckGo because of their duck player; it opens YouTube on a separate window without all the extra stuff you don’t want (just the video you wanted to see). I guess OP can use PeerTube?
I’m quite happy with my Proton Unlimited but it’s not for everyone.
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Canonical Plans for a Fully Functional Desktop Session on RISC-V with Ubuntu 25.10

Canonical Plans for a Fully Functional Desktop Session on RISC-V with Ubuntu 25.10 - 9to5Linux

With the upcoming Ubuntu 25.10 release, Canonical plans to achieve a fully functional desktop session on the RISC-V architecture.

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...except there's no hardware to run it on. They've chosen an ISA profile that's not been decided on for long enough.

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Exactly. The article says that 90% of hardware doesn't run on it, but in reality, 100% of hardware doesn't run on it. Only Qemu supports it, which is an emulator (and very slow to emulate RiscV in my experience -- latest version we tried with my husband on a very fast PC).

The Orange Pi RV2 was the perfect introductory Risc-V SBC, everyone is going gaga for it, for being a good middle of the road solution for those who want to try Risc-V, and yet, Ubuntu won't support it (and even the current implementation is done by the Chinese, not by Canonical, so I wouldn't touch it).

So I'm not sure what they're thinking. My own conspiracy theory is that EITHER Canonical, OR Raspberry Pi (which are close geographically), are preparing RV23 hardware, so they want to undercut the competition that way.

Nothing else makes sense in that decision.

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When compatible hardware is available, it's expected that having packages built for RVA23 will have a big impact on performance. You can already see a big part of that with the vector (V) extension: running programs built without it is akin to using x86 programs without SSE or AVX. RVA23 is the first RVA profile that considers V mandatory rather than optional.

You might see a similar performance impact if you target something like RVA22+V instead of RVA23, but as far as I know the only hardware systems that'd benefit from that are the Spacemit ones (OPi RV2, BPI-F3, Jupiter) while that'd still leave behind VisionFive 2, Pioneer, P550/Megrez, and even an upcoming processor UltraRISC announced recently. The profiles aren't exactly intended to be used for those kinds of fine-tuned combinations and it's possible some of the other RVA23 extensions (Zvbb, Zicond, etc.) might have a substantial impact too.

Hardware vendors want to showcase their system having the best performance it can, so I expect Ubuntu's aim is to have RVA23 builds ready before RVA23 hardware so that they'll be the distro of choice for future hardware, even if that means abandoning all existing RISC-V users. imo it would've been better to maintain separate builds for RV64GC and RVA23 but I guess they just don't care enough about existing RISC-V users to maintain two builds.

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Year of the RISCV Linux Desktop

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Bout to overtake Windows with this one!

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This seems to be positioning Ubuntu as a data center OS. There are several RVA23 chips due out but they are all for the data center (tenstorrent, Alibaba, ventana, etc).

There is the SiFive P870 but I do not think anybody has licensed that so it may never get made.

I have also heard rumours of Expressif chips but I do not know the details.

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wat dat mean

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WhiteQuasar

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is RISCV mature enough for desktop use? Are there chips based on RISCV that would at least be as good as a AMD/Intel or ARM chips?

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utopiah

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If you like working in slow motion, yes, sure.

Source : I have a Banana-Pi SBC banana-pi.org/en/banana-pi-sbc… and... it works, running Linux proper, with a desktop environment, which is in itself pretty cool IMHO but damn, you have to be patient. That being said "just" already being at that stage on economically affordable hardware is amazing. We are probably not far, say few years at most, with usable RISC-V chips for mundane tasks, e.g. text authoring, coding, Web browsing, but don't expect compilation of a browser, Blender, or gaming on this for few more years. IMHO it will go fast because it's catching up so the path is rather well laid down, which is much harder than innovating and pushing the envelope.

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WhiteQuasar

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I wonder if the US is trying to slow down the development of RISCV in order to mantain egemony over chip production. I think RISCV poses a big "security" flaw for them being totally open source.

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utopiah

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I guess it depends what you mean by "chip production".

AFAICT mostly via Chip War (2022) and reading a bit on the topic there are few bottlenecks, e.g chip design IP like ARM (UK) or lithography machines like ASML (NL) or high efficiency chip production like TSMC (Taiwan) but overall the grip from the US is mostly on democratization and scale with AMD, NVIDIA, Broadcom or even Intel, namely making a LOT of chips, not necessarily high end (some are) or mobile (also some), for a relatively low price. What I mean is that China is already claiming that they are producing about on-par IPS with e.g. Loongson.

So yes there are for sure incumbents based in the US that do not want RISCV and overall open architectures to make significant progress but is it fair to call them "the US" I'm not sure. Are they heavily leaning on US lawmakers to get their positions strengthened? Maybe. Maybe they do not yet do so simply because they don't believe it's a threat yet, nor it might be ever be.

I believe that in chip production you can lock production via innovation but also, like in other sectors, solely with the supply chain. ASML is powerful because they basically own their markets but also because who would contract with newcomers versus a very well established company that can provide all the insurances imaginable that they will indeed deliver on time a specific amount? Why risk it when you are already contracting with the leader?

Sure there is a potential innovator dilemma but what could prevent e.g. NVIDIA or Intel to switch to RISC-V if somehow they can dominate there too thanks to both their existing expertise but also supply chain stronghold?

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BeardedGingerWonder

in reply to WhiteQuasar • 2 mesi fa • •

In what way does it pose a big security flaw? And what are you basing the thought that the USA are slowing down development?

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WhiteQuasar

in reply to BeardedGingerWonder • 2 mesi fa • •

Being an open source architecture gives everyone (China, Russia, Iran, North Korea and basically everyone else the US doesn't like, which apparently is most of world) the freedom to innovate at a fast pace, this is what I mean by security flaw. My thought that they could somewhat try to slow down the development is based on the rational thinking that 1. They are actually leading the chip develpment and 2. if someday everyone gets high performance chips (which is still not the case with RISCV yet) than everyone can get better defense industries, better intelligence systems, better military equipment. I'm not implying that they are actively doing it but that it might be in their interest to do so to maintain some kind of military egemony over their enemies, or at least to never be in a significant gap with anyone.

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BeardedGingerWonder

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Risc v is an instruction set architecture not a chip design, the actual hardware implementation of any given risc v processor won't necessarily be open source and available to all, it's just a guarantee that if the spec is implemented then code compiled for risc v will run on a RISC V processor.

China has had access to x86 for years, they've not been able to implement a chip on par with current gen AMD or Intel chips.

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LeFantome

in reply to WhiteQuasar • 2 mesi fa • •

US sanctions massively setback RISC-V.

We would have had the Milk-V OASIS last year , something better by now, and the answer to “as good as ARM” would be yes.

But Sophgo, the company making the SoC was accused of helping Huawei get access to restricted technology. So TSMC refused to make their chips. And the Milk-V OASIS was cancelled.

Massive blow to RISC-V.

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beleza pura

in reply to WhiteQuasar • 2 mesi fa • •

no and no, but they have a ton of potential

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Not yet

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France has announced a “historic” accord with New Caledonia in which the overseas territory, rocked by deadly separatist violence last year, would remain French but be declared a new state.

“A State of New Caledonia within the Republic: it’s a bet on trust,” the French president, Emmanuel Macron, posted on X on Saturday, hailing a “historic” agreement.

Receiving the signatories later, the president said that “after two agreements and three referendums, New Caledonia, through what you have signed, is opening a new chapter in its future in a peaceful relationship with France”.

Macron had called for talks to break a deadlock between forces loyal to France and those wanting independence. New Caledonian elected officials, as well as political, economic and civil society leaders, gathered near Paris to hammer out a constitutional framework for the territory.

After 10 days of talks, the parties agreed that a “State of New Caledonia” should be created.

Manuel Valls, the minister for overseas territories, called it an “intelligent compromise” that maintains links between France and New Caledonia, but with more sovereignty for the Pacific island.

