Canada’s 2025 wildfire season now second-worst on record, fuelled by Prairies blazes
The latest figures posted by the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre suggest fires have torn through 72,000 square kilometres, an area roughly the size of New Brunswick.
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Ukraine, Europe reject Putin's ceasefire proposal, present counterproposal to US ahead of Trump-Putin meeting, WSJ reports
Ukrainian and European officials rejected Russian President Vladimir Putin's proposal for a ceasefire in exchange for Kyiv to cede its eastern territories to Russia, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Aug. 9.
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Iran arrests 20 alleged spies of Israel
Iran has arrested 20 people it alleges are operatives of Israel's Mossad spy agency in recent months, the judiciary said on Saturday, warning that they will face no leniency and will be made an example of.
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Trump’s envoy ‘misunderstood’ Putin’s territorial demands as concessions, media report
Witkoff was apparently confused as to which country’s forces should withdraw.
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'We stand firm on clear Ukrainian positions' — Zelensky warns Russia will reinvade if ceasefire favors Moscow, ahead of Trump-Putin meeting
President Volodymyr Zelensky in his evening address on Aug. 9 rebuked Russian President Vladimir Putin's proposal for Kyiv to cede Ukrainian territory to end Russia's war, warning that a lack of a "genuine peace" may give Russia the opportunity to reinvade.
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'We stand firm on clear Ukrainian positions' — Zelensky warns Russia will reinvade if ceasefire favors Moscow, ahead of Trump-Putin meeting
President Volodymyr Zelensky in his evening address on Aug. 9 rebuked Russian President Vladimir Putin's proposal for Kyiv to cede Ukrainian territory to end Russia's war, warning that a lack of a "genuine peace" may give Russia the opportunity to re…Dmytro Basmat (The Kyiv Independent)
Google confirms data breach exposed potential Google Ads customers' info
Google has confirmed that a recently disclosed data breach of one of its Salesforce CRM instances involved the information of potential Google Ads customers.
Trump announces peace deal between Azerbaijan and Armenia at White House
Trump announces peace deal between Azerbaijan and Armenia at White House
Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a U.S.-brokered peace agreement on Friday during a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump that would boost bilateral economic ties after decades of conflict.Reuters (CNBC)
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AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified
AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified
Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
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Those that want to this to go against Anthropic, keep in mind that authors themselves oppose this.
Also backing Anthropic's appeal, advocates representing authors—including Authors Alliance, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, American Library Association, Association of Research Libraries, and Public Knowledge—pointed out that the Google Books case showed that proving ownership is anything but straightforward.
This seems to one of those cases where 80 year old judge is just too old to understand what he's doing.
Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display
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Well folks, it finally happened. The screen in your pickup truck… your last bastion of peace from the chaos of unskippable advertisements… now plays popup ads. Not even subtle ones. We’re talking full-dash, head-unit-commandeering infomercial panels in your RAM 1500, like you’re driving a Times Square billboard on wheels.
Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display - FuelArc News
Well folks, it finally happened. The screen in your pickup truck... your last bastion of peace from the chaos of unskippable advertisements... now plays popup ads. Not even subtle ones.Kay Leadfoot (FuelArc News)
The current state of LLM-driven development
The current state of LLM-driven development
I spent the past ~4 weeks trying out all the new and fancy AI tools for software development.Tolki's Blog
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Fedora 42 / KDE - What is the difference between "dnf upgrade" and Discover "system upgrade"
I usually update through dnf but sometimes Discover says there is a "system upgrade" with however many packages that are pending upgrade, but no details provided. It requires a restart after completing.
What is the difference between the two?
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Using dnf is betrer than using Discover. Mostly because sudo dnf history undo last exists, which undoes the latest "transaction".
(Each transaction is an action of removing, reinstalling, updating and installing (a) package(s).)
Discovers talks to PackageKit, a project that attempts to abstract packaging concepts. So rather than Discover supporting dnf, apt, pacman, etc, it talks to PackageKit and that handles the lower level stuff.
But PackageKit is not perfect. It’s better to use dnf directly and use the flag for offline upgrades (for more reliable upgrades).
Because the other platforms censor Palestine content much harder.
Bluesky and Mastodon are worse than Twitter. That's a fact.
Mastodon is like Lemmy in how anyone can host an instance.
What instances are blocking Palestine?
Mastodon is basically only Mastodon.social
Multiple Lemmy users have attested to having their Palestine content censored on Mastodon.social. I never saw any good content on it either.
Starving kids. Palestinians blown up by the IDF. Combat footage. Anything that Western censor will never allow to be shown unless it's October 7 or Ukraine.
Try post a Dropsitenews link on Lemmy.world see what happens.
Try finding footage of Hamas blowing up an IDF tank on Bluesky.
Try finding emanciated babies on Bluesky.
Try finding palestinian bodies with their guts bombed out on Bluesky.
Yes. Showing the actual reality of the genocide is incredibly important. I'm sure you've only seen the pictures of white sanitized body bags in your media to sanitize and paletize the suffering.
Here NSFL: xcancel.com/mediadot_/status/1…
This must have sounded a lot better in your mind.
'MBFC score high' UNwatch sent a legal appeal to Musk, after which Musk removed her checkmark
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U.N. Official Francesca Albanese Loses “Blue Check” on X After U.S. Sanctions, Legal Appeal to Elon Musk - UN Watch
GENEVA, August 4, 2025 — For the first time ever, a U.N. official has lost verified status on social media. Francesca Albanese, the controversial U.N.unwatch (UN Watch)
No need for Democrat propaganda. The election is already lost.
There is zero evidence she's a Russian asset. She was already cleared by an investigation. You're spouting insane conspiracy nonsense.
Nah, fuck Israel and I support Gaza/Palestinian autonomy.
But try again to make it about how Jill Stein didn't help completely fuck this country sideways.
Oh, they're just as, if not more responsible as well. They get blame. But Jill Stein made this tweet.
You're trying to give her a platform she doesn't deserve here. She is not a good person.
It’s getting harder to skirt RTO policies without employers noticing
It’s getting harder to skirt RTO policies without employers noticing
Most companies downsizing office space say it’s because of hybrid work.Scharon Harding (Ars Technica)
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Employee owned companies
I would like to get your opinion about employee owned companies.
I do prefer working for companies that are employee owned. This means that employees can invest in the company and that no shares are owned by external investors. The financial incentive is often the stable dividend rather than making profits due to risen share price.
For me, working at these type of companies is still way better than working for a publicly traded company where profit often feels like the only purpose (to please the share holders). However, I got a bit reluctant to invest in the employee owned company as a employee because I find the system a bit unfair:
- I find it a capitalistic implementation where the more you are willing (or able) to invest, the larger your cut of the profit. Everybody worked just as hard for that profit so why should you be able to get more if you got more shares.
