Populist billionaire Andrej Babiš wins Czech parliamentary election
With Babiš’s victory the Czech Republic looks set to join Hungary and Slovakia in refusing support for Ukraine
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Dozens killed in Gaza despite Trump's call for Israel to halt bombing
Dozens were killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza on Saturday, local health officials said, despite a demand from U.S. President Donald Trump for Israel to stop bombing in response to a declaration by Hamas that it was ready to free hostages under his plan to end the two-year-old war.
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Ukraine's Special Operations Forces strike Russian missile ship en route from Baltic to Caspian Sea
Ukraine's Special Operations Forces (SOF) have struck one of Russia's newest warships as it sailed through Lake Onega in Russia's Republic of Karelia.
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Proton VPN and Portmaster breaking each other?
Sometimes they work, and sometimes I have to close one or the other, or every connection gets blocked. I haven't blocked anything from Proton VPN on Portmaster - just some Windows services and domains that don't break the internet when Proton VPN is off.
Do you have any idea what may be happening or how I can discover what's going on?
- both on the free plan.
Edit: I might have figured it out. It seems like they are fighting over DNS resolving. When I removed the DNS settings from Portmaster (it's already set in the browser anyway), it started working again 😀
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Sanae Takaichi set to become Japan's first female prime minister
Takaichi is a long-time admirer of Margaret Thatcher, but many female voters do not see her as an advocate for progress.
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Double standards from FIFA, as Infantino says it cannot suspend Israel's membership
FIFA cannot resolve political conflicts by banning Israel, according to Infantino - yet it previously banned Russia without hesitation
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It was a joint decision with UEFA.
Following the initial decisions adopted by the FIFA Council and the UEFA Executive Committee, which envisaged the adoption of additional measures, FIFA and UEFA have today decided together that all Russian teams, whether national representative teams or club teams, shall be suspended from participation in both FIFA and UEFA competitions until further notice.
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When asked what was happening with FIFA’s own investigation into Israel’s status, Montagliani said he “unaware of where it’s at” and said he had not seen any legal analysis of the Palestinian FA’s complaint.
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Israel suspension decision rests with UEFA ‘first and foremost’, FIFA vice-president says
Victor Montagliani also said Israel’s immediate future was not on the agenda for Thursday’s FIFA Council meeting.Matt Slater (The Athletic)
do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last?
cross-posted from: linux.community/post/3587385
I don't mean only the US but in much of the world: in many European countries the populist far right is unseating Christian-Democratic parties (conservative parties), like in Hungary, Slovakia or Czechia. In others like Germany or France the far right is at the gates of power, in the UK, Reform UK is running high in the polls. In Turkey autocratic Erdogan is copying the Putin playbook to systematically dismantle the social-democratic opposition. In Japan, a neo Thatcherite that doesn't hide she honors Japanese war criminals is about to become the new PM.Something common I see in all these parties is strong disaffection with the current state of their countries and a longing to an idealized past they promise to bring back, to make countries great again...
Except that societies have changed beyond recognition in the last 40 years, emerging China, India, Mexico and a myriad of south east Asian countries can produce cheaper than us in the developed countries, so called first world democracies are now much older and indebted than 40 years ago (no wonder societies have shifted so hard to the right), buying a house is now waaaay more expensive than 40 years ago, you cannot earn a livable wage just assembling toasters like 40 years ago, you just cannot roll automation and digitization back, no matter how much you complain...
The past cannot come back, neither will it come back just because some people want it to. It's completely futile, but people are not rational about this, they're completely emotional and tribal.
It's like a huge, collective effort in denial: denying that we in the developed world are older, not the first ones in the world anymore, that other countries we always considered inferior to us are even surpassing us technologically while we complain and hope for a savior that brings us 40 years back when we, the white guys, ruled all over.
I don't see it happening: being angry and voting the far right may make some people feel good, it may make them feel they're somehow taking their country back, but it's not going to stop China, India and other countries from developing, investing in new technologies and even creating trade alliances that bypass the US or the EU.
My question: was there a moment in history where societies were so shifted to the right like today? How long did it last?
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Just look at Europe at the start of the 20th century and the rise of fascism. We're seeing a very similar dynamic unfolding in the west today. It lasted until USSR broke the back of the fascists in WW2. It's also important to note that right wing extremism gets a lot of support from the rich normalizing their views.
