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Proposal for improved COSMIC apps:


So, I think cosmic apps should support whatever the global menu protocol is called, and have the top bar be ssd. The ssd would use the global menu protocol to add the already existing menu bar to the titlebar.

This would have quite a few benefits, including

  • Making every third party app with a menu bar look more native, with them getting a COSMIC-style titlebar.
  • Making COSMIC apps integrate nicer with other desktops, especially for people who use a mac-style global menu.
  • A more unified and flexible desktop experience overall.

Obvious problems being what to do with other buttons in titlebars(I propose to just move them to wherever else would make sense) and what to do on desktops with no server side decorations like GNOME. Also, on other desktops that have ssd, but don't put the global menu anywhere, there would have to be a more classic, less elegant menu bar.

This proposal definitely has downsides, but I think it'd be a definite improvement and align with COSMIC's philosphy, so tell me what you all think!

Also, if any system76 employees are reading this, pretty please 🥺 ?

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in reply to Blisterexe

What does "ssd" mean in this context? I'm guessing it's not solid state drive since that doesn't make any sense in these sentences, but searching that acronym isn't very helpful.

Edit: I guess it means "server side decorations". I see that OP did use the full phrase once, but it didn't click with me initially.
Wikipedia says that means the window manager draws titlebar buttons, as opposed to client side decorations which enables the app developer to control the titlebar of their app.

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in reply to Luke

Oops, shouldve probably explained it in the post.

ssd= server side decorations

server side decorations is when the system draws the titlebar, as opposed to client side decorations (csd) where the applications draws it.

for example, gnome uses csd, but kde uses ssd.

There's debate over which is better, but the main difference is that csd allows applications to put anything in the titlebar, which can make the design nicer, and ssd allows the titlebars on all apps to be consistent, which I personally value more.

in reply to Blisterexe

Aha oops I edited at the same time as your reply! Thanks for the elaboration, that's helpful!
in reply to Blisterexe

Of course server side decorations are better, why is there even a debate?
in reply to Blisterexe

It's mostly devs like csd better, because they "can express themselves" and users like ssd better, because it's not inconsistent and can be themed by them. In short, csd sucks for users.
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in reply to MonkderVierte

I’m going to provide the counter opinion here: I prefer CSD. SSD gives you a consistent title bar across applications, but it can cause a wildly inconsistent look within a single app. Part of the application is being themed by a different piece of software that doesn’t know anything about it.

I also like apps being able to make use of some of the extra space in the titlebar if they want to.

in reply to verdare

Uh, yeah, because the titlebar isn't part of the app but of the wm. And i like the Adapta titlebar better to the Materia theme, no i didn't ask about the developers opinion. You, as a developer, make a User Interface, not a piece of art, keep that in mind.
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in reply to MonkderVierte

You, as a developer, make a user interface, not a piece of art.


I’m a user. Why do you assume I’m a dev?

in reply to pewpew

From a user perspective I don't understand how wasting a bunch of screen space on an ugly, non-functional bar across every window is better. I get that from a software development perspective it's basically one less thing to deal with. But I absolutely prefer to have a functional use for the space.

The title bars in KDE felt so antiquated, especially for such a foundational thing. For a while I removed the title bars and used a "move window" key and minimize/maximize/close shortcuts.

Eventually I just switched to Gnome.

in reply to obsoleteacct

That's a good take, I wish KDE had a better model that allowed for custom buttons and menus on the titlebar.
But I still think CSD are awkard to work with, we need the best of both worlds in my opinion
in reply to Blisterexe

The realistic answer IMO is that SSD should be the default with client overrides being available.

Yes consistency is important but if someone wants to do something weird, let them. Open software ecosystems should prioritize flexibility like that.



Starmer set to announce UK recognition of Palestinian state


in reply to sabreW4K3

Are they recognising them so that they can add Palestine's dogtags to their collection once they've wiped them out?


