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Peter Thiel (Palantir) verachtet Demokratie und wünscht sich eine "moderne" Monarchie, mit Tech-Oligarchen als Herrscher. Wie kann man es als Demokrat auch nur 5 Sekunden lang für eine gute Idee halten, dieses Unternehmen die Bürger*innen überwachen zu lassen?! 🫣
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Grüne kritisieren Überwachungssoftware: Dobrindt schließt Palantir-Nutzung nicht aus

Bundesregierung hält sich die Nutzung der umstrittenen Überwachungs­software Palantir offen. Der Grünen-Politiker Konstantin von Notz kritisiert das.
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Bitcoin is pure evil: Part 33,456

New Alaska Bitcoin Mine Would Burn as Much Energy as the State’s Largest Coal Plant

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Bitcoin is as sick and as twisted as you can get. Pure greed. Pure evil.


New Alaska Bitcoin Mine Would Burn as Much Energy as the State’s Largest Coal Plant

Fueled by “stranded” natural gas, the startup hopes to become the largest in the US, and to make Alaska an industry center.
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I would go further - All blockchain cryptocurrencies are obsolete given proposals for digital cash systems like GNU Taler use blinded signatures which are more resource efficient to deploy and use.

But these digital cash systems are designed to interface with the existing economy and make it difficult to avoid tax, so of course, they're not going to get the same level of hype from those who finance the cryptocurrency industry.

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@Bernard So that you and I will think we are ideological enemies instead of targeting those who control the governments.

You link has the words "chemicals ... particles ... substances" to trigger the gullible and don't even have to say what they might be or even if they are real. The whole paper persumes the reader will be living in fear of the climate change hoax, if not then the main arguments are irrelevant any way.

I do not doubt that:
*Patents about geoengineering exist
*Testing has been proposed
*Trials may have taken place
*Techniques have been studied
*Effects have been modelled
*Contrail effects have been examined
*Contrail manipulation has been studied

I am well convinced that the linear cloud forms following planes are condensation trails and are not made using 'extra' chemicals.

The 'chemtrail' conspiracy is a cheap way to instil fear in the gullible and division in the resistance.

I cannot believe that spraying chemicals into the air we ALL breathe is part of the globalist goals.

The cost of adjusting flight altitude to manipulate CONTRAILS will be real but perhaps not too high but I cannot imagine any way that the effects could be tested or if they will make any difference.

The cost of spraying EXTRA chemicals to block the sun or whatever are probably more than humanity can afford and the rich and powerful would not allow it anyway, the fear will be allowed and promoted but the act will not.

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@Bernard Controlling the weather with aeroplanes is doomed to fail. If it is implemented (which I agree is practically possible though not proven to perform as hoped) it will meet ever growing resistance and just one drought in a important farming region will result in the operation being compromised by radicals. Again that may be a goal and an excuse for rationing air travel with LARGE planes so only private jets will be allowed.

The issue that is ideological is using the REAL CONTRAILS plus a mountain of theoretical geoengineering and propaganda hype and fear mongering to 'prove' that CHEMTRAILS are real.

The fear aspect that is used is the baseless fear that poison IS coming from contrails.

Nothing about 'chemtrails' passes the smell test. The close links to the climate scam make it an almost certainty that it is bogus.

Bill gates is one of the worst globalists that is visible. Almost everything he says and proposes is bad in some way but not always in the obvious way.

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Arch and Arch based distros seem to represent 29% of answers, way higher than Ubuntu and Ubuntu based distros, at 22% including Linux Mint, or 16% not including it. It's higher than Fedora at 19% of answers.

Another surprising number is NixOS, sitting at 7%. Final thing that surprised me is SteamOS: it only got 39 answers, meaning virtually no one seems to use their Steam Deck as their main computer.

89% of people who answered the survey said that they don't use an immutable distro.

Plasma is, on the surface, the most used DE out there, it sits at 30%.Vanilla GNOME sits at 14%, but if we tally up all GNOME implementations, we land on 35%, beating KDE pretty soundly.

Tiling WMs gathered up 21% of votes, meaning that they're actually the third thing used by people, far above any other DE than GNOME and KDE.

