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DRC and M23 to continue negotiations in Qatar plenglish.com/news/2025/06/23/…

DRC and M23 to continue negotiations in Qatar - Prensa Latina

Kinshasa, 23 (Prensa Latina) While the United States awaits the arrival of delegations from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda for the signing of an agreement, another important point in the conflict will be negotiated in Qatar.
Juan Carlos Dominguez Taño (Prensa Latina)

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Those who turned on Trump are the idiots, and the dangerous ones. They go off half cocked with little to no accurate information.
And now this:
::CEASE FIRE::

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Trump announces Israel and Iran have agreed to a ceasefire

President Trump posted on social media that Iran and Israel have reached a "Complete and Total CEASEFIRE." There has been no official word yet from Israel or Iran.
Joe Walsh (CBS News)

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Mubarak told Thatcher King Hussain did not have the courage to curb Islamists’ influence after remarkable election gains, British documents reveal middleeastmonitor.com/20250623…

Mubarak told Thatcher King Hussain did not have the courage to curb Islamists’ influence after remarkable election gains, British documents reveal


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Middle East Monitor

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Federated Services

Federated Services are services which many instances form a network to provide a greater whole than the sum of their parts, each participant in the Fediverse is an “instance”. A message or other item made available on one instance is visible and available on other instances.

We make these services available to all people who do not abuse it in order to promote the values of Free Speech, and those of the United States Constitution First Amendment. A free republic is not possible without free speech and commercial mainstream media do not provide it. We also get some advertisement benefit from hosting these, it is our hope that people who see how fast and responsible our services are will decide to do hosting or use other paid services here.

There are numerous federated services available, we offer Macrobloging platform Friendica, Hubzilla; Microbloging services Mastodon, Misskey, a federated search engine, Yacy, and a federated cloud service, Nextcloud.

Macrobloging services are message systems that allow long form posts similar in format to Facebook. These allow for works of fiction, poetry, technical papers, news items, short stories, and more. These formats are most useful for discussion of social issues.

Microbloging services allow only short form posts similar in format to Twitter. While you can link to larger articles elsewhere, you have a relatively short character limit and so can not post them directly.

Censorship, is handled much different on the fediverse than on mainstream media like Twitter or Facebook. On the fediverse, each individual instance is responsible for content available on that instance, but does not censor the rest of the network. Thus if you find the rules of one instance too constraining you can move to another.

Federated search engines are analogous to federated message systems in that each instance chooses what portion of the internet it wants to crawl. When you enter a search term, the local instance queries all of the federated instances, collates and sorts the results and presents them to you. As with messages, each instance can have it’s own censorship policies but no one instance can censor the entire network.

Given the wild-west nature of the fediverse, it is probably not suitable for children under 14, and you’re guaranteed to find some material that will offend virtually everyone. With federated search engines, material that is inappropriate will usually be flagged sensitive or nsfw (not safe for work) so as long as you don’t expand material marked as such, you can avoid this sort of material. There are occasionally people who violate these rules, we do our best to remove such individuals none the less some will get through.

We offer the following federated services:

Friendica.Eskimo.Com
Friendica is a decentralized long format macrobloging message network. It is similar in format to facebook however there is no centralized censorship. Also, it is able to federate with all other federated message systems which use ActivityPub protocol and also we have extensions that allow it to speak to several other networks via other protocols.

Hubzilla.Eskimo.Com
Hubzilla is similar in message format to Friendica in that it allows long posts. However, it specializes in it’s ability to provide connectivity to multiple protocols and so we include it in our mix of federated services primarily for the better connectivity it offers. Hubzilla provides a great deal of interoperability between many networks though ActivityPub is still it’s primary protocol. Hubzilla gives you a greater degree of control over privacy than some of the other networks. You can create private channels that are served between hubzilla instances and other compatible instances.

Mastodon.Eskimo.Com
Mastodon is first and foremost an alternative to Twitter. While Twitter has Tweets, Mastodon has Toots. The format is very similar. Mastodon toots have a limit of 500 characters. Similar to the short limit of Twitter. This is why this platform is referred to as a Microbloging format. Mastodon interacts with other ActivityPub instances however when a long form blog post from another instance arrives, you are only shown a short portion with a link to follow to see the full post on the originating site.

NextCloud.Eskimo.Com
Nextcloud If you are a customer of Eskimo North, your login credentials will work without a domain extension to access Nextcloud. If you are not a customer you can apply for a Nextcloud account using your choice of login and password, in this case the login should include your originating network. Some features require an Eskimo North shell account to take full advantage of.

Pixelfed.Eskimo.Com
Pixelfed is a federated pixel gallery. A place where you can share your photos to the widest audience possible, and you can view what others have shared. Instance is new as of April 6th, 2025.


Yacy.Eskimo.Com
Yacy is a federated search engine. There are several thousand instances on the Internet. Each instances crawls whatever portion of the web the administrator requested. It is also possible for the administrator of a site with relatively few resources to request a larger site to do crawls on their behalf. Unfortunately, it does not provide a method for an end user to initiate a crawl, but if you send e-mail to support@eskimo.com and request a crawl, we will initiate a crawl on your behalf.

