The world building and lore introduced in Secrets of the Atlas has set us up for expansions to come! We asked our Audio and Narrative Director Kane, to delve into some of the intricacies of piecing all of its components together.
Hello! Kane here. You may know me previously as the Audio Lead at GGG... Well I'm still one of those, but now also narrative falls under my wheelhouse. I often pinch myself as a reminder that I'm not dreaming because this is quite literally a dream combination of things I love... and let me tell you, it brings me a great deal of joy!
Anyway, where was I? Oh yes. Secrets of the Atlas. I should mention upfront, if you want to experience Secrets of the Atlas without spoilers, perhaps don't read this. It is a bit tricky to discuss its narrative development without going into at least some of the details.
As is the case these days, Mark (Neon) and I began with some bullet points for the basic narrative of what we'd be working towards. For Secrets of the Atlas, those were something along the lines of:
Zana.
... Brother?!
...... THREE SHAPER-ESQUE BOSSES?! OMG!
After those initial conversations, I knew we were off to a strong start and I was hyped to get started and piece together the dialogue and events for the narrative design. The initial premise here was to uncover what Zana has been doing since we lost track of her in the Atlas. That expanded into three main components to the expansion's story, with Zana's plight at the core of it all.
The first component: Eagon
Introducing Eagon, a mysterious fellow claiming to be Zana's brother, gave us a lot of interesting angles to explore Zana's mission from. Like us veteran Exiles, he knows a lot about Zana and feels a connection to her, yet she is essentially a stranger to him. He believes that she simply must have all the answers to his burning questions about his heritage... and yet life is never so simple. He has spent his life trying to uncover and realize who he is and perhaps, why he is.
Working towards unraveling who Eagon is and helping him try to piece things together makes him quite relatable as a person. Despite his rather pompous sense of entitlement (we are all flawed), he just wants to understand who he is, his place in the world and to save who he believes to be his sister.
The Voice of Eagon
When casting this character, I knew we needed a voice actor who could fully embody Eagon's unique personality and portray it correctly. One audition immediately stuck out as the right fit. Leon Wadham brought Eagon to life in a perfect way.
The second component: Zana
Interestingly for this expansion, Zana doesn't exactly occupy screen-time a great deal. It is what she has created that we are able to explore, and trying to understand why she has done so is what drives the story forward. Eagon discovers that Zana has been experimenting with the Atlas and manifesting memories, and even ideas, into reality. But why?
We are able to see what has mattered most to her, in the very areas we traverse and the figures we fight. In many ways, this exposure to Zana is more effective than even talking to her directly. Her memory threads are split into 3 groups of paired themes, based on Loneliness and Neglect, Trauma and Fear, and Reverence and Dread.
Loneliness and Neglect
This is first touched on by encountering a form of Sirus at a time unfamiliar to us, exploring the deeper part of their connection and her regrets with what became of a relationship she neglected.
Once we defeat this part of the thread, we can enter the 'Moment of Loneliness' where we witness Zana as a child, trying and failing, to get her father's attention. This moment then transforms into the 'Incarnation of Neglect', where a permutation of her father is presented as a monstrous creation that we must overcome on her behalf.
Trauma and Fear
These themes are explored by her residual trauma from the Templars and how they treated her and her father, exemplified by the fight with the Cardinal of Fear.
This allows us entry into the 'Moment of Trauma' where we witness young Zana making her father quite cross. This moment then becomes the 'Incarnation of Fear', a frightening imagining of someone her father never truly was.
Reverence and Dread
This theme is shown in the form of Innocence, a God, taking the main stage as a revered but deceitful figure - yet another whose promises are to be broken. This thread line shows that even with good intentions, the grip of power can subvert even divine motivations.
After beating this form of Innocence, we can enter the 'Moment of Reverence' where we witness child Zana watching her father deliver a speech in Oriath. This moment is then reshaped into the 'Incarnation of Dread', showing just how much her fathers notoriety and influence affected her.
The Voice of Zana
Zana is back, baby! It was fantastic to have Katherine Kennard back to reprise her role, and she did so quite effortlessly. It is quite amazing how actors can return to a role after some time and immediately lock-in and become the character again.
The third component: Valdo
At the core of Zana's plight is her father, as it has always been. But what do those memories mean to Zana? Moments that mean little to grown adults, but leave a permanent imprint on a child. Eagon construes these moments as mutations by the Atlas, overblown realisations of a child's memories - but are they? Or is this intentional on Zana's behalf? And why? Good questions!
The Voice of Valdo
That deep and rich presence and voice... Daryl Habraken returns, but not exactly as The Shaper. This time, we hear a little more from Zana's father, rather than who he became.
Who is the Originator?
Finally, at the end of this part of the story, we learn part of Zana's true ambitions. We learn that Eagon's situation remains further complicated. And most importantly: we learn that we have more to learn. And I for one, cannot wait to unravel these threads even further.
Hang on... who is the Originator again? It is Zana, right? Hmm...
Daryl Habraken. Visual Effects: Le Dernier Samouraï. Daryl Habraken is known for Le Dernier Samouraï (2003), Power Rangers Ninja Steel (2017) and Long Time Coming (2016).
Facebook mogul’s sudden appearance is increasingly typical of freewheeling West Wing during Donald Trump’s second term, which president has reportedly nicknamed ‘Grand Central Terminal’
Air Force leaders learned that lesson earlier this year when they arrived for a top-secret briefing with Trump in the Oval Office, which according to NBC News was scheduled for them to discuss plans for America’s sixth-generation fighter aircraft, dubbed the F-47 in a nod to Trump’s status as the 47th President of the United States.
As the generals were going over the details of the super-stealthy plane, which Trump has called the most advanced, capable and lethal combat aircraft platform ever built, they were startled by the appearance of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg popping into the Oval Office.
According to NBC, White House officials became concerned that Zuckerberg, one of the wealthiest men in the world, lacked the security clearance required to be present for talks about such a sensitive national security matter.
Hello comrades, I recently started to selfhost my own VPN. I thought of using a regular VPN provider but I don't trust the cheap ones and the good ones are too costly for my needs. So I started to rent a cheap one core VPS (DMCA ignored of course) for 2,5€/month. Before that I tried some seedboxes from some cheap providers, but the amount of control you have there was absolutely terrible. If they have SSH access, you have no sudo permission.
One of those providers I tried just deploys docker containers and then using some fancy marketing they make a good amount of cash from something that one can do oneself with a little bit of technical knowledge. And then when something doesn't work; good luck my friend.
So that's why I choose a VPS where you have maximum control. Setting it all up including security measures and a custom OS is very fun. My distro of choice is Devuan. I'm running a Debian based distro myself and having no systemd not only boosts the startup time, but saves some system resources, which is especially important on a server with 1 GB RAM.
Installing Devuan was quite an adventure. Navigating their website to find the right download is like cruising a wild jungle. After choosing a mirror to downloaded from, one has to check the name of the latest release. After that I selected "installer-iso". In there I grabed the netinstall. From there the real adventure began. Among the "standard stuff" I had to specify the DNS and netmask, nothing wild. I didn't installed a desktop environment of course, just the ssh-server components.
I then followed Wolgangs guide to setup SSH. Managing a computer without a desktop environment is something I never had done before and while on a desktop PC this can be a horrifying experience, it's really fun to operate a remote system via command line. For enhanced security I activated and configured ufw. Many distros comes preinstalled with gufw, so setting up ufw wasn't a big deal.
Without systemd many Wireguard install script doesn't work, so I installed Wireguard via docker-compose with the help of Christian Lempas wonderful guide. Amazing guy. I had to enter the DNS servers manually so that the actual DNS addresses of the server are used.
