QUEBEC CITY, QC - Four men involved in an far right terror plot were arrested this week by RCMP, not for plotting terrorism, but for releasing a written manifesto that was not properly translated into both French and English.Ian MacIntyre (The Beaverton)
Future of music business in peril, union says, as it hopes Ottawa will step up
10 hospitalized in B.C., the majority children, as health officials hope spread of virus has peaked
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FREDERICTON - New Brunswick health officials say a measles case in the south central region is the province's first confirmed infection of the year.thecanadianpressnews.ca
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[Jackson Studner] wrote in to let us know about his ESP32-based media server: Jcorp Nomad. This project uses a ESP32-S3 to create a WiFi hotspot you can connect to from your devices. The hotspot is…Hackaday
USB-to-serial debug boards are commonly used for board bring-up, checking for issues when a board does not boot, or accessing the serial console inJean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) (CNX Software Limited)
"It's almost certain that even after the 2026 deadline passes, many parents in five provinces will be paying more than $10 a day for child care," Macdonald said.
it means being free from all the liberal elites and fake news media who just want to control us and take away our freedom and tell me what to think and how to live my life and whats safe to eat
theyre not part of the establishment and theyre not trying to control me okay trump is a rebel and a fighter and jesus is the ultimate rebel and free thinker he went against the establishment and challenged the powers that be like his dad and stuff
i believe in being free and independent and not being controlled by anyone or anything that isnt on my side like for example the mcdonalds corporation what do you think
But a Reddit post from 11 days ago from an apparent Rogers employee affected, claimed they were one of the more than 1,000 laid-off agents paints a different picture.
“I am a part of the 1000+ agents in Roger’s that are getting laid off and I would like us to be heard and actually have a voice for once,” the person wrote.
They claimed they were told to stay silent. “Why has management specifically told us to stay quiet and not to go to the media about this? Because they know this is wrong on so many levels.”
The post accuses Rogers of using workers to train an AI tool introduced last year—under the pretense of helping them—only to later replace them with it. “We were exploited and taken advantage of,” the employee claims.
Rogers is replacing hundreds of its Canadian customer service agents with AI chatbots, leading to mass layoffs and growing backlash from former employees who say they were used to train the very tech that took their jobs.Austin Blake (iPhone in Canada)
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Researchers found that a third of allied health-care workers frequently think about quitting their jobsStephen Magusiak (PressProgress)
As a kid: Saturday morning cartoons.
As a teen: Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego the animated series (which was once interrupted by the news to show a plane crashing into a building).
As an adult: I ain't got time for that shit!
Same with getting a place to live. It was quite a shock when I learned you had to fucking interview to rent an apartment, and may not be approved even if you have the money.
Wait what? I've never heard of such a thing in any of the places I've lived. BS like needing 3x the rent or 1st, 2nd and last months rent + deposit yea
But needing to interview‽ That's a new one LMAO
The Handala, operated by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, left the port of Syracuse shortly after 12:00 pm local time, according to a journalist of the French press agency AFP, carrying about fifteen activists.Several dozen people, some holding Palestinian flags and others wearing keffiyeh scarves, gathered at the port to cheer the boat's departure with cries of "Free Palestine".
The former Norwegian trawler, loaded with medical supplies, food, children's equipment and medicine, will sail for about a week in the Mediterranean, covering roughly 1,800 kilometres, in the hope of reaching Gaza's coast.
Palestinians inspect the wreckage of a gas station destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Saturday, July 12, 2025.
A Gaza-bound boat carrying pro-Palestinian activists, including members of France's hard-left LFI party, and humanitarian aid left Sicily on Sunday, over a month after Israel detained and deported people aboard a previous vessel.RFI
The Handala, operated by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, left the port of Syracuse shortly after 12:00 pm local time, according to a journalist of the French press agency AFP, carrying about fifteen activists.Several dozen people, some holding Palestinian flags and others wearing keffiyeh scarves, gathered at the port to cheer the boat's departure with cries of "Free Palestine".
