ICE to spend $100 million on 1,000 more SUVs to help Trump’s agenda
Exclusive: The immigration enforcement agency will take delivery of 100 modified SUVs every two months, for the next 20 months, according to an draft RFP obtained by The Independent
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Israel’s attack on hospital in Gaza may constitute a war crime on many fronts
Double-tap strike suggests killing of civilians, rescue workers and journalists deliberate and not a mistake
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‘We are painted as targets’: How Israel puts Gaza journalists in the crosshairs
Israel’s army is using a secret unit to shape narratives around Gaza, portraying Palestinian journalists as Hamas operatives to justify strikes. Analysts say the tactic silences reporters and controls the story in one of the deadliest conflicts for journalists.
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Indonesian police and students clash in protest against MPs' allowance
Authorities blocked streets leading to the Parliament building, including several toll roads, causing severe traffic jams in the city.
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France has ‘no lessons to take’ from US on tackling antisemitism, says minister
Comments come after US ambassador accused government of failing to do enough to stem hate crimes against Jews
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Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026
- Hackernews;
- Lobsters.
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A new layer of security for certified Android devices
Starting in 2026 and in select countries first, Android apps must be registered to a verified developer in order to be installed.Android Developers Blog
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Filing: Intel warns the US taking a 10% stake could trigger “adverse reactions”, including in international sales, which made up 76% of revenue last fiscal year
- The Company’s non-US business may be adversely impacted by the US Government being a significant stockholder. Sales outside the US accounted for 76% of the Company’s revenue for the fiscal year ended December 28, 2024. Having the US Government as a significant stockholder of the Company could subject the Company to additional regulations, obligations or restrictions, such as foreign subsidy laws or otherwise, in other countries.
- The Company may experience other adverse consequences resulting from the announcement or completion of the transactions. Given the scarcity of recent US precedents for transactions such as those contemplated by the Purchase Agreement and of the US Government becoming a significant stockholder of a company like the Company, it is difficult to foresee all the potential consequences. Among other things, there could be adverse reactions, immediately or over time, from investors, employees, customers, suppliers, other business or commercial partners, foreign governments or competitors. There may also be litigation related to the transaction or otherwise and increased public or political scrutiny with respect to the Company.
Local newsrooms are building AI chatbots fast and cheap
Local newsrooms are building AI chatbots fast and cheap
A new report tracked four small newsrooms as they launched custom chatbots built in just one month.Nieman Lab
I think the point is not that it is really going to happen at that pace, but to show that it very well might happen within our lifetime.
And also the authors have adjusted the earliest possible point of a possible hard to stop runaway scenario to 2028 afaik.
Kind of like the atomic doomsday clock, which has been oscillating between a quarter to twelve and a minute before twelve during the last decades, depending on active nukes and current politics.
Helps to illustrate an abstract but nonetheless real risk with maximum possible impact (annihilation of mankind - not fond of the idea...)
Even if it looks like AI has been hitting some walls for now (which I am glad about) and is overhyped, this might not stay this way.
So although AGI seems unlikely at the moment, taking the possibility into account and perhaps slowing down and making sure we are not recklessly risking triggering our own destruction is still a good idea, which is exactly the authors' point.
Kind of like scanning the sky with telescopes and doing DART-style asteroid research missions is still a good idea, even though the probability for an extinction level meteorite event is low.
Their whole predication is based on exponential growth moving forward which is just impossible. The growth of new models already stagnated and all the new improvements are just optimizations and better interface layers. They are basically hard capped at what they can do and more powerful hardware can't solve that.
Something ground breaking might happen that changes the whole landscape in the future, but it won't be exponential growth.
There’s an exhibition of retro / classic home computing machines this week (Aug 21-28 2025) at Kingston University, so I had to drop in.
It was fun to see some old favourites again, and it was nice to see some youngsters engaging with the games I used to play. Turrican, Hunchback, Mario, Puzzle Bobble, Lemmings!
The Townhouse building at Kingston University has been open for several years already and I drive, walk or bus past it regularly, but never had a reason to pop in until now! It has the university library on the upper floors, and a cafe and event space on the ground floor. For the duration of this week, the Archive of Retro Computing has taken over the event space with this display.
It is nicely put together, with some machines set aside for coding, some for gaming; information about each system displayed alongside; some meta-history on topics like the British computing scene (Acorn vs Sinclair), Commodore and Amstrad, and the US elements. The back section is dedicated to vintage home gaming systems, from the 1977 Binatone Pong game, through Atari / Nintendo / Sega, up to the Super Nintendo and Jaguar.
There are also some super “deep cuts” in the collection, including the Tatung Einstein, which I don’t remember ever seeing or hearing about before…
From my personal history, the Binatone Pong game on display is I think slightly older than the simple dial paddle controllers than we had hooked up to the TV at home when I was young. No sign of the metal-clad Commodore PET that I remember tinkering with at primary school, but a range of other Commodore machines are on show, including the classic Commodore 64 (I have one of these, from a former Twitter coworker!), and several other models I’m less familar with.
My first home computer, the Acorn Electron, is right there, running Arcadians, a Space Invaders clone I must have spent hours on back in the day. My own Electron ended as a hand-modded machine featuring switchable headphone or regular speaker output. I’m still quite proud of that relatively low-tech little hardware hack from back then.
