A brand new Other People's Music appears! This week we have dispatches from the weird fringes of experimental rock & electronics! DIY chamber pop! Politically charged hits of soulful downtempo & raucous Big Beat! Have a look and a listen:
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⚖️ Montana just became the first U.S. state to ban law enforcement from purchasing personal data from brokers — and it’s a privacy milestone 🚫📱
Under this new law:
📍 Government agencies can’t buy sensitive data (location, biometrics, etc.) without a warrant
🔍 It closes a major loophole used to sidestep Fourth Amendment protections
📄 Agencies also can’t require people to waive rights through service terms
🧱 It sets a precedent for digital due process in a data-saturated world
This isn’t just a state law. It’s a model for what digital civil liberties legislation should look like nationwide.
#Privacy #Surveillance #DigitalRights #DataBrokers #CyberLaw #security #cloud #infosec #cybersecurity
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Montana has done something that many states and the United States Congress have debated but failed to do: it has just enacted the first attempt to close the dreaded, invasive, unconstitutional, but easily fixed “data broker loophole.Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Supreme Court really beat the shit out of the Government here.
Wow.
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RE: threads.com/@cnn/post/DJuifQCC…
BREAKING: Supreme Court blocks President Trump from moving forward with deportations under 1798 Alien Enemies Act: https://cnn.it/4mmdnJiThreads
A senior Hamas official said that humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip must be allowed in before any talks with the Israeli regime.IRNA English
All eyes are on Turkey, as Russia and Ukraine sent teams for talks… they just arrived in different cities. Now, the Russian delegation in Istanbul is giving Kiev one more chance to attend talks at 10:...Odysee
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Recent podcast guest, writer, and longtime liberty advocate Carey Wedler breaks down how political zealotry becomes an easy target for manufactured fear—and just how widespread and deeply embedded that tactic has become.
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0nsw8…
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/…
Podbean: thefreethoughtproject.podbean.…
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_BREAKING: “Big Win: Court Rules Pfizer Can Be Sued for DECEPTION”_
"A federal judge ruled this week that the State of Kansas may proceed with its consumer protection lawsuit against Pfizer in state court..."
Thoughts on Thinking
Link: dcurt.is/thinking
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
I have been stuck. Every time I sit down to write a blog post, code a feature, or start a project, I come to the same realization: in the context of AI, what I’m doing is a waste of time. It’s horrifying. The fun has been sucked out of the process...Dustin Curtis on Svbtle
Chess hasn’t been updated in almost 200 years and it’s obvious the devs have abandoned it. The greedy creators took your money and laughed all the way to the bank.
I remember back in 705 AD when chess was fun. Then they started adding stupid features no one wanted like “castling” and “en passant” instead of listening to player feedback and fixing game-breaking bugs. I’ve been complaining for years about the collision-detection glitch with the horsey. The ‘clipping-through-pieces’ bug has been abused to death and the lazy devs refuse to fix it.
Don’t support this awful behaviour and boycott this company.
In the hills west of Hebron, where silence now blankets olive groves and fenced-off ruins, a Palestinian village once thrived. Al-Dawayima was its name — a farming community of nearly 6,000 people, fuEditing Team (Quds News Network)
They walked many miles to get flour, and when they finally reached it, they were killed. Two Palestinian kids were killed by the Israeli army while trying to get flour to feed their families. This genocide must stop.
#Israel #US-Israel #US-Israel-terrorism #Google #Microsoft #genocide #Gaza #WestBank #Cisjordanie #Palestine
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Die Haltung derer, in unserer Gesellschaft, die das Leben von Palästinensern schlicht nicht juckt bringt in Netanyahus Koalition der rechtsextreme Zvi Sukkot von Religiöser Zionismus zum Ausdruck.:
„Letzte Nacht wurden etwa 100 #Gaza-Bewohner getötet, und Sie haben mich nicht einmal danach gefragt. Wissen Sie, warum? Weil es niemanden interessiert. Jeder hat sich daran gewöhnt, dass in einer Kriegsnacht 100 Gaza-Bewohner getötet werden können – und niemanden interessiert es.“ #Israel
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“Much of the intention of #Holocaust academia has got nothing to do with trying to change the world's relationship to cruelty and unfairness, but to establish a sense of Jewish exceptionalism."
Dr. Gabor Maté speaking to Chris Hedges on why decades of teaching the world about the Holocaust utterly failed to prevent another one.
