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Hi, I recently finished setting up my Asustor NAS, and I found the snapshotting setup in it a bit confusing, so I'm writing this as a quick reference that might be hopefully useful to others.
For context, my device is a AS1102TL, and it's running ADM 4.3.3, but I imagine it should apply to all recent Asustor devices.
First of all, the reason I picked Asustor instead of e.g. Synology... it's because it was not clear if the latter actually supported LUKS full disk encryption on an external usb hd. In Asustor you have to ssh into your NAS, but you can definitely do it.
The only gotcha: If you created the LUKS volume recently on another system, it's likely that it'll be using Argon2 for key stretching. A memory-intensive algorithm, for which the 1GB of memory provided by my AS1102TL is not enough. The solution is simply to add another key with a different algo, e.g. PBKDF2, or just create the volume on your Asustor. Either way, you're going to be able to read and write it both from the NAS and another Linux on your pc.
$ sudo $(which cryptsetup) luksOpen /dev/sdb1 encrypted # "encrypted" is just the name that I gave to the device, pick anything... remember the `-S` flag if you need to select a key in a different slot
$ sudo mount /dev/mapper/encrypted /mnt/USB1
... do what you want ...
$ sudo umount /mnt/USB1/
$ sudo $(which cryptsetup) luksClose encrypted
Unfortunately, this doesn't mean that once mounted, the disk will be integrated in the ADM ui (you're not going to be able to see it in the "External Devices" ui, nor be able to select it as a destination in the "Backup & Restore" ui).
Normally, mounted external drives are available on paths like /share/USB0, /share/USB1. Maybe it could be possible to mount (or symlink your mount point for) your disk there, to make it usable to ADM, but by default /share is an immutable loop mount of /volume0/.@system/sharebase.loop
$ lsattr -d /share/
-----i------- /share/
Trying to workaround that with chattr and maybe manually modifying sharebase.loop felt a bit more risky than needed, so I didn't attempt that (the ADM ui doesn't provide a btrfs send functionality, so it's not very interesting for our purposes anyhow).
Now, you have two different approaches to accomplish incremental backups of btrfs snapshots, one where you just create them yourself from the CLI, and one where you can try to reuse the snapshots created in ADM.
I'm using the same naming convention, and same location that is used for snapshots created by ADM (you wouldn't get conflicts anyhow, unless you're creating another one in the exact same minute).
I recommend the -v verbose flag for btrfs receive, otherwise you're not going to see progress while the operation is ongoing.
That's it! Of course, the first send will have to happen without specifying a parent with -p, to do a full clone.
Reuse snapshots created in ADM
There are two problems with this: the snapshots created by ADM are not read-only and they are mounted right under the toplevel.
To address these issues:
sudo mount /dev/md1 -o subvol=/ /mnt/rootvol
sudo btrfs property set /mnt/rootvol/v2025079-2324/ ro true
then pick a parent snapshot, and send the incremental changes:
As above, use the -p and -v flags as needed. That's it!
If you're wondering why did we have to mount the / subvol, you can try without:
You can mount the snapshots directly in ADM's Snapshot Center, by toggling the Preview toggle for a snapshot. In that case, they are still going to be RW, though mounted as RO. You can deal with that by remounting: sudo mount -o remount,rw /volume1/.@snapshots/v2025079-2324/ && sudo btrfs property set /volume1/.@snapshots/v2025079-2324/ ro true,
You can then try to send the changes, but what you're going to get is:
$ sudo btrfs send -p /volume1/.@snapshots/v2025079-0824/ /volume1/.@snapshots/v2025079-2324
ERROR: not on mount point: /volume1/.@snapshots/v2025079-2324
The error is a bit confusing (you have mounted the volume! why is that not good enough?), but you can get a bit of clarity with btrfs subvolume list.
$ sudo btrfs subvolume list /volume1 -qua
ID 256 gen 159842 top level 5 parent_uuid - uuid cbc37b20-901f-b043-8cf1-59b814814140 path <FS_TREE>/base
ID 258 gen 151914 top level 5 parent_uuid - uuid 5039c206-1a89-dc45-a9fe-43f8959cb672 path <FS_TREE>/.iscsi
ID 259 gen 159840 top level 5 parent_uuid - uuid 06d46207-9aa2-2944-ba38-e5736963ec12 path <FS_TREE>/.@plugins
ID 2758 gen 157876 top level 5 parent_uuid cbc37b20-901f-b043-8cf1-59b814814140 uuid 256c36c5-7033-a945-a2db-b6a334a8419f path <FS_TREE>/v2025079-0824
ID 2759 gen 157859 top level 5 parent_uuid cbc37b20-901f-b043-8cf1-59b814814140 uuid 88942ee6-8b52-3d4d-b972-5de2d6764728 path <FS_TREE>/v2025079-2324
ID 2762 gen 159833 top level 256 parent_uuid cbc37b20-901f-b043-8cf1-59b814814140 uuid 6d636914-35a0-3f42-9486-bf5d673b94c5 path base/.@snapshots/v20250710-0936
ID 2763 gen 159836 top level 256 parent_uuid cbc37b20-901f-b043-8cf1-59b814814140 uuid e99df217-4946-a740-bba9-99f64f1a0d69 path base/.@snapshots/v20250710-0951
Now, compare with the output when listing /mnt/rootvol:
$ sudo btrfs subvolume list /mnt/rootvol/ -qua
ID 256 gen 159867 top level 5 parent_uuid - uuid cbc37b20-901f-b043-8cf1-59b814814140 path base
ID 258 gen 151914 top level 5 parent_uuid - uuid 5039c206-1a89-dc45-a9fe-43f8959cb672 path .iscsi
ID 259 gen 159840 top level 5 parent_uuid - uuid 06d46207-9aa2-2944-ba38-e5736963ec12 path .@plugins
ID 2758 gen 157876 top level 5 parent_uuid cbc37b20-901f-b043-8cf1-59b814814140 uuid 256c36c5-7033-a945-a2db-b6a334a8419f path v2025079-0824
ID 2759 gen 157859 top level 5 parent_uuid cbc37b20-901f-b043-8cf1-59b814814140 uuid 88942ee6-8b52-3d4d-b972-5de2d6764728 path v2025079-2324
ID 2762 gen 159833 top level 256 parent_uuid cbc37b20-901f-b043-8cf1-59b814814140 uuid 6d636914-35a0-3f42-9486-bf5d673b94c5 path <FS_TREE>/base/.@snapshots/v20250710-0936
ID 2763 gen 159836 top level 256 parent_uuid cbc37b20-901f-b043-8cf1-59b814814140 uuid e99df217-4946-a740-bba9-99f64f1a0d69 path <FS_TREE>/base/.@snapshots/v20250710-0951
as you can see, the snapshots created in ADM are directly under top level 5 and if you list them under /volume1 (which is just the mount point for the /base subvolume), they are not found directly underneath (despite them being mounted there), which is why you see them being under their own <FS_TREE>.
