How should I make system snapshots in OpenSuse Leap 16?
I’ve been reading you should use Snapper. I looked before I updated from 15.6 to 16, but didn’t seem to have it installed even then, though I did have something that looked like it in YaST.
Now in 16, I also can’t find Snapper and I don’t seem to have the general interface of YaST anymore either. Just some separate tools, but not the snapshot one.
Is Snapper something you can download? I previously installed Timeshift because I went to OpenSuse 15.6 from Mint. I didn’t know there was already something installed that could do this, and as Timeshift is what’s used in Mint, I just downloaded that. Can I just use Timeshift?
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How safe is stoat ?
What do you think of stoat ? I didn't find any comparison with other safe messaging service.
I understand that legally, it's under the GDPR but it's depand of the UK, famously imply in the 5 eyes States.
3 parties services are used, which may imply metadata leaks' and I didn't saw any mention of end-to-end encryption, OSR or other safety feature.
Stoat sell itself as safety focus. Do you think it's still an interesting app, compare to other chat service like mattermost, or do you think it's a safe-scam like Theema or proton ?
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need to write out requirements here TODO: write an RFC (https://github.com/revoltchat/rfcs) MVP List: OMEMO-style secret chats OpenMLS instead? key verification (verify users through trusted channe...insertish (GitHub)
Having trouble upgrading Fedora from 41 to 42, plus WiFi problems.
I had installed Fedora KDE for an older relative on his old Dell laptop. I had already upgraded it from 40 to 41 before, but this time it seemingly refuses to upgrade at all.
I tried upgrading through the "KDE Discover" program at first, no success. I would click the "Upgrade to Fedora 42" button and nothing would happen.
Then I tried upgrading manually using the instructions given by the fedora wiki, and I get the errors from the attached image. (Image below is the continued output)
On top of that, to make things worse, WiFi literally disappears at a whim sometimes. I mean all GUI options for WiFi disappear. I have to restart to make it work again. This is frustrating, can anyone give some insight? Should I just wipe and reinstall something else?
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Check dmesg output when after the wifi drops and see what the kernel is doing. That could inform your decision. I have an old asus that started having a bunch of wifi bugs too, and I'm pretty sure they made some updates to iwlwifi. No solution though, I dont really care because that machine barely gets any use. Wifi always works perfect if I stay on a tty and don't enter a graphical session.
That being said I wouldn't choose fedora for an older relative unless they were really into computers. While it has become more stable in recent years, they do break things from time to time.
If you do decide to keep them on fedora, maybe try an atomic version. That way when things break you can just roll back with no issues and pin the working deployment. Chances are they just want a web browser and libreoffice so the learning curve wouldn't really matter to them.
I decided Fedora since I use it myself, so I figured it'd be easier to debug. I think I'll pave the install and replace it with debian based mint if nothing works (I've made a separate partition for critical files)
When you say you did it manually, what do you mean exactly?
I meant that instead of doing it the "safe" GUI way, I simply did it by CLI, with the instructions available at the fedora docs
Upgrading Fedora Linux to a New Release
This article mainly describes the update procedures for the Fedora Desktop variants. Some of the descriptions also apply to the server versions. However, the latter may provide their own documentation…Fedora Docs
It's not resolving the mirrors. Can you open any websites in a browser on this machine? Sure seems like the network is unstable or possibly unusable.
Otherwise, just run the check for updates, install and updates that are available and see if those work.
Also, why are you specifying the release server manually?
The device can resolve dns requests. I can browse freely and normally.
I'm specifying the release server manually as directed in the fedora docs for upgrading editions. That's what I followed
Upgrading Fedora Linux to a New Release
This article mainly describes the update procedures for the Fedora Desktop variants. Some of the descriptions also apply to the server versions. However, the latter may provide their own documentation…Fedora Docs
Is ProtonVPN active by chance?
Did you update the release targets first with dnf upgrade --refresh?
You have two different problems btw. The first is a network connectivity issue where it can't find the target repos for whatever reason.
Second is it looks like you have conflicting packages installed. I see mpv, rubberband, and Firefox in that screenshot, but there are more.
Thanks for the suggestions, I will try again as soon as I can
If it's too much of a headache, I can just wipe the partition and install something else, or just reinstall fedora I guess.
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That rpmfusion package looks like trouble, can you uninstall it or all of rpmfusion before upgrading? I also see internet problems here also so you might be better off fixing that first.
Upgrade Error with vlc-plugins-freeworld
Users may experience issues during dnf upgrades with the vlc-plugins-freeworld package.Madomado (Cats on a Keyboard)
I'd remove rpmfusion and it's packages, upgrade, and reinstall them.
No idea what's the particular issue with the 404, could be old mirrorlist, transient issues, but in general if you asked Fedora they'd tell you they only support upgrading with official repos on.
Which is fine really. You're not losing anything.
Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update
Recent reports have announced that Crunchyroll, the largest anime streaming service, will be replacing Aegisub with Israeli Software, OOONA, to produce subtitles more efficiently. Anime fans across the world are disappointed with this collaboration due to Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians (via a report by the United Nations Commission of Inquiry).
Crunchyroll is also ignoring the needs of groups who require Closed Captions to understand the scenes better. They are isolating a large chunk of their audience in favor of AI-based subtitling, which defeats the point of a streaming service. Overall, this hasn’t been a great year for Crunchyroll, and this won’t be the end of it.
Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update
Crunchyroll has made yet another controversial move in 2025, but this time, anime fans cannot forgive it and finally cancelled the streaming site.Bidisha Mitra (FandomWire)
Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update
Recent reports have announced that Crunchyroll, the largest anime streaming service, will be replacing Aegisub with Israeli Software, OOONA, to produce subtitles more efficiently. Anime fans across the world are disappointed with this collaboration due to Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians (via a report by the United Nations Commission of Inquiry).
Crunchyroll is also ignoring the needs of groups who require Closed Captions to understand the scenes better. They are isolating a large chunk of their audience in favor of AI-based subtitling, which defeats the point of a streaming service. Overall, this hasn’t been a great year for Crunchyroll, and this won’t be the end of it.
EDIT: Link was taken down thanks to someone in the comments here's the archive for the page web.archive.org/web/2025100418…
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Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update
Crunchyroll has made yet another controversial move in 2025, but this time, anime fans cannot forgive it and finally cancelled the streaming site.Bidisha Mitra (FandomWire)
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Many people noticed that the changes in the subs, they used to translate text in the background for example.
Agreed, It very noticeable how bad the subs are. I remember watching an the terminator anime and the subs were atrocious.
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If you do not want to support then stop consuming which can not do because everything needed or wanted is all controlled/produced by the same owner class and switching companies means switching between different companies all owned by the same owner class just like news and newspapers
Same scam that is done on elections to give the illusion of choice but the puppet master never changes face just the puppets
No other companies to switch to for baby formula, diapers, bottled or otherwise water, foods by any brand all same owner at the beginning of the chains, all media is all owned at the very top by the same owner class, movies including super hero ones all owned by that same entity, vehicles that move us and products around all owned by the same people even if the countries are different and the names changed at the very very top are the same owner class
Got us plain and simple
Sub ran out midway last month.
Kodi + Premiumize.me + Otaku for the win. 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
That is the purpose of a boycott yes. Here are some other examples
Abolitionist boycotts of Southern goods over slavery - thenation.com/article/archive/…
Boycotts of German goods over Nazi policies- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933_ant…
Boycotts of South Africa over Apartheid - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Apa…
Ongoing boycott of US goods by Canada over a threatening stance taken by US government- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Can…
I'm so super mega serious. Seriously. I'll try it more basic, but deadly serious:
"What going on?
Me not understand.
Why hate thing? Is cause ai, or cause Israeli, both? Something else?
Why do I care who is hitting the keyboard characters to sub a story i already know/love?
Israel, the country committing a genocide? The country actively and openly exterminating an entire ethnic group? And the product isn’t even good anyway?
Yea, it’s actually so easy to tell them to fuck off. If you can’t figure that out your moral compass is broken and you should send it in for a warantee repair.
I don't want to support any company that is either directly or indirectly funding genocide and fascism. It's not complicated.
If you found out that Netflix powered their servers using an orphan grinding machine, would you still subscribe to them?
The whole “calling out Israel for genocide means you’re antisemitic” line is so worn out and honestly just exhausting. Israel has spent like 4+ decades trying desperately to associate criticism of israel with antisemitism.
I’ve been boycotting Crunchyroll for years, and I’m not stopping anytime soon.
"Piracy is a human right, collective ownership of the seas, comrades!"
— Erik L. Midtsveen
Maybe instead of everyone calling it isreal and palestine, they should say the isreali government and innocent people.