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Shell Accounts

Shell Accounts
A shell is a command line interface for an operating system. With most shell providers, a command line interface on one flavor of Linux or Unix is all you get. Eskimo North provides access to eight different popular Linux distributions and SunOS Unix. Eskimo North also full remote desktop capabilities using X2Go with sound, and also NX, VNC, and RPD without sound.

Account Types
We offer four different levels of shell accounts: Economy, Standard, Power, and Enterprise. Background tasks such as IRC bots, Game Servers, and the like are permitted on all account types except student. IRC servers are not permitted because of their tendency to draw denial of service attacks. Standard, Power, Enterprise, and Super-Max shells include a MySQL database allowing you to run a variety of LAMP stack based applications on your website and to use non-web based applications that require a database.

Web Hosting
Web hosting under our domain is provided with all shell accounts. You can host your own domains with virtual domains or web hosting packages.

Remote Desktop
Remote desktop capability is like having a monitor, keyboard, mouse, and speakers plugged right into our servers. Because our servers can be accessed anywhere in the world, this allows you to have a work environment you can access from anywhere in the world without risking losing your files to a laptop, tablet, or phone thief. We offer remote desktop capabilities on all of our shell servers except for the SunOS server. We support x2go, nx, vnc, and rdp protocols. X2go is the best choice as it provides extremely efficient compression and X round trip removal as well as sound.

Applications
Applications include Office Suites such as Libre Office and Caligra (which can read and write Microsoft Office file formats), Web and Program Development tools such as Bluefish Editor as well as many other editors, compilers, interpreters, scripting languages, debuggers, profilers, and online documentation.

E-mail
Our e-mail system offers unprecedented flexibility. You can access your mail via shell mail readers including graphical mailers like Thunderbird, or via Web mail, or via pop-3 and imap mail protocols, complete with TLS encryption. Our mail system includes Bayesian filtering with Spam Assassin which can be individually configured for your needs. Procmail allows you to sort and process mail automatically. Smartlist allows you to maintain mailing lists.

Security[color]
Access to all of our servers is available via strong encryption. The shell servers all support ssh access. All of the remote desktop protocols tunnel via ssh. We maintain all of our servers up to date keep with the latest patches. Backups are made weekly.

[color=darkblue]Eskimo North has been providing Unix timeshare services since 1985. We have been providing Linux timeshare, shell access, web hosting, e-mail, and Internet services since 1992. Please take a look at our services as they support our free Federated services including Friendica, Hubzilla, Mastodon, Nextcloud, Pixelfed, and Yacy Search.

Available Shell Servers

We have a variety of Linux Servers with a variety of Linux Distributions and Desktop Environments. Linux servers in use here are of three basic lines, those derived from RedHat, such as Fedora, Centos, and Scientific Linux, and those derived from Debian such as Debian, Ubuntu, and Mint. Ubuntu is the most current and feature rich. Then there is Manjaro, derived from Arch Linux. Arch is more often broken because it is a real “do it yourself” Linux, an excellent learning platform, a good development platform, not a good production platform.

All of these servers are available if you have a shell account here. You can use them to learn various versions, decide which to install, and as one place you can develop applications for all versions. We install a wide variety of development tools on all of our publicly available servers.

Our servers listen to port 443 in addition to the standard ssh port of 22 to provide a means to connect from behind a firewall that blocks non-web access. You can also utilize Guacamole on our website (login public, password public).

Alma.Eskimo.Com
This server is running Alma 8. Alma Linux replaces Scientific Linux after it’s discontinuation. Presently we are running Alma 8 because Alma 9 does not support NIS out of the box although there are ways of hacking it in. It is unfortunate that Redhat chose to piss on the infrastructure so many organizations depend upon. This is why we tend to favor Debian derived flavors. None the less as Redhat derived software goes Alma is pretty solid.
Anduinos.Eskimo.Com
Anduinos is a Debian derived distribution that defaults to a Gnome Desktop themed to look like Windows 10. At present though this Desktop is not working over network connections, instead Mate and Gnome are presently available. I am working on some others.
Debian.Eskimo.Com
Debian Bullseye has a rich assortment of software installed, including hundreds of Games, a huge variety of Office Productivity software, many Educational and Scientific applications, a variety of Integrated Development Environments, and many programming languages. All of the documentation available online these applications is also loaded.
Fedora.Eskimo.Com
Fedora Rawhide can be accessed graphically using x2go and the Mate desktop. It has the most applications of any of the Redhat derived servers. I install just about everything I can get to work on this machine so it has a huge variety of applications installed.
Kali.Eskimo.Com
Kali is a special purpose shell server designed for penetration testing. It is primarily here to test our own internal security, and as a result, egress is extremely limited, however upon request, proof of IP space ownership, and permission of the owner and agreement to hold us harmless because it is possible some of these tests may be destructive, we will allow outbound for testing of other sites.
Manjaro.Eskimo.Com
Manjaro is a good choice for a Linux user who wants to just install and go. There is a pleasant user interface and a good choice of software in the Manjaro repositories. It is a less technical Linux than Ubuntu, you can do most things through graphical interfaces and the default xfce interface is extremely light in terms of memory footprint. Like most modern distros, a variety of Windows systems are available and we have Gnome, Mate, KDE, Xfce, LXDE, and LXQT installed.
Mint.Eskimo.Com
Mint is another recent addition to our shell servers. It is running Mint, although we have the Mate Desktop installed for graphical access. This is necessary because Unity and other compositing Desktops are incompatible with x2go and really work very roughly with VNC. If you like games, this is a good server to use and there are many installed. Mint is a derivative of Ubuntu which in turn is derived from Debian and this server thus follows the structure and layout of Debian and Ubuntu.
MxLinux.Eskimo.Com
MxLinux is an excellent choice for a computer with limited resources. Before the overhead of a Desktop is considered, MxLinux uses 200MB less RAM out of the box than does Ubuntu. If you’re not a fan of Poettering and Systemd, you’ll like this OS as it still uses a System-V init with Systemd shims to allow packages requiring systemd to function. You can also run systemd and in fact I am doing so because it boots faster. The default Desktop is LXDE which is also small and efficient. But if you like eye candy you can install any Desktop you like and as with other servers I will install all that I can get to work on this OS.
PopOS.Eskimo.Com
popOS is a modern appearing OS based upon Ubuntu, and not just indirectly, it actually utilizes Ubuntu’s repositories in addition to it’s own. The Desktops presently available on it are Gnome and Mate, though Gnome is a special edition known as Sparkle, and it does not operate properly with X2go. Presently X2go and ssh are the only two access methods. I am working on the others.
Rocky8.Eskimo.Com
Rocky8 is a RedHat derived operating system very similar to Centos before Centos was absorbed, and ruined, by Redhat. While Centos support, with the exception of Centos9 is going away on June 30th, 2024, and CentOS9 is not usable because of the deletion of NIS by RedRat which is necessary to our organization, Rocky8 will be supported for security updates through May of 2029, thus provides us a means of continuing to offer a Redhat based environment for another five years.