Conversely, the ones that you can create directly from the cli under volume1, appear as top level 256 and they are under /base if you list the subvolumes under /mnt/rootvol.
PS, while I was closing the dozens of tabs that I opened to investigate how everything fits together, a note on what I wrote earlier:
this doesn’t mean that once mounted, the disk will be integrated in the ADM ui (you’re not going to be able to see it in the “External Devices” ui, nor be able to select it as a destination in the “Backup & Restore” ui).
mounting the disk on a path already accessible by ADM file explorer doesn't work because of permission issues, similar to the immutable flag that you can see with lsattr... but someone on Reddit had another workaround:
I mounted the opened device to another path already accessible by ADM file explorer. I don't think it will matter where really. But in my case I made two partitions on an external USB drive. The first partition is a small exFat formatted (10GB). The second partition takes up the rest of the drive and is formatted with cryptsetup (LUKS). Finally, to use this I open the LUKS device and mount it to a location in the first partition (which is automatically mounted by ADM)
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Today, a funeral for a 20-year-old American man was held in the occupied West Bank. He was beaten to death on Friday, July 11. Sayfollah Musallet was “brutally beaten to death” by a group of Israeli racist thugs, otherwise known as “settlers.
Jerusalem Water Authority: Last night, a group of Israeli settlers stormed the Ein Samia wells, causing widespread destruction and rendering the entire site inoperable. All systems have gone offline, resulting in a total loss of communication and control. The Ein Samia wells are the only source of water for dozens of Palestinian villages and communities. The damage caused puts thousands of lives at risk and constitutes a deliberate attack on critical civilian infrastructure.
🔴 C’est une affaire que l’Elysée préférerait ne jamais voir ressurgir. Depuis huit ans, la justice enquête sur l’organisation d’une soirée qui s’est déroulée le 6 janvier 2016 à #LasVegas autour du ministre de l’Economie de l’époque, un certain Emmanuel #Macron. Le juge d’instruction, Serge Tournaire, a fini ses investigations et doit désormais décider s’il demande un procès pour les protagonistes de l’événement, dont l’ex-ministre du Travail Muriel #Pénicaud. Accusée de « complicité de favoritisme », celle-ci conteste sa mise en examen devant la chambre d’instruction.
Retour dix ans en arrière. En novembre 2015, les conseillers d’Emmanuel Macron cogitent sur un déplacement de leur champion au plus grand salon de l’innovation numérique au monde à Las Vegas. Une occasion pour lui d’incarner la start-up nation et de rencontrer de riches entrepreneurs alors qu’il s’apprête à créer son parti En Marche avec la présidentielle en ligne de mire. « Habituellement, les ministres se contentaient d’un petit pot, mais là les ambitions étaient plus fortes », observe un haut fonctionnaire de Bercy.
Infraction au Code des marchés publics Afin de financer la soirée, le cabinet d’Emmanuel Macron se tourne vers l’agence publique Business France, alors dirigée par Muriel #Pénicaud et dotée d’un confortable budget de communication de 9 millions d’euros. Problème : l’entité va sous-traiter l’événement à l’agence de com’ #Havas Paris pour un total de 380 000 euros sans mettre d’autres sociétés en concurrence. Soit une infraction caractérisée au Code des marchés publics…
Une décennie plus tard, pas question pour Muriel Pénicaud de porter le chapeau. Face au juge en octobre 2023, elle a assuré que la soirée avait été entièrement pilotée par sa directrice de la communication Fabienne Bothy-Chesneau, « une cadre dirigeante avec une rémunération de 12 000 euros quand la mienne était de 13 000 euros », précise-t-elle. Avant de poursuivre : « Jamais jusqu’à début mars 2016, je n’ai su que la totalité était confiée à Havas. On me l’a caché sciemment. »
Des mails compromettants exhumés Au fil de leur enquête, les policiers ont pourtant mis la main sur plusieurs mails qui montrent que l’ex-patronne de Business France avait un œil sur le bon déroulement de la soirée. Le 19 novembre 2015, elle indique à une conseillère d’Emmanuel Macron que « Business France prépare activement Las Vegas ». Le lendemain, après une réunion d’une heure et demie entre ses équipes et le cabinet du ministre, elle reçoit un premier canevas de la soirée avec la mention d’un budget prévisionnel de 300 000 euros.
