Software Spotlight: WebReady
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/25183123
WebReady is a simple tool for converting videos to animated webp images and thus allowing users to use them as animated wallpapers for KDE. The tool is primarily designed for steam deck, but works perfectly on any KDE powered desktop.
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Software Spotlight: WebReady
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/25183123
WebReady is a simple tool for converting videos to animated webp images and thus allowing users to use them as animated wallpapers for KDE. The tool is primarily designed for steam deck, but works perfectly on any KDE powered desktop.
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systemctl hibernate. I wonder, what this new feature is for. Gnome had it in the past, MacOS has it, but I don't see what the use case is.
Does it also restore the content of unsaved files of the application?
That's up to the application.
If not, I'll prefer systemctl hibernate. I wonder, what this new feature is for.
I believe this is for storing the position of specific windows, for multi-window applications (e.g. GIMP's multi-window mode). So hibernation is very unrelated.
Gnome like to get things perfect before they make it default. It's what makes Gnome pretty stable, even if it does mean power users have to type in a command to expose the setting in the meantime.
The wait can be frustrating though.
War and Theft: The Takeover of Ukraine’s Agricultural Land
War and Theft: The Takeover of Ukraine’s Agricultural Land - Ukraine
Analysis in English on Ukraine about Agriculture; published on 21 Feb 2023 by Oakland InstituteReliefWeb
Not trying to clickbait but is this the end for kernel-level anti-cheat?
From the article
Microsoft has officially announced its intent to move security measures out of the kernel, following the Crowdstrike disaster a few short months ago. The removal of kernel access for security solutions would likely revolutionise running Windows games on the Steam Deck and other Linux systems.
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i agree and i don't buy unless it runs on linux now... but my steam library was purchased when i was on microshit's dicks.
but sometimes we got to take the L and move on. I just won't buy EA trash going forward.
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Edit: dropped word.
it helps that linux can now run almost everything else now instead of almost nothing. the main thing is we have options now.
thank you based valve & community btw
As a long time cs gamer I approve of this change but I warn ye regardless that there is no alternative or viable solution to actually stop cheaters right now.
And if you've only heard stories and don't really experience cs (vac kind of does nothing)
Ive kept track of players for months/years who have not been banned. I find it strange that they eventually do get banned several months after cheating. It took one account nearly 2 years to get banned.
I hope that a clever solution comes out, a man can dream right ?
well... you see back in my day we had cool bros in "clans" running their servers mostly paying for it themselves with some donations. admins would boot bad faith actors as needed.
then something happened to that model... and here we are now... FPS genre has no been the same IMHO
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The competitive scene happened. Can't have meaningful competitive matchmaking against the same 100 players. People don't just want to frag noobs, they want to grind the ladder to be able to say "I'm GE and you're Gold, therefore I know for a fact I'm better than you".
This is a global phenomenon. Even goddamn chess has this, first thing players ask each other nowadays is "what's your chess.com ELO".
I'm not a competitive player myself but I get why people rush after ELO progression. And it's not much of a stretch to say CS, Valo, and especially chess wouldn't have seen such widespread success without competitive ELO-based matchmaking.
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I would argue that Valorant or CS are terrible games for casual enjoyment anyways. The skill floor is already pretty damn high for a shooter.
In the FPS genre I've found Battlebit has faithfully replicated the feel of BF3/BF4 for those of us who just want to run towards the objective and shoot, and it had old school community servers.
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Csgo and 2 have a "trust" system to keep track of player behavior and put you in games with others of similar trust value. So if you get reported often or have a history of bad behavior, you're more likely to be put in games with other bad actors, and vice versa. Idk how effective it is though.
Honestly there isn't a great solution, which is kind of why I avoid competitive multiplayer games. Even kernel level anticheats can be circumvented.
The nice thing about vac is that theres pretty much no false positives. And valve will occasionally update it, catching a ton of cheaters off guard and getting them banned.
I just found this thread as well could not be a good thing for us Linux users.
https://x.com/tomwarren/status/1834863294730956803?s=46
I wouldn't get my hopes up. Them announcing something like this looks good PR-wise, so they'll do it, even if they don't actually expect this effort to lead to anything.
But even if they do implement such an API, companies won't start adopting this API until its capabilities are roughly comparable to the kernel-level solution AND it's available on most Windows systems in the wild. So, we're likely talking more than a decade before this sees sufficient adoption...
Yeah, idk why everyone seems to legitimately think devs are going to just quietly revert back to usermode anticheat. I could see Riot patching an actual root kit before that happens.
