How bad is my partitioning?
I just got a new laptop and installed Linux on it. I mainly run OpenSUSE.
Getting full encryption on both was a bit of a challenge and I had no idea what I'm doing. Will having the swap partition in the middle break things? Did I really need so many partitions (Mint and OpenSUSE don't show up in eachother's boot menu)?
I'm probably not gonna change this layout (because reinstallation seems like a pain) unless the swap partition's position is a problem. I'm just curious how many mistakes I made.
EDIT: I'm not upgrading my drive capacity. I do not need it.
(Yet another) help me choose a distro post
First of all, I'd like to apologize for contributing to the constant stream/flow of posts in which the main theme/idea/motive is to find a suitable distro for the OPoster. I wish we'd have a dedicated community that's active/large to the extent we'd be able to delegate/contain these convos to their designated places, but alas...
With that out of the way, we can get to the actual meat. So, for two weeks, I've been reading a ton about different distros. And while I'm still primarily overwhelmed by the amount of choice, I think I've finally got somewhat of an idea.
Requirements:
- Software-wise, the only thing I'm worried about is Davinci Resolve. It should work, but it seems to be hit or miss. The distro I wish to use should handle this gracefully.
- I'm a huge snob for security and privacy. As I'm kinda worried that desktop Linux' security isn't on par with M$ or macOS, I wish to use as secure of a system as possible to (somewhat) compensate for that.
I like to follow 'authorities' whenever I'm overwhelmed. As I've known them since their PrivacyTools-days, it was easy for me to designate Privacy Guides as such. Hence, I've come to appreciate its recommendations. But, I believe the tailor-made consensus by this communities' experts is at least equally important.
That's where I'm coming from, let's head over to the questions:
- Are PrivacyGuides' recommendations actually good in the first place?
- From what I can tell, the subset of security-focused distros are (at least potentially) my end-game. But, from what I could gather, they're not sensible picks for a newb. Is this correct?
- As for what remains, I got the following assumptions (please correct me if I'm wrong*):
- The anonymity-focused distros don't seem well-suited for general use.
- Hardening Arch or NixOS to the extent we find within the offerings of Fedora or openSUSE isn't trivial.
- Fedora's Atomic Desktops offer something tangibly superior security-wise over what we find for traditional Fedora and openSUSE at the expense of convenience.
As such, am I correct to assume that Fedora Atomic Desktops are best for me? Would you happen to know if it plays nicely with Davinci Resolve?- Are there any other distros worth mentioning within the context? If so, which ones and why?
- Any gotchas or otherwise I should be aware of?
Thanks in advance for your input!
Desktop/PC - Privacy Guides
Linux distributions are commonly recommended for privacy protection and software freedom.Privacy Guides
I believe I heard that there was some scandal involving Ubuntu, but perhaps I'm wrong. Please feel free to correct me. Are there any (other) distros that I should be weary of for privacy-sake?
For security, I want to be well-protected against any and all untargeted attacks. So protection against malware is included.
Thank you for the general notes/recommendations/advice about safe practices on Linux! Regarding sudo (and the terminal in general), I've just accepted that it will be part of my workflow going forward, even if the amount of times I had used it on Windows can probably be counted on one hand. Regardless, beyond not sudoing random commands, are there like rigid guidelines (or something) one should adhere to for safe/secure computing?
The Ubuntu thing was about them making it opt-out rather than opt-in (so turned on by default), but it's still nothing malicious and diesn't collect any personal data. At least that's how I remember it.
Also Linux doesn't really have anti-viruses like Windows does (there are a few options for edgecases though). That is because Linux isn't really targeted by malware developers as much and also Linux is actually designed to be secure.
As for general security tips, number 1 is probably using a password manager (I use a KeePassXC compatible client).
Also be careful with rm -rf. I almost deleted all the files in my home directory once. I have aliased rm to gio trash since.
Tired of Google Home not working? This new change will make you furious
Tired of Google Home not working? This new change will make you furious - Android Authority
Google recently added a tiny change to voices available to a small set of users currently testing Gemini-powered Assistant on Nest speakers.Tushar Mehta (Android Authority)
Report: Intel struggles with new 18A process as it cuts workers and cancels projects
cross-posted from: piefed.social/post/1117434
Intel says it’s still on track to launch its first 18A Core Ultra chips in 2025.
HHS Winds Down mRNA Vaccine Development Under BARDA
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities under the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), including the cancellation and de-scoping of various contracts and solicitations. The decision follows a comprehensive review of mRNA-related investments initiated during the COVID-19 public health emergency.
“We reviewed the science, listened to the experts, and acted,” said HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. “BARDA is terminating 22 mRNA vaccine development investments because the data show these vaccines fail to protect effectively against upper respiratory infections like COVID and flu. We’re shifting that funding toward safer, broader vaccine platforms that remain effective even as viruses mutate.”
https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/hhs-winds-down-mrna-development-under-barda.html
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Rakudo Weekly News: 2025.31 Snappy Turtles
2025.31 Snappy Turtles
Anton’s Corner Anton Antonov has provided us with two more lovely posts this week. As ever his visuals and movies are a stunning insight into our world made with Raku. The snappily named Turt…Rakudo Weekly News
Clare Daly & Mick Wallace: How the EU Became a War Project
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Clare Daly & Mick Wallace: How the EU Became a War Project
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Google says its new ‘world model’ could train AI robots in virtual warehouses
Google outlines latest step towards creating artificial general intelligence
Genie 3 world model’s ability to simulate real environments means it can be used to train robotsDan Milmo (The Guardian)
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OpenAI stops ChatGPT from telling people to break up with partners
OpenAI stops ChatGPT from telling people to break up with partners
Instead of giving definitive answers to personal challenges the chatbot will help people reflect on a problemDan Milmo (The Guardian)
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Solve it! Libro sul cubo di Rubik e i ciechi
Solve It, ovvero: “risolvilo”, è un libro scritto da un autore che abbiamo conosciuto nell’ambiente #WordPress e #scrittura creativa; è un manuale, disponibile in formato elettronico, che spiega come risolvere il cubo di Rubik senza la vista.
Siamo molto legati a questo gioco di logica pur avendo fallito entrambi nella sua risoluzione per cui ci sentiamo orgogliosi di parlarne, a partire da come il cubo ci ha accompagnato fin dall’infanzia.
Elettrona e Gifter: storia personale col cubo di Rubik
Gifter
Ho 50 anni compiuti e ormai è da quando il cubo di Rubik è nato, cioè dal 1980, che io e lui abbiamo una guerra personale in corso. I miei genitori l’hanno regalato a me e alla mia gemella quando eravamo alle elementari e il massimo che siamo riusciti a ottenere è una faccia completa delpuzzle classico 3x3x3.
Da adulto ci ho provato ancora ma senza alcun risultato, lo ammetto, ci vorrebbe il virus HIV senziente ad aiutarmi perché quello nel mio corpo dal 2013 non collabora. Dorme e basta.
Appena io ed Elettrona ci siamo conosciuti sono partito con gli stereotipi del cieco super intelligente e davo per scontato che lei avesse risolto brillantemente il puzzle in velocità, invece anche lei combatte le mie stesse guerre.
La mia presunzione si fondava sul fatto che il colore sia solo una convenzione, e in un oggetto tridimensionale non è difficile sostituire gli elementi visivi con quelli tattili; mi era persino venuta l’idea di sfidarla preparandole un cubo originale coi segni in rilievo creati con la stampa 3d poi incollati su ogni quadrato, ma ho scoperto che lei ha già il cubo di Rubik multisensoriale in due versioni.
Elettrona
La mia storia personale col cubo inizia in terza elementare quando me lo hanno comprato dal catalogo dell’unione italiana ciechi. Provavo a giocarci ma anche se era il mio passatempo preferito, mai una volta sono riuscita a ottenere lo stesso simbolo su una delle facce.
Quel povero cubo però ha fatto una brutta morte perché mia sorella durante una litigata tra bambine, l’ha sbattuto contro il muro e me l’ha irrimediabilmente spaccato. Ancora oggi litighiamo e ancora oggi non le lascio mai le mie cose a portata di mano…
Nel tempo l’interesse per il cubo di Rubik è rimasto ma non ne ho più avuto uno in mano, fino al 2010.
Anni più tardi ho trovato una persona con cui avevo stretto un buon legame su Internet, un ragazzo con sindrome di Asperger che aveva iniziato a darmi una mano per risolverlo, ma purtroppo il covid se l’è portato via e se mi sto dedicando al libro Solve It, è anche per ricordare lui. Ciao, Andrea.
