Why use a terminal pdf viewer?
I've been using Firefox to view PDFs and it works fine. Recently though I wanted to try something more minimal with vim keybindings. Found two options: Zathura and tdf (terminal pdf viewer).
What I'm curious about is why someone would choose a TUI pdf viewer over a regular one (like Zathura). What are the actual advantages people find in practice. tdf mentions being fast but I wonder if that's something you'd actually notice day to day?
Also I remember seeing screenshots where PDFs looked transparent or matched the terminal colors. Is that actually a feature of some of these viewers ? Maybe someone uses one here?
Tdf seems relatively popular with 1.4k github stars.
GitHub - itsjunetime/tdf: A tui-based PDF viewer
A tui-based PDF viewer. Contribute to itsjunetime/tdf development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
New to Linux Advice
Ive not had a PC or gaming PC in 15 years. I want to get back into it now.
Im fairly against windows. I'd like to try a Linux system and thought this would be a fun way to get into Linux.
Ive been looking at some black friday sales here Newegg sales
Its been so long since ive looked at PC specs I feel like im completely new. Ive read that an AMD GPU can be easier for Linux so I started there.
So Ive got two questions!
What are some must have specs in you opinion to run most modern games, and would you have a #1 recommend for a prebuilt to get started with?
What disto is best for a total newbie who wants to use it for gaming and eventually transition for anything/everything else?
Even after using PopOS I dont understand the hype. It is Ubuntu-based, meaning that its packages are stale and often quite out of date, which isn't something I would recommend for a gaming distro.
Better to pick one of the following, which are gaming focused, user friendly, and have up-to-date packages for {Mesa, Vulkan, Wine, Kernel, etc}:
- PikaOS
- Bazzite
- Nobara
Edit:
My reason for saying that up-to-date packages are paramount is because a newer kernel supports more features, better performance, new hardware support, less bugs, and the same is true for packages that effect gaming. Desktop environments get better quickly through updates and bug fixes that effect gaming may take a year of more to reach pepetually out of date distros like Ubuntu. It is generally quite important, but less important if you use Steam Flatpak because it is slightly sandboxes.
Bazzite - The operating system for the next generation of gamers
Bazzite makes gaming and everyday use smoother and simpler across desktop PCs, handhelds, tablets, and home theater PCs.bazzite.gg
Recovery Partition
Here is how to use the recovery partition to repair, refresh or reinstall your operating system.System76 Support
I just wanted to compare FOSS Linux budgeting software
Instead YouTube gives me literally nothing but AI spam. :/
I scrolled down a bit more and got this:
i.postimg.cc/fJcPhG45/Screensh…
Scrolled down some more and this:
i.postimg.cc/v1khnhRp/Screensh…
I kept scrolling until I ran out of relevant results. Not a single video was legit. I don't think I've ever seen so much AI slop in one search term and by the gods there is a lot of crap on YouTube.
Anyone have a good comparison video? I'm just wanting a decent comparison of Actual, Firefly III and possibly HomeBank. Feel free to also give me your 2 cents on whatever you use 😀
Supreme Court Conservatives Reinstate Texas’ Gerrymandered House Maps
Supreme Court Conservatives Reinstate Texas’ Gerrymandered House Maps
The Supreme Court, in a 6-3 order, has put on hold a lower court ruling that blocked Texas’ aggressive gerrymander, a maneuver the state legislature had carried…John Light (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
Jeffrey Epstein Aided Alan Dershowitz’s Attack on Mearsheimer and Walt’s “Israel Lobby”
The behind-the-scenes campaign of subversion ironically affirmed the key tenets of the Walt and Mearsheimer paper. In other words, wealthy and well-connected men were deploying their financial resources and connections in order to undercut a paper claiming that wealthy and well-connected men were using their wealth and financial resources for the benefit of the state of Israel and against the interests of the United States.
