Welcome to the US (Jen Sorensen)
cross-posted from: lemmus.org/post/13908976
By Jen Sorensen.
Welcome to the US | Jen Sorensen
Cartoon about scrutiny of international tourists' social media and blog posts when they visit the USJen Sorensen
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Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and ‘A Better Tomorrow’: AI-Powered Kung Fu Film Plan Debuts in Shanghai
At the 27th Shanghai International Film Festival, the China Film Foundation and partners launched two major AI-driven initiatives under the Kung Fu Film Heritage Project: a large-scale effort to restore 100 classic martial arts films using artificial intelligence, and the unveiling of a brand-new animated feature, “A Better Tomorrow: Cyber Border,” billed as the world’s first fully AI-produced animated feature film.
Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee Headline AI Kung Fu Revival at Shanghai Fest
Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee titles lead China’s AI-driven plan to restore 100 kung fu classics, unveiled with 'A Better Tomorrow' AI reboot at Shanghai.Naman Ramachandran (Variety)
Los Angeles Dodgers Deny ICE Agents Access to Stadium Amid Raids and Mass Protests in City
Los Angeles Dodgers Deny ICE Agents Access to Stadium Amid Raids and Mass Protests in City
The Los Angeles Dodgers turned away Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents who who showed up at their stadium on Thursday.Isaac Schorr (Mediaite)
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What else to run on a RPi?
Hiya!
I have a Raspberry Pi 4B set up as a print server, so it has to run 24/7. But it irks me that it's mostly idling.
I'd move my website to it, but I don't want to deal with it being open to the internet. The same goes for an e-mail server.
I was also thinking of running a Minecraft server on it. (Being able to play on the same world from different devices is kinda cool.) Alas, my RPi only has 4 GiBs of RAM. I worry that such a load would interfere with the print server.
Any ideas what I could run on it?
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So I have a smart plug set up on my printer and print server (old HP 4P with separate network print server.
I have NodeRed watching my CUPS queues via HTTP scraping, and if it sees a job in the queue for that printer, it turns on the print server and printer via the smartplug over wifi. I have seen someone link a project that does something similiar.
16 Billion Apple, Facebook, Google And Other Passwords Leaked — Act Now
16 Billion Apple, Facebook, Google And Other Passwords Leaked — Act Now
Change all your account passwords now — don’t wait: 16 billion credentials are confirmed as having been leaked.Forbes
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Mute websites in Vivaldi on Android.
If there’s a website that annoys you by playing media with audio, either automatically or it’s easy to accidentally hit play, you have every right to mute the website. Here are two ways to do it in Vivaldi on Android.
Option 1
- While a video or sound clip is playing on the web page, tap the shield icon on the Address Bar.
- Select Permissions.
- Toggle off “Sound”.
Option 2
- Go to Settings > Content Settings > Site Settings > Content > Sound.
- Tap on “Add site exception”.
- Enter the page’s URL.
- Tap on “Add”.
#android #media #Mute #Permissions #Vivaldi #VivaldiBrowser #webPages
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How do I mute websites in Vivaldi on Android? Bring peace of mind to your browsing with this tip.Vivaldi Tips (Vivaldi Technologies)
Ukraine NATO version of a ceasefire proposal is so Ukraine can dig new defensive lines, and let western weapons production catch up with donations. Conducting terrorist operations day before meetings doesn't put Russia in a good mood either.
Zelensky power/bribery clinging does not bring peace to Ukraine any time soon.
Prof. Michael Hudson: The Collapse of America's Economic Empire
- YouTube
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
Poll: Half of UK say Israel committing genocide in Gaza, majority support Netanyahu arrest
By MEE staff
Published date: 18 June 2025 16:58 BST"The poll also found that nearly two thirds of Britons (65 percent) want the UK to implement the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he were to visit the UK."
According to the NGOs, the findings show “growing public pressure for legal accountability and a decisive government response”.
