'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup
Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup
Spotify, the world’s leading music streaming platform, is facing intense criticism and boycott calls following CEO Daniel Ek’s announcement of a €600m ($702m) investment in Helsing, a German defence startup specialising in AI-powered combat drones an…Reem Aouir (Middle East Eye)
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'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup
Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup
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'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup
Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup
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'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup
Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup
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Nvidia GPU scams are rampant right now – here's what to do to stay safe
Nvidia GPU scams are rampant right now – here's what to do to stay safe
Buying a GPU? Outsmart the scammers and save your moneyMonica J. White (TechRadar)
Idée de bot: donner automatiquement le nom du groupe + personnalité propriétaire d'un média lorsqu'un lien est posté
Pour les gens qui s'ennuient, voici ce que j'aimerais bcp voir comme bot sur jlai.lu mais que je n'aurais pas le temps de coder moi-même (bouh !)
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Dans les commu qui l'activeraient, le bot commenterait automatiquement sous chaque post contenant un lien vers un média qu'il reconnait, en donnant l'info suivante:
Le média [nom_du_media] appartient au groupe [nom_du_groupe], détenu par [nom_du_propriétaire].
Source
La base de données maintenue par Acrimed et Le Monde Diplomatique est là: github.com/mdiplo/Medias_franc…
GitHub - mdiplo/Medias_francais: Qui possède quoi ?
Qui possède quoi ? Contribute to mdiplo/Medias_francais development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Websites Are Tracking You Via Browser Fingerprinting
Websites Are Tracking You Via Browser Fingerprinting
New research provides the first evidence of the use of browser fingerprints for online tracking.stories.tamu.edu
At 20 years old, Reddit is defending its data and fighting AI with AI
At 20 years old, Reddit is defending its data and fighting AI with AI
After two decades, Reddit faces the emergence of AI chatbots that threaten to inhale its vast swaths of data and siphon its users.Jonathan Vanian (CNBC)
Calexico - Algiers (2012)
Ci siamo spostati decisamente a nord rispetto alla latitudine originaria della cittadina di confine tra Messico e California. Della Calexico polverosa e ranchera sublimemente trascritta in quel documento leggendario e indimenticabile che è “The Black Light” (1998, Quarterstick) rimane ben poco... Leggi e ascolta...
Il Governo italiano ha usato cosí male il software spia Paragon che gli israeliani glielo hanno tolto
Il Governo italiano ha usato così male il software spia Paragon che gli israeliani glielo hanno tolto
La vicenda Paragon mette in luce gravi errori istituzionali italiani nella gestione di un software di sorveglianza estremamente sensibile.Hardware Upgrade
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FISCO, LA RELAZIONE DELLA CORTE DEI CONTI: “PIGNORAMENTI AL 3%” - TuttoTributi
FISCO, LA RELAZIONE DELLA CORTE DEI CONTI: “PIGNORAMENTI AL 3%”
I pignoramenti sono quasi scomparsi. Il tasso di recupero del magazzino delle cartelle si trova a poco più del 3% dello stock. E’ un elemento che emerge dalla relazione della Corte dei Conti sul rendiconto generale dello Stato.valerio iuliano (TuttoTributi)
Babies starve to death in Gaza as US approves more GHF funding (Video short)
Two babies died of starvation in Gaza due to Israel’s continuing blockade of vital aid. The deaths come as the US approved $30 million in funding for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. More than 500 Palestinians have been killed while trying to get food from its aid centres.
First independent survey of deaths in Gaza reports more than 80,000 fatalities
First independent survey of deaths in Gaza reports more than 80,000 fatalities
Results align with other efforts to count the number of people killed amid the ongoing conflict.Fieldhouse, Rachel
Ice arrests of US military veterans and their relatives are on the rise: ‘a country that I fought for’
Ice arrests of US military veterans and their relatives are on the rise: ‘a country that I fought for’
As Trump urges more deportations, veterans are seeing their parents, children and even themselves detainedJosé Olivares (The Guardian)
Political violence is quintessentially American
Violence begets violence, so many religions say. Americans should know. After all, the United States – a nation founded on Indigenous genocide, African enslavement and open rebellion against an imperial power to protect its wealthiest citizens – cannot help but be violent. What’s more, violence in the US is political, and the violence the country has carried out overseas over the generations has always been connected to its imperialist ambitions and racism. From the US bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites on June 21 to the everyday violence in rhetoric and reality within the US, the likes of President Donald Trump continue to stoke the violent impulses of a violence‑prone nation.
