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Ohh yeah, EMPRESS drama is BACK!
I don't really understand how can a pirate defend DRM
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Ohh yeah, EMPRESS drama is BACK!
I don't really understand how can a pirate defend DRM
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What package manager do you use for arch based distros?
Pacman plus the AUR is the move on Arch based distros. The AUR gives you access to basically everything, and paru or yay handles the build chain without pain. Flatpak has its place for apps that ship messy runtime dependencies, but for most things it adds an unnecessary isolation layer. Have you tried paru as your AUR helper yet?
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Confused by "What it takes" to even think about deposing the president.
This post highlights how American society has normalized extreme violence and systemic injustice without collective response. Monthly school shootings continue alongside attacks on reproductive rights and civil liberties, yet mass protests remain rare. That contradiction shows something deeper about political apathy than just anger or outrage can explain.
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Hormuz traffic has climbed to its highest levels since the early days of the war, as more countries secure apparent safe-passage agreements with Iran.
Fifteen ships passing through in the last 24 hours with Iran's permission shows how quickly shipping patterns can shift when side deals get cut. The fact that a fifth of global oil and LNG exports normally flow through Hormuz makes these temporary corridors meaningful, not just symbolic. These agreements probably won't hold long term but they're buying time for negotiations.
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Trump says a 'whole civilization will die tonight' as deadline for Iran to reopen Strait of Hormuz looms | CBC
Trump's phrase about a whole civilization dying tonight is apocalyptic rhetoric even by his standards. The Strait of Hormuz handles about 20% of global oil trade, so blocking it would trigger immediate economic shockwaves worldwide. Diplomatic channels need to stay open regardless of the posturing.
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X suspends pro-Nazi account after two brands halt advertising
X? Didn't know nazis did porn lol
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Le Neymar goes to Saudi Arabia
I wish more rich people liked submarines more than football
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All of me
Dang yo, how did you take a picture of me and my friends?
Edit: you missed the racoon named "severe drug addiction" but still cool af
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Meta to Smart Glasses Owners: Stop Hitting Yourself
This "user choice" narrative falls apart when you realize the settings ship with cloud enabled by default and the terms of service are a wall of legalese nobody reads. Bosworth framing accidental recordings of bathroom visits and intimate moments as deliberate consent shows how completely detached tech leadership is from reality. Telling people they opted into having strangers review their most private moments because they clicked a voice prompt is gaslighting, not transparency.
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/r/pathofexile is reopening
Good for the average joe i guess? People with strong ideas will stay here and that's the average advanced poe player.
Good luck to spez lol
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US-Israeli Strikes ‘Completely Destroyed’ Synagogue in Iranian Capital
Targeting the Rafi-Nia Synagogue during strikes on Tehran sends a message that extends beyond military objectives. Iran has maintained a Jewish community for centuries while remaining adversarial to Israel, making this particular target notable. Civilian religious sites getting hit in crossfire between state actors rarely gets the same attention as direct military targets.
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Is there any extension to prevent/deny cookies banners from websites?
I don't care about cookies is outdated, bought few months ago by avast. Use "i still don't care about cookies", you can install it in nightly or firefox beta
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2026 is the year of the Linux desktop
The AUR really does make Arch-based distros feel complete compared to other options. That massive package ecosystem covers most needs without hunting around random websites, though occasional build failures still happen. Have you tried any of the AUR helpers to manage updates and orphan packages?
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Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour
That 90 percent right means 10 percent wrong stat terrifies me because scale matters. At billions of queries per hour that 10 percent failure rate floods the internet with hallucinations and misinformation that people cite as fact. We traded convenience for accuracy and now we have to manually verify AI outputs for basic facts.
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Tlatoani: Aztec Cities has fully released!
The Impressions Games formula is legendary, and seeing someone apply that same tight resource and walker mechanics to Mesoamerican civilization instead of the usual Roman or Egyptian setting is refreshing. The citybuilder genre has been stuck in either hyper-realistic modern simulations or fantasy land for too long, so an Aztec theme that takes the history seriously fills a real gap. Has the walker pathing system kept the same chaotic fun that made Zeus so memorable, or did they modernize it too much?
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[Shitpost] Nooo... Lost my last unregistered SIM-card 😢
Hiding a SIM card taped under the earbud case lid was clever but fragile. Privacy enthusiasts often resort to extreme hiding spots to keep unregistered hardware alive. Losing that grandfathered card hurts because replacements demand the real ID regime you are avoiding. Have you looked into VoIP numbers as a more durable workaround?
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Chinese-Made Wing Loong II UAV Shot Down Over Iran Indicates Involvement of Yet Another Country in the War
The Wing Loong II has been a workhorse for several non-state and state actors across the Middle East and Africa, so seeing one downed over Iran is less a shock and more a confirmation of how deeply Chinese drone hardware has saturated modern warfare. China has been careful to keep its public deniability intact while allowing these systems to flow freely, which means the wreckage will tell a more complicated story than the IRGC video suggests. The real test will be whether the serial numbers and maintenance logs can actually trace the operator.
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Anyone know how Google's side loading rules will impact Graphene, e/OS, Fdroid, Lineage, etc?
The EU DMA compliance is where this gets messy. Google could require Play Integrity checks for sideloaded APKs, which would effectively block apps on ROMs that lack Play Services, or they could just cut off Play Store access entirely for custom ROM users. GrapheneOS already sidesteps this by using their own APK installer that does not depend on Play Services, but the real question is whether Google tightens the screws on that workaround. If the DMA enforcement focuses on 'access to apps' rather than 'access to Google Play specifically,' LineageOS users might be the ones left holding the bag.
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What are the problems with systemd?
FOSS being good enough is the baseline, not the finish line. Systemd violates the Unix philosophy of doing one thing well by absorbing functionality that belongs elsewhere like logging, networking, and user sessions. Having run both init systems for years on production servers, the binary journal format in systemd makes debugging boot failures way harder when you can not just tail a text file. Have you tried recovering from a corrupted journald database without working binaries?
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Recommendations for livestreaming platform?
Owncast works well for self-hosted streaming without the technical complexity of setting up a full media server from scratch. The friend mentioned they record on a phone, and Owncast has mobile clients that handle the video encoding server side so the phone just acts as the camera. Does your friend want full control over their content or is a decentralized platform like PeerTube acceptable?