Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday called on China and Tajikistan to expand the scale of bilateral trade and investment.eng.chinamil.com.cn
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BREAKING: Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins says she’s stepping in and will do everything to help this NJ family keep their farm which has been in their family for 175 years, after the city said they will take the farm away to build affordable housing
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Twenty Arab and Islamic countries condemn the Israeli occupation's aggression on Iran, warning of regional instability and urging diplomatic de-escalation.Al Mayadeen English (20 Arab, Islamic states denounce Israeli aggression on Iran)
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30 years ago, the JPEG became the dominant way we share digital photos on the internetErnie Smith (IEEE Spectrum)
The Grug Brained Developer (2022)
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NEW: Sen Tommy Tuberville (R) introduced a bill titled the "Protection of Women in Sports at Military Academies Act."
This act prevents men from invading women's sports and activities at military service academies.
"Allowing men to compete against women in sports at any level is wrong—and it’s especially wrong to use taxpayer dollars to pay for it at our service academies.” -@SenTuberville
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Horizont Group boosted its export sales by over 11.5% in Q1 2025, Director General of the Horizont Group managing company Yuri Predko said on the sidelines of the Digital Expo 2025.Belarusian Telegraph Agency
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In May 2024, Border Patrol released 62,000 illegals into our country due to Biden’s open border policies
This past May the number of illegals released into our country was ZERO.
Yes, you read that right. 0.
This is what a secure border looks like.
Thank you President Trump!
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Trump was right.
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How you breathe is like a fingerprint that can identify you
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Your inhalation and exhalation pattern is not only unique to you, it can be a marker of your physical and mental state, study suggests.Basilio, Humberto
US market is no longer top priority for Chinese companies building foreign factories. Countries like Brazil, Serbia, Hungary, and Saudi Arabia have become top choices for Chinese companies looking to explore other markets.
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Countries like Brazil, Serbia, Hungary and Saudi Arabia have become top choices for Chinese companies looking to explore other markets.Ji Siqi (South China Morning Post)
The Healthplex Expo 2025, Natural & Nutraceutical Products China 2025 (HNC 2025), co-hosted by CCCMHPIE and Sinoexpo Informa Markets, returns to the National Exhibition and Convention Center (NECC) in Shanghai from June 24–26, 2025.China Business Forum
“Seattle public safety is in shambles. The Fire Department is paying unprecedented overtime.”Ari Hoffman (thepostmillennial.com)
“Most, if not all, counties have destroyed all of those records now from the 2020 election,” he said. “Now, certainly from the 2024 election, counties are still in the process of retaining those until that retention period expires.”Roberto Wakerell-Cruz (thepostmillennial.com)
WATCH: Far-Left NYC Mayoral Candidate Gets Busted By ICE in Chaotic Scene at Manhattan Court After Repeatedly Obstructing Lawful Immigration Enforcement
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A far-left NYC mayoral candidate was apprehended by ICE agents after getting in the way of a lawful immigration activity outside a federal courthouse, the latest in a string of lawless actions by elected Democrats across America.Cullen Linebarger (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
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Dice el imperialismo que #Irán es una «amenaza», observen las bases militares yanquis que lo rodean
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Palestinian journalist and genocide survivor Abubaker Abed posted on X, demanding that Piers Morgan be prosecuted at The Hague, accusing him of spreading propaganda in support of genocide.
this source is obviously a bit biased, so take it with a couple grains of salt. but Dimona has been getting hit since the war broke out, so...?
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#iran #israel #iranisraelwar
OCCUPIED PALESTINE, June 17 (YPA) - Three Powerful explosions were heard in the southern areas of the occupied Negev, amid an unprecedented state of security alert, Hebrew media reported on TuesdaySirens were activated around the Dimona nuclear reactعماد (Yemen Press Agency)
Washington (Quds News Network)- US President Donald Trump has ordered 17 million Iranians to “immediately evacuate Tehran”, threatening a possible escalation as Iran and Israel inch closer to direct cEditing Team (Quds News Network)
Génial Kévin sur QG !
Building Effective AI Agents
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Fucking incredible !!!!