Hyprland seems to be very popular right now, at almost 48% of answers. We also have Sway, at 12%, i3 at 11%, and then a smattering of others, like AwesomeWM, bspwm, qtile, xmonad and more.

Speaking of which: Wayland got 66% of answers here, versus 34% for X11.

As per hardware, I asked people which kind of GPU and CPU they used. For CPUs, AMD and Intel are really evenly matched, at 50% for AMD and 49% for Intel, the last % being for ARM based CPUs.

As per GPUs, AMD takes the lead here, but not by much, we get to 39% of answers.

22% of people who answered only have an Nvidia GPU, so that's still pretty high, and if we add Nvidia GPUs as a hybrid configuration in a laptop, we land on 37%.

Pure Intel configurations, represent 22% of answers for integrated graphics, and 1% for dedicated Intel only, plus another % for people who run a hybrid config with a dedicated Intel GPU, so at most 24%.

As per the provenance of that hardware, a lot of people seem to build their own computers to run Linux on, at 44%. 40% of people who took the survey bought a PC from a major window manufacturer, with WIndows preinstalled, or no OS if the option was available.

Apart from that, only 4% said they used a computer from a Linux manufacturer, like TUxedo, System76, Slimbook, and the like, 2% use a mac, and, interestingly, 5% bought a computer from a major manufacturer with Linux preinstalled, so presumably from Dell or Lenovo, as these are the 2 main ones that have the option, AFAIK.

I paired that question with another one, asking how well Linux ran on people's computers, and overwhelmingly, it seems that hardware compatibility is great these days. 63% of respondents said they experienced 0 issues after installing Linux, and 23% said they did have small problems that they could fix. Only 13% said there's still hardware that doesn't work at all, and 1% said their computer performs pretty badly under Linux.

66% of people who answered use flatpaks mixed in with packages from other sources, and 6% only use this format, meaning we're at almost 3/4 of respondants that use Flatpaks daily.

The results are not as positive for other formats, with Snaps not being used at all by 84% of people who answered, and 54% of people not using APpImages at all.

On the topic of applications, Firefox seems to be the asbolute most poplar browser here, at 68%, with an extra 9% for Firefox derivatives like Librewolf.

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@fonecokid@c.im There's a simple and easy way to solve this but too bad #Newsom doesn't have the balls to do it. Shut off the water and electricity to every Federal building in Los Angeles. Have the Fire Marshals condemn the buildings and render them uninhabitable. Fire Marshals have to be allowed access to any building to conduct Fire Code inspections. They can not legally be denied. But we know they will be. So when they are, have them declare the buildings not safe for occupancy and order the electric and water to be shut off. The Federal Government does not trump the State Fire Marshal. Full stop. Too bad Newsom is too chicken-shit to actually do this though.

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Hey @davidaugust that’s what I meant with „thin ice“. Deliberately shooting press (yes rubber bullets, but that’s the first step) people, you can see the shooter aiming in the video. He surely faces no consequences and so he learns. babka.social/@dukepaaron/11465…

נאריש זשלאָב מענטש (@dukepaaron@babka.social)

Attached: 1 video Watch this cop deliberately shoot a less lethal round into an Australian reporter who was not in the line of fire at all. 👀
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@Kon , a human rights lawyer, who has extensive expertise in the area of international #maritime law:

"This is state-based #piracy under International maritime law"

@Bundesregierung

#breakthesiege
#Madleen #FreedomFlottilla #freedomflotillacoalition
#Gaza
#starvation #hunger #aushungerung #aid
#genocide #Genozid #stopGenocide

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#Gaza #FreedomFlotilla
#BBC #propaganda
@palestine

"Israel's act of piracy was described by the BBC as "diverting" the Madleen. In what universe was this a diversion? When you capture people in international waters who have committed no crime, you have not diverted them, you have kidnapped them"
That's why I do what I do, trying to give a truer to life version of events than corporate media does. They're devious and rubbish. Boycott I say.

councilestatemedia.uk/p/israel…


Israel did not arrest the crew of the Madleen, it kidnapped them

The crew are now hostages...
Ricky Hale (Council Estate Media)

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À Los Angeles, après la Garde nationale Donald Trump menace d’envoyer l’armée contre les manifestant·es

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Les manifestations contre la politique migratoire de la Maison-Blanche se sont poursuivies pour une troisième journée consécutive dans le comté de Los Angeles.