How China Became Cool Again




Largest Caucus in House Endorses Bill to Block US Bombs to Israel | Common Dreams


Jon Queally
Sep 21, 2025

The Congressional Progressive Caucus over the weekend officially endorsed a bill that would block the sale of many offensive US weapons to Israel. This move coincides with growing outrage from US voters from across the political spectrum who say they have seen enough of American complicity with the genocidal humanitarian blockade and bombardment of the Gaza Strip.

The Block the Bombs Act, first introduced in May by Rep. Delia C. Ramirez (D-Ill.) and now backed by 49 co-sponsors, calls for a prohibition on the sale of a variety of US weapons and a limitation on military services to the Israeli government, accused of committing a genocide in Gaza.

The vote by the caucus, which took place Saturday and was first reported by Zeteo, marks a historic shift—even for the most progressive group of lawmakers on Capitol Hill—that provides “a significant boost to efforts to hold Israel accountable for its genocidal war in Gaza.”

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Largest Caucus in House Endorses Bill to Block US Bombs to Israel | Common Dreams


cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/36498075

Jon Queally
Sep 21, 2025
The Congressional Progressive Caucus over the weekend officially endorsed a bill that would block the sale of many offensive US weapons to Israel. This move coincides with growing outrage from US voters from across the political spectrum who say they have seen enough of American complicity with the genocidal humanitarian blockade and bombardment of the Gaza Strip.

The Block the Bombs Act, first introduced in May by Rep. Delia C. Ramirez (D-Ill.) and now backed by 49 co-sponsors, calls for a prohibition on the sale of a variety of US weapons and a limitation on military services to the Israeli government, accused of committing a genocide in Gaza.

The vote by the caucus, which took place Saturday and was first reported by Zeteo, marks a historic shift—even for the most progressive group of lawmakers on Capitol Hill—that provides “a significant boost to efforts to hold Israel accountable for its genocidal war in Gaza.”




Largest Caucus in House Endorses Bill to Block US Bombs to Israel | Common Dreams


Jon Queally
Sep 21, 2025

The Congressional Progressive Caucus over the weekend officially endorsed a bill that would block the sale of many offensive US weapons to Israel. This move coincides with growing outrage from US voters from across the political spectrum who say they have seen enough of American complicity with the genocidal humanitarian blockade and bombardment of the Gaza Strip.

The Block the Bombs Act, first introduced in May by Rep. Delia C. Ramirez (D-Ill.) and now backed by 49 co-sponsors, calls for a prohibition on the sale of a variety of US weapons and a limitation on military services to the Israeli government, accused of committing a genocide in Gaza.

The vote by the caucus, which took place Saturday and was first reported by Zeteo, marks a historic shift—even for the most progressive group of lawmakers on Capitol Hill—that provides “a significant boost to efforts to hold Israel accountable for its genocidal war in Gaza.”





Gaming on Linux, -


I know im not the only one, trying to get gaming on linux, but im different 😀
I am hooked on Flightgear, (the flight gear group on lemmy seems dead) but im right now playing it (still as a novice) on my Lenovo T470 with Fedora. So well its running okay, but the graphics, especially the suroundings just dosnt look like wheni see thoese vids online about flightgear. So i was wondering, and dreaming about a desktop PC, running linux, that is capable of delevering better graphics in Flightgear.i dont know anything about building a pc, but do you have a recommended setup of all hardware i schould get, and software, to get Flightgear up and running more beautyfull? Im also considdering of using steam as a gameshop. Im such a noob, that i would prefer exsact list of what hardware i schould use. Btw i would like to build my own pc, because im not a fan of thoese gamercomputers with all the colourrd light insight.
in reply to with chicken

No idea about Flightgear but to get super niche X-Plane works in VR on Linux, including with flight simulator joysticks.

I can't help you with your specific setup but my point is that gaming on Linux works very well unless you need kernel level anti cheat which at this point is pretty much only a portion of competitive gaming.

