On 31 May 2025, the European Space Agency (ESA) made history by transmitting a live performance of The Blue Danube Waltz into space from its Cebreros deep space antenna in Spain. This symbolic gesture elevated Johann Strauss II’s famous waltz, often considered the unofficial ‘anthem of space’, to its rightful place among the stars.
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Cockatoos have learned to operate drinking fountains in Australia
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There is a point when academia cannot remain silent. The population transfers, starvation and mass killings in Gaza are proof that the line has been crossed. It is not enough to end the war; we must also change realityInbal Arnon (Haaretz)
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Guyana is the only country that can be entirely self-sufficient in all seven key food groups
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Global politics don't feel particularly cooperative at the moment, but which countries could actually feed themselves independently if all international food trade shut down? Just one, according to a new study.Michael Irving (ScienceAlert)
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"No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: 'But what would you replace it with?' When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with?"
-- Thomas Sowell
(1930- ) Writer and economist
"No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: 'But what would you replace it with?' When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with?" ~ Thomas SowellLibertyQuotes
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Scientists find 34-million-year-old snake that changes our understanding of evolution
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Field crews in Wyoming uncovered not one but four snake fossils so intact that their skulls, ribs, and tails lay in near-perfect order.Eric Ralls (Earth.com)
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I suggest Linux Mint. It has GUIs for almost everything and it's very stable. With a little bit of tinkering of the services at startup, you can get Mint to run at 700 MB of RAM (as read via htop), instead of its default ~1 GB of RAM. That could be important to fit it better at 4 GB of ram with some demanding browsing.
I disagree with anyone who might suggest Fedora or Ubuntu with 4 GB of RAM. These distros require about 2+ GB of RAM to boot up, double than that of Mint.
Then there are the distros meant for older machines that use less ram, but it's a shame to use these when your laptop is fast-enough with an 8th gen cpu (comparatively to very old machines, that is).
The lowest ram usage I've seen with a full-fledge distro/DE, is XFce with endeavourOS. I load it at 490 MB of RAM (it takes 630 MB on Mint for the same layout/apps).
Basically, your challenge is the RAM, not the CPU or the drive. Use an appropriate distro for the RAM and the difficulty you want, and always be mindful to not have too many tabs/apps open at the same time.
I commented elsewhere about endeavourOS, but I have some other wisdom to pass along.
Keep good backups of your personal files, stuff you don’t want to lose, and don’t be afraid to try something new. You dont like something about how your system is running? Nuke it and install something else. Installing Linux is a cakewalk in most distros and rarely takes longer than half an hour (your mileage may vary with the low specs on the laptop)
I’ve learned a ton about Linux by trying many different distros, breaking things, fixing things, and occasionally distro hopping to see how I like a different offering.
There’s a lot of great content on YouTube that can help you learn, and reviews of various distros so you can get an idea of how things work without having to install it yourself. Have fun and don’t be afraid to fiddle with things.
I arrived at Hamburg main station, tracks 13+14 - just where over a week ago, a mentally ill German woman injured 15 in a brutal knife attack, some severely. She was stopped by two men: a young refugee from Syria and a man from Chechnya. The press quickly dropped the case.
That had not at all been the case when a similarly ill man, but a refugee, killed two in Bavaria. For weeks, up to our elections, this tragic event was heavily exploited to push anti-migrant politics.
Honesty, and humanity.
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“We have restricted credit, we have restricted opportunity, we have controlled development, and we have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated, governments in the civilized world--no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.”
~ Woodrow Wilson
(1856-1924) 28th US President
"We have restricted credit, we have restricted opportunity, we have controlled development, and we have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated, governments in the civilized world--no longer a government…LibertyQuotes
Wilson is a hypocrite because he condemned elite control of government, yet created Federal Reserve, introduced the income tax, backed League of Nations, & enforced Espionage & Sedition Acts—all of which concentrated power in hands of unelected elites & crushed dissent; either he was a fool who was duped, or a self-righteous idealist who thought he knew best & was disastrously wrong.
Wilson came directly from the world of academia—only U.S. president to hold a Ph.D.!
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says uranium enrichment is the key to Iran’s nuclear issue, dismissing US proposals for Tehran to ultimately stop all enrichment in the country.PressTV
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Art by Ron Cobb for Alien - 1977
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U.S. physicist and computing scientist Steve Hsu discusses how global chip ban backfires as China flips Washington’s colossal mistake.
