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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
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
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.
What's something you like about summer?
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.
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.
I want to recommend pop OS but it would be wise to switch to it after there is 24.04 (or later release)
In my personal experience pop os has been absolute rock solid especially with flatpaks
However latest stable is quite old (they are working on new desktop environment before upgrade).
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?
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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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Google’s foldable Pixel phones are in serious trouble
Google’s foldable Pixel phones are in serious trouble
Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Flip 7 look incredible — and they could mean serious trouble for Google's foldable Pixel phones.Joe Maring (Android Authority)
OpenAI delays the release of its open model, again
OpenAI delays the release of its open model, again | TechCrunch
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that the company is delaying the release of its highly anticipated open model for the second time.Maxwell Zeff (TechCrunch)
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RustDesk, probably one of the best TeamViewer Alternatives
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AC/DC - Jailbreak (1976 London Clip)
AC/DC - Jailbreak (1976 London Clip)
"Jailbreak (1976 London Clip)” by AC/DCListen to AC/DC: https://ACDC.lnk.to/listenYDSubscribe to AC/DC on YouTube: https://ACDC.lnk.to/subscribeYDWatch more ...YouTube
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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 contentPang 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.
The Financial Post is American owned media pretending to be Canadian, infiltrating Canadian culture and politics.
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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)
Air India 171 Interim Report Released - Mentour Pilot
BREAKING NEWS - Air India 171 Interim Report Released
Join Petter and Ben for this breaking news live stream, where we will be discussing Air India 171 and the shocking details from the interim report, that has ...YouTube
Central Saanich councillor calls on leaders to 'elbow up' on social media
Central Saanich councillor calls on leaders to 'elbow up' on social media
Coun. Zeb King wants to see Canadian political leaders adopt alternative social media platforms like the FediverseHarry Corro (Oak Bay News)
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:
- 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.
- 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
What your snot can reveal about your health
What your snot can reveal about your health
Snot plays a powerful role in protecting us from disease – and its colour alone can provide insights into what's going on in our bodies.Sofia Quaglia (BBC)
Max Treutner — Somewhen (Full Video | from upcoming album Zen Garden)
Max Treutner — Somewhen (Full Video | from upcoming album Zen Garden)
This is the full video of “Somewhen”, one of the tracks from my debut album Zen Garden, which will be released on August 22nd, 2025, on nWog Records.We recor...YouTube
Colorado Music Festival premieres new saxophone concerto by famed composer Joan Tower
Colorado Music Festival premieres new saxophone concerto by famed composer Joan Tower
The Colorado Music Festival is known for premiering new contemporary classical music.Libby Smith (CBS Colorado)
Ben Webster & Charlie Shavers – Live at Montmartre, 1971 | A Masterclass in Tone & Emotion
Ben Webster & Charlie Shavers – Live at Montmartre, 1971 | A Masterclass in Tone & Emotion
Join us for an unforgettable performance from 1971 at Copenhagen’s famed Jazzhus Montmartre, featuring the soulful tenor saxophone of Ben Webster and the fie...YouTube
Melissa Aldana: How to Develop the Tools to Tell Your Own Story!
Melissa Aldana: How to Develop the Tools to Tell Your Own Story!
*Thought I would include this Special Free "Rhythm Changes Phrases" PDF download for all saxophones here:* https://jeffpifhermusic.lpages.co/rhythm-changes-p...YouTube
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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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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
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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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 🙁
NotJustBikes uses Linux!
- 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)
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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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Fallout | The Making of Season One | Behind the Scene [27:25]
Fallout | The Making of Season One | Behind the Scenes | Warner Bros. Entertainment
Fallout Season One behind the scenes shows how the hit video game was adapted into a drama series from LED stages, jet packs, production design, costumes, an...YouTube
VGA and other display devices in qemu
VGA and other display devices in qemu
There are alot of emulated display devices available in qemu. This blog post introduces them, explains the differences between them and the use cases they are good for. The TL;DR version is in the recommendations section at the end of the article.Gerd Hoffmann (🇺🇦 kraxel’s news)
Milwaukee Removes Fonzie Statue Amid Reckoning With Greaser Past
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Arthur Fonzarelli refuses to apologize and will not be glorified anymore in the occasionally acceptable state of Wisconsin.
