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calibre: The one stop solution for all your e-book needs. Comprehensive e-book software.calibre-ebook.com
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Calibre is one of the great pieces of FOSS software, and demonstrates everything good about FOSS: it has regular updates; it's been around for simply ages; it works really, really well; it gets updates and new features and yet has never in my memory had a breaking, non-backwards-compatible release... it's stable; and it resists - in its way - the attempt by publishers to steal our rights and ownerships of our media.
I ~~contribute~~ donate to Calibre. I hope that Goyal has a successor lined up to take the helm who can continue such an outstanding contribution when he finally retires from the project.
Edit: clarification
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International institutions are simply sticks with which to intimidate and beat countries run by Black and Brown people. That's all they are, but remember, the colonizers don't have to obey the rules. They never have and never will.
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A senior legal adviser to the US State Department has issued a dramatic threat to the International Criminal Court's oversight body, warning that "all options are on the table" if the court does not drop investigations and arrest warrants against the…Imran Mulla (Middle East Eye)
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Nominate Francesca Albanese for the Nobel Peace Prize!
📍Abasan Al-Kabira area, east of Khan Younis city, south of the Strip.
As part of the "Stones of David" operations series: Scenes from the raid on enemy soldiers and vehicles that were convening.
Hamas attempted to capture two Zionist vehicles and two military bulldozers.
Hamas struck the bulldozer and disabled it, and when the IOF bulldozer driver tried to flee, they shot him and took his weapons.
The end of the video they show two rifles and a handgun they took from the terrorist.
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🚨BREAKING: Al-Qassam Brigades show uncensored footage killing an Israeli soldier: 📍Abasan Al-Kabira area, east of Khan Younis city, south of the Strip.UpScrolled
#Polizeigewalt bei propalästinensischer Demo in #Berlin. Ihr erinnert Euch: "ein schwer verletzter Polizist, in die Masse hineingerissen"?
Videoauawertung: Polizisten betreten pro-aktiv die Menschenmenge.
Ausbilder: „Der Beamte mit der Rückennummer 24111 ist mir den ganzen Tag über aufgefallen“, sagt Clemens Arzt. „Ich empfand ihn als ziemlich aggressiv, er ist immer wieder in die Menge rein und hat zugeschlagen.“
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Bei propalästinensischen Protesten in Berlin soll ein Polizist von den Demonstranten schwer verletzt worden sein. Eine Videoanalyse der Rechercheagentur Forensis, die SZ und NDR einsehen und prüfen konnten, zeigt ein anderes Bild.Jan Heidtmann (Süddeutsche Zeitung)
The military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement has praised a resistance operation near the Gush Etzion settlement and urged increased direct confrontation with Israeli forces and settlers across the occupied West Bank.Iran Press
Orwell Diaries 1938-1942
Link: orwelldiaries.wordpress.com/pa…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
George Orwell's domestic and political diary entries, posted 70 years to the day after they were writtenOrwell Diaries 1938-1942
I turned it on while monitoring its usage, because i havent used this prior i had to measure its impact, good thing that storage is something i have in abundance, but still something that grows with 100GB a week with the only plus point being slightly faster images and videos is not worth it in my book, at least not in its current implementation.
As far as i know Misskey is lacking 2 essential features for this:
- The ability to set a expire date on cache items
- Max cache size setting
If i had these two there would not have been much of an issue
Mastodon is even worse, it has to cache everything!
MIsskey probably still lacks support for deleting old feerated posts.
Sad.
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Of course, not just in America. Just the same in Europe. You see it everywhere. I remember an exchange here with a lovely environmentalist who was a good Mastodon friend before, who was so suspicious of Dr Ghassan Abu-Sitah (the rector of Glasgow university) when he was denied entry into France that she tried to prove that he was lying on twitter and was a Hamas sympathesiser. She unfollowed me when I tried explain that her “sources” were known Zionist propaganda.
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With the caveat that to some extent it's not even about impugning suspected ulterior motives. There have been examples of Israel-apologists complaining that a literal and sincere call for “equal rights for all” is somehow offensive. Not because of being a supposed front for malicious intentions, but because the actual concept of equal rights per se is objectionable to them.
The World Health Organization warned on Tuesday of the deteriorating health situation in the Gaza Strip, stressing that current conditions have become catastrophic, especially for pregnant and breastfeeding women, in light of the ongoing Israeli bomDAILY YEMEN
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Good news for minimalists.
BastilleBSD now supports `bastille upgrade` on thin jails too!
Stay up-to-date without manual steps! Tried and tested in the upcoming Bastille 1.0 release!