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If you want to get into customizing UIs hard, something the likes of this
You could get started with window managers (very opiniated topic, its really up to you to decide on which you should use) and UI toolkits like
- ewww
- AGS
- QuickShell
Also I know X11 is slowly dying but AwesomeWM fits your bill really nicely.
TL,DR: You want a cool UI? look at unixporn's top posts of all time, research an option you find good enough and go bananas on everything you need to make yourself at home.
ALSO consider posting at !unixporn@lemmy.ml so we can marvel at your fine grained setup, good luck!
ElKowars wacky widgets. Contribute to elkowar/eww development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
"He who wishes for anything but Christ, does not know what he wishes; he who asks for anything but Christ, does not know what he is asking; he who works, and not for Christ, does not know what he is doing."
— St. Philip Neri
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I tried to use the Piefed migration feature to migrate !barcelona@lemm.ee to !barcelona@piefed.social
piefed.social/c/barcelona now exists, with all the existing posts there, as well as the icon and description.
It even moved some subscribers (there are around 100 now), from what I understand those were Piefed subscribers that got automatically moved.
The one caveat is that from Lemmy instances, the community doesn't have show old posts (see lemm.ee/c/barcelona@piefed.soc…), but if you were restarting a community from scratch you wouldn't have access to your old posts anyway.
This ensure that at least the posts are transferred to a community on an active instance, which is probably the main concern for lemm.ee communities at the moment.
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At this moment, 9 out of the 10 most active communities are on LW: lemmyverse.net/communities?ord…
You have to scroll 3 times to see !television@lemm.ee, the first Lemm.ee community.
Lemm.ee was already a decentralization factor from LW, but it was still tiny in terms of communities compared to LW. Moving all of the Lemm.ee communities to Piefed.social (not that it's the case anyway, I've seen communities moving elsewhere) would keep the status quo that we were all living with.
Of course ideally over time more Piefed instances emerge, and we can spread a bit more. Also, thanks to the Piefed migration feature, we'll be able to move communities much smoother (even including subscribers).
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At this moment, 9 out of the 10 most active communities are on LW: lemmyverse.net/communities?ord…You have to scroll 3 times to see !television@lemm.ee, the first Lemm.ee community.
Lemm.ee was already a decentralization factor from LW, but it was still tiny in terms of communities compared to LW. Moving all of the Lemm.ee communities to Piefed.social (not that it's the case anyway, I've seen communities moving elsewhere) would keep the status quo that we were all living with.
Of course ideally over time more Piefed instances emerge, and we can spread a bit more. Also, thanks to the Piefed migration feature, we'll be able to move communities much smoother (even including subscribers).
Right, I've seen pretty much that same reply already.
I think it's a chance to learn a lesson from how and why lemm.ee is shutting down. Right now I think people are risking moving the same problem somewhere else. Sure, in theory the problem gets better with time because the tools to move around are there, but that only matters if there's somewhere to move.
It would be much more encouraging to see dozens of new piefed instances being launched/advertised. I think there's a big push towards something new because it's in the right place at the right time, and I genuinely hope it's a successful project long term. I just hope the people utilizing it are willing to support it as a platform and not just as a flagship instance.
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Im Februar veröffentlichte die Universität Hildesheim einen Bericht über den Sexualwissenschaftler Helmut Kentler. Jetzt melden sich immer mehr Opfer des pädosexuellen Netzwerks zu Wort.Redaktion (Apollo News)
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has announced a June 11 confidence vote after nationalist Karol Nawrocki won the presidential election.Al Mayadeen English (Polish PM seeks confidence vote after nationalist elected president)
Distro installations should be simple! 🐧
Source: DebConf 14: QA with Linus Torvalds
The pro-BRI policymaking faction is experiencing a resurgence of influence nowadays.Andrew Korybko (Andrew Korybko's Newsletter)
La nouvelle stratégie nationale de lutte contre la cybercriminalité se décline en « 84 actions structurantes » fleurant bon le style « bullet point » propre aux présentations PowerPoint, mais sans pour autant annoncer quelque chiffre que ce soit.
