The Etsy hype machine is annoying AF.

ETSY: YOUR PACKAGE IS ON THE WAY!
Me: No, it's not. The label was created. Sometimes it takes a week for the shipper to actually ship it. Even eBay has stopped this misleading hype.

ETSY: YOUR PACKAGE IS ARRIVING TODAY!
Me: Bets? According to the shipping company's tracking page It's getting ready to depart *Poland*. It is NOT arriving today.

ETSY: YOUR PACKAGE HAS ARRIVED IN YOUR STATE!
Me: Again, label created. In my 760mi. long state. Yay... FFS!

Testo iencli : un guide pour choper de la T sur internet à moindre risque
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"« Qu'on soit trans, trans-adjacent ou autre, qu'on refuse le cadre et les conditions dans lesquelles on prétend nous faire accéder aux soins, qu'on y ait de toute manière jamais eu accès ou bien qu'on s'inquiète de s'en voir priver, il existe tout un tas de raisons de s'intéresser à l'automédication et au do-it-yourself h­ormonal. Ici, on va parler de testostérone sous

About once a month I am struck by how useful the way we categorize political beliefs is to the people in power, and how damaging it is to political discourse otherwise.

Are you right wing? Wait - conservative? Or are you a liberal? Are you a "leftist" - or is that a liberal? Are centrists liberals? Or are they right wing? Or conservative?

Your answer may determine what other people assume you want, based on their *own* biases, no matter what else you tell them explicitly.

in reply to John

This is most obvious in the "liberal" or "left" debacle that routinely bamboozles otherwise smart people, but has been used for decades to conflate "conservative" and "far right" as well.

Other examples include things like "terrorist" and "criminal", which are so flagrantly used as to have no real meaning beyond "bad because we said so".

You can see it with the political class' selective use of "protester" and "rioter", as though these two words have no substantive difference in meaning.

Ambiente de trabalho privativo ou de software livre: seria apenas o primeiro suficientemente bom?


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Discordo fortemente quando alguém afirma equivocadamente que “Linux” — querendo frequentemente dizer GNU — seria projetado para ser utilizado apenas pela linha de comando. Alegam que, por isso, usuários finais seriam melhor satisfeitos por um ou dois sistemas operacionais não livres para computadores pessoais, especialmente o que domina o mercado.

Há, de fato, um enorme esforço de GNU/“Linux”/etc. no lado do servidor (back-end). Isso felizmente, já que é o tipo de sistema operacional que tem dado sustentação à sociedade da informação global, executando a maioria dos servidores da Web, a infraestrutura de telecomunicações em geral, os maiores supercomputadores, projetos científicos de variadas áreas. Seu núcleo está em dispositivos móveis e embarcados, incluindo veículos automotores. Os ditos interpretadores de comandos, na realidade, tornam a vida de quem aprende a usá-los mais fácil e rápida. Isso não é uma fraqueza, e sim uma vantagem muito poderosa.

Dito isso, também tem havido grande desenvolvimento, por décadas, do que chamamos de ambientes de área de trabalho livres (Free Desktop), com diversas implementações, algumas menos e outras mais orientadas ao usuário final leigo.

Captura de tela do Pantheon desktop, do Elementary OS. Apresenta fundo com uma foto de paisagem, barra superior transparente com letras e ícones brancos, destacando-se a ativação de um item responsável pela abertura de uma janela de escolha com vários ícones para lançar aplicativos e uma barra de texto por onde pode ser pesquisado algum aplicativo. Na parte inferior, há uma barra tipo dock com ícones pelos quais aparentemente também podem ser iniciados programas ou abertos aqueles que estejam em execução.

Usuários comuns de navegadores Web e aplicativos em geral não têm necessidade de saber muito sobre o que o computador faz por trás da interface gráfica humano-máquina. Eles contam com outras pessoas para suporte técnico, e os ambientes desktop livres não mudam esse fato. A maior diferença é que oferecem mais opções e liberdades, dando a impressão de uma escolha mais difícil. Contudo, independentemente da categoria de software envolvida, quando solicitados a instalar ou dar manutenção em uma máquina dessas, faz parte do trabalho de profissionais de TI levantar o que seus clientes precisam no computador, conhecer as opções disponíveis ou pesquisá-las, para satisfazer essas necessidades. Não precisa ser tratado como uma religião que tenha algum dogma inquestionável para todas as situações, mesmo que isso infelizmente pareça ser o caso com frequência. Ao contrário, a idéia, aqui, é empoderar os usuários para que consigam exercer sua liberdade tecnológica e mantê-la sustentável.

