US Army signs up Band of Tech Bros with a suitably nerdy name: Execs from Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI join Detachment 201
The four new Army Reserve Lt. Cols. are Shyam Sankar, Chief Technology Officer for Palantir; Andrew Bosworth, Chief Technology Officer of Meta; Kevin Weil, Chief Product Officer of OpenAI; and Bob McGrew, advisor at Thinking Machines Lab and former Chief Research Officer for OpenAI.
Army Launches Detachment 201: Executive Innovation Corps to Drive Tech Transformation
New Executive Innovation Corps brings top tech talent into the Army Reserve to bridge the commercial-military tech gap, with four tech leaders set to jo...www.army.mil
US Army signs up Band of Tech Bros with a suitably nerdy name: Execs from Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI join Detachment 201
The four new Army Reserve Lt. Cols. are Shyam Sankar, Chief Technology Officer for Palantir; Andrew Bosworth, Chief Technology Officer of Meta; Kevin Weil, Chief Product Officer of OpenAI; and Bob McGrew, advisor at Thinking Machines Lab and former Chief Research Officer for OpenAI.
Army Launches Detachment 201: Executive Innovation Corps to Drive Tech Transformation
New Executive Innovation Corps brings top tech talent into the Army Reserve to bridge the commercial-military tech gap, with four tech leaders set to jo...www.army.mil
Trump Regime Wants to Make Approvals Easier for Tesla's Mythical Cybercab
Trump Regime Wants to Make Approvals Easier for Tesla's Mythical Cybercab
But Elon Musk still needs to deliver the Cybercab before any of that can happen.Matt Novak (Gizmodo)
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Anker is recalling over 1.1 million power banks due to fire risks
Anker is recalling over 1.1 million power banks due to fire and burn risks
Anker is warning consumers to stop using its PowerCore 10000 batteries immediatelyAndrew Liszewski (The Verge)
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I have a confession. Every single photograph before this one was captured on either an iPhone 6+, or an iPhone 11 Pro Max.
For a very, very long time, I had justified to myself “oh, I don’t need an actual camera, my phone is just as good.” However, three weeks ago I picked up a DSLR for the first time and I fell in love with the sheer power and expression such a tool has.
So I got a small one, a baby, a Canon Rebel T7. After a bunch of crappy shots because I was still getting used to it, I think this one is good enough to share. It doesn’t meet the par of my previous work, but it feels like I have much more control over what I create now. This is magnificent and wondrous.
Thank you for seeing me make art with actual relevant tools!
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[Lefty Cartoons] MALES do that!
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> In the background is a store with a window display, slowly revealed as the comic progresses. From right to left: Close-ups of enormous fruit (berries, a banana, a kiwi) sitting or floating over a bed of ice, with water and juice splashing dynamically upwards.
A closely-cropped image of a woman’s face, so we just see one eye and the corner of her mouth. One hand is on her cheek. Her lips and nails are icy pink. The transom above the door has an exotic flower decal.On the front door, in an artsy font treatment, it says: “Are we a smoothie shoppe? A NAIL salon? A DISPENSARY? YOU DON’T KNOW!”
MALES do that!
This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins, with an assist from Naomi Rubin, who suggested the kicker panel. TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has four panels (plus a fifth “kicker” panel…Lefty Cartoons
[Lefty Cartoons] MALES do that!
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> In the background is a store with a window display, slowly revealed as the comic progresses. From right to left: Close-ups of enormous fruit (berries, a banana, a kiwi) sitting or floating over a bed of ice, with water and juice splashing dynamically upwards.
A closely-cropped image of a woman’s face, so we just see one eye and the corner of her mouth. One hand is on her cheek. Her lips and nails are icy pink. The transom above the door has an exotic flower decal.On the front door, in an artsy font treatment, it says: “Are we a smoothie shoppe? A NAIL salon? A DISPENSARY? YOU DON’T KNOW!”
MALES do that!
This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins, with an assist from Naomi Rubin, who suggested the kicker panel. TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has four panels (plus a fifth “kicker” panel…Lefty Cartoons
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[Lefty Cartoons] MALES do that!
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> In the background is a store with a window display, slowly revealed as the comic progresses. From right to left: Close-ups of enormous fruit (berries, a banana, a kiwi) sitting or floating over a bed of ice, with water and juice splashing dynamically upwards.
A closely-cropped image of a woman’s face, so we just see one eye and the corner of her mouth. One hand is on her cheek. Her lips and nails are icy pink. The transom above the door has an exotic flower decal.On the front door, in an artsy font treatment, it says: “Are we a smoothie shoppe? A NAIL salon? A DISPENSARY? YOU DON’T KNOW!”
MALES do that!
This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins, with an assist from Naomi Rubin, who suggested the kicker panel. TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has four panels (plus a fifth “kicker” panel…Lefty Cartoons
Iran becomes first country to shoot down fifth-gen F-35 fighter jets belonging to Israel
Iran becomes first country to shoot down fifth-gen F-35 fighter jets belonging to Israel
Iran has become the first country in the world to successfully shoot down fifth-generation fighter jets by targeting two stealth F-35 fighters belonging to the Zionist regime.PressTV
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Trump scrambles to claim credit for Israel’s Iran attack he publicly opposed
Trump scrambles to claim credit for Israel’s Iran attack he publicly opposed
Discordant US response as president says he was fully aware of plans for what Marco Rubio called a ‘unilateral action’Andrew Roth (The Guardian)
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Trump fails to overturn $5m damages award to E Jean Carroll for defamation
Donald Trump has lost his latest legal attempt to challenge the $5m in damages awarded against him for defaming E Jean Carroll, the New York writer who a jury found was sexually abused by the president in the 1990s, before he embarked on his political career.
