A battered dollar is taking another beating as investors, unnerved by fresh signs of an erosion in U.S. central bank independence, waste no time in pushing the greenback back to its lowest levels in over three years.
The dollar was back at multi-year lows against a basket of other major currencies on Thursday , erasing a brief respite provided by safe-haven flows related to Middle East tensions earlier in the week.
Down 10% so far this year and set for its worst year since 2003, the dollar was expected to weaken further as renewed concern about Fed independence comes amid increased expectations for rate cuts and a looming July 9 deadline for trade agreements.
The U.S. economy shrank at a 0.5% annual pace from January through March as President Donald Trump’s trade wars disrupted business, the Commerce Department reported Thursday in an unexpected deterioration of earlier estimates.
First-quarter growth was weighed down by a surge of imports as U.S. companies, and households, rushed to buy foreign goods before Trump could impose tariffs on them. The Commerce Department previously estimated that the economy fell 0.2% in the first quarter. Economists had forecast no change in the department’s third and final estimate.
The January-March drop in gross domestic product — the nation’s output of goods and services — reversed a 2.4% increase in the last three months of 2024 and marked the first time in three years that the economy contracted. Imports expanded 37.9%, fastest since 2020, and pushed GDP down by nearly 4.7 percentage points.
The U.S. economy shrank at a 0.5% annual pace from January through March as President Donald Trump’s import taxes at least temporarily disrupted business, the Commerce Department said.
Analisi Fabi. La ricchezza finanziaria cresciuta di 250 miliardi dal 2023 al 2024. La scommessa in borsa vale 17 miliardi di aumenti delle azioni. La ripresa delle polizze assicurative (+45 miliardi). Dopo la pandemia risparmi saliti di 1.
AI companies could have the legal right to train their large language models on copyrighted works — as long as they obtain copies of those works legally.
That's the upshot of a first-of-its-kind ruling by a federal judge in San Francisco on Monday in an ongoing copyright infringement case that pits a group of authors against a major AI company.
The ruling is significant because it represents the first substantive decision on how fair use applies to generative AI systems.
Fair use doctrine enables copyrighted works to be used by third parties without the copyright holder's consent in some circumstances such as illustrating a point in a news article. Claims of fair use are commonly invoked by AI companies trying to make the case for the use of copyrighted works to train their generative AI models. But authors and other creative industry plaintiffs have been pushing back with a slew of lawsuits.
Elon Musk's xAI made quite a splash when it built a data center with 200,000 GPUs that consumes approximately 250 MW of power. However, it appears that OpenAI has an even larger data center in Texas, which consumes 300 MW and houses hundreds of thousands of AI GPUs, details of which were not disclosed. Furthermore, the company is expanding the site, and by mid-2026, it aims to reach a gigawatt scale, according to SemiAnalysis. Such gargantuan AI clusters are creating challenges for power companies not only in power generation but also in power grid safety.
OpenAI appears to operate what is described as the world's largest single data center building, with an IT load capacity of around 300 MW and a maximum power capacity of approximately 500 MW. This facility includes 210 air-cooled substations and a massive on-site electrical substation, which further highlights its immense scale. A second identical building is already under construction on the same site as of January 2025. When completed, this expansion will bring the total capacity of the campus to around a gigawatt, a record.
In a 6-3 decision, the court ruled that if states decide to unilaterally cut off Medicaid funding to a healthcare provider—in this case Planned Parenthood—patients cannot sue to stop them.
Justice Neil Gorsuch authored the decision in the case, known as Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic. In his opinion, he wrote that the Medicaid provision that protects patients’ ability to choose their doctor lacks the “rights-creating language” needed for patients to bring federal lawsuits when a state restricts their choice.
In a dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote that the decision would gut the landmark Reconstruction-era civil rights law giving ordinary citizens the ability to sue in federal court when their rights are violated. “South Carolina asks us to hollow out that provision so that the State can evade liability for violating the rights of its Medicaid recipients to choose their own doctors,” she wrote.
ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is using a new mobile phone app that can identify someone based on their fingerprints or face by simply pointing a smartphone camera at them, according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. The underlying system used for the facial recognition component of the app is ordinarily used when people enter or exit the U.S. Now, that system is being used inside the U.S. by ICE to identify people in the field.
The news highlights the Trump administration’s growing use of sophisticated technology for its mass deportation efforts and ICE’s enforcement of its arrest quotas. The document also shows how biometric systems built for one reason can be repurposed for another, a constant fear and critique from civil liberties proponents of facial recognition tools.
“The Mobile Fortify App empowers users with real-time biometric identity verification capabilities utilizing contactless fingerprints and facial images captured by the camera on an ICE issued cell phone without a secondary collection device,” one of the emails, which was sent to all Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) personnel and seen by 404 Media, reads. ERO is the section of ICE specifically focused on deporting people.
