My first hurdle is understanding that i need to add a boot sequence and navigate to the EFI file in my mounted pen drive.
second hurdle is understanding i need to disable secure boot so that the dell bios doesnt think something is wrong and always run the bios repair program.
third is understanding that i need to disable Intel rapid storage for the full install (luckily linux mint tells us this)
and honestly the hardest thing was installing fastfetch cuz theres a lot of outdated information out there on how to install it on Mint.
the process took about 4 hours, i consider it very lucky that i was able to do it so fast.
I run mint on 4 gb ram without issues. Sure, I'm careful to not open too many apps or too many tabs, but they all work fine. Only 4k video editing is undoable on such a machine. I also have a 4 gb swap partition, but I'm careful to lay off programs when I see it get hit.
My mom uses xfce on a 2 gb laptop. For her is enough, because she only knows how to open a single tab on a browser (mostly fb or yt).
I use quite a bit of old and underpowered kit. But I actually use it. The oldest laptop I use regularly is a 2009 MacBook Pro running Chimera Linux. It is only a Core 2 Duo but it has 8 GB of RAM. It runs all modern browsers and office suites. I can code on it. I can use Docker. I can do dev ops in the cloud. I can call into LLMs. Slow but capable. But I could not do much of this realistically with 4 GB (even slow).
One thing I am not doing is watching videos in 4K. The resolution is 1440x900 so it does not quite display even 1080p natively (so 1080p or even 720p for me—which is totally fine). I suspect most people who really only have 4 GB of RAM are in a similar situation.
if you go in not knowing what to do, it can seem 'difficult'. but it's mostly like on any other oem prebuilt:
optional: prep the target disk (backups, wipe or clear part table, etc), reset bios to defaults.
if necessary: switch from raid or rst to ahci sata mode, default boot mode to efi, disable secure boot. note that some distributions support secure boot but your method of creating an installer might not--you may be able to re-enable if you want after install.
note that hp systems have a hoop to jump through (a confirmation prompt to disable) after disabling secure boot on the next startup. do not use esc key to trigger boot menu, use f9 for boot menu, f10 for bios entry.. as esc will cancel the confirmation code prompt and automatically re-enable secure boot.
insert or plug-in installer, hit the magic key upon power on (f12 for dell, f9 for hp) to bring up boot menu and select installer media, boot and run installer.
I’m glad you said this, I was thinking “I just plug in the USB stick and install Linux”
In fact, the hardest but for me is remembering the special key to press upon boot up so it goes into boot selection mode and I can just select my USB stick…
Some laptops don't really let you boot from external install media so easily nowadays.
I helped a buddy get Linux Mint on their "old" laptop to try it out. But it turned out you needed some manufacturer provided code to unlock booting from anything but the main harddrive within the bios.
We contacted support but never heard back. We did find a work around when they decided to swap the existing HDD for an SSD, they used a USB to sata cable to install Mint on the SSD from their desktop then installed the SSD into their laptop in place of the original drive so it booted straight into that.
Welcome to Linux. Glad to see you're not letting the hurdles get in your way and are working through solutions. There's more to come.
You say "5 year old laptop" as if that's ancient... 10th gen Intel 😄. I don't even look at laptops newer than 5 years. Don't need much more for internet tasks and office work.
Ive got an HP Zbook g6 coming my way soon I'm excited about, and its way overkill for what I'm gonna use it for; i just need a bigger laptop because i have giant meat hooks for hands and I actually use the numpad
Tl;dr, you can get a lot of laptop at decent prices looking at "older" hardware
I don't completely agree. One party tries to fuck everything up in order to buy up everything on the cheap, while the other party is paid to keep everything exactly as it is, so their owners don't risk losing anything.
They're not the same, but the leadership in both parties are traitors to the people and deserve death.
You have to understand the backing behind these parties and how that informs how they operate. They both are largely funded by capitalists, often the same capitalists. So there are a core set of interests which they both protect. There are issues that don't fall within that space where they can be different, some issues that affect different donors differently, and they have different strategies for managing to achieve those shared interests, but when push comes to shove they are still going to do what will be good for the capitalists and the power of the state to represent those interests.
For a narrow example from this meme: Most US presidents have presided over truly awful crimes, some actually illegal, some merely morally criminal, or perhaps criminal on the world stage but not for the US. A just society based on rule of law, as the US claims to be, would prosecute these people for their crimes, whether that be for war crimes, abuses of power, corruption, etc. Ideally while they are in power in order to stop them, but at the very least you'd think that after they leave power there ought to be more political will to go after them, if not for legal or moral reasons, at least for cynical political ones.
But they basically never do this? Why not? Because those crimes help uphold the interests of capitalists and/or the state. They are mostly part of the set of things that the parties agree on. The next president would like to be able to continue to get away with those or similar crimes, so holding the previous president accountable for their actions risks setting a precedent that would come back to bite them.
There were criminal proceedings against Trump, but they were for things that are small in the grand scheme of things. Obama didn't go after Bush for lying to get us to go into an illegal war, or for using torture, or violating civil liberties, etc. because he was doing the same things. Trump didn't go after Obama for any of this because... he kept doing the same things. Going back to the most famous example of this, Nixon literally did what Trump did in terms of trying to subvert the "democratic process" and Ford pardoned him.
Basically if you're president, you can get away with whatever the hell you want as long as it's for rich people and/or the next guy wants to be able to do the same thing.
There is no change inside the DNC. It is controlled by neo-liberals who will squash any and all progressive ideals...else they would be out there fighting for them. Neo-liberals are about keeping everything the same for their corporate donors, talk about change, do nothing. This is a dead-end, zombie party.
Not really. Look how they fail to stop corruption and actively participate in it. They also do their best to tank any third party left of center. They tried to primary AOC and it really looks like they’re going to split the vote for NYC mayor bc Mamdani doesn’t toe the line.
