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In June 2024, Șoșoacă was elected as a member of the European Parliament. She (…) wore a muzzle over her face as a sign of dissent during Ursula von der Leyen’s opening speech. Later, she loudly protested when French MEP Valérie Hayer suggested that abortion rights be included in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. After interrupting Hayer’s speech several times, she was escorted outside the chamber.

On 12 December 2021, Șoșoacă was interviewed by Italian reporter Lucia Goracci who was investigating the anti-vaccine movement for Rai 1. After a very tense exchange, Șoșoacă locked the door of her apartment and called the police, stating that someone had entered her office.
Once police had arrived, Șoșoacă asked that all of Goracci’s footage be deleted. Goracci said that she and her crew had been held captive by the senator and that she had been punched by Șoșoacă’s husband without the police intervening. The stalemate ended after eight hours, following an intervention by the Italian embassy.

In February 2023, she falsely accused the United States of causing the Turkey–Syria earthquakes with a seismic weapon. Șoșoacă used Facebook to spread fake news on the matter, using footage from 2009 falsely claiming to be from 2023.

Police officers from Ilfov County announced that they are investigating and opening a criminal case (…) after several people, including Șoșoacă, commemorated Iron Guard leader Corneliu Zelea Codreanu at a wayside cross in Tâncăbești. Some of the participants raised their hands in the Hitler salute.

I blame lack of education and social media algorithms.

Ouf, you got me down a rabbit hole. I’ll start at the end, where I clicked on a comment of yours laying out why Andreas Kling and Brendan Eich are assholes. This FOSS tendency to support 100% meritocracy becomes a bullshit lie the moment some lead devs use their position to spread vile views, deny harmless PRs to improve phrasing etc.
I have yet to meet a single self-proclaimed “centrist” who isn’t just a racist/misogynyst/homophobe in sheep’s clothing.

Meritocracy enables sociopaths.
Well really it should be “Pure unadultarated meritocracy in FOSS development enables latent sociopathic behavior to come out unchecked in nerdy devs” or some such, but that’s not much of a slogan.

Anyhow, about Kagi & Vlad & the writer of this blog post (I really read it all) - I am always so skeptical about FLOSS trying to go financially sustainable. Usually people applaud it because they think it’s a solution to “slow development and clunky UIs”, and usually people like Vlad like to support that feeling without really committing to anything.

Also always interesting the lack of commitment when you press them about data collection. You can’t run a web app like this without data collection, and the distiction between personally identifyable, private, anonymised or anonymous is - facile because as legal terms they were coined by people who have no clue about fingerprinting and such.

All in all I’m glad with the road I have chosen in device & software usage and just like the Brave hype did not get me, neither will the Kagi hype or the next one.

Great breakdown, esp. the license issues and the case in point of MINIX. Subscribed.

I just checked, Archlinux already has uutils-coreutils in [extra], but there’s no surprise there, they’ve always been relatively unconcerned about such things.

The Romanian electoral commission did that. I’m sure they had their reasons - the article cites “statements contradictory to democratic values” (last November) and Russian interference. I guess they have something to back that up with. The Guardian does not say, but until someone convinces me otherwise (edit: that will be really hard after me reading this) I will give the electoral commission the benefit here.

This is government at work. If they really wanted to suppress democratic voices they’d not go about it in a way that just gives free publicity to her and better chances to the remaining far-right candidate.

Thanks for sharing, always nice to see!

But nowadays I’d be surprised if one of these display devices ran Windows or some similar crap that is NOT Linux.

Ubuntu/Canonical did, imho, the right thing to offer paid support for what is otherwise a free OS. That’s what companies care for, that cannot afford a full IT employee or even department. Of course Redhat et. al. also offer that but Ubuntu seems more suitable for smaller solutions?

So, h264 video playback at 1080px works flawlessly, and flac audio. What about

• other codecs
• hardware accel, e.g. for h265?

Thanks. Does it support multiple accounts? How are remote calendars & contacts integrated into KDE generally, or kmail specifically?

Long transfer (possibly over network), you start wondering what’s going on. All you have to go on is a bar that doesn’t move. Would be useful to get more info in situations like these.

One of these days, I will switch to KDE.

My OS paradigm started off as a super-lightweight desktop around Openbox, but more and more I got forced to pull in Gnome dependencies to the point that I switching those to KDE dependencies probably wouldn’t make a dent in performance.

Speaking of which, what’s KDE’s mail client like?

TBF, as soon as you move out of the English language the oversight of a million pair of eyes gets patchy fast. I have seen credible reports about Wikipedia pages in languages spoken by say, less than 10 million people, where certain elements can easily control the narrative.

But hey, some people always criticize wikipedia as if there was some actually 100% objective alternative out there, and that I disagree with.

This or some other company, that’s essentially what Maria Ressa said (with proof).

Familiar playbook.

Thanks for the update-in-a-nutshell!

Maria Ressa

Yes! Thanks, I couldn’t remember. Was an amazing podcast series on PBS iirc.

Good

Fuck Duterte. He did to his country almost a decade ago what Trump is doing to the USA now. I remember this Philippine-American journalist saying in 2016 that

we (the Philippines) are the test bed for things they don’t dare do in “the West” yet.

Isn’t his daughter president president now? No doubt that’s better, but by how much I wonder.

According to this, for me it would be Ubuntu 10.04. It was my final step away from $PROPRIETARY_OS, way back when.

Or, you know, all of them.

If you can’t edit XML use nice GUI lxhotkey or obkey instead

Openbox (LXQt’s wm under Xorg) does support global shortcuts.

And labwc supports rc.xml so it should support global shortcuts as well.