Bcachefs may be dropped from the Linux kernel
Linus Torvalds hints Bcachefs may get dropped from the Linux kernel
: Kernel 6.16 may be the last with the new disk formatLiam Proven (The Register)
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I'm a user. I just want to run the software. I don't really care about the means of delivery. If it's not available via package manager, then I have to get it some other way.
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Just another tool in the toolbox. Use it or not, up to the user. I've even seen Slackware users who say they use Flatpak to ward off dependency rabbit holes.
Don't like it for one simple reason: no integration with the distribution. Flatpak is this sort universal solution that works, but doesn't necessarily work hand-in-hand with the distro, unlike package managers.
Conservative-backed petition calls for end of ‘co-ordinated mass candidacies’ in elections
Conservative-backed petition calls for end of ‘co-ordinated mass candidacies’ in elections
The petition appears to target a group protesting for voter reform by putting forward dozens of candidates in certain electoral racesPalak Mangat (InnisfilToday.ca)
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If you're going to alter the candidacy requirements, how about requiring candidates to live in the riding for at least a year before running there?
Surprised by some of the comments here.
Whether or not the solution being proposed is the best or only one is the question.
Instead several users are taking any discussion as being anti-democratic.
The Chief Electoral Officer of Canada raised concerns about how these long ballots were impeding the democratic process, including by presenting barriers to accessibility by voters.
This has become an increasing problem, with former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s riding being targeted in 2019.
There seem to be two kinds of barriers:
- physical barriers to finding and marking the ballot of their choice
- becoming informed of the positions and intents of candidates when there are so many candidates that do not actually intend to serve as MPs.
The underlying issue seems to be that a small group of qualified voters in a targeted riding are nominating a very large number of candidates.
That is 60+ candidates put forward by the longest ballot group were all nominated by the same small number of voters.
Is this reasonable?
Democratic rights are balanced with responsibility under the Charter. Is it reasonable for a single voter to sign the nomination papers for 50 candidates or even 20.
Only being able to sign the papers for one candidate in one election period may be too limiting as not all candidates obtain enough signatures to be minor drop out later for other reasons.
Would limiting the right to sign nomination papers to 2 or 5 candidates be a reasonable balance under the Charter?
While this specific solution being proposed by this CPC member may be too restrictive, it seems worth a debate.
And perhaps the second issue of voters being able to reasonably obtain information about the intent and positions of candidates would be resolved if there were not so many nominated candidates.
The Rhinoceros party position that their candidates would resign if elected was well known so voters could make an informed choice. The current long ballot situation doesn’t offer that choice.
A proactive referral to the Supreme Court of Canada might be the best way to get an understanding of the balance of democratic rights. It would be best to have a read on what would be a reasonable limitation on both those who sign nominations and those who put themselves forward vs the responsibility to have accessible ballots with candidates who intend to serve before any changes to the the elections act is brought forward.
The silver lining to stuff like this is that it's now trivial to show examples of how the system works in favour of the 1%. In cases like this, the differential between profits and fines is so huge that anyone would understand how the fine is completely ineffective, and therefore regulation relying on such fines.
Needs to be % based. Years ago the TV show top gear was racing across Europe, they didn't speed in Finland as speeding tickets are based off income. Every other country they would speed and break whatever laws they want as it's small fines. Finland they drove proper because the speeding tickets would be hundreds of thousands of dollars.
It works. Put a fine based off profit, and all of a sudden you'll have complete compliance. Good luck getting that law passed when the billionaire class rules both parties and has us fighting over washrooms.
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Put % on revenue, not profits. Make sure that a fine of that magnitude is a bankruptcy threat.
Complaint lodged against Indigenized Canada Flag at Campbell River apartment
Complaint lodged against Indigenized Canada Flag at Campbell River apartment
A Campbell River woman was sent a complaint that her indigenized Canada Flag was against strata rules and would have to come downKendall Hanson (CHEK)
Personally, I think it would be great to give this particular flag the same protections as a civic flag.
It already is protected.
“The National Flag Act states that no strata has the authority to tell citizens they can’t fly the Canadian flag, and the Flag Act acknowledges that there are other flags,” said Parke, though there’s no express permission to fly an Indigenized Canadian flag.
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I think they made that part up...
I could see someone challenging the flag because of design, but then I would just put up an obnoxiously large official Canadian flag. Lol.
Israeli ambassador seemingly a no show on Northern Tour of Ambassadors in Yellowknife
Israeli ambassador seemingly a no show on Northern Tour of Ambassadors in Yellowknife
One city councillor says he wouldn't have gone if Israeli diplomat was thereDevon Tredinnick (NNSL Media)
How do they make baby tanks?