But yeah, more likely MSFT will lobby for hw that is more annoying than secure boot or TPM to get working with linux, every windows app after that point will rely on it "because turnkey security!", and if you ever manage to disable it none of those apps will work on your machine in any OS (if they even worked through proton at all).
I think I need more info. It seems like userspace is very hackable, so thus kernel level anti-cheat was born to control stuff like synthetic inputs and manipulation of memory / frame analysis. This anti-cheat would be held together by the fact that the kernel/drivers are proprietary and not very easy to edit. Obviously still possible because it's on your own computer, but challenging and invasive. Do I have that right?
In which case I don't see how going back to userspace would help. What is the solution? There probably isn't one outside of hardware (buying a hacking chip and soldering it in is annoying for most)
When I was doing game dev we focussed on AI-style analytics of user behavior. Of course a good enough bot could always look human. A real cat and mouse game wasting lots of time
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Do E-Sports competitions on identical certified hardware and otherwise ban people caught cheating.
Root kits aren't necessary for having fun in a game.
lol, anti-cheat isn’t just about esports, or high level play. It’s not even just about cheating.
It’s broadly about harassment and griefing and just shitty behavior mediated by hacking in online games.
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What is the solution?
My guess is that Microsoft wants provide some kind of kernel level anti-cheat, possibly directly integrated with directx, and it will use cryptography which will make it impossible to emulate with Wine/Proton.
The same kernel software cryptography could certainly be marketed for single player games and proprietary applications as a solution to piracy.
Don't like kernel anti cheat in your multiplayer games? here's kernel anticheat for your single player games!
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game developers and publishers are hesitant to enable Linux compatibility,
And I am hesitant to spend money on their games.
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We are small but still exists...
Once there is a way to properly play VR games without too much configuration, I will jump back to Linux. But for now, Windows 11 IOT edition is not too bad. Specifically the IOT edition without all the telemarketing and CoPilot crap.
VR games work just fine in proton, as long as you're on Vive or Index.
It's the the headsets that don't support linux, unfortunately.
There are a lot of kinks around VR on linux. Wayland has been better in my experience, but I still can't believe SteamVR on linux just doesn't have power management for the base stations implemented. Like, it works, there's a fucking python script that can do it! But not via SteamVR.
I use an app on my phone to turn my base stations on and off.
Here's hoping the Deck and whatever Deckard turns out to be means Valve is in the process of improving the situation.
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It did alright, don't think I saw that many obvious cheaters in BF1. BF5 would occasionally have obvious cheaters, but I would hope they get banned eventually just because it's over the top (shooting people through walls, infinite ammo, perfect aim). Difficult to say with more subtle cheats, but I suppose if they're indistinguishable from players who are just good at the game then I think most people won't ever notice.
On the flip side I got permabanned from multiplayer in BF5 after EA falsely accused me of cheating, though I suppose that could've happened with any kind of anti-cheat, and could've been fixed by having half-competent support.
The problem with EA is that they never bothered to moderate their games. In the end you get spinbotters and shit whilst legit players have to deal with rootkits because they're too stingy to pay for someone to review reports and develop moderation tools.
the Overwatch system in Counterstrike (and a bunch of other tools and policies in tandem with VAC) have been way more effective; I was always more certain that a blatant or suspected cheated would be dealt with in CS than in battlefield.
Am I misremembering to think Genshin Impact was a cause of one of these major security disasters?
It wasn’t even people who installed Genshin that were victims - it was like, Microsoft signed a driver made by Mihoyo to scan for cheat apps. But mihoyo, being a game company with a rapid release cycle and imperfect security, had a vulnerability in the driver. So, malware authors could include that driver in their packages to elevate access on Windows installs even when no one had any idea what a Genshin is.
Not quite the same thing as Crowdstrike I guess though.
QEMU: How to increase VRAM allocation?
I'm having trouble allocating more VRAM to my QEMU virtual machine. Currently, I'm using the following command to launch my VM:
qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -boot menu=on -drive file=QEMU -m 2G -cpu host -vga virtioCan anyone help me figure out how to increase the VRAM allocation in QEMU?
Solution by lnxtx@feddit.nl qemu-system-x86_64 [...] -vga qxl -global qxl-vga.vram_size_mb=128 -global qxl-vga.ram_size_mb=128
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qemu-system-x86_64 [...] -vga qxl -global qxl-vga.vram_size_mb=128 -global qxl-vga.ram_size_mb=128
Vga is fixed iirc, the original frame buffer was tiny, the emulated one gives you 16mv
Cirrus logic gives you 16mb too iirc, then you can use other drivers that give you more,
Qxl does, it's fairly modern.
