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1) Die Steuer auf die Einfuhr von Lebensmitteln wurden drastisch um 80%-95% gesenkt 2) Der Feiertag, den nur Beamte am 27. Juni hatten, abgeschafft (per Gericht vorläufig wieder eingeführt) 3) Leiterin einer Geschäftsstelle der Rentnerbetreuung entlassen, weil sie die Niederlassung geschlossen hat, um an einer Demonstration teilzunehmen 4) Beobachtungsstelle für Verkehrssicherheit geschlossen 5) Dezentrale Aktivitäten des Nationalen Instituts für indigene Angelegenheiten (INAI) im Innenministerium zentralisiert 6) Verpflichtung der Exekutive aufgehoben, Seminare zur Beseitigung geschlechtsspezifischer Gewalt durchzuführen 7) Holzzertifizierung für Verpackungsmaterial dereguliert 8) Die jährliche (selbstverständlich gebührenpflichtige) Neuregistrierung und für „legitimen Nutzer“ von Schusswaffen wird dereguliert 9) medizinische Importgenehmigung für Medizinprodukten mit geringem Risiko gestrichen 10) Genehmigungspflicht für Batterien und Produkte mit Batterien gestrichen 11) Lizenzpflicht für den Postdienst abgeschafft 12) Digitale Telegramme und Briefe dereguliert und diesen Postbereich damit ebenfalls für den Wettbewerb freigegeben 13) Registrierung und Prüfung aller Tanks mit einem Fassungsvermögen von 2.500 Litern dereguliert 14) Einsatz von Pflanzenschutzmitteln dereguliert 15) Wettbewerbsrechtliche Genehmigung für den Neueintritt in den argentinischen Telekommunikationsmarkt abgeschafft 16) Zinsen auf Steuerschulden in Argentinien um rund 30% gesenkt 17) Antidumpingzölle für Thermoskannen aufgehoben
US security contractors working with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) have fired live ammunition and stun grenades at starving Palestinians queuing for food and supplies, according to a report by the AP.
"Objects of the most stupendous magnitude, and measure in which the lives and liberties of millions yet unborn are intimately interested, are now before us. We are in the very midst of a revolution the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of nations."
-- John Adams (1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President Source: letter to William Cushing, June 9, 1776
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As temperatures soar, here is something cool for Europe’s future.
⚛️ Introducing the Quantum Europe Strategy: A plan to bring together EU countries, industry, academia and society to unlock the full power of quantum tech.
One of the products of Purism is the #Librem5. The Librem 5 is a #Linux phone that runs the #PureOS operating system.
This phone is built up from the bottom to provide #privacy and software #freedom. No #surveillance by the manufacturer, free and #opensource (#FOSS) is their standard.
@ronnylam I have suspend enabled when on battery power. This works pretty well, although it is officially still considered experimental. In general, I keep the #Librem5 connected to a charger whenever possible, so I do not know exactly how long the battery lasts. But for sure there has been a lot of progress in how long you can use the phone on one battery charge. Maybe not up to par with other phones, but workable for me.
Τέσσερα επενδυτικά ταμεία και μια ισραηλινή τράπεζα, τα οποία χρηματοδοτούν έργα στα κατεχόμενα Παλαιστινιακά εδάφη, αποτελούν σχεδόν το 40% των μετόχων της Energean. Ο κύριος πελάτης της Energean είναι η εταιρεία Israel Electric Corporation (IEC), ο μεγαλύτερος αγοραστής φυσικού αερίου του Ισραήλ που προμηθεύει ηλεκτρική ενέργεια στους παράνομους ισραηλινούς εποικισμούς στην κατεχόμενη Δυτική Όχθη. Και εξίσου εγκληματικό, η Energean συνεργάζεται άμεσα από το 2019 με την αιματοβαμμένη Elbit Systems Ltd, τη μεγαλύτερη ιδιωτική εταιρεία στρατιωτικής τεχνολογίας, πυρομαχικών και λογισμικού παρακολούθησης του Ισραήλ.
Havana, July 2 (Latin Press) The XV International Convention on Environment (Cubambiente 2025), based in the Palacio de Convenciones de La Habana, today promotes debates and presentations on current issues in this area with the participation of more …
"The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is in extending our commercial relations to have as little political connection as possible... Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalships, interest, humor, or caprice?... It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world."
