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Anders_S via Svenssons Nyheter

6 months ago • •

Anders_S
6 months ago • •

Strax innan klockan sex på fredagskvällen inkom larm om skottlossning på Blädingevägen i Alvesta som ligger en bit väster om Växjö i Småland. När polisen kom till platsen påträffade de först en skadad man i 35-årsåldern. Han avled senare. Senare hittade polisen ytterligare en skjuten och död man i fastigheten.

blog.zaramis.se/2025/07/12/sko…

#Mord #Skjutning #Skottlossning

Anders_S via Svenssons Nyheter

6 months ago • •

Anders_S
6 months ago • •

Södertörns tingsrätt har dömt i ett mål om mord på en man i Bredäng i södra Stockholm i maj 2024. ?

talade var två tonåringar som vid tillfället var 18 respektive 17 år gamla. ?

talet för mord ogillades. Dock dömdes båda för grovt vapenbrott.

blog.zaramis.se/2025/07/12/fri…

#Mord #Fängelse #Vapenbrott #Skjutning #Misshandel #Bredäng

Anders_S via Svenssons Nyheter

6 months ago • •

Anders_S
6 months ago • •

Södertörns tingsrätt har dömt tio personer för att på olika sätt ha deltagit i bland annat grova bedrägerier mot äldre genom så kallad fysisk vishing under 2024. Den 28-åring och den 36-åring som tingsrätten bedömde ha organiserat brottsligheten dömdes till fängelse 4 år 11 månader respektive 2 år 4 månader.

blog.zaramis.se/2025/07/12/tio…

Tio personer dömda för äldrebedrägerier - Svenssons Nyheter

Tio personer dömda för äldrebedrägerier. Södertröns tingsrätt har dömt tio personer för att på olika sätt ha deltagit i bland annat grova

^{Anders_S (Svenssons Nyheter)}

#Fängelse #SödertörnsTingsrätt #Bedrägeri #Äldrebedrägerier

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brot via Games

6 months ago • •

brot
6 months ago • •

EA’s latest The Sims 4 patch is making everyone pregnant, including the men and the chaste

The current patch for The Sims 4 is turning everyone pregnant, and no Sim is safe from this curse of life.

^{Lewis White (VideoGamer)}

#games

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TRAHR

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Can we get this ported over to RL?

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Timecircleline

in reply to TRAHR • 6 months ago • •

Rocket League?

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SonOfAntenora

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The title alone is amazing

are more limited than some gamers may think. Once a character is pregnant, they can’t Woo-Hoo anymore, they won’t age, they can’t take a pregnancy test (?) and they also can’t blow out the candles on their birthday cake because of the aforementioned not-ageing thing.

It looks like a curse

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cm0002 via Games

6 months ago • •

cm0002
6 months ago • •

PlayStation Case Mod Hides Gamer Shame

[Zac] of Zac Builds has a shameful secret: he, a fully grown man, plays video games. Shocking, we know, but such people do exist in our society. After being rightfully laughed out of the family liv…

^Hackaday

#games

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ryedaft

in reply to cm0002 • 6 months ago • •

Gorgeous!

But to be honest I've never ever heard the fan from my playstation. Coil whine I do hear sometimes though. Which is pretty hard to fix. Power supply replacement?

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dukatos

in reply to cm0002 • 6 months ago • •

Am I allowed to play games at 52?

Admiral Patrick via Fediverse memes

6 months ago • •

Admiral Patrick
6 months ago • •

Airing of Grievances Part I: We are not the same.

The first 6-12 months here (during/right after the Reddit API drama) were great. After that....not so much.

Note: Edited to add to the title and replace the image link with one that won't be going offline in 2 weeks.

On the left: Rick and Morty after going through detox with the caption "Fediverse users who are here because they want to be here". On the right are the toxic leftovers of the other RIck and Morty with the caption "Fediverse users who are here becuse they've been banned everywhere else"

#fedimemes

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Alcoholicorn

in reply to bestboyfriendintheworld • 6 months ago • •

The social democrats gave military hardware to the freikorp to put down the communists and arranged the assassination of Rosa Luxembourg. The communists said the SPD were creating the conditions for fascism, and they were correct. Hitler came to power when the SPD ran a conservative candidate as their "best shot at stopping the nazis". They won. That conservative proceeded to staff the government with nazis while cracking down on the left until it was trivial for the nazis to engineer a coup.

Regarding the molotov-ribontrope, if thats an alliance of convenience, what is every capitalist power arming Germany and splitting Czechslovakia between Germany and Poland, while ignoring the USSR's offer to invade Germany with 1 million men?

