Iran earthquake sparks speculation of covert nuclear weapons test
On 5 October 2024, a 4.5-magnitude seismic event occurred in Iran’s Semnan province, sparking speculation that Iran has tested a nuclear weapon for the first time.
Such a seismic event is typically the result of an earthquake, but speculation has arisen on social media suggesting the event was instead an underground nuclear test carried out by the Islamic Republic in response to Israeli threats to bomb Tehran’s nuclear energy and oil facilities.
According to Iranian sources speaking with The Cradle, the possibility that a nuclear test was indeed conducted is being discussed at high levels in Iran.
The speculation that Iran carried out a nuclear test comes just days after the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank in the US, published a report stating that “Iran can produce nuclear weapons far more rapidly than expected.”
Published on 1 October, the report noted that in late April 2024, a senior Iranian lawmaker stated that there is only a “one-week gap from the issuance of the order to the first test” of a nuclear bomb.
Nazi Zombies: Portable is a free and open source Call of Duty: Zombies demake
Nazi Zombies: Portable is a free and open source Call of Duty: Zombies demake
I'm surprised I hadn't heard of this one before! A few developers have been building Nazi Zombies: Portable, a Call of Duty: Zombies demake powered by various enhanced forks of the Quake engine.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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That's sick! I'll try it on my Steam Deck!
Edit: ran great. Controls weren't ideal. I had to use a mouse in the menus.
I'll try it on my Orange pi zero 3 just for giggles.
-EDIT- I just did (straight from their site), and welp... 5 minutes to load a map, lots of stuttering yet performance was okay'ish ( ~25 frames per second). Not bad for a little board with only 1 GiB of ram and the power draw capped at 2W.
-EDIT2- Nvm that, I grabbed the binary, ran it locally and the experience was much, much better. Absolutely playable.
KDE Plasma 6.2 Released
Plasma 6 has come into its own over the last two releases. The wrinkles that always come with a major migration have been ironed out, and it’s time to start delivering on the promises of the new Qt 6 and Wayland technology platforms that Plasma is built on top of.
Plasma 6.2 includes a smorgasbord of new features for users of drawing tablets. It implements more complete support for the Wayland color management protocol, and enables it by default. There is also improved brightness handling for HDR and ICC profiles, as well as HDR performance. A new tone mapping feature built into Plasma’s KWin compositor will help improve the look of images with a brightness or set of colors greater than what the screen can display, thus reducing the “blown out” look such images can otherwise exhibit.
When it comes to power management You can now override misbehaving applications that block the system from going to sleep or locking the screen (and thus prevent saving power), and you can also adjust the brightness of each connected monitor machine separately.
Plasma’s built-in app store and software management tool, Discover, now supports PostmarketOS packages for your mobile devices, helps you write better reviews of apps, and presents apps’ license information more accurately.
In Plasma 6.2, KDE have overhauled System Settings’ Accessibility page and added colorblindness filters. They've also added support for the full “sticky keys” feature on Wayland.
This and more in full anounncement and changelog.
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Color Management
Related to the above — and to ensure consistent colors across monitors — we’ve implemented more complete support for the Wayland color management protocol, and enabled it by default.We have also improved brightness handling for HDR and ICC profiles, as well as HDR performance. This will improve your experience when designing graphics, playing games, and watching videos.
This is the biggest improvement by far.
I activated it on my work laptop to benefit from a little more time to get bug reports upstream. OpenQA can't catch everything. Even if I updated only once a month I'd still get up-to-date software at that time.
Sure, openQA and snapper make catastrophic failure very unlikely. But it's still a small hassle.
But I can't work anymore anyways so I might as well get all the good stuff as quickly as possible. Just gotta find the energy to switch the repos. By that time Plasma 6.2 has probably hit Slowroll. Let's see.
But wait, when I control F for "AI" nothing shows up?!
What a breath of fresh air...
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ascii-matrix: render ascii art + matrix effect
gitlab.com/christosangel/ascii…
This script written in the C language, will render the matrix effect in the
terminal, while rendering ascii art loaded from a txt file,
at the center of the terminal window.