Poll: Half of UK say Israel committing genocide in Gaza, majority support Netanyahu arrest
More than half of Britons oppose Israel’s war on Gaza, with the vast majority of those saying Israel’s conduct amounts to genocide, a new poll has showed.MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
Poll: Half of UK say Israel committing genocide in Gaza, majority support Netanyahu arrest
By MEE staff
Published date: 18 June 2025 16:58 BST
"The poll also found that nearly two thirds of Britons (65 percent) want the UK to implement the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he were to visit the UK."
According to the NGOs, the findings show “growing public pressure for legal accountability and a decisive government response”.
Poll: Half of UK say Israel committing genocide in Gaza, majority support Netanyahu arrest
More than half of Britons oppose Israel’s war on Gaza, with the vast majority of those saying Israel’s conduct amounts to genocide, a new poll has showed.MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
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Seymour Hersh: What I’ve been told is coming in Iran
Full text of paywalled article below.
This is a report on what is most likely to happen in Iran, as early as this weekend, according to Israeli insiders and American officials I’ve relied upon for decades. It will entail heavy American bombing. I have vetted this report with a longtime US official in Washington, who told me that all will be “under control” if Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei “departs.” Just how that might happen, short of his assassination, is not known. There has been a great deal of talk about American firepower and targets inside Iran, but little practical thinking, as far I can tell, about how to remove a revered religious leader with an enormous following.
I have reported from afar on the nuclear and foreign policy of Israel for decades. My 1991 book The Samson Option told the story of the making of the Israeli nuclear bomb and America’s willingness to keep the project secret. The most important unanswered question about the current situation will be the response of the world, including that of Vladimir Putin, the Russian president who has been an ally of Iran’s leaders.
The United States remains Israel’s most important ally, although many here and around the world abhor Israel’s continuing murderous war in Gaza. The Trump administration is in full support of Israel’s current plan to rid Iran of any trace of a nuclear weapons program while hoping the ayatollah-led government in Tehran will be overthrown.
I have been told that the White House has signed off on an all-out bombing campaign in Iran, but the ultimate targets, the centrifuges buried at least eighty meters below the surface at Fordow, will, as of this writing, not be struck until the weekend. The delay has come at Trump’s insistence because the president wants the shock of the bombing to be diminished as much as possible by the opening of Wall Street trading on Monday. (Trump took issue on social media this morning with a Wall Street Journal report that said he had decided on the attack on Iran, writing that he had yet to decide on a path forward.)
Fordow is home to the remaining majority of Iran’s most advanced centrifuges that have produced, according to recent reports of the International Atomic Energy Agency, to which Iran is a signatory, nine hundred pounds of uranium enriched to 60 percent, a short step from weapons-grade levels.
The most recent Israeli bombing attacks on Iran have made no attempts to destroy the centrifuges at Fordow, which are stored at least eighty meters underground. It has been agreed, as of Wednesday, that US bombers carrying bunker bombs capable of penetrating to that depth, will begin attacking the Fordow facility this weekend.
The delay will give US military assets throughout the Middle East and the Eastern Mediterranean—there are more than two dozen US Air Force bases and Navy ports in the region—a chance to prepare for possible Iranian retaliation. The assumption is that Iran still has some missile and air force capability that will be on US bombing lists. “This is a chance to do away with this regime once and for all,” an informed official told me today, “and so we might as well go big.” He said, however, “that it will not be carpet bombing.”
The planned weekend bombing will also have new targets: the bases of the Republican Guards, which have countered those campaigning against the revolutionary leadership since the violent overthrow of the shah of Iran in early 1979.
The Israeli leadership under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hopes that the bombings will provide “the means of creating an uprising” against Iran’s current regime, which has shown little tolerance for those who defy the religious leadership and its edicts. Iranian police stations will be struck. Government offices that house files on suspected dissenters in Iran will also be attacked.
The Israelis apparently also hope, so I gather, that Khamenei will flee the country and not make a stand until the end. I was told that his personal plane left Tehran airport headed for Oman early Wednesday morning, accompanied by two fighter planes, but it is not known whether he was aboard.
