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Swollen battery


I found an old iPhone in a drawer this morning with other old iPhones (some of which can be salvaged) and this one was so swollen that it popped the screen off. Definitely a fire hazard I hadn’t thought of as much.

Definitely recycle any lithium battery showing signs of swelling as they have a risk of exploding I think.

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Thoughts on HOPE_16


I’m on the train back to Montreal from New York, where I attended HOPE_16 over the weekend. I wanted to capture some thoughts while they were fresh, even though they might not be fully formed. HOPE (Hackers On Planet Earth) is a technology and informatio

I’m on the train back to Montreal from New York, where I attended HOPE_16 over the weekend. I wanted to capture some thoughts while they were fresh, even though they might not be fully formed.

HOPE (Hackers On Planet Earth) is a technology and information security conference sponsored by 2600 Magazine. The SWF had two points of presence at the event this year: I gave an hour-long talk about the Fediverse which was streamed live. We also hosted the Fediverse Village, which turned out to be mostly a booth in the non-profits area of the vendors floor.

We had people streaming by all day long Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. I had thought the Village was going to be more like a hang-out room, so I was caught off guard on prep, but I put out all the ActivityPub and Social Web Foundation stickers I had, covers for the ActivityPub book, and a stack of CoSocial.ca stickers to boot. But there was a definite stone soup aspect to the village area: people brought by schwag for Fediverse software like WriteFreely, instances like GardenState.social and Masto.nyc, and projects like DWeb.

I’d hoped to have more structured discussions, including a meetup for Fediverse governance and a hackathon. But it turned out to be a lot more loosey-goosey than I expected, and most of the weekend was spent talking to other Fediverse fans, and helping people who came up to the booth to ask about the Fediverse.

I think I expected because of the level of technical expertise that was shown at the event that we’d be speaking to only true believers. But there were many people there who hadn’t heard of the Fediverse, and who were excited to try it out. One thing that struck me that was an advantage for these people over commercial social networks was the option to get out from under the “real names” policies of many platforms. It’s hard to remember that the alternative to the Fediverse that most people are familiar with are services that require a real-looking legal name to be used, and force you to send a scan of a government ID if they’re at all suspicious.

The other thing that struck me was how many people came to the booth saying that they’d registered for a Mastodon account at some point, and were really excited to get it reactivated, but forgot which server it was on and didn’t want to register for another. I think that’s a real pain point for a lot of people — and one we should do better at solving.

I plan to come back to HOPE next year. I’d love to have more schwag for Fediverse software, services, and platforms. I’d like to have a way to get people signed up and onboarded for the Fediverse right at the table. And I’d like to have some more formal get-together events. There are spaces to meet at HOPE if you know how to set it up — I’m going to try to use them better next time.

Thanks to everyone who came to the Fediverse Village, my talk, or just talked to me around the HOPE event. I was energised by the people and the technology that was happening, and I look forward to engaging again.

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Handling Mouse and Touchscreen Input Using Ebitengine (Tutorial)




Handling Mouse and Touchscreen Input Using Ebitengine (Tutorial)



in reply to aurelar

Germany is the biggest economy in Europe and if this somehow passes it could spill over to the EU commission in no time. The Brussels effect could then take care of the rest. Laughing off fascist laws because they do not affect you right now is exactly the reaction fascists like them want you to have so they can corner you.
in reply to CosmoNova

I agree, you're right. I'm kind of sick of this firehose of bullshit raining down from on high. Freedom is dying in so many different contexts all at the same time.


Sonolus gioconlus musicante super figo ganzo clonante tutti gli altri e afancul!!!


Stasera, per puro caso dell’espressione della consueta disperazione, il catgaming ha preso una piega inaspettata, ma graditissima. Infatti, mi era venuto un po’ a caso in mente di cercare se esistesse qualcosa tipo un server privato per VOEZ, che è quel giochino musicale che ho sul tablet per marcire con lo spirito mentre tengo tuttavia […]

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Sonolus gioconlus musicante super figo ganzo clonante tutti gli altri e afancul!!!


