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The would-be-christian far-right has erased the end of the book of Genesis. : "Have dominion over the fish in the seas, the fowl in the skies ..." does not mean mankind has a right of nature annihilation . Neither does this give Kochland the right to deny man-made climate change.
I've been working on a complex multi-model database for a few weeks now, and recently I took time to simplify and test out an idea I had on a simple key-value database.
TEHRAN - A decisive shift is underway regarding the international community’s posture toward the Gaza crisis. A coalition of countries is moving beyond rhetoric to impose targeted sanctions on Israel.
“This is how media freedom dies. Not with dramatic raids on newsrooms or journalists thrown in jail (though who knows what the rest of Trump’s second term will bring). It dies with mergers and acquisitions, with regulatory pressure and financial settlements, with billionaires who see news organizations as just another business asset to be leveraged.” newrepublic.com/article/198120…
Lest we forget we will be losing a whole team of very talented writers, a slammin' band, camera crews, and other behind-the-scenes professionals that bring us a show every night and that we will truly miss.
Invitation to attend the trial in Berlin - Solidarity with our accused comrade
Wednesday, 26 February at 12:00 RALLY in front of court at 13:00 trial hearing Tiergarten District Court Wilsnacker Str. (entrance Turmstr. 91) Courtroom B145, 1st floor
On 27 January last year, we were in Berlin at a large demonstration in solidarity with Palestine. During the demonstration, our comrade was suddenly pulled out by the cops, put into a car without warning or communication and driven away. The reason: his Palestine flag had a fist in Palestine colours on it (see picture). That really shouldn’t be anything surprising at a Palestine demonstration. However, the police and the public prosecutor’s office claim that the fist looks “confusingly similar44 to the logo of the Samidoun youth movement Hirak.
The Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network Samidoun was banned by the Federal Ministry of the Interior in November 2023. The fact that the repressive authorities are now constructing a connection between the symbols is absurd, but a deliberate calculation. The fist is a symbol of determination and struggle, not only in the Palestinian movement.
A successful criminalisation of the symbol would enable even more arbitrary repression against the Palestine solidarity movement.
The comrade had received a penalty order for €1200, against which he lodged an appeal. The main hearing will take place on Wednesday.
As only a few of us can make the long journey from Munster to Berlin, we are calling on the Berlin community to show solidarity and accompany the trial in solidarity.
Statement by Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network on the 23 November 2023 Raids in Germany
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network denounces in the strongest terms the raids carried out by German police in four federal states, with a particular focus in Berlin, targeting Palestinians labeled by the German state as members or supporters of Samidoun or of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas.
We express our deepest solidarity with all of those subjected to these raids today, and we view these raids as a clear attempt by the German state to terrorize the Palestinian, Arab and Muslim communities in Germany and, more broadly, the popular sentiment in support of Palestinian liberation. These actions today build upon the ban of Samidoun several weeks ago, the bans on demonstrations, police attacks on communities, racist media incitement and fascist political, social and cultural assaults on all members of these targeted communities.
Further, these raids are an attempt by the German state to advance the Zionist genocide being carried out at this moment in occupied Palestine, which has already taken the lives of over 14,000 Palestinians, displaced over half of the Palestinians of Gaza, destroyed dozens of hospitals, schools, mosques and churches, and wounded tens of thousands more. They are also an attempt to silence all voices who speak out for the liberation of Palestinian prisoners, particularly at this moment, when six prisoners have been martyred in occupation jails in the past month, when prisoners are subjected to daily torture and abuse, and when a prisoner exchange is potentially on the horizon and requires the support of all people of conscience.
Instead of acting as a responsible party – sanctioning the Israeli occupation regime, expelling its ambassador and invoking the Genocide Convention to protect Palestinians – the proper activities of any state that claims, as does Germany, to have learned its lessons from Germany’s role as a perpetrator of Nazi genocide – it instead has increased its military support and arms sales to the Israeli occupation tenfold in just the past two months while imposing a level of police repression unprecedented since German reunification on the Palestinian community and supporters of Palestine more broadly.