Jeffrey Epstein Aided Alan Dershowitz’s Attack on Mearsheimer and Walt’s “Israel Lobby”
Epstein and Alan Dershowitz collaborated on smear campaigns against Mearsheimer, Walt, and an underage assault victim making allegations against Epstein—in the same week.Ryan Grim (Drop Site News)
VICTORY: Kenyan Court Rules “Sharing Seeds is Not a Crime” in Landmark Verdict for Food Sovereignty
HISTORIC VICTORY: Kenyan Court Rules “Sharing Seeds is Not a Crime” in Landmark Verdict for Food Sovereignty - Greenpeace Africa
This judgment establishes powerful legal precedent globally, affirming that the ancient right of farmers to save and share seeds supersedes commercial interests, reshaping the legal balance of power between communities and agribusiness worldwide.Greenpeace Africa
I’ve been putting off switching because of everything I have setup for work, but next week I have a new laptop arriving and I’ll be wiping the pre-installed windows and chucking probably fedora on it.
Once I have that first one done, I’ll be able to start moving all my others. I have a bunch of Hyper-V VMs that I need to migrate which has been the main cause of my hesitation.
Debate on Israeli attacks on Gaza blocked in European Parliament
Debate on Israeli attacks on Gaza blocked in European Parliament
Left group says 'right, center' blocked debate as bombings continue despite ceasefire - Anadolu Ajansıwww.aa.com.tr
Ireland: Most crimes last year were committed by repeat offenders, new stats show
Most crimes last year were committed by repeat offenders, new stats show
Re-offending was highest among burglary and trespassing cases, where 87% of detected incidents involved a previous offender.TheJournal.ie
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Tumblr or Mastodon? Or is there a third service I should use?
So, I have a profile at Tumblr to archive a specific media's contents. (It's in Portuguese)
I currently use tumblr, but is there some other page I should use to get better privacy? I've been considering Mastodon.
Reality Check: EU Council Chat Control Vote is Not a Retreat, But a Green Light for Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance and the End of Right to Communicate Anonymously
Cross posted from: feddit.uk/post/40205739
I'm posting this to hopefully stop the posts that keep appearing, suggesting that progress has been made to defeat chat control.
That's not correct.
The article:
Contrary to headlines suggesting the EU has “backed away” from Chat Control, the negotiating mandate endorsed today by EU ambassadors in a close split vote paves the way for a permanent infrastructure of mass surveillance. Patrick Breyer, digital freedom fighter and expert on the file, warns journalists and the public not to be deceived by the label “voluntary.”
While the Council removed the obligation for scanning, the agreed text creates a toxic legal framework that incentivizes US tech giants to scan private communications indiscriminately, introduces mandatory age checks for all internet users, and threatens to exclude teenagers from digital life.
“The headlines are misleading: Chat Control is not dead, it is just being privatized,” warns Patrick Breyer. **“What the Council endorsed today is a Trojan Horse. By cementing ‘voluntary’ mass scanning, they are legitimizing the warrantless, error-prone mass surveillance of millions of Europeans by US corporations, while simultaneously killing online anonymity through the backdoor of age verification.”
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Continue reading here - patrick-breyer.de/en/reality-c…
Reality Check: EU Council Chat Control Vote is Not a Retreat, But a Green Light for Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance and the End of Right to Communicate Anonymously
Contrary to headlines suggesting the EU has "backed away" from Chat Control, the negotiating mandate endorsed today by EU ambassadors in a close split vote paves the way for a permanent infrastructure of mass surveillance.Patrick Breyer
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The timeline is here
Currently Denmark pushing it, they hold the EU presidency at the minute. Their minister for justice - Peter Hummelgaard is responsible for the big push and the wording. Specifically trying to pull the wool over the general public.
Ireland are next (they take over in January)
And the minister for justice in Ireland (Jim O'Callaghan) is also in favour of it.
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights - Right to privacy in the digital age
U.N. - Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Data privacy: A right to read without being read | United Nations
According to the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, libraries play a vital role as the privacy rights of their users are under increasing threat.United Nations
Thank you.
But what groups are advocating for this? There is clearly a significant campaign behind this. It doesn't seem at all grassroots.
At a guess, I'd imagine big tech companies are lobbying as most of the information that they use comes from data gathering. Using data directly from texts etc. Leaves them open to court cases.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
The options are limitless to the politicians regarding money making opportunities pushing x,y and z through once our private correspondence and devices are being scanned.
For example, in years to come insurance companies could refuse to pay out on all sorts of claims using that data.
Doctor may have recommended you walk a mile a day and change your diet.
You don't do it, or just miss a day, your life insurance policy is voided.
