Nicaragua severs diplomatic relations with Israel over ongoing atrocities in Gaza
The government of Nicaragua has stated that it is breaking off diplomatic relations with Israel over the ongoing genocidal war against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, which has killed over 42,000 people, more than half of them women and children.
Nicaraguan Vice President Rosario Murillo announced the move to state media on Friday.
The Central American nation’s Congress had, earlier in the day, passed a resolution requesting Nicaragua take action to coincide with the one-year anniversary of the Gaza war.
The conflict, the Nicaraguan government said, now also “extends against Lebanon and gravely threatens Syria, Yemen and Iran.”
Murillo, who is President Daniel Ortega’s wife, said her husband instructed the government to sever diplomatic relations with the “fascist” and “genocidal” Tel Aviv regime.
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Budget 2025: Germany (Bundestag) increases funding for the Sovereign Tech Fund
On Thursday, the Bundestag's Budget Committee decided to increase the funding for the Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) with the majority of the parliamentary groups in the traffic light coalition. A total of almost 29 million euros is now available for 2025. This is around 4 million euros or 15 per cent more than initially planned by the Federal Cabinet. Almost 3.4 million euros of this is directly attributable to the STF, whose budget for 2025 was initially set at 15 million euros.
590,000 more than planned will also flow into the ‘Bug Resilience Programme’ coordinated by the STF, for which a total of 2 million euros will now be available in 2025. It is intended to ensure that security vulnerabilities in software are not only found, but also actually fixed. In total, the STF will end up with around 19 million euros, compared to just 17 million in 2024.
The SFT plays a central role in the development of open source software as a basic digital technology. Among other things, the STF managers organised competitions to promote active collaboration on open source infrastructures.
The government has so far disappointed free software advocates
‘These investments make us less dependent on large providers, more resilient to digital crises and promote Germany's digital sovereignty,’ emphasised Anna Kassautzki, digital policy rapporteur for the SPD parliamentary group. Maik Außendorf, digital policy spokesperson for the Greens, emphasised that Germany is thus taking on a ‘pioneering role in open source’
The Open Source Business Alliance (OSB) and the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) had expressed their disappointment with the course taken by the Ampel in 2022. In its coalition agreement, the government had explicitly emphasised the importance of open standards and interfaces as well as open source for digital sovereignty. However, there are no concrete plans for an alternative hyperscaler, especially for cloud projects.
Instead, dependencies on Microsoft, for example, would be further cemented. The federal government's licence costs for proprietary software providers have recently reached a high level in the billions. The OSB Alliance has just called for the administration to switch its IT completely to open source.
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Haushalt 2025: Bundestag erhöht die Mittel für den Sovereign Tech Fund
Der Sovereign Tech Fund spielt als Förderprogramm eine zentrale Rolle für Open-Source-Projekte und digitale Basistechnologien. Dafür gibt es nun mehr Geld.Stefan Krempl (heise online)
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I don't really get the argument of Microsoft being cemented. I mean, firstly they are pretty much everywhere, so I can't see how it's getting worse. Secondly, the German state partly uses Linux, even outside of servers, which is already more than I expected. You can't expect a state to "just switch" to anything. We are talking hundreds of thousands of users and computers here...
Isn't there also some EU cloud thing going on?
Nice! Leaves me wondering why the funding was increased tho. Is it because the SFT projects have been successful so far? Or because they were not moving fast enough? Or perhaps simply because more money was needed to achieve this year's aims?
Granted, 4 mil might not be an enormous amount for an institution this size.
Awake, but at what cost?
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I have this pet peeve of loud morning talkers. I don't know how to explain it but I believe I don't mind loud talkers in everyday life but I notice it right after waking up.
(Usage of the word talkers over speakers chosen to emphasize the human and not the electronic product)
I've recently realised that if I listen to someone talking or say anything myself after waking up to go to the toilet or something, I will not be able to go back to sleep again.
