The road to artificial general intelligence
The road to artificial general intelligence spans three key developments: current AI capabilities, the path to AGI, and the potential leap to superintelligence.
Today's artificial narrow intelligence (ANI) excels at specific tasks but fails at simple problems humans solve easily. As Sam Altman of OpenAI notes, AGI-like properties are "coming into view," while Dario Amodei of Anthropic predicts some form of "powerful AI" could emerge as early as 20261.
The path to AGI involves three main approaches: reverse engineering the human brain, simulating evolution through genetic algorithms, and creating self-improving AI systems. Hardware advances are keeping pace - by 2025, affordable computers may match human-level processing power of 10 quadrillion calculations per second2.
Once AGI emerges, an "intelligence explosion" could quickly follow through recursive self-improvement, potentially leading to artificial superintelligence (ASI) thousands of times smarter than humans. This superintelligent AI would have unprecedented capabilities, from controlling matter at the atomic level to potentially solving humanity's greatest challenges2.
- MIT Technology Review - The road to artificial general intelligence ↩︎
- Wait But Why - The Artificial Intelligence Revolution: Part 1 ↩︎ ↩︎
The Artificial Intelligence Revolution: Part 1 - Wait But Why
Part 1 of 2: "The Road to Superintelligence". Artificial Intelligence — the topic everyone in the world should be talking about.Tim Urban (Wait But Why)
Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team
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How AI researchers accidentally discovered that everything they thought about learning was wrong
How AI researchers accidentally discovered that everything they thought about learning was wrong
The lottery ticket hypothesis explains why massive neural networks succeed despite centuries of theory predicting they should failNearly Right
TL,DR: It wasn't learning, it was just brute-forcing the entire solution space.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Investigates Meta and Character.AI for Misleading Children with Deceptive AI-Generated Mental Health Services
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Attorney General Ken Paxton Investigates Meta and Character.AI for Misleading Children with Deceptive AI-Generated Mental Health Services
Attorney General Ken Paxton has opened an investigation into artificial intelligence chatbot platforms, including Meta AI Studio and Character.Texas Attorney General
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Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team
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When I search for “broken” I get no result.
When I search for “test” I get lots of old posts.
Seems to be.
A recent post in 'lemmyshitpost' is called 'unfair competiion', but searching for 'unfair' doesn't include it:
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Search results for unfair
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This returns some very recent posts. piefed.social/search?q=I+don%2…
It's not broken in the sense that indexing it not happening, it just sucks so bad it seems broken 😉
Search results for I don't like it
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It will be worth doing a bit more research to check if there's something we can do to improve the results we're getting from Postgresql but I have a strong suspicion that our needs are well beyond the capabilities of Postgresql.
I'd like to explore Manticore Search as an optional extra service that we can use. It's like ElasticSearch except less RAM hungry.
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Try Manticore Search as a replacement for Postgresql FTS
Maniticore seems to be like ElasticSearch except without the huge RAM usage. https://manticoresearch.Codeberg.org
GPU Export Controls, NVIDIA GPU Bans, & AI GPU Black Market: A comprehensive timeline of the GPU bans, GPU smuggling, and export controls that impact NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel
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- The US blocks exports of advanced GPUs to China to protect national security
- NVIDIA GPUs are highly sought after in China for AI processing
- Our timeline chronicles the US export controls, NVIDIA's responses, and reports of GPU smuggling
This is a comprehensive timeline of the GPU bans, smuggling, and export controls on NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, and other high-tech semiconductor products. We are publishing this as part of our stretch goals for Black Market AI GPU — a viewer-funded film made possible through support on our store, including our new “Blind Eye” T-shirt.
The below timeline accompanies our Black Market AI GPU investigation, our biggest project yet. We spent three weeks in Asia to uncover this story, including two weeks in China and one in Taiwan. We found smugglers, middlemen, and users of so-called “AI” GPUs that the United States government has banned for sale into China.
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most likely, yes. It's shocking how shitty the security measures are on so many things.
There was a game a few years ago where the DRM was so insanely aggressive it wouldn't accept a legitimate key, and it only took about 2 minutes to break the DRM
Ever wonder why big tech companies go through data-breaches constantly? but 0% of privacy friendly things ever have that problem?
