Alberta, Ontario don't want feds to reintroduce First Nations safe drinking water law


in reply to Grimpen

We need better infill policies.

My fear is that we're going to have huge amounts of federal funding coming in to municipalities to build massive swaths of suburban sprawl in the name of additional housing, putting more fuel on the fire that is car dependence.

Even new developments that have "mixed-use" multifamily are depressing to be in when they're completely isolated from the rest of the city and you can only go in or out with a car.

Installing Guix as a Complete GNU/Linux System - System Crafters


Trying out Guix for the first time! Waiting for packages to download.

I'm a long time Arch user. Any tips?!

I've heard there aren't as many packages for Guix as other distros, but I was thinking Flatpak and distrobox will help bridge the gap for me.

in reply to paequ2

Btw, here's how you configure HiDPI for GNOME. Unfortunately, my laptop has a hydeepeeay display, so it's not fully compatible with Linux. (It's 3840x2160, so at least 2x scaling is possible, hypothetically.)

Commands from the Arch Wiki, but also adds cursor scaling:

$ gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings overrides "[{'Gdk/WindowScalingFactor', <2>}, {'Gtk/CursorThemeSize', <48>}]"
$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface scaling-factor 2

The default GNOME configuration is some how missing that. I didn't have to do that in Arch, but I do in Guix. IDK. Anyway, if you don't run those commands certain apps will be tiny, including a tiny mouse cursor.

How do your toughts work?


As per title, I am curious. How does your mind / your thoughts work? I only ever experienced my own thoughts, so I'm curious how it works for other people.

I for one feel like my thoughts sometimes are like me talking to myself silently. Sometimes I can even let out a random short sound, which I've come to start disguising by laughing kinda quietly or coughing or whatever. Like it was part of something, and not like an inner monologue almost leaking out.

So, how do your thoughts work?

Many NGG Improvements Arrive For AMD's Open-Source Linux OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers


‘Appalled and disgusted,’ Muslim community seeking answers after Oshawa woman’s hijab was pulled off, head stomped on in attack


in reply to skozzii

Well, I wouldn't say that with any certainty - there's certainly a chance the pulling off of the hijab was motivated by xenophobia, but even if it was, that only puts it a distant third behind the violent assault and the robbery. It shouldn't be the first thing mentioned in the headline because it implies having her hijab removed is worse than getting her store robbed and her head kicked in.

billionaires are a cancer on society [literally]


Ok so how does a cancer kill its host?

It grows until it consumes so many nutrients that the other living cells don't get enough. The host literally starves even if he eats plentifully.

The same applies for the US: The billionaires are not only hoarding wealth, but by doing so they're crippling the economy for workers and everybody besides themselves.

in reply to teppa

Political campaigns cost a lot of money and billionaires fund the ones that would bail them out directly or indirectly. So billionaires are in fact bailing themselves out. This is why we so often find ourselves in the situation where all candidates are shit and we try voting for the lesser turd. If it were merely a matter of voting, we wouldn't be in this position. Unless this is widely understood and we take the steps needed to counteract it, we'd forever be pointing at either the housing minister, or the voters and ask how could this still be happening. (Actually we won't because the system would collapse when workers eventually revolt, but you get what I'm saying.)

The theory that if we only let large firms fail when they fuck up, things would get better is a fantasy because that changes nothing of significance in who holds power in society. And that's before we think about corporate ownership and how profits are protected during failure. And before we consider that when firms fail, they rarely disappear. Instead they get absorbed, customers, employees and capital by their competitor, creating even bigger firms, now able to exercise higher market power, and their owners even richer. Competition does not lead to a competitive equilibrium outside of rare cases. Instead it leads to consolidation and eventually monopolies or oligipolies.

