China’s ‘green great wall’ in Inner Mongolia traps 3 more deserts
China’s ‘green great wall’ in Inner Mongolia traps 3 more deserts
Last straw checkerboard placed at Badain Jaran Desert completes 1,856km green belt that also runs across the Tengger and Ulan Buh deserts.Victoria Bela (South China Morning Post)
Recensione di Elsa Crema Marmori. L'ultima fatica di Giuseppe Iannozzi
Due delle mie poesie preferite, le più viscerali per me: "Padre e figlia" e "Sorella di Perfezione".
"Padre e figlia" è un potente inno alla vita, alla gioia, al sorriso che apre il cuore e scaccia le lacrime. Il tutto di fronte alla Bellezza dell'esistenza e della natura con i suoi momenti belli e brutti.
"Sorella di Perfezione" appare un testo denso e potente, ricco di urla fra i denti: è impossibile sfuggire a errori e passi falsi: la perfezione è un obiettivo, un ideale per cui lottare e imparare a crescere, e crescere, lo sappiamo
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Laid off Candy Crush studio staff reportedly replaced by the AI tools they helped build
- Many of the staff cut will effectively be replaced by the AI tools they built and trained
- The London-based Farm Heroes Saga team is being ‘cut in half’ with about 50 people leaving, including key leadership
- One staffer claims employees are being targeted by HR for loudly expressing dissatisfaction internally
- King told staff it will present a new org chart in September after union negotiations. Many staff are now in limbo for the summer
- A recent internal survey showed morale at an all-time low – it’s now “in the gutter”
Laid off King staff set to be replaced by the AI tools they helped build, say sources
Insiders paint a grim picture at King with half the Farm Heroes Saga team set to depart and morale “in the gutter”.Mobilegamer.biz
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AI Isn’t Responsible for Slop. We Are Doing It to Ourselves
AI Isn’t Responsible for Slop. We Are Doing It to Ourselves
Our inability or unwillingness to have our attitudes and beliefs challenged isn’t just an aesthetic problem, it is a political one, writes José Marichal.José Marichal (Tech Policy Press)
Research leaders urge tech industry to monitor AI’s ‘thoughts’
Chain of Thought Monitorability: A New and Fragile Opportunity for AI Safety
Twitter | Paper PDF Seven years ago, OpenAI five had just been released, and many people in the AI safety community expected AIs to be opaque RL agents.www.greaterwrong.com
Palestinian American comedian uses humor to process the war in Gaza
Palestinian American comedian uses humor to process the war in Gaza
Comedy has long been a way to bring a different, lighter lens to heavy topics. That holds true for Palestinian American comedian Sammy Obeid, who has taken to the stage to spotlight the pain of the war in Gaza.Amna Nawaz (PBS News)
AI that delivers smarter glucose predictions without compromising privacy
AI that delivers smarter glucose predictions without compromising privacy
Managing diabetes is a daily challenge faced by nearly 40 million Americans. It involves tracking food intake, timing medication and engaging in physical…National Science Foundation
Looking for an alternative to google wallet, when it’s the default option to download a German travel card.
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33213275
I now reside in Germany and my current employer pays 50% of this so called Deutschland-Job-Ticket. There is no physical card but travel information you download to an android wallet, but apparently google wallet is the only available option. See the picture:
Google is a company I don’t trust with my data, neither do I expect your regular public transportation authority employee to care about his privacy (he looked at me as I was asking if 2 + 2 equal 4). I am not aware of non google based wallets where I can download the travel information.
I tried some f-droid and droidify options but it turns out they’re pure crap.
The site: abo.ride-ticketing.de/app/ I log in with my username and password, get my travel information and on the bottom the picture I uploaded.
Any workarounds?
This being Germany, shouldn’t there be an alternative to those who refuse google? Don’t I have that right as a consumer?
Another question: I screenshot my logged in session on the link I provided where you see my qr code and my billing data. The public transportation employee told me that’s not allowed (wtf?). Can anyone here provide a rationale?
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Are you 100% sure there is no physical card? Did you ask the local provider? I just ask, because I have a physical card for the Deutschland Ticket.