They should say Netanyahu is committing genocide.
Saying israel instead of directly naming the culprits is sort of like when people say antifa. In the case of antifa it makes bad actors able to demonise the word and make it seem like a bad thing, so it can be used to twist peoples minds and make them think its a bad thing.
In the case of this genocide, it dehumanises the people committing the atrocities and diverts blame to the word instead of the people. Which has the effect of people like Netanyahu being able to reassociate the word with the israeli people and the jews.
So it absolutely isnt antisemitic to say israel is committing genocide, but it is unhelpful to divert the blame from the real asshats in charge.
Genocide is wildly popular in Israel right now
"Dubbed the “Sderot cinema” by Israelis online, watching Israel’s bombardment has become a popular pastime; people take turns looking through tower viewers. Some bring popcorn and snacks, and some snap selfies as the thud of airstrikes echo in the distance.
“When I look at Gaza from here and see buildings still standing, it makes me upset. … I want Israel to continue until it’s all flattened,” Rafael Hemo, an onlooker told CNN."
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Ok, but fascism is wildly popular in the USA right now. Would you make the same argument there?
Or, like me, are you more inclined towards believing that more likely a few terrible people in power have sway with a vast number of easily led racists and that mischaracterises the whole country?
Ok, but fascism is wildly popular in the USA right now.
Yes, we're a fascist country now.
But more to the point, brining up a country that was founded on Genocide of Native Americans to argue that we shouldn't speak ill of a country founded on Genocide of Palestinians is wild.
a few terrible people in power have sway with a vast number of easily led racists
This describes both Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. Again, weird take unless you're pushing for us to drop the Nazi label from 1933-1945 Germany.
Ok, so, you are not a fascist country, you are a country run by fascists with fascists in it. But this doesn't represent the values of the entire population. Especially when trump rigged the election (by his own admission) that means that not even the majority are fascists. And then you have to exclude all those who voted for trump because they were duped by his campaign who aren't fascist and are just more republican and 4ight leaning than left.
I feel the same way about israel and palestine. We are quick to speak to the separation of hamas and palestine as a whole, but when it comes to israel, the same voices are shouting its the whole country and not just a genocidal organisation and their followers.
I think its an important distinction.
I hope you are doing your bit to stop it. You are clearly passionate about it. I just worry that too many people feel hopeless because it looks worse than it really is, which is the very tool the fascists need to win. Much like you say, apathy and inaction is what will destroy the world.
I am sorry to see so many downvoting me during this exchange. I don't feel like i oppose your views, i just have a different perspective. I think its healthy to allow others views to help to shape your own. Even if all it does it reaffirms your already held beliefs. If i was to think of an example of this, i would compare it to the characters in always sunny in philadelphia. They are not the heroes of the story, they are assholes, they are a charicature example of what not to be. They reaffirm my position against that type of person and those types of views.
I hope you are safe over there. Its a scary place to live right now, or at least it seems it from the outside looking in.
Appalling.
P. S. When I tried to open your link, it failed and sent me to the MSN front page, i removed some variables/identifiers at the end of URL and that seems to work:
What makes you think that relabelling Palestinians as 'innocent people' to prevent Netanyahu and his fascists from their Doublethink redirection of genocide to only be relevant to Jews but not Palestinians would work? They would immediately reframe 'innocent people' as Hamas-embedded terrorist supporters - they already do it. The better action is to call out the truth (Israel is committing genocide) and say it loudly as much as possible, one of many benefits is that businesses and artists and people don't actually want to be associated with a genocide and we're seeing that impact daily.
When people say "Israel is committing genocide" they mean the government of Israel, it is implied. It is silly to extrapolate it to blame for every man woman and child in Israel. Just as it would be silly to pin it down to only Netanyahu when he is the PM of far-right government with thousands of people directly supporting and enabling his actions, and is Israel's longest serving prime minister - voted in multiple times by clear majority in elections, so while only he and his government are accountable to their actions, a large swathe of Israel is responsible for him being there.
Just as when people say "the USA has just bombed Iran unprovoked" they clearly mean the current government of the USA has taken this action - not just Trump, and also not some kid playing basketball in Philadelphia.
I would very much like a streaming service that makes it transparent what it actually spends its income on.
Like - a streaming service where i pay $10/month and 90% of that goes to the studios/artists that actually produce the anime? I would take that.
But right now i'm worried that i pay $10/month and 90% of that goes to the shareholders of the streaming provider as "profit" while the studio gets almost nothing.
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a book about why creative labor markets are rigged - and how to unrig them Competition is supposed to be fundamental to capitalism.chokepointcapitalism.com
Ahh good ol' Aegisub. I have great memories of subtitling anime in my late teens before I got a girlfriend and the fansub scene died when Crunchyroll took over.
I was also one of the people helping test Aegisub on Linux (2009-ish), I wasn't a programmer at the time but I remember a dude called 'verm' in the IRC channel who did a bunch of work to make Aegisub stable on Linux. He taught me the difference between little endian and big endian, I guess he was bored that day
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Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update
Crunchyroll has made yet another controversial move in 2025, but this time, anime fans cannot forgive it and finally cancelled the streaming site.Bidisha Mitra (FandomWire)
All the streaming services are unethical now, both in pricing and operation. Netflix is maybe the least bad, but I can’t justify the cost for that, either.
Stremio + Torrentio is the way to go.
What happens next is like what happened in the 2000s. People will turn to piracy as legitimate content is no longer feasible, affordable, or ethical. Then the corporate oligarchs will crack down violently to make examples of the people they’ve given no other choice or recourse.
It’s time to eat the rich.
And there goes the last streaming service I still paid to access. It was convenient exactly because of the subtitles...
Everything now must flow through my -arr stack.
The zionism thing was the icing on the shit cake. Fuck that genocidal ethnostate, and fuck all genocide enablers.
I'm doing my part!
My renewal was literally tomorrow too. As these streaming services get worse, I keep on cancelling. Been two years for Prime (literally smashed cancel the day ads were announced) and all i've got left at this point is netflix and spotify.
Netflix pricing almost has me there.
Spotify CEO invested in AI weapons, now bands are pulling their music
Daniel Ek's investments in AI dronemaker Helsing have unnerved artists. One called Spotify a "violent armageddon portal."August Brown (Los Angeles Times)
Honest question, did you try self-hosted music?
Few weeks ago I thought this was a joke but... there is a TON of stuff out there already.
From the "rough"
- minidlna (with optionally tailscale to listen outside the LAN)
- 1min setup github.com/9001/copyparty
- NextCloud
to having mobile apps
- navidrome (with updates via lidarr)
to minimalist
- github.com/agersant/polaris
to federated
- funkwhale.audio/
to handling discovery
- github.com/epoupon/lms
... there is just so much out there!
GitHub - 9001/copyparty: Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, FTP, TFTP, zeroconf, media indexer, thumbnails++ all in one file, no deps
Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, FTP, TFTP, zeroconf, media indexer, thumbnails++ all in one file, no deps - 9001/copypartyGitHub
Edit: since I wrote this message (15min ago) I setup LMS thanks to podman and shared it via ngrok and my wife can listen to my music on her phone instantly.
So... yeah it's that quick and convenient.
Is it perfect, definitely not, but it's also very quick to get started and to reconsider.
scp the container and ~/Music on my RPi5, which I keep on 24/7, has a 512Go microSD and tailscale... and I guess that's it, I have my own music server. I don't have discovery on though but still, already useful!
Another update on that front, I added on my RPi5 :
yt-dlpwhich I use with its-xaudio only option on RSS feeds from DJs- tested then added that to nightly
crontabto get updates - configured
LMSfor hourly database scan tonein order to updatetagson files and try to organize my~/Musicdirectory
So it's still nowhere near as good as the music streaming service I used so far BUT it's getting there!
The FBI is weighing an arrest and perp walk for Comey — and suspended an agent for refusing to help, sources say
The FBI is considering carrying out a "showy" arrest and perp walk of the agency's now-indicted ex-Director James Comey, and has suspended an agent who refused to participate in the plan, three sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.
Ray refused to participate in this plan, believing it would be inappropriate and highly unusual for a white-collar defendant like Comey, according to the source. He was then suspended for insubordination.
The FBI is now actively working to put together a team to arrest Comey between now and his court appearance on Thursday, but other FBI supervisors have also refused to cooperate, said a source knowledgeable about the conversions and a law enforcement source familiar with the situation. The expectation is that the FBI will eventually find somebody.
