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The United Nations on Tuesday reported that humanitarian operations in Gaza are facing escalating strain, as ongoing fuel shortages, access restrictions and military activity continue to undermine aid delivery and essential services.
Spain and Brazil have launched a joint initiative to promote a higher tax take from the super-rich worldwide, aiming to tackle soaring inequality by ensuring those with the most, pay their fair share.
I am replying to this as a means of being able to review it again. It has been an hour and it only shows a link, no cached picture, preview title or anything. Your account is the ONLY one in #fediverse that has such posts.
By the time (if ever) a cached preview appears it has been so long it has vanished from the timeline. I told you before and you blamed it somehow on me. I am just alerting you that nobody will just open link names
The dust has not even settled from the announcement that ICE will be receiving more funding than the entire US prison system, and that a new concentration camp is opening in Florida, and already Trump is announcing he will deport US citizens.
The New York Times completely failed in its effort to upend Zohran Mamdani. They are unable to understand his wide support because they refuse to acknowledge the rage surging through the Democratic base over Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
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So, ICE is getting $75 billion in funding in this spending bill.
There's a directive to build a ton of new private prisons which are effectively concentration camps. Actually let's remove the "effectively". They ARE concentration camps, under nearly any definition of that term.
So why do people keep getting swept up for nearly no reason whatsoever? It's about quotas. 🧵
When you have a system like this, what we are looking at is a well funded set of slots and quotas, a promise of numbers.
And you know what happens with this. You know what it's like for you or someone else to get pulled over for a bullshit speeding ticket at the end of the month. The cop has been given a quota to fill. They'll be in trouble if they don't fill it. They *have to find* people who are in trouble, or *they'll* be in trouble. 🧵
We are looking at maybe the most well funded goon squad / gestapo / secret police style system of all time. They've made the spaces for it, they have the directive to fill them.
Who's going in the prisons? Who is "breaking the rules", including under the new rules they're setting up?
Is it you?
Is it someone you love?
Is it someone you don't know directly, but someone you know indirectly?
This is where things are going. That's what's at stake.
I'm well aware of a host of nightmares ready to be loosed upon our dying world by the christian nationalist oil capitalists.
The question really is what are effective strategies to resist?
There's the easy stuff like contact congress or protest, but after those fail, what's next?
Flee the country? Boycott big tech and the oil industry? Switch to the untaxable underground economy? Disappear into the wilderness or forgotten warrens of cities and go off grid? Take over small towns and turn them into independent city/states? Engage in direct economic or military sabotage?
If a countries economy breaks, the central government's ability to project power declines. Running armies and keeping the loyalty of secret police does require resources.
I was telling my spouse the other day... your "crime", whether you're highly visible or not, doesn't matter. You build a system and give it quotas, it's going to find you.
They're looking to imprison/deport US citizens next. "Bad people" that were "born in our country". Not just immigrants or brown folks, *anyone* they don't like.
and given that they were just promoting the showers at the newest one in Florida, they know exactly what they're doing and their base is rabidly lapping up the dog whistles.
(And if someone denies the dog whistles are happening, ask them why else would they have just hyped erecting two *88* foot tall flagpoles at the White House?)
Concentration camps are bad, but I'm more worried about Trump just having a lawless, obedient, and cruel army at his disposal. SS is no longer a metaphor, it's an analogy to help people understand what could actually happen.
trump also attended the opening of one in the everglades recently, the purpose of putting it there ofc is so that the wildlife will kill them if they try to flee thehandbasket.co/p/alligator-a…
RFK Jr. Unloads Disturbing Vaccine Secrets on Tucker
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HHS eliminates CDC staff who made sure birth control Is safe for women at risk tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld… Sweeping HHS layoffs in late March and early April gutted the CDC’s reproductive health division, upending several programs designed to protect women and infants - including those with underlying medical conditions - a move that will endanger the health of women and their babies. #Tucson #Arizona
Fuck you, Chuck. "For decades, Schumer’s campaign coffers have bulged while he has been hugely compensated by Wall Street. He has also remained a staunch supporter of Israel, despite its systematic ethnic cleaning and genocide against Palestinian people. A few months ago, Schumer declared: “My job is to keep the left pro-Israel.”" nationofchange.org/2025/06/30/…
Ok think I have worked out how to make a patch? I copied the swayfx port to my home dir and edited the Makefile just changing the version up by 1 for a test. Then did:
justine@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk-laptop ~/Documents/ports/swayfx $ diff /poudriere/ports/default/x11-wm//swayfx/Makefile Makefile 2c2< DISTVERSION= 0.5.3---> DISTVERSION= 0.5.4This would be correct would it ???
