cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3770297
> I think I've finally found it: The elusive Firefox fork for my day-to-day needs. It needed to have sane defaults like Librewolf but also as user empowering as Vivaldi (as well as not being proprietary which is cringe). > > Zen I believe accomplishes both of that. It's a relatively new project but it does have active development with new changes added every release. Here's the rundown: > > - Licensed under the Mozilla Public License 2.0, the same as Firefox. So enjoy that warm feeling you get when using open source software that won't pull the rug from under you. > - Follows Firefox release cycles: If a new Firefox version comes out, Zen is not behind. > - Instead of horizontal tabs, Zen only uses vertical tabs for navigation. If this is a deal breaker, then Zen isn't for you :( > - Supports split view, workspaces, browser profiles, side panels, tab unloading (saving memory by deactivating a tab), theming, mods and everything else that base Firefox supports (like firefox sync). > - Cannot play DRM-protected content as of yet on Windows and MacOS (rare Linux W?) due to license fees. This is your netflix, your disney+, your spotify. > - No mobile version (nor does it seem to be planned), though firefox sync is still supported. > - Looks GORGEOUS. I never realized how ugly Firefox looks by default, esp on desktops like GNOME and KDE where it tries to integrate itself into the system theme. > - Performs FABULOUSLY: Optimizations from the firefox level to even providing an optimized binary executable for modern CPUs. > - SANE defaults like HTTPS everywhere, no link prefetching (where the browser loads links that it thinks you're going to go to), uncluttered Firefox home. > - Probably more I'm not listing > > Download here: https://zen-browser.app/download > > ### How do I use Zen? > > Well firstly, Zen doesn't come with any extensions by default. So I made sure to chuck in my Ublock Origin, Privacy Badger, ClearURLs, LibRedirect, etc. It also uses secure DNS by default with Cloudflare so you might want to turn that off (I have a DNS homeserver that does encrypted DNS through other means). > > I also really like using the side panel to put my wiki sites and dictionaries in. I've only been using Zen for a week now and it seems to be my forever browser of choice.
ultimately a war that has been raging since biblical times is not something I can solve,
Americans should not be allowed to joke about Chinese censorship anymore
It has always been racism which makes my liberal peers snap when I say it. Though they do become more radicalized in the end (or just stop saying lib shit)
He only removed the maintainers from the list with ".ru" domain names in their emails. So yeah, a eebil Ruzzian spy can still intentionally introduce malware in the kernel they just need to use an all american gmail account.
Absolute plonkers, I think it would be hilarious if they thought they could sneak this through people as if Torvalds himself didn't design git to make it impossible to hide.
This in itself isn't surprising, nor does it really hurt Russia in any material way since all this means is that Russian hardware and contributions aren't allowed in Torvalds' git tree.
What was disheartening was to hear Torvalds spit out the most racist shit imaginable while his co-maintainers try to do damage control. A person sent a revert patch and he went "Well did you know the Russian orcs are the natural enemy of Finns?"
RMS is a creep and Torvalds is a Nazi/Finnish, never meet your heroes I guess.
This means that for everyone else, this information is irrelevant.
True, when Microsoft tells its customers that their computers can't upgrade to Windows 11 because of "hardware requirements" they were obviously not lying through their teeth, totally not because the margins are higher when people buy new computers (and the bloody yankee mining supply chain can continue at full speed).
It's not like x86_64 laptops keep advertising AI capabilities through their new NPU units and thus can do the same thing as ARM snapdragon chips.
The software is proprietary, what they tell you is what they want and are willing to tell you.
Never stop 
, Never lose faith 
Maintaining the GNU agenda is our topmost priority 
If I were to explain it more specifically (sans people are dumb level takes), when something is part of the dominant hegemony (Windows has almost become synonymous with the personal computer, something still connected to a Pax Americana mythos) and people aren't educated on different options then all people have are anecdotes and personal wisdom. Windows as a brand and as a force in computer technology warps everything around it, not the other way around. That's why we see so many conflicting opinions on Windows, there's not a leg for people to stand on and judge their experiences objectively. People's lives depend on the very thing that's hurting them.
Add a huge splash of US hegemony to the mix and you can see how Silicon Valley is the technological Hollywood of the world. Communal efforts to create software for the common good is one of the main ways to combat this because it gives us an external vocabulary outside of the silicon valley ideology that's taught to us. I only really started to understand how computers work when I delved into free software projects.
