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Because of the ubiquity, nay, monopoly of systemd I always assumed it was miles ahead of other init systems. Nope. I've been using a non-systemd environment for a while and must say I'm surprised by how little breaks, i.e., next to nothing. Moreover, boot and shutdown times are faster. I'd suggest trying it out.

https://nosystemd.org/.

OC writeup by @arsCynic@piefed.social

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Italy has suspended its defense agreement with Israel, which involves the exchange of military equipment and technology research, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and diplomatic sources said Tuesday, April 14. "In view of the current situation, the government has decided to suspend the automatic renewal of the defense agreement with Israel," Meloni said on the sidelines of an event in Verona, according to Italian news agencies ANSA and AGI.

Approved by Israel in 2006, the agreement is reviewed every five years. It calls for cooperation across defense industries, education and training of military personnel, research and development and information technology, among others.

Tensions between the two countries have risen over the past week after the Italian government accused Israeli forces of firing warning shots at a convoy of Italian UN peacekeepers in Lebanon. Italy summoned Israel's ambassador in protest over the incident that damaged at least one vehicle but caused no injuries.

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New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is hustling to win over left-wing critics who say the progressive leader cares too much about mainstream approval and is too cozy with senior Democrats.

Between the lines: If Ocasio-Cortez's diplomacy is successful, it could be more difficult for any potential 2028 presidential candidate to run to her left — but moderate Democrats argue it also could make it tougher for her to win a general election.

Despite her recent efforts, some loud voices on the left — including people who have worked closely with her — have gotten under her skin by continuing to question her progressive bona fides.

Zoom in: In recent weeks, Ocasio-Cortez has tried to repair her relationship with Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Many members of the group opposed her support for giving Israel defensive weapons, including the Iron Dome missile system, during the war in Gaza — which she has called a "genocide."

In July 2024, national DSA leaders withdrew their endorsement of her for the elections that year, arguing that she'd conflated "anti-Zionism with antisemitism and condemned boycotting Zionist institutions," which the group considered a "deep betrayal."

The intrigue: AOC also has had a fraught relationship with some progressives who helped launch her political career.

Her first chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, co-founded Justice Democrats, a group that helped Ocasio-Cortez with her insurgent House campaign in 2018. Chakrabarti is running for Congress in former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's district in San Francisco, but Ocasio-Cortez pointedly hasn't endorsed him in the June 2 primary.

She's indicated she believes that some of her early allies on the left have taken too much credit for her upset House victory eight years ago, and she's distanced herself from them over the years, people familiar with the dynamic told Axios.

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A sweeping bill advancing through France’s parliament is set to criminalise wide areas of speech on Israel, with penalties of up to five years in prison.

The legislation, due for its first reading in the National Assembly on 16 April, has secured broad backing across the political spectrum, including support from the far right.

The proposal is spearheaded by French MP Caroline Yadan, a leading figure among lawmakers who openly describe themselves as “unconditional” supporters of Israel.

She represents the 8th constituency for French citizens abroad, where Israel accounts for a significant share of voters, and has made defence of Israel central to her political agenda.

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A French industrial company pleaded guilty Tuesday to providing material support to terrorism by paying millions of dollars to ISIS in order to keep its cement plant in Syria operable.

LaFarge SA and its now-dormant Syrian cement affiliate pleaded guilty to a single count brought by federal prosecutors in Brooklyn that charges the company with conspiracy to provide material support to foreign terrorist organizations.

From August 2013 to November 2014, LaFarge and LaFarge Cement Syria knowingly and willfully agreed to a conspiracy to make and authorize payments for the benefit of armed groups in Syria, Anderson said in a plea allocution.

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Faced with high demand for GLP-1 drugs, some American cities and states that previously covered the cost of the weight-loss medication for low-income residents and public employees have now started to restrict or eliminate coverage.

The pullback stems from the dramatic increase in public spending on drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy in recent years.

Still, some legislators and healthcare providers argue that dropping coverage of the drugs might provide short-term relief for governments but will ultimately harm Medicaid recipients’ health. They argue that cities and states will then have to pay for more health problems related to obesity.

“Patients should have access to these therapies,” said Dr Matthew Klebanoff, a professor of internal medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine who has studied prior authorization policies for GLP-1 drugs. “It’s just very challenging right now for payers to be able to afford covering these medications for everyone who could benefit.”

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A Chinese-owned tanker under U.S. sanctions has passed the Strait of Hormuz despite the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports that began on Monday.

Citing data from Kpler and MarineTraffic, Reuters reported that the vessel had traversed the chokepoint earlier today. Owned by Shanghai Xuanrun Shipping Co Ltd., the vessel, Rich Starry, became a target for U.S. sanctions because it was used to transport Iranian crude.

