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The Human #Brain May Contain as Much as a Spoon’s Worth of #Microplastics, New #Research Suggests


source: smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/…

#Microplastic concentrations were also three to five times higher in the brains of patients with #dementia, compared to cognitively normal brains. It’s not clear whether microplastics may cause or contribute to dementia, nor whether dementia-induced changes to the brain might allow more microplastics to enter.


#health #humanity #economy #food #news #science #warning #danger #mental #problem #environment


The Human Brain May Contain as Much as a Spoon's Worth of Microplastics, New Research Suggests

The amount of microplastics in the human brain appears to be increasing over time: Concentrations rose by roughly 50 percent between 2016 and 2024, according to a new study
Sarah Kuta (Smithsonian Magazine)

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This is simply COMMON SENSE!

ANY politician who believes allowing illegal criminals into our country should be called out for what they are (anti-American Marxist criminal enablers) and summarily defeated in the next elections.

t.me/WeTheMedia

We The Media

https://linktr.ee/wethemedia Real News: For The People, By The People.
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How six months in the West Bank undid a lifetime of Zionist indoctrination #Palestine 972mag.com/how-six-months-in-t…

How six months in the West Bank undid a lifetime of Zionist indoctrination

Like many American Jews, I was brought up to see Israel as infallible. Living among Palestinians taught me vital truths about the reality of the occupation.
Amos Brison (+972 Magazine)

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Billions Of Dollars Burned: Trump’s Tariffs Hit Global Giants sputnikglobe.com/20250530/bill…

Billions Of Dollars Burned: Trump’s Tariffs Hit Global Giants

The $33 billion represents the total estimates from 32 S&P 500 companies, including American, European, and Asian firms. Economists say the cost to businesses will likely be multiple times what companies have so far disclosed.
Sputnik International

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EYES ON 👀

NIH Director Bhattacharya admits gain of function likely caused the COVID pandemic!

He also indirectly references USAID Project PREDICT when he mentions searching for viruses in bat caves.

(Think Metabiota/Ukraine)

We’re getting close!
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Paid_in_cheese

Being limited isn't that big a deal. My instance has them limited because of their lax moderation and an excess of reply guys. All it means is that I get a notification saying "Someone you might know sent you a notification" and I get to review and accept or deny the notification depending. Plus they have to request permission to follow me so I get to check them out before accepting.

I still have tons of mutuals on .social and I get new ones all the time. While each person making the choice about whether to accept notifications or follows from a particular user is going to make their own choices, I don't think it's particularly inconvenient.

::: spoiler AfD sidebar
For their lack of adequate moderation capacity / interest, .social has one topic they tend to over-react to. AfD sympathizing isn't that one thing. Not to suggest they're right here. I'd need the thread context and a better understanding of German to weigh in on that. Moderators are human and they're going to make a bad call eventually. I'm not in a position to guess whether they made a bad call here. AfD aren't just some normal political party, though.
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Marco Rubio bans u.s. visas for israel critics

inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=ISDESTj…

Hey, asshole, listen up:

Fuck israel.
Fuck the usa.
And fuck you.

You can take your visa and stick it up your ass. I’m very happy not to visit your shithole country ever again.

🇵🇸 Free Palestine!

#usa #israel #genocide #Palestine #Gaza #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism

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PatternChaser

Sorry, I think I had problems untangling your words.

But the equation of discrimination against Jews (always wrong) with criticising the political nation-state of Israel ... just makes me Very Angry. One is (rightly) a crime, the other is legitimate political comment.

But the awful "a-s" word combines the two as though they are the same thing. This means that, if I criticise Israel, they say "a-s!", and tar me with the brush of Holocaust support, or something equally vile. 😭

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Palestinians flee intensified Israeli attacks after mass displacement orders in north Gaza thecradle.co/articles-id/31097

Palestinians flee intensified Israeli attacks after mass displacement orders in north Gaza

Israel has ordered the evacuation of almost all of Gaza City and other areas of the north, where around one million Palestinians reside
thecradle.co

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Is something like Oneko available on wayland?

Hi everyone,

Recently i discovered Aneko on Android, I want to find something similar on linux. Oneko seem to be fun but I am using wayland(Hyprland). Is there anything similar on wayland linux? Is this even possible with current state of wayland protocal?


