"Precise geolocation data trade prohibited in Oregon":
scworld.com/brief/precise-geol…
Now do it everywhere.
Oregon has become the second state after Maryland to approve legislation prohibiting precise geolocation data sales, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.SC Staff (SC Media)
Meanwhile, the Irish Dáil votes down bill that would have banned sales of Israeli bonds.
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They won’t even do the bare minimum.
#israel #genocide #Palestine #Gaza #Ireland
A Sinn Féin bill that would have prevented the Irish Central Bank from approving the prospectus which allows Israel to sell bonds in the EU has been defeated in a Dáil vote, despite receiving the backing of two Government-supporting TDs.Paul Cunningham (RTÉ)
AI is not our future – Procreate
Link: procreate.com/ai
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
We are not adding generative AI to our apps. Here's why.Procreate
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Here is the first look at my original pyrography completed on all three edges of The Lord of The Rings.
Do you have a favourite edge?
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Proposed tariff levels could lead to higher inflation and slower growth in the US.BRICS
"I place trust in God, my creator, in all things; I love Him with all my heart."
— St. Joan of Arc
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In this new series, I'll take a look at KDE and how it works, comparing it to my experiences to other desktop environments. I'm starting this one with the Plasma Desktop, running on KDE Neon for the purest KDE experience !
1 - The experiment:
I'll be using KDE NEon, to try and get as close as "pure" KDE as possible. I won't be reviewing the distro in itself, purely the plasma desktop environment and the KDE applications. I'm using this on my Core i5 7300HQ, with 8gb of RAM, and a GTX 1050Ti. I updated everything to the latest version, and it's running fully installed on an SSD.
2 - First impressions
When you open the KDE desktop, it looks crisp and clean. It's reminiscent of Windows, with the use of a bottom bar with a menu on the left, and indicators on the right. The desktop itself is very clean, with no extra icons, panels, or junk floating around.
Everything appears soflty, smoothly, with nice animations, which are a bit slow to my taste, by default.
Apart from the bottom bar, you also get a button up top, which shows options to add panels and configure your desktop.
It generally feels nice and welcoming.
3 - The bottom bar
It is pretty simple, really, very similar to what you'd get on Windows: a main menu, a task manager and indicators, complete with a clock. At the end of the bar, you get a button, similar to the one up top, which allows you to customize the height, width and settings of the bottom bar.
4 - The menu
The KDE menu is a delight to use. It's divided into 5 main categories: favorites, which shows your favorite apps, applications, which opens an application list sorted by categories, and computer, which shows some system apps and your favorite places on your filesystem. The menu is completed by a history tab, and a "leave" tab, which offers options to lock the session, log out, shut down, reboot, or suspend the computer.
Obviously, it has search baked in right from the start, and it works perfectly.
You can configure that menu by right clicking on it, and this is where the power of KDE starts to show.
THis menu is, in my opinion, the best I've used on any system, very clear, simple, and powerful.
5 - The task manager
Nothing very special here by default: you see all your open windows, complete with a preview of the window on hover, which was not very legible on my system, the miniatures being very pixelated.
6 - The indicators
By default, there are a lot of indicators. Clipboard, plasma browser integration, bluetooth, internet connexion, battery if you're on a laptop, vaults, which seems to be an encryption feature, sound, and a little arrow, which displays even more: notifications, updates, printers, keyboard, kde connect, and a device notifier.
7 - Widgets
KDE's desktop, Plasma, uses widgets for everything. If you remember mac os X's widgets, or windows desktop gadgets, they are the same thing except you can place them wherever you want, and combine them. A panel, like the bottom bar, is a widget, and you can add widgets to it. To access the widgets, you click on the top button, and select add widgets, then simply drag the desired one onto the desktop. SOme are not very descriptive, but once you've added them and resized them to the desired size, you can pretty much do anything you want.
8 - Plasma Activities
These allow you to change the desktop behaviour and look based on wich activity you're using. For example, I can add certain widgets on a specific activity, which won't show up on the other activites. THis allows you to completely personalize the way your desktop behaves depending on what you're doing.
It's handily hidden by default, to not confuse users, but once you're familiar with KDE, I can see this becoming a very useful feature.
9 - Look and feel
THe default theme for the desktop looks very pretty, with smooth gradients on panels, and subtle transparency. Animations are smooth and fluid, and really give a sense of what is happening when you click on something.