Stasera, per puro caso dell’espressione della consueta disperazione, il catgaming ha preso una piega inaspettata, ma graditissima. Infatti, mi era venuto un po’ a caso in mente di cercare se esistesse qualcosa tipo un server privato per VOEZ, che è quel giochino musicale che ho sul tablet per marcire con lo spirito mentre tengo tuttavia la mente e le manine allenate… e ho trovato decisamente di molto meglio; classica “cercavo rame e ho trovato oro” situazione. 😳👍

Per chi non lo avesse presente, non c’è molto da dire… è di circa 10 anni fa, ed è bellino: tutta l’estetica è di quel pulito-sognante stile anime, le canzoni sono varie pazzerelle (niente roba normie che va dallo zzz al bleh, insomma), ed è in generale uno dei pochi che mi piace. Ha anche una versione per Switch che, a differenza di quella mobile, costa un tot di base ma poi non ha acquisti in-app, ha tutto già sbloccato di suo, e funziona offline… ma, ovviamente, se sono a casa voglio usare il tablet da 10 pollici anziché il merdoso di Nintendo, e se sono in giro non voglio portarmi un secondo rettangolo di 6 pollici + bordi enormi oltre al telefono, per cui lasciamo stare. 🥱

Non so se ho allora trovato davvero cosa cercavo, perché dalle pareti del web mi sono spuntati diversi APK MOD, che non ho (ancora?) provato… ma ho trovato 1 cosa più pazza: un giochino di ritmo chiamato Sonolus, fatto per essere modulare, avendo un motore di base che può essere esteso con delle API per ricreare virtualmente qualunque rhythm game al di sopra di questa singola infrastruttura comune… oh, tanta roba in teoria. E nella pratica, che consiste in un APK di appena ~100 MB, il miraggio si conferma realtà: questo pezzo di pseudo-software, aggiunto l’URL del server che fornisce i dati per far comportare il gioco come un clone di VOEZ, è effettivamente tanto gustoso quanto pareva da lontano!!! 😻

La cosa bella di questo, quindi, è che non solo ho a (quasi) tutti gli effetti VOEZ ma con tutte le sue canzoni aggratis (+ custom, credo, senza necessitare di APK strani)… ma ho praticamente VOEZ che funziona senza Google Play Services, anziché freezarsi all’avvio senza spiegazioni, quindi posso tornare ad averlo pure sullo Ximifonino… e questo è davvero l’inizio della megafine, cazzo che bello. La fregatura sta nel fatto che ad ogni fine canzone esce una pubblicità, e gli acquisti in-app in realtà ci sono sotto forma di abbonamenti per togliere le pubblicità, o personalizzazioni del profilo online… roba di cui se ne fa a meno (anche perché le pubblicità basta bloccarle a livello di OS, ma finché sono solo statiche e non video sono accettabili, non danno fastidio). 🤗

Non ho ancora provato i vari motori di gioco disponibili a parte il clone di VOEZ, perché sono una marea… e quello, a dire il vero, comunque non è una ricreazione perfetta: sul look ci siamo, e anche sull’hear, ma sul feel non tanto, visto che la gestione degli input è parecchio più severa, e il margine di errore è abbastanza più basso da far si che, una canzone che sul VOEZ originale riesco tranquillamente a fare a difficoltà massima, qui mi esce un mezzo schifo persino a livello intermedio (e il video qui fa ampia mostra dei miei problemi di skill, in questo senso)… però, visti i vantaggi, dovrò abituarmici; quantomeno, se non sul tablet, per giocarci sul telefono, dove l’alternativa sarebbe il niente. 🔥

Assurdo che NON lagghi sullo Xiaomi con tanto di registrazione schermo attiva, ma, purtroppo, ha anche dei difetti… tipo che il core non è open-source — ma tutto ciò che ci gira attorno, inclusi i plugin che clonano i vari giochini, pare proprio di si — e che l’APK ha librerie solo per ARMv7 e ARMv8, niente x86+64 — ma poteva andare molto peggio: poteva essere solo ARM 64 bit; e invece, con doppie lib + supporto ad Android Nougat, si installa anche sul telefono di un pesce palla (non ironicamente). C’è anche per iOS, ma di quello non ce ne fotte; dispiace non ci sia una build Windows e/o HTML5, piuttosto, ma il gioco è appena alla v1.0.0, quindi sarà questione di tempo. Per me, già il fatto che il gioco parta senza connessione Internet e faccia tranquillamente giocare i livelli salvati, è sufficiente a godere… 👾

#game #gaming #mobile #music #rhythm #VOEZ




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Meme coins and misogyny: What the dildo-throwing trend at WNBA games can teach us




Meme coins and misogyny: What the dildo-throwing trend at WNBA games can teach us




Know-How and Expertise: European Companies Hoping to Take the Global Lead in Industrial AI




ICE Held an NYC Child Incommunicado at Secret Hotels, Then Deported Him


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Envision Ally lets fantasy come true


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Come cambio da LMDE a Mint "vanilla"?


Scusate la domanda da newbie, spero di non evocare l'odio che hanno avuto nei miei confronti alcuni membri di lemmy.ml, ma sono molto nuovo come utente stabile su Linux.

