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Federated Services

Federated Services are services which many instances form a network to provide a greater whole than the sum of their parts, each participant in the Fediverse is an “instance”. A message or other item made available on one instance is visible and available on other instances.

We make these services available to all people who do not abuse it in order to promote the values of Free Speech, and those of the United States Constitution First Amendment. A free republic is not possible without free speech and commercial mainstream media do not provide it. We also get some advertisement benefit from hosting these, it is our hope that people who see how fast and responsible our services are will decide to do hosting or use other paid services here.

There are numerous federated services available, we offer Macrobloging platform Friendica, Hubzilla; Microbloging services Mastodon, Misskey, a federated search engine, Yacy, and a federated cloud service, Nextcloud.

Macrobloging services are message systems that allow long form posts similar in format to Facebook. These allow for works of fiction, poetry, technical papers, news items, short stories, and more. These formats are most useful for discussion of social issues.

Microbloging services allow only short form posts similar in format to Twitter. While you can link to larger articles elsewhere, you have a relatively short character limit and so can not post them directly.

Censorship, is handled much different on the fediverse than on mainstream media like Twitter or Facebook. On the fediverse, each individual instance is responsible for content available on that instance, but does not censor the rest of the network. Thus if you find the rules of one instance too constraining you can move to another.

Federated search engines are analogous to federated message systems in that each instance chooses what portion of the internet it wants to crawl. When you enter a search term, the local instance queries all of the federated instances, collates and sorts the results and presents them to you. As with messages, each instance can have it’s own censorship policies but no one instance can censor the entire network.

Given the wild-west nature of the fediverse, it is probably not suitable for children under 14, and you’re guaranteed to find some material that will offend virtually everyone. With federated search engines, material that is inappropriate will usually be flagged sensitive or nsfw (not safe for work) so as long as you don’t expand material marked as such, you can avoid this sort of material. There are occasionally people who violate these rules, we do our best to remove such individuals none the less some will get through.

We offer the following federated services:

Friendica.Eskimo.Com
Friendica is a decentralized long format macrobloging message network. It is similar in format to facebook however there is no centralized censorship. Also, it is able to federate with all other federated message systems which use ActivityPub protocol and also we have extensions that allow it to speak to several other networks via other protocols.

Hubzilla.Eskimo.Com
Hubzilla is similar in message format to Friendica in that it allows long posts. However, it specializes in it’s ability to provide connectivity to multiple protocols and so we include it in our mix of federated services primarily for the better connectivity it offers. Hubzilla provides a great deal of interoperability between many networks though ActivityPub is still it’s primary protocol. Hubzilla gives you a greater degree of control over privacy than some of the other networks. You can create private channels that are served between hubzilla instances and other compatible instances.

Mastodon.Eskimo.Com
Mastodon is first and foremost an alternative to Twitter. While Twitter has Tweets, Mastodon has Toots. The format is very similar. Mastodon toots have a limit of 500 characters. Similar to the short limit of Twitter. This is why this platform is referred to as a Microbloging format. Mastodon interacts with other ActivityPub instances however when a long form blog post from another instance arrives, you are only shown a short portion with a link to follow to see the full post on the originating site.

NextCloud.Eskimo.Com
If you are a customer of Eskimo North, your login credentials will work without a domain extension to access Nextcloud. If you are not a customer you can apply for a Nextcloud account using your choice of login and password, in this case the login should include your originating network. Some features require an Eskimo North shell account to take full advantage of.

Pixelfed.Eskimo.Com
Pixelfed is a federated pixel gallery. A place where you can share your photos to the widest audience possible, and you can view what others have shared. Instance is new as of April 6th, 2025.


Yacy.Eskimo.Com
Yacy is a federated search engine. There are several thousand instances on the Internet. Each instances crawls whatever portion of the web the administrator requested. It is also possible for the administrator of a site with relatively few resources to request a larger site to do crawls on their behalf. Unfortunately, it does not provide a method for an end user to initiate a crawl, but if you send e-mail to support@eskimo.com and request a crawl, we will initiate a crawl on your behalf.