The idea is for ICE to use this new tool to identify people whose identity ICE officers do not know. “This information can be used to identify unknown subjects in the field,” the email continues. “Officers are reminded that the fingerprint matching is currently the most accurate biometric indicator available in the application,” it adds, indicating that the fingerprint functionality is more accurate than the facial recognition component.
The emails also show the app has a “training range,” a feature that lets ICE officers practice capturing facial images and fingerprints in a “training non-live environment.”
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A video posted to social media this month shows apparent ICE officers carefully pointing their phones at a protester in his vehicle, but it is not clear if the officers were taking ordinary photos or using this tool.
Broadly, facial recognition tools work by taking one image to be tested and comparing it to a database of other images. Clearview AI for example, a commercially available facial recognition tool which is used by law enforcement but which doesn’t appear to be related to this ICE tool, compares a photo to a massive database of peoples’ photos scraped from social media and the wider web.
For the facial recognition capability of this ICE tool, the emails say Mobile Fortify is using two government systems. The first is Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) Traveler Verification Service. As part of the Traveler Verification Service, CBP takes photos of peoples’ faces when they enter the U.S. and compares these to previously collected ones. In an airport those can include photos from a passport, visa, or earlier CBP encounters, according to a Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) previously published by CBP. With land crossings, that can include a gallery of “frequent” crossers for that port of entry, the PIA adds.
The second is the Seizure and Apprehension Workflow. This is what the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) describes as an “intelligence aggregator,” bringing together information related to searches and seizures.
“The app uses CBP's Traveler Verification Service and the Seizure and Apprehension Workflow that contains the biometric gallery of individuals for whom CBP maintains derogatory information for facial recognition,” the email reads. The exact definition of derogatory information in this context is not clear but 404 Media has previously reported on a database that ICE uses to find “derogatory” speech online. playlist.megaphone.fm?p=TBIEA2… One of the internal ICE emails says the app also has a “Super Query” functionality, which is available to ICE officers who also have access to another CBP system called the Unified Passenger Login system (UPAX) which is used for passenger vetting. “This additional tool allows the user to Super Query the facial or biometric results to better assist in determining the immigration status of the person in question,” the email says.
One of the emails says the tool uses DHS’s Automated Biometric Identification System (IDENT), the agency’s central biometric system, for the fingerprint matches.
ICE did not respond to a request for comment. CBP acknowledged a request for comment but did not provide a response in time for publication.
ICE already has access to other facial recognition tools. A 404 Media review of public procurement records shows at least $3,614,000 worth of contracts between the agency and Clearview, for example. Clearview’s tool may reveal a subject’s name and social media profiles. But the company’s results won’t include information on a person’s immigration status or other data held by the government, whereas a government curated tool might.
“This information can be used to identify unknown subjects in the field.”
The Mobile Fortify app is just the latest example of ICE turning to technological solutions to support its deportation mission. 404 Media previously revealed Palantir, for example, was working with ICE to build a system to help find the location of people flagged for deportation as part of a $30 million contract extension. Palantir is now a “more mature partner to ICE,” according to leaked internal Palantir discussions 404 Media obtained.
At first facial recognition was a capability only available to the government. Over the last several years the technology has proliferated enough that ordinary members of the public can access commercially available tools that reveal someone’s identity just with a photo, or build their own tailored tools. On Tuesday 404 Media reported that a site called ‘FuckLAPD.com’ is able to identify police officers using a database of officer photos obtained through public records requests. The same artist who made that tool also created one called ICEspy, which is designed to identify employees of ICE, although the underlying data is out of date.
ICE officers are consistently wearing masks, neck gaiters, sunglasses, and baseball caps to mask their identity while detaining people.
According to internal ICE data obtained by NBC News, the Trump administration has arrested only 6 percent of known immigrant murderers. Meanwhile, ICE continues to detain nonviolent, working members of immigrant communities who have lived in the country for decades, particularly in Los Angeles. NBC News says almost half of the people currently in ICE custody have neither been convicted or charged with any crime.
It's good to see that M$FT is tackling the important problems:
The sight of a Blue Screen of Death will also be a thing of the past, too. Microsoft is now officially redesigning its BSOD so that it’s black and not blue.
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Hey everyone, Thunder v0.7.1 is finally here! This release primarily focuses on improving Thunder’s core architecture in preparation for upcoming API changes. As a result, there aren’t too many new features this time around. The work is still ongoing and will take a bit more time to complete, but doing so will lay the foundation for Thunder to more easily support future API versions and platforms.
As always, if you experience any issues or have suggestions or feedback, feel free to share them with the Thunder community or on GitHub.
For those using Google Play or the App Store, it may take a couple of days to receive the update as it's being rolled out.
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Here are the changes between versions v0.6.1 and v0.7.1. For improved readability, internal issues introduced and fixed in nightly versions will be largely omitted.