A US appeals court in New York City on Friday denied Trump’s request to reconsider its decision in December to uphold the jury’s award of $5m to Carroll. The court was divided in its opinion, with two Trump-appointed judges, Steven Menashi and Michael Park, dissenting.
Carroll, a former magazine columnist, accused Trump of attacking her around 1996 in a department store dressing room in Manhattan. In 2023, a civil jury trial concluded that Trump did sexually abuse her and then defamed her in 2022 when he denied the allegations as a hoax and said that Carroll was “not my type”.
Trump fails to overturn $5m damages award to E Jean Carroll for defamation
US appeals court denies challenge after 2023 civil jury trial found Trump sexually abused Carroll then defamed herOliver Milman (The Guardian)
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California police are illegally sharing license plate data with ICE and Border Patrol
California police illegally share license plate reader data to ICE
LAPD and the counties of San Diego, Orange, and Riverside have repeatedly shared automated license plate reader data to federal agenciesMohamed Al Elew (CalMatters)
The governor's mailbox is full I guess...
One-Click RCE in ASUS's Preinstalled Driver Software
One-Click RCE in ASUS's Preinstalled Driver Software
One-Click RCE in ASUS’s Preinstalled Driver Software Part Two of this series on ASUS will be dropping by the end of (this) month (06), yes it somehow manages to get worse (Everyone who made an ASUS account may have their personal info exposed).mrbruh.com
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A four-panel meme [annoyed bird]:
[Panel 1]: A pigeon says, “Here is why that game was nothing for me:”
[Panel 2]: The pigeon states well-argued criticism. Someone interrupts, “Skill issue!”
[Panel 3]: The interrupter is a raven shouting over the pigeon, “There are settings and mods for this”
[Panel 4]: The pigeon is annoyed. The raven shouts a clown-face emoji.
![A four-panel meme [annoyed bird]: [Panel 1]: A pigeon says, “Here is why that game was nothing for me:” [Panel 2]: The pigeon states well-argued criticism. Someone interrupts, “Skill issue!” [Panel 3]: The interrupter is a raven shouting over the pigeon, “There are ac and mods for this” [Panel 4]: The pigeon is annoyed. The raven shouts a clown-face emoji.](https://poliverso.org/photo/preview/640/49556673 "A four-panel meme [annoyed bird]: [Panel 1]: A pigeon says, “Here is why that game was nothing for me:” [Panel 2]: The pigeon states well-argued criticism. Someone interrupts, “Skill issue!” [Panel 3]: The interrupter is a raven shouting over the pigeon, “There are ac and mods for this” [Panel 4]: The pigeon is annoyed. The raven shouts a clown-face emoji.")
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ICE Barbie Went on Bungled Raid Storming Pregnant Mom’s Home
ICE Barbie Went on Bungled Raid Storming Pregnant Mom’s Home
Home security cameras recorded masked ICE agents going room by room while holding rifles.Josh Fiallo (The Daily Beast)
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For All That Is Good About Humankind, Ban Smartphones
Smartphones are making us unhealthy, miserable, antisocial, and less free. If we can’t yet nationalize the attention economy, maybe it’s time to abolish its primary tool — before it finishes abolishing us.
GNU coreutils - useful flags and obscurities | Bread on Penguins
Sections from the video:
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factor,nproc,tty - 3:09
numfmt - 4:21
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Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course
Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course
Within a couple of years, 50 percent of the organizations that had planned to replace their customer service personnel with AI models are expected to reverse their...Alfonso Maruccia (TechSpot)
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Alarm as Republicans Launch Probe of 200+ Immigrant Charity Groups
'Fear Is the Point': Alarm as Republicans Launch Probe of 200+ Immigrant Charity Groups
"An attack on civil society is an attack on us all," said Democratic Rep. Delia Ramirez. "We must dissent."jake-johnson (Common Dreams)
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Democrats Back Resolution Thanking Federal Agents For Handcuffing Alex Padilla
Democrats Back Resolution Thanking Federal Agents For Handcuffing Alex Padilla
WASHINGTON—After he was forcibly removed from a press conference held in Los Angeles yesterday by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Democrats in the House of Representatives backed a resolution Friday that thanked federal agents for handcuffin…The Onion Staff (The Onion)
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MLS over ActivityPub Draft
Good news in privacy for ActivityPub. The first early draft of the MLS over ActivityPub specification went out this week. It’s been part of my work on our E2EE for ActivityPub project at the Social Web Foundation.
Messaging Layer Security (MLS) is an IETF standard for end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) messaging. It lets people on laptops and phones communicate with each other in a secure way that no one in between can see.
