Air Canada, flight attendants enter final day before strike deadline
It's the final day before a potential work stoppage could ground all Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge flights.
Air Canada, flight attendants enter final day before strike deadline - Wings Magazine
It's the final day before a potential work stoppage could ground all Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge flights.Wings Staff (Wings Magazine)
The official voice of the US government Is cruel, gross, and weird. What is that doing to us?
Joking memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.
Is Germany on the Brink of Banning Ad Blockers? User Freedom, Privacy, and Security Is At Risk.
Across the internet, users rely on browsers and extensions to shape how they experience the web: to protect their privacy, improve accessibility, block harmful or intrusive content, and take control over what they see. But a recent ruling from Germany’s Federal Supreme Court risks turning one of these essential tools, the ad blocker, into a copyright liability — and in doing so, threatens the broader principle of user choice online.
Is Germany on the Brink of Banning Ad Blockers? User Freedom, Privacy, and Security Is At Risk. - Open Policy & Advocacy
Across the internet, users rely on browsers and extensions to shape how they experience the web: to protect their privacy, improve accessibility, block harmful or intrusive content, and take control ...Daniel Nazer (Open Policy & Advocacy)
US | DC sues Trump over ‘hostile takeover’ of city’s police
Washington, D.C.’s attorney general calls administration’s actions ‘gravest threat’ to district’s self-governance
Far-right Israeli minister taunts jailed Palestinian leader in prison visit
Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir released a video on Friday showing him taunting Israel’s most prominent Palestinian detainee, Marwan Barghouti, a senior Fatah figure, in his jail cell. The Palestinian Authority's foreign ministry denounced the confrontation as "an unprecedented provocation".
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Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU
Help us fight Chat Control – our privacy and security are under threat again
We started Filen with a simple promise: privacy that actually holds up in the real world. That promise matters to journalists, founders, doctors, teachers, parents, and to anyone who cares about keeping personal life personal.Filen (Filen Hub)
Chinese military lab creates mosquito-sized microdrone for covert operations
China's military researchers have unveiled a mosquito-sized surveillance drone in June 2025, developed at the National University of Defence Technology (NUDT) in Hunan province1. The bionic microdrone measures about 2 cm long, weighs 0.3 grams, and features two leaf-like wings that can flap 500 times per second, along with three hair-thin legs2.
The device is designed for covert military operations and battlefield reconnaissance, with sensors and circuits packed into its tiny frame3. "Miniature bionic robots like this one are especially suited to information reconnaissance and special missions on the battlefield," said NUDT student Liang Hexiang while demonstrating the drone on state television4.
Security experts warn about potential risks. "If China is able to produce mosquito-sized drones, it would likely be interested in using them for various intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance tasks, especially in places that larger drones struggle to access," said Georgetown research fellow Sam Bresnick5.
The drone's small size makes it nearly invisible to conventional radar systems, though experts note its diminutive scale could limit operational range and endurance6.
- SCMP - Chinese military lab creates mosquito-sized microdrone for covert operations ↩︎
- Euronews - China unveils tiny spy drone that looks like a mosquito ↩︎
- SCMP - Chinese military lab creates mosquito-sized microdrone for covert operations ↩︎
- NY Post - China unveils eerie mosquito-sized drone designed for stealth military operations ↩︎
- CSET - China unveils mosquito-sized drone ↩︎
- NY Post - China unveils eerie mosquito-sized drone designed for stealth military operations ↩︎
China unveils mosquito-sized drone | Center for Security and Emerging Technology
CSET’s Sam Bresnick shared his expert insights in an article published by The Telegraph. The article discusses China’s unveiling of a mosquito-sized drone developed by scientists in Hunan province, highlighting its potential for intelligence gatherin…Jason Ly (CSET)
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Worlds First Portable Mosquito Air Defense
Detecting mosquitoes with LiDAR and eliminate them with lasers/Applicable to various scenarios | Check out 'Worlds First Portable Mosquito Air Defense' on Indiegogo.Indiegogo
China did NOT create a mosquito sized drone. They DID however create this awesome starship!
Seriously, how long are we going do the bi-monthly "China invents world changing technology" headline? These aren't even good lies.
imagemagick Montage: I can only create a montage if all the exif data is cleared.
imagemagick Montage:
I can only create a montage if all the exif data is cleared.
As a new user on Lemmy, going through the learning curve, I had issues uploading images.
