Dopo il rinvio per maltempo di domenica, secondo tentativo stasera in Florida per il lancio della missione ESCAPADE verso Marte. Un razzo New Glenn di Blue Origin porterà nello spazio due sonde statunitensi. Finestra di lancio fra le 20.50 e le 22.17 italiane blueorigin.com/missions/ng-2
#Friendica #Statistics 2025-11-12 07:00 CEST Number of active instances: 221 Number of users: 20 772 Number of statuses: 2 828 227 Number of new users last 1D: -1 Number of new statuses last 1D: 591 #Fediverse
La protezione dei dati personali è fondamentale per prevenire il cybercrimine e garantire la sicurezza online, scopri come aumentare la tua protezione.
❤️ #cosebelle Probabilmente uno dei dischi di esordio più dirompente, fuori dagli schemi e necessari della seconda metà degli anni settanta. Un disco punk ma senza esserlo, non una sequenza di accordi con parole di rigetto verso lo stato sociale, ma versi poetici, intrisi di introspezione e spiritualità.
“Horses” è uno di quei dischi che devi assimilare e far circolare nelle vene. Non puoi amare il rock se non ami “Horses” e #PattiSmith.
💬 seguil la musica nel gruppo spettacoli: @spettacoli
🇦🇺 #Russia's government lost on Wednesday a legal bid at Australia's High Court to build a new embassy less than a kilometre from the country's parliament.
🇨🇳🇷🇺 #China is stepping up its efforts to import US-sanctioned Russian gas, building the beginnings of a domestic “shadow fleet” of vessels that can transport the super-cooled fuel and circumvent restrictions imposed on one of the Kremlin’s flagship industries.
China is stepping up its efforts to import US-sanctioned Russian gas, building the beginnings of a domestic “shadow fleet” of vessels that can transport the super-cooled fuel and circumvent restrictions imposed on one of the Kremlin’s flagship indust…
Сербский президентзаявило подготовке Европы к войне с Россией Президент Сербии Александр Вучич заявил, что все европейские государства сейчас готовятся к войне с Россией. Об этом он рассказал в эфире телеканала Pink.
«Сопоставляя факты, я прихожу к выводу, что война между Европой и Россией становится все более вероятной. Это не пустые слова. Все к этому готовятся», — сказал Вучич.
Впервые за 7 лет Азат получил редкую для политзаключенных возможность — вылечить зубы. Он уже потерял 4 зуба, еще 11 находятся в плохом состоянии. Группа поддержки Мифтахова отмечает:
«Это может быть единственной возможностью для Азата получить качественное лечение и сохранить оставшиеся зубы к неизвестному пока что дню его освобождения. Очень просим вас помочь Азату не потерять здоровье в неволе!»
Также необходимо отправить ежегодную посылку массой 20 килограмм, в которой будет то, чего Азат не может приобрести в тюремном магазине.
FreeAzat! - Telegram Сбор в 100 000 рублей на лечение и посылку для Азата Мифтахова В ближайшее время нам предстоит столкнуться с большими тратами на оплату услуг стоматолога и на отправление ежегодной посылки. Реквизиты: Карта Сбер 5469 3800 5929 3380 Горбань Елена Анатольевна…
⚡️ Сбор на лечение Азата Мифтахова
Впервые за 7 лет Азат получил редкую для политзаключенных возможность — вылечить зубы. Он уже потерял 4 зуба, еще 11 находятся в плохом состоянии.
Ученые обнаружили в Западной Австралии новый вид пчел с небольшими рожками, похожими на дьявольские, и назвали его Megachile Lucifer, сообщил Университет Кертина.
«У самки были невероятные маленькие рожки на морде. Когда я описывала новый вид, я смотрел сериал «Люцифер» на Netflix, и это название просто идеально подошло. Я также большая поклонница персонажа Люцифера на Netflix, поэтому выбор был очевиден», — рассказала автор исследования Кит Прендергаст.
В 2022 году Прендергаст также открыла новый вид пчел в Австралии и назвала его Leioproctus Zephyr в честь своей собаки по кличке Зефир. Она рассказала, что ее питомец безоговорочно любил ее в трудные времена.
Фото: самка Megachile Lucifer / Journal of Hymenoptera Research
Поставил себе новую видюху с 16GB VRAM с целью гонять нейронки. Протестировал кучу из них, итог такой: те модели, которые помещаются в видео-память, работают быстро. Но они максимально тупые.
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Поставил себе новую видюху с 16GB VRAM с целью гонять нейронки. Протестировал кучу из них, итог такой: те модели, которые помещаются в видео-память, работают быстро. Но они максимально тупые.
СМИ: мальчикуоторвалопальцы при взрыве у детской площадки
В подмосковном Красногорске девятилетний мальчик лишился нескольких пальцев из-за взрыва, который раздался, когда он попытался поднять пачку денег, лежавшую рядом с детской площадкой. Об этом сообщает телеграм-канал «Вести. Дежурная часть». Официального подтверждения этой информации нет.
По данным «Вестей», взрыв произошел на Пионерской улице, сейчас место происшествия оцеплено, там работают следователи и взрывотехники. Ребенок госпитализирован с ампутацией нескольких пальцев. Связанный с силовиками телеграм-канал Mash утверждает, что в больнице мальчик сообщил медикам, что поднял десятирублевую купюру, после чего раздался взрыв.
Также Mash опубликовал, как утверждается, фотографии фрагмента самодельного взрывного устройства и разорванной десятирублевой купюры. Со ссылкой на друга семьи мальчика канал пишет, что снаряд якобы был начинен гвоздями. По данным Mash, врачи пытаются восстановить его пальцы.
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 The rate of Russian advances in the Pokrovsk direction remains relatively slow, likely in part because the Russian military command continues to pursue grinding offensive operations throughout the theater.
🇯🇵 🇷🇺 #Japan decried as "absolutely unacceptable" on Wednesday #Russia's extension of an entry ban to 30 more citizens, among them a foreign ministry spokesperson, after Tokyo's sanctions over Moscow's nearly four-year-old war in Ukraine.
🇬🇧 #Britain plans to ban companies from providing services such as shipping and insurance for Russian liquefied natural gas exports, in its latest attempt to help Ukraine in its war against #Russia by trying to choke off Kremlin revenue.
Первый российский человекоподобный робот упал на презентации. Его пришлось прикрыть от зрителей
В Москве представили первого в России антропоморфного робота AIdol, который, как уверяют создатели, может передвигаться в пространстве, перемещать предме…
More Russians oppose relatives joining the war. In October, 55% disapproved of family members signing military contracts, while 30% supported it. A year ago, opinions were split 42% vs 40%, showing rising opposition to participation in the war.
Все больше россиян не хотят, чтобы их близкие подписывали контракт с Минобороны для участия в войне против Украины, следует из опроса, проведенного «Левада-Центром».
An investigation found that Putin has at least three nearly identical offices in Novo-Ogaryovo, Valdai, and Sochi to conceal his movements. The Kremlin sometimes lists false locations on its website to hide where he actually is.
Mobile internet access will be restricted in parts of the central #Ulyanovsk region for the duration of Russia’s so-called “special military operation” in Ukraine, regional authorities said Tuesday, marking the first permanent internet blackout in the country.