Good correction, I'm not a Windows user anymore and I defer to this YouTuber since he seems the most knowledgeable. No one is infallible and I don't want to maliciously spread bad info
But yes, I see, good thing to know that in order to disable recall I need to use an arcane cli command or use a Windows feature most people don't know about.
Windows is a pain in the ass to work with but at least it warns me before i format the boot sector.
Linux (Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian) also warns you no? But in any case, it's a learning curve just like any other. Stick with it for a couple more months and it'll go away I promise! Linux only gets better over time.
Politics, however, is inescapable. The family is battered by political ads while watching Cardinals football games. Mr. Martinez drives past billboards on his predawn commute to haul wastewater, and his daughter, Julissa, sees ads as she flicks through social media.
On one blistering late-summer Sunday, arguments started up — again — about why Julissa had embraced Ms. Harris. “Because Taylor Swift endorsed her,” Mr. Martinez said. “I don’t like Taylor Swift,” she retorted. Explaining her support for Ms. Harris, she said: “I just like what she stands for — women’s rights and everything. It’s empowering for a woman to be so powerful.”
Julissa glanced at her father. “A man will never know what a woman goes through,” she said.
On your left you can see the purest form of ideology, nearly 99% pure 
, unfiltered, sans GMOs.
Windows 10 hits end of life next year, so Windows 10 users will become the Windows 7 users of today as software and updates slowly stop coming to them.
Microsoft could also just... forcibly update your machine. It's their operating system after all.
TL;DR:
The Windows File Explorer is now dependent on Microsoft Recall being installed on Windows 11 24H2 editions and likely later.
This means that if you wish to use newer versions of the Window file explorer, you have to install recall on your system. Recall is a deeply-rooted, non-negotiable feature on all modern versions of Windows.
Solution
If you wish to strip out recall from your system, you are no longer able to use the built-in graphical file explorer and must use a third-party tool, and if you're not allowed to do that on the machine, then you are forced to have recall running on the system as it doesn't appear on any graphical settings pages.
The other solution is to prepare for transitioning into a free operating system such as GNU/Linux with distributions such as Linux Mint which is designed specifically for that transition. You can also run an older version of Windows and refuse to update.
Errata
Turns out that this issue has been exaggerated and that there are ways to disable co-pilot on Windows machines (or at the very least, command Windows to do so). Also it's debatable whether this program does any harm on non "copilot" computers but you can be the judge of that.
What's your point here? That volunteers not financially backed by the US regime don't magically have the capacity to reverse engineer the dozens upon dozens of blobs that get added to the kernel every release cycle? Or that they're even trying at all? Both aren't a good look for whatever you're trying to say
they're not adding anything of value.
Now you're just being vindictive towards others and I really don't like that. It doesn't cost anything to not be unkind towards people's contributions. You're free to criticize the approach but I draw the line at the idea that it is worthless because none of this work is.
Is it really a fork if all you do is take upstream and remove the blobs?
Yes that's what a fork is, a disagreement with upstream's direction and taking your own measures. Git is a decentralized version control system that allows for this.
What code has this fork created that makes it novel?
Deblob scripts and regularly checking the source code for complying licenses. They regularly follow upstream kernel releases and are the first ones to signal license issues and inconsistencies.
Have they tried to replace those blobs with open source drivers?
I should have been more specific. Virtually all drivers in the upstream Linux kernel are licensed under a libre license. However, manufacturer firmware (small amounts of code designed to "unlock" the device's capabilities) are distributed as a binary blob that gets loaded into your computer (you're allowed to redistribute the firmware in binary form, but not anything else). The Linux kernel's upstream (aka Torvalds and other high level maintainer's own trees) allows the use of nonfree firmware for device support (AKA getting your foot into the door). In short, no modern computer device that people use regularly is free from private tampering. Who are these "private" tamperers? The US-led digital empire.
If you have a machine (or more likely, a virtual machine) that doesn't require device firmware, then linux-libre is the superior kernel as it subtracts the space and attack vector costs of nonfree firmware. We aren't at that point yet as CPU microcode is far too important to give up on physical hardware, but for nations in the Global South with the engineering capacity, linux-libre does all the work of de-westernizing the kernel.
