Feeling good about the chapter I just wrote for “the novel I’m not allowed to talk about until it’s done” — I’ve been writing so much and pulling all the threads of the story together: it feels like maybe I really can complete this story.
Sometimes I feel overwhelmed by all the text. But right now I can see a light glinting at the end of the tunnel.
I imagine listening to the whole book and liking it. Thinking “that was a good story.”
That will be me someday! Maybe you to? maybe?
Florida becomes second state to ban fluoride in tap water under DeSantis-backed law
https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/ron-desantis-fluoride-ban-florida-water-2nd-state/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a measure that prohibits local governments from adding fluoride to water systems.CBS Miami
Takeaways from Supreme Court hearing on Trump's birthright citizenship order
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The Supreme Court adjourned Thursday after hearing nearly three hours of arguments on President Trump's executive order to end birthright citizenship. The court focused on judges' power and nationwide injunctions.CBS News
I Don't Like NumPy
Link: dynomight.net/numpy/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Pars Today – In response to the anti-Zionist operation in Salfit, located in the West Bank, the Palestinian Resistance Committees stated in a declaration t...Pars Today
US Supreme Court grills Trump administration over birthright citizenship
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Donald Trump’s lawyers seek to stop judges’ national block on executive order in case that could decide policy’s future.Joseph Stepansky (Al Jazeera)
Price tag for Trump’s military parade could reach $45 million
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/05/15/trump-military-parade-soldiers-sleep-office-buildings/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Lenin: No revolution is worth anything unless it can defend itself; but a revolution does not learn to defend itself at once. The revolution has awakened millions to a new life. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Quotes
- Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
- Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
- Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
- Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
- Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
- Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
- Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
- Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
- Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
- Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
- Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
- Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
- Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
- Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
- Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
- Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
- Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
- Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
- Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
- Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
- Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
- Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
- Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
- Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
- Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
- Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
- Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
- Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
- Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
- Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
- Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
- Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
Musician mutuals! I need one more thing to cover for this week's Other People's Music, so if you have a release you'd like to get more ears on (and have never submitted before), send me a DM.
Here's a link explaining the very few requirements:
etherdiver.com/2024/04/04/opm-…
To that I have since added two things:
1) NO AI of any kind. Not in the art, not to write lyrics, nada. If you mess with that stuff, don't submit to me, please.
2) Everything has to be on one release, for logistical reasons.
We have two more singles off our upcoming album that you haven't gotten to yet: Halken is a lilting kind of dance tune that is surprisingly straightforward for being us (which might not be saying much), while Grössjön is more of a journey, representing the different seasons of a forest where our bassist used to play as a child:
Halken: ryamusicumea.bandcamp.com/trac…
Grössjön: ryamusicumea.bandcamp.com/trac…
I hear your plaintive cry. Will this do? All of the video is put together from public domain CC I found.
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As the world watches with cautious anticipation, Russia and Ukraine prepare for crucial negotiations in Istanbul on May 14, a diplomatic breakthrough proposedteleSURenglish
The O’Keefe Media Group on Thursday released never-before-seen footage of Jeffrey Epstein’s Island library.
thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/o…
The O’Keefe Media Group on Thursday released never-before-seen footage of Jeffrey Epstein’s Island library.Cristina Laila (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
Andrew P. Napolitano on the American heritage of a legal right that was recognized by even the most tyrannical and absolute of monarchs in Britain. By Andrew P.Consortium News
Une longue campagne de stigmatisation.Acrimed | Action Critique Médias
Live: Israel kills at least 115 in Gaza as Palestinians commemorate Nakba
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/15/live-israel-kills-at-least-115-in-gaza-as-palestinians-commemorate-nakba?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Gaza Health Ministry says Israeli attacks put European Hospital in Khan Younis out of service, putting patients at risk.Jillian Kestler-D'Amours (Al Jazeera)
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"There is also an important security change to store the password as a hash rather than plain-text"
phoronix.com/news/Archinstall-…
the end of an era
Archinstall 3.0.5 is now available as the latest update to this easy-to-use, text-based Arch Linux OS installer.www.phoronix.com
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Palestinian sources said that the Israeli army's operations in the Jenin camp in the West Bank have continued for the 114th consecutive day, destroying 600 homes.IRNA English
NASA's Perseverance rover captured this view of Deimos, the smaller of Mars' two moons, shining in the sky at 4:27 a.m. local time on March 1, 2025, theNASA
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Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov: Warsaw as the capital of the Polish state no longer exits. No one knows the whereabouts of the Polish Government. The population of Poland have been abandoned by their ill-starred leaders to their fate. The Polish state and its government have virtually ceased to exist. In view of this state of affairs, treaties concluded between the Soviet Union and Poland have ceased to operate. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Quotes
- Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
- Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
- Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
- Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
- Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
- Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
- Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
- Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
- Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
- Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
- Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
- Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
- Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
- Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
- Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
- Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
- Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
- Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
- Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
- Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
- Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
- Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
- Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
- Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
- Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
- Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
- Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
- Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
- Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
- Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
- Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
- Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
Washington (Quds News Network)- Georgetown University researcher Badar Khan Suri has been released from a Texas detention centre after he was arrested as part of the Trump administration's crackdown oEditing Team (Quds News Network)
In 2010, #AaronSwartz downloaded 70 GB of articles from JSTOR. He faced a $1 million fine and 35 years in prison
➡️ Aaron took his own life in 2013.
#Meta illegally downloaded over 80 terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train its #AI models
➡️ facing no consequences.
Information is power, knowledge is power.
Beware and fight against those who want to keep you ignorant, unaware, and misinformed.
#digitalrights #openknowledge #opendata #privacy
The world's tallest structure!
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The Burj Khalifa🇦🇪🇺🇸
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Ed Martin at the DOJ is launching an investigation into the autopen pardons issued at the last minute before bidan left office.
threadreaderapp.com/thread/192…
@RodDMartin: 🚨BREAKING: Ed Martin, Trump's new pick, just dropped a BOMBSHELL: He's launching a full investigation into those suspicious Biden pardons from January. You know, the ones that were all signed by the aut...…threadreaderapp.com
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One of the biggest impediments to reform was @senbillnelson , the former #US senator from #Florida who represented #KennedySpaceCenter and now runs #NASA politico.com/news/2022/06/21/g…
(The same guy who now wonders whether #China 🇨🇳 might be faster on the #Moon 🤦♂️)
's outsized influence on #NASA over four decades is undisputed, but some of us in the #SpaceCommunity are concerned this may not be a feature 👎. Senator #Nelson’s imprint on the #SpaceProgram has led to grand pronouncements based on #unrealistic industry estimates, multibillion-dollar 💰 #cost overruns, years of schedule #delays and unmet expectations 😠 scientificamerican.com/article…
Bill Nelson, Biden’s nominee, exemplifies the agency’s pork-barrel, male-dominated pastScientific American
Bill Nelson claimed in his opening statement to have always supported commercial space. Nelson was not always as enthusiastic about commercial #spaceflight. In 2010 the then-senator proposed zeroing 0️⃣ out the commercial crew program thehill.com/opinion/technology…
📆 May 02, 2025
• Increased commitment to human 👨🚀 space exploration, introducing $1 billion in new investments for #Mars 🔴-focused programs.
• The #SLS rocket and #Orion capsule will be retired after #Artemis III. The budget also ends the #Gateway Program 💀
• #ISS replacement in 📆 2030
nasa.gov/news-release/presiden…
#NASA #SpacePolitics #HumanSpaceflight
The Trump-Vance Administration released toplines of the President’s budget for Fiscal Year 2026 on Friday. The budget accelerates human space exploration ofNASA
The #Mars 🔴 Sample Return mission will be achieved by #human 👩🚀 missions to Mars. "Crew and cargo flights to the #ISS would be significantly reduced 📉. The station’s reduced research capacity would be focused on efforts critical to the #Moon and Mars exploration programs." arstechnica.com/space/2025/05/…
“SLS alone costs $4 billion per launch and is 140 percent over budget.”…Eric Berger (Ars Technica)
It is not easy to turn a big #bureaucracy, and there will undoubtedly be friction and pain points. But the opportunity here is enticing: #NASA should not be competing with things that private industry is already doing better, such as launching big rockets. Rather, it should find difficult research and development projects at the edge of the possible. arstechnica.com/space/2024/12/…
Expect significant changes for America’s space agency.Eric Berger (Ars Technica)
“You can get into a rhythm of using all of these providers to get things up very quickly.”…Stephen Clark (Ars Technica)
Prof Logsdon* expects big changes under #Trump, Mr #Musk and Mr #Isaacman: scrapping programmes, closing NASA centres and more contracting out to #SpaceX, #BlueOrigin and other private sector firms. "There is a delicate balance between the interests of #NASA, #Congress and the #WhiteHouse."
