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Area - Diforisma Urbano Area was an Italian band dedicated to progressive rock, jazz-rock, fusion, electronic music and experimental music. They were formed in 1972 by singer Demetrio Stratos and drummer Giulio Capiozzo. Other prominent members of the group are: Ares Tavolazzi, Paolo Tofani and Patrizio Fariselli. Among their best-known albums: "Arbeit Macht Frei" (1973); "Crac!" (1975); "Maledetti" (1976); "1978 Gli Dei Se Ne Vanno, Gli Arrabbiati Restano!" (1978).
Lately I do not enjoy having cats, despite loving them. I suppose this is how some parents must feel, but I've always had such pure unambivalent love for my cats this new state of affairs is troubling. ninapaley.substack.com/p/pussy…
I intend to use this blog to talk about Key 13 music, processes, history, influences, and how the Fediverse has had such a dramatic effect. And maybe I'll write a bit more about how this Volume 003 release came together, from my perspective – but today it's not about me, it's time to thank the cast of thousands that helped get the latest Bonk Knob Records release over the line.
Forty Artists!
First and foremost, forty individual artists poured their heart and soul into creating 48 tracks for this release, which was more than the total number of tracks from all the previous releases combined!
All of them gave their work for free – so, if you can, please follow the links to their own sites available on the tracknotespages, and show them some support.
Artwork
I put out a call for someone to help with the artwork quite early on in the process, before we knew how many discs there would be. Thankfully several of the featured musicians answered the call, and then worked together to create the art you see today.
Traiken drew the main characters – the robot, chameleon, and Elizabethan Frog – first as rough line art, then gradually evolving into what you see on the final versions.
Desolation Park came up with a number of options for the lettering and typography, which the BonkBoard community voted on.
Ordos Mk.0 added several versions of the Bonk Wave Pig 'mask' which you can see in the robot's screen on Disc A, and in the background on Disc B – and has subsequently been used a lot in the launch party shows.
Track Notes
For the albumtracknotes, fastachee, n3wjack and AmbientSpace collaborated on a shared document to make these happen – if you haven't read through them, please do, while listening – they really enhance the experience!
One of the usually thankless tasks is sorting through the artist links and putting together those track notes pages – and here we have to thank Refrigerator for sorting the fediverse links out, and the always-inspiring socool for the painstakingly boring task of creating the HTML pages.
Mastering
The biggest headache of all was how to master 48 tracks.
When I first put out the submission call, I had no idea if anyone would submit at all – I had visions of a 6-10 track release, with little fanfare. When Ordos Mk.0 put out the call for the previous remixes release, we'd asked submitters to send in unmastered tracks for the first time – and socool helpfully mastered them, as there were only 9 to start with, plus another 4 added in a later batch. So it felt OK to do the same for this release – and we'd sort out the mastering between us later – or, worst case, just pay someone to do a few for us.
However, when 48 tracks turned up, we had a problem – there was no way to afford paying someone else, and it's a huge task for one person to take on. I had a go myself, but it's not my core strength. Luckily Ordos Mk.0 stepped up and did the lion's share of the work, without which there would literally not have been a release – so huge, huge thanks deserved there.
Sequencing
With 48 tracks, the next issue was how to divide them up and what order to put them in – I did the initial division into the three discs, with a tentative order. Then, as the mastering proceeded, Ordos Mk.0 tweaked the sequencing to refine it further – especially for disc C.
A number of other folks helped out with listening, advice on the sequencing etc – specifically n3wjack, Default Media Transmitter and sknob.
Launch Parties
I think we would all agree that the live streamed launch parties were a fantastic success! So much positivity and love, what an amazing experience. But a lot of work goes into making these happen.
First up: thanks to Radio Free Fedi for hosting the first live stream.
Next: to AxWax for putting together the first set of visuals and getting us up and running.
When we came to the second party, RFF was in a less-than-optimal place having just started the shutdown process, so we decided to spin up our own server – AxWax had already got a test server from before, so between us we used the same template to spin up a new one, which just about survived the onslaught! Thanks to everyone from the BonkBoard who helped out testing the robustness of the server one weekday evening before the stream!
And of course, for the second two parties, the awesome James Hastings stepped in to do the visuals – with very different scenes between Disc B and Disc C, both fitting the music and the mood perfectly. It takes a lot of time to prepare and run these, so huge thanks to both AxWax and James for this.