It's also dangerous to think that such right wing movement can be stopped simply by voting. German nazis never won more than 37% of the vote while there were still democratic elections in place. Once these people get in power the mask comes off.
First chapter in Blackshirts and Reds discusses the rise of fascists in Italy and nazis in Germany, and it's hard not to draw parallels with what we're seeing happening across the Western sphere right now:
After World War I, Italy had settled into a pattern of parliamentary democracy. The low pay scales were improving, and the trains were already running on time. But the capitalist economy was in a postwar recession. Investments stagnated, heavy industry operated far below capacity, and corporate profits and agribusiness exports were declining.To maintain profit levels, the large landowners and industrialists would have to slash wages and raise prices. The state in turn would have to provide them with massive subsidies and tax exemptions. To finance this corporate welfarism, the populace would have to be taxed more heavily, and social services and welfare expenditures would have to be drastically cut - measures that might sound familiar to us today. But the government was not completely free to pursue this course. By 1921 , many Italian workers and peasants were unionized and had their own political organizations. With demonstrations, strikes, boycotts, factory takeovers, and the forceable occupation of farmlands, they had won the right to organize, along with concessions in wages and work conditions.
To impose a full measure of austerity upon workers and peasants, the ruling economic interests would have to abolish the democratic rights that helped the masses defend their modest living standards. The solution was to smash their unions, political organizations, and civil liberties. Industrialists and big landowners wanted someone at the helm who could break the power of organized workers and farm laborers and impose a stern order on the masses. For this task Benito Mussolini, armed with his gangs of Blackshirts, seemed the likely candidate.
In 1922, the Federazione Industriale, composed of the leaders of industry, along with representatives from the banking and agribusiness associations, met with Mussolini to plan the "March on Rome," contributing 20 million lire to the undertaking. With the additional backing of Italy's top military officers and police chiefs, the fascist "revolution"- really a coup d'etat - took place.
In Germany, a similar pattern of complicity between fascists and capitalists emerged. German workers and farm laborers had won the right to unionize, the eight-hour day, and unemployment insurance. But to revive profit levels, heavy industry and big finance wanted wage cuts for their workers and massive state subsidies and tax cuts for themselves.
During the 1920s, the Nazi Sturmabteilung or SA, the brown shirted storm troopers, subsidized by business, were used mostly as an antilabor paramilitary force whose function was to terrorize workers and farm laborers. By 1930, most of the tycoons had concluded that the Weimar Republic no longer served their needs and was too accommodating to the working class. They greatly increased their subsidies to Hitler, propelling the Nazi party onto the national stage. Business tycoons supplied the Nazis with generous funds for fleets of motor cars and loudspeakers to saturate the cities and villages of Germany, along with funds for Nazi party organizations, youth groups, and paramilitary forces. In the July 1932 campaign, Hitler had sufficient funds to fly to fifty cities in the last two weeks alone.
In that same campaign the Nazis received 37.3 percent of the vote, the highest they ever won in a democratic national election. They never had a majority of the people on their side. To the extent that they had any kind of reliable base, it generally was among the more affluent members of society. In addition, elements of the petty bourgeoisie and many lumpenproletariats served as strong-arm party thugs, organized into the SA storm troopers. But the great majority of the organized working class supported the Communists or Social Democrats to the very end.
In the December 1932 election, three candidates ran for president: the conservative incumbent Field Marshal von Hindenburg, the Nazi candidate Adolph Hitler, and the Communist party candidate Ernst Thaelmann. In his campaign, Thaelmann argued that a vote for Hindenburg amounted to a vote for Hitler and that Hitler would lead Germany into war. The bourgeois press, including the Social Democrats, denounced this view as "Moscow inspired." Hindenburg was re-elected while the Nazis dropped approximately two million votes in the Reichstag election as compared to their peak of over 13.7 million.
True to form, the Social Democrat leaders refused the Communist party's proposal to form an eleventh-hour coalition against Nazism. As in many other countries past and present, so in Germany, the Social Democrats would sooner ally themselves with the reactionary Right than make common cause with the Reds. Meanwhile a number of right-wing parties coalesced behind the Nazis and in January 1933, just weeks after the election, Hindenburg invited Hitler to become chancellor.
