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Seminar on the 80th Anniversary of the WFTU in South Africa #WFTU wftucentral.org/seminar-on-the…

Seminar on the 80th Anniversary of the WFTU in South Africa - WFTU

The WFTU affiliates, NEHAWU, organized an important seminar in South Africa on the 80 years of struggles of the WFTU with the participation of tens of trade union cadres on 26th June 2025.
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"Aufmerksamkeitssucher": Merkel erinnert sich an Fehler im Umgang mit Trump de.rt.com/international/249799… Die ehemalige Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel hat Donald Trump als Aufmerksamkeitssucher bezeichnet und sich an einen Vorfall erinnert, bei dem er sich weigerte, ihr vor den Augen der Öffentlichkeit die Hand zu schütteln. Anschließend tat er es ohne Kameras doch. #news #press

"Aufmerksamkeitssucher": Merkel erinnert sich an Fehler im Umgang mit Trump

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ATTENTION!

The CIA / Fake News Media “white wash” is in place.

image.nostr.build/df334caad151…

The CIA is attempting to make this report about analytic judgements, incomplete debates, and process fouls, it is anything but.

The report instead demonstrates a complete falsification of a document used specifically to incite a coup against a duly elected POTUS .

Heads need to roll and people MUST be investigated to include the analysts who wrote the product that caused all of America to be yanked through a knothole.

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📢 SNHR JUL-04: This report provides a summary of the deaths that occurred in the first half of 2025 as well as the month of June, shedding light particularly on victims who died due to #torture, as well as documenting the massacres perpetrated by the parties to the conflict and controlling forces in Syria during this period (AR/EN)

🔹 The report also outlines the action taken by SNHR regarding the issue of documenting extrajudicial killings in #syria

📑 PDF link 👇🏽

reliefweb.int/report/syrian-ar…


SNHR Monthly Report for Victims of Extrajudicial Killing in Syria - June 2025 [EN/AR] - Syrian Arab Republic

Analysis in English on Syrian Arab Republic about Protection and Human Rights; published on 4 Jul 2025 by SNHR
ReliefWeb

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Armed militiant settlers cut down and uproot olive trees around the home of Palestinian Ayman Sofan in the town of Burin, south of Nablus under protection of Israeli occupational forces.

Video available on #BlueSky
bsky.app/profile/faab64.bsky.s…

And on #Telegram
t.me/newsvideofa/3506

#IDF #WestBank #Occupation #Terrorism #Palestine #JewishKKK #StopIsrael #SanctionIsrael

@israel @palestine@a.gup.pe @palestine@lemmy.ml


Resistance & Current News videos ☮️🇵🇸

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📑 #westbank monthly snapshot - casualties, property damage and #displacement MAY-2025

#palestine #un #ihl

provided by 🔵 OCHA JUL-03

PDF embedded 👇🏽

ochaopt.org/content/west-bank-…


West Bank Monthly Snapshot - Casualties, Property Damage and Displacement | May 2025 | United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - Occupied Palestinian Territory

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - Occupied Palestinian Territory

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Viktor #Dedaj
3/7/25

Citation du jour (pour bien démarrer la journée).
May #Golan (ministre israélien de l'Égalité sociale - sic)
« Je suis personnellement fière des ruines à #Gaza et du fait que chaque bébé, même dans 80 ans, racontera à ses petits-enfants ce que les Juifs ont fait. »
"Les" juifs ? Quand on vous dit que les sionistes utilisent "les" juifs comme boucliers humains.


#Israel #Israël

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Legislating Catastrophe: How U.S. Lawmakers Are Enabling Israeli Aggression and Sabotaging Diplomacy with #Iran
Scott #Rickard

In a stunning display of bipartisan militarism, Representatives Josh Gottheimer (D–NJ) and Mike Lawler (R–NY) have introduced legislation that would authorize #Trump to provide #Israel with advanced military capabilities, including B-2 stealth bombers and Massive Ordnance Penetrators (MOPs), also known as bunker-buster bombs, under the pretext of deterring Iran from pursuing a nuclear weapons program. The proposal, far from being a safeguard against nuclear proliferation, amounts to a green light for unprovoked and illegal military aggression against a sovereign nation.¹

This legislation serves not as a tool of deterrence, but as a deliberate provocation designed to entrench Israel’s long-standing policy of regional escalation. It is especially alarming given Israel’s history of unauthorized military strikes on Iranian soil and other extraterritorial operations, which violate international law and Article 2(4) of the UN Charter, which prohibits the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state.²

