submitted by sopularity_fax to asklemmy 5 points | 6 comments Stuff like True Detective or Law and Order or Dexter lol

submitted by protestation to communism 39 points | 1 comments

submitted by pete_link to worldnews 30 points | 2 comments https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/foreign-intervention-iranians-want-lifting-sanctions-experts-say Published date: 12 January 2026 22:32 GMT Last update: Jan. 13 2026 12:00 EST > The protests gripping Iran are fuelled by immense economic pressures and frustration with the government, but with Iranians having felt Israel’s wrath and also seen what the US did in Venezuela, their demands are not for foreign intervention, a slate of regional experts have said. > Speaking at an event hosted by the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft in Washington DC on Monday, the experts said that whilst there may be some voices that are outliers, most Iranians were looking for the international community to help lift crippling US sanctions and begin a new path forward.

submitted by deathmetal27 to memes 71 points | 19 comments Not like I have anything against lesbian porn but ffs it doesn’t even make semantic sense.

submitted by artifex to privacy 29 points | 11 comments So I was reading this article about Signal-creator Moxie Marlinspike’s new project, Confer , which claims to be a verifiably E2E encrypted LLM chat service. There are a couple of short blog articles that give the gist of it, and some github repos including this one that includes scripts for producing the VM that will run your particular LLM session. But if I’m following this all correctly, it implies that every chat session (or perhaps every logged-in user) would have their own VM running their own LLM to ensure that the chain of trust is complete. This seems impossible from a scalability perspective, as even small LLMs require huge quantities of RAM and compute. Did I miss something fundamental here?

submitted by jasonthedragon442 to opensource 75 points | 21 comments Where does this whole controversy stand right now? Any of you went back to using it? If not, what are the alternatives? I’m pretty dependent on it but in no way informed enough to analyse this on my own

submitted by geneva_convenience to europe 21 points | 1 comments

submitted by davel to ManufacturingConsent 11 points | 8 comments https://open.substack.com/pub/caitlinjohnstone/p/on-leftists-and-anarchists-who-cheer

submitted by may_be to asklemmy 22 points | 11 comments Boys: We have Ed, Edd, Eddie, Eddy, etc. for Edward Andy for Andrew Vic for Victor Tom or Tommy for Thomas Frank for Franklin Nate/Nathan for Nathaniel Nate for Nathan Girls: Vicky for Victoria Andrea or Anna, I’ve seen Ann/Anne or Annie, also with Anabel/Anabelle too Tanya for Tatyana but I don’t see many people with this name, I know one and she was my bully’s Russian mother.

submitted by TheReturnOfPEB to degoogle 177 points | 11 comments https://support.google.com/adspolicy/answer/16489929?hl=en

submitted by jankforlife to memes 78 points | 21 comments

submitted by may_be to asklemmy 29 points | 35 comments I don’t mean a direct translation, but rather a common and/or “stereotypical” last name that is generally used as the equivalent of “Smith” in English.

submitted by geneva_convenience to ManufacturingConsent 21 points | 10 comments

submitted by letsmakeafriendship to privacy 60 points | 6 comments https://haveibeenflocked.com/

submitted by geneva_convenience to europe 30 points | 7 comments https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/international-law-died-gaza-why-world-mourning-it-greenland For months, many warned that Israel’s unrestrained assault on Gaza was not merely a crime against Palestinians, but a fatal blow to the very idea of international law. What was being tested was not only the scale of Israeli violence, but whether rules still applied at all; whether power would remain constrained by law, or whether law would give way to brute force. Few articulated the stakes more clearly than Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, who cautioned that the choice before the world was “stark and unforgiving”: either defend the legal principles designed to prevent war, or watch the international system collapse under the weight of unchecked power politics. For billions of people in the Global South, Petro warned, international law is not an abstraction, but a shield. Remove it, and only predators remain. This was not done in secret, but in full view of the world. Germany armed it. Britain justified it. France equivocated. Others offered silence dressed up as “complexity”. The institutions meant to prevent such crimes stood aside or actively enabled them. The world persuaded itself that the collapse of law and the devaluation of human life could be contained; that Gaza could be treated as an exception without consequence. It could not.

submitted by pylapp to opensource 162 points | 21 comments https://ploum.net/2026-01-05-unteaching_github.html

submitted by Avenging5 to linux 265 points | 37 comments https://nerds.xyz/2026/01/wine-11-linux-windows/ Wine fans have a reason to smile today. Wine 11.0 is finally here, and it is a big deal for anyone running Windows software on Linux. After a full year of work, more than six thousand code changes, and hundreds of bug fixes, Wine is moving forward in a way that feels like a turning point. This release tightens up major subsystems, improves performance, expands hardware support, and carries a big win for compatibility. If you have been waiting for Wine to feel smoother and a little less fussy, 11.0 might be the moment you jump back in.

