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his legacy is admirable
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I'd say he's the real world Skarsnik
I choose to believe he fucked the queen
of course he did; when you have a hog that big, everyone wants it and especially so for those who deny it. lol
Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda with 1.4m followers reports TikTok ban
Award-winning Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda has said she has been permanently banned from TikTok, days after the social media platform was acquired by new investors in the United States.
Owda, an Emmy Award-winning journalist and contributor to Al Jazeera’s AJ+ from Gaza, shared a video on her Instagram and X accounts on Wednesday, telling her followers that her TikTok account had been banned.
Netanyahu met with pro-Israel influencers in New York in September last year, telling them that he hoped the “purchase” of TikTok goes through.
“We have to fight with the weapons that apply to the battlefield in which we engage, and the most important ones are social media,” Netanyahu, who is a war crimes suspect, said at the time.
“The most important purchase that is going on right now is … TikTok,” Netanyahu added. “TikTok, number one, number one, and I hope it goes through, because it can be consequential.”
Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda with 1.4m followers reports TikTok ban
Emmy-winning Owda points to changes in TikTok’s US ownership, remarks from Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu to explain ban.Lyndal Rowlands (Al Jazeera)
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How does the sale of Tiktok's US operation to a US consortium affect a Palestinian?
... an account that appeared to have the same username was still visible on TikTok in Australia – but not in the Middle East, when Al Jazeera checked in different geographies.
Either she got banned on the real Tiktok - and this has nothing to do with the sale of Tiktok US - or she and Al Jazeera are using US Tiktok in the Middle East (but why?).
Will the CIA turn Venezuela into Ukraine 2.0?
Will the CIA turn Venezuela into Ukraine 2.0?
The CIA reportedly wants its agents in Venezuela to repeat their work in UkraineRT
Austrian MPs want to strip ex-foreign minister of citizenship over Russia ties
Austrian MPs want to strip ex-foreign minister of citizenship over Russia ties
An Austrian pro-EU party has demanded former Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl be stripped of citizenship over “working” for RussiaRT
I have a tweet
[Martin Luther King Jr. is raising a finger, speaking]\
Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.\
And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.\
I have a dream that one day oppression will be solved by a strongly worded op-ed in the Washington Post and a bipartisan task force.\
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[MLK Jr. is now raising his hand]\
I have a dream that one day this nation will politely vote segregation away, just like we did during the American Civil Vote and The Second World Vote.\
I have a dream that my four little children will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by how politely they wait for incremental reform.\
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[MLK Jr. is now raising his fist]\
I have a dream that the sons of former slave owners and the sons of former slaves will sit together at the table of a diversity panel moderated by a consultant.\
This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with.
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I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.
~ Martin Luther King Jr., a letter from Birmingham Jail
He and Malcom X were warning about people exactly like Newsom. Absolute disrespect.
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Along with a few recordings of my drawings since these days some people see AI in everything.
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Many men say they'll die for their family.
Few say they'll do the dishes for their family.
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You fool, marx clearly explained that the dishwasher, as well as the potable water and cleaning product, is imbued with the fossilised human labour power mobilised during its production. This fossil labour power is then passed on to the crockery (where it joins the labour power already embodied there during production of said implements).
This fundamental misunderstanding of marx shall lead to nothing but revisionism and opportunism.
oh yeah well who does the dishes after the revolution?
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Wu Xinbo Says We Are Witnessing Yet Another Turning Point in China–U.S. Relations
Wu Xinbo Says We Are Witnessing Yet Another Turning Point in China–U.S. Relations
The Fudan scholar argues Washington is recalibrating its global strategy as pressure tools lose force and old assumptions on Taiwan erode.Yuxuan JIA (Pekingnology)
Chrome takes on AI browsers with tighter Gemini integration, agentic features for autonomous tasks | TechCrunch
Chrome takes on AI browsers with tighter Gemini integration, agentic features for autonomous tasks | TechCrunch
Google Chrome is adding Gemini in the sidebar and is rolling out an agentic feature for AI Pro and Ultra users.Ivan Mehta (TechCrunch)
Meta burned $19 billion on VR last year, and 2026 won’t be any better | TechCrunch
Meta burned $19 billion on VR last year, and 2026 won’t be any better | TechCrunch
The reported financial losses follow a series of layoffs at the VR unit.Lucas Ropek (TechCrunch)
UK police to use AI facial recognition tech linked to Israel’s war on Gaza
The United Kingdom’s controversial rollout of facial recognition technology will rely on software that appears to have already been deployed in Gaza, where it is used by the Israeli army to track, trace, and abduct thousands of Palestinian civilians passing through checkpoints.Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood announced on Monday that British police would massively increase the use of facial recognition technology used for surveillance purposes.
