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i am so sick of "minimalist" TV remotes that don't have room for a subtitle toggle or pause/rewind/forward, but they manage to fit dedicated Froobi and HydoPlus buttons.

"ohh, sorry, we couldn't fit the closed captions button. but you do get quick and easy access to Samsung TV Plus!" FUCK you

in reply to Lynnesbian

Looking back nostalgically at those universal remotes from the 2000s that had like a hundred buttons for every possible command a VCR/DVD/DVR/cable box could possibly be compatible with.
And those wonderful, mysterious A, B, C, and D buttons, which doโ€ฆ something! Maybe!
in reply to dzamie

@dzamie and the red, yellow, green and blue that were on every tv remote (though i never saw anyone use them)
in reply to allie ๐ŸŒบ

@username @dzamie sounds like somebody never experienced the joy of pressing the Foxtelยฎ Red Button on the weather channel to access FREE, LIVE updates on dam capacity around australia
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@blaurascon it's a result of what i call The Designer's Folly

"gee! nobody has ever designed [FEATURE] to work like [COMPLETELY DIFFERENT MECHANISM] before! i wonder why?"

it turns out there's often a reason. "gee, how come nobody ever puts the gear selector on a column right next to the indicator stalk?" yeah i wonder why kia? i wonder why?

@Blau



Incrementa vigilancia a poblaciรณn civil por parte del Estado y particulares

El Obse denunciรณ el uso de tecnologรญas de vigilancia utilizadas tanto por el Estado como por grupos criminales
#Chiapas #Mexico

chiapasparalelo.com/noticias/cโ€ฆ



it's happening! "The Secret Rules of the Terminal" is coming out tomorrow!

(update: it's out now!! you can get it here: wizardzines.com/zines/terminalโ€ฆ)

here's the table of contents:

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@Jodi Great song! I don't have that Pete Seeger song. So, I may have to sniff around Ebay for an affordable CD.

At first I thought you were referring to this song that starts with the same line!

@Jodi


Bear Cuscus' ๐Ÿป๐Ÿฉท are found on #Sulawesi #Indonesia ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฉ they are vulnerable due to #palmoil #deforestation ๐ŸŒด๐Ÿช”โ˜ ๏ธ๐Ÿงโ›”๏ธ and #hunting. Support this beautiful animal with your weekly shop #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect palmoildetectives.com/2021/01/โ€ฆ


CRIMEN organizado utiliza tecnologรญa para vigilancia en Chiapas: ElObse

#Mexico

elsoldechiapas.com/crimen-orgaโ€ฆ



No cloud, no worries! LM Studio makes running LLMs easy and private.

itsfoss.com/lm-studio-linux/




Iran launched a missile strike against the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, one of several U.S. military bases across the Middle East, in retaliation for the U.S. bombing its nuclear sites. Qatari authorities say there were no casualties and that air defenses "successfully thwarted the attack and intercepted the Iranian missiles." Here's @AssociatedPress's liveblog.

flip.it/YElZv7

#News #Iran #Israel #UnitedStates #Qatar #MiddleEast



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Our whitepaper breaks down how #Nextcloudโ€™s Server-side Encryption protects sensitive data, on-prem or in the cloud.

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Flares seen over Qatar

Flares are now visible over Qatarโ€™s capital, Doha. It is not immediately known if it is the air defence system or missiles.

Loud explosions can also be heard.

aje.io/j5j5ww?update=3795282

Fuck! I hope this is just a fireworks otherwise I'm not sure what's next!

#iran #war #qatar



Hyprland Premium, say what!? ๐Ÿคฏ

news.itsfoss.com/hyprland-premโ€ฆ

#hyprland #linux

in reply to It's FOSS

buy it? Sure happy to support. Subscription model BS? No thanks.


More Americans Trust Public Universities Than Private Ones insidehighered.com/news/quick-โ€ฆ


Dune: Awakening hits over 1 million sales making it Funcom's fastest selling game, end-game changes coming gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/duneโ€ฆ

#DuneAwakening #Dune #Gaming #PCGaming





Iโ€™ve begun my journey to reduce my reliance on US tech, so itโ€™s time for an update on how itโ€™s all going.

No surprise, some services are far more easy to replace than others. Email and streaming are low-hanging fruit; maps and messaging can be more difficult. But we should still make the effort.

disconnect.blog/p/getting-off-โ€ฆ

#tech #digitalsovereignty #email #socialmedia #streaming

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Analysis: โ€œA New Line Crossedโ€: The U.S. Provokes Iran

"It's not clear if Trump himself understands this, but everyone around him knows they did not verifiably destroy the nuclear program last night."

Re "actually impacting Iranโ€™s capabilities, the strike was largely symbolic."

But "it's the first time we're bombing a state [with] the capacity to inflict serious harm on Americans in the region.โ€

~Harrison Mann, fmr US army major

dropsitenews.com/p/iran-unitedโ€ฆ

#US-IranWar #USPol #EuroPol #UKPol .



Interview: "Stop the War on Iran": 1,000+ academics Sign Petition Saying Iran War Deflects Attention from Gaza

"After Trumpโ€™s attack on Iran over the weekend, civil society leaders are organizing to demand an end to the violence."

"What this is doing is immiserating further the lives of ordinary people" ~Iranian-American scholar Kaveh Ehsani, DePaul U, Chicago

democracynow.org/2025/6/23/iraโ€ฆ

#US-IranWar #USPol #UKPol #EuroPol #AntiWarProtests .



Interview: "Israel Seeks Chaos in Middle East"

Although UN inspectors & U.S. intelligence assessments say Iran was not building nuclear weapons, Netanyahu wanted to drag Trump into its war on Iran.

