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[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 21 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Then pardons should at minimum be the purview of the Senate or House, instead of a single person.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 12 points 11 hours ago

Critics of aggressive voter roll purges warn that certain methods can disproportionately impact communities of color, naturalized citizens, and other vulnerable populations.

Wow I can't believe the Racism Nexus built by racists is being used in racist ways.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 19 points 14 hours ago (5 children)

A tale as old as time…

Indeed, and so well-known now that I have to wonder what special brand of moron (even by white supremacist standards) wears a SS shirt to a punk show.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 1 points 18 hours ago

I just can't get into them... I like being able to tile windows when I want to, but I find them too complicated to use. I like how Plasma already contains everything I need and I never have any problems with it. Personally I find the best implementation of tiling is in PopOS where you use a shortcut to activate and deactivate it. It's really the best of both worlds!

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 53 points 1 day ago (10 children)

Alec is also (unsurprisingly) on the Fedi: https://mas.to/@TechConnectify

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Karp asserts that the tech industry has a moral duty to work with the US government, “an affirmative obligation to support the state that made its rise possible.” He frames Silicon Valley’s abdication of this duty as nothing short of a national betrayal: “We must rise up and rage against this misdirection of our culture and capital,” he writes.

Hmm, for someone who claims to be a liberal, this sounds an awful lot like "All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state", the words of a famous Italian who created a certain political movement that the current US regime is emulating.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

"China" has been colonialist for ~3000 years. The entire region has been a series of colonial projects since the dawn of civilisation. I can't even think of a period when they weren't colonialist.

Edit: I don't mean to single out China here -- my point is that nearly everyone is colonialist and has been for a very long time, so any state saying they are not colonialist is most likely lying.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Depending on the region and how you measure the difference, the drop is anywhere from 25% to 75%, so yeah, it's a lot. For reference, in 2024 about 3.3 million Canadians went to Florida alone, and that doesn't count other states -- in particular border areas that heavily depend on Canadian shoppers. This nonsense started at the tail end of the winter travel season so the effects didn't have time to fully manifest but next year will be very bad for the US.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

It isn't the snapping I was referring to, but the ability to make a window span multiple areas. In KDE the window can only snap into a single area.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

It does, but in Plasma you can only snap a window to a single area. With FancyZones you can create a more detailed grid and hold a modifier key to make the window span multiple areas, so it's much more flexible than the fixed layout of KDE. For example you can make a 4x4 grid and choose to span a window across 4x1 or 1x4. That's impossible in Plasma (for now).

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 40 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (14 children)

I miss the window tiling one. Its ability to span multiple "areas" with a window by holding a modifier key is something I sorely wish KDE's tiling had.

Edit: FancyZones! Finally remembered the name.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 43 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Sounds pretty rapey to me.

 

The CPC's shocking inability to read the room continues. Everyone is trying to distance themselves from the US, and they come up with this?

 

Leopards will enjoy a well-deserved meal. A few choice morsels:

In the 2008 presidential election, more than 75% of Madawaska voters cast their ballots for Barack Obama, a Democrat. Last November, Donald Trump received just over 50% of Madawaska’s vote, becoming the first Republican presidential candidate to carry the town in decades.

“My father had 13 kids. We all lived and worked on the farm. We were born and raised Democrats because back then, in the ’40s and ’50s, the Democrats were the working man’s party,” Morneault said. “When I told my dad I’d turned Republican, he called me a turncoat. A traitor.”

Both Morneault and Campagna say their politics are informed by their religion. The bulk of their support for Trump comes from his opposition to abortion, and much of their disdain for Democrats comes from their support for LGBTQ+ rights.

 

In which China tells Cuba that it should stop being so communist if it wants to succeed:

China publicly supports Cuba’s right to choose its own path to economic development “in line with its national conditions”, but privately Chinese officials have long urged the Cuban leadership to shift from its vertically planned economy to something closer to the Chinese model, according to economists and diplomats briefed on the situation.

Chinese officials have been perplexed and frustrated at the Cuban leadership’s unwillingness to decisively implement a market-oriented reform programme despite the glaring dysfunction of the status quo, the people said.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/28766034

Sorry if this kind of question isn't allowed here, but I'm at my wit's end. VB randomly started launching on startup about 2 weeks ago (on EndeavourOS) and I can't figure out why. There's no shortcut in ~/config/autostart, it isn't in the KDE startup apps list, and I can't find anything virtualbox-related with systemctl either. There's also no setting in the VB app itself. WTF?

Based on recommendations in that thread, I also checked:

/etc/systemd/system
/etc/default/
vboxautostart.service
KDE "restore session" settings

Any ideas are much appreciated!

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by cygnus@lemmy.ca to c/linux@lemmy.world
 

Sorry if this kind of question isn't allowed here, but I'm at my wit's end. VB randomly started launching on startup about 2 weeks ago (on EndeavourOS) and I can't figure out why. There's no shortcut in ~/config/autostart, it isn't in the KDE startup apps list, and I can't find anything virtualbox-related with systemctl either. There's also no setting in the VB app itself. WTF?

 

My wife and I are thinking of going to CR this winter, but we have a few other potential destinations on our shortlist. Talk me out of going to Costa Rica!

 

I don't think I've seen anyone else here with an 8:9 monitor, so I'll break the ice! The color theme is Layan Light; everything else is stock KDE.

 

I stumbled upon this community for the first time a few minutes ago. I like gardening and houseplants, but never heard of people recretionally growing mushrooms of the non-magical kind. Is it for food?

 

Now the social media platform is aiming for an IPO in the first quarter of 2024 with a valuation of $15 billion, and has been in talks with potential investors like Goldman Sachs and and Morgan Stanley, per Bloomberg.

 

It seems the bot has stopped reposting content from Reddit?

 

This was recorded in Cleveland for a radio broadcast; the tape became available as a bootleg and is known as one of the most important ones in the band's history.

It's the first-ever recording of "Fly by Night" and only their third performance with Neil. We can hear snippets of what would later become "By-Tor and the Snow Dog" in the Working Man solo.

A quote from Geddy regarding bootlegs:

A lot of people say 'It takes away from record sales' but [...] the fact is that any fan who buys a bootleg is still going to buy your record. So, who is it harming?

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