Solve It! – The Only Speedcubing Guide for Blind Cubers
Risolvilo! L’unica guida di speedcubing per cuber ciechi
Abbiamo lasciato i termini in inglese perché anche nei siti e video italiani dove si tratta l’argomento, la risoluzione veloce (e anche competitiva) del rompicapo viene chiamata “speedcubing” e i giocatori sono “cuber”.”Cubista” invece è un termine usato per descrivere chi balla sul cubo in discoteca.
Chi ha scritto questo libro è Paul Martz. Cieco per la retinite pigmentosa, blogger di tecnologia e autore di fantascienza, ha iniziato a usare il cubo di Rubik a 17 anni nel 1980 quando ancora vedeva; adesso però ha voluto condividere la propria conoscenza da cuber cieco perché, in giro, ci sono pochissime risorse fruibili da chi è privo di vista e vorrebbe studiare i metodi per risolvere questo tipo di enigmi.
Paradossalmente se ti manca la vista è più facile acquistare (o creare) un cubo di Rubik tattile, rispetto a ottenere spiegazioni su come risolverlo!
Come rendere accessibile un cubo di Rubik?
Esistono siti specializzati negli ausili per ciechi, dove acquistare i cubi tattili ma personalizzarne uno partendo da quello originale non è affatto difficile. Basta incollare degli adesivi in rilievo su ciascuna faccia, eccetto quella bianca che di solito i produttori di cubi tattili lasciano senza niente – forse come indicazione di bianco=vuoto (metafora del foglio bianco).
Qui abbiamo tra le mani un cubo coi rilievi prestampati, e uno con gli adesivi: triangoli, cerchi, stelline, crocette, quadrati.
Quali materiali usare per il rilievo? Carta adesiva con ruvidità e consistenza diversa, oppure simboli stampati in 3D uniti al cubo con una colla sufficientemente forte, e soprattutto che non siano tanto grossi da impedire al meccanismo di girare.
Tactile Cuber
Paul Martz oltre al libro elettronico, acquistabile in inglese nei negozi digitali, mette a disposizione il sito Tactile Cuber dove raccoglie spiegazioni e risorse a proposito del cubo:
TactileCuber è unico nel suo genere: una risorsa accessibile per gli appassionati ciechi che risolvono Cubi di Rubik tattili e altri rompicapo simili solo toccando. Qui troverai algoritmi e istruzioni al 100% in testo semplice, tutti progettati per screen reader e display braille, senza pubblicità, video, diagrammi o interazioni fruibili solo tramite mouse.
Solve It: di cosa parla?
Questa è l’introduzione con cui Paul Martz presenta il libro:
Sei cieco. Interagisci con un mondo prevalentemente visivo, attraverso il tatto. Tutto ciò che fai richiede memoria, agilità e concentrazione. Nonostante le nuove sfide quotidiane, perseveri e hai successo. Sei un risolutore di problemi.Se ti riconosci in questa descrizione, allora possiedi già le abilità per risolvere il Cubo di Rubik™ tattile.
Solve It! è stato scritto per te, il “cuber” cieco, che risolve il cubo attraverso il tatto. Non contiene illustrazioni o diagrammi. Che tu lo legga con un software di screen reading o un display braille, Solve It! spiega ogni passo con un testo semplice e accessibile al 100%.
Se sei alle prime armi con il cubo, questo libro offre un metodo facile da imparare e padroneggiare. Ma Solve It! va oltre le informazioni di base. Include un metodo di “speedcubing” che ridurrà drasticamente il tuo tempo di risoluzione. Dopo aver letto questo libro, sarai pronto a competere, un’impresa a cui la maggior parte dei “cuber” ciechi nemmeno si avvicina.
Smetti di ignorare quel cubo tattile impolverato: preparati a risolverlo!
La nostra sfida: traduzione in italiano
Abbiamo costruito da zero un rudimentale blog multilingua, può farci paura la traduzione di un libro? Dizionari, aiuto reciproco, anche l’AI quando ci blocchiamo ma faremo del nostro meglio per superare la sfida.
Servirà parecchio tempo e noi siamo disposti a impiegarci anche un anno, nel caso. L’importante è “agilità, memoria, concentrazione”! O no?
Ma cosa c’entra Rubik con l’HIV?
In realtà il rompicapo non ha a che fare col virus, eccetto qualche storia ancora da scrivere in cui HIV senziente suggerirà le mosse… Vedremo.
Ma la questione “ciechi e il cubo di Rubik” si lega a uno stigma fra i peggiori: chi, sui social network, crede di essere comico facendosi beffa delle persone con disabilità visiva tramite un meme idiota.
La vignetta mostra Andrea Bocelli con un cubo di Rubik le cui facce hanno tutti i colori mischiati, lui ha un bel sorriso di soddisfazione e la scritta: “finito!”
Di fatto nessuno di noi due condanna le battute sui ciechi ma costruirle su una foto, esclude gli interessati da qualsiasi partecipazione: ridere di noi, anziché ridere con noi. La differenza è sostanziale ed è quella che distingue satira da bullismo.
Allora noi rispondiamo in modo propositivo: consentendo ai ciechi in Italia, dove questo maledetto meme è nato, di approcciarsi a un mondo che la maggioranza delle persone ritiene impraticabile senza la vista.
PlusBrothers
Cerco di spiegare come ho fatto a ottenere su PlusBrothers un blog multilingua gratuito senza abbonamentielettrona (Elettrona and Gifter)
Il cambiamento positivo
Post personale di Alessandro che racconta la propria esperienza con #HIVDISCLAIMER: nel post c’è ironia ma anche tanto Drama Queen: lettori avvisati.
Il cambiamento POSITIVO
Ora non è “Gifter” a parlare ma Alessandro con un post dove condivido la mia esperienza di persona con HIV per smontare i pregiudizi di chi è scettico sulla mia partecipazione a questo blog satirico.Evento negativo? Sì. Notizia devastante? Di sicuro. Ma siccome quando il “cambiamento positivo” arriva te lo tieni, vale la pena prenderne atto e nel tempo imparare a conviverci più pacificamente possibile.
2013: Think twice!
Ascolto tutta la musica perché ne sono appassionato ma c’è un particolare brano che non riesco ad affrontare: “think twice” di Celine Dion; anche cercando il video per condividerlo sul blog, ho silenziato l’audio perché quella canzone mi è a dir poco indigesta.Una volta però adoravo questo brano perché era quello che aveva unito me e Alberto, grande amore ed errore allo stesso tempo.
A 32 anni avrei dovuto già essere adulto invece sono caduto fra le braccia di chi prometteva fedeltà ma era un traditore seriale e io ho continuato a perdonarlo malgrado, col senno di poi, i segnali di relazione malsana fossero palesi.
Alla fine però un giorno, trovando l’ennesimo calzino estraneo sotto il nostro letto, ho preso tutta la sua roba e gli ho lasciato la valigia fuori dalla porta.
Avessi trovato preservativi usati anziché i calzini sarebbe stato disgustoso ma alla fine avrei gestito solo le corna, invece così ho dovuto affrontare un “cambiamento positivo” di cui avrei fatto volentieri a meno.
Anche “Twink Twice” è riuscito a farmi odiare: per fortuna non è andato avanti molto con quella storia, ma le scenate di Alberto fuori casa o al telefono a supplicare “Alex, ti prego, perdonami” con la canzone in sottofondo, si sono ripetute da metà gennaio 2013 fino a marzo e tralascio il dettaglio sul San Valentino – più volte ha rischiato una mia denuncia per stalking.
Adesso quindi solo le prime note di quel brano mi fanno innervosire come quando un seccatore suona il campanello sperando di vendermi oggetti o divulgare religioni improbabili.
Con chi suona alla porta non mi sono mai permesso ma ad Alberto ho lanciato più di qualche secchiata d’acqua dalla finestra quando veniva a rompermi le palle, sì! E in pieno inverno non è il massimo pertanto qualora si fosse preso un bel raffreddore, se l’è cercato.
In compenso nello stesso maledetto periodo mi ero beccato io un’influenza potentissima anche senza prendere secchiate, o almeno io l’ho considerata come tale. Amore finito, stress, ma con una pillola e un po’ di riposo passa tutto.
Appena guarito, sono andato in discarica a buttare le ultime mutande che Alberto aveva lasciato nel mio cassetto forse per illudersi di chissà cosa; però il vecchio Gifter, anzi il vecchio Alex in questo contesto, se ha deciso di chiudere, chiude senza alcuna possibilità di ripensamento. Ancora ignoravo che, oggettivamente, non di tutti i regali lasciati dall’ex ci si può liberare.
