in reply to PrincessCory

That was the big problem on sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit. They advertise themselves as a public square. Then they would censor speech in various ways unknown to the speaker. A lot of people in this thread don't understand that. In case you are not familiar, sounds like you are, Martin v. City of Struthers (1943). I know these sites aren't just U.S. citizens, so a lot of the comments come from foreigners who only familiar with their limited freedoms their government allows them.

Another Iskander missile "visited" the Odessa port today, drones are also attacking Kyiv en.topwar.ru/267423-ocherednaj…

A lot of polishing in the new Vivaldi 7.5.

Our goal is to make a browser that is powerful, personal and private. We continue our efforts there. I hope you enjoy it!

#Windows #Macos #Linux #Computer #Technology #Eu #Europa #Norway #Iceland

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FDA Announces New Safety Warning on All mRNA COVID Vaccines — Cites “Extremely High” Risk of Myocarditis and Long-Term Heart Damage in Young Men

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under the Trump administration has formally updated the safety labeling on all mRNA COVID-19 vaccines to reflect what many Americans have been warning about for years: a disturbingly high risk of myocarditis—particularly in young men—and ...

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Iger's Disney has thoroughly and completely obliterated the moderately expensive but wholesome and worthwhile Disney that used to be and replaced it with an overwhelmingly expensive and definitely NOT wholesome corporation... And it shows.

Disney Is Worried People Aren't Returning to Their Parks 😭
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What Trump can do to stop Transgender surgery funding if BBB passes.

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" Some political prisoners are arrested for staging public demonstrations that address poverty, and some are arrested for living in poverty. Some actively protest social inequality, while others turn to drugs or alcohol because they can no longer bear the brunt of this inequality. Some choose to publicly draw attention to injustice by their words and actions, while others are swept off the streets because their very presence is a public exposure of this injustice. Every prisoner is a political prisoner."

--- Kelly Rose Pflug-Back

#anarchism #socialism #prison

What Trump can do to stop Planned Parenthood funding if BBB passes.

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Its utterly amazing to me that some people are soooo retarded that they haven't figured out that modern education credentials are utterly usless in identifying expertise or intelligence.

Anybody identified as an expert, is likely just a degreed pinhead, is likely wrong, and likely too stupid to know just how ignorant they are. After all they have a piece of paper that says otherwise.

Impressed the lighting could pick her up 😬

Girl, 19, struck by lightning inside her home after making terrifyingly common mistake mol.im/a/14868305 via dailym.ai/android

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@debian #Linux #OpenSource

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@HarriettMB Sounds like it would have been a good location. A lot of castles were very smartly positioned, like they carefully surveyed the landscape all around and figured out the best spot for observation, defensive advantage, water supply, etc. Really neat to go to someplace like Mull and travel around the waterways and realize how all the castles were in site of each other for signalling purposes.
in reply to Infoseepage

That one of the O’Neills has a really interesting and complex history. There’s very little of the original castle left now, but loads of information. we had friends here a couple of days ago, and Anne used to be the Conservation Officer, so told us loads of the story. We went to see it today, and to visit Pomeroy Woods not too far away. In Co Meath there’s the hill of Tara which has similar huge views of much our the country, and almost in a straight line south again, there is the Rock of Cashel similarly situated. Back in the days of Kings in Ireland these three locations controlled a vast amount of the country.
in reply to HarriettMB

I didn't get to Tara, unfortunately. Did get to the Rock of Cashel and yes, it is quite a view. Imagine it was even more from up top of the round tower and the cathedral/bishop's tower.

The history of the O'neills and O'Donnells in the Nine Years' War and the subsequent Flight of the Earls is a really interesting part of Irish history and I really enjoyed reading about it. I probably just need to get a book on that specifically at some point.

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in reply to Infoseepage

Seriously, nobody has a satisfactory answer to this one.

I should post pictures of all the ones I've seen and do a 'What are these for? Right answers only!" poll.

Here's an article with some speculation:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carved…

in reply to Infoseepage

It's one of the grander structures where the castle's much humbler beginnings are still recognizable in the stonework. Today, it's quite palatial inside. The Lyons married the heiress to the Bowes family coal mining fortune in the late 18th century and money became somewhat of an irrelevancy for a while. The fortune was something like a million pounds in the late 18th century, which is probably more like billions today.
in reply to Infoseepage

The present Earl appears to be a real nasty fellow, having a number of driving offenses, Covid violations and a sexual assault of a woman at the castle bad enough to land him in prison for a spell. Had I known this in advance, I would have gone elsewhere, as the castle is still in private ownership and the admission fees presumably line his coffers. He appears to still live on site in a wing that isn't part of the tour.
in reply to Infoseepage

The reason they're related is that Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, who grew up at Glamis Castle, married Prince Albert of York. He would go on to rule as George VI after his elder brother abdicated the throne and she would become known as the Queen Mother or Queen Mum and love to the ripe old age of 102. She would give birth to Princess Margaret, Queen Elizabeth II's only sibling, at Glamis.
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.ml world "news" continuing to be an excellent source of journalism and definitely NOT contributing to the spread of Putin talking points!/s


This is the kind of content the .ml admins cultivate through their bans and censorship. They'll frequently remove articles from credible good sources that directly go against their narratives, while allowing misinformation and conspiracy websites to include RT, Sputnik and (as shown) random substack blogs as long as they tow the narratives that align with them.