Next along in my own line would have been the Amstrad CPC (with 3″ disk drive) that my uncle had, and pointed me towards on most visits to his house. I have memories of Jet Set Willy and Manic Miner on that one. The little info card here tells the story of how Alan Sugar did a deal on the disk drives such that Hitachi ended up having to keep making them, at a loss, even though the 3″ disk format was otherwise dead in the water.
My school had a very well-equipped computer room with (I think) about 30 BBC Master and Micro computers, so I was very much an Acorn boy and learned BBC BASIC as my first proper coding language (along with a tiny bit of 6502 assembler). Later on, the computer room was upgraded with Acorn Archimedes, and my brother had an A3000 in his bedroom… I had an Acorn Risc PC with a StrongARM processor, way faster than the x86 PCs available at the time! The BBC Master and A3000 are present and correct in the exhibition (there’s a BBC Micro as well, alongside the Electron).
We also had a Super Nintendo, which is one of the last of the home gaming consoles in the exhibition (I overheard someone say that the Playstation, our next games console as a family, was where gaming all went wrong and 3D and got boring… I can sometimes understand of that point of view!).
As an aside, I had a quick go on Wolfenstein 3D on the Jaguar in the corner there, and the controller for the Jaguar was bonkers! Chunky and not very friendly to use. The graphics seemed decent, with some kind of interpolation at distance? I don’t remember ever actually playing on a Jaguar when they were current…
Pretty much all of the machines had some kind of modification, both to output graphics to the LCD monitors in use, and/or to replace disk drives with some form of USB-floppy emulation, often with a Pi or something else doing the interfacing.
A fun trip down memory lane!
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Feed rss per X e Instagram
Buongiorno, non so se sia il posto giusto per questo topic, non ne ho trovati di più pertinenti, in caso spostatemi pure.
Mi chiedevo se esista un modo per seguire profili X e Instagram tramite lettori feed rss o altro. Spulciando su Le alternative ho scaricato Newsblur, non mi permette di seguire i profili che mi interessano, ma vedo che ce ne sono altri suggeriti che invece possono essere seguiti (solo per X).
Magari esiste un generatore specifico da applicare..
Purtroppo le fonti principali di notizie che seguo sono profili di giornalisti Instagram o X, ogni consiglio per smarcarsi da queste piattaforme (gratis) è ben accetto. Grazie in anticipo per la pazienza.
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ho trovato anche questo ma non so se funziona ancora.
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Come creare feed RSS per gli account di Instagram, Twitter e YouTube - PC Professionale
Grazie ad RSSHub è possibile “generare” feed RSS dagli account social e non solo, così da poterli seguire in totale libertà nel nostro Feed Reader.Alfonso Maruccia (PC Professionale)
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ADORO, con Folo (l'app suggerita qui) Twitter si vede benissimo!!! Con Ig non ho ancora capito bene se funziona.. FB non c'è. Cmq fuori uno! 🤩
Come creare feed RSS per gli account di Instagram, Twitter e YouTube - PC Professionale
Grazie ad RSSHub è possibile “generare” feed RSS dagli account social e non solo, così da poterli seguire in totale libertà nel nostro Feed Reader.Alfonso Maruccia (PC Professionale)
ho scoperto che esiste anche un estensione per chrome che dovrebbe facilitare il lavoro.
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RSSHub Radar - Chrome Web Store
Easily find and subscribe to RSS and RSSHub.chromewebstore.google.com
Da parte mia aggiungerei Facebook.
Purtroppo tutte queste piattaforme ostacolano attivamente la possibilità di seguire profili da "fuori".
Ti capisco, e, la mia soluzione è, da un lato trovare fonti alternative e accontentarsi, dall'altro portare nel fediverso quelle notizie che trovo dalle altre fonti (che includono telegram e whatsapp nel mio caso).
Se trovi qualcosa, fammi sapere!
