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Silex Desktop — new Open Source No-Code project
Hello c/opensource@lemmy.ml!
I’m the maintainer of Silex, a free/libre, no-code website builder focused on open web standards and static websites
We’re getting some traction recently and users are asking for a new app to work offline without logging in, so we're looking for a developer to build the new Silex Desktop app — a free/libre, installable version of Silex for local/offline use
If you’re excited by web design and open web tooling, we’d love to hear from you
About the project
✅ Funding is available to kickstart the project.
Tech stack:
- TypeScript, HTML/CSS, Node.js
- CLI, git, npm workflows
- Eleventy (11ty) (Static Site Generator)
- Neutralino.js
We’re looking for someone who:
- Loves web standards and web design
- Shares progress openly and listens to users
- Believes in FOSS (no open core, no lock-ins)
More info and the roadmap for the Desktop project:
👉 roadmap.silex.me/posts/3/silex…
If you’re interested (or know someone who could be!), feel free to reach out: 📧 alex at lexoyo.me - or on Mastodon (@lexoyo@framapiaf.org) or here on lemmy
I also just launched two Lemmy communities if you want to join the project:
- c/Silex lemmy.ml/c/Silex
- c/SilexFR (French) lemmy.ml/c/SilexFR
Talk to you soon
Silex: Free Website Builder, Libre Software, Open-Source No-Code
Create fast websites visually, free open source tool for professional web designers and no-code developers.www.silex.me
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My summary, for those who don't want to watch a ten minute video:
- Parrying has gotten very popular.
- It works fairly well.
- Not everyone wants to play a game that relies on responding to cues.
- It doesn't give a feel of being able to control combat.
- Overuse of one mechanic can make it unappealing.
Prime 'content'
Because that’s all that content is. Stuff to fill emptiness. I hate our timeline so much.
Yeah. A lot of accusations around misconduct, abuse of power, and misuse of funds. And though there was a kernel of truth, the serious / deliberate stuff did not check out, the evidence was presented in a manipulative manner, and the whole thing was clearly personal.
The other creators and co-owners of SW eventually came out with statements on the situation. And I don't see how all these smart folks that had just struggled to depart a terrible management situation and do have access to SW's financial records would let themselves get duped like that.
Anyways like I said, over and done.
Not everyone wants to play a game that relies on responding to cues.Overuse of one mechanic can make it unappealing.
I feel the same about games that rely on reactions during cutscenes or climbing. On the one hand having to be on edge all the time is annoying, but on the other, the absence of interaction can hamper suspense.
For example, I've been playing Horizon Forbidden West lately - There's a lot of climbing, and the devs love to throw a mid-climb "post you're hanging on starts to fall" gag, but with no reaction mechanic, it's pretty much always harmless and kinda feels "why bother"
It doesn't give a feel of being able to control combat.
I feel this way too often. Some combat become a simon says moment. I think replayability is reduced when bosses are designed to strict - and parrying for big damage is a huge influence here.
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I've tried a couple soulslikes and I think I could get into them but it seems like they need a decent chunk of time dedicated to them before you can have any fun. I did enjoy a more stripped down version that I found in Titan Souls though-- it's a boss rush game with simple and tight mechanics, so you can jump in and try a boss or two without any other lead up.
Dude, I'm fucking AWFUL at parrying - to the point that it's just a mechanic I simply don't interact with at all - in Soulslikes (and I'm not great at dodging tbh either) and I've made it through the majority of the bosses in Elden Ring base (haven't gotten the DLC), ALL of them in DS3, and I'm currently working through DS2. (Plus both the Star Wars Jedi Souls games completely solo, which are honestly just My First Dark Souls with a SW skin lol)
If at first you don't succeed, roll a caster and summon people lol
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I beat every boss in base game Elden Ring without parrying once, using melee only, and no ashes or player summons either (I summoned NPCs a few times if it was an NPC I liked or an interesting story, which meant summoning them for Morgott, Fire Giant, and the two gargoyles). I even got Malenia, eventually! I don't say this as a brag, because I am NOT good at these games. I say it to say that if I can do it, basically anyone can.
I think it's a matter of mindset. You've got to go in psychologically prepared to fail a over and over again, and you've got to be analytical enough to figure out why you failed. If you're really struggling with a boss, maybe don't even try to attack for a couple of runs, just focus on figuring out when to dodge and when you have windows. Maybe your current weapon isn't the right one for the job because it's a bit too slow to hit this boss or it does a damage type that the boss resists. Maybe you just need to go somewhere else for a bit and come back with more vigour and a better weapon. Elden Ring is really good for letting you do that.