I've only ever seen boy tanks. How do they make baby tanks if there aren't any girl tanks?
Oh that's an easy one.
If olive oil is made out of olives, then baby tanks are made out of uteruses, obviously.
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What's your side of the story?
Original question by @FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
If someone holds their pee, which would happen first - the sphincters giving way due to the pressure, or the bladder rupturing?
Asking this since I've always been told the former and that your bladder rupturing from not going to the toilet is a myth and the story of Tycho Brahe is too old to be reliable. But in recent years, I've seen articles about people drinking alcohol and passing out and their bladders bursting because the sensations got dulled (which still shouldn't affect the sphincters giving way due to the pressure before the bladder actually ruptures, since it's about the sphincters being not physically strong enough to hold back the pressure).
The existence of overflow incontinence would seem to contradict this story from 2020, for example. Alcohol dulls the urge to urinate, but overflow incontinence often happens in absence of this urge as well, and when the detrusor muscles (which squeeze the bladder) aren't working.
What's the straight dope here?
An incident occurs where the bladder of a man who drinks too much beer bursts
An incident occurred in China in which the bladder of a man who fell asleep after drinking a large amount of beer bursts. Prickly! Hajime Hajime boy, praise 10 Ten bottles! Bladder cleft! https://mp.weixin.qq.GIGAZINE
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Disclaimer: Not a medical scientist.
With that said, your question would probably hold more water (pun intended), if you had asked regarding a urinary tract infection or similar infection forcefully blocking the urethra, making it almost impossible to piss even if you wanted or needed to.
I won't go into the fine details, but early 2009 was definitely not fun for me after a multi-systemic infection that started as a dental abscess.
No, luckily nothing down south ruptured, but its never good when someone is pissing brown, I couldn't hardly even piss for a few days after I started antibiotics.
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That wasn't the question though. They asked..
"What's going on by the Burger King?"
From what I can tell, it's a hooker on crack blowing some dude dressed as the King, while fighting off a family of raccoons..
Anyone get a Royal Kludge R75 working under linux and Vial?
My R75 works fine under via.
I'm using the R75 vial firmware located here.
It won't compile, as cloned. It's more than just the directory structure which is completely silly. It's not surprising it didn't work, given it's messy state. I had to modify it a bit, so it could easily be something I did.
I had to add a UID:
config.h -> #define VIAL_KEYBOARD_UID { }
and uncomment tap_dance_action in keymap.c.
tap_dance_action_t tap_dance_actions[] = {
[TD_RESET] = ACTION_TAP_DANCE_FN(safe_reset),
[TD_CLEAR] = ACTION_TAP_DANCE_FN(safe_clear),
[TD_CTL_TG] = ACTION_TAP_DANCE_LAYER_TOGGLE(KC_RCTL, _CTL_LYR)
};
That's about it.
It compiles and downloads cleanly. Via continues to work but Vial does not discover it.
This mosbed firmware extension claims to be a derivative of this work but it doesn't seem to be.
github.com/irfanjmdn/r65/tree/…
Anyone have Vial working? It's a popular keyboard so I expect someone has solved this problem. If no one responds, I'll take it on in a week or so so we can all enjoy ou R75 on linux with Vial.
GitHub - irfanjmdn/r65 at vialrgb
Files for the RK65 / Royal Kludge R65 (ANSI, WIRED-ONLY) - GitHub - irfanjmdn/r65 at vialrgbGitHub
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The problem seems to be lack of ability to give the board a magic serial number. The vial app looks for a specific string in the serial number ("vial:") to identify a vial capable keyboard. My R75 won't accept a serial number, no matter what I do.
Apparently, this is a limitation of some cheap USB controllers (always answer 0 to all serial requests). I don't know if that's true but ChatGPT tells me it's so.
udevadm info -a -n /dev/hidraw$(ls /dev/hidraw* | tail -1 | tr -dc '0-9') | grep -i serial 2 ✘
ATTRS{serial}=="00000000000000000000000000000000"
ATTRS{serial}=="0000:09:00.0"
Apparently, the magic number can be coded into the UID, also. I'm working on that, too, with no success so far. Apparently, USB controllers don't stand in for UID in any case.
I'm struggling with this. If anyone has some ideas or clear direction, I would consider it a favor. If I can manage to make it work, I'll publish the firmware for everyone.
Even if someone got the mossbed firmware to work, that would be helpful to know. I have been banging on it for three days with no luck. This is the most expensive, cheap keyboard I've ever purchased. lol!
