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i took a history of chemistry course and half of it was chemistry... i'm for this content.
Alchemy is so hot right now.
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Ha, love how you've out this post together!
Happy New Year to you too. May 2026 be a wonderful year for you.
Just lovely, Laura!
And happy new year to you, too!
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Happy (slightly late) new year!
The progress is not as fast as all of us hope for, but development continues steadily. Recent work includes improvements to the device lock implementation, moving the platform towards openSUSE and OBS, various fixes and cleanups across Glacier components, Qt 6–related updates, and successful testing on new hardware.
There were several fixes and improvements in the device lock implementation. Glacier Welcome is started on first boot and allows the initial setup of the device lock code. The devicelock-plugin is a daemon that handles password verification. In addition, nemo-qml-plugin-devicelock provides an API for communicating with the daemon.
Glacier Home detects whether the service is running and locks the device if it is not. The Glacier Settings application includes a plugin that allows users to change the device lock password. The entire device lock flow was reviewed and thoroughly tested.
It turned out that Manjaro Linux ships some outdated components, such as Meson, GObject Introspection, Mesa, and others. Because of this, fixing all dependencies just to rebuild Lipstick would require significant effort. Using openSUSE proved to be a more practical approach.
As part of this transition, several packages in OBS (Open Build Service) were updated, including: ngfd, libprolog, libtrace-ohm, ohm-plugin-misc, lipstick-glacier-home, systemd-user-session-target, and nemo-mobile-session, and others.
At the moment, installation is only possible manually. openSUSE provides a concept called patterns, which should eventually allow installation of all required packages and apply additional system settings automatically. Work on this is still in progress.
Currently, the installation process involves installing openSUSE JeOS (Just Enough OS), adding the OBS repository, and installing the required packages. After that, several manual configuration steps are still necessary.
These steps will likely include ensuring that the mce daemon is running, providing configuration files such as /etc/eglfs-config.json, and making sure the correct user groups exist (see
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In the end, Lipstick was successfully brought up on openSUSE:
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There were many important changes and fixes across the stack.
A memory leak in the Glacier Home search plugin was fixed.
Maliit was updated to the latest version, and the Nemo keyboard plugin was adjusted to the new Controls naming and updated to use the Qt 6 version of Maliit. As a result, the on-screen keyboard works again.
Drawer levels were removed from shared controls and from Glacier Settings to make the interface cleaner and simpler. Glacier Settings now also shows the Bluetooth plugin only when the BlueZ daemon is enabled, and the same applies to time settings when timed daemon is not running.
Glacier Weather was split into a daemon and a UI component, and the code was reorganized and cleaned up accordingly. This allows weather information to be updated in the background.
Finally, GeoClue was replaced by a custom implementation called locationd. The new implementation is cleaner and should enable more advanced features, such as support for Mozilla Location Services.
Last but not least, Nemo Mobile was successfully started on the Beresta devkit.
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Just pick one - All the Fox functionality without bloatware
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Also you can use this add to disable the ~~shitload~~ ai function in many search engines in one go
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I'll try to give an out-of-the-loop answer to this, if that helps. Concerning "AI" tools, I think the chunk of people who don't want it included in the browser on any level come in one or both of two forms. One is a moral opposition -- for example, a pro-environmental or pro-artist stance. I don't think those need much explanation, but feel free to say otherwise.
The other is in my opinion is in response to exhaustion. Pro-"AI" features have proven themselves to be untrustworthy at nearly every turn with thoughtless or downright irresponsible implementations. A worthwhile use-case is the exception rather than the norm and It's tiring to have to constantly check if this time I want it on or not. As a result of opt-in-by-default changes to privacy policies or account settings, my trust in any site or app publishing an "AI" implementation has been broken and it's nice to have options I don't have to worry about wherever I can get them. I found it irritatingly tone-deaf that Mozilla wasn't considering a kill-switch with their first swing at this.
If it seems unreasonable or hard-to-understand, I think taking a step back and looking at the broader software industry rather than just Mozilla will help.
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Un-redacted text from released documents began circulating on social media on Monday eveningGeorge Chidi (the Guardian)
Young earth creationists like to point out select examples where fossils have been dated incorrectly. They can't see that the ability of science to self-correct is its strength.
Dogma is static (or very slow to change), and is ultimately grounded in unfalsifiable assertions. Science rewards those who overturn past claims with new data.