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Triangle splatting: radiance fields represented by triangles
Link: trianglesplatting.github.io/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Triangle Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering, 2025.Triangle Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering
#gm friends. we are getting rain this morning.
seems like a good day for more cad work
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Western governments and TV personalities like Piers Morgan that spent the last two years promoting Israel's war on Gaza are trying to save face...MintPress d...YouTube
Trump Administration Knew Vast Majority of Venezuelans Sent to Salvadoran Prison Had Not Been Convicted of U.S. Crimes
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Homeland Security records reveal that officials knew that more than half of the 238 deportees were labeled as having no criminal record in the U.S. and had only violated immigration laws.ProPublica
UN peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo helped the country’s armed forces Wednesday respond to armed clashes in Ituri Province near a market in Fataki that caused civilians to flee.press.un.org
Und das titelt dann @tagesschau darüber:
»"Nahost-Liveblog: ++ 600 UN-Lastwagen in Gaza angekommen ++
Die UN haben 600 Lastwagen mit Hilfslieferungen in den Gazastreifen gebracht - und klagen über Behinderungen bei der Verteilung.«
Dass von den über den Grenzübergängen gekommen LKWs in den letzten Tagen keine Hilfslieferungen weiter transportiert werden dürften schreibt die Tagesschau natürlich nicht. So bleibt die Info mit den 600 bestehen. PR-Auftrag für Netanyahu erfüllt.
lawns aren’t just boring, they’re harmful. covering vast areas in grass that does nothing for pollinators or soil life is ecological nonsense. research shows that common lawn chemicals increase cancer risk, especially in dogs exposed to treated grass. we can still have grassy patches and parks, but this endless obsession with sterile, green perfection is costing us health, biodiversity and water. let’s grow wilder.
#lawn #pollinators #cancer #biodiversity #water
The Times finally reporting what we all could see: Musk was absolutely tripping balls the entire time he destroyed the government. Very polite of them to wait to drop this until he’d left the position.
nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/elon…
Russia is running out of patience due to NATO provocations, pressurising it is not the answer. This statement was made by Professor Glen Dizen of the University of South-Eastern Norway on the air of the Indian channel WION.newsmaker1 newsmaker1 (English News front)
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The perfect example of why women shouldn't be allowed to vote doesn't exi -
Agreed, but also (((Hoffman))).
Hmm. Sounds jewish.
I swear to God, there are so fucking many of them: jews and crypto jews. There is no fucking way they are only 2% of the population. That is just another big fat jewish lie. It's more like 20% of the population.
The perfect example of why women shouldn't be allowed to vote doesn't exi -x.com/shoesonplease/status/192…
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Calgary adding #fluoride into drinking water on June 30 ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/cal… “The Alberta #Dental Association is applauding the announcement, saying since fluoride was removed from the water, the frequency of decay and cavities increased in patients.
“It’s been well shown due to the differences we’ve seen with Calgary not having fluoride for a few years and Edmonton having fluoride, there’s a significant difference in how many patients in Calgary have started getting more #cavities,”
Fluoride will officially be reintroduced to Calgary’s drinking water at the end of June.Brendan Ellis (CTVNews)
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I don't get it. Trumps tariff policies couldn't be more straightforward and simple. Yet financial people are pretending like it's a complete mystery.
And you can't blame Trump hate. Because the same thing happened during covid. Doctors suddenly started pretending that humans don't have immune systems.
And I'm wondering now, did professionals/experts always randomly do things contrary to their conventional wisdom? Did shit like this go on when my parents were my age?
By Glenn Thrush / New York Times. View the full context on memeorandum.memeorandum
This morning, the occupation forces demolished the family home of martyr Jaafar Manna in the city of Nablus, West Bank.Free Palestine TV (FPTV’s Substack)
I feel like they have day trading and not long term investment in mind—in bed.
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The new trend with men cutting their eyelashes to look “more masculine” is so freaking stupid! 1) Eyelashes are there for a reason - they PROTECT your eyes.Threads
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Dr John C. Clark, a scientist who disarmed atomic bombs twice
Link: daxe.substack.com/p/disarming-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
One scientist did it twiceDavid Axe (Trench Art)
Pyongyang, May 30 (KCNA) — The Eighth Enlarged Meeting of the Eighth Central Military Commission of the Workers’ Party of Korea was held at the headquarters building of the WPK Central Committee on May 28.Dermot Hudson (KFAUK.com)
Hi, I've been thinking about switching from Win11 to Linux Mint due to Microsoft collecting lots of data. My current setup has been cobbled together over the past decade and consists of a C drive NvME, 1 old SATA SSD, and 2 HDDs. I have games installed across all of the non-C drives, some from steam some not.
