The war in Ukraine has dramatically reshaped Europe's security landscape, creating a military dependency on the United States not seen since the Cold War.
Romania says a Russian drone has breached its airspace - the second Nato country to report such an incursion.
Romanian fighter jets were in the air monitoring a Russian attack in Ukraine on Saturday and were able to track the drone near Ukraine's southern border, the defence ministry said in a statement.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the incursion could not be a mistake - it was "an obvious expansion of the war by Russia". Moscow has not commented on the Romanian claims.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the incursion could not be a mistake - it was "an obvious expansion of the war by Russia". Moscow has not commented on the Romanian claims.
Poland I can believe, as a one time Russian mistake or guidance error, but Romania on the other side of Ukraine, not next to Russia or Belarus. I'm now supposed to believe that these decoy drones are suddenly just flying across Ukraine to Romania?
It's fucking Ukraine who is sending these. This is the Russian s-300 missile kills polish farmers of 2022 all over again. Remember when that was totally the case that Russia killed poles and Zelensky said this is a mark of Russian aggression and Nato would need to intervene. Then it was pretty quickly stated S-300 didn't have the range to fly from Russian AA battery across Ukraine and into Poland and then they discovered that the missile was an model that only Ukraine had anymore. So everybody went hush hush and it was written down as an tragic accident.
Ukraine is the one who is losing and needs Nato intervention to not lose totally or have to settle for peace that Kiev doesn't want. Or am I just going to have to believe that out of the blue for 4 year of war Russia suddenly starts pelting neighboring countries with not scout drones, not drones with warheads, but with a decoy drones that have been falling over Ukraine almost nightly air raids for years now, since unless they are shot down as they are supposed to they just fall down on the ground with very little harm to the drone. Why? Russia preparing for an attack, sending a message? It's Ukraine who is doing this. They want a no fly zone, boots on the ground, and Nato AA in Ukraine, because Kiev are dry regarding AA and will lose the war otherwise if they don't get Europeans to die for them too.
Andrzej Duda przyznaje, że Wołodymyr Zełenski próbował wciągnąć Polskę do wojny z Rosją. – Oni od początku próbują wciągnąć wszystkich w wojnę – stwierdził.
Yeah it's rational (though i don't believe Ukraine was the smol bean at any point, in 2022 they had second biggest army in Europe and were pumped with absolutely ridiculous amount of arms and money by west, and so Russia is not especially fucking up) but there are two points. First is how many people here and elswhere are completely dismissing the possiblity Ukraine is even doing it, while it does come as obvious to even such idiot like Duda. Second is that it is not a very good form that a country is openly lying and is trying to pull in a war countries that are its supporters and do not want to be included in open warfare, not to mention it can easily end up in nuclear exchange.
Russia is still a bigger military, Europe didn't pick a fight with them. Russia is definitely fucking up as usual and just throwing men and equipment at it with no particular logic involved.
They're already involved in a way they just haven't accepted it. No country wants to get involved but I'm sorry eventually they have to.
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.
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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.
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 Godot? This addon lets you use any application as a Plasma wallpaper or screensaver.
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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…
This is Asciiquarium and it's the one that inspired me to write this in the first place, as its Qt port used to be bundled in KDE 4 and that's what I used to use as my screensaver back then. So I thought: I could either port it to QML, or... launch the original thing in Konsole and put it there by embedding a Wayland compositor 😄
Active Desktop for Linux! But seriously, ever since I ditched desktop icons, I've thought about making the desktop useful by having it display a HTML dashboard of sorts. Now I can.
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."
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.
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...
Israel could have orchestrated it. They are allied to nazis so it all checks out. I wonder if the shooter had a terminal disease and his gf and family will get something in return.
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.
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.
So I had researched it a while ago and don't recall having found anything effective and non-suspicious to protect from public camera mass survaillence in cities and the like. Is there anything that is a good option for that yet, and if so, could you point me toward it?
I've never seen an explanation as to why the guy thought that the lemon juice would work. Did someone tell it to him that or did he come up with it himself.