Political violence is quintessentially American
The US cannot claim innocence – political violence shaped its past and defines its present.Donald Earl Collins (Al Jazeera)
RETIRED: Readarr - Sonarr for Ebooks Book Manager and Automation
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/47871600
(I am not affiliated with the project at all, just an end user.)
Announcement: Retirement of Readarr
We would like to announce that the Readarr project has been retired. This difficult decision was made due to a combination of factors: the project's metadata has become unusable, we no longer have the time to remake or repair it, and the community effort to transition to using Open Library as the source has stalled without much progress.Third-party metadata mirrors exist, but as we're not involved with them at all, we cannot provide support for them. Use of them is entirely at your own risk. The most popular mirror appears to be rreading-glasses.
Without anyone to take over Readarr development, we expect it to wither away, so we still encourage you to seek alternatives to Readarr.
Key Points
- Effective Immediately: The retirement takes effect immediately. Please stay tuned for any possible further communications.
- Support Window: We will provide support during a brief transition period to help with troubleshooting non metadata related issues.
- Alternative Solutions: Users are encouraged to explore and adopt any other possible solutions as alternatives to Readarr.
- Opportunities for Revival: We are open to someone taking over and revitalizing the project. If you are interested, please get in touch.
- Gratitude: We extend our deepest gratitude to all the contributors and community members who supported Readarr over the years.
Thank you for being part of the Readarr journey. For any inquiries or assistance during this transition, please contact our team.
Sincerely,
The Servarr TeamThe github repo has been archived.
GitHub - Readarr/Readarr: Book Manager and Automation (Sonarr for Ebooks)
Book Manager and Automation (Sonarr for Ebooks). Contribute to Readarr/Readarr development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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Sotto alberi monumentali di cemento, inaugurata la nuovissima città dei treni a Chongqing - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Sotto alberi monumentali di cemento, inaugurata la nuovissima città dei treni a Chongqing - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Entusiastici cronisti occidentali, per lo più europei, percorrono l’abnorme cattedrale il cui cielo artificiale è situato a 41 metri d’altezza.Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
Babies starve to death in Gaza as US approves more GHF funding (Video short)
Two babies died of starvation in Gaza due to Israel’s continuing blockade of vital aid. The deaths come as the US approved $30 million in funding for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. More than 500 Palestinians have been killed while trying to get food from its aid centres.
If Syria Normalizes Ties with Israel, It Is Complicit in Genocide - Analysis
Normalization between Damascus and Tel Aviv means that hundreds of thousands of people died and a stable nation was destroyed, while every ethnic/religious group turned on each other, all so that Israel could usurp more territory and deal a blow to the Palestinian resistance. There’s no way to sugar coat it.
If Syria Normalizes Ties with Israel, It Is Complicit in Genocide - Analysis - Palestine Chronicle
As has always been the case, Palestine is the litmus test, and Damascus has so far failed it dramatically.admin (Palestine Chronicle)
First independent survey of deaths in Gaza reports more than 80,000 fatalities
Almost 84,000 people died in Gaza between October 2023 and early January 2025 as a result of the Hamas–Israel war, estimates the first independent survey of deaths. More than half of the people killed were women aged 18–64, children or people over 65, reports the study, which was posted on the preprint server medRxiv last week1. It has not been peer reviewed.