Examples
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Hey, this is your lucky day: You don't need a github account.
All you need to do to easily install this project is to install git.
Open a terminal.
If you are using a Debian-based distribution (ubuntu, linuxmint, pop_os etc), copy-paste this command:
sudo apt install gitIf you are using an Arch-based distribution:
sudo pacman -S gitFrom there, follow the instructions on the repo.
Have fun!
If you need any help, do not hesitate to ask for it.
Hamas's military spokesperson says Israel could have reclaimed captives a year ago
In a 25-minute video commemorating the one-year anniversary of the 7 October Hamas-led attacks on Israel, in what the group and other Palestinian fighting factions have dubbed "Operation Al-Aqsa Flood", al-Qassam Brigades spokesperson Abu Obeida said he could not rule out more deaths among the remaining Israeli captives due to “the danger of crossfire”.
“You could have reclaimed all your captives a year ago,” he added, saying that the intention has always been to keep them alive in Gaza and exchange them for Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons.
This is a fight meant to drain Israel of its resources, Abu Obeida said.
“[We face] an entity whose age is less than that of the shoes in mosques and churches in Gaza, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Hebron, and Jaffa, and Nablus, and Sidon and Tyre and Beirut,” he said.
In its relatively short life as a nation, he added that Israel has not lived a year without constantly being reminded it has “stolen Arab land” and that it occupies “our country”.
“What did the world do for our people in the West Bank?” Abu Obeida said. “Those who are subject to displacement and slow, systematic extermination?”
“This enemy only understands the language of power,” Abu Obeida said. “And the weapon is only confronted with the weapon.”
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“What did the world do for our people in the West Bank?” Abu Obeida said. “Those who are subject to displacement and slow, systematic extermination?”
Give them billions of dollars to build a democratic society.
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Philips Hue Lichter in Python mit Mac Menu Bar kontrollieren
Hier geht’s wirklich nicht darum, ein ganz tolles, super mächtiges App zu erstellen. Stattdessen soll dieses kleine Script ein bisschen ein „Framework“ darstellen, falls Du an sowas interessiert bist, und die ersten Schritte sind ja immer die schwersten.
Was wir heute machen, ist Rumps einzusetzen um einen Eintrag in die Mac Menu Bar zu machen, phue verwenden um die Hue Bridge anzusprechen, und dann einen LaunchD Agenten erstellen, damit das Script beim Reboot erhalten bleibt.
Das Script bringt das Gerüst mit sich, um
- sich in der Bridge einzuloggen
- Szenen aus der Bridge ins Script einzulesen
- Lichter an- und auszuschalten
- und Helligkeit einzustellen
Installation
Runterladen und irgendwo auspacken. Dann:
python3 -m venv venv # remember where you put itsource venv/bin/activatepip3 install -r requirements.txt
Zum Ausführen (aber erst konfigurieren, siehe unten):
chmod +x lights.py./lights.py
Konfigurieren
Du brauchst die IP-Addresse Deiner Hue Bridge. Diese dann im Script anpassen:
bridge = phue.Bridge('192.168.1.2')
Dann musst Du in der ersten Zeile nur noch den Pfad anpassen, in dem Dein „venv“ gelandet ist:
#! /Users/<yourusername>/path/to/venv/bin/python
Bei reboots automatisch starten:
Dazu machen wir einfach einen launchd Agenten:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"><plist version="1.0"><dict> <key>Label</key> <string>com.yourusername.huelights</string> <key>ProgramArguments</key> <array> <string>/path/to/your/venv/bin/python</string> <string>/path/to/your/lights.py</string> </array> <key>RunAtLoad</key> <true/> <key>KeepAlive</key> <true/></dict></plist>
Agent laden:
launchctl load /path/to/your/com.yourusername.huelights.plist
License / Lizenz
This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain under the CC0-1.0 license.
Anyone is free to copy, modify, publish, use, compile, sell, or distribute this software, in source code form, for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and by any means.
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It turns out that Meta's Threads.net platform is building a groups feature that they curiously named Loops, and we feel the need to polish the app and Loops platform further so we can maintain the communities expectations.
