A team from Auburn University took top honors in NASA’s 2025 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems – Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) Competition Forum, where undergraduate and graduate teams competed to develop new concepts for operating on the Moon, Mars and beyond. Auburn’s project, “Dynamic Ecosystems for Mars Environmental Control and Life Support Systems (ECLSS) Testing, Evaluation, and Reliability […]

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Pour mémoire . Cela s'est passé à Paris . En plein nettoyage ethnique de #Gaza Comme nous l'a raconté le journal l'Humanité .

Imaginez un #quiz dont la question est: « Depuis le début de la guerre, si 55000 personnes sont mortes à Gaza, dont 55% de civils, ça fait combien de Gazaouis qui sont morts? 10,5 %, 24,6 %, 1,3% ou 5,5% ? Quel est le bon chiffre ? » Sur l'écran où figure le graphique, le chrono défile, le suspense est à son comble. Qui va trouver la bonne réponse pour être l'heureux gagnant? L'ambiance est festive. L'animatrice #BarbaraLefèbvre, chroniqueuse à RMC, précise, avec une pointe d'ironie: « On compte les civils morts, on ne parle pas des terroristes du #Hamas. » Ce jeu glaçant n'est pas imaginaire. On a cru à une fake news.
Hélas non. Il s'est déroulé, sous les applaudissements du public, le 27 mai, au salon Hoche à #Paris, lors du premier gala des Diaspora Defense Forces ( #DDF), une organisation qui se présente comme «une armée citoyenne de défense de la communauté juive en diaspora et en Israël à l'échelle mondiale, déterminée à gagner la guerre de la communication et le combat pour la vérité sur #Israël ».

Parrainé par Olivier #Rafowicz, le médiatique porte-parole de l'armée israélienne, ovationné lorsqu'il est apparu en direct sur un écran, le gala était orchestré par le célèbre publiciste Frank #Tapiro, leveur de fonds pour la cause. À ses côtés, la chroniqueuse de BFMTV RMC, Barbara Lefèbvre, qui, le 31 mai à l'antenne, appelait à « vider la bande de #Gaza et à la transformer en zone vierge », car, selon elle, « les civils à Gaza sont autant responsables que les membres du Hamas et du Djihad islamique». Des personnalités francaises du monde des médias et des affaires, des artistes et des politiques étaient invités aux festivités.
Parmi eux #BHL Bernard-Henri Lévy, #EnricoMacias, l'animateur #Arthur, l'acteur #PhilippeLellouche, l'essayiste #CélinePina, l'homme politique Amine El Khatmi, cofondateur du Printemps républicain. La députée des Français de l'étranger Caroline #Yadan ou Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet, avant sa nomination comme ministre du Travail, avaient participé, elles, à des conférences organisées
Comment comprendre et admettre que de tels événements se déroulent sur le territoire français , au moment où de plus en plus de voix s'élèvent enfin contre ce qui est reconnu comme un génocide et alors même que le président français, Emmanuel Macron, s'efforce d'avancer sur la reconnaissance d'un État palestinien et pour que cesse le massacre en cours à Gaza?
Au cours de ce gala, les journalistes Laurence #Ferrari, de #CNews, et Franz-Olivier #Giesbert ont été décorés du prix dit des Justes, récompensés pour « leur fervent soutien à Israël et à la diaspora». La journaliste emblématique de l'empire #Bolloré affirmait le 22 mai, dans un de ses éditoriaux sur CNews: « Les opposants d'Israël sont aujourd'hui la pire caution des terroristes. »

L'événement a suscité de vives réactions d'émotion et d'indignation. Le député LFI Aymeric Caron a annoncé le 30 mai sa décision de saisir la procureure de la République de Paris. Il considère que le gala relève de « l'apologie de crimes d'atteinte à la vie, apologie de crimes de guerre, apologie de crimes contre l'humanité, voire complicité desdits crimes».


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Earth scientist Compton J. Tucker has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences for his work creating innovative tools to track the planet’s changing vegetation from space. It’s research that has spanned nearly 50 years at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, where he is a visiting scientist after retiring in March. […]

Missing project?


