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The United States was left more isolated than ever on Wednesday as the sole vote against a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate, unconditi...
* DARVO is a clunky acronym for a set of dynamics that the perpetrator(s) will -almost always- use in some forms when there is someone abusing/oppressing another
D (Deny, or sometimes deflect or downplay) A (Attack the folks either calling out the abuse/oppression, or the victims themselves) RVO (Reverse the Victim and Offender- in other words the person doing the offending plays the victim)
Laith Marouf & Had Hotait visit Beirut’s Southern Suburb after an Eid Eve of Zionist terror, visited on the residents of the country in the name of the “Jewish People” and their safety. 8 buildings we
Researchers tested Large Reasoning Models on various puzzles. As the puzzles got more difficult the AIs failed more, until at a certain point they all failed completely.
Even without the ability to reason, current AI will still be revolutionary. It can get us to Level 4 self-driving, and outperform doctors, and many other professionals in their work. It should make humanoid robots capable of much physical work.
Still, this research suggests the current approach to AI will not lead to AGI, no matter how much training and scaling you try. That's a problem for the people throwing hundreds of billions of dollars at this approach, hoping it will pay off with a new AGI Tech Unicorn to rival Google or Meta in revenues.
I've been using Tube Archivist to archive my YouTube playlists, but I've hit a portability snag. It stores all metadata in its internal database and saves video files with non-readable filenames. This makes the archive unreadable without the software and its database, which defeats the point of long-term archival storage.
Are there any tools that:
Archive playlists with human-readable filenames (or let you control the naming scheme)
Have an API for queuing archival jobs
Store metadata in portable formats (e.g., sidecar JSON or YAML)
Don’t require additional software to interpret the archive
Saturated and polyunsaturated fats have different electrical properties due to their structural differences.
Saturated fats have single bonds between carbon atoms, forming straight, tightly packed chains. This structure results in lower electrical conductivity because there are fewer free electrons and limited pathways for charge movement.
Polyunsaturated fats contain multiple double bonds, creating kinks in the chains. These double bonds introduce regions of higher electron density, enhancing electrical conductivity compared to saturated fats. The presence of pi electrons in double bonds allows for better charge delocalization.
... Its like insulation on wire, it keeps the signals from disapating.
These American Airlines “flights” don’t leave the ground — because they’re actually buses. So I flew them all. In one day. What could possibly go wrong?🛍️ O...
For those unaware, there are 20,000 Catholic pilgrims in France right now (practical logistics kept the number that low). It's the annual pilgrimage for the Traditional Latin Mass. Despite the old fossils from the hippie dippy 60s trying to destroy all traditions from before Vatican II, more and more young people are finding the faith of their ancestors is far more fulfilling than the hallmark card BS the Curia has been pushing for decades.
I have two wireless mice. One is a really good mouse that served me for years until it got too beat up, and now the scroll wheel doesn't work very well. The other is a newer HP mouse (specifically HP 280 Silent Wireless Mouse, product number 19u64AA) that is a bloody piece of shit and I hate it.
The HP mouse currently has two main issues with it. 1, it doesn't "sleep" or turn itself off after a period of inactivity. It just stays on, even if the usb dongle is disconnected, until the battery just dies on it. 2, it's clicking software/firmware had a fucking stroke or some shit. It only clicks on the active screen; so for example, if I have Firefox open and fullscreen, it will not click on the task bar on the bottom of my screen at all. It won't even register that it's hovering over something down there, it just refuses. That, and the middle click won't work. It's genuinely annoying, because the mouse used to work with no issues. I have no idea what caused this, and my conspiracy theory is that HP just kills mice that are alive for too long, because this is fucking horse shit. I do not recommend this fucking mouse at all for this.
What's funny is, I tried both my previous mouse (the one with the broken scroll wheel), and my desktop's wired mouse, and both worked excellently. No issues at all, unable to replicate the issues experienced by my HP mouse. Crawling through the journalctl logs don't show anything wrong with any of the mice, at least not that my noob ass could tell, and the HP support page for the 280 doesn't have a fucking user manual for it. There just doesn't seem to be one at all, not one I can find at least.
