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The Carney government, through the CMHC, has quietly redefined "affordable housing" to no longer mean 30% of income, but "perhaps 40-45% ... [and] over 50% of income by 2035"

Redefining Affordability: Why CMHC’s Benchmark Shift Matters

In a move that received little public fanfare but will have implications for housing policy across Canada, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) has officially abandoned its 2004 benchmark for housing affordability.
The Real Estate Institute of Canada
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leastaction

CMHC is not run by the Prime Minister or the cabinet. It is a Crown Corporation governed by a Board of Directors. Mr. Carney has not "redefined affordable housing". cmhc-schl.gc.ca/about-us/manag…

CMHC’s board of directors and committees

The board of directors provides general oversight of the management and administration of CMHC. Meet its members and learn more about its committees.
www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca
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m0darn

Canadians should mail letters, ring them up, fax them if they can, to let them know that any reasonable person would consider this goal post shifting a complete abdication of their responsibilities.

National Office
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
700 Montreal Road
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0P7

Reception/Main number: 613-748-2000
Fax: 613-748-2098

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Newbie with kubuntu - tips?

I'm very new on Linux and i'm trying to get some help.

I tried Linux mint and other debian distros, and since i dont have the sufficient skill to manage linux, this time i'm choosing Kubuntu because of the KDE environment , which i like a lot.

I know more about linux mint and kinda know how to work with him, but kubuntu never tried and i will try this time... but i have some questions if someone can help me.

Kubuntu is ok for a new person on linux?

I want to install apps/programms via flatpak, since this looks more easily for a newbie as me and because of the sandbox, which seems is good (?).

On Kubuntu, is easily to install flatpak via diskover? I see i need to add the flathub repo, but my question is if someone have getting any error or problem with this, or if this is easy to do it.

Other question I have, is about some apps i want to install if i dont find it or just find it on github or something similar. I find an app that really like but this app dont appear in any store, and this app is only available on github via flatpak and .deb . In this case, since the app is not available on flathub or diskover, or via command lines (like sudo apt install firefox - if you understand me) , how can i check this is not a virus or can do bad things on my linux? I use total virus for this, and the checks gives zero flags, but would like to know if for example, i install this programm via flatpak, can break my system.

Other question is about flatpaks from flathub. I know flatpak usually dont follow the theme of my DE. Which is the best way these flatpaks have the same theme as my DE? Is using the flatseal? Any tip about this?

And, btw, if you can give me some tips and advice as linux/kubuntu newbie, it would be amazing for my journey. Cheers all!

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Maiq

I tried Linux mint and other debian distros, and since i dont have the sufficient skill to manage linux, this time i'm choosing Kubuntu because of the KDE environment , which i like a lot


KDE is a great desktop and my personal favorite non tiling desktop. Very customizable! It can take a bit of time to set it up just the way you like. When moving to a new distro and using KDE getting your settings back the same as before can be a pain. Luckily there is konsave might come in handy in the future.

I know more about linux mint and kinda know how to work with him, but kubuntu never tried and i will try this time... but i have some questions if someone can help me.


Kubuntu is in the same family as Ubuntu. Mint is based on Ubuntu so you already know more than you think you do.

The ubuntu family of distros has great documentation and community to get help in as another commenter pointed out. Most of all your questions probably already have answers on their forums.

Kubuntu is ok for a new person on linux?


I think it is a good option for a newbie. Ubuntu is where I started my journey into linux many years ago.

I want to install apps/programms via flatpak, since this looks more easily for a newbie as me and because of the sandbox, which seems is good (?).


Flatpak is a great option for beginners! The sandbox is a nice feature. I dont really use them myself. Ubuntu has Snaps installed by default and snaps are similar to flatpak. Flatpak is a far better option IMO.

Make sure you read the Ubuntu or Kubuntu documentation on how to add the flatpak repo/PPA. If you get any errors you should search the kubuntu/ubuntu community forums for the right answers. If you cant find the answer you can always post there for an answer.

Other question is about flatpaks from flathub. I know flatpak usually dont follow the theme of my DE. Which is the best way these flatpaks have the same theme as my DE? Is using the flatseal? Any tip about this?


I have never used flatpak so I dont know the best way of theming them. Hopefully someone more knowledgeable will come along with a better answer than I have on this.

Other question I have, is about some apps i want to install if i dont find it or just find it on github or something similar. I find an app that really like but this app dont appear in any store, and this app is only available on github via flatpak and .deb . In this case, since the app is not available on flathub or diskover, or via command lines (like sudo apt install firefox - if you understand me) , how can i check this is not a virus or can do bad things on my linux? I use total virus for this, and the checks gives zero flags, but would like to know if for example, i install this programm via flatpak, can break my system.


Finding trusted software outside the official repositories can be difficult. Like the other commenter said try to vet the github app as best you can. You can always ask in the kubuntu/ubuntu forums. There might be a similar alternative app already in the Kubuntu apps.

Another option is to ask here on lemmy. People here might have experience with the app your interested in using. People here might know of a better alternative. Many of us lemmings are helpful geeks that are happy to help.

And, btw, if you can give me some tips and advice as linux/kubuntu newbie, it would be amazing for my journey. Cheers all!


Here on lemmy there is a linuxupskillchallenge@programming.dev community. It's just a bot that posts about a free linux course. The course starts every month on or around the first. It's a good way to get your feet wet so to speak.

Don't worry if it's a bit over your head. That's how the best journeys begin. We all start somewhere.

If you have questions or problems the Kubuntu forums would be my first stop. You can always ask questions here on lemmy too. Like I said earlier, we are a bunch of knowledgeable nerds and most if us don't mind helping or pointing you in the right direction.

Welcome to your linux journey.

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Newbie with kubuntu - tips?

I'm very new on Linux and i'm trying to get some help.

I tried Linux mint and other debian distros, and since i dont have the sufficient skill to manage linux, this time i'm choosing Kubuntu because of the KDE environment , which i like a lot.

I know more about linux mint and kinda know how to work with him, but kubuntu never tried and i will try this time... but i have some questions if someone can help me.

Kubuntu is ok for a new person on linux?

I want to install apps/programms via flatpak, since this looks more easily for a newbie as me and because of the sandbox, which seems is good (?).

On Kubuntu, is easily to install flatpak via diskover? I see i need to add the flathub repo, but my question is if someone have getting any error or problem with this, or if this is easy to do it.

