The TUXEDO Stellaris 16 Gen5 laptop comes with a luxury-class 55W TDP processor from Intel, namely the Core i9-13900HX with 24 cores, 32 threads, 36MB cache, and clock rates of up to 5.4 GHz, up to 64GB DDR5 RAM, up to 4TB SSD NVMe PCIe 4.0 storage, as well as the top model graphics card from NVIDIA, namely the GeForce RTX 4090 with 12 GB of GDDR6 VRAM and up to 175 watts.
TUXEDO Computers also offers variants of its Linux gaming laptop with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 discrete graphics cards, with feature 8 GB of GDDR6 graphics memory and a lower power consumption of up to 140 watts.
Initial accelerated compositing support
When accelerated compositing support was added to WebKitGTK, there was only X11. Our first approach was quite simple, we sent the web view widget Xwindow ID to the web process to be used as rendering target using GLX. This was very efficient, but soon we realized it broke the GTK rendering model so it was not possible to use a web view inside a GtkOverlay, for example, to show status messages on top. The solution was to use a redirected Xcomposite window in the web process, and use its ID as the render target using GLX. The pixmap ID of the redirected Xcomposite window was sent to the UI process to be painted in the web view widget using a Cairo Xlib surface. Since the rendering happens in the web process, this approach required to use Xdamage to monitor when the redirected Xcomposite window was updated to schedule a web view redraw.
Wayland support
To support accelerated compositing under Wayland we initially added a nested Wayland compositor running in the UI process. The web process connected to the nested Wayland compositor and created a surface to be used as the rendering target using EGL. The good thing about this approach compared to the X11 one, is that we can create an EGLImage from Wayland buffers and use a GDK GL context to paint the contents in the web view. This is more efficient than X11 because we can use OpenGL both in web and UI processes.
WPE, when using the fdo backend, uses the same approach of running a nested Wayland compositor, but in a more efficient way, using DMABUF instead of Wayland buffers when available. So, we decided to use libwpe in the GTK port only for rendering under Wayland, and eventually remove our Wayland compositor implementation.
Release Work
As everyone is well aware, the Mesa 23.1 branchpoint is definitely going to be next week, and there is zero chance that it could ever be delayed*.
As everyone is also well aware, this is the release in which I’ve made unbreakable* promises about the viability of gaming on Zink.
Specifically, it will now be viable*.
But exactly one* bug remains as a blocker to that. Just one.
Everyone says that you don't really have backups until you've tested that you can restore them (and I have some hair-raising stories about that, where I was lucky to avoid a disaster). The corollary to this is that it's a really good idea to automate at least a basic test of reading your backups and perhaps restoring something from them. This doesn't have to be particularly elaborate. For example, you could have a few canary files in various places where you write the current day's date before you start backups, and then afterward you can try to restore a random canary file and see if it has the right date.
At its core, PDF is an image file format. In theory it is not at all different from the file formats of Gimp, Krita, Photoshop and the like. It consists of a bunch of raster and vector objects on top of each other. In practice there are several differences, the biggest of which is the following:
In PDF you can have images that have different color spaces and resolutions (that is, PPI values). This is by design as it is necessary to achieve high quality printing output.
TensorFlow is an open-source and widely used Python library useful for solving machine-learning problems. Google develops this library, and can run on GPU and CPU-based devices. Many companies, including Intel, Paypal, Twitter, Airbus and Lenovo, use the TensorFlow library. You can install it as a Docker container in a Python virtual environment or with Anaconda.
SMPlayer is an open-source, cross-platform multimedia player that offers a rich set of features and impressive compatibility. Built on the powerful MPlayer and mpv engines, it ensures seamless playback of virtually any audio or video format.
Brightness Controller is a versatile and user-friendly application designed to help users adjust their screen' brightness and color temperature to reduce eye strain, enhance the visual experience, and customize their display settings. This powerful tool offers many features that stand out from similar applications.
In this guide, we demonstrate how to install KVM on Rocky Linux 9 / Alma Linux 9. KVM, short for Kernel Virtualization Machine, is an opensource virtualization platform designed for the Linux kernel.
ConfigServer Security & Firewall (CSF) is an iptables-based firewall that provides high-level security to the Linux system.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Shotwell on Fedora 37.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install SMPlayer on Linux Mint 21.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Redmine on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Are you looking for a project management tool to streamline your team's tasks and improve communication?
Among all Ubuntu's official flavours, Kubuntu is the most popular among its users. The primary reason is the KDE Plasma desktop which brings out-of-the-box experience for beginners to power users.
Kubuntu 23.04 is the latest version of the distribution, built upon the Ubuntu 23.04 "Lunar Lobster" release. It is currently undergoing BETA testing.
Let's have a look at the new features.
KDE Plasma 5.27.4 is here three after KDE Plasma 5.27.3 and further improves the Plasma Wayland session by addressing a KWin crash that occurred when certain external displays turned off on their own after being disabled and re-enabled, making the scroll speed setting work again, and better handling GTK apps on multi-monitor setups or when switching global themes.
Also for the Plasma Wayland session, the KDE Plasma 5.27.4 release fixes an issue where Plasma quits when an app sends a window title that’s way too long and improves screen recording and Task Manager thumbnails for users of NVIDIA GPUs when using the proprietary NVIDIA graphics drivers.
IBM has today announced the latest addition to its IBM LinuxONE server line, the IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper 4. Whereas the recently released IBM LinuxONE Emperor 4 is the perfect fit for enterprise use cases, IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper 4 brings unprecedented flexibility that puts IBM’s world-leading server technology within reach of new audiences.
IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper 4 is designed to deliver sustainability and efficiency without compromising on performance, scale or security. IBM customers can enhance these strengths even further by pairing the new server with Ubuntu, the leading Linux operating system. Ubuntu helps businesses maximise the value of IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper 4 through purpose-built hardware support that enables users to take full advantage of powerful LinuxONE features straight out-of-the-box.
Ubuntu "Lunar Lobster" is the middle release between the 2022 and 2024 long-term support releases so this is when Canonical tries out some new stuff.
According to Canonical's release schedule, Lunar should appear on April 20. Perhaps that will give the developers time to flesh out some of the sections that just read "tbd" in its release notes.
