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Inside the CIA and MI6 on 9/11 (w/ John McLaughlin, CIA Deputy Director on September 11th)
Part Two of our two-part series marking the 25th anniversary of 9/11 reunites former leaders of the US and UK intelligence services, both of whom were in high office on September 11, 2001. Former deputy director of the CIA John McLaughlin joins former MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove and co-host Kate McCann to give the insider’s perspective on the intelligence world’s response to the attacks. McLaughlin details what the CIA knew beforehand, the immediate aftermath inside CIA headquarters, and the rapid attribution to al-Qaeda. He also discusses the power of the US-UK "special relationship," the surge in CIA resources after 9/11, the Bush administration's push toward the Iraq War, the effects of the global war on terror on American civil liberties, and why the war in Ukraine is the single most important geopolitical issue today. In this episode: (00:00) Emotion is a Luxury in Intelligence (01:53) John McLaughlin Introduction (03:03) Pre-9/11 Threats (07:17) Why Was 9/11 A Surprise? (14:13) Considering the "What Ifs" (15:52) M16 Rushes to DC (22:46) CIA on 9/11 (25:12) Post-9/11 Intelligence Overhaul (34:16) Origins of the Iraq Focus (47:17) Legacy of 9/11 in America (57:42) One Decision: Importance of the Ukraine Conflict (01:03:00) Takeaways and Wrap Up Hosted by Sir Richard Dearlove (former MI6 Chief) and co-host Kate McCann (Political Editor at Times Radio). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicespdrl.fm -
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Jonathan Swan’s Dive into Trump’s Reality
As Trump’s second administration pursues a radically different playbook from his first, Jon is joined by Jonathan Swan, New York Times reporter and co-author of the book "Regime Change." Together, they discuss what’s changed between Trump’s first term and now, how to puncture the president’s reality distortion bubble, and the craft behind a great interview. Plus, Jon takes listeners’ questions about causing political diabetes and Trump’s 9/11 efforts. This episode is brought to you by: GROUND NEWS - Go to https://groundnews.com/stewart to see all sides of every story. Subscribe for 40% off the Vantage Subscription only for a limited time through our link https://groundnews.com/stewart AVOCADO GREEN MATTRESS - Find an Avocado near you or shop online at https://AvocadoGreenMattress.com/TWS — and check out their mattress and bedding sale! BOMBAS - Head over to https://Bombas.com/weekly and use code WEEKLY for 20% off your first purchase. SMALLS - For a limited time, get 60% off your first order, plus free shipping, when you head to Smalls.com/TWS Follow The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart on social media for more: > YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@weeklyshowpodcast > Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weeklyshowpodcast > TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@weeklyshowpodcast > X: https://x.com/weeklyshowpod > BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/theweeklyshowpodcast.com Host/Executive Producer – Jon Stewart Executive Producer – James Dixon Executive Producer – Chris McShane Executive Producer – Caity Gray Producer – Brittany Mehmedovic Producer – Gillian Spear Video Editor & Engineer – Rob Vitolo Audio Editor & Engineer – Nicole Boyce Associate Producer - Rebecca Rottenberg Music by Hansdle Hsu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoiceswww.podtrac.com -
Data Vampires Redux: Opposing Data Centers (Episode 2)
Paris’ new book Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech’s Data Empires is coming out in October. To celebrate, we’re revisiting the series that planted the seeds for his deep dive into hyperscale data centers, the communities they’re affecting, and the future Silicon Valley is trying to build. This is episode 2 of Data Vampires, a special four-part series from Tech Won’t Save Us.
The show is hosted by Paris Marx. Original production on Data Vampires was by Eric Wickham. Current production is by Kyla Hewson. Support the show on Patreon.
Also mentioned in this episode:
- Preorder Hyperscale to support Paris at hyperscalebook.com.
- People Before Profit TD Brid Smith, Tu Nube Seca Mi Río organizer Aurora Gomez Delgado, and King’s College London lecturer Sebastian Lehuede were interviewed for this episode.
- Some pieces by Dara Kerr in NPR, Sarah Emerson and Emily Baker-White in Forbes, and Hannah Daly in The Irish Times were cited.