The FBI is weighing an arrest and perp walk for Comey — and suspended an agent for refusing to help, sources say
The FBI is considering carrying out a "showy" arrest and perp walk of the agency's now-indicted ex-Director James Comey, sources tell CBS News.Daniel Klaidman (CBS News)
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Briar - secure p2p group communications
Briar is a messaging app designed to be used by groups of people to allow for secure and censorship resistant communications.
This technically isn't self hosted in the strictest sense but I think it is still relevant.
Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update
Recent reports have announced that Crunchyroll, the largest anime streaming service, will be replacing Aegisub with Israeli Software, OOONA, to produce subtitles more efficiently. Anime fans across the world are disappointed with this collaboration due to Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians (via a report by the United Nations Commission of Inquiry).
Crunchyroll is also ignoring the needs of groups who require Closed Captions to understand the scenes better. They are isolating a large chunk of their audience in favor of AI-based subtitling, which defeats the point of a streaming service. Overall, this hasn’t been a great year for Crunchyroll, and this won’t be the end of it.
Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update
Crunchyroll has made yet another controversial move in 2025, but this time, anime fans cannot forgive it and finally cancelled the streaming site.Bidisha Mitra (FandomWire)
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Creates bad AI subtitlesIgnores customer needs
Changes business to genocidal regime
"Why does everyone hate us?? Must be the damn pirates! :<"
From the mass employee layoffs to being caught using ChatGPT for subtitles
So caught using ChatGPT and then doubling down on using AI for subtitles in the worst possible way? Wow...
People pay for an anime streaming service to do better than fan-based translations, not worse.
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... Who is benefiting from this?
Probably the MBA executives. They have bonuses if it works and they have bonuses if it doesn't work and they leave their contract early.
MBAs don't understand the product-customer relationship it seems.
The only reason why the MBAs and Execs have jobs are because the shareholders want more money.
Customers don't decide company leadership unless it interferes with shareholder or exec goals.
The system of ownership determining everything for everyone is the problem but good luck getting those in power to give up that ownership complex.
You can blame Dodge (yes, that Dodge) for enshrining the importance of shareholders over customers.
i watched MHA on crunchyroll with a friend and the subs were dogshit AI. kept calling chisaki 'cheesecake'
laughable. crunchyroll sucks
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crunchy was criminal since the get go. their earliest releases were unauthorized reposts of fansubs, for which they already charged subscription fees!
so they started their existence by pirating while making money through stealing fansubbers' (volunteer btw) work.
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20's - fight fascists and hopefully prevent mass deaths, agony and world war 3.
30's - all hope is lost, just give up
I still remember the one odd year as a kid in the 90s/00s that we didn't have snow at Christmas. it was an outlier — now it's standard.
hell, it snowed on Halloween sometimes
nowadays we just get up to half a dozen big dumps a year, with nearly complete melt between half of them
È morto Remo Girone: addio al “Tano Cariddi” de La Piovra, aveva 76 anni
Il mondo dello spettacolo italiano piange Remo Girone, morto improvvisamente all’età di 76 anni nella sua casa di Montecarlo. L’attore, indissolubilmente legato al volto di Tano Cariddi nella serie La Piovra, lascia un’eredità artistica che ha attraversato cinema, televisione e teatro, oltre a un rapporto speciale con il pubblico.
LEGGI L'ARTICOLO COMPLETO: È morto Remo Girone: addio al “Tano Cariddi” de La Piovra, aveva 76 anni
È morto Remo Girone, addio al “Tano Cariddi” de La Piovra
È morto a 76 anni Remo Girone, il “Tano Cariddi” de La Piovra. Nato ad Asmara, ha lavorato tra cinema, TV e teatro.Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)
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China launches a new visa to attract tech talent, but locals aren't happy
When China first announced a new visa targeting foreign professionals in science and technology in August it largely went unnoticed.
But the K visa, which went into effect on Wednesday, was thrust into the public spotlight last week, when an Indian outlet referred to it as "China's H-1B" - a reference to the US visa for skilled workers which was, last month, targeted by an executive order by Donald Trump. Indians dominate the H-1B programme, making up more than 70% of the recipients in recent years.
The Indian media report was picked up widely in China, stoking concern - and even fears - amongst the public over whether benefits extended to foreigners would increase competition in a sluggish job market - and in a country that has traditionally not been a major immigration destination for foreign professionals.
And although it is still unclear whether the visa will actually allow foreigners to work in China or whether it just allows them easier access into the country, it didn't stop tens of thousands of users on Chinese social media from criticising the programme.
"We have so many bachelor's degree holders, not to mention even more with master's and doctoral degrees. We already have a surplus of domestic talent - and now you're bringing in foreign college graduates?" read one comment.
“There have been so many new programmes pushing our university students to compete with each other, but in the end, nothing beats a foreign passport,” another Weibo user wrote.
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Others talked about whether authorities could bring in a high standard of talent, and questioned whether foreigners would be able to adapt to life on the mainland, citing language barriers and China's tightly controlled political system.
Also among the comments were a wave of xenophobic and racist remarks - many of them targeted specifically at Indian nationals.
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China launches a new visa to attract tech talent, but locals aren't happy
China's aim to attract global talent comes as the US is making it harder to bring in foreign workers.Fan Wang (BBC News)
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What do you mean “negative spin”? Those are people unhappy with a decision their government made. And their concerns are valid, too. Stuff like this happens all the time around the world. It should be talked about.
I wouldn’t have read it that way at all if it weren’t for you immediately crying about it. Try not to be upset about things that aren’t 100% positive about your favourite club.
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"Chinese people not happy with windmills ruining their view!"
There you go. Everything has a downside. The BCC decided to make the downside the headline. Which means they agree with Trump who scared off foreign talent.
Try not to be 100% positive about empire news.
You might not have noticed it, but the BBC is intentionally taking a negative angle to something which has both upsides and downsides. So much for their neutral reporting.
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The BCC decided to make the downside the headline. Which means they agree with Trump who scared off foreign talent.
No. The BBC decided to report that Chinese people are unsatisfied with their government's decision and the government doesn't care. Vews contrary to The Party are being censored as usual.
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Sean “Diddy” Combs condannato a quattro anni e due mesi: il giudice Subramanian parla di «offese gravi» e impone multa e libertà vigilata
Sean “Diddy” Combs è stato condannato a 50 mesi di prigione da un tribunale federale di New York per trasporto di persone a fini di prostituzione. Il giudice Arun Subramanian ha definito i fatti «gravi offese di carattere sessuale che hanno irreparabilmente danneggiato due donne», spiegando che una pena significativa è necessaria «per mandare un messaggio» tanto agli autori di abusi quanto alle vittime.
TUTTI I DETTAGLI: Sean “Diddy” Combs condannato a quattro anni e due mesi: il giudice Subramanian parla di «offese gravi» e impone multa e libertà vigilata
Sean Diddy Combs condannato a 50 mesi: multa e 5 anni di libertà vigilata
Sean “Diddy” Combs condannato a 50 mesi per trasporto a fini di prostituzione. Il giudice Subramanian impone anche 500mila $ di multa.Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)
Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs
Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs
One of Discord’s third-party customer service providers was compromised by an “unauthorized party” that may have accessed things like names, usernames, and emails.Jay Peters (The Verge)
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Having seen the internal workings of a few of these random services, not very safe at all.
It’s not just shoddy work, or a lax security policy. There is real money to be made by being unethical, and there is nothing to stop many website owners from just selling the data. It’s not like there are consequences to selling it.
I have a feeling this happens a lot
Unethical actions and profits tend to go hand in hand. Have been for centuries already.
Just think about the economics of kidnapping people in Africa and exporting them to slave camps across the ocean instead of paying white employees to do the work. How about using violence, exploitation and systemic injustice to acquire very cheap spices in Asia and transport them to Europe, and sell them for huge profits.
A lot of people are compelled to hurt others, it doesn’t have to be only about money.
And the ways this happens is not always physically violent. Many are compulsed to scam or betray in subtle ways.
Website owners are no different than any other group of people, and they often skew to compulsive dishonesty.
Why? Because often to get a site up and running with real traffic, dirty and dishonest tricks are used. Unless a site is truly different or outstanding , there is quite a story about how it got popular. Often involving both money and questionable ethics.
Netanyahu ordered drone attacks on Gaza-bound humanitarian aid boats off Tunisia
Washington — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu directly approved military operations on two vessels early last month that were part of a Gaza-bound flotilla carrying aid and pro-Palestinian supporters, including Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg.
Two American intelligence officials briefed on the matter told CBS News that Israeli forces on Sept. 8 and 9 launched drones from a submarine and dropped incendiary devices onto the boats that were moored outside the Tunisian port of Sidi Bou Said, causing a fire. The officials spoke under the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly on national security matters.
