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Another day, another complaint about Microsoft from LibreOffice. This time, LibreOffice accuses Microsoft of intentionally using overly complex XML to define documents and lock in users.
Today in Labor History July 18, 1934: “The American Mercury” accepted Emma Goldman's article, "Communism: Bolshevist & Anarchist, A Comparison.” However, it was not until a year later that it was published, in a truncated form, as "There is No Communism in Russia." Goldman had been deported by the U.S. in 1919, during the Palmer raids, and sent to Russia, where she lived with her comrade, Alexander Berkman, for several years. She was initially supportive of the Bolsheviks, until Trotsky brutally crushed the Kronstadt rebellion, in 1921, slaughtering over 1,000 sailors and then executing over a thousand more. After this, she left the USSR and, in 1923, published a book about her experiences, “My Disillusionment in Russia.” H.L. Menken founded “The American Mercury,” in 1924, and published radical writers throughout the 1920s and ‘30s. A change of ownership in the 1940s led to a shift to the far right, including virulently antisemitic articles.
Time for a poll. You can only choose one desktop environment and you have to use it everyday. Which one are you using: GNOME or KDE Plasma?
NOTE: do not suggest something else.
Tyrell Wellick: "So I see you're running GNOME. Y'know, I'm actually on KDE myself. I know this desktop environment is supposed to be better, but you know what they say: Old habits, they die hard."
Also - so very glad to have a choice. Also also - there's always XFCE and other even more minimal environments. GNOME isn't my favourite but it's not terrible, it's just ... Meh.
i also think more people should be open to trying out the GNOME experience. i started out with KDE (in part because of anti-GNOME sentiment) but ended up falling in love with GNOME’s UX. things are not as “broken” in stock GNOME than most people make it out to be.
"Some much needed hope fuel - the latest from @cbmilstein. "When I posted the “call for submissions” for this humble project, many folks shared it for me. In doing so, one friend noted that it was another in my series of “hopeful” zines. Just to set the record straight (or queer), I’m not hopeful. This zine does not offer sugarcoated “hope” to somehow smooth over these utterly distasteful times. Ye"
The CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov took part in an international conference on: "The fight against international terrorism: approaches and Russia's contribution" en.odkb-csto.org/news/news_odk…
OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger will visit the CSTO Secretariat and take part in the meeting of the Permanent Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization
"In clearing the way for President Trump’s efforts to transform American government, the Supreme Court has issued a series of orders that often lacked a fundamental characteristic of most judicial work: an explanation of the court’s rationale.
"The three liberals agree on an overarching theme: They no longer see the Court playing by the old game of constitutional law. Their dissents suggest anything but an assumption of business as usual. The three liberal justices are writing about a majority unbound by law and its tiresome technicalities—about a majority that is no longer doing law as that term has come to be understood."
"As we approach this milestone [the 60th anniversary of the passing of the Voting Rights Act], we find ourselves not in a moment of reflection or rededication but in a state of legal free fall."
"The Supreme Court has scheduled arguments next term on Louisiana’s racially gerrymandered congressional map, and the court as early as next week may put on hold and set for argument a case in which the 8th Circuit held that private plaintiffs have no right to sue to enforce Section 2 of the act."
"These pending decisions threaten to gut what remains of this once powerful statute, which has already been largely hollowed out by the Roberts court over the past decade-plus."
Elie Mystal says that in giving Trump the power to decimate the Department of Education, the Supremes have once again crowned him king:
"That is not the power of a president, it’s the power of a dictator. More than granting Trump immunity, more than anything else this court has done, this ruling gives him the powers of a king."
"And the Republicans on the court did this while they were on vacation, in an emergency-docket ruling that didn’t even require them to explain themselves.
The Supreme Court is of no more use. It will not protect democracy, the rule of law, or even the constitutional order. The next Democratic president should use the powers granted to Trump to impound the court."
"We are living through a time when Catholic identity is being hijacked by power. Through networks like Opus Dei, and the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, far-right religious leaders have built an anti-democracy machine that frames cruelty as virtue and domination as divine will."
"These forces, wealthy, secretive, and politically connected, have spent decades quietly embedding their ideology into American institutions.