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Shell Accounts

Shell Accounts
A shell is a command line interface for an operating system. With most shell providers, a command line interface on one flavor of Linux or Unix is all you get. Eskimo North provides access to eight different popular Linux distributions and SunOS Unix. Eskimo North also full remote desktop capabilities using X2Go with sound, and also NX, VNC, and RPD without sound.

Account Types
We offer four different levels of shell accounts: Economy, Standard, Power, and Enterprise. Background tasks such as IRC bots, Game Servers, and the like are permitted on all account types except student. IRC servers are not permitted because of their tendency to draw denial of service attacks. Standard, Power, Enterprise, and Super-Max shells include a MySQL database allowing you to run a variety of LAMP stack based applications on your website and to use non-web based applications that require a database.

Web Hosting
Web hosting under our domain is provided with all shell accounts. You can host your own domains with virtual domains or web hosting packages.

Remote Desktop
Remote desktop capability is like having a monitor, keyboard, mouse, and speakers plugged right into our servers. Because our servers can be accessed anywhere in the world, this allows you to have a work environment you can access from anywhere in the world without risking losing your files to a laptop, tablet, or phone thief. We offer remote desktop capabilities on all of our shell servers except for the SunOS server. We support x2go, nx, vnc, and rdp protocols. X2go is the best choice as it provides extremely efficient compression and X round trip removal as well as sound.

Applications
Applications include Office Suites such as Libre Office and Caligra (which can read and write Microsoft Office file formats), Web and Program Development tools such as Bluefish Editor as well as many other editors, compilers, interpreters, scripting languages, debuggers, profilers, and online documentation.

E-mail
Our e-mail system offers unprecedented flexibility. You can access your mail via shell mail readers including graphical mailers like Thunderbird, or via Web mail, or via pop-3 and imap mail protocols, complete with TLS encryption. Our mail system includes Bayesian filtering with Spam Assassin which can be individually configured for your needs. Procmail allows you to sort and process mail automatically. Smartlist allows you to maintain mailing lists.

Security
Access to all of our servers is available via strong encryption. The shell servers all support ssh access. All of the remote desktop protocols tunnel via ssh. We maintain all of our servers up to date keep with the latest patches. Backups are made weekly.

Eskimo North has been providing Unix timeshare services since 1985. We have been providing Linux timeshare, shell access, web hosting, e-mail, and Internet services since 1992. Please take a look at our services as they support our free Federated services including Friendica, Hubzilla, Mastodon, Nextcloud, Pixelfed, and Yacy Search.

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Marche mondiale pour Gaza, départ des caravanes de Tunisie et d’Algérie
europalestine.com/2025/06/10/m…

Palestine. Deuxième phase de la levée du siège israélien : un autre convoi quitte la Tunisie pour Gaza !

resumenlatinoamericano.org - 9 de junio de 2025

Les volontaires arabes ont quitté la #Tunisie pour #Gaza dans une caravane.
Une journaliste britannique rapporte qu'environ 1 000 Tunisiens ont entamé la deuxième phase de la levée du blocus israélien de la bande de Gaza.

« Environ 1.000 Tunisiens, en majorité des jeunes, participent à partir de ce lundi au « convoi Al-Soumoud », en direction de la Tunisie vers la frontière égypto-palestinienne », a averti Vanessa #Beeley dans un message sur son compte X.

Elle a souligné que l'objectif du groupe est de tenter de briser le siège imposé par Israël aux Palestiniens de Gaza depuis mars dernier.

Les organisateurs de cette campagne ont appelé les citoyens algériens et libyens à prendre part à l'accueil des participants lors du passage de ce convoi sur leurs territoires. "Ce convoi terrestre, qui rassemble des volontaires algériens, tunisiens et libyens, n'est pas la seule initiative", a-t-elle souligné.

Un porte-parole du convoi, Wael Naouar, a déclaré que « des partisans de la cause palestinienne de 32 autres pays devraient arriver par avion à l'aéroport international du Caire » en soutien aux Palestiniens de Gaza et à la rupture du siège israélien de l'enclave côtière.

Cette mobilisation pour mettre fin aux crimes d'Israël à Gaza intervient après l'attaque par Israël du navire d'aide humanitaire, le « Madleen », qui se dirigeait vers Gaza.

