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forgejo.org
Forgejo is a self-hosted lightweight software forge. Easy to install and low maintenance, it just does the job. Forgejo v9.0 is the first version to be released under a copyleft license, after a year of discussions. Among the motivations for this change is the realization that a pattern emerged over the years, exemplified by Redis, CockroachDB, Terraform and many others. They turned proprietary because people chose their own financial gain over the interest of the general public. Forgejo admins no longer have to worry about this sword of Damocles: relicensing it as a proprietary software is not allowed. The removal of the go-git backend is part of a larger effort to make Forgejo easier to maintain, more robust and even smaller than it already is (~100MB). When presented with go-git as an alternative to Git, a Forgejo admin may overlook that it has less features and a history of corrupting repositories. It would have been possible to work on documentation and new tests to ensure administrators do not run into these pitfalls, but the effort would have been out of proportion compared to the benefits it provides. The Forgejo localization community was created early 2024 with the ambitious goal of gaining enough momentum to sustain a long term effort. A daunting task considering there are over 5,000 strings to translate, verify and improve. There has been many calls for help in the past and the community keeps growing steadily. Fortunately, the translation hackathon (translathon) organized by Codeberg in October was exceptional. It attracted an unprecedented number of participants who improved or created thousands of translations.
We are constantly told that solutions to some of the greatest challenges facing poor and working class people in the U.S. do not exist. Meanwhile, billions taxpayer dollars are being used to fund the genocide of Palestinians.\ \ That very money could have ended homelessness in the United States.\ \ Money for our needs, not the U.S.-Israeli war machine! ======================================================
Basically the title
https://github.com/umutcamliyurt/MockTraffic
We’ve been anticipating it for years,1 and it’s finally happening. Google is finally killing uBlock Origin – with a note on their web store stating that the ...
the missing word bothers me, too. It also got killed in an intersection on its way to work, to show up in this meme.
My father is convinced Elon is an idealist but I'd like to show him he's been misled
www.ghacks.net
Firefox users criticized the permanent 'List All Tabs' button introduced in version 131.0, leading Mozilla to make it removable. The button, designed to manage hidden tabs and prevent add-ons from hiding them, received backlash for being unnecessary alongside Firefox View. Mozilla responded with a fix in version 131.0.3, allowing users to remove the button through toolbar customization.
theintercept.com
The plan, mentioned in a new 76-page wish list by the Department of Defense’s Joint Special Operations Command, or JSOC, outlines advanced technologies desired for country’s most elite, clandestine military efforts. “Special Operations Forces (SOF) are interested in technologies that can generate convincing online personas for use on social media platforms, social networking sites, and other online content,” the entry reads. The document specifies that JSOC wants the ability to create online user profiles that “appear to be a unique individual that is recognizable as human but does not exist in the real world,” with each featuring “multiple expressions” and “Government Identification quality photos.” In addition to still images of faked people, the document notes that “the solution should include facial & background imagery, facial & background video, and audio layers,” and JSOC hopes to be able to generate “selfie video” from these fabricated humans. These videos will feature more than fake people: Each deepfake selfie will come with a matching faked background, “to create a virtual environment undetectable by social media algorithms.”
www.techpolicy.press
>With the looming presidential election, a United States Supreme Court majority that is hostile to civil rights, and a conservative effort to rollback AI safeguards, strong state privacy laws have never been more important. >But late last month, efforts to pass a federal comprehensive privacy law died in committee, leaving the future of privacy in the US unclear. Who that future serves largely rests on one crucial issue: the preemption of state law. >On one side, the biggest names in technology are trying to use their might to force Congress to override crucial state-level privacy laws that have protected people for years. >On the other side is the American Civil Liberties Union and 55 other organizations. We explained in our own letter to Congress how a federal bill that preempts state law would leave millions with fewer rights than they had before. It would also forbid state legislatures from passing stronger protections in the future, smothering progress for generations to come. >Preemption has long been the tech industry’s holy grail. But few know its history. It turns out, Big Tech is pulling straight from the toxic strategy that Big Tobacco used in the 1990s...
www.aljazeera.com
The United States military has bombed a series of targets in areas of Yemen controlled by the Iran-aligned Houthi group, the US defence chief has said. US Air Force B-2 stealth bombers conducted “precision strikes” against five underground weapons storage locations, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said on Wednesday. The Houthis’ Al Masirah TV satellite news channel reported air strikes around Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, which the group has held since 2014, and around its stronghold of Saada. It provided no immediate information on damage or casualties. The latest bombing raids come a day after the United Nations special envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, warned that the country was at risk of being dragged further into the military escalation in the Middle East.
