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Deadly airdrops and a trickle of trucks won't undo months of 'engineered starvation' in Gaza, Oxfam says

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33751786

July 27, 2025 09:28 EDT

Oxfam has said the airdrops into #Gaza are wholly inadequate for the population’s needs and has called for the immediate opening of all crossings for full humanitarian access into the territory devastated by relentless #Israeli bombardments and a partial aid blockade.

Bushra Khalidi, Oxfam policy lead for the Occupied #Palestinian territory, said:

Deadly airdrops and a trickle of trucks won’t undo months of engineered starvation in Gaza.

What’s needed is the immediate opening of all crossings for full, unhindered, and safe aid delivery across all of Gaza and a permanent ceasefire. Anything less risks being little more than a tactical gesture.



Middle East crisis live: malnutrition in Gaza on ‘dangerous trajectory’, says WHO, as airdrops of aid begin

WHO calls for urgent, sustained efforts to flood the Gaza Strip with food after Israeli military announces pause in activity
Hayden Vernon (The Guardian)

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HaraldvonBlauzahn

I am considering this too, as it is a real advance in solving problems of dependencies, stabiliy and slso security / trust roots. So far, I am using Guix shell for smaller development projects in Rist Python and Guilr, and it is great.

Do you have any difficulty with update times?

Does it cope well with larger / more conplex systems ? What were your main difficulties there, if any?

lemmy - Link to source

How can ufw do me like that?

EDIT: Thanks for the help guys!

Something strange happened just now, im trying to figure out how exactly did it happen. On my server I was suddely able to bypass my VPN! I looked around what did happened and found that my VPN service had sent me an email that my subscription expired. What is strange is that I have ufw rules like

To                         Action      From

[VPN server]               ALLOW OUT   Anywhere                  
Anywhere                   ALLOW OUT   Anywhere on tun0

So it should be not allowed to access the internet outside of tun0. Why exactly did it happen? Does the VPN service change iptables or something? Any ideas? I was able to ping, wget, even surf on w3m. The thing is that when I rebooted the server, nothing could connect outside the tunnel, as it should be. Here is the whole ufw table.
Status: active
Logging: on (low)
Default: deny (incoming), deny (outgoing), disabled (routed)
New profiles: skip

To                         Action      From
--                         ------      ----
22/tcp                     ALLOW IN    192.168.1.0/24            
53                         ALLOW IN    192.168.1.0/24            
80                         ALLOW IN    192.168.1.0/24            
9091                       ALLOW IN    192.168.1.0/24              # Transmission
2049                       ALLOW IN    192.168.1.0/24              # nfs

[VPN server]               ALLOW OUT   Anywhere                  
Anywhere                   ALLOW OUT   Anywhere on tun0          
192.168.2.77 22            ALLOW OUT   Anywhere                  
2049                       ALLOW OUT   Anywhere                   # nfs

So how in the world did my VPN company do something to bypass my ufw??? Or was it something else completely?

TIA

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littlebigendian

I'm running a Lenovo Slim 7 with the Ubuntu Concept Image for X Elite Laptops and it rocks! You can see the support (what works & what's not yet there) in their 🧵 Ubuntu 24.10 Concept Snapdragon X Elite

Ubuntu 24.10 Concept ♥️ Snapdragon X Elite

We are happy to announce the next iteration of our Ubuntu concept image for Qualcomm Snapdragon laptops with our new X Elite developer preview. This new image has been rebased on the latest Ubuntu 24.
Ubuntu Community Hub

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Spineless Mike Johnson Grovels to Trump and Shutters the House Early
The Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Mike Johnson—probably the worst speaker in American history—shut down the House early this week before its five-week vacation. He wants to avoid holding votes on releasing the Epstein files that reportedly include, among other notables, President Donald J. Trump.

This is the latest valet service provided by a spineless Johnson, a Trump toady, whose groveling has no known boundaries. Imagine Johnson, a lawyer, took an oath to uphold the Constitution yet has no interest in safeguarding the independence of the congressional branch of our government.


Spineless Mike Johnson Grovels to Trump and Shutters the House Early

ralph-nader (Common Dreams)
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Kay Ohtie

I don't think that the point here was trying to do anything to say that the user did anything wrong. I think it's simply pointing out how frustrating it is that Microsoft's Insistence on various things, as part of their EEE policy, created this situation to begin with, and that it wouldn't have even broken if not for that.

I'm pretty sure that the person you replied to was really just lamenting that that this is what broke it. And that fundamentally, Microsoft is getting exactly what they wanted as a result. And it's just frustrating.

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I look for a #ThinClient #Linux distribution?

#Linux community does someone know a tutorial for a kind of self made #ThinClient device?

I have an old notebook with Linux which does not anymore fit my power requirements, but I have a Linuc PC in my cellar which I use as working device over #RDP since a while and I love this way.

Is there a Remote-Desktop Linux Distribution (RDP, #VNC or #Moonlight) with the sole purpose to connect a VPN on startup and directly login to a Remote-Desktop and also redirect USB-Devices to remote?

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IsoKiero

And setting permissions on directories get’s them inherited by newly created/added files in there, right?


No. They're created based on 'umask' and changing directory permissions doesn't automatically change permissions on underlying files (unless you set privileges recursively) nor new files in the directory.

So how can i remove the ability from my homedir to execute current and new files but keep the traverse permission?


For new files set your umask on what you want. By default it's usually either 0002 or 0022. For existing files you can use find: find ~ -type f -exec echo chmod a-x {} \; (remove echo once you've confirmed that it does what you want).

standard UNIX utility

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)

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This Week in Plasma: Printer Ink Level Monitoring

This Week in Plasma: Printer Ink Level Monitoring

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: Printer Ink Level Monitoring
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Amroth

Plasma Browser Integration’s browser plugin no longer breaks random features or various known video conferencing websites when its enhanced media controls setting is active. (Kai Uwe Broulik, link)


THAT'S the reason why I haven't managed to share my screen on Teams from Firefox for months?!?!

🤦

~microsoft won't ever deserve an apology but boy have I bad mouthed them lately~

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Second monitor not working on Fedora 42 (Solved) [RTX 4070Ti]

I just got this laptop and the second monitor is clearly detected by Fedora, as the monitor layout popup pops up, but the monitor doesn't actually work.

I assume this to be an NVIDIA problem, but as I have no experience with NVIDIA-based issues, I thought I'd ask here.

Here's my system specs:
Operating System: Fedora Linux 42 KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.16.0 Qt Version: 6.9.1 Kernel Version: 6.15.7-200.fc42.x86_64 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 24 × Intel® Core™ Ultra 9 275HX Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (30.8 GiB usable) Graphics Processor: Intel® Graphics Manufacturer: LENOVO Product Name: 83LU System Version: Legion Pro 5 16IAX10H

Side note - is it not detecting my GPU?

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Best os choices and use cases for a netbook with 2ram?
I recently got a 10 dollar working netbook from a thiftstore. It has 2 ram and is from 2010 but isint the up-gradable version. Im wondering what os to run on it do i go with something like a android build or a linux setup? Im could also use some neat use cases. Ive thought about doing retro game on it but there are possible better solutions?
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nyan

Assuming you mean 2GB RAM, it will run a full Linux. I was using a 2008-vintage laptop with similar specs as a secondary machine until recently, and it was capable of handling many light workloads. Retro gaming up to the 16-bit era should be fine. 720p video playback from local storage (never tried streaming) was fine. Modern websites were very hard on it, though, so I didn't normally use it in that capacity.

Just pick a distro that isn't too bloated, and a desktop environment that's suited to older machines and doesn't expect too much of the hardware, and you'll be fine.

(My laptop still works, by the way. I gave it up because 1. I got a good deal on a machine with much higher specs and 2. I run Gentoo, and compiling a modern version of GCC on a dual-core of that vintage takes longer than you would expect.)

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E-ink tablet for note and reading
Well i just saw the remarkable 2. I liked how it workes at feels. But im concerned for the update abillity, like the software support, and the abillity to decide what data is send and so on. Im a noob for Linux, i use fedora on my laptop, and thats it. So yir Pinenote isnt for me,because im not that good in linux development. What is the linux community thoughts on the remarkable 2 (as far as i know, its based on Linux) or are there good alternatives out there?
I want to use it for note taking and reading pdf..