I nearly forgot – both Traiken and Flear made some animated videos based off the cover art to use as part of the video stream for the launch party – Flear in particular managing to animate Traiken's robot really effectively!
Finally, thanks to owncast for providing such a great piece of software.
Everything else
Special thanks go to AxWax for putting up with my incessant chat messages while we were putting this whole thing together.
We wouldn't be here at all if Yoni Den hadn't started the whole Bonk Wave thing, so whichever space pathways they find themselves on now, we will always be in their debt.
Downloads
And finally, don't forget you can download and stream all three amazing releases, along with the previous volumes, completely for free from any of these places:
“What is Bonk Wave? What is not Bonk Wave? What does Bonk Wave mean to you? Does it matter?”
On July 31st, 2023, Yoni Den launched an open call for submissions for Not What I Call Bonk Wave Volume 001, a “proposed compilation of music that may or may not be Bonk Wave”.
Beginnings
Just ten days earlier, the term Bonk Wave had been born out of frustration with the Genre Police, a bunch of online folks who 'gatekeep' certain genres of electronic music to within tiny niches that seemingly only they could tell apart. “That's Not Bonk Wave!” they would say.
Within hours of that initial post, the first #BonkWave track had been imagined by Flear and posted to Mastodon.
It could have just been left there, and ended as a short-lived joke. But no...
Volume 001
Striking while the iron was still hot, the call for submissions went out on both the Fediverse and on some external music forums, with a deadline just 14 days away – August 13th, 2023.
Amazingly 14 tracks were created and submitted in that short time, and on the 25th August the collection was released on Bandcamp, with a “Pay What You Want” price tag. The music was an eclectic mix of electronic styles, as that was the circle Yoni Den moved in at the time. Was any of it Bonk Wave? Who knew – the compilation itself was confusingly titled “Not What I Call Bonk Wave” implying that the critics didn't think so.
Several of the tracks made reference to the gatekeeping aspect of the original post – including Flear's “Genre Police” and my own Key 13 track “Heretic”.
The cover art was a reference to cheap compilation albums of the past, with a few easter eggs for those who knew what to look for.
Yoni Den handled all aspects of the release – compiling the tracks, designing and drawing the artwork, writing the humorous track notes and uploading the music to Bandcamp under the guise of a fictional record label called Bonk Knob Records. (“It was right there!” said Yoni Den).
The album was an immediate success amongst the Ravenation electronic music community, and soon people were looking at that “Volume 001” part and asking “So, when's Volume 002? Can I contribute?!”
Volume 002
So, just a few weeks later, a second call for submissions went out – on October 15th, 2023. Not What I Call Bonk Wave Volume 002 : Bonkwave Nights – A compilation of Electronic Music which is or is not #BonkWaveonly this time it's night time
This time there was a longer deadline – submissions closed on the 15th of November, and Yoni Den was inundated – far more tracks than expected! A wider range of musicians had caught on, and although still mostly electronic in nature, the styles varied considerably across the two discs.
There were so many submissions (29 in total) that the album had to be split across two “discs” – A and B – and was released to Bandcamp on the 8th December, 2023. The cover art featured, for the first time, the character known as Bonk Wave Pig, with a natty purple suit and tie, and a mohican-style fuzz of pink hair, along with the now-characteristic neon teal-and-pink Bonk Wave lettering.
Again, Yoni Den handled everything – artwork, track notes, compiling and sequencing, releasing to Bandcamp, the lot.
With the momentum still high from the Volume 002 release, AxWax put out a call for collaborators on a Christmas single.
Within just a few days, on December the 22nd 2023, We Wish You A Merry Bonksmas arrived, under the new “BonkWave AllStars” banner. This release featured a host of musicians, many of whom had not contributed to either of the previous compilations, and ensured the year ended on a high point.
Passing the torch
The work to put the Volume 002 release out, and perhaps the resulting attention on Mastodon, had taken its toll, and on the 4th Jan 2024, Yoni Den, uncomfortable with the responsibility of what had now become quite a big thing, reached out to resign the unofficial post of 'CEO' for Bonk Knob Records.
The intention was that the Bonk Wave movement should continue – “We did something really great, and I hope it is just the beginning” – but it would need new hands to take it forward.
Luckily AxWax stepped up to pick up the reins in the short term, with the understanding that the 'CEO' role would likely rotate, and control shouldn't ever be concentrated in one person.