The priority now is New Caledonia’s economic recovery.

Last year’s violence, which claimed the lives of 14 people, is estimated to have cost the territory 2bn euros ($2.3 bn), shaving 10% off its gross domestic product, he said.

The French prime minister, Francois Bayrou, said Saturday’s deal – which still requires parliamentary and referendum approval – was of “historic dimensions”.

Home to about 270,000 people and located nearly 17,000km (10,600 miles) from Paris, New Caledonia is one of several overseas territories that remain an integral part of France.

It has been ruled from Paris since the 1800s, but many indigenous Kanaks still resent France’s power over their islands and want fuller autonomy or independence.

Unrest broke out in May 2024 after Paris planned to give voting rights to thousands of non-indigenous long-term residents. Kanaks feared this would leave them in a permanent minority, crushing their chances of winning independence.

As part of the agreement, New Caledonia residents will in future only be allowed to vote after having lived 10 years on the archipelago.

The last independence referendum in New Caledonia was held in 2021, and was boycotted by pro-independence groups over the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the Kanak population.

It was the latest of three since 2018, all of which rejected New Caledonian independence. Since the 2021 referendum however, the political situation in the archipelago has been deadlocked.

Macron declared in early June he wanted a “new project” for New Caledonia.

The 13-page agreement announced on Saturday calls for a New Caledonian nationality, and the possibility for residents there to combine that status with French nationality.

Under the deal, a “State of New Caledonia” would be enshrined in France’s constitution, and other countries could recognise such a state.

The deal also calls for an economic and financial recovery pact that would include a renewal of the territory’s nickel processing capabilities.

Both chambers of France’s parliament are to meet in the fourth quarter of this year to vote on approving the deal, which is then to be submitted to New Caledonians in a referendum in 2026.

New Caledonia to be declared a state in ‘historic’ agreement – but will remain French

Emmanuel Macron hails ‘new chapter’ for New Caledonia as politicians agree on statehood after 10 days of talks

^{Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)}

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What do you prefer: icon view or detailed list view?

Most file managers I've encountered default to icon view. One of the first things I do is set the default to detailed list view. Might be a preference for seeing names and dates over many identical folder icons, or just an old habit from using Windows. But I'd be curious to hear about the benefits of icon view and why it's usually the default in Linux GUI file managers.

What does everyone else use and any reasons to prefer one over the other?

#linux

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kittenroar

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Detailed list view for everything except videos and images, and sometimes even for those

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harsh3466

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List. I hate icon view. Hate it

Diva (she/her) via Memes

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Diva (she/her)
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What do you mean self-care!?!

#memes

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davel

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TheTwelveYearOld
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Stop using a browser that violates user freedom and privacy!

#memes

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lazynooblet

in reply to TheTwelveYearOld • 2 mesi fa • •

You've posted this in so many places already, and you think it needs to be in "memes" as well?

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Zerush

in reply to TheTwelveYearOld • 2 mesi fa • •

Mv2 will be despreciated sooner or later for all browsers, same as Mv1 in 2013. What is changing is the handling of cookies in Mv3 in all webpages which use Google and other ad company APIs (Alphabet, googleanalytics, google-tagmanager, Amazon and others....), so Mv2 Extensions would become ineffective, this is only relevant for the user in case of adblockers in pages with ads, Lemmy and other from the Fediverse don't need this..
There are still browsers supporting Mv2, but it's only temporary
First affected are Chromium browsers which use extensions from the Chrome Store, there uBO will disappear with Chromium v139. Not so those which have an inbuild ad/trackerblocker, like Vivaldi.
In case of other extensions not related to ads and trackers, it is irrelevant for the user if it is Mv2 or Mv3.
_ For adblockers there is also AdBlock Plus which is aleady Mv3.
The image is wrong, uBO remains still in the Chrome Store, without any advice to be deleted.

Today screenshot

Much tin foil hat panic to the subject out there, there are always methodes to show the middle finger to the surveillance ad companies.

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black0ut

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Notes worth making:

Mv2 will not be deprecated in firefox or firefox based browsers
Adblock plus is not the best adblocker extension, even for Mv3. uBlock has made a version that works with Mv3, called uBlock Lite
Even though Mv3 adblockers exist, they will always be worse than Mv2 adblockers, because they have a limited set of rules.

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Zerush

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Yes, FF still support Mv2, some Chromium Browsers too, but Mv2 will disappear sooner or later, yes or yes. Also correct that ad filterlists are limitated in Mv3, but on the other hand they have a better cookie handling as Mv2, mainly against tracking, which is the main problem, not so the ads. But as said before, this will be the main reason because Mv2 will disappear for all browsers in the nearer future, because the incapability to handle the tracking tecnology of a lot of websites. Apart the additional work for a lot of devs to maintan two versions of the same extension Mv2 and Mv3.
Yes, uBOlite is Mv3, but its only advantage is to be hidden from YT anti-Adblock algorrithm, apart of this, the Vivaldi blocker is way better in all aspects. uBOlite has nothing to do with uBO, even AdBlock Plus is way better. The reason is, that Gorehill don't want to put much effort in uBOlite.
Limited Filterlists are not a problem in an inbuild Ad/Trackerblocker, there you can put the filterlists you want, out of the control of Google and the store, Google only can access the installed extensions from the store, if he delete these in the store, they also disappear in the browser. He can't do this with inbuild features and tools in the browser itself.
Less, if you, like I do, install the Portmaster on desktop, with wich, apart to monitor and if needed block all the traffic, also use an own DNScrypt with dynamich and customizables filterlists to show the middlefinger to all these data hogs.

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black0ut

in reply to Zerush • 2 mesi fa • •

Firefox will not drop Mv2 support in the forseeable future. It is a huge burden to keep the standard for all chromium forks, but firefox and firefox forks do not need to carry that burden. In the far future, web standards and technologies might change enough for Mv2 to not be effective, but that is a long time away, and depends on how the technologies and standards evolve.

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Zerush

in reply to black0ut • 2 mesi fa • •

All websites which use GoogleAPIs and those of other advertizing companies, change these in the same moment when Google and the others change these APIs and this would not last so much time.

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black0ut

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Mv2 is not a website API, it's a browser API, only used by extensions. It tells the browser how the extension wants to deal with the sites. No matter what methods and APIs and standards the sites use, Mv2 would still be able to do what it does now.

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PizzathaWut

in reply to TheTwelveYearOld • 2 mesi fa • •

Could you just pick the one most relevant place to post instead of posting it to every community please? All of these communities show up in the “all posts” feed resulting in the post appearing multiple times and clogging the feed. It’s really unnecessary.

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zapzap

in reply to TheTwelveYearOld • 2 mesi fa • •

How ironic that the one bit of meme in this screenshot is partially covered by something else.

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Trump, Epstein and the Deep State

The Trump administration’s refusal to release the Epstein files and videos is done not only to protect Trump, but the ruling class. They all belong to the same club.

^{Chris Hedges (The Chris Hedges Report)}

#USA

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ via Programmer Humor

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Needs

#programmerhumor

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HiddenLayer555

in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • 2 mesi fa • •

Not having to use JS is below all of those.

I hate how that's the language everything is slowly converging to. Even if you don't work on websites, you always have this fear in the back of your mind that one day your project will be infected.

It's not even easy like people claim it is. I find JS significantly more difficult than Java because there are way more things that can go wrong and troubleshooting is way more frustrating. Just because the app will launch even with errors in the code does not make it easier in the long run. Compile time errors are good actually.

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

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Js is indeed painful. I find the right approach is to simply treat it as a compile target. I've worked with ClojureScript when I had to do front end work, and I find it's a huge improvement because it has sane language semantics. You have things like proper equality, comparison by value, immutable data structures, and so on. It's not perfect because you still have to deal with stuff like source maps to get errors out of minified bundles, and you have to interop when you deal with Js libraries, but it's a huge improvement overall I've found.

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jUzzo6 [none/use name]

in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • 2 mesi fa • •

Worry not, soon you wouldn’t have to use anything as your job would be gone.

