Quattro anni di battaglie nel più orribile conflitto della storia dei primati fin troppo umani - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Quattro anni di battaglie nel più orribile conflitto della storia dei primati fin troppo umani - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Cantami o Diva, del pelide Figan l’ira funesta, che tanti lutti addusse ai Kahama, di Godi, De, Hugh e Charlie.Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
new academic book about the fediverse just released!!!
Better social media is possible.
In his new book Move Slowly and Build Bridges, Robert W. Gehl tells the story of the activists, software developers, artists, and everyday people who have built the fediverse, a noncentralized alternative social media system. Unlike big tech corporations like Facebook, TikTok, or X, the fediverse is comprised of thousands of small, independent communities who use a Web protocol to communicate with one another.
These small communities govern themselves and moderate content at the human scale — compare that to Facebook and X, which try to moderate global conversations. And the fediverse isn’t built in order to gather user data and sell attention to marketers — it’s a more privacy-respecting social media alternative.
The most notable part of the fediverse is Mastodon. Founded in 2016, Mastodon was positioned as an alternative to Twitter. Like Twitter (or X), Mastodon members can post, like, share, and connect with one another across the world. Unlike Twitter/X, Mastodon can be completely under the control of its members, from how it’s run to its underlying software.
Making a noncentralized, ethically run social media system isn’t easy. The people building the fediverse have faced long hours, burnout, angry debates, and, worst of all, bigotry, death threats, and discrimination. They face constant, nagging doubts: Can we really do this? Can noncentralized social media survive in a world that is used to corporate social media? Can we—all of us—have our own social media?
As Move Slowly and Build Bridges shows us, the answer is yes, but it’s going to take a struggle.
The soy milk is OK
Lactose in enough quantities gets my tummy rumbling in a bad way so I'm trying out alternatives.
Oat milk in hipster coffee drinks is pretty good.
Soy milk as a protein and calcium beverage is fine. Tastes OK.
There is lactose-free milk too but that is still suspect. Either it's not all the way lactose free or too much of any kind of dairy quakes my intestines.
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I agree the stock tuning could use some work. As a workaround, have you seen these EasyEffects profiles? The sound quality is significantly improved, but there's still resonance above >60% volume (I think due to the keyboard).
I use a gate filter to block sound that isn't up close and loud, it essentially functions like voice activation with configurable hysteresis. Then next I also use a RNNoise filter I think it's called, which is the machine learning noise filter that blocks unwanted non-voice sounds.
If you need a hand I can take screenshots or something when I am next at my PC?
These are my app, gate and noise reduction filter settings, and the order they are enabled in for my microphone input. I am using the easyeffects flatpak which seems to include the standard noise reduction ML model.
You might need to study the gate settings for a minute to tweak them to your needs, I suspect you'll only need to change the curve threshold (-22db in my pic) to pick up your voice when you speak into it, but not background noises. You can use the db values shown in-app while speaking to help adjust it.
Honestly it's a little staggering how much better web video got after the W3C got fed up with Flash and RealPlayer and finally implemented some more efficient video and native video player standards.
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was a revolution.
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My unpopular opinion is that Flash was perhaps one of the greatest media standards of all time. Think about it — in 2002, people were packaging entire 15 minute animations with full audio and imagery, all encapsulated in a single file that could play in any browser, for under 10mb each. Not to mention, it was one of the earliest formats to support streaming. It used vectors for art, which meant that a SWF file would look just as good today on a 4k screen as it did in 2002.
It only became awful once we started forcing it to be stuff it didn't need to be, like a Web design platform, or a common platform for applets. This introduced more and more advanced versions of scripting that continually introduced new vulnerabilities.
It was a beautiful way to spread culture back when the fastest Internet anyone could get was 1 MB/sec.
I remember, that was a dramatic change.
Also, most people now dont remember this, but YouTube was initially popular because their flash video player was efficient, worked acrossed many different system configurations and browsers and dynamically changed resolution to match your connection.
At that point you had some people with broadband connections and a lot more with dial-up. So often dial-up users would not be able to watch videos because they were only available in one resolution.
YT had 144p (or less!) videos ready for dial-up users and higher resolution videos for broadband users and it automatically picked the appropriate video for the client. This made it so most people (dial-up users) would look to YT first, because you knew that YT would have a video that you could actually watch.
Then Google bought them.
YouTube blew up the year I went to college and got access to a T3 line. 🤤 My school had pretty robust security, but it was policy-based. Turns out, if you are on Linux and can't run the middleware, it would just go "oh you must be a printer, c'mon in!"
I crashed the entire network twice, so I fished a computer out of the trash in my parents' neighborhood, put Arch and rtorrrent on it, and would just pipe my traffic via SSH to that machine. 😛
Ah, and the short era of iTunes music sharing... Good memories.
Yeah, my high school had a computer lab donated by Cisco to teach their CCNA course. There were like 2 students taking the class and 25 PCs, so we setup one to run WinMX, Kazaa and eDonkey.
They all had CD-RW drives. We were minting music and movie CDs (divx encoded SD movies were under 650MB so they would fit on a CD), and selling them on campus for $3-5. You could get a 100 blank cd-rs for around $40, so it was very profitable.
AMD has been proving that x86_64 can be at least as power efficient as ARM over the last few years (given a floor of performance for like a phone/laptop... I doubt it can get as low power as a little ARM microcontroller)
It seems like x86 was getting so power hungry because of Intel's laser focus on single core performance
I've seen 10-12W easily on 4K for soc without av1. your soc (intel 11 gen) should support av1. try to play the video on mpv (with yt-dlp integration) with various hw acceleration options to see if it changes. probably your browser is software decoding.
for hardware decoding supported soc too I noticed 2-3W of extra power usage when playing youtube from website compared to mpv or freetube. the website seems doing inefficient js stuffs but I haven't profiled it.
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They're talking about a Debian 12 -> Debian 13 upgrade
On Debian, you get release notes on what commands to run.
Ubuntu has their own software update utility, separate from Software Center or Discover, that runs the commands for you
apt dist-upgrade
not work? That's what the docs say to do.
You have to at least modify your sources.list.d manually first. For most people, updating sources.list.d and running full-upgrade will probably work fine...
The full instructions are
1) run dist-upgrade
2) remove back ports
3) remove obsolete packages
4) remove non-debian packages
5) clean up old configuration files
6) add non-free-firmware (this is a 12 -> 13 specific)
7) remove proposed updates
8) disable pinning
9) update sources.list.d to point to the next release
10) apt upgrade --without-new-packages
11) apt full-upgrade
It takes like an hour? but it's still not "just press okay."
Ubuntu's has broken on some upgrades for friends and they had to do the whole Debian process manually, but it does try to automate the removals, disablements, and updating sources
Edit: instructions taken from Trixie release. I skipped some that aren't really unique, like make a backup
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This is why Backports exists. You can get any newer packages or kernels you need by enabling it.
And Ubuntu LTS doesn't go much farther ahead than base Debian.