Mobile internet access will be restricted in parts of the central Ulyanovsk region for the duration of Russia’s so-called “special military operation” in Ukraine, regional authorities said Tuesday, marking the first permanent internet blackout in the…
The number of Ukrainians fleeing Russia’s war to seek safety European Union countries has risen to its highest level in two years, after Kyiv changed the rules to allow more young men to leave the country, official figures suggest.
In planning the construction of Auschwitz, the Germans assumed that the camp would eventually hold some 30,000 prisoners. As late as the beginning of 1941, t...
A Dutch charity has donated a Yak-52 aircraft to Ukraine to help counter drone threats. The plane, delivered in late October and purchased in the UK by Protect Ukraine, has been dedicated to the memory of pilot Kostyantyn "Kamikaze" Oborin, who was known for intercepting Shahed drones in southern Ukraine.
Wayland’s Never-Ending Opposition to Multi-Window Positioning
There are many applications out there that use more than one window, with every modern-day platform and GUI toolkit offering the means for said application to position each of its windows exactly where it wants, and to restore these exactly in the configuration and location where the user saved it for that particular session. All toolkits but one, that is, for the Wayland project keeps shooting down proposals. Most recently merge request #264 for the ext-zones protocol by [Matthias Klumpp] as it descended into a 600+ comments spree.
This follows on an attempt two years prior with MR#247, which was rejected desp
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Wayland’s Never-Ending Opposition to Multi-Window Positioning
There are many applications out there that use more than one window, with every modern-day platform and GUI toolkit offering the means for said application to position each of its windows exactly where it wants, and to restore these exactly in the configuration and location where the user saved it for that particular session. All toolkits but one, that is, for the Wayland project keeps shooting down proposals. Most recently merge request #264 for the ext-zones protocol by [Matthias Klumpp] as it descended into a 600+ comments spree.
This follows on an attempt two years prior with MR#247, which was rejected despite laying out sound reasons why the session protocol of Wayland does not cover many situations. In the breakdown video of the new ext-zones protocol discussion by [Brodie Robertson] the sheer absurdity of this whole situation becomes apparent, especially since KDE and others are already working around the Wayland project with their own extensions such as via KWin, which is being used commercially in e.g. the automotive world.
In a January 2024 blog post [Matthias] lays out many of his reasonings and views regarding the topic, with a focus on Linux desktop application usage from a scientific application perspective. When porting a Windows-, X11- or MacOS application to Wayland runs into compatibility issues that may necessitate a complete rewrite or dropping of features, the developer is more likely to stick to X11, to not port to Linux at all, or to use what eventually will amount to Wayland forks that patch around these missing API features.
Meanwhile X11 is definitely getting very long in the tooth, yet without it being a clean drop-in replacement it leaves many developers and end-users less than impressed. Perhaps the Wayland project should focus more on the needs of developers and end-users, and less about what it deems to be the One True Way?
This is very much a das blinkenlights kind of project. The goal is to get a 7-segment display to count from 0 to 9, and that’s it. [Gerry] has a 74LS193 Up/Down Binary Counter, a 74LS42 BCD to Decimal Decoder, and some 74LS00 NAND gates, but he “doesn’t have” an 74LS48 to drive the 7-segment display so he emulates one with an old Altera CPLD model EPM7064SLC44 which dates back to the late nineties. A CPLD is a Complex Programmable Logic Device which is a kind of precursor to
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Emulating a 74LS48 BCD-to-7-Segment Decoder/Driver with an Altera MAX 7000 “S” Series Complex Programmable Logic Device
This is very much a das blinkenlights kind of project. The goal is to get a 7-segment display to count from 0 to 9, and that’s it. [Gerry] has a 74LS193 Up/Down Binary Counter, a 74LS42 BCD to Decimal Decoder, and some 74LS00 NAND gates, but he “doesn’t have” an 74LS48 to drive the 7-segment display so he emulates one with an old Altera CPLD model EPM7064SLC44 which dates back to the late nineties. A CPLD is a Complex Programmable Logic Device which is a kind of precursor to FPGA technology.
This fun video runs for nearly one hour and there are all sorts of twists and turns. The clock is made from a 555 timer. The Altera USB Blaster is used to program the CPLD via JTAG. But before he can do that he has to re-enable JTAG on his CPLD because JTAG LOCKOUT has been used on his secondhand chip. JTAG LOCKOUT is something you can do so that you can use the various JTAG pins for other purposes in your design, at the cost of no longer being about to access via JTAG! Fortunately [Gerry] has the right equipment to do a full reset of his chip and thus reinstate JTAG support.
Just as he’s nearly finished his project he manages to short out and destroy his CPLD by dropping a wire into the wall power socket! Talk about unlucky! He has to go back to the drawing board with a similar model. And in the end he realizes he used the the 7447 (common anode) but actually needed the 7448 (common cathode), so he has to fix that up too. All in all it’s fun to see what was state-of-the-art back in 1998. If you’re interested in such things you might like to read Not Ready For FPGAs? Try A CPLD.
Hey fellow infosec.exchange #fediverse peeps, just a friendly reminder that the fediverse is ran by volunteers. Our very own @jerry does an amazing job on all the infosec fediverse properties! 👏🏼 Let’s not forget to show him some love, support, and appreciation for keeping this and all the services alive.
If you can, support the server by covering some of the cost to run this amazing place. ❤️
[Samcervantes] wanted a cyberdeck. Specifically, he wanted a Clockwork Pi uConsole, but didn’t want to wait three months for it. There are plenty of DIY options, but many of them are difficult to build. So [Sam] did the logical thing: he designed his own. The Bumble Berry Pi is the result.
The design criteria? A tactile keyboard was a big item. Small enough to fit in a pants pocket, but big enough to be useful. What’s more is he wanted to recycle some old Pi 3Bs instead of buying new hardware.
The result looks good. There’s a 4.3″ touch screen, a nice keyboard, and enough battery to run all day. If you already have the Pi, you are looking at about $60 and two 3D-printed parts. There is some soldering, but nothing that should put off the average Hackaday reader.
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Have a Slice of Bumble Berry Pi
[Samcervantes] wanted a cyberdeck. Specifically, he wanted a Clockwork Pi uConsole, but didn’t want to wait three months for it. There are plenty of DIY options, but many of them are difficult to build. So [Sam] did the logical thing: he designed his own. The Bumble Berry Pi is the result.
The design criteria? A tactile keyboard was a big item. Small enough to fit in a pants pocket, but big enough to be useful. What’s more is he wanted to recycle some old Pi 3Bs instead of buying new hardware.
The result looks good. There’s a 4.3″ touch screen, a nice keyboard, and enough battery to run all day. If you already have the Pi, you are looking at about $60 and two 3D-printed parts. There is some soldering, but nothing that should put off the average Hackaday reader.
Does it run Doom? From the photo on the GitHub repo, yes, yes, it does. This would be a fun build, although we have to admit, the beauty of doing a build like this is making it your own. Maybe your pants have differently shaped pockets, we don’t know.
Either way, though, you can get some ideas from [Sam] or just clone his already good-looking deck. If we’re being honest, we are addicted to multiple screens. Plus, we want a built-in radio.