MLS is designed to use pluggable lower-level protocols. This specification defines an envelope format for distributing MLS messages through the network, and an Activity Streams 2.0 profile for the packets of application data stored inside the messages.
This specification is ready for review from both ActivityPub developers and security analysts. It’s time to start making proof-of-concept implementations and testing interoperability.
The best place to make comments or report problems is on the ActivityPub E2EE GitHub repo issues list. I’m looking forward to these next steps!
End-to-end Encryption (E2EE) over ActivityPub
Encrypted direct messages supply the confidence that people need to connect with family, friends and colleagues privately over a social network. As part of the Summer of Protocols 2024, we explore …Social Web Foundation
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Re: MLS over ActivityPub Draft
The use case seems clear: actual DMs on the fediverse. How does this interop with existing implementations that utilise direct addressing (and intentional omission of as:Public) as a form of direct messaging?
As usual I am assuming we will have to support both.
6 Android apps that are so slick, I thought Google made them
6 Android apps that are so slick, I thought Google made them
Not all Android apps are created equal: here are 6 of my favorites that embrace the Material design language so well, they could pass for Google apps.John Kanellakos (Pocket-lint)
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Gulf states anxious about being drawn into Israel lran fight
Gulf states anxious about being drawn into Israel-Iran fight
Israel's attacks on Iran are also putting pressure on the Gulf states, who worry they too could be drawn into the escalating conflict.Kersten Knipp (Deutsche Welle)
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Republicans Want to Ban Pets From Domestic Violence Shelters
Republicans want to ban pets from domestic violence shelters
The budget proposal is the Trump administration's latest attack on services supporting abuse survivors.Mother Jones
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France Escalates War on Sports Piracy with Real-Time IP Blocking * TorrentFreak
France Escalates War on Sports Piracy with Real-Time IP Blocking * TorrentFreak
The French Senate has passed a new anti-piracy bill bolstered by a "secret" agreement to automate and streamline direct blocking requests.Ernesto Van der Sar (TF Publishing)
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1337x.to seems to be playing up - here's some alternative domains
According to 1337x-status, they own the following domains:
Official domains (May 2024):
1) 1337x.to
2) 1337x.st
3) x1337x.ws
4) x1337x.eu
5) x1337x.se
6) x1337x.cc NEW May 2024
1337x Status Page - Official Domains - News
Get latest news, official domains and status of 1337x torrent website.1337x-status.org
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[Live] Explosions Heard Across Israel As Iran Fires Missiles In Response For Israeli Strikes
Explosions Heard Across Israel As Iran Fires Missiles In Response For Israeli Strikes
Israel has launched a massive attack on Iran, striking dozens of nuclear and military facilities across the country, raising fears of a potential all-out war between the two countries.RFE/RL
Every one really shits on brave so i decided to use Fennec from now on
I'm on android
So i downloaded fennec today and it seems to be pretty good, and quick aswell. But the settings are kinda confusing, for now tho!
I have already enabled ublock, Clearurls and Privacy Badger.
What other settings would you recommend to make fennec even more privacy hardened?
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If you really want privacy than have a look at Ironfox, its a continuation of Mull.
gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox
They implement the settings from this project, like arkenfox's user.js but with regular updates:
IronFox OSS / IronFox · GitLab
Privacy and security-oriented Firefox-based web browser for Android. https://ironfoxoss.org/GitLab
Dazi Trump 2025: gli accordi di Londra, il nuovo scontro USA-Cina e gli effetti sull'Italia
Dazi Trump 2025: gli accordi di Londra, il nuovo scontro USA-Cina e gli effetti sull'Italia
Dazi Trump 2025: gli accordi di Londra, il nuovo scontro USA-Cina e gli effetti sull'Italia Il ritorno della guerra dei dazi sotto l...Antonio Marano (Blogger)
No, Freddy Mars, the Western Allies Did Not Liberate Your Country from the Nazis—They Saved Your Nazis from the Soviets.
No, Freddy Mars, the Western Allies Did Not Liberate Your Country from the Nazis, They Saved Your Nazis from the Soviet Union, Ask Adolf Heusinger
By Мочка comrade@mochka.cc
President Trump struggled with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's name during their June 5, 2025 White House meeting, calling him "Friedrich Mars" instead of Merz. An
appealing nickname for the dull atlanticist, Deadly Freddy Mars. When the conversation turned to D-Day, the mispronunciation became the least of the diplomatic awkwardness.
"May I remind you tomorrow is June 6, the D-day anniversary when the Americans once ended a war in Europe," Merz told the President. Trump, in his characteristic bumbling manner, responded that D-Day was "not a pleasant day for you... This was not a great
day."
France Escalates War on Sports Piracy with Real-Time IP Blocking
The French Senate has passed a new anti-piracy bill that opens the door to automated IP-address blocking. This legislative push is bolstered by a parallel, "secret" agreement between sports rightsholders and major ISPs, which aims to automate anti-piracy efforts and streamline direct blocking requests. Rightsholders hope these new powers will help to tackle the "mafia-like" piracy economy.
France Escalates War on Sports Piracy with Real-Time IP Blocking * TorrentFreak
The French Senate has passed a new anti-piracy bill bolstered by a "secret" agreement to automate and streamline direct blocking requests.Ernesto Van der Sar (TF Publishing)
PSA: Get Your Parents Off the Meta AI App Right Now-This is bad, folks. Very bad.
