A great story about Trump's kindness:
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Israeli Ambassador to Russia Simona Halperin makes comments about goals of the military operation in IranOdysee
AMD's Pre-Zen Interconnect: Testing Trinity's Northbridge
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Today, AMD’s Infinity Fabric interconnect is ubiquitous across the company’s lineup.Chester Lam (Chips and Cheese)
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03:21 SystemD is bloated?
05:48 Everything depends on it now?
07:01 It's a Red Hat project?
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All Linux based systems use an Init system, short for initialization: it's the first process that starts after you boot your OS, and it runs in the background while you're using your computer, to manage system services, and various processes. For many, many Linux distros, SystemD is this init system.
SYstem D is a relatively recent project, at the scale of Linux anyway, it started in 2010, and was spearheaded by Red Hat. Its goal was to replace the existing solutions, like SysV or Upstart, to make things faster and more resilient.
It quickly became the default on Fedora, obviously, then on Arch Linux, Debian, Ubuntu, SUSE, and many, many others.
The famous Bloat argument is one advanced most often. System D, as time went on, encompassed more and more features that were generally handled by individual services, not the init system itself, like device management, login, or network management and creating logs.
This can be perceived as going against the Unix philosophy, where a piece of software is supposed to do just one thing, and to communicate well with other small systems.
What's certain is that most distros that implement it are general purpose distros, that need to provide as many systems as possible, and so they tend to use most of systemD's features and modules.
SystemD also "hides away" certain configurations with its own tools, like systemctl, instead of exposing everything as a config file. Whether these things are important or not, though, depend on the person.
Another criticism levelled at System D is the fact that it has become so pervasive that a lot of other components are created with a hard dependency on it: without SystemD, they can't work at all, or will have a limited featureset. This results in some extra work for distros that don't want to use systemD, as they have to use an alternative implementation of these features.
Another regular criticism of SystemD comes from the fact it's mainly a Red Hat project, or at least was started by Red Hat. The fact remains that while systemD was started at Red Hat, it IS an open source project, and it is receiving contributions from a lot of people that aren't at Red hat.
Another criticism of SystemD is that it's making Linux based systems uniform and that it restricts choice. I'd argue this isn't really true, since there ARE other alternatives, like OpenRC, Dinit, SysVInit and more.
One final problem people identify with SystemD is system security. First, there's the fact that having one single system that powers the init and service management of most distros is a security risk: an attacker can target many, many systems by targeting systemD.
Second, some people would say that since SystemD is huge and does a lot of things, it has a very large attack surface.
But why would you WANT to use it, exactly?
SystemD is a unified project, which means you don't have to learn 20 different programs if you need to interact with something: you learn how systemD works, and you can manage everything.
Compared to other init systems, it's also simpler, as it opens various sockets that services can plug into, and services can start in mostly any order. And finally, systemD is written in C, and isn't the usual compilation of bash scripts, so it tends to be faster and more efficient than many other init systems.
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Fun Fact:
Obwohl „Emoticon“ und „Emoji“ ähnlich klingen und sich beide auf grafische Ausdrucksformen von Emotionen beziehen, sind sie etymologisch nicht miteinander verwandt.
„Emoticon“ ist ein Kofferwort aus dem Englischen, zusammengesetzt aus emotion (Gefühl) und icon (Symbol).
„Emoji“ hingegen stammt aus dem Japanischen und bedeutet wörtlich soviel wie „Bildschriftzeichen“.
Er setzt sich aus den Schriftzeichen 絵 für „e“ (Bild), 文 für „mon“ (Ausdruck) und 字 für „ji“ (Buchstabe) zusammen.
Pyongyang, June 17 (KCNA) — Following is the full text of the commentary released by Kim Hyok Nam on Monday titled “Commentary on the ‘strategic flexibility’ of the U.S. forces in the ROK”: The commander of the U.S.Dermot Hudson (KFAUK.com)
Violence against Palestinians is not only accepted but expected.The Electronic Intifada
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Demand that Middle East "be free of nuclear weapons and other WMDs", applicable “to all States in the region without exception".Baqir Sajjad Syed (DAWN.COM)
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In this comprehensive interview with Russian television's DEN TV, Matt Ehret was invited to explain the historic roots of Russian-US friendship from 1776 to the defeat of Hitler, as well as an indepth analysis of cybernetics as the foundation for the…Matthew Ehret (Matt Ehret's Insights)
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AMD's CDNA 4 Architecture Announcement
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CDNA 4 is AMD’s latest compute oriented GPU architecture, and represents a modest update over CDNA 3.Chester Lam (Chips and Cheese)
An order to keep TikTok operational in the U.S. for another 75 days was signed by Trump in April.Forbes
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As I write, the government leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) countries – Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the US – are meeting in the remote town of Kananaskis, Albert…Michael Roberts Blog
Rep. Marjorie Taylor slammed Republican-leaning outlets Fox News and New York Post, calling them "propaganda news"Demian Bio (Latin Times)
US President Donald Trump will leave the G7 summit in Canada earlier than it was scheduled because of the situation in the Middle East, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said.Sputnik International
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What the douchebag fuck is this?
Why do they have to pick the absolute gayest tard in the bunch?
How in the cognitive dissonance do they keep doing this?
Hope you like JD Vance... Because this is how you get JD Vance.
For 8 fucking years. 🤣
Global Tensions EXPLODE! U.S. Air Force Sends Out NUCLEAR Emergency Codes! | Elijah Schaffer’s Stories Of The Day
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guy claiming to be a “British patriot” but is actually not.