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If you dual-boot different distributions and want to keep old versions of distros for upgrades, how do you proceed?

Say you are dual-booting Debian and Arch and want to upgrade Debian oldstable to Debian stable. But you want to keep the old installation available as a fall-back option. And you also want to re-use your configuration files and dot files, but in a way that incompatible changes to your dot files in the new Debian or Arch version do never break the old program versions.

How do you do that ?

(I describe my own approach in a comment below.)

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hendrik

Since both Debian and Arch aren't atomic distros or offer rollback... The way I do it is connect my large external USB harddisk, do a backup and then upgrade. If there's something wrong, I restore the backup, but in reality I was always able to resolve issues with the updates.

On my server I do LVM snapshots, that's fairly easy to do. I avoid BTRFS since that messed up one of my filesystems a few years ago, but I heard it got better since and it's not supposed to do that any more.

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Wayback 0.1 Released As First Preview Release For X11 Compatibility Layer
"Wayback is an X11 compatibility layer that allows for running full X11-only desktop environments using Wayland. It is essentially an X11 server backed by Wayland, leveraging wlroots and Xwayland. Our goal is for Wayback to eventually be a completely drop-in replacement to the Xorg binary, thus reducing maintenance burden for distro maintainers."

Wayback 0.1 Released As First Preview Release For X11 Compatibility Layer

Announced just once month ago was Wayback as an X11 compatibility layer build atop Wayland components
www.phoronix.com

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is there any way to put my extra memory to use to play av1 files if my cpu overloads? Debian 12.11

debian 12.11

system memory size: 31GiB, 2 15.5 GiB cards

cpu: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7500U CPU @ 2.70GHz, version: 6.142.9, size: 3268MHz, capacity: 3500MHz, width: 64 bits

no graphics card whatsoever

computer can play h.265 and equivalent without troubles, provided video file is no higher than 1080 p.

Computer can play av1 files no higher than 1080 p only if I shut every other application down. If for example I run a browser and an av1 file with either mpv or vlc, system shuts down.

Can I put all that memory to use and avoid overloading the cpu?

ETA: temperature seems to be the reason why this machine shuts down. Fan is ok, not too much dust, it needs a re-paste

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notthebees

I had an i5-7200u equipped laptop and I could do AV1 playback, not well but it didn't do what you described.

Also is it maxing out memory or cpu? I would check btop during playback. Look at CPU usage, memory usage and temps while doing so and report here.

Edit: Something is definitely wrong with your machine, that is abnormal behavior. Maybe it's overheating, maybe it's trying to do some sort of gpu decode and has no idea what to do with it as it doesn't support it. Can you check what encoder mpv is using? I would assume it would failback to CPU.

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League Of Legends fighting spin-off 2XKO dangles Vi in front of fans alongside a closed beta

League Of Legends fighting spin-off 2XKO dangles Vi in front of fans alongside a closed beta

Riot's spin-off fighting game with the terrible name 2XKO (formerly Project L) is getting a closed beta in a few months.
Brendan Caldwell (Rock Paper Shotgun)
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JillyB

As a fighting game fan, this one shows promise. The devs are the Cannon brothers. They are the guys that founded Evo, the biggest fighting game event. They also created and freely licensed rollback netcode, the gold standard for fighting game netcode. the core of the game will likely be excellent. The f2p model hasn't really been done at this level in fighting games. Most games are sold at full price and they sell costumes and characters as dlc. I'm hoping this game will get more people to try fighting games and hopefully it doesn't become a loot box simulator.

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the order of redirections is significant

In bash, if you put:

ls /Users/*/.ssh/id_rsa 2>&1 > rsa-keys.log

...you're redirecting stderr to the stdout's destination while stdout is still sending output to the screen. So any permission errors encountered will go to the screen, not to rsa-keys.log.

From the bash manpage:

==================

Note that the order of redirections is significant. For example, the command

   ls > dirlist 2>&1

directs both standard output and standard error to the file dirlist, while the command
   ls 2>&1 > dirlist

directs only the standard output to file dirlist, because the standard error was duplicated from the standard output before the standard output was redirected to dirlist.

==================

Commands given to the shell are evaluated and processed in a specific order and fashion, and this is one quirk of that that many people are unaware of.

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A power utility is reporting suspected pot growers to cops. EFF says that’s illegal.
According to a motion the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed in Sacramento Superior Court last week, Nguyen and Decker are only two of more than 33,000 Sacramento-area people who have been flagged to the sheriff’s department by the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, the electricity provider for the region. SMUD called the customers out for using what it and department investigators said were suspiciously high amounts of electricity indicative of illegal cannabis farming.

A power utility is reporting suspected pot growers to cops. EFF says that’s illegal.

EFF says the “mass surveillance scheme” violates constitutional protections.
Dan Goodin (Ars Technica)

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Urgency to Switch from Windows 10 Builds
The openSUSE Project is part of a growing coalition of open-source advocates urging Microsoft users to install a Linux operating system as Microsoft prepares to end support for Windows 10 this October, and urgency to get that message out is building.

Some in the IT industry are suggesting that as many as 50 percent of the devices remain using Windows 10, which comes at great risk to users and businesses.

Those who remain on Windows 10 and don’t upgrade to an operating system providing security and maintenance updates like a Linux OS or Window 11 will be susceptible to vulnerabilities, malware infections, software incompatibilities, and an increasing amount of system instability and failures over time.

The End of 10 campaign and its initiative aims to promote migration-focused type events to help these users shift from Windows 10 to Linux-based operating systems.

The amount of PCs that will become unprotected on October 14 is unprecedented, and getting people to migrate to Linux operating systems like openSUSE’s is reaching a critical juncture as millions face the looming deadline this Fall.

October 14 is just 12 weeks away and the end-of-support deadline for Windows 10 will expose those who have not migrated to increasing cyber threats.

In additions to the the threats, a big part of the End of 10 movement emphasizes environmental responsibility, digital sustainability and long-term cost savings for those with aging computers that could potentially end up recycled or in landfill.

End of 10 advocates and supporting organizations like NextCloud, REPAIR CAFE, KDE, GNOME, FSFE, EU OS and several other organizations would prefer users find a Linux solution for their older hardware rather than have this event create an environmental disaster. Installing Linux on these old systems can breathe new life into perfectly functional machines that may otherwise be discarded.

Several open-source software projects and organizations and been collaborating for more than a year to create unified resources, tutorials, migration tools and support channels to help lower the barrier to entry for those who seek to install a Linux new operating system.

Members of the openSUSE community and others have been vocal about appealing to Windows 10 users that can’t upgrade their devices to Windows 11.

For those ready to act, the campaign website has resources available and links to community events to help people install Linux.

Anyone who wants to install an openSUSE distribution can follow this A Step-by-Step Guide.

The message to Windows 10 users is clear; don’t replace your computer; reimagine it!


Urgency to Switch from Windows 10 Builds

Install Linux Before It’s Too Late The openSUSE Project is part of a growing coalition of open-source advocates urging Microsoft users to install a Linux ope...
openSUSE News

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Fedora Weighs Dropping Release Criteria For DVD Optical Media

Fedora Weighs Dropping Release Criteria For DVD Optical Media

The Fedora project is seeking feedback from its user and developer community over potentially updating its release criteria to no longer block on optical media boot issues (DVD images) as well as whether to continue honoring dual boot issues for Inte…
www.phoronix.com
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data1701d (He/Him)

Besides the corrections others have said, I really can’t think of any reason people would intentionally use legacy BIOS on a machine with UEFI for a new install.

Like, I could get doing it for an old install - I know someone who installed Windows 7 in 2015 on their then-new desktop build and later upgraded to 10 but is stuck on legacy BIOS for now with that machine because 7 only ran on that.

I could see something similarly jank happening to someone in the Linux world and then decide not to address it for “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it reasons”, but certainly not for no reason.

