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Deputy of the Alternative for Germany party, retired German Air Force Colonel Gerold Otten said that the German government under the leadership of Chancellor Friedrich Merz invests significant financial resources in the military-industrial complex (M…
The elite class in British society, particularly those with left-leaning views, often spread misinformation to support their socially “liberal” agenda, Matt Goodwin says.
For example, in a recent interview with Rupert Lowe MP, Emily Maitlis, a former BBC presenter and now an independent podcaster, misrepresented evidence on Pakistani Muslim rape gangs, claiming that white British men are more likely to be involved in organised rape gangs.
However, evidence from various reports and investigations consistently shows that Pakistani Muslim men are disproportionately more likely to be arrested and convicted of organised rape gang activity. But this evidence is being suppressed because it is considered racist.
Blacks also already enjoy some of the perceived benefits of socialism that whites may not because of programs that specifically benefit their race. Making entitlements more widely available might even be worse for blacks. If Republicans want to win, they should not want someone like AOC to be the face of the Democrats. They should want Jasmine Crockett instead. #GregoryHood #Socialism #Democrats #Race
Russia has issued a dire warning, branding Berlin a “legitimate nuclear target” as German Chancellor Friedrich Merz fuels escalating tensions by pushing to arm Ukraine with long-range Taurus missiles. Merz’s provocative claim to ZDF that such deliveries are “within the realms of possibility” signals a bold challenge to Moscow’s red lines, heightening fears of nuclear retaliation.
Germany’s defense ministry further intensified the crisis, announcing that Berlin will finance the production of long-range weapons systems in Ukraine, with the first units potentially deployed by Ukrainian forces within weeks. This move, part of Merz’s broader commitment to bolster Ukraine’s military, aligns with his assertion that allies like the US, UK, and France have lifted arms restrictions, though Washington has yet to confirm this shift.
The Kremlin’s response was swift and uncompromising, with the State Duma Defense Committee declaring that Russia will react “harshly, asymmetrically, and decisively” if Germany supplies Taurus missiles to Kyiv. This stark warning underscores the growing risk of direct confrontation, as Merz’s aggressive stance, unbacked by clear allied consensus, places Berlin in Moscow’s crosshairs, raising global alarm over the potential for catastrophic escalation.
@AsianGirlz Funny, when I clicked on the link it wanted me to assert that I was over 18, can't say I see anything particularly inappropriate for under 18 here, especially if you were a KISS fan.
SCOTUS, in a 7-2 decision with Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor dissenting, ruled that Trump can end the parole pipeline while the case is pending appeal. #MassMigration #Trump #SCOTUS #AmRen
New York City - Korean, Palestinian, and Jewish American groups called for the Trump administration to end the attempted deportation of Yunseo Chung, bringing together hundreds of people in a show of solidarity.
Here's another #privacy and #security wake up call for you, and yet ANOTHER reason never to hand your drivers' license over to anyone (even your doctor).
Do you have an Android phone? The built-in QR reader can read many more barcodes other than QR codes.
Scan the 2D barcode on the back of your drivers' license. The one that looks like a random block of thin and stacked black & white lines.
Here's my data. I have redacted sensitive things for my privacy:
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ANSI 6#######0102DL0######9ZN03####06D#D#Q5#######7
DCSE######## (last name)
DDEU
DACGEORGE (first name)
DDFU
DAD###### (middle name)
DDGU
DCAD
DCBB
DCDNONE
DBD1######4 (date my drivers' license was issued)
DBB0######2 (my birthdate)
DBA1######2 (drivers' license expiration date)
DBC1
DAU### in (my height in inches)
DAYBRO (eye color)
DAG##### ######## RD SW (my street address)
DAIALBUQUERQUE (city)
DAJNM (state)
DAK#####0000 (ZIP/ postal code)
DCFunavl
DCGUSA (country of birth)
DAW### (unknown)
DCK5#########1 (drivers' license number w/ check digit)
DDAF
DDB0######2 (now this is interesting. Not sure what this is for, it's a date that is over 2 years earlier than me moving to New Mexico, in fact based on the date I hadn't even retired yet.)
DDK1
ZNZNA
Think twice before handing over your drivers' license to a bouncer at a bar or your doctors' office. That little barcode on the back of your license contains a LOT of personal information, information you may not want a bouncer or bar to have in their records. Same thing applies to hotels and stuff.
GET A PASSPORT CARD! Or present and carry your Passport Book (if you have one). If not, get one. For as much money as they cost and as much of a hassle that they are to get, they are a helluva lot more private and secure than your drivers' license.
