Grab 45 essential hip-hop sample packs packed with construction kits, loops, MIDI, and one-shots designed to speed up your workflow and sharpen your sound.
As part of the various end-of-year annual benchmarking comparisons and the like on Phoronix, today is a look at how the Intel Core Ultra 7 155H 'Meteor Lake' performance has evolved under Ubuntu Linux in the two years since launching.
Il progetto P.I.U. Su.Pr.Eme. attivo in cinque regioni italiane: help desk multilingue e percorsi personalizzati per i braccianti. I numeri e le storie di un modello riconosciuto anche in Europa
La calotta residua del Polo Sud (la parte che resiste durante l'estate) è composta da ghiaccio di anidride carbonica. Sebbene la calotta sopravviva a ogni calda stagione estiva, cambia continuamente forma a causa della sublimazione dell'anidride carbonica dai pendii ripidi e della sua deposizione sulle aree pianeggianti.
Giornalisti la cui morte è stata oggetto di derisione e vilipendio anche da parte di colleghi italiani perfino del servizio pubblico. Tutti asserviti alle bugie di Netanyahu che li bollava come terroristi di Hamas
Le profondità terrestri paragonate a un ortaggio comune in cucina, non è solo una notizia curiosa ma un'informazione utile per comprendere terremoti e altro.
A new compilation from Ukraine’s 15th Artillery Recon Brigade “Chornyi Lis” showcases spectacular hits: radars, air defense systems, and other Russian hardware going up in flames.
Aus meiner familiären Sicht: DAS war eine enorme Erleichterung in jeder Hinsicht! Eigentlich wieder 'n Grund zu feiern! 🥳 (Hihi, nicht schwächeln. Weiter geht’s!) #EU
> L’université Al-Quds à Gaza City a rouvert pour les cours en présentiel, se relevant des décombres après deux ans de frappes aériennes incessantes et de fermetures. Malgré des destructions généralisées et des reconstructions en cours, les étudiants sont retournés poursuivre leurs études. Quand on sait que, rien qu'en 2025, Israël a tué 7 448 élèves et 415 enseignants et membres du [...] #palestine #gaza #gazaUniversity @palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@tagpush.app @gazanotice
Good way to start new year, I could do a #UPI scan and pay on my #librem5 with 100% #FreeSoftware.
Camera app millipixels suddenly started working and it supports detecting QR codes too!
Earlier I had to type the address manually and it used to time out (I was also switching to 2G only mode to make sure USSD goes through earlier, but noticed I don't need to do that manually) .
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.
In base alle informazioni fornite dalla Polizia Cantonale vallesana, ci sarebbero circa 40 morti e 100 feriti a causa dell'incendio di natura non dolosa avvenuto nel bar Constellation la notte scorsa a Crans-Montana, in Svizzera.
interessante , ma perché dovremmo abbandonare Keepass dopo una quindicina di anni d'uso? Sarebbe interessante un confronto con i software Open source già esistenti..
Alberto Garzón Espinosa: Buenos días y feliz entrada de año!
Mi tesis es simple: no estamos ante un giro ideológico irreversible, sino ante una oportunidad desaprovechada. El riesgo no es que España haya cambiado ideológicamente demasiado, sino que la izquierda renuncie a hablar con el país que todavía la podría sostener. Si no se actúa, la derrota llegará antes en la cabeza que en las urnas, como una profecía autocumplida. eldiario.es/opinion/zona-criti… @eldiarioes @LQSomos
Si la izquierda no hace nada, o directamente se rinde, habrá gobiernos de derechas para mucho tiempo; pero si se anima a dar la batalla… hay muchas más posibilidades de ganar de lo que parece. Merece la pena, ¿no?
*On December 28th, I delivered a speech entitled "A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet" for 39C3, the 39th Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg, Germany. This is the transcript of that speech*:
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
Trump has staged an unscheduled, midair rapid disassembly of the global system of trade. Ironically, it is this system that prevented all of America's...
Many of you know that I'm an activist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation - EFF. I'm about to start my 25th year there. I know that I'm hardly unbiased, but as far as I'm concerned, there's no group anywhere on Earth that does the work of defending our digital rights better than EFF.
I'm an activist there, and for the past quarter-century, I've been embroiled in something I call "The War on General Purpose Computing."
