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Saigō Takamori is one of Japan's most influential figures in its history, having played a key role in the Meiji Restoration of 1868 which would transform Japan into the industrial and modern age.

As the "last true samurai", he remains a popular figure within Japan and as such, the 1898 bronze statue of him at Ueno Park in Tokyo is one of the most well known homage to him.

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祇王寺(=Gio-ji Temple), one of my fav temple in Kyoto...

Taken w/ Heliar 40mm F2.8 Asph VM on ME220.

"By my count, Linux has over 11% of the desktop market," writes ZDNet's Steven Vaughan-Nichols:



In StatCounter's latest US numbers, which cover through October, Linux shows up as only 3.49%. But if you look closer, "unknown" accounts for 4.21%. Allow me to make an educated guess here: I suspect those unknown desktops are actually running Linux. What else could it be? FreeBSD? Unix? OS/2? Unlikely. In addition, ChromeOS comes in at 3.67%, which strikes me as much too low. Leaving that aside, ChromeOS is a Linux variant. It just uses the Chrome web browser for its interface rather than KDE Plasma, Cinnamon, or another Linux desktop environment. Put all these together, and you get a Linux desktop market share of 11.37%...

If you want to look at the broader world of end-user operating systems, including phones and tablets, Linux comes out even better. In the US, where we love our Apple iPhones, Android — yes, another Linux distro — boasts 41.71% of the market share, according to StatCounter's latest numbers. Globally, however, Android rules with 72.55% of the market. Yes, that's right, if you widen the Linux end-user operating system metric to include PC, tablets, and smartphones, you can make a reasonable argument that Linux, and not Windows, is already the top dog operating system...
If you add Chrome OS (1.7%) and Android (15.8%), 23.3% of all people accessing the U.S. government's websites are Linux users. The Linux kernel's user-facing footprint is much larger than the "desktop Linux" label suggests.

The article lists reasons more people might be switching to Linux, including broader hardware support and "the increased viability of gaming via Steam and Proton" — but also the rise of Digital Sovereignty initiatives. (One EU group has even created EU OS.")

And finally, "not everyone is thrilled with Windows 11 being turned into an AI-agentic operating system."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Seal Point Birman 'Santara Phrosso" at 17 weeks

In onder andere Nederland en de VS is de werkloosheid laag en groeit de economie lekker door. Maar het consumentenvertrouwen blijft in beide landen opvallend laag. Hoe kan dat?

WASHINGTON (ANP) - Commissies in beide kamers van het Amerikaanse Congres gaan het optreden van het Pentagon onderzoeken na berichtgeving dat minister van Defensie Pete Hegseth opdracht zou hebben gegeven om alle opvarenden van een vermoedelijk drugsbootje in de Caribische Zee te doden. Dat meldt The Washington Post.

De krant onthulde vrijdag dat Hegseth begin september zou hebben bevolen om twee overlevenden van een eerdere raketaanval op een boot alsnog uit te schakelen. Bronnen met directe kennis van de operatie deden daarover anoniem hun verhaal.

De defensiecommissie van de Senaat kondigde vrijdag al aan de zaak te zullen onderzoeken. Zaterdagavond sloot ook de defensiecommissie van het Huis van Afgevaardigden zich daarbij aan. Beide commissies, die in handen zijn van een Republikeinse meerderheid, hebben het Pentagon om uitleg gevraagd.

De zaak is opmerkelijk omdat het Congres sinds de terugkeer van president Donald Trump overwegend terughoudend is geweest in de controle op zijn regering.

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