Waves of Bonk
Conscious that Mastodon wasn't proving the easiest way to coordinate releases, and also that several contributors to the first two volumes weren't even on the Fediverse, we discussed moving to a different platform.
The first step was to try a Matrix room, and so AxWax set up Waves of Bonk, on Jan 10th 2024. This started off really well, with some lively discussions, but we failed to get some of the contributors to join, especially those outside the Fediverse. Matrix is also a bit.. quirky.. and some folks struggled a bit with the client software.
It did form the spark for a few new ideas, however – discussions included the concept of a new remix album, based on tracks from the first 2 compilations. We also discussed the image2midi software that Yonder created, and I subsequently turned into a webapp for easier use. At one point there was even talk of a compilation of these – but that didn't happen.
bonkwave.org
Deeper discussion was held around the future of any Bonk Wave infrastructure or community – should we set up an alternative to Bandcamp? – several of us had recently set up Faircamp sites so that looked like a good idea. If we did set something up, it should be robust, without reliance on one person. We also discussed the fact we were seen as an electronic music community, which perhaps wasn't exactly the case, and might be excluding some folks.
What evolved eventually was the idea of an old school forum for discussion purposes, and a Faircamp site under the same banner for current and future releases. Across late January 2024 I set up the bonkwave.org domain, and AxWax configured a Simple Machines Forum to run on it, which I installed into some web hosting space I already had, and wasn't using for much. This was the start of The BonkBoard, which launched for real on the 3rd of February, 2024.
Licensing
When it came to the Faircamp site we hit a bit of an issue – it wasn't clear what licences the original compilations had been released under – artists had given their tracks freely under the assumption it would be on Bandcamp. Could we just copy everything to our own Faircamp?
We decided to reach out and get explicit permission from all the artists, which still remains an issue to this day. We got rapid responses with full permission from (nearly) all the Fediverse artists but many of the non-Fedi artists just didn't reply to the emails, which is such a shame. We've left their tracks off the Faircamp site for now – you can still get them for free on Bandcamp. If any of you ever read this – please let us know if you're OK duplicating your tracks!
I still don't know if we made the right decision or not – but it feels better not to re-use material without clear permission. For each subsequent release we've established clear licensing per track, and the submission statement from Volume 003 onwards allows “Bonk Knob Records” a limited, non-exclusive distribution right so we can, in future, move to new hosting services as required.
Be My BonkWave
Somewhere in the middle of all this activity, AxWax found the time to coordinate a second collaborative release as BonkWave AllStars – and Be My BonkWave became the first new release on the shiny new Faircamp site, just in time for Valentine's Day 2024.
Meanwhile, the BonkBoard forum was getting a few new joiners, but we hadn't (and have still not) attracted anyone outside the Fediverse. Discussion was slow.
Remixes
Somewhere on the Matrix chat we'd started discussing a remix album. It turns out that, back in February, Ordos Mk.0 and Socool had already remixed each other's tracks from the Volume 002 compilation, and were ready to go.
On March 8th, 2024, Ordos Mk.0 put out a call for submissions for the remix compilation on the BonkBoard. The tentative release date was set for April 26th, to give everyone time to finish.
We didn't know it at the time, but the creative process for this release would start to point the way forward to the future. Over the next few weeks, several people contributed. The cover art was started by DockBunson and finished by Ordos Mk.0. The decision was taken to master all the tracks together, and Socool stepped up to the plate to do that. Track notes and sequencing was done as a joint exercise on a Google spreadsheet set up by n3wjack. We decided to remix the original compilation title as well, and came up with Not Bonk What I Call Wave: Remixes – with the cover art cleverly arranged so you could still read it as “Not What I Call Bonk Wave”.
A few artists were struggling to find time to finish their remixes so by the 10th May 2024 we decided to release what we had, 9 awesome tracks. The other remixes did come through a few weeks later, and we re-launched the album on the 21st of June, with the new material taking it up to 13 tracks. Mastering the tracks together made this the most polished release to date.
For the first time, AxWax suggested a live launch party using Radio Free Fedi's owncast server. which was hugely successful – everyone had a great time, and it really brought the community together.
Progress? or not?
Unlike the previous compilations, which had been Yoni Den alone, suddenly we had a team of people working together on their own initiative, spreading the workload. To me, at least, this really felt like a big step forwards. But I was conscious we'd had a submission period open for three months, and only had 13 tracks, which wasn't a lot compared to the previous compilation with a far shorter submission deadline.
Was the bonk flame flickering a little?