Science also discovers new methods of confirming findings like the age of fossils. sciencedaily.com/releases/2025…
Researchers have found that fossilized dinosaur eggshells contain a natural clock that can reveal when dinosaurs lived. The technique delivers surprisingly precise ages and could revolutionize how fossil sites around the world are dated.ScienceDaily
I often think of Einstein vs Newton in these debates about science being liable to change, and so false.
Einstein (and the further development of quantum physics) showed that the essence of Newton was basically wrong. His picture of the universe was mistaken.
But for most practical purposes, Newton still works. It produces correct results most of the time. It was corrected at more detailed levels by Einstein.
This is science correcting itself, but understanding why the correction is needed, and how useful the early approximations are.
@SteveClough And to be totally transparent, I'm not a scientist — just in case someone wants to quibble about my characterization of how new research can overthrow incorrect ideas.
As you point out, new discoveries can also expand upon established theories, as opposed to jettisoning them altogether.
I'm mainly interested in the topic from the perspective of a former fundamentalist who has come to understand how I was mislead. I'm now learning more all the time.
I am only a computer scientist! And come from an evangelical background that has changed utterly - so I view from a similar position.
But I do think that science and faith are a whole lot closer than most people seem to think. There is belief at the heart of science. And conversely, faith is not "God of the gaps" - it has to have something extra, something different.
This must not be allowed to continue! I just do not have the words for this.
Find your local Flock camera installations:
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you can also do the exact same thing with any other HikVision camera too
Most people that install security cameras don't directly connect them to the internet like this. A company that's installing them at scale should be aware of this.
using default credentials
Modern Hikvision and Dahua cameras don't have a default password. They require you to set a strong password during initial setup.
In general, a lot of electronics have moved away from generic default passwords, as many jurisdictions ban them now. Any modern device should either require you to set the password during initial setup, or have a randomly-generated password printed on a sticker under the device.
The device you found was either a very old one, or one where the owner intentionally set a basic password.
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Are HikVision cameras being used to surveil people on a level never before seen in this country? Serious question, I truly don't know..
It's all well and good to prove someone wrong, and it seems you've done this with only one of his arguments but only partially. It seems a safe argument that security ought to be default for something that gets placed anywhere and everywhere. He should never have been able to make that video due to the high quality of the security of the devices.
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Rhino Linux 2025.4 Brings Lomiri Packages and Updated Kernels
Over five months after its previous 2025.3 version, the Rhino Linux team has unveiled its latest release, 2025.4, on its Ubuntu-based rolling-release distribution, which features a custom desktop environment (Unicorn) built around the Pacstall package manager.According to the announcement, over the past months, much of the team’s effort has gone into advancing Lomiri upstream, a mobile-first desktop environment created for Ubuntu Touch, and integrating it more deeply into Rhino Linux, particularly for PINE64 hardware.
As part of this work, the distribution now ships two new packages: rhino-pine-lomiri-core and ubxi-lomiri-desktop. The latter is not limited to PINE64 devices and is also compatible with Rhino Linux generic images.
Rhino Linux 2025.4 Brings Lomiri Packages and Updated Kernels
Rhino Linux 2025.4 introduces new Lomiri packages, improved PINE64 support, and multiple kernel updates across supported devices.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
The testing phase for v25.12 has officially begun! If you want to give the new postmarketOS release a try early and help with finding bugs on *your* device, find the instructions here:
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Dear testing team and device maintainers, and everybody else who is interested in testing: the v25.12 testing phase has begun! 🚀GitLab
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Christmas reminder: If GOP didn’t give 800 billionaires a $2T tax cut (again)—we’d have enough for SNAP, cancel all medical debt, and cancel all student debt.
GOP sold out 200M Americans to serve 800 billionaires.
This is what class war on working people looks like. Stop bootlicking billionaires. Start taxing them out of existence.
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@LordCaramac we only have to 'eat' a few billionaires before the others accept taxation as the better option.
But there will be blood, they won't go nicely.
White people will eat shit if it means The Other will be locked up and dehumanised, and the Oligarchs know, and appreciate this.
White Clowns and the idiots who buy into Whiteness.....🤦♂️
Undersold.
Canceling all medical and student debt would have been a massive boon on the economy, which would leave us with even more money.
You can't tax billionaires out of existence unless you can form a global government that enforces a uniform tax scheme.
Barring that, all you're doing is incentivizing the wealthy to move to a more favorable tax jurisdiction.
