William Fitzsimmons - Gold In The Shadow (2011)
Quello che traspare fin dalle prime note di Gold in the Shadow è una particolare e marcata intimità. Lo stile dato dalla voce e dalla sonorità raffinata, lieve e crepuscolare di William Fitzsimmons, suggeriscono un viaggio emotivo nei meandri del suo, del nostro ‘essere’... Leggi e ascolta...
William Fitzsimmons - Gold In The Shadow (2011)
Quello che traspare fin dalle prime note di Gold in the Shadow è una particolare e marcata intimità. Lo stile dato dalla voce e dalla sonorità raffinata, lieve e crepuscolare di William Fitzsimmons, suggeriscono un viaggio emotivo nei meandri del suo, del nostro ‘essere’... (Continua a leggere: artesuono.blogspot.com/2014/07…)
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William Fitzsimmons - Gold In The Shadow (2011)
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How to Dress and Undress your Home
How to Dress and Undress your Home
Before the large-scale use of fossil fuels, removable textile layers kept homes warm in winter and cool in summer.LOW←TECH MAGAZINE
Someone lost 20 years worth of Pokemon when trying to transfer data from Switch 1 to Switch 2
I'm about to Cry. 1000+ hours and 20 years of Mons gone
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Nope, the switch only keeps saves on the internal storage or synced to their cloud if you pay for it. When doing transfers between devices like this there is no copy option only a move and delete.
There are some legitimate reasons they want to prevent this like preventing users from duplicating items in multiplayer games, etc. Even if you got access to the files they are encrypted so that only your user can use them.
I think the bigger reason they do this is there are occasionally exploits that are done through corrupted saves. So preventing the user from importing their own saves helps protect the switch from getting soft modded.
If you mod your switch you can get access to the save files and since it has full access it can also decrypt them, so that you can back them up. One of several legitimate reasons to mod your switch.
Another case of piracy having far superior user experience compared to the legal, honest way of playing the game, not because piracy is intrinsically better but because the publisher deliberately makes the official experience as inconvenient and exploitative as possible.
I used to have a git repo in my emulator's save directory so I could have checkpoints that I can restore to if I ever get stuck.
Yeah it is pretty bad when an emulator offers a better experience than even a modded Switch.
Easy to load your choice of directory sync tool (i.e. NextCloud Sync Client/Synology Drive Client/etc, or Google Drive/OneDrive if you are on Windows) pointed at your emulators save directory and have your own automatic cloud sync that you have full control over, built in versioning, the works.
AFAIK Pokemon doesn't do cloud saves.
The reason being to prevent duplication of Pokemon.
Given that the game is largely single player that seems like a stupid reason to me.
While I'm sure some people do a lot of breeding and IV training for the more competitive scene, be assume lots of people just hack together whatever team they need. Wonder Trade and Home have always been full of random shiny Pokemon.
Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Process Explorer
Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Process Explorer - LinuxLinks
Process Explorer is a task manager and system monitor It provides the functionality of Windows Task Manager along with additional features.Steve Emms (LinuxLinks)
Boycott Divest Sanction.
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Guide to BDS Boycott & Pressure Corporate Priority Targeting
Ending the complicity of states, corporations, and institutions in Israel’s ongoing, live-streamed genocide against 2.BDS Movement
It is absolutely a great idea. These shit phones are fucking dangerous.
They're completely different, depending on your needs. Some work easily for those without tech knowledge or very strict needs at usability, some are for privacy enthusiasts or endangered people and some are for techies who want to advance humanity.
I suggest trying on an older phone you already have or buying a used one.
Generally, i suggest not buying new at all, as a form of protest, anyway.
GitHub - Universal-Debloater-Alliance/universal-android-debloater-next-generation: Cross-platform GUI written in Rust using ADB to debloat non-rooted Android devices. Improve your privacy, the security and battery life of your device.
Cross-platform GUI written in Rust using ADB to debloat non-rooted Android devices. Improve your privacy, the security and battery life of your device. - Universal-Debloater-Alliance/universal-andr...GitHub
Titan A.E. came out 25 years ago, and history has been kind to the infamous flop that killed Fox Animation Studios
Titan A.E. came out 25 years ago, and history has been kind to the infamous flop that killed Fox Animation Studios
Send your birthday love to Planet Bob as we reminisce about this spirited post-apocalyptic gem.Jeff Spry (Space)
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Luigi is white and they’re trying to send him to the gallows.
I think him being conservative is the factor here.
Although I agree if he weren’t white he would be treated way worse…
Tinder now lets you go on double dates
Crossposted from rss.ponder.cat/post/208519
Tinder is no longer just a platform for solo dates. The company has announced a new “Double Date” feature rolling out in the US that will let you invite a friend to find — and match with – another pair.
The feature lives within a new “Double Date” icon in the top-right corner of the app, where you can invite up to three friends to create pairs with. You can both scroll through a feed of paired profiles, which appear side by side with photos and descriptions. A match is created when one person from both pairs swipes right. Tinder will then open up a group chat with all four users.
The update should help Tinder gain an edge over rivals as the dating app industry continues to experience a slump. It will also allow Tinder to compete directly with platforms built for double dates, like Doubble and Fourplay.
Cleo Long, Tinder’s head of product marketing, told The Verge that the platform has been testing the feature in Europe for a “couple of months,” adding that it’s meant to help relieve dating pressure, especially among younger users. “This is a social-first experience that’s really meant to help relieve some of the pressure that we know a lot of Gen Z experiences with dating by making it more social, more fun, and bringing your friends in to help reinforce that comfort piece,” Long said.
