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@Church of Jeff That's a level of arrogance I can't even begin to comprehend, and just to make a point, being an atheist does not make you non-religious because atheism is itself a belief system and is belief that there is no God is unprovable as belief that there is a God. The only thing that differentiates an atheist from a theist is that the theist at least has some motivation to act in a moral manner, where the atheist has none, and I'm guessing for you that's the appeal to it.
@jeffowski@mastodon.world I'll gladly take the potential for an eternity in Hell over the bullshit Christians sling. Hell sounds like a fucking *vacation* compared to anything that Christians are offering. Hell definitely has my kind of people apparently.
Trump administration is reportedly preparing to cancel a large amount of federal funding for California, potentially starting as early as Friday.
Agencies are being instructed to identify grants that can be withheld from California, with the University of California and California State University systems being specifically targeted.
The U.S. labor market added 139,000 jobs in May, but the economy saw a loss of 696,000 workers in the household survey.
Three sectors - healthcare, hospitality, and social assistance - accounted for over 90% of the job gains. Manufacturing, construction, and temp work saw declines.
Wages rose 0.4% in May and 3.9% year-over-year, with wage inflation a concern for the Federal Reserve.
got a bit of a headache when i woke up from my nap for some unknown reason. i haven't taken tylenol in many weeks which means i must be doing something right, i guess. probably from welding flux and grinding fumes this morning under the car is my guess.
i normally don't like to do flux core welding except on metal that is dirty and can't easily be cleaned, like car exhaust pipes. tig is just way nicer and cleaner but not that easy to get under a car
just canceled my premium subscription some days ago, now I get a pop up ever second time I open the app, telling me to resubscribe. YouTube for non premium users is a dumpster fire.
it's becoming apparent why the demon rats were so interested in their MS13 gang member friend from el salvador kilmar garcia, going to visit him and trying so hard to bring him back - he was a high level cartel human smuggler and they were completely in on it and working directly with the cartels
i've said this many times, nobody crosses that border without paying the cartels money. if they do they're taking a huge risk. the democrats and deep state know this and they have a long history of working with cartels on all sorts of other nefarious activities like smuggling drugs and guns
I do not think the original post, by Enrico Weigelt, to the xorg-devel mailinglist made its way thru, tho freebsd-x11 was CC'd.
Anyways, if anyone missed it, here it is:
Hello everybody,
this morning, Redhat employees banned me from the freedesktop.org gitlab infrastructure - so censored all my work (not just on Xorg). They killed my account, my git repos, my tickets in Xorg and closed all my merge requests. And then making fun on social media about it.
They fired the shot that's heared around the world.
So much for freedesktop.org being "independent" and embracing freedom. Perhaps we should nominate them for the next Orwell award.
It's now clear that freedesktop.org is the Redskirts, and they want to kill X. By the way, the same corporation that tied to proprietarize a lot of FOSS code, including the Linux kernel (and I've been one of those who warned them about terminating our license grants them).
My most evil heresies probably were:
a) forking Xorg and making actual progress b) talking to a journalist whose name must not be spoken in many other Redhat/IBM tax evasion outlets, like GNOME (they're also banning honorable long time contributors for just mentioning that name) c) inviting anybody to join me, without discrimination
I don't know why, but it really looks they're quite scared by one guy that's just trying to actually bring X11 forward. Hard to find he right words for telling how honored I'm about that.
This didn't actually surprise me, I knew this would be coming for about a year now. Just didn't expect them to do such an extremely irrational and dumb move. Now I'm taking great pleasure seeing the Streisand effect kicking in (my inbox is exploding). Thanks for that great publicity.
It's not the first time this happens in FOSS world, and it's not the first time it's happening in X: remember what Xfree86 board did to the honorable Keith Packard, back about two decades ago - what lead to the birth of Xorg and the death of Xfree86. Same is happening again.
History repeats itself.
And now the Redskirts placed me onto the same stage as the great honorable Keith Packard. WOOOOW.