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Question About Bash Command Grouping Behavior in Script vs CLI

Question for you all.

I was working on a bash script and working out some logic for command chaining and grouping for executing different functions in my script based on the return status of other functions.

I know you can group commands with (), which spawns a subshell, and within the grouping you can chain with ;, &&, and ||.

I also know that you can group commands with {}, but, within the curly braces you can only separate commands with ;.

EDIT: the above statement of the curly braces only allowing ; is incorrect. I misunderstood what I had read. @SheeEttin@lemmy.zip pointed out my mistake.

The requirement is that the list of commands in the curly braces needs to be terminated with a semicolon or a newline character, and in the script, I unknowingly was meeting the rules by using the newlines to make the code easier to read for myself.

END EDIT:

In the script, for readability I did group the commands across lines kind of like a function.

The script is pretty simple. I created a few functions with echo commands to test the logic. the script asks for input of foo or bar. The first function has an if, and if the input is foo, it executes. If it's bar it returns 1.

The return of 1 triggers the or (||) and executes the second command group.

The idea was, if the user inputs foo, the first group triggers printing foo baz to stdout. If the user inputs bar, the foo function returns 1, the baz function does not execute, the or is triggered, and bar but is printed to stdout

Here's the script (which executes as described):

Can anyone explain why I'm able to group with curly braces and still use && inside them?

(Also, the reason I want to use the curly braces is I don't want to spawn a subshell. I want variable persistence in the current shell)

\#! /usr/bin/bash

# BEGIN FUNCTIONS #

foo () {

    if [[ "${input}" = foo ]]; then
        echo "foo"
        return 0
    else
        return 1
    fi

}

bar () {

    echo "bar"

}

baz () {

    echo "baz"

}

but () {

    echo "but"

}

# END FUNCTIONS #

read -p "foo or bar? " input

{
    foo && 
    baz
} ||

    {
        bar &&
        but
    }
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lemmy - Link to source

harsh3466

Ah! I misinterpreted what I read! I found that exact same reference link when looking into this and I misinterpreted this:

The semicolon (or newline) following list is required


to mean that it required the semicolon as the command separator. That explains why my script works. The newline closes each group, and the other operators are allowed, the list just needs to be closed. Thank you!

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lemmy - Link to source

harsh3466

My environment is just my homelab. Ubuntu server on my server, Arch (btw) on my laptop. So I could go with any language , but right now I'm choosing Bash. I know stuff I'm doing would probably be easier in a different language, and maybe I'm a glutton for punishment. I just want to get really good with Bash.

The logic is Bash is gonna be available on just about any computing environment I encounter (linux especially, but even Windows with WSL and zsh on macOS (which I know is different, but still very similar). But really, I am just enjoying the hell out of learning and scripting with Bash. I'll move on to Python or something someday.

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Fifteen more Palestinians die from starvation amid Israeli-imposed famine

Fifteen Palestinians died from malnutrition under an Israeli-imposed famine in the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, the Palestinian health ministry said on Tuesday.

Four of them were children, including three identified as the infant Yousef al-Safadi, Abd al-Jawad al-Ghalban, 16, and Ahmad Hasanat.
inian health ministry.


Fifteen more Palestinians die from starvation amid Israeli-imposed famine

Fifteen Palestinians died from malnutrition under an Israeli-imposed famine in the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, the Palestinian health ministry said on Tuesday. 
Ahmed Aziz (Middle East Eye)

lemmy - Link to source

more questions about yt-dlp arguments on debian (excluding av1, aborting an active download not shutting the terminal down)

debian 12.11, yt-dlp stable@2025.07.21

aim: to download the best video available with the largest height but no better than 1080p, excluding av1 as well.

What works:

yt-dlp -f bv*[ext=mp4]+ba[ext=m4a]/b[ext=mp4] -S height:1080 --all-subs


but this command downloads, if possible, av1, which target hardware doesn't support for longer than 5 minutes.

Argument I don't know to add correctly:

[vcodec!*=av01]


I tried:

yt-dlp -f bv[ext=mp4]+ba[ext=m4a]/b[ext=mp4][vcodec!=av01] -S height:1080 --all-subs


and other variations, but it didn't work.

second question, aborting an active download not shutting the terminal down: neither ctrl+c nor ctrl+q work and opening htop to kill the process seems overkill. What I now do is to simply shut the active tab, but there must be a faster way.

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piefed - Link to source

hendrik

I think AVC1 is another word for H.264. That's the oldest one with lots of hardware acceleration available in old devices and by far the biggest one in file size. VP9 should roughly be on a similar level with H.265. The main difference is that VP9 is supposed to be royalty-free and H.265 isn't. The best one is of course AV1. But that also takes considerably more resources to encode and decode.
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Trying Guix: A Nixer's Impressions

One aspect of Guix I found to be really fascinating: That there is basically no conceptual difference between defining a package as a private build script, and using a package as part of the system.

Let me explain: Say you wrote a little program in Python which uses a C library (or a Rust library with C ABI) which is in the distribution. Then, in Guix you would put that librarie's name and needed version into a manifest.scm file which lists your dependency, and makes it available if you run guix shell in that folder. It does not matter whether you run the full Guix System, or just use Guix as s package manager.

Now, if you want to install your little python program as part of your system, you'll write an install script or package definition, which is nothing else than a litle piece of Scheme code which contains the name of your program, your dependency, and the information needed to call python's build tool.

The point I am making is now that the only thing which is different between your local package and a distributed package in Guix is that distributed packages are package definitions hosted in public git repos, called 'channels'. So, if you put your package's source into a github or codeberg repo, and the package definition into another repo, you now have published a package which is a part of Guix (in your own channel). Anybody who wants to install and run your package just needs your channel's URL and the packages name. It is a fully decentral system.

In short, in Guix you have built-in something like Arch's AUR, just in a much more elegant and clean manner - and in a fully decentralized way.

Defining Packages (GNU Guix Reference Manual)

guix.gnu.org
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samc

I had a go at using guix as a package manager on top of an existing distro (first an immutable fedora, which went terribly, then OpenSUSE). Gave up for a few reasons:

  • As mentioned in the article, guix pull is sloow.
  • Packages were very out of date, even Emacs. If I understand correctly, 30.1 was only added last month, despite having been available since February. I get that this isn't the longest wait, but for the piece of software you can expect most guix users to be running, it doesn't bode well.
  • The project I was interested in trying out (Gypsum) had a completely broken manifest. Seems like it worked on the dev's machine though, which made me concerned about how well guix profiles actually isolate Dev environments. This was probably an error on the dev's part, but I'd argue such errors should be hard to make by design.

All in all I love the idea of guix, but I think it needs a bigger community behind it. Of course I'm part of the problem by walking away, but 🤷


gypsum

Archive of project prior to name change
Codeberg.org
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lemmy - Link to source

HaraldvonBlauzahn

  • As mentioned in the article, guix pull is sloow.


This one has beem discussed on several forums discussing the original blog post, like here or also here on lobste.rs

Part of the reason for slow pulls is that the GNU projects savannah server, which Guix was using so far, is not fast, especially with git repos. Luckily, this is already being improved because Guix is moving to codeberg.org, a FOSS nonprofit org which is hosted in Europe. So if one changes the configured server URL, it is faster. (On top of that interested people might use the opportunity to directly take influence, and donate to codeberg so that they can afford even better hardware 😉).


Trying Guix: A Nixer's Impressions

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lobste.rs
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ibot

I think, because of Fedoras atomic desktops. I didn't use any of them yet, but it seems like Flatpaks should be used there, since one should (or can?) not install tradional packages there. Therefore Fedora provides the flatpaks anyway and they can be used on the non atomic desktops as well.

Another reason is, that you might not be able to install the latest version of an application as rpm package if a required dependency in the repo is outdated. A Flatpak usually does not have the issue since a newer version would include the fitting runtime.
This said, I do think its not this big of an issue for fedora which is usually quite up to date. But if you run a distribution with LTS releases or something like Debian you will much more likely have older dependencies in your repositiry.

