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Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England


Under the plans, 10 live facial recognition (LFR) vans will be used by seven forces across England to help identify "sex offenders or people wanted for the most serious crimes", according to Home Secretary Yvette Cooper.

The tech, which has been trialled in London and south Wales, will be subject to strict rules, the Home Office said, but human rights groups have warned it is "dangerous and discriminatory".

Amnesty International UK said the plans should be "immediately scrapped", with facial recognition proven to be "discriminatory against communities of colour".

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in reply to geneva_convenience

England really wants to be a worse police state than the u.s. it seems
in reply to Grass

Always have. Did you never read/watch V for Vendetta?


Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England


Under the plans, 10 live facial recognition (LFR) vans will be used by seven forces across England to help identify "sex offenders or people wanted for the most serious crimes", according to Home Secretary Yvette Cooper.

The tech, which has been trialled in London and south Wales, will be subject to strict rules, the Home Office said, but human rights groups have warned it is "dangerous and discriminatory".

Amnesty International UK said the plans should be "immediately scrapped", with facial recognition proven to be "discriminatory against communities of colour".



Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England


Under the plans, 10 live facial recognition (LFR) vans will be used by seven forces across England to help identify "sex offenders or people wanted for the most serious crimes", according to Home Secretary Yvette Cooper.

The tech, which has been trialled in London and south Wales, will be subject to strict rules, the Home Office said, but human rights groups have warned it is "dangerous and discriminatory".

Amnesty International UK said the plans should be "immediately scrapped", with facial recognition proven to be "discriminatory against communities of colour".


in reply to Pro

Yep, noscript on firefox has been available for like 15 years. And it certainly does "break" some sites as it blocks scripts by default. It can be a pain, though I consider it the safest way
in reply to killea

Since the web works via a DOM (Document Object Model) and a document that needs to execute active content to display anything is not a document, a webpage that needs JS to load the document can safely be considered broken.
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in reply to MonkderVierte

I was trying to explain it more practically, but yes the web is a wasteland.
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in reply to MonkderVierte

You are talking about the difference between a website and a web application. Nothing is broken. Given that the alternative used the be Flash/Coldfusion I’m not sure this way is worse.
in reply to killea

I like uBlock Origin's "medium mode." It's a nice middle ground






Temperature records broken as extreme heat grips parts of Europe


Extreme heat is breaking temperature records across Europe, early measurements suggest, and driving bigger and stronger wildfires.

In south-west France, records were broken on Monday in Angoulême, Bergerac, Bordeaux, Saint-Émilion and Saint-Girons. Météo France said the “often remarkable, even unprecedented, maximum temperatures” in the region were 12C above the norm for the last few decades.

In Croatia, air temperature records were set in Šibenik, at 39.5C, and Dubrovnik, at 38.9C, while large forest fires raged along its coasts and ripped through neighbouring countries in the Balkans.

Beyond Europe, dozens of temperature records were broken across Canada, and record-breaking heat above 50C in Iraq was blamed for a nationwide blackout.


in reply to FenrirIII

The Dinosaur pointing in the second panel adds a layer of humor to this


Issues posting comments or Posts on some Threads


I have hade issues posting on lemmy threads. Both commaenta and a normal post. Is this because I use a VPN?

Example:
I have successfully replied to a comment in the "gaming" section of Lemmy (once). A while later I wanted to post a thread, or comment, but simply can't because 'a problem occurred' or something similar.



in reply to Davriellelouna

It's a gimmick to get publicity. But if it happens, the company has to generate revenue to pay it off.

Guess how browser makers make money off a 'free' product?




Couchpotato, sonarr alternatives in 2025


It been some years since downloading tv and movies. What software to use in 2025


Ett av de projekt som Föreningen för Digitala Fri- och Rättigheter (DFRI) driver är att ta fram en ny och bättre digital legitimation. Anledningen till varför det behövs en bättre e-legitimation anger de tydligt i projektbeskrivningen.

blog.zaramis.se/2025/08/13/for…



Serving a simple website from a Jail with Bastille


In this short little howto we will be setting up a simple Jail via Bastille and host a static website. Beware: The article assumes that sudo is configured. You can of course also use doas or switch to root, if you so desire. Some commands need root right

In this short little howto we will be setting up a simple Jail via Bastille and host a static website.

Beware: The article assumes that sudo is configured. You can of course also use doas or switch to root, if you so desire. Some commands need root rights to work – keep that in mind as you go along!

