No new features today, just wanted to make a short post.

It is completely possible to do linux development on the go!

Is it convenient? Probably not.

Is a laptop better? Most likely.

Is it funny? Yes.

Also a double table is definitely better:

While we are mostly focused on Linux mobile development, it is easy to overlook that all you need is a bluetooth keyboard and mouse and it becomes an (albeit tiny) linux desktop!

As always, stay tuned here on !comicstrips@lemmy.world for a slow trickle out of Jucika comics, but if you want to find more, here’s a good post with a large collection that /u/JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social posted last year: https://piefed.social/post/1258520

**Also, check out some Jucika fan art! https://piefed.social/c/eurographicnovels/p/2128207/the-best-of-jucika-fan-art-12-pieces-with-two-videos

I'm weird, but I like colors and real wood tones. It just kind of hurts me to see literally everyone it seems, live in this 'aesthetic' where everything is pure white walls and grey fake wood floors. And how this scheme has taken over every home, office, and retail space.

I guess it's the equivalent of how all 80% cars are gray scale now? (black, white, or a gray/silver shade). Why has color become so 'offensive' the past decade?

It's so bad that I've had folks tell me my blue car is 'weird'. and my home, which is wood trimmed/floored with maple stained wood, and off-white tints in each room, is 'gross'. My bedroom's are robin's egg blue, and my kitchen and living room are an off white yellow. I love it, especially at night when I use the low-temp lighting and it's warm instead of HARSH. Folks keep telling me how 'old' it looks and that i need to repaint everything BRIGHT white and then put that shitty grey flooring over everything. I hate them.

A newly disclosed privacy vulnerability in Apple's Hide My Email feature can reportedly allow an attacker to uncover the real email address behind a generated alias. According to the researcher who found the bug, it was responsibly disclosed to Apple more than a year ago but remains unpatched, and independent testing has verified the issue.

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/48817364

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ICE releases Texas nun intercepted walking to church dressed in her habit

Diocese officials in south Texas say a nun was released after members of Congress intervened

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/8910976

The Russian gas industry is under heavy sanction by Western governments.

Nevertheless, high volumes of Russian helium and other energy supplies find their way into global markets, via middlemen in China.

In the opening days of the Persian Gulf War, Iran hit Qatar's massive Ras Laffan gas complex with drones and missiles, immediately switching off a third of the global supply of helium for up to five years.

Helium distributors are rationing shipments, raising prices, and prioritizing deliveries to hospitals and the highest-margin customers in the tech industry.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/49483948

I invoke Betteridge's Law of Headlines. Just kidding, the two older articles linked here are fantastic. You should read them.

[2026-07-01] Historic.ly

In the first round of Colombia's 2026 presidential election on May 31, no candidate secured a majority, triggering a runoff. Right-wing outsider and lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella led with approximately 43.7–44% of the vote, outperforming expectations. Left-wing Senator Iván Cepeda, backed by outgoing President Gustavo Petro, placed second with around 40.9–41%. The contest saw high turnout — the highest in recent history for a first round — and centered on security, crime, and drug policy. International observers described the voting process as generally orderly and transparent, despite some pre-election violence and political tensions.

In yesterday’s runoff election between the two candidates, President Gustavo Petro tweeted: “With the same data from the registry office, the pre-count result at this moment is 49.3% for Abelardo and 49% for Cepeda. Neither can be proclaimed president.”

Petro further claimed there were software malfunctions during the counting process, stating: “Well, today we have evidence of a change in IP addresses of several servers of the National Registry. This means that the software was compromised and others wrote data for polling stations and voting posts.”

Journalist Max Blumenthal provided further context on the situation.

The Bautista brothers are convicted fraudsters who own the private off-shore company that manages Colombia's voting software

Their company botched Colombian elections in 2014 and 2022, when 400,000 votes for Petro's party went missing

Before any official tally, Trump and… https://t.co/DDxgXtxGOt pic.twitter.com/EMPrNWlrTt

— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) June 22, 2026

We have previously covered how Colombia, under pro-U.S. governments, maintained deep ties with Israel — in fact, the two countries were mercenary allies. It is also no secret that Gustavo Petro has repeatedly accused Israel of genocide and maintains a firm anti-Israel stance.

Please read our classic two-part investigation into the deep ties between Israel and Colombia and come to your own conclusion

• Israel participated in the systematic murder of the Patriotic Union in Colombia
• Israel has provided defense and surveillance equipment to Colombia for years.

Part 2

Given the deep forty year ties to Israel's intelligence, are there still members of the intelligence community in Colombia who maintain those ties? If so, would they be willing to interfere in an election to bring about a candidate who is more pro-Isreal?

As of now, neither candidate has conceded the election, and Ivan Cepeda has demanded further investigation into the process. Protesters are out in full force demanding a fair investigation and a fair election. There is widespread accusations of election fraud and ballot stuffing.

But, one has to wonder, if Israel indeed interfered in these elections to get a candidate that is more align with their goals.

EDIT: Enshittification, also known as platform decay, is a process in which two-sided online products and services decline in quality over time. Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, then they degrade those offerings to better serve business customers, and finally degrade their services to both users and business customers to maximize short-term profits for shareholders.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/49482889

🇧🇴 part two

[2020-07-23] Historic.ly

American corporate media and American hegemony want you to believe that many socialist governments are authoritarian.  But none of the socialist governments, past and present, are as violent or as repressive as a capitalistic government captured by for-profit corporations.

