The team behind Trump's World Liberty Financial project has proposed lifting restrictions on the WLFI "governance token" to make it tradeable. I predicted shortly after its launch that if Trump succeeded in gutting the SEC, he would do this.

This would lift the substantial restrictions on the token (non-US or accredited investors only, locked tokens with no secondary sales) that were aimed at sidestepping attention from the previous SEC, and could be enormously lucrative for Trump.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics

We built a thing! I spent the past few months building Trusted Signatures, a SaaS product that makes it easy to provide durable signed PDFs at scale.

This makes it easy to prove documents came from who they’re supposed to, unaltered.

  • AATL and eIDAS compatible signatures (Adobe Reader green check ✅)
  • Detached CMS support — send only the SHA-256 hash, keep your files local
  • ✅ Accessible via HMAC API key
  • ✅ No full-PDF uploads — just clean cryptography

Perfect for building secure workflows for finance, legal, or compliance — or if you’ve ever wanted a programmable signature API you can actually trust.

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@Karl Auerbach trusted-signatures.com

Yeah, DocuSign has a bunch of challenges, sender authentication being one. Another is that after everyone has signed, it signs the PDF with its own certificate, which can tell you if the document was modified but not where it came from.

We're looking at solving problems like this as a supply chain issue; it turns out there's a lot of fraud involving doctored PDFs.

For example, if someone sends you an invoice against a valid PO, but they've put in their own account for payment, you're out the money. But if you only accept signed PDFs, you (or better: your systems) can immediately validate that the invoice actually came from the correct source, unmodified.

Another common problem area is real estate fraud: documents pour in from all over the place (appraisals, inspections, bank statements) and people try to put forward fraudulent ones all the time. If they were signed, then the risk of fraud drops precipitously, and even if there is fraud, the senders cannot repudiate the documents and are still on the hook.

We make it so cheap (our price per PDF quickly approach $0.001 per PDF) that there's no reason not to sign everything your organization sends, and to require the companies sending you PDFs to sign theirs.

Avoiding a single loss or lawsuit will cover the cost a thousandfold.

Europe’s first geostationary sounder satellite is launched | EUMETSAT


#science #space #climate #meteorology

Europe has taken a major step forward in strengthening its resilience to extreme weather events with the successful launch of the Meteosat Third Generation Sounder 1 (MTG-S1) satellite. MTG-S1 will deliver new streams of atmospheric data, enabling earlier, more accurate warnings that protect lives, property and infrastructure.


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"‘Why don’t they stay in France?’

Most refugees head for a country where there is some link of language, family or community. North Africans stay in France because they have some French. Refugees from what were once UK colonies often have English as a second language."

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I played a minor role in helping to get some peoples’ very private information off of the internet. Small contributions can make a difference. Help when you can.


PostMortem: Data Leak Brandt Kettwick Defense

Type of leak


Azure Blob with the multi-year archive of a law defense firm. Files were readable and indexable for anyone. The leak contained data like search warrants, master case files from law enforcement, interviews with victim, accused and victim of sexual assault cases and much, much more. In total there were several tenthousand documents.

URL of the leak was: brandtdefense.blob.core.window…

Threats from the leak


I see the following threats:Confidentiality people seeking legal counsel help is compromised Privacy of mutliple U.S. citizens compromisedVery likely violation of several laws and ethic guidelines

TimelineApril 2025: Leak is dicovered by a security researcher.June 4th 2025: Significance of the leak identified, multiple attempts by the security researcher to close the leak (Email, Web Contact), no reply during the complete incidentJune 12th 2025: A second security reseracher attempts to contact the law defense firm, no reply till the end. Calls to the designated phone number were hung up by the law firm.June 19th 2025: FBI and Hopkins (Minnesota police department) are informed.June 21st 2025: I join the effort. Email directed to the owner of the comany and one identified affected person. Not reply during the complete incident.June 25th 2025: Second security researcher reaches out to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA). They reply nearly immediately that they will investigate,June 29th 2025: I make a infosec.exchange/@masek/114767… and ask for help to get the attention of the law firm. The second researcher reaches out again to the BCA.July 2nd 2025: Leak is closed. BCA answers that they were unable to get the attention of the law form via phone and email, so they send officers on site to convey the seriousness of the leak. They also say that the law firm had asked their IT department and it denied any possibility of a leak.

