Canada turns to EU for agreements on AI as Montreal hosts G7 digital, tech ministers
Here is the official release by the Canadian government and the EU's official statement.
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Canada's Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation Evan Solomon held two press conferences on the first day of the two-day meeting in Montreal — one on a new partnership with Germany and the other on a new agreement with the European Union.
The agreement with Germany is meant to increase collaboration on AI, quantum technology, digital sovereignty and infrastructure. Solomon also announced the signing of two agreements with the EU — one focusing on adoption and responsible development of AI and the other on co-operation on digital credentials.
The European Union has been a proponent of AI regulation, while the United States under the Trump administration has opposed regulation. In Montreal, Solomon faced questions from reporters about that dynamic.
"Canada and Europe have both very much been aligned on finding a place where we have the balance between privacy, safety, and AI safety, not just with AI, whether it's with deep fakes and other issues, but also making sure we don't constrain innovation," Solomon said.
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At the press conference with [executive vice-president of the European Commission for technological sovereignty, security and democracy, Henna] Virkkunen, he said one of Canada's goals is to broaden trade relationships, including digital trade relationships with Europe. He noted Canada's digital partnership with the EU began in 2023.
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When Solomon was first named artificial intelligence minister, he said Canada would not "over-index" on regulation and cited U.S. and Chinese disinterest in such efforts.
A month ago, at the Govern or Be Governed conference in Montreal, the European Union’s democracy commissioner said he wouldn't "lecture" Canada or any other country as the EU pushes ahead on regulating tech platforms and artificial intelligence. AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio told the same conference Canada should partner with allies like the European Union.
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European Union and Canada strengthen their digital partnership with a focus on artificial intelligence, digital identity wallets and independent media
The EU and Canada reinforced their cooperation and reaffirmed shared interests to boost competitiveness, innovation and economic resilience during the first Digital Partnership Council held today in Montreal, Canada.European Commission - European Commission
Lemmy Release v0.19.14
What is Lemmy?
Lemmy is a self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top. Thanks to @flamingos-cant for contributing to resolve this.
Changes
Recently some malicious users started to use an exploit where they would post rule violating content and then delete the account. This would prevent admins and mods from viewing the user profile to find other posts, and would also prevent federation of ban actions.
The new release fixes these problems. Thanks to @flamingos-cant for contributing to solve this.
Upgrade instructions
There are no breaking changes with this release.
Follow the upgrade instructions for ansible or docker.
If you need help with the upgrade, you can ask in our support forum or on the Matrix Chat.
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A docker deploy for ansible. Contribute to LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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‘I don’t know who I can trust,’ says Canadian YouTuber harassed by Chinese government
Chinese government circulated sexually explicit deepfakes of dissident Yao Zhang.
Yao Zhang says she doesn’t have any friends, yet every week, thousands of her 175,000 YouTube subscribers tune in to her channel to listen to her live takes on Chinese current affairs.
“China isn’t a democratic country. Everyone suffers in that regime,” Zhang told Radio-Canada during an interview held somewhere between Montreal and Quebec City.
Concerned for her safety, the 39-year-old guards any information that could give away her location.
And for good reason: the Quebec YouTuber, who refuses to be silenced, has been the target of an intimidation campaign by the Chinese government for over a year.
“I have to be very, very careful,” she said. “I stopped all communications with the Chinese community because I don’t know who I can trust.”
[...]
Trained in accounting at McGill University, Zhang did a 180 during the pandemic and began offering news commentary on YouTube, which she continues to do today. The Communist Party of China and president Xi Jinping are often the subjects of her criticisms.
“I’m with Taiwan, I’m with the Uyghurs, I’m with Hong Kong. I’m against the Chinese government,” said the pro-democracy activist.
It was in September 2024 that Zhang first noticed sexually explicit AI-generated images of herself circulating online.
“It wasn’t just one photo. There were many, many of them,” she remembered with disgust.
Shared by anonymous accounts, the images were published on social media under posts of official accounts belonging to the Canadian government and then prime minister Justin Trudeau.
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For the YouTuber, there was no doubt the People’s Republic of China (PRC) was behind what she was seeing. And she was right.