I tried to route IPv6 traffic through the VPN by entering the IPv6 address in brackets into the docker-compose.yaml, adding ::/0 in the AllowedIPs, but it all didn't worked. So I had to deactivate IPv6 on my system and in the network manager. This stopped all IPv6 leaks.
As killswitch I found this easy method. I tested it and it works. No IP-leaks anymore.
To prevent DNS leaks I found these commands: sudo iptables -A OUTPUT -p udp --dport 53 -j DROP, sudo iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 53 -j DROP. I tried the ufw equivalent sudo ufw deny out 53/udp, sudo ufw deny out 53/tcp, but it blocks internet access. I make the iptables persistent with iptables-save since iptables-persistent conflicts with gufw and ufw.
With this setup I started my torrent client and saw that I'm barely seeding. That's not cool. I tried to set up port forwarding with a lot of iptables and routing tables like this one but when checking the port it's always closed.
So what now? My goal is to torrent over the I2P. I see a lot of potential in the I2P. It is basically what people envisioned the internet to be in the 90s. Since the internet is a military technology, freedom was never implicated, so even with a lot of obfuscation and circumvention, there is always some trouble when using clearnet. My intention with the VPN is to port over clearnet torrents to I2P. Thus the reliance on VPNs can be decreased.
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I want to call out one thing in case you didn't know.
The idea of a public VPN is to hide your traffic with other users who also use the VPN. If you're renting a VPS you don't get all the "benefits" of a public VPN. All you're doing is adding an extra hop to the internet, you're not mixing your traffic with others using the same IP. It's all you.... In fact, you're probably making it easier to isolate the things you do online because at home you could say a guest you had over must have downloaded it. If its the VPS, its all you.
I already have considered this. Generally I prefer a dedicated IP over a shared IP, especially since I consider the use of private trackers. There are some use cases though like high OpSec operations or a higher privacy need were a shared IP is beneficial, but for me this is not needed.
That's because I live in a country with strict anti-piracy laws. Torrenting pirated stuff here without a VPN would be a death sentence. In the fact the whole piracy scene of my country revolves around stream hosting and one click hosters. Understandable if you consider the fact that anyone can see what you torrent sometimes even including your whole download history.
It could be nothing other than a country of virtue and dharma destined to free the world from corruption and evil. It's people are still laying dormant under the veil of deception, but this could change very soon.
How long have you spent with this? I ask because it's frankly an impressive amount of detail and understanding you're displaying, given your statement that you'd never administered an OS without a desktop environment. Kudos!
Thanks. It approximately took one or two weeks to setup it up and configure it step by step. I know using a distro without systemd is not the easiest thing for a beginner but I'm already running MX Linux for a while after I had used plain Debian, so I felt pretty confident. Also there are really good guides out there as I mentioned before. The most difficult part was to configure the VPN so that there are no leaks and stuff like that. For that I needed to a lot of tests and do some research. One thing that would be really cool is to do application based split tunneling or even workspace based split tunneling. But first I will need to find a solution to open the port of my torrent client to outside traffic to torrent properly. I think I have a solution to this.
As mentioned in the comments, the VPN isn't really viable here. That being said, your DNS iptable statements don't work for two reasons: 1. TCP 53 isn't going to be used unless something like EDNS or zone transfers occur which is like never. 2. The first statement blocks any traffic on the output chain (leaving your network) that is destined to a remote UDP port 53. This kills your access to any off-device DNS server.
You would have to have an ACCEPT statement to allow the DNS traffic through the VPN. Something like: iptables -A OUTPUT -o tun0 -p udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT
The problem here is that it sounds like you think torrenting traffic is using the self-hosted VPN, but that wouldn't be true. Here is how it sounds like it is currently working: Torrent Client -> VPN interface -> Default interface -> Torrent Users You could probably confirm that with mtr/traceroutes and bmon.
The reason your internet goes done when you run your iptable statements is because you're preventing DNS resolution which uses UDP 53 from leaving the device. Even if you are running your own DNS server on that VPS, unless you have trackers' statically mapped, DNS recursion has to be allowed for your VPS to determine host IPs.
Nope, I checked the traffic with mtr and it connects directly to the internal IP address of the server. Also I've bound the torrent client to the network interface of the VPN to ensure the traffic goes through the VPN.
I understand. The problem with the rules above though is that it would block my regular network interface even after the VPN goes down. That's why I created some postup and postdown rules for the Wireguard config. PostUp = iptables -I OUTPUT -o %i -p udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT && iptables -A OUTPUT ! -o %i -p udp --dport 53 -j DROP PreDown = iptables -D OUTPUT -o %i -p udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT && iptables -D OUTPUT ! -o %i -p udp --dport 53 -j DROP This only activates the rules while the VPN interface is on.
Yes. But curl ipinfo.io and ip addr doesn't match. The first command contacts a server outside the network, so it shows a public IP address while the other shows the internal IP addresses of the network interfaces.
Ok, that is what mine and the other comments were addressing. It sounds as if you were VPN'ing into the VPS from your actual location which does nothing as the VPS is registered to you. If you are running a VPN client locally on the VPS and connecting through a VPN provider that is different.
No, as I said in another comment I live in a country with strong copyright laws, that's why I need to route my traffic to a country where piracy is allowed/tolerated.
You have a computer with your name on it in a country where what you’re doing is legal and you’re connecting to it using a process that authenticates with a shared secret from another computer that most likely has your name on it in a country where what you’re doing is illegal.
You’re not fooling anyone and by creating your own crime tunnel with your name on both ends of it and I’m gonna hesitate to use specific legal language to describe the new, more serious type of crime you are now committing because it’s different all over but there’s almost always a type of wire fraud that covers this because banks all tried to do it when different kinds of electronic transfers popped up.
Again, you’re making what reads like an incredibly stupid decision.
You have a computer with your name on it, the vps you set up, in a country where your actions are legal and another with your name on it in a country where you reside and your actions aren’t legal.
You connect to the vps using a protocol that authenticates your identity.
Let me just walk through the steps to prosecute you for piracy or a different crime with much more serious consequences:
Through leaky dns, a tipoff, some transformer or just the usual 24/7 isp traffic analysis someone realizes you’re doing a piracy.
They get logs from the isp and if your bad dns doesn’t give you up immediately then they see the outlier ip of the vps. ISPs always cooperate, often the special relationship between companies that are allowed to operate critical infrastructure and law enforcement is enshrined in law.
Whois points them at the vps company, whose policies may require them to get a warrant or equivalent in order to allow law enforcement into your actual running vps but will absolutely comply with kyc aligned requests and laws.
As an aside, you may think that the vps provider could stand up against the cops for you, but they’re not doing that. No one is keeping their mouth shut for $3/mo unless that’s their literal whole business model. They’ll just find new tenants.
Anyway so now they know it’s you on each end and have an airtight piracy case. If that seems like a lot of work to do through for someone whose downloading SpongeBob, it is! Piracy investigations are often not worthwhile as crimes in and of themselves.
The cops will have a strong incentive to get you on other charges, so when they search your house they’ll be looking not only for the computer with your name on it but for anything that could be misconstrued as illegal or prohibited. Hope you’re clean.
But assuming you don’t have an unregistered firearm and pile of illicit drugs next to your computer they’ll still take the computer in for a snoopin. Assuming again that nothing is found but wholesome episodes of SpongeBob on your computer they will without any doubt find your /etc/WireGuard folder with all the config files. Oh, they go to the vps you rented. Imagine that!
In America the crime of setting up a telecommunications system for the purpose of doing something illegal is prosecuted as wire fraud. It might be called different things in different countries but the basic conditions for the creation of law around those actions were about the same everywhere: big money stealin’ using new telegraph technology. The specific technology may have changed but the law inevitably didn’t, so they’ll pile the wire fraud equivalent charge onto you.
