... and if you'd like to know how I like your app, may I suggest you make it do what I came to ask it to do BEFORE you shove that request in my face? π
I think the one innovation that could change everything would be to make it illegal to βdeliberately or recklessly mislead the publicβ. There are too many half-truths and outright lies in both politics and the media. Democracy cannot survive that onslaught; if the electorate is fed misinformation their votes are meaningless, and democracy is dead. We have to start being honest with everyone!
only way to know what it means to clean a toilet is to clean a fucking toilet. government might not be any different. "the public won't preserve what it has no means of perceiving, understanding, and evaluating" -- maybe a system we can all take a shift in -- participate -- would do that. legislative work as jury duty.
@artlung Iβm a fan of citizenβs assemblies as done in, for example, Ireland: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizensβ¦ Itβs a formal structure for involving citizens in legislative work.
ABC journalist pressures Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia to admit that killing journalist Jamal Khashoggi was a mistake that must never happen again.
Trump is losing it! He thought this could just be swept under the rug, and then ABC has the audacity to bring reality into The Fake Office!
Journos can overlook ordinary people being targeted, oppressed and killed, but they get very upset if a journalist is subject to the same treatment. Hopefully, they will never let this atrocity be forgotten. MBS should be asked this question everywhere he goes.
This is why you should subscribe to 404media.co if you can afford to. This journalism collective makes a huge difference and puts out more investigative journalism per week than anyone else. infosec.exchange/@josephcox/11β¦
New: the airlines (Delta, United, American, etc) will shut down a program in which it sold hundreds of millions of your flight records to government agencies, including ICE, FBI, ATF, more. Comes after intense lawmaker-pressure and 404 Media's months-long reporting 404media.co/airlines-will-shutβ¦
The narrative Iβve not seen yet from our storied commentariat? The idea that many GOPers are voting for Epstein files because itβs a Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free card. It might rid them of Trump (who most never liked) and they can escape with minimal damage with their MAGAt base.
Looks like installing the webp-pixbuf-loader package (using whatever is relevant for your distro) actually makes webp work in nautilus, image viewer, and just gnome in general.
Why this isn't the default value instead of using a library that doesn't support webp out of the box? Beats me. Seems like another one of those weird hang ups linux maintainers have.
The nice thing with Linux is... if something is irritating you with how your distro works. There is probably someone else out there with a similar irritation who has a patch for you.
The down side with Linux is, some of the defaults are just downright idiotic and your hunt to find that patch will cross endless threads of maintainers arguing about how they are *not* going to fix the thing and how much better it is that it is *not* fixed.
Alliance Defending Freedom Succeeded in Overturning Roe. Now Itβs Turning to the United Kingdom. msmagazine.com/2025/11/14/alliβ¦
The conservative Christian legal group that helped dismantle abortion rights in the United States is now exporting its playbook overseas, starting with the United Kingdom.
They are neither conservatives nor Christian. We have a serious, longstanding problem with pedophilia. These pseudo-Christians wouldn't feed it, if they had their way, but they'll groom the pretty ones for the rich to fondle.
Thanks to these knockoff Chinese Bluetooth headphones, I am fully prepared if I should ever be in China and need to tell someone that power is on, off, or Bluetooth is connected.
Has anyone ever tried to implement a digital asset management system (DAMS) as an actual Filesystem?
I remember that old Apple Macintosh filesystems would talk about "data' and "metadata" forks for each file.
Seems like you could do a key-value pair array for each file at the filesystem level, set up to follow the files around on the system.
Then you could implement DAMS features on top of that: file ident/discovery, search by keyword, thumbnailing, etc. That would actually work as utilities or GUI apps on top, but the filesystem would need to keep track of the metadata.
I guess you could probably implement this as a FUSE filesystem?
It seems like a really obvious idea. Has anyone done it? Is it good? π€
The reason you want it to be at the filesystem level is so you capture every time a file is moved or copied.
Otherwise, the metadata won't stay with the file.
The Dolphin file manager for KDE can do metadata association with files -- but it's not that useful, because it breaks if you move the files.
I never tried to see if it retains them if you move them with Dolphin -- but the point is, there are many other ways to move or copy files, so breakage would be a big risk anyway. You wouldn't want to invest a lot of effort in tagging files just to have the tags disappear when you copied them!
I might be out of date on this -- I switched from KDE to XFCE years ago. But I think this is probably still true. It was a cool feature, but I couldn't see how to make practical use of it.
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Neutron rocketβs debut slips into mid-2026 as company seeks success from the start
"Those who have failed to deliver are numerous."
https://arstechnica.
This week's comic is about how easily conventional wisdom gets turned on its head by bad faith actors, especially in a media environment lacking responsible editors.
Sinclairβs revenues slid sharply in the third quarter, in the same period the TV giant pulled Kimmel, a move top executives deny is linked to the drop.
This is EXSACTLY what we have been saying for the past number of years. Need to start using proper services such as @element.io which is based in the uk and platforms like @signal.org which is what we use.
The #enshittification of I2C sensors is happening too. Bosch has been a frequent offender, but they're not the only ones. The sensor powers up with no internal firmware (an I2C paperweight). You have to load a proprietary binary blob into the sensor before it works. This blob is controlled under a restrictive license agreement. Luckily there is still some competition in this sector, but innovative/new parts try this trick.
