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Via @linuxiac

KDE has announced plans to create its own official Linux distribution to showcase the KDE Plasma desktop and its applications in an optimized environment.

It will be an immutable, Arch based distro, using BTRFS

The project is still in its very early stages

More details and screenshots behind the above link

#kde #linux #foss #opensource





Jury convicts former Kentucky officer of using excessive force on Breonna Taylor during deadly raid

Hankison fired 10 shots into Taylor’s glass door and windows during the raid, but didn’t hit anyone

sentinelcolorado.com/nation-wo…

#NoPaywall #BreonnaTaylor



I think a lot of folks are interpreting this as Florida directly challenging the authority of the federal government. That’s not what this is - the federal government doesn’t have a role in federal elections. It makes sense if you think about it - the founding fathers decided the temptation to meddle would be too great and limited it in the constitution.

Florida blocks DOJ monitors from entering polling sites archive.is/2024.11.01-224106/o… archive.is/cW1El
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Today's lesson is that #inotify is a Linux 🐧 construct and in BSD land 👹 monitoring the file system is part of #kqueues turf. Oh man there sure are alot of man pages and long docs to read ... or are there. Thank you watchdog (github.com/gorakhargosh/watchd…) and thank you Mickaël Schoentgen and Yesudeep Mangalapilly

#Python to the rescue 🐍 🐍 🐍
python-watchdog.readthedocs.io…



Harris campaign, Drudge Report melt down, accuse Trump of calling for Liz Cheney's 'execution' (Josh Christenson/New York Post)

nypost.com/2024/11/01/us-news/…
memeorandum.com/241101/p119#a2…



Taking money is one thing, but accepting titles of nobility from dodgy Euro monarchists is expressly forbidden by the US constitution unless Congress approves. And yet self-scourging Opus Dei dude Alito could not resist a knighthood.

abovethelaw.com/2024/10/sam-al…



Utterly shameful behaviour at the US National Archives as anything remotely confronting to white Americans seems to be being purged from the public national record. Whitewashing history is a shockingly regressive step.

To clarify this, we're talking public display and education. As far as I know, they're not removing items from the archives themselves, although if Trump wins that level of cultural vandalism wouldn't surprise me.

currentaffairs.org/news/its-go…

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UN General Assembly condemns the US economic embargo of Cuba for a 32nd year


cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/22048345

By EDITH M. LEDERER
Updated 5:05 PM EDT, October 30, 2024
in reply to Peter Link

So why don't they just ignore the US and conduct trade with Cuba?
in reply to stink

The threat of secondary sanctions is what's keeping countries from doing that. Also, when SWIFT was the only game in town for international settlements, it made it very difficult to do business with Cuba. Now that situation is rapidly changing and I expect things will be looking up for Cuba going forward.


Kamala Harris: Trump has indicated as of last night that the person who would be in charge of healthcare is someone who has routinely promoted junk science and crazy conspiracy theories. And then, even worse, he has increased his violent rhetoric. This must be disqualifying.




I have worked with and spoken with a pretty decent number of solar developers in my time, and not once have they expressed that the key thing they're missing is the ability to have natural language style conversations with planning data



Many people describe prediction markets as a form of wisdom of the crowd. Polymarket has been favoring Trump to win (58% likelihood) but it turns out a lot of that is driven by a single French user who has bet $30 million on Trump winning.

The best part is the bettor is anonymous because they’re hiding their wealth from their friends and children.

Wisdom of the crowd? More like wisdom of the crypto bro.

wsj.com/finance/trump-odds-pol…

in reply to Dare Obasanjo

Yep, any prediction market that requires crypto to access was always gonna have a heavy skew. It's a wonder why any legitimate-money betting markets arbitrage against it. It's like if PredictIt bettors arbitraged against elementary school mock elections.
in reply to Dare Obasanjo

short-term problem as in the future any such “whales” will be arbed out