That's because your data on those privacy friendly services is encrypted with its own key so anyone who wants to break in and steal data would need to break into each account one at a time...so that's why facebook, google and amazon have databreaches all the time. because of a combo of shitty security and social engineering
privacy friendly services don't allow their workers to have the ability to give away the goods
I'm not sure.
Visible is a data plan that offers unlimited data for $25/month. If you pair it with Pandora and Blokada 5, you can get internet radio for free anywhere you have service.
You need to download and install Blokada 5 manually from their website, because screwgle banned the app from its app store for being too effective at blocking ads in apps.
Newsmax settles Dominion lawsuit as Trump renews attacks on voting machines
Newsmax Dominion Lawsuit Settled for $67M as Trump Renews Attacks on Voting Machines
The settlement comes a year after Fox News paid $787.5 million to resolve a similar case with Dominion.Gabe Whisnant (Newsweek)
TikTok Shop Sells Viral GPS Trackers Marketed to Stalkers
I can’t imagine how this could go poorly. /s
TikTok Shop Sells Viral GPS Trackers Marketed to Stalkers
TikTok Shop is selling GPS trackers marketed with viral videos that have voiceovers explicitly encouraging secretly tracking a romantic partner. Some of the videos have millions of views, and TikTok Shop’s own metrics show that that more than a hundred thousand of the devices have been sold.One of the accounts 404 Media found
“If your girl says she’s just out with friends every night, you’d better slap one of these on her car—no, it is not an AirTag, it’s a real GPS tracker,” one clip, which has 5 million views, begins. The video shows someone putting a tracker in various hidden locations in a car—a plastic bag in the trunk, magnetically attached underneath, or on the inside of the hood. “And, unlike AirTags, this thing doesn’t make a sound, doesn’t send alerts, she will never know it’s there. It’s tiny, black, magnetic, hide it under the seat, in the trunk, wherever. It’s got its own SIM so you can track her anywhere in the world, no wifi, no bluetooth, just raw location data whenever you want it.”
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1×The trackers are advertised as undetectable by Apple’s FindMy system. Many of the videos encourage people to secretly install the devices in their partners’ cars if they suspect them for things like being “out with friends every night.” TikTok deleted the video mentioned above after 404 Media asked the company for comment, but dozens of similar videos remain online, and the trackers are still for sale.
“This is absolutely being framed as a tool of abuse,” said Eva Galperin, co-founder of the Coalition Against Stalkerware and Director of Cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. “Anything where the justification is ‘catch your partner cheating’ or ‘get peace of mind about your partner’ is enabling coercive control,” she said.
404 Media’s reporters have previously written about the use of “stalkerware” that domestic abusers have used to spy on their partners, and on the use of AirTags to stalk people.
404 Media found a handful of accounts promoting these types of trackers, and there are several different versions on the TikTok Shop. Once a user clicks from the videos into TikTok Shop, the algorithm began to show us many more listings. One of the clips we saw has 86,500 likes, and links to a tracker that had 32,500 sales. Another from the same vendor currently has 97,900 sales, and there are several accounts offering the same products with similar branding and scripts. In the comments of one of the videos, a user says “I bought some and put it on cars of girls I find attractive at the gym.” The original poster responds with “Ok 😂.”
The TikTok content policy says that the platform does “not allow any violent threats, promotion of violence, incitement to violence, or promotion of criminal activities that may harm people, animals, or property.” We asked TikTok for comment about the videos that had been posted by one of the accounts we’d originally seen.
A spokesperson for TikTok said "We don't allow content encouraging people to use devices for secret surveillance and have removed this content and banned the account that posted it. We further prohibit the sale of concealed video or audio recording devices on our platform." However, 404 Media was able to find many more almost identical videos on the platform the following day, raising questions over how proactively the platform is monitoring to prevent content like this.
The videos skirt around the legality of what they are suggesting. One voiceover asks, over footage of the tracker being attached to a car, “it’s illegal to track people using this thing? I don’t know, I’m not a lawyer, but I’m pretty sure if you stalk someone using this GPS tracker, you’re probably gonna get in trouble.”
