Army Secretary Dan Driscoll told Fox News an astronaut is currently on the moon. "We talked to an astronaut yesterday who's on the moon, who's a soldier." He really said this. Video here: youtu.be/WjxgrqpMIvw?si=sVredl…

If you're not plugged into the movement, I'm here to tell you that it's BIG, much bigger than what you see on the news: there are Signal groups in every community in southern California to report sightings of ICE, coordinate protests, provide legal support, request aid, draft guides, & more. That's tens of thousands of people who are actively mobilized, and who are working to mobilize more people in their communities.

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Ambassador: It is difficult to say whether relations with the US will continue to improve after Trump en.news-front.su/2025/06/12/am…

BREAKING: Judge Breyer orders Trump to "return control of the California National Guard" to CA Gov. Newsom, finding that Trump's order taking control was illegal because it did not follow the required procedure.

The order is stayed until noon Friday.

More to come at Law Dork: lawdork.com/

This is the 100 year anniversary of humans having an idea of what the heck the sun and all the stars actually are. If you had asked a leading astronomer in 1925 what the sun was, they would say that it's basically the same as Earth, but very hot.

In Cecilia Payne's doctoral thesis she was the first to say, from spectral data, that the sun was overwhelmingly made of hydrogen and helium.

It was later described as "the most brilliant PhD thesis ever written in astronomy".

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IRGC official Major General Rashid martyred in Israel attack en.mehrnews.com/news/233026/IR…

Israel just changed how land ownership works in the West Bank. Here’s what that means. #Palestine mondoweiss.net/2025/06/israel-…

Finished @pluralistic 's "The Masque of the Red Death" in his "_Radicalized_ anthology. All in one sitting which is unusual for me; I was surprisingly invested in the story.

Again, good writing style and good story. I found the development of Graciela at the end to be too fairytale-ish or altruistic to be realistic, but I am a cynic.

Turned the last page with high anticipation to read the ending and the page was blank! Very nicely done! That was some master craftmanship.

Highly recommended.

Help Bring Leonardo Soares Home

> He is losing mobility in his right arm from his bone cancer and arthritis. He has asked multiple times to get his medications and they are telling him no. THEY ARE DENYING HIM OF HIS MEDICATIONS. We have attempted to reach out to any Health specialists in the *Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility* but we are hearing next to nothing in response.

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Sayyed Abdulmalik Al-Houthi sheds light on nation’s reality, directs military, strategic messages en.ypagency.net/359234

Les Sénateurs ont ce soir refusé de voter pour la "taxe Zucman", soit taxer de 2% les patrimoines supérieurs à 100 millions d'euros.
Ils défendent donc les intérêts de 1800 ultra riches plutôt que de financer les services publics, l'école, la transition écologique... la fameuse "droite humaniste".
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Got it working again with a replacement power adapter... but only with the secondary USB-C port in the dock connector, not the primary charging port.

The Thunderbolt firmware issue probably took out the main charging port. It doesn't work as a charger, but does work as a USB port and recognized the USB ethernet adapter I plugged in.

I also updated BIOS and firmware with the Lenovo System Update utility.

#thinkpad
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Today I will be cleaning and testing a ThinkPad T490s laptop. The owner thinks the DC jack may be broken, but I am not sure yet that is the problem.

I will try with another power adapter to check to see if the charger is the problem.

This T490s is not the normal flat black color, but a steel grey color.

#thinkpad


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So this is why he flopped.
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Tehran Hosts Closing Ceremony for 'Holocide' Art Festival iranpress.com/content/306370

The main difference between The Empire and the US is that The Empire was actually competent. Imperial officers at least pretended to be sober at strategy meetings. TIE fighters actually flew while F-35s need therapy sessions. The Empire fell because of rebels; the US will fall because the SecDef leaked nuclear codes in a Signal chat.

Taiwan internet celebrity Chen Chih-han, often referred to as Kuan Chang (Chinese for gym boss), arrived in Shanghai on Tuesday and planned a six-day live-streamed trip to many tourist attractions in the mainland. He has attracted a large audience, with live stream viewership surpassing 300,000 at one point.

globaltimes.cn/page/202506/133…

#china

Riots Rock Los Angeles Amid Immigration Raids And Federal Crackdown orientalreview.su/2025/06/12/r…

The number of US troops deployed in the Californian city of Los Angeles currently exceeds that in Iraq and Syria, ABC News reports.

"There are 4,800 activated Guard and Marine personnel in LA, compared to the 2,500 troops in Iraq and 1,500 in Syria," the broadcaster points out.

abc7.com/live-updates/tensions…

#usa #uspol

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00:00 Intro
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01:29 The Classic Linux Distro Model
02:57 Why it's broken
04:25 Distros are moving away
05:52 The new model isn't perfect, but still better
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09:22 Why distros package apps in the first place
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This video was inspired by the following blog post, which echoed my sentiment and ideas exactly: ypsidanger.com/the-distributio…

The distro packages the software for their users. Not the developers of the software, the distro itself. So the distro has a decent amount of control over what they offer, but the users of the distro don't, and the developers of the apps also don't. And this model doesn't really work.

On the surface, for users, it does work. You get a lot of applications from a central repo, and the system is generally pretty stable, depending on the distro you pick.
But in the background, you have the thousands of orphaned packages that are still in the repos but aren't maintained. The old apps that can't be packaged at all anymore. The maintainers spending a lot of time repackaging and recompiling software that has already been packaged.

One might not like Ubuntu's snap packages, or Flatpak, or AppImages, but it's undeniable that most distros are moving towards them.

When Ubuntu moves Firefox and Chromium from a deb package to a snap, it's a GOOD THING. For Ubuntu. Because instead of having to package each new version of Firefox or CHromium for all currently supported versions of Ubuntu, they only have to package them once.

Same thing when Red Hat drops the LibreOffice RPM in favor of the Flatpak. Not having to package that behemoth of an app will free up time for Red Hat developers to work on HDR, improving Wayland, and supporting color management.

And moving the packaging of an app from the distro to the app developer means less time spent debugging stuff, and more time spend on improving the app.

So why did Linux distros start packaging software instead of app developers?

It was because there were so many different systems using the same packaging formats, deb or RPM or whatever else, but different libraries, kernels, drivers, and everything else, that app developers simply did not have a way to distribute their own software to every distro.

But nowadays, we DO have formats that let you distribute applications everywhere with one single package.

They lack some features, especially due to the sandboxing they tend to use, that limits how they can interact with other apps. Thing is, these formats are still under heavy development.

But the real question is: do you prefer staying on the current model where we stagnate, duplicate work, and where developers and users have no control over which version of the software is used, or would you rather face a few teething issues, but let developers improve their apps, and the whole of the Linux software ecosystem?

I know what I choose, and it's not these old packages. And presumably, if you stick to mainstream distros, like Fedora, Ubuntu, or their main derivatives, chances are you're not going to have a choice either. Because whether you like it or not, we're moving to Flatpak or Snap on most distros.

It's more efficient, and their current problems can and will be fixed. The duplication of work that legacy packaging creates is unfixable, it's a structural problem.

And of course, if you hate these universal packaging formats, I'm sure you'll still be able to find a lot of distros that will not move to them even in the future. You'll just be running the non official version of an app, just like what you're doing right now when using a distro's package.

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