Just to be clear, I didn't want to fork, I tried my best to work together with the Xorg team. But I knew for long time, this day would come. Xorg has been captured by Redhat, in order to get rid of destroy competition. The necessary consequence is a fork, more competition.
For those interested in bringing X forward, feel free to join the mailing list:
I'm expecting to be banned from whole freedesktop.org mail system, too. Excommunication unfortunately had become a common thing in the so-called "free software" world - GNOME is just one of many examples. So if you don't hear anymore from me on freedesktop.org lists, you know what's going on.
I've got Intel Internal UHD630 graphics and as a result can use the Kernel based X-server. Does not make sense to go to a userland server unless it offers some substantial benefits. What is unique to the Libre Xserver?
This guy's fix of a 13y old xserver bug was reverted because the fork he made to apply the patch was deleted, so the merge request was reverted after it had been approved.
@Nanook if you can locate the offended subjected and invite him to the discussion I believe he would be best able to explain your question
I thought it would be of interest here being a very critical community of IBM/RH products. Unlike many other projects we do like the Alan Coopersmith of X/Wayland has been one of the most helpful and polite persons ever encountered in FOSS-land.
We shouldn't forget what we have here is a for-profit corporation and we are outsiders, clients, customers. Behind closed doors, what happens in IBM stays in IBM.
The list of the associated provider's capabilities was always swapped unconditionally, while it should only be in case of client having opposite endianess. Reported-By: dasha_uwu Signed-off-by:...
@joborun linux I've got three Redhat based servers, a Fedora, A Rocky8, and an Alma8, not going to nine because of the lack of support for NIS, and I've got an antique Centos 6 server that is still serving one UUCP customer. The rest of my infrastructure is mostly Ubuntu 24.04 based. My workstation is Ubuntu 24.04 based, so Redhat is not horridly relevant since the only time I use the displays on the Redhat machines is via x2go. Mostly just curious if there was a better alternative to the kernel based X server, Wayland definitely isn't it.
This just tells me you are 100% systemd dependent, you know no other way. What I would suspect is that you wouldn't even take the chance of trying something else and moving it.
systemd open bugs and security issues are between 4 and 5 digit at all times through its history.
runit in the past 10 years has had one bug ?? its code wasn't kept up to latest glibc library and had to be touched up/patched, which was done 9 months ago. Now we are down to boring 0.
But if you really want to get into complex server service supervision and dependency management you need a little study of s6 and maybe 66 (see Obarun). This is state of the art. skarnet.org has been up and running for years, it serves mail, git, web, mailing lists, who knows what else, and it publishes its record of down time instances (even power failures)
Void was one of the first distributions that adopted systemd, it has been running runit ever since getting out of it. Debian 7 (not that long ago, didn't have systemd, it was introduced in Debian 8). s6 and 66 have been supported by unofficial repositories
The term "modern" has been heavily abused by the "gang" it is an empty term providing zero rational arguments of why "modern" is better and in what way is it "modern".
sinit is proof that as far as init goes all you need is a few lines of code, with "modern" equipment the difference in performance between sinit and systemd is measured in nanoseconds. Init is done and finished as commonly known stage 1, which also creates the escape route for the final stage (call it Z) of shutdown or its more complex alternative, reboot. What goes on between stage 1 and stage Z is init irrelevant, should be and should have been. The frozen empty argument that systemd floats as defense is that it is better than sysvinit or BSD scripts, because it can start all those things in stage 1 in parallel, one process doesn't have to wait for another. When you say that daemontools, perp, anope, runit, s6 do the same but in a better more efficient way they pretend that those systems copied systemd. If you turn their argument around on them and call them "modern" they will point out that they are older than systemd, daemontools are. So you can never really hold a rational argument with the religious clergy of the linux-hydra. Their thought is as clear as any clergy discussing astrophysics.
The clue is that if you package OpenRC (a sysvinit improvement) runit, s6, and sinit, and combine them in one superpackage to coexist in one system (they can) the space of this package is less than half of systemd. You can use them on BSD, on solaris, or any unix fork, while system is only useable in linux.