Only two thirds of Iran’s population of 90 million are Persians. The largest minority groups include Azeris, many of whom have long-standing covert ties to the Central Intelligence Agency, Kurds, Arabs, and Baluchis. Jews make up a small minority group there, too. (Azerbaijan is the site of a large secret CIA base for operations in Iran.)
Bringing back the shah’s son, now living in exile in near Washington, has never been considered by the American and Israeli planners, I was told. But there has been talk among the White House planning group that includes Vice President J.D. Vance, of installing a moderate religious leader to run the country if Khamenei is deposed. The Israelis bitterly objected to the idea. “They don’t give a shit on the religious issue, but demand a political puppet to control,” the longtime US official said. “We are split with the Izzies on this. Result would be permanent hostility and future conflict in perpetuity, Bibi desperately trying to draw US in as their ally against all things Muslim, using the plight of the citizens as propaganda bait.”
There is the hope in the American and Israeli intelligence communities, I was told, that elements of the Azeri community will join in a popular revolt against the ruling regime, should one develop during the continued Israeli bombing. There also is the thought that some members of the Revolutionary Guard would join in what I was told might be “a democratic uprising against the ayatollahs”—a long-held aspiration of the US government. The sudden and successful overthrow of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was cited as a potential model, although Assad’s demise came after a long civil war.
It is possible that the result of the massive Israeli and US bombing attack could leave Iran in a state of permanent failure, as happened after the Western intervention in Libya in 2011. That revolt resulted in the brutal murder of Muammar Gaddafi, who had kept the disparate tribes there under control. The futures of Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon, all victims of repeated outside attacks, are far from settled.
Donald Trump clearly wants an international win he can market. To accomplish that, he and Netanyahu are taking America to places it has never been.
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Bombing hospitals is a red line - unless Israel is doing it
Culture Minister Miki Zohar declared on social media that “only the scum of the earth fires missiles at hospitalized children and elderly people in their sick beds”. The chair of Israel’s medical association, Zion Hagay, decried the strike as a war crime and urged the international medical community to condemn it.
This swift and unified condemnation by Israeli political and medical leadership underscores a striking contradiction: these same actors not only ignored but openly justified the destruction of Gaza’s hospitals over the past two years.
Israeli officials frame these hospitals as military targets and Hamas “shields”. Shifa, the largest hospital in Gaza, was placed under siege and then invaded, with the attack hailed by Israeli media as a victory.
Meanwhile, the Israeli Medical Association remained silent. In one of its rare statements after a year and a half of Israel’s repeated and targeted attacks on hospitals and civilian infrastructure, the association echoed the state’s narrative, stating that health facilities and personnel must not be targeted “unless these are being used as a base for terrorist activities”.
This moment puts the international system to the test. While some medical and humanitarian groups have expressed concern, most international stakeholders have remained silent in the face of the destruction of Gaza’s entire health system.
Will medical journals, international associations and UN bodies respond to the attack on an Israeli hospital with the kind of swift condemnation and concrete actions they failed to take when hospitals in Gaza were bombed? The world should have acted when the first operating room was hit in Gaza. It should not take an Israeli facility being targeted for them to remember that hospitals are meant to be protected spaces.
If an attack on a hospital is a red line, this must be true for all hospitals, not just those serving Israelis. If international law is to mean anything, it must protect everyone, with the same standards applied to every violation. Anything less is not only hypocrisy; it is complicity.
Bombing hospitals is a red line - unless Israel is doing it
Outrage over Iran's attack on Soroka hospital stands in stark contrast to global silence over the decimation of Gaza's healthcare systemMiddle East Eye
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OpenAI walks away from Scale AI — triggering industry-wide rethink of data partnerships
OpenAI walks away from Scale AI — triggering industry-wide rethink of data partnerships
Following Meta’s $14.3B stake in Scale AI, OpenAI exits the long-standing partnership, raising questions about vendor neutrality, talent wars, and the future of AI data governance.Mastufa Ahmed (Computerworld)
Album 'D11-04' Out Now
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Album 'A Distant Horizon' Out Now
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Album 'Hysteria' Out Now
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✨Late Stage Capitalism✨
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I really want the pandemic—the hundreds of millions with Long Covid, the tens of millions dead—to mean something. Like cleaner indoor air, normalised masking, funding for post-viral illnesses. Instead, we got mask bans, disability cuts and an anti-vaxxer in the White House
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late stage capitalism
You think there are no morons under ANY other regime?? We got this because humanity is absolutely impossibly dumb. We're fucked 6 ways to sunday.
