Fedora Silverblue -- a very good balance of immutable distro and user friendliness. Stability and reliability of being immutable without low-level hacking like in Nix / Guix.
According to the Movember Foundation, a leading men’s health organization and partner of UN Women, two-thirds of young men regularly engage with masculinity influencers online.
While some content offers genuine support, much of it promotes extreme language and sexist ideology, reinforcing the idea that men are victims of feminism and modern social change.
So, 2/3 of young men are risking to become incels, right? Because it is hard to imagine a young girl who is looking for a partner with hyperfocus on his own masculinity as well as a partner, who portraits himself as victim? That is sad...
The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.
> The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. > > Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. > > Their inaction is deadly.
By Evan Greer
He made a terrible crime and he is guilty, no doubts. I'm not trying to exceuse him! My point was that the problem is not in "bad nations", cause I'm very often see arguments like "all russians are war criminals", "all muslim are terrorists", "all Israelis are doing genocide", etc. For me the problem is not even in propaganda, because it looks like this russian did not know about the conflict at all three months before the event. The problem for me is there are too musch people on the planet, that are living on the edge and that are rejected by society. And to reduce an amount of people that are having lack of empathy we as a spice should work on inequality instead of again and again jumping into discussion what nation is bad and what nation is good.
His journey to that miserable stretch of front where Hodniuk died – to becoming Stalker – began in an orphanage in Gremyachinsk, a decayed old coal town about a thousand miles from Moscow on the way to Siberia. Orphaned at birth, Kurashov was raised in a group home. As a teenager, he got into a fight with a police officer and was imprisoned for assault. He served four years, but on his release he had no family, friends or place to live, so he became a vagrant. He began robbing summer houses and shops for food and money, he said, resulting in another imprisonment, this time in a remote penal colony alongside men serving life sentences for the some of the most brutal crimes.
Six months into that sentence, representatives from the Russian military came to the penal colony and told the convicts they had an opportunity to turn a new page in their lives. Kurashov still had five years to serve. "They told us you can have a clean slate, become a clean person," he said. "Just sign this contract and go."
"Go" meant to the "special military operation" in Ukraine. Kurashov knew little about it, he said, but he thought anything was better than five more years in the penal colony or being turned out into the streets at the end of his sentence. So he signed, and was taken immediately to a training camp in occupied territory in Ukraine.
Another proof of the Marxism idea that human nature is determined by material conditions surrounded it. There is no "bad russians", "bad muslims", "bad israelis", etc., there are only "people who had been pushed down by life and rejected by society, who were outside of society"...
Yes. As well, you can by such a mount everywhere (I bought my ob aliexpress). I can recommend a two-side one for the handlebar: bike computer on the top side and the light on the bottom side, I found such a setup very useful.
Lights from igsport are quite good, have type-c charger and a universal mount (like bike conputers, action cameras, etc).
“But ultimately,” Trump said, “they have to make a deal (1) because otherwise they’re not going to be able to deal (2) in the United States. So we want them involved, but they have to ‒ and other countries have to ‒ make a deal (3), and if they don’t make a deal (4), we’ll set the deal (5).”
Why Trump uses the word "deal" so often? English is not native for me, so I would like to know, is there some hidden meaning in it?
AnCap is not only about economics, it is also an anti-statism movement, but Milei has lack of anti-statism philosophy. Even opposite, he is trying to collect the power and make state even stronger. And also, if one open, for example, Murrey Rothbard, this person would be surprised. A "father of libertarianism" promoted things like abortion rights, antireligious vision, fully open borders, critics of nationalism and nations, etc. Imo, Miley has nothing common with AnCap, he is just a follower of the Vienn economic school, like Thatcher in UK. And the same about Musk: he is just a right conservative, he has almost nothing common with ideas of Murrey Rothbard and libertarian philosophy.
There is also an option to use Android's QuickShare from MacOS: https://github.com/Martichou/rquickshare
Thank you again! I will try to reach an owner of the domain!
That is sad. I'm just a contributor who is liking the project and willing to contribute. I'm doing it in my free time, I'm not paid for it, I'm not making money on the project... Setting a nonprofit LLC is not an option for me, unfortunately. It would require to hire lawyers to make all the paperwork and yearly reports, I just do not have such capabilities... Thanks anyway for the answer!
Hello! I'm a new maintainer of a fairly popular niche project called GraphFrames (GitHub link). The project was in "maintenance mode" for a couple of years, and now I'm excited to help bring it back to life. However, I'm currently facing a serious issue with Sonatype and could use some advice on how to proceed.
