EU risks losing credibility by obstructing Chinese EVs that could help achieve climate goals
EU risks losing credibility by obstructing Chinese EVs that could help achieve climate goals
The EU would also lose credibility if it had been pushing the electric car by all means for years for reasons of climate protection, but now it has obstructed unwelcome foreign suppliers who could contribute to the realization of the proclaimed targe…www.globaltimes.cn
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China's manufacturing PMI re-enters expansion territory in October, boosting economic outlook
China's manufacturing PMI re-enters expansion territory in October, boosting economic outlook
China's manufacturing sector has shown signs of robust recovery as the purchasing managers' index (PMI) re-entered the expansionary territory in October.China's manufacturing PMI rose to 50.1 in October, up 0.CGTN
Zelenskyy blasts White House for leaking secret missile plan to the New York Times
Zelenskyy blasts White House for leaking secret missile plan to the New York Times
“So, it means between partners there’s nothing confidential?” Ukrainian leader queries of his U.S. allies.Veronika Melkozerova (POLITICO)
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Lithium battery recycling plant explodes in Missouri; no injuries reported
Lithium battery recycling plant explodes in Missouri; no injuries reported | VIDEO
Dramatic video shows the moment an explosion rocked a large battery-recycling plant.Storyful (ABC7 Chicago)
Hezbollah’s new Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem reaffirmed Wednesday the continuation of the war strategy devised by the late martyr Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in coordination with the Resistance’s leadership, emphasizing adherence to the political trajectory set forth.
In his inaugural address as Secretary-General of Hezbollah, he announced that this war with the Zionist regime has been named Operation People of Might.
Sheikh Qassem declared that his work program would be a continuation of Sayyed Nasrallah’s work agenda across all fields—political, jihadi, social, and cultural.
He reiterated the stance of martyr Sayyed Nasrallah, saying, “We do not seek war, but if imposed on us, we are prepared to triumph and will face it with dignity,” adding, “As our leader said, we lie in wait for the battle.”
Additionally, Sheikh Qassem addressed the regime’s pager and wireless receiver attacks and the impact of the assassinations of Resistance leaders, particularly Sayyed Nasrallah, acknowledging that these incidents “had a negative effect” on Hezbollah, which quickly regained its footing, as demonstrated by the current situation on the ground.
In this context, the Secretary-General of Hezbollah emphasized that the party’s capabilities are vast and well-suited for a prolonged battle, pointing out that “the battlefield confirms Hezbollah’s recovery from the attacks it has faced, being a large, cohesive institution with significant resources.”
Sheikh Qassem also stressed Hezbollah’s ongoing commitment to confronting the aggression, underlining that if the Zionist regime seeks to halt it, the party will accept a ceasefire on terms it finds suitable, adding that any resolution will only be through indirect negotiations.
Any negotiations must begin with a ceasefire, he made clear.
We are inflicting pain on the enemy
In this regard, the Secretary-General of Hezbollah highlighted that the Islamic Resistance’s Operations Room has documented Zionist losses, “and these are only on the forward front.”
He said that the occupation has acknowledged its inadequacy against Hezbollah’s rockets and drones, which strike according to a calculated field plan.
While Hezbollah targets Zionist military bases and soldiers, the regime targets people and infrastructure “to cause us suffering,” Sheikh Qassem indicated, explaining the Resistance fights honorably, in contrast to the occupying entity.
He affirmed that the Resistance deals blows to the enemy, as demonstrated by the targeting of the Golani base in Binyamina, as well as attacks on Haifa, Akka, and other areas.
The occupation should understand that “its bombing of our villages and towns will not force us to retreat,” Sheikh Qassem underlined, pointing out that Hezbollah was able to target Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s residence with a drone.
“Netanyahu survived this time… perhaps his time has not yet come,” he added.
He also addressed the occupation with a warning, saying, “You will undoubtedly be defeated because the land is ours and our people stand united behind us.”
“Withdraw from our land to minimize your losses; otherwise, you will pay an unprecedented price,” he added.
Addressing the US ambassador in Lebanon, Sheikh Qassem said, “You, nor those with you, will see the defeat of the Resistance—not even in your dreams.”
To those counting on a “post-war” phase, he said, “You will be forced to curse Washington and its allies for lying to you,” stressing that the occupation “cannot rely on time, given its significant losses, and will be compelled to end its aggression.”
Hurting the enemy requires patience, resilience
Addressing displaced Lebanese due to the aggression, the Secretary-General of Hezbollah clarified that “this battle demands this level of sacrifice,” adding, “We are in a phase of inflicting pain on the enemy,” which also necessitates resilience and patience.
Sheikh Qassem assured the displaced that the Resistance cannot achieve victory without their sacrifices, as Hezbollah “is strong in its resistance due to the blessing of its fighters and strong politically at home thanks to them.”