This is a short-term release, which will be supported until January 2024, a few months before the next LTS is due. There will be another short-term release six months later so this is a chance for the developers to try out some new stuff without needing to worry about supporting it for years to come.
M5Stack CM4Stack is a tiny Arm Linux mini PC based on Raspberry Pi CM4 that measures 59 x 44 x 46mm and integrates a 2-inch touchscreen display for information and control, as well as the usual ports you’d expect from a mini PC such as HDMI, USB 3.2 ports, Gigabit Ethernet, and so on.
We’ve previously written about M5Stack Core and Atom controllers based on ESP32 microcontrollers, an optional 2.0-inch display, and a few GPIOs. The company has now decided to provide a similar solution with a jump in performance and interfaces with the CM4Stack development kit.
“I have always been playing around with Linux and open-source growing up,” Trevor tells us. “Linux was my gateway to learning more about computing and how computers worked… hardware was expensive and not really affordable in those days, the only way to dabble with electronics was to build everything yourself from scratch or use expensive commercial platforms which cost an arm and a leg. In many ways, Arduino democratized [the]learning of electronics, put electronics into the hands of makers. Raspberry Pi did to the SBC market what the Arduino did to the microcontroller market.
This thing can become really flaky on these older devices and countless people on the web report connection issues across multiple operating systems. I too ran into this issue not long after getting Alpine setup nicely on my machine.
Some remedies include re-installing hardware drivers, flicking the hardware toggle off and on repeatedly, or even simply logging out of the current user session. All these options seemed like a pain in the ass.
One day in the future, we may interact with our electronic devices not with physical input or even voice commands, but simply by thinking about what we want to do. Such brain–computer interfaces (BCIs), combined with machine learning, could allow us to turn our ideas into reality faster and with less effort than ever before — imagine being able to produce a PCB design simply by thinking about how the completed circuit would work. Of course as an assistive technology, BCIs would be nothing less than life-changing for many.
URLs are tricky to parse and there are numerous security problems in software because of this. trurl wants to help soften this problem by taking away the need for script and command line authors everywhere to re-invent the wheel over and over.
trurl uses libcurl’s URL parser and will thus parse and understand URLs exactly the same as curl the command line tool does – making it the perfect companion tool.
I created trurl on March 31, 2023.
Mullvad VPN and the Tor Project today present the release of the Mullvad Browser, a privacy-focused web browser designed to be used with a trustworthy VPN instead of the Tor Network.
“We want to free the internet from mass surveillance and a VPN alone is not enough to achieve privacy. From our perspective there has been a gap in the market for those who want to run a privacy-focused browser as good as the Tor Project’s but with a VPN instead of the Tor Network," says Jan Jonsson, CEO at Mullvad VPN.
Today we announced the launch of the Mullvad Browser, a browser built by the Tor Project team and distributed by Mullvad.
Mullvad and the Tor Project have been part of the same community that is dedicated to developing technology that prioritizes protecting people's right to privacy for many years now. Mullvad contributes to the Tor Project at the highest level of membership, Shallot, and were a founding member of the Tor Project's Membership Program. They approached us to help them develop their browser because they wanted to leverage our expertise to create a product that is built on the same principles and with similar safety levels as the Tor Browser -- but that works independently of the Tor network. The result is the Mullvad Browser, a free, privacy-preserving web browser to challenge the all-too-prevalent business model of exploiting people's data for profit.
Arti is our ongoing project to create a next-generation Tor client in Rust. Now we're announcing the latest release, Arti 1.1.3.
Our primary focus remains: preparation for onion service support in Arti. We can now parse all of the relevant message types, build circuits as needed to target relays, build and sign onion service descriptors, and deliver onion service requests to our hsclient code.
If you run a WordPress website, it's important to track your site visitors and analyze their behavior. This information can help you optimize your site performance, improve your marketing strategy, and ultimately increase your conversions. One way to do this is by using WordPress statistics plugins. In this blog post,
A story to tell As part of my career at ING with my previous team, MLP (Machine Learning Platform).
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My LLM chatbot is instructed to only reference sources that are provided in the prompt I send to OpenAI. This is essential because I want answers to reflect what I have written rather than more general facts available to ChatGPT 3.5 Turbo. One of my primary considerations when developing my LLM chatbot was to ensure that, where possible, the sources of claims were cited. I devised two methods that, combined, provide both myself and users with information about sources associated with a question:
By definition, library code is code that’s written to being reused by programs other than itself that are unrelated to each other. For instance, dplyr (R) and pandas (Python) are common examples of library code: Instead of writing code from scratch to work with tabular data, you might use one of those two fantastic libraries. And you get some additional benefits from using them: [...]
I hadn't planned to write this content in this second part of the series, but thanks to Matthias's contribution, I thought it was worthwhile. I've certainly had a good opportunity to dwell on the minutiae of these solutions and to get a better feel for streams of values in jq programs.
In the next part I'll continue to look at community solutions for some other jq exercises on Exercism, and explain what I missed, observed, and learned.
I love open-source. And I love giving back. Using GitHub does not align with that goal. The code that was regurgitated by the model is marketed as "AI generated" and available for use for any project you want. Including proprietary ones. It's laundering open-source code. All of the decades of knowledge and uncountable hours of work is being, well, stolen. There is nothing being given back.
It's not an equal exchange. I can't, in good consciousness, support GitHub. I can't betray the community that sparked and grew my interest in software. I can't betray those millions of people whose shoulder I am standing on. I can't betray what I believe in—giving back.
So I've left GitHub. It was nice while it lasted.
Dealing with timezones is an essential aspect of working with dates and times in web-based applications. In PHP, setting the default timezone is a critical first step, but there are several advanced techniques for working with timezones that can help you build more robust and accurate applications.
I could have given it the title ‘Old Man’s Ranting,’ but even though it would have been more honest, it wouldn’t be very catchy.
Why I decided to write this up? I knew something was in the air when my favorite fishmonger, an incredibly friendly and always super-helpful fellow, asked me what I thought about that Chat.GPT thingy. That doesn’t happen often. Like our neighbor, who was a fantastic craftsman, didn’t stop me in the ‘90s to ask me what I thought about object-oriented programming.
The key decision I made mid-March was to commit to pursuing ventilation monitoring as my primary product development focus.
