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On May 28, local time, the Exercise Tiger 2025 was conducted at the camp of the 23rd Chinese Peacekeeping Force to the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).
IDF chief Eyal Zamir made the statement during a visit to southern Gaza ■ Egypt and Qatar say they are continuing to work to advance a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas
On the eve of the second round of talks between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul, the Kiev junta has carried out one of the most massive attacks on Russia.
“As design ethicist Aral Balkan explains: ‘Dark patterns might boost short-term metrics, but they ultimately corrode trust and damage brand reputation. Ethical design creates sustainable relationships rather than one-time transactions.’”
I’m pretty fucking sure I never said this. Mostly because I can’t imagine myself using the words “metrics”, “brand reputation” and “transactions” without projectile vomiting.
Dark patterns use deceptive design techniques to manipulate users into actions against their interests or intentions. Identifying and avoiding these...
Wow, searching for “dark patterns might boost short-term metrics, but…” gives a bunch of blogs, substacks, etc. by different people (and probably their AI chatbots) all copying verbatim whoever wrote it first.
that is so messed up. And it likely then gets picked up and requoted by ai slop content farms so much that I becomes hard to imagine that there wasn't an original source for it. I wonder if the inventor of the humble Web link ever imagined that the current state of garbled slop farms would be the future of the Internet
Am 16. Mai 2025 sprach ich auf Einladung der Bürgerinitiative für Frieden und Grundrechte Oberhavel-Steht-Auf in Oranienburg über die Protokolle des Corona-K...
Am 16. Mai 2025 sprach ich auf Einladung der Bürgerinitiative für Frieden und Grundrechte Oberhavel-Steht-Auf in Oranienburg über die Protokolle des Corona-K...
Die STIKO ist nicht unabhängig! | Schockierende Belege von Dr. Sabine C. Stebel | dieBasis 2025
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Im Gespräch beleuchten der freie Journalist Alexander Kühn und die Biologin Dr. Sabine C. Stebel die brisanten Erkenntnisse aus den geleakten RKI-Dokumenten. Diese machen deutlich , dass zentrale Gesundheitsbehörden – allen voran die Ständige Impfkommission (STIKO) – keineswegs so unabhängig agieren, wie bislang behauptet. Im Gegenteil: Die Belege zeigen, dass die STIKO über mehrere Ebenen hinweg als verlängerter Arm der Pharma- und Impfstoffindustrie fungiert.
Besonders schockiert, wie Politiker und Entscheidungsträger, gesteuert durch Lobbyisten, den Anschein einer unabhängigen Expertise aufrechterhalten konnten. Die öffentlich gewordenen RKI-Files belegen schwarz auf weiß: Die STIKO folgt den Vorgaben der Politik, ohne Rücksicht auf die Gesundheit der Bevölkerung – und insbesondere der jüngsten und verletzlichsten unter uns: Babys und Kinder.
In diesem Interview werden konkrete Beispiele und Analysen geliefert, die klar belegen, dass die STIKO nicht im Sinne der Allgemeinheit agiert. Eltern sollten sich bewusst machen, welche Risiken die Empfehlungen der STIKO für die Gesundheit ihrer Kinder bergen können.
Und während die Profite ungebremst sprudeln, bleibt die Haftung bei Impfschäden beim Staat – die Industrie bleibt ungeschoren.
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Dr. Sabine C. Stebel ist promovierte Molekularbiologin, Expertin für Proteindesign und Mitglied im Landesverband Baden-Württemberg. Bekannt wurde sie mit ihrer Aufklärungsarbeit rund um die “Corona-Impfstoffe” und der Veröffentlichung des Bestsellers: “Einmal mit Profis arbeiten oder Ugurs Geständnis."
Vortrag von Bastian #Barucker: Die inhaltlichen Schwerpunkte lagen auf der aus diesen Protokollen hervorgehenden Aspekte einer offenbar weitestgehend nicht vorhandenen wissenschaftlichen Grundlage eines Großteils der sogenannten Corona-Maßnahmen sowie dem enormen Einfluss der Politik auf die Behörde.