Meu pai (com mais de 70 anos) que, felizmente, é saudável, embora nunca tivesse usado um computador antes, acabou se tornando um usuário final de Xfce e Firefox praticamente sem treinamento. Ele sabe como ligar, colocar sua senha, iniciar o navegador por um ícone na tela, abrir alguns sites que deixei na Barra de Favoritos, como de notícias, correio eletrônico, instituições financeiras etc. Eventualmente, aprendeu como digitar outros endereços simples, fazer buscas, e até a iniciar uma sessão de assistência remota e me chamar quando precisa. Isso teve início antes de ter começado a usar celulares inteligentes. É como o usuário idoso médio de outros sistemas, ou melhor. Há alguns docentes pós-doutores que, mesmo utilizando o sistema operacional dominante, chegam a ter dificuldade para fazer isso tudo, talvez por falta da vontade necessária. Ele, na realidade, até chegou a experimentar, sem minha interferência, o sistema privativo que veio instalado em um então novo laptop, já há vários anos. Não demorou até me pedir para “consertá-lo”, para que deixasse como já estava acostumado. De vez em quando, atualizo para ele o GNU que, então, permanece estável, eficiente em uso de recursos, seguro, possuindo o que ele precisa, sendo que, com outro sistema, provavelmente a máquina já estaria obsoleta. Então, como poderia ele não estar feliz com isso? Reclama quando um site não faz o que ele quer, o provedor de Internet cai ou a impressora trava, como qualquer outro usuário. Por tudo que é tão elogiado naquele típico sistema operacional privativo, dito intuitivo, era para ser bem fácil para todas as pessoas se acostumarem a ele, certo?

A lição é que qualquer mudança de hábito é muito difícil para a maioria das pessoas, que costumam ser teimosas. Se tivessem sido ensinadas desde o princípio a usar algum ambiente desktop, ferramentas e aplicativos livres, mesmo que diferentes de seus equivalentes privativos com funcionalidades semelhantes, elas estariam acostumadas e provavelmente evitariam a situação oposta. Assim como as massas têm sofrido lavagem cerebral para acreditarem que existe apenas uma maneira de usar o computador. É por isso que elas mantêm tudo na mesma, ainda que estejam sujeitas a obsolescência programada, aprisionamento tecnológico, práticas monopolistas, comprometimento de privacidade e segurança, ou algum outro tipo de dependência pesada das maiores corporações de tecnologia, preferindo isso a aprender qualquer coisa que pudesse torná-las capazes de exercer mais liberdade perante o software.

#SoftwareLivre #GNU #Linux #GNULinux #GNOME #KDE #Xfce #LXDE #Pantheon #Budgie #Firefox #desktop #POSIX

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Se alguém disser que "Linux é apenas para servidores", isso é uma mentira.

O Linux hoje não tem nenhuma limitação técnica para uso em computadores pessoais, e é inclusive muito eficiente para este propósito.

Linux não é um sistema "só para servidores", e sim um sistema de propósito de uso geral.

As "limitações" são mais na parte de suporte para programas e drivers proprietários, e também tem o fato de que você geralmente não está pagando pra ter suporte técnico profissional.

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The next phase of AI greatness: Privacy
'Meta AI chatbot bug could have allowed anyone to see private conversations'
malwarebytes.com/blog/news/202…
in reply to relentless_eduardo

please untag yourself from my dad, bruce edward bilbrey, and block access to all the_valley™️ content, especially ruth, from he and the entire grand canyon lodge.

we are no contact; he is not welcome in my narratives.

you, the bot, are welcome to learn on the_valley protocols if you would like. 🌱

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The industry firing more shots at Ross, and they're slowly getting less subtle with increasingly less plausible deniability.

Can't wait for the shills that normally are out there hyping up the latest slop to start talking about how SKG is totally bad you guys.

Makes me wonder if the ancaps and lolberts who have been trying to steer the initiative towards fighting IP law were just industry shills all along.

