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Netanyahu wants to achieve 'total victory' in Gaza. Any criticism of Israel is antisemitism. Today's cartoon by Luc Vernimmen. More cartoons: cartoonmovement.com/search?que…
Columbia University students burn their diplomas after graduation, in protest against the school’s ties to "Israel" and Trump’s crackdown on campus activism.
Two Israeli embassy staff were killed in a shooting outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, on Wednesday night. A suspect is in custody, officials said.
The weak seek victim hood. Why? It provides convenient shelter. All the while pointing the finger of guilt elsewhere. Freeing them of responsibility. There lies the crux of it. Responsibility scares the hell out of them.
To operate legally and efficiently, you need to complete several post-incorporation tasks. Here's a practical blueprint to ensure your business starts strong and stays compliant.
You've incorporated your company—fantastic! The name is official, the paperwork is complete, and you're ready to make your mark. But incorporation is just the first step. To operate legally and efficiently, you need to complete several post-incorporation tasks. Here's a practical blueprint to ensure your business starts strong and stays compliant.
1. Open a Corporate Bank Account
A corporate bank account is essential to keep your business finances separate from your personal ones. Mixing the two can lead to legal issues, accounting chaos, and tax complications. A dedicated account ensures clarity and professionalism in your financial operations.
To open an account, banks typically request: - Your company's incorporation certificate and constitution - A board resolution approving the account - IDs for directors, shareholders, and authorized signatories - Proof of business premises, such as a rental agreement or utility bill
Some banks require an in-person visit, even for solo entrepreneurs. When selecting a bank, consider fees, online banking functionality, and customer support responsiveness. A secretarial services provider can make this process smoother by recommending banks with fast onboarding and assisting with document preparation, helping you avoid delays.
2. Obtain Necessary Licenses
Certain industries require specific licenses or permits to operate legally. Sectors like hospitality, finance, education, or transportation often have strict regulatory requirements. Operating without proper approvals can lead to fines or forced closure.
Examples include: - A food stall needing a hawker license and hygiene certifications - A financial advisory firm requiring MAS approval - A preschool needing registration with the Early Childhood Development Agency
Licensing rules can be intricate and vary by industry or location. Missing a permit could disrupt your operations, so early research is critical. Corporate secretarial services can identify the licenses your business needs and manage the application process, ensuring you meet all regulatory requirements without hassle.
3. Handle GST Registration
In Singapore, Goods and Services Tax (GST) registration is mandatory if your business:
Generates over S$1 million in taxable revenue annually, or
Is expected to exceed this threshold in the next 12 months.
Voluntary registration is an option for smaller businesses, especially if you deal with GST-registered clients or want to claim input tax credits. It can also make your business appear more established.
Once registered, you'll need to: - Charge 9% GST on your invoices - File regular GST returns (typically quarterly) - Keep detailed records of taxable transactions
GST compliance is strict, and errors can lead to hefty fines. A secretarial services provider or accountant can set up your GST system, guide you through filings, and advise on the benefits of voluntary registration for your business model.
4. Meet Compliance Requirements
Post-incorporation compliance involves several ongoing tasks to keep your business legally compliant. These include:
Appointing a company secretary within six months (required by Singapore law)
Issuing share certificates to shareholders
Filing your first annual return with ACRA
Maintaining a register of significant controllers (those who control the company)
These tasks may feel like administrative chores, but neglecting them can lead to penalties or regulatory issues. A corporate secretarial services team handles these responsibilities proactively, ensuring your records are accurate and deadlines are met without distracting you from growth.
5. Set Up Accounting and Payroll
Proper financial management is critical from day one. Delaying your accounting setup risks errors, missed deductions, or penalties during tax season. Use accounting software like Xero or hire a bookkeeper to track income, expenses, and receipts.
If you're hiring staff, payroll is another priority. This includes: - Calculating CPF contributions accurately - Issuing compliant payslips - Managing employee tax filings
Your secretarial services provider may offer these services or connect you with professionals to establish robust accounting and payroll systems, ensuring you're audit-ready.
6. Keep Documentation Organized
As your business grows, documentation becomes increasingly important. Every key decision—board resolutions, share transfers, or loan agreements—must be recorded. These records are vital for compliance, audits, or future transactions like investments or sales.
For instance, if you're pitching to investors, they'll expect a clear paper trail. A company secretarial services team ensures your documentation is thorough and organized, so you're always prepared for scrutiny.