Other question I have, is about some apps i want to install if i dont find it or just find it on github or something similar. I find an app that really like but this app dont appear in any store, and this app is only available on github via flatpak and .deb . In this case, since the app is not available on flathub or diskover, or via command lines (like sudo apt install firefox - if you understand me) , how can i check this is not a virus or can do bad things on my linux? I use total virus for this, and the checks gives zero flags, but would like to know if for example, i install this programm via flatpak, can break my system.

Other question is about flatpaks from flathub. I know flatpak usually dont follow the theme of my DE. Which is the best way these flatpaks have the same theme as my DE? Is using the flatseal? Any tip about this?

And, btw, if you can give me some tips and advice as linux/kubuntu newbie, it would be amazing for my journey. Cheers all!

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Arkouda

The best tip I received when starting on Linux was "Break shit", and I believe it is still the best advice out there.

Keep an install ready, and go to town on your distro of choice. Test commands, turn things on and off, delete things, move things, and literally break shit. Then see if you can put it back together again. If not, install a fresh one and try again.

Repeat until you get it. haha

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mangaskahn

Agreed.Also, Windows and OSX, unless you want to have to call your nephew who's Good With Computers™ every couple of weeks. If you're just using a browser for everything and never messing around like a good majority of people, Linux is just as good as either of those. Linux has gotten to the point where it's Grandma proof if you stick to a distribution that prioritizes stability. If you choose a distro that prioritizes bleeding edge software versions, you may come across more bugs and breaking changes.Then you'll need the troubleshooting skills mentioned here. Most of us are here to learn and mess around; the troubleshooting skills grow from that mindset.

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Standalone Dolphin-emu with ES-DE

Have any of you run Dolphin standalone with ES-DE? Eventually I'll add PCSX2 standalone, something else for N64 and Dreamcast, etc.

I ask because it seems like my options for installing Dolphin standalone are a flatpak or building from source. I was worried the flatpak would have integration issues with ES-DE because of the sandboxing, but I've never built any packages from source. I'm running Mint if relevant.

Background- I have Retrobat running on windows for my child, and I'd like to get off windows as much as possible. I tried Retroarch, and like 1 out of 5 built in cores worked. I like the ES-DE carousel interface better than Retroarch anyway. If I can't get this to work, I was considering making a partition for Batocera as an alternative.

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AI is eating up Pennsylvania's power, governor threatens to pull state from the grid — new plants aren't being built fast enough to keep up with demand

AI is eating up Pennsylvania's power, governor threatens to pull state from the grid — new plants aren't being built fast enough to keep up with demand

Spiking demand is sending energy bills skyrocketing, while the governor threatens to pull the state from the grid.
Jon Martindale (Tom's Hardware)
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cm0002

Yea, it might be a wait. I picked up a launch unit just for the purpose of future exploits. I'm just leaving it sealed on a shelf, worst case, I can probably get back what I paid for it in a few years since sealed Nintendo stuff holds their value decently enough.

Like most other people seem to feel about, there's just not enough of a pull for me to want to play it LMAO

Especially since I already haven't played my fully modded Switch 1 in a few months as is xD

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Fediverse Canvas Event 2025 live stream

cross-posted from: lemmy.abnormalbeings.space/pos…

Decided to do this as a streaming stress test for my PeerTube server (and to learn more about live streaming setups and how OBS works), will probably lag behind updates in canvas size and such, as nothing like that is automated. Enjoy!


Fediverse Canvas event 2025 live stream

https://canvas.fediverse.events A live stream of the Fediverse 2025 event as it is happening, as well as a stress test for my server.
AbnormalBeingsTube

don't like this

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AbnormalHumanBeing

You actually make a great point. Really, for me it was mostly a quick idea because I had been musing about PeerTube's streaming capabilities in a different comment thread, and about how it leverages the P2P mechanism, so it was fresh on my mind that I wanted to stress-test my own server somehow (and I wanted to learn how to set-up OBS with chat and stuff for PeerTube). Then, while "working" on the canvas, I had the sudden: "Hey, I'd love to set my pixels while zoomed in, while also watching the whole field zoomed out"-thought ... but of course that would just as easily be possible by just having two browser windows open 🤷

If nothing else, I got some promising data showing my server can handle several people tuning in to live streams at the same time - and I am also using this to test how my server handles someone wanting to encode a 24h+ VOD from a stream, so that will be there, too - probably for another time-lapse in addition to the official ones.

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JRaccoon

That's cool. I'm sorry if it came across like I was criticizing your live stream, that wasn't my intention. I just wanted to add the link to the actual event since it was missing from your post.

And now that you mention it, it is cool to have the whole event (or at least most of it) available as a VOD, if someone wants to put together more timelapses for example.

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Dave Chappelle 'Goes Off' On DJ Khaled For Being Fat & Silent While 'Gaza' Struggles - CH News

Dave Chappelle 'Goes Off' On DJ Khaled For Being Fat & Silent While 'Gaza' Struggles - CH News

https://hypersclub.com/ - Dave Chappelle wants it to be known that he's not a fan of DJ Khaled's silence while his fellow Palestinian's struggle in Gaza to d...
YouTube

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Study shows a link between obesity and what’s on local restaurant menus

Study shows a link between obesity and what’s on local restaurant menus

An MIT-led study of three major global cities examines millions of restaurant menu items and concludes that having fewer and less nutritional eating options nearby correlates with obesity and other health outcomes.
MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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JillyB

My follow up questions:
1. Do unhealthy food options lead to obesity, or do lifestyles drive demand for food options (or some mix of the two)?
2. Regarding the income relationship: does income drive lifestyle or are unhealthy foods cheaper to offer?

I personally believe the first option in both of these questions, though I'd love to see some formal research on it.

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JillyB

I live in Chicago and this city feels so full of energy in the summer. There are constant festivals, events, people are hosting cookouts, everyone's outside. It feels like a constant party. You pay for it in the winter though.

I lived most of my life in South Carolina. Last year, I made the mistake of visiting SC in the summer. I had to say no to so many plans in Chicago and leave beautiful weather to visit the hottest, muggiest, no-wind-est place on earth. In Columbia, SC the pride festival is held in October because if it was held in June, people would just die. I told my friends and family that they visit me during the summer and I'll be around for the holidays.