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Wattz | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
A real time battery power consumption and charging indicator in your status barf-droid.org
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The train that never came; how maglev technology was derailed
The train that never came - how maglev technology was derailed - TechCentral
This is the first in a series of articles about amazing technologies that promised to change the world but which did no such thing.Ivo Vegter (TechCentral)
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Palestine Action ban ‘could become Starmer’s poll tax moment’ as backlash grows
Palestine Action ban ‘could become Starmer’s poll tax moment’ as freedom of speech row grows
Baroness Chakrabarti said the proscription of the group risks exacerbating community tensions, and campaigners warned the ban was a threat to freedom of speechKate Devlin (The Independent)
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Do something and actually help people
Palestine action got banned for doing something in order to actually help. Youre pissing on the wrong foot here buddy
Banning protests in the UK under the fake guise of terrorism is a despicable move that makes us no different to Russia or China or countries we are supposedly superior to because of our moral human rights framework.
Gaza has proved all of this to be a hoax. It shows that tolerating a genocide and war crimes against brown people only invites the same authoritarian tactics to be rolled out against Western populations when they become troublesome.
Starmer is a fascist cunt.
The P in HIPAA stands for portability, not privacy
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General public: I'm going to make wild assumptions about something I don't know anything about, and also spend 0 time verifying if my assumptions are correct.
hipaajournal.com/hipaa-explain…
The first paragraph:
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is an Act passed in 1996 that primarily had the objectives of enabling workers to carry forward healthcare insurance between jobs, prohibiting discrimination against beneficiaries with pre-existing health conditions, and guaranteeing coverage renewability multi-employer health insurance plans.
More like weigh the potential benefit with the potential risk.
I know it sounds wild, but now everyone’s medical data is going to be fed to Palantir, and RFK jr wants to put mentally ill people into camps. Are you comfortable with every mental health survey you’ve taken at appointments being in his hands? Do you think people with drug use in their medical history are going to feel comfortable with their health data being filtered through an AI selecting targets?
I mean, you’re seeing the same news we are. Still think I was being too paranoid?
Ill conceived idea to resurrect a dead torrent
Hi, let me know if this is obviously stupid and won't work. I'm an old pirate but obviously still pretty uneducated. I've got a dead torrent that's a collection of roms. 4 seeders, 800 abandoned peers (ungrateful basterds). Seeders are rarely online or can't provide more than 8% after a week. The roms are pretty mainstream and it's strange for this torrent to have been abandoned.
If I can find find the exact releases of as many roms as possible in the collection from other singular sources, can I resurrect this torrent by just copy+overwrite into the unfinished folder? is it that simple or is this hubris? am I too old to be this stupid?
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It's downloading for me. You might have some port issue. Make sure you forward incoming port in router.
Regardless I'll seed it.
honestly that wouldn't surprise me, it happened before. Just hard to diagnose because it's never consistent and Tribbler seems to be temperamental compared to other clients I've used.
after making some replacements other seeds showed up though and filled in the other files I hadn't got to yet. so weird after 6 days of zero movement
Check the open port number of your torrent client – which should also be set in your router's port forwarding or firewall config (alternatively enable UPnP in the router config to let it handle such things for you).
You can use a utility like CanYouSeeMe.org to check if it's correctly configured.
EDIT
If you can't make it work, you might be behind double NAT, sharing varying IPs with multiple other of the ISP's customers at once. In that case, you'll need to find one of the few trustworthy VPN providers that support port forwarding to get connectable, as it's called, and be able to connect to all peers no matter if they're connectable or not. Alternatively, rent a connectable seedbox in the cloud.
Open Port Check Tool -- Verify Port Forwarding on Your Router
A free open port check tool used to detect open ports on your connection. Test if port forwarding is correctly setup or if your port is being blocked by your firewall or ISP.canyouseeme.org
you're right. I just tried setting up the socks5 credentials which were the whole reason I even bought this VPN in the first place and they're not working anyway. so screw it, time to start looking again.
Wait socks5 isn't a kind of port forwarding is it? is what you just told me something I should have also tried using port 1080 but in my router settings as well?
Re-reading my previous comment, I think I gave you some incorrect information. Let me try again.
If you want to use a VPN and stay/become connectable to peers in P2P apps such as torrent clients, you need one of the few VPNs that support port forwarding. So far, so good.
However, I think I was wrong about the configuration. It's correct that you need to define a port number in your torrent client's settings, but when using a VPN, your router's port forwarding configuration is irrelevant, opposing to what I previously said. Instead, somewhere in your VPN's settings or when logged in on the VPN provider's website, you should set the same port number as in your torrent client. If the provider already assigned some port number to you, copy that to your torrent client config instead. Also look into how to bind your torrent client to your VPN so no traffic escapes if the VPN disconnects.
The router admin dashboard is only relevant for traffic that doesn't go through the VPN, so probably irrelevant for your torrenting, and you can only forward ports if you have your own public IP, rather than a shared one (CGNAT). I don't know which you have or if you'll ever need one. Ask your ISP if you need a public IP for something on your network that doesn't go through the VPN, e.g. some game server. While some ISPs give every customer a public IP, others sell it as an add-on for a small monthly fee if the technology (e.g. fiber) allows it, but only some technologies do. But as I said, the router port config doesn't matter when torrenting through the VPN.
Regarding SOCKS5, I found this description of it by in this blog post by ExpressVPN:
A SOCKS proxy acts as an intermediary between your device and the internet. Instead of your network packets being sent directly to their destination, they are first routed through the proxy server. The proxy then forwards those requests on your behalf, replacing your IP address with its own.
So no, it's not. From some quick searches, it seems possible use a SOCKS proxy from your VPN provider for your torrent client in order to hide your real IP from other peers, but since I can't find any proof of port forwarding being possible through such a proxy, this probably wont make you connectable...
SOCKS proxy explained: What is it and how it works
Learn what a SOCKS proxy is, how SOCKS5 boosts speed and security, and how to set it up on Windows, Mac, iPhone, and Android. Compare SOCKS vs. VPN + top use cases.Tyler Cross (ExpressVPN)
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that's what I'm assuming. I know even GBA roms have different versions that got shipped to different countries. but some sites over multiple versions for you to download so I was planning on rechecking the torrent after every overwrite until I see the progress bar leap up for that file.
still seems to easy to actually work though, right?
edit:FUCK FUCK FUCK IT WORKED HOLY SHIT BOYS
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Many ROMs are ripped by a small number of groups and pretty much copied and distributed everywhere.
There are a few websites that list all the ROMs and their hashes so you can check.
So chances are fairly big they actually match I'd assume?
Only difference might be that people tend to add "Downloaded from whatever" metadata or text files
4 seeders
4 seeds means it's not actually a dead torrent. Slow uploading sure, but not dead. I'd suggest just leaving it alone, if it's going at 8% per week it should finish on its own in roughly 13 weeks assuming the speeds don't change much. That's going to be a while but once you've got it you'll be seed number 5 as long as you keep seeding it on your end.
If I can find find the exact releases of as many roms as possible in the collection from other singular sources, can I resurrect this torrent by just copy+overwrite into the unfinished folder?
Sure that may work in theory. Just keep in mind you'd need to find tons of ROM files that are exact bit-by-bit matches of the files in the torrent - otherwise overwriting mismatched data into your currently downloading torrent would make things slower for you since you'd now have to re-download that data to get back to 8% or whatever.
