The British government has said it cannot offer diplomatic protection to its citizens onboard the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla, as Italy and Spain send ships to accompany it following an Israeli attack on Wednesday morning.
Mathilda Mallinson, MEE's correspondent onboard one of the flotilla's boats, said the British Foreign Office told her mother it was "unable to offer" diplomatic protection.
Diplomatic protection is action the UK can take against another country for injury caused to a British national, or their property, in violation of international law.
One boat Israel apparently bombed in Tunis, Alma, is a British vessel and flies the British flag. At least 13 people on the flotilla are British citizens.
Spain and Italy have sent naval ships into the Mediterranean Sea. Italy dispatched a frigate on Wednesday after an Israeli drone attack on the flotilla in international waters.
I have to wonder. Never having tried to enter an active war zone.
Is it in any way normal for the UK to give protection to any citizens intentionally doing so. Especially in advance of the event.
ATM the boats are in international waters. Or Tunisas water for smee attacks. So diplomatic protection has little to do with it. Bombing foreign registered boats outside your own waters is an act of war. So the UK and Tunisia should have diplomats screaming at them. At the least. And clearly has a duty to aid them in international waters.
This is in no way normal. Starmer explicitly states that Israel is more important than UK citizens. And that Israel is free to murder any UK citizen it wants.
The US has prevented Iranian diplomats from going anywhere beyond the perimeters of UN headquarters and buying anything from the wholesale club stores in New York city, calling the measure a part of its unilateral sanctions regime.
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The elimination of the diesel subsidy has sparked multiple protests across the country. President Noboa defends the decision and aims to change the country's entire legal framework.
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I once posted on some Reddit sub that my local government is Liberal Democrat and some shitizen went off on how stupid I am and how that doesn't even make sense. I don't live in the US, and Liberal Democrat is the name of a party where I am 🤷♂️
Kinda? Liberals in the US Empire are very much liberals, it's just that conservatives are also liberals. Some people use "liberal" as a stand-in for left not because liberalism is left (it isn't), but because it's left within the tiny overton window off on the far right that is the US. Leftists are still called as such, usually.
Centrist Democrats like Kamala Harris and Gavin Newsom seem to think the best way to disparage Donald Trump is to highlight his departures from free-market orthodoxy. Good luck with that.
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United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain: “Make no mistake: the billionaire class is not going to give up power willingly. They are on an endless pursuit of profit, no matter the cost.”
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What physical export would even be competitive with domestic industry? Software services the same. What's better than their domestic or US services? Agriculture, I'm pretty sure latin america, south and southeast Asia would dominate over european
I recently found out that as a part of my job I get access to a small gym in the building. I think it has your basic cardio equipment and some other stuff for building muscle (but small enough I don't think there is equipment to do stuff like dead-lifts or whatever in there).
I don't know anything about working out really, but I could stand to lose some fat, which draws my attention to the treadmill that they have. I am not so concerned about building muscle and everything that involves.
I have mostly neglected going to gyms for 3 reasons. - They are usually out of my way - I don't usually have the time - I don't want to spend what they charge
All three of these are now non-factors now that I have found out I have access to this one.
I would be using it twice a week as that is how often I am actually at the location.
So my question is, since it's not really something I have ever looked at - if I want to lose a bunch of fat, what do I do? I can try to diet first off, and I am glad to take suggestions on what worked for other people in that regard, but more so I just don't know how long or how fast I should run, what equipment is good for this otherwise, or really anything about using a gym.
Please note that the facility is self-serve and has no staff - they just have cleaners come in each day to clean it, the rest is up to you. I do not have the money to spend on something like a personal trainer, and the location doesn't offer such things as well given its self-serve nature.
Fat is energy. If you use more energy than you put in, you lose weight. If you use less energy, you gain weight.
Losing fat is like putting gasoline in your car. If you put in 2 gallons but you only drive for 1 gallon, then there will be gas left in the tank. Likewise your body will turn excess energy into fat. W hen you use more energy than you put in, your body will start burning fat.
If you want to lose fat hit the biggest muscle group which uses the most energy (your legs)
Beginning very soon, you'll need to have Deno (or another supported JavaScript runtime) installed to keep YouTube downloads working as normal. Why? Up until now, yt-dlp has been able to use its bui...
2025.09.26 can still do it without deno. Besides, when the change happens, node and bun (never heard about bun before) will be supported as well, not just deno, but they will require extra arguments passed to yt-dlp. If using yt-dlp directly, and already having node or bun installed, no need for deno then.
None protect your IP if not using a non self hosted frontend like invidio or piped, cause if self hosted then you're providing your IP any ways. So now a days actually private is kind of hard. But these applications for sure help a lot.
The deadly sniper attack on a Dallas ICE facility this morning seemed straightforward, with “ANTI-ICE” engraved on unspent shell casings recovered from the scene, per the FBI. But after interviewing several of the alleged shooter’s former friends, the picture isn’t so clear.
Within minutes of the shooting, FBI Director Kash Patel posted on X: “While the investigation is ongoing, an initial review of the evidence shows an idealogical [sic] motive behind this attack (see photo below).”
On the off-chance the shooting wasn’t what it looked like, I reached out to people who knew the gunman, 29-year-old Joshua Jahn. Three who knew him since at least middle school agreed to speak to me on the condition that I not name them, corroborating their friendship with photos and other records. Their accounts paint the picture of someone with a vaguely libertarian bent who despised both major parties and politicians generally (including Trump) but who didn’t engage with politics beyond that. He preferred edgy humor, video games and the message board 4chan, all of which he became increasingly steeped in as he withdrew from social life as well as their own friendships several years ago, they said.
None of his former friends believed that the “ANTI-ICE” inscription could possibly be sincere, feeling such a serious political statement was anathema to who Jahn was. His humor was deeply ironic, often offensive and aggressive to the point of alienation.
“He was most certainly an edgelord, an irony guy,” one friend said. (Edgelord is online-speak for someone who likes to espouse edgy, nihilistic views). Asked about the inscription on the bullet, the friend said: “Josh was an edgelord who wanted someone to get blamed. I think he tried his best to write something goofy … to rile people up.”
The media is so ill equipped to handle this seemingly new wave of terminally online domestic terrorists. No one can tell me the internet isn't real life when my 58 year old mom knows what a groyper or an edgelord is now.
Iran will respond to any activation of the trigger mechanism by adopting a hybrid approach and hybrid tools. While for nearly 8 years the three European
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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in reply to geneva_convenience • • •I have to wonder. Never having tried to enter an active war zone.
Is it in any way normal for the UK to give protection to any citizens intentionally doing so. Especially in advance of the event.
ATM the boats are in international waters. Or Tunisas water for smee attacks. So diplomatic protection has little to do with it. Bombing foreign registered boats outside your own waters is an act of war. So the UK and Tunisia should have diplomats screaming at them. At the least. And clearly has a duty to aid them in international waters.
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