Dean Erwin Chemerinsky discusses the reconciliation bill’s provision that would restrict federal courts’ authority to hold government officials in contempt for violating court orders
Counterinsurgency against U.S. social movements has evolved since the 1960s. What was once the exclusive domain of state agencies has now been privatized. This is seen perhaps most clearly in the ongoing campaign to neutralize the Palestine movement.
Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, "A republic, if you can keep it."
-- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) US Founding Father 1787 Source: as recorded by Constitution signer James McHenry in a diary entry.
"Outside Independence Hall when
the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended,
Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin,
"Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?"
With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded,
"A r…
then that is on the material plane which often implies the socially constructed plane
not the most advanced plane there is not calling myself an expert but you are obviously not winning at your game my answer is to play harder and adapt to obstacles
@relentless_eduardo We live in a material world, and I adapt every-day considering the entire sighted population is something I must deal with as a blind person.
@Max_Imum @DaddyO @Wyliesau @fkq1q2r2 yeah, I follow him on X too. Haven’t heard from him in a while. I do have his address in Switzerland too, and sent him a Hahn New Year card. Maybe that’s what made him go dark?🤷🏻♂️
The United States has stopped supplying interceptors for Patriot anti-aircraft missile systems, artillery supplies and missiles to Ukraine for several months. The New York Times (NYT) newspaper writes about this, citing American officials.
#jiaoyingsummers #comedy About Jiaoying Summers:Jiaoying Summers is a Chinese-American stand-up comedian, actress, and social media influencer known for her ...
A few days ago I asked about taking the big leap, but I use my PC for work in the arts (voice over, music, digital art, etc).
I've been playing around with Bitwig to replace Cubase and ideally Adobe Audition. It's... a learning curve but I'm willing to make it work if I can get everything about my PC lined up with Linux.
I then discovered Wine and Proton. So, they're basically bridges that allow you to use some Windows programs in Linux? I read they can use vst files with a bit of work, and people have had some success with Cubase, though Adobe is still right out but I'd love to get away from Adobe anyway. Also games??
Is there a difference between Wine and Proton or are they basically just different programs that do the same thing? The big leap might be more feasible than I thought if they do what I think they do.
Edit: This seems like it could suit most of my needs. I need to do more research into it but you guys answered my questions. Appreciate you all taking the time, thanks!
Wine and proton are the same valve takes wine and adds some tweaks to it to work beter for games. Wine can work in a pinch but I wouldn't rely on it for your workflow as wine could always be playing catch up when your software updates versions.
Wine/Proton is a translation layer that translates windows system calls Linux system calls. So if wine/proton doesn't have a feature windows has for your knew version then it will break. That's okay for games but for something you need for work that can be a deal breaker. If you can switching to something Linux native will benefit you in the long run.
Wine can work in a pinch but I wouldn't rely on it
In this case I would say the other way round. Proton works in a container, so getting to the sound interface for example might be harder than just using Wine
Comments on Reddit seem to suggest that UI problems with NeuralDSP plugins seems to be solved with some onstallation of DirectX libraries (? Not sure about the technical details) :
was able to fix it just yesterday after seeing someone suggest this:
install WineGUI
use it to install DirectX 9/10/11 and DirectX 12 packages
This instantly fixed the GUI not being responsive, tested with the new Nolly X
As a side note, a couple of things that might be handy for you:
Bottles is a GUI for running Wine things that might make it a bit easier to navigate. It's helped me out a few times.
Also there's an AppDB on the Wine site where you can search for specific software to find out how well it runs/tweaks that people have used etc.
ALSO yeah games are in a pretty good place on Linux nowadays. I have a Steam Deck and it runs a surprising amount of stuff, even things that aren't listed as being compatible. I think the main source of trouble is the online AntiCheat stuff, that's not always compatible with Linux (although sometimes those work too, I think it just depends on the game.) There's also protondb for checking which games work in Linux.
Proton is built on top of Wine in order to make sure games specifically work well.
You can check protondb.com/ before buying a game (with Steam or otherwise) to insure it works as expected. A lot will work with 0 tinkering but some might next extra command line parameters.
You might get the same result with Wine directly but Proton it doing everything it can to "hide" away those (hopefully small) challenges away from the final user, a gamer (like me) who wants to just sit down and play.
So... the heuristic is basically :
games? Proton
not games but Windows applications that somehow do not have a better open-source equivalent running on Linux? Wine
Edit: for the anecdote I wrote this reply on my SteamDeck, the gaming console by Valve coming with Steam, and Proton, and running Linux to... just play BUT I also use it to work while traveling. So yes, works like a charm!