A video showing a pastor yelling derogatory bullshit in Sarah McBride's face is going viral at Musk's Nazi bar, boosted by LibsOfTikTok. Groomer libel, deadanaming, etc.
This shouldn't happen to anyone. Not holding my breath for her colleagues across the aisle condemning what happened because they can't even do the bare minimum their job calls for.
These people are dangerous and should be treated as such.
Iβve seen no corporate media outlet cover this: β’Post 2024 polls showed that Harris campaigning with Cheney decreased enthusiasm for her by 7% β’Post 2025 polls show that Mamdani running as an unapologetic progressive earned him 9% of MAGA voters who went for Trump in 2024
The lesson Corporate Dems need to learn: You donβt flip votes by compromising on your values, but by unapologetically leaning into them.
The flaw in this argument is that corporate Dems donβt share any values with their voters. Their values revolve around 1) maintaining their power & status, 2) serving the interests of their donors, & 3) keeping the working class and the left as far away from power as possible.
Everything else is negotiable for them in pursuit of those top priorities, including ethics, institutions, and electoral wins against Republicans.
They canβt be persuaded; they must be purged and replaced.
but they don't want to. When I ask myself why that might be, I can only conclude that they share Republican values. There are real, progressive voices being pushed to the side in the Democratic party because so many rank and file Dems are just as selfish, egotistical, and ruled by a love of money as Republicans. They have to go if we want lasting changes. New York is an amazing, auspicious start.
The numbers do mean something nationally. Even here in the deep south, we recently had a candidate who almost tipped the balance and flipped Texas blue, because he was real and sincere, and unabashedly far to the left of our usual choices. Large numbers of left voters are here, silent, in severely gerrymandered red states, only needing to feel like our votes might actually make a difference in order to be motivated to cast them. A strong left candidate exactly has that effect.
@hosford42 I donβt disagree that the Democratic wins are good news. I just wanted to point out that a 7% change in a single poll of βenthusiasmβ just isnβt going to make the news.
The election RESULTS made the news, and they are the true news.
All the Bush-era Republicans endorsing Harris felt like a psy-op to suppress progressive turn out for her as it was happening. The Harris campaign falling for it and enthusiastically accepting those endorsements was a major blunder.
@covercash Which means they'll be easy to primary, so everyone stop standing on the sidelines munching complaints like they're worth something, and find a candidate to win a primary.
You're probably right about authenticity being appealing.
I think both the Trump lane and the Mamdani/Sanders/etc lane appeal to a certain set of populists; they're outsiders, "try something different", very sincere, etc. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanders%β¦ It's a thing.
Even though I would never have voted for Trump even before I saw his fascist side, I have always felt that the interest in both Bernie and Trump was driven by the same underlying dissatisfaction with the status quo. The American public *knew* we were being offered the same shitty, nearly indistinguishable options -- one bought candidate versus another -- and we were fed up with it. We could all sense that we were no longer in control, that something was deeply wrong with our system.
What differed was our understanding of what was causing the problem and how to address it. Some of us recognized that it was the oligarchy and wealth inequality that was at the root of the problem, and wanted a targeted response to that root cause. Others just had a vague sense of shadow actors, the so-called "deep state", and chose a strategy of electing a strong man to tear it *all* down.
So it makes perfect sense to me that there are voters that would have voted for either of these two over establishment candidates. I only wish Trump hadn't been so good at manipulating them for his own narcissistic ends.
Operators pump a sea of βproduced waterβ underground for disposal. Intensifying tremors raise fears that the deep toxic waste pits could intermingle with water used for farming and drinking.
to be more realistic, the corporate dems did succeed, but as with all approaches that disavow ethics, the results are short-lived, and come with severe consequences
Harris faced enormous voter suppression that Mamdani did not. She also faced far more political spending than all previous candidates in history combined. Elon Musk's Twitter purchase alone was $44 billion, primarily devoted to campaigning for Trump.
Compromising Dems have turned me away from Dems even though I keep voting Dems because the alternative is worse. Chuck Schumer needs to go away. I swear.
My parents would not have. But I still think he would have won. I was raised as a Republican (yes, like religious indoctrination) but had shifted to independent by that point. Bernie Sanders precipitated my final shift to the left. I could never vote for Trump, but Clinton just didn't seem sincere to me, so I voted for a 3rd party candidate. (I wish I hadn't, in retrospect. I would take insincerity any day over what we are dealing with now. But the fact remains, sincerity and commitment to values wins votes.)
@Fat_Farang Even when socialists fail or stumble, they are shifting the conversation. Things like universal childcare, universal healthcare, public transport etc. are in the discussion because of people like Sanders working tirelessly.
I'm excited to see how Zohran winning with such a commanding lead changes the conversations we have even more, and to see the type pf candidates he inspires to run across the country.
@Fat_Farang Yes, but they were already doing that. Zohran proved that people power can overwhelm establishment corporate power.
I'm sure most of us are old enough to remember when Sanders was the only socialist dem out there standing on a soap box ranting. The cracks are forming, and while many establishment dems won't go full socialist, they are changing their messaging. Sherril and Spanberger ran and won on specific socialist policies, despite being establishment coded figures.
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