How a jailhouse lawyer fought Arizona’s decades-long sentencing error tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor… How a self-taught jailhouse lawyer fought Arizona’s decades-long sentencing error and helped free nearly 250 prisoners who had erroneously received a sentence that promised a chance of parole, including at least 90 of which came out of plea agreements with prosecutors. #Tucson #Arizona
Lee esta nota en español aquí. NASA released the first episode Tuesday of its third season of Universo curioso de la NASA, the agency’s only Spanish-language podcast. Episodes focus on some of NASA’s top missions and research topics for 2025, bringing the wonder of exploration, space technology, and scientific discoveries to Spanish-speaking audiences around the […]
HR: "Do you have a moment? We just want to ask you about your self-assessment?" Me: "Sure." HR: "So, for 'personality type', we were expecting something from Myers-Briggs. You know, like ENJF." Me: "Oh?" HR: "You selected 'Other' and filled in, 'Chaotic Good'." Me: "Yes, that's right." HR: "Why?" Me: "Because I use the term 'fortnight' as often as possible in communications in a US-based company, replace 'z's with 's'es, and convert dates everywhere to ISO8601." HR: "Well yes we can see how that would be classified as 'Chaotic Good', but we were expecting something grounded in science." Me: "So why were you asking for Myers-Briggs?"
The New York Times completely failed in its effort to upend Zohran Mamdani. They are unable to understand his wide support because they refuse to acknowledge the rage surging through the Democratic base over Israel's genocide in Gaza.
The New York Times completely failed in its effort to upend Zohran Mamdani. They are unable to understand his wide support because they refuse to acknowledge the rage surging through the Democratic base over Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
We need less America in general. They are undergoing a collapse right now, and even at the best of times their values weren't particularly beneficial to the rest of the world.
Now their influence only serves as a conduit for that collapse to disrupt or spread around the world. America is about to experience potentially the roughest couple decades since the Civil War, and nothing desirable is going to come out of that.
Maybe it's time to take a break from them until this passes.
They're now working on how to automate the buying of their products and services. Insurance companies benefit from laws requiring us to buy insurance. Musk and Bezos are working toward laws that force us to buy their services and products.
@Badged_Patriot My one & only concern about the BBB is that overtime & no tax on tips are deductions which means you have to itemize to get it. Am I understanding that right? Because if so I don't think many people who get tips or work their buttons off on overtime will have enough to itemize
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@chanon Rhode Island is a blue state. I'm surprised he got beat up. What cop gets shot with his own service weapon? Hence the beating. What an embarrassment.
Slovakia will ask to postpone a new package of sanctions against Russia until it receives guarantees from the European Union on the issue of minimizing damage from stopping imports of Russian gas, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said.
its not even clip tourism but but social media tourism. reminds me when there is sportsball events and w*men pretend to suddenly totally be into it just to be part of normal fag conversation also >touhou
Die Polizei nutzt Schmerzgriffe, um linke Straßenblockaden aufzulösen. Jurist:innen sehen Verstöße gegen die Menschenwürde und sprechen teils von Folter.
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Can you program GPUs and do you want to become a HERO? #linuxphone community needs your help.
We are trying record video, and have most pieces working, but one is missing: fast enough debayering. That means about 23MB/sec on #librem5.
Debayering is not hard; camera images have subpixels split on two lines, which need to be corrected. They also use different color representation, but that's fixable by some table lookup and two matrix multiplies.
Librem 5 has Vivante GPU, 4 in-order CPU cores and 3GB RAM. My feeling is that it should be fast enough for that. If task is for some reason impossible, that would be good to know, too.
Image data looks like this
RGRGRG... xBxBxB... ......... .........
Task is to turn that into usual rgbrgb.... format. rgb = RGB * color matrix, with table lookups for better quality. I can fix that once I get an example.
