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GNU Guix 1.5.0 released!
(guix.gnu.org)
DELTARUNE TOMORROW.
No one can escape.
A lot of cool talks, especially the two you listed. Still combing through the rest.
Prediction wishlist (is that even a thing)
- Asriel comes back from college
- asgore flower shop dark world (where we get asriel character development)
- chapter ends with festival dark world (all the hometown lightners have their own adventures/quests which are affected by your interactions in previous chapters) then the shelter dark world as the epilogue.
Of course this could all be incredibly wrong (except the asgore dark world because tricky toby has to redeem the divorced goat dad after he legit stalked his eggs wife at her church recital).
Id really love a festival dark world with all the hometown residents because I feel like currently they all come off as inconsequential side characters. There has to be a pay off for spending time in hometown and interacting with all the residents otherwise deltarune is like every other jrpg where NPCs are set dressing rather than narrative agents (not every npc needs a epic side quest but the ones you interact with should have something).
Also a festival dark world would also raise the stakes for the story in a real way since "the world will end" from the prophecy doesnt feel that impactful since the story is concentrated on a teenage coming of age cast. If every hometown lighter participated then I could be invested in the story a lot more.
Weird route should end in chapter 5, if chapter 4 locks you into the weird route then itd be hell to have to write around for multiple chapters.
Makes sense as ralsei also isn't real.
I stopped watching after episode 6 because it was so boring and contrived.
Season 1 was still slop but it wasn't boring, the action sequences in this show are so slow that I really had to skip around.
The character writing also dropped off dramatically from season 1.
There are somehow still people who don't understand that the "World Government" is just Europe and the US. With the same Epstein Diddlers at the very top (Imu wants to kidnap and enslave and 16 year old girl to get revenge on her ancestors).
Odas only going to get more radical from here.
Vectorball spotted.
Its more well known as the June 4th incident in Chinese history and should be understood in the context of the societal transition of the Reform and Opening Up and the demise of the Gang of Four.
Like what they're doing in Iran currently, the US tried using insurgents from Hong Kong to do a color revolution and then fabricated atrocity propaganda when they didn't get their way. The student leaders from the event are still alive in the US and apparently one of them got in trouble from forcing their employees to pray. Liu Xiaobo was the Chinese version of the Venezuelan Maria Machado who passed away in a Chinese prison (good ending).
Theres a documentary on the event called "The Gate of Heavenly Peace" that while written by western propagandists uses archival footage that may be interesting to see.
Tienanmen square is also just a famous landmark in China. Its kinds like saying "what happened in the Washington monument park?" There are far more impactful changes in Chinese society than the June 4th incident like the Tax Sharing Reform of 1994 but you can read user XHS's posts on that.
+1 I beg you to drop this course. I thought about taking a "politics" course until I took a Japanese anime course that discussed Japanese war crimes and economic shock during the 90s. Anime course was far more materialist than poli sci.
Even though this article is sanctimonious with trot phrasings of "authoritarianism" I do worry about the tension between the reformist liberal camps of perzeshkian and the militant Islamic revolutionary institutions. The separation seems to be a hollow part of Iran.
Zionism (and US economic warfare) is still the primary contradiction and the canary if Iran has been betrayed or defeated.
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In the next installment of "Kill Your Heroes," Linus Torvalds (who doesn't write Linux kernel code anymore), gives a full endorsement of the use of proprietary software to generate computer documents.
Using Google Antigravity (which is just a reskin of Microsoft's Visual Studio Code product) he created a GUI in python. His excuse is that he didn't know how to write Python to create a user interface, being the egocentric millionaire who worships the US and hates Russia, he somehow could not find anyone in the world who would be willing to help "the Linus Torvalds" make a user interface or hire someone to do it for him. 
Imagine being a millionaire and being so lonely and defeated that you can't find anyone to help you write part of your hobby project. 
He should try abusing people on the mailing list again, that should help.