(yeah I'm posting wikipedia, I don't feel like spending the rest of my sunday night hunting down the specific books on libgen that are cited on each page, suffice it to say these are events which did occur, and even English Wikipedia doesn't deny them, the problem with a lot of these pacts is that they are named different things by different

Four-Power Pact (worth noting france did not ratify)

Hitler Pilsudski Pact

Anglo German Naval Agreement

Anti Comintern Pact since this was between Japan/Germany there's less amnesia about it

German/British and German/French 1938 non aggression pacts are usually just called the Munich Agreement in English language sources to obfuscate what was happening

German Romanian Economical Treaty March 1939

German Ultimatum to Lithuania in March 1939 seems a bit unfair to characterize as a treaty tbh

"Pact of Steel" with Italy 1939 Now THIS is actually a military alliance pact, which is what people keep characterizing molotov-ribbentrop as

Danish-German non aggression pact May 1939 this one isn't wikipedia

Germany Estonia N-A-Pact June 7th 1939

German-Latvian N-A-Pact June 7th 1939

Molotov Ribbentrop Pact

Also it's worth noting that even though the USA never signed a non aggression pact with nazi germany, american capitalists were quite fond of funding nazis, doing trade with nazis, and even hosting nazi party rallies in the United States (such as one in madison square garden in 1939). And there was even a fascist attempt at a coup against FDR, that was thwarted by smedley butler being a whistleblower.

What makes people freak out about molotov ribbentrop is the agreement to partition states. the reason for this is because the USSR needed time to deconstruct factories and move them east before the luftwaffe could bomb them. The USSR made a calculated risk that by dividing poland they could move the future war front far west of where it would otherwise be if they refused a non aggression pact and just got invaded right away, and at the same time, move their war industry far east of the war front. Of course by making this calculated risk they gave an easy propaganda victory to all bourgeois nations who experience collective amnesia about every other non aggression pact, as well as their categorical refusal to enter into collective security against fascism with the "bolshevik menace" in the 1930s. It is somewhat similar to how USSR tried to join NATO in the 50s and was refused. The bourgeois nations never wanted collective security or peace with the USSR, even when it was on the table. In particular the USSR only invaded finland because it was the most convenient route to invade the USSR, and the Finnish (a future axis power) wouldn't sell them the land that the nazis eventually used to invade.

1933 alleged attempt to overthrow the United States government

^{Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)}

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bestboyfriendintheworld

in reply to Alcoholicorn • 6 months ago • •

Yes, the social democrats wanted a liberal parliamentary democracy, not a Soviet stay with dictatorship of the proletariat. The communists tried a communist revolution and they lost. The alternative would have been a civil war, maybe even a breakup of Germany. Most people wanted stability and get back to their lives after WW1.

The communists continuously avoided moderation and compromise with the social democrats. They fought against the Weimar Republic actively. Many were accelerationists, who thought the rise of the Nazis would be to their benefit in the end.

Nicole Sharp via FYFD

6 months ago • •

Nicole Sharp
6 months ago • •

Glimpses of Coronal Rain

Despite its incredible heat, our sun‘s corona is so faint compared to the rest of the star that we can rarely make it out except during a total solar eclipse. But a new adaptive optic technique has given us coronal images with unprecedented detail.

These images come from the 1.6-meter Goode Solar Telescope at Big Bear Solar Observatory, and they required some 2,200 adjustments to the instrument’s mirror every second to counter atmospheric distortions that would otherwise blur the images. With the new technique, the team was able to sharpen their resolution from 1,000 kilometers all the way down to 63 kilome

A solar prominence dancing in the Sun's magnetic field lines.

Telescope Upgrade Reveals Sun's 'Coronal Rain' in Unprecedented Detail

A powerful new optics system has captured the clearest view yet of the Sun’s corona, revealing stunning plasma structures.

^{Isaac Schultz (Gizmodo)}

#science #physics #plasma #magneticfield #fluiddynamics #stellarevolution #solardynamics #magnetohydrodynamics #flowvisualization

Deceptichum via memes

6 months ago • •

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PugJesus

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@gabboman

@Gabbo the wafrn guy

SamotsvetyVIA [any] via Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

6 months ago • •

SamotsvetyVIA [any]
6 months ago • •

Crack/Subscription Bypass for FontBase

This link does not contain FontBase itself, so it should be fine to share. It's just a program that disables the subscription check.

gist.githubusercontent.com/tki…

Install FontBase
Install Python
Save the above Python script as a file (keep the .py extension)
As with all downloaded scripts, check the script to ensure it is not doing anything malicious
Execute it (python3 fontbase-crack)
Restart FontBase

#piracy

misk via Games

6 months ago • •

misk
6 months ago • •

Witcher Game Maker Among Europe’s Priciest Stocks as Hype Grows

Archive: archive.is/2025.07.11-071543/b…

Witcher Game Maker Among Europe’s Priciest Stocks as Hype Grows

Optimism over a distant video-game launch has turned a Polish studio developing the title into one of Europe’s most richly valued companies, topping even hot sectors such as defense and electrification by one measure.