2025 Component Abuse Challenge: The Slip Ring In Your Parts Bin
If you’re familiar with electrical slip rings as found in motors and the like you’ll know them as robust assemblies using carefully chosen alloys and sintered brushes, able to take the load at high RPM for a long time. But not all slip ring applications need this performance. For something requiring a lot less rotational ability, [Luke J. Barker] has something from his parts bin, and probably yours too. It’s an audio jack.
On the face of it, a 1/4″ jack might seem unsuitable for this task, being largely a small-signal audio connector. But when you consider its origins in the world of telephones it becomes apparent that perhaps it could do so much more. It works for him, but we’d suggest if you’d like to follow his example, t
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2025 Component Abuse Challenge: The Slip Ring In Your Parts Bin
If you’re familiar with electrical slip rings as found in motors and the like you’ll know them as robust assemblies using carefully chosen alloys and sintered brushes, able to take the load at high RPM for a long time. But not all slip ring applications need this performance. For something requiring a lot less rotational ability, [Luke J. Barker] has something from his parts bin, and probably yours too. It’s an audio jack.
On the face of it, a 1/4″ jack might seem unsuitable for this task, being largely a small-signal audio connector. But when you consider its origins in the world of telephones it becomes apparent that perhaps it could do so much more. It works for him, but we’d suggest if you’d like to follow his example, to use decent quality plugs and sockets.
This is an entry in our 2025 Component Abuse Challenge, and we like it for thinking in terms of the physical rather than the electrical. The entry period for this contest will have just closed by the time you read this, so keep an eye out for the official results soon.
Socialism is like a really, really hot non-binary person who builds you a reasonably sized house in a well designed community with good food infrastructure and for fun they behead landlords
Wish the party would've just asked me to write this statement!
L'articolo proviene da #StartMag e viene ricondiviso sulla comunità Lemmy @Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁) SoftBank ha venduto la sua intera partecipazione in Nvidia per 5,8 miliardi di dollari. La holding giapponese vuole aumentare gli investimenti nell'intelligenza artificiale, puntando su OpenAi, Ampere e non solo. Numeri e dettagli.
i drew us in the style of rstevens (dieselsweeties.com) ages ago but suddenly everyone was doing these ai "look here's me ghibli style" "look here's me but as an action man" things and so i didn't really show these off but I think they are nice and i did draw every square
@hypolite somehow i don't have many pictures of both of us, there's this when we bought the house. maybe we should pose like our pixel people some time
In this episode of the Fediverse Flows series, host Matthias Pfefferle sits down with pioneer technologist Dave Winer. The inventor of blogging, podcasting, RSS, and text casting. Together, they unpack the evolution of the open web, discussing why true interoperability and openness matter more than ever in an age of restrictive social media platforms.
In this episode of Fediverse Flows, Matthias Pfefferle chats with Dave Winer about the open web's evolution, emphasizing interoperability, linking, and decentralized publishing through WordPress, while discussing challenges faced by contemporary platforms.
Last week @Bonfire@bonfire.cafe launched their first release and a fundraiser for their exciting roadmap 🔥
A part of that roadmap includes teaming up with us to bring Bridgy Fed and Bounce to Bonfire users!
Learn more about our partnership in our…
Adesso hanno veramente rotto il cazzo! Chatcontrol 2.0 rientra dalla porta di servizio – Breyer avverte: "L'UE ci sta prendendo in giro"
L'agguato dell'Europa della sorveglianza: riecco chatcontrol che rientra dalla porta di servizio in silenzio come un ladro, ma a differenza dei ladri, vuole restare a casa tua
Zelensky says situation in Pokrovsk, Zaporizhzhia Oblast ‘difficult’; Russia’s Orsk oil refinery hit in Ukrainian strike, General Staff says; Ukraine pulls back from positions near 5 settlements in Zaporizhzhia Oblast; and more. kyivindependent.com/ukraine-wa…
Hello, this is Francis Farell reporting from Kyiv on day 1,356 of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Today's top story so far:
President Volodymyr Zelensky on Nov.
In the spring of 1942, Nazi Germany began deportations of mass transports of Jews to Auschwitz doomed to immediate extermination. By a decision of the camp a...
⚡️Update: Russia has seized 3 settlements in Zaporizhzhia Oblast amid ‘fierce fighting,’ Syrskyi says. Russian forces have advanced their positions, seizing three settlements in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine’s commander-in-chief confirmed on Nov. 11. kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-…
Ukraine's Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi confirmed that Russian troops have managed to seize "three settlements" amid "fierce fighting" in the region.
The Dutch Ministry of Defence confirmed that the russian vessel yantar was escorted out of the North Sea this week after operating near critical undersea infrastructure within the Netherlands’ exclusive economic zone, according to a statement released on November 6
The Dutch Ministry of Defence confirmed the escort of the Russian vessel Yantar from the North Sea, citing activities near vital undersea infrastructure.
The Guardian article on Ukrainian feminist horror films
Ukrainian audiences, now mostly women due to men at war, flock to homegrown feminist horror where witches and zombies battle russian forces; the genre offers catharsis, market appeal, and taps rich folklore amid real conflict.
Homegrown, female-driven scary movies in which witches and zombies lay waste to invading troops are proving popular in Ukraine. But why seek out horror on screen if you have so much of it in real life?
I know that many people don't like complex or intransparent recommendation algorithms.
Currently, there are "subscribed", "local" and "all" categories (at least in the default lemmy web UI).
I would like to change this to include custom topics ("listings"). They are a custom way of choosing content (in case of Lemmy listings). In Lemmy, custom listings appear just like standard listings (API-wise), just that instead of "https://discuss.tchncs.de/?dataType=Post&listingType=Subscribed&sort=Active" you have "https: //discuss.tchncs.de/?dataType=Post&listingType=list:AAAA4865698@lemmy.world&sort=Active" or something.
Listings could either be lists of communities and other listings. Consider this simple text file to describe a listing for a memes-topic: (that contains 2 communities, everything on 1 domain, and another sub-listing)
thanks! are multi-communities anything like sql virtual tables? i.e they appear as one community to the reader, but are the result of querying multiple communities
W3Schools offers free online tutorials, references and exercises in all the major languages of the web. Covering popular subjects like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, SQL, Java, and many, many more.
No they don't use sql views, they're built using an in query (which we still have to see how performant that'll be, and is pretty much the same problem as subscribed communities, needing to sort and filter based off joined data)
This PR adds the ability to :
Create and edit multi communities
Add multi community entries
Display multi communities on your sidebar
Display multi communities created on use profiles
The /m/multi...
Quando Corrado lasciò la TV al culmine del successo, con una poesia che pesava come pietre. L'addio di un gigante che non si riconosceva più in quello che la televisione stava diventando.
