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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:35 Sponsor: Squarespace
01:52 X11 dev forks it for all the wrong reasons
04:33 Ubuntu & Manjaro go deeper on Wayland
06:12 Denmark ditches Microsoft for Linux & LibreOffice
08:49 Google keeps locking Android down
11:30 GNOME increases dependency on systemd
13:36 Mint adds fingerprint support and forks Libadwaita
15:57 Linux Foundation launches Wordpress plugin repo
17:49 Xbox handheld is revealed
20:35 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers

Links:

X11 dev forks it for all the wrong reasons
linuxiac.com/xlibre-xserver-pr…

Ubuntu & Manjaro go deeper on Wayland
omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/ubuntu…
forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-kd…

Denmark ditches Microsoft for Linux & LibreOffice
zdnet.com/article/why-denmark-…

Google keeps locking Android down
androidauthority.com/google-no…

GNOME increases dependency on systemd
blogs.gnome.org/adrianvovk/202…

Mint adds fingerprint support and forks Libadwaita
blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4850

Linux Foundation launches Wordpress plugin repo
linuxfoundation.org/press/linu…
github.com/fairpm

Xbox handheld is revealed
engadget.com/gaming/xbox/rog-x…

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In East Africa, abductions, killings and torture by state agents are surging. Instead of protecting citizens, many lawmakers are applauding the repression. continent.substack.com/p/state…

Dozens of Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza english.almayadeen.net/news/po…

If you're looking for detailed and fact-based information about #Israel and #Iran check out the ISW web page. They're publishing detailed briefings three times a day containing only information they can verify, and when they make a mistake in their assessments they point it out and correct it in the following issue:

understandingwar.org/backgroun…

Ábalos 🥴 #PSOE #corrupción
Cobrando dinero (500.000€) robado a los venezolanos 🇻🇪 para que el gobierno 🇪🇦 reconozca un golpe de Estado (reconocer a Guaidó).
[ Javier Couso ]
t.me/javiercouso/781
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The "information control" of the European Union voltairenet.org/article222436.…

The challenges posed by Western influence is one particular focus for schools right now — Medinsky odysee.com/Medinsky-forum-educ…

Pourquoi les jardins ouvriers d’Aubervilliers sont-ils encore et toujours menacés?

Le collectif de défense des #JardinsOuvriers du Fort d’#Aubervilliers tenait une table samedi dernier au Mediapart festival 2025, organisé au Point Fort d’Aubervilliers, à une centaine de mètres des jardins en question. Pourquoi ces jardins implantés dans un quartier populaire dense sont-ils encore et toujours menacés de destruction?

✏️ Par ScopFair | En accès libre › blogs.mediapart.fr/scopfair/bl…

It's funny cause it's true.

"Le système de retraites ne dérape pas, dit en réalité le dernier rapport du COR" alternatives-economiques.fr/sy…

Journo: "Donald Trump called you angry young woman who needs anger management lessons"

Greta: "I think the world needs a lot more of young angry women, especially with everything going on right now!"

I like that angry young woman!

youtu.be/Hk1WEhO07Bw?si=bQL2he…

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i can call bs from this image alone. mullvad browser and librewolf are almost identically configured (except letterboxing which people hate) using resist fingerprint same as tor. please for the love of god don't listen to some no name mutt for privacy simply read the docs

support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/r…

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#SelfHosting is great and all, but at some point it just doesn't make sense financially.

I'm self-hosting #VaultWarden, but because I need my credentials available to me no matter where I am, and I need high-availability, hosting VaultWarden at home on a #docker container on my #Synology while being the cheaper option isn't necessarily the smart option.

The small VPS I'm hosting VaultWarden on with #Hetzner is running me about $5.00 a month.

I can purchase a year subscription to #BitWarden for $10/ year.

You do the math.

Same for #LinkWarden. I was thinking about standing up and self-hosting a LinkWarden instance to replace #Pocket. Again, a small VPS from Hetzner would run me about $5.00/ month.

A subscription to LinkWarden would run me $3.00 a month.

You do the math.

Israel. Iran. US. UK. Gaza. Genocide. Etc.

Sensitive content

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Israeli Forces Shut Down Al-Aqsa Mosque, Expel Worshippers After Airstrikes on Iran #Palestine qudsnen.co/israeli-forces-shut…

WAYLAND in 2023: how GOOD (or BAD) is it? Apps, GPUs, desktops, gaming...


