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@spirillen Greetings. In this case, I used a photograph (a woman's face) as a reference. I remove everything that shouldn't be in the image and gradually add what should be there. All of this is done digitally.
Once I have the final sketch, I use AI to generate the final image. Finally, I add animation using image editing software.
The chairman of Russia’s Security Council called on Moscow to be ready to strike the West if it escalates the war in Ukraine — days after President Trump
Based on the ridiculous amount of publicity given to Jeffrey Epstein, I have asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to produce any and all pertinent Grand Jury testimony, subject to Court approval.
If it is a scam, why is there grand jury testimony? Is the testimony a scam? If it isn't a scam, then what part is the scam? If the testimony is a scam, why release it? And why not release the rest of the scam in that case?
"Information that might not matter to you… People in Gaza only need a kilo of flour, because a sack has become a dream, and the price of a kilo has exceeded 110 shekels! A citizen who works all month can’t afford it, so what about a person with no income, and no one checking on them?"
Translation: "Do you remember the first famine in northern Gaza? When we ate animal fodder, corn, and things not meant to be eaten... Today, in this famine, even that fodder is nowhere to be found! From the north to the south, if some goods are available, their prices defy reason and logic, and on top of that, a suffocating liquidity crisis exceeding 45%! Fear God for our sake."
Israeli warplanes killed one and wounded at least 20 in a series of airstrikes on Damascus, Syria, on Wednesday. Israel claimed the attack was to 'protect' the minority Druze community in Syria. But there's more to the story.
Israeli warplanes killed one and wounded at least 20 in a series of airstrikes on Damascus, Syria, on Wednesday. Israel claimed the attack was to ‘protect’ the minority Druze community in Syria. But there’s more to the story.
The CNT's prisoners will have to thank the politicians for their release, and that to me who am an anarchist, has enormous implications. I would like to walk free thanks to the efforts of my comrades and not due to the philanthropy of someone whom I have to fight tooth and nail as soon as I am out. -- Buenaventura Durruti
@Bunsen I do think the ceasefire does help Iran recover and make itself more resilient against infiltration and sabotage. but for the time being, they're not in much of a position to check Israel's aggression elsewhere. But Israel's insane aggression over the past couple of years is gonna catch up to it. They've thrived by keeping the rest of the Middle East fighting amongst each other. It's not wise to piss off all their neighbors at once.
It'll be fun seeing how little this all matters when the boomers all finally die and they're left naked and alone in the dark. Clock's ticking, Israel.
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The CBS cave to Trump continues as the Trump-aligned owners of CBS had the network announce that it will be canceling Late Night With Stephen Colbert in May of 2026.
No, I don't think the US military is currently in charge of anything. The leadership is composed of tranny admirals and five star tranny generals and crossdressers and child molesters just like the legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
The rank and file (and much of the leadership) are DEI hires that have done nothing but guard poppy fields to create opioid epidemics in White America, lose forever wars in the Middle East that make jews rich, and sacrifice young Americans for Israel.
They're a global embarrassment that maintains what legitimacy they have through the existence of a nuclear arsenal that they deny other countries.
The country has no soul, no conviction, no homogeneity, and would be a global laughingstock in a real war that wasn't a business venture for jewish bankers. Its people can't even agree with each other because the jewish media has divided them with hegelian dialectic and flooded the population with third world invaders to destroy trust and cohesion with the society.
I would trust a family of otters to defend itself better than the United States, because when the Boomer generation swallowed the diversity lie it took the only possible source of unity and strength out of the nation. America is now Godless, directionless, and eradicating its own people to avoid being called racist. It's a tax farm for pedophiles. The Taliban won because its people were an actual people, that had something worth fighting for.
Our kids going to war now? Hell, they're mostly brown and uneducated and lack the cognition to properly engage in warfare, but they're dying for a Walmart, a guy fucking their girlfriend back home, a cheeseburger, and a rabbi that wants them dead.
Solitude becomes one of those things that once you get used to it and cross over into feral, you prefer being alone but appreciate company a lot more because you don't have constant people bugging you like when you're in the city 😏
Microsoft's "digital escorts" earning barely above minimum wage are supposed to supervise highly skilled Chinese engineers maintaining Defense Dept systems. One escort admits: "We really can't tell if what they're doing is malicious." Nothing says national security like bargain-basement oversight! 🤦♂️
Microsoft employs engineers in China to help maintain Defense Department computer systems, with U.S. citizens serving as "digital escorts" to oversee the foreign workers, according to a ProPublica investigation.