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Another help me choose a distro

Hi, as many others I am looking to switch to linux before microsoft kills win 10.
I read a lot of advice online for distros, but my main needs are not really discussed. I need a distro that runs well for game dev specifically unreal engine 5.4-6.

I am currently aiming to try mint, as it has been recommended to be stable and i already dabbled a little bit with Ubuntu on my laptop.

I am not afraid of some tech journey, but even though arch seems the coolest, with Wayland, kde, hyperland customization, i am not confident enough to use it for work. I heard it can completely crash your system if your a noob.

So in essence i need something stable that is relatively easy to use and has great ue5 and gaming perf.
Thanks in advance for all the help.

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This Week in Plasma: tablet dials and day/night cycles

This Week in Plasma: tablet dials and day/night cycles

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! Every week we cover the highlights of what’s happening in the world of KDE Plasma and its associated apps like Discover, System Monitor, and more.
This Week in Plasma: tablet dials and day/night cycles

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What would happen if I changed fedi server software but keep same domain?
For example I would selfhost Mastodon with me@fedi.com but then decide to change the server software to GoToSocial but keep the same me@fedi.com. Would everyone who was following me@fedi.com keep me in their follower list or would whole fediverse crash?

Penguin_1024 doesn't like this.

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This Week in Plasma: tablet dials and day/night cycles

This Week in Plasma: tablet dials and day/night cycles

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! Every week we cover the highlights of what’s happening in the world of KDE Plasma and its associated apps like Discover, System Monitor, and more.
This Week in Plasma: tablet dials and day/night cycles

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RustDesk, probably one of the best TeamViewer Alternatives
Apart from that I am looking for a solution to a personal issue (see my other comment), I posted this because I was thinking this could be a great way to support other new Linux users and friends.

remote administration software

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
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HellsBelle

The terminal is set to be running by the mid 2030s and the expansion would allow the port to handle an additional 2.4 million twenty-foot equivalent units a year. That represents a 70 per cent increase to the port’s 2024 container volume of 3.5 million. Vancouver’s port says it already handles almost as much cargo as the next five largest Canadian ports combined.
Article content

Pang said the port hasn’t got a policy to penalize bidders from any particular country, such as China or the U.S., despite a movement in the country to steer government contracts to domestic companies. British Columbia’s ferry company, for example, is embroiled in a political controversy over a major contract that was awarded to China. But suppliers of building materials from Canada would have natural advantages because they’re closer, Pang said.


This is a load of bullshit. Who makes the money here? Who give control over the port to a private enterprise here?

Who?
Fucking?
Wins?
Here???????

I supported Carney from the start. If this is what he's aiming at completing I'm walking away ... with the hopes that he FUCKING STOPS N O W with this shit.

Read it and weep asswipe.

As it stands right now you're not leading, you're following.

S T O P.

I T.

F F S.

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Hispanic support for Donald Trump's deportations surges
The poll found that more than 60 percent of all voters now support deportation of undocumented migrants, with Hispanic voters showing a notable uptick. In contrast, 34.7 percent opposed deportations, and four percent were unsure. Among Hispanic voters, 50 percent supported deportations and 48 percent opposed. There was a seven percent increase in overall support since May among this demographic, with an 11 percent rise among those who said they "strongly support" the policy. Among Black voters, 53 percent supported deportations, while 37 percent opposed. Overall support among this demographic increased by three percent since May. Meanwhile, support among White voters was 65 percent, while 31 percent opposed. Overall support fell by three percent since May.

Hispanic Support For Donald Trump's Deportations Surges

The percentage of Hispanic voters that strongly support deportations of people in the U.S. illegally rose by 11 percent in two months, according to a new poll.
Jordan King (Newsweek)

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How to Xephyr in Sway: running nested Sway sessions as other users

Author @ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
How to Xephyr in Sway: running nested Sway sessions as other users

If you come from i3, you might be missing Xephyr or Xnest-like functionalities in Sway - that is, the ability to run another desktop session as another user inside your current desktop.

In i3, I log into my test desktops all the time without leaving my main desktop, and that's something I really miss in Sway / Wayland. So I spent some time putting a script together to do that seamlessly in Sway too. You may find it useful.

In fairness, Sway - or more precisely wlroots - can already run nested natively without any modification. You can test that by opening a terminal and typing sway in it: you'll get a second, identical desktop inside your current one.

The problems come when you want to run another user's desktop within yours, for the following reasons:

  1. Wayland makes the incredibly restrictive assumption that the Wayland compositor and clients always run as the same user, and therefore puts the Wayland socket in the user's XDG_RUNTIME_DIR (usually /run/user/<userid>/).
    That's a problem if you want a Wayland application running as another user to connect to that Wayland socket, because other users can't access your XDG_RUNTIME_DIR, and you really don't want to open it up to other users just to be able to access the socket because it's full of sensitive files pertaining to your running session.

    Moreover, since XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is usually a mounted tmpfs, you can't symlink the socket outside the directory either because sockets can't be symlinked across filesystems in Linux.

    In other words, again, Wayland makes it extra difficult to do something simple for no good reason.

  2. Sway requires a full login environment - and particularly XDG_RUNTIME_DIR - to be set in the environment, which usually implies that it should also be setup and mounted in /run/user.
    Unfortunately, you can't just sudo into the account you want to run your nested Sway desktop as and start Sway because PAM explicitely doesn't set XDG when su'ing or sudo'ing, and doing it manually is a recipe for problems.

To solve 1., we use a clever piece of software called filterway, which conveniently solves two problems:

  • It acts as a sort of gateway: it connects to a Wayland socket on one side, creates its own socket on the other side and links the two. This functionality is used to expose the primary Wayland socket securely without compromising XDG_RUNTIME_DIR.
  • It replaces the app ID of the top Wayland client that connects to it - which is really its primary party trick. In this use case, that's useful to track the state of the nested Sway session in the primary session's tree.

There is no package for filterway so you have to clone the Github repo, build the binary and install it somewhere in your PATH. Fortunately, it's just a small utility so building it is really simple.

To solve 2., we use systemd-run to setup the target user's environment as if it was a full login, then run Sway with the correct setup to connect to the primary Wayland display's socket.

The following script ties everything together: it starts filterway, starts Sway as the other user, then takes care of stopping Sway and filterway and cleaning things up when the session is closed. Alll you need is to add your name to the sudoers.