Why is there no fediverse project forma online sales (like eBay)?

I get that involving payment adds a layer of complexity, bit it shouldn't be that hard? And with the rising rates of older platforms it feels like a missed opportunity

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Are you maybe looking for flohmarkt?

The name flohmarkt is a german word and translates to flea market or garage sale in english. This is a symbol for each flohmarkt being meant to be a small place for a somehow connected group of people. All the flohmarkts willing to federate make up one big place for small advertisements about exchange of goods and services.
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“So They’ll Never Have Children”: American Nurse Says Israeli Soldiers Deliberately Shot Boys in the Penis mintpressnews.com/gaza-hospita…

Introduction On September 15, 2018, the NASA Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) mission launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base and began its journey to provide spatially dense and fine precision global measurements of our Earth’s surface elevation. Now in Phase E of NASA’s project life cycle (where the mission is carried out, data […]

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THIS WHISTLEBLOWERS LIST OF POLITICIANS THAT GOT KICKBACKS FROM UKRAINE

LINDSAY GRAHAM - 82 MILLION FROM UKRAINE !
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New Research Exposes How “Vaccines” Trigger SIDS — Medical Establishment Covering Up Infant Deaths With Misdiagnosis

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Ils ne vous manquent pas vous ?
Moi oui

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Fedora 39 Review + Fedora Slimbook: a match made in heaven!


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00:00 Intro
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01:32 Under the hood
03:21 GNOME 45 changes
05:31 App Changes
08:12 Fedora Slimbook
09:59 The Specs
14:56 Final Thoughts
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GNOME 45 video: youtu.be/RQSA0nZaF6M

The installer is still Anaconda, not the new one. You're getting the kernel 6.5. Fedora 39 also drops the modular repos. You're still not getting DNF 5, the new version of the package manager. Other changes include dropping the custom theming for Qt apps, changing the default color of the terminal, and there's a new spin of Fedora Silverblue, the immutable distro, but this time with Budgie as its desktop, it's called Fedora Onyx.

Of course, the biggest changes to your experience on Fedora will be with GNOME 45. So, the first change will be to Activities, with the new workspaces indicator, when you click it, it opens the activities view, but visually, it now shows your current virtual desktop as an elongated pill, and the other virtual desktops as small circles. The app menu also disappeared from the top bar in the process.

In the quick settings, you now get the ability to control keyboard backlight. You can also open the quick settings menu by pressing Super + S, and you can now click a background app to open its window, and you'll get a small indicator when closing one of these background apps.

Finally, in the top bar, you'll get a new webcam activity indicator.

Apart from that, there's a new "split headerbar look" that reached a few apps. In terms of apps, Nautilus gained a way faster search: tracker. Once a search has completed, you also get a "Search everywhere" button that lets you search the whole filesystem.

GNOME 45 also brings a new image viewer, called Loupe, Cheese, the camera app, is replaced with Snapshot, GNOME console got a new preference item to customize fonts, GNOME maps gained a new experimental vector based tileset.

As per GNOME Software, you can now clear all the user data associated with a flatpak app when you uninstall it, and you'll see messages in the search results and app details pages to let you know if a flatpak is end of life and hasn't received updates in a long time.

And now, let's talk hardware: the Fedora Slimbook. This is a partnership between Fedora, and, you guessed it, Slimbook, the linux hardware manufacturer based in Spain.

It's a 16 inch laptop, that only weighs 1.5 kilos, or 3.3 pounds. It has a 2K 16:10 display, at 2560 by 1600 at 90hz. It supports 100% of sRGB, and has a brightness of 400 nits and an anti glare coating.

The laptop has some Fedora branding, with a super key using the Fedora logo, and a Fedora logo is also present on the top left corner of the laptop. The chassis is a magnesium and aluminium alloy.