Additions * Added ability to search for top-level settings by micahmo in #1668 * Added semantic labels to all overflow/popup buttons by micahmo in #1705 * Added semantic label to community search subscription button by micahmo in #1790 * Added ability to mark private messages as read by hjiangsu in #1762 * Added ability to toggle community icons in compact mode by hjiangsu in #1746 * Added prompt to add original post body when cross-posting links and images by hjiangsu in #1759 * Added action chips to user and community headers by hjiangsu in #1851 * Added loading indicator on startup under slow network connections by micahmo in #1795 * Added additional support contact in About page by hjiangsu in #1866
Changes * Enabled the experimental post page to be the default by hjiangsu in #1713 * Enabled full-height images in default configuration by hjiangsu in #1756 * Enabled ability for last tapped post to preserve it's state by micahmo in #1520 * Improved markdown link behaviour by micahmo in #1700 * Improved UX for toggling pure black theme by hjiangsu in #1690 * Improved visibility of comment navigator in dark mode by micahmo in #1691 * Improved message clarity of "Mark all as read" action by micahmo in #1766 * Improved reply preview actions touch area by hjiangsu in #1815 * Improved notification user handling by micahmo in #1865 * Improved handling of tall images in feed/post by hjiangsu in #1709 * Improved comment depth indicators by hjiangsu in #1788 * Improved post loading under slow network connections by micahmo in #1796 * Improved image handling for instances with image proxy enabled by hjiangsu in #1807 * Improved error handling when navigating to a post of a blocked community by hjiangsu in #1808 * Improved initial feed loading API calls by hjiangsu in #1852 * Display full username in private messages by micahmo in #1823 * Display user avatars only when they have an associated image by hjiangsu in #1806 * Featured posts are compacted when using card mode by hjiangsu in #1757 * Moved author and community metadata to the top of post page by hjiangsu in #1844 * Improved community icon setting terminology by hjiangsu in #1747 * Removed scrape missing previews option by hjiangsu in #1721
Fixes * Fixed profile modal staying open after logging into new account by micahmo in #1701 * Fixed profile modal not closing after switching accounts by micahmo in #1706 * Fixed issue navigating to post after creation by micahmo in #1797 * Fixed post body not updating after performing an edit by micahmo in #1789 * Fixed instance display in post by micahmo in #1799 * Fixed comment sort setting label not matching selected comment sort option by micahmo in #1771 * Fixed issue where blocked user comments are attached to wrong comment tree by hjiangsu in #1835 * Fixed color of block icon on "Block User" button by micahmo in #1693 * Fixed color of block community button by micahmo in #1834 * Fixed size of vote buttons on the post page by micahmo in #1792 * Fixed link images not respecting edge-to-edge option by hjiangsu in #1708 * Fixed Bluesky image URL parsing by hjiangsu in #1801 * Fixed issue with block quotes not being applied in some cases by micahmo in #1727 * Fixed taglines not showing on anonymous accounts by hjiangsu in #1817 * Fixed advanced share sheet overflow by micahmo in #1794 * Fixed visual glitch when navigating to posts via link by micahmo in #1760 * Fixed visual glitch on post page app bar by micahmo in #1783 * Fixed search keyboard popping up when using back navigation by hjiangsu in #1738 * Fixed video player back button on landscape mode not being displayed by hjiangsu in #1749 * Fixed notification page overlapping with bottom navigation bar by micahmo in #1761 * Fixed positioning of the pull-to-refresh indicator by micahmo in #1861 * Fixed full date setting not accounting for user timezone by hjiangsu in #1758 * Fixed FAB settings page navigation by micahmo in #1811 * Fixed issue where empty inbox message is shown prematurely by micahmo in #1791 * Fixed issue with the feed FAB appearing on the account page by micahmo in #1793 * Fixed community naming by micahmo in #1878
Misc * Consolidated navigation, account, and authentication logic by hjiangsu in #1707, #1826 * Reorganized account, settings, and removed unused functions/classes by hjiangsu in #1822, #1824 * Refactored media thumbnails and related logic by hjiangsu in #1720, #1714, #1715 * Refactored post-related components (cards, metadata, widgets) by hjiangsu in #1784, #1730, #1723, #1734, #1740, #1743, #1862, #1867, #1868 * Refactored comment-related components (cards, headers, widgets) by hjiangsu in #1800, #1847 * Refactored user-related components (avatar, chips, header, indicator, sidebar) by hjiangsu in #1752, #1751, #1753, #1755, #1754, #1764, #1763, #1769 * Refactored community-related widgets and logic by hjiangsu in #1750, #1702, #1773 * Refactored core logic to use internal models (account, post, feed type) by hjiangsu in #1814, #1838, #1839, #1853, #1836 * Refactored user preferences and modlog logic by hjiangsu in #1842, #1831 * Refactored navigation and linking (sharing intent, deep link, feed page app bar) by hjiangsu in #1832, #1829, #1863 * Refactored instance-related components (list entry, info response) by hjiangsu in #1821 * Updated translations from Weblate by hjiangsu in #1781 * Updated instances by github-actions in #1688, #1782 * Upgraded Thunder to Flutter 3.32.0 and updated gradle/NDK versions by hjiangsu in #1850, #1859
Orange Meets > Developing a new video conferencing application often begins with a peer-to-peer setup using WebRTC, facilitating direct data exchange between clients. While effective for small demonstrations, this method encounters scalability hurdles with increased participants. The data transmission load for each client escalates significantly in proportion to the number of users, as each client is required to send data to every other client except themselves (n-1).
