Extensions load unknown sites into invisible Windows. What could go wrong?Dan Goodin (Ars Technica)
Extensions load unknown sites into invisible Windows. What could go wrong?Dan Goodin (Ars Technica)
Residents in rural Georgia say the data centre next door has disrupted their water supply.By Michelle Fleury (BBC News)
The FAA’s decision to deny a special medical clearance for an airline pilot taking antidepressant medication was “arbitrary and capricious."Zach Vasile (FLYING Magazine)
Miracle-WM 0.6 is out today as a mega release for this Mir-based Wayland compositor by Canonical/Ubuntu developer Matthew Kosarekwww.phoronix.com
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The Diplomacy Update for X4: Foundations is now in Beta bringing some huge new features to the popular space sim.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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Older readers might be interested in this one. Silent Shoals Software announced In Silence Waits, a modern take on classic graphical adventures.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Need a fresh Tower Defense game to try out? Here's another tip for you! Operation Octo arrives in September with a chance to try it early.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
With a demo live on Steam, Vehicle No. 4 could be one to watch if you love your horde survival games with you building your own vehicle.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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Coming to Early Access later in July, MR FARMBOY blends elements of Stardew Valley with automation and optimisation.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
A big merge today to Mesa Git ahead of next week's Mesa 25.2 code branching is removing the pre-DMA-BUF winsys support and as part of that clearing out all of the old DRI2 driver support.www.phoronix.com
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Opinion - Zeynep Tufekci
July 9, 2025[as usual, independent thinking from #ZeynepTufekci ]
"What Kelly didn’t mention, but which has since become well known, is that the Weather Service employee whose job it was to make sure those warnings got traction — Paul Yura, the long-serving meteorologist in charge of “warning coordination” — had recently taken an unplanned early retirement amid cuts pushed by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. He was not replaced.
To a Washington bean counter, his loss might have looked like one tiny but welcome subtraction in a giant spreadsheet, but not in a region so prone to these perilous events that it’s known as Flash Flood Alley. Hundreds of kids at summer camps slept in cabins along the river. The plan was for folks at the upstream camps to send word to the downstream camps if floodwaters got scary. But if even the highest official in the county wasn’t on high alert, how were the camp counselors supposed to understand the danger — or, in an area without reliable cellphone coverage, to act on it?"
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Israeli Settlers Set Fire Near Ancient Church in West Bank Christian Village - Antiwar.com (2025-07-08)news.antiwar.com/2025/07/08/is…
———>> Three priests based in the village of Taybeh issued a statement calling for help in the face of growing settler violence
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A group of Jewish settlers set a fire near an ancient Christian church in the Palestinian Christian village of Taybeh in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Nabd El-Haya, a radio station based in the town, has reported.News From Antiwar.com
The premiers are right on: Canada has what the world needs, and we need to get back into the business of exporting it to new markets. We’re building one united Canadian economy, and there’s more to come. | 204 comments on LinkedInMark Carney (www.linkedin.com)
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This is exactly how FPTP inevitably results in a 2-party system.
Obviously the LPC only views electoral reform as a cheap trick to garner votes.
Maybe the NDP can come back with such a promise?
Unless the LPC noticeably improves peoples lives in the next 12 months we're probably going to see another election. Who knows what'll happen then.
When the Reform Party took over the Cons, the Cons moved to the Liberal Party and the Liberals moved to the NDP. Historical voters of each moved accordingly
As for the oil plan, it makes no sense; The UCP closed the refineries the ANDP opened to ensure oil has to be traded to the US and bought back by us. A pipeline to Ontario to then sell it to the US and buy it back doesn’t make any sense
I don't think energy security is a partisan issue, it's good for Canada as long as it is done respecting all the communities and peoples rights along the way. It can be a big win for indigenous communities if done properly.
Let's see how it unfolds ..
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Ford says he wants Fortress Can-Am. Week after, 50% copper tariffs announced. If we don't let US tech giants spy on us tax free, we will get treated like Brazil. Big disconnect with just more gaslighting.
President Donald Trump expressed mounting frustration Tuesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin, promising during a lively Cabinet meeting to boost U.S. military aid to Ukraine.Katherine Doyle (NBC News)
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The Senior Community Service Employment Program through Goodwill helps Indianapolis seniors get jobs and learn new skills.Claire Rafford (Mirror Indy)
[Cal Bryant] hacked together a home automation system years ago, which more recently utilizes Piper TTS (text-to-speech) voices for various undisclosed purposes. Not satisfied with the robotic-soun…Hackaday
I did support Carney and I hope he does good things, and I don't think the following scenario would occur but I realize this belief is entirely based on my judgement of Carney's character which could be wrong.
I was thinking about the proposed gas pipeline to the east coast. If Carney hopes to be re-elected, he can't ram a pipeline through Quebec using emergency powers if such exist. Or he'd lose his seats in QC. Instead he's gotta give significant concessions to QC, like ownership, high royalties, etc. Stuff that he and Blanchet can sell to the Quebecers. I think this is certainly possible for a gas pipeline.
But then the following disaster scenario occurred to me. He likely has significant Brookfield investments in that blind trust. He likely has a seat open on that board whenever he quits public service. What if he uses emergency powers to ram a whole bunch of infrastructure, through P3s, where the private partner retains ownership, and the partner is Brookfield. Do as many of those as possible, get kicked out of office and sit on Brookfield's board, that much richer, while we get saddled with an even angrier and vindicated CPC fascism.
Thoughts?
Edit: Thanks for wading into my election PTSD nightmare!
Where did you dig up this ancient post from.. 😄
But yeah things aren't going spectacularly. A Kier Starmer scenario looks more likely at the moment.
lol yeah sorry was looking through someone else's comment history (someone who seems quite hostile to criticism of dear leader) and found your post also getting a big pile-on from Canada's Insufferable Liberal Hordes
and yeah it ain't great
I wanted to publish constructive criticism towards Reddit on Reddit but unfortunately that's basically impossible since they'll do everything to censor/silence that for their own gains to not hurt their reputation (you might also get censored for mentioning Reddit alternatives like Lemmy).
So I have to do it here.
I'm addressing censorship because that's basically the biggest issue.
I'm not always against all censorship as it can be beneficial in some circumstances to provide constructive discussion to not end up like X where everyone is shouting hateful opinions without getting heard anyways. (But very generally I'm still strongly against censorship).
My main problem is about wrongful censorship. Reddit is basically unusable for me since I had the experience multiple times that I get banned from a subreddit for actually no reason just because a moderator feels like it. And when I then ever accidentally post on the same subreddit with a different account (which is hard when there are multiple to keep track of) your whole access to Reddit gets banned for about 12 months by advanced fingerprinting (so even if you create a new account it gets automatically banned, so you basically cannot post anything on Reddit for a year).
