Sent a support ticket to a #service that I #subscribe to expressing my disappointment that I couldn't seem to do very basic things with their product/ service.

Bitch-ass #CustomerService #rep replies back scolding me for not viewing the "#onboarding #video".

Ok.

First off, if you have a product or a service and you only provide a "video" to teach your customers how to use your product, well... fuck you.

Videos don't work for everyone. Some of your customers might be deaf, or visually impaired.

Second, if you need a fucking #TRAININGVIDEO to teach your customers how to use your product or service you have flat out FAILED in every conceivable way.

Your product or service should be intuitive enough that your customers don't need a training video to learn how to use your product.

(I'm looking at you #ORACLE!)

Anyhow, rant over.

Tehran warns against anti-Iran resolution by IAEA en.mehrnews.com/news/232845/Te…

Israeli Forces Seize Gaza-Bound Madleen Ship, Kidnap Activists On Board #Palestine qudsnen.co/israeli-forces-seiz…

The Huajiang Canyon Bridge in China, slated to be the world's highest suspension bridge, is set to open in 2025. It employs advanced construction methods, including a satellite-navigated cable system. The bridge aims to significantly shorten travel times, stimulate local economies, and represent China's engineering achievements.

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#china #technology #infrastructure

@NotImpressed@mas.to @palestine@a.gup.pe If only some of that sentiment would turn against #Meta, #Facebook, and #Instagram!


#Israel #toxic
@palestine

Some good news
"...Israeli companies since 2023 are finding it increasingly difficult everywhere around the world to attract new customers, leading to advertising-cost increases in the billions"
"Despite Meta’s unprecedented support for Israel during the war in Gaza, including its complicity in mass censorship of pro-Palestinian content and criticism of Israel...global consumer sentiment is turning sharply against Israeli brands"

dropsitenews.com/p/leaked-data…


#Israel #toxic
@palestine

Some good news
"...Israeli companies since 2023 are finding it increasingly difficult everywhere around the world to attract new customers, leading to advertising-cost increases in the billions"
"Despite Meta’s unprecedented support for Israel during the war in Gaza, including its complicity in mass censorship of pro-Palestinian content and criticism of Israel...global consumer sentiment is turning sharply against Israeli brands"

dropsitenews.com/p/leaked-data…

#Israel #toxic
@palestine

Much needed wisdom from Caitlin Johnstone:

"The more Israel’s supporters hate you, the more likely it is that you are a decent person. Say what needs saying and wear their outrage as a badge of honor"

caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/0…

President Maduro: The People Nominated Their Candidates for Municipal Elections orinocotribune.com/president-m…

Microsoft will release a portable Xbox with ROG later this year. It will run a cut down version of windows 11. Your thoughts?

#Microsoft #Xbox #portable #pc #handheld #windows11 #steamos #Linuxgaming

  • This marks the end of SteamOS on portable PCs (1%, 2 votes)
  • More competition is always good (20%, 25 votes)
  • LOL 😂 (59%, 74 votes)
  • No strong opinion, don't really care (19%, 24 votes)
125 voters. Poll end: 2 months ago

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California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) lashed out at President Trump and taunted Border Czar Tom Homan amid violent Anti-ICE riots in downtown Los Angeles.

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Introduction Tropical cyclones represent a danger to life, property, and the economies of communities. Researchers who study tropical cyclones have focused on remote observations using space-based platforms to image these storms, inform forecasts, better predict landfall, and improve understanding of storm dynamics and precipitation evolution – see Figure 1. The tropical cyclone community has leveraged […]

Russia’s Efforts To Return Displaced Ukrainian Children To Their Families Discredit The ICC korybko.substack.com/p/russias…

#LDH Poitiers @LDH86@piaille.fr

" #URGENT - #APPEL À RASSEMBLEMENT 18h30 MAIRIE POITIERS
L’heure est grave. #Israël a attaqué la #flottille humanitaire “ #Freedom” dans les eaux internationales, avec 6 ressortissants français à bord, dont certains membres d’équipage. Cet acte constitue une #violation grave du #droit international et s’inscrit dans une #politique que nous dénonçons comme génocidaire envers le #peuple-palestinien.
ldh-france.org/130-organisatio…

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🔴 Comment l’État a confisqué le marché de la souveraineté numérique


#politique #GAFAM #souveraineténumérique

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in reply to @ NovaNaturalist🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱🇵🇦🇲🇽🇱🇸🇳🇫🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 #FBPE

That was the original statement… then she mumbled something inarticulate about OECD but even that isn’t true:Canada does not have the lowest living standard amongst OECD nations.

They are full of shit, spew shit, and for some reason people gleefully swallow their shit.

in reply to David Mitchell

“for some reason” … that’s misleadingly vague… we know the reason:

There is a group of Canadians who feel they are losing privilege, and they are willing to throw the environment, the future, and their neighbours under the bus to maintain it. But fighting to maintain privilege to a little too baldly like bigotry, so a manufactured crisis narrative gives cover to recast their self-centredness as ‘clear-eyed pragmatism’.