In terms of specs, you get an intel i7 12700H, it's paired with an Nvidia RTX 3050 Ti, with 4 gigs of VRAM. On top of that, you get to pick between 16, 32 or 64 gigs of RAM, running at 3200 Mhz, it's not soldered. As per storage, you get 500 gigs of SSD, with the ability to fill 2 M.2 slots with up to 4 TB in total.

In terms of I/O, the laptop comes with 2 USB A ports, 3.2 Gen 1, with 1 USB C 3.2 Gen 2 that supports display port 1.4, and one Thunderbolt 4 port that supports charging and displayport, but it's hardwired to the integrated intel GPU. There's also an HDMI port, wired to the Nvidia GPU, a headphone jack, and an SD card slot, plus a barrel charger port.

You'll get Wifi 6 and bluetooth 5.2, and an 82 WH battery, that, in my experience, gives you about 6h to 7h or regular use.

Finally, it has 2 speakers, that are solid enough and have decent sound and bass, a 1080p webcam that isn't terrible but also not that great, and a mic that's really mediocre.

It also has a wonderful feeling keyboard, and a giant touchpad, which feels absolutely fantastic to use especially for all the gestures GNOME has to navigate the desktop and the apps.

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#Palestine / IDF have lied, again, about shootings near the “aid site” in Rafah

Testimonies, video footage, and inconsistencies in official statements indicate that Israeli soldiers, rather than #Palestinian militants, were responsible for the lethal shootings near the so-called “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation” (#GHF) death trap which is the “aid distribution center” in #Rafah.

These shootings, which resulted in dozens of deaths, occurred approximately a kilometer from the aid center, where Israeli drones and armored vehicles were present. Eyewitness accounts describe gunfire from multiple directions, including tanks and drones, targeting civilians seeking aid. Medical teams reported treating numerous gunshot victims.

The #IDF initially denied involvement but later admitted to firing "warning shots." They also chose, uncharacteristically, not to respond to this special report in #Haaretz.

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@israel
#GazaGenocide

Linux Mint a PITA to install on Win 11


I have a Windows 11 laptop and recently gotten excited to try Linux. I read good things about Mint being pretty good to go out of the box, and while I can be a fast learner I'm also tired and don't have a tremendous amount of bandwidth.

So I followed all the installation instructions, verified, flashed a USB, booted into it and started to install a dual boot of it. Made it through installation until it told me my computer had BitLocker on, and I'd need to go turn it off and try again. Fair enough.

Went back into my Windows OS (after booting it went to "diagnosing your PC"). I don't seem to have bitlocker installed - looks like a Pro version thing which I don't have. It did show that encryption was enabled, so I turned it off.

Restarted to boot to USB. Nope, "mmx64.efi - Not Found" error.

OK, googled it, renamed it, let's go.

error: shim_lock protocol not found
error: you need to load kernel first

OK... I googled it just enough to see this is going to be a pain.

I tried remaking my USB just in case, didn't help. It's extra frustrating because my first attempt to boot into Linux went so well! How did it go from booting into it flawlessly to giving me a series of errors?

Did I anger the Microsoft gods and now they're blocking my path? Is this a bad omen that Linux is going to be a problem on my laptop in general?

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Google Restricts Android Sideloading–What It Means for User Autonomy and Freedom

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Former Chinese NVIDIA AI Engineers Are Now Working for Huawei, Reveals NVIDIA’s Chief Scientist Bill Dally, Warning Chinese Competition Is Closing In.

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The U.S. efforts to hobble China's tech advancement through export controls have not been effective. Chinese tech companies, such as Huawei, Baidu, and SMIC, are developing their own tech ecosystems. China dominates in consumer drones, autonomous vehicles, and solar panels and batteries.

SMIC, which makes Huawei's processors, is now the third-largest chipmaker in the world and has managed to innovate despite having older-generation tech.

