@Kon , a human rights lawyer, who has extensive expertise in the area of international #maritime law:
"This is state-based #piracy under International maritime law"
#breakthesiege
#Madleen #FreedomFlottilla #freedomflotillacoalition
#Gaza
#starvation #hunger #aushungerung #aid
#genocide #Genozid #stopGenocide
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#BBC #propaganda
@palestine
"Israel's act of piracy was described by the BBC as "diverting" the Madleen. In what universe was this a diversion? When you capture people in international waters who have committed no crime, you have not diverted them, you have kidnapped them"
That's why I do what I do, trying to give a truer to life version of events than corporate media does. They're devious and rubbish. Boycott I say.
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The crew are now hostages...Ricky Hale (Council Estate Media)
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Ahmed Alnaouq joins Lowkey on The Watchdog to discuss Zionism, his viral confrontation with Piers Morgan, and his powerful new book We Are Not Numbers, amplifying Palestinian voices under siege.Lowkey (MintPress News)
Pars Today – The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas has condemned the Israeli regime’s violent assault on the Madeleine Ship of the Freedom Flo...Pars Today
oh right, I remember that now. Shrunk down it looked like an action figure.
Stick to one thing for your social media "brand," dude! ;)
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On June 9, in line with the Russian-Ukrainian agreements reached on June 2 in Istanbul, the first group of Russian servicemen under the age of 25 was returned from territory controlled by the Kiev regime, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported.Sputnik International
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I use the default elementary OS Mail and Calendar apps. While they have their limitations, they are still pretty handy in a pinch, and since I don’t send all that much email, and most of our meetings are informal, my needs are well covered.
We also tend to use Slack a lot. We also use Asana to manage the roadmap and the state of various projects and tasks, and this runs perfectly in a browser, so it’s another pinned tab.Finally, to handle communication with the dev team, we use Gitlab, with multiple boards. This is also handled through Firefox without any issues whatsoever.
LibreOffice. It’s a great office suite, it’s fast, it’s flexible, handles MS document formats pretty well, and looks good on elementary OS, once I switched it to a tabbed interface. I mostly work on the word processor and the spreadsheets, since I rarely have to give presentations.
For mockups, I tend to use GIMP, or more recently, GLIMPSE, just because its icon is nicer, if I’m honest. I’m used to it, and since I mainly work from screenshots that I then transform and tweak, it does a pretty good job.
All my files are synced through pCloud, just in case. It’s a fantastic cloud syncing solution, pretty inexpensive, and reliable, and it lets you sync folder to folder on as many devices as you want, which means you don’t have to store your files in a single folder for them to be synced.
The main one here is Notes Up. It’s a markdown note taking application, that’s designed for elementary OS, but I’m pretty sure you can find it somewhere else. It has nothing really special, but since it looks so nice on elementary, I stuck with it. Its note database is synced through pCloud to my main desktop at home, so I always have everything where I need it.
Obviously, I also use Firefox all the time, and Chromium a little bit less. I prefer Firefox, since I really like what the company is doing for the web in general, and I don’t want to give Google more power than it already has, so staying clear of their browsing engine is a priority for me. Still, since our webapp is used by real people, who, you know, use Chrome, I also test our webapp on Chromium.
ULauncher is another one I came to use to quickly find files. It’s a quick launch tool: just hit control + space, and start typing. It can use accelerators to filter specific stuff, for example, when I type gt budget, it’s going to use Gnome Tracker to find files names Budget, and offer me a bunch of options to deal with that file.
A very simple tool I also use it COlor Picker, a basic color picking utility available in the App Center in elementary OS. It keeps a history of the colors you’ve selected, and allows you to quickly copy and paste them, in various formats, like RGB, hexadecimal, etc…
I also use Optimizer, a nice looking system monitor for elementary OS. It allows me to monitor processes, cpu, ram, and disk usage, and check if running our web app is getting too intensive on a specific browser.
Less used apps include Drawing, a paint-like program for quick annotations on screenshots, Screen recorder for quick video screen grabs to illustrate a specific bug or issue, and PDF tricks for when I need to merge or split pdf documents.