Le « Madleen », l’un des navires appartenant à la Coalition de la Flottille de la Liberté (FFC), a commencé à naviguer le 1er juin depuis le port de Catane, dans le sud de l’Italie, vers la bande de Gaza, dans un geste symbolique visant à briser le siège imposé par le régime sioniste à plus de 2 millions de Palestiniens vivant dans l’enclave palestinienne, dévastée et assiégée à la suite de 20 mois de guerre génocidaire.

resumenlatinoamericano.org/202…

#Palestine #soumoud


Palestina. Segunda fase para romper asedio israelí: otro convoy navega de Túnez a Gaza - Resumen Latinoamericano

Resumen de Medio Oriente, 9 de junio de 2025. Una periodista británica informa de que unos 1000 tunecinos han empezado la segunda fase del levantamiento del bloqueo israelí contra Franja de Gaza.
Resumen Latinoamericano

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You can follow us in other languages. Visit our website for more information wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Protestation

2023-06-11 11:27:05

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Social


English– @protestation@friendica.eskimo.com

Français– @protestation@social.trom.tf– @protestation@mastodon.social

Deutsch– @protestation@friendica.opensocial.space

Português– @protestation@mastodon.acc.sunet.se– @protestation@friendicarg.nsupdate.info

Quotes– @protestation@embers.social– @protestation@freeradical.zone


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Biz ne çoğunluk ne de azınlık hükümetinden yanayız; ne demokrasiden ne de diktatörlükten yanayız. Biz jandarmanın kaldırılmasından yanayız. Herkesin özgürlüğünden ve hiç kimsenin diğerlerini zorlama imkanına sahip olmadığı ve herkesin toplumun iyi işleyişine dahil olduğu zaman herkes için var olacak olan serbest anlaşmadan yanayız. Biz anarşiden yanayız.
-- Errico Malatesta

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Her türlü otorite alçaltıcıdır. otoriteyi kullananları da, üzerinde otorite uygulananları da alçaltır... belli bir sevecenlikle ve bazı ödüller ve karşılıklarla birlikte uygulandığında insanı ürkütücü derecede ahlaksızlaştırır. bu durumda insanlar, üzerlerindeki korkunç baskının daha az bilincine varırlar ve böylece yaşamlarını, evcil hayvanlar gibi, herhalde başka insanların düşüncelerinin yansıttıklarının bile farkına varmaksızın, başka insanların standartlarına göre yaşayarak, pratikte sanki başka insanların giymekten vazgeçtikleri eski elbiselerini giyermiş gibi ve tek bir an için dahi kendileri olmayarak, tatsız tuzsuz bir rahatlık içinde sürdürürler. değerli bir düşünür, ‘özgür bir insan, biraz uyumsuz ve isyankar olmalıdır’ der. ve insanlara rüşvet vererek uyum ve itaat göstermelerini sağlayan otorite de aramızda dolaşan aşırı besili bir barbarlık türüdür."

Oscar Wilde

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Reflection and clouds, Crater Lake National Park today. Learn more at nps.gov/crla/index.htm and #nps #nationalparks #interpretation #publiclands #photography #landscapephotography #craterlake Image credit National Park Service #orwx #oregon #snow #spring #reflection #clouds

Reflection and clouds, Lake McDonald, Glacier National Park, today. For more information nps.gov/glac/index.htm and #glacier #montana Image credit National Park Service and the Glacier National Park Conservancy #mtwx #lakemcdonald #trees #mountains #lake #colors #boat

View of Crater Lake National Park from the Sinnott Memorial Overlook today. Clouds are reflected in the lake. A hint of snow remains in some of the less exposed areas around the lake. Park visitors can access some lake overlooks but most of Rim Drive, as well as the park’s north entrance, remain closed.
Park visitors enjoy paddling on Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park today as blue sky and interesting white clouds are reflected on the lake’s surface. A dock with red, white, and silver boats can be seen on the left. Green trees and distant snow-covered mountains provide a backdrop for the lake. Thanks to the National Park Service and the Glacier National Park Conservancy for these beautiful views.

Crater Lake National Park (U.S. National Park Service)

Crater Lake inspires awe. Native Americans witnessed its formation 7,700 years ago, when a violent eruption triggered the collapse of a tall peak.
www.nps.gov

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Hi everyone! Time for a Bridgy Fed status update. We have a lot of new features and bug fixes to announce since the last time, so here we go!

