Israel is reviving a settlement plan that would annex a strategic tract of land east of Jerusalem, and effectively split the West Bank in two, "burying" the possibility any future Palestinian state in the territory.

mondoweiss.net/2025/08/after-yโ€ฆ

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel

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I think it's time to write an #introduction for this account as well!

I'm Stefano Marinelli, Barista of the illumos Cafe and the BSD Cafe. I'm a technology and open source enthusiast, a strong advocate for #OwnYourData, and against computer monoculture, even when it comes to open source solutions.

I've been active in the #Fediverse for years and am a firm believer in it. I decided to found this Cafe to bring the positive spirit of the BSD Cafe to curious and passionate users of #illumos based operating systems (#OmniOS, #SmartOS, #Tribblix, #OpenIndiana, etc.).

I'll mainly use this account for content related to this instance and illumos-based operating systems, while my account at the BSD Cafe - @stefano@bsd.cafe - remains my primary one.

For more information about the illumos Cafe, you can read the introductory post here: it-notes.dragas.net/2025/08/18โ€ฆ

#illumosCafe #BSDCafe

#Introduction that I'm never happy with:

I joined Mastodon during the Second Great Twitter Migration of 2022, if that's what we're calling it.

You may know me from:

I'm a neurodivergent (AuDHD / GAD / cPTSD[?] :neocat_thinking:), ace/aromantic pan/aegosexual, 40s year old from #Ottawa, #Canada. ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ

โš ๏ธNOTE: Autism haver who occasionally does a stupid. Please let me know (privately via DM) if I make a mistake & give me the benefit of the doubt and a chance to remedy the situation. I promise I generally mean well.

Interests include:
โ€ข #scifi (including #StarTrek & #DoctorWho)
โ€ข #Linux
โ€ข #history
โ€ข #genealogy
โ€ข #politics
โ€ข #travel (when I can afford to)
โ€ข ....way too many special interests.

(Please don't reply to the introduction post. Mentions or DMs are OK.)

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@grizzlywhisker Might be up your alley:

Christopher Walken and Anne Heche did a truly terrible movie in 1995 called Wild Side. I went looking for it a few times so I could see this horror show again, (or turn it off when I run out of morbid curiosity), but only just found it now on ok. ru/ video

One of those 1:50 length vids that come up when you search for -wild side 1995- has to be in English.

All I remember is it's shockingly bad.

Russia Confirms mRNA โ€˜Vaccinesโ€™ Triggered Global Cancer Surge

slaynews.com/news/russia-confiโ€ฆ

Why are mRNA jabs not banned??

Russian troops strike oil refinery supplying fuel to Ukrainian army in Donbass tass.com/politics/2004589

Israel has killed nearly 19,000 children in Gaza war as strikes intensify
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/19/israel-has-killed-nearly-19000-children-in-gaza-war-as-strikes-intensify?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Middle East News @middle-east-news-AlJazeera

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Zhou Ming, top engineer involved in Boeing 787 and A380 design, leaves US for China.

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#usa #china #technology #science

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The past month, we've been working on exclusive coverage for Vampire: The Masquerade โ€“ Bloodlines 2, but there's one secret we've yet to divulge: Fabien, the Malkavian detective in the protagonist's head, is actually the game's second playable character. Today, The Chinese Room revealed this to the world, along with the game's ...

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#gamingNews

Tried to watch Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol on Peacock and didn't make it past the opening scene, establishing our hero's knowledge by showing him teaching a class on old symbols being corrupted and turned bad. Of course he starts with the swastika; the next ones were:
1. The "Join, or Die" political cartoon
2. The Gadsden flag
3. The Lambda (for use by the anti-immigration Identitarians, not for Half-Life)
4. The St. Georgeโ€™s cross
5. The OK sign (with fingers)
in reply to arsus5478

I also use XFCE. My desktopโ€™s currently on Forky and went through all of Trixie, and the emdia keys have worked fine.

Iโ€™ll have to fiddle around and see whatโ€™s going on, though it may take a few days to get back because Iโ€™m starting school again soon, so Iโ€™m quite busy.

For reference, what programs do you tend to use with media keys? For instance, VLC, Firefox, etcetera.

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@Paultron-3030 yeah, I was gonna maybe rebuild her and include a wit support card, but it's gonna be impossible to balance her winning the long races, wit, stamina and get speed and power. I absolutely cannot manage to have decent speed and power on characters that have to do long currently, it's just not feasible with what I have as it's either include a stamina support card or fail all the longs

Anyways, she isn't supposed to win, she's supposed to just debuff, which is why I'll try to remake her tomorrow

Breakthrough in the Peaceful Settlement of the Ukrainian Conflict journal-neo.su/2025/08/19/breaโ€ฆ

Ah, a bit of nuance. I thought some of the hand wringing about ANY processed foods was a bit much (like not so long ago when carrots were "bad" because of the sugar...)