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Israel deports 137 activists from Global Sumud Flotilla, 321 remain kidnapped
A plane carrying the flotilla deportees landed in Istanbul on Saturday with nine British nationals; four more remain in detention
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Israeli authorities have beaten Greta Thunberg, made her kiss Zionist flag
Released flotilla activist says Israeli authorities "dragged little Greta Thunberg by her hair... beat her" and "made her suffer"
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OpenAI wants ChatGPT to be your emotional support
GPT-5 isn't as good as GPT-4o when it comes to emotional support, but that changes today.
2 more boats join fresh Gaza aid flotilla, bringing total to 11
The International Committee to Break the Siege on Gaza announced Saturday that two additional boats have joined the latest wave of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s mission to challenge Israel’s blockade of Gaza, raising the total number of vessels en route to 11, after Israel attacked the Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters, Anadolu reports.
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Israeli authorities have beaten Greta Thunberg, made her kiss Zionist flag
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Reports are emerging that Israeli authorities have abused activist Greta Thunberg while illegally holding her in detention.
Greta Thunberg beaten by Israeli authorities
On Saturday 4 October, the Israeli occupation authorities deported 137 of the kidnapped international solidarity activists who participated in the Global Sumud Flotilla to break the humanitarian siege on Gaza, in the second deportation operation in a matter of days, after returning four Italians to their country on Friday 3 October.One of the deported activists who arrived at Istanbul airport on Saturday recounted shocking details of what he described as ‘brutal assaults’ on some activists during their detention, telling reporters:
They dragged little Greta (Thunberg) by her hair in front of our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her as a warning to others.She’s still a little kid. They made her suffer.
BREAKING: Turkish activist and Sumud Flotilla participant Ersin Celik:
“They [Israelis] dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” pic.twitter.com/gV6SeMZr7U
— Suppressed News. (@SuppressedNws1) October 4, 2025
Separately, the Guardian reported that an email to Swedish authorities said Greta Thunberg was suffering from:
dehydration. She has received insufficient amounts of both water and food. She also stated that she had developed rashes which she suspects were caused by bedbugs. She spoke of harsh treatment and said she had been sitting for long periods on hard surfaces.Meanwhile, other released activists spoke of similar degrading treatment.
Turkish activist Samanur Sonmaz Yaman, a member of the flotilla, recounts details of the occupation’s oppression and abuse of veiled women from the boats:
Occupation soldiers ripped off our headscarves during our arrest and took them from us, and our non-veiled friends gave us their shirts to cover our heads.thecanary.co/wp-content/upload…
Adalah, the legal centre that monitors the cases of detainees, said that detention conditions at Ketziot prison in the Negev desert are ‘deteriorating alarmingly,’ amid reports of ill-treatment and violence against some detainees.
A spokesperson for the organisation said that it is difficult at this stage to provide a comprehensive assessment, but confirmed that the mistreatment primarily affects non-European detainees, especially those whose countries do not have diplomatic missions in Israel.
Ongoing Israeli violence
This incident is the latest chapter in the confrontation between Israel and the international solidarity flotillas that recently set sail in an attempt to break the blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip for more than 18 years, amid growing international warnings about targeting solidarity activists and civil society activists, and the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the Strip, which is suffering from famine and shortages of medicine and fuel.Israel intercepted 40 ships in the Global Solidarity Flotilla that set sail to reach Gaza to break the blockade and deliver humanitarian aid amid the ongoing war of extermination on Gaza, which is now entering its third year.
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Plan for Windows 10 EOL and discounted old laptops
So that very important day is almost upon us.
October 14th is the day set for when Windows 10 stops security updates (no consumer is going to pay for extended) and begins to really push people to Windows 11. Windows 11 has strict hardware requirements that a lot of "older" devices that most people have do not meet.
And so, I am sure many individuals and companies may be getting rid of their old laptops and even desktops to recoup the vost of new devices.
What is the plan, when should we move in? What kind of deals should we be looking out for?
I want to find a great deal on a great laptop just for the fun of it. Some of my friends (converted to Linux) are waiting to get new laptops and score a deal. I have been waiting years for this day and I hope it can feel like a special day.