First, we need to install Bastille itself.
$ sudo pkg install -y bastille
After installing, we enable the bastille service.
$ sudo sysrc bastille_enable=YES
And finally we start it.
$ sudo service bastille start
The next step on the list is to acually alter the bastille config to adapt it to our needs. Beware that in this guide I assume that you’ve installed FreeBSD with ZFS – or that you have a ZFS pool on hand that we can leverage. By default FreeBSD calls this pool zroot (Which can be altered during the install of FreeBSD). If you do not use ZFS be sure to not alter the variables below – the default is not leveraging ZFS.

Edit the configuration file.
$ sudo vim /usr/local/etc/bastille/bastille.confbastille_tzdata="Europe/Berlin"...bastille_zfs_enable="YES"bastille_zfs_zpool="zroot"...
In my case, as you can see, I’ve adapted the timezone and set up ZFS for the coming Bastille Jails. Be sure to alter the timezone according to your needs.

Next up is creating a loopback interface.
$ sudo sysrc cloned_interfaces+=lo1$ sudo sysrc ifconfig_lo1_name="bastille0"
Start the newly created interface after creating it.
$ sudo service netif cloneup
Now we can move on to the bootstrap phase. The following command will get the newest release (As of this time) and prepare the environment.
$ sudo bastille bootstrap 14.3-RELEASE update
Alright, with that done we can create our first Jail.

The command given will create a Jail named “web” and give it the IP address of 10.0.23.60. Also specifying the interface after the IP address is important.

Note: Be sure to alter the given address to your own needs!
$ sudo bastille create web 14.3-RELEASE 10.0.23.60/24 vtnet0
So far so good. Check if the Jail is created with the “list” option to bastille.
$ sudo bastille list
If the output shows our newly created Jail called “web” we are good to go.

Now we want to enter our freshly created Jail to continue the setup.
$ sudo bastille console web
First, let’s install pkg and update the repository.
# pkg# pkg update
Next we’ll install the needed software (Webserver) to host our website. We also install a editor – pick the one your prefer (In this example we’ll use vim).
# pkg install -y lighttpd vim
Enable Lighttpd and start it afterwards.
# sysrc lighttpd_enable="YES"# service lighttpd start
We could now configure Lighttpd to our needs and change quite some settings. But in the interest of keeping it simple we will use the default configuration for now. If however you want to change things you can always take a look into the configuration directory which can be found under /usr/local/www/lighttpd (Multiple config files).

By default Lighttpd serves the directory /usr/local/www/data (Document Root). This is where we will put the needed files of our little website.

But, the directory “data” is not yet created. So let us just do that.
# cd /usr/local/www/# mkdir data# chown www:www data
Make sure the owner is set correctly since Lighttpd will by default leverage the user www and group www.

Final stretch ahead. Let’s cd into the directory and clone a simple website from git – After installing git of course.
# pkg install -y git-lite# cd data# git clone github.com/jhx0/bsd-website.gi… mv bsd-website/* .
Our frehsly cloned site should now be moved into the data directory.

The only thing left to do is opening your webbrowser of choice on our client system and navigation to the IP address previously configured.
$ firefox 10.0.23.60
Finsihed!

Beware: This is a default setupThere are many ways to improve this!
Look into the configuration of Lighttpd, esp, considering security related alterations.

Have fun everyone.

Stay Open!



Streamio whilst traveling


Hello me hearties.
I have a question about the Streamio app/Service.

I travel full time and with all the paid streaming services requiring a 'home' IP address I'm now looking for alternatives.

Streamio seems to fit the bill, however I have one question. Although I will be streaming to one or maybe 2 devices, I would probably like to use REAL DEBRID, But, Can I use different IP addresses, for example, one week I might be in Japan, the next week I'll be in Thailand.

In my case would it be best to purchase my own private IP from a VPN provider?

Any advice would be awesome.!
Thank you

in reply to mrmule

This might be of use?

stremio-addons.net/addons/aios…

"AIOStreams consolidates multiple Stremio addons and debrid services into a single, easily configurable addon. It allows highly customisable filtering, sorting, and formatting of results and supports proxying all your streams through MediaFlow Proxy or StremThru for improved compatibility and IP restriction bypassing."