The former Norwegian trawler, loaded with medical supplies, food, children's equipment and medicine, will sail for about a week in the Mediterranean, covering roughly 1,800 kilometres, in the hope of reaching Gaza's coast.
Palestinians inspect the wreckage of a gas station destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Saturday, July 12, 2025.
A Gaza-bound boat carrying pro-Palestinian activists, including members of France's hard-left LFI party, and humanitarian aid left Sicily on Sunday, over a month after Israel detained and deported people aboard a previous vessel.RFI
"Investors would likely interpret such an event as a direct affront to Fed independence, putting the central bank under extreme institutional duress."Simon Kennedy (Fortune)
I'd be interested in hearing recommendations, and also what to avoid!
Keep browsing eBay and HotUKDeals. You can easily find something really good for <£200.
This 11th Gen Intel Dell laptop was going to £150 this morning and I was on the verge of ordering it and adding more RAM.
This sub is obsessed with Thinkpads, but when you're looking for a secondhand bargain then you pick up what comes opportunistically. The market is flooded with Dells because businesses change machines long before they go out of date and generally keep them in very very good condition.
I'm not sure how common they are outside Japan, but I have a little (about 12" I think) Panasonic "Let's Note" that I use quite a lot as a lightweight coding (and retro/indie gaming 😁) device that I can throw in even my smallest bag when there's a chance I'll have to kill more than a few minutes. They're designed to be a little bit rugged. I had Ubuntu on it previously, now Mint, and the only problem I've had is that Linux somehow sees two screen brightness systems, and by default it connects the screen brightness keys to the wrong (i.e. nonexistent) one. Once I traced the problem it was a quick and painless fix.
They seem to be sold worldwide, so you may be able to get one cheaply second-hand. One thing to be careful about is the fact that in order to keep the physical size down, the RAM is soldered to the board. Mine is an older model (5th gen iCore), and has 4GB soldered on but also one SODIMM slot, so I was able to upgrade to 12GB total. But I've noticed that on most later models they got rid of the RAM slots entirely, so whatever RAM it comes with is what you're stuck with.
Zionist organizations cannot credibly address the full spectrum of hate in Canada, and should not shape how it’s prosecutedIn May, the Manitoba government announced through a news release that it, along with the federal government, was partnering with the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) to “provide specialized training to Crown attorneys on prosecuting hate crimes.”
Antisemitism is a real and pernicious problem in Canada, and prosecutors should be equipped to combat it. However, antisemitism is not the only form hate crimes can take, and CIJA cannot credibly claim expertise on Islamophobia, anti-Indigenous racism, or other manifestations of hate. The organization’s demonstrable anti-Palestinian politics should in fact disqualify it from being considered by both levels of governments as an authority on hate crime.
Zionism is the underlying ideology that is heaping unfathomable misery upon Palestinians. For this reason, Zionist organizations should not play a role in shaping public policy in Manitoba.canadiandimension.com
On this day 35 years ago, a SWAT team, a paramilitary force, attacked a peaceful barricade in the Kanehsatà:ke pine forest — a barricade meant to protect the more than 200-year-old trees from being cut for the expansion of the nine-hole Oka Golf Club and condo development. The development would have seen the removal of our sacred burial ground to expand the parking lot of the country club.For 78 days the peoples of Kanehsatà:ke and Kahnawake defended “the Pines,” a white pine forest claimed by the Mohawks of Kanesatake. We were under siege, denied food, medicine and the free passage of people by order of the Sureté du Quebec, the provincial police force, endorsed by the Quebec and Canadian governments.
Our fundamental human rights were violated daily by the SQ and the Canadian military — and we were publicly labelled as criminals for opposing a golf course expansion that was approved without our consent or consultation.
The 1990 siege marked a nationwide turning point in Indigenous resistance — now there’s a new threat to the sacred PinesKatsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel (Ricochet)
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I remember watching the specially selected news as the events unfolded, and as a teenager who could think critically, not be able to reconcile the statements of what was going on with the facts of what had led up to the confrontation. The question that kept coming to mind over and over again was “wait… why doesn’t the Mohawk Nation own the golf course? Why is an outside government getting involved at all?”
And then the shot was fired.