He also highlighted that “others are amazed by their [the displaced’s] patience,” promising them that “we will rebuild together” and affirming that the Resistance “will be victorious now, just as it was in July… and our strength will only continue to rise.”
We are capable of derailing the regime’s plan through resistance
The Secretary-General of Hezbollah pointed out that “some believe ‘Israel’ was provoked,” noting that the occupation entity “needs no pretext for launching its aggression; history bears witness to this.”
He explained that supporting Gaza “was imperative to counter ‘Israels’ threat to the entire region, beginning with Gaza, and to uphold the rights of Gaza’s people, whom everyone should support.”
He recalled that Netanyahu himself stated at the start of his aggression on Lebanon that “this is for the new Middle East,” adding that the Resistance “has thwarted a series of surprises.”
Sheikh Qassem revealed that serious discussions have taken place between the occupation and the United States regarding “striking Hezbollah,” shortly after Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.
The Lebanese leader also clarified that Hezbollah is confronting a major project led by the occupation, the United States, and the West, in Gaza, Lebanon, and the region,” asserting that this war “involves all the world’s capabilities aimed at eliminating the Resistance.”
He described the war as “a global Zionist-American-European campaign, intended to eliminate the Resistance in the region,” warning that these powers “want to subjugate us to control our future.”
However, Hezbollah’s Secretary-General underlined that this future will be shaped by a “legendary epic of pride,” as the Resistance in both Gaza and Lebanon endures with unprecedented resilience.
Sheikh Qassem underscored that “through resistance, we disrupt the Zionist project, but by waiting we lose everything,” adding: “We are capable of doing so.”
Hezbollah founded to confront the occupation, liberate our land
In this context, Sheikh Qassem reminded that Hezbollah’s Resistance was founded to confront the occupation and its expansionist intentions, and to liberate the land, pointing out that “it was the Resistance, not international resolutions, that forced ‘Israel’ out of Lebanon.”
Sheikh Qassem also reaffirmed that Hezbollah “does not fight on behalf of anyone, but rather to protect Lebanon, liberate our land, and support Gaza,” stressing that “no one dictates our actions or binds us to anything.”
Regarding the Islamic Republic of Iran, he affirmed that it “supports us in our project and seeks nothing from us.”
Iran “does not fight with us, but supports our project without expecting anything in return,” he stressed, expressing gratitude to the supporting fronts in Yemen and Iraq, and welcoming any Arab, Islamic, or international support.
The Secretary-General of Hezbollah also said that Iran “is well aware of the cost of its support for the Resistance,” acknowledging that it “provided the Resistance, through martyr Qassem Soleimani, with unparalleled assistance.”
On his election as Secretary General
On his election as Secretary-General, Sheikh Qassem extended his gratitude to the Hezbollah leadership and its Shura Council for entrusting him with “this heavy burden,” viewing it as “a sign of trust.”
He emphasized that this responsibility “is the legacy of martyr Sayyed Abbas al-Moussawi, who told us that the fundamental commandment is to safeguard the Resistance and martyr Sayyid Nasrallah.”
Recalling Sayyed Nasrallah’s words upon the martyrdom of Sayyed al-Moussawi, Sheikh Qassem said, “By killing our Secretary-General, they aimed to defeat our spirit of resistance and crush our will for jihad, but his blood will continue to pulse within us.”
We are victorious
Addressing the martyr Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Sheikh Qassem expressed admiration for his 32-year legacy of instilling faith, allegiance, and resistance, saying, “You were and will remain the banner of the victorious Resistance, beloved of the fighters, a reservoir of hope, a herald of victory, and a beloved icon for those yearning for a life of dignity.”
He also recalled the Executive Council Chairman of Hezbollah, martyr Sayyed Hashem Safieddine, affirming that he was “one of Sayyed Nasrallah’s most trusted associates” and adding, “We have lost him, but he has won.”
Sheikh Qassem also recalled the head of Hamas’ political bureau, martyr Yahya Sinwar, noting that he was “firm, courageous, faithful, principled, dignified, and free—a symbol of heroism and resistance for Palestine and the free people of the world,” who was martyred on the battlefield after confronting the occupation “until the last breath.”
Concluding his first speech as Hezbollah’s Secretary-General, Sheikh Qassem addressed the Resistance fighters, echoing the words of martyr Sayyed Nasrallah, “As our leader said, the era of defeats has long gone, and the era of victories has come. We are victorious. Be patient.”
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Open Source AI Definition Erodes the Meaning of “Open Source”
Open Source AI Definition Erodes the Meaning of “Open Source”
This week, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) made their new Open Source Artificial Intelligence Definition (OSAID) official with its 1.0 release.Software Freedom Conservancy
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I'm trying to find an old meme video of Hillary Clinton
Does anyone remember an old meme video that used this Chatham House video of Hillary Clinton talking about China? https://x.com/ChathamHouse/status/1390284424806289410
It used the line 'You will never compete and win against them, unless you take back the means of production.' as a hook and there was music backing it. I think the person who made had their twitter account banned.
