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GOP Investigation Pressures Wikipedia to Reveal Identities of Editors Accused of 'Bias' Against Israel
A pair of House Republicans is moving forward with an investigation that will seek to reveal the identities of Wikipedia editors who have edited articles to include information that portrays Israel negatively. The representatives asked Wikimedia's CEO, Maryana Iskander, for "assistance in obtaining documents and communications regarding individuals (or specific accounts) serving as Wikipedia volunteer editors who violated Wikipedia platform policies as well as your own efforts to thwart intentional, organized efforts to inject bias into important and sensitive topics."
Of chief concern to the legislators is investigating Wikipedia's handling of content related to Israel. They cited a report from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a pro-Israel lobbying group, which the legislators said "raised troubling questions about potentially systematic efforts to advance antisemitic and anti-Israel information in Wikipedia articles related to conflicts with the state of Israel."
The ADL report makes the allegation that 30 "bad-faith" Wikipedia editors, whose identities are not public, were collaborating to edit pages about the Israel-Palestine conflict by "spotlighting criticism of Israel and downplaying Palestinian terrorist violence and antisemitism," and in the process violating Wikipedia's commitment to neutrality.
GOP Investigation Pressures Wikipedia to Reveal Identities of Editors Accused of 'Bias' Against Israel
The effort furthers the goals of the Heritage Foundation, which has launched a plan to "identify and target Wikipedia editors" using a number of underhanded tactics.stephen-prager (Common Dreams)
GOP Investigation Pressures Wikipedia to Reveal Identities of Editors Accused of 'Bias' Against Israel
A pair of House Republicans is moving forward with an investigation that will seek to reveal the identities of Wikipedia editors who have edited articles to include information that portrays Israel negatively. The representatives asked Wikimedia's CEO, Maryana Iskander, for "assistance in obtaining documents and communications regarding individuals (or specific accounts) serving as Wikipedia volunteer editors who violated Wikipedia platform policies as well as your own efforts to thwart intentional, organized efforts to inject bias into important and sensitive topics."
Of chief concern to the legislators is investigating Wikipedia's handling of content related to Israel. They cited a report from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a pro-Israel lobbying group, which the legislators said "raised troubling questions about potentially systematic efforts to advance antisemitic and anti-Israel information in Wikipedia articles related to conflicts with the state of Israel."
The ADL report makes the allegation that 30 "bad-faith" Wikipedia editors, whose identities are not public, were collaborating to edit pages about the Israel-Palestine conflict by "spotlighting criticism of Israel and downplaying Palestinian terrorist violence and antisemitism," and in the process violating Wikipedia's commitment to neutrality.
GOP Investigation Pressures Wikipedia to Reveal Identities of Editors Accused of 'Bias' Against Israel
The effort furthers the goals of the Heritage Foundation, which has launched a plan to "identify and target Wikipedia editors" using a number of underhanded tactics.stephen-prager (Common Dreams)
Thanks and farewell to Steven Deobald | Gnome Foundation's Executive Director leaves after just 4 months
Thanks and farewell to Steven Deobald
Steven Deobald has been in the post of GNOME Foundation Executive Director for the past four months, during which time he has made major contributions to both the Foundation and the wider GNOME...Allan (Form and Function)
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He probbaly didn't realise the committment involved.
Sitting in someones front garden, on the edge of a pond with a red pointy hat, with a fishing rod, for days on end, can be very tiring.
Then you got the cats pissing on you and the birds landing on your head.
Its no fun, I can tell you.
Its tough being a gnome
Who is the guy and how did he get that position?
I'm guessing he's just a businessman that was hired based on connections or "credentials"? Does he have any connection with the free software space at all?
We need to keep scumbags like that as far away from the ecosystem as possible. They are leeches and will take advantage of our ignorance if we let them.
I have practically no respect for the gnome project at this point, so it wouldn't surprise me if this guy was brought in because the gnome foundation wants to emulate proprietary software companies.
Looking at his list of contributions, he didn't do much but probably sucked up a fat paycheck.
“Nothing More Than a Piece of Paper”: Armenians Displaced From Nagorno-Karabakh Say New Peace Accord With Azerbaijan Abandons Rights and Accountability
Emily Wilder
Aug 27, 2025
In September 2023, after years of alleged abuses by Azerbaijani forces against Armenian civilians and soldiers—including beheadings and torture—and a 9-month Azerbaijani military blockade of movement and humanitarian aid into the region, Azerbaijan began shelling the capital city of Stepanakert and other areas of Nagorno-Karabakh for two days. Following the surprise bombardment, Azerbaijan opened the one road from Nagorno-Karabakh into Armenia, and in the course of ten days, over 100,000 Armenians fled—an event that human rights experts described as ethnic cleansing, even genocide. Only a few dozen Armenian people remain in Nagorno-Karabakh, according to representatives, while the rest have resettled in Armenia, Russia, and elsewhere.
“Nothing More Than a Piece of Paper”: Armenians Displaced From Nagorno-Karabakh Say New Peace Accord With Azerbaijan Abandons Rights and Accountability
Trump’s gestural peace deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan ignores the conflict’s main victims from Nagorno-Karabakh and excludes their right to return home.Emily Wilder (Drop Site News)
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Russia & China are destroying us, openly, and we haven't done anything about it
- The Israel-Hamas conflict (and a genocide) is a distraction from Russia and Iran (yes, they disregard human lives that much), to avoid people from figuring out their plans, keeping a far-right Israeli government, and distracting from Ukraine. It also allows for Iran (and thus Russia) to test against missile and drone defense systems in Israel (that are the best anyway, therefore anything that passes will shred through any Western nation).
- Climate change isn't ignored; rather, it is done purposely. If farming fails, we will be in starvation, allowing them to take us out/dominate us much more easily. Additionally, there are studies that prove an increased temperature leads to lower productivity, thus proving this hypothesis further — and Russia won't feel as big of an impact there, especially in winter.
- The “AI” hype is being funded by both Russia and China, to lower our critical thinking, also allowing us to be tricked and attacked more easily. Furthermore, it increases the speed of climate change, and takes away even more clean water from us. This allows them to be able to poison our waters much more easily, since only a select few freshwater points will be out there,
"Israel-Hamas conflict"
How to spot an astroturfer 101:
- doesn't use the term Palestine or Gaza
- Says conflict instead of genocide.
US blocks Palestinian officials from attending UNGA as countries prepare to recognize Palestine
The US has revoked visas for Palestinian officials, barring them from attending next month’s United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, a move that comes as several Western countries prepare to recognize a Palestinian state.
“In accordance with US law, Secretary of State Marco Rubio is denying and revoking visas from members of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Palestinian Authority (PA) ahead of the upcoming United Nations General Assembly,” the State Department said in a statement on Friday.
It said that the PA Mission to the UN will receive waivers per the UN Headquarters Agreement.
The agency accused PLO and PA of failing to repudiate terrorism, inciting violence, and pursuing “international lawfare campaigns” through the International Criminal Court (ICC) and International Court of Justice (ICJ)
US blocks Palestinian officials from attending UNGA as countries prepare to recognize Palestine
The US has revoked visas for Palestinian officials, barring them from attending next month’s United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, a move that comes as several Western countries prepare to recognize a Palestinian state.
“In accordance with US law, Secretary of State Marco Rubio is denying and revoking visas from members of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Palestinian Authority (PA) ahead of the upcoming United Nations General Assembly,” the State Department said in a statement on Friday.
It said that the PA Mission to the UN will receive waivers per the UN Headquarters Agreement.
The agency accused PLO and PA of failing to repudiate terrorism, inciting violence, and pursuing “international lawfare campaigns” through the International Criminal Court (ICC) and International Court of Justice (ICJ)
Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps
US immigration agents will have access to one of the world’s most sophisticated hacking tools after a decision by the Trump administration to move ahead with a contract with Paragon Solutions, a company founded in Israel which makes spyware that can be used to hack into any mobile phone – including encrypted applications.
The Department of Homeland Security first entered into a contract with Paragon, now owned by a US firm, in late 2024, under the Biden administration. But the $2m contract was put on hold pending a compliance review to make sure it adhered to an executive order that restricts the US government’s use of spyware, Wired reported at the time.
That pause has now been lifted, according to public procurement documents, which list US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) as the contracting agency.
Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps
Trump administration contract with Paragon Solutions gives immigration agency access to one of the most powerful stealth cyberweaponsStephanie Kirchgaessner (The Guardian)
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Found an article that says this software is usually in-memory only and restarting regularly will purge it (obviously you could get reinfected): ~~zdnet.com/article/is-meta-secr…
Edit: wrong article, someone replied with the correct one
Every early morning. Mine is right before my alarm goes off, so the notification sounds just meld.
Also, no one should be using biometric data to log into thier phones. 6 digit pin isn't very obtrusive once you get used to it
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6 digit pin will be broken in less than 40 minutes by a graybox. A 6-digit pin is way more vulnerable than someone who uses a 30-digit password + biometrics
edit: sorry it’s instantly in 2025 hivesystems.com/blog/are-your-…
Are Your Passwords in the Green?
Passwords that felt secure a year ago might not hold up in 2025. Hive Systems’ updated Password Table reveals just how much faster hackers can break into accounts today.Corey Neskey (Hive Systems)
Sure bro, put a 30 character password into your phone every time you want to find the nearest fucking coffee shop.
edit: I guess I should explain. I'm into privacy not necessarily absolute security. If a cop wants in my phone I forgot my PIN. There's no biometric to get into it so he's going to have to get a warrant if he wants anything to actually stick. With face ID he just holds it up to my face. With fingerprint he can force my finger onto the sensor. In the USA, don't know about Europe.
No? I quint-click my power button through my pocket any time there’s even a whiff of sketch. Now biometrics are 100% off. And even if a cop was holding my phone I’d have to open my eyes, keep one shut at all times and after 2 bad scans biometrics turn off completely.
I don’t understand your argument in the least, maybe you could read about how current biometrics work and give me your feedback once you’re caught up?
I just needed this info out there, I don’t really care what you do - I just need to make sure Lemmy stays safe and you’re spouting leaky insecurity disguised as best practices.
Best of luck
I think I just leaked a little right now. I don't believe you have a 30 character unlock on your phone. That doesn't make sense on a device someone uses multiple times a day in one hand at like a bus stop or something.
And I'm no security professional, just some dumbass out in the street.
+ biometrics
This means you only enter the password when your phone restarts, you access specific settings, or I think one or two other rare cases. Personally I only need to enter my pin maybe once a week
What the actual fuck>!><!>>!>!
Are you assholes actually inputting 24+characters plus biometrics into your phone to unlock it?
Fuck you, no you are not.
Of course I do. FaceID allows me to input it exactly once a week, sometimes less.
What don’t you understand?
The linked article doesn’t mention whether it can bypass the max attempt lockout or not. I’m not saying you’re wrong, but the article you linked does nothing to support your claim.
That said, an alphanumeric password is certainly more secure than a PIN, no doubt.
After I didn't see the mentioned content I looked around Zdnet, and I think you might have meant to link this article instead:
zdnet.com/article/rebooting-yo…
Bad click, it happens. Good article, though. Thanks!
Rebooting your phone daily is your best defense against zero-click attacks - here's why
Phone hacking technologies are getting stealthier. It's time to treat your phone like a computer, says this cybersecurity expert.Matene Toure (ZDNET)
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Updated Cellebrite Google Pixel Matrix Leak February 2025
GrapheneOS is still not vulnerable to Cellebrite device exploitation as of the February 2025 support matrix which have leaked online in multiple places.Privacy Guides Community
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I mean imo everyone's threat model should be at least their local police if not the national authorities. Local cops have cellebrite. Only the latest pixel is secure before first unlock on this chart.
I'm finna go dumbphone in a Faraday bag.
Yeah, don't blame the brownshirts kicking teeth in, blame the government that hires them /s
They volunteered for this, they can sleep in the pit for it in the end.
Sure, I get the "just following orders" criticism, my point is that killing ICE agents wouldn't solve anything. I imagine many of them joined long before the crackdown started and are there to arrest actually bad people (i.e. cartel members) and don't like the direction the current admin is going. There are also plenty of people who support this nonsense too.
Regardless, attacking the people following orders doesn't change the orders, we should be attacking the top.
I understand your point, but these people know what they're signing up for and why they're putting in the uniform every day. We shouldn't pretend these people are in anyway innocent or not culpable for their crimes. Regardless of orders, these are people who are willingly causing pain, suffering and death to innocents.
Fuck them. Fuck their bosses. None of them get any credit or sympathy. I don't care if they started when ice was formed, they know what their orders are and are still there, what they signed up for is entirely immaterial. Also, ice was shit from the start, so even less sympathy from me.
Regardless, attacking the people following orders doesn't change the orders, we should be attacking the top.
Making people hesitant to throw in with the brownshirts for fear of social reprisal is a perfectly valid strategy for attacking the top. Make less people want to participate in their crimes makes it harder for them to do crimes.
Make less people want to participate in their crimes makes it harder for them to do crimes.
No, it just means the reasonable people will leave and it'll attract the types who actually agree with it. There will always be more people to take those jobs.
The real solution is changing the leadership and laws.
That's a much smaller pool of people than those who may willingly go along with it but object otherwise.
Stop giving thugs a pass for being thugs, just because their bosses are shit. You can attack both, this isn't some kind of mutually exclusive action.
This is the original comment (not you):
Only good Ice agent is a dead one.
This is your reply:
They volunteered for this, they can sleep in the pit for it in the end.
That sounds to me like you're happy if one of them gets killed. That's not directly advocating for murder, but it's pretty close IMO.
The proper process is through a trial and a change in the law, and probably a change in leadership.
My original point was that blaming the agents misses the point, if they're unwilling to follow orders, people who are willing will be hired. The real problem is the orders and the people given them. Individual agents may have some culpability, but focusing on that won't solve the problem.
The fuck? How?
"Just following orders" isn't a valid excuse. We know this from history.
I never said it was.
My point is that killing the soldier doesn't change the orders, they'll just find another soldier. If one soldier isn't willing to follow orders, they'll find another that is.
You were kind of making the same defense though...
The implication was that we shouldn't blame the soldiers because they weren't the ones who made the decision.
That's not how this works.
No, the implication is that targeting ICE agents doesn't solve the problem. I'm not saying that ICE agents should be immune from the law, I'm saying that the root of the problem is the orders. If some ICE agents refuse to follow orders, they'll be replaced by those who will follow them, just like a murder will replace a gun if it doesn't function properly.
The focus should be on the source of the problems, which is a mix of the law and the leadership. We should certainly hold ICE agents accountable for any laws they break, but targeting them w/ violence shouldn't be the focus.
If they fear actual consequences, then less people will be willing to join.
They are literal extrajudicial fascist brownshirts that want my friends and neighbors dead. These are actual people under those masks, and they need to understand that their actions have consequences. I'm not saying people should go out and kill them, but I'm saying that they need to fear that.
You can focus on both my dude.
No, recruitment will just focus on hiring people that are okay with those circumstances, which means people with less empathy and quicker to use force. I'm not implying we should ignore illegal actions by ICE agents (we should absolutely hold them legally accountable), I'm just saying that it's not likely to solve the problem w/o changes to the law and/or the leadership, especially given how the courts tend to give law enforcement officers a pass.
As people target ICE agents more and more w/ violence, the more violence they'll use in response. Violence begets violence, and that's not going to solve the problem.
What we need are lawsuits challenging the legality of their actions, and ideally criminal charges against the leadership making illegal orders. We need to pressure our representatives to change the law. We need to protest peacefully and get positive media coverage so our voices cannot be ignored. Violence isn't going to solve it.
Sure, and what will adding more violence accomplish? What has violent opposition ever accomplished? Unless we're willing to wage a full on revolution (which would have different targets), all that'll happen is more people will die and we'll justify the rhetoric that these are "bad people" with "gang affiliations." The more "success" you have opposing ICE, the more justified the admin will be in using the National Guard and maybe even the federal military.