- To get a management position, you often have to buy a significant amount of shares "as incentive to do your work as a manager I was always told". Of course, they have more responsibility but they already get a higher salary for that. Why also get a bigger part of the profit?
- On the management part, if there is also a voting system linked to the amount of shares you have, it also means that the management has a significant (majority?) saying in things. Legally the company is owned by the employees but not when it comes to decision making ( if employees are consulted via their shares).
What are your opinions on this and would you participate? Of course, not participating will not have consequences for the system because others will just buy those shares, but by participating you show support for an, in my eyes, unfair system.
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Not all co-ops are created equally. There are many different ways to structure one on the spectrum between horizontal and hierarchical.
Someone already mentioned Mondragon, but I think a better example of what an anarchist co-op would be like is Cecosesola.
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Police arrest 365 people at protest over Palestine Action ban in London
The Met said it estimated 500 to 600 people were in Parliament Square when the demonstration began, but “many” were not partaking. By 6pm, the force said 365 people had been arrested.
A spokesperson for Defend Our Juries said: “The fact that unprecedented numbers came out today risking arrest and possible imprisonment shows how repulsed and ashamed people are about our government’s ongoing complicity in a livestreamed genocide, and the lengths people are prepared to go to defend this country’s ancient liberties.”
“The police have only been able to arrest a fraction of those supposedly committing ‘terrorism’ offences, and most of those have been given street bail and allowed to go home. This is a major embarrassment to Yvette Cooper, further undermining the credibility of this widely ridiculed law.”
Arrests begin in London at largest Palestine Action protest since group’s ban
Met police says it has drawn officers from other forces to form ‘significant presence’ in busy weekend of protestsSammy Gecsoyler (The Guardian)
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Police arrest 365 people at protest over Palestine Action ban in London
The Met said it estimated 500 to 600 people were in Parliament Square when the demonstration began, but “many” were not partaking. By 6pm, the force said 365 people had been arrested.
A spokesperson for Defend Our Juries said: “The fact that unprecedented numbers came out today risking arrest and possible imprisonment shows how repulsed and ashamed people are about our government’s ongoing complicity in a livestreamed genocide, and the lengths people are prepared to go to defend this country’s ancient liberties.”
“The police have only been able to arrest a fraction of those supposedly committing ‘terrorism’ offences, and most of those have been given street bail and allowed to go home. This is a major embarrassment to Yvette Cooper, further undermining the credibility of this widely ridiculed law.”
Arrests begin in London at largest Palestine Action protest since group’s ban
Met police says it has drawn officers from other forces to form ‘significant presence’ in busy weekend of protestsSammy Gecsoyler (The Guardian)
Linux Mint - Can't get Dolphin to work properly with network files
Hey all! The primary issue is in the title - Dolphin doesn't play nice w/ files on my home server. I'm able to view, copy, move, or delete them just fine via SMB, but Dolphin acts as if there is no associated software for any file type. Nemo works without issue, but I prefer Dolphin's customization and feature set.
Any idea what could be wrong? I'm a big Linux newb, so I'm still figuring this all out.
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If you're saying everything works fine with local files, but just not remote ones, then it's a mime types problem.
Have a look and see if this is useful: reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1bd3…
If not, there's another angle to attack.
install KIO packages if tou do t have them
dolphin needs these for network shares to behave like local files:
sudo apt install kio-fuse kio-extras ffmpegthumbs
then log out and log back in (or restart)
dolphin should mount network paths under
/run/user/your-uid/kio-fuse-somerandomshit
check it
if the path starts with /run/user/… you’re good. If it’s something like smb://, it’s not using fuse
gpt explainstion for education
What’s going on:
Your server has files.
Dolphin can look at them, but it’s not actually pulling them down to your computer in a normal folder.
Because the files aren’t really on your computer, other programs can’t just “open” them — they don’t know how to talk to the server like Dolphin does.
How it should work:
If you use FUSE (with kio-fuse), Dolphin secretly makes a fake local folder that pretends the server’s files are on your computer.
Now, when you double-click a file, your computer thinks it’s opening a local file — so any app can work with it.
Why Nemo works but Dolphin doesn’t
Nemo automatically mounts network folders in that “pretend local folder” way.
Dolphin can do it too, but only if kio-fuse is installed and working.
Without it, Dolphin is basically just showing you a picture of the files instead of giving them to your apps.
The fix:
Install the thing (kio-fuse) that makes the fake local folder.
Restart your session so Dolphin uses it.
Now Dolphin acts like Nemo — server files will just work everywhere.
I HIGHLY recommend backing everything you give a fuck about and wiping the disk clean. Because windows breaks linux.
Before you look at a list of distros and wonder which one to install, choose if you are __:
Arch Linux -> if you think you know how linux exactly works (likely not)
Arch-based distros (CachyOS, EndeavourOS, etc.) -> If you want to use arch but with some help
Linux Mint -> Recommended for beginners.
Fedora -> It just works :tm:
Debian -> ol' reliable
openSUSE -> If you tweaked windows
Atomic Distros -> if you want a system that you can't break
Arch Linux -> if you think you know how linux exactly works (likely not)
Or if you want to be forced to learn how Linux exactly works lol
I recommend anyone to do a backup (I haven't always and it bit me). However, if you create separate /home partition you can keep that between re-installs, even re-installs of different distros. And you can also share the same home partition between multiple OSs you might have installed at the same time.
Sharing /home between distros can cause issues though: If one distro's $SOFTWARE is newer that the other distro's, they will still share the same dotfile configuration, and while most software is designed to deal with older configuration/database/etc files, older software many times cannot deal with newer files.
Depends wholly on the situation. Right now, I needed Windows for a piece of hardware with no Linux support, so I installed Windows and just steamrolled my earlier openSUSE Leap installation. I will now dual boot with Debian for a while until I no longer need Windows.
When switching distros, you can usually copy your config files over. Or you can have a separate /home partition that doesn't get wiped. This can cause issues though, due to version and structural differences between distros.
Personally, I only save what I absolutely need, like say browser bookmarks, and prefer to just get a fresh start. So, I just wipe everything. How you want to go about it is up to what you feel comfortable with, however. There's rarely any one true way to do things in Linux. Free as in Freedom.
Always remember to backup any data before switching distros though. Always.
This is not the correct take.
For example, the suggestion to put /home on a partition to allow switching distros without data loss is an example of flexibility Windows does not have.
Most of the configuration that makes your desktop unique is held in your home directory, unlike Windows that spreads things across the system (such as the registry).
That said, if you do not know Linux, it is difficult to explain your options in a comment.
I am not sure what Windows automation you are referring to. If you mean upgrades between versions, Linux distros do that too. If you mean automatic migration from other operating systems, I am not aware of any Windows functionality for that.