De quoi prouver sa connaissance du coût de la soirée et de la nécessité de passer un appel d’offres avec mise en concurrence ? « Un budget de 300 000 euros ne veut pas dire une commande publique par Business France de 300 000 euros, il y a très souvent plusieurs cofinanceurs », argue-t-elle. Une version contestée par Fabienne Bothy-Chesneau, mise en examen pour « favoritisme », un mois plus tard devant le même juge : « Muriel Pénicaud a été informée que Havas s’occupait de tout et du budget. Et elle savait bien qu’il n’y avait pas eu d’appels d’offres. »
Pour se dédouaner, Muriel Pénicaud met en avant un audit réalisé après coup, à sa demande, par le cabinet EY qui la met hors de cause. Mais l’avocat de Fabienne Bothy-Chesneau pointe que les auteurs de l’audit n’ont jamais entendu sa cliente, qui avait quitté Business France entretemps, alors que les autres membres de la direction ont pu s’expliquer et… modifier le contenu du rapport d’audit. Pis, ils ont même pu explorer la boîte mail de Fabienne Bothy-Chesneau pour ajouter des éléments à charge. « Le rapport d’audit n’a pas été réalisé à la suite d’une enquête interne rigoureuse, objective et impartiale », tacle l’avocat dans une note.
Pression des conseillers d’Emmanuel Macron Un point semble faire consensus : la soirée a été préparée dans l’urgence. Avec des conseillers d’Emmanuel Macron qui multiplient les doléances : refus d’une soirée exclusivement organisée par le Medef, demande d’un lieu plus central que l’année précédente, échange avec une star de la tech américaine, etc. En trois semaines, le budget prévisionnel bondit de quelque 150 000 euros. « Fais vite, il faut que le cabinet soit content », serinait Muriel Pénicaud à Fabienne Bothy-Chesneau selon ses dires.
Une précipitation qui a empêché le lancement d’un marché public en bonne et due forme ? « Il n’était matériellement pas possible d’organiser cet événement en respectant scrupuleusement les procédures d’achats, avance le responsable du contrôle interne de Business France face aux enquêteurs. Soit il aurait fallu savoir dire non, soit demander aux organismes de tutelle les dérogations idoines. » « Si un appel d’offres avait été lancé, cela aurait tué le projet », lâche carrément un salarié d’Havas.
Signe de la panique : à la veille de Noël, le directeur financier de Business France doit utiliser sa carte bancaire personnelle pour bloquer la réservation de l’hôtel The Linq à hauteur de 64 000 dollars. « Je risque l’interdit bancaire et je ne vais pas casser mon assurance-vie pour financer la French Tech hors process, y a des limites », s’énerve-t-il. Avant que Muriel Pénicaud permette son remboursement en faisant passer la facture en note de frais.
Havas accusé de « recel de favoritisme » Au cours de l’enquête, le juge s’est aussi penché sur d’éventuelles collusions entre les dirigeants de Business France et l’agence de communication Havas. Le directeur d’Havas Paris Fabrice Conrad affirme qu’il était persuadé que la soirée de Las Vegas s’intégrait à un « contrat-cadre » que son agence avait remporté quelques mois plus tôt pour une campagne de promotion de Business France. Et qu’il n’y avait donc pas besoin d’une nouvelle mise en concurrence. « Je suis en charge de l’opérationnel. Je ne suis pas un juriste », se défend-il.
Un argument « difficilement audible » pour le responsable du contrôle interne de Business France qui estime qu’« Havas Paris savait qu’il s’agissait de deux opérations de communication distinctes, y compris sous l’angle budgétaire ». Le 15 décembre, à trois semaines de la soirée, Fabrice Conrad s’inquiète d’ailleurs par mail de l’absence d’un « go budgétaire » de Business France. Autant d’éléments qui ont conduit le juge à mettre en examen Havas Paris, puis Fabrice Conrad en avril 2024, pour « recel de favoritisme ».
Le haut management d’Havas avait été convié aux agapes de Las Vegas. Le 1er janvier 2016, un responsable de l’agence de com' informe une conseillère du ministre que « M. Yannick Bolloré [le PDG d’Havas] a eu M. Macron au téléphone qui l’aurait invité au dîner prévu mercredi à Las Vegas ». Dans un autre message, Fabrice Conrad indique à Stéphane Fouks, le vice-président d’Havas, que « Muriel serait ravie de t’y voir ». En 2014, quelques semaines avant sa prise de poste chez Business France, Muriel Pénicaud avait déjà déjeuné avec Stéphane Fouks pour avoir ses conseils.
La candidature du neveu Plus gênant, en août 2016, la patronne de Business France poussera la candidature de son neveu pour un contrat d’apprentissage chez Havas. Une demande que Fabrice Conrad relaie au responsable des recrutements avec ce commentaire : « C’est un GROS client et donc une candidature à BIEN traiter. » Après un premier échec de son neveu, Muriel Pénicaud insiste. Le directeur d’Havas Paris lui promet alors « de le faire entrer en contact avec d’autres structures du groupe ». Le neveu décrochera finalement un contrat de onze moins au sein de la holding du groupe Bolloré, relève le juge.
Dernier détail piquant : ce n’est que dans l’avion du retour qu’Emmanuel Macron semble se soucier du coût des festivités. « Le ministre souhaiterait (moi aussi) savoir combien coûte la soirée », écrit Muriel Pénicaud à sa directrice de la communication le 8 janvier. Une demande que Fabienne Bothy-Chesneau juge « étrange » : « Je pense qu’à ce moment-là elle réalise le problème et se couvre ». Un peu tard peut-être.
The Linux community seems like it's filled with so much drama! How do we make sense of it all? Is Fedora going to kill my games? Did you hear the latest thing Linus said? Is GNOME really blocking a...
It really doesn't. I highly doubt there isn't office politics going on inside Microsoft, Apple and Google, but unlike them, Linux development is all public. If anything, that's likely to curtail a lot of bad behavior rather than encourage it.
Because there is choice. There is very little choice on Windows or Mac, so there's not really anything to argue about 😅 Champagne problems, if ya ask me.