2013: Rito di passaggio
Quando superi il momento clou dello stress da relazione finita cosa pensi? “I cimiteri sono pieni di persone insostituibili”, ci può essere qualcun altro da amare, e capisci che a 37 anni forse forse è il caso di “rimettersi sul mercato” per non diventare la vedova austera del diciannovesimo secolo.Allora, nell’idea di ricominciare a conoscere gente col classico “poi si vedrà”, ho preso una decisione importante: fare il test per le infezioni sessualmente trasmissibili HIV compreso in quanto mi sentivo in perfetta forma ma, sapendo che io ero monogamo e Alberto no, mi ritenevo una persona sufficientemente vulnerabile: nella peggiore delle ipotesi avrei quantomeno salvaguardato eventuali nuove relazioni a breve, medio o lungo termine.
Noi gay abbiamo maturato una certa consapevolezza in decenni di HIV o AIDS associati principalmente al nostro orientamento sessuale: i virus non guardano se sei monogamo o poligamo, è sufficiente una porta aperta a cui accedere e non gliene frega un accidenti se tu fai l’amore senza protezione perché “ti fidi” del tuo partner o se stai con una persona completamente anonima appena conosciuta della quale ti importa solo finché ti rivesti. I virus entrano in casa tua senza bussare né chiederti: “posso?”
A dire il vero è così anche per le persone etero, queste ultime però il più delle volte si sentono cullate nella “comfort zone” mediatica delle categorie a rischio e anche se il traditore seriale è la persona “della porta accanto” che si dedica a casa e lavoro, spesso e volentieri l’etero medio non considera l’eventualità infezioni sessuali, non si sottopone ai test, poi succedono le tragedie di marito o moglie in AIDS conclamato dopo anni di silenzio, o positività all’HIV scoperte durante una gravidanza.
Poco mi importa se sono brutale ma, siccome la vita non fa sconti, neanch’io li concedo quando mi esprimo su questi temi.
Coi test avevo previsto di chiudere definitivamente il capitolo Alberto e, nel merito, scherzavo anche assieme al mio migliore amico: “insomma dai, non sarò mica così sfigato da essere cornuto e sieropositivo? Posso reggere il tradimento ma l’HIV non so.”
Adriano però è parecchio più malizioso di me e ha lanciato il sasso: “io ti sto addosso come una ventosa perché l’influenza che hai avuto qualche tempo fa non mi è piaciuta affatto”.
E chi se la ricordava più, non certo io! Ma lui da brava “sanguisuga” come lo chiamo tutt’ora, non si perde ogni minima fragilità da parte mia e già allora diceva “noi due possiamo reggere il peso di qualunque sventura. Sono con te”.
Lui mi è vicino fin dall’adolescenza, il primo a cui ho confidato che “non mi piaceva la gnocca” (come parlavo male a suo tempo), quella è un’amicizia che dura da decenni. Ne abbiamo passate tante e ci sentiamo in una botte di ferro, neanche c’è il pericolo di rubarci i partner uno con l’altro perché è etero!
2013: La risposta
L’influenza, cosa vuoi che sia! Avevo già letto sull’Internet che il passaggio da HIV negativo a positivo potesse scatenare dei sintomi simil-influenzali però su questo non ho mai voluto condizionarmi e dopo Alberto, nella mia vita, a nessuno avevo permesso di affacciarsi finché non sarei stato certo di “essere sano” – così definivo la negatività all’HIV fino a quel momento. Quindi mi sono fatto prelevare il sangue senza troppi pensieri drammatici: tutto sommato, ero tranquillo: avevo “la coscienza a posto”, “mi ero comportato bene”, il test era uno scrupolo ma generalmente “l’AIDS prende solo chi non fa attenzione”. Anch’io vittima, in qualche modo, delle campagne mediatiche fatte coi piedi.Lo screening era per tutte le infezioni sessualmente trasmissibili, non ero andato in una di quelle strutture dove fanno anonimo il test solo per l’HIV e sono rimasto in attesa dei risultati.
Ero sereno fino a quando non mi è squillato il cellulare: il dottore voleva “vedermi per discutere degli esiti” e a quel punto ho anche aggredito la signorina addetta alle chiamate: “porca puttana, ragazzetta, non farmi giri di parole dimmi che sono sieropositivo e sparisci!” Lei formale ma gentile: “signore abbia pazienza, non sono tenuta a darle informazioni al telefono, le chiedo cortesemente di prendere appuntamento col medico!” Venerdì 3 maggio 2013, va bene.
Mi ha accompagnato Adriano quel giorno, unica persona di cui potessi fidarmi ed è rimasto lì fuori ad attendermi mentre io ero chiuso in stanza a parlare col dottore. “Tutto negativo, tranne l’HIV, mi spiace”. No, cazzo no! Io HIV positivo no! Alberto non poteva avermi fatto questo!
Ricevuta una simile notizia ti crolla ogni certezza, ma ognuno reagisce a suo modo: io in quel momento non avevo più un dottore di fronte, non era più l’ambulatorio ma mi sentivo come se fossi a casa mia a tavola davanti ad Alberto e ci sarebbe mancata solo Think Twice per farmi definitivamente sbroccare.
Santa pazienza aveva (e ha tutt’ora) quel medico. Solo quando mi sono calmato, mi ha spiegato tutto il percorso da fare; avevo troppa paura del “dopo” e ricordo ancora che dissi “dottore la prego se mi dà una medicina che non mi rende un fantasma con le gambe la accetto”.
Lui fece molto di più e mi diede l’opportunità di seguire un percorso di terapia sia antivirale sia psicologica grazie a cui adesso ho ritrovato il mio equilibrio e non ho problemi a parlarne apertamente.
Alberto? Ovviamente risultato anche lui positivo e ancora oggi sono convinto che non ne fosse a conoscenza: come prestava poca attenzione in auto così era nella sessualità e gli effetti si sono visti eppure, nel tempo, mi sono fatto passare il rancore nei suoi confronti perché l’odio non mi faceva stare bene.
La psicoterapia è durata un anno e mezzo di cui giudicavo i primi mesi come assolutamente inutili perché mi facevo talmente schifo da essermi chiuso in casa senza farmi la doccia per giorni; Adriano da parte sua veniva anche a trovarmi ma sempre più di rado.
“Non mi vuoi più come amico perché ho l’HIV, gli scrissi un giorno ma la sua risposta fu impietosa: “se non vengo volentieri da te è perché puzzi come una capra. Pensi di spaventare il virus così? Più facile che me ne vada io! Continua di questo passo e l’HIV rimarrà l’unico a starti vicino ma solo perché gli tocca e da te non può staccarsi sennò muore”.
Nessun professionista ti dirà mai una frase simile, un amico d’infanzia invece sì specialmente quando ti vede autodistruggerti e non sa cosa fare per aiutarti.
A questo si è aggiunta la terapia d’urto dello psicologo al quale confidai che avevo passato l’estate del 2013 studiando quale fosse il modo migliore per morire, prima che mi ammazzasse il virus.
Mi affrontò a muso duro: “quanti modi per morire stai descrivendo. Ma se passi i giorni a pensarci senza metterlo in pratica, intuisco che non vuoi ucciderti veramente. Che dici? Partiamo da qui: tu, morire, in realtà non vuoi”.
“E certo che non voglio morire”, era stata la mia risposta, “ma è l’HIV che mi costringe a pensarci! A 37 anni la data di scadenza! Non è giusto!”
Quel sant’uomo mi ha lasciato sparare cazzate a raffica e poi si è messo a dirmi le stesse parole che già avevo sentito dal medico: “adesso non è più una condanna a morte”, “segui regolarmente la terapia”, “abbi uno stile di vita più sano possibile”, c’è voluto molto tempo ma alla fine oltre ad aver fatto pace con l’HIV l’ho fatta con la mia autostima e ho debellato i sentimenti di stigma e omofobia interiorizzati che da anni tenevo dentro.
Capitolo chiuso anche l’odio per l’infezione: ormai sono emotivamente sereno, tanto che il virus fa parte della mia famiglia esattamente come il gatto e me ne prendo cura rimanendo fedele alle medicine e ai controlli medici.
Dovrei fare più esercizio fisico ma io e il mio HIV siamo così: quando uno vuole andare a fare una passeggiata, l’altro si mette d’accordo con Giove Pluvio e fa piovere. Tale umano tale virus! Serie tv, divano, attività in orizzontale! Almeno essendo in simbiosi non c’è rischio che mentre guardiamo lo sport l’HIV tifi per gli avversari.
Lo ammetto, dopo tutto quello che mi ha fatto penare per farsi accogliere, mi sono pure affezionato a questo virus. Lui che mi ha costretto a mettere in discussione troppe certezze fondate sul nulla ma che alla fine mi ha permesso di trovarne più salde comprese alcune amicizie e amori solidi che prima, forse, c’erano e non li vedevo.
Brutto da dire forse ma senza di lui probabilmente non avrei stretto amicizia con @talksina l’ideatrice di questo blog, che divide con me l’esperienza dal punto di vista opposto: quello di una persona senza HIV ed ex compagna di un uomo col virus.