Any good places to look for these kinds of deals?
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I got a Macbook Pro 15" 2012 (i7 Ivy quad-core) with an excellent battery for $20. retrofitted it with 16 GB for $15 and a "damaged" 500 GB SSD for $10. runs Fedora with Plasma like a dream - that kinda deal?
this morning scored a 15" hires 2011 for less than $5 that I'm gonna take the screen off and transplant it ova here. plan to rock this beast for many, many moons.
I regret throwing the box away. I think it's a 2019 Macbook Pro with an Intel i7 CPU. The device has been wiped but macOS Utilities is still on it. Last when I was working on it, I think I needed to reinstall a OS in order for the hardware to have a link to the Apple for firmware updates?
Today is a good day to set this device up. It's been on my todo list.
Those are great laptops and were well built. I think the 2011 might have the Radeon GPU issue though but if it's lasted this long, you are probably safe.
My grail was a 17" MacBook Pro from that era. I saw one the other day at a tech market but the vendor wasn't at the booth for me to make an offer =/. I'll swing by again an see if I can get it for around $50. They really do live a second life as Linux machines and OWC keeps me supplied on replacement parts.
I have 2010s (nVidia GT330M) and 2011s (Radeon 6xxx) in various states of decay in the double digits, I get them in the sub$10 range. all of them can easily be repurposed as linux workstations, their finnicky broadcom wifi notwithstanding. all of them can have the discrete graphics turned off, whether they work or not - less heat, longer battery life, no driver complications.
this is the first 2012 I've gotten, as they were always unreasonably expensive for their advanced age - coulda gotten ten 2011s for the price of one 2012! so now I got one and it's... meh; yeah it's better (Ivy vs Sandy, HD4000 vs HD3000, USB3.0, etc.) but nothing spectacular. still, for $20 I could do worse.
Peaky Blinders ritorna con due nuove stagioni: arriva il sequel con la nuova generazione Shelby, mentre il film è in post-produzione
A tre anni dal finale della sesta stagione, Peaky Blinders è pronta a tornare su Netflix con un sequel incentrato su una nuova generazione della famiglia Shelby. Il progetto prevede due serie da sei episodi ciascuna, mentre l’atteso film ambientato nello stesso universo è in post-produzione.
LEGGI I DETTAGLI: Peaky Blinders ritorna con due nuove stagioni: arriva il sequel con la nuova generazione Shelby, mentre il film è in post-produzione
Peaky Blinders: in arrivo due nuove stagioni e il film
Peaky Blinders torna con un sequel in due stagioni da 6 episodi: ambientazione Birmingham 1953. Il film è in post-produzione.Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)
Tradimento, anticipazioni puntata di venerdì 10 ottobre 2025: Güzide dubita della maternità di Dündar dopo la rivelazione dell’ostetrica
Nuovo scossone in Tradimento: nella puntata di venerdì 10 ottobre 2025, in prima serata su Canale 5, Güzide Özgüder riceve la visita di Cemile, l’ostetrica che ha fatto nascere Dündar. Il suo racconto, ricco di dettagli, rimette tutto in discussione: Dündar potrebbe non essere suo figlio. Una “verità” che trascina con sé indagini, sospetti e conseguenze inaspettate per l’intera famiglia.
LEGGI LE ANTICIPAZIONI: Tradimento, anticipazioni puntata di venerdì 10 ottobre 2025: Güzide dubita della maternità di Dündar dopo la rivelazione dell’ostetrica
Tradimento, anticipazioni 10 ottobre 2025: Güzide dubita di Dündar
Tradimento, anticipazioni 10 ottobre 2025: l’ostetrica Cemile rivela che Dündar potrebbe non essere figlio di Güzide.Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)
Should ActivityPub and ATProtocol be Potentially Merged into a Single Protocol?
I know that this will most likely get me a ton of downvotes, but I’m genuinely curious: should ActivityPub and ATProtocol potentially be merged into one unified protocol?
If they were combined, Fediverse users and ATmosphere users could enjoy the benefits of each other’s ecosystems—like richer content interaction, better moderation tools, and more seamless identity management.
Bluesky and Mastodon users could interact natively without relying on bridging bots like Bridgy Fed.