This image tells the story of redemption for one lonely star. The young star MP Mus (PDS 66) was thought to be all alone in the Universe, surrounded by nothing but a featureless band of gas and dust called a protoplanetary disc. In most cases, the material inside a protoplanetary disc condenses to form new planets around the star, leaving large gaps where the gas and dust used to be. These features are seen in almost every disc – but not in MP Mus’s.
When astronomers first observed it with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), they saw a smooth, planet-free disc, shown here in the right image. The team, led by Álvaro Ribas, an astronomer at the University of Cambridge, UK, gave this star another chance and re-observed it with ALMA at longer wavelengths that peer even deeper into the protoplanetary disc than before. These new observations, shown in the left image, revealed a gap and a ring that had been obscured in previous observations, suggesting that MP Mus might have company after all.
Meanwhile, another piece of the puzzle was being revealed in Germany as Miguel Vioque, an astronomer at the European Southern Observatory, studied this same star with the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Gaia mission. Vioque noticed something suspicious – the star was wobbling. A bit of gravitational detective work, together with insights from the new disc structures revealed by ALMA, showed that this motion could be explained by the presence of a gas giant exoplanet.
Both teams presented their joint results in a new paper published in Nature Astronomy. In what they describe as “ a beautiful merging of two groups approaching the same object from different angles ”, they show that MP Mus isn’t so boring after all.
[Image description: This is an observation from the ALMA telescope, showing two versions (side-by-side) of a protoplanetary disc. Both discs are bright, glowing yellow-orange objects with a diffused halo against a dark background. The right disc is more smooth and blurry looking. The left disc shows more detail, for example gaps and rings within it.]
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With West Bank annexation in the air, settlers revel in their impunity Israeli settlers have rampaged through Palestinian towns and rioted at a military base in recent weeks, knowing government officials have their backs.
Over the span of two days, one of the last remaining Palestinian communities between Ramallah and Jericho was uprooted from its land.
On the evening of July 2, dozens of Israeli settlers descended on the West Bank shepherding village of Al-Muarrajat. They broke into homes, stole around 60 sheep, and erected a small outpost inside the village. By the next morning, settlers were seen sitting alongside Israeli soldiers at the newly built outpost, now moved just meters from the village school.
Fearing further theft, residents began evacuating their livestock. By Friday, families were packing their belongings and leaving en masse. Thirty families — 177 people in total — were forced out, all but erasing the community.
“Residents were forced to leave at gunpoint,” said 28-year-old Aaliyah Malihat, a local activist, as her family gathered their possessions. “People have nowhere to go. They’re scattering to nearby villages.”
Erwin Schrödinger (Austria-Ireland. 1887-1966), who seems to have been not very fond of house cats, proposed a theoretical exercise for quantum physics.
The approach is simple, although its implications are very complex. A cat has been placed inside a box. The box has a device that, with no definite time, releases a sort of lethal mechanism and the cat will die. Since the box is airtight, it is not known whether the cat is still alive or has already perished. Once the box is opened, one possibility or the other is proven. The previous moment, when we do not know if it is alive or dead, suggests that there are two worlds or two simultaneous universes. In one the cat is already dead, in the other it is still alive. A mortal mechanism activated and not activated; a cat alive and dead at the same time; a superposition of states according to quantum physics.
Let’s leave aside, for now, the references to comic book multiverses and the consequences in quantum physics. Let us also leave aside Don Schördinger’s animosity towards cats, and that he obviously did not know much about those felines (anyone who has dealt with them knows that they would not let themselves be caught, much less allow themselves to be locked up, without protesting and without defending themselves -even more so if it is a… cat-dog-). Let’s also not take too much notice that the cat is imprisoned and condemned to death, unless someone sees fit to open the box when the lethal mechanism has not been activated, and the cat jumps out and frees itself from the prison.
This theoretical exercise is supposed to be a basis for showing that worlds in several universes are possible, that is, in a multiverse (although it is also to show that the laws of quantum physics do not apply in everyday life).
As far as my limited knowledge of comics allows me, I understand that, in those diverse worlds, the individual still prevails, but in different versions. In one world, Sheldon Cooper (TV series “The Big Bang Theory”), is a scientist with social problems. In another, he is an irredeemable womanizer. In another, he is a “popular” judge in Mexico’s judicial system (oh, I know, my perversity is sublime).
And this digression that, I hope, is perplexing, comes to the topic, or point supposedly that even with the imaginative capacity to raise the simultaneous existence of the living cat and the dead cat, the possibility (or the universe) of there being one or several cats that refuse to enter the box is not raised. And perhaps with the aggravating factor that the supposed cat is actually a cat-dog.
In pointing out some possibilities, others are omitted.
When talking about the capitalist system, the different proposals refer to what they can do to improve the conditions of the cat locked in the trap, to lengthen its life (or its chances of life), or to “humanize” the lethal device.
It is, shall we say, what progressivism is all about. Definition of progressivism? Well, those who are leftists until the eve of taking office and having a position, office, pay, well, then. Then they stop being leftist, they become the establishment, and disguise their pragmatism (which leads them to ally and join their enemies of the eve -and to distance themselves from their social past-), as “political realism.” It is, then, a capital-friendly left. That is to say, a “cool”, pretty, demure and blushing right wing.
In this case, progressivism promises, on the eve of the event, to free the cat from its prison. Then, because he cannot or will not do it, he “changes” his proposal: “I will make you more comfortable”; “I will get better conditions for your death”; “I will fight so that the lethal mechanism does not activate too quickly.” Or, he may instead urge the prisoner to hang on, since he has a 50% chance of temporarily surviving. Imprisoned, yes, but alive.
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The capitalist system is that box. Inside it, multitudes wait, without knowing it, for the murderous mechanism to be activated. Wars, famines, “natural” catastrophes, violent assaults, assassinations, governmental arbitrariness, destructions that will have to solve the enigma: “to live or to die.”
