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Recently I added some RSS feeds to my lemmy subs and this one has consistently had really cool items.
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The main website is: Conservation and environmental science news - Mongabay
From their footer, the most important links:
And some ancillary ones:
- LinkedIn
- Instagram
- Youtube
- X
- Facebook
- Android App
- Apple News
I have nothing to do with this org, can't vouch for them. Just been subbed to the feed for a short while.
Conservation and environmental science news - Mongabay
Mongabay seeks to raise interest in and appreciation of wild lands and wildlife, while examining the impact of emerging trends in climate, technology, economics,and finance on conservation and development.Conservation news
Trump administration to 'aggressively' revoke visas of Chinese students
Trump administration to 'aggressively' revoke visas of Chinese students
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the move will include "those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields".Sakshi Venkatraman (BBC News)
FediForum is Back!
FediForum is Back!
After controversy and the difficult decision to postpone back in March, the FediForum project has put in the hard work to make things right. The organization held multiple town halls, calls with commuSean Tilley (We Distribute)
How to Run Deepseek-R1-0528 Locally
How to Run Deepseek-R1-0528 Locally
DeepSeek's R1-0528 model is the most powerful open-source reasoning model that rivals GPT 4.5 and o3. Learn to run the model with Unsloth 1.78-bit Dynamic quants.Unsloth - Open source Fine-tuning for LLMs
have at least 160GB of combined VRAM and system RAM.
Yeaaaah so it's possible but at the same time not accessible ? Those things are fucking power hungry and now I get why we all needed to buy led things, 12 volts powered systems and switch off every standby device: AI !
And I dummy though innocently it was for the planet... 🥲
Lol the suggested hardware for usable performance is ~$50k MSRP for the GPUs alone and that's an SXM5 socket so all proprietary extremely expensive and specific hardware.
My PC currently has a 7900 XTX which gives me about 156 GB combined VRAM, but it literally generates 1-3 words per second even at this level. DDR5 wouldn't really help, because it's a memory bandwidth issue.
TBH for most reasonable use cases 8 bit parameter size quantizations that can run on a laptop will give you more or less what you want.
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And I [thought?] it was for the planet... 🥲
It was maybe never for the planet. We accidentally got LED lights, but the entire effort may have been to provide a scapegoat for the energy issues the oil barons didnt want to address. Dig a bit and you'll find some neat charts and timelines, and maybe you'll wonder too whether it was all a smokescreen like the recycling thing sometimes resembles.
A family digs through trash for bits of food, showing Gaza’s growing desperation
By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY
Updated 2:07 AM EDT, May 27, 2025
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — With flies buzzing all around them, the woman and her daughter picked through the pile of garbage bags for scraps of food at the foot of a destroyed building in Gaza City. She found a small pile of cooked rice, a few scraps of bread, a box with some smears of white cheese still inside.
Islam Abu Taeima picked soggy bits from a piece of bread and put the dry part in her sack. She will take what she found back to the school where she and hundreds of other families live, boil it and serve it to her five children, she said.
https://apnews.com/article/gaza-palestinians-hunger-israel-blockade-fa0ec6052f0c8f358db5e4c1935963ce
How to (actually) choose a Linux distro
- YouTube
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.www.youtube.com
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China launches Tianwen-2 mission to sample near Earth asteroid
China launches Tianwen-2 mission to sample near Earth asteroid
China launches Tianwen-2 mission to sample near Earth asteroid China launched its second planetary exploration mission Wednesday, sending Tianwen-2 to sample a near Earth asteroid and later survey a main belt comet.Andrew Jones (SpaceNews)
swap SSD to test run Linux?
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OP specifically said they don't want to dual boot, and I honestly understand why they would say that.
When you dual boot you need to worry about what bootloader is in use and how it is set up. You might find yourself in a situation where you later decide to move fully to Linux and use the old Windows drive as storage but you can't because if you wipe it then everything stops working.
Windows has even been known to destroy dual boot setups occasionally during Windows updates.
All very solveable if you have the right knowledge, but if you want to keep your life simple then swapping hardware has guaranteed safety (nothing can go wrong with the contents if a drive if it's not plugged in, after all) and it's very predictable and understandable.
That's fair, I won't say that it's not as complicated as it sounds because I don't know what you know, but if you want it put into simple words, it's the following:
1. Install drive 1 in PC
2. Install Windows
3. Remove drive 1 from the PC and put drive 2 in its place
4. Install any Linux distro that comes with GRUB as bootloader (most of them, personally recommend Fedora if you want a suggestion)
5. Install drive 1 into the second slot that was left empty up to now
6. Start boot, your motherboard will have a specific key to launch the boot selector, e.g. F10, or go into the UEFI settings to put the Linux option first
7. Boot into Linux and trigger the GRUB detection for other OSes so it updates the list of entries
8. Reboot
9. Now without having to smash a random key to get the built-in boot selector, you will instead be able to choose comfortably from GRUB.
