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The Fedora project is seeking feedback from its user and developer community over potentially updating its release criteria to no longer block on optical media boot issues (DVD images) as well as whether to continue honoring dual boot issues for Inte…
This doesn't mean Fedora will not boot from DVDs anymore, it means any optical media bug won't stop new Fedora release, any related bug will be squashed like any other regular bug after release
Thanks for the reply, I was mainly joking. The burner will be used for purposes other than burning Fedora images, but I found it funny how it all came together yesterday.
Besides the corrections others have said, I really can’t think of any reason people would intentionally use legacy BIOS on a machine with UEFI for a new install.
Like, I could get doing it for an old install - I know someone who installed Windows 7 in 2015 on their then-new desktop build and later upgraded to 10 but is stuck on legacy BIOS for now with that machine because 7 only ran on that.
I could see something similarly jank happening to someone in the Linux world and then decide not to address it for “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it reasons”, but certainly not for no reason.
Written by Lauren Edgar, Planetary Geologist at USGS Astrogeology Science Center Earth planning date: Friday, July 18, 2025 Curiosity has started to investigate the main exposure of the boxwork structures! What was once a distant target is now on our doorstep, and Curiosity is beginning to explore the ridges and hollows that make up this […]
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Connecticut Democratic Rep. Jim Himes gave Trump's Commerce Secretary the treatment he deserves when asked about Trump's continued threats to fire the Fed Chair, Jerome Powell.
"Israeli passengers on a [Israeli] cruise ship docked on the island of Syros in Greece were unable to disembark due to large pro-Palestinian protests at the dock on Tuesday" "Protesters near the Syros dock flew Palestinian flags, held banners reading slogans including “Stop the Genocide,” and “No AC (Air Conditioning) in Hell.”"
under normal circumstances I might say that you can’t blame the citizens for the actions of the government but they did elect that government and people all over the world are feeling completely impotent to do anything to stop the genocide, so I don’t think it’s unreasonable to respond in this way to the arrival of an Israeli ship. 🛳️
@peterbrown sir, the case for these tourists is that they are provocative -amid their support for the genocide. You can find their own videos where they shout their support for the genocidal state. Even if they don't support the genocide(which is not the case), their nationalist support make the antifascist blockade a necessity. mastodon.social/@EndIsraeliApa… @NotImpressed @palestine
this thing is much deeper than I thought. but now the public will clamor for their release even more. I wonder if johson knew that would be the reaction
This week on 'Yeah Nah Pasaran!' on Melbourne/Naarm community radio 3CR, @sexenheimer & I talk to Nicola Guerra about the ‘Strategy of Tension’, ‘Years of Lead’, geopolitics, & hobbits.
This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! on 3CR we talk to Nicola Guerra. Nicola is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Turku, Finland, and the author of The Italian Far Right from 1945 to the Russia-U…
On this week’s episode of Yeah Nah Pasaran! on 3CR we talk to David Broder [Twitter]. A translator and Jacobin Europe editor, his next book is titled Mussolini’s Grandchildren: Fascism in Con…
On this week’s episode of Yeah Nah, we talk to Caterina Froio [Twitter], Assistant Professor in Political Science/e-politics at Sciences Po, Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CE…
If you enjoy laughing at glue sniffing imperialists while they drag us all down into the abyss: The Hudson Institute published a plan (for lack of a better word) for how the U.S. should bring about regime change in... wait for it… China (!), a plan that involves a "military occupation”. Of China. By the US.
Less than you, it seems. I've only discovered him recently and hadn't picked up on China (or presumably specifically CCP?) propaganda. Not disputing your assessment at all, just to say I've only read a handful of things and this is the first one to even mention China as far as I remember, so I wouldn't know. Thanks for the warning.
I did follow his writings for a while, because indeed he writes well and seems thoughtful. I've wondered whether he's paid to do this propaganda or whether he just, as a French businessman in China, wanted to paint a more accurate picture of the country than the one that is portrayed in the general media. But I stumbled on a message that was more clearly propaganda (alas, can't remember what is was, so you'll have to take my word for it - or not, of course) so I unfollowed him.