My uneducated guess is that it wakes up the language centre in my brain and for some reason one that is active, sleep is done for the day.
“Sorry if is difficult but I have a weird thing. I need about 5 minutes, when I wake up, to just be in my own little world. Would you please not talk to me right after I’ve woken up?”
Things like this can have an enormous effect on one’s stress levels. If you know it stresses you, that’s enough cause for you to benefit from getting the people around you to give you a little space in the morning.
You should ask for what you need. Even if people refuse, at least it’s an outright refusal which is more clear than not having asked.
It feels uncomfortable, but the payoff for this kind of boundary-drawing is enormous.
Cat owners will know this is actually reversed.
Cats are like HUMAN!! It is 4AM and my food bowl isn't full.
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It's to create the illusion that there's more cops than there really are. Same reason behind take home cars.
My city of about 300k people has about 30 cops patrolling at any given time.
San Jose, California has some wild numbers perhaps like that.
Would you take more if you could? Assuming no reform, just more of the same.
I think higher numbers would lead to reform on its own. When you're scraping by at the bare minimum, a lot of stuff gets overlooked just to maintain numbers.
More cops would make it a lot easier to have better standards, and raise the average competency level.
I don't want to be the guy defending cops, but
Has never been the start of a good and relevant point.
Say what you will about the tenets of national socialism, but at least it's an ethos
-Walther Sobchek
I'm a school bus driver and I regularly get infuriated by people who drive past me when I have my red flashers on and stop sign out, wishing there was a cop around. Only once so far have I gotten my wish ... and unfortunately it was the cop driving past me at 40 mph just as some of my kids were about to cross the road. I looked down and saw him with his phone in his right hand and his left hand on the wheel, not paying the slightest attention to what was in front of him.
I'm lucky he didn't run over any kids, because I probably would have gotten shot.
The Quebec Secession Crisis Is Coming, and Canada Isn’t Ready
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Why sovereigntists see their chance nowGerald Butts (The Walrus)
Monster pickup trucks accelerate into Europe as sales rise despite safety fears
The engines rev, the guitars thrum and a gruff narrator lays out why the vehicle occupying the driveway is more than just a machine. “A truck is a tool,” he says, “but a Ram – a Ram is life.”
So begins an advert for the Ram 1500, a pickup truck slightly bigger than the Panzer I tanks of Nazi Germany and almost as heavy. It is growing in popularity in Europe, with the number of Rams arriving on the continent up 20% in 2023 from the year before, according to registration data from the European Environment Agency. Road safety and environmental campaigners in the UK and Europe are aghast as the latest, most extreme cases of North American car bloat – giant pickup trucks – are increasingly crossing the Atlantic.
“Europe should ban the Ram,” said Dudley Curtis from the European Transport Safety Council. “This type of vehicle is excessively heavy, tall and powerful, making it lethal in collisions with normal-sized vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists.”
Monster pickup trucks accelerate into Europe as sales rise despite safety fears
A Dodge Ram 1500 is bigger than a Panzer I tank and campaigners say heavy trucks are ‘lethal’ in collisionsAjit Niranjan (The Guardian)
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Ford also famously runs ads (in the US) boasting about their lie-flat drivers seats in their trucks because so many people can afford a truck payment but not a rent payment.
Beats being on the streets which is almost impossible to come back from.
The collapse of Western society is being witnessed by hearing anecdotes on forums until you’re the one in the anecdote.
The disadvantaged are simply swept into the streets to die, and washed into the gutters afterwards (Newsom, anyone?).
Ironic, considering how often people lose their shit over fabricated Tiananmen propaganda.
Oh fuck he is trying to make me say "tiananmen square massacre" now Xi is going to personally come to my house and eat all my grain with his giant spoon.
Or maybe I say June 4th incident because it didn't happen in tiananmen square and massacre isn't the right word for it, considering it was armed PLA vs western armed protestors with around equal casualties before it ended.