amazzonici pacchi per un haul di letture pazzo (Sailor Moon e poca altra roba pagati dalle vostre tasse)
L’altra sera non ho scritto niente a riguardo, ma quello che è accaduto è che ho rapinato un Amazon Locker… inserendo il codice eh, niente danneggiamenti. Ok, sto scherzando; in verità, con la mano diretta di mio padre (che ha banalmente piazzato il suo ordine) ho piuttosto rapinato lo Stato italiano, ordinando circa 100 euroni […]
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amazzonici pacchi per un haul di letture pazzo (Sailor Moon e poca altra roba pagati dalle vostre tasse)
L’altra sera non ho scritto niente a riguardo, ma quello che è accaduto è che ho rapinato un Amazon Locker… inserendo il codice eh, niente danneggiamenti. Ok, sto scherzando; in verità, con la mano diretta di mio padre (che ha banalmente piazzato il suo ordine) ho piuttosto rapinato lo Stato italiano, ordinando circa 100 euroni di libri, per consumare i punti del bonus docenti che rimanevano e a giorni sarebbero scaduti. E però ora sono state, e a breve saranno, rogne, un pochino, perché sono veramente un botto di tavolette di carta. 🤯
Ho consumato il braccio la sera per andare a ritirare questa roba, perché, e vai a capire il motivo, da un lato gli articoli sono stati divisi in due diversi pacchi, uno gigante da 1,28 kg (e maremma bilancia…) e uno più piccolo con solo 2 volumi dentro… e, giustamente, nella busta che mi sono portata per trasportare i pacchi non c’è stato verso di farli entrare tutti e due, quindi un braccio non ha portato quasi niente e l’altro si è tirato al punto da rimanermi moscio per tutta la sera (e ancora adesso lo sento strano, ma forse avrò solo dormito stort). Tutto divertente fino a qui… e in effetti le rogne vere arrivano adesso. 💥Per circa 60€ sono arrivati tutti e 12 i volumi di Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, che è oggettivamente una serie da avere in libreria per ogni ragazza magica che si rispetti; nonché da leggere, immagino, motivo per cui ho già iniziato il primo volume senza preoccuparmi troppo. Poi ho preso un tomone di Zerocalcare, perché essendo lui e i suoi fumetti gnam allora immagino che anche i suoi libri lo siano, e infine qualche altro tomino per arrivare alla cifra da spendere. Poca roba… o almeno sembra, per chi digerisce interi libri su base giornaliera… e invece io, mo’, come minchia me ne esco??? 😱
Io tutto sommato leggo anche tanto, relativamente alla media comune dei (decadutissimi) giorni odierni… però leggo comunque solo quando l’alternativa sarebbe fare puro rotting (a qualsiasi dei livelli del niente); quindi, se raramente magari finisco un intero volume di un manga in 1 o 2 giorni, più spesso un tomino di quelli mi dura di più… talmente di più che ho ancora un paio di cosini da parte comprati con il bonus cultura (il mio, quello) l’anno scorso che ancora non ho recuperato. Ma non è tutta colpa mia, perché nel frattempo sono arrivate altre robe, anche libri non-fumetti, e quindi ops. 😳
Vabbene però, dai, guardiamo il lato positivo: avere tutte queste letture arretrate è buono dal punto di vista che devo necessariamente posticipare il giorno in cui andrò per keepare myself safe… Almeno, questo perché i libri sono arrivati fortunatamente intatti, e quasi tutti perfetti ad un’occhiata veloce; tranne 1 volume della bella ragazza guerriera con la copertina leggermente piegata, ma si è sistemato impilandoci altri libri sopra. Quindi, stavolta sono calma, ma altrimenti per davvero mi incazzavo!!! 😈
P.S: un (1) bacino a tutti i cittadini i-ta-lia-ni! che, pagando le tasse, pagano alla ragazza magica quest’anno i manga, e due anni fa il server che regolarmente serve i frutti del mio lavoro di sviluppo magico per tutti… 🥰
#AmazonHaul #haul #libri #manga #pacchi
Changing web hosting provider & keeping my email - help wanted
I am looking into changing my web hosting provider, as I did not research pricing sufficiently before signing up for the one I am currently using, and I have developed a preference to avoid American companies since.
My domain is registered with a separate company, and my website is completely static and home made, so I think the move should be somewhat painless. I expect that it's as easy as signing up for another service provider, and redirecting the domain to whatever information they provide. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
What I'm a little concerned about is my email at name@example.com. I'm assuming setting up a new address under the same name would be trivial under most hosting providers, but is there a good way of keeping my current emails available on the server? Alternatively, does anyone know of good options for making local backups of my inbox?
Last, if anyone has recommendations for somewhat affordable, green & European hosting providers, it would be much appreciated. I guess Hetzner is an option, but I wouldn't mind supporting a slightly smaller company if I can.
Thanks!
Sopito nella pietra, il grande Re dei crotali e l'Atlantide thailandese - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Sopito nella pietra, il grande Re dei crotali e l'Atlantide thailandese - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
L’acqua della palude ribolliva come fosse riscaldata da una fonte sotterranea, poco prima d’illuminarsi a giorno per l’effetto di molte magiche lanterne che fluttuavano nell’aria, poco prima dell’alba mattutina.Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
A German ISP tampered with their DNS - specifically to sabotage my website
A German ISP tampered with their DNS - specifically to sabotage my website
One of Germany's biggest ISPs changed how their DNS works, right after I exposed an organization that they’re part of.lina.sh
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Why doesn't Star Trek use TrekLit for streaming shows?
Treklit has some great offerings. The Relaunch universe books in particular developed coherent serialized storylines and a group of strong authors. There is also a deep library of standalone books from across all eras of the franchise.
By contrast, serialized Star Trek is struggling onscreen. Of the current era, only Prodigy has excelled in serialized storytelling.
So, why not look to the books? Not just to lift an idea like Control or the end of the Borg, but to actually tell a coherent narrative across a season or season?
On Netflix, Prime and Apple, it’s become established that successful streaming shows are often based on novels and novel series. Those streamers have come to understand that novelists, not scriptwriters, excel in laying out long form storytelling, and resources are often better put in having the screenwriters adapt than create from the whole cloth.
Reading a recent interview with Mick Herron, author of the critically acclaimed and popular Slow Horses on Apple, with a second show based on his other books launching this fall, I was struck by the interviewer’s assertion of this truism.
I thought about several of the non franchise shows I enjoy and how many of them are more or less faithful adaptations of books.
I was also struck by the thought that both Skydance and Paramount are quite capable of producing excellent book adaptations for Netflix and Apple. Murderbot is a very current example.
So, what’s holding back Star Trek from exploiting the Vanguard series or the Starfleet Core of Engineers books?
Why insist on giving showrunners resources to keep retelling franchise stories with legacy characters and tropes?
Why not exploit that IP that Paramount already owns by adapting the best of decades of TrekLit?