Simple, I turned to imagemagick to reduce the size of the images and create a montage, rather than uploading 20 images for a simple bread recipe.
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I transfered my recipe images from my phone to my laptop and set about using Montage.
The images on the phone, and in the directory on my laptop, were clearly orientated in Portrait and not landscape.
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Problem:
I ran montage to create a simple 4 image montage:
montage 1.jpg 2.jpg 3.jpg 4.jpg -geometry +2+2 1-montage-image.jpg
I checked the output file, the images were in the right order but had changed from portrait to Landscape. They looked terrible
I then tried some different images.
These came out as expected, in portrait and in order
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I compared the images,
identify -verbose 1.jpg
the ones I transfered from my phone still had all the exif data intact and the other ones had no exif data
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So I cleared the exif data for the files.
exiftool worked perfectly:
exiftool -all= *.jpg
created an "original-images" directory, then moved the originals to "original-images" directory
mv *.jpg_original original-images
when I cleared the exif data all the images in the directory reverted to landscape
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so I set them back to portrait:
One liner to change orientation by 90 degrees
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name "*.jpg" -exec convert {} -rotate 90 {} \;
or mogrify:
mogrify -rotate -90 *.jpg
or
mogrify -rotate +90 *.jpg
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created the montage image:
montage 1.jpg 2.jpg 3.jpg 4.jpg -geometry +2+2 1-montage.jpg
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Now I reduced the size so I could upload them
create an "images" directory if you do not want mogrify to overwrite the originals.
mogrify -resize 50% -quality 80 -path "/path/to/reduced/images/" *.jpg
or
mogrify -resize 50% -quality 80 -path "images" *.jpg
job done
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A lot of messing about to upload an image
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In case you (or someone else) wants an explanation.
Modern cameras and phones save the image orientation in the exif data while keeping the orientation of the real pixels like they were originally.
But by default imagemagick doesn't use the exif data but the real pixel orientation. That's why the orientation in the montage and after removing exif data was wrong.
I think there are options to let imagemagick read the exif data. I'm too lazy to look it up.
Thank you Björn
I knew someone more technically gifted in the community would have a good answer as to why this happened.
-auto-orient– auto-orient will read from EXIF-strip– strip will remove all metadata- WARNING: if you’ve already used
-strip, then-auto-orientwill do nothing
ImageMagick – Command-line Options
ImageMagick is a powerful, open-source software suite for creating, editing, converting, and manipulating images in over 200 formats.ImageMagick
US Government agency drops Grok after MechaHitler backlash, report says
US government agency drops Grok after MechaHitler backlash, report says
It appears Grok’s antisemitic rants stopped it from becoming feds’ go-to chatbot.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
riempimento della squachiavanza porta la morte ad essere dischica… (Sharkey prende troppo spazio ed è un problema)
È doloroso trovarmi qui ad ammetterlo a me stessa ma, ancora una volta, scopro che i miei piani di dominazione del mondo sono stati troppo ambiziosi; almeno per ora, in questa fase più iniziale. Ovviamente tutto bene col mio codice, anche se è ancora nelle fasi iniziali… i problemi inaspettati sono piuttosto arrivati con Sharkey, […]
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riempimento della squachiavanza porta la morte ad essere dischica… (Sharkey prende troppo spazio ed è un problema)
È doloroso trovarmi qui ad ammetterlo a me stessa ma, ancora una volta, scopro che i miei piani di dominazione del mondo sono stati troppo ambiziosi; almeno per ora, in questa fase più iniziale. Ovviamente tutto bene col mio codice, anche se è ancora nelle fasi iniziali… i problemi inaspettati sono piuttosto arrivati con Sharkey, che nell’arco di una settimana mi avrà sequestrato almeno 1 GB di disco col suo database di merda, e non penso di dover spiegare quali calcoli fare per capire che una situazione del genere è insostenibile. Quindi, ho dovuto per il momento abbassare il tiro, prima che il disco del server mi si riempia in misura da costringermi a levare tutto quanto… 😖