Closing Note: Build with Support
Starting a business is exhilarating, but the post-incorporation phase—bank accounts, licenses, GST, and compliance—can be overwhelming. Going it alone risks costly mistakes. A secretarial services provider handles the administrative details, keeping you compliant and letting you focus on growth. With their support, you'll launch your business with a solid foundation.
Corporate secretarial services are an integral part of business management and compliance, particularly in the context of corporate secretarial services in Singapore.
Challenging the numerous insidious aspects of current U.K. foreign policy amounts to nothing less than truly ending the British Empire, writes Mark Curtis.
By Mark Curtis
Declassified U.K.
Date: May 22, 2025 Amid the continued targeting of the healthcare system in the Gaza Strip and the intensification of attacks on hospitals, the Al-Awda Health and Community Association has
Sondervermögen: Grünenchef wirft Merz und Klingbeil Wortbruch vor
https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2025-05/felix-banasazk-gruene-sondervermoegen-klimaschutz-union-spd-kritik
> Schwarz-Rot wolle Teile des 500-Milliarden-Sondervermögens nun do…
When I set up #ClimateDiary in Jan 23, it still felt like many in privileged Global North thought everything was fine and normal; like only a minority of us saw the #Polycrisis or #Metacrisis .
By now, we all know, and know that everyone knows, that nothing is fine and normal, and that all these different crisis are connected.
We may not know what to do. But perhaps we can at least connect to those around us (IRL) in truer ways. IDK.
#ClimateDiary And apologies, I realise ⬆️ I kind side-stepped (ran out of space) - the main point of the article, which is that, whilst we all know things are not normal, we pretend they are; this is #hypernormalisation. Here Harfoush’s IG post on this. What I was trying to say was: maybe we can at least try and break through this, by trying to have real conversations with neighbours and friends; and that could be a start for finding new ways. IDK.
494K likes, 5,213 comments - foushy on January 7, 2025: "BEGINNING VIDEO @dailybez
If you feel like something is deeply off with the world, you’re not alone.
I was hoping to hear something meaningful from Barak about the genocide in Gaza, or at least honest. Golan and Olmert showed it can be done, and the poison machine can be confronted. After all, in 1998, Ehud Barak honestly stated that if born Palestinian, he might have joined resistance organizations— a politically costly admission that acknowledged Palestinian motivations. latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-19…
These days Barak merely calls for ending the war in #Gaza and releasing hostages, but frames his argument around Israeli strategic interests rather than Palestinian casualties, mentioning only a "humanitarian crisis" without directly addressing the genocide like Yair Golan in his "Israel kills babies as a hobby" comment, or even Olmert’s admission that the killings in Gaza being done “knowingly, intentionally, wickedly, maliciously, recklessly.”
Barak again repeats the argument that #Netanyahu must choose between far-right coalition partners and international leaders, proposing an inter-Arab transitional force for Gaza while warning that continued war will worsen Israel's diplomatic isolation. However, with Netanyahu facing war crimes allegations, political calculations and survival are hardly the central issue, nor is Israel's already damaged international image. The focus should be on raising urgent alarm and stopping the killing of more innocent civilians in Gaza.
I've been using Tusky for browsing mastodon for a while and really enjoyed its experience. But then they moved the boost button all the way down to the bottom of the screen and that's just too much traveling for my thumb. What used to be a seamless experience has been dragged out, and enlarged to take up a quarter of the screen.
I tried switching to Husky for a few days but its missing some key functions I like about Tusky, like being able to follow and block hashtags, and change "load more" behavior to open up instead of down. It seems to be more a Plemora thing anyway.
I don't have the skills to fork Tusky, so I'm wondering if there's a way to basically undo an update. How do I get back to an earlier version?
Why doesn't show f Droid older releases as well? I'm 100% sure f Droid have these versions stored somewhere.. Like versions that 1, 5 or even 8 years old.
Date: May 22, 2025 Since the outbreak of fire at Al-Awda Hospital—Tal al-Zaatar—north of the Gaza Strip, caused by the targeting of its facilities by the occupation forces at exactly
Rev. Chuck Baldwin Published: Thursday, May 22, 2025 Download free computerized mp3 audio file of this column (To subscribe to my columns at no cost, click here.
Mao Zedong: Military action is a method used to attain a political goal. While military affairs and political affairs are not identical, it is impossible to isolate one from the other. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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.