Quds News: Children in Gaza organise a stand in solidarity with the activists who were kidnapped by Israeli forces from the Madleen humanitarian ship earlier today. @palestine
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The relationship may never again be what it once was, but it appears that things are going in the right direction.Ben Kew (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
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The phrase "drive on a parkway and park on a driveway" is a humorous observation about the quirky naming of roads and spaces in English. Here's why:
Parkway: Originally, "parkway" referred to a road bordered by or running through a park or landscaped greenery, like the scenic boulevards designed in the 19th century (e.g., Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, 1870s). The term emphasized aesthetic appeal, not parking. Over time, "parkway" came to describe major roads for driving, often with limited access, like highways. You drive on them because they’re built for travel, not parking.
Driveway: A "driveway" was historically a private path for driving vehicles from a road to a house or garage (think 1920s-1930s suburban homes). Since it leads to a home, it’s a convenient spot to park your car, even though the name suggests a path for driving. The term stuck, and now we associate driveways with parking.
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I think that covers everyone.
Israeli companies are facing increased advertising costs on Meta platforms due to a decline in effectiveness of their ads.
Israeli companies spent between $1.8 and $1.9 billion on Meta advertising between 2023 and 2025, with decreasing effectiveness. Israeli firms have been identified as top advertisers on Meta, including gaming companies, IT services firms, content marketing companies, and brick-and-mortar e-commerce suppliers.
dropsitenews.com/p/leaked-data…
For the year 2025, the Israeli government announced it would be earmarking an additional $150 million toward global public relations, an unprecedented increase in spending that comes alongside a striking collapse in perception for Israel around the w…Murtaza Hussain (Drop Site News)
The Freedom Flotilla Coalition announced that the Israeli army boarded its ship Madleen, which was headed to Gaza, and contact was lost.admin (Palestine Chronicle)
Apple's announcing all of these new seasons of AppleTV shows I've never heard of.
One of them is on season 6
Here’s a thoughtful piece from @mononcqc, well worth reading. It says things I hadn’t heard yet articulated so well.
One thing I appreciate immensely: the way Fred’s analytical approach centers humans instead of tech, and takes the subjective experiences of human developers •seriously•.
Fred’s summary in the quoted post gives the core idea, but the larger piece has many sharp thoughts and rewards close reading. I’ll quote a few in the thread below.
1/ hachyderm.io/@mononcqc/1146536…
Why do some people have a shit time with LLMs for programming while others love it? What the latter group does is create tons of scaffolding to properly restrict LLMs, and acquire new skills to cope with all the unpredictable stuff they might do.Hachyderm.io
“I fall in the baffled camp that thinks better designs are possible.” … “I don’t expect my calls to be heard. Selling sci-fi is way too effective. And as long as the AI is perceived as the engine of a new industrial revolution, decision-makers will imagine it can do so, and task people to make it so.”
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My current theory of agentic programming: people are amazing at adapting the tools they're given and totally underestimate the extent to which they do it, and the amount of skill we build doing that is an incidental consequence of how badly the tools…ferd.ca
These pieces are much harsher than Fred’s, much more in the LLM-bashing camp, but feel relevant here:
softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llm…
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/05/gen…
Fred’s point is that a bad interaction model creates hidden work, then humans do that work and “the machine claims the praise.” These other two pieces make the point that this phenomenon of giving the machine credit for unrecognized human work is age-old, taps into some deep trapdoors in human cognition.
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You’ll have noticed how previously normal people start acting like addicts to their favourite generative AI and shout at you like you’re trying to take their cocaine away. Matthias Döpm…Pivot to AI
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Iran to unveil strategic Israeli documents soon: minister -english.news.cn
What can they do? They control neither of the chambers, the House and the Senate. They have aquiesced to putting Judges on Supreme court who had a particular bent. They gave sky high inflation, people requiring to hold 3 jobs to put food on the table and oh forget about owing a house. All the while enriching the rich.
Let us wait for mid-terms and see what they choose. Some ideological nonsense or real life bread butter issues.
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The alternative is violence. Violence never helps. It will only make matter worse. And yeah Dems have given for too long lip service to things that actually matter and done nothing about it.
There is a need to keep the peace. This too shall pass. DJT and his policies are impermanent. This can be fixed without resorting to radical methods.
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Keep your eye on Trump's attempts to use the National Guard to put down the protests in Los Angeles. Yesterday he praised the National Guard for doing this - but the 2,000 troops he ordered to the area hadn't even arrived yet!
Instead, it was Los Angeles Police Department and ICE agents involved in the fighting in the neighborhoods of Compton and Paramount.