^{Konrad Krasuski (Bloomberg)}

#games

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SpaceNoodle

in reply to misk • 6 months ago • •

This is what's keeping me afloat while America tanks its own economy

Joseph_Boom via Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

6 months ago • •

Joseph_Boom
6 months ago • •

FitGirl games installation stuck at around 0.0% (Linux)

I've tried to install the following games:

The Last of us Part I
One More Night

but for both, the game installation stuck at around 0.0%, so I think this is not a problem with games per se but maybe with my pc/wine configuration. The fun fact is that, a week ago, I was able to install Clair Obscure Expedition 33 without issue.
Can anyone help me?

This is my pc configuration:

ChachyOS with zen-kernel
CPU: Ryzen 5 2600X
GPU: RX 7800 XT
16 GB of RAM at 2133 MHz
1 TB nvme SSD

I tried the following fixes:

verify BIN files before installation
use the Russian language for the installer
deleted any special character in the folder name of the executable and put such folder in a subfolder of the C drive
install the game in a subfolder of the C drive
limit installer to 2 GB of RAM usage
every wine tricks in the FitGirl troubleshooting page
use brand-new wine prefix

UPDATE: I resolved this issue launching the setup through Lutris (here's a )

- 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}

#piracy

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Dataprolet

in reply to Joseph_Boom • 6 months ago • •

fitgirl-repacks.site/repacks-t…

Repacks Troubleshooting - FitGirl Repacks

This page will help you to solve typical problems, which can appear while installing repacks (mine included) and running installed games.

^{FitGirl Repacks}

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Joseph_Boom

in reply to Dataprolet • 6 months ago • •

Thanks, but I already tried them.

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Kairos

in reply to Joseph_Boom • 6 months ago • •

What's the process's CPU usage? Can you run it with strace?

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BlueSquid0741

in reply to Joseph_Boom • 6 months ago • •

I can’t say this is your problem, but when I’ve had similar issues with the install getting stuck, it was a corrupted file and redownloading solved it.

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mybuttnolie

in reply to Joseph_Boom • 6 months ago • •

i never get those working either. i use virtualbox w10, unpack there, and then move the folder back to linux

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FairyTail2000

in reply to Joseph_Boom • 6 months ago • •

You can try running it with proton-ge, instead of pure wine. Use Lutris to make things easier

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yetAnotherUser

in reply to FairyTail2000 • 6 months ago • •

Yep! Wine does NOT work with larger Fitgirl Repacks (>1 GB).

Lutris with Proton-GE works flawlessly though. Never had any issue.

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quediuspayu

in reply to yetAnotherUser • 6 months ago • •

How is the process now? Last time I tried, a few years ago, the whole thing was so confusing to me that it was much easier to get a second ssd and dual boot windows. Now I'm planning to ditch windows completely but I haven't looked into it yet.

I remember there was a add game button then add the installer but once the installer finished I didn't know where the game went. I only remember installing successfully the witcher 3 not being sure how.

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yetAnotherUser

in reply to quediuspayu • 6 months ago • •

It's really simple actually. It took me a bit of time to figure it out the first time though since there were no usable guides anywhere. As luck has it, I have actually written a full, comprehensive guide I wanted to post on here eventually. If you want to, try following this "beta" version of it:

An actually comprehensive guide for installing FitGirl Repacks using Lutris on Linux [Beta]

I'm frankly surprised there is not a single guide which explains this process. Sure, there is this one on Reddit from nearly 6 years ago but it is both outdated and its assumption there is a user install script provided by the Lutris community rarely ever holds true.

An actually comprehensive guide for installing FitGirl Repacks using Lutris on Linux [Beta]

So, let this be a guide for the full FitGirl Repacks install process for newcomers to Lutris. I will be using the game "Beacon Pines" as example because it's decent (it has received FitGirls's Pink Paw Award after all) and rather small so if anything goes wrong you can quickly redo the process:
First of all, acquire the files. I have stored them in ~/Downloads/Beacon Pines [Fitgirl Repack]/

Verify the BIN files before installation (optional)

In case you have eyes, you may spot the Verify BIN files before installation.bat file. This calls an .exe to verify the MD5 hashes of the .bin files containing the game data. It's likely redundant, as your torrent client (or browser if you used a direct download) verified the integrity already but it doesn't hurt to double check.

Head to /<game name> [Fitgirl Repack]/MD5 (in my case ~/Downloads/Beacon Pines [Fitgirl Repack]/MD5
Execute QuickSFV.EXE using Wine. I just ran wine QuickSFV.EXE in the console. This window should then open:
VERIFY WHETHER YOU ARE IN THE CORRECT DIRECTORY IF THIS IS NOT THE FIRST FITGIRL REPACK YOU INSTALL. The program "remembers" the last location and does not choose your current working directory by default except for the very first time. Once you have chosen the correct directory, select the fitgirls-bins.md5 file.
1. Done! You can safely close this window. If any file is detected as missing/bad you should probably re-download everything.

