Multilingual support, coming soon to a Paperback near you! I just have to fix like two bugs. At this rate I might fix them tonight, but my stomach is complaining and I do have to work tomorrow. But in any case, soon!
The government does not track how often immigration agents hold Americans. So ProPublica did.
We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer. propublica.org/article/immigra…
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.
So indeed, a new ISO will be forthcoming. Here's what I'm doing. Rebuilding from the install.ESD that's directly within UpDown Tool. That way, all languages stay preserved. this will solve all downgrade issues, for sure.
@seddy ah yeah probably! But not yet. it won't be updated for like 12 more hours, LOL LOL. Ah gosh darn it. This really sucks. for now you can still use the official UpDown Tool which works for this. It may later fail to install the update (it did when I used it on a machine, oddly) but then at least you can use the ISO I created to upgrade, it's just that it's two upgrades right now. Not good. It'll be one by the end of evening, I'm fairly confident this was the issue.
There's the mismatch. My ISO only includes En-US as the language, but the ESD file the original UpDown Tool was using had all Windows display languages in it. Sadly unless I can get an ISO of win10 LTSC that has all languages and match that with this disk image, in-place upgrades from other operating systems like Windows 10 pro or 11 pro may not be supported. Really think this is the final piece I'm missing. I do not know how they did it, since a multilingual ISO for it feels so hard to track down. Folks can use UpDown tool: teknixstuff.eu.zoomzoom.mzda.c… to first downgrade, then manually update through Windows Update. That defeats ever using my ISO, which will probably serve more clean installs than upgrades.
Does anyone know of good digital collections for historical research re: textiles in early America (say, 1700s to early 1800s)?
I have a student doing a project based on needlework from this period. She has found a few print volumes with good images of needlework from the time, but I am wondering if there is a digital archive or collection out there that might be of use.
I genuinely hope nobody is expecting me to treat John Bolton like some kind of guardian of democracy or whatever
I think it’s definitely vindictive prosecution, and that could be what saves him. But I also think he likely did something he should actually go to prison for. Just like his old boss.
@vick21 The investigation started under Biden, case was brought to a grand jury by career DoJ lawyers, and unlike several other recent cases, the grand jury came back with 18 charges. Think it's as close to how things should work as we're ever going to get.
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I was kind of in a rush to get these done and out the door. I hope they work for people because I won't have any time to look at them again for a few days.
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I see. So even Updown tool had several versions. Wow. OK now that makes sense. One image let you do the pro/home downgrading, another image let you do the enterprise SKUs. So I would need to build an entire fresh new ISO of Win10 just like this, but for standard. Curse you, Microsoft. Wow. Another upload. Another 4 hours. OMG. OK, thankfully not. Looks like I did build it right, as boot.wim is in their secret sauce too. And your Windows install language must match En_US, since that's the only language in this ESD.
I assume the differences are large enough that you can't make a diff that's much smaller, so someone can patch one version of the ISO with your diff in order to get the other version?
@jaybird110127 yeah there are dism packages provisioning enterprise to just enterprise, and pro/home to just that SKU. So it's probably dozens of DISM packages to replace, someone would still need to convert it to a .wim, mount it, do the hackery, unmount, and maybe it would work or not. So sadly easier to rebuild from a Win 10 22H2 ISO that's factory imaged to those SKUs.
Yeah no, what I was thinking of is, once you have the second ISO, I assume the changes would be too big for a Diff tool run on the two ISOs to create a small enough patch file to be useful? The idea being, if someone has one of your ISOs and the generated dif, they can apply that diff as a patch in order to get the other ISO.
@jaybird110127 now I'm wondering if the ISO from MasGrave itself can just accept downgrade.bat or if they made other changes to it. I'm going to have to mess with this a little first before rushing to make a new one LOL. Oh wow. The land of WIM files, I feel fully emersed in them now.
@jaybird110127 sadly not. ISO files aren’t like git repos or disk images with delta tracking. Once you’ve built it, the filesystem is frozen into a read-only UDF container. So even if you tried to diff it, if the offsets and filesystem placement changes, it may turn into a patch that mirrors the original ISO size anyway.