Anyways, /rant. How can I see what's wrong with the 280, or fix what might be wrong with it (or factory reset the mouse, if that's a thing)? Alternatively, how can I fix my other mouse's scroll wheel (Victsing Wireless Mouse model PC106A my beloved)?
Edit: Forgot to mention, on Linux mint 22.1 cinnamon, on an HP laptop oddly enough (you would think HP accessories would work with HP products). if you need any information, journalctl, inxi, my fucking social security number, whatever, lmk.
Just spotting a quick check you could try, at least as far as the scroll wheel..
Try blowing the mouse out with compressed air, especially around the wheel, buttons, and laser lens.
Most if not all scroll wheels use a slotted disk and optical sensors to detect the position and movement of the wheel, so if dust and/or dead skin particles get in the wrong spots, it can totally confuse the mouse.
Beyond that, if the click on the mouse wheel doesn't work, it could be damaged either way, open circuit or short circuit. If it failed short circuit, the mouse will think you're constantly holding the wheel button down, which would keep steady delivering a signal, running the battery down and confusing the operating system at the same time.
re: spot check. I'm assuming this is for the hp mouse, right? I haven't tried that yet, I'll give it a shot with my roommate's compressed air when he gets home. Thanks, I'll report back when accomplished.
Also, hopefully you or someone else hasn't spilled any liquid on/in it. But if that's a possibility, if you're able to and comfortable with opening the mouse up, if you spot any crud on the board or around the buttons, you can try cleaning that off with rubbing alcohol and Q-Tips..
update: my roomate gave me permission to enter his quarters and acquire the compressed air for usage. blew out both mice, both still had the same issues. for the victsing i think it might be a physical damage issue; the switch or whatever controlling the scroll wheel is broken. for the hp, it's a piece of shit and likely a software issue i think.
I just got home and tried a thing on your behalf, using a perfectly good wired mouse of mine.
I simulated my suspicion that the mouse wheel click button might be shorted out, by holding the wheel button down while trying to left click on the taskbar.
Sure enough, in that condition, it doesn't recognize the left click on the taskbar.
I am pretty sure your wheel click button is shorted out and the system thinks you're constantly holding it down.
Pars Today- A Jordanian military strategist, in reaction to Iran's access to a large amount of sensitive intelligence documents from the Zionist regime, sa...
"The Israeli Haaretz newspaper has reported that Israel’s Navy is planning to intercept Madleen tonight, and will seek to do so as far from the coast of Gaza as possible. [...] Meanwhile, a senior Israeli official told Israel’s Channel 12 that the vessel will be boarded by commandos if it does not turn around and will be taken to Ashdod port." aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/20… at 19:35 GMT.
On Friday, Russia began transfer of more than 6,000 bodies of dead to Ukraine, and exchanged wounded, seriously ill, and POWs, Russian presidential aide Medinsky said.
Ruh aydınlanmışsa ; İnsanda sıcaklık vardır, güzellik vardır, İnsanda güzellik varsa ; evde muziplik vardır, kahkaha vardır, samimiyet vardır, uyum vardır. Evde uyum varsa ; kardeşlik vardır, dostluk vardır paylaşım vardır, ülkede düzen vardır, Ülkede düzen varsa dünyada barış vardır,
sept 26th 2025, my favorite quake 3 and enemy territory mod (series) truecombat will turn 25 as it stands its beyond dormant but the website is back up again, still showing its 10 year anniversary slide. last news post however is january 15th 2019. they also had hopes of a steam release at a point and got greenlit back in the day
admin is still active on forum and surprised anybod noticed the site went down, but i did, i love its oldschool design truecombat.net/forums/viewtopi…
absolutely get some friends together and spin up a game sometime i highly recommend it. tc1.3 is the one i am more familiar with but tc:e seems more popular and just as great
The Niger authorities have named the main forces pursuing their attempts to destabilize the Sahel region. This confirms all previous analyses, as well as
A driver rammed into a crowd of people in the German city of Passau, Bild reported. “Police have not ruled out that he deliberately drove his car into the crowd. The number of victims and the severity of injuries are unknown.
