Russia’s Primorye Territory to increase Belarusian machinery imports in 2026 eng.belta.by/economics/view/ru…

#Palestine / 12 countries condemn forced displacement of Palestinian village in occupied West Bank

Diplomatic missions from #UK, #Germany, #France and 9 other nations issued joint statement expressing solidarity with residents of Mughayir a-Deir who were forced to abandon homes due to settler violence and Israeli authorities' failure to provide protection.

As has been common practice for years, Israeli settlers established an outpost meters from a Palestinian village. The community was forced to flee after escalating violence and threats. Seven neighboring communities have already been displaced following the same pattern. Tens of thousands in Area C face "high or imminent risk" of forcible transfer.

These countries demand Israel dismantle the outpost and allow safe return. They call this a violation of international law and demand Israel respect the prohibition on forcible transfer.

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**JOINT PRESS STATEMENT**
**WEST BANK, JUNE 2025**

**DIPLOMATIC STATEMENT ON THE SITUATION IN MUGHAYIR A-DEIR**

The undersigned diplomatic missions express their strong solidarity with the Palestinian community of Mughayir a-Deir. The community's long-standing residents were recently forced to abandon their homes and belongings due to escalating settler violence and a prevailing climate of impunity.

Israeli settlers have established an outpost just metres from the community, which is a clear violation of international law. Mughayir a-Deir was one of the last remaining Palestinian communities in the area. Seven neighbouring communities have already been displaced amid a broader and deeply troubling pattern of violent settler attacks and a lack of protection by the Israeli authorities.

We therefore urge the Israeli authorities to dismantle the outpost immediately and to take urgent and effective measures to enable the safe return of the displaced residents. It is imperative that the community is protected from further violence and intimidation.

Mughayir a-Deir is not an isolated case—it reflects a broader pattern of displacement in Area C of the West Bank, where a coercive environment marked by repeated settler violence, movement restrictions, land confiscation, demolitions and inadequate access to essential services is making life unbearable and pushing communities to leave. Tens of thousands of Palestinians in Area C face a high or imminent risk of forcible transfer. This alarming trend gravely undermines prospects for a just and lasting peace.

We call on Israel to respect its obligations under international law, including the prohibition of forcible transfer. We also reaffirm our clear and consistent opposition to settlements, which are illegal under international law. We emphasise Israel's responsibility to protect all Palestinian communities in Area C.

*The Consulates General of Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom, the Representative Offices of Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ireland, and the Netherlands, as well as the Office of the European Union Representative to the West Bank and Gaza*

@palestine
@israel
#SettlerViolence #IsraelWarCrimes #Palestine #EthnicCleansing #GazaGenoicide

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@WesternDemocracies You should all face up to the fact, that your total moral abdication from the atrocities preformed by the Israeli fascists IS A SCANDAL AND AN EPIC MISTAKE, and take affirmative action that forces Israel to stop the war and the Gaza genocide, and will compel them to abide by international law and UN resolutions, but instead you all just talk cheap, and continues to profit from the war by selling armaments to the Israeli fascists...It seems that the leaders and their sycophant governments in these western socalled democracies all have a beginning twitc in their right arms!
#StopTheGenocide #StopIsraeliFascism #StopTheWar #NoToFascism #FreePalestine

This profile shows how Laila Soueif's life crisscrosses with so many important events in Egypt's contemporary history. If you are interested in knowing more about student movements and the struggles against multiple dictatorships in #Egypt, this article crystallises how the life of this frail woman lying in a hospital bed in London is so important.

Laila Soueif, on 247th day of hunger strike for jailed British-Egyptian son, defiant in face of death theguardian.com/world/2025/jun…

#FreeAlaa

23rd EWG Meeting of SCO Defense Ministers' Meeting held in China eng.chinamil.com.cn/CHINA_2091…

🥳 Announcing Splinter, your #fediverse tool for creating #Mastodon threads.

Splinter is a simple, self-explanatory app. It's a fun, non-profit, open-source side project.

I use Splinter all the time myself now; There must be others who need it. Please share to help them find it!

splinter.hastily.cc/ (1/2)

@pluralistic Not only does the street find uses for things, so do scam compounds

web.archive.org/web/2025060119…

Yanis Mhamdi (France) #Palestine freedomflotilla.org/2025/06/03…

The Ramifications of #Ukraine’s #Drone Attack - schneier.com/blog/archives/202… " If $35K in drones (117 drones times an estimated $300 per drone) can destroy $7B in Russian bombers and other long-range aircraft, why would anyone build more of those planes?" #war

It’s Treasury vs the Fed: With Fed Sidelined, Bessent Unleashes Record $10 Billion Bond Buyback

thelibertydaily.com/its-treasu…

Yemeni student drowns off the coast of India en.ypagency.net/358645
in reply to realcaseyrollins ✝️

@HiroProtagonist there's so much corruption and incompetence in government, more government spending = more centralization, corruption, bureaucracy, and regulations- covid clearly demonstrated this inverse relationship between spending and quality of care. look at all the tax money they spent on covid vaccines and murdering people in hospitals. similarly, more military spending doesn't necessarily provide better security. the more money they have the more they feel a need to waste it

i would rather have government spend zero on health care tbh. charity should be voluntary.

