Na spalničky, proti kterým se dá očkovat, už v americkém Texasu za poslední dva měsíce zemřeli jedno dítě a jeden dospělý, oba neočkovaní. Tamní státní ministerstvo eviduje přes dvě stě případů, přes dvacet lidí je s těžkým průběhem v nemocnici.
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"Vládní centrum CDC je jednou z institucí, které postihly redukční snahy Trumpova spolupracovníka Elona Muska. Ten z organizace, která dohlíží na zdraví Američanů a zaměstnávala zhruba 13 tisíc lidí, nechal vyhodit přes 750 zaměstnanců. Celkem 180 z nich ale poté nechal napsat e-mail, v němž je žádal, aby se do práce vrátili." zdá se, že v rámci státu používá stejné metody jako v twitteru 🤦♂️
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Yesterday at the community free store's Thursday distro, Portland Police arrived and began to harass community members both seeking and distributing resources. Around 6:00 PM, a group of about four officers approached as people were still setting up. They informed those present that the tables on the sidewalk needed to be removed or citations would be issued. Moments later, without any warning or explanation, an officer grabbed an individual by one of the tables, forced them to their knees, and restrained their hands behind their back. They were then dragged across the street, handcuffed, and placed in a squad car where they were held for 30 minutes before being released. When asked why they were being arrested, an officer said that they were just detaining people to get their identification.
In a matter of minutes, police went from supposedly being there because of the tables to detaining people they claimed were on the street. Soon after, the police presence intensified, with at least 11 squad cars present and over 20 officers on foot, filling an entire city block. Multiple people walking by asked if someone had been shot. It should be noted that PPB consistently complains about staff shortages but they have no issue sending out an insane amount of resources to harass and assault the houseless community and those helping them.
After the first arrest, I was standing on the sidewalk when two officers approached me, pulled me into the street, and restrained my hands behind my back. One officer repeatedly presented me with two options: accept a citation or go to jail. Feeling angry and unjustly accused, I remained silent, refusing to comply with an unfair choice. When I didn't respond as he hoped, I was handcuffed and taken back to the sidewalk. Eventually, I was released with a citation, which I believe was for impeding traffic, though the details are illegible.
During this incident, 3 people total were detained and cited, others were also subjected to harassment and being assaulted by the police, and citations were issued to parked cars nearby.
The community free store has become an essential resource in Portland, flourishing over the past year. It provides hot food, water, snacks, seasonal clothing, hygiene and medical supplies, tents, blankets, and more-resources that can be lifesaving.
Since January 2nd, the police have increasingly targeted the community free store. Initially, they surveiled from their vehicles, but soon escalated to recording from a distance, questioning individuals in groups, and gathering intelligence. Yesterday marked a significant escalation of their tactics.
As in previous encounters, when PPB threatened to cite individuals, many who relied on these vital resources left empty-handed. This intimidation strategy effectively discourages vulnerable populations from seeking help. Which is of course intentional. The police's actions also aim to instill fear among those distributing resources and to deter future congregation and participation. Detaining and citing individuals also serves to identify them for further intelligence gathering on these communities.
Mutual aid efforts, the poor, and houseless communities have long faced repression and state-sanctioned violence. The autonomy and self-reliance fostered by these community initiatives challenge state authority and control over our lives. It is not uncommon for those involved in mutual aid to experience harassment, surveillance, physical violence, arrests, and citations. The state utilizes various repressive measures, criminalizing mutual aid activities and deploying law enforcement to disrupt gatherings. This situation highlights the ongoing tension between state power and community resilience, emphasizing the urgent need to protect mutual aid as a crucial form of organization that addresses systemic inequalities and promotes collective empowerment.
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Hat jemand Erfahrung mit #Mailo ? Im Gegensatz zu @Tutanota und @mailbox_org sind dort die Preise wirklich familientauglich (7,20 € im Monat für 5 Konten). Und 100 GB Storage sind auch einigermaßen sinnvoll gewählt.
Korrektur: Es gibt auch ein dediziertes Familienangebot, was mit 2 € irgendwie absurd günstig klingt. Ich nehme mal an, dass das pro Person ist - aber damit immernoch sehr günstig. mailo.com/mailo/dyn/family-off…
Und dort sind auch explizit eigene Domain möglich.
E-Mail, Kalender, Cloud und Freigabe: Mailo Pro ist eine professionelle E-Mail-Plattform für Selbstständige, VSEs und KMU, die Ihre Daten souverän und respektvoll behandelt
Nur zur Info: Tuta Mail ist zwar 3 Euro im Monat pro Person, aber mit unlimitierten Aliasen für deine Domains - plus E2E Verschlüsselung. Würde uns freuen, wenn dich unserer Sicherheit überzeugt. ;)
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Browser: Floorp (Japan) & Vivaldi Mail: t-online, self-hosted and will check out Tutanota - never heard of it before. email-client: Betterbird Calendar: Paper, on my desk Search engine: Ecosia Google drive: installed Libreoffice and I use Obsidian which is better anyway. I just have to move my files. Cloud... ? has anyone some suggestions for a cloud?
