Dozens of countries on brink of famine, new data show
Dozens of countries on brink of famine, new data shows
In 2012, member states of the UN pledged that they would work to eliminate global hunger by 2030Mick Clifford (IrishExaminer.com)
Toronto’s new Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton slams Doug Ford over Science Centre closure
Toronto’s new Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton slams Doug Ford over Science Centre closure
AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton slammed Doug Ford’s Science Centre decisions in a new CBC interview.Kevin Jiang (Toronto Star)
Widespread condemnation of Pakistan government’s ban on PTM
Widespread condemnation of Pakistan government’s ban on PTM : Peoples Dispatch
Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) and its leaders have faced repeated attacks from the successive governments in Pakistan for standing against the military’s role in enforced disappearances and human rights violations.Abdul Rahman (Peoples Dispatch)
Academic bars: The latest social scene for Chinese urban ‘elites’
Urban elites across China flock to ‘academic bars’
Academic bars are transforming China’s nightlife, blending intellectual discourse with casual socializing.Juliette Duveau (Jing Daily)
Huawei just built a $1.4 billion chip center as it faces U.S. sanctions. The Shanghai-based research and development center will have almost 30,000 employees.
Huawei just built a $1.4 billion chip center as it faces U.S. sanctions
The Shanghai-based research and development center will have almost 30,000 employeesBritney Nguyen (Quartz)
Ubuntu 24.10 “Oracular Oriole” Is Now Available for Download, This Is What’s New
cross-posted from: lemmy.ndlug.org/post/1225458
Powered by the latest Linux 6.11 kernel series, Ubuntu 24.10 features the latest and greatest GNOME 47 desktop environment for the Ubuntu Desktop flavor with additional patches for Mutter and GNOME Shell to enhance stability and performance. In addition, the Ubuntu Dock now visualizes Snap refreshes and includes better handling for PWAs installed via the Chromium Snap.
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Under the hood, Ubuntu 24.10 comes with an updated toolchain that includes GCC 14.2, GNU Binutils 2.43.1, GNU C Library 2.40, LLVM 19, Rust 1.80, Go 1.23, OpenSSL 3.3, systemd 256.5, Netplan 1.1, and .NET 8. The Ubuntu Desktop installer was also updated with support for local file paths for autoinstall import.
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Ubuntu 24.10 will be supported for only nine months, until July 2025. If you’re looking for long-term support, you should download and install Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat), which is supported until at least 2029.
Official Website: Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular Oriole)
Ubuntu 24.10 “Oracular Oriole” Is Now Available for Download, This Is What's New - 9to5Linux
Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular Oriole) distribution is now available for download with Linux kernel 6.11, GNOME 47, and other changes.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
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Has anyone else encountered missing fonts in games using WINE before?
First of all, yes it's a hentai game. You can believe it's for my girlfriend or not.
I asked her if she'd like a Steam Deck and she said it fits how she'd probably play games, but she wants to play a bunch of games she got off MangaGamer and she wants to make sure they'd work on the Deck.
I have a thinkpad running Fedora so we installed one through WINE to try it out. Everything is working but all the text are these squares for missing characters.
Is there any easy way to install fonts and characters for WINE, or will we need to look at something like the ROG Ally instead?
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Autocrat and authoritarian now means independent from the US and refusing to be vassalized.
Behind the Curtain of Mexico’s Progress
Mexico’s new president follows her predecessor’s authoritarian path.David Frum (The Atlantic)
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Exclusive: Musk's X to dodge requirements of landmark EU tech rules, sources say
BRUSSELS, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's X will not be designated as a gatekeeper under landmark EU tech rules known as the Digital Markets Act which would have subjected it to an onerous list of obligations, people with direct knowledge of the matter said on Thursday.
The European Commission, which opened an investigation into online social media platform X in May, will announce its decision next week, the people said.
The EU competition enforcer declined to comment.
X, formerly known as Twitter, had previously told the Commission that even though it met the criterion regarding the number of users to be classified as a gatekeeper, it does not qualify for the other criterion as an important gateway between businesses and consumers.
Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, TikTok owner ByteDance and Booking.com, have been designated as gatekeepers, among others.
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Actually because Elon. Really.
The act requires a certain market position from a company. Which Twitter once definitely had - but does no longer have.
A lot of companies have turned their back on Twitter due to Musk (not only advertising wise but especially communication wise). And that does reduce the impact it possibly can have on the market. (Remember: The DSA is a market equalisation act)
Israeli troops fire at 3 UNIFIL positions in southern Lebanon, U.N. source says
BEIRUT, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Israeli troops opened fire at three positions held by U.N. peacekeepers in southern Lebanon on Thursday, according to a U.N. source who was not immediately able to specify the type of fire.
The source said one of the locations fired at was UNIFIL's main base at Naqoura.
There was no official statement from UNIFIL or immediate comment from the Israeli military.
UNIFIL had said on Sunday that it was "deeply concerned by recent activities" by the Israeli military near a peacekeeper position in southwestern Lebanon.
In a letter to Israel's military dated Oct. 3 and seen by Reuters, UNIFIL had objected to Israeli military vehicles and troops positioning themselves "in immediate proximity" to U.N. positions, "thereby endangering the safety and security of UNIFIL personnel and premises".
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In 2006, during the last major confrontation, a UN Observation Position (OP) came under Israeli artillery and aerial bombardment.Despite repeated appeals to the IDF to stop firing, throughout 25 July, the OP on the outskirts of the village of Khiam was finally destroyed.
Four UN military observers from Austria, Canada, China and Finland were killed.
Israel’s ambassador to the US, Danny Ayalon, said “Unifil obviously got caught in the middle", and suggested that the deadly fire could have come from Hezbollah.
