Trump hung up 30 seconds into call with CNN reporter asking about new Epstein photos
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Brain drain of US climate scientists may signal shift in scientific gravity
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The ‘dreadful’ situation may herald a move in ‘bright young minds’ towards Hong Kong and other parts of Asia, CityU professor says.Holly Chik (South China Morning Post)
Survivors of Aid Massacres: Israel is Eroding Gaza’s Social Fabric
August 2nd 2025
Yousef Fares reporting from Gaza
Hundreds of thousands of starving Palestinians in northern Gaza make a seven-kilometer journey on foot to reach the Zikim military base in Beit Lahia, where trucks loaded with bags of flour are stopped just meters away from Israeli soldiers. To secure a 25-kilogram sack, people must approach the very area where Zionist forces and private contractors carry out daily killings.Al-Akhbar met with Mohammad al-Sleibi, a former public school teacher in his thirties, who described surviving stampedes and knife fights to grab a single sack. “The soldiers allow only one or two trucks in for over 200,000 people,” he said. “Violence is inevitable. If you hesitate, you go home empty-handed.”
But the danger goes beyond scuffles. Israeli soldiers can open fire at any moment under the pretext of feeling threatened, no permission from higher-ups needed. That’s exactly what happened yesterday. According to survivor Ahmed Miqdad, Israeli soldiers opened fire as crowds rushed toward the trucks. “The soldiers fired round after round at us. We were trapped for hours. Hundreds were killed or injured,” he described. “They shot us like ducks, competing among themselves and probably even betting on who could shoot better. We made it out by some miracle, but without any flour.”
Gaza’s Ministry of Health reported that Zionist soldiers killed 53 civilians yesterday and wounded nearly 200 others in that incident alone.
This distribution system, dubbed “self-distribution” by the Zionist occupation and international organizations, has become one pillar of a new three-pronged strategy: air drops, aid traps, and chaos. The aim is to create an illusion of humanitarian assistance in order to strip Hamas of the “famine card” amid growing global outrage over Israel’s engineered starvation.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on countries to participate in airdrops over the Gaza Strip. Five planes from Egypt, Jordan, and Israel delivered less aid than a single truck, and some drops landed in “red zones” too dangerous to reach, or directly injured displaced civilians in crowded tent cities. Others, dropped over Gaza’s western areas, injured several displaced people living in the densely packed tent cities that now blanket the region.
Israel’s aid policy goes far beyond preventing Hamas from gaining control of supplies. It is being used to recalibrate Gaza’s social structure under the harshest conditions, in ways that erode the moral and behavioral rules of society.
“The Israeli army is exploiting two years of war and the absence of effective governance to foster organized crime and looting networks,” said human rights activist Abdullah Sharshara. “The army enables aid theft as a way of supporting local militias, like the gang led by Yasser Abu, which looted hundreds of trucks under Israeli protection. It’s a system built on lawlessness.”
Aid trucks are now Gaza’s main source of goods. The trade in aid has created a massive black market that employs hundreds of thousands of people. This has spawned a vast black market and informal economy that feeds off looted supplies. “Every market needs a product, and aid is all that’s left,” Sharshara said. “The army forces truck drivers to stop in crowded areas and prohibits them from delivering to UNRWA warehouses. This sustains the climate of chaos where people are pushed to loot or steal just to eat.”
This is how the Zionist occupation systematically dismantled Gaza’s civil infrastructure: by eliminating community leaders from public service through targeted assassinations or forced displacement. At the same time, it obstructs the work of security forces and destroys civil society and private sector infrastructure, eroding all forms of societal authority.
“Gaza already had a high percentage of unemployed youth, over 49% before the war.” Sharshara noted. “War economy has allowed them to integrate into a new order based not on labor or production, but on opportunistic accumulation and looting. This class has moved from the periphery to the center of post-war life. Their moral values have been completely redefined.”
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It's definitely gotten more wasteful lately in particularly. You could run 8.1 on any computer that supported Vista, and IME it was even a little snappier, but 10 and 11 have each been significantly worse.
i3wm on a 32bit IBM thinkpad is still instantaneous-response-fast
Linux aint perfect either. Look at the memory usage of most modern "fully featured" distros. They're using damn near as much at idle as windows is. Same thing going back 10 years in time.
The key is with windows you get one windows, and maybe some tweaks. With linux you could go with a hyper minimal DE with not much in the way of shiny features and go a whole lot further.
The fresh install of Manjaro KDE on my laptop is using 2.6gb on a fresh boot right out of the box.
I forget what distro it was (maybe neon?) that was using like 3.X gigs of ram on a fresh install. That was the point that I realized this wasn't the Linux of old.
For shits and giggles I just tested out Ubuntu 25.04 and it's only 1.3 gigs with it's stock Ubuntuified de.
For as much shit as Ubuntu gets it's really not that bad compared to some of the others.
Huh TIL, had a look through my system and it sits at about ~5GB not including disk cache. Been on Fedora KDE since 39 and have put it through its paces so I'm pretty happy with that
I would've reformatted windows twice in that time because of bloat accumulation, and like you said there's always room for improvement with hyper minimalist packages.
God I love Linux.
updates. the constant barrage of updates. the cpu, ram, and disk time needed just to 'check' for updates is horrible (it used to be a lot worse, too). and if you are still on an old-school mechanical hdd, those 'cumulative' updates are absolutely brutal every month with win10 or 11.
last week i booted-up a silverblue that hasn't been run in a couple months. 8gb, mechanical disk, not a speed demon either--3rd or 4th gen. i didn't even notice the updates were coming in until the notification popped up saying they were done.
Partially because Defender does a lot of unnecessary work. Partially because Explorer now has Chromium under the hood of many elements.
Also Copilot. Not even joking. Having so many copilot buttons in apps is not an issue. The issue is to actually try using it. Even a light conversion crashes both the desktop an Android clients too often. At this point I would rather have those resources consumed by actual AI running locally than on a crappy frontend. Pathetic.
These are just NPUs. They can run AI models, but you are not allowed to run actual Copilot as it is a cloud-based product. You need to research and set up AI models yourself if you want to put that to use.
I also don't expect that [Chromium + idiotic webdevs] formula will not work on those PCs, so Copilot+ PCs will not save you from Copilot crashes.
I mean
If you try to open modern JS bloated websites that reinvent scrolling in multiple tabs dont expect to have good performance
It will crash if you max out your ram and have 0 swap, in the same way your windows system will crash if you have 0 page file.
In recent years its become really trendy to just not use swap on linux and it pisses me off to no end. Its a horrible configuration all to save like 1% of your diskspace.
edit: Also, most distros out of the box do use significantly less than windows. My debian testing xfce install that I just did here a few days ago uses 700mb on a cold boot.
Well, Windows as such don't need more RAM as some Linux distros, What is wasting the most RAM is all the telemetries, services not needed, trials, adware and other crap which Windows has by default when you buy it with a new PC. Windows need average users because of this capables to fix it, not needed in Linux. That is the difference. A gutted Windows is pretty fast, without all the trash which is loaded on boot. Eg,only diseable the hybernation service reduce a big part of the RAM, because it make duplicates of all open apps as temporary files, to load these on the next startup. same with the index service to find files somewhat faster, which waste memory to write any change to the index, not really needed in mdern PC and less with an SSD. Only diseabling this 2 services can increase the speed and respond more than 50%.
