"#Errands" is an amazing #Tasks app for #Gnome that syncs perfectly with #Nextcloud. It even supports sub-tasks (and sub-sub-tasks). This is perfect and everything I've wanted and had been looking for.
The only caveat is you need to create an App Password since you can't use your normal Nextcloud account password to authenticate which has nothing to do with Errands.
Alahednews - Fastnews - Al-Quds Brigades: Helicopters Land at Site of Strike Targeting “Israeli” Troops in Khan Younisenglish.alahednews.news
Proton Drive does not support Linux…
I think there is early beta support in Rclone, but I have seen many reports of it not working well.
Tucker Carlson is stunned as doctor makes claim about Covid vaccines
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Shocking Truth: 38,000 Deaths Linked to This Vaccine – The Real Numbers May Be Even Higher!www.facebook.com
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President Donald Trump walks onstage to speak to a crowd at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, following the launch of NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission onNASA
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“If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything ... quilting bees, clothes drives, and potluck suppers throughout the 50 States.”
Justice Clarence Thomas
~ Justice Clarence Thomas
(1948- ) U.S. Supreme Court Justice
dissenting in Gonzales v. Raich, 545 U.S. 1 (2005), with respect to federal regulation of marijuana that had never been sold, had never crossed state lines, and had no effect on the national market
"If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything ... quilting bees, clothes drives, and potluck suppers throughout the 50 States." ~ Justice Clarence ThomasLibertyQuotes
Have the members of the Supreme Court all had a Top Secret Military clearance ever? I doubt they would pass.
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What does it take to get a top secret security clearance or TSI? All who apply must undergo a background investigation before they can be awarded.Veteran.com Team (Veteran.com)
Dur dur. #NSFL.
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U.S. sanctions cloud provider 'Funnull' as top source of 'pig butchering' scams
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The U.S. government today imposed economic sanctions on Funnull Technology Inc., a Philippines-based company that provides computer infrastructure for hundreds of thousands of websites involved in virtual currency investment scams, commonly known as …krebsonsecurity.com
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“Our system is changing and [Congress] is the one branch that must act if we are to reverse those changes. We are seeing the emergence of a different model of government, a model long-ago rejected by the framers. ... A dominant presidency has occurred with very little congressional opposition. Indeed, when President Obama pledged to circumvent Congress, he received rapturous applause from the very body that he was proposing to make practically irrelevant. Now many…
"Our system is changing and [Congress] is the one branch that must act if we are to reverse those changes. We are seeing the emergence of a different model of government, a model long-ago rejected by the framers. ...LibertyQuotes
Why? Because I’m a human rights activist and I get in the way of U.S. foreign policy. Your tax dollars well spent. And you thought that USAID’s purpose was foreign aid and humanitarian assistance.Bill Nicholov (CovertAction Magazine)
cc: people who "stand with Israel"
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“When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.”
~ Jessica Mitford
(1917-1996) Self-described 'muckraker' and political radical
"When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees." ~ Jessica MitfordLibertyQuotes
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Israeli occupation forces arrest Sanaa Daqqa, widow of martyr Walid Daqqa, while traveling with her child, following calls by Police Minister Ben Gvir.Al Mayadeen English (Israeli regime arrests martyr Walid Daqqa's wife Sanaa)
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Japanese specialists in renewable energies are reportedly working on a technical advisory project to introduce renewable energies in Cuba, a task led by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).Ahora
Things like don’t shake a baby (babies love to be bounced and rocked, which are honestly just gentle shaking, but even moderately vigorous shaking can seriously injure or kill an infant and you should never shake a baby in anger or anything like that) or don’t take anything with you when exiting a building when a fire alarm goes off (don’t go looking for things, but you should still put your coat on if it’s next to you and it’s cold out). What other common maxims are generally good to follow, but over exaggerated? Bonus points if it’s only a well known saying because our instinct is to do the thing, like with rocking babies.
(Please don’t think I’m telling you to shake babies or look for and carry huge stacks of files out of a burning building)
Children and sex. Recently on local social media, there was a discussion on our topless laws. Of course, there were the predictable comments about women not going topless where children might see.