Younger me recalls (incorrectly) that they used lemon juice on the film in the first Star Wars movie, as a special effect to blur the base of the land speeder so it appeared to be hovering. They actually used vaseline, smeared on the lens, not the film, plus had mirrors under the vehicle too. I had told this lemon juice 'fact' to several people before someone finally corrected me.
My memory was wrong and I wonder how I came to that conclusion. Maybe I watched a 'behind the scenes' show on how they did the special effects, and they said it wrong. Maybe it was a show that presented the use of lemon juice in some other tangentially related special effect and I mixed the two up. Maybe I had read an article about using lemon juice to distort picture film in the developing process.
I wonder if that bank robber did the same mistake but with far worse consequences. The time frame of the robbers mistake was around the same time as my confusion as well.
How did that go? Was it useful for anything? It sounds like some old practical advice:
Thoroughly mix 2 tablespoons of vaseline with 1 teaspoon of lemon juice and smear it on your penis just before sunset. That will keep the mosquitoes at a distance throughout the night.
Covid masks can be effective, and it's not as suspicious as asymmetrical makeup or a reflective hoodie. But no, there's no good way to avoid being photographed in public.
Just as normal sunglasse don't fool facial recognition systems, modern gait recognition systems can't be defeated by "just altering how you walk". You can read more about it on The Hitchhikers Guide to Online Anonymity. There is this research paper.
They link a specific device which can fool some systems, but a bit easier (although more inefficient) is just wearing very loose clothes that cover the movement of your muscles.
Yea, but there is a database of peoples faces matched to their names. There is not a database of their bone lengths to the names. That measurement would be done after you were already under suspicion.
Thing is, none of the suggestions in this thread would be used singularly against you. For instance, your gait, unless you genuinely are a member of The Ministry Of Silly Walks. LOL They will use these profiles as complimentary evidence. When all the cards line up, DING! you're selected as a person of interest.
Yeah, no dice, the better sensors these days don't have any problem with that. Check out Project Farms recent doorbell camera review. He actually walks up to the doorbell camera with a full on flashlight in the pitch black of night and they still have no problem.
IR blocking sunglasses are the simplest and most practical solution.
Facial recognition systems compare the distance ratios between your eyes and nose primarily. Hiding your eyes is very effective towards fucking that up. A mask alone is typically not enough.
Got any further info about these more advanced methods?
I haven't seen anything beyond the feature distance models. I have seen the models that essentially recreate you entire anatomy in 3D, place it in a database, then use that profile to match to in the future--almost like a 3D match move artist would do for visual effects. Not sure if this is just a proof of concept though.
I wouldn't be surprised if the millimeter wave scanners at airports have been collecting 3D models of us for this database over the last decades.
I don't have any specific technical info. I just know that even 3 years ago the face recognition tech in Moscow could successfully match people even with sunglasses on.
The question is whether they were using infrared to see through normal sunglasses. IR blocking sunglasses prevent "night vision" from seeing through the lenses. Under infared, you can see through normal dark sunglasses like they aren't even there.
There is no effective technical solution for political problems. If you find one, it will soon be outlawed or rendered ineffective (eg if you wear mask and sunglasses, prepare to be harassed by law enforcement). Lobbying to stop unconstrained surveillance is the only option.
You need to own a few copies of face recog software, and practice with face restructuring latex makeup which gives you a new realistic face with a new bone structure.
Change walking gate. Get shoes with small platforms to change height, learn to walk naturally on those.
Change mannerisms.
It's doable, but a major pain to pull it off.
Like imagine quickly applying the latex makeup, walking in front of your own identical face recognition camera at home, take everything off, rest, repeat, 10 times a day, 300 days a year, for 10 years. Until it is second nature. Now you can rely on this to do serious work.
You have to create a new person, basically. Assuming you practiced well and tested everything against real software, you can now be a different person for some hours in a reliable way. Once your secondary identity is exposed you'll need a new tertiary identity. Never do anythiny fishy as your base identity.
The real solution is political, like everyone else has said. Because you won't be able to fool the system casually without a massive effort and practice, practice, practice on your own property first, before you rely on this for real work in the wild.