I don’t know your country but piracy is probably a low level crime there compared to wire fraud. So instead of facing a fine or a few months for downloading a soccer game now you’re facing a big monetary penalty and many years in jail for creating a system of wire fraud.
Even the often times not very smart police can figure out how to do this. You can check this out by looking in your own countries cop arrest records and see what they’re jamming people up for when it comes to computer crimes. It’s usually the local equivalent of wire fraud when they can get it because the newer, computer specific laws are harder to convict under or have more lenient penalties proscribed.
So anyway, instead of literally building an illegal crime tunnel which is a much worse crime than piracy, spend the money on air or one of the other piracy vpns. You’ll be saving yourself a lot of headache and protecting yourself much better than you did with a home built system.
I took the time to write this out much more explicitly after being told to fuck off because you’re making an incredibly stupid decision. I don’t want you to feel stupid, but I want you to recognize that you’re pursuing a more difficult path that opens you up to much more serious charges and which you are not even capable of getting up and running at the moment.
Just think on that for a second.
You can’t get your illegal crime tunnel working right and you’re asking for help with it on a public forum.
It’s good to try things for the sake of learning. I would strongly advise against trying to learn by doing illegal things and asking for help in public in the strongest possible terms.
Go get a piracy vpn service instead. It accomplishes your goals and keeps you safer than your home grown would if it were working.
Secondo i teosofi il caos razziale sarebbe la causa della decadenza umana. Per questo auspicavano un ritorno alla perfezione originaria attraverso un processo di purificazione.
Le origini del calcio femminile sono legate alla patria del football, la Gran Bretagna. Ma c'entra anche la Seconda rivoluzione industriale: le squadre di calciatrici inglesi nacquero infatti come dopolavoro per le operaie.
Seemingly for the first time, the Bazzite gaming-focused Linux distro has appeared on the Steam Hardware Survey. Well done to the Bazzite team for making such an amazing distro for gaming (and now just general usage as a while too)! Been my main choice for going on a year now for my general use distro, and I haven't looked back.
I’m really happy to see Bazzite climbing the chart. It’s by far the best gaming-centric Linux distro.
I’m not sure I will ever understand the appeal of Linux Mint. Not because it’s bad, but because there are better distros for every use-case I can think up, especially gaming.
Mint is very plain and simple, which makes it the most non-threatening transition from Windows for casual users. It's also one of the most well rounded distros. Sure, other distros can do specific things better, but Mint deserves its flowers for its polish.
I think it would actually be better for beginners, were it not for issue solving: any web search for a solution is bound to give you mostly answers written for traditional distros, which would potentially be incompatible with Bazzite.
A group in California alleged that these transfers were harming users - and the jury agreed. Now there is a separate lawsuit for the other 49 US states.
Australians using search engines while logged in to accounts from the likes of Google and Microsoft will have their age checked by the end of 2025, under a new online safety code co-developed by technology companies and registered by the eSafety Commissioner.
Search engines operating in Australia will need to implement age assurance technologies for logged-in users in "no later than six months”, under new rules published on Monday.
While only logged-in users will be required to have their age checked, many Australians typically surf the web while logged into accounts from Google, which dominates Australia’s search market and also runs Gmail and YouTube; and Microsoft, which runs the Bing search engine and email platform Outlook.
If a search engine’s age assurance systems believe a signed-in user is “likely to be an Australian child” under the age of 18, they will need to set safety tools such as “safe search” functions at their highest setting by default to filter out pornography and high impact violence, including in advertising.
Currently, Australians must be at least 13 years of age to manage their own Google or Microsoft account.
I can backup an entire VM snapshot very quickly and then restore it in a matter of minutes. Everything from the system files, database, Jellyfin version and configs, etc. All easily backed up and restored in an easy to manage bundle.
A container is not as easy to manage in the same way.
If a lxc container is in a btrfs subvolume or in a zfs dataset (those are created easily like a directory, it's not a partition), you can do a full 1:1 copy in less than one second via a snapshot, keeping all the system files, database, version and configs
The 15 ministers said that Israel's "strategic partnership, backing, and support of the U.S. and President Donald Trump" make this a "propitious time" to formally steal most of Palestine.
How it started: I bought a MiniPC (Blackview MP-80) to run Home Assistant and some lights etc. to go with it.
It's now exactly one year later this is what my setup looks like now: BMAX B2 Pro --> Home Assistant OS Blackview MP-80 --> Proxmox --> Nextcloud-AIO & Immich ODROID H4+ --> Proxmox --> TrueNAS
How it's going: With the heatwave in Europe I've now installed cooling to keep my HDD's from heating up.
I know it's Janky as hell, but I love it. The plan going forward is to buy a 3D Printer so that I can 3D Print a custom 10" rack, and I'll build my own cooling and temperature monitoring system with ESP32 and create a dashboard for it in Home Assistant and sorting out networking.
It's a work in progress, having a lot of fun learning and adding new things.
Yeah, it's fine ... wait, IronWolves in a living space? Paired with that acoustic desk it must be like a train yard, but with more vibrations 😁.
Edit: wrote this before I saw your comment acknowledging the same. \ Well, with HDD there is the noise of the drive itself (the constant one & the searches, spin-ups), and the vibrations which can get acoustically amplified. For the former you need a case, any case, maybe a case in a case (ventilated ofc), for the latter I've always (since late 90s) had my HDD on full rubber, no non-rubber connection to the case.
My current NASies all use these (in desktop cases, I don't like server hardware if it isn't necessary, like with disks):
(They cost like 2 monies with shipping.)
So if going the 3D-print way, as you mentioned, I would def add the suggestion of incorporating thicc rubber pads or rubber straps into your design, like these ones (I've used them a lot decades ago, the only commercial option for silent PC enthusiasts at the time, but I've built then myself too):
Hi, which is the name of this kind of cases? I'm looking a similar way in order to add an external HDD on my local server which is a Lenovo Thinkcentre SFF, so with 3 disks of space (1 hdd 3.5" + 1 2.5" + 1 nvme). Thanks!
Giovedì 3 luglio alle 18.30 inaugura al Fontanone di Faenza GROTTESCA, mostra personale di Roberto Coloma Nadal a cura di Enea Mazzotti. L’artista propone un viaggio visivo tra mondi surreali e ironici, ispirato alla pittura a grottesche riscoperta nel Rinascimento. Le sue opere, dense di simbolismo, sono popolate da diavoletti esili, creature antropomorfe e architetture fluttuanti, in un linguaggio decorativo rielaborato con sguardo giocoso e personale.
Le composizioni sono abitate da piccoli personaggi e visioni bizzarre che intrecciano ironia e meraviglia. La pittura diventa così uno spazio onirico, dove lo spettatore è invitato a perdersi lentamente nei dettagli.
A seguire, alle 19.30, il Trio La Rosa proporrà Mediterraneo d’Amore, concerto che attraversa le sonorità e le lingue delle coste mediterranee. Un repertorio che celebra emozioni e storie d’amore, con brani da Grecia, Turchia, Egitto, Spagna, Balcani e Nord Africa, eseguiti con strumenti tradizionali.
La mostra rientra nella rassegna estiva La Prospettiva estiva per il Fontanone, a cura dell’associazione Fatti d’Arte con direzione artistica di Veronica Bassani.
📅 Eventi in calendario:
Giovedì 10 luglio, ore 18.30 – Parole e movimento: presentazione del libro Buio Dentro di Edoardo Lughi con musica di Alex Bertozzi e performance di danza a cura di Anna Clara Conti per WAM! Festival.
Giovedì 17 luglio, ore 18.30 – Finissage: visita guidata con l’artista e il curatore Enea Mazzotti, seguita dallo spettacolo teatrale Sogno Today degli allievi di Fatti d’Arte.