In an interview with RT Palestinian Agriculture Minister Dr. Rezq Basheer-Salimia highlights a new agricultural cooperation agreement, and discusses Indonesia’s plan to provide land to Palestine for f...Odysee
Nominate Francesca Albanese for the Nobel Peace Prize — no one deserves it more right now. She embodies moral clarity, courage, and truth in a world drowning in silence and complicity. A symbol of justice, humanity, and fearless leadership.Substack
Australia Unveils Plan To Fight "Antisemitism" By Crushing Free Speech
South Korea, US and Japan hold aerial drill in demonstration of strength against North Korea
https://apnews.com/article/south-north-korea-us-japan-russia-2d22da7f0f031c2d75699a5f164dd89d?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Asia @asia-AssociatedPress
Entonces, al servicio de mastodon.social que no para de denunciarme toots, le digo:
Si, creo que el estado de Israel es genocida y que TODA VIOLENCIA que provenga del diezmado y torturado pueblo palestino es legítima defensa y merece el apoyo incondicional de toda persona de bien.
Y sí, también creo que el discurso berreta de las "políticas de género" y la exaltación de las parafilias son desvíos de atención para que la izquierda no se ocupe de la distribución del ingreso, que es lo único que realmente importa.
DENUNCIAME ESTA, FASCISTA HIJO DE PUTA.
Zohran Mamdani was never supposed to win. Up against former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo – a well-funded candidate backed by real estate interests andHamza Shehryar (CounterPunch.org)
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crazy to think, but all AI actually works like this
the data trained on is inherently biased because we live in an incredibly unjust world
this is just an incredibly obvious showing of what has always been the inherent limitation of AI techcrunch.com/2025/07/10/grok…
Elon Musk's newly launched AI chatbot, Grok 4, seemed to reference Musk's posts on social media before answering controversial questions.Maxwell Zeff (TechCrunch)
an AI doesn't have to be made by a fascist in order to be fascist
its trained on a culture and history deeply rooted in western centered white supremacy
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Nextcloud update! 31.0.7
Owncloud stores files in their own format, nextcloud stores them natively
You are locked in owncloud forever
Nextckoud can do the same if you use s3 as the main storage backend
President Trump started his second term exactly where he left off in 2021, waging an everyday psychological and physical war on immigrants. Joe Biden'sAbraham Márquez (CounterPunch.org)
Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)"
Link: simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/11/…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
If you ask the new Grok 4 for opinions on controversial questions, it will sometimes run a search to find out Elon Musk’s stance before providing you with an answer. …Simon Willison’s Weblog
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An American president, a convicted felon, welcomed, for the third time this year, an indicted Israeli war criminal to the White House; further sullying what remains of America’s standing in the world.
What should we make of Mamdani's stunning victory? Much of the commentary —regardless of vantage point— is grandiose, highly speculative, and withoutRichard Moser (CounterPunch.org)
The international community is placing enormous expectations on the proposed Gaza ceasefire, viewing it as a potential turning point in a conflict thatAmeer Al-Auqaili (CounterPunch.org)
My PewDiePie Linux challenge is complete;
1. use Hyprland (but on Debian
2. Switched to GrapheneOS
3. Nextcloud (for a while now)
US President Donald Trump has threatened heavy tariffs on BRICS, claiming the organization is "dead", but it is actually growing in size and influence. 10 me...YouTube
A small price to pay for having billionaires and trillion-dollar corporations, wouldn’t you say?
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Heat caused 2,300 deaths across 12 cities, of which 1,500 were down to climate crisis, scientists sayAjit Niranjan (The Guardian)
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damn. got fediblocked by mastodon dot art, and they think im someone else ig mastodon.art/@jase/11483168301…
how about. #fediblock @jase for false accusations of "harassement" shall I? xP
Content warning: Nya.pub, freedns, fediblock, open for all free subdomain service that you guessed it dav1d makes use ofMastodon.ART
Thinking for no particular reason today* about the peculiar genius of Stanislaw Lem
A Jew, a doctor, a Pole, in the resistance against Hitler & Stalin & capitalism, an SF legend, feared by PK Dick, lauded by UK Le Guin
…& one of the earliest AGI skeptics
>… held that information technology drowns people in a glut of low-quality information, and considered truly intelligent robots as both undesirable and impossible to construct.
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*seriously, this is not a subtoot
AI coding tools can reduce productivity
Link: secondthoughts.ai/p/ai-coding-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Study Shows That Even Experienced Developers Dramatically Overestimate GainsSteve Newman (Second Thoughts)
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Olive leaf extract effective in patients with stage-1 hypertension
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A double-blind, randomized, parallel and active-controlled clinical study was conducted to evaluate the anti-hypertensive effect as well as the tolerability of Olive leaf extract in comparison with Captopril in patients with stage-1 hypertension.PubMed
The Trump administration’s sanctions against UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese show how far the U.S. is willing to go to ensure impunity for Israel as it commits genocide.Craig Mokhiber (Mondoweiss)
A senior US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official on Wednesday told a federal court judge that its investigation of pro-Palestinian student protestors has been largely informed by a pro-Israel website that blacklists academics and studen…Syma Mohammed (Middle East Eye)
We are about to get screwed again! This time with the New World Screwworm!