Obviously that's not going to be a process that everyone enjoys, and if someone doesn't enjoy it that's totally fair enough. It's a game, we're all just here to have fun. But the actual skill floor is one almost everyone can achieve if they want to and approach it ready to experiment and learn
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I mean, I am all for failure as a whole. Cause it really is true what they say about the growth being in the action of failure. I also like tactics, but I like to have the space to think on the tactics I am enduring. I think it's cool that a game introduced that in a very action-oriented way. There seems to be a lot of creativity in the creatures as well, which I like. I will say as I get older my reaction time has lessened even worse than I'd say it originally was. I never played shooters or anything, although I had friends go ham on them. I think perhaps it might be an incongruity with what I want out of a game with swords x boss battles. The game I think of when I think of big papa boss battles is Shadow of the Colossus. Cause it's pretty much the only one I have ever played like that. I feel the game though, while exciting, is actually pretty slowly paced. Which makes it more accessible to me. Most "sword" games though, I want to play like a dumb-dumb. I wanna hack, slash, and feel all powerful. Smash everything in sight (Dynasty Warriors). I think the two clashing might also be making it difficult for me to pick it up.
But I guess the third thing is that pretty much any time I have grabbed a game that is hyper popular nowadays I don't really seem to like it much. That might be an age thing too, idk. Might be a lot of things, but I generally think I might not be the audience for most AAA games. In fact, I know I am not =P!
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That's totally fair! I'm very much of the opinion that while From's soulslikes are great and much less insurmountable (a word I choose carefully — they are difficult, but they can be learned) than their reputation suggests, that still doesn't mean that everyone will actually find them fun. If the combat isn't to your taste then that's an entirely reasonable position. Elden Ring is particularly demanding in terms of the pace of combat compared to the Souls games as well
Shadow of the Colossus is such an incredible game. I think it was the first game I played that showed me that games could do more than just being fun to play. It wasn't the first to attempt to do that, certainly, but it was the first to show that to me and it has stuck in my memory ever since. The soundtrack is phenomenal too. Have you seen that the dev team teased a new game late last year?
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Here's the teaser, since they reformed the team with a new name so it might not be easy to find. I think this is the only thing they've released about it so far, which doesn't really tell us much other than that they're making something, but honestly I'm just excited to see more from them. It being published by Epic suggests to me that it'll come to PC, which is a relief for me because I don't have a console
Thank god! I know a lot of gamers still hug their consoles, but I haven't had one since ninety dickety two, and I figured at least I could watch the pretty game if I couldn't play it. Because I am not about to grab a console for one game =P!
Thank you by the by! It was super sweet to pass this along =)
***Oooo, looks like Nausicaa-ZoE!
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I think no discussion about parrying is complete without mentioning Ultrakill. It strikes a good balance between being usable without being an auto win button.
In Ultrakill, besides from dealing extra damage and gaining style points, parrying enemy attacks is one of the most effective ways to regain health. Low on health? Find an attack to punch and you’re back in action.
This creates a risk reward system. Committing to a parry is risky. If you miss you lose health - and it’s easy to miss when there’s 10 other things going on at the same time. It’s not always easy to find an opening to commit to.
It also had a bug in early development where the player could also parry their own shotgun bullets if timed correctly. This was developed an intended mechanic, so Ultrakill is the game where punching your own shotgun bullet makes them go faster.
It's a core game mechanic
This like complaining that jumping is required to beat Mario
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This reads like a crutch though and reflects part of the problem: games are being treated like products and not carefully curated, cohesive experiences, which's why its consistent inclusion everywhere is being criticized.
If everyone is using the same crutch, no one should be surprised if people start complaining they're seeing the same crutch everywhere instead of interesting new ideas.
Would you say the same thing about dodging in bullet hells?
What OP said is right. Parrying is an easy mechanic to give dopamine, just like dodging lots of things in bullet hells.
At one point, the choice for defensive mechanism aren't infinite. We usually see armor, dodge and parry/block.
Parrying is clearly popular by looking at smash successes from FromSoftware where this is a key mechanic in the games.
People usually complain about parrying when it isn't clear when to parry, or parrying is inconsistent. It feels cheap. The mechanic itself isn't the issue, but how it is implemented.
The mechanic itself isn't the issue, but how it is implemented.
It depends on how (and where) its implemented is his point. It needs to be woven into the comvat system as it is in FromSoft, Batman, Ultrakill, or Cuphead, not tacked on because its easy or popular. Each of those uses parrying in a different way to enhance its combat. On the other hand, if you take these mechanics without the greater context or understanding of why it works, then it'll tends to stand out as bad, or remain unused. Doom Eternal is an example that immediately comes to mind. The whole game is about fast paced combat, with a plethora of new mobility mechanics, that is, until you encounter one of the enemies you need to parry. Then, the game comes to a grinding halt while you wait for the enemy to take action, so you are able to react, completely opposite the rage-fueled persona and the mobility focus of every other mechanic. Compare that to Ultrakill, where parrying isn't just a reactive way to mitigate damage, its a situational attack that allows you to keep moving and keep up your carnage.