Otherwise you have virtio and virglrenderer, which are as modern as it gets this side of pcie pass through or intel's sriov.
I got SWAT'ed and handcuffed live while Linux development streaming!
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Because they worry about any other weapon? Or the extremely rare case that someone actually has a highly dangerous fire arm? My point is that they can have much less drastic standard procedures (and equipment), because the standard scenario of operation is significantly less threatening.
There are special forces that get involved with the real shit. But the bar for real shit here is someone has any gun.
Someone calls an emergency number and says "My husband has a knife and he's threatening to kill me!"
Should the operator say "nothing we can do until you provide provide me with some evidence, ma'am" ?
The legal standard in the U.S. is if there's exigent circumstances. Detailed 911 calls are typically sufficient to meet that standard. Not always.
Right now, we cannot tell if the officers did anything unlawful. Need the call recording or call logs, plus the body cameras.
(I think the exigent circumstances standard is BS, easily abused, but that is the current law of the land.)
In the US, property records are public records. Easy to find someone's address online if you know their full name and the county they own property in.
Go try it!
In the US, the cops need RAS to handcuff you. The standard was never and is not "until they know what's going on". And RAS depends on the current cop knowledge. Even if they had legal grounds to break into your place, what they see in the next ten seconds is still relevant. For example, if someone said you attacked them with a knife, when the cops see no victim, knife, or blood, their legal authority ceases.
Of course it's all highly dependent on specific details.
(On traffic stops, often they already have RAS. That's why they pulled you over. So don't be fooled by other comments about that topic.)
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This isn't SWAT. Or SEK, since this is Germany.
It's just the usual armed police.
Rene Rebe is doing everything to get some clout.
Kinda sad to see.
"Law enforcement officers typically have fairly broad leeway to place someone in handcuffs during an interaction if they believe that it’s necessary to protect themselves from harm. In those cases, they can do so even if the person being handcuffed hasn’t been arrested."
"When a search warrant is being executed"
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Handcuffs do not mean an arrest.
He might have even had some dangerous written materials they should have searched his whole house. Or maybe dangerous chemicals hidden in his closet. Or maybe dangerous weapons stuffed in the couch cushions. They should have ransacked the whole place.
Why even endanger themselves going in with just cuffs? Flashbang the guy before he can react with a possibly deadly weapon. Drive a battering ram through his front door it only takes a second to open fire.
Put him under surveillance for a few weeks and collect his whole schedule so you can hit him when it's safe.
Keffals has a bit of a bad stink around her online presence. I think she claimed to be posting sex hormones to underage people at one point, without any kind of medical license. One of the ecelebs on the weirder side of the terminally online subculture.
Obviously no one should ever be swatted. Wanted to mention that she is somewhat controversial though as opposed to a regular activist.
If you have reason to believe someone is in mortal danger, your response shouldn't be to mail a letter giving them 30 days to respond.
You send police to the scene where they secure the potential suspect and make sure there's nothing going on.
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This was truly a wtf moment of the month.
Last time I spent time watching him was when he freaking fixed the kexec syscall for IBM PowerPCs. for free
When they don't self report the ones that are bad, they become bad.
How is that concept difficult for you?
I've been in a similar situation where some agents from the anti terrorism brigade came to my door. Sometimes you just have to shut up and work with them how they see fit.
Nobody was body-slammed, nobody was disrespected, nobody was being held longer than necessary or with excessive force.
This isn't a situation to turn into hate towards the police. Just get over it and don't be a fucking asshole.
The police also knocked and only entered after he answered it sounded like. While certainly armed and probably prepared for something wild, they didn't force entry with guns at the ready.
Once again, mostly comparing to videos of US police interactions, which is kind of weird as a non-USian commenting on a German police interrogation. Would be curious to see an "audit the audit" type review of this.
no way! sherlock, are you going to tell me that water exists next? holy you people watch too many movies. I don't know if you live inner city in some crap us state, or some slum in some third world country but no fucking duh.
Even in the states, cops get reported all the time, the vast majority of times I hear of when cops do get reported and no real disciplinary action is performed, is almost always because it's some crappy city where the police literally can't find anyone to replace them. This is why things like transparency in the process are needed. But lets pretend for a second that most cops in the world are these corrupt maniacs that hollywood likes to make them out to be.
3 really bloody easy steps literally any crappy US state or really any state/country whatever in general could take right now would completely resolve this issue.
- Make bodycam footage of incidents publicly accessible only redacting necessary footage by way of destructive blur and blur only. This will keep the privacy of folk in while still making sure that each and every officer can be held responsible for their actions.