Prior to that decision, I hoped to use my writing plan to drive a breadth-first survey of the opportunities for each of my product ideas before deciding which had the best business potential to focus on first. Two factors changed my mind: [...]
A Danish safety authority has warned about the number of electrical sockets not in line with national product standards after spot checks found one in three lacked documentation.
In his celebrated 1873 essay “On Truth and Lies in an Extra-Moral Sense,” Nietzsche argued that the problem with human understanding is that humanity can never truly understand itself. Even our very language is suspect to the highest degree, born as it is not out of some loftily universal capability, but rather deriving from the messy contingencies of our bodily reality. “What is a word?” Nietzsche hectors us. “The image of a nerve stimulus in sounds.” Reason and its compliant mistress, rhetoric, are also merely “nerve stimulus, first transposed into an image—first metaphor. The image, in turn, imitated by a sound—second metaphor.”
As Paris prepares to host next year's Summer Games, works to complete the Olympic Village are in full swing. Some 35 hundred workers are building a whole new neighbourhood in the north of Paris to welcome the athletes and support teams travelling here in hopes of taking home gold. FRANCE 24's James Vasina, Natalia Ruiz Giraldo and Benoît Perrochais visited the site.
On March 27, 39 people died in a fire in an immigration detention and processing center in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. These migrants may have died just outside the borders of our country while under the custody of the Mexican government, but their deaths were caused by the policies, practices, and biases of the US government.
After a deadly fire in a migrant detention center in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, some victims’ families and friends are still looking for answers about their loved ones.
Austin, Tx.—Willie Nelson, a very lively 89-year-old, has recorded a playful little tune refuting speculation by some that he had become the late Willie Nelson. Not so fast, protested the people’s troubadour, singing: I woke up still not dead again today The Internet said I had passed away But if I died I wasn’t dead to stay I woke up still not dead again today.
This YouTube talk show’s premise is simple: Disarm celebrities with deep-cut questions and scorchingly spicy wings. Nearly 300 episodes later, the recipe still works.
Recently, it occurred to me that there wasn’t a good, focused resource that covers commitments in the context of asymmetric cryptography.
I had covered confused deputy attacks in my very short (don’t look at the scroll bar) blog post on database cryptography., and that’s definitely relevant.
I had also touched on the subject of commitment in regards to asymmetric cryptography in a lightning round blog post, but that was focused on Exclusive Ownership.
The mind-boggling approach is a time-based variation on the famous double-slit experiment, first performed by Thomas Young in 1801, which opened a window into the weird probabilistic world of quantum mechanics by revealing the dual nature of light as both a particle and a wave.
Machine learning is supposed to help us do everything these days, so why not electron microscopy? A team from Ireland has done just that and published their results using machine learning to enhance STEM — scanning transmission electron microscopy. The result is important because it targets a very particular use case — low dose STEM.
On the 50th anniversary of the first cellphone call, we explore how mobile technology has transformed our lives – for better and for worse.
The crew’s 10-day journey around the moon and back in 2024 is a crucial step toward returning Americans to the moon on a sustained basis.
This platform, writes the Stanford Graduate Workers Union, "will only continue to evolve as the union grows to hear and represent every graduate worker on campus."
Seven newsrooms joined together to explore the crisis facing community colleges, and ways to solve it, in a series called Saving the College Dream.
Finnish parents just send their kids to the most convenient school and rarely give that a second thought. The critical property is that all the schools are basically fine, and therefore there is no need to place one's child in an exceptional school to ensure they have a good life.
In my retro collection is a Pentium 3 based computer which I will be blogging about once I finish building it completely. But in the mean time I figured I would update the BIOS in it to fix an issue, and bricked it in the process. This is what happened and how I fixed it.
Concrete is an incredibly useful and versatile building material on which not only today’s societies, but also the ancient Roman Empire was built. To this day Roman concrete structures can be found in mundane locations such as harbors, but also the Pantheon in Rome, which to this day forms the largest unreinforced concrete dome in existence at 43.3 meters diameter, and is in excellent condition despite being being nearly 1,900 years old.
Using cheap and powerful server expansion cards in your desktop builds is a tempting option for many hackers. Of course, they don’t always fit mechanically or work perfectly; for instance, some server-purpose cards are designed for intense amounts of cooling that servers come with, and will overheat inside a relatively calm desktop case. Having encountered such a network card, [Chris] has developed and brought us the PCIce – a PCIe card that’s a holder and a controller for a 80mm fan.
April Valentine arrived at Centinela Hospital in Inglewood, Calif., on January 9 to give birth. Valentine, 31, had selected Centinela because she would be under the care of a Black woman physician. In the weeks leading up to her delivery, she had written on an affirmation board messages like “I will not have any complications” and “I will have a healthy baby girl,” The LAist reported in February. But she died the day after giving birth, via an emergency C-section. She never got the chance to meet her daughter.
Amy Morris started working at Hilltop Health Care Center in Watkins, Minnesota, in June 2021 with a clean nursing license that belied her looming troubles.
Morris, a licensed practical nurse, had been fired from a nearby nursing home seven months earlier for stealing narcotics from elderly residents. The state of Minnesota’s health department investigated and found that the accusation was substantiated, and then notified the Board of Nursing, the state agency responsible for licensing and monitoring nurses.
What is mental health and how can we achieve it? Is it only to be found in a trip to the psychiatrist’s office and a prescription for a Big Pharma medication, or do alternative mental care structures exist for those who need it?
Just before 5 a.m., Harry Shaffer’s wife called to him from across the living room, where he’d fallen asleep on the couch, exhausted from installing an aboveground pool. Did he hear that sound, that metallic screeching from up the valley? She opened the door of their double-wide trailer and walked outside as Shaffer closed his eyes.
A moment later came a thunderous crack of splintering lumber. Debris shot through the living room. Shaffer opened his eyes again to find a hulking train car steps from where he lay. It had shorn off the roof, exposing the murk of the pre-dawn sky. He jumped up and ran outside and saw the garage next door in flames.
After at least six major freight train derailments occurred across the United States over the past week, the need for stronger rail safety rules couldn't be clearer, an interunion alliance of rail workers said Monday.
Danes have experienced one of the biggest increases in life expectancy in Europe over the past two decades, according to figures from the European statistical office Eurostat, analysed by Sampension.