But the normal user don't do it and only claimes that Windows becomes slower and slower, because it is more and more filled with temp and trash files. That is the problem with Windows, because MS sells you a car, but by default with a huge caravan which you don't need, that must tow.
Without Linux folk you wouldn't have Lemmy
That’s the kinda arrogance that causes me to hate Linux bros. You guys are just like every other kind of bro.
I have a laptop with 4gb ram that i've been using kde plasma on and fairly frequently it just freezes or I have to restart because I had like 6 tabs open in firefox
Although I don't remember having that problem as much when I was on xfce, but I also might not have been using it as heavily then
I've never had a similar problem with chrome on chromeos with the same amount of ram, I think chrome+chromeos might be more aggressive with unloading tabs
Sometimes it does actually kill firefox but sometimes it just becomes very slow (1-2 seconds per frame) or freezes entirely for several minutes when out of memory. Might be just because the swap is really slow, but there's just 2gb of that, why would it freeze for several minutes? (One time this was happening was when I was trying to compile llvm on two threads, I ended up having to temporarily kill the desktop environment to save ram)
My hope is that with the end of Windows 10 coming up, laptops with 7th generation CPUs will become really cheap, such as ThinkPad P51 and P71. They are a decent budget choice < 1k USD/EUR already, but might drop way under 500 with top specs.
It's not like they are useless, but the market for Linux users should be satiated quickly once a selling panic sets in.
For most use cases, including backend development, they'll be good enough for many years to come. tbh, I'm still happy with my i5-2500 from 2011 and 16 GB RAM, and that is with local DB, application server, IDE and everything running locally.
GitHub - asankaSovis/Beowulf-Cluster-Setup-Tutorial: 🖥️ A Beowulf cluster is a type of High-Performance Computing (HPC) cluster that is designed to perform parallel computations on large data sets or complex computational problems. This tutorial explains
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16GB RAM on windows is more than enough
And pretty sure 4GB on linux sucks
So I've done a Linux install on a 4GB Chromebook, with 16GB eMMC storage, and what I learned is that it really depends on what you use the machine for, and which distribution you run. If all you're doing is word processing, managing emails, and browsing on YouTube, you can absolutely run Linux comfortably with 4GB, provided you pick one of the leaner Linux distros. For reference I ran Gallium OS, which was a Xubuntu flavor specifically tuned for lower end Chromebooks.
ETA: In comparison, I had a relative who bought a laptop off those TV sales networks that had a similar CPU RAM and storage setup, except running Windows 10...it ran slower than a snail, and one day it had a Windows update that was too large to fit on the combined RAM and page space. The poor woman couldn't use the computer because the update forcibly ran in the background and consumed all her memory every time she turned it on. So yeah, you can't game on Linux with only 4GB of memory, but I am confident that I can do a major OS update on it at least.
Is there something like automatic moderation on Fediverse? How does it work?
Parola filtrata: nsfw
Considering how often I see nsfw or nsfl stuff because it wasn't tagged... no I don't think so, at least there doesn't seem to be anything widely adopted on Lemmy.
For images at least it should be possible to create a bot that downloads any uploaded image, runs it through an API like Sightengine, and then automatically removes posts or bans users. Each instance would then of course decide whether to set up such a bot, so there is not going to be any fediverse-wide automod.
I believe there's an automated filter used by some of the biggest instances to detect and nuke child abuse stuff before a human has to see it
Everything else is human moderation though AFAIK
There are some, but they aren't used very often. I know some instances scan CP and other illegal shit using community tools. But automods? No, I don't think I've ever seen one actively operating (and I don't think they are even maintained anymore, or at least the ones I know).
And even if they were, the advanced ones are only useful for the host.
So everything is manually moderated by humans at the moment.
That's why I'm working on a bot with a plugin system. The plugin system will allow users of the bot to implement the logic themselves in one of the supported languages (e.g. Python, JavaScript, Rust) in a sandboxed environment (Wasm).
It's halfway done, but now I'm unsure if I want to create a dedicated Fediverse platform for it. One of the biggest reasons for this is to be free from the limitations of Lemmy and other factors.
The problems with relying on Lemmy right now are:
1) You have to provide the bot with a Lemmy database connection (to reduce API usage and for faster response times).
2) The above also means you have to be the one hosting the Lemmy instance.
The bot doesn't need persistent storage of posts or comments or other stuff, so the Lemmy database will continue to grow until your server runs out of storage. So you would have to clean the database periodically.
3) You have to make Lemmy's rate limiting practically useless for the bot to function reliably.
The more communities use the bot, the more API calls will be made. If the bot gets rate limited, the plugins could be terminated by the plugin runtime. As long as Lemmy doesn't introduce a way to change or bypass rate limiting for specific people, this will remain a problem.
4) The bot uses the lemmy-client crate from the Lemmy devs. Should this ever be discontinued, I would either have to maintain it myself, use another crate, or create one myself. The last two would be painful and require a lot of work.
5) The bot is as compatible with other Fediverse platforms as Lemmy is. It cannot use the unique features of other platforms (like PieFed or Mbin).
And so I've been researching how I could build a lightweight Fediverse platform specifically for the bot.
That would eliminate all the problems mentioned above. Since the platform would be in my hands, I could also implement ways to federate with other platforms and even use the unique features of other platforms. But that's not easy, so it will take some time. I also am not great at web dev, so the frontend will also be a problem.
Small forums and sites that have group discussions are completely moderated by humans. Members of the community report posts, and moderators and administrators take a look at it and make a decision.
It should be noted that forums are different than social media, since all discussions are groups discussions viewed by the group, the group tends to self-moderate by reporting offending posts.
It should be noted that different forums and groups of people have different community rules. What is allowed on one forum may not be allowed on another. Illegal content is illegal on all forums, however.
postmarketOS in 2025-07: Fairphone 6, apk3, /usr merge, immutable, new plasma camera
postmarketOS in 2025-07: Fairphone 6, apk3, /usr merge, immutable, new plasma camera
Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphonespostmarketOS
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it bothers me immensely that javascript backed Gnome that I can't make run fluidly and jerklessly on competent desktop hardware is the default on underpowered mobile hardware, making Android and iOS level fluidity practically unattainable in the foreseeable future.
edit: I run pmOS on a SDM845 with 8 GB RAM and fast storage, tried em all on edge (gnome, plasma, phosh, plasma mobile) and it's a 5 fps stuttering mess. that's before I load something to said RAM, like a browser or (dog forbid) an electron app.
Javascript isnt the problem, its a problem of priority.
Gnome obviously isnt made primarily for low performance devices.
It will improve over time i think. If the time and efforts of unpaid volunteers continue to be invested into it.
And also idk if you were running with hardware acceleration? Makes a big difference.
You are doing something wrong.
Gnome that I can't make run fluidly and jerklessly on competent desktop hardware
I was referring to this statement.
My Rockchip 3399 powered former Chromebook (now running proper Linux) from 2017 runs Gnome smoothly with Wayland, not with Xorg.
That's reasonable to directly compare with phones from 2017; it's slower than a Pixel 2. Mine actually benchmarks a little slower than the reference board linked here.
It isn't working as it should be if it doesn't run smoothly on more powerful hardware, but it's not necessarily a matter of the end user "doing something wrong". Sometimes it takes effort to get a particular combination of hardware and software to run smoothly even though it should work.