Corrado Mantoni e l'addio alla TV: da Domenica In a La Corrida, la storia del presentatore che ha rifiutato una televisione diventata irriconoscibile. Un saluto dignitoso e doloroso
• new entry ferragostana ☀️🌇🏖️🏞️ la panéra alla mia maniera 🥣
semifreddo🍦x 4 preparare 4cucc.ini di caffè solub.dec. in 125cc di acqua a bollore
montare 250gr di ricotta vacc. con 10gr di stevia e sbriciolarvi 4 quadr.ciocc.fond. refrigerare mentre si procede a
inzuppare 4 biscotti x fondo coppette aggiungere 4 cuc.iai caffè alla crema e porzionarla lasciando un ricciolo finale dopo secondo strato con biscotto imbevuto
a Charlene Bolz somewhere in the US signed up for tons of stuff with my Gmail address. I tried contacting her on fb, she never got back to me. Now I get mail from her hospital sometimes 😱. And also several mails per week about things she orders from Walmart.
Экс-главу центра по противодействию экстремизму МВД Ярославля Ивана Репина избили при задержании бывшие коллеги, сообщает правозащитный проект «Общественный вердикт». Сейчас бывший полицейский находится в СИЗО по обвинению в получении взятки.
По данным правозащитников, год назад Репина жестоко избили при задержании. Со ссылкой на видео нападения и показания самого силовика они утверждают, что оперативник Федюкин бил его ногой по голове, пока он лежал лицом вниз, а его сослуживец Коваленко душил его, прикладывая тряпку к лицу.
@Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁) L’84% delle imprese italiane utilizza sistemi obsoleti, aumentando rischi e costi delle violazioni. Dati e strategie mostrano perché l’obsolescenza tecnologica va considerata priorità nei budget 2025 tra sicurezza, ROI e continuità operativa
Логика то тут понятная: чтобы бпла теряли управление. Только вот проблема: уже не 2024-й год на дворе, методы поменялись, а мы
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бггггггг. z-публика плачет:
Летят дроны, а они отключают интернет.
Логика то тут понятная: чтобы бпла теряли управление. Только вот проблема: уже не 2024-й год на дворе, методы поменялись, а мы все по старому.
Что происходит дальше? Дроны как летели, так и летят. Никакого толка от отрубки связи. Зато у наших подразделений вся координация через телегу идёт. Потому что рабочей альтернативы нет. Азарты, извините, но это не вариант.
И получается ситуация: интернета нет, все маневренные группы и расчёты ПВО сидят отрезанные друг от друга. Не понимают кто где, что летит, откуда бьют. Кого сбивать, а кого пропускать. Связи ноль. А дроны всё равно летят себе.
Короче, пацаны работают вслепую, а бпла спокойно долбят по целям. И кому от этого легче стало? Никому. Это ж надо так додуматься: отрубить связь своим же, чтобы... что? Чтобы врагу удобнее было?
В поселке Тучково в Рузском районе Подмосковья 13-летний подросток за рулем багги наехал на двух человек на привокзальной площади, сообщает региональная полиция.
По данным МВД, пострадали две женщины в возрасте 19 и 64 лет, они госпитализированы. По данным близкого к силовикам телеграм-канала Shot, пенсионерку прижало к стене здания автостанции, ее состояние оценивается как среднее. Молодая девушка оказалась под колесами автомобиля, она находится в реанимации в тяжелом состоянии. Видео: «Подмосковная полиция» / Telegram
Выпускники медвузов теперь будут отрабатывать «долг» государству
Госдума приняла закон, которыйпотребует от ординаторо:к медвузов заключать договоры целевого обучения с обязательной отработкой. Фактически отработка после обучения коснется всех молодых врач:инь с 1 марта 2026 года.
Целевые договоры с отработкой будет распространяться на бюджетное образование в ординатуре — уровне подготовки, на которой студент:ки получают специализацию. Отработка в медучреждении может длиться до трех лет: ее срок можно сократить, например, через трудоустройство в отдаленной местности.
Как это будет работать?
▪️ Если студент:ка откажется заключать договор, то обучение можно продолжить платно при наличии мест. Квота на целевиков будет определяться правительством — она составит около 70% от всех мест на программах ординатуры.
▪️ Если студент:ки целевого обучения в ординатуре разорвут контракт, им придется полностью компенсировать затраты на образование, а также выплатить штраф в размере двух полных сумм стоимости обучения.
▪️ Формально отработка будет называться «наставничеством» — если ее не пройти, то получить обязательную аккредитацию будет затруднительно.
Критикуют ли это новшество?
▪️ Законопроект вызвал волну критики как среди медик:есс, так и в самой Госдуме. Депутат от КПРФ Алексей Куринный, врач-хирург со степенью кандидата медицинских наук, отметил, что поправки отпугнут абитуриенто:к и
«станут чрезвычайно жестким инструментом в руках недобросовестных администраторов».
▪️ Сенатор Ульяновской области Айрат Гибатдинов полагает, что законопроект только усугубит проблему кадрового голода в медицинской сфере. В регионах с дефицитом врач:инь законопроект не гарантирует студент:кам достойной зарплаты и доступного жилья.
▪️ Ранее казанские врачи:ни выступили против законопроекта о принудительных отработках для выпускни:ц медицинских вузов. Два главных профсоюза медработни:ц также выступили против законопроекта.
Ionic columns flank the wall panel showing a frame for a painting. An altar mensa stands at its bottom. Balconies connect the columns with the lateral wall panels. Coffered dome with a high lectern.
There's been a lot of pearl-clutching about public grocery stores!
Which is wild, because we have a LOT of experience with public grocery stores in the US. And the folks it serves (US military & military families) stand by it.
High grocery prices are hurting everyone. And since the federal government has lost the will for good old-fashioned trustbusting, a new local solution's come...
< Nel dibattito su una tassa sui grandi patrimoni la sinistra parla di giustizia sociale, la destra di furto di Stato. I numeri dicono che l’1% degli italiani detiene il 23% della ricchezza. E il restante 99% paga per tutti. >
Nel dibattito su una tassa sui grandi patrimoni la sinistra parla di giustizia sociale, la destra di furto di Stato. I numeri dicono che l’1% degli italiani detiene il 23% della ricchezza. E il restante 99% paga per tutti.
Delightful detail from the Roman “unswept floor” mosaic by Heraclitus, showing a mouse nibbling a walnut. Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect! 2nd century AD. Vatican Museums museivaticani.va/content/musei… #MosaicMonday #Archaeology #globalmuseum @AlisonFisk
An attack is underway on the Starobesheve thermal power plant in occupied Donetsk region. With an installed capacity of 2,300 MW, it remains one of the most strategically important energy assets in Russian occupied territory.
Joke of the day from Moscow: Russia tried to unveil its first humanoid AI robot, Aidol. Key word: tried. The robot collapsed during its debut, forcing organizers to cut the presentation short. Their rushed attempt to lift the prop only made things worse.
Bellissimo vedere come Mastodon.uno riconosca e valorizzi chi promuove un uso più consapevole, critico e libero di @internet in un’epoca in cui tutto spinge a stare sempre connessi e a produrre contenuti usa e getta c’è chi invece sceglie di usare meno ma usare meglio.
Complimenti a @slowsurf che in pochissimi giorni ha raccolto un centinaio di meritatissimi seguaci: un segnale che un’altro web più umano, sostenibile e resistente ai Big Tech non solo è possibile, ma sta crescendo.
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In 15 giorni abbiamo raggiunto oltre le 100 persone.
