Researchers in Wuhan simulate lunar soil to create what could become the foundations of a space outpost
Will these be the building blocks of China’s base on the moon?
China has unveiled materials for the construction of aZhang Tong (South China Morning Post)
This Week in KDE Apps: Chat Changes, Editor Enhancements and Audio Advancements
Welcome to a new issue of "This Week in KDE Apps"! Every week we cover as much as possible of what's happening in the world of KDE apps.
This week's changes and improvements cover a wide range of applications, from audio apps (including the classic Amarok, which is making a comeback) to Kate getting improvements to its integrated Git features.
In between, you have everything from new functionalities for note-taking utilities and media players, to upgrades in financial software and mobile apps.
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First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me
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It almost certainly won't, but that doesn't justify voting for a fascist who is exterminating children.
You're oh so willing to let millions die to get your preferred politician in power, but I bet you'd be singing a different tune of the millions included you and yours.
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...that doesn't justify voting for a fascist who is exterminating children.
100% agree, which is why I am not voting for Trump, the actual fascist, and I am doing everything in my power to make sure he and his cronie do not win, INCLUDING not wasting my vote by abstaining or voting third party. This shit is too important to fuck about.
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If you give your vote to Kamala Harris you are endorsing the genocide of the Palestinian people.
This is an undeniable fact and no amount of mental gymnastics on your part is going to change that.
Hmmm, you're using an electronic device, which means you endorse the brutal child labor that contributed to manufacturing that device.
This is an undeniable fact and no amount of mental gymnastics on your part is going to change that.
Hey everyone! Ram here endorses forcing children to mine rare earth metals in third world countries! Shame them for their endorsement of exploitative labor practices
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Trans people, LGBT people
Harris just said "I believe we should follow the law" when asked whether trans people should have access to gender-affirming care. This is leaving it to the states, which is essentially banning the existence of trans people in large segments of the country. She does not care about trans people or LGBT people as a whole.
Abortion rights
Roe was overturned under Biden, and Harris has not said she would stack the court or similar. She has said she would sign into law a bill passed by congress to restore reproductive freedom nationwide, but the dems almost certainly will not control the senate with a filibuster-proof majority, and even if they did they'd find some designated bad-guy who would turn coat to stop it (see: Joe Lieberman, Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema). Harris will not do anything to protect abortion rights.
Ukraine
Which will lead to more Ukrainian deaths: the war coming to an end because US aid ceases, or a meatgrinder continuing for years which the Ukrainians have no chance of winning anyway? Which is more important: lines on a map, or actual human lives?
Black Lives Matter
Harris was a prosecutor. She's a fucking cop. She's VP of Joe "We have to fund the police!" Biden. She wants to build Trump's border wall. Harris does not care about black people.
Palestine
Harris fully supports the Israeli genocide of Palestinians. Her VP, Walz, has said that Israeli expansion (IE Greater Israel) is key to US interests. They may actually be to the right of Trump on this issue just because Trump doesn't have any actual political beliefs other than "make Trump richer", while Harris and the dems are rabid zionists.
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Walz, has said that Israeli expansion (IE Greater Israel) is key to US interests
So basically the same view as Trump
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When you are filtering out the young, the dumb, and those arguing in bad faith, overly simplistic is an excellent first filter. If they can pass that base level filter of rudimentary critical thinking skills, then you can feel free to enter into more nuance and subtlety.
No point in engaging with those who can't even grasp the simplest concepts.
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Seems like a bigger waste of time to just end up engaging with people who can vault over pictures, but can't handle nuance.
Start the discussion on an intellectual level, and those who can't grasp it can go read until they're ready to talk.
Or they can go find someone else who will argue with cartoons or whatever, I'm sure they'll be happier there.
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I'm starting to think now the trolley problem should be reframed as a catch-22 / false choice / manufactured consent.
Who constructed this trolley? Why are there only two options shown? Do these options actually match reality? etc.
Except the bottom track loops around to run over everyone else when the Supreme Court decides it wants to hurt more people.
Let's say the Supreme Court decides to end gay marriage at a federal level and send it back to the states. Harris won't do shit to help people in red states, she'll just tell them to vote for Democrats in 2026/2028 but otherwise ignore them.