Well, why not, Karen? It's utterly ridiculous when you consider what breasts are for, and what children are meant to do with them. Yes, it's true the children shouldn't be engaging in sex acts, and the details of adult sexual behavior should be kept from them, since they're not equipped to understand, e.g. BDSM and power play, yet. But if kids see a pair of boobs, if kids see naked people, or even if kids know the basic functions of body parts, they'll be fine. Lots of kids throughout human history lived in small dwellings and heard, or even saw, parents and other members of their community having sex, and they all survived the experience.
Communicable disease? Now there's something that we should be protecting children from...
My wife randomly sends me call signs when she sees them on license plates etc, and then I look them up in ULS and pretend like it's someone I know (she knows I don't actually)
Anyway, I think it's past time that the FCC lets private hams remain mostly anonymous. I wonder if anyone suggested that as part of all the Delete Delete Delete crap.
@gme I work for a company that provides home carers, and whilst our staff are subjected to one of the most stringent background and ID checks available in our country (and their immigration/citizenship status is audited regularly) there's also strict rules about confidentiality of this information within the company.
We can't search their vehicle registration marks to check registered keeper details (only companies with a motoring-related reason can do so like parking enforcement and car insurance), although staff do need to submit details of what they are driving and we check the car has a valid inspection cert (MOT) and the driver has valid insurance for business travel.
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On Monday 26 May, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held a meeting with African diplomats in Beijing to celebrate Africa Day.Friends of Socialist China
#Palestine / Israel: we're not done genociding...
As the world slowly but surely awakens to the real magnitude of #Israel's war crimes and crimes against humanity in #Gaza, its officials' rhetoric intensifies and becomes even more vile than usual. You cannot hide #genocide by blocking foreign media access kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/1145…, nor can you conceal it by establishing a fake aid operation designed to displace people from parts of the Gaza Strip you want to steal kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/1145….
The Israeli Foreign Ministry's use of "crusade" against #France—historically one of Israel's closest allies—reveals desperation. This religious warfare language, combined with attempts to reframe genocide as humanitarian aid, shows how Israeli propaganda escalates as international legal pressure mounts. Clearly, when Israel's friends call out its genocidal leadership's war crimes, all that's left is to increase the volume and shout them down.
@palestine
@israel
#GazaGenocide
Quoting Itay Mak on how Israel's "aid plan" for Gaza is ethnic cleansing on a minimally full stomach: Mak says Israel's 'aid plan' sounds like an antisemitic blood libel. Except that it's reality.kolektiva.social
#Palestine / EBU Urges Israel to allow foreign journalists access to GazaThe #EBU calls on the #Israeli government to unblock access to #Gaza for foreign journalists, who have been banned since October 2023. The EBU highlights the critical role of Palestinian journalists and the need for international media to support their efforts by reporting from inside Gaza. Unrestricted access is crucial for press freedom and independent reporting.
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This appeal follows a similar request from the EBU last year. Israel’s participation in #Eurovision, despite restricting access to Gaza for foreign journalists, may be seen as inconsistent with the obligations of its membership. Shouldn’t this lead to KAN’s ineligibility to participate in the Eurovision, at least? You’d think that an ongoing genocide makes the absurd arrangements the EBU is insisting on seem somewhat redundant.
More than 70 media and civil society organizations, including the Associated Press, #BBC, #EBU and The New York Times, have signed an open letter urging Israel to give journalists independent access to Gaza. They highlight that no independent media access has been permitted since the start of the war, increasing pressure on local journalists and creating room for misinformation. The organizations emphasize that over 100 journalists have been killed since the war began, and those remaining face extreme deprivation.
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#PressFreedomMedia organizations urge Israel to open access to Gaza - Committee to Protect Journalists
New York, July 11, 2024—More than 70 media and civil society organizations have signed an open letter urging Israel to give journalists independent access to Gaza.Committee to Protect Journalists
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I need to buy a lottery ticket today. (I actually might.)