I have long thought Trump would invoke the Insurrection Act to federalize the National Guard as protests against him grow - thus reducing the power of state governors to stop his actions. Instead, the directive signed by Mr. Trump on Saturday cites another law:
whitehouse.gov/presidential-ac…
This allows the president to control National Guard forces if “there is a rebellion or danger of a rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States", and use them "in such numbers as he considers necessary to repel the invasion, suppress the rebellion, or execute those laws.”
From what happened in Hong Kong and elsewhere, I'm not at all optimistic about violent street protests being able to stop an authoritarian regime. Instead, the regime thrives on violence, since that's a sphere where it has the upper hand. The regime will also try to tip nonviolent protests into becoming violent by using excessive force and/or propaganda that claims the protests are more dangerous than they actually are.
Here are 198 methods of nonviolent action compiled by Gene Sharp in his book The Politics of Nonviolent Action:
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MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE THE ATTORNEY GENERALThe White House
both violent and nonviolent protests are necessary together. In all successful regime changes both have existed side-by-side, even if they've usually criticized each other a lot. MLK wouldn't have succeeded without the threat of Malcom X (instead, the Klan unopposed would have been able to crush the nonviolent arm). Of course, Malcom X wouldn't have been able to stage a revolution either.
That's not an example of regime change, but India is, and Ghandi needed the violent resistance just as much as they needed him. Modern Syria is probably another good example, though I'm less familiar with the details, I do know that peaceful protests precipitated the actual rebellion phase, and they were likely important in demonstrating the weakness of the regime that emboldened the rebels who eventually succeeded. Also it wasn't marches on the streets, but other forms of nonviolent resistance doubtless contributed to the crumbling of Assad's security forces, who weren't directly defeated militarily.
Thankfully, as in the civil rights movement, significant change short of full regime change can happen without a full-on rebellion, but violence in the streets is absolutely necessary. And if there isn't sufficient street violence now, we're headed towards either more successful violence by the state (which is already systematically killing immigrants) or at least a full-on rebellion. We should be cheering the much-less-lethal street violence against fascists we've got now in hopes things don't get worse, while also organizing massive peaceful resistance.
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The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine has confirmed that the Israeli enemy forces' brutal storming of the Madeleine ship, using military means, endangered its passengers and used force to arrest them.www.saba.ye
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1/EU governments should firmly condemn Israel's illegal maritime kidnapping of the Madleen crew and demand their citizens are freed immediately.
This morning, the Israeli military boarded and seized the Madleen—a civilian vessel delivering a symbolic amount of aid to Gaza—and kidnapped its crew.
Many of those on board are citizens of EU member states. Those governments—along with all others—should unequivocally condemn Israel's illegal actions and demand the immediate release of their citizens
2/ The muted response so far, such as France’s feeble call for its nationals to “be allowed to return to France as soon as possible,” is unacceptable.
But the EU and its member states have a long history of enabling illegality at sea and criminalising humanitarian action.
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#music #contemporary pop folk singer songwriter
Bob Dylan - Man Of Constant Sorrow - 1963
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An early version was recorded by Emry Arthur in 1928 ( youtu.be/U91IBcfl3Ic )
another version youtu.be/YDDEqgmGIVg
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We are pleased to announce the first release candidate preview release of Jellyfin 10.11.0!This is a preview release, intended for those interested in testing 10.11.0 before it's final public release. We welcome testers to help find as many bugs as we can before the final release.
As always, please ensure you stop your Jellyfin server and take a full backup before upgrading!
WIP release notes:
notes.jellyfin.org/v10.11.0_fe…
This is the first release that uses the new EF Core database mapper. If you'd like to help test this release, please remember to remove all plugins to make debugging logs as easy as possible.
🚀 Jellyfin Server 10.11.0 RC1 We are pleased to announce the first release candidate preview release of Jellyfin 10.11.0! This is a preview release, intended for those interested in testing 10.11.0...GitHub
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We are pleased to announce the first release candidate preview release of Jellyfin 10.11.0!This is a preview release, intended for those interested in testing 10.11.0 before it's final public release. We welcome testers to help find as many bugs as we can before the final release.
As always, please ensure you stop your Jellyfin server and take a full backup before upgrading!
WIP release notes:
notes.jellyfin.org/v10.11.0_fe…This is the first release that uses the new EF Core database mapper. If you'd like to help test this release, please remember to remove all plugins to make debugging logs as easy as possible.