Other than that there is a Deutschland Ticket app. But it won't work for every provider. It does not for mine.
play.google.com/store/apps/det…
Deutschlandticket.de App - Apps on Google Play
View your Germany ticket and manage your subscription.play.google.com
What happens if you go to the same website on desktop mode? In some regions they provide the Deutschlandticket as a qr code. Just make a screenshot of that.
il mio quaderno delle uccisioni 🥰 (quadernino per raccogliere i cadaveri delle zanzare)
Ormai lo sappiamo: la probabilità di riuscire casualmente a cacciare fuori nuove idee geniali e prestigiose è inversamente proporzionale alla “sanità mentale” (intesa come la intendono i normaloidi, che puntualmente sono quegli individui sempre perfettamente banalotti e persistentemente dimenticabili) media del momento preso in esame… Ed è proprio per questo che io mi rifiuterò sempre […]
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il mio quaderno delle uccisioni 🥰 (quadernino per raccogliere i cadaveri delle zanzare)
Ormai lo sappiamo: la probabilità di riuscire casualmente a cacciare fuori nuove idee geniali e prestigiose è inversamente proporzionale alla “sanità mentale” (intesa come la intendono i normaloidi, che puntualmente sono quegli individui sempre perfettamente banalotti e persistentemente dimenticabili) media del momento preso in esame… Ed è proprio per questo che io mi rifiuterò sempre e comunque di prendere le “medicine”, e che come postulato a questa osservazione abbiamo proprio l’impeto creativo che ieri sera, nel mezzo della mia disperazione dovuta alle cose da fare, ho accolto senza pensarci due volte (…e che sul momento non ho avuto tempo di postare, mentre stamattina non ho avuto voglia, il pomeriggio me ne sono proprio scordata, e la sera appena finita ho fatto altro, ops). 🦟Allora, ieri sera è apparsa una zanzara davanti a me alla scrivania, di botto. Era molto scema, tant’è che l’ho ciaccata subito con le mani e senza nemmeno sporcarmi… ed è esattamente in quell’istante, vedendo bene a fuoco sotto il mio naso la carcassa di quell’essere della specie più assolutamente demoniaca — non banalmente fastidiosa, e non solamente aggressiva, ma attivamente invadente ed ostile, costantemente alla ricerca di creature a sangue caldo per l’intero globo terracqueo, con il preciso intento di violarle, fisicamente e, di conseguenza, emotivamente — ho avuto l’illuminazione definitiva. Quegli esseri immondi non vogliono semplicemente il mio o il vostro sangue — se così fosse, se lo prenderebbero tranquillamente da un piattino o qualcosa del genere lasciato in stanza, e detto francamente non mi dispiacerebbe affatto doverglielo cedere,
perché quantomeno avrei una scusa per tagliarmi considerata valida dai normaloidi…Quelle merde vogliono avvelenarci, con le loro punture fatte sempre a cazzo di cane, essendo loro spesso incapaci di centrare i vasi sanguigni, finendo per iniettare quantità industriali di sostanza irritante (è quella che causa il gonfiore) nell’epidermide, causando quel prurito infuocato difficilmente spiegabile a parole… 😖😡😠👹
Nel mentre che l’insettaccio allora giaceva morto ad aspettare, io cercavo un quadernino, di dimensioni piccole e poche pagine, giusto da usare per un solo preciso scopo… collezionare fisicamente questi cadaveri, affiancati da essenzialissimi necrologi (ovviamente scritti tutti con le penne colorate, in contrasto al nero della morte di per sé e di questi pezzi di biomassa). Non ce l’avevo, ovviamente, e non volevo prenderne uno buono grosso dal mio malloppetto, perché sul momento temevo che questa specie di mia sadica missione puramente vendicativa non potesse davvero continuare oltre quell’attimo… voglio dire, mica saranno tutte così sceme le zanzare da farsi continuare a prendere come ha fatto questa qui… E, invece, proprio stasera ne è uscita un’altra: siamo già a quota 2, su un totale stimato contenibile (se mantengo la corrente densità di archiviazione) di 72, per un raccoglitore che ho creato non altro che suddividendo 1 foglio protocollo A4 in una serie di fogli A5 spillati (quindi, blocchetto A6). 🐹
Forse è meglio che io sia arrivata solo ora, ben tardi come al solito, per fare questo post, allora… perché il quadernino è già molto più piacevole da vedere con ben due vittime, la cui esistenza malvagia è stata dalla sottoscritta terminata,per sempre. Mamma mia regà, lo dico senza mezzi termini: non solo ho proprio una voglia morbosa ed irrefrenabile di commettere un terribile genocidio contro questi affari, ma, non capisco perché, sento di doverne esporre in questo modo i resti alla gogna perpetua; e, tra carta e scotch, in questo mi sento assolutamente invincibile. Spero solo che non si decompongano, perché voglio che rimangano davvero per sempre, deve essere un monito… ma incastrati così non dovrebbero evaporare, suppongo; spero. 🥱Ma… sapete cosa? Vi butto anche una confessione, così, perché io sono fiera della mia malvagità, e me ne frego di cosa gli attivisti per i diritti degli insetti potrebbero dire… In realtà, questa estate, per il momento, non mi risulta di essere stata morsa nemmeno una volta dalle zanzare (o forse, letteralmente solo una volta e poi niente; anche perché di sera, che è il periodo in cui girano di più, io sto sempre segregata in casa)… o, se è successo, hanno prelevato il sangue sempre bene, ma francamente ne dubito. “Ohhh noooo, come puoi fare tutto questo, le zanzare ti stanno lasciando stare e tu le ringrazi in questo modo, razza di assassina” — SILENZIO!!! Il periodo che va dalla fine di un’estate all’inizio della successiva non determina la fine della guerra, ma meramente un periodo di cessate il fuoco; insomma, gli attacchi subiti in passato hanno ancora un peso, ed ora è francamente arrivato il momento più perfetto per le ritorsioni, le quali non sono ulteriormente ritardabili! (E, casomai questa argomentazione non dovesse convincere… diciamo che lo sto facendo per vendicare la gente a me vicina, che invece quest’estate sta venendo assalita tranquillamente, e la chiudiamo qui, buonanotte!) 😂🔪
#cadaveri #collezione #genocidio #mosquito #quadernino #sadismo #uccisioni #zanzare
Looking for an alternative to google wallet, when it’s the default option to download a German travel card on my android.