Double Dates builds on some of the other social features Tinder has rolled out in recent years, including a feature that lets you share the details of your dates with other people, as well as a way for friends or family members to find matches for you.
Tinder plans on rolling out Double Dates globally in July.
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Tinder now lets mom pick your next date
Tinder’s new Matchmaker feature lets users invite their loved ones, regardless of whether they have a Tinder profile or not, to view and recommend potential matches.Jess Weatherbed (The Verge)
UC San Francisco fired me for speaking out against genocide, but as a physician I could not remain silent
UC San Francisco fired me for speaking out against genocide, but as a physician I could not remain silent
After 23 years of service, I was fired from my position as a Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, for being critical of Israel’s violence in Gaza and speaking out against the racism that leads to genocide.Rupa Marya (Mondoweiss)
Lingvoj en la eŭropa vojkruciĝo
Denove malsukcesis la provo oficialigi ĉe EU tri regionajn lingvojn de Hispanio. La decido postulas unuanimecon. Spite longajn intertraktadojn en la kulisoj, reprezentantoj de pluraj landoj en ministra kunveno fine de majo kontraŭis la proponon. Nicolau Dols klarigas la fonon kaj la argumentojn.
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‘No Kings’ protests stir US as Trump celebrates birthday with military parade – in pictures
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Sat 14 Jun 2025 19.58 EDT
‘No Kings’ protests stir US as Trump celebrates birthday with military parade – in pictures
Julius Constantine Motal
Sat 14 Jun 2025 19.58 EDT‘No Kings’ protests stir US as Trump celebrates birthday with military parade – in pictures
Millions of people march in more than 2,000 events amid Washington parade celebrating 250 years of US armyThe Guardian
‘No Kings’ protests stir US as Trump celebrates birthday with military parade – in pictures
Sat 14 Jun 2025 19.58 EDT
‘No Kings’ protests stir US as Trump celebrates birthday with military parade – in pictures
Millions of people march in more than 2,000 events amid Washington parade celebrating 250 years of US armyThe Guardian
L'invisibile "castoro" che costituisce l'ultimo depositario dei potenti roditori della Preistoria - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
L'invisibile "castoro" che costituisce l'ultimo depositario dei potenti roditori della Preistoria - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Largamente comprovata è la comune affermazione secondo cui “Se abbatte gli alberi come un C, costruisce dighe come un C. e possiede una coda larga e piatta come un C, trascorrendo lunghe parti della sua giornata in acqua come un C.Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
The Naked Gun | Official Trailer (2025 Movie) - Liam Neeson, Pamela Anderson
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Finland warms up the world’s largest sand battery, and the economics look appealing
Finland warms up the world’s largest sand battery, and the economics look appealing | TechCrunch
Pornainen recently turned on a 100 MWh thermal battery filled with ground up soapstone.Tim De Chant (TechCrunch)
Israel issues Tehran evacuation order as Iran threatens to leave nuclear weapons treaty
Iran threatens to leave nuclear weapons treaty as Israeli bombing enters fourth day
Death toll in both countries continues to rise as Iran says it is preparing bill to withdraw from 1968 nuclear non-proliferation treatyJulian Borger (The Guardian)
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Maybe the nations belligerently bombed by Israel should begin issuing their own evac orders? "We are going to do something nasty. Please don't be inside overnight on Monday" and then bomb something minor.
Repeat weekly, different day each time. Something small.
Week 11 say Thursday, really wreck some stuff the day before with no injuries, and say "oops".
Repeat until they fucking get it.
Sorella di Perfezione - Giuseppe Iannozzi - LFA Publisher - booktrailer su YouTube
**Sorella di Perfezione - Giuseppe Iannozzi - LFA Publisher - booktrailer su YouTube **
Prosecutors say suspect targeted four Minnesota lawmakers during shooting spree
Morro Peak, Jasper NP
Covering a lot of elevation in a short span, this #hike has you wrap around the sheer wall face before ascending to the large bald above the Athabasca river valley. While moderate, the 2k ft gained in less than 2 miles (3.4 total) leads to some steep sections. Hiked 5/11/25
The view to the west towards Jasper from the viewpoint on top of Morro peak.
A nice viewpoint if you can stand it as you wrap back down along the cliff face. While steep and loose, the trail here is four feet wide so it's easy to look away from the open drop below.
Looking up at Morro peak. The trail goes up the left side until around the tree line before crossing to the rught and up and then wrapping up the right edge of the rock wall.
