Starlink says it is experiencing network outage
Starlink says it is experiencing network outage
Starlink is experiencing a network outage, Elon Musk’s SpaceX-owned satellite internet company said on Thursday, with Downdetector showing that the service was down for thousands of users.Reuters Staff (CTVNews)
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Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals
The Sapienza computer scientists say Wi-Fi signals offer superior surveillance potential compared to cameras because they're not affected by light conditions, can penetrate walls and other obstacles, and they're more privacy-preserving than visual images.[…] The Rome-based researchers who proposed WhoFi claim their technique makes accurate matches on the public NTU-Fi dataset up to 95.5 percent of the time when the deep neural network uses the transformer encoding architecture.
Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals
: Wi-Fi spy with my little eye that same guy I saw at another hotspotThomas Claburn (The Register)
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As Starvation Rises, Israeli Minister Says Israel Is ‘Driving Out’ Gazans
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33633211
Amichay Eliyahu’s comments came amid growing hunger in the territory, where Israel controls the delivery of food.Patrick Kingsley and Johnatan Reiss
July 24, 2025 Updated 5:23 p.m. ET
As Starvation Rises, Israeli Minister Says Israel Is ‘Driving Out’ Gazans
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Amichay Eliyahu’s comments came amid growing hunger in the territory, where Israel controls the delivery of food.Patrick Kingsley and Johnatan Reiss
July 24, 2025 Updated 5:23 p.m. ET
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As Starvation Rises, Israeli Minister Says Israel Is ‘Driving Out’ Gazans
Amichay Eliyahu’s comments came amid growing hunger in the territory, where Israel controls the delivery of food.
Patrick Kingsley and Johnatan Reiss
July 24, 2025 Updated 5:23 p.m. ET
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/world/middleeast/israel-minister-gaza-driving-out.html
Manus! Китайский ИИ, который меняет правила игры: вы уже попробовали?
Если вы уже пользовались этой ИИ, расскажите, пожалуйста, каков ваш опыт разработки приложений для компьютера с её помощью? Насколько удобно и эффективно оказалось использовать Manus для таких задач?
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ripaperamento delle pigne nintendiche per mezzo del cartatore (aggiornamenti Papiellify e usi pratici)
È ovviamente ironico ma, anche per via del mio nuovo Papiellify che mi sta tenendo letteralmente le mani occupate, adesso sto scrivendo meno papielli della roba mia qui sopra… peccato. Ma va bene, suppongo ci sia comunque tempo per scrivere un piccolo aggiornamento, prima di andare a letto… tanto, se già ieri sera ho ampiamente […]
Throwback Thursday – 2015 Jim Ott Brass Ensemble
With the passing of Chuck Mangione at age 84 today, I’m dedicating this week’s Throwback Thursday to the time I played a Mangione chat, Legend of the One Eyed Sailor, with the Jim Ott Brass Ensemble at the 2015 Drum Corps International World Championships Semifinals.
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A group of us also played at SoundSport the following morning.
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As a bonus, here’s the original performance by the 1976 Blue Devils as they won their first DCI title.
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And, to finish, the original chart.
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Rest in peace, Chuck. I’m glad you saw how much drum corps loved your music.
Jazz legend Chuck Mangione dies: Famed trumpeter and composer was 84
“The family of Chuck Mangione is deeply saddened to share that Chuck peacefully passed away in his sleep at his home in Rochester, New York on July 22, 2025.", USA TODAY (USA TODAY)
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I have yt-dlp but not sure what url to use. Obviously the webpage's url doesn't work. Any ideas?
Cockatoos on a cruise | Usborne | Des livres pour explorer le monde
When Bruce and Sue the cockatoos take their little nephew Lou on a luxury cruise, he causes chaos on every deck. But he might just save the day in ...usborne.com
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Video DownloadHelper – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)
Download Video DownloadHelper for Firefox. Download videos from the web. Easy, smart, no tracking.addons.mozilla.org
Trump’s order to make chatbots anti-woke is unconstitutional, senator says
Sen. Markey Urges AI Companies to Reject Trump’s Unconstitutional “Anti-Woke” AI Actions | U.S. Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts
Markey says Trump’s AI Action Plan and Executive Order are “factually baseless and patently...www.markey.senate.gov
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Israel hosting MAGA influencers for propaganda training
Israel is paying to have MAGA social media influencers, with millions of followers, visit Israel to learn how to keep US youth supporting Israel, ignoring Gaza.
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Updated age ratings in App Store Connect
Updated age ratings in App Store Connect - Latest News - Apple Developer
The App Store is designed to be a safe and trusted place for all ages, including children. The age rating system for apps and games has been updated in order to provide people with more granular age ratings.developer.apple.com
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Spoof Android User Agents without rooting
Is it possible to Spoof Android User Agents without rooting? I have found github.com/ray-lothian/UserAge… but it requires rooting. Since I'm using GOS I don't think rooting my device is a good idea.
thanks a lot for your help
GitHub - ray-lothian/UserAgent-Switcher: A User-Agent spoofer browser extension that is highly configurable
A User-Agent spoofer browser extension that is highly configurable - ray-lothian/UserAgent-SwitcherGitHub
My post might be misleading and I’m really sorry
By android UA I actually meant system wise UA, so that with one spoof all the app installed on the system would recognize my device as the spoofed one, no just the browser
Musk’s Starlink hit with hours-long outage after rollout of T-Mobile satellite service
Musk’s Starlink hit with hours-long outage after rollout of T-Mobile satellite service
The Starlink-powered satellite service from T-Mobile called T-Satellite rolled out to the public on Wednesday.Chris Eudaily (CNBC)
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I highly suggest extending max title length to 225-250 characters to allow titles to be more descriptive and anti clickbaiting.
Lemmy is by default a link aggregator which means users who are browsing posts get 2 things only:
- Link.
- Title.
From my experience, literally those 25 extra characters could just include that word that can be the word that will give a meaning to the previous 200 characters. Especially that the main competitor for Lemmy (Reddit) allows for up to 300 characters titles.
Overall, it seems pretty essential to give people more context about the link they about to click.
Example where extra characters would highly improve the title: programming.dev/post/34472919
Pam Bondi Pulls Out Of Anti-Trafficking Event Over Medical Issue
The timing is curious, as the Jeffrey Epstein fallout continues to rage on.