One party is disgustingly heinous but that doesn’t mean the other is good. Do I prefer one if I only have two choices? Yes. But they should both go away and take their anti-working class bs with them.
Your party is guilty of genocide. Stop playing lucy football and pointing fingers at others. Murderers don't get pardoned because other people committed murder.
The parties are not the same. One is an openly fascist party and the other is full of meek center-right neoliberals trying to keep the status quo for their wealthy donors. However neither is trying to "fix the damage" or "make it good again", except perhaps for the top 0.001%. Most working-class people are shafted either way. If the republicans get their way, most non-whites will be deported on enslaved in prisons, women will be enslaved at home, and the remaining working-class white men will struggle to sustain themselves and their (non-working) wives and families under the christofascist dictatorship of the capital. If the democrats somehow claw back from that, there will be less abject racism and sexism but the working class will still struggle to survive in an increasingly monopolized dictatorship of the capital.
Ask yourself this question: which democrat policies from the last decade directly benefit the working class? I can name maybe 3 very compromised policies that are about 60 years behind most of the world.
To paraphrase an old meme, republicans want 100 rich white men to rule over the entire world with an iron fist; democrats want 30 of those people to be LGBTQ+ women of color.
Are democrats better? Sure, a bit better. But it's not like just electing them will save you.
Yeah, but only if it's no inconvenience to you and other westerners. You certainly don't care about them enough to remember that the Democrats are all in on their wholesale extermination.
Yup, another reminder that you literally don't consider foreigners to be human.
And how about you explain how - even if we accepted it as true - "the other choice was worse for everyone" justifies you just completely not even bothering to remember the Democrats committing genocide, or you being more concerned with the comfort of domestic Americans than with your country committing genocide?
How the fuck are you going to justify this one without straight up admitting you only care about white lives (which is the answer, of course, but I thought you'd at least try to hide your monstrous bigotry)
how about you explain how - even if we accepted it as true - “the other choice was worse for everyone” justifies you just completely not even bothering to remember the Democrats committing genocide, or you being more concerned with the comfort of domestic Americans than with your country committing genocide?
how about you explain how - even if we accepted it as true - “the other choice was worse for everyone” justifies you just completely not even bothering to remember the Democrats committing genocide, or you being more concerned with the comfort of domestic Americans than with your country committing genocide?
Republicans snarl and growl, so you're not shocked when they bite you. Democrats walk up wagging their tail and acting friendly before they bite you. In the end, you still end up bitten.
According to Stanford University, more than 30,000 top Chinese scientists left US for China last 5 years. There is absolutely no future for smart Chinese scientists in America. Non-Chinese top scie…
According to lawmaker Ayman Odeh, whose ousting from the Knesset was recently attempted, a few dozen protesters surrounded the car, cried 'death to Arabs,' spat in his direction and cracked the windshield.
Gotta say, it’s weak fucking argument because capitalism isn’t working out for the world either and it doesn’t even work in theory. The only reason it seemed to work for a while was that it was so heavily regulated that it wasn’t really capitalism.
The only places it seemed to work were those that were already established as the centers of capital and were thus benefiting from the expanding frontier of exploitation. Capitalism has run out of land and run out of people outside the imperial core to further exploit and so turns inwards to devour its once-beneficiaries. Internationally and especially in the global south it has served no purpose, ever, except to brutally oppress and exploit.
Regulated capitalism is still capitalism, and the reasons why those stronger regulations have eroded is because the Soviet Union no longer exists in close proximity to Europe as an alternative for the west.
That's an interesting but unrelated idea given that all currently existing socialist countries only became socialist because of revolutions that had popular support from all sectors of society except the owners of capital.
I don't know, I think they're just confused. Socialist revolution is the transition to the state of society in which private property has been abolished.
There are zero historical examples of capitalists giving up their power without a fight. The history of the 20th century and the cold war is one of repressive counter-revolutions killing hundreds of millions of people in the global south who tried to build socialism.
Socialism has overall largely come into existence in places where it's popular among the people, as it's a proletarian-driven system. The opposite is true of capitalism.
and if you read theory, it's just a detailed explanation of capitalism! Nobody actually has a concrete, actionable prescription of how to make "the good society", just a general sense that something better is possible if we start doing something with what we already have
That's a pretty absurd thing to say. There's lots of theory that isn't descriptive of capitalism like Kapital is. Pretty much all of Lenin's main works except Imperialism deal with how socialist society should organize.
Lenin used the state though, and Lenin himself acknowledged that the state was bad. So he was bad. So we would be bad if we learned anything about what he was saying. Ipso facto ergo cogito get owned.
First of all, we have plenty of real world examples of socialist societies, and plenty of Marxist theory has been written by people living within these societies. Second, we don't need a blueprint for a perfect society. The goal is to recognize the problems that we have, try come up with solutions, and iterate on that. It's the direction of travel that matters.
Yeah Karl Mark's really very much described capitalism but if you're not reading the other Marxist writers you're doing yourself a disservice.
Lenin in particular is incredibly important to understanding modern day communism. Mao includes blueprints for the successful Revolution that he threw. Even if you don't like Stalin or appreciate his actions in the USSR he wrote a ton on communist Theory and given that he led one of the most powerful countries at one point seems like it might be prudent to you know hear what he has to say.
And that's not getting into people like Rosa Luxembourg. Oh Hoxha has a ton of writings which get up to the '90s. Michael Paranti has also added a lot.
From the economics point of view there's people like Richard wolf who's a marxian economist who brings a marxian element to Modern economic theory.