Prepare to run the installer

Before you run the installer, you should make sure everything will be nice and tidy. By that, I mean you should create a directory where the game and the Wine prefix will be located. I chose ~/Games/Beacon Pines for my install.
Now, within Lutris click on the (+) button on the top left and select the option "Add locally installed game" at the bottom of the newly opened menu:
Within the "Game info" tab of the new menu, choose a name and select the "Wine" runner:
Within the "Game options" tab, choose the /<game name> [FitGirl Repack]/setup.exe file as Executable and the previously created directory as your Wine Prefix. This is where Wine will create the virtualized drive_c directory, so this second part is very important to keep everything organized.
Finally, within the "Runner options" tab, select GE-Proton (Latest). Wine rarely works for larger repacks (though for Beacon Pines, the default Wine runner happens to work).

I recommend changing this globally by the way by selecting the gear icon for Wine in your "Runners" tab in the main menu and then switching the setting just like above. After all, the Wine version Lutris defaults to is outdated and shouldn't be used anymore:
Press "Save". You should now see the installer in your Lutris game library:

Run the installer

Double-click or press on "Play" to start the installer.
Once you have clicked through the title and information screen - you probably don't need to limit the RAM to 2 GB - you will land at this screen. You MUST change the default folder. By default, it will be Z:\Games\<game name> - which maps to /Games/<game name> on your Linux file system. And while you can throw away all conventions and have a game directory in your root, it is probably not the smartest thing to do. Besides, the installer doesn't even have the permission to create this folder and will fail:
Rather, you should select your C:\ folder as the location to install the game. This will map to the path you earlier specified as the Wine root directory - in my case ~/Games/Beacon Pines/drive_c/Beacon Pines.
Also, you can disable "Create a desktop shortcut" as that option doesn't do anything for you (except waste a couple of kilobytes of storage). You can later create a desktop shortcut through Lutris if you want one:
Install ALL components it shows you. Your Wine prefix does not yet have DirectX/C++ Redistributable/Whatever installed as it is bare bones. In order to run games, you need these files. In theory you could create a single Wine prefix for all your games which would save some storage (because you didn't have to install DirectX dozens of times, once for each game) but this causes much worse portability.
Press "Install" and wait!
Finally, if applicable only select the "Update DirectX" (as well as C++ Redistributable etc) check boxes. You don't want to launch the game just yet (even though you could in theory as everything is installed):
As for the Redirection setting: It won't work on Linux; just use uBlock Origin (you may need to activate some more filter list in Ublock's settings though):
Press "Finish", let the check run through and then close this window. A new window for installing DirectX/C++ Redistributable etc. should open up afterwards.

Add the game to Lutris

Just like earlier, press the (+) button in Lutris and then select "Add a locally installed game"
Within the "Game info" tab, use the correct game name. This will allow Lutris to automatically recognize the game and download relevant assets such as the icon and the cover image. In my case, the name is just "Beacon Pines". Common abbreviations (such as GTA for Grand Theft Auto) should also work but don't rely on them. Remember to select the Wine runner!
Within the "Game info" tab, choose the newly created .exe as your executable. It is located where you installed it. Since I chose ~/Games/Beacon Pines as my Wine prefix and C:\Beacon Pines as my install directory within the FitGirl installer, the .exe is located in the directory: ~/Games/Beacon Pines/drive_c/Beacon Pines/.
As for the Wine prefix: Use the same as earlier:
If you didn't select Proton-GE as your global Wine runner, you should select it in "Runner options" like earlier.
You should now see the game alongside its automatically downloaded cover image within Lutris. Enjoy! The installer can safely be removed from Lutris now; it will not delete anything in your file system (neither the setup.exe, nor the Wine prefix used by the newly installed game).

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quediuspayu

in reply to yetAnotherUser • 6 months ago • •

Thanks! Now I understand it much better. I'm saving it for future reference. As soon as I get a new drive I'm trying it.

Thanks again!

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L3ft_F13ld!

in reply to Joseph_Boom • 6 months ago • •

FitGirl often repacks Dodi's repacks to make them smaller. I've heard people having trouble with FitGirl's repacks often succeed with Dodi's instead. Maybe try that if it's possible.

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reddeadhead

in reply to L3ft_F13ld! • 6 months ago • •

This was the case for me with RDR2

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barrbaric [he/him]

in reply to Joseph_Boom • 6 months ago • •

I once had windows quarantine the download files, claiming they were viruses. Had to manually add an exception and then it worked fine.

