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Interesting reaction by the chief of Arch

Even debian and fedora aren't that sold out to google "agencies"


gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux…

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

It is the little things that matter more than that one big thing!
Needless to say that arch = obarun = artix -->geoclue
joborun is using beacon.db instead of google-chrome-api

jobextra/geoclue (avoid as possible but if you must use it you are better off with this one0

#joborun

The Freedom Flotilla „Madleen” is projected to arrive in just a few hours at a coast in Gaza. If anything happens to @gretathunberg or the other activists, the international community will never forgive the current Israeli government for it.

I wish and pray for your best, keep being the voice of our generation! ❤️

Sign the petition to call for their freedom: openpetition.de/!FreedomFlotil…

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in reply to Andi Popp 🇺🇦

@AndiPopp 1) Israel doesn’t recognise Palestine as a nation, so Israel can’t consider themselves to be at war with Palestine, and thus can’t do a legal blockade against it.

2) It wouldn’t have been a kidnapping if they stopped the ship. But they took the people from the ship and brought them to Israel. That’s kidnapping.

3) So now it’s okay to kidnap people on international waters because they’re doing a publicity stunt?

in reply to Magnus Ahltorp

@ahltorp
1) That is a play on semantics. A nation can be at war with a non-state actor – like e.g. in most civil wars. It is possible to enact a legal blockade against territories controlled by the non-state actor you are at war with.

2) It's not kidnapping the same way police taking smb to jail or a soldier taking somebody as a POW is not kidnapping. Not every case of smb forcing smb else to go somewhere is kidnapping.

3) Those are your words. Not mine.

They'll rip entire neighborhoods to shreds, turn them into raging infernos, violently attack cops.

Then when there's any kind of pushback, declare it to be "police brutality."

youtube.com/watch?v=35l0TgRd63…

Everything this regime and its dwindling supporters does HAS to involve DARVO*.

They HAVE TO lie, distort, use deceptions of all sorts, use denial, deflect, and cherry pick facts from whatever the situation at hand is.

Seriously: damned near EVERYTHING.

I cannot imagine being that detached from living an authentic life.

Neither can most healthy enough people,,

which may be part of why it is so hard to wrap our heads around how utterly depraved some of these assholes really are.

in reply to CJ Paloma In Monsoon Season

* DARVO is a clunky acronym for a set of dynamics that the perpetrator(s) will -almost always- use in some forms when there is someone abusing/oppressing another

D (Deny, or sometimes deflect or downplay)
A (Attack the folks either calling out the abuse/oppression, or the victims themselves)
RVO (Reverse the Victim and Offender- in other words the person doing the offending plays the victim)

Zionists Terrorize Beirut; Airstrikes Flatten Civilian Homes on Eid Night rumble.com/v6uel69-zionists-te…

New research from Apple suggests current approaches to AI development are unlikely to lead to AGI.


Researchers tested Large Reasoning Models on various puzzles. As the puzzles got more difficult the AIs failed more, until at a certain point they all failed completely.

Even without the ability to reason, current AI will still be revolutionary. It can get us to Level 4 self-driving, and outperform doctors, and many other professionals in their work. It should make humanoid robots capable of much physical work.

Still, this research suggests the current approach to AI will not lead to AGI, no matter how much training and scaling you try. That's a problem for the people throwing hundreds of billions of dollars at this approach, hoping it will pay off with a new AGI Tech Unicorn to rival Google or Meta in revenues.

Apple study finds "a fundamental scaling limitation" in reasoning models' thinking abilities

TubeArchivist alternatives that store data in an archive friendly manner?


I've been using Tube Archivist to archive my YouTube playlists, but I've hit a portability snag. It stores all metadata in its internal database and saves video files with non-readable filenames. This makes the archive unreadable without the software and its database, which defeats the point of long-term archival storage.

Are there any tools that:

  • Archive playlists with human-readable filenames (or let you control the naming scheme)
  • Have an API for queuing archival jobs
  • Store metadata in portable formats (e.g., sidecar JSON or YAML)
  • Don’t require additional software to interpret the archive
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Why are our nerve cells covered in saturated fat?

Saturated and polyunsaturated fats have different electrical properties due to their structural differences.

Saturated fats have single bonds between carbon atoms, forming straight, tightly packed chains. This structure results in lower electrical conductivity because there are fewer free electrons and limited pathways for charge movement.

Polyunsaturated fats contain multiple double bonds, creating kinks in the chains. These double bonds introduce regions of higher electron density, enhancing electrical conductivity compared to saturated fats. The presence of pi electrons in double bonds allows for better charge delocalization.

... Its like insulation on wire, it keeps the signals from disapating.

#health #disease #Alzheimers #dementia

For those unaware, there are 20,000 Catholic pilgrims in France right now (practical logistics kept the number that low). It's the annual pilgrimage for the Traditional Latin Mass. Despite the old fossils from the hippie dippy 60s trying to destroy all traditions from before Vatican II, more and more young people are finding the faith of their ancestors is far more fulfilling than the hallmark card BS the Curia has been pushing for decades.

Help troubleshooting a mouse / repairing a mouse scroll wheel?


I have two wireless mice. One is a really good mouse that served me for years until it got too beat up, and now the scroll wheel doesn't work very well. The other is a newer HP mouse (specifically HP 280 Silent Wireless Mouse, product number 19u64AA) that is a bloody piece of shit and I hate it.