Sonny Rollins - My Brother Max Roach
Sonny Rollins - My Brother Max Roach
The Saxophone Colossus Reflects on a Titan of Rhythm. In this rare and intimate moment, legendary tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins shares his memories and de...YouTube
Yanagisawa’s Most Expensive vs Cheapest Sax - Is It Worth 4x More?
Yanagisawa’s Most Expensive vs Cheapest Sax - Is It Worth 4x More?
Can you really hear the difference between Yanagisawa’s cheapest and most expensive saxophones? In this video, we put the entry-level Yanagisawa AWO1 up agai...YouTube
How In-Ear Monitors Made Me a Better Sax Player
How In-Ear Monitors Made Me a Better Sax Player
👉 Become a BetterSax Member https://bettersax.com/sp/membership/?video=wWBlbG4Qo9A⭐️ Access Our Free Sax Lesson Downloads https://bettersax.com/shed/?video=...YouTube
Two Party System
Canada seems to be headed toward a two party system. I think it's extremely important that we as Canadians push for electoral reform as quickly as possible.
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Yes agree but the NDP have been here before (reduced), NDP voters lent their vote to the Liberals this time to block a PP govt while US is attacking us. While I acknowledge that the federal NDP is in disarray (no leader and very few federal seats) they still are the provincial govt in BC and Manitoba and form the opposition in Alberta, Nova Scotia, Ontario, and Saskatchewan. You could say that the federal cons are also in disarray, the leader without a seat, a leader who is the least popular leader in the country, who still has to survive a leadership review, and who may not survive that. We are not turning into a 2 party country actually IMO.
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Trudeau screwed us, and his legacy is shit for that. I didn't mind him as a PM overall, but he had the mandate to reform our elections and he didn't do it - and worse he lied about it. His entire legacy is destroyed imo because of that.
I'll just put this here for what it's worth: you.leadnow.ca/petitions/prime…
Who knows!
Make Canada's voting system fair and proportional!
Canadians are tired of our broken voting system. After Trudeau broke his promise of reforming our electoral system in 2015, apathy and cynicism towards our democracy has grown.Leadnow.ca
Hogan still silent on agency nurse healthcare scandal
On Thursday Registered Nurses’ Union President Yvette Coffey took aim at [Newfoundland and Labrador] Premier John Hogan, who has yet to publicly address the healthcare scandal, which [Auditor General] Hanrahan says has resulted in the province paying upward of $400,000 on average per agency nurse over the past couple of years.NL Health Services, the province’s health authority, spent $241-million on agency nurses between 2022 and 2024, according to the auditor general. That’s up to four times the salary of local registered nurses, PC leader Tony Wakeham has argued. “Public nurses were denied benefits, pushed into arbitration over overtime, and treated as an afterthought,” Wakeham said last week. “The Premier, who once served as both Minister of Health and Attorney General, has remained absent and silent, even as the AG pointed to potential criminality and conflict of interest.”
Hogan still silent on agency nurse healthcare scandal – The Independent
Registered Nurses' Union President Yvette Coffey says the premier needs to respond if he hopes to restore trust in his governmentJustin Brake (The Independent)
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I'm just going to assume the fish in the thumbnail is "Hogan"
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Scientists discover new life aboard Great Lakes research vessel
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/32575156
Scientists discover new life aboard Great Lakes research vessel
Scientists discover new life aboard Great Lakes research vessel
Routine maintenance leads to unexpected microbial discovery in “ship goo” on the R/V Blue Heron's rudder shaft.Scientists discover new life aboard Great Lakes research vessel | UMD News Center
Does people doing things that upset others also upset you?
This question came about over a discussion my brother and I had about whether dogs should be on leashes when outside. We both agreed that yes, they should, for several reasons, but that's not the point.
Let's use a hypothetical to better illustrate the question. Imagine that there's a perfume - vanilla, for example - that doesn't bother you at all (you don't like nor dislike it), but that is very upsetting to some people, and can even cause some adverse reactions (allergies or something). In this hypothetical, based on the negative effects, you agree that vanilla perfumes should be banned. Currently, however, they are allowed.
You're walking down the street, and randomly smell someone passing you by and they're wearing a vanilla perfume.
Would that upset you? Why, or why not?
My answer is yes, without a doubt. Even though the smell itself doesn't bother me, the fact someone would wear that perfume and not only potentially upset others, but put them in danger, is upsetting.
My brother, however, would say no! He couldn't explain his reasoning to me.
I know this is a little convoluted, but I hope I got my question across.