- Make a brief "internal investigation" status publicly available when one occurs, and make all information admissible in court. When you pair this with incident footage from publicly available bodycams. This both protects innocent officers by way of making it abundantly clear that a case is moot, but also prevents internal corruption by making it easy for effected parties to hold corrupt officials responsible via court.
- increase funding for police in an open manor, all expenses should roughly detailed and publicly available, so they can accountably increase spending on things like de-escalation training, non lethal subjugation training whether this be grappling arts, tasers which aren't completely useless, whatever it doesn't matter. Just give them more options and better training.
But no. we can't do this. Because guess what, politicians, democrats and republicans alike for US folk are all greedy assholes who benefit from division. Everyone want's to scream defund the police, or treat the police as some overarching messiahs and either get rid of them wholly, or let them act with impunity. It wouldn't even cost that much money to do the first two points which are the most important ones.
Oh there's several ways, especially if you have poor opsec. People used to raid people's twitch accounts and bring down their internet connections by looking for their username on Skype which had a vulnerability which they could use to find a person's IP.
For swatters on the otherhand, they tend to either know the streamer themselves or they tend to be groups like KiwiFarms who are a lot more organised and do a lot of research and detective work, like looking at the video, looking for usernames elsewhere, looking for emails, and looking for location clues. It's really fucked up. They found Keffels's Motel by the sheets in her room. It's bad enough if you do not think about these things and just have sloppy OpSec, but even if you do, they can still find you.
The first thing is what they did. They knocked on the door, they spoke. At one point he was detained when they had a look about and then they apologised and left.
There was no SWAT (this is Germany so technically it would be a SEK team I guess), there was no flashbangs (why would police even have those?), there were no rifles in faces.
I let my younger sis modify my kde desktop.
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Well the best thing about it is that she wouldn't even touch linux before this. She's primarily a mac user. But after I dragged her to see my desktop modifications, after 10 eye rolls, she said she could do much better job than me.
Hours later she was still at it, hairs scattered, baffled looking... saying how could someone live with so many choices lol.
The good thing out of this was that now she's starting to see the point of linux after all these years.
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Pff, newbie. Take a screenshot like the rest of us.
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Hours later she was still at it, hairs scattered, baffled looking... saying how could someone live with so many choices lol.
Oh man I relate to this so hard hahaha...
Do everything you can to try to preserve those settings, because you will need to do a clean install at some point (well maybe not, I'm sure it depends on your distro), and you're gonna lose all of it.
What was your last RTFM adventure?
What was your last RTFM adventure? Tinker this, read that, make something smoother! Or explodier.
As for me, I wanted to see how many videos I could run at once. (Answer: 60 frames per second or 60 frames per second?)
With my sights on GPUizing some ethically sourced motion pictures, I RTFW, graphed, and slapped on environment variables and flags like Lego bricks. I got the Intel VAAPI thingamabob to jaunt by (and found that it butterized my mpv videos)
$ pacman -S blahblahblahblahblahtfm
$ mpv --show-profile=fast
Profile fast:
scale=bilinear
dscale=bilinear
dither=no
correct-downscaling=no
linear-downscaling=no
sigmoid-upscaling=no
hdr-compute-peak=no
allow-delayed-peak-detect=yes
$ mpv --hwdec=auto --profile=fast graphwar-god-4KEDIT.mp4
# fucking silkBut there was no pleasure without pain: Mr. Maxwell F. N. 940MX (the N stands for Nvidia) played hooky. So I employed the longest envvars ever
$ NVD_LOG=1 VDPAU_TRACE=2 VDPAU_NVIDIA_DEBUG=3 NVD_BACKEND=direct NVD_GPU=nvidia LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=nvidia VDPAU_DRIVER=nvidia prime-run vdpauinfo
GPU at BusId 0x1 doesn't have a supported video decoder
Error creating VDPAU device: 1
# stfuto try translating Nvidia VDPAU to VAAPI -- of course, here I realized I rtfmed backwards and should've tried to use just VDPAU instead. So I did.
Juice was still not acquired.
Finally, after a voracious DuckDuckGoing (quacking?), I was then blessed with the freeing knowledge that even though post-Kepler is supposed to support H264, Nvidia is full of lies...
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$ lspci | grep -i nvidia
... NVIDIA Corporation GM108M [GeForce 940MX] (rev a2)
# ArchWiki says that GM108 isn't supported.
# FacepalmSO. What was your last RTFM adventure?
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I was trying to write a custom Strategy for an objectMapper in Java. Foolishly decided to ask ChatGPT about it and got instructions which suggested an implementation that was the inverse of how Strategies actually work. Stuck for an afternoon.