Rockchip RK3399 Excavator Board edp avb (Android) vs Snapdragon 835 [cpubenchmark.net] by PassMark Software
Comparing Rockchip RK3399 Excavator Board edp avb (Android) vs Snapdragon 835www.cpubenchmark.net
I hope it will be daily drivable in a few years.
DOJ Moves To Strip People Of Citizenship Based On Their Political Beliefs
DOJ Citizenship Revocation Plans Raise Constitutional Concerns
The Justice Department issued a June 11, 2025 memo directing attorneys to "maximally pursue denaturalization proceedings," sparking concerns about potential political targeting of naturalized citizens1. While the memo lists priorities like national security threats and criminal conduct, it includes broad language allowing cases deemed "sufficiently important to pursue"1.
Legal experts warn this discretion could enable politically motivated denaturalization. "The politicization of citizenship rights is something that really worries me, I think it's just flatly inconsistent with our democratic system," said Cassandra Burke Robertson, a law professor at Case Western Reserve University2.
Recent events highlight these concerns:
- The White House press secretary indicated support for investigating NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani's citizenship based on rap lyrics3
- Trump suggested examining Elon Musk's citizenship status after Musk criticized his spending bill4
- Trump threatened to revoke Rosie O'Donnell's citizenship, though this is legally impossible as she was born in the U.S.4
Constitutional scholars emphasize that denaturalization through civil proceedings "lacks many constitutional protections," with no right to court-appointed lawyers or jury trials4. The Supreme Court previously restricted denaturalization in 1967, ruling it "inconsistent with the American form of democracy, because it creates two levels of citizenship"1.
"Denaturalization is exceedingly rare and has occurred for people who concealed information of war crimes, Nazi membership, criminal histories, or immigration fraud such as using a stolen identity," said Michelle Mittelstadt of the Migration Policy Institute4.
- NPR - DOJ announces plans to prioritize cases to revoke citizenship ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
- CNN - Law used to kick out Nazis could be used to strip citizenship from many more Americans ↩︎
- MSNBC - Trump's DOJ issues memo on plan to strip citizenship ↩︎
- PolitiFact - Can Donald Trump revoke Rosie O'Donnell's U.S. citizenship? ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
Trump’s DOJ issues memo on plan to strip citizenship from some naturalized Americans
As the White House press secretary openly floats the idea of investigating New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani to possibly strip him of his citizenship, after a bigoted proposal from Rep.Ja'han Jones (MSNBC)
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He continued, "Anyone who has abused the privilege of the opportunity of becoming a U.S. citizen should have that citizenship revoked when they engage in such reprehensible behavior."
Cool. Do Trump first.
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The politicization of citizenship rights is something that really worries me, I think it’s just flatly inconsistent with our democratic system
Even the opponents just spew out weasel words.
I'm sorry, your country is fucked; so if y'all could try and keep that fuckery within your borders, that'd be great.
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Ai is running on huge datacenters, these datacenters take freshwater and use it to cool these servers and taints the water turning it into gray water. This is happened in some areas with active droughts. On top of that these data centers are widely run on petroleum based energy systems and they are outputting so much pollution they're making nearby people sick. They are actively, rapidly making a water crisis and accelerating climate change.
Nothing that's for "the people" would be actively making everything for people worse. Not to mention the theft of intellectual property without compensation or even credit or permission used to train these libraries.
Read the book so you can tell others “Isn’t this what you believe?” I’m so sick and tired of the Right claiming Jesus. They claim Jesus with no good acts. Loving Jesus & not emulating his teachings is equivalent to no faith (James 2:15-18).
Matthew 32 calls for Christians to care for the poor, the sick, the immigrant, the unhoused, and the prisoner. “What you did to the least, truly I tell you, you did to me.” Every immigrant sent to a jail is sending Jesus to jail.
If ever these goons come for my family, I will quote the Bible until it haunts them. This country is corrupted.
Linux on Snapdragon X Elite: Linaro and Tuxedo Pave the Way for ARM64 Laptops
Linux on Snapdragon X Elite: Linaro and Tuxedo Pave the Way for ARM64 Laptops | Blog | Linaro
Linaro Connect 2025 showcases progress in bringing Linux on Snapdragon-Powered Deviceswww.linaro.org
Ubuntu 24.10 Concept ♥️ Snapdragon X Elite
We are happy to announce the next iteration of our Ubuntu concept image for Qualcomm Snapdragon laptops with our new X Elite developer preview. This new image has been rebased on the latest Ubuntu 24.Ubuntu Community Hub
Is the Fediverse KYC'd in the UK with the new law?
Are services like Lemmy, Mastodon or PeerTube KYC'd in the UK?
Sorry to be a doomer, but if so, then the Fediverse has failed and we should just move on with a decentralized web that uses decentralized backends: Nostr, Odysee/LBRY, etc.
Maybe the threat model of the Fediverse was incomplete. It isn't just Big Tech who is threat, but also regulation by Big Government.
The best thing is to look at the app yourself.
To establish the connection you can choose between proxy,vpn,root mode.
Otherwise, after opening the app, select the services and start them. You can also make all kinds of settings for the respective module.
InviZible Pro: increase your security, protect you | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
Combine the strengths of Tor, DNSCrypt and I2P for security and anonymityf-droid.org
I predict an new migration to lemmy if reddit starts requiring ID.
We are ready for a new wave!
Big Tech IS big government. It's the same, the difference is just that one has a profit model and that another in some countries can be elected.
And in some, both are the same.
My understanding is that a handful of instances on the fediverse have geo-IP blocked the UK rather than open themselves to legal trouble.
I would guess that the others are either operated outside of anywhere that the UK can enforce its rules, not beholden to the new rules (I believe I read that there is a minimum user count for them to actually apply), or are just winging it.
I'd be shocked if more than maybe 4 instances of systems on the fediverse even had the resources to try to comply with this.
Nope the sentence still doesn't make sense.
Is this about the government requiring ID in order to view pornography because, a, it only applies to pornography websites which Lemmy isn't, and b, doesn't work anyway.
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Fediverse is very good at censorship resistance, much better than alternatives.
If internet is restricted in your country, use a VPN. If you're an admin, move your server to a different country.
If internet is not restricted, then there is nothing to worry about.
If you need a VPN to access it, then the Fediverse isn't censorship-resistant. The VPN is. Even more, the Fediverse instance is geoblocking/censoring you.
Examples of services that geoblock you or KYC you:
- YouTube
- Fediverse instances
Examples of services that don't geoblock/KYC you:
- Tor
- Nostr
- IPFS
- I2P
- VPNs
Fediverse is tens of thousands of instances. You may need a VPN to access your home instance (e.g. if it is blocked in your country), the rest of the network can be accessed from there.
I never heard about instances doing KYC (which is usually done by payments processors). If your home instance requires KYC, you can always move to another instance that doesn't require it, because there are so many of them all across the world.
VPNs are not much different from the Fediverse, by the way. It's just servers, they can be blocked by ISPs, and they can geoblock users. This is also true for Nostr relays, IPFS gateways, Tor relays, etc.
The Fediverse is decentralized, a law cannot affect all of Mastodon, Lemmy, or Peertube.
There are hundreds of servers in different parts of the world. Choose one you like.
what the heck are you talking about?
Mastodon can not "KYC" UK users because there is no central Mastodon. Even if an instance like mastodon.social gets bad ideas you can install your own Mastodon instance since node to node communication is - ignoring moderation - unrestricted.