Jellyfin 10.11 RC1 Released
We are pleased to announce the first release candidate preview release of Jellyfin 10.11.0!This is a preview release, intended for those interested in testing 10.11.0 before it's final public release. We welcome testers to help find as many bugs as we can before the final release.
As always, please ensure you stop your Jellyfin server and take a full backup before upgrading!
WIP release notes:
notes.jellyfin.org/v10.11.0_fe…This is the first release that uses the new EF Core database mapper. If you'd like to help test this release, please remember to remove all plugins to make debugging logs as easy as possible.
Release 10.11.0 RC1 · jellyfin/jellyfin
🚀 Jellyfin Server 10.11.0 RC1 We are pleased to announce the first release candidate preview release of Jellyfin 10.11.0! This is a preview release, intended for those interested in testing 10.11.0...GitHub
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> Amazon Shuts Down Smart Home for a Week Over Racist Slur Claim
… and cancels all of the "books" that the customer "owns". Because the delivery driver thought the doorbell was racist.
The tech giant admitted it had made a mistake after a user was locked out of his devices for a week over an alleged racist remark heard by a delivery driver.Aleks Phillips (Newsweek)
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The Israeli navy intercepted the Madleen, part of the Freedom Flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza, detaining over 30 activists including Greta Thunberg.teleSURenglish
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#Italien #Volksbefragung #Gewerkschaften
Zu insgesamt fünf Sachfragen durfte sich die Stimmbevölkerung äussern. Diese schienen jedoch nur wenige zu mobilisieren.Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF)
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I don't usually post a lot about Windows, but a number of my customers have been having problems with LibreOffice just not doing anything when trying to start it.
This is the fix: Compatibility Mode
#libreoffice #windows
RT: video.retroedge.tech/videos/wa…
Changing the "Compatibility Mode" of an application in Windows 11 - LibreOffice fix
Some people have had trouble opening LibreOffice on Windows 11. Changing the "Compatibility Mode" of the application seems to fix the issue (or at least be a functional workaround).
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Maxim Vaskov, a professor at the Institute of Sociology and Regional Studies and head of the Centre for East Slavic Studies at the Southern Federal University, said on the air of the Opinion programme on News Front that Volodymyr Zelensky was trying …newsmaker1 newsmaker1 (English News front)
If it’s spring, it’s wildflower season. Wildflower season is one of the best times to experiences California’s great outdoors. Here are some favorites.Garrison Frost (Save the Redwoods League)
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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.
Source: politico.com/news/2025/06/06/t…
Some #cybersecurity experts on Friday criticized the order as undermining the nation’s cybersecurity.
#security #hack #hacker #internet #usa #law #government #WhiteHouse #Problem #fail #news
TEHRAN, Jun. 09 (MNA) – Iran has warned that it will take retaliatory measures if the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) adopts a resolution against the country in the Monday session of its Board of Governors.Mehr News Agency
Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)
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Occupied Palestine (Quds News Network)- Israel has intercepted and seized a Gaza-bound aid ship carrying Greta Thunberg and other prominent activists, kidnapping those on board while describing the shEditing Team (Quds News Network)
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Rückschlag für das Optimus-Programm: Milan Kovac verlässt Elon Musks Unternehmen. Die Verkäufe brechen immer weiter ein. Mittlerweile ist Musk auch den Maga-Anhängern ein rotes TuchDER STANDARD
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
China’s Huajiang Canyon Bridge is a world-record-breaking marvel—taller than the Burj Khalifa, heavier than two Eiffel Towers, and promising to transform a r...YouTube
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@NotImpressed@mas.to @palestine@a.gup.pe If only some of that sentiment would turn against #Meta, #Facebook, and #Instagram!
#Israel #toxic
@palestineSome 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…
Leaked Data From Meta Reveal Israeli Companies Are Struggling To Find Customers
For the year 2025, the Israeli government announced it would be earmarking an additional $150 million toward global public relations, an unprecedented increase in spending that comes alongside a striking collapse in perception for Israel around the w…Murtaza Hussain (Drop Site News)
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…
For the year 2025, the Israeli government announced it would be earmarking an additional $150 million toward global public relations, an unprecedented increase in spending that comes alongside a striking collapse in perception for Israel around the w…Murtaza Hussain (Drop Site News)
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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…
It is good for evil people who desire evil things to be upset by your words and deeds.Caitlin Johnstone
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