No, I was just trying to drag out of you how you see the incident without priming the pump. How does one minimize the killing of hundreds of unarmed students? I knew people like you existed, I just never had the opportunity to witness someone actually do it, and I was curious how it's done.
You roll 20 additional days into it as a buffer, and count injuries as equivalent to murders, and let them happen anywhere.
It can't be the "Tiananmen Square Massacre" for you because then couldn't draw in PLA members who had heart attacks and died elsewhere that day because they weren't at the square. You need to create a context where they're all the same thing and the geography of place really damages the ability to do that.
You just dilute a massacre to make it not a massacre by expanding the time and places. Super interesting. It's a distinctly different approach to propegands than you'd typically see in the west or Russia.
"What we actually are hoping for is bloodshed, the moment when the government is ready to brazenly butcher the people. Only when the Square is awash with blood will the people of China open their eyes" - Chai Ling
But they didn't get it, so they had to exaggerate armed skirmishes into "they machinegunned sitting student protestors"
It can’t be the “Tiananmen Square Massacre” for you because then couldn’t draw in PLA members who had heart attacks and died elsewhere that day because they weren’t at the square.
You can literally find photos of protestors posing with burnt and mutilated bodies of PLA soldiers
The collapse of Western society is being witnessed by hearing anecdotes on forums until you’re the one in the anecdote.
The icing on this shit cake is that people will refuse to believe that anecdotes are true and even the most progressive people will make jokes about it publicly as evidenced by .worlders
A truck is a tool
Nah, that's usually the person driving it.
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The thing is, a truck is a tool, or used to be at least. I had an old little Toyota truck. Two seats and could haul as much construction materials or debris as any one person could manage.
These trucks are impossible to work with. Massive cabs that shorten the bed, lifted frames with beds that break your back loading stuff, terrible fuel economy. They’re as much about utility as lacy underwear.
Oh yeah, to be clear, no disrespect to people who use trucks routinely for their intended purpose.
Up to you if you want to adopt this, but I've taken to calling those tiny, useless afterthoughts tacked onto modern trucks "vestigial beds".
They are defintly becoming more in Germany thanks to the fucking Amarok.
And I understand that there might be valid reasons to buy an Amarok, but I've never seen them used by anyone, but suburbanites who use them as a personal ca4.
“A truck is a tool,” he says, “but a Ram – a Ram is life.”
Sex is...well, no one knows. But the Saw is family!
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The truck in the photo is absolutely hilarious and all the wrong ways.
It's got early 2000s fast and furious rims.
It's got that 1980s camper thing on the back.
The driver is like sitting halfway back the vehicle. I don't think the front side of that entire truck could fit in the bed.
That vehicle doesn't know if it wants to be an SUV, a van, or a truck. Really I think it got them all wrong. Slightly less awful than the Tesla truck.
Really, I don't get the appeal, that's the weirdest thing about this. If this was an article about impractical and irresponsible racing cars getting popular and the objection was that they consume too much fuel, they drive too fast increasing safety risks and they only have 2 seats meaning less people moved per car, I'd lament the trend in the same way, but it'd be a story of how we tragically can't stop ourselves from stupid but understandable excess. It's easy to understand for example why obesity is hard to combat because at a basic level and all other nuance aside, generally, we like eating, and typically the foods that most lead to obesity are easily the most liked by people in general too.
But these fucking American truck things are bad for all the same anti social reasons as a sports car might be and more but they're also not appealing in the slightest, they look awful, they don't go fast and all the dubious "utility" value, even taken at its word, is such a weird thing to try to appeal to the masses with. Selling things like this to people who don't need them used to rely on a kind of "sex appeal", if it was a sports car your customer might never be able to actually drive it as fast as it can go but the idea that they theoretically could is sexy and it has those lines designed to feel like it goes fast, who the fuck thinks "ooh I could fit so much lumber in that thing" and gets a weak at the knees? It sounds about as exciting as selling something on fuel efficiency isn't. Somehow though, not only Americans apparently, but like everyone wants these things? I am baffled. Did we all go to some mass brain washing event and I slept in that day? What is this?