Had a 6.5 hour sleep without any interruptions last night and without taking any melatonin to go to bed. Granted, I did wait until after midnight and for me to be sufficiently tired and exhausted before going to bed.
But to not have woken up after 90 minutes or even after 4 hours has been somewhat of a blessing this morning!
Please body, more of this. Please.
It’s a relatively well-known fact that Israeli forces have attacked the overwhelming majority of hospitals in #Gaza and have launched hundreds upon hundreds of strikes on medical services in the enclave.
Whenever anyone mentions this fact publicly they’ll get #Israel apologists babbling about “human shields” and absurdly trying to claim that there are #Hamas bases in all the hospitals. But these talking points are invalidated by the fact that we’ve seen multiple reports from doctors documenting Israeli forces actually entering hospitals they’ve attacked and destroying all the individual pieces of medical equipment in those facilities, one by one.
The latest of such reports appears in the Greek outlet Efimerida ton Syntakton from a specialist surgeon named Christos Georgalas, who was at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis in southern Gaza from April to May of this year.
According to machine translation, #Georgalas calls Israel’s onslaught “a war mainly against children,” and describes horrific injuries that Israeli munitions have been inflicting upon young Palestinians.
Georgalas also describes repeated Israeli attacks on the hospital where he was working, which include the following:
“A Spanish colleague told me that when the Israelis came to the hospital where the MRI machine was, they tried to destroy everything. But the #MRI machine is a huge machine. It’s like a car. Even if you shoot it, it can be repaired. So they brought in a specialist engineer to permanently destroy it. Because even if a bomb went off next to it, it could still be repaired. They had to bring in a specialist who knew the heart of the machine to make it non-functional. And that’s exactly what he did last February.
“In our hospital, the Israelis went through the wards that were the incubators and systematically broke them one by one. The incubators with the crowbar! This has been recorded by my colleagues. The hospital where I worked was occupied by the Israelis for two months, in February and March 2024. The doctors who had remained in the hospital were tortured. They were lined up one by one and beaten. A total of around 80 of them were kidnapped. Of these, we do not know where 40 are or if they are alive. They killed many on the spot.”
Because Israel has been blocking journalists from entering the Gaza Strip, doctors have largely become the de facto reporters on the ground there.
We saw another report documenting Israel’s pattern of systematically destroying individual pieces of medical equipment back in February of this year, this time at the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza. Doctors Without Borders emergency coordinator Caroline Seguin reported the following:
“There is no health system anymore in the northern part of Gaza. Kamal Adwan hospital has been razed, while Al Shifa, Al Awda and Indonesian hospitals are seriously damaged and only partially functioning. We were utterly shocked to observe that in Indonesian hospital every medical machine seemed to have been deliberately destroyed; they were smashed to pieces, one by one, to make sure no medical care could be provided anymore. You have to ask: What is the motivation of such action? These machines are made to save people’s lives, mothers, fathers, children. It’s devastating to see the state of these hospitals.”
In April of this year Seguin’s report on the Indonesian Hospital was corroborated by an emergency physician named Clayton Dalton, who wrote the following for The New Yorker:
“Sultan led me upstairs, to the I.C.U., where wind blew through broken windows. He wanted to show me something that he had discovered after Israeli forces left the hospital. He pointed to a cardiac monitor near a wall. It appeared to have a bullet hole in its screen. Next to it was an EKG machine whose screen had been smashed.
“We entered a large storage room in the corner of the I.C.U. which was crammed with medical devices: ultrasound machines, I.V. pumps, dialysis machines, blood-pressure monitors. Each had apparently been destroyed by a bullet — not in a pattern one would expect from random shooting but, rather, methodically. I was stunned. I couldn’t think of any possible military justification for destroying lifesaving equipment.”
Indeed, there is no possible military justification for destroying lifesaving medical equipment. They were destroyed so that they could not be used to save lives. Israel has been systematically destroying Gaza’s healthcare infrastructure with the goal of making it uninhabitable, so that the territory can be seized by Israel.