_Much credit to [this post.](https://politijohn.tumblr.com/post/186036319237/get-to-know-kamala-harris)_ - [Under her jurisdiction, in "progressive" San Francisco, 56% of all inmates in SF jails were black, along with 40% of all arrests (Only 5.8% of the population is black).](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/04/san-francisco-police-department-scandal-racist-texts) [Ignores police brutality](https://www.pastemagazine.com/politics/kamala-harris/they-shot-at-little-kids-too-when-kamala-harris-tu/), protected [14 of her officers](http://sfpublicdefender.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/04/Letter-to-Attorney-General-Kamala-Harris.pdf) who were caught sending extremely racist text messages. [Oversaw San Francisco’s felony conviction rate rising from 52% to 67% in only 3 years.](https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/08/kamala-harris-trump-obama-california-attorney-general) - [As part of her tough on crime approach she assigned senior prosecutors to misdemeanors like graffiti and vandalism, tripling the number of cases brought to trial.](https://twitter.com/walkerbragman/status/1146176227797032960) - [After a federal judge orders California to expand prison releases to reduce crowding, her office argued in court that if forced to release these inmates early, prisons would lose an important labor pool.](https://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-ff-federal-judges-order-state-to-release-more-prisoners-20141114-story.html) - Spent years jailing [disproportionately black nonviolent cannabis users](https://afropunk.com/2019/01/kamala-harris-has-been-tough-on-black-people-not-crime/) while [opposing taking cannabis off DEA’s list of most dangerous substances](https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/08/kamala-harris-trump-obama-california-attorney-general) and [literally laughing at the idea of legalizing it](https://blog.sfgate.com/smellthetruth/2014/08/06/kamala-harris-laughs-at-pot-legalization/) multiple [times](https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1146174630648057859), even as her [Republican opponent ran to the left of her on the issue.](https://archives.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2014/10/08/marijuana-advocates-ditch-kamala-harris-for-weed-friendly-republican) She then tried to pander [by admitting to smoking herself despite prosecuting others, but got her story all wrong.](https://www.marijuanamoment.net/kamala-harriss-snoopgate-is-what-a-political-marijuana-controversy-looks-like-in-2019/) [Drug convictions under her office soared, convicting more people of marijuana possession than her predecessor (she also admitted to smoking marijuana)](https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/09/11/kamala-harris-prosecuting-marijuana-cases/) [2](https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/kamala-harris-marijuana-policy-tulsi-gabbard-debates-866102/) - [Laughs about threatening parents with jailtime for truancy.](https://youtube.com/watch?v=DhJwmIPRmYk) [2](http://archive.is/Hkqdd). [The stories of several mothers she jailed.](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kamala-harris-truancy-arrests-2020-progressive-prosecutor_n_5c995789e4b0f7bfa1b57d2e) - [Pushed a law that forced schools to turn over undocumented students to ICE.](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kamala-harris-san-francisco-immigrant-policy_n_5c758153e4b0bf166204509b) - [Opposed reforming California’s three-strikes law](https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/reforming-three-strikes/), which is the only one in the country to impose life sentences for minor felonies and incarcerates black people at 12x the rate as white people, [three different times](http://archive.is/I2QPh), even while her [Republican opponent supported reform.](http://archive.is/GZtet) - [Tried to deny a transgender inmate healthcare and endangered trans women by forcing them into mens prisons](https://www.washingtonblade.com/2015/05/05/harris-renews-effort-to-block-gender-reassignment-for-trans-inmate/), leading to [the rape and torture of at least one trans inmate.](https://theappeal.org/incarcerated-transgender-womens-lives-must-matter/) - [Appealed a judge ruling that the death penalty was unconstitutional and won on a technicality, resulting in continued executions.](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/01/kamala-harris-touts-her-opposition-to-the-death-penalty-her-track-records-more-complicated/) - [Supports the controversial DNA search technique that can be used on people even if they’ve not been charged with a crime](https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/08/kamala-harris-trump-obama-california-attorney-general). - [Supported the discriminatory practice of cash bail in court, until 2016.](https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Harris-shifts-says-bail-system-isn-t-fair-to-10787472.php) - [Protected serial child rapists by refusing to prosecute in the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal.](https://theintercept.com/2019/06/09/kamala-harris-san-francisco-catholic-church-child-abuse/) - [Lied about her state’s solitary confinement to block a suit by inmates, claiming there was none in California](https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/08/kamala-harris-trump-obama-california-attorney-general) when there were about [6,400 victims of the practice](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/scaling-back-solitary/403441/), which is [considered torture.