EDIT: Looks like you lucked out, congrats seed #5 😀
TY! 😁 I DID luck out. the first version that worked came literally from Vimm's Lair which doesn't offer multiple releases but I do prefer to use over other places.
you're right, but the 8% stopped after the first day. it was dead since then. do some people only seed certain things on a rotation schedule?
More likely those seeds are super-busy so it just takes a while to keep a consistent upload. these type of seeds tend to be on a ton of other low seed torrents. So any new seeds helps.
And of course there's the seeds that just don't have great connections e.g. could be a laptop that is literally only online x hours a day or even week, or they can only upload at night or whatever.
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It is possible, I've done it myself. I had two dead torrents with 0 seeders that I really suspected were the exact same thing, so one day I changed the destination folders to point at the same place, it worked.
What I don't think I did is to have both torrents active at the same time while downloading.
The whole files don't need to match, just parts
Good luck, quite easy to do! Remember to hit recheck after modifying the files if the client doesn't pick it up
With 99+% of hashes matching?
Whatever the issue, theres good odds that the pieces with matching hashes are perfectly fine and the <1% of pieces with errors OPs bittorrent client can and did replace, so now the files are identical to source and good to go!
Global outrage mounts as funeral held for five journalists killed by Israel
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/34531039
Malak A Tantesh in Gaza and Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem
Mon 11 Aug 2025 07.39 EDT
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) admitted carrying out the attack, claiming Sharif was the leader of a Hamas cell responsible for rocket attacks against Israel – an allegation that Al Jazeera and Sharif had previously dismissed as baseless.It was the first time during the war that Israel’s military has swiftly claimed responsibility after a journalist was killed in a strike.
Global outrage mounts as funeral held for five journalists killed by Israel
Malak A Tantesh in Gaza and Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem
Mon 11 Aug 2025 07.39 EDTThe Israel Defense Forces (IDF) admitted carrying out the attack, claiming Sharif was the leader of a Hamas cell responsible for rocket attacks against Israel – an allegation that Al Jazeera and Sharif had previously dismissed as baseless.It was the first time during the war that Israel’s military has swiftly claimed responsibility after a journalist was killed in a strike.
Funeral held for Anas al-Sharif and other journalists killed in Israeli strike
Last post from Al Jazeera’s Sharif, one of ‘Gaza’s bravest journalists’, laments world doing nothing to stop ‘massacre’ of PalestiniansLorenzo Tondo (The Guardian)
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Well, these are far from the first round of journalists.
As a sidenote, an incomprehensible number of Palestinians have been killed, and countless more have been wounded, terrorised, and displaced.
Global outrage is disgracefully slow!
Global outrage mounts as funeral held for five journalists killed by Israel
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/34531039
Malak A Tantesh in Gaza and Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem
Mon 11 Aug 2025 07.39 EDT
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) admitted carrying out the attack, claiming Sharif was the leader of a Hamas cell responsible for rocket attacks against Israel – an allegation that Al Jazeera and Sharif had previously dismissed as baseless.It was the first time during the war that Israel’s military has swiftly claimed responsibility after a journalist was killed in a strike.
Global outrage mounts as funeral held for five journalists killed by Israel
Malak A Tantesh in Gaza and Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem
Mon 11 Aug 2025 07.39 EDTThe Israel Defense Forces (IDF) admitted carrying out the attack, claiming Sharif was the leader of a Hamas cell responsible for rocket attacks against Israel – an allegation that Al Jazeera and Sharif had previously dismissed as baseless.It was the first time during the war that Israel’s military has swiftly claimed responsibility after a journalist was killed in a strike.
Funeral held for Anas al-Sharif and other journalists killed in Israeli strike
Last post from Al Jazeera’s Sharif, one of ‘Gaza’s bravest journalists’, laments world doing nothing to stop ‘massacre’ of PalestiniansLorenzo Tondo (The Guardian)
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Global outrage mounts as funeral held for five journalists killed by Israel
Malak A Tantesh in Gaza and Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem
Mon 11 Aug 2025 07.39 EDT
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) admitted carrying out the attack, claiming Sharif was the leader of a Hamas cell responsible for rocket attacks against Israel – an allegation that Al Jazeera and Sharif had previously dismissed as baseless.It was the first time during the war that Israel’s military has swiftly claimed responsibility after a journalist was killed in a strike.
Funeral held for Anas al-Sharif and other journalists killed in Israeli strike
Last post from Al Jazeera’s Sharif, one of ‘Gaza’s bravest journalists’, laments world doing nothing to stop ‘massacre’ of PalestiniansLorenzo Tondo (The Guardian)
True or false
Can AI systems decipher the difference between true and false information and ideas?
Is this more abstract and complex computation for these models?
How Columbia’s Leadership Refashioned the University in Trump’s Image
August 7 2025, 10:10 a.m.
How Columbia’s Leadership Refashioned the University in Trump’s Image
Columbia University President Claire Shipman said the school retained full independence, but it gave in to virtually all of Trump's demands.Meghnad Bose (The Intercept)
Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU
Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.
A massive Wyoming data center will soon use 5x more power than the state's human occupants
An energy leap which overshadows Wyoming’s population
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GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android
How EU digital identity rules and Google's restrictive policies threaten the future of privacy-focused Android operating systems like GrapheneOS.
Archived version: archive.is/20250810234024/forb…
I've been saying for YEARS that the EU has been overstepping their bounds by forcing companies to do things that they should have no right to force them to do, and that the EU is becoming a threat. I was downvoted every time and called a "bootlicker" because people loved the EU dictating terms to the "big bad american corporations".
Well now the EU have gone full nanny surveilance state, and people like those who argued against me have no one to blame but themselves. Congratulations.
The EU is good when they're doing good things, and bad when they're doing bad things. Someone has to reign in international corporations and their anti-consumer anti-planet bullshit.
people .. who argued against me have no one to blame but themselves.
You really think people agreeing or disagreeing with you on the internet have/had anything to do with it?
No, not everyone is good when they’re doing good things and bad when they’re doing bad things. The EU have been doing things that many, especially on here and reddit, consider “good” only because of their biases. They’re not objectively good things, but subjective. Things like forcing Apple to allow other payment methods was championed, but imagine if your business is forced to let your customers pay someone else to use your system, and then you’re the one that had to handle all their complaints because they got scammed.
The EU has been overstepping their bounds for years now. The difference now is that they’re doing things that everyone knows is authoritarian. They’ve been authoritarian all along, but the lefties were ok with it because it was authoritarianism that they agreed with.
Things like forcing Apple to allow other payment methods was championed, but imagine if your business is forced to let your customers pay someone else to use your system, and then you’re the one that had to handle all their complaints because they got scammed.
That is simply not case. Apple has extremely detailed list of payment methods they provide support over. And anything they do not support, they refer you to that payment provider or developer.
support.apple.com/en-vn/111741
Payment methods that you can use with your Apple Account - Apple Support (VN)
To buy apps from the App Store, use Apple subscriptions like iCloud+ and Apple Music, or buy other media from Apple, you need an Apple Account and a valid payment method. See what forms of payment are accepted in your country or region.Apple Support
The EU has been overstepping their bounds for years now. The difference now is that they’re doing things that everyone knows is authoritarian. They’ve been authoritarian all along, but the lefties were ok with it because it was authoritarianism that they agreed with.