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The Department of Justice is recommending a one-day sentence for the cop who killed Breonna Taylor in 2020, according to reports. Louisville, Kentucky, police officer Brett Hankison was found guilty of violating Taylor's civil rights last year.
An elite group of Chinese hackers infiltrated the National Guard over nine months, according to a report from NBC News. The Department of Homeland Security initially acknowledged the hack, known by its nickname "Salt Typhoon," in a June memo.
Caitlin Johnstone- The New York Times has published an op-ed by a genocide scholar who says that he resisted acknowledging the truth of what Israel is doing in Gaza for as long as he could, but can no
while i agree with the conclusion, and, even happily concede the logical reasoning offered is sufficiently acceptable... i cannot abide this misuse of a venn diagram. n_n
perhaps a flow chart would have been a better choice. ;)
(ps, yeah. like i've kept saying. he's their boy).
We have all read in scientific books, and, indeed, in all romances, the story of the man who has forgotten his name. This man walks about the streets and can see and appreciate everything; only he cannot remember who he is. Well, every man is that man in the story. Every man has forgotten who he is. One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God; but thou shalt not know thyself.
It is the only way I can express in words my clear and definite perception that one thing is quite distinct from another; that there is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs. It is the man who talks about "a law" that he has never seen who is the mystic. Nay, the ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations. He has so often seen birds fly and lay eggs that he feels as if there must be some dreamy, tender connection between the two ideas, whereas there is none. A forlorn lover might be unable to dissociate the moon from lost love; so the materialist is unable to dissociate the moon from the tide. In both cases there is no connection, except that one has seen them together. A sentimentalist might shed tears at the smell of apple-blossom, because, by a dark association of his own, it reminded him of his boyhood. So the materialist professor (though he conceals his tears) is yet a sentimentalist, because, by a dark association of his own, apple-blossoms remind him of apples. But the cool rationalist from fairyland does not see why, in the abstract, the apple tree should not grow crimson tulips; it sometimes does in his country.
This elementary wonder, however, is not a mere fancy derived from the fairy tales; on the contrary, all the fire of the fairy tales is derived from this. Just as we all like love tales because there is an instinct of sex, we all like astonishing tales because they touch the nerve of the ancient instinct of astonishment. This is proved by the fact that when we are very young children we do not need fairy tales: we only need tales. Mere life is interesting enough. A child of seven is excited by being told that Tommy opened a door and saw a dragon. But a child of three is excited by being told that Tommy opened a door. Boys like romantic tales; but babies like realistic tales—because they find them romantic. In fact, a baby is about the only person, I should think, to whom a modern realistic novel could be read without boring him. This proves that even nursery tales only echo an almost pre-natal leap of interest and amazement. These tales say that apples were golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found that they were green. They make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water. I have said that this is wholly reasonable and even agnostic. And, indeed, on this point I am all for the higher agnosticism; its better name is Ignorance. We have all read in scientific books, and, indeed, in all romances, the story of the man who has forgotten his name. This man walks about the streets and can see and appreciate everything; only he cannot remember who he is. Well, every man is that man in the story. Every man has forgotten who he is. One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God; but thou shalt not know thyself. We are all under the same mental calamity; we have all forgotten our names. We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forget.
"The letter to Epstein bearing Trump’s name is bawdy. It contains several lines of typewritten text framed by the outline of a naked woman, which appears to be hand-drawn with a heavy marker. A pair of small arcs denotes the woman’s breasts, and the future president’s signature is a squiggly 'Donald' below her waist, mimicking pubic hair.
The letter concludes: 'Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.'"
@HiroProtagonist That such a letter could exist isn't all that surprising. They were friends back then after all. What's weird is the way Trump has responded to it. He says that he didn't write the letter or draw the picture, but never addresses the issue of his signature being on it. It will be interesting to see if anything ever comes of his lawsuit.
@HiroProtagonist that would be pretty weird if he began offering details that were never mentioned. All that the WSJ claims is that there were several lines of text and his signature framed by a hand-drawn picture.
@HiroProtagonist it could be as you say, or it could be real. As I said it'll be interesting to see what comes of his lawsuit. The discovery phase could prove interesting as well, if they actually go to trial. As to why this album appeared now, we would have to first know who gave it to the WSJ and when.
At the end of the day, even if it's 100% true, it's not much more than a curiosity from a time when the two were friends.
Sun Tzu wrote speed is “the essence of war.”, he would have been impressed by war-facilitating Meth Amphetamines— stimulate the central nervous system, reducing fatigue and appetite and increasing wakefulness and a sense of well-being,superhumans could be turned into supersoldiers. “We don’t need weak people,” Hitler declared, “we want only the strong!” Weak people took drugs such as opium to escape; strong people took methamphetamine to feel even stronger.