So funding for this evil kernel and the owners of this systemd X/wayland complexity is one, the goals are now clear, and the make MS even look innocent in tactics and development.
I gave you a link above to study if you are trully interested, but please don't come here with IBM fanboy tactics to tell us off.
MX is nothing without antiX, just a theme creator. The only difference between MX and debian is pid1, the rest is just like debian. So not a true distro, just a theme creator like Mint or Ubuntu or Manjaro.
Basically any of those fake distros claiming to be systemd-free using elogind are just fakes, advertising the technicality/legality that pid1 is NOT systemd, but everything else is! Gentoo and Void are the latest to turn rogue and adopt it, artix, MX, devuan were designed since day1 to utilize it.
Like emperor Trump says, those with wealth and power can enforce their irrational will against any rational system of thought. Rationalists are public enemies. God Bless AmeriKKKa!
So, yes, systemd is better, it is modern!
And I need to get back to work, because I don't get paid to debate or run upgrades.
How much difference there is in performance between system-v init and systemd is a function of how many things are started up and how many cores you got and if your drives are fast enough to keep up. On my i9-10980xe boxes, I have 18 cores and I've got them clocked at 4.5Ghz and 256GB of RAM, root partition is on RAID 1 NVME, systemd is a definite win in this situation.
I think you missed my pun about sysvinit and 20th century relics.
What init is and what services are "started" up is a very blurry picture due to systemd.
This is stage 1 in runit (+ bootlogd optional) Anything else is stage2, they may seem hierarchical by traditional thought, but not many wait for the previous to finish . s6 goes a step beyond this and doesn't separate runit-init with runsvdir (service supervisor) it is all one process that supervises all services, and is able to log and provide a tty earlier than any other system. Advantages handy for deep enterprise commercial grade systems, not for home/hobby users. For us runit is plenty.
I have to disagree about MX-Linux... it's not just Debian with some window dressing tied on. It includes a very nice GUI toolbox for things like making a bootable copy of an installed OS, a Live kernel updater, a USB formatter, etc. I know there are terminal commands for these jobs, but a desktop user like me doesn't care to fool around with the terminal and, I'm downright phobic using the terminal. I feel like I'd mash the wrong button and accidentally ignite the Earth's atmosphere and wipe out all life on the planet or something. Gimme the point-and-click stuff any day.
That said, however: I see the whole Linux ecosystem being corrupted by Big Tech money from Microshit, Red Hat, IBM, Google, all those guys. BSD is largely free of all that Big Money corruption and politicization. Which is why I've been experimenting with a desktop OS based on FreeBSD. For me it's as much about ethics as just about anything else.
Beware of the enemies of your enemies are not always your friends. Some of those people have spent such a long time in the corporate world they have incorporated the madness into their own thinking and practices. Go some days back and this guy was perfectly confortable "helping out" IBM improve its image as a FOSS contributor. Now things changed.
Alan Coopersmith of Oracle who approved this guys MR for a bug fix replies to the list on the whereabout of this long term contributor as if the matter is about him being thrown off the list for "spamming" with his email having too many recepients. So the email where this guy is reporting and venting steam for being unjustifiably thrown off is WELL moderated because of too many Cc: recepients.
There is nothing good or of value coming off authoritarian gangsters serving their corporate agendas (profit and more profit, domination, dictatorial ruling of markets and slave-work whose exploitation can be translated to $$$$).
What happened to consolekit when IBM/RH (and don't dare correct me that back then RH wasn't IBM, RH was IBM long before systemd was announced .. a well fed child of IBM consulting .. a trojan horse into FOSS/linux ) . What happened to udev when they decided to incorporated into the hydra of code?
Why are so many upstream projects pushed to incorporate systemd mechanisms into their code? To alienate BSD and other unix forks and leave linux as a corporate puppet to creat the new IBM/Oracel-PC-Windows full of trojans and backdoors as their "client" prescribed! Russian and Chinese corporate employees need not apply!