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गाजा गोलीबारी: भोजन वितरण केंद्र के पास इजरायली सैनिकों ने की गोलीबारी, 37 फलस्तीनियों की मौत
Gaza News: गाजा में सोमवार को गाजा गोलीबारी की ताजा घटना ने एक बार फिर मानवीय संकट को उजागर किया। इजरायली सैन्य नियंत्रित क्षेत्र में भोजन वितरण केंद्र के पास हुई गोलीबारी में कम से कम 37 फलस्तीनी मारे गए। गाजा स्वास्थ्य मंत्रालय के अनुसार, 33 लोग भोजन केंद्र तक पहुंचने की कोशिश में मारे गए, जबकि चार अन्य जगहों पर हताहत हुए। प्रत्यक्षदर्शियों ने बताया कि सैनिकों ने भीड़ को नियंत्रित करने के लिए गोलीबारी की, जिससे भगदड़ मच गई।
बार-बार हो रही हिंसा
11 जून को भी ऐसी ही एक घटना में 36 फलस्तीनी मारे गए थे, जब इजरायली सेना ने राहत सामग्री लेने की कोशिश कर रहे लोगों पर गोली चलाई। गाजा ह्यूमैनिटेरियन फाउंडेशन के सहायता स्थलों के पास अब तक 200 से अधिक लोग मारे गए और 1600 से ज्यादा घायल हो चुके हैं। इन केंद्रों को इजरायल और अमेरिका ने हमास द्वारा सहायता चोरी रोकने के लिए शुरू किया था, लेकिन संयुक्त राष्ट्र ने इसे अप्रभावी बताया है।
भुखमरी का संकट
इजरायल की नाकाबंदी और सैन्य कार्रवाइयों ने गाजा को अकाल के कगार पर ला खड़ा किया है। खाद्य सामग्री, दवाइयां और बिजली की कमी ने लाखों लोगों का जीवन संकट में डाल दिया। एक स्थानीय निवासी ने कहा, “हम भोजन के लिए जान जोखिम में डालते हैं, लेकिन गोलीबारी हमें रोक देती है।” संयुक्त राष्ट्र ने चेतावनी दी है कि बिना तत्काल सहायता के भुखमरी से बड़े पैमाने पर मौतें हो सकती हैं।
अंतरराष्ट्रीय अपील
संयुक्त राष्ट्र के मानवाधिकार प्रमुख वोल्कर तुर्क ने गाजा गोलीबारी की निंदा करते हुए युद्ध समाप्त करने की अपील की। उन्होंने कहा कि फलस्तीनियों पर हो रही हिंसा अस्वीकार्य है। गाजा में अब तक 50,000 से अधिक लोग मारे जा चुके हैं। इजरायल का कहना है कि वह हमास को निशाना बना रहा है, लेकिन नागरिकों की मौतें चिंता का विषय बनी हुई हैं। अधिक जानकारी के लिए संयुक्त राष्ट्र की वेबसाइट देखें।
Bazzite won't display to my external monitor
Hello there.
I’m a newbie to Linux and am still figuring everything out. I posted here a few days ago and you fine folks helped me with a problem. Now I’m in need again.
I decided to distro hop a little bit just to see what I like best, and am currently testing out Bazzite since I mostly use my PC for gaming at the moment and heard that one’s a good one for gaming. I’m using a laptop hooked up to an external monitor right now. After installing Bazzite I was asked what I wanted to do with the external monitor. Since I never use my laptop screen, I chose the option to only display on the external monitor. Unfortunately that didn’t seem to play nice, and now my laptop screen is black (obviously) but the external monitor is saying no input anymore. It accepted the input up until making that choice. Now I can unplug the monitor and use the laptop screen just fine, but my setup makes that quite annoying, plus I want to use my monitor obviously. The biggest problem is I can’t adjust the monitor settings without the monitor plugged in, and I can’t see anything with the monitor plugged in. Does anyone know of a solution to this problem? I’ve never faced it before in my years of using windows, and I didn’t have this problem in Mint either. I don’t really want to reinstall, but I will if I have to. If anyone knows of a solution without reinstalling I’d appreciate it. Thanks in advance.
[NYT Opinion] Our Bridges Are Old, Our Grid Is on the Fritz and Soon America Will Be Obsolete
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CW For a lot of liberalism
By Jigar Shah and Raj Pannu
Mr. Shah is a co-host of “Open Circuit,” a podcast on the energy transition. Mr. Pannu is the C.E.O. of Emergence Creative, an advertising agency dedicated to social impact.
Most Americans don’t think about infrastructure unless it fails. But when it does, it’s personal. When subways stall or highways clog, you’re late for work. When a bridge closes, your commute reroutes into chaos. When the storm drain overflows, your basement floods. And when transmission lines fail, the power goes out, leaving homes sweltering, grocery shelves empty and businesses offline.
Weak infrastructure makes your life just a little bit worse.
The United States is sleepwalking into an infrastructure crisis — one that will quietly degrade our quality of life and kneecap our ability to compete in the global economy. It’s not just the older infrastructure that’s in need of repair and replacement; it’s also support for the new systems, such as artificial intelligence.
The crisis calls for a national recommitment to modernization — not as a partisan project, but as a precondition for global competitiveness, national security and basic dignity in daily life. And while responsibility ultimately lies with Congress, it’s also with all of us who understand the stakes.
Today, the average U.S. bridge is over 40 years old, and about 42,000 of them are structurally deficient. Our ports are among the least automated in the industrialized world, leading to higher costs and dangerous pollution in nearby communities.
And America’s grid is stretched thin. In the wintertime last year, about two-thirds of the country faced elevated risks of blackouts, according to the North American Electric Reliability Corporation. We can’t move electricity from areas with excess capacity to where it’s needed because we haven’t built enough transmission lines. And in a world increasingly powered by machine intelligence, if your power goes out, your economy goes offline.
The demand for electricity is rising fast. Training a single large-scale A.I. model now requires as much electricity as a large, urban American neighborhood uses in a year. Data centers, which power everything from those language models to advanced simulations, are projected to consume about 10 percent of the U.S. electricity supply by 2030 — up from around 2 percent today. A new report from the North American Electric Reliability Corporation finds that these facilities are an emerging threat to grid stability because they pull huge amounts of power at unpredictable times. The grid wasn’t built for this. Unless we expand energy generation and build out transmission aggressively, the lights will start to flicker on our future prosperity.