In March, Global Affairs Canada (GAC) released a statement blaming the PRC for a new "spamouflage" campaign using sexually explicit AI-generated images to target individuals in Canada. Zhang says the government told her she is the first documented case of the campaign.
“This new campaign employs various tactics to intimidate, belittle and harass individuals based in Canada who are critical of the PRC,” reads the statement.
Notably, Zhang and members of her family have been doxed. Her date of birth, phone and passport numbers all appear on a doxing website that labels her as a “traitor.” The site, which is still accessible to this day, also uses degrading language to spread defamatory sexually explicit statements about her.
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Though the YouTuber benefits from a certain degree of protection in Canada, she can’t say the same for her family in China.
In 2024, after a trip to Taiwan to support the island’s independence, Zhang said China's national police put pressure on her aunt and grandmother living there in an attempt to silence her.
The strategy is a well known one, detailed in a report published earlier this year by the Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference in Federal Electoral Processes and Democratic Institutions.
“[The PRC] employs a wide range of tradecraft to carry out its activities, one of which is to use a person’s family and friends living in the PRC as leverage against them,” it reads.
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Zhang says she’s received death threats against her and her family and is worried about retribution if she were to ever return to China.
“I’ll go to prison,” she said. “I’ll be like all those who have wanted to change China.”
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Transnational repression is a “genuine scourge” in the country, concluded Marie-Josée Hogue, who presided over the public inquiry into foreign interference. The threat it poses “is real and growing,” adds the report.
The former Canadian ambassador to China, Guy Saint-Jacques, who occupied the function from 2012 to 2016, says budgets allocated to cracking down on dissent “increased substantially” after Xi came to power in 2012.
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Notably, an Enquête investigation revealed that a Chinese dissident found dead in British Columbia in 2022, Hua Yong, was the target of an espionnage operation led by the Chinese secret police.
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Zhang says she is at peace and hopes that more Chinese people in Canada and elsewhere in the world will speak out.
“I am using my life for something very important,” she says.
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‘I don’t know who I can trust,’ says Quebec YouTuber harassed by Chinese government
Yao Zhang knew something was up when she started seeing fake sexually explicit images of her circulating online.Gaétan Pouliot (CBC)
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How to change screen saturation?
Ubuntu, Gnome, Wayland, nVidia, Intel integrated graphics.
I have a wide-gamut OLED screen. When regular sRGB is mapped to it, it leads to oversaturation. I can use color profiles in color managed applications to get accurate colors, but it's not system-wide and it have no effect on most of the apps.
On Windows 11, I was able to change hue/saturation both in Intel Command Center and in ASUS preinstalled bloatware. On Linux, I've spent a lot of time, built below markdown file and I still have no suitable saturation control. Did I miss something?
If you're using KDE and you have a swappedRedAndGreen.icc color profile preinstalled in your color management settings, can you enable it to check if it affects whole system or only color managed applications (like some of image viewers)? If you have SDR Color Intensity in your KDE Display settings and it works, can you check if CTM is supported by your system (xrandr --properties | grep ctm)?
Gnome Extensions
There are some saturation extensions which work nice for X11 but bad for Wayland+fractional scaling, they degrade performance in any case:
extensions.gnome.org/
github.com/zb3/gnome-saturatio…
nVidia Settings
In some systems nVidia control panel has color settings:
nvidia-settingsShould look like this: askubuntu.com/a/664299 but no such option for me. Maybe switching between Open/Proprietary nvidia drivers will enable color settings? When I switch Primary GPU from Intel to nVidia and reboot, new props appear, but no color props.
ctm doesn't appear in xrandr either. xrandr display id changes to eDP-1-1. Performance and heat issues appear. Mouse lags a little bit.xrandr and xcalib
X11 only.
