Google Restricts Android Sideloading–What It Means for User Autonomy and Freedom

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Former Chinese NVIDIA AI Engineers Are Now Working for Huawei, Reveals NVIDIA’s Chief Scientist Bill Dally, Warning Chinese Competition Is Closing In.

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The U.S. efforts to hobble China's tech advancement through export controls have not been effective. Chinese tech companies, such as Huawei, Baidu, and SMIC, are developing their own tech ecosystems. China dominates in consumer drones, autonomous vehicles, and solar panels and batteries.

SMIC, which makes Huawei's processors, is now the third-largest chipmaker in the world and has managed to innovate despite having older-generation tech.

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Working through updating the #FLX1 review i wrote up a while ago and my god hopefully future phones I test both do and dont have similar battery life. I want to have full battery life numbers instead of just estimations so from 100% to the phone is off. Standby test without a sim and wifi on the entire time has been going 164 hours and still has another 16% to go. No deep sleep. Luckily the last battery test i need. Im also updating the review structure a bit to show more info.
#mobilelinux

The Fairphone 6 is expected to launch this month. The latest repairable phone has a modular design that lets you replace the battery, camera, speakers, and other parts. Expect 8GB RAM and 256GB storage and dual rear cameras. winfuture.de/news,151402.html #Fairphone6 #Fairphone #Smartphones #Repairable

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Watch Divine D. making a test call on Phosh. This was only to try the call application, power consumption and connectivity. There are many other scenarios for such a test, such as during low-power modes, running performance applications, audio quality, audio routing, bluetooth HFP mode.. We will be covering those as the hardware revisions and software improve.

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The redesigned annotation workflow has landed in Papers Nightly!

There are a few minor things left (such as recoloring the icons), but what has already landed is a huuuge improvement to the workflow. Thanks so much to @pabloyoyoista, @camelCaseNick, lbaudin and the rest of the team for reviving this app ❤️

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Handbrake alternative with VA-API support


Handbrake alternative with VA-API support

I recently switched to an AMD GPU and VA-API is the only option for hardware acceleration on linux that is viable. But Handbrake does not support it and it doesn't seem like it will in the foreseeable future, so I am looking for an alternative. Ideally it is just an ffmpeg GUI, but I did not find any that are:
- actually compatible with linux
- updated in the last 5 years
- have an option vor h264_vaapi or hevc_vaapi video codecs

Another workflow I thought about that is not working is transcoding the video, but copy all audio and subtitles and let handbrake handle that, however Handbrake has no option to just copy the video stream...

So far I have tried:
- ffmpeg_batch: wouldn't use my local version of ffmpeg, because of some path error, only works through wine
- qwinff: got it building, but no VA-API codec, and no mkv output support (over 10 years old)
- Shutter Encoder: only works through wine, font problems, no va-api support
- Avidemux: takes forever to open a video clip, more of a video editor, no va-api support
- Hybrid: know it from my windows days, clunky UI, no va-api support, but best candidate for me right now as I could use it to just copy video and handle audio and subtitles in here
- StaxRip: the .7z file could not be extracted, I just got an error

Any ideas or suggestions?

in reply to who

HandBrake supports AMD VCN hardware video encoding


yes, but that is not viable as the amdgpu-pro drivers are only available on LTS releases and on a few selected distros

You haven't said what source material you're encoding


Mostly BluRay rips, so movies and TV-Shows

Are you aware of Vulkan Video?


I actually was not. Is it any good? But Handbrake does not support that either, does it?

you might consider investing some time in learning ffmpeg commands.


I am, but for anything involving multiple audio and subtitle streams and stream selection in general it is not an option for me...

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the amdgpu-pro drivers are only available on LTS releases and on a few selected distros


Are you sure? I would expect AMD to have their own download & install instructions that could be used on any distro. That would be more work for you than just installing a package directly from your distro, of course.

Curiously, I just found a comment from last year claiming that amf-amdgpu-pro now works with Mesa's RADV. So maybe this approach could work without AMD's proprietary driver?

Mostly BluRay rips, so movies and TV-Shows


By rips, do you mean your source media is already in a container, like a .mkv or .mp4 file? Or are you encoding directly from optical discs? If it's the latter, then using a tool other than HandBrake for the encode might also require finding a disc ripping tool. (Not all encoding tools can decrypt and demux discs.)

I actually was not. Is it any good? But Handbrake does not support that either, does it?


I haven't used Vulkan Video. It's just an API, so I would expect the video quality to depend on your hardware's encoder, just as it would with VAAPI or any other API.

I don't think Handbrake supports it yet, so until they do, I think you would have to use some other encoding tool.

for anything involving multiple audio and subtitle streams and stream selection in general it is not an option for me…


You haven't said why, but if it's just that managing lots of streams using command line tools is more hassle than you want to deal with, you might take a look at MKVToolNix. It's pretty good at muxing, even if the source media is not a .mkv file.