We assert that these attacks on people who were Samidoun members prior to the 2nd November ban on Samidoun in Germany as well on people who participate in demonstrations and mass actions in defense of Palestine will fail in the attempt to terrorize and silence the community and the rising voice of justice in Palestine. The tens of thousands of people who fill the streets for every call for Palestine will continue to do so, even as they face police assault and arrest for declaring such simple demands as, “End the genocide” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”
Our energies and efforts around the world are focused on supporting the heroic Palestinian people in Gaza and throughout occupied Palestine and organizing everywhere in exile and diaspora, on the international, Arab and Palestinian levels, to bring an end to the genocide, to affirm the legitimacy and leadership of the Palestinian resistance, and to liberate Palestine, all of Palestine. The systemic racist abuse directed at the Palestinian people and the Arab and Muslim communities more broadly will not silence us nor will it suppress our work. Whether the repression is taking place in Germany, France, Britain, Canada or the United States, it is clear that these attacks on strugglers for justice in Palestine reflects only the desperation of the imperialist powers to defend their illegitimate Zionist settler colonial project planted in the heart of the Arab region by all means, including tearing apart all of their proclamations and pledges of democracy, human rights, freedom of expression and freedom of association. We express our clear solidarity with all people and organizations who have been targeted for arrest, detention, police raids, searches, harassment, employer retaliation, official silencing and other forms of persecution for their positions on Palestinian liberation.
Despite all the attacks, the reality is clear: the people stand with Palestine. From the tens, indeed hundreds of thousands that defy state repression in Germany to take to the streets for Palestine, to the masses in France that rise up against police bans on mobilization, to the millions in Britain marching despite attempts to ban the Palestinian flag, to the ongoing actions in Britain, Canada and the United States to materially confront and challenge the war machine through direct actions like those of Palestine Action – and this is just in the heart of the imperial core. In Latin America, Colombia, Venezuela, Cuba, Belize, Bolivia have cut ties, recalled their ambassadors or affirmed their rejection of the Israeli occupation regime, demanding an end to the genocide. South Africa’s parliament has voted to expel the Israeli ambassador. And of course, in the Arab region, the heroic and unparalleled role of the Lebanese, Yemeni and Iraqi resistance is unified with the clear sentiment and spirit of the people to shame every reactionary regime that is complicit in the genocide in Palestine and the imperialist plans for the region.
The images of hundreds of masked and heavily armed police invading the apartments of Palestinian students, workers and refugees in Germany today appears as an imitation of the daily invasions of the Israeli occupation forces in Palestinian homes in occupied Palestine, as well as a disturbing echo of Germany’s own Nazi fascist history. And as Palestinians in occupied Palestine have never stopped struggling despite over 75 years of Zionist occupation and 100 years of colonialism, these attacks will not silence the growing movement in Germany and every other imperialist power involved in attacking Palestine, as new generations refuse their involvement and complicity in genocide.
We affirm: No bans, police raids or criminalization will silence the spirit, the will and the organization of the Palestinian, Arab and internationalist voices confronting imperialism, Zionism and reaction. As Samidoun, we are committed to challenging the ban and these attacks by all legal means, and our eyes will not be turned away from our role in working urgently to end the genocide and free all Palestinian prisoners. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free. Long live the Palestinian resistance. Victory, return, total liberation and decolonization for all of Palestine.