The US State Department on Friday night instructed consulates worldwide to resume processing visa applications for international students admitted to Harvard University, reversing guidance issued a day earlier ordering such requests to be rejected, T…
Well, at least the base model Xbox Ally has essentially the same SoC as the Steam Deck. The Z2 A has 4 Zen 2 cores and 8 RDNA 2 CUs. It will be configurable up to 20 watts TDP instead of 15 on the Deck, but that's it. So much for "long in the tooth technology wise".
Sure, the Z2 Extreme variant will be more powerful, but it'll also be in a different price category (800-900,-€).
And in terms of user-friendliness: the Xbox Ally will run Windows. It won't launch into the regular desktop shell (by default), and it won't have as many services running in the background which might help with performance and battery life, and you'll probably be able to update drivers and Windows through it. Maybe it will have some preconfigured scripts/shortcuts to install Steam, Battle.net etc. But that's it. Expect to fall back to the desktop mode (or open a browser, terminal and Explorer window in the new gaming mode) for anything more advanced like installing emulators.
In terms of pick up and play this won't be much different to the Steam Deck, with the one exception being Game Pass - but even then don't expect any of the more demanding titles to run well.
This machine will be the same desktop-mode-not-required-but-allows-for-more-functionality thing that the Steam Deck is, but it will chew through battery faster in exchange for more compatibility.
Nintendo wiped the floor in the mobile gaming market for decades despite their competitors having beefier specs. The DS lasted for years before we ever got the Switch. Let the Steam Deck mature.
Even if you're correct, it's still too early, anyway. That's my point.
The DS had a seven-year lifespan and the original Switch had eight. Even living room console have an average near decade long lifespan. So, of course Valve isn’t going to throw their money into a second generation.
Alright I’ll admit when I’ve got it wrong, I’m looking at the price and I remember the base ally at £600-700, forgot the extreme and all that stuff at 900.
The ROG Ally X's MSRP is 899,-€ and that's what it currently costs here in Germany at least. It was as low as 799,-€ though recently, but now it's back up. Considering this "Xbox Ally X" is the successor to it, I don't think it's unrealistic.
My friend is working on adding ActivityPub support to his blog platform (BDServer) so people can follow/comment from Mastodon, Lemmy, etc.
Current status: Lemmy and Misskey can find and follow his account (@blenderdumbass@blenderdumbass.org), but Mastodon can't find it at all, even though he sees proper ActivityPub requests hitting his server.
The technical details are pretty gnarly - RSA signature verification, HTTP header recreation, multi-threading issues. He wrote up the full journey here: Please Help Me With Activity Pub
If anyone has ActivityPub experience or wants to take a look at the code (Python), we have a Matrix room for BDServer development. Any insights on why different platforms behave differently would be super helpful.
This article is published on a website which is powered by BDServer. And I'm trying to make this website support ActivityPub, so you could for example, subscribe to me from your Mastodon account. Yet it is easier said than done.
I'm not the most knowledgeable about Mastodon's APub implementation, but having a look at the Actor of that profile, it might be because it's invalid JSON-LD. Now, Mastodon doesn't actually do proper JSON-LD checks, you can follow PieFed profiles from Mastodon and they don't produce proper JSON-LD, but they do include "https://w3id.org/security/v1" in their @context, and doing a code search of Mastodon's source code does show some checks for if that's included.
Lemmy's I am familiar with and irrc it doesn't even check if @context is present.
Did something change since this was posted? I can look it up properly on mastodon. You have to be signed in to fetch accounts on mastodon, is that the problem?
Are you using any framework to build the site? There's a few libraries for activitypub. These links could be helpful: codeberg.org/fediverse/delight…
Seems like somebody mentioned the account on the fediverse that started a chain reaction of various instances requesting a bunch of stuff. Which made it to Mastodon.social too. It still doesn't work though.