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RandomLegend [He/Him]

in reply to barrbaric [he/him] • 6 months ago • •

This wont happen on linux

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Inui [comrade/them]

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Vvvvv

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Joseph_Boom

in reply to Inui [comrade/them] • 6 months ago • •

Yes, I tried to install it with Lutris and now the installer works flawlessly.

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TechnoAnomie [he/him, any]

in reply to Joseph_Boom • 6 months ago • •

I've read the latest Wine has issues with the installers, which wouldn't be the first time.

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priapus

in reply to Joseph_Boom • 6 months ago • •

I'd highly recommend using Dodi instead. I dont know what causes it, but FitGirls installers have been doing this for years. There are some steps that can fix it, but its very inconsistent. Meanwhile, I havent had a Dodo install fail.

If you'd really prefer FitGirls repacks you can run the installer in a Windows VM and move the files to the host.

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TurboHarbinger

in reply to Joseph_Boom • 6 months ago • •

Don't use fitgirls repacks with Linux. Its always trouble. For some reason their installer fails in different ways depending on the game.

Use dodi

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BurgerBaron

in reply to Joseph_Boom • 6 months ago • •

unarc.dll and ISDone.dll are common culprits with Fitgirl on Linux I think in an unresolved YMMV situation.

Try DODI instead.

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scintilla

in reply to BurgerBaron • 6 months ago • •

Have had way more luck with DODI so seconded.

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Caketaco

in reply to Joseph_Boom • 6 months ago • •

On the bright side, you can listen to that zen music for eternity.

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sga

in reply to Joseph_Boom • 6 months ago • •

you have encountered the same bug as me (lemmings.world/post/28452192) the problem is that arch (or cachyos) now defaults to using wine-wow64 builds (no 32 bit libraries required) and that has something to do with it. I have not beeen able to fix it, and do not know where to report (wine team will not consider bugs concerning pirated installers)

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Teppichbrand

in reply to Joseph_Boom • 6 months ago • •

I find it very funny that it says 0.2% in the picture and you describe it as "around 0.0%" in the headline. Don't know, makes me chuckle.

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in reply to Joseph_Boom • 6 months ago • •

How long did you let it sit before giving up? Some of her repacks can sit on a random percentage for up to an hour even on Windows and appear to be frozen.

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Omega

in reply to Joseph_Boom • 6 months ago • •

Fit girl has issues with Linux, stuff like DODI and RUNE which are direct downloads usually just work

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octobob

in reply to Joseph_Boom • 6 months ago • •

For Linux, this is kind of a stupid workaround but I've had success, add the installer as a non-steam game and run it through proton by switching to it in the "game's" compatibility. Running it through wine has been hit or miss for me, it'll crash or freeze up, but proton has worked pretty well so far.

Then after unpacking, install the game's .exe as a non-steam game and run that through proton, deleting the first installer from your library

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darcmage

in reply to Joseph_Boom • 6 months ago • •

Ran into this issue recently. Saw a random post on the other site about it being a wine bug. That led me down the path of trying older versions of wine and that solved the problem.

Grab the last version of wine 9 from github.com/Kron4ek/Wine-Builds and run the installer from the directory where wine 9 was unpacked.

./wine /path/to/game/installer

Hopefully it'll get fixed soon in wine 10 but given the nature of the bug, that could take a while.

GitHub - Kron4ek/Wine-Builds: Wine builds (Vanilla, Staging, TkG and Proton)

Wine builds (Vanilla, Staging, TkG and Proton). Contribute to Kron4ek/Wine-Builds development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

Anders_S via Svenssons Nyheter

6 months ago • •

Anders_S
6 months ago • •

Det är uppenbart för den som studerat Säpo under lång tid. De ägnade enorma resurser på att övervaka den svenska vänstern under 1960-talet, 1970-talet och 1980-talet. Detta trots att det aldrig har funnits nåt hot om våldsamheter från den svenska vänstern. De enda våldsamma handlingarna utfördes istället av en av de män som Säpo anställt för att infiltrerar vänstern.

blog.zaramis.se/2025/07/11/sap…

#ib #SSI #säkerhet #Fördomar #Paranoja

Anders_S via Svenssons Nyheter

6 months ago • •

Anders_S
6 months ago • •

En 40-åring från Partille greps i månadsskiftet oktober-november 2024 med anledning av misstankar om narkotikalangning. Vid gripandet påträffades material som avslöjade planer på en större produktion av den syntetiska drogen Spice. Dessutom hittades bevisning om utpressning mot ett par svenska bitcoinspekulanter.

blog.zaramis.se/2025/07/11/nar…

Narkotika och bitcoin samt utpressning - Svenssons Nyheter

Narkotika och bitcoin. En 40-åring från Partille greps i månadsskiftet oktober-november 2024 med anledning av misstankar om

^{Anders_S (Svenssons Nyheter)}

#bitcoin #Spice #Narkotika #Narkotikabrott #Utpressning

Sunshine (she/her) via Fediverse memes

6 months ago • •

Sunshine (she/her)
6 months ago • •

You Know It Will Happen At Some Point

And when the cops tried to find the suspect from flohmarkt, the specific instance was shut down to never be heard from again.