Then in the evening I read the docs and put it together in half an hour from scratch. Lesson learned about the stochastic parrots.
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Hah, stochastic parrots.
Makes me wonder. Every laziness I've had with the vector guessers, I've seen an exact counterweight.
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| How does this API work? (when the API has below 10 million sample lines of code) | Incredibly concise documentation worth spending 2 minutes on or HTML text without margin lines worth spending 20 minutes on |
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One, you can invoke more often (throw ChatGPT configs against the wall until it doesn't error); the other you can invoke more deeply. So I can't help but wonder -- when we cancel out all the terms -- if the timesaving sum is positive or negative. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I learned that rpm-ostree cant remove packages from an OCI image, ever.
So even if I have a blue-build process for example in secureblue removing Firefox, it is just removed on my side, locally. Thats why I cant reinstall it.
Instead of learning about all the Flatpak packaging conventions, I just translated the docs!
for me it usually goes
me: reads the manual, fails, then asks for help
person helping: heres a canned tip
me: didnt help
person helping: you should read the manual
me: no i am beyond that, i need help with my problem
person helping: oh turns out i couldnt actually help you, anyways go try somewhere else
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And if it was an issue on github:
Closed: "couldn't reproduce" 10 seconds after that last comment.
Waste of time trying to test API, debbuging why some method doesn't work.
I'd recommend using ROCM through a Distrobox container, personally I use this Distrobox container file and it has suited all of my needs with Stable Diffusion so far.
That is, if you're still interested in it - I could totally understand writing it off after what happened 😅
Yes, that's true and a better way to look at it, thanks!
Well, I was amazed by proof systems like Coq or Isabelle, that let one formally verify the correctness of their code. I learnt Coq and coded a few toy projects with it, but doing so felt pretty cumbersome. I looked at other options but none of them had a really good workflow.
So, I attempted to design one from scratch. I tried to understand Coq's mathematical foundation and reimplement it into a simpler language with more familiar syntax and a native compiler frontend. But I rushed through it and turns out I had barely scratched the surface of the theory. Not just regarding the proof system, but also with language design in general.
I did learn a lot though. Since then I've been reading more about proof systems and language design in my spare time, and I've collected quite the stack of notes and drafts. Recently I've begun coding a way more polished version of that project, so on to round two I guess!
Round two, hell yeah.
The aesthetica of a stack of notes, born from a "dead end", is secretly an odd motivator. You look back and see
Here is the breadth of what we did wrong.
and then beyond you, the effort lays itself out in a pretty trusswork.
_~or_maybe_i_just_think_well-used_notebooks_are_pretty~
Hardware related on a Linux home built NAS.
My mobo has 2 nvme ports and supports 10th and 11th gen intel cpu. I have a 10th gen i5 and 2 nvme ssd for cache.
The biggest 512Gb ssd is on the front (normal) side of the mobo, under a heatsink. The smaller 128Gb is under the mobo, inaccessible once fixed onto the case.
In bios and in OS I can’t see the 512 cache drive, only the 128. Quick RTFM on the motherboard manual states: "Front nvme slot only works with 11th gen cpu".
FFS 🤦♂️
The server is fully built in a hard to fit everything ITX case.
Guess who is having only 128Gb cache instead of disassembling everything ?
Not my last, but after using killall in Linux, I tried it on hpux, only to discover and later confirm in the man page that on hpux it doesn't take any arguments, it just kills every process.
It's not hard.... RTFM
Oh I love the "walk me through what I'm about to do" concept. Dry runs should be more common -- especially in shell scripts...
The world would be a better place if every install.sh had a --help, some nice printf's saying "Moving this here" / "Overwrite? [Y/N]", and perhaps even a shoehorned-in set -x.
Hope your r/w wasn't eaten up by the subfolder incident (that I presume happened) :P
/etc/geolocation file >:(
Stängningen av Pusher Street. Köpenhamn hade länge sen slags semilegal narkotikamarknad i form av Pusher Street i fristaden Christiania. Med tiden kom kontrollen över försäljningen på Pusher Street att hamna i händerna på Hells Angels MC även om inte alla försäljare tillhörde organisationen. Med tiden ledde det också till våld och gängkonflikter i Christiania mellan olika kriminella gäng.
This week in Plasma: 6.2 beta release!
This week in Plasma: 6.2 beta release!