ANeko Reborn | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

A modern remake of Neko—your classic desktop cat pet on Android.
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IMF Has Not Helped To Develop Any Country It Financed In 80 Years Of Existence southfront.press/imf-has-not-h…

IMF Has Not Helped To Develop Any Country It Financed In 80 Years Of Existence

Established at the end of the Second World War in Europe in 1944 to promote global economic stability, the International Monetary Fund began its activities the following year, becoming a constant presence in peripheral countries with economic instabi…
Anonymous834 (South Front)

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Photos taken inside musical instruments

Link: dpreview.com/photography/54009…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…


Probe lenses and focus stacking: the secrets to incredible photos taken inside instruments

Photographer Charles Brooks embarked upon a quest to photograph the inside of musical instruments, creating images that look like monumental buildings.
Abby Ferguson (DPReview)

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Time is over for cutting trees to produce paper ...


source: omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/linux-…

#linux #newspaper #magazine #news #digital


After 25 Years, Linux Format Magazine is No More

The final issue of Linux Format, the UK's best selling monthly Linux magazine, has gone on sale. The first issue launched in May 2000.
Joey Sneddon (OMG! Ubuntu!)

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can I trim the black margins of several mkv files on debian 12.11 with ffmpeg or mkvtoolnix?

when I say trim I don't mean to time trim a file, like getting rid of the last 2 minutes of the mkv file, but to picture trim every frame of the mkv file to get rid of black margins to both left and right of the actual image.

Files were originally recorded on 4:3 aspect ratio (some are movies from the 1950's) but the encoder somehow created / copied huge black margins to both left and right of the actual image. I want to get rid of these.

Some of my files are 30 minutes long but others 2 hours.

if ffmpeg is the application I need, could anyone knowledgeable enough write the actual command?

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Cap: Lightweight, modern open-source CAPTCHA alternative using proof-of-work

Link: capjs.js.org/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…


Cap — Modern, Open-source PoW CAPTCHA for JavaScript

Cap.js is a fast, privacy-friendly proof-of-work CAPTCHA alternative to reCAPTCHA and hCaptcha. Zero dependencies, developer-friendly, and effective against spam, DDoS, and automation.
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Maria #Zakharova :

« Le président polonais #Duda s'est indigné que l' #Ukraine ignore le #génocide perpétré lors du massacre de #Volhynie :

« C'est absurde : lorsque je me rends en Ukraine, les gens m'accueillent chaleureusement et me remercient, arborant des brassards aux couleurs du drapeau de Bandera. Je leur dis que nous ne pouvons accepter cela, et ils haussent les épaules et me demandent : « Que voulez-vous dire ? »... Nous n'accepterons jamais que #Bandera soit déclaré héros. »


Dans le même temps, ce sont les autorités polonaises officielles qui ont joué un rôle important dans la destruction de la vérité historique sur la Seconde Guerre mondiale. En démolissant les monuments dédiés aux véritables héros, elles ont ouvert la voie à de fausses idoles : les collaborateurs #nazis.

Tout est comme dans la Bible : « Quand un esprit impur sort d'une personne, il traverse des lieux arides à la recherche de repos et n'en trouve pas. Alors il dit : « Je retournerai dans la maison que j'ai quittée. » Quand il arrive, il trouve la maison inoccupée, balayée et rangée. Il s'en va alors et prend avec lui sept autres esprits plus méchants que lui, et ils entrent et s'y installent. Et l'état final de cette personne est pire que le premier. « Il en sera ainsi de cette génération perverse » (Matthieu 12:43-45).

Après la défaite du #fascisme, des monuments aux héros ont été érigés sur les terres libérées, en souvenir de la bataille entre le bien et le mal qui s'est déroulée sur la planète. Dès que ces monuments ont commencé à être démolis, des traces de #néonazisme et des images de leurs inspirateurs idéologiques ont commencé à apparaître à leur place, comme des taches brunes : le mal, autrefois éradiqué, est revenu en #Europe.

Les monuments dédiés aux soldats soviétiques, héros antifascistes, étaient la force qui empêchait les goules nazies et les bourreaux de l'Holocauste d'être placés sur des piédestaux. Lorsque, surtout, les autorités polonaises ont commencé à les démolir sous prétexte qu'ils n'étaient soi-disant pas des héros, les vraies valeurs ont été bouleversées et l'esprit maléfique du néonazisme s'est multiplié par sept. »

#Histoire #Russie

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LIVE BLOG: Israel Attacks Displaced Gazans in Mawasi | Trump Halts Coordination – Day 601 #Palestine palestinechronicle.com/live-bl…

LIVE BLOG: Joint Operation | Palestinian Ceasefire Dialogue | Massacre in Khan Yunis - Day 601 - Palestine Chronicle

At least two Palestinians were killed and others injured when an Israeli airstrike targeted a displaced persons' tent in the Mawasi area.
admin (Palestine Chronicle)

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toddstarnes on X
@toddstarnes
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May 29

The FBI is complaining because of all the copycat "86 47" threats being made against President Trump. Well, that's because James Comey was not arrested in a pre-dawn, guns-drawn raid. He wasn't paraded in front of the television cameras in handcuffs. And as a result, every anti-Trump lunatic in the country now feels emboldened. Good grief, FBI.