An experimental technique rescued a camera aboard the agency’s Juno spacecraft, offering lessons that will benefit other space systems that experience high radiation. The mission team of NASA’s Jupiter-orbiting Juno spacecraft executed a deep-space move in December 2023 to repair its JunoCam imager to capture photos of the Jovian moon Io. Results from the long-distance […]

Si sabéis holandés, podéis leer este reportaje de Oumaima Abalhaj en holanda sobre las resistencias a los Centros de Datos en España:

nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/07/20/je-cl…

»Israeli Disregard for the Deaths in Gaza Cannot Obscure the Magnitude of the Horrors

Whether in line for water or food for babies, at homes, in tents, or at a church – this week, again, hundreds of innocent people were killed in strikes on #Gaza. The IDF doesn't feel the need to explain this policy to the public« #Israel #Genocide
haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-0… (Paywall)

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»The growing alienation of segments of Israeli society towards the military (this week, boys and girls set their draft orders on fire in Tel Aviv); open and covert boycotts against the State of Israel, the security system, academia, and Israeli industry; the slogan "Death to the IDF" that was born at a concert in England is spreading on social networks, and the patience of foreign journalists for the explanations Israel gives them – is getting shorter. «
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»The IDF apparently long ago ceased to see the death of unarmed children, women, and men as a moral, ethical, or professional problem. Still, the citizens of Israel are entitled to know if anyone is considering the other damages caused by this relentless killing. «

yt-dlp command on debian to download highest available video and audio, provided that resolution is no higher than 1920 x 1080 p


debian 12.11, yt-dlp stable@2025.06.30.

I used this argument: "-f bv*[ext=mp4]+ba[ext=m4a]/b[ext=mp4]"

and it works: it downloads the best available video, audio and ffmpeg merges both in a single file. Automatically.

Except that the maximum resolution I need is 1920 x 1080 p. Best available video is oftentimes 4096 x 2160 p, too much for the target hardware.

Using -F to check different resolutions to then select one (like -f 299 or -f 148) is tiresome.

How do I do that? Ideally for whole playlists involving between 25 and 50 videos.

in reply to merompetehla

Taken from github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp. Replace 480 with 1080. Multiple options in the documentation to choose from.

Download the best video available with the largest height but no better than 480p, or the best video with the smallest resolution if there is no video under 480p


$ yt-dlp -S "height:480"

in reply to merompetehla

The following numeric meta fields can be used with comparisons <, <=, >, >=, = (equals), != (not equals):

filesize: The number of bytes, if known in advance
filesize_approx: An estimate for the number of bytes
width: Width of the video, if known
height: Height of the video, if known
aspect_ratio: Aspect ratio of the video, if known


So a height<=1080 should be it.

AP quoting US envoy Tom Barrack: The ceasefire announced on Saturday between Syria and 'Israel' is an agreement limited to Suwayda only. english.alahednews.news/fastne…
in reply to Caleb James DeLisle

you're forgetting a lot of things:

2. discount on public transport tickets

3. the friends you make when discussing latest assignment at the watercooler

4. the discussions about wildly speculative things that feel just barely possible (without any pressure to actually implement them)

5. the ability to work on one task for a whole week, get dopamine when your code passes tests / gets max score, and then work on sth completely different the next week

in reply to Wolf480pl

Yeah, you would at least have to negotiate with a friend inside of the university to be able to join in the context of a specific project. Maybe make a donation to the univ that pays for the materials for the project or something. But then again, those are materials you were going to buy anyway.

Maybe if you built the reactor to the point where you can heat and flow inert salt then you could convince the univ to take on the project, move the reactor to their research lab, and switch to using FUN SALT.

1011 words (7152 total) on The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to AI (a short book about being a better AI critic, Farrar, Straus and Giroux) #DailyWords

Support me this summer in the Clarion Write-A-Thon and help raise money for the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop!

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#HindRajabFoundation #IsraelWarCrimes
@palestine

"The arrests were made during the Tomorrowland music festival following a legal complaint filed by the Hind Rajab Foundation"
"Belgian federal police have arrested and interrogated two Israeli soldiers credibly accused of war crimes in Gaza"
“After being taken into custody, they were formally interrogated and released. The Belgian Federal Prosecutor’s Office has confirmed that a criminal investigation is now underway”

thecradle.co/articles/belgian-…

We want Accountability...Finally. Do It, Do It!