#fedimemes

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Cris

in reply to Sunshine (she/her) • 6 months ago • •

Did something happen with flohmarkt?

I should go check it out again. Last time there wasn't much activity in the US but I really want a cool alternative to facebook marketplace

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sga

in reply to Cris • 6 months ago • •

I do not think so. the image is doctored, it was likely some other marketplace. Also, the image shows 4y ago, and flohmarkt was basically not present back then (certainly not in a hosted form which was big enough)

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Cris

in reply to sga • 6 months ago • •

Looking more closely now I think I was just confused by the post 😅

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irelephant [he/him]

in reply to Cris • 6 months ago • •

Its a joke, saying there'll probably be a scandal involving it when it gets popular.

Sunshine (she/her) via Fediverse memes

6 months ago • •

Sunshine (she/her)
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We Must Move Away From Microsoft!

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BlameTheAntifa

in reply to Sunshine (she/her) • 6 months ago • •

I won’t contribute to anything hosted on Github. It’s part of my blanket “no Microsoft” rule. I often wonder if I’m alone in that policy.

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I often wonder if I’m alone in that policy.

You're not.

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Microsoft would love if you felt alone in that policy though!

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GoToSocial made the move recently too.

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Fast, fun, small ActivityPub server.

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Stop Killing Games has exceeded 1.3 million signatures!

Link for those who've yet to see it/sign the petition: stopkillinggames.com/

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Goldmage263

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Well, it requires one because the producer said so, not because the game can't function otherwise. That's what makes it half-correct.

Having the "server" locally hosted on your device would fix it, but they just let it die without allowing those who purchased the game to be capable of playing it. That's the big push behind this movement, not online only multiplayer games. Everyone knows those die eventually.

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Pratai

in reply to the16bitgamer • 6 months ago • •

This has the same chance of moving the needle as petitioning congress to lower their salaries.

The industry doesn’t give a shit if you don’t like what they’re doing. They know damn well you’ll keep shoveling money into their banks regardless of what they do.

It’s the same shit YouTube is doing. No matter what end-user insulting, batshit insane decision they make, everyone will continue to use their product and do all their advertising for them.

Oh, and by they way- Be sure to like and share this!

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Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Person backed the Stop Killing Games campaign. criticizing digital game licenses. He argued that if players don't truly own games, then piracy isn't theft.

Minecraft Creator Says That If Buying a Game Is Not a Purchase, Then Pirating It Is Not Theft

Minecraft creator Markus Persson commented on the Stop Killing Games initiative: 'if buying a game is not a purchase, pirating is not theft'.

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Reject Western Marxism, defend the socialist countries, and stand with the peoples of the world against imperialism - Friends of Socialist China

On Saturday 5 July 2025, Friends of Socialist China hosted – along with the Morning Star, the International Manifesto Group, Critical Theory Workshop and Iskra books – a discussion of Domenico Losurdo’s crucial book, Western Marxism: How it was Born,…

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coso

in reply to frightful_hobgoblin • 6 months ago • •

China after Deng Xiaoping has a state capitalism but it remains a statist capitalism now little or nothing of the old Maoism remains

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to coso • 6 months ago • •

The Gang of Four were ultraleft dogmatists that ultimately broke the mass line. You cannot command communism into existence, you have to build it, and what is built must come from what is already ready-made. The Dengist reforms did come with struggles and unique problems, but ultimately stablized and increased economic development, and prevented the bourgeoisie or imperialists from coming to power via retaining state control over the large firms and key industries.

You're correct in saying that little of Maoism remains. Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought (now also Xi Jinping Thought) is what remains, not the Gonzaloist ultraleft Marxism-Leninism-Maoism nor the Gang of Four's ultraleftism. The PRC is a Socialist Market Economy, and is steadily developing towards higher rates of socialization of the economy without falling into the pitfalls of dogmatist idealism like they did earlier.

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coso

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 6 months ago • •

Having a state-dominated economy doesn't mean you're socialist. China now uses socialism only as a facade. For example, Nordic countries also have a similar economy and much more welfare, but they've aligned themselves with capitalists. And we must remember that China is also using neo-imperialism. We must have a pragmatic view of the world. At the moment, there are no truly good states (aside from smaller communities like Zapatista Mexico)

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to coso • 6 months ago • •

No, Nordic countries do not have a similar economy. The Nordics rely on imperialism, and the large firms and key industries are privately owned and run. Just because the Nordics have welfare, does not mean they are in any way similar to the heavily centrally planned and state run PRC. China is not using "neo-imperialism" either, as a heavily industrialized economy without the dominance of private financial capital, they are more focused on multilateralism and building up trade routes. You left this claim (like your point on the Nordics) as though it were a fact without a need for justification. We do need a pragmatic view of the world, but your analysis is not.