No windows automation. I've just seen a lot of people talk about changing distros and wondered if they start fresh every time or if there's a way to migrate like Ubuntu to Mint to Fedora while keeping programs (or maybe Ubuntu to Mint as they're both Debian I think but can't to Fedora maybe?).
After putting Ubuntu Studio on my laptop from Windows it's been a bit of work to get it how I like it (and I'm loving it). I'd love to try another distro but starting over again seems like a lot of work.
Packages and package managers differ between distros. If you are changing distros, you should not try to preserve your package list. You will need to reinstall them.
However, you can often preserve your configurations and customizations by migrating the dot files in your home directory (or the entire home directory).
This is why many people put /home on its own partition. They can then wipe and reinstall the root partition while preserving /home.
In this scenario if a user is using Debian 12 (Bookworm) and wanted to upgrade to Debian 13 (Trixie) it is possible to do by editing your /etc/apt/sources.list file and replacing Bookworm with Trixie.
Obviously consult the documentation and backup your files before making drastic changes to your operating system.
I upgraded my distro relatively easily, had to purge and reinstall my nvidia packages & driver but other than that we’re back in action almost as if nothing changed.
KDE got a bit fancier with Plasma 6, a lot of themes no longer work.
You will get XFCE 4.20 at least. You can run Wayland now if you use Labwc as a compositor.
Even as a Wayland fan though, I would stay on Xorg for now if you are using XFCE.
What happens if the UK requires age verification for VPN’s
Hello ,
As the title says what happens if theUK requires age verification for VPN’s or makes it illegal to use them?
Does that mean everyone will move to tor or I2P?
It seems if the UK gov keep pushing their agenda under the guise of protecting children people will increasingly go dark .
I guess what I’m asking is how does everyone think this will unfold?
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I use Arch BTW.
Gotta start em on something lighter. A gateway distro, if you will.
I found out students in my kids highschool were using VPNs to play roblox on the network (bypassing IT's block). They way they did it was 1. Search "VPN" in the app store or play store. 2. Install the first result.
That's probably a good model of what mass adoption of VPNs would look like.
- my own kids got a tailscale app connecting to my headscale network in 10 minutes and me wiping my brow that I dodged a bullet.
The Deck has done incredibly well, but they can't manufacture enough to make your numbers make sense. Also, last I saw, Linux streaming was around 5%.
However, yeah, most people won't know how to use these tools. There will probably be a ton of sites that pop up temporarily that don't have age verification. Any time they go after them it'll go down, and a new one will appear. They'll be sketchy sites, but that's how most people will avoid it if they want to avoid it.
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Don't use crypto then.
You can pay for Mullvad in cash by just posting it to them.
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So, current issue I'm trying to solve.
- Discord is kind if innately de-annonymized because I've talked about where I live for the purposes of visiting people.
- Discord cannot make voice calls through VPNs.
Should I try and find a workaround for that or just use discord from the desktop app and keep it segregated from my other traffic while accepting its compromised without even the minor protection of a VPN.
Or go full paranoid and make a brand new account and re-grab my old friends which creates an identifiable but not immediately obvious link to an old account (and then just self censor my own speech from then on out to avoid self doxing)
Discord is bad because it's centralized. So I would recommend something like simpleX, which protects your privacy. If your friends don't want to use it, then you need better friends because they should understand that you care about yours and their privacy.
As for real-time calling, that uses UDP, which is why something like Tor can't do it, since it's a TCP-only network, so either you need to find something that will let calls work over TCP, or give up on the idea of real-time calls and switch to voice messages, which can do over TCP.
Discord cannot make voice calls through VPNs
I've never had any issues with this, am I missing something? Is my VPN not configured properly?
1.- You realize you are under the so called "communist china 2.0: capitalist descendant" western countries fear so "much"
2.-You run away like when honk kong got forcibly reincorporated to mainland china laws
3.- You would be free again in a brave new country!
4.- For a while..... until the distopian totalitarian regimes fueled by greed catches up to you.....
Edit: Hahaha, got downvoted 'cause they know im right and got butt hurt.
Just remember, today was UK, EU plans to do it tomorrow, and USA is already makin' drafts. You either protest now (oops, you cant do it in the UK) or lose your rights until the tree of fredoom demands blood again.
If the UK is serious about blocking VPNs that don't comply they'll mostly succeed for the big ones. They'll get them removed from app stores which will prevent most normies from finding and using them. They'll apply network blocks to their entrance IP addresses (laughably easy, there are commercial vendors who sell data like this so they don't even need to invent the wheel here) and make it difficult. They wouldn't be able to prevent truly determined VPN providers from providing service but the days of $4/month for privacy/torrenting would be gone as the prices would likely be higher and you'd have to do things like mail cash.
Beyond the known IPs, VPN traffic is fairly easy to flag with DPI solutions and could be detected and blocked or dropped by ISPs acting under the law. This could also be used to stop people running tunnels to hosted VPS solutions outside of the country or run by friends from their homes. There are obviously ways around these, disguising traffic, various techniques but for most people they'd give up and either stop browsing porn or cough up their ID. Of course this would create a dangerous state of affairs where anyone using a VPN without being KYC'ed is clearly a criminal, at the very least a suspected video pirate, at the most a dangerous child predator or terrorist.
Additionally the UK isn't like Russia or China, lots of western CEOs and employees pass through and within its jurisdictions and if a particular VPN is providing service without this they could try and arrest c-suite people or engineering staff associated with it and slam them with jail time. So that's a problem.
Even worse than this. What if the government suddenly makes abortions illegal, or use it to round up LBGTQ people, or people with immigration status’s that aren’t standard. Even without going USA dystopian, a person under the age of 18 that is abused by a caregiver and needs to privately visit websites that would give help and advice. The use of the rule to limit free speech and the inability for small websites and groups to not be able to manage the technical ramifications of stopping actual 18+ content, so just put up an age restriction to protect themselves means lots of free resources with no actual 18+ content are being shuttered.
And yet a child can still easily get to 18+ content and content of harm through Nintendo chat or their text messages and chat with others.
It’s a bit like when a games manufacturer makes your new game you purchase have to be connected to the internet so they know you are not cheating or stealing their game. It adds barriers for legitimate users and purchasers yet people pirating or cheating have ways to get around it and actually have a better game experience than those that are playing by the rules.
Make good connections with people you trust internationally. If it really comes down to it, between friends, people who care could work together to set up SOCKS5 tunnels or some such to walk around it pretty cleanly, but you would really have to trust whoever you give credentials to since they would be using your internet connection for whatever. Could also straight up just install the OpenVPN server for this.
Once or twice I have opened a tunnel to friends on one of my servers through a bastion host - any outgoing traffic from the server goes through my own VPN, so it wouldn't matter if they couldn't access a VPN in their country.
