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The Americans had Walt Disney Micky Mouse, the Soviet Union had a Cheburashka. Here's blog about the the cute and beloved fictional character, Cheburashka.
Newspapers are printing summer reading lists of AI-hallucinated books. Apple “Intelligence” is making up fake BBC headlines. People are losing their minds as ChatGPT calls them “spiral starchildren” and “river walkers.
US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth delivered an extremely hawkish speech in which he demonized China as a "threat" and said, "We are preparing for war". Be...
i do not understand satire, everything posted on this account is 100% serious and should be taken at face value all views expressed are the opinion of my employer unless stated otherwise
@milkman76 I started in the sysadmin life some 20-odd years ago, as well. I no longer work on any windows systems. Last windows installation I had, personal, was Win7Pro. Couple years ago, I had a Win10 laptop, exclusively for work with DoD. Now even that is gone, I access everything through Linux or BSD.
My kids use Mint, since they were 3. The year of the Linux desktop has been going on for a while, now. #Linux #BSD #AltOS
Expanding the flanks of "driven wedges" destroys the monolith of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' defense. Report by Marat Khairullin with illustrations by Mikhail Popov.
Microsoft Edit is fully written in Rust. And the source-code is actually fully open-source as well under MIT license 😮.
I personally would like see them calling it dos-edit or just dosedit, since that would be kinda funny. But I understand it will be called ms-edit instead.
I know Linux already has vi, vim, neovim and nano, ... and more... However is kind of ironic to see this binary be shipped to Linux distros. Of course it's already added to Arch btw: aur.archlinux.org/packages/ms-…
In 2016, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation finally recognised the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People* as an extremist organisation, banning its activities on the territory of the country.
#Israel is a terrorist state and one of these days a politician is going to be elected somewhere that's going to acknowledge that. I know I personally am boycotting anything and everything having to do with Israel. Any company. Any tech. Any software. Any people. I refuse to have one more dollar of mine go to support those #Zionazi *fucks* if I can help it. My hope is those malignant parasites are kicked out of the #UN.
The rise of a London-born Muslim Brotherhood activist to the heart of Damascus politics reveals even deeper layers to the UK’s long war to rebrand Al-Qaeda power as legitimate Syrian governance.
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – At least 26 Palestinians have been killed in intense overnight air attacks carried out by the Israeli regime across Gaza, with the majority of the killings reported in Khan Younis, Gaza City and Jabalia.
White Hats from coast to coast are fuming mad at the Trump administration for allowing the FDA’s approval of a lower-dose mRNA clot shot for senior citizens and people 12-65 with at least one underlying medical condition. Last week, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary said his agency was greenlighting Moderna’s potentially lethal jab, which the company said would be broadly advertised and publicly available ahead of the 2025-2026 “respiratory ailment season.” According to Moderna, the new mNEXSPIKE is one-fifth as potent as its original vaccine. It claims that 11,500 people participated in clinical trials, with few experiencing mild side effects like injection site pain and headaches. realrawnews.com/2025/06/white-…
A US military mega-contractor assisting an Australian company to develop a proposal for a nuclear waste dump in Central Australia has a flawed safety record in handling nuclear waste storage.
Astonishingly, a year and a half of mass killing and hostages being tortured in the Gaza Strip didn't bring Netanyahu's government to its knees; it was instead brought on by one sect's stubborn refusal to serve in the IDF
Analysts say that President Donald Trump has helped South Africans by criticizing the country's president over woeful crimefighting at a stormy Oval Office "ambush" last week
finally. i had to remove the power steering pump, alternator, move the front frame bracket, radiator fan and coolant overflow tank, and loosen one motor mount and raise the engine, just to get to the AC compressor.
