Family Ties: How a Ukrainian Nazi and a living witness link Canada to Ukraine today, explores the lives of Chrystia Freeland's Nazi collaborator grandfather and Holocaust survivor Anne Charney
15. Ukrainian Family Ties w/Peter McFarlane
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“Don’t ask me, employee. You’re the one that’s going to be dying!”
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Gamers Nexus might start including Linux gaming tests in their hardware reviews
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I remember back in the day, running Quake3 on linux provided better FPS than on windows. I haven't compared the two since then on any game.
Is it still the case? And is this difference (mostly) there in other games too?
On AMD, it’s not uncommon for games to perform better than on Windows.
For Nvidia, games almost always perform worse than on Windows.
For all the flak they (rightfully!) get, a 1st party open source nvidia driver is in the works.
Altough it's only the userspace part and it's not compliant (yet?) to be upstreamed into the kernel. It is still something.
Your nvidia information might be outdated since driver version 560.x. And I'm getting tired of the anti nvidia circlejerk in the Linux communities on lemmy.
At least Shadow of the Tomb Raider (+20fps) and Cyberpunk (+5fps) run better than they did on windows with the same settings, for me. And those are the only games I tested, because they are the only AAA titles I own that come with a performance test.
I'm not defending nvidia here, there are still issues like missing multi monitor vrr or a few (!) titles that are too broken to play. And it's not as much of an out of the box experience as it is with AMD.
But for most people that own an nvidia card it's probably already a good idea to make the switch from windows.
So, to anyone owning a nvidia card having doubts: feel free to try things out!
You're pretty brave to call us "circlejerk" and then agree that there are flaws in drivers.
For you this can work. For my wife the nvidia works also. I mean, almost. Wayland buggy, poor VRAM management, from time to time fights with drivers. Compared to that my AMD journey is "set and forget".
I mean, yes, make a switch and test things out. But once you settle down on Linux OS, Nvidia is the worst choice you can make for purchase. World's shifting towards Wayland and it's not even worth your time to go and run Steam in Gamescope on Nvidia.
And did you notice the push from distros to switch to wayland? Right now NV is same experience as was anything 10 years ago - hit or miss.
Just don't call anybody jerk when you don't share their experience. You are very low statistical sample and there are lots of us in the wild having real troubles with green team
If I had feared about nvidia drivers, I wouldn't have been using Linux for 4 years straight now. Mint supported my 1060 and 2060 before now, PopOS was fantastic aside from a quirk with waking the screens with the 2060, and honestly those issues have worsened with AMD now. Admittedly I haven't tried much to remedy it as it's as simple as turning off my monitors.
But if you never try, you can never know 🤷♂️
To provide some additional anecdotes to support jul's comment. I've personally been experiencing better performance than windows even with nvidia. Though it does vary per game, with the occasional workaround especially when going outside the realm of plug and play to mod games.
I'd say most games are great, the "10% low" games are still good, and the "1% lows" where things just don't work are pretty rare but sometimes there is a fix. Proton.db is a good resource for those instances.
And being honest... windows has those moments too, people just ignore them because windows is the ubiquitous gaming OS.
It's a lot better than when I had last "tried" and it may be more impactful to bring up that this time I haven't gone back even once, and I actually went ahead and pulled the plug on my windows partition.
Linux is just better now, there's one thing windows had but I gave it up. Linux is just better for most things now and to make that win even better.. windows has increasingly been becoming worse than itself.
there are edge cases where linux performa better, especially with older apis because dx9/dx11 to vulkan allows for more draw calls than thr native language can do.
then you have rare situations like elden rings launch ehere shader caching was broken on windows and vulkans shader caching on linux worked making elden ring play better on linux
Do you think most games might perform better on linux in the future?
maybe, depends on steamOS hardware adoption rate. You're far more likely going to see windows regress in performance rather than linux get better upper tier performance on average (imo)
When game makers put more effort towards optimising for linux considering linux has less bloatware etc?
theyll optimize for linux whent he market grows enough for it, which I personalyl believe will only happen when Linux gets at least ~30% of the steam hardware survey OS market.
not many devs will spend time to cater to 2% of the steam market.