E.g. Ukraine is a Nazi regime and Russia is just "liberating" the Ukrainian people

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I love the Earth and all life on it. I love meeting people . who like these thins too and learning what its like were they live and what plants animals and bugs live there .I'm from South Australia were there's lots of wild life including in the city. many colourful parrots and many other birds.

Victory to Maja T’s Hunger Strike


by Marianna Manoura, Dimitra Z.

This text was written in the context of the anti-fascist three-day conference of June 20-22, but its typing and publication was delayed.

Responding to the call of the anti-fascist days of actions (20-22 June), of antifa Maja T. who has been on hunger strike since 5/6 in Hungarian prisons, we send our own signal of solidarity to their struggle. Two years ago, during the day of honor (anniversary of the mass extermination of Hungarian and German Nazis in 1945), where a fascist rally-march takes place in Budapest, where hundreds of neo-Nazis and fascists gather. In response to this call, anti-fascists from Europe have decided to return to them some of the violence they produce.

The far-right Hungarian government began a series of arrests, openly supporting the fascists, with inflated indictments of criminal organizations and inhumane conditions of confinement. Other European states cooperated with each other, engaging in a series of deportations and persecutions. Germany played a leading role in characterizing the German anti-fascists persecuted by the Hungarian state as dangerous criminals, culminating in the overnight extradition of Maja T. Many of the people involved chose to go underground, refusing to surrender their freedom in the hands of either the German or the Hungarian state. One of these people was Maja T. until their arrest and extradition.

We are going through a period of vertical rise of the far right and nationalism in the West. More and more people are turning to fascist and nationalist formations. The incompetence of the left and the retreat of the revolutionary movements left room for all kinds of fascist formations to develop and expand their audience. A disappointed audience that found in its face the anti-systemism it was looking for.

Fascism and nationalism have always been the other side of systemism. Especially in times of crisis, when neoliberalism is rotting, fascism emerges as a solution to the problem. The narrative of the national core, racial superiority and the necessity of militarization is used. Militant anti-fascism is the only solution to this problem. We have no illusions about the education of the descendants of the blackshirts, nor do we obviously seek their imprisonment. After all, fascism is crushed in the streets.

Defending anti-fascism, Maja T found themself imprisoned in Hungarian prisons in conditions of extreme isolation. Conditions that led them to embank their own body, starting a hunger strike from 5/6. From our own cell, the least we can do is stand by it, sending strength and solidarity.

Victory in Maja T’s hunger strike.
Solidarity with those who are persecuted for their anti-fascist activity
Solidarity with the two persecuted comrades, accused of attacks on the offices of Golden Dawn
Kyriakos Ximitiris present

Dimitra Z.
Marianna Manoura

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Ο Αλκίνοος με το υψωμένο δάχτυλο…
Είναι πολύ σκληρή η προσωπική κριτική και είμαι μακριά αλλά το γενικό πλαίσιο που δίνει για την δυτική αλληλεγγύη στην παλαιστινιακή Αντίσταση είναι αυτό που πρέπει να έχουμε κατά νου.

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New SpaceX report on Starlink conjunctions and deorbits (a.k.a. dumping tons of metal/plastic/solar panels/computers into the upper atmosphere) scribd.com/document/883045105/…

Scariest part:
472 Starlinks were burned up in the atmosphere in Dec-May. Assuming each satellite is 800kg, and 50% aluminum by mass, that's 1 ton of aluminum PER DAY.

The natural infall rate of aluminum from meteoroids is 0.3 tons per day. Starlink has been ~3x that, for the last 6 months.

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in reply to Prof. Sam Lawler

a) how does this compare with baseline other satellites without Star Link and previous generations like iridium?

B) so starlink could theoretically offload the expense of running its own collision avoidance unit to some world government entity because the risk is shared even though the gain is not. Like doing now what would happen if they were to go bankrupt and cease operations

Bazzite 42 listed in June 2025 Steam Hardware Survey


cross-posted from: pawb.social/post/27451562

Seemingly for the first time, the Bazzite gaming-focused Linux distro has appeared on the Steam Hardware Survey. Well done to the Bazzite team for making such an amazing distro for gaming (and now just general usage as a while too)! Been my main choice for going on a year now for my general use distro, and I haven't looked back.