#Iran
#US #RegimeChange @palestine
"...recent developments suggest that the U.S. is just one step away from launching its largest ever regime-change war in the Middle East"
The article quotes Trump's Truth Social posts. Talks like a five year old on sugar. JD Vance trying to do some damage limitation: "JD Vance said that he wants to address “a lot of crazy stuff on social media” about Trump’s approach to Iran"
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The United States is now making the final preparations to join the Israel attack on Iran, with a clear intention...Anonymous1199 (South Front)
maybe cat's got his tongue?
or maybe diplomacy isn't a beheader's strong suit?
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#iran #syria #israel #iranisraelwar
Syria's new government is facing mounting criticism at home over its failure to condemn Israel for violating its air space to attack Iran, with Syrians demanding Damascus leverage its growing diplomatic relations and call for a halt to the breaches.Ali Haj Suleiman (Middle East Eye)
at this point, confirmed by the israelis themselves that refinery in haifa is shut down from repeated attacks.
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Amid escalating diplomatic threats and the rising death toll, both powers face a growing international pressure to de-escalatethecradle.co
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Near a million tonnes of sand was exported from occupied Western Sahara to the Canaries during the last five years, a new WSRW report reveals.wsrw.org
Trump's claim about "control of the skies over Iran" raises questions about U.S. involvement in conflict.
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President Trump also asserted the U.S. knows "exactly where" Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei "is hiding."Kathryn Watson (CBS News)
Despite the media blackout imposed in Israel, videos do come out.
"Iran has responded to yesterday’s Israeli attack on Iranian TV news studios by hitting both...Mossad’s HQ and the Israeli military’s notorious ‘Unit 8200’ spy unit HQ in daytime strikes"
"...not the first time that Unit 8200 has been hit. Last September, a Lebanese militia rocket killed at least twenty-two of its operatives and wounded more than seventy"
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Images of buildings in flames deleted from Israeli media but not before they leaked out Iran has responded to yesterday’s Israeli attack on Iranian TV news studios by hitting both Israeli int…SKWAWKBOX
Pavel #Durov:
🎙 A week ago, Tucker Carlson published an interview with me about what happened in France. It was covered by media in many countries — except, interestingly, in France. 🤐
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«Il y a une semaine, Tucker #Carlson a publié une interview de moi sur ce qui s'est passé en #France. Elle a été relayée par les médias de nombreux pays, sauf, curieusement, en France🤐.
Les #médias français ne se désintéressent pas de #Telegram. La semaine dernière, #LeMonde, le principal journal du pays, a invité ses lecteurs à signaler s'ils regardent des matchs de football piratés sur Telegram. Cette tentative de collecte participative d'informations négatives à notre sujet s'inscrit dans une stratégie plus large.
Durant les sept semaines après mon arrestation à Paris, Le Monde a publié 40 articles négatifs sur Telegram. En violation de la déontologie journalistique, ils ne nous ont pas sollicités pour commenter 37 de ces 40 articles et ont toujours ignoré les corrections factuelles que nous leur avons adressées. 🤦♂️
Un tel environnement médiatique est alarmant. C'est pourquoi des plateformes comme Telegram sont si importantes : nous permettons aux gens d'accéder à tous les points de vue et de décider par eux-mêmes. Nous sommes convaincus que les gens sont intelligents et qu'on peut leur faire confiance pour connaître la vérité sans filtre. ✊»
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Telegram founder Pavel Durov has effectively been under house arrest in France since he was arrested there ten months ago. For the first time, he explains wh...YouTube
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil said that Venezuela has withstood and overcome the worst stages of the economic and commercial siege imposed by illegal United States sanctions through its own efforts.Orinoco Tribune - News and opinion pieces about Venezuela and beyond
President Joe Biden’s USAID awarded an $800 million contract to a business operating out of a Virginia home even after it formally ruled that its key manager lacked “honesty or integrity” — a reference to the fact that, according to a May 12 guilty p…Luke Rosiak (The Daily Wire)
You want an actual conspiracy theory? How about a real one: that the media works together with the rich and powerful to directly craft “the truth,” even if it runs contrary to reality. The Business Idiots that rule our economy — work-shy executives and investors with no real connection to any kind of actual production — are the true architects of what’s “real” in our world, and their demands are simple: “make the news read like we want it to.”
