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Günther Unlustig 🍄 via Linux

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Günther Unlustig 🍄
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Recommendations for audio production software?

I have literally zero experience with creating audio, but I want to try something new for me.

I know most people who are "properly" into music production are just using a Mac, because it just works and where a lot of the software is available.

Thing is, I have zero expectations.
I don't need a lot of features, plug-ins, and whatever. Most stuff will probably just be fine for me.

Heck, I don't even know what I need in the first place to get a full "stack" of audio production software.

For the start, I'd prefer something simple.
Mostly just something where I can arrange a few recorded audio tracks onto each other and maybe edit them a bit.
Something where I can record the tracks with my microphone (and some time later maybe an input device like a piano keyboard, e-guitar, etc.) and listen them at the same time, preferably in the same program.

What are your experiences with making music on Linux?
What software would you recommend?

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anamethatisnt

in reply to Günther Unlustig 🍄 • 1 mese fa • •

For a simpler program look into Tenacity (Audacity fork) and if you want something bigger I know many use Reaper nowadays (available for Linux, Windows and Mac)

tenacity

Tenacity is an easy-to-use, privacy-friendly, FLOSS, cross-platform multi-track audio editor for Windows, macOS, Linux, and other operating systems

^Codeberg.org

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Deifyed

in reply to Günther Unlustig 🍄 • 1 mese fa • •

I've been very happy with Ardour. It's a full digital audio workspace though. Like the other comment mentioned, audacity is a simpler alternative

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chillpanzee

in reply to Günther Unlustig 🍄 • 1 mese fa • •

Software wise, ProTools is what nearly everyone in the industry uses. Its been around forever. It enjoys a massive monopoly share of the market. But I don't think it works on Linux. Mac n PC only.

For a cheaper Linux friendly option, consider Fairlight (the audio component of Black magic Resolve).

The name "Fairlight" has also been around forever, but was defunct for a while, and a handful of years ago the fine folks at Blackmagic Design bought the brand and IP integrated into their Resolve software. While Resolve has a free tier that includes Fairlight, some might require the Studio version which is a one time fee of ~US$300 and includes all future updates. I've heard some Pros speak highly of the new Fairlight. Can't vouch for it myself but the mantra of the Blackmagic CEO is "we build the tools we wanted when we were working creatives."

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Buffalox

in reply to Günther Unlustig 🍄 • 1 mese fa • •

Ardour is amazing.
ardour.org/

Ardour, free and open-source digital audio workstation | Ardour DAW

Ardour is a free and open-source digital audio workstation for Windows, macOS, and Linux

^ardour.org

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paequ2

in reply to Günther Unlustig 🍄 • 1 mese fa • •

I've wanted to try Reaper reaper.fm/ but haven't had time. It's not something simple though.

(There's even a Flatpak for easy install/uninstall flathub.org/en/apps/fm.reaper.…)

Install Reaper on Linux | Flathub

Digital Audio Workstation

^Flathub

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Wappen

in reply to paequ2 • 1 mese fa • •

Doubling down on Reaper: I’ve tried other DAWs before, but none of them ever felt as natural to me as Reaper. I wouldn’t recommend the Flatpak version, though—I could never get it to work with plugins, although that might just be me. On Linux, you can simply download the install script from the website, which makes installing and uninstalling Reaper just as easy.

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marduk

in reply to Wappen • 1 mese fa • •

I gave in and gave them my money; I like their software.

I'm not an audio pro though so I'm really only comparing it to FL studio and Ableton, neither of which get my money

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INeedMana

in reply to Günther Unlustig 🍄 • 1 mese fa • •

For music recorded via microphone, Ardour+Hydrogen

For music created more synthetically LMMS

Jack is the way to go. Save yourself the frustration and use it from the start

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anamethatisnt

in reply to INeedMana • 1 mese fa • •

For music created more synthetically LMMS

Haven't heard of that one before, cheers!
GPLv2, lmms.io/ , github.com/LMMS/lmms

GitHub - LMMS/lmms: Cross-platform music production software

Cross-platform music production software. Contribute to LMMS/lmms development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

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FriendOfDeSoto

in reply to INeedMana • 1 mese fa • •

Seconded! LMMS is a good free DAW to get started.

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hendrik

in reply to Günther Unlustig 🍄 • 1 mese fa • •

I'd try some of the Multimedia / Audio Linux distributions. I believe there are some which have everything set up for you and you can just try and explore. Notably Ubuntu Studio, AV Linux

Other than that, LMMS and Ardour, Qtractor, ZRhythm, Rosegarden, MuSE, or Mixxx for DJing... There's generally a lot. DAWs, trackers, sequencers, synthesizers... you can do professional multitrack recording or just mess with your guitar or sample some electronic music...

It's a bit difficult as a beginner, since there are a lot of options and they all have different user interfaces and you might need to learn a few concepts first. And /or read the documentation or watch some Youtube tutorials.

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Eugenia

in reply to Günther Unlustig 🍄 • 1 mese fa • •

You essentially have 3 options with open source audio apps (there are some good closed source options too, like the great Reaper, Tracktion Waveform, and BitWig Studio, but I will focus on foss solutions here):

Ardour. This is the premier foss app. In fact, a fork of it is closed source used by a big audio manufacturer. So it's the best tested foss audio software out there. It can do both midi and recording sessions, but it's best for recording stuff. However, the new version, expected by end of this year, will have major midi updates that probably will put it on top of the king of midi in foss:
LMMS. Best for Midi. If you're doing electronic music through and through, this works great. The only downside it has it does not support vst3 plugins (soon enough, this can become an issue, even if you say that you don't care about plugins). You can still get vst3 support by loading them via the Clara plugin (basically, it acts as a plugin for other plugins), but that can be unstable.
QTractor. This one is an odd one out. It's a bit hard to get it going (it requires external synths and some patchwork to connect audio devices), but it is very powerful and I'd say, a more sane UI when editing. It comes with no plugins at all, but it supports all plugin standards for linux. Basically, this one requires more setup, but once you set it up, it gets going easier.

Alternatively, if you're actually interested only in rec. audio editing (basically cutting, pasting etc), simple stuff, there's Audacity.

If you're using Ubuntu or Linux Mint, Zorin, PopOS, install the ubuntustudio package for pipewire (can't remember how it's called you need to search for it). It sets up pipewire audio correctly, so more plugins/apps work out of the box (without it, for example, Bitwig studio doesn't even make a peep...).

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Tippon

in reply to Eugenia • 1 mese fa • •

f you're using Ubuntu or Linux Mint, Zorin, PopOS, install the ubuntustudio package for pipewire (can't remember how it's called you need to search for it). It sets up pipewire audio correctly, so more plugins/apps work out of the box (without it, for example, Bitwig studio doesn't even make a peep...).

Thanks for adding this 🙂

I've just started playing around with Hydrogen, the drum machine, as well as some video editing. I'm in the process of switching to Mint, but hadn't heard of the ubuntustudio package at all.

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nocteb

in reply to Günther Unlustig 🍄 • 1 mese fa • •

Checkout Bitwig. It is proprietary, but a professional audio workstation and available for Linux: bitwig.com/de/8-track/

8-Track | Bitwig

8-Track is the lite version of Bitwig Studio. Start producing, performing, and designing sounds like a pro.

