BNEI BRAK, Israel (AP) — Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men blocked a major highway in central Israel for two hours on Thursday to protest a recent Supreme Court decision ordering young religious men to enlist for military service....
Windows 11 is getting out of hand with its push for advertisments, frankly - remember the recent full-screen pop-up to persuade users to install Edge or other Microsoft services? Then another advertisment was placed in the Start menu, and now Microsoft has finally worn my temper thin - with a new Game Pass ad coming to the...
And it's not like w11 is free, the price of a PC with Windows installed comes with its' license's costs. It's not told to the consumer so they won't even know they are using a product they paid for, for them it's what a clean basic PC looks like. And that's what prevents many to care about it the same way they can be frustrated by a paid streaming plan with ads. To take is as a given, and shifting the Overtone's window of fucked up services even further.
June 27 (Reuters) - Ukraine's military said on Thursday its forces had forced Russian troops out of a district in the town of Chasiv Yar on the war's eastern front seen as Moscow's next target in its slow advance through the area.
Recently some hallucinating z-blogger (allegedly, WarGonzo) posted that a group of british spec ops got deployed there, and how they are all pumped up to face them. Brits haven't even arrived, no surprise, but it seems the ouija board flipped over and hit this fortune-teller hard. Looking forward to his other predictions if that's the trend now.
One can slice it, heat only a half, put the cold one on top. Your karma cancels out, the meal gets two different temperatures and textures so taste is more complex and you may probably confuse other people with a pizza burger recipe.
Last thing I remember yesterday many condemned Israel for announcing it's land development program that is gossiped as planned on occupied territories. Today there were news of a shitbag minister who voiced a plan to take the West Bank under a military rule (and to convert it into profits?), and I don't see many support to him there as well. Would it be too cynical to ask wtf these settlers would be doing there?
I'm not tech savvy and have noticed that many streaming sites are .ru, and as someone located in Finland, I want to make sure if they are dangerous to use.
The death toll from a series of brazen attacks on churches and synagogues in Russia's mainly Muslim region of Dagestan rose to 20 on Monday after gunmen went on the rampage in coordinated attacks in two of the republic's most important cities.
My guess: unresolved national tensions and probable separatism seeds + weakness of the state in the last year (Prigo's march, Krokus, buryatian demonstrations against jailing a known activist) + 24\7 stream of hatred on TV + jealousy of more autonomous and supported regions. That's not like there wasn't any violence here, but recently it became more apparent with Mahachkala's airport being crowded by a mob of locals to 'meet' people who arrived from Israel. This place becomes more dangerous and as you pointed out Moskow would likely ignore it. And it's too random for a false flag, I believe.
As a gesture of a good will, ukrainian partners joined the educational program to provide the final exam material. Due to bad grades all over the board, russian instructors insisted on reexamination. 'We didn't send our best' said Lt. major Govnomesov 'We haven't even started [our education program] yet!'. While it was a surprise for partners, they made it clear they can help fellow instructors once again.
Would you use Edge as your default browser on Windows 11 if Microsoft nags you with a 3D banner? Microsoft thinks you would. In a new experiment, which appears to be rolling out to Edge stable on Windows 11, Microsoft has turned on a banner that uses 3D graphics to promote the browser....
I have a dream of that time when small MS's changes won't get media coverage because even tech journos will not use the latest Windows release anymore.
I have my weird takes on that whole conflict, but I was silenced for criticizing my homeland where I actually live and calling out one exact delusional user.
Israel is basically a european\american sattelite in that region that has a potential to ease the involvement if something there goes in a conflict to their interests first or some global massacre second, but what we see with Bibi is that he leveraged the position of this country to the point they can dictate others to support them, and although they don't need money for their little genocide, they ping other countries for them to show loyalty. I don't think it costs that much for an individual like you since MIC by default costs trillion+ of dollars annually, but that's a different topic.