I still think the town having a carve-out of the established treaty lands is all sorts of underhanded, and trying to then eminent domain further lands for a parking lot… it’s sad that the situation hasn’t really improved much since then.
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While it may be true that the only certain things in life are death and taxes, it is also true taxes help us live better — and healthier — lives.Perspectives Journal
there's a big strategic hole in this article.
The federal govt. spends first, taxes later. So spending isn't constrained by taxes collected.
The debt/deficit argument is ONLY used against social spending. When it comes to pro-capital spending, the argument vanishes. $40B for pipelines? $150B in military spending? $80B in annual subsidies to give big investors risk-free bonds to buy? These are also all deficit spending.
Progessives should avoid reinforcing the debt/deficit spending myth, since it's only used against progressive spending.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has received three reports of customers being hit in face by bottle lidsGustaf Kilander (The Independent)
The US economy is expected to slow the rest of the year as tariffs take a bigger toll on consumers and businesses, immigration constraints intensifyPaul Davidson (USA TODAY)
The CachyOS ISO snapshot for July 2025 is now available for download with a long-awaited requested feature and other improvements.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
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As such, users now have the option to choose between cachyos-fish-config and cachyos-zsh-config. "If neither is selected, the system will default to Bash. The default configuration will still be Fish ...
You can choose between fish and zsh and if you don't select anything it selects bash but fish is default? Huh?
Meaning, fish is preselected and you have to unselect fish in order to get bash?
Like:
Which shell do you want (deselect for bash)? [x] fish [ ] zsh
Ahead of the Linux 6.16-rc6 kernel release due out later today, an x86/urgent pull request was sent out today that includes some fixes for old AMD Zen 2 hardware.www.phoronix.com
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The popular Arch Linux based CachyOS operating system is out with its 'July 2025' update for providing the latest innovations for this performance-optimized, feature-rich Linux distribution.www.phoronix.com
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Amid Intel's ongoing financial difficulties and multiple rounds of layoffs some Linux engineers at Intel left last year and there's been at least one prominent departure this week amid the latest round of challenges at the company.www.phoronix.com
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Intel has always been a two cookie company
Intel sat on 4 cores with exceptionally high power usage for a decade while everyone was screaming for more. This resulted in Apple starting up their own damn chip business, and AMD smashing through the wall with 6, 8, 12, and 16-core chips available to the masses; and core counts requiring a third damn digit if you go server. Furthermore, Intel's process node is woefully behind TSMC's.
Intel sat on their laurels and are getting shat on from all angles now.
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I don't follow, what are they investing in...?
The article is just about an employee leaving the company... Thats not really an investment?
Am I missing something?
They're just saying that because the CEO said it, but what the Hell does he know? It's not as if he's in charge of the company!
Oh wait.
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Product description sparks worries over the display's visual quality.Mark Tyson (Tom's Hardware)
Several people were hurt in a second night of anti-migrant unrest in the town of Torre Pacheco in south-east Spain after a pensioner was beaten up, authorities said.Despite a major police presence, groups armed with batons roamed the streets looking for people with foreign origins, the regional newspaper La Opinión de Murcia reported.
The regional government did not say how many people were injured but stated that at least one person had been arrested over the violence.
The unrest erupted after a 68-year-old man told Spanish media he was beaten up in the street on Wednesday by three young people of north African origin. The attack was filmed and put on social media.
Authorities say at least one person arrested after disorder broke out in Torre Pacheco over attack on pensionerGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has called on the EU to “defend European interests resolutely” after Donald Trump threatened to impose 30% tariffs on nearly all imports from the EU.It came as the EU moved to de-escalate tensions after the blunt move by Trump on Saturday. The bloc declared a further pause on €21bn of retaliatory tariffs until 1 August, dovetailing with the US president’s new deal deadline.
At the same time, the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, and the Indonesian president, Prabowo Subianto, announced a “political agreement” on a free trade deal on Sunday, ending nine years of negotiations.