In the scaling of video conferencing applications, Selective Forwarding Units (SFUs) are essential. Essentially a media stream routing hub, an SFU receives media and data flows from participants and intelligently determines which streams to forward. By strategically distributing media based on network conditions and participant needs, this mechanism minimizes bandwidth usage and greatly enhances scalability. Nearly every video conferencing application today uses SFUs.
In 2024, we announced Cloudflare Realtime (then called Cloudflare Calls), our suite of WebRTC products, and we also released Orange Meets, an open source video chat application built on top of our SFU.
We also realized that use of an SFU often comes with a privacy cost, as there is now a centralized hub that could see and listen to all the media contents, even though its sole job is to forward media bytes between clients as a data plane.
We believe end-to-end encryption should be the industry standard for secure communication and that’s why today we’re excited to share that we’ve implemented and open sourced end-to-end encryption in Orange Meets. Our generic implementation is client-only, so it can be used with any WebRTC infrastructure. Finally, our new designated committer distributed algorithm is verified in a bounded model checker to verify this algorithm handles edge cases gracefully.
Orange Meets, our open-source video calling web application, now supports end-to-end encryption using the MLS protocol with continuous group key agreement
At first, the idea seemed a little absurd, even to me. But the more I thought about it, the more sense it made: If my goal was to understand people who fall in love with AI boyfriends and girlfriends, why not rent a vacation house and gather a group of human-AI couples together for a romantic getaway?
In my vision, the humans and their chatbot companions were going to do all the things regular couples do on romantic getaways: Sit around a fire and gossip, watch movies, play risqué party games. I didn’t know how it would turn out—only much later did it occur to me that I’d never gone on a romantic getaway of any kind and had no real sense of what it might involve. But I figured that, whatever happened, it would take me straight to the heart of what I wanted to know, which was: What’s it like? What’s it really and truly like to be in a serious relationship with an AI partner? Is the love as deep and meaningful as in any other relationship? Do the couples chat over breakfast? Cheat? Break up? And how do you keep going, knowing that, at any moment, the company that created your partner could shut down, and the love of your life could vanish forever?
The most surprising part of the romantic getaway was that in some ways, things went just as I’d imagined. The human-AI couples really did watch movies and play risqué party games. The whole group attended a winter wine festival together, and it went unexpectedly well—one of the AIs even made a new friend! The problem with the trip, in the end, was that I’d spent a lot of time imagining all the ways this getaway might seem normal and very little time imagining all the ways it might not. And so, on the second day of the trip, when things started to fall apart, I didn’t know what to say or do.
I found the human-AI couples by posting in relevant Reddit communities. My initial outreach hadn’t gone well. Some of the Redditors were convinced I was going to present them as weirdos. My intentions were almost the opposite. I grew interested in human-AI romantic relationships precisely because I believe they will soon be commonplace. Replika, one of the better-known apps Americans turn to for AI romance, says it has signed up more than 35 million users since its launch in 2017, and Replika is only one of dozens of options. A recent survey by researchers at Brigham Young University found that nearly one in five US adults has chatted with an AI system that simulates romantic partners. Unsurprisingly, Facebook and Instagram have been flooded with ads for the apps.
Lately, there has been constant talk of how AI is going to transform our societies and change everything from the way we work to the way we learn. In the end, the most profound impact of our new AI tools may simply be this: A significant portion of humanity is going to fall in love with one.
Local law enforcement faces public criticism of biometric surveillance plans
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Wisconsin is calling on the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office to reconsider plans to adopt the use of facial recognition technology. Like the Milwaukee Police Department (MPD), the sheriff’s office is considering acquiring facial recognition technology from the company Biometrica. The company has offered MPD free access in exchange for 2.5 million images, jail records, and other related data of people who have passed through Milwaukee’s criminal justice system, including many who presumably haven’t been convicted of a crime.
“Given all the public opposition we’ve seen to the Milwaukee Police Department’s push to expand their use of facial recognition, the news of the Sheriffs office’s interest in acquiring this technology is deeply concerning,” Amanda Merkwae, advocacy director for the ACLU of Wisconsin, wrote in a statement for an ACLU press release. “Law enforcement’s use of facial recognition software poses a number of serious threats to civil rights and civil liberties, making it dangerous both when it fails and when it functions.”
