People openly bragging about being exploited has always been hilarious to me. I’ve been pushing back on bullshit employer things since my first job in my teens.
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Pakistan has escalated its claims over the May air battle, revealing tail numbers of four Indian Rafale fighter jets allegedly shot down, as Lt Gen Khalid Kidwai declared that seven IAF aircraft were destroyed including Rafales, a Su-30, MiG-29, Mira…
It's a shrewd move as the global south will be feeling the worst effects of climate change and China is the only country that's offering infrastructure based on renewables at scale.
Literally everybody wins here. China is establishing customers for their clean energy tech, The global south gets sustainable energy that they will have sovereign control over, and the world will have less pollution as a result.
On Friday, a pivotal meeting will take place as ministers of defence from seven eastern EU member states plus Ukraine and the EU Commission for talks on building a 'drone wall'. Initially, Slovakia and Hungary were not invited — a reflection of the risk their participation could pose to a frank discussion about the Russian threat and Europe's plans to defend itself.
Oklahoma public high schools are being forced to partner with right-wing group Turning Point USA or risk losing accreditation. Superintendent Ryan Walters is pushing for conservative indoctrination, threatening schools who don't comply.
State school superintendent Ryan Walters said public high schools across the state must partner with late activist Charlie Kirk's organization to counter "woke indoctrination."
The Secret Service says it has uncovered what it’s calling “a network of electronic devices located throughout the New York Tri-state area that were used to conduct multiple telecommunications-related threats directed towards senior U.S. government officials.”
The Secret Service says it has uncovered what it’s calling “a network of electronic devices located throughout the New York Tri-state area that were used to conduct multiple telecommuni…
Some of you have probably seen the blog post a few months ago about how GNOME is more strongly depending on systemd. The changes mentioned there have landed into the latest stable versions of the mentioned software (GNOME 49) and do affect us. In particular, the main culprit is the removal of the non-systemd fallback code in gnome-session. This makes it currently impossible to launch gnome-shell/mutter on a non-systemd system. A fairly straightforward patch of using elogind, like what was previously done, no longer works either.
Since we don't have the time or interest to write a new non-systemd codepath for gnome-session, this means that all support for gnome-based desktops has to be dropped. In particular, the affected packages would be gnome-session, gnome-shell, mutter, and gnome-settings-daemon. For now, the old versions are still in the repos but because there is so much intertwining between other gtk/gnome packages, there is no guarantee they actually work and will later be removed from our repos.
Standalone gnome applications will still continue to be packaged, but it is simply not feasible anymore to support gnome desktops without systemd.
Isn't that seatd though? I can run a wayland desktop session with only seatd, no (e)logind. While i can't do the same with only turnstile, still needs seatd.
My guess (i dont understand it all that well) is that people are less again using systemd, than against a growing dependency on systemd. If something bad happens to it, it could drag down other big elements of the linux ecosystem with itself.
It's a large and very complicated piece of software with a single implementation. It's practically impossible to fork, so users are forced to adopt whatever changes the maintainers decide to implement. This could include things like forced dependencies (incompatible with mulb libc for example), or other poor design choices (like binary logging, which is very controversial). And it forces its adoption in places that do not want it (as in cases like the one we're discussing here, where it's becoming harder and harder for Gnome to be used without it).
I'm not going to argue about whether systemd is good software or not. But the biggest problem with it is that it's basically a way for Red Hat to exert control over the entire Linux ecosystem.
Think of it like Chrome/Chromium. Everybody naïvely thought we were never be where we are today when it was announced, but look at where we are today. While it's technically open source and an excellent browser, above all, it's a tool for Google to exert its control over the WWW, such as disabling adblockers, implementing DRM, deciding which CSS/Javascript APIs should (or should not) be adopted, etc. systemd could very well be Red Hat's vehicle for imposing similar requirements on desktop Linux.
Funny thing is every open source developer strives to support as many systems and platforms as possible, by following best practices and open standards, GNOME goes backwards.
I am not knowledgeable enough to answer your question. But if it were an open standard, it would be more like Xorg than Wayland. There is only one X server implementation, just like there is only one systemd implementation.