That’s three separate accounts describing Israeli forces systematically destroying medical equipment in Gaza, from doctors who’d stand nothing to gain from lying about such a thing. The evidence is too overwhelming to deny.
There were no Hamas fighters hiding in the MRI machine. There were no tunnels in the incubators. No arms stockpiles in the EKG machine. Israel has been lying about Hamas hiding in hospitals this entire time. Hamas was never the target. #Hospitals are the target. #Healthcare is the target. That’s established far beyond any reasonable doubt by now.
#Johnstone
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#Israel #apartheid-Israel #EU #US #US-Israel #US-Israel-terrorism #Israel #Netanyahu #zionism #genocide #Gaza #Palestine #WestBank #Cisjordanie
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):Caitlin Johnstone (Caitlin’s Newsletter)
Iran sees no obstacles on the way to expand ties with Tajikistan.IRNA English
Maria #Zakharova :
« Les Français ont récemment été très surpris après avoir lu un article révélateur dans la presse locale.
Le point principal : les pourparlers de paix ne signifient rien, et les soldats français servent déjà sous le régime de Kiev.
L'article concerne une unité de combat tactique au nom évocateur « International Revenge » (Vengeance internationale). Ses membres principaux sont français, et le nom, bien sûr, n'est pas une coïncidence.
Le symbolisme du groupe porte toutes les marques classiques des revanchistes néonazis : crânes, esthétique sombre et slogan militant « Memento Audere Semper » (latin pour « Souviens-toi de toujours oser ») — une devise, comme nous le savons, du fasciste italien et allié de Mussolini Gabriele D'Annunzio.
Les néofascistes revanchards français ne se cachent même pas. Ils parlent ouvertement de venir de #France pour combattre les Russes « sans ménager leurs balles » et expriment l'espoir qu'un jour, ils affronteront la #Russie dans une bataille à grande échelle.
Des soldats français, dont d'anciens policiers, serviraient aux côtés des unités de renseignement militaire ukrainiennes. Leur idéologie est imprégnée de croyances néonazies, et leur mission est simple et claire : tuer autant de Russes que possible.
Après cela, les discours de #Macron sur son engagement en faveur de la #paix sonnent complètement creux. »
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Drop Site obtained the “term sheet,” circulated by Steve Witkoff. It would allow Israel to resume war after 60 days.Jeremy Scahill (Drop Site News)
“Aucun journaliste ne devrait répéter la #désinformation transparente d’ #Israël. Agir de la sorte, c’est participer à la promotion de mensonges visant à justifier un #génocide. C’est pourtant ce que font les #médias occidentaux depuis plus d’un an et demi. Ils sont devenus totalement insensibles à leur propre collusion active dans le génocide.”
L’affirmation d’Israël selon laquelle le #Hamas « vole l’aide » est tellement absurde qu’aucun journaliste ou politicien sérieux ne devrait lui accorder la moindre attention – et pourtant, elle revient sans cesse dans la couverture de la situation à #Gaza.
Par jonathan #Cook, journaliste indépendant britanniqueComment puis-je savoir que l’affirmation d’Israël est totalement dénuée de valeur ? Pour cette simple raison :
Israël dispose d’une flotte de drones de surveillance qui planent en permanence au-dessus de la minuscule bande de terre qu’est Gaza, surveillant chaque centimètre carré du territoire. Le gémissement incessant que vous entendez chaque fois que vous regardez une personne interviewée provient de l’un de ces drones. Ils sont les yeux d’Israël sur l’enclave. Si vous êtes à l’extérieur de Gaza, vous pourriez tout aussi bien vivre dans le « Truman Show ».Si le Hamas volait de l’aide à Gaza, Israël serait facilement en mesure de le documenter. Il disposerait des images vidéo de ses drones. Le fait qu’il n’ait pas fourni d’images montrant le vol d’aide par le Hamas – le saccage de camions d’aide ou l’introduction clandestine de combattants dans les entrepôts d’aide – confirme à suffisance qu’Israël a simplement inventé cette affirmation pour rationaliser ses plans visant à affamer la population de Gaza en imposant un blocus de l’aide pendant des mois ou à la forcer à fuir dans le Sinaï voisin, selon ce qui survient en premier.