Their goal is nothing short of a return to a feudalistic model of governance: hierarchy, submission, and clerical control. They speak of 'natural law' and 'order' but act out of ambition, not mercy."
"The installation of six Supreme Court justices tied to this movement, largely orchestrated by Leonard Leo, is no coincidence. It is a calculated campaign to undo democracy in the name of Christ."
The history that people concerned about the Supreme Court's destruction of democracy — destruction driven by theocratic ideas — need to know is the following:
When civil rights legislation was enacted by the Democrats in the 1960s, white evangelicals kicked and screamed. At this point, the US Catholic bishops allied themselves with white evangelicals.
That alliance has had fateful and lasting consequences. It led first to the formation of the Religious Right and eventually to MAGA and white Christian nationalism.
To make the Religious Right's crusade against the Democrats and human rights appear more morally acceptable than it was when it was born out of racism, the Catholic bishops focused on abortion.
White evangelicals, who had never said a peep about the abortion issue and couldn't care less about it, became gung-ho in the anti-abortion cause, with the U.S. Catholic bishops quietly engineering this response behind the scenes — and assisting Leonard Leo in the stacking the Supreme Court with hard-right Opus Dei-leaning Catholics.
The media have focused largely on white evangelicals as the big force intent on replacing democracy with theocracy, but behind the scenes, the U.S. Catholic bishops, who have done everything they can to make it appear their hands are not dirty, have pulled the strings, using white evangelicals while avoiding media scrutiny.
The resistance to breakthroughs in recognizing the rights of minority communities that began with civil rights legislation according rights to people of color has expanded to bitter resistance among both evangelicals and the U.S. Catholic bishops to rights for women and LGBTQ people. This resistance is at the heart of the determination to dismantle democracy.
Linda Chavez thinks that the decision of the "pro-life" Supreme Court's right-wing Catholic bloc to allow deportations to third-world countries should shock American consciences (the terms "pro-life" and "right-wing Catholic bloc" are my addition, not hers).
"On July 3, the Supreme Court handed down its final order vacating the lower court’s preliminary injunction and paving the way for their removal to South Sudan—due process, to determine whether this violates U.S. and international law barring torture, be damned."
"The prisoners were on the ground in Juba, the South Sudanese capital, one day later.
We have no way of knowing what will happen to these men now. The Trump administration claims it received assurances that they would not be tortured. But it has not disclosed what provisions it has taken, if any, to ensure that South Sudan’s government makes good on those assurances."
"U.S. border czar Tom Homan told Politico last week that once the U.S. deports an individual to a place like South Sudan, it doesn’t track their ongoing status or even what country they’ll be in a week later."
Speaking of "pro-life" Catholics, that's Homan's self-description, too.
After a five-year-long investigation into the Work of God, financial journalist Gareth Gore accuses the organization of holding Spain’s sixth-largest bank hostage, while exploiting and mistreating members.
If this is true, I wonder how the pope would be involved in all this? then again, I'm not surprised, because the Catholic church is such a large institution.
It is never too late to invite God into your life. He loves you more than you can possibly imagine. Personally, it was the best decision I've ever made.
Got up at some god awful hour this morning and drove to Melbourne airport to drop off my partner. Then crawled for over an hour in traffic to get home and fire up the laptop when all I want to do is curl up back in bed. Maybe I should schedule a few naps.
Babies spent half the day galloping around playing chasey. Now they've devoured dinner and are curled up together on the couch. Supervisor's gone to bed to leech heat from the electric blanket.
The babies are up and galloping. Today's fun is leaping onto a footstool then leaping off it, pushing it further around the room each time. They rushed past Supervisor earlier, excited by the thought of brekky. She boofed up her tail, startled and has now retired to the safety of the bed.
I have to go into the office today, hopefully no tufts of fur on the floor when I get home.
Got home from work and sat with my tabby friend on the couch for a cuddle time. Supervisor giving me evil eye from the cat post because she feels if I am home, regardless of time, it's now dinner time. It was not quite dinner time so I had a sit.
Now they've all had dinner and the kittens are filled with joy and energy and are back to the mad sprints and chasey. From the dent in my bed I'd say Supervisor spent most of her day there.
if you’ve got trapped-under-cat-leave unused, today is a good day to take a cattie. Our grandparents picketed for nearly a year to win our right to PTUCL.
