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in reply to Maeve

Hope you have a swift recovery, im personally okay but to be honest with climate exacerbated disasters here it's hard to read the stuff westerners say online it's really inhuman. I like to show it to liberals who tend to get weird when drunk and say they think US does such and such better. It just makes me want to ride the canoe all the way back and clobber people tho. Oh yeah its a bit offbeat I can just give you an email address, i like cheogram and delta chat bc they are nice for being in the mountains and shit with horrible internet, saves downloads for later. Delta chat is actually just a weird clientside email managemebt thing so it can use regular emails
in reply to Avatar of Vengeance

Hm, climate disaster is real, and alarming. Photos of Vietnam are quite shocking, I just checked weather for a few areas, more rain. So many lost, already. How are things in your mountains? I do hope you're safe. I understand your anger toward US in general and callous, flippant USians, and even our ignorance, including mine. I just want you to be ok.

Thank you for your kind wishes, friend. I know others have it much worse and remain grateful for what is right with me, even if it means I have to check myself, occasionally. Please know I think of you often and fondly.

Edit: I'll have to sort something for email. Pretty sure free providers in US won't do. I had a $1/month paid in Germany I let lapse because uhh... They won't do either.

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in reply to jankforlife

RT is literally Russian propaganda. If the poster can't find a better source it's not news.
in reply to muzzle

Please recommend me a news outlet that isn't propaganda. CNN? MSNBC? Fox? lol
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in reply to jankforlife

Context:

swentr.site is a domain registered in March 2022 and is managed by RU-CENTER, a Russian domain registrar. The domain is associated with ANO “TV-Novosti,” which is the organization behind RT (Russia Today), a Russian state-controlled international news network. The site has been identified as a content mirror or alternative domain for RT, often used to circumvent sanctions or restrictions placed on the main RT domains.[cside +4]

Domain Details

• Registered: March 5, 2022

[whoxy]• Registrar: RU-CENTER (Russia)[cside +1]

• Hosting: ANO “TV-Novosti” (Russia)

[easycounter]• Purpose: Used as a mirror or alternative domain for RT (Russia Today)

in reply to hornedfiend

"Censorship is good, actually"
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in reply to jankforlife

About time..... RN (ex-FN) has been peddling hate for over a decade with russian funds. Many of my countrypeople have ceded ground to fascist ideology because of that money. I hear it in the news... in the streets... my own neighbours have started losing their legendary empathy. Having principles is great but we have to defend ourselves at some point. Russia is doing real damage to the minds through their local proxies



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.

in reply to chasteinsect

Huh, I mostly use apvlv and mupdf. They are command line binaries but they have a gui; I don't really see a point in looking at a PDF with something other than a gui.
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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?

in reply to BingBong

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.

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in reply to N.E.P.T.R

Regarding Pop!_OS, (at least historically) it was the easiest distro for Nvidia users. Add to that some neat stuff like a Recovery Partition^[Btw, if you happen to know any other distro that offers something similar, then I'd love to hear about it.] and I can understand where (at least initially) the hype was (IMO justifiably) coming from. Unfortunately, erupting COSMIC DE from the ground hasn't done Pop!_OS well for upkeeping its good name and reputation. I suppose they're lucky that Linux users are seriously delayed when it comes to adjusting their recommendations. (Like how a chunk of peeps continued to proselytize for Manjaro till last year or so.)



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 😀

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in reply to Thorned_Rose

I don't have a video for you but I've been using Actual for over a year and really like it. I recommend it. Caveat, I very actively interact with my budget (inputting things manually) and cannot speak for it's account linking features.
in reply to iAmTheTot

We just switched from YNAB to actual and my wife really likes it. I host it locally with tailscale so she can access it from her phone anywhere.





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.
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in reply to Sahwa

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.

in reply to silt_haddock

Check fan speed volume before and after linux to see how many background AI scrapers were removed lmao.

in reply to NightOwl

They definitely totally care about peace and human life though, and are certainly not cynical opportunists doing their best to prolong two different conflicts because there's money to be made
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in reply to Maeve

As well as emotional regulation from an early age (would massively reduce male violence)


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.

in reply to Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ

Looking at all the issues Matrix has had for years and is still struggling with, I'm not suprised people prefer to use something else. I've been using Matrix since 2017 and I feel like things don't improve much, unfortunately.
in reply to erebion

Yup. Matrix seems fine as long as you aren't trying to use encryption. If you are, it's been hopelessly broken for... ever.


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.”
**
Continue reading here - patrick-breyer.de/en/reality-c…

in reply to TropicalDingdong

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.

U.N. right to privacy

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights - Right to privacy in the digital age

U.N. - Universal Declaration of Human Rights

in reply to Babalugats

Thank you.

But what groups are advocating for this? There is clearly a significant campaign behind this. It doesn't seem at all grassroots.

in reply to TropicalDingdong

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

gdpr.eu/what-is-gdpr/

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.

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in reply to Babalugats

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.

in reply to Babalugats

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

in reply to Batmorous

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.

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in reply to Babalugats

Thats why everyone needs to be active with us and get more people moving. The more we do the more we win!! They are already scared that's why they try so hard now.
in reply to Babalugats

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.)

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in reply to Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ

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.

in reply to QuestionMark

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.





in reply to not_me

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/epoberezkin

#SimpleX #InfoSec


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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.




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.

in reply to geneva_convenience

The leftwing party wasn't even allowed to run in this election, despite being the largest party in the country.

in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

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?


Hi all,
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.
in reply to DonutsRMeh

Saw the followup post, glad to hear its all running well. I created my VM using virt-manager with a raw disk image and UEFI firmware rather than the default qcow2 format with BIOS. I keep the image size down to 32 GB to save time when imaging. Install proceeds as usual, make sure fstab mounts disks by UUID, Debian does by default in my case. When everything is configured, dd the raw disk image over to the target disk, do the rituals to make it bootable, and consider configuring new partition UUIDs.
in reply to monovergent

Thank you. And man, I so want to do this. Is there a tutorial that you know of that is good? I don’t even know what to search for, to be honest. I do want to build an image and work on it for a little while and then when I feel that it is ready, I want to install it on my pc. So basically, I want to reinstall my Cachy OS system, but I don’t want to start from scratch. I want to build it in a VM, and add all of my apps to it and configure everything until it is a 100% match of my current system. Without any of my personal files because for that, I have a dejadup back up that I’ll just restore to the new install.

in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

Most companies don't need to insist on that.
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in reply to Mark with a Z

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.

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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:

  1. Which TTS system do you recommend for Spanish on Manjaro?
  2. Which are the simplest to install and use?
  3. Which are the most natural sounding ones?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

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in reply to PumpkinDrama

Kokoro claims to have Spanish. Here’s a link to the voices list and flags from their page:

huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-…