# You can make white less white, but can't change black in xrandr with gamma/brightness props:
xrandr --output eDP-1 --gamma ('{0}:{0}:{0}' -f 1.9) --brightness 0.5
# This one changes black point!
xcalib -brightness 10 -alter xcalib defaults:
gamma=1.0 brightness=0.0 and contrast=100.0.To reset xcalib use one of these:
- Restart PC;
Alt+F2->xcalib -clear-> Enter;Ctrl+Alt+Deleteand wait for 60s or pressRight, Enter
xrandr BroadcastRGB
# Check Broadcast RGB available values (default: Automatic):
xrandr --props | sls 'Broadcast RGB' -Context 0,1 | select -f 1
\#> Broadcast RGB: Limited 16:235
# supported: Automatic, Full, Limited 16:235
# Change to Limited:
xrandr --output eDP-1 --set "Broadcast RGB" "Limited 16:235"
# Black is now less black, white is less white, screen is softer.
# Will reset to default after reboot.libvibrant
X11 only
github.com/libvibrant/libvibra…
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git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/libvibrant/libvibrant.git
# sudo apt install cmake
# sudo apt install libx11-dev libxrandr-dev libxext-dev libxi-dev
# sudo apt install nvidia-settings libxnvctrl-dev
cmake ..
& ./build/cli/vibrant-cli --version
# FAIL
# CTM should be supported by driver/display for libvibrant to work:
# xrandr --properties | sls ctmFor non-laptop screens there are
ddcutil and ddccontrol. They should work as if you're changing your settings using physical buttons on your display.KDE has saturation settings? zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/20… "SDR Color Intensity" option. Maybe it relies on CTM?
KDE can affect whole screen appearance with regular ICC profiles without VCGT tag?
An update on HDR and color management in KWin
In my last post about HDR and color management I explained roughly how color management works, what we’re doing to make it work on Wayland and how far along we were with that in Plasma.Xaver Hugl (Xaver’s blog)
nvidia-settings was last mentioned in September 2024. 17 mentions of xrandr overall.
ddcutil and ddccontrol don't work either.
wlr-randr doesn't work: compositor doesn't support wlr-output-management-unstable-v1. Probably wrandr (it's not even in apt repo) will not work either, also gamma is about contrast, not saturation.
Perhaps the required KCM (KDE configuration module) for that is not installed in your system. That did happen to me in my minimal Debian setup.
I don't really remember the name of the package, though. I think it was kscreen, but I might be wrong.
Sounds like you want color management, not just arbitrary saturation changes.
Install KDE Plasma, select the "built-in" color profile, and you're done, no more oversaturated colors. If you want to test how it looks, just use a live boot.
Are you sure you can affect saturation system-wide with color profiles?
Yes, I wrote the relevant code in KWin.
Because in Gnome it's not possible.
That's because Gnome's color management support is still limited, they don't apply the full ICC profile yet.
A Chinese dissident died suddenly in Canada. This ex-spy who snooped on him says it may not have been an accident.
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/46972708
[...]A man who spent a decade and a half working as a Chinese spy has shared details of some of his missions with Radio-Canada, including what he knows about a Chinese dissident who died in B.C., Canada, in 2022.
"From 2008 to 2023, my real job was to work for China's secret police. It's a means for political repression," said "Eric," who was interviewed in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. "Its main targets are dissidents who criticize the Chinese Communist Party."
Eric shared a variety of documents — including financial records, secret money transfers and the names of spies — with journalists from the Australian Broadcasting Corp. and the Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, of which CBC/Radio-Canada is a partner.
The records give an unprecedented glimpse at the inner workings of China's overseas spy operations.
[...]
For 15 years, Eric worked for the 1st Bureau at China's Ministry of Public Security, a unit that specializes in surveillance of dissidents abroad. He previously told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. that he spied on a Japanese-based cartoonist and a YouTuber exiled in Australia. Often, he said, his cover was working for real companies in the countries where he was deployed — companies that collaborated with China's secret police.
[...]
In 2020, Eric said he was tasked with snooping on a dissident named Hua Yong, an artist and hardcore opponent of China's Communist Party who eventually ended up on B.C.'s Sunshine Coast.
[...]
After several failed attempts to flee China, Eric finally succeeded in 2023. The former spy wanted to go to Canada to claim asylum but ended up in Australia because he was able to get a tourist visa there.
The world has a right to know what China's secret police are up to, Eric said, adding that revealing it publicly actually buys him a measure of protection.
Meanwhile, the police investigation into Hua's death isn't officially closed because three years later, the B.C. Coroners Service still hasn't completed its report, which normally takes about 16 months.
Eric said he's had no contact with Canadian police but that he did confidentially send some documents to the Hogue commission, Canada's public inquiry into foreign interference.