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- Rip lemm.ee
- This isn’t happening because your average Joe gobbled up anti-vax propaganda. This is happening because the capitalist elite saw an economic slowdown during lockdowns and funded and pushed all sorts of conspiracies. The anti-vaxx, COVID denialist movement didn’t emerge grassroots. It was systematically pushed and promoted by the most powerful people to protect their interests.
Nippon and US Steel complete controversial merger
He gave the official green light to the deal in an executive order on Friday.
Nippon agreed to pay $55 per share and take on the company's debt, a deal worth $14.9bn together.
It said it had also promised the government it would invest $11bn in US Steel by 2028, including a new facility that would be completed after that year.
It also granted the US government a "golden share" in the company, giving the government say over key decisions, including the transfer of jobs or production outside of the US, and certain calls to close or idle factories.
Nippon and US Steel complete controversial merger
Nippon agreed to give a "golden share" to the US government to win approval of the takeover.Natalie Sherman (BBC News)
Trump extends the TikTok ban deadline for a third time; there is no legal basis for the extensions and it is unclear how many times the deadline can be extended
Further Extending the TikTok Enforcement Delay – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Extension.The White House
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Trump extends the TikTok ban deadline for a third time; there is no legal basis for the extensions and it is unclear how many times the deadline can be extended
Further Extending the TikTok Enforcement Delay – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Extension.The White House
Russia says South Africa invited Putin to G20 summit despite ICC arrest warrant
Russia says South Africa invited Putin to G20 summit despite ICC arrest warrant
South Africa is a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and a signatory to the Rome Statute, meaning it is obliged to arrest Vladimir Putin if he enters the country.Tim Zadorozhnyy (The Kyiv Independent)
South Africa helping prosecute Israel for genocide while whitewashing Putin’s mass killings of Ukranian civilians is peak Campist.
“Human rights law only matters when it’s applied to my opponents”
Were the No Kings protests the largest single-day demonstration in American history?
Were the No Kings protests the largest single-day demonstration in American history?
Depending on who you ask, between 4 and 6 million people showed up – and according to one theory, this could be a turning pointAlaina Demopoulos (The Guardian)
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Labour rebellion brewing over welfare changes
It's pulling the headline above but when I tap through it shows
MP once on benefits calls cuts 'brutal' - but colleague says 'moral' case for reform
Labour rebellion brewing over welfare changes
A bill to enact cuts – part of a package aimed at saving £5bn by 2030 – arrives in Parliament on Wednesday.Iain Watson (BBC News)
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“morality” is starving disabled people to death to enrich billionaires, according to the labour leadership.
What an Orwellian late stage capitalism shitshow
The Dangerous Rise of Military-Grade Spyware – A Global Day of Action
The Dangerous Rise of Military-Grade Spyware – A Global Day of Action
Global Network Against Spyware (GNAS)BDS Movement
Israeli forces kill 72 Palestinians in Gaza, including 29 seeking aid
Israeli forces kill 72 Palestinians in Gaza, including 29 seeking aid
At least 29 people killed in Israeli fire at crowds of Palestinians seeking aid in central Gaza, medics say.Al Jazeera
Priti Patel calls on the government to repatriate Britons in Israel
Conservative shadow foreign secretary Dame Priti Patel has called on the UK government to back the US if it attacks Iran
Fuck off Priti Patel!
