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Ys X: Proud Nordics Coming To Switch 2 And PC In 2026

NIS America has revealed that Ys X: Proud Nordics will arrive on Switch 2 and PC early next year in the US. The company calls this the definitive edition of the RPG, as it boasts a new storyline, mechanics, and dungeon.Ys X: Proud Nordics launched on Switch 2 last month in Japan. Originally, the RPG came out in 2023 in Japan before NIS America brought Ys X: Nordics to the ...

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Ys X: Proud Nordics Coming To Switch 2 And PC In 2026

The definitive edition of the RPG is already out in Japan for Nintendo's new system.
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[SOLVED] on debian 13 xfce, what appearance style do I need so the title bar doubles its width?

I use a small notebook so it comes in handy to double the title bar to have space to increase the title font to 16 or 18

On debian 12.11 this was the case, but I don't remember how I configured it or what style I used. The style I now use on debian 13 is adwaita

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DarkMahesvara

@Spooke seems like people even with 24gb of vram get that issue so its just the shit game :kekw: did you try adding voltage to your gpu and/or down clocking it. does your C: drive also have enough space left?

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The Felon Pope

This made me think of something only slightly related. When my son was 10 he we were in the attic and found a box with computers in it. One was a dos machine, the other an ancient and clunky windows 3.1 laptop.
To him they were archeological relics. I was skeptical that they would boot after 10+ years in the attic, but they did.
He thought the dos machine was broken, til I ran lotus 123 and wordstar. He thought W3.1 was better. Played with them for hours, then took them apart.

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The Coolest Games We've Played During Gamescom 2025

Gamescom 2025 has begun, and I'm on site in Cologne, Germany, checking out more than two dozen new and upcoming games, ranging from Hollow Knight: Silksong to The Outer Worlds 2 to 007 First Light and beyond! I'll be doing individual write-ups for many of these games, but I'll also be writing condensed quick-hit thoughts on the coolest games I've played so far, and you ...

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The Most Dope Games We've Played During Gamescom 2025

From Hollow Knight: Silksong to Knights of the Fall and beyond!
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I miss #Psych.
I miss #Monk.
I miss #StargateSG1.
I miss #Warehouse13.
I miss #Eureka.
I miss #Haven.
I miss #TheLibrarians.
I miss #Babylon5.
I miss #Farscape (even if #BenBrowder's acting literally makes me want to vomit).
I miss #QuantumLeap.
I miss #DarkSkies.
I miss #The100.

There is nothing good on #television any more.

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Basque Country Held Largest Demonstrations in Support of Armed Resistance in Europe #lebanon #iran

Basque Country Held Largest Demonstrations in Support of Armed Resistance in Europe #lebanon #iran

Laith Marouf, Asier Herranz & Hadi Hotait(From Basque Country to Beirut: How Nasrallah Still Inspires Resistance Globally)Watch full report: https://youtu.be...
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I vibe-coded an idea that I'm really curious to get feedback on! objective-create-a-singlepage-…

The idea was to create a way to encrypt, timestamp, distribute and record info, both for personal and public uses. The website is nowhere near true production, but I can't afford to continue working on it until I know it's actually a good idea with a use case. As such, the website and tool is a work-in-progress.

CypherKeep - Secure File Encryption & Timestamping

Open-source tool for encrypting files, generating SHA-256 hashes, creating OpenTimestamps, and archiving to IPFS/Arweave. Privacy-first, client-side processing.
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Treballadors i ex-treballadors de Microsoft, juntament amb membres de la comunitat, han establert un campament de “Zona Alliberada” a la seu central de l’East Campus de l’empresa, rebatejant-la com a Plaça dels Infants Palestins Màrtirs.
L’acció, organitzada per No Azure for Apartheid, arriba després de 22 mesos de protestes contra el paper de Microsoft en el genocidi sionista de Gaza, incloent-hi el compartir informació d’IA i vigilància amb el règim israelià.