Questo è il primo (spero di molti) traguardi che raggiungiamo come comunità @slowsurf 🐢 fatta di persone che credono ancora nella lentezza, nell'approfondimento, nel dedicar…
Until last week, there was no public, systemic accounting of U.S. weapons sales. A new dataset from the Brussels-based think tank Bruegel now fills that gap, revealing a sharp increase in European purchases of American military technology since 2020. kyivindependent.com/chart-of-t…
The United States is the biggest exporter of military equipment in the world. But who's buying?
Until last week, there was no public, systemic accounting of U.S. weapons sales.
As the full-scale war enters into its fourth year, novelist and poet Myroslav Laiuk has found himself drawn to front-line reporting. He has traveled everywhere, from Bakhmut to Pokrovsk and Kherson, documenting the war and those living through it. kyivindependent.com/compared-t…
At least 23,000 Roma and Sinti people - including 11 thousand children were deported by the Nazi German regime to Auschwitz. After the Jews and Poles they ar...
On Kherson’s 3rd liberation anniversary, President #Zelenskyy honoured heroes - soldiers, rescuers, teachers, and volunteers - who expelled russian occupiers and rebuilt the city, emphasizing Ukrainian resilience and unity.
Awards recognized bravery, service, and sacrifice.
Every day, Russian tankers carry billions of dollars' worth of oil across the Baltic Sea. Despite sweeping Western sanctions, this trade continues to fuel the Kremlin's war machine.
A Russian column trying to enter under the cover of fog on the southern outskirts of Pokrovsk was destroyed. Burned-out vehicles now mark the failed assault attempt.
Russia’s plan to conquer Ukraine unfolds in three stages, according to Foreign Affairs. First: battlefield dominance. Second: occupy or devastate enough land to cripple Ukraine’s economy unless it complies with Moscow. Third: turn Ukraine into a satellite like Belarus. 2026 will be decisive.
Ukraine is quietly becoming a drone superpower. According to Bloomberg, Ukrainian manufacturers produce around 4 million drones annually, from long‑range strike systems to inexpensive FPV models, a total that likely exceeds the combined production of all NATO countries.
DTEK responds to the growing number of "Where is the power?" questions with footage of relentless strikes and destruction at thermal power plants and substations.
The scale of damage is massive, and the energy system is indeed under extreme pressure at this moment.
⚡️ Ukraine war latest live: Zelensky says situation in Pokrovsk, Zaporizhzhia Oblast ‘difficult.’ “The Russians are increasing the number and scale of assaults,” he said in a post on social media. kyivindependent.com/ukraine-wa…
Hello, this is Francis Farell reporting from Kyiv on day 1,356 of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Today's top story so far:
President Volodymyr Zelensky on Nov.
Exilenova’s analysis suggests the drone strike on the Orsk refinery likely hit the LCh‑24‑2000 diesel hydrotreating unit, previously struck on November 3, or narrowly missed, impacting a fluid distillation pipe.
⚡️ EU ministers to meet in Lviv to discuss Ukraine’s integration progress, sources say. The gathering aims to demonstrate political support for Ukraine’s EU aspirations as Kyiv faces opposition from Hungary. kyivindependent.com/eu-ministe…
The gathering aims to demonstrate political support for Ukraine's EU aspirations as Kyiv faces opposition from Hungary, which has the power to block any future steps in the accession process.
⚡️ ‘Explosions and fire recorded’ — Russia’s Orsk oil refinery hit in Ukrainian strike, General Staff says. The attack targeted Orsknefteorgsintez, a refinery in the city of Orsk that produces over 30 types of petroleum products. kyivindependent.com/russias-or…
Первый в России человекоподобный робот упал на сцене во время презентации
Первый в России антропоморфный робот упал во время выхода на сцену. Видео с презентации опубликовало агентство «Москва». Робот выходил под композицию Gonna Fly Now из фильма «Роки» в сопровождении двоих мужчин. Когда робот упал, они попытались закрыть сцену черной тканью.
По данным издания «Компьютерра», разрабатывает робота «Новая технологическая коалиция», в которую входят Promobot, «Дабл Ю Экспо», Idol, «Корпорация роботов» и ряд университетов. Сообщается, что робот с искусственным интеллектом способен поддерживать диалог и выражать эмоции с помощью мимики.
Первый в России человекоподобный робот упал на сцене во время презентации
Первый в России антропоморфный робот упал во время выхода на сцену. Видео с презентации опубликовало агентство «Москва».
Дефицит бюджета России по итогам десяти месяцев 2025 года вырос до 4,19 триллиона рублей, следует из обновленных данных Минфина. В октябре власти увеличили показатель дефицита бюджета, по итогам подсчета за январь-сентябрь этого года расходы превышали доходы на 3,787 триллиона рублей.
Текущий показатель дефицита бюджета эквивалентен почти 2% российского ВВП. Власти ожидают, что бюджет в 2025 году будет исполнен с дефицитом в 2,6% ВВП, а расходы превысят доходы на 5,74 триллиона рублей.
65-летнего левого активиста Андрея Фогеля приговорили к принудительному лечению по сфабрикованному делу
Андрея Фогеля, 65-летнегоактивиста движения «За новый социализм», приговорили к принудительному психиатрическому лечению по сфабрикованному делу, сообщает корреспондент «Медиазоны» из зала суда. Фогеля обвинили в создании террористической группы для нападений на руководство «Уралвагонзавода».
Центральный окружной военный суд Екатеринбурга признал Андрея Фогеля виновным в попытке создать террористическую организацию для нападений на топ-менеджеро:к «Уралвагонзавода» и «ликвидации руководства страны». Сам Фогель сообщил, что в деле фигурирует сотрудник ФСБ под прикрытием, который подбил его на встречи с военными и убеждал в необходимости радикальных действий.
Ключевым доказательством обвинения стали записи встреч Фогеля с активистом независимого профсоюза «Уралвагонзавода» Павлом Сергиеней и несколькими росгвардейцами — все они сотрудничали с ФСБ.
Gene Therapy Aims To Slow Huntington’s Disease To A Crawl
Despite the best efforts of modern medicine, Huntington’s disease is a condition that still comes with a tragic prognosis. Primarily an inherited disease, its main symptoms concern degeneration of the brain, leading to issues with motor control, mood disturbance, with continued degradation eventually proving fatal.
Researchers have recently made progress in finding a potential treatment for the disease. A new study has indicated that an innovative genetic therapy could hold promise for slowing the progression of the disease, greatly improving patient outcomes.
Treatment
Huntington’s disease stems from a mutation in the huntingtin gene, which is responsible for coding for the huntingtin protein. This gene contains a repeated sequence referred to as a trinucleotide repeat, where the same three DNA bases repeat multiple times. The repeat count varies
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Gene Therapy Aims To Slow Huntington’s Disease To A Crawl
Despite the best efforts of modern medicine, Huntington’s disease is a condition that still comes with a tragic prognosis. Primarily an inherited disease, its main symptoms concern degeneration of the brain, leading to issues with motor control, mood disturbance, with continued degradation eventually proving fatal.
Researchers have recently made progress in finding a potential treatment for the disease. A new study has indicated that an innovative genetic therapy could hold promise for slowing the progression of the disease, greatly improving patient outcomes.