Ubuntu.Eskimo.Com
Ubuntu can be accessed graphically using x2go and the Mate Desktop. The native Unity desktop is a compositing desktop which is incompatible with x2go. This machine is equipped with many applications including a huge number of games, a rich assortment of development tools and computer programming languages, a huge assortment of Office productivity software, many scientific, electronic, and educational tools.
Zorin.Eskimo.Com
Zorin is a Ubuntu derived operating system. It combines the eye candy of some other Ubuntu flavors such as Mint, with the security awareness and up to date nature of Ubuntu providing a really superb server environment. This machine is our best equipped server. It has the full Ubuntu Studio Suite, a very large assortment of development tools, language packs for all supported languages, many games, both Libre and Caligra Office Suites, and much more. X2go is supported on this machine.

Crontab access, batch, and background jobs are allowed on all of our servers. Most have unrestricted outbound access with the exception of kali owing to high abuse potential for tools that exist on it.

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One afternoon Yasodhara came home, her face filled with grief. She did not speak to anyone. A young child she had tended for more than a week had just died.

Despite all her efforts, she could not rescue the child from death's grasp. Overcome with sadness, she sat in meditation while tears streamed down her cheeks. It was impossible to hold back her feelings. When Siddhartha returned from a meeting at court, she again burst into tears. Siddhartha held her in his arms and tried to console her.

"Gopa, tomorrow I will go with you to the funeral. Cry now, it will lessen the pain in your heart. Birth, old age, sickness, and death are heavy burdens each of us carries in this life. What has happened to the child could happen to any of us at any moment."

Yasodhara spoke between sobs, "Each day, I see how true all the things you have said are. My two hands are so small compared to the immensity of suffering. My heart is constantly filled with anxiety and sorrow. O husband, please show me how I can overcome the suffering in my heart."

Siddhartha embraced Yasodhara tightly in his arms. "My wife, I myself am seeking a path to overcome the suffering and anxiety in my own heart. I have seen into the situation of society and human beings but, despite all my efforts, I have not yet seen the way to liberation. Yet I feel sure that one day I will find a way for all of us. Gopa, please have faith in me."


--- From Old Path, White Clouds, by Thich Nhat Hanh

#Yasodhara #Siddhartha #Buddhism #ThichNhatHanh

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Hello Again!

I'm the dev that created the "Bookface" schemes for the Friendica "Frio" theme. I know I've been taking a long time to answer some people's questions and feedback. That's because for weeks I've only occasionally been able to log into my main account on friendica.world. Today it seems that server has become completely inaccessible. 😭

As that server is down I couldn't just migrate my account, so I've set up a new account here at dillyofapickle.com. If you were friended to me over there you'll need to send me a request here. But I also moved here because @Kevin has embraced my projects for his server and is running newer versions than most other servers I could find. And I kind of need to see it in action for real, not just on my dev server.

I guess for the foreseeable future updates to my Friendica projects will be posted from this account.

#Bookface #Friendica

@Friendica Support @Friendica Developers @Friendica Admins

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Marcus

Is the "global page" /community, ie. the circle icon?

I actually just made an issue suggesting making it possible to post from that, as well as the other pages under one's profile where it's currently not possible, except perhaps the "Personal notes" page as that already has a button there used for something else (= adding a personal note).

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Self Hosted File Drop / File Upload

I'm looking for some kind of File Drop / File Upload service.

I'd like to be able to create a folder, and create a share / upload link for that folder that I can give to a customer to use to upload their documents.

I've been using nextcloud but I don't use nextcloud for any other purpose and it's a behemoth so I'd like to transition to something else.