And no we will not accept apologies or explanations from that "Henry Winkler" fellow who keeps insisting on speaking for Fonzarelli for some reason.
Gazans Make Diesel From Plastic Amid Genocide
Gazans Make Diesel From Plastic Amid Genocide - UNICORN RIOT
With no diesel allowed into Gaza, citizens are successfully converting plastic into diesel and gasoline to be used for transportation.niko (UNICORN RIOT)
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
Tesseract has been discontinued
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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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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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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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.
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.
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
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.
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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.
Original: 2424 words\
Summary: 446 words\
Percent reduction: 81.60%
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)
Oh my the irony, using AI to summarize and criticize another AI...
Let the AI wars begin! Just leave us fleshbags out of it.
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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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.
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.
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.
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)
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...
Holy fuck this guy should not have had any action brought against them for that comment.
Seriously embarrassing behavor from the mods.
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@unruffled@lemmy.dbzer0.com - keep going mask-off.
Ban me too, cripplebrain.
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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Personal Reflections On Immutable Linux
Personal Reflections On Immutable Linux
Immutable distributions are slowly spreading across the Linux world– but should you care? Are they hacker friendly? What does “immutable” mean, anyway? Immutable means “not …Hackaday
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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 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)
Does Al Gore have rhythm?
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.
Exclusive: GlobalFoundries says MIPS takeover will expand its business without creating competitive friction with its clients
Exclusive: GlobalFoundries says MIPS takeover will expand its business without creating competitive friction with its clients
However, it will compete against IP companies.Anton Shilov (Tom's Hardware)
Qualcomm is working on a much better chipset for smartwatches
Qualcomm is working on a much better chipset for smartwatches
It will have a big CPU core for the first time. According to a new rumor, Qualcomm is currently working on a new chipset for smartwatches, codenamed Aspen...Vlad (GSMArena)
Ukrainian intelligence officer shot dead in broad daylight in Kyiv
Ukrainian intelligence officer shot dead in broad daylight in Kyiv
The senior agent was shot in a car park in broad daylight on Thursday morning, CCTV shows.Aleks Phillips (BBC News)
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 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.
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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)
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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In the context of colleges and schools, we see a decade long period of increasing domestic demand as population and education requirements grow. But, as population growth slows the colleges find themselves with enough capacity for a generation that already graduated, with no new domestic students coming. So they fill the capacity with international students, who also help fill the missing economic capacity.
The recent changes leave colleges with the original problem, capacity built for boomers and their children being far too much for the children of millennials. So they're shrinking now.
The colleges are a kind of microcosm of our entire economy. Population growth is slowing long term, and economic fallout will follow.
I wish I had solutions to our problems that didn't involve a time machine. We needed to not stop building public housing 40 years ago, we put ourselves in a housing trap that's going to be hard to get out off. Colleges are just a prominent example.
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.
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
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)
- How Phone Chargers Copied Car Chargers - USB PD PPS
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How Phone Chargers Copied Car Chargers - USB PD PPS
Electric cars aren't just revolutionising personal transport, the unprecedented amount of global investment is leading to development of technologies that ar...YouTube
Canada adds surprise 83,000 jobs in June, driving unemployment rate down to 6.9%
Canada adds surprise 83,000 jobs in June, driving unemployment rate down to 6.9%
Canada’s labour market topped expectations in June amid a surprise surge in hiring.The Canadian Press (CTVNews)
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Where do freelancers fit in these stats?
I’m sometimes over-employed and sometimes pretty damn near unemployed. 🤷♂️
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...YouTube
Kash Patel Is Polygraphing FBI Staff to Find Out if They’re Being Mean About Him
Kash Patel Is Polygraphing FBI Staff to Find Out if They’re Being Mean About Him
The Trump loyalist has subjected dozens of his own team to the lie-detector test.Ewan Palmer (The Daily Beast)
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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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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.
lemmy.wtf 502 errors
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What do y'all recommend as an arch based distro?
why do you want it to be arch based in particular? the entire point of an arch based distro is that you're rawdogging it.
if you want something simple, use something Ubuntu/debian based. if you want something more complex, just try arch, it's not that hard
Archinstall if you're brave, endeavor if you aren't.