The Sims 2 performs better on Linux than it ever did on Windows.
Y'know, for what it's worth.
SteamOS is going to have to do a lot of heavy lifting. I reckon there are quite a few people who are waiting for its release before trying Linux.
Does SteamOS even have functional desktop, or is it just Steam big picture wrapper thing?
Yes, but it is also set up as an OS image.
I think there is a process for persistence, but without some effort, changes are lost for OS updates.
Changes aren't lost on update. If you enable a sudo user/password, and make changes to the system that way, those changes can be lost when applying the new system image.
Its an immutable Arch-based distro and you have full readwrite to your home directory and all config, settings, and files within persist.
I reckon there are quite a few people who are waiting for its release before trying Linux.
I always recommend against it people wanting a gaming linux desktop
SteamOS being an immutable operating system works a bit different to most well known operating systems
albeit this also makes any breackage almost impossible
I am pretty sure even LTT Linus said he was waiting for a SteamOS release before trying again. I was thinking, like damn dude, if you can't use PopOS, how will this be any different for you.
albeit this also makes any breackage almost impossible
Maybe, just maybe, this will stop people like him from catastrophically uninstalling their entire desktop environment.
Does SteamOS even have functional desktop
Unlike Windows, yes. It does.
It boots into Game scope (as others said, it's not "big picture mode" it's a compositor stack tailored for high gaming performance) but it's nothing more than an immutable arch distribution (and immutability can be disabled for tweaking) so you could definitely swap the defaults if someone has documented how.
Would be a nice feature to have once SteamOS becomes independent of the deck.
It's the right thing to do. Windows isn't nearly as stable or reproducible as a testing platform anymore and I imagine it's a PITA to handle for benchmarking dozens of not hundreds of hardware configs.
Of course they'll still do those Windows tests, not suggesting they won't, but Linux may become a more useful benchmarking platform for reviewers thanks to the control and automation it provides.
A whole host of configurations can be quickly booted and tested on a benchmark suite to confirm performance of older hardware and provide context, whilst newer products can get a bespoke review on all platforms. If a new benchmark game comes out, it'll be way easier to insert into the Linux setups than Windows.
Windows gamers and reviewers seemed to not realize AMD cpu performance was nerfed on Windows until the latest gen AMD release. From time to time there have also been issues with Windows scheduling for Intel cpus. Including a competing OS in comparisons allows reviewers to sanity check stuff like that. Wendell had the most balanced reviews because he was presenting cross platform and productivity along with Windows gaming performance. When Microsoft held a monopoly that sort of reviewing wasn't possible. You had no idea if Windows was nerfing particular platforms or why.
Overall Linux gaming might be worse or some titles really bad but lets get it out in the open. It will be good for all consumers because it will drive improvement.
Blood in the iPhones? Apple faces criminal charges
Blood in the iPhones? Apple faces criminal charges
Apple 'knows very well that its minerals supply chain relies on systemic wrongdoing,' the Democratic Republic of Congo claims in a criminal suit.Jonny Evans (Computerworld)
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The same Tim Apple that still bends over for CCP and operates in Russia, finances blood minerals but with layers of contractors to avoid direct connection while it markets itself as "sustainable", "made from recycled parts" is a bad guy?
Say it ain't so…
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The Global South is on the Brink of a Disastrous Debt Crisis. Reform Is Urgent
The Global South Is on the Brink of a Disastrous Debt Crisis. Reform Is Urgent
The coming debt crisis will surpass that of the 1980s and disproportionately impact women, economist Ilene Grabel warns.scheerpost.com
Is Dansup personally building the entire fediverse? I didn't realize loops was a fedi thing, tbh. Just started noticing it the other day, seems awesome.
Was there every any progress on sup? I'd love to find a way to get my family to ditch whatsapp
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it quite annoys me as well. "No annoying algorithms!"