There was a certain type of perfume that seemed popular back in the 90s, that would make me instantly gag and almost puke within seconds. I have no clue how anyone found that as any sort of pleasant smell.
To me I thought it smelled like a woman with a nasty yeast infection, trying to cover it up with potpourri. But it wasn't even the women's health causing it, literal potpourri smell alone causes me the same gag reflex, the stuff just smells nasty to me and I can't be in the same room as that smell for long.
So yes, there are reasons to be offended by particular scents, even if others somehow find them pleasant.
Scientists discover new life aboard Great Lakes research vessel
Scientists discover new life aboard Great Lakes research vessel
Routine maintenance leads to unexpected microbial discovery in “ship goo” on the R/V Blue Heron's rudder shaft.Scientists discover new life aboard Great Lakes research vessel | UMD News Center
Now this remembers me of a description for KSPs Procedural Parts mod.
Made from viscoelastic nanopolymers (which were discovered by accident... growing in the back of the office mini-fridge)
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Rhino Linux 2025.3 released
Rhino Linux 2025.3 released, UBports Sponsorship, and a Call for Contributors!
It's been a few months since our last disk image release - as usual, we've been hard at work and rolling along, and we are proud of what this snapshot brings together! In addition, we have a new sponsorship and partner, UBports, who will help guide o…Rhino Linux Blog
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[Workaround] (Arch, KDE Plasma 6.4, Wayland) Resuming from sleep taking up to 30 seconds, display settings not loading, screen auto-rotate broken after suspend - issue with iio-sensor-proxy 3.7
Once again posting something for reference as I couldn't find it online
Symptoms
No issues after logging in.
After suspending (sleep) and resuming, screen takes 25 - 30 seconds to turn on.
Display settings in Plasma take a long time to load, sometimes don't show automatic rotation option.
Turning on screen after turning off (even without sleep) takes a long time.
No suspicious logs in Kernel and Journald (even after comparing post-fix).
Switching kernel makes no difference.
Logging out and back in temporarily fixes screen rotation and screen waking until next suspend.
Everything works in X11 session apart from screen rotation (appears unsupported).
Running monitor-sensor hangs when running after suspendsystemctl stop iio-sensor-proxy fixes slowdown issues
Workaround
Downgrading to iio-sensor-proxy 3.6-1 following Arch Linux package downgrade instructions.
In my case with a cached package
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sudo pacman -U file:///var/cache/pacman/pkg/iio-sensor-proxy-3.6-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
and optionally adding it to IgnorePkg
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IgnorePkg = iio-sensor-proxy # Issues in Wayland after suspendSystem info
OS: Arch Linux x64
Host: Lenovo ThinkPad L390 Yoga
Kernel: 6.12.35-1-lts
DE: Plasma 6.4.2
iio-sensor-proxy (broken version): 3.7-1
Last full system upgrade: 2025-07-06
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Alberta, Ontario don't want feds to reintroduce First Nations safe drinking water law
Alberta and Ontario ask Carney government to ‘refrain’ from reintroducing First Nations clean water bill
The ministers of Environment from Alberta and Ontario are asking the federal government to “refrain”Leanne Sanders (Aboriginal Peoples Television Network)
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Send those two on one of the affected reserves and see how they feel after a week or so...
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Guix is amazing! Love that you can just 'guix shell (program)' to launch it without installing. Makes it a breeze to test out new things
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There Was a Time Canada Really Did Build, Baby, Build
There Was a Time Canada Really Did Build, Baby, Build
Lessons from when we skipped the consultants and produced the materials that won a warErin O’Toole (The Walrus)
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Inspiring story, can we be like that again?
So much of the extra costs of building seems to be endless rounds of reviews and revisions. Sure, building things better is… better, but we've seen this process hijacked by NIMBY's (IMHO).
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.
Somewhat reasonable take from former Conservative leader Erin O'Toole. Mainly because I juxtapose it against the current Conservative opposition which seems to be incapable of anything but squawking "Y no budget? Oil project when?"
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.
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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 2The 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.
Re: Installing Guix as a Complete GNU/Linux System - System Crafters
I want to love Guix (both the package manager and the distro). I want to love Scheme. But I can never find any good tutorials for Scheme and using it with Guix. The GNU documentation is more of a reference than a tutorial. I use Emacs on the daily, and I just can't get into Scheme.
What happens if you pluck a hair thats rooted exactly in the center of and under a scab?
And the whole root comes out with it in one pluck, no plucking the scab directly
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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?