Al mio primo approccio, a Maggio, mi è stato consigliato di installare non Linux Mint, bensì LMDE per prendere le distanze da Ubuntu etc.

Ora vedo che nel mio caso specifico ho alcune ragioni per non essere su Debian:
1) sono un utente molto nuovo e mi piacerebbe essere su una distro per la quale posso ottenere nei forum il miglior e più numeroso supporto possibile da parte della comunità
2) da quello che ho capito su LMDE lavorano molte meno persone che su Linux Mint
3) ho visto alcuni video su Debian 13 e ho capito che non fa parte della filosofia della distro inserire il supporto più recente per l'hardware, soprattutto Nvidia, e io ho un computer costruito per il gaming e con il quale mi piacerebbe continuare a giocare e a fare altre cose con la GPU etc.

Per questi motivi vorrei passare a Linux Mint, ma vorrei farlo nel modo più indolore possibile.

La mia situazione dischi è la seguente:

::: spoiler Model: ATA WDC WD10EZEX-00B (scsi) (usato solo per i dati)

Disk /dev/sda: 1000GB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B

Partition Table: gpt

Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags

1 17,4kB 134MB 134MB Microsoft reserved partition msftres

2 135MB 1000GB 1000GB ntfs Basic data partition msftdata
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::: spoiler Model: ATA Samsung SSD 850 (scsi) (dove risiede quel che rimane di Windows, per ora)
Disk /dev/sdb: 512GB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

Partition Table: gpt

Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags

1 1049kB 106MB 105MB fat32 EFI system partition boot, esp

2 106MB 123MB 16,8MB Microsoft reserved partition msftres

3 645MB 511GB 511GB ntfs Basic data partition msftdata

4 511GB 512GB 793MB ntfs hidden, diag
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::: spoiler Model: ATA CT480BX200SSD1 (scsi) (disco su cui tengo i giochi, che vorrei dedicare totalmente al Linux Gaming ora)
Disk /dev/sdc: 480GB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B

Partition Table: msdos

Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags

1 1049kB 215GB 215GB primary ntfs

3 215GB 479GB 264GB primary ext4

2 479GB 480GB 555MB primary ntfs msftres
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::: spoiler Model: Samsung SSD 990 PRO with Heatsink 1TB (nvme) (il mio SSD nuovo su cui vorrei tenere Linux)
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 1000GB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

Partition Table: gpt

Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags

1 2097kB 302MB 300MB fat32 primary boot, esp

2 303MB 1327MB 1024MB ext4 primary

3 1328MB 1000GB 999GB primary
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::: spoiler altre partizioni di cui riconosco solo la prima come quella criptata che risiede sull'SSD di cui sopra
Error: /dev/mapper/lvmlmde: unrecognised disk label

Model: Linux device-mapper (crypt) (dm)

Disk /dev/mapper/lvmlmde: 999GB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

Partition Table: unknown

Disk Flags:

Model: Linux device-mapper (linear) (dm)

Disk /dev/mapper/lvmlmde-root: 964GB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

Partition Table: loop

Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size File system Flags

1 0,00B 964GB 964GB ext4

Model: Linux device-mapper (linear) (dm)

Disk /dev/mapper/lvmlmde-swap: 33,5GB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

Partition Table: loop

Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size File system Flags

1 0,00B 33,5GB 33,5GB linux-swap(v1)
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La mia home è sulla stessa partizione del root, cosa che credo di aver capito non sia stata proprio una furbata, ma non so come mettere solo la home su un'altra partizione durante l'installazione.

Mi potete aiutare a capire il modo migliore di passare da LMDE6 a Mint "vanilla" mantenendo il più possibile?

La mia home al momento occupa meno di 40 GB, quindi potrei salvarne i contenuti sul disco per il gaming per adesso, ma non so se è una buona idea.

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in reply to fabriziob

Devi reinstallare perché la base dei pacchetti è diversa. Il lavoro è più semplice se hai la /home separata
in reply to Alberto

Ottimo! Mi potete spiegare come si fa questa cosa della home separata?

Cioè, io potrei creare una partizione sullo stesso disco o su un altro e copiarci dentro i contenuti di home, ma come faccio a configurare il sistema per puntare lì?

