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I've been running Home Assistant for about a year now and always installed every update as soon as it's released and never had any issues at all.
Yesterday some time in either the zwave js 15.6.0 or core 2025.6.0 update (I am too complacent and did them both in quick succession without testing anything) I lost my Zooz 800 zwave controller. Reloading HA didn't bring it back. I had unplug and replug the Zooz USB stick and then reload again.
We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started. Humanity is close to building digital superintelligence, and at least so far it’s much less weird than it seems like it should be.
Robots...
Scientific progress is the biggest driver of overall progress;
except that it also costs resources, which (without a holistic principle) require overall subjugation to implement and distribute...
We probably won’t adopt a new social contract all at once, but when we look back in a few decades, the gradual changes will have amounted to something big.
I like to believe we are the aspirants of a new social contract.
wonder
In general, the idea that we are "achieving wonders" is the glamour of technological development -- humanity desperately needs a native wonder at the glory of existence. The alternative is to require ever increasing astonishment. However his goals are aligned with mine:
Solve the alignment problem, meaning that we can robustly guarantee that we get AI systems to learn and act towards what we collectively really want over the long-term
we can do this by human-focused efforts paired with the mild charm of AI. It is a wonder, for sure, but that needs to be tempered by a holistic appreciation of the world. Otherwise our constant indecency will have no basis for AI alignment: we are the change we want to see in the world, for good or ill.
Then focus on making superintelligence cheap, widely available, and not too concentrated with any person, company, or country. Society is resilient, creative, and adapts quickly. If we can harness the collective will and wisdom of people, then although we’ll make plenty of mistakes and some things will go really wrong, we will learn and adapt quickly and be able to use this technology to get maximum upside and minimal downside.
we definitely need to get away from "harnessing people's {anything}" language, but this is essentially what I believe too. It's a shame that the ruling class still subscribes to the hegemonic idea of cultural influence: true influence comes from promoting the best, at the cost determined by authentic evaluation, otherwise values like selflessness will remain ever in doubt. Where there is no basis for belief, there can be no cultural development, and then how can we speak of alignment.
Have faith in the dive of consciousness,It is not stopped by the dense waters of material manifestations, Perhaps you will need hundreds, thousands of hours of sitting, to be stopped by the crust o…
LA under siege. This episode of State of Play exposes the escalating fascist crackdown by ICE, police, and military.Journalist Constanza Eliana Cineo reveal...
At least two people reported being shot with paintballs from passing cars on Sunday night, one in Old Town and the other in River North. One of the victims was taken to a hospital for treatment of an eye injury.
Therapists have done a lot of damage. It started out with the very well intentioned notion of "Some people need some help." And now that's turned into "All people need a lot of help."
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seen that, the damn mc looks horrible. Like holy shit. Either his mother or father was a literal gorilla.
Watched synth play...like hole fuck. First 25 min is an expo dump, and despite that, you still have no idea wtf is going on. No game play. All the characters are uncanny looking as hell.
Looks to me like rockstar fired these dude for a VERY good reason.
"In trying to control others, we find ourselves controlled.
We point fingers at the dictators, the Communists, the politicians, and the international cartels.
We are blithely unaware that our desire to control selfish others creates and sustains them.
We attempt to bend our neighbors to our will, sincere in our belief that we are benevolently protecting the world from their folly and short-sightedness.
We seek control to create peace and prosperity, not realizing that this is the very means by which war and poverty are propagated.
Trying to control selfish others is a cure worse than the disease."
TEHRAN, Jun. 12 (MNA) – Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met and held talks with President of The Sasakawa Peace Foundation (SPF) Atsushi Tsunami on the sidelines of 22nd Oslo Forum on Thursday.