Game mechanics work best when they're cohesive. Parrying, due to its simplicity can be tacked on easily, breaking this cohesiveness if not given the same weight as the rest of the mechanics.
OP's point is that parry in itself doesn't need much more around it to feel rewarding.
The guy I replied to said that this is a crutch. I asked if that applied to bullet hell dodging because dodging in bullet hell is a core gameplay element and you'll be hard pressed to find people calling that mechanic a crutch. But you'll find shitty bullet hell with a terrible implementation of the mechanic.
The mechanic itself isn't a crutch and has been used successfully numerous times and I fail how to see how the mechanic in itself is crutch, and not the bad implementation by some devs.
Show me a great game mechanic and I can find you terrible implementation of that game mechanic.
Then it can be said about any mechanic, isn't it? In Soulslike, parry is part of the core mechanics.
When Balatro exploded, a ton of copy cats tried to get in on the action. It happens all the time. Why is parrying any different?
Idk, I like it more then StS personally, I'm at like 400 hours on AtO lol
It's quite different from StS imo, and while I'm not a huge fan of the paradox model of dlcs (knew it was coming when they got bought by paradox tho) overall I think they've done a good job with keeping it updated and adding nifty new cards/locations/status effects etc
A few years ago, I would have fully agreed with you, but having tried my hand at (hobbyist) gamedev broke those rose-tinted glasses for me. It's just extremely hard to curate gameplay mechanics.
The only real way to know whether a mechanic works in your game, whether it's fun, is to implement it. That means you'll be programming for weeks and at the end of it, you might end up deciding that it actually isn't fun, so you get to rip it back out.
This is also a somewhat linear process. If you think of another mechanic at a later point, you're not going to re-evaluate all previous mechanics to see whether a different combination would've been more fun. Instead, you just decide whether this new mechanic adds fun to your mechanic-soup or distracts from it.
Point is, even as a hobbyist and idealist, with theoretically infinite time, I quickly learned to swallow my pride and appreciate when something just adds fun, whether it perfectly fits in or not. You're just not going to create the perfect game. And a game that's a sum of inconsistent, fun parts is still more fun than a coherent game that doesn't exist.
Of course, this does not mean, you should include mechanics even though they're overused. That seems to rather be a result from long development cycles, where games decide to include the mechanic when it's not yet overused, e.g. when a popular game featured that mechanic, but once the game comes out, then a whole bunch of other games have come out before, which had also decided to include that same mechanic.
No no no no. No.
You ever played DOOM? And i dont mean the recent incarnations, i mean the original one.
No Parry. Only damage and more damage. And lots of endorfines. BFE.
I hate parrying.
Ultimate Doom didn't even have i-frames. If two rockets arrive at your location, you just die.
Of course, the game didn't have jumping, either, and in most games that's kind of a big deal.
Alberta wildfires pose growing threat to oil output
Alberta wildfires pose growing threat to oil output
Wildfires are threatening about 4% of Canada’s crude output as a blaze in Alberta’s oilsands region approaches production sites. Read more.Bloomberg News (Financial Post)
New Dad Can't Wait to Show Newborn Child Hard Drives Full of Pirated Movies Once He's Old Enough
New Dad Can't Wait to Show Newborn Child Hard Drives Full of Pirated Movies Once He's Old Enough
Local father Jay Vander couldn’t wait until his newborn son was old enough to show him old hard drives full of pirated movies.Jose Balderas (The Hard Times)
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Yeah, it’s a satire site that got big in punk rock circles some years ago making fun of the Punk and Hardcore scene.
I didn’t know it was still going.
Edit: there it is!
thehardtimes.net/about/
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Why store media locally? Whenever you want you can just download it or pirate-stream it
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haha y'all downvoters got me rollin 🤣
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"Why store anything? Just re-download it from someone who's still storing it!"
You see the catch 22 here?
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As someone who went with the Mullvad suggestion despite having heard about port forwarding, I think a big part of why is because whenever it comes up people don't take the time to explain why port forwarding is important. Until I asked in this thread the only thing I'd seen is some vague handwaving about it being faster.
I've only just dipped my toes in so maybe this is off base, but the community seems to have an elitism problem. If the people who know are dismissive of ignorant noobs who want to learn, the long term health of the community suffers for it.
How do you stream it if nobody downloads it to seed things? The whole premise of seed ratios isn't just a bragging score, it's aiding the communal health.
Besides, I have around 60 TB of space here, that'll hold several versions of damn near every Linux distro out there for a while, it'd be a shame to waste it.