Is Gnu sticking its finger deep into the deep-state/corporate honey? I'd be surprised if they are not the host of the gangster party.
#linux is bound to become a corporate non-free product, and there is little we can do to resist, especially if we are consuming "modern" hardware having specific demands of later kernels later gfx firmware latest X/way So take your i9-ultras and Ryzen-9s and dump them as toxic waste!
I’m downright phobic using the terminal. I feel like I’d mash the wrong button and accidentally ignite the Earth’s atmosphere and wipe out all life on the planet or something. Gimme the point-and-click stuff any day.
To be phobic of a terminal is one thing, to blindly accept a nuclear reactor under your bed to power you alarm clock is another. Some friend with similar tendencies who kept being convinced of living systemd-free but slipping back into the needle (Arch), used the argument all he cared about was to have his usb-stick mount and show in his filemanager when he inserted it so he can click and drag files into the "stick", or read a cd/dvd once it was inserted in the optimal medium drive. So I wrote a few lines of a script chmod it into 0755, told him to save it on his desktop as an icon (filemanager maximized without borders with a background image) and asked him to click on it when he entered the stick (so it wouldn't run and parse system directories all day just in case a stick was inserted). I told him within 3-4" the writable/readable partitions of the stick would appear on the list of media on the side of his filemanager, whether ntfs or ext they were there. I also asked him how many hard disk drives he had in his system so the script wouldn't have to account for such, it would just read /dev/sdc /dev/sdd ..
But instead you have logind, polkit, dbus, sysusers, .. running all day, huge amounts of code, just to be able to do this one thing, automount an external disk and make it appear in filemanager.
I do know that this script would have to become more complex for general/generic use to all systems but it can also be edited by non-coder capable users just as easy to make it work well in a particular system.
So there is much gray area between working on console, not even a graphic terminal, and having a full blown carnival of Gnome or Plasma to deal with as overhead.
You mean which desktop environment, I assume... the default is MATE, and there's an unofficial Xfce version available. No one owns either one. But, I really think you just want to pick a fight with anyone who uses anything you don't approve of, so just count me out of this discussion.
We are talking of X11 Xorg-server ... wm is a layer/application over the Xserver and DT is over a WM
Fortunately I don’t deal with much of that stuff
If not X then what, I was asking, it has been around long before linux and the BSD fork of unix Even its license includes companies that no longer exist, like SGI, SUN, DEC ...
Meta previously lost its shit at 404 Media when we reported that someone had paired facial recognition tech with the company's smart glasses. Now Meta is building the invasive technology itself.
Meta previously lost its shit at 404 Media when we reported that someone had paired facial recognition tech with the company's smart glasses. Now Meta is building the invasive technology itself.
Apple will lose the ability to collect commissions on external iOS purchases in Europe starting June 23, following a European Commission ruling that hinges on the grammatical interpretation of a single comma in the Digital Markets Act.
Having just watched the Watergate mini-series, this is exactly what Nixon did to John Dean, told the press Dean had researched and created the internal Dean Report, exonerating the top white house officials, it was a lie. John Dean had never compiled such a report. From then on, John Dean knew he was being set-up as the fall guy.
@polariseraHas anyone actually SEEN it yet or KNOW what all is in it?
I just HATE this omnibus bill bullshit. They've been doing this for a while here and they usually have all sort of horrible crap mixed in with a couple of half-assed things.
NZ is a corrurpt backwards state with zero freedom of speech, but at least they require all bills to be read before Parliament before they can be voted on. If a bill is amended, the entire bill has to be re-read. If we had this in America, it would literally be impossible for Congress to pass anything, even if they hired the Micromachines guy to read bills .. and the country would be better off.
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@djsumdogThis seems counter-productive to everything T-man and Elon bitched about.
I don't get why exactly Trump would go through all the trouble of reducing waste in gov then present a bill designed (by the sound of it) to produce more waste - otherwise why all the shenanigans to get the bill passed without debate?