Réponse officielle de Viatcheslav Volodine président de la #Douma d'État de #Russie à la présidente du #Bundestag, Ioulia #Klöckner :
Chère Madame Klöckner, Vous avez choisi de rendre notre échange public — très bien, continuons dans cet esprit. Mon message initial vous a rappelé la vérité historique : c’est le peuple soviétique et l’Armée rouge qui ont joué le rôle décisif dans la défaite du nazisme. Respect aux Alliés, oui, mais n’ignorons pas les chiffres : #URSS — 27 millions de morts #États-Unis — 418000 #Royaume-Uni — environ 300000 La #France a capitulé, mais certains combats ont continué. Et pourtant, vous qualifiez l'Armée rouge d'«ancienne armée soviétique» ? C'est du #révisionnisme. Et votre insistance sur les «soldats ukrainiens» est opportuniste : toute l'URSS a combattu : Russes, Biélorusses, Kazakhs, Géorgiens, Arméniens, Azerbaïdjanais, Ouzbeks, Kirghizes. La Russie a subi près de 70% des pertes de l'URSS pendant la guerre. C'est également Moscou qui s'est opposée à la division de l'Allemagne après la guerre et a contribué à rendre possible la réunification en 1990. L' #Allemagne s'en souvient mal.
Maintenant, à propos de «l’ #Ukraine démocratique» : Le mandat de #Zelensky a expiré il y a un an (N.B. : en mai 2024). Selon la Constitution, le président du Parlement aurait dû prendre ses fonctions. Il n'existe aucune base légale pour prolonger ses pouvoirs, même sous la loi martiale. Revenons en #2014. L' #Allemagne, la #France et la #Pologne ont garanti un accord entre Ianoukovitch et l'opposition. Le lendemain, coup d'État armé. Et Berlin a fermé les yeux. Kiev a alors lancé une guerre contre son propre peuple, qui a duré huit ans. La Russie a fait pression pour la paix — via #Minsk. Mais, comme #Merkel et #Hollande l’ont admis plus tard, Minsk n’était qu’un écran de fumée – juste un moyen de réarmer l’Ukraine. Donc non, la Russie n’a pas déclenché la guerre en #2022. La Russie tente d’y mettre fin. Pendant ce temps, le régime de Kiev pratique la terreur – ouvertement. Ils bombardent des trains civils. Des nourrissons et des femmes sont à bord. Pas de « cible militaire » ; juste un meurtre. C'est du #terrorisme. Kiev glorifie les collaborateurs #nazis comme #Bandera et #Choukhevytch, des hommes qui ont contribué à l'extermination des Juifs, des Polonais et des Russes. Votre silence est révélateur. L'Allemagne fournit désormais des armes à ce régime. Pour la première fois depuis la Seconde Guerre mondiale, des chars allemands sont présents sur le sol russe. Koursk, encore. Les missiles #Taurus sont désormais sur la table. L'Ukraine ne peut pas les utiliser ; ce seront donc vos militaires qui effectueront les tirs. Officiers allemands. Missiles allemands. Frappe sur la Russie. Êtes-vous prêt à pousser l’Allemagne à entrer en guerre contre nous ? Avez-vous le mandat de vos électeurs pour cela ? Pendant des décennies, nous avons œuvré pour instaurer la confiance. Nous n'avons jamais agi contre les intérêts de l'Allemagne. Pouvez-vous en dire autant de votre gouvernement ? À qui profite ce conflit ? À l’Allemagne ? Vraiment ? Réfléchissez bien. Alors répondez honnêtement. — V. #Volodine
Gaza Civil Defense: Aid Distribution Points Are Located in Israeli-Classified ‘Red Zones’ Where Civilians Are Casually Killed #Palestinequdsnen.co/gaza-civil-defense-…
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Since Friday afternoon, mass protests have been taking place across Los Angeles in response to raids carried out by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Yea rtfm is something people are relunctant to do. I just installed something I recently heard about here, qman, onto all my shell servers, while it's still presenting the same 'man' pages, it's doing so in a more pleasant way.
It's about choice. FOSS users are not all about being locked into a single bit of software because Big Tech wants us to use their software. Big Tech (Red Hat / IBM) trying to eliminate any competition to Wayland.