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This new game Jump Ship looks interesting


Didn't hear about this game until today, but it looks really cool! Full game's not out yet but there's a demo up which I plan to try out with some friends when they're available.

According to some reports on ProtonDB it works great on Linux too, which is good news for me.

What's your first impressions?

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Je connaissais bien cette phrase de Paul Valéry "Nous autres, civilisations, nous savons maintenant que nous sommes mortelles."

Je découvre aujourd'hui la suite: "Et nous voyons maintenant que l'abîme de l'histoire est assez grand pour tout le monde. Nous sentons qu'une civilisation a la même fragilité qu'une vie. Les circonstances qui enverraient les oeuvres de Keats et celles de Baudelaire rejoindre les oeuvres de Ménandre ne sont plus du tout inconcevables: elles sont dans les journaux."

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The hoppy IPA-ish beer I brewed (nearly) 2 weeks ago seems to be done fermenting at 1.008 (temp corrected) making it 7.5% abv.

It tastes pretty good, has a nice bitterness on the higher side for my palate but not too painful. Aroma is tropical/pineapple. It definitely needs a dry hop to bring it to where I want it to be, but overall, I think it's turned out well so far. I wish it wasn't as dry as it is, but it's not wrecking the beer by any means.

#HomeBrewing #Beer #Gravity

"In just a matter of hours, a shipment of 14 tons of military equipment is meant to set sail for Israel. But we can help stop it! Dock workers in Marseille are refusing to load the ship - but they could face severe backlash for doing what’s right. We need to show them - and the French authorities - that the world stands with them. Sign now, and stop this ship of death"

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German industry has seen job cuts accelerate and is currently losing about 10,000 posts a month.

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#germany #economy

#music #sounds of the underground alternative rock
Dead Horse One - Raven
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Imagining an Idle Countess: George Wightwick’s The Palace of Architecture — The Public Domain Review


#art #culture #history #architecture

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Anti-war terminators limping on manikin legs commiserating with disabled cyborgs who can't afford their cyberarm-rent, and more #cyberpunk hijinx in Neofeud! store.steampowered.com/app/673…
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Season 2 Episode 1: FediForum Commentary


We’re covering FediForum this week, and talk about what’s going on in the space, ActivityPub and AT Proto, the controversy that made FediForum postpone, and some predictions for what this week’s unconference entails.
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SCOTUS just ruled that all workers—straight or LGBTQ—face the same legal bar for proving discrimination. No extra hurdles for “reverse discrimination” claims. This could ripple through DEI programs and HR policies nationwide. cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court…

Now this is quite a curve ball. I wonder what the ripple effect will be.
> US supreme court sides with heterosexual woman in ‘reverse discrimination’ case theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…

Today’s Hajj pilgrimage is limited to Mecca and Medina. It used to include Palestine, too. #Palestine mondoweiss.net/2025/06/todays-…

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It’s playing into the 2010s culture of workplaces being “cool hangouts with beer taps,“ and acting like that’s all millennials care about.

What they never understood is yeah, that stuff could be nice I guess in certain contexts, but that’s not why we went to work. None of us forced those companies to do that shit. And some of us even didn’t like it, because those places could often blur the lines between a place of business and a place for socializing, which often led to women being sexually harassed.

WeWork anyone?

in reply to LandedGentry

And some of us even didn’t like it, because those places could often blur the lines between a place of business and a place for socializing


To be clear, this was always the goal. If an employer could have you work 80 hours a week and sleep under your desk, they would. The goal is to give employees things to do around the office, so they don’t feel the need to actually leave work. Because if you’re playing ping pong in the break room, you’re immediately available for your manager to go “hey, we have a project for you.” Even if you’re not clocked in while playing ping pong, you’re essentially on call.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) had to use less precise methods to estimate price changes for the Consumer Price Index (CPI) in April due to staffing shortages.

The concerns around the accuracy of U.S. inflation data follow other issues with government statistics in recent months, including the suspension of hundreds of data series and the application of incorrect sample weights to the unemployment rate survey.

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What happens when the universe’s most magnetic object shines with the power of 1000 Suns in a matter of seconds? Thanks to NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer), a mission in collaboration with ASI (Italian Space Agency), scientists are one step closer to understanding this extreme event. Magnetars are a type of young neutron star […]

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#Gaza
#FreedomFlotilla
#GretaThunberg
#LiamCunningham

This is the largest change in course since leaving Sicily. Looks like they've been diverted.

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in reply to Whispering Hek

I watched the 2010 freedom flotilla livestream their own executions. I couldn't understand a world that would ignore something like that. Now I have a cold certainty that it will be ignored again.

'According to a UN report, all activist deaths were caused by gunshots, and "the circumstances of the killing of at least six of the passengers were in a manner consistent with an extra-legal, arbitrary and summary execution'

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