Flying blind at Mach 1: how China brings world’s first supersonic rail to life
Flying blind at Mach 1: how China is bringing world’s first supersonic rail to life
Peer-reviewed paper sheds light on Chinese research team’s sonic breakthrough, achieved by ‘listening’ to system’s power supply.Stephen Chen (South China Morning Post)
I published my first app on Flathub
Hi. I recently published my app on Flathub and have been steadily updating it to make it better.
With it you can download Music from Youtube and tag it to create a beautiful collection of local Music. Check it out: flathub.org/apps/net.fhannenhe…
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70 ish people were struck
No, the funniest thing is that was exactly 72 people which is the best meme Bolsonaro's gang gave us: "Só mais 72hrs..."(Only 72 more hours...).
Windows 10 theme for XFCE4 or Mate
Hi guys.
My mom has pretty old and shitty home HP notebook and I was thinking that since she mainly uses it for browsing Facebook and watching Youtube that I would upgrade it for her to Linux instead of Win 11. The only thing is that I want some lightweight desktop like XFCE or maybe Mate and to make it as painless as possible for her I would like to install Windows 10 looking theme on that machine.
Do you guys know of any good themes that are updated at least on semi-regular?
Thanks. ;)
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PIJ says it gave location of last Israeli captive’s remains to mediators weeks ago
Abu Hamza, the spokesperson of the al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), says the group handed the coordinates for the location of the body of Ran Gvili to the mediators three weeks ago based on new information.
“But the enemy deliberately delayed the coordination and search operations,” Abu Hamza alleged.
Updates: Gaza residents demand aid, Rafah opening after last captive found
Palestinians in Gaza urge mediators to pressure Israel into fulfilling humanitarian commitments outlined in ceasefire.Faisal Ali (Al Jazeera)
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Remains of last Israeli captive recovered from Gaza, says Israeli military
The Israeli military says the remains of Ran Gvili, the last Israeli captive in the Gaza Strip, have been retrieved, clearing the way for the next phase of a ceasefire deal agreed in October.
“Following the completion of the identification process by the National Centre of Forensic Medicine, in cooperation with the Israel Police and the Military Rabbinate, [military] representatives informed the family of the late Ran Gvili that his body has been returned for burial,” said army spokesman Avichay Adraee.
Remains of last Israeli captive Ran Gvili recovered from Gaza, says Israel
Retrieval of Gvili’s body could pave the way for next phase of the ceasefire, including reopening the Rafah crossing.Al Jazeera
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Video - What Does Trump Mean When He Says He Wants a Deal With Cuba?
Donald Trump is threatening Cuba: “Make a deal or else…” But in December 2014, the Cuban government already made a deal with another U.S. president, Barack Obama. Obama loosened sanctions and the two countries started normalizing relations. U.S. companies and movie stars flocked to Havana.Even Donald Trump thought the opening was a good idea. That was no shocker. Back then, Trump and Marco Rubio weren't exactly friends.
So what changed? Trump made a deal. Not with Cuba, but with Rubio.
Belly of the Beast journalist Liz Oliva Fernández looks at how Trump reversed course once in office, and how U.S. politics, driven by Marco Rubio, reshaped Cuba policy.
What Does Trump Mean When He Says He Wants a Deal With Cuba?
Donald Trump is threatening Cuba: “Make a deal or else…” But in December 2014, the Cuban government already made a deal with another U.S. president, Barack Obama. Obama loosened sanctions and the t...PeerTube.wtf
Video - A Cuban Cryptographer Killed in U.S. Attacks on Venezuela: A Friend’s Testimony
Yunio was a Cuban communications specialist in the Ministry of the Interior. A cryptographer. The father of three children.
He was sent to Venezuela on an internationalist mission, which was helping Yunio save money to buy a house. None of his friends and family imagined that he was at risk. Yunio died on January 3, when U.S. military forces killed more than 100 people while abducting Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro.
In this interview, journalist Claudia Rafaela Ortiz remembers her close friend: his work, his deep sense of duty, his dreams, and the moment she learned that he had been killed during the U.S. attack.
“I’m doing this interview because it is my way of fighting against what killed him. I have no desire to remain silent and suffer until it passes, or until at some point I forget that I lost one of my best friends,” said Claudia to Belly of the Beast journalist Liz Oliva Fernández.