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The wealth tax typically proposed by these campaigns (like 2 or 3%) would raise money but it would not stop billionaires from getting richer. (That's why even billionaires advocate for it.)
The finish line should not be "raise money to fund public programs."
The finish line should be "billionaires don't exist."
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I've always liked the idea of the cap being an immediate loss of any legal property protection.
This would not be through any process, they simply instantly legally cease to have any property rights anytime they cannot prove their net worth is below the limit.
Any member of the public can reclaim any piexe of their ex-property, until the not-quite-billiomaire gets a court ruling confirming their not-a-billionaire status.
Then the not-yet-billionaires can figure out how to constantly stay comfortably below the limit.
Or...they can file an updated wealth disclosure every time they attempt to keep anyone from walking away with any piece of their former property.
If they want to avoid the inconvenience of their yachts, cars, pets, plants, fences, lamps, and television sets being repossessed, they can
negotiate with their employees unions for collective ownership in good faith, instead.
It'll be fun to see how many of them are too stupid to take a good deal, and lose their stupid toys.
Despite the headline tax rate being over 90% in the 1950s, the federal government collects about 3 times more real revenue per person today (with a top rate of 37%) than it did then.
The only reason it was ever that high is because the tax code at that time was so full of loopholes/deductions/etc. (that are closed today) that you could have that be the rate with practically no one actually paying it.
What I'm trying to say is, don't hold your breath for that to ever return in present day.
That quote and image combo don't seem directly back up your justification.
And I'm not holding my breath. Our country is now run by those same rich people.
The finish line should not be “raise money to fund public programs.”The finish line should be “billionaires don’t exist.”
Financially speaking, helping the poor and hurting the rich are not the same thing, and it's honestly concerning when I see people prioritize the latter over the former. Eradicating poverty matters infinitely more than keeping people's net worth (which as a reminder, is just a guessed (there is no billionaire whose net worth is precisely known), hypothetical, fluctuating price tag on the stuff they own, should they decide to sell it) under some arbitrary maximum.
And that's without even mentioning how much tax revenue is wasted on things that don't actually serve the population at large. What good is an extra $X billion in tax revenue if it's all pissed away anyway? As one example, the US government spends more per capita on healthcare than any other country, and yet we're far from #1 in most healthcare categories. How does that make sense? We're already not getting what we're paying for, fixing things like that is more important than simply increasing the amount of money going down the same wasteful hole, I think.
Edit: That argument is just "trickle down economics" with extra steps.
I disagree.
Billionaires have outsize influence. They buy politicians to set public policies that affect the working class and divert billions of our dollars into their pockets.
If you put all of their money in a pit and set it on fire, it would have a greater impact than just taxing them 2% and spending all of it on public programs, because they would no longer be able to do harm on a billionaire scale.
The people could heal.
We'd still have other beasts to deal with, but the existence of billionaires is a cap on the lives of the working class.
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Edit: That argument is just “trickle down economics” with extra steps.
Trickle down economics is the argument that financial benefits given to the wealthiest will naturally make their way down to the rest, so there is no need to aid the impoverished directly.
There is literally nothing in what I said that suggests that course of action, at all. My talking about how taking direct action to eradicate poverty ought to be the top priority is literally the opposite of that. You're full of it.
the existence of billionaires is a cap on the lives of the working class.
Billionaires (inflation-adjusted, of course) per capita in the US increased by about 7x compared to 100 years ago, while the percentage of the population living in poverty is 4-6x lower today than it was 100 years ago, compared to what it is today.
The correlation is in literally the opposite direction as what you claim. How do you reconcile these facts with your assertion?
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Correlation is not causation.
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Even if I had asserted that billionaires cap the lives of the working class to the poverty line (which I didn't), the poverty line is an outdated, unserious measure of how Americans are doing.
::: spoiler More about the FPL
My assertion is that billionaires are a cap on the lives of the working class, not that the cap is set at the federal poverty line.
I can't see your links (imgur says their servers are overloaded), but I'll use US figures for the sake of argument.
The [federal poverty line is] derived from the official poverty thresholds, which were originally developed in the 1960s based on the cost of a minimum food diet multiplied by three — reflecting the "fact" [quotations mine] that food makes up about one-third of a typical family’s budget. (What is the federal poverty level?)
Look up "average American monthly expenses", and you'll see that food consistently accounts for less than 15%. The FPL is outdated and has been for decades.