Sans sa campagne de désinformation sur le « vol de l’aide par le Hamas », Israël sait que la révolte populaire face à sa campagne de famine s’amplifierait rapidement et que les gouvernements occidentaux auraient encore plus de mal à contenir l’opposition.
Il y a bien sûr beaucoup d’autres raisons de rejeter les mensonges d’Israël sur le « vol de l’aide par le Hamas ». Notamment parce que toutes les organisations caritatives et tous les organismes d’aide qui s’occupent de Gaza affirment que l’aide n’est pas volée par le Hamas.
Mais aussi parce que si les combattants du Hamas le faisaient, ils voleraient leurs propres familles : leurs enfants et leurs grands-parents, qui sont bien plus vulnérables qu’eux à la campagne de famine d’Israël. L’idée que le Hamas vole l’aide n’a de sens que pour une mentalité raciste et coloniale européenne dans laquelle les combattants du Hamas sont considérés comme des croquemitaines indifférents à la mort de leurs propres enfants, femmes et parents.
Ce qui se passe indubitablement, c’est qu’Israël permet aux familles élargies les plus puissantes de Gaza – souvent des familles de criminels disposant d’arsenaux privés importants – de piller l’aide. Cette situation est devenue un grave problème depuis qu’Israël a éliminé la police civile de Gaza (en violation du droit international), ne laissant personne pour faire respecter l’ordre public.
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Les journalistes occidentaux - après avoir propagé les mensonges d'Israël pendant plus d'un an et demi - sont maintenant totalement insensibles à leur complicité active dans le génocide.Arrêt sur Info
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Scientists have uncovered new evidence that could reshape a vital climate system in the Atlantic.Lydia Amazouz (The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel)
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So, Chrome is THE most used browser in the world, on mobile, and on desktop. Out of the box, it doesn't have an ad blocker, or a tracker blocker enabled. To use that browser to the fullest, you'll also need to use a Google Account, and thus everything you do in your browser will be collected unless you specifically disable it.
You can disable a lot of things in your Google account and the web browser settings, but you'll need to download extensions to block the most invasive trackers and limit fingerprinting. Chrome is also not open source.
On Privacy tests.org, we can also see that Chrome has weak fingerprinting resistance.
Firefox has a good reputation for privacy, but it's not the best choice either. By default, it collects telemetry data, including how many tabs you have open, how many windows, how many webpages you visit, the number and type of extensions, duration of your browsing sessions, and some technical data on your OS, the version of the browser, the language, and your IP address in their server logs. Firefox can also use this data to recommend extensions to you.
In terms of protections, Firefox doesn't block tracking scripts or pixels but it does block social media trackers, cross site cookies, cryptominers, plus all tracking when you're in incognito mode. Firefox is open source, so you can be reasonably sure that it doesn't collect more than what it tells you.
If you like Firefox but you don't want the telemetry, and you want improved fingerprinting protection, then there's Librewolf.
Brave offers a lot of what you'd be able to do in another browser with extensions, but it does so out of the box. They call them "shields", and they block ads, trackers, fingerprinters, and cross site cookies by default. They also auto redirect GOogle's AMP pages to the "real" website, and they redirect tracking URLs so you're not even visiting the tracking domain at all.
The ultimate private browser is probably Tor Browser, but it won't be for everyone. Tor Browser blocks everything that the website might want to learn about you, so there's no tracking at all, and no fingerprinting, but ads aren't blocked.
Edge is based on CHromium, the base for CHrome, but they remove everything Google related from it, to mostly replace it with Microsoft related things, like a Microsoft account.
Edge, by default, has an opt-out for telemetry. It will block trackers from third party sites, and some ad trackers as well. It also collects "required" diagnostic data that can't opt out of, and this data is used to personalize ads from microsoft. If you use a microsoft account, you'll also give MS a bunch of data in the process, including device information, usage data, browsing activity, bookmarks and more.