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Kobe Bryant dedicated all his waking hours to basketball, and I don’t think there’s a lot of people saying that Kobe Bryant shouldn’t have worked as hard as he did.
Yeah, but he was working to achieve something for himself and not to make some parasite richer.
SocialHub developer community: Reboot or Shutdown?
(Originally posted in response to @how's announced ultimatum wrt the future of SocialHub.)
Unless a community team steps up, SocialHub will cease to be ..
@how is urgently asking members of this community to brainstorm and consider options to keep this community not only alive, but make it thrive as one of the grassroots developer centers that help evolve the fediverse.
SocialHub Community Values Policy
Now there’s a deadline: the activitypub.eu domain that hosts this community’s email service expires on September 10, 2025 [..]So, either way the change is coming. I’d rather have it come in a structured way.
In 2019 @how and Petites Singularités graciously took custodianship of SocialHub, and I for one am very thankful for that! I am sure many in the fediverse developer landscape share that gratitude too.
For people reading this and considering community involvement.. when does P.S. plan to give public announcement / responsible disclosure of SocialHub winding down?
SocialHub Community Values Policy
IMO both are necessary. For one, I think I have done my job here, and would like the community to take over.SocialHub
aschrijver:
when does P.S. plan to give public announcement / responsible disclosure of SocialHub winding down?
We are not planning anything. We've been announcing that we'd like this community to self-manage for years. We're now 'giving an ultimatum' as a last resort because supporting work does not seem to be taken into account as long as things run.
I've read elsewhere that I am "dropping". This is not the case. But if you've been here a long time you must have seen that my participation here has faded away, so I want other people to take over before you're all left with a down server and nobody to turn it on again.
trwnh:
Why does the forum need to shut down just because an email domain expires?
It doesn't. But notifications and registration confirmations go through the activitypub.eu domain since we could not get access to the activitypub.rocks domain to manage email there. So if there's now control on activitypub.rocks domain, we could as well move the email there for consistency.
aschrijver:
I consider it to be a matter of custodianship responsibility for P.S. to manage the shutdown in a responsible manner.
We're not shutting down. We want other people to take over. If other people do not take over, then it means nobody wants to take responsibility for it, then it should die.
aschrijver:
mho it would be better to be open for any proposals
No: there is something very political in the way the SocialHub was organized, that fosters collective work and limits to what is acceptable for a community. If fascists want to take over, or people who do not care about privilege and solidarity, then you'll be left with a backup and we'll go away for good. That's the deal IMO. We don't work for years to let this community fall into preying hands.
trwnh:
The value of this SocialHub forum is in bringing people together to discuss things, and the introduction of federation in its current form has been arguably counterproductive to this end. Quite simply, if the discussions about ActivityPub are spread all over random pockets of microblogging, then this is an inferior experience to a proper forum with an actual social context.
aschrijver:
Collect problems that hold the AP dev community back from collaborating and evolve the foundational technologies that the dev ecosystem of the fediverse relies on.
If fedi devs are scattered to the winds, then they did not realize that the SocialHub has been part of the Fediverse for some time, and they should be reminded.
aschrijver:
Objective: Convince @how that responsible custodianship is taken care of, and it is responsible to hand over these tasks to the new community custodians.
I'll be convinced when:
- I'm not the only one keeping the server up-to-date
- Teams are active and not just lists of names
- We're clear about X, Fakebooz (including threads), and other centralized surveillance systems that the Fediverse is not aligned with them, and strives for other forms of online social relationships not based on domination, nudging nor abuse.
The keys are yours.
aschrijver:
Become native to the fediverse. SocialHub is to be part of the fediverse via federation.
Most of it is part of the Fediverse. The #software category is lacking fediversity because software owners didn't federate!
lullis:
I’d also volunteer to host this server if needed.
It's not a hosting issue, and it's not an individual issue. Handling the hosting from a non-profit organization to an individual would not make sense. But thank you for volunteering.
strypey:
@how can you please confirm that we’re understanding this correctly, or correct us if we’re not, so we’re all clear on what the situation is.
I hope this answer is clarifying my position. In other words: either there is a community here, and the community is taking the engagement to take care for itself, and we're good; or there's no community, and this forum is just a drag on my back, and you can do without, so I can shut it down.
The way the community is taking over, is up to you, but my preference would be as stated so far.
jdp23:
On both the “why?” and “what to do about it?”, getting the perspectives of people who aren’t currently here seems key.
We need to federate more, and include the SH groups in the interesting fedi discussions, so that they can be archived here, and not lost in the Fediverse. SH is an archipel, a navigation tool: not a centralizing place. It's easy to add @fep@socialhub.activitypub.rocks
to a federated discussion and have a topic created here that includes the ongoing discussion (and there are more AP actors!)
aschrijver:
A viable community is where enough of its members care enough for its continued existence.
aschrijver:
And it’d be great if @how could assign forum moderator or even forum admin privilege to some people so they are enabled to organize and steer this thing along efficiently.
Oh yes, that would be great.
aschrijver:
Yes, the #fediversity::category channel is where one might ponder if it doesn’t make the audience of the community too broad.
I'm very surprised to read this. I really do not understand why the audience would be too broad. I mean, really. Why?
aschrijver:
It is nice to offer dedicated forum space, but most FOSS projects don’t use it.
Indeed. With more people invested in it, they would use it, either from here, or from the Fediverse.
strypey1:
that Loomio thread too.
Isn't Loomio federated? Then why is it not common?
silverpill:
I doubt that things can be improved if the forum changes ownership (the opposite seems more likely)
Can you elaborate on this @silverpill?
strypey:
Given how often PS admins have been incommunicado when thing need fixing or tweaking, and doing facepalm-inducing stuff like threatening to delete most SH accounts
I really do not appreciate your simplification of the situation here @stripey. I find it unfair and quite disrespectful actually. I have been calling for help for years and had to change teams several times over because people actually did not help at all. So putting this on either me or my organization is simply not acceptable.
melvincarvalho:
CPU and RAM requirements. Perhaps someone could tell us the spec of the current server?
It's super small.