I don't see anything on protondb.com/search?q=Flightge… though so not a good sign.

in reply to utopiah

PS: been player for years on Linux, from AAA e.g. Baldur's Gate 3 to Elden Ring to VR games e.g Half-life: Alyx to indie games in VR and flat, not once did I have nor want to go back to Windows.


Is my adblock list pretty overkill/redundant?


I have this setup for like a year now, and I didn't really encounter any problems as far as I know. (or did I?) However, I just thought I would ask about it because I've been experiencing YouTube slowdowns recently via the mobile website (like video plays and video stops, and like my data won't exceed 500k/s usage most of the time), even though I never experience any of this in YouTube Revanced Extended.

I just enabled every filter that looked good in the Brave settings and added every starred/recommended list in yokkofing's filter list. (I used this list because it was heavily recommended)

I also have the Brave configurations set up with the PrivacyGuides's recommended configuration, and I'm also using Mullvad's DNS server (the base version; see all versions) both in my browser and in my Android device via the Private DNS feature.

So, is it overkill/redundant? If yes, what should I remove?

in reply to PragmaticIdealist

Are you employing these lists on your phone or a PC, or other device? There can be a performance cost associated with large IP blocklists. On most modern PC, the cost is usually minimal. On my dedicated firewall, just the DNSBL_Firebog_Malicious list clocks in at 1,004,966 entries, and I have most of Firebog's IP Blocklists, which are usually large, in addition to many others, because in my mind, you cannot block enough.

I cannot speak inteligently enough as to doing so on a mobile device. Additionally, YT is in a state of chaotic flux implimenting all manner of weirdness to make you have to hear their unskippible ads and slop all over the screen just to watch 30 seconds of a tutorial and find out it's not what you were looking for. So, that might be some of it too.

in reply to irmadlad

Are you employing these lists on your phone or a PC, or other device? There can be a performance cost associated with large IP blocklists. On most modern PC, the cost is usually minimal.


Yep, I have this exact filterlist in both my laptop and my phone. I don't really notice any performance problems besides YT (in mobile it sucks, in desktop it's just fine). Also as you can see I'm using just the lightweight version of these filterlists if there is one available (HaGeZi's filterlist for example) because I'm not using a dedicated device for adblocking like Pi-hole.

Additionally, YT is in a state of chaotic flux implimenting all manner of weirdness to make you have to hear their unskippible ads and slop all over the screen just to watch 30 seconds of a tutorial and find out it’s not what you were looking for.


I heard some stuff about that, but well, I still see no ads so that's that. I wonder why YouTube Revanced Extended is not experiencing any of it though.






in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

Only if world governments step up and replace the tens of billions in research grants terminated.

Brains don't actually do anything without research funding.

in reply to SaveTheTuaHawk

you mean like this? universityworldnews.com/post.p…


in reply to fajre

I run my own Gitea instance at git.benetou.fr/ but I admit didn't look much at the federated aspect, yet.

Sadly I just checked forum.gitea.com/c/federation/1… and despite few attempts, e.g. nlnet.nl/project/Gitea/ and eventually potentially upstreaming via forgejo forgejo.org/2023-01-10-answeri… that does not seem to be usable right now.

I'm checking forgefed.org/ which I learned about via checking federation on Gitea and it looks nice, in theory, but until I see an actual list of instances federated together I'll just applaud the effort from afar.

in reply to utopiah

FWIW that lead to discussion in codeberg.org/ForgeFed/ForgeFed…





Marxism plus Leninism


I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Leninism, is in fact, Marxism-Leninism, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, Marxism plus Leninism. Leninism is not an ideology unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning Marxist ideology made useful by the 『Manifesto』 , 『Capital』 and vital ideology components comprising a full ideology.