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Those get taken down on a regular basis. Not to mention the atrocious bitrates that is all they can manage.
Meanwhile, a high quality BluRay rip on my drive ain't going anywhere.
I am an addict and my addiction is 4k UHD remuxes. When that uncompressed bitrate hits the screen, 👌. My Lawrence of Arabia remux is the largest I have off the top of my head and it’s like 125GB.
When I realized that theaters get DCP’s that are like 2-4 times the bitrate of a Blu-ray disk I died a little inside. I want those.
When I realized that theaters get DCP’s that are like 2-4 times the bitrate of a Blu-ray disk I died a little inside. I want those.
Theater DCPs are notorious for having insane amounts of DRM - you'd need a quantum computer to decrypt it, and even if you could there's invisible watermarks all over the screen identifying the exact location and time that the movie was playing in, the studio would immediately find out and sue you for everything you have. Not to mention the theater that played it would lose their license and go out of business.
So, for the most part, movie theaters are the only instance where DRM actually won.
But, to my knowledge, there have only been two movies that got their DCPs leaked, and even then, they were old movies released decades ago. One of them is a war movie, and the other one is an animated movie - PM me for details.
60 TB is really great.
Planning on creating such setup. Mind sharing your current setup and howw you maintain it ?
I am thinking which drives and what size and backup system to use.
Just part of a lab built over the years. Primary storage is a Dell R730XD filled mostly with 12 TB drives all set up in a ZFS array comprised of mirror vdevs, so redundant by default plus the built in ZFS snapshots for the rare need for a rollback on a dataset.
It only recently got that big because I had a mixed set of drives going back years and finally decided to work on getting them all to the same size and picked 12 as a good cost/volume balance, can find them at used server parts shops for a bit over $100 each.
Major risk is I don't have a good auto alert for smart monitor issues, so just make sure to occasionally manually copy the vital stuff like photos to an external drive.
Just as a side effect.
Guess who you stream the data from using debrid services: From us seeders keeping it alive.
Damn leechers
I just set up AndroidTV so they can watch ad-free YouTube.
Still need a better setup for extracting Amazon video without ads.
If my parents were hosting Jellyfin, I'd have done the same.
Though in my family, I'm far more likely to be the one hosting, and receiving requests
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This is why I had to go edit all my media's metadata and even edit themoviedb.com with proper MPAA ratings.
Also why I have early childhood, late childhood, and screening libraries for both movies and shows in my jellyfin.
Do you have any tips for organizing your library like that? Did you use commonsensemedia or sites like that?
I recommend just thinking of the things you liked as a kid or you that you think might teach your kid something you think is important and watch it first (screen) Then place it into the appropriate library.
I've been using two separate libraries, "early childhood" which kinda works out to g ratings (3-7 years) and "late childhood" which is kinda like PG (7+) but there is overlap since something's are just not rated or sometimes I disagree with the rating.
You'd be surprised how many things for kids might not teach them anything worth while or might induce nightmares. So I just don't put those into the kids libraries. Once you have media stored in children libraries, then you can make a child account for jellyfin if you want.
Obviously, research what screen time does to children and decide for yourself how much screen time you feel your child should have. Personally, I don't even turn in a screen around my child until we spend 2 hours outside and then its only for 15 mins of passive watching a day. I also like to use animation for children as its good at portraying emotions. Also after we watch something we talk about it. Episodes of Bluey and most studio Ghibli films work well with this method.
Why don't you just get one beefy computer, then use something like Nucleus Co-op to split screen multiple sessions of the game on one TV?
Or if you've already got multiple copies of the game on multiple devices, you can use something like a multiviewer to split it up.
No need for a special TV in either case 😉
I never clued in when I was a kid in the 90s but we had a collection of all kinds of Disney movies on VHS tapes with handwritten labels and usually 2 or 3 movies per tape. I just thought that was normal.
I'm sure my kids will just think their Jellyfin library is normal.
I know she's your ex and all but you haven't shared / set them an servarr stack / Jellyfin up yet?
Booooo, Pirates of the high seas share their knowledge regardless of the person :p
We'd just tape them off the TV though, so halfway through you'd get an advert for a DFS sale that must end this Sunday, or that bizarre one about milk (Accrington Stanley, who are they?)
I later found out that they'd put these tapes on for us when they wanted to be left alone for a few hours. And we watched them a lot. Not sure what was more worn out by the end, the tape or my dad.
Man. It's bad.
When I see an AVI in my collection I'm hit with three feelings.
Disgust
Nostalgia
Conflict: replace it? Or keep. Because the hell if I'm keeping two.
Maybe I should just screenshot the media details?
I want to move out from Ubuntu and use something else.