As usual, feel free to ping us with feedback, questions, and bug reports, and please support us on Patreon! You can follow the now label on GitHub to see what we’re currently focusing on. See you on the bridge!

Bridgy Fed Config & Patreon

Today, we're launching two projects we've been excited to unveil for a while: a settings page for Bridgy Fed and a Patreon for all the folks who have asked us how they can support our work.
A New Social

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Show HN: PyDoll – Async Python scraping engine with native CAPTCHA bypass

Link: github.com/autoscrape-labs/pyd…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…


GitHub - autoscrape-labs/pydoll: Pydoll is a library for automating chromium-based browsers without a WebDriver, offering realistic interactions.

Pydoll is a library for automating chromium-based browsers without a WebDriver, offering realistic interactions. - GitHub - autoscrape-labs/pydoll: Pydoll is a library for automating chromium-base...
GitHub

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For pregnant Palestinian women, checkpoints are a matter of life and death 972mag.com/palestinian-women-p… #Israel #Gaza #Palestine @palestine

For pregnant Palestinian women, checkpoints are a matter of life and death

When I went into labor, I put off leaving home for hours, fearing Israeli soldiers and settlers. We reached the hospital in Hebron in time, but not all are so lucky.
Jonathan Adler (+972 Magazine)

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Chinese exports to US fall most since 2020 despite trade truce.

This outcome was entirely predictable. The US launched a trade war against virtually the entire world. China, conversely, is fighting a trade war solely against the US. Naturally, China has abundant opportunities to redirect trade away from the US and towards the very nations the US is simultaneously attacking economically.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