Technically Akademy isn’t part of Plasma, but most of KDE’s movers and shakers were here in Würzburg for Akademy 2024 this week, so the list of technical work merged was understandably …Adventures in Linux and KDE
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On Wednesday night a man reportedly lit himself on fire outside the Israeli consulate in Boston. They were taken to Massachusetts General Hospital with severe burns, and their current condition is unknown.
A witness said the man poured gasoline over himself before lighting himself on fire and surveillance footage shows him walking back and forth covered in flames.
He is the third person to self-immolate outside an Israeli consulate since Israel began its brutal assault on Gaza nearly one year ago.
The group BDS Boston shared a YouTube video uploaded by a man named Matt Nelson who tells viewers that he is about engage in an “extreme act of protest.” The video does not show the actual act.
“We are all culpable in the ongoing genocide in Gaza,” he tells viewers. “We are slaves to capitalism and the military industrial complex. Most of us are too apathetic to care. The protest I’m about to engage in is a call to our government to stop supplying Israel with the money and weapons it uses to imprison and murder innocent Palestinians, to pressure Israel to end the genocide in Gaza, and to support the ICC indictment of Benjamin Netanyahu and other members of the Israeli government.”
“A democracy is supposed to serve the will of the people, not the interests of the wealthy,” he continues. “Take the power back. Free Palestine.”
Mondoweiss could not independently verify the identity of the person who reportedly self immolated.
In February Aaron Bushnell, a 25-year-old active-duty soldier in the United States Air Force, lit himself on fire and died outside the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C.
“I will no longer be complicit in genocide,” said Bushnell, who videotaped his self-immolation. “I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest but compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers, it’s not extreme at all. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal.”
“Free Palestine!,” he yelled while the flames engulfed his body.
“Many of us like to ask ourselves, ‘What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide? The answer is, you’re doing it. Right now,” Bushnell wrote in a Facebook post the morning of his death.
In December 2023 a demonstrator self-immolated outside the Israeli consulate in Atlanta. Police confirmed that it was a political protest and a Palestinian flag was found nearby, but no further details about the incident have been revealed.
Since last October, tens of thousands of Americans have protested the genocide in Gaza and the Biden administration’s support for the bombings.
According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, more than 41,118 people, including nearly 16,500 children, have been killed in Gaza. However, the actual numbers are undoubtedly much higher.
Source: Mondoweiss
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I'm going to be building a new computer soon for myself. (Going AMD for the first time, since intel microcode issue.)I would say I'm an expert or advanced user, as been using pcs for 25 years and set up arch and slackware in the past. I have tried many distros and would like some feedback.
I mainly use my pc for gaming. I want something customizable, KDE ish, and without bloatware. A good wiki is a plus.
I think that i may end up with arch... is it better for gaming since it's bleeding edge and isn't steamos built off it?
Side question is distro chooser accurate?
Rolling distro, up to date kernel, very good KDE support, stable?
OpenSuse Tumbleweed has got you covered.
Though this weird bloat fetish usually leads to Arch...
On the other side: point-release distro, LTS kernel, also very good KDE support, practically unbreakable?
Debian to the rescue.
This one won't lead to Arch.
Understood, not really a fetish, more of I don't want extra stuff that I don't want to use or take space for no reason.
I want to use every drop of my system for performance, maybe that's from my "old person" in me.
Non-running software doesn't affect performance as it isn't anywhere near your RAM or CPU. What often people perceive of bloat is frequently software dependencies that are likely to be used over the course of the OS's usage.
Often I have found bloat free setups end up taking hours of digging out dependencies on multiple occasions. Life is too short. I have things to build.
It still takes space on the drive. It takes an icon on the start menu.
And then there's that little devil in me that I don't want to send feedback back to servers of what I do with my system.
Maybe I'm paranoid or maybe I just want to squeeze all the pure power (and space) I can. It's like an old hot rod, there's no radio; there's no heated seats; it's made to go fast and have fun.
It does take space on the hard drive. Can easily remove desktop shortcuts. Telemetry on open source software doesn't usually happen without consent and you can turn it off (Firefox for example).
This is more of a feeling type thing. If it makes you feel good though, go ahead.
The USE flags (feature compilation option) can be a bit tricky to manage, but they've tidied up the defaults quite a bit.
The one thing that might still be hard to get right is having all the media codec you need. I wish they'd include it in the default so I didn't have to fine tune it myself, but well, that's just part of the fun, and I already got my battle-tested set, so I got nothing to complain.
Ok I tried a gentoo setup this week. 8 hours in was able to build a kernel and get a cli on my box. But I'm failing at my attempts to get xfce or KDE or even startx to work. 😅 debating if I should keep it at this weekend or go back to my arch or simple eos.
