Bellingcat = Propaganda and disinformation
https://mronline.org/2021/10/11/bellingcat-funded-by-u-s-and-uk-intelligence-contractors-that-aided-extremists-in-syria/
Some more evidence not mentioned in previous articles.
Posts by saskwatch
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US distrust of Huawei linked in part to malicious software update in 2012
Two non-Gtk Linux desktops have put out new versions
Tuesday 9th November 2021 20:11 GMT
Been using LXQt since version 1.2 & love it. Makes for a simple elegant aesthetically pleasing desktop compatible with much of the KDE desktop.
Was using Openbox but because of compositing issues have gone back to XFWM4, which is the default in Debian. Will stick with that as long as
XFWM4 stays compatible with the old GTK2 xfwm4-themes package & the lxqt-xfwm4-package cribbed from Siduction. I also use the Moka icon
theme, finding the default Papirus icon theme, well flat & ugly. I also use the Plank simple dock app to organize my desktop shortcuts. Way more
fun to tinker with & less hassle than Windows.
Dependable Debian is like a rock in a swirling gyre of 'move fast and break things', and version 11 is no different
US offers Julian Assange time in Australian prison instead of American supermax if he loses London extradition fight
Friday 9th July 2021 03:07 GMT
Most of the comments I've seen on the Register revolve around the character or personality of Assange. Don't know the man myself but I do know
most of the case against him in the media is based on denigrating him personally. As for his actual trial & what was said, it was buried in the MSM:
https://www.medialens.org/2020/none-of-it-reported-how-corporate-media-buried-the-assange-trial/
Desktop renaissance? Nope, rebound of hefty PCs is just because there's notebook shortage – analysts
Sunday 30th May 2021 09:20 GMT 
Buy Directly From China
If you are willing to take the risk of buying from away then shopping from China may be for you. Recently bought a low end laptop through Aliexpress for a little over
$400 CDN & am perfectly happy with it. It has a 15.5" screen, full keyboard, 8G RAM, 256G SSD. It uses an Intel Celeron J4115 processor ( J4125s are more common now ) with more than enough oomph for WFH
Sunday 30th May 2021 09:20 GMT
Buy Directly From China
I've noticed little to no increase in prices on the laptops listed on Aliexpress. If you are willing to go with the risk & the absence of any warranties,
then there are bargains to be had. A few months ago I bought a low end unbranded laptop with a 15.5" screen, full keyboard, 8G RAM, 256G SSD and an Intel Celeron J4115 processor for a little over $400 CDN, delivered in about 2 weeks. Newer versions now use the J4125. It's a little light on battery power but handles all the tasks that most WFH folks do with ease. Switched it to Linux with little to no trouble at all.
Microsoft's Edge browser for Linux hits the Beta Channel ... if you're into that kind of thing
Thursday 6th May 2021 03:41 GMT
Over the Edge
Installed the Chrome based Edge on my Linux system along with Teams which my partner of many, many years needs for civic participation meetings. I never use it for anything else. It is most bloated and unintuitive spin on Chromium I've ever encountered. Totally useless. Big Firefox fan myself. To add insult to injury I now have to have two M$ ( I know using this abbreviation marks me out as a "Linux bigot" )
accounts because the first one triggered some obscure Teams bug. I took me more time than I care
to remember to get Teams to work reliably with the help of the administrator on the other end, who
was very patient with me. Although he knew Linux existed he'd never encountered anyone who used
it. Suppose I should be grateful to Microsoft for porting all this software to Linux but I am not. As soon
as this pandemic is over & she doesn't need it any more it's 'apt-get purge' for the lot of it.
Must 'completely free' mean 'hard to install'? Newbie gripe sparks some soul-searching among Debian community
Saturday 23rd January 2021 02:52 GMT
Link to Debian Non-Free
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/10.7.0-live+nonfree/amd64/iso-hybrid/
Debian for the agnostics who want things to work. Very rarely run into any hardware it doesn't have out of the box.
Surprised nobody posted this earlier. This is the current stable version. Prefer testing myself. It's there too if you look around.
That's it. It's over. It's really over. From today, Adobe Flash Player no longer works. We're free. We can just leave
KDE maintainers speak on why it is worth looking beyond GNOME
Another rewrite for 737 Max software as cosmic bit-flipping tests glitch out systems – report
Monday 5th August 2019 04:47 GMT
Re: So...
I heard a similar explanation from an aeronautical journalist on the CBC (Canada) only the way he put it
was with the new wings and the new engines, Boeing should have designed a new air frame but to do it
on the cheap they chose to bolt the new hardware on to the old 737 air frame thus screwing up the flight geometry and necessitating a software "fix". They also got to keep the old 737 designation.
Haven't seen anything alluding to this in the mainstream press.
Definite upvote for mentioning this and the more than likely outcome
Biting the hand that feeds IT