now we get to find out exactly what was wrong with this thing
it's hard to overstate how much of a pain in the ass that was. hopefully i'll replace the whole pump while i'm in there not just trying to mess with the magnetic clutch mechanism. that's a bit of a toss-up cause an old OEM denso pump even though it looks like crap could still be better than a new amazon aftermarket pump. so i'll have to see what amazon sends me tomorrow and decide
i suppose i could pay $500 for a new OEM acura compressor but i'd rather not. now that i know how to do this and all the stuck bolts are broken loose, it'll be a lot easier next time if necessary
ok so hear me out. i just realized the low bolt clearance could be related to the excessive idle vibration. there are two fluid filled engine mounts in this car and they've almost certainly leaked out by now, which could have the engine dropped in a lower position than normal, which put the AC compressor too close to the sub frame 🧠
it all makes sense now. i definitely need to change all 4 engine mounts. that should take care of the idle vibration. it's a known issue with these cars when they get old
this would also explain why there was no mention of having to raise the engine to remove the AC compressor in the service manual. i was thinking dudes did you not bother to do this procedure before writing the manual? but yes they did, they just didn't have sagging blown out engine mounts
#Norway / Divestment from occupied territories rejected
Norway rejects call to divest wealth fund from Israeli-occupied territories. Despite emotional debates and protests, Norwegian MPs voted against proposals to stop the country's sovereign wealth fund from investing in companies contributing to Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories. The decision maintains Norway's position as the largest European investor in #Israel's occupation.
Finance Minister Jens Stoltenberg stated that Norway has "an established ethical regime for the fund" and that they "divest from the companies that contribute to Israel's breach of international law, but we do not divest from all companies that are present on the ground".
What follows are five relevant points, each accompanied by brief arguments about why they either do or do not prove that he really was aware, which’ll help readers make up their own mind.
Thinking back to a couple months back when I was talking to my woman and said something along the lines of “it’s really easy to get people to do exactly what you want, you’ve just got to read them and make a half decent guess about what they want” and I had to awkwardly back track and tell her I don’t do that on her
“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission.” Ayn Rand Call it what…
"In projecting language back as the model for thought, we lose sight of the tacit embodied understanding that undergirds our intelligence." –Terry Winograd
The recent successes of generative AI models have convinced some that AGI is imminent.
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Long-standing friendship between Belarus and China is growing stronger, so is mutual trust at the political level, Chinese President Xi Jinping said at a meeting with his Belarusian counterpart Aleksandr Lukashenko, BelTA has learned.
Es können (und sollten) alle von der republica halten, was sie wollen, aber es gab ein paar Talks, die würde ich Euch gern empfehlen, weil ich sie wirklich gut fand.
Es gab ganz sicher auch noch andere, die sehr gut waren, aber diese habe ich (bisher) gesehen. Vielleicht ergänze ich später noch.
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Eine neue Recherche von +972 & Local Call über die aktuelle Kriegsführung deckt auf, dass die israelische Armee crappy Algorithmen, die auf falschen Annahmen basieren, verwendet, die angeben sollen, dass ein Nachbarschaft evakuiert sei.
Wenn der Algorithmus "grün" sagt wird bombardiert, angegriffen - auch wenn klar ist, dass dort noch jede Menschen drin sind.
Es wird dabei von einer Belegung einer Nachbarschaft mit Personen ausgegangen. Wenn anhand von Mobilfunkdaten der Algorithmus berechnet dass nur noch 0-20% der erwarteten Personen anwesend sind - "grün" genannt, wird angegriffen.
Die israelische Armee macht es sich einfach & definiert die Gebiete dann als evakuiert. Theoretische 80% weniger anwesende Menschen reichen ihnen dann völlig aus als Abschätzung. In der Realität sind meist noch jede Menge Personen vor Ort. Wo sollen sie auch hin?
»Before designating a neighborhood as “green,” the intelligence algorithm calculates the number of residents in each house according to the area’s estimated evacuation rate. If the algorithm estimates that 80 percent of residents have left, then the expected number of casualties per house is reduced by 80 percent, often without dedicating time to a detailed examination. In a house where 10 Palestinians lived before the war, for example, the system would show that only two remained.«
»It’s a statistical approach to errors,” said one intelligence source.
In this way, the army can approve more airstrikes and claim they adhere to the principle of proportionality, sources said. They added that the army does not conduct post-strike assessments to determine how many civilians were actually killed, and for this reason, it also does not know how many Palestinians it has killed since October 7. «
»While the statistical calculation falsely estimates the number of civilians in each house, the mass killing of civilians in Gaza is not a result of a mistake, but a direct consequence of Israel’s lenient policies regarding civilian harm, multiple sources have said. As previously reported by +972 Magazine and Local Call, army policy allowed officers to kill up to 20 civilians in each house where a junior militant was present and hundreds of civilians when the target was more senior.«
Die meisten der Personen, die die israelische Armee seit dem Bruch des "Waffenstillstands" als Ziel anvisierte waren nur kleine Fische, und damit ein vernachlässigbarer militärischer Wert.
