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Fiji music. I feel transported. Looks a bit like the guy in the middle prepares kava (yaqona). But make it in a plastic bowl seems very modern. 🤨 youtube.com/watch?v=yQ77hkfbDW…
Olkhon Island is the sacred centre of Lake Baikal. Sean Thomas travels to the world’s deepest lake to learn more about the history and traditions of this mysterious place.
Whenever I remember that the most prominent player of Battle Garegga, a game known to require you to kill yourself in order to maintain rank within human capabilities, is a transvestite the anglonet insists on referring to with female pronouns.
Kson talks about the current VShojo situation and calls the VShojo JP CEO for an explanation7/22/25 Kson 💜 https://www.twitch.tv/ksonsouchou❤️ subscribe for...
Greetings earthlings, this is your new ruler. I am called by many names in outer space, but you may call me Salamander Newpimp. My first task is the raise the collective IQ of your simian species. Await further instructions.
@matana thanks, i knew it looked familiar. oh, i see now why i couldn't find it "All Hiragana characters end with one of these vowels, with the exception of (n)."
Hey, German-speakers! Through a very weird set of circumstances, I ended up owning the rights to the German audiobook of my bestselling 2022 cryptocurrency heist technothriller *Red Team Blues* and now I'm selling DRM-free audio and ebooks, along with the paperback (all in German and English) on a Kickstarter that runs until August 11:
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My latest novel is "Picks and Shovels," a historical technothriller set in the Weird Era of the PC, about Ponzi schemes, techbros, and the dawn of enshittification:
My next nonfiction book is "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," out from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux on October 7:
My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."
The Booksmith is so excited to be welcoming Cory Doctorow back to San Francisco for the release of Enshittification at Public Works. More to come, but grab a ticket and join us!About the bookEnshittification: its not just youthe internet sucks now.
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They waited for him to go on vacation to do it behind his back... I'm not sure what they thought was going to happen. RFK's main fight is with the DOJ still.
@thendrix He fixed it. It's off the schedule for children. No more mandates and no more immunity for Big Pharma. 👍Oh, and now the organ harvesting thing!,🙀
@Peaceandprosperity @thendrix Off the schedule for all but like 1% of the population. This means it cannot be mandated by schools and there is no longer legal immunity for the covid vx manufactures.
Running DOJ is another animal. You need someone willing to do the job and be able to do it with most of the staff at your throat. Also these are the smartest snakes left behind to protect the DNC. Bondi let the bad actors stay in place and burned herself and Trump.
Ascending to 14,410 feet above sea level, Mount Rainier stands as an icon in the Washington landscape. An active volcano, Mount Rainier is the most glaciated peak in the contiguous U.S.A., spawning five major rivers.
The Fedora project is seeking feedback from its user and developer community over potentially updating its release criteria to no longer block on optical media boot issues (DVD images) as well as whether to continue honoring dual boot issues for Inte…
This doesn't mean Fedora will not boot from DVDs anymore, it means any optical media bug won't stop new Fedora release, any related bug will be squashed like any other regular bug after release
Thanks for the reply, I was mainly joking. The burner will be used for purposes other than burning Fedora images, but I found it funny how it all came together yesterday.
Besides the corrections others have said, I really can’t think of any reason people would intentionally use legacy BIOS on a machine with UEFI for a new install.
Like, I could get doing it for an old install - I know someone who installed Windows 7 in 2015 on their then-new desktop build and later upgraded to 10 but is stuck on legacy BIOS for now with that machine because 7 only ran on that.
I could see something similarly jank happening to someone in the Linux world and then decide not to address it for “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it reasons”, but certainly not for no reason.
Written by Lauren Edgar, Planetary Geologist at USGS Astrogeology Science Center Earth planning date: Friday, July 18, 2025 Curiosity has started to investigate the main exposure of the boxwork structures! What was once a distant target is now on our doorstep, and Curiosity is beginning to explore the ridges and hollows that make up this […]
@nando161 hi! I am desperately in need for help. I need my insulin to bring my blood sugar back down. It’s €300 That’s all I need. I’m not asking for a windfall, just a little help, please. Be blessed 💓
Connecticut Democratic Rep. Jim Himes gave Trump's Commerce Secretary the treatment he deserves when asked about Trump's continued threats to fire the Fed Chair, Jerome Powell.