Mr Isaacman has called the #SLS "outrageously expensive" and said that the major aerospace contractors are "incentivised to be economically #inefficient". bbc.com/news/articles/cn93797z…
* planetary.org/profiles/jon-log…
The success of SpaceX and other private-sector space firms is throwing up hard questions about America's "great national treasure".Pallab Ghosh (BBC News)
“Years ago it would have seemed like a moon shot for #China 🇨🇳 to become a world leader in lunar research, but now it’s actually happening”
• #DORN will be the first #French 🇫🇷 scientific device on the #moon
• #NILS was built by #Sweden 🇸🇪 scientists with support from #ESA
• A laser retroflector from #Italy 🇮🇹 and #Pakistan🇵🇰 will separate from the orbiter and carry out imaging and other tasks in the lunar orbit
scmp.com/news/china/science/ar…
Chinese spacecraft begins 53-day journey to collect soil and rocks and bring them back to Earth for scientific study.Ling Xin (South China Morning Post)
#China's 🇨🇳 lunar program appears to be in the lead. It is difficult to argue about the string of successes with the Chang'e lunar program and the unprecedented landing on the far side of the #Moon 🌙. Larger human landers built by #SpaceX and #BlueOrigin will open up a highway 🛣️ to the Moon the likes of which could only be dreamed of during the #Apollo era arstechnica.com/space/2024/05/…
China is going. NASA is talking about going. What gives?Eric Berger (Ars Technica)
SHANGHAI - A satellite developed by China and France, the most powerful yet for studying the farthest explosions of stars, was launched into orbit on Saturday, the Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reported.Reuters and Online Reporters (Bangkok Post)
Last year, I tried to help #Librem5 users to have a better experience when using #flatpak apps by not wasting space due to an outdated, buggy release of flatpak.
Today, I've added something else that should help on every distribution to that same post: Avoiding translations you don't need.
linmob.net/how-i-fit-many-flat…
LINMOB.net is a blog about LINux on MOBile devices. With the PinePhone (Pro) and Librem 5 shipping it is back to report on GNU+Linux on mobile devices.LINux on MOBile
The US has reportedly told government agencies to halt preparations for the G20 meeting in South AfricaRT
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#politique #économie #soutenabilité #besoins
L'économie n'est SURTOUT PAS une question d'argent...
"It seems that Washington has finally come to realize the futility of a forceful approach, as we have consistently emphasized," Vasily Nebenzya saidTASS
Invest in GKN COOP 😀
diem25.org/mera25-italy-suppor…
MERA25 is raising funds to join the popular shareholding launched by the GKN Factory Collective.MERA25 Italy (DiEM25)
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In 2024, mutual trade in food products and agricultural raw materials between Belarus and Russia rose by 13.4% year-on-year. Belarusian exports grew by 15.5%, with dairy product shipments surging by 17%, meat and meat products - by 16.6%.Belarusian Telegraph Agency
Show HN: Min.js style compression of tech docs for LLM context
Link: github.com/marv1nnnnn/llm-min.…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Min.js Style Compression of Tech Docs for LLM Context - marv1nnnnn/llm-min.txtGitHub
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Vous êtes pas prêts 😁
cross-posted: feddit.org/post/12443313
Hello, I'm still a noob when it comes to computers.
I had a dual boot Windows 11 and OpenSuse Leap 15.6.
My problem is that I was using my laptop as always and I was simply searching through internet when the system glitched. So I tried to restart my laptop, but then it showed screens with sth like Bios corrupted, blue screen etc. And then it restarted but only with Windows 11.
When I check the settings partition has fully free memory, so it means that my OpenSuse is gone.What could have gone wrong?