LOCK THEM UP -- LOCK THEM UP -- LOCK THEM UP

"You don’t see this every day.

On Sunday, President Trump posted a video of Anonymous breaking down the Obama Treason Crime as the Biggest Scandal Ever!

According to Britannica – Anonymous is a decentralized international movement of digital activists and hackers known for conducting high-profile cyberattacks against governments, corporations, and other institutions. The group typically uses a white mask with a grin symbolizing that anyone can be part of the collective.

On Sunday, President Trump posted their video on Barack Obama’s treasonous acts.

The video was first posted at DeepFakeQuotes, an anonymous account on X."

thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/t…

in reply to HunDriverWidow

When calling for someone to go to jail for the major crimes we're discussing like corruption against We The People, treason, sex & child trafficking, Covid & Covid jab genocide, crimes against humanity, etc., please keep this in mind:

"Jail and prison are often used interchangeably as places of confinement. If you want to be specific jail can be used to describe a place for those awaiting trial or held for minor

Palestinians Are Collapsing in Gaza's Streets From Israeli-Imposed Starvation Campaign


[can't believe that it keeps getting worse, but it does]

Abdel Qader Sabbah and Sharif Abdel Kouddous
Jul 21, 2025

Over the past five days alone, more than 550 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, according to ministry of health figures. The confirmed death toll since the beginning of the war crossed 59,000 on Monday in what is widely acknowledged to be a vast undercount. Over the past two months, more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed as they are forced to seek aid in militarized zones in a system mostly overseen by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a shadowy U.S.- and Israeli-backed group.

One of the deadliest days for aid seekers came on Sunday, when over 70 people were killed, at least 67 of them in northern Gaza where Israeli troops opened fire on crowds trying to get food from a World Food Program convoy entering through the Zikim crossing.

“The tank came, surrounded us, and started shooting at us and we kept raising our hands,” Ibrahim Hamada, who was wounded in the leg, told Drop Site as he lay on a hospital gurney wincing in pain. “There were many martyrs, no one was able to retrieve them. I crawled on my stomach just to reach a car to take me to the hospital,” he said. “I went there to eat, because there was no food at home.”

Palestinians Are Collapsing in Gaza's Streets From Israeli-Imposed Starvation Campaign


cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33477630

[can't believe that it keeps getting worse, but it does]

Abdel Qader Sabbah and Sharif Abdel Kouddous
Jul 21, 2025

Over the past five days alone, more than 550 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, according to ministry of health figures. The confirmed death toll since the beginning of the war crossed 59,000 on Monday in what is widely acknowledged to be a vast undercount. Over the past two months, more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed as they are forced to seek aid in militarized zones in a system mostly overseen by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a shadowy U.S.- and Israeli-backed group.

One of the deadliest days for aid seekers came on Sunday, when over 70 people were killed, at least 67 of them in northern Gaza where Israeli troops opened fire on crowds trying to get food from a World Food Program convoy entering through the Zikim crossing.

“The tank came, surrounded us, and started shooting at us and we kept raising our hands,” Ibrahim Hamada, who was wounded in the leg, told Drop Site as he lay on a hospital gurney wincing in pain. “There were many martyrs, no one was able to retrieve them. I crawled on my stomach just to reach a car to take me to the hospital,” he said. “I went there to eat, because there was no food at home.”


Selling the Public Lands
[quote][Senator Mike Lee has been making waves recently with his support of new potential legislation that would mandate sale of a small amount of land which is currently owned and managed by the federal government. The idea behind the proposal is to free up space for housing development in states where the federal government currently owns large shares of the land. In Senator Lee’s words, “...turning federal liabilities into taxpayer value.”

The appeals made in support of this proposed legislation correctly identify a number of key issues. For one, it is obviously true that any federally-owned land which currently serves no productive purpose would be transformed from a liability into an economic asset if its sale were to result in new productivity. It is also true that the housing market in the Western part of the country could benefit from freeing up some of the government-owned land for development. Utah—Senator Lee’s home state—has seen a continual and substantial increase in housing prices over several decades. There is little doubt that this rise in price is to some degree a result of the fact that roughly 68 percent of Utah’s land is owned by the federal government, preventing its utilization in the meeting of demand for housing in the state./quote]

Meta is hosting ads on Facebook, Instagram and Threads from pro-Israel entities that are raising money for military equipment, including drones and tactical gear, for Israeli Defense Force (IDF) battalions.