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beleza pura

atomic desktops


i guess it makes sense in that case, but i'm really not convinced flatpaks should be used as the default (or only, apparently) way to install every application in the system. flatpak's flexibility is great for the particular cases where you want to install newer versions of applications or if an application isn't available in the official repos somehow. besides that, just use distro packages

Another reason is, that you might not be able to install the latest version of an application as rpm package if a required dependency in the repo is outdated


doesn't flathub solve that already?

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yt-dlp command on debian to download highest available video and audio, provided that resolution is no higher than 1920 x 1080 p

debian 12.11, yt-dlp stable@2025.06.30.

I used this argument: "-f bv*[ext=mp4]+ba[ext=m4a]/b[ext=mp4]"

and it works: it downloads the best available video, audio and ffmpeg merges both in a single file. Automatically.

Except that the maximum resolution I need is 1920 x 1080 p. Best available video is oftentimes 4096 x 2160 p, too much for the target hardware.

Using -F to check different resolutions to then select one (like -f 299 or -f 148) is tiresome.

How do I do that? Ideally for whole playlists involving between 25 and 50 videos.

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darcmage

Taken from github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp. Replace 480 with 1080. Multiple options in the documentation to choose from.

Download the best video available with the largest height but no better than 480p, or the best video with the smallest resolution if there is no video under 480p


$ yt-dlp -S "height:480"


GitHub - yt-dlp/yt-dlp: A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader

A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader - yt-dlp/yt-dlp
GitHub
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anamethatisnt

The following numeric meta fields can be used with comparisons <, <=, >, >=, = (equals), != (not equals):

filesize: The number of bytes, if known in advance
filesize_approx: An estimate for the number of bytes
width: Width of the video, if known
height: Height of the video, if known
aspect_ratio: Aspect ratio of the video, if known


So a height<=1080 should be it.


GitHub - yt-dlp/yt-dlp: A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader

A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader - yt-dlp/yt-dlp
GitHub

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Palestinians Are Collapsing in Gaza's Streets From Israeli-Imposed Starvation Campaign

[can't believe that it keeps getting worse, but it does]

Abdel Qader Sabbah and Sharif Abdel Kouddous
Jul 21, 2025

Over the past five days alone, more than 550 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, according to ministry of health figures. The confirmed death toll since the beginning of the war crossed 59,000 on Monday in what is widely acknowledged to be a vast undercount. Over the past two months, more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed as they are forced to seek aid in militarized zones in a system mostly overseen by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a shadowy U.S.- and Israeli-backed group.

One of the deadliest days for aid seekers came on Sunday, when over 70 people were killed, at least 67 of them in northern Gaza where Israeli troops opened fire on crowds trying to get food from a World Food Program convoy entering through the Zikim crossing.

“The tank came, surrounded us, and started shooting at us and we kept raising our hands,” Ibrahim Hamada, who was wounded in the leg, told Drop Site as he lay on a hospital gurney wincing in pain. “There were many martyrs, no one was able to retrieve them. I crawled on my stomach just to reach a car to take me to the hospital,” he said. “I went there to eat, because there was no food at home.”


Palestinians Are Collapsing in Gaza's Streets From Israeli-Imposed Starvation Campaign

A frontline report on a people forced to face death from starvation or being shot in a perilous quest to obtain meager rations
Abdel Qader Sabbah (Drop Site News)

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Palestinians Are Collapsing in Gaza's Streets From Israeli-Imposed Starvation Campaign

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33477630

[can't believe that it keeps getting worse, but it does]

Abdel Qader Sabbah and Sharif Abdel Kouddous
Jul 21, 2025

Over the past five days alone, more than 550 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, according to ministry of health figures. The confirmed death toll since the beginning of the war crossed 59,000 on Monday in what is widely acknowledged to be a vast undercount. Over the past two months, more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed as they are forced to seek aid in militarized zones in a system mostly overseen by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a shadowy U.S.- and Israeli-backed group.

One of the deadliest days for aid seekers came on Sunday, when over 70 people were killed, at least 67 of them in northern Gaza where Israeli troops opened fire on crowds trying to get food from a World Food Program convoy entering through the Zikim crossing.

“The tank came, surrounded us, and started shooting at us and we kept raising our hands,” Ibrahim Hamada, who was wounded in the leg, told Drop Site as he lay on a hospital gurney wincing in pain. “There were many martyrs, no one was able to retrieve them. I crawled on my stomach just to reach a car to take me to the hospital,” he said. “I went there to eat, because there was no food at home.”



Palestinians Are Collapsing in Gaza's Streets From Israeli-Imposed Starvation Campaign

A frontline report on a people forced to face death from starvation or being shot in a perilous quest to obtain meager rations
Abdel Qader Sabbah (Drop Site News)

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Flotilla Ship Heads Towards Gaza With 7 U.S. Nationals

The Gaza Freedom flotilla coalition is sailing its next ship to break the illegal Israeli blockade of Gaza.

The Handala departed for Gaza on Sunday from the Italian port of Gallipoli after stops in Augusta and Siracusa in Sicily. The journey to Gaza may take around 7 days.

Twenty-one persons from 10 countries are onboard the Handala, including seven U.S. citizens, representing the hundreds of millions of Americans who are strongly opposed to the U.S. complicity in the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.

The following nationalities are represented on the Handala: U.S. 7, France 4, Australia 2, Italy 2, Spain 2, Norway 1, Morocco 1, Tunisia 1, U.K. 1; Israel -2 U.S. citizens have dual citizenship with Israel.


Flotilla Ship Heads Towards Gaza With 7 U.S. Nationals

Twenty-one persons from 10 countries are onboard the Handala, including Americans strongly opposed to the U.S. complicity in the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
Consortium News
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JillyB

Any amount of civilian ships has zero chance of breaking through even a small Navy's determined effort to stop them. The purpose of these ships is to put Israel in a bind. Hurting foreign civilians that are on a peaceful mission would be bad politically. Letting them through would make Israel's blockade look like a joke and probably encourage others to do the same. Even stopping them without hurting anyone is showing the world that Israel doesn't want civilian aid going into Gaza. They likely know they will be intercepted and stopped by Israel's navy. The point is to make this an international incident that puts pressure on Israel to at least lessen it's genocidal tendencies. If all ships went at one time, it would be one news cycle. This way, they are making multiple news cycles out of it, maximizing the pressure.
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UK, France and 23 other countries say the war in Gaza ‘must end now’

[now let's see if they do something]

By SYLVIA HUI and JILL LAWLESS
Updated 1:05 PM EDT, July 21, 2025

LONDON (AP) — Twenty-five countries including #Britain, #France and a host of #European nations issued a joint statement on Monday that puts more pressure on #Israel, saying the war in #Gaza “must end now” and Israel must comply with international law.

The foreign ministers of countries including #Australia, #Canada and #Japan said “the suffering of civilians in Gaza has reached new depths.” They condemned “the drip feeding of aid and the inhumane killing of civilians, including children, seeking to meet their most basic needs of water and food.”

The statement described as “horrifying” the deaths of over 800 #Palestinians who were seeking aid...

https://apnews.com/article/europe-israel-hamas-war-gaza-e4062cffa9585790061105236a93d8e5/

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UK, France and 23 other countries say the war in Gaza ‘must end now’

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33476377

[now let's see if they do something]

By SYLVIA HUI and JILL LAWLESS
Updated 1:05 PM EDT, July 21, 2025

LONDON (AP) — Twenty-five countries including #Britain, #France and a host of #European nations issued a joint statement on Monday that puts more pressure on #Israel, saying the war in #Gaza “must end now” and Israel must comply with international law.

The foreign ministers of countries including #Australia, #Canada and #Japan said “the suffering of civilians in Gaza has reached new depths.” They condemned “the drip feeding of aid and the inhumane killing of civilians, including children, seeking to meet their most basic needs of water and food.”

The statement described as “horrifying” the deaths of over 800 #Palestinians who were seeking aid...


https://apnews.com/article/europe-israel-hamas-war-gaza-e4062cffa9585790061105236a93d8e5/

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VS Achuthanandan, politician who pushed for Linux adoption in India, passed away today

India has one of the highest rates of (desktop) Linux usages in the world - hovering around 10% according to StatCounter. Why is this? One reason is concerns over software controlled by foreign countries - particularly the US and China. But another is cost.