Mastodon/Lemmy instances can be forced to KYC you. So you would have to jump into hoops and move from instance to instance. It will be like torrent sites or darknet markets, that come and go.
Yes, you can self-host, and should, but most people don't want to be a sysadmin, and it isn't easy. Ideally you should be able to participate in a self-sovereign way without being a sysadmin. Just like:
- you can torrent something without being a sysadmin
- you can self-custody your cryptocurrency without being a sysadmin
- you can chat on SimpleX or Session and never be deplatformed without being a sysadmin
- you can use Nostr and never be deplatformed without being a sysadmin
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Under heavy guard, Israel's Ben Gvir leads settler raid on Al-Aqsa Mosque
Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir led hundreds of settlers in storming Al-Aqsa Mosque complex on Sunday, were they loudly performed Jewish Talmudic prayer, under a heavy police guard, and attempted to antagonise Muslim worshippers.
Videos seen by Middle East Eye showed hundreds of settlers storming the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque where some could be seen dancing and shouting, disrupting the sanctity of the Muslim place of worship.
The status quo in Jerusalem has long maintained that Jewish prayer is forbidden on the raised plateau in occupied East Jerusalem's Old City, where Al-Aqsa Mosque stands.
However, over the past century, Zionist groups have repeatedly violated the fragile arrangement, launching unprecedented attacks on one of Islam's holiest sites.
Israel's Ben Gvir, under heavy guard, leads settler raid on Al-Aqsa Mosque
Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir led hundreds of settlers in storming Al-Aqsa Mosque complex on Sunday, were they loudly performed Jewish Talmudic prayer, under a heavy police guard, and attempted to antagonise Muslim wor…Lubna Masarwa (Middle East Eye)
US media barely touches Epstein links with Israeli intelligence
US media barely touches Epstein links with Israeli intelligence
Connections between sex trafficker and spy agencies have been long teased. But few are covering them.The Electronic Intifada
The india painted by american tiktok feed is very different than actual India as a south asian country.
South Indians morbidly feel bad for the US citizens currently
Indians make up like 17% of the world's population so one would imagine so.
I've also run into many people who claim to be Indian here so I don't doubt it.
This is inaccurate. The piss goes on Americans and America.
He helped align Iran to Russia during his first term and does the same with India now.
Sea of people march across Sydney Harbour Bridge calling for an end to killing in Gaza
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/34110927
Jordyn Beazley and Caitlin Cassidy
Sun 3 Aug 2025 08.17 EDT
At least 100,000 pro-Palestine marchers, including Julian Assange, the former foreign minister Bob Carr and the government MP Ed Husic, have marched across Sydney Harbour Bridge in the rain to protest against Israel’s conduct in Gaza and to speak out about the children starving there.The world-famous landmark was closed to traffic at 11.30am on Sunday, with protesters gathering in Lang Park in the city centre before enduring heavy rain as they walked across the bridge.
The march began at 1pm, with demonstrators eventually stretching the entire length of the 1.2km Harbour Bridge.
“It’s even bigger than my wildest dreams,” one of the main protest organisers, Josh Lees, told Guardian Australia while at the front of the march. “It’s a mass march for humanity to stop a genocide, our politicians have to now listen to the will of the people and sanction Israel.”
Sea of people march across Sydney Harbour Bridge calling for an end to killing in Gaza
Jordyn Beazley and Caitlin Cassidy
Sun 3 Aug 2025 08.17 EDTAt least 100,000 pro-Palestine marchers, including Julian Assange, the former foreign minister Bob Carr and the government MP Ed Husic, have marched across Sydney Harbour Bridge in the rain to protest against Israel’s conduct in Gaza and to speak out about the children starving there.The world-famous landmark was closed to traffic at 11.30am on Sunday, with protesters gathering in Lang Park in the city centre before enduring heavy rain as they walked across the bridge.
The march began at 1pm, with demonstrators eventually stretching the entire length of the 1.2km Harbour Bridge.
“It’s even bigger than my wildest dreams,” one of the main protest organisers, Josh Lees, told Guardian Australia while at the front of the march. “It’s a mass march for humanity to stop a genocide, our politicians have to now listen to the will of the people and sanction Israel.”
Sea of people march across Sydney Harbour Bridge calling for an end to killing in Gaza
NSW police estimate 90,000 walked despite force and premier opposing rally, while Palestine Action Group claims up to 300,000 peacefully protestedJordyn Beazley (The Guardian)
Sea of people march across Sydney Harbour Bridge calling for an end to killing in Gaza
Jordyn Beazley and Caitlin Cassidy
Sun 3 Aug 2025 08.17 EDT
At least 100,000 pro-Palestine marchers, including Julian Assange, the former foreign minister Bob Carr and the government MP Ed Husic, have marched across Sydney Harbour Bridge in the rain to protest against Israel’s conduct in Gaza and to speak out about the children starving there.The world-famous landmark was closed to traffic at 11.30am on Sunday, with protesters gathering in Lang Park in the city centre before enduring heavy rain as they walked across the bridge.
The march began at 1pm, with demonstrators eventually stretching the entire length of the 1.2km Harbour Bridge.
“It’s even bigger than my wildest dreams,” one of the main protest organisers, Josh Lees, told Guardian Australia while at the front of the march. “It’s a mass march for humanity to stop a genocide, our politicians have to now listen to the will of the people and sanction Israel.”
Sea of people march across Sydney Harbour Bridge calling for an end to killing in Gaza
NSW police estimate 90,000 walked despite force and premier opposing rally, while Palestine Action Group claims up to 300,000 peacefully protestedJordyn Beazley (The Guardian)
US contractor says team ordered Domino's Pizza to Gaza due to food distribution failure
Aguilar worked with UG Solutions between May and June this year and describes the entire operation as deeply dysfunctional.
“Nothing was open. Nobody could figure out how to get food there,” Aguilar said in an interview with France 24’s Jessica Le Masurier. “So we had the idea of [ordering pizza] in Beersheba and having them make 27 pizzas and deliver them through Wolt, which is the Israeli DoorDash, to the main operations center in Karem Shalom.”
The pizzas were then transported into Gaza in what Aguilar described as “an armored convoy,” eventually reaching Distribution Site 1, where they were handed out to Palestinian local workers, referring to the difficulties in feeding local workers who were assisting GHF operations.
Let me get this straight,” Le Masurier asked. “Safe Reach Solutions was able to bring pizza in when the entire population of Gaza is starving and there are UN aid trucks that are unable to enter Gaza and not allowed to distribute aid while people are starving. But SRS was able to bring in pizza to one of their sites?”
“It’s abhorrent. If it weren’t so tragic, it would be comedy. It’s not comedy, because it is absolutely tragic,” Aguilar said.
VIDEO: US contractor says team ordered Domino's Pizza to Gaza due to food distribution failure
Anthony Aguilar (Credit: Breaking Points via YouTube)Roya News
What Are Your Experiences With Crypt.ee?
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I use it for docs only and quite like it. My biggest complaints are that it doesn't support the dark mode setting server-side, which is quite annoying, and that you have to convert to PDF to print dark mode files, aaaand that if you type in your encryption key it will automatically log you in before you're able to tick the "save this device" setting.
Very minor, really. But I use Immich for photos so I can't speak to that. I'd probably opt for Ente if I were looking for managed hosting.
