Rise and Fall of Nations-from DPRK MFA #DPRK kfauk.com/rise-and-fall-of-nat…

Live from Hawaii Volcanoes National Park this morning. Image credit USGS/USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. Learn more at usgs.gov/volcanoes/kilauea/vol… and nps.gov/havo/learn/photosmulti… and #nps #nationalparks #interpretation #geology #usgs #publiclands #photography #landscapephotography #hawaii #volcano #eruption #kilauea #research #live #lava

#DangerDan - Das ist alles von der Kunstfreiheit gedeckt (Antilopen Gang)

#Racist #SouthAfrican #refugee granted #asylum by #racist American #President claims he's not racist because he has "many black friends" and doesn't grasp the irony that people who actually aren't racist don't need to tell you how many of a certain "type" of people are their "friends".

Being non-racist has nothing to do with what you tell someone else and everything to do with how you live your life and the way you treat other people.

There are many white South Africans that actually aren't racist. You know how we know that? They haven't applied for asylum and to become a refugee in America.

Can't wait for the next President to ship these racist fucks down to El Salvador. After all, Trump set the precedent, am I right? #USpol

youtu.be/jJT7hM4GxC0

From Voice of Korea-The Whole Country Becomes Bright #DPRK kfauk.com/from-voice-of-korea-…

Laura Miller: Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal. wordsmith.social/protestation/…


Quotes

  • 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.


Donald Trump in the Gulf voltairenet.org/article222276.…

Hololive’s Usada Pekora Plays Potentially Hacked β€˜PokΓ©mon Emerald’ Cart, Nintendo Demanded VOD Made Private, VTubers Stick To β€œGuidelines”

total and utter nintendo death

boundingintocomics.com/video-g…

I just learned this about why the "Big Beautiful Bill" doesn't have elimination of tax on Social Security.

epicforamerica.org/federal-bud…

No clarity yet if Turkey, Russia, Ukraine, US will hold four-way talks in Istanbul tass.com/world/1958721

Whiskeytown National Recreation Area today. For more information nps.gov/whis/index.htm and #newtopographics #interpretation #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #landscapephotography #photography #california Image credit National Park Service with support from Whiskeytown Sailing Club and the Friends of Whiskeytown #whiskeytown #trees #cawx #lake

#Islamofaschismus auf deutschen Straßen: Wenn Linke β€žNie wiederβ€œ sagen, meinen sie β€žImmer wiederβ€œ


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In einer funktionierenden Gesellschaft passen sich die GΓ€ste dem Gastgeber an.
In Deutschland passt sich die Gesellschaft den GΓ€sten an und verzichtet auf seine Kultur.
#Islamismus #Gruppenvergewaltigungen #Messermorde #Brandmauertote #Islam #Brandmaueropfer #Massenvergewaltigungen
#Islam #Moslem #Islamisten #Migration

Baerbock promises Belarusian diplomat to β€˜keep the door open’ if elected UNGA president eng.belta.by/politics/view/bae…

Freiheit in Ketten


#MΓΌhsam Erich

Ich sah der Menschen Angstgehetz;
ich hΓΆrt der Sklaven Frongekeuch.
Da rief ich laut: Brecht das Gesetz!
Zersprengt den Staat! Habt Mut zu euch!
Was gilt Gesetz?! Was gilt der Staat?!
Der Mensch sei frei! Frei sei das Recht!
Der freie Mensch folgt eignem Rat:
Sprengt das Gesetz! Den Staat zerbrecht! -
Da blickten Augen kΓΌhn und klar,
und viel BedrΓΌckte liefen zu:
Die Freiheit lebe! Du sprichst wahr!
Von Staat und Zwang befrei uns du! -
Nicht ich! Ihr müßt euch selbst befrein.
Zerreißt den Gurt, der euch beengt!
Kein andrer darf euch FΓΌhrer sein.
Brecht das Gesetz! Den Staat zersprengt! -
Nein, du bist klug, und wir sind dumm.
FΓΌhr uns zur Freiheit, die du schaust! -
Schon zogen sie die RΓΌcken krumm:
O sieh, schon ballt der Staat die Faust! ...
Roh griff die Faust mir ins Genick
des Staats: verletzt sei das Gesetz!
Man stieß mich fort. - Da fiel mein Blick
auf Frongekeuch und Angstgehetz.
Im Sklaventrott zog meine Schar
und schrie mir nach: Mach dein GeschwΓ€tz,
du Schwindler, an dir selber wahr!
Jetzt lehrt der Staat dich das Gesetz! --
Ihr Toren! Schlagt mir Arm und Bein
in Ketten, und im Grabverlies
bleibt doch die beste Freiheit mein:
die Freiheit, die ich euch verhieß.
Man schnΓΌrt den Leib; man quΓ€lt das Blut.
Den Geist zwingt nicht Gesetz noch Staat.
Frei, sie zu brechen, bleibt mein Mut
und freier Mut gebiert die Tat!