Viele der Angriffe töteten nur Zivilisten, weil überhaupt nicht klar war ob die Zielpersonen überhaupt anwesend sind. Eine Prüfung vor dem Angriff sparte man sich weitgehend.
»The two sources explained that since Israel violated the ceasefire in March, most of the military personnel the Israeli army has targeted are low-level, and at times have no rank at all — classified in intelligence records merely as “operative,” indicating a status even lower than that of squad leaders or platoon commanders, and thus of negligible military value. «
»According to one of the sources, in recent weeks, many of these attacks only killed civilians and were carried out despite uncertainty about whether they would hit any military targets. Such “misses,” according to several sources, stem from military policies that allow strikes to go ahead without thorough checks — for example, without verifying in real-time that the target is actually present in the building.«
Ohnehin ist keine Gegend frei vom Zivilisten. Selbst in den Bereichen die die israelische Armee kontrolliert, verbleiben meist insbesondere besonders vulnerable Personen. Es gibt ja keine Evakuierungen nach der eigentlichen Definition des Wortes.
»No neighborhood in Gaza is fully evacuated,” Shehada said. “Even in areas Israel has been occupying for some time, there would be elderly people, people with disabilities, pregnant women, kids, and orphans who have no one to help them evacuate.”«
»Shehada explained that since Hamas or Hamas-affiliated individuals are present everywhere in Gaza, these bombing policies amount to “basically carpet bombing or indiscriminate bombing, using unarmed, rank-and-file Hamas members as a pretext to achieve the real goal, which is maximum destruction.” He noted that prior to October 7, Israel would bomb civilian infrastructure in Gaza to deter the population from supporting Hamas, but this time “it’s not about deterrence, it’s about extermination.”«
»Since Israel violated the ceasefire in March, airstrikes have killed dozens of Palestinians in Gaza every day, the vast majority of which the Israeli army has confirmed are civilians. In May, the average death rate in Gaza stood at 62 people per day, according to reports from the Ministry of Health.«
»Several of the deadliest airstrikes in recent weeks have targeted schools and hospitals filled with refugees as part of a deliberate strategy, according to a new investigation by The Guardian. Previously considered “sensitive sites,” these locations are now also categorized by the military as “heavy centers” (based on the claim that they host a high concentration of Hamas operatives), and the procedures for authorizing airstrikes against them have been relaxed.«
»Since early May, the army has hit at least six schools in Gaza, killing more than 120 Palestinians. +972 and Local Call has learned that in one of the recently bombed schools, the number of civilians killed was three times higher than the number of people the army estimated to be there.«
»The testimony of the two intelligence sources, along with those of two additional security sources who were in Gaza in recent months, reinforces this claim. Acc. to the int. sources, since March, airstrikes have often been carried out simply “for the sake of attacking,” with no significant direct military value. “There aren’t many targets left. Everyone who mattered has already been killed or is hiding really well. So they’re forcefully looking for targets, and these are just very low quality”«
»“Instead of in-and-out operations, it’s enter and flatten. Every area the IDF takes, the IDF flattens,” he explained. “The idea is ultimately to push everyone into Al-Mawasi and turn a single neighborhood into the home of two million people, fenced in and controlled by the military, with access only through checkpoints, and the only place where humanitarian aid is brought in.
“The army doesn’t use the words ‘ghetto’ or ‘ethnic cleansing,’” he added, “[but] it’s a de facto ghetto.”«
I’ve been using Linux on and off for over a year now—not a total newbie, but still learning. I know the basics and usually rely on GPT or forums when I hit a wall. I’ve tried a bunch of distros so far: Kali, Debian, Pop!_OS, KDE Neon, Kubuntu… and currently running Fedora KDE.
Fedora is solid, but I keep finding myself tempted to try something new. Maybe I get bored easily—or maybe I just haven’t found the one yet. That’s why I’m asking for your help.
Here’s what I’m really looking for:
🔹 Large and fast app repository – I want access to a wide range of apps, updated quickly, without weird dependency issues.
🔹 Great UI/UX – KDE is my current favorite. I love how modern and smooth it feels, and I want something that builds on that experience.