Shaky infrastructure isn’t just a problem for the tech sector. As the United States scrambles to bring back manufacturing, the infrastructure undergirding it is nowhere near ready. More than 920 new or expanded manufacturing facilities have been announced since 2021, projects to make semiconductors, electric vehicles, batteries, critical minerals processing and other components here at home.
For a moment, it seemed like America was serious about modernizing its infrastructure: The Biden administration tried to accelerate permitting, improve transmission planning and unlock hundreds of billions of dollars in federal funding for upgrades. There was real momentum.
Since then, the repeated brinkmanship over government funding and debt ceilings — and short-term budget deals that gut long-term investments — have thrown these gains into limbo. Funding for key offices at the Department of Energy and Department of Transportation have been delayed. The House of Representatives’ proposal to rescind billions in clean energy tax credits and claw back unspent Inflation Reduction Act funds has further chilled investor confidence.
Developers are pausing contracts, and clean energy projects, which help improve the resilience and efficiency of our energy system, are in limbo. According to E2, a nonpartisan group representing business leaders, more than 13,000 clean energy jobs have been lost since the beginning of 2025, largely because of delays and uncertainty. Billions in investment have been held back as projects have stalled. The result? Momentum is lost — possibly for a long time.
The new budget reconciliation deal before the Senate makes these infrastructure bottlenecks worse. It strips away hard-fought gains made under the Biden administration’s agenda — delaying transmission reform, gutting support for fast electricity deployment and muddying the waters for public-private investment. The signal to industry is clear: America can’t make up its mind.
All this is happening while our rivals are building fast. China will spend $138 billion on A.I., robotics and smart infrastructure as part of its “Made in China 2025” plan. Europe is modernizing its ports, roads and digital networks to stay competitive.
Upgrading the infrastructure that underpins American competitiveness should start with the grid. A national transmission strategy must be a cornerstone of economic policy to integrate clean energy generation, large-scale batteries and flexibility. Without it, we can’t move power where it’s needed when it’s needed, and our most promising technologies will die.
We also must ensure that American innovation stays on American soil. Federal investment should focus on scaling technologies invented here, such as advanced nuclear reactors, clean ammonia production, critical minerals processing and next-generation battery chemistry. They are the industrial building blocks of a clean, resilient future, and without strategic government backing, they will be built elsewhere.
Finally, the permitting process, which requires the coordination of federal, state and local agencies, needs to reflect the urgency of the moment. Projects that cut emissions, lower costs and build resilience shouldn’t be forced to wait a decade for approval. Streamlined, sensible permitting reform is essential to unlocking private capital and accelerating deployment.
The infrastructure investments of the past four years represent the most significant progress since the Eisenhower era. But they are neither guaranteed nor permanent. If Congress and the Trump administration don’t act now, we won’t just cede economic advantage. We’ll see energy costs spike, more frequent power outages and investors pushing their companies to scale up in Asia. America will be left with 20th-century tools in a 21st-century world and will once again be left buying back its own inventions.
Industrial Socialism - by William Haywood & Frank Bohn, 1911 (Full Book)
A short and well written book (about 60 pages) that encapsulates the ideas of socialism quite well in a plain and easily understandable manner, with the issues of 1911 mirroring our current predicament well.
Excerpt:
When the worker gets his first job the world about him takes off its mask. He sees it as it is. Hours are long and most work is monotonous. Any child or young person naturally very much dislikes this first harsh experience of the world of the working class. His games and fun-making are given up. His physical growth is stunted and his mind dwarfed more or less. Long ago nearly all of the young men who went to work for wages began by learning a trade. This trade was very often extremely interesting to them. It educated their minds and developed their bodies. If they were apprenticed at eighteen, then, perhaps at twenty one, they were sure of steady work and good wages. Today very few of the working people learn a trade. They work in some factory, store or office at tasks which they perform as well in a month as they do in ten years. If the young wage earner is vigorous in mind and body he revolts at this labor and makes a desperate struggle to secure an education or otherwise make it possible for himself to rise out of the working class. The stronger and healthier his body and the keener his mind, the harder does he fight. But he finds, except in very rare instances, that the doors of opportunity are closed to the children of the >workers.If the young worker learns one of the trades which still remain in modern industry, he finds after he has learned it that it also is being abolished by the invention of new machinery. He may go to night school and complete a course of study, or take a correspondence course in mechanics or some other form of applied science. If he does he will discover that his knowledge, gotten at such sacrifice of time, savings and effort, will not raise his wages. There are now so many educated poor people that their pay is on the average much less than that of skilled workers in the trades. Another hope of the young workers, men and women, is to save money and start in some small business. Others have risen and become wealthy. Why not they? So, by giving up all pleasures, by overwork and pitiful economies, does the young worker make his start in business. If he has been fortunate enough not to lose his money through some bank swindle, he at last, after years of effort, tries his luck. The best data we have show that more than nine-tenths of those who engage in small business fail utterly. The small portion who "succeed" do so by working night and day, Sundays and holidays. Even they make but meager livings, no better on the average than the wage-workers.
Is there a foss SMS messenger with auto-reply?
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Spooky dooky! I sure hope Chairman Winnie the Pooh doesn't use the Sapir-Worf Hypothesis on us!
Wouldn't OP, should they learn a second language, still have access to their mother tongue? If so, I'm not entirely convinced learning Mandarin is going to have a doubleplusungood effect on their thinking paradigms. Please correct me if I'm looking at things from the wrong angle, however!