Ugh. Already being bad neighbors in the fediverse.
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Tantacrul mentions onboarding problems with average people learning to switch to the fediverse as an alternative to Facebook
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Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.www.youtube.com
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Oh god, I'm NOT watching a god damned 3 hour video on facebook vs fediverse!
Seriously! Why did this guy feel the need to make a THREE HOUR VIDEO about social media??? A 10 minute video would have been a bit much, but THREE HOURS AND 9 MINUTES??? ARE YOU HIGH??? Holy shit....
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In fact, the very reality of there being a three hour video of someone talking (as in, in written text this'd be a maximum of 10 minutes of reading, for a slow reader) about a supposed onboarding problem with the fediverse is irony at its finest.
Yeah... sure... if you always expand 10 minutes of content into 180 minutes using a wrong format, you might fuck up getting anybody to do anything. You seem to not want them to get what you're trying to teach, maybe.
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Oh god, I’m NOT watching a god damned 3 hour video on facebook vs fediverse!
well, you're in luck. because the video is not about that.
In fact, fediverse gets a 10 second mention while the credits roll.
There, now you can watch the 3 hour video. It's fun.
I still think defederation is the biggest hurdle. It would be a lot easier if you could just tell people it didn't matter what instance they join, they will be able to follow anyone.
Usually when I mention it people will talk about all the reasons defederation exists, but it doesn't change the fact that if a normal person has to start looking up what instance they can follow uncle ReaganLover69 on, they're probably going to stay on twitter.
Defederation makes it so that figuring out which instance to sign up with in order to see your friends and local businesses (since we're talking about vs Facebook instead of Twitter or Reddit) would be a nightmare for the average person.
I have multiple accounts on some services trying to get to everything I want to see. I mostly gave up on Pixelfed. My main Mastodon account can see people on other instances but has problems seeing their posts. And I'm absolutely not willing to troubleshoot it because between work, a social life, and other hobbies I just don't have the time or give a shit.
I like the fediverse. I'm here. I use it. But I'm only going to use what's convenient and I promise that I have more patience than the average non tech person who wants to sign up using a linked Gmail account and see all the things they expect to see without having to think about it.
Edit: I think my brain skipped the last two sentences in that comment. I just sat here and bitched about something that was already mentioned. I have brought nothing to this discussion and have brought shame upon my house.
No, it's not.
It's literally a concept no normie knows about nor would care about.
They are not trying to follow some tankie on a banned Marxist instance, they're trying to follow cute cat pictures on lemmy.world.
End of the day, just like with safe site filters etc, you'll end up with most instances following similar enough protocols and federating with each other and the vast majority of people seeing the vast majority of people, with some fringes blocked for some people.
Until you accidentally end up on an instance that defederated from lemmy.world and are confused why there are no cute cat pictures
Is there a way to easily find an instance based on what you want to use lemmy for, not just what the instance is about?
I'm sure what this guy is saying has truth to it but here's the actual problem.
The people.
Fediverse will never EVER hit critical mass unless the users and mods stop calling everyone they don't agree with a Nazi. Mods need to actually enforce NSFW shit and do their job. Nobody is going to scroll in their off time when you can randomly have furry dick pop up.
The problem is the people. This place is hostile as fuck to the average user.
Nobody is going to scroll in their off time when you can randomly have furry dick pop up.
I've never seen such content, which community was that? Did you report the content for not being flagged?
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Nobody is going to scroll in their off time when you can randomly have furry dick pop up.
But when they have that content, or even worse stuff such as neo-nazism, shown on Twitter and Facebook, suddenly they have no issue! Suspicious.
Fediverse will never EVER hit critical mass unless the users and mods stop calling everyone they don’t agree with a Nazi.
TBH this is to be expected from a demographic made up largely of ex-reddit users
Filtered word: nsfw
Folks (and you 😁), I get you are trying to be helpful but you are missing the point.
I get that I can hit the button. It drives away people in general. People do not like filling out reports. Having to block, report, and moderate your own content is work. Users value having most of that done for them.