UNICEF Leader Returns From Gaza With Harrowing Warning of Mass Child Starvation
UNICEF Leader Returns From Gaza With Harrowing Warning of Mass Child Starvation
“The children I met are not victims of a natural disaster,” said the UNICEF deputy director, “They are being starved.”…Jon Queally (Truthout)
Why the US is "letting" China win on energy innovation
Why the US is letting China win on energy innovation
China is roaring forward in the race to be the world’s clean energy powerhouse.The Conversation
"China, with its authoritarian government, is less susceptible to the petroleum-obsessed dogma fueling the Republican party."
Laughable to call China the authoritarians.
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NASA won't publish key climate change report online, citing 'no legal obligation' to do so
The decision will make it harder for the general public to access critical climate data.Josh Dinner (Space)
The worst mistake I could have possibly made with Linux...
So I chose to install Ubuntu and Ubuntu studio on top (which as I understand is just adding a bunch of apps and maybe doing some configuring). I am a musician and visual creative. I'd like to know why I made the wrong choice in distro. Hit me with it!
Why is your distro of choice better than the one I picked at random for myself?
What bottleneck am I to expect due to my non archyness?
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Ubuntu (and also Debian that it derives from) are always behind on the software release cycles and contain "stale" packages. This is desirable if you're running a server, but if you're wanting a modem day desktop experience a non-rolling release distro is just leaving performance/usability of your hardware on the table.
Think of Ubuntu/Debian and all their derivatives as the Jitterbug of the phone industry. They work perfectly fine, but if you want a real phone you're probably going to be happier with an iPhone or Android phone just because they make use of newer technology and get updates constantly.
Depends on how you install it
You basically chose one of the more complicated ways to do it, short of compiling the source code lol
Get your head out of installing apps via their websites like Windows. While it's often possible, it's preferable to use your distros package manager. If it's not in the repo, try flathub. Finally, if they have an Appimage, use that, many distros will integrate Appimages automagically. All that stuff gets taken care of for you.
Last resort is what you ended up doing and having to install/update manually. I mean, it depends on the package but if you're using a common distro like Ubuntu/Fedora/Arch, there should be a package ready to go for nearly anything that supports Linux.
Plasma has incredible defaults and you can click around in it to fine tune to your liking. Plug things into plasma is just works at least for me. I’ve plugged midi controllers, audio interface, dock, hdmi, game controllers first try no fuss.
Oh I’m sure other distros have this as well but fun fact if your bt is on and the laptop is connected to a speaker you can just connect your phone (or any other bt source) and use your laptop as a bt speaker. And I mean it just works again. Yeah sure you need to pair it first. But boy oh boy Im playing on the tv and i can just bt to it and play my tunes like it’s nothing.
Back to the question in hand.
I have a windows version of Ableton 11 that I installed there with 3rd party vst 2 and 3 plugins figuring that one out took me longer but it was in front of me all the time so in hindsight that wasn’t too hard either.
So that was my new generation Arch btw xD aka NixOS btw.
The tl dr is that I find Nixos with KDE Plasma 6 having very friendly defaults that can be built on if and when you ready
New user comes to ask question about their distro: gets "use NixOS; it's totally simple".
Weirdos.
Ps.: Im self aware if you read the last few lines
You just went on about how easy nix is to configure, then about adding bluetooth devices, then jumped to installing ableton on windows.
Op specified they are a musician using a studio distro for studio tasks. You didn't address any of that.
I get that you're impressed with nix and want to share, and nothing wrong with that. But let's at least stay on topic.
Ableton - Digital Audio Workspace
MIDI - Musical Instrument Digital Interface
Scarlette 2i2 - Audio interface
Compatibility,dependencies are the most important things when it comes to digital studio machines. At least that’s what my 15yrs of audio engineering experience taught me. Not sure how I didn’t addressed any of that my dude but if you wanna hate I’m here for it. You hate my choices for the sake of it I love yours for the same reason
Ubuntu Studio is an excellent choice to get you ~~started~~ busy doing your things. It's a work of love, from passionate people, going at it for many years now.
The only drawback is that the bundle is overstuffed, for my use case there's just too much stuff in there lol (sound eng)
Enjoy yourself, test your creativity against the available tools, and make stuff. That's the important part: making!
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Eh, every distro is trade-offs. There’s not a straightforward “better or worse”.
The worst mistake you could make? Making it hard for you to change your mind later.
So take notes on what you modify, try to keep your data/configs consolidated so you could easily migrate to a new distro, etc.
And ideally have your hardware set up so that you can try booting a new distro without losing your existing setup.
The biggest problem of ubuntu is snaps.
However, if you're into audio, you can install linux mint, which is ubuntu-based, and then install the ubuntu-studio-pipewire-something (sorry, can't remember how the package is actually called), which FIXES pipewire to work properly with high end audio apps. For example, on my vanilla Linux Mint, Bitwig Studio would not make a peep! After installing that package, it produces sound. With that fixed, you can do everything on Mint.
you did nothing wrong. ubuntu is a perfectly fine distro for beginners. the reason i dont use ubuntu anymore is the age of the packages started to bother me. also its kinda annoying that releases hit eol at some point. i like arch for the rolling release (no eol) and the fresher packages.
if ubuntu worka for you, keep using it. there is no correct distro.
I think everyone's basically hit my complaints with Ubuntu. It's a very bloated OS with a hard dedication into snaps, which I dislike(but I also hate flatpak so yea)
Being said if this is your first Linux distribution, you can't go wrong with Ubuntu. It's a very beginner-friendly distro. The only other one that I would have recommended aside from that would have probably been Mint. But Ubuntu is going to have quite a bit more tutorials and guides for it.
You're good. If you like your setup please don't feel like you need to change. Ubuntu will serve you just fine.
Now if you just like tinkering or configuring....
The main drawback of Ubuntu is mainly that people don't like Canonical, the company behind it. They can be very opinionated in their decisions. Also many prefer rolling-release distros (like Arch, or OpenSUSE Tumbleweed) where you get much quicker software updates over Ubuntu and other traditional distros.
Just get endeavoros. It's Arch with an install process like any other easy Linux distro.
Aur is useful for people that don't want to build packages.
That combined with flatpak and you can basically have an easy install of anything.
The first rule of Linux is that you always picked the wrong distro and here is why mine is better.
If it works for you then it's good enough. Just focus on learning what you're on and a lot of that knowledge will transfer to any other distro if you want to try others.
Exactly! Also many people especially early on, seem to think distros are vastly different. They’re really not, so much as they’re a different assortment of bits and pieces from mostly the same pool. Some things differ significantly across I wouldn’t say distros but across like, kernel bases? Like Debian, Arch, etc. The big thing is if it has 99% of what you wanted straightaway, then there’s nothing wrong with just using it, optimizing it for your preferences, and learning what distinguishes it, if you’re interested.
When I got a new laptop, I was psyched because it was not long after Debian had finally dropped that whole opposition to things that aren’t 100% open source, as of v 12. I like Debian but prior to 12 I often had driver issues. BUT: lo and behold, my laptop was so new that Debian didn’t have drivers for the audio yet. Nothing did except Ubuntu. They’re usually very quick to get stuff compatible, and so I installed Kubuntu so I could be on my fav desktop right off the start.
