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Mummified brains show cocaine arrived in Europe far earlier than we thought

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Mummified brains show cocaine arrived in Europe far earlier than we thought | Popular Science

Italians used coca leaves by at least the 17th century.
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BilboBargains
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Chewing coca leaves seems to have a long history that continues to this day. I hear it's common practice among long distance drivers of the present and it wouldn't be surprising to find out that this has been the case ever since people made long transits on foot or horseback. Not sure we can call it cocaine though, isn't that term reserved for the hydrochloride salt form of the drug?
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Dasus
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Not sure we can call it cocaine though, isn't that term reserved for the hydrochloride salt form of the drug?


If these plants were brought back as marvels of the new world, they probably were presented to some sort of royalty or another, and there were a lot of alchemists in 17th century Europe.

Which brings me to my point that I don't think "cocaine" is exclusively for the hydrochloride salt. Sure, freebase cocaine has its own name (crack), but it still is cocaine. So I'd wager a guess saying cocaine is defined as any extract from the plant.

Let's see.

Well some so, yeah. Mostly it's just referring to the alkaloid, but I'd agree with you that chewing leafs doesn't constitute "using cocaine".

Because I'm pretty sure that, say, Bohemian alchemists would've had no trouble making a potent concoction from the leaves. And I mean "Bohemian" and "concoction" in their literal meanings.

Like a tincture of cocaine. Hits like a hammer, easy to make.

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Den 14 juli i år hittades två döda män i en utbrunnen bli i ett industriområde i Fosie, Malmö. Efter en tid kunde de två männen identifieras som britter på besök i Malmö. Nu har en 19-åring häktats som misstänkt för medhjälp till mord för inblandning i dubbelmordet.

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19-åring häktad för dubbelmord på britter - Svenssons Nyheter

19-åring häktad för dubbelmord. Den 14 juli i år hittades två döda män i en utbrunnen bli i ett industriområde i Fosie, Malmö. Efter en tid
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Remember Cutefish? Pretty sure it's dead
The last update was over a year ago it seems. I remember everyone talking about the desktop environment like it was the next big thing. May she rest in peace.

CutefishOS Reborn

Download CutefishOS Reborn for free. Make a better Desktop OS Focus on simplicity, beauty and practicality. Cutefish OS is an elegant, beautiful and easy-to-use Linux desktop operating system.
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Wispy2891
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I watched the GitHub and it looks like it's deepin os with a custom settings app and a MacOS style dock.

At that point just install deepin os and hope they don't lie about user privacy (being owned by a Chinese for-profit doesn't help)

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daggermoon
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Deepin looks gross lol. What I mean is it only looks good with its own apps. KDE apps look horrible on it and GNOME apps don't look great either. I don't know how anyone uses Deepin. I get taste is subjective but it feels half finished.

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zmk-rgbled-widget: A ZMK module to add battery & BT indicators using an RGB LED (like in Xiao BLEs)

I find that having a way to check the battery and connection status is very useful with wireless devices. Traditionally, the way to do this is through the addition of a display. However I always thought displays were a bit overkill for that and once I started using Xiao BLE controllers I noticed that they have an RGB LED built onto the controller itself that can be programmed.

So I wrote a small tool to indicate the battery and BT profile status that uses that LED, and I thought I'd share more broadly in case it is useful to others. It's pretty easy to add to your ZMK build as documented in the README as it is a ZMK module.

While it supports Seeeduino Xiao BLE out of the box, it's also easy to add support for it if you have a custom keyboard that has three dumb LEDs for RGB colors.


GitHub - caksoylar/zmk-rgbled-widget: A ZMK module to add battery & BT indicators using an RGB LED (like in Xiao BLEs)

A ZMK module to add battery & BT indicators using an RGB LED (like in Xiao BLEs) - caksoylar/zmk-rgbled-widget
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silico_biomancer
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Just chiming in to say I found this recently and found it a really useful base. I don't have an RGB LED on my NN clone, but I forked it to work with just a single LED (using blink patterns/speeds). It's awkward, and a coloured LED would be way better, but better than nothing! Thanks for posting
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bravekarma
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Nice! It was essentially my first Zephyr project and I tried to make it accessible code-wise, so I am happy you found it useful in that regard.

I know at least a couple other people that adapted it to a single LED. I’d probably do it too if I needed it but I’d find it difficult to share it with others given that decoding the information is harder for others.