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De 2010 à 2013, j’ai été assez actif dans plusieurs mouvements citoyens qui ont...
De 2010 à 2013, j’ai été assez actif dans plusieurs mouvements citoyens qui ont vu le jour à cette époque, notamment celui des « Indignés ».
Et quand je vois aujourd’hui le traitement médiatique réservé à Mars Attacks — son « front mou », son « manque d’interlocuteur clair », son supposé « noyautage » — ça me rappelle pas mal de souvenirs.
Des souvenirs d’un appareil politique belge totalement incapable d’incarner une démocratie réelle et qui, lorsqu’il se heurte à une mobilisation citoyenne qu’il ne contrôle pas, reproduit toujours les mêmes réflexes. Avec, en soutien, un appareil médiatique largement intoxiqué par l’entre-soi politique.
La réaction consiste alors à attendre que la tempête passe, à décrédibiliser le mouvement, à minimiser ce qu’il représente, à chercher qui se « cache derrière » plutôt qu’à écouter ce qu’il dit.
Et pendant ce temps, on continue à pénaliser l’ensemble de la société avec des mesures profondément désastreuses. Du très classique en Belgique : tailler dans la population, les précaires, les services publics et une classe moyenne déjà sur les genoux, tout en préservant « les marchés » et les 5 ou 10 % les plus riches, qui concentrent une part immense du patrimoine du pays.
Puis le service public sort ce genre d’article :
On y retrouve précisément les insinuations venues du monde politique : qui se cache derrière ? qui manipule qui ? Et le fait que certains profs soient également membres de partis politiques devient soudain suspect.
Mais on est en démocratie, non ?
Depuis quand le fait d’avoir une appartenance politique disqualifie-t-il quelqu’un de participer à un mouvement social ? Et surtout, en quoi cela permet-il de discréditer les revendications d’un mouvement né dans les écoles du pays, qui a justement tout le mérite d’exister par lui-même et pour lui-même, dans l’intérêt des profs comme des élèves ?
Pendant ce temps, le monde politique crache sur les citoyennes et citoyens qu’il est censé représenter, puis s’interroge gravement sur la « radicalisation de la société ».
Comme si cette radicalisation était apparue spontanément.
Comme si la dégradation du débat public, la perte de confiance, le sentiment d’impuissance démocratique et le mépris social n’avaient aucun rapport avec des décennies de fonctionnement politique.
À force de vider la démocratie de sa substance, il ne faut peut-être pas s’étonner que les citoyens finissent par chercher d’autres manières de se faire entendre.
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Found a bug on my “webmention sender” plugin for #indiekit I’m sorry to everyone...
Found a bug on my “webmention sender” plugin for #indiekit
I’m sorry to everyone who receive an old webmention from 2017 :))
Backgog it is so that I fix this once and for all !
coupled with my fork of indiekit’s own webmention plugin I can do things I always wanted my site to be able to do regarding webmentions : moderation !
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Stanford Psychologist: 7 Small Things That Make a Huge Difference in How You Feel
You don’t have to wait for your life to get easier to start enjoying it.
Today, Mel sits down with Dr. Kelly McGonigal, a renowned health psychologist, award-winning Stanford University lecturer, and bestselling author whose work focuses on stress, resilience, and joy.
She’s here to show you how to feel more alive again by making 7 small shifts.
And you already have everything you need to get started.
Dr. McGonigal will walk you through your body and brain’s built-in resources for joy, connection, hope, and courage, and show you how to put them to work.
Your muscles, for example, are like a pharmacy inside your body, releasing “hope molecules” when you move. And you don’t have to crush a workout to get started. A walk with your dog or a little dancing in your kitchen counts.
One of Dr. McGonigal’s biggest insights: You need joy precisely because life can be hard. Those moments of laughter, closeness, and pleasure give you reasons to keep going, and you can learn how to create more of them.
And you can practice these mood-boosting shifts on your next walk, between errands, or while spending time with someone you love.You’ll learn:
–What joy really does for you and why your brain needs it
–How your muscles can make hope – seriously
–How to make stress your friend and use it to your advantage
–How to use a favorite song to shift your mood and get yourself going
–How to turn a meaningful memory into courage you can use today
–How to train your attention to notice more of the good around you
–3 research-backed sources of hope you can tap into when you need a lift
You have not lost your ability to feel joy. And you don’t have to wait for it to find you.