US military strikes on the Ras Issa Port in Hodeidah, Yemen, on April 17, caused dozens of civilian casualties and significant damage to port infrastructure. The port is a critical entry point for aid in #Yemen and hundreds of workers were present.

The attack showed a callous disregard for civilians’ lives and should be investigated as a war crime.
hrw.org/news/2025/06/04/yemen-…

Worst keyboard layouts?


Personally I think that azerty was meant made by drunk students trying to troll people but it somehow caught on.

  • Hey, qwerty is kinda bad... You think we could try to make one that's even worse to mock it?
  • Oooh that'd be hilarious! Let's make a French version of qwerty but a lot worse!
  • I know, lets put dead keys for all accents except for the accent aigu so that when you need it on an uppercase letter you CAN'T type it!
  • Ahah good one! Let's also not add anyway to type an uppercase cedilla! Imagine, a French keyboard that can't type uppercase é and ç !
  • And what if we rearrange all the punctuation and symbols so that the open and closed parenthesis are no longer next to each other? It'd be sooo funny!
  • Right right! Let's do it too for the brackets and curly braces too!
  • Good one! How about we don't add guillemets which are used in French instead of english double quotes, so that people will be forced to type double quotes and their advanced text editors will have to automatically replace them by guillemets so that the text uses correct punctuation for French?
  • That's so sneaky! Let's also add § so you can cite your sources with the correct paragraph symbol, but not use real quotations marks for the quotes!
  • What else would be really stupid?
  • Let's use one key for a random greek letter!
  • What?
  • You know, like α and β?
  • Ermm... okay... which one? α or β?
  • Neither, people might actually use those once every 2 years. Let's just pick one at random!
  • µ it is! Has anyone even seen that letter used in a French text?
  • Nope, never, so it's perfect!
  • How about also adding ¤?
  • What the hell is ¤?
  • I haven't the faintest clue! And neither do you or most people! That why it's funny!
  • Sure, why not, let's cram pointless characters and not add actually useful ones like guillemets! Any other ideas?
  • Let's put the hyphen on the one most unreachable key!
  • Oh that's a good one!
  • I got better! Let's put the period on the same key as the semicolon, but with the semicolon as the default character, and periods will be Shift+semicolon! That way we can say that it's canonically why French phases are long-winded: it's easier to type a comma or semicolon than a period!
  • Man you're hilarious!

When I was still on Windows I put qwerty as my keyboard layout and used the Alt+number shortcuts for accents because that was less painful than using azerty... Those shortcuts didn't work anymore when I switched to linux so I had to find a real solution, which ended up being a colemak base which I modified to add accented letters. I don't like bepo, it moves z x c v and I like them being in the same place as in qwerty for the shortcuts I'm used to, and I didn't know qwerty-fr existed at the time 😅

Do you have worse for your language?

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in reply to phantomwise

There are several Azerty layouts. Some don’t allow you to type uppercase accented letters easily, some do. I’ve switched to Linux about fifteen years ago and never had an issue typing these characters with the default layout. It used to be more complicated on Windows, I don’t know if that’s still the case. I should give it a try the next time I get the occasion to type on a Windows computer.

I currently use the fr-oss Azerty layout, which is probably not perfect but has many advantages. I love being able to type thin spaces and non breaking spaces easily.

I still don’t get why it’s easier to type a semi-colon than a full stop, though. I love semi-colons, but even I don’t use them that much.

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Israeli aid centers have become traps for killing civilians dailyyemen.net/2025/06/03/isra…

BRICS youth seminars strengthen Global South themes across Brasil’s five regions infobrics.org/post/47147/

Welcome to a new privacy-first initiative challenging the digital identity status quo, urging a sharp turn away from the surveillance-ready infrastructure embedded in mobile driver’s licenses.

The campaign, called No Phone Home, brings together a broad alliance of civil liberties groups, privacy experts, technologists, lawmakers, and public officials who are resisting the ways digital IDs compromise people’s rights.

What’s fueling the campaign is concern over how mobile driver’s licenses, increasingly adopted in the US and abroad, are built atop a technical framework that allows them to silently transmit data back to issuing authorities. While this function may not be active by default, it exists; and that, privacy advocates argue, is a serious vulnerability.