submitted by 5714 to shittyasklemmy 7 points | 6 comments

submitted by yo_scottie_oh to linux 17 points | 12 comments I’ve been reading up on the concept of dotfile management, and I’ve come across tools such as GNU Stow, chezmoi, and yadm, but before I select a tool, I’d like to understand the workflow a little better. I understand if the dotfiles are in some cloud provider such as GitHub, then after a fresh install one can do git clone etc, but let’s say one’s dotfiles are _not_ stored in the cloud, then what’s the workflow for getting those dotfiles onto the freshly installed OS? Do people do git clone from another machine on their local network, manually copy the dotfiles folder from the source, use an app like LocalSend, or something else? EDIT: Clarifying that this is for a home environment, where I have two or three different laptops in service at any given time. One is my main daily driver and doesn’t change much. The other two are kinda my sandboxes and I’m often distro hopping on them. This question is mostly for distro hopping on my sandboxes, which is like once or twice a month. Thanks!

submitted by cypherpunks to usa 76 points | 11 comments https://www.thedailybeast.com/dhs-ice-hated-under-donald-trump-kristi-noem-after-renee-nicole-good-minneapolis-shooting-agents-terrified/ paywall bypass: web.archive.org/…/dhs-ice-hated-under-donald-trum…

submitted by HaraldvonBlauzahn to linux 176 points | 46 comments https://www.notebookcheck.net/I-dumped-Windows-11-for-Linux-and-you-should-too.1190961.0.html > There. That’s out of the way. I recently installed Linux on my main desktop computer and work laptop, overwriting the Windows partition completely. Essentially, I deleted the primary operating system from the two computers I use the most, day in and day out, instead trusting all of my personal and work computing needs to the Open Source community. This has been a growing trend, and I hopped on the bandwagon, but for good reasons. Some of those reasons might pertain to you and convince you to finally make the jump as well. Here’s my experience. > > […] > > It’s no secret that Windows 11 harvests data like a pumpkin farmer in October, and there is no easy way (and sometimes no way at all) to stop it. The operating system itself acts exactly like what was called “spyware” a decade or so ago, pulling every piece of data it can about its current user. This data includes (but is far from limited to) hardware information, specific apps and software used, usage trends, and more. With the advent of AI, Microsoft made headlines with Copilot, an artificial assistant designed to help users by capturing their data with tools like Recall. > > […] > > After dealing with these issues and trying to solve them with workarounds, I dual-booted a Linux partition for a few weeks. After a Windows update (that I didn’t choose to do) wiped that partition and, consequently, the Linux installation, I decided to go whole-hog: I deleted Windows 11 and used the entire drive for Linux.

submitted by yogthos to funny 40 points | 6 comments

submitted by halloween_spookster to linux 32 points | 23 comments I’ve been wondering why Mint doesn’t seem to have an automatic major version upgrade built in? For those that have an opinion, do you agree with not having this? Why/why not? I’ve been running Mint 21 for over a year now. I started using it not long before Mint 22 came out and have been dragging my feet on upgrading in fear of breaking something and having to reinstall (and losing something in the process). I’m in the process of setting up proper backups so I’ll probably do it after those are set up (or maybe wait until Mint 23).

submitted by MattW03 to linux 65 points | 26 comments https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-people-keep-flocking-to-linux-in-2025-and-its-not-just-to-escape-windows/ In StatCounter’s latest US numbers, which cover through October, Linux shows up as only 3.49%. But if you look closer, “unknown” accounts for 4.21%. Allow me to make an educated guess here: I suspect those unknown desktops are actually running Linux. What else could it be? FreeBSD? Unix? OS/2? Unlikely. In addition, ChromeOS comes in at 3.67%, which strikes me as much too low. Leaving that aside, ChromeOS is a Linux variant. It just uses the Chrome web browser for its interface rather than KDE Plasma, Cinnamon, or another Linux desktop environment. Put all these together, and you get a Linux desktop market share of 11.37%. Now we’re talking.

submitted by fossilesque to usa 101 points | 10 comments https://www.thedailybeast.com/personal-details-of-thousands-of-border-patrol-and-ice-goons-allegedly-leaked-in-huge-data-breach/