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Non-participation is simply letting the greater evil win.
They're not suddenly going to ditch first past the post because of some protest voters/abstainers.
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That, and also they drew the picture in a way that makes genocide of palestinians inevitable. Genocide is not inevitable, no matter how much US democrats think it is, and tell everyone to get in line behind it.
Its so easy to construct trolley problems that have nothing to do with reality, and don't represent the options actually available, or even the problem / scenario correctly.
I'm starting to feel like this genocide straw man is truly their strongest argument. Like, is that going to make me forget the other option wants to turn the country into a dictatorship?
You seriously want to bring up genocide to play a "lesser of two evils" game, when one evil is Trump? GTFO
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"We found a vulnerability..."
> You hit “create community”
That creates a community. Getting people to actually use it is a different and much more complicated thing.
AFAIK there is work underway to make more Lemmy communities more like Matrix rooms, by allowing the mods of 2 or more communities on different servers to federate them, so every post or comment to one of them goes to all of them. But this too is political and complicated.
Me:
> allowing the mods of 2 or more communities on different servers to federate them, so every post or comment to one of them goes to all of them
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> P-political?
If it's not obvious why cooperation between the mods of different communities is political, I'm not sure how to explain it ; ) To be clear, I mean little-p political, not big-P Political (involving electoral politics and the accompanying partisanship).
124 civilians killed in Rapid Support Forces attack on Sudanese state of Gezira
At least 124 people were killed on Saturday in attacks carried out by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on the village of Alseriha in the Gezira state of central Sudan, the Sudan Doctors Network said, Anadolu Agency reports.
The developments come just days after Abu Aqla Muhammad Ahmed Kikil, the RSF commander in Gezira, announced his defection to the Sudanese army, taking his forces with him.
Areas in eastern Gezira, Kikil’s home region, have become the base for his forces, who now fight alongside the army.
124 civilians killed in Rapid Support Forces attack on Sudanese state of Gezira
At least 124 people were killed on Saturday in attacks carried out by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on the village of Alseriha in the Gezira state of central...Middle East Monitor
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Hezbollah issues evacuation orders for northern Israeli settlers
The Islamic Resistance in Lebanon - Hezbollah, issued an evacuation order on Saturday evening, directed at Israeli settlers in 25 settlements in northern occupied Palestine, following in the footsteps of the Israeli occupation forces who had been forcing people to flee their homes in numerous areas across Lebanon.
Hezbollah, meanwhile, stated that these settlements had become military outposts where Israeli occupation forces are stationed to launch attacks on Lebanon. Consequently, Hezbollah declared them legitimate military targets for its aerial and missile forces, calling on settlers to "evacuate immediately."
"You are requested to evacuate immediately. Your settlements have become a place of deployment and settlement for the enemy military forces attacking Lebanon. As a result, they have become legitimate military targets for the air and missile forces of the Islamic Resistance," the warning read.
Hezbollah issues evacuation orders for northern Israeli settlers
The Islamic Resistance in Lebanon says these settlements had become military outposts where Israeli occupation forces are stationed to launch attacks on Lebanon.Al Mayadeen English (Hezbollah issues evacuation orders for northern Israeli settlers)
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Flera personer dömda för bomber i Göteborg. Den 3 februari 2024 sköts två män till döds i enbil på Bolmörtsgatan i Ekebäck (GP skriver Grimmered men det ligger inte i Grimmered). Ett av offren hade kopplingar det kriminella gäng som kallas T-falangen som har sin bas i Mölndal.
China leveraging Laos to link up its Southeast Asian economic interests
China aims to scale up infrastructure construction in uniquely strategic Laos to accelerate trade and investment throughout Southeast Asia as Chinese businesses scout for space to grow offshore, analysts said.Premier Li Qiang said during a four-day visit to the Southeast Asian nation earlier this month that he would work with Laotian officials to turn Laos from landlocked to “land-linked”, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Laos, relatively undeveloped and small at just 7.4 million people, matters to Beijing because it shares borders not only with China, but also with the larger Southeast Asian economies of Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam.