"There are some strange aspects to this case that demand further investigation," he said.
Firefox 146 Is Out with Native Support for Fractional Scaled Displays on Wayland - 9to5Linux
Firefox 146 Is Out with Native Support for Fractional Scaled Displays on Wayland - 9to5Linux
Firefox 146 open-source web browser is now available for download with various new features and improvements.Marcus Nestor (9to5Linux)
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Israeli Raid on UNRWA Compound Slammed as 'Dangerous Precedent' | Common Dreams
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/40061691
Dec 08, 2025
In late 2024, Israeli lawmakers approved a ban on UNRWA in Israel over disproven allegations that some of its staffers were Hamas members who took part in the October 7, 2023 attack. Those accusations led to numerous nations suspending financial support for UNRWA, although most of the countries have since restored funding. Israel has also sought to ban UNRWA from Gaza since early 2024.Israeli forces have killed more than 370 UNRWA staff members since October 2023 and destroyed or damaged over 300 of the agency’s facilities in Gaza. Lazzarini and others have also accused Israeli forces of torturing UNRWA staffers in a bid to force false confessions of Hamas involvement.
Israeli Raid on UNRWA Compound Slammed as 'Dangerous Precedent' | Common Dreams
Dec 08, 2025In late 2024, Israeli lawmakers approved a ban on UNRWA in Israel over disproven allegations that some of its staffers were Hamas members who took part in the October 7, 2023 attack. Those accusations led to numerous nations suspending financial support for UNRWA, although most of the countries have since restored funding. Israel has also sought to ban UNRWA from Gaza since early 2024.Israeli forces have killed more than 370 UNRWA staff members since October 2023 and destroyed or damaged over 300 of the agency’s facilities in Gaza. Lazzarini and others have also accused Israeli forces of torturing UNRWA staffers in a bid to force false confessions of Hamas involvement.
Israeli Raid on UNRWA Compound Slammed as 'Dangerous Precedent'
"This latest action represents a blatant disregard of Israel’s obligation as a United Nations member state to protect and respect the inviolability of UN premises," said UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini.brett-wilkins (Common Dreams)
This should be a new record on how liberal imperial institutions do the double-standard-ing thing.
How long can we keep doing the "seriously condemn" performative act? Where is humanity?
Israeli Raid on UNRWA Compound Slammed as 'Dangerous Precedent' | Common Dreams
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/40061691
Dec 08, 2025
In late 2024, Israeli lawmakers approved a ban on UNRWA in Israel over disproven allegations that some of its staffers were Hamas members who took part in the October 7, 2023 attack. Those accusations led to numerous nations suspending financial support for UNRWA, although most of the countries have since restored funding. Israel has also sought to ban UNRWA from Gaza since early 2024.Israeli forces have killed more than 370 UNRWA staff members since October 2023 and destroyed or damaged over 300 of the agency’s facilities in Gaza. Lazzarini and others have also accused Israeli forces of torturing UNRWA staffers in a bid to force false confessions of Hamas involvement.
Israeli Raid on UNRWA Compound Slammed as 'Dangerous Precedent' | Common Dreams
Dec 08, 2025In late 2024, Israeli lawmakers approved a ban on UNRWA in Israel over disproven allegations that some of its staffers were Hamas members who took part in the October 7, 2023 attack. Those accusations led to numerous nations suspending financial support for UNRWA, although most of the countries have since restored funding. Israel has also sought to ban UNRWA from Gaza since early 2024.Israeli forces have killed more than 370 UNRWA staff members since October 2023 and destroyed or damaged over 300 of the agency’s facilities in Gaza. Lazzarini and others have also accused Israeli forces of torturing UNRWA staffers in a bid to force false confessions of Hamas involvement.
Israeli Raid on UNRWA Compound Slammed as 'Dangerous Precedent'
"This latest action represents a blatant disregard of Israel’s obligation as a United Nations member state to protect and respect the inviolability of UN premises," said UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini.brett-wilkins (Common Dreams)
Israeli Raid on UNRWA Compound Slammed as 'Dangerous Precedent' | Common Dreams
Dec 08, 2025
In late 2024, Israeli lawmakers approved a ban on UNRWA in Israel over disproven allegations that some of its staffers were Hamas members who took part in the October 7, 2023 attack. Those accusations led to numerous nations suspending financial support for UNRWA, although most of the countries have since restored funding. Israel has also sought to ban UNRWA from Gaza since early 2024.Israeli forces have killed more than 370 UNRWA staff members since October 2023 and destroyed or damaged over 300 of the agency’s facilities in Gaza. Lazzarini and others have also accused Israeli forces of torturing UNRWA staffers in a bid to force false confessions of Hamas involvement.