Here Gnome is kinda like the websites which only work with Chromium based browsers. "Everybody is using Chrome anyways, right?" In a sense it's also not really systemd's or Chromium's fault, that some devs decided to only support their platform.
That isn't quite true. There have been several proprietary implementations for non-Linux systems—Apple's XQuartz was still being maintained as of a couple of years ago, although I don't know about its current status. Standards documents exist, and anyone can code to them.
No. It doesn't support BSD, just for starters, even though most of the established desktop environments originally ran there as well as on Linux. So by definition, anything that relies on systemd can't "support as many systems and platforms as possible". And to my knowledge, no actual standards document defining protocols and interfaces has ever been published (although I admit, as an OpenRC user, I don't pay much attention), meaning that the interface can change without warning. If systemd works for you, that's fine, but don't try to build it up into something it isn't.
Yeah but it could be an open standard, for Linux, could it not?
I don't really understand your first point though. That would be no problem if you organized the packages and declared conflicts for systemd against the other init systems.
Ever since gnome3, the project hasn't recovered from shitty designers making shitty design decisions.
Kinda funny how they gimped their desktop to make it easier for them to support devices other than PCs and over a decade later mobile Linux devices still suck donkey shit.
So they essentially gimped their desktop for no reason. Bunch of morons.
Dang, i knew this was gonna be problematic, but i thought it might've been fixable with an elogind type of approach. I don't use gnome myself, but it definitely sucks if you're someone who likes using gnome but doesn't want to use systemd. I'm a Void user myself, so i'm interested in seeing if the Void team ends up making the same decision as Artix.
My understanding is that it is fixable by just implementing a couple of APIs, but Artix barely has the resources to fix their own init system, so they aren't able to support such compatibility.
I expect that would be the problem. Gentoo very noticeably is still only offering up to 48 in the main repo—not sure whether that's just normal maintainer lag or someone's trying to patch it.
I feel like Void devs will first wait it out. Perhaps Chimera Linux' devs will come up with some workaround by then. A possible workaround could be to make Duncaen's systemd fork official. Though I'm not sure if maintaining 2 init systems would be less work than to patch the systemd API specific stuff.
Sounds like those people who like GNOME but dislike systemd have a choice to make. Most GNOME end users, like me, have no idea what the function of systemd actually is or why we should be concerned, and I've been using GNU-Linux for over 20 years. I'm glad there are people much more computer literate than me viewing it as a problem and searching for solutions.
They're all searching for "solutions" but nobody is creating them. Funny how most of the people complaining about systemd aren't actually system devs themselves and thus have no clue what they're talking about.
Nobody (not even GNOME) is actively wanting to force systemd and keep out alternatives, there just aren't any proper alternatives offering the same kind of functionality and quality.
"Some of you have probably seen the blog post a few months ago about how GNOME is more strongly depending on systemd."
"Standalone gnome applications will still continue to be packaged, but it is simply not feasible anymore to support gnome desktops without systemd."
What I always say when anyone tries to defend systemd but I just get shut down and talked down to because nobody wants to admit systemd lead person is on purpose influencing with flawed and unethical objectives/workflows that undermine actual openness and community efforts. He don't give af about the community.
This isn't a secret plot by systemd, this is gnome making dependency choices and a distro that explicitly doesn't support the new dependency being left in the cold. That's just how dependencies work.
If it were properly modular, systemd would be built from universal components, which could be used by other init systems. But it's the other way around. Meaning the universal components are created by taking them out of systemd. For example elogind is "extracted" from systemd to be a standalone daemon.
If you want GNOME you need a corporate aligned linux-only desktop with all the IBM trimmings? IBM who has been known forever for the poor quality of their code? IBM who pays by the KLOC?
On two versions of debian on two computers I have tried to use wayland and both times I have had really bad graphical problems and lag/stuttering of multiple visual elements. I'm sure it is fine when it works, but my problem with Wayland is that for whatever reason, it just does not work on my systems.
Each time, this was on fresh installs of the operating system as well, so I have no idea why it doesn't like me.
The current version of XLibre is 25.0.0.12 and it used by many of our users as a daily driver so quite stable. Technically, XLibre is still X11 and compatible to all X11 clients as laid out in Compatibility of XLibre · X11Libre/xserver Wiki. We will shortly be releasing version 25.1.0, which we aim to stabilize for general availability in version 25.1.3 at the latest.