#usa #china #tradewar

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En Haute mer, le droit maritime coutumier s’applique, qu’ #Israël ait ratifié ou non la Convention de Montego Bay sur le droit de la mer.
D’ailleurs, les 🇺🇸 ou la 🇹🇷 ne l’ont pas fait non plus.
Mais la mer, ce n’est pas le Far West!
. Deux principes fondamentaux s’appliquent en Haute mer (des principes coutumiers, codifiés dans la Convention de Montego Bay) :
🌊 La liberté de navigation (art. 87).
⛵️La Juridiction exclusive de l’État du pavillon (art. 92 et 97)
4. Un État ne peut intercepter un navire étranger en Haute mer que dans des cas exceptionnels :
🏴‍☠️ Piraterie.
🧪Trafic illicite.
🏴 Navire sans pavillon.
❌ Blocus licite, proportionné, et respectueux du Droit international.
👉 Aucune de ces conditions n’est remplie ici.
5. Dans ce cas, 🇮🇱 invoque le blocus de Gaza. Mais c’est illegal car :
❌Gaza est un territoire occupé illegalement.
❌Ce blocus est un élément d’une politique criminelle visant à entraver l’aide humanitaire.
Ce n’est pas moi qui le dit, c’est la justice internationale! ⚖️
6.🔹 Gaza est un territoire occupé illégalement.
✔️ @CIJ_ICJ , avis de 2004 & 2024 : malgré le retrait de 2005, Israël exerce un contrôle effectif et donc une occupation prolongée & illégale.
➡️ Le blocus fait partie intégrante de cette occupation illégale.
7. 🔹 Le blocus contribue au risque de genocide / genocide.
✔️ @CIJ_ICJ : ordonnances de janv., mars & mai 2024 (affaire 🇿🇦 c. 🇮🇱) :
• Risque plausible de génocide
• Obligation de garantir l’aide humanitaire.
➡️ L’arraisonnement de @GazaFFlotilla viole ces décisions.
8.🔹 Le blocus total de #Gaza constitue un #crime international.
✔️ En novembre 2024, la @CourPenaleInt a lancé des mandats d’arrêt contre #Netanyahu et #Gallant notamment pour la #famine et l’entrave à l’aide humanitaire comme crime de guerre et crimes contre l’humanité.
9. 📌 En droit international humanitaire :
✅ L’aide humanitaire doit être autorisée et facilitée.
❌ La famine comme méthode de guerre est interdite.
👉 Le #Madleen, navire civil et humanitaire battant pavillon 🇬🇧 est protégé par le droit international et le droit britannique.
10. La @CourPenaleInt a déjà jugé que l’arraisonnement du⛵️Mavi Marmara 🇰🇲 (9 civils tués par 🇮🇱) pouvait constituer un crime de guerre.
L’affaire a été classée par la Proc. Bensouda pour “gravité insuffisante”, mais PAS pour absence de compétence.👇
11. Le Madleen (@GazaFFlotilla) agit donc dans le respect du droit international :
✔️ De la mer (navigation pacifique, pavillon 🇬🇧)
✔️ Du droit humanitaire (aide humanitaire).
✔️ des ordonances de la @CIJ_ICJ (risque de génocide).
➡️ Son action est légale, légitime, protégée.
12. Au contraire, en agissant de la sorte, Israël viole :
❌ Le droit de la mer
❌ Le droit international humanitaire
❌ Les ordonnances de la @CIJ_ICJ.
🔎 Cet acte constitue une preuve supplémentaire pour le dossier du Procureur de la CPI. 🗃️
13. Six Français étaient à bord du navire, dont la députée européenne @RimaHas.
🇫🇷 La France protège ses ressortissants.
🇬🇧Le Royaume-Uni doit défend son pavillon.
🇪🇺L’Union européenne protège ses représentants.
14. L’arraisonnement du Madleen n’est pas un incident isolé.
C’est un nouveau test pour le respect et la mise en oeuvre du droit international!
L’inaction face a ces violations repetees renforce l’impunité et fragilise le droit international.
15. Comme le souligne parfaitement @FranceskAlbs : Le Madleen est un symbole. Celui de civils qui font appliquer le droit là où les États échouent.
➡️ Ce sont eux, et vous tous, par vos paroles et actions, qui sauvaient le droit international.
16. Même si le navire Madleen avait été intercepté dans les eaux territoriales de Gaza, cela constituerait un acte illégal. Comme expliqué, Gaza est un territoire occupé illégalement, Israël n’y a aucune souveraineté et doit faciliter l’aide humanitaire, pas l’empêcher.
17. Bravo à @BenjaminFiorini pour avoir rappelé avec clarté et pédagogie les principes fondamentaux du droit international. @JURDIasso, une boussole juridique plus que jamais bienvenue dans un environnement saturé de médiocrité et de propagande. ⚖️
Johann Soufi.
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Il est maintenant clair, -si confirmation officielle est nécessaire- que Israël emmerde toute la planète.
+ Bafouer le droit international en génocidant un petit peuple est une chose, bafouer le droit international de ceux qui prétendent faire les règles en est une autre.
Faire des règles sans respecter les règles, il va falloir faire la danseuse.
Sans rire; soutenir l’absurde par de la violence pure est une des définitions du nazisme. M’étonnerai que cela soit pérenne.
BP.

#Freedomflotilla #Israel #genocide #Gaza #Palestine #Cisjordanie

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Remarkable investigation into Telegram by IStories (in Russian):
istories.media/stories/2025/06…

English version by OCCRP:
occrp.org/en/investigation/tel…

tl;dr:

👉 Telegram uses a single company with ties to the Russian FSB as their sole infrastructure provider, globally.

👉 Combined with a cleartext device identifier Telegram's protocol requires to be prepended to all encrypted messages, this allows for global surveillance of Telegram users.

I am quoted in this story.

#Telegram #InfoSec #Privacy


Telegram, the FSB, and the Man in the Middle

The technical infrastructure that underpins Telegram is controlled by a man whose companies have collaborated with Russian intelligence services.
OCCRP

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“So, let’s chat about this cool ancient place called Gur City, which is also known as Gor or Firuzabad. It’s tucked away in Fars Province, Iran, and dates back to when the Achaemenid Empire was around, a time that stretched from 550 to 330 BCE. What’s interesting about this city is its circular layout, with a diameter of about 1,500 meters. The walls are made from mudbrick and can be a whopping 12 meters thick!
Gur City isn’t just a bunch of walls, though; it has a pretty intricate design that includes a central citadel, a royal palace, and several other administrative buildings. While there isn’t a ton of info floating around online about it, it's believed to have played a key role as an administrative hub during the Achaemenid Empire. After the empire fell, the city was eventually left behind and stayed hidden until it was rediscovered in the 19th century.”