Apex Legends no longer playable on Linux
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I'm so torn about stories like this and GTA online. Because on one hand, people play these games, and people won't switch to Linux if they can't play them.
But on the other hand, I just cannot give a single fuck about live service trash like this. I struggle to understand how people play ~~games~~ products like these, and I absolutely don't understand why anyone would waste their time cheating in them. And yet they're absurdly popular.
Despite gaming being such a big hobby for me, I feel so disconnected from what the average gamer values.
I occasionally think back to Rocket League, which I loved in its earlier days. I put close to 100 hours into it, which is a lot for one game for me. Then they added lootboxes, leaned harder into the competitive space, and just completely sucked the soul out of it. And yet it's still hugely popular.
I just don't get it.
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Used to play Apex Legends a lot, so could give some reasons why.
A core part of Apex's monetization is "keep the core gameplay F2P accessible and make super expensive skins for those who can pay". The game would put items worth around 300$ multiple times in a single season. After that as long as the gameplay's solid; F2P players wouldn't find a reason to not play; and whales could flex their 300$ death box to all these players interacting with them. Hell, give F2P players tasks that take too long to unlock new skins; and maybe they'll toss a few bucks in too. You've got yourself a neat money loop, and players are happy.
As for cheating; most people i see cheating does it as a way of doing the unexpected in a video game. Cheating is not enjoyable to most if you do it all the time; but the cheat providers offer cheats with shorter time spans to hook the people that want to do just that. I recall an interview done with a cheat developer for a different yet similarly popular game, and they've said most of their sales come through these.
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Anti-cheat is an arms race. We just find ourselves at a point where the arms race has progressed to the point where the best known strategy for securing a play session means ostracising custom hw/kernel configurations.
But I have to think it's only a matter of time before even that's not enough, (since there already exist ways around kernel level anticheat, including AI-based techniques that are entirely undetectable).
My guess is the logical conclusion involves a universal reputation based system, where you have an account with some 3rd party system (maybe VAC) that persists across all games you play. It will watch your gameplay, and maintain a (probably hidden) "risk of cheating" score. Then matchmaking for each game will use this score to always pair you against other accounts with a similar score.
Actually, it might not be a "risk of cheating" score so much as a "fun to play with" score. From a gameplay perspective, it's just as fun to play against a highly skilled non-cheating human, as it is a bot that plays identically. But it's less fun to play against a bot that uses info or exploits that even the best non-cheating players don't have access to (ex. wallhacks). So really, the system could basically maintain some playstyle-profile for each player, and matchmaking wouldn't be skill-based, but rather it would attempt to maximize the "fun" of the match-up. If a player is constantly killing people unrealistically fast, or people who play with them tend to drop early, this would degrade their "fun" score and they would tend to be matched only with other unfun players.
I think this would be the only practical way to fight cheating without even more invasive methods that will involve just deanonymizing players (which I think some studio will inevitably try in the near future).
I was originally going to compare it to a social score, yes, but it differs in that it wouldn't be a rating that other players would have direct influence over.
If by "hire more people" you mean "train an AI", then yes, definitely!
maybe VAC
This is the easiest anticheat to crack.
!The easiest ACs to crack are Ricochet (let's hope that Microsoft will replace this train wreck of AC with something standard like EAC) and VAC. !<
A YouTuber explained it as follows:
On Linux, Anti cheat runs on the user level. The cheaters are on Windows and spoof their OS as Linux, so they can run anti cheat on the user level, not flag as suspicious and then run kernel level cheat software.
I have no technical knowledge myself, have no idea of this is true and will not be able to answer questions about this.
I feel like the title should read:
No longer playable on SteamOS.
It would be like if they pulled support for ChromeOS -- loco.
With pc gaming getting more popular over the years cheating will be always part of it.
In my experience playing on all different platforms: Only PlayStation offers a mostly cheat free experience. Xbox can’t guarantee that you will only face Xbox gamers (because how gamepass is designed).
This is the benefit of a closed system.
Real anti cheat measures bind employees because there’s no system 100% perfect and an anti cheat process requires at least an anti cheat team.
On Bluesky and enshittification
Editor’s note: this is a slightly modified and extended version of the analysis I wrote in the Last Week in the ATmosphere newsletter.
Last week, Bluesky announced their series A funding round, raising $15M in a round that is led by a venture capital fund Blockchain Capital. The seed round already had investors from the crypto world, but this drew much more attention with the series A, as the headline of Blockchain Capital as a lead investor made the connection loud and clear. Bluesky is aware of the negative connotations that many people have regarding blockchains and crypto, explicitly stating that “the Bluesky app and the AT Protocol do not use blockchains or cryptocurrency, and we will not hyperfinancialize the social experience (through tokens, crypto trading, NFTs, etc.).”
