Watching YouTube on Steam Deck / SteamOS? You need to grab VacuumTube which makes the whole experience a lot nicer.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Tokyo (AFP) – The number of births in Japan last year fell below 700,000 for the first time on record, government data showed Wednesday.The fast-ageing nation welcomed 686,061 newborns in 2024 -- 41,227 fewer than in 2023, the data showed. It was the lowest figure since records began in 1899.
Japan has the world's second-oldest population after tiny Monaco, according to the World Bank.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has called the situation a "quiet emergency", pledging family-friendly measures like more flexible working hours to try and reverse the trend.
Wednesday's health ministry data showed that Japan's total fertility rate -- the average number of children a woman is expected to have -- also fell to a record low of 1.15.
The ministry said Japan saw 1.6 million deaths in 2024, up 1.9 percent from a year earlier.
Ishiba has called for the revitalisation of rural regions, where shrinking elderly villages are becoming increasingly isolated.
In more than 20,000 communities in Japan, the majority of residents are aged 65 and above, according to the internal affairs ministry.
The country of 123 million people is also facing increasingly severe worker shortages as its population ages, not helped by relatively strict immigration rules.
In neighbouring South Korea, the fertility rate in 2024 was even lower than Japan's, at 0.75 -- remaining one of the world's lowest but marking a small rise from the previous year on the back of a rise in marriages.
From "How Fascism Works" by Jason Stanley:
- "Fascist politics transforms the news from a conduit of information and reasoned debate into a spectacle with the strongman as the star....News becomes sports."
- "In the name of rooting out corruption and supposed bias, fascist politicians attack and diminish the institutions that might otherwise check their power."
"AI Will Replace All the Jobs " Is Just Tech Execs Doing Marketing
Link: sparktoro.com/blog/ai-will-rep…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Over the weekend, I went digging for evidence that AI can, will, or has replaced a large percent of jobs. It doesn't exist. Worse than that, actually,Rand Fishkin (SparkToro)
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After an extraordinary six-week voyage from northern Norway, the iconic Norwegian tall ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl has docked in Nice, France, concluding ESA’s 2025 Advanced Ocean Training course. Braving everything from wild storms to calm near-freezing seas, students aboard mastered techniques for collecting ocean measurements and harnessed satellite data to unlock insights into our blue planet.
Led by experts, this real-world expedition offered more than education – it sparked curiosity and a deeper commitment to understanding and protecting our oceans.
#news #space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
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#geopolitics #war #annihilation
Ukraine could attack Russian bombers like sitting ducks because the New START treaty. That's why US nuclear bombers (B-1Bs, B-2s, B-52s) are also parked visibly at Diego Garcia and elsewhere; China, who didn't sign the treaty, hides its bombers away in underground concrete shelters.
So of course the US must feign ignorance, else it would obviously constitute unilateral break of a treaty, that could call for thermonuclear retaliation. That's how close we come to global annihilation but, hey, "the good guys scored a point". Morons.
Me: I should get some shirts for my wife because she’s always wearing mine, I wonder what size she wears.
Also me: I don’t know Einstein, how could you possibly know the size of the person who wears your shirts? Don’t get a nosebleed thinking about that mystery.
Authorities in Gaza described the shooting near aid distribution center as “horrific, intentionally repeated crimes.”IRNA English
Me, finding some music to help focus today: “Oh, nice. There’s a 10th anniversary remaster of this album I used to listen to a lot.”
Also me: “This remaster came out… 9 years ago?!”
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this talk from @haroonmeer is a good one to rewatch, I think
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This talk by Haroon Meer and Adrian Sanabria (Thinkst) was given during VB2019 in London, 4 October 2019.Everybody decries the state of the industry. Everyon...YouTube
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Ja zawsze byłem Commodore nie Atari, ale to robi wrażenie 🙂
Polski inżynier zrobił podobno najmniejsze Atari na świecie 🙂
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Hobby project shrinks 1980s computer platform that pierced the Iron Curtain.Benj Edwards (Ars Technica)
Pars Today- Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran said,Pars Today
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The following communities have already an alternative on instances that I run:
All these instances have been running for close to two years and are part of the "topic-specific" network of servers that I set up to help during the migration.