French president says bloc should be ready for trade war after 30% tariff threat but other EU leaders call for calmLisa O'Carroll (The Guardian)
A familiar breed of British pundit has resurfaced - loud, self-declared feminists whose outrage is as selective as it is performative, and whose moral compass somehow always aligns with western state power.They remain silent as Gaza burns, but are quick to find their voice to cheer on Israel and its allies as they threaten to flatten Iran - civilian casualties be damned.
During Israel's recent strikes on Iran, the radical feminist journalist and co‑founder of Justice for Women, Julie Bindel, branded leftist anti-war feminists "Team Iran" sympathisers. It was a disingenuous, grotesquely misleading and dangerously ideological accusation, but not a surprising one.
While women in Gaza bleed in silence, these pundits reserve their fury for pro-Palestine protesters - smearing them as extremists, branding solidarity as terrorism, twisting every act of dissent into an endorsement of "jihad" and weaponising antisemitism to crush critique.
The UK's most prominent 'feminists' ignore women in Gaza under bombs and siege, but speak up to manufacture consent for western wars or attack the anti-war leftMiddle East Eye
It's time for another 68k Mac repair. I thought it would be a quick and easy fix, but this turned out to be a but more mysterious.-- Info
Microbug:
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Refined copper represents the biggest category of the metal that is imported by the US.MINING.COM
By Fayha Shalash in Ramallah, occupied Palestine
Published date: 12 July 2025 15:49 BST"The attack began when a large group of settlers targeted dozens of #Palestinians attempting to access their land between the villages of Sinjil and al-Mazra'a al-Sharqiya, east of Ramallah.
Such assaults have become a regular occurrence, taking place almost every Friday, as part of efforts to intimidate villagers and drive them off land targeted for settlement."
"'Musalat owned a home in the area and died trying to defend it' - Abdul Samad Abdul Aziz, al-Mazra'a al-Sharqiya municipality member"
Israeli settlers beat a Palestinian-American man to death and fatally shot another during a coordinated assault on villagers in the occupied West Bank on Friday.Fayha Shalash (Middle East Eye)
By Fayha Shalash in Ramallah, occupied Palestine
Published date: 12 July 2025 15:49 BST"The attack began when a large group of settlers targeted dozens of #Palestinians attempting to access their land between the villages of Sinjil and al-Mazra'a al-Sharqiya, east of Ramallah.
Such assaults have become a regular occurrence, taking place almost every Friday, as part of efforts to intimidate villagers and drive them off land targeted for settlement."
"'Musalat owned a home in the area and died trying to defend it' - Abdul Samad Abdul Aziz, al-Mazra'a al-Sharqiya municipality member"
Israeli settlers beat a Palestinian-American man to death and fatally shot another during a coordinated assault on villagers in the occupied West Bank on Friday.Fayha Shalash (Middle East Eye)
More than 100,000 could lose insurance coverage and more than 3,000 could lose jobs.Caroline Lewis (Gothamist)
A law that mandates Narcan training for jail guards will also go into effect.Samir Ferdowsi (Gothamist)
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Researchers found that psilocin—the compound your body makes after ingesting psilocybin—helped human cells live longer.Ashley Fike (VICE)
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Okay, just from the pictures, let me say what I think is happening:
1) You're growing too many different kinds of plants in a small space.
2) You're growing Cannabis, which draws literally every sweet-sensing pest.
3) Those things on the underside of the leaves you posted are Ladybug larvae, and they are GOOD.
You clear this up in about a week with a few simple things:
1) Get a clutch of ladybugs from your local nursery or plant stores. This should be available almost everywhere in the US.
2) Although I don't want to advocate for this because I love local pollinators, get a pheromone trap for the stinging insects. They cost about $10, and don't lure honeybees, but WILL kill local carpenter bees and yellow jackets.
3) For the aphids, get a soap-based spray, or make it yourself. It's pretty much just dish soap and water, but there are guides online. Spray EVERY MORNING AND AFTER SUNSET. This plus the ladybug clutch will make quick work of the aphids.
4) I see you have Basil in containers, move that AWAY from the plants that are infested with scale or aphids.
5) Depending on where you live, your nursery's may sell Mantids. Get them. They are beneficial, but ruthless in eating and killing anything in their grasp, including wasps.