President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday France must improve the availability of palliative care and there would be a draft bill by the end of the summer on whether some form of assisted dying should be allowed.
A requirement that states keep people on Medicaid during the coronavirus pandemic has come to an end, and 15 million people could lose their coverage as a result.
"I feel sick," said one physician. "Medicaid is not enough: we need seamless, lifelong universal care now."
A recent legal decision in a case involving Johnson & Johnson (J&J) may ultimately impact the massive profits Koch Industries and its Georgia-Pacific subsidiary have been raking in while sidestepping asbestos liability claims. At the end of January, a federal appeals court ruled that J&J could not shield itself from pending lawsuits arising from exposure to its now off-the-market baby powder by transferring them to a new subsidiary and then declaring that company bankrupt.
A federal Judge in Texas on Thursday blocked the Affordable Care Act mandate for health insurance companies to provide preventive care. We speak with Elie Mystal, justice correspondent for The Nation, about his piece, “The GOP’s War on Obamacare Is Screwing Up Its War on Abortion,” and how the Republican Party opposes access to abortion but will not require insurance companies to cover basic prenatal care.
The spread of the Ebola-like virus has claimed lives but could be a crucial chance to test a vaccine — if supplies and researchers are mobilized in time.
Politics probably explain America’s poor life expectancy.
A leading group of medical experts says the term “excited delirium” should not be listed as a cause of death. Critics have said the term has been used to justify excessive force by police. The National Association of Medical Examiners had been one of the last to take a stand against the commonly used but controversial term. The association said “excited delirium” or “excited delirium syndrome” should not be used as a cause of death. Critics have called the terms unscientific, rooted in racism — and a way to hide police officers culpability in deaths.
John Clifton Davies, a 60-year-old con man from the United Kingdom who fled the country in 2015 before being sentenced to 12 years in prison for fraud, has enjoyed a successful life abroad swindling technology startups by pretending to be a billionaire investor. Davies’ newest invention appears to be “CodesToYou,” which purports to be a “full cycle software development company” based in the U.K.
If you liked this story, check out my previous reporting on John Bernard/Davies...
Added an update at the end with more details regarding the "update.exe" file. I think it is safe to say at this point, that efile.com has been compromised.
If you live in the US, you are likely aware that we are entering the last phase of the tax filing season. Returns are due April 15th, and scammers know that last-minute filing stress makes people less careful. Tax filings typically include sensitive PII like social security numbers, addresses, and other details. The IRS has, in recent years, tried to reduce fraud, but there are still several scams that are hard to eradicate.
The Tasmanian Government says it may have lost data in a breach effected by a Windows ransomware gang through a file-sharing service known as GoAnywhere MFT.
Apple introduced Airtags in 2021, as a way to keep track of belongings like keys or luggage. Since then, people have used the coin-sized location tracking devices to stalk and harass women, often by hiding them in cars. Cops and courts have frequently mishandled these cases.
SAPD spokesperson Nick Soliz told My San Antonio that the man whose car was allegedly stolen told police he “believed the suspected thief pulled out a gun which prompted ‘a firefight.’” Police said that they believed only the man who confronted the suspected thief fired any shots.
Apple tried to create something useful and ended up empowering awful people. Meant to help its users keep an eye on things that were important to them, the small tracking devices known as AirTags were soon exploited by stalkers to track and harass their targets, leading to a class action lawsuit against the company by victims of AirTag-enabled stalking.
Dash cameras are handy as they provide a video recording of interactions on the road. However, their utility comes from the fact that they are always recording while driving. This always-on means power draw. [Kuzysk] took it upon himself to cut that power draw by a factor of almost 70x.
Today the Identity Project and allied civil liberties and human rights organizations submitted comments objecting to a proposal by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to require all travelers on international flights to or from the US to provide an address in the US, two phone numbers, and an email address, and prohibit or recommend that airlines not permit anyone who is unable or unwilling to provide this information to board any flight to or from the US. (See our report€ when this proposal was announced.)
In return for collecting this information and passing it on to CBP, airlines would be allowed to retain and use it for their own purposes, without permission from travelers. Airlines would also be allowed (and in some cases required) to pass it on to foreign governments.
The proposed CBP rule would apply to all travelers, including US citizens (regardless of whether they reside in the US), visitors, and asylum seekers.
Here are three ways that AI language models are open to abuse.
Mr. Gershkovich was detained last Thursday while on a reporting trip to Yekaterinberg, Russia. His newspaper, The Wall Street Journal, and U.S. officials reject the charges of espionage against him as bogus.
Also, Trump returns to New York to surrender and North Koreans remain in “state-sponsored slavery” abroad.
Direct US attacks on the Quds Force could spark a full-blown war with Iran.
Weeks since the police killing of Manuel “Tortuguita” Tehran, residents continue to fight the planned construction of the Atlanta Public Safety Center. But the future they’re fighting to prevent concerns us all, not just the city of Atlanta.
A trial over an attack on a Paris synagogue in 1980 that killed four and left dozens injured began in the French capital€ on Monday, with the suspect in absentia.
The explosive device that went off in the St. Petersburg establishment Street Food Bar âââââ¬Â¯1 injured more than 30 visitors and killed the host of the Sunday event, Russian propagandist and self-styled “war correspondent” Vladlen Tatarsky. The prime suspect in the murder is St. Petersburg resident Daria Trepova, who had come to Tatarsky’s reading at the cafe with a plaster statuette, which she then gave to the blogger. Meduza has surveyed Tatarsky’s past publications and spoken with Kremlin insiders about the likely political consequences of his assassination.
Russian investigators arrested Daria Trepova, a 26-year-old native of St. Petersburg, on Monday in connection with the killing of the blogger known as Vladlen Tatarsky
Denmark is to send a large amount of energy hardware to Ukraine as part of an ongoing energy partnership between the two countries, the Danish Energy Agency has announced.
With powerful Western weapons, newly formed assault units and even a reconstituted Azov battalion, Ukraine is poised for a critical spring counteroffensive. But overcoming casualties and keeping war-weary troops motivated will be stern tests.
Vladimir Putin has issued a decree awarding the state Order of Gallantry to the military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky posthumously. The self-styled “war correspondent” was killed by a bomb on Sunday, while hosting a reading in St. Petersburg.