Some of these requirements are essential (!):

  • no login for customers uploading (!)
  • optional password protection for uploads
  • can't see / download files already present in the shared folder

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From Gaza to Tehran, Zionist regime’s war on children knows no borders


***presstv.ir/Detail/2025/06/23/7…

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A United Nations fact-finding mission confirmed that recent Israeli airstrikes in Tehran struck critical civilian infrastructure, including a children’s autism clinic. It noted that the attacks on medical facilities placed vulnerable patients and pediatric services directly in danger.

[T]he Zionist regime has launched a war on Iran’s civilian life. Homes, clinics, and playgrounds have been targeted.


#Iran #ZionistEntity #brutality


From Gaza to Tehran, Zionist regime’s war on children knows no borders

Israeli military aggression against Iran has claimed a number of innocent lives since June 13, including those of children, killed in homes and playgrounds.
PressTV

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Microsoft surprises MS-DOS fans with remake of ancient text editor that works on Linux


Screenshot of Microsoft Edit, version 1.0.0, showing the "About" window and a README file in a code editor interface.
“Last month, Microsoft released a modern remake of its classic MS-DOS Editor, bringing back a piece of computing history that first appeared in MS-DOS 5.0 back in 1991. The new open source tool, built with Rust and simply called “Edit,” works on Windows, macOS, and—in a twist that would have seemed unlikely three decades ago—Linux.”

Yes, not only is it open source, but it also has a Linux binary file in its release. It feels a bit like the whole world just turned upside down.

The interesting part though is that text editing has not really changed that much. The features may have, but it is still plain old ASCII text, so this editor can still work fine over 30 years later.

The linked article has, near the end of the article, a link to the GitHub project site, as well as for a Linux Snap package.

See arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…
#Blog, #opensource, #retro, #technology

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Ardainian Right

@lord_nougat
They already ignored that deadline lol. They seem to have stopped the missile barrages just in time for Trump's deadline. I expect Israel to retaliate for their most recent strikes next, before both sides claim the other is the one who technically violated the ceasefire whose terms no one seems to agree on.

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1/?

In addition to all of the corruption and waste that must be dealt with to turn the ship of state around from a permanent war footing, the economy itself must be turned.

War was and is hugely profitable. Ordinary business contracts are in the hundreds of billions even before you get to the layers of corruption.

This is where Trump will really shine.

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Judge Denies Creating 'Mass Surveillance Program' Harming All ChatGPT Users - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: After a court ordered OpenA... - yro.slashdot.org/story/25/06/2… #privacy

Judge Denies Creating 'Mass Surveillance Program' Harming All ChatGPT Users - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: After a court ordered OpenAI to "indefinitely" retain all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats, of millions of users, two panicked users tried and failed to intervene.
yro.slashdot.org

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> Judge Ona Wang, who drafted the order, rejected the first user's request (PDF) on behalf of his company simply because the company should have hired a lawyer to draft the filing

Justice means denying justice because you should have forked over the cash to a lawyer

😒

IT News

2025-06-23 22:55:06

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Judge Denies Creating 'Mass Surveillance Program' Harming All ChatGPT Users - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: After a court ordered OpenA... - yro.slashdot.org/story/25/06/2… #privacy


Judge Denies Creating 'Mass Surveillance Program' Harming All ChatGPT Users - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: After a court ordered OpenAI to "indefinitely" retain all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats, of millions of users, two panicked users tried and failed to intervene.
yro.slashdot.org

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Lots of people are saying the bombing doesn't matter because Iran moved the Uranium. Maybe we know where it went and someone will bomb that too, maybe we will find out later.

Either way, they won't make more. And if it wasn't weapons grade at the time of the move, it won't be going forward.

Yeah, I'm trying to polish a turd. But hoping it turns out to be one of those fancy civet cat coffee turds that are worth a lot of money.

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Nanook

@Max Powers @TJ of the Side-Eye @Richard We all know the bunker-busters were only designed to go 60 feet into the ground and the Fordo nuclear site was 1600 feet under ground, and we attacked only one of five entrances and a ventilation shaft. Sure the shock waves will do some damage but I'm sure they designed the site with that in mind and have baffled entrances and such to dissipate the shock wave. Even the deepest nuclear crater was only 320 feet deep so even a nuke would not have destroyed it.

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“The Govt thus openly flouted two court orders... the Govt had a duty to obey them until they were “ ‘reversed by orderly and proper proceedings.’ ” That principle is a bedrock of the rule of #law. The Govt’s misconduct threatens it to its core.