None of that sounds like progress to me. Working through the system takes longer, but I do think it's more likely to be successful.
And what way is that?
For example, Spain became a liberal democracy after the death of Fernando Franco. Alberto Fujimori of Peru was forced out due to public outcry over a corruption scandal during the runoff for his third term. Silvio Berlusconi of Italy resigned after a budget bill he pushed for was rejected. None of those involved a violent overthrow.
Sometimes that's the only option (i.e. Nazi Germany and Italy under Mussolini), but not always.
For the Democrats/liberals who think they're leftist in the room, note that this done by Biden, how it was put on hold for review so that news spread and pacifies the anger, and how it came back stronger when you forgot about it. And now Democrats will shrug and say "Trump is in charge, we're powerles."
Democrats are not your friends, they are not a lesser evil, we need a revolution.
Not defending democrats here, but it says it was halted pending reviews. I would say at least the democrats have some sense of following rules, while under the Trump administration, these were immediately lifted.
Make of it what you will, but it’s pretty clear that following the laws/rules is a thing of the past in the US of A.
Dems didn't invent ice.
Nor Epstein
Nor trump.
Voters need to take some culpability to their own mistakes here and stop blaming it on anyone else but themselves for this shit show they created.
It's funny how one immigrant country is "securing homeland" from another immigrant country. At some point in the late XIX century US, Argentina, Brazil seemed similarly attractive directions for the "give me your tired ..." thing.
I had two books called "anthology of romantic and adventure", pretty much only centered around sea travel, it had both poetry of a fascist Russian white movement member who was a submariner and "Tamango" by Merimee and Vysotsky's songs and Poe's short horror stories and Melville's "Benito Sereno" racist story, in general a pretty equal mix of radical views of life, honestly, both the good and the bad ones.
So - it's mostly rather old stuff, as you might guess, and the image of all those overseas colonized lands is somehow similar and blended. Now you wouldn't think that there's much similarity between USA and Brazil and Argentina, LOL.
OK, I just got carried away. Perhaps that moment when your whole country started feeling "settled" is when the bad things started accumulating (other than lynchings of blacks and lobotomies of autists, I mean). And started feeling less of a union and more of one country.
EDIT: Forgot South Africa.
The Democratic Leadership knew the position we were in, yet they still refused to run a popular campaign offering any real reforms or attacking anyone increasingly gouging us and ran as the status quo while the Republicans ran as reform.
We all knew the voters did not know better. The responsibility is in the establishments corner. Three presidential shit shows in a row and they are brushing off the old Hillary Clinton excuses blaming voters as if that would justify letting them stay in control of the party.
By running as they do they doom us to the Republicans. I do not see how that is hard for you to understand. Being better than the other guy is not enough to win elections, you should have realized that in 2016 at the latest, yet here we are approaching 2028 and you are still advocating for this doomed to fail policy despite being one election away from a permanently rigged system for a one-party state?
And make no mistake it will be rigged every way it can be but 2028 we have a chance to take it from them in the succession fight. Not with the establishment leaders we have though.
“Doom us to republicans”
No this is bullshit as you’re choosing to vilify one for what the other is doing. If you blame your mistake on choosing worse for yourself and blame someone for your choice it is you to blame. It’s what enablers do to protect their abuser. You are speaking like a Stockholm syndrome right now.
This. This is why you’re rigged right now. This is all on you for not holding republicans accountable for doing what they do. Blaming dems isn’t going to save you. You’re nothing more than an idiot if you thought this victimhood bullshit was ever going to get you saved rn. Do better.
You framing everyone as is critical of the opposition party as voting for the party and Power gives lie to your argument. That is an ad hominem you learned from the party in power and the opposition party.
And you did not answer the point, it is unanswerable so it makes sense you resort to ad hominems. By not being popular and running as the status quo in an Ever devolving plutocracy, the Democrats Doom us to Republican rule. That is evident.
And for anyone else, anywhere in the world.
Giving governments tools to fight crime that can also invade your privacy is a sure path to governments invading your privacy for any reason they deem righteous. If not the current one, surely the next one.
No no, anytime someone criticizes a democrat it's because they love Trump. The democrats are infallible and above reproach you see, so the only reason you'd say anything they ever did was bad it's because you're a nazi childkiller who wants a dictator.
It's probably not dangerous at all that we've positioned the US as either "uncritical support of the dems or you're a nazi," letting a party become unquestionable is good for sure, nothing bad could ever come of that.
I, for one, unquestionably support whatever group gets me upvotes on social media. Gavin Newsom to the moon!
Seriously though, neither party seems interested in fielding a good candidate. My request isn't ridiculous, I just want someone who loves democracy and wants to make things better for Americans and the world.
I'm not a fan of Bernie Sanders' policies, but I would've voted for him had he won in 2016. I'm not a fan of many of Ron Paul's policies, but again, I would've voted for him. Those two are polar opposites, but I believe both would do what they think is best for Americans and the world. But no, we got Clinton and Trump...
I just want someone who wants to serve the country, but instead they serve themselves and their party.
Oddly I agree, I'd have voted for either of those opposites as well. Though, I do agree with both of them on some things, and disagree with both of them on others.
Ideally I'd actually have them run together and temper each other's views a little to land somewhere more reasonable, but no we have to pick from the two of the worst, most self serving people available instead.
Historically, NSO has avoided selling to US-based clients and was banned by the US Commerce Department under President Joe Biden's administration for allegedly supplying spyware to authoritarian governments. However, shifting political dynamics under the Trump administration raised the possibility that spyware could become more prevalent in the United States, exacerbating mobile exploitation
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Rebooting your phone daily is your best defense against zero-click attacks - here's why
Phone hacking technologies are getting stealthier. It's time to treat your phone like a computer, says this cybersecurity expert.Matene Toure (ZDNET)
Blaming it on dems that you voted Republican?
It’s your finger on the trigger with the gun to your own head. That's not biden’s. This is how people with mental illness sociopathy reason their actions. Manipulation and unreasonable rules that never hold themselves accountable to themselves.
I'll just vote third party or avoiding voting altogether if democrats run a corporate stooge.
If this bothers you, target your frustrations towards those who keep nominating them.
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Complaining to me is a waste of time, energy, and only serves to make yourself feel good while doing nothing effective.
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Not a spoiler: Complaining the way of blaming one evil for you doing another evil is not effective either.
Go back to soiling your diapers.
Complaining the way of blaming one evil for you doing another evil is not effective either.
Try not to have a stroke.
When politicians say "israel is our greatest ally" they aren't lying.
Their definition of "our" just doesn't include us
I read somewhere about AL being so racists because that’s where all the Nazi scientists went who started working on the space program.
No idea if it’s true. Pretty sure the south was balls deep in slavery before that, but it does make some sense.
I already know the answer to this, but I'm going to ask if anyway.
How did we go from the most paranoid group of people choosing death over vaccinations bc of government surveillance conspiracies, literally storming the capital in an uprising over false rumors, and now that we have multiple confirmations of the most insane and ongoing 1984 government surveillance programs: fucking crickets?
Decades of stoking the rural/urban divide.
Workers are divided because rulers want them to be.
They never cared about surveillance. If anything they want as much as possible. They just want their guys to be in charge for it. It is like how the people who use the strongest anti-child porn language are also the most likely to get caught with the worst child porn imaginable. You notice how roblox isn't suffering under the new laws despite the laws being explicitly worded to protect children? This is because it was always about monitoring dissidents. Regular criminals will continue to use tech to do regular crime (drug dealing, murder, theft) and a minimal precaution on their end might be sufficient to prevent them from getting caught. They will not be subject to any more new restrictions.
But protesters? That is what they have always been for. Always.
Anyone got the torrent ?
Yes. The leaders and their families will have their heads on pikes.
Just being realistic, their families expect ours to serve them.
It has also said it has a no tolerance policy and will cut off government clients who use the spyware to target members of civil society, such as journalists
Citizen Labs confirmed joirnalists have been targeted
Nice of The Guardian to repeat their obvious lie without immediately calling it out. This is just NSO Group 2.0. They're moving all the engineers over because even the US was willing to sanction NSO Group after everything they did
Everytime I try to start something with Linux I fail.
I just want something as a proof of concept that this can be for me. I am aware I am the problem.
But everything is wildly difficult for me. I pulled back from docker after realising it was above my skillset, I just want to try home assisstant with a few lights but fair enough it is beyond me.
I opted to install a game, fail. Learn about wine and bottles. Start a bottle and get told I only have 8gb free in directory, I cannot for the life of me see where it is getting that from.
Please god someone tell me there is a step by step for the fucking imbeciles out there on where to start!?
I am running the most recent mint on a Dell 7060
I7 8700 processor.
480gb nvme SSD.
1tb HDD
16gb 2666 MHz DDR4 ram
Intel UHD graphics 630
How is þat working for you as a desktop? Are you only encountering issues when you try to do someþing more technical?
If you want to run games, install Steam and get your games and run þem from þere. It's þe easiest way to do it; going straight to Wine and Bottles is jumping in þe deep end.
You really should be comfortable in þe shell, and feel reasonably confident wiþ working wiþ Linux, before you do anyþing wiþ Docker or Podman.
If you want Home Assistant, even þe HA project recommends running þeir bespoke distribution wiþ HA already installed and ready to go. HA on any oþer distribution is þe hard way.
Linux can be easy to learn; it sounds as if you're trying to take really big bites, and approaching projects in þe most difficult way. Which is fine! But it's going to be harder, and require more patience.
Yeah I agree with all of this. It sounds like maybe you're trying to learn too many different things at once. I'd pick one thing and stick with it until you're comfortable.
What games are you trying to play? 99% of the time I’m able to just install a game in Steam and use Proton and be done with it. For any non-Steam games I just use Heroic Games Launcher.
Bazzite is a pretty good distro for gaming since it comes with some of these things pre installed or as an option to install them.
Proton’s a compatibility layer to translate between games that want to speak to windows and a Linux system. Steam downloads it for you if you turn it on as a setting, and most of the time you shouldn’t have to worry about it past that.
For pirated games: if you have the game as a folder with a game exe rather than an installer, you can still add it to steam pretty easily as a non-steam game and then just enable proton. If it has an installer this can still work, but it’s more of a pain cuz you have to add the installer to steam, run it with proton, and then switch the steam entry’s file location to the newly installed game. I honestly don’t recommend doing it that second way, I’m chronically allergic to bloat (arch btw) and even for me this is a dumb hacky work around.
No Proton is a compatibility layer for running Windows games on Linux. I'm not at my computer ATM but in the Steam settings somewhere you just flip the toggle on that says something like Enable Steam Play for all games. I think it's in Compatibility or something like that.
Then any games you own on Steam you can just install and play and Steam will automatically choose the best Proton version for you. You can override it too if you need. ProtonDB is a good resource for looking up how well a game runs on Linux via Proton. Keep in mind it's limited to games that have Steam releases though.
If you're talking about playing PS5 games you've dumped from a disc with an emulator, which it sounds like maybe you are, Proton and Steam won't do much for you here. If you're talking about PC versions of these games that you've "acquired" then Steam may help there. You could add the game to your library as a "non-Steam" game and then just run it with Proton that way. HGL may work here too but I've only used HGL for games I own on GOG or Epic.
Brilliant thanks for the proton info, toggle on.
I have acquired the pc versions, mind you I own them legally as is for ps5, but I am having trouble installing them which is how I ended up using bottles and getting frustrated. I used fitgirl repacks and the setup doesnt work, presumable it is windows orientated so I moved to bottles to install which is where the drive volume issue arose
Ah I see. I've not used bottles so have no suggestions there, but you may be able to use Proton to run the installer. I've done that for other types of Windows apps like the Battlenet launcher or Origin/EA App. You add the installer itself as a non-Steam game, run it, go through the install process. Then you add the installed exe as a non-Steam game.
I think the installed files would be in the same location as the installer itself but they may also get their own app ID in your Steam folder. I can't recall exactly.
Yeah absolutely I need to find the right pathway in, im not entirely tech illiterate but I have zero code knowledge or anything. I can understand highlevel stuff but the weeds are particularly weedy.
Im trying to see if Linux gaming is a possible alternative to ps5 and switch so I went with emulators and repacks to run some games I already have and it just opened a can of worms I was not prepared for.
You might want to check out Bazzite. It aims to smooth out the gaming experience significantly.
I don't even play on Linux these days but I use Bazzite (Developer Experience) because the immutable base gives me peace of mind and all the gaming support helps when I have to use something like bottles.
Depending on what you want to do, it may require you to get comfortable with docker (or podman, but practically the same), but because this is part of the OS's paradigm they give you all the tools to make it easy.
For gaming? You need a distro that does stuff for you!
To elaborate, if you’re using wine bottles, you’ve gone waaay into the land of manual from-scratch configuration, when you should just use stuff from a community that spends thousands of man hours figuring it out and packaging it.
Try CachyOS or Bazzite! They have a bunch of packages like advanced versions of preconfigured Proton one install away.
For docker… yeah, it’s a crazy learning curve if you just want to try one small thing. It’s honestly annoying to go through all the setup and download like 100 gigabytes of files just to run a python script or whatever.
You can often set up the environment yourself without docker, though.
And to reiterate, I’m very much against the ethos of “you should learn how to do everything yourself!” I get the sentiment, but honestly, this results in suboptimal configurations for most people vs simply using the packages others have spent thousands of hours refining.
If that is actually what the difference in disros is then great, I looked at bazzite and did not get it I thought distros mainly differed in how desktop environment works.
Yeah docker was a stupid goal, I wanted to start automating downloads and such through rdarr. Seems less time consuming to trawl and click.
Yeah I do this to myself, pressure on to fully understand every facet.
I'm a massive fan of CachyOS, personally! Installed it years ago, kept the same image since then and haven't even considered switching.
Different philosphies, I suppose. I suspect Bazzite may work better if you want stuff to just work, while Cachy is more tweaking focused and gets quite rapid updates, though is still quite set up out-of-the-box.
CachyOS — Blazingly Fast OS based on Arch Linux
🚀 CachyOS is an Arch Linux-based distribution that offers an easy installation, several customization options to suit every user, and special optimizations for improved performance while remaining simple.cachyos.org
I strongly disagree with u/brucethemoose here. You wrote below that you're currently using Linux Mint, which is a great distro for beginners. In my opinion, Bazzite offers nothing essential that is not available on Mint. IMHO, the easiest ways to play games are:
- Use Steam to play your Steam games (native or using Proton). This should just work (on both distros)
- Use Heroic Games Launcher to play games from GOG, Epic, or non-store games. The recommendation is to install the Flatpak version, which is available on both distros. Afterwards, the setup step is to install a Proton-GE version before you can play your games (github.com/Heroic-Games-Launch…).
You can - of course - still switch to a different distro if you like, but this is not necessary or helpful to run games.
Linux Quick Start Guide
A games launcher for GOG, Amazon and Epic Games for Linux, Windows and macOS. - Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncherGitHub
ujust scripts that perform many tasks for you with just a few prompts, a set of programs and utilities uselful for gaming and related tasks.Sure, you can install Heroic and Steam on Mint, but that's not all there is to it.
Sure, Bazzite has some nice features. But, I would argue that apart from the Nvidia images (there is no AMD image) those are all minor things. And for Nvidia cards, the Mint Driver Manager is pretty good. I don't think any of those differences play a role here.
In general, I think it's really unhelpful to present "switch to my favorite distro" as the first step in troubleshooting an issue.
those are all minor things
The minor things together make a huge difference. Can you install all this stuff on other distros? Sure, but you need to know it exists, first.
In general, I think it’s really unhelpful to present “switch to my favorite distro” as the first step in troubleshooting an issue.
Well, you should use tools that are suited for the purpose. I've been a Fedora user for years, I think a decade, but after trying out Bazzite I realised how ideal it is for gamers switching over from Windows. I've never been one to suggest Linux to friends, as I don't want the responsibilities that come with that, but nowadays when a gamer friend complains about Windows, I can dare suggesting an alternative.
