Ukraine faces its darkest hour
Military at the front wants talks with Russia, Ukrainian society is "exhausted"
Returning home from the US, Zelenskyy faces Russian advances, an exhausted society and the prospect of winter energy shortagesOnce buoyed by hopes of liberating their lands, even soldiers at the front now voice a desire for negotiations with Russia to end the war. Yuriy, another commander on the eastern front who gave only his first name, says he fears the prospect of a “forever war”.
“I am for negotiations now,” he adds, expressing his concern that his son — also a soldier — could spend much of his life fighting and that his grandson might one day inherit an endless conflict.
ICC Will Withdraw War Crimes Charges If Sinwar Confirmed Dead. Also: Netanyahu Still Alive
"The ICC's credibility is hanging by a thread," warned one former United Nations official in response to the court's delay in deciding whether to issue arrest warrants for Israeli leaders.
U.S. lawmakers have also threatened to sanction ICC officials who seek to hold Israeli leaders accountable for violations of international law, and in June dozens of House Democrats joined their Republican colleagues in passing H.R. 8282, the Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act, which would sanction ICC personnel involved in efforts to bring Israeli leaders to justice.
Haniyeh was assassinated in late July by Israeli operatives in Tehran, Iran. Israel claims to have also killed Al-Masri, although this has not been confirmed.
ICC Will Withdraw War Crimes Charges If Sinwar Confirmed Dead. Also: Netanyahu Still Alive
"The ICC's credibility is hanging by a thread," warned one former United Nations official in response to the court's delay in deciding whether to issue arrest warrants for Israeli leaders.brett-wilkins (Common Dreams)
WinAmp's Open Source Story Is Over
WinAmp Open Source Story Is Over
Without warning, WinAmp deleted its entire GitHub repository, effectively ending the whole story around open-sourcing the music player code.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
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Here's the story:
Company buys the rights to Winamp, tries to get the community to do their dev work for free, fails. That's it.
The 'Winamp source license' was absurdly restrictive. There was nothing open about it. You were not allowed to fork the repo, or distribute the source code or any binaries generated from it. Any patches you wrote became the property of Llama Group without attribution, and you were prohibited from distributing them in either source or binary form.
There were also a couple of surprises in the source code, like improperly included GPL code and some proprietary Dolby source code that never should have been released. The source code to Shoutcast server was also in there, which Llama group doesn't actually own the rights to.
This was a lame attempt to get the community to modernize Winamp for free, and it failed.
Of course many copies of the source code have been made, they just can't be legally used or distributed.
improperly included GPL code
Shouldn't that force a GPL release of the rest of the code, at least the bits they had the rights to?
That depends a lot on how the license gets interpreted and how license violations are handled by the local law. The argument for why the end user cannot do anything about GPL violation is that the violated contract is between upstream and the "bad" developer - the upstream project gave the bad developer access to their source code under the condition that the license stays the same. You as the end user only get exposed to the bad developer's license, so you can't do anything. It's the upstream who must force them to extend a proper license to you.
However there was also a case recently where the FSF argued that this interpretation / handling of the situation is against the spirit of GPL and I think they won, so... Yeah, it's just unclear. Which is normal for legal texts (IMHO intentionally, but I'm not here to rag on lawyers, so I'll leave it at that).
Not necessarily. It means that Llama group, and perhaps the original Nullsoft, have violated the license of whatever open source developer wrote that code originally.
So the only ones who could actually go after them to force anything are the ones who originally wrote that GPL code. They would basically have to sue Llama group, and they might also have a case against Nullsoft / AOL (who bought Nullsoft) for unjust enrichment over the years Winamp was popular.
Chances are it would get settled out of court, they would basically get paid a couple thousand bucks to go away. Even if they did have a legal resources to take it all the way to a trial, it is unlikely the end result would be compelling a GPL release of all of the Winamp source. Would be entertaining to see them try though.
Complicating that however, is the fact that if it's a common open source library that was included, there may be dozens of 'authors' and it would take many or all of them to agree to any sort of settlement.
So the only ones who could actually go after them to force anything are the ones who originally wrote that GPL code
Not necessarily, the SFC is involved in a big case regarding Vizio about this right now. The FSF was brought in to explain the intended interpretation and spirit of the GPL.
