The crisis is “expasperating”: Long COVID compounds economic hardship in Argentina
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/51686142
Argentina has no dedicated Long COVID clinics, no disability insurance, and no government recognition, leaving patients to diagnose themselves and search for informal care.Only a couple of Long COVID studies are being conducted in Argentina. One includes over 100 patients and involves analysis of MRI brain scans.
Patients live not only with Long COVID but also the stressful situation of living in a country with high inflation and poverty, while they create their support chat groups to share knowledge, treatments, and information.
The crisis is “expasperating”: Long COVID compounds economic hardship in Argentina - The Sick Times
Argentina is facing an invisible Long COVID crisis, marked by a lack of clinics, minimal media attention, no disability insurance to help people with the disease cope with their inability to work, and only a couple of Long COVID studies — all amid a …Delfina Marchese (The Sick Times)
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Nigeria deports Chinese scammers in crackdown on 'foreign-led' cyber crime
Nigeria deports Chinese scammers in crackdown on 'foreign-led' cyber crime
A total of 102 deported foreigners have been convicted of "cyber-terrorism and internet fraud" this week.Wycliffe Muia (BBC News)
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Oliver Thomas withdraws controversial facial recognition ordinance in New Orleans — for now
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/44609842
Oliver Thomas withdraws controversial facial recognition ordinance in New Orleans — for now
BY SARAH RAVITS 31 mins agoNew Orleans City Council member and mayoral candidate Oliver Thomas Aug. 21 quietly withdrew, at least for now, a controversial ordinance granting police the authority to use facial recognition technology to spy on people in public.
The decision has drawn cautious optimism from civil rights groups, though Thomas could bring the ordinance up again as soon as Sept. 11.
If passed, the ordinance would authorize the use of facial recognition technology for real-time surveillance by the New Orleans Police Department or a third-party operator. New Orleans would be the first U.S. city to implement this type of program.
Thomas, who co-sponsored the ordinance with Eugene Green, told Gambit he withdrew it from yesterday’s meeting to allow NOPD “to make edits” on the measure.
**But opponents of the ordinance said there are no changes that would resolve their concerns over civil rights and privacy concerns. **
“There are no edits or modifications that could make this proposal safe. It needs to be taken off the table entirely, forever,” said Rachel Taber, an organizer with Union Migrante, a group that supports immigrants’ rights.
Green and Thomas have argued the ordinance would help NOPD stop crime more efficiently and aid in other investigations, particularly focused on violence, sexual assault and illegal drugs.
But opponents of the bill have sounded the alarm over potential civil rights violations, pointing out that a real-time surveillance system of this caliber could easily be used by law enforcement or third parties to target and monitor marginalized communities including immigrants and people of color — regardless of criminal activity.
It could also track LGBTQ activity and monitor people seeking reproductive health care.
While the ordinance does specifically prohibit the NOPD from targeting immigrants, women seeking reproductive health care and LGBTQ people, those restrictions would almost certainly be trumped by state law requiring NOPD to comply with agencies like the Louisiana State Police and federal law enforcement — which, among other things, are currently targeting immigrants for kidnappings and detention.
Taber also pointed to the already-robust private surveillance all over the city that NOPD and other law enforcement agencies can access, if needed.
“If a crime occurs, as is, they can subpoena evidence from nearby cameras,” she said. “No one needs 24/7 access to all faces and license plates all the time, everywhere, without cause.”
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Roblox drama explained as Schlep 'predator hunter' YouTuber banned from platform
Roblox drama explained as CEO under huge pressure after Schlep 'predator hunter' ban
A petition calling for the resignation of Roblox CEO David Baszucki has been signed more than 215,000 times after 'predator hunter' YouTuber Schlep was banned from the platform.The 22-year-old content creator, now with around 1.Jake Brigstock (indy100)
Roblox has a lot of problems in child safety aspects, such as the profileration of so-called condo games and inaction against child predators on the platform. YouTuber Schlep and others tried to raise the issues to Roblox but to no avail, and they had an easier time in collaborating with law enforcement to get chomos on the game platforms arrested instead.
Early this month Roblox, instead of using the banhammer against chomos, turned it against Schlep instead accusing the latter of "vigilantism" despite categorical refutations that Schlep had done everything by the books. It became the final straw as numerous influencers like KreekCraft expressed solidarities for Schlep and began to boycott Roblox.