While Lemmy is somewhat better in this regard I think it's mainly only because it's so small, is only known by a very small enthusiastic group and therefore needs less moderation. But I realized that even here once a post is slightly controversial it will get removed sooner or later. Frankly I wouldn't be surprised if this gets removed too. I know that the fediverse theoretically provides protection against censorship by being able to host your own instance but practically that's very unrealistic to see properely moderated instances being used by enough people.
I think it's a shame that if you're looking into providing high quality topics and discussions that are valued by many people and you just want to learn by broadening your intellectual horizons, you can get banned every second because some moderator had a bad day.
And I'm not just talking about posting something maybe somewhat controversial that a moderator might not like. I literally had many situations where I posted completely normal posts that completely aligned with the subreddits rules. I could literally post a normal cat picture on a cat picture subreddit and get banned seconds later without being able to talk to the moderators. In some instances the cat picture post (I'm using that as a metaphor) didn't even get published and I got banned anyways. Often it's enough to have a single wrong word that is filtered by Reddit so your whole post won't publish.
I think the core concept of platforms like Reddit and Lemmy can be very valuable but it's executed very badly. There should be multiple independent steps of verifying if someone should get banned and in what way. And probably integrate a good test for joining the community so that it's more likely for people to be rational from the start (that way you don't even have to look at so many potential flags).
Maybe AI could be better for this by having less human emotion based judgement?
But I'm conflicted because on one hand these platforms can have such a great potential and value but on the other hand it's maybe better to not use it anyways since it can be quite unhealthy to spend much time on there.
Anyways I think it's sad we can't freely express ourselves on social media and can't have proper discussions. This really feels like being in a 3rd world country with dictatorship and this shouldn't be the case in 2025. Especially nowadays where it's extremely important to have open and trusted discussion about topics.
There should be a platform with good/useful censorship and a platform truly without censorship that isn't owned by a Nazi billionaire. Or even better: have an all-in-one solution that has spaces without and with censorship to varying degrees (preferably a degree that can be decided by the users and not by the corporation).
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I think it's really just the fact that there are moderators who ban people based on their mood. It has nothing to do with the actual content as I've seen many posts that seem actually questionable but haven't been banned. Of course you only see the people who didn't get banned and can post and you can't see the people who are banned because well, they cannot post.
If I'd show you the times I got banned you will see that it is basically randomly and those moderators invent things that are far detached from reality.
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There should be multiple independent steps of verifying if someone should get banned and in what way. And probably integrate a good test for joining the community so that it's more likely for people to be rational from the start (that way you don't even have to look at so many potential flags).
How much would you pay to join a community with that level of protection for user rights? Like the old subscription based forums, some of which are still floating around the internet?
Because "multiple independent steps of verifying" is, frankly, going to be a lot of frustrating, thankless, and redundant work for moderators. I mean, we know how to safeguard people's rights through legalistic processes. Courts do it all the time. It's called due process. And due process is frequently a slow, complicated, and expensive pain in the ass for everyone involved. And I think very few people would want to do that work for free.
(Conveniently, this would also serve as a good test for joining such a community - people are more likely to follow the rules and act like decent human beings if a subscription they paid for is riding on it, and it would price out AI and spambots in the process.)
Sorry for making a post for such a basic question but I wasn't able to figure out my own so I'm come here as last resort.
I bought a new CPU, RAM, and motherboard combo and I migrated all my non-conflicting parts from my previous machine, which had a Linux install and a Windows install.
When I booted into the PC, I did not see an option in the boot menu or in the boot order for Linux whatsoever. Only my windows 11 IoT install and my new nanokvm.
I had a asrock x570 extreme4 and switch to a Msi Pro x870E-P WiFi. I have updated to the newest BIOS.
I was previously using systemd as my boot manager until I tried switching over to grub but neither trying to fix system D or installing grub seemed to work for me.
So I was hoping that I could delete my boot partition or somehow start from scratch without deleting any data in my root partition (Btrfs sub volumes) . and get a step-by-step installation guide for me since I can't seem to understand the arch wiki at my current state.
I would like to give you guys more information about the scenario and more context of what I've done, but i'm sadly not capable.
/dev/nvme0n1 is my linux install while /dev/nvme1n1 is Windows 11 IoT
New motherboard with new boot options, and possibly an incompatible partition scheme.
Pull up the boot menu during POST and force it to boot the partition. That usually works depending on the manufacturer.
Otherwise, get a LiveUSB and make sure your drive is actually showing up post-boot.
Mobile network anomalies consistent with cell phone surveillance were detected at a July 4 protest at an ICE field office in Washington state.Mikael Thalen (Straight Arrow News)
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Researchers have developed Centaur, a computational model that can predict and simulate human behavior across a wide range of psychological experiments[^1]. Built by fine-tuning Meta's Llama 3.1 70B language model on a dataset called Psych-101, Centaur was trained on over 10 million choices made by 60,000 participants across 160 psychology experiments[^1].The model outperforms existing cognitive models in predicting human behavior, even generalizing to entirely new scenarios it wasn't trained on[^1]. "You can basically run experimental sessions in silico instead of running them on actual human participants," said Marcel Binz, cognitive scientist at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI[^2].
Centaur demonstrates unprecedented capabilities in capturing human cognition:
- Predicts behavior with 64% accuracy across varied tasks[^3]
- Generalizes to modified experimental scenarios, like switching from "spaceships" to "magic carpets" in decision-making tasks[^4]
- Shows alignment between its internal representations and human neural activity[^1]
- Performs well on out-of-distribution tasks in moral decision-making, economic games, and logical reasoning[^1]
"It's the first model that can do any kind of task exactly like a human can," said Russ Poldrack, cognitive scientist at Stanford University[^4].
[^1]: Nature - A foundation model to predict and capture human cognition
[^2]: Nature - This AI 'thinks' like a human — after training on 160 psychology studies
[^3]: Live Science - New AI is better at predicting how we behave than ever before, scientists say
A new artificial intelligence (AI) model called Centaur can predict and simulate human thought and behavior better than any past models, opening the door for cutting-edge research applications.Perri Thaler (Live Science)
Seeking new markets in Europe and elsewhere is all well and good, but the primary focus in the fight against Trump’s tariffs should be to get our own house in orderJohn Turley-Ewart (The Globe and Mail)
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This trade war is not just a disagreement over trade policy. It's a war of independence, and the US has decided that we should not be independent anymore. We've already ceded so much of our independence to the US over the last 40 years via heavy-handed economic treaties with purpose-built backdoors, they've decided we shouldn't have any kind of sovereignty at all.
War is hell. War requires sacrifices. War is destructive. We've not actually signaled as a population that we are OK with the damage this war is going to do to us, and it's not at all clear to us what is necessary to survive this attack intact, and what is just basic shock-doctrine exploitation.
