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From Tony Blair to Keir Starmer, the UK National Security Advisor is still waging war in the Middle East. After Iraq came Syria and now the British are back in the country to defend Israeli interes…
it was a bittersweet thing, it had to go unfortunately. but, its always good to practice gratefulness for what we have. at least we have comfy channel for a few weeks 😀 you should maybe do a #RFFF show!
Ahoy friends. The world needs more #comfy. If the weekend means a chance to relax or just more work/stress we're back to help you thru.
As a gift to old friends, for others to get a tiny taste of what #RFF was all about, and because times require comfy measures, we've popped up the Comfy Channel as it was for the month of June.
[See Part I here.] Part II: “Humanitarian Aid” In February, corporate media went ballistic when the new administration of U.S. President Donald Trump announced the dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
MAHRA, May 20 (YPA) - Hundreds of residents in the Huswain district of Mahra Governorate held a protest on Friday to show solidarity with the people of Gaza and to denounce the genocide being carried out by the Israeli occupation.They condemned the
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I found wanderer.to/ as an alternative to alltrails, but it seems not to address my main use case for alltrails: search around for potential hikes, look for reviews about them, photos, etc.
Is there anything like this? Anything close to it?
Later” - Talk to you later - I’ll call you later - See you later - We’ll walk later - I’Il tell you later We leave everything for later, but forget that “later” does not belong to us Later, our loved ones are no longer with us Later, we don’t hear them and we don’t see them Later, they are just memories. Later, the day becomes night,
the force becomes helpless, the smile becomes a grimace, & life becomes death “Later” becomes “too late”
There are very few now paying any attention. Most of the brainwashed fools and uneducated idiots out there will help usher the New World Order in. They will be the death of billions.
There are very few now paying any attention. Most of the brainwashed fools and uneducated idiots out there will help usher the New World Order in. They will be the death of billions.
“Panergatiki” Newspaper of trade Unions of Greece – During this period in Greece, various militant – strike mobilisations have taken place and others are ongoing #WFTUpamehellas.gr/quot-panergatiki…
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Deputy of the Alternative for Germany party, retired German Air Force Colonel Gerold Otten said that the German government under the leadership of Chancellor Friedrich Merz invests significant financial resources in the military-industrial complex (M…
The elite class in British society, particularly those with left-leaning views, often spread misinformation to support their socially “liberal” agenda, Matt Goodwin says.
For example, in a recent interview with Rupert Lowe MP, Emily Maitlis, a former BBC presenter and now an independent podcaster, misrepresented evidence on Pakistani Muslim rape gangs, claiming that white British men are more likely to be involved in organised rape gangs.
However, evidence from various reports and investigations consistently shows that Pakistani Muslim men are disproportionately more likely to be arrested and convicted of organised rape gang activity. But this evidence is being suppressed because it is considered racist.
Blacks also already enjoy some of the perceived benefits of socialism that whites may not because of programs that specifically benefit their race. Making entitlements more widely available might even be worse for blacks. If Republicans want to win, they should not want someone like AOC to be the face of the Democrats. They should want Jasmine Crockett instead. #GregoryHood #Socialism #Democrats #Race
Russia has issued a dire warning, branding Berlin a “legitimate nuclear target” as German Chancellor Friedrich Merz fuels escalating tensions by pushing to arm Ukraine with long-range Taurus missiles. Merz’s provocative claim to ZDF that such deliveries are “within the realms of possibility” signals a bold challenge to Moscow’s red lines, heightening fears of nuclear retaliation.
Germany’s defense ministry further intensified the crisis, announcing that Berlin will finance the production of long-range weapons systems in Ukraine, with the first units potentially deployed by Ukrainian forces within weeks. This move, part of Merz’s broader commitment to bolster Ukraine’s military, aligns with his assertion that allies like the US, UK, and France have lifted arms restrictions, though Washington has yet to confirm this shift.
The Kremlin’s response was swift and uncompromising, with the State Duma Defense Committee declaring that Russia will react “harshly, asymmetrically, and decisively” if Germany supplies Taurus missiles to Kyiv. This stark warning underscores the growing risk of direct confrontation, as Merz’s aggressive stance, unbacked by clear allied consensus, places Berlin in Moscow’s crosshairs, raising global alarm over the potential for catastrophic escalation.