The “German-Israeli Society” announced that it has filed a complaint with the Berlin police against Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network to classify it as a terrorist organi…
So yesterday Nancy Faeser, the German interior minister (previously known for multiple anti-Arab propaganda campaigns), announced a ban on Samidoun. The ban on #Samidoun by #German officials is active participation in the ongoing genocide on #Gaza. The purpose of such a ban is to repress dissent with the full force of the state. ... All of this is full-on complicity and particiption in #genocide. ... If it is possible to ban Samidoun, then it is possible to ban every political organization and group in #Germany that challenges the #politics of the German state and its imperialist role. This action comes hand in hand with the United States' ongoing resupply of bombs to target the #Palestinian people in Gaza. It is meant to bolster the Israeli war effort by depriving the Palestinian people of popular support on the streets. t.me/samidounnetwork/1396 t.me/samidounnetwork/1397
The images of hundreds of masked and heavily armed police invading the apartments of Palestinian students, #workers and #refugees in Germany today appears as an imitation of the daily invasions of the Israeli occupation forces in Palestinian homes in occupied Palestine, as well as a disturbing echo of Germany’s own Nazi #fascist history. And as #Palestinians in occupied #Palestine have never stopped struggling despite over 75 years of #Zionist occupation and 100 years of colonialism, these attacks will not silence the growing movement in #Germany and every other imperialist power involved in attacking Palestine, as new generations refuse their involvement and complicity in #genocide. abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/pos…
#Germany is becoming a #police state when it comes to #Palestine #activism. "At 6 a.m. on March 22, pro-#Palestinian activists Said and Yasemin, who were asleep in their respective Berlin homes, were awakened by armed and masked police officers who broke down their doors at the same time." "This is not the first time Berlin police raided people’s homes over social media posts. Earlier this month, police knocked down the door of a middle-aged woman who wrote “from the river to the sea Palestine will be free” on her social media and arrested her. She was charged with “using the symbols of unconstitutional organizations,” Berlin police said in a statement." "In #Berlin most recently, the state and the media have tried their best to shut down the Palestine Congress, a gathering of international scholars, activists, and journalists. " "A Palestinian friend of mine, Mahmoud, is currently being targeted by the state of Karlsruhe for saying the following during a protest: “Palestine is for all people, from the river to the sea, regardless of their denomination or religion.” That was enough for the state to say he had committed a hate crime by questioning Israel’s right to exist. He is being forced to pay 7,500 euros in fines. " This is extremely DANGEROUS. #AntiFascism mondoweiss.net/2024/04/germany…
The German state is taking extraordinary measures to clamp down on pro-Palestinian activism, including arresting activists in their homes in the middle of the night.
#Germany 's federal intelligence agency classified the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (#BDS) movement as a suspected extremist organization this week.
This new designation will allow German authorities to monitor BDS activists and recruit informants within the organization.
#Israel has also poured tens of millions of shekels into combating BDS. Germany has now become the latest country to join what is commonly known as "the anti-BDS movement."
(And for the last they left the most racist, anti-muslim, fascist, aspect of the decision)
According to BfV president, Thomas Haldenwang, who contributed to the report, Germany experienced a 67.4% increase in politically and ideologically motivated crimes in the past year, with most offenders linked to Islamist ideologies, a threat that has intensified since October 7. haaretz.com/world-news/europe/…
The new Jews for the German state are the arabs. Especially those who struggle for "never again". Totalitarian state at its best in the video. youtube.com/watch?v=CGHfIP7Xcn…
Public shaming in national newspapers, arbitrary arrests and even beatings by police - these are just a few of the consequences that those protesting for an ...
"Qantara portal, which publishes content in English, German and Arabic, operated successfully for more than 20 years, seemingly with no editorial guidance from the German government. This changed, however, when it began publishing content critical of German debates on anti-Semitism in the context of the #Gaza #genocide. Earlier this year, it was announced that Qantara would be restructured, and its management would be transferred from Deutsche Welle to the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen – IFA), which is affiliated to and funded by the Federal Foreign Office. ...German Foreign Minister Annalena #Baerbock suggesting in an interview that concerns about content published by Qantara, particularly content on anti-Semitism, were a factor in the decision. ...With this one article, published under the editorial control of a Foreign Office-affiliated institute, the #German government burned its “bridge” to the Islamic world." #germany #germancomplicity #racism #antimuslimischerrassismus #StateRacism #antisemitismus #warmongers #warcrimes aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/8/…
What’s behind #Germany’s raging #Islamophobia? aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/9/… "The historical parallel here is hard to miss: far-right forces are rising, as a racist hysteria targeting one racialised group of people spreads through the German state and society. History may not repeat itself fully. Mass extermination may be replaced by mass expulsion as the far-right concept of “remigration” is quickly gaining ground; it has long left the far-right fringe to become increasingly more mainstream." #racism #racialprofiling #RacialCapitalism #farright #fascism
"On 27 January last year, we were in #Berlin at a large demonstration in #solidarity with #Palestine. During the demonstration, our comrade was suddenly pulled out by the cops, put into a car without warning or communication and driven away. The reason: his Palestine flag had a fist in Palestine colours on it (see picture). That really shouldn’t be anything surprising at a Palestine demonstration. However, the police and the public prosecutor’s office claim that the fist looks “confusingly similar44 to the logo of the #Samidoun youth movement Hirak." #Germany #repression #zionism #zionazis #germancomplicity pixelfed.de/p/anarchists4pales…
Have a look at how German police actually forced its entry into a public event where #FrancescaAlbanese, the #UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, presented her view on the horrendous situation in #Gaza and #WestBank
The whole meeting had to proceed under the eyes of the police observing who was present and listening whether specific expressions could be used to criminalize the Palestinian #solidarity movement once more.