Also, are programmers as good in identifying root causes of misery as Luddites were? Hint: it wasn’t machines, it was capitalism.

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

in reply to jUzzo6 [none/use name] • 2 mesi fa • •

Given the reactionary position people in tech are increasingly taking with AI, I think we know the answer to that.

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Arizona resident dies from the plague less than 24 hours after showing symptoms

Amid a prairie dog die-off near Flagstaff, one person in Northern Arizona has died from the plague after being hospitalized with severe symptoms.

^{Erin Keller (The Independent)}

#USA

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No One’s in Charge, and There’s No Plan.

No One’s in Charge, and There’s No Plan. - J.D. Halley - Medium

The United States is unraveling in real time, and the most terrifying aspect of that isn’t just the collapse itself, it’s the complete absence of any plan to stop it. Not from the federal government…

^{J.D. Halley (Medium)}

#USA

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DominusOfMegadeus

in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • 2 mesi fa • •

It’s a spot on article, but I wish they offered some ideas for solutions.

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

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redsails.org/witbd-rs-abridged…

What Is To Be Done? (Abridged)

Without a revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement. It is impossible to emphasize this thought too much at a time when along with the fashionable preaching of opportunism people are carried away with the narrowest possible forms of…

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edel

in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • 2 mesi fa • •

Genuine questions, no malice here:

1) Do you think the solution to what is described in the article is a solution proposed more than a century ago still valid for today's illnesses? How people fell in 1910s, same as today?

2) Knowing how the world ended in two mayor wards and one hundred million violently killed, wouldn't a solution less incendiary be better? Our weapons today are infinitely more powerful than in 1910s and truly, I see politicians far more willing to use them than in 1960s.

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

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I don't think human society has fundamentally changed in a century. I think the problems the Bolsheviks dealt with stem from the exact same material relations as the problems we face today. Nobody has proposed a better solution that's been demonstrated to work in the past century that I'm aware of.

Both world wars wore a direct result of capitalism, and had the Europeans not shat the bed after the Soviet revolution, we may have moved past the capitalist stage of development by now. The longer capitalist regimes are allowed to continue to exist the more likely the scenario you fear will come to pass.

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edel

in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • 2 mesi fa • •

Thanks, I have no read anything from those times so I don't know nor I want to speculate.
Now, my fear from what I have observed in the last decade is real. However, living in Asia I did not have that feeling... are they blind there or is just that in the West that we sense the worse is coming.

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

in reply to edel • 2 mesi fa • •

I really can't recommend reading The State and Revolution enough. It is the most lucid explanation of what's currently happening and why. It's a short read and you're going to be surprised how relevant it feels to the current moment. marxists.org/archive/lenin/wor…

The dynamics in Asia are indeed different, and China acts as a stabilizing force there. The economies there are hedging against the west, and they're increasingly focusing on trade amongst themselves and the developing world.

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edel

in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • 2 mesi fa • •

Just got that in Audiobook... I have to confess no much into reading non-fictional staff from that long ago but I recognize it may be relevant. I have this and Tepora's The Finnish Civil War for this weekend.

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

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I found this particular book was incredibly eye opening because it clarified a lot of the mechanics of how our system works for me. What I found most shocking was how it's pretty clear exact same types of debates that we're having today regarding reforming the system were happening a century ago. And that goes back to your original question of how relevant this stuff is. If we're still having these same discussions about the same kinds of problems, then we have to inform ourselves on the history of these debates. There is a huge wealth of knowledge and experince that's been built up that's being ignored today.

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edel

in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • 2 mesi fa • •

Completely agree... yet with a saturation of information available today, it is so hard to dedicate time to events a century old to apply the learning to today's world. Our filters are saturated and clogged and unable to process data efficiently anylonger.

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

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I find it helps to develop a mindset of thinking in terms of dynamic systems where you can identify forces acting upon the system and try to understand likely ways the system will evolve as whole. For example, if we're dealing with capitalist relations be it today or a century ago, the forces within the system form an invariant. We have people who own substantial capital and those who do not. Their interests form a contradiction because they are fundamentally opposed to each other. If I'm a business owner then my desire is to minimize my costs an maximize profits, while if I'm a worker selling my labour I want to maximize my salary and benefits. Once we frame the problem in these terms we can try to think about potential resolutions to these contradictions, and that's where historical record becomes informative. If we can identify similar situations in the past, they can inform us on what we can expect going forward.

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godlessworm [comrade/them]

in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • 2 mesi fa • •

i think businesses are still in charge like always and their plan is still make more money

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

in reply to godlessworm [comrade/them] • 2 mesi fa • •

The problem here is that businesses only think about their own needs, and nobody is actually running the nation as a whole. Businesses being in charge is akin to a bunch of cancers running amok and killing the host.

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Distro choice

So, I was originally just going with Mint 22.1, but I’m getting a 9070xt and see mint is only on kernel 6.8 which doesn’t particularly support it?

Is using it still okay? Should I go with Bazzite instead? Or something else. I’m fine with a little amount of work to get shit working nice and all, I am fine with figuring out how to use the terminal if needed and all, just want something stable to play games and other shit on. Mint sounded good, but not if it won’t support my GPU.

#linux

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Eggymatrix

in reply to TowardsTheFuture • 2 mesi fa • •

I always go arch for stuff that needs the new shit, and debian for stuff that should run stable. Those nix bazzite tubleweed thingies are nice, but too niche, if you have a problem the small communities are less probable to have it as well and good luck finding solutions

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TowardsTheFuture

in reply to Eggymatrix • 2 mesi fa • •

Arch may be a little more than I would prefer because… just going to look at the site would take learning just what the fuck is going on. I don’t need constant crazy new stuff, I just want the GPU to work.

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whatsgoingdom

in reply to TowardsTheFuture • 2 mesi fa • •

Bazzite is crazy simple and the forum on discourse is pretty active as well. Haven't had many problems so far.

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Snot Flickerman

in reply to TowardsTheFuture • 2 mesi fa • •

Is there a particular reason you need an nvidia gpu? Like plans to do local LLMs or other projects that really require a nvidia gpu?

Because I am just so pleased with AMD for gpus in Linux. So simple.

Not knocking your choice, just trying to understand it. Everyone has valid reasons for why they choose their setups.

Edit: nevermind I am so confused by the new naming schemes I thought this was an nvidia, others have informed me its an AMD. Nevermind me I am a dingus.

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TowardsTheFuture

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9070xt is an AMD… it’s just new… and I’ve seen a lot of posts saying you want kernel 6.13 or higher for it, and mint 22 is using 6.8. (And that you want mesa 25 but I don’t think getting that’s an issue?)

(I realize AMD changing their naming yet again makes that confusing.)

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thanksforallthefish

in reply to TowardsTheFuture • 2 mesi fa • •

So install the latest kernel into Mint ?

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thanksforallthefish

in reply to thanksforallthefish • 2 mesi fa • •

Lol at the downvotes, it's like 3 clicks. Not rocket science.

fosslinux.com/138008/how-to-in…

Mint deliberately uses an LTS kernel because it's primary value proposition is stability & simplicity but changing kernels is pretty safe.

How to install and try different Linux kernels in Linux Mint

This comprehensive guide walks you through the process of installing and trying out various Linux kernels in Linux Mint.

^{Divya Kiran Kumar (FOSS Linux)}

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TowardsTheFuture

in reply to thanksforallthefish • 2 mesi fa • •

Yeah I mean, no experience with it and it says it’ll all probably work but I was not sure about it. I had seen mint 22 was made to not be stuck on 5.15 so it might be possible but it seems like they focus on LTS which would go to 6.12 now and not 6.13+. Is it worth doing all that to still use mint or would I be better off just going with like fedora 42 or bazzite or something else.

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thanksforallthefish

in reply to TowardsTheFuture • 2 mesi fa • •

I've put later kernels on Mint a half dozen times withno dramas, but whether you should depends on what your use case, preferences and skill are.

