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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.
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#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel
After years on hold, Israel revives settlement project that will split the West Bank in two
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, โburyingโ the possibility any future Palestinian state in the territory.Majd Jawad (Mondoweiss)
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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/2025/08/18โฆ
Introducing the illumos Cafe: Another Cozy Corner for OS Diversity
Introducing illumos Cafe: a community-run hub on illumos, inspired by BSD Cafe. Fediverse-ready (Mastodon, snac). Built for OS diversity, transparency, and positivity.Stefano Marinelli (IT Notes)
You can't recognise a state that is occupied by another state
'Recognising' Palestine is good PR, but it would be far more meaningful to derecognise Israel, to derecognise the illegal occupation of PalestineFollow #MOAT...YouTube
#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:
- @alexicon@tech.lgbt (Oct 2022-Sept 2023)
- @alex@firefish.lgbt (RIP) (Aug 2023)
- @alex@xim.ca (Sept 2023-May 2024)
- @alex@kitty.social (May 2024-Oct 2024)
- @alex@anarres.family (Oct 2024-Aug 2025)
I'm a neurodivergent (AuDHD / GAD / cPTSD[?] ), ace/aromantic pan/aegosexual, 40s year old from #Ottawa, #Canada. ๐จ๐ฆ
โ ๏ธNOTE: 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:
โข #scifi (including #StarTrek & #DoctorWho)
โข #Linux
โข #history
โข #genealogy
โข #politics
โข #travel (when I can afford to)
โข ....way too many special interests.
(Please don't reply to the introduction post. Mentions or DMs are OK.)
Oasus Plainsview :verified: (@itsOasus@pawb.fun)
If someone makes a mistake, recognizes that mistake, and attempts to apologize for that mistake, maybe cut them some slack? More often than not, the person in question is more than deserving of the benefit of the doubt.Pawb.Fun - Pawbs, beans, and all things fluffy
@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.
Newspapers are rescued from closure in Wyoming and South Dakota as buyers swoop in
https://apnews.com/article/rural-newspapers-closed-saved-wyoming-south-dakota-76bbff7d0d56647b8de207797fe24f91?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Russia Confirms mRNA โVaccinesโ Triggered Global Cancer Surge
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Why are mRNA jabs not banned??
Russia Confirms mRNA 'Vaccines' Triggered Global Cancer Surge - Slay News
Russia is sounding the alarm after a chilling new review has confirmed the link between mass mRNA "vaccination" and a surge in global cancer cases and deaths.Frank Bergman (Slay News)
Russian troops strike oil refinery supplying fuel to Ukrainian army in Donbass
Russiaโs Battlegroup South inflicted more than 235 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed an enemy armored combat vehicle in its area of responsibility over the past day, the Defense Ministry reportedTASS
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
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Israel has killed nearly 19,000 children in Gaza war as strikes intensify
Israel bombards Gaza City, where many are trapped, as ceasefire deal Hamas has accepted hangs in balance.Al Jazeera Staff (Al Jazeera)
@jeffcliff we're in the middle of a pandemic and this fool is talking about crowds
Zhou Ming, top engineer involved in Boeing 787 and A380 design, leaves US for China.
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#usa #china #technology #science
Zhou Ming, top engineer involved in Boeing 787 and A380 design, leaves US for China
The industrial software specialist is joining the newly established Eastern Institute of Technology as dean of its engineering college.Shi Huang (South China Morning Post)
Florida man convicted of killing a woman abducted from an insurance office is set to be executed
https://apnews.com/article/florida-execution-kayle-bates-3bc400ca680db604effd017d2893f3d0?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Vampire: The Masquerade โ Bloodlines 2 Adds Second Playable Character, Launches October 21
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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Vampire: The Masquerade โ Bloodlines 2 Adds Second Playable Character, Launches October 21
You'll be able to play as the Malkavian detective Fabien when the game launches later this year.Game Informer
A Texas Democrat sleeps at the Capitol to protest GOP actions in Texas redistricting fight
https://apnews.com/article/redistricting-texas-nicole-collier-capitol-protest-10f8e3f721a507237d5272ccd1b2f81b?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Alaska man gifted $22,000 motorcycle by Russian government after viral interview
https://apnews.com/article/putin-trump-anchorage-motorcycle-gift-702a12fc3a19bdd50f79f6fb13b82e5e?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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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. Georgeโs cross
5. The OK sign (with fingers)
how come some function keys don't work anymore on debian 13 xfce?
with debian 12.11 I could use function keys to increase / decrease volume. This function is now lost with debian 13.
Why? Any way to restore this function?
all other function keys work as previously.
I also use XFCE. My desktopโs currently on Forky and went through all of Trixie, and the emdia keys have worked fine.
Iโll have to fiddle around and see whatโs going on, though it may take a few days to get back because Iโm starting school again soon, so Iโm quite busy.
For reference, what programs do you tend to use with media keys? For instance, VLC, Firefox, etcetera.