Living in a police state seems to be the fitting term for a situation in which the armed police of the state executive intimidates not only the audience but the international visitor who represents the United Nations that were founded after WW2 to make it impossible that such kinds of authoritarian repression like in Nazi #Germany would ever happen again. jungewelt.de/artikel/494289.re… Via @dhayannada #repression #palestine #germancomplicityingenocide
The #German federal ministry has dismissed a lawyer in #Berlin due to her opposition to the Israeli assault on #Gaza.
Lawyer Melanie Schweizer posted a video on X stating: “Yesterday I got fired as a civil servant working at the Federal Ministry in #Germany. Why? In a nutshell because I was speaking out against the genocide in #Palestine committed by #Israel, against the German support thereof, against the violence and crimes happening there.” She called on supporters of Gaza to make their stance clear and “keep speaking up, keep using your voice, losing your job is not the worst that can happen to you, losing your life is. Losing your #freedom right is.” via @EndIsraeliApartheid #germanComplicity #repression #HumanRights #fascism #FascismRising @GermanyUNmiddleeastmonitor.com/20250304…
German police yesterday violently broke up an International Women's Day march in support of #Palestine and #solidarity with Palestinian #women who continue to struggle under Israeli occupation.
#Berlin ’s #immigration authorities are moving to deport four young foreign residents on allegations related to participation in protests against Israel’s war on #Gaza, an unprecedented move that raises serious concerns over civil liberties in #Germany.
The deportation orders, issued under German migration law, were made amid political pressure and over internal objections from the head of the state of Berlin’s immigration agency. The internal strife arose because three of those targeted for deportation are citizens of European Union member states who normally enjoy freedom of movement between #EU countries. “You can see it in the U.S. and Germany, too: Political dissent is silenced by targeting the migration status of protesters.” Some of the allegations are minor. Two, for example, are accused of calling a police officer “fascist” — insulting an officer, which is a crime. Three are accused of demonstrating with groups chanting slogans like “From the river to the sea, Palestine Will be Free” — which was outlawed last year in Germany — and “#freePalestine.” Authorities also claim all four shouted #antisemitic or anti-Israel slogans, though none are specified. theintercept.com/2025/03/31/ge… #Staterepression #germancomplicity #racism #zionism #genocide via @EndIsraeliApartheid
On 21 April, #Germany will deport me – an #EU citizen convicted of no crime – for standing with #Palestine
"None of the charges have yet led to a court hearing, yet the #deportation letters conclude that we are a threat to public order and national security. There has been no legal process for this decision, and none of us have a criminal record. The reasoning in the letters continues with vague and unfounded accusations of “#antisemitism” and supporting “terrorist organisations” – referring to #Hamas – as well as its supposed “front organisations in Germany and #Europe”.
Since October 2023, the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees has unlawfully frozen the processing of all asylum seekers from Gaza. And on 16 April 2025 a federal administrative court in Germany will reportedly decide on a case that could set a precedent for the German state to mass deport Palestinian refugees.
Four of us have received letters from the state telling us to leave or be removed. This is a terrifying illustration of Germany’s lurch to the right, says Kasia Wlaszczyk
On 28 March, the Zionist #German Jewish weekly Judische Allgemeine Zeitung happily announced that Tel Aviv would become Berlin's newest twin city, with all factions of the Berlin House of Representatives agreeing to the decision.
They do so even as large parts of the world are gradually distancing themselves from this regime.
Such a decision reflects common interests and values that supposedly bind the cities and their populations together.