There's controversy about the right way to measure poverty, but no one serious on either side of the argument points at "the percentage of the population living in poverty" and calls it a day.
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The majority of Americans support progressive policies. But whether or not a policy is passed depends on whether or not it has the support of the billionaire class.
::: spoiler More on the popularity of progressive policies and the impact of wealth on policy change
Over half of Americans say they lack the cash to cover a $1,000 unexpected emergency expense. Increased earnings — not lower spending — is main driver for boosting emergency funds. The most common cause of emergency expenses in the United States is a medical emergency. Regardless of whether or not they meet a 1960's definition of poverty, Americans are not, by and large, financially well.
The majority of Americans support progressive programs that address the causes of this precarity: paid maternity leave, childcare support, boosting the minimum wage, free college, and Medicare for All.
But what we want doesn't get passed.
When the preferences of economic elites and the stands of organized interest groups are controlled for, the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.
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When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites and/or with organized interests, they generally lose. Moreover, because of the strong status quo bias built into the U.S. political system, even when fairly large majorities of Americans favor policy change, they generally do not get it.
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Working class Americans (and not just those at or below the federal poverty line) support policy changes that would materially improve their lives. When those policies conflict with the interests of billionaires, the billionaires stop them from passing.
In other words, they put a cap on it.
Our nation, in numbers. USAFacts provides a comprehensive, nonpartisan view of the state of our union.USAFacts
Working class Americans (and not just those at or below the federal poverty line) support policy changes that would materially improve their lives. When those policies conflict with the interests of billionaires, the billionaires stop them from passing.
Are you seriously suggesting that legislation that is detrimental to billionaires never becomes law?
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, among other things, imposed an excise tax on stock buybacks, something that will literally never impact anyone who isn't significantly wealthy, and that passed. A year before, the Corporate Transparency Act passed, and basically struck the death knell for shell company schemes, (not a whole lot of that happening among the working class, lol) by requiring "Beneficial Owners" to be reported to FinCEN, so they know who the actual human beings who own them are. Billionaires lost the ability to hide assets and real estate within anonymous LLCs.
It's ridiculous to think that billionaires are all just smiting any and all legislation that would negatively impact them at will. You are clearly deep in some echo chambers.
A year before, the Corporate Transparency Act passed, and basically struck the death knell for shell company schemes... by requiring "Beneficial Owners" to be reported to FinCEN, so they know who the actual human beings who own them are. Billionaires lost the ability to hide assets and real estate within anonymous LLCs.
You mean the same Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) that Trump and Musk killed the enforcement of after a tweet? (Both billionaires, btw.)
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, among other things, imposed an excise tax on stock buybacks, something that will literally never impact anyone who isn't significantly wealthy, and that passed.
Are you arguing that a 1% excise tax limited to stock buybacks (even lower than the 2 and 3% I already argued won't change the status quo) in any way counters the well-documented fact that billionaires and corporations have dozens of ways to avoid paying taxes?
::: spoiler Corporations even managed to dodge the IRA's headline tax: the CAMT
(2022)
Part of the IRA was budgeted for hiring more tax auditors. Corporations underpay every chance they get and won't pay a penny more until an auditor can prove the difference.
(2023 through 2024)
The IRS repeatedly provided relief and from penalties due to underpayment.
(2025)
Under Trump (2025), the IRS has shrunk. In theory, the IRA should have led to increased taxes. In practice, corporations were able to stall until they had an administration that gutted the IRS' ability to collect.
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Your headline of "we passed a law that says they'll pay" doesn't match the reality of "but not this year because they say it's too complicated, we don't have enough staff to audit them, and they have more accountants than we have people who specialize in legally hiding their assets and cooking the numbers."
For every legal loophole that is closed, the ultra-wealthy find or create two more.
Meanwhile, programs designed to serve the needs of the working class are pushed back with "how are you going to pay for it?"
Answer: With the money that billionaires and corporations should be paying, but aren't.
Are you seriously suggesting that legislation that is detrimental to billionaires never becomes law?
It would be convenient for you, if I were to suggest that, or any other argument you try to put in my mouth.
Once in a blue moon, a law will get passed (as you've demonstrated), that they will then ignore, delay, defang, or lobby into irrelevance (as I've demonstrated).
What I am saying (and have been since the beginning) is that the existence of billionaires is a cap on the lives of the working class.
ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing.Jesse Eisinger (ProPublica)
You mean the same Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) that Trump and Musk killed the enforcement of after a tweet? (Both billionaires, btw.)