Il problema è sostanzialmente una combinazione di 3 fattori: la mole di dati in ingresso generata da migliaia di utenti di migliaia di istanze ogni giorno è gigantesca (e il mio server non ha problemi a processarla, ma ecco, sono troppi miliardi di byte), il database è strutturato di merda (con troppi dati derivati che occupano inutilmente spazio, nonché francamente colonne inutili)… e, soprattutto, il software non ha alcun meccanismo per cancellare dati vecchi, quindi per ripulire periodicamente le note di utenti di istanze terze, o comunque quei dati che sono riottenibili. E per Misskey è da anni che la gente chiede aiuto per questo problema, ma la richiesta continua a naufragare, si vedano #13157 e linkate… e per Sharkey ugualmente è da un po’ di tempo che si parla di questo schifo, ma, forse, il fato per una buona volta mi vuole bene: 3 settimane fa in #1017 qualcuno sembra aver preso interesse a lavorarci… 😨Comunque sia, il problema per me è ora, e quindi ho come minimo dovuto disattivare i relay, che sono dei cosi che si aggiungono per far scambiare i messaggi tra la propria istanza ed altre pur senza avere relazioni di follow con migliaia di utenti (…perché non so chi cavolo seguire io, e a me pochi mi cagano), e così l’influsso di note e allegati è passato da decine di migliaia al giorno a poche decine e basta al giorno, che è persino meno di quanto ho sulla Spacc BBS… Ma questo quindi significa direttamente che, per il momento, non avrò un flusso costante estremamente sparso e variegato di conversazioni che posso passare all’intelligenza artificiale per farla funzionare in modo completamente autonomo e a dir poco extracircostanziale. (Non che io avessi finito di scrivere il codice per questa parte, eh, ma prima o poi quello sarà pronto… e i dati allora mancheranno.) 💨
Avrei quasi la mezza idea di, pur non sapendo se questa mossa potrebbe in parte rompere l’applicazione (ma, come si suol dire, cip ciop fa l’uccellino, YOLO fa il cormorano… e in ogni caso farei un backup prima), creare uno script per fare in modo grezzo la pulizia del database… ma purtroppo non è affatto una stronzata filtrare tutto per cancellare solo i dati effettivamente ridondanti, ossia le note solo da server terzi (e fin qui ok) che non hanno relazioni internamente alla mia istanza (niente reazioni o commenti o boost da parte dei miei utenti, non sono salvate tra i preferiti, e così via), e poi cancellare anche i file a queste associati dall’altra tabella (aiuto!!!). E oltre alle note, che sono rogne, e agli allegati, che invece mi fanno proprio incazzare visto quanto occupano pur essendo solo metadati (il contenuto dei file non viene scaricato!), volendo pulire pure gli utenti è la fine… 😭
Vabbè, viste le parole (…poco attendibili?) di quella persona sconosciuta di cui sopra, però, mi conviene evitare di sbattermi, e piuttosto semplicemente pregare affinché tale promessa si trasformi in codice… al più presto. Se la mia speranza (e i miei bot potentissimi…) proprio deve morire, allora lo farà solo dopo la mia istanza, non prima!!! 😾
#1017 #database #Misskey #server #Sharkey #spazio #storage
Database Retention/Purge Policies (#1017) · Issues · TransFem.org / Sharkey · GitLab
What feature would you like implemented? The problem After running an instance...GitLab
Where did the downvotes go?
I started seeing a weird trend on Lemmy that I cannot understand.
Weeks ago, posts used to have downvotes and upvotes in the semi-rational range you would expect.
Out of nowhere, it seems like almost all the posts I see now have zero downvotes with some exceptions.
What is happening here exactly?
Where did the downvotes go?
I started seeing a weird trend on Lemmy that I cannot understand.
Weeks ago, posts used to have downvotes and upvotes in the semi-rational range you would expect.
Out of nowhere, it seems like almost all the posts I see now have zero downvotes with some exceptions.
What is happening here exactly?
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Where did the downvotes go?
I started seeing a weird trend on Lemmy that I cannot understand.
Weeks ago, posts used to have downvotes and upvotes in the semi-rational range you would expect.
Out of nowhere, it seems like almost all the posts I see now have zero downvotes with some exceptions.
What is happening here exactly?
LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think.
LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think
Are we unwittingly playing into Microsoft's hands? LibreOffice thinks so.Simon Batt (XDA)
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Can’t pay, won’t pay: impoverished streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy
Can’t pay, won’t pay: impoverished streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy
As subscription costs rise and choice diminishes on legal sites, film and TV fans are turning to VPNs and illicit streamers, with Sweden – home of both Spotify and The Pirate Bay – leading the wayGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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It's not just a pricing issue. It's an ownership issue.
Too many of the things we buy are not ours.