I use this addon, but not for the proxy stuff.

in reply to mrmule

Do not use Real Debrid and use TorBox, do not make problems with IPs as explained here:
support.torbox.app/en/articles…

I use it and now it works very well, first I used Real Debrid.
if you want my referral:
torbox.app/subscription?referr…



Wildlife team 'devastated' by Holt Heath fire animal deaths


A group that has been searching the burnt remains of a heath fire for surviving animals has said it is "devastated" by the loss of wildlife.

The Dorset Heaths Partnership is made up of 10 organisations working together to protect and enhance the Dorset heathlands

Paul Attwell is the partnership's team manager and said the blaze, which started at Holt Heath near Wimborne in Dorset on Saturday morning, was "horrendous".



Rare Sowerby's Beaked Whale washes up in Norfolk


A Sowerby's Beaked Whale, a poorly known deep sea species, has perished after washing up on a beach in Norfolk.

The animal was found in The Wash near Holme-next-the-Sea on Wednesday 6 August by a member of the public, who alerted it to British Divers Marine Life Rescue. By the time a BDMLR representative arrived at the scene, the whale had died, according to Wild Ken Hill on Facebook.

The whale was found to be a female. At this time of year females move south from Arctic breeding grounds – and it may be that this individual was with a young animal.


in reply to Feddinat0r

Spendet in der Not Trost, das ist der Hawaii-Toast.

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Google will now let you pick your top sources for news search results


Google is making it easier to see news from your favorite outlets. A new feature, called “preferred sources,” will let you choose the outlets you want to see featured the most in Search’s “top stories” section.

Google’s top stories hub appears when you search for something related to a current event, and displays a bunch of relevant articles from around the web. Along with prominently featuring articles from your preferred outlets in the top stories list, Google may also include them in a new “from your sources” section. Google first started testing the preferred sources feature in June, and now it’s rolling out to users in the US and India.

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in reply to Dr. Moose

This used to be a thing iirc. Then too many advertisers were getting "don't show results from this source" and Google nixed it.
in reply to Dr. Moose

further enabling media bubbles. i’d rather see an approach that leverages something like ground.news that ranks the bias in articles.
in reply to acosmichippo

Well, yes and no. If you can choose your media sources, then you avoid accidental drifting (trust me, I’ve accidentally drifted before, almost ended badly)
in reply to acosmichippo

Nah the people affected by these bubbles are too dumb to use these tools anyway lmao


Who said you can move furniture with a bike?


I saw this bike made by an independent bike shop for himself.

It's an electric longtail and can carry a 300kg europallet, plus the toolbox on the front, plus an extra person or material on the bike rack!

Here is the link to the shop website: cycles-penet.fr/






New Uvalde Records Reveal Details About School Safety Concerns and Shooter’s Behavioral Issues


The release is part of a settlement agreement in a lawsuit that news organizations brought against state and local governments. The fight continues to get the Texas Department of Public Safety to release its own records.
#USA



Brazilian Court Allows Boeing to Continue Hiring Local Engineers


A Brazilian court has ruled that Boeing can continue hiring engineers, rejecting a lawsuit that sought to limit the US planemaker's recruitment practices.



US | Trump administration to review 19 Smithsonian museums to ensure exhibits are ‘patriotic’


White House letter orders review as part of a broader push to assert oversight over cultural institutions


Archived version: archive.is/20250812215326/theg…


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.



Can't Log in to User on Linux Mint Cinnamon (Loops Back to Login Window)


cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/34365607

Hi fediverse,

I'm hoping someone can give me some advice on an issue that means I can't access the main user account on my Linux Mint (Cinnamon) operating system.

Context:

I'm using a dual boot setup of windows and mint on my laptop.
I use mint (or used to, when I could access my user) for pretty much anything that doesn't require things* only my windows instance has. (*things such as support for video games that support windows but not linux, for example)

When creating my main user account, I made a mistake in the username. It was irritating enough for me to want to change it, and as doing so seemed like it should have been fine, I settled upon three guides and ended up (mostly?) just following this one:

linuxuprising.com/2019/04/how-…


I cant remember all of what happened anymore, but I have the following screenshots, along with the stuff I do remember.

(note: red blocks represent the new username, blue blocks represent the old username)




At the used-by-process error, I first tried following the guide precisely, then hoped that "PID" was Process ID, and that the guide expected me to put the ID that usermod stated after "PID", and tried doing that.

Idk if that fvcked something up...