I've been in OP's shoes, although in my case the issues were getting my CRT monitor to show anything or my dial-up modem to work with ndiswrapper, and any help reaching some of your goals goes a long way in helping you persevere on the task.
Try CachyOS or Bazzite!
Bazzite, sure, but it's not gonna magically solve these kind of issues.
However, if one is struggling as a beginner with Linux, I would strongly advise against switching to an Arch-based distro (CachyOS). Arch is great, but this is not its target audience.
For docker… yeah, it’s a crazy learning curve if you just want to try one small thing. It’s honestly annoying to go through all the setup and download like 100 gigabytes of files just to run a python script or whatever.
Idk, when I started out I just copy/pasted commands (later compose files) and it worked
Docker won't make much sense if you don't understand the underlying Linux systems and/or applications.
It's similar with Wine and Bottles. If you don't get what's in the bottle, then running the bottle won't make sense.
Find tasks that run on the native OS. learn to manage Linux itself. skip containers, Snap, virtual machines, etc.
try running a web server using httpd or something.
echo 'Hello World!'My two cents: You can forget about Linux for a while. Using a terminal is more important.
Here's a classic guide: mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide
Read into BASH, you may know it as the “Terminal” or “Console” people may also call it the “Shell” it’s essentially the heart of all modern Linux distribution’s and once you wrap your head around the command structure it’s pretty straight forward!
Key commands:
cd== Change Directorysudo== Root privilegesmkdir== Make directoryrm -f== Remove file/directory with forcetouch== Make a new filenano== Text/File editorcat== Read file contents and print to shell
Commands don’t need to be complicated! For example nano /home/SomeUser/Downloads/SomeRandom.txt will open the text editor to SomeRandom.txt in the /Downloads directory of SomeUser
Each Linux distribution will come with a package manager, Debian based distributions like Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Kali Linux have dpkg and APT as their package managers and Arch-based systems have Pacman,Fedora-based systems use DNF.
If you really can’t handle the complexity perhaps trying an immutable distro like Bazzite which is more locked down, less easy to break and geared towards folks like yourself.
Pacman command in Arch Linux
Pacman is a package manager for the arch Linux and arch-based Linux distributions. If you have used Debian-based OS like ubuntu, then the Pacman is similar to the apt command of Debian-based operating systems.GeeksforGeeks
so just to be clear:
- bash
- terminal
- console
- shell
- terminal emulator
These are all the same thing?
For the most part yes!
There is a difference between /bin/sh (Bourne Shell) and /bin/bash (Unix Shell), the Bourne shell is still used on more light-weight distro’s like Apache whereas BASH is more feature rich and larger which you use on the more heavier distributions.
There is Zsh which is an extension of the Bourne Shell.
Fun fact; Your system may fallback to /bin/sh if it cannot boot properly or is unable to run /bin/bash.
Have you tried using emulators? They're a great start and can show you how to easily get some usage out of your computer.
If you have a controller, I recommend giving it a shot. There are plenty of emulators out there. Just pick a console you like and you can get games for free at vimm.net
Some distros and technologies can be more complex.
For Home Assistant, consider using Yunohost. It doesn't require Docker skills. You can find step-by-step guides on their website.
I guess gaming with Linux has always been tricky, you can check ProtonDB to see which games are easily compatible with Linux.
YunoHost: garden your own piece of the Internet!
YunoHost is a system that installs itself on a server and allows you to install and maintain - with very little technical knowledge - digital services (apps) that you control.yunohost.org
A blocky road ahead of you ! It will take some time, don't try to speed up the process ! Remember the first time you started Windows on a computer ? It wasn't easy at all ^^' but now most people know how to start and use a Windows system.
Linux is great, linux is freedom and customization but linux is also a hell of another level of complexity.
Don't feel bad, I've used Linux since 1995 and don't have enough skills to use Bottles.
I do however game a lot, using mainly Steam and Heroic. You can try to start there.
I did get the Heroic Flatpak on my first install but it wouldnt do wat I needed with emulators...cant remember what it was, I think pcsx2 related.
I used Lutris and it worked great but I am struggling on this install to get it back to where I had it.
Also do you rcommend flatpaks always or just for beginners? I have both firfox and firefox FlatPak installed and same for a few other softwares.
Why do you want to run emulators through Heroic? Most emulators run natively on Linux, most of them are available as flatpaks or native packages.
I feel like you're trying to do too much at once. Installing Linux for the first time and immediately trying to use and understand containers and virtualization is like trying to fly a fighter jet after getting your first drivers license lesson. For example, Docker is useful in server contexts when you want independent, isolated servers running next to each other on the same physical machine, much less in desktop environments.
Take the time to understand the concepts first. Proton/Wine are translation layers that let you run Windows applications/games on Linux almost as native applications, Steam and Heroic are storefronts to download and install paid games, Docker/Podman are used to run containers, virtual machines are fake computers inside your real computer that can be easily managed with Gnome Boxes for example, etc.
My take:
For gaming:
- run emulators as native Linux executables
- use Steam + Proton to install and run most windows games (even non-steam ones)
- use Heroic exclusively to install games from Epic and GOG. Run them through Steam if you want.
- use Lutris as la last resort as it's the least plug-and-play option out there
- avoid plain Wine
For Windows applications:
- install a windows virtual machine in Gnome Boxes, install and run those programs as usual in the VM. Performance will suck.
- only use Wine/Bottles when you understand how they work.
Good advices.
A bit of research goes a long way. If you get a solid understanding of the basics, you can then build on it.
Nothing in Linux is above your skill level, you just have not found the community speaking your way of seeing it yet.
You are not the problem; the problem always is community finding is a hard unsolved problem in the Linux space.
Implicit details embedded in code can easily produce your frustration. But as I don’t know what your goals are and what you feel comfortable with, it will be hard to help
I would suggest not using AI for answering your Linux questions, it provides a bunch of bad advice.
If no one teaches you, why would anyone expect you to know anything?
So it is ok to ask people questions but I do suggest finding a local Linux Users Group (or a local solarpunk group as they usually have a person or two who can help)
Reading wikis (like Arch or Gentoo) will help you solve your common problems and they also have forums where you can get great help as long as you are polite, kind and understand that they will ask clarifying questions and you should do the same but be respectful of them and their time
In contrast, and I say this as someone who has used various types of Unix and Linux for a long time, I think this is an excellent use for AI, just be sure to use it to teach you things not just to solve your problems for you.
What I mean by this is I have found (mostly Claude) to be great at explaining concepts, especially if you use it to make analogies to something you know. It is absolutely not right every single time but I have had great luck with questions like “explain to me how to X in Y tool, I know how to have the same outcome by doing A in B tool” or “explain to me how docker works using a rocket as a metaphor” or things like that. Also I use it a lot for new subjects where I don’t know what to search for quite yet and I can just give it a long rambling explanation and example and ask it for 3 suggestions to research further or things to check. It is kind of useful as an expensive search engine but if you use it like a research engineer to get you started it can be really helpful in my experience.
As others have said though, I have been doing it forever both personally and professionally and I am definitely still learning. Linux knowledge is more of a skill to develop over time not something that is easy to master because it continually changes. Learning how to find or figure out the answers is the most valuable skill though, it’s impossible to remember everything. That and often there is no single right or correct answer for every situation but there are a lot of options and opinions and often more of the latter than the former. That said though usually the best answer is the one that I forget about because it functions forever and doesn’t blow up in my face hah.
Anyway, hope at least some of that is helpful, best of luck!
:wq
I opted to install a game, fail.
What game? Install how? Is it from an online platform?
I just want to try home assisstant with a few lights but fair enough it is beyond me.
The installation of home assistant, or its usage?
Mortal Kombat Fitgirl repack.
Literally just setting up docker to then install HA.
Mortal Kombat Fitgirl repack.
I'd use Lutris for that, it's a rather automated process, you create a new entry, it asks for the installer, and usually recognises the correct executable for the game.
Literally just setting up docker to then install HA.
Personally, I prefer to run HA in a VM rather than Docker, especially if you're experimenting, IIRC with docker installation it doesn't support backup and restore of components and their settings. Virt-manager makes running VMs easy enough.
Portainer helped me get my head around docker images. And docker hub sometimes has the steps to configure the container, and sometimes not; many assume everyone knows how to pass bind or volume mounts and bridge or host network stuff.
I played with portainer a while to visually see what thing do.
Then it led to command line and yaml configs stuff after that. Its a learning process.
can we @neuralgh0st without the @wxw.moe ?
@neura ?
how does that work? @neuralgh0st@wxw.moe
that's what i do ☞ @neuralgh0st@wxw.moe
your mentions appear without the instance and their format seems to be different ☞
[@neura](https://wxw.moe/@neuralgh0st)
it was confusing at first, now i see why
I feel your pain... I recently tried very diligently to install Immich with docker after reading and watching several tutorials that claim it takea 5 minutes and its super easy... Failed.... Like 5 times...
For some advice, I use heroic game launcher to install non steam games. Bottles kind of sucks IMO.
It really takes 5min tops ! But only if you know what you are doing. Immich is not an easy compose stack for beginners. There's also all the other stuff you have to take care off (backup? Behind proxy? Share with people outside your lan? ...).
Having the compose stack up and running is just the first step ^^ but once you get the hang off, it's fun and really cool stuff floating arround (navidrome, pihole, home assistant, newpipe, vaultwarden, jellyfin......)
It takes some time to get comfortable but don't give up, it's worth it !
Learning Linux can be difficult man. Even after using Linux as my daily driver for a couple years, I still feel like I know nothing man.
Real talk, start with dead simple stuff and go from there. Install a package from a package manager, update your system, make a file with terminal.
You dont have to be a wizzard man, docker shit is still over my head.
Hot take maybe but Linux isn't for everyone, you gave it a fair shot and if it didn't click with you then use Windows again.
If you want to keep trying then you already what you have to do: just be patient and try to learn how things work, watch videos etc
Don't what that ? Then use Windows again. As a Linux user I appreciate that you tried, as most people don't.
Docker is annoying as fuck. Don't blame yourself for not getting it to work.
Bottles is also annoying as fuck.
These two things aren't really a sign of your skill. The first one (docker) is unfortunately super prevalent these days because of memes and bandwagoning. It has its use, but it's also used in many places where it's not needed without providing a comparable means to run software without docker. It sucks how newbies who are just trying to get a program to work all of a sudden have to learn a bunch of docker bullshit. Just another layer of crap to make things harder to learn while the creators jerk themselves off.
Running Windows games on Linux will always be a pain in the ass because you're trying to run complicated, sometimes very old, software that straight up was not designed to be run on Linux! I've been doing it for years and it's still a pain in the ass. Some games only work with Lutris, some require very specific settings. It's all a mess and I don't ever expect a Windows game to work unless I've gotten it to work recently and played it a bunch.
It's not your fault. It's not Linux's fault. This is the price that we all collectively get to pay for not doing things right the first time.
In short, don't lose hope. You're doing fine.
People love to go around talking about how easy Linux and self-hosting and Home Assistant are but they aren't.
I ran Home Assistant for about 3 years. It's incredibly powerful but it's also incredibly complicated. After the 3rd time it offed itself I just put all the mechanical shit back in and deleted it.
Linux I kinda gave up on. It's awesome playing Steam games on my Steam Machine but even just playing GOG or Epic games it's 50/50. I still have Linux on my laptop but I simply can't use it for a lot of stuff so I mostly use an old iMac.
So yeah, it's not just you. It's mostly fucking software engineers and developers constantly telling you how "easy" this shit is.
I had similar issues with Home Assistant initially and had two failures that looked like database corruption in less than 6 months. I decided to give it one last try and switched to MariaDB. That was nearly 3 years ago. Since then it's been rock solid.
You had a lucky escape, HA is addictive.
Yeah I feel Linux has a lot of dead ends. Its easy to follow the wrong path. My saving grace has always been that once you get things working, you know how you did it and it likely won't change much.
So really its a big search, but once you hit a steady state it really feels like home.
I am young and have a computer science degree, and I still struggle at times. I get it.
For games, I'd try to install steam and run them through steam if thats how you'd normally do it on windows. Then for me the main setting to play with (on a game by game basis) is setting the game to use proton (in the compatibility settings of the game) and whether or not to use steam input for controller support.
If you are trying to install a non steam game, maybe look into lutris. Though I'm on the techy side, and I hear a lot of people like heroic game launcher on the less techy side.
Good luck. I think it's fair to run out of energy while trying get the right combo, but if ya stick to it I'm confident you'll find the set up that works for you.
I actually did get lutris perfect last time for what I wanted it, this time is different.
I had steam told to use proton in general compatibility settings but I just copped that on a per program basis it was off for some reason so I selected it and it progressed to install which is great. Unfortunately it did stall in the same place as bottles, by claiming there was only 8GB free of a necessary 60 so I have to figure out why that keeps cropping up. My only drives are 300gb free ssd and 1tb free hdd.
Thanks for the confidence though, much appreciated.
This right here. Once you figure shit out youre DONE. Likely in 10 or more years those commands will still work. No bullshit windows updates wrecking functionality.
I haven't touched windows in 3 months now and its been great. Linux is way easier even than 5 years ago
I opted to install a game, fail.
I don't remember ever getting anything to work in Bottles. PlayonLinux is much better (for any sort of app, not just games).
If I were you, I'd make sure to tackle one thing at the time, and set aside some time to figure it out, where the goal is not to for instance play games, but set up a game for play later. That way you can focus on the first part, instead of trying to rush that. So for example, when you are trying to set up Home Assistant, spend time just getting Docker to work first. I've fallen into that trap many times before, where I ended up not reading the messages properly because I was impatient and just wanted to get to the end fast. Once you get more familiar with Linux, this stuff gets quicker because more of the steps involved with any task is familiar to you already, and the troubleshooting threads you find on different forums are less Greek.
For specifics:
1) For Docker, when you feel ready to try that again, I'd recommend setting it up together with a GUI, like Portainer. If you follow the official guides to install Docker and then Portainer, you should have a web UI accessible that makes dealing with containers easier. I generally like doing things in the command line, but for containers, I prefer to have a GUI.
2) When it comes to Home Assistant, I'd honestly go for either Home Assistant Green or Yellow from Nabu Casa (you'd support the Open Home Foundation directly this way). If you want to set it up yourself, I'd go the route of a dedicated single board computer, like a Raspberry Pi, and use Home Assistant OS. I tried to set it up as a container as well before, but there are certain limitations you avoid by just running their OS directly on dedicated hardware. It's been running smoothly for me since I set it up on my Raspberry Pi 4.
3) It is good to learn about Wine and Bottles, but I'd start out with Steam (and Proton), Heroic and Lutris. I've had much headaches getting stuff to run properly on Heroic and Lutris, but I think the trick here is to avoid Flatpaks for these sorts of things, because there are many dependencies, and you are dependent on a good permissions setup for Flatpaks. Your mileage may vary though, I'm sure there are plenty of people with painless experiences with Flatpaks here.
So.. you receive plenty of great technical advice, I won't go there.
I'm sure your title is wrong. I know for a fact that there is plenty of things you did with Linux that looked until then impossible. They do look impossible to most people today. So... yes there are plenty of things you don't know how to reliably do but you eventually will manage!
I did read a bit from the Greater Good Science Center in Berkeley greatergood.berkeley.edu/ and there was a piece specifically on "everytime" or "always" as basically shortcuts during arguments that reframe the situation incorrectly. You surely meant to say "I often get frustrated trying new things on Linux" instead. It sounds like I'm nitpicking, yet simply rephrasing gives a totally new outlook to the situation. We all, literally ALL of us, do struggle when we try something new. We often fail but if we keep on trying, get methodical about it (what was the error message? did I try something similar before? how does it actually work? who could help me? etc) then you are bound to succeed.
So no, you are not the problem. No, you are not an imbecile. No, you do not always fail!