What matters is that unlike ukrainians, jewish people after WW2 spread across the whole world and there are a lot of citizens with an israili citizenship in both the West and the ex-SocBlock. That makes everything invloving Israel relevant globally. There is still a problem of hatred towards jewish people, and they succeeded at calling it out unlike romanians or any other genocided minority. Thus, it succeedes at making it everyone's problem and not a local one, like many hot conflicts going on, when it mixes up historical genocide with every conflict they get involved in.
They intentionally make it hard to distance from them. While it does have a potential value for other states, to bring down something like HAMAS or Al-Kaida for example (if they can do that at all), it got too comfy with that sentiment going on. And for a taxpayer in the US I'd probably question not why they are funded at all, but why they hold other countries as pawns and openly show how they don't give a fuck about their reputation and international law because they'd get funded anyway. From the funder's perspective, they are leeches ignoring the agreement and testing how long they can go with it. And tolerating that only enables such behavior.
Not to blame anyone here, especially romanians, but the feeling of being stuck somewhen in Covid times that's shared by most people online gets multiplied by these facts of supplying Ukraine two+ year into war. By summer there would be 80 F16 warplanes too, and that's better than nothing, but it seems everyone and these officials included are in some kind of a sleep they rarely wake up from.
I think this action lacked some supportive commentary, a spoken idea why they did it and what does it mean. It comes of as an attention bait without a clear message. It's also too random to associate it with climate activism without a context.
After hearing about that I thought what would become our Stonehenge if we fail miserably (Statue of Liberty, like in Planet of the Apes?), or if we get back into a new Stone Age making this circular monument both the past and the future of humankind. I would not probably care that much if they actually damage it a bit if that's for creating a powerful symbol, adding to it's (contemporary) significance instead of taking from it. But that's too much to ask, it seems, all we can do is orange paint.
Mr Putin’s first visit to Pyongyang since 2000 was a chance for Russia and North Korea to flaunt their friendship. And flaunt it they did, with Mr Kim declaring his “full support” for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine....
In his popular macho photo he's filmed (or collaged) riding a bear. Who knew it would turn another way so soon? And with Winnie, who dives into a vacant honeypot with both fists.
True, even without reunification (what's for?), China gets more by economical means than it would ever has via invasion. It's insane production capacity, belt&road schemes, education and science are a caricature of a suntzian wise guy who wins a war without a battle. Reducing themselves to a war (and probably destroying everything they are jealous of in Taiwan in the process) would be embarassingly stupid. I watch their sabblerattling as a play, but I'm yet to see any benefit from it besides upkeeping the status of those not to fuck with.
It sounds like a clever provocation, and he probably made sure it catches attention before they can silently move it under the carpet. He didn't do any crime, he even proposed compromises to make it seem OK and followed official procedures, so they can't (now, publicly) presecute him by law, but it offended their homophobia that much they found nothing more clever than dropping him into a mental yard instead of, like, declining his idea for some made up reason. What's that if not a high-risk high-reward prank activism? At least, we now know that the state of Pakistan loses it's shit over him touching that nerve.
It's a nightmare scenario for Microsoft. The headlining feature of its new Copilot+ PC initiative, which is supposed to drive millions of PC sales over the next couple of years, is under significant fire for being what many say is a major breach of privacy and security on Windows. That feature in question is Windows Recall, a...
It's just a little different nowadays. Like the other user said, they just don't know they have a choice or what to choose and follow whatever they know...
And what was one of the early bolsheviks' regime strongest points? They created schools and made people literate en masse, and did it with their own curriculum. People became less suspective to ex elites and religious propaganda, and became their target audience.
Adobe, Google, MS give discounts and special programs for education because this way people get used to their products. Many local organizations that touch these casual users don't have a real IT department and just flow with what's given, they don't make an informed choice like corporations. And that's probably the place where this switch may even start to begin. A class of students who started with e.g. KDE Plasma would be used to it more than they used to Windows, same with other software. They can already do their homework and play most games. What else do they need?
The sharp corner is to find money to fund select schools to show others it's not scary and makes it even cheaper for them in the long run, maybe some special troubleshooting team to teach them the ropes. I've heard from some users there and on reddit that their computer classes with a geeky teacher who installed Linux is how they've rolled in without a problem.