Ausserdem sprach ich über den Vorgang der Veröffentlichung der Protokolle und über die Bedeutung der “RKI-Files“ für eine Aufarbeitung der Pandemiepolitik. Die Protokolle bestätigen die Kritik an der Verhältnismäßigkeit des Pandemie-Managements, die international hochangesehene Wissenschaftler und ein beträchtlicher Teil der Bevölkerung von Anfang an äußerten und dafür ausgegrenzt und diffamiert wurden.
Der Veranstalter umschrieb den Abend, zu dem 120 Gäste – darunter auch Abgeordnete des Landtages – erschienen waren, so: "Solide recherchiert präsentierte Barucker der interessierten Öffentlichkeit zahlreiche Zitate aus den RKI-Protokollen, die den Einfluss der Politik auf die Fachleute im RKI belegen."
00:04:20 Start Vortrag 00:07:42 Die Veröffentlichung der Protokolle 00:12:42 Das RKI: keine unabhängige Behörde 00:14:47 die Risikohochstufung durch das RKI 00:24:33 Aussagen zur Gefährlichkeit des Virus 00:25:44 "Wie Jens Spahn die Pandemie herbeigetestet hat." 00:28:25 Die Unwirksamkeit der Masken 00:36:11 Das Kindeswohl 00:45:10 Die politische Impflkampagne 00:51:39 Die "Pandemie der Ungeimpften" 00:53:32 2G und das RKI 00:56:50 Die interne Evaluation der Maßnahmen 00:59:00 Die Protokolle in den Medien 01:01:41 Die Protokolle als Werkzeug zur Aufarbeitung 01:07:11 Fazit
Anfragen für weitere Vorträge über die RKI-Protokolle unter: info@bastian-barucker.de
Years ago the WEF announced they would mess things up so badly that people would beg for AI to run things. People were alarmed, and said "We'll never allow this to happen! Klaus is evil!"
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The txtr beagle was designed to be a stripped-down and simplified eReader0.
As far as I can tell, it never shipped. There were a few review units sent out but I can't find any evidence of consumers getting their hands on one. Also, that £8 price was the subsidised price when purchased with a mobile contract. Their website ceased working long ago.
But it got me intrigued. Moore's law is supposed to drive down the cost of electronics. So where are all the dirt-cheap eReaders?
The cheapest Kindle for sale on Amazon UK right now is about £100. Back in 2012, it was about £70. Taking inflation into account, that price has stayed static. Brands like Kobo are also in the £100 to £150 range.
AliExpress has loads of second-hand and obsolete models at cheap-ish prices. But a surprising dearth of new eReaders.
Going wholesale, Alibaba has a range of models, some of which clock in at around £30.
But, of course, that's before shipping and tax. They won't come with any manufacturer's warranty and don't expect any software updates. Also, good luck getting accessories!
So what's stopping new eReaders being released at a cheap(er) price? I think it comes down to four main things.
Around 40% of UK adults didn't read a single book last year. That survey combines reading books and listening to audiobooks. Of the 60% who do read/listen, about 14% primarily listen. Of those that read, around 60% do so on paper books.
If reading is niche, reading electronically is a tiny niche! This is somewhat of a chicken-and-egg argument. If an eReader were the same cost as a mass-market paperback, I'm sure many more paper-book readers would become converts.
The whole point of an eInk reader is that it is a distraction-free environment. Yeah, you could scroll TikTok on one, but it isn't a pleasant experience. An eReader is designed for one thing only, unlike a phone or tablet. Do enough people want to carry yet-another-bloody-device just for reading?
The company which makes eInk hold several patents on the process. They're not a patent troll; they're building a business and selling mega-hectares of the stuff. Understandably, they have an interest in keeping prices high. They don't want to cannibalise their own market.
A basic 6 inch screen with wiring costs around £20 wholesale - that's from Alibaba, so doesn't include tax and shipping. That's before you've added any electronics or a operating system.