PSA: Get Your Parents Off the Meta AI App Right Now
This is bad, folks. Very bad.James Pero (Gizmodo)
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H&M entra da Galerie Lafayette — Ma la Francia non era pronta a fare la guerra al fast fashion?
Lo sbarco di H&M nei corner delle prestigiose Galerie Lafayette a Parigi sembra stridere con la recente approvazione al Senato francese di una legge contro l’ultra-fast fashion (come riportato nel nostro post).
La mossa conferma le contraddizioni nel contrasto al fenomeno: da un lato, si colpiscono marchi low-cost come Shein (accusati di dumping ambientale e sociale), dall’altro si accoglie un gigante del fast fashion "tradizionale" in un tempio del lusso.
Protezionismo o incoerenza?
Il governo francese giustifica la legge come lotta allo sfruttamento, ma questa notizia aggiunge dubbi: sembra proprio una mossa per proteggere il mercato dalla Cina (Shein e Temu sono nel mirino). Intanto, H&M — europeo ma con supply chain globale — sembra sfuggire alla retorica anti-fast fashion.
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Il Senato francese approva una legge contro l’ultra-fast fashion: un attacco alle pratiche di sfruttamento o protezionismo contro la Cina?suite123
Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media
geteilt von: feddit.org/post/14121936
"This video is a colorful introduction to the Fediverse, guided by filmmaker & Fediverse advocate Elena Rossini. Watch now to discover a whole new world of social media, one where privacy is respected, users are empowered, and Big Tech has no say."
Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media
This video is a colorful introduction to the Fediverse, guided by filmmaker & Fediverse advocate Elena Rossini. Watch now to discover a whole new world of social media, one where privacy is res...Elena Rossini on PeerTube
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NixOS printing problems
A friend and I are trying to get a machine set up to work as my school's library's printing computer instead of Windows ones. It is running NixOS. We got it bound to active directory, applications installed, etc., but the issue is that we can't get it to print. It'll say that it's printing but the print job never reaches the print server. To access the print server you're supposed to authenticate, but it doesn't ever give a prompt to. I tried turning off the firewall temporarily to see if that was the issue but it made no difference.
In configuration.nix, services.printing.enable=true and services.printing.drivers = [ pkgs.cups pkgs.hplip ]; (it is an HP printer that we're currently testing on).
I'm thinking that either SAMBA is configured incorrectly and/or the syntax that I put into CUPS for the printer is incorrect.
Current SAMBA config:
services.samba = {
enable = true;
openfirewall = true;
settings = {
public = {
path = "/srv/public";
browseable = true;
writable = true;
"guest ok" = true;
In CUPS it shows the syntax for a Windows printer via SAMBA as follows: smb://[workgroup/]server[:port}/printer
The issue is that I don't know what it means by that. I know the print queue, domain, IP, and port (although I'm under the impression that I don't need the port for this case), but I don't know how it would fit into this. I tried looking around on the CUPS wiki but it was vague and confusing to me. Any help with this is much appreciated.
1) Verify CUPS can actually print from that machine
2) If that's your samba config, it seems a bit light
3) Enable guest_ok and see if it works then. If so, you need to delve deeper into your access permissions
documentation.ubuntu.com/serve…
You also just share print targets via CUPS without Samba: cups.org/doc/sharing.html
Set up Samba as a print server
Another common way to network Ubuntu and Windows computers is to configure Samba as a print server. This will allow it to share printers installed on an Ubuntu server, whether locally or over the n...Ubuntu Server
Copenhagen is adapting to a warmer world with rain tunnels and 'sponge parks' | NPR
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Copenhagen is adapting to a warmer world with rain tunnels and 'sponge parks'
In Copenhagen, meteorologists predict the city will receive 30% more rainfall by the end of this century.
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'We're done with Teams': German state hits uninstall on Microsoft
'We're done with Teams': German state hits uninstall on Microsoft
At a time of growing concern over the power of the world's mighty tech companies, one German state is turning its back on US giant Microsoft.France 24 (FRANCE 24)
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This article is terrible.
In less than three months' time, almost no civil servant, police officer or judge in Schleswig-Holstein will be using any of Microsoft's ubiquitous programs at work.Instead, the northern state will turn to [an unnamed, gaping information hole] open-source software to "take back control" over data storage and ensure "digital sovereignty", its digitalisation minister, Dirk Schroedter, told AFP.
"We're done with Teams!" he said, referring to Microsoft's messaging and collaboration tool and speaking on a video call -- via an [unnamed, gaping information hole] open-source German program, of course.
What will they use instead? Who the fuck knows! The article omits this crucial piece of information.
And don't say it's TBD; they're not going to say they're "done with Teams" without knowing what they're switching to. Or, even if they haven't put the final nail in the decision, they have a short list.
What will they use instead? Who the fuck knows! The article omits this crucial piece of information.