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Hey hey, I have been using Sound Juicer on my Ubuntu 24 / KDE 5 PC and it works, but it doesn't handle the tags for my MP3 files very nicely. I've also used abcde, at the terminal, and that can be better but it takes a lot finessing at the CLI to get the result I want.
Is there a better CD ripper application that will run on Ubuntu and can make setting the MP3 tags dead simple?
Thanks for any ideas!
Edit: Fixed a typo
ETA: Asunder looks good, does what I need and works well on my PC. Thanks for everyone's ideas and help!
I use whipper. It's a command-line application but it's easy to use and works great every single time. At first you should let it analyze your drive which is the only step more involved. Here's a mini tutorial for that I wrote for myself but you can also read it on the project page where it's probably more up to date:
Analyze the drive's caching behavior: $ sudo whipper drive analyze
Find the drive's offset. Consult the [[AccurateRip's CD Drive Offset database|http://www.accuraterip.com/driveoffsets.htm]] for your drive. Drive information can be retrieved with $ whipper drive list. $ sudo whipper offset find -o insert-numeric-value-here. If you omit the -o argument, whipper will try a long, popularity-sorted list of drive offsets. If you can't confirm your drive offset value but wish to set a default regardless, set read_offset = insert-numeric-value-here in whipper.conf. Offsets confirmed with $ whipper offset find are automatically written to the configuration file. If specifying the offset manually, please note that: if positive it must be written as a number without sign (ex: +102 -> 102), if negative it must include the sign.
After that you just rip any disc by running: $ whipper cd rip
And just as an example, here's my ~/.config/whipper/whipper.conf:
Looking up Picard's instructions... They recommend whipper, as others have done in the thread.
It can do the tagging for you, but it's important to note that music CDs do not contain metadata.
All the rippers that exist, look up what the CD is online, based on stuff like number of tracks, their lengths, and order. iTunes was the ripping software everyone used back in the day, because Apple made and maintained the first extensive database that could be used to automatically tag ripped music.
Modern rippers typically rely on MusicBrainz (like Picard).
As such there is no 100% reliable auto-tagging ripper, because a disc might match more than one album, or not be in the database. Such cases will always require manual intervention.
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So, our first recommendation will be homebrew, it's sort of a pre-requisite to get a lot of command line utilities that your distro might not have packaged.
You can install homebrew with one command line, and then you can get any CLI utility you want by running brew install, followed by the name of the tool you need.
Our second pick is FZF, for Fuzzy Find. It lets you search files extremely fast using their names, but it can also look through command history, processes, bookmarks, git commits, and more.
ATUIN thing replaces your shell history with a database you can search through super easily. Once it's installed with brew, press the up arrow key or control +r, and you'll get a search interface to look for all your commands.
CHEZMOI lets you manage your dotfiles. It lets you share these config files across devices by syncing them to a got repo, and it can interface with a very large variety of password managers to keep everything safe.
If you use a laptop, and you find Linux's batter life to be a bit subpar, maybe look at POWERTOP. Just run the command powertop, and you'll see all processes. Using tab, you can navigate to various statistics, but also to the "tunables" screen, which will show you what powertop identifies as a bad configuration for battery life.
If you'd like to tune these, you can rune powertop --auto-tune, and it will change all the settings to what it believes are "good" options for battery life saving, although it might impact the performance.
If you'd like to quickly analyze what uses a lot of disk space on your computer, or on a remote server, you might want to replace the du and df commands with DUST.
If you run a dual boot, and you're facing problems with accessing one of your installed systems, you can force GRUB to reboot into a specific system, just for the next boot, using the grub-reboot command, followed by the number of the grub entry for that system.
If you need to monitor for resource usage on your computer, you might be using top, or htop, but BTOP is a better option. It looks better than htop or top, and it's also more legible.
If you often use the cat command to read a file, maybe try BAT instead. It does the same thing, but it also has syntax highlighting for a bunch of files, and it communicates with git to show modifications in files, with the usual Plus and minuses symbols.
If man is too much for you and is too much reading, and if the --help option isn't enough, why not try TLDR? It gives you an abridged version of the contents of MAN for most of the available programs and commands, and it makes things more legible, and easier to parse at a glance.
If you like to split a terminal or a tty into multiple terminals, ZELLIJ is a nice alternative to things like tmux. It's basically a tiling window manager for your terminal workspace: you can define your own layout, it supports plugins, floating panes, and more.
You can run it by running the zellij command, and then you can create a new pane pressing alt + N, you can move a pane using control +h, or make it floating with Control + P, then W.