Anyways don't pressure yourself into doing any of that if you don't feel comfortable with it, of course.
One step at a time, the important thing is you're satisfied with what you have and that it's functional to your workflow
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Sorry, Mario, but the software is in a different architecture.
Meme transcription:
[Guy looking happy:] Hey, there’s a Linux version of that program I like[Guy looking disappointed:] Closed Source, no ARM support
Saltend biofuel plant 'faces closure after US trade deal'
Saltend biofuel plant 'faces closure after US trade deal'
Vivergo Fuels, based near Hull, says government support is needed within "the next few weeks".BBC News
Four people killed after starving Palestinians burst into UN food warehouse in Gaza
Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem and Manisha Ganguly
Wed 28 May 2025 16.44 EDT
“Hordes of hungry people broke into WFP’s al-Ghafari warehouse in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, in search of food supplies that were pre-positioned for distribution,” WFP said in a statement, which warned of “alarming and deteriorating conditions on the ground”.
“Humanitarian needs have spiralled out of control after 80 days of complete blockade of all food assistance and other aid into Gaza,” the statement said. “Gaza needs an immediate scale-up of food assistance. This is the only way to reassure people that they will not starve.”
One dead and 48 injured in Israeli gunfire at Gaza food point
Witnesses tell of bursts of gunfire and helicopter flares after Israel-backed logistics group lost control of Gaza siteLorenzo Tondo (The Guardian)
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Four people killed after starving Palestinians burst into UN food warehouse in Gaza
Hmm... who was killed? Oh... it was four Palestinians.
Why did they have to "burst" into a warehouse? Oh... the doors were closed and people with guns where trying to keep the Palestinians from being able to get something to eat as they are being intentionally starved by the Israeli government.
“Hordes of hungry people broke into WFP’s al-Ghafari warehouse..."
Hordes of Palestininans being intentionally starved
“Humanitarian needs have spiralled out of control after 80 days of complete blockade of all food assistance and other aid into Gaza,” the statement said. “Gaza needs an immediate scale-up of food assistance. This is the only way to reassure people that they will not starve.”
Incorrect, more food aid being sent isn't going to be able to get through the Israeli state's ability to restrict the flow for the purpses of genociding the Palestinians.
Do I really need to get heroes of might and magic 3 to use VCMI?
Disclaimer: I really do not mind buying the game actually and it is probably one of the games that really deserve to be bought. This is really just a (maybe stupid) question out of curiosity.
So, I have been interested in homm3 for a while and I recently found out that apparently there is a free and open source rewrite for the game called VCMI.
First I figured since this is a complete rewrite that I can just download and run it to play homm3 but the website did state that apparently you should buy the game to get the game files but is this really how most people go on about this? Are the game files lying around somewhere so you can easily use VCMI? I mean its just assets from what I know..
Or do I just have to buy/pirate the game?
I mean, they can't really tell you "here is a torrent with the necessary assets."
They have to pretend they don't know what pirating is so that Ubisoft's lawyers can pretend that's not what's really happening for a huge chunk of the users.
So yeah, you can buy it (it's usually cheap on GOG) or you can pirate it if that's your thing.
it's less than $3 on GOG at the moment.
And it is easily available through other means.
I still fire up HOMM3 + HD + HOTA every now and then.
FunOS - Have any of you used this
Is this a decent OS to move users off Win too that I won't have to do a lot of remote maintenance on? I have a few varied OS's installed on machines around and Cinnamon I have found to look/feel a lot like Windows 7 which would benefit the learning curve for family/friends looking or needing to find an OS to install on a machine that isn't newer.
Curious if anyone has used this, and if so if it is a good fit for those 60+ aged family members and such. They have all used Windows for work at least a decent amount, so keeping things similar is always good. A decent App Store would be nice though. I hated the default store in Pop_OS.
If I could say do updates and reboot every once in awhile and you should be fine it'd be great. Remoting in with RustDesk and sudo Apt Update/Upgrade being all that is needed also would be great, but you know how that goes. Someone will break something, and I just want something intuitive enough that they won't do it often.
This lean Linux distro can give your Windows 10 PC an extra 5 to 10 years of life
Don't throw away your old computer. Install a Linux distribution that'll make it feel brand new. FunOS is here to help you out.Jack Wallen (ZDNET)
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India and France Are At Each Other’s Throats Over the Dassault Rafale Fighter
India and France Are At Each Other’s Throats Over the Dassault Rafale Fighter - The National Interest
The crisis within the IAF cannot by itself explain the excellent performance of Pakistani PL-15 missiles against what were supposedly India’s superior air capabilities.Trevor Filseth (The National Interest)
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