I'm looking for example code (#pinephone would work, too), reasons it can not be done... and boosts if you have friends that can program GPUs. #gpu #opensource
Since I assume you're going to want to pass the rendered image into some kind of video encoder, you may want to make sure that you match stride and alignment requirements with your target buffer so etnaviv will be able to perform linear rendering rather than de-tile it afterwards (though IIRC it's currently gated behind ETNA_MESA_DEBUG).
@dos adding to that, what data type is the image data (float, int, ???) and what data type is expected to come out?
instead of trying to outsource to the GPU, have you considered SIMD? (I assume librem5 and pinephone support NEON)
if the GPU is better suited, another question is whether there's support for compute shaders on the respective GPUs (what is the supported OpenGL version, assuming there is no Vulkan support on these devices)
@dos As for copies... Yes, I'm currently doing more copies than needed. I measured Librem 5 at about 2GB/sec memory bandwidth, and stream is about 30MB/sec. At 1Mpix/24fps resolution, gstreamer should be able to encode it in real time.
Here's huge problem with v4l, which gives uncached memory buffers to userspace. That means one whole CPU core is dedicated to copying that to "normal" memory. If that is ever solved, yes, other optimalizations are possible. Currently, this means it is not even possible to copy anything bigger than 1Mpix out of the v4l.
Megapixels is not an example of how to do things in the most performant way 😀 OpenGL operates in a VRAM-centric model, it's very copy-heavy. We don't need to copy things around, as our GPUs operate on the exact same memory CPUs do.
Not only you had copies in- and out- of GLES context there, but these copies were sequential - and your benchmark waited until things were copied before proceeding with the next frame, so it was pretty much useless in assessing GPU performance. In practice, GStreamer can happily encode the previous frame while the GPU is busy with the current one, all while CSI controller is already receiving the next one.
@dos Thanks for a patch. And yes, it makes the loop faster.. if you don't actually use the data. When used for loading/saving 720 images from the ramdisk, speed went from ~16 sec to ~21 sec.
I left the memcpy line commented out for a reason - with it uncommented, the result is exactly the same as with glReadPixels (which is effectively a memcpy on steroids). The point is to pass that buffer to the encoder directly, so it can read the data straight from the output buffer without waiting for memcpy to conclude.
I've also verified that the approach is sound by having the shader output different values each frame and accessing it via hexdump_pixels inside the loop. Still fast ;)
That said, rendering to a linear buffer can be slower, that's expected. The question is whether gains from passing buffers around for free are higher, which for an actual "record video from a camera" use case will almost certainly be true (and which has very different performance characteristics from reading images from files - you can't directly attach a file as a texture).
Yes, with memcpy(), I'm getting same results as before. If I get rid of the memcpy(), and attempt to fwrite() the buffer directly, things actually slow down.
I can't easily connect gstreamer to that, I'm going through ramdisk for now. I'm using time ./ocam.py debayer for testing -- gitlab.com/tui/tui/-/blob/mast…
Why not? I quickly hacked up passing dma-bufs to GStreamer and even though I'm glFinishing and busy-waiting on a frame to get encoded sequentially it still manages to encode a 526x390 h264 stream in real time on L5.
Plugged it into V4L2 - with a caveat that for now I fed the GPU full-res 13MP frames to meet stride alignment requirement (the shader output is still 526x390). It says it does 240 frames in 10.55s. I wonder if it's really slightly too slow, or just bad timing from our camera stack 😀
It's ugly, hardcodes everything, lies on frame timing, occasionally segfaults. Most of it is copied straight from LLM, I just massaged the pieces to work together. Not the kind of code I'd like to sign off on 😀 But it's a working example, so have fun with it.
The first thing to do to improve it (after cleaning it up) would be to actually make use of the buffer pool. Dequeue the buffer, attach it as a texture, kick off rendering, get a fence and pass it with the output buffer to GStreamer without waiting on rendering to finish, then queue it back asynchronously once rendering is done. This should allow for much more complex shaders than this sequential code does.
BTW. The fact that I could stream full-res frames and bin them down in the shader at real time is an interesting news, as this may open up possibility to use phase detection autofocus.
@dos Exactly. That's a bit of big deal. That's why I'm trying to make sure this code does not go away. I had phase-detection auto-focus working at one point, but decided it is unusable as I did not see a way to scale down images quickly enough.