Treatment
Huntington’s disease stems from a mutation in the huntingtin gene, which is responsible for coding for the huntingtin protein. This gene contains a repeated sequence referred to as a trinucleotide repeat, where the same three DNA bases repeat multiple times. The repeat count varies between individuals, and can change from generation to generation due to genetic mutation. If the number of repeats becomes too long, the gene no longer codes for huntingtin protein, and produces mutant huntingtin protein instead. The mutated protein eventually leads to neural degeneration. This genetic basis is key to the heritability of Huntington’s disease. If one parent carries a faulty gene, their children have a fifty percent chance of inheriting it and eventually developing the disease themselves. Over generations, the number of repeats can increase and lead to symptoms appearing at an earlier age. Excessive repeats in a critical gene are the root cause of Huntington’s disease. Credit: NIST, public domain The new treatment relies on advanced genetic techniques to slow the disease in its tracks. It involves the use of a custom designed virus, which is inserted into the brain itself in specific key areas. It’s a delicate surgical process that takes anywhere from 12 to 18 hours, using real-time scanning to ensure the viral payload is placed exactly where it needs to go. The virus carries a DNA sequence and delivers it to brain cells, which begin processing the DNA to produce small fragments of genetic material called microRNA. These fragments intercept the messenger RNA that is produced from the body’s own DNA instructions, which is responsible for producing the mutant huntingtin protein which causes the degenerative disease. In this way, mutant huntingtin levels are reduced, drastically slowing the progression of the disease.
The effects of the treatment are potentially game changing, with progression of the disease slowed by 75% in study patients. Results indicate that with effective treatment, the decline expected over one year would instead take a full four years. In more qualitative areas, some patients in the trial have managed to maintain the ability to walk at a point when they would typically be expected to require wheel chairs. In typical Huntington’s cases, the onset occurs between 30 to 50 years old, with a life expectancy of just 15 to 20 years after diagnosis. The hope is that by delaying the progression of the disease, affected patients could have a greater quality of life for much longer, without suffering the worst impacts of the condition. A microscopic image of a neuron damaged by mutated Huntingtin (mHtt) protein inclusion, visible via orange stain. Credit: Dr Steven Finkbeiner, CC BY-SA 3.0 The initial trial involved just twenty-nine patients, but results were promising. Data indicated consistent benefit to patients three years after the initial surgery. Crucially, the treatment isn’t just slowing symptoms, but there is also evidence it helped to preserve brain tissue. Markers of neuronal death in spinal fluid, which would typically increase as Huntington’s disease progresses, were actually lower than before treatment in study patients.
The therapy isn’t without complications. Beyond the complicated and highly invasive brain surgery required to get the virus where it needs to go, some patients developed inflammation from the virus causing some side effects like headaches and confusion. There’s also the expense — advanced gene therapies don’t come cheap. However, on the positive side, it’s believed the treatment could potentially be a one-off matter, as the brain cells that produce the critical microRNA fragments are not replaced regularly like other more disposable cells in the body. While it’s a new and radical treatment, pharmaceutical company UniQure has plans to bring it to market as soon as late 2026 in the US, with the European market to follow.
It’s not every day that scientists discover a new viable cure for a disease that has long proven fatal. However, through genetic techniques and a strong understanding of the causative factors of the disease, it appears scientists have made progress in tackling the spectre that is Huntington’s disease. For the many thousands of patients grappling with the disease, and the many descendents who struggle with potentially having inherited the condition, news of a potential treatment is a very good thing indeed.
The state of Nevada released a “forensics report” from their recent ransomware incident. It’ll be featured on the next DefSec episode, but I thought this level of fuckery deserved extra attention. I applaud/abhor Nevada’s ability to turn a breach report into political grandstanding.
[edit] and if that reassures you, know that the Adobe reader app also has a tough time understanding what to do with Google drive’s embedding… it shows the web page and I can zoom and scroll but I can’t import the file directly (I got it in the end but wow)
CHAT CONTROL 2.0 THROUGH THE BACK DOOR – Breyer warns: “The EU is playing us for fools – now they’re scanning our texts and banning teens!”
Just before a decisive meeting in Brussels, digital rights expert and former Member of the European Parliament Dr. Patrick Breyer is sounding the alarm. Using a “deceptive sleight of hand,” a mandatory and expanded Chat Control is being pushed through the back door, in a form even more intrusive than the originally rejected plan. The legislative package could be greenlit tomorrow in a closed-door EU working group session.
“This is a political deception of the highest order,” warns Breyer. “Following loud public protests, several member states including Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, and Austria said ‘No’ to indiscriminate Chat Control. Now it’s coming back through the back door – disguised, more dangerous, and more comprehensive than ever. The public is being played for fools.”
According to Breyer, the new comp
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CHAT CONTROL 2.0 THROUGH THE BACK DOOR – Breyer warns: “The EU is playing us for fools – now they’re scanning our texts and banning teens!”
Just before a decisive meeting in Brussels, digital rights expert and former Member of the European Parliament Dr. Patrick Breyer is sounding the alarm. Using a “deceptive sleight of hand,” a mandatory and expanded Chat Control is being pushed through the back door, in a form even more intrusive than the originally rejected plan. The legislative package could be greenlit tomorrow in a closed-door EU working group session.
“This is a political deception of the highest order,” warns Breyer. “Following loud public protests, several member states including Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, and Austria said ‘No’ to indiscriminate Chat Control. Now it’s coming back through the back door – disguised, more dangerous, and more comprehensive than ever. The public is being played for fools.”
According to Breyer, the new compromise proposal is a Trojan horse containing three poison pills for digital freedom:
1. MANDATORY CHAT CONTROL – MASKED AS “RISK MITIGATION” Officially, explicit scanning obligations have been dropped. But a loophole in Article 4 of the new draft obliges providers of e-mail, chat and messenger services like WhatsApp to take “all appropriate risk mitigation measures.” This means they can still be forced to scan all private messages – including on end-to-end encrypted services. “The loophole renders the much-praised removal of detection orders worthless and negates their supposed voluntary nature,” says Breyer. “Even client-side scanning (CSS) on our smartphones could soon become mandatory – the end of secure encryption.”
2. TOTAL SURVEILLANCE OF TEXT CHATS: A “DIGITAL WITCH HUNT” The supposedly voluntary “Chat Control 2.0” goes far beyond the previously discussed scanning of photos, videos, and links. Now, algorithms and AI can be used to mass-scan the private chat texts and metadata of all citizens for suspicious keywords and signals. “No AI can reliably distinguish between a flirt, sarcasm, and criminal ‘grooming’,” explains Breyer. “Imagine your phone scanning every conversation with your partner, your daughter, your therapist and leaking it just because the word ‘love’ or ‘meet’ appears somewhere. This is not child protection – this is a digital witch hunt. The result will be a flood of false positives, placing innocent citizens under general suspicion and exposing masses of private, even intimate, chats and photos to strangers.” Under the current voluntary “Chat Control 1.0” scanning scheme, German federal police (BKA) already warn that around 50% of all reports are criminally irrelevant, equating to tens of thousands of leaked chats per year.