"No one knows how our retaliation and revenge will be completed," she said.
A true role model 
. Also worth to note for the umpteenth' time the oozing ideology of the article. Kim Yo Jung is only referred to as Kim Jong Un's sister even though she holds a high ranking role in the publicity wing of the government, it's literally her job to be this badass.
The kernel has already been forked. The Linux-libre project maintains a completely-blob free kernel and people gave them shit over it. Why develop more kernels? why not centralize development? Now we have a clear example of why not to do that.
This seems to be an attempt to stifle Russian hardware development from occurring in upstream. This means nothing to the actual downstream developers who will have their own kernel tree for their users in Russia.
Love to see all the "POLITICS IN MY LINUX???" losers start flame wars over being proven wrong.
Inb4 Chinese devs get removed for "compliance", maybe they'll just go mask off next time and say the real reason.
- Context: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Russian-Linux-Maintainers-Drop
- Source: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=whNGNVnYHHSXUAsWds_MoZ-iEgRMQMxZZ0z-jY4uHT+Gg@mail.gmail.com/ CW: Russophobia, Finnish man speaks on politics
A group of maintainers with a ".ru" top level domain have been removed for "compliance issues" and that if they met those requirements they would be brought back in. People noticed and started voicing their concern.
- https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241023080935.2945-2-kexybiscuit@aosc.io/ > This reverts commit 6e90b675cf942e50c70e8394dfb5862975c3b3b2. > > An absolutely no-one-ever-reviewed patch, not even by the maintainers who got removed themselves - at least not on the mailing list. Then the patch just got slipped into an unrelated subsystem pull request, and got pulled by Torvalds with not even a comment. > > What about the next time? Who next would be removed from the MAINTAINERS file, the kernel.org infrastructure? What if the compliance requires another XZ backdoor to be developed without further explanation? Is the kernel development process still done in public? > > Are the "compliance requirements" documented on docs.kernel.org? Who are responsible for them? Are all that are responsible employees of The Linux Foundation, which is regulated by the U.S. legislature?
This specific email, (noticeably not from a .ru domain) elicited a negative reaction from Linus Torvalds, the leader of the Linux kernel
> Ok, lots of Russian trolls out and about. > > It's entirely clear why the change was done, it's not getting reverted, and using multiple random anonymous accounts to try to "grass root" it by Russian troll factories isn't going to change anything. > > And FYI for the actual innocent bystanders who aren't troll farm accounts - the "various compliance requirements" are not just a US thing. > > If you haven't heard of Russian sanctions yet, you should try to read the news some day. And by "news", I don't mean Russian state-sponsored spam. > > As to sending me a revert patch - please use whatever mush you call brains. I'm Finnish. Did you think I'd be supporting Russian aggression? Apparently it's not just lack of real news, it's lack of history knowledge too.
The Linux Foundation is a 501c non-profit organization based in San Francisco and is therefore under US jurisdiction. The Linux Foundation also receives support from the leading oligarchs of the US digital empire (Intel, Qualcomm, AMD, Microsoft, etc.).
Going from Linus' rash response to the foundation being stationed in the heart of the digital silicon valley empire, it's more than likely that the Linux Foundation and the kernel maintainers are abiding by US-led sanctions against Russia. The Linux kernel's lead developer aligns himself with the imperial core, and it seems he has no regrets doing so.
With the recent Israeli terrorist attack on Lebanon via remote detonated pagers (which have maimed children), the US is now cashing in its unchecked dominance on computer technology in its vain attempt to keep its empire afloat. The threats have now become actions. The Russian SMO has not gone well for the US-led NATO forces as the war begins to enter its 3rd year and the recent rise of the Chinese digital power has spooked the Silicon Valley oligarchs into acting.
What does this mean for GNU/Linux users and others using the Linux kernel?
The development of the kernel is fundamentally decentralized via the version-control program that Linus himself spearheaded: git. Most orgs keep their own git tree of the kernel and have their own development branches. The GNU Guix project also maintains/ships a completely libre kernel that removes all form of binary blobs (mostly for enabling yankee-made hardware, go figure). Unfortunately, it seems like all the people who lambasted the GNU Hurd project for being too slow and idealistic didn't realize the danger of a singular monolithic kernel (pun not intended).
I doubt this means the introduction of backdoors (because why now? If backdoors were implemented they wouldn't do it just now).