^{www.bitwig.com}

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Teppichbrand

in reply to nocteb • 1 mese fa • •

Bitwig-fanboy here. This application is insane. Instead of collecting or worse, buying, random VSTs, instruments and samples you can one stop buy Bitwig, download the free packs and have 99% of everything you'll ever need to make music until you die. Plus you can modulate all parameters everywhere, but this already is more advanced stuff. If I had to pick one piece of software to use for the rest of my life, it'd be Bitwig. It's on sale twice a year, watch out fi dis.

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Jack_Burton

in reply to Günther Unlustig 🍄 • 1 mese fa • •

I'm a voice actor and musician, and moved to Linux about a month and a half ago with Ubuntu Studio. I went from using Adobe Audition and Cubase to Reaper and Bitwig, and highly recommend both. Reaper is WAY more powerful than I realized. For FOSS you could try Ardour, I've heard good things. Personally I hated it haha, but that may just be because I tried Ardour first after switching to Linux and had the learning curve of both a new OS/audio setup and a new DAW at the same time with a project due day-of.

The biggest issues I had was just getting audio to work properly. I was stuck using ALSA for a few weeks, which worked but only allows one program to use audio at once. I very much recommend looking into using JACK and setting up pipewire.

You can absolutely start just recording via mic and editing from there. If you want to hook up instruments, check out midi controllers. Some plugins are extremely helpful for creating a more polished sound like eq, compressors, limiters, etc. If the space you're recording in doesn't have the best sound treatment, Reaper has a great noise reduction plugin called ReaFIR. It's a little more aggressive than I like but works really well (feel free to ask me how to use it if you're having problems).

My recommendation is to start with Reaper (it's got a free trial that you can keep using beyond the end date) and get your hardware working. After that, record a few tracks, throw them together into your DAW of choice, and play around with them.

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entropicdrift

in reply to Günther Unlustig 🍄 • 1 mese fa • •

Audio Engineer here.

You want Reaper. It's a $60 program but you can keep it in trial mode for as long as you want till you've got the money. Reaper has lots of tutorials available on YouTube and can use industry-standard VST plugins, plus it has enough plugins bundled in to get you started.

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radswid

in reply to entropicdrift • 1 mese fa • •

Audio Engineer here, too.

What he said. Plus: I've been using Ardour for years. Then I tried Reaper, "evaluated" for about 3 months, then decided to pay the ~ 70€. You get a licence for the existing and a future release. It feels much more "natural" to me than Ardour.

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entropicdrift

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Yeah, exactly. I was trained on Pro Tools and Ardour worked OK and made sense to me, but Reaper feels more intuitive to use than either Pro Tools or Ardour.

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Bluefruit

in reply to Günther Unlustig 🍄 • 1 mese fa • •

I agree with what others have said about using reaper. It really is a great DAW.

That said, a lot of good vst use stuff like ilok or other crap that makes it impossible or very difficult to use on Linux at least in my experience.

I made a windows box specifically for making music because its just way easier. Making music on Linux sucked for me due to crashing and the plugins I bought before I switched to Linux on my main machine.

Reaper should be fine for you, there are plenty of good Linux compatible VST but if you ever get "serious" about music production, Linux isnt quite there yet IMO. Windows would be my recommendation or if you can afford it, a Mac is good too from what ive heard.

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Rhonda Sandtits

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Bitwig

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tacosomuch

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I have been on the same quest. I have used Ableton on mac/windows and I’m eyeing Bitwig. I tried Ardour for a little bit, but never gelled with it. Ardour would probably be fine if I did some effort on learning the interface, but I didnt find it that intuitive.

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Korkki
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Chat Control is back & we've got only a few weeks to stop the EU CSAM scanning plans.

The Dastardly Danes and Ursula are at it again.

fightchatcontrol.eu/

Chat Control is back & we've got two months to stop the EU CSAM scanning plans. | Tuta

The EU Regulation to Prevent and Combat Child Sexual Abuse, first published in May 2022, has become the "most criticized law of all time". Here's how to stop it now!

^Tuta

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20cello

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The problem here is that most of the people aren't aware of this happening 😕

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ExcessShiv

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It's at least beginning to be mentioned in the national media where I live, and people are generally opposed. Unfortunately the current government seems to completely ignore the voice of the people.

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MonkderVierte

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So they don't represent the people, only their own interests. You should change them out as soon as possible.

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Unquote0270

in reply to MonkderVierte • 1 mese fa • •

This assumes that elections are fair and not manipulated, and that money doesn't reach all sides, which isn't a given at this point.

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birdwing

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Then we should also fiscally boycot them.

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baxster

in reply to MonkderVierte • 1 mese fa • •

In Sweden basically only have far left and far right that is opposing chat control.

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GenkiFeral

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then the government must be bypassed in as many ways as possible.

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sadfitzy

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Yes. The people in control are being very smart about not drawing attention to this or the platforms it's supposed to be addressing.

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vane

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One correction, they don't want to combat, they want to identify the sources so politicians can use it, because Epstein island is gone and they need new island.

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NotMyOldRedditName

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It looks like your talking about CSAM! Please send details for your private event to 123 MPs house address. Should you fail to do so you will be arrested on CSAM charges.

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MonkderVierte

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A more important question is, why they can endlessly propose laws that violate existing laws? They should lose the job, if they proposse two violations of laws or one violation of human rights, imo.

What with all the power but none of the responsibilities.

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somerandomperson

in reply to MonkderVierte • 1 mese fa • •

Which human right and laws?

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Zak

in reply to somerandomperson • 1 mese fa • •

Several EU countries have constitutional prohibitions of mass surveillance of private communication.

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baxster

in reply to somerandomperson • 1 mese fa • •

European Convention on Human Rights
Article 8: Right to Respect for Private Life

Everyone has the right to respect for their private and family life, home and correspondence.

UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 16 (English)

"No child shall be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference with his or her privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to unlawful attacks on his or her honour and reputation."

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unwarlikeExtortion

in reply to somerandomperson • 1 mese fa • •

There's the EU-wide ePrivacy directive, explicitly stating (Art. 5):

Member States shall ensure the confidentiality of communications and the related traffic data by means of a public communications network and publicly available electronic communications services, through national legislation. In particular, they shall prohibit listening, tapping, storage or other kinds of interception or surveillance of communications and the related traffic data by persons other than users, without the consent of the users concerned

There's also other EU-wide stuff, like:

Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (Art. 7):

Everyone has the right to respect for his or her private and family life, home and communications.

European Convention on Human Rights (Art. 6):

Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence.

Then there's the UN-wide Universal Declaration on Human Rights (Art. 12):

No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home
or correspondence

And as if that wasn't enough, most member states have confidentiality of communications codified in their constitutions. They are:

Belgium (Art. 29):

The confidentiality of letters is inviolable.

Bulgaria (Art. 34):

The freedom and confidentiality of correspondence and all other communications shall be inviolable.

Croatia (Art. 36)*:

Freedom and privacy of correspondence and all other forms of communication shall be guaranteed and inviolable.

Cyprus (Art 17)*:

Every person has the right to respect for, and to the secrecy of, his correspondence and other communication

Czechia (Art. 13)*:

No one may violate the confidentiality of letters or other papers or records.