Would merging the protocols strengthen decentralized social media, or would it create more complexity and friction between communities?
I’d love to hear your thoughts.
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Starmer just made an antisemitic attempt to stop the Gaza protests
Starmer just made an antisemitic attempt to stop the Gaza protests
Starmer's statement is profoundly antisemitic, suggesting that all Jewish people support Israel's mass slaughter of PalestiniansSkwawkbox (The Canary)
‘They behaved like a terrorist group’: Italian journalist held captive by Israel
Italian journalist Lorenzo Agostino has said he felt he was “in a really barbaric place” while being illegally detained by Israel in international waters after this week’s attack on the Global Sumud Flotilla vessels bound for Gaza.
Agostino said he and fellow passengers were kidnapped and subjected to “humiliating” conditions.
“They behaved like a terrorist group … We were left without fresh water for over two days. Overall, they took every opportunity to humiliate any of us,” Agostino told the Anadolu news agency.
He said they were subjected to blindfolding, tight handcuffs, inadequate clothing, and freezing temperatures in a highly air-conditioned van for hours.
LIVE: Israel kills 46 despite Trump saying it has ‘stopped bombing’ Gaza
Israeli attacks across Gaza continue, killing dozens of people, even as momentum builds for possible pause to the war.Jillian Kestler-D'Amours (Al Jazeera)
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Dem Leaders Betrayed The Base With Charlie Kirk Whitewash (7min Video)
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If I have one free email in Tuta and upgrade it, am I able to make more emails paying for only one?
Lemme simplify it:
Let's say I have x@keemail.me. It's free. Then I upgrade it to Legendary.
Can I create y@keemail.me and z@keemail.me paying only for x? Or will I also have to pay for y and z?
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Germany Considers Split From France On Next Generation Fighter
Cracks seem to be appearing in the pan-European Future Combat Air System (FCAS) program, at the heart of which will be the crewed New Generation Fighter (NGF). Reports now suggest that Germany, one of the two major partners in FCAS, is looking at how it might separate itself from France, amid long-running misgivings over workshare arrangements in this vital program.
According to Politico, the German Ministry of Defense discussed the future of FCAS last week with Airbus, which leads the German side of the program. The article cited two unnamed people familiar with those discussions. Reportedly, German defense officials are unhappy with French demands to have a disproportionate share of the program and are now examining other options.
Germany Considers Split From France On Next Generation Fighter
Disagreements over Future Combat Air System workshare mean Germany is also looking at teaming up with the UK or Sweden on its future crewed fighter.Thomas Newdick (The War Zone)
Scaled over last month?
Is it possible to get the scaled sort to consider all posts over the last month or other timescales?
When I haven't been online for a while I tend to miss most of the stuff going on in my subscribed communities. If I sort by top of the month it only shows posts from the busiest communities.
Greta Thunberg says she is being held hostage by Israel in cell infested with bedbugs
Environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg has told Swedish officials she is being subjected to harsh treatment in Israeli custody after her detention and removal from a flotilla carrying aid to Gaza, according to correspondence seen by the Guardian.
According to the correspondence, Israeli forces are also reported by another detainee to have taken photographs where Thunberg was allegedly forced to hold flags. The identity of the flags are unknown.
In an email sent by the Swedish foreign ministry to people close to Thunberg, and seen by the Guardian, an official who has visited the activist in prison said she claimed she was detained in a cell infested with bedbugs, with too little food and water.
Greta Thunberg says she is being detained by Israel in cell infested with bedbugs
Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and waterLorenzo Tondo (The Guardian)
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Why Japan's internet is weirdly designed
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How Big Tech Uses YOUR Kids’ Classrooms To Sell THEIR Products (13min Video)
Silicon Valley has sold the idea of tech in classrooms for years, because they get access to lifelong customers and valuable data. But while corporations like Google make billions, student test scores are falling.
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From Morocco to Madagascar, Gen Z is taking digital dissent offline | CNN
From Kathmandu to Lima, youth-led uprisings are driving thousands from their screens to the streets, demanding accountability, change and, in some cases, toppling governments.
These Gen-Z protesters come from disparate backgrounds and have different demands.
But the throughline is clear: Growing inequality and marginalization is destroying young people’s hopes for the future – and the only way forward is to confront a broken social contract head on.