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Honestly it could be something as prohibitive as not having secured film and TV rights from the authors.
I can imagine that doing it after the fact is often quite expensive.
Palestinian Boys Allege Sexual Assault, Torture by Israeli Jailers
Mahmoud, age 17, said that his Israeli abductors "began hurling insults, cursing at us, and accusing us of being with Hamas."
"They stripped us of our clothes and took us to Kerem Shalom, completely naked, with nothing," he continued. "There, the beatings and torture began."
"The Israeli women soldiers beat us. They stripped us and 'played' here, and here, and there," Mahmoud said, indicating his genitals. "They beat us with sticks. Got on us while we were lying on the ground. We were handcuffed like that and naked."
Mahmoud said his captors wanted to humiliate him and other teenage boys in custody, accusing the troops of taking nude photos of them and sending female soldiers to mock and touch his body—an especially shameful ordeal for Muslims.
Palestinian Boys Allege Sexual Assault, Torture by Israeli Jailers
"We are children," said one teen. "What have we done?"brett-wilkins (Common Dreams)
Come creare un dominio personalizzato collegato al proprio utente su Mastodon (alias)
Mastodon funziona come una federazione di server ed usa il protocollo Webfinger per risolvere gli indirizzi degli utenti. Puoi configurare una pagina sul tuo dominio che risponda alle richieste Webfinger rimandando al tuo indirizzo Mastodon originale. Creerai perciò un alias che potrai usare e far usare su Mastodon.
In poche parole se hai l’utente @pippo ed il tuo dominio è casa.com potrai essere cercato e menzionato su Mastodon anche come @pippo@casa.com .
La teoria è semplice, piazzare un file json di configurazione dentro una cartella con sottocartella sul tuo sito nel tuo dominio.
Siccome io ho una VPS linux-debian con YunoHost e wordpress installato, spiegherò come approciarsi utilizzando questa configurazione.
Prima di tutto bisogna creare un file index.php che contenga il seguente codice:
<?php
$res = @$_GET['resource'];
if ($res != 'acct:UtenteMastodon@MioDominio.com') {
header('HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found');
die();
}
header('Content-Type: application/json');
echo json_encode([
'subject' => 'acct:UtenteMastodon@mastodon.social',
'aliases' => [
'https://snowfan.masto.host/@UtenteMastodono',
'https://snowfan.masto.host/users/UtenteMastodon'
],
'links' => [
[
'rel' => 'http://webfinger.net/rel/profile-page',
'type' => 'text/html',
'href' => 'https://snowfan.masto.host/@UtenteMastodon'
],
[
'rel' => 'self',
'type' => 'application/activity+json',
'href' => 'https://snowfan.masto.host/users/UtenteMastodon'
]
]
]);
?>Sostituire a snowfan.masto.host il server mastodon desiderato, a MioUtente il nome utente ed a MioDominio il nome del dominio.
Il file lo possiamo creare in locale e trasportarlo alla VPS con ftp, oppure collegarci con SSH e crearlo con nano.
Se siamo collegati con SSH alla VPS, digitare SU seguito dalla password di root. spostiamoci alla cartella di worpress o alla cartella root del dominio che ci interessa, nel caso di worpress dovrebbe essere “/var/www/wordpress” o nel caso di installazioni multiple potremo avere “/var/www/wordpress_2″.
In questa cartella dobbiamo creare una cartella .well-known ed una sottocartella al suo interno webfinger e dentro webfinger posizionare lo script-file index.php.
eseguire da root o tramite sudo il seguente comando:
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/wordpress/.well-known
Questo comando cambia proprietario e ne permette la gestione ad apache/ngix
Digitare i seguenti comandi controllando che le cartelle siano corrette:
sudo find /var/www/wordpress/.well-known -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
sudo find /var/www/wordpress/.well-known -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
Questi comandi danno i corretti permessi alle cartelle ed al file.
A questo punto non ci rimane che testare che funzioni tutto, dal nostro browser preferito immettere questo url debitamente corretto col dominio giusto:
miodominio.com/.well-known/web…
Se tutto funziona dovremmo vedere a video uno script json.
Il passaggio successivo è andare su mastodon e digitare nel box di ricerca: @UtenteMastodon@MioDominio.com se anche questo passaggio funziona abbiamo fatto tutto correttamente. Se riceviamo una pagina 404 ci potrebbe essere un problema nello script che va verificato.
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Building ultra cheap energy storage for solar PV
Building Ultra Cheap Energy Storage for Solar PV
Solar still needs storage cheap enough to move energy between seasons. I have been working on a startup to do this for the last two years.Austin Vernon (Austin Vernon's Substack)
MotoGP Ungheria 2025: vince sempre Marquez, la noia domina.
Il Gran Premio d’Ungheria 2025 ha visto per l’ennesima volta il dominio di Marc Marquez, che al Balaton Park ha conquistato la sua 14ª vittoria consecutiva, firmando la sesta doppietta stagionale tra Sprint e gara lunga. Sul podio, insieme al pilota della Ducati Lenovo, sono saliti Pedro Acosta con la KTM e Marco Bezzecchi con l’Aprilia, regalando tre marchi diversi nelle prime tre posizioni.