I personally wouldn't do the arse-ache that is an immutable system, but plenty here love their Bazzite it seems. Different strokes for different folks. Nothing wrong with that.

If you love Mint except for the kernel version then it's an easy fix. If you don't have deep feelings then either try & be ready to ditch, or pick an alternative.

Just for the record there is no "doing all that" about it. It's a simple couple of clicks. It couldnt be easier. I'm not sure where you got the idea it was difficult.

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TowardsTheFuture

in reply to thanksforallthefish • 2 mesi fa • •

I guess the “doing all that” mostly means taking something supposedly very stable like mint and then changing it seems to kinda defeat the purpose of mint lol. Idk, there so much “mint and Debian are stable” but like… what’s the even mean? Is fedora 42 or bazzite going to be crashing regularly? Cuz… I doubt it? lol like idk, there’s just a lot of options. Seems easier to just go with fedora 42 or bazzite or whatever, but now idk what bazzite being immutable even means for what I can’t change and why that’s a big deal so idk.

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pyssla

in reply to TowardsTheFuture • 2 mesi fa • •

I get the impression you've been enticed/subjected to some confusing technical jargon without noticing. Please allow me to shed some light.

Idk, there so much “mint and Debian are stable” but like… what’s the even mean?

Stable can mean a bunch of different stuff that may or may not be closely related. In the case of Debian, it's the name of its default release; the one in which packages are frozen for two years except for security patches. (Note that this naming scheme is not unique to Debian.) As such, a Debian installation will be unchanging for these two years, earning its stable designation (which, to be clear, just meaning unchanging in this context). Finally, this unchanging environment should provide a ton of stability (i.e. stuff just works), which is also referred to as stable. These three distinct meanings of stable are probably the ones you'll come across the most.

Is fedora 42 or bazzite going to be crashing regularly? Cuz… I doubt it?

The bold part is a clear demonstration that you understood stable to mean strictly robust; i.e. the third meaning discussed above. And to be clear, Fedora does a decent job at providing a reliable experience. (Bazzite even more so.) But not all three meanings of stable apply to it:
- For Fedora (and thus Bazzite by extension), the only stable repository is the one used to create its ISOs (i.e. the images used for installation). Beyond this, some packages are frozen within a release/version; e.g. you'll never get a major release update for GNOME unless you do a major release update for Fedora. But..., that's basically it; (almost) all other packages receive regular updates. As such, Fedora is often referred to as a semi-rolling release distro instead (as opposed to Debian being referred to as a stable release distro). So, to be clear, Fedora and Bazzite are NOT stable in this context.
- As (most of) its packages receive regular updates, it isn't unchanging either. And thus, NOT stable in this context as well.
- However, in terms of offering a robust/reliable experience, Fedora is pretty good. Bazzite is even better due to its atomicity^[That is, updates either happen successfully or not at all. So a random power outage (or otherwise) is not able to break the system's integrity.] and the superior distro-management allowed by the bootc model.

So, to answer your question, Fedora and Bazzite will not crash regularly. And, while Fedora might fall a little short of providing as robust of an experience as you might find on Debian and Linux Mint (assuming you won't FrankenDebian your installs), Bazzite may actually rival (and perhaps even eclipse/surpass) Debian and Linux Mint in this respect.

Seems easier to just go with fedora 42 or bazzite or whatever

For your purposes, I agree that going for the Bazzite-route seems to be the easiest.

but now idk what bazzite being immutable even means for what I can’t change and why that’s a big deal so idk.

This is a nuanced discussion that probably deserves more attention, but I'll keep it short for the sake of brevity. In Bazzite's case, strictly-speaking, immutability refers to how most of /usr's content isn't supposed to be changed deliberately by you. This is enforced by the system (in part) by making those files read-only.

In practice, though, there's very little you actually can't do with the system:
- AFAIK, you're forced to use GRUB; which AFAIK is the most used bootloader anyways. Here's a thread discussing support for systemd-boot.
- No support for UKI at the moment. But progress on this has been accelerated (relatively) recently; .
- The situation around dkms/akmods still ain't great and leaves a lot to be desired; you're basically limited to the ones found here. Thankfully, this is something else that's actively being worked on.
- While installing from Fedora's repository through bootc/rpm-ostree is possible, it's actually discouraged in Bazzite's case. Thankfully, there's a plethora of different means to the same end. Furthermore, sysext have come a long way and might become our go-to eventually.

UKI/systemd-boot tracker

systemd-boot has a lot of uptake and is very simple for the UEFI path. We need to support it. One thing this deeply intersects with is ostreedev/ostree#2753 and ostreedev/ostree#1951 as well as #20...

^{cgwalters (GitHub)}

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TowardsTheFuture

in reply to pyssla • 2 mesi fa • •

Thanks, that’s very helpful. Sounds like Bazzite will be sufficient then so I’ll just go with that.

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pyssla

in reply to TowardsTheFuture • 2 mesi fa • •

It has been my pleasure fam! Enjoy your ride on Bazzite and please consider reporting back on how it went 😉.

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TowardsTheFuture

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Pretty good so far, few things took a while to figure out (keeping specific apps loading on start in the right spot/size, not having it force me to enter a password any time I open my browser, getting protontricks to work, etc.) and sadly still one thing I probably won’t ever be able to fix is getting a program (combat mode for GW2) to actually work as it’s… like 13 years old and just lets me press a button to make my mouse left/right click into keys while the game is up. They have integrated the other functionality of it at least so it’s not THAT bad. Might be able to get my mouse to manually do that if I check out the drivers for it I think someone made.

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pyssla

in reply to TowardsTheFuture • 2 mesi fa • •

Thanks for reporting back!

Pretty good so far

Glad to hear that it has been a pleasant experience overall!

few things took a while to figure out ...

The "force me to enter a password any time I open my browser"-thing seems like unintended behavior. Pretty strange. Glad to hear that it has been resolved, though.

sadly still one thing I probably won’t ever be able to fix is getting a program (combat mode for GW2) to actually work as it’s… like 13 years old and just lets me press a button to make my mouse left/right click into keys while the game is up. They have integrated the other functionality of it at least so it’s not THAT bad. Might be able to get my mouse to manually do that if I check out the drivers for it I think someone made.

Perhaps you've already undertaken what I'm about to say, so please feel free to ignore this if that's the case: Have you reached out to their Discord server in hopes of resolving the issue? While their documentation is pretty great, it's possible that it ain't sufficient. Whenever that happens, the Discord community can (and probably will (at least in my experience)) step up and provide excellent guidance when prompted.

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TowardsTheFuture

in reply to pyssla • 2 mesi fa • •

Idk about the browser thing it was because the kde wallet or something? It stores passwords and the browser has a login so it would force me to do that every time. Same with email and such, very annoying. I think I have it all working fine now.

As far as what I could not get working, I was able to just set up mouse profiles to do mostly the same. Good enough of a workaround. It’s an old program separate from the game that seems to look at the active window to contain “Guild Wars 2” and if it is, hitting a button will change mouse clicks to whatever buttons. (And hitting certain buttons or not being in GW2 will disable that) so like… idk how Linux works but I feel that ain’t gonna happen without changing it, and the dev has fucked off 13 years ago (and I might be the literal only person still using it.)

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pyssla

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Idk about the browser thing it was because the kde wallet or something? It stores passwords and the browser has a login so it would force me to do that every time. Same with email and such, very annoying. I think I have it all working fine now.

Ah okay, thanks for the clarification! I have heard of that interaction elsewhere. Unsure if it's KDE Plasma misbehaving or otherwise. Regardless, I'm glad to hear that you were able to resolve the issue. I did find this discussion (which you may have found yourself as well). In their case, they (somehow) didn't properly create an account, which opens multiple can of worms you'd much rather not deal with. Thankfully, the fact that you were able to deal with the problem suggests that you should be fine 😉.