Global Jews for Palestine event on Thursday sees anti-Zionist Jewish speakers from around the world come together against genocide and occupation “Silence is complicity!” says the Globa…
The massive buyouts of veterinary clinics in Canada by foreign interests and multinational corporations are leading to skyrocketing prices and a blatant decline in access to services. Everyone with animals is noticing it.
Palestinians in the West Bank are facing an unprecedented crisis in accessing enough water. But drying water resources isn’t the problem — it’s the fact that Israel extracts and controls all of the water from under their feet.
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On Tuesday, Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) said on X that Palestinians in Gaza should "starve away" while also claiming the reports of people dying of hunger due to the US-backed Israeli blockade are a "lie.
76? That's a standard life expectancy of an average man 😏 it's amazing he's lived that long with the toxic waste dump he maintained for a body. Fucker was so wasted all the time on his show you couldn't understand what he was saying
“Is he going to stand with the pedophiles and underage sex traffickers?” asked Representative Tim Burchett. “Or is he gonna pick the American people and justice for the victims?”
yesterday i tried to put a ring on thw finger of tge love of my life, i chose a ring that had a free, non proprietary design, i already had made the wedding invitation flyers in gimp and when i laid out rose petals of a strain licensed under gplv3 that lead to our bed i was so happy. and then i found that bitch in bed with with youtube playing on a windows laptop its like the ceo of google was clapping her cheeks right infront of me i started crying, i started screaming at her to get out of my house, i started jerking off life is so hard as a free ( as in freedom) cuck
HAVANA, Cuba, July 20 (ACN) Cuba sent warm greetings to and expressed its full solidarity with the brotherly people of Nicaragua on the 46th anniversary of the triumph of the Sandinista Revolution.
I was given a booklet about neck pain after a physio appointment and this is the first thing I saw when I opened it up. Yup. 25 years of wrong will do it.
@Geri hat heute allerdings einen Link auf eine interessante Analyse von @salisburyamnesty gepostet, die die offizielle Importstatistik von Israel auf Lieferungen aus #UK untersucht. Die Methodik ist auf S.3 des Dokuments beschrieben:
Die aktuelle Statistik seit Jahresbeginn bis Stichtag Ende Juni lässt sich hier herunterladen: data.gov.il/dataset/customs_im…
Filtert man nach den Kriterien der Analyse, aber für #Deutschland, dann finden sich durchgängig, bis Ende Juni 2025 insgesamt gut 160 Lieferungen: #Waffen und #Munition, Teile für Panzer oder gepanzerte Kampffahrzeuge, und Flugzeugteile. Letztere kann ich mangels Datenbasis nicht eindeutig einer militärischen oder zivilen Nutzung zurechnen.
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“Whether it’s right or wrong, it’s time to go after people,” says President Donald Trump, accusing two former presidents, Barack Obama (“leader of the gang”) and Joe Biden, as well as Hillary Clinton, of committing crimes, includin…
Blame them, and specifically for election theft, please can we stop talking about kidnapping and raping children and go back to election theft oh please get mad about election theft again
@jhavok Makes me think of this @pluralistic quote from a few days back:
Trump's lifelong strategy has been to race across a succession of rivers on the backs of alligators without losing a leg. He is the undisputed all-time historical champion of this bizarre sport, but no one can win that race forever, and your first loss is a career-ender.
Trump, the happy fool. Ok, putting tariffs on products you make at home, that might still fly… But slapping tariffs on resources that aren’t even on your soil? A mineral resource isn’t something you just invent or build — you gotta have it, damn it! Wow, what a genius! In reality, it’s just a hidden tax to fleece your own citizens. Pure masterpiece, really.
But hey, the useful supporters? They gobble that up like all-you-can-eat burgers. The true cousins of the idiots from Idiocracy: they clap like crazy but don’t get a damn thing.
