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US believes it can use Hezbollah's disarray to elect new president


US officials believe they can exploit the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Hezbollah's disarray to push for the election of a president in Lebanon, according to Axios.

The report echoes the belief among some Lebanese opposition leaders who spoke to Middle East Eye that there is an opportunity to push for the election of a president after the post has been vacant since October 2022.

Under Lebanon's de facto confessional system, the president of Lebanon must be a Christian.

in reply to Linkerbaan

to push for an election of a president? As opposed to what lol, what have they got now?

in reply to Peter Link

Who would have thought the yarmulke nazis would do such a thing!

in reply to sag

Yes, Monopoly the game exactly illustrates the modern world. The goal is to get a monopoly of the proletariat because that's much better than any alternative for super obvious reasons.
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in reply to sag

And Monopoly is insanely easy to win. Just never buy hotels, and buy all the houses. They’re purposefully limited as a resource.


Terrorism from Zionist air force continues with bombing on the outskirts of Beirut


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You sound like a terrorist.
in reply to sin_free_for_00_days

Simplistic rhetoric and superficial understanding.
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Russia urges its citizens to leave Israel immediately


Russia has urged its citizens to leave Israel immediately, following the escalating military tensions with both Hezbollah and Iran.

Yesterday, Anatoly Viktorov, Moscow’s ambassador to Tel Aviv, recommended that Russian nationals depart Israel without delay.

“We advise our citizens currently in Israel to seriously consider leaving the area,” Viktorov added.

in reply to CyberMonkey404

When this is all settled and done am sure we will find out Russia has had a hand in stirring up the Middle East shenanigans with Iran... As part of their boulder strategy to disrupt American support of the Ukraine war
.. cuz if you think about it in the end if he strategically wins in Ukraine it legitimize this is worldview and it is real get surprised by Iran... Perhaps with Russia's help we might get an uh-oh... The big kind
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in reply to teamevil

As if it takes Russia to get the US bogged down in the middle east...


What the heck is this trash shipping with firefox? about:compat


Visit about:compat in your firefox. I find it insane that these exist.

Edit: I've learned that this is part of the webcompat system addon developed by Mozilla and other contributors. I see why this is beneficial default behavior, since FF has no chance of getting enough market share to matter more if things are broken.

However, this behavior is too intrusive for my taste. For example this injection: hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central… is basically just to silence annoying user reports.

Also, Every site FF pretends to be a different UA on is artificially reducing FF market share data.

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in reply to mvirts

K, teachable moment maybe.

How complicated do you think a web browser is? Out of the box there is support for 30 years of web and file systems, support for socket types that will never be commissioned again and a pipeline to every native media format.

It's complicated, it's essentially an OS. with perfect backward compatability. (Mostly)

I have an increasing amount of bile for the Mozilla Corp, but if you're on Lemmy you probably noticed corporations don't make the best decisions for you... My question is how many of the options do you see in about:config do you think chrome and safari don't show you?

Mostly to their benefit I'd add, except if they set them maliciously you'll never know.

in reply to cakeistheanswer

Agreed. To expand on your OS comment, SerenityOS is an operating system that was largely written by one guy. Then he started a web browser for it ( Ladybird ).

Despite having a lot more help on the browser, he expects it to take longer. It is very clear that a modern web browser is a much bigger undertaking than the OS.

A browser engine is such a significant investment that even Microsoft sees it as too much effort. They dropped their internal engine to switch to Blink ( Chromium ).



Claudia Sheinbaum inaugurated, dedicates first press conference to victims of 1968 massacre, a new turn for Mexico's left


in reply to Southern Boy

Until the CIA “helps” Mexico with the left wing “problem”
in reply to petey

The US intelligence racket is already as fully involved with Mexico as it possibly can be under the present resource strain.


in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

Just 20 years ago a similar hurricane by the name of Katrina rocked the nation and was part of the 24 he news cycle for months. Katrina was (and rightfully so) a huge deal in America, and recognized as a mega traumatizing event.

It’s amazing to me how jaded the American public and media have become in that time, to where this disaster hardly even makes the news and is forgotten before it’s even joever.

I’m honestly not quite sure what to think of it. Have we become so calloused to the idea of climate change that this isn’t newsworthy? Is this more reflective of the corporate capture of media, and insurers not wanting to pay out for destroyed homes and lives? Or is this just secondary to the overriding effort to further a new war in the Middle East?

in reply to crusa187

The fact that these kinds of events are barely hitting the news cycle really shows how far we've progressed into a dystopia.


in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

oh but they do link to numemory.com, and numemory.com/xxccjs does mention phase change memory, as well as ferroelectric ram, rram, stt-mram... It seems like Numemory is investigating a number of different technologies. Also, their NM101 press release has no info numemory.com/newsinfo/7625877.…


Zrythm Digital Audio Workstation Abandoning GTK For Qt6


Zrythm is an interesting open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) software package. It's been making use of the GTK toolkit but now the developers have decided to switch to Qt6 instead.

