Freedom Flotilla departs Tunisia for Gaza after attacks, weather delays
An international activist flotilla seeking to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza left Tunisia on Saturday, after a stopover in the North African country marked by weather delays and suspected drone attacks.
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Set any application as Plasma background
cross-posted from: social.librem.one/users/dos/st…
Set any application as Plasma backgroundMissing your favorite xscreensaver hack? Have an old Windows screensaver that works under Wine? Want to have htop as your wallpaper? Or maybe you'd like to write your own screensaver in Godot? This addon lets you use any application as a Plasma wallpaper or screensaver.
Sebastian Krzyszkowiak (@dos@librem.one)
Attached: 1 video Set any application as Plasma background Missing your favorite xscreensaver hack? Have an old Windows screensaver that works under Wine? Want to have htop as your wallpaper? Or maybe you'd like to write your own screensaver in God…Librem Social
That's a lot of effort just to Rickroll us!
Seriously, nice work. I'm always hesitant to use something like this because it's another thing that can go wrong. But the idea is really cool.
California bans masks meant to hide law enforcement officers' identities
SACRAMENTO, Calif — California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a law banning law enforcement from wearing masks on duty except for things like riot gear, medical masks and undercover work.
Saying it's the first bill of its type in the country, Newsom — a Democrat and frequent critic of President Trump — said it was a sign of growing authoritarianism to have detentions in by masked men "hidden from accountability, any transparency, any oversight. That's Trump's America."
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Before his death: Charlie Kirk rejects Netanyahu offer, faces pro-'Israel' backlash
cross-posted from: thelemmy.club/post/34808375
In the months leading up to his death, Charlie Kirk rejected a funding offer from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and grew increasingly concerned about pressure from pro-"Israel" figures, according to a longtime friend who spoke to The Grayzone.While no evidence links "Israel" to the assassination, speculation continues to spread rapidly.
Before his death: Charlie Kirk rejects Netanyahu offer, faces pro-'Israel' backlash
In the months leading up to his death, Charlie Kirk rejected a funding offer from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and grew increasingly concerned a...YouTube
Kirk was devoted Zionist, full stop.
However, a large portion of his audience was Gen Z, and their negative views on Israel are more in line with their generation as a whole, then with the standard Republican platform.
So occasionally he had to give them a bone to make it look like he's wasn't who he actually was.
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Exactly, and I'm assuming you disliked Charlie Kirk .
So if his token gestures were enough to make you question his devotion to Israel, how do you think they were interpreted and received by his Gen Z audience, those already predisposed to liking him?
Conspiracy theorists on X are saying Israel is behind it and that Tyler Robinson is a patsy/fall guy.
Motive is that Kirk had criticized Israel in recent months. There is a clip too where he expresses frustration at being called anti-Semitic just for having some daylight between his view and Israel’s current actions.
Political violence in US mirrors 1960s turmoil, historian warns after Charlie Kirk shooting
Political violence in US mirrors 1960s turmoil, historian warns after Charlie Kirk shooting
Mark Updegrove said a distinction is social media amplifying extreme views.Doc Louallen (ABC News)
US House Passes Defense Policy Bill, Including Provisions for Israel Military Aid
US House Passes Defense Policy Bill, Including Provisions for Israel Military Aid
US House Speaker Mike Johnson speaks to members of the media at the Capitol building, April 20, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Ken …Algemeiner.com
Do we have a good solution for public survaillence cams and Facial Recognition yet?
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Basically laser-clean the sensor out of existence
5 to 50 watts
And blinding everyone around you too!
ai weiwei: surveillance camera blocker
ai weiwei proposes 'surveillance camera blocker' to extend the reach of cans of spraypaint, making it easier to block out security devices.andy butler I designboom (Designboom)
Or just use a red laser, they're even cheaper, if less discrete.
You can 3d print a geared lens barrel for small M12 lens quite easily.
Just map the values to real gear position and bingo's your uncle !
Here is an article about using a pulse laser to blind a camera sensor
frontiersin.org/journals/physi…
Laser-induced damages to charge coupled devices with combined nanosecond/picosecond short-pulse lasers
The research on laser induced breakdown mechanism of charge coupled devices (CCDs) brings new insights into photoelectric countermeasures. So far combined la...He Cao (Frontiers)
Whole home audio and AES67 in Pipewire
Is anyone using Pipewire's AES67 support? I'm looking to implement some form of whole home audio for an MPD or some other music server. I've played with a combined airplay sink and a couple Sonos speakers, but it's problematic and cuts out intermittently for a split second.
I'm only really able to use wifi at this point though, and don't want to run cables until I buy a house in the next few months. Though I will run some wired tests over coming months before that, and develop a plan. I've also looked into Snapcast, which is probably preferable to a combined Airplay sink.