Sorry for the noob question and thanks for any help. I'm just really davastated.
Event 41 Task 63? what's that?
but to repeat: windows dies not understand linux partitions to any extent. it shows them as "uninitialized space" or something like that, so that it looks like it's gone. It's always best to check the partitions with gparted on a live system (e.g. systemrescue linux)
Event 41 Task 63? what's that?
It was a message logged in the event log. It means that the system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down.
windows dies not understand linux partitions to any extent
Yup, I've just learned this about Windows. Thank you.
Coinbase says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data, demanding $20M ransom
Link: cnbc.com/2025/05/15/coinbase-s…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
The incident may cost Coinbase up to $400 million to fix, the company estimated.Tanaya Macheel (CNBC)
Alahednews - Fastnews - Yemen: A speech by the leader of the Ansarullah movement, Sayyed Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, will be delivered shortly.english.alahednews.news
California sent residents' personal health data to LinkedIn
Link: themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2025/…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
The state’s health insurance exchange transmitted pregnancy and domestic abuse data during a marketing campaign. It is reviewing its website practices.themarkup.org
Subscribe to the channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/IroncladlionIn this video, we tell the story of 2024 within the Starsector modding community. From a...YouTube
Albert Einstein: It is the same with people as it is with riding a bike. Only when moving can one comfortably maintain one’s balance. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Quotes
- Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
- Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
- Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
- Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
- Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
- Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
- Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
- Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
- Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
- Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
- Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
- Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
- Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
- Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
- Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
- Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
- Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
- Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
- Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
- Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
- Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
- Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
- Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
- Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
- Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
- Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
- Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
- Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
- Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
- Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
- Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
- Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
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The Rockchip RK3588 processor family has been around for a few years now, and it has proven to be a popular option for single-board computers, laptops, and other devices that generally run Android or Linux-based software.
More recently we’ve started to see folks tap this chip for use in Linux smartphones. The first was the Liberux NEXX that was announced earlier this year ahead of an […]
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NEW YORK, May 15 (YPA) - UN Special Envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, stressed that the general economic deterioration in Yemen is underscoring the urgent need for a political process that enables the cooperation necessary for economic growth.During aاحسن (Yemen Press Agency)
Demonrats don't want solutions. They want tragedy virtue signaling theatrics to parade in front of the cameras when a real solution is offered, they change the subject.😡 🤬
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Personnellement, je trouve qu'il n'y a rien de mieux pour la méditation que de contempler le vent dans les frondaisons et d'écouter le bruissement des feuilles, ça et le clapotis de l'eau, également, le vent dans un champ de céréales. Ça vaut de loin une séance de psychothérapie. En plus, c'est la base de notre alimentation, on se nourrit littéralement de ça. Les arbres, les prairies et l'eau provoquent le sentiment d'abondance.
Les bagnoles et les avions qui passent, c'est juste l'inverse, le stress, l'agression.
Tout le monde sait ça, l'univers bisounours ce n'est pas la ville. Il n'y a rien à démontrer.
Just got an Email from #Delta. They're changing things up starting October 1st. As of Oct-01 the cheapest airfare option will no longer earn you SkyMiles.
That fucking sucks.
Fuck you, Delta. #Airlines #enshittification
So, for context, I have an HDMI dummy plug that is disabled most of the time, but enabled through command-line to use as a virtual display for game streaming with Sunshine.
In GNOME settings, the display is disabled, and that works just fine. I can enable/disable it at will whenever I want to stream games using the new gdctl utility added in GNOME 48.
I want this “monitor” to be disabled in GDM as well since it keeps trying to use the dummy plug as the default display and I can’t see and of the UI elements and have to type my password in blindly. I’ve copied over my monitor config from /home/user/.config/monitors.xml to /var/lib/gdm/.config/monitors.xml as per the Arch Wiki’s recommendations, but when I log out/reboot, nothing changes on GDM. It still tries to show the password entry UI on the dummy plug and my actual display just shows a gray screen.
I know the configs are different for X11 and wayland, but both GDM and GNOME are running under wayland, so that shouldn’t be the issue.
Any help would be appreciated.
I use Arch btw.
Yeah, seems like it should just be working...
You've probably already got this covered, but when you created your user monitors.xml config, did you have the dummy plug connected and disabled?