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!Television@lemm.ee, !movies@lemm.ee and !Football@lemm.ee have pinned post where the community members can vote where they want to go.
At the moment, for !television and !movies, sopuli.xyz is the proposition with the most votes.
Edit: !artporn@lemm.ee also has a meta discussion post.
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Mais un amendement de la députée (Isère, Parti socialiste, PS) Marie-Noëlle Battistel @BattistelMarie
a déposé, semble-t-il d’abord par erreur, un amendement supprimant la construction de six nouveaux EPR2 d’ici à 2026 et de huit autres ainsi qu’un petit réacteur modulaire d’ici à 2030. Elle a finalement maintenu cet amendement, qui a été adopté.
Le rapporteur du texte, le député (Haute-Savoie, Renaissance) et ancien ministre Antoine Armand @antoine_armand
, lui a alors signifié son erreur, l’invitant à retirer son amendement, mais celle-ci a finalement décidé de le maintenir. Il a donc été adopté, supprimant les objectifs de relance pour les cinq prochaines années."
#politique #cirque #énergie #souveraineté
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Attached: 1 image @georgetakei@universeodon.com I have a better one then that !!Mastodon
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Since Trump's return, Israel has dropped all pretenses of self-defense. But even as it evades accountability, it has cemented its legacy as a global pariah.Amos Brison (+972 Magazine)
Lehrer*innen in Berlin leisten pro Jahr über 2 Millionen Stunden unbezahlte Mehrarbeit. Die GEW fordert eine verbindliche Arbeitszeiterfassung.
Belastung bei Lehrer*innen in Berlin: Deutlich über Stundenplan
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They celebrated the 35th anniversary of the Namibian Defense Forces’ foundingen.granma.cu
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Liberalism flourished after WW2 due to the US's unparalleled economic advantage, which was built on the massive expansion of its industrial base during the war while the rest of the world burned.
The economic supremacy that legitimized western system has now faded and liberal democracies face a crisis of confidence while China's model is emerging as a successful alternative.
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#geopolitics #china #usa #socialism
Prosperity Falters, Alternatives RiseDialectical Dispatches
@Arindam I'm not saying USSR economy was inferior in nature, merely that the US had a massive head start. The US leveraged this advantageous position during the Cold War to pull of the world economy into its orbit which further shifted the balance of power in its favor.
The problem USSR had was that it was stuck in an ideological struggle with the US where countries were forced to pick bloc allegiance. China managed to avoid falling into that trap.
The advantageous position of the United States in 1945 was whittled away in the subsequent decades.. and furthermore, it didn't prevent the following:
The USA lost the first half of the Cold War
(Not just Vietnam, but also the defeat of Pakistan by India in 1971 were indicative of declining American power).
The ideological struggle wasn't the problem - especially since the existence of the Non-Aligned Movement demonstrates that countries didn't have to pick sides. The problem was that the Soviets made a few critical mistakes (the Sino-Soviet split, the war in Afghanistan, the failure to push forward in IT, etc...) - and were subverted. The latter is of utmost importance.. and a key source on it is:
Revolution From Above: The Demise of the Soviet System
amazon.co.uk/Revolution-Above-…
Learning from the Soviet example, Beijing has avoided the mistakes - and has taken extraordinary care to avoid subversion.
Andrei Fursov (Андрей Фурсов) - Russian historian, sociologist, writer, organizer of science.YouTube
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The first observations of Pluto by JWST confirms dramatic phenomena on its surface, that happens no where else in our solar system.
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New study in Nature Astronomy affirms hypothesis made by UC Santa Cruz's Xi Zhang in 2017Mike Peña (News)
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Sparpläne der ARD bedrohen den Radiosender Cosmo, der sich an ein junges, migrantisches Publikum richtet. Prominente kämpfen für seinen Erhalt.