EU does flex its power a lot, but the only case I know where you can say they are overstepping their authority was the money borrowing on the EU level during COVID-19 pandemic. Since they have no power of taxation, EU might not be able to repay its debts if countries don't voluntary repay or other countries cover those debts.
Do you have other examples where they breached their authority?
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Mixed. They sell phones with "standard" Android and /e/OS. "standard" Android could potencially have strong Google Play Integrity API support, while /e/OS which uses open source MicroG can only get basic Google Play Integrity API support.
But since API check can be required by app developer for any reason, it can easily be abused or mandated by law like age verification or chat control.
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There's a Broken Tesla Cybertruck Stuck on the Rubicon Trail Right Now
Drivers who saw it on the treacherous 22-mile trail told us it snapped multiple tie rods and needed a steering rack replacement.
US | Surveillance Company Flock Now Using AI to Report Us to Police if it Thinks Our Movement Patterns Are “Suspicious”
Company crosses a dangerous line by beginning to offer AI suspicion-generation functions
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Just got a new GPU, why is it so hard to use it?
Hey all, just got a Geforce 5070 to replace my 2070 from years ago. Ubuntu's been pretty smooth sailing for me until now, and I'm not exactly the best at navigating this stuff.
When Ubuntu starts to boot, the GPU stops outputting display to my monitor. As though it doesn't detect the new GPU. I tried putting the 2070 back in and downloading the 570 drivers but it didn't change anything. I found a tutorial for what seemed to be my issue that asked me to change the kernel, but halfway through the tutorial, commands that worked on their machine started failing on mine. I wish I'd documented what the error messages were because when I went to poke around more today, I got a message about kernel panic and can't even boot with the 2070. Where do I go from here?
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| NVIDIA-SMI 570.158.01 Driver Version: 570.158.01 CUDA Version: 12.8 |
|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
| 0 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 ... Off | 00000000:09:00.0 On | N/A |
| 0% 37C P8 18W / 235W | 481MiB / 8192MiB | 2% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=========================================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 2099 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 143MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2358 G /usr/bin/gnome-shell 105MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2950 G ...exec/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome 10MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 5684 G .../6565/usr/lib/firefox/firefox 167MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 8244 G /usr/bin/nautilus 13MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 8333 G ...tcher-linux-x64/balena-etcher 20MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Well the driver is loaded, and you have processes engaged with it, so it's functional.
If you're losing output, maybe you have a conflict with the nouveau driver. Have you blacklisted it?
Honestly I haven't even heard of a nouveau driver. I sure haven't blacklisted it.
To be clear I got this output with my old GPU. Not sure how I would get to the command terminal with the new one.
You need to run these commands on the machine having the problem. Giving output from another machine doesn't help solve anything.
If you're getting dead output on your 5070, it means the driver is more than likely NOT loaded, so the output will be different.
Boot the 5070, and when you get a black screen, hit ALT+F2 to drop to a console shell. Login, and run 'nvidia-smi', and you should get something that confirms it's loaded, or something that says it is not loaded.
If it's not loaded, it means you haven't installed the drivers (you sure you did?). Check your packages, make sure the driver is properly installed, then do this to blacklist the nouveau driver which may be in conflict.
Reboot. See if it works.
If you have at least Ubuntu 24.10 and the NVIDIA 570.133.07 driver installed with the 2070, it should be plug and play with the new card.
If you put the 2070 in are you able to get a working system?
Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS Released with Bug Fixes and Security Updates
Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS is now officially available, powered by Linux kernel 6.14, and featuring critical security updates and bug fixes.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Can you run nvidia-smi and confirm you're on the 570 driver?
Also after you do a failed boot with the 5070 put the 2070 back in and try run this command journalctl -b -1 -p 0..2
to check the log from the previous boot and filter for only high priority issues. This should give some insight on whats failing when you try and boot with the 5070.
Another dumb check but have you got the display cables plugged into the gpu?
Nvidia-smi output:
Mon Aug 11 19:17:03 2025
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| NVIDIA-SMI 570.158.01 Driver Version: 570.158.01 CUDA Version: 12.8 |
|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
| 0 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 ... Off | 00000000:09:00.0 On | N/A |
| 0% 37C P8 18W / 235W | 481MiB / 8192MiB | 2% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=========================================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 2099 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 143MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2358 G /usr/bin/gnome-shell 105MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2950 G ...exec/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome 10MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 5684 G .../6565/usr/lib/firefox/firefox 167MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 8244 G /usr/bin/nautilus 13MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 8333 G ...tcher-linux-x64/balena-etcher 20MiB |
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I hate to be the jerk but it's because you got Nvidia. Intel and AMD cards enjoy significantly better graphics card support.
I would also try a different distribution that's known for having more recent kernels and faster development. Something like Manjaro is actually a pretty good fit for this situation.
I hate to be the jerk but it’s because you got Nvidia
No its not. The nvidia 5070 works on linux and has for a while now.
I would also try a different distribution that’s known for having more recent kernels and faster development. Something like Manjaro is actually a pretty good fit for this situation.
We really need to avoid just suggesting a different distro as the solution. In this case it makes no sense, they're running kernel 6.14 and the Nvidia driver is out of kernel. Phoronix benchmarked the 5070 running an older version of ubuntu and still got good performance and it worked well. That means their version of ubuntu which is new enough to support it. Im not sure what the issue is but I think switching distro's is a last resort once you've tried everything else.
Great but it's not working out of the box and clearly that was the expectation.
AMD has built in support so no extra steps needed.
Ubuntu has a history of not having the latest kernels and having spotty support for new hardware.
Sure you can fix it but again the out of the box expectation.
We can agree that it should work and can work and I don't disagree that always suggestions a different distribution is not generally helpful but watching people suffer trying to get Ubuntu working is a sore spot for me.
Its not an out of the box installation. He has an existing ubuntu installation and is upgrading the GPU. We can always be like oh you ran into a single issue, just get rid of your hardware and swap to an entirely new distro. Thats a worst case solution to the problem.
AMD has built in support so no extra steps needed.
Doesnt matter, he isnt asking about an AMD card.
Ubuntu has a history of not having the latest kernels and having spotty support for new hardware.
Its actually the opposite, ubuntu generally has very good hardware support. Cannonical work with vendors to test hardware works on their platform. The 5070 phronix benchmarks were done on ubuntu. Suggesting its a distro issue is ignoring the problem
In this case, a different distro is the exact thing to be suggested. They are looking for out of the box support functionally speaking.
Which case if they want something that is newer than they really should be on a distro that is focused on newer support. Such as Arch or Fedora. Ubuntu, mint and other distros based on Debian all share the same problem of depending on where you are in the release cycle, you can be wildly out of date. Even if you have a newer colonel, there can be weird. Incompatibility and funky problems that occur.
Generally speaking, there is a very good reason why every single distribution that is focused specifically on video card support, gaming modern hardware is Arch or fedora based.
Frankly, for a lot of normal users who aren't used to Linux or just want things to work out of the box with no fiddling and good documentation. Then they really should just be avoiding Debian and Ubuntu base distributions.