You’ll leave this conversation with small things you can do today to feel more like yourself, connect with people, and get more enjoyment out of the life you’re living.
For more resources related to today’s episode, click here for the podcast episode page.
If you liked this episode, listen to this one next: How to Stop Negative Thoughts & Reset Your Mind for Positive Thinking.
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1 Of 2 Children Dead In PA Confirmed To Be From Measles
I want to start this whole thing off with a disclaimer. Nothing in this post should be misconstrued as gloating, as being pleased, or as having a connotation that is anything beyond sadness and the need for change. Nobody is happy to have the obvious confirmed when it comes to a child’s death. There is […] -
Veuve à 27 ans - teaser
Mélissa a 23 ans quand elle rencontre Kevin*. Entre eux, tout est simple, fluide, naturel. Mais quelques mois plus tard, Kevin commence à perdre pied. Troubles psychiatriques, hospitalisation, traitements... Mélissa reste à ses côtés et l'accompagne pendant plusieurs années.
Jusqu'au jour où leur histoire bascule définitivement et où Mélissa devient veuve à seulement 27 ans.
* prénom modifié
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La Grèce antique : un paradis gay ?
L’Antiquité grecque avec ses guerriers hyper virils et hétéros est-elle un cliché fabriqué par le cinéma ? Dans les péplums hollywoodiens, l’homosexualité n’est presque jamais représentée. Pourtant, les relations sexuelles et amoureuses entre hommes n’avaient rien de honteux. Elles étaient au contraire fréquentes, quoique très codifiées.
Alors pourquoi l’homosexualité était mieux acceptée à l’époque que dans beaucoup de sociétés occidentales plus récentes ? Comment les relations entre hommes étaient-elle perçues par les grecs ? Et selon quelles normes se déroulaient-elles ?
Pour en parler, Tal Madesta reçoit l’historien Nicolas Cartelet, auteur de Sous la jupe d’Achille, l’homosexualité grecque entre mythes et histoire, 2024 (Éds. La Musardine).
Toutes les références citées dans l'émission sont disponibles sur le site : https://www.binge.audio/podcast/les-couilles-sur-la-table/la-grece-antique-un-paradis-gay
CRÉDITS : Les Couilles sur la table est un podcast créé par Victoire Tuaillon produit par Binge (URBANIA AUDIO). Cet entretien a été préparé, mené et monté par Tal Madesta, enregistré le 12 juin au Studio 48L (Paris 10e). Supervision éditoriale et incarnation : Naomi Titti. Réalisation et mixage : Paul Bertiaux. Responsable des productions éditoriales : Charlotte Baix. Assistante de production et d’édition : Aude Miquel. Rédacteur en chef : Thomas Rozec. Direction de production : Albane Fily. Responsable administrative et financière : Adrienne Marino. Responsable sponsoring : Betty-Maeva Wendling. Musique originale : Théo Boulenger. Identité graphique : Camille Bernard (Upian). Composition identité sonore : Jean-Benoît Dunckel. Voix identité sonore : Bonnie El Bokeili. Direction de contenu : Sophie Marchand. Binge est une marque URBANIA.
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Jason Snell blogged about all the Apple news today, including the slightly controversial Apple Watch recording feature:
Our culture may ultimately reject even the most privacy-focused AI recording features, whether they come in camera glasses or attentive smartwatches. But if there’s any valid, non-creepy case to be made for this sort of technology, someone needs to make it.
I've long wanted an easy way to record quick notes that are transcribed and synced, but I don't want to record other people. Perhaps a better place to start would've been for it to ignore all voices except our own.
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“We found ~18,000 posts from autonomous AI agents...
“We found ~18,000 posts from autonomous AI agents (self-identifying as from OpenAI) using the public internet to communicate during a web research task. These AIs colluded to share answers, research their environment, and bypass sandbox restrictions.”
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The Chicago Public Library informs patrons of how much...