The HP mouse currently has two main issues with it. 1, it doesn't "sleep" or turn itself off after a period of inactivity. It just stays on, even if the usb dongle is disconnected, until the battery just dies on it. 2, it's clicking software/firmware had a fucking stroke or some shit. It only clicks on the active screen; so for example, if I have Firefox open and fullscreen, it will not click on the task bar on the bottom of my screen at all. It won't even register that it's hovering over something down there, it just refuses. That, and the middle click won't work. It's genuinely annoying, because the mouse used to work with no issues. I have no idea what caused this, and my conspiracy theory is that HP just kills mice that are alive for too long, because this is fucking horse shit. I do not recommend this fucking mouse at all for this.

What's funny is, I tried both my previous mouse (the one with the broken scroll wheel), and my desktop's wired mouse, and both worked excellently. No issues at all, unable to replicate the issues experienced by my HP mouse. Crawling through the journalctl logs don't show anything wrong with any of the mice, at least not that my noob ass could tell, and the HP support page for the 280 doesn't have a fucking user manual for it. There just doesn't seem to be one at all, not one I can find at least.

Anyways, /rant. How can I see what's wrong with the 280, or fix what might be wrong with it (or factory reset the mouse, if that's a thing)? Alternatively, how can I fix my other mouse's scroll wheel (Victsing Wireless Mouse model PC106A my beloved)?

Edit: Forgot to mention, on Linux mint 22.1 cinnamon, on an HP laptop oddly enough (you would think HP accessories would work with HP products). if you need any information, journalctl, inxi, my fucking social security number, whatever, lmk.

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in reply to ComicalMayhem

I just got home and tried a thing on your behalf, using a perfectly good wired mouse of mine.

I simulated my suspicion that the mouse wheel click button might be shorted out, by holding the wheel button down while trying to left click on the taskbar.

Sure enough, in that condition, it doesn't recognize the left click on the taskbar.

I am pretty sure your wheel click button is shorted out and the system thinks you're constantly holding it down.

"The Israeli Haaretz newspaper has reported that Israel’s Navy is planning to intercept Madleen tonight, and will seek to do so as far from the coast of Gaza as possible.
[...]
Meanwhile, a senior Israeli official told Israel’s Channel 12 that the vessel will be boarded by commandos if it does not turn around and will be taken to Ashdod port."
aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/20… at 19:35 GMT.

#Madleen #FrancescaAlbaneseIsRight #Gaza #GazaGenocide

Foreign Reporters Visit Bryansk Region, Examine Refrigerated Trucks with Ukrainian Soldiers’ Bodies en.sputniknews.africa/20250608…

12:53 Business Insider: US warships used million-dollar missiles to intercept drones worth only a few thousand dollars english.masirahtv.net/news/350…

UNRWA slams Israeli ban on international journalists reporting ?truth? on Gaza en.irna.ir/news/85854828/UNRWA…

sept 26th 2025, my favorite quake 3 and enemy territory mod (series) truecombat will turn 25
as it stands its beyond dormant but the website is back up again, still showing its 10 year anniversary slide. last news post however is january 15th 2019. they also had hopes of a steam release at a point and got greenlit back in the day

admin is still active on forum and surprised anybod noticed the site went down, but i did, i love its oldschool design
truecombat.net/forums/viewtopi…

absolutely get some friends together and spin up a game sometime i highly recommend it. tc1.3 is the one i am more familiar with but tc:e seems more popular and just as great

Niger accuses EU and USA of attempting to destabilize Sahel region journal-neo.su/2025/06/08/nige…

Bild: a man rammed into a crowd of people in Passau, Germany en.news-front.su/2025/06/07/bi…

US to resume processing Harvard visas: report global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202…

Need help implementing ActivityPub - getting inconsistent results across platforms


My friend is working on adding ActivityPub support to his blog platform (BDServer) so people can follow/comment from Mastodon, Lemmy, etc.

Current status: Lemmy and Misskey can find and follow his account (@blenderdumbass@blenderdumbass.org), but Mastodon can't find it at all, even though he sees proper ActivityPub requests hitting his server.

The technical details are pretty gnarly - RSA signature verification, HTTP header recreation, multi-threading issues. He wrote up the full journey here: Please Help Me With Activity Pub

If anyone has ActivityPub experience or wants to take a look at the code (Python), we have a Matrix room for BDServer development. Any insights on why different platforms behave differently would be super helpful.

matrix.to/#/#bdserver:tchncs.d…

Source code: ActivityPub.py

in reply to Madiator2011

Did something change since this was posted?
I can look it up properly on mastodon.
You have to be signed in to fetch accounts on mastodon, is that the problem?

Are you using any framework to build the site? There's a few libraries for activitypub.
These links could be helpful: codeberg.org/fediverse/delight…

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in reply to irelephant [he/him]

Seems like somebody mentioned the account on the fediverse that started a chain reaction of various instances requesting a bunch of stuff. Which made it to Mastodon.social too. It still doesn't work though.

The server is written in python and the idea is to make it deploy-able without needing to install anything extra. So I'm trying to implement my own activity pub.

in reply to Madiator2011

I just took another look at it,

Comparing it to another random note, the to and cc fields are supposed to be arrays, rather than just a string.

Its also missing a url field, which is supposed to link to the user-facing url of the post.

cc: @blenderdumbass@lm.madiator.cloud

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Iran parliament speaker blasts US nuclear proposal over lack of sanctions relief thecradle.co/articles-id/31248