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Le ministère de l’Intérieur vient de présenter sa stratégie nationale pour lutter contre la cybercriminalité, « structurée en 4 piliers, déclinés en 12 axes stratégiques, eux-mêmes détaillés en 84 actions structurantes ».Jean-Marc Manach (Next)
Alors que son président s’était engagé à protéger les données des Européens, Microsoft a retiré à la CPI l’accès à ses services.Owen Sayers (LeMagIT.fr)
Cloud Run GPUs, now GA, makes running AI workloads easier for everyone
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Support for GPUs in Cloud Run makes running GPU-accelerated applications simpler, faster, and more cost-effective, as well as enabling new use cases.Steren Giannini (Google Cloud)
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Russia’s Primorye Territory will increase the imports of Belarusian machinery next year, Primorye Territory Governor Oleg Kozhemyako said during a meeting with Belarusian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Shuleiko.Belarusian Telegraph Agency
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#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*
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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…
Soueif is willing to do ‘what it takes’ to free Alaa Abd el-Fattah, after a lifetime of speaking up against injusticePatrick Wintour (The Guardian)
Dans ce monde de Trump, Netanyahou, Retailleau ou encore Bouchez, soyons des GRETA et des RIMA!
#FreePalestine #JusticeForGaza #freedomflotilla #GretaThunberg #RimaHassan #Solidarité #Activisme #HumanRights #CeasefireNow #StandWithGaza #Keffieh #ShipToGaza #PalestineLibre
On June 4, the Chinese Ministry of National Defense hosted the 23rd Expert Working Group (EWG) Meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Defense Ministers' Meeting in Qingdao City, east China's Shandong Province.eng.chinamil.com.cn
🥳 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!
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@pluralistic Not only does the street find uses for things, so do scam compounds
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Looking across the Moei River from Thailand, you can see them on the distant Myanmar rooftops – dozens of white rectangles, arranged in clusters. They’re a warning sign for what could be lurking underneath.Zach Hope, Kate Geraghty (The Sydney Morning Herald)
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Any type of aerobic exercise works for the improvements, study finds.Beth Mole (Ars Technica)
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Passionate about video reporting and investigation, Yanis Mhamdi is a journalist-director at Blast, a French independent media outlet. He was in the West Bank where he shot his next film, “Alice in Settlerland.FFC bénévole des médias (Freedom Flotilla)
You can read the details of Operation Spiderweb elsewhere. What interests me are the implications for future warfare: If the Ukrainians could sneak drones so close to major air bases in a police state such as Russia, what is to prevent the Chinese fr…Bruce Schneier (Schneier on Security)
UNICEF: Israel Has Killed or Injured Over 50,000 Children
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The U.N. Children’s Fund reports the number of Gaza’s children killed or injured by Israel since October 2023 has passed 50,000.Democracy Now!
DNC Trolls GOP With Free Tacos Outside Republican Office
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Free tacos was a dream we once had...Susie Madrak (Crooks and Liars)
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It’s Treasury vs the Fed: With Fed Sidelined, Bessent Unleashes Record $10 Billion Bond Buyback
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If you love the news, check out The Liberty Daily's homepage. (Zero Hedge)—Back on April 14 when bond yields were soaring in the aftermath of Trump’s liberation day amid speculation that China or Japan were selling some of their US paper to stabilize…J.D. Rucker (🔔 The Liberty Daily)
SANAA, June 03 (YPA) - Yemeni student, Gubran Khalil Al-Maljami, drowned off the coast of India yesterday, Monday, in a tragic accident that occurred just two days after celebrating his graduation from an Indian university.Sources close to the deceasذكرى (Yemen Press Agency)
@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.
Carbon capture won't work. Alberta leaders will still blame Ottawa for everything. Oil companies will still reap huge profits while Albertans get very little. Meanwhile, some provinces are literally on fire.
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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.
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US military strikes on the Ras Issa Port in Hodeidah, Yemen, on April 17, 2025, caused dozens of civilian casualties and significant damage to port infrastructure.Human Rights Watch
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Personally I think that azerty was meant made by drunk students trying to troll people but it somehow caught on.
accent aigu so that when you need it on an uppercase letter you CAN'T type it!é and ç !§ so you can cite your sources with the correct paragraph symbol, but not use real quotations marks for the quotes!α and β?α or β?µ it is! Has anyone even seen that letter used in a French text?¤?¤?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?
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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