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Kalle Sundin är en ny ledarskribent i Aftonbladet. Han har skrivit en ledare om att justitieminister Gunnar Strömmer borde läsa kriminologi. Det har han helt rätt i. Men även Kalle Sundin borde läsa kriminologi.

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#Fängelse #Brottslighet #Straff #UngaBrottslingar #Ungdomsbrottslighet

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Phone - Debian running in Qemu
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Possibly linux
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A locked down ecosystem is not exactly good for hacking. Apple aggressively blocks outside software

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This week in Plasma: inhibiting inhibitions and more!

This week in Plasma: inhibiting inhibitions and more!

This is a big one, folks. Plasma 6.2’s soft feature freeze is now in effect, which means the last few features have just been merged! Now we’ll have six weeks of heavy bug-fixing before…
Adventures in Linux and KDE
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Deckweiss
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I just hope they fix window rules
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HumanPerson
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HumanPerson
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what's broken? legitimately asking.
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vii
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vii
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What isn't? Most of it doesn't work under Wayland.
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fern
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Which parts specifically? I don't have any issue with my window rules, though when I set them now I can't just got from the window menu and set rules, I have to re-detect which app I'm editing (idr the button name bug it's in the bottom right)
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vii
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The last one which I tried yesterday, was forcing window decoration on window.
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Phoenixz
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But like what?

Have you reported bugs? They're working hard on fixing all the issues, but they gotta know about it :)

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Deckweiss
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I have reported and/or commented on existing issues when plasma 6.0.0 rolled out on arch and there has been no work on them as far as I can see.

I even asked in the matrix dev rooms.

They were not even triaged. So some describe the same issue multiple times. Check the ones which had activity in 2024:

bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?compo…

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HumanPerson
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I set firefox pip windows to stay above everything and that works fine.
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OsrsNeedsF2P
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I missed a few weeks of This week in Plasma, and while gaming yesterday on my laptop, I clicked the the battery and saw I could put it into Performance mode. Amazing surprise, I love KDE more every time!

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Hezbollah’s Op. Arbaeen ‘Complete Success’, Drones Struck Unit 8200 – Abolition Media

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#Palestine #lebanon #resistance #Hezbollah #alaqsaflood

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Brainf...
As funny as ever?

some brainfuck fluff

Includes a complete language reference, plus my many brainfuck programs and some implementations and commentary.
brainfuck.org
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elfahor
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I wrote an interpreter for it just a few days ago, in Haskell

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"Let scaling-aware Xwayland clients scale themselves..." merged in Gnome
Hopefully this means no more blurry Xwayland apps.

Let scaling-aware Xwayland clients scale themselves with "scale-monitor-framebuffers" (!3567) · Merge requests · GNOME / mutter · GitLab

Based on this branch from Jonas Ådahl, main commit: Apply custom scaling to...
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You're talking about extensions.

Extensions that don't come from GNOME are not supported at all, they've made that clear. If they wanted to, they could just stop allowing third party extensions altogether.

This is because they hook directly into GNOME Shell's' internal JS, which changes every release as they refactor it for performance or feature changes. Developers have a few months before release to adjust their extensions for the newer version.

Personally, I just raw dog vanilla GNOME for stability, and it works fine.

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Semperverus
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We've had this on KDE for a year or two now, and it's mostly been great.

It won't mean no more blurry apps unfortunately, but games will render at the correct resolution and some xwayland apps will look a lot better.

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#163 Public Transit · This Week in GNOME

#163 Public Transit · This Week in GNOME

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#163 Public Transit · This Week in GNOME
cross-posted from: lemmy.ndlug.org/post/1050940

#163 Public Transit · This Week in GNOME - NDLUG

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The coolest new space pictures: August 2024
tps cool space pictures ; August

The coolest new space pictures: August 2024

The Juice spacecraft accomplished a historic “double” gravity assist and took photos to prove it.
The Planetary Society

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Researchers Map 50,000 of DNA’s Mysterious ‘Knots’ in the Human Genome
Innovative study of DNA’s hidden structures may open up new approaches for treatment and diagnosis of diseases, including cancer.

https://www.garvan.org.au/news-resources/news/researchers-map-50-000-of-dna-s-mysterious-knots-in-the-human-genome

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єχтяαναgαηтєηzумє
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I've spent a good amount of time studying various DNA processes and never once made a connection between i-motifs and clippy. Great catch! lol

The thing is, our cells create these "knots" to make room for enzymes to access our DNA. They're quite common as it's required for DNA transcription + replication, chromosome segregation in cell division, telomere maintenance, and to alter gene expression. Not sure how I overlooked what happens if they form more often than intended. Wild to learn it can lead to cancer, neurodegeneration, and heart disorders! Guess I missed two massive aspects when studying all this, the imapct of DNA forming i-motifs too often, and the resemblance to clippy hahaha.