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_MASS LOOTING In LA Riots, Marines DEPLOY, Rioters SACK Apple Store In INSANE VIDEO, Trump Is RIGHT_

I blame the left in general. Same as in the summer of 2020. [Yes, I know that not all of them support what's happening—and are probably afraid to say so publicly]

youtube.com/watch?v=BgzQP_127q…


MASS LOOTING In LA Riots, Marines DEPLOY, Rioters SACK Apple Store In INSANE VIDEO, Trump Is RIGHT

Things are getting absolutely insane in the LA Riots, troops are sent inBecome A Memberhttp://youtube.com/timcastnews/joinIn response to escalating unrest an...
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Ryzhenkov: Having nothing to be proud of is the reason for Baltic states’ aggressive rhetoric eng.belta.by/politics/view/ryz…

Ryzhenkov: Having nothing to be proud of is the reason for Baltic states’ aggressive rhetoric

"Do they make progress on important peaceful or development-oriented international initiatives? No. They have fallen out with all foreign policy and economic centers of power, including Russia, China and other states,” Maksim Ryzhenkov stated.
Belarusian Telegraph Agency

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Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps

Link: inkandswitch.com/essay/malleab…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…


Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps

The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable.
www.inkandswitch.com

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in reply to Andrew Ducker

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Aral Balkan

@JackTheCat > So why on earth isn't there one standard letter per school, if not one standard letter for the whole country, that can be reused by absolutely everyone whenever this standard event happens? Why does this require AI to generate a new one every time, rather than just being a standard email that gets sent?

Because venture capitalists need a return on their investment. How else are your favourite billionaires gonna become trillionaires, Andrew?

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#Linux #office #work

00:00 Intro
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01:25 Linux is everywhere
02:47 Developers
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06:57 Media Creation
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The first thing is that Linux is everywhere and already used by professionals all around the world.

I could take the example of Android, which is the most popular smartphone OS in the world, and using a Linux kernel. I could turn to the absolute domination of Linux on the server space.

I could also point to every NAS out there, generally using a Linux kernel, if we look at IoT and small appliances, Linux also dominates the space. But it's not what people intend when talking about an OS. Generally, they mean that the Linux DESKTOP isn't ready for professionals.

The first obvious counter argument is developers. Linux is used by 47% of professional developers. That's higher than the market share of macOS among developers.

If we take the vast majority of people who will interact with a computer, what do they truly need in their day to day job? A web browser, an email client, an office suite, and a usable interface.

On that specific front, Linux has all that's needed. Whether it's KDE for an interface closer to Windows, or GNOME for the simplest thing to use possible, the Linux desktop IS one of the most usable out there.

In terms of web browsers, there's no question, we have them all. For email clients, we do lack Outlook, but the web interface might be enough for most people's needs, and if not, we have awesome clients that can replace Outlook: Evolution and Thunderbird.

LibreOffice might be a great option for a lot of people, but it does have some problems, let's face it. But LibreOffice isn't our only choice. For perfect compatibility, we have access to SoftMaker Office, now called FreeOffice, or to WPS Office.

Now, for media creation, Linux lacks all the Adobe programs. But that doesn't mean we don't have tools either. Davinci Resolve is a tool used by professionals and hollywood studios to edit videos, edit audio, and create virtual effects. It basically does what Audition, After Effects and Premiere do, in one single package. it's available on Linux.

We have Blender for VFX. Houdini, a tool used by VFX artists for simulations? It's on Linux.
Maya? It's on Linux. Studio One, a professional DIgital Audio Workstation, just released a beta for Linux. We have inkscape, Ardour, Krita - one of the most popular digital drawing apps- OBS, PDF Studio for editing PDF documents, Bitwig, and a lot more.

Whether you like AI or not, it's happening. And AI is a professional domain in which Linux is the standard.

And that's the tip of the iceberg. Cybersecurity professionals mostly use Linux. Almost 100% of supercomputers used for any specific domain run Linux. The whole space industry runs on Linux. A bunch of military sytems run Linux.

The market share of Linux on the desktop is low, there's no denying that: it's listed at barely 3%, far below macOS or Windows. But this doesn't include another system: Chrome OS. And chrome OS has 3.9% market share on the desktop. Combined with non Chrome OS Linux ssytems, taht's almost 7%. it's still lower than proprietary OSes, but that's a LOT of computers running a Linux system.