Now, quite some time later, Debian almost certainly has my audio drivers by now, but I’m not rushing to change because what I have works. End of story.
Whatever is working for you, enjoy it.
If you like "unlikely to break, don't mind my software and kernel a bit behind", anything Debian or Ubuntu based will be fine. Now, if you want cutting edge, even if you have to get pissed and confused a bit, Arch or Fedora based, in my opinion.
At the end of the day it comes down to taste and need. They all work (mostly 😋).
My most used distro in the past few years is CachyOS.
Recently swapped to Bazzite because I got tired of the papercuts of running Arch. I also wanted to move to one of the official supported Distros that is supported by my laptop in case I ever need to make a support ticket.
You made a great choice of distro for media creation.
Some background information and other options are below.
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Ubuntu studio is a distro targeted at creatives(audio, visual).
Ubuntu is touted as a 'high ease of use' distro, but as a company, it is a user-data collector and advertising injector.
For a similar audio/visual targeted distro, but one that is free/libre and includes no spyware or tracking, you could try Dynebolic.
Can be booted as a LiveUSB (or LiveDVD) to test.
* NB. Any hardware connected to your PC, that needs proprietary drivers, will probably not work because those drivers are not included in any Libre Distros.
Also NB, Dynebolic is made by friendly, neighborhood, activist, Rastafarians.
- YouTube
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
Using Linux isn't something you need to defend towards others.
As long as something is comfortable for you, keep using it.
So I tried windows tiling...
And omg! I have slept on this feature for so long. I assumed it was just dragging windows to corners and they snap on to the left or right back or top.
Then, I installed PopOS and saw an explicit button to turn on windows tiling but I was already using the drag function, so I was confused. I turned it on and omg! I have not felt more stupid and happily surprised by a piece of tech in a while.
It just works. I don’t have to be worry about arranging windows a special way for multitasking or for following guides. So much time saved.
How to make the most of it? Have you had a similar experience with something?
I believe pop does a river style tiling system. Look up videos on Niri, Cosmic, or PaperWM.
There are many other tiling types too. River is however my favorite and I think most intuitive. Other popular ones are Sway, i3, and HyprLand.
Edit: my bad, seems like I misunderstood. PopOS used/is still using GNOME and has a Auto-Tiling plugin that behaves like i3wm (?). I guess this is what OP is talking about!
Not entirely sure what you mean. PopOS, developed by System76, uses the Cosmic DE, which is itself also developed by System76.
River is a dynamic tiling WM which is known for it's customizability among Wayland WMs, as it doesn't distinguish itself with it's "layout generator" (though it does come with a very basic one), but instead let's the user write their own or use an existing, third-party one. This way you can achieve essentially any dynamic tiling behavior with River.
How does PopOS use a system like that? Or do you mean that Cosmic is DWM-style, i.e., dynamic and with tags?
I do agree that River is wonderful though!
And PaperWM is a gnome plugin I thought was developed by System76 as a prototype for Cosmic.
Edit: seems i just made that up too lol
I've tried out a bunch, but at the moment I've mainly been playing around with hyprland, cause it's also a dynamic tiler and im used to that layout now
The main advantage to me tbh is that certain windows don't overflow the assigned tile space like in pop-shell (this is also fixed in cosmic), but there are other things like having all your move/resize actions on the main mod layer instead of needing to enter adjust mode (super + enter is the default keybind on pop-shell), and the fact it uses wayland instead of x11
Of course there are also things that can be downsides depending on how you see it, like the fact it's a TWM not a desktop, which means if you want to adjust any setting you'll need to manually adjust config files, and that it doesn't come with things like a top bar or app launcher etc. So it can take a while to get up and running
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What do you use it for?
Everything? Lol. I mean.. I just run my desktop in hyprland, no matter what im doing. Which for me I guess is gaming, drawing, some coding, and writing.. oh and tinkering with linux (though honestly I mostly do that in VMs)
How much does it make your experience better?
I'd say it's an improvement over GNOME 😛.. though I have enough issues with the configs that I wouldn't really recommend it unless you have issues with GNOME that majorly bother you.. or unless you use one of the premade dotfile configs that people make lol..
For me being able to adjust the windows with my keyboard without needing to enter a special mode for it, and having windows forced into the tile size was worth it, as it was something that was a pet peeve of mine (and now I get to be annoyed by trying to set up my waybar vertically, tradeoffs lol)
Not quite hah :3
It's actually not one of the things I've tried when looking for the best DE/WM for me, though I might at some point just to see if im missing out on anything
Windows Tiling is just having specific zones or regions defined on the screen where windows can be placed or configured to open in, correct?
I should try it out. There is a part of me that wonders if it would be worth it on a 1080p 15in laptop screen.
Yeah, it was a revelation when I discovered tiling. I was always doing work with two windows open, and i'd spend so much time fiddling and resizing the windows. Then i'd open a third window and wouldn't know what to do with it.
I used i3 for many years and switched to sway when migrating to wayland. It does what I need and see no reason to try hyprland or other tilers.
This first paragraph is so me.
Any good wayland implementation? I'm OS hopping to fedora kinoite. I never used tiling now I see the difference from your reply. I'm the dummy.
That's where workspaces come in place, I usually have a single full screen application per workspace, so Meta+1 is my browser, Meta+3 is my IDE, Meta+4 is slack, etc. Some workspaces have more than one application, e.g. I usually keep a few terminals in Meta+2.
This means that I usually work with things occupying all of my screen and in a short keystrokes I'm in whatever I want to be. But if I ever need to open a terminal or a random application it will occupy half my screen and whatever I was doing would resize to the other half, so I never have to grab my mouse to move stuff over to be able to see what I was doing.
I usually have a single full screen application per workspace
Forgive my ignorance but doesn't that just defeat the purpose?
It depends, up to four works for some apps depending on monitor size, but otherwise I do the same thing as @Nibodhika@lemmy.world.
Overlapping window managers, the most common type in use by far, just seem crazy to me. Windows almost never use the available monitor space, and they have to constantly be wrangled around each other so that… you can drag something instead of using the clipboard, I guess?
I use this for KDE tilling github.com/anametologin/krohnk…
Edit: It is the active fork of krohnkite, the official repo is dead since 2022.
GitHub - anametologin/krohnkite: A dynamic tiling extension for KWin
A dynamic tiling extension for KWin. Contribute to anametologin/krohnkite development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
You could try also:
- GNOME PaperWM, a GNOME extension with tiling and endless horizontal scrolling
- niri
- StumpWM, a tiling WM with Emacs-like keybindings (and zero eyecandy and waste of screen estate)
- HerbstluftWM
Yup, came here to mention PaperWM. I used xmonad in the past, but I executed it on top of Mate to have an "easy" desktop environment.
Nowadays Gnome extensions providing tiling is the equivalent "easy" method. Gnome is not for everyone, but it works out of the box- then you add the fancy tiling window management on top.
For people who have bounced off systems that require much more set up, I think they are a good option.
I've used i3wm for a long time now before switching to hyprland.
The top useful thing: Workspaces. Even without tiling, workspaces give a massive productivity boost.
You can have email clients open on one, monitoring systems on another, browsing on a third, gaming on a fourth.
When you combine with tiling, everything is in its own perfect space and nothing overlaps.
This is especially useful on single-monitor or laptop setups as you don't need multiple monitors to keep track of everything.
I also see people struggle with notifications tiling.