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in reply to fabriziob

modificando il file fstab in /etc.
Qui c'è la documentazione, vale per tutte le distribuzioni non solo per arch.
wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fstab

Fai una partizione o colleghi un altro disco, e inserisci il file system in fstab.

in reply to fabriziob

Io utilizzo semplicemente Deja-dup.
Backup prima (su una memoria esterna)-> Ripristina dopo.
Funziona perfettamente senza sbattimenti
in reply to Marco Pagot 🇮🇹🔛🇯🇵

Sembra essere l'applicazione di default per i backup in Ubuntu.
Questo significa che lo stesso si può fare con Timeshift?
in reply to fabriziob

Si, proprio quella, di default su Gnome. Non ho mai utilizzato Timeshift quindi non so dirti le differenze.

Un accorgimento importante, non modificare il nome utente nelle diverse istallazioni altrimenti la home ti creerà parecchi problemi. (Questo vale anche per la /home separata).



Mythical GUI Vaporware – Windows 1.0x – GUI Wonderland


Let’s discover the development and beta builds of the first version of Windows, alongside its GUI! And... was Windows 1.0 as good as the other GUIs? Our analysis and comparison will try to unveil that; tap on the link to find out!


Cory Doctorow at CF 25: How Enshittification Conquered the 21st Century and How We Can Overthrow It




SpaceX Gets Billions From the Government. It Gives Little to Nothing Back in Taxes.


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Iscrizione alla Blind LGBT pride international


Questo è una specie di annuncio: “PlusBrothers il mondo positivo” si è iscritto a “Blind LGBT Pride International”, @BPI un’organizzazione nata in America e presente in tutto il mondo, che si occupa di LGBT+ e disabilità visiva.

Io sono @elettrona la responsabile di burocrazia e pubbliche relazioni per il blog PlusBrothers; il polo (HIV) negativo dell’atomo.

Insieme a @gifter il polo (HIV) positivo e autore di molti racconti su questo sito, abbiamo colto l’opportunità di iscriverci a questa comunità che sembra l’unico punto di riferimento per persone LGBT+ cieche e ipovedenti, in tutto il mondo.

Io da sola, o tutti e due, faremo del nostro meglio per discutere e mettere in atto azioni concrete per contrastare lo stigma su HIV, molto più pesante se hai problemi di vista, perché intorno ci sono un sacco di ostacoli.

Li ho vissuti personalmente in passato, essendo stata partner di un uomo che vive con HIV. E una di queste barriere è il test che, se hai una disabilità visiva, non è così anonimo come lo è per gli altri. Sei, inevitabilmente, osservato.

La nostra speranza è di lavorare in sinergia con un’intera comunità, perché prendere iniziative da soli non porta da nessuna parte.

Come primo ma non unico esempio, ci sono i test HIV fai da te.

Sembrano molto difficili da fare senza aiuto di un vedente, e i risultati soprattutto, sono disponibili solo visivamente – causando un importante problema di riservatezza.

Ogni persona, indipendentemente da condizione sensoriale o identità, ha il diritto di vivere la propria salute riproduttiva e sessualità in modo sicuro e appropriato.

Andiamo avanti, e vediamo come questa realtà potrà aiutarci ma soprattutto come noi potremmo aiutare loro.

Per maggiori informazioni sull’associazione, visita Blind LGBT Pride International (pagina inglese) ed effettua l’iscrizione.

#annunci #fediblog #hiv #lgbt #stigma

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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.


  1. MIT Technology Review - The road to artificial general intelligence ↩︎
  2. Wait But Why - The Artificial Intelligence Revolution: Part 1 ↩︎ ↩︎

in reply to Pro

stop using cloudflare people
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What would you recommend instead?
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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.



in reply to klu9

When I search for “broken” I get no result.

When I search for “test” I get lots of old posts.

in reply to cloudless

Me, too.

Maybe piefed.social stopped indexing a few months ago?

in reply to klu9

Seems to be.

A recent post in 'lemmyshitpost' is called 'unfair competiion', but searching for 'unfair' doesn't include it:

piefed.social/search?q=unfair&…

in reply to freamon

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 😉

in reply to freamon

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.

codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issue…


in reply to ReedReads

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

in reply to ReedReads

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.




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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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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Video advertising a voice recorder as "the legal way"

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.





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in reply to DreamlandLividity

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.

in reply to sugar_in_your_tea

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.

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If only they prosecuted them as harshly for murdering unarmed cooperative citizens.




Monday, August 18, 2025


Ukrainian drones hit key rail hub in Russia’s Voronezh Oblast — Ukraine’s long-range Flamingo cruise missile enters serial production — US officials provide contradictory statements on security guarantees fueling uncertainty — International borders cannot

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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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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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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. 😾
Tablet fotografato dietro in verticale, come descritto, una pozza sopra e una sotto quindi
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!!! 😿

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