3. DIGITAL HOUSE ARREST FOR TEENS & THE END OF ANONYMOUS COMMUNICATION In the shadow of the Chat Control debate, two other disastrous measures are being pushed through:
The End of Anonymous Communication: To reliably identify minors as required by the text, every citizen would have to present their ID or have their face scanned to open an email or messenger account. “This is the de facto end of anonymous communication online – a disaster for whistleblowers, journalists, political activists, and people seeking help who rely on the protection of anonymity,” warns Breyer.
“Digital House Arrest”: Teens under 16 face a blanket ban from WhatsApp, Instagram, online games, and countless other apps with chat functions. “Digital isolation instead of education, protection by exclusion instead of empowerment – this is paternalistic, out of touch with reality, and pedagogical nonsense.”
URGENT APPEAL: GOVERNMENTS MUST NOW USE THEIR VETO! Several EU governments—including those of Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Czechia, Luxembourg, Finland, Austria, and Estonia—have previously voiced strong opposition to indiscriminate mass scanning. “Now, these governments must show some backbone!” demands Breyer. “Block this sham compromise in the Council and demand immediate corrections to save the fundamental rights of all citizens. The EU Parliament has already shown, across party lines, how child protection and digital freedom can be achieved together.”
Breyer demands the following immediate corrections before any government should agree:
No mandatory chat control through the back door: Clarify that scans cannot be enforced as “risk mitigation.”
No AI chat police: Restrict scanning to known child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
No mass surveillance: Only allow targeted surveillance of suspects based on a court order.
Preserve the right to anonymity: The mandatory age verification requirement must be scrapped entirely.
“They are selling us security but delivering a total surveillance machine,” Breyer concludes. “They promise child protection but punish our children and criminalize privacy. This is not a compromise – this is a fraud against the citizen. And no democratic government should make itself an accomplice.”
About Dr. Patrick Breyer: Dr. Patrick Breyer is a jurist, digital rights expert, and a former Member of the European Parliament (Pirate Party) until 2024. As a co-negotiator of the Parliament’s position on the Chat Control regulation (CSAR), he is a leading European critic of indiscriminate mass surveillance.
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In his traditional evening address, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky emphasized that the situation at the front remains under control — the occupiers ...
Пятеро школьниковпринялитранквилизаторы на уроке и оказались в больнице
В Шуваловской школе №1448 на западе Москвы пятеро учеников десятого класса были госпитализированы после употребления транквилизаторов и пива, сообщил близкий к силовикам телеграм-канал «112».
Директор школы Ольга Дмитриева подтвердила агентству «Москва», что школьники отравились рецептурным препаратом. По ее словам, во время шестого урока классный руководитель заметил «странное» состояние у пятерых учеников и вызвал скорую помощь.
Рабыни туристической индустрии или жертвы войны? Репортаж о том, как живут «женщины с длинными шеями» в Таиланде
Наверняка вы видели экзотические фотографии пестро одетых женщин, которые носят на шее металлические кольца.
За колоритными фотографиями стоит не только неоднозначная культурная традиция, но и история многолетней войны, лишений, беженства, жизни без гражданства и попыток обеспечить детям лучшее будущее.
Real-Time BART in a Box Smaller Than Your Coffee Mug
Ever get to the train station on time, find your platform, and then stare at the board showing your train is 20 minutes late? Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) may run like clockwork most days, but a heads-up before you leave the house is always nice. That’s exactly what [filbot] built: a real-time arrival display that looks like it was stolen from the platform itself.
The mini replica nails the official vibe — distinctive red text glowing inside a sheet-metal-style enclosure. The case is 3D printed, painted, and dressed up with tiny stickers to match the real deal. For that signature red glow, [filbot] chose a 20×4 character OLED. Since the display wants 5 V logic, a tiny level-shifter sits alongside an ESP32-C6 that runs the show. A lightweight middlewa
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Real-Time BART in a Box Smaller Than Your Coffee Mug
Ever get to the train station on time, find your platform, and then stare at the board showing your train is 20 minutes late? Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) may run like clockwork most days, but a heads-up before you leave the house is always nice. That’s exactly what [filbot] built: a real-time arrival display that looks like it was stolen from the platform itself.
The mini replica nails the official vibe — distinctive red text glowing inside a sheet-metal-style enclosure. The case is 3D printed, painted, and dressed up with tiny stickers to match the real deal. For that signature red glow, [filbot] chose a 20×4 character OLED. Since the display wants 5 V logic, a tiny level-shifter sits alongside an ESP32-C6 that runs the show. A lightweight middleware API [filbot] wrote simplifies grabbing just the data he needs from the official BART API and pushes it to the little screen.
We love how much effort went into shrinking a full-size transit sign into a desk-friendly package that only shows the info you actually care about. If you’re looking for more of an overview, we’re quite fond of PCB metro maps as well.
La UE promuove le politiche Green. La UE vuole affrancarsi dal gas e dal petrolio russo. Ma poi guarda che casini occorre fare per affrancarsi dal gas e dal petrolio russo, per metterlo in quel posto a Putin. Va a finire che se dimentichi un passaggio o una comunicazione, è lo Stato che te lo mette in quel posto. Ne vale la pena?
Grazie ad EcoFlow ho finalmente provato un fotovoltaico! Superando i limiti e avendo le bollette quasi a 0! Acquista dal sito ufficiale:https://it.ecoflow.co...
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Moving From Windows to FreeBSD as the Linux Chaos Alternative
Back in the innocent days of Windows 98 SE, I nearly switched to Linux on account of how satisfied I was with my Windows experience. This started with the Year of the Linux Desktop in 1999 that started with me purchasing a boxed copy of SuSE Linux and ended with me switching to Windows 2000. After this I continued tinkering with non-Windows OSes including QNX, BeOS, various BSDs, as well as Linux distributions that promised a ‘Windows-like’ desktop experience, such as Lindows.
Now that Windows 2000’s proud legacy has seen itself reduced to a rusting wreck resting on cinderblocks on Microsoft’s dying front lawn,
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Moving From Windows to FreeBSD as the Linux Chaos Alternative
Back in the innocent days of Windows 98 SE, I nearly switched to Linux on account of how satisfied I was with my Windows experience. This started with the Year of the Linux Desktop in 1999 that started with me purchasing a boxed copy of SuSE Linux and ended with me switching to Windows 2000. After this I continued tinkering with non-Windows OSes including QNX, BeOS, various BSDs, as well as Linux distributions that promised a ‘Windows-like’ desktop experience, such as Lindows.
Now that Windows 2000’s proud legacy has seen itself reduced to a rusting wreck resting on cinderblocks on Microsoft’s dying front lawn, the quiet discomfort that many Windows users have felt since Windows 7 was forcefully End-Of-Life-d has only increased. With it comes the uncomfortable notion that Windows as a viable desktop OS may be nearing its demise. Yet where to from here?
Although the recommendations from the peanut gallery seem to coalesce around Linux or Apple’s MacOS (formerly OS X), there are a few dissenting voices extolling the virtues of FreeBSD over both. There are definitely compelling reasons to pick FreeBSD over Linux, in addition to it being effectively MacOS’s cousin. Best of all is not having to deal with the Chaos Vortex that spawns whenever you dare to utter the question of ‘which Linux distro?’. Within the world of FreeBSD there is just FreeBSD, which makes for a remarkably coherent experience.
