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I cannot believe that in this the year of our lord 2025 we still have two separate clipboard buffers on desktop Linux.

There are very few cases where I will execute a paste (whether it is with middle click or Ctrl-V) and I will want the resulting paste to be anything other than the last thing I copied. Whatever X11 subcommittee came up with the idea that users would want to juggle stuff between the two buffers, or whatever the fuck the thinking was, needs to be punished physically. It's not enough to tell them: They need to remember, so that they will know what they did was wrong, and get fearful in the future if they ever think of doing anything like that again. Their names should be made public, so that people in the future who might want to hire them will know what they did. (I tried to find out who it was, but Google is drunk again and couldn't really tell me all that much.)

I am already aware that the X11 people spent a lot of time huffing glue in between creating overly complicated standards documents. So maybe the fact that they made some baffling and wrong decisions for literally no reason isn't surprising. It was a long time ago, a lot of bad things happened back then. What I really cannot understand is why Wayland looked at that decision, and the long history of pain and suffering it had caused over the years, and decided, "You know what? Let's keep that around. What harm could it do? And anyway... it's compatible!"

Having two clipboards is literally just worse. Even if we go back to the pre-Wayland days, before the singular clipboard each app chooses to interact with became a mutually incompatible happenstance that depends on the toolkit and historical lineage of that particular tool, so that it's often simply impossible to copy and paste between two extra tools before you do the standard ritual of installing some "make my clipboard work please" incantations into your system setup that don't fully work but close enough to stop you complaining, it was still worse. Even back in the X11 days, when all the users just ignored the Ctrl-C clipboard and used the middle-click clipboard, it was still just extra work for no reason. Now, it's become completely unforgivable. I want to take away these people's car keys and replace them with a pair of identical keys and tell them that one or the other will randomly work, each morning, and they have to try it and find out, every time. I want to replace one of their morning yogurts with Elmer's glue, and tell them they should install a Yogurt sync tool if they don't want the glue, because it's important to be kind and accommodating to the people who need glue in the morning and that's what's important right now.

If anyone knows of something I can run that will just do a simple bidirectional sync between the two clipboards, so I can just pretend to myself that all of this isn't happening, please tell me. I tried to find a solution for half the morning so far, because I finally just got enraged by it, and I couldn't find one.

If I imagine hard to myself, I can maybe imagine a scenario where I might want to hit Ctrl-C, then I would accidentally highlight something right after, and then I would want to paste the thing I did Ctrl-C for. But surely that use case isn't the one that we need to wrap the whole desktop Linux clipboard situation around, to make sure that Fat-Finger Freddy can still get his pasting done, all while the rest of us have to go around saying things like "wl-paste -p -w 'wl-copy'" and everyone has to do a bunch of extra work whenever they want to do the already difficult task of making pasting work in an editor over SSH or something.

I literally can't believe how bad it is. It's like a prank. It's like one of those imaginary programming languages where someone invented a deliberately malicious feature and then implemented it to a T to be funny.

I do not like it. Not one bit.

Also: Did you know the are three clipboards? The third clipboard is called the "secondary selection," in keeping with the impeccable human logic that runs all through the X11 codebase like cordyceps through a staggering, dying ant.

Emacs is only editor in history that does anything with the third clipboard. Hold down "alt" and drag with the left button to highlight something, and that thing will go into the special top secret clipboard, where nothing will ever see it.

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In the Darfur region of Sudan, and in eastern Chad, MSF teams are caring for women and girls who have survived horrific sexual violence

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Women and girls in Sudan’s Darfur region are at near-constant risk of sexual violence, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned.

The true scale of this crisis remains difficult to quantify, as services remain limited, and people face barriers in seeking treatment or speaking about their ordeal. Yet all the victims and survivors who speak with MSF teams in Darfur and across the border in Chad share horrifying stories of brutal violence and rape. With men and boys also at risk, the extent of the suffering is beyond comprehension.

“Women and girls do not feel safe anywhere. They are attacked in their own homes, when fleeing violence, getting food, collecting firewood, working in the fields. They tell us they feel trapped,” says Claire San Filippo, MSF emergency coordinator. “These attacks are heinous and cruel, often involving multiple perpetrators. This must stop. Sexual violence is not a natural or inevitable consequence of war, it can constitute a war crime, a form of torture, and a crime against humanity. The warring parties must hold their fighters accountable and protect people from this sickening violence. Services for survivors must immediately be scaled up, so survivors have access to the medical treatment and psychological care they desperately need.”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/35815351

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Xi Jinping’s appointment as president [of China] in March 2013 filled [Uygur human rights activist Serikzhan] Bilash with vague dread. He periodically wrote social media posts about Kazakh identity and his foreign travels for a modest online following, and he began using those to call on Chinese Kazakhs to come to Kazakhstan and offer advice on how to find work and apartments and residence papers once they did.

Three years later, he heard that Chen Quanguo was to be the new Party secretary of Xinjiang and that dread hardened into something more definite. He opened some of the messaging groups that Chinese Kazakhs used to forward and share news and he began recording voice notes with anxious urgency. “A storm is coming, Chen Quanguo is coming,” he said. “He made a genocide in Tibet and now he will make a genocide in Xinjiang. Only one thing can be done. Run, just run and run now because if you delay by even a second it might be too late.”

Chen had also been Party secretary in Tibet and had enacted a brutal and insidious extension of the state apparatus there aimed at stamping out any signs of what the government called separatist thought. Surveillance, oppression, control. There were mass arrests, re-education centers and unsparing responses to the slightest protest. People talked of the many disappeared, the unexplained dead. It was all hidden from the rest of China by censors and firewalls, but Bilash spoke good English and he read the reports by international newspapers and human rights organizations. He saw everything wrought by Chen Quanguo and knew it would come to Xinjiang.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/39152911

Just wrapped up my first full game-inspired cosplay and I couldn’t be happier with how it turned out! I based the look on a mix of medieval and fantasy armor styles from some of my favorite RPGs. The armor is mostly foam with hand-painted weathering to give it a battle-worn effect. I also stitched together a faux-leather cloak to complete the outfit.

The whole process taught me a lot—especially around layering, painting, and making it wearable for long hours. Definitely open to feedback or tips for making the next one even better. Anyone else working on game cosplay builds? Would love to see what you’re making too!

P.S. Got a lot of my design inspiration from pieces I saw over on https://creedleather.com/ — they have some amazing fantasy and medieval-style costume designs.

I think she likes it here because we don't seed grass, so there's lots of clover for her to munch on. I'm not sure where she sleeps, but some days she sits in the same spot all day.

She still runs from the kids sometimes, but I can walk just a few feet away from her and she'll just watch.

Philips made one of the Commodore 1084 variants for Commodore and unfortunately many of these monitors contain flaw that can make them unusable. They also sold variants of the 1084 under their own brand, two of which I have here. Lets dig in and investigate these monitors.

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