Netanyahu ordered drone attacks on Gaza-bound humanitarian aid boats off Tunisia, sources say
No one was hurt when two vessels that were part of a flotilla bound for Gaza mysteriously caught fire last month.James LaPorta (CBS News)
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Netanyahu ordered drone attacks on Gaza-bound humanitarian aid boats off Tunisia
Washington — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu directly approved military operations on two vessels early last month that were part of a Gaza-bound flotilla carrying aid and pro-Palestinian supporters, including Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg.
Two American intelligence officials briefed on the matter told CBS News that Israeli forces on Sept. 8 and 9 launched drones from a submarine and dropped incendiary devices onto the boats that were moored outside the Tunisian port of Sidi Bou Said, causing a fire. The officials spoke under the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly on national security matters.
Netanyahu ordered drone attacks on Gaza-bound humanitarian aid boats off Tunisia, sources say
No one was hurt when two vessels that were part of a flotilla bound for Gaza mysteriously caught fire last month.James LaPorta (CBS News)
Nothing Essential è il preludio all'estinzione degli smartphone come li conosciamo
Nothing Essential è il preludio all'estinzione degli smartphone come li conosciamo - macitynet.it
Nothing pensa a un sistema operativo basato sull’AI, ma al momento non rinuncia ad Android: si parte con Playground ed EssentialEmiliano Contarino (Casa Editrice Macity Publishing srl)
Your comment does the same thing you're critiquing OOP for doing. What gives you the authority to claim as fact that there exists no objective morality?
Edit: tbc, I also don't believe in object morality, but what I have issue with is the apparent contradiction you've made
the world doesn’t even have objective morality
Deductions based on subjective information got you here. Or did you objectively observe (through, for example, objective experimentation) that there is no objective morality?
That's what therapygary was trying to tell you, but not sure why they expected your subjective experience to realize the contradiction it itself is based on, lol.
The world would look the same way it does now with or without objective morality. Objective morality is just the idea that moral truths exist independent of individual beliefs. E.g., that raping babies is an inherently immoral thing regardless of an individual's feelings about it
Again though, I personally don't believe this. I just won't claim to know that there is no objective morality. No one can know that, the same way no one can know that there's no god, or anything else unfalsifiable
The best argument I've heard for it, from a moral philosophy professor and personal friend of mine, is (paraphrasing) "I know for a fact that genocide is inherently wrong, and I'm not open to debating that. It's just true."
There are three main camps of ethics:
virtue ethics, which I think you're describing,
consequentialism (which is exclusively about the outcome of actions),
and deontology, which are the moral objectivists.
Deontologists argue that virtues and outcomes don't matter- that there are universal underlying rules determining what is good or bad.
I believe the answer to 'what that would actually mean' is something along the lines of "it just is"
If they exist independently of us, where could they originate? If they originate from patterns, evolutionary psychology, or a god, doesn't it make it subjective, just to that thing, whatever it is?
Edit: nvm, I saw you replied to my other comment where I said something similar :3
Hey, check this out, you might find it interesting. From Parenti's Contrary Notions:
If what passes for objectivity is little more than a culturally defined self-confirming symbolic environment, and if real objectivity—whatever that might be—is unattainable, then it would seem that we are left in the grip of a subjectivism in which one paradigm is about as reliable (or unreliable) as another. And we are faced with the unhappy conclusion that the search for social truth involves little more than choosing from a variety of illusory symbolic configurations. As David Hume argued over two centuries ago, the problem of what constitutes reality in our images can never be resolved since our images can only be compared with other images and never with reality itself.
something that isn't well defined can't exist.
People before gravity was well defined:
I'm an amoralist and a determinist; I only disagree with you on the basis of claiming these things as fact
It's more like, "people before smorklank was well defined"
"Well, but smorklank exists, or it doesn't, what do you think?"
What do you even mean
As per my original comment, I have no idea what your position is. Care to enlighten me?
Making a meme where your position is in the ‘right’, doesn’t make it true or even sensical.
Yes. There is good, there is evil and if it requires many words to try and sway your opinion, that is manipulative - evil.
An open mind is like a fortress with its gates unbarred and unguarded.
I am more and more learning about how personal interests often conflict with societal interests (as simple as it may sound). We are globally going to understand soon enough that democracy isn't worth shit as long as feedback loops that allow personal interests to creep in are "meta".
Loads of people have lots of ideas on how to run countries and communities, but ideology and doctrines are not really proven concepts.
And the other big problem is that to declare new forces within existing infrastructure (creating counter power to prevent positive feedback mechanisms), societal interest must still be powerful enough to not require a revolution to be enacted in a sensible and effective way.
A lot of countries have already in my mind gone way over that threshold, it's recognisable when actual societal interests, long term initiatives and big questions about the future are not asked anymore because the political power is working at consolidating their position and redistributing favours they owe to the soon to be oligarchy.
But you can't really allow anyone to be a defeatist because cynism is the last nail in the coffin, staying awake and fight hoping that enough will join soon enough is the only way to keep existing.
No. Life is not a Marvel movie. Instead, the world is driven by material conditions, and the continuous effect these conditions have in guiding future conditions. The capitalists overtook the fuedal lords not because they were more moral, but because of the steam engine and the expansion in industrial production. The Statesian north didn't free the slaves of the south out of any moral reason, but to gain access to more wage laborers better fit for industrial production. Socialism is overtaking capitalism because imperialism is dying, and rates of profit are falling.
There's no idealist "good vs evil." If you'd like, I wrote an intro Marxist-Leninist reading guide that might help!
Read Theory, Darn it! An Introductory Reading List for Marxism-Leninism
"Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement."
- Vladimir Lenin, What is to be Done? | Audiobook
It's time to read theory, comrades! As Lenin says, "Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle." Reading theory helps us identify the core contradictions within modern society, analyze their trajectories, and gives us the tools to break free. Marxism-Leninism is broken into 3 major components, as noted by Lenin in his pamphlet The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism: | Audiobook
- Dialectical and Historical Materialism
- Critique of Capitalism along the lines of Marx's Law of Value
- Advocacy for Revolutionary and Scientific Socialism
As such, I created the following list to take you from no knowledge whatsoever of Leftist theory, and leave you with a strong understanding of the critical fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism in an order that builds up as you read. Let's get started!
Section I: Getting Started
What the heck is Communism, anyways? For that matter, what is fascism?
- Friedrich Engels' Principles of Communism | Audiobook
The FAQ of Communism, written by the Luigi of the Marx & Engels duo. Quick to read, and easy to reference, this is the perfect start to your journey.
- Michael Parenti's Blackshirts and Reds | Audiobook
Breaks down fascism and its mortal enemy, Communism, as well as their antagonistic relationship. Understanding what fascism is, where and when it rises, why it does so, and how to banish it forever is critical. Parenti also helps debunk common anti-Communist myths, from both the "left" and the right, in a quick-witted writing style. This is also an excellent time to watch the famous speech.
Section II: Historical and Dialectical Materialism
Ugh, philosophy? Really? YES!
- Georges Politzer's Elementary Principles of Philosophy | Audiobook
By far my favorite primer on Marxist philosophy. By understanding Dialectical and Historical Materialism first, you make it easier to understand the rest of Marxism-Leninism. Don't be intimidated!
- Friedrich Engels' Socialism: Utopian and Scientific | Audiobook
Further reading on Dialectical and Historical Materialism, but crucially introduces the why of Scientific Socialism, explaining how Capitalism itself prepares the conditions for public ownership and planning by centralizing itself into monopolist syndicates. This is also where Engels talks about the failures of previous "Utopian" Socialists.
Section III: Political Economy
That's right, it's time for the Law of Value and a deep-dive into Imperialism. If we are to defeat Capitalism, we must learn it's mechanisms, tendencies, contradictions, and laws.
- Karl Marx's Wage Labor and Capital | Audiobook as well as Wages, Price and Profit | Audiobook
Best taken as a pair, these essays simplify the most important parts of the Law of Value. Marx is targetting those not trained in economics here, but you might want to keep a pen and some paper to follow along if you are a visual person.
- Vladimir Lenin's Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism | Audiobook
Absolutely crucial and the most important work for understanding the modern era and its primary contradictions. Marxist-Leninists understand that Imperialism is the greatest contradiction in the modern era, which cascades downward into all manner of related contradictions. Knowing what dying Capitalism looks like, and how it behaves, means we can kill it.
Section IV: Revolutionary and Scientific Socialism
Can we defeat Capitalism at the ballot box? What about just defeating fascism? What about the role of the state?
- Rosa Luxemburg's Reform or Revolution | Audiobook
If Marxists believed reforming Capitalist society was possible, we would be the first in line for it. Sadly, it isn't possible, which Luxemburg proves in this monumental writing.