He's more than capable of joining the fediverse, but he's also a UI/UX designer.
I would say his main issue with the fediverse is the amount of friction between a normie being exposed to the concept and actually signing up and engaging with it.
You have to admit that it isn't the simplest thing to do. People have to understand the concept of the fediverse, find an instance that will accept them, sign up (with confirmation required from the instance mods) and then find out how to find communities that they are interested in.
It's not about whether a tech-savvy person can figure it out with some effort, it's about whether normal people can transition away from a monolithic, streamlined, social media to it.
People have to understand the concept of the fediverse
That's the argument. Do they, though? I sure didn't when I first signed up.
People have to understand email addresses, domains, the DNS system just to decide which email provider to choose. After that they still need to find people to email.
This email thing will never catch on /s
Hahaha, touché. To be fair though, a lot of people struggle with email.
And if an easier version of email existed, email mightn't have caught on.
I can tell you that the average person in the last 30 years hasn't wanted to learn shit. I suspect it goes back far longer than that but I was too young to pay any attention.
People like us have always been around but we are not the norm. We thrive on challenge on the advantages of doing things different and better ways. But the vast majority of human history is primarily people just wanting to get by. They spent their extra time shining their floors or waxing their cars. Maybe getting that last decoration up in the foyer. That's why we have so many databases running in Excel, It says easy as possible while just barely skirting by danger.
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DuckDuckGo — Privacy, simplified.
The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.DuckDuckGo
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yeah, i think they're resetting the counter back.
last time i open that page, the counter rests at 5 hours left.
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Our kids hardly get an education as it is. When those who hate paying their fair share of taxes throw a fit, politicians always make sure that they get to voice their opinions, publicly and loudly.
Makes you wonder: who’s buying all of these politicians? And it’s always the Republicans trying to take your rights away from you.
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It's a pretty bold move to launch an open source service like this, especially one that is as complex as a video sharing site. One would think a gradual increase of user base would be easier to handle than a sudden influx of people at a moment when one has been scrambling to meet a deadline.
Good thing they/he is not afraid of postponing the release and making sure it's ready. And if it works well it will be one hell of a release. Fingers crossed. :)
Why not. I know a lot of people are into this.
I'm personally not interested in seeing video clips on Pixelfed, so I hope they can be hidden in account settings.
But respect to Pixelfed developers who seem to do a great job - it's awesome.
Edit: looked properly at loops and it looks like it's a totally separate thing to Pixelfed. Happy days!
mikroPhone project is designing a smartphone with an emphasis on openness and privacy
mikroPhone project is designing a smartphone with an emphasis on openness and privacy - Liliputing
mikroPhone project is designing a smartphone with an emphasis on openness and privacyBrad Linder (Liliputing)
Hovrättsdom för mord i Uppsala år 2017. Svea hovrätt har fastställt Södertörns tingsrätts fällande dom mot en idag 27-årig man för mordet på en man i Uppsala år 2017. Vid gärningen var den dömde mannen bara 19 år gammal. 27-åringen dömdes även för förberedelse till mord i Bandhagen och för medhjälp till synnerligen grov narkotikasmuggling.
Internet innan och efter webben. Idag domineras internet av webben vilket inluderar både bilder såväl som video och andra rörliga bilder. Men det fanns en tid när webben, dvs protokollet http (http://, https://) inte fanns. Då bestod internet av telnet (telnet:), mejl (mailto:), filöverföring (ftp://), finger (finger://) för att söka mejladresser på nätet, usenet dvs nyhetsgrupper (news://), chattar (irc://) och gopher (gopher://) med mera.
Styluslabs' Write is now AGPLv3
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/21154325
Write is a handwriting app that works on a lot of platforms including Linux which cannot be said about most handwritten note-taking applications.More information and demo: github.com/styluslabs/Write/
I've used it for uni on a Linux tablet/convertible and it worked really quite well and has some nice convenient features for note-taking.
The UI looks like it's from android 4.something though ^^'
What I really appreciate about it is that its storage format are plain SVG(Z) which are extremely compatible. All you need to view your scribbles is an SVG viewer (i.e. a web browser) which basically every computer with a GUI has. Their website is in fact mostly just the output of their own app.