And the ones on display in this partnership are telling: while one side commits #genocide, the other supports, promotes, and finances it; while one carries out ethnic cleansing, the other feigns ignorance; while one deliberately targets children, #journalists, and #medical personnel, the other looks away and prattles on about #HumanRights while one starves a people to death, the other merely shrugs.
As Israel's global isolation grows, Berlin deepens its alliance with Tel Aviv – criminalising dissent, rewarding lobby groups, and eroding rights in the name of fighting antisemitism
Mass surveillance, a crackdown on protest, and a media unwilling to question power: In Germany, pro-Palestinian voices are being silenced.Nicholas Muirhead r...
@dhayannada It’s been a police state for a while. This was Hamburg during G20 about eight years ago. And the electricity in the auditorium where Diem25 was having its event mysteriously got cut off just before Assange (who I’m not a fan of, but still) was about to speak remotely.
I just really wish they wouldn’t call it “Islamophobia.” There are very real reasons to be vary of ideologies as toxic as Islam, Christianity, etc., without being bigoted/racist against people who might have been born into them.
“Muslimophobia” I can understand. Islamophobia, no. (And no, the difference isn’t just academic.)
All the allies and contributors of #Gaza_Genocide are working together against the exposure of truth and of saving lives of palestinians. I think this topic is underestimated till now, but if you see better you could understand that black days are not coming, are here. todon.nl/@prolrage/11132491405…
From The Guardian "Civil rights groups in the #US have warned of a “wave of McCarthyite backlash” against criticism of Israel’s bombardment of #Gaza after Americans expressing support for the #Palestinians have been sacked, faced threats of violence …
Republican lawmakers delivered a thunderous response following Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s explosive declassification of documents proving the Obama administration deliberately manufactured intelligence to create the false Trump…
Alesya Abramenko took part in a session of the Krichev District Executive Committee where results of social and economic development and the fulfillment of the district’s budget in H1 2025 were summarized.
The name he comes with is Georgie, but I will re name him if a better one reveals itself. Thus far the only one that comes to mind is Oxytocin. RT: spinster.xyz/objects/11d00f98-…
Acquaintance of mine adopted a kitten but her senior cat (female) keeps attacking him. She was about to take him back to the Humane Society. I agreed to foster him for a few days to see if Momo (my senior male) accepts him. If so I will adopt the newcomer. It’s been a while since I’ve interacted with a kitten and good lord he’s got a lot of energy. I adopted all my other cats as adults. Young adult cats have more than enough energy for me; this little guy is bonkers.
"If assassinations were a victory, the resistance would have ended with the assassination of Sheikh Izz al-Din al-Qassam 90 years ago. However, the resistance continued and grew stronger. If brutality, house demolitions, and revenge had stopped the resistance, the heroes of Gaza would not have humiliated the enemy in every street and alley after every war." -Abu Obeida of Qassam forces
Took me 24 years but I finally 100% Grand Theft Auto 3.
I ended up playing the definitive edition I bought on sale using a gift card I got from someone a few years back I forgot to use. Honestly I think the original in a lot of ways was far less frustrating than the definitive edition port. The drive by controls and car driving physics in the original were a lot better and felt far less frustrating. Grove street games didn´t do a great job with the port sadly and even after 4 years of patches / updates itś still not on parity with the original 2001 PS2 version.
I do own the original on PC luckily and I would say RE3 ( reverse engineered GTA3 ) is probably the definitive way to play the game if you had to play it. It was a monumental game for the sandbox genre of its time but its a bit dated in 2025.
That's what sucked about that game. The acting, the artwork .. it was all incredible. The adverts were funny as fuck. The dialog was pretty good. I go it on release and the bugs were just terrible:
And there's nowhere to go or hang out. Even at that one bar everyone goes to you can't actually do anything. I like driving around listening to the radio but I wish there were side activities like GTA 4
Tbh they completely changed the perk trees and skills/hacks when they released that big dlc phantom liberty. It ruined the gameplay for me. I really don't like any of the nerfed gameplay skill trees at all even in a new playthrough.