“Laos is seen as a transport hub for China to export Chinese products to the other countries in the subregion and import products from those countries to China,” said Supitcha Punya, an assistant professor of political science and public administration with Chiang Mai University in Thailand.
China would eventually add roads, airports and dry ports tethered to a 400km (249 mile), US$5.9 billion railway that was finished in 2021, the Asean+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (Amro) in Singapore said in January last year.
The additions would boost China’s economic reach in Southeast Asia for its own landlocked western regions, said Naubahar Sharif, head of public policy at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
The 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) bloc has a combined population of about 673 million, including several manufacturing hubs and some of the world’s fastest growing economies.
Laos is the only Asean nation with a direct railway route from its capital, Vientiane, to China, Sharif added.
A Bangkok-Nong Khai high-speed railway in Thailand is expected to link with the tracks in Laos to make it a “transit point”, giving China access to the Gulf of Thailand, also known as the Gulf of Siam, while also offering a “boost for seaborne trade”, Sharif said.
China is building much of the Thai railway and will help operate it.
This month, China and Laos signed a joint statement aimed at improving a “connectivity development corridor” between the two countries and Thailand, according to the official Lao News Agency.In February, Laos opened its third-largest airport, Bokeo International, which took funding from a Chinese developer.
China could use Laos to transport goods or people into Cambodia, where Chinese have invested heavily in property, analysts said.
In neighbouring Vietnam, a prime destination for Chinese manufacturers keen to sidestep the US-China trade war, officials have approved a high-speed rail project to be synced with tracks in China.
China particularly values the potential for agriculture, energy and tourism in Laos, Punya said.
Laotians, meanwhile, see China as a means to economic growth and job opportunities, the assistant professor said.
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Iran warns it will defend itself after Israeli strikes, but is prioritizing a ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon
Tehran stressed its right to retaliate against Israeli action but said it was also focused on a lasting ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon.Iran warned on Saturday it would defend itself after Israeli air strikes killed at least four soldiers and further stoked fears of a full-scale war in the Middle East.
Biden had urged Israel to spare nuclear and oil facilities in its retaliatory strikes and the International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed that no nuclear sites were hit.
Iran insisted it had the “right and the duty” to defend itself, while its Lebanese ally Hezbollah said it had already launched rocket salvoes targeting five residential areas in northern Israel.
Hezbollah later issued evacuation warnings for more than a dozen named locations in Israel, while the Israeli army made similar warnings for two neighbourhoods in southern Beirut.
Lebanon’s official National News Agency reported early Sunday that Israel had carried out a fresh raid in Beirut’s southern suburbs.
Iran’s armed forces general staff said only radar systems were damaged in the strikes and held back from any threat of immediate retaliation.
“While reserving its legal and legitimate right to respond at the appropriate moment, Iran is prioritising the establishment of a lasting ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon,” it said.
The Israeli retaliation drew condemnation from Iraq, Pakistan, Syria, and Saudi Arabia, which warned against further escalation. Jordan said Israeli jets had not used its airspace.
Turkey was one of the most outspoken critics, calling for an end to “terror created by Israel”.
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The other problem is Iran tried to walk the high ground a few times and Israel kept bombing them.
Israel vehemently refuses to negotiate. It only understands violence.
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This anti religion stance was also one of the biggest mistakes the USSR made
idk given how the church has come back with a vengeance in russia i'd say the ussr should have stomped harder
the person you're talking to is still being silly though
Harald Welte (co-creator netfilter/iptable and free software foundation awarded developer) published his open letter as public take about recently events in the Linux Kernel Developer Community around
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It literally hurts me personally to see this happening. It's like a kick in the gut. I used to be proud about having had an involvement with the Linux kernel community in a previous life. This doesn't feel like the community I remember being part of.
On Linux MAINTAINERS file removal of Russian developers
I sincerely regret to see Linux kernel patches like this one removing Russian developers from the MAINTAINERS file. To me, it is a sign or maybe even a symbol of how far the Linux kernel developer coLaForge's home page
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Knee-jerk jingoism, just how the security state likes it.
They’re just working class people trying to get by in a shitty bourgeois democracy, just like us. They have as much say in what the state does as we do, which is almost none.