<pre><code class="lang-auto">root@socialhub:/var/discourse# df -hFilesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted onudev 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /devtmpfs 382M 656K 382M 1% /run/dev/sda1 38G 23G 14G 64% /tmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev/shmtmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock/dev/sdb 59G 4.1G 52G 8% /mnt/HC_Volume_26171934tmpfs 382M 0 382M 0% /run/user/1000overlay 59G 4.1G 52G 8% /mnt/HC_Volume_26171934/docker/overlay2/f80df69aa53ab6ed8a502f00bcc4a4d7fedf3434041b596480fbf1b54e549cf8/merged</code></pre> j12t:
For me, the question of “who administers the server” and “who pays the bills” are minor questions that can be solved without much difficulty.
Well, I tried solving these questions collectively since 2019, so I'm very open to concrete steps now
I skipped the last two posts because tl;dr, and had to catch up on the whole discussion at once. Sorry for that. BTW, thank you @aschrijver for standing up again and making this discussion happen.
SocialHub Community Values Policy
The refutation is way earlier… You can read the whole development in Policy Proposal: SocialHub Community Values. It was a long and hard discussion. And the conclusions are here: So you see, even I did not remember that @kaniini finally agreed.SocialHub
how:
silverpill:I doubt that things can be improved if the forum changes ownership (the opposite seems more likely)
Can you elaborate on this @silverpill?
That's because I don't know anyone who is both interested in running this forum, and is qualified to do that.
First of all, I think it shouldn't be handed to someone who is not an active forum participant.
But in this thread? Many share a strange patronizing attitude towards developers. Like we're sheep incapable of self-organizing that must be herded to some website in order to be educated by wise community managers and spoonfed with linked data slop. Thanks but no. This attitude is absolutely the last thing we need on a developer forum.
In theory, the place can be run by developers themselves, but nowadays most of us use our own software, and we can talk to each other directly without SocialHub in the middle, or via other forums and groups.
At this point I am fairly convinced that shutting down the forum and publishing a static archive is the best option.
silverpill:
we can talk to each other directly without SocialHub in the middle
The SocialHub is not exactly in the middle: it's part of the Fediverse. So it would only be normal that discussions relevant to everyone would be archived here, since they would be transmitted here as well.
But most discussions about fediverse development elsewhere on the fediverse aren't transmitted to SocialHub as well. There's a lot that factors into this, including:
- technology limitations. Kudos to the work that @devnull et al are doing on that front, and there's steady progress, but are there any forum-based spaces that are well-integrated in this way with the broader microblogging fediverse today?
- awareness; some devs don't know that they can tag communities here to create a thread on SocialHub, others know in principle but (since it requires an extra step they don't do on most posts) just don't remember to do it in situations where it would make sense.
- on topics other than FEPs, it's not clear what the value is -- and there are also costs to take into account
One way to look at this is that the initial attempts at SocialHub federation were a prototype that wasn't as broadly useful as hoped but has succeeded in revealing issues that need to be addressed. In another thread you mentioned that right now SocialHub "feels like a failure" because it hasn't able to keep a stable and growing and rotating team of responsible people in general, although the FEP team is going well ... looking at it as a prototype, though, it's not a failure: it's identified a use case that's a good match for the current state of the prototype, as well as a big challenge to address to extend to other use cases.
In terms of the overall reboot or shutdown question ... those aren't the only two options. Another possibility is to take a hiatus, putting the community into read-only mode for a while; or, narrowing of focus, at least in the short term, for example keeping the FEP discussions going and shifting other stuff into read-only for the time being (if that's possible in Discourse). Both of these keep open the option of moving SocialHub forward (potentially in a different form). They also create an opportunity to see what alternatives evolve on their own -- and the space to come up with proposals and plans for moving forward that identify and address the underlying challenges.
Then again, sometime the takeaway from a prototype -- even one with valuable learning -- is that this isn't a direction you see as practical to pursue given the overall constraints. If SocialHub shuts down, people who see value in some or all of what happens here will start up other mechanisms; to the extent that there's currently a community here, it can migrate. As long as there's an archive, or the site's available in read-only mode, history isn't lost; and everything here is CC-SA-4.0 so new sites can take whatever subset is useful. All of that's true whether or not you officially pass the torch to somebody else.
silverpill:
But in this thread? Many share a strange patronizing attitude towards developers. Like we’re sheep incapable of self-organizing that must be herded to some website in order to be educated by wise community managers and spoonfed with linked data slop. Thanks but no. This attitude is absolutely the last thing we need on a developer forum.
Where are you seeing this? From what I'm seeing, the discussion is not about any of those things, so this is quite the bizarre statement. I also don't think this is strictly a "developer forum", as there are several different sections dedicated to software, spec work, interest gathering, and so on -- and participation is welcomed by anyone.
silverpill:
In theory, the place can be run by developers themselves, but nowadays most of us use our own software, and we can talk to each other directly without SocialHub in the middle, or via other forums and groups.
If there are "other forums and groups", then no one is being made broadly aware of them. If the answer is "we can talk to each other directly", then this is essentially abdicating any sort of collective communication -- if you don't follow a bunch of the people involved, you won't see the conversations.
As it stands, SocialHub is the most prominent place to go if you want to see discussions about ActivityPub and related topics. I'm not aware of any more prominent venues. This isn't to say that anyone is being "herded to some website" or that SocialHub must be "in the middle", but it is generally valuable if the discussions end up being collected somewhere in aggregate, and it is generally convenient if the discussions can be carried out long-form with all the creature comforts of forums and none of the limitations of microblogging. What's the alternative being posed here? Where do people go for this stuff?
Re: SocialHub developer community: Reboot or Shutdown?
> I also don't think this is strictly a "developer forum", as there are several different sections dedicated to software, spec work, interest gathering, and so on -- and participation is welcomed by anyone.
Fair, there is space for all of these discussions, but considering that of a given set of ActivityPub developers, only a small subset of those developers contribute to SocialHub.
That may be a signal that either the existing space is not suitable for AP implementors, or a new space may be a welcome addition.
julian:
of a given set of ActivityPub developers, only a small subset of those developers contribute to SocialHub.That may be a signal that either the existing space is not suitable for AP implementors, or a new space may be a welcome addition.