Gnome Display Manager (gdm) and XTEST


Hi, I've recently discovered that steam client on linux requires the XTEST extension to handle input from controller. However, I can not enable XTEST on gdm no matter what I've done. Switch to lightdm solves it instanly but I prefer gdm.

Could you provide some hint how to debug it and have you experienced that before? Thank you very much!

I am using Arch Linux with Gnome and Wayland.

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in reply to gnuhaut

Unfortunately I can not login with GDM using X. I am having the same bug as in here :/ For wayland, I have both read/write permissions for my username.

Also I can use the PS5 controller as a mouse just fine. Another symptom I see is when I run xdotool mousemove 150 150, it will print Warning: XTEST extension unavailable on '(null)'. Some functionality may be disabled; See 'man xdotool' for more info.. The null here is concerning to me. Not sure how it says on other system.

in reply to lyoko

Ok so it's not the uinput permissions.

When you use lightdm, do you use it to log into a Gnome wayland session, same as with GDM? Or is there any other difference between using GDM and LightDM? What exactly is/isn't working, and how can you tell it is related to the XTEST extension?

Also I can use the PS5 controller as a mouse just fine.


Ok, this could maybe be the kernel driver creating a "real" touchpad device. Steam is able to create fake/virtual mouse and keyboard devices, I suspect that's what steam uses XTEST and/or uinput for. So even though your PS5 touchpad works, that does not invalidate my theory that steam wants XTEST for mouse/keyboard input fakery, because that's what exactly what XTEST is for.

So technically, Steam wouldn't require XTEST for controller input, it would require XTEST to map controller inputs to fake mouse or keyboard inputs. I don't know what exactly steam does if XTEST isn't present, like what exactly doesn't work?

And XTEST is an X11 protocol extension, it probably doesn't work properly under Wayland anyway.

The null here is concerning to me.


Dunno, '(null)' might just refer to the default connection (or server or screen or whatever X11 object this refers to), so not sure if this something to be concerned about. I presume X11 clients in general do work? Like xterm or xeyes work, right?

I am having the same bug as in here :/


The fact that you cannot log in may seem/look like that exact issue you linked to, but that's from 2019 and may have a different cause. In general, GDM will start some executable, (i.e. gnome-session or something like that, or at least it used to be gnome-session, haven't used gnome in a while) which if it exits/crashes this will kick you back to GDM. It could crash for many reasons.


You should check the logs for sure for both issues. X11 session logs (relating to Gnome X11 not starting), should be in ~/.xsession-errors (or ~/.xsession-errors.old for the previous session, I think). There may be a /var/log/Xorg.0.log for xorg, which I guess could also be the thing crashing (maybe). There may be other things logged with journald that could be relevant. journalctl --user should show all the logs for the user session. Logs from Gnome, since it runs as your user, would presumably show up there. My guess is all the relevant logs for a Gnome wayland session would also be there, as well as (hopefully) Xwayland errors/warnings, since Xwayland is actually the thing that would report it doesn't support XTEST.

Note that journalctl likes to show the oldest logs first, so look at the timestamps. You can press G to scroll to the end. There are various ways to filter messages, look at journalctl --help. You might want to use --grep to look for anything related to XTEST or xwayland.

Lightdm and GDM are systemd units (systemctl list-units), the logs would show with something like sudo journalctl -u lightdm.

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β€œIsraeli” Channel 13: ’Israel’ is preparing to expand the scope of fighting in Gaza. english.alahednews.news/fastne…

Ex-CIA Explains How To Get Prescription Medications Without a Doctor Visit β€” For Grid down Scenario

youtube.com/watch?v=rdrUgdG4_2…

Interesting comments below the video to check out.

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) imaged the landing area of the ispace SMBC x HAKUTO-R Venture Moon Mission 2 RESILIENCE lunar lander which is slated to land on the surface of the Moon no earlier than June 5, 2025 (UTC). This view of the primary landing area is 3.13 miles (5,040 meters) wide and north is up. […]

Thich Nhat Hanh: Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice. wordsmith.social/protestation/…


Quotes

  • 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.