It depends on the surveillance coverage. If it’s widespread enough, they can track you between your departure and arrival locations. You’d also need two more disguises for both entering and exiting.
And of course, if you have a cell phone on you that pings anything, the jig is up.
You're going to need a rather tight beam to hit that camera and it will only for milliseconds. It would take really bad luck to hit someone continuously long enough through a reflection (drastic reduction in power level by then) to damage their eyesight, plus camera optics are not very reflective of infrared as they need it for night vision, so they're especially sensitive. But yes, this should be treated with the seriousness of a gun.
Even a 1 watt laser will still have enough power after the filter to knock that sensor's clock right out. Or just use a red laser, they're even cheaper, if less discrete.
electronics and industrial supply places, you can rip it off a diode based laser cutter but they're very chonk, if you're handy, you'd get just the diodes, lens and then make your own PCB with powersupply. You need adjustable because the light has to be in focus at the distance between you and the camera or else it will be to diffuse to disable the sensor, both too short and too far. You don't really need a galvo head in this case just mount the pcb on something that can randomnly vibrate the laser in a small radius at the effective distance. You won't be able to hit the camera sensor steady, you need to paint over it randomnly, with the right focus it will work even on rare occasionnal hits since those sensor are very sensitive to laser light
Yes that makes sense, the range finding sensor from an old cell phone should do nicely. 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 !
In the past, individuals have cut down red light and speed cameras using power saws. Are you suggesting a laser would be easier to just burn the pixels of the camera? Wouldn't that be dangerous for people around you?
Yes, it is dangerous even the reflections off the camera could be dangerous. This requires the same awareness of others as handling a laser cleaner. Here is an article about using a pulse laser to blind a camera sensor frontiersin.org/journals/physi…
The research on laser induced breakdown mechanism of charge coupled devices (CCDs) brings new insights into photoelectric countermeasures. So far combined la...
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?
I don't know about AES67 but I've used Snapcast now for a few years and it works great. I use a central Mopidy service that streams to a few Snapcast clients connected to audio devices (not directly to speakers though). The clients run on normal PC hardware, Android and some on Pi's with DAC's from Hifiberry. The setup was very DIY but has been running very stable after that.
Yeah, I think that's my backup plan is to get some powered speakers and Pi's to run Snapcast. But it adds a lot of complexity, and more power requirements at the speaker. On the other hand, it's more hackable than a speaker running a specific piece of software directly, without any real alternatives like I would get with a Pi. Thanks!
I would highly recommend installing qpwgraph. It'll give you a visual patchbay, which will give you a better idea of what applications are exposing audio outs to pipe wire, as well as where those outs are being routed.
The application that should be making sound is showing up in the patch bay. If it's not, that application probably needs its audio output settings tweaked
The application is being routed correctly. I have multiple audio outs, and pipe wire allows for different applications to go to different outs simultaneously. The patch bay is an easy and quick way to check that config.
I've used mullvad for quite a long time, but because it doesn't have port forwarding, its created some concerns with media sharing. Ive seen TorGuard and AirVPN as the main 2 that are recommended. Are they as trustworthy as Mullvad?
ivpn lost port forwarding recently. proton had it last i checked. also tried ovpn, but couldn't get port forwarding to work and it had a pretty bad case of dns leaks.
Highly recommend avoiding Air. I switched from Mullvad, and I'll be going back as soon as the subscription is up. The speeds are like 2003 all over again
Some days my download speeds are dial-up caliber. On Mullvad and Proton I had >300 vs <1 on Air. They're not worth it for port forwarding in my personal use case (found that out the hard way, very disappointing). But if you don't require anything beyond a few kilos up or down, they're fine
I had TorGuard for years, but the service just got more and more questionable over time. I stopped using it a handful of years back. I've more recently looked at them again, and their VPN-router product is just a whitelabeled device you can buy elsewhere that they did the trivial install of their VPN software on. Their actual VPN speeds are fine, certainly better than I've heard AirVPNs are, but you either get thrown in the pool of exit points that are all very well identified as malicious VPN exit points (so everyone blocks you), or you pay to upgrade to an individual "residential IP" exit point. That gives you a completely unique exit point so the minimal VPN "blend into the exit point crowd" simply won't exist anymore, and it's questionable what reputation those "residential IPs" might have (I've gotten blacklisted IPs from my direct ISP before, IP reputation is everything). The service claims it has no/minimal logs, but they also have a privacy policy that seems to allow a good bit of data collection now (if I remember correctly).