Then I guess I fixed that somehow, idk if I did so by restarting and logging in only as tempuser, or if I had already done that and fixed it some other way.

Anyway I meant to run each line of the command separately to avoid stuff going wrong, but accidentally did both at once. I hoped it'd be fine anyway.

Then stuff happened I guess.

Anyway,

I cant remember much more but I know that I tried to log back in as my main user account and I found out that:

  1. The username had been successfully changed.
  2. I could not log into my main user account.

Imputing the correct username and password was successful, and acted like it was logging me in as usual. Then after the usual black screen, it just throws me back to the login window.

This still happens.

I went through a fair bit of internet searching, followed some advice. All that most people were saying was to check how much disk space you have left - and to not keep timeshift snapshots on the same drive as your OS.

(this is one such post, and (I think) the only one I found that I definitely recognise from the previous searching: reddit.com/r/linuxmint/comment…)

I did ctrl-alt-f1 and ran df -h, and deleted most of the timeshift snapshots I had (I think I had maybe 6 and deleted 4 or 5).

Here's the output of df -h that I think is from after I deleted the timeshifts:

Idk what to do, hope someone can advise.

(TL;DR: tried to change username on mint, now whenever I try to log in to the user it throws me back to the login window after the usual black screen. Hope this suffices for a summary...)

in reply to DuckyLoco404

Check permissions on your home folder. Make sure everything is owned by your new username.

I had a separate partition mounted on /home on my old system. I remounted the same partition at /home on the new system, and got the same bootloop issue. The problem was that the old permissions were for 1001:1001, not (newuser):(newuser). Had to log into a TTY and chown (newuser):(newuser) -R /home/(newuser) to get everything working.

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in reply to DuckyLoco404

I tried logging in with tempuser and remembered that I have no idea how to access the files on my main user. In the file manager the home folder for said user isn’t accessible, and I assume that’s because I set it to be encrypted when setting it up. Thus I can’t access the files to copy them over to a new user or anything. Also, I assume I wouldn’t be able to rename the homedir as such, and don’t know where to start checking or changing user settings and permissions and such.
in reply to DuckyLoco404

First, check if you can login, with your new user, on the Linux console (i.e. Ctrl-Alt-F1 through F7). If you can, the username change probably went through correctly. Report back if you cannot login via console or you get warnings/errors.

Your login session does automatically terminate if the session process for Cinnamon exits, booting you back to GDM (or whatever login manager you have). So probably the Cinnamon session process, started by GDM, craps out for some reason. The reason is probably, I suspect, that it cannot access or cannot find some file it wants to open.

Check ~/.xsession-errors, it might tell you what went wrong.

Also check the permissions of your home folder, the files in your home folder, and check if you correctly set up the symbolic link from /home/olduser to /home/newuser as the guide suggests.



A proposito delle meduse che hanno bloccato la maggiore centrale nucleare di Francia - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri




in reply to NightOwl

It's been more or less a scandal here in Norway that we even bought into these companies. We do have an ethics committee that designate what are off limits for the unscrupulous stock managers.
in reply to positiveWHAT

i hope the safe guards in place for the members of the ethics committee guard against (a) leader(s) who get to decide on future members of the ethics committee.

i say this because the united states also has such committees but both our president and our congresspeople sabotage it by either refusing to certify new members or appoint members with conflicts of interest (eg fossil fuels executives in charge of the environment protection agency).



The Math Hack You Didn’t Know Was in Your Credit Card


I've been familiar with the concept, but this is by far the best behind-the-scenes explanation I've seen.


Is it worth paying a direct download website?


Is it worth paying for a direct download website? When downloading for free it takes 6-8 hours (and for some reason it got interrupted and failed, so I have to attempt again) but if I paid for it I could download it in 3 minutes. I'm worried that the free version just doesn't support having a download take that long, so it will be impossible to obtain.

I'm not sure if it is safe, nor stupid to do so though. Specifically, I'm talking about torbobit (dot) net

Would you consider torrenting (from non-private torrents) safer than ddl? I can either pay the ddl or a vpn and use a torrent. Idk.

Thank you.

in reply to Yourname942

If you're only interested in a single file, ProtonVPN has a free tier. The speed should be plenty for a single ~600mb file.
in reply to Yourname942

it honestly depends on how much you use the service.

i had an account for a while to a site that shut down. while i had it i was downloading a bunch of different files, not necessarily pirated stuff.

i'd say if torrents isn't a viable option and you would be using that site downloading at least 500 mb worth of data a day, it might be worth it. if something you want is available only on one of these sites, it depends on how bad you want it and how soon you want it.




Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates


cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/34272214

A California-based biotechnology startup has officially launched the world's first commercially available butter made entirely from carbon dioxide, hydrogen, and oxygen, eliminating the need for traditional agriculture or animal farming. Savor, backed by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates through his Breakthrough Energy Ventures fund, announced the commercial release of its animal- and plant-free butter after three years of development.

The revolutionary product uses a proprietary thermochemical process that transforms carbon dioxide captured from the air, hydrogen from water, and methane into fat molecules chemically identical to those found in dairy butter. According to the company, the process creates fatty acids by heating these gases under controlled temperature and pressure conditions, then combining them with glycerol to form triglycerides.

in reply to Gsus4

Why not just make a fuel that can power cars if you're gonna go this far.
in reply to MuskyMelon

cost :/ and low energy conversion efficiency. Whereas expensive novelty edibles may have a high price, fuels, not so much.
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in reply to Gsus4

We focus too much on efficiency and cost sometimes. Sometimes efficiency is only a "nice to have" while being outweighed by practicality, convenience, safety, and any of the other factors we choose to make a priority.

It is expensive and inefficient for an airplane to have two engines instead of just one. We do it anyway because it's required for safety and redundancy. We made that the priority, and that was an active choice. We need to start making more active choices about what the priority is when it comes to our energy futures. All priorities have tradeoffs. Cost and efficiency have their own tradeoffs. Question it when people tell you that things can't be done because of "cost" or "efficiency". When they do that they're presupposing what the priority is, but often it's billionaires trying to cut corners to make themselves richer at our expense, our safety, our futures. We can do inefficient things. Sometimes it's even the right choice.

in reply to cecilkorik

I think you're missing that there are better ways to produce fuels for cars than to chemically synthesize petroleum. It's all about cost and efficiency if you're just looking for portable energy. Or we could burn more coal so we can generate the energy needed for synthetic gasoline....
in reply to AmidFuror

Or we could burn more coal so we can generate the energy needed for synthetic gasoline…


The problem is, people can, do, and will use that exact same argument to say we don't need any more solar panels or wind turbines, because we don't need and can't use or store the excess power for anything and that's why we need to keep thermal plants as backup for base load generation. Look, when we produce too much electricity, the electricity cost goes to zero and negative! It's "wasteful and inefficient"! But these two problems can solve each other. Synthetic fuels (doesn't have to be gasoline, hydrogen is step 1, methane/LNG is a bit more manageable as a chemical fuel. As long as the carbon source is atmospheric, then it and other synthetic hydrocarbons are carbon neutral to burn) provide an on-demand energy sink/storage method that can support and drive more electrification and renewable power, it just has to be part of a consistent and systemic approach with strict regulation and a clear view of the big picture (something sorely lacking these days).

in reply to cecilkorik

Nailed it.

We need a solar grid that can meet our demand during a 9-hour, overcast, low-angle winter day. That same grid will be producing more than 4 times as much power as we need during a 15-hour, high-angle summer day, even after we include air conditioning loads.

We need massive, seasonal loads to soak up that excess power and keep solar profitable.

Fake butter isn't going to do it, but things like desalination, hydrogen electrolysis, and Fischer-Tropsch hydrocarbon production are all likely candidates.



What Happened When I Tried to Replace Myself with ChatGPT in My English Classroom


Like many teachers at every level of education, I have spent the past two years trying to wrap my head around the question of generative AI in my English classroom. To my thinking, this is a question that ought to concern all people who like to read and write, not just teachers and their students. Today’s English students are tomorrow’s writers and readers of literature. If you enjoy thoughtful, consequential, human-generated writing—or hope for your own human writing to be read by a wide human audience—you should want young people to learn to read and write. College is not the only place where this can happen, of course, but large public universities like UVA, where I teach, are institutions that reliably turn tax dollars into new readers and writers, among other public services. I see it happen all the time.

There are valid reasons why college students in particular might prefer that AI do their writing for them: most students are overcommitted; college is expensive, so they need good grades for a good return on their investment; and AI is everywhere, including the post-college workforce. There are also reasons I consider less valid (detailed in a despairing essay that went viral recently), which amount to opportunistic laziness: if you can get away with using AI, why not?

