#music #alternative pop rock neo psychedelic
The Koolaïd Electric Company - Mrs Mother Alien
youtu.be/mC3fXwvRQL8

A reminder to all who may have Visa, AmEx, or Master Card gift cards now and in the future. Often you'll wind up with a small balance on them that doesn't make it worthwhile to make a purchase with it online or in a store. Something like US$1.60 or less.

Go to Wikipedia, Archive.org, your local animal shelter, or just about any worthwhile nonprofit and donate that odd amount on their web page.

#donations #nonprofit #giving #Holidays #Christmas #Kwanza

I'm moving to a better place

1. block AI
2. Get rid of windows
3. stop using all google
4.Dump Android
5.Never vote for any politician that receives money from Israel
7. No Cable TV
8.rely on No western news sources
9.Turn off Hollywood
10. No radio
11. No newspapers
I don't care what Mickinsey says and to here their lies repeated on every medium over and over is a way to make a population insane.
Since western media is corrupt the Wikipedia gets filled with lies
Since corporation control almost all scientific research the NCBI is getting filled exclusively with useless or misleading scientific papers.
The only hopeful thing in the world currently is the fact that Russia has that new missile.
The entrenched elite in the US and Europe have demonstrated they are the most violent group of people on the planet and they listen to absolutely no one. Currently The only way to contain them is through military means. They have subverted the democracies in the west so much they are universally hated by their own populations. The people have no control #Musings #Politics #AI

We need more sensible conversations about how non-free firmware is treated while we promote and advance free software. We should also acknowledge that FSF’s current approach with RYF is less than ideal. This post by @mjg59 is an example of a sensible discussion of the issues:

mjg59.dreamwidth.org/70895.htm…

If you are interested in how these issues impacted a real company who tried to make freedom-respecting hardware, check out a talk I gave at SCALE20x:

youtube.com/watch?v=9xbvMtFLOm…

#FOSS #firmware #RYF

Workbench 47


A new release of Workbench is available.

Download on Flathub

As the release version indicates; it now uses the GNOME SDK 47.

Roland Lötscher added an action to create a new blank project.

Experimental TypeScript support


Thanks to GSoC student Angelo Verlain (aka vixalien); we now have experimental TypeScript support. See their blog post for details.

What works

  • Compile and Run TypeScript code
  • Diagnostics
  • Code Suggestions / Completions

What's missing


Code suggestions / completions


It makes use of respective language servers. Only Blueprint and TypeScript have support so far.


Permissions


The goal of Workbench has always been to be fully sandboxed to reduce the risk of running code that would harm the user or the system.

Over time and as the Library covered more and more desktop integration examples, we made exceptions for --share=network (for HTTP/WebSocket) and --socket=pulseaudio (for audio playback).

A new Library entry “Gamepad” by GSoC 2023 student José Hunter would have required us to add --device=all. This would have been too risky; in particular for beginners.

I took the time to remove the problematic permissions and add a dialog that request user action when sandbox permissions are required

Thanks to Brage Fuglseth for the design.

If you are tempted to do this in your apps, please don't. This is a temporary measure until we get the appropriate Flatpak permissions or portals to handle these safely.

While imperfect, in the case of Workbench which targets beginners and can be used to execute any code; it is better than opening sandbox holes by default.

Before:

After:


Library


GSoC student Bharat Tyagi added Language and Category filters to the Library

As usual, many improvements were made to the demos

7 new demos

  • Add “Button Row” demo
  • Add “Gamepad” demo
  • Add “List View with Sections” demo
  • Add “List View with a Tree” demo
  • Add “Bottom Sheet” demo
  • Add “Database” demo
  • Update “Spinner” to use AdwSpinner

3 demos ported to Python

  • Port “Dialog” to Python
  • Port “List View” to Python
  • Port “Grid View” to Python

7 demos ported to Rust

  • Port “Level Bars” to Rust
  • Port “Text Fields” to Rust
  • Port “Column View” to Rust
  • Port “Clamp” to Rust
  • Port “List View” to Rust
  • Port “Frame” to Rust
  • Port “Audio” to Rust