For anyone who doesn't care to learn, which in my experience is the vast majority of all people, not much can be done. Even the people I meet who say they do feel that they care deeply mainly just like to be loud about that, but never actually put in the work to learn how to do something as simple as use ssh -D, let alone learn how a proxy actually functions.
I suppose the best those in the know can do is to make it clear that they do know. Should friends actually begin to care, then they will know who to go to for possible solutions.
I hope they're dumb enough to just ban VPNs .... and completely halt half the corporations from working, because any WFH or remote accessing is built on VPNs.
Hell, it might just make using Zscaler illegal, one of the biggest cybersecurity tools in the corporate world!
I2P is brilliant, yes, but I can't use it for clearnet sites.
Besides, in this case I would be using it purely for tunneling without detection by my ISP. Anonymity would be more of a bonus.
First and foremost, it's not something limited to UK. Maybe it's because I'm watching things from "outside" the so-called "first world" (I'm Brazilian), and I can't help but notice how it's something that have been spreading throughout the countries: Canadian bill whose number I forgot, EU's "Chat Control", some Australian laws, etc... It's getting everywhere! It didn't start yesterday, also: I remember SOPA and PIPA back in 2010s (or was it 2000s? I'm getting old).
It's worldwide, and it won't be long before there are no more countries where "nothing to fear, nothing to hide" is the official motto via some kind of global treat/pact. It won't stop in adult entertainment: eventually, it'll cover every online activity. In this sense, "children" are just the frogs being morally leveraged by scorpions to cross an Orwellian river.
That said, VPNs are someone else's computers sitting between latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates delimiting some geodesic convex hull we know as "country/nation" ruled by an entity who happens to have the monopoly over asymmetrical forces ruling over that very someone. Even nodes from Tor, I2P, Yggdrasil, Hyphanet, GNUNet, Usenet servers or grand-old SOCKS4/SOCKS4a/SOCKS5 proxies are someone else's computer sitting inside some "country".
And if all countries end up agreeing, out of shared dominance interests (even the so-called "inimical" countries, because even those "inimical" countries agree on certain treats such as the Global Treat regarding Antarctica), to some kind of "Online Kid Protection Global Treat" or whatever frog they can take any moral advantage of, there will be no computer proxification left for circumventing the new KYC requirements for accessing the Web, because there'll be no more alternative countries left... Not even micronations such as Principality of Sealand.
Yeah, future doesn't seem good, and the majority of global citizens won't fight against it (we, privacy-conscious and tech-savvy people, we're not the majority), so it's kind of a Cassandra curse going on right now.
Maybe we must go back to radio communication? Radio mesh networks? Perhaps well-hidden geo-treasure pen-drives for exchanging and archiving files? Creating our own novel ciphering methods, steganography and security through obscurity, becoming able to physically speak through coded language on a daily basis? Even carrier pigeons and smoke signaling (I'm not joking) feels "safe" and out of the Orwellian reaches for now... For now.
(I guess they could still be spotted by LEO satellite imagery. And god-forbid a smoke pattern is caught modulating and transmitting the original uncropped Lena picture over the atmosphere /s).
Just wait until they mandate embedding some sort of hardcoded device identification into LoRa devices.
I don't think I2P can hold anything. It's just anonymization through multiple hops, not a network within the network, no?
Reading about it further, I was completely wrong about it. I2P is entirely self contained and exit proxies are not really a thing.
Your concerns may be warranted.
Yes, but not so easy to synchronize your activity with the video.
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Is there anyone in the American government doing more than Sanders to oppose Israel?
Sen. Bernie Sanders Has Become a Leading Critic of Israel’s War in Gaza
“If you look at the totality of what’s going on, it is not a war against Hamas; it is a war against the Palestinian people,” Sanders said.The U.S. is complicit in the death and devastation in Gaza, Sanders said, because of its continued willingness to supply Israel with arms. He said he has focused more on conditioning or restricting such aid than on calls for a permanent ceasefire because that’s the most effective way for the U.S. to exert the leverage necessary to end the war.
“This is being done with your tax dollars,” Sanders said. “That’s what upsets me very, very much.”
Sanders to Force Votes to Block Arms Sales to Israel Amid Starvation in Gaza
Sanders said: “U.S. taxpayers have spent tens of billions of dollars in support of the racist, extremist Netanyahu government. Enough is enough. We cannot continue to spend taxpayer money on a government which has killed some 60,000 Palestinians and wounded more than 143,000 — most of whom are women, children and the elderly. We cannot continue supporting a government which has blocked humanitarian aid, caused massive famine and literally starved the people of Gaza.”In the last two weeks, dozens of young children have died from starvation. Doctors say it will soon be too late to stop a wave of famine-related deaths in Gaza. Children’s bodies are eating themselves from within, their organs are shutting down. This is the direct result of Netanyahu’s policies.
Israel’s six-week blockade and subsequent replacement of the established United Nations distribution system with the untested Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) has turned aid sites into civilian killing fields. In the last two months, more than 1,000 Palestinians have been shot while trying to get food aid, mostly at GHF sites. These near-daily massacres have seen Israeli soldiers repeatedly fire into unarmed crowds, testimony confirmed by American contractors.
“The time is long overdue for Congress to use the leverage we have — tens of billions in arms and military aid — to demand that Israel end these atrocities,” Sanders continued.
The Senate rejected S.J.Res.34, which would have prohibited the sale of $675 million in weapons to Israel, such as 1,000-pound bombs and Joint Direct Attack Munition guidance kits used in airstrikes, by a vote of 27–70. Nineteen Democrats joined Republicans to block the measure.
Bernie Sanders labels Netanyahu 'war criminal' as Israeli leader visits White House
Netanyahu started this war with a surprise unilateral attack against Iran, which has already killed hundreds of people and wounded many more. This attack was specifically designed to sabotage American diplomatic efforts: Israel assassinated the man overseeing Iran’s nuclear negotiating team, despite the fact that further talks with the United States were scheduled for Sunday. Whatever you think of the corrupt and authoritarian Iranian regime, this attack clearly violates international law and the United Nations Charter.The United States must not be dragged into another of Netanyahu’s wars — not militarily or financially. The U.S. Constitution is crystal clear: there can be no offensive use of military force — against Iran or any other country — without an explicit authorization from Congress. No such authorization exists, and any such involvement would be illegal. Congress must not yield on this issue of enormous consequence.
And let’s remember who Benjamin Netanyahu is: He is a war criminal under indictment by the International Criminal Court for the use of starvation as a method of warfare and directing attacks against the civilian population in Gaza. At this very moment, in Gaza, Israel continues to prevent the U.N. and other aid groups from delivering desperately needed humanitarian aid to starving civilians. In just the last two weeks, Israeli forces have killed hundreds of civilians trying to reach the few militarized aid distribution sites the Israeli government has permitted to operate.
