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We have just shipped an updated Steam Deck Client to the Preview/Beta channel.GeneralFixed certain startup movies not playing correctly. Steam Input Fix glyphs for the Legion Go S the Last of Us: Part 2
I often see people take "don't break userspace" at face value, in the same way I see "UNIX philosophy", it might be time to actually explain what this was supposed to mean
It's not that complicated. Ensure that the kernel has stable APIs, interfaces, and system calls that behave the same way over time so that your applications on user space don't break after a kernel update
Referring to the deteriorating humanitarian crisis in Gaza, Trump said, 'You see the lines of people just to get one meal? It's too bad,' adding that the U.S. is 'working on Gaza and trying to get it taken care of'
The Saturday 21 June Palestine protest in Berlin marks a major a breakthrough for Germany’s Gaza solidarity movement, reports Robert Dale
The centre of Berlin was a sea of Palestinian flags and keffiyehs on Saturday 21 June.
it's kinda funny how #Kagi which various people complained about having AI features as well... is actually better on this front.
Like... if you search with Kagi, it never does an automatic AI answer. ONLY if you press the button or add a question mark at the end of your query.
Also with Kagi, even though it's not doing any ai without user asking for it, you can easily remove any of the ai buttons using the custom css feature. codeberg.org/zerodogg/kagi-no-… (thx to @zerodogg for making it)
DuckDuckGo does have AI searches turned on automatically. You have Opt-Out. To do that, click on the little gear thingy "after" you search for something, click All Search Settings, then AI Features, and then click off and Never. But at least you can do it.
I use DDG as my search engine, right in the address bar, and I never see AI results. I just ran one of these against the other and got the exact same results, and just as fast. I don't understand.
@alice @ahimsa_pdx I created a search engine configuration for Firefox that disables AI, Smart Filter, Ads, and uses OpenStreetMap instead of Bing. You can easily import it by vising the page below, and right-click on the URL bar and select "Add DuckDuckGo (OSM|NewTab|No Filter/Ads/AI)"
Want to create your own? Click on "Create/Submit Plugin" on the right, and create your own. You can base it off mine by putting "123445" in the top of the "Create/Submit Plugin" page and then edit the URLs in the form.
I live in Illinois, USA, outside the St. Louis area. Below I'll talk about my technology and creative interests, and a bit about me personally. I'm going to hashtag the heck out of this post.
the whole "deadbeef" thing is the magic number from #Solaris for freed memory. I simply chose .monster TLD because it seemed cool and I like "extended" TLDs.
I have been using a OpenBSD, #NetBSD, or #GNU/#Linux since the late 1990s as a primary workstation. I used macOS from 2020 to 2025, switching to the #KDE neon distro (KDE plasma is amazing and KDE isn't bloated anymore, yay!).
My current career is as a #pentester where I break into web applications, IP networks, mobile applications (especially #Android), and people to their face or over the phone; code #malware; write documentation; and enjoy helping clients in a third party contractor/consultant role. I started that job change in 2020, when I earned the #OSCP certification at the height of "#infosec twitter" when I did well there.
Previously I worked for about 20 years as a senior-level programmer, and systems, infrastructure, and database administrator. Burnout was very real and I was extremely bored/unfulfilled.
Now that programming and sysadmin stuff isn't my career, I find I enjoy programming and tinkering again.
I am a big fan of NetBSD and always have been. I am not a huge fan of GNU/Linux but I do appreciate things "just working", even if it is full of closed-source binary blobs and other garbage. It was fun in the 1990s.
I know many programming languages but have been paid professionally to code in #C, #Perl, #Python, #PHP, #Java, and #Groovy for big commercial entities like eBay, small companies, and the US government.
I've maintained 99.99% uptime for a 60MM+ platform for years, including failover and backups (that were regularly tested... you test your failover and backups, right?!).
I always wanted to be a cool C and low-level programmer, which I thought for the longest time was being a kernel programmer, but now I know that isn't the life for me.