Cosa potrei volere di più? Tornare col segno negativo? Al momento non ci penso perché non è possibile, salvo le persone con leucemia trapiantate di staminali su cui i media ogni tanto parlano.
Mi basterebbe mantenere HIV sulla soglia di Non Rilevabile Non Trasmissibile senza dover assumere farmaci, la ricerca si sta concentrando in questo senso perciò è questione solo di pazienza; per adesso il mio desiderio è vivere e godermela al massimo, ho già perso troppo tempo dietro alle cazzate!
In chiusura tranquillizzo i lettori sul fatto che non ho alcuna intenzione di scrivere libri e guadagnare sulla mia esperienza ma voglio solo raccontarla per aiutare a sconfiggere lo stigma.
Testo aggiornato rispetto alla pubblicazione iniziale (13 aprile 2023).
White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite
We can only speculate as to why the Trump administration wants to end the missions. But considering president Donald Trump's staunch climate change denial and his administration's efforts to deal the agency's science directorate a potentially existential blow, it's not difficult to speculate.
White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite
The White House has instructed NASA employees to destroy two major, climate change-focused satellite missions.Victor Tangermann (Futurism)
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IMEC’s imperial illusion: Why the US-backed trade corridor will fail
IMEC’s imperial illusion: Why the US-backed trade corridor will fail
Disguised as infrastructural development, IMEC is the latest Atlanticist attempt to reassert control over West Asia. But from Gaza to BRICS, regional actors are shutting that door.thecradle.co
IMEC’s imperial illusion: Why the US-backed trade corridor will fail
IMEC’s imperial illusion: Why the US-backed trade corridor will fail
Disguised as infrastructural development, IMEC is the latest Atlanticist attempt to reassert control over West Asia. But from Gaza to BRICS, regional actors are shutting that door.thecradle.co
California wildfire scorches 72,000 acres and threatens hundreds of structures
The Gifford fire has spread through Los Padres forest, prompting evacuations and injuring at least three people
The VA wants to end coverage of abortion for US military veterans
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is calling for an end to abortion coverage in the medical plans for veterans and their families.
US government proposes easing some restrictions on drones traveling long distances
A new federal rule would make it easier for companies to use drones over longer distances out of sight of the operator without having to go through a cumbersome waiver process.
https://apnews.com/article/drones-trump-duffy-line-of-sight-rule-bdbc54ca3b8ef2ead9ccfc62f3762f4c
Trump threatens EU with 35% tariff if investment pledge falls through
The US president added that he "can do anything I want" with Brussels' $600 billion worth of pledged investments
Archived version: archive.is/20250805165341/eura…
Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.
The age of storage: Batteries primed for India’s power markets
Extreme price swings in wholesale electricity markets and growing concerns around grid instability are opening up new markets for energy storage. Batteries are now a critical solution to drive value for both capital and consumers.
IPTV FAQ and articles
"welcome to iptv.surf! here you’ll find a collection of articles from IPTVGroupBuy (rip) that will help you get started on your IPTV journey."
I posted a link to an archive of most of this stuff in an earlier post but this url is much more convenient.
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Invite only - "please do not go posting this on open forums" "please try to stick to people you actually talk to"
I still don't get the appeal of discord for this kind of stuff. Seems like a matter of time before it gets shut down too and all the useful info isn't discoverable by regular people. But I'm uninformed when it comes to discord.
Got it - thanks for the response. I agree with you, Discord seems suboptimal. But, if that’s where the discussion is, there’s not much choice.
Lemmy seems like a great solution, honestly
EU interior ministers want to exempt themselves from chat control bulk scanning of private messages.
It's clear and simple mass surveilance. You might not have something to hide now, but maybe you will one day if your country plunges into fascism or other authoritarianism or they will make something that is now legal illegal retroactively like has happened with abortion in the US. Protect your rights while you can.
Sign change.org/stopchatcontrol and contact your MEPs directly europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/hom…
Agenda Prep for August 2025 ForumWG Meeting
Agenda preparation for the April ForumWG meeting can be found at this public link (anyone can make comments for review.)
Monthly meetings are held on the first Thursday of each month, at 13h00 to 14h00 Eastern Time (currently 17h00 to 18h00 UTC). You can find them listed in the SocialCG Calendar. The next meeting will be held on 7 August 2025.
We will be discussing:
- FEP 7888/f228 adoption update
- Context Inheritance
- Context Ownership
- Merging of Contexts (aka "cross-posting")
2025-08 Agenda
August 2025 Agenda Forum and Threaded Discussions Task Force Format Information gathering prior to the meeting will be held asynchronously via the fediverse, with topics posted on one of the following two locations: https://community.nodebb.Google Docs
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Was there a meeting? Could you provide a short summary?
I am particularly interested in cross posting.
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silverpill@mitra.social there was! I am very bad with putting together minutes but I will put some together tomorrow (hopefully)
For cross posting essentially I outlined how Piefed does it, and how NodeBB hopes to do it differently, but there are some moderation concerns.
Will elaborate more in the minutes.
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This is a test comment, sorry for the inconvenience (and thanks for your work!)
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@tuneintodetuned No, pero aquí parece haber un ejemplo: https://community.nodebb.org/post/105411 Voy a comentar en ese hilo, desde Mastodon, con un enlace a este comentario, a ver qué pasa ¿vale?Mastodon
Piracy Shield Widens Scope to Protect Movie & TV Premieres & Live Music
Piracy Shield Widens Scope to Protect Movie & TV Premieres & Live Music * TorrentFreak
Italy's Piracy Shield will widen its scope to protect movie and TV show premieres and live music after amendments were adopted last week.Andy Maxwell (TF Publishing)
Kernwapens: 80 jaar na Hiroshima
In de jaren 90/00 waren vrijwel alle grote internationale conflicten gerelateerd aan civiele nucleaire programma’s en of die gebruikt werden voor militaire doeleinden: Noord-Korea, Irak, Iran, noem maar op. Kernwapens zijn daarna een poosje uit het nieuws geweest, maar na de aanvallen op nucleaire installaties in Iran, een – klein – beetje aandacht voor de Israelische kernwapens en het dreigen met een kernoorlog door Medvedev en de reactie van Trump om onderzeeërs met kernwapens richting Rusland te sturen, is het weer ‘hot news’. En de veel gehoorde opmerking dat Rusland Oekraine nooit had aangevallen als Oekraine in 1992 haar kernwapens niet weggedaan had (vaak dezelfde mensen die de aanval op Iran verdedigen), geven een troebele boodschap. Want wat ze eigenlijk zeggen: zorg dat je kernwapens hebt, dan wordt je niet aangevallen. Natuurlijk geldt dat alleen voor onze vrienden. Een ernstige vergissing: kernwapens maken de wereld niet veiliger en dus kernenergie ook niet. Sterker nog: vrienden kunnen zomaar vijanden worden en dan kan een civiel nucleaire programma ook zo maar een reden voor een aanval zijn.
Wikipedia Editors Adopt ‘Speedy Deletion’ Policy for AI Slop Articles | 404 Media
Wikipedia Editors Adopt ‘Speedy Deletion’ Policy for AI Slop Articles
Wikipedia editors just adopted a new policy to help them deal with the slew of AI-generated articles flooding the online encyclopedia. The new policy, which gives an administrator the authority to quickly delete an AI-generated article that meets a certain criteria, isn’t only important to Wikipedia, but also an important example for how to deal with the growing AI slop problem from a platform that has so far managed to withstand various forms of enshittification that have plagued the rest of the internet.Wikipedia is maintained by a global, collaborative community of volunteer contributors and editors, and part of the reason it remains a reliable source of information is that this community takes a lot of time to discuss, deliberate, and argue about everything that happens on the platform, be it changes to individual articles or the policies that govern how those changes are made. It is normal for entire Wikipedia articles to be deleted, but the main process for deletion usually requires a week-long discussion phase during which Wikipedians try to come to consensus on whether to delete the article.
However, in order to deal with common problems that clearly violate Wikipedia’s policies, Wikipedia also has a “speedy deletion” process, where one person flags an article, an administrator checks if it meets certain conditions, and then deletes the article without the discussion period.
For example, articles composed entirely of gibberish, meaningless text, or what Wikipedia calls “patent nonsense,” can be flagged for speedy deletion. The same is true for articles that are just advertisements with no encyclopedic value. If someone flags an article for deletion because it is “most likely not notable,” that is a more subjective evaluation that requires a full discussion.
At the moment, most articles that Wikipedia editors flag as being AI-generated fall into the latter category because editors can’t be absolutely certain that they were AI-generated. Ilyas Lebleu, a founding member of WikiProject AI Cleanup and an editor that contributed some critical language in the recently adopted policy on AI generated articles and speedy deletion, told me that this is why previous proposals on regulating AI generated articles on Wikipedia have struggled.