- Vladimir Lenin's The State and Revolution | Audiobook
Excellent refutation of revisionists and Social Democrats who think the State can be reformed, without needing to be replaced with one that is run by the workers, in their own interests.
Section V: Intersectionality and Solidarity
The revolution will not be fought by atomized individuals, but by an intersectional, international working class movement. Intersectionality is critical, because it allows different marginalized groups to work together in collective interest, unifying into a broad movement.
- Vikky Storm and Eme Flores' The Gender Accelerationist Manifesto | (No Audiobook yet)
Critical reading on understanding misogyny, transphobia, enbyphobia, pluralphobia, and homophobia, as well as how to move beyond the base subject of "gender." Uses the foundations built up in the previous works to analyze gender theory from a Historical Materialist perspective.
- Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth | Audiobook
De-colonialism is essential to Marxism. Without having a strong, de-colonial, internationalist stance, we have no path to victory nor a path to justice. Fanon analyzes Colonialism's dehumanizing effects, and lays out how to form a de-colonial movement, as well as its necessity.
- Leslie Feinberg's Lavender & Red | Audiobook
Solidarity and intersectionality are the key to any social movement. When different social groups fight for liberation together along intersectional lines, the movements are emboldened and empowered ever-further.
Section VI: Putting it into Practice!
It's not enough to endlessly read, you must put theory to practice. That is how you can improve yourself and the movements you support. Touch grass!
- Mao Tse-Tung's On Practice and On Contradiction | Audiobook
Mao wrote simply and directly, targeting peasant soldiers during the Revolutionary War in China. This pair of essays equip the reader with the ability to apply the analytical tools of Dialectical Materialism to their every day practice, and better understand problems.
Congratulations, you completed your introductory reading course!
With your new understanding and knowledge of Marxism-Leninism, here is a mini What is to be Done? of your own to follow, and take with you as practical advice.
- Get organized. Join a Leftist org, find solidarity with fellow comrades, and protect each other. The Dems will not save you, it is up to us to protect ourselves. The Party for Socialism and Liberation and Freedom Road Socialist Organization both organize year round, every year, because the battle for progress is a constant struggle, not a single election. See if there is a chapter near you, or start one! Or, see if there's an org you like more near you and join it.
- Read theory. Don't think that you are done now! Just because you have the basics, doesn't mean you know more than you do. If you have not investigated a subject, don't speak on it! Don't speak nonsense, but listen!
- Aggressively combat white supremacy, misogyny, queerphobia, and other attacks on marginalized communities. Cede no ground, let nobody be forgotten or left behind. There is strength in numbers, when one marginalized group is targeted, many more are sure to follow.
- Be industrious, and self-sufficient. Take up gardening, home repair, tinkering. It is through practice that you elevate your problem-solving capabilities. Not only will you improve your skill at one subject, but your general problem-solving muscles get strengthened as well.
- Learn self-defense. Get armed, if practical. Be ready to protect yourself and others. Liberals will not save us, we must save each other.
- Be persistent. If you feel like a single water droplet against a mountain, think of canyons and valleys. Oh, how our efforts pile up! With consistency, every rock, boulder, even mountain, can be drilled through with nothing but steady and persistent water droplets.
"Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent."
- Mao Tse-Tung
Revolution. Socialism. Liberation. - Freedom Road Socialist Organization | FRSO
Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) is a national organization of revolutionaries fighting for socialism in the United States. Our home is in the working class.admin (Freedom Road Socialist Organization | FRSO)
Socialism is overtaking capitalism
I wanna live in whatever world you're talking about. It sure feels to me like fascism is overtaking capitalism.
Capitalism's decay compels the rise of socialism.
This is the part I would disagree with. I don't think history has a foreseeable trajectory. I don't think anything is inevitable. Saying otherwise is giving too much credit to narrative.
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That's been argued before, saying that the French revolution was just a fluke and we'll go right back to monarchy rule, replacing the Capetian dynasty for the Bonaparte dynasty.
The fossil fuel revolution has replaced fuedalism with capitalism and so will the ground solar revolution replace capitalism with socialism.
The PRC is the biggest economy in the world by PPP and is beating the west in many metrics while the west is falling in those same metrics
Yes
And the PRC is socialist.
Yes but only sort of. The PRC as still ton of social inequalities, a ton of billionaires and many things I would consider basics in a socialist society like free education still are present. If anything they seem to keep getting more and more capitalist as time go on. I agree that the progress of China over the last few decades is still a huge win for socialism but I don't see the death of capitalism you seem to be suggesting any time soon
Socialism isn't equalitarianism, it's the workers collectively directing society, made firm by public ownership being the principle aspect. This is true, for China, and they are in the later parts of the primary stage of socialism, as shown here:
Capitalism globally rests on US Imperialism, and as that's dying the wheels of history are turning forward.
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the wheels of history are turning forward
Does anyone know if Francis Fukuyama is doing ok?
'There’s no greys, only white that’s got grubby. I’m surprised you don’t know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.’
‘It’s a lot more complicated than that—’
‘No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.'
—Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum
Proof. We seek to prove that regardless of the existence of an objective morality people will only adhere/accept their own personal morality, thus making objective morality irrelevant.
We have three cases:
1. Objective Morality doesn’t exist: If there is no objective morality, people can only default to their own morality.
2. Objective morality exists and doesn’t align with an individual’s own moral compass: Imagine objective morality was defined by some Aztec or eldritch god and tells you it is morally imperative to torture people. If you have a sense of empathy your moral compass will not align with this and you will choose to disobey this morality. Hence, if an objective moral compass exists and does not align with one’s own morality, the individual will reject it and default to their own morality.
3. Objective morality exists and does align with an individual’s own morality: Trivially this means an individual is still just following their own default morality.
In all cases the individual will only act on their own morality regardless of the existence or nonexistence of an objective morality. Hence, objective morality is irrelevant. QED.
Because the existence of objective morality has no relevance one can assume objective morality doesn’t exist which, by Occam’s razor, is already the most likely case. Your ideas of right and wrong or good and bad will never be objective in a way that would matter. It is, in my opinion, a much better idea to explain what you think the positive effect of your “moral” actions are because those cause effect relationships can be objective. “I think we should provide free basic needs to everyone because a significant portion of crimes are committed as crimes of necessity, and I would like my country to feel safer” is much more objective than “I think we should provide free basic needs to everyone because it’s the right thing to do.”
Anyone can claim their ideas are “right” or “good” without any explanation of why. I mean that’s basically the strategy of the Republican Party. “Being trans is wrong” “Anti-capitalism is evil” etc. And you saying “Anticapitalism is good” is just as empty and meaningless.
Also, fun fact the proof above works for the existence of god as well. Basically just swap out morality with god and ta-da it is morally irrelevant if god exists, you’re only going to do what you personally think is right regardless.
Good and bad both exist because we want to go somewhere, or we want a certain development to happen. Therefore, the development that we want to see happen is "good" while everything that stands in its way is "bad". Yes, it is that simple, assuming you have a clear picture of where you want to go.
But not everyone wants to go to the same place, or reach the same way of living, so it's more complicated.
Oh and i forgot to mention: If the world existed in perfect balance, with nobody ever wanting to change anything, neither good nor bad would exist in the world. The world would just be.
The more I learn, the more I realize that a lot of political leaders who do horrible do what they do for a reason, with some exceptions. This isn't an endorsement of their actions or their reasons, but Putin, Netanyahu, and (kinda) Biden/Obama/Bush all have reasons for what they do. The rare exceptions are the super corrupt ones. Boris Yeltsin, Viktor Orban, Trump, the office of US president generally, Scott Morrison, etc.
In other words it's not so much good vs. evil as corruption vs integrity.
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evil people with integrity are usually just racist
lmao spot on. You can have integrity and shitty principles (evil) or integrity and good principles (good), so I don't really see it as corruption vs. integrity.
Netanyahu is super corrupt, but in his position as leader of Israel he does things for a reason. The Israeli people have a persecution complex due to ... history, and so many want an ethnostate. On top of that Israel like America has made a lot of enemies, through their various war crimes, so the threats to Israel's national security are real.
None of this is an endorsement of Israel's past, present, or future. There are better ways to survive and they seem be going out of their way to cross lines that I wouldn't even if it'd kill me. There seems to be some "religious zionism" mixed in with their efforts to build an ethnostate that makes sure they needlessly commit every war crime in the book. Furthermore Israel's reckless actions and it's impunity have been fomenting antisemitism around the world (from the right, this isn't meant to equivocate pro-Palestine activistism with antisemitism).
There are almost no people who see themselves as evil (except some really fucked up lunatics like serial killers). Everyone normally wants to be and do good. Where does all the evil then come from?