Analysis


This is not a complete failure analysis. These are only my own observations. Looking

Failures:The chosen IT department was unable to adhere even to the most basic levels of data security.Even when asked by the customer, the IT department denied the possibility of a leak.The law firm has no proper process to deal with external IT security alerts.Lack of understanding concerning the responsibility on the side of the law firrm. Outsourcing only delegates the work but not the legal obligations.

Impact


It can be safely assumed (due to duration and easiness to discover) that all data on those server is now in the hands of inttelligence services (e.g. Russia, China) and cyber criminals with little care about the privacy of US citizens. Especially for people looking for material to blackmail people, this leak was a gold mine.

Acknowledgments


Thanks to @JayeLTee and @PogoWasRight@infosec.exchange for doing most of the work. A description of the incident from the viewpoint of Dissent can be found databreaches.net/2025/07/04/no…

Furthermore I wish to praise the work of Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.

Also thanks to @TonyYarusso and @bkoehn@hachyderm.io for assisting us in getting the necessary attention.

Closing Remarks


It is clearly necessary that we have at least one public contact in each country that investigates and closes data leaks reported to them. The effort to close even the worst leaks is unbearable and currently rests on the shoulders of security researchers and their supporting environment.

Time spent on this leak from my side (without the time for this report) is 4+ hours. My best estimate on the effort of all people involved closing this leak would be in the hundreds of hours. The amount of time spent by the person responsible for the leaking system on security issues: None.

infosec.exchange/@masek/114800…

I checked all 1,066 links yesterday and found seven broken ones. I was able to find an updated link for one of them and removed the others. I also added ten new links for a new total of 1,070 pro-White websites listed in one of our 24 different sub-directories.

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In #Germany, the anti-#immigration debate is being steered in the "right direction" by inappropriate content for the purpose of censorship, just when the far-right #AfD party is leading the polls, every crime committed by immigrants is dragged through the media landscape, like in the late 1930's when an enemy image was established in Germany.
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A generation of scientific talent is at the brink of being lost to overseas competitors by the Trump administration’s dismantling of the National Science Foundation (NSF), with unprecedented political interference at the agency jeopardizing the future of US industries and economic growth, according to a Guardian investigation.

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#usa #uspoli

The GrapheneOS dev is crazy

Referring to Louis Rossman as a Kiwifarms users is very dishonest. Louis only joined KF because he wanted to be in the room when they were talking shit about him

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Mustafa Kemal ve Aleviler

Mustafa Kemal “kurtuluş savaşı” için çıkmış olduğu Batı Ermenistan destek turlarının, Amasya, Erzurum ve Sivas kongrelerinden sonra,

22 aralık 1919 tarihinde, Alevi toplumunun da desteğini almak üzere, Hünkar Bektaş-i Veli dergahını ziyaret ederek destek ister.

O dönemde dergahın Piri Postnişini (Şeyh)olan Ahmet Cemalettin Çelebi ile görüşmeler gerçekleştirir. Bazı vaatlerde bulunur, derki; işgalcileri bir yurttan kovalım, sonrasında herkesin özgürlüklerini yaşayabileceği bir devlet kurma niyetindeyim. Hatta bu devletin adının Anadolu Cumhuriyeti olacağını dillendirir.

Bu vaat ve temennileri olumlu karşılayan A.Cemalettin Çelebi, “paşam yanındayız bu mücadelen de” der ve içinden geçtikleri sürecin zorluklarla dolu olduğunu bildiğinden, ilk etapta, dergahın birikmiş tasarruflarından, iki bin Reşat altını

M. Kemale takdim ettiği söylenir.

Ama M.Kemal’in istekleri sadece maddi boyutla sınırlı değildir elbette.

A.Cemalettin Çelebiye, “sizin Alevi toplumu üzerinde sevilen sayılan biri olduğunuzu biliyorum, onun için asker toplama noktasında sizlerden destek istiyorum”der. A.Cemalettin Çelebi bu noktadaki isteğini de ikiletmez ve kalkar bizatihi kendisi Sivas, Tokat, Amasya, Çorum gibi illeri ziyaret ederek süreci ve verilen vaatleri anlatarak eli silah tutan herkesin askere katılması için çalışır.

Bu çalışma, gerçekten halktan ciddi bir kabul ve desteğe dönüşür ve Alevi toplumu her alanda gelişen direniş hareketlerine ciddi katılım sağlarlar.