In Britain, a comma is used rather than a period in numbers like that. It would be 250,000
netanyhu's 33 years of warning Iran is about to have a nuke.
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At some point recently, Valve updated the Steam Beta Client with a change to the way Proton is enabled making Linux gaming easier.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Russian Armed Forces strike defense industry facilities in Kiev and in Zaporozhye Rossa Primavera News from RussiaAvis Krane (Rossa Primavera International News)
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Bzip2 crate switches from C to 100% Rust
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BRICS is an informal group of states comprising the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Russian Federation, the Republic of India, the People's Republic of China and the Republic of South Africa.BRICS
Now might be the best time to learn software development
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Italian PM Giorgia Meloni’s Hilarious Eye-Roll Reaction at France’s Emmanuel Macron’s Whispers at the G7 Meeting Goes Viral (VIDEOS)
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Conservative champion, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is an outspoken leader who also is very expressive, saying so much else through her hilarious facial expressions.Paul Serran (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
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Israel’s recent missile strikes on Iran have killed over 200 Iranians in one week. Iran has rightfully defended itself, as any sovereign nation would, and has struck back with precision, raining missiles through Israel’s ‘Iron Colander’.
Despite what Rubio and others in the Trump administration say to distance themselves from the attack, they are complicit. The U.S. has never attempted to ‘de-escalate’ things. They have done the opposite. The U.S. Navy is shooting down the missiles Iran launches in self-defense. Israel’s attacks on Iran are deliberately provoking a wider war in the Middle East, and if U.S. military bases in the region are targeted, they only have themselves to blame.
This recent aggression is part of a decades-long campaign of assassinations, sanctions, and military provocations, aimed at weakening and destabilizing Iran and the arc of resistance.
While the U.S. arms Israel’s genocide, Iran arms the resistance. Iran has been a critical ally of Palestinian liberation, training and equipping resistance forces in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen to defend the Palestinian people against Zionist occupation. This is why the U.S. and Israel want Iran destroyed: not because of ‘terrorism’ or a nuclear threat, but because Iran refuses to kneel to imperialism in the region.
Dying empires like the U.S. are dangerous. They’re desperate to maintain control and in lashing out, they are escalating a war that could engulf the entire region. Everyone who prefers peace to war should stand with Iran, and all forces of resistance against imperialism and Zionism.
Stand with Iran!
Stand with the Palestinian Resistance!
End U.S. aid to Israel‒No to war in the Middle East!
#International #Iran #AntiWarMovement #FRSO #Statement #Palestine
HAVANA, Cuba, Jun 16 (ACN) Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban Foreign Minister, reiterated today the condemnation of Israel's offensive in Gaza, which has killed more than 55,362 people since it began in October 2023.www.cubanews.acn.cu
spectra.video/w/7wEFKqfZSPWZyF… Keynote by Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) at FediForum June 2025. - an interesting opinion on big tech and social media
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Keynote by Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr) at FediForum June 2025.More info: fediforum.org/2025-06
that right at the beginning cracked me up 🤣
1:13 In the last couple of years, I've managed to get a lot of normies to be more interested in tech policy by coining this word that lets them swear. And that word is enshittification. And it turns out that just a very minor license to profanity is a great way to get people to engage with what I flatter myself is a pretty nuanced technical political message about how we got here and what we should do about it.
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Over 50 Palestinians were killed while awaiting aid in Khan Yunis, as Palestinian resistance fighters launched deadly ambushes.admin (Palestine Chronicle)
Right at the last minute the UK government have added a power to access to your devices and extract information from any online account, on the say so of a senior police officer, in the #crimeandpolicingbill #cpbill
Really incredibly extreme stuff. No judicial oversight, just hand over your device.
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"The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but…
general reminder that the leaders of "democractic" nations are supporting a icc-charged war criminal in committing more war-crimes aka "dirty work".
allegedly some crazy cats in palestine, driving around with an Iranian booster they found lol
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The people in the West Bank collected an Iranian missile booster lol.Telegram
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"The truth is that, to many people calling themselves Socialists, revolution does not mean a movement of the masses with which they hope to associate themselves; it means a set of reforms which 'we', the clever ones, are going to impose upon 'them', the Lower Orders."
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SANAA, June 17 (YPA) - Ansarullah Political Bureau strongly condemned on Tuesday the Israeli occupation's heinous massacre in Khan Yunis, which resulted in dozens of martyrs and hundreds of wounded.In a statement, the official considered the horrificاحسن (Yemen Press Agency)
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"Marx’s Kapital is not a treatise on socialism; it is a gerrymand against the bourgeoisie. It was supposed to be written for the working class, but the working man respects the bourgeoisie and wants to be a bourgeoisie. Marx never got a hold of him for a moment. It was the revolting sons of the bourgeoisie itself, like myself, that painted the flag red. The middle and upper classes are the revolutionary element in society. The proletariat is the conservative element."
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BREAKING: Ohio woman sentenced to nearly 6 years in prison for defrauding the COVID relief funds program.
Lorie A. Schaefer, illegally obtained more than $1.9 MILLION in COVID relief funds by fraudulently claiming affiliation with local restaurants in order to receive payments. She reportedly spent the money on liposuction, home renovations, vehicles, and property.
She also assisted a co-defendant in fraudulently receiving more than $980,000.
Imagine how much more fraud there is. It all needs to be investigated.
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Use #FreeCAD to now create hanging items for #GOEWS wall grids.
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