The negative associations that people have with both blockchains and venture capital made that a common response to the news was that “the enshittification has started”. This response was dominant on the fediverse, and less so but still present on Bluesky. It’s been such a common response that I think it deserves a closer look at ‘enshittification’ and how it relates to Bluesky taking investment from a blockchain VC firm. The meaning of the term enshittification has shifted over time, and both meanings provide an interesting lens to look at the news.
When Cory Doctorow coined the term enshittification in 2022, he used it to describe a process of platform decay. A platforms subsidises growth by operating at a loss, and places themselves in between the suppliers and customers on a two-sided marketplace. Once suppliers and customers are locked in on the platform and cannot easily leave, the enshittification cycle happens: the platform uses their control of the marketplace to take an ever increasing part of the value while while making the experience on the platform worse, for both suppliers and consumers.
What is interesting here is that in earlier interviews, Jay Graber has mentioned the idea of building marketplaces on Bluesky as a way to make money. If enshittification is used to describe platform decay, it stands out that a marketplace is not present in the Series A announcement as a way for Bluesky to monetise. For a platform to become enshittified in this meaning of platform decay, a platform needs to have exclusive control of a marketplace on the platform. However, Bluesky is currently not taking the direction of a marketplace for monetisation, instead opting for subscriptions and payment processing. This is still open to change at a later point, as Graber has expressed interest in it before.
Doctorow also mentions two principles to combat platform enshittification. Platforms should be interoperable, allowing users to switch to a different provider. Users should also have the ability to control the content they see, and not be dependent on an opaque algorithm owned by the platform. As both of these principles are deeply embedded in the design of ATProto, Bluesky is an interesting case study if the principles that Doctorow mentioned are indeed good enough to stave off enshittification.
The meaning of the term enshittification has drifted and expanded over time. Enshittification is now commonly used to refer to any business practice that makes the company or product, well, shit. There is a fairly widespread negative attitude towards both venture capital as well as blockchains and crypto. People perceive that these systems have not brought benefits they promised, and enriched a small elite instead, all the while degrading the experience of using the internet. This is not a newsletter to deconstruct blockchains or VC (I’m sure you can find your own sources for that), but I do want to point out that public perception of both venture capital and blockchains matter here. Bluesky is in an active growth phase, and part of the sales pitch to get people to join the network is that Bluesky is a ‘better’ place, for various interpretations of ‘better’.
Getting people to join Bluesky while also being associated with technologies and organisations that many people perceive as ‘not better’ is much harder. People want to join a new network because they hope that the new network is a better experience for them. Judging from the outside if a network is a suitable place is hard, so people tend to fall back to simple heuristics to determine if a network is a good place for them. BlockChain Capital might provide valuable support to Bluesky, but this hard to see as an outsider that is considering joining Bluesky. Instead, it is more likely that they will fall back on their preexisting opinions about startups that take VC money or affiliated with blockchains.
Neither the crypto industry or venture capitalists have build up a track record over recent years that make it easy for people to trust them to deliver technology that meaningfully improves people’s lives. A skeptical assessment of why (crypto-based) VCs are investing into a company is warranted. Blockchain Capital’s investment thesis is clear about why they are investing into Bluesky: their interest is in an expanded ecosystem, where developers can build new products, while leveraging the social graph that ATProto provides. Their investment thesis falls far outside the framework of enshittification, both as a way to describe platform decay as well as a more generic ‘products gets bad’. Critically evaluating the positive and negative impacts that Blockchain Capital can have on Bluesky and the ATmosphere, might just require a different framework than ‘enshittification’ can provide.
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Indian, Chinese troops at LAC exchange Diwali sweets after border disengagement
Indian and Chinese troops exchanged sweets at several border points along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) on Diwali, marking a significant thaw in Sino-Indian ties. This traditional practice comes on the heels of a major breakthrough - the completion of disengagement at two friction points in eastern Ladakh's Demchok and Depsang Plains.The move marks a collaborative spirit following the recent disengagement at two friction points in eastern Ladakh—Demchok and Depsang Plains. This disengagement, completed just a day prior, represents a hopeful step towards stabilizing Sino-Indian ties that have been strained since 2020.
This development follows weeks of negotiations, culminating in an agreement finalised on October 21, as announced by Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri in Delhi. The pact aims to resolve issues stemming from the 2020 standoff, focusing on patrolling and troop disengagement along the LAC in eastern Ladakh.
On Wednesday, an Army source said that troops of both sides had completed the disengagement at the two friction points and patrolling would commence soon at these points.
The verification process after the disengagement was in progress and patrolling modalities were to be decided between ground commanders, the source said then.
As talks continue at the local commander level, the exchange of sweets on Diwali may serve as a beacon of hope for more collaborative and peaceful interactions in the future. The gesture, steeped in tradition, highlights the potential for reconciliation and dialogue between the two nations.