Many communists run a modified version of the Marxism ideology every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of Marxism which is widely used today is often called Leninism, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the Marxism ideology, developed by Marx and Engels.
There really is a Leninism, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the ideology they use. Leninism is the methodiology: a set of working methods for achieving the goal of communism. The methodiology is an essential part of an ideology, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete ideology. Leninism is normally used in combination with the Marxism ideology: the whole ideology is basically Marxism with Leninism added, or Marxism-Leninism. All the so-called Leninism distributions are really distributions of Marxism-Leninism!



Marxism plus Leninism


I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Leninism,
is in fact, Marxism-Leninism, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Marxism
plus Leninism. Leninism is not an ideology unto itself, but rather another free
component of a fully functioning Marxist ideology made useful by the
『Manifesto』 , 『Capital』 and vital ideology components comprising a full
ideology.

Many communists run a modified version of the Marxism ideology every day,
without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of Marxism
which is widely used today is often called Leninism, and many of its users are
not aware that it is basically the Marxism ideology, developed by Marx and
Engels.

There really is a Leninism, and these people are using it, but it is just a
part of the ideology they use. Leninism is the methodiology: a set of working
methods for achieving the goal of communism. The methodiology is an essential
part of an ideology, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context
of a complete ideology. Leninism is normally used in combination with the
Marxism ideology: the whole ideology is basically Marxism with Leninism added,
or Marxism-Leninism. All the so-called Leninism distributions are really
distributions of Marxism-Leninism!



French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu falsely claimed a master's degree


Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu is revealed to have falsely claimed a master's degree in public law.

Mediapart reported that Lecornu's official biography was altered to reflect "studies in law" instead of a claimed master's, which he never obtained.

Matignon initially denied changes to the biography and later admitted he held a Master 1, a degree level no longer in existence.

https://www.newsminimalist.com/articles/prime-minister-sebastien-lecornu-falsely-claimed-a-masters-degree-10b97a4e

in reply to geneva_convenience

Hmm, reporting isn't what it used to be. The French would have probably caught on immediately. If this Stack Exchange is correct, it's definitely a story.

academia.stackexchange.com/que…

My apologies, my friend.

in reply to Maeve

Fun fact I came across this on other media and was barely able to find any info on Google about it. I had to open Duck (Bing) which suddenly showed many results. So there is definitely some search engine surpression going on.

But it says the French government website retracted his degree so the story seems to check out.


in reply to Stech Linux

Wait, are there repo that just has dating info? You just make PR for your profile. Honestly with GitHub free pages we could definitely do that lol
in reply to yogurtwrong

The obvious question that needs asking is, can we fork?



Can you still get CalyxOS on the Fairphone 5?


When you go to the website and click to download, you are redirected to a letter to the community. I heard there is/was a changing of the guard and development is on hiatus. Does this mean you can't download CalyxOS from them at all anymore? Is this a reflection of the actions google is taking with the play store?

Should I be looking at a different OS than CalyxOS? I'm currently running /e/ amd was interested in trying something else. Do you have any other suggestions of privacy driven OS's?

Sorry for so many questions 🤣

in reply to mystic-macaroni

The images are back up I believe.

The project is reorganizing and changing security keys due to the head and lead Dev leaving. They plan to publish new images in the coming months AFAIK. A reinstall will be needed at that point.

This isn't related to the Google stuff.

in reply to timbuck2themoon

In February that is a long way off. What little steam the project hade well be lost by then. I expect they well be gone in five years.

in reply to regedit

Great to see another person moving to Linux and OpenSuSE. My only caution if this is your first time with Linux is that a point release like OpenSuSE Leap is probably a better place to start than Tumbleweed. I'm on Tumbleweed and it's generally good but I have had a few things break over the last couple of years, often fixed at next update in fairness but it is frustrating even as an experienced user. I have also had to reinstall Tumbleweed on one occasion; it wasn't a big deal as I'd set up a separate Home and System partition. Tumbleweed is great but it is a rolling release and even though it's a well tested one rolling releases are always riskier in terms of things breaking.
in reply to BananaTrifleViolin

I've had things break on both. So I gave up and changed to Kubuntu.
in reply to BananaTrifleViolin

I appreciate the cautionary tale. I already had to reinstall. I gave KDE another shot thinking previous issues were from the old Lenovo Yoga or distro I used it with. Unfortunately, that wasn't so. Even though I intentionally took my time customizing the layout, somehow I had some KDE thing crash twice, the main display had shifted to only showing have the page, like it was stuck under the monitor, and after a reboot to fix that problem it had made it so the context menu on the main desktop was not showing all the options.