Priti Patel calls on the government to repatriate Britons in Israel
The UK's shadow foreign secretary says the government needs to do more to ensure Britons can return home from Israel.Cachella Smith (BBC News)
Setting custom image/thumbnails for posts where thumbnails fails to get set automatically
Recent versions of Lemmy have the ability to set a custom thumbnail for a post:
Is this possible with PieFed? This is especially helpful when some sites fail to get a thumbnail (e.g. YT videos is a common one).
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This is not currently possible in piefed. However, it is a good idea and a feature of lemmy that I have used on occasion. I think this only really makes sense when making a "Link" post in piefed parlance.
I created a codeberg issue for this.
Adding a custom thumbnail for Link posts
See https://piefed.social/post/950940 I think this makes the most sense for Link posts. Basically, allow users to provide a link to a thumbnail image to use for a post.Codeberg.org
Salesforce and Slack announce price hikes following expansion of AI integrations
Salesforce will increase prices by an average of 6% across key products including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Field Service, and select Industry Clouds. The change applies to Enterprise and Unlimited plans, taking effect August 17, 2025 for renewals, and immediately for new customers. Renewals before that date can postpone the higher rates for about a year.
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An Open Letter to the Haters
And by haters I just mean folks who think $12B isn’t a low enough cap…
We are not focused on class war between the majority and the 1%, because (by the numbers) they are not the direct threat to the sustainability of the system. They are not where our money has gone to.
The difference between someone with even $12B and Musk level wealth is the difference between a single story house and a 36 story skyscraper. We are focused on tearing down the skyscraper and taxing the house appropriately. To be frank, the wealth of people with less than a billion dollars is not on our radar as a problem. In contrast, we would like their help in tearing down the skyscrapers. That is the point of our community. We are only after the excess wealth of 250 people in the world.
So again, I welcome you 100% to the tent if you are interested, but politically our goals will always remain simple and be augmented by simple arguments. If that means we are not the community for you, I understand. We’re seeking to act rationally in pursuit of a more ethical world, not to demand ethical perfection from the outset. To be honest I personally believe that ethical perfectionism, infighting, and shrinking the tent are major reasons why progressive movements to rectify wealth inequality constantly fail.
Louis Sachar once wrote an entire book based around the concept that “if you want to fight your way upstream in a river, you have to take small steps”. We arent looking at the end of the river, were looking at the first small steps. (Also that book is a great sequel to Holes for anyone who has never heard of it)
Our argument may seem reductive, but anyone can see the simple nature of the problem. The skyscrapers are a head and shoulders above the single story house. Its a simple problem to see, and an exponential one. 6 people in the world owned half of all the money before covid. Now the problem is even worse. I would venture that the richest 250 people in the world probably own 3/4ths of all the money at this point, at least.
Money was made to move. When that money is parked it doesnt change hands. When it doesnt change hands it doesnt get taxed, things dont get bought. When that happens the government doesnt have the resources it needs, and the economy goes out of whack as well. Its a simple problem that ties into literally every issue imaginable just on that basis. Climate change? We could use more resources to fight it. Materials science to solve the plastic problem? More resources to fight it. People cant afford rent? More resources to pay them. People cant afford healthcare? Do you wish we had bridges to drive over that arent 60+ years old? Are you tired of paying for a fishing/hunting license to subsidize conservation? Everything big and small is impacted in some way by the wealth of the richest 250 people not moving, both inside the US and around the world.
The goal of the movement is not to change the system, really. We arent arguing for moving away from capitalism, even if many of us would like to see that. What we are arguing for is fixing the most unsustainable problem within the system we already have, so that we can continue to fight for a better system in general.
A primary goal is to keep the tent as wide as is possible. The point being that we are fighting specifically on this one issue that should, at least hypothetically, bridge the gap between even people who want radical change and people who want to see no change at all. For people who want radical changes, this is the first step in the right direction. For people who want to see no change at all, this is a step that will prevent the collapse of what they dont want to see changed.