ARD will Radiosender Cosmo abschaffen: Sound der Welt vor dem Aus
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We are joined by veteran investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill of Drop Site News who is closely monitoring the ceasefire talks and is in contact with Hamas...YouTube
For those on FA denying the fact that there were concentration camps during WWII.
WWII Veteran Recalls The Horrific Moment Of Discovering A Nazi Concentration Camp | Remember WWII
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This is the story of Bill Kongable who served in the 89th Infantry Div as a member of the anti-tank company. He went to war at 18 years of age & saw things that no one should ever see. His unit made an assault river crossing across the Rhine River...
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My father was at Burgan Belson in 1945 when war ended they liberated the camp and rounded up the guard's he and one other drove the bull dozers to fill the mass graves. He only talked about what he had done a few weeks before he passed away aged 80 years old. RIP. My father was at Burgan Belson in 1945 when war ended they liberated the camp and rounded up the guard's he and one other drove the bull dozers to fill the mass graves. He only
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Realistically that is never going to happen. The biggest issue the fediverse has is onboarding. People just looking to try out a reddit alternative aren't going to bother emailing their fucking MP just because the default settings of an app won't let them sign up. They'll just give up and go elsewhere.
If we want to encourage growth, adding additional barriers isn't the way to do it.
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☆✧✦𝙹𝙰𝙼 𝙽𝙸𝙶𝙷𝚃𝙲𝙾𝚁𝙴✦✧☆ doesn't like this.
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It’s not actually complying with UK law, it’s removing it from the equation so it doesn’t have to. I don’t begrudge the decision though, it will have been a difficult choice to make. That said, it’s a sledgehammer approach to self-censorship, as a response to an inability to comply.
Like I say, I don’t have an issue with Lemmy.zip being unavailable in the UK. But I do think it is potentially damaging for Fediverse uptake to promote a default instance that is unavailable to such a large number of users.
For comparison purposes, the UK easily has the second highest number of Reddit users by country. It is a remarkable decision to exclude that potential market by default.
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Der Verein Pädagogen für #Menschenrechte e.V. möchte damit an die Übergriffe der #Corona -Maßnahmen auf #Kinder und #Jugendliche im deutschen #Bildungssystem erinnern.
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In der "aktuellen Stunde zur Lage der transatlantischen Beziehungen" erklärte E. Demuth (CDU) gerade, man befinde sich mit den USA in einer "Wertegemeinschaft", auch wenn "einzelne Kritikpunkte" bestünden.
Es bleibt etwas offen, ob diese Union die Summe aus Trumpschem Rechtspopulismus, Gerichts- & Demokratieverachtung, illegalen Deportationen & Umverteilung von arm zu reich als kleine Einzelheiten betrachtet,
oder die Truppe um Merz, Frei, Spahn & Dobrindt darin die gemeinsamen Werte verortet.
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Голос Кореи,Voice of Korea,Voz de Corea,صوت كوريا ,Stimme Koreas,공화국,vokwww.vok.rep.kp
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Link: journal.stuffwithstuff.com/202…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
"NAS users are, like, normie boomers, at least that's my impression. They are not funny, even remotely, it's like putting your dad in this tourney."
Loool, holy shit we are getting roasted.
I spoke to two former govt workers who helped create IRS's Direct File software, which is set to be killed by DOGE/Trump/Intuit but thankfully just got open sourced. Both of them seem optimistic about what people are going to be able to do with the codebase:
404media.co/directfile-open-so…
Direct File has been open sourced, and its creators have left government to continue working on the "future of tax filing."Jason Koebler (404 Media)
Shlomo Sand nous fait aujourd'hui l'honneur de participer au podcast. Historien, professeur à l'université de Tel Aviv, ses ouvrages font polémique depuis des décennies. A travers "Comment le peuple juif fut inventé", Sand revisite l'archéologie et les faits pour remettre en cause le mythe de l'Exil, fondement du sionisme et du retour à la terre d'Israël. Plus récemment, "Deux peuples pour un État ? Relire l’histoire du sionisme", Sand remet en cause la doxa de la politique des deux états. Il propose alors d'imaginer un Etat unitaire qui réunirait juifs et arabes sur une même terre, de la rivière à la mer, égaux en droits, et libres.