Here’s what you need to know.
A global movement
On consecutive nights this week, cities and towns across Morocco have pulsed with the anger of young people mobilized under the umbrella “GenZ 212” – the country’s international dialing code. Led by mostly students and unemployed graduates, the protesters are demanding sweeping reforms in healthcare, education and social justice – issues they say have been sidelined as the government pours billions into 2030 World Cup infrastructure.
While stadiums and luxury hotels are erected, hospitals remain overcrowded and rural areas underserved. Morocco’s education system, long underfunded, is churning out graduates with few job prospects: Youth unemployment sits at 36% – and nearly 1 in 5 university graduates are out of work.
The recent protests were triggered by the deaths of several pregnant women following routine C-sections in the coastal city of Agadir, spotlighting the crumbling healthcare system. The government’s response has been swift and brutal: Three people were killed and hundreds of others injured, authorities said. Riot police have been deployed across major cities, using force and arresting dozens. Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch said Thursday his government had “engaged” with the protesters’ demands and was ready for “dialogue and discussion.” On Friday, GenZ 212 demanded the government resign.
But protests aren’t fading.
Thousands of miles away to the south, youth-led unrest is rocking Madagascar. For several days this week, cities across the Indian Ocean nation – one of Africa’s poorest – have been flooded with young protesters outraged over water shortages and rolling blackouts. They quickly morphed into calls for systemic reform, with the protesters demanding the resignation of President Andry Rajoelina, who first came to power in a 2009 coup, and his government.
Rajoelina responded by dissolving the government this week, saying, “I heard the call, I felt the suffering,” but authorities continue to crack down on dissent. The United Nations said Monday at least 22 people had been killed and more than 100 injured. The government disputes these figures.
Meanwhile, in the South American nation of Peru, youth demonstrations began on September 20 after the government announced reforms to a pension law. The protests then swelled to wider calls to stamp out corruption, repression and rising crime under President Dina Boluarte’s rule. The Peruvian leader’s approval ratings recently sank to 2.5%, with her government at 3%, according to the Institute of Peruvian Studies’ July report, reflecting widespread economic anxiety, anger over corruption scandals and continued outrage over the killing of dozens of protesters after she took office in late 2022.
The Nepal connection
The unrest comes in the wake of Gen Z’s extraordinary and unprecedented take down of the Nepali government in September. What began as a protest against a government social media ban quickly morphed into a broader revolt against corruption and economic stagnation. In fewer than 48 hours, at least 22 people were killed and hundreds injured as demonstrators torched government buildings in the capital Kathmandu and toppled the prime minister.
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Bluesky rolls out age verification for users in Ohio | TechCrunch
Bluesky rolls out age verification for users in Ohio | TechCrunch
Users in Ohio will have to verify their age to use Bluesky's social network as of Monday.Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)
Advocates raise alarm over Pfas pollution from datacenters amid AI boom
Tech companies’ use of Pfas gas at facilities may mean datacenters’ climate impact is worse than previously thought
Two kinds of cooling systems are used to prevent the semiconductors and other electronic equipment stored in datacenters from overheating. Water cooling systems require huge volumes of water, and chemicals like nitrates, disinfectants, azoles and other compounds are potentially added and discharged in the environment.Many centers are now switching to a “two phase” system that uses f-gas as a refrigerant coolant that is run through copper tubing. In this scenario, f-gas is not intentionally released during use, though there may be leaks, and it must be disposed of at the end of its life.
The datacenter industry has claimed that f-gas that escapes is not a threat because, once in the air, it turns into a compound called Tfa. Tfa is considered a Pfas in most of the world, but not the US. Recent research has found it is more toxic than previously thought, and may impact reproductive systems similar to other Pfas.