GitHub - styluslabs/Write
Contribute to styluslabs/Write development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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Proprietary and closed source.
I always wondered why as they never sold it or had any kind of business model around it.
Back when I tried it it was a lot worse for my purposes.
I'd recommend you try both though.
Styluslabs' Write is now AGPLv3
Write is a handwriting app that works on a lot of platforms including Linux which cannot be said about most handwritten note-taking applications.
More information and demo: github.com/styluslabs/Write/
I've used it for uni on a Linux tablet/convertible and it worked really quite well and has some nice convenient features for note-taking.
The UI looks like it's from android 4.something though ^^'
What I really appreciate about it is that its storage format are plain SVG(Z) which are extremely compatible. All you need to view your scribbles is an SVG viewer (i.e. a web browser) which basically every computer with a GUI has. Their website is in fact mostly just the output of their own app.
GitHub - styluslabs/Write
Contribute to styluslabs/Write development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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handwriting app that works on a lot of platforms including Linux which cannot be said about most handwritten note-taking applications
To be fair, we have it quite good in this regard between Xournalpp and Rnote. Certainly areas where we only have worse options.
That's true, although this one is truly incredible when it comes to editing handwriting.
Certainly lacking a bit in other aspects though (and not totally bug free)
The most important features when handwriting IMHO are selection tools and then being able to manipulate the selected strokes.
Write implements a multitude of selection tools such as lasso which most tools have but much more useful to me were ruled selection which selects based on lines on a ruled paper and path selection which selects every stroke you touch with your selection stroke.
You can then move the selected strokes in a ruled manner, so for example I'd select a whole line of strokes and move them down a few lines. This is incredibly useful and brings many of the freedoms we enjoy in editing text on a computer to handwriting.
Re-flowing using stroke divisors is an amazing feature in theory but I've never been able to make it work reliably enough for my purposes, so I personally disabled that particular feature.
The undo/redo dial is also pretty neat.
Once you actually try to take real notes or solve some mathematical problems, you'll really come to appreciate such features and will dread using any note taking application supposedly made for handwritten notes that does not implement such features.
It was an old Fujitsu Q755, not something I'd recommend you buy.
Had a wacom tablet built into the touch screen though which is the only thing I'd watch out for.
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This makes perfect sense to me.
At the start of your career, you want to be important enough that people will care about your opinions, which means getting invited to meetings where things are discussed.
Stage 2, you've been there long enough and know how things work so you can offer input and help make decisions.
Stage 3 is the point at which people will come to you for input outside of meetings because that's easier. You just want to do your job and generally don't care about decisions anymore unless they bring sweeping changes.
I'd say stage 4 is being the keystone attendee: if you don't go, the whole thing falls apart. Even if you somehow manage to get out of the meeting, it has to get rescheduled because it "needs" your input. The meeting thus becomes inescapable.
Stage 5 is when everyone else realizes you're in stage 4 and begins to cater to your availability and preferences. Obviously this is mostly theoretical.
Which is the stage of, "I'm bored because the people I'm supposed to supervise are busy doing all the stuff. I think I'll call a meeting."
(Too many people are at this stage)
Hurricane Helene could cost $200 billion. Nobody knows where the money will come from. Almost none of the storm's devastation will be paid out by insurance.
Hurricane Helene could cost $200 billion. Nobody knows where the money will come from.
The estimated costs of Hurricane Helene have more than doubled since it made landfall. Almost none are covered by insurance.Jake Bittle (Grist)
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in reply to Linkerbaan • • •From the comments, it seems likely this was not a nuclear test.
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in reply to PowerCrazy • • •IDK. I want it to be a earthquake, but off of what you said...
Edit: also, the article stated that for an accurate reading of the depth of an earthquake the station needs to be closer to earthquake than the earthquake is deep or else it just gets put down at 10k deep since that's the average. IDK about stations in Iran though
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Don't know if it was a nuke or not, but the 10km bit isn't info one way or another.
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