Emacs is something I've enjoyed since the beginning and I still can't code a #Lisp well. I'd love to be a cool #lisper with #CommonLisp, but haven't gotten there yet. I'm on the #c64 and #embedded #retrocomputing train now.
For #art, I like #acrylic and #watercolor painting. I rarely do it, but think about it a lot and love it when I do it. I don't have any skill or talent, but that's not the point. It's for me and no one else.
For #computing, I am venturing into #C64 #demoscene programming and exploration. Not only was I too poor to get one when I was little but I sorta forgot about it over time. The desire to do cool things in a restricted environment where folks are playing in the sandbox, too, is very exciting and attractive to me. I don't know how to code the #Commodore64 stuff yet, but will! Learning the assembly language (I have zero desire to code in BASIC again and I can just code assembly).
I live with my soulmate and our five amazing cats in a small town outside St. Louis living a quiet life. Just doing our jobs, taking care of daily life stuff, and enjoying each other and life as much as we can. Ups and downs of life chaos, like anyone else, but we're doing alright!
We enjoy exploring places within driving distance and there are a lot of places to go to.
Currently, we're really into playing two-player games together and just started collecting #boardgames. Right now, we're really digging #SkyTeam, #RoyalGameOfUr, #ForrestShuffle, #SentinelsOfTheMultiverse, and this magnet game I don't know the name of. We have #SpiritIsland and #ArcNova to unwrap and learn. We tried really really hard to get into #ArkhamHorrorTheCardGame but the rules are too complicated and confusing, where it felt like we were doing the wrong thing all the time.
I am 46. I grew up loving Star Wars, Star Trek, #SciFi, reading novels non-stop, horror, and watching movies. I collect classic SciFi books from 1960s and 1970s.
I would perhaps describe myself as an extremely curious person, that loves #puzzles and #mysteries, #exploration, figuring out #HumanBehavior like I'm an alien studying humans (I'm good at it, it turns out), that has a keen eye for detail, remembering random little things, and a good listener. I'm fairly adaptable and fluid in most things, which works well for me. My brain works differently than a lot of people, and while frustrating a lot of the time for things I don't understand fully, it is me and serves me well in niches.
Making people laugh makes me happy. I am a #hacker and #tinkerer.
Zumal die ~7 Milliarden zwar nach sehr viel Geld erstmal klingt, aber man ja weiss, dass die Ukraine das korrupteste Land ist, was es in Europa gibt und die anderen ~100 Millarden auch nicht wirklich was gebracht haben, ausser dass Kursk kurz eingenommen und dann wieder verloren wurde (was ja Russland's international anerkanntes Gebiet ist).
Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara argues that while the recent Iran ceasefire has increased the chances of a ceasefire in Gaza, major obst...
Poor old biased BBC just can’t win – anti-Zionism and humanity are wherever it looks Defiant Irish rap band Kneecap rocked the Glastonbury music festival today and mocked the BBC’…
Unlike US fanatical ‘Israel right or wrong’ far-right or complicit Anglican establishment, representatives of 500m in 120 countries say sanction Israel for its crimes Image: World Counc…
“Weird Al” Yankovic breaks down his most iconic tracks including ‘My Bologna,’ ‘White And Nerdy,’ ‘Another One Rides The Bus,’ ‘Eat It,’ ‘Amish Paraside,’ ‘I...
Tonight we saw a GREAT VICTORY in the Senate with the “GREAT, BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL,” but, it wouldn’t have happened without the Fantastic Work of Senator Rick Scott, Senator Mike Lee, Senator Ron Johnson, and Senator Cynthia Lummis. They, along with all of the other Republican Patriots who voted for the Bill, are people who truly love our Country! As President of the USA, I am proud of them all, and look forward to working with them to GROW OUR ECONOMY, REDUCE WASTEFUL SPENDING, SECURE OUR BORDER, FIGHT FOR OUR MILITARY/VETS, ENSURE THAT OUR MEDICAID SYSTEM HELPS THOSE WHO TRULY NEED IT, PROTECT OUR SECOND AMENDMENT, AND SO MUCH MORE. GOD BLESS AMERICA &, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!