Wouldn't it be great if ppl could easily vote to get rid of stupid ppl and policies in gov? Instead polling companies are paid to make it seem like voters agree with what the gov is touting.
@LaylaAlexandrovna @djsumdogTrump seems to care more about keeping the tax cuts than anything else. The bill had that in it, so he’s happy with it. Individual Republican representatives added things based on their own constituents and companies in their districts. There is spending that is obligatory. They agreed (mostly) on rather large cuts to Medicaid over the next few years, which is actually a big ask for them to pass and they will probably pay for it next year in elections since republican districts tend to have more people on Medicaid. They always add tons to the department of defense, which imo needs a fucking audit instead since we’re talking about waste/fraud/abuse. And then apparently no one read the bill.
Besides which, Congress was never going to go along with all of the spending cuts that Trump and Doge came up with and Congress is the one who controls the budget per Constitution. The President has no control over the budget himself, but he can ask and work with Congress to implement what he wanted. Doge’s ‘cuts’ were mostly a show for the media I think.
Additionally, the Senate is already refusing to vote for the bill as is and they’re rewriting it. It’ll probably take a good portion of the summer before anything gets passed. The senate generally moves slower than the house.
The shenanigans over passing it were for the media, which has been criticizing Mike Johnson for over a year now for not passing a budget since he became the Speaker if I remember correctly.
DOGE was a completely irrelevant number of cuts and executive spending grew after those cuts. The Trump admin made a big deal about the social programs growing points for things that don't amount to much. Any CIA activity basically just moved back to the State Dept, so they probably saved some overhead on having to lie about certain programs. USAID was always a conduit for CIA operatives to infiltrate foreign governments. People who defend it (and I have a friend who worked directly for a USAID program in DC and defends it) sadly are not aware of just how entrenched the CIA was in those affairs (and still is). During the Kennedy years the number of operatives on the CIA payroll in US embassies outnumbered those employed by the State Department.
Most of what we've seen is performative, including this kayfabe with Elon and Trump. It's all narrative building bullshit, meant to build division and drama, when both of them are going to get everything they want. The spending bill is just a means to continue the slow collapse of the US and world economies with ever growing irreclaimable debt.
@Rasta .. @MAJ1 Well slept from 5-10 pm and been charging machine till now 12am and am going down to make soup for supper
if still feeling up to it will be making and canning more Lemon Chamomile tea have about 10 more jars in need of it ...for warmer weather .. May see you all later ...
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I already covered Phosh, the mobile port of GNOME, and Plasma Mobile, both running on the pinephone. Now it's time to take a look at the other main alternative for mobile Linux interfaces, the one that has been around for a while now: Ubuntu Touch, or Lomiri. Let's take a look at how well it runs
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This shell is based on gestures starting from the screen edges. A short swipe from left to right will bring a launcher with the default applications pinned to it, and your current open applications as well, appearing on top of the pinned shortcuts. A longer swipe from the left edge will bring the whole list of applications.
If you swipe from the right towards the left in a short motion, you'll switch to the next open app. If you make a long swipe from the right edge, then you'll get to a multitasking view, with apps displayed in a 3D layout.
You can swipe an app's card up to close it, or tap an app to resume it.
Finally, a swipe from the top edge of the screen will bring the notifications, and the quick settings, which don't display as on most other operating systems: they're in a straight line, that you can scroll from left to right, and tap each icon to get to a quick few shortcuts, like enabling or disabling a specific feature, or dive deeper into the settings.
The Applications
Out of the box, you get a nice calculator that handles rotation beautifully to display more options, and lets you swipe from the bottom in portrait to still get access to these options. The default calendar app looks good, with an Agenda view that shows your various events in order, a day, week, month, and year view.
I won't dwell on the camera app, as support for the pinephone camera is still in its infancy, it's rare that it even displays an image.
The Clock application lets you add various clocks from all around the world, start a timer, or use a stopwatch. Swiping from the bottom in the "clock" tab lets you create alarms, although I would have preferred alarms to be a full tab in the app instead of hiding that behind a swipe.