Mustafa Kemal bu vaatlerini Erzurum’da, Amasya’da ve Sivas kongrelerinde, Kürt aşiret liderlerine de sunmaktadır, örneğin Sivas Koçgiri aşiret liderlerinden görüştüğü Alişan beye de iletmiştir, gelin bu süreci destekleyin kurulacak olan Cumhuriyette Kürt halkının bütün demokratik haklarının anayasal güvenceye kavuşturulacağının sözlerini vaadetmiştir. Hatta bu vesileyle Alişan beye vekillik teklifinde bulunmuştur.

Dolayısıyla Koçgiri toplumu bu vaatleri esas alarak her türlü desteği sunmuştur M.Kemale. Büyüklerimizden de benzeri olayları dinlemiştik, özellikle Ahmet Cemalettin Çelebi’nin Koçgiri gezisinden sonra, askeri müfrezeye, ciddi anlamda bir katılımın olduğu söylenirdi.

Bu desteklenen süreç, 1921 yılı birinci meclis sürecine kadar devam eder. Güneydoğu coğrafyasından gelen vekiller, Kürdistan mebusu olarak kayda geçmişlerdir. Alevi toplumunun yoğun yaşadığı bölgenin vekillerine, Dersim mebusu olarak tanımlanır ve kabul görürler. Bütün bu tanım ve kabullerin, ülke gerçekliği bakımından çok değerli olduğunu da belirtmekte fayda var.

Ama her nedense Mustafa Kemal bu vaad ettiği hiçbir sözünün arkasında durmamaktadır maalesef, çünkü asıl niyetinin bu olmadığı ve kurmak istediği şeyin tek etnik kimliğe dayalı Türkçü devletin amacına ulaşmak için bütün bu süreçleri taktiksel olarak kullandığı bir bir ortaya çıkmaya başlamıştır aslında.

Dolayısıyla Mustafa Kemal harekâtı başarıyla sonuçlandıktan sonra devletin resmi dini “İslam’dır” der. Sünni islam anlayışını devletin resmi dini olarak ilan eder. Alevilere verdiği hiçbir sözün arkasında durmaz. Aleviliği yok sayar. Aleviler rahatsız olurlar. Mustafa Kemal’e isteklerini bir kez de yazılı olarak telgraflarla bildirirler. Mustafa Kemal ise, bu verdiği sözlerin hiçbirinin yaşanmamışcasına, Sünni islam dini dışında, hiçbir inancı tanımadığını ilan eder.

Bu telgraf ve yazışmalara rağmen, Ankara’dan herhangi bir yanıt alamayan Koçgiri aşireti liderleri, 1921 yılında, M.Kemalin verdiği hiçbir sözün arkasında durmadığını ve kendilerini kandırdıklarını, dolayısıyla Mustafa Kemal’in bir Kürt ve Alevi düşmanı olduğunu deklare ederler. Bunun üzerine, 1921 yılında Alişer, Zarife, Haydar bey ve Alişan bey öncülüğünde, Mustafa Kemal’in kurmak istediği ırkçı faşist sisteme karşı direniş ve isyan başlatılır.

Koçgiri halkının, demokratik taleplerine bir çözüm üretmek yerine, merkez ordusu ve topal Osman çetesini donatarak bölgeye gönderen M.Kemal, en kanlı biçimde isyanı bastırır, binlerce insanın katlettirir ve geride kalanların, neredeyse yaşayabilecekleri bir alan bırakmamak üzere bölgeyi talan ettirir. Ayrıca katliamda sağ yakaladıkları bütün aşiret liderlerini sürgüne gönderir.

Mustafa Kemal Koçgiri Katliamından sonra, kafasında tasarlamış olduğu Türk-İslam sentezine dayalı politik tercihinin hayat bulabilmesi için, Alevilerin asimile edilmesi gerektiğini söyler, ve bunun sistematik olarak yürütülmesini sağlar.

Cumhuriyetin ilanının üzerinden, 1924 yılında tek din ve onun bir tek mezhebi olan Sünni İslam esaslarına dayalı olarak diyanet işleri başkanlığını kurar.