🔹 Stability without being outdated – I don’t mind rolling release if it’s reliable. Crashes and breakages are a dealbreaker.
🔹 Good extras – Whether it’s unique tools, deep customization options, or just thoughtful polish, I love a distro with a “complete” feel.
🔹 Active community/support – Docs, forums, or anything that helps when things go wrong.
I’d love your suggestions—especially if you’ve been in the same place: bouncing between distros, loving KDE, and still chasing that “perfect” setup.
What would you recommend and why? Any underrated KDE-based distro I should check out? Or maybe something mainstream but deeply customizable and stable?
Appreciate your thoughts!
Also, if you can, please share some of the best (and free) resources to really learn and master Linux. I’m still learning and only know some basics, but I want to go deeper and really understand how things work under the hood. Even if I don’t feel super advanced yet 😅, I’m curious and willing to grow.
This may be at odds with stability somewhat being rolling release, but you may want to check out SUSE tumbleweed or EndeavourOS. You already have a solid pick based on your established requirements.
Couldn't hurt to poke around other offerings in a VM, though
And one more thing, are most of the softwares are available on tumbleweed? Like i mostly use FDM, vs code and some other tools because fedora dont have some including FDM but everything else in fedora is pretty good and decent.
Some of the installs can be a little weird, but I've never had anything that I couldn't get running. Vscode has an install for tumbleweed code.visualstudio.com/Download
The major "issue" is the package names are different between Debian and tumbleweed, so if you're installing software from github that isn't directly provided by suse/appimage/flatpak then a lot of times you'll need to install the dependencies manually by finding the corresponding packages (since most github repositories have directions for Debian/Ubuntu and not suse)
If you got bored by Fedora is probably the right choice for you. Otherwise nothing compares to Arch, esp if you "I’m still learning and only know some basics, but I want to go deeper and really understand how things work under the hood.". Another safer-nobrainer is Tumbleweed.
You could try Tuxedo OS. It's stable Ubuntu minus Snap plus newer KDE packages by a small Linux system retailer. Been using it for about a year now on my work laptop and it's perfectly adequate.
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Editorial: It is in Israel’s interest to allow humanitarian aid to come into what the UN has called ‘the hungriest place on Earth’. The rest of the world must make Netanyahu see sense
The government yesterday introduced the Strong Border Act (Bill C-2), legislation that was promoted as establishing new border measure provisions presumably designed to address U.S. concerns regarding the border.
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#Palestine / IDF promotes officer accused of ordering soldiers to shoot Gazans carrying white flag
An IDF officer was promoted to battalion commander despite a pending decision on whether to investigate reports that he ordered soldiers to shoot two #Gazans carrying a white flag in 2024. Soldiers reported the officer's "shoot-to-kill" order, which was countermanded by another officer.
Haim Har-Zahav, a soldier who wrote an op-ed in #Haaretz about an incident he witnessed in 2024 along the Netzarim corridor, discussed an incident where an officer ordered soldiers to shoot two Gazans carrying a white flag. He highlighted that the order was disregarded because it was recognized as manifestly illegal, which, to him, demonstrated the value of the IDF's ethical code. However, he also emphasized that the lives of Palestinians often depend on the individual ethical standards of the commanders on the ground, leading to inconsistent and potentially deadly outcomes.
[…] "The lives of the Palestinians in Gaza depend first and foremost on the private and personal ethical code of the commanders on the ground... Those who want to kill Arabs, because they are Arabs, will kill Arabs. No one will ask them questions, and no one will investigate or punish them. Those who want to maintain their humanity will do so, but will also know that their replacements in the Gaza Strip might not share the same moral and ethical code. Consequently, the person who survived thanks to a decision made by one officer will die of a command given by the next. If not tomorrow, then the next day"
The IDF stated the incident is under investigation.
An IDF commander was said to have issued a shoot-to-kill order against two Gazans carrying a white flag, which was dismissed by other officers who deemed it illegal.
Dozens of settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque and its courtyards, under tight protection from the Israeli enemy police.Jerusalem sources reported that the settlers stormed Al-Aqsa from the Mughrabi Gate in groups and successive batches, performing Talmu
In her office located at the Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone, 36-year-old Russian entrepreneur Svetlana Olkhovikova, dressed in a cream-colored suit, gently sipped a matcha latte while checking orders from her business partners in Russia and Uzbekistan…
As per title. I've been wondering about this. How can we help when someone managing a community/instance can't find help locally, for whatever reason? Something like an "help wanted" board. Even if it's for one month, three months, etc.