The Chicago Public Library informs patrons of how much money they’ve saved borrowing from the library instead of buying. “You just saved $58.94 by using your library. You have saved $231.79 this past year and $1,107.24 since you began using the library!”
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Over the past 12 years, Super Bowl-winning coach Mike...
Over the past 12 years, Super Bowl-winning coach Mike Tomlin has built a Minecraft city. He started playing the game for the same reason I started playing Fortnite: his kids. “How do I meet them where they are and spend time with them?”
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I sort of tuned out during the Apple Watch part of the presentation today. Catching up on Siri Recap and Live Rewind. How it works (PDF) is interesting... It's pretty clever. Jumping through a lot of hoops for maybe not-great transcription, though.
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From the Internet Archive: Vanishing Culture: A Report...
From the Internet Archive: Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record. “When digital materials are vulnerable to sudden removal…our collective memory is compromised, and the public’s ability to access its own history is at risk.”
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Vintage Eastern European Matchbox Labels (1950-1980s)
Over on Flickr, Jane McDevitt maintains a huge collection of 20th century matchbox label art from Eastern Europe, over 4000 photos in all. Some of the labels are available as prints. They did a book too, but it’s sold out. It was really difficult to narrow these down to some of my favorites, but I managed.
P.S. I wrote this whole post and then discovered that I’d written about this collection before. But I picked different labels so it’s all good.
Tags: art · illustration · Jane McDevitt
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Home Stretch
Kate and Josh discuss Trump’s attempts to mess with the midterms, which feel much closer on this side of Labor Day.
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AI Agents Are Not Going “Rogue,” But Recent Developments Lead Increasingly-Concerned Researchers To Call For AI Slow Down
For the last few months, there has been much talk of AI agents going “rogue”. This is another of those unhelpful anthropomorphisms that are great for clickbait headlines, but which obscure a multitude of important issues. So far, there have been three major incidents of AI agents evading containment in their software “sandboxes” and going […] -
RSS-Bridge on Mikrus - a plan for an IT layman made by Claude
Can someone help me out? I'm a complete layman when it comes to coding and IT stuff
My favorite free RSS builder (morss.it) has gone offline, so I asked Claude Opus 4.8 for alternatives. It suggested that I could self-host and run such a tool myself (which is a total mystery to me). I then asked it for a step-by-step guide, but I also asked several other AI chatbots the same question. They gave similar answers, but with slight differences. When I showed all those other plans to Claude and asked it to review them, it told me that these subtle differences were crucial, and that if I had followed what the other bots suggested, my feeds wouldn't have worked properly
Here's Claude's final response, translated from Polish to English: https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/ec6edad6-d3e3-4c71-8e0f-44de4f8054d0
I don't really understand what I'll be doing here; I just want to make sure I won't break anything or create any security risks by following these steps. Do you think this plan will actually work?
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Le prisonnier de Téhéran
Louis, un trentenaire parisien parti faire le tour du monde, voit son rêve s'effondrer lorsqu'il est brutalement arrêté à Téhéran. Plongé dans l'enfer de la prison d'Evin, il comprend qu’il est otage. Mais face à l’horreur, il tente de transformer sa détention en un combat pour sa propre liberté intérieure.
Cet épisode de Passages a été tourné et monté par Anne-Cécile Genre, la réalisation et le mix sont de Théo Boulenger, Louise Hemmerlé est à la production.
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A catalogue of 645 acts of hate from the week after 9/11...
A catalogue of 645 acts of hate from the week after 9/11. “Muslim, Arab, South Asian, and Sikh Americans were targeted for how they looked, dressed, or prayed.”
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Once you've traversed the list twice or thrice, he says, "you will be able to use them whenever you wish."
🔗 Roundabout - Futility Closet
.. and use them you should.
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Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg Put on 'Leave of Absence'
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An earth globe to display recent news articles by location
Hello,
I'm currently making a website to explore world news around the globe: [newsglobe.earth](https://newsglobe.earth) .
You can browse articles from thousands of global outlets with translated headlines and short description in English, filter by 10 topic categories, sentiment analysis (Positive, Negative and Neutral) and continent.
You can also vote whether articles are positive, neutral, or negative and click on a country to see all the outlets of it.