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Ok, lots of answers focusing on the game, so I think you have plenty of suggestions on what to try there. That being said I have never heard of bottles, I've used raw wine and PlayOnLinux before Steam integrated Proton so now I just use that.
For docker it can be daunting, and home assistant is not an easy thing to setup. The thing with docker is that it can be very complex, but you don't have to worry about the majority of it. I assume you have docker installed, enabled and your user is in the correct groups. Unfortunately Mint/Ubuntu don't have docker in their normal repos so you probably had to add the docker PPA and install from there. Let's run a couple of commands to ensure all went well:
sudo systemctl status docker
This should show you the status of the docker daemon, and it should say that it is Active. If you get a no such service type error then docker is not installed, if it's not shown as active then the daemon is not started and can be done so by running sudo systemctl start docker (and you can replace start with enable for it to happen at boot). If it's Active then awesome, let's check that your used can run docker commands, try running this: docker run hello-world if that fails but sudo docker run hello-world works then your user doesn't have access, you want to add your user to the docker group sudo usermod -aG docker $USER and reboot.
Ok, docker hello world is working, what now? Now, I assume you have some idea of what docker is, but in a (wrong but simple) way you can think of it as virtual machines. Let's try to run some cool stuff in it, there are two main ways, running a long complicated command, or writing those parameters on a file and running a simple command. This file is called a compose file, and should be named compose.yaml or docker-compose.yaml. let's try that, create a folder called silverbullet (just because that's the service we will try, it is a note taking app that I really like) and in there create a file compose.yaml and write the following content there (everything starting with # is a comment I added explaining what that does, and can be removed if you don't want it):
# This defines all of the services we want to run
services:
# This is the name of the service, it can be whatever you want
silverbullet:
# The image is the actual thing you want to run
image: ghcr.io/silverbulletmd/silverbullet
# This tells docker to restart the service if it closed for whatever reason, unless you specifically tell it to stop
restart: unless-stopped
# This will set environment variables inside the docker.
# different services might require different environment variables set
environment:
# silver bullet uses SB_USER environment variable to set user/password for the main account. We're setting user to admin and password to 123 here
- SB_USER=admin:123
# This maps outside folders to inside folders so that your docker container can access them
volumes:
# Here we're telling it that the ./data folder should be accessible in the /space folder inside the docker
# silver bullet stores stuff in the /space folder, so by mapping it to the ./data folder we can keep that data between runs
- ./data:/space
# This tells docker to map ports from the inside to your host machine, this allows you to access the docker container as if it were running on your machine
ports:
# This tells it to map the internal port 3000 to the external port 5000, so accessing http://localhost:5000/ from your machine will in fact access the same as http://localhost:3000/ inside docker
# Silver bullet runs on port 3000, so we need to expose that port
- 5000:3000Uff, that was a lot, but we're done, now just run
docker compose up -d (up to start -d to run as a daemon, i.e. in the background) and you should be able to access http://localhost:5000/ and get to Silver bullet logging in with admin 123, then if you write about something you will see files appearing in the silverbullet/data folder.I know that this was a lot in one go, but I chose Silver bullet because it touches all of the most common stuff you'll need and it's easy to get going.
Good luck with your self hosting journey, and don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions.
Technically, nothing you use in tech is ever really "simple", there's tons of complexity hidden from the common user. And whenever parts of that complexity fail or don't work like the user expects it to, then the superficially simple stuff becomes hard.
Docker and containers are a fairly advanced topic. Don't think that it's easy getting into this stuff. Everyone has to learn quite a bit in advance to utilize that.
To play games, you went into the wrong direction when fiddling with wine directly, or even just indirectly by using bottles You COULD do that, but you've literally chosen the hardest path to do so. You should use something like HeroicGamesLauncher, Lutris or Steam in order to manage your games, install and launch them fairly easily. These will take care of all the complex stuff behind the scenes for you.
Thanks, its heartening to know its fairly advamced stuff and Im not an idiot.
As for the gaming, I have seen some success last night. I managed to run the setup successfully in steam... but I dont know where the installed game is now to run it 😂
Bit by bit
You seem to be reaching for pretty advanced solutions -- Docker and HA both require you to read a lot of documentation to get started. Bottles is also a powerful and flexible tool, which is the opposite of simple.
What game are you trying to run? If it's on Steam it should be a no-brainer, otherwise Lutris can simplify a lot of things.
I doubt you actually need Docker for anything, unless you have a specific use case I would just abandon that. For your lights, I would try searching for "home assistant [model/brand of lights]" and see if you can find a setup that someone else has gotten working that you can mostly copy.
I have fucked up my computer so many times.
- Accidentally uninstalled the graphical environment, because i didn't notice my package manager was asking me if i wanted to uninstall 200 packages, along with whatever i actually wanted to uninstall.
- Tested a fork bomb (it worked!)
- Installed a dual boot system incorrectly.
- Installed a dual boot system correctly, but Windows had an update.
- Tried to switch out a working component with Something Really Cool™
- I have spent days troubleshooting an issue that turned out to be a simple syntax error.
- And, while technically not fucking with the computer itself, this deserves a mention; Fucking up the wifi/network SO MANY TIMES.
I have also succeeded with some really cool stuff, but that's the thing about working with computers; you fail completely, until it works perfectly.
This is of course a gross simplification, but it also has a lot of truth to it. There's just not a lot "this is not great, but it will do", it either functions or it fails (until you get it working and start fine tuning it for the rest of you life)
Just laugh at the absurdity of the situation when you realize you were just missing a comma in a JSON file, and don't let it bother you that you didn't notice before you paid to have your second floor covered in aluminium foil trying to fix the issue.
Try creating a VM in GNOME Boxes (if you use GNOME) or Virt-manager, take a snapshot, so you can easily repeat this process, and break it. Just make it stop functioning. Do it in an interesting way, and look up more ways on the internet.
Be curious, have fun and don't feel bad about getting sick of that stupid computer, you can come back later and it won't care that you even left.
I have fucked up my computer only once but I did it on purpose - to see what will happen. I had already created a clonezilla backup of a working system, so I was free to experiment and... I decided to uninstall both kernels (rolling and LTS) and reboot. There was no kernel panic because there was no kernel to begin with. 😆
Why did PinePhone fail?
like this
Maeve, Oofnik e Endymion_Mallorn like this.
if you've ever used one then you know that that is indeed it
it is unusable
- the original pinephone was basically too slow to be usable
- there were a few hardware quirks that had to be fixed in software but made mainlining drivers for it difficult
- the lack of community updates (and you could argue overall community management) caused some developers to move away while also impeded pine64s ability to attract new developers
- the lack of any sort of funding for developers made it difficult for people to work on as any more than a hobby (not necessarily pine64's fault, but it's the reality)
- poor battery life (better idle and sleep support would have been software issues but the hardware was designed to be cheap instead of really useful)
- daily driving Linux on a phone is a poor experience - not pine64s fault but there's a bunch of support missing in Linux that needs to be developed before early adopters can really use Linux phones. Modem power management, audio switching between Bluetooth and speaker, MMS support, camera support, etc.
I own the original PinePhone, and it's nice to tinker with, but honestly it's far too slow to be usable on a regular basis. Perhaps the PinePhone Pro is slightly better, but most likely still not good enough.
Couple that with the other issues described by @carzian@lemmy.ml , and it's pretty clear why it failed.
The only reason why consumers like you and me get to enjoy free software on modern PC hardware is because of the expectation of open standards and interoperability set way back when the industry was still growing and computer users gave a shit (or rather, when only the people who gave a shit owned a computer).
Much to the industry giants' enthusiasm, mobile hardware stacks were developed without this baggage, and so unless something fundamental changes, all mobile devices trying to focus on free software will be doomed to failure by abysmally poor hardware support and aging hand-me-down hardware.
I hope Raptor Computing sticks around. If I manage to get a well paying job I'd love to move on to the POWER ISA on desktop and a Fairphone with Ubuntu Touch.
I know it's exteremely expensive (I mean the POWER desktop) but with the recent Android news I believe the time for compromise has passed. Those of us who are fortunate enough to be able to do so should adopt fully open hardware whenever possible.
Did it fail?
Yes... it did. I have both (details in this post) and I'd love to use either daily yet I don't do it. I also don't know anybody who does.
Was it useful? Absolutely but IMHO the fact that the 2nd version is not fully usable (camera, power usage, etc) without active progress despite being a 4 years old specifically targeting tinkers is not a success. I'm genuinely wondering who would want a PinePhone 2. I'd love to but based on what happened with the Pro, I'm not sure I would despite using my other Pine64 on a daily basis.
It absolutely failed. Pinebook succeeded, they wanted to build a cheap Chromebook alternative for Linux enthusiasts and they did it. Pinebook Pro was a functional product and it was well received.
Pinephone failed, it made some progress but it never reached a point where a Linux user with basic needs could daily drive it. It seems like Linux phone space moved on to Halium at this point.
I have both the PinePhone and the PinePhone Pro, IMHO :
- lack of Android apps (yes, I know, weird to open with that but for a lot of people, that's the 1 thing, not actual calls or SMS) despite Waydroid because it didn't exist initially then requires higher specs
- bad power management : the battery is small so without spot on power management one ends up with less than a day of normal usage, that's a show stopper for most
- lack of updates : the PinePhone Pro was available without camera support, no big deal, most were expecting based on the initial pace of updates that it would eventually come but even today checking wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PinePhone… it's either
Not implementedorNot working
... so with all that very very few people used either as a daily driver and thus even less probably invested time to make it actually usable.
It's amazing as a tinkering device with connectivity... but in practice I went instead to a deGoogle Android phone (with /e/OS by Murena). I still have other hardware by Pine, e.g. PineNote or PineTab2, so I do enjoy they provide a very valuable service to the community and I'll keep on, probably, getting more from them but one has to be pragmatic about the software limitations coming from a company that basically does not provide software for the hardware they sell.
Regarding Android apps: I hope that gitlab.com/android_translation… will make a difference here going forward. A Wine-like approach is just so much less of a resource hog.
Regarding the Camera on the PinePhone Pro: It somewhat works by now, if not on every OS. Be it with libcamera or Megapixels 2, we're getting there. I suppose it's just that nobody told the Wiki.
Right or gamingonlinux.com/2024/09/valv… is also pretty positive but until it's actually done and does support banking apps (which might not be possible due to a lot of restrictions, e.g Google services, signed ROM only, etc) then everybody will remain on the fence.
Good to know for the PPPro. PmOS indicates the support as partial wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/PIN… I should try again at some point.
Valve appear to be testing ARM64 and Android support for Steam on Linux
Valve appear to have some pretty ambitious future plans for Steam, as we've seen recently in a leak (and not for the first time) that Valve has plans for ARM64 and Android support on Linux.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Just 2ct's on the banking thing (sorry if it sounds rude, but I just can't hear it anymore):
Just forget banking apps of you don't want to stay on iOS or proper Google Android forever and ever and ever, even AOSP-based OSes struggle with that (a lot).
Go to a bank that still has a proper website and allows some kind of hardware device for TAN (and tell them that this is why you are leaving/joining) - we need to show market demand for alternative solutions or else these will disappear completely over time.
We also need to make regulators/politicians understand, that taking part in life must be possible without owning a device blessed by Google or Apple. We really need laws here.
It's not rude but it's incorrect. I have a deGoogled phone and do mobile banking with it. I don't know for how long though but just to say it's possible today.
Yes though I do recommend relying on a bank that does not force its customers to use Apple or Google only. I hope they'd be a way to disclose that beside just name & shame.
I'd say it didn't fail. It was never really a consumer phone. It was an attempt to get hardware in the hands of developers, and it achieved that.
Other posts here discuss why it didn't receive wider adoption.
I daily drove my PinePhone until I could no longer receive MMS messages, since my service provider has a different APN for the internet and MMS. That, and the modem became more unreliable over time. I like my PinePhone, but an average user would never adopt it as it is.
Except it absolutely did. Sure, it got hardware in the hands of developers, but that effort didn't amount to anything. Pinebook paved the way for Pinebook Pro, which made good on company's promise of an open, affordable, low power laptop for Linux enthusiasts.
This never materialized with Pinephone, it didn't even mature enough to satisfy most of the early adopters, who for the most part only wanted reliable calling and texting.
Having had both a Pinebook and a Pinebook Pro and two PinePhones and a PinePhone Pro at some point in time (I co-hosted a PINE64 podcast for a bit), I don't follow. If your point is that the PinePhone (Pro) have never been a great for everybody, I think the same is true of Pinebooks (Pro), they're definitely are among the worst laptops I have ever had. Various just as cheap ARM-based Chromebooks (especially the ASUS C101p) I've had were/are just so much better.
The PinePhone really helped with development of existing Linux on Mobile projects and caused the creation of some additional ones, as evidenced by the massive number of projects on pine64.org/documentation/PineP…
The Community Editions helped projects like UBports or postmarketOS financially. Some people even daily drive the device (despite being slow, I've found Sxmo and Sailfish OS to be acceptable, with Phosh coming in third).
While I don't recommend it anymore for anyone who wants to use GTK based stuff on it, I'd view it as a success (I don't view the Pro as a success though, even though I believe they should have cancelled the A64-based PinePhone, not the Pro - a PP2 was IMHO overdue around 2023/2024). With better Quality Control, better relations between PineStore and the wider Community and a different default OS (putting the heavy Plasma Mobile on it was just nuts, and Manjaro definitely is not my favorite distro, to say the least) for the Beta edition, it could have been an even bigger success.
Yes, it didn't work for everybody, but as getting to a working laptop is so much easier than getting to a working phone (think of calls: the device has to manage to wake up at any moment (and fast), audio routing must be switched, echoes must be cancelled etc.) with the sky-high user expectations attached to phones (and the shitload of semi-hostile phone carriers across the world), I regard the PinePhone as quite an achievement.
Aaron Swartz Documentary: The Internet's Own Boy
The Internet's Own Boy
The story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz, who took his own life at the age of 26.PeerTube Nightly
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Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws | TechCrunch
Mastodon, the decentralized social network, stated it cannot comply with age verification laws like Mississippi's recent legislation because it lacks the technical capability to do so1. While Mastodon's software allows server administrators to specify a minimum age of 16 for sign-ups, the age-check data is not stored, and the nonprofit has no way to verify users' ages1.
The organization emphasizes that individual server owners must decide for themselves whether to implement age verification, noting that Mastodon was founded specifically "to allow different jurisdictions to have social media that is independent of the U.S."1
This stance follows Bluesky's decision to block service in Mississippi over similar age verification requirements1. Mastodon's position highlights the unique challenges decentralized platforms face with regional compliance, as there is "nobody that can decide for the fediverse to block Mississippi," according to Mastodon founder Eugen Rochko1.
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Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws | TechCrunch
Decentralized social network Mastodon says it cannot comply with age verification laws, like in Mississippi and elsewhere, and says it's up to individual server owners to decide.Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)
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POSTAL 2 on Steam
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?store.steampowered.com
Doesn't matter whether people buy it when their views have no effect on government policy. It seems many governments are simultaneously deciding to require ID to use the internet, and you have to suspect it's coordinated.
I think we neee to protest, but we also need to work hard to set up more robust ways to use at least the non-corporate web anonymously. If it's left to governments we'll get to the point where only licensed corporate publishers are allowed to run a website and only licensed users can access it.
Oh wow I had no idea, thank you for informing me. I believe you with no proof.
Edit: I made this comment with the belief that by "it" they meant "a free internet"
because their objective in doing this is surveillance, not really to "protect children". the entire point is moot anyway, and we shouldn't spend our anger at each other.
(and i'd argue blanket age-gating stuff like wikipedia is probably harmful for children, yea)
We could send in the passports of our entire family by post.
With the names and adresses of our children's school's and school teachers.
you could then contact the teachers directly to confirm that the children are of age.
Then, Go online and spread the "we have nothing to hide", "we must protect our children" mantra.
yep! thats sounds about right, for a one eyed, single celled mollusc, living under a nuclear radiated rock.
LOL!