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De l'extrême ouest à l'extrême est... d'Ankara à Tokyo, de Marrakech à Naplouse, de Jakarta au Caire... la terre tremble à répétition et à un rythme accéléré !
La punition pour « trahison » sera-t-elle un tremblement de terre majeur ? Pour que chacun puisse goûter un peu aux horreurs de Gaza, mais sans missiles ni bombardiers venus du ciel, mais depuis les profondeurs, là où Dieu lui ordonne d'avancer, pour qu'il s'élève, furieux et punitif ?!
C'est un nouveau scandale.
La France s’apprête à livrer des équipements militaires à Netanyahou.
Un cargo israélien fera escale demain à Fos-sur-Mer, près de Marseille.
Il transportera secrètement 14 tonnes de pièces détachées pour fusils mitrailleurs fabriquées par la société française Eurolinks. Des pièces qui doivent être livrées à l’entreprise d’armement Israel Military Industries.
Le président @EmmanuelMacron doit s'expliquer. La France ne peut être complice du génocide en cours en Palestine.
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05:14 Manual Signature of a PDF
06:47 Digitally Signing a PDF
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How to edit a PDF document:
One tool that is probably already on your Linux desktop is LibreOffice Draw. It can open PDF documents, and edit them, as long as it's not an image.
If you're familiar with vector drawing programs, then Inkscape can also edit PDF documents. For more robust solutions, you have proprietary commercial solutions, including PDF Studio, Master PDF, Foxit PDF Editor, or WPS Office, but you'll have to pay for them.
How to manually sign a PDF:
Okular can actually do that. You can use the manual drawing tool to write your signature, or you can add the ability to paste an image on top of a document, but it's convoluted. You have to go to settings, toolbars shown, enable the quick annotations toolbar, then click the "configure button", click "Add", select the type "Stamp", and click the little button next to the "stamp symbol" field, to pick your own hand drawn signature that you previously saved as an image. Afterwards, you can just add that to any document in one click from that quick annotations toolbar.
You can also open the PDF document in LibreOffice Draw or the GIMP, and add your image signature this way.
How to digitally sign a PDF:
The easiest way is to use LibreOffice. Open the LibreOffice suite, click File, then digital signatures, and then "sign existing PDF", then the "sign document" button at the top. It will list all the available existing signatures and certificates you have installed on your device, and you can pick the one you want.
By default, LibreOffice will look into Mozilla Firefox's certificates list, so you'll have to put your certificate file there. To do so, open FIrefox, then the main menu, Preferences, Privacy and Security, and then "View Certificates". Then click on "authorities" and "Import", and then the "OK" button, and you're done.
Optical Character Recognition (OCR)!
A simple option is GImageReader, an open source app that will let you import a document or image, and will recognize all the text inside, in a very large variety of languages. It can take a while to do its thing, but it works reliably, and it was able to extract text from scanned PDFs and images like a PNG.
If you prefer doing these tasks from the command line, then you have Tesseract OCR, which is actually what GImageReader uses in the background.
How to annotate a PDF:
Your best option is probably Xournal++. It lets you open PDF documents, and draw all over them. You can highlight text, add hand drawn notes, shapes, type some text. It can even handle equations and graphs, and has a very customizable interface.
How to modify pages, split and merge PDF documents:
If all you need is modifying the pages in a PDF document, like reordering them, or deleting them, then you have PDF Arranger, a simple GNOME app that will run on any Linux desktop, and is available on Flathub.
Hi, I'm Nick, and I run The Linux Experiment, a Youtube Channel and Podcast where I talk about Linux, Open Source, and privacy. I make 3 videos per week, including a Linux …Liberapay
L'Espagne rejoint officiellement la plainte déposée par l'Afrique du Sud devant la Cour internationale de justice concernant le génocide commis par Israël.