In the box there are those who have the crime of being a woman, boy or girl, young, old, other, dark-skinned, native, with a foreign language in their own land, and so on. No matter their condition, gender, race, ideology, religion, manner, stature, physical complexion: that person is inside the box and is subject to those deadly laws.
Not only without the possibility of getting out, but also without even imagining that another world exists out there.
The option to delay death or improve the conditions of condemnation is submission and acceptance to be part of the showcase of “weird things” that the system exhibits for its own amusement. Woman, Non-binary person, Native, Race, Neighborhood, Nationality, every “oddity” has its place in the curiosity store if it behaves “well.” If not, well, the “invisible hand of the market” will pull the exterminating lever.
Example: the crime of being born, growing up and fighting in Palestinian lands is not to accept being part of the showcase of capital. And to resist and rebel against the machine. The machine wants a recreational center in Gaza and Palestinian civilization is in its way, the Palestinian people are fighting for a land to live in.
Palestine is the best example of the terminal crisis of the so called “Nation States” and their governments. They do not command, they only obey at convenience. They are incapable of presenting an independent, dignified and consistent foreign policy.
And in the ongoing mass murder, the complicity and neglect of the governments of the planet (with a few exceptions), is pathetic. The police of the different European and American governments repressing the demonstrations for the cessation of the genocide in Palestine, are the best oratory about Western “humanism”.
In the world above, European governments are the idle and useless court of the reigning king, Russia and China are the counts and dukes conspiring for regicide, and offering an alternate monarch. The rest of the national governments in the world, except for those who have clearly spoken out against it, are the busy pages, stressed by the continuous demands and harassments of the royal family.
Who are those that contemplate, operate, have fun and make bets on what happens in the box? The big financial, commercial, industrial and, now, digital and aerospace capital.
The governments of the world, for the most part, are just the ticket-takers of the bets, the “brokers” on the stock exchanges where the wars are always up, and life below… down. And, as the Mileis of the world are and will be, they are the ones who are sent to buy and serve the wine that will preside over the monarchic banquets (the chainsaw is an autochthonous detail).
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However, there are those who consider another possibility: not to enter the box or to get out of it.
Moreover, there are those who question the box itself, its eternal and omnipotent existence; and its claim to be the only universe that tolerates the existence, within itself, of diversity, of several universes or multiverses… domesticated.
Those people who are posing that are what we Zapatistas call “resistance and rebellion.” Resistance to enter the box or, if you are inside, Rebellion to fight to get out.
Resistance and Rebellion that proposes the destruction of the box, of the logic that created it and of the belief that “something else” is not possible.
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Catherine #Fitts, ancienne responsable du gouvernement #Bush, affirme que les dossiers #Epstein pourraient révéler une dissimulation bien plus importante impliquant Jeffrey Epstein, plus de 20.000 milliards de dollars manquants au Pentagone et la campagne de #vaccination du gouvernement dans le cadre de l'opération #WarpSpeed. Elle affirme que la vérité sur Epstein révélerait également où sont allés les billions manquants et qui est réellement à l'origine de l'agenda vaccinal. Mme #Fitts estime que les mêmes personnes qui ont pillé le système font aujourd'hui la promotion d'injections expérimentales, et que la révélation de ce lien pourrait déstabiliser l'ensemble du système.
Massive browser hijacking campaign infects 2.3M Chrome, Edge users theregister.com/AMP/2025/07/08… There's a reason why Vivaldi builds lots of functionality into the browser out-of-the-box (mail client, feed reader, ad/ tracker blocker, calendar, advanced tab functions, etc). And lots of reasons we don't build "A.I." or Dunning-Krugerrand crypto into it.
@brucelawson, there are a lot of crappy extension in the Chrome Store. It's always recommended to look for the origin of it. If there isn't a link to an homepage or author (best FOSS), or made by Google itself, then it's to take with much precaution or search an alternative (read ALWAYS TOS and PP).
It's good that in Vivaldi most extensions in the Store are anyway redundant, only needed extensions for very few, occasional tasks.
The mencioned one certainly isn't mandatory, it can be done with most graphic apps, eg.with Minipaint right in Vivaldi and even in the WebPanel, and values can be copied as note or in the OS clipboard.
Newish desktop - i7-13700K - 64Gb DDR5 6000Mhz - RTX 3070Ti - MSI PRO Z790-P (WiFi is not a factor, permanent ethernet connection.)
Needs: - Gaming - Music composing - Coding (Mostly python) - Video editing
I've been using Linux on and off throughout the years, but lately I've fallen out of the loop somewhat. Started with Slackware around 1998, Kubuntu in the 2000's, Ubuntu 2010's, Kali and Mandrake 2020's -> on my laptop, Ubuntu server on my RasPi. At work, we have a few Fedora servers I have to maintain. So not a complete novice, but somewhat obsolete info.
I have been looking at the immutable distros, like Bazzite and Pop!_OS as I've done the whole song and dance of constantly repairing my distro because of various issues, and I'd like my main recreational machine & distro to be low maintenance, I get to fix linux servers at work enough already, I don't want to bring that home.
With gaming, I've understood that linux has come a loooooong way since I last tried sometime around TBC Launch for WoW when Wine barely worked with it.
Music composing is a little annoying, since apparently both Ableton and FL studio are not an option. I've heard good things about Reaper, but I'll have to do some more research. Feel free to educate me on this topic if you have some insider info. I don't play live sets, just compose and mix.
Video editing, currently I use Davinci Resolve, and apparently it works fine on Linux, just some limitations and shenanigans with codecs. Alternatives are welcome, I don't need 90% of what resolve offers, I can make do with a simpler software as well.
Thank you kindly in advance for departing thine wisdom.