Researchers in recent years have been alarmed by the ever-growing level of Tfa in the air, water, human blood and elsewhere in the environment. Meanwhile, some f-gases are potent greenhouse gases that can remain in the atmosphere for thousands of years. But f-gasses are lucrative for industry: about 60% of all Pfas manufactured from 2019 to 2022 were f-gas
According to a report by Bloomberg, the project generated more than $100 million in revenue after being set up over a decade ago by South Pole, a major Swiss carbon credits broker, and CGI, which is run by a Zimbabwean businessman. South Pole walked away from Kariba in late 2023 when Verra suspended the project and began an internal review following an investigation by The New Yorker magazine.Nearly two years later, Verra announced last week that its review had found 57% of Kariba’s nearly 27 million credits were issued “in excess”. That is because the actual deforestation observed in a reference area chosen by Kariba’s project developers to predict how much CO2 the scheme would conserve was “significantly lower” than initially estimated, Verra said.
The value of promises.
Migration from Win 10 to Mint
So I’ve been putting this off all summer, but with support nearly ending for Win 10 and finally having a weekend to spend on this, and absolutely refusing to move to win 11, I’m finally pulling the trigger and getting this done.
I run a home built AMD rig with a 5800x and RT 7800xt, so as I understand, drivers shouldn’t be an issue. I’ve got 3 storage drives currently, a 1tb m.2 NVME I use for the OS and games I need to run quicker, and 2 SATA SSDs. I’ve also got a much larger external HDD which I’ll use to back up my entire windows environment (which I’ll disconnect after it’s backed up) just in case things go sideways during this process.
My biggest concern is here is moving all of my music, pictures, and docs over after the migration. Is it as simple as copying everything over from the NTFS win10 backup HDD to my newly formatted ext4 drives outside of the OS partition? I’m sure I’m not completely phrasing this correctly, since my understanding of Linux is currently at about a 4th grade level, and is probably why I’ve been running around in circles trying to find answers without much luck. I did go over the Mint install docs, but it seems a little light on details for my particular concern.
If there are any resources, suggestions or advice anyone could offer here to help me get through this, I gladly thank you in advance.
Edit: I think I have the information I need to make this work (at least for now), I just want to thank everyone here for taking the time to reply to this. I sincerely appreciate it!
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Welcome to the club. I switched about a year ago and its been fine.
Mind you, I was a windows power user and I Linux I'm just a below average minimalist user, but its been fine. Also mind you, I run a windows VM for some stuff I'm still tethered to (virt-manager is your friend if this is the case). But I have 3 machines in my house that are all Mint boxes and its smooth sailing.
There are some things I wish were different, but you need to choose your battles. Like I don't want any kernel based anticheat on my system so those kinds of games I play on console if available, or don't play at all.
As far as advice, part of what I like about Mint is their forum. Yes, you can always search and find answers but with so many variances between distros having a forum tailored to your specific OS is a nice perk. You will find a lot of answers there.
Hot tip: read up on file permissions, users and groups. Permissions aren't inherited like they are in windows so that's a mental adjustment you need to make.
You'll probably pick up on the file structure fairly quickly. Though I didn't unhide the hidden folders in my home directory because I needed to (I forger why but it came up)
And honestly, I've used an AI tool to help walk me through getting some stuff to work (somehow I broke my Samba sharing) so that's always a resource to help guide you and troubleshoot.
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in reply to PiraHxCx • • •I think that you must see which site is blocked from Proton and except it from the filtering, or pay some bucks and use the SPN, which is anyway better, with it you can use multiple tunnels depending on the sites you want to visit.
Or using an proxy extension, like VPNLY or CyberGhost, which are free, without limits, no logs and private. The Portmaster anyway avoid that web pages can sneak any tracking crap in your PC.
PiraHxCx
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in reply to PiraHxCx • • •In my new Laptop with W11, the first impression was that it was the worst UI I've ever seen, impossible the startmenu and the taskbar, not even customizable in a bad copy of an Mac desktop, apart of all other from the mencioned crap, which I culd strip out, to get rid of the UI, turning it back of the good customizable one from W10, I used a nice FOSS app, Windhawk, something like an userscript manager which permits to do almost everything with the UI. Settings are instantanly, no restart needed.
Now I use an snappy fast and reasonable private W11 which use less than 1GB RAM, to my like, with an small Taskbar on the top of the screen, an Startmenu as it should be and some more tweaks.