For anyone too broke to afford cost of living, this is what will raise them up to afford a base level of comfort. For the 1%ers, this is what will ensure they get to keep the standard of living they already have, as well as make a shit ton of money off the rest of us. If anything I see this community as an incubation for a political bridge party that can actually bring enough people under one tent to affect change, and breakthrough the various distractions that the richest people in the world rely on so we dont come after them. Red vs blue, black vs white, majority vs 1%ers, and so on and so forth. Its all just bullshit to keep us from paying attention to the 0.0001% who have almost all of the money.
This isnt about redistribution of much of anything from the 1% at large. Its about dislodging the 5 trillion dollars that sit largely in the hands of like 10 people. Just that $5T moving would be enough to allow the rest of the 1% unaffected. Thats like 1/3rd of the federal deficit.
The point of targeting that $5T specifically is because its $5T that is virtually guaranteed to never move otherwise. Its just feel good money for the mega billionaires, which even 1%ers cant relate to nor justify.
We are focused on making the system we have, flawed as it is, a base level of sustainable in the interest of everybody. Capitalism with the bumper guards up. Regardless of what they would want to see next.
To analogize: if were all in one car together right now that is a hunk of shit, and we got a flat tire, the goal for us is to fix the tire so we can make it down the road. Some might want to abandon the car right now even if it means chaos. Some might want to fix the flat so we can get a different car. And some might want to fix the flat so we can keep driving the same hunk of shit. But the goal of our community would be centered on fixing the tire, to avoid chaos and to leave our options open for the future
- ToastedRavioli
Criptovalute e calcio: investimenti, sponsor e rivoluzione digitale
Criptovalute e calcio: investimenti, sponsor e rivoluzione digitale
Criptovalute e grandi club: la nuova frontiera del calcio globale Il legame tra criptovalute e mondo del calcio non è più una curiosità, ma ...Antonio Marano (Blogger)
Criptovalute e calcio: investimenti, sponsor e rivoluzione digitale
Criptovalute e calcio: investimenti, sponsor e rivoluzione digitale
Criptovalute e grandi club: la nuova frontiera del calcio globale Il legame tra criptovalute e mondo del calcio non è più una curiosità, ma ...Antonio Marano (Blogger)
Chronic Illness Life ✨✨
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I would rather you help me with a small task than waste 20 minutes praying for me to have been born with a different genome
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For these kinds of comparisons people have to cherry pick and cannot compare similar class trucks because similar class trucks haven't really changed in 30 years
If you compare the size of a base 1990 F150 edmunds.com/ford/f-150/1990/fe…
To a base 2025 F150
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The 2025 is 6 inches shorter, barely an inch taller, and barely an inch wider. Or in terms of percentages: -3.1%, +1.1%, +1.2% respectively
What has changed in 30 years is it was common back then for an average consumer to buy a "regular" cab two door truck with a 6 foot box, four door behemoths were rare. If you wanted a 4 door truck you had to get the F350
Today it's the other way around, it's rare to see a single cab F150 and now you can get a 4 door F150
“A Law Without a Way to Enforce It”
last month, a federal appeals court tossed out their victory and declared that only the federal government can sue over violations of the Voting Rights Act, a devastating blow to the ability of these tribes—and others in the region—to seek legal recourse.
“A Law Without a Way to Enforce It” - Bolts
In North Dakota as elsewhere, Native groups face a triple threat on voting rights: judges targeting the VRA, Trump officials hostile to enforcing it, and a funding crunch depleting their work.Daniel Nichanian (Bolts)
Microsoft testing PC-to-Cloud-PC failover for those times your machine dies or disappears
Microsoft testing PC-to-Cloud-PC failover for those times your machine dies or disappears
: ‘Windows 365 Reserve’ will be usable ten days a year for undisclosed feeSimon Sharwood (The Register)
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NRK: Our teletext service is shutting down after 42 years | Translation in post body
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/5307804
NRK^[Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation] will discontinue its teletext service on August 20 due to the risk of serious technical issues. Over the course of the past few years, the service has become increasingly difficult for NRK to maintain. The technology is old and very demanding to keep in working order with the rest of NRK's system.—"Most people are surprised when they find out that teletext still exists. But we know there are still some people who use it to this day," says Audun Aas, product development manager for nrk.no.