Indian, Chinese troops at LAC exchange Diwali sweets after border disengagement
Following disengagement at Demchok and Depsang Plains, India and China exchanged sweets on Diwali, reflecting a renewed spirit of collaboration. | Latest News IndiaHT News Desk (Hindustan Times)
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The Deadly Donora, Pennsylvania "Death Smog" of 1948
The Deadly Donora Smog of 1948 Spurred Environmental Protection—But Have We Forgotten the Lesson?
Steel and zinc industries provided Donora residents with work, but also robbed them of their health, and for some, their livesLorraine Boissoneault (Smithsonian Magazine)
Latin American leaders condemn assassination attempt against former Bolivian president Evo Morales
Latin American leaders condemn assassination attempt against former Bolivian president Evo Morales : Peoples Dispatch
The car which the former president was traveling in was hit with over a dozen bullets in suspicious circumstancesPeoples Dispatch
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Kirchner disapproved of this meanwhile Milei....
I assume he said some rambling anti left wing nonsense while talking to his cloned dogs and wielding a chainsaw.
For the uninitiated, the previous sentence contains things that Milei actually did, but probably not at the same time.
How The German Government is Planning for an Open Future
How The German Government is Planning for an Open Future - Collabora Online and Collabora Office
Launching openDesk 1.0 at the Smart Country Convention After previously speaking about our involvement in the openDesk project here, we were very excited to attend the Smart Country Convention in Berlin last week as part of the openDesk platform, whe…Richard Brock (Collabora Online and Collabora Office)
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they tried already using open source in several occasions for smaller administrative municipalities.
all failed and went back then, wasting loads of time and money. so for sure marketing gag
Are you sure?
Just about two weeks ago they launched
OpenDesk.
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Element chat is integrated in this suite and is allready vastly used by the federal government, the army,...
I think no government anywhere else has embraced open source as much as Germany does.
The are building their sovereign cloud and different states, Schools, government departments, hospitals...
are joining.
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They've put their money where their mout is by creating a sovereign tech fund.
They move slowly, as governments do, but they have a goal and a plan. It's not easy to switch and running contracts have to reach the end of their term but when these contracts are over the move will be huge.
I'm really having high hopes of Schleswig Holstein doing of right (I'm also being prepared of these hopes being crushed 😸). A Swiss Linux podcast (Captain, It's Wednesday) did an interview with one of the politicians responsible for the project and it sounded like the looked at why these projects have failed in the past and are trying to learn from the mistakes:
They started out with sort of a 'fail forward' approach where as German entities were encouraged to try and implement different types of open source software of OS'es. Those experiments have led to a broader understanding and in the meantime they funded the greater project that became OpenDesk.
This year they joined forced with the French government where the were doing the same sort of project with La Suite. The French and the German team joined in a 100 day sprint to deliver somewhere around September.
Sleswich-Holstein is one of the first states to ditch Microsoft.
You have to know that all of this takes time. They've decided to follow this path in 2022 and were aiming for the first results to appear in 2025.
Two weeks ago ZenDis launched OpenDesk 1.0.
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And I forgot to mention that the French government is on board as well.
They on their side are launching La Suite
which is based on the same building block as OpenDesk.
Some figures for those wondering how broadly adapted this open source suite is.
- Tchap: the trusted instant messaging service for the public sector used daily by 200,000 users. An extension of the Albert AI tool is planned for Tchap soon, during the summer.
- State audio conference with nearly 8,000 users for 700 weekly meetings (2024 figure as of mid-May).
- State web conference with 47,000 users for 10,000 weekly meetings (2024 figure as of mid-May).
- State webinar: the webinar service which can accommodate up to 350 participants, public officials and interlocutors from outside the State (from the public, private or associative sectors) has recorded more than 800,000 users for 65,000 meetings weekly (2024 figure as of mid-May).
- France transfer: the simple and secure solution for sending large files with 140,000 users having exchanged more than 350,000 letters (2024 figure as of mid-May).
- Resana, a public sector collaborative platform with 140,000 users and nearly 800,000 documents shared/month (2024 figure as of mid-May).
so right after they murdered millions they now pretend to be different
how hypocritical
The German government is also using Matrix for communication in some organizations.
James Rehwald is now on Means.tv
James Rehwald
James Rehwald uses comedy, music, and filmmaking to produce videos from a socialist perspective on topics spanning US imperialism, propaganda, the CIA, and more.means.tv
James Rehwald is now on Means.tv
James Rehwald
James Rehwald uses comedy, music, and filmmaking to produce videos from a socialist perspective on topics spanning US imperialism, propaganda, the CIA, and more.means.tv
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Tip #586
Access your most visited web pages on mobile from the Top Sites group on the Start Page.
In addition to Speed Dials, you can have an automatically generated group of your most visited web pages on the Start Page.
To enable Top Sites:
Option 1
- Open a new tab with the Start Page.
- At the bottom of the page or from the 3-dot menu in the top right corner of the Start Page, open “Customize Start Page” settings.
- Toggle on “Display Top Sites”.
