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Wednesday is here and it brings the weekly teaser edition of Other People's Music! This thread will reveal the first line of each review, then link to the full review, the music and the artists' socials. Here's the link to the full thing, in case you didn't want to wait:
I’ve been using AI coding assistants like Claude Code for a while now, and I’m here to say (with all due respect to people who have substance abuse issues), I may be an addict. And boy is this is an…
Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
@artificial-intelligence-Futurism yeah i mean an org that acts like this is essentially saying "oh sorry, it went viral. we'll try again later when hopefully no one is looking". like you said, accounts deleted. do they think i'm going to take the time to re-upload that shit?
Israel says it targeted senior Hamas figure Mohammed Sinwar in a massive airstrike near a Gaza European hospital Tuesday night. Hamas denies the claim, as uncertainty swirls around his fate, and ongoing ceasefire negotiations.
@TXPatriot2021 if every station showed the talks/interviews of the foreign dignitaries they wouldn’t be so surprised. The honors that have been shown POTUS have been awesome. Everyone has smiles and eager to talk to him and shake hands. I know ya’ll don’t like FOX and I talk them with a handful of salt, but they have been broadcasting most of the stuff going on. It really should be on all TV like the Space ships were. It’s historical.
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?
I've got a 2021 Dell laptop. In uefi, you can set charge times and type of charge, 50%,80%, full, and smart. I think it's in like 1/2 hour blocks by day. By that I mean on (day of week) from 9:30am to 6:00pm charge full, different day may have different settings. .
@Intheflsun @Floopquist What I meant is that I do not think you can have it discharge the battery when AC is present without altering the PD chips firmware.
The converter says "Output: 65W" 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.
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.
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.
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...
This is why we say "critical support". China gets a lot of things right but this definitely is not one of them and they can and certainly should do better on this.
This is probably the biggest thing most of us who support AES states criticize constantly.
Do you want China to be another USA? Because interference with the open market and manipulating other nations with tariffs and sanctions is something China promises not to do unilaterally, unless they are attacked in the same way. Thus, China cannot interfere with normal Chinese-Israeli business. Does that mean construction materials and labour will go to construct things where the Chinese government itself may not want? Sure, but it also means the Chinese will never cut you off unilaterally.
The only way to change this is to petition the UN for global sanctions. But USA will clearly block anything with help from their allies. China simply refuses to take any market distorting actions, and like it or not, construction is absolutely normal business activity.
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.
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.
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.
Ride-hail and delivery giant Uber is introducing cheap, fixed-route rides along busy corridors during weekday commute hours in major U.S. cities -- one
🇮🇱🇵🇸💥 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.
#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.
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 still think it’s backwards that mass shooters owning assault weapons is considered a right while their victims’ healthcare is considered a privilege.
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The article claims only phone numbers and 2FA codes got leaked. If you didn't have 2FA connected to your SMS you might be fine. Your actual account password isn't affected.
the article makes no mention of usernames or passwords being leaked. and while a leak of phone numbers is obviously a problem, historical sms 2fa codes are, well, historical and aren't an active risk to account security
steam's authentication process never even sends a plaintext password to the backend if i remember right, so they definitely know how to do account security and not to store plaintext passwords
The article doesn't say passwords were leaked, just 2FA codes through the SMS provider. You could use access to the 2FA code to reset a user's password, but that's not the same as a password hash leak.
tbf - this is not as big of a panic moment as it may seem. This is only historic OTP data. Steam Guard seems to be as funxtional as when Gaben fave out his password/mail combo couple years ago to prove the point of otp codes.
Id expect more targetted phishing with the phone numbers though
Folks, there is 0 evidence that Steam passwords have been breached. Unless and until credible evidence occurs, please do NOT urge people to change their login credentials and please do NOT boost other people's toots doing the same.
Looks like it's probably just 2FA info -- specifically SMS 2FA numbers -- that got leaked probably. If anyone is using SMS 2FA, they definitely should do something about it.
I won't disagree that changing passwords just to be on the safe side is a good idea though. I disagree with those who so adamantly insist that even though there is evidence of a breach of some kind we should just ignore it just because it's not immediately showing signs of including passwords.
So the great thing about Fedi is that you can edit your posts as new information comes in. No need to write a separate update post, and it spreads just as well as the original. Updating the post to remove factually incorrect information also helps to boost the credibility behind the message that changing passwords is still a good practice. Anyway, that's a long-winded way of saying I think you should update the post, but fully support pushing people to update passwords. ^^
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/…
Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
"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."
Found a problem with the form: the last nlln is not part of the id number. Never been asked for that specific code before, even when negotiating with an isp over the phone. I bet most people get an error when they type their id number and just give up...
Il tempo rimasto è poco, ma qualche voto in piú non può che far bene, oltre al fatto che fa bene parlarne e riconoscersi nelle molte persone europee che già hanno dato il proprio sostegno.