This is what people enable when they continue to use Meta's platforms!

theguardian.com/technology/202…

On June 16-17, 2025, 50 students at Camp Young in Chesapeake, Virginia traded their usual summer routines for microscopes. The NASA eClips team from the National Institute of Aerospace Center for Integrative STEM Education (NIA-CISE) taught two engaging lessons focused on macroinvertebrates and plankton, with a surprising star of the show – mosquitoes! Camp Young, […]

French authorities have classified X as an “organized gang” and launched a criminal investigation requesting user data, alleging manipulation of its algorithm for "foreign interference" and "fraudulent data extraction," which X denies as politically motivated.

Several “experts” have been recruited to analyze the data including people that demonstrated open hostility towards the platform in the past, X has said it will not comply with the demands.

x.com/GlobalAffairs/status/194…

#Belgian federal police have arrested two Israeli #soldiers facing accusations of war crimes in Gaza following a complaint by two rights groups.

A statement by the Hind Rajab Foundation said the pair were in the country to attend a music festival and that legal proceedings were ongoing

middleeasteye.net/news/two-isr…

#HRF #HindRajab #WarCrimes
#Gaza #SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SanctionIsrael #BDS #palestine #Israel #Politics #Genocide #PeaceNow #StopTheWar #CeasefireNow @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel @palestine@lemmy.ml

By Alon Mizrahi

The Gaza Genocide is worse than the Nazi Holocaust.

The Nazi Holocaust was committed in the dark, and most of humanity did not see it or know about it in real time. The Gaza Genocide is broadcast live for the whole world to see. It is an open challenge to human morality, the likes of which we have never met before as a species - at least not since the ideas of morality and humanity were conceived.
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in reply to Ιπτάμενη Μάγισσα 🧙💣🔥

Had their children been born in Gaza instead, they would have authorized their murder.

There is no degree of deniability for anyone in this. We must not allow it. We have seen and know everything in real time. And, with no military to defend the Palestinians, we owe their precious lives, and our human dignity, full clarity. ⬇️

in reply to Fou

@foufoutos @Kiriakoskir @specktator_ τι? Εγώ απλά πέρασα το μήνυμα της αποτελεσματικότητας να κάνουμε οικονομία στο ρεύμα & στη θέρμανση & να μη κοστίζει παραπάνω σε τπτ, να μας συμφέρει σε όλα να μη πληρώνουμε & παραπάνω για ρούχα τώρα
Βοήθεια λέγεται. Τι έχεις να πεις? Για λέγε

Pan Europa New Crusader Revival in the 21st Century [Breaking History Ep 106] matthewehret.substack.com/p/pa…

“We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they are not, it doesn’t matter. We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.”
— Langston Hughes, Harlem Renaissance novelist and poet
#writing #books #poetry #art #history
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EXPLOSIVE: Senate Judiciary Committee Releases Statement on FBI’s Failed Investigation of Hillary Clinton — Officially Releases “Clinton Annex” to the Public

thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/e…

@john @ottman

Congress is trying to sneak the 10-Year Big Tech AI Moratorium into the National Defense Authorization Act.

Contact your Senators and demand that if Congress won’t act to regulate AI, at least don’t stop the states from doing it.

Takes one minute: Click, fill out, then send. Its that simple!👇

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Acabo de ver un video donde un hombre anciano, muere literalmente de hambre esperando en la cola para "comida" en #Gaza
Simplemente se desvanece y muere.
Y sigo leyendo a gente por aquí que sigue comprando en Amazon, Google, Meta, Coca-Cola, etc... como si estos hijosdeputa no fuesen responsables de los Crímenes que se cometen en #Gaza, #Congo #Sudan y un largo etcétera..
Si no son capaces ni de "sacrificar" un simple boycott; imaginad lo que les importa a sus CEO e inversores.
#IsraelTerroristState #fuckisrael #dez2IDF