First independent survey of deaths in Gaza reports more than 80,000 fatalities
Results align with other efforts to count the number of people killed amid the ongoing conflict.Fieldhouse, Rachel
Government condemns Glastonbury chants aired live on BBC (2025-06-28)
Government condemns Glastonbury chants aired live on BBC (2025-06-28)bbc.com/news/articles/c33514nr…
———>> The [UK] government has "strongly condemned" chants at #Glastonbury Festival from rap punk duo Bob Vylan calling for "death" to the Israeli military and broadcast live on the BBC.
>> Rapper Bobby Vylan led chants of "free, free Palestine" and "death, death to the IDF [Israel Defense Forces]" during their set, which came just before Belfast rap trio Kneecap.
>> A BBC spokesperson said some of the comments were "deeply offensive", adding it had issued a warning on screen about "very strong and discriminatory language". The set will not be available to rewatch on BBC iPlayer.
>> Police said they were reviewing videos of comments made by Bob Vylan and #Kneecap to decide whether any offences had been committed.
Government condemns Glastonbury chants aired live on BBC
Chants from rap duo Bob Vylan were streamed live and called for "death" to the Israeli military.Zahra Fatima (BBC News)
Unsubscribe, Unsubscribe, Unsubscribe: Why I became more subscription-conscious (and you should, too)
Looking back, my subscription-ending journey—or perhaps more accurately, subscription-consciousness journey—was a product, at least in part, of post-COVID lockdown reflections on what I really need and how I’d really like to spend my time. The excess of my subscriptions had started to feel akin to hoarding, and I needed to clear space, even if most of that space was intangible. There was also the lightbulb realization that has become more and more common amongst Millennials, that, despite our monthly investments in accessing various forms of media, we don’t actually own most of the culture that we consume. What’s more, should the companies that do own that media go defunct or be sold to entities that we may prefer not to do business with, we really wouldn’t have much recourse—except to unsubscribe.This could mean years and years of playlists and TV shows and films that we would no longer have access to because they were never really ours to begin with, ultimately leaving us with nothing. And while I’m not interested in owning many things from culture, save for books and some fashions, I do think ownership of culture in its various forms serves more than capitalistic desire. Our things can be physical memories of what we love or once did, what has been passed on and gifted to us, and sometimes, reminders of what we saved and scraped for—emblems of hard-fought earnings. We are robbed of this when we choose to rent something out of convenience or compulsion instead of mindfully acquiring things that are truly meaningful to us.
Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan, and all other publishers of America
“We want our publishers to stand with us. To make a pledge that they will never release books that were created by machines.”
Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Publishers
To Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan, and all other publishers of America: We are standing on a precipice. At its simplest level, our job as …Literary Hub
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Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan, and all other publishers of America
Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Publishers
To Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan, and all other publishers of America: We are standing on a precipice. At its simplest level, our job as …Literary Hub
@Semi_Hemi_Demigod @RadicalEagle
#socialism #communism #anarchism
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Example of how shitty the Soviet Union was: the Holodomor, caused by the industrialization policy of the first 5 Year Plan, caused up to 5 million deaths of Ukrainians and Kazakhstanis in one year, and the Soviet Union rejected all foreign aid despite their citizens dying. A true state for the workers! /s 2/2
Holodomor - Wikipedia share.google/YCT29ZHK232tFHapD
@Semi_Hemi_Demigod @RadicalEagle
#socialism #communism #leninism
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Some Brother printers have a remote code execution vulnerability, and they can’t fix it
Brother has indicated that this vulnerability cannot be fully remediated in firmware, and has required a change to the manufacturing process of all affected models.
China New Internet ID System a Threat to Online Expression: Netizens will require IDs to go on the internet. For now this is voluntary, but there are signs it will not remain that way for long.
On May 19, China’s top law enforcement agency released measures for the roll-out of “cyber IDs” (网络身份认证), a new form of user identification to monitor internet users. Although the measures were released as a draft over the summer last year, they have only just been finalized, and will come into effect in mid-July.According to the measures, introduced by the Ministry of Public Security (MPS), each internet user in China will be issued with a unique “web number,” or wanghao (网号), that is linked to their personal information. While these IDs are, according to the MPS notice, to be issued on a strictly voluntary basis through public service platforms, the government appears to have been working on this system for quite some time — and state media are strongly promoting it as a means of guaranteeing personal “information security” (信息安全). With big plans afoot for how these IDs will be deployed, one obvious question is whether these measures will remain voluntary.