US Orders "Immediate Shutdown" Of Mexican Cattle Trade After Cross-Border Parasitic Fly Threat
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ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zeroTyler Durden (www.zerohedge.com)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has formally ordered the Israeli military to create plans for the creation of a giant concentration camp on the ruins of Rafah, where the population of Gaza would be moved in preparation for their forcible ex…World Socialist Web Site
The Internet is a lot safer today than it was a decade ago, thanks to Let's Encrypt.
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Over the last ten years, more than 600 million websites have been secured with free certificates from Let's Encrypt. Here's how it all began and why.Steven Vaughan-Nichols (ZDNET)
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In an extraordinary act of imperialist intimidation, President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday the imposition of 50 percent tariffs on all products exported by Brazil to the United States.World Socialist Web Site
'Hand To God, I Know The Names': Alan Dershowitz Says He Knows Who's On The Epstein List
(He ought to. He's one of them!)
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ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zeroTyler Durden (www.zerohedge.com)
Children among at least 15 killed in attack that NGO says was ‘blatant violation of international humanitarian law’William Christou (The Guardian)
Good thing he doesn't go on You Can't do That on Television.
Donald Trump hasn’t been happy with Vladimir Putin lately, and he took out his frustrations with Russia’s president this week by announcing that the United States would resume sending military aid to Ukraine. When he was asked on Tuesday who ordered the aid to be paused in the first place, Trump delivered what has become one of his go-to responses whenever he’s pressed about the chaos his administration is unleashing on the nation and the world.“I don’t know,” he said.
The pause on aid to Ukraine was apparently ordered last week by beleaguered Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who reportedly neglected to tell the White House about the move, leading to internal scrambling. Trump was asked whether he approved the pause while sitting next to Hegseth during a Cabinet meeting. The president only offered that the U.S. needs to keep sending “defensive weapons” to Ukraine because “Putin is not treating human beings right.” When asked who ordered the pause, Trump said he didn’t know. “Why don’t you tell me?” he added.
This would be far more amusing if he got slimed every time he said that.
Also, what kind of strongman doesn't know what's going on in his loyal junta?
Donald Trump has responded by shrugging his shoulders to questions about everything from posting AI-generated images to military aid to Ukraine.Ryan Bort (Rolling Stone)
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Public accounts committee warns UK infrastructure risked becoming ‘stony ground’ for investors without major overhaulJoanna Partridge (The Guardian)
There have been modest redistributive reforms, but the party still daren’t admit that Britain’s rampant inequality needs to be addressed, writes Guardian columnist Andy BeckettAndy Beckett (The Guardian)
What Albanese’s report tries to do is not merely name and shame Israel’s genocide partners but to tell us, as civil society, that we now have a comprehensive frame of reference.admin (Politics For The People)
While offering his “thoughts and prayers” for the families of those drowned in the Texas floods, JD Vance referred to the killer torrents that swept awayJeffrey St. Clair (CounterPunch.org)
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Extermination tactics are chillingly familiar – and aim to murder more than a million people Wanted Israeli war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu has outlined his plan for the next escalation of Is…SKWAWKBOX
As socialists from all over the world prepare to attend the 139th Durham Miners’ Gala, we explore the story of the Gala’s iconic banners, which celebrate our historic solidarity and continuing hope in the face of oppression and hatred.
A year into the new Labour Government, key hardship measures show no improvement - over 7 million low-income families are still going without essentials.Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Mahmoud Khalil says he’s willing to throw away the lawsuit on one condition.The New Republic
Take a closer look at what the Justice Department memo says—and doesn’t say—about the sexual predator’s “client list.”Philip Rotner (The Bulwark)
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The fossil-fuel profits behind Trump’s Texas disaster
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Trump’s denial that the death toll from the Texas floods is the fault of his cuts feeds into adangerous new recklessness of the fossil-fuel sector, argues John Clarke This week’s disastrous flooding in Texas has raised questions about the degree t…Counterfire
How the Bank of England is enforcing austerity | Counterfire
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The central bank’s quantitative tightening programme is not much discussed, but is central to the government’s cuts and failure to invest in public services, argues Dominic Alexander Starmer’s government shows no sign of letting up from its war ag…Counterfire
Desperate measures: Why the clampdown over Palestine can be made to fail | Counterfire
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Attacks on the Palestine movement are backfiring argues Chris Nineham In the last couple of weeks, state harassment of the Palestine movement has turned into a cackhanded clampdown.Counterfire
Gute Morgen, die Nacht war gut. Ich bin gestern um 20.00 Uhr ins Bett gefallen. Einfach fertig.
Ich wünsche Euch allen einen guten Start in den Freitag!
Ach ja, eine News, die ich gut fand: Der Carlsen Verlag geht endlich gegen die Conny Memes durch. Richtig so.
Turd Flinging Monkey
1 Is on a omnivore diet because he flavors his meat with plants
2 Is on a carnivore diet and does not flavor his meats with plants
3 Is on some other diet
4 TFMonkey does not exist
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The empire depends on ignorance, says Caitlin Johnstone. The more stupid, racist, gullible, and easily distracted we become, the nastier agendas the empire can roll out.Consortium News
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