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The share of Israelis who say posts that express #sympathy for civilians in #Gaza should be kept off #socialmedia (59%) is about double the share who say these posts are acceptable (30%).
Very interesting, thanks for posting. Worth noting this is from August 2024, and the pole from March 2024. The reality on the ground has changed since then. I don't know how people's view have changed.
Israel is a democratic country If you see democracy as voting, then yes Israel is a democracy, but in reality it's a segregationist regime like South Africa was. Arab Israeli citizens do not have the same rights as Israeli Jews citizens.
The apartheid comparison applies more to Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaze - at least pre-war Gaza. Arab Israeli citizens nominally have equal rights, but do suffer discrimination.
If you ask Jewish Israelis, they'll tell you it's a great democracy. If you ask Arab Israelis, I'm not convinced they'll say the same. you'd have to ask Palestinians living under Israeli jurisdiction what they think of Israeli democracy. There are 5 legal statuses of Palestinians: 1948 Palestinians, Jerusalem Palestinians, West Bank Palestinians, Gaza Palestinians and Palestinian refugees. 5 different legal statuses. Null status for Gaza and the West Bank, i.e. they have no rights and live alongside people who invade them and have every right. If you call that a democracy, then I don't know what value to attach to the words. Free elections are not enough to be a democracy.
We often tend to believe that free elections make for democracy. Democracy, from the Greek "dêmos" (people) and kratós (power), should give power to the people. This has never been the case. Those running for office are very wealthy and supported by the bourgeoisie and the billionaire media. In short, a dark masquerade, whether in Israel, France or the USA.
I am a Jewish Israeli. Or at least I was, I haven't lived there for 25 years. I never said it was a great democracy. My point was that Israeli Arabs supposedly have equal rights, but in practice they don't. The apartheid analogy is more apt for Gaza and the West Bank. Although Gaza now is something else.
The Pulitzer Prize Board, in refusing to retract the Pulitzer Prizes they awarded to The New York Times and The Washington Post staffs for the fake Russian collusion story, have tainted every Pulitzer Prize they've ever awarded by demonstrating truth and integrity do not matter. Aside from Trump, every person alive who has ever won a Pulitzer should be mad as hell, because their "prestigious" award has been reduced to the level of a participation trophy—in other words, it's now garbage.
The International Criminal Court is weighing issuing arrest warrants for Israeli ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir over West Bank settlement expansion, amid mounting legal and political pressures.
Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:45 Sponsor: SquareSpace 02:04 Plasma 6.4 has a beta 04:48 Microsoft closes down Bing Search API 07:07 Open Web Index offers an alternative for search engines 09:28 End of 10 campaign helps Windows users move to Linux 11:30 Ubuntu 25.10 has some nice things in store 13:34 US copyright office thinks AI isn't fair use 15:59 New Orion browser will use GTK4 and libadwaita 18:04 SteamOS compatibility ratings appear 20:12 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers
00:00 Intro 00:39 Sponsor: Extend the life of your Python applications 01:30 The Fediverse: a network of social networks 04:57 ActivityPub: all your social networks can talk to each other 06:44 How Mastodon works 08:33 How PeerTube works 10:19 How PixelFed works 11:39 Parting thoughts 13:02 Sponsor: buy a device that runs Linux perfectly 14:11 Support the channel
Fediverse is a contraction of Federated Universe. It's basically a very large network of servers that form, well, a social network. But contrary to the ones you might be used to, like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and others, the Fediverse is composed of different services.
The more well known are Mastodon, a Twitter-like microblogging service, PeerTube, a youtube-like platform, or PixelFed, an Instagram-like social network, but there are a TON of others.
Each service is also decentralized, which means there is not one big server farm where everything is hosted: each service is split into instances, basically independent servers, with different goals.
ActivityPub is an open standard, that lets all services on the Fediverse talk to each other. How does that work? Well, in practice, it means you can use your Mastodon app to follow a Peertube channel, or someone that posts pictures on PixelFed, or see new articles from a Wordpress website.
And this goes a bit further: for example, if I comment on Mastodon on a post from Peertube, that comment will also appear on Peertube underneath the video.
Let's start with Mastodon. Mastodon is basically Twitter, but open source and decentralized. It lets you post messages with up to 500 characters, it supports images, videos, polls, content warnings, animated avatar pictures, emojis, links, mentions, hashtags, anything you're used to on Twitter. Mastodon has 1.5 million active users, which might seem small compared to Twitter, but it's more than enough to have interesting conversations with a lot of cool people.