Adrian Holovaty, founder of music-teaching platform Soundslice, finally solved a months-long mystery: weird images of ChatGPT sessions kept being uploaded to the site.Julie Bort (TechCrunch)
The lack of coverage is becoming more problematic as climate change intensifies storms.Coco Liu (Bloomberg)
NATO member Poland scrambled fighter jets overnight as Russia launched record numbers of drones and missiles at neighboring Ukraine.Ellie Cook (Newsweek)
T-Mobile told the FCC that it will end its DEI programs “not just in name, but in substance”The move comes as it awaits regulatory approval of two deals: USce | Just like that, T-Mobile is ending its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs to …Monica Alleven (Fierce Network)
Lit Hub’s list of the most anticipated books of the second half of the year includes many genre titles, but, one might argue, not enough. What can I say, I’m an excitable boy, still in …Literary Hub
"We know that some microbes on Earth can tolerate the range of pH found on Enceladus."Keith Cooper (Space)
Hello everyone, I have I guess a bit tricky situation on hand
I have 4 devices (2 computers, 2 cellphones) on my home network, they're all connected on the same LAN, and additionally, all are also running Tailscale (rather out of the box configuration except specific IPv4 addresses given by me)
When going out of home, I normally take up to 2 devices with me and connect to the ones at home through the Tailscale IP
Usually I do this by typing the IP address manually on either scenario, if I'm home I connect typing the LAN IP Addresses for the devices, otherwise I manually type the Tailscale IP addresses
I would like to now optimize this process using Host Names; I would like to type in say, SSH pc1 and that connect via LAN IP if available, and otherwise fallback to Tailscale IP if not
Result being I can just type the one singular host name, and connect successfully regardless if I'm home or not, also using the best possible connection (LAN preferred over Tailscale)
I am aware Tailscale has a feature that it does this out of the box using the Tailscale IP on the same LAN, but this doesn't seem to work on all devices (the phones) and additionally that generates some noticeable overhead given their age too
I have been reading about Avahi and thinking of using it on each device, advertising the same host name with both it's IPs, which I am yet to try but figured I could use more input on solutions if anyone has experience with it, I'd appreciate any
Thanks for reading, and I hope you have a nice day
My comment was kind of high level because I wasn’t sure how much you knew technically already.
But yeah, you would unfortunately need access to the DNS server on your router and be able to add custom records. You’d additionally need a DNS server somewhere for Tailscale clients whether that’s on a Tailscale node or just on the public internet (and configure Tailscale to use it).
I suppose a last-ditch effort would be to buy a domain and create records pointing to both the Tailscale and internal LAN IP addresses. The downside is that you’re basically making the map to your network public but at least people wouldn’t actually be able to access those internal (LAN, Tailscale) IP addresses. The benefit would be only needing to manage one set of records in one place.
I’m really rusty on my OSI model but Avahi, NETBEUI and friends won’t work over WireGuard tunnels because those are layer 2 protocols whereas WireGuard operates at layer 3 (if I remember correctly).
I think I understand why Avahi wouldn't work with that explanation, I keep digging and now my router is not exactly inaccessible, it's managed by my ISP instead which is annoying but I supposedly can still ask them to tweak things for me so I may have a chance
Tailscale already has DNS servers working on Tailnets (they call it mDNS, or magicDNS) which is I believe 100.100.100.100... actually, the documentation states that every tailscale-running device is a DNS server on itself too but either way that IP is private on every tailnet, remains accessible and host names are configurable on the Tailnet too
If I'm not mistaken on the functioning of DNS, I should be able to do it with that primary-router secondary-tailscale DNS setup I hypothesized and on LAN that will yield perfect connectivity, while out from home there would be no such records and it'll fall back to Tailscale's DNS which is already private (worst concern is just sending a request for a hostname on public network but that shouldn't be that big of a deal)
At this point I might have this solved, but of course, more input is nice too, It'll take some time for my ISP to work for me on this
I'm waiting on support for inserting PDF figures, the most common format my tools export.
This would allow for workflows such as creating images in TikZ standalone mode and then inserting them into Typst documents. This workflow would be a good stopgap until diagramming tools are integr...MATSMACKE (GitHub)
These individuals have written opinion pieces calling for UNRWA to be defunded or dismantled
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And doesn't even have the courtesy to pretend he isn'tthedabbler.patatas.ca
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Yup. Here's my thoughts on those.
1) DGAF bout stampede and pancake flipping
2) DGAF bout stampede and pancake flipping
3) Only mention of replacement in that article is union saying AI cannot replace them. IMO we need more AI tools in public service.
4) The expectations being unrealistic are your allegations. Based on what I've read from you, you're wholly unqualified to make those kind of determinations.
5) Broken Link. I'll assume it's your opinion that the timelines are unrealistic.
6) Canada's steel/auto sectors are highly integrated and interruption is going to have massive ripple effects in the Canadian economy. So yea Carney is meeting with their CEOs. NEXT.
7) Our legislature has been largely ineffective and it's Clear the CPC/PP intend to continue gridlocking our government. Shifting power from the house is hardly the biggest problem with C-5. Further illustrating that you're not writing this article objectively but with a specfic target in mind.
8) An amendment gets voted down and this relates to pancakes HOW? At least this is a legitimate concern about C5. Albeit a widely discussed one.
Honestly that's as far as I got. I have concerns about bills C-2 and C5, but the way you're trying to connect this to Carney personally is a waste of my time as a reader.
You absolutely lost me when you started trying to call out his financial holdings. It's right there in his response... Is Pierre Poilievre on the up and up with his stock options?
If I had written that and submitted it to my English teacher he would have told me to delete 80% and do 3 more drafts.
This whole thing comes off as a Carney hate piece with zero objectivity. You need to appreciate that the people taking the time to read articles are likely going to be turned off by blatantly biased writing.
I personally am only bothering to respond because clearly you put some effort into this, and maybe you do have something valid to say. But you got some work to do first.
I find it interesting you are so fixated on the pancake aspect when the piece is (to me at least) quite clearly about the PM's personality, and how it parallels his policy and actions.
Thanks for pointing out the broken link, I'll correct that
Edit: that link seems to be working again, but it did take a while to load, weird
The title.
Feel free to ask me stuff. I'm in Scotland, born in Canada. I've been a mason for coming on 15 years. And my favourite dinosaur is....not really a dinosaur.....the Stenopterygius species. because they're tubby not quite dolphin looking (apparently) reptiles.