25 demos ported to Vala

  • Port “File Monitor” to Vala
  • Port “Scrolled Window” to Vala
  • Port “Menu” to Vala
  • Port “HTTP Server” to Vala
  • Port “Map” to Vala
  • Port “Session Monitor and Inhibit” to Vala
  • Port “Save File” to Vala
  • Port “Spin Button” to Vala
  • Port “Progress Bar” to Vala
  • Port “Label” to Vala
  • Port “Power Profile Monitor” to Vala
  • Port “Drawing Area” to Vala
  • Port “Font Dialog” to Vala
  • Port “Select Folder” to Vala
  • Port “Network Monitor” to Vala
  • Port “Toggle Button” to Vala
  • Port “Tooltip” to Vala
  • Port “Spell Checker” to Vala
  • Port “Popovers” to Vala
  • Port “Menu Button” to Vala
  • Port “Frame” to Vala
  • Port “Actions” to Vala
  • Port “Dialog” to Vala
  • Port “CSS Gradients” to Vala
  • Port “Snapshot” to Vala

Thanks to all Workbench and demos contributors!

I block all the AI I can
I am afraid to be exposed to it
I cannot imagine any application I would ever use it for.
I think all of its participants are useless to humanity in the best of cases
and in the most likely scenario it will expend the power of money into the cultural realm even more forcefully
It will extend the power of money into the personal lives of people
AI will allow less rich people to control more poor people
It is a way to give faceless corporations total control over all aspects of humanity and since corporations
already pass all the laws and elect all the people while it impoverishes us and shortens are lives It is hard to imagine the harms supercharging that whole process will do.
#AI

photography with #pocof1 #linuxmobile #pmos #sxmo

the quality is not very nice yet, but luckily i figured out there is an issue with the magenta color.
some additions to #megapixels postprocess.sh script made the image way better, see for yourself:

1. original
2. tweaking in #gmic
3. after postprocess.sh
4. the real colors shot with dslr camera

values:
fx_mix_cmyk 1,20,1,1,80,1,1,20,1,1,0,0,0,2,2,50,50

fx_boost_chroma 30,3,2,56.3107,54.5307

iain_constrained_sharpen 0.5,1.15,1,5,2,31,2

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An experimental port of Firefox Iceweasel is now available on HaikuDepot! So far, most sites are working fine. YouTube video playback is fine and Discord just works, however the web browser does occasionally take itself down. Still rather usable, though! If @ActionRetro thought that Haiku was ready for daily driving with Falkon (see first screenshot), then rebranded Firefox surely has to make it even more viable by those standards!

It should be noted though that just like with Falkon, some crash dialogs can be ignored (drag them to another workspace) and the web browser can still be used.

x86_64:
depot.haiku-os.org/#!/pkg/icew…

#haiku #haikuos #firefox #iceweasel

Knocked out the last bit of content by playing the rhythm game to meet the final NPC, and now to sit back and relax to some concerts. It feels weird to finally be pretty much done with this game, initially bought it back in 2022, grabbed most of the DLC last year, but didn't start playing proper until DLC 5 was translated earlier this year. Will not be checking out survival mode just yet, maybe when it gets translated.

The idea that refusal to accept something is due to a misunderstanding.... is one of the worst frauds of the contemporary system.

notesandsilence.com/2024/11/06…
#manipulation #politique #psychologie #relations

Et saurait-on s’asseoir sans l’arsenal mental ?

notesandsilence.com/2024/11/06…
#zen #silence #meditation #prière #pratique #spiritualité

Ext2, Ext3, and Ext4 Filesystems: Evolution on Linux

The ext (Extended Filesystem) family has been a cornerstone of Linux file storage systems, evolving to address increasing demands for performance, reliability, and scalability. This document provides an extensive overview of the ext2, ext3, and ext4 filesystems, detailing their features, improvements, and the reasons behind their evolution.

Read More: machaddr.substack.com/p/ext2-e…

#Filesystem #Computer #Science #Linux #OpenSource

RSVP here for tickets to Cory Doctorow @pluralistic with Dan Savage

discussing "Picks and Shovels: A Martin Hench Novel"

Wednesday, February 19 at 7pm

#ThirdPlaceBooks at #LakeForestPark, just north of #Seattle

thirdplacebooks.com/event/cory…

New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow returns to Third Place Books—and to the world of Red Team Blues to bring us the origin story of Martin Hench and the most powerful new tool for crime ever invented: the personal computer. Doctorow will be joined in conversation by Dan Savage, best known as the writer behind "Savage Love," America’s longest-running advice column.