Bununla da yetinmez, 30 Kasım 1925 yılında Tekke ve Zaviye kanunu adı altında Alevi inancını tamamıyla yasaklar. Alevi inancını yaşatan ne kadar dergah varsa, başta Hünkar Bektaşi Veli dergahı olmak üzere, bütün dergahları kapatır ve Ana, Mürşit, Pir, Reybér gibi inanç temsiliyeti olan makam ve şahsiyetleri, üfürükçü ilan ettirerek, terör suçları kapsamına alır. Böylelikle Alevi inancını bu kanunla birlikte, artık devletçe mücadele edilmesi gereken bir inanç haline dönüştürür.

Hatta Alevî toplumunun, bir daha geçmişiyle bir bağ kurmaması için, kimliklerine zorla İslam ibaresini yazdırarak, hafızalarını dumura uğratır.

Yaşanan onca olaylardan sonra, Alevi toplumu, artık Mustafa Kemal’e kesinlikle güvenmemektedir.

Dersim halkı, inançlarının yasaklanmasını içlerine sindirmezler. Koçgiri katliamından sonra sıranın kendilerine geleceğini iyi bildiklerinden, inançlarına her zamankinden daha sıkı sıkıya bağlılığı savunurlar.

Bütün bu süreçleri sistematik olarak yürüten Mustafa Kemal, artık planının ikinci aşamasına geçer. 1935 yılında özel Tunceli Kanununu çıkarır. Bu kanunla birlikte Dersim’in adını Tunceli olarak bilinçli bir şekilde değiştirir.

Sonrasında Tunceli, Erzincan ve Bingöl’ü içeren, Elazığ merkezli, savaş konseptli bir Genel Valilik kurdurur (6 Ocak 1936). Bu genel valiliğin başına, Dersim Valisi ve Kumandanı sıfatıyla, Abdullah Alpdoğan’ı getirir. Abdullah Alpdoğan Koçgiri katliamında görev yapan onca sivil insanı katleden merkez ordusunun komutanı Sakallı Nurettin Paşa’nın damadıdır aynı zamanda.

Yani Kürt ve Alevi katletme konusunda hayli deneyimli bir ailedir.

Sonrasında bilinen tarihi gerçeklikler yaşanır. Sinsi planlarla, sanki DERSİM’de bir isyan varmış gibi uydurma bir tezle, asıl dertlerinin o coğrafyayı insansızlaştırmak olduğunu, hemde hedef haline getirdikleri Alevi inancının kökünü kazımak olduğunu, tarihi gerçeklikler bize teyid etmiş durumdadır.

Soykırımdan sağ kalan insanları ise, bir daha kültürel kimlikleriyle buluşmamaları için, yada daha rahat asimile olmaları için, deyim yerindeyse çil yavrusu gibi ülkenin çeşitli bölgelerine sürgüne gönderilirler.

Mustafa Kemal’in Alevi toplumuna yaptığı bunca zulüm ve soykırıma rağmen, günümüzde halen M.Kemalin kurduğu Cumhuriyeti laik bir cumhuriyetmiş gibi savunan büyük bir Alevi kitlesi var. Şimdi bu kafası karışık Aleviler’e şu soruyu sormak lazım.? Ya yukarıda anlattığımız bunca tarihi yaşanmışlıklar yalan, yada bilgi belge ve tarihi gerçekliğe dayanmayan, sizin bu söyledikleriniz.?

Peki bizdeki laiklik anlayışının bu çerçeveyle her hangi bir alakası varmı sizce.? Onun için Mustafa Kemal’in laiklik diye yutturmak istediği şey, bütün farklı inançların yasaklandığı, bir tek Sünni İslam dininin devletin resmi dinine dönüştürüldüğü yalanının adıdır tek kelimeyle.?

Arada yüz yıl geçmesine rağmen, Kemalist çizgide siyaset yapan politikacılar arasında bir tekinin bile, biz bu Koçgirde, Dersim’de on binlerce Aleviyi neden öldürdük, bu tarihi bir hataydı diyen ve bu anlamda Alevi toplumundan özür dileyen bir politikacıya rastladınız mı hiç.?

Dolayısıyla Alevilerle Kemalistlerin aynı potada yan yana siyaset yapıyor olmaları bile doğanın kuralına aykırı bir durumdur, çünkü Kemalizm çok kültürlülüğü, çok dilliliği, ve çok inançlılığı reddeden faşist bir zihniyete sahiptir.