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I feel bad about the Russian conscripts who are being thrown at the front line in meat wave attacks to soak up bullets. I also support the Ukrainians firing those bullets because I recognize that there is a damn war going on.
I don't have to feel ethnic or any other kind of hatred for Russian Linux developers to recognize that this is war and hobbling Russia's technology sector is a necessary part of that. Every bit of lubricant for the Russian economy ultimately equates to more death in Ukraine.
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Most of these developers do work for companies that are paying them to make contributions so, it stands to reason that the kernel additions or changes are of particular use to those companies. Nothing is stopping them from continuing to make changes on their own fork for their own benefit, but that means drifting away from the mainline kernel. That adds extra work and overhead, which is the point.
I've seen nothing to suggest this has been identified as a concern, but modern warfare systems do often run on Linux. Some of these developers might already be contributing directly to the war. Also, economics are just as much a part of warfare as bullets and bombs. In this case particularly, economic factors are almost certainly going to be critical to ending the conflict.
I'm not going to take that hill because the generals haven't proven to me that it's necessary to win the war.
This isn't an isolated thing. It's a small part of the biggest sanctions effort in history. Every single sanction, can be nit-picked in just the same way. There is very little in the way of technology that can't be dual purposed into warfare, and those that can't be are still relevant to the economic pressures being applied.
I have no idea why you are so sure that the development in question isn't already connected to military drones, but it's a really weird assumption. What exactly do you think is the number one priority for Russia right now in the area of technical development? What operating system do you think powers most drones, military or otherwise?
This is absurd. Are you being serious? I'm aware how sanctions are setup in the US because I'm compelled to complete hr training on them every 8 months even though I have no interaction with anyone that would overlap with sanctions requirements. That doesn't make it any less absurd. It's also not on me to somehow categorically disprove the link between Linux contributions and military work, the onus there is and as it always should be is on the entity demanding you do something in response to it. But OK, let's say all the work on Linux coming from anyone who happens to live in or have a Russian nationality somehow goes back to the war effort. Ban work on Russian firmware or Linux compatibility with Russian hardware. Don't ban Russian people unilaterally and with force using flimsy hypothetical justifications and reductive arguments. I go back to ww1 and the role of scientists in war. They should abstain. Developers should abstains. We don't belong to the countries we live in, our work should exist for all mankind and to the betterment of society as a whole. If the US wants a trade embargo, or a corporate berlin wall I'm all for it. This is not that.
Edit: Also, not really relevent, but I would be absolutely amazed if the Russian government is somehow on the bleeding edge of linux development and actively deploying head branch builds of linux with the latest available firmware. Most of the US government still runs on windows out of sheer apathy. If they are using these contributions in drones their almost certainly backporting to a stable linux release and that means this kinda ban if it follows you're reason isn't going to have an impact until a few releases down the line and that's easily bypassable by just not upgrading linux. Russian already presumably sanctioned to older hardware (excluding self manufactured) so that isn't even a hard choice.
So, in your world, the US government is responsible to provide you with a detailed justification for the specific sanctions being applied against a foreign adversary? Keep waiting.
I really don't think you understand what's going on in the Russian economy right now. Russia has unwittingly gotten themselves embroiled in an existential conflict. (Less existential for the country than for the warlords running it.) Every expenditure or resources, natural, human, financial, etc, is being weighed against it's benefits to the war. Even basic things like their ability to feed their population are only valued because the war can't be fought without them. That's what a war economy is.
Despite all the failures of the Russian military, it took well over a year for Putin to fire his top general. The reason it took so long was that Putin trusted his general to remain loyal and not initiate a coup. Removing him was a drastic move, but the more interesting part is who replaced him. The new Russian defense minister got the job with absolutely no military training, background, or experience. His only qualification was that he is an extremely capable economist who is largely credited with helping Russia transition to a war economy and blunt the impact of western sanctions. That should tell you all you need to know about how important Russia thinks economics are to the war.
our work should exist for all mankind and to the betterment of society as a whole
That's nice and all, but totally unrealistic. The vast majority of kernel development is done because the developers (or their sponsors) benefit from the work they do and from having that work integrated with the rest of the kernel. I don't see that as a bad thing.
Ban work on Russian firmware or Linux compatibility with Russian hardware.