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Ask yourself questions and your subconscious will retain them on voicemail. Eventually the call will be returned and you will have the "correct" response, either declaratively or more subtly as intuition
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What music is similar to the Water Temple theme from The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time
Very very mysterrrrious
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Context: Water Temple theme from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
The legend of Zelda Ocarina of time-Water temple song
Please go visit lighthunter27h hes a nice person.YouTube
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As China Warns India on Dalai Lama Remarks, MEA Says ‘No Position’
As China Warns India on Dalai Lama Remarks, MEA Says ‘No Position’ - The Wire
Speaking to reporters in Delhi on Friday, Rijiju emphasised that his views were personal. “I do not want to react to China’s statement,” he said, adding that he was speaking as a follower.The Wire Staff (The Wire)
Many GLAMOR OpenGL ES Improvements Backported To X.Org Server / XWayland 21.1
Many GLAMOR OpenGL ES Improvements Backported To X.Org Server / XWayland 21.1
Nearly one year after the merge request was first opened, back-ported now to the X.Org Server 21.1 stable branch are a number of GLAMOR 2D acceleration fixes around OpenGL ES 2.x as well as supporting OpenGL ES 3.www.phoronix.com
Many NGG Improvements Arrive For AMD's Open-Source Linux OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers
Many NGG Improvements Arrive For AMD's Open-Source Linux OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers
Well known AMD Mesa developer Marek Olšák has been working on a number of improvements to benefit the Next-Gen Geometry 'NGG' support within the RadeonSI and RADV graphics drivers for benefiting modern Radeon GPUs under Linux.www.phoronix.com
‘Appalled and disgusted,’ Muslim community seeking answers after Oshawa woman’s hijab was pulled off, head stomped on in attack
‘Appalled and disgusted,’ Muslim community seeking answers after Oshawa woman’s hijab was pulled off, head stomped on in attack - NOW Toronto
Toronto’s muslim community is urging Durham police to investigate a recent assault as a hate crime after an Oshawa woman was swarmed.Tyreike Reid (NOW Toronto)
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That's a weird element for the headline to focus on. From the article:
The NCCM says the woman, who is a local Pizza Pizza owner, saw a group of people, including teenagers, attempt to commit theft in the restaurant, and once she went to confront the group, the situation quickly turned violent.
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How? This is an awful thing that happened. Maybe the initial reason wasn't racially charged but there's no reason to think this is rage bait
Deliberately write a non-racially charged attack into one to get more click is rage bait. If it's an awful thing happened, then why shift the thing into racially charged one to cause unrest?
The headline doesn't even mention this was a robbery. Don't you think that's more important than an article of clothing?
Use of force makes this robbery by definition. Theft is done without coercion, usually without the victim's knowledge (pickpocketing for example).
You are indeed correct, but the votes for some reason go against you.
This title and article is meant to seem like a targeted racist attack, when it was factually teenagers being shitty teenagers and would have ripped whatever she had on her head off while they were assaulting and robbing her for trying to stand up for her business.
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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.
"Your honour, I can't be convicted of murder, because the victim was only dead after I killed her - she was perfectly fine before"
Hijab pulled off in fight is rather uneventful compared to head stomped on, the inclusion diminishes the severity of the attack
You people are so weird. This is what happened but that's not good enough I don't understand? You're like defending some shitty teenagers. What they did was violent and racist, you just live in such a sensitive society that has made being racist such a specific requirement
The violence is shocking and unacceptable. It's totally possible islamophobia caused the situation to escalate to violence so dramatically. I hope it gets considered at trial.
What the most powerful and compact portable mini speaker?
Emphasis on compactness, in theory infinite surface area is ok but limited space-taking-up and litheness is the ideal
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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.
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Fedora 43 Looks To Zstd-Compressed Initrd By Default For Space Savings & Faster Boots
Fedora 43 Looks To Zstd-Compressed Initrd By Default For Space Savings & Faster Boots
A change proposal has been raised to compress the initrd by default using Zstd compression rather than XZwww.phoronix.com
If "The Last Ringbearer" was a film, what would be the closest thing to it that exists currently?
Like some kind of fantasy Game Thrones-esque Chernobyl or something?
Edit: besides LOTR since its basically the Russian "side" version, wiseguys 😛
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Linux 6.16 Performance Regression Tracked Down In New Futex Code
Linux 6.16 Performance Regression Tracked Down In New Futex Code
Sent out this morning as part of this week's 'locking/urgent' pull request is a performance regression fix ahead of today's Linux 6.16-rc5 releasewww.phoronix.com
A futex (short for fast user-space mutex) is a low-level kernel system call used in Linux (and some other operating systems) to implement synchronization primitives like mutexes, semaphores, and condition variables. It's designed to minimize the need for expensive context switches between user and kernel space by handling most operations in user space with atomic operations.