In this episode of Whitney Webb's Unlimited Hangout Podcast, Matt was invited to shed light on the Fabian Society roots of the Great Reset and World Economic Forum.
In Wallonien, dem französischsprachigen Teil Belgiens, geben Medien rechten Parteien keine Plattform. Wie funktioniert das? Und kann es als Vorbild dienen für den Umgang mit der AfD? Interview mit Léonie de Jonge, die dazu forscht. Jetzt ohne Abo: uebermedien.de/105993/die-medi…
what are you smoking troons hate hyprland because vaxry won't acknowledge their mental illness. The guys using sway which was made by the guy who cancelled vaxry for just banning a troon for wanting to use pronouns in the hyprland discord.
its tech. low T and autism is how we got troons in the first place. it does not matter what OS, language or license there always will be troons. what matters is if i can do whatever i want with the software, do not have to support the authors opinion and it does not force the authors delusions onto me.
@eris @EdBoatConnoisseur what do you mean "going to wayland" by default there is nothing pre installed (thats the whole point of arch) but its in the repo like x11 and every other x11 DE/WM.
@eris @EdBoatConnoisseur Arch is going to Wayland too, isn't it? I mean, Arch + Hyprland/Sway is a pretty common combination, and as far as I understand, both window managers are Wayland-only.
@EdBoatConnoisseur to think that I lived through two changes in the Linux display server. I remember back when they were replacing XFree86 with Xorg, everyone hated Xorg too. Including me, because there was a lot of shit I had that didn't work correctly with Xorg and it was pretty frustrating to use, and everything became unbearable when every distro stopped shipping XFree86.
And again, I don't follow tranny dev drama, but it seems a lot of projects are moving to Wayland right now and starting to ditch Xorg.
@EdBoatConnoisseur @eris it will stay in the repo as long as other projects and people use it. you pissing on the wrong tree here. complain about the projects like plasma and gnome for removing x11 support.
x11 will probably live on for decades if not by itself than in xwayland (also forks).
@Spooke @EdBoatConnoisseur oh, absolutely le corpos want to murder it. Again, I have seen this dance already, 20 years ago. Of course, my memory is a bit fuzzy, so Xorg may have had a bit more community support back then (after all, both were still X11 implementations, and IIRC Xfree may have had some licensing issues). But still, in a relatively short amount of time, one project was effectively killed in favor of the other.
@EdBoatConnoisseur with how freedesktop and redhat have been acting about x11libre I gotta say it's really looking like le corpos were trying to murder it.
@eris @EdBoatConnoisseur @Spooke i think its just the change of the tides. shit will be all back if the next president is a dem or they just get more covert slowly shifting the overton window.
the only thing truly stopping woke shit would be WW3
@eris @EdBoatConnoisseur @DarkMahesvara @Spooke and, unfortunately, I think it will get worse. The recent "pride month apocalypse" has shown that corpos in general are moving away from faggotry and trannies because it kinda stopped being fashionable to pander to them. Also, it seems that DEI hiring is starting to die off because of Trump and the current climate.
But Free Software projects, be they corpos or community projects, are run differently and usually have some shit about "culture over profits", so they are very likely to become the last bastion of all the freaks who are being pushed away from normal corpos.
@eris @EdBoatConnoisseur @DarkMahesvara I just see it at this point as if wayland was truly supposed to beat x11, why did they need to spend 2-3 years suppressing merge requests, and when someone decides to do a hard fork they became super hostile and straight up banned x11libre from freedesktop. If you make a better FOSS project wouldn't you win by just making a better project?
The behaviour just makes me think of how any project with enough libshits starts becoming censorious and banning people for not believing in their religion. Are we even open anymore?
the worst isn't even that they are more overtly gay but that using that software directly supports there agenda unlike with FOSS and they also have actual money and cultural power to change things.
@EdBoatConnoisseur @djsumdog @eris @nobullyplz @DarkMahesvara @Spooke I have tried Cinnamon and wayland with pipewire, they are so slow and unstable I want to install windows again. Wayland sucks and gnome is slow as valve releasing half life 3.