Pour la première fois depuis 1965, le président américain a décidé de déployer la Garde nationale sans le consentement du gouverneur Newsom qui a annoncé poursuivre l’administration en justice.


À Los Angeles, après la Garde nationale Donald Trump menace d’envoyer l’armée contre les manifestants | Le Grand Continent

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I use the default elementary OS Mail and Calendar apps. While they have their limitations, they are still pretty handy in a pinch, and since I don’t send all that much email, and most of our meetings are informal, my needs are well covered.

We also tend to use Slack a lot. We also use Asana to manage the roadmap and the state of various projects and tasks, and this runs perfectly in a browser, so it’s another pinned tab.Finally, to handle communication with the dev team, we use Gitlab, with multiple boards. This is also handled through Firefox without any issues whatsoever.

LibreOffice. It’s a great office suite, it’s fast, it’s flexible, handles MS document formats pretty well, and looks good on elementary OS, once I switched it to a tabbed interface. I mostly work on the word processor and the spreadsheets, since I rarely have to give presentations.

For mockups, I tend to use GIMP, or more recently, GLIMPSE, just because its icon is nicer, if I’m honest. I’m used to it, and since I mainly work from screenshots that I then transform and tweak, it does a pretty good job.

All my files are synced through pCloud, just in case. It’s a fantastic cloud syncing solution, pretty inexpensive, and reliable, and it lets you sync folder to folder on as many devices as you want, which means you don’t have to store your files in a single folder for them to be synced.

The main one here is Notes Up. It’s a markdown note taking application, that’s designed for elementary OS, but I’m pretty sure you can find it somewhere else. It has nothing really special, but since it looks so nice on elementary, I stuck with it. Its note database is synced through pCloud to my main desktop at home, so I always have everything where I need it.

Obviously, I also use Firefox all the time, and Chromium a little bit less. I prefer Firefox, since I really like what the company is doing for the web in general, and I don’t want to give Google more power than it already has, so staying clear of their browsing engine is a priority for me. Still, since our webapp is used by real people, who, you know, use Chrome, I also test our webapp on Chromium.

ULauncher is another one I came to use to quickly find files. It’s a quick launch tool: just hit control + space, and start typing. It can use accelerators to filter specific stuff, for example, when I type gt budget, it’s going to use Gnome Tracker to find files names Budget, and offer me a bunch of options to deal with that file.
A very simple tool I also use it COlor Picker, a basic color picking utility available in the App Center in elementary OS. It keeps a history of the colors you’ve selected, and allows you to quickly copy and paste them, in various formats, like RGB, hexadecimal, etc…

I also use Optimizer, a nice looking system monitor for elementary OS. It allows me to monitor processes, cpu, ram, and disk usage, and check if running our web app is getting too intensive on a specific browser.

Less used apps include Drawing, a paint-like program for quick annotations on screenshots, Screen recorder for quick video screen grabs to illustrate a specific bug or issue, and PDF tricks for when I need to merge or split pdf documents.

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I asked Grok a silly question... and learned something.

The phrase "drive on a parkway and park on a driveway" is a humorous observation about the quirky naming of roads and spaces in English. Here's why:

Parkway: Originally, "parkway" referred to a road bordered by or running through a park or landscaped greenery, like the scenic boulevards designed in the 19th century (e.g., Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, 1870s). The term emphasized aesthetic appeal, not parking. Over time, "parkway" came to describe major roads for driving, often with limited access, like highways. You drive on them because they’re built for travel, not parking.

Driveway: A "driveway" was historically a private path for driving vehicles from a road to a house or garage (think 1920s-1930s suburban homes). Since it leads to a home, it’s a convenient spot to park your car, even though the name suggests a path for driving. The term stuck, and now we associate driveways with parking.

#LOL #AI #humor

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Israeli companies are facing increased advertising costs on Meta platforms due to a decline in effectiveness of their ads.

Israeli companies spent between $1.8 and $1.9 billion on Meta advertising between 2023 and 2025, with decreasing effectiveness. Israeli firms have been identified as top advertisers on Meta, including gaming companies, IT services firms, content marketing companies, and brick-and-mortar e-commerce suppliers.