Sometimes people do evil things because of ignorance. They just didn't know/ thought of the consequences of their actions.
Often people do evil things for their own or their close one's advantage like corruption.
But most of the time people do really evil things because of projection. The pressure from "outside" (mainly during childhood development) to be good can be so forcefully and rigorously that people can't accept parts of their own self which they then project onto others. Thus invoking evil actions against these others to protect themselves from them, in extreme cases this can go until dehumanising others "allowing" all the great atrocities we know from human history.
They fled to south Gaza as ordered. Then Israel killed them
After Israel intensified bombing and expulsion orders in Gaza City, Palestinian cameraman Sami Dawoud packed up his belongings and moved south in search of safety.
He took shelter with his family in a tent in Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza, an area considered among the least dangerous in the famine-stricken Palestinian enclave.
But within a week, an Israeli fighter jet struck the area. A bomb hit Dawoud’s tent, killing him, his daughter, and several other Palestinians.
ICE agents dragged naked children out of homes in Chicago: Neighbors
https://www.newsweek.com/ice-agents-dragged-naked-children-out-homes-chicago-raid-10823150
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Chicagoans mobilize to oppose Trump’s threats of military occupation
cross-posted from: ibbit.at/post/72258
Chicago, IL – On September 30, 1500 Chicagoans marched down Magnificent Mile to protest Trump’s threats of using the city as a military training ground. This past week has seen the effects of Operation Blitz in full force, with heavy presence of ICE and other federal agents conducting deportations. Trump’s speech to top U.S. generals the same day showed he intends to escalate the federal occupation with the military.
Ramped up repression means ramped up fight back!
“They are dehumanizing our communities. They are inflicting terror on our families. Separating families. Let’s not forget that when ICE murdered Silverio [Villegas-Gonzalez], the only thing they said was that he was an illegal. They did not say that he was a father, a worker, and a member of our community,” said Gabriela Hernandezm of Casa DuPage, speaking to the crowd in Spanish.
Hernandez also stated, “We are here today, protesting again, to tell this administration that the Mexicano/Latino community are not criminals. It is the time for us to speak firmly and clearly about these things, because if not, they will come to silence all of us.”
Reverend Jonathan Brooks of Live Free Illinois stated, “ICE has been accused of violating a consent decree meant to protect families from warrantless arrests. This disregard for legal protections tears at the very fabric of trust in our democracy.”
Brooks continued, “A federal judge has already ruled that targeting deportations based on political speech is unconstitutional – yet ICE continues to act as if it is above the law. Let’s be clear: this is not about safety. This is about authoritarianism, fear and control. Our communities do not need to be occupied – they need to be respected.”
“We saw over the weekend how ICE agents shamelessly occupied the streets of downtown and detained fellow residents. Over in Broadview, protesters and journalists are being shot at, teargassed, and brutalized. In a raid in South Shore just last night, ICE, FBI and other federal agents ransacked 70 apartments, knocked down doors, threw stuff all over the place, and detained 50 people – including Black U.S. citizens,” said Angel Naranjo of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO).
Naranjo continued, “Trump hates Chicago because he is a racist reactionary who represents the class enemy – the monopoly capitalist class – and this enemy can’t stand us. Trump and his lackeys are mad and ramping up their attacks – and so we’re ramping up our fight back! The masses of our city – and in particular the Black, Chicano/Latino, immigrant and working-class masses – are putting up a just fight against this rotten imperialist system that is tearing apart our families and occupying our neighborhoods! We are building a movement to stop the raids, and our demand is legalization for all undocumented people.”
“What we need right now is solidarity. The solidarity that Fred Hampton talked about. The solidarity that Assata Shakur deserved. We need solidarity with federal workers, with day laborers, teachers, nurses, warehouse workers. We need solidarity across unions. All public unions, trade unions, across communities. We need the solidarity of all working people,” said Jill Manrique of Chicago Jobs for Justice.
A member of Students for Justice in Palestine – Chicago (SJP Chicago) ended the program by reminding the crowd, ”The kidnapping of families and workers, and the occupations of our city’s streets is just an escalation of policy that has been standard in this nation since its inception.”
After the program, Chicagoans loudly marched down Magnificent Mile, one of the biggest commercial corridors in the city. Protests ended at the Water Tower, finishing with Assata’s “It is our duty to fight for our freedom” chant.
Enemies from within
“We should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military. Cuz we’re going into Chicago very soon,” said Trump in front of the U.S. top military leaders, stating that there were enemies from within that the military must apprehend.
Trump's deployment of federal forces is an escalation of the ongoing occupation of Black, Chicano/Latino, and working-class communities by the Chicago Police Department (CPD). Trump aims to ramp up this oppression and squash the working and oppressed people who are getting organized to fight back against this. From the 2020 George Floyd rebellion, to the 2025 LA uprising against ICE, working and oppressed are wanting and mobilizing for an end to this terror. The ruling class of this country knows this, and is ramping to continue its grip of oppressed people in this country.
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Trinidad Gov’t Gets US Support for Venezuela Joint Natural Gas Project
Trinidad Gov’t Gets US Support for Venezuela Joint Natural Gas Project - Venezuelanalysis
PM Persad-Bissessar expressed confidence in reaching a deal with Caracas despite backing a recent US military deployment in the region.ricardo (Venezuelanalysis)
Police pinned Black man with knee on his back for 86 seconds before his death: report
Police pinned Black man with knee on his back for 86 seconds before his death: report
New, disturbing details have emerged about an incident that got a Kansas sheriff's deputy charged with second-degree murder for the death of a Black man in custody, reported The Guardian on Friday — with the death bearing a striking resemblance to th…Matthew Chapman (Raw Story)
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A company called Blackdot has built a tattooing robot.
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Conversation with Meredith Whittaker, President of Signal on tech ethics, the rise of surveillance, the power of AI, and what we can do to fight back.
cross-posted from: piefed.zip/post/539098
Filmed on 5/20/2025 with a live audience both in person and on Zoom.About the speakers:
Meredith Whittaker is Signal’s President and a member of the Signal Foundation Board of Directors. She has over 17 years of experience in tech, spanning industry, academia, and government. Before joining Signal as President, she was the Minderoo Research Professor at NYU, and served as the Faculty Director of the AI Now Institute which she co-founded. Her research and scholarly work helped shape global AI policy and shift the public narrative on AI to better recognize the surveillance business practices and concentration of industrial resources that modern AI requires. Prior to NYU, she worked at Google for over a decade, where she led product and engineering teams, founded Google’s Open Research Group, and co-founded M-Lab, a globally distributed network measurement platform that now provides the world’s largest source of open data on internet performance. She also helped lead organizing at Google. She was one of the core organizers pushing back against the company’s insufficient response to concerns about AI and its harms, and was a central organizer of the Google Walkout. She has advised the White House, the FCC, the City of New York, the European Parliament, and many other governments and civil society organizations on privacy, security, artificial intelligence, internet policy, and measurement. She recently completed a term as Senior Advisor on AI to the Chair at the US Federal Trade Commission.
Stéphan-Eloïse Gras is a researcher and entrepreneur specializing in the geoeconomics of AI. An assistant professor at CNAM-Paris, she explores AI technologies through the lens of software & critical data studies. She also serves on the board of Probabl, an AI company built around the popular open-source library scikit-learn. With 15+ years in the digital sector, she has led initiatives at the intersection of innovation, research, education, and emerging markets. As CEO of Digital Africa, she oversaw a €130M initiative supporting African startups. She also co-founded Africa 4 Tech and led OpenClassrooms’ strategic expansion in Africa. Her doctoral research traced the rise of AI through a music recommendation algorithm acquired by Spotify. She teaches at CNAM, Sciences Po, NYU, and Sorbonne and is currently writing a book on the geoeconomics of AI, describing LLMs as “belief-making machines.”
Rachel Donadio, the Library’s Curator of Cultural Programs, is a Paris-based writer, journalist and critic, a contributing writer for the Atlantic, a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books and a former European Culture Correspondent and Rome Bureau Chief of the New York Times.
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Can anyone ELI5 the severity of this? Emerging Unity game vulnerability
Unity Security Vulnerability: Developer Remediation Guide
A security vulnerability was identified that affects games and applications built on Unity versions 2017.1 and later for Android, Windows, and macOS operating systems. Download the patching tool here and read on for further instructions.Unity
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Madagascar president refuses to step down as antigov’t protests continue
Madagascar president refuses to step down as antigov’t protests continue
Protesters issue president 24-hour ultimatum to ‘respond favourably’ to demands, threatening ‘all necessary measures’.Al Jazeera
On trillion-dollar tech firms, gold and the evaporating dollar
I wasn't exactly sure where to put this, as after a few hours of sourcing data, applying formulas and being anal about how the charts look, I can't for the life of me figure out what I was attempting to respond to by doing this compilation.
