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EU says it will retaliate immediately if Trump imposes new tariffs
  • Tariffs are from what I've read, according to economists anyway, a lose-lose for both parties. They're apparently useful only for obvious things like targeted protection of specific vulnerable domestic industries. I cant begin to understand what Trump is even trying to accomplish here. Blanket tariffs seem just self-destructive.

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    Bläck Cöver live au Supersonic @ Paris le 15 Septembre 2024 Premier concert avec Kris! Check out Black Cover on Pixelfed, the Fediverse Instagram : https://pixelfed.social/blackcover

    Bläck Cöver - Supermassive Black Hole (Muse cover) - Live in Paris @ Supersonic
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    makertube.net Why your Nintendo was on Channel 3 (except in Cleveland)

    If you had a VCR, video game console, or computer connected to your TV via RF, in North America it was usually on channel 3, and sometimes on channel 4. But why those two channels? With a little kn...

    Why your Nintendo was on Channel 3 (except in Cleveland)
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    tilvids.com FRAMEWORK 16: an almost perfect Linux laptop

    Try out Proton Mail, the secure email that protects your privacy: https://proton.me/mail/TheLinuxEXP 👏 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: Get access to: a Daily Linux News show, a weekly patroncast for more pers...

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    Is PeerTube dead or is discoverability bad?
  • Yeah, that must be it. It's a real shame because the core technology seems to be solid. Streaming 1080p videos from other instances just works. But finding channels to follow seems impossible.

  • Is PeerTube dead or is discoverability bad?

    I saw a few videos shared on PeerTube recently, and created an account on an instance. However, unlike Mastodon and Lemmy I'm struggling to discover channels to subscribe to. When I use the search functions on my instance, most results are either interesting channels which haven't been updated in years, or random foreign language TV shows and episodes.

    Just for example, if I'm trying to find videos on "Gaming" on one of the largest instances, the most recent video is over 1 year ago: https://tilvids.com/search?categoryOneOf=7

    Is discoverability on PeerTube bad, or are there barely any active channels?

    Edit: BTW one very active creator on PeerTube is https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos and his videos are excellent. But can there really only be a handful of active creators to follow on the whole platform?

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    Castopod introduces Web Monetization (an ActivityPub tip jar)
  • I was about to leave a snide "Eww, crypto" comment here, but this "Interledger Protocol" seems like the most good-faith approach to digital currency I've seen yet? I'm not knowledgeable enough to fully understand it, but I hope it will actually turn out to be a good thing.

  • www.cbsnews.com USPS temporarily suspends accepting packages from China and Hong Kong

    The suspension of international parcels from China and Hong Kong is effective immediately, the USPS said.

    USPS temporarily suspends accepting packages from China and Hong Kong
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    Europeans of Lemmy, is American beer really that bad?
  • Beer-drinking European living in 'Murica here. For certain styles, the US has fantastic beers available. In particular IPAs (which don't always have to be mega hoppy!), pale ales, pilsners, amber ales, and stouts. Plenty of great choices to be found here, if you discover the right breweries. That's key, because there are a lot breweries with imo questionable taste.

    What's harder to find are good beers of other styles, such as Belgian or German beers. US breweries try, sometimes, but they aren't succeeding.

  • Trump imposes tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China, raising prospect of higher costs for US consumers
    apnews.com Trump puts tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China, spurring trade war as North American allies respond

    The tariffs, if sustained, could cause inflation to significantly worsen, threatening the trust that many voters placed in Trump to lower prices.

    Trump puts tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China, spurring trade war as North American allies respond

    It was just signed. "10% on all imports from China and 25% on imports from Mexico and Canada — America’s largest trading partners — except for a 10% rate on Canadian oil."

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    Germany: Nationwide protests against cooperation with far-right AfD party
    www.dw.com Germany: Protesters decry CDU/CSU over AfD collaboration – DW – 02/01/2025

    Protests have erupted across Germany in the wake of two contentious parliamentary votes on immigration, with marchers venting anger at the conservative bloc for breaking the taboo on collaborating with the far-right AfD.

    Germany: Protesters decry CDU/CSU over AfD collaboration – DW – 02/01/2025
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    Costuming 'punk' on a budget?
  • If you don't already have some combat boots, look for some new or used ones at an army surplus store. They're usually cheap and look great.

    Vintage band shirts can often be gotten from Ebay

  • My new HF radio set up successfully
  • Something like a FT240-43 toroid should work for 80m to 10m.

    That is to make a common-mode choke on your feedline. You can always try to improve the RFI emissions from devices in your house by snapping on some ferrite on wall warts etc.

  • My new HF radio set up successfully
  • The main job of the unun is to match the impedance of the wire to the 50ohm feedline. You may or may not need a common mode choke to prevent RFI, but I had a lot of RF problems with my 40-10 EFHW. My radio was fine but my computer started to glitch out when was transmitting. That all disappeared once I looped my feedline through some ferrite.

  • My new HF radio set up successfully
  • Awesome! If you do plan on transmitting (on 10m), I recommend a common-mode choke on the feedline between your radio and the EFHW. All you need is a ferrite toroid and loop the feedline a few times through it. This can prevent RF going into your shack, which is kind of a thing with EFHW antennas. Otherwise EFHWs can work very well. Have fun and enjoy your new radio.

  • Recommend me a Lightroom alternative

    Hi y'all. I've recently started looking at getting back into running Linux again as a main OS. With Proton and Steam all my gaming works fine. And with so many web apps those are all cross-platform anyways.

    However the one application which I have not yet found a good alternative for is Adobe Lightroom. I've found Lightroom to be simply the best experience for managing a large (100k+) catalog of photos. I've really tried to get into using Darktable but while it can do a lot, I've found the UX to be incredibly bad and painful to use.

    Is there a photo workflow app which is relatively simple, efficient and easily usable that lets me manage my photo library, can do some basic editing (levels, crop, etc.) and runs on Linux? Thanks.

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    apnews.com Austria says Russia's Gazprom will cut off natural gas supply this weekend

    Austria's chancellor says Russia’s state-owned natural gas company Gazrom will cut off supplies early Saturday to Austrian utility OMV.

    Austria says Russia's Gazprom will cut off natural gas supply this weekend
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    New York City Mayor Eric Adams indicted in federal corruption investigation
    abc7ny.com New York City Mayor Eric Adams indicted in federal corruption investigation: sources

    New York Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted by a federal grand jury, according to sources familiar with the matter. The exact charges remain sealed.

    New York City Mayor Eric Adams indicted in federal corruption investigation: sources
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    Everyone is getting banned for "URL Blacklist"?

    What's going on? Everyone interacting with Lemmy world seems to be getting banned for "URL Blacklist" and lots of comments are being "Removed by mod". Communities are being removed also.

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