They're great if you have newish but a couple years old hardware and you just want something that is Rock solid out of the box and you don't plan to ever fiddle with it.
But for someone running a 5080 and likely is gaming, they should just be on cachy or bazzite. We're installing your drivers setting up proton setting up steam, setting up everything. A gamer or someone trying to do any sort of advanced graphical s*** is quite literally a one-button process. With the dev team working on the distribution explicitly going out of their way to make sure the support for new hardware is as seamless and stupid proof as possible.
Would suggest cachy over Manjaro if you are explicitly looking for video card support since it's focused very heavily on making sure gaming is supported.
I've run into a lot of cases where things that get kind of iffy on endeavor or Manjaro work just fine on cachy because of their extra work they put in for this use case.
I find with multiple video ports, its best to plug in all of them till you figure out which ones work.
Nvidia is not well supported, and most video cards have problems in Linux. Generally, if you have to use a proprietary driver, it will have specific issues. The free drivers will just be buggy.
Best is to see what cards are known to work well. There are maintained, well there used to be, lists of hardware that works well.
If you installed proprietary drivers, they are often difficult to remove. There is not always instructions on how to uninstall. So part of your problems might be the drivers.
My 2080 has issues and cuts off part of the screen on Linux mint. My 6700xt and amd setup would never. I switched and tried every driver. I've never used nvidia. Anyone have advice?
Edit: it was some stupid AI scaler on the SmArT TV. What joke.
cuts off part of the screen
this happens to me if i use nouveau. i solve this by installing the driver and setting the correct refresh rate.
what are the system logs saying about it? have you tested the card on another machine/os?
did you delete the nvidia config files between reinstalls?
alright go back to nouveau then try a complete purge with sudo apt purge *nvidia* && sudo apt autoremove -y && sudo apt autoclean
and delete all the leftover nvidia files you can find. namely the .nvidia-settings-rc on your home directory, but check xorg.conf for any weirdness. then reinstall the latest driver.
beyond that changing to x11 or vice versa can help. i know the cinnamon de in mint has issues with nvidia sometimes, testing it out on gnome or kde is a good idea too.
not to mention using an ssd from a previous computer complicates stuff a bit further, doing a clean install might prove useful too.
in any case, here's a resource for debugging it further: docs.lambda.ai/education/linux…
wish you luck. nvidia mostly works well with the major des nowadays, but can still be annoying as fuck when it has issues. if nothing works, hit me up again and i'll see what i can do to help.
Using the nvidia-bug-report.log file to troubleshoot your system - Lambda Docs
Lambda GPU Cloud documentationdocs.lambda.ai
return to stock kernel, uninstall and completely purge the old drivers through another TTY. make sure to delete nvidia configs and files from your home directory, then install the new ones with ubuntu-drivers install
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this usually does it for me when it comes to nvidia weirdness.
You fucked up by buying Nvidia first off. But you have to use the open source drivers Nvidia doesn't officially fully support their newest cards on the closed source ones.
Should be a simple switch over and your good to go.
In the future never buy Nvidia if you are going to use their newest generation they always lag a full generation behind for proper support. It's absurd.
Your second fuck up is using Ubuntu. If you want to use the most recent generation of hardware your option is basically arch or get fucked over to some degree.
Ubuntu lags behind by sometimes over two years in hardware support. This is true of every Debian and Ubuntu based os. Mint and popos and some fedora distros have the same problem. Tho fedora tends to be far better with this. They just are all over the place with how fast they push things. So very case by case basis.
You basically need to be on bleeding edge kernel and packages for proper support.
This is the biggest reason gaming focused distros are all arch with the expections of bazzite which is at least based on fedora which also tends to push things really fast.
Simply put. You want nice hardware support for new harder? Pick arch and stick to AMD. Or at least go with fedora.
Stay away from Debian/Ubuntu/mint/popos. They are great till you want hardware support for anything newer then 1 to 2 years old depending on where in the release cycle you are.
I mean, there are quite a few others than Arch+family that package a very recent kernel too. Fedora as you mentioned, but also NixOS, openSUSE Tumbleweed and even Gentoo if you're that kind of a person. I bet I missed some.
But yeah Ubuntu is not necessarily one of them
A few things in this post are not accurate. The 5070 is supported by the nVidia Linux drivers since version 570.124.04. There's also absolutely nothing wrong with using Ubuntu. They have a PPA for the newer nVidia drivers, which work fine with the current LTS release.
OP doesn't say what kernel they're running, or what version of Ubuntu. That would be useful information to have.
Is self-hosted OpenVPN on a vps safe enough for p2p?
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Use WireGuard, not OpenVPN: faster, leaner, modern crypto.
No compression, full-tunnel + DNS leak protection, firewall to block non-VPN traffic, minimal logs.
If host’s fine with P2P, you’re set.
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Someone else asked “safe from what?” And that’s the real question.
In lieu of an answer to that though, no. It isn’t. The whole point of using a vpn to do p2p is to accomplish three things: traffic anonymization, legal protection and encrypted data transfer.
A vpn on a vps doesn’t anonymize your traffic because the vps is in your name. The vps provider is likely in compliance with kyc laws and will happily give you up to the law the moment they come knocking. If you’re using a domain with it it’s even easier to check that it’s you by looking at the whois records. On the off chance you’re getting a vps with enough storage and transfer included to act as your seedbox without kyc using cash or monero or something you’re likely paying more than the 2-3$ a month that the p2p vpns tend to charge.
A vpn on a vps most likely doesn’t provide you any legal protection either! Generally speaking, privacy focused vpn providers use nonpersistent systems where the secrets that can be subject to lawful intercept by the authorities are not stored on the systems hard drive and have protections against being read out of ram. Not only are almost all vpses generally held to be vulnerable to having their ram contents read by the provider, it is extremely unlikely that you set up openvpn without a configuration file on disk that contains your secret. This is just one example of a well documented vector of legal attack against a vpn, there are many. Paying an expert in legal attacks takes the onus off you.
A vpn on a vps doesn’t even accomplish encrypted data transfer, since the tunnel is between your pc and your vps, not whatever the vps connects to. Encryption keeps untrustworthy devices upstream of you from reading the data you send and receive. You might have prevented your untrustworthy isp devices from viewing your data, but you didn’t prevent untrustworthy vps provider devices from viewing your data. Even if your vps is trustworthy, the infrastructure it uses is the same infrastructure whose built in lawful intercept backdoors were compromised last year with no firm resolution. This wouldn’t matter nearly as much if your traffic were anonymized or had the shield of a crew of computer security experts running the system you use as a vpn, but as outlined above, you don’t.
Running your own vpn on a vps is cool, and I’m glad you have that ability, but it’s a lot like building your own car from scratch. It is possible, and a phenomenal learning experience, but not the suggested route for anyone.
Use a p2p vpn service instead. It’s much cheaper and better in almost every way.
Thanks for the info, very useful. I'm generally trying to hide my traffic from my ISP, when I'm torrenting some movies. I'm not doing a ton of p2p stuff. Not enough to need a seedbox. I'll share/seed some stuff from my local hard drive. Nothing sits in my vps.