(Sabri Karaman)

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Israeli attack kills 138 people, wounds 452 over 24 hours en.ypagency.net/361762

I got the email.

Took one look at it and said, "Yep, this is bullshit."

Further proof that you can't trust anything the Government sends you now. We are the United States of Gaslighting and Outright Lies. #USpol #SSA #SocialSecurity #email

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Rep. Beth Van Duyne, R-Texas, is on a mission to get Congress to develop policies to nurture and harness one of the world's newest economic engines: the more than 70 million people who earn money by creating content online.

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#USfascism / ‘The American system is being destroyed’: academics on leaving US for ‘scientific asylum’ in France

The situation is being compared to the welcoming of exiled researchers to #France during World War II. Researchers express concerns about censorship, potential deportation for speaking out against the government, and a general discouragement in the current academic climate.

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We must not overlook of course the role that hypocritical and baseless accusations of #antisemitism in academia have played in justifying politically motivated academic crackdowns.

@academicchatter
#USA #Fascism #AcademicFreedom #Israel #GazaGenocide

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President Donald Trump on Friday signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law after a hard-fought battle to secure his second-term agenda, celebrating the sweeping legislation that delivers his campaign promises to voters during a festive Independence Day event at the White House.

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How Israel is marching straight into the trap of 'seizing' Gaza, ensuring eternal war haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-0…
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Democrats Abroad

@dnkboston Democrats Abroad chapters are the ones ORGANIZING those demonstrations outside of the US in in partnership with Indivisible Abroad and #TeslaTakedown.

Everyone who runs a DA social media account is a volunteer who also holds several other volunteer, leadership positions in DA.

So, again, to all those who are telling us to do more, that will only happen if more people join in. Tell us what you yourselves are doing.

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An Introduction to Weather Modification w/ Mark Messina - It's MUCH More Than Chemtrails!

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Linux Mint 21.3 Review: solid Wayland support!


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Mint 21.3 is still based on Ubuntu 22.04 and its super old kernel, version 5.15. You do get the Mesa drivers version 23, but you don't get the latest Nvidia drivers either, you're still on 535.

So, you can select that new Wayland session from the login screen. I tested this on a spare laptop that uses an Intel Xe integrated GPU, and also has a dedicated Nvidia GPU.

At first glance, everything seems to work ok, but it's an experimental session, and it's missing a few things.
OBS, for example, has no source for the display: Cinnamon doesn't seem to support the screen sharing protocol through pipewire, so OBS has nothing to display here. You won't be sharing your screen to anyone just yet.

Another issue I encountered is the lack of any sudo graphical prompt: anytime I needed to install a package or update the system, I had to use the command line.

I also got some inconsistencies in the place where menus appeared, there were also a few things that I couldn't find, like changing the keyboard layout in the Wayland session, the "layouts" tab doesn't appear in the settings where it should be. The gestures of Cinnamon also don't work here for now, you can enable them, but they won't do anything.

The hot corners did work though, with their nice animations and features, but there were some weird graphical things happening. Some settings pages also seemed to have some sort of infinite scroll and didn't stop at their own content, which was a bit weird.

After that, I tried the Wayland session on Nvidia, and, all the problems I had experienced previously were still there, obviously, because they all are missing features in that experimental session, so no reason to expect them to work better here. But I also didn't get any other issue that I didn't see in the wayland session with the Mesa drivers.

So just as a little experiment, I also decided to run a game in the Wayland session, namely Warhammer 40K Mechanicus:
- Wayland + Intel: 25-32 FPS
- Wayland + Nvidia: 60-65 FPS
- X11 + Intel: 32-37 FPS
- X11 + Nvidia: 65-75 FPS

Ok, so now, let's talk about the other changes in Linux Mint 21.3. In terms of apps updates, Hypnotix, the TV watching app now lets you set channels as favorites. You can also create your own custom TV channels if you want.

Cinnamon will also now let you download Actions. These are add-ons for the file manager, that will appear in the right click context menu, letting you do, well, custom actions.

Warpinator, the file sharing app now lets you connect to a device manually by just entering its IP address of scanning a QR code. The Sticky Notes app can now be managed by DBus, meaning you can manage notes using scripts, and the bulk rename tool of Mint now supports drag and drop and thumbnails.

As per the desktop itself, you can now use 75% fractional scaling on X11 if you want that, you can also set keybinds to change the window opacity again, you can disable stylus buttons if you use that sort of hardware, and gestures got a bit better with the ability to set a gesture to zoom in on the desktop.