EDIT: Ended up installing Bazzite, and KVM virtualizing OpenSuse Tumbleweed and vanilla Fedora, keeping my backups for now on the NAS so I will be able to easily nuke & go with Tumbleweed (I think) next, since so many people seem to swear by it. Thank you everyone for the great advice!
Cheers mate, never even heard of Kinoite, I was looking at KDE Plasma, but had some annoyance about it, can't remember what. I'll look into it for sure.
I would say, that Fedora and Debian are mostly care-free if you go with the defaults. Fedora can enable Flatpak as part of the installation and for Debian the installation guide can be found on Flathub. In both cases you can then install packages using gnome-software.
I have edited videos with Blender, it has a video editor built-in which is very intuitive. And you can explore compositing with it later. Text and graphics for videos I created with Inkscape (export them to PNGs). The graphics are just linked, so if you need to correct a spelling mistake in Inkscape you can overwrite the original PNG and Blender will pick it up. I think with Blender you can use all video codecs that are supported by ffmpeg.
For music you can have a look at Ardour. I did not use it in a long time, but previous version were enough for me to master a track.
Games: Just install Steam through Flatpak (gnome-software). But it depends mostly on the game whether it will be playable on Linux; check protondb.
Thanks for the alternative take. Good to know that Fedora supports Flatpak that easily.
Blender has a video editor?! Geez, used it back in the day for 3D rendering, but didn't even cross my mind for videos. Inkscape is a great idea!
Had a couple of recommendations for Ardour from other folks as well, will have to give it a go. Free is free after all.
Games fortunately I have the most experience with lately, was in another country with my ancient T530, and was bored, so did some gaming on Ubuntu, got mostly everything working pretty quickly.
Blender has a video editor?! Geez, used it back in the day for 3D rendering, but didn’t even cross my mind for videos.
it is surprisingly good, when i first found out about it i was kinda blown away with how competitive it is with stuff like Kdenlive and the ancient version of sony vegas i used to use
For the music stuff, there's also Bitwig and Ardour for good DAWs, Ardour's free so that's what I use. There's yabridge for VSTs, though it's hit and miss, and might be more tinkering than you want as you have to use an older version of wine. I've also heard about using carla for this purpose, but I haven't messed around with that so I can't attest to it's usefulness. I use Arch for all this, so ymmv on Kinoite, I didn't try any of it out when I was on Bazzite, but I can tell you that Bazzite was great for gaming!
Cheers for the music points. I got some pointers, that Nobara is great for music stuff, and Bazzite can be optimized for it, but takes some effort and fiddling. I gotta take a look at Ardour and Bitwig, see if I vibe with them. How are they with older (my keyboard is around 2010 I believe) MIDI devices, do you happen to have experience?
I don't, unfortunately, I'm a guitarist primarily. I did see some MIDI stuff in the menus though, so I think it'd be fine? I think it'd probably depend on drivers, so you'd probably have to check if your device has Linux support, if it's not just taken care of by the generic drivers. You might ask on linuxmusicians.com, they're a great resource!
If your primary usecase is going to be music (so a need for realtime capabilities for stuff like recording, VSTs and DAWs) then I do not reccomend immutable distros for a simple reason: you will probably/eventually need to hack something up to get it to work and at that moment, the immutability is just extra work.
As far as I have tried fiddling with the music stack on Linux (which is not that much), the whole pipewire/JACK/carla stack is a bit messy and I can't imagine it working with flatpacks due to the sandboxing/permissions.
Throw a dart, pick a distro. My God these "help me pick a distro" posts are irritating. You're not special. Your usecase is not special. Distros are "similar but different".
What always gets me is recommendations for what seem like weird obscure distros that I've never heard of.
What should I use for gaming? Well, for that you need Fizzlegit! It was released in 2025, is a derivative of a derivative of a derivative, and uses the same repos, but it has Steam preinstalled. Its totally next-gen!
Does the dickish attitude come with the package or is it extra? So sorry for asking questions after being out the scene for a bit, glad to see nothing's changed in the past 20 years.
Nvidia can be an ass to work with on a lot of distros, but Bazzite delivers the right drivers OOTB.
Needs: - Gaming
Bazzite is setup for gaming OOTB; it's bundled with Steam and Lutris, makes use of custom kernels/schedulers to optimize performance for gaming and contains many other goodies like excellent controller/peripheral support.
Has a built-in just script that downloads, installs and sets up Davinci Resolve for ya: ujust install-resolve
Music composing
This is the only I'm not 100% sure yet because you haven't provided explicitly yet what you'd like to use. But, I can't image it would be harder to get this running on Bazzite compared to other distros.
And last, but not least:
I'd like my main recreational machine & distro to be low maintenance
Through utilizing the bootc model, Bazzite is as low maintenance as they come.
I'd advocate for Bazzite too as you mentioned you just want a start and go machine. With DAWS you've also got Ardour and Bitwig both have great compatibility and flathub. There's also vcv and a few other great tools for music creation.
I'll suggest opensuse tumbleweed, CachyOS or Fedora Everything works on them but you should know that there are lot of cool tools are coming up recently on Linux. Like LACT and alot more.
I've got your exact hardware configuration and use case. Pop_OS broke on me after 18 months due to GNOME extensions I think. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE Plasma works really well for gaming/coding and general use, though I'm dual booting for Ableton Live on windows and the occasional VR.
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If we want Europeans to stop using so many €15-45 flights on the Continent, we need to make the trains cheap and running on time. Currently the trains are eye-wateringly expensive and completely unreliable. If you're not just a dogmatic environmentalist you're going to choose the planes every time.
Is it painful that eurocrats and their personnel -in the Parliament and in the Commission- don't pay for their train transports? As long as they have this kind of privileges they will never listen to your (and thousands or millions) call.