But look! Charts! And tech valuations are involved!
The title art is spot gold Oct. 1 of each year sourced here. All other data come from here. Inflation figures to determine relative values are bog-standard BLS CPI.
My starting point was, "OK, I know these companies are valued so high because each dollar keeps getting worth less," but I wanted some actual numbers, and with gold being on a tear of late, that seemed like a good point of comparison.
1984 was chosen as the baseline because that was the year Apple started trading publicly, with most of the other companies IPOing thereafter. I only went back and added Intel (hence it being missing from the chart titles) because it happened to start trading the same year, and I already had the formulas. What a shitshow that's been.
Anyway, y'all know how to read line graphs, so I'm not going to go into detail. If you have any questions on methodology, please feel free to ask.
Absent inflation, only Apple. Microsoft and Nvidia would ever have been trillion-dollar companies.
And in terms of value against gold, Tech Stocks At All-Time Highs looks pretty damn anemic.
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Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs
Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs
One of Discord’s third-party customer service providers was compromised by an “unauthorized party” that may have accessed things like names, usernames, and emails.Jay Peters (The Verge)
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Apparently if they get flagged as underage when they aren't.
Yet another example of how requiring ID is a shit idea.
No. According to an article the IDs were from people who were challenging an age determination. Still bullshit, but you don't need ID to use Discord as a general rule.
The unauthorized party also accessed a “small number” of images of government IDs from “users who had appealed an age determination.”
Small is, of course, a relative term. I would consider a small number to be 2 or 3. They may feel that 10,000 users is a small number. Who can say?
as a very minimum, it would make sense to demand safe-deleting the photo immediately after the verification process, with fucking prison time to someone if it is found they did not comply with that.
but that is clearly not the direction the society is going 🤷♂️
When I use the linux or web client it asks for a selfie with my ID card when I try to enter a server.
Works fine on Android.
Contacted support, they say my account is not flagged as underage but I have to submit the photo anyway. I told them i won't.
Normally, no.
And this data breach wasn't technically to Discord either, it was to a third party company that does some part of customer support for them and the data and IDs leaked were from people who had contacted support because they were flagged underaged, and sent their ID to verify they weren't.
Which also kinda explains why they weren't deleted as they should be, they were just attatchements to
support tickets, and not a "proper" verification system.
Parola filtrata: nsfw
And the "Tea" app leak happened right before these age-verification rules started popping up everywhere. It's obvious cause and effect, but it was also demonstrated RIGHT before.
Don't put your hand on a hot stove, especially after watching someone burn their hand on that hot stove.
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To be fair it was a third party partner, not Discord itself. But you of course knew that since you read the first sentence of the article.
One of Discord’s third-party customer service providers was compromised by an “unauthorized party”
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Matrix is an absolutely pale imitation of Discord.
Yes it is very upsetting that the most popular chat platform in the Western world is in league with Sauron, but Matrix as a replacement is a glorified ICQ client that regularly yells at you that your device is untrusted now and there's no hope of fixing it, you loser.
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Yeah Matrix is horrible, I don't think it will ever catch on
I used Element and it was also an overcomplicated and cluttered UI. They should've just straight copied Discord like ReVolt/Stoat did
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Telegram is profitable through semi-pushing some cryptocurrency and selling premium. Various free-to-play games are profitable through the sale of optional content.
There are alternatives in offering delayed or optional monetary costs.
I don’t know why people keep saying this. You either pay for a service, or you get a company extracting as much data as they can from you for advertiser or VC money. Servers and bandwidth cost money
- Some people pay for Discord and they still exploit their data.
- Some people pay for Lichess and their whole website is free of charge without tracking/advertising.
Yes, things cost money. Yes, ideally those who can pay for it should. No, something being free doesn't legitimize unethical means to make a profit.
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that has the same screen sharing feature
Uhm, yeah, it's a chat app, not a screen-sharing app.
Screen-sharing is part of chat apps nowadays. You're fully within your rights to stay on IRC and pretend that featureful chat is not the norm these days, but that doesn't mean society is going to move to IRC with you. Like it or not, encrypted chat apps have to become even more usable for the average person for adoption to go up. This reminds me of how all the old Linux-heads insisted that gaming was for children and that Linux didn't need gaming. Suddenly now that Linux has gaming, adoption is going way up - what a coincidence.
Edit: Also for the record, I have a tech-savvy friend who refuses to move to Signal until there are custom emoji reactions, of all things. You can definitely direct your ire towards these people, but the reality is some people have a certain comfort target, and convincing them to settle for less is often harder than improving the app itself.
It's Matrix.
We don't need another competitor. We need more people using the federated option.
Same thing with alternatives to windows. We already have it, but people are too stupid to use it.
Very first question in FAQ:
Q: Does Discord or k-ID keep my selfie data?A: Discord only logs the k-ID age verification results used to unlock your account—it doesn’t save your selfie image. For questions about k-ID’s processes, please contact k-ID.
So they are going to blame someone else.
FTA: The IDs leaked were from people appealing age verification.
That's different from the age verification process, which goes through a third party provider.
In short, the leaked IDs were from a standard shitty support platform (Zendesk, Salesforce, etc), not the much-advertised "safe and private" age verification system.
This was kind of breach so predictable even surprisedpikachu.txt isn't enough, but it must be done.
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This shouldn't surprise anyone with a brain.
Anyone know where we can find the data?
/me chuckles from his IRC chat room
and people will continue to use Discord.
‘Starting to be very afraid’: Italy’s Gaza protests raise pressure on Meloni
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37049967
Angela Giuffrida in Livorno
Fri 3 Oct 2025 10.54 EDTA piercing chorus of tooting horns and dockers shouting “we don’t want you” greeted an Israeli-owned container ship when it arrived in Livorno, a port city on the coast of Tuscany this week.For two days, the striking dockworkers stood their ground, refusing to unload and reload the ship’s cargo in a display of defiant solidarity for Palestinians and the Global Sumud flotilla attempting to bring aid to Gaza. The protest was a triumph and the ship, bound for the US and Canada, left.
From Genoa, Trieste and Ravenna in the north, to Salerno and Taranto in the south, in recent weeks port workers across Italy have succeeded in obstructing ships believed to have been carrying weapons for Israel, as opposition to the country’s war in Gaza intensifies.
‘Starting to be very afraid’: Italy’s Gaza protests raise pressure on Meloni
Angela Giuffrida in Livorno
Fri 3 Oct 2025 10.54 EDTA piercing chorus of tooting horns and dockers shouting “we don’t want you” greeted an Israeli-owned container ship when it arrived in Livorno, a port city on the coast of Tuscany this week.For two days, the striking dockworkers stood their ground, refusing to unload and reload the ship’s cargo in a display of defiant solidarity for Palestinians and the Global Sumud flotilla attempting to bring aid to Gaza. The protest was a triumph and the ship, bound for the US and Canada, left.
From Genoa, Trieste and Ravenna in the north, to Salerno and Taranto in the south, in recent weeks port workers across Italy have succeeded in obstructing ships believed to have been carrying weapons for Israel, as opposition to the country’s war in Gaza intensifies.
‘Starting to be very afraid’: Italy’s Gaza protests raise pressure on Meloni
With strikes and demonstrations, intensifying Italian opposition to Israel’s war is challenging the PM’s stanceAngela Giuffrida (The Guardian)
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‘Starting to be very afraid’: Italy’s Gaza protests raise pressure on Meloni
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37049967
Angela Giuffrida in Livorno
Fri 3 Oct 2025 10.54 EDTA piercing chorus of tooting horns and dockers shouting “we don’t want you” greeted an Israeli-owned container ship when it arrived in Livorno, a port city on the coast of Tuscany this week.For two days, the striking dockworkers stood their ground, refusing to unload and reload the ship’s cargo in a display of defiant solidarity for Palestinians and the Global Sumud flotilla attempting to bring aid to Gaza. The protest was a triumph and the ship, bound for the US and Canada, left.
From Genoa, Trieste and Ravenna in the north, to Salerno and Taranto in the south, in recent weeks port workers across Italy have succeeded in obstructing ships believed to have been carrying weapons for Israel, as opposition to the country’s war in Gaza intensifies.