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MotoGP Ungheria 2025: i risultati e l’ordine di arrivo della gara - Quotidiano Motori
Risultati MotoGP Ungheria 2025: ecco l’ordine di arrivo della gara al Balaton Park con tempi, distacchi e sorpassi decisivi.Mario Roth (Quotidiano Motori)
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Keanu Reeves racconta la nascita del Cadillac Formula 1 Team
Dopo il successo della docuserie premiata con un Emmy, Brawn: The Impossible Formula 1 Story, Keanu Reeves torna con un nuovo progetto. L’attore e produttore sarà la voce narrante della serie che documenta la nascita e il debutto del Cadillac Formula 1 Team, il nuovo progetto americano targato TWG Motorsports e General Motors.
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Keanu Reeves racconta la nascita del Cadillac Formula 1 Team - Quotidiano Motori
Keanu Reeves è il protagonista della docuserie sul debutto del Cadillac Formula 1 Team a Melbourne che avverrà nel 2026.Caterina Di Iorgi (Quotidiano Motori)
MotoGP Ungheria 2025: risultati e ordine di arrivo della Gara Sprint al Balaton Park
La MotoGP ha fatto il suo debutto assoluto in Ungheria sul nuovo circuito del Balaton Park, con la prima gara Sprint della storia del GP ungherese. Una prova spettacolare, segnata da incidenti al primo giro e da un dominio incontrastato di Marc Marquez, al suo tredicesimo successo consecutivo.
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MotoGP Ungheria 2025: i risultati della Gara Sprint - Quotidiano Motori
MotoGP Ungheria 2025: risultati e ordine di arrivo della Gara Sprint al Balaton Park. Distacchi, protagonisti e cronaca della corsa.Mario Roth (Quotidiano Motori)
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Cooking at home vs eating out vs delivery: what’s your situation?
My boyfriend (20) and I (18) have been living together for 2 years in an urban apartment. For us, it usually goes like this:
- Delivery
- Eating out
- Cooking at home
We visit our parents (and they visit us) often, and they give us lots of home-cooked food. We mostly cook at home just for fun.
I’m curious what it’s like for other people, especially in different age groups or family setups!
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Mastodon är i motsats tilll Bluesky ett socialt medium som kontrolleras av användarna. Det är decentraliserat och federerat vilket betyder att det finns många servrar (som kallas instanser) som kör programvaran Mastodon.
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this rule needs more horny
Fake: 4chan users don't get this much action.
Gay: unless one person is secretly trans, kissing a person of the same identity and expression is quite homosexual
🌸La méditation guidée de 15 à 20 mn sera suivie d'un cercle de parole, pour faire une pause et se reconnecter à soi et aux autres.
Le thème proposé pour le cercle de parole est : "Être à l'écoute de soi-même et des autres" Et chacun est libre de s'exprimer sur ce qu'iel souhaite 🌸
📅 Dimanche 31 août de 9:00 à 10:00
Pour calculer votre heure locale, cliquez sur ce lien : xrb.link/E74VPL1A93J
➡ Pour participer : il suffit de se connecter sur ce lien : xrb.link/v6oCB4dM le moment venu. Tout le monde est bienvenu·e, quelle que soit sa pratique ! Les arrivées ne seront pas acceptées après les 20 premières minutes.
🧘♀️🧘🏼♂️🧘🏾♀️ Parce que l'activisme est un engagement externe ET une transformation intérieure, c’est dans un esprit de compassion et d’approfondissement de la connaissance de soi que nous prétendons évoluer et communiquer les un‧es avec les autres.
clanker youtubici rompono la quiete in modo sempre più metallico
È semplicemente da non credere che sono ormai anni e anni (e ho perso il conto di quanti) che su YouTube c’è il problema degli spammer e, anziché migliorare peggiora sempre di più! #YouTube è un’impresa che si regge interamente su un datamining inquantificabilmente grosso — per i video consigliati, per controllare che i video […]
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clanker youtubici rompono la quiete in modo sempre più metallico
È semplicemente da non credere che sono ormai anni e anni (e ho perso il conto di quanti) che su YouTube c’è il problema degli spammer e, anziché migliorare peggiora sempre di più! #YouTube è un’impresa che si regge interamente su un datamining inquantificabilmente grosso — per i video consigliati, per controllare che i video caricati non violino i ToS, per servire le pubblicità figuriamoci… — ma quegli scemi che ci lavorano non saranno capaci di contrastare commenti di spam che si vede lontano un miglio sono spam! (E poi, intanto, i commenti legittimi vengono rimossi per errore; Louis Rossman si lamenta continuamente di ciò, e vorrei ben vedere altrimenti.) 😵💫La cosa peggiore è che ormai, negli ultimi mesi, questi clanker sono diventati persino aggressivi! Mazonna ragassi, prima l’approccio di questi affari era solo o completamente distaccato dal video, facendo off-topic totale per veicolare il proprio messaggio, o falsamente positivo, quando profili con la foto di un culo di fuori (e qualche volta anche altro, in una maniera che sarebbe violazione delle norme della community se fotogrammi del genere fossero all’interno di video, ma le regole sono scritte a cazzo e quindi per le foto profilo non vale) scrivono (in un italiano rotto e palesemente tradotto a macchina da un’altra lingua) semplicemente complimentando il video in modo irrealistico… Adesso, invece, puntano sull’offendere il creatore del video preso di mira o i suoi fan, insinuando che i propri video sarebbero meglio, cosa che dimostra (negli umani marci che li hanno programmati e/o ordinati) una estrema mancanza di rispetto e un ego largo quanto una fottuta mongolfiera… 💔