You probably don't want a bluetooth connected message to take up half your screen, so you'll want to make sure to properly configure those things.
At least in i3wm/hyprland, you can use the window class name to exclude a window from tiling (ex. for_window [class="mako"] floating enable or windowrulev2 = float,class:^(mako)$).
Buy a large 4k tv (like 48"+) to use as a monitor and use it without scaling. It'll have similar DPI to am average 2.5k monitor, but you'll have way more real-estate.
Window tiling lets you break the large display surface up into reasonably sized pieces.
Pop OS tiling is awesome. What I always try to do on tiling WM: set workspaces and spawn specific applications on specific workspaces. Not sure if Pop OS can do it, but on i3/dwm/sway...etc. you can freely spawn your applications wherever you like.
Try to play around with those DIY tiling environment. You will have a lot of fun if you like tinkering with stuff. Maybe one day you will run EXWM
How to make the most of it?
Use workspaces, I almost never used it before because I was set in my ways, but after switching to tiling WM it's a must and increases productivity by a LOT, I've grown so used to it that using windows with a mouse feels super clunky and cluttered.
Neigsendoig (my producer) and I have used i3 for a while... and we've probably stayed on that since we first started using WMs.
That said, we've attempted the likes of Xmonad (configured in Haskell), Awesome (configured in Lua), HerbstluftWM, BSPWM, Hypr (not Hyprland), JWM, Ratpoison and even SXWM.
Neigsendoig and I wouldn't recommend any Wayland compositor due to new security risks (despite an attempt to fix X11 security issues), though a lot of people want Wayland to be shoved down our throats. We personally use X11 due to many things that Wayland devs can't/won't fix.
This is also part of the reason why the two of us are excited about XLibre (as much as some will hate the control of IBM, GNOME and FreeDesktop with their Wayland, Systemd and PipeWire push). Sure, its main developer left the project from what we've heard, but otherwise, there are a lot of contributions to it, and it will improve big time.
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100%. Learning a crossplatform thing is always better, especially when using proprietary OS.
How useful is tmux as compared to regular tiling? It might be a bit janky, I suppose.
how much data does google grab about you in the EU? and questions about pkpass files and foss for android (like fdroid)
My employer sent me to Germany, where he subsidizes 50% of my public transportation costs, the so called Deutschland-Job-Ticket.
However, my employer only signed a deal wit the local transportation authority for digital tickets, the kind of ticket you'd store on a digital wallet like fosswallet.
Except that the local transportation authority doesn't offer pkpass files to download, the kind of file you need to work with fosswallet and similar apps, and the only way to use this digital card is to create a google account and download google wallet. I have no idea what an apple user would have to do, as they won't offer pkpass files to no one.
Google is a company I don't trust, but so far every German I've talked to about this doesn't seem to value privacy ¯(ツ)/¯
I'm looking for a workable, practical solution because as much as I'd like to show google the finger it seems that's simply not an option here.
Some suggested to get a second android device to use exclusively for this Deutschland-Job-Ticket, but that seems overkill.
I also contacted my employer to ask if they'd allow me have a physical transportation card and still receive their subsidy.
And yet another option would be to buy a pixel, install GrapheneOS, download googlewallet and sandbox it, but I'm not sure I want to spend 700 Euros to make google even richer. Has any of you ever done this? does it work?
The other end of the equation is, how much information google grabs about me in the EU because if I go GrapheneOS, I still need to give google my data. I've never had a google account:
Do I need to give them my real name? A telephone number? my real address? An Email address? my social security number? passport? Will they send me unwanted ads and spam me if I create an account with them?
All this because my employer or the transportation authority won't work with pkpass files...
For more information, you may read my history.
I feel like I read here a couple months back if you visit it in a browser (maybe with a user agent extension) that you can download the pkpass that way.
But I could be misremembering honestly.
You might want to look into Island/Insular.
f-droid.org/packages/com.oasis…
Depending on your level of commitment to privacy, this might be a suitable solution for you.
Insular | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
Isolate your Big Brother appsf-droid.org
Does the local transportation company provide an app for iOS itself? Maybe that could be an option for you to not use google wallet.
I have chosen a local transportation company to not use the DB navigator app which is a privacy nightmare and support my local transportation company financial.
the local transportation authority doesn’t offer pkpass files to download, the kind of file you need to work with fosswallet and similar apps, and the only way to use this digital card is to create a google account and download google wallet.
I'd go to an actual kiosk of the local transportation authority and explain that I do not have a phone yet hope to use the Deutschland-Job-Ticket or whatever my employer currently pays for and let them figure it out. Germany is actually pretty big on NOT being tracked, that's why cash is still pretty important there, more than in most places, so I'd be surprise if they expect everybody (not 99.99% of people, but actually 100%) to have a smartphone that is up to date. In Belgium for example there are usually physical card equivalents for most things that usually require a smartphone. It usually requires going through extra hoops, e.g. paying for the physical token and eventually get the money back when given back, but there are actually alternatives.
Best of luck, please share results here and elsewhere if you do, or do NOT, manage as it's showing to others a pragmatic path and if not where to push back.
Not sure if this will work in your case, but there's a tool which could be run locally to convert between formats: github.com/google-wallet/pass-…
Also, you should be able to get a pixel much cheaper if it's 2-3 models behind. Pixel 6 for example can be had used for under $200, sometimes even around $100. That is in the US however - I'm not aware of what the secondary market would be like where you're at.
Could they not provide a physical pass?
GitHub - google-wallet/pass-converter: Tool to convert passes for different wallet apps from one format to another
Tool to convert passes for different wallet apps from one format to another - google-wallet/pass-converterGitHub
A letter to the CalyxOS community
Sad news - I have been very happy with CalyxOS, and not sure if I would want to continue using it without security updates or move to another ROM on my Fairphone 4. It seems perhaps that I would anyway need to reflash when they get to the point of resuming updates? Anyone get a clearer reading on that than me?
I have been contemplating trying out Ubuntu Touch which has according to their site 100% compatability with Fairphone 4 now, but there are some functionality that I think would struggle without, and if I can't get it working as I want, I wouldn't be able to reflash CalyxOS now. Getting a new phone to install GrapheneOS is not an option for me.
What are other people here using CalyxOS going to do to maintain a modicum of privacy on their mobile devices?
The way that was going, I thought they were going to announce the end of the project. Glad to see it's just a temporary pause on updates!
The best Android alternative from a privacy standpoint forr the Fairphone 4 is iodéOS, which is a privacy-focused fork of LineageOS that fully supports the device (including re-locking of the bootloader). LineageOS isn't really a privacy-focused project, but it would also come with some improvements over stock. You can also get a version of LineageOS with microG here.
Installation - iodé
Automatically (via our installer) iodéOS is installable within a few clicks! The installer is available for all official devices listed here (and soon for the GSI).iodé
I didn't realise iodé supported relocking on FP4. I don't suppose it'd also happen to support microG in work profile only, deleted from the personal profile?
Because I'd love to return to ethical hardware from Graphene/Pixel, and the lack of FDE on Ubuntu Touch really rubs me the wrong way.
Why iodeOS over GrapheneOS?
Edit: oh you said for the FairPhone, not Android in general. GraphenOS is Pixel only at the moment, at least until they launch their own device
It has options to deny network access to apps, though it's a bit hidden in the network settings for each app instead of thru a "Firewall" app
You can check out RethinkDNS for blocking or isolating apps.
