EU Eyes Ditching Microsoft Azure for France's OVHcloud
Link: euractiv.com/section/tech/news…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
"Discussions are indeed underway", an OVHcloud spokesperson confirmed after Euractiv sought comment.Théophane Hartmann (EURACTIV)
The Iranian military released on June 19 videos showing two Israeli IAI Heron drones getting shot down by its air...Anonymous1199 (South Front)
I found the solution to this problem with the keyboard not working on some ThinkPad laptops after upgrading to Windows 11. It is solved by turning off "Fast Boot".
Video "how to" by me:
video.retroedge.tech/w/3thNuK6…
#peertube #thinkpad #windows
RT: social.retroedge.tech/objects/…
Snappy Driver Installer (SDI) also does not work. It finds a bunch of drivers and chipsets to update and does, but the problem remains.I also don't think it is a driver issue, as it works fine after a reboot. Something about "cold booting" Windows just is exactly wrong to keep the keyboard from working at all in Windows.
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Wondering if anyone else is experiencing issues with keyboards and ThinkPad laptops.
This only happens in Windows, so probably is a Windows bug or purposeful defect. It does not happen in Linux.
The keyboard will not work at all, but if the laptop is restarted the keyboard will work fine until the next time it is powered on.
Happens with both Windows 10 and Windows 11. Mostly on ThinkPad models with Intel 6th and 7th generation processors: ThinkPad T560, T470s, et cetera.
Anyone know what causes this? Or what a fix would be?
I've seen it on at least 10 different laptops now. I have done some research but not found anything conclusive.
This is still a huge issue for me. Now it is happening on a ThinkPad T580 with Intel 8th generation CPU.
Only way to get the keyboard working again is to restart Windows. It will not work from a cold boot.
Updating drivers and Intel chipset does not fix the issue. It is a software issue, as the problem does not happen in Linux.
If anyone has experience with a fix, please share.
#thinkpad #windows
RT: social.retroedge.tech/objects/…
Wondering if anyone else is experiencing issues with keyboards and ThinkPad laptops.This only happens in Windows, so probably is a Windows bug or purposeful defect. It does not happen in Linux.
The keyboard will not work at all, but if the laptop is restarted the keyboard will work fine until the next time it is powered on.
Happens with both Windows 10 and Windows 11. Mostly on ThinkPad models with Intel 6th and 7th generation processors: ThinkPad T560, T470s, et cetera.
Anyone know what causes this? Or what a fix would be?
I've seen it on at least 10 different laptops now. I have done some research but not found anything conclusive.
Snappy Driver Installer (SDI) also does not work. It finds a bunch of drivers and chipsets to update and does, but the problem remains.
I also don't think it is a driver issue, as it works fine after a reboot. Something about "cold booting" Windows just is exactly wrong to keep the keyboard from working at all in Windows.
Found the solution. It is to turn off the "Fast Boot" feature in Windows.
Video "how to": video.retroedge.tech/w/3thNuK6…
Fix keyboard issue on ThinkPad laptops - Turn off "Fast Boot"
If the keyboard does not work on a ThinkPad laptop from a cold boot running Windows, turning off the "Fast Boot" feature will likely fix it.
From Voice of Korea . There Also Should Be TV Halls http://vok.rep.kp/index.php/detail_com/comde/iee250527001/57/en There are wonderful children’s palaces in all parts of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.Dermot Hudson (KFAUK.com)
@jeffowski@mastodon.world @AlexanderVI@stranger.social Know how you can spot a Christian?
They've never read the Bible. Sure, they may have read a passage or two. Maybe even a whole Chapter & Verse, but they've never actually sat down to read the son-of-a-bitch. Because once a Christian actually sits down to read the Bible... the *entire* Bible... not just bits and pieces and a verse here or a verse there... very few remain a Christian afterwards.
--LoL, challenge accepted.
Mark 5:1–13
Matthew 1:18–25, Luke 1:26–38
John 2:1–11
Mark 16:17–18Christianity is still fucking crazy.
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LoL, challenge accepted.