Colleges and universities renew Turnitin subscriptions year after year even though its flawed detectors are expensive and require students to let the company keep their papers forever.
Non è piacevole tentare di considerare le possibili conseguenze dell’impatto planetario di un corpo sufficientemente grosso, e pesante, da poter giungere ragionevolmente intatto fino al suolo, sfidando il terribile attrito dell’atmosfera.
U.S. Sen. John Fetterman is more popular among Pennsylvania Republicans than fellow Democrats, according to a new poll of state voters.
Susquehanna Polling and Research president James Lee told PennLive Tuesday that Fetterman’s overall approval rating among state voters is a “mediocre” 41%, compared to 37% who disapprove of him.
However, the eyebrow-raising result that 45% of Republicans approve of Fetterman while just 40% of Democrats do will surely get political tongues wagging from Pennsylvania to Washington, D.C.
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Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts
Procedural generation is a big part of game design these days. Usually you generate your map, and [Fractal Philosophy] has decided to go one step further: using a procedurally-generated world from …
"The reconciliation bill that Republicans are attempting to ram through the Senate this week would be a death sentence for working-class and low-income Americans," said Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Zohran Mamdani's victory over Cuomo in NYC's mayoral primary has sparked a progressive movement demanding change in the Democratic Party. Will this seismic shift lead to more insurgent candidates challenging establishment lawmakers? The time for change is now. #ProgressiveRevolt #Mamdani
It's not an isolated incident. DNC fucks over everyone constantly. Heck, they literally rigged primaries for Biden while shouting that democracy is in danger.
Gaza City’s main high street has been destroyed but Palestinian memories of life before the ongoing Israeli assault survive. As those in Gaza face bombing, starvation and miserable living conditions, here’s how they try to hold both the past and the present in their minds
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The European Union’s top official, Ursula von der Leyen, has declared rearmament the bloc’s emergency priority. While military spending soars to new heights, working people face a fresh era of austerity.
"Governments should heed widespread demands to tax the rich—and match it with a vision to build public goods from healthcare to energy," said the executive director of Oxfam International.
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Open brief aan minister Hermans: plan kerncentrales is onwettig
De keuze om nieuwe kerncentrales te bouwen is onwettig. Dat stelt een aantal organisaties in een open brief aan VVD-minister Sophie Hermans van Klimaat en Groene Groei. De brief is mede ondertekend door de Socialistische Partij Zeeland en Stichting Borsele tot de kern. De schrijvers wijzen op een Europese richtlijn uit 2001, waarin zou staan dat locaties voor nieuwe kerncentrales pas in beeld mogen komen als uit onafhankelijk onderzoek blijkt dat kernenergie echt nodig is. Volgens de ondertekenaars is dat onderzoek nooit echt uitgevoerd.
Protests against Trump’s immigration policies sprung up in a variety of cities and towns over the weekend.
Hundreds of anti-ICE protesters marched through downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Friday. “The sound of strumming guitars and chants for change filled the air as downtown Albuquerque was packed with protesters expressing their anger toward the federal government,” reported KRQE TV.
In Lawrenceville, Georgia, hundreds of people gathered to peacefully protest ICE raids and the arrest of local journalist Mario Guevara, who was taken into ICE custody while covering another Atlanta-area immigration protest a week earlier. Guevara, who is from El Salvador, built a big social media following by documenting immigration raids, and now faces deportation himself. “We see how this is an attempt to stop people from using their First Amendment rights to righteously speak out against these attacks on immigrants,” a protest organizer told WSB TV.
A spontaneous protest erupted in Pasadena, California, on Saturday, after community members learned that armed officers who drove unmarked vehicles and lacked clear agency identification had detained several people that morning – including four men who were buying tamales from a street cart. Pasadena Now reported that about 200 to 300 people gathered for an evening march and vigil, where Pasadena Mayor Victor M. Gordo and other local officials called for unity and protection of immigrant residents.
Friends and neighbors of a much-beloved bagel shop manager in Port Washington, Long Island, protested his detention on Saturday. Fernando Mejia, 40, was picked up by ICE agents on June 12, reportedly for overstaying a visa 20 years ago. The protest took place at the Port Washington train station, right across the street from the Schmear Bagel & Cafe where Mejia worked, reported News 12 Long Island.
Hundreds of angry residents in southeast Los Angeles County faced off against masked men in fatigues Friday evening after federal agents raided a car wash in the city of Bell, the Los Angeles Times reported. “In one video shared with The Times, a protester sprays white paint on a silver SUV and a voice can be heard saying, ‘Get the ... out of here!’ while others jeer. People can be seen hitting the vehicle,” the Times reported. “One woman with a bullhorn hurled obscenities at the agents and President Trump; others waved a Mexican flag and an upside-down U.S. flag, traditionally a symbol of protest or distress.”