It was this line of thinking that led me to conduct an experiment in my English classroom. I attempted the experiment in four sections of my class during the 2024-2025 academic year, with a total of 72 student writers. Rather than taking an “abstinence-only” approach to AI, I decided to put the central, existential question to them directly: was it still necessary or valuable to learn to write? The choice would be theirs. We would look at the evidence, and at the end of the semester, they would decide by vote whether A.I. could replace me.

What could go wrong?


In the weeks that followed, I had my students complete a series of writing assignments with and without AI, so that we could compare the results.

My students liked to hate on AI, and tended toward food-based metaphors in their critiques: AI prose was generally “flavorless” or “bland” compared to human writing. They began to notice its tendency to hallucinate quotes and sources, as well as its telltale signs, such as the weird prevalence of em-dashes, which my students never use, and sentences that always include exactly three examples. These tics quickly became running jokes, which made class fun: flexing their powers of discernment proved to be a form of entertainment. Without realizing it, my students had become close readers.

During these conversations, my students expressed views that reaffirmed their initial survey choices, finding that AI wasn’t great for first drafts, but potentially useful in the pre- or post-writing stages of brainstorming and editing. I don’t want to overplay the significance of an experiment with only 72 subjects, but my sense of the current AI discourse is that my students’ views reflect broader assumptions about when AI is and isn’t ethical or effective.

It’s increasingly uncontroversial to use AI to brainstorm, and to affirm that you are doing so: just last week, the hosts of the New York Times’s tech podcast spoke enthusiastically about using AI to brainstorm for the podcast itself, including coming up with interview questions and summarizing and analyzing long documents, though of course you have to double-check AI’s work. One host compares AI chatbots to “a very smart assistant who has a dozen Ph.D.s but is also high on ketamine like 30 percent of the time.”



Wplace Is Exploding Online Amid a New Era of Youth Protest


WPlace is a desktop app that takes its cue from Reddit’s r/place, a sporadic experiment where users placed pixels on a small blank canvas every few minutes. On Wplace, anyone can sign up to add coloured pixels to a world map – each user able to place one every 30 seconds. By internet standards one pixel every 30 seconds is glacial, and that is part of what makes it so powerful. In just a few weeks since its launch tens, if not, hundreds of thousands of drawings have appeared.

Scrolling to my corner of Scotland, I found portraits of beloved pets, anime favourites, pride flags, football crests. In Kyiv, a giant Hatsune Miku dominates the sprawl alongside a remembrance garden where a user asked others to leave hand drawn flowers. Some pixels started movements. At one point there was just a single wooden ship flying a Brazilian flag off Portugal. Soon, a fleet appeared, a tongue-in-cheek invasion.

Across the diversity and chaos of the Wplace world map, nothing else feels like Gaza. In most cities, the art is made by those who live there. Palestinians do not have this opportunity: physical infrastructure is destroyed while people are murdered. Their voices, culture, and experiences are erased in real time. So, others show up for them, transforming the space on the map into a living mosaic of grief and care.

No algorithm, no leaders, but on Wplace, collective actions emerge organically. A movement stays visible only because people choose to maintain it, adding pixels, repairing any damage caused by others drawing over it. In that sense it works like any protest camp or memorial in the physical world: it survives only if people tend it. And here, those people are scattered across continents, bound not by geography but by a shared refusal to let what they care about disappear from view.



Open Lemmy comment threads in Mastodon?


Since both lemmy and Mastodon use the fediverse, is it possible to view comment threads under posts from lemmy in Mastodon? How to find a link that works in both/ is it related to the posts id?

Would these work with #hashtags ?

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in reply to scratsearcher 🔍🔮📊🎲

For example here is a Lemmy thread: discuss.tchncs.de/post/4196495…

Here is the same thread on Mastodon: floss.social/@kde/114960515064…

So it is possible if it has been federated to both. There are different reasons why that might happen, in this case it is because that thread's OP posted it on Mastodon but mentioned a Lemmy community.

Another reason why it might happen is that a Mastodon user is following a Lemmy community or user.