I didn't intentionally pick Ubuntu, my pc went shit and I needed to install some os and the only one I had available in a usb was Ubuntu noble.
Laptop specs: I think a 7th gen inter i5, 8 GBs of ram and (the issue) a 125 GB M2.Sata SSD
I'm not really going to play games on it, it's one of those weird laptops that folds and can use a stylus.
So what would you suggest for something light in size and good with a stylus.
If you want stability, you probably can't beat Debian, and you should be fairly used to the backend by now. I suspect the stylus use is just going to be figuring out what package provided your current access to it.
Before you wipe the laptop, I would recommend finding a command to list all the installed packages, then at least you'll have a reference to what was in place before. And if possible, maybe grab a backup of the /etc folder (or whatever might still be accessible) so you can reference the current configs on various packages to recreate whatever doesn't work by default.
There are a number of lightweight desktops you can choose from. I personally like Mate, but maybe you can play around with others on the new system and purge the ones you don't like. And while you're swapping drives, check the memory slots, maybe you can drop another 8GB stick in there to give the whole system a boost.
maybe you can drop another 8GB stick in there to give the whole system a boost.
I already opened my laptop before, it's one of those silly ones that have RAM BUILT INTO THE MOTHERBOARD, the stupidest design choice ever.
I would go Debian for stability.
I like fedora since it updates a little more frequently than Debian, but it isn’t a full on rolling release. I used opensuse tumbleweed for a while and it broke on me several times.
I also used arch for a while, but I’m a dad to young children and I just don’t have the time to fuck around with my OS anymore. When I have time to work on my personal dev projects, I just want to drop into tmux, launch neovim and go. After some distro hopping I landed on Fedora with KDE for my desktop and gnome on my laptop. I also have an old netbook running antix with iceWM and an old thinkpad running fedora i3. The latter 2 machines are my hard focus machines.
I have a Lenovo Flex with Aurora, which is a version of Fedora Atomic with "batteries installed" (nonfree libraries included) and a KDE desktop.
If you prefer Gnome that version is Bluefin.
The advantage of an atomic/immutable distro is that it's effectively impossible to break, but you can't tinker with the internals like you would a regular distro. And that's still with fresh packages hot from the oven about once a week.
Aurora - The Linux-based ultimate workstation
The ultimate productivity workstation, stable and streamlined for you.getaurora.dev
I have a 2-in-1 laptop that folds with a touchscreen and Debian has been good for me. Sometimes I have to toggle the auto-rotate on the screen on and off to get it to work again but I doubt that issue is Debian specific. I don't know about a stylus but even if Debian doesn't include drivers for it, installing proprietary drivers manually isn't that bad.
My specs are worse than yours and it runs fine for productivity stuff. I use it for writing, spreadsheets, some web tools, and notes / references while running tabletop games.
Wacom / Synaptics / AES styluses - usually recognized by the Linux kernel.
KDE - provides profiles for stylus, pressure, buttons, sensitivity.
Gnome (on Wayland) - recognizes styluses, but with less customization.
Debian. You'll have the same (amazing) package manager without the extra ubuntu stuff. Find a desktop manager that supports the stylus (I assume Gnome and KDE Plasma both will support it).
Just make sure to enable non-free packages.
There's no big difference between ubuntu, mint or debian. I am not sure why people try to sell it to you.
Look up if fedora silverblue supports your stylus. Create a live image and test it. If it works, install it. If not fedora, then opensuse aeon.
This narrative thriller takes place in a fictional '80s OS, and the devs obsessed over keeping just the right amount of old school jank: 'We did retain the dial-up modem'
This narrative thriller takes place in a fictional '80s OS, and the devs obsessed over keeping just the right amount of old school jank: 'We did retain the dial-up modem'
Vice Undercover introduces the world wide web into the already harrowing world of Reagan-era drug control.Justin Wagner (PC Gamer)
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Yes, I actually sought out the AI disclaimer to confirm my suspicions since they had that uncanny valley feel to them.
A human artist using Photoshop would generally know how to fix that.
I’ve never understood this argument in a vacuum. Fair use includes education. And people have been getting inspired by art they don’t own a copyright to for ever.
There are lots of other critiques of ai that I do agree with.
Yeah, everything is a remix. I think it all boils down to preferences on copyright and corpos as entities.
It's easier for me to accept that an inventor gets a 30+ year copyright (or lifelong for that matter) in our current societal setup. I even understand how most things today are a collaboration, so we need bigger entities to hold such copyrights. And this is the point where I personally start seeing the problems.
I feel if we keep this up, art will move towards a l'art pour l'art phase. Mass media will turn into something personally tuned and we'll be charged a premium for something that was touched by human inspiration. Don't know if I helped or digressed too much, but these are my worries in the vacuum.