There is no such thing as "Russian hardware" when it comes to computing. Russia has it's own standards for a lot of technologies, but creating a proprietary set of computing standards that's disconnected from the ecosystem of western hardware makes no sense. They manufacture some of their own computing hardware, but it's all based on the same standards that are used everywhere else.
I would be absolutely amazed if the Russian government is somehow on the bleeding edge of linux development and actively deploying head branch builds of linux with the latest available firmware.
Why? Anyone contributing to the Linux kernel is, almost by definition, at the "bleeding edge of Linux development". It may not be the bleeding edge pushing the boundaries of computer science, but it doesn't have to be. A whole lot of kernel development is pretty basic stuff aimed to satisfy particular needs or requirements. Drones benefit greatly from highly specialized power management, real time data collection, flexible networking, etc. Most are built from off the shelf hardware and consumer electronics.
their almost certainly backporting to a stable linux release and that means this kinda ban if it follows you’re reason isn’t going to have an impact
The issue of drift exists with both older and newer kernels. If a particular kernel is so stable that drift isn't an issue, then it isn't a kernel that will be adding a bunch of new Russian commits anyways. If they are simply back-porting it themselves, then their inability to commit to the main Linux branches is irrelevant. In the scenario, the whole discussion is moot.
America’s Artemis III moon landing plan slips while China’s rival program is moving at speed without significant failures or delays
China blasting ahead of US in race back to the moon - Asia Times
Will the next human to walk on the moon speak English or Mandarin? In all, 12 Americans landed on the lunar surface between 1969 and 1972. Now, both theJacco van Loon (Asia Times)
The West’s proxy war is floundering while its moral case against Russia has self-destructed over its full complicity in Israel’s actions
Vladimir Putin has already won, whether you like it or not
So much for being the international pariah that the West has made him out to be. At Kazan as host of the Brics summit, a beaming Vladimir Putin this week welcomed the heads of state and other top officials from 32 countries, including the bloc’s four…Alex Lo (South China Morning Post)
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Well given that I'm neither American nor particularly aligned to Washington Post (I had to Google "wapo") or the New York Times, it wasn't a particularly interesting question. Having lived by the South China Sea however... yeah it's probably more pertinent to my interests what Yogibear posts about that.
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The part about the moral case against Russia isn't an opinion. Here's the Financial Times a year ago:
“We have definitely lost the battle in the Global South,” said one senior G7 diplomat. “All the work we have done with the Global South [over Ukraine] has been lost . . . Forget about rules, forget about world order. They won’t ever listen to us again.”“What we said about Ukraine has to apply to Gaza. Otherwise we lose all our credibility,” the senior G7 diplomat added. “The Brazilians, the South Africans, the Indonesians: why should they ever believe what we say about human rights?”
Just four weeks before the Hamas assault on Israel, leaders from the US, EU and western allies attended the G20 summit in New Delhi and asked developing nations to condemn Russia’s attacks on Ukrainian civilians in order to uphold respect for the UN charter and international law. Many of those officials told the Financial Times they have had the same argument read back at them in demands for condemnation of Israel’s retaliatory assault on Gaza, and of its decision to restrict water, electricity and gas supplies there.
source: ft.com/content/e0b43918-7eaf-4…
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There is a small LCD in the middle. This is a different brand, but the same idea.
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I'm in tears, I've finally found the version of this toy I had as a kid.
Thank you so much for this shitpost, sincerely.
Man, I had a vtech “computer” as a kid in the later 90’s. I don’t remember what happened to it or what it was even actually good for.
Pretty sure this is what I had.
I don’t know. You should make sure it doesn’t have a Realtek Wi-Fi card. Otherwise, it looks fine. I found the Linux Hardware report for it here: linux-hardware.org/?probe=7144…
I think the price to performance doesn’t look the best, though. Maybe go for a Thinkpad instead?
First, I'll use a pair of rusty sizors to extract them, then I slice it into thin strips and fry with a little olive oil and garlic
I recommend with a grain of salt
$500 might be a stretch, It weren't for the horrible keyboard, and horrible screen, it might be worth putting a raspberry pi into as a sleeper project.
Yes I realize it's a joke.
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