On the subject of browsers: I'm not sure whether it's more important to me that the browser comes from the EU or Europe or whether the browser uses a framework that comes from the US (Vivaldi and Mullvad -> Chromium).
Thank you. I've been searching for alternatives and, I guess since I'm in the U.S. using Google mostly, I had never heard of these. I'm going to try them out. Thanks again.
I have succeeded in getting Nextcloud up and running. So now I have a replacement for Dropbox, Google suite including, Google Photos and I also use it for my new (not gmail) email. And for the people on my Nextcloud server, the chat/phone/video call software called Nextcloud Talk is really good.
It was not easy, but now it seems to run really well. I made it work in NixOs, and can recommend it. Write if you are interested in the "configuration.nix".
I use TutaMail for my private mails, ProtonMail for work and Disroot for family; Iceraven, Ironfox and Librewolf browsers; calendar on paper; Disroot's SearX and Swisscows as search
Looking at the comments there seems to be a little misunderstanding about the definition of Europe and the EU. They are 'almost' the same but not 'quite' the same. Choosing a European alternative is good, finding an alternative by an actual EU based company is even better.
not everything "american-built" is bad. it might be worth checking out. what is too old which is european instead. agreed with the picture but only from android. not totally. not defending "american high tech". i don't know where some of you come from. but it's difficult to avoid gmail.
I really, *really* wish people would not promote European tools as superior to American tools from a privacy standpoint after the EU tried to ban any encryption they couldn't backdoor under the guise of preventing distribution of CSAM
This post refutes the claim that researchers found a "backdoor" in ESP32 Bluetooth chips. What the researchers highlight (vendor-specific HCI commands to read & write controller memory) is a common design pattern found in other Bluetooth chips from o…
That statement about drives failing while generally true isn't always true. I had to replace Amber's SSD because it was going to fail only after a year so the one about SSD's lasting longer I think is dependent on the way the SSD is made.
The #Tesla #Cybertruck is illegal in the UK, and probably will be in the EU. Why? It's extremely dangerous for pedestrians, which is not a concern in modern-day America, and even a selling point.
The Cybertruck has a cult following in the U.S., but safety issues such as excessive size and acceleration and sharp edges make the Tesla illegal on U.K. roads.
I did this I ran curl mqtt://test.mosquitto.org/curl/test --output test.out -N Then in a different terminal curl mqtt://test.mosquitto.org/curl/test -d "helloWorld" curl mqtt://test.mosquitto.org/c...
Elon Musk has apparently stolen money from either Canada and taxpayers, or Tesla dealerships, or likely, from both, as police and transport Canada get involved finding how thousands of Teslas got EV rebates.
Tesla made a suspicious number of rebate requests on last days of Canadian EV incentive
Hello , @Friendica Support It's been more than 2 months since UpdateContacts the one highlighted in red it doesn't end , can you tell me how i can remove it?
@Anomaly if you have console/terminal access, run cd your-friendica-directory bin/console.php worker it runs your cron jobs, and gets your workers to complete jobs in the queue, it may help
Hi @pasjrwoctx👽 , thanks I can't find any entries related to worker
bin/console.php
Usage: bin/console [--version] [-h|--help|-?] <command> [<args>] [-v]
Commands:
addon Addon management
cache Manage node cache
clearavatarcache Clear the file based avatar cache
config Edit site config
contact Contact management
createdoxygen Generate Doxygen headers
dbstructure Do database updates
docbloxerrorchecker Check the file tree for DocBlox errors
extract Generate translation string file for the Friendica project (deprecated)
globalcommunityblock Block remote profile from interacting with this node
globalcommunitysilence Silence a profile from the global community page
archivecontact Archive a contact when you know that it isn't existing anymore
help Show help about a command, e.g (bin/console help config)
autoinstall Starts automatic installation of friendica based on values from htconfig.php
lock Edit site locks
maintenance Set maintenance mode for this node
movetoavatarcache Move cached avatars to the file based avatar cache
mergecontacts Merge duplicated contact entries
user User management
php2po Generate a messages.po file from a strings.php file
po2php Generate a strings.php file from a messages.po file
typo Checks for parse errors in Friendica files
postupdate Execute pending post update scripts (can last days)
relocate Update node base URL
serverblock Manage blocked servers
storage Manage storage backend
relay Manage ActivityPub relay servers
Options:
-h|--help|-? Show help information
-v Show more debug information.