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Par Esha KRISHNASWAMY :

Lorsqu’il est arrivé au pouvoir pour la première fois en 1998, le Premier ministre Viktor Orbán a été salué comme un héros par l’Occident, en témoigne la Médaille de la liberté Truman-Reagan qu’il a reçu pour son engagement en faveur de la démocratie. Il a supervisé l’entrée de la #Hongrie dans l’ #OTAN. Il a également proposé des mesures d’austérité pour l’Occident. Mais tout cela a changé lorsqu’il a été réélu en #2010.

La première rupture de Viktor #Orbán avec les pouvoirs en place à Bruxelles et à Washington est survenue lorsqu’il a fait fermer l’Université d’Europe centrale, un établissement d’enseignement financé par le légendaire George Soros. #Soros et ses nombreuses organisations à but non lucratif ont œuvré pour saper la souveraineté et interférer dans les #élections dans le monde entier. Ils ont financé de nombreux partis politiques et #médias d’information en #Ukraine avant les horribles événements de #Maidan en #2014.

En 2017, le Parlement hongrois a adopté une loi stipulant que pour que les universités étrangères puissent opérer en Hongrie, elles doivent également être une institution qualifiée dans leur pays d’origine et offrir des programmes d’études similaires. Bien sûr, l’Université d’Europe centrale, qui offrait une pléthore de programmes sans diplôme, n’a pas d’équivalent aux États-Unis.

Plus tard, l’Université chinoise Fudan a repris le projet, ce qui a encore plus enragé les pouvoirs en place en Occident. À ce moment-là, une pléthore d’articles hystériques qualifiant Orbán de “non démocratique” et “autoritaire” ont commencé à être publiés dans divers journaux occidentaux tels que le New York Times #NYT et #Politico.

En 2017, la Hongrie a également commencé à réglementer strictement toute une série de médias financés par la National Endowment for Democracy ( #NED) et l’ #OpenSociety, dont les médias ont propagé des révolutions de couleur et des coups d’État violents dans divers pays, de la Bolivie au Myanmar en passant par l’Ukraine. Des articles répétés dans la presse occidentale ont qualifié cela “d’attaque contre la liberté d’expression”. Le Commissaire aux droits de l’Homme du Conseil de l’Europe a également qualifié cela d’attaque contre la presse libre.

Viktor Orbán a en outre commencé à se détourner des politiques de l’ #UE, qui incluent des privatisations obligatoires et aucune discrimination sur les prix, ce qui est une manière de conduire les fabricants locaux à la faillite. Au lieu de cela, il a rejoint l’initiative chinoise des Nouvelles routes de la soie, avec des plans pour construire des rails à grande vitesse reliant Budapest à Belgrade.

Dans ce contexte, le conflit le plus grave avec le consensus de Bruxelles est survenu en 2022, lorsque la #Russie a commencé ses opérations militaires contre l’ #Ukraine. Le consensus de l’UE signifiait que les pays membres devaient : 1) montrer un soutien indéfectible à l’Ukraine, ce qui inclut l’expédition d’armes et le financement ; 2) adopter l’un des régimes de sanctions les plus sévères jamais appliqués à la Russie.

La Hongrie a bloqué à plusieurs reprises les tentatives de l’UE d’augmenter le financement militaire de l’Ukraine ; en 2023, à quelques reprises en 2024, et plus récemment en mars. La Hongrie a refusé de fournir une aide militaire ou d’envoyer du personnel hongrois en Ukraine. Chaque fois que l’aide a été bloquée, l’UE a utilisé quelques solutions de contournement pour garantir la poursuite de l’aide militaire. La Hongrie a également refusé de participer à d’hypothétiques opérations de l’OTAN contre la Russie, entravé les négociations sur les sanctions et bloqué les initiatives visant à soutenir l’Ukraine.