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Contributors and community members are encouraged to celebrate the openSUSE Project’s 20th anniversary by sharing some of their favorite moments from the pas...openSUSE News
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The FreeBSD periodic utility is a built-in system to schedule and run regular (daily, weekly, monthly) maintenance jobs in the form of shell scripts. They include system health checks, security audits, and cleanup jobs.Mark Phillips (FreeBSD Foundation)
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- NFC: always show standard confirmation dialog before opening a URL instead of it only being enabled for a small subset of users
- temporarily remove NFC auto-turn-off feature since it can cause NFC HAL or system_server crashes in rare edge cases and we need to entirely reimplement it inside of the NFC APEX module to avoid the problems (there were rare issues reported prior to Android 16 but 1 user reported an NFC HAL crash loop on Android 16 making it clear we need to drop this until we redo it in a better way)
The Palestinian ambassador to Canada says she feels Ottawa is on the brink of officially recognizing statehood for her people, as she also takes note of tougher language from Canada on Israel’s actions in Gaza.
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Is as Europe and the US, despite their supposed protestations.
But Israel are close to Christianity, so they are the good guys, as per human logic for thousands of years.
The new doll includes accessories that 'accurately reflect the medical equipment' people with Type 1 diabetes may need, Mattel said.
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But I'd have to buy a Barbie first..
Sigh, how about an Edible Barbie, you just bite her legs off?
And once you get down to eating the lady parts, you get the true edibles and get stoned to the bone?
Critical caribou habitat being destroyed while government continues to kill wolvesthefurbearers (The Fur-Bearers)
A lack of forest management and arson control is causing blazes that release hazardous fumes drifting into the Midwest, their letter readsTemur Durrani (The Globe and Mail)
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We have reached a global warming tipping point where forest fires are at such extreme levels for 3 years in a row now, that fires offset global natural carbon capture from trees, which is about 1/4 of human emissions. Some of the arson, has been motivated by climate disinformation as "attempts to prove global warming is false by arson". Global warming's impact on forest fires is not more ignition. It is faster/wider spread of fires.
If everyone in Canada were employed as an "arson preventer", they could patrol 10 hectares of forest each.
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The new Linux port has some issues to iron out, but implementation of Lossless Scaling Frame Generation is slowly improving.Jack Goodall (PC Guide)
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cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/48656669
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What rational reason is there to remove them before the court case is complete?
If you remove them and then lose the case challenging the law you'd just have to build them again.
cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/20996269
I flew out of Denver on Monday and was told I didn’t have to take off my shoes.
I often hear how the TSA was/is security theatre. Was this ever proven with any kind of stats? Did they ever stop any big incidents from occurring?
I remember going through various American airport security in the 2000's and thought it was intimidating (i was a kid). But i figured it would at the very least deter people who might attempt some kind of crime of opportunity? Idk.
They find a lot of guns (about 5,000/yr), but it is usually from people that forget they can't take guns on a plane.
What they don't catch is unknown, but the tests show probably a lot more
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The results of yet another internal test have been revealed, where TSA agents have missed 95% of weapons that were brought through the checkpoint.Ben Schlappig (One Mile at a Time)
I think a lot of people have heard of OpenAI’s local-friendly Whisper model, but I don’t see enough self-hosters talking about WhisperX, so I’ll hop on the soapbox:
Whisper is extremely good when you have lots of audio with one person talking, but fails hard in a conversational setting with people talking over each other. It’s also hard to sync up transcripts with the original audio.
Enter WhisperX: WhisperX is an improved whisper implementation that automatically tags who is talking, and tags each line of speech with a timestamp.
I’ve found it great for DMing TTRPGs — simply record your session with a conference mic, run a transcript with WhisperX, and pass the output to a long-context LLM for easy session summaries. It’s a great way to avoid slowing down the game by taking notes on minor events and NPCs.
I’ve also used it in a hacky script pipeline to bulk download podcast episodes with yt-dlp, create searchable transcripts, and scrub ads by having an LLM sniff out timestamps to cut with ffmpeg.
Privacy-friendly, modest hardware requirements, and good at what it does. WhisperX, apply directly to the forehead.
WhisperX: Automatic Speech Recognition with Word-level Timestamps (& Diarization) - m-bain/whisperXGitHub
You should be able to get decent results if you pipe your tracks through demucs first to isolate the vocals.
Vanilla whisper will probably be better than whisperX for that use case though.
Depending on how esoteric your music library is, you can also build a lyrics DB with beets: beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable…
Code for the paper Hybrid Spectrogram and Waveform Source Separation - adefossez/demucsGitHub
A healthy and sustainable planet means supporting action based on scientific evidence, not misinforming people with catchy phrases and political rhetoric, writes Dal's Tony Walker and colleague Miriam Diamond.Dalhousie News
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This is a great article from Dalhousie University.
Justin Trudeau tried to reduce the use of single use plastics. He faced enormous political backlash. Pierre Poilievre, leader of the Conservative Party, campaigned on defending plastics:
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Poilievre claimed that the federal Plastics ban was inflicting financial pain on Canadian families
Evidence‑based solutions are indeed under political fire.
CHANGE ALERT: Conservatives will save your family $400/year by Axing the Food Packaging Tax; reversing the Liberal ban on plastic wrapping & containers.We’ll...YouTube
Git 2.50.1 fixes seven CVEs, including critical flaws in submodule handling, bundle cloning, and GUI tools.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Git 2.50.1 fixes seven CVEs, including critical flaws in submodule handling, bundle cloning, and GUI tools.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Searching gives me the impression there's a million ways to solve the same problem on Linux, and I find myself profiling answers into about four categories at a glance:
I'll usually just take solutions from the first category, which almost always works, save for differences between updates and versions. Solutions in the second category also seem to end with a 50% chance of the OP unable to solve the problem. If I'm desperate, I'll try the second one, but it often ends up not working, eventually leading me to come up with a much cleaner solution of my own.
Curious if anyone else does this too and if those one-liners are really better solutions or if it's just confirmation bias.
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The usual tech support search:
So to answer the question, I can usually tell I'm getting close to the solution when I say "Oh for fuck's sake" as I'm closing tabs lol.
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I love to go with just rip out what ever is broken never look at it again and till eventually forgetting something was broken reinstalling what ever I ripped out only for everything to work again
Despite trying to reinstall things like 3 times before.
The key is you HAVE to forget about the problem or it knows your trying to trick it and it breaks it self again!
Nix doesn't have to be hard. Here are five principles to simplify your learning curve.dashdot.me
TDIL about nix-ld , this is so cool! Think I'll try this out soon:
Run unpatched dynamic binaries on NixOS [maintainer=@Mic92] - nix-community/nix-ldGitHub
I'm just using the Cosmic Terminal that's part of the Pop!_OS Cosmic Alpha, but I ran into similar issues with Gnome terminal and even with Termius.