I understand that although the IP addresses I connect to can be hidden from my ISP by my own instance of openvpn, it doesn't hide that my vps is connecting to those IP addresses. I think I'm okay with that. I'm not connecting to super sketchy sites. Generally, I'm trying to avoid getting some copyright warning letter from my ISP. Although that's never been an issue, I just thought I'd be safe.
My vps has a domain name, but it does have privacy protection where my name won't show up on a whois lookup. Not sure how much that helps, but I thought it was good to have.
In terms of a good p2p vpn services, it seems like a lot of the usual ones being advertised on podcasts and youtube are bad about privacy, and it seems like Proton may be the only one that I know of that seems good. Any recommendations for good vpns are welcome. I may just go that route if Openvpn isn't good enough.
The isp generally doesn’t care if you’re doing p2p. Some use it as a sales tactic to get you to move up to their top tier bandwidth plans though. They handle complaints about your p2p that have been investigated by some group contracted by the rights holders who usually say they have the file or want the file and take note of the ip that offers or accepts the file and then send that information to the group responsible for that ip.
In the case of your home ip, your isp receives the letter and sends you a letter in kind complying with all the laws they’re subject to. This usually has the threat of legal action and termination of service.
In the case of your vps ip, the vps provider complies to the full extent of the law. In some places with a three strikes or similar style of enforcement they may just forward it to you. They may use it as an excuse to ditch you if you’re a problem customer for them. It’s completely within the realm of possibility that they happily provide all the information they have on you, but that usually only when the police get involved.
In the case of your p2p vpn service they often have the ability to say “we don’t know which of our customers we’re connecting from that ip and have no way of finding out”. It’s a dead end for them.
Air has worked well for me. Proton is fine as long as you’re careful about what metadata you give them. Both do port forwarding.
In general, it would be a bad idea to use the same vpn account or service for p2p that you use for browsing or whatever. So maybe don’t do that.
Your VPS provider will likely just forward copyright infringement letters to you, same as your ISP would, or they'll suspend your account.
It will hide your ISP IP from torrent peers, but the VPS provider still knows exactly who you are.
but how hard is it for the vps traffic to be traced back to me?
Very easy by the VPS provider, as the VPS has a static IP assigned to you.
The Sick World of Prison Tycoon Games
The Sick World of Prison Tycoon Games
Only a deeply broken society would create a mobile game like “Lands of Jail.”Stephen Prager (Current Affairs Inc)
The Social Media Trend Machine Is Spitting Out Weirder and Weirder Results
TikTok Trends Are Driving Random Consumer Spending Spikes
Trends always have an element of randomness, but our algorithmic feeds have made them unintelligible.Amanda Mull (Bloomberg)
This reads like "old man yells at clouds"
Like on one hand, sure, tiktok has accelerated the amount of info/media kids are latching onto. But also, remember street sharks? Remember pogs? Or floam? Like.. shits always been like this.
Reddit will block the Internet Archive
Reddit will block the Internet Archive
Reddit caught AI companies scraping its data from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, so it’s going to limit the Internet Archive from indexing some data.Jay Peters (The Verge)
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Gate keeping the API thinking it'll help with making some bigshot LLM some day lol
We are sliding rapidly into Idiocracy.
Buddy, we are already there. “Ow, my balls!” Would be high-brow tv these days.
Not to mention so many projects putting their support in walled garden chat services like Discord that you can’t even search via search engine. Even if you can figure out who asked the right question and when, you have to trawl through a sea of inane garbled chat to get to the developer/expert response.
Specialised topic forums really need to make a resurgence but I doubt they will.
Not to mention so many projects putting their support in walled garden chat services like Discord that you can’t even search via search engine.
Seeing this happen has been one of the saddest most desperate parts about watching the internet dying.
It was obvious what was going to happen years ago, that didn't stop people from acting like I was a reactionary foolish cynic when I voiced concern about this though.
Seriously FUCK Discord (and Reddit).
Weren't Reddit complaining a couple of years ago that too many AI bots crawls were stressing their servers.
Doesn't the internet archive relieve that stress?
Doesn't the internet archive relieve that stress?
I think that was probably the real reason for the block, the Internet Archive is too functional, scalable and accessible of a service for reddit's lame excuses about needing to gatekeep access to the community created content on their website to not make reddit look totally stupid unless they came up with an excuse to block the Internet Archive.
Reddit warned my account ( first warn in 10 years ) and deleted the comment when I told a American he can strike peacefully to show the government they are against it.
I got a warn for recommending violence by an ai , the human that checked it agreed and didn't remove the warn haha.
Reddit is just feared that their censorship goes public.
Not that reddit isn't hot garbage right now, and has been for a while actually, but there's a lot of people here who have glazed over the reason why reddit instituted this policy.
AI companies are scraping the Wayback Machine. This is something that should concern all of us.
And what do I care about Reddit getting paid?
If the IA doesn't complain about being used, then it's fine for me. The ideal outcome would be, if the archive can make some arrangement where they scrape the data and provide it to everyone. That way, sites only get scraped once and not constantly hammered.
Lenovo Webcams Can Be Turned into Persistent Attack Platforms
Lenovo Webcams Can Be Turned into Persistent Attack Platforms
Linux USB webcams from Lenovo can be turned into persistent “BadUSB” devices to inject keystrokes, drop payloads, and surve system reinstallsBill Mann (CyberInsider)
Vuoto a perdere 06: o mio o di nessun altro!
MONDO REALE: Freddie Mercury non ha mai avuto dei figli ma Mary Austin, la donna che lui ha amato, sì.
Il frontman dei Queen però era appassionato di gatti e per questo ha scritto una canzone per la sua preferita. Delilah.
FANTASIA: Mark Wilson scopre un segreto molto personale su Freddie intercettando alcune lettere a lui indirizzate, e la decisione è presa: Freddie, di quella corrispondenza, non saprà mai; è un’arma troppo potente nelle mani di Mark!
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Vuoto a perdere: o mio, o di nessun altro!
Per giorni il mio defunto compagno Andrew continuò a ripetermelo nel sogno: “Dissangua il mio gifter, porta la sua anima da me!”
Dalla sera in cui Freddie si era tagliato un dito durante una cena, l’idea di ottenere il suo sangue diventò un’ossessione e più passava il tempo, più la determinazione si tramutò in rabbia.
“Se Freddie non sarà mio, nessun altro lo avrà!” dicevo tra me, ogni volta che mi alzavo dal letto e mi guardavo nello specchio.
Non riuscii mai però ad avvicinarlo davvero: lo vedevo girare insieme al suo staff, sorridere, parlare con l’assistente Melania ma era impossibile avere un’occasione per stare da solo con lui.
Non restò altro che studiare un piano per tendergli una trappola che l’avrebbe potuto dissanguare ma sfortunatamente, documentandomi grazie ai pochi mezzi di informazione disponibili, capii quanto il virus HIV fosse debole: la trasmissione non avviene senza contatto diretto col sangue del malato!