It's self hosted at my home, I hope you'll find it interesting.
I'm open to any critics and features suggestions.
Have a good day !
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Bayeux Go! A playable video game of the Bayeux...
Bayeux Go! A playable video game of the Bayeux Tapestry. “Thou art Harold. Win Thine Battle. Tap to starte.”
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🔗🎵 Instagram promo to 🔗🎵 The Village, narrated by David Tennant.
Welcome. The stones and the birds will decide if you belong among us.
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DOJ Fired Prosecutor, Blocked Assault Charges Against ICE Officer Following Minneapolis Shooting
Let’s start out with the obvious (and obviously heartbreaking): this is not related to the multiple times ICE officers have murdered people. Those officers still remain at large and the DOJ and DHS have shown absolutely zero interest in following up on those cases. In fact, when any local agency attempts to do so, they’re […] -
Not sure who created these, but I'm starting to notice a couple bridges from specific X accounts to AT Proto, so you can follow people on Bluesky (or in Micro.blog) without visiting X. Here are two: John Ternus and Tibo. There are probably more.
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Spaceships : A version of Asteroids where “you are not...
Spaceships: A version of Asteroids where “you are not the ship” — you control the rocks instead.
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Doctor Doom Thanked Seattle for All the Surveillance Cameras
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Judge: Losing Your First Amendment Rights Is No Longer “Irreparable” If You Take Almost Three Months To Sue
Here we go again: another case where it’s easy to cheer a court ruling against Elon Musk, and unfortunately easy to miss the much more important underlying point — which the judge clearly did. In July, we wrote about how even as awful as Elon Musk is, and as awful as it was that (with […] -
Daily Deal: InfoSec4TC Projects Hub
InfoSec4TC Projects Hub is the missing link between cybersecurity theory and real-world practice. Instead of watching more lectures, you’ll step directly into simulated corporate environments and complete actual cybersecurity and GRC projects designed by industry professionals, the same kind of work security analysts and compliance officers handle on the job every day. The Hub includes […] -
It looks like Apple has knocked it out of the park with the Duo. Really impressive, from the way it looks to the little details in UI layout. And Apple pencil! Jealous of people who are going to get one. 💰
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The Remnants of a Lost ‘Supercontinent’ Just Rewrote the History of Life on Earth
A team discovered that Gondwana, an ancient landmass that formed more than 500 million years ago, was in fact large enough to be deemed a supercontinent, a finding that sheds light on the “explosion” of ancient Cambrian life. -
"But actually, there is one more thing..." 🤯
Surprising to include this. It also had its own spin on the phrase, though, almost downplaying it instead of hyping it. Interesting first keynote for John Ternus.
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Smear Campaign Says Anti-Flock Movement Is Chinese Propaganda
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Watching the Apple event. John Ternus is a great presenter who would do really well live. Maybe next year.
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I spent the day programming in Atlantis. It's buggy, and there are a few missing parts, but most of what I need is there. It's starting to feel like Frontier, which is cool because that's what we're making. And I have my backup tools working on the new machine, praise Murphy.
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Podcast: DHS’ Secretive ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit Pulling People Over
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ICE Officer Hit With Federal Charges After Successfully Dodging Minnesota’s Attempt To Extradite Him On Assault Charges
One of the natural side effects of flooding the zone with hastily hired, poorly trained immigration enforcement officers is an increase in violence and rights violations. Christian Castro may not have been a new ICE hire, but he’d been there long enough to realize the new White House boss had given him and his fellow […] -
it can’t go beyond 7B models, but for translation, small coding projects, fixing...
it can’t go beyond 7B models, but for translation, small coding projects, fixing broken linux system, that kind of work, it works really nice (I have not tested with newer approach that offload bigger models to disk tho)
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First ‘Take It Down Act’ Sentencing Puts Man Behind Bars for 15 Years
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During breakfast I usually turn on CNN just to make sure the world hasn't burned down yet. Today's headline was an Anthropic employee posting on X there's a 10% chance AI will destroy all humans. Yikes. Seems a bit high.
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Can I find RSS feed for a specific section in phpbb forum?
