Turkey is grappling with forest fires as temperatures continue to soar. Agricultural lands and settlements were evacuated across several provinces at the weekend. Sixteen of Sunday’s fires have been brought under control. Efforts to contain three remaining blazes, located in south Turkey’s Mersin, earthquake-stricken Hatay,...
The Turkish government has faced criticism in recent years for failing to invest in systems that could detect and respond to fires early, as well as condemnation for increasing fire risk by handing out permits for non-forestry activities such as mining, energy production, and tourism within forested areas.
On-the-ground teams do not have access to sufficient resources and equipment to enable early intervention, forestry policy experts claim, attributing major 2020 and 2021 fires in Turkey to a lack of adequate government funding for prevention and fire fighting.
Whatever you think you are saving by purchasing cheap chinese products, you pay it back years later through the effect of global warming.
Several hundred "experienced" Wagner fighters have arrived in the Central African Republic to secure a referendum on 30 July, a Russian private security company said Sunday....
First, most of the people I saw discussing it support flatpak, not packages. They support flatpak like they support a football team. example here: "Mostly because they're uneducated fools".
It's all about reputation. There are people I trust, like Steam and there are perfect strangers from the internet. Who do you trust the most between "debian VS mastakilla_51"?
Wake me up when a flatpak app is thought with clear boundaries and doesn't just request access to my whole home directory. Until then I much prefer to have a team of packager maintaining a reputation, dedicated to their job and producing fine, reliable apps.
The Audacity fiasco was a perfect example of that. The apps was bought by someone, then telemetry was introduced into the flatpak and no one saw it. Instead, the distro maintainers noticed it and deactivated the telemetry. This is how we saw the thing.
Be very careful of what you lose when you say goodbye to distro packages, don't take it for granted. If you walk the flatpak way you will have access to a mountain of unverified software built by a random person of the internet having access to your full homedir. It's like installing freewares on Windows, you end up with a lot of crap on your computer. A packages repo is not like freewares for Windows.
Yes, I know, you think flatpaks come with sandboxing. It does not, because most of these packages use /home as the sandbox anyway and people click yes. Pick some flatpaks and see the access level their require. Most of the time it's /home. This is a terrible trend and I wished more of the flatpak supporters mentioned it when they praise the tool. Some people don't care. I do.
Cryptocurrency does nothing to help you since it gives a very strong incentive to criminal to scan your homedir. Scammers will use shiny software, flatpak it, add their "secret sauce" and publish it. If you had to install a cryptowallet, would you install the one from the debian repo of the one from mastakilla_51?
Until this whole jungle is sorted out: thanks, but no thanks.
Annnnd we are back at square one. flatpak is just another distro, with the limitations of a distro. You are basically asking for a unique distro to rule them all.
This thread is closed, but I'm going to make a final reply before I ban you and your associate from our organization for your inflammatory, incorrect, and downright rude comments. Actions have consequences. Any time anyone asks us why we don't support AppImage, I'm going to point them to this thread, and how it was you, personally, who irrevocably burned all bridges with our development team.
And then he harassed the OBS team claiming that "users want appimages"
Recently, Reddit announced that they may be discontinuing awards/coins on September 12. However I'm skeptical and I think this may be just a deceptive announcement for them to make a quick buck from awards/coins. What are your opinions on this?
And while Bluesky eventually dealt with the issue,
There were complaints so they patched the system. Again, another nothinburger... Always coming from the same poster.
“40 minutes after it was reported, the account was taken down, and the code that allowed this to occur was patched.”
Nothingburger. Stop spamming please. This has nothing to do with tech. You cannot just post anything you want and ask people to leave if they are not happy.
Anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist and Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made another eye-popping statement this week, and this time it was about the origins of the novel coronavirus.The New York Post reports that Kennedy floated his new conspiracy theory about COVID-19 during a ...
You call this "good thing"? Lol, we call it the american circus. Keep it for trash subs where it belongs. Those people want attention and people like you naively give it to them. Who's next? Hunter biden? Marjorie stuff? Keep it for trash subs.
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Plenty of cities have good access to water. It's why most of them were built where they were in the first place.
That's the way it used to be.
Take the Rio Grande:
Water restrictions ordered in Rio Grande Valley as drought persists
'The actual lake is gone,' Zapata County judge says
McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) — The two largest cities in the Rio Grande Valley have implemented mandatory water restrictions as water levels in two reservoirs hit near-record lows due to an ongoing drought.
Rathmell gave Border Report a tour of diminishing Falcon Lake on Thursday, and at the time advocated that cities downstream in the Rio Grande Valley should be forced to conserve water.
Rathmell said that Falcon Lake is basically no more. It’s just an area where the Rio Grande river runs through.
Cities will become traps. It was convenient before but now it is becoming a death trap, don't purchase a house there, you become dependent on someone bringing food and water to you. If you are in the business of searching for a house, avoid cities.
I see that you also downvoted my post about veganism and the cost of breeding cattle in term of water. I see a pattern there.
You listed the same example several times, in quotes
What are you talking about? It's the same article about the rio grande. It's not supposed to be multiple examples.
not sourced links
Paste it in any search engine, it's the first result.
fear mongering on the level of a conspiracy theorist
I see your true colors now.
Your advice of moving to the mountains, taken en masse, would just result in cities existing there...with the same source of water.
Ridiculous, I'm not talking to the masses.
You brought nothing to the table, you saw a post about veganism and then you went full conspiracy theorist mode. Instead of discussing the case you just went for the downvote button. I'm not wasting more time with you.
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Heatwave triggers forest fire catastrophe in Turkey (medyanews.net)
Turkey is grappling with forest fires as temperatures continue to soar. Agricultural lands and settlements were evacuated across several provinces at the weekend. Sixteen of Sunday’s fires have been brought under control. Efforts to contain three remaining blazes, located in south Turkey’s Mersin, earthquake-stricken Hatay,...
Wagner fighters arrive in Central African Republic: Russian security group (www.news24.com)
Several hundred "experienced" Wagner fighters have arrived in the Central African Republic to secure a referendum on 30 July, a Russian private security company said Sunday....
I just wanted to leave this here (www.reddit.com)
Yep, this is what the future of awards on Reddit looks like
[Question] Why does everyone seem to dislike containerized packages?
TLDR at bottom....
Reddit may be tricking users to buy awards/coins
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Bluesky allowed people to include the n-word in their usernames (www.engadget.com)
Before this week, Bluesky did not have an automated system in place to prevent people from including the n-word in their handle..
RFK Jr. suggests COVID-19 could have been 'ethnically targeted' to spare Jews (www.rawstory.com)
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'Heavy debt': Elon Musk says Twitter cash flow negative after ad revenue declines (www.cnbc.com)
Musk said early Saturday that cash flow at Twitter remains negative because of a nearly 50% drop in advertising revenue coupled with "heavy debt."
AAA pulls back from offering insurance in Florida, following Farmers (www.cbsnews.com)
More insurance companies are fleeing the state because of the growing threat from natural disasters.