If you often use ls to list files in a directory, you might want to take a look at EZA. It does the same job, as in, it lists the contents of a directory, but it does it with way more details, and a more legible interface.
Now, fill each of those hexagonal cells with flat li-ion battery packs, laminate a sheet on top and bottom, add motor + drivetrain, then strap on the protective gear and look out.
#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.
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
The Human #Brain May Contain as Much as a Spoon’s Worth of #Microplastics, New #Research Suggests (https://diaspora.mifritscher.de/posts/fc8fad201fdf013e5e13543d7eeced27)
unmittelbar@diaspora.mifritscher.de: This might be a good start for seeing how to migrate plastic out of the body. One idea is to engineer the body to migrate plastic to the skin for armor, and maybe even as protection from the vacuum of space!
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.
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.
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.
@Java It's always that way. In the scheme of things, we haven't been around that long since Jesus came. Not even a blink of an eye. Don't ever forget-God always wins!
Extremist right-wing party. With substantial parts legally being called Nazis.
Even though nowhere in their rules it says anything about this even being any offence.
3: [...] Support for violent groups or events is prohibited.
Explains itself.
And which later turned out to be completely unsubstantial as many people suspected.
It's not. "Many people", aka. AfD supporters and the AfD themselves.
Oh, did he? He just stood there and claimed something. There was supposedly a great report with all the hard facts, but no one was allowed to see it. That's not much different from "Yes, I did my homework, but then she (sic) ate my dog."
(The original toot, translated from german) Thing is, all contents were openly collected and sorted by 3rd parties already. The report is as relevant to anyone aware of any politics as the Principia Mathematica's Section 54.43 is for thinking humans in order to prove that 1+1=2. The only usefulness lies in AfD supporters being unable to deny the obvious.
These are quite some mental gymnastics going from my toot:
Oh, did he? He just stood there and claimed something. There was supposedly a great report with all the hard facts, but no one was allowed to see it. That’s not much different from “Yes, I did my homework, but then my dog ate it.”
(Correctly translated, btw.)
to:
3: […] Support for violent groups or events is prohibited.
Wow! Just wow! You should sign up as a moderator on mastodon.social. You'd fit right in.
Isn’t this the group whose leaders publicly stated “Germany was safer under Hitler,” then both invited and hosted Elon “Sieg Heil 2x” Musk at a campaign rally?
If you want a more complete list, check the mentioned "secret report" in readable form here, or in original form (hand scanned from paper as to be expected by an official german government body in 2025): part A and part B. The original leaker article is actually largely hidden behind a paywall (cicero.de/innenpolitik/cicero-…). And it's 02:00 CET so i'm not gonna search for the original direct links to the files.
Edit: first link being an old version, other two links being the recent version. Both reports being relevant though.
Cicero liegt das AfD-Geheimgutachten des Verfassungsschutzes vollständig vor. Weil wir daran glauben, dass Demokratie nicht ohne Transparenz und kritische Öffentlichkeit funktionieren kann, veröffentlichen wir es in Gänze.
Das Landgericht Halle (Saale) hat den AfD-Politiker Höcke wegen des Verwendens von Kennzeichen verfassungswidriger Organisationen zu einer Geldstrafe in Höhe von insgesamt 13.000 Euro verurteilt.
That slogan was originally coined in 1848 by King Ludwig I. But as with many things, the nazis severely tainted it. (Even though it was used by the socialist party after WWII, too.)
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. :::
IMHO, it’s one thing if you want to limit everything from there on your instance and on your own will, but a completely different thing for them to basically secretly ban you from their whole instance just because one single person on there felt offended and reported you. There surely must be something in between doing nothing and this sitewide shadowban.
Israel critics are sometimes also pursued here, on Mastodon, by extremists of the opposite opinion. They will report your post, and seek to tarnish you with the awful lie that is "anti-Semitic". On one side, there is the nation-state of Israel, and on the other, the Holocaust. By accusing you of criticising Israel, they also seek to call you a Holocaust supporter or denier, or one of those terrible perverts who think there's *anything* OK about the Holocaust. 😭 😱
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. 😭
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?
By Brian Mier - May 19, 2025
With the NED erasing information on recipients, its recent history and the US government and extended state's meddling in Brazilian politics will need to be reconstructed.
I wanted to ask if anyone has a preferred software for the purpose of creative writing.
Libre Office Writer is great of course, but just as software like LogSeq or Obsidian exist for the note taking process, I was wondering if there is anything that is specifically geared toward the creative writing process.