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in reply to teppa

Yes I do mean the revolving door. Also the campaign finance laws still favor better funded campaigns and we know how much better funded the cons are for example than anyone else. And then there's the spending that goes to advertising from third parties which is very high. And then we have the third party ad spending outside of campaign periods. Your Canada Prouds and such pushing corporate propaganda all day, every day. And then in some provinces there are no limits for provincial elections or the limits are quite high. Don't get me wrong, we're in a much better position in this regard to the USA but we're very much not in a democratic environment that really favours the majority of working Canadians.

Charlie Angus: American Dachau


Six months.

That's all it took for the Trump regime to make the move from kidnapping people on the street, to threatening to strip political enemies of citizenship, to selling swag celebrating the construction of an American concentration camp.

Six months.

And Republicans say that merch promoting the newly built Alligator Alcatraz concentration camp is "going like hot cakes."

Some detractors have called the camp Alligator Auschwitz, but this may not be the most accurate comparison. Not yet anyway. Because the death camps didn’t just appear; it took years of increasing brutality and degradation before they got to Auschwitz.

It began at Dachau.

in reply to Karna

Beyond raw horsepower, 7-Zip quietly tightens its handling of several legacy formats. Support for ZIP, CcPIO, and FAT archives has been refined, smoothing edge-case extractions that previously required third-party tools.


Over the years there was a few .zip archives that 7z could not handle for whatever reason. For these cases I had to use another application, but don't know the reason. And my bad to not keeping copies of these files for future testing.

Trump supporters shocked after their Canadian mother is arrested


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Weird line tearing on KDE


Posting here too as I've not had any responses in the more relevant communities.

Hi there, I've got these really odd issue where certain windows will cause random lines like the one in the screenshot appear on my screen. They will often flicker a bit and will dissapear if I hover my mouse over them. The lines will display what is beneath the window itself. These occour quite frequently and are frankly getting quite annoying to deal with.

Is this a known issue with KDE right now? It does not happen while using Gnome on the same machine + screen. If it matters I am running CachyOS+KDE 6.4.1+AMD.

If there is anythign I can do to fix this then I'd greatly appriciate some pointers!

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Linux gave me a brand new laptop


I bought a Lenovo laptop, one from the the bargain bin, 11th gen Intel and 8gb soldered RAM

Even if I reinstalled Windows to make sure all the bloatware was removed, it was almost unusable. At boot I was left with only 800mb free memory, and "Lenovo vantage" kept reappearing automatically like malware. (It's a useless electron app that wastes half a gig of ram to show you on screen when you press caps lock, check driver updates and try to upsell you on extended warranty)

At idle the machine was as loud as a jet, with crystal disk mark always complaining "the nvme drive is over 65°C!!" (I'm guessing from the constant swapping)

Battery life was a disaster, 2 hours at idle with no foreground apps open

I thought that it was the CPU too slow for my use and the RAM not enough, so I was planning to spend some hundreds of euro to buy a new laptop with at least 16gb of RAM.

Then I installed cachyos and because I'm masochist I chose hyprland at the "easy" install screen that asks you which of the 19 available DE you prefer.

After a week of suffering trying to understand all the text configuration files for everything (it was a shock, everything needs the terminal) I'm now getting used to it and... It's like I got a brand new laptop??!?

Memory: clean boot now obviously is reversed situation. I don't have only 800mb of free RAM, the whole system uses only 800mb

Temperatures: by default cachyos is set to show the CPU temperature on waybar, and it's always around 40-45° C. The fan is way quieter. At idle they can even stop, before they were like a hair dryer even after a clean boot

Battery life: astounding. I can't believe that I can use it for a whole afternoon. Accidentally fell asleep and when I came back after two hours it lost only 10% (on idle, screen turn off automatically)

Gaming performance: tried only with casual games but with something like tinytopia I get 60fps on ultra when on windows it was choppy on high

Big Improvements For Qualcomm GPU Driver With Linux 6.17 - Especially For Snapdragon X


“It’s over”: David Suzuki says it’s too late to stop climate change now and the damage is already done


And guess what ... most of the people who 'did what they could' just kept driving their cars. 'What choice did we have?' None.