Whole bunch of shit going by different sources and the state itself from german, to supplement here
MS Office -> LibreOffice
Exchange / Outlook -> Open-XChange / Thunderbird
Sharepoint -> Nextcloud
Windows -> Linux
MS Active Directory -> Unknown, but currently Testing things
Telephones use, among others, Kamailio, RTPEngine, Asterisk, GenieACS, Loki and Grafana
For all the Software to do like specific work, i.e. the software that helps manage industrial permits or whatever, it's case by case with them trying to replace them with mostly web based solutions so they're OS-Agnostic.
They're doing this together with Dataport, which is a sort of special government structure in the sense that it does IT for the states of Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg, Bremen and Saxony-Anhalt who share the costs. They've been at this whole thing of trying to make a FOSS standard software enviroment for years now, steadily improving, so things might actually be happening. Video conferencing should be Jitsi, that's already in the portfolio, the chat components will in all likelihood be based on the Matrix Protocol which is aswell, I think they offer an offshoot of Riot.
It's a good thing. That said, the way the german government works this only really includes the actual state level bureaucratic engines. Everything at the county and municipal level will also have to make the switch themselves so that's 83 more government entities that would have to do this before the state runs on FOSS.
And like with all of them in germany they're all flat out broke and can't get personnel for this so this type of project, if attempted at all, is usually headed by a 60 year old who's also the equivalent of a CIO because he once built an excel table with pivot functions and the general level of digital competency of the workforce is dire, as in people are printing out excel tables to do the calculations with a calculator and things of that nature.
Thanks! That's all great information.
I'd bet there are a bunch of college students involved in the implementation, too. I don't see ongoing maintenance taking much more manpower than MS; we certainly had dedicated teams for it at my last company, so maybe that will be a budgetary wash, and what they save will be the probably significant licensing.
Thanks. I wonder why both jitsi and Matrix. Someone in the thread said it was too bad Matrix's video conferencing wasn't good enough that they had to add an extra software component, but I wonder what, exactly, the evaluation found wrong with it.
I have a lot of issues with Matrix, but the video conferencing didn't seem worse than the horrible key management.
An external shareholder wouldn't need to create a matrix account just to talk to you.
That's a really good point. I have forgotten whether there are anonymous accounts in Matrix for rooms, but even if so it wouldn't be the same as scheduling a meeting and sending a specific meeting link a-la Zoom.
Yeah, this is the reason.
Ah. Also, such a large organization probably doesn't want to bet the farm on a relatively new and unproven feature.
I'm guessing they have some minimum standards for age and stability.
Not Matrix itself, but the new call mechanism.
They've chosen Matrix; they've just chosen something else for the video calling. Maybe because the anonymous video call link feature is too recent an addition, and is unproven.
Deficit Between a $35/hr Federal Minimum Wage and Cost of Living of US States
Out of curiosity, I wanted to see what a reasonable federal minimum wage might look like if implemented.
Looking at historical information from a time when a single individual’s income could support a family of four, I settled at the late 1950s.
The minimum wage in 1956 was finally raised to one whole dollar, the equivalent of about $12 today by raw inflation. However, its key to remember that this was an era when women were not paid on par with men, and when children younger than 13 commonly were in the workforce.
So instead I found average wage and salary numbers for 1958. In 1958, the average among all adult male wages was $4,888, and salaried men (doctors, lawyers, etc not included) averaged $6,514. Taking the salary figure and adjusting it for inflation gives you roughly $72k, or close to $35/hr.
If the average person had anywhere near the purchasing power of an individual in 1958, then no one could be making less than $35 per hour for their labor. Effectively, to return people to that level of financial security this is what it would take, while everything would simultaneously have to remain the same price. Meaning this wage increase would necessarily have to come out of the pockets of shareholders/owners.
The map shows quite clearly that even with such a high minimum wage, it would still be unaffordable in 100% of the country on 40 hours of work per week alone.
Trickle down economics have doomed this country on a path toward economic ruin, and have pushed most people in the US to such a precarious point financially that they have no hope of living as comfortably as the average worker in 1958. The average salaried worker today earns just $61k per year, over $10k shy of what the average worker made back in the day. Meanwhile, the cost of goods and services are astronomically higher.
$1 in 1956 bought you 4 gallons of gasoline. I pay $20 for that, even though by raw inflation the dollar is worth $12 today. Although gas is highly influenced by many factors that are unstable.
In the late 1950s, a cheap American car cost about $14k. The equivalent of over $168k today by inflation. By average salary, an individual could buy a car within 3-4 years easily by saving intentionally for it. At modern wages, this would be impossible. At $72k per year it becomes about as feasible as it was back then to reach that $168k mark.
These rough concepts are how I landed on $35 per hour as an appropriate measure. As well as the fact that wages today are almost entirely earned by adults, considering modern labor laws and the decline of the teenage workforce.
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I wonder if this is influenced by the fact the worst states on this map tend to have the best welfare?
Like as a disabled person on social security in Massachusetts you get a bunch of things like energy payments and carer payments you would not get in Arkansas.
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Il mondo finisce ad oriente.
Stavolta il post è lungo.
E' il brutto di lavorare a turni: il tempo per scrivere, se vuoi, si trova.
Ciò che sta accadendo tra #Israele ed #Iran ci porta sempre più vicino al punto di non ritorno.
Forse per questo mi sono dilungato.
Abbiate pazienza.
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Il mondo finisce ad Oriente.