Try /e/OS
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How do you manage private phones with work necessities?
If anyone has examples of things they’ve tried and what’s worked, that would be great. TIA!
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It's different in my own situation (I don't have a boss) but would I be employed I would not mix work and personal. Ever. Phone, friendship, or whatever else as there is a too high probability some shit will happen.
I would have my own phone and next to it the job would provide me another one with whatever shitty apps they require me to use, if they rely want me to use it. And I would turn that bastard off the moment my work day is finished (aka the moment they stop giving me money in exchange of my time).
Exactly like I would not use my own computer for work. It's mine.
I agree with @Libb@piefed.social. I would not mix the two at all. If they want me to have a phone with their apps on it, they can provide me one.
Also, for your privacy, it may not be actually the best idea to switch back to a dumb phone, because then you are limited to SMS, which is not secure, and phone calls, which are not secure.
On a smartphone you have things like signal.
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I have a second cheap second hand phone for work only purposes.
My employer has their device attestation set to only allow intune / Microsoft products to sign in if you are running stock android.
Graphene nogo.
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This is the correct answer. If they want you to do any work in a mobile, remote, out of hours capacity, they need to provide the device.
I used to help manage MDM at my old company and I can tell you there is a shit load they can do once you install their utilities. For example:
- remotely wipe your phone
- block your ability to copy/paste between applications
- view all web traffic to/from it (even encrypted traffic since we installed a proxy that put its own trusted root certificate in)
Yeah, as far as I am concerned, there's a direct conflict of interest between myself and my company when it comes the usage of a device that doubles as a personal and professional device. I understand the company's need to take measures to control sensitive information, and when I do whatever I do on my spare time, I am unnecessarily (from the point of view of the company) endangering the information I have access to. And because of the safe-guards they put in place, they are taking an unacceptable amount of control of a device I keep my personal sensitive data.
Because of this I find it a bit baffling that BYOD ever became accepted practice, both from the employer's side and the employee's side.
Executives don't see why they have to approve a giant bill for company devices when people have their own already.
Regardless of how much we point out the risks.
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Blue whales are going eerily silent—and scientists say it’s a warning sign
A six-year study off California’s coast shows how marine heat waves and noise pollution are silencing the ocean’s largest singers. Does saving the ocean start with hearing it?Avery Schuyler Nunn (Animals)
“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out”
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by Nicole Foy and McKenzie Funk
July 31, 2025
“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out”
by Nicole Foy and McKenzie Funk
July 31, 2025“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out”
We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.” You can judge for yourself.ProPublica
“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out”
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by Nicole Foy and McKenzie Funk
July 31, 2025
“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out”
by Nicole Foy and McKenzie Funk
July 31, 2025“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out”
We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.” You can judge for yourself.ProPublica
“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out”
July 31, 2025
“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out”
We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.” You can judge for yourself.ProPublica
British surgeon: Gaza children sleep on salt water amid medieval-level starvation
GAZA, August 2, 2025 (WAFA) – British surgeon Graeme Groom, who returned from a volunteer mission in the Gaza Strip, which is facing Israeli genocide and starvation, said that children there are "trying to sleep with stomachs full of water and salt," amid a "man-made" humanitarian crisis he described as "barbaric, harking back to the Middle Ages."
Groom referred to "shocking scenes he witnessed while working with a volunteer medical team" in Gaza, where Palestinians are suffering from famine and malnutrition, which have caused the deaths of dozens of infants and the deterioration of the condition of wounded civilians.
Donor List Suggests Scale of Trump’s Pay-for-Access Operation
🐝 Billionaire Dies After Swallowing a Bee During Polo Match
Billionaire Dies After Swallowing a Bee During Polo Match
Indian auto parts billionaire Sunjay Kapur died after reportedly swallowing a bee during a polo match at the Queen’s Cup in Windsor.Luis Prada (VICE)
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The bee took one for the team.
With any luck, there's a hive of like-minded bees near the White House.
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In the photo: Coldplay's Singer.
US tech company Astronomer's CEO resigns after being caught having an affair with CPO at Coldplay concert
Meanwhile, Cofounder and Chief Product Officer Pete DeJoy continues to serve as interim CEO.Human Resources Online
He deserves a goddamned posthumous award. There will never a death more ‘billionaire’ than this. I mean this is cartoon level, over the top, absurdist level perfection.
I mean tell me, if you just saw the headline “Man dies after swallowing a bee at a Polo match” that your reaction is anything but “I wonder which billionaire that was.”
Little dude makes us honey, AND kills our oppressors?? May you spend eternity in an infinite field of wildflowers.
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Russian man, 88, dies after homemade helicopter falls apart on takeoff
An 88-year-old Russian man, who gained local fame for building his own aircraft, has died after attempting to take off in a homemade helicopter.
The man, a resident of the Omutninsky district of western Russia’s Kirov Region, attempted the flight in the self-built aircraft on Thursday, the Volga Region Transport Prosecutor’s Office said in a news release Friday.
However, the helicopter self-destructed during take-off, it added.
The aircraft failed to lift off and, instead, “during engine startup, while still on the ground and as the engine power was building, the main rotor blades detached. This caused injuries to the pilot, born in 1937,” the district emergency services told Russian state-owned news agency RIA Novosti on Friday.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/01/europe/russian-man-dies-homemade-helicopter-intl-scli
Ukraine says it uncovers major drone procurement corruption scheme | CNN
Ukraine’s anti-corruption bodies said on Saturday they had uncovered a major graft scheme that procured military drones and signal jamming systems at inflated prices, two days after the agencies’ independence was restored following major protests.
The independence of Ukraine’s anti-graft investigators and prosecutors, NABU and SAPO, was reinstated by parliament on Thursday after a move to take it away resulted in the country’s biggest demonstrations since Russia’s invasion in 2022.
In a statement published by both agencies on social media, NABU and SAPO said they had caught a sitting lawmaker, two local officials and an unspecified number of national guard personnel taking bribes. None of them were identified in the statement.
“The essence of the scheme was to conclude state contracts with supplier companies at deliberately inflated prices,” it said, adding that the offenders had received kickbacks of up to 30% of a contract’s cost. Four people had been arrested.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/02/europe/ukraine-corruption-drone-scheme-latam-intl
Hamas vows not to lay down arms after Witkoff reportedly says it’s ready to demilitarize
Hamas on Saturday said it would not disarm “as long as the occupation exists,” denying reported remarks to the contrary by US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and blasting him for visiting an aid site run by the controversial, US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
In a statement, Hamas vowed to continue its violent struggle, saying its right to do so was guaranteed by international law until Palestinians’ “national rights” were realized, “foremost among them… the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with full sovereignty and Jerusalem as its capital.”
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And they're 100% right.
International law is very simple and straightforward - land forcibly annexed is not legitimate. Israel has no legal or valid claim to any territory beyond what it was granted in UN Resolution 181 in 1948. Every single inch of land it's taken since then has been taken illegally, and in direct violation of the rights of the inhabitants.
And that's even before getting into the overt evil that Israel has committed along the way - the terrorism and brutality and oppression and murder that it's employed to incrementally steal the rightful territory of the Palestinians.
And yes - the Palestinians have every right to stand against Israel's brutal theft of its territory and murder of its inhabitants. Their resistance is not only morally right, but entirely in keeping with international law.
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