This morning, as I was preparing our breakfast of pottage and stale bread, my 3-year-old tugged at my doublet and asked with furrowed brow:
‘Father, is it not true that in the absence of a sovereign power—whether it be Parliamentarian or Royalist—man is thrust into a condition of perpetual conflict, a war of all against all? And if so, are we not living amidst the very Leviathan Hobbes warned us of, yet without its unifying force?’
I nearly dropped the trencher. It’s moments like these that remind me: even the littlest among us can perceive the chaos of the Commonwealth when the bonds of social contract fray.
Highly recommended channel if the topic interests you, and you want rational discussion and explanations, rather than ancient aliens or similar garbage.
Why did Sneferu construct three enormous pyramids without a sarcophagus?The pyramid of Meidum and the Red & Bent pyramids of Dahshur are the earliest smooth ...
Anyone have a guide on how to port player models from L4D2 to Gmod? The fucking guide I was using didn't work (By that I mean the Blender Script didn't work)
today was a very gratifying saturday, I worked out hard and I gamed hard too. of course things would not be complete without finishing with a proper, delightful #dailyelfdose
You’ve read a lot from me about this topic. How can the people who love you treat you the way they do? This is, of course, assuming you are on this side of things (critical thinkers) and they are o…
Leaders from countries all over the world are starting to look at Free and Open Source Software options to move their local governments and cities away from the proprietary lock that American tech companies have on them. They no longer want to have to rely on America. Personally, as a Free and Open Source Software advocate, I love to see this. Many of us do. But a question for Trump supporters: How the fuck is this making America Great Again?
I know that I'm preaching to the choir, but Trump supporters are absolute fools.
HBDH Eziz Gabar Militia; “We Carried Out a Sabotage Action on a Factory Warehouse in Aydın!”
On the morning of June 22, the warehouse section of a factory located in the ASTIS industrial site in the Efeler district of Aydın was set on fire by the Eziz Gabar Militia using a sabotage technique.
As a result of this retaliatory action carried out in memory of our heroic comrades who fought selflessly and became martyrs in Ağrı, Batman and Şırnak, the factory was significantly damaged. The colonialist fascist Turkish state is mobilizing all its resources and carrying out operations against the freedom guerrilla in the four parts of Kurdistan, primarily in the common struggle of our peoples.
The fascist-occupier AKP-MHP gang regime, which is based on the policy of destruction and denial, continues to attack the people and revolutionaries within the scope of the collapse plan that has entered its 9th year. The political and military failures it has suffered have brought the fascist torturer AKP-MHP gang regime to the point of ending.
The occupying army, which can only confront the freedom guerrilla, which has proven its invincibility in every area it is present, especially in Northern Kurdistan, with thousands of soldiers and counter-strikes, dozens of warplanes, UAVs, UAVs and attack helicopters, is still unable to achieve the desired result by hitting the guerrilla resistance.
The unyielding resistance of the comrades who were martyred in the clashes that continued for days increases our determination to fight, and is also the reason for fighting until victory in our just cause. The military operations that are being expanded and continued in Bakur will be fruitless. It will grow the guerrilla resistance.
Until the fascist-occupier AKP-MHP gang regime and everyone who is a part of this dirty war pays the price for these attacks, it is our call to all young people and revolutionaries; Today is the day to grow the guerrilla and its resistance, to demonstrate the steel will of the united struggle against fascism and to take revenge for the martyred comrades.
We call on our patriotic and revolutionary people to actively resist until we uproot the colonialists and occupiers from the lands of Kurdistan and Türkiye!
Long live HBDH! Long live our Guerrilla Struggle!Long live our Revolutionary People’s War!Long live our United Struggle!Martyr Namirin!
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres delivered a blunt assessment of the US-backed aid operation in Gaza, calling it 'inherently unsafe and killing people',...
UN rights chief Volker Turk, speaking at a press conference on Thursday, said that it is “extremely distressing” to see “militarised humanitarian assistance”...
You want them voted out. She wants them dragged from their homes naked in the middle of the night and taken to The Hague. I want them thrown in a pit of hungry crocodiles surrounded by homeless folks with long guns. We are not the same.