Scenario:
I'm currently working on leveraging a VPS to act as the gateway to my homelab so I have one ssh session to Unraid server and one to VPS. One in each tab. Obviously the name shows up as what the username@servername is called in each tab. But I keep getting tripped up and sometimes try to do something from the wrong machine. Once I even failed to realize that the ssh session to one of them cut out and I was back on my desktop and took me an embarrassingly long time to realize why stuff was failing.
So what are y'all using to keep that organized in your work flow? Separate terminal windows instead of tabs? Some shell customizations to make them look different than one another? Or just so ingrained in your brain that you never have this problem?
CMI Weihai, a Chinese state-owned shipyard, was awarded the contract for four vessels after no Canadian companies submitted a bid.Robyn Bell (Capital Daily)
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The vision is only explained near the bottom, obviously:
Coming from very different positions, the two women are co-executive directors of A Land for All, which since 2012 has promoted “two sovereign states — Israel and Palestine — in one shared homeland.”Rather than divide Palestine into two wholly separate countries, A Land for All calls for shared responsibility for resources like water systems, electricity and public health. But two independent states would exist, with “recognized borders, right for self-determination, equal rights, and security for both peoples.”
People would be free to travel across both states and to live in either one; Israelis could live in Palestine, and Palestinians in Israel. Jerusalem would be the capital of both states, and freely accessible to both peoples. Their justice systems would “include recognition and compensation for past wrongs — without creating new ones.”
That sounds very naïve – there are too many religious extremists on either side.
For years, the climate movement has been calling on the federal government to spend two per cent of GDP on climate infrastructure and action, to no avail.Canada's National Observer
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Nope, we're all going to hell, on Earth.
Oops, turns out the SMOC, the Antarctic counterpart to the AMOC... yeah looks like it broke and flipped about a decade ago.
So, that means the global thermohaline circulation system is in fact currently collapsing, heat transfer flows in the worlds oceans are going to do increasingly unpredictable wild shit, which will cause increasingly unpredictable large scale weather patterns...
Oh! And because this fucks up the salinity and nutrient concentrations of uh, ocean water basically everywhere...
I guess the Dolphins will soon be boarding their ships along to 'So long and thanks for all the fish!'.
Abrupt Antarctic Ocean Regime Shift: Reversed SMOC - Southern Meridional Overturning CirculationA crucial new, vitally important finding shows that the South...YouTube
A surge of national unity has swept Quebec. It’s only a matter of time before the sovereignty debate resurfacesToula Drimonis (The Walrus)
promising to “relentlessly defend the French language and Quebec culture,” which he called “the heart of Canadian identity.”
These people are huffing their own farts.
“The first idea is to define oneself as a nation. Therefore, it requires a culture of their own. And I am not certain that oil and gas qualify.”
Neither does speaking french. These people are fucking delusional.
Don’t fall for the ROC Quebec Bashing racism and the Bloc ROC Bashing racism.
Equating the ROC with Alberta is pretty dumb
Also YFB is stupid, his name was named in the Montreal #MeToo list for being a recidivist sex pest and finding drunk out girl for a « singer »
I'm honestly curious, how would you define anglo-Canadian identity?
I feel like more and more, English Canada is becoming culturally Americanized. Less gun-obsessed, sure, and hockey over football/baseball, but apart from that the difference seems to be waning.
Not that francophone communities, including Québec, aren't also influenced by the US, but the impact is a lot lesser. I'd be super curious to see how much Canadian music/TV the average Canadian listens to, versus how much québécois content the average person in Québec consumes.
There, to me anyways, seems to be a much higher emphasis on national identity in Québec than anywhere else in Canada (for better and for worse).
They're a separatist federal party. It's their jam.
Quebecers weren’t buying it. The Bloc is a federal party that exists to promote Quebec interests and, ultimately, its independence. Voters not only viewed Canada as a real country but they saw it as worth saving from the territorial clutches of US president Donald Trump. The province overwhelmingly rejected the Bloc’s ethnic nationalism and rallied around Mark Carney’s Liberals and a unified effort against American overreach.
Uhh.... no? They elected 22 members of the Bloc. That's still very good, even though it was less than the last parliament. Before that there were a LOT less Bloc MPs.
We all know how common terminal one liners have became as a installation method on GNU/Linux and what are the issues with it but let's recap quickly.
You go to a pager of some project and it tells you to do curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs/ | sh or curl -fsSL https://deno.land/install.sh | sh. The only way to verify that this command will not delete all your files or install malware is to manually review the entire script.
So... why not create a secure script repository? On a central website you would create an account for a project and submit a script. On the other side we would provide a binary client that will download and execute the script (we can call it grunt from get and run it). So as a user you would run for example grunt rustup and it would get and execute the script created by rustup project. I imagine it shouldn't be that difficult to add a tiny package to the major distros.
I believe this would be a fairly simple project that would solve all the security issues typical terminal one liners have.
On the website for uploading scripts we could introduce:
verified project statusOn the client side we could:
So it would look something like this:
# grunt rustp
Downloading rustp.sh from https://getandrun.it/...
Last updated 30 days ago.
Downloads since last update: 5
Verified project: No
Reviewed by 1 user
Execute script [y/N]# grunt rustup
Downloading rustup.sh from https://getandrun.it/...
Last updated 60 days ago.
Downloads since last update: 5342
Verified project: Yes
Reviewed by 3 users
Comparing MD5 checksum with https://rustup.rs/grunt_md5... Passed
Execute script [y/N]Right? So why don't we have something like this? Or we do and it simply didn't get enough traction?
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So just to address some of the comments. No, it's not a package manager. Package managers are complex tools that handle versioning, dependencies, updates, uninstalls and so on. Package mangers are also distro specific. A lot of devs decide not to use package managers and use bash scripts that are distro agnostic and don't rely on external maintainers and packagers. It would be ideal if everyone used secure package managers but the reality is they don't. This solution is a compromise that offers devs full control of software distribution while introducing decent security.
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Someone suggested brew. How do you install brew according to brew.sh/ ?
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
See the problem?
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So… why not create a secure script repository? On a central website you would create an account for a project and submit a script. On the other side we would provide a binary client that will download and execute the script (we can call it grunt from get and run it). So as a user you would run for example grunt rustup and it would get and execute the script created by rustup project. I imagine it shouldn’t be that difficult to add a tiny package to the major distros.
However instead of running scripts on your machine, soar runs them in CI and stores the binaries for you to download.
A fast, modern package manager for Static Binaries, Portable Formats (AppImage|AppBundle|FlatImage|Runimage) & More [maintainer=@QaidVoid] - pkgforge/soarGitHub
Package managers are complex tools that handle versioning, dependencies, updates, uninstalls and so on.
No. The original package manager can only handle install, uninstall and update (even no update). Since 1995 CPAN was invented, the package manager start to add feature to handle download and dependency resolve.