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IGN just posted:

Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection Final Lineup Confirmed, Includes Version of Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 That Has Not Been Playable Anywhere Since 1997

Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection now has its final lineup of games and confirmation of a number of new features. Check out the full game list.

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Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection Final Lineup Confirmed, Includes Version of Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 That Has Not Been Playable Anywhere Since 1997 - IGN

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In 2009, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory released a captivating image: a pulsar and its surrounding nebula that is shaped like a hand. Since then, astronomers have used Chandra and other telescopes to continue to observe this object. Now, new radio data from the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), has been combined with Chandra’s X-ray data […]

X-ray and Radio go 'Hand in Hand' in New Image - NASA

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Swedish startup unveils #Starlink alternative that #Musk can’t switch off. The RU1 delivers sovereign #communications for #military, #disaster relief, and #industrial operations #communications #satellite #publicsafety thenextweb.com/news/swedish-st…

Swedish startup unveils Starlink alternative — that Musk can’t switch off

A new pocket-sized Starlink alternative promises secure military communications — safe from interference by billionaire CEOs. The system, named the RU1, was unveiled today by Swedish ...
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Stefan Neufeind

I tried to read the details given in that article a few times or search others. All just share the promo text with its (intentional?) shortcomings. It seems they are ground based, not giving distances - but at the same time they claim a more focused area, higher speed and lower latency. I tried to find on what satellite or so they intend to mount the antenna. They mention meshes, so probably drone-to-drone with some relays as needed. Probably good product, but buzzword marketing. 🥲
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@sneufeind There is no info on pricing - here is more info on the organization and the products terasi.io/news/terasi-launches…

TERASi Launches World’s Smallest And Lightest mm-Wave Radio For Mission-Critical Operations In Defence, Disaster Relief, And Industrial Operations

TERASi unveils the world’s smallest ultra-compact radio with military-grade security, designed for rapid deployment and secure communications.
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Nintendo Life just posted:

Ys X: Proud Nordics Sails West On Switch 2 In Early 2026

NIS anchors another Game-Key Card release.NIS America is bringing Ys X: Proud Nordics to Switch 2 in the West in early 2026, the publisher has announced. But, like its other Switch 2 releases in Disgaea 7 Complete and Trails Beyond the Horizon, it'll be a Game-Key Card (as per the store listing).Now, if you're confused and thinking that Ys X is already out on ...

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Ys X: Proud Nordics Sails West On Switch 2 In Early 2026

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#Trump is Recruiting for #ICE at #DoD and #VA. As Allison Gill sat in the waiting room for my annual physical, she was shown a video recruiting me to join #Immigration and #Customs Enforcement. open.substack.com/pub/muellers… The new #brownShirts #maga #criminal #corruption #democracy #justice #FreeDC

Trump is Recruiting for ICE at DoD and VA

As I sat in the waiting room for my annual physical, I was shown a video recruiting me to join Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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A Global Consulting Firm: Yemeni attacks harmed Israeli air traffic dailyyemen.net/2025/08/21/a-gl…

A Global Consulting Firm: Yemeni attacks harmed Israeli air traffic

The website of Frisk Maple Scrift—a major global consulting firm—published an article highlighting the impact of the Yemeni front supporting Gaza on Washington, Tel Aviv, and London, confirming that Yemenis have maintained their military capabilitie
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Ancient Tunnels Under DC: Bosi Confirms Global Cabal's Centuries-Old Control Network

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Ancient Tunnels Under DC: Bosi Confirms Global Cabal's Centuries-Old Control Network

Retired Lt. Col. Ricardo Bosi confirms the existence of vast underground networks beneath Washington DC and global capitals - revealing how deep the rabbit hole truly goes: 🏛️ Tunnels Older Than Ameri
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GIMP

It's an amazing piece of software, that I personally use for all my design needs, for mockups at my freelance job, for youtube thumbnails, or for quick photo edits.

github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP

Krita

If you're more into digital painting, Krita is what you're looking for. It's super flexible, again, with panels you can move around to suit your workflow, it has tons of brushes, and you can further extend that by downloading new ones.