Opera is yet another chromium based browser, which gets the worst results on privacytests.org. It has a unique fingerprint, and doesn't block tracking scripts, or pixels, it doesn't resist fingerprinting, it doesn't remove tracking parameters, and it also doesn't block the major tracking cookies.
It doesn't send "do not track" signals by default either. Their privacy policy also states that they might share personal data with third parties, which can be worrying, as Opera has been bought by a chinese consortium in 2016.
Vivaldi is also a chromium based browser. At first start, it will ask you what you want to block.
Vivaldi doesn't collect any data, browsing history or anything else, even if you use a Vivaldi account, because everything is encrypted in there.
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They once walked on land—but dolphins and orcas are now stuck in the sea for good. A new study uncovers the hidden cost of their ocean success.Arezki Amiri (The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel)
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SANAA, May 29 (YPA) - Sanaa-based armed forces of Yemen declared on Thursday it had launched a missile attack Lod Airport, known by Ben Gurion.Military spokesman Brig, Gen. Yahya Sarie, said in a televised statement that the operation accurately targاحسن (Yemen Press Agency)
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I got my new tshirt before my big trip, so I can take it with me YAY!
I'm a HUGE fan of libraries --they prefigure a solarpunk future with their communal resources and third space and championing arts and knowledge -- and they're seriously under attack and need to be supported/defended.
Tshirt is in support of the *For the People Leftist Library Project* by @prisonculture.bsky.social and you can get one here: librariesforthepeople.org/gear
Meanwhile, the Irish Dáil votes down bill that would have banned sales of Israeli bonds.
rte.ie/news/politics/2025/0528…
They won’t even do the bare minimum.
#israel #genocide #Palestine #Gaza #Ireland
A Sinn Féin bill that would have prevented the Irish Central Bank from approving the prospectus which allows Israel to sell bonds in the EU has been defeated in a Dáil vote, despite receiving the backing of two Government-supporting TDs.Paul Cunningham (RTÉ)
AI is not our future – Procreate
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We are not adding generative AI to our apps. Here's why.Procreate
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Here is the first look at my original pyrography completed on all three edges of The Lord of The Rings.
Do you have a favourite edge?
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...y original pyrography completed on all three edges of The Lord of The Rings. Do you have a favourite edge? #pyrography #woodburningart #pyrographyart #pyroenergen #lordoftherings. Subscribe ...Minds
Proposed tariff levels could lead to higher inflation and slower growth in the US.BRICS
"I place trust in God, my creator, in all things; I love Him with all my heart."
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The American Bar Association has lost its way, and we do not believe it serves as a fair arbiter of judicial nominees.
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will no longer give the ABA the access they’ve taken for granted.
In this new series, I'll take a look at KDE and how it works, comparing it to my experiences to other desktop environments. I'm starting this one with the Plasma Desktop, running on KDE Neon for the purest KDE experience !
1 - The experiment:
I'll be using KDE NEon, to try and get as close as "pure" KDE as possible. I won't be reviewing the distro in itself, purely the plasma desktop environment and the KDE applications. I'm using this on my Core i5 7300HQ, with 8gb of RAM, and a GTX 1050Ti. I updated everything to the latest version, and it's running fully installed on an SSD.
2 - First impressions
When you open the KDE desktop, it looks crisp and clean. It's reminiscent of Windows, with the use of a bottom bar with a menu on the left, and indicators on the right. The desktop itself is very clean, with no extra icons, panels, or junk floating around.
Everything appears soflty, smoothly, with nice animations, which are a bit slow to my taste, by default.
Apart from the bottom bar, you also get a button up top, which shows options to add panels and configure your desktop.
It generally feels nice and welcoming.
3 - The bottom bar
It is pretty simple, really, very similar to what you'd get on Windows: a main menu, a task manager and indicators, complete with a clock. At the end of the bar, you get a button, similar to the one up top, which allows you to customize the height, width and settings of the bottom bar.
4 - The menu
The KDE menu is a delight to use. It's divided into 5 main categories: favorites, which shows your favorite apps, applications, which opens an application list sorted by categories, and computer, which shows some system apps and your favorite places on your filesystem. The menu is completed by a history tab, and a "leave" tab, which offers options to lock the session, log out, shut down, reboot, or suspend the computer.