Har 13-åringen som angrep Elbit en högerextrem bakgrund?. Det israeliska vapenföretaget Elbit Systems som har verksamhet i det militärindustriella komplexet i Göteborg och Mölndal angreps nyligen av en 13-åring försedd med skjutvapen. Närmare bestämt ligger Elbits anläggning i Kallebäck där flertalet av det försvarsmaterialföretag siom finns i Göteborg ligger. Tidigare låg de […]
Two finger touch to stop kinetic scroll now works on Linux in Firefox 133
1568722 - Kinetic scrolling on Linux ought to stop on two-finger touch (hold gestures)
RESOLVED (botond) in Core - Widget: Gtk. Last updated 2024-10-17.bugzilla.mozilla.org
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Looking through the gitlab, it seems the backport of this hold gesture to GTK3 was rejected for good reason. Seems very unfair to imply it was done out of sheer spite.
It would break a lot, require a new API, and devs reworking a lot of programs.
It's also completely reasonable just from the POV of not accepting major new features in GTK3 when GTK4 exists.
Devs likely expect GTK3 to be feature-stable, given GTK4 has been out a while and GTK5 work starting soon. It's at the tail-end of its life.
If somebody wanted a major new feature in Python, for example, I wouldn't be surprised if the Python team gave it the go-ahead for Python 3 but not Python 2. GTK3 is done, they're only really doing bug fixes now.
Nobody expects new features to be added to Plasma 5 or Gnome 45.
It's 100% the right decision not to keep adding features to an old widget toolkit that has been superceded by GTK4 and is almost EoL.
That issue aside... good. Seems like a nice feature.
It would break a lot, require a new API, and devs reworking a lot of programs.
As I understand it, this would have been a perfectly backwards compatible change. You'd only get the events if you explicitly asked for them.
This was one of the most annoying things to me switching to Firefox a couple of years ago.
I've also been following this bug since switching (back), and have kinetic scroll turned off for the last few years, I somehow got used to linear scrolling -- it's not something that bothers me anymore, but I'll be happy to switch back now!
Man på byggföretag byggde bomber. En man som arbetade på ett byggföretag var en bombkonstruktör för ett kriminellt gäng i Göteborg. Närmare bestämt för det Mölndalsbaserade kriminella gänget som brukar kallas T-falangen.
DLSS Frame-gen Is coming to Linux
You can try out the Proton-Cachyos with frame gen package if you're on arch-based systems with pacman -U archive.cachyos.org/proton/proton-cachyos-1:9.0.20240928-1-x86_64_v3.pkg.tar.zst
or you can download custom tkg-proton with frame generation from
mediafire.com/file/lv7d8jci0gyf6z0/proton_dlssfg.tar.zst/file and put into your ~/.steam/steam/compatibilitytools.d/
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It’s actually really nice given the fps without framegen is playable.
I found it to have a positive impact for heavy titles that run around 40fps without it.
Anything below 30 gives this weird stutter
Ardour 8.10 released
Ardour 8.10 released
Ardour 8.10 is now available for Linux, Windows and macOS. As with the last several releases, 8.9 turned out to have at least a couple of new major issues that required a hot-fix.Ardour
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In Linux there are already much better options than Ardour that I highly suggest to try:
- REAPER as a standard DAW and Ardour equivalent.
- Bitwig Studio for more sequencer-like worflows (alternative to Ableton Live, FL)
These are not hobbyist products, we are talking about professional level software here, so they are both paid.
In any case REAPER is usable for free if you don't use it commercially and it's so cheap for the value it brings that there are no excuses for not buying it.
Tillslag mot hawala-verksamheter. Poliser och ekobrottsutredare från Ekobrottsmyndigheten (EBM) genomförde förra veckan en insats mot betalförmedlare, så kallade hawala-verksamheter, i Göteborg. Vid insatsen beslagtogs 635 000 kronor i kontanter samt annan viktig bevisning.
To paraphrase a Tupac poem:
The sunflower that grew from concrete.
The actual poem - The rose that grew from concrete.
Did you hear about the rose that grew
from a crack in the concrete?