An anniversary
As July 2024 came round, I was aware we'd be heading for the first year anniversary of Yoni Den's original Bonk Wave post. It felt like we should do something to commemorate this – so I set up a call for a secret collaboration on Mastodon, on July 3rd, using the BonkWave AllStars banner again. I checked, and double checked, the date on Yoni Den's post – 22nd July 2023, and set aim to release on that day.
I got more contributions than I could handle and the resulting patchwork of production ended up as Happy Bonk Day, featuring a fabulous lineup of musicians. This was very different from anything we'd done before, as it skewed more towards rock than electronica. The release was completed by alternative versions from sknob and AxWax
We had everything ready to go for the 22nd, then, on the 21st, 55aw suddenly announced the anniversary! I was stunned. The original post had been past midnight in my local timezone (UK), so was technically showing as the 22nd to me, but in US timezones was on the 21st.
So I hurriedly rushed out the release on the 21st, amending the cover art appropriately.
Unbonked?
While putting together Happy Bonk Day, we'd already been discussing what to do about another compilation. AxWax wanted to attract more musicians outside the electronic genre, so we came up with the idea of a 2-disc compilation Bonked and Unbonked where, we assumed, acoustic musicians would feel more comfortable on the Unbonked disc.
The release of the single was a good time to put out the submission call, so on July 23rd 2024 I put a post up on the BonkBoard, and a link on Mastodon.
Remembering that we'd allowed nearly 3 months for the Remixes album, and only had 13 submissions, I wasn't expecting much. We set the submission deadline for 2 months time – 25th September – just to make sure we had enough submissions for at least one disc.
I may have been a tad pessimistic. The eventual Volume 003 release had 48 tracks, spanning 3 discs! You can read all about how it was put together here. We split the release across 4 weeks, with Disc A on 25th October, Disc B on the 8th of November, and Disc C on the 22nd of November 2024.
Suddenly the future seems pretty Bonky!
Bonk Wave was, is, and will always be
Getting a bit more philosophical as 2024 comes to an end.
The Volume 003 release has shown that we've come together as an awesome, supportive, creative community of artists. It was still a lot of hard work to get Volume 003 over the line, but the lessons learned will make the next one easier – and there will be a next one. There's already discussion about a second remix album happening now – it's currently visible to contributors only – but give us a shout on the BonkBoard if you want to take part. The call for Volume 004 won't be too far into 2025.
As we grow, we're going to need to get a little more formal about some things – perhaps developing a written Code of Conduct for the forum that everyone can agree on, solidifying/clarifying/standardising the submission guidelines and expanding the moderation team. Hopefully we can do this without changing the way everything works now – robust conversations and strong opinions are the nature of the beast, but we can still keep it civil.
I also want to be clear, we still don't know what is, or is not, Bonk Wave. And there's a few things that are implied by that.
If we don't know what Bonk Wave is, we can't own it, or copyright it.
We do own, collectively, this pseudo-record-label called Bonk Knob Records, and we have a great community around the bonkwave.org website, but none of this implies ownership of Bonk Wave.
We should never forget where this comes from. How can any of us say, with a straight face, “That's Not Bonk Wave!” to someone else, when there's no clear definition of what it is?
There have been, and will be, people who use the term outside of our core group. Maybe even to make money out of it. We can't stop them. Should we even try? It doesn't feel right, unless they're actively trying to disrupt what we're doing.
There's probably little point in getting angry at people trying to rip off the idea, as there's very little we can do about it. If we keep doing what we do, and do it well, they will all fade away. Or join us!
And we will still reap the same benefits we do now – which is, no money, but a great sense of belonging!
but what is bonkwave? Is there a representative work?
Like, if you want to know about Vaporwave, I would paste for you a Macintosh Plus playlist I know of on youtube, because while it may or may not represent the entirety of the genre, it definitely represents the most important aspects of it.
I've been trying to find this for bonkwave.
edit: please don't ask me to sort out what is sarcasm and what is not when the thing says not bonkwave
maybe this is like, bonkwave's White Album where it's totally avant garde or else just weird rather than, you know, a rock'n'roll album. How would I know?
if you read the (admittedly long and boring) blog post linked above, you'll see that what you're asking for is, by definition, not possible!
I suggest seeking more answers by listening to the "Not What I Call Bonk Wave" compilations which you can find here: bonkwave.org/music - these are as definitive as it gets.