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Moonlighter 2 Releases In Early Access Soon, Including Game Pass On Day One
During Gamescom Opening Night Live, 11 Bit Studios and Digital Sun confirmed that Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault--the half-roguelike, half-shop-running-sim follow-up to the 2018 action-RPG Moonlighter--will enter early access on October 23.A new trailer for the game debuted during ONL, which gave an updated look into both halves of Moonlighter 2's ...
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Moonlighter 2 Releases In Early Access Soon, Including Game Pass On Day One
The next adventure of Will the heroic merchant will begin in a few short months.Jason Fanelli (GameSpot)
@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
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โI'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust.โ
Salman Rushdie
Breakthrough in the Peaceful Settlement of the Ukrainian Conflictย
For several days now, the center of global attentionโespecially in the mediaโhas been the U.S.-Russia summit in Alaska on August 15 of this year. Theะะตะฝะธะฐะผะธะฝ ะะพะฟะพะฒ (New Eastern Outlook)
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/2025-08โฆ
Ultra-processed foods might not be the real villain in our dietsโhere's what our research found
Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) have become public enemy number one in nutrition debates. From dementia to obesity and an epidemic of "food addiction," these factory-made products, including chips, ready meals, fizzy drinks, and packaged snacks, are blaโฆGraham Finlayson (Medical Xpress)
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The Heavy Horses Murder Ballads & Other Love Songs
Murder Ballads & Other Love Songs (2012)00:00 01. Intro01:22 02. Anyone Can Tell06:39 03. Copper & Gold09:53 04. Into The Earth13:28 05. Pale Rider17:09 06. ...YouTube
The Day My Lungs Gave Out: Pneumonia, Court, and the Price of Survival
I didnโt know stress could do that.Gracie Gato (Gracie Gato's Speakeasy)
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World Of Warcraftโs Midnight Expansion Introduces A New Playable Race: The Haranir
Blizzard provided a deluge of new information about World of Warcraftโs next expansion, Midnight, at Gamescomโs Opening Night Live event kick-off. As part of the reveal, weโve 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 ...
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World Of Warcraftโs Midnight Expansion Introduces A New Playable Race: The Haranir
The secluded hunters live within a new fungal jungle zone.Game Informer
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/articleโฆ
FDA issues urgent 'do not eat' warning for radioactive shrimp sold at major retailer
Health regulators are urgently warning Americans to check their freezers after a radioactive substance was found in a popular bag of shrimp sold at a major grocer.Cassidy Morrison Senior (Daily Mail)
A Pinelands Road Trip
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Do you want to visit the Pinelands National Reserve but youโre afraid you might get lost or stuck down a sandy trail?
A Pinelands Road Trip
Do you want to visit the Pinelands National Reserve but youโre afraid you might get lost or stuck down a sandy trail? There are numerous historic sites, lost...YouTube
Providing for Yosemite's Future โ Yosemite Conservancy
Discover Yosemite Conservancy's outdoor programs, art workshops, and volunteer opportunities in Yosemite National Park.Marketing (Yosemite Conservancy)
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โThis Zionist war criminal could be right next to you. Report him!โ
A poster against Israeli tourists spotted in #chiapas #mexico โค๏ธ
#Gaza #Palestine #Syria #iran #lebanon #Genocide #geopolitics
@palestine @lebanon @yemen #SettlerColonialism
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RMS not fighting for Free Software
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/g/ - Why have you betrayed us. You said you would fight for us if we programmed Free Software. - Technology - 4chan
Why have you betrayed us. You said you would fight for us if we programmed Free Software. - "/g/ - Technology" is 4chan's imageboard for discussing computer hardware and software, programming, and general technology.boards.4chan.org
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Monster Hunter Wilds and Final Fantasy 14 are officially crossing over
Both Capcom and Square Enix's games are getting new content soon
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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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Nebraskaโs governor announces plan for immigration detention center in state's southwest corner
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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 30โ60 days while using ten times less fuel than conventional systems.
The prototype is set for trials inside a 14-meter vacuum chamber at Rosatomโs Troitsk facility, marking a major step toward next-generation space propulsion.
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.
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Legacy of the Forge DLC launches on September 9
Warhorse Studios showcased the newest DLC trailer for Kingdom Come: Deliverance II at gamescom 2025.
Trump touts Ukraine security guarantees at Zelensky, EU leaders summit
European leaders, including Macron, Rutte, and Starmer, have pressed for stronger security guarantees and a greater role in shaping Ukraine peace talks.Al Mayadeen English (Trump touts Ukraine security guarantees at Zelensky, EU leaders summit)
Las Vegas tourism is down. Some blame Trump's tariffs and immigration crackdown
https://apnews.com/article/las-vegas-nevada-tourism-fbcb23cacef7c54f4ecaac0a43ba0703?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Packers cornerback Keisean Nixon eager to keep proving skeptics wrong as he adapts to expanded role
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