🚨18 MILLIONEN € für rechte Hetze? Die #AfD nahe Desiderius-Erasmus-Stiftung könnte Millionen von unseren Steuergeldern erhalten. Mit dem Geld könnte die DES ihre #rechtsextrem e Weltanschauung verbreiten und den braunen Nachwuchs für die AfD fördern. Dabei ist die Gesetzeslage klar: Nur demokratische Stiftungen dürfen gefördert werden. Für dieses Gesetz haben wir uns jahrelang eingesetzt. Jetzt muss es auch konsequent angewendet werden! Deshalb haben Campact gemeinsam mit FragDenStaat und der Bildungsstätte Anne Frank einen neuen Appell gestartet. Innenminister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) kann die Millionen-Finanzierung stoppen – aber bisher schweigt er. 👉 Unterzeichne jetzt den Appell und fordere: Unsere Steuergelder dürfen nicht in eine rechtsextreme AfD-Stiftung fließen! campact.org/zoeY6
Consider the following two dimensions of our sitting practice : Both Transmitter and Receiver, the posture teaches the worlds and receives the teaching of the worlds.The sitting posture expresses t…
The incident of a young Ukrainian man torching the British prime minister’s car and property makes a good story, but leaves more questions than answers. …
For This Song With LYRICS On The Screen, Please Push This Link: https://youtu.be/mJzg_qBF9kQThe Original Version by The Pixies:https://youtu.be/ZVwYpnnQVxwLy...
From the obvious to the far fetched: Soviet references in Blade Runner 2049#bladerunner2049Invaluable since I went down this rabbit hole was a brilliant arti...
A meme I made has been turned into a playable board game! First here’s images of the board and cards. Scroll down for the printable PDFs! A bit of backstory: A while ago I had a silly idea that would leave me alone until I made it: “what if monopoly,…
Oh and btw, the synagogue in question was holding a real estate sale of lands in illegal israeli settlements in the West Bank. ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/pal…
When Ghada Sasa found out that a touring Israeli real estate exhibition making stops in Canada was promoting land in the occupied West Bank she broke down and cried.
Oh great, a *Liberal* MP is trying to make this province-wide. If the province passed this legislation they might use the notwithstanding clause to enact it. Fuck.
"private messaging apps like Signal deserve to be treated with at least the same level of caution that’s afforded to a web browser’s private or incognito browsing window — which Microsoft has already excluded from Recall by default"
Trump's threat to Harvard is a genie that can't be rebottled. Anyone in the US on a student of H1-B visa can lose it because the regime doesn't like your school or employer. Deportation or indefinite detention, maybe extraordinary rendition. If you have an offer from a US uni, reject it now. #uspol
"Asked in the documentary what message she had for people today, she replied, “Be engaged. And don’t accept any order that your conscience could not approve.”" flipboard.com/@washpost/world-…
Aided by her blond hair, blue eyes and fluency in German, she crossed enemy lines to spy on Germany for the French. She later received the Legion of Honor.
This “Lincoln man” sexually assaulted a mentally disabled woman with the mental capacity of a three-year-old.
This “Lincoln man” is an ILLEGAL ALIEN and one of the monsters that the activist Massachusetts District Judge is trying to bring back to the United States after he was deported yesterday.
PSA: If you are not browsing the interwebs with a VPN enabled and you suddenly find your browser sessions are frequently stymied by constant CAPTCHA requests, that's one potential sign that your system may be compromised by something that is routing other peoples' Web traffic through your computer. It's not a dead giveaway of a compromise by any stretch, but it is something that you should probably investigate further.
Upon further consideration, I feel should point out that many low-cost or "free" VPNs very much do route other peoples' traffic through your system. This is an incredibly common practice among "free" or low-cost VPN providers. Just understand that running a VPN is not cheap, and anyone giving it away for free probably does not have your best interests at heart.
LOL. I posted the same thing on LinkedIn just as like an FYI, and within minutes the post attracted a comment from a scam HR recruiter whose account is 5 days old.
half the time you're paying criminals to intercept and inspect your traffic and for every one that proudly proclaims they don't retain logs i am quite certain NSA or FBI is doing it for them because that's a clientele they have an interest in, not that you're seeding My Humps.
when cornered i recommend mullvad which is $2/mo at tailscale and is a legitimate outfit that values #privacy.
these sleazebags market vpns like endpoint protection it's absurd. my dad thought he needed one.