The contacts app does what you'd expect, list your contacts and allow to set some as favorites and you can swipe from the bottom to create a new one. The file manager looks good, although it's a bit slow to start, and lets you create files, and change how the directories look.
The messaging app works as you'd expect, letting you type messages and send them to your contacts. You can also swipe up from the bottom edge of the screen to start a new message.
The web browser is alright, if a bit slow to start.It lets you pick your search engine and homepage, and display web pages in desktop mode, but there are no sync capabilities for history, bookmarks, or passwords, so it's not going to be fantastic to use.
There is also a terminal app that looks really good and has quick aliases in the bottom left corner. The Notes app is also pretty competent, letting you swipe up from the bottom to create a new note, and syncs with evernote.
This leaves us with the phone dialer, letting you pick a contact, or just type the number you want to call, and the weather app, which is really black and white and pretty spartan, and it reminds me of a windows phone app.
The Settings
The settings page uses a sensible icon grid.
Ubuntu Touch is pretty barebones in that regard: in terms of customization, you can change the wallpaper, the ringtone for calls and messages, and that's about it. A few apps let you switch to a dark mode in the settings, and some offer to respect a "system preference", but that's not something I could find in the settings.
The AppStore
The OpenStore serves as the App Store for Ubuntu Touch. It's not a package manager like you could find on other Mobile Linux alternatives: no way to download a desktop program here, at least not graphically.
You'll get apps that were made specifically for ubuntu touch, and there are around 400 of these in total. You can also get a few Matrix clients, and a nice email client called Dekko 2, among other applications.
Updates are handled in the system settings, with over the air updates for the system itself, and for the apps, grouped at the same place.
There can't be many businesses out there using "Hubbard Administrative Tech" whose executives aren't already Scientologists. But there are certainly people working for those companies who aren't Scientologists, and I feel bad for those people, in the same way I would feel bad for anyone whose boss has confused religion with management
Looking over "Hubbard Administrative Tech" is giving me flashbacks to the very start of my career, during my extremely short tenure at one of the big management consulting companies.
At the introductory meeting, all us newbies were told we were about to be introduced to the company's proprietary Process™. And in comes a guy pushing a hand truck loaded with binders.
OK, I thought, there's a binder for each of us. But no! My skin crawled in horror as I realized that it took a hand truck full of binders just to contain one copy of the Process™
People say Mormonism is the first genuinely American religion, but it’s mixed up with all that old Christian stuff. Scientology is the true patriot’s religion. This poster is all the proof one could need.
"See.. sovereign cloud running on near monopolist surveillance capitalist advertisement moloch walled garden" isn't just #SovereigntyWashing, it is plain misleading.
« Apple's internal forecasts estimate potential annual losses of "hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars" »
Err, reduction in monopoly profits are not losses.
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For many years, several of my colleagues, a few ex-students, and at least one former romantic interest have fervently hoped that I would become an extinguished professor.
The parent company of the Big 4 sewing pattern brands (Simplicity, Butterick, McCalls, and Vogue) has been sold to a liquidator craftindustryalliance.org/pare… #sewing
Kwik Sew has already disappeared from the NZ market.
I work in a print shop and the number of patterns we print has been steadily increasing but we put them on 80gsm, not tissue paper. I wonder how many old school sewists will simply retire from their hobby once tissue patterns are impossible to find.
sure be nice if these patterns were donated to someone (smithsonian, etc). be even better if they were sent to someone who could digitize them and make them publicly available. maybe the @internetarchive could do the digitization?
there's a lot of fashion history in all those patterns.
WOW! Has anyone seen this? Nancy Pelosi on the Phone talking about the Blocking of the National Guard on Jan 6.
A Lot Of These Security Videos Were Seen Right After J6 2021 But Were Blocked From Most People Seeing It! My Personal Opinion Pelosi Setup The Whole J6 Event ! She Wanted To Finish Trump Off !
Byrd Who Was Her Personal Security Supervisor When She Was Inside The Capital I Believe Was Told By Pelosi To Shoot Someone So They Could Blame Trump For It!
