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I just found out about TLP - a module to download with apt, which is a good utility for maintaining the laptop battery.
You can set a minimum charge value, and a maximum charge value.
But it is not sufficient for my use case.
My question is - is there any utility I can use to discharge the battery WHILE connected to AC?
The reason behind this is:
I want to use the solar power during the day to charge up the battery to 80 or 90% and then discharge the battery in the evening to 15-20%. Afterwards use AC power again.
The solar energy during mid-day is cheaper and available in abundance.
On a big level with many computers this could make a good impact on the energy network, or am I wrong?
Palestinian journalist Hassan Islih was assassinated while receiving treatment inside the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis.admin (Palestine Chronicle)
Somebody is going to #hack these #AI companies so bad.
They absolutely are not even thinking about #InformationSecurity or #CyberSecurity. At. All. No startup does. Hell, even cyber security startups rarely think about their own cyber security. And when it happens it's going to be a shit-show like none we've ever seen or imagined.
Imagine your entire Company's IP is now tied up in processes that not only do you not fully control but that you don't fully understand either.
And something similar to the Great Irish Potato Famine comes along and wipes everything out.
Heh.
Yeah. Good luck.
It's not a matter of if something like that will happen, but when, and at the rate some of these Companies are going, when might get here sooner rather than later.
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AI obsolescence is “coming for basically everyone in due time,” says one engineer who went from earning $150k to being locked out of the workforce for over a...Preston Fore (Yahoo News)
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Is China building Russian settlements in Crimea?
The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly to adopt a resolution that demands that Israel “brings to an end without delay its unlawful presence” in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.UN News
Yes Russia is.
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After refusing Russian passports, Ukrainians who left Crimea are losing their homes to forced sales. Rights groups say Russia's property seizures in occupied Crimea amount to systematic expropriation.RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service (RFE/RL)
The problem with stupidity is that it doesn’t have a natural opposite.
What I mean by that is that lies are exposed and destroyed by truth.
Ignorance is erased by knowledge.
Foolishness is curbed by wisdom.
But stupidity remains undisturbed by reason, wisdom, argument or new information. The act of stupidity requires shutting off all inputs that could otherwise intrude upon the stupid idea.
When you fight against stupidity, all you do is make the mess worse, and get it on yourself.
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Uber to introduce fixed-route shuttles in major US cities
Link: techcrunch.com/2025/05/14/uber…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Ride-hail and delivery giant Uber is introducing cheap, fixed-route rides along busy corridors during weekday commute hours in major U.S. cities -- oneRebecca Bellan (TechCrunch)
Our radiant friend would not want us to feel pain when mentioning her name.The Electronic Intifada
🇮🇱🇵🇸💥 28 morts d'un coup : la frappe massive d' #Israël contre l'hôpital européen de #Gaza à été dévastatrice
Dans la soirée du 13 mai, les forces israéliennes ont attaqué l'hôpital européen de #KhanYounis, dans la bande de Gaza.
Selon Al Jazeera, au moins 28 personnes ont été tuées. Parmi elles se trouvent des patients et du personnel médical. Les frappes ont touché directement le bâtiment de l’hôpital, provoquant une indignation considérable au sein de la communauté internationale.
🇮🇱 L'armée israélienne affirme avoir frappé un centre de commandement et de contrôle du Hamas, qui aurait été caché sous l’hôpital.
Le ministère israélien a déclaré avoir attaqué l'installation dans le cadre de la lutte contre les terroristes, mais n'a pas précisé dans quelle mesure l'attaque contre les infrastructures civiles était justifiée.
L'hôpital européen de Gaza est un hôpital public palestinien fondé par l'Office de secours et de travaux des Nations Unies pour le Proche-Orient ( #UNRWA) en 1989 avec une subvention de l'UE. L’hôpital fournit depuis longtemps des soins médicaux aux réfugiés palestiniens et aux habitants de la région souffrant de la guerre et du blocus.