Darn, so not all Win11 users can downgrade. That's so unfortunate to me. Now I'm disappointed. I followed ESD creation instructions to a tea, we even stamp the edition ID, and the regular UpDown_tool could do this. Really, really sad about this. Now all my work = wasted, nobody's gonna want to custom install Win10 and get all the drivers, ahahaha. Back to the drawing board we go. Updown tool somehow did this, but they definitely didn't stamp in Pro or home because in their image I could use it from Win10 LTSC, just as well as I could from Win11 Pro. Hmm.
@Aryan hmm not perhaps unless you made another .ESD file with a different edition ID stamped in? I don't know actually, that's a really good question. you will need to convert install.ESD from \sources into a .wim again: (example dirs/vars): dism /Export-Image /SourceImageFile:"%SRC_IMG%" /SourceIndex:1 /DestinationImageFile:"%OUT_WIM%" /Compress:max /CheckIntegrity That will create you a larger install.wim. Use a tool called, wimlib-imagex at github.com/chris1111/Wimlib-Im… - and write the proper metadata to that .wim: wimlib-imagex info "%OUT_WIM%" 1 --image-property FLAGS=IoTEnterpriseS wimlib-imagex info "%OUT_WIM%" 1 --image-property WINDOWS/EDITIONID=IoTEnterpriseS wimlib-imagex info "%OUT_WIM%" 1 --image-property DISPLAYNAME="Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021" wimlib-imagex info "%OUT_WIM%" 1 --image-property DISPLAYDESCRIPTION="Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021" (change to Windows 10 Pro instead of enterprise.) This might get you a newer install.wim that has the proper flags and lets you upgrade.
wimlib is a C library for creating, modifying, extracting, and mounting files in the Windows Imaging Format (WIM files). - chris1111/Wimlib-Imagex-Package
for oscdimg, which you will need to make any new ISO, you need to grab that easy ISO package and 7-zip extract its contents instead of running the .exe (Easy ISO) in there. (or you can use that tool too, but it does not set a volume label. Nevertheless it's good for quick testing.) oscdimg.exe" -m -o -u2 -udfver102 -lWIN10_IOT_6456 -bootdata:2#p0,eb"D:\iso_path_extracted\boot\etfsboot.com"#pEF,e,b"D:\iso_path_extracted\efi\microsoft\boot\efisys.bin" "D:\iso_path_extracted" "D:\path_to_destination\Win10_IoT_LTSC_6456.iso"
@Aryan oh, looks likethey include a custom boot.wim. you might just need to boot from the ISO media and do the upgrade that way. I just noticed that the boot.wim file inside this image is 900 MB. so it's clearly larger and a WinPE-based boot image, not the same one Microsoft shipped with Windows 10.
Ah yes. Windows 10, LTSC 2021, with updown tool built-in now has a public link! Thanks to some amazing folks who made this happen: We now have a Mega link, and a private host is coming thanks to a friend who's willing to generously host it. This ISO has security updates from October 2025 integrated via DISM tool. That way you're not spending an hour updating your fresh new Windows 10, and doing the image clean up after. It includes a downgrade.bat file that will launch set up and start the process automatically, no prompts. (Thanks updown Tool, teknixstuff.com/Libraries/Proj…). We are including that same batch file and slight ISO changes to allow Windows 11 downgrades. However, if you get an error during install from within Win11 home/pro, you may need to boot from the install media and use Narrator to upgrade via their scripts. Mega link: mega.nz/file/WZdCmQYZ#N6h_wvC2… Private link: downloads.shaned.net/Win10_IoT…
@techsinger it's been such a mess! I was up until 3:30 trying to build this because if you just grab an install.wim straight of the Win10 LTSC ISO, it's compressed and has recovery. So that means if you mount that wim with dism, you'll be told it's mounted read-only, not read-write. Quite unfortunate to me. I didn't know this until I had integrated updates into the mountpoint. Ugh. So annoying. Then I had to make an install.esd first, convert that .ESD back to a .WIM, apply the updates to that .Wim's mount, reconvert back into an ESD... Oh my gosh. What a headache.
It sounds like it! Thanks for going through it, as I said, it is a huge benefit particularly for those of us who do allot of installing, whether on hardware or something virtual.