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coso

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 6 months ago • •

China does not have a planned economy anymore with the special economic zones it is pure capitalism and China is "helping" African and Asian countries to have a sphere of influence not for charity now more than a socialist planned economy it is a state capitalism a bit like in the USSR where the bureaucratization of the party has created a new elite

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to coso • 6 months ago • •

This is utter idealism.

The PRC regularly implements Five Year Plans, the largest industries are state owned and run. The state doesn't need to operate in the capitalist circuit of M-C...P...C'-M'. The way to transition from an economy dominated by private property to a fully collectivized and planned, centralized economy, is through gradual sublimation of property under the direction of a socialist state. You cannot simply will communism into existence like you imply.

The USSR similarly was socialist, not "state capitalist." State capitalism is a better descriptor for economies like Bismark's Germany, the Republic of Korea, or Singapore, not the PRC nor USSR.

And no, socialism is not "charity." The fact that the PRC is not imperialist isn't becausd they are nice, but because they lack the dominance of financial capital that results in imperialism. This is the basic Leninist analysis of imperialism, of course the PRC is going to serve its own interests, but that doesn't mean every interaction between more and less developed countries is necessar

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coso

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 6 months ago • •

China exploits its workers, it is not a paradise and Marx never spoke of censorship and statism, he was in favor of models like that of the Paris Commune, that is, a popular government not made up of elites as happened with the Soviet or Chinese bureaucrats. Being exploited by a capitalist or by a state, for me is the same thing. Making five-year plans does not mean being socialist and in fact China also has capitalists who act on behalf of the state but live off the income

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to coso • 6 months ago • •

I never said the PRC was a paradise. It's in the early, developing stages of socialism, and has a long way to go. Further, Marx did speak of censorship and state control, measure 6 listed in the Communist Manifesto states that "Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State" is one of the key aspects of a new proletarian state destined to wither away.

Marx supported the Paris Commune, but not because of its model. He supported it as a true dictatorship of the proletariat, but found that it was utterly ineffective as a model, because the communards never smashed and replaced the state, merely took hold of it, which is why it faded while socialism in the PRC is alive and well.

You have far more in common with anarchists if your analysis of the state involves equating the M-C...P...C'-M' circuit of capitalist production with state-run production. Making a Five Year Plan alone is not socialism, the Republic of Korea copied the soviet five year plan models in a thorougly state capitalist dictatorship,

In an economy where public ownership is the principle aspect, this is a sign of socialization of the economy, in an economy where private ownership is principle like the ROK, this is an example of state capitalism. Reading Capital is necessary, or at least Wage Labor and Capital and Value, Price, and Profit. And yes, the PRC does have a bourgeoisie, and it will until it reaches communism. You cannot get rid of the bourgeoisie with a stroke of a pen, but through economic compulsuon.

I am being harsh with you because I hold Marxists to higher standards, I want to make this clear. You're already on the right track, but you have a long way to go, chiefly in understanding the concepts of Scientific Socialism, the Marxist theory of the state, and Dialectical Materialism. If you want, I can make some good recommendations for reading to help. When a Marxist relies on idealist analysis to attack Marxists while taking on the mantle of Marxism, they ultimately prove an effective weapon for the imperialist bourgeoisie.

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coso

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 6 months ago • •

Marx was against censorship and then praised the French Commune as temporary and self-managed socialism not as permanent and bureaucratic socialism as in USSR/China and Marx always said that socialism was also self-managed not only state-run. In socialism there had to be also self-managed elements not only state-run and he aimed at the elimination of the state which was only an instrument not the center of government the government was controlled by the people not by cold bureaucrats

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to coso • 6 months ago • •

This, again, is wrong. Self-management is a petite bourgeois artifact, not a proletarian conception. The Paris Commune wasn't temporary intentionally, it was temporary because it failed. The socialism of the USSR was not "permanent," no system is capable of being static, not socualism nor capitalism nor communism.

Further, the elimination of the state is not an active decision. It withers in that as soon as all property is centralized, there is no more class, and thus no state. Centralized production is the method of communist production, the government will not cease, but the class character of the state will wither.