The first major boost for Linux and other free software in India came in 2006, when VS Achuthanandan - who passed away today - was elected Chief Minister of the state of Kerala. His government came up with a policy to shift all government computers to free software, starting with schools and colleges.

When the financial benefits became apparent, other states and the Union government followed suit.


V.S. Achuthanandan passes away at 101: Former Kerala CM to be cremated with full State honours on July 23

V.S. Achuthanandan death LIVE: Follow LIVE updates as condolences pour in for former Kerala CM
The Hindu Bureau (The Hindu)

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Debian 13.0 Ready To Introduce Formal RISC-V Support (But Still Bound By Slow Hardware)
This is the first release where RISC-V 64-bit is officially supported by Debian Linux albeit with limited board support and the Debian RISC-V build process is handicapped by slow hardware.

Debian 13.0 Ready To Introduce Formal RISC-V Support But Still Bound By Slow Hardware

With the Debian 13.0 release planned for 9 August, one of the notable fundamental features with this Debian 'Trixie' release is now supporting RISC-V as an official CPU architecture
www.phoronix.com
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Aelis [any]

I you want open-source then your best choice is either Shotcut or Kdenlive.

Shotcut is one of the simplest editor I've ever used...but only if you have simple edits to do, the more you wanna do something less simple the worst it gets.

Kdenlive on the other hand is fine to use in most use cases, but can be a bit tricky to understand at first.

So I always suggest Shotctut if you're sure you won't do crazy edits, Kdenlive otherwise, or to just use both if you are unsure.

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My first installation of linux on a 5 year old laptop

My first hurdle is understanding that i need to add a boot sequence and navigate to the EFI file in my mounted pen drive.

second hurdle is understanding i need to disable secure boot so that the dell bios doesnt think something is wrong and always run the bios repair program.

third is understanding that i need to disable Intel rapid storage for the full install (luckily linux mint tells us this)

and honestly the hardest thing was installing fastfetch cuz theres a lot of outdated information out there on how to install it on Mint.

the process took about 4 hours, i consider it very lucky that i was able to do it so fast.

resources that helped me:

devicetests.com/boot-usb-uefi-…

youtu.be/FY-OSdd1ByQ

screenshot of fastfetch on linux mint

How To Boot from USB in UEFI Mode on Dell Inspiron: A Workaround | DeviceTests

Learn the workaround to boot from USB in UEFI mode on Dell Inspiron laptops with our step-by-step guide. Get your device up and running in no time.
Brent Cohen (DeviceTests)

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refind + booster + encryption doesn't work for me

Hello, i have problem because i can't make it work for like a week.
I tried a lot of different configurations and every time i try refind with encryption when refind starts there is no menu entry for encryptred disk, but with no encryption everything works fine. I looked a lot on arch wiki, some install scripts on github and i do what they do and it doesn't work. Maybe anyone could help?

Script i actually use:

execute_refind() {

BLKID1=$(blkid -s UUID -o value $ROOT)
BLKID2=$(blkid -s UUID -o value $CRYPT)

    refind-install --usedefault "$ESP" --alldrivers
    touch /boot/refind_linux.conf

    if [ "$ENCRYPTION" == "yes" ] && [ "$FILESYSTEM" == "btrfs" ]
    then
        cat >> /boot/refind_linux.conf << EOF 
"Boot with minimal options"   "rd.luks.name=$BLKID2=artix root=UUID=$BLKID2 rootfstype=$FILESYSTEM  rw add_efi_memmap quiet $NVIDIA_MODESET" 
EOF
    fi

    if [ "$ENCRYPTION" == "no" ] && [ "$FILESYSTEM" == "btrfs" ]
    then
        cat >> /boot/refind_linux.conf << EOF 
"Boot with minimal options"   "rootflags=subvol=/@ root=UUID=$BLKID1 rw add_efi_memmap rootfstype=$FILESYSTEM initrd=@\boot\booster-$KERNEL.img quiet $NVIDIA_MODESET" 
EOF
    fi

    if [ "$ENCRYPTION" == "yes" ] && [ "$FILESYSTEM" != "btrfs" ]
    then
        cat >> /boot/refind_linux.conf << EOF 
"Boot with minimal options"   "rd.luks.name=$BLKID2=artix root=UUID=$BLKID2 rootfstype=$FILESYSTEM rw add_efi_memmap quiet $NVIDIA_MODESET" 
EOF
    fi

    if [ "$ENCRYPTION" == "no" ] && [ "$FILESYSTEM" != "btrfs" ]
    then
        cat >> /boot/refind_linux.conf << EOF 
"Boot with minimal options"   "root=UUID=$BLKID1 rw add_efi_memmap rootfstype=$FILESYSTEM quiet $NVIDIA_MODESET" 
EOF
    fi

        execute_modules
}

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Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration
Linux users who have Secure Boot enabled on their systems knowingly or unknowingly rely on a key from Microsoft that is set to expire in September. After that point, Microsoft will no longer use that key to sign the shim first-stage UEFI bootloader that is used by Linux distributions to boot the kernel with Secure Boot. But the replacement key, which has been available since 2023, may not be installed on many systems; worse yet, it may require the hardware vendor to issue an update for the system firmware, which may or may not happen. It seems that the vast majority of systems will not be lost in the shuffle, but it may require extra work from distributors and users.

Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration

Linux users who have Secure Boot enabled on their systems knowingly or unknowingly rely on a ke [...]
LWN.net
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HaraldvonBlauzahn

There is even a whole section in Wikipedia on issues and criticism with secure boot:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFI#S…

Some people argue that one can work around such locking down of PC hardware. Do this or that to avoid issues with substantial tinkering.

But that is not a bug but a feature. Sure, as a technical Linux user you can work around some nastiness. Like working around privacy invasion on Facebook or Linkedin by "adjusting" settings, or "adjust" settings in Wimdows to make it more private and so on. The thing is: working against the platform becomes quickly a losing game, because you don't control the platform - Microsoft does. And it does not help you if you manage to re-gain control of your device after some hours of tinkering if 99.9% of people around you don't have the knowledge and time and store your data, photos, Emails on OneDrive and so on. Freedom is very much a collective thing and software freedom is no exception.

And this does not mean that the thinkering and hacking is in vain - but it is not enough. We need the practical right to control our devices.


specification that defines a software interface between an operating system and platform firmware

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)

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In west Texas, storm chaser Laura Rowe captured the picture of a lifetime last night (May 17, 2021), with this fantastic shot of a mature supercell thunderstorm, illuminated at varying heights from the setting sun. By Timothy Jordan

#potd #potd2025 #pictureoftheday #nature #photography #thunder #naturephotography #weather #thunderstorm #notMyImage #TimothyJordan

In west Texas, storm chaser Laura Rowe captured this fantastic shot of a mature supercell thunderstorm, illuminated at varying heights by the setting sun.
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[Help] Buying Steam Deck locally vs internationally

I was wondering, is there any reason why I should buy the Steam Deck abroad in France instead of in my home of Canada?

So I (Canadian) am surprising my friend (from France) with a Steam Deck in October when I go visit them. It will just be the cheaper LCD version, since they won’t care about (or notice) the difference in quality.

Aside from buying adapters for the plug, I literally can’t think of a reason why I should buy it directly in Europe as opposed to getting it in Canada. It would be a lot easier since I can have it delivered to my address, don’t need a specific day and time for it to be delivered, don’t have to deal with any issues of ordering things in a foreign country (sometimes you need to have a local address to order and have things delivered, etc)

That said, I wanted to still check and see if there’s something I’m forgetting or just outright unaware of. I know there’s specific power requirements for the Steam Deck, but mine worked just fine with an adapter when I was last there in January.

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mbirth 🇬🇧

Technically, yes. And you would be able to ask for those taxes back upon returning to your home country (with the same phone). But since this would create huge queues at the airports, nobody actually enforces that.

However, travelling with e.g. 2 Steam Decks or with one in its original packaging raises suspicion and you could get stopped when going through the green portal at the airport.