Russian Investigative Committee officers have arrested Darya Trepova, the woman suspected of carrying out the murder of Russian pro-war blogger Vladlen Tatarsky, the agency said in a press release on Monday.
A week after six people including three 9-year-old children were shot dead in a Nashville elementary school and two days before planned nationwide protests, thousands of students walked out of classrooms across the Tennesee capital on Monday to demand gun control laws.
The specialized committees of Russia’s State Duma are working on a series of amendments to current legislation, with an aim to ban the International Criminal Court’s activities in Russia, and to criminalize public calls to enforce its decisions.
On March 17, 2023, the International Criminal Court in The Hague (ICC) issued arrest warrants against Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Children's Rights Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova for their alleged complicity in the illegal deportations of children from Ukraine’s occupied territories to Russia. This makes Putin the third world leader in history to be indicted by the ICC while in office. Meduza spoke to Victor Peskin, a legal scholar specializing in international courts and an associate professor at Arizona State University’s School of Politics and Global Studies, about the workings of the ICC, the odds of the warrant against Putin leading to a conviction, and why not all countries have signed on to the court’s founding charter.
Since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Meduza has adopted a consistent antiwar position, holding Russia responsible for its military aggression and atrocities. As part of this commitment, we regularly update an interactive map that documents combat operations in Ukraine and the damage inflicted by Russia’s invasion forces. Our map is based exclusively on previously published open-source photos and videos, most of them posted by eyewitnesses on social media. We collect reports already available publicly and determine their geolocation markers, adding only the photos and videos that clear this process.
Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, the Wagner group founder, said Russian forces had raised their country’s flag in the center of Bakhmut.
A Russian missile attack on Sunday killed at least six people in residential areas of the city of Kostyantynivka near Bakhmut, Ukrainian authorities said. President Volodymyr Zelensky said the attack targeted areas where "ordinary civilians" were living.
Was a U.S. nuclear bomb damaged in a recent accident at a European air base?
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God. - Matthew 5:9
Tatarsky had more than 500,000 followers on Telegram and was aggressively pro-Kremlin. “We will defeat everyone, kill everyone, rob everyone, just as we like,” he said in a video released after Putin illegally annexed the eastern parts of Ukraine. When Tatarsky posted from the frontlines, he did so fully armed and frequently posted photos of himself in warzones firing his weapons. Two days before his death, he posted footage purportedly showing Wagner mercenaries torturing a Georgian soldier.
On April 2, pro-Kremlin blogger Vladlen Tatarsky was killed in an explosion while giving a public talk at a St. Petersburg cafe called Street Food Bar No. 1, which is owned by Wagner mercenary group founder Evgeny Prigozhin. The Russian authorities’ prime suspect in the murder is a woman who was filmed handing a plaster bust to Tatarsky shortly before the blast. Investigators believe the object might have contained a radio-controlled explosive device with the power of up to 200 grams of TNT.€
Another person has been detained by the police in connection with the murder of the self-styled “war correspondent” Vladlen Tatarsky.
Russia’s National Anti-Terrorism Committee said Monday that the explosion that killed pro-Kremlin blogger Vladlen Tatarsky on Sunday was planned by the Ukrainian authorities.
The blogger, Maksim Fomin, 40, who was more popularly known by his pen name, Vladlen Tatarsky, represented a radical faction of pro-invasion bloggers and activists — he advocated erasing Ukraine as an independent nation — and his views earned him an invitation to the Kremlin last year. The bloggers include former and current members of Russia’s armed services or its proxy forces and their supporters in eastern Ukraine, and some like Mr. Tatarsky, are originally from that region.
The military bloggers occupy a unique place in Russia’s increasingly restrictive media climate of the past year, where news organizations have been forced to shut down and criticism of the military or the war has been criminalized. The bloggers are tolerated by the government even when they openly denounce missteps, and they have collected millions of followers online, making them an important source of war news, giving a far less sanitized account than the state-controlled media.
As Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis plans to run for president in 2024, his time at Guantánamo is coming under scrutiny. Prior to entering politics, DeSantis served in the Navy as an attorney, first at the U.S. prison at the Guantánamo Bay prison in Cuba and later in Iraq. Former Guantánamo prisoner Mansoor Adayfi says DeSantis personally witnessed him being force-fed and tortured, and other prisoners have backed up Adayfi’s account. He joins us from his home in Belgrade for his first television interview about DeSantis’s role at Guantánamo. “While I was screaming, yelling because I couldn’t breathe … he was actually laughing, looking at the other officers and smiling,” Adayfi says of DeSantis. “He wasn’t involved directly in the force-feeding. I didn’t see him give any orders to the guards. But he was there, supervising, watching.” Adayfi was imprisoned without charge for 14 years and seven months before being released in 2016 to Serbia. In 2021, he published a memoir titled Don’t Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantánamo.
Mexico’s leftist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador used the US government’s “Summit for Democracy” to indirectly call out Washington’s hypocrisy: “The oligarchy reigns with the façade of democracy”, he said, calling for “greater equality” and “separation of economic and political power."
After a deadly fire in a migrant detention center in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, some victims’ families and friends are still looking for answers about their loved ones.
Malka Leifer, who had led an ultra-Orthodox Jewish girls’ school in Melbourne, was found guilty of sexually abusing students more than 15 years ago.
Paul Rusesabagina, depicted in the 2004 film about genocide in his country, was reunited with his family last week. It took years of pressure to get him out of Rwanda, where he was convicted on terrorism charges.
Despite sanctions and the pandemic, laborers from the country remain abroad, earning desperately needed cash for the regime, according to a new report.
Hashim Thaci, the former president and prime minister, went on trial in The Hague on charges related to the country’s bloody fight for independence.
Former Kosovo president Hashim Thaci led a bloody campaign against opponents that resulted in more than 100 murders during the 1990s independence war against Serbia, the start of his war crimes trial heard Monday.
NATO is set to welcome Finland as the 31st member Tuesday after a conservative victory in the country’s weekend election. Russia has signaled it will build up defenses near their joint border if NATO deploys any troops in its newest member.
A yellow brick building in a residential neighborhood of Kyiv operates much like a retail warehouse. Orders arrive via forms filled out online.
The authorities detained a woman they said had delivered the bomb, hidden in a statuette, that killed the blogger, and called it the work of antigovernment activists and Ukraine.