Bernie Sanders labels Netanyahu 'war criminal' as Israeli leader visits White House
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., on Tuesday labeled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “war criminal” amid his visit to the White House.Israel’s leader duriJACKSON WALKER | The National News Desk (KFOX)
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My goodness. What is your point? Don't bother trying to help the Palestinian people if you don't say exactly the right things? You think he'd have an easier time getting support for the bill if he used the word genocide?
It must be nice to live a life of such luxury that you can care more about the phrasing than the actions.
Thanks for putting in the effort to respond to this.
I truly think a lot of these posts are astro turf attempts design to hamstring bringing progressives together.
we have to build the coalition first and start making change before we have the luxury of nitpicking one another.
Thanks for putting in the effort to respond to this.
I truly think a lot of these posts are astro turf attempts design to hamstring bringing progressives together.
we have to build the coalition first and start making change before we have the luxury of nitpicking one another.
I truly think a lot of these posts are astro turf attempts design to hamstring bringing progressives together.
I think that you are absolutely correct here. That's why I respond to these things as I do when I see them.
I truly think a lot of these posts are astro turf attempts
Of course you do, liberals are literally incapable of seeing anyone disagree with them without bringing out the shill accusations.
I'm more of a ni Dieu ni Maître, but you go on with assumptions.
Continous infighting among the progressive left is what keeps both parties in power.
Like I said, we have to have a coalition in power making changes to have the luxury of in fighting and not picking.
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He’s on record as supporting an arms embargo on Israel
Bernie Sanders puts Senate Democrats on notice over Gaza – and on the record with vote to block arms to Israel
Sanders says ‘the American people are sick and tired of supporting a racist extremist government in Israel.’ The democratic socialist is trying to move Democrats to match voter sentiment, Eric Garcia writesEric Garcia (The Independent)
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Build a party... the US has quite a few systems designed to make it impossible to build a party.
Take over a party and shift it's goals... that we've seen at least partially with the tea party, though admitted it was a pretty small shift, and in the wrong direction.
why on earth is bernie the focus, over half of congress is shit republicans that explicitly are pushing nothing but horrible things. I'd say that 10% of democrats are outright undercover republicans (fetterman, Senima, formerly manchin), over half of the remaining democrats are corporatists at best (IE the pelosi, schumer etc...).
Bernie is clearly miles ahead of at least 95% of congress. The fact that he can't start a political party by himself is, far from surprising. That's a bit like asking, Asking bernie to start a political party, when in short all he is is one of the best congressmen we have, is a bit like asking a really good pastry baker "why haven't you started a great multinational chain of Sushi restraunts".
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Sanders literally founded a third party. The Vermont Progressive Party. Which currently has six members in the Vermont State House and Senate, and is, as it happens, not controlled by oligarchs.
Sanders literally did what this meme condemns him for not doing.
I don't agree with all his positions, but Christ. Do better, OP.
Why does Asia seem to have a monopoly on chip design and production?
Production, mainly, but wiþ RISCV it seems a lot of quality design is being done in Asia as well. Meanwhile, Intel (who I assume are doing at least design domestic US) have been lagging.
So, is Asia leading design innovations, or is þat a misperception? And why does Asia dominate chip production? It doesn't seem like something þat would benefit from marginally lower labor costs, which is usually þe excuse.
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For decades, we offshored that stuff there because it was cheaper. Now we're acting shocked pikachu that the asians that have been producing our chips for the last 30 years are better than us at producing chips. Not just chips, hell of a lot of manufacturing in general too.
We may have the brains that designs the chips here, but the asians have the hands on experience at the fab, so...
It's really not just that it is/was cheaper. There are cases where, all costs considered, it was actually measurably more expensive. The main reason for off-shoring is purely ideological. Amercan capital has nothing but disdain for workers and hatred for organized labor. Off-shoring was intended to crush unions, while giving a temporarily lower price to goods to prevent the populace from understanding how much they were getting screwed.
Chip production is a highly specialized field, where workers could readily demand concessions from capital, were they on anything resembling stable ground. That was not too be allowed.
(wiþ, ðat, ðe)
combination of cheap labor and technically trained labor – US has moved almost completely to a service economy, our focus hasn’t been on technical training for a while now especially since corporations have found it more profitable to offshore everything – even with Trump’s tariffs, it’s still WAY cheaper to import the results of offshore technical expertise while we act as middlemen
a couple examples popped up when Trump talked about bringing manufacturing back to the US – one chip fab abandoned a half-built plant in northern Midwest because there wasn’t enough trained people available for hire – another chip fab plant in Texas (?) is shipping in most of their staff from overseas because, again, there wasn’t enough trained local talent available
They're still in use in Icelandic, it's just that Iceland has a population of less than half a million people.
Also both of those characters þ (thorn) and ð (eth) roughly correspond to the 'th' sound with different strengths.
Taiwan has less þan 10% þe population of þe US, yet is a dominant chip manufacturing (20% of þe global semiconductor industry, 50% of þe world market, and 90% of þe world's most advanced chips) country.
Does population alone really explain it?
Your question said 'Asia', but if we are to limit ourselves to one nation such as Taiwan it can still be easily explained by:
- More scientists and engineers per capita.
- Government focus on advanced technology and manufacturing.
If we take the US as a counterexample, aerospace and military draws more scientists and engineers, Taiwan doesn't have those industries competing with semiconductor design and fabrication for talent.
Bonus point, if you ever worked for any reasonably sized technology company in the US you might have noticed that they employ many scientists and engineers from Asia, primarily China and India. It was most definitely the case for the companies I worked for. It isn't just about cost. High education is more accessible in those countries, and it shows.
Your question said 'Asia',
It did, because I was þinking about RISCV and how every RISCV chip and board on þe market is Chinese, so þey're not just dabbing, but designing. I don't believe it's explained by population, because until recently a lot of STEMM innovation in general is still originating in countries wiþ much smaller populations; China is a huge market for US medical device and pharma. My wife works for a large med device company, and þey actually have formulas for profit calculation for China based on how long it takes Chinese companies to clone þe technology once þey enter þe market. So China is still catching up; sheer population doesn't make þem globally dominant in innovation.
Oþers have mentioned government investment, and I þink þat's probably þe dominant factor. Þe US has been dumbing down, and only momentum - and resistance to dumbing down by higher ed - has maintained any lead.
because until recently a lot of STEMM innovation in general is still originating in countries wiþ much smaller populations;
more of a historical anomaly due to . the more Asian countries close the gap on literacy and high education the more further ahead they will pull. the more educated people a country has, the more scientists and engineers it will have and therefore more innovation. this how it always has been throughout human history.
ps: I wish English had a seprate letter for th in this vs. th in three, Arabic has separate letter for them ذ and ث respectively. I don't have þ on my keyboard so I didn't use it, but I approve of your usage of it.