Obviously, it has search baked in right from the start, and it works perfectly.
You can configure that menu by right clicking on it, and this is where the power of KDE starts to show.
THis menu is, in my opinion, the best I've used on any system, very clear, simple, and powerful.
5 - The task manager
Nothing very special here by default: you see all your open windows, complete with a preview of the window on hover, which was not very legible on my system, the miniatures being very pixelated.
6 - The indicators
By default, there are a lot of indicators. Clipboard, plasma browser integration, bluetooth, internet connexion, battery if you're on a laptop, vaults, which seems to be an encryption feature, sound, and a little arrow, which displays even more: notifications, updates, printers, keyboard, kde connect, and a device notifier.
7 - Widgets
KDE's desktop, Plasma, uses widgets for everything. If you remember mac os X's widgets, or windows desktop gadgets, they are the same thing except you can place them wherever you want, and combine them. A panel, like the bottom bar, is a widget, and you can add widgets to it. To access the widgets, you click on the top button, and select add widgets, then simply drag the desired one onto the desktop. SOme are not very descriptive, but once you've added them and resized them to the desired size, you can pretty much do anything you want.
8 - Plasma Activities
These allow you to change the desktop behaviour and look based on wich activity you're using. For example, I can add certain widgets on a specific activity, which won't show up on the other activites. THis allows you to completely personalize the way your desktop behaves depending on what you're doing.
It's handily hidden by default, to not confuse users, but once you're familiar with KDE, I can see this becoming a very useful feature.
9 - Look and feel
THe default theme for the desktop looks very pretty, with smooth gradients on panels, and subtle transparency. Animations are smooth and fluid, and really give a sense of what is happening when you click on something.
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Triangle splatting: radiance fields represented by triangles
Link: trianglesplatting.github.io/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Triangle Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering, 2025.Triangle Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering
#gm friends. we are getting rain this morning.
seems like a good day for more cad work
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Western governments and TV personalities like Piers Morgan that spent the last two years promoting Israel's war on Gaza are trying to save face...MintPress d...YouTube
Trump Administration Knew Vast Majority of Venezuelans Sent to Salvadoran Prison Had Not Been Convicted of U.S. Crimes
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Homeland Security records reveal that officials knew that more than half of the 238 deportees were labeled as having no criminal record in the U.S. and had only violated immigration laws.ProPublica
UN peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo helped the country’s armed forces Wednesday respond to armed clashes in Ituri Province near a market in Fataki that caused civilians to flee.press.un.org
Und das titelt dann @tagesschau darüber:
»"Nahost-Liveblog: ++ 600 UN-Lastwagen in Gaza angekommen ++
Die UN haben 600 Lastwagen mit Hilfslieferungen in den Gazastreifen gebracht - und klagen über Behinderungen bei der Verteilung.«
Dass von den über den Grenzübergängen gekommen LKWs in den letzten Tagen keine Hilfslieferungen weiter transportiert werden dürften schreibt die Tagesschau natürlich nicht. So bleibt die Info mit den 600 bestehen. PR-Auftrag für Netanyahu erfüllt.
lawns aren’t just boring, they’re harmful. covering vast areas in grass that does nothing for pollinators or soil life is ecological nonsense. research shows that common lawn chemicals increase cancer risk, especially in dogs exposed to treated grass. we can still have grassy patches and parks, but this endless obsession with sterile, green perfection is costing us health, biodiversity and water. let’s grow wilder.
#lawn #pollinators #cancer #biodiversity #water
The Times finally reporting what we all could see: Musk was absolutely tripping balls the entire time he destroyed the government. Very polite of them to wait to drop this until he’d left the position.
nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/elon…
Russia is running out of patience due to NATO provocations, pressurising it is not the answer. This statement was made by Professor Glen Dizen of the University of South-Eastern Norway on the air of the Indian channel WION.newsmaker1 newsmaker1 (English News front)
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