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All good things come to an end: Shutting down Clear Linux OS

All good things come to an end: Shutting down Clear Linux OS

After years of innovation and community collaboration, we’re ending support for Clear Linux OS. Effective immediately, Intel will no longer provide security patches, updates, or maintenance for Clear Linux OS, and the Clear Linux OS GitHub repository…
Clear Linux OS Forum
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dil

I guess it doesnt detect a nonventoy (used impression) usb with the iso written to it either? A bit confused I dont mind limine but It not being able to boot from a recovery usb is a bit of an issue

NVM it did end up working off impressions and not ventoy? I think it ended up detecting my ssd which also has ventoy installed in the boot manager too, the name wasnt there before, odd

Like limine itself has no option for it, but bios wasnt showing one for my ssd or usb either, now it is after restarting a few times

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JillyB

Not really. His base will excuse authoritarian power grabs, blatantly racist policies, sexual assault, etc but this one might be the one that breaks him. The Q-anon stuff was all about a bunch of elite politicians having secret pedophile rings. They thought Trump was sent by God to expose that. The phrase "Epstein didn't kill himself" is probably more unifying than any flag. Pam Bondi made a big deal about releasing the Epstein files. His base was frothing at the mouth to finally let the world know. With the administration's sudden course shift, even his supporters are wanting answers.

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[PSA] Malware distributed on the AUR
On the 16th of July, at around 8pm UTC+2, a malicious AUR package was
uploaded to the AUR. Two other malicious packages were uploaded by the
same user a few hours later. These packages were installing a script
coming from the same GitHub repository that was identified as a Remote
Access Trojan (RAT).

The affected malicious packages are:

  • librewolf-fix-bin
  • firefox-patch-bin
  • zen-browser-patched-bin

The Arch Linux team addressed the issue as soon as they became aware of
the situation. As of today, 18th of July, at around 6pm UTC+2, the
offending packages have been deleted from the AUR.

We strongly encourage users that may have installed one of these
packages to remove them from their system and to take the necessary
measures in order to ensure they were not compromised.


Follow up


There are more packages with this malware found.

  • minecraft-cracked
  • ttf-ms-fonts-all
  • vesktop-bin-patched
  • ttf-all-ms-fonts


What to do


If you installed any of these packages, check your running processes for one named systemd-initd (this is the RAT).

The suspicious packages have a patch from this now-inaccessible Codeberg repo:
codeberg.org/arch_lover3/brows…

The Arch maintainers have been informed of all this already and are investigating.

[SECURITY] firefox-patch-bin, librewolf-fix-bin and zen-browser-patched-bin AUR packages contain malware - Aur-general - lists.archlinux.org

lists.archlinux.org

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DXVK 2.7 Improves Support for God of War, Watch Dogs 2, and Final Fantasy XIV
Coming about three weeks after DXVK 2.6.2, the DXVK 2.7 release adds support for the VK_EXT_descriptor_buffer Vulkan extension by default on newer AMD and NVIDIA GPUs to significantly reduce CPU overhead in games like Final Fantasy XIV, God of War, Metaphor: ReFantazio, Watch Dogs 2, and others.


Source


DXVK 2.7 Improves Support for God of War, Watch Dogs 2, and Final Fantasy XIV - 9to5Linux

DXVK 2.7 Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10, and D3D11 for Linux / Wine is now available for download with various new features.
Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
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GenderNeutralBro

Absolute nothingburger.

From F-Droid's statement (emphasis mine):

We respect Tusky’s decision to block mentioned website; it’s their right to introduce restrictions like these into their software. We also respect Fedilab’s decision not to hardcode a login block; instead they are actively working on making it easier to block certain domains in the app itself and thus giving users more power to moderate which content they’ll see. If people disagree with F-Droid’s decision not to flag Fedilab, a idea is to develop a decentralized tag system based on package IDs which allow third-party servers to share their own warnings with their community.


They're not blocking any fediverse apps that you can use to connect to any server.

Feel free to use any Lemmy or Mastodon client to connect to any hate-filled instances your hateful little heart desires. If you don't like that some apps have built-in blocklists, use different apps, or modify them. That's the beauty of open source.

Do what you want, just don't expect the rest of the world to amorally do it for you. This is perfectly in keeping with open-source philosophy.

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i've been testing debian trixie with plasma wayland on nouveau and it looks promising

trixie (aka debian 13) is about to get released with plasma 6.3. it seems that finally x11 is being left behind, which is good, but it worried me a little bit because

  1. my nvidia graphics card is old: the 470 driver is the latest version that supports it (so no wayland support from nvidia proprietary drivers ever)
  2. on bookworm (debian 12, the current stable version), nouveau works pretty well, but it crashed more or less daily when i tried to daily drive it at work

x11 is still very well supported by plasma 6, but the near future has no place to it and i worry i would eventually get stuck without updates to my system as the newer versions lose x11 support. i decided to try wayland+nouveau again on trixie to see if i had better luck this time

it all worked way better than i expected. performance is seemingly on par with the proprietary driver, i've had no crashes so far and i've been using it for a week and even screensharing, one of the most problematic aspects of the experience last time i tried, worked well. the one problem i had was with the slack flatpak, which didn't support wayland for some reason, so it had to run on xwayland. screen sharing wayland applications from x11 apps is possible through the xwaylandvideobridge, which kinda works, but it crashed xwayland entirely at one point, killing both x11 applications i had running. i won't blame that on the system itself and installing the slack deb package fixed the problem anyway

all in all, it seems like i can safely switch to plasma 6+wayland+nouveau at work

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High Quality Linux Swag?

I've got some great Linux swag from Ubuntu Korea, but I've been looking to buy new clothes lately and would love to rock more FOSS.

I see a couple websites that sell FOSS branded clothing, but does anyone have good experience buying high quality hats/tshirts/sweaters/active wear from any of these online retailers? Bonus points if the retailers donate proceeds to development

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Linux has over 6% of the desktop market? Yes, you read that right - here's how

Clickbaity title on the original article, but I think this is the most important point to consider from it:

After getting to 1% in approximately 2011, it took about a decade to double that to 2%. The jump from 2% to 3% took just over two years, and 3% to 4% took less than a year.

Get the picture? The Linux desktop is growing, and it's growing fast.


Linux has over 6% of the desktop market? Yes, you read that right - here's how

It's not a typo. Linux's desktop share is growing, according to the US government's records.
Steven Vaughan-Nichols (ZDNET)
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Volume control not working on USB audio device
The device in question is the USB dongle for my 2.4 GHz wireless headset. Everything works fine except for volume control, so it is stuck at max volume, regardless of where the volume slider in pavucontrol is. Volume controls within individual websites and programs work, but it seems that the system volume control is delegated to the USB device, which itself has no concept of volume control. This is the case with both pulseaudio and pipewire. Is there a way to limit the system-wide volume before it reaches the dongle?

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Keep display output when monitor "Disconnected"

I am using a laptop, with a cheaper monitor that only has one hdmi input. I have two devices that I want to use on this monitor, My laptop and my xbox series, so I got an hdmi switcher.

The xbox handles switching to and from it's input without a hitch, but my laptop can takes up to a minute to recognize the switch and display to the monitor, sometimes not recognizing it at all.

I was thinking that having the laptop continue to output the display whether or not it recognizes the monitor as disconnected would help make switching between them more seamless. Is there a way to achieve this?

I am using KDE and I have the "Do Nothing" option selected under close lid in power options.

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BakedCatboy

I think what you want is an EDID emulator with passthrough or whatever it's called. EDID is how a monitor tells a device what resolution to send and other info. Some cheap HDMI splitters, adapters, audio extractors, etc will let you emulate a specific EDID. One of my audio extractors lets you fake stereo vs surround support to trick the source into sending surround - I think that's also through EDID - since if you're trying to extract surround, it might be because your real TVs EDID is for stereo I assume. So you probably want something like that in before the switch so that the laptop always thinks something is plugged in. Your switch seems to be too smart in actually passing through the real monitor's EDID so the laptop is able to see when it switches.
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interdimensionalmeme

Just use the linux equivalent of github.com/VirtualDrivers/Virt…
When the wayland people stop pretending you don't need it
in 3 to 5 years, sometime around when they realize that network transparency is really important actually

GitHub - VirtualDrivers/Virtual-Display-Driver: Add virtual monitors to your windows 10/11 device! Works with VR, OBS, Sunshine, and/or any desktop sharing software.