Ma dove cazzo andremo a finire??? Questo l’ho beccato addirittura sotto un video di Kurzgesagt ieri (ora sembra essere sparito), e ha il coraggio di dire “I video che posto sono molto meglio di quelli di Kurzgesagt, Kurzgesagt non può essere comparato a me [e lo dice immediatamente dopo aver fatto esso stesso un paragone; porca puttana, impara a usare la lingua umana oppure taci!], io sono molto meglio“… E potrei capire critiche politiche a Kurzgesagt, ce ne sarebbero molte da fare riguardo il conflitto di interessi, ma sminuirne la qualità è completamente disonesto intellettualmente e non trova alcun riscontro nella realtà! 🥴
Di questo esempio qui (ma ce ne sarebbero tanti altri), già la foto profilo palesemente generata con IA dice tutto, ma aprendo il canale la situazione peggiora. Si vede innanzitutto un video interamente generato dall’intelligenza artificiale (lo si nota dalla copertina, e dal guardare i primi 2 secondi; non di più, altrimenti verrebbe contata la visualizzazione), che da contesto + titolo si deduce chiaramente essere privo di senso (quale valore intrinseco può mai avere un video “primo video sul canale!!!” creato da un’IA generativa, cioè un video dal senso unicamente personale creato da qualcosa che non è una persona?)… ma c’è di mezzo pure un trucchetto tecnico che ha colto persino me alla sprovvista. Il canale che ha caricato il video, che in qualche modo ha pure superato i 20mila iscritti (poveri noi…), non è lo stesso che ha spammato con il commento, che è invece palesemente usa e getta… il video è fissato sul profilo, altrimenti vuoto, usando una playlist dal nome cortissimo, che non si nota. 🤯Ormai siamo a livelli esagerati: sfruttando il fatto che i coglioni che gestiscono questa piattaforma hanno ormai da anni eliminato tutta la moderazione umana, ritenendo erroneamente che si possa delegare tutto all’intelligenza artificiale, questi spammer mettono in atto trucchetti così beceri come separare il canale effettivo da uno usato per spammare; così, se quest’ultimo viene fatto fuori (non si sa come, visto che il tasto segnala per i commenti è a tutti gli effetti finto; se l’intelligenza artificiale deve bloccare un commento lo fa solo al momento in cui questo viene inviato), i malintenzionati non hanno perso in realtà niente. Ah, per giunta, ho come il presentimento che il canale su cui stanno i video di merda (che sono una manciata, e partono da quasi un an anno fa) sia in realtà rubato, perché esiste almeno da 3 anni prima… e pubblicava video di cucina… in arabo. 😶
E ancora, sui video merdosi i commenti sono disattivati, perché il rischio che arrivi gente a scrivere la verità è tosto… mentre sui video vecchi, originali, la gente ovviamente ride (ma ci sarebbe da piangere). E questo senza neanche parlare dello schifo che fa per aver caricato un video “I am sick with cancer, pray for me 😭😭“, essendo, appunto, un ammasso di sola ferraglia e non materiale biologico…
Non molti anni fa si diceva “Susan porco**io“ (in inglese “Susan I swear to god“) per inveire contro colei che all’epoca era la CEO di YouTube. Poi lei è morta, e al suo posto arrivò un tizio dal nome evidentemente meno memorabile (non in quest’ordine), e adesso questa cosa non si dice più, ma il problema dello spam continua ad esistere come lo ha sempre fatto e, per l’appunto, forse anche peggio di prima. A onor del vero, quelli che cercavano di truffare includendo numeri di telefono scritti in caratteri unicode nel nome non ne vedo più da un po’… ma, ammesso siano stati davvero bloccati, e non che siano spariti semplicemente perché la tecnica di spam è diventata vecchia, è solo un’ammaccatura al problema e non una soluzione. Quanto stracazzo ODIO Alphabet Inc.!!! 😫#clankers #commenti #comments #spam #spammers #YouTube
AI winter is in the air! But we think the AI bubble keeps going until 2027
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250823-… - podcast
AI winter is in the air! But we think the AI bubble keeps going until 2027
After two years’ wait, and Sam Altman talking up how scary smart it was, OpenAI finally released GPT-5! And it was … meh. It could program a bit better? It didn’t do anything else much better…Pivot to AI
Trump Administration Ignores Congressional Directive to Fully Fund HIV/AIDS Program
Trump Administration Ignores Congressional Directive to Fully Fund HIV/AIDS Program
The New York Times reports the Trump administration is ignoring a congressional directive to fully fund PEPFAR, an HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention program credited with saving 26 million lives since President George W.Democracy Now!
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Scoperto l'antenato del piccolo canguro di velluto, con muso da levriero e coda di un topo - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Scoperto l'antenato del piccolo canguro di velluto, con muso da levriero e coda di un topo - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Nei Territori Settentrionali dell’Australia, in un’epoca collocata entro i confini del tardo Miocene (6-8 milioni di anni fa) la lotta per la sopravvivenza vedeva coesistere scontrarsi specie dalle proporzioni e capacità singolari.Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
Blu-ray ripping on linux
I recently bought a collector edition boxed set of a 1970s martial arts series I love. I can't even play it in VLC, makemkv beta code situation is borked, and handbrake scans all the titles, then says there are none.
I have a local Plex server I wanted to use, no other devices that can play Blu-ray other than an external USB drive I just bought.