Goalpost move, you said billionaires prevent those laws from passing. They passed. You lied. The end.
Are you arguing that a 1% excise tax limited to stock buybacks (even lower than the 2 and 3% I already argued won’t change the status quo) in any way counters [anything]?
Nope. A new tax that applies only to the wealthiest demographic successfully passing is just another refutation of your assertion that billionaires prevent legislation that affects them negatively from passing, and that's the only reason I mentioned it. More desperate goalpost moves.
For every legal loophole that is closed
So you admit they do get closed. I thought billionaires never let detrimental legislation pass?
It would be convenient for you, if I were to suggest that, or any other argument you try to put in my mouth.
Behold, your words, verbatim:
When those policies conflict with the interests of billionaires, the billionaires stop them from passing.
For anyone who's read this far, I hope you got something useful from it.
Hopefully you've seen enough evidence that billionaires and corporations consistently avoid paying the taxes they owe, and that counterclaims (like the assertion that the BOI ended their ability to hide their assets) often fall apart when you look into what's actually happening.
With the last response above, it has become clear that damnedfurry isn't interested in good faith argument, but in childishly scoring points by intentionally misinterpreting my words.
I'm done with damnedfurry, and I'll block them if their comments further devolve into childish sneers or personal attacks.
The correlation is in literally the opposite direction as what you claim. How do you reconcile these facts with your assertion?
Its very easy to make an incorrect correlation like this when you are using faulty data like the FPL.
All it takes two seconds to find out the poverty line in the US is literally just 3 times the monthly minimum spend for food for one person. That doesnt factor in the extreme inflation on housing, medical, student debt, utilities, phone plan costs, taxes, etc. While food prices are inflated they are not nearly as inflated as the other areas critical to survival which are not calculated for the reporting of offical poverty figures. Once you actually account for all of this and look at what percentage of the population fails to meet basic needs you get to a more staggering 43% of the US living in poverty and even thats a rough estimate due to missing data points that might make it higher.
brookings.edu/articles/how-man…
For a shockingly high proportion of families, total family resources do not cover the expenses for their basic necessities.Jeffrey C. Fuhrer (Brookings)
Its very easy to make an incorrect correlation
I think you don't understand what "correlation" means. The correlation is clearly and inarguably what I showed it to be: billionaires per capita went up as poverty went down. That's a plain fact.
43% of the US living in poverty
I'm not going to bother examining how legitimate this stat is, because even if I just take this at face value, what is that compared to the 40-60% I cited? It still does nothing to support the point that billionaires are 'holding the working class down' to any statistically-significant degree. If we take the bottom of the range of the estimate I got, 40%, and took your figure as-is, 43%, then a 7x increase in billionaires per capita increased poverty by 3% total over 100 years! That stat takes "nothingburger" to a whole new level.
That doesn't do much of anything to support the assertion that billionaires are 'capping the lives of the working class', when there being seven times more of them makes no statistically-significant difference in the poverty rate.
Not to mention that 1925 is in the midst of the roaring twenties, before the Great Depression, and your article was written a few years after a global pandemic that wreaked havoc on the world's economy—two facts that both skew things in favor of your claim.
Don't let perfect be the enemy of good, don't let good be the enemy of okay, and don't let okay be the enemy of "not as bad as it could be"
Because it's starting to get as bad as it can be.
Agreed.
Pass what you can pass.
But don't let that be the finish line.
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"Also, I run Arch now, BTW. But I might try Gentoo."
"...I've lost him."
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is that kid even wearing any beans?
it's like the artist wasn't even trying to capture our essence.
I also don't see Taylor Swift's jet... wearing jeans.
Oh, nvm.
Ok fuck you then, Heidegger.
/J/k
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Everything is politics
Blocked.
block me too twat, make a piefed account if you want to live in a little rainbow world
unlimited genocide on the west
You can be against what Israel is doing without specifically being in support of Palestine. But it's harder to explain with a short pro/anti type label.
Palestine is a country and its possible to have a very different feeling to a government and the people.