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The majority of the videos, though, frame the trackers as a way to spy on a partner: “men with cheating wives, you might wanna get one of these,” one video in Spanish begins. “Not everyone who uses this is crazy, they just want answers.” “Guess what my girlfriend put in my car?,” another says. Other videos start with ”Don’t let what happened at the coldplay concert happen to you”, “She seriously didn’t trust me, so you know what, I put one in hers too”, or “You got a cheating girlfriend?”Eleven states explicitly prohibit digital location or GPS tracking in their stalking laws, and a further fifteen states prohibit tracking a vehicle without the consent of the owner. “Showing people how to do something that might be illegal is not necessarily illegal,” Galperin said. But TikTok is still allowing people to make money by marketing the tech specifically for the use of spying on a partner.
Alongside the trackers, the same creators are advertising secret audio-recording devices with similar abusive framing. “Your girl always stepping out to take calls? Want to know who she’s really talking to? Just place this AI recorder in her car—she’ll never notice”, says one post, tagged #husband, #wife, and #coldplay.
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Another video for the audio devices with 136,000 views describes bugging a cheating girlfriend’s car: “I heard everything she said with that guy.” Several videos claim that secretly recording audio is legal (“Think your girlfriend’s cheating? Want to know who the guy is? Then do it the right way—legally” and “Got a feeling something’s off? Then find out the truth—the legal way” and “Why the hell did I find a used condom in my car?”) However, recording a conversation without the awareness of the people involved can often be illegal.
Galperin also said that the TikTok videos reflect an extremely common attitude. “You would be amazed how many people think stalking, or recordings, or stalkerware is perfectly justified, as long as they think their partner is up to something like cheating,” she told 404 Media.
A 2021 Kaspersky survey found that 30 percent of 21,000+ respondents found “no problem in secretly monitoring their partner” under certain circumstances. The survey report also found that 29 percent of respondents who had been digitally stalked had their location tracked.
These devices are advertised and sold as undetectable. However, all the examples I found had high numbers of one-star reviews, many of which complained that the trackers did not work as advertised, and defeated “the point” by alerting people to their presence via Apple’s FindMy system. The Apple support site for FindMy-enabled devices says that “They should not be used to track people, and should not be used to track property that does not belong to you.”
Reviews for one of the trackers on TikTok Shop
In 2021, 404 Media’s Sam Cole reported on Apple AirTags being used to stalk women; in many cases, by attaching them to or hiding them in their cars. For that story, she reviewed 150 police reports of people who had said they were being tracked by current or former partners. After that story, Apple added safety features like phone notifications when an Airtag is nearby, but an ongoing class action lawsuit argues that the devices are still insufficiently “stalker proof.”
Several of the videos were tagged #coldplay
Earlier this month, WIRED reported that TikTok shop was selling stickers that could block the recording light on Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses. Again, many of the reviews found that the product didn’t work as advertised, but the platform did allow the stickers to remain available for sale.Police Records Show Women Are Being Stalked With Apple AirTags Across the Country
Motherboard obtained reports of stalking, harassment, and abuse using AirTags, targeting victims of intimate partner violence.Samantha Cole (VICE)
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Ian Proud: Britain's Destructive Bipolar Diplomacy
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UK police watch passively as far right protesters hold up non terrorist "kill them all" slogan in front of asylum seekers
I'm agreeing w/ you that stock price is irrelevant here, and that's what the video opens with. The market is unhappy w/ Apple because they're delivering essentially what people claim to want: a solid product with steady improvements w/o anything crazy. Microsoft, on the other hand, is delivering what the market wants, which is shoving AI into everything.
I guess I don't understand why the video is relevant to the average user, who doesn't really care about innovation and instead wants a consistent experience.
I highly doubt there is a user that truly does not care for innovation. If there is a better product for the same price, who wouldn't buy it.
More importantly, the impact is not just innovative features but security, price of ownership and reliability. Apple managed to "innovate" themselves into a position where they are obstructing data rescue on Macs and iPhones. That's the kind of thing you may not be thinking about when buying but may greatly regret not having when you need it.