Actually you still can find this kind old school package manager: Slackware, its package manager can only handle install, uninstall and update. It won't do any dependency check or version check. It's package format also very simple: just a tarball, install is extract tarball to specific directory and execute doinst.sh in tarball. Uninstall is invert, remove all files in tarball and execute douninst.sh.
If you package all files needed by install process into a tarball and place it in your repo, you will get a Slaceware package manager with download feature. (Slackware don't have download feature, all official packages were included in install media and you must download third-party packages by yourself.)
Package mangers are also distro specific.
Package manager can be universal. But make it universal with cost: since it can't depend on any distro-specific thing, it must include nearly everything of userspace.
(NOTE: Your script repo is not universal since prebuilt binary downloaded from script usually depends on some distro-specific things, such as Glibc version. Glibc is backward compatible, but not forward compatible. So you can't use these binary in the environment with lower version glibc than when it was built. So many projects will try to avoid these things, they use static-linked musl or don't use libc at all (e.g. Golang). But it will bring maintenance pressure so most projects don't do it unless there is an infrastructure to do it easily, such as Golang)
Actually there is some package manager make themselves universal like Gentoo-prefix and Nix.
Someone suggested brew. How do you install brew according to brew.sh/ ?
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
See the problem?
That's bootstrap problem. You always need a way to get the first package manager. I don't know how Homebrew do. But you can use curl command to download static-linked version package manager to use it without any https://example.com/install.sh for most linux package manager (Except the one written by python. Actually you can do it as well, just download hundreds of files is annoying.).
Red Hat this morning went public with RHEL for Business Developers, an expansion of their RHEL Developer Program to make it easier for business developers to make use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux at no-cost for their development efforts.www.phoronix.com
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Regardless if its AI or not youth unemployment in Toronto is nearing 20%, which is a great injustice that mass immigration did help create.
How this happened was Covid stimulus, the Bank of Canada printed lots of new currency to buy federal bonds during Covid, which causes a labor shortage as per the phillips curve. We then did mass immigration as the Bank of Canada was jacking up interest rates to cool the job market, and miraculously the labor shortage vanishes and we are left with the excess of people who are now looking for work. This was also why US wages rose much faster than Canada, as we had capital shallowing.
This AI may be bad but the problem is real, and it seems as though this AI slop will be used to refute the fact that people are really suffering due to government manipulation of the economy, with a clear goal to feed corporations cheap labor which the UN then called modern slavery.
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Canadian immigration policy in the wake of Covid was reactionary and a mistake, as has been acknowledged by the people who put it in place. Relaxing temporary worker and student visa requirements allowed companies and universities to exploit the government's panic over Covid reconstruction.
But this video is gross for a bunch of unrelated reasons. It's racially charged. It's dishonest. It's propaganda from foreign money.
I understand the impulse to try and pull the conversation back to a substantial policy discussion- that conversation is harder and therefore feels more important- but that's not actually the topic of this post. I think there's value in everyone recognizing and taking time to denounce that gross racists are trying to manipulate Canadians with the one-two punch of racism and AI Slop.
Despite what I believe to be good intentions on your part, I would say that bringing up that more substantial and honest issue in reference to this video actually unintentionally lends them credibility they have absolutely not earned. Don't let your impulse to discuss more important issues inadvertently let someone claim this video is actually "about" anything real. Your seriousness, admirable as it is shouldn't provide cover to these buffoons.
An elderly couple from Cambridge, Ont. has been living separately in the same city since 2017 – but not by choice.
Jim McLeod has been trying to reunite with his 86-year-old wife Joan, who requires long-term care, for nearly eight years.
He has been living independently at Fairview Mennonite Home, which has long-term care facilities on-site.
Joan was sent to Hilltop Manor due to health complications, which is a 25-minute drive away. Jim lobbied to have her moved to Fairview, but Ontario’s long-term care system doesn’t prioritize keeping married couples together.
The pair have friends in the building who are separated from their spouses. They want to see the Till Death Do Us Part Act become law so other couples don’t lose valuable time together.
“Unfortunately, we have seen some spouses pass away and never be unified again,” said Fife
Europeans are still most concerned by Vladimir Putin’s Russia, Pew Research Center survey shows.Ferdinand Knapp (POLITICO)
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America is now following the path that Nazi Germany took. It is on the precipice of denaturalizing its own citizens, which will precipitate its own version of Night Of The Long Knives.
Which means that an attempt at seizing lebensraum should not be dismissed - Trump is already replacing key members of the military command structure with loyalists who will obey any command, no matter how unconstitutional. I mean, just look how the California national guard is being forced to play backup for ICE in California, against the wishes of its governor.
As Canadians, we need to be ready to make their lives very miserable when - not if! - this attempt at seizing lebensraum happens and America tries to make us the 51st state.
With SUSE's help, European companies and governments can ensure their IT support, software, and data assets are safe.Steven Vaughan-Nichols (ZDNET)
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And Apple. And Amazon. Actually, all the stuff from Magastan.
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Major municipalities should steer clear of creating drug injection sites, licensing body rub parlours and banning plastic straws, says the first municipal affairs minister from rural Alberta since January 2021.The Local Journalism Initiative (CTVNews)
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Ottawa’s ‘special measures’ visa program for Gaza has so far proved to be little more than a cruel tauntDeborah Cowen (The Globe and Mail)
OTTAWA – Mark Carney has unveiled an “ambitious” plan to cut government spending by 7.5% next year, and 15% by 2029, figures he truly believes his government can manage as long as he ensures daily life getting between 5 and 30% worse for Canadians du…Luke Gordon Field (The Beaverton)
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Hello,
Trying to use my linux partition to remote into windows PCs and I am struggling to get ninja remote software to work with even a browser running through wine. Has anyone used this software before and have a solution?
Funny I just spend a few hours working on this on my workstation. Tested in VM first before deploying out to my main machine. but here are rough steps:
You have to use wine and the browser extension "User-Agent Switcher and Manager"
I would say first install the browser extension then log into your RMM agent. The button to remote will appear but won't work.
Click the remote in button and Download the 32bit agent from the pop up
Then run wine not sudo on that exe file.
Once installed you need to make a desktop entry
[nano ~/.local/share/applications/ninja-remote.desktop]
#Paste this with the correct path and username
[Desktop Entry]
Name=NinjaOne Remote
Exec=bash -c 'wine "/home//.wine/drive_c/users//AppData/Roaming/NinjaRemote/ncplayer.exe" "%u"'
Type=Application
Terminal=false
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/ninjarmm;
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Second to last Register the desktop Entry:
run: xdg-desktop-menu install ~/.local/share/applications/ninja-remote.desktop
run: xdg-mime default ninja-remote.desktop x-scheme-handler/ninjarmm
Lastly, Paste this in your firefox extension (The we used to trick sites into thinking we are windows)
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36
Let me know how it goes.
Cheers!