A Cuban Cryptographer Killed in U.S. Attacks on Venezuela: A Friend’s Testimony
Yunio was a Cuban communications specialist in the Ministry of the Interior. A cryptographer. The father of three children. He was sent to Venezuela on an internationalist mission, which was helpin...PeerTube.wtf
Jensen Huang: Zionist occupation has become Nvidia’s second home
Nvidia has confirmed "Globes" report that it has chosen the Israel Land Authority (ILA) area in Kiryat Tivon to build its huge campus that will accommodate up to 10,000 employees.According to the illustration published by the US chip giant, this will be a large campus inspired by the design of the company’s new iconic headquarters in Santa Clara. When built it will be surrounded by commercial areas and restaurants with investment in parks and green spaces.
Jensen Huang: Israel has become Nvidia’s second home
Nvidia’s CEO has confirmed that the US chip giant will build its huge campus for up to 10,000 employees in Kiryat Tivon.Assaf Gilead (Globes)
What are peoples thoughts on the Mecha Comet?
Mecha Comet - Modular Linux Handheld Computer
A handheld Linux computer powered by open-source software. Modular, programmable, and truly yours to own, build and mod.Mecha
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Just leaned about this and backed it this morning. Probably an impulse buy I'll regret.
The idea of a phone replacement crossed my mind as an after thought.
Mostly going for it for novelty and I thought it could be nice to have a handheld to maybe do some development on. The keyboard will likely frustrate me and the screen will probably strain my aging eyes.
Yeah I shouldn't be able to buy things before my first cup of coffee.
Wine 11 can run native wayland
no idea if this is a recent development, but stumbled upon the info. you can run wine games on wayland directly, as opposed to the default, running it through Xwayland translation.
what you need to do is clear the DISPLAY variable. I use lutris, so I add it like so:
mangohud reports "wayland", without the line it's "xwayland", so it works. the results for the few games I play are awesome - no resolution issues, no alt-tab glitchings, no launch multiple times before it starts... didn't run any benchmarks as it's already maxed out at 60 fps on Ultra. but so far, very cool!
fingers crossed
(sorry these are my engagement replies when I have nothing more to say, got the habbit from YouTube)
Top UN official in Gaza accused of “serving Israeli interests”
Top UN official in Gaza accused of “serving Israeli interests”
Suzanna Tkalec has praised Israeli authorities while presiding over a deteriorating humanitarian system in Gaza.Riley Sparks (The New Humanitarian)
According to the German newspaper Bild
This is not a "German newspaper", it's a dirty boulevard paper for the silent generation and some late boomers.
It is a horrible shame for humanity this thing exists.
I so hoped this piece of shit-paper would slowly die out with the silent generation, but...it does not seem so :(
A Quiet Call for Support
I’m writing here in a calm voice, because life has become heavier than we can carry.
We are living through difficult days, where even basic necessities are no longer guaranteed, yet we keep going with what little we have.
Any support, no matter how small, makes a real difference and helps us hold on.
And if support isn’t possible, sharing the link or helping our voice reach others truly matters.
Support link:
gofund.me/1d3ea05b6
db2
in reply to Katzenmann • • •tomalley8342
in reply to db2 • • •To make it easier to download and use I imagine.
db2
in reply to tomalley8342 • • •That's what things like deb and rpm are for, or scripts to download and compile locally.
Edit: thank you tomalley8342 for being the single person to reply with any basic sense. It's a hell of a thing to thank someone for but with how stupid everyone else has made this comment thread I really do mean it.
gibson
in reply to db2 • • •erebion
in reply to db2 • • •I don't even like Flatpak, yet here I am thinking this is a stupid comment.
Congrats to Katzenmann for publishing this app. Will try it on my Debian phone, was looking for something like this!
Katzenmann
in reply to erebion • • •unwarlikeExtortion
in reply to db2 • • •This is why we can't have nice things.
~~The community~~ Vocal members thereof, instead of seeing genuine effort as something praiseworthy always find the worst stupid angle to belittle well-meaning people from.
db2
in reply to unwarlikeExtortion • • •I'd sure like to know where I belittled OP. The comment is factual, no judgments were made. Not by me anyway.