6) If you have wasps around, there is a nest nearby. Inspect your building awnings, trees, or under anything shaded and find that nest. It's not two doors over, it's within 100ft of where you got stung. Find it, set a pheromone trap around your plants (not where you think the nest is), then after a lot of them are dead, go find and remove the nests next.
Don't leave standing water around, and make sure that you stay on schedule with the soap spray. Most of this will be cleared in just a week.
Edit: also for the slugs and stuff, you're growing a lot of stuff in a mostly shaded area, so you're just asking for slugs. Line a general area around your plants with Diatomaceous Earth. It's cheap, easy to use, and doesn't harm anything that doesn't crawl. Also, organic.
Double edit: DO NOT spray this black bugs with the striped butts. Those will be ladybugs soon that eat all the aphids. They are good.
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You're growing Cannabis, which draws literally every sweet-sensing pest.
Funnily enough, my weed is pretty much the only thing (and chillis) that isn't much affected.
The willow is the worst one, and the pepino second.
Those things on the underside of the leaves you posted are Ladybug larvae, and they are GOOD.
Those larvae pictures are already a bit older, maybe two weeks?
They probably got killed by the ants or wasps, because I rarely see them around anymore.
I also rarely see any other aphid eating insects anymore, only ants and ants carrying carcasses 🙁
Okay, so why are you coming here with this dire plea, but not giving up to date information?
Makes me think you don't actually care and might be lazy....
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I wouldn't say really positive. But it changed a daily slightly negative into a daily slightly positive.
At work I regularly need to take short notes. I like to fill the page to the full. But it gets messier and more complicated aa the day goes on. So I'd strike through and cross out notes I don't need anymore.
The thing is, crossing things out triggers a feeling of making mistakes. So instead of crossing out I started using check-marks (Dutch-style)., which feels like a succes and is also a quick fun flourish to draw. So small annoyances have turned into small victories.
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GOG.com announced on Thursday that both of Playdead's grim but beloved titles, Limbo and Inside, will be leaving the DRM-free platform on July 17th.Delisted Games
Researchers found that psilocin—the compound your body makes after ingesting psilocybin—helped human cells live longer.Ashley Fike (VICE)
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"ICE was conducting a raid using disproportionate displays of force against local farmworkers and our agricultural community," said U.S. Rep. Salud Carbajal, who was denied entry to one farm where he was attempting to provide oversight.julia-conley (Common Dreams)
Mark Carney can apparently do no wrong. Scroll through comments on news articles, and you’ll encounter an energetic online army defending the prime minister’s every action.Cancelling a tax on the world’s most profitable tech giants? A genius chess move in his trade war against Trump.
Advocating for new pipelines while the country burns from climate change-fuelled wildfires? A tough decision to shore up Canadian sovereignty.
Boosting spending on the military to record and wasteful levels? A responsible counter to supposed perils like Russia or North Korea.
Expanding surveillance powers to crackdown on refugee rights? Well, at least he’s not Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre.
The U.S. President’s tariffs and threats have left Canadians anxious and disoriented, giving Carney an opportunity to move fast and with far too little scrutiny. He’s pushing through pro-corporate policies that go beyond anything he outlined on the campaign trail. The agenda is so right-wing, in fact, The Globe and Mail last week gleefully noted that “Brian Mulroney could have endorsed it.”
It’s no wonder that Carney is trying to push through his agenda as fast as possible, while Canadians remain disoriented. The prime minister’s newly-appointed top senior civil servant, Michael Sabia, is clear about this Canadian-style shock doctrine: “windows of opportunity open and close,” he wrote in a letter to civil servants on Monday. Sabia would be one to know: once upon a time he helped none other than Brian Mulroney privatize a rash of Crown corporations. Carney has even openly signalled he’s preparing to purge any civil servants who don’t get in line (with “high-level talk of recruiting other business achievers” to replace them).