**🇺🇸🇮🇱🇵🇸🇺🇳 ALERTE INFO | « Les pays qui prendraient des « ACTIONS ANTI ISRAÉLIENNE » après la conférence seront considérés comme agissant en opposition aux intérêts de la politique étrangère américaine et pourraient faire face à des conséquences diplomatiques de la part de Washington. »
➡️ L’administration du président américain Donald Trump MENACE les gouvernements du monde entier de participer à la conférence de l’ONU la semaine prochaine, qui vise à trouver une solution à deux États entre Israël et les Palestiniens.**
La décision de réduire le nombre d’employés de l’ambassade américaine en Irak, à Bahreïn et au Koweït est un indicateur important, mais ses soldats en Irak et en Syrie sont plus importants que le personnel de l’ambassade. Une attaque israélienne alors que les négociations américano-iraniennes sont en cours semble peu probable, à moins qu’elle ne survienne dans le cadre d’un accord tacite faisant suite au désespoir tacite des Américains de parvenir à un accord.
The decision to reduce the number of US embassy staff in Iraq, Bahrain and Kuwait is an important indicator, but its soldiers in Iraq and Syria are more important than the embassy staff. An Israeli attack while U.S.-Iran negotiations are underway seems unlikely, unless it comes as part of a tacit agreement following America's tacit desperation to reach an agreement.
"Initial ADS-B data from Air India flight 171 shows that the aircraft reached a maximum barometric altitude of 625 feet (airport altitude is about 200 feet) and then it started to descend with an vertical speed of -475 feet per minute" - Flightradar #AureFreePress #News #press #headline
Je vais poser une question très simple : c'est quoi les valeurs de la République françaises ? Je veux des réponses qui s'appuient sur des textes, pas sur des opinions subjectives.
tous les politiciens disent les défendre mais personne ne sait exactement en quoi ça consiste: Liberté/Egalité/Fraternité: 3 valeurs cardinales mais sur lesquelles ils s'asseoient volontiers. ensuite, c'est chacun sa recette : mixité, laïcité, LGBT, blabla
youtu.be/x8DrGMBv2Aw?si=tA2eb9… As well as supplying international terrorists with weapons, for $,... up to 40% of the "free" weapons given to Zelensky get sold on the black market....
When Armenian Revolutionaries Met the PKK in Lebanon
Monte Melkonian was an US-born Armenian revolutionary who struggled for the liberation of his land from Turkish occupation from the late 80’s until the Nagorno-Karabach war against Azerbaijan where he fell martyr in 1993. The struggle for the Armenian cause brought Monte to Lebanon where he joined the ranks of ASALA (Armenian secret army for the liberation of Armenia) in the late 80’s. There, he, together with other Armenians, Kurds, Arabs and Turkish fighters took part in the resistance against the Israeli invasion of the South-Lebanon. For some time his brother Markar joined him in Lebanon in the Palestinian resistance. On the base of his own memories and the ones reported in Monte’s self-biography “A self-Criticism”, Markar wrote the book “My brother’s road”.
The book includes a passage where he speaks about the PKK cadres he met at the PLO military camp in the Beka’a valley, talking about their approach, both among themselves and with the others militants. We decided to share this witness-report, which allows to understand how the PKK, from the very beginning, developed in a deeply internationalist context shaped by the cooperation between communist, socialist and national liberation movements against the hegemonic forces. In his description we find one of the mayor reasons for the success of the PKK: Militancy, discipline and an absolute insistence on their values and living by them. Exactly in this period 11 cadres of the PKK fell martyr in Lebanon fighting the Zionist aggression.