Any advice? The Linux box is on 22.04.
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Violent clashes escalate at anti-government protests in Serbia
Violent clashes escalate at anti-government protests in Serbia
Police accused of brutality against demonstrators as unrest continues across cities for fourth nightJessie Williams (The Guardian)
Exclusive: ICC arrest warrant applications ready for Israel's Ben Gvir and Smotrich on apartheid charges - ...but ICC sources are concerned they will not submit them for fear of sanctions
Exclusive: ICC arrest warrant applications ready for Israel's Ben Gvir and Smotrich on apartheid charges
Arrest warrant applications against two prominent Israeli ministers on charges of apartheid are ready and with two deputy prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC), Middle East Eye can reveal.Sondos Asem (Middle East Eye)
Exclusive: ICC arrest warrant applications ready for Israel's Ben Gvir and Smotrich on apartheid charges
Arrest warrant applications against two prominent Israeli ministers on charges of apartheid are ready and with two deputy prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC), Middle East Eye can reveal.If the warrants for National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich are issued, it will be the first time that the crime of apartheid is charged at an international court.
"Those applications for the arrest warrants are completely done," an ICC source told MEE. "The only thing that didn't happen was submitting them to the court," the source said on condition of anonymity.
Two ICC sources told MEE that the two deputy prosecutors, Nazhat Shameem Khan and Mame Mandiaye Niang, have not filed the applications due to the threat of US sanctions.
British-Israeli ICC defence lawyer Nicholas Kaufman told Israel's Kan public broadcaster in June that the US sanctions on four ICC judges were "meant to be designed to encourage the dropping of the arrest warrants for Prime Minister Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Gallant". Raji Sourani, a lawyer representing Palestine at the ICC and ICJ, criticised the deputy prosecutors for their delay in applying for the warrants.
Raji Sourani, a lawyer representing Palestine at the ICC and ICJ, criticised the deputy prosecutors for their delay in applying for the warrants.
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Government documents show police disabling AI oversight tools
Government documents show police disabling AI oversight tools
Departments aren't reviewing or disclosing AI-written police reports—which are now being used in plea deals.Mother Jones
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does this mean robocop was doubly evil?
edit: it occurs to me that the original comment may have walked up to the line for inciting violence and as such I have changed it because I don't want to make the mods lives more difficult
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DiveDB, a fediverse enabled scuba dive log
Found it to be quite cool and largely unkown.
The dev is interested in others testing to self-host it:
github.com/cetra3/divedb
GitHub - cetra3/divedb: This is the source repository for the DiveDB site
This is the source repository for the DiveDB site. Contribute to cetra3/divedb development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Not a mystery beast, just a dog
Why have so many people seemingly lost all critical faculties when seeing animals?
I’ve seen two examples this week of people capturing imagery of dogs and then creating absurdly dramatic context to indicate that they aren’t dogs. What’s going on here? I get it if it’s an unusual animal. But these are just regular dogs that have been turned into mysterious monsters in the minds of the viewer.
The Black Dog on the side of the road
The first example is a video of a family driving down a road at night and encountering an older black dog (with a graying muzzle) along the grass. The accompanying video reveals their excitement and confusion about what they are seeing:
While the image is a bit blurry, the video itself is clear enough to show this not the “robust” and “enigmatic animal” that was reported by the news.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiOu1x–y2c
Have these people never seen a dog?
I think a few things are going on here. First, it’s night and maybe the camera on the phone is enhancing the light so that, to us looking at the video, it’s obvious. But to the witnesses at the time, maybe they were freaked out because they couldn’t see enough. Still, the video should never have gotten news coverage. With clickbait as lucrative as it is these days, even ridiculous videos get attention even just so an audience can complain about them.
Secondly, the headline of the news story gives us a clue about why people might be on edge: Mysterious animal surprises in Puebla after unexplained cattle deaths.
This sighting adds to a series of unexplained cattle deaths in the region, where the animals showed signs of violence, which has alarmed the local community.
So, people are concerned about recent mysterious livestock deaths. Feral dogs are suspect. With countless historical examples to draw from, we know that people look for a culprit when they are afraid. It’s not clear if the family knew about the story. Or if the original story was sensationalized.
Finally, even if the witnesses knew this was a dog, they still may have posted it on socials to try to tell a story for attention. Social media is the real reason why we see so many more silly shares like this. Even when the cause is obvious, if imagination is applied, people see a bipedal animal. Or the black color breaks up the typical outline we would expect to form a dog. The dog’s sad face breaks my heart, as does the crazy speculation about it.
The dog in the woods
The next example showed up in my Pop Cryptid Facebook feed from the Rocky Mountain Sasquatch Organization, a very active page that will post marginal content in order to keep the followers constantly engaged. In this case, they posted a pic of a dog and asked if people had thoughts….
They certainly did. They thought it was a dog.
Yeah, some said it was a wolf. But there is no location indicated so it’s baseless to jump to that conclusion. There is no sense in making any judgment on what’s in a photo with no context.
Maybe it’s “mysterious” because it looks like it doesn’t have a head (an artifact from the camera, perhaps). People also assumed it was very large, but you can’t tell that from the image.
Some are going to gravitate to these kinds of images to support their supernatural beliefs in werewolves or dogmen. Clearly, this is not viable evidence of that.