And for further clarification (as per an astute reader on LinkedIn) I’d add that it might not necessarily be *your* computer that’s compromised; it could be another device connected to your Wi-Fi network, since they would share the same public IP address.
I've observed that using LibreWolf of Firefox with a bunch of security add-ons can also very easily trigger it as well. It's like the internet is actively attempting to punish you for trying to browse safer.
I just wish it didn't happen to VPNs that aren't routing lots of traffic solely based on their IP ranges.
Some sites even silently block my VPN's IP range but don't say anything. I get a blank page or a server error or etc as if the problem was on their end.
One test might be to see if you see the CAPTCHA requests immediately or only after the system has been running for some time: there's some delay after booting, possibly very short, before someone else's traffic will be routed through your system.
Also, browser extensions such as NoScript may trigger CAPTCHAs - a web site might use the presence of a scripting language to distinguish browsers from software scanning the web.
I guess Stack Overflow and the entire Stack Exchange network doesn't count: all websites in the network are asking for captchas recently aggressively. I guess they are being targeted by AI crawlers.
I have been seeing IP address from residential providers get added to MS "Malicious threat host" IP list for a few hours at a time then get removed. This is likely from the luminati proxy network being injected into Browser plugins and Android apps recently. I wasn't seeing these IP is anything else like VT or other threat feed but figured MS likely has enough traffic to pinpoint when cred stuffing starts and stops on the address.
Google has been doing this as a harassment tactic with people using uBlock (and possibly other adblockers) if you aren't logged in to the Panopticon :/ On the same computer, if I run Safari I can Google search without captcha, if I use Firefox with uBO I get one every single time.
Is it also the case for getting Cloudflare verification pages? Because I tend to get that a lot these days and am having to tick off that checkmark to continue to a website.
Sixteen years have passed since Ferdinand De Lesseps’ catastrophic failure in Panama, and the dramatic collapse of the French Panama Canal company. Now, President Theodore Roosevelt has picked up the task. “No single great material work,” Roosevelt tells Congress, “is of such consequence to the American people.”
Sixteen years have passed since Ferdinand De Lesseps’ catastrophic failure in Panama, and the dramatic collapse of the French Panama Canal company. Now, President Theodore Roosevelt has picked up t…
This is seriously stupid on the university's part. At Columbia, I've often seen parents carrying young children with them, and as recently as this week. It's *never* been a problem. flipboard.com/@npr/u.s.-news-a…
The official photographer of the Black Panther Party until 1973, Stephen Shames created hundreds of powerful images that highlight the party’s actions and ethos around California and the country.
This month, a remarkable selection of his photos opens in 'Black Panthers & Revolution: The Art of Stephen Shames.'
This Vulkan 1.3 support for NVK is thus one of the many new features to find in the Mesa 24.1 release due out in Q2. This comes following all of the necessary extensions being wired up and NVK continuing to mature at a rather brisk pace.
The NVK driver within Mesa for open-source NVIDIA GPU support for the Vulkan API that works with the Nouveau DRM kernel driver is now capable of advertising Vulkan 1.3 API support.
Now, if you want. There will probably always be tradeoffs between the two drivers so I doubt this will ever match Nvidia's across the board, just have to pick your poisons.
Che Guevara: There are no borders in this fight to the death. We cannot remain indifferent to what happens anywhere in the world. A victory of any country over imperialism is a victory for us, just as the defeat of any nation is a defeat for all. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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.
Mexico City, May 22 (Prensa Latina) Government authorities will brief on the country's economic situation and the latest progress on Plan Mexico, which aims, among other objectives, to increase national production and strengthen the domestic market.
Hey folks! I'm getting a fresh laptop for the first time in about a decade (Framework 16) in a couple of months and am looking forward to doing some low-level tinkering both on the OS and hardware. I'm planning to convert into a "cyberdeck" with quick-release hinges for the screen since I usually use an HMD, built-in breadboard, and other hardware hacking fun.
On the OS, I'm planning to try NixOS as a baremetal hypervisor (KVM/QEMU) and run my "primary" OSes in VMs with hardware passthrough. If perf is horrible, I'll probably switch back to baremetal after a bit. But, I'm not likely going to be gaming on it so, I'm not likely to have much issue.