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policies and legislation that undermine competitiveness, delay project development and disproportionately harm specific provinces and territories without any quantifiable benefits to the natural environment
What.
The number of people without access to clean water is unquantifiable! Very interested in their maths
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The federal minister of Indigenous services says her government plans to reintroduce legislation to ensure First Nations' rights to clean drinking water — despite calls from Alberta and Ontario for it to scrap the bill altogether.
Trust Drug Fraud and the Devil Siren to deny people fresh potable water.
4MLinux 48.1 STABLE released.
4MLinux 48.1 STABLE released.
4MLinux 48.1 This is a minor (point) release in the 4MLinux S TABLE channel , which comes w ith the Linux kernel 6.12.3 4. You can upda...4mlinux-releases.blogspot.com
Maybe the repos don't have non-free software that Devuan has? IDK, it's not very obvious from the blurb on the webpage.
7-Zip v25 File Archiver Released with Performance Gains
7-Zip v25 File Archiver Released with Performance Gains
The latest 7-Zip release speeds up bzip2 by up to 40%, improves ZIP and FAT archive support, and fixes multiple bugs and security vulnerabilities.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
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Wayland 1.24 Released With Few Improvements
Wayland 1.24 Released With Few Improvements
Minutes ago Simon Ser announced the official release of Wayland 1.24.www.phoronix.com
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Setting the record straight on Canada’s ‘productivity crisis’
Setting the record straight on Canada’s ‘productivity crisis’
Economists like to fashion themselves as the “adults in the room.” However, their notion that incomes are determined by productivity is naïve. It ignores the role of power in the determination of distribution.canadiandimension.com
Remember when eating the rich prepare the billionaires like beef steaks and roasts. The multimillionaires like pork, ribs and butt/picnic shoulder. Prepare economists like sausages.
Remember to cook low and slow and don't forget the spices.
Also remember that billionaires arent the ones bailing themselves out with billions in newly minted dollars, in the end they are at the whims of the people you elect.
When even the new housing minister says something as fundamental as housing prices shouldnt fall you know you've messed up, if your goal is to help the poor.
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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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Canada has campaign finance laws put in by Harper that prevent corporations from dumping millions into donations. Unless you meant a revolving door, that I can agree with; though we just voted for a Brookfield lobbyist so there is that.
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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.
My employer's stock price is 400% of what it was when I was hired, my wage has gone up 20% in the same period.
I can not wait for this house of cards to collapse. I have enough food, water, and locally stored media to barter my way though the first hump and get rescued by the Europeans.
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Editor’s Note: Running an Independent Media, in This Economy?!
Editor’s Note: Running an Independent Media, in This Economy?! – The Rover
Savannah reflects on the ups and downs of keeping The Rover alive with almost no institutional funding.Savannah Stewart (The Rover)
Independent MLAs in Calgary to officially launch PC Party revival
Independent MLAs in Calgary to officially launch PC Party revival - LiveWire Calgary
The road is a long one ahead, but two dissident Alberta MLAs are focused on the revival of the once proud PC Party of Alberta.Darren Krause (LiveWire Calgary)
If this splits the conservative vote and gives NDP a chance, then I'm all for it.
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What some good ancient Egyption music to chill withto?
I love the Bajooie Kazooie egypt-inspired level and music
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Ughhh, Scheer and PP better not be lifelong politicians, they both started so young and suck so hard.... so whiney, and nothing of substance.
Being a politician should require having some adversity in your life, not just being fed with a silver spoon for your short life and guaranteed pension by 30.
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In privacy communities, its usually assumed that non-libre OSes have the *capability* of spying on *everything* you do. But, what do they *actually* monitor *in practice*?
Keystrokes? Screen recordings? Camera and microphone spying? Assuming an average person who's not actively targeted by an intelligence agency.
In privacy communities, its usually assumed that non-libre OSes have the *capability* of spying on *everything* you do. But, what do they *actually* monitor *in practice*?
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Keystrokes? Screen recordings? Camera and microphone spying? Assuming an average person who's not actively targeted by an intelligence agency.
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.
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Trump is not leaving office. Why would he?? He’s amassed so much power, there’s no reason for him to leave. USA is over. As a Canadian, we have to arm ourselves - against the US. It comes down to that.
To me, the probability of free and fair US presidential elections in 2028 is certainly less than 50% at this point, 6 month into his presidency
They're bragging about how fast the camp was built - which only proves how easily they could house the homeless if they wanted to. Don't trust anything Republican politicians say.