“Many of the trainees at the Struggle Front camp were shibl, or “cubs,” in their teens. Some of them had literally run through the desert and crossed the Syrian border a few hundred meters east of the camp, to flee Syrian President Hafez al-Assad’s crackdown against the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria that summer. The older trainees consisted of Arabs and Armenians, mostly from Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine. There were six Kurdish cadres, too, from Abdullah Ocalan’s PKK. At night, the Kurds actually dreamt about their suffering motherland, and as soon as they awoke they charged off to the drill ground. They dug foxholes with gusto and shouted Thaura! Thaura! “Revolution!” during assault practice, instead of the usual Allahu Akbar! “God is Great!” Whethey picked the odd quince, they left coins for the farmer at the foot of the tree, and when a Druze farmer came to harvest olives at a nearby orchard they climbed the trees with buckets to help. Once, when the Kurd Suleiman broke a banana in half and absent-mindedly handed Comrade Hassan the smaller of the two pieces, his PKK comrade Terjuman demanded a round of criticism and self-criticism. Suleiman came clean with a self-criticism and a solemn oath never again to engage in such unseemly behavior. After their initial amusement wore off, the scruffy, swearing, cigarette-smoking Arabs and Armenians at the camp began to feel self-conscious in the presence of the abstemious Kurds, with their internationalist songs, their allusions to German classical philosophy, and their constant focus on revolution. But Monte loved these goings-on. “These guys are like gold!” he effused. Their enthusiasm was contagious. One by one, the smokers started tossing aside their cigarette rations after returning from the morning jog. All the comrades grimly huddled around the radio for news about the September 12, 1980 military coup in Turkey. Arab recruits volunteered to shoot Turkish diplomats. Before long, they were all stomping shoulder to shoulder under the sun, shouting in Arabic, Kurdish, and Armenian: “Return to the homeland!” “Struggle until victory!” and “We are fedayees!” At Yanta, Monte felt that expansive feeling that comes with living and fighting together for a common purpose. It was a feeling for which the word “solidarity” is entirely too tepid. The simplest activities— squatting around a tray of lentils; tearing bread and handing it out; donating blood; passing the overcoat at the change of the guard—each of these gestures formed part of a daily liturgy that had nothing to do with egoism or altruism.”
The struggle for Armenia and Kurdistan liberation has always been deeply intertwined, although within the national liberation paradigm they have taken different strategic lines. In the 1980 conference held in Sidon, Lebanon, ASALA and the PKK announced that they were fighting together against Turkish state occupation and trained together in PLO camps in Lebanon until 1983.
ASALA went through a complex process of deviation from the revolutionary line that had several consequences: the split of the organization between the faction of the bloodthirsty founder Hagop Hagopian and the Melkonian faction, the rupture of relations between Hagopian and the PLO, and numerous reprisal murders against dissident militants ordered by him. The Melkonian’s struggle then continued uninterrupted even during the critical moment of the fall of real socialism, a phase in which, arguably for Kurdistan, the question of the future of both nations and their revolutionary struggle in the new world order arises forcefully. In Melkonian’s understanding, the Kurdish and Armenian peoples, who share the burden of colonization and genocide on the same land, also share the duty of common liberation. He has always shown a very critical and broad approach to this issue. With his stance he marked a different line from the one of many nationalist militants and Armenian intellectual figures who never really accepted the idea of common struggle because of the involvement of various Kurdish tribal elites in the 1915 Armenian genocide. With the same attitude, he harshly criticized the violence, carried out as a form of historical revenge, that Armenian troops (many of them under his command) committed against the Kurds living in the Nagorno-Karabakh territory during the 1993 war against Azerbaijan.
Melkonians reflections from his book “A self-ctiticism,” on the meaning of the holy-day “Newroz” precisely reflect his internationalist position and his attempt to understand the struggle of the PKK and the Kurdish people in a right way.