@Anomaly then if you open terminal on your server, and cd to your friendica dir, bin/worker.php it should run the worker, and one other thing you can try, is go to myphpadmin open your database for friendica, and in the sql tab enter DELETE FROM `workerqueue` WHERE `done` = 1; which will clear all jobs completed, the task may be completed, but not cleared out of the database table. other than that maybe @hypolite can help maybe better
@Anomaly also try, Admin/Site/Worker Maximum load average=50, Maximum number of parallel workers=20, Maximum load for workers=150, Worker defer limit=15, Worker fetch limit=25, it may help as well as double check your Database Lock Wait Timeouts, check the Friendica log files for any error messages related to lock wait timeouts, sorry I cant offer more, im a little limited on my knowledge, just sharing everything I know, because I have dealt with some of these issues, y
@Anomaly Deferred tasks aren't currently running. They failed during they initial run, which placed them in this wait list with a next try date in the future. From your screenshot it appears that the task creation date and the next try date are pretty close to each other, so it must only have failed a few times at most.
Running either the worker or the daemon manually will not clear deferred tasks which next try date have not been reached yet. There's an incremental back off system that increases the delay before the next try after each new failure. Once the task succeeds, the task will clear from the deferred list.
@Hypolite Petovan yes I thought this, but why has this entry been in the list for 2 months? All entries are successfully completed . I have no problems with friendica, if this entry does not cause problems,can be on the list
Did some app icon design work for the first time in a while today. Haven't gotten feedback on either of these yet, but regardless of whether they'll actually end up being used, I'm happy with how they turned out 😁
so yes the rumors are correct (this was leaked on reddit a few days ago, oh well)
the #FLX1 will be getting support for hooking up to external displays. the difference here compared to other approaches is that it will be running full #GNOME shell instead of #Phosh desktop mode (with some integration). as much as we love Phosh, GNOME shell simply provides a superior experience on a large display (and our community members voted for this too)
Media playback tablet running GNOME and postmarketOS
A couple of years ago I set up a simple and independent media streaming server for my Bandcamp music collection using a Raspberry Pi 4, Fedora IoT and Jellyfin. It works nicely and I don’t have to play any cloud rent to Spotify to listen to music at home.
But it’s annoying having the music playback controls buried in my phone or laptop. How many times do you go to play a song and get distracted by a WhatsApp message instead?
So I started thinking about a tablet that would just control media playback. A tablet running a non-corporate operating system, because music is too important to allow Google to stick AI and adverts in the middle of it. Last month Pablo told me that postmarketOS had pretty decent support for a specific mainstream tablet and so I couldn’t reset buying one second-hand and trying to set up GNOME there for media playback.
Read on and I will tell you how the setup procedure went, what is working nicely and what we could still improve.
What is the Xiaomi Pad 5 Pro tablet like?
I’ve never owned a tablet so all I can tell you is this: it looks like a shiny black mirror. I couldn’t find the power button at first, but it turns out to be on the top.
The device specs claim that it has an analog headphone output, which is not true. It does come with a USB-C to headphone adapter in the box, though.
It comes with an antagonistic Android-based OS that seems to constantly prompt you to sign in to things and accept various terms and conditions. I guess they really want to get to know you.
I paid 240€ for it second hand. The seller didn’t do a factory reset before posting it to me, but I’m a good citizen so I wiped it for them, before anyone could try to commit online fraud using their digital identity.
How easy is it to install postmarketOS + GNOME on the Xiaomi Pad 5 Pro?
I work on systems software but I prefer to stay away from the hardware side of things. Give me a computer that at least can boot to a shell, please. I am not an expert in this stuff. So how did I do at installing a custom OS on an Android tablet?
Figuring out the display model
The hardest part of the process was actually the first step: getting root access on the device so that I could see what type of display panel it has.
Xiaomi tablets have some sort of “bootloader lock”, but thankfully this device was already unlocked. If you ever look at purchasing a Xiaomi device, be very wary that Xiaomi might have locked the bootloader such that you can’t run custom software on your device. Unlocking a locked bootloader seems to require their permission. This kind of thing is a big red flag when buying computers.
One popular tool to root an Android device is Team Win’s TWRP. However it didn’t have support for the Pad 5 Pro, so instead I used Magisk.
I found rooting process with Magisck complicated. The only instructions I could find were in this video named “Xiaomi Pad 5 Rooting without the Use of TWRP | Magisk Manager” from Simply Tech-Key (Cris Apolinar). This gives you a two step process, which requires a PC with the Android debugging tools ‘adb’ and ‘fastboot’ installed and set up.
Step 1: Download and patch the boot.img file
On the PC, download the boot.img file from the stock firmware. (See below).
Open the Magisk app and select “Install” to patch the boot.img file.
Copy the patched boot.img off the tablet back to your PC and rename it to patched_boot.img.
The boot.img linked from the video didn’t work for me. Instead I searched online for “xiaomi pad 5 pro stock firmware rom” and found one that worked that way.