Historically, GraphFrames' JARs were published in the Spark Packages repository (link), which was automatically synchronized with Maven Repository (link). The project uses the org.graphframes namespace internally. Unfortunately, the Spark Packages project is now semi-defunct, and the synchronization to Maven is broken.
There is strong demand from GraphFrames users and contributors to resume publishing the project in Maven Central. However, the problem is that the "graphframes.org" domain is not available (whois link). I reached out to Sonatype Support to request permission to register and verify the org.graphframes namespace in Maven Central, but their response was clear: it is not possible.
Here is their response:
> Hello Sem, > I am sorry to inform you that it is not possible to register a namespace for a domain that you do not control for Central Portal.
I tried to argue that GraphFrames has a large community, 1k stars on GitHub, nearly 10 years of publishing under the org.graphframes namespace, and numerous existing tutorials and blog posts, but this did not change their decision.
One option is to migrate the project from org.graphframes to io.github.graphframes, but this would be a major disruption for users and dependent projects. It would also render all existing videos, tutorials, and blog posts about GraphFrames outdated.
What else can I do in this situation? DNS, domains, and Sonatype are new topics for me, as I have primarily focused on coding in the past. I would greatly appreciate any advice or guidance on how to handle this issue effectively.
Thanks in advance!
I read a lot of articles about how the democratic party of the US became "the party of Wall Street" instead of being the party of the working class. But of course it so easy to blame in everything the court that allows trump to participate in the election.
Abstract of the paper: Despite the dramatic rise of surveillance in our societies, only limited research has examined its effects on humans. While most research has focused on voluntary behaviour, no study has examined the effects of surveillance on more fundamental and automatic aspects of human perceptual awareness and cognition. Here, we show that being watched on CCTV markedly impacts a hardwired and involuntary function of human sensory perception—the ability to consciously detect faces. Using the method of continuous flash suppression (CFS), we show that when people are surveilled (N = 24), they are quicker than controls (N = 30) to detect faces. An independent control experiment (N = 42) ruled out an explanation based on demand characteristics and social desirability biases. These findings show that being watched impacts not only consciously controlled behaviours but also unconscious, involuntary visual processing. Our results have implications concerning the impacts of surveillance on basic human cognition as well as public mental health.
My own commentary: to the privacy concerns about CCTVs we can now add also concerns about mental health of people under CCTVs.
Violence broke out following the recent Europa League match between Ajax Amsterdam and Maccabi Tel Aviv. A video showing the riots was misrepresented by many media outlets. DW takes a closer look.
Pandas supports Copy-on-Write, an optimization technique that helps improve memory use, particularly when working with large datasets.
The Federal Trade Commission issued orders to eight companies offering surveillance pricing products and services that incorporate data about consumers’ characteristics and behavior.
After reading such news I have an obvious question. Does anyone know a PayPal-like service, that allows to hide the destination of my transactions from Mastercard / bank, but with a good privacy policy? Or how else can I restrict the usage of my financial data by mastercard or bank?
Summary This blog post is a detailed story about how I ported a popular data quality framework, AWS Deequ, to Spark-Connect. Deequ is a very cool, reliable and scalable framework that allows to compute a lot of metrics, checks and anomaly detection suites on the data using Apache Spark cluster. But ...
Let me share my post with a detailed step by step guide how an exisiting Spark scala library may be adopted to work with recently introduced Spark Connect. As an example I have chosen a pupular open source data quality tool AWS Deequ. I made all the necessary protobuf messages and a Spark Connect Plugin. I tested it from PySpark Connect 3.5.1 and it works. Of course, all the code is public in git.
I have my personal blog, made with Hugo and hosted on GitHub pages. Initially I did not turn on any kind of web tracking / web analytics, because I do not like tracking at all. But I want to make my blog better and to achieve it, I need a feedback loop about traffic. For example, what are the most popular publications, or how many people view my blog from mobile devices, etc.
So, my question is, what is the most appropriate (ot the less evil) way to track a web traffic?
An answer "there is no good way to do it without breaking user's privacy" is acceptable too, I did not decide yet turning on the analytics. Instead I'm interested in an opinion of the community.