Inkscape

For vector graphics, the go-to open source app is Inkscape. Whether you want to mockup an application or a website, or design an icon, or just draw something, Inkscape can do it all!

Blender

For 3D modelling, your probably already know about Blender. One might argue it's THE best tool for the job, used by animators, VFX artists and modelers all around the world.

Darktable

Darktable lets you edit your photos non destructively, and your original images are preserved.

VLC

For video playback, you can't find something as versatile as VLC. It's not the prettiest, but it will play virtually anything, even badly damaged files, that it can even repair.

Audacity

Another example of an app that doesn't look good at all, but that lets you do a TON of stuff. It's a powerful audio recording and editing station. It can digitize anything, import and export virtually any format, and even combine audio files.

LibreOffice

LibreOffice: if you've ever used OpenOffice, forget all about it, because LibreOffice is where it's at. It's faster, it looks better, it's more stable, and it's extremely customizable to let you work with either a toolbar and menubar, or with a more modern ribbon.

OnlyOffice

Another solution is OnlyOffice. Its compatibility is better than LibreOffice, and I've been using it for a year or so, now, trading files back and forth with people using MS Office, without any issues whatsoever.

Kdenlive

For video editing, Kdenlive will probably be your go-to. It's a wonderful non linear video editor, with very powerful features to organize your media, edit your project, and render it in a format of your choosing.

Handbrake

For converting video into other formats, handbrake is what you need. It can rip DVDs into a single file, convert any format to any other, using any codec you might want for audio, and for video, and any container format you prefer.

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i don't like the idea of restricting or moderating speech, but honestly, if applied to news stations and whatnot, it would honestly would be very helpful, so long as it doesn't infringe on individuals

honestly, i wonder if the countries that have speech regulations lack jewish influence (in exchange for domestic dictators) is because that's kinda what jews fuckin' specialize in

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Free Speech Doesn't Work

Freedom of speech fails for several reasons. What we need is not "free" speech, but truthful, reciprocal, accountable speech. Credits:• Martin Štěpán -- http...
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DSOGaming just posted:

Star Fox-Inspired Wild Blue Gets Extended Gameplay Trailer

Humble Games has released an extended gameplay trailer for its upcoming on-rail shooter that is heavily inspired by Star Fox, Wild Blue. Wild Blue is basically a modern take on Star Fox. So, if you are fans of it, you should definitely check it out. Wild Blue aims to reimagine the classic on-rail adventures of …

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Star Fox-Inspired Wild Blue Gets Extended Gameplay Trailer

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This really needs to be spread around European circles: A better way to fight back against Trump’s tariffs.

“The EU could become a tech export powerhouse - while making everything cheaper for European citizens”
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Cory Doctorow at CF 25: How Enshittification Conquered the 21st Century and How We Can Overthrow It

Enshittification swept through the digital world over the past decade, and it has only accelerated since, as everything—grocery stores, nursing agencies, eve...
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man buys 10k worth of gpu and complains about 1k pcie adapter :kekw: collab with wendell is probably next

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Passer les vidéos en NB pour faire peur aux jeunes.

Systématiquement débile, mais toujours inattendu.

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Mort en direct de Jean Pormanove : Gabriel Attal propose des tests d’«addiction aux écrans»

Trois jours après le décès du vidéaste, victime depuis des mois de sévices diffusés sur les réseaux sociaux, l’ancien premier ministre a proposé jeudi différentes mesures de protection pour les jeunes.
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High On Life 2 Features Playable Bible Adventures, Which "Sucks So Bad," Within The Game

High on Life 2 continues the absurd tendencies of the original and will feature a playable version of Sega's Bible Adventures game.Creative director Mikey Spano from developer Squanch Games revealed at Gamescom that Richard Kind's character, Senator Muppy Doo, can factory reset your game, prompting a Bible Adventures takeover. The three ...

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High On Life 2 Features Playable Bible Adventures, Which "Sucks So Bad," Within The Game

"It sucks so bad to play. It's great."
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Special Relativity is a strange beast, because it says that there's no such thing as "stationary" in space, no preferred frame of reference.