“While it can be easy to spot hints that something is AI-generated (wording choices, em-dashes, bullet lists with bolded headers, ...), these tells are usually not so clear-cut, and we don't want to mistakenly delete something just because it sounds like AI,” Lebleu told me in an email. “In general, the rise of easy-to-generate AI content has been described as an ‘existential threat’ to Wikipedia: as our processes are geared towards (often long) discussions and consensus-building, the ability to quickly generate a lot of bogus content is problematic if we don't have a way to delete it just as quickly. Of course, AI content is not uniquely bad, and humans are perfectly capable of writing bad content too, but certainly not at the same rate. Our tools were made for a completely different scale.”
The solution Wikipedians came up with is to allow the speedy deletion of clearly AI-generated articles that broadly meet two conditions. The first is if the article includes “communication intended for the user.” This refers to language in the article that is clearly an LLM responding to a user prompt, like "Here is your Wikipedia article on…,” “Up to my last training update …,” and "as a large language model.” This is a clear tell that the article was generated by an LLM, and a method we’ve previously used to identify AI-generated social media posts and scientific papers.
Lebleu, who told me they’ve seen these tells “quite a few times,” said that more importantly, they indicate the user hasn’t even read the article they’re submitting.
“If the user hasn't checked for these basic things, we can safely assume that they haven't reviewed anything of what they copy-pasted, and that it is about as useful as white noise,” they said.
The other condition that would make an AI-generated article eligible for speedy deletion is if its citations are clearly wrong, another type of error LLMs are prone to. This can include both the inclusion of external links for books, articles, or scientific papers that don’t exist and don’t resolve, or links that lead to completely unrelated content. Wikipedia's new policy gives the example of “a paper on a beetle species being cited for a computer science article.”
Lebleu said that speedy deletion is a “band-aid” that can take care of the most obvious cases and that the AI problem will persist as they see a lot more AI-generated content that doesn’t meet these new conditions for speedy deletion. They also noted that AI can be a useful tool that could be a positive force for Wikipedia in the future.
“However, the present situation is very different, and speculation on how the technology might develop in the coming years can easily distract us from solving issues we are facing now, they said. “A key pillar of Wikipedia is that we have no firm rules, and any decisions we take today can be revisited in a few years when the technology evolves.”
Lebleu said that ultimately the new policy leaves Wikipedia in a better position than before, but not a perfect one.
“The good news (beyond the speedy deletion thing itself) is that we have, formally, made a statement on LLM-generated articles. This has been a controversial aspect in the community before: while the vast majority of us are opposed to AI content, exactly how to deal with it has been a point of contention, and early attempts at wide-ranging policies had failed. Here, building up on the previous incremental wins on AI images, drafts, and discussion comments, we workshopped a much more specific criterion, which nonetheless clearly states that unreviewed LLM content is not compatible in spirit with Wikipedia.”
Scientific Journals Are Publishing Papers With AI-Generated Text
The ChatGPT phrase “As of my last knowledge update” appears in several papers published by academic journals.Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
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Blocking Access to Harmful Content Will Not Protect Children Online, No Matter How Many Times UK Politicians Say So
Blocking Access to Harmful Content Will Not Protect Children Online, No Matter How Many Times UK Politicians Say So
The UK is having a moment. In late July, new rules took effect that require all online services available in the UK to assess whether they host content considered harmful to children, and if so, these services must introduce age checks to prevent chi…Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Piracy Shield Widens Scope to Protect Movie & TV Premieres & Live Music
Piracy Shield Widens Scope to Protect Movie & TV Premieres & Live Music * TorrentFreak
Italy's Piracy Shield will widen its scope to protect movie and TV show premieres and live music after amendments were adopted last week.Andy Maxwell (TF Publishing)
Is there a way to show fixed categories in custom page?
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Yuting_11 that's an interesting use case... I don't think we have a widget that does that right now, but a widget to display a single (or multiple) categories could be interesting!
If multiple, though, then you'd probably want to be able to order them, so that makes it difficult.
Fedicon 2025 is currently taking place. All the videos are being posted in this PeerTube account
The videos for FediCon 2025 are going to uploaded to the following PeerTube account:
@fedicon
FediCon
What if the Fediverse met... in real life? 🌐 FediCon 📍 Vancouver, Canada https://fedicon.ca Hash-Tags: #FediCon #FediCon2025 @fedicon@techhub.social (Managed by @reiver@mastodon.social )Spectra Video
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Ci sono fitness tracker che non mandano i miei dati di salute agli USA?
Sono alla ricerca di un buon fitness tracker per iniziare a fare cardio in maniera più misurata.
Ero interessato a Polar e Oura in quanto alternative EU (entrambe aziende finlandesi), ma entrambe mandano dati (di salute, quindi sensibili secondo l'art. 9 GDPR) ad AWS.
Siete a conoscenza di soluzioni EU o almeno non USA, cinesi, russe o israeliane, che non mandino i miei dati ad aziende di quelle stesse nazioni?
Mi piacerebbe potermi organizzare con qualcosa di self-hosted, ma ancora non credo di esserne capace.
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Ah, perdonami, quando hai parlato di soluzione selfhosted devo aver frainteso!
Forse in questo caso l'opzione migliore è un device che sia ben supportato da GadgetBridge.
Da quello che vedo i device meglio supportati sono i Mi Band, ma quasi tutti quelli che hanno svoltato con questa soluzione usano gli orologi Garmin.
Die Welt von Palantir und Alex Karp – „Watching you“ (2024)
Als hätte „Minority Report“ in deutschen Amtsstuben das Denken ersetzt. Der Dokumentarfilm von Klaus Stern stellt den Menschen vor, der diese Vision verkauft – und mit ihr eine technoide Version der Totalüberwachung salonfähig macht. Dass der Film dabei selbst ein Teil dieser Normalisierung wird, ist die bittere Pointe. Er zeigt, was er nicht kritisiert. Das ist sein größtes Problem. (Dokumentarfilm, ARD, Neu)
Die Welt von Palantir und Alex Karp - "Watching you" (2024)
Als hätte "Minority Report" in deutschen Amtsstuben das Denken ersetzt. Der Dokumentarfilm von Klaus Stern stellt den Menschen vor, der diese Vision verkauft – und mit ihr eine technoide Version der Totalüberwachung salonfähig macht.NexxtPress
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An Open Letter to Yuzo Koshiro: I’m Sorry About the Piracy, but You Probably Made a Suboptimal Choice
An Open Letter to Yuzo Koshiro: I’m Sorry About the Piracy, but You Probably Made a Suboptimal Choice
Dear Mr Koshiro First of all, congratulations on releasing Earthion on PC. It’s beautiful work, and the love and passion involved is clear from the first screen shot. I really appreciate that you re...Safety Stoat Studios (itch.io)
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Russia’s war against Ukraine
People shelter in an underground walkway during an air raid alarm in the center of Kyiv on Aug. 4, 202. (Sergei Supinsky / AFP via Getty Images)
5 Russian fighter jets hit by Ukraine’s SBU in drone operation in occupied Crimea, one destroyed. Drones operated by Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) targeted an airfield in the city of Saky.
‘Massive’ Ukrainian drone strike targets Russian railway station in Volgograd Oblast, local official claims. Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed that a total of 61 Ukrainian drones were shot down over various regions of the country overnight.
Ukraine confirms drone strike on fuel depot at Russia’s Sochi airport. Videos posted to social media purported to show the view from a plane landing at the airport with the burning depot clearly visible.
Ukrainian strike destroys Russian S-300 in occupied Zaporizhzhia Oblast, General Staff says. Russian forces use the system to attack Ukrainian-controlled territory and target frontline military positions of the Ukrainian army.
Zelensky says mercenaries from Asia and Africa fighting for Russia in northeastern Ukraine. “The soldiers on this front are recording the participation of mercenaries from China, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, and African countries in the war. We will respond,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a statement.
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Ukrainian forces repel Russian assault on border checkpoint in Kharkiv Oblast, kill ‘more than ten’ soldiers, military says. The village of Hoptivka lies on the Ukrainian-Russian border, adjacent to Russia’s Belgorod Oblast.
Russia restores runway at occupied Donetsk Airport for kamikaze drone launches, ISW says. Satellite imagery captured in July 2025 shows visible changes at the airport.
Russian forces regrouping near Dnipro River as they prepare for more active ‘island war,’ Ukrainian military officials say. A decrease in assault operations is “related to the regrouping of the relevant Russian units in order to eventually resume more active assaults on the island zone of the right bank of Kherson Oblast,” military spokesperson Serhii Bratchuk told the Kyiv Independent.
Ukrainian soldier working as Russian ‘mole,’ sending GRU military positions, SBU claims. The SBU has detained several people this year accused of working for Russian forces in Ukraine.