With SUSE's help, European companies and governments can ensure their IT support, software, and data assets are safe.Steven Vaughan-Nichols (ZDNET)
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By early 2026 parents in Canada should be able to put their young kids in child care for an average of $10 a day. With less than a year to go only six of 13 provinces and territories have met the target.Martha Friendly (CCPA)
If a person reads a lot of theory about how to swim, different types of techniques, other people's written experiences etc., can they swim if thrown in a deep swimming pool? Or, at least, be able to swim enough to reach the steep end and save themselves from drowning?
By "a lot", I mean spending over 6 months to a year, gaining theoretical knowledge. And when we throw them in the pool, they are willing to try it, as in, "I have learnt enough, and I am willing to try it out."
I know that stock Android itself is spyware.
What tips about setting up my stock Android phone would you give me?
It's not factory unlocked so I'm sticking with Google Android.
Things I've done:
- Stopped and disabled all apps that I don't use or need.
- Replaced all apps that I can with FOSS alternatives from github using Obtainium.
- Not installed things that I can just check on my laptop like email.
Is there anything else that I can do?
Thanks in advance
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I've also:
- Changed my DNS to Mullvad DNS
- Restricted app permissions to only what they need
- Not signed into the phone. I don't even have Gmail account.
I made the unfortunate post about asking why people liked Arch so much (RIP my inbox I'm learning a lot from the comments) But, what is the best distro for each reason?
RIP my inbox again. I appreciate this knowledge a lot. Thank you everyone for responding. You all make this such a great community.
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For me it's openSUSE Tumbleweed on my Desktops/Laptops and openSuse Leap on my Servers. The killing Feature for me was the propper BTRFS integration with Snapper for seamless rollbacks in case I borked the system in some way.
One "downside" for me is the mix of Gnome Settings and Yast on my Desktop. But I like yast on my servers for managing everything (enabling ports in firewall, network config, enable autoamtic isntall of security updates, etc.).
Also openSuse is not that common, so sometimes it is hard to find a solution if you have a distribution specific question.
Personally never looked to closely into openSuse Build Services (OBS). But I know some people who really like it.
Lots of projects claim to be the “smallest” or “simplest” Kubernetes, but they never provide data to back it up. Let’s look at how these distributions compare to Talos Linux.Justin Garrison (Sidero Labs)
You could try mine, SimpleK8s (kubeadm, containerd, systemd, buildroot), ~50Mb single file (kernel+initramfs).
simplek8s.org/
The current footprint is lower than every alternative commented on this article.
I find this comparison unfair becuase k3s is a much more batteries included distro than the others, coming with an ingress controller (traefik) and a few other services not in talos or k0s.
But I do think Talos will end up the lighest overall because Talos is not just a k8s distro, but also a extremely stripped down linux distro. They don’t use systemd to start k8s, they have their own tiny init system.
It should be noted that Sidero Labs is the creator of Talos Linux, which another commenter pointed out.
So, a while back I installed Xfce with Chicago95, but was disappointed. Xfce just doesn't vibe with me, and a strict emulation of Windows95 is not really what I wanted, I just wanted something that "felt" that classic.
So I was gonna give up and just use KDE, until I saw TDE. I think TDE is probably what I'm looking for but I'm concerned about using anything so minor because security.
It TDE secure (for personal use)?
Can a DE even be insecure, or are they all generally as secure as each-other as long as you follow the rules (trustworthy software, closed firewall, install patches fast, and disaster recovery plans)?
What vulnerabilities can a desktop environment even have (edit)?
It TDE secure (for personal use)?
Depends on your threat modeling. Though, unfortunately, none of the DEs/WMs on Linux offer perfect security; this even applies to a hardened distro like secureblue.
So, practically-speaking, it probably ain't great. But we aren't used to great anyways 😅.
Oh damn, so just viewing a file in your file manager is enough to get infected in an insecure desktop environment, as thumbnails can be generated programmatically? If I clicked a bad link that would 100% infect my system.
I'm not worried too much about screen-capture. I'm worried first and foremost about triggering any arbitrary code execution and thumbnail generation on a file would definitely do it.
Lots of projects claim to be the “smallest” or “simplest” Kubernetes, but they never provide data to back it up. Let’s look at how these distributions compare to Talos Linux.Justin Garrison (Sidero Labs)
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I find this comparison unfair becuase k3s is a much more batteries included distro than the others, coming with an ingress controller (traefik) and a few other services not in talos or k0s.
But I do think Talos will end up the lighest overall because Talos is not just a k8s distro, but also a extremely stripped down linux distro. They don't use systemd to start k8s, they have their own tiny init system.
It should be noted that Sidero Labs is the creator of Talos Linux.
Eleven init systems enter, one init system leaves.Tyblog
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No one cares about systemd at this point
If you want to use your computer like it is 2005 go for it. Just don't keep bringing up this dead topic.
RCMP: Ideologically motivated violent extremism: four individuals charged
One of the accused allegedly created and administered an Instagram account with the aim of recruiting new members to the anti-government militia.
Numerous firearms were seized by police officers during searches in January 2024.
Military-style training in which the accused took part.
NYT: Canadian Armed Group Charged in Plot to Seize Quebec Land
The men charged with terrorism offenses were identified as Marc-Aurèle Chabot, 24, and Raphaël Lagacé, 25, both of Quebec City, and Simon Angers-Audet, 24, of Neuville, Quebec. Matthew Forbes, 33, of Pont-Rouge, Quebec, was charged with the explosives and weapons offenses.Mr. Forbes and Mr. Chabot are corporals in the Canadian Armed Forces stationed at a large base northwest of Quebec City, the military said in a statement on Tuesday evening. The armed forces added that another of the accused men is a former member of the Canadian Forces while the fourth man was once a civilian instructor with the Royal Canadian Air Cadets. Neither of those men were identified by name.
In the statement, the police said that the men facing the terrorism charges had been “planning to create anti-government militia.”
RCMP Federal Policing National Security – Eastern Region announces the arrest of and laying of charges against four individuals, including active members of the Canadian Armed Forces, who were allegedly involved in activities intending to forcibly ta…Royal Canadian Mounted Police
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For those who don't know: Edmonton is where the military prison is. Referred to as "Club Ed" by members and is known to be a living hell designed specifically to break you through non-stop work and makes regular civilian prison look like a vacation. You have to be an absolute piece of shit like these guys to end up in that correctional facility. They are guaranteed to not be the same when they get out of there.
The CAF doesn't mess around with people like these so if you think they are representative of the CAF as a whole you are wrong.
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Right at the top:
FOKS is like Keybase, but fully open-source and federated, with SSO and YubiKey support.
I guess the reason I am asking is that I have never understood the use-case for Keybase either.