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#Wayland #X11 #linux

00:00 Intro
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01:36 X11 vs Wayland
04:47 What's missing from Wayland itself
06:22 Desktop Environment support
09:07 Wayland & GPUs
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So, up until recently, all Linux desktops used the X Server, also called X.org or X11. It's a venerable piece of software, that predates even the first release of the Linux kernel, by almost a decade, and X11 is virtually unmaintained now.

And so that's why Wayland was started in 2008. In terms of advantages, it eliminates screen tearing, it lets you have multiple monitors with different refresh rates and different scaling factors, and it's more secure.

secjuice.com/wayland-vs-xorg/

The Wayland protocol still lacks network transparency: Wayland doesn't support running a program on a computer, and displaying it on another. Some stuff also isn't supported yet, on Wayland OR on X11, for example HDR.

Support for fractional scaling has just recently been added, and isn't fully supported by all major Linux desktops and toolkits just yet. Wayland also doesn't support global shortcuts by default, but it's fixed through a desktop portal.

And we need to look at desktop environments and window managers. GNOME is probably the one with the more robust Wayland support available right now: not the most feature complete, but the most robust.

On KDE, Wayland support is a bit less solid, in my experience, Plasma 6 should be THE release with good Wayland support.

As per other desktop environments: Cinnamon is just beginning, MATE hasn't started, but XFCE has published a roadmap of the things that already work, and the things that need to be worked on. Pantheon, the desktop for elementary OS, has an experiment wayland session that is, for now, not really usable, and Deepin doesn't seem to have any plans yet.

You can use Sway, which is basically i3 but made for Wayland, with support for i3 config files, you have hyprland, based on the wlroots implementation, that seems to be the fastest moving tiling window manager for Wayland.

If you use open source drivers, like the mesa drivers for Intel and AMD GPUs, or the Nouveau driver for nvidia, you're all good. These support everything you need, and work well with Wayland, just as well as on X.Org. But then, there are the proprietary nvidia drivers.

And to be fair, they do work with Wayland. it took a long while, but it works, I've been using them on hybrid graphics laptops on GNOME and KDE, and on a desktop running Fedora for a long while, and it works. But it's also not the best experience.

And since we're talking about GPUs, let's talk about gaming. Gaming on Wayland basically relies on X.org, with something called XWayland: it's and X11 server running inside of Wayland.

There is a small performance impact depending on the game. It's not huge, but it's there, so if you're struggling to keep a smooth 60FPS, Xorg will be better. This is notably true with Nvidia drivers, which don't handle XWayland very well.

For now, Wayland enforces Vsync everywhere, unless your monitor has adaptive sync, so stuff like Gsync of freesync. If you don't have that, then Vsync is, for now, mandatory.

And finally, we have application support. All the latest Kirigami apps for KDE, or QT 5 and Qt 6 apps, or Libadwaita apps will handle Wayland well, and all the portals they need to interact well with other apps, screen sharing, and the like. Electron apps using a recent version of electron will also support Wayland, but a lot of electron apps still use an old version that doesn't support it properly.

And older apps using GTK 2, or older versions of Qt also won't support Wayland. Some web browsers also don't run natively with Wayland.

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🚨🚨Rep. Tim Burchett drops a MOAB—mother of all bombs—confirming that Biden staffers were taking payoffs in exchange for autopen pardons.

Another words, bribes

Now, arrest them—arrest every single one of them—for the crimes:

• 18 U.S. Code § 1519 – Tampering with evidence—destruction, alteration, or falsification of records
• 18 U.S. Code § 1512 – Tampering with a witness
• 18 U.S. Code § 1503 – Obstruction of justice
• 18 U.S. Code § 371 - Conspiracy to defraud the United States government.
And
• 18 U.S. Code § 201(b) – Bribery
x.com/i/status/193357473731119…

Black Literature: Beyond Bourgeois Pleading and "Achievement" hamptonthink.org/read/black-li…

"Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country."