Fatti d’Arte, attiva dal 2015, promuove la cultura con progetti che intrecciano teatro, pittura, fotografia e riflessione sociale. Dal 2022 anima il Fontanone con eventi estivi dedicati alle arti.
Yeah I still rely on fansubs for all my jdramas that don’t get official releases outside Japan (which is still most of them). The quality is instantly obvious compared to machine-generated crap.
Cultural context and an understanding of tone and narrative coherence is critical for subtitles if you want to do justice to the quality of the writing in the original language.
Yeah the irony of it all is that professionally subtitled shows were already inferior to fansubs, because the fansubbers were a self-selecting group of people who were fans of that show specifically. I guess Crunchyroll realized that their subs sucked anyway so why pay money for them?
Don’t forget that those fansubbers also want the watchers to get the feeling of the Japanese dubs, switching out sentences to match the voiced lines and still bring you the message, while non-fans just translate it.
I don’t see what the problem is with using AI for translations. if the translations are good enough and cheap enough, they should be used. If they’re not good enough, another business can offer better translations as a differentiator.
A good human translator is always the best solution.
But if the choice would be between crappy google translate or a LLM I would take the LLM translation.
There's no excuse for a big studio, they should hire translators. But for indie creators without a budget it can be the best way to get their creation to more people.
Even if it could it wouldn't matter, what makes art so valuable is the amount of work put into it. It's the highest effort form of communication you can imagine, it can express so much. An LLM chat bot could never do that.
If you need translation for just getting facts and information for say math equation and its annotation translated, there's little margin in variety, what you need is database - that's mostly fine.
Pieces need translation are usually not like that. They have cultural context, pun, wordplay in rhymes, structural parallel, underlying tone, a lot of things only work in the language originally written. Translation is always a (nearly impossible) challenge for the translator to reconstruct all of them in target language.
I did game translation for a while. Translation is a field where AI hit first and honestly I've seen people lowering standards. The criteria of "good enough", "passable" is not the same compared to pre-AI days, and will keep changing. I'm almost sure this trend is happening in every industry the same way, and "just translation" is a slippery slope.
I don’t know why it’s so difficult for these Ayn Rand readers to understand that almost no market is perfectly free, efficient, contestable or optimal. When it comes to licensing IP in particular, the overhead of trying to get permission for a show that’s already licensed by a competitor is an insurmountable barrier to entry for anyone who isn’t already a huge media conglomerate.
The only realistic alternative to shitty subtitles is piracy.
I don’t see what the problem is with using AI for translations. if the translations are good enough and cheap enough, they should be used.
Because machine translations for any large chunk of text are consistently awful: they don't get references right, they often miss the point of the original utterance, they ignore cultural context, so goes on. It's like wiping your arse with an old sock - sure, you could do it in a pinch, but you definitively don't want to do it regularly!
::: spoiler Verbose example, using Portuguese to English I'll give you an example, using PT→EN because I don't speak JP. Let's say Alice tells Bob "ma' tu é uma nota de três pila, né?" (literally: "bu[t] you're a three bucks bill, isn't it?") . A human translator will immediately notice a few things:
It's an informal and regional register. If Alice typically uses this register, it's part of her characterisation; else, it register shift is noteworthy. Either way, it's meaningful.
There's an idiom there; "nota de três pila" (three bucks bill). It conveys some[thing/one] is blatantly false.
There's a rhetorical question, worded like an accusation. The scene dictates how it should be interpreted.
So depending on the context, the translator might translate this as "ain't ya full of shit...", or perhaps "wow, you're as fake as Monopoly money, arentcha?". Now, check how chatbots do it:
GPT-4o mini: "But you're a three-buck note, right?"
Llama 4 Scout: "But you are a three-dollar bill, aren't you?"; or "You're a three-dollar bill, right?" (it offers both alternatives)
Both miss the mark. If you talk about three dollar bills in English, lots of people associate it with gay people, creating an association that simply does not exist in the original. The extremely informal and regional register is gone, as well as the accusatory tone.
With Claude shitting this pile of idiocy, that I had to screenshot because otherwise people wouldn't believe me:
\ [This is wrong on so many levels I don't... I don't even...]
This is what you get for AI translations between two IE languages in the same Sprachbund, that'll often do things in a similar way. It gets way worse for Japanese → English - because they're languages from different families, different cultures, that didn't historically interact that much. It's like the dumb shit above, multiplied by ten. :::
If they’re not good enough, another business can offer better translations as a differentiator.
That "business" is called watching pirated anime with fan subs, made by people who genuinely enjoy anime and want others to enjoy it too.
As much as people hate on dubs, this one reason I’m glad I tend to focus on them. The ADR team does a great job of translating and localization. Is it word for word the same as Japanese? No, if you want that, use AI. This keeps the spirit while making sure it’s more culturally understandable.
Time to cancel my Crunchyroll subscription. Oh wait I don't have one, I simply torrent my series.
Seriously now. The anime fansubbing scene is one that makes me genuinely happy. It shows me there are plenty amateurs out there that are as good or better than plenty professionals like me.
Sadly the german fansubbing scene basically evaporated when simulcast became a thing. 15 years ago you got some amazing subs, with signs translated (even when moving through the screen) and cultural information shown when it was needed to understand a scene or joke
I was already bitter about patrasche being translated/localized(?) as patlash in re:zero but things are getting even shittier I guess. For those not in the know Dog of Flanders is a story nearly every japanese person will know at least to some degree, and has been referenced infinitely in anime and manga.
And similarly so many weird fucking names you could search the katakana online and find 30 different game wikis that reveal it was just akward katakana for a common non-japanese name, but no it has to to be different in this anime or that manga and we are going to make up some aneurysm romanization for it.
or incorrect subject assumtion because japanese is vague on that and if it's ai translated it actually makes sense with the lack of context awareness, and the list could go on for days
If anyone trusted Crunchyroll after they removed comments and reviews, it's honestly kind of their fault, as much as I hate victim blaming. They have shown who they are time and time again, it's not hard to believe them.
Though, I think anyone in this community very likely already knows exactly who they are.
Bought some gatorade powder you can see in the photo. The recommended serving is 4 tablespoons for 750 mL of gatorade. I used around half of that, which is 10 spoons for 4 L (orange) and 10 spoons for 3 L (blue). ChatGPT recommended a quarter, but I was afraid it wouldn't taste anything. I'm also pretty confident he never tried it anyway, so who cares about the computer's opinion. Then it's a standard 1 kg of honey each and EC-1118 yeast with some nutrient for the road (I realize now that I might have put way too much of it, but I think they'll manage). Both were extremely sweet before the fermentation. I have doubts about the blue one, but high hopes for the orange one (this is no political statement btw). I actually have no idea how it will come out, but right now they're both bubbling nicely.
Never heard of it, but it sounds fun. I like mead because you can turn pretty much any drink into alcohol with it and the only specialized ingredient you need is yeast and sometimes nutrients. Everything else can be found at the grocery store. Turned some sodas (mountain dew being a classic, but also root beer), and fruit juices into mead, with mostly good results. Whereas ciders and wine requires the right kind of fruits, and I'm sure I'll never do better than what is already on the market. The future is in weird drinks. But lemonade wine seems nice, maybe I'll try it next.
Gatorwine is a thing that the internet has made known. It's a mix of wine and blue Gatorade. Babish mixed some up as part of an "I do your suggestions" episode.
Turns out that it isn't as horrible as it would seem. To the contrary, he liked it and did a second episode mixing up more varieties. So now it's a thing everywhere since he's fairly popular.
I could kind of see that working. Wine coolers are soda and wine, sangria is wine and juice, gatorade is just kool-aid and salt so it's somewhere between soda and juice. It's not classy, but it's not bad.
