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There is something profoundly absurd about a nation hosting international sporting events while simultaneously making itself hostile to large parts of the international community.
The United States is managing to transform a celebration of global competition, exchange, and human connection into a demonstration of exclusion, suspicion, and discrimination. It is a fitting reflection of the political degeneration, institutional decay, and cultural rot embodied by the current regime.
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Interesting: Turning Arch Linux into a Music Production Powerhouse: Running Ableton Live in a Windows VM
https://mdbin.sivaramp.com/p/zu0xzzpiPermalinkWorth a look if you want to use Ableton on Linux !
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Woke up to my geekom mini IT13 shutdown opening the box revealed that the top right corner is literally burned and dead.
Anything I can do to save this?
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Dingue le niveau d’infantilisation dans les médias français à propos de la canicule en cours, bientôt le gouvernement va vouloir interdire ou réguler le soleil et la quantité d’eau ou d’accès à X ou Y.
En fait c’est une version de Don’t Look Up mais dans un monde parallèle, chaque année c’est la grande surprise alors que ça fait plus de 20 ans que le sujet du désordre climatique dû à l’activité humaine est sur la table.
Sans aucun doute qu’il faut mettre les moyens pour aider les personnes vulnérables, mais en fait la vraie solution se passe à l’échelle locale, parfois ultra locale et c’est pas “le Gouvernement” qui va pouvoir gérer l’adaptation, alors qu’il ne fait pas grand chose en amont pour générer une adaptation systémique à l’inévitable augmentation des dérèglements climatiques.
c’est vraiment la bureaucratie à la française dans toute sa splendeur.
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AI: T1/C0
The true test of a constitution is not how it functions when everyone plays by the rules. It is how it performs when those in power decide to break them.
If a constitution cannot stop democratic backsliding, cannot protect journalists, cannot safeguard minorities, cannot prevent the concentration of power in the hands of a leader willing to exploit every loophole, then it has failed its most important purpose.
A document is not great because it is old. It is not great because generations have mythologized it. It is great only if it can protect freedom when freedom is under attack.
A constitution that survives only on paper while democracy erodes in practice is not the best constitution on Earth. It is a warning.
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Reading… “This is not a company. It’s a megawatt-acquisition vehicle wearing a chatbot.”
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Test new layout
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petite mise à jours de mon poc #Vyshyvanka https://vyshyvanka.rmendes.net/#m=panel&r=borshchiv&c=4&vy=25&st=sq&seed=vfpou3q&res=fhd&lay=fabric&bg=linen&sc=medium&sh=rushnyk&tr=81&sym=d4&vox=23.65&voy=25.59&voz=6.134
Faut explorer la barre latérale de contrôle, wallpaper et Explore surtout et les autres onglets verticaux, il y a beaucoup d’options pour contrôler le résultat, ya sûrement encore des bugs aussi…si vous en trouvez faite signe !
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Working on making my #indiekit fork cloudron/docker deployment multi-site, the idea is that I want anyone to deploy it and have a fully working setup in one shot, for that I created a plugin registry that act as “source of truth” for which plugin exist or is enabled per site and which version to deploy.
This also allow me to test end to end the deployment of a new site using my fork, literally putting myself in the shoes of anyone doing it.
The result is that I had to refactor quite a few parts to make site-configuration driven by data rather than env files.
This allow me to configure any parts of the theme/site without touching code. well “any” is still a long shot ahead but I got branding, identity, h-card, homepage, blog sidebars fully data driven, if I change an option, its going to rebuild Eleventy and present me the changes in near real time, one rebuild away.
I’m also using this opportunity to migrate my wordpress based chardonsbleus site to indiekit and since chardonsbleus.org is not a blog and more a typical website I’ve had to make quite some modifications to let users decide how they want each page or post to behave, allowing them to choose widgets to display, sections to display for the homepage, without touching code.
its still a work in progress, but I’m getting there !
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The idea that you can “reset your algorithm” by doing X or Y on corporate platforms is absolutely ridiculous.
At most you can influence just a bit the way you are impacted by feeding it dislike or not interested actions but ultimately the corporations that own the algorithm enforce whatever it wants to every users.
You can’t “reset your algorithm” by watching 2 min shorts of nature or music or whatever. It’s an urban myth.
You can’t pray the algorithm to obtain a change, it’s a delusion.
The idea that if you land on a short is in itself a rare privilege encouraging you to like, comment or share the video is just another mechanism to manipulate the user, it has no impact whatsoever besides provoking a waterfall of similar content to keep you hooked.
In the same way, replacing words such as S*x or whatever words to avoid hurting one’s account against the algorithm is ridiculous.
People are self-censoring by pretending that masquerading keywords will avoid the algorithmic reranking of one’s post is another collective delusion. It’s like people adopt censorship thinking they can bypass algorithms or make their content surface better because it has S*x instead of Sex is beyond ridiculous.
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Just for the fun : a local browser only #vyshyvanka generator inspired by Ukrainian traditions.
Now with better mobile support and better UI
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TLDR : A reflection on why simple stories of kindness, compassion, and humanity can evoke such powerful emotions, even in an age of algorithms and viral content.
Sometimes I think it’s ridiculous how my mind reacts to a simple video, or even just a short piece of text telling a story about compassion, goodwill, humanity, or empathy.
Our social media feeds are filled with these stories. Some—maybe many—are probably made up, carefully designed to create engagement and go viral. Others are manufactured from the start as beautiful but fictional narratives. Those aren’t the ones I’m talking about.
I mean the simple posts that are often nothing more than a box of text. You actually have to stop and read them to grasp the story. Some of those are probably fictional too.
It’s also likely that the Algorithm ©®™ has noticed how much I enjoy this type of content and keeps serving me more of it, or stories that follow the same pattern. But that’s not really the point.
What I find interesting is how my brain can experience genuine emotions from such simple stories.
A person helping someone else without expecting anything in return. A father struggling to feed his children being helped by a stranger. A truck driver stopping to help a struggling single mother. The examples could go on indefinitely.
What amazes me is how powerfully humans respond to stories. Whether they come through books, movies, TV series, or a single social media slide, stories have a unique ability to move us. Sometimes just one paragraph is enough. A few lines of text can spark beautiful emotions because something in the story resonates with something within us.
And sometimes those emotions bring tears. Not tears of sadness, but something harder to describe. It’s a strange mixture of gratitude, hope, tenderness, and awe. A story touches a nerve, and a wave of feeling rises from somewhere deep inside. It swells quietly and then crashes onto the shore of the mind, like the sea.
It fascinates me that even when I know some of these stories may be exaggerated or entirely fictional, the emotional response can still be real. The facts matter, of course, but there is also something deeper at work. Perhaps it is the reminder that kindness exists, that people are capable of helping one another, and that goodness still has the power to surprise us. Maybe that is why these stories linger long after I’ve finished reading them.
Perhaps stories is why humanity is still around.
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This is going to facilitate my daily job at work, I want to hack it so that I remove all conflicts with default Windows commands, hence giving coreutils priority !
kylereddoch.me
manton.org
github.com
dgen.net
