OpenAI whistleblower’s deemed suicide
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Trump Official Destroying USAID Secretly Met With Christian Nationalists Abroad in Defiance of U.S. Policy.
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Trump Official Destroying USAID Secretly Met With Christian Nationalists Abroad in Defiance of U.S. Policy.
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Steam Deck update gets a small battery life boost with the Frame Limiter
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I can write my thoughts as a title and not write a post
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Microsoft removes Windows 11 24H2 official support on 8th 9th 10th Gen Intel CPUs
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And then Alpha male and Beta Male humped in the bathroom
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THE EARTH IS SPHERICAL, DIPSHITS
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https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/0f0ddf7a-e853-49bb-a37a-e5784a0bf20a.webp
Trump administration wants to un-fire nuclear safety workers but can’t figure out how to reach them
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A few beginner questions about the differences between distros.
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Good day nice people.
I, like many I’m sure, am taking Microsoft’s discontinuation of Windows 10 support as an opportunity so switch over to Linux. As such, I have some questions about various things. I have included some context as to my personal use case at the end of the post should it be relevant.
Does the distro I pick matter? There seems to be a lot of debate around which distro is best but a lot of the discussion I’ve seen breaks down to what each distro comes packaged with. This confuses me as if a distro doesn’t come prepackaged with something can you not just install it? Or is there some advantage to preinstalled packages other than mild convenience? Are some components difficult to integrate into your local environment?
One of the more salient differences I’ve seen between distros has been what the various companies and teams include aside from installed packages (such as snap and rolling out amazon search as a defult search), and the data they choose to retain/sell. Part of the reason I’m switching is due to Microsoft’s forcing in of unwanted features and advertising. Is the company that owns whatever distro I choose likely to be a problem in the future? Are there particular ones to avoid/ones to keep an eye on?
I am the sort of person who does like to tinker with things from time to time but I do also want to use my computer most of the time so I’d like to end up using a mature distro. I have identified a few frontrunners in my search but I have seen conflicting information on which of them is “mature” (sufficiently stable so I spend less time fighting my computer than I do using it as well as having a large enough community and resources to help me remedy issues I might come across). Do any of these seem like they wouldn’t fit that bill? The frontrunners are: fedora, kubuntu, mint, pop and tuxedo.
Does linux have issues interfacing with multiple monitors? Does it handle HDR okay?
In terms of UI and workflow I really don’t mind putting in some time tinkering with the DE, exploring it and getting it how I like. It seems Plasma KDE might be good for this? Please let me know if this is an incorrect assessment. If it is, does it matter what DE I choose? If so, is there something you could recommend for my use case.
My use case:
I have a Nvidea build (RTX 2080). I have heard this can be an issue with Linux. I also have intermediate experience with linux through university and my job (with servers) as well as tinkering with SteamOS.
Things I use/do on my PC (roughly ordered in terms of priority):
Gaming including emulation
Firefox
VLC
Spotify
Discord
Godot
Visual Studio
Git
Photoshop cs6, audacity, davinci resolve
Misc “Tinkering” (Handbrake, dvd burners/rippers, Really any weird thing I come across that I want to tinker with)
Thank you very much for your time and help in cleaing up my confusion.
This Musk guy is so, but so idiotic that he doesn't even know that most of the source of US soft power throughout the world was the funding by the CIA and other federal agencies of cultural activities
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This Musk guy is so, but so idiotic that he doesn’t even know that most of the source of US soft power throughout the world was the funding by the CIA and other federal agencies of cultural activities like jazz shows and art festivals in Europe and Africa. He is a complete and total PHILISTINE. To hell with this guy! I don’t want no intellectual retards imposing their will on the world.
“The capture shows that the site contains a list of vague, alleged government-funded tasks and their costs, without sources or context, like “$1.3 million to Arab and Jewish photographers,” “$1.5 million for ‘art for inclusion of people with disabilities,’” and “$3.4 million for Malaysian drug-fueled gay sex app.” DEI.gov redirects to waste.gov and is currently inaccessible without a password; Elon Musk told reporters on Tuesday that his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is “trying to be as transparent as possible.”
The researcher is Henrik Schönemann, a historian who started the Safeguarding Research & Culture archivalist project, posted screenshots on Mastodon showing the contents. Schönemann also shared the specific site scrapes that he was able to capture, which showed the contents of the site. He told 404 Media he set up a change detection app using PikaPods, and is monitoring changes across hundreds of government websites. When the dei.gov and waste.gov sites were registered 10 days ago, he started tracking them, too.
Before the site administrators added a Wordpress template to the pages, the list was online at those URLs. This list was only online for a maximum of 30 minutes, starting around 4:50 p.m. EST; by 5:23 p.m. on February 11, it was gone from public view, according to the snapshots Schönemann’s app captured.”
https://www.404media.co/dei-waste-gov-doge-list-behind-password/
#USA #CyberSecurity #Musk #DOGE #DataProtection
Washington state clean-energy funding re-frozen by Trump White House
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https://www.kuow.org/stories/washington-state-s-clean-energy-funding-re-frozen-by-trump-white-house
UK-based lawyers for Hong Kong activist Jimmy Lai targeted by Chinese state
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Short summary: Jimmy Lai is still in prison (under Hong Kong’s notorious “national security law”, implemented during the Chinese takeover of the city) and his lawyers are being actively hacked and threatened. The intensity of attacks synchronizes well with case developments, so whoever does that must have a clear overview of legal proceedings. A logical option would be Chinese state-backed hackers.
Italy president's 'Third Reich' comments on Russia spark Rome-Moscow dispute, PM Meloni accuses Russia of "offending the entire Italian nation"
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Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni accused Russia of “offending the entire Italian nation” on Friday as she stood by comments by the Italian president that compared modern-day Russia to Nazi Germany.
In a speech last week, President Sergio Mattarella criticised the “wars of aggression” that led to World War Two. “This was the project of the Third Reich in Europe. The current Russian aggression against Ukraine is of this nature,” he said.
Reacting to those statements with some delay, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on Friday lambasted Mattarella’s remarks as “blasphemous inventions”.
Meloni said in a strongly-worded statement: “The insults of the spokeswoman (…) offend the entire Italian nation, which the head of state represents.”
“I express my full solidarity, as well as that of the entire government, to President Mattarella, who has always firmly condemned the aggression perpetrated against Ukraine,” she added.
Italy has traditionally been one of the countries in Europe with the closest political and economic ties to Russia, but under Meloni it has firmly stood by Ukraine, including with military aid.