Linux Mint Debian Edition is a fantastic desktop. This is what I've been looking for.

It's just a desktop for Debian bookworm. No weird Ubuntu stuff, no snaps, no Frankendebian mix of stock and testing repos.

It's just Debian Stable, with an added repository for the Linux Mint desktop environment. That's it. You alter Debian just as much when you add the Chrome or Spotify apt repo.

Why this isn't the default Linux Mint distribution is beyond me.

#lmde #debian #linux #cinnamon #linuxmint

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A polished and revamped desktop experience arrives with Cinnamon 6.4 desktop.

This release isn’t just a collection of tweaks; it’s a refined experience designed to boost productivity and enhance visual appeal.

#LinuxMint #Cinnamon

debugpoint.com/cinnamon-6-4/

SenseCAP Indicator: Meshtastic #LoRa device with 4-inch touchscreen (#ESP32-S3)

cnx-software.com/2024/12/11/se…

This is so cool. We speak about the famous "forgotten" NES expansion port in our course and now people are finally using it in commercial products. 🙂

tedium.co/2024/12/02/nintendo-…

:cat_sad: well'p can't wait for this to go from don't worry about it to alex jones is making shit up to actually ripshitfart-25 was actually a gmo bacteria afterall
RE: m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/11364358664…

The Biden regime is determined to sabotage President Trump at any cost, even if it means dangerous illegal aliens will continue to invade America. A border patrol agent said the Biden Regime’s goal was to ensure all of the [unused border wall] materials were removed before the end of the year.
thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/d…

I'm kinda liking this guy. 😎
thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/i…

Several things I hadn't heard about noted here.
thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/i…

Excerpts: ERIC is a Leftist excuse enabling RINOS and Leftists to control elections – done in a legal way. Not only were elections stolen in Arizona, Michigan, Nevada and Wisconsin, they were stolen by LEGAL ballots, sent to LEGAL addresses, to LEGAL voters at INELIGIBLE addresses. Every one was missed by ERIC – causing 4 Senate seats and likely 11 House seats to be lost – and we are going to show America how they did it and how ERIC missed it.
thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/t…

Dasting!
thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/d…

Who could possibly have known?

AI was supposed to make the UK benefits system more efficient—instead it's brought bias and hunger

phys.org/news/2024-12-ai-uk-be…

" It confirmed that the very tools intended to ensure equity and efficiency may in fact be discriminating against marginalized communities."

Luigi Mangione’s Prison Inmates Yell For UnitedHealthcare CEO Murder Suspect To Be Freed On Live TV

yahoo.com/entertainment/luigi-…

People who are good at reading have distinct structural differences in two areas of the left hemisphere of their brain.

Anterior temporal lobe, responsible for associating and categorizing different types of information, is larger.

Auditory cortex, correlated with better reading skills, is thicker. This highlights the importance of phonological awareness in reading.

Reading is a crucial for humanity's ability to interpret the world and understand others.

theconversation.com/people-who…

#Science

BINGO CARDS 2024

Remember those bingo cards you guys filled out way back in January?

IT'S TIME.

I'll start with the first place poll winner, each bingo card will get it's own post and we can rate how accurate they were in the comments below each.

[Green border = Win, Blue border = Free Space, Red border = Fail]

Completed bingo cards will be in a poll at the end of the year to see who won, and we'll start new 2025 ones in January

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NEW: Bianca Tylek dismantles that absurd WJAR propaganda piece claiming no-cost phone calls are somehow causing increased crime in jails.

The reality is that this is a wildly successful policy that's connected incarcerated people with their loved ones.

andrewqmr.substack.com/p/dont-…

between January and October 2024, China has exported chips worth around $128 billion. The sector has entered a phase of rapid expansion, with annual growth exceeding 20%.

Today, China’s chip manufacturing capabilities are unmatched globally. China has also established an end to end chip supply chain.