To the legislators of Mississippi.
one of my favourite songs: Tough shit wilson by Splodgenessabounds. great band
Tough shit was born in Mississippi (orignially Tennessee*)
He was deaf and dumb, he measured 4 foot 3
He had one arm, one leg, no teeth, and one plum
He married a girl in 62, she was a 60 year old leper, called Mary Lou
But she died of cancer on her anniversary
[Chorus:]
They call him toughshit, toughshit Wilson
Toughshit, thoughshit was his name
Toughshit was left with a baby son, who died on leukemia, at the age of one
And toughshit was left with his guide doggy called roach
Till one day crossing with his dog on a wee doach
But roach didn't see the coach approach
And the wheels rolled gently over toughshits head
I think a doach is a railway track, but Im not sure, its scottish. Who the fuck can understand those bastards.
[Chorus:]
They call him toughshit, toughshit Wilson
And toughshit was his name
They call him toughshit
And toughshit was his claim to fame
At tough shits funeral, no one came
The vicar was late and it poured with rain
They dropped the coffin down a flight of stairs
But let us not forget toughshits pain
And perhaps he never died in vein but when it comes to that
Who fucking cares, not me I don't
See upcoming rock shows
Get tickets for your favorite artists
Hey Zerush
Safety first
that sounds like hell to me.
If that ever happened, I for certain would stop using the internet, cancel my broadband subscription, buy a dumb phone and act like a dim wit, who hasnt got a clue.
You forgot about a compulsory little placard proclaiming the wonders of our political leader.
Something like;
I love The Rt Hon Sir Keir Starmer KCB KC MP.
Now that is a muppet if I ever saw one.
It could be a trumpian version of course for USA residenst.
I love Big Don
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Also, they dumb it down in order to make it readable for the widest possible audience so they get the highest possible revenue.
IDK if it's just me growing up but I swear news from when I was a kid was more technically worded than now. We literally used news articles in school to learn technical words. Now they're so patronizing.
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They have moneybrain they can't understand human activity other the profit-centric attention capture.
I can tell you where this will eventually, they will attack the software dev teams as "facilitators of non-compliance" and then we will have a fit of forking, we're going to all go "I'm Spartacus" to human shield the devs but the effect will be a delegitimization and going underground of the dev teams.
If that's a good or bad thing depends of how good or bad custodian they have been of our space.
they have come to represent the fediverse, whatever journalista think it is. we are thankfully way too small atm to warrant so much attention.
let the journalists have their field day, and enjoy lemmy while we can.
Would this only apply to servers hosted in Mississippi (or wherever)? Or any server with users registering from Mississippi IPs?
Edit: I'm guessing it's the latter.
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Edit: not even tankie, as Putler's Russia does not even use any reference to USSR, quite the contrary
Maduro Says ‘No Way’ U.S. Can Invade As Russia Voice Support For Venezuela
Maduro Says ‘No Way’ U.S. Can Invade As Russia Voice Support For Venezuela
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on August 28 that there was “no way” United States troops could invade his country....Anonymous1199 (South Front)
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Russia working to prevent disruption of agreements reached in Alaska — MFA
Russia working to prevent disruption of agreements reached in Alaska — MFA
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov stressed that it is the top priorityTASS
- Get an entire country addicted to opium.
- Force them to hand over some of their territory specifically to serve as a port for importing opium.
- Forcibly impose your culture on a people with nothing to do to you.
- Make sure the treaty you strong armed that country to sign is valid for more than a generation so you can complete your cultural assimilation project and create a population of people born and raised under your rule, totally immersed in your propaganda.
- When that treaty FINALLY expires, clutch your perls about cOmMuNiSm and demand they remain independent for more than a generation again, creating a population that's not only culturally manipulated but also immersed in this fear of the mainland you manufactured.
- Claim to be their protector from the evil PeeRC and use their cultural difference you created to assert hUmAn rIgHtS and that they should become their own country (and totally not a puppet of yours) instead of returning to the country you stole them from.
It's actually fucking genius. I can appreciate the nods to various comic book supervillains.
Has Netanyahu made slip-up in case against Karim Khan?
Since late last year, the UN's Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) has been examining sexual misconduct allegations by one female ICC staff member against Khan, International Criminal Court chief prosecutor - allegations he has strongly denied.
But on Wednesday, Netanyahu said that four more women have made accusations against Khan. Netanyahu's claims have never been mentioned in the public domain before, and Khan has confirmed that he is wholly unaware of them.
Khan’s spokesperson told MEE that Khan "has no knowledge whatsoever of the women referred to by Mr Netanyahu".
The spokesperson said that the prosecutor believes the Israeli leader's comments raise "profound questions" as to whether Israel is "interfering in and attempting to manipulate" the UN investigation, and that Netanyahu "is making significant efforts to discredit both the ICC and Mr Khan personally".
Has Netanyahu sabotaged his own campaign against Karim Khan?
Karim Khan has questioned whether Israel is "interfering in and attempting to manipulate" a UN investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against him, following comments made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.Imran Mulla (Middle East Eye)
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‘What you feel is valid’: Social media is a lifeline for many abused and neglected young people
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‘What you feel is valid’: Social media is a lifeline for many abused and neglected young people
Young people who are being abused or neglected are more likely to turn to informal online support systems than to authorities.The Conversation
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Brazil Strikes Back: Lula to Impose Retaliatory Measures Against US
Brazil Strikes Back: Lula to Impose Retaliatory Measures Against US
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has launched formal consultations to apply the Economic Reciprocity Law after the US imposed a 50% tariff hike on Brazilian exports.Sputnik International
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What is AI slop? A technologist explains this new and largely unwelcome form of online content
What is AI slop? A technologist explains this new and largely unwelcome form of online content
AI slop refers to low- to mid-quality content created with AI tools, often with little regard for accuracy or quality.The Conversation
Germany Is Constructing Military Railway Network Leading To Ukraine – Report
Germany Is Constructing Military Railway Network Leading To Ukraine - Report
Germany is secretly building a network of railways that will be used for the rapid transfer of troops to the...Anonymous1199 (South Front)
Russia condemns revival of Iran sanctions by UK, France, and Germany
Russia condemns revival of Iran sanctions by UK, France, and Germany
Russia and Iran have denounced the Western European move to reinstate UN sanctions over Tehran’s alleged failure to comply with nuclear dealRT
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In Gaza City, I Have Surrendered to an Unknown Fate
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/35391498
Rasha Abou jalal
Aug 29, 2025
Like so many other Palestinians in Gaza, I have ended up in a tent—the enduring symbol of displacement. I am camped out on the rubble with my husband and five children in western Gaza City. The merciless Israeli military machine is bearing down on us, getting closer every day and there is nothing we can do. But we won’t leave here.At night, violent explosions from the eastern and northern areas of Gaza City thunder through the darkness, especially in the neighborhoods of Jabaliya, Al-Saftawi, and Abu Iskandar, just a few kilometers away from me, now emptied of residents.
The aim of the Israeli army in these residential areas is not just to invade and occupy them, but to systematically destroy them.
The army deploys robotic vehicles loaded with explosives into the heart of residential blocks and detonates them, causing massive destruction. Then they go to another neighborhood and do the same thing. Killing anyone who remains there. Their goal is to erase Gaza City entirely through this method.
In Gaza City, I Have Surrendered to an Unknown Fate
Rasha Abou jalal
Aug 29, 2025Like so many other Palestinians in Gaza, I have ended up in a tent—the enduring symbol of displacement. I am camped out on the rubble with my husband and five children in western Gaza City. The merciless Israeli military machine is bearing down on us, getting closer every day and there is nothing we can do. But we won’t leave here.At night, violent explosions from the eastern and northern areas of Gaza City thunder through the darkness, especially in the neighborhoods of Jabaliya, Al-Saftawi, and Abu Iskandar, just a few kilometers away from me, now emptied of residents.
The aim of the Israeli army in these residential areas is not just to invade and occupy them, but to systematically destroy them.
The army deploys robotic vehicles loaded with explosives into the heart of residential blocks and detonates them, causing massive destruction. Then they go to another neighborhood and do the same thing. Killing anyone who remains there. Their goal is to erase Gaza City entirely through this method.
In Gaza City, I Have Surrendered to an Unknown Fate
I am camped out on the rubble of my home as the Israeli army gets closer every dayRasha Abou jalal (Drop Site News)
In Gaza City, I Have Surrendered to an Unknown Fate
Rasha Abou jalal
Aug 29, 2025
Like so many other Palestinians in Gaza, I have ended up in a tent—the enduring symbol of displacement. I am camped out on the rubble with my husband and five children in western Gaza City. The merciless Israeli military machine is bearing down on us, getting closer every day and there is nothing we can do. But we won’t leave here.At night, violent explosions from the eastern and northern areas of Gaza City thunder through the darkness, especially in the neighborhoods of Jabaliya, Al-Saftawi, and Abu Iskandar, just a few kilometers away from me, now emptied of residents.
The aim of the Israeli army in these residential areas is not just to invade and occupy them, but to systematically destroy them.
The army deploys robotic vehicles loaded with explosives into the heart of residential blocks and detonates them, causing massive destruction. Then they go to another neighborhood and do the same thing. Killing anyone who remains there. Their goal is to erase Gaza City entirely through this method.
In Gaza City, I Have Surrendered to an Unknown Fate
I am camped out on the rubble of my home as the Israeli army gets closer every dayRasha Abou jalal (Drop Site News)
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Why are so many European countries getting worried about encryption and/or age verification? Why *now*?
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70 years of propaganda has its roots deep in generational beliefs that any criticism of Israel’s actions as a nation state could only be rooted in their ethnicity and religion and therefore must be countered.
No one wants to criticize privacy-invading “think of the children” laws for fear of being seen as a pedo or pedo-enabler, and likewise no one wants to stand up against Israel for fear of being seen as a Jew-hating antisemite.
The Germans are perhaps still motivated by guilt over the Holocaust
Honestly I'm not entirely convinced the Germans ARE motivated by guilt; it seems to me more that they're not happy with the image they created among their (perceived) peers and are now trying to create a new image to be seen by. They want TO BE SEEN as having overcome their past and become better for it, but the idea that they've fundamentally changed is a joke. They committed atrocities in Namibia for example but have never paid reparations to the people there, and of course why should they? Other European countries rag on Germany for the holocaust, none of them give a damn about the atrocities committed against the Herero people.
They bend over backwards for Israel because they don't want to be mocked as Nazis; they want to continue viewing themselves in the same lofty position they see other Western European countries in.
This. I always side eye people when they rag on Japan for not being publicly repentant about WW2 atrocities. I never hear Europeans tip toe and apologetic about Africa and especially not Asia. Americans are verbally repentant about slavery but not Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, ... Native Americans are mostly ignored and native Hispanic may as well not exist. Afghanistan and Iraq are referred to mostly as a waste of time and money rather than as terrible atrocities committed by us. Zero concern or feelings of responsibility for latin American imperialism by the US. Presumption of practically any immigration Muslim men of being problematic but little to no concern for the imperialism of their homelands that made them want to leave
I get annoyed at leftist meetings where people get annoyed at immigrants and their children for being successful because they must have come from money for their family to immigratr to the anglosphere or Europe. What money are modern people thinking people from Afghanistan came here with. The families from Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia that came in the 70s-80s. China didn't really become wealthy until the last couple decades and most Chinese people in the US are from before the 90s. Insane poverty back then. Very interesting times in the west these days. Conservatives are crazy but leftist are starting to get a bit xenophobic and ignorantly presumptuous and blaming of immigrants in my opinion too. I'll add that I don't hear resentment about immigrants being successful from the former Yugoslavian states from back during the Yugoslav wars in the 90s
Not truly leftist but in times of frustration people look for a group to feel acknowledged so even if they're not an ideologue, they'll comingle and the not true leftist, opportunistic "leftist", outnumber the ideological leftist. Has to be watched out for in caution of them hijacking organizations to drum up a populist anti-immigrants/racist movement that adopts some leftist terminology for marketing.
Corporate/imperialist Republicans courted evangelicals for votes but didn't want to enact policy of evangelicals until evangelicals took over enough of the party positions. That's a caution for socialist commingling with labor activist that are really just about their paycheck rather than being about labor. I'm all about labor unions but I know labor unions are filled with people happy to pull up ladders and scapegoat out groups
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It's partly because of the guit of holocaust, but also because they just don't personally want to lift a finger regarding Palestine. It's a toxic mixture of inbred zionism, cold geopolitical calculus, appeasing the US in trying time in transatlantic relations, and neocon hubris. They maybe can bend to appease their own populations, but they really are not prepared to stop Israel and they would much rather help them. They just want the genocide to happen, but quietly and out of sight and no protests.
But it's not really just Gaza. They do this because of Ukraine, rising cost of living, European humiliation in from of Trump, falling economy, their own unpopularity, etc.... They are fearing the upheaval and people getting ideas when Brussels doesn't seem to have any of it's own. Remember that these are the same people who though that the end of the soviet union was the end of history and they are the culmination of humanity. They cannon accept being wrong or stepping down at this point.
Does Israel have that much sway over Europe?
It's not so much that Isreal does, but for all intents and purposes Israel = America. It's our colonial outpost in the Middle East, an "unsinkable aircraft carrier", and as Joe Biden said, "if Isreal didn't exist, we would have to invent it". And as much as Europeans don't want to believe it, most European countries are American vassal states. Look at the pictures of all of your leaders gravelling at Trump's feet and literally calling him "Daddy".
Gaza is only the beginning. They are also preparing for mass unrest at home as standards of living worsen. Just this week the German chancellor said Germany "can no longer afford the welfare state", meanwhile they are spending record amounts on arms. They are preparing for millions of climate refugees at their borders.
You should expect and prepare for a lot more Gazas all over the world in the future. Your leaders are.
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The Internet has become popular enough that governments care about what happens on it. And it's not just European countries, US states too (at least for age verification).
More specifically for your two points:
Encryption
It used to be that very little Internet traffic was encrypted, much less end-to-end encrypted. After 2013 (Snowden revelations), this changed, e.g. messengers started to E2EE, many more websites than previously started to use HTTPS. So all we are seeing now is the reaction to those positive changes...
Age verification
This has to do with mobile devices more than anything else. I think a lot of parents now just hand their children smartphones or tablets and may then be surprised that their children can then access things they don't want their children to access. This was less of a thing in the desktop era because it was easier to see what children were doing online if it was happening on a huge computer in the living room...
Now personally I don't think anyone (including young people) should ever be prohibited from watching or reading anything they actively want to see. For preventing young people from accidentally accessing porn, an "are you over 18" banner ought to be enough... I don't think people who want to prevent that kind of access want anything legitimate. But you asked about why it's happening now and not at another time and I think this is the answer.
Sidenote: I remember reading that when television was newly introduced in East Germany, it was still able to be somewhat critical of the regime; after some years, this stopped because a lot more citizens were able to watch it. The equivalent of that is currently happening to the Internet.
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This is a big deal. I've had the archetypal non-technical user, my mother send me a PGP encrypted email. It will probably come as no surprise to anyone who has done so that this did not become our default.
Now the majority of our messaging and calling is via Signal. It's effortless.
Once they figure that out, they'll probably just make any encryption illegal...
Then we will probably just develop encryption algorithms that look like regular text messages, or hide the encrypted content inside some audio, image, video or other normal types of files.
I do think it's Gaza. For decades until the last couple of years, the plight of Palestinians have been mostly ignored. The whole of Europe and algosphere in the middle east have had active or passive public approval for middle east policy for the past century. Vietnam war reporting soured the public on far east colonialism and war reporting went softball afterwards and that softball unraveled in the 2010s and now Gaza is the modern day Vietnam war for reporting on disregard for life from pretty much ourselves. Israel is an ally of our countries.
So now government policy is incredibly misaligned with public opinion now and what was a steady grind at enacting internet control is suddenly a mad rush for governments. Israel is a line in the sand for the powerful like Vietnam was in the 60/70s was for media control/influence
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I recall something (RFK?) said that tiktok took the narrative on Gaza out of their hands. They can't tell people what to think if people have access to events (through video and images) that previously the news used to either hide or share tidbits about but heavily color by narrative.