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#Trump #Moron
#Iran #NuclearProgram
@palestine
"Trump claims Iran was "very close" to building a nuclear weapon, dismissing Tulsi Gabbard and US intelligence reports that Tehran halted its program in 2003"
Trump dismisses his own intelligence. Not a good look. I'm impressed with Trump. He's damaging the US "like we've never seen before", to use his favourite expression
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Trump claims Iran was "very close" to building a nuclear weapon, dismissing Tulsi Gabbard and US intelligence reports that Tehran halted its program in 2003.Al Mayadeen English (Trump rejects Gabbard’s nuclear Intel, says 'I don’t care')
Elon Musk's X sued New York on Tuesday, saying the state's "Stop Hiding Hate" law tramples the First Amendment.Thomas English (The Daily Caller)
Bombing a nuclear facility is under international law a war crime. There is no need to bomb this facilities. It will put the population in real danger of a nuclear explosion killing how many people? #iran
BREAKING: Trump is seriously considering a U.S. strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities ahead of a high-stakes Situation Room meeting at 1PM today, three U.S. officials told Axios. mstdn.social/@noelreports/1146…
Attached: 1 image BREAKING: Trump is seriously considering a U.S. strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities ahead of a high-stakes Situation Room meeting at 1PM today, three U.S. officials told Axios.Mastodon 🐘
5 Inspiring Documentaries That Will Make You Want to Go Vegan 🌱 #vegan #govegan #documentaries #bestfilms #watchlist
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#Netanyahu and #Iraq’s "weapons of mass destruction". It, alongside with Afghanistan, was the first part of this project.
We’re witnessing the second part of Zionist entity’s dream: destruction of #Iran on false pretenses.
This has been a decades long project for the West. May it fail in the most humiliating way, and may it take us closer to the fall of #imperialism.
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Following his first term as Isrel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu testified to Congress on Sept. 12, 2002 as a private citizen, and advised Congress that a U.S. invasion of Iraq would be "a good choice."C-SPAN
Israelis reeling from Iranian barrages brace for a new kind of war
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Just did some flat on the floor barbell bench press. It was tricky to get in position and even more difficult to get out after I was done.
Now why would anyone do such a stupid thing as barbell bench press without a barbell rack?
Well first of all my barbell and weights came today and I am still waiting for the rack.
The second reason is that I am retard and could not stop myself from trying the new things.
And really not looking forrward to crawling under the house 
#NALC
Alahednews - Fastnews - Haifa’s oil refineries have shut down, and the operating company admits that Iranian missile strikes caused significant damage.english.alahednews.news
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a vazal of the usa will turn #iran in a vazalstate. Remember the #cia plotted against the democratic government of #persia to install the famous, brutal murder sjah of persia.
🇮🇷 Exiled Iranian opposition leader Prince Reza Pahlavi has called on the people of Iran to rise up against the Ayatollah regime:. "The Islamic Republic is collapsing — the process is irreversible. The future is bright. Now is the time to rise, to reclaim Iran. I hope to stand beside you soon." mstdn.social/@noelreports/1147…
🇮🇷 Exiled Iranian opposition leader Prince Reza Pahlavi has called on the people of Iran to rise up against the Ayatollah regime:"The Islamic Republic is collapsing — the process is irreversible. The future is bright. Now is the time to rise, to reclaim Iran. I hope to stand beside you soon."
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Mastodon team's priorities for this year: Restructure the organization, grow the user base, reach financial sustainability.
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#mastodon #fediverse #SocialMedia
Here is who is being targeted by deportation orders in Pennsylvania and New Jersey under Trump.Stephen Stirling (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Der Ehemann, 36 Jahre alt, wurde festgenommen und dem Haftrichter vorgeführt. Haftbefehl wegen Mordes.
🧕 Die Familie stammt aus dem Jemen.
Der Mann kam 2022 nach Deutschland, Frau und sechs Kinder (zwischen 4 und 10 Jahren) folgten per Familiennachzug. Die achtköpfige Familie wohnt auf Kosten der Steuerzahler in einem Haus in Krailling.
Dieses Einfamilienhaus mit Garten, in ruhiger Wohnlage – ist für unzählige deutsche Familien ein unerreichbarer Traum.
Für Deutsche, nicht jedoch für #Asylanten. Hier wohnte eine Familie aus dem #Jemen, auf Kosten der deutschen Steuerzahler.
Miete, Unterhalt, Leistungen – alles staatlich gestützt. Und das Ergebnis? Eine Frau tot, sechs Halbwaisen und ein Ehemann, der mutmaßlich Haftkosten im oberen 6-stelligen Bereich anhäufen wird. Sollte er in die Psychiatrie kommen, wird es noch teurer.