Now, that doesn't mean Linux is ready for every professional out there. If you absolutely need certain software that's not available, then Linux won't work for you. But I'd argue that it's not necessarily a Linux problem: it has the tools needed to do the same job in most cases. It's just not the tools you're allowed to use, or want to use.

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Tehran Ready for Dialogue – Washington Imposes Its “Hardline” journal-neo.su/2025/06/10/tehr…

Tehran Ready for Dialogue – Washington Imposes Its "Hardline" 

Iran has once again reaffirmed its readiness for constructive dialogue on its nuclear program, but only if negotiations with the U.S. do not turn into a
Виктор Михин (New Eastern Outlook)

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Nice. Now do Netanyahu, the rest of the israeli government, and everyone in the IDF. You know, the folks perpetrating the genocide of the Palestinian people.

Oh, and maybe stop running surveillance flights to help israel commit genocide.

#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza #UK #complicity journa.host/@fulelo/1146607744…

Kriszta Satori (@fulelo@journa.host)

#BBCNews - UK sanctions far-right Israeli ministers for 'inciting violence' against Palestinians https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8xgk1ek19lo
Journa.host

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A multibillion-dollar chemicals company, 3M, knew that firefighting foams containing toxic substances called PFAS were not biodegradable, yet they continued to claim they were environmentally neutral and biodegradable from the 1960s until 2003.

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3M knew firefighting foams containing PFAS were toxic, documents show

Exclusive: Newly uncovered documents reveal chemicals giant was aware ‘environmentally neutral’ products did not biodegrade
Rachel Salvidge (The Guardian)

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#China habbenings?

No Politburo meeting in May - but rumors of multiple meetings of the Politburo's Standing Committee - supposedly but Xi's enemies

Xi hasn't been seen in public for 2 weeks

the Chi-comm web site that tracks Xi's activities has not updated since May20.

one of the PLA’s top generals, Xu Qiliang, suddenly died... "heart attack" - supposedly on June 2 and 12:12 PM.

June = 6

June 2 = 6/2

6x2=12

at 12:12

"12:12" has symbolic meaning pointing to a coup in both China and Korea.

Was the official time of death saying he was involved in a coup?

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A planetary system described as abnormal, chaotic, and strange by researchers has come into clearer view with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Using Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera), researchers have successfully imaged one of two known planets surrounding the star 14 Herculis, located 60 light-years away from Earth in our own Milky Way galaxy. The exoplanet, […]

Frigid Exoplanet in Strange Orbit Imaged by NASA’s Webb

NASA Webb Mission Team (NASA Science)

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The world needs more angry young women like Greta youtube.com/live/Hvios9GF4CY?s…

Greta Thunberg being interviewed as she arrived back in Europe earlier today. Despite her ordeal she is still very eloquent in calmly explaining the need for action to try to stop our governments from bankrolling this horrific genocide.
#madleen #gaza #genocide #GretaThunberg #AngryYoungWoman


LIVE: Greta Thunberg arrives at a Paris airport after deportation from Israel over Gaza aid ship

Watch live as Swedish activist Greta Thunberg arrives at a Paris airport. Israel deported her, the country's Foreign Ministry said, a day after the Gaza-boun...
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Robert R.

@relentless_eduardo

Letitia James is being sued for covering up crimes.

"Ex-aide sues NY AG Letitia James over alleged sexual harassment cover-up"

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Ex-aide sues NY AG Letitia James over alleged sexual harassment cover-up

A former aide of New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed suit after she was allegedly sexually assaulted by ex-chief of staff Ibrahim Khan.
Priscilla DeGregory (New York Post)

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The Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed an automated chip design system named QiMeng, which uses AI to accelerate semiconductor development.

The system, which includes a domain-specific large processor chip model, a hardware and software design agent, and various processor chip design applications, can design chips in days that might take weeks for human developers.

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#china #technology #ai


Chinese academy launches automated system to speed up chip design amid US software curbs

The system, developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, uses AI for semiconductor design, dispensing with the need for human developers.
Wency Chen (South China Morning Post)
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