...This is not the first time the Court closes its eyes to noncompliance, nor, I fear, will it be the last... it further erodes respect for courts and for the #RuleOfLaw”

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#Trump #SCOTUS #Corruption #Politics #USPol #News #USA

Text from Sotomayor's dissent: 11Cite as: 606 U. S. ____ (2025) SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting ...members lacked any opportunity to research South Sudan, to determine whether they would face risks of torture or death there, or to speak to anyone about their concerns. In- stead, they were left in their cells overnight with no chance to raise a claim and deported the next morning. The Government thus openly flouted two court orders, in- cluding the one from which it now seeks relief. Even if the orders in question had been mistaken, the Government had a duty to obey them until they were “ ‘reversed by orderly and proper proceedings.’ ” Maness, 419 U. S., at 459 (quot- ing United States v. Mine Workers, 330 U. S. 258, 293 (1947)). That principle is a bedrock of the rule of law. The Government’s misconduct threatens it to its core. So too does this Court’s decision to grant the Government equitable relief. This is not the first time the Court closes its eyes to noncompliance, nor, I fear, will it be the last. See Trump v. J. G. G., 604 U. S. ___ (2025) (per curiam). Yet each time this Court rewards noncompliance with discre- tionary relief, it further erodes respect for courts and for the rule of law.
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

“The Due Process Clause represents “the principle that ours is a government of laws, not of men, and that we submit ourselves to rulers only if under rules.” Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 343 U. S. 579, 646 (1952) (Jackson, J., concurring). By rewarding lawlessness, the Court once again undermines that foundational principle.”
-Sotomayor, J., dissenting

supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pd…

#Trump #GOP #SCOTUS #Corruption #USPol #Politics #Law #RuleOfLaw #DueProcess #Constitution #US #USA

Text from Sotomayor dissent: The Due Process Clause represents “the principle that ours is a government of laws, not of men, and that we sub- mit ourselves to rulers only if under rules.” Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 343 U. S. 579, 646 (1952) (Jack- son, J., concurring). By rewarding lawlessness, the Court once again undermines that foundational principle. Appar- ently, the Court finds the idea that thousands will suffer...

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How can I make LUKS show me the number of characters I'm entering when unlocking my drive?

It's kind of buggy where I'll enter characters but they won't register. I can verify this because when booting, sometimes my num and caps lock keys will have a delay after pressing before their light changes.

This is very annoying when trying to unlock the computer, because I essentially have to wait an arbitrary amount of time before I think inputs will register properly. This wouldn't be as much of an issue if I could, you know, get some feedback that they keys I'm entering are actually being entered.

Is there a way to change this to suit my needs better?

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AMAZING! CEASEFIRE! 🙏

truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTru…


Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)

CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE! It has been fully agreed by and between Israel and Iran that there will be a Complete and Total CEASEFIRE (in approximately 6 hours from now, when Israel and Iran have wound down and completed their in progress, final mis…
Truth Social

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US Would Not Intervene If Israel Had Not Been on Brink of Defeat - Iranian Ex-Ambassador sputnikglobe.com/20250623/us-w…

US Would Not Intervene If Israel Had Not Been on Brink of Defeat - Iranian Ex-Ambassador

The United States would not have intervened in the Middle East conflict if Israel had not been on the brink of defeat, former Iranian Ambassador to Germany Seyed Hossein Mousavian told RIA Novosti.
Sputnik International

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It is all fakery...elections are staged, the system designed to keep the slave class divided and dependent...the "teo party system" is perfect for that, keeping the masses divided into color coded "teams", called "parties"...blue vs red, crip vs blood, democrip vs rebloodican... This keeps the slave class engaged in the system, obedient, paying their taxes...while facilitating the illusion of :choice" and "freedom"...-Gary Williams

WHAT DO YOU GET?
Woods' Law Number 3: No matter whom you vote for, you always wind up getting John McCain.

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins."
-H. L. MENCKEN

#massawakening #pureblood

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The key nuclear allegation that started the war was coaxed from a Palantir counter-intelligence algorithm thealtworld.substack.com/p/the…

The key nuclear allegation that started the war was coaxed from a Palantir counter-intelligence algorithm

Alastair Crooke- Trump sided with the Israelis, asserting that Iran was ‘very close’ to having a bomb, and added that he didn’t care what Gabbard thinks.
thealtworld (TheAltWorld’s Newsletter)

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US strikes on #Iran did not violate international #law, #NATO’s #Rutte says


source: nato.int/cps/en/natohq/opinion…

My biggest fear would be for Iran to own and be able to use and deploy a #nuclear #weapon, and to be a stranglehold on #Israel, on the whole region and other parts of the world. And that is why NATO has said Iran should not – and this is a consistent position of NATO – Iran should not have its hands on a nuclear weapon. So, and I would not agree that this is against international law what the US did.


I wish people would back up their statements with arguments. In my opinion, the US attack clearly violates international law. Here are my arguments:

1) An attack is only possible for self-defense and even Israel says it could take months to build the bomb. So there can be no question of self-defense.
2) There were negotiations and even if they were difficult, that is no reason for an attack.
3) North Korea also has nuclear weapons and has not used them to date. The ownership of nuclear weapons alone does not make a country a source of evil danger.
4) Israel also bombs scientists who are not #military targets.

#justice #news #conflict #war #argument #politics #usa

Pre-summit press conference by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte ahead of the NATO Summit in The Hague

(As delivered)
NATO
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Trocatintas

Israel "secretly" has nuclear weapons and is in violation of several of those "international laws".
Israel is without a doubt the most destabilizing entity in the Middle East threatning, invading, occupying it's neighbours.
Israel is an apartheid ethnosupremacist state conducting a genocide since it's unlawful inception was brutally forced upon the peoples living in Palestine.
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Jamie

If the threat is not required to be real then any country on earth can be considered a threat as they are going to eventually get a bomb. Israel on the other hand already has a bomb so they actually are a current threat given that they have also stated their wish to destroy Iran, Palestine and anyone who says anything remotely bad about them or their terrorist activities.