Mark 5:1–13
Matthew 1:18–25, Luke 1:26–38
John 2:1–11
Mark 16:17–18
Christianity is still fucking crazy.
http://vok.rep.kp/index.php/detail_com/comde/iee250502019/57/en Ryanggang Province in the northern part of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is famous for producing potatoes.Dermot Hudson (KFAUK.com)
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On her head:
What I was thinking. Our lord the stupid orange will claim my head on a silver platter 😏
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Transcript submitted by a readerGilbert Doctorow (Armageddon Newsletter)
Palestine Action say its activists entered RAF Brize Norton, the largest air force base in Britain, and damaged two Airbus Voyager military planes. In a press release the group said two activists broke in using electric scooters, and targeted the planes with crowbars, and red paint sprayed from repurposed fire extinguishers, “symbolising Palestinian bloodshed”.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/06/20/…
Air base linked to UK and US complicity with Israeli genocide in Gaza ~ Stanton Cree ~ Palestine Action say its activists entered RAF Brize Norton, the largest air force base in Britain, and damaged two Airbus Voyager military planes.Sam (Freedom Press)
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As global attention turns to Iran, Israeli attacks on starving Palestinians seeking aid have dramatically increased.Hamza M.Salha (Drop Site News)
La vida és bella no és només un film de ficció.
La vida és bella és un documental sobre Gaza.
Les mateixes històries que apareixen en la pel·lícula em les van contar els pares i les mares en Gaza: com canten i conten i juguen amb els xiquets per a protegir la innocència sota holocaust.
Roberto Benigni, el seu director, crida contra el Genocidi de Gaza.
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#cinema #cinemastodon #Gaza #gazagenocide #Palestine
"The talks, according to reports, focused primarily on the future of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, also known as the JCPOA" that's the one that Trump ripped up during his first term
"The meeting...was initiated at the request of the three European signatories to the JCPOA" The article doesn't say, but I suspect the talks are needed before the sanctions snapback mechanism kicks in. Sanctions that are unjustified, colonialist in nature IMO
presstv.ir/Detail/2025/06/20/7…
Speaking to reporters after the conclusion of talks, Iran’s top diplomat asserted that as long as Israel continues its aggression against Iran, Tehran will not negotiate with any party.PressTV
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College baseball, venture capital, and the long maybe
Link: bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/06/1…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
My son is a college baseball player. One of the singular aspects of having kids is that they open your eyes to facets of humanity that you might not have seen otherwise.The Observation Deck
Today, Israel's Pdt #Herzog described as "A #warcrime" the damages caused .by Iranian missile to a hospital in #Beersheva (with 0 casualty)..
Let's remind this human-rights zealot that under his ruling, in Gaza's genocide, 38 hospitals were purposely totally destroyed, to the ground
As well as 81 major health centers and 168 heath facilities, including labs an clinics ; yeah, you know, these places where Palestinian women (or animals if you stand by Zionist standards) give birth..
Not only do Zionist politicians have no heart but they were born before shame itself.
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Aujourd'hui, le pdt israélien #Herzog a qualifié de « #CrimeDeGuerre » les dommages causés par 1 missile iranien à l'hôpital de #Beersheva (zéro victimes).
Rappelons à ce défenseur acharné des droits de l'homme que sous son règne, en Palestine et juste dans la bande de Gaza , 38 hôpitaux ont été délibérément visés et détruits.
Ainsi que 81 centres de santé majeurs et 168 établissements, dont laboratoires et cliniques .
Mais si, vous savez, ces endroits où les femmes palestiniennes (ou animaux, si vous vous en tenez aux termes de Netanyahu) accouchent de mini terroristes
Non seulement les politiciens sionistes n'ont pas de cœur, mais ils sont aussi nés avant la honte.
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"Iran launched a large barrage of ballistic missiles at Israel on June 20 afternoon, in the 17th such strike since the start of the Israeli attack"
Various clips of the strikes embedded in the article. Also embedded: "Footage released by Iranian media showed the launch of multiple medium-range ballistic missiles from the Ghadr and Emad series, although it is unclear if the footage were related to the latest strike or previous ones"
southfront.press/dozens-of-ira…
Iran launched a large barrage of ballistic missiles at Israel on June 20 afternoon, in the 17th such strike since...Anonymous1199 (South Front)
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Power management
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Internal FBI emails reveal that rogue agents and prosecutors in the Biden DOJ were looking for ways to pile on new criminal charges against Donald Trump over the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.Miranda Devine (New York Post)
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Aus Filmen kennt man das ja, dass der Bösewicht kurz vor Ende des Filmes, bevor er zum entscheidenden Schlag ausholt voller Selbstvertrauen damit prahlt, wie er das alles vollbracht hat, weil er gar nicht davon ausgeht dass jemand ihn noch stoppen kann.