...great. so it will never learn what content I actually like to see and will feed me random crap I don't want to see.
i get like the same 5 videos of someone walking around outside and a couple of ads for stuff I'm not even remotely interested in.
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Being able to choose what it will show you would be cool and not require stealing your data to customize your feed
Google is the closest thing to that that i know, but their implementation is terrible
agreed. there is a way to keep that algorithm private. on a person to person case.
that information would just have to not be sold. thats the difference.
an algorithm wouldn't be inherently evil. the data collected is what's potentially dangerous. but if its kept to just your personal account, it could be quite safe
and make the app less of a chore to use.
I made Quiblr. Thanks for the shout out!
As you noted, Quiblr's For You feed gives an entirely customized recommendation feed + it is 100% private and runs on the device (not via a data center... so no data ever leaves the device)
Hidden in the google account settings, you can find what googles algorithm thinks you like and remove inaccurate things
As far as i know, you cant add things
This is the only algorithm i know that you can kinda customize
That's just your history of what you watched, liked, disliked, etc.
The problem is that the system behind it is inherently stupid. You liked Vintage Story? Here's some Minecraft! And since they're games, you likely also like OTHER GAMES! Right? So here's some Roblox and Fortnite! Our trends say those are super popular with the cool guys and you surely are a cool guy too, right?! And with that comes all the clickbait bullshit too, so I say I'm not interested in those channels and block them, so YT now thinks I dislike gaming and scrubs everything again, until I manually search & watch another video of a game because obviously it also scrubbed the ones I'm interested in. Or you watched some music videos, REPEATEDLY? Here's all the videos you previous have watched! Now you have to click, not interested, click for why, click you have watched it already, click okay. Repeat for every video you ever watched until YT gets the hint, for at least a day or two until it repeats the stupidity again.
You literally have to fight the system constantly. It's why I don't watch YT much anymore, or use private tabs now, which bring their own issue now that they also frequently block VPN IPs and ask you to log in, but that would then again muddle my watch history and consequently spam my feed with all sorts of irrelevant shit that I don't want.
The only thing that got better over the years is the video quality, like from an encoding standpoint, the content quality went way down.
As far as i know, that is for the ad algorithm, not for youtube
I dont understand why you cant choose what things you want to be recommended to you
what does control over what they want to watch look like without an algorithm?
an algorithm doesn't have to be a negative thing.
If it suggest me things based on various factors that can be manipulated, then it is inherently bad.
And user control would be to give me filter options. Videos are already categorized & tagged, so why not let users specify which categories & tags they want to see - and which one they do not? Much better than some obtuse and brain dead algorithm flip flopping while trying to figure out what I want to watch.
manipulated by whom? if it can be manipulated so that you get to see the content you like, I say thats fine.
if you mean manipulated by 3rd parties to sell ads, then that's bad.
this isn't a black and white thing. it can exist without being data to sell for ads. what matters is if the one hosting the videos is willing to sell that data.
if its kept to just your own personal usage data to make your experience a better one, that's not a terrible thing.
tags are one way for sure. but then its difficult to find new stuff that might fit your interests that you don't have tags for.
there are tweaks that can be made. also I'm talking about an individual's personal feed
if I open tiktok right now, my feed will differ from yours. because it's personalized. reddit is a bad example because its not personalized.
if you're seeing far right videos on your feed its because you're engaging with that content. you're feeding the algorithm.
don't engage with that garbage and you won't see it.
You think your personalized feed is not manipulated like this either? Or imagine someone new to the platform, he's gonna immediately get bombarded by propaganda and disinformation, clicks on the videos, and then the personalized feed will feed them more of the same, radicalizing them even further.
And no, I'm not and I don't. You're clearly not getting the topic and why it is a problem.
i think we are talking about two entirely different things. you're talking about generalized stuff and I'm talking about a specific person's feed.
I'm not talking politics or other stuff. literally just talking a personalized feed. just for entertainment.
golly. not every single thing has to lead to the end of the world, man.
chill with the "propaganda and disinformation". I'm talking cats and anime and video games.