The promise of the Android Open Source Project was a free Operating System for anyone to use. The reality has been a little different. Most people want to be able to use basic Android functionality - like download operating system updates or reading apps. But Google doesn't allow that for eInk devices.
Back when Apple sold iPods, they knew that the majority of purchasers would buy MP3s direct from Apple. The perfect symbiotic relationship! But the walled-gardens cracked and now people can buy their music from anywhere.
Amazon keeps this model for its eBooks. Unless you're prepared to get technical, you can only read Amazon books on your Amazon Kindle paid for with your Amazon wallet.
Games consoles are often sold at a loss because the manufacturer knows they'll make it up in game sales and subscriptions.
A low-price manufacturer is unlikely to also run a book store and wouldn't be able to cross-subsidise their hardware with content sales.
Buying second hand is relatively cheap - often under £50. But eInk screens can be brittle, and older ones may have scratches or cracks which are effectively unrepairable.
I'd love a £8 eReader. Something I could throw in a pocket and not worry about damaging. An eReader which was the same price as a hardback book - around £20 - would be amazing.
But I don't think we'll get there soon. The monopoly on screen technologies sets a retail floor of around £30, before the rest of the hardware is taken into account. Niche hardware is viable - but only with decent OS support. Other than Kobo and Amazon, no book retailer wants to stray outside their core competency to develop and subsidise hardware.
So I guess it's buy second-hand, or wait for the patents to expire.
The ReMarkable 1 at least was based on a simple Linux kernel with a Qt app running on top. But I can see how Android is a nicer environment to build on top of.
The $100 dollar price point is simply what the average buyer of an e-reader is willing to spend on a device like this. It’s probably already subsidized down from $150–$200 by Amazon & co. You simply can’t make a profit or even a decent margin from the hardware alone.
As I understand it, Google requires Android devices to have colour screens and, so I’ve read, won’t certify eInk eReaders for newer versions of Android.
So manufacturers have to source parts which have drivers for older versions of Android. Or they have to develop their own OSes.
Some of the vendors get around that requirement by shipping an AOSP-based Android build, and then installing Google Apps after the fact with what’s essentially an end-user-issued developer key. I’ve got a Boox device that used that approach to run Android 10, and AFAIK all of the newer ones (even the ones with color displays) do that too.
I used a Kobo as my flight computer for paragliding for years. Tough is how I would describe it. It led a brutal life. Eventually I bought another wing that came with a fancy nav computer. The Kobo was still as good but the case broke.
About 12 years ago I bought a 'nook' ebook reader for 30 pounds (new), I believe there was a campaign subsidising them in either London or the UK. But it's so long ago that I can't find a reference to the scheme.
I think the ubiquity of smartphones displayed cheap dedicated reading devices just as it displaced cheap digital cameras.
There's nothing preventing monochrome Android-based eReaders; Boox does it, but theirs are $200+.
Google has gone to great lengths with proprietary libraries and SafetyNet attestation to ensure a phone won't be palatable to mainstream consumers without their approval, but people don't expect an eReader to run every app on the Play store. It's viable to build that sort of device on AOSP provided a market for it exists.
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Their focus is still on deb packages, mostly, as for example, they're now maintaining a deb package for Thunderbird. The Software install app itself now loads much faster, with the main window appearing almost instantly.
By default, unverified flatpaks won't appear in Mint's software manager.
You do get an option to show these again in the store, with a warning telling you that it's not really secure, you won't see any user reviews, or ratings with the little stars, because this would, I suppose, make them look legit and just like other verified packages.
People WILL turn this setting back on, because not every flatpak people want is verified: Steam, Spotify, Chrome, Dolphin, VLC and more. When they do turn this on, they won't have any indication if said packages could have problems, because they won't have reviews or ratings.