Gamepad desktop controls
Try using a PS4 controller. The touchpad works as a mouse.
I'd also recommend getting a wireless keyboard + mouse combo.
Browser Alternatives to Chrome
Hi!
I'm wondering if anybody here has used Vivaldi as their browser and if so, what did you like and what didn't you like?
Same questions for Ecosia.
Same questions for DuckDuckGo.
Are there any others that are worth looking at and if you think so, why? (Well, beyond the whole it's not connected to Google thing...)
Bad brainwaves: ChatGPT makes you stupid
Bad brainwaves: ChatGPT makes you stupid
In a new study, MIT Media Lab measured 55 people over four months on how well they could write an essay — either with ChatGPT, with a search engine, or just their unassisted brain. The researchers …Pivot to AI
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Posted this on a Discord I'm in - one of the near immediate responses was "I'm glad they made a non-invasive procedure to lobotomise people".
Nothing more to add, I just think that's hilarious
Is Matrix cooked?
In today's episode of Kill The Messenger, Matrix co-founder Matthew Hodgson reveals how full of bullshit is the writer of the original article.
The messages were published in the Office of the Matrix.org Foundation room: matrix.to/#%2F%21sWpnrYUMmaBrl…
paper.wf/alexia/matrix-is-cook… is fascinatingly incorrect
Until the 6th of November 2023 when they—in their words—moved to a different repository and to the AGPL license. In reality, the Foundation did not know this was coming, and a huge support net was pulled away under their feet.fwiw, the Foundation had a front-row seat in the fact that Element (as incorporated by the folks who created Matrix) had donated $$M to the Foundation over the years, but wasn't going to survive if it kept giving all its work away as apache-licensed code - which in turn would have been catastrophic for the Foundation.
Yes, the high expenses for the Matrix.org homeserver are largely because they are still managed by Element, just not as donated work but instead like with any other customer.nope, Element passes the hardware costs (and a fraction of the people costs) of running the matrix.org server to the Foundation without any overheads or markup at all.
Either way it shows that Element is seemingly cashing in on selling ,Matrix to governments and B2B as a SaaS solution without it going back to the foundationElement has literally put tens of millions into the foundation, and is continuing to do so - while some of the costs get passed to the Foundation, Element donates a bunch too (e.g. by funding a large chunk of the Matrix conference as the anchor sponsor, and by donating time all over the place to help support trust & safety etc)
At the same time I can't help but think that this could have been prevented. Even Matthew himself recognizes that putting the future on Matrix on the line with VC funding and alike was not the best idea for the health of Matrix.No, even Matthew knows that Matrix would never have been funded without routing the VC funding from Element into... building Matrix. We tried to fund it originally purely as a non-profit, but failed (just as it's a nightmare to raise non-profit for the Foundation today even now that Matrix exists and is successful!). If you need to raise serious $ for an ambitious project, you either need to get lucky with a billionaire (as Signal did with Brian Acton) or you have to raise on the for-profit side. Perhaps it would have have been best for Matrix to grow organically, but I suspect that if it did, it would have failed miserably - instead, it succeeded because we already had a team of ~12 people who could crack on and jump-start it if they could work on it as their dayjob; the team who subsequently founded Element.
Ultimately, for-profit companies will do what makes them profit, not what's the best option. Unless the best option happens to coincide with making the most profit.No, Element is not profitable. Nor is it trying to maximise profit. Right now it's trying to survive and get sustainable and profit-neutral (i.e. break-even) - while doing everything it can to help keep Matrix healthy and successful too (given if Matrix fails, Element fails too).
Unfortunately, supporting the foundation through anything more than “in spirit” and a platinum membership is out of their budget, apparently. I think that morally they owe a lot more than that.wow.
the FUD level is absolutely astonishing, and I really wonder what the genesis of this is
so, absolutely, spectacularly, depressing
this, my friends, is why we can't have nice things.
In response to an other person suggesting that the publisher is also known as a reasonable person on the platform:
Interesting, the matrix handle that seems behind this blog seems always to have been quite a reasonable personsomewhat why i’m wondering what the backstory is, and whether this is an unfortunate example of spicy lies outpacing the boring truth
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UK police working with controversial tech giant Palantir on real-time surveillance network
The Nectar project offers 'advanced data analysis' using a wide range of sensitive personal informationA controversial US spy tech firm has landed a contract with UK police to develop a surveillance network that will incorporate data about citizens’ political opinions, philosophical beliefs, health records and other sensitive personal information.
Documents obtained by i and Liberty Investigates show Palantir Technologies has partnered with police forces in the East of England to establish a “real-time data-sharing network” that includes the personal details of vulnerable victims, children and witnesses alongside suspects.
Trade union membership, sexual orientation and race are among the other types of personal information being processed.
The project has sparked alarm from campaigners who fear it will trample over Britons’ human rights and “facilitate dystopian predictive policing” and indiscriminate mass surveillance.
Numerous police forces have previously refused to confirm or deny their links with Palantir, citing risks to law enforcement and national security. However, forces in Bedfordshire and Leicestershire have recently confirmed working with the firm.
Liberty Investigates and i have learned that those projects involve processing data from more than a dozen UK police forces and will serve as a pilot for a potential national rollout of the tech giant’s data mining technology — which has reportedly been used by police forces in the US to predict future crimes.