"TURQUIE / KURDISTAN – Après la cérémonie de destruction des armes de la guérilla kurde, la population kurde invite l’État turc à entreprendre des actes pour garantir officiellement les droits des Kurdes au lieu de paroles creuses prononcées par les responsables turcs. Déclarant qu’ils ressentaient à
TURQUIE / KURDISTAN – Après la cérémonie de destruction des armes de la guérilla kurde, la population kurde invite l’État turc à entreprendre des actes pour garantir officiellement les droits des Kurdes au lieu de paroles creuses prononcées par les r…
On Thursday, I left a small donation to my colleagues at "Bake for #Gaza," who are raising money for the Red Cross to support the victims of Gaza. In return, I received a delicious vegetable quiche. That gesture of humanity was not anti-Semitic, but if this makes me an anti-Semite in the eyes of Katharina von Schnurbein, the European Commission's Coordinator on Combating Antisemitism, I think that real anti-Semites will be very happy to be able to hide behind pacifists.
The high-level EU official was lobbying against Israel sanctions using bogus claims on antisemitism, according to a "sensitive" cable from Tel Aviv leaked to EUobserver.
HAVANA, Cuba, Jul 11 (ACN) Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban foreign minister, congratulated Sering Modou Njie on his recent appointment as Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation, and Gambians Abroad of the Republic of Gambia.
I think what upsets me most about Epstein is that thousands of innocent kids are being openly harmed/killed by the president and you don't actually need a conspiracy theory or any secret files to see it and none of these people give a shit about it because so many of the victims aren't white.
"TURQUIE / KURDISTAN – Le commandement général de la gendarmerie a évalué l’indemnisation versée à la famille d’un soldat qui a perdu la vie dans un affrontement comme un « dommage publique » et a exigé l’argent des familles des membres de la guérilla kurde morts lors de
TURQUIE / KURDISTAN – Le commandement général de la gendarmerie a évalué l’indemnisation versée à la famille d’un soldat qui a perdu la vie dans un affrontement comme un « dommage publique » et a exigé l’argent des familles des membres de la guérilla…
The most dangerous aspect of the present situation is the lack of awareness within the working class of the scale and implications of the imperialist powers’ war plans.
“The last summer of peace”: Imperialist powers rearm for global war - World Socialist Web Site
The statement by right-wing German historian Sönke Neitzel about the “last summer of peace” articulates the bloodthirsty plotting of all the imperialist powers.
One thing that strikes me about the Palestinian Holocaust is how united the people are against it - and how universally the ruling class has mobilized to see it to completion. Palestine is a proof of concept - if the ruling class can get away with live streaming a genocide through its entirety despite overwhelming opposition from the people, they can get away with anything.
We are at a turning point; the rise of AI and its increasing usage by the police, military, etc is rapidly robbing the working class of our power. If we do not act now, we may never have the strength to act again; if Palestine falls, we will all fall with it.
Since the beginning of the Al-Aqsa Flood, the main concern of Western governments has been to prevent the defeat of the #Zionist entity both militarily and politically. Yes, the primary concern is economic interests. But beyond that there is the Paradigm. The Western (and also the eastern) #capitalist hegemony does not want an example of poor human beings, oppressed for decades, and subjected to constant humiliation, standing up. If the #Palestinian #Resistance wins, it will mean that we, the oppressed, here in the West, can win too. This is one reason why we see small States (based on imperialist hegemony) taking a protective position for the Zionist entity. If this is defeated, the power of their governments will be challenged the next day. And if the Power of the small State Entities is challenged, it will be the turn of the driving forces of #imperialism. So if the Palestinian Resistance wins, then we will have an example of how our empires could fall. Finally it's a great opportunity for the oppressed people around the world to shout: Victory for the Palestinian Resistance! #alaqsaflood #palestine #gaza #nakba #capitalism #authoritarianism #authority #oppression #fightback #ClassWar
The control of sources is the main weapon of the occupation. To justify the illegal stealing of natural resources #zioNaZis send the gangs of settlers to do it. Then, they are simply given to the state.
"The Jerusalem Governorate Water Authority stated that a group of Israeli settlers stormed all the Ain Samia wells last night and vandalized them, causing significant destruction and a complete control over the wells.
The Authority explained that these wells are the sole source of water supply for dozens of villages and population communities across the West Bank. It confirmed that complaints had been submitted to all official bodies, but the settlers’ attacks continue to escalate frequently and brutally. The Authority warned that if an immediate end is not put to these assaults, the entire region is at risk of an unprecedented water disaster. t.me/QudsNen/175253 #Palestine #WestBank
Lo dije hace unos pocos años por la ex Twitter y me repito, estamos en un alto riesgo de intento de golpe y con ello estallido social por parue de la extrema derecha, incluida el PP ante la pasividad ingenua en la poca izquierda que queda... 🤔
En realidad no estamos muy lejos de cosas como lo de Estados Unidos como se desmadre un poco la cosa y ese auge del fascismo sin complejos.
Menos broma, menos mene y más tomarse en serio el asunto, desde abajo hasta arriba con guerras sucias, cloacas, políticas ultras etc 😡
"SYRIE / ROJAVA – Un jeune Kurde prénommé Firas Farouq Bouzan (39 ans) est mort sous la torture dans un centre de détention d’Alep géré par les forces de sécurité du gouvernement de Damas. Après 40 jours de détention par les forces de sécurité publique sous le gouvernement de transition à Damas, la famille du […] L’article
Καίει ακόμα, χωρίς να έχει τεθεί σε πλήρη έλεγχο, φωτιά που ξέσπασε το απόγευμα της Κυριακής σε εγκαταστάσεις ανακύκλωσης στην περιοχή της Αμφιτρίτης, στην Αλεξανδρούπολη. Η έντονη δυσοσμία και ο…
"SYRIE / ROJAVA – Après le massacre des Alaouites, les gangs jihadistes du gouvernement syrien ont commencé le massacre des Druzes de Soueïda, avant de s’en prendre aux Kurdes. Rien qu’hier, dans le quartier d’Al-Maqous, à l’est de la ville de Soueïda, 6 personnes sont mortes, 20 autres blessées, lors d’affrontements dans le quartier entre […]
"In the midst of everything else going on, it’s easy to ignore the extraordinary planetary crisis we face from climate change. But we just can’t allow ourselves to do that. The past 10 years have been the warmest 10 years on record. 2024 was the warmest year in recorded history. January 2025 was the hottest More The post No, Mr. President, Climate Change is
Illegal migrants should be nowhere near schools, educational establishments or anything to do with children.