And then it also says the speed of light is fixed no matter how fast the emitter of the light is traveling.

So with those two assumptions, it means you CANNOT measure the one-way speed of light, because if you could then you could (by subtraction) determine your speed in space, but if you have a speed, then that means there is a definition of stationary.

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Caleb James DeLisle

The Michelson–Morley experiment is quite an interesting thing, especially taken in the context of our modern understanding of transverse redshift.

Maybe you can't learn anything about the forward speed of light because everything you learn on the forward direction you unlearn as it comes back.... But if you compare light in the forward-back direction to light in the left-right direction, if you're moving forward then light in the left-right direction will come back slower because it has to make a triangle to bounce off the mirror and back to you.

I know they were looking for aether, but I think the fact that their experiment came up empty-handed actually proves that the one way speed of light is C, and basically velocity doesn't exist except in relation to other objects.

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Caleb James DeLisle

I feel like this is worth a paper. It would be like a little one-pager, but it pretty much puts to rest any idea of one-way speed of light.

If you're moving, light bouncing perpendicular to your direction of motion will have further to go (2nd image).

Is a rig that compares light speed on 2 perpendicular angles will show a difference if you're moving faster in the direction of one angle than the other.

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Wolf480pl

wait a sec

this interferometer is equivalent to two perpendicular photon clocks, right?

When the two photon clocks are not moving in your reference frame, and they have the same length, then they will tick at the same rate, right? You'll see both photons move with velocity c

Now let's say there's an external observer who sees that you and your clocks are moving in a particular direction

That observer will see your transverse clock's photon cover more distance, so it'll tick slower

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Caleb James DeLisle

The observer sees everything you do as happening more slowly (velocity based time dilation), and if you eventually stop and meet him, your watch will be slow to his.

Now the question of whether he will see your clocks register a difference between the forward-back and the left-right is a hell of a question. In principle you could construct some kind of schrodenger's cat type of experiment, is he going to see the cat die when you see it live? What happens to the cat if you stop and meet him?!!

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Wolf480pl

btw I think I screwed something up because I calculated the length of the forward-backward mirror clock as seen by an external observer, assuming the width of the perpendicular clock is constant.

And it's exactly 1 over the equation from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Length_c…


the contraction of length in the direction of propagation

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side note

this thing here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein…

literally says that the assumption that speed of light is the same in both directions is equivalent to "transporting a clock slowly" (whatever that means, it probably has some assumptinos too)

convention for synchronising clocks at different places by means of signal exchanges

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Caleb James DeLisle

The thing about "transporting a clock slowly" is that when you move a clock, it experiences time dilation so it skews.

I don't really understand this myself because it seems to me that you can compute the amount of skew *compared to the stationary clock* by knowing how fast you transport it, which means you can then measure the one-way speed of light. But the Michelson tell us that it should just give you C.

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Wolf480pl

yup, I literally just inverted a fraction by accident.

So the thing is, when the photon is going forward and the front mirror is running away from it, it takes a fuckton of distance to catch up to the mirror. And even after you consider how much shorter it is to go back to the mirror that's chasing the photon, it's still more additional distance than the sideways clock is getting from pythagoras

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Wolf480pl

let's say L is the observed distance between mirrors, the mirrors travel at speed v, and it takes t1 for the light to go forward

it covers distance c*t1

c*t1 = L + v*t1

c*t1 - v*t1 = L
(c-v)*t1 = L
t1 = L / (c-v)

and for backward

c*t2 = L - v*t2
c*t2 + v*t2 = L
(c+v)*t2 = L
t2 = L / (c+v)

now add the two times

t1+t2 = L * ( 1/(c-v) + 1/(c+v) )
= L * ( (c+v) / (c-v)(c+v) - (c-v) / (c-v)(c+v) )
= L * (c+v+c-v) / (c² - v²)
= L * 2c / (c² - v²)
= 2L/c * 1/(1 - (v/c)²)

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Caleb James DeLisle

Oh, now I get it. The light needs to actually move by a distance of L + the amount of the forward motion that took place while the light was traveling, because point A is not where it was before.