There were not negotiations as the talks were at the point of a gun. That is the exact opposite of negotiation as proven by the bombs that were dropped to force an outcome. Negotiation can only be by open discussion and agreement. Would an armed robber be able to say in defence that he negotiated your wallet when he pointed his gun at your face or shot you son?

North Korea may have weapons but that is not in any way relevant as Iran not only does not have nuclear weapons and totally lacks any weapons programme to obtain them.

The opinion of NATO, a beligerant, is not relevant in finding peace. Iran is a member of BRICS which has no military and whose opinion would be far more relevant. The countries of NATO are becoming less and less relevant. I am not a supporter of Brazil, Russia, India, China or South Africa but they are becoming more and more relevant as the west supports more and more mass murder.

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Massive Iranian Missile Barrage Hits Israel, Israeli Jets Hit 200 Sites in Tehran #Palestine palestinechronicle.com/massive…

Massive Iranian Missile Barrage Hits Israel, Israeli Jets Hit 200 Sites in Tehran - Palestine Chronicle

The Israeli Home Front Command reported that four successive waves of Iranian missile attacks were launched within a span of 20 minutes.
admin (Palestine Chronicle)

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This is our take on Crypto. It has not changed. There is a reason why we have not included Crypto in Vivaldi.

We are very proud of the features we have added, but we also proud of the "features" we have not added.

#Vivaldi #Browser #Crypto #Scam #Politics #Technology #Windows #Macos #Linux #Android #ios

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Jon von Tetzchner

2022-01-13 11:04:48

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Some years ago, when cryptocurrencies weren’t talked about as much, we were considering announcing a parody cryptocurrency for April’s Fools. It would be called ThinkCoin, and the joke was that all the value associated with it was in the mind of the user, with no software to back it in the real world.

This was ridiculous, of course, playing on the idea that actual cryptocurrencies have no actual value either. This should tell you that we never thought seriously about entering that space. These days, however, with the incredible hype and attention that cryptocurrencies, and more recently NFTs, are currently getting, we couldn’t even go for such a joke, for fear that it would be taken seriously.

Since the discussion around cryptocurrencies has reached such an extreme, I think it is high time to clarify Vivaldi’s position.

Cryptocurrency – is it a revolution?

Cryptocurrency has been touted by many as a revolution in currency, the future of investment, and a breakthrough technology. But if you look beyond the hype, you’ll find nothing more than a pyramid scheme posing as currency.

It’s basically a digital commodity, though one without government backing or banking system support. Claiming to be the new digital currency of the internet, cryptocurrencies promise decentralization and freedom from governments.

Each cryptocurrency typically follows a certain recipe to ensure that the founders create a lot of wealth, a way to distribute the currency to give it legitimacy, and some story on how it is different from all the others.

But since cryptocurrencies are too volatile to be used as an actual currency, people treat it as a sort of investment scheme. The problem is that to extract actual money from the system you have to find someone willing to buy the tokens you are holding. And this is only likely to happen as long as they believe they will be able to sell them on to someone who’ll pay even more for them. And so on, and so on.

If at any point one stops being able to find people willing to buy those tokens on just the promise of them being worth more in the future, the whole scheme might well come crashing down, with the value of all tokens going to zero.

An environmental disaster

The energy consumption of cryptocurrency is another major concern. The energy usage of bitcoin alone is staggering, consuming as much electricity as some countries. And this is likely to keep increasing as the technology behind it does not and cannot scale in any reasonable way.

For obvious reasons, that sort of energy consumption isn’t good for the environment as the energy could clearly be spent better somewhere else. This is also true if it’s renewable energy since it could instead be used to displace fossil fuels in other applications.

While so many of us are trying our best to reduce our carbon footprints, it feels counterproductive to indulge in technology that undoes that hard work.

The entire crypto fantasy is designed to lure you into a system that is extremely inefficient, consumes vast amounts of energy, uses large amounts of hardware that could better be spent doing something else and will quite often result in the average person losing any money they might put into it.

Jon von Tetzchner


Where we stand

At the time of writing (January 2022), there are over 8,000 cryptocurrencies in existence. Compare this to the 180 actual currencies worldwide that can be used as legal tender.

The most baffling part of this cryptocurrency craze is that it’s still unclear if there is any viable use case or a meaningful way to value it. Without this, it is reduced to merely an overcomplicated slot machine for those with money to burn.

Yet, despite all the negatives, there will still be those who opt to participate. And for those who end up owning some crypto tokens that they’ll need to manage, the browser might seem a logical place to keep track of it all. Indeed, some of our competitors have done just that and now provide crypto-wallets in the browser.

Since Vivaldi is all about offering choices and customizability, you might expect us to include this functionality, as well. But in good conscience, we cannot.

The entire crypto fantasy is designed to lure you into a system that is extremely inefficient, consumes vast amounts of energy, uses large amounts of hardware that could better be spent doing something else and will quite often result in the average person losing any money they might put into it.

When you strip away the hype, these virtual currencies have very real repercussions for people, society, and the environment. By creating our own cryptocurrency or supporting cryptocurrency-related features in the browser, we would be helping our users to participate in what is at best a gamble and at worst a scam. It would be unethical, plain and simple.