UK police to use AI facial recognition tech linked to Israel’s war on Gaza
Concerns rise as UK partners with controversial facial recognition company used by Israel in Gaza.Simon Speakman Cordall (Al Jazeera)
Chrome takes on AI browsers with tighter Gemini integration, agentic features for autonomous tasks | TechCrunch
Chrome takes on AI browsers with tighter Gemini integration, agentic features for autonomous tasks | TechCrunch
Google Chrome is adding Gemini in the sidebar and is rolling out an agentic feature for AI Pro and Ultra users.Ivan Mehta (TechCrunch)
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Meta burned $19 billion on VR last year, and 2026 won’t be any better | TechCrunch
Meta burned $19 billion on VR last year, and 2026 won’t be any better | TechCrunch
The reported financial losses follow a series of layoffs at the VR unit.Lucas Ropek (TechCrunch)
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I assume part of it was the very common corpo strategy of selling at a loss to kill all competition, then worry about a profitable business model later.
Turns out there isn't a path to making the amount of money Meta wanted to make in VR.
‘Finger on the trigger’: Iran warns of quick retaliation after US threats
Brent oil futures prices jumped today, hitting a four-month high on rising concerns about a possible US military attack on Iran, OPEC’s fourth-largest producer with output of 3.2 million barrels per day.
“The immediate [market] concern … is the collateral damage done if Iran takes a swing at its neighbours or possibly even more tellingly, it closes the Strait of Hormuz to the 20 million barrels per day of oil that navigates it,” PVM analyst John Evans told Reuters news agency.
Brent crude futures were up $1.65, or 2.4 percent, to $70.05 a barrel as of 13:08 GMT. At its intra-day peak, Brent traded as high as $70.35 a barrel, its highest since late September. The contract is on track to rise over 15 percent in January, its biggest monthly increase in four years.
LIVE: Iran warns of quick retaliation as Trump revives US threats
Iran pushes back after Trump says Tehran can either negotiate ‘a fair and equitable deal’ or face a US ‘armada’.Stephen Quillen (Al Jazeera)
Trump Team’s Secret Meetings With Group Plotting to Break Up Canada Exposed
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/59483837
“Very, very senior” officials in the Trump administration have had secret meetings with far-right Canadian separatists trying to shake the foundations of the country.
The covert meetings between high-ranking U.S. officials and the Alberta Prosperity Project come as a widening rift appears between Canadian leadership and the White House. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney used a speech in Davos, Switzerland, last week to call out President Trump for creating a “rupture” in the existing world order.Archive article: archive.is/9FsBL#selection-723…
Trump Team’s Secret Meetings With Group Plotting to Break Up Canada Exposed
Trump officials have met with activists from the Alberta Prosperity Project, a separatist group that wants independence for its province.Leigh Kimmins (The Daily Beast)
Oh this is in ties to Alberta huh, good jail smith and her allys immediately for treason.
Edit: reason I didn t suggest hanging is cuz I think our gov would be to spineless to go that far and honestly its not necessary, jailing them is at least effective in removing the largest source of maga influence in Canada.
You'll be cleaning out my neighbourhood for sure. Anyone want to come be my neighbour after the purge? I mean I'm normal. Buddy who's my garage neighbor out back, he's normal too. Otherwise we are essentially surrounded by fucktards.
I mean jokes aside not everyone's a separatist obviously (like maybe 3 in 10 are), but that doesn't mean they don't endlessly whine and complain about, ahem
"HhhhhhhoooooooottttttttttaaaaaaaaaWHHHAAAAAAA "
and on and on until you want to stick a fork in your eyeball. Most days I want to self purge myself.
I live in one of the 2 separatist province and i’ve seen some pro-ice banner so yeah lot of fucktard
Lots of normal folk too but the dumbfuck always shout the loudest so people think there more of them and 1 of them is already too many
I think we live in the same province.
I also used to drive by a haystack that had, "COVID is a hoax" spray painted on it, so I mean that's where we currently are..
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As we approach a leadership review in the federal CPC, I want to remind everyone that Smith didn't start this.
Jason Kenney was the instigator of Alberta separatism.
It was Kenney who starting using the "Sovereign Alberta" rhetoric. It was Kenney who invited separatists to the table.