Authorizing a unilateral #US transfer of strategic bombers and weapons capable of penetrating hardened #nuclear sites undermines diplomacy and directly threatens regional and global stability. Israel’s covert and overt attacks on Iranian nuclear scientists, military infrastructure, and civilian facilities have not only escalated tensions, but have also led Iran to harden its defensive posture and withdraw from international nuclear agreements such as the #JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action), largely due to the Trump administration's earlier abandonment of the accord.³

By preparing to arm Israel for a preemptive military strike, the proposed legislation would draw the United States into a foreign war that the American public overwhelmingly opposes.⁴ This path not only jeopardizes regional diplomacy but also places U.S. military personnel, diplomats, and civilians across the Middle East in immediate danger of retaliation—not from rogue actors, but from state-level retribution by Iran, a sovereign nation with formidable military capabilities.

Moreover, the framing of this legislation as a defensive measure conceals its actual function: enabling a continued campaign of aggression, expansionism, and lawlessness under the false veneer of national security. Israel, a nuclear-armed state that has refused to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), maintains an arsenal outside of international inspection and oversight.⁵ Supporting Israel’s unilateral military actions while Iran remains a signatory to the NPT represents a brazen double standard in U.S. foreign policy and a reckless betrayal of international norms.

Rather than deterring conflict, the proposed bill would accelerate it. The U.S. has a moral, strategic, and legal obligation to resist being drawn into another war of choice—particularly one fought at the behest of a foreign power whose recent actions have been condemned as aggressive and destabilizing.⁶ The American people deserve leadership that prioritizes peace, not political subservience to a foreign military agenda.

Footnotes

  1. Congressional Record, 2025. Bill introduced by Reps. Josh Gottheimer and Mike Lawler (exact title pending committee referral).
  2. United Nations Charter, Article 2(4). See also: Gray, Christine. International Law and the Use of Force. Oxford University Press, 2018.
  3. Arms Control Association. "Timeline of Iran’s Nuclear Activities." armscontrol.org/factsheets/Ira…
  4. Pew Research Center. “Americans’ Growing Fatigue with U.S. Involvement in Foreign Conflicts.” March 2024.
  5. Federation of American Scientists. "Israel’s Nuclear Weapons Program." fas.org/nuke/guide/israel/nuke…
  6. Human Rights Watch. “Unlawful Israeli Airstrikes in Syria and Beyond.” April 2023.

Nuclear Weapons - Israel

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Hopefully, SCOTUS will do the right thing and rule that it is unconstitutional to ban them. Banning them is openly sexist.

Further, the trannie invasion of female "sports" is the best thing that has happened for conservative/traditionalists in a long time. Female sports have one purpose and purpose only, to masculinize our daughters. Plus they're the largest source for lesbian recruitment. They need to be destroyed, and allowing fake men to participate will do that.

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SCOTUS to Rule on Banning Biological Males From Girls’ Teams [WATCH]

The United States Supreme Court announced Thursday that it will hear two cases involving laws in Idaho and West Virginia that bar transgender female
Drew Berquist (RVM News)

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kürzungen im sozialen bereich sind nur in einem scheißsystem eine option.

Aktion „#unkürzbar – damit Berlin sozial bleibt“ am 8. Juli vor dem Roten Rathaus

Der Paritätische Wohlfahrtsverband Berlin lädt – gemeinsam mit vielen Mitgliedsorganisationen, Engagierten und Unterstützer*innen – zur Aktion #unkürzbar – damit Berlin sozial bleibt ein.
Parität Berlin

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Antarctic waters getting saltier as sea ice wanes


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Southern Ocean sea ice

Using data from ESA’s SMOS satellite, scientists have revealed a surprising shift in the Southern Ocean – surface waters around Antarctica are growing saltier, even as sea ice is diminishing rapidly. This finding defies the norm because melting ice typically freshens ocean surface water.

The implications are far-reaching as changes in this remote region can disrupt global ocean currents, affect climate patterns, and alter ecosystems far beyond the Antarctic.