To join Mastodon, all you need to do is pick a server, also called an instance. You can pick any server you like, and it will let you interact with everyone else on any other server.
And then, you can use Mastodon on the web, by typing the address of your instance in your browser, for example, for me, it's mastodon.social, or you can use a mobile app.
Now let's talk about PeerTube. It's a Youtube alternative, although it's much, much smaller. Peertube is also decentralized, being split into different servers, that are federated together, so you can follow people from different instances and still have a complete subscription feed. It also supports ActivityPub, which means you could subscribe to my peerTube channel from a mastodon account, and have a post in your timeline every time I publish a video.
And as a creator, it also lets you sync your youtube channel to it, so you can auto-publish all your videos to Peertube in a few clicks, which is also a great help.
To watch peertube, just type the address of your instance in your browser's URL, for me it's tilvids.com.
Another cool service on the Fediverse is PixelFed. It's basically Instagram, without all the crap they tacked on lately, like reels, or lives. It's just pictures and videos. It's free software, it also uses the ActivityPub standard, so you can follow PixelFed users on Mastodon, for example, and it's ad-free.
It also lets you add filters, just like Instagram, or crop, resize, adding alt text, and you can use hashtags, locations, or create collections, basically photo albums.
If you're underwhelmed with AI coding agents or simply want to get more out of them, give parallelization a try. After seeing the results firsthand over the past month, I'm ready to call myself an evangelist.
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Mozilla CFO Eric Muhlheim testified that Firefox could run out of business should a court prohibit Google from entering revenue share deals to be the default.
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EFF STATEMENT ON THE JOINT PRESS BRIEFING BY CYRIL RAMAPHOSA AND DONALD TRUMP REGARDING CONDITIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA AND CIC JULIUS MALEMA effonline.org/eff-statement-on…
Wednesday, 21 May 2025 The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has taken note of the press briefing held jointly by the President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa a
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Babe, pick a night to come out and play If it′s alright, what do you say? Merrier the more, triple fun that way Twister on the floor, what do you say?
Are you in? Livin' in sin is the new thing, yeah Are you in? I am countin′
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Three is a charm, two is not the same I don′t see the harm, so are you game? Let's make a team, make ′em say my name Lovin' the extreme, now are you game?
Are you in? Livin′ in sin is the new thing, yeah Are you in? I am countin'
One, two, three, not only you and me Got 180 degrees, and I′m caught in between Countin', one, two, three, Peter, Paul, and Mary Gettin' down with 3P, everybody loves- (oh)
Countin′, one, two, three, not only you and me Got 180 degrees, and I′m caught in between Countin', one, two, three, Peter, Paul, and Mary Gettin′ down with 3P, everybody loves- (oh)
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Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:11 Sponsor: TuxCare 02:29 Google is getting really bad 04:31 Improve Google 05:54 Duck Duck Go 07:34 Ecosia 08:20 SearXNG 10:05 Brave Search 11:23 Kagi 12:27 Mojeek 13:16 Others I don't trust personally 14:41 Search has become complicated 17:20 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers
So, I don't think I'm teaching you anything when I say that Google Search has been getting worse and worse. What Google Search is losing, is accuracy. The pre-made snippets that they display? often don't refer to what you're looking for, they're generally related to, but not exact when searching for specific things. The AI summaries that they want to add? Well, we all know AI isn't exactly reliable, and that you have to fact check literally everything it says, so it doesn't quite save time compared to a regular search.
There's also the fact that consumer reviews are now pretty much garbage, generated by review farms. The fact that SEO "hacking" has made trying to appear in top results a game and an industry, and much like regular hacking, Google can only play catch up, and never really beat the manipulations website engage in.
it's all a mess, and this results in having to type "reddit" at the end of your query to get some actual answers written by some actual people, however dabatable these answers can be, depending on the topic.
So, if you want to fight the AI onslaught that is ruining most searches, there's something you CAN do. Google started adding AI results to the top of your searches, which pre-digest answers that loosely match your query, often adding some nice little hallucinations and misinformation in there.
So, if you still want to use Google Search because everything else is, in your use case, not as good, you can at lest create a shortcut that removes a bunch of the crap Google adds.
To do so, you need to add a custom search engine, most browsers let you do that. In Firefox and its forks, you can go to sttings, then search, then at the bottom, you can add a search shortcut that uses this URL: google.com/search?udm=14&q=%s
You can also add that to Chromium based browsers by entering another string in the search sttings as well, as a new search engine. {google:baseURL}/search?udm=14&q=%s
You can make that new engine the default in your settings, and when using that, it will remove all AI results, and default to the "web" tab instead of the "all" tab of Google search, so you only get webpages and not all the extra crap.