Während Israel immer noch behauptet beim Angriff auf den Iran "präemptiv" gehandelt zu haben prahlt Eyal Zamir damit dass sich die israelische Armee seit vielen Jahren darauf vorbereitet hat, und wegen den günstigen Bedingungen gestartet habe.
»Zamir says the IDF has "prepared for this operation for years," and it was launched "thanks to the convergence of operational and strategic conditions."«
Eyal Zamir ist nicht irgendwer, sondern Generalstabschef der israelischen Armee.
Er gibt also offen zu: Die Behauptung, Israel habe präemptiv gehandelt ist gelogen. Es handelt sich um lange voraus vorbereiteten Angriffskrieg.
Quelle: x.com/AdHaque110/status/193609…
UN nuclear chief warns of disaster if Israel hits Iran’s Bushehr plant
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/20/iaeas-grossi-warns-of-nuclear-disaster-if-israel-hits-irans-bushehr-plant?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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IAEA’s Grossi and Security Council members urge diplomacy as Israel strikes at heart of Iran’s nuclear capability.Al Jazeera
If you lower the criteria of terrorism to the point where it covers spray painting aeroplanes & claim that this is 'terrorising' military personal then I think we can safely say what you're really trying to do is halt almost any protest.
By all means call it criminal damage, but to invoke terrorism & to deploy anti-terrorism police to catch the protestors is just as much a threat to democracy as that represented by the actions of Donald Trump.
This is not good!
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#!/bin/bash
set -e # Exit immediately if a command exits with a non-zero status
set -u # Treat unset variables as an error
echo "Stopping Sharkey and Redis services..."
systemctl stop sharkey
systemctl stop redis
# Optional: Update NodeJS (uncomment if needed)
# --------------------------------------------
# echo "Updating NodeJS..."
# apt remove -y nodejs
# curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_22.x | sudo -E bash -
# apt install -y nodejs
# apt install -y libpango1.0-dev libcairo2-dev libpixman-1-dev
echo "Updating Sharkey codebase..."
sudo -u sharkey bash <<'EOF'
cd ~/Sharkey
git checkout stable
git stash
git pull --recurse-submodules
pnpm clean-all
# corepack enable && corepack prepare pnpm@10.11.0 --activate # Optional if using corepack
pnpm install --frozen-lockfile
pnpm run build
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EOF
echo "Restarting services..."
systemctl start redis
systemctl start sharkey
echo "✅ Sharkey update complete."
git stash when you're not un-stashing afterwards? Is it for preserving manually-applied patches?
Il apparaît chaque nuit à l’heure trouble où le réel vacille. Une ruelle fendue dans un interstice de l’esprit, que seuls les insomniaques désabusés peuvent atteindre. Le Marché Noir des Rêves Usés.Cobra le Cynique
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Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see...Victor Davis Hanson (The Daily Signal)
"Çağımızın... tasviri nesneye, kopyayı aslına, temsili gerçekliğe, dış görünüşü öze tercih ettiğinden kuşku yoktur... Çağımız için kutsal olan tek şey yanılsama, kutsal olmayan tek şey ise hakikattir. Dahası, hakikat azaldıkça ve yanılsama çoğaldıkça çağımızın gözünde kutsal olanın değeri artar, öyle ki bu çağ açısından yanılsamanın had safhası, kutsal olanın da had safhasıdır."
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Visualizing environmental costs of war in Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaä
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#Trump #Moron
@palestine
Only a madman can authorise a nuclear attack, but in the case of Iran you have to be a fucking moron. Enter Trump...
"The White House said Thursday that President Donald Trump has not ruled out dropping a nuclear weapon on Iran as he considers options for joining Israel's escalating and increasingly deadly war"
They know Iran doesn't have nukes. It's an excuse just like the WMDs Iraq was supposed to have.