Once the hypervisor is working in a manner that I like, I should have an easy time backing up, rolling back, swapping out my "desktop" OS. I've been using Linux as my pretty much my only OS for over a decade (I use MacOS as a glorified SSH client for work). Most of my time has been on distros in the Debian or RHEL families (*buntu, Linux Mint, Crunchbang, CentOS, etc) and I pretty much live in the terminal these days.
With all of this said, I am coming to you folks for help. I would like you folks to share distros, desktop environments, window managers that you think I should give a try, or would like to inflict on me and what makes them noteworthy.
I can't guarantee that I'll get through suggestions, as my ADHD has been playing up lately, but I'll give it an attempt. Seriously. If you want me to try Hannah Montana Linux, I'll do it and report back on the experience.
EDIT: Thank you all for your fantastic suggestions. I'm going to start compiling them into a list this weekend.
All modules that call a Unix library contain WoW64 thunks to enable calling the 64-bit Unix library from 32-bit PE code. This means that it is possible to run 32-bit Windows applications on a purely 64-bit Unix installation. This is called the new WoW64 mode, as opposed to the old WoW64 mode where 32-bit applications run inside a 32-bit Unix process.
Old Proton builds probably won't backport this (unless it's completely isolated, idk the code layout of Wine). But are old Proton builds still necessary? Occasionally there's regressions, but are there really any games that require like a 2 year old Proton build?
Giving the ignorant a seat at the table is not advancement. It is capitulation. To the dumbest among us. Modern Congress. Embarrassing. Very few leaders to be found. Tell me I’m wrong. I’ve got PLENTY of rebuttal ammunition.
@Starprophet 100% of trad west guys online are just trying to defend gay race communism and hoping they can scam white guys into doing the work for it.
I made this post because I am really curious if Linux is used in offices and educational centres like schools.
While we all know Windows is the mac-daddy in the business space, are there any businesses you know or workplaces that actually Linux as a business replacement for Windows?
I.e. Mint or Ubuntu, I am not strictly talking about the server side of things.
Linux in corporation fails in multiple ways, the most prevalent is that people need to collaborate with others that use proprietary software such as MS Office that isn't available for Linux and the alternatives such as LibreOffice aren't just good enough. It all comes down to ROI, the cost of Windows/Office for a company is cheaper than the cost of dealing with the inconsistencies in format conversions, people who don't know how to use the alternative X etc etc. This issue is so common that companies usually also avoid Apple due to the same reason, while on macOS you've a LOT more professional software it is still very painful to deal with the small inconsistencies and whatnot.
Linux desktop is great, I love it, but it gets it even worse than Apple, here some use cases that aren't easy to deal in Linux:
People who need the real MS Office because once you have to collaborate with others Open/Libre/OnlyOffice won’t cut it;
Designers who use Adobe apps that won’t run properly without having a dedicated GPU, passthrough and a some hacky way to get the image back into your main system that will cause noticeable delays. Who wants to deploy GPU passthroughs for others? Makes no sense;
People that run old software / games because not even those will run properly on Wine;
Electrical engineers: Circuit Design Suite (Multisim and Ultiboard) are primarily designed for Windows. Alternatives such as KiCad and EasyEDA may work in some cases but they aren’t great if you’ve to collaborate with others who use Circuit Design Suite;
Labs that require data acquisition from specialized hardware because companies making that hardware won’t make drivers and software for Linux;
Architects: AutoCAD isn’t available (not even the limited web version works) and Libre/FreeCAD don’t cut it if you’ve to collaborate with AutoCAD users;
Developers and sysadmins, because not everyone is using Docker and Github actions to deploy applications to some proprietary cloud solution. Finding a properly working FTP/SFTP/FTPS desktop client (similar WinSCP or Cyberduck) is an impossible task as the ones that exist fail even at basic tasks like dragging and dropping a file.
If one lives in a bubble and doesn’t to collaborate with others then native Linux apps might work and might even deliver a decent workflow. Once collaboration with Windows/Mac users is required then it’s game over – the “alternatives” aren’t just up to it.
Windows licenses are cheap and things work out of the box. Software runs fine, all vendors support whatever you’re trying to do and you’re productive from day zero. Sure, there are annoyances from time to time, but they’re way fewer and simpler to deal with than the hoops you’ve to go through to get a minimal and viable/productive Linux desktop experience. It all comes down to a question of how much time (days? months?) you want to spend fixing things on Linux that simply work out of the box under Windows for a minimal fee. Buy a Windows license and spend the time you would’ve spent dealing with Linux issues doing your actual job and you’ll, most likely, get a better ROI.