Posts documenting Torvalds' russophobia and finnish racism (spoiler: Torvalds is a euro supremacist)
- https://hexbear.net/post/3747267
- https://hexbear.net/post/3747255
- https://hexbear.net/post/3759883/5549992
Google Antigravity (warning slop product page)
Phoronix article that summarizes this
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Disclaimer: I dislike 2b2t, but the video does go over a harmful effect that these rule enforcements bring which is that all the harmful players on 2b2t will find other servers to play in instead of containing them in a place that the average player will never think about.
But also 
for drawing swastikas in response to getting told to not make hate symbols.
Also the minecraft EULA has always been the most confusing document to read. They're even being sued in sweden for it.
They basically have infinite powers until they decide to use them, which is what Microsoft wants to do now.
Don't buy into proprietary software, this will always happen. There's a libre implementation of blockgame called Luanti.
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If you might remember, this is the same women's soccer team that was so cracked they won the 2024 U20 FIFA womens world cup against Japan (thematic as fuck)
Selected images (more in link below):
Original link: http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/518993b05fc4017ae8126129dd0938fd.kcmsf
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Steam and Valve are harmful, actually.
(mohvn.github.io)
Steam does not respect user privacy, at all:
In Steam's privacy policy[1], Steam details that it collects the following user information:
Name
Address
Credit Card Number(s)
e-mail
Age
IP Address
Device Unique ID
Chat logs
Forum posts
Voice Chat Recordings
Hardware Enumeration
Steam also confirms that it shares this information with third parties. The implications of this are as follows: Steam knows your name, age, where you live, your banking information, and what your e-mail is. Steam shares this information with other companies (at least, to the extent allowed by law). Steam can use your IP Address to track where you are to the nearest county and can use your Device Unique ID provided by the fingerprinting spyware features inside Steam to track your usage habits across devices that you use. Steam also records all of your communications with others through its social networking and instant messaging services, such as all chat logs, voice conversations, and forum posts, and can share all of this information with third parties as well.
Steam is a self-updating proprietary DRM launcher. It serves 4 main purposes: act as a webview into the Steam store (in which Valve takes the lump sum of each and every transaction made), download and manage your games library through their Steam content delivery network and library UI, funnel users into its social media platform called "Steam Community" and most importantly enforce software digital restrictions via Steam DRM.
Though developers can disable steam's DRM check and users can take any number of obtuse workarounds to crack steam security: the intention is to make it so that Steam becomes the singular monopoly and model for video game distribution on PCs.
Valve has also been guilty of inducing underage gambling addictions in young children (as young as 12) and has profited immensely from pioneering the virtual "skins" economy where users spend real world money to obtain artificially scarce digital aesthetics. If your "virtual economy" has a market cap in the hundreds of thousands of real dollars then it's safe to say that you've built an extremely toxic space that preys on people's psychology. Search "CSGO and gambling" on any site and you'll find dozens of sources and documentaries on exactly how little Valve cares when it's their bottom line going up. Valve's Steam social platform also perpetuates, this, through frequent sales and advertising that's impossible to turn off. Through "Steam trading cards" that fire up the dopamine in your brain to keep buying, to keep trading, to wonder if you can fork just a little bit more to get a new game or skin.
Valve supporting "Linux" is not a plus in Valve's part but the culmination of years of thankless work by thousands of volunteers across dozens of projects to actually create a space that Valve could contribute to. In reality, Valve isn't doing anything different compared to most large tech corporations when it comes to publishing new work and making contributions.
Steam is also intentionally a terrible product on a technical level, instead of publishing a Steam API SDK for app developers: Valve has realized that creating their own google chrome-in-a-box launcher would allow them to double their launcher as an uncontested advertisement platform for all their future products. This slow, memory-intensive archaic 32-bit application for Windows and Ubuntu stays always on in the background, ready to manipulate your psychology into playing more video games and interacting with the platform as part of your daily computing use (not too dissimilar to Discord).
Steam also is, like most US-based social platforms, a vector for alt-right reactionary content to spread. The content moderation guidelines in Steam are guided by how far Steam knows it can take it and again, are not so different to any other tech corporation.