I can make a really good cat impression, but it has no use in modern society other than meowing out the kitchen window which brings my frustrated neighbour outside to call their cat in, who gets irate when they cant find said cat. I dont know why I started it but I cant stop.
Cybersecurity was always political. You can’t escape effects on defense, intelligence, and even the increasingly flooded industry job market by closing your eyes really hard and sticking your fingers in your ears. You can’t escape cybersecurity being political by being, “not really into politics”.
Have you had success with or failures after trying out the Windows 10 IoT LTSC image I posted to only friends? If failure, not good. You can always return to your older version of Windows from within recovery. I recommend this for someone who has patchy drivers for some reason (theirs was too newer and no compatible Win10 section in the INF?) Or if you find that Windows 10 eats up more battery life on your laptop (read about how it has no thread director which Intel only made available for Win11 first, there are mitigations you can do.) No matter the case. In an administrator command prompt, type: Reagentc /boottore This will set you up so that next time you restart your computer, you are in recovery and can press Control+Windows+enter for Narrator too. It will only boot to recovery one time. After hitting "continue" on that screen, you are booted into Windows again, or if you just reboot the machine by unplugging it. From there try: Advanced options > troubleshoot > uninstall updates> uninstall latest feature update. This will rebuild you back to Windows 11 without issue, I've done this on the Asus where sound drivers just didn't work until they were installed in the right order.
You can't imagine how uplifting is to hear "Good Hebrew!" from a colleague after saying literally two or three words in the middle of a conversation in English. Encourage people to speak languages they are learning, even if it's just "Hello" and "thanks"! #Language
I would love to learn German but none of the Audio courses I have ever tried get me enthralled. It’s stuff like, you’re on a flight to America, you’re going to make a business deal, please, kill me!
Меня больше забавляла реакция некоторых азербайджанцев, когда говорил с ними на турецком. Бывало спрашивали "кто ты", а кто-то думал что я иранец. Хвалили конечно, но я-то прекрасно понимаю что it's a long way to go.
Не то чтобы знаю, так, основы изучил лет 8 назад. Мне он не показался таким уж мозговыносящим, просто надо перестроиться и всё. Многие концепции показались логичными и формулизованными. Из разряда, чтобы сделать прошедшее время, надо поставить соответствующий. Забыл как оно называется, не окончание, суффикс что ли. Oldu - было, olacak - будет. И так со многим. Конечно фиг знает как бы ощущал себя, попытайся дойти до среднего уровня. Может быть когда-нибудь проверю.
@Yinshi Да не, я когда его чуть трогал перед поездкой, там реально мозг сломать можно. С притяжательными какая-то фигня, глагол в конце, агглютинация бесконечная (наворачивание приставок и суффиксов). Не, оно вот вообще не простое.
Вот это вот наворачивание всяких штук мне на мозг удачно легло как ни странно. Понимал какой суффикс за что отвечает. Может математический склад ума повлиял.
Кстати, в процессе изучения узнал что в турецком есть заимствования из французского - kamyon или garson например. Не знаю много ли, но вот то что вспомнилось.
@Yinshi Да, есть, особенно в технике, я видел переводы на турецкий статеек про языки программирования. Особенно посмешило, что у них же фонетическая орфография, и Fonksyon так и пишется, например. Ещё у них есть Argüman
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I think I’ve finally worked out what really bugs me about Meson subprojects. It’s the fact that they can be used to force you to become the packager of your entire dependency stack.
A seemingly-harmless “can you add x as a subproject because it’s not widely available” then turns into “you need to make sure x is statically linked” and “you need to audit what files get installed as a result of x” and so on.
subprojects solve a problem, and I don’t have a better solution, but I get irked.
A tangent: I think many library-like projects would benefit from not installing extra shit, and instead putting it in the library's .rodata, or a GResource, or whatever. I think the former is a consequence of C making it extra hard to include binary data in your program.
@federicomena From an efficiency perspective: yes. From a discoverability/hackability perspective, I don't think I would've submitted a gnome-shell patch to fix an Alt-tab window layout bug on weird multimonitor layouts if I hadn't found the .js files lying there in the open in /usr/share, editable with sudo. (They were later moved to gresources.)