Denmark (Art. 72)*:

Any breach of the secrecy that shall be observed in postal, telegraph, and telephone matters, shall not take place

Estonia (Art. 43)*:

Everyone has the right to confidentiality of messages sent or received by him or her by post, telegraph, telephone or other commonly used means

Finland (Sec. 10)*:

The secrecy of correspondence, telephony and other confidential communications is inviolable.

Germany (Art. 10)*:

Secrecy of the mail as well as secrecy of the post and telecommunications shall be inviolable"

Greece (Art. 19)*:

Secrecy of letters and all other forms of free correspondence or communication shall be absolutely inviolable

Hungary (Art. VI):

Everyone shall have the right to have his or her private and family life, home, communications and good reputation respected."

Italy (Art. 15)*:

Freedom and confidentiality of correspondence and of every other form of communication is inviolable.

Latvia (Art. 96):

Everyone has the right to inviolability of his or her private life, home and correspondence."

Lithuania (Art. 22):

Personal correspondence, telephone conversations, telegraph messages, and other communications shall be inviolable."

Malta (Art. 41):

No person shall be hindered in the enjoyment of [...] freedom from interference with his correspondence.

Poland (Art. 49):

The freedom and privacy of communication shall be ensured.

Portugal (Art. 34):

Personal homes and the secrecy of correspondence and other means of private communication shall be inviolable.

The Netherlands (Art. 13)*:

The privacy of correspondence shall not be violated, [...] The privacy of the telephone and telegraph shall not be violated

Austria, Luxembourg and France are outliers in that I didn't find anything in their constitutions during my brief little search.

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GenkiFeral

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well done!

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MonkderVierte

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But why the downvotes? That's an important point the article didn't answer either.

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Zerush

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Cute cat photos are always the answer, or your favorite Reggeton music. The best encrypted message is when it not seems as such.

The information hiding homepage

^{The information hiding homepage}

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Formfiller

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EU will be where the US is soon if they don’t stop their own corrupt politicians and oligarch overreach

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abbiistabbii

in reply to Formfiller • 1 mese fa • •

Bold of you to assume they're not already.

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Count042

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Definitely continue the fight, but in the meantime, migrate to something like DeltaChat.

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ZinQ

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Why not SimpleX?

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Count042

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Federated servers,
Multiple device access without the phone app being open,
Decades old tried and true backend protocol that would be a problem to ban.

Also webxdc.org/

webxdc - web apps shared in a chat

no logins, no coins, no platforms 🎉

^webxdc.org

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ZinQ

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Well I'm not the most technical but on SimpleX you have no user ID's, routing through TOR and running your own servers among many other features (like the one that adds a radom delay to measages)

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Count042

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You effectively have no user id's with chatmail relays with DeltaChat. Routing of messages uses the default TCP/IP stack and so you can just use TOR if you want to. Mentioning a chat systems ability to use TOR, as if that should be a part of the chat program rather than the system it self seems strange to me.

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ZinQ

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I see, I'll keep this DeltaChat in mind. So far I've been really enjoying SimpleX, It's one of my favorite apps

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Matt

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Why not Matrix?

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Count042

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I've run a matrix server with around 250 local users. The schema Matrix uses is fundementally flawed that leads to excessive resource usage, and the DB is very easy to corrupt. Plus, the encryption key management sucks in comparison to DeltaChat and SimpleX.

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monovergent

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Very much agree with the encryption key management. My friend group and I stopped using Matrix because the getting encryption right between all of our devices proved frustrating, especially if a reinstall or phone upgrade comes up.

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ZinQ

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By their own logic doesn't exempting themselves mean they want to abuse children?

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unwarlikeExtortion

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No. They want to protect themselves from... Their own security forces.

Yeah, checks out. Our little parlamentarians are all big pedos (at least the ones pushing for this shit).

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sleen

in reply to unwarlikeExtortion • 1 mese fa • •

Exactly, protection only applies to the elites. Children had nothing to do with this law, and yet they are being used as a weapon of mass deceiving.

If the government had some dignity, they wouldn't use age as a weapon against the society - but alas, a oppressive government has to start from somewhere.

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dustyData

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Ok listen. That is the way governments want you to think in order to get away with erasing your right to privacy. It's the old "I have nothing to hide" argument.

But here's the thing. You have a butthole. I have a butthole. Everyone in the planet has a butthole. Having a butthole is nothing to be ashamed of, it is not a crime to have a butthole. No one will prosecute you for having a butthole. But that doesn't mean it is ok for the government to see everyone's butthole. That's your right to privacy.

If you want to protect children, you turn to social scientists to understand the problems and identify the ways in which to catch and prosecute offenders. Weaponizing surveillance on everyone in order to catch a very tiny percentage of population who might be committing a crime is hurting everyone.

Privacy is not about empowering pedos, it is about protecting everyone's rights. Erode one right and you erode all rights. Once the system is in place, then political surveillance to destroy democracy and install fascism is what follows.

Ironically, the global fascism is currently run by pedophiles.

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NovaSel

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Again or still?

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Blisterexe

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still

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this

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I have a question, if I, an american, have an account with tuta mail, and this bs passes and is actually enforced, tuta would not be required to install the state spyware on my device as I'm not an EU citizen nor someone who resides in the EU, correct?

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Auli

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Why not if American companies have to follow American law internationally even if it goes against local law, why doesn't the other way apply.

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Korkki

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Probably depends how the companies responsible for opening backdoors in their apps and services would handle it. Would they use the same backdoors that they give access to authorities in other countries or will they create a super specific backdoor just for EU.

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harfang

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Again ? Last talk wasn't 2 weeks ago ?

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sleen

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And there it is, an oppressive weapon camouflaged as a nicely packaged present. What I seem to realise is our "dependancy" on the governments perspective - it's like they already speak the ultimate truth, testing the limits of what is democracy.

Is it really right to be weaponising children and minors into essentially constructing a totalitarian regime? Because, in my perspective they are using our young people as human shields to justify their hideous acts against humanity.

It is best not to forget who's the actual enemy. Because, in the future no one will be safe - no matter the age.

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IMFreedom Releases

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IMFreedom Releases
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Pidgin 3.0 Experimental 4 (2.93.0) has been released!

We are ecstatic to announce that we have released the fourth experimental version of Pidgin 3.0!!! This is a pre alpha release with an official version number of 2.93.0. We will continue releasing in this fashion until we are ready for 3.0.0 which will be the release we consider ready for end users.

The release can be found on SourceForge and should show up on Flathub Beta shortly.

If you don’t want to use the Flathub Beta method, there are build instructions in the README for building a flatpak locally or installing into a meson devenv. Both methods avoid installing directly to your OS installation which is the preferred method as there is no easy way to uninstall.

About

Just like the previous experimental releases, this is a timed release. It is a snapshot of what we currently have and is something we think other tinkerers and developers may want to start playing with, but again, it is not meant for end users.

Most things are not implemented, the user interface has not been polished at all, and there are so so many bugs. As such we are asking that packagers please do not package this for your users yet as the potential support requests will be too much for us to handle at this time.

There's a number of things that unfortunately went unfinished for this release so you may notice more bugs than previous experimental releases. But like usual, there's still been plenty of progress for everyone to check out!

Looking forward, Experimental 5 is scheduled for 2025-12-31 and will have a version number of 2.94.0.

