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@ heliotrope @retrofed.com

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    Space X caught using Green Beam to mow down homes in Spokane

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  • Sauce?

  • PSA Huggingface is scraping GitHub

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  • Bad News: My old GitHub repos are there.

    Good News: I wrote that shit when I was 12. The code runs, but it's not good and not inventive.

  • Linux recommendations for a beginner on a Mac?

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  • I would also recommend Linux Mint for you. While the UI/UX (either Cinnamon, MATE, or Xfce) bares resemblance to Windows at first, it can easily be reshaped however you wish; or even replaced entirely with a more macOS-esque desktop environment (such as Pantheon or GNOME).

    However, as Macintosh hardware has some differences to PC, you may need to install rEFInd beforehand. It has been a while since I installed Linux on a Mac, so I don't know if this is still necessary!

    To be more helpful, I would need to know your exact model number (this should be something like "MacBookPro 12,1").

  • 70,000 government IDs leaked in Discord data breach

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  • Old news

  • Friends claim influencer injected himself with gold to gain “superhuman” powers before his death

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  • If House is anything to go by, that's going to have more or less the same effect as injecting oneself with lead.

    Utter idiocy, regardless.

  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
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    FCC Approves Reflect Orbital's Space Mirror Satellite That Astronomers Hate

    ca.pcmag.com /news/16760/fcc-approves-reflect-orbitals-giant-mirror-satellite-that-astronomers-hate

  • Violent drunk banned from booze after throwing flapjack at police officer's genitals having missed with Pot Noodle

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  • (Context for people out of the loop: this is a joke)

  • Violent drunk banned from booze after throwing flapjack at police officer's genitals having missed with Pot Noodle

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  • Calling it ramen is like saying McDonald's is a restaurant; but yeah, pretty much.

    Picture:

  • What's your favourite "just works, day after day" Linux software?

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  • GNU nano.

    I don't know why I bothered using Vim, Neovim, Micro, mg, and JOE for so long, when nano was always there (though not necessarily OOTB), configurable with all of the features I used in the other editors, and has never broken as long as I've been using it.

    The only editor I may leave it for would be Emacs, and that would be more for the extension scripts and an excuse to learn ELisp than anything else.

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    Florida bans local governments from pursuing net-zero emissions goals

    arstechnica.com /science/2026/06/florida-bans-local-governments-from-pursuing-net-zero-emissions-goals/

  • PSA for anyone newly switching to IVPN on Linux

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  • I've also found that using OpenVPN instead of WireGuard Just Works™.

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    [Swedish] Mullvad CEO donates to Swedish party that believes in "remigration"

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  • IVPN, probably.

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    [Swedish] Mullvad CEO donates to Swedish party that believes in "remigration"

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  • Markus Allard initiated heavy debate in 2025 by claiming that Sweden is "the land for/belongs to the Swedes" and that the Örebro party favors a large scale remigration policy. He also criticized the Sweden Democrats for, according to him, allowing too many immigrants into the country under their watch as confidence and supply to the Kristersson cabinet.

    In 2026 ÖP party leader Markus Allard sparked controversy on several occasions. In a debate hosted by Studio3 with Liberal member of parliament Martin Melin, Allard asked: "why won't the Liberals push for deporting 100 000 social welfare-Somalis?" and in the same debate said that "Sweden belongs to the Swedes. We have to make sure that we take care of our own damn people and we must deport these damn parasites who sit and live at our expense."

    In a podcast segment about immigration and deportations Allard stated his opinion and said that "They will also be forced to leave, even if they are born in Sweden, because they have no natural connection to Sweden. They are not Swedish."

    It is good to consider this, but Örebropartiet are quite racist.

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    Mullvad CEO donates to Swedish party that believes in "remigration"

    www.flamman.se /techprofil-ger-miljoner-till-orebropartiet/

  • Concerns over therapy ferrets used to kill rats at UK’s largest children’s prison

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  • That is certainly a sentence

  • How to turn off Al in your Google Docs

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  • Took the words right out of my keyboard

  • Users of Arch-based distros, why don't you use pure Arch?

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  • I haven't run Arch in a few months, but I used to use CachyOS and Artix.

    In the case of CachyOS, the repos have a few packages from the AUR pre-compiled, and linux-cachyos-hardened is a fantastic kernel flavour.

    Artix, meanwhile, lets me use runit instead of systemd.

    I also like the idea of Linux-libre, for which I would probably use Hyperbola (if not Guix). However, the only machine I own with a compatible WiFi chipset is a 32-bit MacBook from the 2000s, which I haven't seen since 2024.

    The preconfigured desktop and software is irrelevant to me. I have my own DE recipes and workflows that I can replicate across most Linux distros and BSDs.

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    New 'AI-designed' vaccine tested on humans that can work on ALL types of Covid

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  • Get this nazi website out of here.

  • Let's go gays!

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  • Non-binary wrath flag, as dreamed by someone on Twitter a few years ago:

  • How do you deal with the obligatory hoody and sunglasses in this warm weather?

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  • I hack at night, when it's cooler. You can't see the digital rain otherwise.

  • Meme Checkpoint

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  • Which browser would work with lightning ⚡ speed on a machine having this specifications ??🤔🤔🤔

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  • You could try Chawan. That's quite good.

    You also have the usual selection of Links2 (text mode), Lynx, and w3m; but most modern websites will not work very well (if at all).

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    NHS to grant Palantir contractors ‘unlimited access’ to patient data

    archive.is /s3jcT
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    Former Chick-fil-A employee charged in $80,000 mac-and-cheese scheme

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/c87q0vlwvlpo