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The Fairphone 6 is expected to launch this month. The latest repairable phone has a modular design that lets you replace the battery, camera, speakers, and other parts. Expect 8GB RAM and 256GB storage and dual rear cameras. winfuture.de/news,151402.html #Fairphone6 #Fairphone #Smartphones #Repairable

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Handbrake alternative with VA-API support


Handbrake alternative with VA-API support

I recently switched to an AMD GPU and VA-API is the only option for hardware acceleration on linux that is viable. But Handbrake does not support it and it doesn't seem like it will in the foreseeable future, so I am looking for an alternative. Ideally it is just an ffmpeg GUI, but I did not find any that are:
- actually compatible with linux
- updated in the last 5 years
- have an option vor h264_vaapi or hevc_vaapi video codecs

Another workflow I thought about that is not working is transcoding the video, but copy all audio and subtitles and let handbrake handle that, however Handbrake has no option to just copy the video stream...

So far I have tried:
- ffmpeg_batch: wouldn't use my local version of ffmpeg, because of some path error, only works through wine
- qwinff: got it building, but no VA-API codec, and no mkv output support (over 10 years old)
- Shutter Encoder: only works through wine, font problems, no va-api support
- Avidemux: takes forever to open a video clip, more of a video editor, no va-api support
- Hybrid: know it from my windows days, clunky UI, no va-api support, but best candidate for me right now as I could use it to just copy video and handle audio and subtitles in here
- StaxRip: the .7z file could not be extracted, I just got an error

Any ideas or suggestions?

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HandBrake supports AMD VCN hardware video encoding


yes, but that is not viable as the amdgpu-pro drivers are only available on LTS releases and on a few selected distros

You haven't said what source material you're encoding


Mostly BluRay rips, so movies and TV-Shows

Are you aware of Vulkan Video?


I actually was not. Is it any good? But Handbrake does not support that either, does it?

you might consider investing some time in learning ffmpeg commands.


I am, but for anything involving multiple audio and subtitle streams and stream selection in general it is not an option for me...

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the amdgpu-pro drivers are only available on LTS releases and on a few selected distros


Are you sure? I would expect AMD to have their own download & install instructions that could be used on any distro. That would be more work for you than just installing a package directly from your distro, of course.

Curiously, I just found a comment from last year claiming that amf-amdgpu-pro now works with Mesa's RADV. So maybe this approach could work without AMD's proprietary driver?

Mostly BluRay rips, so movies and TV-Shows


By rips, do you mean your source media is already in a container, like a .mkv or .mp4 file? Or are you encoding directly from optical discs? If it's the latter, then using a tool other than HandBrake for the encode might also require finding a disc ripping tool. (Not all encoding tools can decrypt and demux discs.)

I actually was not. Is it any good? But Handbrake does not support that either, does it?


I haven't used Vulkan Video. It's just an API, so I would expect the video quality to depend on your hardware's encoder, just as it would with VAAPI or any other API.

I don't think Handbrake supports it yet, so until they do, I think you would have to use some other encoding tool.

for anything involving multiple audio and subtitle streams and stream selection in general it is not an option for me…


You haven't said why, but if it's just that managing lots of streams using command line tools is more hassle than you want to deal with, you might take a look at MKVToolNix. It's pretty good at muxing, even if the source media is not a .mkv file.

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This new game Jump Ship looks interesting


Didn't hear about this game until today, but it looks really cool! Full game's not out yet but there's a demo up which I plan to try out with some friends when they're available.

According to some reports on ProtonDB it works great on Linux too, which is good news for me.

What's your first impressions?

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"In just a matter of hours, a shipment of 14 tons of military equipment is meant to set sail for Israel. But we can help stop it! Dock workers in Marseille are refusing to load the ship - but they could face severe backlash for doing what’s right. We need to show them - and the French authorities - that the world stands with them. Sign now, and stop this ship of death"

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German industry has seen job cuts accelerate and is currently losing about 10,000 posts a month.

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#germany #economy

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Imagining an Idle Countess: George Wightwick’s The Palace of Architecture — The Public Domain Review


#art #culture #history #architecture

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Season 2 Episode 1: FediForum Commentary


We’re covering FediForum this week, and talk about what’s going on in the space, ActivityPub and AT Proto, the controversy that made FediForum postpone, and some predictions for what this week’s unconference entails.
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