The monthlong presidency of an organization dedicated to preserving world peace is now in the hand of a nation waging the biggest land war in Europe in decades.
Russia’s U.N. ambassador is dismissing U.S. and European Union descriptions of its presidency of the Security Council this month as an April Fool’s joke. Vassily Nebenzia says Russia will be an “honest broker.”
On March 20, the final installment of the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) landed with all the force of a pebble hurled into the sea. Another round of dutifully—and accurately—alarming coverage appeared on the world’s news pages and in social media feeds, but it was barely acknowledged by the guardians of our political and cultural status quo and their corporate paymasters.1
"It is impossible to stay in your home if it is underwater. You cannot grow crops or raise livestock if it has not rained for years." —Atlas of Migration 2022, Rosa Luxemburg Institute
Arctic scientists are set to start drilling to save samples of ancient ice for analysis before the frozen layers melt away due to climate change, mission organisers said on Monday.
One by one, the men pop out of a small hole in the earth to the cheers of dozens of fellow miners. Ten artisanal miners were rescued on March 24 after spending 18 hours trapped underground after a landslide at the Mitondo Hill mining site in the South Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. A video showing the rescue was shared widely online. While initial reports say that no lives were lost in this accident, it was a close call – and remains proof of the terrible danger faced daily by the nation’s artisanal miners.
Reporting on a cache of documents published over the weekend shows Shell knew about the impact of fossil fuel even earlier than previously revealed, potentially bolstering legal efforts to hold Big Oil accountable for the global climate emergency.
Parisians voted Sunday in a referendum to ban self-service e-scooter rentals in the French capital. While they have€ become commonplace since they were first introduced in 2018, a rising accident toll has hardened attitudes towards the "trottinette".
A referendum emphasized how many residents had come to regard the scooters as dangerous nuisances with little environmental benefit. Other cities were closely watching the vote.
A hydrogen start-up in New Zealand is set to launch with the backing of NZD$2.5m ($1.56m) to offer a solution to sustainable manufacturing and protecting natural resources for hydrogen production.
Construction can proceed related to a major oil project on Alaska’s petroleum-rich North Slope. A federal judge on Monday rejected requests to halt work until challenges to the Biden administration’s recent approval are resolved. The decision means ConocoPhillips Alaska can forge ahead with cold-weather construction work, including mining gravel and using it to extend a road toward the Willow project. The U.S. District Court refused requests by environmental groups and an Alaska Native organization to delay construction related to Willow.
For anyone new to the blog, I own a small company that is building a 1.2MWp solar farm in England as a side-project to making video games. 1.2MWp is tiny by solar farm standards, but it will power 300 homes, so its not *that* tiny. This is the first time I’ve ever got involved in any sort of ‘infrastructure’ project, so I’m learning as I go along…
A ban on overnight flights would cut all commercial passenger flights and cargo flights scheduled for departure between midnight and 6 a.m., Sondag told the newspaper. Aircraft will also not be allowed to land between midnight and 5 a.m. Exceptions will be made for issues related to safety or emergencies.
In the automotive world, batteries are quickly becoming the energy source of the future. For heavier-duty tasks, though, they simply don’t cut the mustard. Their energy density, being a small fraction of that of liquid fuels, just can’t get the job done. In areas like these, hydrogen holds some promise as a cleaner fuel of the future.
A new recycling plant in Mexicali raises legal and ethical concerns.
Montana has repealed its 30-year-old energy policy – including a 2011 amendment that prioritized fossil-fuel development. The move comes as a June trial date approaches for a youth-led climate lawsuit against the state.
In the lawsuit, Held v. State of Montana, sixteen Montana children and teenagers say that by actively promoting a fossil-fuel based energy system that is dangerous to the climate, state officials are violating the “right to a clean and healthful environment” for present and future generations under the state Constitution. It is the first constitutional climate case to go to trial in the United States.
The demise of Silicon Valley Bank last month triggered plenty of angst among solar energy developers. Before it collapsed, SBV claimed it had “financed or helped finance 62 percent of community solar projects in America,” according toWashington Post business reporter Evan Halper. At first, it wasn’t clear who might fill that gap. MAGA politicians took great delight in the disruption of what they tediously referred to as the “woke” economy. Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) typically tweeted this non sequitur: “So these SVB guys spend all their time funding woke garbage — ‘climate change solutions’ — rather than actual banking.” Meanwhile, Stephen Miller, the vampirish mastermind of Donald Trump’s 2017 Muslim travel ban, asked all too rhetorically how much time and money that bank had spent on what he called equity, diversity, and climate “scams.”
So bad is the state of affairs in this nation of 220 million people that the government has had to cut food supplies to even its soldiers. “...the government is grappling to fulfil its military obligations—which is now spilling over to the logistics and essentials supply issues,” The Financial Express reported.
Vivian Thomas Smith loved her apartment. For nearly three decades, she and her husband, Bradley, had lived in a modest one-bedroom at 2420 Morris Avenue, just two blocks from the raucous beauty of the Grand Concourse in the Bronx. The brick apartment complex was a co-op where some families, like theirs, still rented. Vivian, 71, was a retired secretary who had worked for decades at Montefiore Medical Center. Bradley, 81, had also been employed by Montefiore, doing maintenance work before his retirement. Vivian watched her neighbors’ kids grow up. When her own son got sick, her friend down the hall helped nurse him through the long illness that preceded his death. Vivian may have worried about the increasing crime in her neighborhood, but when she walked through her building’s beautifully tiled lobby, she felt secure that she and Bradley would stay there for the rest of their lives.1This story was supported by the journalism nonprofit the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.
House Republicans have become so factionalized that their leaders cannot speak in one voice.
Wall Street’s average bonus paid to securities employees dropped from $240,400 in 2021 to $176,700 in 2022, according to New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli’s annual estimate (pdf.) That’s a 26% decline—a steep drop not seen since the 2008 Great Recession.
Hundreds of billions of dollars were stolen in the rush to aid small businesses and individuals. Now the U.S. is now trying to claw some money back.
Marin's Social Democratic Party (SDP) was supported by 19.9% of voters, but the outgoing prime minister noted in her concession speech that the party won three more seats in Eduskunta, the Finnish parliament.