I did try to read it, but it seemed to be mostly concerned with the process of assembling a compilation, rather than explaining anything about the (proposed?) genre classification, or its features.
That said, I can say, from a quick scan of the vol 1 comp that Bonkwave is a sample-based subgenre of techno music. You could tell people that.
My TEAC 32-2B is home and operational again. Turns out it’s a rare one, actually being a Tascam X-10 disguised as a TEAC 32-2. I guess that’s why they added the “B.” It has 2 drive belts instead of 1, but the kicker is that it supports both NAB (North American) and IEC (European) EQ with a push button on the front panel. #GearHunter #MusicProduction #Analog #ReelToReel #Tascam #TEAC
@benda A company called Reel To Reel Tech based in Langley BC. It's taken me few years of not being able to connect to get this work done, mainly because I'm not living in the Lower Mainland anymore. And due to that I had to put a rush on the repair and pay a bit of a premium. Well worth it though.
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it is how it goes sometimes. i appreciate the link. gonna bookmark and keep it on my radar, hopefully by the end of the year i can get this guy fixed up.
@benda Hope that it works out. I'm waiting on cables now so that I can get mine connected into the patch bays. They're on their way from Sudbury Ontario, hopefully the mail and courier strikes don't delay things too much.
*If a Fascist is giving an interview* -Using swear words is an FCC fine on Live TV and won't be aired. -Blasting a copyrighted song is a strike on livestream. Disrupt. No platform for Fascists.
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openSUSE Leap 16.0 Beta: news "Leap 16.0 with its fresh fork brings a renewed foundation and cleaner system. Expected to be Wayland-only (some X.Org remnants remain for now). SysV init support has been dropped. The new Agama installer is now the default. The traditional YaST stack is retired in favor of: Cockpit for system management; Myrlyn as a drop-in replacement for the YaST Software GUI. Note: YaST is still available in Tumbleweed but will no longer be developed; YaST has been removed from Leap 16 and Myrlyn takes on this role of software installation like YaST. If someone is interested in the maintenance of YaST for further development and bug fixes, the source are available on GitHub. Leap 16.0 will no longer run on machines that do not support x86_64-v2. OpenSUSE developers decided to use x86-64-v2 microarchitecture level for Leap 16.0 instead of x86_64-v3 (which is used for SUSE SLE 16) as a compromise between SUSE being going forward and openSUSE users still needing support for older hardware. X86-64-v2 adds these CPU features: CMPXCHG16B (CX16), LAHF-SAHF, POPCNT, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4_1, SSE4_2 (these features were already supported into the 2008 Intel Nehalem architecture, excluding Intel-specific instructions)."
P.S. Logged as root, you can control if your CPU is compatible with future openSUSE Leap 16.0 with this command line:
lscpu | grep sse4_2 || echo "Your CPU is not compatible with Leap 16.0"
There are identity dimensions and there is history surrounding us all. Now our collective moral compass guides us to show respect and grief for the groups history's dictators belittle and murder. It's a show of goodwill for all humanity to show remorse for our history's mistakes, and decisiveness about the groups which we choose to pay the most attention and respect now. It's an act of solidarity and the least we can do to mourn those immeasurable losses and heal our most hurt family members.
Genuine word of advice - unless tech truly is your passion, don't enter it and consider exiting it. Don't do it because you think you'll get rich or have job security. Neither has been true for a long time. I have been through two very sour job markets, but this time honestly feels worse. And I probably have many advantages that you don't.
Urban Trapeze - Urban Trapeze Urban Trapeze is a Spanish progressive rock band, with sounds reminiscent of ‘Emerson Lake & Palmer’, ‘King Crimson’ and ‘Genesis’.
I remember working with colleagues who regarded syntax highlighting as a cognitive crutch to be discouraged.
I'll admit I never fully bought into it -- color schemes are fun! -- but I did try shutting it off for good while. I can't help thinking about how one arrives at such views, and what I might learn from them.
The principle I took from it (intended or not): highlighting desensitizes your eye and encourages skimming over code, jumping from symbol to symbol, rather than really seeing and studying it more deeply and carefully. If code is too noisy in plain monochromatic text, it can probably be made simpler, more concise.
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featuring a guest kitty for my #caturday offering!
this is Ramona and she needs a new home by 7/1. she is a charming, affectionate, soft lass with a big voice. anyone in Norcal looking for a feline companion? hit me up! (boosts would be helpful, too 💚)
"Iranian sources have revealed to Al Mayadeen that Tehran has obtained a vast number of sensitive documents pertaining to the Israeli facilities, including nuclear sites" "...the data included "thousands of documents related to the Israeli occupation's projects and its nuclear facilities.""