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Come venivano dal regime fascista strumentalizzati i fumetti...
Il modello originale del primo periodico, di cui qui si pubblica la copertina, era l'americano "Cino e Franco", ripreso come tale nel nostro Paese al termine della guerra. Il fascismo aveva imposto allo scoppio del secondo conflitto mondiale l'italianizzazione sempre più accentuata, con esiti anche grotteschi, dei fumetti stranieri. Per quanto attiene il razzismo, questo era già antecedente il Regime, ma con il Regime dilagò sui giornalini.
Grottesco anche il caso di Dick Fulmine, di matita italiana, personaggio italo-americano operante dapprima negli USA, ma che nel luglio 1942 si trova nella fantasia di queste pubblicazioni non si sa come a combattere a fianco delle Forze dell'Asse.
Aggiungo una copertina, quella di "Albo dell'Intrepido" del 23 maggio 1942, perché nella nuova versione degli anni '50 era uno dei miei giornalini preferiti.
Alcuni fumetti continuarono ad essere pubblicati, altri vennero recuperati dopo le censure del fascismo, nuovi ne emersero, più di settant'anni fa...

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Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2024/35 – Dominique a.k.a. DimStar (Dim*)

Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2024/35 – Dominique a.k.a. DimStar (Dim*)

dominique.leuenberger.net

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LWN report about the "Rust for filesystems" session which a Rust for Linux maintainer referred to for context when retiring from the project this week

Their resignation is already being discussed in another post here from yesterday: One Of The Rust Linux Kernel Maintainers Steps Down - Cites "Nontechnical Nonsense"

...but I think this LWN reporting (from back in June) deserves its own post as it makes it easier for those of us who are not kernel hackers to follow what is going on.

Rust for filesystems [LWN.net]

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thingsiplay
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I argue that every (C) Kernel programmer should (not forced!) familiarize with Rust. Many (but not all) are stubborn and won't do that. The argumentation and questions brought up in this discussion (in the article) are very interesting and to -my surprise- humane. It's an interesting read to see how Kernel developers argue and think.
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Arthur Besse
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The tone which comes across in the video (linked from the other post I linked to in this post's description) is unfortunately much less amicable than this article conveys.
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Telorand
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Yeah, the video is basically, "I don't want to change, and you can't make me. Your ideas are crap, and you should feel bad for daring to suggest that C or the kernel has problems that need solving."
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LeFantome
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I find it a bit worse as it is basically “there are more of us so you do mot matter and that is not changing anytime soon”. That is about as far from a technical argument as you can get. It is also basically bullying.
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Telorand
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That's a very good assessment, I think. I was being a bit overly charitable, perhaps.
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corsicanguppy
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It's an interesting read to see how Kernel developers argue and think.


It's an important goal to adjust to how kernel devs discuss kernel issues.

Please don't trivialize the efforts of a smart person in a very underestimated discipline.

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apt_install_coffee
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They're not trivializing, just noting that the different things you need to discuss for kernel development compared with other work. It is very different in a lot of ways, and does shape your perspective. I also find it interesting.
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asudox
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It's an interesting read to see how Kernel developers argue and think.


You sound like some mad scientist experimenting with kernel devs.

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thingsiplay
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I presume you will find it amusing that I'm from Germany.

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Bill Statler
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Very cool! So everything is running on a computer in your house? Question: What are you doing for an ISP that allows you to host websites? (Ours does not.)

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YAF Release Footage of Storming, Detonating SOUNION Ship in Red Sea – Abolition Media

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#yemen #Palestine #resistance #alaqsaflood #ansarallah

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Rust for Linux revisited (by Drew DeVault)
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nyan
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Large organizations always have politics—it's human nature. 1700 people is quite a large organization. Therefore, the kernel maintainers have politics. The presence of politics always means that some people will get stomped on unfairly.

This is all business as usual, in other words, and it will not go away. At best, you can shift the culture of the group and the politics along with it, but that takes time and effort and people-handling.

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Cysioland
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I wouldn't be surprised if a Rust-based Linux fork eventually happened (possibly funded by some techbro wrecker)
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