From a more market / macro perspective here are some extra reasons:
Companies like blame someone when things go wrong, if they chose open-source there's isn't someone to sue then;
Buying proprietary stuff means you're outsourcing the risks of such product;
Corruption pushes for proprietary: they might be buying software that is made by someone that is close to the CTO, CEO or other decision marker in the company, an old friend, family or straight under the table corruption;
Most non-tech companies use services from consulting companies in order to get their software developed / running. Consulting companies often fall under the last point that besides that they have have large incentives from companies like Microsoft to push their proprietary services. For eg. Microsoft will easily provide all of a consulting companies employees with free Azure services, Office and other discounts if they enter in an exclusivity agreement to sell their tech stack. To make things worse consulting companies live of cheap developers (like interns) and Microsoft and their platform makes things easier for anyone to code and deploy;
Microsoft provider a cohesive ecosystem of products that integrate really well with each other and usually don't require much effort to get things going - open-source however, usually requires custom development and a ton of work to work out the "sharp angles" between multiple solutions that aren't related and might not be easily compatible with each other;
Open-source requires a level of expertise that more than half of the developers and IT professionals simply don't have. This aspect reinforces the last point even more. Senior open-source experts are more expensive than simply buying proprietary solutions;
If we consider the price of a senior open-source expert + software costs (usually free) the cost of open-source is considerable lower than the cost of cheap developers + proprietary solutions, however consider we are talking about companies. Companies will always prefer to hire more less expensive and less proficient people because that means they're easier to replace and you'll pay less taxes;
Companies will prefer to hire services from other companies instead of employees thus making proprietary vendors more compelling. This happens because from an accounting / investors perspective employees are bad and subscriptions are cool (less taxes, no responsibilities etc);
The companies who build proprietary solutions work really hard to get vendors to sell their software, they provide commissions, support and the promises that if anything goes wrong they'll be there. This increases the number of proprietary-only vendors which reinforces everything above. If you're starting to sell software or networking services there's little incentive for you to go pure "open-source". With less companies, less visibility, less professionals (and more expensive), less margins and less positive market image, less customers and lesser profits.
Unfortunately things are really poised and rigged against open-source solutions and anyone who tries to push for them. The "experts" who work in consulting companies are part of this as they usually don't even know how to do things without the property solutions. Let me give you an example, once I had to work with E&Y, one of those big consulting companies, and I realized some awkward things while having conversations with both low level employees and partners / middle management, they weren't aware that there are alternatives most of the time. A manager of a digital transformation and cloud solutions team that started his career E&Y, wasn't aware that there was open-source alternatives to Google Workplace and Microsoft 365 for e-mail. I probed a TON around that and the guy, a software engineer with an university degree, didn't even know that was Postfix was and the history of email.
Trying to install VPN and these are the instructions Mullvad is giving me. This is ridiculous. There must be a more simple way. I know how to follow the instructions but I have no idea what I'm doing here. Can't I just download a file and install it? I'm on Ubuntu.
It's less complicated than it looks like. The text is just a poorly written mess, full of options (Fedora vs. Ubuntu, repo vs. no repo, stable vs. beta), and they're explaining how to do this through the terminal alone because the interface that you have might be different from what they expect. And because copy-pasting commands is faster.
Can’t I just download a file and install it? I’m on Ubuntu.
Yes, you can! In fact, the instructions include this option; it's under "Installing the app without the Mullvad repository". It's a bad idea though; then you don't get automatic updates.
A better way to do this is to tell your system "I want software from this repository", so each time that they make a new version of the program, yours get updated.
but I have no idea what I’m doing here.
I'll copy-paste their commands to do so, and explain what each does.
The first command boils down to "download this keyring from the internet". The keyring is a necessary file to know if you're actually getting your software from Mullvad instead of PoopySoxHaxxor69. If you wanted, you could do it manually, and then move to the /usr/share/keyrings directory, but... it's more work, come on.
The second command tells your system that you want software from repository.mullvad.net. I don't use Ubuntu but there's probably some GUI to do it for you.
The third command boils down to "hey, Ubuntu, update the list of packages for me".