Car crash not your fault, no payout because you missed something else etc.
I couldn't begin to to guess the amount of ways that this information could be used, but it's a complete u-turn from what the EU was saying only a few years ago
They still recommend using signal - but only internally.
Which in itself is bizarre.
And exempting themselves from being scanned is just showing what they really think.
What is GDPR, the EU’s new data protection law? - GDPR.eu
What is the GDPR? Europe’s new data privacy and security law includes hundreds of pages’ worth of new requirements for organizations around the world. This GDPR overview will help...Ben Wolford (GDPR.eu)
I'm trying to learn more about EU politics, and when something like this won't die after being beat down several times, in the US it's almost always some industry lobbying organization.
And a problem we have globally, is that there isn't an organized counter movement in the opposite direction (that privacy is a human right, that this isn't a path to security, that states need to be restrained and restricted in their tendencies towards authoritarianism).
Without that countermovement, it's almost inevitable something like this will pass as the lobbying organization can long outlive the current generation of activists or politicians who see the problems with something like chat control.
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/11…
Yes, that's the same with many things. No counter movement.
We will see how transparent it all is
We have to be the ones that continue building the movement. Plenty of us already are but with each of us active, and getting others active-connected it will help so much. We all can way more in a healthy way get things done. Let's not make it easy for them at all.
Getting people to switch to Matrix, & Stoat for real-time collaboration.
Piefed for overview and more organization by having people doing.
Pixelfed, & Loops by Pixelfed for Live-Streaming Incidents.
Also, to stop them infecting people's minds with their virus
I agree. A proper counter movement is needed.
Big American corporations are heavily lobbying EU council and governments.
Transparency is not working, EU council are rolling back on GDPR, massively eroding our privacy, which is irreversible.
With the likes of Trump in charge the US are not trustworthy with any data. The data that they already take illegally is too much.
The UDHR article 12 is supposed to protect our privacy.
We need a counter movement big enough to scare the politicians when they start bending to the Big-Tech.
They are not in the least bit worried as things stand now.
Peter Hummelgaard (among others) and his arrogance does not seem even a little concerned about his position.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights | United Nations
A milestone document in the history of human rights, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights set out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected. It has been translated into over 500 languages.United Nations
I posted this before, but it doesn’t even seem to be voluntary at all, from what I can tell from the draft:
“Upon that notification, the provider shall, in cooperation with the EU Centre pursuant to Article 50(1a), take the necessary measures to effectively contribute to the development of the relevant technologies to mitigate the risk of child sexual abuse identified on their services. […]”
“In order to prevent and combat online child sexual abuse effectively, providers of hosting services and providers of publicly available interpersonal communications services should take all reasonable measures to mitigate the risk of their services being misused for such abuse […]”
These quotes sound mandatory, not voluntary. And let’s look what these technologies referenced are:
“In order to facilitate the providers’ voluntary activities under Regulation (EU) 2021/1232 compliance with the detection obligations, the EU Centre should make available to providers detection technologies […]”
“The EU Centre should provide reliable information on which activities can reasonably be considered to constitute online child sexual abuse, so as to enable the detection […] Therefore, the EU Centre should generate accurate and reliable indicators,[…] These indicators should allow technologies to detect the dissemination of either the same material (known material) or of different new child sexual abuse material (new material), […]”
Oops, it sounds again like mandatory scanning.
Source: cdn.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/…
The new draft seems to pretend better to look less mandatory, but it still looks mandatory to me. Feel free to correct me if somebody can figure out that I’m wrong.
Samsung Clipboard History
Edit: Samsung Keyboard (in the personal profile) was reinstalled probably after a system update and was the culprit. The issue is now solved. Thank you for your comments.
I have made a work profile using Shelter. I was copy-pasting some stuff in my personal profile while the work profile was disabled. Later, I discovered everything I had copied was showing up in Samsung Keyboard's clipboard history (in the work profile).
Personal profile's Samsung Keyboard was uninstalled via ADB (among some other packages like Google Play Services).
What package could be the culprit?
(I'd love to just install LineageOS on it but there isn't a built for the device yet. I just don't use it for sensitive stuff.)
It turned out to be... Samsung Keyboard in the end, probably reinstalled itself after a system update.