Add virtual monitors to your windows 10/11 device! Works with VR, OBS, Sunshine, and/or any desktop sharing software. - VirtualDrivers/Virtual-Display-Driver
GitHub
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what's the deal with flatpak's organic maps downloading the whole world all at once, not even offering the user an option to cancel it or to choose what maps to download? (debian 12.11)

debian 12.11, organic maps from flatpak.

My local organic maps started to download the whole world. Every single map it could find. I tried stopping it but the only way to achieve that is to turn the application off. On starting it again, it resumes downloading.

Why?

The android based version found on f-droid is easier to use. I wanted to use the desktop based one because I work from home more often than elsewhere.

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sic_semper_tyrannis

Unfortunately I don't know how yo help with your original question then.

CoMaps is a recent fork because Organic Maps shows signs of corporate takeover and going against the principals of FOSS
More details here
lwn.net/Articles/1024387/

CoMaps emerges as an Organic Maps fork

The open-source mobile app Organic Maps is used by millions of people on both the Android and i [...]
LWN.net

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[Combat] Operators of the USF's 413th “Raid” Battalion struck a Russian Strela-10 SAM system in Donetsk Oblast. The reconnaissance UAV evaded a missile before an FPV drone struck the target.

Sensitive content

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Linux Breaks 5% Desktop Share in U.S., Signaling Open-Source Surge Against Windows and macOS

Linux Breaks 5% Desktop Share in U.S., Signaling Open-Source Surge Against Windows and macOS

Linux has surpassed 5% desktop market share in the US (5.03% in June 2025), per StatCounter, driven by privacy concerns, rising costs of Windows/macOS, and user-friendly distros like Ubuntu.
Ryan Gibson (WebProNews)

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US gov't is very afraid of BRICS and dedollarization, Trump insiders reveal. That's why he's attacking Brazil

US gov't is very afraid of BRICS and dedollarization, Trump insiders reveal. That's why he's attacking Brazil

Close Trump allies like Steve Bannon say "the president is pissed every time he looks at the BRICS dedollarization effort". The US fears the Global South challenge to the dollar's exorbitant privilege
Ben Norton (Geopolitical Economy Report)

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are qr codes and pkpass files the same? what other formats do transportation authorities use?

qr code is the squares code that, if used with a qr code scanner redirects me automatically to a website or to download a pkpass file, right?

after downloading said pkpass file to my android, any wallet application like fosswallet should recognize it and add it to the local library (on my android device), right?

what other formats do transportation authorities use?

To those residing in Germany, is pkpass use widespread there? What are common formats used there?

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are qr codes and pkpass files the same? what other formats do transportation authorities use?

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33289366

obligatory I know this is not a linux question, but you provide good information and alternatives

qr code is the squares code that, if used with a qr code scanner redirects me automatically to a website or to download a pkpass file, right?

after downloading said pkpass file to my android, any wallet application like fosswallet should recognize it and add it to the local library (on my android device), right?

what other formats do transportation authorities use?

To those residing in Germany, is pkpass use widespread there? What are common formats used there?


springs283

2025-07-17 14:50:18

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are qr codes and pkpass files the same? what other formats do transportation authorities use?


qr code is the squares code that, if used with a qr code scanner redirects me automatically to a website or to download a pkpass file, right?

after downloading said pkpass file to my android, any wallet application like fosswallet should recognize it and add it to the local library (on my android device), right?

what other formats do transportation authorities use?

To those residing in Germany, is pkpass use widespread there? What are common formats used there?


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HumanPenguin

Exactly. No matter the y dimension. Barcode data is only stored in x. Whereas QR uses x and y for data.

They also use the corner squares and a few specific dots to allow scanning from greater angles. Basically allowing the data to be read in 3d space. Even though only 2d is used to store that data.

This is why QR can work well with cameras. Whereas bar codes are designed for very short range laser reflection.

PS lots of info on QR online including open source programs to make your own.

The same goes for bar codes. But readers involve some very simple maker skills. Making simple barcode readers was a common school science project in the early 90s.

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TimLovesTech

Your generic "barcode" for something like a UPC is considered a 1D barcode and uses things like the spacing of the lines and thickness to encode data. Although some 1D barcodes can detect the barcode is damaged they cannot do error recovery.

Your 2D barcodes, like QR or Data Matrix, store data in both directions and depending on format can have varying levels of error correction (duplicate data) built into the barcode. They also obviously can take up less room and hold the same or more data as well. You do need a scanner that can do 2D barcodes though, as not all scanners will read them.

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ESWIN and Canonical team up to port Ubuntu to EBC77 RISC-V SBC
ESWIN Computing is launching a new SBC running RISC-V. In a joint statement with Canonical, they have announced first-party support for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS on the new device. Good news for anyone wanting to diversify away from ARM SBC's.

ESWIN Computing EBC77 RISC-V SBC To Support Ubuntu Linux

Canonical announced today that they teamed up with ESWIN Computing to ship Ubuntu Linux as the preferred operating system on their ESWIN Computing EBC77 Series single board computer
www.phoronix.com

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Initramfs: What is it and how to abuse it

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33275115

According to my statistics that I look at, my second largest group are those who are on some Linux distribution (it just shows up as "Linux" there for me). Why did I write this? Because this group of people indirectly start their system through something called initramfs. Let's take a look at what it is and how to use it to our advantage.

Use the translator in the sidebar to translate the page.

Initramfs: Čo to je a ako to využiť v náš prospech

Blog o roznych veciach
typekmatus.blogspot.com

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The Hunt For The Perfect Laptop Continues
This isn’t the first time I’ve blogged about the dearth of truly great PC laptops out there, and I suspect it won’t be the last.


Source


The hunt for a perfect laptop continues

This is a bit of a rant; feel free to skip it if you’re here for the KDE content. This isn’t the first time I’ve blogged about the dearth of truly great PC laptops out there, and …
Adventures in Linux and KDE
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pineapple

Well I say it's no wonder people gravitate towards it but I don't actually like it myself.
It sucks that they make it basically impossible to upgrade snything. And that there storage and RAM upgrades cost several times more than they should.

I have a Macbool air (not by choice) and I installed asahi linux a couple of weeks ago. Main take away is that it's really good except for software support. I've had a bit of trouble finding programs that work well on arm even open source projects often don't compile there programs to work on arm.

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OS Backup - what should and what should not be backup'd?

Hello there! Here's the thing: I got some old HDD for my Debian home server, and now that I have plenty of disk space I want to keep a backup of the OS, so that if something accidentally breaks (either SW or HW) I can quickly fix it.

now the question is: which directory should I include and which should I exclude from the backup? I use docker a lot, is there any docker-specific directory that I should back up?

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linuxPIPEpower

It is a question I've spent a lot of time trying to work out. Can't speak to docker.

Some of the specifics of Keeps and Dontkeeps depend on details of your system. You have to find out where the distro, DM and other apps keep the following:

Dontkeeps:
- trashes
- temp files
- file indexes .. IMHO these dont backup properly if you leave them in and will prevent you from completing the task
- device files

Keeps:
- list of installed packages --- explicit and deps separate if possible
- config files: /etc, ~/.config, ~/.* on a case by case basis... I say remove the obvious large temp dirs and keep the rest by default for simplicity
- for the system configs I've had a tool called etckeeper running for a while because it was highly recommended but I've never actually restored from it...
- personal documents and other files such as typically kept in the home directory
- /root occasionally has something you need

Ways to investigate:
- use a disk usage utility to find out where your storage is being used up ... It'll help you find large Dontkeeps
- watch for recently modified files
- dirs and files that are modified all the time are usually temp dirs. But sometimes they have something useful like your firefox profile.