Although if you don't want to rawdog it, I'd recommend fedora or tumbleweed instead. The whole point of arch is that it's simple to keep everything on your head.
Mastering jq
Mastering JQ: Part 1
This is the first part of an ongoing series on mastering jq. jq is a valuable tool that every fast coder has in their tool chest. It contains depths of immense power. In part 1, we'll start off with the basics.Tyler Adams (CodeFaster)
I don't know if we should call someone a master of jq if they do
echo '{"k1": [{"k2": [9]}]}' | jq '.k1 | .[0] | .k2 | .[0]'
Instead of just
echo '{"k1": [{"k2": [9]}]}' | jq '.k1[0].k2[0]'
Both are bad. Make it readable.
And if you often resort to jq, better use python or at least something like nushell.
Bash v5.3 Released! New features and syntax in the latest version of the Bash Shell. by You Suck at Programming on YouTube [17:10min]
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I just found this creator who is super excited about the new Bash version. He goes through some aspects of the new changes and features. There is something funny about a guy getting so excited about a new Bash version, that I wanted to share it because of that. 😁
Also its nice to see the changes in action and have an explanation from someone who (seemingly) knows what he is doing.
Video (partial) description:
Source Code: github.com/bahamas10/bash-changes
$ whoami
Yo what's up everyone my name's dave and you suck at programming! Connect with me on my socials below and if you're reading this you're legally required to subscribe to my channel.
$ cat source-code
The source code for my YSAP series (or related videos) is available for free under the MIT License on GitHub:
Source Code → github.com/bahamas10/ysap
Bash v5.3 Released! New features and syntax in the latest version of the Bash Shell. - SkipVids
You Suck at Programming: Bash v5.3 Released! New features and syntax in the latest version of the Bash Shell. - https://SkipVids.comSkipVids
Any ideas for transporting variables in chroot bash script?
Hello, iam in the making of artix install script. I start with setting variables in dialog like bootloader="refind" and etc. but when i do artix-chroot into chroot.sh script variables are gone.
right now i have something like this:
cp ${pwd}execution/chroot.sh /mnt/mnt &&
USER="$USER" USER_PASSWORD1="$USER_PASSWORD1" USER_PASSWORD2="$USER_PASSWORD2"\
ROOT_PASSWORD1="$ROOT_PASSWORD1" ROOT_PASSWORD2="$ROOT_PASSWORD2"\
BOOTLOADER="$BOOTLOADER" SUPERUSER="$SUPERUSER" HOSTNAME="$HOSTNAME"\
LOCALE="$LOCALE" ENCRYPTION="$ENCRYPTION" ROOT="$ROOT" ESP="$ESP"\
KERNEL="$KERNEL" UCODE="$UCODE"
artix-chroot /mnt bash -c '/mnt/chroot.sh && execute_root'
But it does not really work, tried also some things like:
# create array of variables to pass to part 2
var_export=($formfactor $threadsminusone $gpu $boot $disk0 $username $userpassword $timezone $swap $intel_vaapi_driver $res_x $res_y_half)
# initiate part 2
mount --bind /root/artix-install-script /mnt/mnt
artix-chroot /mnt /mnt/chrootInstall.sh "${var_export[@]}"
and then in chroot.sh
# Importing Variables
args=("$@")
formfactor=${args[0]}
threadsminusone=${args[1]}
gpu=${args[2]}
boot=${args[3]}
disk=${args[4]}
username=${args[5]}
userpassword=${args[6]}
timezone=${args[7]}
swap=${args[8]}
intel_vaapi_driver=${args[9]}
res_x=${args[10]}
res_y_half=${args[11]}
still not they best way, kinda messy and buggy.
THANKS FOR HELP!
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Careful there. You are only a half dozen abstraction layers away from reinventing NixOS.
As for your question, the best way is to put it in a file that is then read by the chroot script and delete later.
mktemp
) and bind-mount that file somewhere into the chroot directory, so you can source it from within that environment.That way the critical information, like the passwords, at least only gets to live in volatile memory and won't stick around on the host system after the reboot. That limits the exposure somewhat.
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Introducing Operese(demo)
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...YouTube
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VPNs for UK users?
So the UK is going to start requiring IDs to view adult content. I'm in the US, but I've got a friend in the UK who obviously doesn't want to deal with this.