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Toronto Protesters call for boycott of businesses suing city over Bloor Street bike lane
Protesters call for boycott of businesses suing city over Bloor St. bike lane
Activists cycled down a section of Bloor Street West where a group of over 40 businesses are suing the city over a bike laneKathryn Mannie (TorontoToday.ca)
7-Zip v25 File Archiver Released with Performance Gains
7-Zip v25 File Archiver Released with Performance Gains
The latest 7-Zip release speeds up bzip2 by up to 40%, improves ZIP and FAT archive support, and fixes multiple bugs and security vulnerabilities.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
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Hey OP, you were released today with performance gains!
Ha, gotchem. The drive by compliment strikes again.
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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.
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Trump supporters shocked after their Canadian mother is arrested
‘I want my vote back’: Trump-voting family stunned after Canadian mother detained over immigration status
Family of Cynthia Olivera reconsiders support for president after Ice detained her at green card interviewRamon Antonio Vargas (The Guardian)
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"leopards ate your face? deserved."
"leopards ate my face, I want my vote back!!!"
Seems like the perfect day to ask: Muricans, what's your dream country to expatriate to? Non-Muricans, what's the thought on accepting US refugees?
Please go into lots of detail - some of us are taking notes!
I'm very concerned that people who choose to go to France will just find themselves in the exact same situation along with the rest of us not too long from now. I'd advise looking for a country with a lower fascism approval rating...
We do have lots of cheese, though, if it's any consolation.
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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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Yeah same specs for me: however changing the scaling from 115% to 110% SO FAR seems to have solved it.
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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
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Big Improvements For Qualcomm GPU Driver With Linux 6.17 - Especially For Snapdragon X
Big Improvements For Qualcomm GPU Driver With Linux 6.17 - Especially For Snapdragon X
Sent out today by longtime Freedreno/MSM open-source Qualcomm GPU driver developer Robin Clark are the main set of MSM kernel graphics/display driver updates targeting the upcoming Linux 6.17 merge windowwww.phoronix.com
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Oracle Inks Cloud Deal Worth $30 Billion a Year
Link without the paywall
Oracle Cloud Services Deal Worth $30 Billion a Year
Oracle Corp. said it has signed a single cloud deal worth $30 billion in annual revenue — more than the current size of its entire cloud infrastructure business.Brody Ford (Bloomberg)
ICE budget now bigger than most of the world's militaries
US immigration budget now bigger than most of the world's militaries
Donald Trump wants to inject $150 billion into his immigration crackdown over the next four years.Brendan Cole (Newsweek)
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Cosmic is kind of a...blob of stuff I would say. They don't have a functional or centralized config system.
Just go edit the source files it's running from.
“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.
"It’s over": David Suzuki says it’s too late to stop climate change now and the damage is already
NOTE TO READERS: This interview contains strong language and views that may be upsetting to some. The information presented here reflects verified, first-handSinhala Guide
He is partly right. We're fucked. Seriously seriously fucked. He is also incorrect, in that without radical action to deviate from our current trajectory, it can and will get much much worse.
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Should Humanity Continue? Glenn Reacts to Thiel Interview [20:56 | JUL 05 2025 | Glenn Greenwald]
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- 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.
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Continued fascist bullshit.
Are you Tucker Carlson by chance? Would LOVE to pick your brain about how you switch sides so fluidly when it's more monetarily beneficial to you!
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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_pathI'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.
Stopped reading at. I don't know what the error was.
Perhaps that would be the first place to start?
"I'm trying to fly my plane, but all my instruments are dead, and I don't know where I took off from or how long I've been flying...plzhalp"
Musk gründet nach Konflikt mit Trump eigene Partei
Musk gründet nach Konflikt mit Trump eigene Partei
Der Technologie-Unternehmer Elon Musk hat die Gründung einer eigenen Partei verkündet. "Heute wird die Amerika-Partei gebildet, um euch eure Freiheit zurückzugeben", schrieb Musk auf seinem Onlinedienst X.tagesschau.de
[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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Franzosen dürfen in Porrentruy JU nicht mehr in die Badi – schon wieder
Die jurassische Gemeinde Porrentruy beschränkt den Zugang zu ihrem Schwimmbad auf Schweizer Staatsangehörige.Antoine Menusier (watson)
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Nennen wir so. Ist etwas kürzer und niedlicher als der typisch deutsche Begriff Reichshauptpersoneneinwasserungssportanlagenzentrum oder wie auch immer
"Bäder" gibts auch in Norddeutschland, das ist auch nicht länger als Badi (wobei Schwimmbäder vermutlich häufiger ist). Badi ist aber definitiv niedlicher!