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/solitary-confinement-is-torture-will-the-bureau-of-prisons-finally-stop-using-it/2017/07/15/f719de20-68c6-11e7-8eb5-cbccc2e7bfbf_story.html) - [Opposed legislation that would require independent investigation of fatal police shootings](https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-senate-harris-milestones-20160706-snap-htmlstory.html) despite criticism from [many civil rights](https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Kamala-Harris-takes-measured-approach-to-probing-7955937.php) advocates including California’s Legislative Black Caucus. - [Opposed statewide implementation of police body cameras](https://www.latimes.com/local/politics/la-me-pol-ca-harris-police-shootings-20160118-story.html) and [ignored police brutality](https://www.pastemagazine.com/politics/kamala-harris/they-shot-at-little-kids-too-when-kamala-harris-tu/), multiple officers raping a teenager, and other officers sharing racist and homophobic messages, despite multiple requests from the public defender. - [Stood by silently as $730 million was spent on moving inmates to for-profit private prisons.](https://www.mercurynews.com/2013/08/29/mercury-news-editorial-kamala-harris-needs-to-tackle-prison-standoff/) - [Fought to uphold wrongful convictions from her office,](http://archive.is/nqODY) in one case, she witheld information about a police lab tech who was fabricating evidence (and a judge admonished her for it). She refused DNA testing to prove the innocence of a man on death row. Defended Johnny Baca’s conviction for murder even though judges found a prosecutor presented false testimony at the trial, to which she relented only after a video of the oral argument received national attention and embarrassed her office. She hid evidence of exculpaltory evidence of a man who was convicted solely by one witness (he is still serving a 70 year prison sentence). [When evidence pointed towards a black defendant being framed by police, Harris avoided DNA testing to keep him on death row.](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/01/kamala-harris-touts-her-opposition-to-the-death-penalty-her-track-records-more-complicated/) - [Used a technicality](https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/08/man-ruled-innocent-by-judge-still-rotting-in-prison-backers-say.html) to [stop the release of a man serving 27 years-to-life after being wrongfully convicted](https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/08/kamala-harris-trump-obama-california-attorney-general) of possession of a knife under the three-strikes law she supported. [When civil rights groups](https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/daniel-larsen-murder-conviction-overturned-innocence-project/2058098/) and nearly 100,000 petition signatures got him released after 14 years [she took him back to court again for a crime he didn’t commit.](https://www.scpr.org/news/2013/07/31/38460/san-fernando-valley-man-s-freedom-hangs-in-appeal/) - [Protected several of her officers with records of misconduct, by refusing to provide their names to defense attorneys, so that their convictions would be upheld and people would stay in prison.](https://www.sfgate.com/crime/amp/Kamala-Harris-accused-of-withholding-vital-info-3186525.php) - [“Systematically violated defendants’ civil and constitutional rights” in crime lab scandal.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/crime-lab-scandal-rocked-kamala-harriss-term-as-san-francisco-district-attorney/2019/03/06/825df094-392b-11e9-a06c-3ec8ed509d15_story.html) - [Kept her Orange County DA office from being charged](https://www.ocweekly.com/kamala-harris-president-campaign-2/) for running an unconstitutional [jailhouse informant program they tried to cover up.](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/orange-county-jail-scandal_n_5a833276e4b02b66c512a049) - [Oversaw a state prosecutor falsifying a confession to get a life sentence and then destroyed the evidence](http://inlandpolitics.com/blog/2015/03/05/ny-observer-california-prosecutor-falsifies-transcript-of-confession/), upheld a conviction secured by a prosecutor lying under oath, and [oversaw the framing of another man.](https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/03/19/jamal-trulove-framed-murder-case-sfpd-13-1-million/) The officers were not fired, but the state was forced to pay out ~13M USD. - [She fought against