Again, you really should read Socialism: Utopian and Scientific. Here's a great excerpt from Engels:

When ultimately it becomes the real representative of the whole of society, it renders itself superfluous. As soon as there is no social class to be held in subjection any longer, as soon as class domination and the struggle for individual existence based on the anarchy of production existing up to now are eliminated to

Again, you really should read Socialism: Utopian and Scientific. Here's a great excerpt from Engels:

When ultimately it becomes the real representative of the whole of society, it renders itself superfluous. As soon as there is no social class to be held in subjection any longer, as soon as class domination and the struggle for individual existence based on the anarchy of production existing up to now are eliminated together with the collisions and excesses arising from them, there is nothing more to repress, nothing necessitating a special repressive force, a state. The first act in which the state really comes forward as the representative of the whole of society -- the taking possession of the means of production in the name of society -- is at the same time its last independent act as a state. The interference of the state power in social relations becomes superfluous in one sphere after another, and then dies away of itself. The government of persons is replaced by the administration of things and the direction of the processes of production. The state is not "abolished", it withers away. It is by this that one must evaluate the phrase "a free people's state" with respect both to its temporary agitational justification and to its ultimate scientific inadequacy, and it is by this that we must also evaluate the demand of the so-called anarchists that the state should be abolished overnight.

I'm not trying to be mean, but I do legitimately think you're running into theoretical obstacles due to not having much experience with reading theory or with organizational practice, these are pretty basic errors on your part that you haven't justified, just made an appeal to Marx without actually explaining why. It almost turns Marx into a religious figure, not as someone with a working methodology for bringing about socialism as proven by AES like the PRC and USSR. You have an odd combo of idealist Marxism, anarchism, and some degree of Trotskyism melded together, and I think returning to the basics would be beneficial.

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coso

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 6 months ago • •

false self-management has been used by many proletarian states for example Luxemburgism in Germany which renounced authoritarianism and worked with local soviets which had complete control of the state and then Engels thought that little by little the state would disappear because there was no longer any need for it instead in states like the USSR and China the state governs with an iron fist leaving no room for self-management which was used in Germany by Rosa Luxemburg, Spain,italy...

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to coso • 6 months ago • •

Luxemburgism is not Marxism in general. You are pushing Luxemburg onto Marx. Secondly, all states are authoritarian, in that all states resolve class contradictions in favor of one class over others, you cannot reject "authoritarianism" without working towards the end of class. Luxemburgism died. Luxemburg herself has wonderful works like Reform or Revolution, but this is not to mean that everything she says is correct.

Next, the withering of the state. The state can only wither once all production is collectivized and centralized as these are the conditions for eliminating class, at no time in history has this been possible. There is no need for class oppression when there is no class, the state could never fade in the USSR or PRC, Cuba, or the EZLN.

Again, you have a weird mix of anarchism, idealist Marxism, and Trotskyism, which can be solved by reading the basics (again, if you haven't), and joining an org.

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coso

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 6 months ago • •

and then Marx praised the Paris Commune for its lack of bureaucracy and proletarian democracy, he criticized some strategic errors but not the nation itself, he never criticized the lack of authoritarianism.

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to coso • 6 months ago • •

The Paris Commune was authoritarian, it just didn't wield its authority to properly crush and replace the bourgeois state. The communards were progressive, but ultimately failed.

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coso

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 6 months ago • •

and in fact they had even abolished the army and the police

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to coso • 6 months ago • •

On paper. This is why you're idealist, the material reality is that later the army and police crushed the commune, saying something doesn't exist is a legalist, idealist approach rather than a materialist one.

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coso

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 6 months ago • •

replaced the army and police with armed citizens acting alone without state oversight

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to coso • 6 months ago • •

On paper, again. The bourgeois army and police came and swiftly crushed the newborn revolution without mercy.

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coso

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 6 months ago • •

I'm talking about the commune army, what do you mean?

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to coso • 6 months ago • •

The commune army existed, yes. It worked for a very short while, but ultimately was swiftly crushed by the very real and still existing bourgeois army. In a revolution, the state must be crushed and replaced with one dominated by the proletariat. The fact that the communard's had an army for a brief period of time does not work in their favor, Marx spent a great deal of time post-Paris Commune trying to figure out where the communards went wrong and how the future proletariat can make use of that info.

The disorganization and lack of discipline in the army of the communards directly contributed to its own demise. You cannot let the perfect, dreamlike, fictional system in your head be the enemy of the real proletariat as it exists in real life. A repeat of the Paris Commune would be crushed the same exact way, same as a Luxemburgist revolution.

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coso

in reply to Cowbee [he/they] • 6 months ago • •

they abolished it it was more of a militia than a real army

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in reply to coso • 6 months ago • •

Try to recall how many hours you've spent having these conversations and think of how much progress you two could have made for modern working class movements if you spent as much time helping organize strikes and creating unions instead of having pointless internet debates like this one. This is why the modern left is doomed. Instead of doing IRL organizing, they waste their time arguing online about old irrelevant crap that no one else cares about.
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coso

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you're right but dialogue is also important

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The dialogue shouldn't outweigh the real-world action, in my opinion. Otherwise, leftist activity essentially becomes a book club where they sometimes do stuff outside.
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in my defense I contribute to tails os to help activists and journalists to evade censorship

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