Iranian sources have revealed to Al Mayadeen that Tehran has obtained a vast number of sensitive documents pertaining to the Israeli facilities, including nuclear sites.
@benda I like it a lot! I can really lose myself in it, it's great to get out of mental dips. most of my creative hobbies are computer based, so it's cool to have an offline thing! 😊
I don't want to go gloves off again, I've been ignoring this fucking creep for the guts of a year now but he's joined up here and he's adding everyone that interacts with me, tagging me on other platforms and doing fake account crap.
I think I'm going to have to un-private some old blog posts and add an update post onto the end.
I'm going to sleep on it, I know he wants attention but I don't think people here will fall for his shit.
I'm just going to leave these here. I'll think about what I'm going to do tomorrow, either it's gloves off time or I'll delete all this, but for now, this is the sad man that's been harassing me for the last 4 years because I blocked him.
If this is what he wants, a mirror held up, a best of gallery of his bullshit, we can do this again.
I have tons of screenshots, years and years worth. Even his own online friends on Twitter, who he used to harass me- a bunch of them have turned on him.
I am very happy to go down this route and expose the bullshit again.
I would rather not, because it's all so childish, but maybe this can of worms needs opening again, it seems to be what the man is pushing for.
I can post screenshots for days, the great thing about my phone is I can put keywords into it and it sorts through all these screenshots people sent to me, or ones I took over the 4 years of bullshit.
I know you'll read this you fucking weirdo. I've tried pleading with you to move on, I'm not going to ask again.
Leave my circles alone, move on, stop your weird shit.
Leave me be.
Or don't, but you should know I'm not going to be the one that comes off looking like a complete loon, not on this platform. These people aren't Twitter morons impressed by the number of bots you have boosting your follower numbers.
yes!!! Don’t know how we get out of it. They are ruining everything!! Trying to get rid of charter/homeschools, $.65 gas hike for carbon air we didn’t vote on, ….. HELP!!
growing number of GOP lawmakers are raising concerns about U.S. taxpayer funding of Chinese laboratories after two Chinese scientists were charged with smuggling a fungus called "Fusarium graminearum" into the U.S. The fungus, although not deadly to humans, represents a potential threat to grain crops.
Just the News reported this week that Chinese scientists were indicted for smuggling a potentially dangerous fungus into the U.S., as well as a biological material by hiding it in a pair of boots on at least one prior occasion.
You can't even bring a little plant into the U.S. Nobody was watching the enemy the gov't made friends with and gave them "Most Favored Nation Status" at the UN. I was shocked about that, too.
Claude 4’s “whistle-blow” surprise shows why agentic AI risk lives in prompts and tool access, not benchmarks. Learn the 6 controls every enterprise must adopt.
My husband informed his medical suppliers for insulin, diabetic supplies, CPAP, and Blue Cross about insurance policy changes almost 2 yrs ago. All these suppliers are still using Blue Cross that we haven't had for that long. We never received summaries of charges either. We assumed it was taken care of. All they saw was a policy number, and that's it. We found out because Rite Aid just went out of business, and the new pharmacy noticed. SMH
(RNS) — More than 10,000 local church messengers are expected at the SBC's annual meeting in Dallas next week — where they'll debate women pastors, deal with growing legal fees and decide the future of a controversial ethics agency.
So, anyone uses controllers on PC? What controller do you guys use?
I'm asking for both Windows and Linux, by the way. When I did use controllers, I used PS3 ones and I had to go through all the hoops for them to work on Windows, I kind of lost that Windows installation like 3 installations ago and obviously the bluetooth dongle doesn't work anymore, so I stopped using a controller ages ago. I was thinking of getting some because I'm kind of getting impatient, I can't really learn action games anymore on Keyboard, which is normal, I mean, you get used to it, but it's also true controllers have it easier.
Meanwhile, US President Donald J. Trump commented on the ongoing attacks, making it clear that he thinks that Ukraine’s actions invited these reprisals.