I would pose this question in two parts:
- What are developers doing that could be brought to a forum like SocialHub?
- What makes SocialHub specifically not suitable for bringing those topics here?
The existence of any forum implies an opportunity for collaborative participation rather than a mandate. It would be helpful to have explicitly identified examples of discussions that could be brought to a forum, and explicitly identified sentiments of why those discussions weren't brought to this forum.
So far, the most clearly articulated objection seems to be advocating for bypassing forums in favor of ad-hoc communications or backchannels. Perhaps this is adequate for fixing one-off bugs as compared to creating a topic in that software's category. Perhaps that bug was filed on a project's issue tracker instead. But for having sustained conversations over the course of days or weeks or months or even years about meatier topics, I can't imagine much effectiveness in a scattered diffuse set of posts only living on people's profiles if you scroll back far enough.
Personally, I bring such conversations here because I don't want them to be lost to the timeline and I don't want character limits or a lack of blockquotes to impair my communications. I also know that there is an audience here for ActivityPub-related special interest topics, whereas there is no such expectation for my hangout spot where i go to check in on what some friends are doing. the context matters a lot.
Great questions @trwnh, relevant not to just SocialHub but also to alternatives.
trwnh:
- What are developers doing that could be brought to a forum like SocialHub?
Here's some examples of some of the conversations happening now or over the last couple of weeks that fit in SocialHub's scope (as I understand it) and seem relevant to developers (they all relate to limitations and/or potential improvements in the software).
- the Dropsitenews report about Meta's scraping
- starter packs and consent (sparked by the Mastodon announcement)
- A New Social's post on crossposting vs bridging that also led to discussion of federation in the client
- decentralized payments, in response to itch.io
- Fedi clients (sparked by a request from Laurens and a couple of discussions in Fediverse Report)
- the Online Services Act / EU and Australia age verification and their implications
- the "verify your account" spam/scam
- Ghost's ActivityPub support (including their currently-proprietary client)
trwnh:
- What makes SocialHub specifically not suitable for bringing those topics here?
In a nutshell:
- people who are active on SocialHub don't bring those topics here when they see them, presumably because they don't see value in doing so. You mentioned that you personally bring conversations here because you know there's an audience here for the ActivityPub topics you focus on, but that's not necessarily true for topics like these. You also cited character limits and a lack of blockquotes but other than vanilla Mastodon most fedi software supports that pretty well, so again that's not relevant for a lot of people.
- people who aren't active on SocialHub generally have no incentive to bring discussions here
- even if people who don't have accounts here want to bring discussions here, it's not in general obvious how. I experimented with trying to bring the bridging / crossposting / federation in the client post here. The first dilemma was not knowing what account to tag for a given post; even once I found the list, should it be fediversity, software, or ... ? I chose Fediversity, and replied to the thread tagging the category actor ... but nothing showed up here. So I started a new thread, tagging the category actor ... but once again, nothing showed up here.
Of course these aren't only challenges for SocialHub. A few of these discussions are on piefed.social/c/fediverse and lemmy.world/c/fediverse but most aren't. That said, I do think the specific dynamics of who's currently active on SocialHub and what they're interested accentuate the problems. A reboot could offer opportunities to make progress on those, but if it's being driven by the people who are currently active here I'm not sure how likely that is.
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It goes both ways. There are a lot of interesting discussions started here and not elsewhere. It all contributes to the grassroots ecosystem at large and helps evolve the fediverse. The AP dev community has a broad range of opinions, ideologies, values, things they find important. And all across the ecosystem there are various independent initiatives where people can find their peers, and join groups they feel most comfortable to be with. It is a good thing, that. It helps stimulate the overall diversity of the ecosystem, and resilience of the fedi movement as a whole. If there's sustained custodianship of SocialHub, and a dedicated community team, then SocialHub is viable.
Are there more volunteers for the community team?
Corbyn and Sultana launch 'new kind of political party'
'Your Party' is either an interim name or just the working group name, not totally clear which. Anyway, thought it would be of interest.
EDIT: Yeah, it's not registered with the Electoral Commission, so it's not yet a political party, but it's run by the Peace and Justice Project, which is Corbyn's existing vehicle.
Home - Peace & Justice Project - Peace & Justice
Project for Peace and Justice, founded by Jeremy Corbyn. A hub for discussion and action, building solidarity and hope for a more decent world.thecorbynproject.com
Jeremy Corbyn's New Group Sounds Very Much Like Another Party Which Is Rising On The Left
Jeremy Corbyn has just announced he is launching a brand new left-wing party – but it already sounds very similar to the Green Party’s proposals.Together with fellow former Labour MP Zarah Sultana, the ex-Labour leader promised a “new kind of political party” which “belongs to you”.
They said they would call for a wealth tax, champion an NHS which is free from privatisation, stand up for Palestine and challenge the fossil fuel giants “putting their profits before our planet”.
These policies are not dissimilar to those backed by the Green Party, which many former Labour supporters, now disillusioned, have flocked to over the last year.
That could therefore put the two parties at odds with one another.
Zack Polanski, the frontrunner in the ongoing Greens’ leadership race and the party’s current deputy, told HuffPost UK shortly after Corbyn’s announcement it is clear the parties have plenty in common.
He noted: “I’ve read the statement and I can’t see a single thing in there that’s not Green Party policy or doesn’t align already with the Green Party.”
He said: “I really like Jeremy and Zarah both as people and also as politicians. I’m supportive of anything they’re setting up.”
But the London Assembly member also made it clear they would be “welcome” in the Greens, which he called a “movement for change”.
He said: “I think it’s a positive thing that they’ve recognised that the Labour Party as a vehicle of progressive change that utterly collapsed, and it’s time to abandon it. They’ve not left the Labour Party, but Labour Party has left them.”
However, he noted that – unlike Corbyn’s new group – the Greens do not need to have a conference in the autumn to decide their name.
“Maybe that conference should decide actually, the Green party exists and is doing really well,” Polanski said, pointing to the nearly two million votes they secured in the general election. “It kind of makes sense to join the Green Party.”