Should Humanity Continue? Glenn Reacts to Thiel Interview [20:56 | JUL 05 2025 | Glenn Greenwald]


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Main Topic: The video discusses Peter Thiel's interview where he hesitates when asked if the human race should continue, and Glenn's reaction to Thiel's views on transhumanism, AI, and the potential dangers of unchecked billionaire influence.

Key Points:

  • Thiel's Hesitation: The video starts by referencing Peter Thiel's interview where he seemed uncertain about whether humanity should continue.
  • Transhumanism and AI: The discussion explores the transhumanist philosophy prevalent in Silicon Valley, focusing on merging humans with technology and AI, as exemplified by Mark Zuckerberg's vision of brain implants.
  • Autism and Conformity: Glenn discusses Thiel's perspective on autism, suggesting that it can provide a detachment from societal norms, fostering innovation.
  • Billionaire Culture: A significant portion of the video critiques the culture of Silicon Valley billionaires, arguing that their wealth and power, combined with constant flattery, can lead to detachment from reality, dangerous levels of self-confidence, and utopian/dystopian visions for society.
  • Essentialism vs. Nihilism: The video touches on the philosophical implications of transhumanism, contrasting it with essentialist views of humanity and raising concerns about the potential destruction of what it means to be human.
  • Lack of Debate: Glenn expresses concern about the lack of societal debate and safeguards surrounding the rapid advancement of AI, driven by billionaires with unchecked power.

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Unable to Boot into ArchLinux Today


Today, after decrypting my encrypted drive, the system failed to boot into it.

I forget what the error said. It maybe said that it could not fine new_root or something.

I tried something like the following, by I don't know what it does.

cryptsetup reencrypt --decrypt --header new_file device_path

I'm not sure what it does and what the --header part does. It was taking too long, so interrupted with a reboot. Now its saying their device is not a valid LUKS device.

Musk gründet nach Konflikt mit Trump eigene Partei


[CH] Franzosen dürfen in Porrentruy JU nicht mehr in die Badi – schon wieder


#Europa macht dicht.

In einer Gemeinde im Jura dürfen Ausländer (korrekt: Personen ohne Wohnsitz oder Arbeitsplatz in der #Schweiz) nicht mehr ins Schwimmbad.

Die Franzosen würden sich angeblich zu schlecht benehmen.

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UK arrests 83-year-old priest for backing Palestine Action and opposing Gaza genocide


The Reverend Sue Parfitt, from Bristol, was detained for holding a placard that read: “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.” She was among more than 27 people arrested on Saturday for acts of defiance against the proscription.
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in reply to Nanook

Fair. Again Jews aren't some boogeymen. We bleed the same as everyone else. For a people that make up ~0.5% of the worlds population we really had to put up with stupid motherfuckers and their inane bullshit. Some people are really thick as pigshit.

Again yes I'm calling the nazis thick as pigshite. Murderous they were, but you cannot deny their reasoning makes them look stupid as fuck.

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in reply to ewo

@ewo Genuine genetic sons of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob perhaps, but you've got a bunch of Babalonian worshipers of Baal, Marduk and the line that came to Germany years back, still practicing child sacrifice that given the choice between changing religions and being beheaded changed religions, and what better way to continue exploiting the natives than to claim to be God's Chosen. As near as I can tell psychopathy seems to be a genetic feature of that lot.
in reply to Nanook

I'm drunk as a skunk so I don't quite see your point but aye

I'm half jewish, I've been all over Israel, what is going on there saddens me so much, to see my Jewish ancestors to escape the holocaust and then to do things like this... Again any self respecting Jew would reject this completely.

Jews =/= Israel

Israel =/= Jews

Criticising Israel =/= Anti-Semitic

And Netanyahu is a fucking war criminal. He deserves to be hung. I hope he gets the Gaddafi treatment

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in reply to ewo

@ewo We agree on pretty much all of the above, I apologize that my statements were pretty much overly broad. Tend to focus on what is getting attention at the moment. I am not at all happy with the leaders of my own country. I voted for Trump because he claimed to be the President of peace, then he pulls this. I know the DemonRats are warmongers and virtually no other party has a chance so clearly votes won't resolve this situation.
in reply to Nanook

Just beforehand I'm not religious but I am part-Jewish and it's totally okay to call Netanyahu a warmongering facist prick who should rot in jail, because that's what he is. That's just common sense, which apparently a lot of the world is fucking lacking right now (excuse my French)

^^ if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck and all...