Trans pride in Brighton tomorrow. I should be going a long. I'm super tired, so I'm hoping if I take it easy, I can reclaim some energy before then. Its also meant to rain all day which is frankly rude.
The main thing NPR and PBS are losing by being defunded is credibility. Both of them use their "public" status to virtue signal when really most of their funding comes from people like Bill Gates and George Soros. They performed like TMZ, so they deserve to be treated like TMZ.
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“we are revolutionaries and insurrectionists because we do not just want to improve existing institutions but to destroy them completely, abolishing every form of domination by man over man, and every kind of parasitism on human labour” ― Errico Malatesta
Aldous Huxley ~ Slavery by consent You're being made to enjoy your servitude.From Aldous Huxley - Speech at UC Berkeley, The Ultimate Revolution 1962 Aldous...
Das Landgericht Berlin II verhandelt eine Anzeige gegen den jW-Autor Jakob Reimann, wird voraussichtlich gegen ihn urteilen und ist an Gegebenheiten des Nahostkonflikts nicht interessiert.
The head of the Canadian Army has temporarily removed the commanding officer of the Cameron Highlanders in Ottawa after discovering a Facebook group with
Another day, another complaint about Microsoft from LibreOffice. This time, LibreOffice accuses Microsoft of intentionally using overly complex XML to define documents and lock in users.
James Gunn’s new Superman movie, which draws an analogy between Israel and the villainous country of Boravia, demonstrates how Israel's idealized image in American culture has been shattered by the widespread acknowledgment of Palestinian oppression.
James Gunn’s new Superman movie, which draws an analogy between Israel and the villainous country of Boravia, demonstrates how Israel’s idealized image in American culture has been shattered by the widespread acknowledgment of Palestinian oppression.
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Lefty Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass was among those to help fuel an alleged hoax that claimed ICE had kidnapped an illegal immigrant mom and then tried to force her to self-deport.
Bass spread the claims in a newly resurfaced social media post — just weeks before the migrant, Yuriana Julia “Juli” Pelaez Calderon, was accused of staging the abduction as part of an elaborate scam.
“She’s a mother from LA — taken out of her car on her way to work, and then held in a warehouse as officers hoped she would ‘self-deport.’ No hearing. Just fear. This doesn’t make anyone safer,” Bass posted on X on July 1.
To listen/follow the Trance Top 100 playlist on Spotify, check https://ArmadaMusic.lnk.to/TranceTop1000"You're Not Alone" is a song written by Tim Kellett an...
@arrrg I can see what you mean about the ratio, but the focus should be on actions being terrible, rather than who they’re done to. It doesn’t save anyone there to add victims anywhere else.
I’m sure you know this and I wouldn’t even speak to it, except there is a thread of thought rn among mostly young folks that if “we” (really, the more-vulnerable closer to home) just suffer enough from our own rulers, we’ll finally be moved to stop them, and it smells like accelerationism.
The files we need to see are the Epstein Suspicious Activity Reports. That is the whole ballgame. Follow the money. Who paid him, and who did he pay? That's everything!
Are FAA flight records required to list passenger names as well as crew? I would want to see those. Flights in and out of the airport to get guests in/out of the island. To quote The X Files: The truth is out there.
As the genocide of Palestinians continues with daily massacres of scores, sometimes hundreds, of starving people being targeted and killed by the Israeli military as they come to attempt to get food, another ship of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla coalitio…
The official spokesperson for Hamas's armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, announced on Friday that the Palestinian group repeatedly offered to release all the captives held in Gaza at once, as part of a comprehensive ceasefire deal, but Israel rejected …
The end of colonialism is accelerating. #France is forced to close its military base in #Senegal after recently being expelled from #Chad, #Mali, #Niger and #BurkinaFaso #EU 's return to Nazism as the #Czech clown did today is the death rattle before the final collapse. #Europe is dying Or maybe is already dead...