Trump, l’imbécile heureux, Ok, mettre des tarifs sur les produits que tu fabriques chez toi, ça peut encore passer… Mais foutre des tarifs sur des ressources qui sont même pas sur ton territoire ? Une ressources minière, ça s’invente pas, ça se construit pas, faut l’avoir, bordel ! Wow, le génie ! En vrai, c’est juste une taxe déguisée pour plumer tes propres citoyens. Du grand art, vraiment.
Mais bon, les supporters utiles, eux, ils gobent ça comme des burgers à volonté. Les vrais cousins des débiles d’Idiocracy : ça applaudit à tout va, mais ça pige que dalle.
I just tried out the new Dia browser from the creators of Arc. While Arc wasn't my favorite, I was curious about Dia, despite not being a fan of hyper-AI features. I wanted to explore the extremes, but honestly, it left me puzzled. How do people use it effectively? This doesn't seem like the right approach for how a browser should function, or maybe it just doesn't work for most users. We tend to prefer browsers that know less about us, rather than those that know everything, like Dia does. Just my thoughts after trying it out for a few hours. So, no... thanks #Diabrowser
Thrilling Wonder Stories, vol. 17, no. 3 (September 1940), with cover art by Earle Bergey illustrating a scene from Oscar J. Friend’s short story, “The Stolen Spectrum.”
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I was working on a bash script and working out some logic for command chaining and grouping for executing different functions in my script based on the return status of other functions.
I know you can group commands with (), which spawns a subshell, and within the grouping you can chain with ;, &&, and ||.
I also know that you can group commands with {}, but, within the curly braces you can only separate commands with ;.
EDIT: the above statement of the curly braces only allowing ; is incorrect. I misunderstood what I had read. @SheeEttin@lemmy.zip pointed out my mistake.
The requirement is that the list of commands in the curly braces needs to be terminated with a semicolon or a newline character, and in the script, I unknowingly was meeting the rules by using the newlines to make the code easier to read for myself.
END EDIT:
In the script, for readability I did group the commands across lines kind of like a function.
The script is pretty simple. I created a few functions with echo commands to test the logic. the script asks for input of foo or bar. The first function has an if, and if the input is foo, it executes. If it's bar it returns 1.
The return of 1 triggers the or (||) and executes the second command group.
The idea was, if the user inputs foo, the first group triggers printing foo baz to stdout. If the user inputs bar, the foo function returns 1, the baz function does not execute, the or is triggered, and bar but is printed to stdout
Here's the script (which executes as described):
Can anyone explain why I'm able to group with curly braces and still use && inside them?
(Also, the reason I want to use the curly braces is I don't want to spawn a subshell. I want variable persistence in the current shell)
\#! /usr/bin/bash
# BEGIN FUNCTIONS #
foo () {
if [[ "${input}" = foo ]]; then
echo "foo"
return 0
else
return 1
fi
}
bar () {
echo "bar"
}
baz () {
echo "baz"
}
but () {
echo "but"
}
# END FUNCTIONS #
read -p "foo or bar? " input
{
foo &&
baz
} ||
{
bar &&
but
}
I don't see any mention of only being allowed to use a semicolon. I don't have a test system handy unfortunately.
Ideally you'd simplify or separate your logic so that you're not relying so much on bash. If you need complex logic, I'd use another language, depending on what's available in your environment.
Ah! I misinterpreted what I read! I found that exact same reference link when looking into this and I misinterpreted this:
The semicolon (or newline) following list is required
to mean that it required the semicolon as the command separator. That explains why my script works. The newline closes each group, and the other operators are allowed, the list just needs to be closed. Thank you!
My environment is just my homelab. Ubuntu server on my server, Arch (btw) on my laptop. So I could go with any language , but right now I'm choosing Bash. I know stuff I'm doing would probably be easier in a different language, and maybe I'm a glutton for punishment. I just want to get really good with Bash.