There's a question whether it will be worth elevated power consumption though. I've also stumbled upon csi erroring out with "Rx fifo overflow" requiring a reboot to recover that I haven't seen at lower resolutions, but haven't looked closer.
@dos Yes, there's more work to be done in the kernel; sometimes camera does not work after reboot, bayer-10 modes are not supported, ... 🙁. And yes, it will take more power, but with phase-detection AF, it should be significantly better camera.
@dos Fences; that must be some kind of dark magic.
This code seems too good to be true. So, just to be sure, and in case you disappear tomorrow, can I add /* Copyright 2025 Sebastian Krzyszkowiak, GPLv2 */ and act according to that?
Good question. Not sure what license would be appropriate to put on something that's mostly an output of a model trained on code on all sorts of licenses anyway...
But given that it's just a bit of glue code between three APIs put together as an example, consider it to be under MIT-0 😜
When I lie to GStreamer and tell it that its input is in YUY2, it gets faster - perhaps even fast enough to encode at 1052x780. That's another opportunity for improvement.
(and there's nothing magic about fences, it's just a simple synchronization primitive 😛)
@dos Yeah, I played a bit. Nice. But segfaults, occasionaly, and may segfault more when I switch to matroskamux. So I guess crash may be gstreamer-related? 😀. There's also some kind of noise in bottom right corner, maybe that's related, too.
I'm playing with GStreamer now (which is new for me) and it seems like most of this code could be replaced with GStreamer elements, and the rest should neatly plug in as custom elements 😂
You've got a dma-buf handle, already mapped buffer and even GStreamer with all its sinks available, so... however you want? Pretty much anything will be able to consume it easily.
@dos I don't have much experiences with GUI programming, so I was looking for suggestions. I've got dma-buf handle but would not know what to do with it in gtk, and maybe SDL is better match. Or perhaps stick to original plan and do user interface ("take picture" button etc) in another process.
Not sure what you mean. GStreamer is internally multi-threaded, but its API is thread-safe and there's only one thread in this code. Of course any kind of production-quality code will use some mainloop and enqueue buffers based on callbacks rather than while(!processed){} loop, but it's not exactly rocket science.
@dos There are at least two threads in this code: main one, and whatever runs "on_buffer_released". I don't yet know what causes the segfaults, but I suspect gstreamer.
@dos Lets keep the example simple 😀. Yes, g = G1+G2/2 is superior, and there are advanced debayer algorithms. I know them. Examples are at gitlab.com/tui/debayer-gpu/ . There's just one small problem: It takes minute and I need it to take 10 seconds.
@dos It seems that ignoring half of green pixels is right thing to do at the moment: gitlab.com/tui/debayer-gpu/-/t… "Normal" debayer is 40% too slow. (That's better than 5 times too slow, but still not good enough). If you can can get it to 24 loops in second, you'll become a hero 😀.
On 9f076a5, I'm getting 88MB/s with one green channel, 82MB/s with two and 105MB/s with nothing but static gl_FragColor. The three copies it does could be eliminated and I believe texelFetch could make it slightly faster on the GPU side too.
Anything that works on Librem 5 is fine, bonus points if I can understand it. Robot generated code using -lEGL -lGLESv2 -lm ... and that builds and does something. Librem 5 reports:
Vendor: etnaviv Renderer: Vivante GC7000 rev 6214 OpenGL Version: OpenGL ES 2.0 Mesa 21.2.6 GLSL Version: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 1.0.16
are you limited to OpenGL ES 2.0 or can you use a more modern version? ES-2.0 is very bare bones in its image format and shader capabilities and efficiently converting 10 bpp will be a PITA, due to lack of texelFetch function. Anyway, spent the day finding a nice polynomial to linearize the sensor values (LUTs should be avoided if possible, memory access has latency and costs energy, if you can calculate in a few instr. prefer that).
@datenwolf I believe I'm limited to OpenGL ES 2.0. Presumably hardware can do more but our current drivers can not, so we are stuck there.
On the other hand... #librem5 main sensor can not do 10bpp at the moment, due to missing drivers. So maybe we can focus on 8bpp, first. Probably ineffecient conversion is "good enough" too, as GPU is a bit overpowered for this job.
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