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It's not new. Maybe it's new to you but European conservatives always tried this, at least in Germany. They never missed a chance to try to implement harsher and broader surveillance and have many times had their laws repealed by the federal constitutional court.
Also the chatcontrol laws have been in the making for years in the EU, but over those years they have been reworked or not gotten enough votes again and again.
Now why do conservatives want surveillance? I think it's about control. Just like they believe a father should have ultimate control over his children (be allowed to hit them etc), they think that police shouldn't have to stop at anything while researching a matter.
Also there probably is lobbying by state agencies and those selling surveillance tech and whatnot.
The USA will go to war with China to keep them in line. My assumption is that like Afghanistan it will be presented as an attack on NATO so the EU will be involved.
People may question the validity of that war which is ok as long as the sentiment doesn't spread. With age verification those critical voices can be silenced easily.
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This is not solely a european problem, and it's not new.
A faction of conservatives will scream up and down that they're protecting the children. Most people will generally side with privacy.
My suspicion is that the end goal is to classify people to target your opponents, even the ones who don't have much of a platform.
Once you can identify all the anonymous people on the internet and build profiles of all their communications with ML, you can easily generate a list of people who are against your policies and target them. I'm pretty sure you could find other subsets of data linking these people so you can then target them indirectly without too much friendly fire against your supporters.
In the US, One easy target I haven't seen any actions for is Marijuana. All those medical patients are in a database somewhere. All the debit card transactions in stores are in a database somewhere. It's still federally illegal and the punishments are nuts if prosecuted. Take your communications list, and the MJ list, target the ones on both and ignore the rest. You get to legally enslave your opponents under the guise of weed.
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Google wants to be the go to for age verification so they can sell it to other websites. They'll also coincidentally control a lot of information on every user. They are fighting for these age verification laws.
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The baltic pipe, the sea cables, the train stop in poland are the bigger ones but smaller acts of sabotage where the perpetrator has been found to be working for Russia are common. Last month some Colombian dude lit two warehouses on fire and has been found to be working for Russian intelligence.
It may be just government propaganda or it may be real, we'll never know, but it's the agenda pushed to the media.
It's certainly the agenda being pushed.
Are you referring to Nordstream, or another Baltic pipe?
It looks like the Polish train accidents are no longer blamed on Russia.
Polish authorities initially believed Russian sabotage was afoot.1But after investigations were carried out by Poland's Internal Security Agency, it seems that local radio enthusiasts using amateur equipment managed to copy the brake signal used to override the manual functions of the train operator and force the trains to stop abruptly, causing the accidents.1
I no longer take any of the accusations from Western intelligence at face value (i.e. without evidence), because I believe they've lied about Russian culpability so many times in the past.^[Including the 2016 US election meddling and DNC email hack, the poisoning of Sergei Skripal, MH17, the Mariupol theater bombing, the Bucha massacre, and the Nordstream pipeline.] I don't discount the possibility though—the Baltic Sea cables one seems to have a plausible motive at the very least, if they were used for NATO communications.
Is Russian sabotage behind 20 recent train accidents in Poland?
After more than 20 train accidents occurred across Poland in recent weeks, authorities believe they have figured out who has been disrupting the rail networks.Euronews.com
Why are so many European countries getting worried about encryption and/or age verification?
EU elites want to hold on to power. They know everything is going to shit economically and politically and there will be backlash for this economic situation, covid, Ukraine, Gaza and everything. So they try to shut down free information and speech by censoring internet and enforcing self censorship to stay in power. Free speech and any civil liberty is on the loan anyway, unless the people are ready push back constantly. These fuckers have no morality or common sense otherwise.
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This battle will define the class war.
I doubt plebs win, at best tech savy will maintain modicum of privacy while under class will be fish in a bowl... All that data will be used to enslve them even further.
Sadly, many just accept it
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A lot of good points here, but I'd also like to bring forward another hypothesis which partially explain the incredible speed at which this is moving forward in the last few months (even though things have been brewing back and forth for years, decades).
The US has become a hostile state. For Five Eyes, Six Eyes, Nine Eyes, and Forty Eyes that means much less domestic intel since all the Eyes were sharing domestic intelligence to circumvent stronger protections on their own citizens. Canada would spy for the US and the UK, and vice versa, which was a neat way of getting rid of pesky rights afforded to citizens.
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, and they blame the phones
are you antisemitism concern trolling or new?
Even if our elections were "democratic" (they aren't), there is absolutely no chance of voting this shit away before it is foisted onto the population.
The media is also controlled by those same donors. The people believe what they're told to believe, and then given candidates that only align with what they're told to believe. Anyone outside of the norm for the parties and donor's ideology is systematically portrayed as unserious and delusional. It is not in the interest of a party to win with a candidate that disagrees with their core beliefs. Which is why establishment democrats prefer to lose when the party is forced to run a leftist. You can see exactly this phenomenon in the NYC mayoral race.
I think if you asked the people whattl they voted for none of them would say it was this. And yet it is still set to roll out.
Makes you wonder what liberal democracy really means doesn't it?
Sometimes policy issues arise after an election cycle, in which case the voters didn't have an opportunity to vote for or against the candidates based on their position on the policy issue. Was that the case with age verification in the UK?
In a healthy democracy, future elections decide the fate of these policies, which can be reverted. Even the USA's complete prohibition on recreational alcohol, which was popular with voters at the time, and codified into the constitution itself, later became unpopular with voters, and was repealed. So as long as the democracy remains healthy, there is always an opportunity for bad policies to be repealed.
You should read the rest of the thread to get an understanding of why surveillance and deanonymization is being pushed. It is not to solve some real issue to the benefit of the public, it is a response to the failure of the media systems of control to control narratives.
Your claims about a "healthy democracy" are fairy tales. That's propaganda about how it works, not how it works in practice. The UK has its current Prime Minister due to a series of coordinated media campaigns against the previous leader of Labour, for examlle, with an internal purge using bad faith claims following his removal. No element of that was democratic and none of the UK governments have been popular for ages.
Question why so-called democracies only produce unpopular governments. Why don't the parties align with popular interests in reality? Whose interests do they align with?
Media companies oppose left candidates. Left candidates threaten the material interests of the owners of these companies, the ad buyers, the people who fund think tanks and establish or otherwise embed in academic programs like journalism schools.
The remainder is non-left candidates. These are people who work in those interests and therefore receive media support. For example, Reform UK gets inordinate neuteal or positive media coverage as well as volume compared to even the greens who are not much of a threat to capital.
These mass surveillance laws are a reaction to an failure in this overall apparatus to control thought and speech re: Gaza. They want to track and suppress and oppress information and speech that runs contrary to ruling class interests. The ruling class is heavily invested in the genocidal settler colonial project of "Israel" both literally with piles of cash and politically-strategically as a means by which to control and profit from political destabilization in parts of the Middle East.
Their explicit statements about why they want to do this are just a lie, a pretext. They are not personally or politically invested in protecting kids, lol. These are the people that protected Jimmy Saville and impoverished and made food insecure huge percentages of UK children.
I feel it's the same vibe with return to office policy in Canada.
These things seem like they come from absolutely no where with no legitimate reason and then all of these executives are on board making it happen.
Like what the fuck is going on
If you're talking about Toronto and Ottawa, as far as I heard, a huge part of the reason is Downtown businesses are struggling now that way fewer people are commuting Downtown.
But the solution to this is not RTO. If your DOWNTOWN of all places isn't self sufficient I don't know what to tell you other than your municipal policies are failing. Just let people live in the office buildings. "Oh they're too wide and you'll have to make the units narrow strips that only have a tiny sliver of window on one side" Do that then. Tons of people would still live in those because Downtown should be the most desirable place to live.
I don’t want to just dismiss this as “business as usual.” What stands out to me is how coordinated the return-to-work push was. Sure, we know there’s a “big club” of elites who share similar goals. But sharing goals isn’t the same as acting in lockstep.
Think about it: I can join a fitness club, but that doesn’t mean all of us show up on Wednesday wearing the same outfit. There’s a difference between belonging to a group and receiving instructions that lead everyone to move together.
That’s why I think this deserves more attention. The inference here isn’t just that the wealthy share values or face the same incentives it’s that they communicate and coordinate globally in ways that go far beyond coincidence. And that, to me, is a much bigger story than just “rich people doing rich people stuff.”
“Oh they’re too wide and you’ll have to make the units narrow strips that only have a tiny sliver of window on one side” Do that then.
Some people would be willing to live like that. But the rents per ft^2 or m^2 would be abysmally low. And renovating the buildings would still be very expensive. It may be physically possible to turn those deep floor plate cube farm skyscrapers into housing, but it isn't financially possible. The money would be better spent tearing the buildings down entirely and just building entirely new residential buildings from scratch.
Centralization tends be self-reinforcing. Social unrest might cause the public to demand more safety measures, which usually come at the expense of freedoms. I’d also wager that the lower the level of trust in government is, the more they want to impose control and authority.
And in the EU specifically it is because lobbyists have been working overtime to try and pass chat control: borncity.com/win/2023/09/27/eu…
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For those here who didn't know specifics, as far as I know the EU has announced in July 2025 guidelines, set to come into effect until 2026, that seem to basically be the same as the UK online safety act:
eunews.it/en/2025/07/14/the-eu…
mlex.com/mlex/articles/2368265…
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These guidelines say, among other things, check the last link: "Where the provider of the online platform has identified medium risks to minors on their platform as established in its risk review [...] and those risks cannot be mitigated by less restrictive measures. The Commission considers this will be the case where the risk is not high enough to require access restriction based on age verification but not low enough that it would be appropriate to not have any access restriction [...]" And "Self-declaration is not considered to be an appropriate age-assurance measure as further explained below."
If you don't want the Online Safety Act in the EU, call or e-mail your representative now. If you enter your country here, it shows a list: fightchatcontrol.eu/#delegates As far as I can tell, unless it's reversed this will be coming soon. The clock is ticking.
The EU launches an online age verification app. Pilot project in 5 member states (including Italy)
The European Commission presented guidelines on the protection of minors from the risks of addiction, abuse and exposure to harmful content. Vice-President Virkkunen: "Platforms have no more excuses"Simone De La Feld @SimoneDeLaFeld1 (Eunews)
Any letter sent to them is nothing more than toilet paper for these people.
We are realistically looking at losing between 200 million and 1 billion people over the next 20 years due to climate-change induced famine and heat stroke. Those are realistic estimates. More optimistic scenarios could make that number less, more pessimistic ones could reduce it. We are on the eve of what future histories may refer to as the Great Hunger.
Even for those lucky enough to not live in regions being rendered uninhabitable, the quality of life for the average citizen is collapsing. The developing world will experience mass famine. The developed world will experience food prices not seen since the advent of mechanized agriculture. Home prices will continue to become more unaffordable, as more and more homes are destroyed by rapidly increasing natural disasters. In the US, tens of millions of homeowners are going to have their primary asset, their homes, rendered completely worthless after they become uninsurable. Governments can try to prop up the insurance market if they want, but not even national governments have the resources to subsidize an insurance market in an era of spiraling natural catastrophes.
Leaders around the world see a future of chaos, famine, and strife. Really all the Four Horseman are coming out. In developed countries, leaders fear millions of desperate poor people from developing countries trying to cross their borders. Internally, they fear violence by their own populations, who are seeing their standard of living rapidly collapse.
The borders are being locked down. The walls are going up. People everywhere are being increasingly surveilled and controlled. Political leaders might be cynical enough to deny climate change for political gain, but that doesn't mean they're ignorant to the actual future we're running headfirst into. Technology is also advancing, allowing "mass shooter" type individuals to potentially cause much larger acts of destruction in the future.
Most governments would prefer to maintain power by actually improving the lives of their citizens. That's the safest and most moral approach. But in a world of rapidly spiraling climate change, governments simply are not capable of on improving the lives of their citizens. They can't even maintain the standard of living their citizens already have. So, the leaders have to turn to more brute force methods to retain control. Best to be loved. But if you can't be loved, then at least be feared.
Who's "we"?
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"The world's population is projected to continue growing for the next 50 to 60 years, peaking at approximately 10.3 billion by the mid-2080.[sic]"
Population | United Nations
In 1950, five years after the founding of the United Nations, world population was estimated at around 2.6 billion people. It reached 5 billion in 1987 and 6 in 1999. In October 2011, the global population was estimated to be 7 billion.United Nations
Yes. That's exactly it. They assume business as usual. And your source is a landing page, not an actual source. And even then, that site doesn't discuss any effect of climate change on population projections. You just blindly linked to the UN's population agency.
For every degree of Celsius warming, farm yields of major staple crops decline 16-20%. We're already at 1.5C warming, and the rate of warming is rapidly increasing. We're looking at another 0.5-1.5C increase by 2050. There's no way this doesn't lead to mass famine on a Biblical scale.
This paper in Nature predict 4-14% in total global food production by 2050 due to climate effects. And these are using the RPC models, which we're learning are far too conservative in their predictions. I'm sure if everyone in the world went vegan tomorrow, we could absorb a 10% decline in agricultural production, but not a chance in Hell of that happening.
As far as the UN, they do work on climate change, but their population projections don't factor it into account. Here is a link to the 2024 population prospects summary
When you pull open that PDF, you won't find mention of climate change being incorporated into their methodology at all. As far as I'm aware, the UN's figures are purely based on population pyramids, demographic factors, birth rate projections, etc. Demographers don't like looking at factors beyond just population numbers, gender mixes, and age distributions. Other things, like war and economic policy, can certainly affect population numbers, but those are generally considered too unpredictable to properly model. The population projections you see are purely demographic models.
As far as I know, agricultural yields are never even part of their methodology. They look purely at what ages people are and how many children people of different ages have. They generally assume that resources will be available for those who want to have children. Do you have any evidence that they do take climate effects on agricultural yields into account when making their numbers?
Report: Warmer planet will trigger increased farm losses | Cornell Chronicle
Extreme heat is already harming crop yields, but a new report quantifies just how much that warming is cutting into farmers’ financial security.Cornell Chronicle
European elites are worried about losing control, and they are responding by restricting freedoms.
The Palestine/Gaza issue is one concrete example: European elites are very pro-Israel and pro-Genocide. But they have completely failed to control the narrative and European populations are not as pro-Israel as their elites.
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They might also be getting cocerned about people finding out that elites routine participate in sexual abuse of children.
I don't see how any regime can maintain legitimacy if normies finally grasp the scope of the issue.
They are prepping to rule by force, fuck your consent.
They will rape children and jack shit you can do about it.
Totalitarianism.
People outside Europe doesn't understand how our governments are speed running getting a totalitarian government. More and more aspects of anyone's everyday life are getting controlled everyday.
Here they are already starting a system of garbage bags with nfc tags to have our garbage controlled.
At the end of the day they are thirsty for power and control.
Here they are already starting a system of garbage bags with nfc tags to have our garbage controlled.
Sounds like a great way of getting people to throw their garbage in any place other than the bag...
PI Briefing | No. 32 | Breaking the Blockade [Gaza]
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/35390052
from Progressive International
29.08.2025
On 22 August, the United Nations declared a famine in Gaza. More than half a million Palestinians are facing catastrophic famine conditions amid Israeli genocide, while authorities in Gaza report over 10,000 additional deaths and 45,000 injuries since the collapse of the ceasefire in March — numbers that represent a significant undercount of the true devastation.In response, a historic coalition is mobilizing in the Mediterranean Sea — to break the blockade that created these unbearable conditions, to deliver critical humanitarian aid to Gaza’s people, and to signal that people from around the globe refuse to be complicit in the genocide.