Lingua Sinica Newsletter, 8 August
News, analysis, and commentary on Chinese-language media from the PRC and beyond.Lingua Sinica
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JavaScript™ Trademark Update | Deno
JavaScript™ Trademark Update | Deno
The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board has dismissed our fraud claim against Oracle. We disagree with this decision.Deno
Practical Retrofitting for Obsolete Devices
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/23993774
Practical Retrofitting for Obsolete Devices | Much like classic cars can be fitted with an EV motor, it is possible to retrofit older devices in order to make them usable again in a connected world
How to federate a new community?
I created a new community on PieFed ( !action_movies@piefed.social ) and tried using lemmy-federate.com/ to get federated across other instances, but get an "instance is not registered" error.
Apparently, there are... issues?
lemmy.ca/post/45479147
So wondering about other ways to get federated.
- Can I do it myself, at least for the one other instance where I have an account (lemmy.ca)?
To me, at the moment it seems a bit 'chicken and egg'. I can't see it on lemmy.ca, so I can't subscribe to it from lemmy.ca. And lemmy.ca won't federate it until I subscribe to it. I must have it wrong. - Promo communities: I know about those, but I don't want to use them just yet. This is a "soft launch" until I get more familiar with having a community and get some more content into it.
- Other ways?
Thanks.
Lemmy Federate
Lemmy Federate is a tool to federate new communities in the Lemmyverse.lemmy-federate.com
Microsoft’s sketchy Win 10 vs Win 11 performance claims pit a 9-year-old PC against a modern machine to claim 2.3X gain
Ever since Microsoft announced that it would end support for Windows 10 in October, the company has been trying hard to convince users to make the switch to Windows 11. First, it warned that unsupported Windows 10 PCs will no longer receive security updates, making them easy targets for hackers. Later, it advised users to trade in their old computers and buy a new one that comes preloaded with all the Windows 11 goodies.Now, once again, Microsoft’s Executive Vice President and Consumer Chief Marketing Officer, Yusuf Mehdi, has published a fresh blog highlighting all the benefits and advantages of Windows 11, including a statement claiming that Windows 11 PCs are up to 2.3 times faster than Windows 10 PCs. However, what they failed to make clear is that this claim is entirely based on a comparison of new versus old hardware, rather than the software itself.
Microsoft’s sketchy Win 10 vs Win 11 performance claims pit a 9-year-old PC against a modern machine to claim 2.3X gain
Odd that no AMD PCs were included in the performance comparison.Hassam Nasir (Tom's Hardware)
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Portable Network Graphics (PNG) New Specification
Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Specification (Third Edition)
This document describes PNG (Portable Network Graphics), an extensible file format for the lossless, portable, well-compressed storage of static and animated raster images.www.w3.org
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How to crosspost a "non-link" post?
I'm trying out starting a new community.
- !action_movies@piefed.social
- piefed.social/c/action_movies
I wanted to crosspost some posts I already made elsewhere, e.g. piefed.social/post/984528 / lemmy.ca/post/46999890
But there's no crosspost button.
1. Is there a way to do it?
2. And I'm curious: why is there no crosspost button for so many posts?
codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issue…
Can't Crosspost Certain posts
Myself and some other users have been getting confused why we couldn't crosspost text posts. Eg. I can't crosspost this https://piefed.social/post/993050 to https://piefed.Codeberg.org
Pride en Hongrie : succès de foule avec près de 200.000 participants à Budapest pour la marche des fiertés, pourtant interdite par Viktor Orban - RTBF - Info (rtbf.info@rtbf.be (Marine Lambrecht))
Pride en Hongrie : succès de foule avec près de 200.000 participants à Budapest pour la marche des fiertés, pourtant interdite par Viktor Orban - RTBF Actus
Si aucun chiffre officiel n’est disponible, les organisateurs ont fait état sur Instagram d’une foule de 'plusieurs...Par @la-redaction-237 avec @afp-1 (RTBF.be)
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in reply to LazerDickMcCheese • • •I plan to continue using readarr with rreading-glasses until a suitable replacement appears.