Maybe the config:
Yes. Here’s the contents I currently have in /var/lib/gdm/.config/monitors.xml:
<monitors version="2">
<configuration>
<layoutmode>physical</layoutmode>
<logicalmonitor>
<x>0</x>
<y>0</y>
<scale>1</scale>
<primary>yes</primary>
<monitor>
<monitorspec>
<connector>DP-1</connector>
<vendor>SAM</vendor>
<product>Odyssey G93SC</product>
<serial>HNTW700164</serial>
</monitorspec>
<mode>
<width>5120</width>
<height>1440</height>
<rate>239.997</rate>
</mode>
<colormode>bt2100</colormode>
</monitor>
</logicalmonitor>
<disabled>
<monitorspec>
<connector>HDMI-1</connector>
<vendor>FUN</vendor>
<product>Evanlak8K V2</product>
<serial>0x00006410</serial>
</monitorspec>
</disabled>
</configuration>
</monitors>At this point, do you think I should issue a report on GDM’s repository? Maybe the devs there would have more insight
My monitors.xml has two <configuration> blocks, with the only real difference being that one has <layoutmode>physical</layoutmode> and the second has <layoutmode>logical</layoutmode>. I don't really think that'd be the issue here though, because if the dummy plug is listed as disabled it shouldn't be trying to use it anyway...?
I think you're right in reporting it to the GDM repo, at a minimum someone there will know where to point you towards figuring this out. Maybe the GNOME Mutter repo might be a related stop for this too, seeing that's the part generating the monitors.xml...
The things that are supposed to be simple are always the bits that suck the most!
Does this use any experimental options you enabled in your dconf?
Edit:
Kontext: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/-/i…
Submitted by Mario Hüttel @mhu Link to original bug (#748098)GitLab
2 hours/day of AI school and the kids score in the top 1-2% nationally.
Traditional schools are finished.
Statement of the ILPS on the Commemoration of the Nakba The International League of Peoples' Struggle joins Palestinians all over the world in commemorating the 1948 Nakba, or catastrophe, which dispossessed, displaced, and murdered hundreds of thous…Cody Urban (International League of Peoples' Struggle)
I’m working on a custom Linux Mint ISO (using Cubic) for a dedicated system with auto-login. I’m trying to automate Vino (VNC server) setup during installation using preseed, but I’m running into two issues:
I need to set org.gnome.Vino authentication-methods to ['vnc'] for the autologin user. I’ve tried variations of:
in-target su -c "gsettings set org.gnome.Vino authentication-methods \"['vnc']\"" username
But the setting doesn’t persist. I’ve also tested in-target sh -c and direct gsettings calls without luck.
What’s the correct way to apply gsettings changes for a specific user during preseed?
I need /usr/lib/vino/vino-server to start automatically after login. Since this is an auto-login system, I’d prefer a method that:
What’s the best way to set this up? .desktop file in ~/.config/autostart/? Or another approach? Preferably, it would be more easily configurable in userspace, but if this is the only option then I understand.
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I have a thinkpad lying around. I have used Linux over the last 5 years and I an NOT a power user. I use Mint and it gets the job done for me.
Lately though, the whole libre software bug bit me and I want at least one machine that is libre compatible through and through. I have heard some stuff like Parabola and GNUIX or something like that, but thought it best to ask around first before even thinking about something like this.
My work essentially involves writing documents (LaTeX and LibreOffice), doing statistical analysis, and making lectures. I access emails via Thunderbird. That's it.
Does anyone here daily drive a fully libre laptop?
You can absolutely use Linux without any GNU software. I use Chimera Linux for example (no Glibc, no GCC, no GNU utils). I even get away from some software that Red Hat created according to your definition like SystemD. However, even still, I know that Red Hat is responsible for much of the software I run since I use software like X, Wayland, Mesa, Podman, KVM, PulseAudio, and PipeWire.
It is VERY hard to run a Linux system without using code contributed by Red Hat.
No, Red Hat did not “create” glibc, GCC, or GNOME. They just contributed tens of thousands of lines of code to them. Perhaps more than anybody else over the last 20 years. Ever heard of Ulrich Drepper?