\#!/bin/sh

# Make sure we run in Wayland
if [ ! "${WAYLAND_DISPLAY}" ]; then
  echo "$0 must be run in a Wayland environment"
  exit
fi

# Make sure we run in Sway
if [ ! "${SWAYSOCK}" ]; then
  echo "$0 must be run in a Sway session"
  exit
fi

# Pass the nested session's user as first argument
if [ ! "$1" ]; then
  echo "Usage: $0 username"
  exit
fi
NUSER=$1

# Make sure the nested session's user exists
# Replace "password" with "passwd" here, change due to Lemmy posting glitch
if ! grep -q "^${NUSER}:" /etc/password; then
  echo "User ${NUSER} doesn't exist"
  exit
fi

# Make sure filterway is installed
if ! which -s filterway; then
  echo "filterway not found in the PATH."
  echo "Please install if from https://github.com/andrewbaxter/filterway"
  exit
fi

# Get a unique ID for this nested session
UUID=$(uuidgen)

# Figure out where our Wayland socket is and make sure it exists
if echo ${WAYLAND_DISPLAY} | grep -q "^/"; then 
  RSOCKPATH=${WAYLAND_DISPLAY}
else
  RSOCKPATH=${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}/${WAYLAND_DISPLAY}
fi
if ! [ -S ${RSOCKPATH} ]; then 
  echo "Socket file ${RSOCKPATH} for this Wayland display \"${WAYLAND_DISPLAY}\" doesn't exist!?"
  echo "Giving up..."
  exit
fi

# Unique nested session's Wayland display name
NWDISPLAY=wayland-nested-${UUID}

# Unique filespec for the nested session's Wayland socket
NSOCKPATH=/tmp/${NWDISPLAY}

# Unique filespec for the nested Sway socket
NSWAYSOCK=/tmp/sway-nested-ipc.${NUSER}.${UUID}.sock

# Run filterway in the background to expose our private Wayland socket in ${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR} (which is most likely a tmpfs-mounted directory that can't be shared outside without compromising the private $(XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}) and to rename the nested session's app ID
rm -f ${NSOCKPATH}
filterway --upstream ${RSOCKPATH} --downstream ${NSOCKPATH} --app-id "Nested Sway - ${NUSER} ($UUID)" &
FILTERWAY_PID=$!

# Wait until filterway has created the socket and associated lock files for the nested session
RETRY=3
while [ ${RETRY} -gt 0 ] && ! ( [ -S ${NSOCKPATH} ] && [ -f ${NSOCKPATH}.lock ] ); do
  sleep 1
  RETRY=$((RETRY-1))
done

# If filterway somehow didn't start, try to kill it and clean up its files for good measure
if [ ${RETRY} = 0 ]; then
  kill ${FILTERWAY_PID}
  rm -f ${NSOCKPATH} ${NSOCKPATH}.lock
fi

# Fix up the permissions of the socket and associated lock files for the nested session so it's only accessible to the owner
chmod 600 ${NSOCKPATH} ${NSOCKPATH}.lock

# Become root
sudo -s -- << EOF

  # Give the socket and associated lock files to the nested session's user
  chown ${NUSER}: ${NSOCKPATH} ${NSOCKPATH}.lock

  # Remove stale symlinks then start Sway as that user in a new session in the background
  systemd-run --pipe --machine ${NUSER}@ --setenv=WAYLAND_DISPLAY=${NWDISPLAY} --setenv=SWAYSOCK=${NSWAYSOCK} --user /bin/sh -c '[ "\${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}" ] && (find \${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR} -maxdepth 1 -name "wayland-nested-*" -xtype l -exec rm -f {} \; || true) && rm -f \${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}/${NWDISPLAY} && ln -s ${NSOCKPATH} \${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}/${NWDISPLAY} && sway' &

  # Wait for the Sway container to appear within 3 seconds after starting Sway, then wait for it to disappear for more than 5 seconds afterwards
  export SWAYSOCK=${SWAYSOCK}
  COUNTDOWN=3
  while [ \${COUNTDOWN} -gt 0 ]; do
    if swaymsg -t get_tree | grep -q 'app_id.*${UUID}'; then
      COUNTDOWN=5
    fi
    sleep 1
    COUNTDOWN=\$((COUNTDOWN-1))
  done

  # Stop the nested Sway
  SWAYSOCK=${NSWAYSOCK} swaymsg exit

  # Kill filterway
  kill ${FILTERWAY_PID}

  # Remove the filterway socket and socket lock files
  rm -f ${NUSER}: ${NSOCKPATH} ${NSOCKPATH}.lock

EOF

I called it nest_sway.sh and it lives in my ~/scripts directory, which is in my PATH. Whenever I want to start a desktop as another user within my desktop, I simply type
$ nest_sway.sh <username>

and hey-presto, the desktop appears. Just like with Xephy.

GitHub - andrewbaxter/filterway: Wayland proxy that filters/modifies requests

Wayland proxy that filters/modifies requests. Contribute to andrewbaxter/filterway development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub
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YSK: If you set up a Lemmy instance, and follow the Docker setup instructions to the letter, it will send lemmy.ml your admin password during the setup process

So if you do the Docker setup, obeying the instructions and substituting everything that needs to get substituted, but don't proofread the files in detail and so miss that line 40 of docker-compose.yml doesn't have the variable {{domain}} like in every other location you need to write your domain, but instead just says LEMMY_UI_LEMMY_EXTERNAL_HOST=lemmy.ml and so you fail to change it away from lemmy.ml... then, everything will work, until you type in your admin password for the first time, at which point your browser will send a request to lemmy.ml which includes your admin username, your email address, and the admin password you're trying to set. And, also, of course your IP address wherever you are sitting and setting up the server.

I have no reason at all to think the Lemmy devs have set their server up to log this information when it comes in. nginx will throw it away by default, of course, but it would be easy for them to have it save it instead, if they wanted to. And my guess is most people won't use a different admin password once they figure out why creating their admin user isn't working and fix it.

@dessalines@lemmy.ml @nutomic@lemmy.ml I think you should fix the docker-compose.yml file not to do this.

