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  • dock

    Not a permanent dock. Docks predate Apple any way.

    activities (somewhat e mix between Apple’s mission control and launchpad

    GNOME 3 was officially launched a few months after OS X Lion, but combined these things into one first.

  • GNOME June 2024: C'mon you can do better
  • How it manages to use up more resources than KDE is beyond me.

    It can happen when you have to develop all your technology on your own instead of relying on the work of a hundred-million dollar company that does the heavy lifting for you.

  • The complete list of European news websites blocked by Russia on the 25th of June 2024

    Austria

    1. Österreichischer Rundfunk (orf.at)
    2. Österreich (oe24.at)

    Belgium

    1. Le Vif (levif.be)
    2. Knack (knack.be)

    Bulgaria

    1. Mediapool (Mediapool.bg)
    2. 24 Chasa (24chasa.bg)

    Hungary

    1. 444 (444.hu)

    Germany

    1. Der Spiegel (spiegel.de)
    2. Die Zeit (zeit.de)
    3. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (faz.net)

    Greece

    1. Ellinikí Radiofonía Tileórasi (ert.gr, ertnews.gr);
    2. Skai Group (skai.gr);
    3. Mega (Megatv.com);
    4. Proto Thema (protothema.gr)

    Denmark

    1. Berlingske (berlingske.dk)
    2. Information (information.dk)

    Ireland

    1. Raidió Teilifís Éireann (rte.ie)
    2. Irish Times (irishtimes.com)
    3. Irish Independent (independent.ie)

    Spain

    1. El Mundo (elmundo.es)
    2. El Pais (elpais.com)
    3. EFE (efe.com)
    4. Radiotelevisión Española (rtve.es)

    Italy

    1. LA7 (la7.it)
    2. La Stampa (lastampa.it)
    3. La Repubblica (repubblica.it)
    4. RAI (rai.it, rainews.it)

    Cyprus

    1. Politis (politis.com.cy)
    2. Cyprus Times (cyprustimes.com)
    3. Cyprus Mail (cyprus-mail.com)

    Latvia

    1. Latvijas sabiedriskais medijs (lsm.lv)
    2. Apollo (apollo.lv)
    3. TVNET (tvnet.lv)
    4. Diena (diena.lv)

    Lithuania

    1. Lietuvos nacionalinis radijas ir televizija (lrt.lt)
    2. 15min (15min.lt)
    3. Lrytas (lrytas.lt)

    Malta

    1. Television Malta (tvmnews.mt);
    2. Times of Malta (timesofmalta.com)
    3. The Malta Independent (independent.com.mt)
    4. Malta Today (maltatoday.com.mt)

    The Netherlands

    1. Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (Nos.nl)
    2. NRC (nrc.nl)
    3. Algemeen Dagblad (ad.nl)

    Poland

    1. Belsat (belsat.eu, belsat.pl)
    2. Novaya Polsha (novayapolsha.eu, novayapolsha.com, novayapolsha.pl)

    Portugal

    1. RTP Internacional (rtp.pt)
    2. Publico (publico.pt)
    3. Expresso (expresso.pt)
    4. Observador (observador.pt)

    Romania

    1. PRO TV (stirileprotv.ro, protv.ro)
    2. Digi24 (digi24.ro)
    3. B1TV (b1tv.ro)

    Slovakia

    1. SME (sme.sk)
    2. Denník N (dennikn.sk)

    Slovenia

    1. Nova24 (Nova24.si, Nova24tv.si)
    2. Demokracija (Demokracija.si, Demokracija.eu)

    Finland

    1. Ilta-Sanomata (is.fi)
    2. Iltalehti (iltalehti.fi)
    3. Helsingin Sanomat (hs.fi)
    4. Yleisradio (yle.fi)

    France

    1. TF1 (tf1info.fr)
    2. Le Monde (lemonde.fr)
    3. La Croix (la-croix.com)
    4. Libération(liberation.fr)
    5. L'express (lexpress.fr)
    6. Radio France (radiofrance.fr)
    7. Agence France-Presse (afp.com, afpforum.com)
    8. CNews (cnews.fr)
    9. ARTE (arte.tv)