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Instagram reels.
Exactly, these users want a relatively efficient app with an algorithm that shows interesting content without the effort of looking for it.
I personally love the things TikTok puts on my feed (philosophy, science, arts, political opinions, medical advice...). I don't think I would have been able to find a lot of those things on my own. For instance, it's been amazing to understand some of my health conditions: a video about a random symptom (and how to address it) sometimes shows on my feed and it's like: "Wow! I didn't know that! Thank you".
So... it's not just laziness, not in my case. I hate that algorithms have been radicalizing my parents politically. I love that my algorithm helps me with advice (for me, my cat, my home...) and it connects me with similar people. It's a bittersweet technology, I guess. Anyway, without it, Loops might not be a solid alternative.
I joined as soon as it was open. Very quickly it was full of junk TiKtok videos (many with the Tiktok logo). As others have said you have to keep scrolling through the same videos in the same order to see anything new.
The feature that’s missing is some sort of “filter creator” that would enable users to build their own algos.
(To be fair, I can’t see why Tiktok works as an app other than as some global-scale brainwashing tool.)
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Honestly? I don't think it's ready for the migration that's going to take place in January (supposedly, January). The USA will ban TikTok and people still debate in the comments what should be the new short videos platform. I really want to spread the message about Loops, but I was unable to create an account just a few days ago. It won't work for thousands and thousands of people that want something efficient and do not appreciate the Fediverse effort as we do.
Mastodon itself couldn't compete against BlueSky. I think Loops has a month to be a real TikTok alternative or it faces the same destiny as Mastodon (or Lemmy).
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Copying my comment from the cross-post. Anyone here know enough about ActivityPub to know how much work it will be to make it interoperate nicely with Lemmy in addition to Mastodon?
Looks like it's still a WIP. lemmy.world says that it can't find the user, but my instance shows his profile:
midwest.social/u/dansup@loops.…
If you click on the full username, you get redirect to this page, which is the raw ActivityPub profile:
{
"@context": [
"https://w3id.org/security/v1",
"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
{
"toot": "http://joinmastodon.org/ns",
"manuallyApprovesFollowers": "as:manuallyApprovesFollowers",
"indexable": "toot:indexable"
}
],
"id": "https://loops.video/ap/user/1",
"type": "Person",
"following": "https://loops.video/ap/user/1/following",
"followers": "https://loops.video/ap/user/1/followers",
"inbox": "https://loops.video/ap/user/1/inbox",
"outbox": "https://loops.video/ap/user/1/outbox",
"preferredUsername": "dansup",
"name": "dansup",
"summary": "",
"url": "https://loops.video/@dansup",
"manuallyApprovesFollowers": true,
"indexable": false,
"published": "2024-06-06T10:30:00+00:00",
"publicKey": {
"id": "https://loops.video/ap/user/1#main-key",
"owner": "https://loops.video/ap/user/1",
"publicKeyPem": "-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----\nMIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEA1zzC7XBF81lhJV1o47AA\n9JgguOxygANanxzRUaGOA7BUC9kAWbXI2CoQtzVBTGRiSaiy84d8UgdKQOiAT49m\nmmPdkdnb7zeL7PUKVucv5ppxL5pjXvx11FfYDOIvy52TxjirDIEhvSCiau3BSYf7\nvXtIgsoGnVTkDaStoDauDMfEPGnf6E7eCWHKPOkbeuxF3B3k/Mz2qEmg2MXxegt/\njE4Y75E0BiPs+GeCcYBwri6QddGlQlfveUmj5ZGN2AZGaZdZBNE4FlvJK14GIiTi\n/xT1rYJgwEViFSvGdqXXeRWcWth6UzyzzQrUARLniAf9xcFyYFdx6oJmI3Mu4EWd\nMwIDAQAB\n-----END PUBLIC KEY-----\n"
},
"icon": {
"type": "Image",
"mediaType": "image/jpeg",
"url": "https://loopsusercontent.com/avatars/1/v0.jpg"
}
}Based on the mention of toots and mastodon, I'm guessing he's focusing on that first. Hopefully interoperability with Lemmy will come quickly though. Being able to embed loops as posts would be really nice.