Have you driven one? If not, try it out and you may understand the appeal.
I would never buy one myself, but their comfy as all hell to drive, it's like driving a lazy boy. You are really high up, so other than the blind spots you feel like you can see really well. Any road bumps are essentially negligible. Curbs or other things that you might have to worry about in a small car, you can just drive right over. If you want to bring something somewhere, it's super convenient to just toss it in the bed.
I grew up in rural farm type life, and a pickup truck was just a given.
As long as you don't care about other people or the environment, it's a nice vehicle.
This will not go well.
Europe is not designed for oversized cars. As soon as you are off the "A" roads, it is goat tracks in every direction. And, you can forget about parking. Regular cars have enormous trouble already. Every new car gets panel damage within a couple of weeks. Put those monster US vehicles in the villages it will be carnage.
Europe is not designed for oversized cars.
Too many drivers are selfish morons and will manage to cram their oversized vehicles into any space without consideration for the safety of anyone outside their own bubble. Doesnt matter if the city was "designed" for it or not.
I was just in Bellagio Italy last week. For some reason, cars are allowed to drive through the medieval city center through extremely narrow roads packed with pedestrians... Which is OK if you're driving a fiat 500.... But this oversized jeep cherokee drive right through town, with barely any space for pedestrians to move aside. I'm not sure if it was a lost tourist or a local resident, but drivers should not be trusted to pilot such a vehicle through crowds with so little margin for error.
Ram 1500, a pickup truck slightly bigger than the Panzer I tanks of Nazi Germany and almost as heavy
That sounded like bs, so I went searching, but apparently it's correct. Panzer I is only slightly wider (by about 5 cm) and smaller in other regards. Eff me
Low resource system activity reporting tool? i.e. "What caused that CPU spike on my laptop 10 mins ago?"
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Yeah, so this is the best one I've seen so far.
I've just installed it, but I'm stumped on the documentation on how to find the name of a high-load process from 10 mins ago.
Install and start the monitoring
sudo pacman -S sysstat
sudo systemctl {enable,start} sysstatFind what processes were running 10 minutes ago
(first wait 10 minutes)
sar -P ALL -f /var/log/sa/sa$(date +%d -d '10 minutes ago')nothing happens.
Trade with Asean can mitigate irresponsible tariffs from the West
Trade with Asean can mitigate irresponsible tariffs from the West
With the halls of power in Washington and Brussels rumbling with regular talk of higher trade tariffs and allegations of Chinese dumping, it would be fair to acknowledge globalisation is well and truly no longer de rigueur.SCMP Editorial (South China Morning Post)
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Good thing roads never wear down, otherwise radioactive material would leach from the cracks into the water supply.
But roads never crack so it's fine. Once the road is poured it's a permanent fixture.
Scientists Reconstruct Terrifying Face of Car-Sized Millipede That Roamed Prehistoric Earth
Scientists Reconstruct Terrifying Face of Car-Sized Millipede That Roamed Prehistoric Earth
Arthropleura were huge, had a bunch of legs, and likely scavenged on dead bodies. How charming. And now we know what their faces looked like, thanks to new research.Adam Kovac (Gizmodo)
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Three Different Disco Elysium Successors Revealed On The Same Day
Three Disco Elysium Successors Revealed At Different Studios
Three new games from former Disco Elysium devs are revealed on the same day, all from different studios, leaving ZA/UM behind.Rhiannon Bevan (TheGamer)
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I assume you've tripped up on your measurements somewhere, because 4 ml would be a very sad dram. A spirit measure in the UK is 25 ml, so you get 28 of those out of a 700 ml bottle for $7,000 at that bar.