Yesterday I saw the article about VW cars which need a subscription to use the built-in capabilities. The car you bought doesn't belong to you.
A mind–reading brain implant that comes with password protection
- Attempted, inner, and perceived speech have a shared representation in motor cortex
- An inner-speech brain-computer interface (BCI) decodes general sentences with improved user experience
- Aspects of private inner speech can be decoded during cognitive tasks like counting
- High-fidelity solutions can prevent a speech brain-computer interface (BCI) from decoding private inner speech
Speech brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) show promise in restoring communication to people with paralysis but have also prompted discussions regarding their potential to decode private inner speech. Separately, inner speech may be a way to bypass the current approach of requiring speech brain-computer interface (BCI) users to physically attempt speech, which is fatiguing and can slow communication. Using multi-unit recordings from four participants, we found that inner speech is robustly represented in the motor cortex and that imagined sentences can be decoded in real time. The representation of inner speech was highly correlated with attempted speech, though we also identified a neural “motor-intent” dimension that differentiates the two. We investigated the possibility of decoding private inner speech and found that some aspects of free-form inner speech could be decoded during sequence recall and counting tasks. Finally, we demonstrate high-fidelity strategies that prevent speech brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) from unintentionally decoding private inner speech.
Un’estate di tragedie: perché tanti bimbi muoiono in acqua?
Fallout - Stagione 2: svelati poster e periodo di uscita dei nuovi episodi
A pochi mesi dalla fine delle riprese del prossimo capitolo della serie, IGN ha ora pubblicato il primo poster della seconda stagione di Fallout. L’immagine chiave offre un assaggio del ritorno di Lucy, Maximus e del Ghoul mentre attraversano la Zona Contaminata alla ricerca del padre di lei a New Vegas, con il cartello della città e la città stessa visibili sullo sfondo. L’annuncio è stato accompagnato dalla notizia che la seconda stagione uscirà a dicembre.
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Fallout - Stagione 2: svelati poster e periodo di uscita dei nuovi episodi - Cinefilos.it
Svelati il primo poster e il periodo di uscita della seconda stagione di Fallout, la popolare serie di Prime Video.Gianmaria Cataldo (Cinefilos.it)
Reddit blocking web search
I noticed today, having searched about TOR nodes possibly being run by government departments in a browser, I got this message, " Your request has been blocked by network security. Please try to login with your Reddit account. " I didn't login in the app!
Haven't come across that before. Has anyone else seen i?
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Christian Horner fuori da ogni ruolo in Red Bull: ora è ufficiale
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Christian Horner fuori da ogni ruolo in Red Bull: ora è ufficiale - Quotidiano Motori
Christian Horner è stato rimosso da ogni ruolo di Red Bull. Al suo posto entra Stefan Salzer, nuovo direttore ufficiale del team.Mario Roth (Quotidiano Motori)
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L'importance de la veille technologique IT
Starlink tries to block Virginia’s plan to bring fiber Internet to residents
Starlink operator SpaceX is fighting Virginia's plan to deploy fiber Internet service to residents, claiming that federal grant money should be given to Starlink instead. SpaceX is already in line to win over $3 million in grant money in the state but is seeking $60 million.
Starlink is poised to benefit from the Trump administration rewriting rules for the $42 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) grant program. While the Biden administration decided that states should prioritize fiber in order to build more future-proof networks, the Trump administration ordered states to revise their plans with a "tech-neutral approach" and lower the average cost of serving each location.
Starlink tries to block Virginia’s plan to bring fiber Internet to residents
SpaceX wants more money, asks Trump admin to reject state’s broadband grant plan.Jon Brodkin (Ars Technica)
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Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x06 "The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail"
Written by: David Reed & Bill Wolkoff
Directed by: Valerie Weiss
Writers' Room: "We need a name for a mineral these scavengers could be looking for."
"Uh… (glances at Italian takeout) aldentium!"
Re: Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x06 "The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail"
Thanks I'd rather my beer stay analogue
What’s next you tech bro wankers, is AI going to drink the pint for me?
… just when you thought they couldn’t force AI into any more things. The epitome of a solution in search of a problem
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Lidarr alternatives?
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Headphones I think it’s called? But lidarr has the best integration given it’s a fork.
If this is about the lidarr metadata being fucked you can try something like github.com/blampe/hearring-aid… which has its own issues but is working.