Jeremy Corbyn's New Group Sounds Very Much Like Another Party Which Is Rising On The Left
The Greens' Zack Polanski told HuffPost UK that everything Corbyn is proposing aligns closely with his party.Kate Nicholson (HuffPost UK)
Capasa (Cnmi): “Sfruttamento nella moda? Fenomeno limitato"
Secondo Capasa, Presidente di Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana, lo sfruttamento nella moda è un fenomeno limitato.
Ad ora sono stati indagati:
• Alviero Martini
• Armani operations
• Dior Manufactures
• Valentino Bags
• Loro Piana
Fenomeni isolati o sistema strutturale?
Si tratta davvero di fenomeni isolati? Oppure la moda è totalmente nella mani della finanza, dei grandi fondi - del lusso (LVMH, Kering, Richemont) e del fast fashion (Shein, Zara, H&M) - espressione del capitalismo puro?
Spazi di resistenza:
🔴 Slow fashion, piccoli brand indipendenti.
🔴 Comunità che rifiutano il consumismo (es. DIY, swap parties).
La domanda vera è:
Possiamo immaginare una moda davvero libera dal capitalismo? O è un’utopia?
Voi che ne pensate? Siete d'accordo con Capasa?
Decifrare le antiche iscrizioni romane con l'AI è possibile
crosspostato da: poliverso.org/objects/0477a01e…
Decifrare le antiche iscrizioni romane con l'AI è possibileGoogle DeepMind, il laboratorio di ricerca sull'AI di Google, ha presentato Aeneas, un modello progettato specificamente per aiutare gli studiosi a comprendere, attribuire e persino ricostruire i testi antichi.
Decifrare le antiche iscrizioni romane con l'AI è possibile: ecco Google Aeneas
Google DeepMind lancia Aeneas, un'AI per decifrare e contestualizzare le antiche iscrizioni latineAdamo Genco (HDblog.it)
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Lawsuit Alleges Roblox Hosted Digital 'Diddy Freak-Off' Themed Games
Lawsuit Alleges Roblox Hosted Digital 'Diddy Freak-Off' Themed Games
The games were mentioned in a 2024 report and are now part of a new lawsuit in which a 11 year old girl was allegedly groomed and sexually assaulted after meeting a stranger on Roblox.Matthew Gault (404 Media)
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Grindr Won’t Let Users Say 'No Zionists'
An error message appears saying "The following are not allowed: no zionist, no zionists" when users try to add the phrase to their bios, but any number of other phrases about political and religious preferences are allowed.Samantha Cole (404 Media)
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Trump’s war on windmills started in Scotland. Now he’s taking it global
Trump’s bitter dislike of renewable energy first erupted publicly 14 years ago in a seemingly trivial spat over wind turbines visible from his Scottish golf course. As Trump returns to Scotland this week, though, he is using the US presidency to squash clean power, with major ramifications for the climate crisis and America’s place in the world.Although Trump failed in his legal attempt to halt the Scottish wind farm, an enduring scorn towards renewables appears to have been seeded that now has global consequences.
As president, Trump has declared wind and solar projects unwelcome in the US, barring them from federal lands and signing a vast spending bill that demolishes support for a nascent industry that held the promise of revamping the American economy while cutting dangerous planet-heating pollution.
Trump’s war on windmills started in Scotland. Now he’s taking it global
President’s opposition to offshore wind more than a decade ago now threatens a huge industry in the US and beyondOliver Milman (The Guardian)
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Sabato 2 agosto 2025 a Brisighella (Ra) torna “Calici sotto i tre colli”
Cibo, buon vino e musica si fondono per il ritorno, sabato 2 agosto, della rassegna "Calici sotto i tre colli". Il borgo medioevale di Brisighella si trasformerà in una cantina a cielo aperto per poter gustare buon cibo da strada e i calici delle migliori produzioni vinicole del territorio. Il tutto accompagnato da spettacoli di musica dal vivo nello splendido scenario del 3 colli.
Dalle ore 20:15 in Piazza Marconi va in scena l'esibizione di "Encuentros – Live tra Flamenco e Pop" con Carlo Calderano alla chitarra flamenca e Valentina Rambelli alla voce. Sul palco la formazione di flamenco pop che unisce gli studi classici e la sonorità flamenca che restituiscono un mix di accorgimenti armonici e sonorità per nulla scontati.
Dalle ore 21:45 in Piazza Carducci è il turno dei “7SevenUp" con loro carica esplosiva, dettata anche dalla giovane età, nella migliore esplorazione delle hit degli anni ‘90 e Duemila.
Durante la serata, passeggiando per il centro storico, si potranno inoltre assaggiare gli ottimi vini delle cantine del territorio: Baccagnano, Cantina Bulzaga, Ca’ Barchi, CAB Terra di Brisighella, Cantina Casadio, Conte di Val D’Amone, Gallegati, Le lagune Terre Antiche, Loiano, Tenuta Uccellina, Terra e Sale, Terrabusi, Vespignano, Vigne di San Lorenzo, Villa Liverzano, Zinzani.
L'ingresso è a offerta libera. Per informazioni www.brisighella.org.
Sabato 2 agosto 2025 a Brisighella (Ra) torna “Calici sotto i tre colli” - ViaggieMiraggi
Nel centro di Brisighella torna “Calici sotto i tre colli” La musica sotto le stelle si fonde con il buon cibo e le degustazioni di vino Cibo, buon vino e musica si fondono per il ritorno, sabato 2 agosto, della...Redazione (ViaggieMiraggi)
RipaMagic il 10 e 11 agosto 2025 con il mago umanitario Mattia Flip e grandi artisti della magia a a Ripatransone (AP)
Torna anche questo agosto il festival che regala due giorni magici nel bellissimo borgo marchigiano di Ripatransone con spettacoli di grandi artisti, laboratori, street food e visite guidate al Museo della Matemagica e alle sue incredibili illusioni ottiche.
Il cuore della nuova edizione di RipaMagic batte forte nel nome di Mattia Flip, al secolo Mattia Bidoli, mago, fotografo e operatore umanitario che da oltre quindici anni porta la magia nei luoghi più feriti del mondo: ospedali da campo, carceri, campi profughi, zone di guerra.