We refuse to dress these scams up as opportunities. Instead, we encourage you to treat them with the skepticism they deserve. This may be a game for some curious crypto-investors and wealthy speculators, but for those unlucky enough to get caught out by the pyramid scheme, it could be devastating.

It’s just not worth it.

What are your thoughts on Vivaldi’s stance or cryptocurrencies in general? Let us know in the comments below.

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Bitcoin’s stupendous power waste is green, apparently — bad excuses for Proof-of-Work

Did you know that Bitcoin using 0.1% of all the electricity on earth, and 0.5% by the end of the year, is actually good? Huge if true.
Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain

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Having to search to do everything..

Not that I don't still love using linux daily, but it is getting a little old having to search for how to do anything even just install a simple program (recently, had a. Deb file to install unifi software that wouldn't install and had to find a custom script to do it).

I feel like there's no way I'd ever learn all the random commands I've been copying and pasting (and keeping in a text file for later) and can't help but feel it's kind of clunky. And I don't feel like I really know anything of what Im doing. Even man pages baffle me. I've been into computing for 20 years but only used linux a little like 8 years ago, but now it's been my main os on my desktops for probably 2 months. I know, maybe that's just not long enough. I just don't like the fact that if I couldn't search, I'd be completely stuck on a lot of tasks.

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Novocirab

A good start is to install tldr. You use it like man, but it gives you shorter explanations – or rather, a short list of illustrative examples.

As for man pages themselves (which I often find overwhelming, too), if you're not doing that already, you can pipe it into grep to extract just those lines that contain your search string:

man ps | grep user

# or for two lines of context above and below each match:
man ps | grep user -C 2

Going further, check out Fish instead of Bash. I haven't use Fish yet, but it's said to be much better for learning Linux commands as a beginner. Later on, you may switch to Zsh. In any case, hitting Tab once or twice will often give you a list of possible completions to the command you are typing.

PS: I see no good reason why anyone should downvote this question.

Edit: As it so happens, just today I've stumbled into the O'Reilly book "Classic Shell Scripting" by Robbins and Beebe (ISBN 9780596005955). What can I say – its age notwithstanding, it's apparently an extremely good book for understanding things and learning how to solve real problems. (It presupposes some familiarity with Unix-like systems and with the shell, so if one's just starting out, the book "Learning the Unix Operating System" may be better.)

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Arthur_500

This is moronic. First of all there is no necessity for this placard.

Secondly, what this does is advise ICE agents that you probably have somethingh to hide and encourages them to come in with a warrant.

Thirdly, the [lacard shows the person(s) developing it do not understand the US Constitutionand how it works in our Republic.

Finally, this adivses everyone that the business supports illegal aliens.

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Zakharova responds to Vance’s comments on Russia and China’s position on Iran eu.eot.su/2025/06/23/zakharova…

Zakharova responds to Vance’s comments on Russia and China’s position on Iran

Zakharova responds to Vance’s comments on Russia and China’s position on Iran Rossa Primavera News from Russia
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Leonard Leo's Six Fascist Shits NEED TO BE REMOVED AND PUT IN PRISON FOR THEIR CRIMES AND TREASON.

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US supreme court allows Trump administration to deport migrants to countries other than their own – live

Supreme court decision is significant win for the Trump administration; three liberal justices – Sotomayor, Kegan and Brown Jackson – dissented
Tom Ambrose (The Guardian)

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Interesting perspective though I wouldn't trust him in general.
"He already sent troops into Los Angeles under the guise of “restoring order.” But I’m hearing it’s just the beginning.

"More deployments are coming. More cities. More ICE raids.

"And this time, they’re not just targeting Central Americans. They’re targeting Muslims—under the pretext of Iranian “sleeper cells.”"

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While the Media Chases Trump’s Distractions, Here’s the Story They’re Not Telling You

Folks, I haven’t slept in two days.
Lev Parnas (Lev Remembers)

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Rescuers Attempt to Save Tourist Trapped In Active #Volcano » Explorersweb

Rescuers are still trying to reach a Brazilian tourist who fell into the crater of #Indonesia’s 3,726m Mt. Rinjani on Saturday.
Juliana Marins, 26, rose before dawn to hike around the rim of the country’s second-largest volcano with a small guided group. But in the early-morning fog, she slipped over the edge of the trail and fell down a cliff into the crater.

Drone footage captured over the previous three days shows her alive and conscious, but rescuers have been unable to reach her.

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However, when rescuers descended to that point, they were unable to find her. They called out but received no response and were forced to climb back up to the rim. On Sunday, more drone footage confirmed that she was no longer in her original location.

On Monday morning, authorities found Marins again, even further down the slope. It appears that at some point on Saturday, she slid further down the cliff from where she was perched. Rescuers attempted to reach her again, but stopped a little under halfway down. They were reportedly able to send food and water down to her before retreating.

Rescuers Attempt to Save Tourist Trapped In Active Volcano » Explorersweb

The young woman fell down a cliff in the fog on Saturday. Drone footage shows that she is alive and conscious, but bad weather has impeded her rescue.
Lou Bodenhemier (Explorer's Web)
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ramnath

" She never made it alive to the fourth day.