@fuknukl @echoteecat This tourney was a good romp and it's always fun to see NA.S getting more interaction with gray and dark Fedi. SRK or Diced Tomatoe, whichever wins it'll be a good game and I think the masses will be pleased. Good job on implementing fixes for issues from last year.
I'm now concerned that with Dread and SRK/Dicey down that next year won't be as dramatic.
“In 1889 the Treasury Department—which then oversaw immigration—decided that a native-born child could not be sent out of the country with her foreign-born mother. So it admitted the foreign-born mother to take care of the citizen child.
“It was not ‘the intention of Congress to sever the sacred ties existing between parent and child, or forcibly banish and expatriate a native-born child for the reason that its parent is a pauper.’”
In the time before widespread #vaccination, #death often came early.
Devastating infectious diseases ran rampant in America, killing millions of #children & leaving others w/lifelong #health problems. These illnesses were the main reason why nearly 1 in 5 children in 1900 never made it to their 5th birthday.
Over the next century, #vaccines virtually wiped out long-feared scourges like #polio & #measles & drastically reduced the toll of many others. Today, however, some preventable, #ContagiousDiseases are making a comeback as #VaccineHesitancy pushes #immunization rates down. And well-established vaccines are facing suspicion even from *public officials*, w/ #RFKJr, a longtime #AntiVaccine activist, running the federal #health dept, #HHS.
“This concern, this hesitancy, these questions about #vaccines are a consequence of the great success of the vaccines – because they eliminated the #diseases,” said Dr. William Schaffner, an #InfectiousDisease expert at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. “If you’re not familiar with the disease, you don’t respect or even fear it. And therefore you don’t value the #vaccine.”
I was in grammar school from 1947-55. Every single student in our large (50+) classes had ALL communicable diseases — I even had pertussis for almost six months, which nearly killed me. The polio vaccine was a true miracle for the scourge it was for thousands. We have almost 80 years of successful history that proves the efficacy of vaccination. We simply cannot let one batshit crazy person, stupidly nominated and wrongly confirmed, affect our health this way.
This may be a little too post-musket for your tastes, but "The accomplish’d lady’s delight in preserving, physick, beautifying and cookery : Containing, I, The art of preserving, and candying ... II, The physical cabinet ... and The art of angling. III, The compleat cooks guide ..." is a book from 1677 (with subsequent reprints) that includes a large amount of information about cooking and pickling and seasoning. The archive.org scans suck but the yale.edu reader sucks but there is a download button:
The accomplish'd lady's delight, ... 1686..Digitized from IA40310607-87.Previous issue: bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_witnesses-produced-again_1653.Next...
vLLM is an open-source inference engine that serves large language models. We deploy vLLM across GPUs and load open weight models like Llama 4 into it.
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Oui Miguela, l'ombre est ce qui protège, quand la lumière, toujours belle sur l'image, réduit tout à un point géométrique sous l'ardeur du brasier, 'jarrr' en russe...
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You're a sad little autistic computer programmer who was abused as a kid... no excuse for your behavior now. You perpetuate what you deserve.
And this tourney is the apex of your life, buddy... 😀
Enjoy... 🍻
for someone who was bragging he’d be proud to win the title of Biggest Faggot of the Fediverse, he sure seems to be mad that he’s on the verge of winning the title.
When you trust your television What you get is what you got 'Cause when they own the information They can bend it all they want. --John Mayer, "Waiting on The World to Change"
Variety - Bill Moyers, who was a White House press secretary under LBJ and then became a PBS and CBS journalist, has died at the age of 91. variety.com/2025/tv/news/bill-…
The way these foreign-born Democrats lie to make America and her institutions look bad just makes me more resolute than ever that no foreign-born person should be allowed to run for elected office. thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/d…
Resistance Inflicts Casualties on Occupiers in Gaza City, Khan Younis
The al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, and the al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) movement, carried out a series of coordinated operations today targeting Zionist occupation military vehicles and soldier gatherings in multiple locations across southern and northern Gaza.