Ghosting The Subject
The GhostBSD logo. Although FreeBSD doesn’t have distributions the way that Linux does due to it being a singular codebase rather than a duct-taped patchwork, you do get a choice as far as difficulty settings go. You can always pick plain FreeBSD with its functional but barebones installer, which dumps you into a command line shell and expects you to jump through some hoops to set up things like a desktop environment. This is generally fine if you’re an advanced user, or just want to set up a headless server system.
In case you’re more into the ‘just add water’ level of a desktop OS installation process, the GhostBSD project provides the ready to go option for a zero fuss installation like you would see with Linux Mint, Manjaro Linux and kin. Although I have done the hard mode path previously with FreeBSD virtual machines, to save myself the time and bother I opted for the GhostBSD experience here.
For this experiment I have two older-but-quite-usable systems at my disposal: one is a 2013-era Ivy Bridge Intel-based gaming laptop that’s a rebranded Clevo W370ET, the other a late-2015 Skylake PC with a Core i7 6700K, GTX 980 Ti and 32 GB of DDR4. To give both the best chance possible I also installed a brand new SATA SSD in both systems to run the OS from.
Down To Bare Metal
GhostBSD offers two images: the official Mate desktop version and the community XFCE version. Since I have always had a soft spot for XFCE, that’s the version I went with. After fetching the image, I used Rufus to create a bootable USB stick and made sure that the target system was set to boot from USB media. First I wanted to focus on the laptop, but this is where I ran into the first issue when the installer froze on me.
After a few hours of trying various things, including trying a known good Manjaro Linux installer which flunked out with a complaint about the USB medium, I figured I might as well give a Windows 10 installer a shot for fun. This actually got me a useful error code: 0x8007025D. While it broadly indicates ‘something’ being wrong along the USB-RAM-HDD/SSD path, it led me to a post about USB 3.0 being a potential issue as it changed some things compared to USB 2.0. The solution? Use a USB 2.0 port instead, obviously. Creating a new ZFS system partition for the GhostBSD installation. (Credit: Maya Posch) Long story short, this sort of worked: the GhostBSD installer still froze up once it entered the graphical section, but the Manjaro installer was happy as a clam, so now that laptop runs Manjaro, I guess.
A subsequent attempt to boot the GhostBSD installer on the 6700K system went much better, even while daringly using a USB 3.0 port on the case. Before I knew it GhostBSD was purring along with the XFCE desktop sparkling along at 1080p.
I’m not sure what GhostBSD’s issue was with the laptop. It’s possible that it found the NVidia Optimus configuration disagreeable, but now I have two rather capable gaming systems to directly compare Linux and FreeBSD with. There are no mistakes, just happy little accidents.
Gaming The System
Since any open source software of note that runs on Linux tends to have a native FreeBSD build, the experience here is rather same-ish. Where things can get interesting is with things related to the GPU, especially gaming. These days that of course means getting Steam and ideally the GoG Galaxy client running, which cracks open a pretty big can of proprietary worms. Playing the Windows GoG version of Firewatch on GhostBSD. (Credit: Maya Posch) Annoyingly, Valve has only released a Steam client for Windows, MacOS and Linux, with the latter even only officially supporting some versions of Ubuntu Linux. This is no real concern for Manjaro Linux, just with the disclaimer that if anything breaks, you’re SOL and better start praying that it’ll magically start working again.
Unfortunately, for FreeBSD the userland Linux ABI compatibility isn’t quite enough as the Steam DRM means that it goes far beyond basic binary compatibility.
The two available options here are to either try one’s chances with the linuxulator-steam-utils workarounds that tries to stuff the Linux client into a chroot, or to go Wine all the way with the Windows Steam client and add more Windows to your OSS.
Neither approach is ideal, but the main question is whether or not it allows you to play your games. After initially getting the Linux tools setup and ready to bootstrap Steam, I got thrown a curveball by the 32-bit Wine and dependencies not being available, leading to a corresponding issue thread on the GhostBSD forums. After Eric over at the GhostBSD project resolved the build issue for these dependencies, I thought that now I would be able to play some games, but I was initially sorely disappointed.
For some reason I was now getting a ‘permission denied’ error for the chdir command in the lsu-bootstrap script, so after some fruitless debugging I had to give up on this approach and went full Wine. I probably could have figured out what the problem here was, but considering the limitations of the LSU Steam approach and me just wanting to play games instead of debug-the-FOSS-project, it felt like time to move on.
Watery Wine
The Windows Steam client running on GhostBSD. (Credit: Maya Posch) As it turns out, the low-fuss method to get Steam and GoG Galaxy working is via the the Mizutamari Wine GUI frontend. Simply install it with pkg install mizuma or via the package center, open it from the Games folder in the start menu, then select the desired application’s name and then the Install button. Within minutes I had both Steam and the ‘classic’ GoG Galaxy clients installed and running. The only glitch was that the current GoG Galaxy client didn’t want to work, but that might have been a temporary issue. Since I only ever use the GoG Galaxy 1.x client on Windows, this was fine for me.
After logging into both clients and escaping from Steam’s ‘Big Picture Mode’, I was able to install a few games and play them, which went completely smoothly, except for the elevator scene in Firewatch where I couldn’t look around using the mouse despite it working fine in the menu, but that game is notoriously buggy, so that’s a question mark on the exact cause. Between buggy games, Wine, and the OS, there definitely are sufficient parties to assign blame to.
Similarly, while the Steam client was a bit graphically glitchy with flickering on the Store page, and trying to access the Settings menu resulted in it restarting, I was able to install and play Windows games like Nightmare Kart, so that’s a win in my book. That said, I can’t say that I’m not jealous of just punching in sudo pacman -S steam on the Manjaro rig to get the Steam client up in a minute or so. Someone please convince Gabe to compile the Steam client for FreeBSD, and the CD Projekt folk to compile the Galaxy client for FreeBSD and Linux.
It should be noted here that although it is possible to use alternative frontends for GoG instead of its Galaxy client, you need it for things like cloud saves. Hence me choosing this path to get everything as close to on par with the Windows experience and feature set.
Next Steps
Aside from gaming, there are many possible qualifications for what might make a ‘Windows desktop replacement’. As far as FreeBSD goes, the primary annoyance is having to constantly lean on the Linux or Windows versions of software. This is also true for things like DaVinci Resolve for video editing, where since there’s no official FreeBSD version, you have to stuff the Linux version into a chroot once again to run it via the Linux compatibility layer.
Although following the requisite steps isn’t rocket science for advanced users, it would simply be nice if a native version existed and you could just install the package. Based on my own experiences porting a non-trivial application like the FFmpeg- and SDL-based NymphCast to FreeBSD – among other OSes – such porting isn’t complicated at all, assuming your code doesn’t insist on going around POSIX and doing pretty wild Linux-specific things.
Ranting on software development aside, for my next steps on my FreeBSD/GhostBSD journey I’ll likely be giving approaches like this running of Linux software on FreeBSD another shot, barring finding that native video editors work well enough for my purposes.
Feel free to sound off in the comments on how to improve my experiences so far, as well as warn me and others who are embarking on a similar BSD journey of certain pitfalls.
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