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L'impérialisme américain écrase ses vassaux.


#géopolitique #impérialisme

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US moderates, centrists, and creepy colonial liberals assign blame for fascism in the exact opposite order of culpability

In order, colonial liberals blame:
- Anti-genocide non-voters
- Black people
- Latine people
- Muslim people
- Nonwhite and non-east asian immigrants
- Trans people who aren't already Black, Muslim, or Latine
- Pro-Palestinian activists
- "Antifa"
- People who ever did anything in solidarity with Black, Muslim, or Latine people
- People who ever said anything in solidarity with Black, Muslim, or Latine people
- Random celebrities, especially if they're Black or Muslim
- Random gay politicians, even if they're white settlers
- People who aren't racist, xenophobic, islamophobic, or queerphobic enough to make fascists feel completely comfortable in every social situation

You will notice that "fascists" aren't on the list. You will also find that this is the same list of people that fascists attack and misrepresent, in order

in reply to trans but not like that

The only reason Indigenous people aren't on the list is because moderates don't believe we exist outside of "Braiding Sweetgrass"

The only reason East Asians aren't on the list is because white settlers prefer to reinforce an asian american racial identity that helps whites victim blame Black and Latine people for the effects of the settlers virulent intergenerational antiblackness and neocolonialism

The only reason cis white women aren't on the list is because settlers find it useful to weaponize white cisfemininity against colonized people

in reply to trans but not like that

The only reason Indigenous people aren't on the list is because centrists don't believe we exist outside of "Braiding Sweetgrass"

The only reason East Asians aren't on the list is because white settlers prefer to reinforce an asian american racial identity that helps whites victim blame Black and Latine people for the effects of the settlers virulent intergenerational antiblackness and neocolonialism

The only reason cis white women aren't on the list is because settlers find it useful to weaponize white cisfemininity against colonized people

How to remote-Sway


Author: @ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org

The state of remote working with Wayland is, well, lackluster to put it kindly. And with Sway, it's quite abysmal.

Here is my solution to remote my Sway desktop at work and make it persistent so it survives network outages. This is not the perfect solution, probably, but it works for me.

A few prerequisites


  • You need a dedicated remote account. It's generally a good idea regardless of whether you use Wayland or X11 to have a main account and a secondary remote account if you don't want to work with the same desktop locally and remotely.
    The reason is, your local desktop settings can differ significantly from the remote desktop settings (for instance, if you work with 2 high-res monitors locally but on a small laptop screen remotely) so a unique set of settings may not work well in both cases.

    Also, unless you log out of the local and remote sessions religiously after you're done, you're likely to run both sessions at the same time at some point. If you do, you may run more than one instance of the same utilities, which tend to overwrite one another's temporary files, caches and such, and generally creating a mess.

    So it's much cleaner to have a separate main account and remote account, with adequate permissions to access files in one from the other, and run two separate desktops.

  • To remote a Sway desktop, you'll use VNC. It's not great but that's the only option at the moment.
  • My solution below is reasonably secure if you're the only user on your machine, or if the other local users aren't adversarial.
    If they are, you'll use a Unix socket or enable authentication in Wayvnc for extra security (see Final note below), which works fine, but is incompatible with Remmina. And I happen to like Remmina 🙂 So I didn't. I'm a low-risk target but do what works best for you.
  • If there are more than one user doing remote work on the machine, each one will need to be assigned their own VNC port. Again, it's not great, but Wayland makes doing anything else with the existing tools exceedingly painful.


Setup


The idea is to:
- SSH into the remote machine and create a tunnel from the remote machine's VNC port corresponding to the particular remote user (if you're the only one, 5900 most likely) to a local port on your local machine.
- Upon connection through SSH, start Sway headless in a persistent manner (meaning the Sway session doesn't get killed if the ssh connection dies).
- Make Sway start Wayvnc to expose the headless display through VNC.
- On the local machine, connect to the local end of the SSH tunnel to connect to the remote Wayvnc server.

Required software packages

On the remote machine


  • tmux: this is a screen-like terminal multiplexer that allows sessions to remain open even if the terminal underneath disappears.
  • sway obviously...
  • wayvnc: that's the Wayland VNC server


On the local machine, install:


  • ssh: the SSH client
  • Any VNC viewer


Configuration of the remote machine


  • Add a user called <your_main_username>-remote for example.


