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  • Far-right influencer and US Senate candidate arrested for damaging anti-ICE sculpture

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  • The video itself is fairly hilarious considering he posted it himself. I honestly thought it was an ai video made to make him look bad/troll him at first. From him stumbling over the blocks, to the babg like squeaks and grunts he makes while doing it, he comes off as soft as a wet dog turd.

  • TIL for at last 15 years US government has been able to implant hardware into USB cables to turn them into hacking devices with wireless capability.

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  • There are a ton of different payloads that can be run on these, for everything from simple keylogging, to root access, to network backdoors. I've only recently gotten into pentesting but with something like this there's no real limit to the damage that could be done with only a few seconds of physical access.

  • TIL for at last 15 years US government has been able to implant hardware into USB cables to turn them into hacking devices with wireless capability.

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  • Stupid Sexy KDE!

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  • I really hope so, KDE isn't perfect, but gnome is just so....weird...

  • Stupid Sexy KDE!

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  • My school requires 2in1 laptops with stylus support (and windows😖) for all engineering students. I picked up a lenovo think book 2in1 to meet the requirements and have been dualbooting manjaro on a seperate ssd as it has 2 m2 ports. I use manjaro because im used arch which I run on my gaming PC. My work laptop has had manjaro using kde plasma for a while now and I generally really like it.

    When I loaded up the lenovo with manjaro/KDE it worked great as a standard laptop but whenever I tried to use the stylus or touch screen things started falling apart. Tracking was OK with the stylus but I couldn't get pressure or tilt sensing to work and the on screen keyboard was pretty terrible. I also couldn't get it to work properly with a few programs I need specifically for school. I spent about a week trying to get it all sorted but I was never able to get a configuration that worked consitintly and smoothly. After a fair bit of forum surfing the consensus I was able to glean was that KDE was behind the curve on touch/stylus support but gnome was supposedly better suited to it.

    I've now been running GNOME for a couple weeks and the touch/stylus support does work much better but there are still a few hiccups. I had to install a different on screen keyboard, the one gnome comes with worked fine except for the backspace key refused to function which turns out to be a pretty big problem. My biggest complaints though are with how gnome functions in comparison to kde. The file explorer, console, text editors, menu customizations, and layouts are a lot more frustrating and clunky feeling to me. I've swapped most of the original stuff with KDE version wherever I could make them work. Overall its not too bad now, just different I guess. Personally I wont be using GNOME in the future if I can avoid it. Hopefully KDE comes up with functional touch/stylus support so I can switch back.

  • Stupid Sexy KDE!

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  • I've been forced to use gnome on my school laptop as I need tablet support and kde dropped the ball on that front. I hate it so much, but at least it works.

  • What video essay did you watch recently that left an impression on you?

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  • Benn Jordan's videos on flock cameras is really eye opening non how bad the surveillance state has gotten here in the US. Not just how ubiquitous they are but also how insecure and vulnerable to abuse the whole system is.

  • How do you think a socialist President would win the 2028 election? Would they use the exact methods used by Zohran Mamdani which earned him the office of Mayor of NYC?

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  • I agree, I think its a good thing that he's a democratic socialist, as I am also one. But there is a difference between a dem socialist and a social democrat. Mainly the whole capitalism thing.

  • How do you think a socialist President would win the 2028 election? Would they use the exact methods used by Zohran Mamdani which earned him the office of Mayor of NYC?

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  • Yes, it is right.

    Social democracy is a broad, centre-left[1] to left-wing[2] social, economic, and political ideology within the wider socialist movement[3] that supports political and economic democracy[4] and a gradualist, reformist, and democratic approach toward achieving social equality. In modern practice, social democracy has taken the form of a predominantly capitalist,[5] yet robust welfare state, with policies promoting social justice, market regulation, and a more equitable distribution of income.[5][6]

  • How do you think a socialist President would win the 2028 election? Would they use the exact methods used by Zohran Mamdani which earned him the office of Mayor of NYC?

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  • He's a democratic socialist.

  • Trump Spent 2025 Making Trans Lives Unlivable. It’s Time for Democrats to Defend Them.

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  • Use the moment to ask for more donations so they can use the money to do absolutely anything but actually try and solve the problem.

  • The state is making a list of transgender Texans. It’s using driver’s licenses to help

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  • My life has been way better since I started keeping a cursory view of headlines once a day

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  • I'm with you 100% on this. I wish I could turn it off and do something more important. But the way things currently are idk whether I'm gonna have basic rights one day to the next.

  • This Flock Camera Leak is like Netflix For Stalkers

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  • There's a huge difference between someone putting a webcam on their house for personal security and an AI driven face tracking camera that purposefully records every person that wanders into its field of vision being setup in a public park and on every street corner in the country.

  • Cloudy future for bourbon has Jim Beam closing Kentucky distillery for a year

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  • I'm a Ky native, I grew up just a couple towns over from Jim Beam, I've built equipment for the bourbon industry, I have friends and family that currently work at distilleries. Keep up the boycott Canada, make it hurt. The majority of my fellow Kentuckians voted for Trump. Despite the rest of us warning them what would happen, we pleaded with them even, but here we are. They voted for greed and bigotry, and I have 0 sympathy for the ones that are losing their jobs over this. After all, it's what they voted for.

  • BMW Patents Proprietary Screws That Only Dealerships Can Remove

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  • As someone who used to turn wrenchs for a living, I can objectively say that those are the worst tool ever made.

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  • I was thinking more in the sense of the villain giving their little speech to a protagonist that hasn't ever killed anyone that "If you kill me then your just like me, you'll be equally bad even though I've killed thousands and my death would actually be of benefit to the world."

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  • That trope in movies always bugs me. It's such a stupid false equivalency.

  • forcefem

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  • I would gladly give it to every transphobe. Maybe then they'd develop a shred of empathy.

  • Science Memes @mander.xyz
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    For your consideration

  • Engineering Memes @lemmy.world
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    For your consideration, I submit my design for a new ASME standard. The Scaling Banana.

  • politics @lemmy.world
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    ‘Startup Nation’ Groups Say They’re Meeting Trump Officials to Push for Deregulated ‘Freedom Cities’

    www.wired.com /story/startup-nations-donald-trump-legislation/
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    Trump Live Updates: US To Sign Orders Banning Transgender Service Members, Gutting DEI

    www.msn.com /en-us/politics/government/trump-live-updates-us-to-sign-orders-banning-transgender-service-members-gutting-dei/ar-AA1xVTj4