PI Briefing | No. 32 | Breaking the Blockade [Gaza]
from Progressive International
29.08.2025On 22 August, the United Nations declared a famine in Gaza. More than half a million Palestinians are facing catastrophic famine conditions amid Israeli genocide, while authorities in Gaza report over 10,000 additional deaths and 45,000 injuries since the collapse of the ceasefire in March — numbers that represent a significant undercount of the true devastation.In response, a historic coalition is mobilizing in the Mediterranean Sea — to break the blockade that created these unbearable conditions, to deliver critical humanitarian aid to Gaza’s people, and to signal that people from around the globe refuse to be complicit in the genocide.
PI Briefing | No. 32 | Breaking the Blockade
On 31 August, the Global Sumud Flotilla — the largest humanitarian fleet ever mobilized for Gaza — sets off for Palestine with a mission to break the genocidal siege.Progressive International
PI Briefing | No. 32 | Breaking the Blockade [Gaza]
from Progressive International
29.08.2025
On 22 August, the United Nations declared a famine in Gaza. More than half a million Palestinians are facing catastrophic famine conditions amid Israeli genocide, while authorities in Gaza report over 10,000 additional deaths and 45,000 injuries since the collapse of the ceasefire in March — numbers that represent a significant undercount of the true devastation.In response, a historic coalition is mobilizing in the Mediterranean Sea — to break the blockade that created these unbearable conditions, to deliver critical humanitarian aid to Gaza’s people, and to signal that people from around the globe refuse to be complicit in the genocide.
PI Briefing | No. 32 | Breaking the Blockade
On 31 August, the Global Sumud Flotilla — the largest humanitarian fleet ever mobilized for Gaza — sets off for Palestine with a mission to break the genocidal siege.Progressive International
I think the meme is low quality and needlessly provocative (no offense OP I guess), but the answer is likely complex. Once the republics are under the purview of the USSR, the resources and engineerong may well have come from elsewhere in the country, even if the construction crews were primarily local people.
I don't know enough about Soviet construction to provide an actual answer, though.
soviets often try to steal all the achievements of the country
Thing is that the workers in those countries were Soviet as well. Credit goes to the labor regardless of nationality. The softening of national divisions was a great achievement of both the USSR and Yugoslavian socialist governments. It has been disastrous that those institutions weren't able to prevail until the current day (they should have evolved instead of been abolished, but I don't know enough to comment much further).
I don't agree with the depiction of the USSR as an outside force that developed these countries "for them". It was an opportunity to come together under one republic and develop.
I think the meme is attempting to disparage the "ungratefulness" of present day liberals in these FSU countries, but I think it lacks nuance to say the least.
I think the meme is attempting to disparage the "ungratefulness" of present day liberals in these FSU countries
Yes, well this is basically Russian ~~diplomacy~~ propaganda 101 - "I did this and that for you and now you're ungrateful". Similar stuff abusing husband says to abused wife. Basically if russians helped you in any way in history, you're supposed to be their vasal until the end of the universe, there's no expiring date on that. It's abusive and disgusting
Former Biden official justifies the murder of Palestinian children
Former United States secretary and Biden advisor, Jacob Lew, has stumbled into a series of embarrassing admissions in an interview with The New Yorker. Veteran journalist Isaac Chotiner had questions for Lew about the Biden administration’s handling of Israel in the early days of the genocide.
Lew describes how the US government at the time advised on not only Israel’s humanitarian obligations as the occupying power, but on their conduct:
We were engaging not just on humanitarian assistance; we were engaging on the conduct of the war. I’m not saying that everything went the way we would’ve advised, and I’m not saying we didn’t call them in the middle of the night many times saying, What on earth happened just now?
So, which is it? Did the US exert its influence over Israel over its conduct on war, or not When asked what was the content of those late night calls, Lew describes:
The general pattern was that in-the-moment stories were inaccurate, and that the Israeli military and government establishment were not in a position to fully explain yet. We could almost never get answers that explained what happened before the story was fully framed in international media, and then when the facts were fully developed, it turned out that the casualties were much lower, the number of civilians was much lower, and, in many cases, the children were children of Hamas fighters, not children taking cover in places.
Here, Lew appears to not realise what he has just said. Namely, that he considers it acceptable for children to be killed if they are “children of Hamas fighters.” Chotiner immediately pulls him up on it:
- Sorry, what did you just say?
- In many cases, the original number of casualties—
- No, I meant the thing about who the children were.
- They were often the children of the fighters themselves.
- And therefore what follows from that?
- What follows is that whether or not it was a legitimate military target flows from the population that’s there.
- Hold on, Mr. Secretary. That’s not, in fact, correct, right? Whether it’s a legitimate target has to do with all kinds of things like proportionality. It doesn’t matter if the kids are the kids of—
Lew, remarkably, doubles down:
If you’re the commander of a Hamas unit and you bring your family to a military site, that’s different. I’m not saying everything fits into that, and I’m not saying it’s not a tragedy.So, according to Biden’s former advisor, it’s not ideal that children are killed. But, it is certainly understandable if they’re the children of Hamas members. Chotiner, again, points out that it doesn’t make a difference who the children are when it comes to international law. However, Lew is adamant that this is the reality of the situation.
Former Biden official stumbles into embarrassing admissions
Former Biden official claims that the death of children is more acceptable if they're children of Hamas membersMaryam Jameela (The Canary)
Which ones?
According to the most recent report (2024), people in China have overwhelmingly positive views of their political system. 92% of people say that democracy is important to them, 79% say that their country is democratic, 91% say that the government serves the interests of most people (rather than a small group), and 85% say all people have equal rights before the law. Furthermore, China outperforms the US and most European countries on these indicators – in fact, it has some of the strongest results in the world. The figure below compares China’s results to those from the US, France and Britain. These results may help explain the high levels of satisfaction with government reported by the Ash Center.
Thanks for the graph! Happy to see that. I'm very willing to investigate my perception of China. What China-critical sources do you consider credible? What arguments would convince you that China is a bad place?
My personal experiences are from the scientific community, where those who come from China are extremely critical of it, in a great part due to extreme surveillance, low individual freedom and low respect for human rights. But that's just anecdotal.
My immediate (better sourced) concerns would be the Uyghurs, who don't seem to enjoy being Chinese , the five million people working under modern slavery, the people of occupied Tibet, and generally anyone who doesn't speak, dress or behave the way the state thinks they should.
I consider those credible sources, but I'd be happy to reconsider that if you have any good reasons to doubt them.
My argument is that while possibly lots of people in China think it's a good place and are happy with the overall direction, lots of other people in China are being treated with a terrifying brutality that is impossible to justify if you believe in the values of universal human welfare and dignity.
China: “Like We Were Enemies in a War”: China’s Mass Internment, Torture, and Persecution of Muslims in Xinjiang - Amnesty International
Since 2017, the government of China has carried out massive and systematic abuses against Muslims living in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (Xinjiang). The human suffering has been immense.Amnesty International
These approval rates are generally positive across the board. There's no slavery of Uyghurs in China, no mass sterilizations or executions. The issue with your sources is that, generally, they aren't credible. Xinjiang in particular does have high approval rates, and while there was a response from the state to western-backed extremists, this has died down and the program has been seen as a success. See Qiao Collective's Xinjiang Resource Guide.
As for Tibet, read Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth. Here's 2 excerpts:
Drepung monastery was one of the biggest landowners in the world, with its 185 manors, 25,000 serfs, 300 great pastures, and 16,000 herdsmen. The wealth of the monasteries rested in the hands of small numbers of high-ranking lamas. Most ordinary monks lived modestly and had no direct access to great wealth. The Dalai Lama himself “lived richly in the 1000-room, 14-story Potala Palace.”[12]Secular leaders also did well. A notable example was the commander-in-chief of the Tibetan army, a member of the Dalai Lama’s lay Cabinet, who owned 4,000 square kilometers of land and 3,500 serfs. [13] Old Tibet has been misrepresented by some Western admirers as “a nation that required no police force because its people voluntarily observed the laws of karma.” [14] In fact it had a professional army, albeit a small one, that served mainly as a gendarmerie for the landlords to keep order, protect their property, and hunt down runaway serfs.
Young Tibetan boys were regularly taken from their peasant families and brought into the monasteries to be trained as monks. Once there, they were bonded for life. Tashì-Tsering, a monk, reports that it was common for peasant children to be sexually mistreated in the monasteries. He himself was a victim of repeatedremoved, beginning at age nine. [15] The monastic estates also conscripted children for lifelong servitude as domestics, dance performers, and soldiers.
In old Tibet there were small numbers of farmers who subsisted as a kind of free peasantry, and perhaps an additional 10,000 people who composed the “middle-class” families of merchants, shopkeepers, and small traders. Thousands of others were beggars. There also were slaves, usually domestic servants, who owned nothing. Their offspring were born into slavery. [16] The majority of the rural population were serfs. Treated little better than slaves, the serfs went without schooling or medical care. They were under a lifetime bond to work the lord’s land — or the monastery’s land — without pay, to repair the lord’s houses, transport his crops, and collect his firewood. They were also expected to provide carrying animals and transportation on demand. [17] Their masters told them what crops to grow and what animals to raise. They could not get married without the consent of their lord or lama. And they might easily be separated from their families should their owners lease them out to work in a distant location.
[18]As in a free labor system and unlike slavery, the overlords had no responsibility for the serf’s maintenance and no direct interest in his or her survival as an expensive piece of property. The serfs had to support themselves. Yet as in a slave system, they were bound to their masters, guaranteeing a fixed and permanent workforce that could neither organize nor strike nor freely depart as might laborers in a market context. The overlords had the best of both worlds.
One 22-year old woman, herself a runaway serf, reports: “Pretty serf girls were usually taken by the owner as house servants and used as he wished”; they “were just slaves without rights.” [19] Serfs needed permission to go anywhere. Landowners had legal authority to capture those who tried to flee. One 24-year old runaway welcomed the Chinese intervention as a “liberation.” He testified that under serfdom he was subjected to incessant toil, hunger, and cold. After his third failed escape, he was merciless beaten by the landlord’s men until blood poured from his nose and mouth. They then poured alcohol and caustic soda on his wounds to increase the pain, he claimed.
[20]The serfs were taxed upon getting married, taxed for the birth of each child and for every death in the family. They were taxed for planting a tree in their yard and for keeping animals. They were taxed for religious festivals and for public dancing and drumming, for being sent to prison and upon being released. Those who could not find work were taxed for being unemployed, and if they traveled to another village in search of work, they paid a passage tax. When people could not pay, the monasteries lent them money at 20 to 50 percent interest. Some debts were handed down from father to son to grandson. Debtors who could not meet their obligations risked being cast into slavery.
[21]The theocracy’s religious teachings buttressed its class order. The poor and afflicted were taught that they had brought their troubles upon themselves because of their wicked ways in previous lives. Hence they had to accept the misery of their present existence as a karmic atonement and in anticipation that their lot would improve in their next lifetime. The rich and powerful treated their good fortune as a reward for, and tangible evidence of, virtue in past and present lives.
Selection two, shorter: (CW sexual violence and mutilation)
The Tibetan serfs were something more than superstitious victims, blind to their own oppression. As we have seen, some ran away; others openly resisted, sometimes suffering dire consequences. In feudal Tibet, torture and mutilation — including eye gouging, the pulling out of tongues, hamstringing, and amputation — were favored punishments inflicted upon thieves, and runaway or resistant serfs.[22]Journeying through Tibet in the 1960s, Stuart and Roma Gelder interviewed a former serf, Tsereh Wang Tuei, who had stolen two sheep belonging to a monastery. For this he had both his eyes gouged out and his hand mutilated beyond use. He explains that he no longer is a Buddhist: “When a holy lama told them to blind me I thought there was no good in religion.” [23] Since it was against Buddhist teachings to take human life, some offenders were severely lashed and then “left to God” in the freezing night to die. “The parallels between Tibet and medieval Europe are striking,” concludes Tom Grunfeld in his book on Tibet.
[24]In 1959, Anna Louise Strong visited an exhibition of torture equipment that had been used by the Tibetan overlords. There were handcuffs of all sizes, including small ones for children, and instruments for cutting off noses and ears, gouging out eyes, breaking off hands, and hamstringing legs. There were hot brands, whips, and special implements for disemboweling. The exhibition presented photographs and testimonies of victims who had been blinded or crippled or suffered amputations for thievery. There was the shepherd whose master owed him a reimbursement in yuan and wheat but refused to pay. So he took one of the master’s cows; for this he had his hands severed. Another herdsman, who opposed having his wife taken from him by his lord, had his hands broken off. There were pictures of Communist activists with noses and upper lips cut off, and a woman who wasremovedd and then had her nose sliced away.
[25]Earlier visitors to Tibet commented on the theocratic despotism. In 1895, an Englishman, Dr. A. L. Waddell, wrote that the populace was under the “intolerable tyranny of monks” and the devil superstitions they had fashioned to terrorize the people. In 1904 Perceval Landon described the Dalai Lama’s rule as “an engine of oppression.” At about that time, another English traveler, Captain W. F. T. O’Connor, observed that “the great landowners and the priests… exercise each in their own dominion a despotic power from which there is no appeal,” while the people are “oppressed by the most monstrous growth of monasticism and priest-craft.” Tibetan rulers “invented degrading legends and stimulated a spirit of superstition” among the common people. In 1937, another visitor, Spencer Chapman, wrote, “The Lamaist monk does not spend his time in ministering to the people or educating them. […] The beggar beside the road is nothing to the monk. Knowledge is the jealously guarded prerogative of the monasteries and is used to increase their influence and wealth.” [26] As much as we might wish otherwise, feudal theocratic Tibet was a far cry from the romanticized Shangri-La so enthusiastically nurtured by Buddhism’s western proselytes.
Essentially, you only seem to trust organizations that have direct ties to western state department propagandists. Your sources on Xinjiang all lead back to Adrian Zenz, orgs like Human Rights Watch are just western government mouthpieces, etc. The UN report on Xinjiang is the least bad source on it from the west, though China's response should also be read.
My argument is that while possibly lots of people in China think it’s a good place and are happy with the overall direction, lots of other people in China are being treated with a terrifying brutality that is impossible to justify if you believe in the values of universal human welfare and dignity.
My argument is that you essentially have immersed yourself in a Cold War style understanding of China that doesn't reflect reality. China isn't perfect, it has a long way to go, but it's come a lot farther than any other country and is still rapidly improving with no signs of stopping.
Xinjiang: A Report and Resource Compilation
Western governments have levied false allegations of genocide and slavery in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. A closer look makes clear that the politicization of China’s anti-terrorism policies in Xinjiang is another front of the U.S.Qiao Collective
Thanks again. I'd like to restate my question: which China-critical sources do you consider credible? Any western ones? Is there any way I could present this argument to make you change your mind?
I'm having a hard time accepting that all western sources are propaganda. I've never had reason to doubt the sources I cited before, such as Amnesty International, in other cases they've been accurate. Are they only misleading on China?
The free media of my country, Denmark, reports the same facts based on their investigations, across the political spectrum and despite angering our government, which has close economic ties to China. How does that fit with these organizations and this media being government mouthpieces?
America is an extremely natural trading partner, an overwhelming military threat, and right next door to all of Canada's major cities.
They, more than any other country, need to walk a tightrope.
They don't. Not really.
America is nothing economically without its trading partners. And that goes for every country, not just the US.
Accepting what the US does is a stupid idea on any country's part because Trump's tariffs have nothing to do with "normal trading". If anything, they're abnormal.
And they should be treated as such. Laughed off. Ridiculed. And most certantly not appeased. This entire situation isn't unlike the Hitler Sudetenland stuff.
Whatever Mr. President says Mr. President gets. Not really a good foreign policy move. It was percisely the US who set up penalties for countries "restricting trade". Why should other countries not hold the US to the rules?
Both import and export tariffs are barriers to trade. Since Mr President's childish demands are appeased, soon enough, those countries appeasing will start "reciprocal" tariffs on Mr President's percieved enemies. Why? Because it's Mr President's next logical step.
Now, short of all countries that decided on appeasig the US make a sharp U-turn, what's done is done.