I've been an admin for a 8-9k+ users Discord server for years, but I love Lemmy so much I'd like to see if I can be somehow useful here. I don't think I'm power tripping at all, but have zero tolerance for harassment, racism or sexism, bigotry and honestly want to keep neocons and bigots/trolls out of Lemmy as long as it's humanly possible. Whenever in doubt, I generally abstain from using any moderation power and talk with other mods/users to find the best course of action.
The situation I imagined in the first paragraph did happen to me. Managing the server alone was draining my mental health, and I couldn't find anyone to help with all I had to do. Then someone wrote to me, we had lengthy discussions about the rules and philosophy of the server and we've been co-managing it together for years. Lemm.ee closing down made me think about "how to help where and when it's needed"?
I'm posting in this community in hope that other users may be wondering about it and may find any answer useful.
[Multiple edits, original post written quite late, judging from most replies, I failed to phrase correctly what I had in mind]
I'm wondering if the fediverse in general (but especially Lemmy) would benefit from some kind of "fediverse help wanted" board for moderators, donations, technical help, etc.
edit: People who run a Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed/etc instance might be hanging out in the Matrix chat room for the software they are running; that might already serve this purpose.
The Indian governmental incursion must've been part of the original script as all the actors were perfectly lined up and ready to go right at the start.
So per script we're also supposed to be in an entirely different place where novelty injections are now accepted as perfectly normal and fine. Everyone has already come to accept that a deadly invisible pathogen gone 'endemic' so obviously we're going to need plenty of government help going forward willingly or unwilling. vaxpass and digital id been in place for several years and BTC is everyone's favourite novelty currency.
That's the world in which all this was supposed to have happened. But it's not so obviously not an ideal situation for the people running this show. They're essentially just trying out the new arrangement to see how well it goes down. So far not many complaining which means the fluoride supplement is working a treat.
It's likely that Americans who'd want to radically reshape the US (and the same principal will hold in other nations) would make use of foreign and dual nationality individuals because those people will have less misgiving about following radical paths.
For instance, in the UK we've had government ministers who were likely picked up by our security services and selected for power at a young age from abroad. Those people won't care about preserving a way of life.
There's likely political value here in portraying this as an external attack, but is it _only_ that? Could they get away with this if the most powerful local forces did not see this as beneficial to them? I doubt it.
Although much smaller in scale, an analogy here would be the role played by the Israelis in taking down Corbyn for installing Starmer as leader of the UK Labour party. I expect the UK security services approved this on behalf of their backers: co-opting foreign nationals and embassy staff then provides a kind of plausible deniability.
And perhaps that deniability is why the script was written like this.
Once they resort to pulling a race card you'll know that's all they have left. You can then point to their caste system at which point it's all over. Worth keeping that in mind
He's good. I admit to only having listened to a few of his podcasts. I can't say many others have heard of him. I think one other person mentioned him to me at work one time, possibly around 2021.
I read Alford and Secker's National Security Cinema. They totally missed the transhumanism angle on Avatar, regarding it as a pacifist film which slipped through the net.
Films are Not Your Friends, which used to be on Youtube was my eye-opener on the scale of the security state interference in movies and TV.
He did a good podcast on the Manchester / Aria Grande event. Contrasts with the angle taken by Richard D Hall and Iain Davis, though not necessarily contradictory.
TEHRAN, Jun. 04 (MNA) – Regarding the US claims against Iran's peaceful nuclear program, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution said, "Our response to America's nonsense claims is clear: they can not do a damns thing in this matter."
No one should be surprised that Israel is integrating its so-called humanitarian effort into its genocide of Palestinians.
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Unknown parent • • •@milkman76 I started in the sysadmin life some 20-odd years ago, as well. I no longer work on any windows systems. Last windows installation I had, personal, was Win7Pro. Couple years ago, I had a Win10 laptop, exclusively for work with DoD. Now even that is gone, I access everything through Linux or BSD.
My kids use Mint, since they were 3. The year of the Linux desktop has been going on for a while, now.
#Linux #BSD #AltOS