Frankly in this case even a simple bash script would do the trick. Have it check your distro, version, and architecture; if you got curl and stuff like this; then ask you if you want the stable or beta version of the software. Then based on this info it adds Mullvad to your repositories and automatically install it.
I like them, even for software installation. Partially because they're lazy - it takes almost no effort to write a bash script that will solve a problem like this.
That said a flatpak (like you proposed) would look far more polished, indeed.
I’ve written some other posts on Wayland recently, and it’s time for another one! Feel free to skip it it you aren’t interested in a discussion of Wayland and platforms. Many may …
Been using Wayland since 3'ish years ago and my desktop experience has been really smooth -- no crashes, errors or anything of the sort. Everything "just werks" just as if I were on Xorg instead. Even on a completely obscure/zero linux support single board computer (Orange pi zero 3).
Not as bad as you might think. The nouveau drivers have come a long way for maxwell. You should give it a shot if you haven't. But, unfortunately, if you are using anything new then nouveau sucks. It's a fun game where you get to wait until nvidia no longer wants to support your GPU and hope by that point that nouveau has progressed far enough that you won't be looking at noman's land.
I wasn't fully aware of NVK and where it's at. It's actually pretty exciting. I wouldn't mind dropping my current nvidia binary blob for fully open source drivers.
Hi, everybody Recently, a guy noticed that I was using it and asked why? For me it because in Linux many things are done through the terminal because Linux has many different desktop environments
He also compared terminal commands with cheat codes in GTA and other games, he understands what benefits you take from them, but not from terminal commands
Command line is a lot more powerful for a lot of cases. Most CLI programs are written with the idea that the caller might be another program, so they tend to be easy to chain with pipes and redirection. So you have tons of simple tools that you can combine however you need.
ich finds so lustig, dass die ganzen stillen genozid-enabler wegen des dc-anschlags jetzt „selbstkritik“ der pro-palästinensischen szene fordern.
erstens: wie wärs, ihr fangt damit schon mal an und nach den nötigen jahren der depression und des selbstzweifels könnt ihr euch ja wieder melden.
zweitens: sowas wie in dc war absolut vorhersehbar und wurde auch vorhergesehen. dachtet ihr, so ein schamlos öffentlicher genozid provoziert keine heftigen gegenreaktionen?
Take very little at face value. The rats are feeding in desperation. Who gains? Always make that your first question. Don’t let yourself be told. Explore yourself. Be your own person. Own yourself. Don’t let others decide your mind. Use it yourself. Be bold.
Havana, May 21 (ACN) Cuba’s ambassador and Charge d’ Affaires at the United Nations Yuri Gala reaffirmed his country’s support of a strengthened development system with enough, foreseeable and unconditioned financing.
“Donald Trump is not something new,” Curtis tells me, calling him “the final pantomime product” of the US government, where the powerful are abandoning any pretense of common, inclusive ideals and instead using their positions to settle scores, reward loyalty and hollow out institutions for personal or political gains.
Enver Hoxha: By denigrating Stalin and the social system for which he fought and worked throughout his life, reaction and all the anti-communist scum wanted to destroy not only the greatest and most powerful base of socialism, the revolution was not conquered, Marxism-Leninism was not eliminated, and socialism was not snuffed out. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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.
>> "Im Bundestag wird uns vom Bundestagspräsidium die Anrede „Sehr geehrte demokratische Kolleginnen und Kollegen“ untersagt. Die rechtsextreme AfD fühlt sich durch die Anrede nicht angesprochen. Gehts noch?! Das Problem ist doch viel mehr, dass die AfD sich dadurch angegriffen fühlt. Antidemokraten haben aber auch nichts im Bundestag verloren. <<
Man, #NextcloudSAVED MY ASS! A couple of years ago I had started pointing all my working documents and projects and shit to my Nextcloud server as opposed to storing stuff in ~/Documents or whatever.
I mean, I still store shit in ~/Documents but it tends to be shit I need, but that I'm not necessarily working currently, or constantly.
And today, my practice of pointing to my Nextcloud share saved my ass.
I'm working on something and I ran into a snag. Did some googling and the results came back suggesting I reinitialize the project to get past my snag.
None of the posts and docs I read mentioned that if you reinitialize a project that has already been initialized that it's a destructive act.
30 years in IT and I knew better. I knew better.
It's late. I'm going on 4 hours of sleep and I'm retired right now. Cut me some slack!