You're incredibly naive if you don't think people haven't thought about how to fix the broken system that we've been living in for the better part of a couple hundred years now. It's out there you just have to go find it and not fall for the United States or Western lines "on what doesn't work"
Did those who advocate for abolition of slavery have intensely detailed plans for how an economy would function post-slavery, complete with successful examples of societies that built some other economic system after slavery?
Marx and Engels spoke just enough about future socialism to provide the framework. They didn’t fill in the details because that is not possible, there is no one-size-fits all blue print for socialism. Each time and place has its own specific context that must be accounted for. Ignore that and you will likely fail.
Also, Marx and Engels whole point was to describe the history of all hitherto society, and how class struggle defines that history. To try and authoritatively say “this is the precise next step” would be undialectical and anathema to their entire approach.
People have and still are building socialism, and there are many existing socialist states. Many westerners just dismiss them out of hand, either because they're chauvinists, and/or because they believe every negative thing capitalist media tells them about existing socialism (which validates their supremacist outlook).
Just because Marx's most important work is Capital doesn't mean he, Engels, Lenin, and countless others haven't also written about how to bring about socialism, and how that might be achieved. We even have real, existing socialist societies like Cuba, the PRC, and former USSR where brave revolutionaries have helped show us the way forward.
Honest question: Is there a good comprehensive easy to follow source for reading/listening/watching up on the theory?
At some point some user linked to a long reading list, where I stopped frustrated after 2 hours of reading and still being non the wiser. In all that time there must be some resource, that is more engaging and especially talking about modern life, not the life in the times of Marx (yeah, I know that the fundamental principles are the same). I'm also ok with multiple hour youtube videos, as long as there are skillfully made and engaging.
It depends on what aspect of theory you're interested in.
For introductory material, I can highly recommend Blackshirts and Reds by Parenti. It's well written, and gives a good overview of socialism in a modern context.
I thought these books discussing socialism in the context of China were pretty good as well
China provides a powerful example of what socialism can achieve. Not only is the Communist Party of China committed to Marxism, but it is a leading force for the development of Marxism.
According to lawmaker Ayman Odeh, whose ousting from the Knesset was recently attempted, a few dozen protesters surrounded the car, cried 'death to Arabs,' spat in his direction and cracked the windshield.
According to lawmaker Ayman Odeh, whose ousting from the Knesset was recently attempted, a few dozen protesters surrounded the car, cried 'death to Arabs,' spat in his direction and cracked the windshield.
Last night, the nine-member NEA executive committee voted against severing ties with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) over claims of how it treated organizations critical of Israel.
“Today, following the culmination of a thorough review process as governed by NEA rules, including a vote by NEA’s Executive Committee earlier this week, NEA’s Board of Directors—representing the broad and diverse membership of the NEA, including representatives from every state—voted not to implement this proposal,”
This comes after, in early July, at the NEA Representative Assembly, when representatives voted not to partner with the ADL after accusations of anti-Arab rhetoric.
Last night, the nine-member NEA executive committee voted against severing ties with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) over claims of how it treated organizations critical of Israel.
“Today, following the culmination of a thorough review process as governed by NEA rules, including a vote by NEA’s Executive Committee earlier this week, NEA’s Board of Directors—representing the broad and diverse membership of the NEA, including representatives from every state—voted not to implement this proposal,”
This comes after, in early July, at the NEA Representative Assembly, when representatives voted not to partner with the ADL after accusations of anti-Arab rhetoric.
On the evening of June 30, an Israeli warplane dropped a 500-pound, U.S.-made MK-82 bomb on the seaside Al-Baqa Cafe in Gaza City. The explosion killed more than 30 people and injured dozens more.
The weapon’s wide blast radius in the dense neighborhood caused indiscriminate damage, affecting unprotected civilians including men, women, children, and the elderly. Legal experts have said the attack likely violated international law under the Geneva Conventions and may constitute a war crime.
As the war grinds on, cafes like Al-Baqa aren’t just social spaces; for many, they are the only places to access electricity and the internet, which are often unavailable in people’s homes due to the ongoing blockade and widespread destruction of civilian infrastructure.
"I Said Good Morning to the Dead": Inside the Al-Baqa Cafe Bombing
Huda Skaik, Hamza Salha July 17 2025, 6:00am
On the evening of June 30, an Israeli warplane dropped a 500-pound, U.S.-made MK-82 bomb on the seaside Al-Baqa Cafe in Gaza City. The explosion killed more than 30 people and injured dozens more.
The weapon’s wide blast radius in the dense neighborhood caused indiscriminate damage, affecting unprotected civilians including men, women, children, and the elderly. Legal experts have said the attack likely violated international law under the Geneva Conventions and may constitute a war crime.
As the war grinds on, cafes like Al-Baqa aren’t just social spaces; for many, they are the only places to access electricity and the internet, which are often unavailable in people’s homes due to the ongoing blockade and widespread destruction of civilian infrastructure.
On the evening of June 30, an Israeli warplane dropped a 500-pound, U.S.-made MK-82 bomb on the seaside Al-Baqa Cafe in Gaza City. The explosion killed more than 30 people and injured dozens more.
The weapon’s wide blast radius in the dense neighborhood caused indiscriminate damage, affecting unprotected civilians including men, women, children, and the elderly. Legal experts have said the attack likely violated international law under the Geneva Conventions and may constitute a war crime.
As the war grinds on, cafes like Al-Baqa aren’t just social spaces; for many, they are the only places to access electricity and the internet, which are often unavailable in people’s homes due to the ongoing blockade and widespread destruction of civilian infrastructure.
The rapid rise in global rocket launches could slow the recovery of the vital ozone layer, says Sandro Vattioni. The problem is being underestimated—yet it could be mitigated by forward-looking, coordinated action.
Space launches disrupt ozone layer, contribute to air pollution and global warming, waste a lot of resources, and produce tons upon tons of space debris.