I suggested he use a VPN, but he's apparently heard they sell your personal data. Can anyone recommend a reliable VPN that collects as little data as possible?
Raspberry Pi alternative? 8-Core, 8GB RAM, OLED, Battery – Runs NixOS Under $100! - YouTube
In this video, I show you how to turn your phone into a mobile typewriter using NixOS, Emacs, Org Roam, and Syncthing — no Google, no distractions.
Not very touch friendly yet, and not sure if anyone has gotten the cellar radios to work with a SIM carrier.
Raspberry Pi alternative? 8-Core, 8GB RAM, OLED, Battery – Runs NixOS Under $100!
In this video, I show you how to turn your phone into a mobile typewriter using NixOS, Emacs, Org Roam, and Syncthing — no Google, no distractions.It’s more ...YouTube
Perhaps one could use something like this using Android's Virtualization Framework in the meantime:
- Run Full Linux with GUI on Android 16 – Native Support!
Run Full Linux with GUI on Android 16 – Native Support!
In this video, we explore one of the most exciting upgrades in Android history — Android 16 now includes a native Linux terminal with full GUI support and ha...YouTube
Ubuntu 24.04 Hardware Stack Update Brings Mesa 25.0, Linux 6.14
Ubuntu 24.04.3 HWE Stack Provides a Major Mesa Upgrade
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS users are getting a new HWE update with Linux 6.14 and Mesa 25.0, delivering a big gaming boost and support for newer hardware.Joey Sneddon (OMG! Ubuntu!)
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Every Pixel Art Game Has This Problem... - YouTube
How I fixed Pixel Snapping / Jitter in my game using a subpixel camera to achieve smooth pixel perfect movement.
Subsequent related videos:
- Smooth Pixel Art Camera | Godot 4.4 Tutorial
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- Smooth Pixel Art Parallax
- youtube.com/watch?v=kEr6vKUZXm…
Smooth Pixel Art Camera | Godot 4.4 Tutorial
Use this Subpixel Camera Fix in your upscaled pixel art game to remove pixel snapping / jitter.Access the files by supporting me ❤️https://www.patreon.com/c/...YouTube
Mahmoud Khalil to Sue Trump Admin for $20 Million Over 'Unconstitutional' Detention | Common Dreams
Pro-Palestinian student protest leader Mahmoud Khalil on Thursday began the process of suing U.S. President Donald Trump's administration for $20 million in damages for the harm he suffered as a result of the government's "politically motivated plan to unlawfully arrest, detain, and deport" him."This is the first step towards accountability," Khalil said in a statement. "Nothing can restore the 104 days stolen from me. The trauma, the separation from my wife, the birth of my first child that I was forced to miss. But let's be clear, the same government that targeted me for speaking out is using taxpayer dollars to fund Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza."
"There must be accountability for political retaliation and abuse of power," he asserted. "And I won't stop here. I will continue to pursue justice against everyone who contributed to my unlawful detention or spread lies in an attempt to destroy my reputation, including those affiliated with Columbia University. I'm holding the U.S. government accountable not just for myself, but for everyone they try to silence through fear, exile, or detention."
Mahmoud Khalil to Sue Trump Admin for $20 Million Over 'Unconstitutional' Detention
"There must be accountability for political retaliation and abuse of power," said Khalil. "And I won't stop here."jessica-corbett (Common Dreams)
Call for Support: Bottles Team Needs Funding to Sustain Development
Call for Support: Bottles Team Needs Funding to Sustain Development
Despite massive adoption, Bottles faces funding shortages. The team shares its reality and asks users to help shape the project’s future.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
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Bottles was what helped me finally kick windows to the curb.
I had one program that I just couldn't get working, made a "gaming bottle" and it just worked, no issues.
Bottles is still kinda buggy. Just kicked em £10.
Canadian premier accuses US lawmakers of 'trying to trivialise' wildfires
Canadian premier accuses US lawmakers of 'trying to trivialize ' wildfires
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew was critical of a letter sent by six US lawmakers concerned over wildfire smoke drifting south.Nadine Yousif (BBC News)
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Blender 4.5 RC1 Released With Much Better Vulkan Support
Blender 4.5 RC1 Released With Much Better Vulkan Support
The release candidate of the Blender 4.5 3D modeling software is now available for testingwww.phoronix.com
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If only Cycles would ever work on AMD Polaris…
Though honestly, I’ll probably get around to a GPU upgrade eventually.