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in reply to PiraHxCx • • •A lot of those call-home processes can be blocked with your .host file. Additionally, PrivacySexy, WPD, and or O&OShutUp can help strip out all the crap. I hear a lot of people saying that updates to Windows revert the changes. I'm not sure if that is relevant to whether you are using Home or Pro. I use W10Pro and I have not seen any of my updates revert any of my changes. I believe Enterprise also doesn't revert the changes upon updates. It might also be that major feature updates (like the 22H2 upgrade), may revert the changes, however, it's fairly trivial to run PrivacySexy after the update.
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in reply to Peffse • • •I use Hostsman, and I haven't found that to be true, but again, I don't discount it either.
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in reply to irmadlad • • •I wonder if Windows Defender is parsing the hosts file and flagging specific entries. Perhaps your program knows what is flagged through trial & error, while I did more of an aggressive blanket approach.
It's the only thing I can think of.
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in reply to Peffse • • •I'm not quite certain at this point. LOL I've used HostsMan forever it seems and never gave it a second thought because it just worked. I also wonder if logging in to a local account vs your Microsoft account in Windows makes a difference.
IDK, my .host file contains 60,633 entries. Not sure you could get more aggressive than that. LOL
I'm going to have to do some reading. This intrigues me.
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in reply to irmadlad • • •I recently wrote this small guide: fuckbigtech.neocities.org/#06, and I was just about to re-read it to update, for example: Last time I was on Win11, the Windows Update had downloaded the HEIF and AV1 codecs, they were even listed in the app list to uninstall if I wanted, but they didn’t come with the laptop I have now, nor were they added through updating it. I just noticed folders weren’t displaying AVIF image thumbnails after I had debloated (and removed Windows Store). Then I discovered you can no longer download Windows utilities through their site, and it won’t work directly through PowerShell either because all download and installation is forced through Windows Store. I had already debloated extensively, so I decided to just factory-reset the laptop. This time, I downloaded both packages before removing Windows Store. Guess what? Removing Windows Store also removed the packages! So here I am, after another factory reset, leaving Windows Store there, hoping the lack of it doesn’t fuck me in the future lol
fun story: I also discovered it no longer comes with Notepad, Paint and Calculator! You have to download all from the Store, and they integrated with Copilot lol - it did come with Outlook, Maps, Teams and other crap, though... even some hidden legacy Zune, IE and Skype packages..
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in reply to PiraHxCx • • •Interesting. I must live in bizarro world. I wonder if it has to do with Win11's new advertising platform. Were you running a local account or hooked up to the mothership? I'm running W10 on a local account only. Additionally, I'm blocking the world (almost - lol) in my host file.
I just ran
Get-AppxPackageand besides the runtimes, wsl, Microsoft.VCLibs, NET.Native.Frameworks, Microsoft.Windows.Photos (blocked from calling home), I don't see anything that would throw a red flag. I am definitely intrigued.PiraHxCx
in reply to irmadlad • • •My father loves '00s and late '90s RTS games, so I built him a Win7 PC. I got a bit jealous of how tight its running lol
Pre-built systems, though, come with way waaay more bloat. To get a free Windows license included in the product, they shove tons of shit in. My mother had a Win10 LG All-in-One, and I recently reset and cleared it to give to my niece, I had to remove a lot of crap, but it was way worse in the Win11 Dell All-in-One she got to replace it. I’ve never seen anything like that, shit came with Spotify, Netflix, Amazon, Candy Crush... and, worst of all: McAfee. This Win11 laptop I'm using right now came with Norton hehe - but those Bing News, Bing Weather, Bing Maps, Bing This, Bing That, all the Xbox stuff, which you need to remove through command prompt, they were in all of them. However, I’ve never tested a Win10 or Win11 that wasn't on a pre-built device, my guess is that if you bought a license (or acquired some other way, I don't judge hehe) and installed the OS yourself it is way cleaner... but also surely Win11 is worse than Win10 on bloat.
edit: I had written Avast but it was actually McAfee, it wasn't even full license and it expired, also it constantly hijacked the browser and changed the search engine to Bing... pure malware behavior, crazy stuff.
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in reply to Zerush • • •I spent about a week and a half with Portmaster just to see what the hype was. I'll have to say I was underwhelmed. I realize it has a big fan base, so if it works for you, awesome. Git Sum! It does have a lot of bells and whistles, and combines a lot of things into one package, but I've been so long with my stand alone pFsense instance, it'd almost have to give me a blowie to get me to switch.
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