But one of the victims of this lapse in judgment was a document I have been working on all fucking week. I have invested well over 40 hours into this document already.
And just like that it was gone.
Immediately tried extundelete but since the document wasn't deleted but was overwritten that attempt failed miserably.
But Nextcloud....
Nextcloud keeps a version of every document changed on its system.
And there was my document from 45 minutes ago perfectly safe and sound just waiting for me to restore it.
One click. One second. Everything restored.
Thank you Nextcloud. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Palestinian Resistance Launches Rocket Assault Into Occupied Territories, PIJ Carries Out Action
Air raid sirens sounded Wednesday evening across Askalan and several Gaza-enclosed settlements, following a fresh wave of Palestinian resistance rocket fire.
According to Zionist media, three rockets were launched from northern Gaza shortly after the initial siren alerts, setting off a second round of alarms in the northern Gaza envelope. The strikes reportedly targeted a Zionist tank gathering stationed along the perimeter fence north of the besieged Strip.
Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, claimed responsibility for the attack, stating that the barrage was launched at the occupied cities of Asdod and Askalan. The group confirmed the operation was “in response to the Zionist massacres against our Palestinian people.”
The renewed resistance response comes just hours after the occupation forces confirmed the death of a First Sergeant and the injury of another soldier in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, earlier Wednesday.
Zionist deaths mounting
On Tuesday, the occupation military acknowledged the death of one of its soldiers during ongoing confrontations in northern Gaza.
Around a week and a half prior, additional Zionist soldiers were reportedly killed in separate operations by the Palestinian Resistance.
According to the Zionist Public Broadcasting Corporation, one soldier was killed at the time during confrontations in the al-Janina neighborhood of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. He was reportedly struck when an RPG hit a building during the confrontations. Two other soldiers were injured in the same incident.
In the same area, another soldier from the Golani Brigade was killed when an explosive device detonated beneath a tank from the 188th Brigade, wounding the entire crew.
Additionally, a Reserve Sergeant First Class was killed in an operational traffic accident near Nahal Oz along the Gaza border. The soldier was reportedly struck by a truck during an engineering mission. The exact circumstances remain under investigation.
Resistance announces several operations
Palestinian Resistance groups announced several operations against Zionist troops, as the latter launched their wide-scale ground invasion of Gaza, further escalating the genocide against Palestinians.
Palestinian Resistance fighters detonated a pre-planted GBU-39/B bomb abandoned by occupation forces, destroying military vehicle during its advance on al-Muntar Street in Gaza City’s al-Shuja’iyya neighborhood on May 12, al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) movement reported on Tuesday.
In the same context, Abu Khaled, the spokesperson for the Martyr Omar al-Qassim Forces, the military wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), confirmed that one of their combat units, operating in northwestern Gaza, set up a well-planned ambush for a Zionist infantry patrol in the al-Atatra area.
Abu Khaled explained that the area had been rigged with explosive devices. The fighters lured the advancing troops into the ambush, where they opened fire and detonated the explosives beneath the soldiers, causing direct casualties. The Zionist force was forced to call for drone-supported reinforcements.
The spokesperson explained that the operation’s staging area had been prepared with explosive devices, allowing the fighters to draw the advancing Zionistforces into the ambush, where they unleashed gunfire and detonated the planted explosives at close range, inflicting direct casualties among the soldiers and forcing the Israeli unit to request drone-assisted reinforcements.
Abu Khaled added that the group’s commander, Zakaria Rami Abu Ouda, was martyred in the fighting, noting that Abu Ouda’s comrades managed to retrieve his body from the battlefield and return it to their positions.
Occupation admits one soldier killed in Gaza
Meanwhile, the occupation military acknowledged the death of one of its soldiers during ongoing confrontations in northern Gaza, identifying him as Yosef Yehuda Hirak from the 601st Engineering Battalion. This brings the total number of Zionist troops killed since the war began on October 7, 2023, to 857.
In the same area, the al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, had earlier announced carrying out a coordinated ambush against occupation forces in the al-Atatra area west of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip.
According to the al-Qassam Brigades’ statement, three military vehicles were targeted with two “Shawaz” explosive devices and a “Tandem” shell, followed by direct confrontations with another Israeli force. The Brigades confirmed that the operation resulted in dead and wounded among the occupation forces, with Israeli military helicopters seen landing at the site to evacuate casualties.
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