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#Antifa #Bundestag #Demokratie #Mullahs
In einer funktionierenden Gesellschaft passen sich die Gäste dem Gastgeber an.
In Deutschland passt sich die Gesellschaft den Gästen an und verzichtet auf seine Kultur.
#Islamismus #Gruppenvergewaltigungen #Messermorde #Brandmauertote #Islam #Brandmaueropfer #Massenvergewaltigungen
#Islam #Moslem #Islamisten #Migration
#Sharia #Islam #Islamismus #GG #Grundgesetzt
In einem Haus in Krailling ist eine Frau tot aufgefunden worden. Ihr Mann wurde von der Polizei unter dringendem Tatverdacht festgenommenen.merkur.de
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USMC posted on Truth Social
A good sound take, by Larry Schweikart:
#geopolitics #geography #power
If you hear people say “Maybe Israel and / or the US could put boots on the ground in Iran”, send them this article and tell them to stop smoking psychotropics.
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After Israel’s attack on Iran, the big question is: What will happen in Iran?Tomas Pueyo (Uncharted Territories)
Der Mann saß am Nachmittag auf einer Bank. Plötzlich wurde er attackiert und fiel von der Bank. Eine weitere Attacke führte dazu, dass er das Bewusstsein verlor.
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In Schwerin wurde ein Mann auf der Anne-Frank-Straße brutal überfallen. Die Täter entkamen mit Beute im Wert von mehreren hundert Euro.BILD
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Alexandre #Jardin
CE JOUR A 17h @EmmanuelMacron et le gouvernement utilisent une entourloupe sordide pour tenter d’imposer au peuple les #ZFE de la honte : ils font voter leurs députés CONTRE LEUR PROPRE LOI sur la Simplification (qui contient la suppression des #ZFE via un amendement) ! Ils utilisent la gauche hostile la loi globale en fabriquant - en se retournant - une majorité factice : sordide. Pour contourner le peuple.
#RealGenius. They made a movie out of it. Starred #ValKilmer. Great movie. #DARPA #lasers #power #popcorn
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A record-breaking laser beam could redefine how we send power to the world's hardest places.Mihai Andrei (ZME Science)
US importers are increasingly being asked by foreign counterparties to settle transactions in currencies other than the US dollar. The volatility of the US dollar, which has declined by 8% this year against a basket of other currencies, is driving this trend.
Foreign vendors are seeking to limit their exposure to further swings in the greenback by denominating contracts in local currencies or other alternatives.
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When Paula Comings, the head of currency sales for US Bancorp, talks to US importers, she increasingly hears the same message: Their foreign counterparties no longer want to be paid in dollars.Carter Johnson (Bloomberg)
Pars Today- A hadith narrated from Imam Musa Kazem (Peace upon him) stresses that having profound knowledge in God's religion is the key to insight.Pars Today
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Depuis 2023, l'État hébreu enregistre une vague d'émigration sans précédent. Le phénomène, qui touche les classes supérieures et la fraction la plus…Slate.fr
I've been trying to degoogle my life as much as possible lately, but there are 2 main holdouts: youtube, and Android. While I still haven't found a competent enough youtube alternative, apart maybe from LBRY, I might just have found the Android replacement I was looking for! Let's take a look at the /e/ operating system !
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What is /e/
"e" is a nonprofit project, backed by the /e/ foundation. Its goal is to provide a compeltely de-googled version of Android. This is in the strictest sense, as anything that might call to Google has been plucked out of the operating system: the google services, app store, default applications, even the time server and DNS have been changed.
The /e/ operating system is the result: it can be installed on a lot of Android smartphones, from a fairly wide selection of manufacturers, or you can order a refurbished smartphone from the /e/ website More recently, /e/ has become available on the Fairphone 3 as well, which you can buy preinstalled with /e/ from their online store.
Gael also told me that the PinePhone might be a target at some point, and they already had a port for the PineBook.
/e/ account
As you won't be using any Google services, the /e/ project feels that you also need a few services for day to day use, that's why they provide you with a free /e/ account. This is basically your own user account on the /e/ project's Nextcloud, with an email address that ends in e.email, as well as contacts, a calendar, some file storage, photos, and tasks.