@Hoss @Eiswald Oddly enough I bought GTA5 when it was on sale for $15 a few years back I played an hour or two of it and stopped playing it and never went back. I think GTA 4 was the last good GTA game. I know a lot of people hated the driving but that game is literally a time capsule of mid / late 2000s culture and it hits hard playing it because that game came out 2 months before I graudated high school and a few months before i legally became an adult so it was kind of like the last game i played as a teenager
Cyberpunk's gameplay felt really shallow. The world looked fantastic from an aesthetic perspective, but nothing about it really made you wanna fuck around like in a Grand Theft Auto game.
Yeah, the city was very limiting compared to GTA V. I mean first person shooter and the basic cyberpunk mechanics. That would make GTA 6 more interesting.
Dave Grohl has his band walking on eggshells since drummer Josh Freese got the axe earlier this year, according to an insider. “Dave continues to be his own ...
he’s always been an asshole. Like the story said, he always had Taylor to back him up.
IIRC, Grohl played all the instruments on the Foo’s first record, and then he canned the drummer from the second record after it was all done, then went back and re-recorded all the drum parts himself before hiring Hawkins.
and there was also There was also another situation where he unceremoniously canned Franz Stahl right after the tour where he was replacing Pat Smear. It was a total dick move.
Let's take a trip to the past, let's say 2 years after 2008-9 destruction of #gaza by #IsraelTerroristState. "Research by the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme indicates that the psychological effects of the attack are profound. Out of a sample of 374 children questioned, over 73 per cent thought they were going to die during the violence. Almost 68 per cent of the children - all aged between 6 and 16 -fear that a similar attack will occur in the future, and 41 per cent expressed a strong desire for revenge." If you can recognize any connection with today's Gaza militants, you found the point. Let's talk about Hamas now...
Thursday, 10 July 2025 The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) welcomes the ruling by the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), which uphol
Die Antisemitismus-Meldestelle Rias steht in der Kritik: Trotz staatlicher Förderung verweigert sie Einblick in ihre Datenbank. Mit einer anderen Methode wäre mehr Transparenz möglich. Die Technik dazu ist vorhanden. buff.ly/bn55CZr
@bifouba Und da sie trotz umfangreicher Krtitik daran festhält - bei allem was bereits jetzt bekannt ist - macht schon sehr deutlich, dass das was in der Datenbank steht noch problematischer ist.
We cannot pretend that we do not see the policeman who walks in front of the windows with a loaded revolver, defending us, while we eat our savory dinner or view a new performance, or those soldiers who will immediately go with their guns and loaded cartridges to where our property will be violated. -- Leo Tolstoy
00:00 Intro 00:40 Sponsor: Try AlmaLinux and TuxCare's support services 01:16 Your Linux system is probably not 100% free 04:15 Why you'd want more proprietary software 06:26 Getting more users is key 08:12 Why you'd want to keep Linux FOSS 10:47 The chicken and egg problem 12:37 More proprietary apps, or FOSS only? 13:34 Sponsor: Get a device that runs Linux perfectly from Tuxedo 14:39 Support the channel
Modern Linux desktops can use proprietary software. Nvidia drivers are the prime example. Depending on your hardware, you might also use more proprietary blobs that enable your wifi, or bluetooth to work.
If you're a Chrome user, you're using proprietary software. If you're a gamer, chances are you're also using proprietary platforms.
Stallman eats something off his foot:
Reasons you might want more commercial, proprietary applications: these probably all boil down to "I need these apps to use Linux as a daily driver".
The apps people generally clamor for are Microsoft Office, the Adobe Suite, CAD software like AUtoCAD, a lot of games, streaming software, OCR software, voice synthesizers, plenty of VFX related software, this type of stuff: generally things that you'd need to use Linux professionally in certain fields.
That's the main reason: it's a make or break thing for a lot of professionals for them personally to be able to move to Linux.
Getting more users is the only way we'll all get a better experience all around. Not only because having more users means potentially finally getting these AAA commercial apps like MS Office or the Adobe Suite, but also because the more users you have, the more chance you have of them becoming contributors.
Now, let's look at the reasons to keep Linux desktops as Free and open source as possible. First, we have amazing applications that are free of charge, and free software.
We could argue that if we want these apps to thrive, we need to only have these apps available, and not their proprietary counterparts: basically a "throw the kid in the pool so it can learn to swim" approach.