Everyone involved made a whole bunch of mistakes:
The local guide who wasn't anywhere near her when she fell.
Whoever never advised her to take her own backpack with at least a few things in it that might have kept her alive. (She had nothing with her at all.)
(and though this can't fairly be criticized:)
Mistakes which she very probably made through her own inexperience when she was in her original safe position 1000 ft down (see the photo above).

If she'd barely moved a muscle and stayed exactly there, maybe very carefully, inch by inch, digging herself a kind of bucket seat, they'd have reached her the next day and she'd only have had to make it through one bad night.

We'll never know, but I'm guessing she panicked, tried to climb out on her own or change her position, and then fell far further, likely injuring herself badly.
There are quite a few signs that the Indonesian rescuers weren't very expert or experienced. Americans, Europeans or Russians would have got her out well within 24 hours. If I'd been i/c the rescue effort, I'd have commandeered a military sea rescue helicopter with a 2000 ft steel cable and winch, and trained operators who could pull anyone out of anything. Nothing like that ever happened.
Deaths occur in adventure sports all the time. But the very worst kind are when someone is clearly alive and yelling for help, but for one reason or another just can't be reached or helped in any way. "

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Radio France, à la tronçonneuse - by Florence Autret


#politique #médias #propagande #manipulation

Selon Marianne, Signes des temps a été supprimée suite “notamment à une campagne orchestrée par David Chavaralias”. Le chercheur au CNRS qui a lancé début 2025 HelloQuitteX, un système de transfert de compte de X vers un autre réseau social, avait été invité fin janvier dans cette émission, aux côtés de l’essayiste Samuel Fitoussi et le patron d’Atlantico Jean-Sébastien Serjou.


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Radio France, à la tronçonneuse

Fin juin, France Culture interrompt la programmation de l'émission "Signes des temps" produite par Marc Weitzman. Un "choix éditorial". Ma foi.
Florence Autret (Chutes)

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L'Azerbaïdjan à l'assaut de Benalla - by Marc Endeweld


#politique #corruption #lacorde #guillotine2025

La macronie, ramassis de mafieux.

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L'Azerbaïdjan à l'assaut de Benalla

En plein conflit avec Paris, Bakou a demandé en avril qu'Interpol délivre une notice rouge contre Alexandre Benalla. Depuis, la diplomatie parallèle s'active en coulisses. Enquête.
Marc Endeweld (The Big Picture)

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"En déclenchant cette guerre, Trump expose l’Amérique à des risques majeurs"


#géopolitique #impérialisme #guerre

« contre la stupidité, nous sommes désarmés. Ni les protestations ni la force n’y peuvent rien ; les arguments tombent dans l’oreille d’un sourd ; les faits qui contredisent les préjugés sont ignorés, et quand ils sont irréfutables, ils sont écartés comme insignifiants. »


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"En déclenchant cette guerre, Trump expose l’Amérique à des risques majeurs"

TRIBUNE - Pour le colonel Douglas Macgregor, conseiller défense dans la première administration Trump, la décision de rentrer en guerre contre l'Iran pourrait s'avérer fatale à l'empire américain.
L'Eclaireur Rhône Alpes (L'ÉCLAIREUR)

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Even the EU, which so far has provided full political, economic, military and diplomatic cover to the Israeli regime, admits in a leaked report that Israel is committing every war crime and atrocity in the book, including “indiscriminate attacks” on civilians, “starvation”, “torture” and “apartheid”.

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#eu #gaza #genocide


Full text of EU report on Israeli crimes in Gaza

Full text: The EU has corroborated UN allegations that Israel was guilty of "indiscriminate attacks ... starvation ... torture ... [and] apartheid" against Palestinians in a leaked "review".
Andrew Rettman (EUobserver)

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Mindestlohn für Erntehelfer: Bauernverband für weniger Lohn an Aus­länder als Deutsche

Mindestlohn für Erntehelfer: Bauernverband für weniger Lohn an Aus­länder als Deutsche

Landwirte sollten ausländischen Saisonarbeitern nicht den normalen Mindestlohn zahlen müssen, verlangt der Bauernverband. Gewerkschafter protestieren.
Jost Maurin (taz)

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#Russia condemns US strikes on #Iran as ‘blatant violation’ of international #law


source: pakistantoday.com.pk/2025/06/2…

Is this irony or cynicism?

🤔


#war #usa #middleEast #diplomacy #politics #question #putin #internationalLaw


Russia condemns US strikes on Iran as ‘blatant violation’ of international law

MOSCOW: Russia has strongly condemned the United States over its recent strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, calling the move a “blatant violation” of international law and a threat to global se
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Taschenlampe Müller

Russia? Full-on cynical thug mode. No pretense, no moral fluff. They bomb, lie, and shrug — and don’t even try to look noble doing it.

The West? Now that’s the real show. Constant smiles, speeches about “values,” “rules-based order,” and “democracy” — while running drone wars, backing shady regimes, and bending the rules whenever it’s convenient.

And that’s what makes it more dangerous: the West actually believes its own(!) moral PR. It plays global sheriff while quietly acting like just another empire — only with better branding and a bigger arsenal

End vom Lied?
One side’s a cynical bastard. The other is a cynical bastard with a savior complex. And that one’s got better and bigger media team.

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