We have a bunch of tickets entered for Experimental 5, and you can keep an eye on the Burndown Chart for Experimental 5 to stay informed. As always, priorities and possibilities can and will change, so even if something is listed for this release that doesn’t mean it will be in the release until it’s actually completed.

If you would like monthly updates, be sure to check out the #state-of-the-bird posts!

Highlights

We have a bunch of highlights this release, but some are hard to show in text, but we'll do our best!

Developer Migration Guide

We have started the huge task of describing how to migrate code from Purple 2 to Purple 3. That document is available at docs.imfreedom.org/purple3/migrating.html.

This is for migration only. We're still looking at doing some sort of compatibility layer, but we don't want to put a lot of time into that until we're much more confident in the APIs not changing. We are also looking to do an architecture document as well that will explain some of the finer details of the APIs.

Backends

Many of our data sources need to be persisted when the program isn't running. We've done this a number of ways over the years, but in this release we have created a new pattern of using backends to abstract this out.

For example, a user interface can tell Purple.ConversationManager to not persist conversations or to persist them in a SQLite database using Purple.ConversationManagerSeagullBackend. Many more of these will be popping up in the future for the other managers.

Conversation Persistence

As mentioned above Purple now keeps track of your open conversations assuming the conversation manager was told to use a backend that persists data which Pidgin does by default.

This means you no longer have to add a channel to your contact list and tell it to auto join, it will just automatically happen for all conversations (dms, group dms, channel, etc) that were still open when you closed the program which matches the behavior of many modern clients.

New Application Icon

The one and only Hykle Bons has come out of retirement to create a new application icon for Pidgin 3 which you can see below. If you have any comments regarding it, there is a post for that over here.

Color Scheme Preference

You can finally chose to have Pidgin follow the system theme or force it into light or dark mode!

ChangeLog

General:

Update to Ibis 0.14.0 (RR 4043) (Gary Kramlich)
Tell meson about our license (RR 4045) (Gary Kramlich)
Add a test to make sure the flatpak dependencies have been updated (RR 4044) (Gary Kramlich)
Only add the flatpak dependencies test when compiling for linux (RR 4049) (Gary Kramlich)
Fix some Since tags (RR 4059) (Elliott Sales de Andrade)
Deprecate ChangeLog.API (RR 4128) (Gary Kramlich)
Port the protocols to the birb string functions (RR 4139) (Gary Kramlich)
Ignore the meson subproject .wraplock file (RR 4145) (Gary Kramlich)
Stop setting XDG_RUNTIME_DIR in devenv (RR 4170) (Elliott Sales de Andrade)

macOS:

Fix some issues with the macOS native files (RR 4165) (Gary Kramlich)
Hide duplicate menu items (RR 4166) (Gary Kramlich)

libpurple:

Serialize conversations and their tags (PIDGIN-17989) (RR 4048) (Gary Kramlich)
Load conversations back in from the database (PIDGIN-17989) (RR 4051) (Gary Kramlich)
Replace PurplePlugin by GPluginPlugin (RR 4063) (Elliott Sales de Andrade)
Add Purple.ConversationManager.get_all_for_account (RR 4065) (Gary Kramlich)
Remove a bunch of unused and unnecessary preferences code (RR 4066) (Gary Kramlich)
Delete conversations from the database when the user leaves them (RR 4064) (Gary Kramlich)
Create Purple.ScheduleTask (PIDGIN-18105) (RR 4072) (Gary Kramlich)
Create Purple.Scheduler (PIDGIN-18105) (RR 4073) (Gary Kramlich)
Tell gir to ignore the Purple.Request functions that aren't bindable (RR 4076) (Gary Kramlich)
Delete the purple_gdk_pixbuf api (RR 4075) (Gary Kramlich)
Remove searching from Purple.ProtocolContacts (RR 4078) (Gary Kramlich)
Remove Purple.CircularBuffer (RR 4083) (Gary Kramlich)
Clean up and modernize PurpleImage (RR 4074) (Gary Kramlich)
Replace Purple.Avatar with Purple.Image (RR 4084) (Gary Kramlich)
Add an avatar-for-display property to Purple.ContactInfo (RR 4086) (Gary Kramlich)
Fix some broken logic in Purple.Conversation.send_message_async (RR 4095) (Gary Kramlich)
Fix the birb header path (RR 4097) (Gong Zhile)
Add builtin library dependency for introspection (RR 4098) (Gong Zhile)
Create Purple.Contacts (PIDGIN-18106) (RR 4077) (Gary Kramlich)
Create Purple.ProtocolDirectory (PIDGIN-18108) (RR 4079) (Gary Kramlich)
Add Purple.ConversationMembers.find_first_other (RR 4087) (Gary Kramlich)
Move Purple.Conversation.find_or_add_member to Purple.ConversationMembers (RR 4100) (Gong Zhile)
Convert Purple.Tags to a Gio.ListModel (PIDGIN-18002) (RR 4088) (Gary Kramlich)
Some tweaks for Purple.ConversationMember and Purple.ConversationMember (RR 4102) (Gary Kramlich)
Fix up the account manager (RR 4090) (Gary Kramlich)
Add default handlers to Purple.Account to manage the online state of conversations (RR 4092) (Gary Kramlich)
Add a Purple.ContactInfo:badges property (PIDGIN-18114) (RR 4103) (Gary Kramlich)
Many updates for Purple.ProtocolContacts (PIDGIN-18112 PIDGIN-18115 PIDGIN-18116) (RR 4105) (Gary Kramlich)
Clean up some stuff in Purple.Protocol (RR 4109) (Gary Kramlich)
Check for the MESON_TEST_ITERATION envvar before adding our default plugin paths (PIDGIN-18121) (RR 4115) (Gary Kramlich)
Add vfuncs to Purple.Protocol for setting display names (PIDGIN-18117) (RR 4107) (Gary Kramlich)
A Bunch of cleanups for the credential manager (RR 4116) (Gary Kramlich)
Fix some minor issues in protocol directory (RR 4122) (Gary Kramlich)
Add Purple.Conversation::displayed (RR 4093) (Gary Kramlich)
Add an id property to Purple.Command (PIDGIN-18118) (RR 4106) (Gary Kramlich)
Remove all of the proxy code (RR 4120) (Gary Kramlich)
Move the saved-plugins preference to GSettings (RR 4121) (Gary Kramlich)
Remove the preferences API (RR 4123) (Gary Kramlich)
Remove Purple.AccountManager.foreach (RR 4124) (Gary Kramlich)
Add a unit test for Purple.CommandManager.get_commands_for_conversation (PIDGIN-18119) (RR 4108) (Gary Kramlich)
Remove Purple.ContactInfo:username (RR 4114) (Gary Kramlich)
Add Purple.AccountManagerBackend (RR 4125) (Gary Kramlich)
A bunch of random cleanups for Purple.Ui (RR 4126) (Gary Kramlich)
Rename Attachment:inline to Attachment:is-inline to fix some compiler errors on Windows (RR 4131) (Gary Kramlich)
Add Purple.Account.disconnect_with_new_error (RR 4133) (Gary Kramlich)
Create a Noop AccountManagerBackend (RR 4134) (Gary Kramlich)
Update Purple.AccountManager to use Purple.AccountManagerBackend (RR 4135) (Gary Kramlich)
Create Purple.SchedulerBackend (PIDGIN-18105) (RR 4127) (Gary Kramlich)
Port libpurple to the birb string functions (RR 4140) (Gary Kramlich)
Remove some unused utility functions (RR 4142) (Gary Kramlich)
Remove the network API (RR 4141) (Gary Kramlich)
Create Purple.AccountSetting (RR 4143) (Gary Kramlich)
Remove the private PurpleAccountSetting type (RR 4144) (Gary Kramlich)
Add Purple.AccountSettings (RR 4146) (Gary Kramlich)
Add Purple.Protocol.get_default_account_settings (RR 4147) (Gary Kramlich)
Create Purple.AccountSettingStringList (RR 4153) (Gary Kramlich)
Update the default account settings handler to include user splits (RR 4154) (Gary Kramlich)
Add Purple.Account:disconnected to complement Purple.Account:connected (RR 4157) (Gary Kramlich)
Fix settings initialization in network prefs (RR 4161) (Elliott Sales de Andrade)
A first pass at documenting how to migrate from purple 2 (RR 4155) (Gary Kramlich)
Remove the last remnants of GdkPixbuf (RR 4169) (Gary Kramlich)
Add remove all and update methods to Purple.AccountSettings (RR 4159) (Gary Kramlich)
Make sure accounts have names when saving and loading (RR 4171) (Gary Kramlich)
Ignore a libxml deprecation (RR 4177) (Gary Kramlich)
Replace the debug subsystem with macros to the glib counter parts (RR 4178) (Gary Kramlich)
Clean up the plugins API (RR 4179) (Gary Kramlich)
Update libpurple to use Purple.Account:name when referring to accounts (RR 4174) (Gary Kramlich)
Remove the History API (RR 4176) (Gary Kramlich)
A few cleanups in the account api (RR 4182) (Gary Kramlich)
Rename Purple.AccountManager.get_connected to get_connected_accounts and return a Gio.ListModel (PIDGIN-18120) (RR 4183) (Elliott Sales de Andrade)
Add implements functions to Purple.ProtocolFileTransfer (RR 4180) (Gary Kramlich)
Create Purple.ConversationManagerBackend (PIDGIN-18128) (RR 4184) (Gary Kramlich)
Update Purple.ConversationManager to use a Purple.ConversationManagerBackend (RR 4185) (Gary Kramlich)
Create Purple.ConversationManagerSeagullBackend (RR 4189) (Gary Kramlich)