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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.
UK arrests 83-year-old priest for backing Palestine Action and opposing Gaza genocide
An 83-year-old retired priest has been arrested for defying a newly enforced ban on pro-Palestinian group Palestine Action, just hours after the group was formally outlawed by the UK government.MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
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Does Israel have dirt on all these people? Its wild how everyone just supports genocide so willingly.
How exactly does supporting genocide get them elected? I don't get the impression that Labour voters want to see Palestinians murdered.
Zionista not jews. Like in some proteats there was jews beaten for opposing israel in protests
No it's not mincing words. One is antisemitic and the other is not. You should learn the difference tbh.
Got a source for this? Ashkenazi Jews are eastern european. A lot of Jews are sephardic. I don't know the numbers but I'd guess that more Jews in Israel are sephardic.
@ewo Unfortunately not, I just read about a genetic study that determined this, however, I do not remember the people who conducted the study and what was published did not specify the sample size nor whether the samples are collected across the entire country, but then it's not that big of a country.
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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@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.
You again? Last time I came across you, you were being racist too. Your username is racist. Is racism just a hobby or a full-time job for you?
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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@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.
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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@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.
I tried to take this seriously but look at how many americans died due to his policies and covid. Bronze toddler has blood on his hands that's for sure.
@ewo I don't think this was his intent, regarding Covid, and unlike many state and local officials, he did not REQUIRE people take the death shot, I didn't, and I don't think he had a grasp of just how evil Anthony Fauci was. All that said, he wasn't the only one fooled on that lot, a lot of people were.
then why are Jewish voices some of the loudest anti Israel voices?
you racist cunt
Please don't, we're cooked in France too. Just a bit more slowly.
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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 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.
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Doctors raise alarm over rising e-scooter injuries among children
Doctors raise alarm over rising e-scooter injuries among children
Hospitals report a pattern of young riders with serious injuries, often despite age restrictions and helmet lawsIjeoma Ukazu (The Globe and Mail)
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Good thing the auto industry is funding fear mongering against automated forms of mobility!
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"
But that is not even what the article is saying. Read what you quoted. The article is about kids to young to legally ride these riding them and getting in accidents. Or they require a helmet and don't wear one. The bikes have helmets attached to them why cant the scooters.
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.
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?
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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.
Why do killer whales keep handing us fish? Scientists unpack the mystery
Why do killer whales keep handing us fish? Scientists unpack the mystery
Wild orcas across four continents have repeatedly floated fish and other prey to astonished swimmers and boaters, hinting that the ocean’s top predator likes to make friends.ScienceDaily
I feel that's fair. Also stop destroying the thing they need to live and breathe in.
California Workers Brutalized and Kidnapped by Federal Agents
California Workers Brutalized and Kidnapped by Federal Agents
Zachary Miller Read our editorial on mass deportations here, and the ongoing struggle against it here. On Saturday (06/21), landscaper Narciso Barranco was beaten and arrested by federal agents whi…The Worker Newspaper
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!
Need more info:
- GPU
- Compositor being used
- Resolution and refresh settings
- What cable is your monitor using
- Does your monitor status info match your desktop settings (check monitor info menu for refresh rate and resolution)
- Does it happen in all resolutions, or just specific ones?
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: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:
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ICEBlock's claims about this are highly inaccurate and they haven't acknowledged corrections.
GrapheneOS (@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social)
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: https://www.reuters.GrapheneOS Mastodon
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T-Mobile satellite texting now works on nearly all US phones
T-Mobile and Starlink overcome the final roadblock to satellite texting on old phones
An FCC waiver approval lets most cellular-enabled devices use the serviceChris Thomas (Android Police)
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Nice of Canada to still arrest scammers and extradite them to the US. Unfortunately they could possibly be sending us our future head of consumer protections once the Orange Moron pardons him.
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How to protect your phone and data when crossing the U.S. border | CIRA
There are similar guides from other organizations as well, if anyone has a link on hand
https://www.cira.ca/en/resources/news/cybersecurity/protect-your-phone-data-border/
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There's a really good chance I'm going to have to go to the States for something important and unskippable. I am truly hoping arrangements for said important thing are made on this side of the border, but chances are slim and I am very nervous...
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三三三三三三三三三三三三三三三三三三三三三三三三三三三三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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People are starting to get weirdly mad about this so I will destroy the magic and just so that no, this post was not actually made in 1993, it comes from a forum where a big gimmick is that it is perpetually the September of 1993. The post is from like, 2012 or something.
Fucking what.
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