If you were at 28C3, 14 years ago, you may have heard me give a talk with that title. Those are the trenches I've been in since my very first day on the job at EFF, when I flew to Los Angeles to crash the inaugural meeting of something called the "Broadcast Protection Discussion Group," an unholy alliance of tech companies, media companies, broadcasters and cable operators.
They'd gathered because this lavishly corrupt American congressman, Billy Tauzin, had promised them a new regulation - a rule banning the manufacture and sale of digital computers, unless they had been backdoored to specifications set by that group, specifications for technical measures to block computers from performing operations that were dispreferred by these companies' shareholders.
That rule was called "the Broadcast Flag," and it actually passed through the American telecoms regulator, the Federal Communications Commission. So we sued the FCC in federal court, and overturned the rule.
We won that skirmish, but friends, I have bad news, news that will not surprise you. Despite wins like that one, we have been losing the war on the general purpose computer for the past 25 years.
Which is why I've come to Hamburg today. Because, after decades of throwing myself against a locked door, the door that leads to a new, good internet, one that delivers both the technological self-determination of the old, good internet, and the ease of use of Web 2.0 that let our normie friends join the party, that door has been unlocked.
Today, it is open a crack. It's open a crack!
And here's the weirdest part: Donald Trump is the guy who's unlocked that door.
Oh, he didn't do it on purpose! But, thanks to Trump's incontinent belligerence, we are on the cusp of a "Post-American Internet," a new digital nervous system for the 21st century. An internet that we can build without worrying about America's demands and priorities.
Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not *happy* about Trump or his policies. But as my friend Joey DaVilla likes to say, "When life gives you SARS, you make sarsaparilla."
The only thing worse than experiencing all the terror that Trump has unleashed on America and the world would be going through all that and not salvaging anything out of the wreckage.
That's what I want to talk to you about today: the post-American Internet we can wrest from Trump's chaos.
A post-American Internet that is possible because Trump has mobilized new coalition partners to join the fight on our side. In politics, coalitions are *everything*. Any time you see a group of people suddenly succeeding at a goal they have been failing to achieve, it's a sure bet that they've found some coalition partners, new allies who don't want *all* the same thing as the original forces, but want *enough* of the same things to fight on their side.
That's where Trump came from: a coalition of billionaires, white nationalists, Christian bigots, authoritarians, conspiratorialists, imperialists, and self-described "libertarians" who've got such a scorching case of low-tax brain worms that they'd vote for Mussolini if he'd promise to lower their taxes by a nickel.
And what's got me so excited is that *we've* got a new coalition in the War on General Purpose Computers: a coalition that includes the digital rights activists who've been on the lines for decades, but *also* people who want to turn America's Big Tech trillions into billions for their own economy, *and* national security hawks who are quite rightly worried about digital sovereignty.
My thesis here is that this is an *unstoppable* coalition. Which is good news! For the first time in decades, victory is in our grasp.
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So let me explain: 14 years ago, I stood in front of this group and explained the "War on General Purpose Computing." That was my snappy name for this fight, but the boring name that they use in legislatures for it is "anticircumvention,"
Under anticircumvention, it's a crime to alter the functioning of a digital product, unless the manufacturer approves of your modification, and - crucially - this is true *whether or not* your mod violates *any other law*.
Anticircumvention originates in the USA: Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 establishes a felony punishable by a 5 year prison sentence and a $500k fine for a first offense for bypassing an "access control" to a copyrighted work.
So practically speaking, if you design a device or service with even the flimsiest of systems to prevent modification of its application code or firmware, it's a felony - a jailable felony - to modify that code or firmware. It's also a felony to disclose information about *how* to bypass that access control, which means that pen-testers who even *describe* how they access a device or system face criminal liability.
Under anticircumvention law any manufacturer can trivially turn their product into a no-go zone, criminalizing the act of investigating its defects, criminalizing the act of reporting on its defects, and criminalizing the act of remediating its defects.
This is a law that Jay Freeman rightly calls "Felony Contempt of Business Model." Anticircumvention became the law of the land in 1998 when Bill Clinton signed the DMCA.
But before you start snickering at those stupid Americans, know this: every *other* country in the world has passed a law *just like this* in the years since. Here in the EU, it came in through Article 6 of the 2001 EU Copyright Directive.