I thought it'd be something like com.samsung.clipboardsaveservice, which was the culprit on my old phone, but it didn't even exist on my new one.
I'm glad you figured it out!
Samsung is so invasive. I can't wait until I can justify turning þis þing into e-waste.
Death of Texas college student Brianna Aguilera ruled suicide: Police
Death of Texas college student Brianna Aguilera ruled suicide: Police
The police chief said her "heart aches" for Brianna Aguilera's parents.Emily Shapiro (ABC News)
Too bad its creator seems to like Trump mstdn.social/@rysiek/114630877…
I prefer deltachat delta.chat/
Hey @simplex is this really your founder? 👀
xcancel.com/epoberezkinEvgeny (@epoberezkin)
@SimpleXChat (http://simplex.chat) founder - the 1st chat network without user IDs. Created Ajv #JSON validator used by millions of JS apps.Nitter
Keep Talking About Gaza at Your Thanksgiving Table
If Israel’s genocide in Gaza has been a site of tension in your family for the last two Thanksgiving holidays, this year should be no different. The so-called ceasefire might seem like a good excuse to bury the hatchet and enjoy a quieter turkey dinner, but when we look at the harrowing status quo for Palestinians in Gaza today, there is no peace to be thankful for — especially not on a day that marks the remembrance of this country’s own genocide against Indigenous Americans.
To be clear, if two years of livestreamed annihilation have failed to shift your loved ones’ support away from the Israeli ethnostate, I doubt there is anything a dinner table argument could do to persuade them. There can be no reasoning with a worldview that forecloses seeing Palestinians as fully human.
I navigate this with pro-Israel members of my own British Jewish family. It’s painful, and I don’t have any good advice. Whatever your approach with your family, there can be no pretense that the genocide in Gaza is over.
Keep Talking About Gaza at Your Thanksgiving Table
Why we need to keep pushing for the end of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, even if that means an uncomfortable Thanksgiving dinner.Natasha Lennard (The Intercept)
Fierce battle for frontline towns where Ukraine's soldiers are surrounded
Fierce battle for frontline towns where Ukraine's soldiers are surrounded
With a peace plan put to President Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian towns of Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad - fiercely defended throughout the war - risk being encircled by Russian forces advancing in the Donbas.Annoa Abekah-Mensah and Sophia Massam, Data and Forensics team (Sky News)
Guinea-Bissau coup: What happened, why it matters, what happens next?
Military officials in the small West African nation of Guinea-Bissau have announced a new leader one day after seizing power in a military coup.
General Horta Nta Na Man was named as the head of a one-year transitional government at about noon (12:00 GMT) on Thursday. In a statement, he justified the seizure of power and said the army had taken charge in the face of threats to Guinea-Bissau’s stability.
Meanwhile, the African Union and ECOWAS will likely pressure the military to return to democratic rule as soon as possible, Cummings said. Both have, in the past, suspended and sanctioned countries in which coups have taken place, before reinstating them after clear timelines for elections are set.
Guinea-Bissau coup: What happened, why it matters, what happens next?
General Horta Inta-A is named the head of a one-year transitional government after President Embalo was detained.Shola Lawal (Al Jazeera)
China has lent more to US than any other country since 2000, report finds
China has lent more to US than any other country since 2000, report finds
China’s lending has been ‘vastly’ larger – and far more skewed towards developed countries – than previously assumed, AidData study finds.Ralph Jennings (South China Morning Post)
We are witnessing the purest expression of imperial hypocrisy. For years, the US propaganda apparatus diligently constructed a fable, a so called "debt trap" mythology, to frighten the nations of the Global South away from China's Belt and Road Initiative. It was a tale of predatory lending designed to isolate and contain a strategic competitor.
And yet, what do we find? The most eager client for these very loans, to the tune of over 200 billion dollars, was none other than the United States itself. Turns out that the entire narrative was a conscious fraud. They never believed their own warnings. They recognized that Chinese financing was a credible, attractive alternative to the stranglehold of Western financial institutions.
So, while publicly sounding the alarm to scare away other customers, the empire privately availed itself of the service. Here we see the very essence of imperial strategy. Its goal is to monopolize the very resources and opportunities it denies to others, all while cloaking its cynical self interest in the righteous language of concern.