Il piano del dissanguatore
La sola speranza per me era stare lì mentre accadeva, e raccogliere il prezioso fluido in velocità: Ogni qual volta pulivo la sua stanza, cercavo di escogitare un sistema per sabotare un lampadario, una finestra, qualsiasi altro oggetto di vetro che potesse infrangersi su di lui mentre dormiva e io sarei corso ad aiutarlo, guarda caso mi sarei tagliato e poi…
No, alla fine decisi che non valeva la pena; troppo rischioso per la mia reputazione, mi avrebbero accusato di omicidio facendomi finire come Mark David Chapman, l’uomo che nel 1980 sparò a John Lennon. Povero idiota, quando John venne portato via rimase lì a leggersi Il Giovane Holden aspettando gli eventi, ma non ebbe alcun legame col proprio mito.
Io invece, facendo le cose per bene, potevo essere unito a Freddie per sempre e, soprattutto, diffondere il virus consentendo al mio idolo di vivere per l’eternità. E pazienza se per il mondo sarei stato l’ennesimo criminale! Mi sentivo coperto, nella mia falsa identità di William Karson.
Buone notizie?
Assorto nei miei pensieri non mi accorsi immediatamente di qualcuno che bussava alla porta della mia stanza; “Karson, c’è bisogno di te!” Mi disse Jim, il compagno di Freddie, quando aprii.
Stringeva in mano una busta. “Questa l’hanno mandata un paio di giorni fa destinata a Freddie, e appena ho letto da dove arriva mi sei venuto in mente subito.”
Allora era vero, hanno letto il mio curriculum prima di assumermi! Presi la lettera fra le dita e mi lasciai andare a un sospiro di malinconia, quando lessi la provenienza del mittente: Bugliano, culla e tomba per i miei sogni di scienziato.
Ricordai immediatamente il mio passato da studente di medicina, quando la speranza di sconfiggere l’AIDS con le mie sole forze, mi aveva indotto persino a fare pace con chi mi aveva sempre bullizzato. Raymond Still, che quando mi bocciarono, diede un colpo di spugna alla nostra inaspettata amicizia e mi umiliò il doppio.
Promozioni e fallimenti
“Mark Wilson, Lei può solo pulire i gabinetti”, mi disse impietoso l’insegnante quando provai a contestare il risultato finale; e Ray Still non mosse un dito per difendermi, anzi mi voltò le spalle per godersi la sua promozione con tutti gli onori!
Soltanto pochi mesi dopo aver accettato il lavoro a casa di Freddie Mercury, scoprii che mentre io facevo le pulizie Raymond Still aveva fatto carriera e avviato un’importante ricerca su HIV, con tanto di annuncio: “Sto cercando una celebrità risultata positiva al virus per sperimentare il mio nuovo studio. L’HIV, opportunamente modificato, può trasmettere emozioni e talento da una persona all’altra!”
Quale occasione migliore per fargli sapere di Freddie?
Stringendo ancora fra le mani la busta consegnatami da Jim, ripensai alla mia lettera appena spedita a Raymond in risposta al suo annuncio; gli avevo raccontato per filo e per segno la positività di Freddie ma anche dopo giorni dall’invio della missiva, non ricevetti alcun riscontro.
E se la busta in mano mia contenesse proprio la risposta di Ray, che da Bugliano voleva parlare direttamente con Freddie?
Non mi feci alcuno scrupolo e me la misi in tasca: “Mai paura, Jim! La porto io al capo, il messaggio è in buone mani.”
Inizio di un inganno
Alla svelta, chiusi la porta della mia stanza e tirata fuori la lettera, iniziai a leggere quel foglio scritto a penna:
Sono incinta, amore della mia vita. Aspettiamo una bambina, il nostro miracolo ma anche la mia più grande paura.Il mondo è un posto crudele e sento di non essere capace di proteggerla abbastanza perché sono in Russia, sposata con un violento.
“Che cosa? Freddie ha una figlia in Russia, o a Bugliano? Dove? Poco importa”, pensai. Se è vero non lo saprà mai! Richiusi la busta come nulla fosse e la nascosi nella mia borsa. Sarei stato l’unico a conoscere il segreto, avrei girato il mondo per trovare quella presunta bambina, dopodiché Freddie sarebbe stato mio, e solo mio!
Starmer’s team seen as ‘tired, same-again politicians’, says Labour peer
Starmer’s team seen as ‘tired, same-again politicians’, says Labour peer
Charlie Falconer calls on party colleagues to rediscover energy and not risk losing credit for big achievementsJessica Elgot (The Guardian)
Program alternative SCRU
Before I fully make the switch to Linux I'm looking for options to replace an old Windows program called SCRU. You set a folder to watch, and an output folder and it automatically copies specified extensions or extracts rar into the output folder.
I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to do this in terminal and haven't dug into scripts yet, just want to know of it's possible.
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ShellCheck – shell script analysis tool
ShellCheck finds bugs in your shell scriptswww.shellcheck.net
You can throw stuff like that into perplexity.ai as a starting point (it's free):
perplexity.ai/search/before-i-…
You can then continue to ask about stuff you want to understand. It's a great learning tool.
While I know extracting files is not difficult in Linux, there are a lot of different compressed file types. Most have some Linux alternative.
Linux is different from windows, in that most things that require a separate program to be installed, are usually default operations. Most file managers offer to compress or extract in the right click menu.
Try a live distro for a few days. It will blow your mind.
Its a command called crontab. Unix is all about doing things automatically. Takes a bit of time to set up, but then it does what you want, when you want it.
Your going to love it once you use it.
Edit: spelling
The Linux way:
- write a script: you can use the find command to find for example rars in a folder. find ~/thatfolder -iname '*.rar' -exec uncompresscommand. Read 'man find' for specifics. Script's first line is #!/bin/bash. Say 'chmod u+x script' to make it executable.
- set up a systemd timer unit that calls a service unit that runs your script at intervals.
- you can use something like for file in ~/thatfolder/* ; do sed trick that extracts the file extension and puts it in a variable ; case $variable in ; bunch of cases for different extensions. Variable $file will hold the source file name. Read up on bash scripting to figure it out.
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Is it possible to use plugins if I have Illustrator from M0nkrus or Genp?
Note: I am not requesting a link, source, nor a how-to, but rather I am curious if it is possible to use plugins if I have Illustrator from M0nkrus or Genp, because then I will know that continuing to search for one won’t be in vain, and that I am not just being foolishly optimistic.
Thank you.
Yes.
I assume so because PS, Pr, Ae all do.
Reddit will block the Internet Archive
Reddit will block the Internet Archive
Reddit caught AI companies scraping its data from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, so it’s going to limit the Internet Archive from indexing some data.Jay Peters (The Verge)
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Mi riferisco al decreto che modifica il codice della strada, in relazione all'abbandono di rifiuti oppure oggetti lanciati dal finestrino dell'auto.
Era ora!
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Dal 9 agosto chi getta rifiuti dal veicolo rischia multe record e arresto. Le telecamere ora sono prova: ecco cosa cambiaRiccardo Liguori (GreenMe.it)
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Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act verification rules
Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act verification rules
The Wikimedia Foundation says the new rules could threaten user privacy and safety.Chris Vallance (BBC News)
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Google Using Generic & Undocumented Google Crawler
Google May Be Using Generic & Undocumented Google Crawler
There are numerous reports that Google may be using a more generic and undocumented Googlebot, Google crawler. The crawler user agent is just named "Google," and it is not listed in any of the documenBarry Schwartz (Search Engine Roundtable)
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A Plea From Gaza: You’re My Only Hope
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My name is Soliman — a young man and student from Gaza, carrying a burden far heavier than my age. Between my studies and the hardships of life, I try to be the backbone of my family in the most difficult of times.We once had a small farm — olive and citrus trees, and a greenhouse where we planted not just crops, but dreams.