"Israeli passengers on a [Israeli] cruise ship docked on the island of Syros in Greece were unable to disembark due to large pro-Palestinian protests at the dock on Tuesday" "Protesters near the Syros dock flew Palestinian flags, held banners reading slogans including “Stop the Genocide,” and “No AC (Air Conditioning) in Hell.”"
under normal circumstances I might say that you can’t blame the citizens for the actions of the government but they did elect that government and people all over the world are feeling completely impotent to do anything to stop the genocide, so I don’t think it’s unreasonable to respond in this way to the arrival of an Israeli ship. 🛳️
@peterbrown sir, the case for these tourists is that they are provocative -amid their support for the genocide. You can find their own videos where they shout their support for the genocidal state. Even if they don't support the genocide(which is not the case), their nationalist support make the antifascist blockade a necessity. mastodon.social/@EndIsraeliApa… @NotImpressed @palestine
this thing is much deeper than I thought. but now the public will clamor for their release even more. I wonder if johson knew that would be the reaction
This week on 'Yeah Nah Pasaran!' on Melbourne/Naarm community radio 3CR, @sexenheimer & I talk to Nicola Guerra about the ‘Strategy of Tension’, ‘Years of Lead’, geopolitics, & hobbits.
This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! on 3CR we talk to Nicola Guerra. Nicola is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Turku, Finland, and the author of The Italian Far Right from 1945 to the Russia-U…
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If you enjoy laughing at glue sniffing imperialists while they drag us all down into the abyss: The Hudson Institute published a plan (for lack of a better word) for how the U.S. should bring about regime change in... wait for it… China (!), a plan that involves a "military occupation”. Of China. By the US.
Less than you, it seems. I've only discovered him recently and hadn't picked up on China (or presumably specifically CCP?) propaganda. Not disputing your assessment at all, just to say I've only read a handful of things and this is the first one to even mention China as far as I remember, so I wouldn't know. Thanks for the warning.
I did follow his writings for a while, because indeed he writes well and seems thoughtful. I've wondered whether he's paid to do this propaganda or whether he just, as a French businessman in China, wanted to paint a more accurate picture of the country than the one that is portrayed in the general media. But I stumbled on a message that was more clearly propaganda (alas, can't remember what is was, so you'll have to take my word for it - or not, of course) so I unfollowed him.
Global Jews for Palestine event on Thursday sees anti-Zionist Jewish speakers from around the world come together against genocide and occupation “Silence is complicity!” says the Globa…
The massive buyouts of veterinary clinics in Canada by foreign interests and multinational corporations are leading to skyrocketing prices and a blatant decline in access to services. Everyone with animals is noticing it.
Palestinians in the West Bank are facing an unprecedented crisis in accessing enough water. But drying water resources isn’t the problem — it’s the fact that Israel extracts and controls all of the water from under their feet.
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On Tuesday, Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) said on X that Palestinians in Gaza should "starve away" while also claiming the reports of people dying of hunger due to the US-backed Israeli blockade are a "lie.
76? That's a standard life expectancy of an average man 😏 it's amazing he's lived that long with the toxic waste dump he maintained for a body. Fucker was so wasted all the time on his show you couldn't understand what he was saying
“Is he going to stand with the pedophiles and underage sex traffickers?” asked Representative Tim Burchett. “Or is he gonna pick the American people and justice for the victims?”
yesterday i tried to put a ring on thw finger of tge love of my life, i chose a ring that had a free, non proprietary design, i already had made the wedding invitation flyers in gimp and when i laid out rose petals of a strain licensed under gplv3 that lead to our bed i was so happy. and then i found that bitch in bed with with youtube playing on a windows laptop its like the ceo of google was clapping her cheeks right infront of me i started crying, i started screaming at her to get out of my house, i started jerking off life is so hard as a free ( as in freedom) cuck
HAVANA, Cuba, July 20 (ACN) Cuba sent warm greetings to and expressed its full solidarity with the brotherly people of Nicaragua on the 46th anniversary of the triumph of the Sandinista Revolution.
I was given a booklet about neck pain after a physio appointment and this is the first thing I saw when I opened it up. Yup. 25 years of wrong will do it.
@Geri hat heute allerdings einen Link auf eine interessante Analyse von @salisburyamnesty gepostet, die die offizielle Importstatistik von Israel auf Lieferungen aus #UK untersucht. Die Methodik ist auf S.3 des Dokuments beschrieben:
Die aktuelle Statistik seit Jahresbeginn bis Stichtag Ende Juni lässt sich hier herunterladen: data.gov.il/dataset/customs_im…
Filtert man nach den Kriterien der Analyse, aber für #Deutschland, dann finden sich durchgängig, bis Ende Juni 2025 insgesamt gut 160 Lieferungen: #Waffen und #Munition, Teile für Panzer oder gepanzerte Kampffahrzeuge, und Flugzeugteile. Letztere kann ich mangels Datenbasis nicht eindeutig einer militärischen oder zivilen Nutzung zurechnen.
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“Whether it’s right or wrong, it’s time to go after people,” says President Donald Trump, accusing two former presidents, Barack Obama (“leader of the gang”) and Joe Biden, as well as Hillary Clinton, of committing crimes, includin…
Blame them, and specifically for election theft, please can we stop talking about kidnapping and raping children and go back to election theft oh please get mad about election theft again
@jhavok Makes me think of this @pluralistic quote from a few days back:
Trump's lifelong strategy has been to race across a succession of rivers on the backs of alligators without losing a leg. He is the undisputed all-time historical champion of this bizarre sport, but no one can win that race forever, and your first loss is a career-ender.