So your answer does not really answer my question. 😀
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Is the data and public keys being replicated in the communication between instances? it's not made clear how the federation actually works, because "enabling users on different servers to share data with end-to-end encryption" (from foks.pub/) is something all services with TLS / HTTPS support already do...
Also.. one big plus for the OpenPGP HKP protocol is that technically you can self-host your own key in a static HTTPS server with predefined responses and be able to have it interact with other servers and clients without issue. I'm expecting the more complex nature of FOKS might make self-hosting in this way difficult. I'd rather minimize the dynamic services I expose to the outside publicly if I'm self hosting.
Eleven init systems enter, one init system leaves.Tyblog
So, I don't like the guy either, but for a little devil's advocacy:
The stuff that already "just works" was developed during a very different era in terms of computing power, tasking of the computers which were running the systems, etc. Nobody (serious, and he is serious) develops something different because "why not?" they, at least from their perspective, feel that they are improving on the status quo, at least for the use cases they are considering.
one-size-fits-all mentality is
being decided by the distro maintainers, not the developers. Sure, developers promote their product, but if a distro thinks that multiple flavors are a better path, they distribute multiple flavors. It's not like the systemd developers are filling billion dollar war chests with profit because they're using strong-arm tactics to coerce distro maintainers to adopt their products.
stuff everything into one bin
When one bin serves the purpose, it's a lot easier to maintain, modernize, security harden, etc. than ten bins.
the community and its users will ~~not~~ always be able to freely develop FOSS.
Fork it and your loyal users will follow.
Gnome is a good example of something that creates too much of a dependency
Agreed, I was never happy with GNOME, and starting about 5 years back I have been migrating my systems, personal and professional, off of it. That's the nature of FOSS, no contracts to negotiate, make the choices that make sense for your use cases and execute them.
FOSS shouldn’t work like that.
FOSS, by its very nature, should be expected to work all the ways. If a particular way can't get enough developer traction, it stagnates but never really dies, not until the ecosystem it is dependent upon can no longer find hardware to run on and users willing to run it.
IBM/Red Hat finally decide to seal the deal and lock everyone out for good.
I am very glad that I walked away from CentOS about 8 years back, its proximity to Red Hat never made me happy. I have been trying to walk away from Canonical (toward Debian) for about 3 years now, but it still has some hooks that keep our professional team happier than Debian. If the unhappy ever outweighs the happy, we'll execute the move.
Sorry if I can’t rejoice
Never asked you to. End of devil's advocacy. I still don't like the guy, but I never really interact with him. I do interact with his products and the alternatives, and in my use cases the products speak for themselves. There's nothing about systemd that makes me dig around for systemd free alternatives - they are out there, but for my use cases I don't care. YMMV.
All it does is stuff everything into one bin
Well, it is not one bin.
There is no monolithic systemd bin that does everything.
There are a lot of separate bin files for all the different tasks.
Well and if you don't want to use timers, then don't and just use cron instead.
If you don't want to use journald, then just don't and use rsyslog or whatever you want.
Don't need systemd-homed? Well, then don't use it.
You want to configure your network with something else then systemd-networkd? Great, do it if you want.
The Poettering Army will not come and force you to enable all the options 😜
Except, they are. Pottering is the front man who does the dirty work for IBM and Microsoft to take over Linux by forcing distros to adopt systemd.
Those of us old enough to remember the "vote" that resulted in Debian going to Systemd remember it was almost at gunpoint.
Death to systemd, long live FOSS culture
I am not seeing how IBM and/or Microsoft are winning anything here or how systemd enables them to take over Linux. But maybe I am missing something.
Last time I checked (60 seconds ago) systemd was using FOSS licences for all it's code. So it seems to be living the FOSS culture, or not?
I am always open to learn and correct my view on things under new information, so if you can provide them I am open to read it.
Grub is working perfectly fine.
If it breaks it is, in my experience as a grub user for over 20 years and as a guy working in server hosting for 15 years, either because of failing HDD/SSD or because of user error.
People don't read when the updater tells them that running "grub-install" is needed (or they perform it on the wrong drive/partition) and then blame grub when it fails on the next boot.
The crappy bootloader that comes with systemd very often, in my experience, fails to register that a new Kernel was installed and boots the old one (or fails to boot if the package manager removed the old Kernel).
Oh and GRUB has so many useful features, like booting a ISO image.
GRUB is a piece of programmer art!
Because people here accuse Poettering of being an asshole: I've read some of his blogposts and seen some talks of his and him doing Q&A: He answered professionally, did his best to answer truthfully, did acknowledge when he didn't know something. No rants, no opining on things he didn't know about, no taking questions in bad faith.
As far as I can tell all the people declaring him some kind of asshole are full of shit.
He is not that bad, the issue is that, as all foss devs, he is not interested in solving problems he does not feel like are important.
The problem is, he disapproves when resources are allocated in his project to those problems and one main area he is not a fan of is support for legacy stuff.
It just happens that legacy stuff is the majority of the industry, as production environment of half the globe needs to run legacy software and a lot of it on legacy hardware
How activists in the U.S. and Canada are working together to oppose new factory farms.Jessica Scott-Reid (Sentient)
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Well, generally, the answer is a no. Nails and intestines do not mix well, and once you're past the anus, that's what you're dealing with.
It isn't impossible to modify the nails to be less risky, but never to the degree that I'd be willing to have them up my rear, even if I was into that. There's reasons that nurses and nurse's assistants are often expected to keep their nails short, and that's one of them. We don't go wrist deep, and it's still too big a risk.
Way I see it, you have two options. One is to cut them back to where they don't extend past the end of the fingers, then use two nitrile gloves over your hand that's doing the work. You can still keep pretty nails like that, they just won't be as showy
The other is to take the risk, and wrap the nails in something like gauze, then tape them, then glove up. I've heard of people doing that with no injury, but it is still risky.
If you can't/won't do either of those, call it done and get a fist dildo.
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Understanding how to use dracut is critical for kernel upgrades, troubleshooting boot issues, disk migration, encryption, and even kernel debugging. This article explores this tool.Suraj Rajendra Patil (Fedora Project)
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Made public minutes ago is Transient Scheduler Attacks (TSA) as a new class of class of speculative side channel attacks affecting AMD processors.www.phoronix.com
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TornadoVM version 1.1.1 is now available for this OpenJDK and GraalVM plug-in that supports Java offloading to GPUs, FPGAs, and other heterogeneous hardwarewww.phoronix.com
The popular Linux gaming image Bazzite has a July 2025 update out with some interesting new features and expanded device support.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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in reply to return2ozma • • •McDonalds gets millions of applications? wtf?
ETA: Yeah, I guess they do.
eu.usatoday.com/story/money/20…
McDonald's plans to hire 375,000 workers this summer
Melina Khan (USA TODAY)just_another_person
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