TEHRAN, Jul. 17 (MNA) – Yemen’s Armed Forces have slammed a ballistic missile and four drones into three sensitive Israeli targets after forcing the regime to announce pending closure of one of its key ports.
A Democratic senator is continuing his investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's financial network as President Donald Trump calls on his supporters to move on.Sen.
In a move blasted by The Atlantic's Shane Harris as sheer "pettiness," President Donald Trump prohibited the former Obama administration spymaster from attending the graduation ceremony of a bomb-sniffing dog he sponsored and which was named after hi…
Is it normal in Rimworld for me to be constructing buildings out of various rocks? I have multiple walls of different colors just because I'm using whatever the stone guy gets around to making blocks of.
this is rather interesting. some evidence that the #epstein jail camera footage they released was manipulated beyond just the 1 missing minute x.com/adamscochran/status/1945…
Concurrently with the Zionist entity’s attacks on the Gaza Strip, its brutal practices continue in the West Bank. The occupation army is attacking various parts of the region and implementing plans to Judaize religious centers, including the Ibrahim
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As President Donald Trump tries to distance himself from the Jeffrey Epstein saga, explosive new reporting gives salacious details about the two men's intimate friendship.
Missouri state attorney general Andrew Bailey has demanded information from Meta, OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google for why their AI chatbots ranked Trump last on a list of how well presidents handled antisemitism.
This might actually do some good. LLMs bullshit (make stuff up when they don't know the answer) all the time. That's a big problem for everyone who uses them. If you take the time to fact-check them as much as you should, they use up more time than they save. In other words, they're not useless; they're somewhat worse than useless.
So fine them when they bullshit. Hell, fine them if they say something you don't like. Ruin Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Meta. I won't be sorry to see them go.
There are legal and philosophical questions to which there is no clear answer, only considerations. How should an AI decide what is right there?
There are freedoms guaranteed in human rights, such as freedom of the press and the right to physical integrity. But what happens when the press calls for war? Which freedom then dominates?
Apparently the attorney general thinks that AI should be politically impartial. Why should it be? If you don't like what it says, stop listening to it.
Or make your own chatbot that agrees with you about everything.
Same with Meta. If you don't like what you read on Facebook and Instagram, stop reading it.
I think what he and others want is not to be publicly disagreed with. If that's what you want, you'll just have to live somewhere other than the USA. We've always teased, laughed at, and otherwise disrespected our elected government officials. That's not going to change.
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Clickbaity title on the original article, but I think this is the most important point to consider from it:
After getting to 1% in approximately 2011, it took about a decade to double that to 2%. The jump from 2% to 3% took just over two years, and 3% to 4% took less than a year.
Get the picture? The Linux desktop is growing, and it's growing fast.
I tested Gnome and KDE Plasma5 in the last year. KDE Plasma is in my opinion the first DE which is comparable with Win/MacOS. It looks modern, is pretty much feature complete and as an average user its nice to have useful apps preinstalled (calculator, libreoffice, firefox and so on), but no bloatware.
Its just a bit more customizable than windows, which is perfect and also not fiddly and a pain. It certainly has a handful of quirks, like Windows does, but you get used to them.
If I have to set up elderly relatives with a computer, I'd strongly consider a KDE Plasma Desktop
Well as someone who's been using gnome since about 3.10 I might be able to explain my view: Before that I've used plasma and Unity and a whole lot of Mate but then I started using Gnome for a pretty and smooth experience right out of the Box. Now I've simply been using it for so long that it's muscle memory all the way. I don't agree with everything the gnome devs decide and I definitely am annoyed that I have to use extension for small things that should just be a toogle in the settings but I've realized some time ago that if I did switch to plasma I would use all the customizability to make it work like Gnome ... so I stay on Gnome.
I instinctively do that as well, on Windows, Cinnamon and Plasma and it didnt work on Gnome, Superkey opened the Startmenu but then typing didnt search. Thats what I wanted to ask, if I miss something obvious or if Gnome doesnt offer that feature out of the box.
Debian probably changed the Key for the Spotlight-like search.
SteamOS and Bazzite are certainly contributing among gamers, but there also seem to be a lot of casual users moving to Mint and pop!_os. I've seen quite a few people using them to extend the life of older hardware.
The 5% story was published yesterday. This new article from today says that they trust the government site figures more than StatCounter which was cited on yesterday's story.
I know! This article kind of addresses that with this line: "although we can't be certain of the exact numbers, Linux is clearly growing".