Pidgin:

Re-enable links in Pidgin.Message (RR 4047) (Gary Kramlich)
Update Pidgin.DisplayWindow to load existing conversations (RR 4050) (Gary Kramlich)
Move the input box to a GtkSourceView (RR 4071) (Gary Kramlich)
Use the presence message of a contact for the subtitle of DM's (RR 4081) (Gary Kramlich)
Update Pidgin.InfoPane a bit and expose the avatar (RR 4085) (Gary Kramlich)
Don't show the presence icon in messages (RR 4089) (Gary Kramlich)
Remove the toplevel plugins menu (RR 4113) (Gary Kramlich)
Use the account's username in Pidgin.AccountDisplay (RR 4112) (Gary Kramlich)
Add Pidgin.Application:can-join-channel and bind actions to it (PIDGIN-18122) (RR 4110) (Gary Kramlich)
Update pidgin to use the birb string functions (RR 4138) (Gary Kramlich)
Add a Pidgin.Badges widget to contacts in the contact list (RR 4136) (Gary Kramlich)
Import our new application icon from the one and only Hylke Bons (RR 4137) (Gary Kramlich)
Fix parenting of Account Manager window on initial startup (RR 4162) (Elliott Sales de Andrade)
Remove the old broadway backed tests (RR 4167) (Gary Kramlich)
Remove pidginprivate.h (RR 4168) (Gary Kramlich)
Add a dark/light color scheme setting (PIDGIN-18085) (RR 4163) (Elliott Sales de Andrade)
Add the account name to the account editor (RR 4172) (Gary Kramlich)
Update Pidgin.AccountDisplay to use the Purple.Account:name property (RR 4173) (Gary Kramlich)
Update pidgin to use Purple.Account:name when referring to accounts (RR 4175) (Gary Kramlich)
Don't tell gtk to register the application with the session manager (RR 4187) (Gary Kramlich)

Demo:

Mark messages sent in the demo protocol as delivered (RR 4094) (Gary Kramlich)
Port the demo protocol to ProtocolDirectory (RR 4080) (Gary Kramlich)
Make the demo protocol plugin use the active presence (RR 4091) (Gary Kramlich)
Add an external contact ot the Demo protocol (PIDGIN-18101) (RR 4101) (Gary Kramlich)

IRCv3:

Implement the /me command (RR 4070) (Gary Kramlich)
Fix an issue where the status messages weren't being written (RR 4111) (Gary Kramlich)
Port IRCv3 to the new account settings (RR 4156) (Gary Kramlich)
Only send WHO on our own joins (RR 3986) (Gary Kramlich)

SIP:

Remove sofia as a dependency as we're not going to use it (RR 4046) (Gary Kramlich)
Silence a warning in the sip protocol skeleton (RR 4082) (Gary Kramlich)

KWallet:

Remove moc file generation for kwallet plugin (RR 4186) (Markus Fischer)

Thank You!

Thank you everyone for your continued support of Pidgin, it means a lot to us!

If you’re interested in contributing, you can check out our Contributing Guide to get started.

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Discuss this on our forum.

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Parabola della fede: la traiettoria disegnata dal turibolo sovradimensionato della cattedrale di Compostela

https://www.jacoporanieri.com/blog/?p=43130

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Taiwan pressured to move 50% of chip production to US or lose protection

Hahahaha oh brilliant move.

Taiwan pressured to move 50% of chip production to US or lose protection

Trump official plots “impossible” deal moving Taiwan’s chip supply chain into US.

^{Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)}

#politics

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How McKinsey and Climate Change Wrecked Insurance

A secret report shows that Florida underwriters were banking massive profits while stiffing customers. Welcome to insurance in the era of climate collapse.

Archived copies of the article:
* archive.today
* ghostarchive.org

How McKinsey and Climate Change Wrecked Insurance

^{The New Republic}

#climate

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thesmokingman

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If you haven’t, you should read When McKinsey Comes to Town and The Big Con.

2023 non-fiction book

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VeganPizza69 Ⓥ

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merriam-webster.com/dictionary…

prof·i·teer·ing ˌprä-fə-ˈtir-iŋ
the act or activity of making an unreasonable profit on the sale of essential goods especially during times of emergency

(which is normal and desirable in capitalist free market systems)

Definition of profiteering

Definition of 'profiteering' by Merriam-Webster

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Mystery fleet of US Air Force tankers crossing Atlantic stirs war fear

So ahead of the loyalty pledge ceremony to Trump, support aircraft are heading to the Middle East. Either a war with Iran or the end of Gaza is nigh.

Mystery fleet of US Air Force tankers crossing Atlantic stirs echoes of Iran strike ahead of secret military meeting

As President Trump prepares to meet generals and admirals at a shadowy meeting tomorrow, verified X accounts are reporting deployment of US air tankers to Europe, citing flight tracking data.