According to field sources, the attacks resulted in several killed and wounded among Zionist forces, amid reports of a “serious security incident” affecting the occupation’s forces in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.
The al-Qassam Brigades announced the targeting of four Zionist engineering excavators with al-Yassin 105 anti-armor rounds, causing them to catch fire directly in the town of Aabasan al-Kabira, east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
The group confirmed that its Resistance fighters observed casualties among occupation soldiers at the site of the attack. Zionist helicopters reportedly landed in the area to evacuate the wounded.
Al-Qassam also reported that on the previous day, its fighters targeted a Merkava tank and a D9 military bulldozer with two highly explosive roadside bombs in the same town.
IED explosion on Street 5 in Khan Younis
In a related development, the al-Quds Brigades announced that it detonated a powerful explosive device targeting a Zionist military vehicle advancing on Street 5 in northern Khan Younis.
The group indicated that the operation was part of its ongoing effort to exhaust the occupation forces that have infiltrated the Gaza Strip.
Artillery strikes on Tallat al-Montar east of Gaza City
In the eastern part of Gaza City, in the north of the Strip, al-Quds Brigades reported that its fighters took control of a Zionist reconnaissance drone while it was conducting intelligence missions over the al-Shuja’iya neighborhood.
The group also released footage showing the moment its fighters shelled gatherings of Zionist soldiers and vehicles with mortar rounds around Tallat al-Montar, east of al-Shuja’iya.
It confirmed that the strikes scored direct hits as part of a sustained artillery engagement targeting Zionist military positions.
Serious security incident in Khan Younis
Local Palestinian sources reported preliminary information about a serious security incident affecting the Israeli occupation forces in Khan Younis. The area is currently witnessing heavy Zionist warplane activity.
The Barbarity of Solitary Confinement in South Carolina: Kevin Rashid Johnson
Both the United Nations and Courts all over have recognized that continuous confinement inside a cell for even brief periods is torture and has proven in extensive psychological studies to cause mental illness and organic brain damage.
There has been a broad outside and inside movement to reform and end solitary confinement in my home state of Virginia for over a decade. This struggle has led to laws being passed that require daily out-of-cell time for Va prisoners in solitary (1), and a pending federal class action lawsuit in which the presiding judge and the appeals court have found Va’s conditions in solitary to be unconstitutional and harmful to prisoners’ mental health. (2) Not so in South Carolina, where the conditions in solitary are far worse than anything in Va, and where I was recently interstate transferred.
Not only are the conditions in SC’s solitary confinement units (euphemistically called “Restrictive Housing Units”) downright medieval, but there are no efforts to reform nor end them. Worse still, the corruption and retribution of SC administrative officials operate to stomp out any efforts by prisoners to bring attention to SC’s prison conditions.
I’ve been in SC since May 1, 2025 and have been thrown in solitary twice already, and have gotten to see and experience the barbarity of these units.
Although I was in general population when I left Va, I was thrown in solitary as soon as I arrived in SC. I was initially taken to SC’s Reception and Orientation institution called Kirkland. There I was thrown into a cold solitary cell with nothing but a filthy mattress and no clothes except a nylon smock. Not even underwear. When I protested that I would not accept meals and requested to call attorneys. I was transferred the next day to Perry Correctional (sic!) Institution, where I was again thrown in solitary. Approximately half of the buildings at Perry are solitary confinement units and prisoners are sent to Perry from all over the state to be held in solitary long term.
Here one is confined in a cold cell with a concrete slab raised about 6 inches from the floor. At night when the cells are left completely dark, bugs, spiders and mice crawl on and around one’s body. Prisoners have been held in solitary at Perry for years. My neighbor, Jimmy Causey, has been here for eight years.
There is no view outside the cells. We receive no outside exercise or fresh air. WHen I arrived at Perry on May 2d, the prisoners in solitary had been to outside exercise only five times this entire year. The denial of regular outside exercise in solitary standing alone, has been found unconstitutional by federal courts. While in other states solitary is characterized as 23/1 hours of in-cell confinement, in SC it is literally 24/7. The only times prisoners come out of their cells here is to shower for 15 minutes three times per week, which is often denied as well.