Israeli Raid on UNRWA Compound Slammed as 'Dangerous Precedent'
"This latest action represents a blatant disregard of Israel’s obligation as a United Nations member state to protect and respect the inviolability of UN premises," said UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini.brett-wilkins (Common Dreams)
Palestinian prisoners face ‘hunger, overcrowding and violence’, Israeli report finds
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/40060343
By MEE staff
Published date: 4 Dec 2025 15:06 GMT
It found that the Israel Prison Service (IPS) introduced a separate, sparse menu for “security prisoners”, which is used to describe mostly Palestinian prisoners, leaving many malnourished.Released prisoners told media outlets and rights groups that meals sometimes consisted of a tiny portion of undercooked rice shared between several inmates for an entire day, while others went days without food.
The report described the resulting hunger as “severe, manifested in extreme weight loss and associated physical symptoms, including extreme weakness and fainting”.
Palestinian prisoners face ‘hunger, overcrowding and violence’, Israeli report finds
By MEE staff
Published date: 4 Dec 2025 15:06 GMTIt found that the Israel Prison Service (IPS) introduced a separate, sparse menu for “security prisoners”, which is used to describe mostly Palestinian prisoners, leaving many malnourished.Released prisoners told media outlets and rights groups that meals sometimes consisted of a tiny portion of undercooked rice shared between several inmates for an entire day, while others went days without food.
The report described the resulting hunger as “severe, manifested in extreme weight loss and associated physical symptoms, including extreme weakness and fainting”.
Palestinian prisoners face ‘hunger, overcrowding and violence’, Israeli report finds
Palestinian prisoners in Israeli detention are suffering extreme hunger, overcrowding and systematic violence by prison staff, a report by Israel’s Public Defender’s Office has revealed.MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
Palestinian prisoners face ‘hunger, overcrowding and violence’, Israeli report finds
By MEE staff
Published date: 4 Dec 2025 15:06 GMT
It found that the Israel Prison Service (IPS) introduced a separate, sparse menu for “security prisoners”, which is used to describe mostly Palestinian prisoners, leaving many malnourished.Released prisoners told media outlets and rights groups that meals sometimes consisted of a tiny portion of undercooked rice shared between several inmates for an entire day, while others went days without food.
The report described the resulting hunger as “severe, manifested in extreme weight loss and associated physical symptoms, including extreme weakness and fainting”.
Palestinian prisoners face ‘hunger, overcrowding and violence’, Israeli report finds
Palestinian prisoners in Israeli detention are suffering extreme hunger, overcrowding and systematic violence by prison staff, a report by Israel’s Public Defender’s Office has revealed.MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
Whether trapped inside Gaza or out, the world is shrinking for Palestinians | Plestia Alaqad
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/40059752
Dec. 6, 2025
Since I left Gaza in November 2023, my life has been defined by visa rejections and endless hours waiting in airport lines. I watch people behind the counters staring at my Palestinian passport with confusion, often having to “call for help” just to process it.I’ve learned to explain the details automatically: “My name is Plestia, Rana is my mother’s name. Yes, on Palestinian passports, we include our mother’s name.” One rejection after the other; I am stuck in Gaza, I am stuck outside. Where are #Palestinians supposed to go? We are pushed out of our own land, then met with locked doors everywhere else.
Whether trapped inside Gaza or out, the world is shrinking for Palestinians | Plestia Alaqad
Dec. 6, 2025Since I left Gaza in November 2023, my life has been defined by visa rejections and endless hours waiting in airport lines. I watch people behind the counters staring at my Palestinian passport with confusion, often having to “call for help” just to process it.I’ve learned to explain the details automatically: “My name is Plestia, Rana is my mother’s name. Yes, on Palestinian passports, we include our mother’s name.” One rejection after the other; I am stuck in Gaza, I am stuck outside. Where are #Palestinians supposed to go? We are pushed out of our own land, then met with locked doors everywhere else.