China, No 2 in global computing power, accelerates build-out as AI race heats up
China, No 2 in global computing power, accelerates build-out as AI race heats up
China has invested massive resources to build digital infrastructure and plans an even stronger push in the future.Luna Sun (South China Morning Post)
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Fired Nashville cop sentenced after allegedly playing role in OnlyFans video
Fired Nashville officer enters "best interest" plea after allegedly playing role in OnlyFans video during fake traffic stop
Officials say Sean Herman can be seen taking part in a mock traffic stop in the video that was posted on OnlyFans.CBS News
This Website is Served from Nine Neovim Buffers on My Old ThinkPad
This Website is Served from Nine Neovim Buffers on My Old ThinkPad
This Website is Served from Nine Neovim Buffers on My Old ThinkPad, a blog post by Gábor Nyékivim.gabornyeki.com
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DJI Unveils Osmo 360: A Panoramic Leap Forward in Sports Camera Innovation
DJI Unveils Osmo 360: A Panoramic Leap Forward in Sports Camera Innovation
In a bold move that signals its growing ambitions in immersive imaging, DJI has officially launched the Osmo 360—a panoramic sports camera ...www.gadgetguidepros.com
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Russia’s war against Ukraine
A resident, rescued from a bombed residential building, catches her breath and breaks into tears after being trapped inside during the Russian attack on Aug. 17, 2025 in Bilozerske, Ukraine. (Pierre Crom/Getty Images)
Russian strike on Kharkiv kills 3, including toddler, injures 17 as Zelensky arrives to Washington to meet with Trump. Russia launched a wave of missile and drone attacks against Ukrainian cities late on Aug. 17, mere hours before President Volodymyr Zelensky is scheduled to meet for peace talks with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House.
‘Negotiation can begin where the front line currently stands’ — Zelensky says ahead of meeting with Trump. “We need real negotiations, and that means they can begin where the front line currently stands. The line of contact is the best line for negotiations,” Zelensky wrote on social media following a meeting with members of the so-called “coalition of the willing.”
Trump says no NATO path or Crimea return for Ukraine as Zelensky comes to Washington for peace talks. Zelensky cautioned that any new deal must prevent Russian President Vladimir Putin from using concessions as a “springboard” for another attack, citing Russia’s seizure of Crimea in 2014.
Top European leaders to join Zelensky for Trump talks. According to the German government, the discussions will cover the state of peace efforts, security guarantees, territorial questions, continued support for Ukraine, and maintaining sanctions pressure.
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Ukraine claims battlefield success in Donetsk Oblast. The General Staff said Russian forces suffered significant losses in the area, including 910 killed, 335 wounded, and 37 captured.
Ukrainian drones hit key rail hub in Russia’s Voronezh Oblast, HUR says. The strike disrupted train traffic through the Lisky station, halting the supply of ammunition and troops to aid Russian forces fighting on Ukrainian territory, according to the source.
Kyiv sanctions Russian, Chinese, Belarusian firms supplying drone technology. According to the presidential decree, restrictions were introduced against 39 Russian nationals and 55 companies from Russia, China, and Belarus.
Ukraine’s long-range Flamingo cruise missile enters serial production, media reports. The domestically developed cruise missile has a reported range of 3,000 km (1,864 miles). The military has not yet publicly commented on the official technical specifications.
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Ukraine war latest: Trump to meet with Zelensky, European leaders in Washington on Aug. 18
The leaders will meet in the White House to discuss next steps in negotiating an end to Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine. The meeting comes after the Trump-Putin Alaska Summit ended with no ceasefire announcement.
Photo: Tetiana Dzhafarova and Alex Wroblewski / AFP
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Human cost of Russia’s war
Russian attacks kill 5, injure 11 across Ukraine over past day. The Air Force said Russia launched one Iskander-M ballistic missile and 60 Shahed-type attack drones and drone decoys overnight on Aug. 17.
General Staff: Russia has lost 1,069,950 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022. The number includes 900 casualties Russian forces suffered just over the past day.