The engine I currently use is Duck Duck Go, it's the search engine that at least, in French and english, tends to give me the best results. It also has a slew of options that let you disable a LOT of stuff you don't want. DDG has AI built-in, but you can remove that. Ads? You can disable them in the settings. Don't like the stylesheet and look? You can change that easily enough as well. You can even disable the "instant answers" that provides pre digested snippets, even if these aren't AI generated.
Another one I used extensively in the past is Ecosia, it also uses Bing quite a lot for their results, but the engine is nice, gives accurate results, and if you have ads turned on, they'll plant trees with the money they get, although how efficient this is depends on who they contract that out to, so not sure if it's a big benefit or not.
If you like the concept of the Fediverse, mastodon, Peertube and the like, you might also like SearXNG. It's a federated metasearch engine, meaning it's decentralized, and hosted by several instances, either private, for your own use and no one else's, or public, where you can access the engine, but you'll need to ensure they don't log stuff, so you kind of have to trust the person or org hosting it.
If you use the Brave browser, you might also know about their search engine, which is an interesting one, because it's a very rare occurrence of an engine with its own Index: they don't depend on Google or Bing for results, they use their own index entirely, including for images and videos. They do have the AI crap baked in, so that's a drawback, but you can disable that in the engine settings if you don't want it.
Hi, I'm Nick, and I run The Linux Experiment, a Youtube Channel and Podcast where I talk about Linux, Open Source, and privacy. I make 3 videos per week, including a Linux …
@The Linux Experiment Not a big fan of the Redhat distros because beyond 8, they dropped support for NIS, which is used in a lot of corporate networks, including mine. Not thrilled with where Ubuntu seems to be going between snap and the every more invasive cancer known as systemd.
@ninja8tyu Given that the healthiest age from a genetic defect standpoint for a woman to have a baby is 16, that is earlier or later and the likelihood that a baby will carry some genetic defect increases, it does not surprise me men are attracted to same. Also consider the fact that for much of history many men died before the age of thirty. We live longer now but our genes are the result of billions of years of evolution not just the last hundred.
@SuperSnekFriend I feel like she's the type of girl to drug you, bleed your dick dry, and then surprise you 9 months later with a baby and claim it as yours
This song by @bgm has been on repeat for me. The whole record has a lovely nostalgia for me as a twee pop enjoyer. Thanks for the lovely reminder of such tones.
I would give more weight to the 'return' portion, simply because liars are gonna lie, whether it's with their tongue, or the hand.
If I approach the topic with a critical lens, I would have to wield such a philosophy, countering your 'his writings' point (in my own mind).
On the return, I'm now wondering, again if taking the critical position, what events might have transpired in Spain that could have changed the political climate, allowing him to return. (Idk)
Lol easy there cap'n ADL I'm allowed to speculate, despite the Jewish lobby's best efforts at curbing my right to speak freely
I don't believe in coincidences. If the deadline was that day, why not wait an extra day, for the crowd to die down, and ports clear out, if it's at your leisure?
If not Columbus himself, perhaps he had crew or cargo to get out before the deadline? Isnt that possible? Or are you going to take the position of 'no Jews, no way, no how' ?
Have you ever known any real criminals? The Jews operate in the same fashion as a Mafia, and always have when given the chance.
I think it's a fools errand to not acknowledge the possibility of dual allegiance. And without them telling you, how would you know, especially when they are aligned not to a nation, but to a group within a nation? A secret Society, so to speak
Of course secrecy would be paramount. A minority group can't just come out and say, hey we run this shit now
Well I am a partial Jew, and I was raised around some real jewy Jews, so I know first hand how they think and act. I just apply the same logic to other situations by thinking, what would my Jew relatives do if they were in this position. Then poof, the most scandalous plot pops into mind, and I say to myself, ooo those kikes sure are devious. It's no wonder the innocent minded white man, preoccupied with his responsibilities, is always caught off guard. Then I rub may hands together
You're position is similar to the liberals who suffer from extreme Trump Derangement Syndrome. They make Trump the prime mover of the universe - he can do an effect all things.
It seems like you're making Jews the most magnificent, awesome, superior, unbeatable, undetectable prime movers of all history.
I don't think nearly as high of them as that.
But, in short, unless you have evidence more than one coincidental date, you've got nothing but worthless speculation.
While the above statement is humorous, it's basically the truth in a lot of cases
But joking aside, I concede your point, that hinging on one date is a very weak position. But I'm not here to make a case, yet.