^{Elina Shirazi (Daily Mail)}

#politics

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Brave launches 'Ask Brave' feature to fuse AI with traditional search

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/brave-launches-ask-brave-feature-to-fuse-ai-with-traditional-search/

#technology

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Climate Activists Thwarted in U.S. Courts Are Headed to an International Tribunal for Review

Climate Activists Thwarted in U.S. Courts Are Headed to an International Tribunal for Review - Inside Climate News

Plaintiffs who sued the U.S. government in 2015 for promoting fossil fuel policies and failing to protect them from climate change have petitioned the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights for an investigation and remedies.

^{Inside Climate News}

#climate

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Octopuses Invade the English Coast, ‘Eating Anything in Their Path’ | The highly intelligent cephalopods filled fishing nets and gobbled up crabs and lobsters in Devon and Cornwall this summer.

According to Steve Simpson, a professor of marine biology at the University of Bristol, “climate change is a likely driver” of the population boom. “We are right on the northern limit of the octopus species range, but our waters are getting warmer, so our little island of Great Britain is becoming increasingly favorable for octopus populations,” he said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/world/europe/octopus-invasion-england-uk.html?unlocked_article_code=1.pk8.VnNG.2NEHmV3ee1IW

#climate

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reddig33

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I hate that “octopi” isn’t correct. It’s so much easier to pronounce than “octopuses”.

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Shifty Eyes

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I prefer Octopodes

Plural of Octopus: Octopi vs. Octopuses vs. Octopodes

Which is correct? We'll get into it.

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RaoulDuke

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Octochodes

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kieron115

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Ayy yo

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HowAbt2day

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8 x 3.14 ?

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kieron115

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Octopods is correct and a little easier to say.

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laalaa500

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I think this is happening to sharks too. Its not an "invasion", these animals habitats are being destroyed. They are looking for food. We are invading them. Climate change, netting and other mass food gathering methods destroying their reefs and other biomes.

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Fry's Electronics Linux PC from 2005 - GQ3131 with Linspire

Tech Tangents takes a look at a brand new (cheapo) PC from Fry's Electronics that shipped with a "Windows clone" Linux distro called "Linspire" (previously called "Lindows").

Linux distribution

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eldavi

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i used to have one of these and it was the first time i went with linux fulltime.

i was an employee of fry's electronics so i got a discount with it as well. lol

EDIT: mine didn't come with speakers, but that keyboard made me feel nostalgic. and speaking of penny pinching: fry's never updated their sales/inventory system past msdos 6.22

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LiveLM

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Did you stick to Linspire? Or did you switch to someone else?

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eldavi

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I put mandrake on it and used the machine for another 6 years; one of the best buys I ever made.

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hietsu

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Can’t read ”Linspire” without this starting to play in my head, dammit:

youtu.be/IIYtKHnU4mQ

- YouTube

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.

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Public and Planet to 'Pay the Price' as Trump Props Up Coal With $625 Million Bailout

Trump's Department of Energy announced it is investing $625 million in the coal industry, sparking backlash from climate advocates.

Public and Planet to 'Pay the Price' as Trump Props Up Coal With $625 Million Bailout

One campaigner called it "nothing more than a wealth transfer from the American people to Trump's billionaire friends sitting atop a failing industry."

^{jessica-corbett (Common Dreams)}

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Ex-Republican South Carolina House member admits to distributing hundreds of child sex abuse videos

Former Republican South Carolina Rep. RJ May has admitted in court to sending hundreds of videos of children being sexually abused across the country via social media

Ex-Republican South Carolina House member admits to distributing hundreds of child sex abuse videos

^{Jeffrey Collins (The Independent)}

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Imgur is now geoblocking the UK

This includes the ability to see images embedded into other sites.

Imgur is now geoblocking the UK - RP Repository

^{RP Repository}

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P03 Locke

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What the hell is this website? Why isn't this a news link?

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BrikoX

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I have no idea, but it was one of a few forums that reported it first before news sites even were aware of it. I posted follow-up here lemmy.zip/post/49951704

BrikoX

2025-09-30 18:44:13

Imgur blocks UK users after regulator threatens fine over child data use

Imgur is one of the world's largest image-sharing communities, originally created in 2009 by Alan Schaaf as a gift to Reddit users. The service grew into a massive platform, boasting over 60 billion memes, GIFs, and images viewed by its 150 million monthly users. Now, it has pulled out of the UK following a warning of potential fines from the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). Users in the region trying to access the site are met with the error message: Content not available in your region.

Follow up to: lemmy.zip/post/49898832

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Following visa revocation, Colombia’s Petro joins calls to move UN HQ

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/29/following-visa-revocation-colombias-petro-joins-calls-to-move-un-hq/

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The Inner Child

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Massive Berlin protest exposes widening split between the people and government on Palestine and Gaza genocide

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/29/massive-berlin-protest-exposes-widening-split-between-the-people-and-government-on-palestine-and-gaza-genocide/

#europe

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YASD #17

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Despite bomb threats, war fears, and disinformation, Moldovans still show up to reject Russia

In a country haunted by Soviet memory and threatened by Russian influence, ordinary voters chose the path toward Europe.

Archived version: archive.is/newest/kyivindepend…

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.

Despite bomb threats, war fears, and disinformation, Moldovans still show up to reject Russia

CHIȘINĂU, Moldova — Moldova's ruling Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) has secured just over 50% of the vote, or 55 out of 101 parliament seats, keeping the country on a European path.

^{Paula Erizanu (The Kyiv Independent)}

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China sentences former agricultural minister to death

China's former minister for agriculture has been sentenced to death on corruption charges, with a two-year reprieve, a court statement said.

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تحريرها كلها ممكن

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I wish more countries did this.

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Indeed, in China there are actual consequences for abusing positions of power.

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[Opinion] A window to a future where China wins the green race

archive.is/rg809

The US might seek to focus on domestic alternatives to Chinese products. For the rest of the world, partnering with the one country that controls the world’s clean-energy supply chains is hardly a choice.

Client Challenge

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Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner purchase kernel-level root access to your computer via purchase of Electronics Arts and their kernel anti-cheat

The updated rootkit will be uploaded and installed to your computer kernel automatically upon closure of the deal.

::: spoiler I posted this to /c/news where it was promptly removed of course
For good reasons of course

:::

https://apnews.com/article/ea-electronic-arts-video-game-silver-lake-pif-d17dc7dd3412a990d2c0a6758aaa6900

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Samsuma

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It's not hard to see why the post was deleted on the other comm, the mods there take editorializing very seriously, you especially crossed that line with the FUD headline and post.

The updated rootkit will be uploaded and installed to your computer kernel automatically upon closure of the deal.

This isn't in defense of EA, and I'm aware of their anti-cheats and many like it having kernel-level access, but how do you know this? Where is this coming from? How will it be magically installed once the deal is closed? When will it be installed? Who's to say it hasn't been "installed" already, years long before any of this deal thing came up? Would you have come up with that conclusion if Saudi Arabia's PIF wasn't part of the deal/mentioned in the article? Does this apply to every single EA game from their catalogue (IIRC some games aren't locked-in to the Origin client)?

If these questions are difficult to answer, then there's your problem.

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interdimensionalmeme

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How will it be installed once the deal closes?