International response
US officials provide contradictory statements on security guarantees, fueling uncertainty. In comments to various media networks on Aug. 17, Russia envoy Steve Witkoff and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio addressed the outcomes stemming from the Trump-Putin meeting, providing differing accounts of the progress made towards providing Kyiv with security guarantees.
Russia seeks ‘Ukraine’s surrender, not peace,’ Macron says ahead of talks with Trump. “I don’t believe (Russian President Vladimir) Putin wants peace, Macron told reporters after co-chairing a meeting of the coalition of the willing. “I believe he wants Ukraine’s surrender.”
‘International borders cannot be changed by force‘ — von der Leyen says in Brussels. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen also backed “Article 5-like security guarantees” for Ukraine, saying the country must become “a steel porcupine, indigestible for potential invaders.”
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'International borders cannot be changed by force,' — von der Leyen says in Brussels ahead of Trump meeting
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen also backed "Article 5-like security guarantees" for Ukraine, saying the country must become "a steel porcupine, indigestible for potential invaders."Anna Fratsyvir (The Kyiv Independent)
DJI Unveils Osmo 360: A Panoramic Leap Forward in Sports Camera Innovation
DJI Unveils Osmo 360: A Panoramic Leap Forward in Sports Camera Innovation
In a bold move that signals its growing ambitions in immersive imaging, DJI has officially launched the Osmo 360—a panoramic sports camera ...www.gadgetguidepros.com
Famous VPN company Mullvald says it will no longer use OpenVPN
Reminder that OpenVPN is being removed
This is a reminder that we are fully removing support for OpenVPN on January 15th 2026.Mullvad VPN
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This post makes it look like there's something serious ly wrong with openvpn, but it's just them not wanting to deal with it and deprecating it.
Oh well, guess Ill put a note not to use them. My country blocks VPN protocols and wg specifically, so for my usecase I need as many protocols supported as possible, preferrably mimicking other innocuous protocols.
tablet sudato sulle gambe poggiato
Dritta da ieri sera, ecco qui un’altra assurdità. Stavo sul divano, a giocare col tablet, e lo tenevo praticamente appoggiato dritto sulle gambe che tenevo in piedi sul divano stesso (la classica posizione da ragazza gatto casual gamer, insomma), senza cover… e a dire il vero si teneva, per bene, comodamente, fermo, senza scivolare, eppure […]
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tablet sudato sulle gambe poggiato
Dritta da ieri sera, ecco qui un’altra assurdità. Stavo sul divano, a giocare col tablet, e lo tenevo praticamente appoggiato dritto sulle gambe che tenevo in piedi sul divano stesso (la classica posizione da ragazza gatto casual gamer, insomma), senza cover… e a dire il vero si teneva, per bene, comodamente, fermo, senza scivolare, eppure comunque ad un’altezza conveniente (di non molto sotto gli occhi, cosa che evita di dover stare bent con la testa) e senza reggere personalmente l’affare… 🐱Tutto bene, nonostante fosse caldino dato l’uso (non bollente, parliamo pur sempre di giochi da ragazza gatto, quindi non roba pesante)… finché non l’ho girato… e mi sono accorta che il motivo per cui stava bello a posto, nonostante l’angolo solo di pochi gradi ottuso, era perché si erano fatte due belle pozze di sudore spalmato in corrispondenza delle gambe. E in effetti, la tavoletta di metallo non mi rimane in piedi in quel modo da subito, se ci provo ora… dovrei usarla una decina di minuti almeno appoggiata sulle gambe normalmente, e solo un po’ dopo uscirebbe il sudore che fa questo schifo ma questa grande utilità. 😾
Comunque bleah, che schifo tipo… persino la fotocamera del telefono si rifiuta di mettere a fuoco molto bene dal disgusto (e ho provato più volte). Ovviamente non si pulisce nemmeno ottimamente questa sostanza merdifera di liquidi salati dal retro, bisognerebbe usare l’alcol per forza. E che peccato davvero, perché pareva io avessi trovato il modo perfetto per tenere il tablet… ma a questo punto non è il caso. E purtroppo, la cover non aiuta: anche quella scivola sulla pelle normalmente (ma anche col sudore mi sa, l’attrito è basso), e il classico prisma di appoggio che si forma girando le striscioline non è buono per essere piazzato su una superficie per niente ben piana, come le ginocchia. Insomma, è così fottutamente dura voler fare gaming quando si è gatti!!! 😿
Hundreds of Former Israeli Spies Are Working in Big Tech, Database Shows