One of the weird realization for me as I learnt English and listened to authors who contributed to these games, is that many remastered their tracks to exclude swear words and obvious mentions of drugs, or was it EA specialists? NFS Underground and Most Wanted games were filled with rap and metal, but still got rated for teens...
I know about that, but these are not clean radio-friendly versions that were published on CDs by producers, they are special versions created for these games. That's what irked me. And with DP's track they've been done noticeably choppy by either artists or EA sound designers. That's not something very important, but that exists.
One idiotic country blurs ciggaretes in the scene and grays out the rainbow for some reason. There's probably no limit to censorship shenanigans.
Try r/tjournal_refugees. Am russian and I follow this sub for there are a lot of confirmed donations takers and actual soldiers from UAF. They woldn't probably tell you the recent information that can be used by the enemy, but something in general - sure.
Would you describe it further? I don't see how coming to a subscription-based model makes it not piracy. I feel like I miss something there.
I died a little inside by remembering that I was there when their lifetime CS licenses were sold and that licensing servers went offline at least a dozen of years ago... On the other hand, it raises a question if breaking CS versions is a piracy if they are abandoned. There's no way to use them even if you are a paid customer wanting to install it on your new PC.
Yeah. I am afraid of thinking how much they'd lose then, besides territory. Lives of people from so-called People's Republics was brutal, and that would be even worse.
I mean, reflected light is less harmful. We aren't looking directly at the sun for it leaves ghost shapes even after we turn our head, but it's lights' reflections is what makes or eyes see. Basic e-Inks don't emit light, some backlit it from the side, or from the back, but they are still more safe than displays that do work by emmiting light of some color directly to you, and there was a race to reach the wider angle they can do it too, for older devices had colors nearly inverted if seen from the sharp angle.
Ultra-Orthodox Jews block highway to protest Israel’s new mandatory military service ruling ( apnews.com )
BNEI BRAK, Israel (AP) — Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men blocked a major highway in central Israel for two hours on Thursday to protest a recent Supreme Court decision ordering young religious men to enlist for military service....
Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising ( www.techradar.com )
Windows 11 is getting out of hand with its push for advertisments, frankly - remember the recent full-screen pop-up to persuade users to install Edge or other Microsoft services? Then another advertisment was placed in the Start menu, and now Microsoft has finally worn my temper thin - with a new Game Pass ad coming to the...
Ukraine military says Russian troops pushed out of part of key eastern town ( www.reuters.com )
June 27 (Reuters) - Ukraine's military said on Thursday its forces had forced Russian troops out of a district in the town of Chasiv Yar on the war's eastern front seen as Moscow's next target in its slow advance through the area.
Hungy.
Ukraine destroyed columns of waiting Russian troops as soon as it was allowed to strike across the border, commander says ( www.businessinsider.com )
Ukraine destroyed columns of waiting Russian soldiers with HIMARS, a Ukrainian commander said....
Are .ru sites safe?
I'm not tech savvy and have noticed that many streaming sites are .ru, and as someone located in Finland, I want to make sure if they are dangerous to use.
Death toll rises to 20 after gunmen attack Russia's Dagestan ( www.reuters.com )
The death toll from a series of brazen attacks on churches and synagogues in Russia's mainly Muslim region of Dagestan rose to 20 on Monday after gunmen went on the rampage in coordinated attacks in two of the republic's most important cities.
“We Can Still Contact Technical Support in the West”: Russian weapons are being manufactured on foreign machinery — but why are they still running? ( istories.media )
Archived link...
The air defense training center near Yeysk is on fire after a UAV attack. ( sopuli.xyz )
https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/3a187941-0a1b-48bb-b56f-3c1dd4379b1b.webp...
Microsoft Edge nags users with a 3D banner to change Windows 11's default browser ( www.windowslatest.com )
Would you use Edge as your default browser on Windows 11 if Microsoft nags you with a 3D banner? Microsoft thinks you would. In a new experiment, which appears to be rolling out to Edge stable on Windows 11, Microsoft has turned on a banner that uses 3D graphics to promote the browser....