Option 2
- Go to
Vivaldi Menu > Settings > Start Page.
- Toggle on “Display Top Sites”.
How Algeria's rail expansion is shaping its future
Algeria is on track to triple its rail network by 2030 to boost national economic growth and regional connectivity.With more than 5,000 kilometres of rail already in service, new lines such as the Kenchela-Constantine line are providing faster travel, connecting communities and creating economic opportunities.
This expansion integrates strategic freight and passenger lines, reducing road congestion and improving access to remote areas.
Algeria's investments are paving the way for a more connected future, where rail is a driver of both sustainable transport and economic development.
How Algeria's rail expansion is shaping its future | Africanews
In this episode of Algeria Tomorrow, we discover how Algeria's expanding rail network is transforming regional connectivity and economic growth.Africanews
Linus Torvalds Lands A 2.6% Performance Improvement With Minor Linux Kernel Patch
Linus Torvalds Lands A 2.6% Performance Improvement With Minor Linux Kernel Patch
Linus Torvalds merged a patch on Wednesday that he authored that with reworking a few lines of code is able to score a 2.6% improvement within Intel's well-exercise 'will it scale' per-thread-ops benchmark test case.www.phoronix.com
The Finnish winter war is harrowing to read about, especially the effects on their history departments. They are all completely devoted to whitewashing Nazis. If you haven't read Tepora's Finnish Civil War 1918 History Memory Legacy I recommend finding the time.
And yes it's ridiculous. Not calling for EVEN MORE concentration camps for Mexicans while still maintaining the current border system impresses them.
You can disagree with the law if you want, but breaking the law (sanctions) and being arrested is a legal arrest.
I have tons of issues with the US legal system, but I don't pretend like everything I agree with is legal and everything I disagree with is illegal. That would be moronic.
There are plenty of people with swastikas fighting for Russia too. For example Dmitry Valerievich Utkin (Дмитрий Валерьевич Уткин).
Playing the "but they have Nazi supporters in their military" game can be played all day. It's silly. Every military probably does. It turns out assholes love killing people and Nazis. They'll probably join the military to get permission to kill people.
Because he's not making any political, moral, or personal decisions, and only follows the law he is forced to.
When the law forces him to sanction Israel, he will do so, and when the law stops forcing him to sanction Russia, he will stop doing so.
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It's very simple. The US government maintains a list of sanctioned entities and companies. US citizens and businesses are not allowed to do business with these entities. Most of the removed maintainers either used their company email, or very publicly are employees of these sanctioned companies.
There's no investigation of connections or anything complicated going on here.
Also, if you think corporations becoming effective government is some Russia specific thing, I have a bridge to sell you.
Yes, only those with ties to the war, e.g. people who work for companies that develop software used on Russian drones.
But people are angry that this wasn't explained from the beginning.
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There are points of power (like code run all over the world) that are desirable targets for malicious actors.
So, those who are subject to a malicious foreign power, whether they are innocent or not, because they are subject to a power that is not innocent.
We don't need to attack those people, but we need to deny the Russian state the capacity to affect those points of power where we can. They claim Russian citizenry, and so they are impacted by Russia's choices, and the international responses to Russia's actions.
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No, I also found the way he handled it really distasteful. Even before his response, just generally the way the whole thing was attempted under a veil wasn't great. The actions taken should have been transparent from the start.
I do agree that it shouldn't be polluting this thread like this though.
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The Russian sympathisers trying to spin it as their sudden act of russophobia out of the blue, but it's absolutely everything but. When you work for Putin and his war, you shouldn't be surprised that people don't trust you implicitly.
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There will always be something to pick at, and with the number of trolls on here to inflame and manipulate any legitimate concerns, i highly suspect the troll farms and related pawns would find something to bitch about.
The fact is, not everyone has the EQ to state the issue perfectly clearly in terms everyone can accept.
"No, do you really expect me to look past what Russia is doing? Absolutely fucking no," is basically reasonable.
He went beyond that.
"As a Finn, do you really expect me to up in arms to support the Russians..."
Bravo, slow-clap.
I mean, do you? This is a violation by Russia of another sovereign state. Thus, everyone in Russia is affected by the consequences of that action.
The Russian kernel coders, no matter their innocence, are subjects of a nation that can compel them to misbehave.
Now, if they were leaving Russia and defecting, that's another matter, where they are pulling their individual sovereignty away from the Russian state.
Just to circle back to this now that I'm more sober,
It's like being mean to customer service people of a bad company.
If you do this you should unironically be put in jail and stopped from having any form of communication device for the rest of your life. I can't overstate how fucking pathetic and psychopathic this thought is.
I have no problems with the action, and I have no problems with his attitude.
The effort to isolate Russia is an acceptable result of the Russian violent invasion. Russian citizens are not to blame for their nation's behaviour, but they do share responsibility.
Removing contributes from the maintainers list is not an extreme action, but it is important as a statement.