#EU #US #US-Israel #US-Israel-terrorism #Israel #Israël #genocide #ethnic-cleansing #Gaza #WestBank #Palestine #Cisjordanie
Show HN: Lumier – Run macOS VMs in a Docker
Link: github.com/trycua/cua/tree/mai…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
c/ua is the Docker Container for Computer-Use AI Agents. - trycua/cuaGitHub
#Kiesewetter, #CDU und ehemals Präsident vom Verband der Reservisten der Deutschen Bundeswehr, weswegen er von seiner Partei und bei #ARD, #ZDF gerne mal als Außenpolitikexperte vorgestellt wird, haut bei #HartAberFair eine Nahost-Version von "Die Krim gehörte schon immer zu Russland" raus.
#Neokolonialismus wird beim #ÖRR präsentiert als Expertise in Außenpolitik.
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#Imperialismus #Kolonialismus #Rechtsextremismus #CSU #Medienkritik #Medienproblem
My 17yr old was ranting last night about teachers encouraging the use of AI and how stupid it was.
They had done a quiz about a film, and the quiz had been ai generated. They spent most of the lesson pointing out all of the mistakes in the quiz and the woefully incorrect answers.
It became an impromptu lesson on why you *shouldn't* use AI.
"I hate everything about it" she finally said.
This past Sunday, I thought it were appropriate that our usual Peace Roundtable be devoted to a memorial of the life of Dr.Matthew Ehret (Matt Ehret's Insights)
UPDATE: Gilmour Space will NOT be launching the Eris on #TestFlight1 today 😭
Overnight system checks have identified an issue in the ground support systems and will be reviewing.
Next launch window scheduled for this Friday morning.
Yay! New #DownieLive! He and his friend Jeff are traveling from Narvisk, Norway to Africa. By #train. #MichaelDownie #YouTuber #vlog
Watch episode 2, right NOW, on Nebula: https://go.nebula.tv/downieexpress?ref=downieliveSign up using that link and get 40% off an annual subscription.Follow...YouTube
UN chief highlights role of UN peace operations-english.news.cn
AMAZING: President Trump Receives an Absolutely EPIC Welcome to Qatar and Proceeds to Strike Two Huge Economic Deals – Jealous Democrats Plan a Pathetic Response (VIDEO)
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President Trump is absolutely delivering for Americans during his overseas trip to Qatar, a small country that is a critical partner in the Middle East, which appreciates his presence.Cullen Linebarger (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
⚠️ Change your Steam Password ⚠️
89,000,000 usernames, passwords, and 2-step verification codes have been leaked.
After changing your password, you may wish to reset your 2-step code too.
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#Steam #SteamPowered #Game #Gaming
Thanks for the heads up!
Changing my password was made extremely difficult by the way. I use steamguard-cli and ente Auth for 2FA but steam insisted on sending me a code to the app. I had to jump through many hoops to end up at email verification again.
The 2FA had to be fully removed before I could change my pw 😅
Daniel De Leon: Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Changes since congestion pricing started in New York
Link: nytimes.com/interactive/2025/0…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Fewer cars. Faster travel. Less honking. And some questions we still can’t answer.Emily Badger (The New York Times)
"Wikipedia has no consistent editorial voice or political platform — it is reality as captured by others and summarized by volunteers. As such, efforts to censor it reveal a specific form of insecurity about education and information."
via @ethanz
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Ryan McGrady writes that you can learn a lot about a state's view on free expression by how it treats Wikipedia.Ryan McGrady (Tech Policy Press)
EU citizens, please sign this petition to ban conversion therapy EU wide.
It's a practice that's very harmful towards LGBTQ+ people.
It's already banned in some countries but we need a EU wide ban!
We need seven countries past their thresholds AND at least 1,000,000 total votes. Countries lacking enough votes:
- #austria (30.97%)
- #denmark (50.36%)
- #estonia (23.83%)\
- #germany (62.37%)
- #greece (14.76%)
- #italy (41.19%)
- #poland (19.14%)
- #portugal (29.27%)
- #romania (32.54%)
- #Slovenia (96.44%)
- #sweden (58.7%)
We're at 566,000 / 1,000,000 for total votes — 56.6%
We need one more country past the threshold (we're at 6/7) and another 434,000 votes.
So keep signing & voting!
Spyware developer NSO Group was ordered to pay WhatsApp nearly $168 million in damages over targeting approximately 1,400 users with spyware, including journalists.
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The lawsuit also reveals more about how NSO Group executed its attacks on WhatsApp users, including journalists.Freedom of the Press
A very fun toy:
Go to a UK location. A delightful spidermap of the nine closest branches of Greggs is generated. Move around and the visualisation smoothly adjusts too.