Actually, it is impossible to use Linux without using code contributed by Red Hat as they have been one of the biggest contributors to the Linux kernel itself for multiple decades now.
And to clarify, the Linux kernel is absolutely NOT a GNU project. Very few packages in a typical Linux distro are actually. The full list of GNU packages is here:
gnu.org/software/software.en.h…
Compare it with this list:
redhat.com/en/about/open-sourc…
GNU has been influential but is not essential as you can create a complete Linux distribution without any of it (again see Chimera Linux). Code contributed by Red Hat however is totally unavoidable and completely essential. It is not possible to run a Linux system without it. All the distributions you listed heavily rely on code contributed by Red Hat.
To say otherwise is not just misleading. It is wrong.
I do not use any Red Hat distributions. I do benefit from their contributions and am thankful for them.
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My generation believed it was going to change the world by trying to nationalize the media and distribution, but we failed to understand that at the center of this battle must be the construction of a different culture. You cannot build a socialist building with bricklayers who are capitalists.
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The late Uruguayan statesman José “Pepe” Mujica argues that capitalism is not just property relations but a set of cultural values that the Left must confront with a culture of solidarity.jacobin.com
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Very impressive. The M1 Macs at least seem to be quite functional at this point and everything either has been or is in the process of hitting the mainline.
Lots of work to do of course but many would have bet against getting this far. But there is a big difference between “could be better” and “stuff doesn’t work”. Getting the Rust based GPU driver into the kernel is a major achievement on its own and may do a lot to silence the “Rust isn’t used for anything real in the kernel” crowd as well.
With all the recent drama, I think some assumed the project was on the ropes. But the updates on the M2 and the reduced support burden of their past work leave me pretty hopeful that good progress will continue.
The 4th Ministerial Meeting of the China-Celac Forum has been an opportunity to highlight the road travelled, the results and to outline new goals for Sino-Latin American relations.en.granma.cu
Love, Death & Robots S04E01 HD stream online anschauen - Animierte Kurzgeschichten, die sich an ein erwachsenes Publikum richten und allesamt von...filmpalast.to
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The Russian Army is Preparing Conditions for the Elimination of the Northern Sector. Report by Marat Khairullin with illustrations by Mikhail Popov.Zinderneuf (Marat Khairullin Substack)
Jumuta
in reply to ssillyssadass • • •github.com/libimobiledevice/id…
wiki.archlinux.org/title/IOS
you can restore on Linux i think, but you have to use the cli
GitHub - libimobiledevice/idevicerestore: Restore/upgrade firmware of iOS devices
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in reply to Jumuta • • •MentalEdge
in reply to ssillyssadass • • •Wine can't properly access USB devices, so even if you got iTunes installed, it wouldn't work.
I'm sceptical that a VM is out of the question, one should run on almost anything, though not necessarily perform well. I would give it an attempt, if you didn't already.
Still, it might be simplest to set up a windows install with itunes on a usb, or second partition, and boot into windows only when you need to.
yo_scottie_oh
in reply to MentalEdge • • •doubtingtammy
in reply to yo_scottie_oh • • •MentalEdge
in reply to yo_scottie_oh • • •yo_scottie_oh
in reply to MentalEdge • • •One would think, but so you haven't actually done it, right? Because I might be misremembering, but I'm pretty sure I tried to install Windows onto a USB drive one time, but I couldn't get the installer to show the USB drive.
LoveSausage
in reply to ssillyssadass • • •A few options
1,Getting a Mac with apple silicon and install asahi , dual boot.
2. Add a new SSD and some ram to your current one and enable virtualization in bios. Might need a bios update as well.
3 Dual boot windows , might want to check out ameliorated.io/
4 Get a old crappy Mac just for the itunes.
5. Use the Linux tools mentioned earlier
Ameliorated
ameliorated.ioPlutoniumAcid
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in reply to PlutoniumAcid • • •Asahi Linux
asahilinux.orgutopiah
in reply to PlutoniumAcid • • •Absolutely, but OP will have to explain a bit to their boss why. Maybe we can help OP there?
Fuck that walled garden is not a business value added task so can we, as a community who cares how openness, translate that to C-suite MBA speech?