In term of features, the /e/ team is also working on End to End encryption, which is proving tricky to implement, as well as the ability to self host the /e/ online services if you want to have as much storage space as you'd like and control your data 100%.
They also have an SMS to cloud feature that allows you to keep your messages when you change phones, and are working on the ability to let users log their geolocation in the cloud if they want to, to be able to find their device if it gets lost or stolen.
The /e/ OS experience
The /e/ OS is very inspired by iOS in terms of look and feel, out of the box. You get a default grid of icons, some widgets when you swipe left, no standard Android app drawer, and a global search if you swipe from the top.
The OS ships with default apps for everything you might need out of the box, and all of these apps are open source, just like the OS itself.
Most of these are forks of other open source applications, for example, the web browser is a de-googled fork of Chromium, the mail client is a fork of K-9, the camera is a fork of OpenCamera...
Some apps are the default Android applications, like the contact, clock, calculator, keyboard, or gallery, and some are just preinstalled apps available anywhere alse, like MagicEarth for maps, PDFViewer Plus for PDFs, or OpenTasks for the todo list.
Using these applications, you also won't help but notice the Android roots behind them: older tab bars, three dot menus and pop-ups abound, and look like the stuff you'd have been using on an Android Kit Kat smartphone. This doesn't mean they're bad, but it does look a bit dated compared to the smooth interfaces of today. Some might prefer this older style, but I know I don't.
But why would you prefer /e/ over another Android custom ROM ? Well, as Gael Duval puts it, they are not targeting tech savvy users, or geeks. They want to offer a simple option that even beginners can get to grips with, without jumping through too many hoops and sacrificing convenience.
/e/ offers integrated services out of the box so you don't have to look for them intially, they put a lot of effort in the launcher user experience, and they are 100% Google Free. They are probably the only one to address the low level stuff as well, like the connectivity checks, or the NTP server, while most other custom ROMs still send information to Google.
Installing apps
/e/ doesn't try to reinvent the wheel here: they provide their own app store, that is basically a mirror of the applications available on the play store. Not all of them will be as up to date as the ones available on Googl's markeplace, and some of them won't be available, but the selection is pretty large here.
You also get some nice touches that you won't find on competing stores, like a privacy score. This is determined by scanning the apks and identifying the permissions they require, as well as the trackers they include, so you know, when you install an app on the /e/ store, what it will collect, and if you can reliably use it or not.
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Every company is talking about building their ecosystem. Apple, Samsung, Google, Microsoft, even Amazon, they all want to have the full experience, with hardware, software, services, all designed to lock the users in and keep them coming for more products, more data, all at the price of convenience. I don't like these walled gardens, but I still think we need a full open source ecosystem where the desktop works well with mobile, smartwatches, iot devices, and services. Let's see how that could work.
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As of today, there is no syncing between your Linux desktop, and a potential Linux phone. No interaction between your pinetime and your desktop or phone either. We have no "open source service suite" that a user can just start using on every device. And that's what I mean by ecosystem: a one stop shop, with a single account, that lets you access cloud storage, photo syncing, browser bookmarks and passwords, an email account and calendar, an office suite, text message syncing, basically an open source icloud or Microsoft account.
Ok, now, I think ecosystems are terrible. That's pretty paradoxical, I know, but that's because current ecosystems, that encompass hardware, software and services, are all proprietary, and designed as walled gardens, to lock you in and prevent you from switching.
Once you've bought a Mac, an iPhone, an Apple Watch, and iPad, and AirPods, the cost of switching to anything else becomes way too high. You've bought your apps, you're using Apple services, your hardware works beautifully together. If you just replace one piece of all of that, it all breaks down and the simplicity and ease of use is gone.
Because, yes, these ecosystems bring a lot to the table: everything tends to sync together super easily, you get your files, photos, settings, applications on every device, seamlessly. Stuff just connects together in the most simple way. That's appealing. But the cost is your freedom to decide that a superior product might be worth your money. Instead, you'll buy the product from the company you're beholden to, because anything else will just not work as well. It's a trap, but I think an open source ecosystem would solve that issue.
Open source, is, by definition, open. This means that building a walled garden with purely open source software is impossible, anyone could decide to fork and make sure that their device worked with the existing ecosystem.
In terms of hardware, we already have plenty of options: the Pine64 has the mobile devices, with the PineTAb, PinePhone, and PineTime. Any laptop or desktop can basically run Linux, so hardware doesn't matter that much for us. It's already pretty open, and we can switch to another manufacturer without any lock in.