Mais il y a certaines choses que l’UE ne peut pas ignorer. Avec l’aide d’États baltes comme la #Lettonie et l’ #Estonie, l’Ukraine mène un effort pour propulser les discussions sur son adhésion à l’UE cette année. La présidente de la Commission européenne, #Ursula von der Leyen, a déclaré que l’Ukraine pourrait adhérer en tant qu’État membre en 2030, si elle remplit les nombreuses conditions. Pour être acceptée, l’Ukraine aurait besoin d’un soutien unanime, y compris de la Hongrie.

C’est là qu’intervient le chef de l’opposition, Péter Magyar. #Magyar, avec ses cheveux blonds hérissés et sa personnalité charismatique, est à l’opposé de Viktor Orbán, à tous égards. Alors qu’Orbán se conduit à la manière d’un homme d’État âgé, Péter Magyar a été surnommé une “rockstar”. Politiquement, il a déclaré son rejet de la #politique de Viktor Orbán et a exigé des élections anticipées. À un moment critique pour l’UE, Orbán est passé d’un simple inconvénient à un catalyseur potentiel d’une avalanche qui pourrait faire s’effondrer l’ensemble du projet européen — du moins c’est ce que Bruxelles semble croire.

Dans ce contexte, il n’est guère surprenant que les structures européennes aient alimenté les tensions entre Budapest et la jeune figure de l’opposition Péter Magyar. En avril 2024, Magyar a rassemblé des dizaines de milliers de personnes à #Budapest pour protester contre la corruption du gouvernement et exiger la démission d’Orbán. En 2025, il appelait à des élections législatives anticipées (initialement prévues pour 2026), affirmant que le parti au pouvoir Fidesz perdait du soutien et que les Hongrois « méritent de récupérer le droit de façonner leur destin »

Il y a une part de vérité à cela : les cotes d’approbation traditionnellement élevées d’Orbán ont commencé à baisser en 2025 à cause de la hausse des prix et de la réduction des subventions de l’UE. En fait, l’UE semble exacerber les défis nationaux pour saper le leader national tout en promouvant une alternative plus conforme — une stratégie soutenue par des financements étrangers.

Ce n’est ni de la spéculation ni de la conspiration. Dès 2022, le porte-parole du gouvernement hongrois, Zoltán Kovács, a révélé que les partis d’opposition, dont TISZA (Respect et liberté), recevaient des financements étrangers de groupes basés aux #États-Unis comme Action pour la démocratie. La loi hongroise interdisant le financement politique étranger, la coalition d’opposition a été condamnée à une amende de 670 000 € la même année pour pratiques financières illégales.

Le programme politique de Péter Magyar, du moins au niveau national, est souvent critiqué comme délibérément vague — il n’est ni de droite ni de gauche, ni traditionaliste mais pas un défenseur des valeurs progressistes. Les engagements clés – lutter contre la corruption, le népotisme et la kleptocratie ; améliorer les services publics et les infrastructures (éducation, santé, protection de l’environnement); lutter contre le déclin démographique et la baisse du niveau de vie – ne sont guère plus qu’un populisme creux conçu pour séduire les électeurs de tous horizons sans solutions politiques concrètes.

Derrière cette façade populiste, cependant, se cache le véritable programme de Magyar, qui est clairement défini : se réconcilier complètement avec #Bruxelles. Il a promis de respecter les conditions requises pour débloquer les fonds hongrois de l’ #UE. Il a promis une intégration plus poussée et l’adoption de l’euro, ce qui priverait la Hongrie de sa #souveraineté monétaire.

Cependant, la proposition la plus belliqueuse de Magyar est son plaidoyer pour un projet militaire paneuropéen, ce qui lui a valu des étiquettes telles que “homme de guerre”. Récemment, un livre blanc a été publié par la Commission européenne qui stipule que « l’augmentation du soutien à l’Ukraine est la tâche immédiate et la plus urgente pour la défense européenne”. Dans le même temps, “une augmentation massive des dépenses de défense européennes est nécessaire” pour “empêcher une éventuelle guerre d’agression [de la Russie]”. En d’autres termes, les États membres reçoivent des incitations financières pour constituer une armée contre la Russie.

Ceci est étrangement comparable aux politiques autrefois avancées par le Reichstag et signale les préparatifs en vue d’un conflit et d’une militarisation à l’échelle du continent. Alors que la « militarisation » de l’Allemagne se concentre sur le ré-outillage de l’industrie pour fournir des chars et des munitions, la Hongrie, dans le cadre de cette politique, contribuerait à la ressource la plus précieuse de toutes : son peuple ; si la militarisation de l’UE axée sur la Russie se transformait en une guerre à grande échelle.