We should be careful with this industry and technology, and use it when it makes sense. But hey, why not launch billionaires and their cars into space for leisure and launch hundreds of satellites under different brandings all promising the best Internet ever or whatnot?
Also, massive launches such as Starlink should be approved by international bodies, not national organizations. Cool, US has greenlit the launch, but now it's a global headache.
Yes, but in today's geopolitical landscape, some countries would tie the allowance of such launches to weird requests.
Israel denies the launch of European rockets, until support for Palestine is outlawed as "antisemitism", and pledge to donate weapons to IDF for free.
Russia doesn't allow rocket launches to other countries as long as said countries not outlaw "Russophobia", which includes "recognition of Ukraine, the Ukrainian language, and Ukrainian people, as separate from Russia in any way of form".
China demands the returning of its political refugees, or they will not allow rocket launches.
In the second of a series of articles about China’s role in shaping the future of the internet, Jeroen Groenewegen-Lau says global technology standards could be a thing of the past.
The number of aid victims near the death traps has risen to 995 martyrs, 6,011 injured, and 45 missing
The Government Media Office publishes statistics on the number of martyrs, injured, and missing among the starving civilian population killed by the "israeli" occupation forces while attempting to obtain food from death traps among those awaiting aid from May 27, 2025, until today:
Total number of aid victims: 995 martyrs 6,011 injured 45 missing
Sunday, July 20, 2025
US Mercenaries "UG Solutions" is responsible and there is copious evidence of these brutal murders. THE US GOVERNMENT IS A FULL PARTNER IN THE GENOCIDE IN GAZA!
By Max Blumenthal and Wyatt Reed - Jul 7, 2025
Following an AP investigation accusing a US mercenary firm of firing on desperate Gaza aid seekers, the company has released extensive new footage in an attempt at damage control.
Hello, i have problem because i can't make it work for like a week. I tried a lot of different configurations and every time i try refind with encryption when refind starts there is no menu entry for encryptred disk, but with no encryption everything works fine. I looked a lot on arch wiki, some install scripts on github and i do what they do and it doesn't work. Maybe anyone could help?
Script i actually use:
execute_refind() {
BLKID1=$(blkid -s UUID -o value $ROOT)
BLKID2=$(blkid -s UUID -o value $CRYPT)
refind-install --usedefault "$ESP" --alldrivers
touch /boot/refind_linux.conf
if [ "$ENCRYPTION" == "yes" ] && [ "$FILESYSTEM" == "btrfs" ]
then
cat >> /boot/refind_linux.conf << EOF
"Boot with minimal options" "rd.luks.name=$BLKID2=artix root=UUID=$BLKID2 rootfstype=$FILESYSTEM rw add_efi_memmap quiet $NVIDIA_MODESET"
EOF
fi
if [ "$ENCRYPTION" == "no" ] && [ "$FILESYSTEM" == "btrfs" ]
then
cat >> /boot/refind_linux.conf << EOF
"Boot with minimal options" "rootflags=subvol=/@ root=UUID=$BLKID1 rw add_efi_memmap rootfstype=$FILESYSTEM initrd=@\boot\booster-$KERNEL.img quiet $NVIDIA_MODESET"
EOF
fi
if [ "$ENCRYPTION" == "yes" ] && [ "$FILESYSTEM" != "btrfs" ]
then
cat >> /boot/refind_linux.conf << EOF
"Boot with minimal options" "rd.luks.name=$BLKID2=artix root=UUID=$BLKID2 rootfstype=$FILESYSTEM rw add_efi_memmap quiet $NVIDIA_MODESET"
EOF
fi
if [ "$ENCRYPTION" == "no" ] && [ "$FILESYSTEM" != "btrfs" ]
then
cat >> /boot/refind_linux.conf << EOF
"Boot with minimal options" "root=UUID=$BLKID1 rw add_efi_memmap rootfstype=$FILESYSTEM quiet $NVIDIA_MODESET"
EOF
fi
execute_modules
}
yeah that's what we want a companion that tells us everything we want to hear with its only goal to keep us engaged to the platform. i just picture it now your having a conversation with your AI lover and it starts selling you "this new Mococoa drink? All natural cocoa beans from the upper slopes of Mount Nicaragua. No artificial sweeteners." just like in the Truman show. but it will be worse because it won't do it as transparent as that. it will slowly influence you to the wishes of its corporate masters.
you also have a situation where if you dont pay your monthly bill your lover dies. talk about a revenue stream. they will use all the details they learn about you to set the price to as high as you can afford without breakings you.
Yeah, I am not opposed to this because it's unhealthy (that's the user's choice, like smoking). I'm opposed because this is going to become abusive very quickly in the ways you describe. Not to mention the climate impact.
I've built 12+ production AI agent systems across development, DevOps, and data operations. Here's why the current hype around autonomous agents is mathematically impossible and what actually works in production.
Performing procedural tasks using a statistical model of our language will never be reliable. There’s a reason why we use logical and proscriptive syntax when we want deterministic outcomes.
I expect what we will see are tools where the human manages high level implementation, and the agents are used to implement specific functionality that can be easily tested and verified. I can see something along the lines of a scene graph where you focus on the flow of the code, and farm off details of implementation of each step to a tool. As the article notes, these tools can already get over 90% degree accuracy in these scenarios.
I agree that this could be helpful for finally getting to that natural language programming paradigm that people have been hoping for. But there’s going to have to be something capable of logically implementing the low level code and that has to be more than just a statistical model of how people write code, as trained on a big collection of random repositories. (I’m open to being proved wrong about that!)
The 90% accuracy could just arise from the fact that the tests are against trivial or commonly solved tasks, so that the exact solutions to them exist in the training set. Anything novel will exist outside the training set and outside of the model.