I like emerge and I like the philosophy but gotta get a bit more knowledge on this use flag thing.
I tried bazzite and nobara which are both the big gaming distros. Bazzite worked the best but I had a ton of just weird little issues with stuff randomly not working unless I restarted it. I don't have much to say about nobara because I couldn't actually get steam to work for some reason.
I went back to mint and honestly it's been the smoothest and easiest to use distro, plus it has a larger user base so it's easier to find help.
My first and current distro is Pop_OS and it’s been a bit of a pain in the ass. I need to run terminal commands to get Bluetooth to work, Rocksmith is a lost cause, my display signal dies randomly, forcing a restart.
Thinking about Bazzite, but read this article and maybe Ubuntu is just easier, for now?
(Nvidia gpu giving me pause over which will support it better)
Gaming is in spot where you want stability but also a rolling release, since we have daily improvements on essential packages; as an experienced user you can use Arch for that; consider also even Valve is on it with the Steam Deck (Arch-based).
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EndeavourOS has been my daily driver for over a year now has been mostly completely smooth. I went from Windows to Linux with no Linux knowledge beforehand.
I've had some issues pop up, but thanks to Arch's very detailed documentation, I've been able to fix them myself or find answers online. Most recently and update yesterday broke yay (AUR package manger) for me, so I searched the error code that popped up in the terminal and found a discussion at the EndeavourOS forum (great resource) where a fix/workaround was posted. A couple of terminal commands later and yay was reinstalled and working again.
That's been my experience with any problems that have come up. Very manageable.
Tails os leaves no trace computer and sends all traffic thru tor spread as many as possible and chat with XMPP Pidgin needs 8GB+ USB live USB
Check documentation:
Setup XMPP Chat OTR over tor on tails (make sure you enable persistence storage read documentation):
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SerNet secures funding for Samba project from Sovereign Tech Fund
SerNet secures funding for Samba project from Sovereign Tech Fund
SerNet has secured significant funding from the German Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) to advance the Samba project, a vital open-source software that…samba.plus
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Bandwagon is Emissary’s Bandcamp Alternative
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As someone who spends more money than I should on music from Bandcamp, I'm interested to see if they ever get payments working. I remember people talking about a federated BC alternative, where the 10% platform fee goes to the instance you're on, when they got bought by that music licensing company.
Also, first paragraph under "Integrating with the Fediverse", you put Bandcamp when I think you meant Bandwagon.
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Bandwagon is Emissary’s Bandcamp Alternative
Bandwagon is Emissary’s Bandcamp Alternative
The Fediverse has a bustling music scene with thousands of artists putting out their original work for everyone else to enjoy. We’ve written in the past about Radio Free Fedi and FairCamp, two amazingSean Tilley (We Distribute)
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sub.club Emerges to Offer Paid Fediverse Subscriptions
sub.club Emerges to Offer Paid Fediverse Subscriptions
Historically speaking, the act of financially supporting creatives on the Fediverse has always been something of a pain point. The network lacks a meaningful payment layer, and most of the network’s iSean Tilley (We Distribute)
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Probably because, to my knowledge:
- I didn't know that Mitra did that.
- Even though it does have that functionality, I have no idea whether it would work with the rest of the network.
- This article was about sub.club
I'm not trying to slight Mitra in any way, shape, or form, but my focus for this article was scoped to one thing in particular.
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I'm not a co-author of this article. I contribute to WD but did not contribute to this article as it would be a conflict of interest irt my relationship with the project.
Share your info with kindness instead of anger. We're all trying to educate and build together, and good-faith conversations go a lot further than assuming the worst of everyone.
Sean has never written a piece with the intent to erase history, and he works incredibly hard to keep things accurate.
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In another article @deadsuperhero talked about nomadic identity and Mike Macgirvin's efforts to implement it in ActivityPub, but similarly failed to mention another project that implements it (Mitra) and the person who wrote the spec (me).
At least my work was mentioned in a footnote. In the current article it is completely ignored.
Dude, listen. I am one person running a volunteer news project for free. I try my best to stay on top of researching the space, but there's no reasonable way for me to catch everything. I've written 200+ articles at this point, but due to a combination of factors, I struggle to get more than one article out per week at times. I regularly juggle a backlog of 40+ drafts at any given moment. Add a dash of burnout and fatigue, and you'll start to get a clearer picture: it's hard to keep up, and only getting harder.
There's no way for me to reasonably catch everything. Mitra's a cool project and all, but it's tiny enough that I've heard relatively little about it. There are dozens of projects out there at this point, and new ones everyday. If you're not advertising the thing you're building and what it does, there's a high chance I might miss it.