Now, it makes a certain twisted sense for the US to enact a law like this, after all, they are the world's tech powerhouse, home to the biggest, most powerful tech companies in the world.
By making it illegal to modify digital products without the manufacturer's permission, America enhances the rent-extracting power of the most valuable companies on US stock exchanges.
But why would *Europe* pass a law like this? Europe is a massive tech *importer*. By extending legal protection to tech companies that want to steal their users' data and money, the EU was facilitating a one-way transfer of value from Europe to America. So why would Europe do this?
Well, let me tell you about the circumstances under which *other* countries came to enact their anticircumvention laws and maybe you'll spot a pattern that will answer this question.
Australia got its anticircumvention law through the US-Australia Free Trade Agreement, which obliges Australia to enact anticircumvention law.
Canada and Mexico got it through the US-Mexico-Canada Free Trade Agreement, which obliges Canada and Mexico to enact anticircumvention laws.
Andean nations like Chile got their anticircumvention laws through bilateral US free trade agreements, which oblige them to enact anticircumvention laws.
And the Central American nations got their anticircumvention laws through CAFTA - The Central American Free Trade Agreement with the USA - which obliges them to enact anticircumvention laws, too.
I assume you've spotted the pattern by now: the US trade rep has forced every one of its trading partners to adopt anticircumvention law, to facilitate the extraction of their own people's data and money by American firms. But of course, that only raises a further question: Why would every other country in the world agree to let America steal its own people's money and data, and block its domestic tech sector from making interoperable products that would prevent this theft?
Here's an anecdote that unravels this riddle: many years ago, in the years before Viktor Orban rose to power, I used to guest-lecture at a summer PhD program in political science at Budapest's Central European University. And one summer, after I'd lectured to my students about anticircumvention law, one of them approached me.
They had been the information minister of a Central American nation during the CAFTA negotiations, and one day, they'd received a phone-call from their trade negotiator, calling from the CAFTA bargaining table.
The negotiator said, "You know how you told me not to give the Americans anticircumvention under any circumstances? Well, they're saying that they won't take our coffee unless we give them anticircumvention. And I'm sorry, but we just can't lose the US coffee market. Our economy would collapse. So we're going to give them anticircumvention. I'm really sorry."
That's it. That's why every government in the world allowed US Big Tech companies to declare open season on their people's private data and ready cash.
The alternative was tariffs. Well, I don't know if you've heard, but we've got tariffs now!
I mean, if someone threatens to burn your house down unless you follow their orders, and then they burn your house down anyway, you don't have to keep following their orders. So...Happy Liberation Day?
So far, every country in the world has had one of two responses to the Trump tariffs. The first one is: "Give Trump everything he asks for (except Greenland) and hope he stops being mad at you." This has been an absolute failure. Give Trump an inch, he'll take a mile. He'll take fucking *Greenland*. Capitulation is a failure.
But so is the other tactic: retaliatory tariffs. That's what we've done in Canada (like all the best Americans, I'm Canadian).
Our top move has been to levy tariffs on the stuff we import from America, making the things we buy *more* expensive. That's a weird way to punish America! It's like punching yourself in the face as hard as you can, and hoping the downstairs neighbor says "Ouch!"
And it's *indiscriminate*. Why whack some poor farmer from a state that begins and ends with a vowel with tariffs on his soybeans. That guy never did anything bad to Canada.
But there's a third possible response to tariffs, just sitting there, begging to be tried. What about repealing anticircumvention?
If you're a technologist or an investor in a country that's repealed its anticircumvention law, you can go into business making disenshittificatory products that plug into America's defective tech exports, allowing people who own and use those products to use them in ways that are good for them, even if those uses make the firm's shareholders mad.
Think of John Deere tractors: when a farmer's John Deere tractor breaks down, they are expected to repair it, swapping in new parts and assemblies to replace whatever's malfing.
But the tractor won't recognize that new part and will not start working again, not until the farmer spends a couple hundred bucks on a service callout from an official John Deere tractor repair rep, whose only job is to type an unlock code into the tractor's console, to initialize the part and pair it with the tractor's main computing unit.
Modding a tractor to bypass this activation step violates anticircumvention law, meaning farmers all over the world are stuck with this ripoff garbage, because their *own* government will lock up anyone who makes a tractor mod that disables the parts-pairing check in this American product.