So it's all a circuitous way of getting from PointA to PointA', which are different places, therefore it takes more time to get there than it would getting from PointA to PointA.

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Caleb James DeLisle

Okay, so if you were to take a snapshot at the moment when you perceive the middle part of the vehicle being in front of you - the front is red-shifted because it has probably passed you, and the rear is blue-shifted because it is coming toward you.

Red shift means the optical path got longer, so yes, you should be seeing a signal from earlier in the past from the front clock.

But this should also work using an audio signal if the front and back of a truck were to simultaneously emit a sound as the truck is passing you.

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Wolf480pl

Ibdidn't mean different frequency.

I meant different time offset.

Back to the front-back mirror clock.

A traveller sitting in the vehicle sees the photon cover the same distance whether it's going forward or back. So he assumes the photon takes the same time to go in each direction, let's call it T. Ping is 2T.

OTOH a stationary observer will see the photon take more time travelling forward than back.

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Caleb James DeLisle

Dark matter is pretty much statistically impossible - because it's not just "the galaxy is heavier than we think" - for it to work it needs to be dispersed in such a way as to have absolutely no impact on any of the stars in the inside portion of the galaxy, but have exactly the right impact the stars at the outside portion.

If the whole galaxy just spun 1/3 too fast, you could easily enough imagine there's a "hidden blackhole" that is imposing additional gravity on it, but it's not that. The inside (say) 75% of the galaxy is adhering to exactly the physics we would expect, but the outer 25% is doing something else. Trying to imagine invisible matter which explains that is so tortured that you might as well say "The galaxy stays together because God cast it in epoxy".

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@jeff
On one hand, you can interpret it as "if we add this fake mass-like term to our equation, everything checks out. This is silly and we're oorbably missing something but for now let's keep doing this until we have sth better."

OTOH there were cases where the maths was like "the only day this would make sense is if there's another planet there" and lo and behold there was a planet there

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Caleb James DeLisle

> if we add this fake mass-like term to our equation, everything checks out

That's totally fair, but at this point dark matter is starting to have aether vibes. It's actually kind of worse than aether because at least aether is just uniformly spread across the universe like air, this stuff has to exist in these tortured shapes which manage to affect the gravity of outlying solar systems without having any net impact on the inner ones. And it has to maintain that shape despite being pulled on by the gravity it is exerting.

> the only day this would make sense is if there's another planet there

If there was ONE thing which could explain this then I could get on board. For example if every galaxy was too light by 1/2 then I could imagine that there is "shadow matter" in proportion to the amount of physical matter. But in the case of dark matter, there is no one thing, because every galaxy only resolves with it's own unique amount of it.

Maybe the answer is QI, maybe it's something else, but I think it's fairly obvious that it isn't this.

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Caleb James DeLisle

QI is really fun, because McCulloch solves this problem so beautifully. We already accept the existence of a Rindler horizon when we're accelerating, and we know how far away it is, McCulloch just points out that when it goes past the Hubble-scale horizon is exactly the moment when the math stops working for stars orbiting a galaxy.

So if we assume that inertia, i.e. the physical resistance to acceleration, is caused by the "stuff" that the Rindler horizon blocks, then galaxy rotation suddenly makes sense.

But furthermore, because it's accepted physics that a Rindler horizon is the same as a blackhole event horizon, QI forces us to accept the equivalence of inertial force and gravitational force.

This presents a problem for QI because gravitational force directly dilates time, while inertial force does not - but at least we're exchanging a massive problem for a comparatively tiny one.

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It's definitely all a mindfuck, but at this point I strongly suspect we actually just don't have enough data to make solid statements about a lot of cosmology stuff. Dark matter, inflation, etc. are all predicated on data collected from a *very* limited vantage point in the universe. It wouldn't take much to overturn those theories—except it's just incredibly difficult to *get* that data.

So I don't worry too much about the Real Big Picture any more. 😛

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