#Gaza #Genocide #FreePalestine #Israel #US
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US President Donald Trump has said a meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin could help resolve the Ukraine conflictRT
Modern devlet, doğası gereği askeri bir devlettir; ve her askeri devlet, zorunlu olarak bir fetihçi, istilacı devlet olmak zorundadır; hayatta kalabilmek için ya fethetmeli ya da fethedilmelidir, çünkü birikmiş askeri güç, bir çıkış yolu bulamazsa boğulacaktır. Bu nedenle Modern devlet, büyük ve güçlü bir devlet olmaya çabalamalıdır: bu hayatta kalabilmesi için vazgeçilmez ön koşuldur.
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15 Mayıs Dünya Vicdani Retçiler Günü!
With the tariff situation and the USA focusing on manufacturing, do you think Trump will realise his mistake turning down the Ice Cream Gove?
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If you like Ali G then you NEED to check this out! http://amzn.to/2fLyruyAli G talks to some top business leaders (Donald Trump!) about a unique business ide...YouTube
The house style of the New York Times is severely outdated. Depending on the topic, the newspaper’s purportedly impartial tone instead reads as smug, self-amused, and deeply lazy.defector.com
Stop. Fucking. Reading. Clicking. Sharing. The. Fucking. New. York. Times.
Whatever fucking crossword-related excuse you have is a bad one.
![A social media post by Times "investigative" reporter Eric Lipton wherein he dissembles about a previous post's dissembling about "possible" ethical issues with rich people paying million-dollar bribes for an audience with Trump, stating:
"Corruption requires explict [sic] quid pro quo. It is not corrupt to take an action that aligns with the interest of a person who gives you a gift, unless the official action was in direct response to that gift--a bribe. Terms matter. Accuracy and fairness matters. Regardless of what social media wants."](https://friendica.eskimo.com/photo/preview/640/7267392 "A social media post by Times \"investigative\" reporter Eric Lipton wherein he dissembles about a previous post's dissembling about \"possible\" ethical issues with rich people paying million-dollar bribes for an audience with Trump, stating:
\"Corruption requires explict [sic] quid pro quo. It is not corrupt to take an action that aligns with the interest of a person who gives you a gift, unless the official action was in direct response to that gift--a bribe. Terms matter. Accuracy and fairness matters. Regardless of what social media wants.\"")
Anyone who pays NYT for the crossword would be better served doing it for free on the Seattle Times site. Why does ST just give away what NYT charges for? I dunno, but they do. seattletimes.com/games-nytimes…
(There’s a like five week delay, but who cares. Hopefully someone will see this and cancel their NYT subscription.)
Don't worry. I have a Plan B:
* Record a fanfare using a kazoo
* Use ChatGPT to translate it into sheet music
* Use said sheet music to synthesize it using better instruments
I already have a fanfare in my head. I was planning on using it for a much better game, but whatever.
Kwame Ture: Anytime you make an analysis of an oppressed people, in any aspect of their life, and you leave out the enemy, you will never come to a correct analysis. On the contrary, you will blame the oppressed for all of their problems. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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- 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.
this acura wheel bearing race is being extremely stubborn about coming off the hub so im freezing it then will hit the race immediately with the oxy propane torch and try to drive the puller behind it
oxy propane is making my dreams come true though. i love not releasing a bunch of soot into the indoor shop air
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anyone here familiar with #libreCAD ?
i need to do a simple floor plan. have it mostly figured out, but when i add doors from the library it has like 20 guidelines that can't be hidden from view.
EDIT: i figured it out. world's tiniest button next to the layer name in the layers widget.
my job is supposed to be cleaning and selling cars. fml.
#Pope Leo is a fucking cunt and a fucking pedo just like every other #Catholic church leader. #PopeLeo #religion #Catholics #Catholicism
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In his first meeting with the Vatican diplomatic corps, Pope Leo XIV said family is based on the 'stable union between a man and a woman' and that the unborn and elderly enjoy dignity as God's creaturesNina Joudeh (Irish Star)
Work to restore the areas of Kursk Oblast damaged during the Ukrainian Armed Forces invasion will begin only after the border areas have been completely cleared of mines. This could take more than a year, said Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin.Новостник (Военное обозрение)
#DIY
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2025.5.8. http://www.mfa.gov.kp/view/article/22143 The world marveled at the emergence of a new entity in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea(DPRK) on April 25– the one which can firmly guarantee the maritime sovereignty of the country, demonst…Dermot Hudson (KFAUK.com)
Evolution of Rust Compiler Errors
Link: kobzol.github.io/rust/rustc/20…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
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2025.5.14. http://www.mfa.gov.kp/view/article/22230 Back on May 14, 2024, Pyongyang, the capital of the DPRK which is proud of its clear and fresh figures as well as its modern and grandiose features, celebrated the birth of Jonwi Street at its…Dermot Hudson (KFAUK.com)
The USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory issues Volcano Updates for Kīlauea as activity warrants.USGS
Das unerwartete Danger Dan-Klavieralbum „Das ist alles von der Kunstfreiheit gedeckt“ ist da! Jetzt streamen & bestellen: ► https://to.lopi.link/kunstfreihei...YouTube
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#Racist #SouthAfrican #refugee granted #asylum by #racist American #President claims he's not racist because he has "many black friends" and doesn't grasp the irony that people who actually aren't racist don't need to tell you how many of a certain "type" of people are their "friends".