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33213275
I know android is minimally related to linux and the question doesn't resemble a typical question for a linux forum but each time I've asked here you've provided valuable information:I now reside in Germany and my current employer pays 50% of this so called Deutschland-Job-Ticket. There is no physical card but travel information you download to an android wallet, but apparently google wallet is the only available option. See the picture:
Google is a company I don’t trust with my data, neither do I expect your regular public transportation authority employee to care about his privacy (he looked at me as I was asking if 2 + 2 equal 4). I am not aware of non google based wallets where I can download the travel information.
I tried some f-droid and droidify options but it turns out they’re pure crap.
The site: abo.ride-ticketing.de/app/ I log in with my username and password, get my travel information and on the bottom the picture I uploaded.
Any workarounds?
This being Germany, shouldn’t there be an alternative to those who refuse google? Don’t I have that right as a consumer?
Another question: I screenshot my logged in session on the link I provided where you see my qr code and my billing data. The public transportation employee told me that’s not allowed (wtf?). Can anyone here provide a rationale?
I'm using fWallet for Eurostar, plane tickets, etc anything with PkPass. Very minimalist, just does the job.
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The Pentagon wants to build millions of drones without Chinese parts. It's off to a bad start.
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WeTransfer says files not used to train AI after backlash
WeTransfer says files not used to train AI after backlash
Some social media users had threatened to delete their accounts after WeTransfer's terms were updated.Imran Rahman-Jones (BBC News)
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Hugging Face Is Hosting 5,000 Nonconsensual AI Models of Real People
Hugging Face Is Hosting 5,000 Nonconsensual AI Models of Real People
Users have reuploaded 5,000 models used to generate nonconsensual sexual content of real people to Hugging Face after they were banned from Civitai.Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
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Corbyn-Sultana party could draw level with Labour, new polling suggests
The survey, conducted by pollsters Find Out Now, indicates that a Corbyn-Sultana party could significantly dent Labour’s share of the vote. Of the 650 people polled, 15% said they would support the new party, matching Labour’s 15% share.
The greatest level of support for a potential new party comes from those aged 18–29, with 33% saying they would back a new left-wing party — ahead of Reform UK (24%) and Labour (18%).
Sultana, MP for Coventry South, resigned the Labour whip earlier this month to focus on leading a new party with the former Labour leader. There has not yet been a formal launch, but Mr Corbyn has pledged the party will “be for justice”.
Corbyn-Sultana party could draw level with Labour, new polling suggests
A new poll suggests that a party jointly led by Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn could be level with Labour in national voting intention.Connor Hand (LBC)
They could draw level with Labour, sure. But hypothetical polls like this are pretty much worthless in terms of predictive value.
What this does show is that lots of people, especially young, left wing people, are angry at the government and want them to change direction.
Holidays in the Lake District
I recently went on a holiday trip to the Lake District in England, staying a week in Windermere. This was a really nice break, and it’s a wonderful place to explore.
The towns of Windermere and Bowness-on-Windermere are lovely to explore, with plenty of nice places to eat out at. La Trattoria and Jintana in the town centre of Bowness are particularly good. The bus routes connecting the towns nearby, and with stops making walking routes accessible outwith the towns, are all fairly frequent and quite cheap to use. Walking in the towns in OK, but the traffic can be quite bad, and I really feel that the whole area would benefit from some modern traffic reduction schemes. There are a few cruises around the lakes that are a bit expensive, and a cheaper frequent ferry service to get across for walks or cycles.