"The danger now is that, having brought the U.S. into this, Israel will seek to go further up the escalatory ladder. It wants the chaos.โ€

~Daniel Levy, fmr Israeli peace negotiator

democracynow.org/2025/6/23/isrโ€ฆ

#US-IranWar #USPol #UKPol #EuroPol #Trump #Israel .



โ€œWithout the help of the United States, weโ€™ll have more losses,โ€ Zelenskyy said in televised remarks.

aje.io/j5j5ww?update=3795067

This is really absurd the EU leaders really don't understand the consequences of their actions. It's not only affecting Iran, undermining international law, but also affecting their allies which needs their support more than any time now.

#Iran #war

#War #Iran


Switched to Btop++ for system monitoring. Never going back.

itsfoss.com/btop-plus-plus/

#linux

in reply to It's FOSS

Been using #btop++ for some time now and indeed it is very nice.
#btop
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Civilization VII gets Steam Workshop support, a modding SDK, bigger maps and more gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/civiโ€ฆ

#CivilizationVII #Gaming #Linux #SteamOS #SteamDeck #PCGaming



Good morning. As we head into another week of goodness knows what, hereโ€™s a photo of a squirrel eating a tiny peach should you need it.

#squirrel




'There Is No Intel': #Trump's Attacks on #Iran Were Based on Vibes, Sources Say

Following Trump's attacks on Iran, an admin official tells Rolling Stone, "The intelligence assessments have not really changed"

After Trump's decision to strike 3 Iranian #nuclear facilities on Sat, admin ofcls are barely bothering to pretend the unprecedentedโ€”& potentially calamitousโ€”attacks were motivated by new #intelligence suggesting Iran was on the brink of having nuclear weapons.

rollingstone.com/politics/poliโ€ฆ



Interview: "They Cooked Up Their Own Intelligence" Israelโ€™s war on Iran

"The war on Iran feels eerily familiar โ€“ from justifications that hold no water to the uncritical reporting in the media."

Unpacking the unsettling parallels with the 2003 Iraq War:

chrishedges.substack.com/p/theโ€ฆ

#Israel-IranWar #US #USPol #UKPol #EuroPol #USImperialism #iraqWar #boughtMedia .



Dear @Gargron โ€” Can we take another, fresh look at github.com/mastodon/mastodon/iโ€ฆ ? Hashtags should ultimately support full UTF8, IMHO, but adding at the very least the dash would be very helpful. It's not just band or artist names. CVEs are a better example. It would be really helpful when I can use #CVE-2025-6019 instead of #CVE20256019 as I am forced to do now. I guess hashtags are not in scope of the ActivityPub protocol, @evan ?
in reply to Lars Marowsky-Brรฉe ๐Ÿ˜ท

Sure Using #under_score is an alternative, but a poor one. Exactly what is the reason to not also support the dash? Tradition, legacy or documented breakage? @Gargron @evan
in reply to Jan Wildeboer ๐Ÿ˜ท

People use dashes as punctuation--for example, double dash instead of the em dash. If I said "I love #Mastodon--though I am biased", I would be very surprised the hashtag got turned into "Mastodon though". Some people don't bother to double dash and use a single dash for the same purpose.
in reply to Eugen Rochko

@larsmb
But dashes need to be surrounded by space characters, otherwise this is a hyphen and correctly links the two adjacent words together to form a compound.
in reply to Norbert Rittel

@norbert @larsmb An em dash is not supposed to be surrounded by space characters however. Also, I can say something is #Kafka-esque and have it show up in #Kafka where people are more likely to look.
in reply to Eugen Rochko

I am more shocked that people would use a dash without surrounding whitespace, but I guess I am just an old typographic nerd ;) @larsmb @evan
in reply to Jan Wildeboer ๐Ÿ˜ท

@larsmb Othrography online varies a lot. In French it's common to put two spaces after a period. Some people in English forget to put a single space after one. What I'm trying to avoid is a hashtag unexpectedly consuming more text than it should, and in my view, the dash is commonly used as a word boundary.
in reply to Eugen Rochko

I used to believe that real em-dashes, eg in LaTeX and HTML, and en-dashes, and hyphens ... should rarely have space around them, but now I liberally space at least em-dashes to reduce ambiguity...
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'The #EU has corroborated UN allegations that #Israel was guilty of "indiscriminate attacks ... starvation ... torture ... [and] #apartheid" against #Palestinians in a leaked "review".'

euobserver.com/eu-and-the-worlโ€ฆ

#EUpol #Palestine #Gaza #oPt #HumanRights @palestine @israel



KDE Plasma will continue having an X11 session, as Kubuntu switches to Wayland by default gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/kde-โ€ฆ

#KDE #Plasma #Linux #OpenSource #Kubuntu

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Yep, I have telemetry turned on on my plasma, as it is clear what data is being sent, it is anonymous, I can check what data has been already sent at any time and I know KDE are a good guys (at least for now)
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

What is also nice is how well KDE Plasma 6.4 runs XWayland.

This is really important, as it'll take a long time before most X11 apps are updated to a Wayland session.

Some may never get there.





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SteamOS, Steam Deck and Steam Desktop had multiple updates over the weekend - here's what gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/steaโ€ฆ

#Steam #SteamOS #SteamDeck #PCGaming #Gaming



A new @ThisWeekinLinux has dropped! (316) ๐Ÿ˜Ž๐Ÿงโ–ถ๏ธ
thisweekinlinux.com/316

@MichaelTunnell talks about KDE Plasma 6.4, Arch Linux Wine, Kali Linux, Valve flips the Proton switch, & more Linux news on Your Source for #Linux GNews!

#podcasts #technews #opensource #tech



in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Game devs have been so fricking lazy on the anti-cheat vs Linux. They just don't see it as important. I'm looking at moving to Linux because Win11 gaming is a train wreck.

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