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cm0002

Uh huh, just like how the instance/user block being horribly implemented to where it's just a barely functional mute is just a (4 year) "oversight". Funny how their "oversights" just so happen to have benefits to their efforts to push authoritarianism

lemmy.world/post/29072279

cm0002

2025-05-03 16:31:33

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Documentation of Lemmy.ml's Extremism [Megathread]


Good job everyone blocking and boycotting .ml! It's having an effect, users are noticing and MAUs on their comms are falling!

And for anyone asking "Why are we boycotting/blocking lemmy.ml?" Here's a quick recap:

Lemmy.ml is an instance run by admins who are hardcore tankies and will enforce their ideology on their instance through various means from allowing (and pushing it themselves) propaganda (Such as Russia being justified in some way to invade Ukraine) and known propaganda outlets (Like RT) to removing content on their instance critical of their favored authoritarian regimes such as Russia or China and even banning users for such speech or speech critical of them if it's off their instance (Just like the Reddit mods of ol!).

If it was just some random instance it would have been defederated from long ago like the rest of the "Tankie Triad" (Hexbear and Lemmygrad), but they've positioned lemmy.ml as the "flagship" instance and abused that position and influence to become large enough to keep other instances from defederating from them.

Which I believe is harmful to the Lemmy-verse's overall growth and outside reputation. I have seen it come up before on Reddit threads (and other testimonials from people who came back and tried it again) that "They tried Lemmy but it was a bunch of tankies and went back to Reddit"

I don't know about you, but I'd prefer Lemmy to not end up with the reputation for being "Tankie Central " or even worse "Voat 2.0".

So if you haven't joined the boycott yet, join today and help us foster a better healthier Lemmy-verse!

You can take a look around here on !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works for documentation of it or checkout this list of curated documentation

::: spoiler Evidence of bans, censorship and bias to push their "ideology":

lemmy.world/post/32298242

lemmy.world/post/32471440

lemmy.world/post/32720369

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::: spoiler Allowing known propaganda outlets and permitting altered headlines:

lemmy.world/post/32323822

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"NK is actually good, and anything counter to that is Western LIES" ~dessalines, .ml admin, head Lemmy dev lemmy.world/post/31595035

Spreading Russia talking points like the Ukraine invasion just being a "negotiating tactic" !https://lemmy.world/post/27012640

General negative sentiment to other instances who haven't "seen the way" yet: lemmy.world/post/27426510

Open declaration of support for Russia (direct from dessalines (head admin)) lemmy.world/post/27352415

"concentration camps were just reeducation camps and weren't that bad" lemmy.world/post/26985447

"Don't worry guys, the Uyghur Genocide was REALLY just birth control! ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev lemmy.world/post/30580167

"See! nobody died IN Tiananmen Square, just AROUND it, so it doesn't count!!" ~ Davel, .ml admin
lemmy.world/post/30673342

A .ml admins' (davel) response to a valid report of "NK is actually good" propaganda/misinfo lemmy.world/post/32627834

"The China censorship tool isnt actually censorship! And if it is, it's actually a good thing a state has that much power!" ~Tankies of .ml lemmy.world/post/30010789

Rooting for Russia in the Russia-Ukraine war lemmy.world/post/29274763

Nutomics continued transphobia lemmy.world/post/29222558

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Lemmy - A link aggregator for the fediverse

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Attack Vector Controls Could Be Ready For Linux 6.17 Introduction

Attack Vector Controls Could Be Ready For Linux 6.17 Introduction

The AMD engineering led work on Attack Vector Controls for the Linux kernel could be mainlined with the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel with the remaining patches now being queued within a TIP branch.
www.phoronix.com
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JillyB

I have a special syringe for this. I had impacted ear wax a few years ago and I went to urgent care to get it rinsed. Turns out my other ear was also impacted, just not as bad. After the rinse, I could hear in 3D. I felt like I shouldn't have been allowed to drive home because it felt like I was on acid it was so overwhelming. On the drive home I heard a crappy Honda with a bad exhaust drive by and I was scream-laughing at how visceral it was.

Now I rinse regularly in the shower and don't get to have free acid trips 🙁

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NotJustBikes uses Linux!
::: spoiler References
- Type: Comment. Author: "@NotJustBikes". Publisher: [Type: Video. Title: "I installed Linux (so should you)". Author: "PewDiePie". Publisher: "YouTube". Published: 2025-04-26T21:29:28Z. URI: .]. Published: 2025-04-27 00:31:21Z. Accessed: 2025-04-27T05:44Z. URI: .

I installed Linux (so should you)

#ad - Shop Gfuel sale: https://creator.gfuel.com/pewdiepie 🧎#Subscribe🧎🌎 Get an exclusive 15% discount on Saily data plans! Use code pewdiepie at checkout...
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Kalcifer

Yggdrasil was the first company to create a live CD Linux distribution. […] ^[1]^


Neat! Though, from a brief search, it's not clear to me if that means that they were the first "live CD Linux distribution" overall, or just the first company to release one.

::: spoiler References
1. Type: Article. Title: "Yggdrasil Linux/GNU/X". Publisher: "Wikipedia". Published: 2024-11-23T19:32Z. Accessed: 2025-07-11T23:31Z. URI: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasi….
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Linux distribution

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Milwaukee Removes Fonzie Statue Amid Reckoning With Greaser Past

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Greek dockworkers stand with Palestine: “No participation in war crimes and genocide”

Greek dockworkers stand with Palestine: “No participation in war crimes and genocide”

Piraeus, Greece — In a powerful act of international solidarity, five major unions representing port workers at Greece’s largest port have issued a joint statement condemning the Israeli assault on…
MENA Solidarity Network

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Tesseract has been discontinued
It seems that the dev burned out.

Shutting Down on July 31. This fediverse experiment was a failure.

End of the road. Wish I could say it's been a fun trip, but that would be a lie. Running this instance started out as a fun project, but it has been nothing but a nightmare for a long, long time.
dubvee.org
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don't like this

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Cris

That's a real shame, and a huge loss.

Friendly reminder that the only way lemmy can be successful is if we create a culture that is enjoyable to be a part of. It sounds like his time here was not so positive, and that's deeply saddening.

I wish him the best with his future endeavors

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Avid Amoeba

Much more important than the enjoyable culture is the material aspect - how much work each developer has to do. Nice vibes help delay burnout but rarely eliminate it. Or they let it happen with a smile on the face.