Assuming default settings, the EA App runs a background service with elevated privileges (often as TrustedInstaller on Windows), and automatic updates are enabled by default. That means:

No user action is required for software updates, including those that install kernel-mode drivers.
Kernel-level components can be silently updated or extended through routine game patches or EA App updates.
Any newly introduced or modified driver (e.g., an anti-cheat update) would be signed by EA, but users are not alerted to the depth of the update unless they manually inspect it, which is virtually impossible given the encrypted/proprietary nature of the codebase.

So, once the acquisition closes, any architectural changes to anti-cheat or telemetry mechanisms can be deployed silently as part of routine patching cycles. This does not require a new game release or user intervention.

Has it already been installed?

This is a fair assumption under standard security threat modeling practices.

EA has already shipped kernel-level drivers (e.g., EAAntiCheat.sys) since 2023, and these are typically installed alongside online multiplayer titles such as EA Sports FC and Battlefield 2042.
These drivers run with the highest system-level privileges, and the EA App has full access to update them.
The compiled binaries are not open-source, not auditable, and may include encrypted segments or obfuscated logic, meaning users and third parties have no reliable way to verify what the software is actually doing.

Security best practices assume that any installed kernel-level driver is capable of full system access, including:
- Reading any file or memory region
- Installing persistence mechanisms
- Monitoring user input
- Communicating externally, including via encrypted channels

So yes, if you’ve installed a modern EA game, the capability is already there. The only real change under a new ownership model is intent.

Could this be a concern if the acquirer wasn’t Saudi Arabia’s PIF?

The kernel-level threat model doesn’t change based on ownership, the capabilities remain the same. But the motivations and likely use cases absolutely do.

It is a factual and well-documented reality that Saudi Arabia is:
- An authoritarian regime with little tolerance for dissent
- Known for surveillance and digital repression (including use of spyware such as Pegasus)
- Responsible for state violence, including the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi
- Building a significant intelligence and cyber operations apparatus under the guise of technological investment

In that context, PIF’s ownership of a widely installed, privileged software platform, with millions of endpoints and baked-in telemetry infrastructure, is not just theoretical risk, it’s an active national security concern.

It’s reasonable to assume that whatever institutional restraint EA may have had about using anti-cheat for more than gameplay integrity may now be loosened, or removed entirely.

Does this apply to all EA games? Is it properly disclosed?

EA claims that kernel-level anti-cheat is used "selectively", primarily in high-profile online multiplayer titles. However:
- There is no centralized or transparent disclosure list showing which games install kernel drivers.
- The EA App and installers do not consistently warn users at install time that a kernel-level driver will be added to their system.
- Detection is only possible after installation, by manually inspecting the installed drivers or using tools like Autoruns, Process Hacker, or Sigcheck.

So while it’s technically true that not all EA games use kernel anti-cheat, the lack of disclosure and difficulty in verifying makes it functionally impossible for the average user to know which games are safe, especially given the bundled update system that can install new software silently at any time.

Games purchased outside the EA App (e.g., on Steam or Epic) often still require the EA launcher to run, meaning kernel drivers can still be deployed through those channels.

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AI slop

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really ? the post doesn't strike me as AI tbh

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It's AI, the tell tale sign is the use of bullet points.

That doesn't give /u/dev_null any credibility but they like to be a good little boy that yaps at clouds, cars and AI.

In this case user /u/Samsuma was unsatisfied with my regular meandering writing style so I reformatted my points into a more semantically coherent package to undermine any possible pedants to come in and complain about misplaced commas and semi-colons and start legislating what the meaning of "is" is.

I'm quite confident the logic here in unassailable, and that's why /u/dev_null didn't have anything to say but complain about the formatting while being unable to address the substance of my comment.

And nobody can "tell" AI text. You can make it adopt any writing style, the only thing people like /u/dev_null have to go on is em dashes, bullet points and "purple" turn of phrases, which, if I'd really care to get these synthophobes off the scent, I would have, but I was more concerned about giving /u/Samsuma the tightest response I could without spending too long on it.

Because of people /u/dev_null just prowling the internet, I do recommend any AI user simply not disclose AI use, gaslight synthophobes into thinking AI text is not AI, inserting em dashes and bullet points into non-AI text and generally being hostile to people like that because they're really insufferable.

The reason I'm telling you all this is so that /u/dev_null knows they can duck off and the more they try to bully me the more undetectable I'm going to make it, there's really not going to be any winner for anyone trying to antagonize me.

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Where is the slop? That usually implies inaccurate information and/or sloppy sentences or word structure.

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If you're not going to address the contents then I'm putting you on my blocklist

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Personally, I would've preferred you responded with xenophobic slurs targeted at Arabs like me than with whatever LLM answer this is supposed to be, but you do you I guess. I would've almost taken you seriously... almost.

So here, let me throw a random ass quote at you:

And so, indeed, is the Orientalist attitude in general [referring to a quote by shitlib Isaiah Berlin]. It shares with magic and with mythology the self-containing, self-reinforcing character of a closed system, in which objects are what they are because they are what they are, for once, for all time, for ontological reasons that no empirical material can either dislodge or alter. The European encounter with the Orient, and specifically with Islam, strengthened this system of representing the Orient and, as has been suggested by Henri Pirenne, turned Islam into the very epitome of an outsider against which the whole of European civilization from the Middle Ages on was founded. The decline of the Roman Empire as a result of the barbarian invasions had the paradoxical effect of incorporating barbarian ways into Roman and Mediterranean culture, Romania; whereas, Pirenne argues, the consequence of the Islamic invasions beginning in the seventh century was to move the center of European culture away from the Mediterranean, which was then an Arab province, and towards the North.

Edward W. Said, Orientalism (1978)

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Windows already has a rootkit on your computer. It's called Microsoft CoPilot and Recall.
Giving up things that hurt you shouldn't be hard, when there are far better alternatives to Windows and EA.

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df showing a full (99%) ssd, but du only showing a fraction of that? UPDATED

I noticed the root drive of my home server (Debian) is at 99% capacity, which was odd to be because I don't store anything on the root ssd. sudo df -h confirms that 99% of my 256gb drive is full. But sudo du -sh * all added up, only comes to about 30gb.

This is a pc that only runs docker containers and one virtual machine for home assistant. And yes I have restarted, Any ideas as to how to find the missing 200+ gigabytes?

EDIT: sudo ncdu allowed me to find a 72gb [long string of characterless]-json.log file in /var/lib/docker/containers and many 1gb+ files in /var/lib/docker/overlay2. I'm not sure what to do with this information (or what's safe to delete) but I'm getting somewhere.

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Where are you running du -sh *? (I.e. what directory, are you definitely scanning the whole file system?) I'm sure it's obvious, but can never hurt to check!

What does du -sh / show? (Generally, the * glob pattern in the shell will not match hidden dot-files, so is it possible they are being excluded?)

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EDIT sudo ncdu allowed me to find a 72gb [long string of characterless]-json.log file in /var/lib/docker/containers and many 1gb+ files in /var/lib/docker/overlay2. I'm not sure what to do with this information (or what's safe to delete) but I'm getting somewhere.

~~sudo du -sh / shows a list of three du: cannot access '/run/user/1000/gvfs' Permission denied and du: cannot access No such file or directory and a few cannot read directory invalid argument and at the end it shows 5.4T / which I assume is my root drive combined with what's in mnt.~~

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If you're using BTRFS, check if you don't have any stray snapshots.