    Cezch Republic

    1. Ceska Televize (ceskatelevlevize.cz)
    2. Seznam Zpravy (seznamzpravy.cz)

    Sweden

    1. Sveriges Television - SVT (svt.se)
    2. Sveriges Radio (sverigesradio.se)

    Estonia

    1. Propastop (propastop.org)
    2. Eesti Rahvusringhääling (err.ee)
    3. Delfi (delfi.ee)

    Pan-European Mass Media

    1. Agence Europe (agenceurope.eu);
    2. Politico (www.politico.eu, www.politico.com)
    3. Reporters Without Borders (rsf.org)
    4. Euobserver (Euobserver.com)

    Source: https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/1959391/

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    ‘Hotel on rails’ Midnight Trains announce end of project before it actually started operations
  • Right, Midnight Trains was a French company trying to create a European night train network that centred on France, specifically on Paris. I think they found out the hard way that for various reasons, as they detailed in their blog, France might not be the best country in which to organise such a company; it also might have been simply too ambitious of a project for the current market.

  • ‘Hotel on rails’ Midnight Trains announce end of project before it actually started operations
    tripbytrip.org ‘Hotel on rails’ Midnight Trains announce end of project before it actually started operations

    In their weekly Friday at midnight newsletter, Midnight Trains have announced it their “death”. The French company wanted to start a ‘hotel on rails’ upscale night train ser…

    ‘Hotel on rails’ Midnight Trains announce end of project before it actually started operations
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    VR cancels all long-distance trains in Finland on Tuesday due to safety concerns

    Wednseday the 14th of February will also see issues for train travellers in Finland, since only about half of all the long distance trains will run as scheduled.

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    Cigarette-style climate warnings on food could cut meat consumption, study suggests
  • Tens of thousands of people across Europe already don't own anything anymore because of recent calamities caused by climate change, yet people continue to bring in this stupid phrase trying to say that the solution will be worse than what we are already going through because of the many mistakes we made in managing resources, of which food production is one.

  • Questions and answers on the Single Currency Package / Digital Euro
  • Yes, bank accounts are still (only) bank accounts, which they have been for centuries with only cash (coins or banknotes) and paper-based accounting. Isn't this the point? If the digital euro is to be a digital analogue for cash, surely one would expect it to play the same role as cash, which isn't the form to store your entire wealth and belonging, but to serve as an easily tradeable and transportable form of money. The ECB doesn't want to provide and manage bank accounts, or rather no central bank does as it's simply not what banking has always been, it's always been a private endeavour.

    I think the digital convenience of "anonymous" payments is real, and also that the ECB wanting to implement the digital euro as an online e-commerce compatible system from the beginning, directly challenging various different payment circuits with a single universal one, is also a significant development.

  • Questions and answers on the Single Currency Package / Digital Euro
  • At the moment the idea that I have understood reading the various documents and interviews is that the digital euro wallets will not be a sort of bank account managed by the ECB, but they will be managed by the private banks (with similar guarantees for banking inclusion as existing bank accounts) and will be interoperable in order to use the common ECB-backed digital euro.

    Therefore you still have the banks managing the infrastructure; also to convince the banks to adhere and not to completely destroy the existing electronic payment circuits there is a proposal to have a limit on the maximum transaction amount.

  • Kitagawa's sexual abuse: the other side of the Japanese teen-idol market
  • I would also like to add that another horrible treatment of young men and women involved in the Japanese idol market (I would call it a meat market even) is the immense social pressure from the talent companies, which has been ruled illegal and unconstitutional, to keep romantic relationships secret, to always appear "available" to the fans. Despite the rulings there are still idols who get caught up in "scandals" from time to time and are more or less forced to issue massive apologies or leave their agency.

  • Kitagawa's sexual abuse: the other side of the Japanese teen-idol market
    www.asianews.it JAPAN Kitagawa's sexual abuse: the other side of the Japanese teen-idol market

    Johnny and Associates - one of the biggest agencies of J-pop singers - has been overwhelmed by allegations against its founder (who passed away in 2019) that over decades he allegedly molested hundreds of young artists. An affair that was kept hidden for a long time despite the fact that the first a...