When doing detective work, you have to start with nothing, then detect some shit. That's kinda the whole point. So you can call this the first thumb tack in the board.
Like a detective, I have a hunch. It may be nothing. Or it could be something. Won't know until I look
It sounds like your just trying to get me to not read, because I'm like, "I'm gonna look into it" and you're like, "You should, but trust me bro, it sucks, so just take my word and drop your lead"
When all you're doing is further raising my suspicions, because that exactly what my Jew family would say if I was looking into their misdeeds
I'm gonna have to just stay on my toes and keep my eyes peeled. There's jewry afoot! 😂
I'm familiar with the mainline school book theory, of course. And I vaguely remember reading a biography, or at least account of the voyage, many years back. Even if I remembered it vividly, it was so long ago, that I wouldn't have noticed any "clues" to an undercurrent if there had been any. So I'll prob do some reading on it here and there with time. The trial isn't for quite some time, so I'm in no rush
The European Union intends to monitor the safety of navigation in the Black Sea without Russia’s participation. This was stated by the head of eurodiplomacy Kaja Kallas.
Timestamps 00:00 Intro 00:44 Sponsor: TuxCare 02:18 Fedora approves the removal of X11 for Fedora GNOME 43 04:27 GNOME disables X11 in GDM 06:05 Microsoft open sources WSL 08:37 Mozilla closes Pocket and Fakespot 10:58 RHEL 10 is out 12:42 Nvidia updates Wayland roadmap 14:53 Microsoft fixes dual boot breaking bug after 9 months 17:04 SteamOS 3.7 is now stable, with big updates 19:01 Steam Deck hits 19000 playable games 21:25 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers
@Tfmonkey regarding the Libertarian party, you are correct that they are generally useless and often counterproductive. But with their own words, I have seen them claim to be cutting welfare spending and removing tax dollars from the healthcare system. But since they are only empty words, it is functionally the same thing as them being opposed to cutting that kind of spending.
The big problem with many libertarians is that they think they can implement their policies in any order and cheer even when they get open borders without realizing that having open borders means they will lose any possibility of cutting welfare. "Don't worry, we are working on that problem too!"
That is where the retardation is with many libertarians and the Libertarian party.
The problem with Libertarians supporting open borders is if they open the borders to people whose world view is farther away from Libertarianism then the people who come in will support policies in the opposite direction of Libertarianism and they will use violence or thre threat of violence to support such policies
Why won't somebody ask President Shitler if the real reason for all these #tariff flip-flops is so he and his friends and family can't do a little #InsiderTrading and #MarketManipulation? #USpol #Trump
I gotta say, all this nebulizing hypertonic saline and nasal lavage...feels good. Like my face and airways feel good and kinda energized afterwards.
It's been a total pain in the ass learning how to make a routine around this, especially cleaning. I'm now boiling nebulizer parts after every use and transferring them to a baby bottle sterilizer to dry. I'm still trying different devices and brands; today I got a NeilMed silicone "Squeezie" bottle, which can be boiled unlike standard plastic nasal lavage bottles, and Xclear sinus wash which has xylitol in addition to standard salt.
But I am starting to get the hang of it. And cleaning my respiratory passages with salt solution twice a day...actually nice.
Allegedly all this stuff is good for normal people too, and reduces common respiratory infections like colds. So yeah, I recommend it, although I can't imagine anyone being willing to expend the effort if they don't have a debilitating lung disease.
@mittimithaiNo. It's supposed to be less "burn-y" than plain salt. Supposed to soothe somehow. I didn't notice much difference but maybe I will once I switch back to plain saline.
Allegedly all this stuff is good for normal people too, and reduces common respiratory infections like colds.
I've heard this too. But I've had water up my nose while swimming enough times to be absolutely determined never to subject myself to the same on purpose. I don't care how "good for me" it's supposed to be.
@GnomeshatecheeseFortunately the saline makes it much more tolerable than swimming water. But I totally understand the resistance. Necessity is the mother of invention and sinus rinsing.
The firms are to construct 1,200 MW of wind power capacity in occupied Western Sahara, and a 1,400 km transmission line to transport the electricity to Morocco proper – assisting the North African kingdom in its blatant violation of international law…
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Hi, I'm Nick, and I run The Linux Experiment, a Youtube Channel and Podcast where I talk about Linux, Open Source, and privacy. I make 3 videos per week, including a Linux …
Now some have mentioned both WaterFall and Zen Browser, and they both claim to "Privacy" oriented and "we do not collect any data on you" maybe not, but they sure ensure Cloudflare do collect you PII data...