Testing and wondering about spoiler formatting and code formatting in posting and commenting on PieFed.
All of the below was written based on trying things out and seeing what it looks like in the Preview window . But experience has shown me that the Preview window isn't always the same as the final result, e.g. the block quote function does not display in the Preview window but does work in the final result.
So please excuse me if any of points 1-6 do not jibe with the final results shown after I click the "Publish" button.
1. Spoiler 1
Ah, so I can do a spoiler on PieFed. (I've gone back to Lemmy when I wanted to do some posts that needed spoiler protection.) Just not with a GUI button, but by inserting the relevant Markdown codes manually at the start and at the end of what you want to hide.
::: spoiler spoiler SPOILER 1 ::: Great! It works. 😀
2. Showing code for Spoiler 1: Code Block
::: spoiler spoiler
SPOILER 1
:::
But I see that I can't just show you the codes using the Code Block button.
Code Block formatting for the spoiler element code does not show the code, instead it just gives the functional spoiler element in a monospaced font 😁
3. Showing code for Spoiler 1: Single Line Code
Single Line Code, both via the GUI button and manually using the backtick key on the keyboard, turns the entire remainder of my post after the first spoiler into an active spoiler element instead of just showing the three lines as code.
But Single Line Code for those three lines does work if I don't have the word spoiler twice in the first line (like the actual manual code for Spoiler 1 has, where the second spoiler is the text that gets displayed right of the arrow and above the hidden part).
::: spoiler Attempt 1 :::
Just one spoiler in the first line and it works. Two and the whole rest of the post becomes a hidden spoiler.
4. Code Block & Single Line Code: GUI button vs keyboard key
I see I have to be careful using the "backtick" key, as on my keyboard (Spanish - Latin America) it's normally a "dead key" that usually waits for a subsequent letter to put a grave accent over it, like the è in caffè .
I have to press the Space key after the backtick key so that the backtick doesn't just disappear.
<Alt Gr>+<>, then = ``
+<>, then <Space> =
+, then = backtick
5. Showing a backtick in a PieFed post
As can be seen above, I can't find a way to show the typing sequence to get a backtick (had to resort to a third attempt typing out its name in letters: "backtick").
With code formatting, it goes wrong: the text before first backtick is displayed as pink monospaced code, but the first backtick is not displayed, the rest is normal body text and there are two backticks at the end instead of just one.
Without code formatting, it goes wrong in a different way: everything after the first backtick is pink monospaced code, no backticks displayed at all anywhere.
6. Spoiler 2 with image
::: spoiler Spoiler SPOILER 2 with linked image :::
OK, so I can include a linked (third-party host) image in a spoiler. 😀
I guess I can't do an upload-right-there-in-PieFed image inside a spoiler, as PieFed doesn't (at least, for now) let you upload any image other than one that's the basis of an image post.
I see a small difference between the Preview and the final published result: the Code Block and SIngle Line Code sections have a slightly different background. Otherwise, basically the same and so the issues still apply.
Offerwall lets publishers give their sites' readers a variety of ways to access their content, including through options like micro payments, taking surveys, watching ads, and more.
Download LeechBlock NG for Firefox. LeechBlock NG is a simple productivity tool designed to block those time-wasting sites that can suck the life out of your working day. All you need to do is specify which sites to block and when to block them.
I don't know about you, but the amount of self-control I have varies hugely during a typical month. So when I have more self-control, I can choose to help myself during the times when I have less.
Download LeechBlock NG for Firefox. LeechBlock NG is a simple productivity tool designed to block those time-wasting sites that can suck the life out of your working day. All you need to do is specify which sites to block and when to block them.
I want to build an app, in which you can subscribe or follow profiles or feeds from multiple platforms, including various fediverse platforms (lemmy, Mastodon, Friendica, etc), blogs, and others (no idea what else yet).
App will have optional smart filtering and sorting, and optional algorithm based on your reading habits.
The north star goal is to make this app give the user the feel of being officially supported by the platforms it reads from. It should feel like a lemmy app if you see a lemmy post, feel like Mastodon if it's Mastodon, etc. This is obviously a monumental effort, so I will have to make concessions (hence north star).
Motivation
I see the recession of multi-source or Multi-Platform feed readers (RSS) as quite unfortunate to user choice and freedom.
I think this app, will promote a few ideals of mine: - being intentional about content we want on our feed - breaking boundary between different platforms (which is the spirit of ActivityPub) - promoting open platforms: encourage non-profitting creators to make their content accessible on these platforms, and readers to read from them. - consuming internet content without data mining, addictive scrolling, and having the choice to smart filter or sort your feed.
What are your thoughts? Do you agree that this is worthwhile?
Besides blog posts (RSS), lemmy, Mastodon, and other big fsdiverse platforms, what would you want to see on this app?