Only other alternative I'm aware of is LazyLibrarian which is what readarr set out to replace. I use it to pipe top selling book feeds into readarr lists to auto add new books.
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in reply to layzerjeyt • • •Luke
in reply to ftbd • • •Yeah, Readarr is very awkward to use, but still sad to see going away. If the main problem is just a usable metadata server, maybe someone can save the project without much trouble.
Lidarr is similarly strange with it's focus on artists and albums only, and apparently refusing to implement song search.
I feel like the developers of these two projects don't actually use their own software to encounter the huge pain points, but maybe they have a use case that I don't understand.
brygphilomena
in reply to Luke • • •It's impossible to make lidarr handle multiple releases.
It doesn't seem like it's good for actually amassing a collection.
layzerjeyt
in reply to brygphilomena • • •The whole collection of software forces the user to limit themselves to the single version of canonical media which has been officially sanctioned by a centralized authority.
The more mainstream and corporate your media and arts interests are, the less you will notice this problem. But even with TV and movies it is a barrier once you deviate. With music and books, which due to lower production costs are literally endless in number, variations, mixes, imprints, translations, editions, covers, releases etc, it is an impossible model.
I don't know if it's too much inference but I sort of feel bad for the developers. This assumption about the superiority of homogeneous media and art pervades the projects in a way which suggests it is completely invisible to them. It's very bleak.
brygphilomena
in reply to layzerjeyt • • •Very true. But considering the metadata provider can manage the variations, I don't think it's too onerous of a consideration for the actual media management side.
I'd love a better movie manager that puts weight on extras and handles them much better. And editions, too. Directors cut, cinema cut, TV broadcast cuts. There really needs to be a better way to handle all that than a single movie file.
Though for radarr and sonarr, some of those are restrictions for the player they are accommodating. If Plex and Jellyfin don't handle the ability to choose versions, why have the *arrs do it.
But I also understand that it's not something the majority of users care about. So it makes it not worth their time. And as for readarr and lidarr, I don't know if it's just a limitation of the fork using the existing *arr framework.
layzerjeyt
in reply to brygphilomena • • •Ya I mean I understand at the end of the day the devs have the prerogative to run their project as they please. And it's smart to have a constrained set of requirements rather than trying to be all things to all people. There's always a cost to flexibility.
I serve my TV and movies from jellyfin and it is not as prescriptive. As an imperfect workaround, the additional files can be put into a separate directory that sonarr/radarr doesn't have access to but jellyfin does.
For books, calibre tips the balance completely in the other direction of total flexibility. It's very powerful and with the right skills it can be made to do all kinds of tasks. But it's hardly the smooth initial experience of the arrs.
From my experience, the most comprehensive and robust metadata harvester is the citation manager Zotero. They have spent a lot of work on building a metadata system that is both easy to use but accounts for different versions of the same work. In academic writing you need to cite the actual document you used because it could change over time, editions, etc. Instead of making their own database, they use various 3rd party collections. And of course you must be able to customize or create items for scholarly work. There is about 15 years of chat on their forums/repos of people arguing how to best identify and apply the appropriate metadata and it's not at all smooth going even there.
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in reply to layzerjeyt • • •Maybe I'll try rreading-glasses to see if it's any better.
layzerjeyt
in reply to matey • • •mic_check_one_two
in reply to layzerjeyt • • •Correct. Readarr’s biggest issue was that the metadata server was almost always offline/horribly rate limited. And Readarr was built in a way that you couldn’t add new media requests without a working metadata server. So oftentimes, you simply couldn’t add any media to your requests.
Rreading-glasses is an open source metadata server that you can point Readarr at. It simply solves the metadata server issues.
matey
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in reply to layzerjeyt • • •LazyLibrarian Documentation
lazylibrarian.gitlab.iolayzerjeyt
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