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Nota: Lo so, non è da me farla così lunga, ma in un mondo che impazzisce forse un pochino di squilibrio ce lo metto anche io. La verità è che la #Pace è davvero impossibile. Almeno così sembra. Il che rende, fondamentalmente, questo uno sfogo. Ci vuole pazienza.
La notte tra il 12 e il 13 giugno 2025 ha visto l'ennesima escalation del conflitto mediorientale, quando #Israele ha lanciato un massiccio attacco aereo contro l' #Iran, mirato principalmente alle strutture nucleari e militari di Teheran. Le forze israeliane hanno colpito siti sensibili, distruggendo laboratori e centri di ricerca, nonché eliminando alcuni tra i principali comandanti delle Guardie della Rivoluzione, l'élite militare iraniana. Un colpo che ha scatenato una serie di reazioni internazionali. L'Iran, come prevedibile, ha replicato con una serie di droni che hanno tentato di colpire obiettivi strategici in Israele, gettando il paese in una nuova spirale di violenza.
Le parole di #DonaldTrump, che ha immediatamente espresso un sostegno incondizionato all'azione israeliana, hanno ulteriormente polarizzato il dibattito internazionale. Trump ha minacciato l'Iran con nuove offensive se non avesse accettato un accordo sul nucleare, aggiungendo così un ulteriore strato di complessità alla già tesa situazione geopolitica. L’appoggio degli Stati Uniti alla politica aggressiva di Israele sembra segnare il punto di non ritorno di un conflitto che ha radici profonde, alimentato da ideologie contrapposte e da interessi strategici divergenti.
Politicamente, l'attacco israeliano ha reso evidente l'intensificarsi della guerra a bassa intensità tra le potenze regionali. Israele, con la sua operazione “Leone Ascendente”, ha voluto chiarire una volta per tutte che non tollererà il programma nucleare iraniano, ritenuto una minaccia per la propria sicurezza nazionale. Questo attacco ha avuto l'effetto di indebolire momentaneamente l'Iran, uccidendo alcuni dei suoi strateghi più esperti e decimando parte delle sue capacità operative. Tuttavia, la risposta dell'Iran non si è fatta attendere: il lancio di droni ha avuto il chiaro intento di far capire a Israele che ogni azione avrà una controparte, anche se le capacità belliche di Teheran, pur impressionanti, non possono in alcun modo paragonarsi alla potenza di fuoco israeliana.
Le implicazioni politiche per il Medio Oriente sono incalcolabili. L'Iran ha immediatamente mobilitato le sue milizie alleate in Siria, Libano e Iraq, preparando il terreno per una possibile guerra per procura che potrebbe estendersi ben oltre i confini dei due paesi coinvolti. In questo scenario, la comunità internazionale rischia di assistere a una polarizzazione crescente, con i paesi arabi che, pur condannando l’aggressione israeliana, non sembrano disposti a schierarsi apertamente a favore di Teheran, temendo le ripercussioni di un allineamento troppo esplicito.
Moralmente, invece, l'attacco israeliano solleva interrogativi inquietanti sulla legittimità di un'azione preventiva, soprattutto quando si considera che l'Iran ha sempre sostenuto di non avere intenzioni belliche dirette contro Israele. Sebbene Israele possa giustificare il suo intervento come una misura di difesa preventiva, non si può ignorare la violazione della sovranità iraniana e il fatto che l’attacco possa generare un'ulteriore spirale di violenza e vendetta. La morte di alti ufficiali iraniani e scienziati nucleari potrebbe, inoltre, rafforzare la narrativa del martirio e alimentare il risentimento tra la popolazione iraniana, creando un ulteriore fossato tra l'Iran e l'Occidente.
Da un punto di vista etico, sorge anche la questione dell’equilibrio delle forze: mentre gli Stati Uniti e Israele vedono la sicurezza come una priorità assoluta, l'Iran non può fare a meno di difendere ciò che considera un diritto sovrano, ossia la propria capacità di autodefinirsi come potenza regionale. La domanda che sorge spontanea è quindi se la logica della deterrenza, che ha caratterizzato la guerra fredda, possa essere applicata efficacemente in un contesto così volatile e intrinsecamente pericoloso.
L'operazione ha accentuato le divisioni interne in Iran, dove il regime potrebbe trovarsi a fronteggiare un'ondata di proteste interne. La crisi economica che affligge Teheran, le sanzioni internazionali e il crescente malcontento popolare potrebbero minare ulteriormente la stabilità del governo. Tuttavia, un sentimento di orgoglio nazionale potrebbe temporaneamente consolidare il consenso interno contro l'invasore straniero, come spesso accade in contesti bellici.
In Europa, la situazione appare delicata. L'Unione Europea, da sempre promotrice di un approccio diplomatico e pacifico, si trova ora a dover navigare tra due fuochi: la necessità di mantenere relazioni economiche con l'Iran, e l'alleanza con Israele, che rappresenta uno dei suoi principali partner strategici. La Francia e la Germania hanno condannato l'escalation, chiedendo una de-escalation immediata, ma non sono riuscite a offrire una soluzione concreta. L'Italia, pur allineata in linea di principio con le posizioni europee, ha adottato un tono più cauto, sottolineando la necessità di una mediazione internazionale urgente per evitare che il conflitto degeneri in una guerra totale.