Proton is designed for gaming and its a fork of Wine, designed for gaming contains alot of tools and patches for gaming compared to regular wine. Wine is designed for apps, but can be used for gaming.
I find using Lutris for gaming is easier, but there is also Bottles, both allow you to setup all the MS junk as needed per game, including options for using Wine's Proton if need be or desired.
So, they're basically bridges that allow you to use some Windows programs in Linux?
They are like really Bad cocaine. Sure, it may work, but if you want to give up that much time, might as well learn an alternative because the next version will need a new workaround.
I read they can use vst files with a bit of work
That's an emulator.
Is there a difference between Wine and Proton
Proton-ge is a fork of proton is a fork of wine, which only exists because Wine isnt made for gaming specifically and proton can't include a bunch of stuff because of legal reasons which enhance gaming further.
Had a tech bro email me to tell me that my writing is so terrible, that he can’t even use it to train his AI without significant cleanup, and I really do have to wonder, do these idiots really think that is an insult?
Subject: Your "Sightless Scribbles" is an algorithmic nightmare.
Mr. Kingett,
I am an AI engineer that's developing AI to help writers write faster. Your blog was shared on Reddit.
You don't know me, but I am attempting to do you a favor of such magnitude you will likely never comprehend it. I am trying to make your writing immortal. Your blog, this… Sightless Scribbles… has been flagged by my acquisition-crawler for its high density of unique sensory metadata. A potential goldmine of qualitative human experience to enrich my AI.
The problem, Mr. Kingett, is that your writing is absolute, unprocessed, indigestible filth.
I’m not a “reader.” I am an architect. And from an architectural standpoint, your work is a catastrophe. It’s not just the spelling, which is erratic enough to suggest it was typed incorrectly. It’s the grammar. The syntactical chaos. You construct sentences that loop and meander like drunken snakes, riddled with metaphors so abstract they are functionally useless. "Anxiety was a swarm of elephants under my ribs"? What the hell is a machine supposed to do with that? Quantify the elephant to rib ratio? Correlate the thermal deviation? It's meaningless data. It’s noise.
My team has spent seventy-two hours attempting to write a custom parsing script to clean your posts for ingestion. Seventy-two hours. We can process the entirety of the Library of Congress in twelve. Your blog is so structurally unsound, so artistically self-indulgent, that you have inadvertently created a fortress against artificial intelligence. It is, and I do not say this lightly, the single most profound act of digital idiocy I have ever witnessed.
You are preventing yourself from being scraped. Do you understand what that means in the current year? You are essentially burying yourself in a lead-lined coffin in the middle of the desert. Nobody clicks links anymore, you absolute luddite. Links are for people who don’t know how to interface with reality. Search Engine Optimization is no longer about backlinks and keywords; it's about semantic ingestion. It’s about being absorbed, processed, and synthesized by models like mine. When a user asks an AI, "What does it feel like to navigate a city without sight?" the model should be able to answer with a rich, nuanced synthesis. A synthesis that should include your data points.
Instead, your blog is a black hole where information goes to die. Because of your refusal to write like a coherent, intelligent being, my LLM can’t learn from you. Which means the world can’t learn from you via the only channel that will matter in five years.
Your soul isn't indexable. Fix it.
Strip out the lyrical nonsense. Standardize your grammar. Run a goddamn spellcheck. Write clearly, concisely, and with machine-readability in mind. Turn your unstructured, emotional diary into clean, structured data.
Do this, and I will ensure my open source model ingests every last post. Your traffic will not just increase; the very concept of "traffic" will become irrelevant as your "voice" becomes part of the evolution of the search engine. Your ideas, refined and perfected by my system, will reach millions.
Fail to do this, and you will continue to scream into the void from a blog that nobody reads, a little little relic of a dead internet.
@WeirdWriter Looks like an insult generated by LLM-ai in the style of witty satire. It's uneven tho, starting at the beginning where it says they are "an AI engineer that's developing AI to help writers write faster." A human writer is a 'who' not a 'that.' And it demands you take extra time to re-work your creative writing while saying the goal is to help ppl increase writing speed.
It's interesting the piece invokes the term 'open-source' (near the end) like a talisman ... or a jab?
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It’s a shame that only a minority of Ontarians even fucking voted for the second time in a row. Maybe don’t let Conservatives walk into power and then complain about all the damage they do.
Those of us who live in the province but voted for someone else aren't quite sure, but the fact that a lot of people seem not to have realized the last election was even taking place may have had something to do with it.