Trump, the happy fool. Ok, putting tariffs on products you make at home, that might still fly… But slapping tariffs on resources that aren’t even on your soil? A mineral resource isn’t something you just invent or build — you gotta have it, damn it! Wow, what a genius! In reality, it’s just a hidden tax to fleece your own citizens. Pure masterpiece, really.
But hey, the useful supporters? They gobble that up like all-you-can-eat burgers. The true cousins of the idiots from Idiocracy: they clap like crazy but don’t get a damn thing.
Trump, l’imbécile heureux, Ok, mettre des tarifs sur les produits que tu fabriques chez toi, ça peut encore passer… Mais foutre des tarifs sur des ressources qui sont même pas sur ton territoire ? Une ressources minière, ça s’invente pas, ça se construit pas, faut l’avoir, bordel ! Wow, le génie ! En vrai, c’est juste une taxe déguisée pour plumer tes propres citoyens. Du grand art, vraiment.
Mais bon, les supporters utiles, eux, ils gobent ça comme des burgers à volonté. Les vrais cousins des débiles d’Idiocracy : ça applaudit à tout va, mais ça pige que dalle.
I just tried out the new Dia browser from the creators of Arc. While Arc wasn't my favorite, I was curious about Dia, despite not being a fan of hyper-AI features. I wanted to explore the extremes, but honestly, it left me puzzled. How do people use it effectively? This doesn't seem like the right approach for how a browser should function, or maybe it just doesn't work for most users. We tend to prefer browsers that know less about us, rather than those that know everything, like Dia does. Just my thoughts after trying it out for a few hours. So, no... thanks #Diabrowser
Thrilling Wonder Stories, vol. 17, no. 3 (September 1940), with cover art by Earle Bergey illustrating a scene from Oscar J. Friend’s short story, “The Stolen Spectrum.”
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I was working on a bash script and working out some logic for command chaining and grouping for executing different functions in my script based on the return status of other functions.
I know you can group commands with (), which spawns a subshell, and within the grouping you can chain with ;, &&, and ||.
I also know that you can group commands with {}, but, within the curly braces you can only separate commands with ;.
EDIT: the above statement of the curly braces only allowing ; is incorrect. I misunderstood what I had read. @SheeEttin@lemmy.zip pointed out my mistake.
The requirement is that the list of commands in the curly braces needs to be terminated with a semicolon or a newline character, and in the script, I unknowingly was meeting the rules by using the newlines to make the code easier to read for myself.
END EDIT:
In the script, for readability I did group the commands across lines kind of like a function.
The script is pretty simple. I created a few functions with echo commands to test the logic. the script asks for input of foo or bar. The first function has an if, and if the input is foo, it executes. If it's bar it returns 1.
The return of 1 triggers the or (||) and executes the second command group.
The idea was, if the user inputs foo, the first group triggers printing foo baz to stdout. If the user inputs bar, the foo function returns 1, the baz function does not execute, the or is triggered, and bar but is printed to stdout
Here's the script (which executes as described):
Can anyone explain why I'm able to group with curly braces and still use && inside them?
(Also, the reason I want to use the curly braces is I don't want to spawn a subshell. I want variable persistence in the current shell)
\#! /usr/bin/bash
# BEGIN FUNCTIONS #
foo () {
if [[ "${input}" = foo ]]; then
echo "foo"
return 0
else
return 1
fi
}
bar () {
echo "bar"
}
baz () {
echo "baz"
}
but () {
echo "but"
}
# END FUNCTIONS #
read -p "foo or bar? " input
{
foo &&
baz
} ||
{
bar &&
but
}
I don't see any mention of only being allowed to use a semicolon. I don't have a test system handy unfortunately.
Ideally you'd simplify or separate your logic so that you're not relying so much on bash. If you need complex logic, I'd use another language, depending on what's available in your environment.
Ah! I misinterpreted what I read! I found that exact same reference link when looking into this and I misinterpreted this:
The semicolon (or newline) following list is required
to mean that it required the semicolon as the command separator. That explains why my script works. The newline closes each group, and the other operators are allowed, the list just needs to be closed. Thank you!
My environment is just my homelab. Ubuntu server on my server, Arch (btw) on my laptop. So I could go with any language , but right now I'm choosing Bash. I know stuff I'm doing would probably be easier in a different language, and maybe I'm a glutton for punishment. I just want to get really good with Bash.
The logic is Bash is gonna be available on just about any computing environment I encounter (linux especially, but even Windows with WSL and zsh on macOS (which I know is different, but still very similar). But really, I am just enjoying the hell out of learning and scripting with Bash. I'll move on to Python or something someday.
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