#Guix will need this for GNOME 49, since the original GNOME session dropped the non-systemd implementation. Source code at gitlab.gnome.org/noe/gnome-ses…
The European Commission and the European Investment Bank (EIB) signed a financing facility with the Palestine Monetary Authority (PMA) to support the Palestinian private sector, amid rising tensions in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
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MEPs pressed the EU Commission on the slow progress of redirecting Russia’s €200bn in frozen assets to Ukraine, amid legal hurdles. One reported plan would see the EU take billions of euros of frozen Russian state cash held in Belgium and send it to Ukraine, while replacing the money with EU-backed bonds.
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Held for 72 days at a notorious Ohio jail, the legal about-turn marks a major blow to the Trump administration’s aggressive and often illegal deportation campaign that’s seen hundreds of thousands of people forced out of the US, often without due process.
Soliman’s ordeal began during a regular check-in with immigration officials in Cincinnati on 9 July, when the 51-year-old from Cairo was subjected to an hours-long interview before being detained by an Ice agent and a representative of the FBI.
Soliman was transported to the Butler county jail and held in freezing conditions for 12 hours in the jail’s waiting room, where he struggled to stay warm wearing just a t-shirt and pants.
“The beds were rusted, and the only toilet was in a room with 13 or 14 other people around. It was traumatizing and dehumanizing,” he recalls.
Things worsened when Soliman was put in isolation – a cell where he was separated from others and denied nearly all rights granted to other detainees – for five days. He says it followed an argument when Soliman’s request for a quiet space to pray was rejected by a correctional officer who then claimed Soliman failed to comply with a lockdown call, something the imam denies.
“There is a multi-purpose room where Christian pastors and Muslim imams come to administer to people, but the officer told me to pray at the gym where people were playing basketball,” he says.
“He grabbed my arms, I asked him to take his hands off me, then he pressed an emergency button and in seconds five or six officers rushed in and they handcuffed me.”
Correctional officers at Butler County Jail have been accused of abusing detainees in the past. In 2020, two men refugees detained by Ice at the jail filed a lawsuit against the jail and an officer, claiming that beatings resulted in serious physical abuse including the loss of teeth.
Drones flew over four Danish airports overnight Wednesday into Thursday, the latest instance of unexplained drone activity that has raised concerns about security in northern Europe amid growing Russian aggression.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Drones flew over four Danish airports overnight Wednesday into Thursday, the latest instance of unexplained drone activity that has
The family of one of the 67 people killed when an airliner collided with an Army helicopter over Washington, D.C., sued the government and the airlines involved on Wednesday, saying they didn’t recognize the warning signs after more than 30 documented near misses in the area.
Other families are expected to join this first lawsuit seeking to hold the Federal Aviation Administration, the Army, American Airlines and its regional
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Apple has called for the European Commission to repeal a swathe of technology legislation, warning that unless it is amended the company could stop shipping some products and services to the 27-country bloc.
The Silicon Valley company hit out in a submission to the commission’s review of the three-year-old anti-monopoly legislation, which is intended to regulate the gatekeeper power of the largest digital companies including search engines, app providers and messaging services.
It said it had already delayed the launch of features such as live translation through AirPods and mirroring iPhone screens on to laptop because of the act’s demands for interoperability with non-Apple products and services.
“The DMA means the list of delayed features in the EU will probably get longer, and our EU users’ experience on Apple products will fall further behind,” it said. Apple added that Brussels was creating unfair competition as the rules were not applied to Samsung, the largest smartphone provider in the EU.
Zelensky told Axios he is “ready” to leave office once the war ends and vowed to push for elections if a ceasefire is reached – despite constitutional and security hurdles.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says US President Donald Trump told him Kyiv could respond to Russia's attacks on its energy infrastructure with tit-for-tat strikes, as Ukraine continues to pound Russian refining operations.