And that's because I'm wary of planning to use an open source implementation to a very proprietary protocol long term. When I bought some Genelec speakers for my desk earlier this year, I stumbled across their networked speakers that support POE and AES67. I see Pipewire has AES67 support in the RTP sink, but there's not much out there about people trying to use this.
Has anyone around here gotten a chance to play around with it? How does it work? Any pain points?
How trusted is TorGuard?
I left them years ago, but their VPN software has (had?) a critical bug - the killswitch treats "connecting" the same as "connected".
Meaning that if the connection drops for any reason and is not immediately reestablished, you not only lose all protection, but you have a false sense of security.
Wife of Ex-Nepali PM Burned Alive, Gen Z Revolt Engulfs Country: Live Updates
Wife of Ex-Nepali PM Burned Alive, Gen Z Revolt Engulfs Country
Nepal has plunged into disorder and a political crisis amid deadly unrest. Newsweek's live blog is closed.Hannah Parry (Newsweek)
Following U.S. request, Japan won’t recognize Palestinian state
Japan is finalizing plans not to recognize Palestine as a sovereign state for the time being, following the lead of the United States, a staunch ally of Israel, government sources said.The move is believed to stem from concerns that such recognition could negatively affect the situation in the Middle East, as well as Japan’s relationship with the United States, the sources said.
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Reminder: kowtowing to fascists does not make life better. They are nothing but tiny dick bullies and insecure cowards, do not let their loud diarrhea mouths detract from that fact.
Consider them like terrorists, don't negotiate.
Cloudflare outage due to excessive useEffect API calls
A deep dive into Cloudflare’s September 12, 2025 dashboard and API outage
Cloudflare’s Dashboard and a set of related APIs were unavailable or partially available for an hour starting on Sep 12, 17:57 UTC.The Cloudflare Blog
'Set us free': Ben & Jerry's enlists support of fans to separate from parent company
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/36143769
By MEE staff
Published date: 11 September 2025 22:49 BSTBen & Jerry’s has started a public campaign to try to separate from its parent company so it can freely speak about the war in Gaza, racial justice, and other issues. Its parent company, Magnum, has refused to sell the iconic ice cream brand.The war between the ice-cream giants comes as Ben & Jerry’s became part of the Magnum Ice Cream company on Tuesday and Unilever prepares to spin off Magnum into a separate public company, which includes brands such as Ben & Jerry’s, Walls and Cornetto, in mid-November.
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'Set us free': Ben & Jerry's enlists support of fans to separate from parent company
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/36143769
By MEE staff
Published date: 11 September 2025 22:49 BSTBen & Jerry’s has started a public campaign to try to separate from its parent company so it can freely speak about the war in Gaza, racial justice, and other issues. Its parent company, Magnum, has refused to sell the iconic ice cream brand.The war between the ice-cream giants comes as Ben & Jerry’s became part of the Magnum Ice Cream company on Tuesday and Unilever prepares to spin off Magnum into a separate public company, which includes brands such as Ben & Jerry’s, Walls and Cornetto, in mid-November.
US senators say 'America complicit' in ethnic cleansing of Palestinians after Israel visit
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/36142553
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/36142552
By Syma Mohammed
Published date: 12 September 2025 19:49 BST
Van Hollen of Maryland and Merkley of Oregon produced the report after a week-long visit to Israel, the occupied West Bank, the Rafah border with Gaza, Jordan and Egypt at the end of August. The damning 21-page report is titled, "The Netanyahu Government is Implementing a Plan to Ethnically Cleanse Gaza of Palestinians. America is Complicit. The World Must Stop It."The report observed that overwhelming evidence shows “Israel is…implementing a plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza of Palestinians and dealing a death blow to the vision of a future Palestinian state”.
US senators say 'America complicit' in ethnic cleansing of Palestinians after Israel visit
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/36142552
By Syma Mohammed
Published date: 12 September 2025 19:49 BST
Van Hollen of Maryland and Merkley of Oregon produced the report after a week-long visit to Israel, the occupied West Bank, the Rafah border with Gaza, Jordan and Egypt at the end of August. The damning 21-page report is titled, "The Netanyahu Government is Implementing a Plan to Ethnically Cleanse Gaza of Palestinians. America is Complicit. The World Must Stop It."The report observed that overwhelming evidence shows “Israel is…implementing a plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza of Palestinians and dealing a death blow to the vision of a future Palestinian state”.
With new investment pact, India moves to bind its economy to Israel
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/36140967
Azad Essa
14 September 2025 09:12 BST
Earlier this week, India signed a historic investment pact with Israel.The deal, known as the Bilateral Investment Agreement (BIA), is meant to bolster investor confidence and provide smoother business transactions between the two countries.
At the signing ceremony in Delhi on 8 September, Israel's Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said the pact would "open new doors for both Israeli and Indian investors, strengthen Israeli exports, and provide businesses on both sides with certainty and tools to develop in the world's fastest-growing markets".