Interestingly enough, reading through again, the 6% figure is from US government sites, but the growth numbers in the line I quoted in the post is actually global. Here's the graph they're referring to:
I hadn't noticed that dip in 2025 until I looked at this graph more closely!
Yeah, unfortunate to rain in the parade but GNU/Linux definitely needs some attention sooner rather than later. Plenty of design benefits, but also plenty of pitfalls from an OS sec POV.
Average users aren't installing SELinux or Qubes so I hope no-one was actually going to reply with what Linux can do as opposed to the everyday user experience.
After getting to 1% in approximately 2011, it took about a decade to double that to 2%. The jump from 2% to 3% took just over two years, and 3% to 4% took less than a year.
I only installed it once for fun in a VM but didn't really use it. It's different to Linux but you could get used to it. As far as I know however the hardware that it properly runs on is quite limited, mainly older stuff. So I wouldn't recommend it as a daily driver but I would recommend to try it out.
But Norway's Linux spiked up to almost 30% in July 2024 as well. So I don't really trust these sites. My guess is that it's due to Tesla's web browser or something? Tesla is the most popular electric car brand in Norway: 77k Model Y and 50k Model 3 are registered, and the only model with higher numbers is the Nissan Leaf with 81k, but that'll be taken over very shortly (so far in 2025, there have been over 11k Model Y registrations, with the next runner-up being the Toyota BZ4X with 4,6k)
There's an uptick in 'Unknown' (currently at 26%).
Linux adoption might have slowed down because India - US relations have improved since then, because Trump can be distracted by promising him trade deals. Of course the deal he wants (giving US agri companies access to the Indian market) will face opposition from farmers' unions, so I'm not sure what the govt's long-term plan is.
One good thing is that when a govt dept switches to Linux, it sort of sticks. And govt contracts are very profitable, so we'll likely see greater interest from both hardware and software companies.
A king once summoned a wise man who had done him a great service and said, “Name your reward.” The wise man replied, “Your Majesty, I ask for a simple thing. Give me one percent Linux desktop market share for the first square of the chessboard, two percent for the second square, four percent for the third square, and so on, doubling the amount for each of the 64 squares.” The king, thinking this was a modest request, said, “Surely you jest! Such a small reward for such a great service? Ask for gold, land, or jewels instead.” But the wise man insisted, and the king agreed. The king ordered his treasurer to calculate the total. Starting with 1% for the first square, 2% for the second, 4% for the third, 8% for the fourth… by the time they reached the tenth square, they needed 512% of the desktop market. The treasurer, pale with realization, informed the king that by the 64th square, they would need more market share than could possibly exist in the entire universe of computing devices. The king then understood that what seemed like a humble request was actually impossible to fulfill, and he gained a new respect for the power of exponential growth.
KDE Plasma is so good, I love it. But I think that Cinnamon (the default environment for Linux Mint) is also super user-friendly.
There's no good excuse not to use Linux in 2025 if you're a home user. Except maybe if you rely on some software such as SharePoint, the Adobe or the Serif Affinity suites.
If you game Cachyos (just installs everything relevant for you, coming to linux itll help you figure out whats commonly used), endeavoros if you wanna set up arch quickly, grab stuff for yourself and build your own desktop, bazzite if you game and are scared to break shit, idk if I would reccomend ubuntu just because I don't like snaps or the snap store, just comparing it to flathub, flathubs missing a few games/apps like rexuiz but nothing important.
Bazaar is pretty nice to use (new bazzite default), one thing I disliked coming to linux was lack of gui download manager and progress in the appstores, tried them all and hated them, while Bazaar feels great and comparing the search to others it actually works, like if I search fps all the fps games pop up, while on others maybe one or two that have it in the title.
I think ppl get terminal anxiety but thats less and less of an issue, like you don't need to ever touch it because of stuff like octopi, software/discover/bazaar,etc. I remember just getting anxious thinking id forget a command I really need to remember and I wouldn't have internet axis and id be fked (not an issue lol)
The key point is that Europe's governments are ditching MS one by one. One of the state governments of India, that of Kerala, is also fostering a local chapter for open source and Linux.
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Well, you may throw your rock, and hide your hand Workin' in the dark against your fellow man But as sure as God made black and white What's done in the dark will be brought to the light You can run on for a long time Run on for a long time Sooner or later, God'll cut you down
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in reply to Spirillen • • •@spirillen Greetings. In this case, I used a photograph (a woman's face) as a reference. I remove everything that shouldn't be in the image and gradually add what should be there. All of this is done digitally.
Once I have the final sketch, I use AI to generate the final image. Finally, I add animation using image editing software.
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