Edit: upon looking it up, apparently a dram actually is 4 ml in America? In Scotland that's just the word for a glass of whisky, assumed to be an approximate "one drink" rather than an actual specification of volume. If you offered someone a dram and poured them 4 ml here, they'd think you were the stingiest person since Ebenezer Scrooge
However bars mark drinks up like mad, and they will absolutely do so on extremely premium drinks because the only people buying those are people who do not care how much it costs. If you take $3 for a shot of a basic vodka, that's $84 for the bottle, and there's absolutely no way you'd pay $84 for that same bottle in a supermarket.
You definitely could spend seven grand on a 40 year old bottle of whisky if you went looking for one. This specific bottle is 51 years, but it's commanding this price because it's a very rare special edition from a big and popular distillery
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For context 28 CBM is about the volume of a 20' container.
Or a stacked pallet is about 1.8 CBM so about 15 standard height pallets.
Sorta. CBM is cubic meters and the entire world uses feet for shipping containers. For Intl logistics CBM and kg are the standard for volume and weight but they get loaded into containers measured in feet.
You'll see similar stuff in other industries. Machining a lot of measurements are in mm but tolerances in "mils" or 1/1000 of an inch. Or medical where volume is in mL or drams.
When it comes to distance though I only really know miles.
I know everyone’s general focus is on the cost of the thing and how ridiculous it seems, completely ignoring that it’s a Scotch that was aged longer than the overwhelming majority of us—me included—have been alive, and that there are some people for whom that taste is very much worth it.
Me, I’ve wrangled with exactly how you’re meant to pay for the thing and walk out the door with it. Am I bringing $27K—plus tax—worth of cash—three straps of hundos?—to Costco and having the cashier count it? Do I get pulled into the manager’s office instead? Or, do I put this on my Costco Citi Visa? Will they decline it, even if I have the credit limit? Can I sub in another Visa, since that’s all they take? Do I get walked out the door, or do I get a receipt for the checker to sharpie a line through?
If you have to ask you can’t afford it.
People buying 30k bottles of wine are generally the kinds of people that don’t have a “credit limit” like we’re used to. They probably also have people that go get that wine for them, and likely pay by credit card or check.
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The very wealthy are also petulant little pigs who clad themselves in designer clothing, diamonds, and gold. Who literally clutch pearls and hiss at minorities. Who support genocides and drive drunk on public roads after their racist little evening gatherings.
Let’s stop pretending these ghouls are valid human beings. Entire Royal families have been terminated for having less relative wealth to the workers than todays ruling class.
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They are human beings, these are human behaviors, and it's not "no true human would..." Of course they would, and easily, too. My only point was to highlight differences in our concepts of wealth, and theirs.
Entire Royal families have been terminated for having less relative wealth to the workers than todays ruling class.
Indeed.
Oh, I acknowledge that.
However, there are two things I get hung up on. One, can’t pay by check—Costco doesn’t accept checks. And, two, the traditional no-limits cards are generally Amex, which they don’t accept—only Visa.
So, yes, while nothing else you said was wrong per se, I’m still left to ponder just how the transaction would go down.
there are some people for whom that taste is very much worth it.
That's just not true, though.
- Things rich people buy are often about scarcity/vanity, not how good they are
- Diminishing returns for increasing quality
- You can overpay for anything and people/companies are ready to profit off that
Supposed expert "connoisseurs" haven't been able to tell famous high-priced wines apart in controlled taste tests.
there are some people for whom that taste is very much worth it.
You are correct, but to be clear, it's not so much that tasting this scotch is a life changing experience; it's more that to these people, 27k is just chump change.
It's also about knowing that it's so exclusive that regular people can't experience it. Take away the pricetag and it's isn't nearly so appealing.
Veblen product, innit
Doesn't mean it's worth 30k. There are whiskies just as old and better that aren't sold at that price.
This item is not sold 30k because its old, or even rare. It's sold at that price because there's always a rich sucker who wants something expensive.
I'll wait for the * price tag... And a winning lottery ticket.
But seriously, a Scotch barreled in 1948? I didn't know they aged anything that long.