I know that there are federated blog platforms which focus on this in their presentation, but was curious about applications specifically.
I'm writing a novel in Obsidian and it works great. Currently closing on 70k words and it's just as fast as a file with 50 words in it. I also like that it's a simple markdown file which I can easily back up anywhere and open with anything.
That's interesting. What does the structure of that looks like? New notes per chapter and then back-linking them together, or everything in just one note?
I started with a single file that had bullet points for each story beat, then those grew into chapters. I then had files/notes for specific things that I needed to remember but didn't want in the novel itself (character backstories, etc). After a while I found the single file overwhelming so I split it into one file per chapter, that way it was easier to focus on one at a time; when I felt they were all in decent shape I put them back together in one file. I use headings for each chapter title so that I can jump to each one in the table of contents. I'm now doing a final pass for tone and for minor fixes; when something needs attention I highlight it so that I can find it later.
I tried a LOT of different apps but Obsidian was for me the best combination of being very responsive, not too distracting, easy to navigate, and not locking me into a proprietary format.
I also love iA writer but it doesn't work on Linux, or with Wine...
I've been enjoying novelWriter for a few months now.
It's FOSS, works on every OS, and is created by a writer who was frustrated with the other options available. She and another writer co-designed it initially, and there's a respectably sized community built up around it at this point. It's got the kinds of features that writers actually need, and avoids bloat. So they say, and in my experience that's certainly been the case.
If you "only" need beautiful PDF and it doesn't have to be online, you can also use Typst with vscode and tinymist as editor locally. Not as powerful as TeX, but I know few people for use TeX even remotely to its fullest. The upside of Typst is, that the "core" syntax for content writing is very markdown-like, so you can focus on writing instead of the underlying language.
Holy shit, thank you! I had no idea overleaf was open source; you have cleared my conscience. Typst seems interesting, but I am a bit of a typesetting nerd and quite used to latex anyway. Transition now would be difficult. I'll check it out though, it might be nice for drafts and such. Thanks again!
I'm definitely going to share Typst with non-tex-addicts though, it does seem really cool.
@LaylaAlexandrovnaThe little red dots aren't wildfires, they're "thermal anomalies". A fire in a cornfield isn't a wildfire. There are always small fires somewhere.
@LaylaAlexandrovnaCorrect. Fires happen all the time. Huge ass swathes of forest going up in flames are something else. It's not like we have pure perfect air all the time here, but these wildfire events make a huge change.
@ninapaleyIt's weird because something about the wind systems around here-even when fires are close we rarely get smoke in Vancouver. I hope that pattern continues.
Two autumns ago we had a lot nearby and it produced the most spectacular sunsets I've ever seen here.
@polarisera @LaylaAlexandrovnaThose dots are VIIRS. "The VIIRS (Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite) Fire layer shows active fire detections and thermal anomalies, such as volcanoes, and gas flares. The fire layer is useful for studying the spatial and temporal distribution of fire, to locate persistent hot spots such as volcanoes and gas flares, to locate the source of air pollution from smoke that may have adverse human health impacts."
@LaylaAlexandrovnaHere we see a whole lotta wildfires in Western Canada, a few in the Western US, and three in Florida. The little red dots may be fires or other "thermal anomalies," but are not wildfires.
@LaylaAlexandrovnaHere's a picture of yesterday's smoke forecast for today. When the wind is just right (aka typical), Illinois gets Canada's smoke. It only affects some US states, but mine is one of them.
In Five Easy Steps: The danger in an age of social media is that images of starving babies will make you look very bad. Hold firm. The Western media will come to the rescue.
By Jonathan Cook
Jonathan-Cook.
‘There should be no official FBI actions, events, or messaging regarding Pride Month,’ the FBI told employees, marking a major shift from the agency’s LGBT activism in recent years.
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…
Photographer Charles Brooks embarked upon a quest to photograph the inside of musical instruments, creating images that look like monumental buildings.
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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Reminder to Canadians 🇨🇦 to keep protesting Indigo Books CEO Heather Reisman's support of Israel's genocidal military.
If you love books like I do you're better off supporting a local bookstore than having your money be used to commit genocide!
Also, tell Canada Revenue to revoke Reisman's HESEG foundation's charitable tax status. Anyone proudly funding and supporting the IDF should get our contempt, not our tax dollars.
Take a minute to support a formal complaint asking the Canada Revenue Agency to investigate whether the HESEG FOUNDATION and its main patron THE GERALD SCHWARTZ and HEATHER REISMAN FOUNDATION are violating rules for registered charities.
« 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. »
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