The server is written in python and the idea is to make it deploy-able without needing to install anything extra. So I'm trying to implement my own activity pub.
It's for django, but take a look into my ActivityPub Toolkit. It is designed to be compliant with ActivityPub and not with any particular implementation, so it should be easy for you to adapt to your own needs.
US President Donald Trump has shifted his stance, now demanding that Iran completely cease uranium enrichment, after previously insisting only on preventing it from developing nuclear weapons
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – US immigration authorities launched militarized raids across Los Angeles on Friday in what rights groups called an “oppressive” crackdown on immigrant communities.
Hospitals in the Gaza Strip rely on generators which only have fuel for three more days, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. The crisis comes alongside increased IDF shelling and the closure of food distribution centers
This only really works for people who have hardware whose fingerprint readers are supported by upstream fprintd; would be interesting if they (or another distro; haven't seen anybody implement this yet) add a "just works" option for installing and setting up e.g. libfprint-tod-vfs0090 or python-validity (which I use on two of my machines actually), similar to how some distros (Mint included I believe, but haven't dealt with it in a while) give you an option for installing Nvidia proprietary drivers (or just make it work out of the box).
However these drivers are extremely sketch at times so... I guess there's some good out of it not being preconfigured for people (because you have to look into it yourself and realize just how terrifying they are, both security and stability wise, python-validity especially)...
(though now I'm on NixOS where I have it pretty much "just work" through not that much effort, at least not as much as on Arch, and definitely not as much as on Mint which was painful because PPA fuckery)
This isn't too out there for GameFreak honestly. They've consistently made non-pokemon games every single console generation. People just ignore them because "GameFreak are the pokemon guys." Pocket Card Jockey is a top tier title that got no respect because it wasn't pokemon. Also it occasionally proves that GameFreak really needs more time or staff, because making a yearly pokemon title with the staff of a small studio and the expectations of a giant studio is rather difficult.
@Spooke Yeah the games are hit and miss. Little Town Hero was possibly their biggest miss, and bringing in john undertale to compose wasn't going to do anything for it. Giga Wrecker is a really cool idea though and Tembo the Badass Elephant, for how much of a silly mess it is, is a neat game. Also for how much shit some of the games get now I will still argue Legends Arceus was on of the best, and Legends Z-A will probably be a really solid title too from how it's shaping up. In general GameFreak just seems to do better when given time and experimentation. Probably should only handle the Legends sub-series at this point and let mainline be given to some other studio.
@Iffine gamefreak probably shits out mainline pokemon games as a way to fund their side projects that usually end up bombing. Gamefreak probably gets first dibs on any pokemon game contracts and they can choose to just hand it off to another company to work on instead I bet.
"No civil police force could hold out against an irate and resolute population. The trick is not to let them realize that." – Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett
his voters love it. Their faces are safe for now. In fact this is exactly what they want. This is not happening in deep red states. It's happening in LA.
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Open a TTY (Cttl+Alt+F3 for example, works from F1 to F6 but depending on Wayland or Xorg F1, F2 and/or F6 may be used so F3 should be good, otherwise try another one).
The TTY will ask for your username and password, so login with your normal user (not root).
You shoud get to an interactive shell, so you can go to the Gnome extensions directory (cd ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/).
You can now remove the problematic extension (rm -r …).
Now either you reboot your computer (the reboot command will be enough to restart the computer), this will ensure you don't keep a remaining session and you'll boot in your login manager (GDM I guess).
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in reply to CJ Paloma In Monsoon Season • • •* DARVO is a clunky acronym for a set of dynamics that the perpetrator(s) will -almost always- use in some forms when there is someone abusing/oppressing another
D (Deny, or sometimes deflect or downplay)
A (Attack the folks either calling out the abuse/oppression, or the victims themselves)
RVO (Reverse the Victim and Offender- in other words the person doing the offending plays the victim)