L'entité sioniste usurpatrice n'est pas terrifiée par ceux qui sont à bord du navire, mais par le principe lui-même, le principe selon lequel le siège doit être brisé, et ainsi son pouvoir imaginaire doit être brisé, et le peuple doit être libéré de la peur qui n'existe que dans son imagination.
Il sait très bien que sans le soutien des diables, il n'aurait pas pu résister aux lions même une semaine.

Talks between the US and China kicked off in London, with the US signalling willingness to remove restrictions on exports in exchange for assurances that China is easing limits on rare earth shipment.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

#worldnews #economy #usa #china #tradewar

WFTU side-event on the 80th Anniversary #WFTU wftucentral.org/wftu-side-even…

Consisting of 99% air, aerogel is the world’s lightest solid. This unique material has found purpose in several forms — from NASA missions to high fashion. Driven by the desire to create a 3D cloud, Greek artist, Ioannis Michaloudis, learned to use aerogel as an artistic medium. His journey spanning more than 25 years took […]

Trains carrying bodies of Ukrainian fighters ready to depart to the zone of exchange eu.eot.su/2025/06/08/trains-ca…

No i po piwie. Znaczy po @piwo -ie.

Najciekawsze rozmowy i projekty:
- Otwarte rdzenie RISC-V na #FPGA na których działa #Linux kuznia-rdzeni.org/ @coreforge
- smak wafli krzemowych
- Demo #Bevy w terminalu przez #ratatui (JAK???) @j_g00da
- rozmowa o połączeniu wyrzucania działającego sprzętu z rozwojem dzisiejszej ekonomii
- "sprzedam #mikroskop elektronowy w okazyjnej cenie" @q3k

#piwo2025 #riscv @dos

Here's a simple way to make Expedition 33 look nicer and perform better on the Steam Deck.

youtube.com/watch?v=sqL86nulGn…

#linuxgaming #expedition33 #steamdeck #linux #performance #guide

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Video Producer – Goddard Space Flight Center What sparked your interest in video production, and what drew you to NASA? Ever since I saw “Star Wars” at nine years old, I knew I wanted to make movies. I would make little stop action videos with my action figures. How did you land this role at […]

#GazaGenocide / Special report: Ethnic cleansing through healthcare denial

This investigative report documents systematic war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Israel against Palestinian healthcare workers and patients during the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

The report documents how #Israel weaponized healthcare as part of its broader genocidal campaign, using medical institutions as instruments of ethnic cleansing while Israeli medical professionals actively participated in or remained silent about these crimes against humanity.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Mass Detention and Torture of Medical Personnel

At least 380 healthcare workers from #Gaza have been arrested by Israeli forces since October 2023, with 24 forcibly disappeared. The report documents extensive torture in Israeli detention facilities:

- Dr. H., an orthopedic surgeon, was beaten, sexually assaulted, and tortured for 69 days at Sde Teiman detention camp

- Medical staff were subjected to “disco rooms” with non-stop deafening music, dog attacks, and systematic beatings

- Prisoners were kept shackled and blindfolded constantly, fed through straws, and forced to use diapers

Deaths in Custody

At least 90 Palestinians have died in Israeli custody since October 2023, including prominent doctors:

- Dr. Adnan al-Borsh
- Dr. Iyad al-Rantisi
- Dr. Ziad al-Dalo
- Paramedic Hamdan Abu-Anaba

For comparison, only 9 prisoners died at #Guantanamo Bay over 20+ years.

Medical Complicity in War Crimes

Israeli healthcare institutions systematically violated medical ethics:

- Hospitals refused treatment to Palestinian patients on government orders

- Medical staff participated in torture and abuse of Palestinian detainees

- Israeli doctors called for bombing Gaza hospitals and exterminating all Palestinians

[…] “In early November 2023, close to a report by the World Health Organization that the Israeli army had killed at least 9,770 Palestinians by that point - including about 4,000 children - and wounded another 25,000, dozens of Israeli doctors published an open letter calling for bombing hospitals in Gaza.”

[…] The doctors wrote: “Gaza residents who chose to turn hospitals into terror nests in an attempt to exploit Western morality, they are the ones who brought destruction upon themselves.”They added that “abandoning Israeli civilians and protecting mass murderers just because they are hiding in hospitals - is inconceivable.

- The Israeli Medical Association justified attacks on Palestinian hospitals

[…] Dr. Chana Katan (see #Wikipedia entry, hopefully some could take the time to update en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chana_…), an Israeli-American gynecologist and one of the signatories to the letter, said: “I will do everything in my power to support and protect IDF soldiers, and ensure they return home safely. The IDF has the duty to attack terrorists hiding inside hospitals in Gaza.” UN representatives and human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch, have repeatedly emphasized that Israel has not provided sufficient evidence for claims about the use of hospitals by armed groups. Analysis of visual findings revealed that the claims of the IDF spokesperson are not credible.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

[…] Dr. Amos Szabo, a senior surgeon at Maccabi Health Services, wrote on social media X that he sees his reserve military service as a means to promote public health, “since this involves eliminating cockroaches and other disgusting insects.” A few months earlier he also wrote: “Gaza must be erased. There are no innocents there.”