Even if unused, if the architecture allows for data to be sent back to government servers, it eventually will be the campaign’s statement warns.

reclaimthenet.org/no-phone-hom…

My week with Linux: I'm dumping Windows for Ubuntu to see how it goes


There are more than a billion PCs in use and, according to StatCounter, only 71 percent of them run Windows. Among the rest, about 4 percent run Linux. That's tens of millions of people with Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, etc as their desktop operating system. I envy them.

Windows 11 has become more annoying lately as it shoves ads for XBox Game Pass in my face, pushes AI features no one asked for and demands that I reconsider the choices I made during installation on a regular basis. Plus, it just isn't that attractive.

I'm ready to try joining that industrious four percent and installing Linux on my computers to use as my main OS, at least for a week. I'll blog about the experience here.

It's hard to give up Windows forever because so many applications only run in Microsoft's OS. For example, the peripheral software that runs with many keyboards and mice isn't available for Linux. Lots of games will not run under Linux. So I think it's likely I'll be using Windows again, at least some of the time, after this week is through.

However, for now, I'm going to give Linux a very serious audition and document the experience.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/live/my-week-with-linux

My week with Linux: I'm dumping Windows for Ubuntu to see how it goes


cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/31142642

There are more than a billion PCs in use and, according to StatCounter, only 71 percent of them run Windows. Among the rest, about 4 percent run Linux. That's tens of millions of people with Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, etc as their desktop operating system. I envy them.

Windows 11 has become more annoying lately as it shoves ads for XBox Game Pass in my face, pushes AI features no one asked for and demands that I reconsider the choices I made during installation on a regular basis. Plus, it just isn't that attractive.

I'm ready to try joining that industrious four percent and installing Linux on my computers to use as my main OS, at least for a week. I'll blog about the experience here.

It's hard to give up Windows forever because so many applications only run in Microsoft's OS. For example, the peripheral software that runs with many keyboards and mice isn't available for Linux. Lots of games will not run under Linux. So I think it's likely I'll be using Windows again, at least some of the time, after this week is through.

However, for now, I'm going to give Linux a very serious audition and document the experience.

in reply to dwaem

@dwaem Ale to trzeba robić z głową, a nie wersjonować PDFy xDDD Git może i by się jeszcze nadał, ale GitHub i podobne byłyby do tego absolutnie bezużyteczne.

Podstawowa wartość takiego VCSa wynikałaby z wykorzystywania go przez parlament. Dzisiaj aby jako obywatel ogarnąć, nad czym właściwie toczy się głosowanie, musisz włożyć olbrzymi wysiłek w rozwiązywanie referencji w projektach i poprawkach - albo zapłacić za komercyjne opracowanie. To sztuczna bariera informacyjna.

in reply to Sebastian Krzyszkowiak

@dwaem To tak żeby uściślić - marzyłby mi się publiczny system pozwalający wygenerować tekst ujednolicony (nienormatywny) na każdym etapie procesu legislacyjnego, włącznie z propozycjami poprawek w Sejmie i Senacie, a także wyświetlający czytelnie różnice między takimi tekstami i rozwiązujący referencje.

Większa tego część jest już dostępna na rynku komercyjnie - a powinna być publiczna, zintegrowana z systemami informacyjnymi Sejmu, Senatu i RPLem.

in reply to Sebastian Krzyszkowiak

@dos Otworzyłem akurat losowo github.com/ProjektyUstaw/Ustaw… i tam jest Markdown.

Oczywiście, że ma się nijak do naszego procesu legislacyjnego, ale w teorii można byłoby na bazie zwykłego repo w git stworzyć taki system. Wtedy marszałek by mówił "głosujemy teraz nad PR #123" - "X głosów za, Y przeciw, PR zmergeowany" 😁

@dwaem @mateusz @razem

in reply to Łukasz

@hlukasz @dwaem No i to jest właśnie chłopskorozumowa droga donikąd, bo teksty prawne funkcjonują na zasadach które nie mapują się zbyt dobrze na gitowy koncept merge'a.

Pewnie jakby się uprzeć to dałoby się zbudować sensowny system z gitem pod spodem, ale raczej wątpię by była to najlepsza opcja. Natomiast GitHub/GitLab/Codeberg etc. i koncepty takie jak PR/MR będą tu kompletnie bezużyteczne.

Get rid of the store bought “miracle” solutions for sad plants that are expensive, inefficient, and often harmful to your health and the environment! You can make your own natural fertilizers, soil conditioners, etc on your own with relatively cheap or often free materials!
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#farming #gardening #permaculture #protips #regenerativeagriculture #gardenhack #gardeningtips #gardening101 #farminghacks #planttips #sdlafarm #sdla
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La chanteuse Nicole Croisille, interprète du célèbre « Da ba da ba da » d’« Un homme et une femme », est morte


#musique #chanson

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