That farm was our only source of income, and more than that, it was a place full of memories, of hope, and of the laughter that once made life a little easier.But in a single moment, everything was gone.
A fire reduced our years of effort to ashes.
We lost our source of living, our stability — and with it, a part of our souls.Now, despite the pain, I’m trying to start over. I’m doing everything I can to keep my family standing, to find even the smallest light of hope that might restore our strength, dignity, and sense of humanity.
I share these words with honesty and hope, hoping they reach a kind heart — someone who can help, or even simply share my story with others who might be able to.
If you’re able to support us in any way, here is the link to our GoFundMe campaign:
👉 gofund.me/da782c66
Every share, every kind word, every small donation could be a lifeline for us.From the bottom of my heart, thank you for taking a moment to read my story.
AOL will stop offering dial-up internet service after more than 30 years in business
AOL will stop offering dial-up internet service after more than 30 years in business
AOL, an internet pioneer that brought millions of Americans online for the first time, is discontinuing its dial-up service next month.Gabriel Sama (The Mercury News)
This conversation is being recorded — and so is everything else you do in San Francisco
This conversation is being recorded — and so is everything else you do in San Francisco
AI wearables are quietly recording everything. Is it legal? And do you consent?Zara Stone (The San Francisco Standard)
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And I'm saying that in many states your lack of consent doesn't matter (legally speaking). Your consent is not required if someone else decides to record with their device.
I don't like it. Just stating that you declining to consent does nothing if someone else records you and gives the recordings to the police. That's not a search of you or your possessions, that's a search of someone else's recording that did not require your consent to be made.
None of this is new, just increasingly insidious and ubiquitous.
BRB. Building a wearable that sends out an ultrasonic screech to blow out nearby microphones.
Going to call it "Blow Me."
Edit: looks like they already exist: newscientist.com/article/23286…
Also, paper with more detail: arxiv.org/pdf/1904.08490v1
Voice jammer stops anyone from recording you speak
An artificial intelligence voice jammer can unobtrusively block microphones recording a single voice in an area, avoiding causing wider disruption that might tip people offMatthew Sparkes (New Scientist)
github.com/mcore1976/antispy-j…
and also
github.com/buildidealis/audio-…
GitHub - mcore1976/antispy-jammer: Simplest ultrasonic ANTISPY voice recording jammer based on ATTINY13 / ATTINY85/45/25 / ARDUINO with PAM8403 / TPA3116D2 module driving piezo ultrasonic transducers (and optionally AD8933 signal generator)
Simplest ultrasonic ANTISPY voice recording jammer based on ATTINY13 / ATTINY85/45/25 / ARDUINO with PAM8403 / TPA3116D2 module driving piezo ultrasonic transducers (and optionally AD8933 signal g...GitHub
Come rinunciare a calendario e contatti Google ed avere tutti i dati sul proprio server Linux usando come client delle APP open source
Questo articolo non vuol essere la guida unica possibile allo scopo, così è come ho fatto io, sicuramente vi sono altri modi, ma questa è una soluzione testata e funzionante. Se vi fossero omissioni o errori, non esitate a rispondere a questo post o contattarmi.
Installare sul proprio server Linux il programma server chiamato NextCloud con YunoHost è semplicissimo. Nelle impostazioni di installazione, lasciare aperta l'applicazione ai "visitatori" (ovvero agli utenti non autenticati che potranno autenticarsi) dall'apposito menu a tendina.
Da nextCloud -> Applicazioni -> ufficio e testo -> cercare "Calendar", installarla e abilitarla se già non è stato fatto. Ora in alto nella barra aparirà un'icona Calendario.
Da nextCloud -> Applicazioni -> ufficio e testo -> cercare "Contacts", installarla e abilitarla se già non è stato fatto. Ora in alto nella barra apparirà un'icona Contatti.
Da smartphone android installare l'APP DAVX5 ( davx5.com/ ) che si trova disponibile gratuitamente sullo store F-Droid ( f-droid.org/it/ ), mentre sul PlayStore costa € 5 circa. Piccola nota: le applicazioni android scaricate da F-Droid sono open source e ricevono aggiornamenti.
Installare l'APP DAVX5 dando i permessi richiesti. Cliccare sul tasto + presente nella pagina principale dell'APP ed inserire l'url di NextCloud e negli appositi campi anche l'user e la password con cui accedete (di default l'unico utente presente è l'amministratore di YunoHost).
Per avere un calendario open source e visualizzare gli eventi di NextCloud senza usare Google calendar: installare dallo store F-Droid l'APP gratuita "Etar" ( f-droid.org/it/packages/ws.xso… ) che di default mostrerà tutti i calendari che ha trovato tra cui quello configurato da noi. Da impostazioni sarà possibile disattivare il calendario Google e verificare che l'account NextCloud sia attivo. Etar dispone anche di un bel widget.
Per visualizzare i contatti si può utilizzare l'APP contatti di google. Qualora si desideri un'alternativa open source, Fossify mette a disposizione l'APP telefono, messaggi, contatti e molte altre ( search.f-droid.org/?q=fossify&… ) che potremo sincronizzare col nostro server grazie a DAVX5 senza che nessuno metta il naso nei nostri contatti, telefonate ed SMS.
Come configurare i contatti NextCloud su thunderbird da PC: dall'APP DAVX5 su android cliccare sull'account creato nella pagina principale, spostarsi in cardDAV e cliccare sulla rubrica NextCloud. Copiare "indirizzo URL", spostarsi in thunderbird sul proprio PC, cliccare su rubrica e poi su nuova rubrica che è l'icona in alto a sinistra e scegliere "Aggiungi rubrica cardDAV", scrivere il nome utente ed incollare l'url copiato da android, successivamente verrà chiesta la password.
Come configurare il calendario NextCloud su thunderbird da PC:dall'APP DAVX5 su android cliccare sull'account creato nella pagina principale, spostarsi in calDAV e cliccare sul calendario. Copiare "indirizzo URL", spostarsi in thunderbird sul proprio PC, nella barra di destra cliccare l'icona "Calendario" e poi in basso o sui tre puntini, cliccare su "Nuovo Calendario". Selezionare l'opzione "sulla rete", immettere lo stesso username della rubrica ed incollare l'url copiato da android su DAVX5, successivamente immettere la password e confermare.
Una nota: da NextCloud web, che è visualizzabile da qualunque browser, si possono leggere e modificare sia i contatti che gli eventi del calendario.
F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
F-Droid è un catalogo di applicazioni FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) per la piattaforma Android. Il client offre un modo semplice per navigare il catalogo, installare le app e aggiornarle direttamente sul tuo dispositivo.f-droid.org
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Io veramente faccio quello che posso, in questo caso ho remato un giorno provando tante soluzioni. Questa era abbastanza pulita e si ricollegava all'articolo di YunoHost già pubblicato! Spero di essere utile!
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