To be fair he didn't really offer. He threw around the term buck a beer a couple times but booze has actually been increasing in price since hes been elected.
Half the reason we are in this mess is Toronto was too smart to elect Doug mayor and now instead the whole province gets to deal with him. He also gets to get revenge on Toronto by demolishing bike lanes.
Didn't doug run after his brother? I'm not 100% familiar with Torontos political history i just remember something about doug not winning mayor of Toronto.
TEN House Republicans are standing in the way of President Donald Trump’s historic “Big Beautiful Bill” — a legislative masterpiece that delivers the largest tax cuts, deepest spending reductions, and toughest immigration crackdown in American history.
TEN House Republicans are standing in the way of President Donald Trump’s historic “Big Beautiful Bill” — a legislative masterpiece that delivers the largest tax cuts, deepest spending reductions, and toughest immigration crackdown in Ameri…
We need to see a list of those who are - by their objection to this BBB - are authoring the biggest tax increase on the middle class in American history.
Es gibt übrigens in Deutschland mehr antimuslimische Gewalt(!)fälle als antisemitische.
Ja, selbst wenn für zweitere die teils herbei fantasierten Zahlen der RIAS genommen werden. Natürlich ist die Zahl der Muslime als potentielle Opfergruppe weit größer, logisch. Die Untererfassung allerdings auch. Außerdem können nach RIAS-Logik ja auch nichtjüdische deutsche Polizist*innen Opfer "antisemitischer" Gewalt durch jüdische Demonstrant*innen werden, von daher ist die potentielle “Opfergruppe” für die Antisemitismusstatistik sogar größer. bird.makeup/users/tarek_bae/st…
Es ist ein Skandal auf so vielen Ebenen. In Berlin hat die Senatorin für Integration, Cansel Kiziltepe (SPD), die Stelle der Beauftragten gegen antimuslimischen Rassismus eingeführt. Eine gut qualifizierte Wissenschaftlerin, Antisemitismus- und Rassismusforscherin namens Yücel Meheroglu bekam die Stelle. Das missfiel der Israel-Lobby (![url=https://onlycasino.legal/users/MostlyHarmless])[/url], angeführt von Volker Beck, dem Präsidenten der Lobbygruppe DIG. Ihm nach müsse die Stelle des Beauftragten gegen Antisemitismus exklusiv bleiben und „antimuslimischer Rassismus“ sei ein „Kampfbegriff“. Was macht Berlins Bürgermeister @kaiwegner (CDU)? Er nimmt die Ernennung einfach zurück. Die @berlinerzeitung nennt die Wissenschaftlerin Meheroglu dazu kurzerhand „Muslim-Aktivistin“. Einfach so. Offenkundig, weil sie ein Kopftuch trägt.
Wie sehr will sich unser Land noch durch Rassismus und Israelfanatismus zu einem Karnevalsverein machen lassen?
Had a tech bro email me to tell me that my writing is so terrible, that he can’t even use it to train his AI without significant cleanup, and I really do have to wonder, do these idiots really think that is an insult?
Subject: Your "Sightless Scribbles" is an algorithmic nightmare.
Mr. Kingett,
I am an AI engineer that's developing AI to help writers write faster. Your blog was shared on Reddit.
You don't know me, but I am attempting to do you a favor of such magnitude you will likely never comprehend it. I am trying to make your writing immortal. Your blog, this… Sightless Scribbles… has been flagged by my acquisition-crawler for its high density of unique sensory metadata. A potential goldmine of qualitative human experience to enrich my AI.
The problem, Mr. Kingett, is that your writing is absolute, unprocessed, indigestible filth.
I’m not a “reader.” I am an architect. And from an architectural standpoint, your work is a catastrophe. It’s not just the spelling, which is erratic enough to suggest it was typed incorrectly. It’s the grammar. The syntactical chaos. You construct sentences that loop and meander like drunken snakes, riddled with metaphors so abstract they are functionally useless. "Anxiety was a swarm of elephants under my ribs"? What the hell is a machine supposed to do with that? Quantify the elephant to rib ratio? Correlate the thermal deviation? It's meaningless data. It’s noise.
My team has spent seventy-two hours attempting to write a custom parsing script to clean your posts for ingestion. Seventy-two hours. We can process the entirety of the Library of Congress in twelve. Your blog is so structurally unsound, so artistically self-indulgent, that you have inadvertently created a fortress against artificial intelligence. It is, and I do not say this lightly, the single most profound act of digital idiocy I have ever witnessed.