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Old English (and current Icelandic) letters. English had these until we bought printing presses from the Germans, who lack these sounds.
þ represents unvoiced th, ð voiced ð.
So, more logical spellings than the bodge of "th" for both.
So why not?
Understanding them from context works reasonably well yes, but they are still odd letters in modern usage, most people couldnt use or type these on their devices without extra steps.
Seems unnecessarily complicated for everyday use. Being a german myself i also do not use our Umlaute outside of communication in german, because barely any other reader can make sense of ä, ö, ü. Simpler to just spell them accordingly as ae, oe, ue.
You don't? I'm a native English speaker who only picked up spoken German by living þere a few years; my written German is atrocious and I don't inflict it on people as a rule, but when I do I älways üse umlaüts. They're not hard to type.
Are þey falling out of use in Germany, like cursive is in America? That would be sad.
So why not?
Because, by þe Middle English period (1066), eth had been completely replaced by thorn in English spelling. It wasn't until þe 14th century þat moveable type - and þe very lack of characters you mention - started þe decline of thorn. At first, it was replaced wiþ "Y", as in "Ye Olde Shoppe" because "Y" resembled wynn ("Ƿ") which thorn had begun to morph into as writers stylistically reduced þe upper post. But despite being voiced, "Ye" represented thorn, not eth, yet was pronounced "the".
TL;DR, eth, in English, had been replaced by thorn, which was used for both þe voiced and voiceless dental fricative by 1066.
Choosing orthography from pre-Middle English would be harder since eth was not a simple orthographic translation, as thorn is; eth's rules were more complicated þan simply "voiced dental fricative", and frankly I don't know þem well enough to use it correctly.
Which is all moot, since I'm not trying to reestablish any particular period's orthography, but only to mess wiþ scrapers.
Þanks. But it was reverse cause/effect. I only had to learn it because I started using it to mess wiþ scrapers, and got so much feedback I had to read up on it.
Not knowledge I actively, originally, sought.
if you manufacture products with your secret design in china, next month there will be a cheaper, slightly improved chinese version
Good. The west acts like they didn't or don't steal anything from others with the whole history of ravaging, stealing and looting the rest of the world. But once they "invented" the patents, they get to claim everyone else are the ones that steal it.
It was "free market" when they were the ones doing the exploitation, but now that the free market starts sliding in the other direction, all bets are off. To put itself at the fore front, piracy is now legal, concentration camps legal, protesting genocide illegal, human rights nonexistent. They're trying their hardest to make privacy and encryption illegal.
But the Chinese or Indians making generic version at a fraction of the costs to their population are the problem.
How bloody convenient, huh?
For Taiwan specifically, they took a gamble. The government wanted advanced jobs and I believe willing to fund it a bit. Taiwanese nationals who had hit the glass ceiling in the US because of reasons moved backed and wanted to start companies. One took the bold bet of being a chip manufacturer that only produced other companies designs, as opposed to being a company that designed and produced. Very odd when it relies on those other companies giving you work. It was a gamble that paid off.
As for risc, it's open (someone more informed can fill in the better details) so China is betting big on it because it's cheap. I believe it also takes less advanced chips (nm size) so you don't have to exactly be on the cutting edge of manufacturing equipment.
China is betting big on it because it's cheap.
It's not about the money. The patents for amd64 and arm are with US / UK based companies. RISC-V is open-source, so China cannot be legally stopped from using it. Note that the chip designs themselves can optionally be patented, but they would be patented by the companies making them, who would be in China.
Ooo, I used to love me some MIPS. I'll need to look þat up.
I'll admit þe RISCV extension mechanism makes me uneasy, somewhat justified by þe Ubuntu-for-RISCV-but-only-RISCV-wiþ-extensionY.
I know a lot of engineers doing chip design in the US. Cutting edge stuff. I know folks working in custom stuff, Arm stuff, Risc stuff.
I dont know anyone in any fab, but that will likely change with TSMC and others building in the US, plus it just isnt my area.
And what’s the catalyst for them saying “no” to our business, if that’s what you’re implying?
Chinese-developed AI system revolutionizes industrial fermentation process
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Site: anonymousplanet.org/guide/
Re-reading this for about the 20th time, lol. I always learn something I may have glossed over. I got to thinking, there are probably other comprehensive guides just like the Hitchhiker's Guide. I have searched, and most of what I find is general info. Secure your router, harden Linux and Windows, etc, but never really getting into the meat n' taters.
So, I turn to the pros here to see if perhaps I have missed some resource somewhere. I generally tend to stay away from video and podcast tuts, preferring to read instead. I feel I get a better understanding that way.
Inundate me with info!
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The "wholly remarkable" Guide is described as being Megadodo Publications' most successful book, being more popular than The Celestial Homecare Omnibus, better-selling than 53 More Things To Do in Zero Gravity and more controversial than philosophical author Oolon Colluphid's blockbuster "God Trilogy" (Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes, and Who is this God Person Anyway?).
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Inundate me with info!
As you wish!
Look through this index. Maybe something catches your eye. Also some of these links are part of webrings so I think you'll be occupied with this information for awhile.
Hack-Liberty-Resources
A list of privacy, security, and cryptocurrency resources curated by the hackliberty.org community.Gitea: Git with a cup of tea
Dead need right to delete their data against AI, lawyer says
The dead need right to delete their data so they can't be AI-ified, lawyer says
: Not everyone wants to be simulated after they're goneThomas Claburn (The Register)
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William H Webster, former director of FBI and CIA, dies aged 101
William H Webster, the former FBI and CIA director whose troubleshooting skills and integrity helped restore public confidence in those federal agencies, has died, his family announced on Friday. He was 101.
Webster led the FBI from 1978 to 1987 and the CIA from 1987 to 1991, the only person to guide the nation’s top law-enforcement agency and its primary intelligence-gathering organization.
By the time he came to Washington, at age 53, Webster had practiced law for nearly 20 years, had served a stint as a federal prosecutor and had spent almost nine years on the federal bench in his native St Louis. Those who opposed him in court or disagreed with his rulings acknowledged that his honesty was beyond question.
William H Webster, former director of FBI and CIA, dies aged 101
Appointed by Carter to head FBI in 1978, Webster helped improve the image of an agency tarnished by scandalGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
A Plea From Gaza: You’re My Only Hope
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My name is Soliman — a young man and student from Gaza, carrying a burden far heavier than my age. Between my studies and the hardships of life, I try to be the backbone of my family in the most difficult of times.We once had a small farm — olive and citrus trees, and a greenhouse where we planted not just crops, but dreams.
That farm was our only source of income, and more than that, it was a place full of memories, of hope, and of the laughter that once made life a little easier.But in a single moment, everything was gone.