Thanks in advance!
tldr: Green transition, like switching to electric vehicles and use renewable energy sources, requires a huge amount of minerals. One of the main sources of these minerals is African continent. Researchers found big overlapp of that mining with areas of big apes. Almost 200.000 of apes are in a risk area, based on the estimation:
> We estimated that more than one-third of the entire great ape population in Africa—nearly 180,000 individuals—could be directly or indirectly threatened by mining now and in the near future. Apes in West Africa could be most severely affected, where up to 82% of the population currently overlaps with operational and preoperational mining locations and their 50-km buffers
Another problem is that mining companies working there are not pay attention to ecological consequences of their business:
> only 5% of the 400 assessed companies had carried out science-based nature and biodiversity impact assessments of their operations and business models
This is the initial PR for Comet. Related mailing list discussion: https://lists.apache.org/thread/0q1rb11jtpopc7vt1ffdzro0omblsh0s
Apple donated to community their own implementation of native physical execution of Apache Spark plan with Data Fusion.
Photo was made by myself. Original content under CC-BY-4.0.
Hello! I would like to share the route I made for myself and my story how I finished it recently. The route I will describe starts in Belgrade, goes along the Danube River, through Djerdap National Park to the border with Serbia, and returns to Belgrade through Kucaj-Beljanica National Park. The route is compilation from parts of different EuroVel routes.
Route Summary:
- Total length: about 700 km;
- Total elevation: about 5000 m;
- Highest climbing category: 2;
- Highest point: 960 m above the sea;
- Estimated days required: 6-7;
- Overall level: medium;
- Recommended lowest gear: 1:1
- Recommended tires: 35+ mm or MTB;
- Link to the routeplanner;
- Link to Kamoot;
- Total price, including hotels and food in restaurants: 385 Eur (Fall 2023);
I made a blog post with detailed information about every part and also additional photos inside.
The photo is just for the cover :)
Has anyone cycled through Bosnia and Herzegovina? I'm planning my next solo trip and I'm thinking of going from Belgrade to Sarajevo, crossing the border at Bajina Basta Water Power Plant one way, after visiting Sarajevo it looks like I can cross the border at Bijelina. Most of the videos on YouTube are about cycling back through Croatia, but this is not an option for me due to visa restrictions... The whole route (~700km with +-8500m of altitude difference) looks like an interesting challenge and a great opportunity to get to know BiH.
But I have a lot of general questions about road quality, driver culture in relation to cyclists, water accessibility, etc. I'm also worried about the mountains near Sarajevo: from the border to Sarajevo and from Sarajevo to Tuzla. How good are these mountain roads for cycling? Is it possible to zigzag on the most difficult climbs?
Thanks in advance!
Telecommunication tower built in 1965 according to the project of Uglješa Bogunović, Slobodan Janjić and Milan Krstić. Destroyed in an air raid in 1999, rebuilt according to the original project in 2010. One of the most famous examples of Yugoslavian Brutalism in architecture. A photo of the tower was included in the exhibition "Toward a concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948-1980", organized at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2018. This exhibition opened Yugoslavian modernist architecture to the world.
Original content, CC-BY-4.0.
Built in 1972, architect A. Vipov (А.И. Выпов). Unofficial name is "The Stone Flower".
Hello, community! I saw in one video that tires and wheel weight are critical for the fast cycling. But how important is it for the tourism? For example, I'm using "hard" slick tires from Kenda (on the photo) that are great for asphalt roads and are very strong against small stones, plant spines and glasa pieces. The problem is weight about 600g (700x32c). I also have 700x32c soft and lightweight gravel tires with only 300g weight. But how important is it for cycling if I have about 10 additional kilograms of bags on top of my bike when I go into a long trip? Does it make sense to lose the durability and dril resistance of Kenda Kwest 700x32c for decreasing the weight of tires twice? Thanks in advance!
I was going to upgrade my bike (Decathlon Triban 100) and ordered the whole new groupset (Shimano SORA). It will be delivered soon, so my question is how hard is the replacing process? It is not a problem to pay in local bike service for the replacement but I'm also interested in trying by myself. I have a repairment kit and all the things, I like to make some maintenance of bike by mysleft but I didn't do so complex maintenance before.
Is there any android app or web app with movie ratings and reviews? Android app would be better. Alternative to imdb? I want to be able to fast check the rating of movie or list of actors. I know about wikipedia app but it's interface is not focused on movies. Thanks in advance!
Sem @lemmy.ml I am a software engineer living and working in Belgrade, Serbia. My hobbies contain a lot of things including cycling, bikepacking, photography. My political view are closer to left-wing anarchism.
All the photos are made by myself (if not specified other) and are shared under CC-BY 4.0.