Being non-racist has nothing to do with what you tell someone else and everything to do with how you live your life and the way you treat other people.
There are many white South Africans that actually aren't racist. You know how we know that? They haven't applied for asylum and to become a refugee in America.
Can't wait for the next President to ship these racist fucks down to El Salvador. After all, Trump set the precedent, am I right? #USpol
Afrikaner Charl Kleinhaus is among the group of nearly 60 white South Africans who have moved to the US under President Donald Trump’s controversial policy t...YouTube
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From Voice of Korea. http://vok.rep.kp/index.php/detail_com/comde/iee250408008/57/en Everywhere in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, all the pupils and students are seen going to school wearing new school uniforms.Dermot Hudson (KFAUK.com)
MIT asks arXiv to take down preprint of paper on AI and scientific discovery
Link: economics.mit.edu/news/assurin…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
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Laura Miller: Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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- 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.
Donald Trump continues his Jacksonian revision of international policy by substituting trade to war. This week, he is in the Gulf where he has managed to sign historic agreements with Saudi Arabia and Qatar, but has still not recognized the Palestini…Voltaire Network
total and utter nintendo death
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Usada Pekora played a potentially hacked version of Pokémon Emerald, leading to Nintendo asking Hololive to make the whole video private, and their vtubers avoid hacked games.Ryan Pearson (BoundingIntoComics.com)
I just learned this about why the "Big Beautiful Bill" doesn't have elimination of tax on Social Security.
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THE BYRD RULE POINT OF ORDER Section 313 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 The Byrd Rule requires reconciliation bills in the Senate remain focused on fiscal issues, subjecting nonbudgetary provisions to a point of order.Matthew Dickerson (Economic Policy Innovation Center)
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Timothy Randall, 29, was shot and killed by former Sgt. Shane Iversen of the Rusk County Sheriff’s Office during a traffic stop in Turnertown on Sept. 14, 20...YouTube
Turkish Foreign Ministry Spokesman Oncu Keceli said the city will host teams from the US, led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio; Ukraine, led by Defense Minister Rustem Umerov; Russia, led by presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky; and Turkey’s Foreign …TASS
Whiskeytown Lake’s crystal-clear waters are iconic, but this 42,000-acre National Recreation Area offers much more. Explore waterfalls, hike rugged trails, uncover Gold Rush history, and witness the resilience of nature in its post-fire recovery.www.nps.gov
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X X^t can be faster
Link: arxiv.org/abs/2505.09814
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
We present a new algorithm RXTX that computes product of matrix by its transpose $XX^{t}$. RXTX uses $5\%$ less multiplications and additions than State-of-the-Art and achieves accelerations even for small sizes of matrix $X$.arXiv.org
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In einer funktionierenden Gesellschaft passen sich die Gäste dem Gastgeber an.
In Deutschland passt sich die Gesellschaft den Gästen an und verzichtet auf seine Kultur.
#Islamismus #Gruppenvergewaltigungen #Messermorde #Brandmauertote #Islam #Brandmaueropfer #Massenvergewaltigungen
#Islam #Moslem #Islamisten #Migration
Deutschland 2025: Auf deutschen Straßen fordern Islamisten die Auslöschung der Juden und feiern den 7.NiUS.de
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Former Foreign Minister of Germany Annalena Baerbock, who has been nominated as the candidate for the presidency of the United Nations General Assembly, promised to keep the door always open to listen to every member of the General Assembly.Belarusian Telegraph Agency
Ich sah der Menschen Angstgehetz;
ich hört der Sklaven Frongekeuch.
Da rief ich laut: Brecht das Gesetz!
Zersprengt den Staat! Habt Mut zu euch!
Was gilt Gesetz?! Was gilt der Staat?!
Der Mensch sei frei! Frei sei das Recht!
Der freie Mensch folgt eignem Rat:
Sprengt das Gesetz! Den Staat zerbrecht! -
Da blickten Augen kühn und klar,
und viel Bedrückte liefen zu:
Die Freiheit lebe! Du sprichst wahr!
Von Staat und Zwang befrei uns du! -
Nicht ich! Ihr müßt euch selbst befrein.
Zerreißt den Gurt, der euch beengt!
Kein andrer darf euch Führer sein.
Brecht das Gesetz! Den Staat zersprengt! -
Nein, du bist klug, und wir sind dumm.