In my homeland, I’m trapped by bombs. Outside, I’m trapped by identity. The world is shrinking for Gazans
Sometimes I feel like the world is more afraid of me as a Palestinian refugee than it is afraid of the genocide and wars that create refugees in the first placePlestia Alaqad (The Guardian)
Whether trapped inside Gaza or out, the world is shrinking for Palestinians | Plestia Alaqad
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/40059752
Dec. 6, 2025
Since I left Gaza in November 2023, my life has been defined by visa rejections and endless hours waiting in airport lines. I watch people behind the counters staring at my Palestinian passport with confusion, often having to “call for help” just to process it.I’ve learned to explain the details automatically: “My name is Plestia, Rana is my mother’s name. Yes, on Palestinian passports, we include our mother’s name.” One rejection after the other; I am stuck in Gaza, I am stuck outside. Where are #Palestinians supposed to go? We are pushed out of our own land, then met with locked doors everywhere else.
Whether trapped inside Gaza or out, the world is shrinking for Palestinians | Plestia Alaqad
Dec. 6, 2025Since I left Gaza in November 2023, my life has been defined by visa rejections and endless hours waiting in airport lines. I watch people behind the counters staring at my Palestinian passport with confusion, often having to “call for help” just to process it.I’ve learned to explain the details automatically: “My name is Plestia, Rana is my mother’s name. Yes, on Palestinian passports, we include our mother’s name.” One rejection after the other; I am stuck in Gaza, I am stuck outside. Where are #Palestinians supposed to go? We are pushed out of our own land, then met with locked doors everywhere else.
In my homeland, I’m trapped by bombs. Outside, I’m trapped by identity. The world is shrinking for Gazans
Sometimes I feel like the world is more afraid of me as a Palestinian refugee than it is afraid of the genocide and wars that create refugees in the first placePlestia Alaqad (The Guardian)
Whether trapped inside Gaza or out, the world is shrinking for Palestinians | Plestia Alaqad
Dec. 6, 2025
Since I left Gaza in November 2023, my life has been defined by visa rejections and endless hours waiting in airport lines. I watch people behind the counters staring at my Palestinian passport with confusion, often having to “call for help” just to process it.I’ve learned to explain the details automatically: “My name is Plestia, Rana is my mother’s name. Yes, on Palestinian passports, we include our mother’s name.” One rejection after the other; I am stuck in Gaza, I am stuck outside. Where are #Palestinians supposed to go? We are pushed out of our own land, then met with locked doors everywhere else.
In my homeland, I’m trapped by bombs. Outside, I’m trapped by identity. The world is shrinking for Gazans
Sometimes I feel like the world is more afraid of me as a Palestinian refugee than it is afraid of the genocide and wars that create refugees in the first placePlestia Alaqad (The Guardian)
How to fix intense display tearing?
I have been getting monitor tearing time to time, even with windows. It wasn't occurring often, and I could fix it by turning the monitor off and on, so I have been sleeping on it.
A few days ago, it began tearing like crazy, and it happens after turning the monitor on for a few minutes. It came to the point where the computer is nearly unusable, so I want to solve the issue once and for all.
How do I go with resolving a monitor tearing issue? Or, is it the faulty monitor? The issue also happens on Windows, after all..
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You might be on the right track thinking it's the monitor, but could also be related to the GPU (assuming it's the same PC/card that tears across different OS's).
If different machines all tear the same way, then I'd say definitely the monitor and the manufacturer may or may not be able to give some insight.
Otherwise, I think we might need some more details about the machine's hardware to be able to give any meaningful advice other than double-checking driver versions and firmware updates, etc.
Things that might be helpful:
- GPU make/model
- Monitor model (the picture at least shows it's an AOC)
- Connection type (HDMI, DisplayPort, USB-C, etc.)
- Have you tried a different connection type?
- Have you tried a different cable of the same type?
- Does it happen on any other monitors?
- Are there other input ports you can try on the monitor? Do they also tear?
I will check the monitor with other hardware (e.g. laptops).