[Hermann Goering]

🚨 FOLLOW THE MONEY! 🚨 A bombshell investigation by Peter Schweizer’s Government Accountability Institute exposes how the radical “No Kings” protests, set for June 14, 2025, are bankrolled by over $114.8 MILLION in dark money from Arabella Advisors since 2019! 😡 This shady left-wing network, funded by globalist billionaires like Soros and Gates, is pulling the strings behind groups like The Indivisible Project to orchestrate chaos and defy President Trump’s America First agenda.
Even worse? Some of these groups are siphoning YOUR taxpayer dollars—$50M+ in grants to anti-ICE radicals in LA alone! This isn’t grassroots—it’s a calculated attack on our values, timed to disrupt Trump’s patriotic military parade. 🇺🇸 Republicans, it’s time to stand up to this elitist, anti-American scheme! Share this to expose the truth and defend our nation! 💪 #NoKings #AmericaFirst

Iran’s Leader names successors to commanders assassinated by Israel presstv.ir/Detail/2025/06/13/7…

Iranian missile strikes IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv as Israel braced for another round of attacks mol.im/a/14808217 via dailym.ai/android

It was the 8th of june, I was sitting in math class(reken les) I was six.
Doortje, my much older sister, had braided my hair in a fishtail braid that morning.
In class the end of that braid was firmly being chewed on by my molars.
I did not look up when the class door opened, paid no mind to the murmurs.
I only looked up when my name was called out. "Noortje, the principal needs to see you in his office"
My first response was to pull the braid from my teeth, and proclaim "but it wasn't me"

A chronophilia is a distinct type of sexual attraction pattern that varies as a function of the ages of preferred sexual targets.

Chronophilic categories, primary or exclusive sexual attraction to:

* Nepiophilia: toddlers and infants - under 5
* Pedophilia: pre-pubertal children, typically age 5 - 10
* Hebephilia: children 11–14 years, just at or past puberty
* Ephebophilia: older minors just under or at age of consent
* Teleiophilia: traditional reproductive age
* Mesophilia: middle age
* Gerontophilia: older age

People in the Nepiophilia to Hebephilia categories are typically prosecuted when they act on their attraction and should seek professional help.

Those in the Ephebophilia category may escape prosecution, but if they are significantly older than their targets, they are definitely predators who should be kept away from young people, e.g. not given jobs in professions where they are in contact with young people. They should be screened out systematically.

Note that any obsessive interest in a specific age category may be problematic.

This article responds specifically to the question if Hebephilia is a mental disorder or if it should be considered as normal.

A very good answer!

askthepsych.com/atp/2011/12/15…

"Hebephilia is a recently proposed diagnostic categorization in which people show a sexual preference for individuals in the early years of puberty, generally between the ages of 11 and 14. In contrast, pedophilia is a sexual preference for prepubescent children. You are correct in that hebephilia is not currently a mental disorder. However, the committee working on the newest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (otherwise known as the DSM-V) has proposed that it become one. This set off a storm of controversy from evolutionary and forensic psychologists who disagree that these urges are pathological.

>>> Regardless of whether such urges are normal, the reasons it is not OK to have sex with an 11- to 14-year-old individual have to do with the imbalance of power and the high possibility of abuse. <<<

Kids that age are at a very vulnerable time in their life, when they are trying to deal with becoming sexual beings and figuring out how to transition into adulthood. They are very susceptible to influence, particularly from someone who is older and good at persuasion. Thus, any sexual encounter with a person vastly different in age is likely to be one-sided and almost always for the benefit of the older person. In other words, it would not be fair and the young person frequently gets hurt. This is why so many states have statutory rape laws.

Children are our very best natural resource but they are fragile and deserve our protection. Having sexual urges toward young people may be ‘normal’ but acting on them is not. Every healthy sexual encounter should involve the consent of all parties involved and this means that the person giving consent must be fully able to do so. Young people are still developing their cognitive capabilities so they often make poor decisions. This is why they are not legally allowed to give consent."

When I said these guys were the enemy, you thought I was exaggerating.

Maybe you’ll recognise them now when they’re in uniform.

breakingdefense.com/2025/06/an…

#BigTech #USA #fascism #Palantir #Meta #OpenAI #tech

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in reply to Aral Balkan

I have concerns that the current "freeing LA" nonsense is a bit of shock doctrine to lead the way to the Techno States ( theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int… )

Their (some DOGE guys) earlier involvement in releasing dam water felt weird and off. The current escalation seems related. Especially since there are constant rumblings online about how California should leave (which feels bot driven as well as organically parroted).

Feels like priming people to accept tech oligarchs swooping in.

in reply to Aral Balkan

They may not see it yet, but to me this looks like the techbros are surrendering to the other forces behind Trump.
As already pointed out, they will now be subject to orders from the US forces hierarchy, so ultimately from whoever is running the White House.
The products of those companies where these guys have majority control will be used to further the aims of the US government the same way as happens for similar organisations in China and Russia.

2020 It's Not Over Yet!

rumble.com/v6u8enz-trump-won-2…