Pay the developers instead, so they can reduce hours worked elsewhere, if you can. Or contribute code, if you can. This isn't aimed at you personally, but anyone reading. I can't contribute code but I can pay so I do that.

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Cris

That's incredibly important too! I think people would be hesitant to work for even decent donations if people are assholes, but you're 100% right. I guess it really comes down to appreciating the people around you

You should appreciate the humans that create this social space by being here and being social, and appreciate the people who create this social space by building the space itself

Thank you for making that point, people being paid makes a huge difference.

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moseschrute

Sorry not to hijack, but I’m in the process of adding PieFed support to my Lemmy client, if you’re looking for a new home. You can try it out at blorpblorp.xyz. I have a lot of work to do before I can live up to these more mature clients like Tesseract. Tesseract had some really nice media embeds that I’m missing.

Blorp

blorpblorp.xyz
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The Wine development release 10.12 is now available.

cross-posted from: reddthat.com/post/45525722

What's new in this release:
  • Optional EGL backend in the X11 driver.
  • Support for Bluetooth Low Energy services.
  • Moreover support for generating
    Windows Runtime metadata in WIDL.
  • ARM64 builds enabled in Gitlab CI.
  • Various bug fixes.

The source is available at dl.winehq.org/wine/source/10.x…

Binary packages for various distributions will be available
from the respective download sites.

You will find documentation here.

Wine is available thanks to the work of many people.
See the file AUTHORS for the complete list.


DepressedMan

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The Wine development release 10.12 is now available.


cross-posted from: reddthat.com/post/45525722

What's new in this release:
  • Optional EGL backend in the X11 driver.
  • Support for Bluetooth Low Energy services.
  • Moreover support for generating
    Windows Runtime metadata in WIDL.
  • ARM64 builds enabled in Gitlab CI.
  • Various bug fixes.

The source is available at dl.winehq.org/wine/source/10.x…

Binary packages for various distributions will be available
from the respective download sites.

You will find documentation here.

Wine is available thanks to the work of many people.
See the file AUTHORS for the complete list.




Wine 10.12 · wine / wine · GitLab

The Wine development release 10.12 is now available. What's new in this release: Optional EGL backend in the X11 driver. Support...
GitLab

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The Wine development release 10.12 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Optional EGL backend in the X11 driver.
  • Support for Bluetooth Low Energy services.
  • Moreover support for generating
  • Windows Runtime metadata in WIDL.
  • ARM64 builds enabled in Gitlab CI.
  • Various bug fixes.

The source is available at dl.winehq.org/wine/source/10.x…

Binary packages for various distributions will be available
from the respective download sites.

You will find documentation here.

Wine is available thanks to the work of many people.
See the file AUTHORS for the complete list.


Wine 10.12 · wine / wine · GitLab

The Wine development release 10.12 is now available. What's new in this release: Optional EGL backend in the X11 driver. Support...
GitLab

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The Wine development release 10.12 is now available.

cross-posted from: reddthat.com/post/45525722

What's new in this release:
  • Optional EGL backend in the X11 driver.
  • Support for Bluetooth Low Energy services.
  • Moreover support for generating
    Windows Runtime metadata in WIDL.
  • ARM64 builds enabled in Gitlab CI.
  • Various bug fixes.

The source is available at dl.winehq.org/wine/source/10.x…

Binary packages for various distributions will be available
from the respective download sites.

You will find documentation here.

Wine is available thanks to the work of many people.
See the file AUTHORS for the complete list.


DepressedMan

2025-07-11 21:03:22

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The Wine development release 10.12 is now available.


What's new in this release:

  • Optional EGL backend in the X11 driver.
  • Support for Bluetooth Low Energy services.
  • Moreover support for generating
  • Windows Runtime metadata in WIDL.
  • ARM64 builds enabled in Gitlab CI.
  • Various bug fixes.

The source is available at dl.winehq.org/wine/source/10.x…

Binary packages for various distributions will be available
from the respective download sites.

You will find documentation here.

Wine is available thanks to the work of many people.
See the file AUTHORS for the complete list.



Wine 10.12 · wine / wine · GitLab

The Wine development release 10.12 is now available. What's new in this release: Optional EGL backend in the X11 driver. Support...
GitLab

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As millions adopt Grok to fact-check, misinformation abounds

Author: Nilesh Christopher, Valerio Pepe\
Published on: 11/07/2025 | 00:00:00

AI Summary:\
California Governor Gavin Newsom posted two photographs on X. X users immediately turned to Grok, Elon Musk’s AI, to fact-check the veracity of the image. For that, they tagged @grok in a reply to the tweet in question. Chatbots, including ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, are large language models (LLMs) that learn to predict the next word in a sequence by analysing enormous troves of data from the internet. The outputs of chatbots are reflections of the patterns and biases in the data it is trained on, which makes them prone to factual errors and misleading information called “hallucinations” For Grok, these inherent challenges are further complicated because of Musk’s instructions that the chatbot our analysis of the 434 replies that tagged Grok in Newsom’s post found that the majority of requests, nearly 68 percent, wanted Grok to either confirm whether the images Newsom posted were authentic or get context about National Guard deployment. Notably, a few users lashed out because Grok had made the correction, and wouldn’t endorse their flawed belief. Grok was called on 2.3 million times in just one week to answer posts on X. Data accessed by Al Jazeera through X’s API shows how deeply this behaviour has taken root. X is keeping people locked into a misinformation echo chamber, in which they’re asking a tool known for hallucinating, to fact-check for them. Grok incorrectly blamed a trans pilot for a helicopter crash in Washington, DC. He claimed the assassination attempt on Trump was partially staged. Echoed anti-Semitic stereotypes of Hollywood and misidentified an Indian journalist. Grok vs Community Notes For years, social media users benefited from context on information they encountered online with interventions such as labeling state media or introducing fact-checking warnings. After buying X in 2022, Musk ended those initiatives and loosened speech restrictions. X piloted the “AI Note Writer” enabling developers to create AI bots to write community notes alongside human contributors on misleading posts. This human-AI system works better than what human contributes can manage alone, researchers say. X is trying to bridge this gap by supercharging the pace of creation of contextual notes. Grok gave inaccurate results on the death toll of the Holocaust, which it said was due to a programming error. In June, Grok cited data from government sources and Reuters. Musk has also chided Grok for not sharing his distrust of mainstream news outlets. X deleted the inflammatory posts later that day, and xAI removed the guidelines to not adhere to political correctness from its code base. Researchers expressed surprise over the reintroduction of the directive for Grok 4 to be “politically incorrect” despite this code having been removed from its predecessor, Grok 3.