Mint is now moving to older versions of a lot of default apps that are made by GNOME. So, the Font Viewer has been entirely removed from Mint's default install. it's still in the repos though. The video player, the calculator, the scanning app, the disk usage analyzer, the system monitor, the calendar, and the archive manager were all reverted to their older GTK 3 versions, because they all moved to GTK4 and libadwaita for GNOME, and this means Mint wouldn't be able to apply their usual themes to these applications.
The rationale here is that Mint likes to offer a cohesive desktop, much like what GNOME is doing, and what KDE is doing, with one set of guidelines for the user interface, and one theme. The problem is, Mint was using a lot of GNOME apps, which first, started losing their menubars for headerbars a while back, meaning the user interface guidelines were a bit muddied, and second, it meant that these apps were using the libadwaita library, which hardcodes the Adwaita theme itself. Mint could still change this theme, because there are ways to do so, but it's not very sustainable, and it would basically lock users to one single theme.
Other applications that Mint will now ship by default include a new Online Accounts app, that replaces the older online accounts settings panel.
Mint 22 also ships with a matrix client by default now, to replace the discontinued Hexchat app.
Mint 22 is based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, meaning it will get security updates until 2029. This package base is also going to stay the same for Mint until 2026, as always, mint will ship minor updates, but won't move to a newer Ubuntu base. In turn, this means Mint 22 moved to pipewire as the default, because that's what Ubuntu uses now. It also means Mint comes with the kernel 6.8, and they'll add the usual hardware enablement stack to it, meaning Mint will keep supporting newer hardware by default. This kernel is NOT an LTS version, so I would also be surprised if Mint didn't move to something newer at some point.
On top of that, Mint 22 received more HiDPI improvements in their login screen and in the boot screen as well. Their themes were also updated to work with GTK4, although they won't theme libadwaita apps, only non libadwaita GTK4 apps, which there aren't many of, AFAIK.
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Mastodon is a platform comparable to Twitter, but open source, and made of plenty of servers, that talk to each other to form a single social network
So, how do you join? Well the first step is to pick a server. You have a handy short list on joinmastodon.com/servers.
Let's look at the interface. The first thing is your profile. To edit and complete it, just tap your user photo, and click the edit button.
You can also add links to your various other socials, and you'll notice that's where you can be verified. This implies having your own website: you copy a link to your mastodon profile into the code of your website, and you add the link to your website in your mastodon profile, and it will show up in green with a checkmark.
By default, your timeline, in the "home" tab on the mobile app will show posts from everyone you follow. The "search tab" lets you look for people to follow.
Then you have your post button, the black button at the bottom.
Finally, you get your notifications tab.
n mastodon, you have 3 timelines: your home, where you'll only see posts from people or hashtags that you follow, you have the local timeline, which is your community, all the people on YOUR specific server, and you have the federated timeline, which is a giant dump of everything that everyone has posted everywhere. I never use the latter, personally, but you might have a use for it.
When looking at what someone has posted, you have a few options. You can reply, you can boost, which is exactly like a retweet on Twitter: you're posting to your followers the message you're boosting, as is, without any commentary. Then you can "favorite" a post, which is that little star button.
Now, if you want to write a post, then you just hit the "post button" on the mobile app, or you start writing on the left column on the desktop.
Posts have a character limit, that your server sets. By default, it's 500, but it can be more or less.
You can add hashtags like on Twitter, by just typing the hashtag symbol, and you can mention people by typing the @ symbol.
Of course, you can embed images, you can also add polls with up to 4 options, and you can add content warnings. These are basically a filter that will hide the content of your post behind blur and some text. People will only see the text you wrote in the content warning, and if they want to see the actual post, they can click on it.
Finally, you can also pick who will see your post, either only the people you mention, which is the only way to make a direct message on mastodon, all your followers, or everyone.
You can edit your posts.
When writing posts, if you add an image, use the description, and fill it in.
Second, use content warnings liberally. Third, use the "sensitive content" filter for images liberally as well.
If you had a Twitter account, use Movetodon: you login with your twitter account, then your mastodon account, and it will look at your Twitter follows, find the ones that are on mastodon, and offer you to follow them individually, or follow them all in one click.