They shouldn’t be in the country full stop, but to place these unvetted young men near young boys and girls is reckless, irresponsible and downright dangerous. We don’t know who they are, or where they have come from. It is simply not safe.
These men must be kept away from children.
Not all of them are bad people, but it’s a risk we just cannot take.
This is not racist. This is not far right. This is about safety. Children’s safety.
We need to set up secure detention facilities where these men can be held until their removal can be arranged.
If the facilities don’t exist, build them.
Hospitals sprouted out of the ground overnight for COVID, do the same for the illegals.
Imagine how parents living near one of these hotels feel? Especially those with young daughters? Having these unvetted men roaming their streets?
It's disgraceful. It is NOT safe.
They have broken the law. They are in our country illegally. Detain them, deport them.
But above all else in the short term, please keep them away from children.
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A mass mobilization took place at the port of #Piraeus, with hundreds of people gathering since dawn to prevent the unloading of a military cargo destined for the apartheid state of #Israel and its use for the ongoing massacre in #Gaza.
In their call the dockers pointed out that:
"The ship Ever Golden, with its military cargo with final destination Israel, is expected to dock at Piers 2 & 3 of Piraeus on 14 July Monday at 07:30 am. This is cargo that will be used to continue the slaughter of civilians, the bombing of hospitals, schools, children, infants and women. The port of Piraeus is NOT and will NOT be allowed to become an outpost of the #USA, #NATO or the #EU.
Our goal is: to block in practice the unloading and prevent the transport of this deadly cargo. We will not paint our hands with blood, we will not be accomplices and at the same time targets of retaliation."
Με μεγάλη μαζικότητα πραγματοποιήθηκε η κινητοποίηση στο λιμάνι του Πειραιά, με εκατοντάδες κόσμου να συγκεντρώνονται από τα ξημερώματα προκειμένου να εμποδίσουν την εκφόρτωση στρατιωτικού φορτίου με προορισμό το κράτος απαρτχάιντ…
"Por Hein Htet Kyaw. Artículo original: Myanmar: The Accidental Agora publicado el 10 de Julio, 2025. Traducido por Walruunäut. Por décadas, tanto el sistema económico como el político de Birmania fueron moldeados gravemente por regímenes totalitarios y un ejército poderoso. El sistema de cooperativas controladas por el Estado, que inició con la “Vía birmana al socialismo”..."
Es curioso como mis compañeros de curro que NO TIENEN HUEVOS a pedir mejoras laborales (que los explotan,vamos) que se acojonan con la sola mención de ir a la huelga y que bajan la cabeza a la mínima que les grita un encargado; luego los oyes hablar de torrepacheco y se hinchan de rabia, ira y ganas de ir a apalear "moros de mierda". Mientras yo les digo que ojalá redirigieran toda esta mentalidad para luchar por sus derechos y alomojó cambiábamos algo por aqui. El factor psicológico de todo esto es para estudiarlo.
Quels sont les risques et les enjeux de ce basculement diplomatique? Pourquoi le soutien de la France à Israël reste-t-il si peu débattu dans l’Hexagone?
El jardín de los Finzi-Contini es una magistral novela de Giorgio Bassani, que recrea la vida de los judíos de Ferrara en los años previos a la II Guerra Mundial. La literatura y el cine suele...
"Before a multi-course dinner at the White House, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented President Donald Trump with a copy of a letter nominating him for a Nobel Peace Prize. “He is forging peace as we speak,” Netanyahu remarked to the TV cameras. More The post When Democrats and
IOF obviously targets children. Someone in the West got a bit angry (not to much, because they afraid to be under mossad surveillance in the end) and asked about accountancy. No punishments. No, no. Our leaders in the West don't go so far. They leave Israeli soldiers, who are accused by various organisations, to walk free without accountability in the West. Back in the story, Israel answered that killed these children by accident. They call accident the 40% of total casualties in #Gaza. There are still idiots in the West who believe this. todon.nl/@prolrage/11143170379…
@Feleki εισθε σίγουρος επ αυτού? Οι πληροφορίες μας λένε ότι ονομάσθηκε τοιουτοτρόπως δια την προτίμηση του προς τον Ολυμπιακό καί ουχί ως προς το κομμουνιστικόν βδέλυγμα. Πηγή έχετε, η μήπως είσαι οπαδός των fake news που στόχο έχουν την απορρύθμιση του καθεστώτος?
University of Edinburgh School of Political Science graduates stage mass walk out at graduation ceremony to protest university’s complicity in Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people.
University of Edinburgh School of Political Science graduates stage mass walk out at graduation ceremony to protest university’s complicity in Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people.
========================== Hi Aral, Thanks for posting this.
I added the palestine guppe Fediverse group so that its 1.8k followers will see it. If you can, please add ATpalestineATa.gup.pe to any Palestine-related posts so that they get more readers. Thanks!
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in reply to berdario • • •PS, while I was closing the dozens of tabs that I opened to investigate how everything fits together, a note on what I wrote earlier:
mounting the disk on a path already accessible by ADM file explorer doesn't work because of permission issues, similar to the immutable flag that you can see with
lsattr... but someone on Reddit had another workaround:reddit.com/r/asustor/comments/…
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