Much of the game is played on the fictitious Amigo OS, an amalgam of Windows 3.1 and early Apple operating systems
Or maybe it's based on Amiga Workbench?
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U.S. appeals court reinstates Trump’s tariffs
U.S. appeals court reinstates Trump’s tariffs. Live updates here.
A federal appeals court on Thursday reinstated the most sweeping of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs, a day after a trade court had ruled Trump had exceeded his authority in imposing the duties and had ordered an immediate block on them.CTVNews.ca Staff (CTVNews)
Germany Is Using AI to Erase Pro-Palestinian Speech
Becker was consulted by the Tagesspiegel because of his affiliation with the Decoding Antisemitism project at the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the Technical University Berlin, which he led from 2019 until 2025. With the help of a large language computing model, the project aims to create “an [AI] algorithm that will automatically recognize antisemitic statements in web comments . . . so that antisemitic posts can be removed more efficiently and accurately” by online platforms. In a talk to the Institute of the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy, Becker lays out the political focus of the project:
The dataset is divided into labels of differing forms of supposed antisemitisms such as “analogies with Nazism,” fascism, apartheid, or colonialism; calling Israel a racist or terrorist state; accusing it of genocide; referencing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS); giving Israel the sole blame for the plight of the Palestinians; applying double standards; and denying Israel’s right to exist.
On the topic of Palestine and Israel, the glossary seems to operate within a logic that sees emotional responses to a live-streamed genocide not as a human reaction but as an indicator of antisemitic beliefs. The emotional, irrational, and racialized Palestinian Other is already a common theme in the criminalization of the Palestinian diaspora and Palestinian solidarity in Germany and beyond. This logic regarding the possible motivation behind innocuous or harsh comments reflects a worldview that suspects antisemitism everywhere, especially where it does not exist.
In an interview with Israeli news outlet Mako, Becker suggests that social media providers are opening their doors and hearing concerns like his. This strongly suggests hopes to commercialize and implement its findings with online platforms. Five years after its inception, it appears that its conceptual framework and glossary have been overtaken by reality. We are today seeing, in real time, what Masha Gessen called the liquidation of a ghetto, and the deliberate killing of Palestinian children by the Israeli military, turning Gaza into a “‘Graveyard’ for children.” While this reality may shatter the scientific credibility of Decoding Antisemitism and its conceptual framework, the project may nonetheless be a formidable weapon for those who want to erase Palestinians’ and their supporters’ voices online and take legal proceedings against them offline.
Germany Is Using AI to Erase Pro-Palestinian Speech
Germany has been one of the worst Western countries for whitewashing Israel’s genocide in Palestine. Now it wants to do it with AI.jacobin.com
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Only a Nazi conflates anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism.
Those on the right, being Nazis, use the Hitlerian definition of anti-Semitism. In this Hitlerian definition, Jews can never actually be full citizens of any other nation besides Israel. Regardless of their personal loyalty or belief, any Jew in the US or Europe is suspect, only a partial citizen, a foreigner at their very core. This is Hitlerian, as it is the very way the historical Nazis viewed Jewish identity.
For modern Nazis, being a Jew and being Israeli are interchangeable. A criticism of the Israeli government is an attack on Jewish people in general. Nazis like the modern Republican Party believe that Jews can never be real Americans, and that they will always have some connection and loyalty to the Israeli state. This is the very logic that justified the Japanese internment camps. If you think every Jewish person must be loyal to Israel, you are literally a Nazi.
YIKES! So after empty speech of doing something against the enthnic cleansing now instead of ramping up, they decide to drown dissent.
Germany is starting to literally depart from being any semblance of a democracy at this point.
When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty!
Okay I know Germany's been struggling as of late, but I had plans to flee the US and go there for a time.
And now I'm thinking that isn't a great idea. Like, out of the frying pan into the fire?
Trying to recreate a version control system for my music collection, with one crucial difference ... 🤯
I want to have a mirror of my local music collection on my server, and a script that periodically
updates the server to, well, mirror my local collection.
But crucially, I want to convert
all lossless files to lossy, preferably before uploading them.
That's the one reason why I can't just use git - or so I believe.
I also want locally deleted files to be deleted on the server.
Sometimes I even move files around (I believe in directory structure) and again,
git deals with this perfectly. If it weren't for the lossless-to-lossy caveat.
It would be perfect if my script could recognize that just like git does, instead of deleting and reuploading the
same file to a different location.
My head is spinning round and round and before I continue messing around with find
and scp it's time to ask the community.
I am writing in bash but if some python module could help with it I'm sure I could
find my way around it.
TIA
additional info:
- Not all files in the local collection are lossless. A variety of formats.