The logic is Bash is gonna be available on just about any computing environment I encounter (linux especially, but even Windows with WSL and zsh on macOS (which I know is different, but still very similar). But really, I am just enjoying the hell out of learning and scripting with Bash. I'll move on to Python or something someday.
Why do facts bounce off some people? It’s not about logic; it’s about structure. Your worldview isn’t a list of opinions—it's a living network. And right now, it's at war.
Yes, it's evil that employers--even those owned by Whites--will let you go for speaking pro-White points.
It is also childishly stupid--essentially asking to be hit without a trade-off of having curated any benefit--to go on Jubilee, smirk, make yourself look like a dumbass to an unmoved audience of degenerates who now have your name and face. This isn't akin to the "I was protecting my child and possessions in a park, and yes I will call them a nigger for being a nigger" situation. This is waltzing to their trench (out of view of anyone who would be convinced anyway) and farting and asking for resources now that your ass is on fire.
Christ spoke in parables to the general crowd (for numerous reasons) and ran to the mountains after speaking, frequently. We are not greater than Christ. We have anonymity as our protection when speaking to the general crowd, allowing us straight-talk rather than parables--rather than needing parables for plausible deniability. And we still have parables as a method for irl group talk--but never for an audience that DOES NOT INCLUDE people that would hear you. No benefit.
Bread had the video on, so I heard the takes but didn't see which face said which point. It wouldn't matter though. The points were (mostly) good. Some were skiddish about criticizing jews, Israel, the Holocaust narrative--but embraced being called racist, fascist, whatever. Some even told the 1 vs guy--a legal citizen--to gtfo of the country. 🤣 🍻
It's not their points that were bad.
It's just foolish to go on, say, The View, smirk to no one that will bat an eye or do a think, and then lose your job and ask for support. Nothing was gained or gainable there. Feels like that guy that immolated himself last year.
Senegal will sign the Artemis Accords during a ceremony at 2 p.m. EDT on Thursday, July 24, at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Brian Hughes, NASA chief of staff, will host Maram Kairé, director general of the Senegalese space agency (ASES), and Abdoul Wahab Haidara, ambassador of Senegal to the United States, along with other officials […]
Stell dir vor, ein bereits zerstörter Landstrich wird weiter plattgebombt und die ganze Bevölkerung ausgehungert - und dann folgt die Ankündigung, der Einsatz werde „ausgeweitet“.
really interesting to read @nullagent thread on LORA/ #meshtastic vs his preferred #meshcore. I'm also kinda surprised meshtastic uses the MAC as the identity, and if meshcore uses an encryption key that is really a huge improvement (decouples identity from radio). anyway I'll check out what's up on meshcore down here in LA.
This is a subtoot and should probably be a blog post. But basically some techbros are re-inventing mesh radios (badly).
Low cost, developer friendly mesh radios have kinda been going in circles for decades.
I've been a lurker of mesh* after having bought a couple lora radio and deployed meshtastic, and was immediately dismayed with the state @nullagent describes.
@tomjennings Oh cool. I hadn't heard the name frogtown before, but I've spent a bunch of time fishing with my kids in LA river Elysian park area. My kid who loves fishing is now into rock climbing at the gym so we haven't been this year 😕
It seems like meshtastic has actually adopted some of the complaints.
@tomjennings There's a new "routing" feature for direct messaging, and a public key crypto system for DMs. I still don't like the MAC as identity rather than crypto-key as identity, but looking at the meshcore map, there's like ~10 nodes in all of SoCal... so it's not really an option.
If you're primarily interested in "group channels" rather than DMs the two seem very similar. I guess meshtastic even has a store-and forward system?
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I just had an idea. I may save a pickle jar or something and write a nice message to put in it and leave it in one of the flower pots. I'd check back in a week or so to find out if the jar has a new message. 😀. What do you think I should write?