We can have no personal property, no personal books to read, no periodicals. We can’t make canteen purchases. Not even personal hygiene items. The only hygiene items we may use are state-issued toothpaste, toothbrush and soap. No deodorant, shampoo, or hair grease is allowed. One can’t groom or shave, and even could we there are no mirrors to see oneself. Yet the rules say our hair must be kept closely cropped.
We cannot purchase stationary to write loved ones. Only two outgoing letters are permitted per month. We are not allowed to communicate directly with the media. We cannot write to but one lawyer, and only if they are confirmed to be actively representing us in pending legal proceedings. These obstacles to communication obviously work to sever community and family ties in outright contradiction of any claims to rehabilitation and enabling anyone to reenter society as a healthy and productive member. And they prevent public exposure and accountability for the inhumane conditions in these prisons and units, and any prisoner from obtaining attorneys to assist them, whether to challenge discrepancies in their original criminal cases or to contest the conditions of their confinement (the latter being the obvious purpose of these illegal obstructions to communicate with lawyers).
The meals are disgusting and bland, non-nutritious (composed primarily of breads and pasta), repetitious and the portions insufficient. EVERYONE complains of constant hunger pangs and substantial weight loss. Not only are the general portions tiny, but as opposed to the three meals given on weekdays, only two meals are served on weekends. The two weekend meals are basically the same portions given on two of the weekday trays. Worse still, the time between the last meal and the meal the next day on the weekends is approximately 20 hours. This is illegal and literal torture. In fact courts have held that the dull continuous pain of prolonged hunger constitutes corporal punishment.
So prisoners in SC’s solitary sit idle, stripped of all fresh air, sensory stimulation, and diversionary activities day after day, for months to years on end, under the most blatant conditions of mental torture. I’ve not seen this extreme level of total denial of environmental stimulation and solitary confinement anywhere else in my 35 years of confinement. In fact, this sort of solitary was outlawed by federal courts in Va over 50 years in the landmark case of Landman v. Royster. (3)
Not only are the solitary conditions inhumane per se, but they’re coupled with physical abuses sanctioned by administrators. Prisoners are routinely gassed and beaten by guards. They’re hogtied and left naked in empty cells for hours on end. Of course hogtying has often proved fatal and has been banned in prisons for decades. (4)
I’ve observed others left in empty cells to sleep on bare concrete with no clothes except boxers for three days, for nothing but making noise by striking a cell door with their hands. In one case the prisoner only wanted to be taken outside so he could perform his wiccan prayers after months of prisoners in solitary illegally receiving no outside exercise.
To add greater insult to the mistreatment, food, medications, and showers are illegally used as punishment and to compel submission. One is denied meals, meds, and showers if they are not fully dressed and standing in the rear of their cell when guards arrive at their cells to provide these things. Prisoners are not required to be dressed and standing in this manner at any other times when guards come to their cells. The measure is calculated to use needed essentials as weapons and tools of forced compliance with arbitrary orders to instill docility and submission. Like training animals.. Or breaking slaves.
Suffering under these conditions for just days is literally torture. As it’s meant to be. SC’s prisoners need a support movement to end this abuse.
Dare to struggle Dare to Win!
All Power to the People! ———————————–
Endnotes: 1. See, for example, Va. Code, section 53.1-39.2 (limitations on Restorative housing units). 2. Thorpe v. Clarke, 37 F. 4th 926 (4th Cir. 2022) 3. Landman v. Royster, 333 F. Supp. 621 (E.D.va <e.d.va>. 1971) 4. Weigel v. Broad, 544 F. 3d 1143 (coth cim. 2008)
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Uh-Oh! Political Antisemitism Smears Have Stopped Working!
Zohran Mamdani has won the Democratic Party primary in the New York City mayoral race after a frenetic smear campaign to portray him as an antisemite for his pro-Palestinian views, and now all the world’s worst people are freaking out about it.
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