For a second night in a row, Russian Federation forces pounded military targets in Kiev, Kharkov and many other Ukrainian cities, in what many see as retaliation for the Ukrainian terrorist attacks on civilian trains in Bryansk and Kursk, …
A new study published by Transport for London (TfL) has shown that the introduction of 20mph speed limits and zones on local authority-managed roads in London between 1989 and 2013 led to significant…
An Act to consolidate the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1967 and certain related enactments, with amendments to give effect to recommendations of the Law Commission and the Scottish Law Commission.
Democrats are defending California SEIU President David Huerta after the labor leader was arrested by federal agents in Los Angeles Friday for blocking an ICE vehicle during a series of immigration raids across the city by Homeland Security agents.
Democrats are defending California SEIU President David Huerta after the labor leader was arrested by federal agents in Los Angeles Friday for blocking an ICE vehicle during a series of immigration raids across the city by Homeland Security…
Democrats can't stop what's happening, but arrests would be helpful, even just to get a criminal record on them that will show up when job hunting. It would make it easier for ICE, too.
Breast cancer is one of 6 cancers linked to alcohol, & studies show the more you drink, the higher your risk climbs.
... around 14 out of every 100 women who down two bottles of wine a week — about 10 glasses — will be diagnosed with breast cancer during their lifetime, according to D. Harriet Rumgay, an epidemiologist with the International Agency for Research on Cancer.
My neighbor's doctor ordered blood work. She takes the order to LabCorp. Her name is common. They said she owes $20. She said that's not her bill, and she doesn't live at that address. Lab said no tests until she paid it. She said she's not paying somebody else's bill. She called LabCorp HQ, and they said there was nothing they could do. She should have a lawyer threaten a lawsuit worth a lot more than $20. LabCorp pretty much has this whole area.😡
Members of Congress Introduce Comprehensive U.S. Gold Audit Legislation
By Jp Cortez Sound Money Defense League Friday, June 6, 2025
WASHINGTON — As U.S. debt soars and foreign central banks stockpile gold, four members of Congress today introduced a bill to require the first comprehensive audit of America’s gold reserves in decades.
Sponsored by Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY), Troy Nehls (R-TX), Addison McDowell (R-NC), and Warren Davidson (R-OH), the Gold Reserve Transparency Act (H.R. 3795) would require a full assay, inventory, and audit of all United States gold holdings.
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"H5N1 Bird Flu Makes Historic Jump From Mammals to Humans Shortly After Bill Gates Unveiled New Vaccine."
"Still believe in coincidences?
Meanwhile, 194 WHO Countries agree to arrest citizens who oppose bird flu vaccine..
I don't think I'll consent to that, I don't think I'll keep my mouth shut, and I bet you that if they do come after me I can take out at least eight before they get me." -Gary Williams
— makes sense me that… almost every politician really is like you describe, and now the traditionally-muzzled/controlled media outlets have been let off their leashes to shoot the corrupt fish in a barrel, all as an OP to increase disunity and chaos amongst the citizenry, so they will more readily embrace the globotechno solutions. 😏
Down to 17% body fat now, according to the body fat calculator.
Did 3 sets of handstand today. 3+2+3 I don't think mine are perfect in any way but it is going in the right direction.
Somehow I am doing mostly Calisthenics now. Because I had cut back on push ups and I felt it as if I was regressing. So I am doing push ups daily again. And adding some chin ups and now handstands.
Was already restricted to body weight squats due to some older Disc herniation and problems with my knees.
Perhaps when I can do, lets say 10 of those handstand that I will be able to walk or such.
I pretty much mastered the balance to stand still. But walking, not even close.
I really think I was just too weak in my shoulders. Measuring my strength now. I am still behind in shoulders and ahead in back strength and biceps. Am slowly geting more balanced. As if the body really want to.
Or it could just be newbie gains in my weakest, lesser developed muscles.
Nextcloud in 2025: How 25 Million Users Escaped Big Tech’s Data Prison
“Nextcloud powers 400,000+ servers worldwide, giving organizations like the German federal government complete control over their data while escaping Big Tech surveillance. Discover why millions choose open-source collaboration over Microsoft and Google’s data-mining platforms.”
“Today, ITZBund operates Nextcloud for 300,000 employees across the German federal government. The French Ministry of Interior runs it for their 300,000 staff. Schleswig-Holstein deploys it across 25,000 systems. Swedish federal agencies, Dutch ministries, universities across Europe, hospitals, law firms, and millions of home users rely on Nextcloud for file storage, video conferencing, document collaboration, email, calendars, and now AI assistance. These organizations discovered they could have enterprise-grade collaboration tools while maintaining complete control over every byte of their data. No surveillance capitalism. No vendor lock-in. No data held hostage in Silicon Valley.”