The connection type is HDMI, sadly the monitor does not seem to have DisplayPort connection.
although another monitor flicker when the monitor tears.
I assume that you mean "the 2nd monitor flickers under the same conditions that the 1st monitor tears", or are you saying that you have tried 3 separate monitors, all with different behavior?
Take your time and walk through all the steps that folks have laid out for you in these comments, and try to answer each question we're asking. There just isn't enough detail for us to give solid answers or further suggestions.
This is the problem with assuming, there's nothing in their notes about having a second monitor connected at the same time as the one that is tearing. This possibility didn't even occur to me, but it's plausible.
edit: literally a minute after I reply, OP confirms you are correct in your assumption.
I will try to follow the steps.
It wasn't at all clear that you had a 2nd monitor connected, that is also useful information. Still, not enough data to really know.
Are both monitors the same make and model? If not, then it seems likely there's an issue with your GPU or HDMI cable, but the symptoms are different because the monitors are manufactured by different companies. If the monitors are identical to each other, then we're back to most likely being an issue with the 1st monitor.
A few steps to try:
Plug the monitor into a different port on the same graphics card
Plug the monitor into a laptop or game console or something
Plug a different screen (even a TV if needed) into the PC you have that monitor connected to now.
This will tell you whether it's the port, the rendering hardware, or the monitor. Then you can go from there
Not mentioned, but if there are mobo monitor connections, try those, too.
But yes, this is almost definitely a hardware problem since it's also happening in Windows. The only other plausible option would be the hardware's firmware, but that seems unlikely...
It could theoretically be an incredible fluke to have a software issue in both Windows and Linux... Maybe the same weird edge-case hardware interaction that's the same between two versions of a closed-source NVidia driver? I can't see that as plausible, though.
If OP is in a developed country, used monitors are cheap. My vertically-oriented side monitor I got for $20, and I only even paid that much because I needed one that could go vertical orientation without a monitor arm.
First of all, thanks a lot! I should try different ones.
To try the different ports, I need to open up the case, right? That sounds like work, but maybe that's unavoidable.
Guess I should check if the tearing occurs with laptops first.
Strangely, the tearing seems to happen more frequently in Linux. I am not sure how...
Also, turning the monitor off and on briefly fixes the tearing. Does it say anything about it?
Plus, it only happens in one monitor, another monitor is completely fine - although another monitor flicker when the monitor tears.
You can press PrtSc to take a screenshot.
Edit: Apparently, rendering issues often don't get included in a screenshot, which is definitely different than I expected. So, screenshots may or may not be viable for this context. If the latter, then apologies. 👍
Oh they don't? Huh... TIL.
Thanks for letting me know. I'll update my comment. 👍
1 - It comes from the graphical displaying.
So it could be either hardware graphical related (aka GPU or display) or software graphical related.
2 - It doesn't seem to come from driver or software issue since Windows didn't work.
So it's surely related to hardware, display or GPU.
If it's a desktop as other said you could try to change the output port of your display on your GPU...
Authority means different things, depending on the context. Frankly the original political compass made absolutely no sense in how it defined things, hence having an entire quadrant for ancap make-believe.
In this, positive Y axis corresponds with using authority in favor of bourgeois interests, negative Y axis corresponds with using authority in opposition to bourgeois interests.
Well your labels are inaccurate in that case. And those axes are not particularly independent from one another.
While I personally agree that the traditional political compass is a flawed and subjective view of the diversity of political views, it does a fairly good job of quantifying some differences that exist within the left and right that often confuse people otherwise. And it does seem to adequately categorize the vast majority of people in the west, even if imperfectly. So I don't really get all the hate.
I should hope they're not independent, it's the same axis.
The x axis is reform vs revolution, this is independent from the question of who directs the authority, which is the y axis.
the original political compass allows for people, who are in favor of a dictatorship of capital and are opposed to changing it, to portray themselves as various degrees of 'libertarian' or even 'left'. They are anything but in my opinion.
I don't think authority can be separated from context of political economy, as it is in the original one. If anything splitting those up like they're independent variables is muddying the waters.
positive Y axis is dictatorship of capital, negative Y axis is the gradient of proletarian dictatorship
if anything I put them too high on that
it's not like the original version makes any more sense tbh.
if I was to redo it I would probably make the negative Y axis reflect degree of authority used against bourgeois elements, because the positive Y is reflecting authority used by the bourgeois
Your version is a left-focused/biased interpretation. The dictatorship of capital is not the only thing that makes a state authoritarian IMO.