“NEWROZ: A NEW STAR Every year, on March 21, the Kurdish people celebrate their holiday. This is one of the most important and ancient of dates on the Kurdish calendar. The Kurds call it Newroz or “the new day”. The exact origin of Newroz is uncertain, but the tradition is traced back to the fall of the Neo-Assyrian capital, Niniveh in 612 B.C. For many tribes of the Jazira; the defeat and burning of Ninive represented the overthrown of a despotic; oppressive regime. This defeat marked a new era for the people previously dominated by the Assyrians. Among the people to celebrate the new era were the predecessor of modern Kurdish nation. For over 2500 years Newroz has been celebrates by building bonfire which give light through the night, separating winter and spring. The date is festive, with dancing and feasting. Our main concern of course is not ancient history. What concerns Armenian militants is the significance of Newroz for our Kurdish comrades today. How has Newroz as an important festival, and why has it gained so much emphasis in recent years? In Answering this question we may learn a lesson which is internationally valid. The Symbolism of Newroz is clear: the end of winter and the start of spring; departure from the old and welcoming the new; the end of an oppressive regime and the beginning of a new era. Newroz, in short, signifies a new start. This is why Newroz has survived, and why it is so very important today. The Kurdish people today are struggling for their national self-determination. They are struggling to cut the feudal bonds of the past and establish a democratic socialist and revolutionary Kurdistan. They are for something new, something better than anything that has occurred in the past. Their struggle is for progress, for future. This is a simple but powerful lesson which has a such meaning for Armenians as for Kurds. The Armenian people are also at the stage of leaving behind old ideas and institutions. We are replacing counterproductive ideologies with new approaches for the problems we face. We are taking a step forward, toward the goal which, if achieved will results in conditions for Armenian people better than any yet have been existed for three thousand years. We are not struggling for military domination of land or for an imperialistic-controlled “Armenian regime”. We are struggling for the liberation of our homeland from the domination of imperialism. In this struggle, we are no longer alone. Alongside us there are our Kurdish compatriots, our Turkish comrades and all peoples struggling for their freedom and national rights. It is truly the dawn of a new day, a Newroz. We have the right to celebrate, to be festive. We have started now.”
22 December 1985, Fresnes prison, France. Monte Melkonian
Like Melkonian, we can, by learning about our respective struggles and giving meaning to our history find similarities and differences that will enrich our common vision for a socialist life. In order to develop common struggles and strengthen each other we need to dive into each others realities and find the core of humanity in our shared values.
On the day of Monte Melkonian’s martyrdom we remember his great struggle for the Freedom of the Armenian people and his efforts for developing an internationalist approach and understanding that overcomes the disease of Nationalism which has caused so much division among Revolutionaries. As he said: “In this struggle, we are no longer alone. Alongside us there are our Kurdish compatriots, our Turkish comrades and all peoples struggling for their freedom and national rights.”
Ils l'ont dit à Guardiola pour son soutien pour le peuple de Gaza. Mais eux-mêmes ont tout mélangé : Politique, religion, économie, culture, art, commerce et tous les domaines de la vie ! 🔸 Ils ont mélangé l’Islam avec le terrorisme. 🔸 Entre le bien et le mal 🔸 Entre justice et injustice 🔸 Entre l'occupant et le défenseur de sa terre
Ne nous prêchez pas par le silence... alors que vous ne connaissez pas le chemin de la vérité !
Donc si j'ai bien compris, une députée européenne se fait kidnapper dans les eaux internationales par une armée génocidaire, jetée en prison, sans que le gouvernement français et l'Union européenne ne trouvent rien à redire ? Imaginez le tollé si c'est la Russie qui avait fait cela
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I like to believe we are the aspirants of a new social contract.
In general, the idea that we are "achieving wonders" is the glamour of technological development -- humanity desperately needs a native wonder at the glory of existence. The alternative is to require ever increasing astonishment. However his goals are aligned with mine:
we can do this by human-focused efforts paired with the mild charm of AI. It is a wonder, for sure, but that needs to be tempered by a holistic appreciation of the world. Otherwise our constant indecency will have no basis for AI alignment: we are the change we want to see in the world, for good or ill.
we definitely need to get away from "harnessing people's {anything}" language, but this is essentially what I believe too. It's a shame that the ruling class still subscribes to the hegemonic idea of cultural influence: true influence comes from promoting the best, at the cost determined by authentic evaluation, otherwise values like selflessness will remain ever in doubt. Where there is no basis for belief, there can be no cultural development, and then how can we speak of alignment.