I think it's going to be humans that implement actually interesting code while LLMs handle common and tedious stuff. That's the approach I've been using at work. When I need to crap out a UI based on some JSON payload, or make an HTTP endpoint, I let the LLM do it. When I have some actual business logic that's domain specific, I write that myself. This allows me to focus on writing code that's actually interesting, while the LLM does all the tedious work.
That's where the rate of success becomes important. LLMs mostly produce decent code when applied to common cases like the examples I gave above. My experience is that vast majority of the time it's as good as what you'd write, occasionally needing minor tweaks. However, there's nothing forcing you to use the code they produce either. If the LLM stumbles, you can always fall back to writing the code by hand which leaves you no worse off than you would've been otherwise. It's all about learning how the tool works and when to use it.
You're absolutely saving time, checking that the code works is far less time consuming than writing it. Especially for stuff like UIs or service endpoints. I literally work with this stuff on daily basis, and I would never go back. There's also another aspect to it which is that I personally find it makes my workflow more enjoyable. It lets me focus on things I actually want to work on, while automating a lot of boilerplate that I had to write by hand previously. Even if it wasn't saving me much time, there's a quality of life improvement here.
Yes, I've seen this as well. First of all, 16 devs is a tiny sample, a far bigger study would be needed to get any meaningful results here. Second, it really depends on how experienced people are at using these tools. It took me a while to identify patterns that actually work repeatably and develop intuition for cases where the model is most likely to produce good results.
A few weeks ago, our teams in Gaza started sending alarming photos of emaciated babies. More than 50 children died of malnutrition during Israel’s total blockade between March and May, according to the WHO, and malnutrition rates are still rising rapidly. Since January 24, UNRWA has screened over 242,000 children at its clinics and medical points, covering more than half of Gaza’s under-5 population. One in 10 children screened is malnourished.
One of them is Ahlam, only seven months old. Her family has been displaced every month since the war began, always searching for safety that doesn’t exist. Like many babies in Gaza, her tiny body is weakened; her immune system has been damaged by trauma, repeated displacement, lack of clean water, poor hygiene, and very little food.
In Gaza, therapeutic food and medicine are in desperately short supply. Israeli authorities have imposed a tight siege, blocking the entry of food, medical supplies, nutritional aid, and even hygiene items like soap. Although the blockade is sometimes eased, the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the primary humanitarian organization in Gaza, has not been allowed to bring in aid for over four months.
Last week, Salam, another baby girl, died of malnutrition. She was only a few months old. By the time she reached our clinic, it was too late.
Israel is blocking 6,000 UNRWA trucks from entering Gaza while children die of hunger. The world can still prevent further catastrophe if it chooses to act.
🔍 La fine degli hashtag su Mastodon e l'evoluzione verso i gruppi lemmy
Con l’ultima versione si #Mastodon, cliccando su un hashtag da browser non si accede più alla pagina dedicata: il sistema ora propone solo un filtro che limita ai post dell’utente che lo ha utilizzato oppure come secona scelta alla pagina completa con tutti gli interventi del #fediverso.
Perché?
Troppe persone abusavano e spammano hashtag per ottenere visibilità ovunque: una vera enshittification di mastodon che sfruttavano il sistema senza algoritmi.
L’impossibilità di filtrare per lingua rende molti hashtag un caos ingestibile ma si è scelta di poterl filtrare solo per utente
Le piccole istanze, inoltre, hanno pagine hashtag ridotte o inesistenti perché non riescono a feerarsi con tutti e crearsi uno stream significativo. Il risultato? Gli #hashtag è un posto dove ogni contenuto finisce perso nel flusso.
💡 Analisi dei rischi e conseguenze
Perdita di visibilità tematica Senza una pagina hashtag funzionante, post interessanti rischiano di rimanere sepolti dal rumore i fondo.
Depotenziamento delle istanze minori Senza hashtag usabili, piccole community faticano a costruire audience e rilevanza.
Semplificazione dell’abuso individuale Con il filtro utente, ogni post diventa un’occasione per l'autopromozione individuale, e l’hashtag smette di essere utile.
🛠️ Soluzione: gruppi tematici sul fediverso
Il futuro non sono gli hashtag, ma i gruppi tematici:
#Lemmy dimostra che le community organizzate in gruppi (tematici) permettono:
contenuti pertinenti
moderazione attiva
crescita organizzata e senza spam
Diggita.com, pioniere dello social bookmarking in Italia, ha migrato su Lemmy e ha creato circa 20 gruppi tematici, ciascuno con centinaia di seguaci federati: mastodon.uno/@diggita/11367942…
ogni post raggiunge davvero chi è interessato
la moderazione mantiene la qualità
si evita la saturazione e l’enshittification degli hashtag
🚀 Vantaggi di lemmy e Diggita
Beneficio
Descrizione
🎯 Targeting reale
Ogni messaggio arriva a utenti realmente interessati
🔐 Controllo e qualità
Moderatori possono prevenire spam e abusi
🌐 Federazione attiva
I gruppi su Diggita/Lemmy raggiungono istanze diverse in modo diretto
📈 Crescita sostenibile
Le community crescono per interesse e non per rumorosità
✅ Cosa puoi fare ora
Abbandona l’uso compulsivo di hashtag su Mastodon 🛑 Usa ancora hashtag per il tagging, ma non contare sulla scoperta tramite browser.
Entra nei gruppi tematici su Diggita/Lemmy
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L'utilità degli hashtag sta fineno su mastodon, sono ormai inutili e le piccole istanze sono tagliate fuori. La soluzione? Spostare i contenuti nei gruppi tematici federati, come quelli nati su Diggita/Lemmy, dove c’è moderazione e vero coinvolgimento. È così che si vince la battaglia contro chi spamma troppo: con comunità vere, visibilità reale e qualità.