NextCloud actually has way more functionality inside it than MS Office will ever have. But the real point is you have ownership and control over your services as well as your data.
But what about AI? For better or worse, AI now comes in a lot of applications. Nextcloud Assistant 3.0 also brings AI agency features to everyone, and not just those who pay for OpenAI. It is supposedly more than just chatbot functionality.
It’s true too though that apart from data sovereignty and cost savings of around 50-80% you will also miss out on Microsoft license audits, and surprise price hikes (remember Microsoft moving from per CPU licensing to per core licensing).
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Valve's shader cache system can be extremely helpful for Linux gaming, however it can also at times be quite problematic but Valve may have solved a big problem with it.
"(...) « Nous combattons des animaux humains. (…) Gaza ne reviendra pas à ce qu’elle était avant » (M. #Galant, 9/10/2023) ; « C’est toute une nation qui est responsable. (…) Nous nous battrons jusqu’à leur briser la colonne vertébrale » (M. Isaac #Herzog, président d’ #Israël, 12/10/2023). Plus récemment, le ministre de la défense #Katz a publiquement lancé : « Habitants de Gaza, ceci est un dernier avertissement. (…) Suivez le conseil du président des États-Unis : rendez les otages et jetez dehors le Hamas, et de nouvelles options s’ouvriront pour vous — y compris la relocalisation dans d’autres parties du monde pour ceux qui en font le choix. Sinon, ce sera la destruction et la dévastation totale » (19/03/2025). Fernandez et Frouville d’en conclure : « Jamais à notre connaissance, une telle intention [génocidaire] n’avait été formulée si clairement. » (...)
Au-delà des obligations juridiques qui incombent à #Israël, tous les États ont le devoir de prévenir, d’empêcher, de sanctionner le crime de #génocide, et disposent de plusieurs moyens à cette fin : cesser les ventes d’armes et de munitions à Israël en imposant un embargo, suspendre l’accord d’association entre l’Union européenne et Israël, adopter des sanctions financières ciblées contre les responsables présumés du génocide, promouvoir l’adoption d’une résolution du Conseil de sécurité de l’ONU en vertu du chapitre VII de la Charte, qui permet d’adopter des mesures coercitives, soutenir les procédures engagées par des juridictions nationales au titre de la compétence universelle ou encore appuyer l’enquête du bureau du procureur de la #CPI sur la situation dans l’État de #Palestine. Les déplacements à l’étranger de M. #Netanyahou, facilités par exemple par l’autorisation de survol du territoire français le 2 février, indiquent que de nombreux États occidentaux continuent d’être réticents à respecter leurs obligations. Ces hésitations confirment la prévalence d’un « deux poids, deux mesures » dans l’application du droit international. La guerre à Gaza montre non pas seulement l’incapacité de l’ordre international contemporain à instaurer la paix, mais combien cet ordre perpétue la domination coloniale israélienne" Monde Diplomatique
"All the science of the Saints is included in these two things: To do, and to suffer. And whoever has done these two things best, has made himself most saintly."
[Vidéo] Le Monde contribue aussi au brouillage politique
Dans cet épisode de Quelle époque formidable, Sébastien Fontenelle questionne la fabrication d'opinion du journal Le Monde, qui à maintes reprises, a présenté La France insoumise et le Rassemblement national sous une même dénomination : « les extrêmes ». « Sous couvert de sa réputation… blast-info.fr/emissions/2025/l… #Information #Medias #Politique
Dans cet épisode de Quelle époque formidable, Sébastien Fontenelle questionne la fabrication d'opinion du journal Le Monde, qui à maintes reprises, a présenté La France insoumise et le Rassemblement national sous une même dénomination : « les extrêm…
Le gouv s'attaque encore aux ALD (affection longue durée). Mais apparemment les handicapés on est paranoïaques quand on dit que le projet c'est de nous retirer nos droits et l'accès aux soins pour ne nous laisser plus que l'euthanasie comme "choix".
Le ministre de la Santé Yannick Neuder plaide pour « réévaluer » les conditions de la prise en charge des dépenses liées aux affections de longue durée (ALD), en posant la question des patients en « rémission complète ».
Le peuple songerait à réévaluer la Constitution, les politiques et revenir au bénévolat des élus, tout comme pour le don du sang ou les responsabilités associatives.
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