By 2026, competition in chip manufacturing is expected to extend into advanced manufacturing technologies.

thechinaacademy.org/the-chip-w…

#china #technology

@Eamon1916 I was once wearing a red shirt in Target and a little old man asked me where the toothpaste was and I was like “oh, I don’t work here, but I think it’s in the next aisle” so we walked over and he thanked me and apologized and it was really sweet.

When I was done shopping at Target, I walked down to a grocery store in the same strip mall and somebody tapped me on the shoulder and asked where the tater tots were and I was thinking “again?!?” and I turned around and it was the same little old man and he said “gotcha!” and it remains one of my favorite interactions to date.

A reminder in these weird times: principles of adult behaviour, from the late John Perry Barlow (1977)

1. Be patient. No matter what.

2. Don’t badmouth: Assign responsibility, never blame. Say nothing behind another’s back you’d be unwilling to say, in exactly the same tone and language, to his face.

3. Never assume the motives of others are, to them, less noble than yours are to you.

4. Expand your sense of the possible.

5. Don’t trouble yourself with matters you truly cannot change.

6. Expect no more of anyone than you yourself can deliver.

7. Tolerate ambiguity.

8. Laugh at yourself frequently.

9. Concern yourself with what is right rather than whom is right.

10. Never forget that, no matter how certain, you might be wrong.

11. Give up blood sports.

12. Remember that your life belongs to others as well. Do not endanger it frivolously. And never endanger the life of another.

13. Never lie to anyone for any reason.

14. Learn the needs of those around you and respect them.

15. Avoid the pursuit of happiness. Seek to define your mission and pursue that.

16. Reduce your use of the first personal pronoun.

17. Praise at least as often as you disparage.

18. Never let your errors pass without admission.

19. Become less suspicious of joy.

20. Understand humility.

21. Forgive.

22. Foster dignity.

23. Live memorably.

24. Love yourself.

25. Endure.

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Here's an excerpt from my forthcoming novel DEATH OF THE AUTHOR here (January 2025).

This chapter flashes its scifi side, but *please* understand this book...stretches. When you start the novel (this excerpt is chapter 3, not 1), you'll see what I'm talking about, 😁.

reactormag.com/excerpts-death-…

Only in the #USA

themarshallproject.org/2024/12…

Justice Department, Louisville reach deal after probe prompted by Breonna Taylor killing

The consent decree, which must be approved by a judge, follows a federal investigation that found Louisville police have engaged in a pattern of violating constitutional rights and discrimination against the Black community.

kcra.com/article/louisville-po…

#LouisvilleKY #acab

@abolition

Marine Made | U.S. Marine Corps

youtube.com/watch?v=IcBmhpnSFO…

Dec 12, 2024
Marines train in any clime & place because we must always be prepared to fight and win at a moment's notice. From sub-zero mountain temperatures to the hottest, driest deserts, it’s our duty to withstand these conditions and defeat our enemies.

Comments from below video:

"Thank you for protecting us!!! So proud of my 2 Marines sons LTCol and Major❤"

"dang these recruiting ads are getting really good, Semper Fi 🖍️"

Niger Hosts Historic Anti-Imperialist Conference


From November 19-21 in Niamey, the capital of Niger there was a conference of critical importance. This Conference in Solidarity with the Peoples of the Sahel was hosted by the secretariat of Pan-Africanism Today and the West African People’s Organization. The conference called together trade unionists, grassroots activists, scholars, journalists, and all anti-imperialists who stand shoulder to shoulder with the Sahelian people and their Confederation of Sahel States. The theme of this conference was “anti-imperialist unity, peace, and friendship between peoples”. The importance of this conference cannot be overstated, especially given that such a conference led by West African hosts calling leading progressive forces of the world into dialogue has not happened since the 1980s. The conference was being streamed on Pan-African Television, and in the first live stream, one can notice a great many keffiyehs in the crowd. The first panel featured speakers from the Simon Bolivar Institute, the Socialist Party of Zambia, and the Revolutionary Organization for New Democracy.