Jason Kenney lit this dumpster fire, handed a can of gas to a deranged arsonist (Smith), and then severed his ties and ran.
Canadians need to remember this. Canada need to know that Kenney is willing to destroy Canada for his own gains.
Oh don't get me wrong, she is MASSIVELY at fault here. She has been courting separation since she was just a shitty radio voice. In the last year she has changed the laws three times to make things easier for the separatists.
But Kenney is going to make a run for the CPC leadership when Poilievre is turfed, and he's going to lie about being a strong federalist.
I want to make sure EVERYONE knows how happy he is to burn down the country.
Does Alberta care? or the Right Wing? As soon as l'il PP failed, they put this asshole fake insurance broker American back in charge of the party. Regina has elected this clown for 20 years.
He actively sought US citizenship, pays taxes in the US. When running for PM, he stated he was actively renouncing his US citizenship in 2019 but gee, that turned out to be another of his fucking lies.
Tamara Lich and assholes all commited acts that were clearly terrorism and the crown came after her with the weakest sauce possible.
Buy a Honda civic or Toyota Rav 4
Both have Canadian made models
and are reliable
Next time around, I'll take a look at one.
I'm not really buying another car anytime soon, as I'm not one for the habit of frequent car buying. Especially in accordance to the whims of current events, which change by the hour in our current times.
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Studie av historiskt fiske bekräftar känd kunskap - Svenssons Nyheter - Njord
Studie av historiskt fiske bekräftar känd kunskap. En ny vetenskaplig artikel analyserar fiskets historia i Stockholms skärgård. FörfattarnaAnders Svensson (Svenssons Nyheter - Njord)
Using dash or ksh as default shell
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I agree with the idea of debloating and hardening your systems.
It helps to have some context as the approach I would take depends on what kind of system I'm running. I think its also good to identify your priorities to hone your approach.
When I want stability, fast security updates, minimal install size, I usually use Alpine which indeed uses the lighter busybox bin/sh instead of bash.
When it comes to my workstation shell I'm more focused on utility than size. So bash or zsh or fish, or whatever you find the most useful, makes sense to use.
I could imagine an it would matter more to people working with embedded devices.
Also some people just like learning or doing random things. Nothing wrong with some exploration, discovery or learning.
I don't think anyone is gonna hack you because of bash being a larger codebase
If I absolutely had to pick one as insecure, it would be anything other than bash since it has been around for so long, has its code read by so many people, that there's no way that a major hole exists in it
Overall though I don't think security or performance is a good metric for you to pick something as simple as a shell, just pick the one that gives you the best experience and features. Being compatible with bash is a big plus because it's the industry standard, like zsh for example
I don't have any answers, just my own experiences. Last year I decided to use Alpine Linux as my Operating System for a couple of self-hosted things running on a Raspberry Pi. I chose it because it's super minimal and used less common tools (for example doas instead of sudo). That unintentionally forced me to learn how to use Linux using more basic commands that are more likely to be available on other Linux systems.
Alpine Linux uses Busybox-Ash which is a POSIX compliant shell that's very small and very basic. The scripts I ended up writing tend to be POSIX portable meaning that they should work on a wider variety of systems. That comes at the cost of script simplicity and readability as well as missing out on many features that make Bash scripts more complex, robust and easier to work with.
I have a working example POSIX portable script. I've been adding to it all the things I've learned. You can check it out here if you're interested.
I use Alpine Linux with Sway as my daily driver but still keep a copy of Linux Mint DE ready to use because it's nice to have a fully featured work environment for the days I don't want to think.
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testing - A working example of a POSIX shell script. To be used as a starting template and styling guide.Codeberg.org
Alpine Linux as daily driver... that's interesting. How is it in daily usage as desktop OS?
It's been a learning experience. I am pretty much building it specifically for my use so it's missing lots of stuff that's standard on other fully featured OS's. I'm mostly using a browser, Konsole terminal and KDE Kate as my editor.
I found an unexpected hobby in writing POSIX scripts because it's teaching me the inner workings of Linux. In the future I'd like to expand that to including the sed and awk commands but I haven't really found a project to use them with yet.
Alpine Linux does offer a setup-desktop command/script which will easily setup a few desktop environments such as Gnome, Plasma, Xfce, Mate, Sway and Lxqt. That only sets up the basic desktop environment so a lot of other work is needed to set up things like sound, graphics and a few other things.
As I mentioned before, I still have Linux Mint DE installed. I mostly use it for Steam games but it has everything else I need for when I don't feel like working out a problem because I wanted to simply open a .pdf file. However, it's still really satisfying for me setting up a very specific work environment with the mininal tools I have available.