"India is a growing economic power, and cooperation is a tremendous opportunity for Israel."
Leading AI scientist Alex Kot moves to a Sino-Russian university in China
Singapore’s leading AI scientist Alex Kot moves to a Sino-Russian university in China
Information and electronic engineering scholar joins Shenzhen MSU-BIT University (SMBU), a Chinese-foreign cooperative university.Shi Huang (South China Morning Post)
I want a phone as thick as the camera bump. I don't even care if they make use of the extra space, but if you're going to sell a flat rectangle at least make the flat rectangle flat.
Actually, I'm on my second flip phone and I'm not sure i can go back to the regular rectangle anymore, i love these things.
Palestinians flee Israeli bombing of Gaza City to ‘unknown’ in al-Mawasi
Israeli bombing has forced thousands of Palestinians to flee Gaza City. More than 6,000 people were displaced in a single day, many heading towards al-Mawasi, an area declared a “safe zone.”
But al-Mawasi is already severely overcrowded, with families living in makeshift tents, facing shortages of food, clean water, and medical care. Survivors describe the conditions as chaotic and unsafe, saying they have nowhere else to turn.
What was meant to be a refuge has become another place of struggle, as displacement in Gaza continues with no safe shelter in sight.
Palestinians flee Israeli bombing of Gaza City to ‘unknown’ in al-Mawasi
As Israel displaces thousands from the north of the enclave, concerns are growing about conditions in the south.Al Jazeera Staff (Al Jazeera)
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Right-wing Korean youth group holds memorial event for Charlie Kirk - The Korea Times
Right-wing South Korean youth group holds memorial event for Charlie Kirk
Local responses over a memorial event held in Seoul for U.S. right-wing figure Charlie Kirk have been mixed. Some welcomed the memorial as an expre...Park Ung (The Korea Times)
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Thousands rally across Slovakia against economic and pro-Russian policies
Thousands rallied across Slovakia on Tuesday in a nationwide mass protest against the economic and pro-Russian policies of populist Prime Minister Robert Fico.The rallies took place in 16 major cities and towns, including the capital of Bratislava.
They latest wave of protests has been fueled by a trip by Fico to China where he met Russian President Vladimir Putin for the third time since the Russian all-out invasion of Ukraine. A package of austerity measures recently approved by the government further angered the protesters.
Thousands rally across Slovakia against economic and pro-Russian policies
Thousands of Slovaks rallied on Tuesday in 16 cities, including in the capital Bratislava, to protest the economic and pro-Russian policies of populist Prime Minister Robert Fico.FRANCE 24
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Freedom Flotilla member & supporter group chat shut down by Whatsapp
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/35909566
SMH @ activists using techno-fascist platforms for communications during an operation subject to state-actor level interference. I thought we recognised and acknowledged this problem 15-20 years ago already.
Oh, I thought Telegram does encrypt chats, just that you have to enable it rather than it being on be default. Is encryption only available for one-on-one messages?
Oh well, I can't get my friends and family to use Signal anyway...
EDIT: My family only uses iMessage + RCS to chat with me (a Pixel), and my school clubs/friends are all on Discord or GroupMe. We don't use Telegram at all. I've been begging my mom to consider switching to Signal since they complain so much about the issues with messaging me, but it's yet to happen. I think I'm whittling her down tho 😉
Trump gets royal welcome in UK as he makes historic second state visit
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/48861990
King Charles III will host Trump at Windsor Castle for a lavish banquet and carriage ride on Wednesday, before Trump meets Prime Minister Keir Starmer at his country residence on Thursday.In a sign of the pomp and pageantry to come, a guard of honour greeted the Trumps as they stepped off Air Force One at Stansted Airport near London.
The British government has been unapologetic about its efforts to get on the right side of Trump, whose mother was Scottish and who owns a number of golf courses in the UK.
But the British public will be kept far away from Trump, with the visit taking place entirely behind closed doors and heavy security.
Trump gets royal welcome at Windsor Castle at start of his two-day UK visit
President Donald Trump was greeted by royalty and an honour guard of some 120 horses and 1,300 troops as he arrived at Windsor Castle on Wednesday in a display designed to impress the grandeur-loving president.FRANCE 24
Number of US nationals applying for international protection in Ireland has more than tripled so far this year
Number of US nationals applying for international protection in Ireland has more than tripled so far this year
While there has been an increase in Americans applying for international protection in Ireland, there has been an overall decrease in applications made in Ireland.IrishCentral.com
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[Solved] [OpenSUSE Tumbleweed] Can't install Nvidia drivers
Yesterday, I did a fresh install of OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on my NVidia-powered machine (GeForce GTX 1060 6gb). When installing, I enabled Secure Boot.