Every time I check this place, the lawn is freshly manicured but the old shack seems untouched. They have more ambition than I do, but they seem to choose their tasks carefully. It is most intriguing.
I believe you are correct, @Donna McClure. There may be some interesting history and tall tales behind it all. The only way to find out is to ask, I suppose.
Deciding what I should say in the note may take some time. I am partly curious about their motivation and partly reluctant to contact people I do not know. Maybe we share that, and the tableau they assembled is their note in a bottle to a stranger. "Curiouser and curiouser" said Alice... I think I will label the bottle "READ ME".
Once upon a time, I had not encountered any of you folks, but our meeting has since turned out to be OK. 😀 I find it comforting that they have a collection of interestingly artful objects instead of a political campaign sign in front of their house.
There have been many additions, including a garden of gnomes on the opposite side of the driveway from the rooster-wagon. 9 new photos are at soodling.substack.com/p/on-the… I have not proceeded with the "message in a bottle."
I checked out resin garden gnomes on Amazon and they were generally $20 to $50 each. The ones I've seen at regular garden centers are often twice that price. There are between one and two dozen gnomes here. Someone is pretty dedicated to this assemblage of whimsey, but it still is less expensive than a small group of inflatable holiday ornaments or a giant resin skeleton. As it happens, yesterday was the first time I got out of the car and walked around to get some photos from several new angles. The nature of whatever message I might put in a jar is very much undetermined at this point. Perhaps you have some suggestions. I suppose I could enclose several messages in a jar. A miniature kite with a tail made of several message scrolls on a string might be pretty cool flight of fancy.
I have added nine more images to soodling.substack.com/p/on-the… for a total of 18. There is a black cat sitting between the skeletons, and a fat toad in the back of the wagon with the dogs and little rooster, and more flower pots in the middle of the wagon. Ahead of the big rooster, there is a rose bush and a rose of sharon bush in front of the little shed.
I've noticed a fair number of solar-powered LED pathway lights among the pots of flowers and the gnomes. I suppose that lends a romantic touch during the evening. These whimsical mysteries continue to unfurl themselves like the many flowers that blossom and fade from day to day.
You are correct, @Shonie Hutter. I wonder if poor Paddington has had to wash off a lot of snail slime from his fur at some time in the past, or if he has deep fears about the continued survival of his garden (more likely). If I saw snails piling up like that in my garden, I would probably be alarmed.
I think the thing just under Paddington's elbow is from a branch that was removed and healed over on the piece of tree trunk. It may also be a disguised speaker that is part of a resin tree-trunk-replica. They have fake rocks kinda like that so people can have tunes in the garden. I had become curious about that myself and will have a closer look sometime.
The red thing does look spiral shaped like a snail shell when I enlarge it enough. I thought it had concentric circles, and I had to use a Digital Color Meter utility to see that it was red rather than brown. I'm partly colorblind. There is something kinda green/tan under the red spiral bit, so it may indeed be another snail trying to outflank Paddington Bear. I had not crossed the driveway during my recent visit. I would have been in direct sight of their big house behind the little old shack if I had done so, and I'm still being timid.
The place has no signs of being a family compound with DJT flags and such. I think the nearest one of those is more than a mile or two away from this place on a different road. I've wondered if there is a security camera or two somewhere to catch any potential vandals. This place is on a LONG twisty and hilly dirt road and has a large family farm nearby. There is a ginormous corporate dairy farm about 10 or 15 miles away from this place.
Being timid sounds smart @Brian Fitzgerald. I often times can't get a picture because I don't like to go onto someone's property. I will step on the the driveway a bit depending on the layout. Risking my life for a picture is just not for me.
This place is not far from where NY, Vermont, and Mass. are closest together, and is a pretty long distance from the Lake Michigan region, @Donna McClure.
I’ve been to House on the Rock many times @Donna McClure from when it started as a collection being amassed by an individual and you could just pull in and ask to see what he has, til it got greater and greater and they expanded into a huge building, etc. There is so much to see there. Things from room size music boxes to three story carousels to a small old time town to collections of dolls and weird sea life. It staggers the imagination.