If you're trying to use it for geo-unblocking, a residential IP option might work for you. If you're trying to use it to keep your privacy from your ISP, you might very well be trading one bad actor for another. If you're trying to use it for hiding P2P activities it will probably function well,, but I can't speak about how well they'll actually protect your privacy from DMCA requests (if that might be relevant to you).
FWIW, I also recently just found this Techlore table: techlore.tech/vpn/ If you click on the "History" column link in particular, you can see they have a pretty sketchy history.
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.
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.
First things first: this should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with Japanese politics. It's been a far right genocide denying shit show for roughly ever.
Secondly, "finalizing plans not to recognize Palestine for the time being" sounds like the epitome of bureaucratic time wasting 😄
"Can't talk, too busy! I'm hard at work planning for not doing a thing right now!"
Sorry guys, but we're the US's little bitch. I can't stand it, but it's hard to say no to one our biggest trade partners and the guys who provide the nuclear umbrella.
Don't rely too much on that umbrella being around when you actually need it though, certainly not if it's Putin that decides Russia owns Japan based on some map drawn on a cave wall in 5000BC
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.
By MEE staff Published date: 11 September 2025 22:49 BST
Ben & 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.
By MEE staff Published date: 11 September 2025 22:49 BST
Ben & 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.
Ben & 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.
By MEE staff Published date: 11 September 2025 22:49 BST
Ben & 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.
'Set us free': Ben & Jerry's enlists support of fans to separate from parent company
By MEE staff Published date: 11 September 2025 22:49 BST
Ben & 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.
Ben & 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.
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”.
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 Chris Van Hollen and Jeff Merkley released a report on Thursday saying that the US is complicit in Israel’s "ethnic cleansing" of Palestine.
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
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 Chris Van Hollen and Jeff Merkley released a report on Thursday saying that the US is complicit in Israel’s "ethnic cleansing" of Palestine.
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."
With new investment pact, India moves to bind its economy to Israel
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."
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.
I really don't understand the obsession with making the phone ever thinner. I completely agree it should be as thick as the thickest component all the way through, and you can always just use that space to make a bigger battery.
I'd prefer to see the euro - I'd want my international payments to be in euro not greenbacks for sure - but I understand China's desire to back their payments on currency they can get micro-cents off on the exchange from. That's the bonus that USA gets when people transact on the backs of the buck, right?
I find it useful to remember that entertainment products are designed to be both understandable and fun, where real life was not designed to be understandable and fun.
Stories are usually about notable events, which in a dystopian setting generally means the rare win for the little guy. It's important to remember that if the apocalypse were real, none of us would be a hero; the day-to-day mundane life for non-extraordinary people would still be an inescapable hell.
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.
American and English content is much more prevalent and much more involved in propaganda… Only looking at Hollywood and how movies have been pushing American superiority for a while it is obvious that English is a special vessel. I’m pretty sure Vietnamese also have some propaganda bullshit going on but absolutely not with the reach of American / English media.
I didn't mention it my original comment but I think there are levels of brainwashing and America is in the top 10 of brain-dead, brainwashed countries.
SK is an American enclave, lol, of course they'd be fed the same anti-humanist nonsense the Burgers are. People are very stupid on average everywhere, certainly, but those who stand for nothing because their lives revolve around superficial stuff, consumerism and hedonism, will fall for anything. 🤷
I want to live in the alternate universe where Bernie won and the rest of the world looked up to him not the one where Nazis are gaining world influence.
I still blame the large collider for putting us into this universe
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 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.
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.
Freedom Flotilla member & supporter group chat shut down by Whatsapp
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.
Several people in the comments suggest Telegram, which doesn't even encrypt group chats. Signal is likely the best option if the group is under 1000 members.
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 😉
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.
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.
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.