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Canalys: Companies limit genAI use due to unclear costs
Canalys: Companies limit genAI use due to unclear costs
The research firm believes generative AI's broader potential remains untapped because companies fear recurring cloud costs.Viktor Eriksson (Computerworld)
Palantir hits new highs amid Israel-Iran conflict
Palantir hits new highs amid Israel-Iran conflict
The fighting between Israel and Iran suggests the company’s Middle East business will continue to grow.Matt Phillips (Sherwood News)
Google’s Advanced Protection Arrives on Android: Should You Use It?
Google’s Advanced Protection Arrives on Android: Should You Use It?
With this week’s release of Android 16, Google added a new security feature to Android, called Advanced Protection. At-risk people—like journalists, activists, or politicians—should consider turning on.Electronic Frontier Foundation
Google’s Advanced Protection Arrives on Android: Should You Use It?
Google’s Advanced Protection Arrives on Android: Should You Use It?
With this week’s release of Android 16, Google added a new security feature to Android, called Advanced Protection. At-risk people—like journalists, activists, or politicians—should consider turning on.Electronic Frontier Foundation
How to Dress and Undress your Home | To make buildings more energy-efficient, consider curtains, awnings, wall hangings, and other technologies from before houses were designed for air conditioning
How to Dress and Undress your Home
Before the large-scale use of fossil fuels, removable textile layers kept homes warm in winter and cool in summer.LOW←TECH MAGAZINE
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Looking for feedback on 5-week degoogling plan
I created a 5-week degoogling plan PDF based on the steps in my book DISENGAGE: Escape the Leash of Big Tech, Scams and Surveillance—Everyday Resistance for the Digital Underdog.
Before I finalize and post it to my site, I'd love some feedback from people who have degoogled or are in the process of doing so.
The final package will be a single PDF, and I've pasted images of the pages below. The final infographic has a link for each product. Please don't worry about formatting issues, I'll get those fixed. But in general, I'm wondering.
- Does this seem motivational/doable?
- Are the tips clear?
- Is there anything that is now incorrect? I wrote the book originally two years ago and updated it in February, so some of my suggestions may already be out of date.
- At the bottom I mention that full instructions for each step are available in DISENGAGE, which is a free book. Is that enough? Or should I instead either note which chapter/page to look at for each step, or directly include links to instructions/tools online?
- The infographic at the end...is it weird to be sideways? I created it a while ago and don't want to have to redo it to fit the orientation. I could offer that separately, OR I could redo the whole PDF to be landscape instead of portrait (which I don't love).
- I'm thinking of turning this into a group challenge (also no cost). If there's enough interest, it could be the checklist, the book, and a Signal group (maybe with a weekly call). I don't know nearly everything about the topic, but I did degoogle myself, and everyone in the group/on the call can share questions and suggestions. What do you think of this idea?
Thanks!
Reddit will help advertisers turn ‘positive’ posts into ads
Reddit will help advertisers turn ‘positive’ posts into ads
Reddit is launching a new feature for advertisers, called “Conversation Summary Add-ons,” that slots positive posts from Reddit users right under their ads.Jay Peters (The Verge)
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Polish media outlets supportive of Poland’s national-conservative opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party have published a recording of a private phone call involving Prime Minister Donald Tusk when he was president of the European Council.
They say it shows how he was continuing to interfere in Polish politics – and speaking in a dismissive and vulgar way about certain parts of Poland – while holding his supposedly neutral EU position.
But commentators and legal experts, as well as figures from Poland’s current ruling camp, say that the conversation reveals nothing of interest and that the real issue is how it was recorded and came to light. They believe it was produced as part of illegal surveillance conducted under PiS using Pegasus spyware.
On Friday and Saturday, right-wing broadcasters wPolsce24 and Republika released audio from two phone conversations involving Roman Giertych, who is currently an MP elected on the list of Tusk’s centrist Civic Coalition (KO). One was with Paweł Graś, Tusk’s current chief of staff, and the other with Tusk himself.
Though the recordings are undated, their content makes clear that they were made in the lead-up to the October 2019 Polish parliamentary elections, when KO was in opposition and Tusk was head of the European Council.
During the majority of his conversation with Tusk, which lasts around 16 minutes, Giertych – who at the time worked as a lawyer, including for Tusk and his children – was complaining about the then-leader of KO, Grzegorz Schetyna.
Giertych expressed frustration that Schetyna was blocking his attempts to become an election candidate for KO, saying that Schetyna was trying to suggest that Giertych stand in districts where he would have little chance of winning.
Here, Giertych described the places being suggested by Schetyna (eastern Wielkopolska province and the city of Radom) as “shits” (using the English word), at which point Tusk expressed agreement that they were places “where the fuck-ups are” (“gdzie zjeby są”).
When publishing the material, Republika noted that, at the time, “Tusk was the president of the European Council and, according to EU law, he should not interfere in domestic political disputes. And yet the tapes show something completely different”.
In response to the release of the recordings, Giertych issued a statement in which he said that they were made “as part of an illegal operation conducted against me by the CBA [Central Anticorruption Bureau]” using Pegasus spyware purchased by the PiS government.
PiS has been accused of illegally buying Pegasus and then using it to spy on opponents of its government, including Giertych and Krzysztof Brejza, who was the head of KO’s election campaign in 2019. Extracts of recordings made using Pegasus were then leaked to PiS-friendly media.
“Recording conversations between a lawyer and his clients, not destroying them, taking copies of the conversations from the CBA, passing them on to the media and publishing these conversations are very serious crimes,” wrote Giertych. “Those guilty of all these crimes will be punished.”
Legally, the CBA is supposed to destroy surveillance recordings that do not contain evidence of any crime. Giertych has not been charged with any crime in relation to the content of the recordings.