When Jeff Zients took over as White House chief of staff on February 8, 2023, he could be grateful that his predecessor, Ron Klain, left him a smoothly running operation. Under Klain’s watch, the first two years of Biden’s presidency were considerably more successful than anyone could have expected. This was especially true given that Biden faced the headwinds of a turbulent economy, international turmoil from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and a polarized polity at home.
David Sausdal, who has a PhD in criminology, doubts the efficacy of the planned amendments.
“It is a very ineffective way of approaching it – if it is effective at all,” he said.
“Particularly when it comes to more serious crime – such as gang crime – higher penalties are typically not something that plays a big role for the criminals. They often have a poor grasp of what the punishments for various offences are. They don’t read Politiken or listen to the radio.”
As former President Donald Trump is expected to be arrested in New York on charges related to paying hush money to adult film star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential campaign, we speak with The Nation's justice correspondent Elie Mystal, who says the case against Trump is far from a slam dunk. Trump is reportedly facing about 30 criminal counts related to business fraud, but Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has yet to release the exact charges, which reportedly include at least one felony. Mystal says it's clear that Trump “did the deed,” but the timing of the charges could undermine the case, due to the statute of limitations that may have elapsed and because of the looming 2024 election campaign. “Why wasn’t he held accountable for that earlier, when it might have been easier to do so?” asks Mystal.
I have waited for anger to subside before writing about Humza Yousaf as First Minister. The obvious unfairness of the election created a lot of anger.
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders this weekend renewed his call to break up agricultural monopolies after the nation's largest egg producer reported that its quarterly profits soared more than 700%.
I think all of these risks are valid concerns that warrant great caution and slower rates of change. I'd be delighted if we got the proposed pause. I don't think we will, but I hope that these issues get a lot more attention and we start taking government and self-regulation of AI seriously. It's absurd that we regulate food and drug safety but not AI.
However, research from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released late last week shows VA awarded 11,644 new contract actions categorized as IT between March 2018 and the end of fiscal 2021. VA did not provide evidence of CIO approval for 4,513 of them.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese agreed to a government-wide ban on the use of TikTok after the completion of a review by the Home Affairs department, The Australian newspaper reported.
Victoria state will also ban the short video app from government phones, The Age newspaper reported, quoting a state government official as saying Victoria would follow the federal government's guidance.
Earlier this year, a federal court dismissed almost all of a far right troll’s challenge to the criminal case brought against him by the DOJ. “Ricky Vaughn” is a notorious social media presence — one who’s been repeatedly suspended and banned for his never-ending string of shitheelishness.
Just over a year into a "state of exception" in El Salvador, Amnesty International on Monday accused all three branches of government of enabling "the systematic, massive, and sustained violation of the human rights of the Salvadoran population" in a supposed effort to crack down on gang violence.
Reproductive rights advocates on Monday angrily vowed to fight back after Florida's Republican-controlled Senate approved a bill banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy—a point at which many people don't even know they're pregnant.
Progressives in Wisconsin and across the United States are warning that Tuesday's upcoming state Supreme Court election will have implications for working families nationwide, as a liberal judge who has been outspoken about her support for abortion rights and labor unions faces a right-wing former justice funded by dark money.
The battle for a state Supreme Court seat in Wisconsin.
Conservatives and liberals were in a close race as votes were counted€ after Bulgaria's€ fifth election in two years on Sunday, while a pro-Russian party made gains with the country deeply divided over the war in Ukraine.
The government of Bulgaria Monday made its first ever voluntary contribution to the Trust Fund for Victims (TFV) in the amount of €20,000 announced. The donation demonstrates Bulgaria’s support of the TFV and its belief in advancing restorative justice.
The New York Times’ main Twitter account lost its verified badge. The US publication appeared to be one of the first major accounts to lose its golden tick after the social media platform announced it would start removing not-paid-for verified badges from Apr. 1.
The New York Times ignored the deadline set by Twitter owner Elon Musk to purchase a blue verification checkmark. On Monday, the news organization lost its verification. Other celebrity users have balked at the fee and brace for their blue check removals.
The promised changes to the platform’s verification program have been slow. Attention has focused instead on the image of a doge in place of the blue Twitter bird.
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: the NY Post tweets a link to one of its own news stories, and Twitter decides that it violates the company’s rules (perhaps very questionably so), and in response, locks the NY Post’s Twitter account. Also, as part of the same “crackdown” on sharing certain media, Twitter also suspends Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s account.
In the latest installment of the Missing Links series, Jim Mamer explores written history's outlook on women and the disparity between men and women in textbooks.
Fayneese S. Miller found herself in a fierce debate over academic freedom and Islamophobia, after an art history lecturer lost her job for showing images of the prophet.
Butte, Mont.—On April 3, 1996, the FBI descended on Lincoln, a small Montana town on the edge of a thickly forested mountain pass, to capture one of the country’s most sought-after terrorists. Federal agents arrested Ted Kaczynski, the troubled mathematician turned serial mail bomber, ending nearly 20 years of attacks that had injured 23 people and killed three. The Unabomber emerged from the woods in a wild beard and shock of dirty brown hair, and journalists from around the world swooped into the state.
We, the undersigned participants of the III World Forum on Human Rights, express our concern about the extradition requested by the United States of America in relation to the journalist and founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, currently on remand in subhuman conditions in the highsecurity prison of Belmarsh, in the United Kingdom.
Immigration is steadily deepening bonds of unity and affection, finds a new study.
Chalcatzingo Monument 9 represents an important piece of pre-Columbian Mexican history and is a key piece of Olmec art.
An Alaska Superior Court judge has dismissed a sex abuse case against former acting state Attorney General Clyde “Ed” Sniffen. In an order Friday, Judge Peter Ramgren sided with Sniffen’s lawyer, who argued too much time had passed for him to be charged with the alleged 1991 crime.
A grand jury indicted Sniffen in September on three counts of sexual abuse of a minor by an authority figure, based on his alleged sexual relationship with a then-17-year-old student. Sniffen was 27 at the time and a coach for the West Anchorage High School girls’ mock trial team.
We’re living in a world where the sanctuaries are actually prisons.
Federal cyber defence authorities are to be strengthened with two amendments to the Constitution. This is the plan of Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser. Critics call the envisaged capabilities ââ¬Å¾hackbacks“.