Proving nature’s law is wrong it
learned to walk with out (sic) having feet.
Funny it seems, but by keeping its dreams,
it learned to breathe fresh air.
Long live the rose that grew from concrete
when no one else cared.
I would definitely try using photorec if you have specific files you hope to find. It may not handle btrfs well but any files stored as a contiguous chunk should be recoverable.
I would also try partition recovery with testdisk but chances are it won't do much for btrfs.
You can try the steps in this article: suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=00…
Don't forget to copy your volume if there's anything super important in there. only a very small part of the volume was zeroed, if tools don't exist to recover the data now, they will eventually 😅
I en internationell operation, Operation PowerOFF, har US-amerikanska myndigheter med stöd av bland andra svensk polis identifierat och åtalat hackare. De har dessutom stängt ner flera servrar som använts vid cyberattacker över hela världen.
Dysfunction Sidelines Ukraine’s Parliament as Governing Force
Dysfunction Sidelines Ukraine’s Parliament as Governing Force
With the president’s party split, the government relies on formerly pro-Russian lawmakers to help it pass legislation and, the opposition says, minimize scrutiny.Andrew E. Kramer (The New York Times)
U.S. Wrestles With Aiding Allies and Maintaining Its Own Weapons Supply
U.S. Wrestles With Aiding Allies and Maintaining Its Own Weapons Supply
Pentagon officials discuss whether the flow of assistance could be hurting the military’s ability to respond to a new conflict.Helene Cooper (The New York Times)
Kashgar grid connects massive PV storage integrated project
Kashgar grid connects massive PV storage integrated project
The project has 2 million kilowatts of photovoltaic power generation. The State Grid Kashgar Power Supply Company has announced that the Shenzhen Energy Shule Photovoltaic Storage Project has been connected to the grid on 30 September.Staff Reporter (Charlton Media Group)
[OC] I had issues "multiboxing" in EVE Online on Linux, but figured out a super easy way to make it work (even with my room-temperature IQ)
I love EVE Online, but "multiboxing" was tricky for me in Linux. I like using the CLI for everything I can, but get completely swamped still when dealing with cocktails like Lutris, WINE prefixes, and dependencies.
So I was super interested when I stumbled upon Bottles - it seemed to solve a lot of my issues. Then, I realized GNOME's workspaces basically did the same thing as the old Windows program I used... and that was all she wrote. It worked perfectly for me, why overthink it?
I recorded my newbie solution to (hopefully) convince other players to switch. Do you have any advice or corrections for me? Did I make a cardinal sin? Is this the dumbest thing you've ever seen? Hit me with your honest takes. ❤
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The video in the article is really interesting. It gives a great view of how much we know about the space around us.
For context, this video: Laniakea: Our home supercluster was the state-of-the-art map in 2014. It looks like our knowledge in this area has really expanded incredibly in the last 10 years.
Also more detailed video from the academic team: Laniakea Supercluster
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gonna use this as an opportunity to launch my ted talk:
there's no such thing as anything but "race mixing" since every single human on the planet is a mix of different ancient races anyway
(or to put another way, race is a bs term anyway since we're all homosapiens)
China, leader in EVs, could overtake the world in hydrogen mobility too
China, leader in EVs, could overtake the world in hydrogen mobility too -
China might be stealing a march on the world yet again. The government is targeting to build at least 1,200 hydrogen refueling stations for mobility across the country by 2025, which would mean that it would have more hydrogen stations than the rest …Emerging Technology News
We don't have any "green" hydrogen source at the moment. Hydrogen generation, currently, still releases carbon.
Hydrogen "engines" are only ~40% efficient compared to, say, BEVs that are ~80% efficient.
It's important to look, not only at the vehicle, but at the energy efficiency of the system as a whole.
Well-To-Wheel it's referred to as.
Gasoline: ~20%
Diesel: ~30%
H Fuel Cell: ~25%
BEV (fossil power): ~20%*
BEV (renewable): ~55%*
*BEV is highly dependent on energy source. Anwhere from ~20% WTW from natural gas power generation to 75% from roof-mounted solar.
Keep in mind this is a summary of a summary of a summary.
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