All of the arr stack developers flip their shit if you so much as suggest adding support for a custom metadata server. It is by far the biggest weakness of the stack and it is mind boggling that all the major forks have inherited this behavior from sonarr.
Lidarr shows how foolish this approach is, musicbrainz makes one change and the app is fucked for over three months now with no end in sight. Thetvdb could do this to sonarr, themoviedb could do this to radarr. Adding a method to add other database sites with api access (or even just local data) should be a priority, but they not only dislike the idea, they get mad about it. Oh well, free project, fork it if youre so great, etc etc
GitHub - blampe/hearring-aid: Hear what your LiDAR is missing
Hear what your LiDAR is missing. Contribute to blampe/hearring-aid development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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At this rate lidarr will have the same fate as readarr did as it seems the main focus of the servarr devs are focused on radarr and prowlarr.
The problem is they have only one person left with the keys to the metadata server and if they are busy then it’s not a priority. Which I understand as a free project but just emphasizes how bad this approach is to have just a single metadata sever.
But with that said I’m still holding out hope for Lidarr, now finding a good readarr replacement that’s another sad story.
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If there is a beta/nightly branch I can install, I'll be glad to use that so I can finally import the music I have acquired so far.
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Apparently they keep posting updates on their discord for some reason. This is the last response someone shared on github:
Hi everyone, it's July 25. Yesterday, the devs and mod team here have begun (early) alpha testing of the new Lidarr metadata server.In general, things are working fairly well. There are a few issues to resolve before it can go live. But we wanted to let everyone know that we have some concrete forward movement happening behind the scenes.
NOTE: This stage of testing is NOT OPEN to users. We appreciate your patience, but at this stage you cannot help. This update is meant to let you know that the project is not dead, as some have incorrectly theorized, and that there is behind-the-scenes work heading toward getting the new metadata server up and running as quickly as possible.
Please continue to be patient, and continue to use this channel for Lidarr support questions. If you have other conversation topics, please use general or another more appropriate channel for that.
Thank you from the devs and mod team.
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Yeah...I saw that update. But I wouldnt count an update from the end of July recent in any capacity.
Because this sort of message has been repeated since the beginning of July with minimal changes to the content.
It's mostly a "We are still alive and sometimes working on it".
No issues with that. It's their volunteered free of charge time they are giving for our entertainment. Which I heavily appreciate. It's just a bit annoying how little information they give out (and their, sorta understandable, tone used in their support channel).
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Says the official support channels, which you should be checking for information anyway, unless your only intention is to scream your frustration into the void. If that’s the case, best of luck on that resolving anything.
ETA: like I said, it’s a closed beta, so not something you can install. And it won’t be a pull request because this fix won’t require an update to Lidarr, it’ll just start working again when the new server is done.
What the devs keep getting irritated about is people coming into the Official Lidarr Branch support channels and asking for support for something the devs have no control over or ability to assist with. Keep in mind that an individual user’s Lidarr instance does not connect directly to musicbrainz - the volume of API requests generated by Lidarr would be unsustainable without subscriptions. It connects to an intermediary metadata server set up and maintained by the Lidarr volunteers.
If they add a built-in option to add custom metadata servers, people will have an expectation of support. Even a note right next to the option that states custom metadata servers get no assistance wouldn’t help much since most people can’t seem to read. Basing that on the number of people who come into the Lidarr support discord channel every single day and ask if something is wrong with the metadata server despite there being a stickied message with very bold lettering explaining the issue and its current status.
I will agree that the devs in the discord have a shit bed-side manner, though. But there’s a reason that, if this were software produced by a company, you’d be speaking to a customer support specialist instead of directly to a dev. As someone who long ago worked my way up the IT ladder out of the rage-inducing pits of user-facing support roles, I definitely get it.
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The issue isnt the metadata providers changing the API.
The issue is that the devs insist on implementing an API proxy/metadata mirror to lessen the burden.
Bro, just le me pull my own API key and let musicbrainz decide how much free API calls I can execute.
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Israeli airstrikes on Tehran killed inmates in ‘apparent war crime’ – report
Israeli airstrikes on Tehran killed inmates in ‘apparent war crime’ – report
Human Rights Watch also finds that Iran abused survivors of June attack, which killed 80 peopleDeepa Parent (The Guardian)
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Is there a maintained bypass-paywalls Firefox extension out there?
Hello.
I just noticed in one of my Firefox profiles that Mozilla auto-disabled the "Bypass Paywalls" extension after removing it from their end, which apparently happened a while ago.