‘Starting to be very afraid’: Italy’s Gaza protests raise pressure on Meloni
Angela Giuffrida in Livorno
Fri 3 Oct 2025 10.54 EDTA piercing chorus of tooting horns and dockers shouting “we don’t want you” greeted an Israeli-owned container ship when it arrived in Livorno, a port city on the coast of Tuscany this week.For two days, the striking dockworkers stood their ground, refusing to unload and reload the ship’s cargo in a display of defiant solidarity for Palestinians and the Global Sumud flotilla attempting to bring aid to Gaza. The protest was a triumph and the ship, bound for the US and Canada, left.
From Genoa, Trieste and Ravenna in the north, to Salerno and Taranto in the south, in recent weeks port workers across Italy have succeeded in obstructing ships believed to have been carrying weapons for Israel, as opposition to the country’s war in Gaza intensifies.
‘Starting to be very afraid’: Italy’s Gaza protests raise pressure on Meloni
With strikes and demonstrations, intensifying Italian opposition to Israel’s war is challenging the PM’s stanceAngela Giuffrida (The Guardian)
‘Starting to be very afraid’: Italy’s Gaza protests raise pressure on Meloni
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37049967
Angela Giuffrida in Livorno
Fri 3 Oct 2025 10.54 EDTA piercing chorus of tooting horns and dockers shouting “we don’t want you” greeted an Israeli-owned container ship when it arrived in Livorno, a port city on the coast of Tuscany this week.For two days, the striking dockworkers stood their ground, refusing to unload and reload the ship’s cargo in a display of defiant solidarity for Palestinians and the Global Sumud flotilla attempting to bring aid to Gaza. The protest was a triumph and the ship, bound for the US and Canada, left.
From Genoa, Trieste and Ravenna in the north, to Salerno and Taranto in the south, in recent weeks port workers across Italy have succeeded in obstructing ships believed to have been carrying weapons for Israel, as opposition to the country’s war in Gaza intensifies.
‘Starting to be very afraid’: Italy’s Gaza protests raise pressure on Meloni
Angela Giuffrida in Livorno
Fri 3 Oct 2025 10.54 EDTA piercing chorus of tooting horns and dockers shouting “we don’t want you” greeted an Israeli-owned container ship when it arrived in Livorno, a port city on the coast of Tuscany this week.For two days, the striking dockworkers stood their ground, refusing to unload and reload the ship’s cargo in a display of defiant solidarity for Palestinians and the Global Sumud flotilla attempting to bring aid to Gaza. The protest was a triumph and the ship, bound for the US and Canada, left.
From Genoa, Trieste and Ravenna in the north, to Salerno and Taranto in the south, in recent weeks port workers across Italy have succeeded in obstructing ships believed to have been carrying weapons for Israel, as opposition to the country’s war in Gaza intensifies.
‘Starting to be very afraid’: Italy’s Gaza protests raise pressure on Meloni
With strikes and demonstrations, intensifying Italian opposition to Israel’s war is challenging the PM’s stanceAngela Giuffrida (The Guardian)
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‘Starting to be very afraid’: Italy’s Gaza protests raise pressure on Meloni
Angela Giuffrida in Livorno
Fri 3 Oct 2025 10.54 EDT
A piercing chorus of tooting horns and dockers shouting “we don’t want you” greeted an Israeli-owned container ship when it arrived in Livorno, a port city on the coast of Tuscany this week.For two days, the striking dockworkers stood their ground, refusing to unload and reload the ship’s cargo in a display of defiant solidarity for Palestinians and the Global Sumud flotilla attempting to bring aid to Gaza. The protest was a triumph and the ship, bound for the US and Canada, left.
From Genoa, Trieste and Ravenna in the north, to Salerno and Taranto in the south, in recent weeks port workers across Italy have succeeded in obstructing ships believed to have been carrying weapons for Israel, as opposition to the country’s war in Gaza intensifies.
‘Starting to be very afraid’: Italy’s Gaza protests raise pressure on Meloni
With strikes and demonstrations, intensifying Italian opposition to Israel’s war is challenging the PM’s stanceAngela Giuffrida (The Guardian)
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While I get the underlying point, any schedule for changing prices is going to cause a proportional gap as well. Even changing annually will have points in time where purchasing power relative to the dollar changes.
Plus constantly changing would seem like they are trying to get more at certain times. Honestly there isn't a pricing scheme that involves the US dollar that isn't just converting local currency to dollars at the time of purchase and that is a whole can of worms too.
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I don't really care what they do, I just want them to do ANYTHING. Either update the regional pricing more regularly or just get rid of the damned thing and let me pay in USD/EUR. There are some rare publishers that will actually go out of their way to manually set the regional pricing to make it reasonable but most of them just follow the default suggested Steam one leading to massively overpriced games. I'm Polish and at this point I only buy games on sales, the final price still often comes close to what the game would cost me in USD/EUR without any sale.
Edit: Valve themselves specifically says in their SteamWorks documentation on pricing for developers
All of these factors have driven us towards the commitment to refresh these price suggestions on a much more regular cadence, so that we're keeping pace with economic changes over time.
and yet the prices remain the exact same since they introduced the Regional Pricing Recommendations in 2022.
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The whole thing is stupid anyway.
If I have a game that I'm selling for $30 that doesn't necessarily mean that I convert into the local currency and sell that game for $30 in Nigeria (I have no idea what currency they use in Nigeria).
I might not be able to sell the game for $30 in Nigeria because that might be 3 months of the annual income. But I don't want to totally give up on the Nigerian market so I sell the game for $5, that way at least I'm still selling the game for some money.
To be honest I would probably prefer not to be basin my game pricing on the US dollar anyway right now. It doesn't seem like the most stable currency. Not many never was anyway.
In theory, this should make games "more accessible to a larger audience." But, as Water CS2 says, "The problem lies in the data Valve uses to make these suggestions." According to the YouTuber, Valve hasn't updated its conversion rates since 2022, when it first introduced the regional pricing system. At that point in time, "the Polish currency was near its weakest" – but Steam is still "using this weak old rate" from three years ago.
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Maybe I'm just misunderstanding the quote, but I'm pretty sure regional pricing have been around at least since 2010s.
Maybe I should RTFA
In the Reddit thread about the rejected NSFW updates, Crimson Delight have only good things to say about Valve's handling of the situation. "I have to say the reviewer was kind and forthcoming, we didn't feel threatened or bullied in any way, and we got the feeling they were trying to do their best to help devs navigate the process," developer Frenzin writes. "But the fact of the matter is that Valve has payment processors breathing down their neck, and the rules keep getting stricter as time goes on.""Valve isn't the problem here," Frenzin continues. "The big credit card companies are. If anything, Valve has stood up to them and pushed back. They could've simply nuked the 18+ section of Steam, but they didn't, they stuck up for developers. Obviously adult games make Valve money, but it's a drop in the bucket compared to the rest of Steam's catalogue. Silksong itself probably earned Valve more than most NSFW titles put together.
"Given that we're erogame devs, we're against any sort of censorship (as long as the content isn't sexualizing minors or nonconsensual in any way)," the developer comments. "But it's important to understand where the real problem lies, and it's not with Valve."
Just sail the high sees like a smart person.
If you really want to support the devs, cut out the middle man and send them money directly.
It's not a difficult concept.
I think what is talked about is coutries like Poland where the currency is weaker than the $ but they still cave to pay more.
Having to pay less when earning less is good but paying more while earning less is bad.
And the problem with at least poland exists now for a few years
Edit: i should have first read the article. And ut was indeed about poland where they pay (converted) like 100 for a 70$ game while earning less
it's the devs/publishers yes
some time ago Palworld devs lowered the regional price for Poland as they noticed it was relatively more expensive for Poles to buy the game, they got a lot of praise for that
I think Poland is just in the crappy position of not being on developers/publishers radars and being lumped in with other nearby countries when it comes to pricing.
I've heard similar complaints of polish people for all sorts of platforms, not only steam.
And I think them not having the euro probably adds to the situation since the value of the polish zloty has been going up compared to the euro.
So if publishers set the price to the euro equivalent in 2022, and the Zloty rose by 20% compared to the Euro in the mean time, you end up with the prices that are there now.
The difference to the USD over the same time is even more stark at 36%.
Useful idiots deserve to be charged as much as they're willing to pay.
Anything less, and they will legitimately get upset at the business not ripping them off.
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in reply to Don Antonio Magino • • •It is setup out of the box, run snapper list as root and you should see the your current snapshots. But you do not need to do anything as snapper is configured to take snapshots before and after a transaction.
The docs have not been updated for 16 so ignore all mentions or commands referencing yast.
And remember that this is not a backup solutions in the taditional sense, so please make proper backups of your important data.
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in reply to villager • • •Ah, alright then. I thought I could use YaST’s GUI, but then I just need to do it using the terminal.
Isn’t it possible to make a manual snapshot?