Oltre allo spettacolo che aprirà la prima giornata, Mattia sarà protagonista di un incontro pubblico in cui condividerà esperienze, immagini e storie dai conflitti in Siria, Libano, Iraq, Ucraina e nella Striscia di Gaza, dove ha trasformato le sue esibizioni in gesti di cura, resistenza e umanità.
Accanto a lui, un cast ricco di artisti italiani e internazionali: dal cubano Ernesto Planas Roldan - maestro mondiale della comedy magic, Luca D’Avvero – definito “giocoliere della magia” e “comico del pericolo”, Manuel Guarnori - specializzato in grandi effetti scenici; Tino Fimiani - già protagonista a Zelig Circus e in tournée con Arturo Brachetti - Madame Rebiné, Daigoro e Giacomo Seri.
RipaMagic il 10 e 11 agosto 2025 con il mago umanitario Mattia Flip e grandi artisti della magia a a Ripatransone (AP) - ViaggieMiraggi
RipaMagic Magia, illusionismo, comicità e incontri straordinari tra le piazze e i giardini di Ripatransone. Due giorni gratuiti con grandi artisti, laboratori e museo interattivo.Redazione (ViaggieMiraggi)
Sefro (MC): La trota ed il Verdicchio, sabato 2 e domenica 3 agosto 2025
Il 2-3 agosto a Sefro (MC) torna “La Trota e il Verdicchio”, evento tra natura, gusto e racconti, nel cuore dell’Appennino marchigiano. Sabato 2 si parte con la finalissima del social contest dedicato alla trota: tre content creator presenteranno le proprie creazioni alla giuria composta dalle chef Serena D’Alesio e Maria Rita Spoglia, dal prof. Giovanni Caprioli (Unicam) e da Manuel Saraceno, ambassador di Giallo Zafferano.
La serata proseguirà con l’inaugurazione del Parco Sensoriale e con “Sorgenti d’eccellenza”, una cena evento che celebra l’incontro tra trota e Verdicchio, arricchita dalle testimonianze di imprenditori come Lanfranco Beleggia (Brosway), Domenico Guzzini (Fimag) e Antonio Centocanti (Cantine Belisario), intervistati da Erika Mariniello.
Domenica 3 si apre all’insegna del benessere con il Forest Bathing drammaturgico a cura di Barbara Migliorelli. Nel pomeriggio spazio ai bambini con “Il baule delle storie” di Roberta Mora. Alle 18:00 presso la Torre da Varano, Natasha Stefanenko presenterà il suo libro “Dalle Marche con amore” in dialogo con la giornalista Sara Santacchi.
Gran finale serale con l’Aperitrota: clubbing, sperimentazione gastronomica e trota d’autore con gli chef Marta Pierozzi e Paolo Pistola. Alla consolle DJ Jacopo Jajani e il violinista Andrea Casta.
“La Trota e il Verdicchio” è promosso dal Comune di Sefro con il cofinanziamento della Regione Marche nell’ambito del programma FEAMPA, e fa parte del Grand Tour delle Marche, circuito di eventi firmato Tipicità e ANCI Marche. Due giorni per scoprire un borgo che si propone come capitale del buon vivere nella Regione del benessere.
Sefro (MC): La trota ed il Verdicchio, sabato 2 e domenica 3 agosto 2025 - ViaggieMiraggi
Il 2-3 agosto, a Sefro (MC), torna “La Trota e il Verdicchio”. Sefro: elisir di benessere! Due giorni tra natura, gusto, racconti. Un programma ricco di esperienze per ogni età. Il primo week end di agosto, nell’incantevole borgo di Sefro...Redazione (ViaggieMiraggi)
U.S. home sales fade in June as national median sales price hits an all-time high of $435,300
U.S. home sales fade in June as national median sales price hits an all-time high of $435,300
LOS ANGELES — Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes slid in June to the slowest pace since last September as mortgage rates remained elevated and the national median sales price rose to an all-time high of $435,300The Associated Press (NBC News)
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This used to be the expectation for a new fan years ago... Now, we celebrate it?
Fuck this whole goddamn century, so far.
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'those pesky "restart required" messages after an update?'
Hmm so they want to make modifying my system without my permission even more seamless ?
I'm not sure I like that very much...
Capo di Ponte - 31 agosto - Run Aragosta
Per tutti gli amanti della corsa, ecco un evento a cui poter partecipare.
Nella meravigliosa Val Camonica, un posto unico, dove ci ho lasciato un pezzo di cuore.
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Buona corsa! #runners
#valCamonica #CapoDiPonte #running
Il 31 agosto torna la Run Aragosta
Il 31 agosto a Capo di Ponte si terrà la Run Aragosta, corsa non competitiva che promuove salute, divertimento e solidarietà. L'iniziativa gratuita, ma tutti contribuisconoTeleBoario
Trump's AI vision takes shape as Oracle and OpenAI expand massive Stargate infrastructure project
Trump's AI vision takes shape as Oracle and OpenAI expand massive Stargate infrastructure project
Oracle and OpenAI expand Stargate project with 4.5 gigawatts of data center capacity, part of a $500 billion U.S. AI infrastructure investment creating over 100,000 jobs.Nikolas Lanum (Fox Business)
Microsoft is also involved in Stargate as a tech partner. So are Arm and Nvidia. Middle East AI fund MGX will join SoftBank in its investment; MGX’s first public deal was an investment in OpenAI.SoftBank, OpenAI, and Oracle are also listed as “initial equity investors” in Stargate.
It's interesting that FoxNews omit that the source for big part of that funding is coming from Middle East.
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in reply to besselj • • •wouldn’t that make it worse? basically any signal can bounce off you, making yourself even easier to track.
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in reply to hornedfiend • • •Since it 'figerprints' you, changing your fingerprint by blocking parts of the signal with pieces of foil doesn't seem like a terrible idea.
Now, the question is: is such a tactic like wearing gloves, or like using super glue?
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This may be the largest gap between the quality of an actors performance vs the movie it's in.
Truly an abysmal movie, but Rahul Julia is so much fun to watch in it.
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in reply to bignose • • •hhhhwat. How can they identify you and also be privacy preserving? 🤔
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in reply to realitista • • •realitista
in reply to artyom • • •Well they can identify you are the same person but not your identity.. So it's like a disenbodied fingerprint.