So what if Canada repealed Bill C-11, the Copyright Modernization Act of 2012 (that's our anticircumvention law)?
Well, then a company like Honeybee, which makes tractor front-ends and attachments, could hire some smart University of Waterloo computer science grads, and put 'em to work jailbreaking the John Deere tractor's firmware, and offer it to everyone in the world. They could sell the crack to anyone with an internet connection and a payment method, including that poor American farmer whose soybeans we're currently tariffing.
It's hard to convey how much money is on the table here. Take just *one* example: Apple's App Store. Apple forces all app vendors into using its payment processor, and charges them a *30 percent* commission on every euro spent inside of an app.
30 percent! That's *such* a profitable business that Apple makes *$100 billion per year* on it.
If the EU repeals Article 6 of the Copyright Directive, some smart geeks in Finland could reverse-engineer Apple's bootloaders and make a hardware dongle that jailbreaks phones so that they can use alternative app stores, and sell the dongle - along with the infrastructure to operate an app store - to anyone in the world who wants to go into business competing with Apple for users and app vendors.
Those competitors could offer a 90% discount every crafter on Etsy, every performer on Patreon, every online news outlet, every game dev, every media store. Offer them a 90% discount on payments, and *still* make $10b/year.
Maybe Finland will never see another Nokia, but Nokia's a tough business to be in. You've got to make hardware, which is expensive and risky.
But if the EU legalizes jailbreaking, then *Apple* would have to incur all the expense and risk of making and fielding hardware, while those Finnish geeks could cream off the $100b Apple sucks out of the global economy in an act of a disgusting, rip-off rent-seeking.
As Jeff Bezos said to the publishers: "Your margin is my opportunity." With these guys, it's always "disruption for thee, but not for me."
I developed a kind of grudging admiration for the skill with which the USTR bound the entire world to a system of trade that conferred parochial advantages to America and its tech firms, giving them free rein to loot the world's data and economies. So it's been pretty amazing to watch Trump swiftly and decisively dismantle the global system of trade and destroy the case for the world continuing to arrange its affairs to protect the interests of America's capital class.
I mean, it's not a path I would have chosen. I'd have preferred no Trump at all to this breakthrough. But I'll take this massive own-goal if Trump insists. I mean, I'm not saying I've become an accelerationist, but at this point, I'm not exactly *not* an accelerationist.
Now, you might have heard that governments around the world have been trying to get Apple to open its App Store, and they've totally failed at this.
When the EU hit Apple with an enforcement order under the Digital Markets Act, Apple responded by offering to allow third party app stores, but it would only allow those stores to sell apps that Apple had approved of.
And while those stores *could* use their own payment processors, Apple would charge them so much in junk fees that it would be *more* expensive to process a payment using your own system, and if Apple believed that a user's phone had been outside of the EU for 21 days, they'd remotely delete all that user's data and apps.
When the EU explained that this would not satisfy the regulation, Apple threatened to pull out of the EU.
Then, once everyone had finished laughing, Apple filed more than a dozen bullshit objections to the order hoping to tie this up in court for a decade, the way Google and Meta did for the GDPR.
It's not clear that the EU can force Apple to write code that opens up the iOS platform for alternative app stores and payment methods, but there is one thing that the EU can absolutely do with 100% reliability, any time they want: the EU can decide not to let Apple use Europe's courts to shut down European companies that defend European merchants, performers, makers, news outlets, game devs and creative workers, from Apple's ripoff, by jailbreaking phones.
All the EU has to do is repeal Article 6 of the Copyright Directive, and, in so doing, strip Apple of the privilege of mobilizing the European justice system to shore up Apple's hundred billion dollar annual tax on the world's digital economy.
The EU company that figures out how to reliably jailbreak iPhones will have customers all over the world, including in the USA, where Apple doesn't just use its veto over which apps you can run on your phone to suck 30% out of every dollar you spend, but where Apple also uses its control over the platform to strip out apps that protect Apple's customers from Trump's fascist takeover.
Back in October, Apple kicked the "ICE Block" app out of the App Store. That's an app that warns the user if there's a snatch squad of masked ICE thugs nearby looking to grab you off the street and send you to an offshore gulag. Apple internally classified ICE kidnappers as a "protected class," and then declared the ICE Block infringed on the rights of these poor, beset ICE goons.