He'll bypass Congress too
commondreams.org/news/trump-nu…
An expert at the Federation of American Scientists warned that "radioactive fallout would be intense" if the U.S. deployed a penetrator nuke.jake-johnson (Common Dreams)
....ruhlar, benlikler ve yaşamlar söz konusudur. Bu nedenle, kişisel bahislerimizi, seçeneklerimizi ve tehlikede olan şeylere ilişkin değerlerimizi ve olasılıklarımızı belirlemek için her şeyi düşünelim; böylece tüm bunları geometrik olarak bir arada görerek, ilahi şeylere ilişkin zihinlerimizi akıllıca oluşturabilir veya bu konuları entelektüel akla ve varsa lütfa bırakabiliriz.
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Training Young People to Memorize and Not to Reason
In 1990, Marilyn vos Savant answered a math question that made the world erupt.
At the time, she was known for one astonishing fact: her IQ was 228—the highest ever recorded. She had read all 24 volumes of Encyclopedia Britannica by age 10, and later became the face of Parade Magazine’s “Ask Marilyn” column.
Then came the Monty Hall Problem:
You’re on a game show with 3 doors. Behind one is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door. The host opens one of the remaining doors, revealing a goat.
Do you switch?
Marilyn said, yes—you should switch.
The backlash? Brutal.
Over 10,000 letters flooded in. Nearly 1,000 were from PhDs—most telling her she was wrong.
“You are the goat!” one wrote.
“Maybe women just don’t understand probability,” another said.
But Marilyn was right.
Switching gives you a 2/3 chance of winning.
Staying? Only 1/3.
It took MIT simulations, TV shows like MythBusters, and countless professors to finally admit—she saw what they couldn’t.
Why did so many get it wrong?
Because the math felt wrong. The problem was simple—but our intuition isn’t built for probability. And because she was a woman, many ignored the logic and attacked the person.
Marilyn later said the real issue wasn’t math. It was how we teach thinking.
“Schools discourage independent thought,” she said. “We’re trained to memorize—not to reason.”
She still sees her gift as a blessing. But in a world that feared her brilliance, it was also a burden.
The Principles of Secondary Education: Alexander James Inglis (1918).
1. The Adjustive Function - Conditioning predictable reactions to authority.
2. The Conformity Function - developing unity in thoughts and habits.
3. The Diagnostic Function - Classification into the social structure
4. The Differentiation Function - Creation of barriers between the social strata.
5. The Selective Function - Identification of breeding/racial purity value.
6. The Propaedeutic Function - Grooming upper classes to manage lower classes.
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One of the most important voices of progressive education, John Taylor Gatto exposes in several of his books, articles and interviews the undercurrents that steer the direction of the current education system.Bitchute
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Ready to get pissed! I’ve found this exact information across the 30 years of research.
Destroying the pineal gland.
#IRÁN ataca las instalaciones de #Microsoft en Israel por colaborar con el ejército #sionista
– Insurgente. Tu diario de contrainformación
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La Guardia Revolucionaria de Irán se atribuyó la responsabilidad del ataque, afirmando que las oficinas de Microsoft en Beer Sheva fueron atacadas deliberadamente debido a lo que describieron como …Insurgente. Tu diario de contrainformación
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Ready to get pissed! I’ve found this exact information across the 30 years of research.
Ali Shamkhani lives. mossad aint shit.
Il existe un lieu que seuls les esprits fêlés peuvent atteindre.Un lieu qui n’a jamais été cartographié, car il change à chaque souvenir renié, à chaque idée autocensurée. C’est un bâtiment mouvant, fait d’encre figée et de papier oublié.Cobra le Cynique
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The Zionist enemy forces blew up, at dawn today, two houses in the towns of Hala and Mays Al -Jabal in southern Lebanon.www.saba.ye
#PalestineAction #UK to be declared #terrorist org. jpost.com/international/articl…
B/c #DirectAction gets the goods.. and they know it. 👉"Pro-#Palestinians activists damage planes at UK military base"
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If Palestine Action is proscribed, it would make it illegal to be a member of the group, provide material support to the group, or voice public support for the group.The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com
The head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Mohammad Eslami, wrote to the head of the IAEA, Director General Rafael Grossi, advising him that he will be taking legal action.