I suppose they could potentially make some database and train an AI on it someday to match to actual identities, but usefulness would be pretty limited at only 95% accuracy. That's a false reading 1/20 times, so I suspect it would fail bigly to accurately recognize people from large data sets.
Warehouse
in reply to realitista • • •And when has something like that ever stopped anyone?
realitista
in reply to Warehouse • • •Vinstaal0
in reply to artyom • • •They know you are a person and they can call your a certain UUID, but there will be a hard time matching you to your name etc.
Camera's can do face recognition (if your face is even in the database) to know who you are.
This only works until the point where they have your form in a database which they can check...
artyom
in reply to Vinstaal0 • • •Vinstaal0
in reply to artyom • • •Never said that it wasn’t easy, it’s just harder than with facial recognition.
In theory you could do it correctly in a way that it isn’t indentifiable.
Also this works in places where faces are protected
Diplomjodler
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in reply to bignose • • •Neat. Good luck protecting yourself from this.
On the other hand, I’m seriously considering opening an Etsy shop selling foil-lined clothes. I’m pretty good at sewing. What do you think?
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in reply to MysteriousSophon21 • • •I feel like you’re overthinking this. There are people who buy crystal-infused drinking cups to reset their personal feng shui. (Spoiler: it’s just glitter.)
I really wish I didn’t have morals. It’s so easy to make money if you’re willing to fleece people.
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in reply to bignose • • •Chuck vindicated. What a chicanery.
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in reply to Telorand • • •unmagical
in reply to bignose • • •I'm generally pro research, but occasionally I come across a body of research and wish I could just shut down what they're doing and rewind the clock to before that started.
There is no benefit of this for the common person. There is no end user need or product for being able to identify individuals based on their interactions with WiFi signals. The only people that benefit from this are large corporations and governments and that's from them turning it on you.
Continued research will ease widespread surveillance and mass tracking. That's not a good thing.
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unmagical
in reply to Vinstaal0 • • •If all you need is presence detection then a motion sensor would be vastly more efficient.
If you actually need identity detection, then maybe, but you'll still have to have a camera or detailed access logs to associate the interference signature with a known entity and at that point you may as well just put an RFID reader under the bowl you throw your keys into or use facial or gait detection.
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in reply to unmagical • • •unmagical
in reply to Jarix • • •Probably not.
This kind of thing relies on the fact that the emitter and environments are static, impacting the propagation of the signals in a predictable way and that each person, having a unique physique, consistently interferes with that propagation in the same way. It's a tool that reports "the interference in this room looks like the same interference observed in these past cases."
Search and rescue is a very dynamic environment, with no opportunity to establish a local baseline, and with a high likelihood that the physiological signal you are looking for has been altered (such as by broken or severed limbs).
There are some other WiFi sniffing technologies that might be more useful for S&R such as movement detection, but I'm not sure if that will work as well when the broadcaster is outside the environment (as the more rubble between the emitter and the target the weaker your signal from reflections against the rubble).
Don't think of this as being able to see through walls like with a futuristic camera, think of this as AI assisted anomaly detection in signal processing (which is exactly what the researchers are doing).
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in reply to unmagical • • •FINDER Finds Its Way into Rescuers’ Toolkits | NASA Spinoff
spinoff.nasa.govunmagical
in reply to nooneescapesthelaw • • •Microwave based ground penetrating radar is actually different from WiFi. Also the technology referenced in the link is a motion based body locator, not an identity recognition device.
This is different technology doing different things than what the original article was talking about.
Revan343
in reply to Jarix • • •Jarix
in reply to Revan343 • • •I mean I don't understand this as a lay person, so if it doesn't work then fair enough, but if wifi signals can identify human beings, and pets, when a building collapses better than other methods, or even augment the capabilities already used, then at least there is some benefit from this technique. It's not going to disappear, Genie is out of the bottle now, so why not at least put it to a good use instead of keeping it only being abused by the billionaires and other evil entities.
It's too late now to stop that and I hate that they can do this.
Please don't mistake me trying to find a silver lining as anything other than trying to find a reason that this isn't just another way we are fucked but the science is what it is so out it to better use. It's an interesting capability regardless of how it can be abused, and since we aren't going to stop using the technology we should really understand exactly how this works by using it and making it was beneficial as possible.. Until we were ready to ban the tech, which I have no faith that we will ever.
A bespoke device made to do this, not just your wifi router at home, might as well study it for good praises, or we may if only be abused with little defence against our collective abusers
nooneescapesthelaw
in reply to Jarix • • •You are correct because something similar has already been used
spinoff.nasa.gov/FINDER-Finds-…
Microwaves are the same as wifi waves, these are able to detect bodies and whether the bodies are beating or not
FINDER Finds Its Way into Rescuers’ Toolkits | NASA Spinoff
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in reply to nooneescapesthelaw • • •WiFi uses a subset of the significantly wider microwave band. Ground Penetrating Radar also uses a subset of the microwave band. While there can be some overlap, the frequencies desired for GPR will very broadly based on what you are looking for, what you are looking in, and how deep you are looking for that thing. The wattage supplied can also differ.
WiFi and Microwaves in general are most definitely not the same thing and I will absolutely encourage you to not set up a 1kW 3GHz jamming antenna for your WiFi needs.
Could you use WiFi for search and rescue? Maybe for a narrow set of circumstances, but in almost all situations a dedicated GPR option will be better.
This also won't identify a victim, only revealing that one exists.
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in reply to unmagical • • •First - someone comes up with this. Next, privacy researchers and black/white/grey hat techies come up with methods to defeat it.
Better for surveillance tech research like this to be published out in the open than developed in some secret lab. I figure these researchers are doing more positive than negative by publishing their findings. It's not like if they didn't publish, someone else wouldn't come up with this and possibly use it clandestinely.
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in reply to bignose • • •Oh fuck all the way off.
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in reply to Seleni • • •D_C
in reply to Seleni • • •Christ, 1% is included in that "up to 95.5%" vague bullshit statement.
novus_dervish
in reply to D_C • • •I believe the reason they had to say "up to" is because the "signatute" will vary day to day ever so slightly (natural weight fluctuation), and if you gain or lose weight it can change dramatically, so the AI would have to constantly consider that and adjust it's records.