Rocm packaging looks to be pretty much done on Debian, although they still seem to need time on the problem of keeping it reasonably up to date in Testing and Sid - momentum will probably pick up after Trixie leaves hard freeze and goes stable.
Honestly, it’d be kind of nice to have a project with a repo that does nothing most of the time except during the Testing freeze, in which it would deliver package updates and keep Testing as a rolling release during that time.
I get why Debian doesn’t do this themselves - they tried and found it hell to both prepare a stable release and package new versions.
Call for Support: Bottles Team Needs Funding to Sustain Development
Call for Support: Bottles Team Needs Funding to Sustain Development
Despite massive adoption, Bottles faces funding shortages. The team shares its reality and asks users to help shape the project’s future.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
WINEPREFIX
environment variable?
Calibre 8.6 released
New features
- Content server: Add a checkbox in content server user preferences to prevent a user account from changing its own password via the web interface
- Restoring database: Improve performance by an order of magnitude
- Add a tweak to Preferences->Tweaks to permit displaying the sort value for series in the Tag browser
- Welcome wizard: Change default output format to AZW3 for Kindle as MOBI is obsolete and all Kindles released within the last decade plus support AZW3
- Add 'Search "not in"' and 'Filter "not in'" buttons to Manage authors and Manage Items
Bug fixes
- Windows: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused terminal windows to popup momentarily when adding PDF files or converting them
Closes tickets: 2115246- E-book viewer: Fix a regression in 8.4 that broke fading of the background image
Closes tickets: 2115057 - Tag browser: Fix clicking on categories to search for books by first letter of series not working correctly for non-English language books
Closes tickets: 2116006 - Edit metadata individually: Ensure Next/Previous buttons work even if something re-orders the books in the book list. They will now iterate over the books as they were at the time the dialog is created
Closes tickets: 2115111 - Windows: Generate catalog: Workaround for systems where a broken antivirus or similar holds open files in the catalog library causing a permission denied error
Closes tickets: 2115084
- E-book viewer: Fix a regression in 8.4 that broke fading of the background image
New news sources
- La Presse by quatorze
Improved news sources
- Economist
- 1843
- Financial Times
- PC World
- Muy Interesante Mexico
- Hindu Business Line
- Business Standard
- Hindustan Times
- The Week
- Times of India
- Hindustan
- Financial Times
- Reason
calibre - What's new
calibre: The one stop solution for all your e-book needs. Comprehensive e-book software.calibre-ebook.com
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Calibre is one of the great pieces of FOSS software, and demonstrates everything good about FOSS: it has regular updates; it's been around for simply ages; it works really, really well; it gets updates and new features and yet has never in my memory had a breaking, non-backwards-compatible release... it's stable; and it resists - in its way - the attempt by publishers to steal our rights and ownerships of our media.
I ~~contribute~~ donate to Calibre. I hope that Goyal has a successor lined up to take the helm who can continue such an outstanding contribution when he finally retires from the project.
Edit: clarification
US will impose 35% tariffs on Canadian imports, Trump says in letter
US will impose 35% tariffs on Canadian imports, Trump says in letter
New levies, apart from the 25% on auto parts and 50% on steel and aluminum, will come into effect on 1 AugustGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
US will impose 35% tax on American consumers buying Canadian products, Trump says in letter. Magazi bootlickers thank him and ask for more.
FTFY
Sci-Fi Short Film “Slaughterbots” | DUST
In a dystopian world a new form of A.I. weaponry has been created. All these drone bots need is a profile: age, sex, fitness, uniform, and ethnicity. Nuclear...YouTube
Trump's New Go-To Response: 'I Don't Know'
Good thing he doesn't go on You Can't do That on Television.
Donald Trump hasn’t been happy with Vladimir Putin lately, and he took out his frustrations with Russia’s president this week by announcing that the United States would resume sending military aid to Ukraine. When he was asked on Tuesday who ordered the aid to be paused in the first place, Trump delivered what has become one of his go-to responses whenever he’s pressed about the chaos his administration is unleashing on the nation and the world.“I don’t know,” he said.