I did two long distance walks over a whole day. I started with a clockwise walk around the lake, starting at Windermere, taking the ferry across, and hiking up Claife Heights, then continuing round to Ambleside. I stopped off at Wray Castle, which unfortunately has been closed for renovations. The views from Claife Heights gave some very nice vistas of the pikes to the west, and the air force exercises that take place over the lakes, while I had a picnic lunch.
The walking routes on the west side of Lake Windermere are fairly good, with lots of segregated pathways for cycles and hikers, but there are quite a few areas where inexplicably you have to rejoin a very busy carriageway which makes for some unpleasant negotiations with traffic.
Later in the week I did a longer walk starting with a bus up to Troutbeck, where I hiked along to High Street, and then back along the hiking trail to Windermere. This walk was less pleasant than the first as I spent most of the several hours stuck in cloud cover. The path is well marked so as long as I didn’t stray I couldn’t get lost, but it did mean that I missed out on the nice views, only getting a small glimpse of the valleys nearby at the very top of the trail.
I managed to see a lot of dragonfly and damselfly, and even a far off glimpse of a red kite. There were a lot of sheep, and a few deer, up the mountains.
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Jeffrey Sachs: End of the Western-Centric World & Rise of BRICS
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Swapping from Win10 on laptop
I have an old laptop that I use as a Minecraft server as well as running RPG campaigns during game night. I'm getting tired of Windows 10 and I'm looking for a good replacement. I don't have a lot of experience with Linux lately, the last time I did anything with it was maybe 10 years or so ago and I used Ubuntu, which I've read here is maybe not a good choice any longer. Stats of laptop are below. Recommendations are appreciated, thanks.
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4800MQ CPU @ 2.70GHz 2.70 GHz
Installed RAM 16.0 GB (15.8 GB usable)
Graphics Card NVIDIA Quadro K2100M (2 GB), Intel(R) HD Graphics 4600 (113 MB)
You never see it mentioned, but PCLOS is a great Linux starter OS. It was started by Bill Reynolds, TexStar, and is tock solid. It is my go-to when installing Linux for new users because it is extremely stable, has a great community, and avoids anything bleeding edge.
www.distrowatch.com is a great place to get an overview of most Linux and BSD distros.
Host Your Own Bluesky PDS: A Complete Azure-Powered Guide
Host Your Own Bluesky PDS: A Complete Azure-Powered Guide
How I built and configured a Bluesky PDS in AzureChris Greenacre (Tophhie Cloud Blog)
Grok's Hate Speech Meltdown Exposes AI's Hidden Bias Crisis
Grok's Hate Speech Meltdown Exposes AI's Hidden Bias Crisis
Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot sparked controversy with antisemitic responses, revealing deeper systemic bias problems across major AI language models.GazeOn Team (GazeOn)
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Grok's Hate Speech Meltdown Exposes AI's Hidden Bias Crisis
Grok's Hate Speech Meltdown Exposes AI's Hidden Bias Crisis
Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot sparked controversy with antisemitic responses, revealing deeper systemic bias problems across major AI language models.GazeOn Team (GazeOn)
Verifica Età Social: Guida al Progetto Pilota UE in Italia - Pianeta Tecnologia
Verifica Età Social: Guida al Progetto Pilota UE in Italia - Pianeta Tecnologia
Parte in Italia il test UE per la verifica dell'età sui social. Scopri come funziona, l'impatto sulla privacy e cosa cambia per te con il nostro approfondimento.Pietro Iaria (Pianeta Tecnologia)
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AMD to resume MI308 AI chip exports to China
AMD to resume MI308 AI chip exports to China
The U.S. Commerce Department told AMD that it will resume reviewing license applications required to send its MI308 products to China.Samantha Subin (CNBC)
AMD to resume MI308 AI chip exports to China
AMD to resume MI308 AI chip exports to China
The U.S. Commerce Department told AMD that it will resume reviewing license applications required to send its MI308 products to China.Samantha Subin (CNBC)
Jeff Bezos taps former Amazon Alexa head to lead $10 billion Earth fund
Jeff Bezos taps former Amazon Alexa head to lead $10 billion Earth fund
The Bezos Earth fund has disbursed roughly $2.3 billion in grants to "preserve and protect the natural world" since launching in 2020.Annie Palmer (CNBC)
Jeff Bezos taps former Amazon Alexa head to lead $10 billion Earth fund
Jeff Bezos taps former Amazon Alexa head to lead $10 billion Earth fund
The Bezos Earth fund has disbursed roughly $2.3 billion in grants to "preserve and protect the natural world" since launching in 2020.Annie Palmer (CNBC)
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We're Not Innovating, We’re Just Forgetting Slower
We're Not Innovating, We’re Just Forgetting Slower
We’ve mistaken complexity for progress — and forgotten how things work. A 41-year-old computer still boots instantly, while today’s “smart” tech buckles.Elektormagazine
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