@AsianGirlz Funny, when I clicked on the link it wanted me to assert that I was over 18, can't say I see anything particularly inappropriate for under 18 here, especially if you were a KISS fan.
SCOTUS, in a 7-2 decision with Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor dissenting, ruled that Trump can end the parole pipeline while the case is pending appeal. #MassMigration #Trump #SCOTUS #AmRen
New York City - Korean, Palestinian, and Jewish American groups called for the Trump administration to end the attempted deportation of Yunseo Chung, bringing together hundreds of people in a show of solidarity.
Here's another #privacy and #security wake up call for you, and yet ANOTHER reason never to hand your drivers' license over to anyone (even your doctor).
Do you have an Android phone? The built-in QR reader can read many more barcodes other than QR codes.
Scan the 2D barcode on the back of your drivers' license. The one that looks like a random block of thin and stacked black & white lines.
Here's my data. I have redacted sensitive things for my privacy:
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ANSI 6#######0102DL0######9ZN03####06D#D#Q5#######7
DCSE######## (last name)
DDEU
DACGEORGE (first name)
DDFU
DAD###### (middle name)
DDGU
DCAD
DCBB
DCDNONE
DBD1######4 (date my drivers' license was issued)
DBB0######2 (my birthdate)
DBA1######2 (drivers' license expiration date)
DBC1
DAU### in (my height in inches)
DAYBRO (eye color)
DAG##### ######## RD SW (my street address)
DAIALBUQUERQUE (city)
DAJNM (state)
DAK#####0000 (ZIP/ postal code)
DCFunavl
DCGUSA (country of birth)
DAW### (unknown)
DCK5#########1 (drivers' license number w/ check digit)
DDAF
DDB0######2 (now this is interesting. Not sure what this is for, it's a date that is over 2 years earlier than me moving to New Mexico, in fact based on the date I hadn't even retired yet.)
DDK1
ZNZNA
Think twice before handing over your drivers' license to a bouncer at a bar or your doctors' office. That little barcode on the back of your license contains a LOT of personal information, information you may not want a bouncer or bar to have in their records. Same thing applies to hotels and stuff.
GET A PASSPORT CARD! Or present and carry your Passport Book (if you have one). If not, get one. For as much money as they cost and as much of a hassle that they are to get, they are a helluva lot more private and secure than your drivers' license.
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Hey hey, I have been using Sound Juicer on my Ubuntu 24 / KDE 5 PC and it works, but it doesn't handle the tags for my MP3 files very nicely. I've also used abcde, at the terminal, and that can be better but it takes a lot finessing at the CLI to get the result I want.
Is there a better CD ripper application that will run on Ubuntu and can make setting the MP3 tags dead simple?
Thanks for any ideas!
Edit: Fixed a typo
ETA: Asunder looks good, does what I need and works well on my PC. Thanks for everyone's ideas and help!
I use whipper. It's a command-line application but it's easy to use and works great every single time. At first you should let it analyze your drive which is the only step more involved. Here's a mini tutorial for that I wrote for myself but you can also read it on the project page where it's probably more up to date:
Analyze the drive's caching behavior: $ sudo whipper drive analyze
Find the drive's offset. Consult the [[AccurateRip's CD Drive Offset database|http://www.accuraterip.com/driveoffsets.htm]] for your drive. Drive information can be retrieved with $ whipper drive list. $ sudo whipper offset find -o insert-numeric-value-here. If you omit the -o argument, whipper will try a long, popularity-sorted list of drive offsets. If you can't confirm your drive offset value but wish to set a default regardless, set read_offset = insert-numeric-value-here in whipper.conf. Offsets confirmed with $ whipper offset find are automatically written to the configuration file. If specifying the offset manually, please note that: if positive it must be written as a number without sign (ex: +102 -> 102), if negative it must include the sign.
After that you just rip any disc by running: $ whipper cd rip
And just as an example, here's my ~/.config/whipper/whipper.conf:
Looking up Picard's instructions... They recommend whipper, as others have done in the thread.
It can do the tagging for you, but it's important to note that music CDs do not contain metadata.
All the rippers that exist, look up what the CD is online, based on stuff like number of tracks, their lengths, and order. iTunes was the ripping software everyone used back in the day, because Apple made and maintained the first extensive database that could be used to automatically tag ripped music.