I think there is value in learning to work within a mininal environment to help give more life out of lower spec technology that's currently available. Especially now with all the ram supply issues because of the AI rush.
You do not want to use dash interactively! It is created solely for scripting and not for creature comfort. This means all the stuff you're probably used to such as line editing and command history will not be available.
At some point, you'd want to ask yourself how heavy is "heavy" and how much stuff are you willing to shed? Do you not need tools such as web browser, media player, or office suite? Are you willing to get rid of desktop environment?
In the extreme, you can remove all the documentations, all the manpages to save space. You can even remove all the localization files, without which stuff would look weird, but would still run.
Further than that, you can even customize your kernel, opting out all the drivers you don't need, or even some that you could use (e.g. wifi, audio, hardware monitoring). Next, some kernel features that are less essential such as statistics, logging, and debugging, as well as the handling for some network protocols. If you wanna go crazy, you can enable the expert/embedded options and with that you can disable stuff that can be critical (e.g. error reporting, certain IPC feature).
It's a rabbit hole, really.
Web browser are the type of software which I hate the most. They're main reason why a lot of personal computers aren't usable anymore. Also browsing web through terminal is impossible, that's another point for me to hate them 🤣 Of course I'm forced to use them but when I can I'm choosing alternatives like Gemini or Gopher and native apps. If I could I will not leaving terminal but as I need it for few GUI apps I'm using DWM 😊 I'm planning also to learn how to compile my own kernel.
It's not about disk space but learning, minimalism (which I love), better security and efficient resource usage.
I don't care how many resources is used by program but how efficient. People are telling me that they see in their resource monitors that they systems are using a lot of RAM, mainly gamers who have 64 GB of ram and complain about 20 GB in usage by Windows. But this why they have RAM, to use it! If they don't need it system should allocate RAM in proper way to make computer faster. Of course Windows is not good example of efficient resource allocating 😂 but I want to make my point more clear. It's not about removing critical features to just make it run, but making my system suited for my needs and efficient as much it's possible. So removing man pages is not related to my case as I'm using them :)
I like to tinker and I'm learning about computers that way. I ask questions and looking for methods to optimize every part of my systems. They don't have to be the best optimized and if will not have that many time as I have to learn I wouldn't worry too much about it and just work on computer. I'm just aware that always we can do something better.
Can I entertain you with some minimalistic distros? Alpine is the first thing that comes to mind.
It uses busybox which is some kind of minimalistic all-in-one program that includes everything you need to run an OS such as init system and core utilities. And yes, you guessed it, it includes a shell that is a stripped down version of bash. Even the libc is stripped down here, with musl instead of glibc.
Speaking of busybox and musl, there's also another distro that centers around compiling tiny embedded rootfs image. With this you can configure what (not) to include in the kernel. You can also do the same with busybox, where you can choose to include or exclude utilities.
But honestly, to have something lean while being able to keep up with modern computing, I'd choose Gentoo where you can choose what (not) to put in your programs at compile time.
I do write my scripts in POSIX sh, more for compatibility sake. But shells like dash, mksh, are not made for interactive use, they lack most not-really-convenience features.
But heavy, that's only invocation time; it mathers more if you do things like 100 awk calls (that one is heavy to invoke) per line you parse.
Though i did write my own cross-shell session scripts, centering on the ENV variable which most shells understand (and a /etc/bash/bashrc loading it, since Bash doesn't).
Again, more because i think, why load xkb maps 3 times in 3 scripts if you can do it only once? And most session scripts look like they were never touched the last 20 years. And then a if you do it, do it right mindset.
Worth learning; i think so. You learn, with time, more about how to use shorthands and functions, to structure your scripts nicely, instead of doing if if if messes more "convenient" shells lead you to. Which benefits you in real programming languages too and leads to more readable and better maintainable scripts.
And the only times i miss convenience features like arrays is in 500+ loc scripts which would have better been done in python.
Btw, don't do 500+ loc shell scripts: they do become a maintenance mess even if you do everything right.
Edit: right, i forgot the POSIXLY_CORRECT env variable. Some AUR setup-scripts have issues with a forced POSIX shell.
Debloating a system for a tiny appliance device is worth it. Debloating on a machine with a modern processor, 16-64 GB ram and a TB harddrive is not necessary. You may not even notice a difference.
But if you enjoy that stuff, go for it.