You missed one. 😉
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.destr100 (YouTube)
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me trying to figure out why "Vaderhorstia" is a reference before reading the rest of the name
Vanderhorstia supersaiyan sp. nov. (Perciformes: Gobiidae) is described from a single specimen (77.0 mm in standard length) collected from 210 m depth off Ishigaki-jima Island, Okinawa, Japan.SpringerLink
Here's the article from the university but you gotta translate it
石垣島沖のわずかな光のみが届く「トワイライトゾーン」と呼ばれる海域から、平坂 寛氏が新種のハゼ科魚類を釣りにkohokoho (琉球大学)
The postmarketOS v25.12 release is coming closer, which means that once again we need your help with selecting a wallpaper! 
Poll is in the comments.
All of them were made by the talented @dikasetyaprayogi, thank you so much!
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The long wait is over, Ganymede has arrived
Yes, we know it has been a long time since we released an ISO refresh. So, before I start the announcement, I want to get rid of a concern or rumour: our project is still active, and we're not going anywhere.
We still love what we do over here, but we all have chosen to let our lives and loved ones come first over the project. That certainly doesn't mean w
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Fundraiser news: Adopt a KDE dragon!
10 KDE dragons turned up on our doorstep today looking for families to adopt them. Contribute €100 or more to our fundraiser and one of these amigurumi cuties will go and live with you!
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All Konqis are hand-reared with care and love by a kind lady from Barcelona and are all different and unique.
#fundraiser #dragons #FreeSoftware #OpenSource
Help us bring KDE’s software catalogue into the mainstream! Plasma 6 is a stable, usable and accessible desktop environment that brings us closer to meeting the needs of private citizens, companies and public institutionsReaching the Inflection Point
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... Or a KDE Kaiju will adopt you🦖!
These three amigurumi monsters are also looking for families! Donate €200 and choose between the ferocious Konqisaurus Rex, Kinq Konq or Konqzilla:
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I have sent some to adopt Kinq Konq (or Konqisaurus if Konq is already taken)! .. Even though I already sent a whole bunch earlier, but damnit they're adorable, and I don't exactly think I'll regret sending more help towards the project I've used basically exclusively for the last 15 years 
I'll also log in my work laptop and send a donation match through my employer, so you're getting double for this 
All dragons and kaijus have now been adopted!
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A big thank you to everybody for your generosity ❤️ !
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I really need more sales to cover my rent and bills this November/Native American Heritage Month! Buy some beadwork for yourself and for gifting-- every sale helps ❤❤
Boosts also appreciated 💕
Online store → cvkvlv.com
Goal for November: $2030/$4000
Mvto!! (Thank you!)
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I realize I just posted this on another instance... but that one is going away soon... so for posterity.
Some people are interested in this... and, genuinely, thank you for asking. I try to post my (very few niche ass and no one cares) videos with artists I wish more folks paid attention to and it seems that's a good thing and I get into a lot of conversations about it. But, anyway, here's this years list. I tried adding two songs per month as a 'this is me now' this month type of thing. I did try to keep 'early album and late album' songs in their place... but, whatever. Enjoy? What did you like or hate the most?
I did leave the more 'epic' songs towards the end... mostly because they're long and I do not expect humans to listen to it all. So, if you made it that far... I got that dank for you.
open.qobuz.com/playlist/343774…
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#music #topof2025 #isthisearly #hifi #qobuz #leavespotify #qobuz
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I just called my reps with 5 Calls, you should* too. They make it super easy to contact the appropriate office(s) about specific issues, and give you a script for the call.
Boost if you think this might be useful for your peeps.
* You should if you're American. And if you give a shit about other people.
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And now for something COMPLETELY different:
Linux booting *inside* a PDF file. (Uses embedded JS to run a RISCV emulator and boot Linux to a command line prompt):
github.com/ading2210/linuxpdf?…
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What's next, Crysis-in-a-CSV?Brandon Vigliarolo (The Register)
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The obvious next step is to run Doom.
Whoops, never mind: they've got that covered, too.
A port of Doom (1993) that runs inside a PDF file. Contribute to ading2210/doompdf development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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A port of Doom (1993) that runs inside a PDF file. Contribute to ading2210/doompdf development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Yet another reason to add to the list of why friends don’t let friends open PDFs…
Crazy impressive and absolutely mind boggling though. 😅
When I last worked with laser printers, there was a PostScript program that would run Doom - about 15 yrs ago. We never had the time to actually test it, but had to do some extra work to disable the ability to do arbitrary IO.
That said, amazing job and I'm wondering if I should replace my PC with a good printer!