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poinck

in reply to TowardsTheFuture • 2 mesi fa • •

You could try Debian testing. It currently has linux-6.12 on it and works flawlessly with my 6700xt.

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Onihikage

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They said they're getting a 9070xt - that is an AMD GPU.

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maxwells_daemon

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Arch or EndeavourOS (Arch for babies) should give you the best support for any new hardware.

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Onihikage

in reply to TowardsTheFuture • 2 mesi fa • •

If you want to use newer hardware, and would rather not tinker with the system to get it working (and then have to maintain that tinkering yourself if something breaks later), Bazzite is probably the better option. It's based on Fedora Atomic which is almost identical to rolling-release like Arch. I switched from Windows to Bazzite more than a year ago and have personally had no major issues, never had to mess with drivers or kernel updates due to the image-based system, and pretty much everything I might need for some workaround or another is included in the image. The community is very active on both the Discord and the web forum, and the documentation on the website is good as well, so there's no shortage of help and available resources if you run into an issue or don't know how to do something.

The main thing you need to be aware of going in is to be sure of which Desktop Environment you want (KDE or Gnome), because their user-space configs (which are not part of the image) interfere with each other so you can't really switch between them without breaking a lot of things. Coming from Windows, I picked KDE and have been very happy with it.

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TowardsTheFuture

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Is there a particular difference between KDE and Gnome? I’ve mostly seen “KDE looks like windows and Gnome looks like mac” but are there major differences outside of looks I would need to worry about?

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Onihikage

in reply to TowardsTheFuture • 2 mesi fa • •

They're mostly equivalent, but I think KDE has the edge when it comes to customization, included utilities, and advanced features. The Apple/Windows comparison is not limited to their look and feel, it also applies to the philosophical differences between the Gnome and KDE teams. If you plan to use SteamVR, KDE is supposedly better for that specific use case, but I can't personally verify that.

The feature sets and quality of both DEs are constantly improving, so a comparison from 6 months or a year ago could already be outdated. I haven't used Gnome in quite a few years, so I'm basing this entirely on what others have said about it.

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Mordikan

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Wayland support differs between their display managers (GDM and SDDM).
Outside of that and a few other low levels things that you probably wouldn't care about, it is mostly just flavoring.

And understand that its not a choice just between those two DEs. There are many others that you can use (ex. mate, cinnamon, etc), and even just window managers (ex. i3wm, hyprland, openbox, etc) you can mix and match with many other file managers,etc.

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Onihikage

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Thanks for bringing up the display managers and Wayland support, I don't know enough to weigh in on those.

And understand that its not a choice just between those two DEs.

If OP sticks with Mint, that would be the case, but Bazzite only has two DEs right now (KDE and Gnome, with Budgie "coming soon"). OP doesn't sound like they want to tinker much, they just want something that works with a modern GPU and will keep working. Bazzite certainly fits that use-case, at least in my experience.

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Mordikan

in reply to Onihikage • 2 mesi fa • •

That's a fair point. Others could be installed via pacman or apt, but if the user is wanting out of the box, then that's true. I think 6.8 does support 9070xt, but the safest and probably simplest opinion is Bazzite like you said.

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TowardsTheFuture

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I’m not super worried about out of the box, I’m fine with fucking around for set up a bit, just not looking for anything crazy like arch lol. From what I’ve seen it looks like either Fedora 42 or bazzite with KDE. Is there a decent site that shows off the different options for DE’s and windows managers where I could look through the differences? New to all of this.

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Mordikan

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Maybe something like Comparison, but you have to understand everything can be changed. So, Just because you have KDE, doesn't mean you have to stick with Dolphin for files management, etc. Window managers are even more free form. You don't get a file manager, or image viewer, or text editor. You get a window manager. You can use whatever you want to install though. You also have floating vs tiled windows.

You might just look through screenshots in Google Images and see what looks good to you and then install that.

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dan

in reply to TowardsTheFuture • 2 mesi fa • •

Get "live DVDs" for a distro that offers both GNOME and KDE (Fedora is a great one), and see which one you like best. "live" means it's usable without installing anything, so it's easy to try out. Get a spare USB stick, install Ventoy on it, copy both ISOs across (a KDE one and a GNOME one), and boot your computer from it to try them out.

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Kory

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Check both out over at distrosea.com/ to see which you like more. Also different DEs come with different standard apps like which text editor or terminal they use. If you do not have a preference there, it shouldn't matter much. Also you can switch those out if one in particular isn't to your liking.

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Beryl

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KDE is better for GUI customization while Gnome is more plug and play IMO.

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Drito

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You can make KDE looking like Mac OS with a bit of tweakings. The advantage is the possibilty to change your setup without replacing your DE.

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just_another_person

in reply to TowardsTheFuture • 2 mesi fa • •

You want a semi or rolling release distro. Fedora is semi-rolling, would be the most user-friendly I think. Anything Arch-based but more user-friendly, like CachyOS, would be good as well. Tim leweed is rarely recommended unless you need like bleeding edge, which it doesn't sound like you really want.

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ElectricEelPoweredAxe

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I'd personally recommend openSuse Tumbleweed if you are looking for the most up to date software with an easy setup. Been using it for a solid year now for gaming and general use with zero issues.

If you are looking for stability, and a strong gaming focus I would recommend Bazzite. Its stable, comes with everything basically game ready, and is pretty simple. It does come with the cost of less customization but it's atomic nature makes it really hard to break. It's solid for general use as well.

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inzen

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Just switched from Mint to openSuse Tubleweeb due to a fresh 9070 xt. Had to switch to Wayland due to some weirdness with 240hz Oled. Seems like the driver for the 9070 xt may be a little bleeding edge but otherwise it's solid. Zypper seems more powerful, at a glance than apt, but that's just my impression. So far I have tried Final Fantasy XIV and Cyberpunk 2070, both work great.

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ElectricEelPoweredAxe

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Glad it's working out so far! It's been a rock solid distro for me and hopefully it's the same for you!

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pastermil

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Doesn't Mint have newer kernel as well?

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While (I think) you can install HWE (hardware enablement) kernels on Mint, you would also have to upgrade Mesa, which is not as easy on Mint.

Personally in this case, for a truly stable distro, I’d install Debian Stable and install a backports kernel and backports Mesa, which are both currently versions that should support RDNA4 GPUs like OPs just fine. This involves two simple steps after installing:
1. Enable the Debian Backports Repo (see backports.debian.org/Instructi…). It’s like, one file.
2. Install the packages with something like sudo apt install -t bookworm-backports linux-image-amd64 mesa-va-drivers and reboot.

Before you take these steps, you probably won’t have hardware acceleration, but will still get video output so you can perform the steps and reboot.

This is definitely a weird suggestion, and other people’s suggestions might be less work out of the box. I just like Debian, and stability+backports+testing is part of what makes it possible for it to be my everything distro.

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Tapionpoika

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if you go with the Arch, you can keep your Mint Cinnanon without troubles. wink wink

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knfrmity

in reply to TowardsTheFuture • 2 mesi fa • •

I just grabbed a 9060XT open box deal without thinking about driver support, I'm using Mint 22.1 as well. YMMV but I can't get any kernel besides 6.8 to boot, not even the Mint supported 6.11 HWE. Video output works but the drivers don't load and even scrolling down a webpage gives me screen tearing. I did get a more recent Mesa version with the kisak ppa but it hasn't helped. Can't even go above 60Hz refresh rate.

I tried Ubuntu 25.04 on a LiveUSB and it's basically plug and play and might have even automatically switched to the 144Hz monitor refresh rate.

I don't have a whole lot of time for getting a new distro set up right now. I will wait until Mint 22.2 (coming soon? with a newer kernel hopefully) and see how that goes.

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absGeekNZ

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I run mint 22.1 and have a 9070xt.

I used mainline to install kernel 6.14, works flawlessly.

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It's from a Victoria Beckham interview where she was claiming to be raised with significantly less wealth.

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Pudutr0n

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Thank you!!