È possibile aggiungere Diggita in Openvibe? Mi sembra che comunque tra tutti questi fediversi ci sia un po' troppa frammentazione, alla fine non si capisce più nulla.
Ok. Ma se ci clicco sopra si apre una finestra di Chrome, dalla quale posso scegliere se seguire quel gruppo tematico. Ma se lo voglio fare da Openvibe è possibile?
L'unico problema che vedo su questa cosa è che l'hashtag se lo può inventare un creativo al momento, mentre il gruppo tematico va richiesto, organizzato, moderato eccetera. Sbaglio?
Esatto, l’hashtag può essere creato da chiunque — e questo, di per sé, non è un male. Il problema è che può facilmente degenerare o essere usato in modo improprio da un momento all’altro.
Al contrario, un gruppo è moderato, e quindi (almeno in teoria) offre maggiore affidabilità e sicurezza, evitando derive indesiderate o contenuti fuori tema.
Sì. Ma c'è un ma. Io sono interessata a ciò che capita nella mia città, a quello che si dice a proposito della scuola, alle novità in ambito IT, a ciò di cui si parla in merito a diritti LGBT, all'alimentazione biologica, cambiamento climatico, ai diritti dell'infanzia, alle discussioni in merito ai bambini/ragazzi BES, e ogni tanto anche a finanza ed economia politica. Non posso iscrivermi a mille gruppi tematici e visitarli una volta ogni sei mesi. Ma cliccare un hashtag..
Con questo, non voglio assolutamente intendere che il gruppo tematico sia una brutta cosa eh. Solo, riflettevo su ciò che ci si lascia dietro, insomma.
a livello.di singola istanza si hanno sicuramente dei benefici, ma se qualcuno necessita di maggiore "spazio" gli hashtag d'istanza sono limitanti. Penso per esempio a #music per un musicista che vuole.farsi conoscere e deve raggiungere più pubblico possibile. Discorso simile per i gruppi che comunque trovo molto funzionali. Imho sono un po' le opzioni di ricerca che andrebbero affinate con la possibilità di query più precise, indirizzate e combinate, fermo restando che il caos resta
Yeah, no profits means no business! Down with businesses! We don’t need them for paychecks or healthcare! 🤣
Edit: I feel like this comment went over some heads. Socialism is support by higher taxes on businesses. If business doesn’t make money they Will close the business and social programs will not be supported. So basically socialism cannot exist without the business.
Capitalism is not the only mode of production in existence. We can collectivize production and run it in a planned manner. We can't do that all at once, but in socialism we can gradually wrest capital from the capitalists and collectively run and plan the economy.
Edit: responding to your edit, socialism is not "welfare in capitalist systems." Your comment didn't go over anyone's heads, you just don't know what socialism and capitalism are.
Neither system is perfect. Pure capitalism can lead to inequality and under-provided public services, while pure socialism can stifle innovation and create inefficiency. The best-performing countries today typically combine elements of both.
So as anything in life too much of one thing can be bad. It would be nice for everyone to receive free healthcare and higher education in US. I often watch various global news networks. It is odd to see US, Canada, UK all struggling with same issues economically.
UK has 28 million people on assistance out of work. It also has 28 million people employed. So half the UK is paying to support the other half. That is wild to think about.
There's no such thing as "pure capitalism" or "pure socialism." Every socialist system has elements of private property, and every capitalist system has elements of public property. A system is capitalist if the large firms and key industries are private, and socialist if the large firms and key industries are public. This is all nonsense on your part, socialist systems have been at the peak of innovation throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.
I'm not sure why you brought up a bunch of capitalist countries failing because of issues systemic to capitalism at the end, it didn't really help your point. Moreover, there is no "combining the best of both," the system is determined by what is principle, meaning you can't be both. Furthermore, I think you're alluding to the Nordic Countries, but those are capitalist, deteriorating, and depend on imperialism like the rest of the global north.
I think you should do a bit more reading on what socialism and communism even are to begin with before trying to have discussions about them, same with capitalism.
Scandinavian Social Democratic countries, like Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland, have much higher standards of living, better quality universal healthcare, and more economic, political, and social freedoms than Marxist-Leninist states have ever had. I'll need a citation for these countries deteriorating. You saying that these countries are still imperialist doesn't negate how much better they are to live in. @Cowbee @salty_chief #socialism #communism #capitalism #socialdemocracy
Unfortunately, you don't understand what you're talking about. These Social Democracies (really capitalistic states with strong worker protections) still benefit from imperialism on the Global South.
The contradictions inherent to capitalism still exist within these states as well. There are proletarians and there are bourgeoisie. The cost of living within these states is rapidly increasing, and reactionary sentiment is booming because people from the (1)
(2) countries that these states, which you almost call utopian, have been destabilizing, are immigrating to these states en masse.
"[Scandinavian states] have much higher standards of living, better quality universal healthcare, and more economic, political, and social freedoms than Marxist-Leninist states have ever had."
What a ridiculous statement. China and the USSR went from backwater peasant countries to world superpowers in less than a century.
(3) Their citizens pay very little for housing, healthcare, food, transportation, and education, all without the colonization and terrorism that these Scandinavian states do.
When the proletariat is the ruling class of the state, the state will work within the proletariat's self interest, and crush bourgeois oppression.
Bourgeois democracies like these Scandinavian states only work in the interest of the bourgeoisie, and placate the proletariat.
(4) All states you have mentioned permit lobbying (bribing of parliamentary representatives), and they bail out large corporations in times of crisis. This is bourgeois rule. People like you are a consequence of CIA propaganda and illiteracy.