- The purpose of the remote is for listening/streaming with various applications
- The lossy version is for both reducing upload and download (streaming) bandwidth. On mobile broadband FLAC tends to buffer a lot.
- The home of the collection (and its origin) is my local machine.
- The local machine cannot act as a server
I want to convert all lossless files to lossy, preferably before uploading them
so it's not exactly a mirror, right?
here's an idea:
- A - the source containing lossless files
- B - the local storage of lossy files
- C - a remote mirror of B
With that, you can do:
- A -> B: a systemd service that makes this conversion.
- B -> C:
gitor syncthing to mirror and/or version control.
This uses more storage than you probably intended to (lossy files are also stored locally), but it's a mirror.
so it’s not exactly a mirror, right?
Correct!
Your workflow is actually something I thought of but the duplication of all lossy files would be a bit too much and replacing them with symlinks would not work with git afaik.
OP wants to sync, so I would use rsync here. It will be way faster and efficient. If you want to know what rsync did, you can keep a log file of it's output.
Why use git exactly? You're never changing the content of the files themselves (excluding the effect of lossy compression) so you also don't need to track those changes, right?
This seems more like a job for rsync.
Aside from that, I don't know more for how to achieve the full setup you're trying to create, sorry
Don't know of a solution that does this, but you could solve it with a two-step process. First, rsync the files to the server as-is, then use a background job on the server that converts lossless to lossy every hour or so.
Storage is really cheap these days though, why compress lossy in the first place?
You can compress to lossy and still don't make the difference between each while saving a ton of storage. Opus 192k is really good and mostly transparent.
I do agree that storage is cheap however if you have to make backups, it really gets satured very fast !
Make a script. I'd use xonsh or python with sh.py.
- create a dict for remote to local filename map
- walk your local collection
- for each file, determine what the correct remote name (including a valid extension) would be, and add the pair to the dict, with remote filenames as keys, local filenames as values
- make a set like
local_munged_namesfrom that dict's keys - walk your remote tree, and store the filenames in a set like
remote_names names_to_upload = local_munged_names - remote_names- for each name in names to upload, look up the local filename from the remote to local filename map. Then, encode it if it needs encoding, and upload.
xonsh or python with sh.py.
Very interesting!
And thanks for the coding tips. It seems git is not the best option here because it keeps a full history of all files in their fullness - a gigantic waste of space in the case of a media collection.
I am now thinking more rsync minus lossless formats, then deal with lossless formats separately.
you know, you could also either include a lossy copy next to the lossless ones, then rsync only lossy extensions, or, if that pollutes your collection, have a separate but identically-structured directory tree, where all your lossless files have lossy copies. Then, you can rsync both folders (send-only) to your single remote (lossy extensions only).
but, yeah, Git really isn't the tool for this, agreed.
Haribo recalls sweets in the Netherlands after traces of cannabis found
Space cake, weed cookies and hash brownies may be familiar fare in the Netherlands, but cannabis in bags of children’s candy is not and Haribo has recalled its Happy Cola F!ZZ sweets after traces of the drug were found inside.
Several people, including children, suffered “health complaints, such as dizziness” after eating sweets from three 1kg packs, the Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) in the Netherlands said, adding that a full recall had been undertaken as a precaution.
“How the cannabis ended up in the sweets is still unknown,” a spokesperson for the authority told the Dutch news agency ANP. “The police are investigating the matter further.” The authority said the packs concerned were genuine Haribo products.
Haribo recalls sweets in the Netherlands after traces of cannabis found
Several people reported feeling dizzy and unwell after eating from a 1kg pack of Haribo Happy Cola F!ZZJon Henley (The Guardian)
Several people, including children, suffered “health complaints, such as dizziness” after eating sweets from three 1kg packs
I'd provably be dizzy too if I'd just eaten 3kg of sweets.
So I just checked random packaging from sour gummy candies. 65.1% sugar. Damn. So 3kg would be 1,953g of sugar.
You know, I just thought, "I could do that", but probably nuh-uh. That's like 2 months of recommended max. added sugar intake.
Although, recommended is just that, recommended. Those 25 - 36g are like one can of coke. Well, actually for women that can of coke exceeds recommendations already.
EXCLUSIVE: Inside Trump’s New Gaza "Ceasefire" Proposal
“The proposed deal from the Israelis through Witkoff is extremely difficult to accept,” said a senior Hamas official to Drop Site. “There is no talk about the [ceasefire] deal from January 19. There is no talk about a return to the situation before March 2” when Israel abandoned the original ceasefire. The Hamas official said that there is no guarantee Israel would even respect the 60-day truce after its ten captives are returned in the first week of the deal. “They might launch the war again,” he said. “There are no guarantees to a permanent ceasefire, no guarantees for a permanent withdrawal.”
