So nice of the pope to die on a Monday so that the megathread topic writes itself

Maybe there’s some kind of solution where you connect to the VPN inside the VM and then bridge that connection back to your host machine/use it as your gateway

Mechanic charged me $1200 because they had to take apart my whole dashboard to replace my pineal gland

I drew one of these, everyone in the room was crying from how magnificent it was.

Random unimportant and possibly dumb question spurred by your comment, what’s to stop a Ukrainian pilot from just flying away from Ukraine and trying to surrender somewhere? Can they like radio ahead saying they surrender, or would they just get shot down? Cuz if I was asked to fly a mission like that, that’s what would pass my mind.

I was trying to buy an ebike the other day, and the salesman kept trying to sell me a German one “because it’s not like those Chinese ones which are unreliable and you can’t find parts”. Like dude the German bike has to stand on its own, you shouldn’t need racism to sell me a bike.

This line used to drive me nuts when I was a liberal. It doesn’t even make sense in a liberal framework wtf

Il sole, welcome to the resistance.

Thanks for those links! I’ll read through the Meta page on the Gentoo wiki and see how far that gets me. I also realized after writing the first comment that many of the projects I was curious about were freedesktop projects. Feel like I basically “get” what the kernel is responsible for, but modern Linux desktops aren’t just the kernel and rely on a suite of programs running in userspace which I’m not too familiar with. Maybe it’s a good time to install Arch again, that’ll be one way to learn by doing.

Is there a good YouTube channel or something which explains Linux internals? There’s lots of content on like how bash commands work, how to install packages in various package managers, etc. But I’d love a channel which dives into things like pipewire, dbus, init systems, what is an initrd, etc.

It’s also a standing pic lol

Irish Rebel Song - Come Out ye Black and Tans

Swedish Pro Palestine Song - Leve Palestina

Palestinian Communist Song - The Red Banner is Raised

Soviet Space Song - Glory to the Ones Who Look Forward!

Without the presence of the USSR and Molotov-Ribbentrop, wouldn’t the Nazis have gone east first to secure the agrarian land and oil?

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Global Tax Deal

Section 1. Applicability of the Global Tax Deal. The Secretary of the Treasury and the Permanent Representative of the United States to the OECD shall notify the OECD that any commitments made by the prior administration on behalf of the United States with respect to the Global Tax Deal have no force or effect within the United States absent an act by the Congress adopting the relevant provisions of the Global Tax Deal. The Secretary of the Treasury and the United States Trade Representative shall take all additional necessary steps within their authority to otherwise implement the findings of this memorandum.

I believe it’s referring to this OECD initiative in the works for a global minimum corporate tax, where OECD countries share information across borders to determine if a company is paying at least 15% tax on global income. If not, then the company would have to pay a top-up tax to reach 15%.

Redirects to

https://www.xiaohongshu.com/discovery/item/676d271600000000130005e8?app_platform=android&ignoreEngage=true&app_version=8.59.0&share_from_user_hidden=true&xsec_source=app_share&type=video&xsec_avoidhexbot_token=redacted%3D&author_share=1&xhsshare=CopyLink&shareRedId=redacted&apptime=1737037523&share_id=redacted

The link has an automatic redirect which takes you to a different URL with tracking parameters baked in. So you need to follow the redirect in order to remove the tracking parameters.

Here’s an example (possible tracking parameters redacted). Random video from my feed.

http://xhslink.com/a/abcdefg1234567

Redirects to

https://www.xiaohongshu.com/discovery/item/6786cfb3000000000100860e?app_platform=android&ignoreEngage=true&app_version=8.59.0&share_from_user_hidden=true&xsec_source=app_share&type=video&xsec_token=XXXXX%3D&author_share=1&xhsshare=CopyLink&shareRedId=XXXXX&apptime=1737091379&share_id=XXXXX

Now you can remove everything after and including the question mark ?

https://www.xiaohongshu.com/discovery/item/6786cfb3000000000100860e

At least I think it works, let me know if you don’t get a video talking about the Jakarta Method.

I’m bad at committing to reading clubs but I’d follow what gets written here about it

DeepL supposedly does PDFs

https://github.com/philipl/pifs

πfs is a revolutionary new file system that, instead of wasting space storing your data on your hard drive, stores your data in π! You’ll never run out of space again - π holds every file that could possibly exist! They said 100% compression was impossible? You’re looking at it!