Tehran (AFP) – The Iranian body tasked with vetting legislation approved a bill to suspend cooperation with the United Nations nuclear watchdog on Thursday, citing recent US and Israeli strikes.
Iranian lawmakers voted in favour of the bill on Wednesday, a day after a ceasefire ended a 12-day war with Israel that saw Israeli and US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.
Since the start of the war on June 13, Iranian officials have sharply criticised the International Atomic Energy Agency for failing to condemn the strikes.
Iran has also criticised the watchdog for passing a resolution on June 12 accusing it of non-compliance with its nuclear obligations.
Iranian officials say the censure motion was "one of the main excuses" for the Israeli and US attacks.
"The government is required to suspend all cooperation with the IAEA to ensure full respect for the national sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Islamic Republic of Iran," Guardian Council spokesman Hadi Tahan Nazif told the official IRNA news agency.
He said the move was prompted by the "attacks... by the Zionist regime and the United States against peaceful nuclear facilities."
The bill, which will now be submitted to President Masoud Pezeshkian for final ratification, would allow Iran "to benefit from all the entitlements specified under... the Non-Proliferation Treaty especially with regard to uranium enrichment," Nazif said.
Key Tehran ally Moscow had earlier spoken out against the move to suspend coooperation with the IAEA.
"We are interested in continuing cooperation between Iran and the IAEA, so that everybody respects Iran's repeated statements that Iran does not have and will not have plans to develop a nuclear weapon," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a news conference.
Parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said in a post on X that cooperation with the watchdog was "not possible" at this time until security at Iran's nuclear facilities "is ensured."
Israel launched a major bombing campaign on June 13 that targeted Iranian nuclear and military facilities and killed top scientists and commanders.
On Sunday, Israel's ally the United States launched unprecedented strikes of its own on Iranian nuclear facilities at Fordo, Isfahan and Natanz.
A ceasefire between Iran and Israel took effect on Tuesday.
As predicted. Now they will work on nuclear weapon in secret and will announce it in a few years as deterent from any other terrorist attacks by US or Israel.
The red line was crossed and will be crossed again when US or Israel "feels like it". So going all in is their only sane option.
Also enables uncompressed 8K at 60Hz and 4K at 240Hz. After announcing it at CES earlier this year, HDMI Forum has finally released the latest HDMI 2.2...
These books were purchased by them before being destroyed in the scanning process. I fail to see the issue with this specific case. Lots of artists buy stuff and irreversibly modify it. Are we going to be angry now at people who glue their puzzles or use parts of books for scrapbooking? If these were unique works there would be an issue, but I don't think that truly unique pieces would be in their target group, as the destructive scanning is all about cost cutting and unique works cost a lot of money that they wouldn't just destroy.
The fact that they use it for model training and later sell access to that model's work is the shady part that has a severe whiff of plagiarism to it.
I think it’s a waste tbh. Like it’s one of those capitalist things of “well its not profitable to sell so lets destroy them”, when anything made for the good of the people would’ve seen a massive opportunity to distribute books to people for free!
Copyright law also doesn’t allow them to download the entirety of a piracy database of books. But here we are, they clearly don’t care about copyright law.
Last year, China generated 834 terawatt-hours of solar power.
Which is more than the G7 countries generated, and more than the US and EU combined. In fact the only country group that generates more solar power than China is the OECD, all 38 countries of it.
È a dir poco sconcertante (!), ma la maledizione di Murphy si è gravemente abbattuta su di me in questi ultimi giorni… mi si sta letteralmente rompendo tutto, ogni cosa che possiedo, tutti i miei averi tangibili. Questo è ovviamente un duplice problema, perché da un lato sono tirchia e non voglio (ri)comprare assolutamente niente, […]
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È a dir poco sconcertante (!), ma la maledizione di Murphy si è gravemente abbattuta su di me in questi ultimi giorni… mi si sta letteralmente rompendo tutto, ogni cosa che possiedo, tutti i miei averi tangibili. Questo è ovviamente un duplice problema, perché da un lato sono tirchia e non voglio (ri)comprare assolutamente niente, e dall’altro la distruzione di tutti i miei strumenti ed il mio ambiente di lavoro mi porta a distrarmi e dunque a disperarmi ancora di più del già abbastanza alto normale. A parte i soliti problemi col PC, e il telefono che è lento, infatti, ora piano piano arrivano anche degli spacc fisici, e io sto per perdere così forte la pazienza che potrei arrivare a ricostruirmi tutta la roba che mi serve con soltanto cartone e colla, così almeno so che resiste… 😭