Hundreds of Former Israeli Spies Are Working in Big Tech, Database Shows
A $25 billion deal is the latest acquisition to strengthen the link between the U.S. tech sector and Israeli intelligence.Murtaza Hussain (Drop Site News)
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This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again
This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again
"It was extremely difficult," IgniteTech CEO Eric Vaughan tells Fortune. "But changing minds was harder than adding skills."Nick Lichtenberg (Fortune)
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Strawberry Music Player fork from Codeberg have been taken down
[Package Issue]: WetOtter44.StrawberryMusicPlayer.MSVC / WetOtter44.StrawberryMusicPlayer.MinGW
Please confirm these before moving forward I have searched for my issue and not found a work-in-progress/duplicate/resolved issue. I have not been informed if the issue is resolved in a preview ver...jonaski (GitHub)
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I played around with u/mttw_ edited build.yml and, added an additional update.yml
With these two workflows you should be able to clone SMP and build your own Windows and Mac versions by just running the build.yml action. Takes about 30 minutes to build.
**build.yml ** was changed so that it is run manually. I also adjusted how the attach job worked (as it was just being skipped). Now when build is finished it should attach them all as a new release in your repo. **You will need to edit this file with notepad and add your account name and repo name. **
**update.yml ** is just so that you can have your repo automatically update to the original SMP repo. It is set to check once a day. This is so when you run build.yml it is build the latest version.
Don't really want to link to my specific repo so I have put the yml files on fileroy
build.yml - fileroy.com/dkD3YlxlmLQK/file
update.yml - fileroy.com/2bJG8KVDzOBE/file
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Upload files and share your files instantly with Fileroy.com. Enjoy free file hosting, unlimited downloads, and fast, secure storage.Fileroy
Sky hoppers: la configurazione aerostatica della sedia da giardino volante - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Sky hoppers: la configurazione aerostatica della sedia da giardino volante - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
L’immagine canonica della cesta in vimini che si avvicina alle propaggini del cielo, la calda fiamma usata per espandere speciali gas o direttamente l’aria nella bulbosa massa di stoffa soprastante, risiede da quel fatidico 1783 nella mente e nell’im…Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
Why It's OK to Block Ads (2015)
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Why It's OK to Block Ads | Practical Ethics
Over the past couple of months, the practice of ad blocking has received heightened ethical scrutiny. (1,2,3,4) If you’re unfamiliar with the term, “ad blocking” refers to software—usually web browser plug-ins, but increasingly mobile apps—that stop …James Williams (Practical Ethics)
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IMHO: Advertisment is another word for recommendation. While advertisment is seen as bad a recomendation isn't.
So what advertisment never made happen is making themself usefull to the consumer. Most consumer want maybe a !!! usefull recommendation !!! but not someone trying to force you to buy a certain product.
So what was the time before ads ... it never existet ... even before tv radio had advertisment. Even back in this day people hated the advertisment and did music recordings cutting the advertisment and talking out.
Some old people might remember press record ... press stop ... rewind a little bit ... and all of this.
The alternative was to pay alot of money for music ...
THE NVIDIA AI GPU BLACK MARKET | Investigating Smuggling, Corruption, & Governments | Gamers Nexus
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THE NVIDIA AI GPU BLACK MARKET | Investigating Smuggling, Corruption, & Governments
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NVIDIA (NVDA) GPUs have become so in-demand for so-called AI workloads that a black market has emerged around them. Where there's prohibition, there's...Internet Archive
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Aaand they got their video taken down, link to post on YT
Here's a mirror on internet archive.
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Surely no one could have ever foreseen that the copyright strike and DMCA system would be abused to take down our video. No one could have ever expected this...YouTube
Israeli media ‘completely ignored’ Gaza starvation – is that finally changing?