It’s important to remember that downloading and running random binaries off the internet is very dangerous. It’s possible that someone pretends the file is one thing, when it’s actually malware that will help them steal your digital identity. The best defence is to factory reset the tablet before you start, so that there’s nothing on there to steal in the first place.
Step 2: Boot the patched boot.img on the tablet
Ensure developer mode is enabled on the tablet: go to “About this Device” and tap the box that shows the OS version 7 times.
Ensure USB debugging is enabled: find the “Developer settings” dialog in the settings window and enable if needed.
On the PC, run adb reboot fastboot to reboot the tablet and reach the bootloader menu.
Run fastboot flash boot patched_boot.img to boot the patched boot image.
At this point, if the boot.img file was good, you should see the device boot back to Android and it’ll now be “rooted”. So you can follow the instructions in the postmarketOS wiki page to figure out if your device has the BOE or the CSOT display. What a ride!
Install postmarketOS
If we can find a way to figure out the display without needing root access, it’ll make the process substantially easier, because the remaining steps worked like a charm.
Following the wiki page, you first install pmbootstrap and run pmbootstrap init to configure the OS image. A note for Fedora Silverblue users: the bootstrap process doesn’t work inside a Toolbx container. At some point it tries to create /dev in the rootfs using mknod and fails. You’ll have to install pmbootstrap on the host and run it there.
Next you use pmbootstrap flasher to install the OS image to the correct partition.
I wanted to install to the system_b partition but I seemed to get an ‘out of disk space’ error. The partition is 3.14 GiB in size. So I flashed the OS to the userdata partition.
The build and flashing process worked really well and I was surprised to see the postmarketOS boot screen so quickly.
How well does GNOME work as a tablet interface?
The design side of GNOME have thought carefully about making GNOME work well on touch-screen devices. This doesn’t mean specifically optimising it for touch-screen use, it’s more about avoiding a hard requirement on you having a two-button mouse available.
To my knowledge, nobody is paying to optimise the “GNOME on tablets” experience right now. So it’s certainly lacking in polish. In case it wasn’t clear, this one isfor the real headz.
Login to the machine was tricky because there’s no on-screen keyboard on the GDM screen. You can work around that by SSH’ing to the machine directly and creating a GDM config file to automatically log in: $ cat /etc/gdm/custom.conf # GDM configuration storage[daemon]AutomaticLogin=mediaAutomaticLoginEnable=True It wasn’t possible to push the “Skip” button in initial setup, for whatever reason. But I just rebooted the system to get round that. Enough things work that I can already use the tablet for my purposes of playing back music from Jellyfin, from Bandcamp and from elsewhere on the web.
The built-in speakers audio output doesn’t work, and connecting a USB-to-headphone adapter doesn’t work either. What does work is Bluetooth audio, so I can play music that way already. [Update: as of 2025-03-07, built-in audio also works. I haven’t investigated what changed]
I disabled the automatic screen lock, as this device is never leaving my house anyway. The screen seems to stay on and burn power quickly, which isn’t great. I set the screen blank interval to 1 minute, which should save power, but I haven’t found a nice way to “un-blank” the screen again. Touch events don’t seem to do anything. At present I work around by pressing the power button (which suspends the device and stops audio), then pressing it again to resume, at which point the display comes back. [Update: see the comments; it’s possible to reconfigure the power button so that it doesn’t suspend the device].
Apart from this, everything works surprisingly great. Wi-fi and Bluetooth are reliable. The display sometimes glitches when resuming from suspend but mostly works fine. Multitouch gestures work perfectly — this is first time I’ve ever used GNOME with a touch screen and it’s clear that there’s a lot of polish. The system is fast. The Alpine + postmarketOS teams have done a great job packaging GNOME, which is commendable given that they had to literally port systemd.
What’s next?
I’d like to figure out how un-blank the screen without suspending and resuming the device.
It might be nice to fix audio output via the USB-C port. But more likely I might set up a DIY “smart speaker” network around the house, using single-board computers with decent DAC chips connected to real amplifiers. Then the tablet would become more of a remote control.
See the comments for a way to reconfigure the power button so that it unblanks the screen instead of suspending the device.
After updating to latest (2025-03-07) postmarketOS edge, the built-in speakers now work and they sound pretty OK. Not sure what changed but that’s very nice to have.
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“The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy, the empathy exploit,” Musk said. “There it’s they’re exploiting a bug in Western civilization, which is the empathy response.” -Elon Musk, Feb 28, 2025
“In my work with the defendants (at the Nuremberg Trials 1945-1949) I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.” -Captain G. M. Gilbert, the Army psychologist assigned to watching the defendants at the Nuremberg trials
Technology is transforming lives, and for blind and visually impaired individuals, smart home automation offers incredible opportunities to enhance independence and convenience.
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