If we want the FOSS ecosystem to develop and grow and improve, we need to make sure that people who move to Linux use these applications, and not the ones they're already familiar with.
There's also the philosophical aspects. Having proprietary offerings on Linux might end up "tainting" this enclave and making it worse, by encouraging the commercial practices of these companies, and erasing the mentality that many Linux users like.
So, either you think proprietary applications are necessary to have more market share, more users, and for everyone to be able to use Linux as a desktop, or you think proprietary apps will taint Linux and damage our existing FOSS applications. You might think Linux needs more users, or that it doesn't.
In both cases, you might be right! Personally, I'm in the camp of "use what works". I have a preference for FOSS if it works for me, but if none of the alternatives offer something I'm comfortable with, I won't hesitate to use proprietary apps and software.
If you're not in the same camp, that's perfectly ok too! That's the beauty of the Linux desktop: whether it gets proprietary apps or not, it will still be a viable option for us who already use it.
7.17K Posts, 335 Following, 29.9K Followers · YouTube content creator and Linux user living in Brest, Brittany. Might post gaming related stuff, especially if it runs on Linux, natively or not ! #linux #opensource #tech #gaming
Les boîtes à livres, c’est aussi une plongée dans une époque (1979 et 1987 respectivement) où SF rimait avec nichons. #BoiteALivres #ScienceFiction #Seins
"You must not abandon the ship in a storm because you cannot control the winds . . . What you cannot turn to good, you must at least make as little bad as you can."
Staatsräsonismus ist eine derartige geistige Verwirrung, dass selbst der Economist es für nötig befindet, das zu kommentieren. Deutschland blamiert sich vor der ganzen Welt.
Cardinal Pizzaballa visits the ruins of the Rosary Sisters School desecrated by Israeli soldiers with Hebrew graffiti and the Star of David #Palestinetiktokgenocide.com/uploads/car…
Cardinal Pizzaballa visits the ruins of the Rosary Sisters School, a Catholic school in Gaza, desecrated by Israeli soldiers with Hebrew graffiti and the Star of David
Defender shouldn't even [be allowed] to exist. Selling a product to cover the baked in weaknesses of your own product - and that we suck it up - is insanity.
but is it a signature based detection or behavioral? Either way, that's a little different, and the human-readable KQL hunting query was shared which can be abstracted to other tools.
Defender AV is free to use, included with the Windows OS, and can work even with a competitive EDR, if preferred. I guess I don't really see what the concern is about.
They could definitely be turning the screws harder and more blatantly than they are; but it's both hard, an probably unwise, to remember the incentives that come with 'security' being a distinct division doing ~$20 billion a year in revenue rather than just part of the development process.
If it's the only mitigation for your own software defect you'd better have a good story about how hard you worked to get it to all AV vendors who care even slightly.
Microsoft has observed two named Chinese nation-state actors, Linen Typhoon and Violet Typhoon, exploiting vulnerabilities targeting internet-facing SharePoint servers.
Israel has murdered at least 45 people and wounded more than 60 in yet another massacre of aid-seekers at the Israel-controlled Zikim ‘aid’ point, leaving carnage and the bodies of victims being transported on carts
Israel has murdered at least 45 people and wounded more than 60 in yet another massacre of aid-seekers at the Israel-controlled Zikim ‘aid’ point, leaving carnage and the bodies of vict…
Israel has slaughtered at least eight children and badly wounded many others, as well as adult victims both killed and wounded, in an attack on a Gaza clinic in central Gaza: Silence from the Starm…
US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) is under fire after voting against a congressional amendment that would have slashed $500 million in weapons aid to Israel. Her justification? The amendment woul
I see a news story about an investigation opened by federal prosecutors or a new finding by the CDC, and I start to take the announcement at face value: "Huh. What did the target of the investigation do? What did the scientists discover?" Then I remember that these aren't legitimate agencies any more; they've been taken over by Trump loyalists and redirected to purely political ends.
Here's a reminder that the Wikipedia editors justified the inclusion of their page on the Gaza genocide by saying that they personally are not qualified to judge either way and went with the overwhelming majority of scholarly assessments of the matter, and that it wasn't even close.