#news #space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
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#CalvinAndHobbes by #BillWatterson on GoComics


gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2…

#Humour #Cartoon

Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 4, 2025 | GoComics

Read Calvin and Hobbes—a comic strip by creator Bill Watterson—for today, July 4, 2025, and check out other great comics, too!
www.gocomics.com

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« Allez donc persuader un homme affamé qu'il est juste qu'il ne mange pas, surtout quand c'est lui qui a produit la nourriture. Tant qu'il n'y pense pas il va de l'avant bénissant Dieu et le patron de ce que ça ne va pas plus mal, c'est bien. Mais du moment qu'il commence à réfléchir sur sa condition, tout est fini : il devient un ennemi irréconciliable. »

« Le #capitalisme est le même partout. Il a besoin pour vivre et prospérer d’un état permanent de demi-famine. Il en a besoin pour maintenir élevé les prix des marchandises et aussi pour trouver toujours des affamés prêts à travailler à n'importe quelle condition. »

« La vérité est, que pour la terre comme pour les autres richesses, l'origine de la propriété est la violence. Et vous ne réussirez à la justifier qu'en admettant ce principe : le droit, c'est la force. »

« Selon moi, la propriété individuelle est injuste et immorale parce qu'elle tire son origine ou de la force brutale, ou de la fraude, ou de l'exploitation légale du travail d'autrui ; elle est nuisible parce qu'elle entrave la production, parce qu'elle empêche de recevoir de la terre et du travail, tout ce qui est nécessaire à la satisfaction des besoins de tous les êtres humains ; elle est encore nuisible parce qu'elle crée la misère des masses et engendre la haine, les crimes et la plupart des maux qui affligent la société moderne. »

« Cherchez à pénétrer dans l'esprit de notre programme et ne vous préoccupez pas trop des formules qui, dans notre parti comme dans tous les autres, ne sont qu'une manière concise et frappante, mais presque toujours vague et inexact, d'exprimer une tendance. »

« L'organisation sociale actuelle est une cause permanente d'antagonismes et de conflits entre les classes et les individus ; et si la société peut, malgré cela, se maintenir sans dégénérer littéralement en une horde de loups se dévorant les uns les autres, c'est justement grâce au profond instinct social humain qui provoque ses milles actes de solidarité, de sympathie, de dévouement, de sacrifice qu'on accomplit à chaque instant, sans même y penser. »

« Une volonté populaire générique, abstraite, n'est qu'un idéal métaphysique. »

« Une société proprement dite n'existe qu'entre égaux et les égaux ont l'habitude de s'entendre entre eux s’ils y trouvent plaisir et avantage, mais non de s’assujettir l’un l'autre. »

« L'influence de la police sur le nombre et l'importance des délits est à peu près nulle. En effet, quelles que soient les réformes dans l'organisation de la magistrature, de la police et des prisons, que l'on augmente ou que l'on diminue le nombre de policiers, tant que les conditions économiques et morales du peuple ne changent pas, la criminalité reste sensiblement la même. »

« En général, les actes punissent ceux qui lèsent les privilèges que les riches se sont attribués et ce qui attaquent le gouvernement dans l'exercice de son autorité. De sorte que la police, efficace ou non, est destinée à protéger non pas la #société tout entière, mais les privilégiés, et à tenir le peuple soumis. »

« La révolution sera violente, parce que vous, la classe dominante, vous vous appuyez sur la #violence et ne montrez aucune disposition à céder pacifiquement. »

« C'est nous les #prolétaires, la classe opprimée, qui sommes les électriciens et les gaziers, c'est nous qui conduisons les locomotives, c'est nous qui fabriquons les explosifs et forons les mines, c'est nous qui dirigeons les automobiles et les aéroplanes, c'est nous les soldats… Et c'est nous, hélas, qui vous défendons contre nous-mêmes ! Vous ne vivez que par la volonté inconsciente de vos victimes. Prenez garde à l'éveil des consciences. »

« Le #communisme établi par la volonté du gouvernement, et non par l'action directe et volontaire des groupes de travailleurs, ne me plaît vraiment pas. S'il était possible, il serait la plus étouffante tyrannie à laquelle ait jamais été soumise une société humaine. »


CONVERSATIONS SUR L’ANARCHIE
Errico #Malatesta
256 pages – 12 euros
Éditions Nada – Montreuil – Novembre 2023
www.nada-editions.fr/produit/conversations-sur-lanarchie/
#anarchie #politique

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Mireille M.