The pause on aid to Ukraine was apparently ordered last week by beleaguered Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who reportedly neglected to tell the White House about the move, leading to internal scrambling. Trump was asked whether he approved the pause while sitting next to Hegseth during a Cabinet meeting. The president only offered that the U.S. needs to keep sending “defensive weapons” to Ukraine because “Putin is not treating human beings right.” When asked who ordered the pause, Trump said he didn’t know. “Why don’t you tell me?” he added.
This would be far more amusing if he got slimed every time he said that.
Also, what kind of strongman doesn't know what's going on in his loyal junta?
Trump's Go-To Response for Ukraine and Beyond: 'I Don't Know'
Donald Trump has responded by shrugging his shoulders to questions about everything from posting AI-generated images to military aid to Ukraine.Ryan Bort (Rolling Stone)
Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on children killed during a nutrition aid distribution in the Gaza Strip (UNICEF, 2025-07-10)
Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on children killed during a nutrition aid distribution in the Gaza Strip (UNICEF, 2025-07-10)unicef.org/press-releases/stat…
———>> “We are appalled by the reported killing of 15 Palestinians, including nine children and four women, who were waiting in line for nutritional supplies for children in Deir al Balah, the Gaza Strip, this morning. An additional 30 people were reportedly injured, including 19 children.
>> “This assistance was being provided by Project Hope, a #UNICEF partner organization, to families in desperate need. The killing of families trying to access life-saving aid is unconscionable.
>> “These were mothers seeking a lifeline for their children after months of hunger and desperation…
>> “We call on Israel to urgently review its rules of engagement to ensure full compliance with international humanitarian law, notably the protection of civilians, …
[The Hague Group] Spain and Ireland to join more than 20 states to declare ‘concrete measures’ against Israel (Middle East Eye, 2025-07-10)
[The Hague Group] Spain and Ireland to join more than 20 states to declare ‘concrete measures’ against Israel (Middle East Eye, 2025-07-10)middleeasteye.net/news/spain-a…
———>> More than 20 countries are convening in Bogota next week to declare “concrete measures against Israel’s violations of international law”, diplomats told Middle East Eye.
>> The “emergency summit” is due to be held on 15-16 July, co-hosted by the governments of Colombia and South Africa as co-chairs of The Hague Group, to coordinate diplomatic and legal action to counter what they describe as “a climate of impunity” enabled by Israel and its powerful allies.
[The Hague Group] Spain and Ireland to join more than 20 states to declare ‘concrete measures’ against Israel (Middle East Eye, 2025-07-10)
[The Hague Group] Spain and Ireland to join more than 20 states to declare ‘concrete measures’ against Israel (Middle East Eye, 2025-07-10)middleeasteye.net/news/spain-a…
———>> More than 20 countries are convening in Bogota next week to declare “concrete measures against Israel’s violations of international law”, diplomats told Middle East Eye.
>> The “emergency summit” is due to be held on 15-16 July, co-hosted by the governments of Colombia and South Africa as co-chairs of The Hague Group, to coordinate diplomatic and legal action to counter what they describe as “a climate of impunity” enabled by Israel and its powerful allies.
grte
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in reply to casmael • • •Do Economists never cut spending?
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in reply to slykethephoxenix • • •Canada total spending is $450B
But $120B of that is discretionary excluding transfer payments.
So we're looking at a whole of government reduction of $18B for 15%. Transport Canada spends $25B on roads.
Stop subsidizing inefficient personal vehicles by making people absorb the real costs of them and we can make that cut in seconds.
nocklobster
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in reply to Nouveau_Burnswick • • •I agree, but unfortunately that's basically never going to happen. At least not in our lifetimes.
One of Canada's greatest flaws is that we followed the US into car-dependent, suburban-sprawl at the catastrophic expense of everything else. We have spent decade upon decade investing unfathomable amounts of money into building the most dysfunctional cities imaginable and ensuring there is no practical way of getting in or out of them except a car.
Mongostein
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in reply to Mongostein • • •non-French, non-English, or non-Indigenous-language speaker in Canada
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Joseph Szymborski
in reply to Mongostein • • •earliest recorded use is from the 15th century, but it's likely from the 12th.
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