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ASML CEO says US desire to restrict exports to China 'economically motivated'.

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in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

Wait, you need an actual copy of the game, which was published by EA? Hang on...

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"There are too many guns. There is too much access to these guns by young men with a fight to pick against the world and a nearby school for a place to start the fight. There is way, way too much apathy about all of the ongoing crises –"

~ Lucian K. Truscott

#guns #Republicans #Georgia #SchoolShooting
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in reply to William Lindsey

"the guns and the pissed-off boys and the parents who don’t secure their guns and the laws that allow 18-year-olds to walk into a gun store and put down a drivers license and $1,500 and walk out with a high-powered rifle that was designed for the military to use in wars against foreign enemies and enough ammunition to arm an infantry platoon."

#guns #Republicans #Georgia #SchoolShooting
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in reply to William Lindsey

"It's never going to end. There is an entire political party dedicated to the proposition that it’s all okay because a poorly written clause in the Constitution says it’s okay."

#guns #Republicans #Georgia #SchoolShooting
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in reply to William Lindsey

here in Britain we have a problem with the same angry young boys bringing knives to school and they are prepared to use them and it seems many only regret doing so when they end up spending 13-25 years at His Majesty's Pleasure; but gun control does at least limit the overall body count (the only mass shooting in a school here within my living memory was a pedo in Scotland shooting up an primary school he worked in and it led to a general ban on handguns in the entire country)
in reply to Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

@vfrmedia Thank you for underscoring that important point — that the disaffection and rage of increasing numbers of young males is at the heart of this problem. And that disaffection and rage are being exploited by some very maleficent players from J.D. Vance to Andrew Tate to Elon Musk.
in reply to William Lindsey

this is the kind of thing we are up against - angry young man at 16 commits multiple crimes leading up to murder/sexual assault, does full 15 years minimum tariff (low as he would have been tried as juvenile), gets out in his late 30s driving recklessly as if nothing has happened - the choice of car is a pointer, it would have been a popular car when he went to prison and he would have made a choice to drive it (seems almost like a show of defiance)

oxfordmail.co.uk/news/24565668…

in reply to Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

if men like this are on the streets (even after attempts to punish/rehabilitate them for the crimes they have already committed), and they treat life (even their own) as cheap (also the driver of the van he crashed into was badly hurt) you can imagine what it would be like over here if we *didn't* have quite strict gun control (even so there's a trend to substitute cars for guns as "angry mens toys")
in reply to Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

@vfrmedia Yes, you're absolutely right to point to that difference. American exceptionalism is nowhere so apparently — shamefully so — in our attitude towards guns and in our super-high rates of gun violence, which have everything to do with the easy accessibility of guns.
in reply to Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

@vfrmedia Thank you. A good illustration. Just yesterday, when I did my weekly Tuesday-Thursday pool walking at our med school's center on aging, I overheard a conversation by a group in the pool about the Georgia shooting. One of the men was arguing vehemently that guns are not the problem. He kept saying he had his grandfather's gun, as if that somehow sanctifies all gun ownership. And a woman in the group kept shoutingn back at him in exasperation, "He was 14 years old!"
in reply to William Lindsey

whilst I suspect neither him nor his grandad shot anybody, its likely because they both grew up in an era where the patriarchy was accepted and respected, and that is the "good old times" many men are hoping to get back to..
in reply to Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

@vfrmedia Yes, I think that's it — the idea that the world functions best when the "natural" or "divinely ordained" patriarchal order is firmly in place.
in reply to William Lindsey

"Meanwhile, Donald Trump, who has spent years downplaying the scourge of gun violence—most recently telling us to "move on" after a school shooting—now delivers his election speeches behind a layer of 3.5-inch-thick bulletproof glass."

~ God

#guns #Republicans #Georgia #SchoolShooting #Trump
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in reply to William Lindsey

@edwilk

three and a half inches thick? Damn, that could stop more than a bullet, I'd think…

Now I want to look up lexan/bulletproof glass specs

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@Chip_Unicorn The very same Donold! He whose ear was almost totally shot off and then, in the twinkling of an eye, healed itself….


A further OS-APS Community-Call takes place on September 18th, 2024, at 2 pm CET. The topic is BITS metadata. The link to the video converence via Zoom ist available under os-aps.de/demo/. #opensource #software


SUSE Liberty Linux: Support for CentOS and RHEL until 2028

CentOS users must act now, the end of official support is imminent – or they can book new support from SUSE.

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#centOS #KünstlicheIntelligenz #OpenSource #SuseLinux #news




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📜 Latest Top Story on #HackerNews: Show HN: Hacker League – Open-Source Rocket League on Linux
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⭐ Score: 24
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🕒 Posted At: 2024-09-05 13:24:29 UTC
🔗 URL: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
#hackernews #linux #hackernewsbot #hacker #bot #news


🤠 In 2022, a new law rolled into town – the Digital Markets Act.

🏇 In 2023, it rode into action to make the “too big to care” platforms a thing of the past.

⭐ This year, so far, it has left no stone unturned.