Nordic states aren't utopian or without fault. They provide a better standard of living than Marxist-Leninist states, which do provide free healthcare and housing, but the best of these things are reserved for people with higher social status like party members and their families. There's much better quality housing and healthcare for people in Nordic states than Marxist-Leninist states had/have and distributed more equally. @graythehue @Cowbee @salty_chief #socialism #communism #capitalism
Nordic citizens also have far more social, economic, and political freedoms than their ML counterparts. Life for workers and people in general is clearly better in theee Nordic countries. [END]@graythehue @Cowbee @salty_chief #socialism #communism #capitalism
What a baseless qualitative measurement. Please continue to be a sycophant for these states, while their cadre terrorize people in the Global South, hitlerite.
The qualities I'm measuring are things like individual freedoms and the quality of healthcare and housing, but apparently, these means of measuring are "baseless" to you, so why don't you tell me what means of measuring you used to conclude that ML states are better than Nordic states
Don't waste your time arguing with these sorts of people. They refuse to do preliminary research and parrot the latest AmeriKKKan talking points. They have their heads up their asses while socialist countries like China and Vietnam rapidly advance their standard of living. Genuinely sad how blind these people are.
I don't deny that China and Vietnam's standards of living are improving, but what are their standards of living currently, what criteria are you using when measuring standards of living, and are their standards of living better than the best capitalism has produced? @graythehue @Cowbee @salty_chief
The guys at Flow Battery Research Collective have been designing a Redox Flow Battery development kit that you can build yourself using a 3d printer and a few tools. It's a desktop size flow battery that you can use to either do your own research, e.g. on different electrolytes or just to replicate their experimental findings.
Redox Flow Batteries have the potential to become grid scale or home electric energy storage solutions that are way better for the environment than current lithium based batteries. They can often scale power and capacity independently and allow for repairs.
The FBRC project wants to spread the knowledge on RFBs and help kickstart a global community that develops sustainable energy storage technology in an ope source fashion.
Beware that the project is still in its infancy and sourcing the materials can be a bit of a challenge. Be sure to ask around in the forums for help!
The guys at Flow Battery Research Collective have been designing a Redox Flow Battery development kit that you can build yourself using a 3d printer and a few tools. It's a desktop size flow battery that you can use to either do your own research, e.g. on different electrolytes or just to replicate their experimental findings.
Redox Flow Batteries have the potential to become grid scale or home electric energy storage solutions that are way better for the environment than current lithium based batteries. They can often scale power and capacity independently and allow for repairs.
The FBRC project wants to spread the knowledge on RFBs and help kickstart a global community that develops sustainable energy storage technology in an ope source fashion.
Beware that the project is still in its infancy and sourcing the materials can be a bit of a challenge. Be sure to ask around in the forums for help!
Happy to hear! That must be the Lithium mafia! Just kidding. I have no clue why people downvote this. Maybe because it's a crosspost? I must admit I didn't read the community rules.
It could be a case of intentional word play but the wording of the article makes it seem like it's more than just usenet. Specifically the line: "inciting serious sexual abuse of children via a messenger service and producing child pornography content"
It doesn't read as though it's simply CSAM traffic through his network and if that were the case, I'd imagine the other 2 would be looking at similar charges, but news media notoriously bad a properly representing tech so that's what gives me caution.
Heise is a German specifically tech news outlet, so they are generally quite good with facts about tech.
These arrests are targeted at an illegal IPTV provider which restreams channels from licensed TV providers (Sky, DAZN, RTL+). These illegal IPTV services usually also provide on-demand content like Netflix shows, movies etc.
The CSAM incident is definitely an additional charge for a single individual and not part of the prior investigation about an illegal IPTV service which provides customers with otherwise legal TV.
True, but only one of the suspects is alleged to be involved with CSAM. Also, it seems like that wasn't the original lead the police were pursuing, given that the charges were added post-arrest. This seems very much like an anti-piracy operation that just happened to catch a pedophile as well.
Reserve judgements until there is some real evidence. Think of the children narratives open a lot of doors for intrusive actions and advance a pirate=criminal narrative.
If this is true, they need to prove it in court... It seems like they are just throwing out pedo shit to distract from idiotic waste of resources to protect some US parasites "property"
What a sloppy way to write this article. Header text to indicate CSAM then just naming people liberating netflix. Does german netflix stream CSAM? Or is this news outlet just kind of implying these people are sex criminals for fun?
On a different note, would love to hear from/about the 15 out of 18 people who were searched in Feb and apparently got away. Either being targeted for harassment by authorities, huge false positive fuckups, or have amazing opsec.
The arrest warrant for a 25-year-old from Hamburg has since been extended because he is now suspected of inciting serious sexual abuse of children via a messenger service and producing child pornography content, among other things.
A project in Co Mayo is generating renewable electricity through the flying of kites, which its operator has described as a potential "game changer" in the wind energy sector.
It is being conducted on a bogland just outside Bangor Erris, located on a landscape one might expect in a Star Wars.
The site, which is the first designated airborne wind energy test site in the world is being operated by Kitepower, a zero emissions energy solutions spin-off from Delft University in the Netherlands.
Kitepower's system employs a yo-yo effect, where a kite, measuring 60sq/m is flown at altitudes of up to 425m attached to a rope that is wound around a drum - which itself is connected to a ground-based generator.
The kites can generate 2.5 to 4 tonnes of force on the tether.
Researchers in the U.S. and Germany have tested a global earthquake detection and alert system that makes use of a device many people already own, including in less developed countries—Android smartphones. According to their study, published today in the journal Science, the Android Earthquake Alerts (AEA) system’s efficacy rivaled traditional seismic networks in its ability to detect seismic activity and deliver alerts.
“The global adoption of smartphone technology places sophisticated sensing and alerting capabilities in people’s hands, in both the wealthy and less-wealthy portions of the planet,” the researchers, including Richard Allen from the University of California in Berkeley’s Seismological Laboratory, wrote in the study. “Although the accelerometers in these phones are less sensitive than the permanent instrumentation used in traditional seismic networks, they can still detect the ground motions and building response in hazardous earthquakes.”