This reminds me of the guy who stuck an LLM inside a font. Actually, there is more than one guy who has done this.
youtube.com/watch?v=Y65FRxE7uM…
(this explains how he uses the LLM to rewrite your text using synonyms so as to achieve pleasing justified text without use of hyphenation).
fuglede.github.io/llama.ttf/
(this does more conventional predictive text stuff as you type.
I'm not sure what happens when you typeset your PDF-containing-Linux in a typeface-containing-an-LLM, but I'm pretty sure I don't want to be there when it happens.
llama.ttf is a font file which is also a large language model and an inference engine for that model.fuglede.github.io
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@jgeorge @bsdphk Blame Adobe for adding JavaScript to PDF, back in the days when everyone wanted to slather world wide web special sauce on their products—like LLMs and "artificial intelligence" today or "crypto/blockchain" a decade ago.
It's a repeating dark pattern, dictated mostly by managers desperate to make Line Go Up by being latest-buzzword-compatible.
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@jgeorge
One of the events in computing that I have yet to see credibly researched and documented is what I call "The deluge":
How much did "The IT industry" grow during the 1990'ies in terms of persons, and what skills did they come in with ?
My guess is a factor of more than 1000, (ie: 100000+%) and that none of those people (-epsilon) had any professional IT experience, and knew nothing about the skill&craft of IT.
(Add the "Make Money Fast" incentive and...)
@bsdphk @jgeorge You can almost certainly chart it by graphing cumulative sales of personal computers, minus machines retired as broken/obsolete, which lags by a time period … and it was undergoing exponential growth throughout this period, so the retired cohort lagged new installs by a huge distance.
Computer use in business implies support personnel numbers (IIRC in the 90s it was 1 PC tech support per 40 installed base).
Since 2007 include smartphones/tablets as well. Different ratio, OFC.
That's pretty much how I arrived at "a factor 1000".
But having somebody who know what they're doing, do the math with actual data would be better 😀
Is this good?
Or very bad??🤔
A port of Doom (1993) that runs inside a PDF file. Contribute to ading2210/doompdf development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Bookshop.org launched a new platform that allows independent bookstores to sell e-books to readers. Here's a look inside., USA TODAY (USA TODAY)
I have mix feelings about this, as while there are some DRM-free books, most are locked to the application.
Meaning: you can't give your book to someone after you're done and if the app stops working in the future, your book won't be available.
I'll rather have them call it renting than buying.
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Basically anything that sells ePub, so Kobo.com, ebooks.com (this one has a drm free category), etc. DRM is decided by the publisher not the store so not everything will be available without protection.
If the book you want has DRM there's a Calibre plugin that is usually able to remove it.
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Some subreddits will require you to pay to see content.AJ Dellinger (Gizmodo)
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Reddit might have some room to eat into Patreon’s model, allowing creators to put certain content behind paywalls. Lots of creators have their own subreddits already meant to facilitate community conversation in a way that comments on Patreon posts don’t totally allow for. So perhaps there’s some room for Reddit to sneak into that space.
That might actually work.
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No, they just want to control the distribution. If they do, they can insert their ads and monetize directly.
And it's not just Patreon, it's onlyfans too. We all know reddit has plenty of porn, and by that I mean onlyfans spammers. So, since reddit already has the content creators and the content consumer userbase, why not cut out the middleman and monetize it themselves?
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I recall their TOS having a clause like that years and years ago. And usually it's not a problem for the users or the creators, since everyone gets a cut.
I don't think the creators mind too much. Even if reddit takes a cut, the net profit is still much greater due to the size of the audience.
But why would they do this through Reddit and not Patreon?
You can already make private subreddits.
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I bet they figure paywalled areas will produce more consistent, high quality comments for selling to LLMs too.
It’s probally partly a data farming move.
New argument is coming soon:
"Lemmy - FREE alternative to Reddit"
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Its not economically beneficial to save the economic system
Economic system = our planet
Tbh, my outlook on the planet in the next 50~60 years is similar to what was shown in the movie with Tom Hanks Finch (2021). Vast part of the planet probably becoming uninhabitable with a few habitable patches here or there.
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why is the backend closed source
what is canonical hiding from us
ubuntu sucks
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in reply to thethunderwolf • • •I agree, however I use snap because my partner's use it. Plus the stupid streaks keep me from falling back into a major depression where I just turtle and don't talk to anyone for 6 months but my wife.
I think things being closed source in the case of these chat/social media apps is the fact if we get the source we can probably figure out ways to bypass the paywalls.
What's the beef with Ubuntu? I use bazzite and debian myself?
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