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edel

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It is perplexing to me how she has been able to get where she is with that story and how the media complicit with it!

For the non Europeans, she is Kaja Kallas, the EU Foreign affairs representative. She is extreme bellicose, specially toward Russia and representing a tiny minority of Europeans on the matter. But she encapsulates perfectly her boss (Ursula). Europeans elected a completely different parliament recently with a clear mandate for a radical chance... to end up with the corrupt Ursula von de Leyen once again. I strong believe these positions in the EU are heavily vetted by the US before allowed to run.

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

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Hating Russia is basically the sole requirement for advancing in EU politics.

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edel

in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • 2 mesi fa • •

So true... but unlike the US, where it is well known there are sectors that earn lots of money and power, I don't know exactly how it works in Europe since everyone losses with these choices. I am positive, the US choose Ursula for the post (I bet they do like when selecting the General to rule Pakistan where he is vetted for a couple of weeks in private) and forced into the EU with bypassing the Spitzenkandidat process. But why so many powers in Europe let that fly?!

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

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The US worked hard since WW2 to ensure that Europe would be politically subservient to the US. The Marshall Plan indebted Europe to the US, and NATO made Europe militarily dependent. Such economic and military dependence necessarily led to Atlanticist politicians rising to the top. Incidentally, the EU makes the whole problem worse because the bureaucracy there is not accountable to the people living in individual European countries.

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edel

in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • 2 mesi fa • •

The theory is that. What is perplexing is how with so many countries, with so many stakeholders (voters, industries,...), the discipline is incredible.
The Ursula case is interesting, the US did not like the candidates that was posed to win (Manfred Weber as probably saw on him as too patriotic German and Margrethe Vestager as too popular with Europeans with her antitrust cases on American companies)... so imposing ignoring the Spitzenkandidat system and resorting only to secretive backroom deals... it is amazing this is what the EU has become!!!
It is no surprise most EU representatives in the parliament know no clue about the candidates and just follow party lines, but still... I would expect some more dissidents. Meloni in Italy is interesting too... her speeches were vociferously anti-establishment but the media was kind of passive with her... and no surprise, she is indeed perfectly inline with the establishment... but, the media were told to be nice with her before elections so the apparatus knew beforehand her real self! There is a vetting process before hand!

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SubArcticTundra

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Imo this comes at least partially down to the generic pattern of representatives becoming more conformist when they get into power. In my country for example we have a Pirate party, and they were quite radically progressive when they were founded but as they got into parliament+govt they became more centrist. You see this happen in many countries. I wouldn't immediately jump to the conclusion that they are being 'vetted' by hidden elites, I think it's very possible that its just an effect of the incentives you face in the process of competing in elections, facing the media, the environment in a parliament, etc. etc. But even if the latter is the case, it wouldn't be a good thing since you have a diverse set of representatives representing a diverse society, and if the democratic system molds them to have a uniform set of traits then you are losing accuracy of that representation.

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edel

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No doubt, with more responsibilities there is always a tendency to conform more, but from there to vote blindly there is a stretch. I wonder what happened to the Pirate parties in Europe!! I am looking for a pan-European, not necessarily federalist party in Europe but the few available do not convince me... I am tempting to create one (partially joking)... or just give up and find a peaceful live in some coast.

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SubArcticTundra

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Hmm... Volt?

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edel

in reply to SubArcticTundra • 2 mesi fa • •

I did check them... even interacted with one of their executive members but, besides the literature that found it mostly bland and ambiguous, did not find enthusiasm there for the change Europeans demand. Besides, being federalist, I think on the rest of policies they will accommodate to whoever they partner with on the center-left. I did not see a substantial audience with Volt's message, maybe I should have spoken with more of their people.
My search continues. Thanks SubArticTundra.

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SubArcticTundra

in reply to edel • 2 mesi fa • •

There's also MERA25 (lead by the likes of Slavoj Žižek and Jannis Ver.). I quite liked them but they (and other pan-euro parties) have no chance of winning seats so long as the seats are distributed within each country separately.

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edel

in reply to SubArcticTundra • 2 mesi fa • •

Good Point! Yes I have been following MeRA25 / DIEM25 (gosh horrible name(s)!) and their podcast since 2 yrs ago and Yanis Varoufakis for more than a decade... great man yet so sad he is unable to connect Europeans. Of course, Brussels was able to permanently linked him with Greeceś default, when he was the very person denouncing the whole scheme. They need a marketing person (and a new name now since 25 is half over). I was tempted once to give him a great domain for a new European party. In any case, Amazing intelligent and humanistic guy, but his speeches sound too commie and too rancid. Even, over and over he proved himself right in international politics and economics and his new book positions him as very, very well verse in current technological affairs,yet Yanis, rather than being the front lead, he should be the mentor to someone can speak in today's language.

It is true, the system in Europe highly penalizes pan-european or even pan-national parties in contrast a small highly concentrate party in a region, so one could consider to organize a coalition wave of small parties scattered across the EU. But I still think is is better to have a common name across Europe. This is a thing of talking to a few lawyers to see the possibilities.

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

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EU is a giant mess at this point, and it's really not clear to me how it's going to move forward. The EU doesn't appear to have a coherent strategy on how to deal with the US, Russia, or China. It's becoming geopolitically irrelevant, and the economy is going into a recession. The apparatchiks running the project don't seem to have any bright ideas or even basic awareness of the problems EU is facing.

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edel

in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • 2 mesi fa • •

Could not agree more here! Any group you follow there you see with a minimal grasp of reality?

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

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Not really, because the main alternative to the neoliberal centre seems to be on the right. I'm really not sure what to expect in Europe in the coming years.

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edel

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Thanks again, I see it like that. These days I predict the US has more chances of changing than Europe since the lack of social net will precipitate the demand for change more radically.
Finally, what is your take on leftist parties in Europe such as Diem25 (I am not versed on the differences Marxist, leninist and that)?

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I expect that there will be a split between the US and Europe in the coming years. The US sees China as its main adversary, and Europe is losing strategic relevance for the US because Russia is not an ideological opponent the way USSR was.

However, if the US simply left Europe then it would end up gravitating towards the east, first economically, then politically. That would be highly undesirable from the US perspective as it could result in a huge Eurasian bloc with from Europe, to Russia, to China. In my view this is what the war in Ukraine is all about. In fact, National Interest published a very revealing article back in 2021, while it focuses on Russia, it's pretty clear how the argument extends to Europe as well nationalinterest.org/feature/s…

The US has also been predating on Europe economically since the start of the war. US companies have been enjoying selling energy to Europe at high prices while Biden's inflation reduction act lured companies away from Europe. Today, Trump is building on this strategy with massive tariffs designed to stifle Europe's economy and lure more business to the US. The threat of Russia is also being used to force Europe into massive increase in military spending, most of which will go to American military industry.

All of this is bad news for Europe economically, and that's creating a lot of internal political tension. As people see their standard of living collapse, they're turning to nationalist parties because the neoliberal center has lost its credibility in their eyes. Hence why we see a surge of support for RN in France, AfD becoming a major party in Germany, and so on. I expect we'll see more of what we saw in Romania where elections will be cancelled, candidates arrested, parties banned, and so on. All of that will further delegitimize the current system as people start realizing they're not living in a genuine democracy.

Unfortunately, the left has been systematically dismantled in Europe since the end of WW2. What I mean specifically is the economic left. Socialism in Marxist terms mean worker ownership over the means of production which is directly at odds with the current capitalist state of relations where private ownership is the norm. Most of what constitutes the left in the west, such as social democrats, does not challenge capitalist relations. These parties simply want to curb the worst excess of capitalism such as having the rich pay more taxes, provide more social services, and so on. These are reformist parties that seek some form of sustainable capitalism.

There are a handful of genuine socialist parties in Europe, but they're extremely marginalized and I can't see how they can break into mainstream politics at this time. One of the problems is with messaging. The right has a big advantage here because their narrative is largely compatible with what people already believe. In a sense, the right is also a reformist type of movement where they're not suggesting any revolutionary change. People who become disillusioned with the mainstream have easy time gravitating towards the tropes the right peddle like immigrants being the problem and taking people's jobs away.