Aas says that NRK is doing its best to help teletext users find the information they're used to receiving through the service, elsewhere.
NRK's teletext service celebrated its 40th anniversary two years ago. During the service's 30th anniversary, it was predicted not to last another decade.
::: spoiler Did you know?
* Black and white TV sets were still common in 1983. NRK had a monopoly on TV broadcasts, but no way to provide quick updates on news and other information.
* Teletext was initially only available for a few hours in the evening, namely from the children's programming block to the end of broadcasts before midnight.
* Because the terminals NRK used to type teletext were imported from England, the letters Æ and Ø had to be replaced with Ä and Ö in teletext respectively.
* A typo in a teletext warning about toxins in blue mussels caused many Norwegians to fall ill in the summer of 1994.
* The invitation to the NRK teletext editorial staff's 10 year anniversary — including the event's bill of fare — was accidentally shown on teletext, prompting an apology via Dagbladet^[Newspaper associated with the Liberal Party until 1977. Sold from the Berner Group to Aller Media in 2013.].
* Teletext was for many years most popular among 20-39 year olds.
:::42 years of teletext
The Norwegian parliament resolved in April of 1982 that NRK would establish a teletext service. The service launched on February 2, 1983.Establishing a teletext service proved to be such a daunting task that the chief editor of Arbeiderbladet^[Newspaper today known as Dagsavisen. Associated with the Labor Party at the time; became party-independent in 1999 and is now owned by Mentor Media.] was brought on to lead the work.
Surveys show that use of teletext has gradually declined in recent years, with only 3% of Norway's population using teletext as of 2024.
On August 20, 2025, the service will end after 42 years.
::: spoiler Poll: Will you miss teletext?
* Yes, I like having it available as an option: 29%
* No, I won't miss it: 40%
* Yes, but only due to nostalgia: 31%3,566 votes
NB: This poll is not representative of the entire country. These are only the votes of people who read this article and decided to vote.
:::[There's a video from 1979 attached here explaining what teletext is, but I don't feel like translating it right now. The key takeaway is maybe that NRK was already experimenting with teletext by that point, but hadn't officially launched their service yet.]
All information currently available on teletext is also available on nrk.no.
Slutt for tekst-TV etter 42 år
NRK legger ned tekst-TV fra 20. august. Avvikler tjenesten på grunn av faren for alvorlige feil.Anna Rut Tørressen (NRK)
There are still 1000 users logging to lemm.ee today, while the instance will shutdown in 11 days. Should we be worried?
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SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight
SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight | TechCrunch
It's the latest in a string of setbacks for the mega-rocket, which SpaceX hopes to use to build Starlink and one day go to Mars.Sean O'Kane (TechCrunch)
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in reply to Eheran • • •Long story. But it was by searching on its server while on its house. The pedo tried to incriminate the father (being from Venezuela and etc police here will try to arrest you just for being from there) first before i reported the evidence to police, it went viral on TV here but the father has been accused and incriminated by fascists political groups that doesn't care if hes a pedo or not (wich he is not, the baby of him was abused by this other person) they only want to generate fake news and get some clicks on their social media.
This is just a summary im not gonna write it all is long as i said lol
blackluster117
in reply to cygnus • • •AmazingAwesomator
in reply to cyrano • • •as an american, i fucking hate US immigration. you dont need to mansplain what "having something in my bag" means or what a "plant" is.
i checked the box for "no"; gtfoutta here
stink
in reply to AmazingAwesomator • • •I'm gonna be crucified for this take but I do think that should be the one thing kept at customs and border control.
So many instances of ecological terrorism because somebody thought it'd be cute to bring an invasive species to a different country
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Zerush
in reply to cyrano • • •But complaining that this year there is no tourism in the US
Repeating history in a creepy way. only changing names: Miller instead Goebbels, ICE instead of SS ...
djsoren19
in reply to Zerush • • •Libra00
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