Le dernier andalou
During the past 24 hours, hospitals in the Gaza Strip received the bodies of 35 civilians who were martyred in fresh Israeli attacks, along with the bodies of five other people who were reported missing in previous attacks.The Palestinian Information Center
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Charles Malet, Brian Gerrish, Vanessa Beeley and Sandi Adams with Wednesday's UK Column News. Sources: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-4th-june-2025 01:02 From Defence to Offence: The War Hype Hits Overdrive 09:47 The Weaponisation of …BitChute
Monsieur Retailleau,
La loi définit l'injure raciste comme « toute expression outrageante, terme de mépris ou invective adressé à une personne ou à un groupe à raison de leur origine ou de leur appartenance à une ethnie, une nation, une prétendue race ou une religion déterminée ».
Quand vous dites que « le vote musulman » est antisémite, vous rentrez exactement dans cette définition en outrangeant un groupe en raison de sa religion.
Retirez vos propos. Et partez avec.
I'm sad to see so many posts mocking the use of #ContentWarnings. They're rarely used, but somehow people act like it's a major violation of their Freedums.
Have you had real, deep, lasts-for-years trauma? If you have, you might understand why a heads-up can be a welcome relief from the onslaught of triggers streaming from the media.
Flashbacks are not something you should wish on anyone, even if you Haven't had trauma yourself. Content Warnings help prevent them, period. Don't be a jag.
@VaylLarkinPoet@disabled.social But there's real societal value in learning to cope with one's triggers. I am triggered by things every day both on the fediverse and in real life and it is a valuable life skill to learn how to cope. I can't go around to people around me and ask them to change their behavior simply because I find something they do triggering.
We have no choice over what happens to us in life sometimes.But we have the choice in how we choose to respond. I'm a firm believer in that. That being said, if I know that something I'm doing bothers somebody I'm not going to be a dick and continue to do it if I don't need to.
I'm sad to see so many posts mocking the use of #ContentWarnings. They're rarely used, but somehow people act like it's a major violation of their Freedums.Have you had real, deep, lasts-for-years trauma? If you have, you might understand why a heads-up can be a welcome relief from the onslaught of triggers streaming from the media.
Flashbacks are not something you should wish on anyone, even if you Haven't had trauma yourself. Content Warnings help prevent them, period. Don't be a jag.
During his visit to Europe, Graham told reporters that a Russian victory in Ukraine would be worse than the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan.
Lindsey is getting desperate.
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Warpig Lindsey Graham traveled to Ukraine this past weekend to pump up the hopes of the Ukrainian leader in the country’s ongoing war with Russia.Jim Hoft (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
3 Haziran 1968’de radikal feminist yazar Valerie Solanas, Andy Warhol’u New York’taki stüdyosunda vurdu. Olay, Warhol’un hayatında derin izler bıraktı ve sanat dünyasında bü…los-endos.com
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) is vowing to unmask every single ICE agent. Is he trying to get them killed?
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) is vowing to unmask every single ICE agent.Mike LaChance (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
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Etwa ein Viertel des Bundestags besteht aus einer rechtsextremen Partei, die die Demokratie abschaffen will und gegen einen völkischen Faschismus ersetzen möchte.
Aber sie tragen Anzug!
Was dagegen gar nicht geht?
Eine Frau die den Schriftzug mit dem Namen eines Landes auf dem TShirt trägt, dessen Volk gerade Opfer eines Genozids wird.
>>Bundestagspräsidentin Klöckner hat die Linken-Abgeordnete Köktürk wegen eines "Palestine"-Shirts aus dem Plenarsaal verwiesen.<<
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Bundestagspräsidentin Klöckner hat die Linken-Abgeordnete Köktürk wegen eines "Palestine"-Shirts aus dem Plenarsaal verwiesen. Auch eine Besucherin musste gehen.tagesschau.de
The massive ports that Morocco is constructing in occupied Western Sahara are made with cement of the German multinational.wsrw.org
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