I'm judging the shit out of you now though.
moonburster
in reply to db2 • • •Allero
in reply to db2 • • •yt-dlp is amazing, but not everyone likes to use CLI tools (and, looking down the thread, not everyone prefers native packets as they may cause dependency issues and need extra tools for permissions control).
Even in a geeky Linux space, many people just want to push a button in a nice interface and get what they want. This app provides just that.
Abandon elitism, embrace variety. And use the tools you prefer - after all, plenty of Linux video/music downloaders have yt-dlp under the hood, and I use it on a regular.
erebion
in reply to Allero • • •db2
in reply to Allero • • •Especially the made up kind. 🙄 The good news is lots of people here won't show up in my feeds anymore.
gravediggersbiscuit
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in reply to Katzenmann • • •Luke
in reply to teles • • •I had similar problems where the logs say it moved the file to my Music directory, but the directory was empty. I made multiple attempts using different directories and making sure the app has permissions with flatseal, but no luck.
It seems like a nice app though, I'm gonna keep an eye on it!
Katzenmann
in reply to Luke • • •That may be a mistake on my part
Luke
in reply to Katzenmann • • •Hey, thanks for the response! I tried again with the recent update (
--versionsays 1.2.1) and still having the problem. The button you refer to opens my file manager in the system root directory, instead of the download directory shown in settings which is now by default set to my home folder instead of~/Musiclike in the prior version.To recreate, I ran the app from the CLI and searched the videos tab for "flowers", then clicked download on the top result. The metadata pages had blank values (are they supposed to populate automatically somehow?), and I clicked through until I got to the final page below.
::: spoiler flowers
... show moreHey, thanks for the response! I tried again with the recent update (
--versionsays 1.2.1) and still having the problem. The button you refer to opens my file manager in the system root directory, instead of the download directory shown in settings which is now by default set to my home folder instead of~/Musiclike in the prior version.To recreate, I ran the app from the CLI and searched the videos tab for "flowers", then clicked download on the top result. The metadata pages had blank values (are they supposed to populate automatically somehow?), and I clicked through until I got to the final page below.
::: spoiler flowers
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PS: I tried again with another song (Big Boogie - Shut Up) that seems to have metadata available from however MusicFetch is finding metadata. The logs are slightly different in that it seems to attempt to save the file where it is configured to do so (the home folder), but there's still not actually a file saved in that location when I click to open in my file manager:
::: spoiler big boogie
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Edit: forgot to mention, I'm using Fedora Workstation 43, in case that's relevant for you.
Good luck with the app, it's a really good idea!
Katzenmann
in reply to Luke • • •flatpak run --command=bash net.fhannenheim.musicfetchand runningxdg-user-dir MUSICin the bash shell?Luke
in reply to Katzenmann • • •Flatseal shows that the app has requested permission to access xdg-music, which in my case is my home directory. I would assume that means it should be able to write there, but maybe the "All user files" toggle being off supercedes that? I'm not sure how flatpak permissions work, exactly.
Katzenmann
in reply to Luke • • •I've now tried a fresh install in a Fedora Workstation 43 VM with the language set to German and it worked.
You could try
rm .config/cosmic/net.fhannenheim.musicfetch -rfto reset the app and try again.Katzenmann
in reply to Luke • • •Well. I don't know why I didn't catch this earlier but I've found the bug now. I had a trailing newline in the download path. This sucks.
It's fixed now and should be released in 1-2 hours on flathub
Luke
in reply to Katzenmann • • •I tried the new version of the app (
1.3.1) and it works a little better. As mentioned in my other comment, the app tries by default to write to my home directory, which fails. However, if I manually tell the app to use ~/Downloads instead, then it works!On the other hand, closing and relaunching the app again clears out what I've manually configured and it tries to write to my home directory again until I change it every time.
(Also, apologies, I should be reporting to your issue tracker instead.)
Katzenmann
in reply to teles • • •Hmm. You can set the Download directory in the settings, by clicking on the settings button on the top left.
I didn't anticipate Localized Music directory names
Spaceslug
in reply to Katzenmann • • •Katzenmann
in reply to Spaceslug • • •It doesn't seem to be set in the Flatpak container. Also .config/user-dirs.dirs is inaccessible.
I'll probably have to request access to that file
Katzenmann
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