On Thursday, a senior Palestinian resistance figure told Drop Site that Hamas is still debating the language in the draft. He pointed out that the assurances about Trump’s commitment to a long-term ceasefire are not enforceable and that Israel repeatedly violates ceasefire agreements, including the January deal that Trump pushed through before his inauguration. "Releasing half [of the living Israeli captives] within a week and then putting your hopes in Trump is not very reassuring,” he told Drop Site.
Basem Naim, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, told Drop Site earlier this month that the group had received a direct commitment from Witkoff that two days after the release of U.S. citizen and Israeli soldier Edan Alexander, the Trump administration would compel Israel to lift the Gaza blockade and allow humanitarian aid to enter the territory. Witkoff, according to Naim, also promised that Trump would make a public call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and for negotiations aimed at achieving a “permanent ceasefire.”
“He did nothing of this,” Naim said. “They didn't violate the deal. They threw it in the trash.”
“There are a lot of reservations on this paper as a framework. There are a lot of loopholes. There are a lot of ambiguities,” a Palestinian source close to the negotiating team told Drop Site. “Israel will never agree to end the war under this framework. The number of aid trucks are not mentioned. There are no specifics about where the Israeli forces will withdraw to. All of these are problems which will probably impede this. Witkoff tried to accommodate Israel much more than what was in the earlier paper. It’s going to take some time before a deal gets approved by the movement.”
EXCLUSIVE: Inside Trump’s New Gaza "Ceasefire" Proposal
Drop Site obtained the “term sheet,” circulated by Steve Witkoff. It would allow Israel to resume war after 60 days.Jeremy Scahill (Drop Site News)
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Some years ago there was a documentary called Mayor about the mayor of the de facto capital of Palestine. I remember they had mediators from like Germany in the negotiation for the Palestinians to build a cemetery and the Israeli negotiator and German mediators telling the mayor that he needs to compromise and satisfy the Israeli demands. Some compromise.
The gist is that there wasn't really a compromise to be made. The Palestinians wanted to build a cemetery in their city so people could have a place to bury loved ones and the Israeli military that say these people are free and independent are saying no to the people to build a cemetery for non-specific reasons.
There wasn't anything the Mayor and the people of the city could do to be able to build a cemetery and not be attacked by the Israeli military that had in years past invaded and we're occupying. It was more like they didn't want anything built for the local population at all. They were effectively living in captivity with no real self-governance. Freedom could only be had in lands away from their home and that very well may have been the purpose. Before this direct genocide, the method in cool periods was to make life miserable for the native people's to push them out for Israeli colonizers
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Uyghur “genocide” “denial” is a ban, no matter how much evidence you present12 nor how little evidence they present3.
Life hack: You can accuse anyone of genocide, and they’re automatically, unquestionably guilty.
Almost no predominantly-Muslim country—including Indonesia—buys the Uyghur genocide narrative, because they know it’s bullshit, because they talked to the Uyghurs themselves.
twitter.com/un_hrc/status/1578…#HRC51 | Draft resolution A/HRC/51/L.6 on holding a debate on the situation of human rights in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of #China, was REJECTED.
You can accuse anyone of genocide, and they’re automatically, unquestionably guilty.
This is very dishonest. You can only accuse people of color of monstrosities, white people are innocent until proven guilty (and then it becomes debatable)
Trump tells US chip design software makers to halt China sales
United States President Donald Trump’s administration has ordered US firms that offer software used to design semiconductors to stop selling their services to Chinese groups, the Financial Times has reported, citing people familiar with the move.
Electronic design automation software makers, which include Cadence, Synopsys and Siemens EDA, were told via letters from the US Commerce Department to stop supplying their tech, the report, which was published on Wednesday, said.
Trump tells US chip design software makers to halt China sales: Report
Electronic design automation software makers were told via letters to stop supplies to China, FT reported.Al Jazeera
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Did he impose actual sanctions or did he just ask really, really nicely?
Edit:
US electronic design automation software makers were told via letters to stop supplies to China, the FT reported.
"Pwetty Pweeeeeese?"
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This would literally put some company like Siemens out of business. They're much more likely if not obligated to continue business in China and cease doing business in the United States. Like there's just no way they can possibly comply with this and not ruin their company.
Moreover, it's not like stopping a new supply of software is going to slow China down. They will absolutely crack the existing software continue to use it as a matter of national security on their side. and then just continue to work independently on it.
This administration really doesn't understand the reach of soft power. And that by continuing these software relationships, they could simply make sure that the US is prioritized for any new developments. Which would offer an inherent priority and advantage to your economy while allowing the other government to still participate and not become hostile.
Instead, this is absolutely a hostile act towards another country, and China will interpret it as so.
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