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Warsaw is moving to give its military the green light to shoot down Russian drones over Ukraine without waiting for NATO or EU approval, in a bid to reclaim rapid-response powers stripped under a 2022 law
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In early July 2025, Zarah Sultana announced that she was leaving the Labour Party and launching a new left formation in partnership with Jeremy Corbyn, naming herself and Corbyn as coleaders. However, Corbyn’s team had not formally agreed to any elements of the rollout, or even to her coleader status, and had no idea that she would make the announcement.
Tensions over decision-making protocols and internal structures simmered throughout the summer. Matters came to a head last week, when Sultana emailed supporters announcing a membership portal. She insisted the move was part of the agreed-upon “road map” for building the party and pointed to more than 20,000 sign-ups within hours. Corbyn’s camp, however, denounced it as premature and unauthorized, urging supporters to cancel any payments. Sultana, for her part, said she had been sidelined by what she called a “sexist boys’ club.”
Instead of pursuing this outward focus, the message from Your Party since its launch has been clear: the public comes second. We, on the Left, have to spend a few months focusing on ourselves, engaging in a long and drawn-out process that makes our own activist base feel better about itself, and then, perhaps, we will take the fight to Keir Starmer and Nigel Farage and the immensely powerful interests conspiring to make life worse for millions of working people across Britain.
This brings us to another glaring absence from the early stages of Your Party: the trade union movement. Socialist ideals of democracy, as we have said, are premised on the mass participation of workers. This is a difficult thing to achieve, no doubt, in an era of retreat for the Left. But the nascent Your Party project stands out from precursors by its distance from the organized workers’ movement. Would it really be too much to expect a historic left split from the Labour Party to have come with a number of affiliated unions? What about a process that involved the many unions — many led by socialists — that are not affiliated with the party? Even if you could argue that it is too early for affiliation, how many prominent trade unionists are associated with Your Party from the start? Unfortunately, these questions seem like an afterthought.
The farcical spat that has riven Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s “Your Party” exposes a Left increasingly focused on itself rather than on the class it aims to mobilize.
Alexander Stubb, President of Finland, urged sweeping reform of the United Nations during a speech to the General Assembly, calling for the removal of veto rights from permanent members of the Security Council. Stubb described the current global order as fragmented and violent, with more wars underway than at any time since the Second World War. He said the UN was failing too often in its role as a forum for mediation and had remained tied to structures dating back to 1945.
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In early July 2025, Zarah Sultana announced that she was leaving the Labour Party and launching a new left formation in partnership with Jeremy Corbyn, naming herself and Corbyn as coleaders. However, Corbyn’s team had not formally agreed to any elements of the rollout, or even to her coleader status, and had no idea that she would make the announcement.
Tensions over decision-making protocols and internal structures simmered throughout the summer. Matters came to a head last week, when Sultana emailed supporters announcing a membership portal. She insisted the move was part of the agreed-upon “road map” for building the party and pointed to more than 20,000 sign-ups within hours. Corbyn’s camp, however, denounced it as premature and unauthorized, urging supporters to cancel any payments. Sultana, for her part, said she had been sidelined by what she called a “sexist boys’ club.”
Instead of pursuing this outward focus, the message from Your Party since its launch has been clear: the public comes second. We, on the Left, have to spend a few months focusing on ourselves, engaging in a long and drawn-out process that makes our own activist base feel better about itself, and then, perhaps, we will take the fight to Keir Starmer and Nigel Farage and the immensely powerful interests conspiring to make life worse for millions of working people across Britain.
This brings us to another glaring absence from the early stages of Your Party: the trade union movement. Socialist ideals of democracy, as we have said, are premised on the mass participation of workers. This is a difficult thing to achieve, no doubt, in an era of retreat for the Left. But the nascent Your Party project stands out from precursors by its distance from the organized workers’ movement. Would it really be too much to expect a historic left split from the Labour Party to have come with a number of affiliated unions? What about a process that involved the many unions — many led by socialists — that are not affiliated with the party? Even if you could argue that it is too early for affiliation, how many prominent trade unionists are associated with Your Party from the start? Unfortunately, these questions seem like an afterthought.
The farcical spat that has riven Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s “Your Party” exposes a Left increasingly focused on itself rather than on the class it aims to mobilize.
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Microsoft will offer free extended security updates for Windows 10 users in the European Economic Area (EEA), which includes Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and all 27 European Union member states.
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