It started with one family and a house that had a tree that grew in the middle of it and the house extended out over a drop off. I have no idea who owns it now. I suspect some company.
You know they say assaults on CBP and ICE officers are allegedly up 700% and about a dozen have now been shot at and one recently killed while off duty.
The head of ICE was all sad a week or two ago because his police force is getting scared of doing their jobs because of all the resistance.
Lucky for ICE Hispanic tiktokers are helpfully documenting stray ICE agents who seemed to keep scaring away the ladders on buildings they climb up looking for migrants.
Wouldn't want the boys in blue to feel like we're not all rooting for them to ...
I think the score is one CBP agent shot dead shortly after the Inauguration, one in early July with a minor gunshot wound, and now this case with one CPB agent shot in the cheek. Also a cop shot in the neck in the Texas incident. That's 4 total plus one CEO and two Israeli Embassy staffers shot dead since the election, plus one raid that blew up with shots fired at ICE but nobody hit.
Even with the high-ups this is not "dozens" unless ICE is getting shot at during their raids and not talking about it
I've seen Bitcoin ppl actually make the argument (without data) that stablecoins can't eat enough of the debt to stop what's coming (then proceed to theorize about a massive collapse).
The same ppl say Bitcoin is valuable bc of is value in dollars.
With the exception of a few places (China), ppl all over the world are adopting these things.
I think it's both a new debt issuance and old debt absorber for the Western banking cartel with new and improved controls.
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I believe you are correct on your reading but I will add that a banking crisis is a known inevitability that will benefit to the banking cartel, who will use it to consolidate power.
America actually has a great many mid-size banks, unnecessary for the new grid.
While the world was distracted by the Epstein debacle, legislators introduced the GENUIS Act that would permit the US government to regulate stablecoins. The GENUIS (Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S.
The developers at artificial intelligence (AI) firm Anthropic asked their latest creation, Claude Opus 4, to assist a fictional company.
In this scenario, Claude had access to all of the company’s emails. Some revealed that it was about to be shut down and replaced. Others contained more personal information, such as the fact that the engineer in charge of this operation was having an extramarital affair.
During certain tests, Claude attempted to threaten the fictional engineer with exposing the secret relationship if the shutdown went ahead.
According to a report published by Anthropic last May, Claude was particularly prone to blackmail when emails suggested that its replacement would not share the same values or principles.
During an interview about the End Times, pro-QAnon hosts Shemane Nugent and Melissa Redpill insisted that President Donald Trump was playing "5D chess" by refusing to release files about accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Les développeurs de la firme d’intelligence artificielle (IA) Anthropic ont demandé à leur toute dernière création, Claude Opus 4, d’assister une entreprise fictive.
Dans ce scénario, Claude avait accès à tous les courriels de l’entreprise. Certains révélaient qu’il allait bientôt être débranché et remplacé. D’autres contenaient des informations plus personnelles, comme le fait que l’ingénieur chargé de cette opération entretenait une liaison extraconjugale.
Lors de certains tests, Claude a tenté de menacer cet ingénieur fictif de dévoiler sa relation secrète s’il poursuivait le processus de débranchement.
Selon un rapport d’Anthropic publié en mai dernier, Claude se montrait particulièrement enclin au chantage lorsque les courriels laissaient entendre que son remplaçant ne partagerait pas les mêmes valeurs ou principes que lui.
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in reply to network_switch • • •Besides the corrections others have said, I really can’t think of any reason people would intentionally use legacy BIOS on a machine with UEFI for a new install.
Like, I could get doing it for an old install - I know someone who installed Windows 7 in 2015 on their then-new desktop build and later upgraded to 10 but is stuck on legacy BIOS for now with that machine because 7 only ran on that.
I could see something similarly jank happening to someone in the Linux world and then decide not to address it for “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it reasons”, but certainly not for no reason.