Most backup solutions are ONE of the following:

  1. User files
  2. System files

Don't spend too much time crying about needing two solutions. Just make your backup today and reach perfection later.

Remember: sync isn't backup. Test your backup if you can (but its not as easy as it sounds). Off site your most precious files.

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SayCyberOnceMore

I think most options have been covered here, but I'd like to consider some other bits...

User accounts & file permissions:- if you have >1 account, note that the UserID is internally numbered (starting from 1000, so Bob=1000, Sue=1001) and your file system is probably setup using the numerical UserID... so re-creating the users in a different order would give Sue access to Bob's files and vice versa.

Similarly, backing up /etc /var etc... you should check if any applications (ie databases) need specific chmod and chown settings

Rsync, tar, etc can cover some of this, you just need to check you rebuild users in the correct order.

Maybe Ansible is another approach? So your disaster recovery would be:
1. Install plain OS on new drive
2. Get Ansible access to it (ie basic netwroking)
3. Rebuild OS and instsll applicstions automatically with Ansible
4. Restore application & home folders (again with Ansible)

When you get this working, it's amazing to watch an entire system being rebuilt

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Looking for an alternative to google wallet, when it’s the default option to download a German travel card.

I now reside in Germany and my current employer pays 50% of this so called Deutschland-Job-Ticket. There is no physical card but travel information you download to an android wallet, but apparently google wallet is the only available option. See the picture:

Google is a company I don’t trust with my data, neither do I expect your regular public transportation authority employee to care about his privacy (he looked at me as I was asking if 2 + 2 equal 4). I am not aware of non google based wallets where I can download the travel information.

I tried some f-droid and droidify options but it turns out they’re pure crap.

The site: abo.ride-ticketing.de/app/ I log in with my username and password, get my travel information and on the bottom the picture I uploaded.

Any workarounds?

This being Germany, shouldn’t there be an alternative to those who refuse google? Don’t I have that right as a consumer?

Another question: I screenshot my logged in session on the link I provided where you see my qr code and my billing data. The public transportation employee told me that’s not allowed (wtf?). Can anyone here provide a rationale?

AboApp

abo.ride-ticketing.de

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Looking for an alternative to google wallet, when it’s the default option to download a German travel card on my android.

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33213275

I know android is minimally related to linux and the question doesn't resemble a typical question for a linux forum but each time I've asked here you've provided valuable information:

I now reside in Germany and my current employer pays 50% of this so called Deutschland-Job-Ticket. There is no physical card but travel information you download to an android wallet, but apparently google wallet is the only available option. See the picture:

Google is a company I don’t trust with my data, neither do I expect your regular public transportation authority employee to care about his privacy (he looked at me as I was asking if 2 + 2 equal 4). I am not aware of non google based wallets where I can download the travel information.

I tried some f-droid and droidify options but it turns out they’re pure crap.

The site: abo.ride-ticketing.de/app/ I log in with my username and password, get my travel information and on the bottom the picture I uploaded.

Any workarounds?

This being Germany, shouldn’t there be an alternative to those who refuse google? Don’t I have that right as a consumer?

Another question: I screenshot my logged in session on the link I provided where you see my qr code and my billing data. The public transportation employee told me that’s not allowed (wtf?). Can anyone here provide a rationale?

AboApp

abo.ride-ticketing.de
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balsoft

As far as I remember, things other than credit/debit cards in Google Wallet are pretty much images that you can scan like you would a paper ticket. Maybe download that ticket somehow — if some other app provides the same android "activity" as Google Wallet (so it shows up in "Open WIth" menu when you clicj that button), you can use it to avoid Google completely. If it's hardcoded to use Google Wallet, make a separate account just for this ticket. Then just open the ticket in the app, take a screenshot, and use your favorite gallery app to scan it in at ticket gates.
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utopiah

I'm using fWallet for Eurostar, plane tickets, etc anything with PkPass. Very minimalist, just does the job.


fWallet | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

A beautiful cross-platform wallet application for your transport tickets, discou
f-droid.org
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Gaza: Israel kills more than 130 Palestinians in 24 hours

By Mera Aladam
Published date: 14 July 2025 11:50 BST | Last update:~08:00 EDT

According to the UN agency for #Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), "truckloads of food and medical supplies are waiting in warehouses" outside #Gaza.

"Stop the starvation. Lift the siege. Let the #UN, including #UNRWA, do its lifesaving work," they said in a post on X.


Gaza: Israel kills more than 130 Palestinians in 24 hours

Israeli forces killed more than 130 Palestinians in Gaza in a single day, including several children who were attempting to collect water for their hungry families in the besieged enclave.
Mera Aladam (Middle East Eye)

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Gaza: Israel kills more than 130 Palestinians in 24 hours

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33173703

By Mera Aladam
Published date: 14 July 2025 11:50 BST | Last update:~08:00 EDT
According to the UN agency for #Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), "truckloads of food and medical supplies are waiting in warehouses" outside #Gaza.

"Stop the starvation. Lift the siege. Let the #UN, including #UNRWA, do its lifesaving work," they said in a post on X.



Gaza: Israel kills more than 130 Palestinians in 24 hours

Israeli forces killed more than 130 Palestinians in Gaza in a single day, including several children who were attempting to collect water for their hungry families in the besieged enclave.
Mera Aladam (Middle East Eye)

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Hamas Says It Won’t Sign a “Surrender” Agreement, As War of Attrition Intensifies

Jeremy Scahill
Jul 14, 2025

Immediately after Trump announced what he called the “final proposal” for a Gaza deal, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu undermined the negotiating process, repeatedly announcing—in public—his intent to continue the war after securing the release of ten living Israeli captives in a temporary 60-day truce and to forge ahead with his ethnic cleansing campaign to force the surviving Palestinians out of Gaza. “After the pause, we will transfer the population in the Strip southward and impose a siege [on the rest of Gaza],” Netanyahu told far-right cabinet minister Bezalel Smotrich recently, according to Israel’s Channel 12.


Hamas Says It Won’t Sign a “Surrender” Agreement, As War of Attrition Intensifies

Trump again claimed a Gaza deal may be imminent as Netanyahu continues his campaign of sabotage.
www.dropsitenews.com

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Hamas Says It Won’t Sign a “Surrender” Agreement, As War of Attrition Intensifies

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33162300

Jeremy Scahill
Jul 14, 2025

Immediately after Trump announced what he called the “final proposal” for a Gaza deal, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu undermined the negotiating process, repeatedly announcing—in public—his intent to continue the war after securing the release of ten living Israeli captives in a temporary 60-day truce and to forge ahead with his ethnic cleansing campaign to force the surviving Palestinians out of Gaza. “After the pause, we will transfer the population in the Strip southward and impose a siege [on the rest of Gaza],” Netanyahu told far-right cabinet minister Bezalel Smotrich recently, according to Israel’s Channel 12.


Hamas Says It Won’t Sign a “Surrender” Agreement, As War of Attrition Intensifies

Trump again claimed a Gaza deal may be imminent as Netanyahu continues his campaign of sabotage.
www.dropsitenews.com

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x264 AV1 file, vlc and mpv on debian 12.11, problems to play it, what to do?

the x264 av1 file plays only audio on vlc but works with flaws on mpv: on mpv I get audio and video, but every 5 to 6 seconds it's like instead of getting 24 fps I get 22, the user noticing the missing frames.

Is this a hardware issue? software?

debian 12.11, vlc 3.0.21 flatpak, mpv 0.40.0 flatpak

what do I do?

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utopiah

Check using e.g. top for your CPU (nvidia-smi or amd-smi for your GPU) or System Monitor on KDE if any of your resource is being maxed out. If so then most likely you found the culprit.

Regarding what the actual codec is being used you can use ffprobe but anyway what matters if resource bottleneck and thus if you can have hardware acceleration for it.

It's probably worth investigating so that you don't keep on getting video files too big for your computer to handle. I imagine it's something very high resolution with very recent compression. If so, look for something less demanding, e.g. x265 720p and if that's still leading to performance hiccups the older x264 720p or even 480p.

It's rate that the media player itself, e.g. VLC or mpv, actually is the bottleneck.

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