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in reply to Jure Repinc

It's really rare for a project to completely rewrite to a new toolkit. VLC in circa 2007 did it (moved to Qt - even stole their volume control widget directly from Amarok at the time). GCompris ended up as a KDE project despite originating in Gnome (along with toolkit change, but it weirdly kept the name). LXDE->LXQT also. But I don't actually have that many examples.
in reply to Troy

audacious too! though oddly enough they've gone back to gtk3 in recent versions alongside their qt version
in reply to Jure Repinc

They are C++ already. If they deigned the application well, a UI toolkit change should not be too bad. Not trivial but manageable.

I always hate to see apps move off GTK but their first point is about cross-platform and there is just no denying that Qt has a vastly better cross-platform story than GTK does.



Mozilla doubling down on ads in Firefox


Despite its emphasis on protecting privacy, Mozilla is moving towards integrating ads, backed by new infrastructure from their acquisition of Anonym. They claim this will maintain a balance between user control and online ad economics, using privacy-preserving tech. However, this shift appears to contradict Mozilla's earlier stance of protecting users from invasive advertising practices, and it signals a change in their priorities.
in reply to Blizzard

I need to send an email to Mozilla soon. The fact that I'm highly convinced that these three Linux youtubers would do a better job than the current management should tell you a lot about what's happening at Mozilla (yes, it's that bad).

Link:

in reply to Blizzard

Would you look at that yet another anti Mozilla post in this community. Go ahead and scroll thru the posts and you'll find at least 4 from the last week or two alone

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having morals is a skill issue that leads to higher operational costs
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If only there were international organizations that could enforce standards. Like the WTO for example.





Using RDP from Linux to Windows via Android and VPN


in reply to shadowintheday2

Can you post ip r output.

Is your android being used as the modem/tether for device A?
(If so adding route 192.168.38.0/24 via _gateway and _gateway dev x0 proto static scope link should allow it to reach C)
If using network manager just use the GUI to add the one line in routes. 192.168.38.0 24 yourgateway - it will do the metric on its own.

What are the gateway addresses?

You'd need to add a route from c to a as well, I believe, but I haven't used windows in forever.

(The above is what I've had to do to get a machine behind an android to ping my other devices.)

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in reply to masterofn001

ip r
default via 192.168.15.1 dev enp3s0 proto dhcp src 192.168.15.32 metric 100
192.168.15.0/24 dev enp3s0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.15.32 metric 100
192.168.38.0/24 via 192.168.15.21 dev enp3s0    
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in reply to shadowintheday2

so it seems that without any config, the traffic passes from wlan1 to wlan0's network flawlessly; but traffic from wlan0 network stops at the Android device, even with iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT, so I'm clueless on what to do next


Unified Linux Wine Game Launcher (UMU) gets a first official release


cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/17704266

UMU comes from GloriousEggroll who is well known for making protonGE that's required to run several games on linux/deck.

It's not a launcher by itself, but rather something that can be built into other game launchers like Heroic, Lutris, and Junk Store. Right now most all steam games that don't have anticheat run great on deck without any tweaks. However many of those same games don't run by default if you install them from Epic/GOG/etc using one of the previously mentioned launchers. The games often require additional windows components to be manually installed with winetricks/protontricks, and many have lesser performance than their steam counterparts.

UMU is supposed to help other launchers have comparable compatibility and performance to what we see in steam native games. This project will hopefully improve the 3rd party launcher experience a lot.

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Minutes from 3 October 2024 WG Meeting


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in reply to Evan Prodromou

How does the “thread” property differ from the “context” property which basically every implementer is already using and has been doing so for 6+ years?
in reply to Evan Prodromou

That doesn’t really cover the why other than “context is vaguely defined” (maybe, but its’ been used in this exact way for… 7 years now? And is being used in this way by multiple interoperating implementations)
in reply to Erin 💽✨

it does mention the @context name collision which is imo a real point of confusion
in reply to Darius Kazemi

well, the json-ld keyword has an @ in front of it for a reason: w3.org/TR/json-ld11/#syntax-to…

id and type got aliased but they're really supposed to be @\id and @\type: github.com/w3c/activitystreams…

other point of confusion re: @\context vs context was overruled: github.com/w3c/activitystreams…