A UN investigation concluded that the base had been destroyed by a 500kg precision-guided bomb dropped by an Israeli warplane.
Israel concluded that human error was to blame.
In 1996, during an earlier round of fighting, Israeli artillery shells hit another UN compound, at Qana, where around 800 displaced Lebanese civilians were sheltering.
106 civilians were killed and four Fijian peacekeepers were injured.
IDF firing at Irish peacekeepers with no response from the administration would be a fitting capstone humiliation for Biden.
Dobimo se v prostorih Hupe Brajdič v podhodu Ajdovščina (če bo zasedena se preselimo v lokal STA).
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V soboto, 23. novembra organiziramo Kompot dekonferenco (napoved: dogodki.kompot.si/events/83824…)
Na organizacijskem sestanku bomo predebatirali načrt za dekonferenco. Med drugim:
- pregled tem (predlagatelji naj pripravijo kak odstavek o vsaki temi)
- iskanje prostovoljcev
- hrana in pijača
- promocijski material
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in reply to dwraf_of_ignorance • • •To me it's similar to buying illegal animal products and showcasing it for public awareness
"It's not to support the poachers but to raise awareness"
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in reply to FuckBigTech347 • • •I own an M1 Air running Asahi Linux because I heard very good things about the laptop when I got it and it was a reasonable price. I don't have a Framework to test alongside it so I don't know how it compares with the latest x86 chips. The M1 touchpad is awesome, aesthetics are great with it being light and the material being a lot more durable than my HP Envy laptop that kept getting random dents, doesn't have the hinge misalignment issue, screen is also good. Battery life and performance is great on macOS, not as impressive on Linux (performance is still good aside from missing hardware processing support for certain things, I do end up bottlenecking it when compiling Rust programs), lack of fan noise is nice but also bad for cooling, with Linux it tends to get warm and throttle. Asahi Linux is very impressive but still missing microphone support and doesn't support FDE which is extremely precarious, harder to use alternative distros to Fedora Workstation. Repairability is shit, the keyboard is also shit.
The newer M* models don't have good Asahi Linux support and look ove
... show moreI own an M1 Air running Asahi Linux because I heard very good things about the laptop when I got it and it was a reasonable price. I don't have a Framework to test alongside it so I don't know how it compares with the latest x86 chips. The M1 touchpad is awesome, aesthetics are great with it being light and the material being a lot more durable than my HP Envy laptop that kept getting random dents, doesn't have the hinge misalignment issue, screen is also good. Battery life and performance is great on macOS, not as impressive on Linux (performance is still good aside from missing hardware processing support for certain things, I do end up bottlenecking it when compiling Rust programs), lack of fan noise is nice but also bad for cooling, with Linux it tends to get warm and throttle. Asahi Linux is very impressive but still missing microphone support and doesn't support FDE which is extremely precarious, harder to use alternative distros to Fedora Workstation. Repairability is shit, the keyboard is also shit.
The newer M* models don't have good Asahi Linux support and look overpriced and I don't even know if the Air line still offers 16GB RAM models which is a must have (32GB is better). At this point in time if my Macbook were to randomly die my next laptop probably won't be a Macbook (unless I replace it with another used M1), also I wouldn't recommend it to most people right now because of issues with Asahi Linux being under development like the two I pointed out earlier.
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in reply to embed_me • • •Absolutely nothing comes close to the thinness and lightness, combined with battery and performance of my M2 Air. And that's not to mention that Apple's touchpads are still so far ahead of everyone else that I'd like to laugh about it, but it's too embarrassing for that. It's not like I'm not aware of the linux/windows alternatives, it's that there simply are no alternatives...I'd rather deal with Apple's shit software instead of everyone else's subpar hardware, because software is changeable.
Also, since the Asahi team actually knows what they're doing, it turns out that their linux support on Apple Silicon is often better in a lot of ways than most windows-centric laptops. They take a long time to support certain hardware capabilities, but once they do you can be sure that it works flawlessly. Can't say the same about any other laptop I owned before (although Framework, System 76 and Tuxedo laptops are probably good in that regard).
Also, while the keyboard on my Dell XPS broke a whopping 5 times in the last few years, the Macbook Air has yet to sho
... show moreAbsolutely nothing comes close to the thinness and lightness, combined with battery and performance of my M2 Air. And that's not to mention that Apple's touchpads are still so far ahead of everyone else that I'd like to laugh about it, but it's too embarrassing for that. It's not like I'm not aware of the linux/windows alternatives, it's that there simply are no alternatives...I'd rather deal with Apple's shit software instead of everyone else's subpar hardware, because software is changeable.
Also, since the Asahi team actually knows what they're doing, it turns out that their linux support on Apple Silicon is often better in a lot of ways than most windows-centric laptops. They take a long time to support certain hardware capabilities, but once they do you can be sure that it works flawlessly. Can't say the same about any other laptop I owned before (although Framework, System 76 and Tuxedo laptops are probably good in that regard).
Also, while the keyboard on my Dell XPS broke a whopping 5 times in the last few years, the Macbook Air has yet to show any signs of wear. The reason I got a Macbook is because I need to get work done and need a reliable machine for that. And what can I say, my god has it ever been reliable.
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in reply to Yerbouti • • •And longevity. I have a 2011 MBP thats now running Debian and is still a tank. I’ve had two MacBooks since I got it but the damn thing refuses to die.
My daily laptop is an M2 Air which is ridiculously powerful for my needs, so when Apple drop OS support for it I’ll put Asahi on it and keep it trucking until the wheels fall off.
And that 2011 will still be going.
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