Trump says Witkoff may visit Russia this week, calls Putin and team ‘wily characters.’ U.S. President Donald Trump said that his special envoy, Steve Witkoff, may travel to Russia on Aug. 6 or 7 — just days before a deadline for Moscow to reach a peace deal with Ukraine or face secondary tariffs targeting its oil exports.
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Zelensky restores anti-corruption agencies’ independence — but leaves one key change intact
The changes that eliminated the independence of prosecutors other than those from SAPO were not reversed. Experts say that these amendments are at odds with the European Union’s requirements for countries attempting to join the union.
Photo: Tetiana Dzhafarova / AFP via Getty Images
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‘Better now than never’ — Ukraine announces competition for anti-smuggling director 7 months late
After a seven-month delay, Kyiv has finally launched a competition for a State Customs Service director to tackle illegal smuggling that costs the country billions of dollars every year. The news comes as Ukraine faces pressure to push ahead with delayed reforms.
Photo: Michael Sorrow/Anadolu via Getty Images
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New study warns Kyiv must break up old business order to thrive post-war
To reverse course and capitalize on its emerging tech ecosystem and future reconstruction efforts, Ukraine must dismantle the influence of sluggish state-owned enterprises and politically favored large firms.
Photo: Diego Fedele/Getty Images
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Operation Vistula – Expulsion of Ukrainians from post-war Poland
Following World War II and the subsequent redrawing of borders in Europe, Polish authorities forced out roughly 700,000 Ukrainians from their homes in what became Poland’s new southeastern frontier.
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Human cost of Russia’s war
Russian drone strikes kill 3 in Kharkiv Oblast. The attacks struck a residential building and a moped, killing three civilians in the Chuhuiv district. Local prosecutors are investigating the attack as a war crime.
Russian attacks kill 7, injure 13, including 4-month-old girl, over past day. Zaporizhzhia Oblast suffered the heaviest toll in the latest wave of Russian attacks, with three fatalities confirmed.
General Staff: Russia has lost 1,057,140 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022. The number includes 1,010 casualties Russian forces suffered just over the past day.
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Pokrovsk is the city of my childhood. Now I watch it die
“The last time we came back to Pokrovsk was in June 2025. The city was mostly destroyed. People who stayed lived in basements or destroyed apartments, or were buried right in the courtyards of their houses,” writes Olena Zashko, videographer at the Kyiv Independent.
Photo: Kostiantyn Liberov / Libkos / Getty Images
International response
Netherlands to deliver $579 million in US weapon systems to Ukraine, including Patriot missiles. “I am sincerely grateful to the Netherlands for their substantial contribution to strengthening Ukraine’s air shield,” President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote, saying this is “the first such step” among NATO countries.
China rejects US demands to halt Russian, Iranian oil imports. Beijing insists it will continue to secure its energy supplies based on national interests despite pressure from Washington and the threat of punitive tariffs.
Latvia blocks 10 websites spreading Russian propaganda. Baltic states have been raising alarms about a growing Russian threat to the region and NATO.
In other news
Ukrainian lawmaker, ex-governor jailed in drone procurement corruption case. According to investigators, officials involved in the scheme allegedly received up to 30% of contract funds as kickbacks. Among those detained are lawmaker Oleksii Kuznetsov and former Luhansk Oblast Governor Serhii Haidai.
Russia abandons moratorium on deployment of short, intermediate-range missiles. The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Aug. 4 that it no longer considered itself bound by the moratorium due to recent actions by the United States.
Russian gasoline prices hit record high amid Ukrainian strikes on oil refineries, Russian media reports. A market source told the Russian state outlet Kommersant that Ukrainian attacks on oil facilities on Aug. 2 contributed to the price hike.
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Piracy Shield Widens Scope to Protect Movie & TV Premieres & Live Music
After focusing on IPTV services offering pirated live football matches from Italy's Serie A, legal amendments adopted by telecoms regulator AGCOM last week will widen the scope of the Piracy Shield blocking platform. The now-infamous claim, that pirate streams will be blocked inside 30 minutes, now applies to movie and TV premieres, and other events broadcast live. The more serious issues concern VPNs, DNS providers and whoever AGCOM decides to pursue next.
Piracy Shield Widens Scope to Protect Movie & TV Premieres & Live Music * TorrentFreak
Italy's Piracy Shield will widen its scope to protect movie and TV show premieres and live music after amendments were adopted last week.Andy Maxwell (TF Publishing)
*arr import progress?
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Venghino siori: Microsoft aumenta il montepremi di Zero Day Quest a 5 milioni di dollari
Microsoft offrirà premi fino a 5 milioni di dollari in premi per il concorso di hacking Zero Day Quest di quest'anno, che l'azienda descrive come "il più grande evento di hacking della storia".
Anche la Zero Day Quest dello scorso anno ha generato una partecipazione significativa da parte della comunità della sicurezza , in seguito all'offerta di Microsoft di 4 milioni di dollari in premi per vulnerabilità nei prodotti e nelle piattaforme cloud e di intelligenza artificiale. Dopo la conclusione della gara di hacking di novembre, Microsoft ha annunciato di aver pagato 1,6 milioni di dollari , avendo ricevuto oltre 600 segnalazioni di vulnerabilità.
Per la competizione di quest'anno, Redmond ha aumentato il montepremi a 5 milioni di dollari, concentrandosi sulla risoluzione dei problemi di sicurezza nel cloud computing e nell'intelligenza artificiale.
A new database on police use of force and misconduct in California makes public 1.5 million pages of once-secret police records
A new database on police use of force and misconduct in California makes public 1.5 million pages of once-secret police records | UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
For Immediate Release August 4, 2025 Contact: Journalism@berkeley.edu A new database on police use of force and misconduct in California makes public 1.Andrea Lampros (UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism)
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Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About
Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About
Well, well, well. The “age assurance” part of the UK’s Online Safety Act has finally gone into effect, with its age checking requirements kicking in a week and a half ago. And what do you kno…Techdirt
Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives
Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives
Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites.The Cloudflare Blog
Ignoring the self-promo part of the article, Cloudflare is in big part responsible for all of this. Their home page promotes mostly "AI" tools, they are even offering "pay-per-crawl" to make it a viable business model.
So while you correctly shit on Perplexity, don't forget that Cloudflare is even worse enemy and not a friend.
How to block Israel in qbittorrent (or any similar torrent client)
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/3207959
I was going to make this exact tutorial but when making it I found out someone beat me to it about a year ago so I figured I'd repost that one instead since it's a bit more in depth. Also while in many countries people use VPNs to torrent, making measures like this less helpful, occupiers of Palestine don't really tend to use a VPN due to minimal prosecution so catching them with this method is a lot easier than it would be against a country like the US for example.
We first need to obtain a blocklist of all possible Israeli ip addresses. This can be obtained from two sources.
- ip2location.com/free/visitor-b… (choose peer guardian format)
- iblocklist.com/
Due to the nature of how IP addresses are distributed, these blocklists have to be updated, but that isn't a huge concern for us right now.
When you downloaded the file for Israel from either site, it should look something like this:
Israel:2.16.36.0-2.16.36.255 Israel:2.22.233.0-2.22.233.255 Israel:2.52.0.0-2.55.255.255 Israel:2.57.228.0-2.57.231.255 Israel:2.58.33.0-2.58.33.255 Israel:3.2.42.0-3.2.42.63 Israel:3.5.56.0-3.5.59.255 Israel:5.22.128.0-5.22.135.255 Israel:5.28.128.0-5.28.191.255 Israel:5.29.0.0-5.29.255.255 Israel:5.100.248.0-5.100.255.255
If you wish to add more nations to the list such as TERF island or the 4th Reich, then you can append the files on top of each other into one file.Once you have the file, rename it with the
.p2pextension so that qbittorrent will use it. Then, in your qbittorrent client, go toPreferences -> Connection. At the very bottom you should see a section labeledIP Filtering. In the Filter Path checkbox, select your .p2p file. You may also check the box to block trackers as well.In other bittorrent software (hopefully you're using one that's libre) there should be a similar option for ip filtering.
There you go! You have effectively banned Israel from being your peer while you're doing p2p transfers. This won't stop Zionists from peering with you using a VPN or other undetected server, but this has done wonders for my mood.
Always remember to port forward and seed when torrenting (A non-Zionist VPN like AirVPN or ProtonVPN can allow you to do that). Only a Zionist does a download and run.
Resources
1. github.com/qbittorrent/qBittor…From the discussion post:
I was talking on my part, don't know about others. I'm a constant seeder (7+ years) and monitor peers from time to time or when downloading something.
During these years I've never seen a single Israeli seed on a rare torrent, or high download traffic from them. I'm being completely honest, the only time I see them is when they are downloading something from me.
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If I am honest, some torrents are still alive because of russians. Every so often I will see Israel and Russia as one full seeder.