Going by your classifications, the DPRK isn't authoritarian, and that's a ridiculous premise unless you're a tankie.
the original compass meme is ridiculous, I chose to highlight who is pro dictatorship of capital and not doing anything to fundamentally change it, ie the top right quadrant.
say what you like about the DPRK, but they are outside of that region on those terms
Like i said if that's how you want to do it, who am i to argue with you?
You've set the terms, and your classifications are internally consistent. All I'm highlighting is that it's left-biased and therefore not objective
Read what i wrote again. I never suggested communists were Nazis, and I don't take issue with communists. I'm referring to the specific brand of "communism" you practice in the triad: campist pro-authoritarian pro-bureaucracy pro-massacre "communists".
Your group and Nazis are similar in that you both preach nonsense
Read what I wrote again, I said "nor are we in any way equivalent." Throw all of the unfounded buzzwords you want at me, you and I both know that I actually do know what I'm talking about when it comes to Marxist theory and history, even if you oppose what I say. You dismiss me as a troll, but all that does is just validate what I say in the eyes of onlookers.
Moreover, you've entirely moved the goalpost. I am in far less of an echo chamber than you put yourself in. I agree with the idea of not wanting to see what Nazis post, but nevertheless I'm federated with instances like sh.itjust.works that have significant numbers of cryptofascists.
Things can have a bias and still be objective, and the original one is not unbiased either, it smuggles in all sorts of assumptions.
The fact that it has an entire quadrant for ancap make-believe should be all the indication you need that the whole thing has a right wing bias.
Mine pretty clearly distinguishes between people/groups who are in favor of reform vs revolution, as well as those who are in favor of a dictatorship of capital, or in favor of actively suppressing it. The original one does not really disambiguate that. It lumps all sort of people revolutionary or otherwise on 'the left', and includes an entire quadrant for ancap libertarians as if they are not authoritarian in their own way.
Are you taking issue with the placement of reformists on the right?
I'm taking issue with your narrow definition of authoritarian. I don't support the premise that authoritarian governments can exist only through the dictatorship of capital.
If freedom of press, freedom of movement, etc are impeded, then there is no democracy. You're an anarchist. You should agree with this
'Democracy' can mean liberal freedoms such as those, or it can mean participatory decision-making.
My plot isn't defining democracy as 'free press', it's defining democracy structurally as distributed authority among many actors.
A system can restrict certain freedoms and still be structurally decentralized, just as a system can guarantee civil liberties while keeping power concentrated. The point was more to clearly identify where authority resides, not evaluating whether a system meets liberal-democratic standards.
The question of who is subject to authority is something obfuscated in the original meme template that I was aiming to correct.
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Losses due to image of text lacking alternative:
- usability
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- text search is unavailable
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Contrary to age & humble appearance, text is an advanced technology that provides all these capabilities absent from images.
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another case of willful ignorance of meanings of words & political science
not providing alt text is right wing
It's a bit ironic that I can't even read the post asking for alt-text - instance is blocked on my end
I don't know where I'd begin trying to transcribe this to text, but they seem to take 'political science' very seriously so they'd probably hate it if I did.
It's not exactly serious, I wouldn't be using a silly meme template like this otherwise.
There is a difference between authority used against capital and authority used in favor of capital, something which is kind of swept under the rug in the original template.
China is in the center, the rest would be somewhere in the top right.
does Brazil count as 'eastern'?
honestly I figured it was busy enough in the top right without adding every countries flag, they would all go either in the social democracy zone or somewhere getting targeted by the obamadrone.
Russia and similar states probably more in the center top.
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in reply to PolandIsAStateOfMind • • •we won't know the details until it gets release in a freedom of information act dump in 25 years and even then, people still won't know like how trump's document dump of jfk confirmed that the original tankies were right about the hungarian workers revolt.
edit: it actually doesn't matter how long; i just remembered about congress's actions to stop the azov brigade from obtaining weapons during the 2000's and people still refuse to believe that they're nazi's
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