Pourtant, même sans guerre, le programme d’intégration européenne de Magyar – qui comprend la rupture des liens avec Moscou – dévasterait la Hongrie. Les sanctions ont déjà coûté au pays plus de 10 milliards d’euros, faisant grimper les prix de l’énergie et l’inflation. Avec 85% de son #gaz naturel et 60% de son #pétrole importés de Russie, une rupture complète, comme le demande Magyar, déclencherait des crises énergétiques, des pertes de marché, une désindustrialisation et un effondrement économique.

Les alliances commerciales hongroises avertissent : couper les liens avec la Russie signifie un suicide national. Mais les Hongrois peuvent-ils arrêter ce cours destructeur ? Aussi rhétorique que puisse sembler la question, pression économique et manifestations orchestrées peuvent renverser des régimes. Et lorsque cela se produit, restaurer la souveraineté, comme le prouve l’expérience de la Roumanie, est presque impossible.

Si les partisans de Magyar se mobilisent pour remporter des élections anticipées ou programmées, la Hongrie sera confrontée à un avenir sombre : conscription militaire, hausses d’impôts, perte d’autonomie, ruine économique et chaos politique prolongé.

Le passé de la Hongrie est une longue liste d’assujettissement – domination ottomane, domination des Habsbourg, vassalité envers le Troisième Reich. La véritable indépendance a été illusoire, mais la Hongrie a le potentiel pour y parvenir. Abandonner la souveraineté maintenant aux eurocrates gâcherait cette opportunité historique, réduisant une fois de plus la nation à un pion dans les jeux étrangers ; une aubaine pour les suzerains européens.

#Orban

lesakerfrancophone.fr/la-lutte…

La lutte pour l’avenir de la Hongrie. La souveraineté ou la soumission ? | Le Saker Francophone

lesakerfrancophone.fr

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'Germany doing their best to continue bloodshed in Ukraine' — Rodion Miroshnik odysee.com/Rodion_Miroshnik-Ma…

'Germany doing their best to continue bloodshed in Ukraine' — Rodion Miroshnik

Russia's special envoy Rodion Miroshnik has launched a blistering accusation against Europe’s major powers, claiming that Germany and its allies are intentionally undermining efforts for peace in Ukra...
Odysee

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Just not like in Russia: Children's Day in Ukraine moved from June 1 to November 20 en.topwar.ru/265440-lish-by-ne…

Just not like in Russia: Children's Day in Ukraine moved from June 1 to November 20

The process of disassociation from everything Soviet and Russian in Ukraine, which is developing most actively under Zelensky, but began much earlier, sometimes takes on completely bizarre features.
Alnik53 (Военное обозрение)

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AI is Dehumanization Technology

A call to reject the deployment and use of AI systems. Interesting piece by @patatas

AI systems reproduce bias, cheapen and homogenize our social interactions, deskill us, make our jobs more precarious, eliminate opportunities to practice care, and enable authoritarian modes of surveillance and control. Deployed in the public sector, they undercut workers' ability to meaningfully grapple with problems and make ethical decisions that move our society forward. These technologies dehumanize all of us. Collectively, we can choose to reject them.


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AI is Dehumanization Technology

AI is Dehumanization Technology

A call to reject the deployment and use of AI systems in Canada's public sector.
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[GUIDE] How To Setup Rust on secureblue (with some pictures)

NOTE


For some reason, Lemmy isn't allowing me to upload more than 11 images. I will try to add the missing images after posting. It will take a while.

Edit: It isn't allowing me to add more images. If anyone is interested, I will upload the images elsewhere.

Introduction


Setting up a secure coding environment for the Rust programming language on secureblue isn't hard to do, but it's difficult to figure out on your own. That is why I am making a guide explaining how to do it yourself.

For this tutorial, I will be using the silverblue-main-hardened:latest image of secureblue. For this tutorial, I am also assuming you have enabled Flatpak permission lockdown by running ujust flatpak-permissions-lockdown.

Install a code editor


You can install whichever code editor you want, but for this tutorial I will be using VSCodium which is an open source binary of Microsoft's Visual Studio Code without telemetry.

Command-line instructions


Open the terminal.

VScodium can be installed using the following command:

flatpak install com.vscodium.codium

Sources: 1, 2

You will be prompted to proceed with changes to the user installation. After reviewing the changes, you can press enter. VSCodium will be downloaded and installed for the current user.