Destruction of Gaza’s Healthcare System

Israel has systematically destroyed Gaza’s medical infrastructure:

- Over 1,400 healthcare workers killed

- Hospitals bombed and besieged

- Medical facilities deliberately targeted despite no evidence of military use

- 15 paramedics executed by Israeli forces in coordinated ambush

Dr. H.’s testimony from detention (one testimony out of many quoted):

During the March 2024 raid on Nasser Hospital, Dr. H., an orthopedic surgeon, was beaten by soldiers who “kicked him in the stomach, groin and testicles, ordered him to undress, handcuffed him, blindfolded him and led him to the hospital courtyard.” He was then taken to the notorious Sde Teiman military camp.

Dr. H. testified that during his 69 days at Sde Teiman, guards put him in a “disco room” - a room without mattresses where deafening music played non-stop. He was then taken to an interrogation room where, according to his testimony, “they tortured me for six days, with my hands and feet tied behind my back to a chair. They beat me in the stomach and slapped me while my eyes were covered.”

After 43 days, Dr. H. was transferred to a detention facility in Petah Tikva for continued interrogation. There he was examined by a doctor who confirmed he had developed hernias in the groin and abdomen area. “Despite him saying I needed surgery and shouldn’t be interrogated,” Dr. H. recounted, “I was returned to Sde Teiman without any medical treatment. When I returned to the detention facility, the soldiers beat me, slammed my head on the floor, pushed me into the sand, and kicked and punched me.”

Hebrew mekomit.co.il/%D7%97%D7%A8%D7%…

@palestine
@israel
#GazaGenocide #SdeTeiman #IsraelWarCrimes

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We went ahead and disabled the X11 session by default and from now on it needs to be explicitly enabled when building the affected modules. (gnome-session, GDM, mutter/gnome-shell).


Aside from a simple flag change and a recompile before Canonical adds the packages to their repo, it doesn't sound like this will affect Ubuntu at all. They probably already do this anyway to add their own little patches.

The most likely scenario is that all the X11 session code stays disabled by default for 49 with a planned removal for GNOME 50.


GNOME 50 is when Canonical will truly need to either move to Wayland or do something else.

Seems fairly reasonable of a timeline from the GNOME team, IMO.

Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Music Video)


"Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley is a quintessential pop anthem that has become a cultural phenomenon. With its catchy melody and memorable lyrics, this song embodies the spirit of the late 1980s, celebrating themes of love and commitment that resonate across generations.

Lyrics:
We're no strangers to love
You know the rules and so do I
A full commitment's what I'm thinkin' of
You wouldn't get this from any other guy

I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling
Gotta make you understand

Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry, never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

We've known each other for so long
Your heart's been aching, but you're too shy to say it
Inside, we both know what's been going on
We know the game and we're gonna play it

And if you ask me how I'm feeling
Don't tell me you're too blind to see

Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry, never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry, never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

(Ooh, give you up)
(Ooh, give you up)
(Ooh) never gonna give, never gonna give (give you up)
(Ooh) never gonna give, never gonna give (give you up)

We've known each other for so long
Your heart's been aching, but you're too shy to say it
Inside, we both know what's been going on
We know the game and we're gonna play it

I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling
Gotta make you understand

Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry, never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry, never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry, never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

Album Artist: #RickAstley
Album(s): #WheneverYouNeedSomebody
Written by: Peter Alan Waterman, Matthew James Aitken, Michael Stock
Music genre(s): #Pop
Released: #1987
Decade for first release: #1980sMusic
Meta tags: #NeverGonnaGiveYouUp #ClassicPop

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#RickAstley #WheneverYouNeedSomebody #NeverGonnaGiveYouUp #Pop #1980sMusic #ClassicPop #OfficialMusicVideo

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Quitter X : audits algorithmiques et respect du droit - Vu du Droit


#politique #société

"Hello Quit X" c'est chaud. Et encore on ne parle même pas des problèmes de sécurité et confidentialité des données... Vous donnez les accès à vos comptes à l'application, qui n'est gérée par aucune association, aucune structure légale! Qui est responsable en cas de fuite? Mystère et boule de gomme. On est en plein délire.

vududroit.com/2025/01/quitter-…

#HelloQuitteX #HelloQuitX #HelloQuitXComedyClub #Médias #Révolution #Journalisme #FackChecking #Liberté #Censure #Popagande #Désinformation #Politique #Geopolitique #USA #Europe #DSA
Fabrice Epelboin

La liberté d’expression en France et aux USA Sud Radio 18 jan 2025

L’avenir du journalisme - Sud Radio - 18 jan 2025

la fin des médias aux USA - France Info - 12 jan 2025

la nouvelle modération de Twitter - France Info - 12 jan 2025
youtube.com/watch?v=EiUCM_8rMj…

Sur le sujet : diaspora-fr.org/posts/10761890

Ca va sans-doute branler dans le manche à l’avenir du coté médias/réseaux sociaux, va falloir mettre sa ceinture…

Humour :

https://x.com/ComplotsFaciles/status/1880309270044131507?mx=2

https://x.com/laputassiere/status/1878545032409448827#m