Grand jury declines to reindict Letitia James
A grand jury declined to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James after being asked to look at the mortgage fraud case against her a second time, 10 days after a federal judge threw out the initial charges against her, according to a person familiar with the development Thursday.
Another source familiar with the situation said there should be no premature celebration, because the Justice Department could try to seek the indictment a third time.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/politics/grand-jury-declines-to-indict-letitia-james-again
Does switching motherboard require a reinstall?
I just bought a new motherboard and I’ll be buying a new CPU, too. The current one is a gigabyte 520i AC AM4 with an AMD Ryzen 7 5700G on it currently. The new one is also gigabyte 550M AM4 and the new processor is Ryzen 7 5800xt. I currently dual boot Cachy OS and windows 11. Each has their own boot partition and I use grub. I’m going to bring everything over from the old mobo except the cpu that will stay on it since it’s going into another pc. Meaning, I’m bringing my SSDs and all that. Will I need to reinstall (please say no lol)? Will it be just plug and play or will I need to fiddle with a live environment to chroot?
Please let me know if you need more info. Thank you in advance.
dd the raw disk image over to the target disk, do the rituals to make it bootable, and consider configuring new partition UUIDs.
‘We are not Enron’: Nvidia rejects AI bubble fears 🤣
The investor has also claimed the way Nvidia’s graphics chips are accounted for is incorrect, claiming they have a much shorter use life than has been suggested.
Also, the part about chips burning out faster than expected will become a real problem in a few years. You need rare earths to produce chips, and China has an effective monopoly on refining them. China will obviously prioritize its own domestic use. As Chinese companies continue to ramp up production of chips, solar panels, EVs, and so on, there will be less and less available for export. Even if the government wanted to help the US for some reason, it would be politically impossible for them to say they will starve their own industries to supply the US.
Meanwhile, even under the most aggressive diversification scenarios, China is projected to maintain around 80% of global refining capacity all the way through 2040s. So once the current supply of chips burns out, it is not clear how new ones will be made outside of China.
Looking for a Good Spanish TTS Engine on Manjaro (Offline / Local)
Hi everyone,
I’m trying to find a reliable Spanish text-to-speech (TTS) solution for Manjaro Linux that can read a text file and output a wav audio file or similar. I recently tried using Kokoro‑TTS:
uv tool install kokoro-tts
wget https://github.com/nazdridoy/kokoro-tts/releases/download/v1.0.0/kokoro-v1.0.onnx
wget https://github.com/nazdridoy/kokoro-tts/releases/download/v1.0.0/voices-v1.0.bin But when I ran:
kokoro-tts --help-languages it only lists languages like
en-us, fr-fr, ja, etc.—no Spanish, so it looks like the Spanish voice isn’t included.What I’m looking for:
- An alternative TTS engine that supports Spanish (ideally
es_ES) - That runs locally on Manjaro (or Arch-compatible)
- Simple to install and use from the command line
- Reasonable naturalness (doesn’t have to be super “neural,” but better than very robotic)
Questions:
- Which TTS system do you recommend for Spanish on Manjaro?
- Which are the simplest to install and use?
- Which are the most natural sounding ones?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
Kokoro claims to have Spanish. Here’s a link to the voices list and flags from their page:
huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-…
VOICES.md · hexgrad/Kokoro-82M at main
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.huggingface.co
Judge in Palestine Action case has ties to Israel lobby
Before the change, High Court Justice Martin Chamberlain, an expert on free speech law, had been set to rule on whether or not to overturn the government’s ban on Palestine Action as a “terrorist” group.
But on Wednesday last week, he was abruptly replaced by a panel of three – Victoria Sharp, Karen Steyn and Jonathan Swift. For a judge to be replaced so close to the hearing date is unusual.
High Court Judge Victoria Sharp’s twin brother Richard Sharp sits on the board of trustees of charity One Million Mentors alongside Trevor Chinn, a key British funder of pro-Israel groups.
Judge in Palestine Action case has ties to Israel lobby
Victoria Sharp worked for Robert Maxwell and her twin brother sits on charity board with Trevor Chinn.The Electronic Intifada
Judge in Palestine Action case has ties to Israel lobby
Before the change, High Court Justice Martin Chamberlain, an expert on free speech law, had been set to rule on whether or not to overturn the government’s ban on Palestine Action as a “terrorist” group.