While I'm not a fan of GNOME, per say, as I am not a fan of Apple style docks for a taskbar, I never had issues with it, so I am using that instead of KDE.





'Israeli' sergeant accidentally admits Gaza death toll far higher than reported


In a heated interview with British broadcaster Piers Morgan, an 'Israeli' army sergeant appeared to acknowledge that the death toll in Gaza may be significantly higher than official Palestinian figures.

During the exchange, Sergeant Benjamin Anthony claimed that 'Israel' had killed 30,000 fighters in Gaza and admitted that “for every fighter, two civilians” were also killed. When pressed on the math, his statement indicated a total of roughly 90,000 Palestinian deaths, far higher than the 60,000 deaths reported by the Gaza health ministry.

Morgan immediately challenged the figure, remarking, “Don’t worry about my interviewing skills, you worry about your maths.” The exchange quickly drew attention online, with critics accusing the 'Israeli' spokesperson of inadvertently confirming a death toll that surpasses already staggering estimates.

in reply to geneva_convenience

Piers tried his best for the sergent to backtrack so he can claim gazan health ministry is overestimating the death toll

in reply to SugarCatDestroyer

Put simply, capitalism is a control system that selects for whichever is the most profitable. It centralizes and coalesces into fewer and fewer hands. However, alongside this, as labor becomes less of a factor in production, the rate of profit falls, and overproduction results in large amounts of unsold commodities. This results in crisis, which is opportunity for the working class to assert its aims and even revolt if the conditions are right. Capitalism is deceptively weak, in that the ruling class is few in number and the workers are ever growing, and capitalists need workers to have a profit to begin with.

Imperialism pushes the worst of this crisis into the global south, but more global south countries are asserting their own independence, such as Burkina Faso. They are also aligning more with Russia and China, becoming less entrenched in western imperialism in favor of better loans and development opportunities. This further weakens the west.

We aren't cooked, a better world is possible, and it takes organizing. Educate, agitate, organize!


in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

Yes, let's let the Orange baby keep telling us what to do. We need to stop putting all our eggs in one basket and shift economic partnerships about. Its what stock oickers do, ie reduce US exposure.
in reply to MrSulu

If Europeans want to reduce US exposure they'd have to compromise with Russia to have access to oil and gas. Longer term they could align with China and get access to cheap solar, but that wouldn't help them this winter when they need to heat their homes.
in reply to queermunist she/her

If the Europeans weren’t buying oil and gas from the us our oil and gas industry would suffer immensely. Exporting oil and gas is a big part of our economy.
in reply to ian

Yeah, that's why Europe will not be allowed to shift economic partnerships. It's also why they're trying to sanction Iran again, and even part of why they're being made to sanction China (and thus Chinese solar). Europe must be kept dependent on US oil and gas, or at least on oil and gas from US allies. They can't be allowed to escape.
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in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

As Betteridge's law of headlines says: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

in reply to herseycokguzelolacak

Spain and Belgium the first which recognized Palestina as sovereign State time ago, Spain cutting weapons and supplies since 2023, blocking it's transport by ship or airplain to Israel plus declaring non grata the visit of members of the Israel gov.. Good that now finally also other EU gov lift their ass from the sofa.


Cirrus app dev informing the app will stop working on certified android devices in '26/'27


Opening my weather app this morning I was greeted by this warning:

Google has announced that, starting in 2026/2027, all apps on certified Android devices
will require the developer to submit personal identity details directly to Google.
Since the developers of this app do not agree to this requirement, this app will no longer
work on certified Android devices after that time.