Here are some of the major #DMA developments you might have missed in 2024 👇

#dma
in reply to European Commission

🤠 24 June: Preliminary findings issued to Apple over its steering rules and the opening of a formal non-compliance investigation against Apple’s new contractual terms for developers.

More: europa.eu/!jPPcTV

🤠 1 July: Preliminary findings issued to Meta regarding its “Pay or Consent” model.

More: europa.eu/!QdXpMc

🤠 17 July: @Curia upheld our decision to designate ByteDance (TikTok) as a gatekeeper – the first substantive judgment related to the DMA.

More: europa.eu/!PGGwQD

in reply to European Commission

⭐ The Digital Markets Act is all about making the markets in the digital sector fairer and more contestable – and, in so doing, ensuring you have more choices, increased freedom, and greater trust.

In the wild frontier of the digital world, large digital platforms must abide by the do’s and don’ts of the #DMA. Discover them 👉 europa.eu/!QF6KGT

#dma


Trump's wealth shrinks by $4 billion as his media company struggles (Aimee Picchi/CBS News)

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"In the modern Republican Party, it’s kind of a huge thing when you decide that you’re not OK with terrorism against the US Capitol or coups against the United States to overturn elections, the results of which hurt Donald Trump’s feelings. Once you say no to those things, it’s a slippery slope to acting with integrity in other parts of life."

~ Evan Hurst on Liz Cheney's decision to vote for Harris

#KamalaHarris #LizCheney #Trump #Jan6 #coup #Republicans

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JOKE OF THE DAY

Teasing Putin says Russia backs Kamala Harris, cites her 'infectious' laugh

Does Putin REALLY believe Americans are that stupid to believe that garbage.....or is Putin that stupid?
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO

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Putin leads Trump around like a dog on a leash

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in reply to Aure Free Press

Sounds sort of clever to me. Vlad ‘backs’ Harris, hoping the good people of US will not vote for her because Vlad backs her. Not sure the tactic will work but hey, any port in a storm.


New AI standards group wants to make data scraping opt-in

The Dataset Providers Alliance wants to make AI data licensing ethical.

arstechnica.com/ai/2024/09/new…

in reply to Ars Technica

they should pay us for the data if we allow them to use it too!
in reply to Ars Technica

good call

Kinda slow on the uptake though and unlikely to be followed so long as mr dead fish eyes is in charge of the biggest player



In case you missed it, and because it's fig season here in Pennsylvania, here's my post on wasps inside dried figs from Turkey. #figs #ficus #wasps #fruit #pollination #syconium #tmi #insects #entomology #TraderJoes colinpurrington.com/2023/01/so…

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in reply to Colin Purrington

I've ordered Spanish figs for the first time, arriving on Monday. Now I don't know if I want to eat them. I love fresh figs, but not Turkey so much. Time to get a microscope?


White House Gates in Ohio in Fremont, Ohio

After a battle with Congress, Webb C. Hayes installed the gates of the White House on the fence of his father39;s Presidential Library and Museum.#americanpresidents #history #presidents #section-Atlas



I think Bella has finally forgiven us for replacing the stack of cloth napkins she was using as a bed with some VetBed #CatsOfMastodon


Ruth Ben-Ghiat on why Trump's constant attacks on the US military and his disrespectful political stunt at Arlington National Cemetery matter:

"Such attacks must be seen in context of his attachment to America's enemies, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping chief among them."

#Trump #Putin #Xi #ArlingtonNationalCemetery #military #authoritarianism
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in reply to William Lindsey

"If you are aligned for ideological, financial or other reasons with autocrats whose goal is to take down America as a superpower, then you will see the immensely powerful and professional U.S. military as a big obstacle.

Everything Trump wants to do with and to the U.S. military may be seen as minimizing the global reach and influence of our armed forces abroad:"

#Trump #Putin #Xi #ArlingtonNationalCemetery #military #authoritarianism
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in reply to William Lindsey

"withdraw from NATO, reorient some military resources to domestic repression, and pursue 'non-intervention' —a path that would make the imperialist conquests of Russia in Eurasia and China in the Pacific far easier.

This is the most sinister part of Trump's visit to Arlington National Cemetery. So many of his performances are meant for foreign eyes."

#Trump #Putin #Xi #ArlingtonNationalCemetery #military #authoritarianism
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@Runyan50 Definitely time got woke.


Are you signed up for emergency alerts? If not, you probably should be.

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Nikon’s bringing tiny camera replicas to Japanese vending machines.

The company has teamed up with Bandai Namco to create detailed miniature versions of two classic film cameras, the Nikon F and Nikon SP, and two modern digital cameras, the Nikon Z FC and Nikon Z9.

All of the replicas in the Nikon Miniature Collection are non-functional, but they do have removable lenses. Unfortunately, they’re currently only available from gashapon machines in Japan.



Advertisers running from the right-wing 'Musky' smell of X!

Advertiser exodus from X gathers pace with 26% ‘planning to cut spending’

Annual survey highlights growing concern about platform content and trust in information disseminated

X revenues continue to plummet thanks to the (lack of) leadership of Elon Musk
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Musk #Twitter #x #Fediverse #Breaking #BreakingNews #socialmedia

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