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Leaked Data From Meta Reveal Israeli Companies Are Struggling To Find Customers

For the year 2025, the Israeli government announced it would be earmarking an additional $150 million toward global public relations, an unprecedented increase in spending that comes alongside a striking collapse in perception for Israel around the w…
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Here’s a thoughtful piece from @mononcqc, well worth reading. It says things I hadn’t heard yet articulated so well.

One thing I appreciate immensely: the way Fred’s analytical approach centers humans instead of tech, and takes the subjective experiences of human developers •seriously•.

Fred’s summary in the quoted post gives the core idea, but the larger piece has many sharp thoughts and rewards close reading. I’ll quote a few in the thread below.

1/ hachyderm.io/@mononcqc/1146536…

Fred Hebert (@mononcqc@hachyderm.io)

Why do some people have a shit time with LLMs for programming while others love it? What the latter group does is create tons of scaffolding to properly restrict LLMs, and acquire new skills to cope with all the unpredictable stuff they might do.
Hachyderm.io
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Paul Cantrell

“I fall in the baffled camp that thinks better designs are possible.” … “I don’t expect my calls to be heard. Selling sci-fi is way too effective. And as long as the AI is perceived as the engine of a new industrial revolution, decision-makers will imagine it can do so, and task people to make it so.”

ferd.ca/the-gap-through-which-…

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The Gap Through Which We Praise the Machine

My current theory of agentic programming: people are amazing at adapting the tools they're given and totally underestimate the extent to which they do it, and the amount of skill we build doing that is an incidental consequence of how badly the tools…
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Paul Cantrell

These pieces are much harsher than Fred’s, much more in the LLM-bashing camp, but feel relevant here:

softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llm…

pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/05/gen…

Fred’s point is that a bad interaction model creates hidden work, then humans do that work and “the machine claims the praise.” These other two pieces make the point that this phenomenon of giving the machine credit for unrecognized human work is age-old, taps into some deep trapdoors in human cognition.

10/


Generative AI runs on gambling addiction — just one more prompt, bro!

You’ll have noticed how previously normal people start acting like addicts to their favourite generative AI and shout at you like you’re trying to take their cocaine away. Matthias Döpm…
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What can they do? They control neither of the chambers, the House and the Senate. They have aquiesced to putting Judges on Supreme court who had a particular bent. They gave sky high inflation, people requiring to hold 3 jobs to put food on the table and oh forget about owing a house. All the while enriching the rich.

Let us wait for mid-terms and see what they choose. Some ideological nonsense or real life bread butter issues.

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@violetmadder
The alternative is violence. Violence never helps. It will only make matter worse. And yeah Dems have given for too long lip service to things that actually matter and done nothing about it.

There is a need to keep the peace. This too shall pass. DJT and his policies are impermanent. This can be fixed without resorting to radical methods.

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The view today from Grand Teton National Park. For more information nps.gov/grte/index.htm and americanalpineclub.org/grand-t… and #interpretation #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #landscapephotography #photography Image credit American Alpine Club and National Park Service #grandteton #climbing #wywx #wyoming #trees #mountains #snowruler
Trees and mountains fill this view from Grand Teton National Park. Tucked away in the trees are two of the cabins found at the Grand Teton Climbers’ Ranch. Snow can be seen in the mountains in the distance, while an alternating black and white snow ruler stands in the vegetation in the foreground. The sky is generally blue with a few white clouds here and there.

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Keep your eye on Trump's attempts to use the National Guard to put down the protests in Los Angeles. Yesterday he praised the National Guard for doing this - but the 2,000 troops he ordered to the area hadn't even arrived yet!

Instead, it was Los Angeles Police Department and ICE agents involved in the fighting in the neighborhoods of Compton and Paramount.

I have long thought Trump would invoke the Insurrection Act to federalize the National Guard as protests against him grow - thus reducing the power of state governors to stop his actions. Instead, the directive signed by Mr. Trump on Saturday cites another law:

whitehouse.gov/presidential-ac…

This allows the president to control National Guard forces if “there is a rebellion or danger of a rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States", and use them "in such numbers as he considers necessary to repel the invasion, suppress the rebellion, or execute those laws.”