    JAPAN Kitagawa's sexual abuse: the other side of the Japanese teen-idol market
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    Greek shipping minister resigns over the death of a man who was pushed off a ferry ramp
    apnews.com Greek shipping minister resigns over the death of a man who was pushed off a ferry ramp

    Greece’s shipping minister has resigned over the death of a man who was pushed off a ferry ramp by a crew member after arriving late.

    Greek shipping minister resigns over the death of a man who was pushed off a ferry ramp
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    Sunday at Monza has not sold out and the promoters are offering some high discounts to fill the seats

    Earlier in the week during the promoters' press release for the Italian Grand Pix the president of the company that manages the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza said that they were holding out hopes of selling out the tickets for Sunday; he said that the sales had started strong but had slowed down over the summer. He claimed that there were still tickets available, and he was banking on late-buyers as the weather forecasts had definitely cleared any chances of bad weather. He claimed that 95% of the tickets had been sold.

    Initially the claims were met with high scepticism on Twitter and other media, since on that day going over to the ticket selling platforms and checking out the availability showed big numbers of unsold tickets for Friday and Saturday all over the circuit. Even assuming that the claim was referring to Sunday only, though, it seems that it was not truthful: sectors like Roggia and Ascari, priced at 500 € for Sunday, were still mostly empty and available.

    On Wednesday 30th of August Monza started promoting a big discount campaign for Roggia and Ascari: prices were sliced from 500 € to 275 €, almost in half. Other tickets were still available throughout the circuit.

    On Saturday 2nd of September an e-mail was sent by ACI Sport (the Italian Automobile Club sporting section, the promoter of all national automobile races) to all general admission ticket holders, offering a new "upgrade ticket": for those very same Roggia and Ascari stand seats a 185 € upgrade is offered, meaning that a 110 € general admission weekend pass or a 90 € Sunday ticket can be presented at the ticket booths to get the 185 € tickets for Sunday and get a seat from those ex-500 € seats. Some tickets are also still available in a few other areas.

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    Migrant hunters in Greece show off captured 'trophies' after wildfires
    www.euronews.com Migrant hunters in Greece show off captured 'trophies' after wildfires

    As the popular belief spreads that migrants are to blame for the fires that have ravaged Greece, self-organised civilian 'militias' are hunting them down.

    Migrant hunters in Greece show off captured 'trophies' after wildfires
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    Dutch rail still not on track to financial health, figures show - DutchNews.nl
    www.dutchnews.nl Dutch rail still not on track to financial health, figures show - DutchNews.nl

    Dutch state-owned rail company NS is still posting a loss despite growing post-Covid passenger numbers, its half-year results have shown. The company’s operational losses fell from €225 million a year ago to €26 million in the first six months of this year. The company called the results “still not ...

    Dutch rail still not on track to financial health, figures show - DutchNews.nl
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    France moves to ban far-right Catholic party Civitas for antisemitism
    www.timesofisrael.com France moves to ban far-right Catholic party Civitas for antisemitism

    Decision comes after speaker at party seminar suggested Jews should not be allowed to become French citizens; interior minister: 'No room for antisemitism in our country'

    France moves to ban far-right Catholic party Civitas for antisemitism
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    Austrian leader backs far-right idea of enshrining cash in constitution
    www.euractiv.com Austrian leader backs far-right idea of enshrining cash in constitution

    Austria's conservative Chancellor Karl Nehammer wants the right to use cash enshrined in the constitution, he told Austrian media in remarks published on Friday (4 August), an idea the far-right Freedom Party has been pushing for years.

    Austrian leader backs far-right idea of enshrining cash in constitution

    Austria’s conservative Chancellor Karl Nehammer wants the right to use cash enshrined in the constitution, he told Austrian media in remarks published on Friday (4 August), an idea the far-right Freedom Party has been pushing for years.

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    What’s Happening in Italy Is Scary, and It’s Spreading
  • The centre-left parties in Italy have been pushing for a minimum wage law since the early spring, when the biggest party (PD) finished its congress and a new direction was elected. The right wing majority has now voted to delay any kind of discussion on the law proposal for two months, and the right wing minister for external affairs has gone on record saying things like "minimum wage is a Soviet measure" and "we need a rich wage, not minimum wage".

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