I keep an eye on the FEP developments from time to time, and I applaud all you've accomplished with that. However, the existence of a spec does not necessarily mean that platforms out there are necessarily implementing each and every one of them.
@fediverse FEP-ef61 is what Mike was implementing and rolled out in production this summer. It's not like we didn't advertise that. All work on this FEP (and ones that precede it) was done in public channels, it's really hard to miss if you're interested in nomadic identity.
Give @weekinfediverse a follow. It provides a concise summary of what is happening in Fediverse
Most efforts haven't moved beyond the planning stages. Just because you can point to a plugin or a FEP spec doesn't mean that it's an ongoing active effort for bring a payment layer to the Fediverse, with a consumer-facing tool or platform. I'm sorry if I didn't catch that Mitra had some of that functionality, but I would also push back and say that the average person is not going to use Monero for payments on the Web anytime soon.
Those PeerTube plugins are nice, and the Premium Users one was actually something I pointed @quillmatiq@mastodon.social to for sub.club, as an example of prior art. They're interesting experiments, possibly useful integrations, but not in and of themselves actual platforms to build infrastructure and solutions on.
@fediverse Protocols described in these FEPs are currency-agnostic and developers can build actual platforms and solutions on them (as I did). This is the only ongoing effort to bring a payment layer to the Fediverse - there are no alternative proposals. FEP-8c3f was withdrawn in favor of FEP-0ea0.
Okay, you didn't know about it. But now you do and it would be nice to include at least some of that information in the article.
sub.club Emerges to Offer Paid Fediverse Subscriptions
Fuck off.
Stop monetising everything, let us just enjoy our space without injecting business into it.
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And some of the people are tired of capitalism being injected into everything.
Why can we not just have a space where people can be people without monetising it?
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If you’re that cheap, you can register on this instance. I can assure you the owner has zero interest in making you pay for using it.
Small communities being run and paid for by self owned admins is nothing new and with how cheap it all is these days is even less of an issue.
If you really need donations, there are a million ko-fi like services.
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Politely: fuck no
Donations? Sure, but there already is stuff that does exactly that.
Subscription for microblogging? Absolutely no, especially not with a centralized, proprietary platform. Don’t start making mastodon twitter. Build your own platform or make your own instances if you have to, but don’t plug into instances without asking and if you ask pay them for the infrastructure they are providing for you service.
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Having to sign up to yet another platform to support someone’s work can introduce a lot of unnecessary friction
To solve this, here’s yet another platform
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I think paid instances are fine. Provided they actually provide more reliability, etc. although right now, many free instances are reliable enough. And a subscription cost to run your own single or friend group instance probably wouldn't be much either.
Although I could see a paid service which runs an instance for you, but you get to use your own domain name and such. Kind of like those Minecraft hosting services. Okay, I'm on another tangent.
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Sure it’s the people latching and trying to extract blood (money) from us the content creators.
If Lemmy or Reddit was simply a list of shared URLs without user interactions no one would use these sites.
The posters are the content, we are not your personal business platform, we are people wanting to engage with other people.
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No one is demanding they work for us.
We’re demanding they don’t come here and demand money. If they don’t want to provide content for free like the rest of us, we don’t mind them not being here.
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No one is demanding them full stop. If you want to make us pay, we don’t want you. That’s an un-demand.
I’m one voice of a community. As you can tell from many of the other posts in here, it seems to be a majority sentiment on the majority leftist Fediverse.
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The overall idea behind sub.club is simple: people can pay a set amount of recurring donations, and gain access to posts from a private ActivityPub account for exclusive content. Creators using sub.club post private DM’s to their sub.club actor, and these messages get relayed into the private feed. Creators display their sub.club account handles in their profile fields, and apps such as Mammoth and Ice Cubes can read that value, and display a special subscription button.
Okay so it's Patreon for microblogging. Why not, if there is an audience.
Thinking about it, a federated OnlyFans could be an interesting concept.
At first I thought it was paid instances of established platforms, a la communick.com/services/lemmy/
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Don’t be obtuse.
Demand as in want, not demand as in order.
We is the community.
And the majority of the community agrees. My voices and theirs reflect that.
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A lot of people use Mastodon as an RSS feed where they can leave comments. This would basically allow you to subscribe to the content of a writer, and get it full-form straight in your feed.
I could also imagine following artists on Pixelfed, throwing money in their tip jar to keep posted on their newest creations.
I think there's a lot of potential here. But monetisation is always tricky on the internet, of course.
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