You may close the terminal now.

User-interface instructions


  1. Open GNOME Software.

  1. Type VSCodium. This should begin typing in a search bar, and VSCodium should show up as a search result.

  1. Select VSCodium (the blue one). VSCodium - Insiders (the orange one) is the nightly release of VSCodium, and is not recommended for daily use.

  1. Click the blue Install button on the top right. VSCodium will be downloaded and installed for the current user.

You may close GNOME Software now.

Install the Rust SDK


Rust provides multiple ways of installing. On secureblue, things are more locked down, especially with VSCodium being installed as a Flatpak. Rather than layering Rust as a system package and giving VSCodium invasive permissions to make it work, there is a much more elegant way to install Rust that isn't mentioned in their install instructions.

Flathub provides an SDK Extension for Rust that can be used for Flatpak code editors, such as VSCodium. This can only be installed from the command line. Trying to install it from GNOME Software will install an outdated version of the Rust SDK.

Open the terminal.

First, we need to find the branch of org.freedesktop.Sdk. This will allow us to install the correct version of the Rust SDK.

The branch of org.freedesktop.Sdk can be found using the following command:

flatpak info org.freedesktop.Sdk

Make a note of the version number next to the Branch: section. In my case, it is 24.08.

The Rust SDK can be installed using the following command:

flatpak install org.freedesktop.Sdk.Extension.rust-stable

You will be prompted to select which ref you would like to install. Find the version that matches the branch of org.freedesktop.Sdk. Type the number corresponding with the version (in my case, 5), and press enter.

You will be prompted to proceed with changes to the user installation. After reviewing the changes, you can press enter. The Rust SDK will be downloaded and installed for the current user.

You may close the terminal now.

Grant Flatpak permissions


Assuming you enabled Flatpak permission lockdown, VSCodium won't have permission to access everything it needs to work properly. We need to grant these permissions manually.

We will need to create a directory to act as your project directory. VSCodium will have access to every file in this directory, so it is best to only use it for VSCodium. I am deciding to create a folder in my home directory named VSCodium to store all of my VSCodium projects.

VSCodium will need the following permissions to work:
- The Network permission, in order to efficiently install extensions and update them automatically.
- Access to a dedicated project directory, in order to create workspaces.
- Permission to access the Rust SDK, in order to support the Rust language.
- Optional access to Development syscalls, in order to use debugging extensions.

Command-line instructions


Open the terminal.

VScodium can be granted the Network permission using the following command:

flatpak override -u --share=network com.vscodium.codium

The -u flag is an alias for --user, which will change the permission only for the current user.

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A project directory can be created using the following command:

mkdir VSCodium

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VSCodium can be granted access to the project directory using the following command:

flatpak override -u --filesystem=~/VSCodium com.vscodium.codium

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VScodium can be granted access to the Rust SDK using the following command:

flatpak override -u --env=FLATPAK_ENABLE_SDK_EXT=rust-stable com.vscodium.codium

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You may close the terminal now.

User-interface instructions


  1. Open Flatseal. This should be installed by default, but if you decided not to install it during the post-install of secureblue, it can be installed from GNOME Software.
  2. Type VSCodium. This should begin typing in a search bar on the left, and VSCodium should show up as a search result.

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  1. Select VSCodium.

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  1. To grant VSCodium the Network permission, enable the switch next to the Network permission. It should turn blue, indicating that the permission has been granted.

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  1. Open Files

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  1. Right click, and click on the option labeled New Folder... (This can also be done using Shift+Ctrl+N)

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  1. Enter VSCodium in the text field labeled Folder Name.

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  1. Click Create to create the folder. This will create a project directory for VSCodium to use.

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  1. In Flatseal, scroll down to the Filesystem section.

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  1. Click on the folder with a plus icon under the Other files section. An empty text field should appear.

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  1. Click on the empty text field.

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  1. Enter the following into the text field:


~/VSCodium

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  1. To grant VSCodium access to the Rust SDK, scroll down to the Environment section.

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  1. Click the plus icon on the top right. An empty text field should appear.

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  1. Click on the empty text field.

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  1. Enter the following into the text field:


FLATPAK_ENABLE_SDK_EXT=rust-stable

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You may close Flatseal now.

Open VSCodium


Now that VSCodium has the necessary permissions to function, we can finally run it.

Command-line instructions


Open the terminal.

VScodium can berun using the following command:

flatpak run com.vscodium.codium

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User-interface instructions


  1. Press the Super key to view the dock.
  2. Click on the Show Apps button (nine dots) on the bottom right to show a list of installed apps.
  3. Click on the VSCodium icon to open it.