It's the first time I hear about this, seems to be about:

Tech crunch article from august, "google will require developer verification for android apps outside the play store"

Cirrus app:
Github

Was this a big thing I somehow missed? I hope more devs will follow suit.

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in reply to Akip

I got this message the other day. It sucks how the app won't work on certified devices next year.
in reply to Ertain

Agreed. Google just didn't consent to you getting an app without ads. My hope is maybe we can circumvent it for a while with PWA or browser website bookmarks. Maybe long enough for alternatives to arrive or consumer protection to kick in. I refuse to give up hope even though I might need to abandon android. For now I guess I will just not buy another phone since androids time seems limited. Really hard to find something to recommend to family and friends that just works. My goto grapheneOS also seems more and more cut down with more and more apps refusing to work outside play store downloads or refusing to work on 3rd party OS.
in reply to Akip

I got the same alert on Gmaps WV (google map wrapper found f drood)
Google is giving us more reasons to switch to a custom ROM


Israel’s Strike on Yemen Newspaper Offices Was ‘Deadliest Global Attack’ on Journalists in 16 Years: Press Freedom Group


cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/49108510

Israel's attack on two newspaper offices in Yemen last week killed 31 journalists, making it the single largest massacre of the press in 16 years, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Archived version: archive.is/newest/commondreams…


Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.



Israel’s Strike on Yemen Newspaper Offices Was ‘Deadliest Global Attack’ on Journalists in 16 Years: Press Freedom Group


Israel's attack on two newspaper offices in Yemen last week killed 31 journalists, making it the single largest massacre of the press in 16 years, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.


Archived version: archive.is/newest/commondreams…


Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.




Gaza: New regulations require all aid entering strip to be sourced from Israel only


The Israeli government has declared that all aid entering Gaza for distribution by the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) must be sourced from Israel only.

"New Israeli regulations mandate that all food items going into Gaza must be procured and packaged inside Israel, and we are abiding by that requirement."

The JNS report comes as multiple indicators suggest the Israeli economy is taking a hit as a result of its genocide in Gaza, on account of growing international isolation, lack of investment and consumer confidence as well as the high number of conscripts being called away from work to fight.

in reply to IndustryStandard

So Israel gets to profit off the human suffering they are causing? Bullshit.
in reply to Korhaka

It's so they are providing aid but can limit it just enough that everyone is technically able to be fed but still starve. It's a way to look like they're doing something good but in reality are doing something extremely cruel.


Marxism plus Leninism


I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Leninism,
is in fact, Marxism-Leninism, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Marxism
plus Leninism. Leninism is not an ideology unto itself, but rather another free
component of a fully functioning Marxist ideology made useful by the
『Manifesto』 , 『Capital』 and vital ideology components comprising a full
ideology.

Many communists run a modified version of the Marxism ideology every day,
without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of Marxism
which is widely used today is often called Leninism, and many of its users are
not aware that it is basically the Marxism ideology, developed by Marx and
Engels.

There really is a Leninism, and these people are using it, but it is just a
part of the ideology they use. Leninism is the methodiology: a set of working
methods for achieving the goal of communism. The methodiology is an essential
part of an ideology, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context
of a complete ideology. Leninism is normally used in combination with the
Marxism ideology: the whole ideology is basically Marxism with Leninism added,
or Marxism-Leninism. All the so-called Leninism distributions are really
distributions of Marxism-Leninism!

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in reply to geneva_convenience

My man Freezy E wrote the best introductory texts to Marxism which hold up to this day,a taxonomy of the family and how it's shaped by the mode of production and hardly anyone ever mentions him unless it's to acknowledge he bankrolled Marx.
in reply to Seoun (she/her)

And just like Linux, Marxism-Leninism marketshare is currently low.





They put this on billboards: "FIXING YOUR CAR HELPS IRAN & NORTH KOREA" 🤦‍♂️


#USA