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I'd only become aware recently that it's become less common for newer cars to have a spare tire. It was a bit of a shock to me.
The norm I'd been accustomed to was that a lot of cars would include a "donut" spare tire; a smaller, lighter, cheaper-to-manufacture thing. It would shave some cost off of the car, probably let the manufacturer increase their MPG rating a bit. However, it was only rated for something like 50 miles (80km) at a limited speed (say, 55mph or 90km/h) before it should be replaced. It was really designed to let a driver reach the closest tire shop and get a regular tire replaced.
What my dad always did, and recommended, and what I'd done, was replacing the thing with a full-size tire. That way, when you have a flat, it's not all that much of a problem. You just swap in the new tire, and next time it happens to be convenient, you get a new full-size tire. In my experience, spare tire wells included the space for a full-size tire; the manufacturer just didn't provide you with one.
However, in 2025, the situation doesn't look like that much anymore.
A number of spare tire wells don't appear to have enough space for a full-size spare tire. This seems, in my quick skim, to be something more common with hybrids or BEVs than ICEs, I assume because the battery is space-constrained and the tire is competition for space (and in the case of BEVs, range).
Some vehicles apparently ship with "run flat" tires. These can be driven for a limited distance, and appear to have about the same capabilities as a "donut" spare tire --- they can go about 50 miles at a reduced speed before they need to be replaced, and I assume are aimed at letting one reach a tire shop.
A number of vehicles don't have a spare tire or storage space for one or a jack at all; for example, the 2025 Corolla Hybrid. The manufacturer provides a pump and a goop kit, and the idea is that if a flat is only a slow leak, one can hopefully nurse the car along well enough with that to reach a tire shop.
As best I can tell, full-size spares are only common today with pickups or off-road oriented vehicles.
I assume that part of this is because cell phone coverage is more widespread now, and the idea is that one should just call for roadside assistance and have them bring and change it. I saw some discussion on Reddit talking about how a lot of younger people don't know how to change a spare tire.
I'm not entirely sanguine about this. While I'll agree that it can save a bit of space, I really prefer knowing that even if I get a flat, the worst that can happen to me, even if I'm outside of cell range, is that I go swap in a new tire. I've only rarely gotten flats, but it's something that I'd certainly rather have.
I guess that one could just put a tire in a trunk or hatchback/crossover/SUV's cargo space as long as one is willing to expend some cargo space, but especially with a hatchback/crossover/SUV, I'm not entirely enthralled about the idea of having something large and unsecured crashing around the cabin in the event of a crash; normally, a spare tire well prevents shifting around and has a system for securing the tire.
Thoughts? Is a spare tire something that you want to have today in your vehicle?
Our 12 volt pump is actually extremely quiet. Ours is a Power Torque PAC06501.
Very good pump, rated for automotive use, and very quiet for what it is, and pretty lightweight.
It's only had one problem, the 12V plug broke after a while and we had to replace that.
But otherwise, very good pump.
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[…] für die Völkerstrafrechtlerin Julia Geneuss ist die Genozid-Debatte aktuell nicht entscheidend: „Es wäre wichtig, sich weniger um eine juristische Bewertung der Lage zu streiten, sondern erstmal dafür zu sorgen, dass das Leid aufhört.“ Sie meint: ob es sich um einen Genozid handelt oder nicht, darüber kann man auch diskutieren, wenn die Bevölkerung im Gazastreifen nicht mehr hungert und nicht mehr in Schulen Schutz sucht, die dann doch bombardiert werden.
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Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative MatrixCaitlin Johnstone (Caitlin’s Newsletter)
I have an upcoming interview for a position developing iOS apps using SwiftUI, but I don't have experience programming for SwiftUI (my prior experience was in ReactNative) and don't own any Apple devices so I can't use Xcode to practice. I have tried setting up Oracle VirtualBox on my PC with Windows10 to run Mac OS v12.01 Monterey (64-bit) several times with different settings, but every time I start it up, it gets stuck on the following lines:
I admittedly don't have much experience with VirtualBox or MacOS, and any time I've tried to search for these specific messages I come up empty. Is there any way of getting this virtual mac running to the point where I can start using Xcode, or am I just out of luck?
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