In a poll conducted in late July by the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI), more than three-quarters of Jewish Israelis – 79% – said they were either “not very troubled” or “not troubled at all” by reports of famine and suffering among Gaza’s Palestinian population.
Media analysts say Israel’s main broadcasters have largely embraced the narrative of a government described as the most far-right in the country’s history.
For months, the Israeli media have responded to international outrage by focusing on Israeli claims that the widespread hunger documented by numerous aid agencies is “a Hamas-orchestrated starvation campaign” – summed up by Benjamin Netanyahu’s claim last month: “There is no policy of starvation in Gaza, and there is no starvation in Gaza.”
Although Israel appears to exist within its own bubble, shielded by a narrative that leaves no room for the suffering of people in Gaza, thousands of demonstrators who recently filled the streets of Tel Aviv are now urging the government to halt the atrocities against the Palestinians.
Israeli media ‘completely ignored’ Gaza starvation - is that finally changing?
A growing focus on hunger in Gaza in the global media has led some Israeli outlets to report it for the first timeLorenzo Tondo (The Guardian)
Why do some instances not load communities properly?
I just started my own Lemmy instance, and it looks to be mostly working.
The problem that I have is that the communities I went through the process of subscribing to only display up to 50 threads and no comments.
This looks like something I've seen on other servers, so I'm wondering what could be causing it and how to fix it.
ChatGPT says something about webfinger and nodeinfo, but I honestly have no idea what any of that is and there's no mention of it in join-lemmy.org/docs/administra…
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A student from Gaza sharing my story 🌿
Hello everyone,
My name is Soliman, a young student from Gaza. Life here is very difficult, but I try to stay hopeful and support my family through these hard times.
We once had a small farm with olive and citrus trees that was our only source of living, but it was destroyed. Since then, we have been struggling to survive.
I’m here to connect with kind people, share my story, and hopefully find support or even just a listening ear.
Thank you for welcoming me into this community ❤️
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Could you please guide me to a humanitarian community?
!mutual_aid@hexbear.net has a lot of palestinians. You need to use something other than sh.itjust.works though, maybe you should create an account on there.
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Try cross-posting to these communities:
- !mutual_aid@hexbear.net
- !mutual_aid@a.gup.pe
- !palestine@lemmy.ml
- !palestine@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Does a torrented non-zipped folder mean anything bad?
Is it really sketchy if you torrent a file that by default it is an unpacked folder? (rather than just being a zipped folder)? I'm not sure if I should be concerned if it is able to run anything or gather data since it was unzipped by default. It contained a monkrus.info file that seemed to gather all the data for some reason.. (I think)
Thank you.
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I'm not really sure what you mean by gathering data, an info or nfo file is just a text file with some instructions.
To me a zip file is a lot more suspicious than a normal directory of files.
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Unless they didn't enable file extensions to actually show, so an ".nfo" could actually be a ".nfo.exe".
It does not seem to be the case here, but I really would be careful with double clicking untrusted files. Opening them through a media player directly is a much safer option.
If you open nfo files by double click Windows open a system info tool.
But if you open nfo files with a text editor with "open with " it shows it's text.
So it didn't gather anything.
And I would argue unzipped files are less dangerous because you kinda can assume what you download already.
It's also a good idea to have a av.
Avast is very friendly regarding piracy as in they seem to only flag actual malware and not necessarily keygens cracks and stuff ( heuristics can still make mistakes just report them as false positive )
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Russia’s war against Ukraine
Ukrainian firefighters work to extinguish a blaze after a Russian shelling hit a house, when a Russian FPV drone attack damaged their fire truck during the operation, in Kostiantynivka, Ukraine, on August 16, 2025. (Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Russia’s refusal to declare ceasefire casts doubt on peace process, Zelensky says ahead of White House talks. “If they do not have the will to implement a simple order to stop the attacks, it may take a great deal of effort to get Russia to implement something much more significant, namely peaceful coexistence with its neighbors for decades to come.”
Sensitive details about Trump-Putin summit revealed in discarded government documents, NPR reports. The documents disclose the exact locations and meeting times of the summit and phone numbers of U.S. government staff. They also reveal other sensitive details, such as a menu for a luncheon in honor of “His Excellency Vladimir Putin.”