Yemeni Armed Forces to announce important statement at 11:00 PM en.ypagency.net/356729

Was bedeutet #Projektion in der #Propaganda? Und wie kann auch #Moral als #Manipulationstechnik genutzt werden?


Interview mit SΓΆren Schumann
youtube.com/watch?v=YVgQVpOr2-…

#JonasToegel

Dr. Nancy Grace Roman, NASA’s first Chief of Astronomy and namesake of the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope, briefs astronaut Edwin β€œBuzz” Aldrin on celestial objects in 1965 in Washington, D.C. Nancy Grace Roman passed away on December 25, 2018, in Germantown, Maryland at the age of 93. May 16, 2025, would have been her 100th […]

β€œAll of them were targeting civilians. All the houses are being bombed – everything is gone. What is a person supposed to do?… I’m heading to the coast now. We’ve been displaced more than 50 times – either kill us or let us live” #GazaGenocide
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NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi will answer prerecorded questions submitted by middle and high school students from New York and Ohio. Both groups will hear from the astronauts aboard the International Space Station in two separate events. The first event at 10:20 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, May […]

Up until the mid-1950s, you could climb aboard the "Golden Chariot," an electric-powered, open observation tramway that snaked its way up #Montreal's Mont-Royal, built between 1905 and 1924.

Other Canadian cities had them too: #Calgary, #Vancouver, #Quebec City.

Note the stylized beavers...

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Montreal St Ry built the first in 1905, 2nd the next year. The other two were buiit in '23, years after the merger that created the Montreal Tramways Co. All 4 survived into preservation - 2 at Exporail,, 2 in museums in the NE USA.

Full story:

exporail.org/canrail/canadian_…

Flock -- an automatic license-plate-reading service -- is adding tons of data sources ...

... so police could, upon scanning your license, get linked to tons more info about your life, relationships, etc

where did Flock get these additional sources of info?

they're using standard people-lookup tools and data brokers, but also ...

... info from *data breaches*

so great

@404mediaco has the story: 404media.co/license-plate-read…

unpaywalled version: archive.is/GmuUk

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in reply to benda

Hey! Not sure there are a lot of "go-to" tenor recordings. The cats in the 50s used them a lot -- guys like Scatman Crothers and the like. Mostly I just play one because it's what I can do. I am a fiddle player, and when I ended my former music project during the 2020 shutdown, I needed to find a way to play so I could sing. Having learned strumming instruments by playing the uke, my muscle memory was such that I worried about those other two strings getting in the way. So I had a special tenor with a wider neck built for me and started woodshedding until I could confidently play out. Been doing it for four years now, and I'm not going back.
in reply to Adam Moe

Now I want to hear, too!

I hear you on the wider neck. My wrist gets so tired playing on mine because the neck is so small.

Do you use standard CGDA or one of the droney tunings? What breakthroughs did you have on the instrument and what helped lead you there?

@benda

Karine Polwart is the only tenor player I know of off the top of my head but once you leave the sound you start to hear them more often. My YouTube feed sends me vids of electric tenor which sounds interesting...

New user, new computer, issues with GPU


Have all new stuff all AMD. Running bazzite and the gpu ( 9070 xt ) does not work, when I plug in the monitor to either port type it just compresses everything up at the top of the screen all warped. Everything works fine on the MB ports not sure what I might have done to screw it up. Saw some posts talking about proper versions for the kernel and mesa and both those seemed to be new enough for the GPU ( 6.14.4-104.bazzite.fc42.x86_64 (64-bit) ) and Mesa 25.0.1

Those errors seemed to be in games from their posts though my monitor will not even display the desktop or anything else properly what am I missing?

edit

I was waiting for the card to come down in price and I put my old 3060 TI into this new system at first. How do I check if the drivers updated to new ones or if I have to do it manually? Maybe that is what is wrong

This entry was edited (1 month ago)

#Attack claimed by pro-Ukraine #hackers reportedly erases a third of Russian #court case archive


Source: therecord.media/russia-court-s…

#hack #hacker cybersecurity #russia #Ukraine #cyberwar #security #justice #Software #Problem #news

in reply to N. E. Felibata πŸ‘½

may take a little bit, but we'll get there yet.

Complete Webcast with Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Founder and Chairwoman Schiller Institute eir.news/2025/05/news/webcast-…
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