providing compensation to those her office wrongly convicted.](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-14/kamala-harris-offices-fought-payments-to-wrongly-convicted) - [Sponsored a bill allowing for prosecutors to seize profits before charges are even filed](https://www.montereyherald.com/2015/02/23/luis-alejo-kamala-harris-back-asset-seizure-before-criminal-charges/) and [opposed a bill that would reform civil asset forfeiture](https://twitter.com/cjciaramella/status/888055742745518080). - [Defended a prison’s religious discrimination in hiring policy](https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-calif-sikh-barred-from-job-over-beard-settles-2011oct27-story.html) - [Refused to review a case in which a pharmaceutical CEO killed his wife but made it look like a suicide](https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/california-ag-wont-review-suicide-findings-in-bizarre-death-of-rebecca-zahau-6630223) after [their son died under mysterious circumstances as well.](https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-investigations/2018/04/04/rebecca-zahau-verdict-adam-shacknai-responsible-coronado-mansion-death/486598002/) - [Refused to prosecute PG&E for its massive gas pipeline explosion](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/us/pge-california-politics.html). - [Claimed to be unaware of sexual harassment and retaliation by her top aide over a 6 year span](https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-kamala-harris-attorney-general-settlements-20190301-story.html). - [Refused to investigate Herbalife’s exploitation and fraud](https://freebeacon.com/politics/kamala-harris-accused-of-letting-company-exploiting-latinos-off-the-hook/), received [donations from people connected to the corporation.](https://www.pastemagazine.com/politics/kamala-harris/documents-show-san-diego-prosecutors-told-kamala-h/) - [Refused to prosecute Trump's treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin, despite his bank's illegal forelosure practices, which ruined thousands of lives.](https://theintercept.com/2017/01/03/treasury-nominee-steve-mnuchins-bank-accused-of-widespread-misconduct-in-leaked-memo/) She also was [the only democratic presidental candidate](https://www.rollcall.com/2017/02/14/harris-was-only-2016-senate-democratic-candidate-to-get-cash-from-mnuchin/) to get money from him. - [A favorite candidate of wall street.](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/16/us/politics/2020-democratic-donors-wall-street.html) Helped raise money [with a former wells fargo banker who defended the fake accounts scandal.](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kamala-harris-wells-fargo-miguel-bustos_n_5d1545fde4b07f6ca57ab47e?fli) - [Backtracks on medicare for all, says she doesn't want to do away with private insurance.](http://archive.is/kqfm9) - [Accepted thousands of dollars of campaign funds from Donald and Ivanka Trump multiple times.](https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article226975319.html). [Accepted money from Reed Hastings, Netflix CEO and a charter school magnate.](https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/politics/elections/2019/01/19/california-senator-kamala-harris-enter-democratic-presidential-primary-mlk-day/2455046002/) [2](https://capitalandmain.com/reed-hastings-the-disrupter-1101) - [Voted to give Trump increased military spending](https://justfacts.votesmart.org/bill/23430/61033/120012/national-defense-authorization-act-for-fiscal-year-2018#.XQQgLtNKifQ) two [different times.](https://justfacts.votesmart.org/bill/25215/64284/120012/department-of-defense-and-labor-health-and-human-services-and-education-appropriations-act-2019#.XQQhV9NKifQ) - [Supports Trump escalating the war in Syria](https://thegrayzone.com/2019/05/24/bipartisan-war-congress-trump-syria-iran-russia-hezbollah/). [Co-sponsored a "destabilize Iran" bill](https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/722/cosponsors?searchResultViewType=expanded).[2](https://thinkprogress.org/media-outlets-lawmakers-us-violated-iran-nuclear-deal-5907a0e5743a/) - [Supports Israel’s right-wing government and cozies up to AIPAC](https://archive.ph/fbiyz), co-sponsored resolution against Obama in [support of illegal settlements, does not support Palestinian rights](https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/01/31/kamala-harris-and-israel-taking-the-aipac-line/), and [calls BDS “anti-semitic”](https://twitter.com/AbbyMartin/status/1146595730489876480). [Another Anti-Palestine rant at AIPAC](https://twitter.com/acsofian/status/1351928124209045507?s=20), [2](https://thegrayzone.com/2020/08/11/netanyahu-top-cop-kamala-harris-israel-racism/). Condemned pro-palestine protestors of Netanyahu's July 2024 visit to the US congress as ["despicable, hateful, and anti-semitic"](https://xcancel.com/VP/status/1816490945501708660) - [Is against open borders, opposed calls to tear down 700 miles of border