I'm sure some 
will come and defend their treats and how steam is the lesser evil and all that and how it's bullying to come after their treats, but I don't care, you're perpetuating harm by using Steam. You've given up before you've started and have become dependent on a multinational corporation who can and will get away with it again and again.
I've had a steam account before, it had hundreds of games that I've accumulated through years of Steam summer sales (probably hundreds upon hundreds of dollars in value in games alone). I decided to delete my steam account because I wasn't comfortable having my entertainment outlet be under the whim of a company who represents everything I hate about the tech industry.
I started to read/listen to theory, I take walks, started a fitness routine, I enveloped myself in indie webcomics. I pirate all my games and have a retro-game library at my fingertips. Life got a lot simpler once the "[[ 90% ]]" tag was being blasted in my face when I opened the Steam app, manipulating me into buying slop I won't even play or enjoy
We need to start supporting game developers directly, cut out the parasitic middleman, because sure as shit you're not supporting your favorite games when they take an enormous 30% revenue cut just for their monopoly.
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Firefox 144 adds profile management... and AI slop search engine
(www.firefox.com)
Perplexity AI Search in Firefox
On desktop, Firefox now includes Perplexity, an AI-powered answer engine built into the browser. Perplexity delivers direct, conversational answers to complex questions, helping you get quick summaries, accurate references, or creative inspiration without digging through multiple sources. It’s rolling out worldwide from the address bar via the unified search button.
Again I must go into my 100+ line firefox configuration and remove this shit.
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Framework CEO sides with Nazism
(hexbear.net)
- https://community.frame.work/t/framework-supporting-far-right-racists/75986
- https://crimier.github.io/posts/Framework-Omarchy/
- https://gardinerbryant.com/the-omarchy-framework-thing/
- https://community.frame.work/t/withdrawing-all-financial-association-from-framework-until-further-changes/76005
The hitlerite particle CEO says:
We support open source software (and hardware), and partner with developers and maintainers across the ecosystem. We deliberately create a big tent, because we want open source software to win. We don’t partner based on individuals’ or organizations’ beliefs, values, or political stances outside of their alignment with us on increasing the adoption of open source software. We’ve sent out large quantities of hardware to folks at Fedora, Bluefin, Bazzite, NixOS, Arch Linux, Linux Mint, Omarchy, and many other distros, and have sponsored either the organizations directly or events with Linux Foundation, LVFS, NixOS, Debian, KDE, Hyprland, and others. Within the team itself, personal distro and OS preferences span basically every Linux distro you can imagine along with FreeBSD. I personally am running machines with Fedora (for machine learning), Bazzite (for gaming), Omarchy (general productivity), and Windows 11 (when I have to).
I definitely understand that not everyone will agree with taking a big tent approach, but we want to be transparent that bringing in and enabling every organization and community that we can across the Linux ecosystem is a deliberate choice.
Big tent is when you support British Nazi trash known as DHH. Framework CEO personally uses a distribution that has "Super GroKKK" built-in and chatgpt.
Garbage company, Garbage CEO (their products are so fucking overpriced). 
Nerd fascism is the fastest growing fascism there is!
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They have virtually no moderators (they all quit because they were burnt out and manipulated), filled with racist 
, and are associated deeply with anti-migrant violence and warmongering (Anduril) who hire people straight out of NixOS to build weapons to fund imperialism everywhere.
Go use Guix instead (they don't rely on free GitHub credits or limitless AWS S3 buckets) and are objectively superior on a technical standpoint (no "experimental features" that everyone considers stable) and don't give any shit about nonfree software unless you provide it, or only contribute to nixpkgs (collective infra) and outside projects like Lix/Snix.
Avoid the NixOS community at all costs if you value your emotional labor. Even the chuds have done this with things like Determinate Systems Nix ("Nix without the drama") and making their own corpo shill platform called "flakehub"
Source: A former NixOS community member (me)
There is no liberalism anymore, only fascist cultural hegemony that will take over every space it can.
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That's a nice "middle of the warzone" there buddy and not just chilling in the capital being able to leave whenever you want. I'm guessing this person is betting on some other agency to notice the pro bono work and offer a comfy career.