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I thought it was ALWAYS part of the fediverse. Am I going crazy? I thought that was the whole point of this thing. Tiktok for the fediverse.
..........AM I GOING CRAZY???!!!
😬 well I may or may not have clicked follow a few times to confirm...
Thanks for that clarification 🫣
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UK envoy calls for end to ban on women’s medical education in meeting with Taliban officials
UK envoy calls for end to ban on women’s medical education in meeting with Taliban officials
UK charge d’affaires Robert C. Dickson. File photo. KABUL, Afghanistan — UK Chargé d’Affaires for Afghanistan, Robert Dickson, urged Taliban officials to reverse their ban on women’s medical education during a recent visit to Kabul, warning that the …BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Corporate Social Media is Junk Food
SocialMedia is part of your daily diet - so why not make it healthy?
Corporate platforms feed you ads, algorithms, and infinite scroll designed to keep you hooked on junk food. The #Fediverse is different:
✅ No ads, no algorithms
✅ Real communities run by real people
✅ Diverse cultures and positive content
Stop feeding on junk. Switch to something organic!
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I've got news for you: Many people from other places don't particularly like xenophiliacs treating them like zoo animals.
Many of those who do play along with it are trying to get something out of you. Shitty people exist everywhere.
High quality positive content
It took 3 hours and we already got to gatekeeping culture.
I recognize that issue but I don't need necessarily read the example on OP, as exemplifying that.
Disclaimer: I'm a white North American (ergo no culture) so I'm open to discussing this further as I'd like to hear your experience.
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organic food for your brainHigh quality, positive content boosts mental health
Browsing shallow memes and political outrage here is basically just home-made junk food instead of store-bought junk food. Likely less unhealthy, but that's not exactly eating a bowl of vegetables lol - that would perhaps be reading a book or something. Not a great fit for the comparison imo.
(as an aside, it seems plausible that junk food in small quantities as part of a balanced diet might boost mental health vs strictly never indulging)
Yeah, let's be realistic here. No one is going to believe the fediverse is shining beacon of positivity on the internet and any one who might would be turned off by the reality they find.
And that reality is, this is the internet, and any venue with a large amount of people is going to have some issues. We should highlight how the fediverse approaches that differently (and positively) first and foremost.
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Friendly reminder that reddit-style community shorthand is less helpful here. Old habits die hard but on Lemmy communities require context of instance as well.
Edit: but agreed, this is very propaganda-like
i mean... a lot of the content on the fediverse is literally just lifted straight from the other "junk food" social media websites that were just named.
its just a federated experience. not a "healthy" one. I'm all for moving more people over to the fediverse but let's maybe take it down a couple notches with the weird propaganda-esque ads?
Goldbeak (2025) Official Trailer - David Henrie, Rachell “Valkyrae” Hofstetter
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Netanyahu spokesperson denies Cairo trip amid Gaza ceasefire push
A spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday rejected reports the Israeli leader was traveling to Cairo for negotiations over a ceasefire and hostage release deal with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
While the Biden administration said negotiations over recent days for a ceasefire have been “productive,” there’s little word from Israel’s side of forward movement on a truce that would lead to the release of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
“Contrary to the wave of rumors, Prime Minister Netanyahu is not in Cairo,” the spokesperson said in a statement shared with The Hill by Israel’s Embassy in Washington.
Lucy :3
in reply to John • • •John
in reply to Lucy :3 • • •Same. I briefly had an M4 Mac Mini and one of the things I instantly missed about Linux was Wayland.
I always want new windows to open on the middle of the screen I am currently working on, but on Windows and MacOS they just go wherever they want.
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in reply to John • • •Yeah, but i think any programmable system should allow low level constructs if the high level constructs are not enough.
iirc this caused serious problems with wine because the API of windows requires setting coordinates.