"That's not to say all UPFs are harmless. Many are high in calories, low in fiber, and easy to overconsume. But the UPF label is a blunt instrument. It lumps together sugary soft drinks with fortified cereals, protein bars with vegan meat alternatives."
medicalxpress.com/news/2025-08โ€ฆ

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Blizzard provided a deluge of new information about World of Warcraftโ€™s next expansion, Midnight, at Gamescomโ€™s Opening Night Live event kick-off. As part of the reveal, weโ€™ve learned that the next allied race coming to WoW is the Haranir, an ancient group of hunters distinguished by their bioluminescent features. Somewhere between the ...

gameinformer.com/gamescom-2025โ€ฆ

#gamingNews

FDA issues urgent 'do not eat' warning for radioactive shrimp sold at major retailer

Me: Ooh, I can visualize a superhero origin story for "Mantis Shrimp Man" and his "Power Punch"
dailymail.co.uk/health/articleโ€ฆ

A Pinelands Road Trip

youtube.com/watch?v=Oym-53HEXKโ€ฆ

Do you want to visit the Pinelands National Reserve but youโ€™re afraid you might get lost or stuck down a sandy trail?

Yosemite National Park in 1920 and today. For more information nps.gov/yose/index.htm and nps.gov/articles/000/50-nifty-โ€ฆ and yosemite.org/ and #interpretation #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #landscapephotography #photography Image credit (1) Yosemite National Park and (2) Yosemite Conservancy and National Park Service #YosemiteNationalPark #yosemite #research #summer #trees #california #history #geology #wildlife #mountain #lion #sticker #cougar #halfdome #art

โ€œThis Zionist war criminal could be right next to you. Report him!โ€

A poster against Israeli tourists spotted in #chiapas #mexico โค๏ธ

#Gaza #Palestine #Syria #iran #lebanon #Genocide #geopolitics
@palestine @lebanon @yemen #SettlerColonialism
#AntiImperialism #tiktok #cdnpoli
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RMS not fighting for Free Software

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The talented musicians of Open Reel Ensemble used bamboo bows to stretch magnetic reel-to-reel tape at different lengths and speeds to create a truly disarmingly danceable beat. They call this instrument the โ€œJIGAKKYUโ€.
#music youtu.be/vaG5tVnpkwc


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01:24 The Golden Age of Ubuntu
03:02 Abandoning the Desktop
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Ubuntu was glorious, back then. It single-handedly turned the Linux desktop from something that was only usable by really knowledgeable people, into something that was really accessible to the masses, even then.

Then in short succession, they dropped Unity, version 7 for the desktop, and version 8 which was meant to be the successor, that brought convergence between device type, they dropped Mir, their display server that was meant to replace X.org and be an alternative to Wayland, and they basically settled for GNOME 3.

Ubuntu has a desktop problem. Since it basically abandoned the leadership of the desktop to the community, it also doesn't seem to anticipate things very much. Which means that the extensions they apply to GNOME pull them backwards.

Waiting 6 months to get what everyone else has sucks, and you get a Frankenbuntu mishmash of versions of apps and libraries, that can't really be as stable as having the whole lot on the same version number.

Ubuntu also has fixed repo versions for apps, desktop environments, and libraries. Only security fixes come through, apart from a few apps, like web browsers. This means that this frankenbuntu is locked in place. If you use 22.04 LTS, you're never getting the full GNOME 42 in your repos.

Ubuntu also has an apps problem. Ubuntu pushes Snaps, their own containerized solution.

On the desktop, Snaps have issues. These issues were shared in the past by other similar formats, like Flatpak, or Appimages. But nowadays, it's really, really late to the party. It doesn't support dark mode integration. It doesn't integrate with themes. it doesn't offer a way to solve these issues, contrary to Flatpak and the Flatseal app for example.

Because it uses fixed repos, without feature updates, it needs a way to bring application updates to the desktop, and this way, is supposedly Snaps. The issue is, the snap store doesn't seem to have as many desktop apps as Flathub has, and snap as a solution is getting increasingly outdated, slow to launch, and less well integrated than Flatpak. It's also being aggressively pushed to Ubuntu users, and this impacts downstream distros, for example, Canonical decided to only ship Chromium as a Snap, which meant that other distros, like Linux Mint, had to take on the burden of packaging and maintaining it themselves if they didn't want to adopt the snap version.

Ubuntu is still very easy to use. But its crown in terms of "the easiest distro for beginners" is long gone. Nowadays, plenty of options are better than Ubuntu for complete Linux beginners.

Linux Mint has a relentless drive to keep working on what made Ubuntu great in the first place: everything must have a GUI to configure it. Zorin OS does as well, even though its GNOME implementation is also a frankenbuntu, or frankenzorin or whatever.

These 2 options alone are, in my opinion, much better for beginners than Ubuntu. They have more quality of life features, like built in accent colors, more configuration tools, and they support more software, plus all the software made for Ubuntu.

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Rosatom has revealed a prototype of a magnetic plasma rocket engine capable of producing about 6 newtons of thrust with a specific impulse over 100 km/s.

Operating at 300 kW in pulsed mode, this breakthrough technology could slash Mars travel times from nearly a year to just 30โ€“60 days while using ten times less fuel than conventional systems.

The prototype is set for trials inside a 14-meter vacuum chamber at Rosatomโ€™s Troitsk facility, marking a major step toward next-generation space propulsion.

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Our earth is Flat and we live under a pressurized Dome called Firmament in the bible.
Under the dome, right at the dome is Water. In the water is the stars. The high point of the dome according to NASA is 73 miles.
Mars is a Wandering Star. All the Wandering Stars AKA Planets are also in Water.
Space does not exist...never has existed.
The Sun and moon are local with us, less than 73 miles over our heads.
ALL Rockets that go up, make an arch and ditch in the ocean. They have all ditched in the ocean from day one.

Trump touts Ukraine security guarantees at Zelensky, EU leaders summit english.almayadeen.net/news/poโ€ฆ
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