@mgedmin oh, yeah, a) gnome-shell is special anyway; b) for embedded source code this is definitely a reason not to do it. IIRC gnome-shell has an env var or something to let you point it to hacked source files instead of the gresource.
idk if you're aware of this, but you can go to your local Tractor Supply or equivalent farm store and you can buy a gallon of Chlorhexadine for dirt cheap. It's the blue stuff your vet will sell you at a high markup (and they'll dilute it; you'll have the concentrate). You can use it for flushing wounds etc. It's an incredibly good antibiotic, like iodine but doesn't stain. It can stay active for 24hrs+ and keep working so a quick splash a day is good enough and does an incredible job of preventing infections
Very commonly used on horses, livestock, etc which is why the farm store has it
I am looking for remote (US) volunteer or part-time paid opportunities in criminal justice reform/transformative justice. I am particularly interested in counteracting the use of modern day police surveillance tools being used against marginalized populations. I've got a background in sociology, computer science, and public interest technology. #GetFediHired #FediHire
Unsatisfied with the lack of clarity in her answer, Douthat pressed, “OK, let me try that again: If a president defied the Supreme Court, what would you do?”
Coney Barrett then admitted that the court’s hands would largely be tied because there is a limited enforcement mechanism at its disposal.
“Well, as you say, the court lacks the power of the purse. We lack the power of the sword,” she conceded. “And so, we interpret the Constitution, we draw on precedents, we have these questions of structure, and we make the most with the tools that we have.”
The court lacks the power of the sword? What? Yes they absolutely do have the power of the sword. She's parroting something from Hamilton in the Federalist papers which makes sense because she identifies as an originalist. But we've had the Court already cover this and announce their authority:
The ability to punish disobedience to judicial orders is re-garded as essential to ensuring that the Judiciary has a means to vindicate its own authority without complete de- pendence on other Branches. "If a party can make himself a judge of the validity of orders which have been issued, and by his own act of disobedience set them aside, then are the courts impotent, and what the Constitution now fittingly calls 'the judicial power of the United States' would be a mere mockery." Gompers v. Bucks Stove & Range Co., 221 U. S. 418, 450 (1911).
They have the power to deputize anyone they want to enforce their orders. If they needed to they could call up private militias, local and state police from anywhere, even veterans give them the power to enforce their rulings. Funding and supplying them might be tricky, but not impossible.
She's just capitulating. Either the Court is co-equal or it's not. Cowards.
what stands out to me about the fediverse is not so much that it's better than other social media but rather that the other platforms are capable of becoming much worse in ways outside my control while the fediverse is capable of becoming better in ways i can control
My wife told me today as she left for work that if she died at this point in her life it would be okay because she has had the fortune to live a life free of war, famine and control, allowing her to live a happy and largely care-free life.
After she left, I started wondering how many of us from the richer countries are starting to realise how good it has been.
It has been good. So good. I don't want war, suffering and disease. It's not acceptable!
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There is an issue with Firefox under KDE not getting KDE's custom keyboard shortcuts to work so I can META+C / META+V for almost everything... except Firefox. Which is annoying.
why not ctrl+c and ctrl+v? try using ctrl+c in your terminal and see what happens instead of copying :)
the default of ctrl+shift+c and ctrl+shift+v is insane finger gymnastics to me
Was würdet ihr tun, wenn nach 14 Jahren nun doch mal ein neuer Linux-Rechner dran ist? Wie aussuchen? Wo kaufen? Worauf achten? Office, Bildbearbeitung mit GIMP und Raw, gelegentlich Filmschnitt. Komplexeres muss er nicht können, aber das möglichst noch in 10 Jahren. Desktop oder Notebook mit Docking Station - bin noch nicht entschieden...
Ich stehe vor derselben Frage. Vor 10 Jahren hatte ich Tuxedo's für den Arbeitgeber gekauft und war sehr zufrieden. Inwischen sind die außerhalb des Budgets und in den letzten Jahren habe ich doch öfter von Problemen gehört.
Möglicherweise könnte es wieder einer von ixsoft.de/cgi-bin/web_store.cg…werden. Da kann man sie auch mit Linux vorinstalliert bekommen.
we're in a really bad situation and we're not really sure what protest is likely to be most effective in what situation. what we do know is that resistance builds resistance, and that it's important to convince institutions/pols/public that there *is* resistance.
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