I don't think I ever even used this extension, which is why I didn't catch this earlier. But now that it's banned, I definitely want it around 😉
The upstream repository also got DMCA'd. The repository of a presumably alternative (or cleaned) extension is also gone, although I found some GitHub mirrors of it (how ironic).
So, is there a maintained extension upstream I should know about?
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(2), 
(7), 
(5), 
(3), 
(2), 
(1)
Incase anyone finds it useful.
Using a redirect to this website can be quite nice as well.
RemovePaywall | Free online paywall remover
Remove Paywall, free online paywall remover. Get access to articles without having to pay or login. Works on Bloomberg and hundreds more.removepaywall.com
Can you install only some programs included in the Master Collection from M0nkrus?
Note: I am not requesting a link, source, but regarding the Master Collection from M0nkrus, I am curious if it is possible to only install some of the software rather than all of them. I only want about 3~8 of them and don't need the other 16. (just Dimension, Illustrator, PS, and maybe the 5 Substance 3d apps)
I don't know if I should get them together or separately. I feel like the process might be more straightforward/less likely to run into issues if they are from the same collection, but I don't know.
Thank you.
Thank you for the advice. Get them separate just because of how few I am looking to get? I feel like there might be more setup required if I get them separately.
I also don't know if getting them separate would cause me to get redundant installers/managers/rules+patches each trying to apply the same patches.
Are jmp.chat eSIM adapters unique
I think the eID should be unique and gets transmitted.
That's probably the ID that forbids me from installing (another) speedtest eSIM, though "ID" could also refer to IMEI perhaps. I'd have to try another phone.
```<>
Error code: ES10B_ERROR_REASON_UNDEFINED
Last HTTP response (from server):
{
"header": {
"functionExecutionStatus": {
"status": "Failed",
"statusCodeData": {
"subjectCode": "8.2.6",
"reasonCode": "3.8",
"subjectIdentifier": "Matching ID",
"message": "Refused"
}
}
},
"transactionId": "[You don't need this]"
}
Last APDU response (from SIM) is successful
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Based on this, it is a part of the transmitted information, if I understand it right: sharetechnote.com/html/Handboo…
So Long to Tech's Dream Job: It’s the shut up and grind era, tech workers said, as Apple, Google, Meta and other giants age into large bureaucracies.
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/34411807
While many of them still provide free food and pay well, they have little compunction cutting jobs, ordering mandatory office attendance and clamping down on employee debate. [...] “Tech could still be best in terms of free lunch and a high salary,” Ms. Grey said, but “the level of fear has gone way up.”Along the way, the companies became less tolerant of employee outspokenness. Bosses reasserted themselves after workers protested issues including sexual harassment in the workplace. With the job market flooded with qualified engineers, it became easier to replace those who criticized.
“This is a business, and not a place to act in a way that disrupts co-workers or makes them feel unsafe, to attempt to use the company as a personal platform, or to fight over disruptive issues or debate politics,” Sundar Pichai, Google’s chief executive, said in a blog post last year.
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FOSS alternatives to Google Docs?
What are some of the best alternatives out there to Google Docs and other cloud based productivity software?
I've heard of CognitoForms as alternative to Google Forms, does anyone have any experience with it?
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I personally use LibreOffice as an alternative to docs and sheets. It took me a second to figure everything out, but it works well enough.
I don't really like their slideshow or drawing programs though. They don't work well
Edit: I took a quick look at Cryptpad and they also seem like a good option
Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor
What could possibly go wrong?!
Also, it’s really cool how everything is going straight to hell. /s
Meta appoints notorious anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor
Meta has appointed right-wing, anti-LGBTQ+, anti-DEI conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck to advise them on preventing political bias in AI.Sophie Perry (PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news)
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Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor
Meta appoints notorious anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor
Meta has appointed right-wing, anti-LGBTQ+, anti-DEI conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck to advise them on preventing political bias in AI.Sophie Perry (PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news)
I Megadeth si sciolgono: ultimo album e tour d'addio
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First Look Revealed of Sean Bean and Connie Nielsen in MGM+ Series ‘Robin Hood’
First Look Revealed of Sean Bean and Connie Nielsen in 'Robin Hood'
MGM+ has shared the first-look image from the upcoming drama series 'Robin Hood,' debuting later this year.Leo Barraclough (Variety)
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