I have only used KSH for a proprietary software install that needed it, it didn't feel much different than working in a BASH shell.
Now I understand that dash sucks as interactive shell. Maybe I'll try fish as interactive shell just to check what it is, cause it's popular at the moment. But as I'm forced to have bash installed and it's great for interactive shell usage I will stick with it :)
As you've mentioned in other threads, bash is a hard requirement for the OS, so if it's already installed, and the default on most Linux distros, bash is probably the best option.
The dash shell isn't designed to be user interactive. It's a lightweight scripting shell/language.
The ksh shell is an older standard shell. Years ago I worked for a company that ran corporate Unix systems and on those systems only ksh and tcsh were available. Ksh was the default, and as someone only familiar with bash it was a bit different but mostly the same. So there is at least one point for maybe choosing ksh.
However my personal shell preference is zsh. When I write scripts I do so using bash. The two shells are 99% similar on a day to day basis, but I prefer zsh for a user interface. So I use one for day to day and the other for scripting.
Other threads have also mentioned fish, which is also a great choice if you don't know where to start.
Are zsh or fish "heavier" or "bloated", maybe. But remember to consider your attack surface. If your house is on fire it doesn't matter of you fix the leaky faucet in bathroom or the kitchen.
However my personal shell preference is zsh. When I write scripts I do so using bash. The two shells are 99% similar on a day to day basis, but I prefer zsh for a user interface. So I use one for day to day and the other for scripting.
I used to do the same, Bash as the default script interpreter and ZSH as my terminal interactive shell. Worked well. I also had Dash as the /usr/bin/sh installed. But once I installed a new OS, I did not want to set it up immediately and wanted to do it later. Then I realized that I do not need to and frankly didn't notice any difference. Besides ZSH was a bit slow here and there with the kind of setup I had. So since then I stayed on Bash only again and don't miss most of the stuff (but ZSH had some nice features).
I wouldn't have even mentioned Fish here, its too different. If you going to learn a scripting language that is this different, then there are even more shells out there. I would stick to Bash (or ZSH for that matter). Especially if its the first shell language you get into.
Yeah, I mentioned fish, or zsh, only because day to day shell and scripting shell can be different.
If you want to script, bash is the way to go. For day to day, any personal preference is fine.
My bad, I apologize, and thanks for clarifying. I think my brain automatically changed shell for terminal, and I could have sworn your reply had a question mark after 'terminal'. Gotta stop replying here when I'm almost asleep.
For shell, I always end up switching to Zsh, mainly because of the extensive and easy customization.
In the past I replaced Bash as the default POSIX shell interpreter /usr/bin/sh with Dash. Normally the /usr/bin/sh is run by Bash in compatibility mode, if no Bash features are needed. Dash is an independent implementation of /usr/bin/sh compatibility and in theory should startup a little faster than Bash for those scripts. In practice I didn't notice any difference on my modern computers (and I mean more than a decade old by now). My personal experience and recommendation is not to worry about this and not install Dash at all. If you do, nothing will break or get worse, but I believe nothing is won either.
Dash as an interpreter for /usr/bin/sh is only for shell scripts, that run the shell in default mode without Bash or other features. It is not intended for use in the terminal in an interactive manner.
Learning Bash? Oh hell yeah! The language is a bit ugly and has really lot of pitfalls and dumb language constructs or default behavior. But it is the default and you can rely on Bash for the most part in Linux. You can write scripts, understand others scripts and make changes to them. And it is even used in the IT industry everywhere (well maybe not everywhere...). But that's not all, you have to learn Linux stuff too, not just the scripting language to make most use of it. While Bash the language itself is ugly, it is still useful to learn the basics and get into it a bit deeper over time. I fully recommend it.
POSIX shell is the standard that all shells should support (Fish does not I think). Its basically what is executed if you run it as /usr/bin/sh script. POSIX is not a specific shell itself, its just the standard. /usr/bin/sh is usually a symbolic link to an actual shell interpreter. And any shell could support it, in example Bash with its compatibility mode (what is usually done by default in todays Linux systems). Or Dash is designed to do that specifically and only that as far as I know.
Bash on the other hand is an enhanced shell that introduces some concepts, features and changes default behavior of the standard POSIX. That is when the script runs with /usr/bin/bash. This is also used in your terminal as the interactive shell. And ZSH in example is similar to Bash, but has some extended features over Bash. They are relatively speaking similar. I think ZSH is or was the default shell in MacOS too.
As for KSH, I don't have no experience about this myself. I only know it exists and just saw checklists of differences.
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