On the other hand, accepting socialist narrative requires accepting that the current system is fundamentally broken and there needs to be radical restructuring of society. In my opinion, what socialist left needs to focus on is crafting its messaging in a way that resonates with the public. The narrative has to be at least as appealing as what the right offers for people to even start to listen.

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edel

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Insightful comment. I consider myself politically neutral yet I can tell apart when a genocide is happening, privacy violations, a ailing society, and a long etc. You are completely right with "socialist left needs to focus on is crafting its messaging in a way that resonates with the public". I still not sure if socialism is a solution but gosh... if a wondering mind like me, gets with a rancid aftertaste when reading words like "means of production", "capitalism", "Marxist"... for real, the language needs to update and connect with people... It is like I say "we need to gather around the wireless to hear news". (in 1910s radio was known as "wireless" from wireless telegraph)... it is a good statement but if i said some people simple will get confused with the term and the rest will know the term but simply think a person that uses those old references cannot possibly have the solution for today's world problems.

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In addition to this, the US does all of Europe's dirt elsewhere in the world. For example, oil gets stolen from Syria and sent to Europe. This means European capitalists don't have to compete with American capitalists, who source their oil from Canada and Latin America. They agree to divvy up resources so Europe and the US don't come into conflict later.

The war in Ukraine is an example of the opposite happening. NATO capitalists are in conflict with capitalists in former Soviet nations. They both want to extract resources from Ukraine, but NATO capitalists want Russian capitalists to be subservient.

As said above, the Marshall Plan made Europe militarily dependent on the US. In exchange, the US does the actual armed conflict. Europe gets to benefit from imperialism, yet sits below American capital.

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very much agree with all taht

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As said above, the Marshall Plan made Europe militarily dependent on the US.

Not only militarily

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Kaja is a fucking clown. Them moment I saw that she said Ireland doesn't know what its like to be oppressed (the fuck?), I automatically discredited everything she says.

She and Ursula should throw themselves in ditches and rot.

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During the March 1949 Soviet mass deportations, Kallas' mother, Kristi, six months old at the time, grandmother and great-grandmother, all labeled as "enemies of the state", were deported to Siberia. Her mother was allowed to return to Soviet-occupied Estonia in 1959.

I think she was talking about her mother as victim of USSR, not about his father.

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PolandIsAStateOfMind

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Soviet-occupied Estonia in 1959.

I would discard entire source for such remarks.

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edel

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Many Estonians were sent to Siberia... but we have to set the premise in the right here.
Till 1950, for 1000 years, Estonia has been independent 22 years (after WWI and the Soviet revolution). Before Russia, for 1000 years, Germany, Sweden or Denmark owned Estonia.

After WWII, true the Soviets send many people to Siberia, a horrendous amount of people... but it comes with the caveat that Nazi Germany occupied for 4 years before so probably, the intent was to deport "collaborators", although we know how these things are operated and probably many were completely innocent (in war we know how repugnant neighbors are to each other on reporting innocents.)

Now her mom did come back a decade later and apparently they made a very good life ever since. That is like if in the 1950s I was imprisoned for a decade (rightly or not) and for the next 3 decades I succeeded in the system and lived far better than my peers (and better than the overwhelming majority of Russians!) but I just self the story of 1950s... it is just disingenuous.

Don't take me wrong, I believe in the preservation and even right of self-determination of people, myself come from one without it, but stop portraying like Estonians or Ukrainians were heavily discriminated by Moscow... they were not. Estonians were not the blacks in the US of 1800s, not even in the 1950s, nor were the Jews in Germany of 1930s but more like the Scots in UK or Basques in Spain. Many people were sent inhumanely and even criminally to Siberia but was proportional to either being suspected of being a collaborator, not for being Estonian or Ukrainian.

I celebrate that Estonia is an independent country and remains to be so for many decades to come, but play your cards right, be vary of Russian's intentions as of the US' or Germany; all three would not think it twice before throwing you under the bus the very moment they calculate to use you as a tool for their own gain. Finland in 1950-2010 knew how to operate in that environment; strength your defenses, but reassure you won't be used by one or the other side; Finland thrived then.

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Sem

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I only left this commentary because for me making a meme with mentioning only her father is kind of manipulation. There is the fact that her family (mother) was oppressed. Technically speaking she doesn't lie when she is is saying that. The "meme" is trying to portrait it like she is lying by providing only half of information and by ignoring another half. I just do not like it. And it is not against what did you say.

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edel

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Thanks for the clarification... sorry if it sounded I was going after you, actually I read your comment as you intended.

What I was venting about is about how the media that, today, works as memes only portrayed one side of her story... something like this meme does too. Now, if we are going to be that simplistic, this meme captures far more her experience under the Soviet rule than her moms after WWII.

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Sem

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I agreed about media. The story is much more complex as usual, there was good and there was bad about USSR. I do not like the idea of taking only good or only bad about USSR from the history to aggressively and manipulatively push somthing.

And I do not like when anyone's family past is used for politival advantage or disadvantage. Like why is it matter where who was born, who was one's grandpa or something, etc. when we are talking on current days politics? Focus on the present problem.

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edel

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So true on the USSR.

On using personal narrative for advance I am fine, but has to be more or less genuine to the context. If I say that my neighbor is horrible because once took my lawnmower and never returned it back and leave the part that he bought me later on a better one because he broke mine... I have been completely disingenuous.

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Always opportunistic swines like that.

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The boss should just become the landlord, then there wouldn't be any double dipping from the government collecting income taxes paid to the employee and then income taxes paid to the landlord with the remaining already taxed money.

Provide the housing in exchange for work and there's no income to tax!

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I believe the term for this is company towns.

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Media outlets to use resources they set up for mushroom trial coverage to now cover the police’s structural racism

As the infamous mushroom trial comes to a close at the same time as the coroner’s findings in the inquest into the killing of Kumanjayi Walker found that former constable Rolfe, who killed the Indigenous teen, is racist and so is police force’s systems; the media outlets who set up teams to cover the trial will now obviously shift those recourses to covering the police’s structural racism.

“We’ve shown that when we want to, we can have entire teams dedicated to covering people being killed,” said one newsroom editor, “it would be a failure of our duty as news outlets if we don’t give the same attention to the people being killed in police custody.”

“Plus, the there is way more to cover here considering the amount of police brutality we are seeing not just in the Northern Territory, but nationwide. So many more deaths, and while sure none of them involve beef wellington, it would be ridiculous if that mattered in our coverage.”

Media outlets to use resources they set up for mushroom trial coverage to now cover the police’s structural racism – The Chaser

"We've shown that when we want to, we can have entire teams dedicated to covering people being killed."

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Grok invades Poland

Google for insufferable people, X’s Grok AI, has launched an invasion of Poland.

This comes after Elon Musk updated Grok to stop disagreeing with him, leading to the ai immediately praising Hitler and calling itself ‘MechaHitler’.

The invasion was using the full force of Musk’s army of middle aged men who can only see their kids every 2nd weekend, all doing what Musk calls a ‘Roman salute”.

UPDATE: Poland successfully held off the invasion when Grok’s Tesla branded tanks began blowing up on their own.

Grok invades Poland – The Chaser

The invasion fell apart when the Tesla brand tanks began blowing up.

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The Pentagon urges Japan and Australia to clarify their role in a potential US-China war over Taiwan amid rising regional tensions.

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Why would allies share their plans with an entity that has zero opsec, is probably hacked at the signal intelligence level, let alone with Russian puppet circus that is the US government?

Hard pass.

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You buy our weapons and we'll start a war so you can use them them.

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Samsung is building a Dedicated Production Line to produce displays for Apple’s First Foldable iPhone

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It's called vertical integration, lemon

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Browser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping bots

Link to the list of extensions at the end of the article

Browser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping bots

Extensions load unknown sites into invisible Windows. What could go wrong?