Your comparison to wine coolers is dead on, imo. It has that same overall profile where it's sweet and easy to drink. It isn't great, but it's not bad, and I could see someone that lollies likes drinking going through gallons of it. I don't like drinking, and I managed to kill a whole glass, which is saying a lot for me.
I think the blue one might have turned bad (probably my fault). It tastes like bacteria or something. The drink turned a weird green that can either look like an especially healthy potion, or some really chemical poison. (blue gatorade and yellow honey makes that, apparently) The orange one is not so bad, but nothing really good either. Right after bottling, I still discerned the chemical orange flavour, which was kind of nice, but after a few weeks of aging in bottles, I have a hard time telling what it tastes exactly. I can tell it's gatorade-based, but without a particular, recognizable gatorade flavor. The color is nice, though. It kept the clear, distinguishable orange from the gatorade. Just a bit darker. Taste-wise, it's definitively the worst batch I've made so far. Otherwise, I didn't get any headache from it and the orange one is still drinkable. 4/10 because it's got electrolytes.
I know I can google this, but I wanted to hear from the people as well. If someone shows you an album and asks your opinion, what would you look for?
My take: I know it is subjective to a degree. I know principles in composition are important But I am not sure I could be part of a discussion on the topic and it would be cool to!
Separate challenges by immigrant rights groups and an American detained by federal agents accuse officers of racial profiling, brutality and unlawful detentions.
If the budget bill passes, as seems likely to happen in the next couple hours, these abuses are going to go national.
Stop Killing Games is an European Citizens Initiative aiming to keep games playable even after their developers and publishers have stopped supporting it.
To get the initiative onto the EUs agenda so it has the chance to become EU law, it has to both reach 1 million signatures total and minimum thresholds in at least 7 countries. Now both of those goals have been reached. But that's no reason to stop signing! Some signatures will get thrown out in the validation phase because the signee made a mistake. So keep signing and show the world just how many people are in favour of saving videogames.
In a 92-minute interview with Tucker Carlson on Monday, RFK Jr. drilled down on his vision for the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Artificial intelligence — arguably, a uselessly vague umbrella term — came up multiple times. (As did conspiracy theories and disinformation on vaccines and autism, the medical establishment, and covid-19 deaths.)
As the head of HHS, Kennedy said his federal department is undergoing an “AI revolution.” He implored viewers to “stop trusting the experts,” as highlighted by Gizmodo, and, presumably, put their trust into AI instead of decades of scientific consensus.
[image of a svobenian google search result saying earth's age is 4.543 billion years]
A: how is it
A: (that) the earth is 4543 [sic] billion years old but the year is (only) 2025
B: idiot 🤦
Also a bit of a context, Svobenian is my Germanic conlang with strong Slavic influence (basically a descendant of Proto-Germanic with Slavic sound changes and many proto-slavic borrowings). I made this joke to demonstrate the difference between “vėtar” (year, cognate to English winter, used only as a time unit, e.g. 4.543 mlrd vėtř, meaning 4.543 billion years) and “jero” (cognate to English year, used in other contexts, e.g. jero 2025 “year 2025”)
Interesting. It’s a germanic language. Because “debil” the only part I got (having no knowledge of this conlang), I got because “débile” for dumb exists in french. Which I think comes from Latin debilis.
This word also exists in Polish, Lithuanian, and Russian, as a loanword from French. Because I imagine speakers of Svobenian living somewhere in central Europe (i even have the whole althist thing where i made Svobenia, country of Svobenians, being located in what is now Kaliningrad oblast), i find it sensible that they'd also borrow this word.
And yeah, it's a Germanic language, developing separately from probably originally Eastern Germanic branch, somewhere in what is now Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, but then got heavily influenced by some early West Slavic language. I'm gonna elaborate on the whole history of svobenes once i actually "finish" the language
Sono passati 3 anni dal mio primo approdo nel fediverso, e credo che sia abbastanza per farmi un idea generale su cosa sia e delineare dei pregi e difetti. sicuramente la cosa che mi piace è che è in costante evoluzione anche se devo dire molto lenta. In
Sono passati 3 anni dal mio primo approdo nel fediverso, e credo che sia abbastanza per farmi un idea generale su cosa sia e delineare dei pregi e difetti.
Non avevo letto il tuo post namirblog@namirblog.altervista.org (ti menziono anche come peppenamir@www.foxyhole.io perché non so se funziona il commento a wordpress) ma mi è capitato di vederlo ora, a poch ore dal lancio di questo nostro progetto citiverse.it
Sono d'accordo con la tua analisi: il Fediverso va promosso fuori dal Fediverso e, possibilmente, bisognerebbe anche evitare di chiamarlo Fediverso 😀
Chissà se il nostro citiverse riuscirà ad avvicinare un po' di gente?
PS: intanto sono molto contento di aver potuto "prendere" il tuo post di Wordpress e averlo "spostato" all'interno della categoria "Discussioni sul Fediverso"
Citiverse, la città dei social liberi, è l'alternativa aperta e italiana ai gruppi di Facebook dove è possibile parlare con persone della tua città o della tua tua organizzazione.
Un terribile incidente stradale ha portato via Diogo Jota, attaccante del Liverpool e pilastro della Nazionale portoghese. Aveva solo 28 anni. Con lui ha perso la vita anche il fratello minore, André Jota, anch’egli calciatore professionista. La tragedia si è consumata nelle prime ore del mattino lungo l’autostrada A-52, nei pressi di Villanueva de Sanabria, nella provincia di Zamora, in Spagna.
Today I can share a major development status update of XPipe, a connection hub that allows you to access your entire server infrastructure from your local desktop. It can make your life easier when working with any kind of servers by eliminating all the commonly tedious tasks that come up when interacting with remote systems, either from the terminal or from a graphical interface. XPipe comes with integrations for SSH, docker and other containers, various hypervisors, and more without requiring setup on your remote systems. You can also keep using your favourite text/code editors, terminals, password managers, shells, command-line tools, and more with it.
Docker compose
This release introduces support for docker compose. Containers in compose projects are grouped together and can be managed all at the same time via compose project entries.
The container state information shown is also improved, always showing the container state in combination with the system information.
Batch mode
There is now a batch mode available that allows you to select multiple systems via checkboxes and perform actions for the entire batch. This can include starting/stopping, automatically adding available subconnections, or running scripts on all selected systems.
You can toggle the batch mode in the top left corner.
Password managers
The password manager integrations have been upgraded: - There is now support for KeePassXC - All password manager integrations have been reworked to work out of the box without configuration - There is now support to use password manager SSH agents more easily - You can now unlock the xpipe vault with your password manager
Terminals
The terminal integration comes with many new features: - There is now built-in support for the terminal multiplexers tmux, zellij, and screen. This is especially useful for terminals without tabbing support. - There is also now built-in support for custom prompts with starship, oh-my-posh, and oh-my-zsh. - On Windows, you now have the ability to use a WSL distribution as the terminal environment, allowing you to use the new terminal multiplexer integration seamlessly on Windows systems as well.
SSH
Various improvements were made to the SSH implementation: - The SSH gateway implementation has been reworked so that you can now use local SSH keys and other identities for connections with gateways - The VSCode SSH remote integration has been reworked to allow more connections it to be opened in vscode. It now supports essentially all simple SSH connections, custom SSH connections, SSH config connections, and VM SSH connections. This support includes gateways - There is now built-in support to refresh an SSO openpubkey with the opkssh tool when needed - There is now the option to enable verbose ssh output to diagnose connection issues better - For VMs, you can now choose to not use the hypervisor host as SSH gateway and instead directly connect to the VM IP
Other
Connection names, e.g. VM names, will now automatically update on refresh when they were changed
You can now launch custom scripts within XPipe with a command output dialog window without having to open a terminal
Various installation types like the linux apt/rpm repository and homebrew installations now support automatic updates as well
The k8s integration will now automatically add all namespaces for the current context when searching for connections
The application window will now hide any unnecessary sidebars when being resized to a small width. This makes it much easier to use XPipe in a tiling window arrangement
The webtop has been updated to have terminal multiplexers, proper konsole tab support, disabled kwallet, and more
Various error messages and connection creation dialogs now contain a help link to the documentation sections
A note on the open-source model
Since it has come up a few times, in addition to the note in the git repository, I would like to clarify that XPipe is not fully FOSS software. The core that you can find on GitHub is Apache 2.0 licensed, but the distribution you download ships with closed-source extensions. There's also a licensing system in place with limitations on what kind of systems you can connect to in the community edition as I am trying to make a living out of this. I understand that this is a deal-breaker for some, so I wanted to give a heads-up.