By default, the distribution comes with nouveau drivers, and the process of installing official NVidia drivers is outlined here:
en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_dri…
I successfully added openSUSE-repos-Tumbleweed-NVIDIA as per the guide; first oddity is that by default it shipped with openSUSE-repos-MicroOS-NVIDIA, which got uninstalled as a conflicting package, despite this being Tumbleweed. (I later tried to rollback and do these steps with openSUSE-repos-MicroOS-NVIDIA installed instead, to no avail)
Next, as per the guide, I tried to do zypper install-new-recommends. After installation, I rebooted the machine. Upon login, resolution was forced to low.
inxi -G has shown N/A in the driver field.
I've rolled back via snapper rollback, confirmed that nouveau drivers are back in place (resolution was back to normal, inxi -G has shown nouveau), and tried to install nvidia-video-G6 using YaST. It has automatically installed all dependencies as well.
Upon login, I faced the same issue - resolution degradation and N/A in the driver field.
Troubleshooting for this issue has shown that secure boot may not allow these drivers to be launched without importing the respective key, as listed in the same Nvidia drivers article. However, the file that needs to be imported is not at the suggested location (/usr/share/nvidia-pubkeys/); in fact, /usr/share only had nvidia folder, which didn't seem to contain any keys.
As a workaround, I attempted to disable secure boot by entering:mokutil --disable-validation. A menu appeared on reboot, through which I disabled secure boot. Further launches had "launching in insecure mode" notice.mokutil --sb-state output is SecureBoot disabled.
Then, I tried to install the driver again, as described above. Still no luck, and same issue.
So, what else could be the issue and what do I do about it next? Thank you in advance for any replies!
Solution that worked: instead of going for install-new-recommends, install the following package:
nvidia-driver-G06-kmp-meta
It should be available by default, but if not, add the respective repository by using this command:
zypper addrepo https://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/tumbleweed/
Thanks to Björn Tantau! The comment with the solution: swg-empire.de/comment/7201260
Update
Bug solved, fix should roll out in a few days:
bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug…
I tried my 1060 with Debian, Ubuntu and Mint. Didn’t get it to run (stable) with the Nvidia drivers. And it will only get worse from here (especially with wayland) because the driver version for these cards is no longer maintained.
If found an article* about arch and Nvidia with a few things I haven’t tried. I’ll give it another try. But I have no hopes on getting it to run stable.
NVIDIA + Wayland on Arch: A Comprehensive Setup Guide
Unlock the secrets to a flawless NVIDIA and Wayland setup on Arch. Follow our step-by-step guide for a hassle-free desktop experience.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
The Pentagon stated: Russia's nuclear shield has not been weakened by Ukraine
The Russian nuclear arsenal has been almost completely modernized, and the Russian special military operation in Ukraine has not weakened it. This opinion was expressed by the Deputy Chief of Staff of the US Air Force for Strategic Deterrence and Nuclear Integration, Lieutenant General Andrew Jebara.
"Russia's nuclear deterrent has been almost completely modernized. This has been done for a long time," he said at a video seminar of the American Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies.
"And if you ask me, have they been weakened by Ukraine? For the most part, no. Nuclear deterrence funds are still being allocated, and this takes priority over matters related to Ukraine," he believes.
Pentagon on how war in Ukraine affected Russia's nuclear forces
The war against Ukraine has not weakened Russia’s nuclear potential, which is almost fully modernized, according to US Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategic Deterrence and Nuclear Integration, Lieutenant General Andrew J. Gebara.RBC-Ukraine
I do not know how to feel when i hear us offficials speak about russia. The whole trump administration is pro russia.
-trump bought russia time with his deadline demands for ceasefire or peace
-trump just said the russian drones could just have been a mistake which is certainly untrue
-trump administration supports far right and pro russian parties all over europe in order to destabilize europe
-trump supports israels genocide in gaza
-trump treats Putin more friendly than selensky or other allied leaders
The whole trump administration is pro russia.
Man, just listen all statements about Ukraine. Today they are prorussians, tomorrow they are proukranians.
Graphite (programmatic 2D art/design suite built in Rust) September update - project's largest release to date
There has been another major update for Graphite.rs
For those who are not yet familiar with Graphite:
Graphite is a free, open-source editor for vector and raster graphics, currently available in alpha version. Get creative with a fully non-destructive editing workflow that combines layer-based compositing with node-based generative design.
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in reply to Spectre • • •infinite wish glitch
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in reply to Spectre • • •Even more appropriate considering that King Solomon is considered to be the one who imprisoned many of the genies.
Seal of Solomon
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in reply to Spectre • • •Some Christians believe the return of the Jewish people to their land is viewed by some as a sign of the end times, leading to the second coming of Jesus. And yes they want the rapture to happen. There is speculation that is why they so strongly want to defend anything Israel does.
Lindsay Ellis just did a great video on it -
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