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This is a timesink.
I'm facilitating an Open Space at #PyConUS:
Beautiful Soup: Ask Me Anything
Sun. May 18th; 2-3pm
An open questions session with @leonardr, the maintainer of screen-scraping library #BeautifulSoup. If you've ever used or tried to use it, share your questions, confusions, stuff you've made, concerns, ideas, offers of help, etc. with Leonard in person. If we don't have a ton of questions, we might do some impromptu usability testing to check whether the new type hints help you use the library.
Vladimir Putin offers peace talks, Zelensky and his western backers want a truce. And Trump appears to want to wash his hands of the Ukraine project. Ukraine was offered a very generous deal back in 2...Odysee
Connecting the Pacific Ocean with the land, the California Coastal National Monument provides unique coastal habitat for marine-dependent wildlife and vegetation on more than 20,000 rocks, islands, exposed reefs and pinnacles along the California coa…Bureau of Land Management
Trump Triumphs in Doha: US Secures Largest Aerospace and Defense Investment in History
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The critics said he was a showman.open.substack.com
Pyongyang, May 14 (KCNA) — A combined tactical drill of special operations sub-units for surpassing the standards for an all-mission battalion and a match and joint fire strike drill demonstration of tankmen’s sub-units were held on May 13 as a demon…Dermot Hudson (KFAUK.com)
Journaliste paresseux ou incompétent ? Journaliste voulant me nuire indiscutablement, sous couvert d'anonymat ou pas (n'est-ce pas Frédéric Haziza), vous auriez pu "enquêter" et vous auriez découvert que deux manifestations différentes, à des heures différentes, ont eu lieu le 8 mai.
#politique #merdias #désinformation #propagande
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Attaché : 1 image 1/7 Sophia Chikirou écrit dur X : Je demande au Canard Enchaine de rectifier immédiatement ses publications m'accusant d'avoir pris part à une manif "pro-poutine".Piaille
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Git Bug: Distributed, Offline-First Bug Tracker Embedded in Git, with Bridges
Link: github.com/git-bug/git-bug
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in git - git-bug/git-bugGitHub
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book summary
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"fraudulent and usurious"
usury, huh? like the shit jesus fought against and died for? remind me..who killed jesus?
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"has allowed a small group of money-lenders[..]to accumulate immense power."
thomas warned us..
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"manipulated governments, instigated wars[..]control over banking."
yes, buy bitcoin, because everything else is slavery
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Mao Zedong: Our dictatorship is the people's democratic dictatorship led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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I truly hope that the Trump administration corrects the Biden administration’s mistakes, abandons the lawyer-dependent framework, and quickly gets these brave veterans the compensation they deeply deserve.Newt Gingrich (Gingrich 360)
Pars Today –Iran’s Minister of Oil, Mohsen Paknejad, in a meeting with Iraq’s Minister of Electricity, Ziyad Ali Fadel, emphasized strengthening strategic...Pars Today
I created a simple Bash script that will always disable the default/internal monitor on your laptop when using AR glasses (or any other external monitor). I find this useful for when using AR glasses such as the XReal One which allows you to change the mode from regular mode to ultra-wide mode and when doing this, it will act as your unplugging the XReal ones and plugging in XReal one again in a new mode, causing the interal laptop display to become enabled.
To keep the laptop display always off, weather the laptop lid is either closed or open, this simple bash script will always disable the laptop screen every X seconds (You can change it by changing the wait
variable)
Simply copy this script and create a new bash script such as disable-display.sh
, make the script file executable and add it to your startup applications and it will run in the background. You will need to run xrandr
command with all of your displays enabled to get the names of the displays and change the variable names in the script accordingly.
NOTE: This script may not work with a full Wayland setup and may only work on X11.
Enjoy
\#!/bin/bash
\#RUN xrandr TO GET THE NAMES OF THE DISPLAYS AND SET THE VARIABLES TO THESE NAMES
readonly default_display="eDP"
readonly external_display="USB-C-0"
readonly wait=5
while true; do
#Check if there is an external display connected
if xrandr | grep -q "$external_display connected"; then
#Disable the internal display
xrandr --output $default_display --off
fi
sleep $wait
done
What company do you work for in XR?