But on Wednesday last week, he was abruptly replaced by a panel of three – Victoria Sharp, Karen Steyn and Jonathan Swift. For a judge to be replaced so close to the hearing date is unusual.
High Court Judge Victoria Sharp’s twin brother Richard Sharp sits on the board of trustees of charity One Million Mentors alongside Trevor Chinn, a key British funder of pro-Israel groups.
Judge in Palestine Action case has ties to Israel lobby
Victoria Sharp worked for Robert Maxwell and her twin brother sits on charity board with Trevor Chinn.The Electronic Intifada
Macron unveils voluntary military service as concerns grow over Russia
Macron unveils voluntary military service as concerns grow over Russia
President Emmanuel Macron has announced the creation of a voluntary youth military service to start by mid-2026 as France moves to strengthen its armed forces amid rising concern over Russia’s threat beyond the war in Ukraine.RFI
Mike Johnson says lawmakers should be able to continue owning stocks
House Speaker Mike Johnson said that members of Congress should be able to continue owning stocks.
He suggested that a stock trading ban could discourage people from running for office.
Earlier this year, Johnson expressed support for a ban, citing the "appearance of impropriety."
Mike Johnson says lawmakers should be able to own stocks
Johnson suggested that a ban could discourage people from running for office. He had earlier voiced support for a Congressional stock trading ban.Bryan Metzger (Business Insider)
What you do with your windows button on your keyboard?
Israeli settler caught on video kicking detained Palestinian as IDF soldiers stand nearby
Israeli settler caught on video kicking detained Palestinian as IDF soldiers stand nearby
The Israeli soldiers on scene – including members of an IDF West Bank unit made up of local settlers – saw the incident but did not intervene. The army said the troops' conduct is 'under review'Matan Golan (Haaretz)
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Yes, which part are you skeptical of? I think these are pretty clear at this point, though. Most of this is from comrade @yogthos@lemmy.ml
- Reuters, 2014: Leaked audio reveals embarrassing U.S. exchange on Ukraine, EU reuters.com/article/idUSBREA15…
- Leaked recording between Nuland and Pyatt: | transcript
- Counterpunch, 2014: US Imperialism and the Ukraine Coup counterpunch.org/2014/03/10/us…
- Consortium News, 2015: The Mess That Nuland Made consortiumnews.com/2022/02/26/…
- Monthly Review Online, 2021: The Maidan massacre in Ukraine: revelations from trials and investigations mronline.org/2021/12/11/the-ma…
- Maidan coup thread archive.ph/BAxYc
- Coup details consortiumnews.com/2022/12/29/…
- Don't Get it Wrong: Ukraine and "Israel" are Both Tools of US-EU Imperialism
- An article from August 2021 advocating inflicting a military defeat on Russia in Ukraine to subjugate it and draw it away from China nationalinterest.org/feature/s…
- An important piece that reveals Washington, via CIA paramilitaries, has been fighting a proxy war against Russia in the Donbas since, it's implied, 2014. news.yahoo.com/exclusive-secre…
- NYT coup coverage with CIA involvement nytimes.com/2024/02/25/world/e…
- Nordstream US involvement evidence thegrayzone.com/2023/06/27/evi…
- The US harvesting Ukraine for minerals apnews.com/article/ukraine-us-…
So, there were these points you mentioned:
- The west has absolutely hollowed out and looted Ukraine
- used it as a battering ram to damage Russia as much as they could.
- The US blew up Nordstream specifically to try to decouple western Europe from cheap Russian gas.
- The US Empire, post-2014 Euromaidan coup, uses Ukraine similarly to how they use Israel, to secure its interests in the region.
The first two links are about US officials discussing who they'd like to see active in a Ukrainian government and who they don't. Doesn't relate to any of your points. Maybe the last, but simply discussing which people are currently doing what in another country during a state of turmoil doesn't really say anything.
The counterpunch link is just weird... It's just a long list of weird accusations and propaganda without any substance at all. Looking at the site, it's not a neutral news source anyway, but that, too, doesn't give any sources concerning any of your points beyond "look, western politicians visited Ukraine". Well, no shit.