You can find plenty genocide scholars and international lawyers who won't say anything at all, because they neither want to confirm the obvious nor destroy their credibility by denying it, and you can find some who'll go with “It's obviously all the worst war crimes and crimes against humanity, but genocide is not quite provable.” But there are literally no serious and qualified experts out there making any kind of credible attempt at validating the “not even close to genocide, and obviously so" claim. bird.makeup/users/alonso_gd/st…
Two sergeants from the 107th Battalion of the 63rd Brigade captured seven Russians in the Serebryansky Forest. They initially refused to surrender and holed up in a fortification—but that didn’t save them.
The scales of justice are so weighted towards the wealthy that #Trump can fire off law suits like a confetti canon and win most of the time. Like a lot of idiots he thinks this makes him a legal genius.
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In the U.S. a federal judge has blocked the enforcement of Trump's order targeting individuals who work with the International Criminal Court (#ICC). The ruling, following a lawsuit by human rights advocates, calls the order an unconstitutional infringement on free speech. The order authorized economic and travel sanctions on people involved in ICC investigations of U.S. citizens or allies, such as #Israel. The ICC and numerous countries have condemned the order.
00:00 Intro 00:40 Sponsor: Extend the life of your PHP Applications 01:29 Linux is built by companies 04:28 Linux Governance: mostly big companies 07:26 Open Source is the ultimate accountability solution 09:17 Mutually assured destruction 11:04 Torvalds is no corporate shill 12:14 Is it really a problem? 13:18 Sponsor: Get a device that runs Linux perfectly, with Tuxedo 14:13 Support the channel
If we start with the Linux kernel, in 2020, for version 5.10, there were almost 2000 different contributors, only 252 of which shared their first contribution. 228 companies also contributed work, and the top 20 companies contributed 70% of the changes in the kernel itself. THe biggest contributors? Huawei, Intel, Red Hat, Google, but we also see Facebook, Oracle, and Samsung in there.
But this doesn't mean that all the code these companies want to push, is accepted. The code is signed off on by subsystem maintainers and reviewers. And we see that big companies also have a hand on code validation, with Red Hat, Facebook, Google and Huawei being among the biggest.
Linux as a project, doesn't really have a roadmap. It's not like people meet in a boardroom to decide what they'll focus on next. People just propose their work, and it's either accepted, or not. So, companies who contribute have their own roadmaps, that require them to add some code to the Linux kernel, and this code kinda becomes the roadmap of the kernel itself.
The Linux Foundation is a big actor in how Linux is shaped and where it goes. And if we look at the board of directors for the Linux Foundation, we find a lot of big companies again: Sony, Intel, Huawei, Tencent, Meta, IBM, Microsoft, Samsung, Oracle, and more.
So, we come full circle: however well managed and structured the linux kernel development is, at every step, the code is written by people working for big companies, and big companies employ the maintainers who approve the code, which in turn is approved by Torvalds, who works for the Linux foundation, which is controlled by the board of directors, made up of employees of big companies. But is that really a problem?
Well, Linux might be mainly developed by people working for big companies, but it's still open source. You can still fork it, you can still grab the code, modify it, and redistribute it. And you can also look at the code, and detect all that shady stuff.
Which means the minute anything remotely weird, privacy invasive, or limiting to users makes it to the kernel, you'll get an immediate fork, or at least a new kernel version being distributed which removes all that crap.
Also important to remember: these big companies don't contribute just for fun. They contribute what they want or need to make their own products, services, and businesses run.
And it also works as some kind of mutually assured destruction: if a company ever wanted to add some crappy code to the kernel, it would hurt its competitors who also use Linux. So these guys would oppose the patch, or refuse to let it through. And the company would probably end up being banned from contributing at all.
And also, Linus Torvalds is the ultimate gatekeeper on the kernel: what goes in or not, goes through him. And fortunately, Torvalds is aware that corporate involvement can be tricky to handle. In a interview he gave in 2021, when being asked about financial sustainability, he says he has always been wary of being too tainted by commercial interests. He said that he didn't want to work for a Linux company to avoid that and stay as a neutral party. He also knows that it's not easy to work with companies and that they don't know how to do open source in a lot of cases.
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