In the remote user's account, configure:


  • sway: Put the following lines in .config/sway/config:
    # Start the VNC server: set the resolution you want (fixed)                                         
    output HEADLESS-1 mode 1920x1080
    
    # Start the VNC server
    exec cd $HOME/.config/wayvnc && /usr/bin/wayvnc -C $HOME/.config/wayvnc/config
  • wayvnc: Put the following lines in .config/wayvnc/config
    address=localhost
    port=5900

    If you have more than one user, allocate a unique port per remote user
  • Create a ~/scripts directory in your home directory (that's where I put my scripts. If you want to do something else, it's up to you, but the following assumes the relevant scripts are located in ~/scripts)
  • Create ~/scripts/sway_headless.sh with the following content, to start Sway headless:
    #!/bin/sh
    
    export WLR_BACKENDS=headless
    export WLR_LIBINPUT_NO_DEVICES=1
    
    /usr/bin/sway
  • Create a start_persistent_sway_headless.sh script to start Sway and Wayvnc in a background tmux session if it doesn't exist already, and only exit when the Wayvnc server is ready to accept connections:
    #!/bin/sh
    # Pass the -w argument to this script to wait until the VNC server stops before exiting (for interactive SSH sessions, to keep the tunnel open)
    
    # If not already running, start Sway headless in a tmux session and immediately detach from it
    tmux has-session -t sway 2> /dev/null || tmux new-session -d -s sway $HOME/scripts/sway_headless.sh
    
    # Source the wayvnc config file to get the address and port it's listening on
    . $HOME/.config/wayvnc/config
    
    # Wait until the VNC server is up
    retry=5
    while [ ${retry} -gt 0 ] && ! nc -z ${address} ${port} 2> /dev/null; do
    sleep 1
    retry=$((retry-1))
    done
    
    # Wait until the VNC server goes back down if requested
    if [ "$1" = "-w" ]; then
    while nc -z ${address} ${port} 2> /dev/null; do
      sleep 1
    done
    fi
  • Optionally, create a stop_persistent_sway_headless.sh script to stop the background tmux session running Sway and Wayvnc. It's not strictly needed but you might find it useful if you want to stop Sway manually:
    #!/bin/sh
    
    tmux kill-session -t sway 2> /dev/null


Connecting from the local machine

Manually:


  • To start Sway and Wayvnc on the remote machine, and create the VNC tunnel manually with SSH, do this in one terminal (the local end of the tunnel is port 35900 here):
    $ ssh -L35900:localhost:5900 <your_main_username>-remote@<remote_machine> "~/scripts/start_persistent_sway_headless.sh -w"
  • Then to connect to the remote machine through the SSH tunnel manually, do this in another terminal:
    $ vncviewer localhost:35900


With Remmina:



Final note


This setup is acceptable if you're the only user on the machine, or the other users are friendly folks, and your machine is secured!

The reason for this is, when Wayvnc is running without authentication, malevolent local users can freely connect to your session and take over your remote desktop.

There are two ways around that, but neither is compatible with Remmina.

  • Use a Unix socket instead of a TCP port to serve up VNC on the remote machine. To do this:
    • Remove ~/.config/wayvnc and replace the Wayvnc startup line in the remote user's Sway config file with:


    exec /usr/bin/wayvnc -u $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/wayvnc

    • Replace the content of ~/scripts/start_persistent_sway_headless.sh with:


    #!/bin/sh
    # Pass the -w argument to this script to wait until the VNC server stops before exiting (for interactive SSH sessions, to keep the tunnel open)
    
    # If not already running, start Sway headless in a tmux session and immediately detach from it
    tmux has-session -t sway 2> /dev/null || tmux new-session -d -s sway $HOME/scripts/sway_headless.sh
    
    # Wait until the VNC server is up
    retry=5
    while [ ${retry} -gt 0 ] && ! [ -S ${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}/wayvnc ] 2> /dev/null; do
      sleep 1
      retry=$((retry-1))
    done
    
    # Wait until the VNC server goes back down if requested
    if [ "$1" = "-w" ]; then
      while [ -S ${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}/wayvnc ] 2> /dev/null; do
        sleep 1
      done
    fi

    • Then to start the SSH tunnel manually to tunnel the remote Unix socket to the local TCP port, do this:


    $ ssh -L35900:/run/user/<remote user ID>/wayvnc <your_main_username>-remote@reform "~/scripts/start_persistent_sway_headless.sh -w"

    This is more secure because the socket file is only visible to your remote user on the remote machine, and not to other local users on the remote machine. Unfortunately Remmina doesn't know how to forward Unix sockets.
  • Enable TLS or AES authentication in .config/wayvnc/config as described here.
    Unfortunately, when authentication is enabled in Wayvnc, it's not possible to use just a username and password (which would be secure enough in a local context) and Remmina can't work with either forms of authentication offered by Wayvnc. Other VNC viewers like Tigervnc have no problem however.

    Also, it means you have to enter your password again to log into VNC, so it's not great for automation.

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