TL;DR
Linus Torvalds had the feds knock on his door and ask him to remove certain Russian maintainers, Torvalds, being a millionaire finnish neckbeard, gladly granted this request. Too bad he hasn't gotten over his anger issues because his furious response only confirmed the yankee involvement and that Torvalds is not allowed to discuss this issue.
Middleton said one of the Dali crew members returned home to South Asia because of a family emergency, also on the condition that he would return.
This man is GONE lmao.
¿por qué no los dos?
not safe for w
I've never experienced sex outside of smutty queer novels and webcomics and it's M4M so almost all the sex devolves into "insert rod in designated rod insertion slot".
Like first of all, half of these stories don't have any prep, and a quarter of them don't have any foreplay. It's so boring and makes a lot of these stories feel so samey.
Also only like 3 out of the 100s of works I've read actually had a trans man. The rest are uwu femboys because why have trans rep when you can have femboy twink? Absolute fools.
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3207959
> We first need to obtain a blocklist of all possible Israeli ip addresses. This can be obtained from two sources.
>
> 1. https://www.ip2location.com/free/visitor-blocker
> 2. https://www.iblocklist.com/
>
> Due to the nature of how IP addresses are distributed, these blocklists have to be updated, but that isn't a huge concern for us right now.
>
> When you downloaded the file for Israel from either site, it should look something like this:
>
> > Israel:2.16.36.0-2.16.36.255 > Israel:2.22.233.0-2.22.233.255 > Israel:2.52.0.0-2.55.255.255 > Israel:2.57.228.0-2.57.231.255 > Israel:2.58.33.0-2.58.33.255 > Israel:3.2.42.0-3.2.42.63 > Israel:3.5.56.0-3.5.59.255 > Israel:5.22.128.0-5.22.135.255 > Israel:5.28.128.0-5.28.191.255 > Israel:5.29.0.0-5.29.255.255 > Israel:5.100.248.0-5.100.255.255 >
> If you wish to add more nations to the list such as TERF island or the 4th Reich, then you can append the files on top of each other into one file.
>
> Once you have the file, rename it with the .p2p extension so that qbittorrent will use it. Then, in your qbittorrent client, go to Preferences -> Connection. At the very bottom you should see a section labeled IP Filtering. In the Filter Path checkbox, select your .p2p file. You may also check the box to block trackers as well.
>
> In other bittorrent software (hopefully you're using one that's libre) there should be a similar option for ip filtering.
>
> There you go! You have effectively banned Israel from being your peer while you're doing p2p transfers. This won't stop Zionists from peering with you using a VPN or other undetected server, but this has done wonders for my mood.
>
> Always remember to port forward and seed when torrenting (A non-Zionist VPN like AirVPN or ProtonVPN can allow you to do that). Only a Zionist does a download and run.
>
> Resources
> 1. https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/discussions/17457
Tldr: Bangladesh 🇧🇩 not doing so hot right now. Thoughts as a diaspora imperial core desi who lives a very comfortable life.
I feel really immature right about now. For a good while I just kept denying the color revolution hints to the point where even my very lib Dad was able to point them out. Feel like such a complete jackass, it just feels so fucking different when you're in the moment and it's your country down the line. That doesn't mean I don't have the same solidarity for all global south nations but this one just felt so personal. What's happening in Bangladesh right now seems like nothing compared to the horrific struggle that West Asia has endured, but I guess I'm joining the club. !doomjak
But yeah, they literally took over my country and there's nothing I, a diaspora bengali, can do about it. Sometimes it feels like I have survivors guilt, that I got out of the country and immigrated to the imperial core (well my parents did) where I could live a far more comfortable life while a lot of my peers even here in the US are living much harder lives. !omori-miserable
This is also compounded by the fact that I live in a white picket fence neighborhood where every neighborhood family are Trumpers or respectful Kamala-ists who are just "simple folk" out raising their family. My dad recently hanged up an American flag and a Bangladeshi flag on our lawn and now I'm just sick even thinking about it. !disgost I might just tell my dad to take it american flag down if not both (he keeps telling me there's some homeowner association "law" that you have to have the USian flag alongside other flags). The only thing that really cheers me up besides treats is Yahya Sinwar and the axis of resistance taking Israel down screw by screw.