Il nostro stato si è trovato a giocare un ruolo delicato nel bilanciare il proprio supporto a Israele con l’esigenza di non alienarsi la cooperazione iraniana. Sebbene il governo italiano abbia espresso una condanna per l'aggressione israeliana, si è anche preoccupato delle implicazioni a lungo termine di una rottura totale tra l'Iran e l'Occidente. L'Italia, infatti, è da sempre favorevole a un approccio diplomatico per risolvere la crisi nucleare iraniana, e un’escalation militare potrebbe compromettere gli sforzi compiuti negli anni passati per stabilire un dialogo.
L’Unione Europea, nel suo insieme, ha rilasciato dichiarazioni ufficiali invocando una “de-escalation immediata”, ma la divisione tra i membri più favorevoli a un duro confronto (come la Polonia) e quelli più favorevoli a un negoziato (come l’Italia e la Spagna) è ormai palese. Il rischio è che l'Europa, incapace di adottare una linea unitaria, finisca per essere marginalizzata in un conflitto che potrebbe ridisegnare gli equilibri di potere nell'intera regione mediorientale.
L'attacco israeliano all'Iran ha profondamente scosso gli assetti geopolitici internazionali, mettendo in luce non solo le fragilità politiche e sociali dei protagonisti del conflitto, ma anche la difficoltà di una comunità internazionale a trovare un punto di mediazione efficace. Le conseguenze politiche, morali e sociali di questa nuova escalation sono ancora in divenire, ma una cosa è certa: l'Europa e l'Italia dovranno affrontare con urgenza la necessità di rinnovare i propri approcci diplomatici, se vogliono evitare che il conflitto si trasformi in una guerra su scala globale. La strada verso una stabilizzazione del Medio Oriente sembra sempre più incerta e tortuosa, e l'unica speranza risiede nel ritorno al dialogo e alla cooperazione internazionale.
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Il mondo finisce ad Oriente.
**Stavolta il post è lungo.
E' il brutto di lavorare a turni: il tempo per scrivere, se vuoi, si trova.
Ciò che sta accadendo tra #Israele ed #Iran ci porta sempre più vicino al punto di non ritorno.
Forse per questo mi sono dilungato.
Abbiate pazienza. **
Il mondo finisce ad Oriente.
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Nota: Lo so, non è da me farla così lunga, ma in un mondo che impazzisce forse un pochino di squilibrio ce lo metto anche io. La verità è che la #Pace è davvero impossibile. Almeno così sembra. Il che rende, fondamentalmente, questo uno sfogo. Ci vuole pazienza.
La notte tra il 12 e il 13 giugno 2025 ha visto l'ennesima escalation del conflitto mediorientale, quando #Israele ha lanciato un massiccio attacco aereo contro l' #Iran, mirato principalmente alle strutture nucleari e militari di Teheran. Le forze israeliane hanno colpito siti sensibili, distruggendo laboratori e centri di ricerca, nonché eliminando alcuni tra i principali comandanti delle Guardie della Rivoluzione, l'élite militare iraniana. Un colpo che ha scatenato una serie di reazioni internazionali. L'Iran, come prevedibile, ha replicato con una serie di droni che hanno tentato di colpire obiettivi strategici in Israele, gettando il paese in una nuova spirale di violenza.
Le parole di #DonaldTrump, che ha immediatamente espresso un sostegno incondizionato all'azione israeliana, hanno ulteriormente polarizzato il dibattito internazionale. Trump ha minacciato l'Iran con nuove offensive se non avesse accettato un accordo sul nucleare, aggiungendo così un ulteriore strato di complessità alla già tesa situazione geopolitica. L’appoggio degli Stati Uniti alla politica aggressiva di Israele sembra segnare il punto di non ritorno di un conflitto che ha radici profonde, alimentato da ideologie contrapposte e da interessi strategici divergenti.
Politicamente, l'attacco israeliano ha reso evidente l'intensificarsi della guerra a bassa intensità tra le potenze regionali. Israele, con la sua operazione “Leone Ascendente”, ha voluto chiarire una volta per tutte che non tollererà il programma nucleare iraniano, ritenuto una minaccia per la propria sicurezza nazionale. Questo attacco ha avuto l'effetto di indebolire momentaneamente l'Iran, uccidendo alcuni dei suoi strateghi più esperti e decimando parte delle sue capacità operative. Tuttavia, la risposta dell'Iran non si è fatta attendere: il lancio di droni ha avuto il chiaro intento di far capire a Israele che ogni azione avrà una controparte, anche se le capacità belliche di Teheran, pur impressionanti, non possono in alcun modo paragonarsi alla potenza di fuoco israeliana.
Le implicazioni politiche per il Medio Oriente sono incalcolabili. L'Iran ha immediatamente mobilitato le sue milizie alleate in Siria, Libano e Iraq, preparando il terreno per una possibile guerra per procura che potrebbe estendersi ben oltre i confini dei due paesi coinvolti. In questo scenario, la comunità internazionale rischia di assistere a una polarizzazione crescente, con i paesi arabi che, pur condannando l’aggressione israeliana, non sembrano disposti a schierarsi apertamente a favore di Teheran, temendo le ripercussioni di un allineamento troppo esplicito.