fence.](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kamala-harris-says-we-cant-have-open-borders-as-she-swipes-at-beto-orourke-far-left-dems) - [Fought to limit amount of land indigenous tribes could place in trust and tried to take reservation land away from a tribe just to keep them from evicting a non-indigenous man who had lived there without paying rent for 24 years.](https://www.indianz.com/News/2017/10/10/supreme-court-puts-end-to-case-challengi.asp) - [Mocks the activist call to “build more schools, less jails”.](https://twitter.com/_waleedshahid/status/1090067362907340800?lang=en) [Mocks criminal justice reformers as unrealistic.](https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1089984902706200576). - [Says that Kaepernick's take-a-knee protest in support of black lives matter, was a russian op. Claims that "russian bots" are targeting her.](https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1293286190892888067?s=20) - [Laughs out loud when its suggested that she's a progressive.](https://twitter.com/colbyhall/status/1320522050902122497?s=20) - [Voted two different times to block federal funding for abortions.](https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2019/06/06/guess-who-else-voted-against-federal-funding-for-abortion-443667?cid=su_tw_pb) - [Wants to use solar panels and green energy... to make war. ](https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1398339644144721934?s=20) - [Tells guatemalan immigrants: "don't come here"](https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1401980300847161349?s=20) - Appoints a [communication director who was outraged that ICE didn't pick up two undocumented commentators on MSNBC.](https://lemmygrad.ml/pictrs/image/61a1b6a7-05d4-4c9b-9a08-f96972019e69.jpeg)
Mine is 'pearly penile papules' as it sounds like a fancy magic spell.
Hello Linux folks, i would like to share one little hack which i have found. On fedora, `zram-generator` comes installed and configured by default with `lz4` algorithm i believe, and no disk swap, if you have 8gb of ram or more, that is fine, but if you have 4gb or less, `systemd-oomd` either kills your games when they use too much memory, or you face an OOMD and get your system frozen. When configuring fedora, normally i would create an in-disk swap, so that my computer wouldn't freeze but face a ***MASSIVE*** slowdown when on way too high memory usage, i also set `zram-generator` to use the `zstd` algorithm so that zram compression rate is higher but slightly slower, like that i can use my low memory more efficiently with a lower risk of OOMD. I was watching a bringus studios video once, where he tried to run counter-strike 2 on a ps4 using linux and proton; the game would always use too much memory and that would freeze the system before it got a change to actually launch, the strange ps4 linux was using in-disk swap, and so, increasing `swapiness` to 100 bringus tried to leverage that to make the game run. He was successful. In disk swap is very slow, so the performance was crap, but that does not matter... So i had the idea to combine it with zram-swap to avoid the in-disk swap penalty, also using `zstd` as the algorithm to make the most out of the memory, and it was a massive sucess! Some games which would make my system very unstable or straight up freeze on certain launch attempts started launching and working just fine! and without dumb in-disk swap slowdowns! While running modded Victoria 2 i have noticed my system using about 3.3 to 3.4GB of swap, and about 3.5 gb of ram, so about 100 to 200MB of real uncompressed memory usage, assuming zstd is running at level 1 of compression, and achieving at least 3.0 as compression rate, in thesis, my system has now the equivalent to 10GB of ram, well above it's weight! even more impressive considering how low are the numbers we are working here! tldr: setting your `swapiness=100` while using `zstd` as your `zram-generator` compression algorithm, and no in-disk swap will help your system use the most out of your ram with negligible performance penalty
So, the question seems vague but I will elaborate. I’m a software developer, but I don’t do games; yet I have an urge to try and make something. It just seems so overwhelming, I know I want to make a game where the main character is a cat and you have to complete missions, but where do you even begin. Where does the art come from? How do you refine your idea, if all you know is you want a cat game? How do you choose an engine? Do you just start with the basics and get a cat walking around and see what comes next? If you can’t hash out the idea then so you have a right to even try and make a game? Is it best to follow tutorials to get used to making games? I feel the answer to that is no as before I become a software developer, tutorial hell was a thing and I realised I needed to make things for me to actually learn. Sorry for all the questions, this was just a stream of thought.
Who's winning POTUS? Will it be called on election night or drawn out? Congress? Etc