Fuck the USA. I will never forget this moment in my entire fucking life. I just feel very off right now and this was my vent post. Part of me wishes that this wasn't a takeover, but that part of me is slowly going away every passing second.
> But my heart is like a claw machine, its only function is to reach, it can't hold on to anything
I'm going to make a post about this movie, both positive and negative thoughts right now. This movie is so transgender it hurts.
TL;DW: Apple Intelligence is Apple training their models locally on your personal Apple product data (aka anything you do on an iPhone, Mac, iPad or your Apple ID) using their Apple Silicon chips as well as building a Apple Siri voice assistant client for OpenAI's ChatGPT. The features seem gatekept to newer Apple products and they claim it's opt-in.
It looks like "AI" is here to stay as capitalists have placed it in most supply chains and industries. Goes without saying, but don't buy Apple, you're just buying yourself a one-way trip to a digital jail where the walls are made out of "seamless apple ecosystem" and "shiny metal devices that are cold to the touch."
Especially don't buy anything from the Apple Store because that's trashy Global North treat brain behavior.
(Angrily taps foot)
I wanna play my fitgirl repacks minus all the stuttering but nvidia is transphobic :(((
Tried NVK but then realized that all my apps don't have it turned on yet because mesa 24.1 hasnt been released and so they default to OpenGL or don't run at all.
The wait is so excrutiating because it's right there. Just give me my nvidia 555 driver naowhhhh!!!
Anyone else feel like this?
Linux gaming >>> Windows gaming tho.
Steam has been banned in Vietnam.As first reported by Game Developer and spotted by our sister site, GamesIndustry.biz,…
> However, as reported in Vietnam.net, it's possible Steam has been taken down in Vietnam after local game developers complained about the scope and size of Steam's vast portfolio of games, claiming Vietnamese devs cannot compete with Steam's releases given they are subject to government approval and thousands of international games on Steam are not. > > Citing it as "an injustice to domestic publishers", Vietnamese studios reportedly say that local game development "will die" if Steam is able to keep releasing games without the same government scrutiny as domestic games.
Based Vietnam protecting its domestic games industry from American capitalists. :)
> TLDR: the online game monopolies of Vietnam complains that they can't extort the market share our Lord and Savior Gabe Newell rightfully earned," said one unhappy Steam user.
Steam users are so fucking insufferable. They hate all capitalist game companies except this one which they will eagerly lick the boot of.
It's tiring to tell libs that its actually CPC instead of CCP.
- CCP = Chinese China Party (???)
- CPC = Chinese Party of China (correct)
I'm literally going to drop kick someone who gets it wrong!!!
Thoughts? Is it worthwhile to correct people on this?
CW: Transphobia, ableism, misgendering
I've posted a video from Nicco Loves Linux covering the whole situation to the libre community here for context.
TL;DR: Vaxry, the lead developer of the popular Hyprland wayland compositor and tiling window manager has been banned from ever contributing a patch to freedesktop, a highly influential software group that is responsible for the modern Linux Desktop. This was due to him violating freedesktop's code of conduct because of his toxic discord community and crypto-fash blog. Vaxry then writes two screeds and throws a public temper tantrum, leading to inevitable clash when his nazi friends harass the freedesktop people.
(EDIT: Removed direct links to blog, the entire blog is pretty reactionary outside of the purely software related posts) The blog posts that got them banned:
Fun screenshot
!frothingfash: "I'M NOT MAD I'M NOT MAD"
Critical support to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and their never-ending crusade to destroy white people !07
meat/carnism
Background: I come from a bengali family so my diet basically consisted of curry with various different meats (lamb, chicken, beef, duck, pigeon and sometimes fish) with some sides like potatos, lentils, flatbread etc. My parents have mostly moved away from meat due to their health but I feel like I'm only getting worse. My university advertises meat and non-vegan foods a lot so it feels impossible for me to switch/don't know how to switch.
I really want to stop eating meat and sometimes I'm able to not eat meat for a couple days but it doesn't last because I just give up whenever my parents cook something really nice or I'm eating with friends.
So how do I start a vegan diet and actually stick to it? Mostly looking for starter vegan foods that I can use to wean myself off from my carnism while studying at university.
hello_hello [comrade/them] @hexbear.net pfp: ah_to_hk separatist Hong Kong political cartoon that ironically made Olympic gold medalist Vivian Kong look very based. (src)