Social silos
It’s disturbing that online audiences get so comfortable existing in their belief silos that everything becomes evidence for that thing they deeply believe in. The rest of us, who aren’t in that frame of mind, just don’t see what they do. This is why you need to 1. get out of those silos, 2. be the voice of reason when necessary.
It would be really great if reason prevailed, and if this kind of goofiness wasn’t so popular. Unfortunately, we aren’t getting out of these strange times anytime soon. The streams of weird content (framed as weird, even when it’s not) encourages further social slides into irrational ideas about the world and more of the same content. It seems like we aren’t going to be taking a rational turn any time soon. We’re on edge, and extreme things really are happening.
The online environment provides a means to dispute the claim, but more often, it provides a platform for more bunkum, and worse.
#cryptids #DogInMexico #dogs #mysteriousCreature
Not a mystery beast, just a dog
Recent examples of people who see a monster when it’s really just a dog.Sharon A. Hill
Hundreds of Former Israeli Spies Are Working in Big Tech, Database Shows
As of June 2025, over 1,400 veterans of Israeli intelligence are now working in U.S. tech—with 900 of those coming from Unit 8200 alone. That number comes from a database of people who publicly identify themselves as being both former Israeli intelligence officers and holding a job in U.S. tech on their LinkedIn profiles.
The database was assembled by an independent researcher, who is remaining anonymous for personal security and has dubbed the database the “Eagle Mission” influence network. The 1,400 people are self-identified veterans or active reserve members of Unit 8200, Israeli military intelligence, and the IDF Cyber Defense Directorate working in senior and mid-level engineering and security roles at major U.S. tech firms with offices in Israel, the U.S., and Europe. Drop Site crosschecked many of the records in the database for accuracy.
“This does not mean that every person who served in Unit 8200 is an Israeli spy looking to send classified data back to Tel Aviv,” the researcher emphasized. “But it does create a serious vulnerability. No other country has this kind of access to the American tech sector. We obsess over Chinese involvement in the tech industry and worry about corporate espionage, but Israeli penetration rarely gets mentioned.”
The global tech giant Microsoft is one of the most prominent employers of Unit 8200 alumni, employing roughly 250 veterans of the unit, alongside other major multinational companies including Nvidia, Meta, Google, Intel, and Apple, many of whom employ dozens of individuals drawn from the unit. Microsoft was recently revealed to have closely collaborated with Unit 8200 leadership on the creation of cloud services intended to store millions of private communications of Palestinians living under military occupation in the West Bank and Gaza. Microsoft declined to comment.
Microsoft storing Israeli intelligence trove used to attack Palestinians
Microsoft developed a customized version of its cloud platform for Israel’s Unit 8200, which is housing audio files of millions of calls by Palestinians.Ben Reiff (+972 Magazine)
Mexican ranchers hit by flesh-eating screwworm want action on cattle smuggling
Maggots from screwworm flies burrow into the flesh of living animals, causing serious damage. While it can often be fatal, infected animals can be treated by removing larvae and applying medications, if it is detected early enough.The infestation, which began in November, has now claimed its first human casualty: an 86-year-old woman with advanced cancer and complications from a screwworm infection who died in the state of Campeche in late July. While infections are rarer (and treatable) in humans, Mexico confirmed more than 30 cases in people in the last week of July.
Estimates cited by Mexican authorities in 2022 and others by sector experts indicate the number of illegal cattle crossing into Mexico is at least 800,000 per year.
Cash Cows - Cattle Trafficking from Central America to Mexico
The illegal trafficking of cattle has spread from the natural reserves of Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala, to enter the food supply chain in Mexico and even the United States.InSight Crime
Screwworm is a fly larvae, the odds are decent it can't survive to far north.
But thanks to climate change, that's changing
Historically, it covered half of the United States.
In the 1900s screw worm routinely ate up into the heartland.
And the 1900s there was an estimated impact of roughly 5 to 10% of cattle destroyed by this.
This continued until the '50s
To build on what another poster said, screw worms were a major problem in the USA for many, many years. They were mostly eradicated from the US in the 1970s by breeding sterile male flies and releasing them by plane. They were mostly cleared from Mexico as well and annual flights releasing sterile male flies have kept them from spreading back up north. Unfortunately, there are now some very large outbreaks in Mexico and some cases in the USA.
There is only one factory, located in Panama, producing sterile males now and its production capabilities are insufficient to fighting these outbreaks. The USDA has announced plans to ramp up production and develop new was to stop them, though.
Australian lawyer apologizes for AI-generated errors in murder case
A senior lawyer in Australia has apologized to a judge for filing submissions in a murder case that included fake quotes and nonexistent case judgments generated by artificial intelligence.The blunder in the Supreme Court of Victoria state is another in a litany of mishaps AI has caused in justice systems around the world.
Defense lawyer Rishi Nathwani, who holds the prestigious legal title of King’s Counsel, took “full responsibility” for filing incorrect information in submissions in the case of a teenager charged with murder, according to court documents seen by The Associated Press on Friday.
https://apnews.com/article/australia-murder-artifical-intelligence-34271dc1481e079c3583b55953a67c38
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You should treat AI like an unpaid intern and check every word before using what they’ve written.
It can save you time but it can’t reduce it to zero just yet.
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From Haaretz: Israel Committed a War Crime That Was Broadcast Live to the World
Israel committed a war crime that was broadcast live to the world
Haaretz Editorial (Haaretz)Auth
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