Modern rippers typically rely on MusicBrainz (like Picard).
As such there is no 100% reliable auto-tagging ripper, because a disc might match more than one album, or not be in the database. Such cases will always require manual intervention.
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So, our first recommendation will be homebrew, it's sort of a pre-requisite to get a lot of command line utilities that your distro might not have packaged.
You can install homebrew with one command line, and then you can get any CLI utility you want by running brew install, followed by the name of the tool you need.
Our second pick is FZF, for Fuzzy Find. It lets you search files extremely fast using their names, but it can also look through command history, processes, bookmarks, git commits, and more.
ATUIN thing replaces your shell history with a database you can search through super easily. Once it's installed with brew, press the up arrow key or control +r, and you'll get a search interface to look for all your commands.
CHEZMOI lets you manage your dotfiles. It lets you share these config files across devices by syncing them to a got repo, and it can interface with a very large variety of password managers to keep everything safe.
If you use a laptop, and you find Linux's batter life to be a bit subpar, maybe look at POWERTOP. Just run the command powertop, and you'll see all processes. Using tab, you can navigate to various statistics, but also to the "tunables" screen, which will show you what powertop identifies as a bad configuration for battery life.
If you'd like to tune these, you can rune powertop --auto-tune, and it will change all the settings to what it believes are "good" options for battery life saving, although it might impact the performance.
If you'd like to quickly analyze what uses a lot of disk space on your computer, or on a remote server, you might want to replace the du and df commands with DUST.
If you run a dual boot, and you're facing problems with accessing one of your installed systems, you can force GRUB to reboot into a specific system, just for the next boot, using the grub-reboot command, followed by the number of the grub entry for that system.
If you need to monitor for resource usage on your computer, you might be using top, or htop, but BTOP is a better option. It looks better than htop or top, and it's also more legible.
If you often use the cat command to read a file, maybe try BAT instead. It does the same thing, but it also has syntax highlighting for a bunch of files, and it communicates with git to show modifications in files, with the usual Plus and minuses symbols.
If man is too much for you and is too much reading, and if the --help option isn't enough, why not try TLDR? It gives you an abridged version of the contents of MAN for most of the available programs and commands, and it makes things more legible, and easier to parse at a glance.
If you like to split a terminal or a tty into multiple terminals, ZELLIJ is a nice alternative to things like tmux. It's basically a tiling window manager for your terminal workspace: you can define your own layout, it supports plugins, floating panes, and more.
You can run it by running the zellij command, and then you can create a new pane pressing alt + N, you can move a pane using control +h, or make it floating with Control + P, then W.
If you often use ls to list files in a directory, you might want to take a look at EZA. It does the same job, as in, it lists the contents of a directory, but it does it with way more details, and a more legible interface.
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Now, fill each of those hexagonal cells with flat li-ion battery packs, laminate a sheet on top and bottom, add motor + drivetrain, then strap on the protective gear and look out.
#Microplastic concentrations were also three to five times higher in the brains of patients with #dementia, compared to cognitively normal brains. It’s not clear whether microplastics may cause or contribute to dementia, nor whether dementia-induced changes to the brain might allow more microplastics to enter.
The amount of microplastics in the human brain appears to be increasing over time: Concentrations rose by roughly 50 percent between 2016 and 2024, according to a new study
The Human #Brain May Contain as Much as a Spoon’s Worth of #Microplastics, New #Research Suggests (https://diaspora.mifritscher.de/posts/fc8fad201fdf013e5e13543d7eeced27)
unmittelbar@diaspora.mifritscher.de: This might be a good start for seeing how to migrate plastic out of the body. One idea is to engineer the body to migrate plastic to the skin for armor, and maybe even as protection from the vacuum of space!
ANY politician who believes allowing illegal criminals into our country should be called out for what they are (anti-American Marxist criminal enablers) and summarily defeated in the next elections.
Like many American Jews, I was brought up to see Israel as infallible. Living among Palestinians taught me vital truths about the reality of the occupation.
The $33 billion represents the total estimates from 32 S&P 500 companies, including American, European, and Asian firms. Economists say the cost to businesses will likely be multiple times what companies have so far disclosed.
@Java It's always that way. In the scheme of things, we haven't been around that long since Jesus came. Not even a blink of an eye. Don't ever forget-God always wins!
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you should maybe do a #RFFF show!
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