And Security Video Shows Byrd Walking The Long Corridors Texting The Whole Time From The Other End Of The Capital And Just Walked Up There To Shoot Turned Out To Be Ashli Unarmed Who Even Had 3 Capital Police On Both Sides Of Her With There Long Guns Hanging Off There Shoulders ! There Was Nothing Going On !
And Mayor Bowser Was In On It ! She Ran The DC Prison Where She Said She Would Make Those J6 Prisoners Wish They Never Came To DC ! And We Saw The Abuse ! That Was Bowser !
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On this day, 81 years ago, tens of thousands of young men from ordinary backgrounds hit the beaches of Normandy and faced the most intense fire any group of attackers has ever faced in the history of modern warfare.
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A few weeks again, my friend Malaika Handa nerd-sniped me with an interesting request. She is a very prolific crossword constructor (think: multiple publications a week) and she keeps comprehensive records of those publications in a spreadsheet that …
Being a Trekkie and a lover of Bluegrass music, I thought it would be really cool to combine the two. The result is my bluegrass arrangement of Jerry Goldsmi...
NEW: An Italian parliament inquiry concluded that the Italian government used Paragon's spyware to hack activists working to rescue immigrants.
The committee, however, said it did not find any evidence that Italy's intelligence agencies (nor anyone else) spied on journalist Francesco Cancellato.
The report leaves a this, and other, key questions unanswered.
A parliamentary investigation answered some — but not all — the questions related to a spyware scandal involving the use of the Israeli company’s spyware, Graphite.
Friday afternoon reminder to not empty your inbox at the expense of someone else's. I've been away from my normal routine for a week and getting back to even some of it just feels super weird. everyone can do their part to help make everybody's weekend just a little more predictable. Have a good weekend.
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Technologies that promise to track, manage, and supervise workers, increasingly using artificial intelligence, are getting entrenched in the developing world, according to a new report by Coworker.org, a labor rights nonprofit based in New York.
Supreme Court has granted Elon Musk’s DOGE access to sensitive Social Security information, including full access to personally identifiable information in the Social Security Administration database while the case proceeds on appeal.
I solemnly vow to boost this photo of a triangular "Toblerone" train every time it shows up in my timeline! Now can someone pleez tell me where this photo was taken?
@waspfactory 100% photoshop and fake since 8 years? NO. This train does not exist. YES. Its a funny picture from the person who did the photoshop session.
The triangular train and the surroundings look Japanese, maybe adapted to fit some very narrow tunnel? But when you look at the pantograph on top: that's unreal. So my guess is: photoshopped picture. Oldest mention is from 2008, and no information about the location.
On social media, the Talking Heads teased a major announcement on June 5th, leading fans to wonder if a reunion—41 years after their last tour—might finally be in the offing.
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Anti-vaccine quack hired by RFK Jr. has started work at the health department David Geier was previously disciplined for practicing medicine without a license. arstechnica.com/health/2025/06…
Every time I see estimated costs for Trump's birthday parade, and $15m of the budget is allocated for road repairs afterward, I wonder about the gullibility of both the people putting together these estimates and those reporting on it
trying not to judge every single person i see in the store is tough. i just don't understand how EVERYONE has gotten so damn fat. do people not have any self control at all?
They have shitty sleep because their own jowls choke them at night. So much of life is out of bounds to them because they can't move properly. They simply choose to "live" this way.
It is very strange.
I know people who are slowly drinking themselves to death. Bad teeth from sugary alcohol. They're probably on the fast track to alzheimer's. This is preferred over... life? Reality? It's almost like these people— extremely well-to-do sportsball fans and system-believers— are burdened by some vague consciousness of what we "wrongthinkers" know, but can never acknowledge.
Like they have some suspicion that the future is an ugly place, not worth showing up to.
@Kusojiji it's shocking how much of our culture is centered around consuming things that we shouldn't be consuming and aren't necessary, and how poor people's impulse control is
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