As Gaza suffers, US companies are reaping horrific payoffs | Katrina vanden Heuvel
War profiteering is a phenomenon as ancient as war itself, but Albanese’s investigation shows that the military-industrial-technological complex is reaping uniquely horrible payoffs in Palestine. Albanese describes how companies led by Lockheed Martin have built fighter jets for Israel that have carried out bombings which have killed or wounded almost 200,000 Palestinians. She describes Palantir’s work with the Israeli military, and its consummation of that partnership by holding a board meeting in Tel Aviv (Palantir has denied involvement in IDF programs identifying Gaza targets). And she brings to light how Caterpillar Inc equipment has demolished homes and hospitals, crushing to death civilians stuck inside those structures.Perhaps the most hypocritical offenders are the members of the Magnificent Seven. Google’s unofficial motto was once “Don’t be evil,” but now the company has joined Amazon to provide cloud computing services to Israel and its military for a persuasive $1.2bn. Albanese quotes an Israeli colonel who calls this technology “a weapon in every sense of the word”, a cloud as deadly as any poison gas.
Beyond pouring into the streets, Americans can also boycott the corporations living large while the population of Palestine dwindles. The employees of those very companies can do the same, like the 50 now-terminated workers at Google who led “No Tech for Apartheid” protests last year. Otherwise, the warning recently issued by Beinart will remain true: “Blood is on our hands as Americans because it is our weapons that are responsible for those children starving to death.”
As Gaza suffers, US companies are reaping horrific payoffs
A report this month details US corporate involvement in IDF actions. Grassroots organizing offers opportunity for changeKatrina vanden Heuvel (The Guardian)
L'incerto destino della valle che detiene l'insepolta kryptonite d'Europa - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
L'incerto destino della valle che detiene l'insepolta kryptonite d'Europa - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Poiché il processo tecnologico della moderna civiltà industrializzata può essere rappresentato da una serie di gradini, ciascuno dei quali caratterizzato dall’imprescindibile necessità di determinate risorse, consapevolezze e competenze situazionali.Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
Palantir tops $1 billion in revenue for the first time, boosts guidance
The AI software provider’s revenues grew 48% during the period and hit $1 billion for the first time.
The software analytics company has seen a boost from President Donald Trump’s focus on cutting government costs.
Palantir tops $1 billion in revenue for the first time, boosts guidance
Palantir surpassed Wall Street's estimates and lifted its full-year outlookSamantha Subin (CNBC)
As someone who worked at a gas station for many years, I definitely don't miss this. For some reason the Women's room was always consistently bad (I assume because they all hovered) while the Men's room was relatively easy to clean.
But every week or so there was something like the image in the Men's room that made me regret being born. I'm sure there's a lesson in there about outliers messing up the average or something.
There is a federation problem on Programming.dev
This is a photo of how I see my post on programming. Dev instance.
This is how I see my post from my alt account on Reddthat.
UK-made cars could be forced to include breathalysers and 'black boxes'
cross-posted from: lemy.lol/post/49484066
After the UK left the EU, Brussels introduced the General Safety Regulation 2, which set out principles to make cars safer with the fitting of key components.These included a pre-installed interface to allow a breathalyser locking system to be installed, as well as Event Data Recorders, which are similar to black boxes found in aircraft.
Everyone’s Invited To The Copyparty
Everyone’s Invited To The Copyparty
Setting up a file server can be intimidating to the uninitiated. There are many servers to choose from, and then you need to decide how to install it — Docker? Kubernates? Well, what’s …Hackaday
I've literally never felt like I needed a file server to be easier and support more protocols, and this seems like it's trying to do way too much at once. HTTP is beautiful and convenient but as a bespoke javascript-heavy API it's really not a particularly great way to manage files, FTP sucks and if you still need it for something you need to re-evaluate your life choices, TFTP is useful in extremely niche applications that I wouldn't want to hook my entire file server up to anyway and certainly don't want running along side these other options, WebDav is fine but again really only necessary in niche applications which you don't need or want your entire file system hooked up to (or if you don't know how to VPN) and this doesn't seem to support SFTP/SSHFS which is what I would consider a modern standard for a secure file transfer protocol.
Just use Samba and/or ssh, every Linux distribution comes with packages for them. Both are widely used and battle-hardened, and between the two they are compatible with almost everything. You don't really need all that other stuff.
In some ways it’s the inverse of the UNIX Philosophy: instead of doing one thing perfectly, this program is doing everything [9001] could think of, and doing it “good enough”.
As a believer in the UNIX philosophy (armed with an understanding of why it is fundamentally useful) it horrifies me that either developers or users think this is a good thing.
I'm not sure if this would fall under the definition of "skill issue", but I've never had any luck getting Samba to work on even a local network.
This may be the same argument at "immutable" distros, having an environment where the user cannot fuck it up will be the best way to spur adoption rates, and eventually ambitious users will use more granular methods like you described.
I probably will use this.
Eager Eagle
in reply to Tenderizer78 • • •I think the partitioning itself is fine, but I wouldn't have 3 operating systems on a 256 GB NVMe, because I'd be running out of space a lot.
if you won't ever use Windows, you can nuke it. Then I'd consider making one of the Linux ones a VM - if you're trying out that distro. That will cut down 12 partitions to 5.
Lastly, you can look into btrfs to make better use of space between (the current) p11 and p12: you can make them subvolumes that won't eat up each other's storage when not in use.
Subvolumes — BTRFS documentation
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Tenderizer78
in reply to Eager Eagle • • •I'm only have about 20GB of files so I think I'll be fine on space.
I'm keeping Windows 11 around in case I need it for ... IDK taxes (though I don't have secureboot enabled because [points to image above]). A VM won't work for the Mint one, I need it separate for reasons I won't go into.
Btrfs was installed in default but I only know how to do full-disk encryption on ext4. Apparently btrfs doesn't have built-in support for it. I really liked how it was neatly organized into subvolumes but alas.
smegger
in reply to Tenderizer78 • • •Replacement 1tb nvme drives can be quite cheap these days, 2tb ones aren't especially price prohibitive either.
rirus
in reply to smegger • • •Also a Malware on one system could infect the others.
Tenderizer78
in reply to smegger • • •monovergent 🛠️
in reply to Tenderizer78 • • •The need for a larger vehicle might not arise from one week to the next, but the need for more gigabytes can. Windows 11 will happily eat up its entire partition next time it decides to update.
That said, as I type from my computer with only a 60 GB SSD, just make sure you have a plan for when that storage runs out.
Tenderizer78
in reply to monovergent 🛠️ • • •data1701d (He/Him)
in reply to Tenderizer78 • • •This is less like buying a bigger car and more like upgrading the stereo in the car - 256GB in 2025 is somewhat akin to having only AM radio, and I've found it gets annoying real fast when doing anything serious.
I would hesitate to put anything smaller than 1 TB in something that's supposed to be a daily driver.
verdigris
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in reply to verdigris • • •just_another_person
in reply to Tenderizer78 • • •If it works, it works. Unless you're working in Espionage, anything is honestly fine as long as your main storage is encrypted. The boot loader exploits still can't unencrypt things, just allow access to the data, which...still can't be decrypted as as we know.
It's fine.
Tenderizer78
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Tenderizer78
in reply to Gagootron • • •Gagootron
in reply to Tenderizer78 • • •Well, good news then: lvm comes with most modern linux distros. In fact, it is an option you can enable when installing linux mint.
I use it on every system that I run (workstations and servers) and never had any issues.
It really just makes partition management way easyer:
With normal partitions you cannot grow any partition without moving all other partitions after it. LVM can do it without touching anything else.
The best case for semthing like this is when you buy bigger ssd. You can copy the data with dd and then grow any and partitions that you want without hassle.
krolden
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in reply to utopiah • • •utopiah
in reply to Tenderizer78 • • •At some point if they have ridiculous restrictions one might consider ... doing the test in person, in a room provided by the actual school or that THEY provide the hardware.
Anyway IMHO the bigger point is that a lot of my own inaction (I won't speak for others) came from fear of problems that rarely, if ever, materialized. I would recommend to move on and if the problem does actually arise then consider solutions at that point.
I uninstalled Windows on my SSD years ago (despite paying for it, forced by OEM deals), didn't regret it once. In fact, I wear it as a "badge of honor" with pride. When someone tells me I "have" to use Windows for whatever reason, I tell them I can't and that usually leads to interesting conversations.
Tenderizer78
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in reply to Tenderizer78 • • •Can emulate TPM
also kernel level anti cheat is for video games
dallen
in reply to Tenderizer78 • • •Can’t speak to your exact machine but nowadays the license tends to be tied to the hardware.
If you are capable of manual partitioning then you should be able to reinstall Windows quickly if needed.