We need to drop the Carney denialism in a hurry, and get angry instead. The prime minister, a consummate technocrat who knows how to cater to elite interests, is taking Canadians for a ride, while servicing his natural constituency: bankers, tech broligarchs, oil barons, and arms manufacturers. It’s time we open our eyes, clue in to what’s happening, follow the money—and put up a fight.
https://breachmedia.ca/mark-carneys-rightward-rushing-agenda-getting-started-denial/
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Get angry, but not irrationally.
Give the Carney government and MPs grace by telling them about what change you want to see.
I still have some faith that Carney is smarter than most politicians, that if there is a popular push for more progressive reforms, he would go along with it.
If opposition is limited to "I'm angry that you canceled the DST! I'm angry that you passed Bill 5!" that can be passed off as too vague of a criticism and doesn't really suggest a suitable alternative direction. Carney did a bunch of right wing stuff because they were confident they would get overwhelming house support, he would have something concrete to show for his first two months in this term. The NDP are kind of disarray and the party apparatus lost touch with local, grassroots campaigns that got people to support them. Even former NDP MP Charlie Angus would say as much.
I have been spending the last few decades bottling up my anger into a very, very large tank. Let me know when you need me, I'm hoping I'll be able to supply enough for everyone.
I always knew Carney could potentially turn this way. I was expecting it. I still would have voted for him (if PM was a position we voted for and I was not voting strategically, which my riding lost anyway) but my vote for him was mostly a vote for a pro-Europe alignment, which I still think he'll deliver, albeit probably not in the size or shape I was hoping for. But with really only two choices, it's really hard to pretend we're still able to call this actual democracy. We need electoral reform, and badly, and I'm not sure if we'll really get another chance. We're on a bad path and I don't see any escape routes.
Second, previous reports have identified a general laissez-faire approach within the CAF regarding far-right activities. In a 2022 independent report commissioned by the CAF, the presence of white supremacist and other far-right ideologies was identified not only as a growing problem for the Army, but also one that was not being addressed.Similar conclusions were reached in the 1997 report on the behaviour of Canadian soldiers in Somalia, which had explicitly recommended that “the Canadian Forces establish regular liaison with anti-racist groups to obtain assistance in the conduct of appropriate cultural sensitivity training and to assist supervisors and commanders in identifying signs of racism and involvement with hate groups.” In other words, neither the concern nor the awareness is news.
It’s absurd to simply paint such organizations as inherently far right in their nature, of course. But strict authority structures and notions of defence, fellowship, honour — as well as the projection of power through physical strength and training and the accompanying symbolism of weapons, fatigues, uniforms and campaign-like deployments — are all very appealing to far-right extremists.
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professionally trained lone wolves, like Correy Hurren, who attempted to “arrest” Prime minister Justin Trudeau at Rideau Hall in 2020In short, the CAF is still wrestling with far-right demons, though in a new context of social media acceleration and global loss of confidence in democratic institutions. The situation has a high potential to undermine confidence in Canada’s Armed Forces at a time when geopolitical tensions are calling for a strengthening of its military arsenal, and first and foremost, our military human capital.
Strict authority structures and notions of defence, fellowship and honour can be appealing to far-right extremists.The Conversation
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The man, who supported President Donald Trump though he can't vote, says he "feels differently" now and blames the administration for his immigration plight.Michael Rosenfield, NBC Boston (NBC News)
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The US Department of Defence was forced to delete and reupload a video promoting drone technology to remove Metallica’s Enter Sandman.Joe Pring (Dexerto)
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Rofl. Imagine thinking I called out Metallica for taking down Napster alone.
Their shit's been used in DoD/weapons-contractor videos for decades, and the moment the MAGAts start to turn on Trump over the Epstien stuff, Metallica is suddenly anti-drone, for the first time ever.
Next you'll tell us NASCAR brought down the Berlin Wall.
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It's actually quite on-brand for apple.
Usually, Android manufacturers come up with a feature that's actually half decent, but needs a good polish to actually take off.
Apple comes in, refines it to that polish + messaging with their cult, it takes off and Apple claims credit
There are a lot of tangible benefits in using toolbox containers for development to the point that I don’t want to use anything else anymore. Even with a bunch of tricks at our disposal, there are still downsides.swick's blog
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Blender is getting HDR on Linux via Wayland before Windows! This isn't by accident, but shows how creating a system with a different design creates better results for users and application developers.Firefox is in this same boat too. It will get HDR support on Linux* sooner than Windows. Firefox currently only supports HDR on MacOS.