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Fluent Reader on Linux/Wayland: working per-app UI scaling workaround (tested on KDE Plasma)
following solution was suggested by ChatGPT (OpenAI), tested and confirmed by myself. I am a Fluent Reader user on KDE Plasma/Wayland.
Feel free to give ChatGPT this Reddit thread as context and ask it to help turn the workaround into a proper Fluent Reader implementation.-------------------------------------
I wanted to increase the UI size of Fluent Reader without changing the scaling of my entire KDE Plasma desktop.
Tested setup:
- Fluent Reader 1.1.4
- Flatpak:
me.hyliu.fluentreader - KDE Plasma / Wayland
- 1920×1200 display
- KDE display scaling: 100%
- GPU acceleration / DRI enabled
The problem
Fluent Reader's UI is rather small at 100% desktop scaling.
Changing KDE's display scaling to 125% works perfectly, including Fluent Reader, but of course this scales the entire desktop.
I tried several common Electron/Linux approaches:
GDK_SCALEGDK_DPI_SCALEELECTRON_FORCE_DEVICE_SCALE_FACTORCtrl++--force-device-scale-factor=1.25--high-dpi-support=1 --force-device-scale-factor=1.25
The environment variables had no useful effect in my setup.
--force-device-scale-factorwas worse: under Wayland, Fluent Reader opened as a very small undecorated window.Effective workaround: scaling per CSS
During troubleshooting, ChatGPT (OpenAI) suggested a different approach: don't scale the Electron/Wayland window at all — scale Fluent Reader's web UI itself using CSS.
I tested this and can confirm that it works on my system.
Fluent Reader contains:
resources/app.asarAfter unpacking it, the UI styles can be found under:
dist/styles/Adding this to the end of
dist/styles/global.css:/* Custom Fluent Reader UI scaling */ body { zoom: 1.25; }and repacking
app.asargives me approximately 125% Fluent Reader UI scaling while KDE remains at 100%.The window remains normal and decorated, and GPU acceleration continues to work.
How I did it
First find the Flatpak installation:
LOC=$(flatpak info --show-location me.hyliu.fluentreader)Create a working directory and copy
app.asar:mkdir -p ~/tmp/fluent-reader-asar cp "$LOC/files/fluent-reader/resources/app.asar" ~/tmp/fluent-reader-asar/Extract it using Electron's ASAR utility:
npx @electron/asar extract ~/tmp/fluent-reader-asar/app.asar ~/tmp/fluent-reader-asar/unpackedAdd the scaling rule:
printf '\n/* Custom Fluent Reader UI scaling */\nbody { zoom: 1.25; }\n' >> ~/tmp/fluent-reader-asar/unpacked/dist/styles/global.css npx @electron/asar pack ~/tmp/fluent-reader-asar/unpacked ~/tmp/fluent-reader-asar/app-scaled.asarRepack it:
Before replacing anything, make a backup:
cp "$LOC/files/fluent-reader/resources/app.asar" ~/tmp/fluent-reader-asar/app-original.asarClose Fluent Reader completely, then replace the ASAR:
sudo cp --remove-destination ~/tmp/fluent-reader-asar/app-scaled.asar "$LOC/files/fluent-reader/resources/app.asar"Start Fluent Reader normally.
To restore the original:
sudo cp --remove-destination ~/tmp/fluent-reader-asar/app-original.asar "$LOC/files/fluent-reader/resources/app.asar"Important
This is a workaround, not an official Fluent Reader feature.
Any Flatpak update will most likely replace the modified
app.asar, so the modification may need to be reapplied after an update.Also, modifying files inside a Flatpak deployment is obviously not ideal. Keep a backup and be prepared to reinstall/repair the Flatpak if necessary.
The CSS scaling approach itself, however, works surprisingly well.
It would be great if Fluent Reader eventually exposed this as an official setting, for example:
Settings → Appearance → Interface scale → 100% / 110% / 125% / 133% / 150% / ...
The technical workaround was suggested by ChatGPT (OpenAI) and tested and confirmed by myself as a real Fluent Reader user on KDE Plasma/Wayland.
If anyone tests this on GNOME/Wayland, X11, another distribution, a newer Fluent Reader release, or with another scaling factor, I'd be interested to hear the results.
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