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Now some have mentioned both WaterFall and Zen Browser, and they both claim to "Privacy" oriented and "we do not collect any data on you" maybe not, but they sure ensure Cloudflare do collect you PII data...
And this PeerTube is ALL GOOGLE as the domain is registered at googledomains.com and you are talking about privacy concerns...
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@The Linux Experiment I think this is much noise about nothing. In this lawyer obsessed world (I really think Shakespeare had it right) this kind of bullshit is, unfortunately, necessary.
The lead-off track from Kylie’s second album “Enjoy Yourself”, “Hand On Your Heart” was a UK Chart Topper in May 1989 and made the top 10 in Australia, Finland, France, Ireland, Spain and Switzerland. The video was shot in Kylie’s home city of Melbourne and was directed by Chris Langman.
The Stock Aitken Waterman-penned song was covered by Jose Gonzalez in 2004 for his “Stay In The Shade” EP.
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – An 11-year-old Palestinian girl who had gained a large online following by sharing survival tips from inside besieged Gaza was killed in an Israeli airstrike as Israel’s bombardment of the enclave continues to claim civilian lives.
The Department of Health and Human Services is ending a $766 million contract with the vaccine company Modern to develop an mRNA vaccine for flu strains with pandemic potential, including bird flu.
RFK Jr. Declares War on the Medical Journal Cartel
RFK Jr. stated:
“We're probably going to stop publishing in the Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA and those other journals because they're all corrupt. And even the heads of those journals, like Marcia Angell, who for 20 years was head of the New England Journal of Medicine, says that we no longer are a science journal. We are a vessel for pharmaceutical propaganda.”
@michellesuperamazing Lmao yeah I was like, imagining some ancient fucking Japanese or otherwise Arthurian artifact from some tiny blacksmith in a long lost village, not just, very common thing 100 years ago
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I've been doing a lot of thinking around the nature of trust. I received the highly beneficial advice to think over who the most trustworthy people actually are, in my life. A diagram that looks like a bullseye was drawn, and I was invited to fill in actual names of people I know - where do they belong within the rings of the bullseye? The people in the middle are the most trustworthy, and the outermost rings are where the least trustworthy names go.
It was difficult to decide who's name belonged in which ring of the bullseye. So I assigned numbers to the rings of the bullseye. 1 was in the middle, 9 was right outside the bullseye. I then made a list of all the people I knew. I assigned them all numbers, then thought over the numbers, occasionally changing a number a little more or less.
When I was finished, I described the meaning of all the numbers, 1 through 9. This labeling made the most sense to me, to give more meaning to these numbers. Here they are:
1. Deep trust. Someone who totally accepts you as you are.
2. Someone who wouldn't betray you, has affinity with you, but you can't say they totally accept you as you are. They'd like to see you change.
3. A friend with a solid character, but affinity? Maybe.
4. A "fair-weather friend".
5. Any random stranger on the street. No positive or negative to speak of; still undefined and mysterious. No basis of judgement yet.
6. Negativity starts here, but it's very subtle and insidious; well hidden. Psychological predation and deception begins here. Plays mind games. Wants to come out looking better than you. Is certainly a "frenemy" or perhaps even worse, wants to turn you into a "flying monkey". A 6 has the mind of a perfect salesman or ambassador. Uses a lot of paltering; deceptive framing of everything. Plays on emotions a lot, seldom facts, unless they fit a narrative.
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in reply to anonymiss • • •If you see democracy as voting, then yes Israel is a democracy, but in reality it's a segregationist regime like South Africa was. Arab Israeli citizens do not have the same rights as Israeli Jews citizens.
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in reply to anonymiss • • •If you ask Jewish Israelis, they'll tell you it's a great democracy. If you ask Arab Israelis, I'm not convinced they'll say the same. you'd have to ask Palestinians living under Israeli jurisdiction what they think of Israeli democracy.
There are 5 legal statuses of Palestinians: 1948 Palestinians, Jerusalem Palestinians, West Bank Palestinians, Gaza Palestinians and Palestinian refugees. 5 different legal statuses. Null status for Gaza and the West Bank, i.e. they have no rights and live alongside people who invade them and have every right. If you call that a democracy, then I don't know what value to attach to the words. Free elections are not enough to be a democracy.
We often tend to believe that free elections make for democracy. Democracy, from the Greek "dêmos" (people) and kratós (power), should give power to the people. This has never been the case.
Those running for office are very wealthy and supported by the bourgeoisie and the billionaire media. In short, a dark masquerade, whether in Israel, France or the USA.
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