"This Week in Plasma" brings the news that Plasma 6.5 will have automatic day/night theme switching, that you can choose which Global Themes to show on the Quick Settings page, and that you can set dynamic wallpaper coloration to be based on the background color scheme or the time of day, or always light, or always dark.

blogs.kde.org/2025/08/02/this-…

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

#Plasma6 #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #desktop


in reply to scratsearcher 🔍🔮📊🎲

I see this post on Akkoma by #Fediverse and answered it. Another person from dot social on Mastodon also commented it. It's weird that those comments can't be readed here in the post. I've tried to comment from there before and seems to work. So I'm not sure what happens when you interact outside of Lemmy.

Links to comments fe.disroot.org/notice/Ax6QMkVf…
mastodon.social/@ambuj/1150218…

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UK Asks People to Delete Emails In Order to Save Water During Drought




UK Asks People to Delete Emails In Order to Save Water During Drought


It’s a brutally hot August across the world, but especially in Europe where high temperatures have caused wildfires and droughts. In the UK, the water shortage is so bad that the government is urging citizens to help save water by deleting old emails. It really helps lighten the load on water hungry datacenters, you see.

The suggestion came in a press release posted on the British government’s website Tuesday after a meeting of its National Drought Group. The release gave an update on the status of the drought, which is bad. The Wye and Ely Ouse rivers are at their lowest ever recorded height and “five areas are officially in drought, with six more experiencing prolonged dry weather following the driest six months to July since 1976,” according to the release. It also listed a few tips to help people save on water.
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The tips included installing a rain butt to collect rainwater for gardening, fixing leaks the moment they happen, taking shorter showers, and getting rid of old data. “Delete old emails and pictures as data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems,” the press release suggested.

Datacenters suck up an incredible amount of water to keep their delicate equipment cool. The hotter it is, the more water it uses and a heatwave spikes the costs of doing business. But old emails lingering in cloud servers are a drop in the bucket for a data center compared to processing generative AI requests.

A U.S. A Government Accountability Office report from earlier this year estimated that 60 queries of an AI system consumed about a liter of water, or roughly 1.67 Olympic sized swimming pools for the 250,000,000 queries generated in the U.S. every day. The World Economic Forum has estimated that AI datacenters will consume up to 1.7 trillion gallons of water every year by 2027. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has disputed these estimates, saying that an average ChatGPT query uses “roughly one fifteenth of a teaspoon” of water.

Downing Street announced plans in January to “turbocharge AI” in the U.K. The plan includes billions of pounds earmarked for the construction of massive water-hungry datacenters, including a series of centers in Wales that will cost about $16 billion. The announcement about the AI push said it will create tens of thousands of jobs. It doesn’t say anything about where the water will come from.

In America, people are learning that living next to these massive AI data centers is a nightmare that can destroy their air and water quality. People who live next to massive Meta-owned datacenters in Georgia have complained of a lack of water pressure and diminished quality since the data centers moved in. In Colorado, local government and activists are fighting tech companies attempting to build massive data centers in a state that struggled with drought before the water-hungry machines moved in.

Like so many other systemic issues linked to climate change and how people live in the 21st century, small-scale personal solutions like “delete your old emails” won’t solve the problem. The individual water bill for a person’s old photos is nothing compared to the gallons of water required by large corporate clients running massive computers.

“We are grateful to the public for following the restrictions, where in place, to conserve water in these dry conditions,” Helen Wakeham, the UK Environment Agency’s Director of Water, said in the press release. “Simple, everyday choices—such as turning off a tap or deleting old emails—also really helps the collective effort to reduce demand and help preserve the health of our rivers and wildlife.”

Representatives from the UK Government did not immediately return 404 Media’s request for comment.




Is Astute Graphics plugin 40MB or 678MB?


Edit: It seems that it may be 40MB and that the other 629 MB is from the Texturino plugin that generally gets bundled with it. I believe it is just two separated direct downloads. Not sure why there would be inconsistencies in the file size though (669MB vs 678MB)

Note: I am not requesting for a link nor a source, but rather I just want to know if I am direct downloading the correct file. Specifically, is the bundle supposed to be 40MB or 678MB?

I found torrented versions are 678MB, but direct downloaded versions are only 40MB. motka (dot) net (from the megathread) had one for 678MB, but the download is a 404 sadly.

Also, is the latest version 3.9.1? I see direct download ones showing up as 4.1.0, and 4.2.0 (which doesn't seem right to me)

Thank you.