Le big problème c’est que la bourgeoisie est le rêve du prolétaire. Trouver quelqu’un qui travaille pour toi en te versant les 80 % du revenu de son labeur….. c’est difficile de faire plus rêver que ça ! Heureusement l’éducation est là pour reproduire les castes avec le minimum d’interférence entre elles. Ça serait ingérable autrement. Chacun à sa place….mais vous pouvez toujours rêver !!! Avec ça le « rêve du prolétaire révolutionnaire » a quelque peu du plomb dans l’aile !!(

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Trying to install Garuda on Surface Pro 5

Only thing that happens is that I get a black screen. Not sure what's happening, no error, nothing.

Disabled secure boot and stuff in UEFI.

Any suggestions? I feel stupid.

Edit: I'll leave it here for whomever might come next: use Ventoy to create the USB, not Rufus, and then boot in grub2 option. It's installing now, at least. Let's see...

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janNatan

Getting Linux on a Surface can be hard.

How did you format the USB drive? I could never get a usb to boot on my Surface Go unless it was made in Rufus using Windows. I believe you need to format the USB (with no iso) as an unbootable disc with fat32 and GPT and THEN put the iso you want on it. (Two separate operations on the same USB stick.)

There's also a custom Linux Kernel just for Surfaces that you can use for better driver compatibility.

Edit: I see you mentioned Ventoy. I got some ISOs to work with it, but most didn't. Then again, I couldn't get some ISOs to work with Rufus either.

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Forced Starvation of Palestinian Children in Gaza.
Infographic by Visualizing Palestine:

[July 2025]. In this visual, we aim to bring attention to the extremely dire impact of Israel’s engineered starvation of Palestinians in Gaza, particularly on children during the ongoing genocide.

#Starvation #FoodAsWeapon
#Gaza #SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SanctionIsrael #BDS
#palestine #Israel #Politics #Genocide #PeaceNow #StopTheWar #CeasefireNow @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel @palestine@lemmy.ml

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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 ser
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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 enti
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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. Ther
e 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 prim
ary 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.

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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 i
nstance arrives, you are only shown a short portion with a link to follow to see the full post on the originating site.

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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. We now have this site also properly federated so any images you share can be viewed on any other Fediverse site by users who follow you, and you can view images posted by anyone on any fediverse site whom you follow.


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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"Il souligne que l'éminent historien israélien Avi #Shlaim vit au #Royaume-Uni et enseigne à l'Université d'Oxford. Contrairement aux porte-parole israéliens bien connus des téléspectateurs de la #BBC, payés pour brouiller les pistes et nier le #génocide israélien, Shlaim connaît parfaitement l'histoire de la #colonisation israélienne de la #Palestine et est véritablement indépendant. Il est en mesure de fournir sereinement le contexte dont les téléspectateurs de la BBC ont besoin pour juger de la situation et des responsabilités.
Et pourtant, chose extraordinaire, Shlaim n'a jamais été invité par la BBC. Il est toujours prêt à donner des interviews. Il en a donné pour Al Jazeera , par exemple.

Mais il n'est pas invité parce qu'il semble être « le mauvais type de Juif ». Ses recherches l'ont conduit à une série de conclusions très critiques sur le traitement historique et actuel des Palestiniens par #Israël.
Il qualifie de génocide les agissements d'Israël à #Gaza. Il fait partie de ces personnalités israéliennes dont on ne nous autorise jamais à entendre parler, car elles risquent de rendre plus crédible et plus mainstream un récit que la BBC souhaite présenter comme marginal, loufoque et antisémite.
Encore une fois, ce que fait la BBC – financée par les contribuables britanniques – n'est pas du journalisme. C'est de la propagande pour un État étranger."


Jonathan Cook: The BBC’s Complicity in Genocide


consortiumnews.com/2025/06/25/…

Le personnel de la BBC : "nous sommes contraints de faire de la communication pro-israélienne"


Il s’agit d’une intervention accablante. Plus d’une centaine d’employés de la BBC ont écrit une lettre au directeur général, Tim Davie, pour se plaindre que la société soit devenue le porte-parole d’Israël.


legrandsoir.info/le-personnel-…

#UK #EU #US #Israel #genocide #Gaza #Palestine


Jonathan Cook: The BBC's Complicity in Genocide

Armed with a report on the state broadcaster's pro-Israel coverage of Gaza, journalist Peter Oborne in a parliamentary meeting last week eviscerated the BBC over its shameful reporting.   By Jonathan Cook Jonathan-Cook.
Consortium News

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.
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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.
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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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