Windows tells me each drive by letter. I installed Mint on a virtual machine to get a look, but it couldn't read any of my files. I don't want to wipe my C drive without knowing that at least the other drives will be readable if I make the switch.
How does Linux account multiple hard drives? I'm so used to how Windows does it that I'm worried about switching over and losing access to my other drives. Thanks!
Linux doesn't do the drive letter thing. Instead, you have to identify the disks by their partition IDs.
When you install your OS, you'll be able to mount the disks to wherever you like. If you want, you can create directories in /mnt, like /mnt/e, /mnt/f etc.
The main issue you'll run into is disk format. NTFS will work, but its poorly supported.
To get a better idea of how it works, try passing a USB disk into the VM you've created.
@bmi Fantastisch, damit ist der Klimawandel definitiv gestoppt.
Ihr seid doch völlig neben der Spur...
ich wundere mich über den Begriff "illegale Migration". ...
Was legal ist, und was nicht, das hat doch der Gesetzgeber in der Hand. 🤔
In einer Realität der Überalterung der Gesellschaft, des Fachkräftemangels und Pflegenotstands sollte es doch für eine Bundesregierung ein Leichtes sein, legale Möglichkeiten zu eröffnen sich herkunftsunabhängig in und für Deutschland zu engagieren und für alle Seiten gewinnbringend einzubringen. 🤔
Vielleicht sollte man eine gelungene Integration und einen Arbeitswillen zu Grunde legen und auf medienwirksame Hetze und Diskriminierung verzichten?
Art. 1 GG: Die Würde des Menschen(!) ist unantastbar. 🤔
Deutschland sollte ein herzliches und freundliches Land sein. Und IIRC wollte die Bundesregierung ja auch einen Stimmungswechsel im Land herbeiführen. 🤔
Und Flüchtlinge sind ja nochmal eine ganz andere Sache, hier greift ja die Schadensabwehr und Humanität und die Erinnerung an die deutsche Geschichte.
What makes LLMs work isn't deep neural networks or attention mechanisms or vector databases or anything like that.
What makes LLMs work is our tendency to see faces on toast.
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Pyongyang, May 30 (KCNA) — A firing contest among artillery sub-units of large combined units of the Korean People’s Army was conducted on May 29 amid the intensive combat training for implementing the line of the Workers’ Party of Korea on buildin…Dermot Hudson (KFAUK.com)
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‘Domestic Violent Extremists’: Biden Targeted COVID Vaccine Critics, New Documents Show
The Biden administration designated critics of COVID-19 vaccine and mask mandates “Domestic Violent Extremists,” according to documents declassified last week by Tulsi Gabbard, director of National Intelligence, following a Freedom of Information Act request.
childrenshealthdefense.org/def…
The Biden administration designated critics of COVID-19 vaccine and mask mandates “Domestic Violent Extremists,” according to documents declassified last week by Tulsi Gabbard, director of National Intelligence, following a Freedom of Information Act…Lisa P (Children's Health Defense)
The face you make when you get what you've been dishing out to the lesser beings for years served up to you.
There is going to have to be alot more of exactly this before the land of the free is restored.
All gun laws are unconstitutional.™
All judges that rule to the contrary are treasonous to their oaths.
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Sie nennen es „verfassungsfeindlich“, wenn Menschen sich gegen Apartheid, Besatzung und Genozid wehren.
Aber was ist das für eine Verfassung, die Repression schützt und Gerechtigkeit kriminalisiert?
Xi Jinping, chairman of the Central Military Commission, has signed an order to release the regulations on awarding military scientific research.en.qstheory.cn
Rainbow SongLyrics written by Gavin ShoesmithMusic written by Gavin Shoesmith and Yasuyuki UedaArranged by Gavin ShoesmithVocals/ Dave PensabeneTenor Sax/ Pa...YouTube
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🤦🏾♂️ This is quite embarrassing. Citing fake research in an official health report by the government. 😩
👉🏾 White House acknowledges problems in RFK Jr.'s 'Make America Healthy Again' report npr.org/2025/05/29/nx-s1-54173…
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