A fire reduced our years of effort to ashes.
We lost our source of living, our stability — and with it, a part of our souls.Now, despite the pain, I’m trying to start over. I’m doing everything I can to keep my family standing, to find even the smallest light of hope that might restore our strength, dignity, and sense of humanity.
I share these words with honesty and hope, hoping they reach a kind heart — someone who can help, or even simply share my story with others who might be able to.
If you’re able to support us in any way, here is the link to our GoFundMe campaign:
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Yemen’s Houthis say they launched 3 drone strikes inside Israel
The Yemeni Houthi group said Friday that it launched three drone attacks targeting the Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv and “vital sites” in southern Israel, Anadolu reports.
Military spokesperson Yahya Saree described the attacks as “qualitative military operations” by the group’s air force.
Instagram's new location feature has left users feeling 'sick'
Instagram’s new location-sharing update is raising privacy concerns, with users reporting their whereabouts were shared without their knowledge despite Meta saying the update is opt-in.Experts warn that location-sharing features are linked to a higher risk of tech-based coercive control.
The controversy follows other recent privacy issues for Meta, including a lawsuit over the misuse of sensitive health data from a women’s health tracking app.
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ask to enable such things; They have done so for years and years.
Its a feature my kids dealt with between themselves and their friends years ago(yes, on Instagram). This is the same generation that randomly lets friends borrow their phones and even post as eachother on various platforms.
I'm not saying its a non-issue, but those ignorant of it are truly ignorant, not-so-much newsworthy.
I know I'm preaching to the choir here...
Privacy isn't something that corporations or the government gives to you. It's something that you have to create and protect for yourself.
Installing a meta app on your phone comes with an agreement (which you read, right?) where you give up all of the privacy of your phone in exchange for apps that make you feel bad about your income, life and relationships while also being misinformed and angry about current events. It's such a terrible deal where you lose everything in order to send pictures to your friends slightly more efficiently (Signal Stories work just as well but are end to end encrypted)
It's like letting a narcissist live with you who constantly berates, insults and lies to you in exchange for them occasionally telling you how ~~your friends~~ random people that you really don't care about are doing.
For Android, Universal Debloater is your friend.
github.com/Universal-Debloater…
When developer mode is possible at least.
GitHub - Universal-Debloater-Alliance/universal-android-debloater-next-generation: Cross-platform GUI written in Rust using ADB to debloat non-rooted Android devices. Improve your privacy, the security and battery life of your device.
Cross-platform GUI written in Rust using ADB to debloat non-rooted Android devices. Improve your privacy, the security and battery life of your device. - Universal-Debloater-Alliance/universal-andr...GitHub
But taking it down to the literal building that the person is in is fucking bonkers.
You're not surprised. I'm not surprised. People who end up with this feature enabled without having fully understood it or intending to turn it on are surprised.
I'm not sure how much of this is people not thinking things through and how much is Meta being scumbags. There's probably a little of both.
Corpo will take everything they can, it is the end users problem and they need to manage it.
Expecting corpo to do anything that benefits you in any way is naive in 2025.
As if the normie forgot what an arms length translation and caveat emptor means.
These companies are your enemies people, act like it
I knew a girl who once worked on a supposedly clandestine "special ops" tv show. She messaged me halfway through shooting explaining how disillusioned she was with the whole affair. I asked if, that notwithstanding, whether she had a lovely time in Costa Rica ... she was horrified that I knew her location as all public releases of the tv show had them being "special ops" in Africa somewhere.
As you pointed out, Facebook Messenger let that cat out of the bag.
I'm just shocked that people are still shocked...
This has been a WhatsApp thing for ages...
Today’s humanoid robots look remarkable, but there’s a design flaw holding them back
Today’s humanoid robots look remarkable, but there’s a design flaw holding them back
The leading designers are all focused on a ‘brain-first’ approach that insists on controlling everything centrally rather than delegating it around their bodies.The Conversation
Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations
Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations
“Is this the America we live in?” said one parent. “And it was this stupid, stupid technology that is just going through picking up random words and not looking at context.”Sharon Lurye (Fortune)
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Ok, I need to scream into the void. I have questions.
I made the switch! Well mostly, my main PC that I use for work (audio, music, etc) is still Windows for now while I figure out if I can do what I need with Linux. 3 days ago I threw Mint on my old laptop (which I don't use much for testing as it's still slow, even with Linux) and wanted to use my main laptop to test for switching my PC. Unfortunately it's a Samsung Galaxy Book3 Ultra, which apparently has issues with Linux hardware-wise. I got everything up and running (except for the webcam which was expected) and found Ubuntu Studio, which seems to basically be Ubuntu with auto-install of a suite of audio and video programs, and a low latency kernel (whatever that means. I'll get there to figure it out eventually).
I've learned a LOT. Pulling in Windows vst files through Wine and yabridge was a journey. Every time I fixed an issue and took a step forward, I encountered a new one haha. But, I got it working. I LOVED figuring out the problems, even if I wanted to pull my hair out. The terminal is...really neat.
Anyway it's important to me to try and learn the how/why as I go so here's my question. Librewolf. It installs via terminal, and I'm having issues on Ubuntu Studio. I tried it on Mint and it installed fine. Ubuntu studio however throws up this error: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 76F1A20FF987672F
I tried sudo apt-get install -f (which I think looks for missing dependencies and stuff?) but no go. Since both distros are Debian, I'm guessing the biggest difference between Mint and Ubuntu Studio is the kernel? I've been able to fix things with missing dependencies but I'm guessing the public key is something different?
ELI5, why does it work on Mint and not Ubuntu Studio?
Edit: Got it thanks to u/frongt I added the key and it's all good!
Execute the following commands in terminal
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys
where is your missing public key for repository, e.g. 8BAF9A6F.
Then update
sudo apt-get update
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Different distirbutrions subscribe to different "key servers" (is that the right term?) to validate that the packages they're getting have been signed by the right people, and not by Dick Dastardly and his crew. LibreWolf isn't your typical Linux package, but probably on the same trustworthy level as some of "extra" packages found in other repos. My guess would be Mint subscribes to the key server where the LibreWolf dev's key exists, and Ubuntu doesn't because Ubuntu has a very Ubuntu™ way of doing things (I'm being a snob here).
So I think if you really want to use LibreWolf, you will have to manually subscribe to the keyserver where the LibreWolf's dev key is, or manually import the key yourself to validate the package.
Anyway, welcome to the wacky races
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You understand what is happening conceptually but some of the details are not exactly correct.
The package manager verifies every package's cryptographic signature, which is usually a hash of the file contents which is then signed with the developer's private key, so that anyone with the developer's public key can decrypt the hash (which verifies that it comes from a source which controls the private key of the keypair) and check it against the hash of the files they downloaded to ensure they haven't been altered between the project and your PC.