You have nothing to apologize for, we are all on this planet together and everyone is allowed to have an opinion. Again yeah, well, Trump is a snake oil salesman. We have our own party in the UK called Reform who are aligned and do exactly the same.

They promise everything but give nothing. In the immortal words of JRR Tolkien, "evil cannot create. It only corrupts". Which is exactly what these morally bankrupt fuckers are doing.

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in reply to ewo

@ewo I thought he did ok in the first term, there were some minor skirmishes but nothing on this scale and a lot less than Byedone, but this time around not so well, but perhaps that goes with being a lame duck. He can't be elected again so might as well piss away every penny of political capital that he had. But really I see the problem in this nation as more systematic than personal. As long as you got a big industry making a lot of money killing people, the killing will continue.

Preventing Asian Citrus Psysllid


I have a small lemon tree that was bought from a local grower and came with the extra bonus of an Asian Citrus Psysllid infestation. The tree is dead now and I'd love to get a new tree, but want to make sure I've done everything I could to prevent a new tree from getting infested by any Psysllid still in the area.

Is there anything I can do to treat my soil or surrounding plants to make sure those little buggers aren't going to keep coming back? I'm in California where the sale of IMIDACLOPRID products is banned, which was previously the primary treatment for this.

in reply to anticonnor

In all seriousness, you need to contact your local university agriculture extension. Like right now.

This is a huge problem this generated from unlicensed growers, and they are shipping this all over the country, causing massive outbreaks.

Unless you live in an area with an abundance of Mantids or Wasps, I don't think there are any other means of control aside from harsh pesticides.

Call your local extension immediately, tell them where you got it, and have them come visit to treat if necessary.

in reply to WoodScientist

She said collisions with motor vehicles is definitely the most dangerous aspect, but in all situations, these scooters require a certain level of skill and balance.


I love how they're going out of their way to not admit this whole article is actually about cars running over kids on scooters.

I hate how much we protect drivers from accountability for their actions. If I go out and stab a kid for no reason I'm in jail for decades. If I run over enough kids on scooters they'll write whole-ass articles arguing that "scooters are unsafe"

in reply to Auli

It doesn't take a genius to figure out that cars are running over these kids. Kids are naive and trust that cars aren't trying to run then over so they'll make stupid decisions (for our car brained society that lets people drive until they drop dead without annual testing).

Then look at the types of injuries, you're not cracking your skull or lacerating your abdomen falling off a kid's scooter that basically go human running speed (18-30km/h) MAX.

Then we have doctors taking about "sprains" and "concussions" typical falling off your e scooter injuries, but that the worst injuries are car related and it's pretty easy to see what's happening even with the blatant pro car bias this article has.

in reply to Davriellelouna

kids never even pretending to wear helmets on these things

someone i know was going for a walk and chanced upon a mangled child waiting for EMS to show up

52 per cent of all e-scooter injuries we’re seeing involve riders below the legal age


Do they at least give these people and their kids some sort of traffic rules class or something?

I don't know what the answer here is, it seems like a job for Public Health.

Give away free bicycles? What was wrong with bicycles?

in reply to faxed

Everything around them is built for cars. When that's the case, and you have no car (are underage to drive) you essentially have no freedom because you can't go anywhere or do anything. Bikes are great, they are also exhausting and impractical to cover the distances that cars can. An e-scooter can get you there faster than a bike and without being exhausted. I think it gives these kids a taste of freedom and independence that they crave.