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As millions adopt Grok to fact-check, misinformation abounds

As Grok provides instant fact checks to users on X, its ability to make things up is outstripping its usefulness.
Nilesh Christopher (Al Jazeera)

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Alberta is a textbook example of what happens when irresponsible leaders are elected

👉 cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/dan…

Many people in rural Alberta listen to her. They genuinely like her and trust her. She knows that.

This is how you end up with a major disease epidemic.

You really ought to be ashamed of yourself.

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orbitz

I lived in the ass end of Alberta people are fucking idiots in AB. So glad I moved out of there. Seriously think of the worst place in AB if it wasn't where I was then it wasn't that bad of a spot spare a handful of names. If anyone knows Alberta well they can probably guess where that is cause it isn't south and only so many roads north.

Edit thought I'd mention there are exceptions, did have a few good employers and all but the random opinion wasn't in acceptance of helping people it seemed and to me we should life all people up to do better as a society. But not every person was a jerk with asshole opinions even in the remote places. To be fair never asked my employers they were just nice to me ... Huh.

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Canada Clears Tesla in iZEV Rebate Investigation, $43M Payment Unfrozen

There was so much hate on Tesla for this saying it was all fraud, while Tesla was adamant it was just backlogged paper work.

Hopefully those who prejudged and were harsh to the company online about this incident, can come to see that not everything you read online is true, and that maybe, just maybe, you should actually wait for the final results before condemning a company for something like this, and stating it as fact.

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ikidd

I won't hold my breath for the apologies for asshole comments when I said this at the time of the news.

I despise Musk as much or more than the next guy, but irrationally losing your shit over something that was obviously a paperwork glut at a deadline and then shitting on anyone that said as much is juvenile as fuck.

Hate Elon, hate Tesla, but use your bloody head.

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Banned for Voting Incorrectly?

Was recently banned from a whole bunch of DB0 communities for, as best as I can gather, downvoting once when I viewed by All (potentially accidentally while scrolling).

Important notes:
1. I don't use scripts.
2. I don't mass-downvote Communities. If I see a post I generally don't like when browsing All, I may downvote one post, block the Community and move on.
3. Some of the communities I was banned from don't have any posts in them so I wouldn't have been able to downvote anything.
4. Of all of these Communities, in my history I downvoted one post in one of them. Voting in this manner is not vote manipulation. It's quite literally a feature of the platform and as a mod of another Community, I would consider it pretty good etiquette.
5. One of my bans reads "Appeal Granted, not a brigading member" but I'm still banned.
6. I don't troll.

WTF is going on here?

EDIT - Updated Info from the conversation below:
In the initial image, you can see two "ban waves."

The 10 bans three months ago stem from a single downvote in one Community. It was @Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com
See here: discuss.tchncs.de/post/3485347…

I was called out by name for a single downvote and culled from a score of Communities I did not participate in by them.

The other bans from two months ago are from four total downvotes over a 10-month timeframe in one Community.

I have also stated in this thread that I don't have issues with AI-gen images, but there are shoddy ones and well-done ones.

EDIT 2: Now unbanned from the ten Communities listed as "3 months ago" in my initial image, but have been banned from three more because of this thread with the reason given being "self-proclaimed anti-AI brigader" which are two things I didn't claim to be. God dammit Lemmy...

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Systemd's Nuts and Bolts - A Visual Guide to Systemd

Systemd’s Nuts and Bolts — A Visual Guide to Systemd

If you’re a new or intermediate Linux user or sysadmin, you might have felt an odd fascination with the myth of systemd. I invite you to this deep dive into systemd's nuts and bolts. I'm not gonna…
Sebastian Carlos (Medium)

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Now mind you, this is a guy who was previously **ok** supporting the mission of ICE.

The damn image is AI I now see.

But here's the article.

newsweek.com/ice-employee-quit…

Ice Attorny resigning with raised fist and box of belongings after realizing he's one of the bad guys

ICE Employee Quits: 'Had To Make a Moral Decision'

Adam Boyd, a 33-year-old attorney, quit the legal department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement last month, The Atlantic reported.
Billal Rahman (Newsweek)
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Metadata Shows the FBI’s ‘Raw’ Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Was Likely Modified
Metadata embedded in the video and analyzed by WIRED and independent video forensics experts shows that rather than being a direct export from the prison’s surveillance system, the footage was modified, likely using the professional editing tool Adobe Premiere Pro.

https://www.wired.com/story/metadata-shows-the-dojs-raw-jeffrey-epstein-prison-video-was-likely-modified/

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Philippines Says Canada Troops Pact Ready, Eyes China Deterrence

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The Philippines said its visiting forces agreement with Canada is ready for signing, as the Southeast Asian nation builds a coalition of like-minded nations and deterrence amid tensions with China.
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Manila is also negotiating a similar military pact with France, while it’s forging an enhanced defense cooperation with India, Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. said on Wednesday at the Reuters NEXT event in Singapore.
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The Philippines said in March that it concluded discussions with Canada for the pact, which would facilitate joint exercises between their militaries. Teodoro didn’t provide a timeline for the signing of the agreement.
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“It is a coalition of unity that we are creating here, to create some momentum in resilience because of our shared desire for a free and open Indo-Pacific” he said.

Manila, a US treaty ally, has also sealed military agreements with Japan and New Zealand.

[...]

Philippines Says Canada Troops Pact Ready, Eyes China Deterrence

The Philippines said its visiting forces agreement with Canada is ready for signing, as the Southeast Asian nation builds a coalition of like-minded nations and det…
Bloomberg News (Financial Post)

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Ontario colleges lose nearly 10,000 jobs, and face cancellation or suspension of more than 600 college programs.

Cuts at Ontario colleges leading to nearly 10,000 job losses, union says

Close to 10,000 college faculty and staff have either been let go or are projected to lose their jobs amid hundreds of program cancellations and suspensions since last year, the Ontario Public Service Employees Union said Wednesday as it warned of se…
The Canadian Press (CTVNews)

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Polish far-right leader declares Auschwitz gas chambers to be "fake"
Polish prosecutors have launched an investigation into far-right leader Grzegorz Braun after he declared the gas chambers at Auschwitz to be “fake” and said it is a “fact” that Jews have committed ritual slaughter of Christians. Denial of Nazi crimes is an offence in Poland that carries a jail sentence of up to three years.