From what happened in Hong Kong and elsewhere, I'm not at all optimistic about violent street protests being able to stop an authoritarian regime. Instead, the regime thrives on violence, since that's a sphere where it has the upper hand. The regime will also try to tip nonviolent protests into becoming violent by using excessive force and/or propaganda that claims the protests are more dangerous than they actually are.

Here are 198 methods of nonviolent action compiled by Gene Sharp in his book The Politics of Nonviolent Action:

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A police officer uses stun grenades as officers approach protesters gathered around the Los Angeles Federal Building after multiple detentions by ICE agents in downtown Los Angeles on Friday January 6, 2025. (Reuters/Daniel Cole).

Department of Defense Security for the Protection of Department of Homeland Security Functions – The White House MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES SUBJECT: Elimin

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both violent and nonviolent protests are necessary together. In all successful regime changes both have existed side-by-side, even if they've usually criticized each other a lot. MLK wouldn't have succeeded without the threat of Malcom X (instead, the Klan unopposed would have been able to crush the nonviolent arm). Of course, Malcom X wouldn't have been able to stage a revolution either.

That's not an example of regime change, but India is, and Ghandi needed the violent resistance just as much as they needed him. Modern Syria is probably another good example, though I'm less familiar with the details, I do know that peaceful protests precipitated the actual rebellion phase, and they were likely important in demonstrating the weakness of the regime that emboldened the rebels who eventually succeeded. Also it wasn't marches on the streets, but other forms of nonviolent resistance doubtless contributed to the crumbling of Assad's security forces, who weren't directly defeated militarily.

Thankfully, as in the civil rights movement, significant change short of full regime change can happen without a full-on rebellion, but violence in the streets is absolutely necessary. And if there isn't sufficient street violence now, we're headed towards either more successful violence by the state (which is already systematically killing immigrants) or at least a full-on rebellion. We should be cheering the much-less-lethal street violence against fascists we've got now in hopes things don't get worse, while also organizing massive peaceful resistance.

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1/EU governments should firmly condemn Israel's illegal maritime kidnapping of the Madleen crew and demand their citizens are freed immediately.

This morning, the Israeli military boarded and seized the Madleen—a civilian vessel delivering a symbolic amount of aid to Gaza—and kidnapped its crew.

Many of those on board are citizens of EU member states. Those governments—along with all others—should unequivocally condemn Israel's illegal actions and demand the immediate release of their citizens

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> Amazon Shuts Down Smart Home for a Week Over Racist Slur Claim

… and cancels all of the "books" that the customer "owns". Because the delivery driver thought the doorbell was racist.


Amazon Shuts Down Smart Home for a Week Over Racist Slur Claim

The tech giant admitted it had made a mistake after a user was locked out of his devices for a week over an alleged racist remark heard by a delivery driver.
Aleks Phillips (Newsweek)

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I don't usually post a lot about Windows, but a number of my customers have been having problems with LibreOffice just not doing anything when trying to start it.

This is the fix: Compatibility Mode

#libreoffice #windows
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matthew

2025-06-09 17:09:00

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Changing the "Compatibility Mode" of an application in Windows 11 - LibreOffice fix


Some people have had trouble opening LibreOffice on Windows 11. Changing the "Compatibility Mode" of the application seems to fix the issue (or at least be a functional workaround).


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Changing the "Compatibility Mode" of an application in Windows 11 - LibreOffice fix
Some people have had trouble opening LibreOffice on Windows 11. Changing the "Compatibility Mode" of the application seems to fix the issue (or at least be a functional workaround).

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Redwood National and State Parks this weekend. Learn more at nps.gov/redw/index.htm and savetheredwoods.org/blog/wildf… and #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #photography #forest #trees #flowers #phenology Image credit Kurt Angersbach / Westernlabs #color #cawx #redwoods #lily #ocean
A brilliant orange flower set against the deep greens of the redwood forest. This is a lily from along the trail in Redwood National and State Parks yesterday. The flowers are just beginning to open at this elevation, which is approximately 400 feet above sea level and about a mile from the Pacific Ocean. (Perhaps a Tiger Lily, Columbian Lily)

Wildflowers of the redwood forests | Save the Redwoods League

If it’s spring, it’s wildflower season. Wildflower season is one of the best times to experiences California’s great outdoors. Here are some favorites.
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