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The countries are traditional allies but their relationship has been complex and strained at times.

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North Korea to further strengthen ties with China, foreign minister says

The countries are traditional allies but their relationship has been complex and strained at times. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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Tile could allow stalkers to exploit its network by intercepting the tracking information attached to its tags, according to research highlighted by Wired.

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Three EU states paid more for Russian LNG than they gave to Ukraine

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Afghanistan hit by internet blackout as Taliban cuts fibre optic cables

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Sheinbaum announces expanded seed bank protection for Mexico's 64 corn varieties

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Sheinbaum announces expanded seed bank protection for Mexican corn

The announcement is part of a larger agricultural program dubbed "Sin maíz no hay país," which aims to support corn producers.

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Definitely not going anywhere near the comments section on that phoronix article. It's guaranteed to be pure poison.

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Tbh, what phoronix comment section isn't pure neurological poison?

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Kent is such a dumbass. It's a pitty because it's a great filesystem.

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Proposition 50: Authorizes Temporary Changes to Congressional District Maps in Response to Texas’ Partisan Redistricting. Legislative Constitutional Amendment. [NOV 05 2025 | California]

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/36665946

Proposition 50

Authorizes Temporary Changes to Congressional District Maps in Response to Texas’ Partisan Redistricting. Legislative Constitutional Amendment.
ANALYSIS OF MEASURE
BACKGROUND
U.S. Congress

U.S. Congress. The U.S. Congress is the part of the federal government that makes laws. Congress has two parts: the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives (House). Each of the 50 states is represented by 2 senators, with 100 senators in total. The House has 435 members. The number of representatives in the House for each state depends on how many people live in that state. Each member in the House represents an area of the state called a congressional district. California currently has 52 congressional districts. Voters who live in each congressional district elect one member of the House every two years to represent them. The next election for all 435 representatives will be in 2026.
U.S. Census Counts States’ Populations Every Ten Years. The number of people living in an area goes up and down over time. Every ten years, the U.S. Census counts the number of people who live in the U.S. The last census was in 2020, and the next census is in 2030. This count is used to determine how many people live in each state and how many representatives in the House each state gets for the next ten years.
Congressional Redistricting
Each State Draws Congressional District Maps Following the U.S. Census. Every ten years, after the U.S. Census is completed, states draw new congressional district maps to reflect their number of House representatives and where people live. This process is called “redistricting.” Each state decides what process to use to draw its new district maps. When drawing new maps, each state must follow federal laws. For example, each congressional district in the state must represent about the same number of people.
States Typically Do Not Redistrict Sooner Than Every Ten Years. States typically only draw congressional district maps every ten years, unless a court orders changes to comply with the law. In August 2025, however, the Texas Legislature passed a bill to adopt new maps for the 2026 elections without a court order. Several other states also are considering changes to their maps before the 2026 elections.
Congressional Redistricting in California. State legislatures draw congressional district maps in most states, but some states use commissions to do this job. Before 2010, the California Legislature drew the state’s congressional district maps. In 2010, California voters gave this job to an independent commission known as the California Citizens Redistricting Commission (Commission). The Commission includes 14 members: 5 Democratic members, 5 Republican members, and 4 members who are not registered with either of those political parties. When the Commission draws new congressional district maps, it must follow federal and state laws. For example, state law requires, among other things, the Commission to avoid splitting up neighborhoods or local communities of interest to the extent possible. State law also prohibits the Commission from considering political parties, current office holders, or people running for office when it draws the maps.
Current California Congressional Districts. The Commission drew the current maps for California’s 52 congressional districts. These maps were based on the 2020 U.S. Census and have been used since the 2022 congressional elections.

PROPOSAL

California’s Congressional District Maps
Use Legislatively Drawn Congressional District Maps Until After the Next Census. Proposition 50 replaces California’s current congressional district maps with new, legislatively drawn maps. (The total number of districts would not change.) Proposition 50’s maps must follow federal law, but they are not required to follow the state requirements placed on the Commission. The state would use Proposition 50’s maps for congressional elections starting in 2026. The state would use these maps until the Commission draws new district maps, following the 2030 U.S. Census.
National Congressional Redistricting
Call for Change in Federal Law. Proposition 50 asks the U.S. Congress to change federal law and propose an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to require redistricting be done by “fair, independent, and nonpartisan redistricting commissions nationwide.” Proposition 50 expresses voter support for this idea, but does not change federal law or require any particular action of Congress or the California Legislature.
FISCAL EFFECTS
Minor One-Time Costs to County and State Elections Officials. Counties run elections, and the state oversees them. Because most congressional districts in California would change at least some under the new maps, county and state elections officials would need to update election materials. This would result in one-time costs to counties of up to a few million dollars statewide and one-time costs to the state of roughly $200,000. The state amount is much less than one-tenth of 1 percent (0.1 percent) of the state’s roughly $220 billion General Fund budget. (The General Fund is the account the state uses to pay for most public services, including education, health care, and prisons.)
CURRENT AND PROPOSED CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT MAPS
This section shows maps of the current and proposed congressional districts (1) statewide, as shown in Figures 1 and 2; (2) in the northern part of the state, as shown in Figures 3 and 4; and (3) in the southern part of the state, as shown in Figures 5 and 6. A description of the census blocks represented by each district in the proposed maps can be found at the following website: leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/fac…
Figure 1 - Current Congressional Districts
Notice of Correction. Figure 2 in the analysis of Proposition 50 contained a typographical error. District 27, which is to the right of District 26, was incorrectly labeled as District 22. This typographical error has been corrected.
Figure 2 - Proposed Congressional Districts
Figure 3 - Current Northern Congressional Districts
Figure 4 - Proposed Northern Congressional Districts
Figure 5 - Current Southern Congressional Districts
Figure 6 - Proposed Southern Congressional Districts
YES/NO STATEMENT
A YES vote on this measure means: The state would use new, legislatively drawn congressional district maps starting in 2026. California’s new maps would be used until the California Citizens Redistricting Commission draws new maps following the 2030 U.S. Census.
A NO vote on this measure means: Current congressional district maps drawn by the California Citizens Redistricting Commission (Commission) would continue to be used in California until the Commission draws new maps following the 2030 U.S. Census.
SUMMARY OF LEGISLATIVE ANALYST'S ESTIMATE OF NET STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT FISCAL IMPACT
One-time costs to counties of up to a few million dollars statewide. County costs would be to update election materials to reflect new congressional district maps.
BALLOT LABEL
Fiscal Impact: One-time costs to counties of up to a few million dollars statewide to update election materials to reflect new congressional district maps.^[[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20250918004136/https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=50&year=2025]
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Proposition 50 | Official Voter Information Guide | California Secretary of State

Official Voter Information Guide, November 4, 2025, California Statewide Special Election.

^{voterguide.sos.ca.gov}

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OpenAI's new Sora video generator to require copyright holders to opt out, WSJ reports

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Insights from the 2025 FreeBSD Community Survey | FreeBSD Foundation

The survey also underscored the importance of growing the next generation of contributors. While experienced developers continue to share deep expertise that keeps FreeBSD strong, it’s equally important to welcome fresh perspectives.

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