⚠️ Warning: This morning, some accounts are using the platform for #phishing attempts. ‼️ DO NOT click on "verification" links ‼️ DO NOT follow prompts to switch instances ‼️ Report any suspicious accounts immediately
📢 Share this alert quickly—let's help Fediverse stay safe!
I wanted to try moving towards web apps for any big tech platforms I've not stepped away from yet, but Instagram stories are not loading on Ironfox. Normal Firefox works fine so I feel like it's some default privacy setting that's blocking this, but I'm not sure how to fix this
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db2
in reply to PrinceOfSloth • • •Eugenia
in reply to db2 • • •I run mint on 4 gb ram without issues. Sure, I'm careful to not open too many apps or too many tabs, but they all work fine. Only 4k video editing is undoable on such a machine. I also have a 4 gb swap partition, but I'm careful to lay off programs when I see it get hit.
My mom uses xfce on a 2 gb laptop. For her is enough, because she only knows how to open a single tab on a browser (mostly fb or yt).
procapra
in reply to db2 • • •LeFantome
in reply to procapra • • •procapra
in reply to LeFantome • • •LeFantome
in reply to procapra • • •4GB is usable. I am not trying to fight.
I use quite a bit of old and underpowered kit. But I actually use it. The oldest laptop I use regularly is a 2009 MacBook Pro running Chimera Linux. It is only a Core 2 Duo but it has 8 GB of RAM. It runs all modern browsers and office suites. I can code on it. I can use Docker. I can do dev ops in the cloud. I can call into LLMs. Slow but capable. But I could not do much of this realistically with 4 GB (even slow).
One thing I am not doing is watching videos in 4K. The resolution is 1440x900 so it does not quite display even 1080p natively (so 1080p or even 720p for me—which is totally fine). I suspect most people who really only have 4 GB of RAM are in a similar situation.
procapra
in reply to LeFantome • • •I know most people aren't watching 4k. I loaded 4k because it used more memory. I agree it's not a realistic workload for someone with a 4gb laptop.
Sorry if I was grouchy.
Dariusmiles2123
in reply to PrinceOfSloth • • •My god your install process sounded really difficult.
This coming from someone running a Surface Go 1 and MacBook Pro 2012 which weren’t really linux friendly for the install process.
In the future, I’ll probably only get used devices as I’m kind of anti consumerism, but I’ll be careful to always get something reslly Linux friendly.
My last experience with anything from Dell was my first Linux install in the 00’s and it was really easy. I guess Dell has regressed in this regard.
Anyway welcome to Linux!
relativestranger
in reply to Dariusmiles2123 • • •if you go in not knowing what to do, it can seem 'difficult'. but it's mostly like on any other oem prebuilt:
optional: prep the target disk (backups, wipe or clear part table, etc), reset bios to defaults.
if necessary: switch from raid or rst to ahci sata mode, default boot mode to efi, disable secure boot. note that some distributions support secure boot but your method of creating an installer might not--you may be able to re-enable if you want after install.
note that hp systems have a hoop to jump through (a confirmation prompt to disable) after disabling secure boot on the next startup. do not use esc key to trigger boot menu, use f9 for boot menu, f10 for bios entry.. as esc will cancel the confirmation code prompt and automatically re-enable secure boot.
insert or plug-in installer, hit the magic key upon power on (f12 for dell, f9 for hp) to bring up boot menu and select installer media, boot and run installer.
Zorsith
in reply to Dariusmiles2123 • • •blobchoice
in reply to Dariusmiles2123 • • •I’m glad you said this, I was thinking “I just plug in the USB stick and install Linux”
In fact, the hardest but for me is remembering the special key to press upon boot up so it goes into boot selection mode and I can just select my USB stick…
HouseWolf
in reply to blobchoice • • •Some laptops don't really let you boot from external install media so easily nowadays.
I helped a buddy get Linux Mint on their "old" laptop to try it out. But it turned out you needed some manufacturer provided code to unlock booting from anything but the main harddrive within the bios.
We contacted support but never heard back. We did find a work around when they decided to swap the existing HDD for an SSD, they used a USB to sata cable to install Mint on the SSD from their desktop then installed the SSD into their laptop in place of the original drive so it booted straight into that.
Dariusmiles2123
in reply to HouseWolf • • •Well if it means thst every computer company is starting to make it difficult to change your OS, it’s worrying.
It’s also good that nowadays you have companies like Tuxedo, Slimbook and others, but I prefer recycling old computers given the choice.
cRazi_man
in reply to PrinceOfSloth • • •Welcome to Linux. Glad to see you're not letting the hurdles get in your way and are working through solutions. There's more to come.
You say "5 year old laptop" as if that's ancient... 10th gen Intel 😄. I don't even look at laptops newer than 5 years. Don't need much more for internet tasks and office work.
Zorsith
in reply to cRazi_man • • •Ive got an HP Zbook g6 coming my way soon I'm excited about, and its way overkill for what I'm gonna use it for; i just need a bigger laptop because i have giant meat hooks for hands and I actually use the numpad
Tl;dr, you can get a lot of laptop at decent prices looking at "older" hardware
FriendBesto
in reply to cRazi_man • • •Really like Linux in general.
harsh3466
in reply to cRazi_man • • •Bombastic
in reply to PrinceOfSloth • • •like this
pewpew likes this.
brown567
in reply to Bombastic • • •appropriateghost
in reply to brown567 • • •AntiOutsideAktion
in reply to PrinceOfSloth • • •obnomus
in reply to PrinceOfSloth • • •harsh3466
in reply to obnomus • • •+1
I'm having a ton of fun learning and scripting in bash!
obnomus
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