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SD drar tillbaka gängmotion. Efter att SD:s mycket omfattande gängkopplingar blviit stora nyheter i samband med Jimmie Åkessons bröllop framstod det uppenbart att Sverigedemokraternas förslag i sin motion om att bekämpa de kriminella gängen skulle slå mot hårt mot dem själva.
This week in KDE Plasma: 6.2 has been released!
This week in Plasma: 6.2 has been released!
And I’d say it’s a pretty good release! As with all large sets of changes, there are a couple of regressions we’re tracking, particularly around the areas of external monitor brig…Adventures in Linux and KDE
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there are a couple of regressions we’re tracking, particularly around the areas of external monitor brightness
Oh no, please don't! This release finally fixed the monitor brightness issue I had. It finally saves the brightness value and restores it after reboot. I had to set it manually after each boot before! Whatever regression you have, this fixed an issue for me. :D
That's the problem KDE has seemingly always had. They historically prioritized features over stability. They have been improving the processes significantly but it still shows a bit.
I personally can't use KDE as the basic settings are convoluted with lots of options. I wish there was some sort of long stable version that removes a bunch of options and settings to make a desktop that is stable and simple. Having so many options creates a lot of room for problems. I sometimes like to experiment and customize but for my main system I want tested and unchanging.
No need to change the identity of having many options and customization in KDE. This is why we have a choice of multiple desktop environments (and window managers too). If there was no XFCE or Gnome as an alternative, or even the upcoming COSMIC desktop, then I would agree to slim down KDE.
I used Gnome 2, Unity and Gnome 3 all for multiple years and have experience in XFCE as well. Really KDE is not much more buggy than Gnome 3 in example. In fact, I had lot of problems in Gnome 3 such as always breaking extensions and other limitations as well, why I switched to KDE in the first place. I was about to go back to tiling window managers, but KDE works good. I encountered with every desktop environment and window manager problems like these. So to me KDE is not really worse.
Its been a long time since I used gnome 3 so I can't really testify to its stability. However, modern gnome is very good about make sure they give the gnome experience. Like it or hate it gnome only ships things they think will be reasonable to use. They also don't ship anything that is not heavily validated.
The downside with gnome is that sometimes there is a breakdown between the devs and the users. The devs use it a certain way and assume everyone else does the same. This can lead to missing functionality that almost everyone reenables with extensions.
Linux as a ecosystem is made by humans at the end of the day and humans are funny about there beliefs. I think a mix of the gnome and KDE style would be great. Cosmic follows the KDE development style as far as I can tell and Xfce4 just doesn't have a lot of man power.
I really think Cosmic is the ideal desktop, at least from the idea what they want to do. But I don't want rely on it as its not proven yet (I mean with first release). Maybe in a few years from now.
I have my gripes with Gnome, so won't go into it now. Not very healthy doing that. :D I do think if you use Gnome as intended and without (or almost none) extensions, and use Gnome Apps for the most part, and don't need to customize each and every corner, AND embrace the Gnome way of doing things, then I agree it is probably the best DE. But these are lot of ifs and buts. I don't know if most people fall into this category, I certainly don't.
And on top of it is how Gnome... well I said I won't go into it now. :D I'm sure you are familiar with all of this.
You can just hear it as kitty wedges into that pipe.
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"MEooow?" :|
Can I offer some constructive critique?
This meme is getting downvoted because it is both a fairly dumb concept but also a very unsatisfying execution.
You need to take your idea and communicate it in a meme response. It could be a meme representing confusion or sarcasm, but adding "Breaking New..." as bottom text is really not going to go well even if everyone thought your opinion was good.
Att Iran utnyttjar svenska gäng finns det inga belägg för. Mossad påstår att Iran utnyttjar kriminella svenska gäng för att begå våldsbrott riktade mot israeliska intressen i Sverige. Det har fått Säpo att sprida samma uppgifter till svensk media.
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