Worth pointing out you only need to be a citizen, you don't need to currently reside there. So if you're in the UK, Switzerland, etc right now but hold a passport for an EU country, you can sign anyway.
Done: und an meine deutsche Timeline: Konversionstherapie ist wirklich verachtenswert und hier ist ne (elektronische) Unterschrift sehr viel wirksamer als bei Plattformen wie Campact etc.
Proibição das práticas de conversão na União Europeia
Apelamos à Comissão Europeia para que proponha um ato legislativo vinculativo que proíba as práticas de conversão dirigidas aos cidadãos LGBTQ+ na União Europeia:
Por práticas de conversão enten…
People from other countries also count to the total of signatures. It just *especially* needs also the threshold in a number of countries specifically.
You might want to phrase that differently. It's not clear what the percentages stand for. Is it the amount of votes that are missing, the amount of votes cast _ and in that case, why is Slovenia on it? – or something else?
Just in case some people think that signing is useless because they are from a country already above the threshold: that's not the case. It's very likely that the initiative will meet the 7 country threshold (Netherlands has made it already, and Slovenia is nearly there) and yet will fail to meet the global 1 000 000 signatures. So, right now, everybody must sign!
Ter verduidelijking: "conversion therapy" is een therapie waarbij homo's etc. worden "afgeholpen" van hun homofilie etc. Het bestaat uit een opeenstapeling van manke medische en psychologische theorieën. Het probleem reikt verder dan een aanval op homofilie etc., omdat het ook een verdediging is van verkeerde medische opvattingen, die steunen op volledig verouderde theorieën. En met "verouderd" bedoel ik dus echt OUD.
Already signed. Maybe it would help to explain what „conversion therapy“ is would help. When I’ve first read your post I was wondering: is this a good thing or a bad one? (I’ve never heard of this before so it sounded like some variation of psychotherapy)
I don’t know the history of this issue (thou I found info about legal texts and initiatives where it seems already banned in some coubtries), but here are my two cents: 1. “conversion therapy” is a very weird and misleading name. 2. I might be wrong but what is described is a form of violence and I’m surprised if it’s not already covered by the many laws covering many forms of violence.
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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.
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...
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Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Inspects Combined Tactical Drill of Different Arms Conducted under Training Course of Conference of Training Officers of KPA #DPRKkfauk.com/respected-comrade-ki…
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…
Je demande au Canard Enchaine de rectifier immédiatement ses publications m'accusant d'avoir pris part à une manif "pro-poutine".
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.
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Je demande au Canard Enchaine de rectifier immédiatement ses publications m'accusant d'avoir pris part à une manif "pro-poutine".
Ça devient intéressant là 1:39:00 "ces oligarchies européennes, qui n'avaient pas gagner la guerre [en Ukraine] avec les États-Unis, voulaient la gagner sans eux"
"33 AD, Jesus traveled to the city of Jerusalem for the Jewish ceremony of Passover. There were thousands of pilgrims from around the world and the temple provided services for them to change their foreign money or buy animals to sacrifice. Jesus was furious. He believed that trade like this corrupted the holy site. According to the Gospel of St John, he wrecked the stalls of the moneylenders and drove them all out of the temple. "
NASA has selected Rocket Lab USA Inc. of Long Beach, California, to launch the agency’s Aspera mission, a SmallSat to study galaxy formation and evolution, providing new insights into how the universe works. The selection is part of NASA’s Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) launch services contract. This contract allows the agency to […]
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/…
Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
"Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset."
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.
Pars Today –Iran’s Minister of Oil, Mohsen Paknejad, in a meeting with Iraq’s Minister of Electricity, Ziyad Ali Fadel, emphasized strengthening strategic...
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
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.
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.
[...] 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."
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.
"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."
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.
This answer had to get serious because the question was serious. WATCH NEXT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY3bLzm6Q4A&list=PLxinf-OoR9oXer8mU6Yv1g2_u6muM6...
Ils ont toujours raison et personne n'a le droit de leur dire quoi que ce soit.....Inversion totale de la réalité actuelle, spécialité des sionistes....et je ne pense pas qu'ils aient grand peur du bouffon cocaïnomane....
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. 🚨
The spiral galaxy known as Messier 81 (M81) has a rosy tint in this June 1, 2007, composite image that incorporates data from NASA’s Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes, and NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer. Discovered by the German astronomer Johann Elert Bode in 1774, M81 is one of the brightest galaxies in the night sky. […]
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.
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/fastne…
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.
NASA will join a media teleconference hosted by Axiom Space at 10:30 a.m. EDT, Tuesday, May 20, to discuss the launch of Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4), the fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station. Briefing participants include: To join the call, media must register with Axiom Space by 12 p.m., Monday, May 19, […]
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?
On March 15, 2024, near the peak of the current solar cycle, the Sun produced a solar flare and an accompanying coronal mass ejection (CME), a massive explosion of gas and magnetic energy that carries with it large amounts of solar energetic particles. This solar activity led to stunning auroras across the solar system, including […]
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