In terms of software, the very philosophy of free software would allow anyone to plug in, or extract their own data from the ecosystem, to reuse it somewhere else. There would be no lockdown, no walled garden, only the simplicity, and seamless connectivity would remain.
We already have a lot of the building blocks available to us. Nextcloud, for example, is a fantastic starting point. It does cloud storage, photo syncing, it offers a calendar and email application, it integrates with an open source office suite easily, and can be extended with apps. That would do for a backend and web interface.
What's missing is an open source email service, not too tricky to deploy, some bookmark and password storage, which Firefox already does with Lockwise and the Firefox account, so there's another building block.
The other missing piece is how to integrate that with our various distros, and that's the trickier part. For that idea to be successful, every desktop environment would have to work to make sure that just entering your credentials would allow you to use your cloud storage as a network drive, syncing your pictures and videos inside the right folder, automatically configure your email account and calendat with their default applications, open access to the integrated office suite, and sync the bookmarks and passwords with whatever browser they ship by default.
I can imagine a provider in the Online Accounts, like in GNOME or elementary OS, that just lets you set all of that up by just entering an email, and a password, obviously with 2 step verification.
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In an emotional press briefing on Monday, Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei condemned the “most brutal aggression” by the Israeli regime against Iran, and four days of national defense.PressTV
Retail sales declined 0.9% in May, worse than expected, due to declining gas sales and uncertainty about the economy. Retail sales have been slow throughout the year, with consumers seeking deals and being more selective with their spending.
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Consumer spending pulled back sharply, weighed by declining gas sales and looming unease over where the economy is headed.Jeff Cox (CNBC)
always fiscally conservative, we're going to spend another couple trillion dollars to bring democracy like this to all of the middle east:
Hundreds of Zionist are fleeing the occupied territories daily by yacht to Cyprus following the closure of Zionist airspace due to the escalating war with Iran, Haaretz reported on Tuesday.
The paper described the Herzliya marina as taking on “the atmosphere of a makeshift terminal,” with at least a hundred people preparing to set sail on one particular morning.
The paper cited Facebook groups “dedicated to sea-based exits” proving that “hundreds of people” are attempting to leave the country this way.
Since there is a demand, there are those ready to supply “for a price,” the paper said, with some passengers saying they paid 2,500 shekels ($713) each for the journey, which can take up to 25 hours.
“Someone asked me for 6,000,” one passenger told Haaretz, adding, “It’s all supply and demand.”
Another told the paper that prices “also depend on the type of yacht, the amenities it offers and how fast it sails.”
The passenger explained that some yachts have private cabins, “and there are those that run on diesel and can get to Cyprus in just eight hours.”
Some vessels are also operating illegally, one commercial captain told the paper as “some private owners are charging passengers without having proper insurance for transporting people.”
The paper said only a few were willing “to speak openly” to reporters.
One mother, leaving with her partner and four-year-old child, admitted: “We’re tired of the missiles,” the report said.
Ben-Gurion International Airport was closed on Friday night, leaving “an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 ‘Israelis’ stranded abroad as well.”
The report said land crossings with Jordan and Egypt remain open, however, their hours are limited and a high demand “means long waits at the border with no certainty of crossing.”
The escalation between the Zionist entity and Iran began at dawn on Friday when the occupation, with clear support from the United States, launched ‘Operation Rising Lion’, a large-scale aerial assault on Iranian nuclear facilities, missile bases, and key personnel.
That evening, Iran responded with ‘True Promise 3’, launching dozens of ballistic missiles and drones at the Zionist occupied cities, killing leading to hundreds of casualties.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian warned on Sunday that if the Zionist attacks continue, Iran’s response would become “more decisive and severe.” He stated that the Iranian military had so far responded “forcefully and appropriately.”
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in reply to benda • • •When the Kurds in N.Syria were filming and documenting NATO forces supplying and supporting ISis many were crying about conspiracy theories and anti-Turkish propaganda.
Like Snowden said, it is only a conspiracy theory when you don't have sufficient evidence.
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in reply to yianiris • • •the evidence has been so overwhelming for so long only a partisan would deny it.
the west has funded terrorists, they thrive in shadows of the chaos they sow.
from the contras to isis. iA the people all over the world rise up together against their common enemies.