Up to 80% of the people displaced globally by climate change are women.
"I had to tell them, 'Your dad got fired for doing something that was right,'" the Benton Harbor father recalled.
That "something" was sticking up for a woman who was being sexually harassed at work — a story he would later tell jurors who would ultimately vindicate him.
Glowacki won a verdict of nearly $3 million last month, convincing a federal jury in Lansing that his employer fired him in retaliation for exposing a high-ranking boss who was sexually harassing a woman while others watched and did nothing.
LSA junior Karthik Pasupula, who is also Central Student Government speaker, helped lead the protest on campus. In an interview with The Michigan Daily before the march, Pasupula explained the importance of graduate students and why he stands in solidarity with GEO.
Mr. Tate, the social media influencer, and his brother Tristan had been in custody since December, when they were arrested on allegations of human trafficking, rape and forming an organized criminal group.
Adin Ross boasts millions of followers and has reportedly amassed millions of dollars from his content creation.
A former Tesla factory worker, who is Black, challenged a judge’s earlier award of $15 million, but came away with less in a new trial.
In a statement issued Monday, seven Belarusian and international human rights organisations called for Belarusian authorities to drop all charges and immediately release human rights activist Nasta Lojka.
In case you’d missed it, the EU is currently proposing a telecom-industry backed plan to effectively tax Big Tech companies, and throw that money at Big Telecom companies for broadband expansion.
In both Canada and the U.S., there’s no shortage of evidence that consolidation in telecom and media hasn’t been great for telecom and media — or employers, competition, or consumers.
The Department of Justice is investigating Big Tech companies for antitrust violations, and it’s basically a case of DOJ vs. DOJ.€ That’s because in preparation for just this sort of thing, firms have lawyered up — with hundreds of attorneys hired away from DOJ. Big Tech companies —€ Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and HP — [...]
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita announced Friday a settlement agreement with Google LLC over violations of the Indiana Deceptive Consumer Sales Act (DCSA).
Adidas is not exactly unknown in the seven circles of trademark insanity hell. The company most famously is a jealous defender of its vaunted “3 slanted stripes” branding. It takes that protective stance to ridiculous extremes, including going after an eSports league for having the “E” in question be three stripes, or suing to hell other brands that have dared to sell apparel or shoes with a number of stripes that doesn’t equal 3.
Cloudflare's latest appeal against a DNS-blocking injunction has been rejected. The Court of Milan found that since Cloudflare already blocks other content, restricting access to three torrent sites should be possible too. The internet infrastructure company hasn't commented on the order but now faces the prospect of additional site-blocking requests in Italy.
The lawsuits over AI turn, in large part, on copyright. These copyright issues are so complex that we’ve devoted a whole, separate post to them. Here, we focus on thornier non-legal issues.€
There are two different parts of the life of an AI art generator. First are the data that teaches it what a "dog" is or, more abstractly, what "anger" looks like. Second are the outputs that the machine gives in response to prompts. Early, when the generator has not had enough training, those outputs only loosely reflect the prompts. But eventually, the generator will have seen enough images to figure out how to properly respond to a prompt (this is just how people do it, too). AI-generated creative content can run the gamut from "prompt based on an image I saw in a fever dream" to "very poorly written blog post."
AI art generators depend on “machine learning.” In a machine learning process, a training algorithm takes in an enormous set of data and analyzes the relationships between its different aspects. An AI art generator is trained on images and on the text that describes those images.€ € €
In this context, it’s natural to look to copyright law, because copyright is supposed to help ensure that artists get paid for their work. Unfortunately, one copyright theory advanced in a class-action lawsuit by some artists against Stable Diffusion is extremely dangerous for human creators. Other theories—both in that lawsuit and another suit by Getty Images—propose to alter and expand copyright restrictions in ways that would interfere with research, search engines, and the ability to make new technology interoperate with old.€
This legal analysis is a companion piece to our post describing AI image-generating technology and how we see its potential risks and benefits. We suggest that you read that post first for context, then come back to this one for our view on how the copyright questions play out under U.S. law.
Copyright law is supposed to embody a balance between giving artists a sufficient incentive to create, by granting them control of some of the ways their art can be used, and giving the public the right to build on and/or use that art in new and interesting ways. Here, the question is whether those who own the copyright in the images used to train the AI generator model have a right to prohibit this kind of use.€
The Hamburg Regional Court has issued an injunction requiring the individual to stop hosting the software. YouTube-DL allows users to download content directly from YouTube, circumventing the protection measures in place for licensed streamed content.
Stream ripping is the illegal practice of creating a downloadable file from content that is legally available to stream online. It is currently the most prevalent form of online music copyright infringement. According to a survey conducted last year, at least 27% of people globally used stream ripping sites as a way to illegally download music from YouTube. The 16-24 demographic saw that number jump to 40%.
Look, we all knew that there was going to be a lot of fuss about the upcoming public domaining (finally!) of Mickey Mouse nine months from now on January 1, 2024. I mean, we’ve already been talking about what next year’s public domain game jam is going to look like with Mickey as one of the options.
Back in the later half of the 90's my friend Ed told me about a cool thing he found online. We headed to the library during our lunch break, got on some of those green convection heaters known as an iMac G3 and loaded up telnet. What he was showing me was a Multi User Dungeon, or MUD for short. It was like Zork, a text based adventure game but with the twist that it was online with real people. Compared to the games of today, it wasn't that impressive. I guess at that point it wasn't that impressive either, we had been sunk a few months into Ultimat Online at that point. But the idea of a "massive" multiplayer online RPG we could play at school was pretty cool.
Hyprland is sort of the new kid on the Wayland compositor block. I've just gotten my Sway config ported over to it and I'm going to be test driving it the next couple of days. Here's a couple thoughts on the setup process while it's fresh in my mind.
The main reason anyone would want to try Hyprland over Sway is most likely eye-candy. If you've looked at the unixporn subreddit any time over the past several months you've almost certainly seen some Hyprland setups. I've got all the fancy settings like blur and shadows disabled in the name of power savings, but I'm still using animations and rounded corners. They're starting to grow on me. I'm realizing that animations especially aren't just eye candy, but they also help illustrate to the user what's happening while you're moving and opening windows, etc.
* Gemini (Primer) links can be opened using Gemini software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.