Elon Musk Begs Advertisers to Return as Twitter's Revenue Plunges ( futurism.com )
Your memes suck lemmy.ml , please stop. ( lemmy.world )
https://lemmy.ml/post/17042195...
Romania to send Patriot defense system to Ukraine ( kyivindependent.com )
Stonehenge sprayed with orange powder paint by Just Stop Oil activists ( www.theguardian.com )
If you ever wanted to read about fake druids vs. environmental activists, now's your chance.
18+ [NSFL] Destruction of a Russian invader by the Strike Drone Company. ( streamable.com )
https://t.me/strikedronescompany/297...
Two disabled Russian tanks are destroyed with thermite ( streamable.com )
https://files.catbox.moe/rv45lq.mp4...
A Russian court has sentenced a U.S. soldier to nearly 4 years in prison ( www.npr.org )
China is the true power in Putin and Kim’s budding friendship ( www.bbc.com )
Mr Putin’s first visit to Pyongyang since 2000 was a chance for Russia and North Korea to flaunt their friendship. And flaunt it they did, with Mr Kim declaring his “full support” for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine....
boo.py ( lemmy.world )
My best prank and I won't even be around to see it
China's Xi accused the US of trying to trick him into invading Taiwan, but said he won't take the bait, report says ( www.businessinsider.com )
Xi Jinping accused the US of trying to trick China into invading Taiwan, the Financial Times said....
Jordanian reporter gets one year in prison under draconian new cybercrime law ( rsf.org )
AI took their jobs. Now they get paid to make it sound human ( www.bbc.com )
If you're worried about how AI will affect your job, the world of copywriters may offer a glimpse of the future....
Tesla Shareholders Approve Musk's $56 Billion Pay Package in Early Voting ( www.ibtimes.co.uk )
Man detained in mental hospital after trying to set up Pakistan’s first gay club ( www.telegraph.co.uk )
Russia mocks Macron following EU election defeat ( www.politico.eu )
Russia was definitely watching the results of the EU election....
Praise Dog ( startrek.website )
The First Borderlands Movie Clip Looks Like An SNL Skit ( kotaku.com )
Today, during IGN Live, we got our first real look at the Borderlands movie, and folks, I’m not sure this is going to be very good....
Texas asks people to avoid using their cars ( www.newsweek.com )
A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back ( www.windowscentral.com )
It's a nightmare scenario for Microsoft. The headlining feature of its new Copilot+ PC initiative, which is supposed to drive millions of PC sales over the next couple of years, is under significant fire for being what many say is a major breach of privacy and security on Windows. That feature in question is Windows Recall, a...
NFS OST remade for kids
One of the weird realization for me as I learnt English and listened to authors who contributed to these games, is that many remastered their tracks to exclude swear words and obvious mentions of drugs, or was it EA specialists? NFS Underground and Most Wanted games were filled with rap and metal, but still got rated for teens...
Russian patriotism ( sopuli.xyz )
https://t.me/exclusiveuachannel/35614...
A contract soldier of the Russian Armed Forces recorded a video about the situation during the attack on Volchansk - out of 100 people, 12 survived. ( streamable.com )
https://t.me/pravdaGerashchenko_en/32639...
only as in free beer ( lemmy.world )
Ukraine updates: Belgium to deliver 30 F-16 fighter aircraft ( www.dw.com )
Belgium is committed to delivering 30 F-16 fighter jets by 2028 to assist Kyiv in countering Russia's invasion....
OpenAI’s new safety team is led by board members, including CEO Sam Altman ( www.engadget.com )
if this post gets 4 upvotes, i will post again with twice as wide en passant ( lemmy.world )
Full Sized Crow of Judgement ( lemmy.world )
Bigme Hibreak: These smartphone come with a color E-Ink screen and also Android 14 ( www.notebookcheck.net )