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The latest alpha of the upcoming Blender 5.0 release comes with High Dynamic Range (HDR) support for Linux on Wayland which will, if everything works out, make it into the final Blender 5.0 release on October 1, 2025.swick's blog
As AI companies rave about how their products are revolutionizing productivity, Senator Bernie Sanders wants the tech industry to put its money where its automated mouth is.Amanda Silberling (TechCrunch)
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How can you deter the Trump administration's immigrant deportation machine when it pops up in your community? Follow these steps.Justin Caffier (The Intercept)
The speaker of the house and Zionist-first Mike Johnson will probably kill this. It would be nice to see if the democrats would vote this through if they gain the house in 2026. My guess, they would not. Epstein had "friends" on both sides of the aisle.
Why are the Epstein files still hidden? Who are the rich & powerful being protected? On Tuesday, I'm introducing an amendment to force a vote demanding the FULL Epstein files be released to the public.Nitter
ETH Zurich researchers have developed a groundbreaking "living material" that actively captures carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through two mechanisms: biomass production and mineral formation[^1][^2].The material combines cyanobacteria (photosynthetic bacteria) embedded within a printable hydrogel matrix. The cyanobacteria convert CO2 into biomass through photosynthesis while simultaneously triggering the formation of solid carbonate minerals - a process called microbially induced carbonate precipitation (MICP)[^1].
Key achievements of the material include:
- Sequestered 2.2 mg of CO2 per gram of hydrogel over 30 days
- Captured 26 mg of CO2 per gram over 400 days in mineral form
- Maintained viability for over one year
- Required only sunlight and artificial seawater to function
- Can be 3D printed into various structures[^1]
The research team demonstrated practical applications by creating:
- A 3-meter high tree-trunk structure at the Venice Architecture Biennale that can bind 18kg of CO2 annually
- Building facade coatings that could capture carbon throughout a building's lifecycle
- Lattice structures that passively transport nutrients through capillary action[^2]
"As a building material, it could help to store CO2 directly in buildings in the future," said Mark Tibbitt, Professor of Macromolecular Engineering at ETH Zurich[^2].
The material represents a low-maintenance, environmentally friendly approach to carbon capture that operates at ambient conditions using atmospheric CO2, contrasting with industrial methods requiring concentrated CO2 sources and controlled conditions[^1].
[^1]: Nature Communications - Dual carbon sequestration with photosynthetic living materials
[^2]: ETH Zurich - A building material that lives and stores carbon
Researchers are developing a living material that actively extracts carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Photosynthetic cyanobacteria grow inside it, forming biomass and solid minerals and thus binding CO2 in two different manners.ETH Zurich
A groundbreaking study published in July 2025 demonstrates that African savannah elephants use intentional gestures to communicate their goals, similar to great apes[^1]. The research team presented semi-captive elephants with desired and undesired items, recording their communication attempts when experimenters met, partially met, or failed to meet their goals[^1].The study identified 38 different gesture types that elephants used almost exclusively when a visually attentive experimenter was present[^1]. The elephants showed three key criteria for intentional communication:
- Audience directedness - signaling only when someone was watching
- Persistence - continuing to gesture when goals were partially met
- Elaboration - using new signals when communication failed
The research was conducted at the Jafuta Reserve in Zimbabwe, where elephants combined specific vocalizations with gestures in greeting behaviors[^6]. They used different types of signals including:
- Silent-visual gestures
- Audible gestures
- Tactile gestures
- Rumble vocalizations
The findings reveal that elephants, like apes, assess the communicative effectiveness of their gesturing and adjust their signals based on the audience's visual attention[^6]. This expands understanding of intentional communication beyond the primate lineage[^9].