And speaking of ICE thugs, there are plenty of qualified technologists who have fled the US this year, one step ahead of an ICE platoon looking to put them and their children into a camp. Those skilled hackers are now living all over the world, joined by investors who'd like to back a business whose success will be determined by how awesome its products are, and not how many $TRUMP coins they buy.
Legalizing jailbreaking, raiding the highest margin lines of business of the most profitable companies in America is a *much* better response to the Trump tariffs than retaliatory tariffs.
For one thing, this is a *targeted* response: go after Big Tech's margins and you're mounting a frontal assault on the businesses whose CEOs each paid a million bucks to sit behind Trump on the inauguration dais.
Raiding Big Tech's margins is not an attack on the American people, nor on the small American businesses that are ripped off by Big Tech. It's a raid on the companies that screw everyday Americans *and* everyone else in the world. It's a way to make everyone in the world richer at the expense of these ripoff companies.
It beats the shit out of blowing hundreds of billions of dollars building AI data-centers in the hopes that someday, a sector that's lost nearly a trillion dollars shipping defective chatbots will figure out a use for GPUs that doesn't start hemorrhaging money the minute they plug them in.
Bad Segeberg (ots) - Die Silvesternacht zeichnete sich auch in diesem Jahr durch ein erhöhtes Einsatzaufkommen im Vergleich zu anderen Tagen im Jahr aus und verlief damit aus polizeilicher Sicht erwartungsgemäß arbeitsreich. Die Kooperative ...
Bad Segeberg (ots) - Die Silvesternacht zeichnete sich auch in diesem Jahr durch ein erhöhtes Einsatzaufkommen im Vergleich zu anderen Tagen im Jahr aus und verlief damit aus...
Even with a sober NYE, I was still up until 2:30 (watching Fargo after the family was done with Stranger Things) and so I still feel like shit this morning. But there's invoicing, artwork and documentation to do to get the new year started.
Also doing a bit of maintenance on my laptop (installing Mullvad, updating Reaper) and probably some other things before I get started on art and synthesizer practice.
Esce oggi, 1° gennaio, un progetto dell’Inaf che apre un dialogo tra astronomia e astrologia, uno scambio a due voci, quelle di Ester Marini ed Ettore Perozzi per chi desidera esplorare il confine tra scienza e credenze antiche.
Everytime I log into patreon there are new popups showing new UI features - even if some of them could be useful, I'm just like: Aaahgdghgf leave me alone
then I go back to my website and it's just chill. Wordpress and plain HTML code. Phew
I feel this pain! The animated splash screen that's super slow to load, the pop ups for various features that even when I say I am/not interested, still pop up... just let me drop a post and run like it's 2004!
Franz Xaver von der Trenck was an infamous Austrian soldier. He was born on 1 January 1711 in Reggio or Calabria, Italy, where his father Johann Heinrich served as an Austrian officer. Then the fam…
Es haben sich geschätzt mit der Kalibrierung dieses Jahr etwas mehr als ein Drittel der Bevölkerung mit SARS-CoV-2 infiziert, halb soviel wie letztes Jahr.
Ich hoffe, dass die Saltationsvariante BA.3.2* keine Trendumkehr bringen wird.
Abwasserdaten bis 28.12. zur Zeit dieses Posts nur aus Zürich, deshalb noch keine Inzidenzschätzung für Influenza A. Per 28.12. auf Höhe der Spitze der letzten Saison. Peak noch nicht erkennbar.
RSV derzeit unter Spitzenwerten des letzten Jahres.
"Neurotypicals have reportedly decided to celebrate the same thing happening in the same way again by standing outside in the cold and watching ten minutes of fireworks soundtracked by We are the Champions before heading back inside and moving on completely."
Neurotypicals have reportedly decided to celebrate the same thing happening in the same way again by standing outside in the cold and watching ten minutes of fireworks soundtracked by We are the Champions before heading back inside and moving on comp…
> Moai on the Lawn by Matt Morris in Waterloo, Canada! 😶🌫️ What is the best/most fun snow sculptures you made/seen? I will put them in a post on streetartutopia.com Fun With Snow (8 Photos): streetartutopia.com/2025/12/31…
One year ago today I posted this miniature Wallace and Gromit photo I created using real lighting, figures, miniature sets and a hand sculpted Norbot I created and painted.
Helen McLaughlin Art
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