You can also use the local timeline, using the "local" tab on the web, or in the Search, then Community tab on the mobile app.
Next is using hashtags: you can follow hashtags on mastodon. Click on the hashtag, and then on the follow button.
OCCUPIED PALESTINE, June 01 (YPA) - Hebrew media reported Sunday evening that the occupation forces closed the airspace around Ben Gurion International Airport in the Lod area near Tel Aviv, following the launch of a new missile from Yemen towards th
To those on my side i.e Left who hate Armed Palestine Factions more than worst of the worst Nazi criminals(Empire,West,Nazi regime)
Let me offer olive branch
I'll condemn Hamas if you can
1.Decolonise Palestine from Jewish Nazism(Ur decades long "activism",Jewish Nazi apologia¶des ultimately gave genocide) 2.Give right of return 3.Prosecute Nazis&Reparations
If your ivory tower thinking cant, stop your irrational hate of Hamas& rest.
Its armed factions like Hamas & others that sacrificed significantly, took gamble to hit back at Nazis that were oppressing them for generations, while contractors of colonizer i.e Palestine Authority (PA) was allowing Jewish Nazi society to build & grow Nazism to its genocidal zenith.
Empire, West, Nazi society collude & parade PA for a reason. All of them in collusion fought Hamas & other armed factions for a reason, so theft & slaughter
can go on in an orderly manner, to breaking the spirit of Gazans & indirectly rest of Palestinians as a whole across whole of Occupied Palestine.
When that Genocidal Nazi society eliminated all other effective factions in Palestine one by one (before Hamas ever came into being), tolerating only collaborationist contractors(snakes), what you ultimately get Hamas, PIJ & rest of Palestine factions.
takes. Once you crush all reasonable decolonization forces, what you eventually get is a more forceful reactionary from colonized community.
Colonized have every right to kick out the colonizer by any means necessary, yes that includes harming the society thats a direct beneficiary of their dispossession & subjugation.
I also want clean slate. If you are subjected to a Genocidal Nazi society's wrath, unless you want to live in perpetual
Over a decade’s worth of NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope data was used to re-examine the long-held prediction that the Milky Way galaxy will collide with the Andromeda galaxy in about 4.5 billion years. The astronomers found that, based on the latest observational data from Hubble and Gaia, there is only a 50-50 chance of the two galaxies colliding within the next 10 billion years.
In the face of Russian aggression, Keir Starmer says he must ready the country for war, by increasing military spending and building a platoon of nuclear submarines – but, as Mark Almond cautions, perhaps the only thing the Ministry of Defence can be…
Lebanese media reported that one citizen was killed and another injured on Sunday in two attacks carried out by Israeli aircraft on two towns in southern Lebanon, as part of the ongoing Israeli aggression against Lebanon.Lebanese media reported that
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TEHRAN, Jun. 02 (MNA) – More than 30 Palestinians were killed in the past 24 hours by Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip, the Health Ministry of the Palestinian enclave said.
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Illegitimate Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky opened his comments at the peace negotiations in Turkey by gloating about Sunday’s surprise attack deep inside Russia and begging the West (NATO) for more weapons to hurl at Russia.
Illegitimate Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky opened his comments at the peace negotiations in Turkey by gloating about Sunday’s surprise attack deep inside Russia and begging the West (NATO) for more weapons to hurl at Russia.
For me, driving. Its not that driving is difficult or i'm just not able to drive. Its that there are just too many awful drivers and pedestrians you have to care about on the road.
Saji Al-Hawamdeh, a child from the village of Al-Ghwein in the southern occupied West Bank, endured attacks by settlers and the Zionist occupation army during his long, 10-kilometer walk to and from h
The lower photo is a BTS from the Great Train Robbery movie, from 1978:
The photo of alleged drunken sailors, titled "Actors 'Sleeping' Draped Over Ropes" in the Getty Images archive, actually stems from the production of the film The Great Train Robbery (1978):
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