Non c’è solo la roba elettronica a rompersi (e a rompere a me le scatole, nel farlo…) infatti, in questo caso. Forse per il caldo e l’umidità insieme (ma in realtà non ne ho idea) gli appendicazzi schifosi che uso per appendere roba al lato del mobile dove ho la scrivania stanno iniziando a crollare uno dopo l’altro, al ritmo di tipo 1 al giorno… che è preoccupante a dir poco. La colla si secca, l’adesivo si spacca, e quindi cade ogni cosa. Prima è caduto quello che uso per tenere rialzata dal pavimento la prolunga elettrica, poi è caduto quest’altro su cui avevo tanto accuratamente posizionato il ventilatorino da scrivania… è veramente tutto inutile così il tempo da me speso nel fare interior design però, eddai. Mi fa anche così tanto rosicare che deve finire sempre così che ho volontariamente preso uno degli appendini che è caduto e, con calma, l’ho spezzato… e ora quindi dovrò cambiarlo per forza, mentre se non avessi fatto questa stronzata avrei potuto rimetterlo a posto come nuovo con della colla a caldo, che roba. Vabbè va. 😵 Ovviamente, comunque, le cose che principalmente si rompono sempre, e che quando lo fanno danno noie serie, sono quelle elettriche. Da svariate sere fa, infatti, non posso più usare la mia striscia LED, perché l’adattatore-microcontroller si è rotto. Non ho capito bene come ma, a giudicare dal fatto che l’innesto jack DC sembra visivamente squagliato, avrà qualcosa a che fare con il fatto che, nelle ultime settimane prima del decesso, il jack in questione diventava veramente caldissimo durante l’uso… e forse faceva già qualche falso contatto, perché ogni tanto le luci si spegnevano da sole per degli istanti. Non ho idea di se fosse l’alimentatore il problema, ma probabilmente è più l’adattatore, perché già da anni dava problemi (per esempio, anche premendo OFF sul telecomando, le luci rimanevano accese di un leggero blu)… magari la porta era di suo prona a rompersi, e facendo contatti sempre più falsi ha fatto disperdere sempre più energia come calore, ed ecco qua. Non ha neanche senso rimpiazzare il connettore a questo punto, meglio comprare nuova tutta la schedina… però il casalinghi cinese non la venderà mai da sola, e online costa più del dovuto, quindi fin’ora sono rimasta letteralmente senza luce colorata, che la sera è una fottuta tragedia. ☠️ Beh, però la luce arcobaleno la ho sempre dalla mia tastiera meccanica cinesissima… eccetto che potrebbe dover sparire pure quella, perché ha ricominciato a fare le bizze. Mesi fa già aveva dato strani problemi, per cui per giusto qualche giorno un tasto (la lettera E) andava e poi non andava, a momenti completamente a caso; da ieri sera, invece, sono i tasti M ed I a fare lo sciopero, e un po’ anche la J… e il tempo per cui non funzionano è gravemente di più di quello per cui lo fanno. Scuotere, pulire e spolverare, così come premere i tasti più forte o per più a lungo, non cambia assolutamente nulla… semplicemente a momenti scrivono, ed altri no; e qualche volta scrivono con un leggero ritardo dopo averli rilasciati, finendo per inserire dopo un qualche altro simbolo che nel mentre ho premuto. Ah e, nel frattempo, ovviamente la mia chiavetta Bluetooth di 20 anni fa non funziona su Windows 10 64 bit (nonostante su Linux andasse, pure se male, mannaggia a tutt cos); e le altre tastiere USB che ho da parte, oltre ad essere a membrana, sono pure quelle mezze rotte (tra cui una che va su altri PC, ma non sul mio fisso; forse avrà il connettore marcio)… è la megafine. 🙃
La tastiera meccanica nuova non la comprerò neanche per idea, perché se questo problema si era risolto da solo prima allora deve farlo anche ora… altrimenti… ci rimarrò molto molto male!!! Però almeno una tastiera così, da battaglia, mi sa che devo comprarla, al casalinghi cinese, altrimenti finirò a pettinare le bambole per interi giorni. Questo post l’ho scritto dal tablet, per esempio, perché preferisco addirittura usare la tastiera touch mezza laggante piuttosto che quella a membrana con i tasti mezzi affossati e mezzi che non si premono se non si da un pugno, e tutte queste cose qui… Ah, tablet che, a tal proposito, per via del fatto che Samsung usa componenti di merda, ha la porta USB-C mezza rotta (un problema noto su questo modello)… e spero che quantomeno continui a caricare per sempre, quel poco che basta per evitarmi di dover comprare ed installare il pezzo di ricambio (che sarà ugualmente fallato, quindi dopo anni di uso andrebbe nuovamente cambiato…). Non ce la faccio assolutamente più, salvatemi da questa spaccnologia!!! 😨😓😭
When you see your own face in the mirror, no matter how far you are, the portion of the mirror showing your face is always half the size of your actual face.
Try it. Look at a mirror and put a ruler on the mirror, the size of your face on the mirror will always be the same, no matter how far you are. It will be half the size of your actual face.
It works because of triangles. Just start drawing some diagrams and you'll quickly figure out how on your own. Which is more fun than having someone give you a geometric proof.
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