The Consortium News article starts with brandishing the opposition as a Neo-Nazi movement and disqualifies itself utterly by that within the first few sentences. Like, those are your sources? That's insane.
The Monthly Review Online article is about the Maidan massacre. Not directly related to the points above.
Maidan coup thread: deals with the question "Is there any credible evidence that Ukraine's 2014 revolution was due to a CIA coup". Even if the answer to this was "yes", it wouldn't be relevant to any of the points above.
Coup details: same. Like, it keeps going on how the US influenced actors. Well, no shit. That's what politicians do. I still don't see the connection to the allegations stated above and the way it's framed in the article is despicable.
"Don't get it wrong": "The EU doesn’t care about Ukrainian lives — in 2014, they supported a far-right coup", nah, I'm out. "Far right coup", what bullshit. This whole myth of Nazis taking over Ukraine is just ridiculous and any article that keeps iterating that Russian propaganda is not believable.
advocating inflicting a military defeat on Russia in Ukraine... Helping Ukraine defend itself against an invading agressor because it serves your interest as well doesn't make your second point true. Russia could stop the war today if they simply stopped attacking another country. They don't. It's not the west that uses Ukraine, it's Ukraine that uses the west's interest to reduce Russian power to defend itself. You're mixing up cause and effect.
Washington, via CIA paramilitaries, has been fighting a proxy war - bullshit. The article is about US people training Ukrainian people, not about the CIA fighting a war. Helping Ukraine defend itself doesn't mean you're "using it". If you're teaching somebody some self defense to no longer get beaten up by a bully, you're not fighting a proxy fistfight. What a stupid take.
NYT coup coverage with CIA involvement - same.
Nordstream US involvement evidence - long, long article that ends up accusing Ukrainian nationalists. No US involvement mentioned.
The US harvesting Ukraine for minerals - and here it is, the one part that I agree with you and that I think is believable. And of all the points up there, this only partly backs up the last one, because "getting resources" isn't really "securing its interest in the region" (or one might argue it's even the opposite, considering historic precedence such as Versailles, but I guess Trump doesn't think that far ahead). Yeah, that sucks. But still, there is no indication of the US or any other western state being the cause here - it's just Trump, the Russian asset of all the people, trying to take advantage of a situation.
I gave a variety of sources, because you were incredibly vague. One thing you do repeatedly in this comment, though, is immediately dismiss any source that agrees with the reality that Ukraine is governed by a far-right nationalist group that upholds Stepan Bandera. This truth is so counter to your understanding that you feel it a claim capable of being dismissed without any evidence from your part. Regardless of how well-sourced and backed up this is, from whatever source, even the pro-Ukraine New York Times, you still deny it.
If I give you hard evidence, and you dismiss it purely because it disagrees with your ideology, what's the point in me giving you evidence? Genuinely. Your only argument against Ukraine being governed by far-right nationalists is that Russia also believes this, which is racism at worst and utterly confused logic at best.
As for the reason why I showed western involvement in setting up the current government of Ukraine, it's because it's quite clear that that was the reason for the Euromaidan Coup. The west set up a group of far-right nationalists, for the ends of securing their economic interests in the region. This includes encircling Russia, cutting off supply of cheap Russian gas, and drawing out an unpopular war to try to economically weaken Russia as much as possible.
You further add your own conspiracy theory, that the most Statesian president ever doing the most Statesian things, is somehow a Russian asset. You provide no evidence for this either, just like you provided no evidence to counter mine, yet just leave it hanging as though stating it is evidence.
I implore you to move beyond sheer knee-jerk reaction, and actually pay attention to the points being brought up. No news source is ever neutral, and a source not being neutral does not mean it is wrong.
It’s virtually impossible to be in an “echo chamber” when living in a Five Eyes country. Or rather, it’s virtually impossible to not be stuck in the Five Eyes liberal echo chamber. You would have to go full Kaczynski, living in a shack in the woods.
As if we weren’t—and aren’t still—exposed to exactly the same life-long indoctrination, education, and propaganda as everyone else in the imperial core. But somehow we, who looked beyond the cultural hegemony in which we’re surrounded, are the ones living in a bubble.
Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away
Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away
The foundation of modern software is cracking under the weight of burnout.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
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