Moralmente, invece, l'attacco israeliano solleva interrogativi inquietanti sulla legittimità di un'azione preventiva, soprattutto quando si considera che l'Iran ha sempre sostenuto di non avere intenzioni belliche dirette contro Israele. Sebbene Israele possa giustificare il suo intervento come una misura di difesa preventiva, non si può ignorare la violazione della sovranità iraniana e il fatto che l’attacco possa generare un'ulteriore spirale di violenza e vendetta. La morte di alti ufficiali iraniani e scienziati nucleari potrebbe, inoltre, rafforzare la narrativa del martirio e alimentare il risentimento tra la popolazione iraniana, creando un ulteriore fossato tra l'Iran e l'Occidente.
Da un punto di vista etico, sorge anche la questione dell’equilibrio delle forze: mentre gli Stati Uniti e Israele vedono la sicurezza come una priorità assoluta, l'Iran non può fare a meno di difendere ciò che considera un diritto sovrano, ossia la propria capacità di autodefinirsi come potenza regionale. La domanda che sorge spontanea è quindi se la logica della deterrenza, che ha caratterizzato la guerra fredda, possa essere applicata efficacemente in un contesto così volatile e intrinsecamente pericoloso.
L'operazione ha accentuato le divisioni interne in Iran, dove il regime potrebbe trovarsi a fronteggiare un'ondata di proteste interne. La crisi economica che affligge Teheran, le sanzioni internazionali e il crescente malcontento popolare potrebbero minare ulteriormente la stabilità del governo. Tuttavia, un sentimento di orgoglio nazionale potrebbe temporaneamente consolidare il consenso interno contro l'invasore straniero, come spesso accade in contesti bellici.
In Europa, la situazione appare delicata. L'Unione Europea, da sempre promotrice di un approccio diplomatico e pacifico, si trova ora a dover navigare tra due fuochi: la necessità di mantenere relazioni economiche con l'Iran, e l'alleanza con Israele, che rappresenta uno dei suoi principali partner strategici. La Francia e la Germania hanno condannato l'escalation, chiedendo una de-escalation immediata, ma non sono riuscite a offrire una soluzione concreta. L'Italia, pur allineata in linea di principio con le posizioni europee, ha adottato un tono più cauto, sottolineando la necessità di una mediazione internazionale urgente per evitare che il conflitto degeneri in una guerra totale.
Il nostro stato si è trovato a giocare un ruolo delicato nel bilanciare il proprio supporto a Israele con l’esigenza di non alienarsi la cooperazione iraniana. Sebbene il governo italiano abbia espresso una condanna per l'aggressione israeliana, si è anche preoccupato delle implicazioni a lungo termine di una rottura totale tra l'Iran e l'Occidente. L'Italia, infatti, è da sempre favorevole a un approccio diplomatico per risolvere la crisi nucleare iraniana, e un’escalation militare potrebbe compromettere gli sforzi compiuti negli anni passati per stabilire un dialogo.
L’Unione Europea, nel suo insieme, ha rilasciato dichiarazioni ufficiali invocando una “de-escalation immediata”, ma la divisione tra i membri più favorevoli a un duro confronto (come la Polonia) e quelli più favorevoli a un negoziato (come l’Italia e la Spagna) è ormai palese. Il rischio è che l'Europa, incapace di adottare una linea unitaria, finisca per essere marginalizzata in un conflitto che potrebbe ridisegnare gli equilibri di potere nell'intera regione mediorientale.
L'attacco israeliano all'Iran ha profondamente scosso gli assetti geopolitici internazionali, mettendo in luce non solo le fragilità politiche e sociali dei protagonisti del conflitto, ma anche la difficoltà di una comunità internazionale a trovare un punto di mediazione efficace. Le conseguenze politiche, morali e sociali di questa nuova escalation sono ancora in divenire, ma una cosa è certa: l'Europa e l'Italia dovranno affrontare con urgenza la necessità di rinnovare i propri approcci diplomatici, se vogliono evitare che il conflitto si trasformi in una guerra su scala globale. La strada verso una stabilizzazione del Medio Oriente sembra sempre più incerta e tortuosa, e l'unica speranza risiede nel ritorno al dialogo e alla cooperazione internazionale.
#Blog #Iran #Israele #Medioriente #War #Guerra #Opinioni #Politica #Politics
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Logo Voting Round 1 is Complete!
Logo Voting Round 1 is Complete!
Thank you to everyone who participated in the first round of the logo voting! Your engagement and feedback have been incredible, and we're excited to share the results.
Top 6 Logos
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- “CO-Arrow”
- “CoMaps Arrow”
- “Windy-Road-Pin"
- "Co Compass"
- "Clouds/continents arrow"
- "CM-Compass-Split"
Next Step
These logos will now undergo a refinement process, to iterate and improve the designs. See codeberg.org/comaps/Governance…
Final Vote
Once the final versions are complete, the final round of voting will open. This will be your chance to choose the final logo that will represent CoMaps.
Together, we're building something amazing, and we can't wait to see the final logo that you help create!
Logo finalist iteration, input, enhancements
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