Weird line tearing on KDE


Hi there, I've got these really odd issue where certain windows will cause random lines like the one in the screenshot appear on my screen. They will often flicker a bit and will dissapear if I hover my mouse over them. The lines will display what is beneath the window itself. These occour quite frequently and are frankly getting quite annoying to deal with.

Is this a known issue with KDE right now? It does not happen while using Gnome on the same machine + screen. If it matters I am running CachyOS.

If there is anythign I can do to fix this then I'd greatly appriciate some pointers!

GrapheneOS version 2025070300 released


Tags:
  • 2025070300 (Pixel 6, Pixel 6 Pro, Pixel 6a, Pixel 7, Pixel 7 Pro, Pixel 7a, Pixel Tablet, Pixel Fold, Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro, Pixel 8a, Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro XL, Pixel 9 Pro Fold, Pixel 9a, emulator, generic, other targets)

Changes since the 2025070100 release:

  • increase virtual memory reserved for Binder buffers from 1MiB to 8MiB due to Android 16 having a very large Binder transaction scaling up based on the number of apps and profiles which can go beyond the total size limit and break fully booting the OS, which occurred for a tiny number of our Alpha testers (if you were one of the tiny number of Alpha channel testers running into this, you can sideload this release to resolve the issue)
  • fix issues with display of the end session button to avoid it being wrongly displayed for Owner or not displayed for secondary users (we may remove this part of the upstream end session UI or make it optional since the functionality is also in the power menu)
  • update Pixel USB HAL to Android 16 (this was omitted in the initial port due to needing special handling for our USB-C port and pogo pins control feature)
  • always use UTC as the time zone for build date properties
  • kernel (6.6): update to latest GKI LTS branch revision

GrapheneOS Foundation Commentary On ICEBlock's False Claims About Push Notifications


ICEBlock is making incredibly false privacy claims for marketing. They falsely claim it provides complete anonymity when it doesn't. They're ignoring both data kept by Apple and data available to the server but not stored. They're also spreading misinformation about Android:

iceblock.app/android

Their claims about push notifications on Android compared to iOS are completely false. Both Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) and the Apple Push Notification service (APNs) function in a similar way with similar privacy. However, Android does not force using FCM and apps can use other push systems.

iOS forces uses Apple services including getting apps through Apple where they have a record of which apps each person and account has installed and using their push notification service. Both FCM and APNs have tokens. Android doesn't allow apps to access device IDs. Push tokens aren't device IDs.

Apple and Google can identify devices/users based on push tokens obtained by law enforcement from services. Unlike Google, Apple only recently began requiring warrants:

reuters.com/technology/apple-n…

ICEBlock's claims about this are highly inaccurate and they haven't acknowledged corrections.

in reply to spujb

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OOP tweet (they explain in this thread that it’s from circa 2012): web.archive.org/web/2022090606…

pastebin archive (mildly unsatisfactory recreation, for example uses the wrong character for the headlights instead of perhaps 日): web.archive.org/web/2023061201…

recreation credit: web.archive.org/web/2022031512…

work of a fellow archivist: web.archive.org/web/2025021621…

have given up looking for older versions to archive but
~~if anyone knows how to search usenet communities that might be where the forum OOP got this from lives~~ actually i’m pretty sure 4-ch.net/dqn/index.html is the forum as it perfectly matches the description—all posts are timestamped 1993-09

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US consultancy firm [Boston Consulting Group] involved in GHF aid scheme modelled plans to 'relocate' Palestinians


The spy, private equity baron and ghost of a Trump donor: The revolving door behind a Gaza mercenary firm


in reply to cheese_greater

It depends on the transit service, and how much their IT people suck. I'm pretty sure there have been multiple attempts to make standardized APIs for this sort of thing, but you shouldn't necessarily expect them to be widely used except maybe in Europe.

Do a web search for "[transit service name] API" and start from there.

Edit: My local transit service apparently publishes a GTFS feed, which may be more widespread than I assumed, but I'm honestly kinda surprised they didn't try to roll their own or something stupid like that.

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BlackRock Halted Ukraine Fund Talks After Trump’s Election Win


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