And a few seconds latter you get this. Looks like the person using it have at least some idea of what they are doing, so I hope for the best. And might actually end up using this work at some point.
The A. americanum (lonestar) tick larvae are insane this year. I blame the wet summer. At least it's hot and dry now, and I can imagine them dying by the truckload!
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.
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:
sudo modprobe nvidia gives the following output: modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia': No such device
dmesg gives the following:
[ 56.697148] [ T2989] NVRM: The NVIDIA GPU 0000:27:00.0 (PCI ID: 10de:1c03)
NVRM: installed in this system is not supported by open
NVRM: nvidia.ko because it does not include the required GPU
NVRM: System Processor (GSP).
NVRM: Please see the 'Open Linux Kernel Modules' and 'GSP
NVRM: Firmware' sections in the driver README, available on
NVRM: the Linux graphics driver download page at
NVRM: www.nvidia.com.
[ 56.702043] [ T2989] nvidia 0000:27:00.0: probe with driver nvidia failed with error -1
[ 56.702102] [ T2989] NVRM: The NVIDIA probe routine failed for 1 device(s).
[ 56.702104] [ T2989] NVRM: None of the NVIDIA devices were initialized.
[ 56.702837] [ T2989] nvidia-nvlink: Unregistered Nvlink Core, major device number 238
Guess it won't work with my card? Gonna read through that (quite massive) readme, it seems...
P.S. Looks like everything pre-Turing does not support open drivers, and OpenSUSE did not communicate it well. Looking into ways to install proprietary driver.
P.P.S. Wait, it gets worse! The main way to install the proprietary driver is through install-new-recommends, BUT this installs open drivers on unsupported cards! This may be a good reason for a bug report once I figure the rest out.
Look, SUSE is world renowned for decades for being one of the most reliable and stable distro to exist. It’s, basically, the “other” red hat. And it has better Nvidia support than most other distro.
I have nothing but the fullest confidence that you’ll figure this problem out. As i like to say to friends of mine: Linux is a learning experience.
With many distributions, it's plug&play now, but some still make trouble out of it.
In the case of SUSE, this seems to stem from heavy open-source advocacy and EU laws coming on top of it, which is respectable, but adds to the complexity of solving issues here and there.
I mean, I get that, but I’m not sure that is the source of your present issues. Like, it’s a thing that that’s worth consideration. We don’t get to just use products anymore. We have to consider where they come from and who makes them. And I’m pretty cool with SUSE and how the Germans do their Linux. It was the first distribution I used after red hat back in, like, 1997. I have a deep love for that distribution. I don’t use it because it doesn’t happen to be the correct distribution for my needs. But I often would like to. It’s it’s a nice distribution, very smooth and professional. OpenSUSE basically the “other” fedora.
Thing: I fucking hate YAST with a goddamn passion. I FUCKING HATE IT. Why do I hate it? Because of everything I just hate it. I’m much prefer to use a APT, despite the fact that it’s incredibly antiquated.
Maybe YAST has gotten better in the last 10 years or so since I’ve tried it, but my God was it terrible the last time I tried
Nah, YaST is still a piece of crap imo, both antique and impractical for most purposes. They should either make it modern and user-friendly, or phase it out.
That said, it kinda helped me to locate the correct system package this time.
In any case, OpenSUSE Slowroll is already my daily driver on laptop, which doesn't have an NVidia GPU, and it's part of the reason why I decided to give it a spin on desktop. At the end of the day, the issue got resolved, and now I can keep it, hopefully, in here too.
Yeah, like I said, SUSE isn’t the distro I use, but it is frequently at the top of the list when considering what distrit to use when I create a new server or anything like that. Even for my own personal uses, it was like number #2 on my list.
Thing is, as it happens with a lot of Linux, it all comes down to what you’re used to, what you’re comfortable with. And I am very used to and well trained in Debian-based distributions. Currently, I’m running Pop!_OS on a couple of servers.
Pop!_OS is quite an unorthodox choice for a server OS, ain't it? I'm genuinely interested in why you chose it specifically over, say, Debian or Ubuntu.