Przemysław Rosati, the president of Poland’s Supreme Bar Council, says that the newly released recordings “confirm that Pegasus was used for surveillance without a legal basis and unrelated to state security”.
“Monitoring a lawyer’s telephone is an action that directly violates attorney-client privilege and…is simply an abuse of power,” he added.
Foreign minister Radosław Sikorski also commented on social media, writing that he “hopes the media will not get excited about tidbits [contained in the recordings] but will help identify the criminals who recorded and distributed conversations between a lawyer and client”.
Tusk himself has not yet commented on the recordings.
Since replacing PiS in power in December 2023, Tusk’s ruling coalition has launched a number of investigations into the use of Pegasus by the former government.
Last year, prosecutor general Adam Bodnar revealed that almost 600 people in Poland were targeted for surveillance with Pegasus between 2017 and 2022. The interior minister, Tomasz Siemoniak, said that this had included “too many cases” when it was used “against inconvenient politicians, lawyers, judges and prosecutors”.
Subsequently, a former PiS deputy justice minister, Michał Woś was charged with abusing his powers for the alleged illegal transfer of justice ministry funds to finance the purchase of Pegasus in 2017. He denies the allegations.
In February this year, the head of the CBA, Agnieszka Kwiatkowska-Gurdak, resigned from her position after refusing to answer questions during an appearance before a parliamentary commission investigating the use of Pegasus spyware.
What tools are people using to create batches of torrents?
For occasional torrent creation, qBittorrent has Tools > Torrent Creator, but suppose one has hundreds of folders from which to create individual torrents. A quick internet search yields forum posts from more than ten years ago mentioning dead projects. For example, this Reddit post from 2013 mentions qMakeTorrent, which is no longer maintained.
How are people doing this in 2025? I reckon one could write a bash or python script for this, but are there any user friendly tools out there that are built for this purpose and still actively maintained?
GitHub - kz26/qMakeTorrent: an advanced torrent file creator with batch functionality, powered by libtorrent-rasterbar
an advanced torrent file creator with batch functionality, powered by libtorrent-rasterbar - kz26/qMakeTorrentGitHub
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GitHub - pobrn/mktorrent: A simple command line utility to create BitTorrent metainfo files
A simple command line utility to create BitTorrent metainfo files - pobrn/mktorrentGitHub
Apple Researchers Just Released a Damning Paper That Pours Cold Water on the Entire AI Industry
cross-posted from: midwest.social/post/29979054
can't understand why they keep needing more power. like trying to smash through a wall or something.
Apple Researchers Just Released a Damning Paper That Pours Cold Water on the Entire AI Industry
Researchers at Apple have released a damning paper that throws cold water on the "reasoning" capabilities of modern AIs.Victor Tangermann (Futurism)
Trattato di non proliferazione: da quando l'Iran ha un programma nucleare? da Focus.it
Trattato di non proliferazione: da quando l'Iran ha un programma nucleare?
Il programma nucleare in Iran iniziò nel 1954 quando gli Usa fornirono a Teheran un reattore a uranio arricchito, ma il Trattato di non proliferazione cambiò le regole del gioco.Focus.it
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in reply to geneva_convenience • • •I'll help mr sanders! G - E - N - O - C - I - D - E
I don't think Sanders was ever on the right side, it has been getting clearer recently that he was nothing more than a fake!
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in reply to jackeroni • • •naught101
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •geneva_convenience
in reply to naught101 • • •No because the entire Israeli government is responsible. Bernie tried to shove all the blame on Netanyahu to protect the settler colony from criticism.
Netanyahu is not special. He represents everything Israel always has been.
JcbAzPx
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •So it's not the leader of the government's fault, but it is the government's fault?
Okay troll.
geneva_convenience
in reply to JcbAzPx • • •JcbAzPx
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •geneva_convenience
in reply to JcbAzPx • • •Yes. But not solely.
Do you think Nazi Germany has a right to exist without Hitler? Bernie does.
JoeBigelow
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •geneva_convenience
in reply to JoeBigelow • • •JoeBigelow
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •geneva_convenience
in reply to JoeBigelow • • •Yes. You support a genocidal Apartheid.
Thank you for confirming my point as well.
JoeBigelow
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •geneva_convenience
in reply to JoeBigelow • • •mortalic
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •Respectfully, Bernie isn't the problem. Literally the last politician you need to worry about.
Also I've got op tagged as "posts anti Bernie" so op, think about why you want to drag on the literal only senator that has been arrested for protesting. Why do you ignore people like John fetterman who literally tricked people into thinking he was progoressive and now votes with republicans.
Op. Do. Better.
geneva_convenience
in reply to mortalic • • •Disrespectfully: This is /progressivepolitics not /liberalzionism
Go defend a genocidal Apartheid elsewhere.
mortalic
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •Listen man, there are 100 senators. If you wanted to drag on any of them for not being progressive enough, I'm sure you can find something to complain about each of them.
All I'm saying is dragging on the ones who have a history of pushing for civial rights might not be the best choice. The only result you get from this thinking is more capitalist nut jobs.
But maybe you know that and are just being disengenous?
geneva_convenience
in reply to mortalic • • •Bernie Sanders has a history advocating for genocide. You are extremely disingenuous.
What Bernie Sanders is doing here is what Chuck Sumer says their job is: keeping the left pro Israel.
HasturInYellow
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •geneva_convenience
in reply to HasturInYellow • • •Bernie is a milquetoast centrist. Not a leftist.