Putin offers Trump frozen battle lines, written promise not to invade again if Kyiv surrenders Donbas, NYT reports. Trump appeared to endorse Russia’s plan as the fastest way to a peace deal, abandoning the demand for a ceasefire and threats of sanctions against Moscow, officials told the NYT.
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Trump, Zelensky to meet in Washington next week after US-Russia summit ends without agreement. Zelensky said he supports Trump’s proposal for a trilateral meeting between Ukraine, the U.S., and Russia, noting that the three leaders can cover the “key issues.”
Trump says he and Putin ‘largely agreed’ on land swaps, security guarantees for Ukraine. “I think we’re pretty close to a deal,” Trump told Fox News, adding: “Ukraine has to agree to it. Maybe they’ll say no.”
Russia declares isolation over after Putin’s red-carpet welcome in Alaska. The summit restored a “full-fledged mechanism for meetings” between the two presidents, without “ultimatums and threats,” Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council Dmitry Medvedev wrote on his Telegram channel on Aug. 16.
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Everything we know about the fallout of Trump’s meeting with Putin.
Following his meeting with Putin in Alaska, U.S. President Donald Trump has dropped demands for a ceasefire in favor of a comprehensive peace deal that would include giving up unoccupied Ukrainian territories to Russia.
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Human cost of Russia’s war
General Staff: Russia has lost 1,069,050 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022. The number includes 1,010 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day, according to the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces.
Russia captures two more villages in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine’s military says. President Volodymyr Zelensky acknowledged on that the situation in Donetsk remains “extremely difficult” but said Ukrainian forces have achieved some gains.
International response
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Ukrainian troops advance in Sumy oblast, General Staff says. Ukraine’s military has reportedly advanced about two kilometers in Sumy oblast, just a day after Putin and Trump discussed a deal that would give Ukrainian territories to Russia.
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Ukraine's military has reportedly advanced about two kilometers in Sumy oblast, just a day after Putin and Trump discussed a deal that would give unoccupied Ukrainian territories to Russia.Lucy Pakhnyuk (The Kyiv Independent)
IllNess
in reply to Pro • • •Really concerning since CloudFlare won't let me get past the human verification screen.
Anyone know anyway around?
eee (they/them)
in reply to IllNess • • •Viking_Hippie
in reply to eee (they/them) • • •You mean like Ireland, Sweden and Switzerland?
eee (they/them)
in reply to Viking_Hippie • • •IllNess
in reply to eee (they/them) • • •semperpeppe
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in reply to semperpeppe • • •ɯᴉuoʇuɐ
in reply to IllNess • • •.is domain is kill, but .li is still fine, as well as Z-lib, you can download there - Anna's Archive provides a link whenever available, under external links.
As for Cloudflare, I sometimes have problems with it on Firefox, it likes to get stuck in a loop. Try opening it in incognito, without extensions, to see if any of them might be causing the issue. If that doesn't work, try opening the link in an another browser.
IllNess
in reply to ɯᴉuoʇuɐ • • •AceFuzzLord
in reply to ɯᴉuoʇuɐ • • •The cloudfare issue is currently the biggest reason I cannot recommend base Firefox to anyone. Maybe it's a me thing, but no amount of turning extensions on or off was able to fix it on my end
I can at least confirm, though, that the forked Mullvad browser is able to get around this issue, but I can't speak for any other forks.
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in reply to AceFuzzLord • • •It's not just you. For me, for whatever reason, it used to get stuck regularly, for months on end, regardless of the extensions. Then it suddenly started working almost perfectly, maybe half a year ago. Now it works fine like 75% the time but still gets kind of stuck from time to time.
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in reply to Pro • • •Nice, it looks like they also mirror HathiTrust now?
Pity about .is, over the last year it's probably been offline more than online. It was the original one, but AA carries on the torch.
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in reply to Pro • • •Just came across Anna’s Archive this week and it’s awesome!
My wife stopped reading a book half way since she’s pregnant and could not get comfortable while holding the book. Five minutes later I had a downloaded copy loaded onto her eReader and she could continue lying down.