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in reply to Yourname942

40MB can't be it. Check rsload. I gave some details in your other post.
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Your CV is not fit for the 21st century


The job market is queasy and since you're reading this, you need to upgrade your CV. It's going to require some work to game the poorly trained AIs now doing so much of the heavy lifting. I know you don't want to, but it's best to think of this as dealing with a buggy lump of undocumented code, because frankly that's what is between you and your next job.

A big reason for that bias in so many AIs is they are trained on the way things are, not as diverse as we'd like them to be. So being just expensively trained statistics, your new CV needs to give them the words most commonly associated with the job you want, not merely the correct ones.

That's going to take some research and a rewrite to get it looking like those it was trained to match. You need to be adding synonyms and dependencies because the AIs lack any model of how we actually do IT, they only see correlations between words. One would hope a network engineer knows how to configure routers, but if you just say Cisco, the AI won't give it as much weight as when you say both, nor can you assume it will work out that you actually did anything to the router, database or code, so you need to explicitly say what you did.

Fortunately your CV does not have to be easy to read out loud, so there is mileage in including the longer versions of the names of the more relevant tools you've mastered, so awful phrases like "configured Fortinet FortiGate firewall" are helpful if you say it once, as does using all three F words elsewhere. This works well for the old fashioned simple buzzword matching still widely used.


This is all so fucked.


in reply to cyborganism

I spent about a decade as a KDE developer.

KDE has this mindset where if someone wants to implement something they think is cool, and the code is clean and mostly bug free, well -- have at it! Ever wonder why there's 300 options for everything?

Usually (because there's a bunch of people trying to optimize the core for speed and load times and such) this also means that the unused code-paths are required to not contribute negatively to things like load times. So a plugin like this that doesn't get loaded by default unless enabled, and thus doesn't harm everyone else's performance. It also means that if it stops working in the future and starts to bitrot, it can be dropped without affecting the core code.

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Intel collapsing?


Starting to see a lot of worried people as Intel descends downwards rapidly. Reminds me of Nokia how this is going...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXVQVbAFh6I

in reply to 3dcadmin

Of course intel will collapse within the next 10 years.

They have focused exclusively on high-end, very expensive processors in the past. Now that moore's law is no longer true, that doesn't work anymore, because ARM chips are catching up in performance, at 1/10 of the price.

in reply to gandalf_der_12te

Whilst true, AMD are doing just fine by being fabless. I can't really see x86 going as soon as you say for many reasons


Getting blocked accessing a site by default


So I don't live in uk nor I had vpn and there is no child safety like shit stuff in my country but today I saw this while accessing this site . Is there any way to bypass this without vpn as I use Android hotspot for my internet on laptop which will heat and drain the android battery fast
in reply to omniman


Nice, they provide all the cool sites for free movies in the law suit 🤣🤣

You can download the full document from here (I think, because they said it was a one-time link, according to them).

Supporting document for court order

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CORS error when calling /api/v3/users with Authorization header in local setup


Hi NodeBB team, I have NodeBB running locally on my machine: NodeBB version: v3.12.7 Environment: Local development Frontend: React (Vite) running on [url=http://localhost:5173]http://localhost:5173[/url] Backend (NodeBB) running on [url=http://local

Hi NodeBB team,

I have NodeBB running locally on my machine:

NodeBB version: v3.12.7

Environment: Local development

Frontend: React (Vite) running on http://localhost:5173

Backend (NodeBB) running on http://localhost:4567

I’m trying to create a user via the API:

async function registerUser() {
  try {
    const res = await fetch(`${import.meta.env.VITE_API_URL}v3/users`, {
      method: "POST",
      headers: {
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
        "Authorization": `Bearer ${import.meta.env.VITE_TOKEN}`
      },
      body: JSON.stringify(formData),
    });

    if (!res.ok) {
      throw new Error(`HTTP error! Status: ${res.status}`);
    }

    const data = await res.json();
    console.log("User registered successfully:", data);
  } catch (error) {
    console.error("Error registering user:", error);
  }
}

Question:
How can I correctly configure NodeBB in development so that it allows the Authorization header in API requests?
Even after setting Access-Control-Allow-Headers in the ACP, the browser still fails at the preflight request.
Do I need a plugin or middleware to handle CORS for API v3 routes?
in reply to balu

Re: CORS error when calling /api/v3/users with Authorization header in local setup


balu can you confirm that the response you receive in the Vite app indeed contains the restrictive ACAO headers irrespective of what is set in the ACP?