The Confederation of Sahel States is currently advancing the revolutionary struggle in Africa by means of reclaiming sovereignty and moving forward with mass electrification projects, transportation links, and otherwise building their own indigenous productive forces. This reclamation of the productive forces from the colonial usurper is the first step in reclaiming national sovereignty. The question of land is the central axis around which sovereignty, national liberation, and anti-imperialism circumambulate. According to attendee Mikaela Erkog, “These military personnel are citizens who experience first hand the failures of the decision makers to serve and protect the people and advance a sovereign national interest”.

Burkina Faso, whose pre-coup government had lost more than 60% of their land to AQIM and other separatist forces, has regained over ¾ of their land back through their joint military actions with Niger and Mali. Mali, too, has reclaimed land from Western-backed separatist forces. Due to the growing relations between the Confederation and Russia, and largely because the US, Germany, and Italy have denied the French support for a military intervention, the French and Ukrainian security services have been attempting to foment internal dissent and counterrevolution through false flag attacks and violence.

The introductory remarks were made by Jonis Ghedi Alasow, a member of the Pan-Africanism Today secretariat. Laying out the purpose of the conference, Ghedis Alasow said:

Today, we are gathered here in Niamey to once more join hands with the people of Mali, Burkina Faso, and of course, Niger to give expression to our people’s resistance to the racist, colonial and imperialist degradation of our continent.


At the end of his speech, he read out a famous quote by the martyr Ghassan Kanafani about how every blow to imperialism serves the world revolution. Not only was this speech beautifully delivered but it also served to bring the movements for national liberation in West Africa and West Asia into conversation. Truly, there is no free Palestine without a liberated Africa, and vice versa. Again quoting Mikaela Erskog:

Whilst there was not a Palestinian organization participating, the ongoing genocide and historical resistance of the Palestinian people was discussed in several interventions. The meeting concluded with a political march to the Sankara monument, calling for a free Palestine.


The Nigerien leadership supported and participated in the conference, with PM Ali Lamine Zeine giving some opening remarks. General Tiani of the CNSP government was also in attendance. The main base of attendees, according to Erskog and others, was made up of the Nigerien working class–trade unionists, nurses, patriotic social organizations, religious groups, young and old, men and women. On the note of women’s participation, the conference took a strong step away from liberal feminism and individualist ideas of rights. Attendee and leader in the Revolutionary Organization for New Democracy, Ami Fameye Maiga, stated “We are fighting for the sovereignty and dignity of the people as a whole”. The torch of women’s participation in national liberation struggles was carried through this conference, emblazoned with passion and zeal.

The political imagination of the conference was one highlight, according to multiple attendees. The political tendencies ranged from patriotic nationalists to Marxist-Leninists, all in fruitful dialogue with the maintenance of the movement as their guide.

The diversity of political views of attendees provides strength and unity; rather than conferences on European or American political struggles which often devolve into debates and competitions around ideological purity. For Blaise Tulo of the West African People’s Organization, this was a historic conference, brought together at a historic moment because the peoples of the Sahel are “breaking the chains of neocolonialism…we are bold now, the youth of our continent are rising”. At the end of the conference the two convening organizations, WAPO and Pan-Africanism Today, released a statement called the Niamey Declaration. The focus of this declaration was both historical and contemporary. They began the statement by highlighting how 140 years ago, on November 15th, 1884 the imperialist powers met at the infamous Berlin Conference to slice up Africa along colonial lines. How far we have come in these last 140 years, where now it is the patriotic political forces in Niamey, Bamako, and Ouagadougou redrawing the map and expelling the French and American imperialists. A new dawn of Pan-Africanism is rising to meet the conditions of the 21st century, and the peoples of the Sahel are the tip of this spear. As those calling for the total liberation of Palestine, we must take the hands of our comrades in the Sahel and put an end to Zionism, imperialism, and capitalism which seek to destroy us and our planet.

The conclusion of the Niamey Declaration reads as follows:

We depart Niamey with a commitment to defend the advances the people have made in the Sahel and rally the international forces around the world to this aim.

Long live patriotism, anti-imperialism, and Pan-Africanism! France and allies, withdraw!

Source: Al Mayadeen

abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=…

#antiColonialism #AntiColonization #NaimeyConference #sahel #WestAfricanPeopleSOrganization