Honestly, unpopular opinion, but as long as it isn't very short wavelength RF and they allow for self-hosted/open-source alternatives, I do find it a bit more privacy respecting than cameras, of course they have to say they are using the technology in public places.
It also has it's ways of fooling it, instead of wearing a wig and a false nose, you could wear a carbon-infused silicone fat suit to change the way you interact with RF.
toynbee
in reply to D_C • • •I hate it when commercials say "up to 100%." It's literally a pointless metric; that could mean anything from 0% to 100%, inclusive.
edit: Closed quote.
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in reply to Vanilla_PuddinFudge • • •Sorry dude I forgot to add your bio signature to my WiFi router.
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in reply to bignose • • •This shits already used by xfinity
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WiFi Motion: Detect Movement In Your Home
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in reply to sugar_in_your_tea • • •Once you start playing with radiowaves and antenna you start noticing the intricate ways it plays with and around bags of water like bodies. I'm sure the original research on location/movement tracking was due to scientists trying not to get interference, later once they figured it out it was natural to see how much data they could get out of a radio interference profile.
I remember the original tech was going to be marketed as a way to tell if your old person (parent etc) had fallen down and stopped moving. Not the best use case, and then the privacy implications became clear. Once that happens the race begins to exploit the tech.
...But the eventuality here is something like a Star Trek tricorder that can take multiple vitals and detect irregularities from across the waiting room. Sensors that remember who was in a room and what settings they had. Etc. Some cool thing besides the bad stuff (microtarget those ads).
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in reply to Echo Dot • • •Cameras require light, while radio waves works almost as well in darkness.
A motion sensor is an extra device that needs to be connected, have power and so on.
There are already radio wave motion- and room occupancy sensors where you can specify zones and so on, but if I could have personalized on top of that I'd take it.
Finally, using a thing for something useful other than its intended purpose is kinda fun.
douglasg14b
in reply to ileftreddit • • •Everything is incremental progress in some way.
I remember years back someone doing experiments with Wi-Fi to see if a room was occupied based on signal attenuation.
This just looks like an extension of that.
Not everything is a giant leap
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in reply to ileftreddit • • •You think if people who publish their work publicly didn't research things like this, they would just never be discovered?
At least this way, we all know about the possibility, and further research can be done to see what can mitigate it.
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in reply to IhaveCrabs111 • • •People willingly provide enough tracking of themselves already
While this could have military applications, the need to generate a profile of the person you want to track makes this less of a concern for your average “carries a phone everywhere” person
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in reply to bignose • • •The resulting image must just basically look like a shadow, I can't imagine that they're going to get much internal detail with Wi-Fi considering that my router's signal practically gets blocked by a piece of cardboard.
This research essentially amounts to, humans can be individually identified with nothing more than low quality x-rays. Well yeah, so what, you can also use visible light and in any situation where you're going to use Wi-Fi to detect someone, it's got to be easier to buy a cheap CCTV camera.
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in reply to Echo Dot • • •voodooattack
in reply to Echo Dot • • •First of all: cardboard does NOT block electromagnetic waves. You need a Faraday Cage for that. And even then, it has to have holes of a certain size to block specific wavelengths/frequencies. It’s why you have a mesh on the door of your microwave for example.
Secondly: they’re not attempting to photograph you. Just identifying your unique signature once would allow them to track your location anywhere where they have the gear installed.
enclosure of conductive mesh used to block electric fields
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in reply to voodooattack • • •EDIT: I suppose your comment is written in a way that it's not clear whether you're saying certain frequencies absolutely require meshes of a certain size to be blocked or if you're just adding that extra detail about the design of Faraday cages for the hell of it. But...
Original comment: It doesn't have to have holes to block radiation. A continuous sheet blocks all frequencies. A mesh is just nice so we can see through the cage or allow air to pass etc.
From the page you linked: "A Faraday shield may be formed by a continuous covering of conductive material." "... if the conductor is thick enough and any holes are significantly smaller than the wavelength of the radiation."
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in reply to Echo Dot • • •They explicitly went into the advantages over cameras:
- Any light condition (of course IR lighting with IR cameras are the gold standard so this can argueably be met otherwise)
- The ability to cover multiple rooms through walls with a device. A sub-10 GHz signal can penetrate most interior walls. People could be tracked without even being able to see a camera and by extension not knowing where to mess with to defeat surveillance.
So perhaps a building takes a picture of everyone as they come in the front door and also establishes a 'WhoFi' profile for that person. They could keep track of their movement through the building while maintaining an actionable correlation to a photo.
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in reply to 2910000 • • •you might be onto something.
take a mylar square and place it somewhere random on your body every day.
Pulptastic
in reply to GreenKnight23 • • •Krudler
in reply to GreenKnight23 • • •Eat a piece of spinach and increase the iron in your body.
This is all beyond stupid and hysterical.
GreenKnight23
in reply to Krudler • • •instructions unclear, I have glued spinach to my skin and the rabbits won't stop chasing me.
need further instruction.
Krudler
in reply to GreenKnight23 • • •Actually you've gone far enough to baffle the system.
I would say have fun frolicking with the rabbits?
chunes
in reply to bignose • • •nutsack
in reply to chunes • • •Evotech
in reply to nutsack • • •nutsack
in reply to bignose • • •Krudler
in reply to nutsack • • •youmaynotknow
in reply to bignose • • •panda_abyss
in reply to bignose • • •You know, this, and the using wifi to see through walls stuff to me just immediately seemed to fall into "don't research this, it can only be used for evil".
I don't get why we bother studying these types of things.
Phoenixz
in reply to panda_abyss • • •We study it because EVERYTHING can be used for good or evil.
If we'd stopped researching anything that could be used for evil we'd never have gotten into the stone age
jaemo
in reply to Phoenixz • • •Sundiata
in reply to bignose • • •And this here folks is the true ending.
No one there is going to stop it as always.
Congratulations! You are now fully fucked!
There is the draft dodger, he is located in building #52556 in this city, info updated 125 milliseconds ago. He left his phone at his house 5 states away, go get him.
Hikermick
in reply to bignose • • •2910000
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in reply to bignose • • •dtrain
in reply to axEl7fB5 • • •Doesn’t help.
HertzDentalBar
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