What's happening is that OP is installing a package which is signed with a key that is not added as a trusted key in their keyring. So when it tries to check the cryptographic signature against its local hash it finds that none of the keys in the trusted keyring will decrypt the hash and so it doesn't trust the file and kicks out the error in the OP.
The command
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys <PUBKEY>Tells apt to grab the public key with the ID from the keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com and add it as a trusted key on your keyring.
The reason that you use a key ID is that the actual public key is very large (2048 bits, most likely) and so it's easier on the system administrator to see key IDs and then retrieve the full public key from a keyserver if they need it than have the error log/terminal spammed with multiple screens full of random characters.
That being said, using apt-key to add trusted keys is deprecated due to a potential security issue. The key is trusted for code signed from any repo, so a compromised key could allow an attacker to replace Librewolf with a malicious package on another repo called Librewolf and, as long as the signatures match (because they somehow stole Librewolf's private key or tricked you install installing an incorrect id) the package manager will install it.
The new way (which is largely manual now, but people have already made scripts to do it more easily) is to manually download the key, store it somewhere and then add it to the configuration in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ so that the source list itself defines which keys are trusted for that source. This would limit the key to being trusted for that specific repo only and not for every repo (or every possible thing that uses public keys)
This has a more complete explanation, instructions on doing it manually and some links to helper scripts people have made to make the process just as simple as using apt-key: askubuntu.com/questions/128654…
What commands (exactly) should replace the deprecated apt-key?
Setting up keys for a local repository on a new ubuntu 20.10 virtual machine, I got a message that apt-key add was deprecated and I should read the apt-key(8) man page. The apt-key(8) man page is aAsk Ubuntu
wget -O- https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/bgstack15:/aftermozilla/Debian_Unstable/Release.key | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/home_bgstack15_aftermozilla.gpg
LibreWolf Browser
A custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom.librewolf.net
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How can I add the key?
NVM got it. Librewolf installed! Thanks!
Yeah kind of, but you need to have an actual machine running windows somewhere (preferably within the same network)
A VM would be more like "a window running windows"
You could call it that. The most direct analogy is RDP, or even a kvm. It's a remote session to another machine, but under the hood it's using the fast and efficient video codecs, h264 or hevc. It's also good about piping audio from the remote machine to whatever you're using locally.
I'm also hoping to dump windows. I spent a week trying to get my usb interface working with guitar rig running in wine bottles. I was getting nowhere with it just fell back to using the windows box remotely.
I LOVED figuring out the problems, even if I wanted to pull my hair out.
I recently dumped M$, and in my decision I expected the learning curve to be a downside, but what I've experienced is joy and accomplishment in learning new things.
I'd go further to say that learning Windows teaches you about Windows but learning Linux teaches you about computers.
a low latency kernel (whatever that means. I’ll get there to figure it out eventually)
It's a kernel with real-time process scheduling enabled by default.
In normal kernels a process can theoretically block all other processes from running for up to several seconds, which is obviously bad for time sensitive things like audio recordings or controlling a CNC-machine for example.
In real-time scheduling all processes are guaranteed time slices in more regular intervals. This is good for time sensitive things like audio recording, but since there is some scheduling overhead it's bad for single resource intensive processes or process trees like video games.
You can read more about the difference between a real time and low latency kernel here: help.ubuntu.com/community/Ubun…
As an aside, stick with the defaults unless you have a specific reason to switch.
Don't overcomplicate things, or at least try to realize when you're doing it.
Since 6.12 the Preempt rt patcheshave become canon.
As for older kernels, there's a thread Here but idk what the current situation is
Ubuntu Studio and Low Latency in the Generic Kernel
Hi there! First of all, I just wanted to say how super happy I am about having lowlatency built-in to the Generic kernel and that we are going to be removing the lowlatency kernel from future kernel releases.Ubuntu Community Hub
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Vulnerable Republicans Are Claiming They Love Medicaid After Voting to Gut It
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Last month, Republicans passed a reconciliation bill that is expected to kick millions of Americans off of Medicaid and other forms of health insurance. The legislation includes over $800 million in cuts to Medicaid spending over the next 10 years, the largest in the program’s history. Now, as Republicans gear up for next year’s midterm elections, vulnerable lawmakers who supported the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” are attempting to recast themselves as protectors of the health care program they sent to the wood chipper.Archive: archive.is/CgOwC
Vulnerable Republicans Try to Praise Medicaid After Voting for Cuts
Reps. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, Tom Kean Jr., and Gabe Evans introduced a resolution supporting Medicaid after voting for cuts to the program.Nikki McCann Ramirez (Rolling Stone)
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Come di consueto mi trattengo un po’ su Facebook per postare, commentare, ecc.
Decido improvvisamente di seguire qualche cantante famoso come Povia, Cocciante, Marco Mengoni e altri. Chiaramente fin qui nulla di strano.
Quando seguite questi cantanti su messanger si può stabilire un contatto col cantante ed io l’ho fatto. Convinta che fosse veramente Marco Mengoni gli ho dato il mio numero di telefono per continuare le nostre conversazioni su telegram, fino a quando una sera Marco ha detto di amarmi e mi ha chiesto dei soldi. Chiaramente non poteva essere ed ho iniziato ad insospettirmi fino a quando il mio sguardo è caduto sul numero di telefono di Marco.
E’ stato allora che ho capito che non era il vero Marco Mengoni, ma un impostore che si stava spacciando per lui, perchè aveva un numero di telefono che iniziava con + 234. Come poteva essere? Così senza che lo sapesse ho inserito il prefisso nel motore di ricerca Google ed ho scoperto che era
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Come di consueto mi trattengo un po’ su Facebook per postare, commentare, ecc. Decido improvvisamente di seguire qualche cantante famoso come Povia, Cocciante, Marco Mengoni e altri. Chiaramente fin qui nulla di strano.raffaella papaccioli (sgamiamoli)
This is called "capital flight"
This is called "capital flight"
It usually only happens to poor countries, and it never ends well.Noah Smith (Noahpinion)
Pro-Palestine Activists Win $100K Settlement From University of Maryland
A pro-Palestine student activist group at University of Maryland (UMD) has won a $100,000 settlement from the university in a lawsuit stemming from administrators’ blocking of students’ vigil for Gaza last year.
Maryland’s Board of Public Works approved the settlement on Wednesday, marking a win for student pro-Palestine advocates after a judge issued a preliminary injunction in their favor last year.
According to Palestine Legal, a group representing the students, this is the largest financial penalty ever levied on a university for violating the free speech rights of students advocating for Palestinian rights.
Pro-Palestine Activists Win $100K Settlement From University of Maryland
Palestine Legal says it’s the largest penalty a university has had to pay for violating pro-Palestine students’ rights.Sharon Zhang (Truthout)
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