I got the XReal One as a portable ergonomic monitor and I may use them as my main monitor going forward. I have a sit/stand desk with monitor arms which I can adjust the height and position for an ergonomic design to always look straight at the monitor and not looking down.
From my research currently the XReal Ones are the best AR/XR glasses on the market due to the chip built into them, not needing any other devices or software to run, just plug in play. The XReal One Pros which I think are coming out soon have some better specs but to me, not worth the extra money.
I been using them for regular desktop/laptop task and coding and I prefer to use the anchor mode when doing this. I sometimes also use the ultra-wide mode to simulate 2 monitors. I also been using them for gaming and I will either have it in follow or anchor mode but never use ultra-wide mode for gaming.
Mine, we're one in it, me ;)
Interesting, thanks for sharing the use cases and clarifying your choices.
I do also have a standing desk with a relatively large screen on a monitor arm. I also have a walking pad under the standing desk. The goal being to ergonomically have as much freedom as possible while still being efficient.
I did try the XReal months ago but I don't think I tried the Pro.
Otherwise I worked with pretty much everything (Google Glass, Vision Pro, Quest (all models), Monocle/Frames, my own DIY ones, etc) but my main focus is WebXR and 6DoF, so not really replacing a screen. I do understand it is useful, and sometimes as I travel I use the Quest 3 or Vision Pro to work in there but that's typically a temporary measure. My professional perspective is that 6DoF with hand tracking and accessories (6DoF pens, BT keyboard, etc) is the most novel way to interact with information hence why I build open-source WebXR prototypes on that topic.
"Was alle Unterzeichner der JDA gemeinsam haben: Es handelt sich um hoch angesehene, größtent. jüdische Wissenschaftler mit relevanter Expertise in den Geistes- & Sozialwissenschaften sowie der Rechtswissenschaft.
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Die JDA entstand aus der Erkenntnis, dass die frühere IHRA-Definition von 2016 Verwirrung stiftet, während sie Stimmen von Palästinensern & anderen – auch Juden –, die #Israel & Zionismus scharf kritisieren, delegitimiert."
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Die Linke hat sich gegen die in Deutschland übliche Definition von Antisemitismus gestellt und damit viel Kritik auf sich gezogen. Tatsächlich zeigt die Partei, dass sie jüdischen Pluralismus respektiert. Andere sollten ihrem Beispiel folgen.Itamar Mann (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)
"Die #Linke verdient Anerkennung dafür, dass sie klarstellt: Der Kampf gegen #Antisemitismus darf nicht auf Kosten der intellektuellen und politischen Freiheit geführt werden – und nicht auf Kosten einer Reduktion jüdischer Identität auf eine einzelne, regierungskonforme Stimme.
Wer sich mit jüdischer Geschichte auskennt, weiß, dass Zionismus, Nicht-Zionismus und sogar Antizionismus seit Langem Strömungen innerhalb jüdischen Denkens und politischen Lebens sind."
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Die Linke hat sich gegen die in Deutschland übliche Definition von Antisemitismus gestellt und damit viel Kritik auf sich gezogen. Tatsächlich zeigt die Partei, dass sie jüdischen Pluralismus respektiert. Andere sollten ihrem Beispiel folgen.Itamar Mann (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)
This answer had to get serious because the question was serious. WATCH NEXT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY3bLzm6Q4A&list=PLxinf-OoR9oXer8mU6Yv1g2_u6muM6...YouTube
Brian Berletic- Division of Labor + Contempt for Democracy: Germany Vows to Take Ukraine Military Support Out of Public Eyethealtworld (TheAltWorld’s Newsletter)
BREAKING: 🚨 URSULA VON DER LEYEN IN SERIOUS TROUBLE — EU COURT ORDERS RELEASE OF PFIZER TEXTS 🚨
🔴 After 4 years of cover-ups, lawsuits, and “investigations” — the European Court of Justice has ruled:
🗣️ The EU Commission MUST release Ursula von der Leyen’s private texts with Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla.
🔴 These messages contain the secret "negotiations" for a €35 BILLION vaccine deal — paid for by you, the taxpayer.
🔥 IT GETS WORSE 🔥
💰 Investigate Europe reports the price per dose was 15x the cost of production — meaning billions may have been overpaid.