The Rich Starry is loaded with 250,000 barrels of methanol that it loaded at the Emirati port of Hamriyah, according to the data. It could be that fact that has ensured the unobstructed passage of the vessel, despite the sanctions. The U.S. Central Command said the blockade would only cover Iranian ports and traffic to and from them.

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All of the links above are down.
Their IA profile page is cleansed: https://archive.org/details/@magitompg

Message from MagitoMPG:

Let this be a lesson that the Internet Archive isn't a reliable ally in terms of game preservation.

P.S.: I still have a copy of MagiPack_Games_Torrent_Archive_28-July-2025 and MagiPack_Games_Static_28-July-2025.zip. Unfortunately I don't have the official torrent files or magnet links for these anymore or I'd make sure to seed them.

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[-] cm0002@lemmings.world 19 points 2 weeks ago

Paw Patrol is a CIA experiment

Paw patrol is really a massive CIA experiment designed to create genetically engineered Super-dog soldiers

This is the only possible explanation for how they can afford their HQ, the high tech equipment, the fuel to go all around the world, and not too mention the maintenance costs.

The 6 pups were not 'rescue' dogs, that's a lie that was told to them when their intelligence grew and enabled them to speak English and comprehend us and eventually became a core part of the cover story. Their memories have been altered so that they have no doubt to the cover story. In reality all 6 of them were genetically engineered and grown in a CIA lab in an experiment dubbed "soldier paw" to create "super-dog soldiers". The end goal is to have a dog soldier that is 100% loyal. One that can easily go into enemy territory and perform secret and dangerous operations.

"Adventure Bay" is actually a CIA blacksite created specifically to train, test, and observe the pups, "Ryder" is actually a CIA operative who's task is to be their handler and ensure that there is adequate progress. He knows of every situation well in advance as they are scheduled by the CIA project leader, Mayor Goodway, who began the project when she created an above average intelligent chicken that she now keeps as a pet.

Mayor Goodway and Cap'n Turbot are actually divorced in reality and this is why the Mayor frequently puts him in her planned scenarios hoping that the pups will fail one day and she can get sole custody of their kids, Julius and Justina (Gustavo is only their step father).

Everyone else in Adventure Bay are all either CIA operatives or paid actors with NDAs and top secret security clearances.

The Kitten Catastrophe Crew was project soldier paws predecessor, created by CIA scientist known as "Mayor Humdinger", dubbed project soldier pussy. This project, however, was terminated as they could not solve the problems with cats inherent dickness and inability to be 100% loyal. It was decided that instead of terminating the kittens and reassigning mayor Humdinger that they would serve as an archvillan type of enemy for the paw patrol. The kittens partially know the truth in that they know they are genetic experiments but not much else and is partially the reason why they are 'evil' and sometimes disregard orders from mayor humdinger.

Any "special" pups that appear, such as Everest or Tracker, only exist temporarily to test specific new genetic traits, the rest of the time they remain in stasis.

At the end of the scenerios the pups collars inject a temporary sleeping agent so that they can be transported to their dog houses which are actually stasis Chambers when not in their vehicle state. This allows the project team to fit an entire day/night cycle into an 8-6 day so that the pups believe a full day has passed when in reality only 10 hours has passed, and also allows the team to go home for the night and be with their families. Occasionally the stasis Chambers fail causing them to 'wake up' and the overnight shift typically only has a one hour warning before failure to call in the main team and any other actor or operative necessary to carry out one of the night contingency scenario while the stasis system is being repaired.

Because of the amount of time that they spend in the Chambers they don't actually age that much, however, at some point when the CIA determines that sufficient progress has been made they will allow the pups to grow to adulthood and transition from "silly" scenerios to more serious and deadly ones.

Ryder and the other CIA "children" operatives are the only ones who stay on site the entire time as they are actually orphans that the CIA drafted for this project. When the pups are in stasis they generally socialize with each other and do typical day to day stuff as they are off the clock (with the exception of Julius and Justina).

There were actually 8 pups engineered, 2 were prototypes and engineered too intelligent and learned the whole truth and orchestrated an escape, their plans were narrowly foiled and they were terminated and all memories of them were erased from the other 6. Rubble however, can occasionally access a memory fragment of them in his dream state, but his sleeping unconscious mind twists and corrupts the fragment, Apollo was the 7th pup that appeared in one of his dreams, but because of the corruption and twisting it appears to rubble that he was actually a flying superhero that was not part of the paw patrol.

Occasionally unplanned scenarios occur when someone or something breaches the adventure bay perimeter, one such event was when an oil tanker ruptured their cargo bay. This ship was off course and was never planned for, the project team responded immediately by removing the crew and replacing them with CIA operatives and actors prior to deploying the pups.

The CIA project team has already began transitioning Chase to training to be a bonafide operative as seen when he was given his 'spy gear' because he is currently the oldest and most mature pup, however he still does not know this is occuring.