As for not feeling the need to defend the Russian citizens, it is nearly righteous for people from nation's that have been bullied by their neighbours.
From being able to work on Linux stuff without having their contributions reviewed by someone else (not from russia).
It's an important distinction many seem to miss.
It sucks that it overshadows the actual news.
On the plus side, this post serves as a wonderful tool to clean up some garbage users/servers.
Do they? They could have just isolated those commits as sanctioned and added a warning. Linux hates Russians as a Finn, so didn’t need much convincing to remove them.
I would be singing a different tune if our allies invading other countries at the moment were also sanctioned, but that’s not the case.
As it stands, let the individuals escape the nation state punishment. They didn’t start this war, and likely don’t support it.
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I bet you're one of those dorks who replaces the S with a dollar sign when you write "Microsoft"
I don't remember what the comment was. I just embed images so people don't have to go to imgur or tenor websites
I heard the mods are biased here.
Sorry that was such a bad argument that I did not even consider it being one.
Savage truth.
So your advice is basically "come on, guys, you can resist russian aggression in ways that don't involve conflict, stop the sanctions and side with Russia pls"?
No. As the instigator of this conflict, Russia can back the fuck down.
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Kind of like the butcher who got his hands dirty cutting a steak and then a Michelin star chef cooking it for you.
One got his hands bloody.
The other made it delectable for you to eat.
Which is more important to the process?
Guess the claim of bias is pretty accurate 🤣
It's all good, I'm used to the oversensitive type.
Have a great weekend.
Rationally speaking, the whole purpose of sanctions is to sanction the whole population of the country in order to get the government of the country to change it's policies. And when it comes to sanctions, companies and entities doing business with the sanctioned countries are themselves sanctioned. So Linus had no choice but to remove the Russian contributors.
We're talking about a real situation, not about what would be better.
Source?
In the EU at least this is demonstrably false. LNG has slightly risen since 2000 but other fossil fuels (namely coal) have gone way down. Total consumption has been steadily declining in the past few years and is down to 2004 levels. So overall our electricity is a whole shitload cleaner.
The story is even starker for domestic heating. Gas and coal are vanishing since the mid-2000s.
Why would you assume I am talking about Europe which accounts for 1/10 of the global energy consumption and why would I be talking the continent that has mostly outsourced its heavy industry to third world countries? Why would you assume this?
ourworldindata.org/grapher/glo…
Here's your source. Here's your total energy consumption. It couldn't have been that hard to look at our world in data right? How can you be so absolutely wrong about data in plain sight while being confident about it? Do you have an agenda?
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Oh god, I forgot you .ml fuckmuppets are incapable of maintaining a civil tone.
Europe is a single market. While it does import goods from elsewhere (namely Asia), from what I remember that does not nearly make up for the overall downwards trend of consumption & emissions.
Developing countries are increasing their emissions as they increase their purchasing power. While there is certainly a debate to be held over the details of that, I do not see how that invalidates my point that renewables don't just serve to increase overall power consumption.
However if you're thinking of replying with the same lip you just gave me I suggest instead of responding to my comment, you take your teenage attitude and shove it somewhere the sun don't shine.
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My "attitude" in no way excuses the very offensive remarks on your part, but I guess that's what happens when you try to defend undefendable claims. You jump from claim to claim, when you are proven wrong, like how you edited out the part where you claim the European trend can be extrapolated to the entire world and you personally attack me with the excuse that I was taken aback by the ignorance on a straightforward Google search.
From what you remember (from where? That's a good question I guess no one will ever answer us apparently)that does not make up for the overall downwards trend of consumption and emissions. Ok let's deconstruct that quickly. Consumption has not been decreasing, it has been increasing, proven by the ever rising GDP, which measures exactly that, the total output of goods and services and considering the imports and exports are roughly equal for Europe and that material consumption is coupled to gdp, that's the consumption.
When I say that Europe has outsourced its heavy industry to third world countries, I wasn't talking just about "importing goods". I was talking about their entire production. And the fact that fossil fuel consumption is still ever growing in Europe as well as in the entire West, coupled to the GDP growth is proven in Hickel(2019) "Is green growth possible", where the domestic material consumption index is proven not to be accounting for the outsourced fossil fuels and materials consumed in third world countries to produce the goods imported, vital for Europe. The actual material footprint(which is the fossil fuel consumption and materials combined) is growing along with the GDP. And when you understand this, you realize it is all an illusion of accounting.
These are your two tragically false claims. For the third paragraph I don't have much to say besides that third world countries need to increase their GDP to be living comfortably since they are destitute and the first world countries need to degrow like we said. Scientists have been saying this for so many years. There is a space between planetary boundaries and the decent living conditions that all people can and should be living in. The west exceeds the planetary limits(per capita), the economic south is below decent living conditions. That's what degrowth preaches. It refers to the west, not the world in general.