Braun, who finished fourth in the recent presidential elections with 6.3% of the vote, made his remarks during an interview today with radio station WNET. The veteran far-right politician, who is a member of the European Parliament, has a long history of hateful and conspiratorial rhetoric regarding Jews and other minorities.

During the interview, Braun referred to what he claimed are the “lies of the Talmud, the Haggadah [two Jewish religious texts], and the Holocaust”. He said that Jewish organisations “condemn those who tell the truth that ritual murder is a fact and Auschwitz with its gas chambers is a lie”.

A longstanding antisemitic canard is that Jews murder Christians, in particular children, and use their blood for religious rituals. Meanwhile, many modern antisemites deny the fact that gas chambers were used at Auschwitz and other German-Nazi camps to murder Jews during the Holocaust.

After the interviewer contested Braun’s remarks, he reiterated them, saying that the Auschwitz Museum provides a “pseudo-historical account” about what happened at the camp and blocks research into the gas chambers. He also cited a book by an Israeli historian that he says proves Jews carried out ritual murder.

That led the interviewer to immediately cut short the broadcast, saying that there “are limits to political cynicism and sensationalism when it comes to several million victims and their memory”.

Subsequently, Anna-Maria Żukowska, head of the parliamentary caucus of The Left (Lewica), one of the groups that make up Poland’s ruling coalition, announced that she was filing a complaint to prosecutors regarding Braun’s remarks.

She accused him of violating article 55 of Poland’s law on the Institute of National Remembrance, which criminalises public denial of Nazi and communist crimes. Those found guilty can be punished by up to three years in prison.

Late on Thursday afternoon, the district prosecutor’s office in Warsaw announced that it had initiated an investigation into whether Braun had committed the offence of denying Nazi crimes.

Meanwhile, Piotr Cywiński, the director of the Auschwitz Museum, which is a Polish state institution, issued a statement condemning Braun’s “scandalous” comments, which he said were not only a violation of the law but also “an insult to the memory of the victims of the camp”.

“Grzegorz Braun’s words are not a ‘political provocation’, but a conscious lie and an act of ideological, antisemitic hatred,” said Cywiński. “They cannot remain without a decisive response from the state and all decent people – for whom the memory of Auschwitz is of particular importance.”

The museum director noted that, while it was primarily Jews who were victims of the gas chambers of Auschwitz, ethnic Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, and Roma were also murdered in them.

At least 1.3 million prisoners were transported to Auschwitz during the war, with at least 1.1 million of them killed at the camp. Around one million of those victims were Jews, most of whom were murdered in gas chambers immediately after their arrival. The second largest group of victims were ethnic Poles.

Cywiński said that the museum would itself file a notification to prosecutors regarding Braun’s remarks. He also appealed to Polish media to stop giving space to Braun, who “has repeatedly shown that he cannot function in the public space without vandalism, lies, hate speech and racism”.

Last week, Braun was presented by prosecutors with seven sets of charges relating to four incidents, including his attack on a Jewish religious celebration in parliament two years ago.

He is also being investigated over a series of incidents during the recent presidential election campaign, including when he vandalised an LGBT+ exhibition, made antisemitic remarks during a televised debate, and removed a Ukrainian flag from a public building.


Polish far-right leader declares Auschwitz gas chambers to be "fake"

Notes From Poland

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How does mobile phone fast charging work? - YouTube

An fine introduction to USB charging and Power Delivery protocols that also goes quite deep into industry approaches.

The presenter is from the automotive electronic parts market, and posted a great more recent (but more vendor specific) related video here as well:
- Introducing Richtek’s New Generation Automotive USB Type-C PD Charger IC
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For example, I really wish my modern Anker AC charger would at least support "Smart Power Sharing Communication" with its Dual Port configuration "via Sinc_Cap", rather than naively having total output equally for each device regardless of each device's power profile capability.


Introducing Richtek’s New Generation Automotive USB Type-C PD Charger IC

00:00 Overview04:51 Automotive USB-C PD charger requirements, Introducing RTQ7882-QT 07:06 Software Development Kit (SDK) 13:40 Input Voltage Power De-rating...
YouTube
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Another video on PPS from a charging device perspective:
- USB-C Just got Even Better! (PPS)
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I'll say the newer up and coming standard AVS (Adjusted Voltage Supply) for support with Extended Power Range looks promising, if not a little concerning in regards to cable quality hazards.


Introduction to PD 3.1 – the Latest USB-IF Power Delivery Specification | GraniteRiverLabs

New features include EPR (Extended Power Range), which was added to expand the maximum wattage of the PD 3.0 power supply from 100W to 240W (48V 5A).
GRL Team (Granite River Labs)

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Introducing Operese(demo)
A Windows-to-Linux “translation” tool for the 200M+ Windows 10 computers not eligible to upgrade to Windows 11, Operese transfers files, settings, and programs from Windows to a brand-new Kubuntu installation. It's still very much a work in progress, but in my biased opinion, it already doesn't look too shabby!

Introducing Operese (a demo that's made by a nerd, not an influencer)

A Windows-to-Linux “translation” tool for the 200M+ Windows 10 computers not eligible to upgrade to Windows 11, Operese transfers files, settings, and progra...
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Brampton petition calls for ‘immediate removal’ of all speed enforcement cameras

Petition calls for ‘immediate removal’ of all speed enforcement cameras in Brampton | inBrampton

Hundreds of people have thrown their signatures behind a petition calling for “the immediate removal” of all speed enforcement cameras in Brampton while the city is set to add more by the end of the summer.
Ryan Rumbolt (INsauga | Ontario Local News Network)
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SpaceCowboy

People are like children with their cars. If you were an adult you'd understand you're less likely to get into an accident when driving at lower speeds, and you'd want everyone else to drive slower so you wouldn't be holding up up traffic by driving safely.

But nah... vroom vroom I want car go fast! I'm perfect driver so those laws aren't for me!!! EVs suck because don't go vroom vroom! Waaaaahhhh!!!

It's that same as dealing with children.

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lemmy.wtf 502 errors
Is the instance down? I haven't been able to login for days. First .ee now .wtf?

don't like this

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