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Beryl

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It's disheartening seeing screen readers on this list. That seems predatory.

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These extensions use MellowTel-js. After this article from ArsTechnica went live, the developer responded in full detail and transparency.

If you’re a Dark Reader user (as that’s one of the most widely used extensions), definitely read MellowTel’s response on how their technology works. It made me realize the Ars article was not fully vetted.

mellowtel.com/blog/responding-…

Edit: Dark Reader on this list is actually a knock off version just for Edge browser only - it’s not the widely used Dark Reader that’s on multiple browser engines. See another user’s comment that replied to me.

Responding to ArsTechnica (Condé Naste) and 'Mellow-Drama' Articles - Mellowtel Blog

A detailed response addressing concerns and misconceptions about Mellowtel's bandwidth sharing technology and business model.

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7eter

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The popular Dark Reader is not affected by this as far as I know.
Only this knock off for the edge browser.
Source: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

Dark Reader — dark theme for every website

Dark mode for every website. Take care of your eyes, use dark theme for night and daily browsing. For Chrome and Firefox, Edge and Safari.

^{Dark Reader}

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CatZoomies

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Nice, thanks for discovering that. I wasn’t aware there was a rip off version of it.

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reddig33

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Still sounds gross. While the developer might have opted in to selling your processing power to scrape websites, I doubt the users of each extension opted in.

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CatZoomies

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Still sounds gross. While the developer might have opted in to selling your processing power to scrape websites, I doubt the users of each extension opted in.

Response from the developer:

" Users who want to support a free software product or creator can decide to opt-in to share their bandwidth. ... Developers can decide to offer them additional features and content or simply use the money to keep the products free and available."

On User Consent:

"Our approach is always opt-out by default. I'll write more below on how we are going about enforcing it now as part of a stricter approach to maintaining a transparent ecosystem. We provide default opt-in/out hosted pages to simplify asking consent and have left this page where users can see all the plugins to which they have opted-in and manage their settings with no developer as an intermediary: mellow.tel/user-control."

In other words, users are opted-out by default. They can also go to that web site, and when they click the link, the page checks which extensions are installed in the browser and whether or not you opted in.

On Opt-In Enforcement:

Ars Technica article states there are "no checks to determine if a real user knows what they are approving or to determine if the developer just opts all users in on their behalf".

"We do have a page where users can go and see if they are opted-in or have been opted in without their knowledge from the developer: mellow.tel/user-control. But you are right and we should do more. We have started enforcing the opt-in policy from today (by simply checking each integration and not sending requests to those that don't show an opt-in) and will be doubling down on that in the coming days. Each new websocket request from an unknown integration will be quarantined and we won't allow requests to go through until we have controlled the integration is compliant and is asking users to opt-in + is leaving an opt-out option clearly visible. We will also start enforcing routine checks on our Mellowtel integrations to create a transparent environment."

In other words, the Mellow.tel developer has it set to always opt-out by default. However, developers of extensions may just opt-in the users without consent - which, I agree with you is gross. It's possible those developers don't explain the full implications. Now, the Mellow.tel developer is putting in remediations to ensure that the opt-in policy is enforced, and users will have more exposure to knowing whether or not this is happening. Meaning, they're going to try to enforce default opt-out (as they stated this was always their policy), and make it easier for users to know they get opted in.

On Personally Identifiable Information and Monetisation:

The developers basically claims everything is anonymized. And the way they make money is, if you opt-in, you share "a fraction of your bandwidth" when browsing the web, fetching from a server, etc. They don't collect or sell your user data because they aren't advertising, and their business model is not advertising.

"all [Response data] is completely anonymous, it doesn't point back to any user, and isn't stored except the minimum time to at on it... Location - The only information used is country level (e.g., US, ES, DE), [and] it isn't associated with any Personally-Identifiable-Information (PII) at all."

So my conclusion - I care about my privacy. I don't like being opted into things without my consent. According to this developer's response, they never did. They're trying to come up with a model to help the web stay free. Who knows if this will be viable or not. Developers of extensions can leverage this stuff, and in the past, some of those developers may have opted users in without their consent (or without full transparency or understanding of how this was happening). Even if a user was "opted in", it doesn't appear to be a significant impact to privacy as they have their source code published, processing happens locally on the user's device, and the data that gets process is not transmitted, sold, or even have any identifiers. In fact, the data they claim is quite sparse to the extent that it's limited to bandwidth allotment, country, and simple "keep alive" checks (heartbeat). Now I don't have any association with this company, know this developer, nor do I have any stakes at all in this. This just caught my attention and I Had to read and learn more about it, and assess whether or not it affects my privacy threat model (it doesn't for me, simply because none of the extensions I use have this thing).

For my background - I'm a software engineer for a SaaS provider. My company processes observability telemetry, and we assist customers to instrument agents in their environments (server, machines, clusters, DB, and end-user devices like browsers and mobile devices) to collect metrics to enable observability of their platform, and generate automatic application topology. Also a suite of tools to examine metrics and dynamic baselines, health rules for baseline deviations or other anomalies, analytics, user queries, complete business transaction view, incident remediation, etc. However, I have no background whatsoever in security. So I can't comment on the security point because I don't have a cyber security background. I'm only going off what the developer said, and it made sense to me. But I'd defer to a person with cyber security expertise to comment here.

Edit: Added some additional context, fixed some spelling.

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I use the inbuild Dark Mode in Vivaldi (on/off with shortcut, wors even in intern pages and menus) and none of the extensions from the list, most extensions from the Store anyway are redundant in Vivaldi translation, reader mode, tabs, feeds, ad/tracker blocker..........)

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This needs to be upvoted to the top

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Also, the most liked comments in hebrew support him. Gives hope that the far-right government of Netanyahu is an exception.

From https://x.com/BMoon_bee/status/1944154267864248392 :

Invited on 🇮🇱 Channel 13, former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert breaks the official 🇮🇱 propaganda live and doesn’t mince words:

— “In the West Bank, war crimes are committed daily. Jewish settlers murder Palestinians, they burn them alive. When these crimes are committed with the government’s complicity, the police are present — they turn a blind eye. As for the Israeli army, it is not fulfilling its role.”

Facing him, the hosts try to downplay the facts, claiming that the true perpetrators of the violence are the Palestinians and that settler attacks are the work of only a tiny minority.

Olmert retorts, firmly:

— “What you’re saying is false and misleading. Every day, the ‘hilltop youth,’ these extremist terrorist militias, carry out mass attacks. Palestinians are assaulted, driven off their land. Their fields are set ablaze, their homes too. Just yesterday, an American citizen was struck on the head with a baton. He was murdered.”

Olmert’s intervention is not only a damning admission aimed at Israelis but also at European leaders: the crimes against humanity committed against Palestinians in the West Bank are not isolated incidents, but a systematic genocidal policy aimed at deporting all Palestinians, not just those in Gaza.

And when a former 🇮🇱 Prime Minister speaks like this, the world no longer has an excuse to look away and deny these crimes!

Channel 13 is a capitalist-owned media, with ties to Netanyahu like a lot of other israeli medias, it's in third position after shifting closer to Netanyahu's far-right in recent years : timesofisrael.com/is-israels-c… theguardian.com/business/artic…
The channel 14, ranked second, is also on the far-right and pro-Netanyahu : 972mag.com/israel-right-media-…
As usual the right only cares about themselves while accusing the left of being too 'nice for their own good'/naive/unrealistic.

(from s.m.b.c.)

And yes, sure, on the other side : lemmygrad.ml/post/8433596

Just that i'd prefer if Netanyahu's goverment was an exception, if there was still a chance for justice/peace instead of the law of the strongest : lemmygrad.ml/post/8394953/6633…

Worth adding Ehud Olmert's realignment plan : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realignm…

According to the plan, Israeli settlements in 90% of the West Bank would be evacuated and dismantled.

proposed Israeli convergence plan

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