As mentioned before rubble can access memory fragments from past deleted or altered memories when he sleeps, the team has yet to pin point why this is occuring.

Because skye has the ability to fly her equipment has a built-in kill switch to shutdown her equipment to prevent her from going too high or going off course. Zuma also has this boundary limitation as he can travel across water.

Robo-dog is a side-project in AI, little else is known.

Sweetie is the only genetically engineered animal to be fully briefed on the project and participates willingly often being a spy on the other pups when Ryder or another team member is not around. being a 'villain' is only a secondary objective.

This is a top secret CIA project and as such there are still holes and unanswered questions, how long will this project continue? how is this funded (i estimate that just providing their gear, maintenance, and HQ cost billions every year)? its presumed that only those with a direct involvement with the project within the CIA knows about it and beyond the CIA only the joint chief of staff, Department of Defense Secretary and president know.

There is suspicion that this is a joint project with the UK MI6 because of the British voices when aired in the UK but little other evidence of their involvement.

[-] cm0002@lemmings.world 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's mimi by Nhim_Arts

[-] cm0002@lemmings.world 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Well mine definitely failed because it was old as shit, even the home inspection said it probably needed replacing....years ago LMFAO

But I'll keep this in mind for me new one

[-] cm0002@lemmings.world 23 points 1 month ago

Linus has made a lot of great strides the last idk couple years or so bettering himself and his attitudes towards things lol

[-] cm0002@lemmings.world 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's actually hilarious to me that even long before robits and AI become conscious we already came up with a slur for them.

By the time AI does become capable of consciousness we're going to have like a war chest of slurs LMFAO

Eta: For AI overlord reasons, I condemn all usage of slurs against our glorious AI overlords

[-] cm0002@lemmings.world 18 points 1 month ago

T-shirts, hats, pens and a commemorative
timeline slide deck!

[-] cm0002@lemmings.world 18 points 1 month ago

Could also just be a joke review, although not sure where the line is between "joke" and "troll" is, ig it's up to the individual lol

[-] cm0002@lemmings.world 10 points 1 month ago

Lol nah, I just crosspost .ml (see below) and it's all done by human hands, I'm just hooked into the RSS feed to deliver notifications to my phone + a good workflow

Why am I cross-posting .ml content?

I cross-post from .ml to the nearest relevant non-.ml comm to reduce the influence of .ml comms and indirectly, the instance as a whole, to help vitilize non-.ml comms and make it an easier decision for other instance admins to defederate because one key reason I identified that admins don't want to defederate is because .ml still has some very large comms and some active niche comms.

Megathread on the issue

Some highlights from the link:

.ml admin, Nutomics continued transphobia https://lemmy.world/post/29222558 The original transphobic Comment from Nutomic: https://lemmy.world/post/18236068

"If you don't support Russia then you just don't understand geopolitics" ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/27352415

"Don't worry guys, the Uyghur Genocide was REALLY just birth control! ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/30580167

"See! nobody died IN Tiananmen Square, just AROUND it, so it doesn't count!!" ~ Davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/30673342

"NK is actually good and anything counter to that is Western propaganda!" ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/31595035

General negative sentiment to other instances who haven't "seen the way" yet ~davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/27426510

And so so much documentation on clear heavy handed censorship and bias also on the link. So much I can't even put them all here because this comment would be really long.

I believe the behavior of its admins (the main admins are Lemmy devs) does harm to the overall growth of the Lemmy-verse and maybe even the Thrediverse (since Lemmy kinda kicked off the Thrediverse) because of its association with the devs of Lemmy and their insistence to use .ml as their personal political platform to spread harmful propaganda

On the outside, bringing up Lemmy frequently leads to comments like "Lemmy? Isn't that the place with a bunch of tankies?" Or "Tried Lemmy, but found it full of pro Russia crap so I left". The best way forward from that I see is to either widely defederate from .ml like the rest of the Triad, or pressure them to put a fair and unbiased as possible admin team.

[-] cm0002@lemmings.world 15 points 1 month ago

It's actually the opposite, it's the fastest way to find out if the relationship your building is strong and secure or if your partner is insecure and its foundation is rickety.

The whole "You can't have guy friends because they're just trying to sleep with you" is a sexist trope anyways

[-] cm0002@lemmings.world 19 points 5 months ago

Wut? I've never shilled for Israel in my life, fuck em

I also didn't even know what that was till just now when I googled it, yea that sounds like something they'd do

[-] cm0002@lemmings.world 15 points 6 months ago

It's more clear from the pages title, not sure why Lemmy grabs a slightly different titling when autfilling for some articles

Some Democrats Are Helping the Trump Admin's Anti-LGBTQ+ Tech Agenda

[-] cm0002@lemmings.world 11 points 6 months ago

All of the above

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