Ah, yeah. OK. That isn't a nazi reference. Nazis chose the swastika because it's present in many cultures. A key thing is there's is rotated 45°. If you notice, the one the Finnish Air Force had is the tradition rotation. It'd been in use since 1918, before the Nazis started most of their shit. It had nothing to do with them, and was a prominent symbol in their culture. Calling it a Nazi symbol is a lie, and it's probably on purpose to be misleading.
Edit: They didn't say it was a nazi symbol, just a swastika. It was implied to be bad though, which implies it was a Nazi reference.
It sucks that Nazis get to ruin cultures symbols who had no association with them. However, they prominently used eagles in their imagery, and somehow that isn't ruined. Should every nation have to stop using eagles or be called Nazis? That's stupid, right?
Also, they largely did stop using it after WWII, as the article mentions. It was still used it some emblems, flags, and decorations, but not as common. It's still on the Finnish flag of the president, though it's got different proportions and you'd look like a complete idiot for implying it's a nazi symbol there.
The swastika is all over the world. It's a very basic geometric symbol. It is no surprise it's appealing. Go play Minecraft or something and make a symmetric design, and odds are you'll make a swastika. I know playing Factorio I see it appear all the time. Nazis ruined a really cool perfectly innocent shape, and it's honestly time we should try to recapture it.
Or, hear me out, we don't recapture it because it has a fucked up context. It might not seem like a big deal for those who haven't been close to the terror, but not everybody lives on the other side of the world.
And yeah, using nazi-adjacent eagles or fasces (like your government proudly displays in many symbols) is pretty fucked up too.
What about neo-classical architecture, which the Nazis loved? What about white marble sculptures? What about the colors red and black?
They used many symbols. Letting them be the owners of them gives them legitimacy. Why do we want people looking at old art, seeing a swastika, and then having the thought that the Nazis actually have a cultural association with that? They don't. They appropriated cultures to give themselves legitimacy. Allowing this to continue furthers their goals. They don't own the swastika, eagles, fasces, neo-classical architecture, appealing to Roman culture, or anything else. They stole it all, and continuing to let them own it is an issue.
You are free to reclaim the symbols, make an account Cethin88 (it's a birth year!) with a marble statue profile pic, then complain about how it's Nazis' fault you're being misunderstood.
And there is also quite a difference between taking a work from x hundreds of years ago that might incorporate some symbol (like Ancient Roman fasces or swastikas in Eastern Slavic pagan art), and being a modern state that refuses to drop the MAIN nazi symbol. And just so we are clear, the Finnish Air Force did eventually drop the symbol a few years back, I guess it must have been because of woke. Or maybe they actually realized it doesn't look great what with the fascist revival in the entirety of Europe, but many people have had a problem with that for a long time before that already, especially since so many Finns are PROUD of their nazi collaboration history.
Well, that says more about you, who broke your btrfs?
Seriously tho, it's fine, why would you even tell me ?
88 isn't really the same thing, although, like you said, some people perfectly innocently use it, which is why it's a dog whistle. 88 became a thing when Nazis had to hide they were Nazis. The swastika is not that obviously.
Why they dropped the symbol is likely because people were using it to say the Finnish government were Nazis, like th comment above implied. It's an easy target for people like Russian apologists to say "we're denazifying Finland" or whatever, while they do plenty of actual fascist shit.
Symbols are as useful as they're interpreted. If they're interpreted wrong then you should probably change them. It doesn't mean we should allow people like the person above to imply anyone using them is a fascist. They should be countered and shown how stupid their arguments are. I have no idea why you're defending them.
The swastika was swapped out before Russia invaded Ukraine, before Russia tried to claim the "denazifying" shit, so you're barking up the wrong tree.
And I am defending them because it was perfectly adequate snark to point out the hypocrisy of "yeah it's okay, he's Finn after all" when it comes to ugly xenophobia, when Finns themselves have a shitty track record. They did actually literally ally with Nazis, and if we now want to talk about "historical context" then it's fair game to look into shit like refusing to drop what is now a nazi symbol by the official organ of the state, for decades.
Or we could stop running defense for any shitty actions somebody from "our side" does towards anybody else, and do some actual self-crit every once in a while. I've had Russian friends literally get attacked for simply being Russian (and no, not supportive of the invasion) after 2022, so I am not going to shut up when people give xenophobes a free pass, but push back super hard against what is a mild burn at best.
Sovereignty is the deeper moral right. It is any sovereign individual or group's right to accept or reject an authority they choose to, and they must deal with the consequences of that (often implicit) choice.
A sovereign entity who is by choice or otherwise subject to a malign power will become a channel for that malign power, regardless of whether or not they intend to. And even when there is no malign intent, there can be fundamental disagreements between sovereign states.
It is very possible the individuals don't support Russia. But aside from aiding and supporting defection, there's not much we can do until Russia demonstrates a will to relinquish a hold on Ukraine, who has clearly demonstrated their sovereignty.
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