Bernie gets flak because he hijacks the progressive movement to justify Apartheid.
Cenzorrll
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •But why aren't you attacking other politicians who are worse, according to your statement?
How about Lindsey Graham? You got anything to say about him? Chuck Schumer seems to check all your boxes but you're still going on about Bernie.
geneva_convenience
in reply to Cenzorrll • • •Is Lindsey Graham poisoning the well of the progressive movement?
Bernie can get his credit where it is due. And he will get his criticism where it is due.
JoeBigelow
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •geneva_convenience
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in reply to geneva_convenience • • •geneva_convenience
in reply to JoeBigelow • • •Cenzorrll
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •geneva_convenience
in reply to Cenzorrll • • •surph_ninja
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in reply to surph_ninja • • •surph_ninja
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •No, this looks more like hasbara. Been seeing an increase in that on Lemmy lately.
Liberals don’t like Bernie, and only use him as a shepherd for the left. Most of Bernie’s original base outgrew him, and moved farther left. The most aggressive defense of Bernie I’ve seen from real progressives is still sprinkled with some mild disappointment in Bernie on this and other issues.
geneva_convenience
in reply to surph_ninja • • •Mongostein
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •What? He’s not talking about Gaza, he’s talking about Iran.
Israel’s actions toward both countries are bad, but Iran is not a genocide. At least not yet.
geneva_convenience
in reply to Mongostein • • •Initiateofthevoid
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •OP posts the most braindead shit here and ruins this community. They literally say in the comments "Bernie is keeping the left pro-Israel" while posting an image of Bernie actively calling out Netanyahu for starting an illegal war, and calling the alleged justifications for the war exactly what is is: a lie.
He's literally saying what OP "claims" to want - that Israel is an aggressor and should be opposed.
Seriously, is OP just intentionally sabotaging any hope for a cohesive community built around progressive politics on the fediverse? They sure do spend a lot of time complaining about the most progressive senator in US history.
Which, I know, I know, it's a very low bar to clear, but there's about 99 other senators that are actively stomping that bar into the dirt.
(Edit - OH, their problem is he doesn't say Israel in this image? What the actual fuck? Do we suddenly think the phrase "we need to stop Hitler" makes someone pro-Nazi Germany? Seriously, this has to be a troll, a fed, or a saboteur.)
geneva_convenience
in reply to Initiateofthevoid • • •Initiateofthevoid
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •Lol I was removed for civility? My goodness. Let's be "civil":
OP, please stop dividing this community over nothing. You keep posting extremely pedantic nonsense about Sanders, when he's literally the most progressive senator in US history.
I know, I know, it's a low bar to clear, but there are about 99 other senators stomping that bar into the dirt.
Sanders is the most anti-Israel, anti-genocide, pro-civil rights politician in the Senate, with an extremely consistent track record of being on the right side of history. Here he is, actively calling out Israel, and OP still finds a reason to be upset.
Everyone, OP is just dividing this community. This is the prime example of the meme that keeps going around about wasting time arguing over doing things perfectly instead of doing anything at all.
geneva_convenience
in reply to Initiateofthevoid • • •Initiateofthevoid
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •You're not filtering out genocide supporters, you're just intentionally fracturing any solidarity in the fediverse.
Sanders opposes Israel. Very few politicians do. He's literally pushing a bill to try to prevent the US from getting involved in their war. So why do you spend so much time talking about him, and not the actual supporters of genocide. The ones literally calling for it, demanding it, funding it?
geneva_convenience
in reply to Initiateofthevoid • • •No I am very clearly filtering out the genocide supporters. Watch this:
Do you believe Israel has a right to exist?
Initiateofthevoid
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •Israel, as in the collection of human beings known as "Israelis"? Do you believe they should stop existing, like a genocide?
Or do you mean the oppressive, genocidal, theocratic government of Israel, that needs to be overthrown, systematically dismantled, and all of the people responsible tried for war crimes?
geneva_convenience
in reply to Initiateofthevoid • • •agent_nycto
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •Dude didn't even say he supported genocide. He's saying that you should look at Bernie's actions not just his words. He didn't day Israel, in like, that one tweet. So what?
You reacting like this really does make it seem like you're trying to just pit people against each other.
So put your money where your mouth is and send us a screenshot of what you donated here
pcrf.net/
If not you're just trying to start shit and a hypocrite
PCRF
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in reply to agent_nycto • • •The problem is not one Tweet. Bernie always says Netanyahu instead of Israel.
geneva_convenience
Unknown parent • • •geneva_convenience
Unknown parent • • •You know what, I checked his most recent video
youtu.be/DB8eC0sd-jA
And for the first time ever I saw him putting not only the blame on Netanyahu but mention Israel multiple times. Not more than Netanyahu, but he has now started to mention Israel.
So you are correct and I will now delete this post.
- YouTube
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in reply to geneva_convenience • • •This is so goddamn pedantic it's not even funny. He literally starts his press release "No War in Iran" with "following Israel's military strikes..."
Netanyahu is the face of an authoritarian government. It's just as valid to say "we need to stop Netanyahu" as it is to say "we need to stop Trump" or "we needed to stop Hitler"
Obviously, the system that supported and enabled the authoritarianism and genocide needs to be fixed. But it starts from the top. It starts with the very public, very human, very deposable face of the regime.
It's much easier to rally specifically against a dictator than it is to rally generally against the system of government that he controls, especially because it helps make one thing clear - Israelis themselves can help make that happen.