The Arch Linux team addressed the issue as soon as they became aware of the situation. As of today, 18th of July, at around 6pm UTC+2, the offending packages have been deleted from the AUR."
ngl all 3 of those packages just look rotten. Fix-bin, patched-bin. Doesn't follow the usual naming conventions for how packages are named on the aur. It's always a good idea to check the package builds. To make sure nothing funky is happening.
In the vacuum of space, where temperatures can plunge to minus 455 degrees Fahrenheit, it might seem like keeping things cold would be easy. But the reality is more complex for preserving ultra-cold fluid propellants – or fuel – that can easily overheat from onboard systems, solar radiation, and spacecraft exhaust. The solution is a […]
In the vacuum of space, the reality is fuel can easily overheat from onboard systems, solar radiation, and spacecraft exhaust. The solution is a method called cryogenic fluid management,
بازی DOGWALK، آخرین پروژهٔ استودیوی بلندر، یه بازی ایندی مستقل و خوشساخته که همین چند روز پیش در ۱۱ جولای ۲۰۲۵ برای کامپیوتر منتشر شده. توی این بازی نقش Chocomel، یه سگ بزرگ و ماجراجو رو به عهده دارین که به یه کودک بانمک به نام Pinda کمک میکنه تا یه سری تزئینات برای آدمبرفیشون پیدا کنن! DOGWALK چیزی فراتر از یه بازیه؛ یه نمایش هنری جذاب از تواناییهای نرمافزار بلندر و موتور بازیسازی گودوته.
جهانی با طراحی بصری متفاوت
اولین چیزی که ممکنه توجهتون رو جلب کنه، سبک بصری دلنشینشه. دنیای بازی به صورت یه دیورامای کاغذی دستساز پردازش شده که با جزئیات چشمگیری طراحیش کردن. درختها برگهای کاغذی دارن، بوتهها زیر پا تا میشن، تابلوهای کوچیکی که مسیرو بهت نشون میدن و پلهایی که از روی رودخونهها ردت میکنن؛ قشنگ حسوحال تکهای از صحنههای یه کارتون استاپموشنو منتقل میکنه! (:
گیمپلی و مکانیک بازی: تجربهای منحصربهفرد
تو این بازی در نقش یه سگ بزرگ و دوستداشتنی قرار میگیرین که همراه انسان خودشو راهنمایی میکنه. قلادهای که این دو شخصیتو به هم وصل میکنه، هسته گیمپلی بازیو تشکیل میده که روی ناوبری تأثیر میذاره و موقعیتهای خندهدار و بامزهای رقم میزنه. مثلاً میتونین بهتندی حرکت کنین و Pinda رو مجبور به دویدن کنین که خستهش میکنه، پس باید مکث کنین و با لیس زدنش دلداریش بدین و دوباره سر حالش بیارین!
تمرکز بازی روی اکشتاف و لذت بردن از گشتگذاره تا به چالش کشیدن بازیکن. بازی کردن DOGWALK چیزی بین یه ربع تا ۲۰ دقیقه طول میکشه که خب باتوجه به تمایل بازیکن به گردش میتونه متفاوت باشه! طراحی بازی به طور ظریفی کنجکاویو تشویق میکنه و با ارائه مناظر و تجربههای جدید، بهتون برای اکتشاف بیشتر پاداش میده.
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بازی DOGWALK یه تجربهٔ دلپذیر و دوستداشتنی و یه ماجراجویی بهیادموندنیه، گواهی بر استعداد و خلاقیت استودیوی بلندر. این بازی کمحجم و کوتاه رو میتونین از فروشگاه استیم به رایگان دریافت کنین. با لینوکس هم سازگاری کامل داره و بهصورت Native اجرا میشه!
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Veronica Explains
in reply to Veronica Explains • • •I say this as someone who uses both GNOME and KDE Plasma(and others) every day:
Stop yelling about desktop environments, it doesn't help anything.
jhx
in reply to Veronica Explains • • •Everyone should use whatever they like, period 🙂
Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com)
in reply to Veronica Explains • • •Do you use them on different computers or are you actively switching during your work?
I agree it makes very little difference.
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Tyrell Wellick: "So I see you're running GNOME. Y'know, I'm actually on KDE myself. I know this desktop environment is supposed to be better, but you know what they say: Old habits, they die hard."
So I see you're running Gnome
YouTubeA wizard did it
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