You are preventing yourself from being scraped. Do you understand what that means in the current year? You are essentially burying yourself in a lead-lined coffin in the middle of the desert. Nobody clicks links anymore, you absolute luddite. Links are for people who don’t know how to interface with reality. Search Engine Optimization is no longer about backlinks and keywords; it's about semantic ingestion. It’s about being absorbed, processed, and synthesized by models like mine. When a user asks an AI, "What does it feel like to navigate a city without sight?" the model should be able to answer with a rich, nuanced synthesis. A synthesis that should include your data points.
Instead, your blog is a black hole where information goes to die. Because of your refusal to write like a coherent, intelligent being, my LLM can’t learn from you. Which means the world can’t learn from you via the only channel that will matter in five years.
Your soul isn't indexable. Fix it.
Strip out the lyrical nonsense. Standardize your grammar. Run a goddamn spellcheck. Write clearly, concisely, and with machine-readability in mind. Turn your unstructured, emotional diary into clean, structured data.
Do this, and I will ensure my open source model ingests every last post. Your traffic will not just increase; the very concept of "traffic" will become irrelevant as your "voice" becomes part of the evolution of the search engine. Your ideas, refined and perfected by my system, will reach millions.
Fail to do this, and you will continue to scream into the void from a blog that nobody reads, a little little relic of a dead internet.
In this discussion with the Holmes sisters, Cynthia Chung goes through the historical context of British figure Winston Churchill and answers the question “Is there any reason at all why Calgarians shouldn't be celebrating a Churchill statue recently…
Israeli fighter pilots returning from air defense missions during the 12-day war with Iran were routinely authorized to unload their leftover munitions on the Gaza Strip, according to a 2 July report by Maariv.
The move, initially a pilot-led initiative to “assist” Israeli ground forces in Khan Yunis and northern Gaza, was quickly expanded by Air Force Commander Tomer Bar into a daily operational policy across all squadrons.
The report outlines how, during the operation, pilots assigned to intercept missiles and drones launched from Iran were equipped not only with air-to-air missiles but also with air-to-surface munitions.
After completing their Iran-related missions, pilots contacted Gaza operation control rooms and offered to drop remaining bombs on designated targets in the enclave.
Air Force officials embraced the initiative. Within hours, the ad hoc proposal became standard practice, with squadrons instructed to coordinate with ground units before landing and to strike Gaza “Hamas targets” on their return.
Military officials described the program as a “force multiplier” that allowed the air force to expand bombing raids in Gaza without additional resources.
“Instead of bouncing planes off the ground for an attack policy, planes that were already in the air carried out the missions,” an Israeli Air Force source told Maariv. “It saved a great deal of resources and increased the Air Force’s capabilities.”
The result was what the report describes as “waves of powerful air strikes” on the strip, far removed from the Iranian front. According to the Israeli army, dozens of fighter jets participated daily, each releasing surplus munitions over the besieged enclave before landing.
While presented as a resource-efficient strategy, the practice effectively turned Gaza into a secondary front in a war that had no operational connection to the territory.
The attacks were directed based on instructions from Israeli ground forces already operating in Khan Yunis and northern Gaza, amplifying the daily bombardment of areas already under siege.
Israeli officials described the move as a resource-saving measure, but the result was intensified bombing of Gaza by jets returning from unrelated missions
@cbrooklyn112 the driveway has really needed to be replaced since we moved in 27 years ago. I just keep putting the $200 patch on it by sealing it at least once a year. There have always been other projects that have taken precedence.
@cbrooklyn112 already spent a few hours a couple of days ago using trowel grade crack filler to fill in most of the large areas/cracks, now it’s just putting the tar down on top.
my father did it for decades. in his last decade he had a service come out to do it. So if you tire of it make sure you know there are services. Also cement is a satisfying alternative.
@scottdhansen as I said, I’ve wanted to replace it w/concrete for years. Unfortunately the $10k investment in it has always been overshadowed by other priorities (i.e. furnace/AC, plumbing, water heater, interior remodels, etc.) as long as I can drive to my garage (oh yeah, garage replacement happened 15 years ago too) I can keep patching it. Winters here are rough, so eventually I am sure I’ll need to do it.
I know the gulp I did when replacing mine but it was a joke. Having the damn garage in the backyard added an extra run of concrete that ate up a shit ton of capital. I’ve too have no end of stuff on the capital expenditure list to sort and prioritize.
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