[^1]: Royal Society Open Science - Investigating intentionality in elephant gestural communication
[^9]: Pangea Trust - Gestures and greetings used by elephants show intentional multimodal communication
A crucial feature of language is the ability to communicate cognitive goals to a specific audience, i.e. goal-directed intentionality. Core criteria for...doaj.org
Author @ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
If you're trying to use another Sway session inside your own Sway session (either a nested Sway session or a remote Sway session) or you use an application that uses the same shortcuts as Sway, then you'd like Sway to "get out of the way" and let those shortcuts through.You can do that by defining a passthrough mode in
~/.config/sway/config:
# Passthrough mode mode "passthru" { bindsym $mod+Escape mode "default" } bindsym $mod+Escape mode "passthru"
When you hitMod+Escape, it enters the "passthru" mode, in which the same binding,Mod+Escape, is the only binding that does anything at all - and that is returning to normal mode. All other normal bindings in that mode will be ignored by Sway and will reach either your nested / remote Sway desktop or your application that expects them.Here's an example of Sway / application conflict:
In my Sway,
Ctrl+Shift+eis set to brings up the emoji picker (rofimoji if you're curious). ButCtrl+Shift+eis also the shortcut to bring up the Developer Tools pane in Firefox. So when I infrequently need the latter, I enable the passthrough mode first.Of course, when you enter the passthrough mode,
passthruappears in your (s)waybar. You'd think it makes it obvious that you're in a special mode, but it's actually really easy to enter the passthrough mode and forget about it. Therefore, if no bindings seem to work properly anymore, remember to look down 😃Also, if you ever need to enter the passthrough mode in a nested / remote Sway session - like for example if you need the Firefox Developer Tools pane in a remote Sway session, then you'll have to define a different binding to switch passthrough on and off, either in the local session or in the remote session, otherwise they're going to clash.
But it happens very rarely for me, so I didn't bother: all my machines use the same passthrough mode binding in i3 and Sway and I've never run into the problem. But it can happen.
Emoji, unicode and general character picker for rofi and rofi-likes - fdw/rofimojiGitHub
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 usersIf 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
swayin 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
filterwayso 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-runto 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 andfilterwayand 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 itnest_sway.shand it lives in my~/scriptsdirectory, 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
I dunno, the following looks suspiciously like Gregor "I don't want home prices to go down" Robertson is gonna declare victory with just 8 urban wards updated:
In March, then-federal housing minister Nate Erskine-Smith warned Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow that any deviation from a citywide policy permitting sixplexes would result in 25 per cent less federal funding, ...Gregor Robertson, Canada's new housing minister, has not indicated whether he will follow his predecessor's lead. In a statement to CBC News on Thursday, a spokesperson said the federal government is working with Toronto to meet its sixplex goals.
"The Housing Accelerator Fund rewards ambitious housing initiatives from local governments, with a focus on reducing bureaucracy, zoning restrictions, and other red tape. We are working closely with the city of Toronto to meet these goals and remain ready to work with all levels of governments to tackle the housing crisis," said spokesperson Mohammad Hussain.
【#TheHagueGroup】To Bogotá | Progressive International (2025-07-12)progressive.international/wire…
———>> This week, more than 25 states from around the world will gather in Bogotá, Colombia, for the “Emergency Conference” to halt the Gaza genocide: the most ambitious multilateral response since Israel began its campaign of devastation two years ago.
>> “The Bogotá conference will go down as the moment in history that states finally stood up to do the right thing,” said UN Special Rapporteur #FrancescaAlbanese, calling the formation of The Hague Group the “most significant political development of the last 20 months.”
>> Jointly convened by Colombia and South Africa, The Hague Group’s Co-Chairs, the conference brings together states far beyond the boundaries of the Group — from Algeria to Brazil, China to Spain, Indonesia to Qatar — “to move from condemnation to collective action,” in the words of Colombian President Gustavo Petro…
Convened by Colombia and South Africa as co-chairs of The Hague Group, the Emergency Ministerial Conference marks the boldest stand yet against the Gaza genocide and the collapse of the multilateral order.Progressive International
Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster here than in neighbouring regions of the universe, ...The Royal Astronomical Society
The pic from the article with candles and ray traced reflections is giving big ‘time cube’/geocities conspiracy theory energy
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