I ran Debian and derivatives (Ubuntu, Mint), Arch and derivatives (EndeavourOS, Manjaro), Fedora and OpenSUSE, although each one on a very "user" level; I'm no IT guy, I just value what Linux gives me and am forced to learn to use it well.
Each has their merits. Currently, I go with OpenSUSE because it gives reasonable stability while not going ancient. When set up right, you can rely on it to keep doing things the same way, without needing to intervene manually. It also features correctly set snapper by default, which ensures I, as a generally non-technical user, won't shoot myself in the foot.
Ideally, I would go with OpenSUSE Slowroll, as I love the concept, but it is still experimental and I don't want both my machines to rely on beta builds. Still, my laptop has it installed and it works like a charm. The idea of "nearly bleeding-edge, but behind the most adventurous users" is why I chose Manjaro as my first distribution back in the day. Sadly, it is poorly managed, and issues arising with AUR only make things worse. OpenSUSE Slowroll feels to me like Manjaro done right.
As per other distributions I tried: * Debian gets very ancient very quickly (and even if you rely on flatpaks, system packages are, like, OLD) * Ubuntu is poorly managed and filled with controversies, I don't feel like I own my computer * Mint is nearly a single distribution that doesn't officially ship with KDE (likely because most of its userbase would ditch Cinnamon immediately, huh) and has caused issues on my machines specifically * Arch/EndeavourOS is "move fast and break things", and things DO break unless you manually intervene on numerous occasions based on whatever forums tell you. Also, on all Arch-based systems, I face insane lags and RAM hogging when moving large files. I don't know why. * Manjaro, as I said, is well-intentioned, but poorly executed. It breaks from so many things, which makes it lose its novice appeal. Still, it's cozy and not scary to enter, so this is where I started, and then learning to fight the bugs taught me a lot about Linux * Fedora needs some work out of the box, but is generally stable and nice. However, the community is too fast to make breaking decisions (like when they ditched X11, which broke my gf's work because her tools don't work with Wayland, and she went with Fedora). Also, I'm not thrilled by its association with Red Hat, which turns increasingly...Canonical.
So, OpenSUSE it is. I never knew I would end up here, but here I am. Slowroll on my laptop for the last half a year or so convinced me to ditch EndeavourOS on my desktop and go OpenSUSE as well. Up to a rough start, but hoping it will go well after that.
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.
ty for helping
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in reply to SatansMaggotyCumFart • • •Poland I can believe, as a one time Russian mistake or guidance error, but Romania on the other side of Ukraine, not next to Russia or Belarus. I'm now supposed to believe that these decoy drones are suddenly just flying across Ukraine to Romania?
It's fucking Ukraine who is sending these. This is the Russian s-300 missile kills polish farmers of 2022 all over again. Remember when that was totally the case that Russia killed poles and Zelensky said this is a mark of Russian aggression and Nato would need to intervene. Then it was pretty quickly stated S-300 didn't have the range to fly from Russian AA battery across Ukraine and into Poland and then they discovered that the missile was an model that only Ukraine had anymore. So everybody went hush hush and it was written down as an tragic accident.
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Ukraine is the one who is losing and needs Nato intervention to not lose totally or have to settle for peace that Kiev doesn't want. Or am I just going to have to believe that out of the blue for 4 year of war Russia suddenly starts pelting neighboring countries with not scout drones, not drones with warheads, but with a decoy drones that have been falling over Ukraine almost nightly air raids for years now, since unless they are shot down as they are supposed to they just fall down on the ground with very little harm to the drone. Why? Russia preparing for an attack, sending a message? It's Ukraine who is doing this. They want a no fly zone, boots on the ground, and Nato AA in Ukraine, because Kiev are dry regarding AA and will lose the war otherwise if they don't get Europeans to die for them too.
15 November 2022 incident during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
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in reply to PolandIsAStateOfMind • • •Russia is still a bigger military, Europe didn't pick a fight with them. Russia is definitely fucking up as usual and just throwing men and equipment at it with no particular logic involved.
They're already involved in a way they just haven't accepted it. No country wants to get involved but I'm sorry eventually they have to.
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