Tenderizer78
in reply to dallen • • •I got this laptop
I guess I could reinstall Windows, I really hate the idea of running the Windows 11 installer though.
Pardon our interruption...
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in reply to Tenderizer78 • • •Tenderizer78
in reply to gravitas_deficiency • • •I do not need more space. I need 25GB per Linux system and 64GB for Windows (which I'm going to backup anyway), plus 20GB of data.
I may keep Windows 10 on my Desktop too. It's nowhere near as scary as Windows 11.
gravitas_deficiency
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in reply to Tenderizer78 • • •Tenderizer78
in reply to Otter • • •I'm not sure the refurbisher I got my laptop from even gave Windows a license key. It kept bugging me to create an account to fully activate it or something, I should boot into it to check but the thought of opening up Windows 11 just gives me the creeps.
EDIT: They did give me a license. It was just Windows being Windows.
krolden
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in reply to krolden • • •NewNewAugustEast
in reply to Tenderizer78 • • •I too think you should remove windows. But if you don't want to, take a clonezilla image of your hard drive now. Store it somewhere else of course. You then can always recover if this scheme gets weird.
Its the first thing I do when I get a new laptop. Then wipe windows. Then install Linux. If I have hardware issues I can simply restore windows for warranty.
In any case, I would pick one of those two Linux to be a primary. You don't want to get rid of mint or make it a VM. Ok third option: distrobox it.
Tenderizer78
in reply to NewNewAugustEast • • •fushuan [he/him]
in reply to Tenderizer78 • • •You just got a new laptop and it has 250 GB of disk space?? Are you mad???
My Pendrive has 256 GB!
Tenderizer78
in reply to fushuan [he/him] • • •rjek
in reply to Tenderizer78 • • •rirus
in reply to rjek • • •You also need it for Hibernation to be the same or larger size like your RAM. Without it you can only suspend.
You MUST use encrypted SWAP if you want to be really secure since otherwise your encryption key might be written onto your Nvme.
patatahooligan
in reply to rjek • • •The common misconception that swap is pointless stems from misunderstanding what it's supposed to do. You shouldn't be triggering the OOM killer frequently anyway. In the much more normal case where you're only using some of your RAM for running applications, the rest is used as a filesystem cache/buffer. Having swap space available gives your OP the option to evict stale application memory from RAM rather than the filesystem cache when that would be the optimal choice to make.
This page explains it detail:
chrisdown.name/2018/01/02/in-d…
In defence of swap: common misconceptions
chrisdown.namestewarpt
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in reply to Tenderizer78 • • •Virtual Machine.
My laptop came with Windows 11, I nuked it and installed Linux before even booting lol.
Tenderizer78
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in reply to Tenderizer78 • • •appropriateghost
in reply to Tenderizer78 • • •that's a good question and I'm not sure. Worth it to find out, but personally I don't dual boot with Windows. I just have my main linux install and use a virtual machine. I never have needed to use a windows virtual machine but it would be interesting if I could activate it with the copy that came with my laptop.
Unless that copy is registered to my microsoft account? I have no idea that's how much I try to avoid windows now
CrackedLinuxISO
in reply to Tenderizer78 • • •The pain of keeping it around will outweigh the pain of needing it and not having it.
Quick boot into windows to help a friend test something on your machine?
- Twenty-five bajillion updates since you never logged in
- Windows "helpfully" cleaning up your Linux bootloader
- Any shared NTFS partition between windows and Linux is almost guaranteed to be left in a "dirty" state when windows shuts down, meaning you have to run ntfsfix before Linux will mount it again
And suddenly, that's where you'll be spending the whole afternoon. I agree with the others who say a VM is probably good enough.
Tenderizer78
in reply to CrackedLinuxISO • • •monovergent 🛠️
in reply to Tenderizer78 • • •Are you able to install a second SSD in your laptop? If you really need to keep it around, it's best practice to have Windows on its own physical drive.
Or if it's feasible, make your old laptop your dedicated Windows machine.
Tenderizer78
in reply to monovergent 🛠️ • • •My old laptop doesn't have a TPM or Secureboot (or a working CTRL key). So that idea's out.
I'll try and put it on a VM, not sure whether that'll preserve my key though.
IsThisLoss [comrade/them]
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in reply to IsThisLoss [comrade/them] • • •igemnace
in reply to Tenderizer78 • • •None are game-breaking! You can just note these down for next time you have the itch to tinker.
Swap - ArchWiki
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in reply to igemnace • • •Tenderizer78
in reply to igemnace • • •Sorry for the late reply, I didn't have time this week to look into what a swapfile was and I delayed my response until I did. I will definitely be using a swap file since I do not ever use hibernation and encrypting my swap partition seems like a hassle.
I'm currently reinstalling things (after accidentally bricking the Windows partition and finding myself dissatisfied with openSUSE). Hopefully with just 4 partitions total (EFI, Kubuntu encrypted, Mint Xfce encrypted, data). I am removing the /boot from each because unless I'm leaving /boot unencrypted there's no reason to separate it out. Unfortunately encrypting /boot means GRUB doesn't detect it automatically in the Kubuntu installer so I'm still working out how to correct that.
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in reply to Tenderizer78 • • •Is there any reason? You're effectively wasting half the drive by using that space for OSes you almost never use.
If you ever happen to need Windows, which I don't see happening as you yourself can't imagine an actual use case, you can just go to the library or borrow a friend's computer or maybe use your phone.
As for Mint, do you just have it to experiment with? If you're just trying to try out other distros, a virtual machine or even live USBs are much easier ways to quickly try out new systems without having to clear actual partitions.
If you had much more storage then sure, waste some of it, but you're really gonna be missing that 120gb if you use your computer for... basically anything.
The order of the partitions basically doesn't matter at this point -- I think having a boot partition first used to be important for MBR schemes but I'm pretty sure in the UEFI era you can have them in whatever order. As others have mentioned, you could combine your EFI partitions, but doing so to an already installed system is slightly complex. You also could shrink some of your EFI and boot partitions, I'm not sure of the recommended sizes off the top of my head but I think they could be smaller. On the other hand, your swap partition should probably be bigger -- making it the same size as your RAM is a good rule of thumb and will enable hibernation (I think).
Tenderizer78
in reply to verdigris • • •Yep, gonna clone and delete Windows 11.
Library might work.
I'm using Mint for sensitive matters, I want to keep it separate from my daily driver.
I'll basically just be using this laptop for web-browsing.
I don't really use hibernation. I'll need to enable swap encryption though.
verdigris
in reply to Tenderizer78 • • •Tenderizer78
in reply to verdigris • • •Some of the responses I got were about how the swap partition is useless, and someone else replied to them that they were wrong. I haven't responded to these people because I don't yet understand who's right. I'll use a swap file or just no swap altogether once I check for myself if the anti-swap people are nutters. I assume temporary files aren't saved to swap but instead to temp so I can't imagine what it's used for on an SSD.
I found yet another thing I'd need to manually install with OpenSUSE Leap (and at that point I may aswell use Arch with all it's documentation glory). I didn't have any of these issues with Ubuntu-based distros so I'm doing a fresh install with Kubuntu.
I'm gonna LVM it with two distros and a shared data partition.
Amju Wolf
in reply to Tenderizer78 • • •Why would you clone it first? Just nuke it if you don't plan on using it. It has no value. You can always install it from scratch.
Tenderizer78
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Unknown parent • • •data1701d (He/Him)
in reply to Tenderizer78 • • •On a more serious note, as others have said, you'll probably burn through these weird storage limitations quickly.
Also, what do you mean by "sensitive matters" on Mint? Because almost any way you spin it, I feel like it's not a great idea:
- If you're talking professional, confidential work with clients, keeping it on the same device where you do anything personal sounds like a terrible idea, and it's probably worth it to shell out for a dedicated device just for this.
- If it's more personal things like government documents, medical records, and other things I'll neglect to name here, running a separate operating system just for those just feels like unnecessary paranoia and will cause you unnecessary trouble. If you're careful, it shouldn't be a problem - the major browsers prevent file access through protections against cross-site scripting.
Also, as I said in another comment here, please upgrade that drive before you put a lot of data on it. If you don't and you run out of storage later (a near-certainty on 256GB), you'll have to go through the effort of getting everything copied, which may include equipment purchases and several hours of your time when you could jut do it right now while your important files are still small enough to fit on a flash drive right now. Save yourself the future trouble.
Anyhow, I wish you happy Linux usage.
brax
in reply to Tenderizer78 • • •Again, so you don't plan on installing anything extra or downloading stuff off the web? Lol.
I tried running arch in about 115GB of space, it wasn't too bad but I had my /home directory on a separate drive. There's no way I could get away with my OS+Home Directories on something as laughably small as that, unless I was just testing for a few weeks.
Tenderizer78
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