Install the rust-analyzer extension


Upon first launching VSCodium, you will be presented with a README.md file.

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This file has information about using VSCodium as a Flatpak. Since we have already granted it the necessary permissions, this file can be ignored.

We now need to install the rust-analyzer extension. This extension will give us a comfortable Rust development environment in VSCodium.

Keyboard instructions


Launch the VSCodium Quick Open by using Ctrl+P.

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Enter the following command:

ext install rust-lang.rust-analyzer

Sources: 1

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Press enter to install the rust-analyzer extension.

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You will be prompted to trust the publisher and install the extension. After reviewing the prompt, you can press enter to select the Trust Publisher & Install button on the bottom right.

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You may be prompted to trust the authors of the files in this workspace. After reviewing the prompt, you can select the Install button. The rust-analyzer extension will be downloaded and installed for the current profile.

Mouse instructions


  1. Click on the Extensions menu on the left. (This can also be opened by using Ctrl+Shift+X)

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  1. Enter rust-analyzer into the search bar. This will search for the extension we need.

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  1. Click on the extension labeled rust-analyzer.

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  1. Click the Install button for the rust-analyzer extension.

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  1. You will be prompted to trust the publisher and install the extension. After reviewing the prompt, you can click on the Trust Publisher & Install button on the bottom right.

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  1. You may be prompted to trust the authors of the files in this workspace. After reviewing the prompt, you can click the Install button. The rust-analyzer extension will be downloaded and installed for the current profile.

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The rust-analyzer extension is now installed.

Create a new project


Now that we have the rust-analyzer extension installed, we can create a new Rust project.

The keyboard instructions are broken due to the Ctrl+K keybind being unfunctional, and the Ctrl+O keybind being binded to the wrong option. Because of that, only mouse instructions are available for this step.

  1. Click on the File dropdown on the top left.

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  1. Click on the option labeled Open Folder...

You will get a dialogue saying the following:

Oops! Something went wrong.
Unable to find "/app/share/ide-flatpak-wrapper". Please check the spelling and try again.

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This can be ignored. It is appearing because we never granted VSCodium access to a specific folder, and it has no effect.

  1. Click on OK to dismiss it.

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  1. Double click on the VSCodium folder to enter it.

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  1. Right click, and click on the option labeled New Folder... (This can also be done using Shift+Ctrl+N). Alternatively, select the folder with a plus icon on the top right.

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  1. Enter the name of your project in the text field labeled Folder Name. For this example, I will create a folder named example.

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  1. Click Create to create the folder.

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  1. Click Open in the bottom left to open the folder.

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  1. You will be prompted to trust the authors of the files in this folder. After reviewing the prompt, you can select the Yes, I trust the authors button.

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  1. Press Ctrl+` to open the terminal.

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  1. The project can be initialized using the following command:


cargo init

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You have now created a Rust project, and you can get started coding in Rust.

Optional: Support for debugging


Right now, there are no debugging extensions installed. The two recommended debugging extensions are CodeLLDB and Native Debug. I prefer CodeLLDB because, as of writing this, Native Debug has not been updated in over a year. It is still in active development, but there has not been a release in over a year.

Keyboard instructions


Open VSCodium.

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Launch the VSCodium Quick Open by using Ctrl+P.

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Enter the following command:

ext install vadimcn.vscode-lldb

Sources: 1

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Press enter to install the CodeLLDB extension.

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You will be prompted to trust the publisher and install the extension. After reviewing the prompt, you can press enter to select the Trust Publisher & Install button on the bottom right. The CodeLLDB extension will be downloaded and installed for the current profile.

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You will see a prompt on the bottom right saying the following:

Completed installing extension. Please restart extensions to enable it.

Select Restart Extensions to restart the extensions.

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Mouse instructions


  1. Click on the Extensions menu on the left. (This can also be opened by using Ctrl+Shift+X)

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  1. Enter CodeLLDB into the search bar. This will search for the extension we need.

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  1. Click on the extension labeled CodeLLDB.

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  1. Click the Install button for the CodeLLDB extension.

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  1. You will be prompted to trust the publisher and install the extension. After reviewing the prompt, you can click on the Trust Publisher & Install button on the bottom right. The CodeLLDB extension will be downloaded and installed for the current profile.

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You will see a prompt on the bottom right saying the following:

Completed installing extension. Please restart extensions to enable it.