Führ uns zur Freiheit, die du schaust! -
Schon zogen sie die Rücken krumm:
O sieh, schon ballt der Staat die Faust! ...
Roh griff die Faust mir ins Genick
des Staats: verletzt sei das Gesetz!
Man stieß mich fort. - Da fiel mein Blick
auf Frongekeuch und Angstgehetz.
Im Sklaventrott zog meine Schar
und schrie mir nach: Mach dein Geschwätz,
du Schwindler, an dir selber wahr!
Jetzt lehrt der Staat dich das Gesetz! --
Ihr Toren! Schlagt mir Arm und Bein
in Ketten, und im Grabverlies
bleibt doch die beste Freiheit mein:
die Freiheit, die ich euch verhieß.
Man schnürt den Leib; man quält das Blut.
Den Geist zwingt nicht Gesetz noch Staat.
Frei, sie zu brechen, bleibt mein Mut
und freier Mut gebiert die Tat!
Freiheit in KettenErich MühsamIch sah der Menschen Angstgehetz;ich hört der Sklaven Frongekeuch.Da rief ich laut: Brecht das Gesetz!Zersprengt den Staat! Hab...YouTube
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Hi, I've recently discovered that steam client on linux requires the XTEST extension to handle input from controller. However, I can not enable XTEST on gdm no matter what I've done. Switch to lightdm solves it instanly but I prefer gdm.
Could you provide some hint how to debug it and have you experienced that before? Thank you very much!
I am using Arch Linux with Gnome and Wayland.
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Unfortunately I can not login with GDM using X. I am having the same bug as in here :/ For wayland, I have both read/write permissions for my username.
Also I can use the PS5 controller as a mouse just fine. Another symptom I see is when I run xdotool mousemove 150 150, it will print Warning: XTEST extension unavailable on '(null)'. Some functionality may be disabled; See 'man xdotool' for more info.. The null here is concerning to me. Not sure how it says on other system.
Ok so it's not the uinput permissions.
When you use lightdm, do you use it to log into a Gnome wayland session, same as with GDM? Or is there any other difference between using GDM and LightDM? What exactly is/isn't working, and how can you tell it is related to the XTEST extension?
Also I can use the PS5 controller as a mouse just fine.
Ok, this could maybe be the kernel driver creating a "real" touchpad device. Steam is able to create fake/virtual mouse and keyboard devices, I suspect that's what steam uses XTEST and/or uinput for. So even though your PS5 touchpad works, that does not invalidate my theory that steam wants XTEST for mouse/keyboard input fakery, because that's what exactly what XTEST is for.
So technically, Steam wouldn't require XTEST for controller input, it would require XTEST to map controller inputs to fake mouse or keyboard inputs. I don't know what exactly steam does if XTEST isn't present, like what exactly doesn't work?
And XTEST is an X11 protocol extension, it probably doesn't work properly under Wayland anyway.
The null here is concerning to me.
Dunno, '(null)' might just refer to the default connection (or server or screen or whatever X11 object this refers to), so not sure if this something to be concerned about. I presume X11 clients in general do work? Like xterm or xeyes work, right?
I am having the same bug as in here :/
The fact that you cannot log in may seem/look like that exact issue you linked to, but that's from 2019 and may have a different cause. In general, GDM will start some executable, (i.e. gnome-session or something like that, or at least it used to be gnome-session, haven't used gnome in a while) which if it exits/crashes this will kick you back to GDM. It could crash for many reasons.
You should check the logs for sure for both issues. X11 session logs (relating to Gnome X11 not starting), should be in ~/.xsession-errors (or ~/.xsession-errors.old for the previous session, I think). There may be a /var/log/Xorg.0.log for xorg, which I guess could also be the thing crashing (maybe). There may be other things logged with journald that could be relevant. journalctl --user should show all the logs for the user session. Logs from Gnome, since it runs as your user, would presumably show up there. My guess is all the relevant logs for a Gnome wayland session would also be there, as well as (hopefully) Xwayland errors/warnings, since Xwayland is actually the thing that would report it doesn't support XTEST.
Note that journalctl likes to show the oldest logs first, so look at the timestamps. You can press G to scroll to the end. There are various ways to filter messages, look at journalctl --help. You might want to use --grep to look for anything related to XTEST or xwayland.
Lightdm and GDM are systemd units (systemctl list-units), the logs would show with something like sudo journalctl -u lightdm.
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Unknown parent • • •>doesn't even include Tobit
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Unknown parent • • •I know, but since 1885 if you buy a "standard" KJV it won't contain it
on top of that, most common Protestant English Bible translations do not contain it (ESV, NIV, CSB, et cetera)
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Unknown parent • • •I do agree that a lot of the Catholic Church is retarded (though many are not), hence why I'm not Catholic