Outlook
If this project sounds interesting to you, you can check it out on GitHub, visit the Website, or check out the Docs for more information.
More than 175 Democratic members of Congress are filing an amicus brief on Thursday opposing the Trump administration's overhaul of the U.S. Department of Education.
“The law couldn't be clearer: the president does not have the authority to unilaterally abolish the Department of Education,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren wrote in a statement first obtained by ABC News, adding, “Donald Trump is not a king, and he cannot single-handedly cut off access to education for students across this country.”
Warren and Reps. Jamie Raskin, Bobby Scott and Rosa DeLauro -- the ranking members of the House’s Education and Judiciary committees -- are leading the 15-page legal document. They’re joined by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, more than 20 Senate Democrats, and more than 150 other members of the House Democratic caucus.
The U.S. liquid coffee market is undergoing a rapid transformation fueled by evolving consumer preferences, the rising trend of on-the-go consumption, and a growing appetite for premium ready-to-drink (RTD) coffee offerings. According to insights from Persistence Market Research, the market has witnessed double-digit growth over the past five years and is expected to continue this trajectory through 2030.
A Market Percolating with Opportunity The shift toward convenience and premiumization has redefined the beverage landscape in the United States. The modern consumer, often strapped for time but unwilling to compromise on quality, is embracing liquid coffee formats such as bottled cold brews, canned lattes, and bag-in-box coffee concentrates.
The U.S. liquid coffee market—which includes RTD coffee beverages, coffee concentrates, and extract-based products—is poised to reach an estimated valuation of USD 6.8 billion by the end of 2025, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.2% from 2022 to 2025.
Key Growth Drivers Convenience and On-the-Go Culture The American work culture, characterized by long hours and hectic schedules, has accelerated the demand for grab-and-go beverages. Liquid coffee, available in portable and resealable formats, offers the perfect solution for busy professionals and commuters.
Cold Brew and Specialty Trends Cold brew coffee has emerged as a consumer favorite, appreciated for its smooth taste and lower acidity. Liquid coffee brands are leveraging this trend by expanding their product lines with flavored cold brews, nitro-infused variants, and non-dairy options.
Health-Conscious Consumers With wellness trends taking center stage, manufacturers are introducing low-sugar, plant-based, and functional coffee beverages enhanced with adaptogens, vitamins, and probiotics. These innovations appeal to the health-savvy consumer looking for a caffeine boost without the guilt.
Millennials and Gen Z Influence Younger demographics are driving demand for ethically sourced, sustainably packaged, and digitally accessible products. Liquid coffee brands are responding with eco-conscious packaging and social media campaigns targeting this tech-native generation.
Competitive Landscape and Innovation The U.S. liquid coffee space is highly competitive, with both established beverage conglomerates and emerging specialty players vying for shelf space. Industry giants like Starbucks, Nestlé, and PepsiCo (via its Starbucks RTD partnership) continue to dominate, but smaller brands such as La Colombe, Chameleon Cold-Brew, and Stumptown are capturing niche markets with craft appeal and innovative formulations.
To stay ahead, brands are investing in:
Sustainable Packaging: Recyclable cans, compostable cartons, and reusable glass bottles.
Flavor Experimentation: Infusions with lavender, vanilla oat, mocha almond, or turmeric.
Tech Integration: QR-coded packaging that leads to origin stories, brewing tips, and loyalty programs.
According to Persistence Market Research, technological advancements in cold-brew extraction, shelf-stable preservation, and nitrogen infusion are expected to further boost product quality and consumer trust.
Distribution Channels Expand Beyond Traditional Retail Another key factor contributing to the growth of the liquid coffee market is the diversification of distribution channels. While supermarkets and convenience stores remain primary sales points, other avenues are rapidly expanding:
E-commerce and Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) Platforms: Especially post-pandemic, online subscriptions and personalized delivery models have seen a major uptick.
Foodservice and Quick-Service Restaurants (QSRs): Many coffee brands are now offering liquid coffee solutions in bulk formats for offices, cafes, and hotels.
Vending and Micromarkets: Automated coffee vending with ready-to-drink options is increasingly common in office complexes, airports, and universities.
Challenges and Regulatory Outlook Despite its impressive growth, the market faces certain challenges:
Shelf Life and Storage Concerns: Ensuring stability and flavor retention over extended periods remains a concern, particularly for dairy-based and natural formulations.
Label Transparency and Clean Label Demands: Consumers are demanding clear ingredient lists, ethical sourcing, and minimal additives—requiring brands to reformulate or lose market share.
Price Sensitivity: Premium liquid coffee products can be priced significantly higher than traditional ground coffee, posing challenges in more price-conscious segments.
Still, with robust investment and evolving technology, these challenges are being addressed head-on. Persistence Market Research identifies increased R&D investments and regulatory compliance as key to long-term sustainability.
Regional Insights Within the United States, urban areas lead in consumption, with California, New York, Texas, and Florida being the largest markets. The West Coast, in particular, shows high adoption of cold brew and nitro varieties, while the Midwest exhibits growing interest in bulk and concentrate formats for office and institutional use.
Rural regions, though slower to adopt, are catching up via retail expansion and targeted marketing by national brands.
Future Outlook With consumers increasingly seeking high-quality, convenient caffeine experiences, the U.S. liquid coffee market is set to continue its robust expansion. As manufacturers focus on innovation, sustainability, and personalization, new product launches are expected to accelerate.
Persistence Market Research predicts that by 2030, more than 35% of total coffee consumption in the U.S. could come from liquid formats, marking a dramatic shift in traditional coffee consumption patterns.
The U.S. liquid coffee market outlook, projected to grow at a 6.4% compound annual growth rate, reaching US$ 6,913.4 Mn by 2032 from US$ 4,482.3 Mn in 2025
The development of AI in China enables the transformation of the authoritarian regime's passive censorship practice into the proactive shaping of people’s cognitive framework in favour of the single-party regime.
The development of AI in China enables the transformation of the authoritarian regime's passive censorship practice into the proactive shaping of people’s cognitive framework in favour of the single-party regime.
Gemini AI needs to be disabled on Android or it will override your privacy settings and gain full access to your texts, calls, and WhatsApp - even if you’ve turned off Gemini Apps Activity.
Gemini AI needs to be disabled on Android or it will override your privacy settings and gain full access to your texts, calls, and WhatsApp - even if you’ve turned off Gemini Apps Activity.
Studi clinici hanno dimostrato che le iniezioni semestrali di lenacapavir offrono una protezione quasi al 100% contro l'infezione da HIV. Tuttavia, restano importanti interrogativi sull'accessibilità economica del farmaco.
L'Organizzazione Mondiale della Sanità ha aggiunto la variante, formalmente nota come XFG, alla sua lista di monitoraggio. Tra i suoi sintomi principali rientrano la secchezza e l'irritazione della gola.
Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT can generate and revise text with human-level performance. These models come with clear limitations, can produce inaccurate information, and reinforce existing biases. Yet, many scientists use them for their scholarly writing. But how widespread is such LLM usage in the academic literature? To answer this question for the field of biomedical research, we present an unbiased, large-scale approach: We study vocabulary changes in more than 15 million biomedical abstracts from 2010 to 2024 indexed by PubMed and show how the appearance of LLMs led to an abrupt increase in the frequency of certain style words. This excess word analysis suggests that at least 13.5% of 2024 abstracts were processed with LLMs. This lower bound differed across disciplines, countries, and journals, reaching 40% for some subcorpora. We show that LLMs have had an unprecedented impact on scientific writing in biomedical research, surpassing the effect of major world events such as the COVID pandemic.
According to Apple, the EU is favoring certain companies and discriminating Apple. Users in the EU are still waiting for their iPhone mirroring on Macs,...
È probabilmente una cometa ed è solo la terza osservazione di questo tipo di qualcosa che ha avuto origine altrove
Un oggetto interstellare, cioè proveniente da un sistema solare diverso dal nostro, si sta dirigendo a grandissima velocità verso la Terra, ma non c’è nessun pericolo di impatto con il nostro pianeta. Dalle osservazioni svolte finora sembra che sia una cometa ed è stata chiamata 3I/ATLAS: è il terzo oggetto in viaggio tra sistemi solari diversi a essere stato mai notato nelle nostre vicinanze da quando puntiamo i telescopi verso il cielo. Nei prossimi mesi sarà studiato dagli astronomi, per approfondire le nostre conoscenze su come alcuni oggetti si mettano a vagare tra diversi sistemi solari all’interno della Via Lattea, la nostra galassia.
Nel sistema solare in cui ci troviamo si stima ci siano milioni di asteroidi e comete in orbita intorno al Sole, ma è raro che siano osservati corpi celesti provenienti da altrove, sia perché sono piccoli sia perché spesso rimangono a grande distanza da noi. Un telescopio in Cile, che fa parte di ATLAS, l’iniziativa della NASA per osservare i corpi celesti e capire se alcuni potrebbero scontrarsi con la Terra, aveva osservato per la prima volta un nuovo oggetto martedì 1 luglio, e inizialmente sembrava fosse un asteroide. Successive osservazioni avevano permesso di scoprire un’orbita insolita del corpo da poco osservato, portando alla conclusione che si trattasse con molta probabilità di qualcosa proveniente da un altro sistema solare.
Spesso sono necessarie alcune settimane prima di farsi un’idea dell’orbita di un oggetto di questo tipo, ma grazie a un astrofilo – cioè un appassionato che aveva controllato alcune osservazioni svolte da ATLAS a fine giugno – è stato possibile affinare da subito i calcoli, capendo meglio la traiettoria del nuovo corpo celeste. La notizia è circolata velocemente tra gli astronomi e gli appassionati di astronomia e negli ultimi giorni le decine di osservazioni fatte con vari telescopi in giro per il mondo hanno permesso di confermare, con un buon margine di certezza, che il misterioso oggetto è una cometa: cioè un corpo fatto per lo più di ghiaccio e di alcuni frammenti rocciosi (gli asteroidi sono invece per lo più rocciosi).
Mi sa che l’estate è proprio arrivata in via definitivamente ufficiale anche per me, perché stanotte ho veramente sofferto le pene dell’Inferno infuocato, da cui stamattina sono stata congendata più inzuppata di sudore liquido del solito… e quindi mi toccherà togliere il piumino. Si, il piumino a luglio, vietato giudicare. Questo è terribile, come tutti […]
notte infernalizzata tra caldo sudato e incubi dello stanco
Mi sa che l’estate è proprio arrivata in via definitivamente ufficiale anche per me, perché stanotte ho veramente sofferto le pene dell’Inferno infuocato, da cui stamattina sono stata congendata più inzuppata di sudore liquido del solito… e quindi mi toccherà togliere il piumino. Si, il piumino a luglio, vietato giudicare. Questo è terribile, come tutti gli anni, perché vorrà dire che il letto non avrà più quella solita classica pesantezza accogliente che bla bla bla, e io mi sentirò ihhhhh… Che grandi, gigantesche palle mosce! 😩
Ma, ovviamente, non è tutto così semplice; oltre ai danni, ci stanno le beffe. Avrò perso forse un’oretta di sonno complessivamente a causa della sofferenza, perché prima ci avrò messo almeno 3 quarti d’ora a prendere sonno definitivamente, poi mi sono svegliata credo una o due volte, di cui sicuramente l’ultima un’oretta prima della sveglia… che ne parliamo a fare, è banalmente il mio incubo peggiore che si avvera; magari marcisse soltanto il mio corpo nella pozza sottocoperta di acqua salata puzzolente ma lasciando in pace la mia anima… 🥀
Ah no, il mio incubo peggiore è avvenuto stanotte, ma è un altro. Senza approfondire troppo il contesto, ma ho sognato di essere stanca (nel mentre che lo ero davvero, visto che ho dormito come la cacca sciolta) tutta la mattinata fuori casa… quindi nel sogno mi sono chiesta come fosse possibile, e mi è venuto in mente: “ah, ero di fretta e ho dimenticato di prendere il caffè!” (cosa che, in un sogno non lucido, quindi percepito come reale, automaticamente mi ha pure peggiorato l’umore). Ora, sarebbe tanto simpatico sapere come mai il mio cervello ha generato quella come risposta al dubbio da lui stesso generato, visto che da un mese a questa parte la mattina sto bevendo sempre una quantità microscopica di caffè, visto che dormo abbastanza e rimango sempre a casa a marcire, e nel mentre (almeno consciamente, ma evidentemente solo lì) sapevo perfettamente di aver perso sonno… ma io giuro, in quei momenti la stanchezza l’ho sentita tutta. Potrei fottutamente cadere per sbaglio dal decimo piano in un sogno e non sentire alcun dolore, ma la stanchezza e la confusione mentale assolutamente si. E in effetti questa è la più perfettissima sintesi della stagione estiva. (Nonché degli effetti dei colpi di calore notturni sul cervello.) 🐡 pinterest.com/pin/759279437150… #caldo #dormire #estate #heat #incubo #night #nightmare #notte #sleep #sonno #summer #sweating
According to Apple, the EU is favoring certain companies and discriminating Apple. Users in the EU are still waiting for their iPhone mirroring on Macs,...
Because they know the EU won’t kick them out for petty thing like that. But it will lead to people being angry with the EU, instead of apple, which may eventually lead the EU to be more lenient with apple.
Basically they’re hijacking some of the democratic mechanisms of the EU to their advantage.
Since the early morning of July 2, 2025, the community of Cherán K’eri has been under armed attack by unknown subjects seeking to enter the areas of Rancho del Pino and Cerrito del Aire. In response, our Community Round (autonomous security force established by our system of self-government) has resisted the aggression, activating the barricades to protect the population. At the moment, one person has been reported killed and another injured, both members of the Community Round. This fact fills us with indignation, sadness, and rage.
This attack is not an isolated act. It is part of an escalation of violence that has intensified in the state of Michoacán, where organized crime fights over territory with total impunity, seriously affecting rural and Indigenous communities. In recent weeks, the aggressions have intensified in different regions of the state, including the Purépecha Plateau, where communities like Nahuatzen, Arantepacua, Capácuaro, and Santa Fe de la Laguna have also been the target of threats, armed incursions, and territorial dispossession.
Statement from the autonomous Purépecha community of Cherán K’eri, Michoacán, following an armed attack against the community. Since the early morning of July 2, 2025, the community of Cherán K’eri...
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"Una volta avanguardista, per sempre avanguardista" è un detto che nell'arte si può applicare a pochi. Più spesso, ciò che era lampo e voglia di scommettere, diventa nel peggiore dei casi un comodo canovaccio da ripetere sempre peggio, nel migliore uno stile da variare in maniera più o meno ispirata... Leggi e ascolta...