👀 Bourla skipped his EU Parliament testimony in 2022.
💉 Von der Leyen’s husband? Medical Director of Orgenesis — a biotech firm funded by the EU, partnered with... Pfizer.
📢 WHAT THIS MEANS:
⚠️ Potential corruption at the highest levels of the EU.
⚠️ Conflicts of interest that directly benefited von der Leyen’s own family.
⚠️ Billions in public money — possibly funneled through backdoor deals.
💥 This isn’t negligence.
💥 This isn’t incompetence.
💥 This smells like fraud — on a continental scale.
🚨 SHE’S BEEN CAUGHT — AND EUROPE IS WATCHING. RELEASE THE TEXTS. 🚨
In Kiev Region, a school director in one of the schools has been dismissed for using the Russian language in conversations with schoolchildren, parents and at public events.newsmaker newsmaker (English News front)
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Alahednews - Fastnews - Saree: We call on all the nations to stand up in honor, rejecting the genocide against their brothers as well as starvation and siege.english.alahednews.news
EPA Chief Lee Zeldin this week announced his agency is getting rid of the ‘start/stop’ technology where your car dies at every red light.
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EPA Chief Lee Zeldin this week announced his agency is getting rid of the ‘start/stop’ technology where your car dies at every red light.Cristina Laila (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
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I wonder what authors feel like when life begins to imitate the art that they create or the stories they write.
Take @pluralistic's work, for example. Today I found out that some activists dumped paint and butyric acid on the building that Microsoft inhabits in Berlin, which was one of the things that was mentioned in Doctorow's latest work, Picks & Shovels (although in a different context).
And of course, there was the whole Luigi thing with the UHC CEO from Radicalized, although that story was written several years prior.
Or heck, pretty much anything written by those early dystopian authors who theorized a dark world that has, by and large, come to pass. I don't mean to pick on Cory Doctorow, by any means; he just happens to be the most recent author in my sphere of consciousness who has had several ideas from his books "brought to life" in recent memory.
Now, I certainly wouldn't hold authors or artists responsible for the actions performed by the people that internalize their work on a visceral level into extreme actions (unless that art specifically says in no uncertain terms, "I want you to do this") but as most art has a point or an idea that the artist wishes to communicate, I wonder what kind of inner turmoil the creator might feel when the more extreme actions are acted out in the real world based on those ideas that the artist proffered.
Seems to me like it could go either way: either feeling the crushing weight of the responsibility for the art they create and how someone might interpret it or the "hey, I'm just sayin' what we're all thinkin'" kind of abdication of that responsibility which, in many cases, is not an invalid point to make. How does one balance that out, I wonder?
Rosa Luxemburg: Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
The Cryptography Behind Passkeys
Link: blog.trailofbits.com/2025/05/1…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
This post will examine the cryptography behind passkeys, the guarantees they do or do not give, and interesting cryptographic things you can do with them, such as generating cryptographic keys and storing certificates.The Trail of Bits Blog
The Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) is deeply grieved at the demise of Comrade Nepaldeb Bhattacharya, senior trade union leader, President of All India Road Transport Workers Federation and All India Working Committee member of CITU.Centre of Indian Trade Unions
This Hubble image peers into the spiral galaxy NGC 1317 in the constellation Fornax, located more than 50 million light-years from Earth.NASA Hubble Mission Team (NASA Science)
Dedicated to Greasy NewSCUM
Der Fuehrer's Face
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From the 1942 Disney production of the same name.Words and music by Oliver Wallace.Lyrics1. Ven Der Fuehrer says, "Ve iss der Master Race"Ve Heil, Heil right...YouTube
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., has bucked the Democratic Party on key issues since assuming office in 2022.Deirdre Heavey (Fox News)
The Palestinian Ministry of Health has reported that the death toll from Israel’s military offensive has risen to 52,908 since October 2023, with 119,721teleSURenglish
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in reply to Jumuta • • •So it would be something, and a good place to start as the battery is there anyway and is plugged in all the time too, anyway.
MangoPenguin
in reply to Floopquist • • •That's the absolute maximum output, a typical laptop uses more like 2-6W while running.
Plus cycling the battery like that will wear it out faster, and they're generally only rated for 500 or so cycles. The replacement cost would likely easily over come any savings.