Select Restart Extensions to restart the extensions.

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The CodeLLDB extension is now installed.

Grant VSCodium ptrace access


If you try to debug a program using a debugger extension, you will receive the following error:

VSCodium
Cannot launch '/var/home/anonymous/VSCodium/example/target/debug/example': ptrace failed: Operation not permitted

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The reason for this is because VSCodium does not have permission to access development syscalls.

Command-line instructions


Open the terminal.

VScodium can be granted the Development syscalls permission using the following command:

flatpak override -u --allow=devel com.vscodium.codium

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You may close the terminal now.

User-interface instructions


  1. Open Flatseal.
  2. Type VSCodium. This should begin typing in a search bar on the left, and VSCodium should show up as a search result.

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  1. Select VSCodium.

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  1. To grant VSCodium the Development syscalls permission, scroll down to the section labeled Allow.

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  1. Enable the switch next to the Development syscalls (e.g. ptrace) permission. It should turn blue, indicating that the permission has been granted.

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You may close Flatseal now.

Enable anti-cheat support


Even though VSCodium has access to ptrace, the system still does not permit it. This is to defend against basic security concerns. secureblue provides a toggle to enable support for anti-cheat, which will allow VSCodium to access ptrace.

Open the terminal.

Anti-cheat support can be enabled using one of the following commands:

ujust toggle-anticheat-support

or
ujust toggle-ptrace-scope

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You will be prompted for your administrator passphrase. After reviewing the prompt, enter your passphrase and click Authenticate. This will enable anti-cheat support.

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You will need to restart your device to complete the changes.

Command-line instructions


Open the terminal.

The device can be restarted using the following command:

reboot

User-interface instructions


  1. Click on the status bar on the top right.
  2. Click on the power button.
  3. Click on the option labeled Restart....
  4. You will get a prompt saying the following:


Restart
The system will restart automatically in 60 seconds

  1. Click on the button labeled Restart to restart the system now.

Anti-cheat support is now enabled, and debugging extensions will work.

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Damn.

I absolutely hate open source drama. I don't want to read your diary when I use your software, I want it to work.

I'm not even against running a parallel for-profit for extra features or corporate sponsorships. People gotta eat. I'd much rather have that than deal with following sob stories about ruthless leadership, ego clashes in contributors and endless forking because everybody thinks everybody else sucks.

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Well, the point is I don't want CoMaps to win out over Organic Maps, I want some open source alternative to win out over Google Maps. Which is why I'd hesitate to say that LibreOffice "won" over anything, Google and Microsoft seem to be doing most of the winning in that particular space.

In a healthy community public arguments about "violated principles" wouldn't be a frequent occurrence and wouldn't lead to atomization of projects. I'm not taking sides on this particular example (mostly because I can't be bothered to look up the drama). But I am saying that besides the confusion and negativity caused by seeing open source developers constantly bicker about their violated principles, it can be a major setback for the perception of reliability of open source software overall. For an app you install that mostly works no matter what it's one thing, but if you integrate a piece of software into a workflow and it suddenly spawns two different pieces of software with different splinters of the original team that can be a significant disruption and if you fear significant disruptions you may hesitate to rely on that particular thing in the first place.

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I have no PC. I use my work laptop for pretty much everything, but it's probably about time I finally get something of my own.

I have zero technical knowledge, and zero experience of anything that isn't Windows.

Question: is it possible to buy a ready-to-go Linux PC that doesn't need me to do fiddly stuff? (I define fiddly stuff as "most of what everyone toots about on Mastodon dot com".).

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I have been running OpenMandriva on my laptop for a few months now, but I don't think I'll be staying.

The distro works fine. I haven't run into any inherent issues. If you just need an internet box, it's fine. If you can learn to use the packages in their repo, it's fine.

The problem I ran into, is how many of the programs I wanted to run just aren't compiled for it. I could probably learn to compile them, but I'm not there yet.

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The last program I wanted to install, but failed, was a comic reader. Their site said it works on "almost all flavors of linux"

Then lists Debian, Fedora, and one other.

This wasn't an isolated incidence.

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But I'm comfortable with Debian. I have been running it on servers for years now. So I think I'll be fine.

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All of this is in preparation to transition my main PC from Windows by this October. I'm practicing on my laptop, for the big switch.

Using Windows is like having 10,000 Jeets build a dresser for you, using AI.

Imagine 10,000 Jeets all build a single piece of a dresser for you, then the dresser is assembled by a team of Jeets who didn't design it.

That's what Windows is like now.

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