John Cale - Shifty Adventures In The Nookie Wood (2012)
“Una volta avanguardista, per sempre avanguardista” è un detto che nell'arte si può applicare a pochi. Più spesso, ciò che era lampo e voglia di scommettere, diventa nel peggiore dei casi un comodo canovaccio da ripetere sempre peggio, nel migliore uno stile da variare in maniera più o meno ispirata. Cale bazzica l'avanguardia fin da giovanissimo e, se negli anni ha seguito e approfondito la sua poetica, lo ha fatto in modo dinamico e aperto, non mancando di gettare ogni tanto uno sguardo a ciò che gli accadeva intorno. Se non sempre avanguardia, il percorso del Nostro è stato almeno uno stare al passo coi tempi diverso dal prendere un produttore alla moda per farsi sporcare i dischi e invecchiare rapidamente: piuttosto un giocare con lo spirito vicino al ludico delle avanguardie di inizio '900... sentireascoltare.com/recension…
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skankhunt42
in reply to ejizar • • •I want to call out one thing in case you didn't know.
The idea of a public VPN is to hide your traffic with other users who also use the VPN. If you're renting a VPS you don't get all the "benefits" of a public VPN. All you're doing is adding an extra hop to the internet, you're not mixing your traffic with others using the same IP. It's all you.... In fact, you're probably making it easier to isolate the things you do online because at home you could say a guest you had over must have downloaded it. If its the VPS, its all you.
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in reply to ejizar • • •As mentioned in the comments, the VPN isn't really viable here. That being said, your DNS iptable statements don't work for two reasons:
1. TCP 53 isn't going to be used unless something like EDNS or zone transfers occur which is like never.
2. The first statement blocks any traffic on the output chain (leaving your network) that is destined to a remote UDP port 53. This kills your access to any off-device DNS server.
You would have to have an ACCEPT statement to allow the DNS traffic through the VPN. Something like:
iptables -A OUTPUT -o tun0 -p udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPTejizar
in reply to Mordikan • • •Why do you think that a VPN isn't viable?
I don't understand it, why doesn't these commands block internet access when they block DNS traffic like the ufw command?
Mordikan
in reply to ejizar • • •The problem here is that it sounds like you think torrenting traffic is using the self-hosted VPN, but that wouldn't be true.
Here is how it sounds like it is currently working:
Torrent Client -> VPN interface -> Default interface -> Torrent Users
You could probably confirm that with mtr/traceroutes and bmon.
The reason your internet goes done when you run your iptable statements is because you're preventing DNS resolution which uses UDP 53 from leaving the device. Even if you are running your own DNS server on that VPS, unless you have trackers' statically mapped, DNS recursion has to be allowed for your VPS to determine host IPs.
ejizar
in reply to Mordikan • • •Nope, I checked the traffic with mtr and it connects directly to the internal IP address of the server. Also I've bound the torrent client to the network interface of the VPN to ensure the traffic goes through the VPN.
I understand. The problem with the rules above though is that it would block my regular network interface even after the VPN goes down. That's why I created some postup and postdown rules for the Wireguard config.
PostUp = iptables -I OUTPUT -o %i -p udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT && iptables -A OUTPUT ! -o %i -p udp --dport 53 -j DROPPreDown = iptables -D OUTPUT -o %i -p udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT && iptables -D OUTPUT ! -o %i -p udp --dport 53 -j DROPThis only activates the rules while the VPN interface is on.
Mordikan
in reply to ejizar • • •curl ipinfo.iothen does that show an IP address present inip addr?ejizar
in reply to Mordikan • • •curl ipinfo.ioandip addrdoesn't match. The first command contacts a server outside the network, so it shows a public IP address while the other shows the internal IP addresses of the network interfaces.Mordikan
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in reply to ejizar • • •That’s stupid.
You have a computer with your name on it in a country where what you’re doing is legal and you’re connecting to it using a process that authenticates with a shared secret from another computer that most likely has your name on it in a country where what you’re doing is illegal.
You’re not fooling anyone and by creating your own crime tunnel with your name on both ends of it and I’m gonna hesitate to use specific legal language to describe the new, more serious type of crime you are now committing because it’s different all over but there’s almost always a type of wire fraud that covers this because banks all tried to do it when different kinds of electronic transfers popped up.
Just use air like a normal person.
ejizar
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in reply to ejizar • • •Again, you’re making what reads like an incredibly stupid decision.
You have a computer with your name on it, the vps you set up, in a country where your actions are legal and another with your name on it in a country where you reside and your actions aren’t legal.
You connect to the vps using a protocol that authenticates your identity.
Let me just walk through the steps to prosecute you for piracy or a different crime with much more serious consequences:
Through leaky dns, a tipoff, some transformer or just the usual 24/7 isp traffic analysis someone realizes you’re doing a piracy.
They get logs from the isp and if your bad dns doesn’t give you up immediately then they see the outlier ip of the vps. ISPs always cooperate, often the special relationship between companies that are allowed to operate critical infrastructure and law enforcement is enshrined in law.
Whois points them at the vps company, whose policies may require them to get a warrant or equivalent in order to allow law enforcement into your actual running vps but will absolutely comply with kyc aligned requests and laws.
As an aside, you may think that the vps provider could stand up against the cops for you, but they’re not doing that. No one is keeping their mouth shut for $3/mo unless that’s their literal whole business model. They’ll just find new tenants.
Anyway so now they know it’s you on each end and have an airtight piracy case. If that seems like a lot of work to do through for someone whose downloading SpongeBob, it is! Piracy investigations are often not worthwhile as crimes in and of themselves.
The cops will have a strong incentive to get you on other charges, so when they search your house they’ll be looking not only for the computer with your name on it but for anything that could be misconstrued as illegal or prohibited. Hope you’re clean.
But assuming you don’t have an unregistered firearm and pile of illicit drugs next to your computer they’ll still take the computer in for a snoopin. Assuming again that nothing is found but wholesome episodes of SpongeBob on your computer they will without any doubt find your /etc/WireGuard folder with all the config files. Oh, they go to the vps you rented. Imagine that!
In America the crime of setting up a telecommunications system for the purpose of doing something illegal is prosecuted as wire fraud. It might be called different things in different countries but the basic conditions for the creation of law around those actions were about the same everywhere: big money stealin’ using new telegraph technology. The specific technology may have changed but the law inevitably didn’t, so they’ll pile the wire fraud equivalent charge onto you.
I don’t know your country but piracy is probably a low level crime there compared to wire fraud. So instead of facing a fine or a few months for downloading a soccer game now you’re facing a big monetary penalty and many years in jail for creating a system of wire fraud.
Even the often times not very smart police can figure out how to do this. You can check this out by looking in your own countries cop arrest records and see what they’re jamming people up for when it comes to computer crimes. It’s usually the local equivalent of wire fraud when they can get it because the newer, computer specific laws are harder to convict under or have more lenient penalties proscribed.
So anyway, instead of literally building an illegal crime tunnel which is a much worse crime than piracy, spend the money on air or one of the other piracy vpns. You’ll be saving yourself a lot of headache and protecting yourself much better than you did with a home built system.
I took the time to write this out much more explicitly after being told to fuck off because you’re making an incredibly stupid decision. I don’t want you to feel stupid, but I want you to recognize that you’re pursuing a more difficult path that opens you up to much more serious charges and which you are not even capable of getting up and running at the moment.
Just think on that for a second.
You can’t get your illegal crime tunnel working right and you’re asking for help with it on a public forum.
It’s good to try things for the sake of learning. I would strongly advise against trying to learn by doing illegal things and asking for help in public in the strongest possible terms.
Go get a piracy vpn service instead. It accomplishes your goals and keeps you safer than your home grown would if it were working.
ejizar
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