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If you got used to the super smooth 1:1 gestures for GNOME or Plasma on Wayland, or even elementary OS on X11, you'll be disappointed here. Mint still uses X11, and their gestures act like keyboard shortcuts. You perform the gesture on the touchpad, and once your fingers have moved enough, the animation happens all at once.

Gestures are disabled by default, you'll be able to enable them in the new Settings panel. They are very configurable though, contrary to GNOME or KDE.

Mint 21.2 also changes a few things in terms of how the distro looks, or can look. First, instead of the endless list of selectable themes, in their dark or light variant, and all their color variants, you now get Styles.

The Style defines the theme you're using, for example MintY, Adwaita, or the older Mint X. For each style, you can pick mixed mode, where apps can be light or dark at the same time, dark mode, where every app that supports the dark mode preference will use it, and light mode.

And on top of that, you have a choice of accent colors, if the theme supports it, for example, there are no accent colors for Adwaita, or the High COntrast theme.

Folder icons are now longer the same color as what WIndows uses, they'll now use your accent color instead, which is much better in my opinion.

On the desktop side of things, the login screen received a lot of improvements, with support for multiple keyboard layouts that you can switch between, and support for tap to click as well.

The onscreen keyboard is usable there, and you can also configure the layout for it, and you can now more easily navigate this login screen using the keyboard and the arrow keys.

Once you're logged in, you can now resize the main menu, by dragging its corner or its edge, and you can now disable notifications for connected devices that have a low battery level.

As per the apps, the file manager, Nemo, now generates thumbnails using multi threading, which means it should be way faster.

The software manager got a small UI refresh, with the search field inline in a headerbar, with the hamburger menu moving there as well. The app pages also got a small redesign, with buttons in the header to install, and to show the installation source.

Pix, the image viewer, got a lot of changes, mostly due to its rebase on a new version of GTHumb.

Finally, Warpinator, the PC to PC file transfer program, was reviewed by the openSUSE team, and some security issues were discovered and fixed.

All Linux Mint editions are still based on Ubuntu 22.04, and they're all LTS, supported until 2027. The next base change will be when Ubuntu 24.04 releases, which means that in the meantime, you get the Linux kernel 5.15, and older Mesa and Nvidia drivers.

Now, for the XFCE variant, you get the same improvements to the login screen, the apps and the software manager, plus the new colored folder icons, tooltips and notifications, and the symbolic icon changes. You're not getting the Styles manager and selector though, and you're not getting the touchpad gestures either.

Still, you do get XFCE 4.18, which is a solid update over 4.16 that Mint used in the previous release.

As per MATE, it gets the same stuff as XFCE, so no gestures or style manager, and it's still on MATE 1.26, same as the previous Linux Mint release.

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Adana Katliamları-20. Yüzyıl Başında Devrim ve Şiddet - Bedross Der Matossian (Çev. Renan Akman) (372 sayfa)
Adana Katliamları, 1908 Jön Türk Devrimi sonrası oluşan birlikte yaşama ve özgürlük umutlarının yerini nasıl şiddetin ve
çatışmanın aldığını gözler önüne seriyor. 1909 yılında Adana ve çevresinde paranoyanın neden olduğu iki ayrı katliam dalgasıyla öldürülen Ermenileri, yakıp yıkılan mahalleleri, işyerlerini, Osmanlı hükümetinin müdahale etmekteki başarısızlığını, sıradan insanların faillere dönüşümlerini anlatıyor. Bedross Der Matossian, bu katliamlara giden yoldaki tüm etkenleri incelerken, katliamlar sonrası insani yardımları ve müdahaleleri, yargılamaları da es geçmiyor. Çok sayıda kaynaktan yararlanarak yazdığı bu eseriyle tarih çalışmalarında kendisine pek yer bulamamış Adana katliamlarını gün yüzüne çıkarıyor, yaşanan trajedinin neden ve sonuçlarını titizlikle masaya yatırıyor.

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-- my mom listened to all their records while I was growing up in the 70s. I especially remember this Christmas album. I really do love her voice.

It's such a tragedy that the perfectionism which drove her ended up being more of a curse than a blessing. 😔

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"rights don't exist. there' is only force."
"he who has force, makes law"
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