When Americans look at trickle down capitalism, they often compare standards in America to, say, an emerging socialist third world country and they are too eager to believe that socialism is the cause of the misery.  But, what Americans don't realize is that America occupies a special place in the food chain.  If we want to see the truly horrific, anti-democratic, authoritarian nature of capitalism, we need to examine countries further downstream.

Recently, coup leader, Fernando Camacho wrote to OAS asking for their help in stopping Democracy.  Bolivia is a great example of the authoritarian nature of capitalism.  

After the devastation wrought by Reagan and Bush’s “War on Drugs,” Bolivia’s economy was struggling in every imaginable way.  By 1992, the life-expectancy of an average Bolivian was only 52 years old.  Rural areas that were so well-cared for in the era of the Incas lost their roads, healthcare, potable water and sewage--all casualties of a systematic campaign of terror. In a textbook case of what Naomi Klein refers to as "the Shock Doctrine," the US government had created a crisis for the Bolivian people...and an opportunity for the capitalist class.

Bolivia had two presidential candidates Max Fernandez and Gonzalez Sanchez de Lozarda (“Goni”) who were the richest two candidates in Bolivia.  Max was a beer magnate, and Goni was a son of a mining magnate.  According to the rules in 1993, if a candidate does not get at least 50% +1 vote in the first round of elections,  the top-two candidates have a run-off.   Goni, with the help of his US team, won the election despite receiving only 36% of the popular vote. However, there was no run-off in August, as he reached a deal with some opposition parties where they conceded before the second round.  

Goni, a graduate of the University of Chicago who grew up in Iowa and spoke Spanish with a midwestern accent, was thoroughly drunk on the Washington consensus—he even brought with him his own team of “Chicago boys.”  He was already independently wealthy, so he didn’t even have to be bribed for him to sell out his country.  Just a few words of flattery from the world’s most “respectable” economists was sufficient.  

In his infinite, University of Chicago-approved wisdom, he concluded that the lack of basic public services was due to “corruption” and government “waste.” But Goni had a plan! He called it "Plan De Todos" which was supposed to fix all of Bolivia's ills. It was called capitalization.  During the election season, he kept it vague and no one actually knew what it meant.  This was probably done on purpose because no remotely rational person would consent to such a ludicrous plan.

According to the December 1993, World Bank meeting minutes, Minister Manes presented "the capitalization program as an innovative and dynamic process." Privatization is when a public enterprise is sold to a private entity in exchange for money.  Capitalization is when a public enterprise is given to a private entity and then the private entity also keeps the money. It's basically a gift.  If you think I am being facetious, here is the original World Bank document explaining to us the "innovative" plan of capitalization.

Capitalization was to be done in four phases.  They started with the electricity, moved to the hydrocarbons and by 1996, they even privatized the water. In the city of Cochabomba, The sole bidder was Aguas del Tunari—a subsidiary of Bechtel—a US-based contractor and construction giant. For $2.5 billion, Bechtel was given a contract “to provide water and sanitation services to the residents of Cochabamba, as well as generate electricity and irrigation for agriculture."  The contract also guaranteed the consortium a minimum of 16% return on investment, which was to be annually adjusted to the US consumer price index. The federal congress did this without consideration of the pueblo or the autonomy of the indigenous people who lived there.

Within the first month of taking over, Bechtel raised the water rates for the poorest of the poorest Bolivians by over 60%. Worst of all, the people could not even collect rainwater because Goni and his American cronies had also given the rights to rainwater to the consortium.  

The people of Bolivia protested, the military was called to repress these protests.  Many people were killed, but ultimately, the protest forced even the neoliberal government of Bolivia to cancel the water contract. Bechtel responded by suing Bolivia in a private arbitration court where they get to select the judges and rig the rules in their favor.

In response to this and many other dysfunctionalities, indigenous groups, multiple times tried to mediate national dialogue and all of these instances of the dialogue failed to address any of the problems. Without response from the elites, in 2001, the indigenous movements held 5 members of President Quiroga’s cabinet in the Aymara municipality of Ayo Ayo, which finally made President Quiroga realize that there was a massive uprising.  His cabinet members drew up a proposal for a constitutional assembly which would draft a new constitution.

However, Quiroga's term was coming to an end. In 2002, Evo Morales ran for President as an insurgent candidate.  Gonazalo Sanchez de Lozada—a graduate of the University of Chicago who grew up in Iowa—hired James Carville’s consulting firm to swing the election in his favor.  Goni didn't have an outright majority. According to the 2002 constitution, when a candidate doesn't have an outright majority, congress would vote for the winner.  

The Bush administration started actively campaigning for Goni.  US ambassador Manuel Rocha threatened “if you elect those who want Bolivia to become a major cocaine exporter again, this will endanger the future of US assistance to Bolivia.” Behind the scenes, they brokered an “anti-MAS” alliance, which then incentivized a coalition government that voted for the Goni.

When he took the Presidency, Lozada cancelled the previous agreement, without a tinge of self-awareness, claimed that he didn’t want to give voice to those who were undemocratic.  He was ousted a few months later after much bloodshed.

When Goni was in office, the US establishment showed both contempt and fear towards Evo Morales. A USAID document referred to Morales as an "illegal, coca, agitator." NED documents also mentioned the need for creating a centrist, business-friendly opposition to counterbalance MAS.

But the populist anger towards commodifying Bolivia could not be soothed with more centrists offering more market-based solutions. After multiple changes in the presidency because of the water wars, in 2005, Morales platform had three main components:

1. drafting a new constitution with a constituency assembly that was truly representative of all groups.

2. Nationalize the hydrocarbon industry

3. Redistribute the land.

   

Evo Morales won the presidency on a landslide where MAS was a few seats short of having a ⅔ majority.