But, should they decide on such a course of action, they'd isolate America on the world market, which would dissuade Trump from keeping his mercantilism up.
The alternstive is isolating themselves from others, together with America.
Pacific Front Without the US: Oceania Breaks Free from Guardianship
Pacific Front Without the US: Oceania Breaks Free from Guardianship
The geopolitical shift in Oceania began with a whisper that detonated louder than any fleet. Pacific island states declined to renew their military pactsРебекка Чан (New Eastern Outlook)
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Mass events in Ukraine now require approval from the military, local news outlets reportRT
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Need some opinions on my next Laptop and Linux Distro
Hi, im searching for a new Laptop and i was tempted to buy the framework 13.. BUT..
Usually i would search for a used or refurbished Laptop to give it a second life u know. And after it broke down in like 4-6 years usually, i would buy a new used one again.
So my first question is: Is the framework 13 really worth my money for the repairability and upgradability in comparison?
My prefered Laptops are the Surface like ones 2in1 with a stand and detachable keyboard...
But im okay with it to switch to a normal laptop Formfactor.
I would prefere 16:9 or 16:10 for multimedia but im used to a 3:2 so it would be kinda okay for me to stick with it.
How good can i implement linux on some surface like laptop?
I switched from win10 to linux Mint on my desktop this year. But i think im going to switch to another distro, because i need the ASHA-protocoll as fast as possible. Maybe not that important on my desktop but definetly on my next Laptop.
Someone switched from surface like laptop to FW13?
Im not a coder. More like a gamer with og cheat codes in gtaSA on a cracked Version of the game, which runs in deamon-tools as an ISO, lol.
Main use would be Multimedia and some gaming, if possible.
Another use would be AI.. but as far as i know linux doesnt support the build in NPU of the FW13 yet. Maybe ai tinker in a few years then?
And im something like a crypto bro i would say. So how good are crypto tools implemented in linux? Some cold wallet support for exampel.
Which distro would serve my needs the most?
Is there a better choice for me than FW13 ?
So all in all im hopelessly lost and cant decide shit ^^
My only hope is to ask some Linux OGs to help me out on dis.
plz halp.
Is there a better choice for me than FW13 ?
Yes. Especially if you want to game and dabble in local ML (which the 13 is unfortunately not great for, its NPU is too small and old to ever be useful).
But what's your budget, approximately?
Ah, crap, you're in Europe.
So basically the only laptop worth anything for AI is one with the new Strix Halo AMD chips, and the closest to what you want is the Asus Z13: notebookcheck.net/Asus-ROG-Flo…
shop.asus.com/us/rog/90nr0jy1-…
Specifically the 128GB version if you can save up, or at least the 64GB version. While most laptops are useless for ML, this one utterly blows my desktop out of the water: it's like an of magnitude better than the Frameowrk 13 at that.
Even more importantly, LLM devs are targeting the Strix Halo chips, so they will be well supported. You can spin up a vllm, exllama or llama.cpp-rocm image on them right now, whereas you will struggle to get things up and running on most laptops older IGPs.
Coincidentally, you won't find anything 13" that can game better either. Its a surface-like tablet too, and franky its cooling is way better than a Framework 13. It's perfect!
...Problem is, I don't know if you can even get it in Europe. But historically, I know Asus laptops tend to be proportionally more expensive than they are in the US for some reason, so even if you can, I'm afraid the 64GB/128GB versions would be cost prohibitive.
Asus ROG Flow Z13 GZ302EA Convertible Review - AMD's Strix Halo GPU is neck-and-neck with the RTX 4070 Laptop
Notebookcheck reviews the brand-new ROG Flow Z13 with AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395, Radeon 8060S, 32 GB RAM and 180 Hz display.Andreas Osthoff (Notebookcheck)
I only found asus rog z13 flow with 32GB here sadly.
I considered this one (store.minisforum.com/products/…) earlier but 16GB is not good at all.
I heard of a new competitor to the z13 flow, but cant remember the name.
MINISFORUM V3/V3 SE
This AMD Windows tablet has a built-in IRadeon™ 780M and a 14“ display screen, reaching a maximum frequency of 2700 MHz. It provides excellent performance for a variety of uses, allowing users to enjoy a comfortable experience.Minisforum
There is a 14" HP laptop with the same chip:
ultrabookreview.com/70442-amd-…
And a handheld, heh: gpdstore.net/gpd-handheld-gami…
There may be more.
TBH, it may be prudent to wait a month or two for more “AI Max” chips to show up in laptops. It’s pretty new; Asus is just super early with it like they usually are.
AMD Strix Halo laptops- complete list, best options (Ryzen AI Max+ 395, Ryzen AI Max 390)
In this article, we're discussing laptops and devices built on the AMD Strix Halo laptop hardware launched in early 2025, or the so-called AMD Ryzen AI MaxAndrei Girbea (Ultrabookreview.com)
Yep.
FYI, rumors suggest the AI Max/Strix Halo successor won't be coming out till H2 2027, aka nearly 2028 (as Strix Halo techically launched in January this year, but as you can see takes time to actually make it into laptops):
notebookcheck.net/Detailed-AMD…
Anyway, what I'm saying is it won't go obsolete anytime soon, and it will be quite strong for many years to come if you get one.
Detailed AMD Medusa Halo and Medusa Halo Mini APUs leak claims up to 26 Zen 6 cores and next-gen RDNA 5 iGPUs
In a comprehensive leak covering AMD Zen 6 APUs, including Medusa Point, serial leaker Moore's Law Is Dead has revealed a ton of details regarding the Medusa Halo and the Medusa Halo Mini APUs.Fawad Murtaza (Notebookcheck)
Oh, and one more thing. There's a sizable linux community specifically built around Asus ROG laptops. Look up 'linux rog' and you will find associated gitlabs and a Discord specifically built up around them. It's still a fantastic resource for my 2020 G14.
The Z13 is especially good for linux, as it has discrete-gpu-class performance on the IGP, so you don't have to fuss with a dual GPU setup on linux (which can be a tremendous headache, especially with Nvidia cards).
As for a distro, I adore CachyOS for ML stuff, and its well suited for gaming. But its really down to your personal experience and taste.
Distros. Pick something in the top 10 of distrowatch.com/ .
I use Debian or one of the derivatives of Debian.
DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD.
News and feature lists of Linux and BSD distributions.distrowatch.com
I had some similar concerns before buying my Framework 13. The community here helped me a lot to confirm that this is a great laptop. After 3 months of use I'm still in love with it (got mine on sale).
I had a Dell XPS 13 before that, and tested lots of mainstream brands over the years (Lenovo, Acer, Vaio... and dinosaurs like PB, Toshiba). All within a budget of \~$1200-$1500. They all did a decent job and the XPS13 was certainly the best, but they all end up going to the trash because of hardware failure after 4 years max.
I wanted to move to a company that cares about Linux and with Framework, hardware issues will not cause death of my machine anymore. I'll be able to have my machine longer, or upgrade it for a fraction of the price of a new laptop.
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Also, along my research before opting for Framework, I've heard mostly about starlab, purism, tuxedo, and system76. There's obviously pros and cons for each brand as well as difference in opinions based on individual experience, but a common criticism for these (including Framework) less marketed brands is the price of their machines. Lots of people don't realize that there's reasons for a slightly high price.
New laptop: Framework 13. The last one?
Warnings: This post is my thoughts after one day of use of a new laptop I’ve been waiting for 1.5 year, so I’m still under endorphins. I’ve spent $1,200 in an under powered machine, so I’m biased.www-gem words
A few days ago I posted about the same thing, I wanted a Mac-like laptop but running x86 so I could run Linux properly and not through hacks. 80% of the people in the comments suggested the Framework, and for a moment I was close to getting one. But I don't think I would be fully happy with its clunkiness to be honest. Modularized stuff are clunky we like it or not. Yes, much better for repairability, but DELL also offers me two years on site support even here in Greece, so...
At the end, I bought this DELL. It's coming with Linux, so I know it's 100% compatible, and I paid only 765 euros on it (after removing VAT, since I bought it also for work). That's half the price of a Framework, with a slicker design, and it's fast-enough (15,200 passmark cpu points). The only compromise I had to make was that the touchpad was off-center, as it's a large laptop. Other than that, it ticks all my boxes as per my post the other day.
The impossibility of finding a Linux laptop that I like
I'm a Linux user since 1998 (my main desktop PC runs Debian), however I do have a couple of Macs around because I love their hardware (not so much the software though). In fact, I have three old MacBook Airs (mid-2011, 2012, 2015), all running Linux. The moment I got them, I erased MacOS and installed Linux pronto!But my main laptop is a MacBook Air M1 with MacOS because it's much faster than these older Intel-based MacBook Airs. Modern web browsing and video editing requires a lot of processing power.
So, I want to move to have my main laptop running Linux too. I DON'T want to install Asahi Linux on my M1, because I don't consider it a proper solution for my needs (I want to run Resolve, you see, and most foss apps that I use would need recompiling). Also, I don't like that Asahi is dependent on MacOS to exist, because you can't boot with a usb to install it.
My issue is that I can't find ANYTHING on the PC market that is as slick or full featured as a MacBook Air (minus its limited ports). What I need is this:
- Screen no larger than 13.3" inches, Full HD at least, preferably good color gamut (but not a must). I still need the laptop to be portable though. Basically, I'm not even asking for HDR, as the MacBook Air features.
- Keyboard to have backlight, without the numpad (I hate these laptops where the touchpad is off center).
- The touchpad needs to be glass or of equivalent feel. The Apple touchpads slide/glide with ease. I find every PC touchpad I've used so far to be "sticky". My finger on some Chromebooks and Dell/Lenovo laptops is doing a "grrrkkk, grrrkkkk" when I slide my finger! There's something special about Apple's touchpads, I dunno.
- Intel 13th+ gen CPU, with passmark points over 17,000 on multi-threading. My M1 scores about 12,000 points, and it's 5 years old. So obviously I'd need something faster than what I have now.
- Intel GPU (no AMD or Nvidia please, I need Intel's superior video decoding abilities). On a Mac that isn't a problem, because Apple does support these 10bit 4:2:2 codecs I need, with hardware acceleration. But on the PC side, only Intel provides good support for these without headaches (only the newest nvidias support that, but I don't want to use Nvidia for too many reasons -- AMD is a disaster on that video front btw). I don't play 3D games.
- I need speakers that sound good. Every single PC laptop I've tried, had the worst sound ever. I need it to be hear-able on YouTube and not sound as if you're listening via a can. I bought a Thinkpad x280 a few months ago and I can't use it because its speakers are so bad! DELL (from 5 years ago that I tried) aren't better either.
- I need a (supported) fingerprint reader!
- 32 GB of RAM.
- 1 TB of storage.
- Below a $1800 price tag. That's the price I can get with a MacBook Air for all that.
Now, you might think that "well, it seems that you just want a new MacBook", but that's not true. I want a PC laptop so I can run Debian Linux instead of MacOS. But I need it to be a laptop that is "proper" by my own standards. The quality of the interaction between my palms, fingers, eyes and PC laptops IS NOT the same as with any Apple laptop I've ever used. The reason people buy Apple hardware is NOT because "MacOSX is lickable" (as it was suggested many years ago by Jobs). I've actually researched the "why". It's because the INTERACTION of your senses and the laptop's design/quality FITS. It's like a glove for one another. It's difficult to explain but I know it now to be true. It was never MacOSX itself (although MacOSX's gui smoothness helps the overall experience).
So the question is: am I missing that special, Linux-compatible, PC laptop somewhere? If you know that such a laptop exists, please reply with a link. I'll buy it in a heartbeat.
This is a serious post btw. I spent the whole weekend trying to find that mythical PC laptop, and I can't. I'm frustrated.
EDIT: I might end up with the Framework 13. Not 100% what I'm after, but probably the best solution right now.
EDIT 2: I bought a DELL 5640 16" laptop, 32 GB RAM, i7 cpu, that comes with Linux pre-installed (so I know it's compatible). It ticks all my boxes except the size and the trackpad being off center. Oh well.
Is the framework 13 really worth my money for the repairability and upgradability in comparison?
Depends on what you upgrade for, and what you need in the first place.
If you upgrade mainly for more CPU and GPU power, in my opinion that's a hard sell. The new mainboards from Framework are hella expensive!
If you need a dGPU in a small form factor laptop, Framework just doesn't offer that. Same for touch or built-in tablet support.
If you're ok with the built-in GPU and upgrade for better display, for better battery, and a better but perhaps not the absolute latest and best APU, yes, it's worth it.
When I bought the FW13, a year later or so they brought out a new 120Hz higher resolution display. The first display being 60Hz was my only big annoyance with it, having a 120Hz monitor for comparison... So I just bought the new display, and swapping it only took literal 5 minutes.
Similar story with the hinges, I wanted ones with more resistance, so I just bought stronger ones for 25€ and easily replaced them.
If the battery gets worse, or they bring out a new one with decently improved capacity, I can similarly replace it in 5 minutes.
No glue, no 10 types of special screws, just the screw driver that was shipped with the laptop, and basically zero risk of breaking anything when making modifications.
You'll have to know yourself if these tradeoffs are worth it to you... but after my old HP Envy's display broke and even finding the correct replacement part was a challenge, let alone replacing it, I'm quite happy with the FW13.
I have the latest Framework 13 and I had a ThinkPad before this. I can recommend either of them. The Framework is one of my favorite computers I’ve had, but it’s not cheap. You will save some money if you ever have to make repairs, but I don’t know how the TCO works out for upgrades. It’s more about empowerment and reducing waste though.
Linux runs fine on both the Framework and the ThinkPad. You can pretty much just take your pick of distros and they should work, although you may want to stick with one of the more up to date distros on Framework because it has new hardware. Fedora, Arch-based, Tumbleweed all work well.
Finnish Air Force plans to remove swastikas from unit flags
[Swedish] count [Eric von Rosen] used the swastika as a personal good luck charm. When he gifted a plane to the nascent air force of Sweden's newly independent neighbour in 1918 he had had a blue swastika painted on it. This Thulin Typ D was the first aircraft of the Finnish air force and subsequent planes all had his blue swastika symbol too, until 1945.Supporters of a continued use of the symbol point out that there were no Nazis in 1918 so the air force's use of the swastika has nothing to do with Nazism.
However, while Eric von Rosen had no Nazi associations at the time of his 1918 gift, he did subsequently become a leading figure in Sweden's own national socialist movement in the 1930s. He was also a brother-in-law of senior German Nazi Herman Göring, and, according to Prof Teivainen, a personal friend of Hitler.
So the fascists adopted the swastika by way of a Swedish Count-cum-fascist.
Also: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Forc…
Father-in-law of British terror chief working on Palestine Action case is patron of UK Lawyers for Israel
The father-in-law of the UK’s independent reviewer of terrorism legislation has personal ties to Israel. Jonathan Hall is responsible for assessing whether groups like Palestine Action qualify as terrorist organisations. On Saturday, Hall wrote for the Observer, which defended the decision to proscribe Palestine Action.
This is despite leaked evidence which showed government intelligence revealing it had no grounds to proscribe Palestine Action.
But Craig Murray, independent journalist and former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, recently revealed that Jonathan Hall’s father-in-law is Lord Dyson. He is a patron of UK Lawyers for Israel.
Jonathan Hall: UK terror chief has ties to UK Lawyers for Israel
Craig Murray, independent journalist, recently revealed that Jonathan Hall's father-in-law is Lord Dyson, a patron of UK Lawyers for IsraelHG (The Canary)
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I think it might have been popularized on 4chan? Idk that’s the context I’ve seen it in most and it fits their MO of shitting on people for working jobs or contributing to society at all.
Seems like a pretty shitty attempt at an insult imo tho, cuz a mod and a janitor basically do the same function (cleaning the shit so nobody else has to deal with it, ensuring the place is actually nice for users) and both are critical for public places but underappreciated/underpaid.
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Land Mines, a Cold War Horror, Could Return to Fortify Europe’s Borders
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