The controversy got so big that Congressperson Ro Khanna launched a petition urging Roblox to fix its child safety issues and some U.S. states began to sue Roblox.
Relay, By We Distribute: Something Brewing
We Distribute recently launched a dedicated weekly newsletter that aims at rounding up a lot of things happening around the Fediverse and wider Social Web, and adds other publications and community voices to amplify them. This is our very first issue!
August 22rd, 2025: Something Brewing
Welcome to Relay, the new weekly newsletter from We Distribute! Here, we attempt to round up the latest news, think pieces, and interesting finds from around the Social Web. This is a new experiment for us, but the goal is to help provide quick links and information about stuff you might've missed, that we might not have had the time to cover.From We Distribute
First, let's focus on some of the things we've been working on with our publication. Think of this as a quick way to catch up, before venturing out into the rest of the network!News Updates
Here's a quick summaries of articles we wrote over the past week that you may have missed. The big sea changes we're noticing involve monetization and payments, Meta scraping the Social Web to train their AI models, and some welcome updates to platforms in the space.
CrowdBucks is a new payment system for the Fediverse
A new, open source, self-hostable fundraising system for the Fediverse has been released. The project is very young, but there’s a huge amount of promise.We DistributeSean Tilley
The Decentered Podcast
In case you weren't aware, we run our own in-house podcast show called The Decentered Podcast, where we interview people from across different branches of The Social Web to talk about interesting things they're working on. We focus on their background and experience, how they came into the space, what their doing, and their visions for the future.
S2E3 – Rabble from Nos.Social
Today, our podcast features an interview with an Internet OG: Evan Henshaw-Plath, aka Rabble. We talk about Twitter, Secure Scuttlebutt, and the evolution of Nostr!We DistributeSean Tilley
We had the great pleasure to interview Evan Henshaw-Plath from Nos.Social, who has an extensive background involving the intersection of activism and technology. It's a fascinating conversation that delves into the early era of online social media, and the evolution of decentralized communication networks.Around the Network
Every week, we search the Fediverse far and wide to find interesting things written within the community. This space serves as a bird's eye view as to what's going on, what people are thinking about, and cool things people are working on in their spare time.FediCon-Related
With the wrap-up for the first ever FediCon in-person event, a lot of members of the Fediverse community went to work, sharing their thoughts, experiences, and ideas about how to move the network forward. Additionally, almost all of the talks have finished the editing and encoding process, and are now available on PeerTube.
Patches, paths & The Matrix: FediCon thoughts Part I
The after hours Fediverse session at FOSDEM 2025 was held at HSBXL - Hackerspace Brussels. A cool, cyberpunk hangout. Wires everywhere, old computers, a fridge full of beer, Belgian goth-punks, and an old fashioned telephone receiver, hanging by its wire from the ceiling. We were in The Matrix.* In onePaths & PatchesMichael Foster
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- Manyfold is an open source and federated alternative to Thingiverse, an online hub of STL files used for 3D printing.
- Bridge Browser is a fork of Mozilla Firefox that aims to bring Fediverse integration into the browser experience. Currently, it integrates with Mastodon and Lemmy.
- The Social Web Foundation has been developing some ongoing services and projects intended to bolster new capabilities in ActivityPub platforms. These include ap-components, a Web Components collection for showing ActivityPub Objects in the browser, Places.Pub, an effort to bridge OpenStreetMap location data to ActivityPub objects, a GeoSocial Activities client that uses Places.Pub, and an early draft for Messaging Layer Security over the ActivityPub protocol.
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Bridging identity with account links
One of the most common questions we get here is, “can you help me connect all my different accounts?” You’re on Bluesky, and Instagram, and Mastodon, you make a video series on YouTube, you have a blog, sometimes you post on Reddit, and a while back …Ryan Barrett (A New Social)
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Roblox faces scrutiny after banning YouTuber ‘Schlep' amid ongoing controversy
Roblox faces scrutiny after banning YouTuber ‘Schlep' amid ongoing controversy
The developers behind the mega-popular game Roblox are facing a firestorm of controversy after banning a popular YouTuber from the platform.Charlie Wojciechowski, Christian Farr (NBC Chicago)
Just for discussions sake, where does vigilantism end, though?
If this guy wasn’t recording everything and making a youtube channel out of it, I’d be much less interested in asking that question.
I’m also of the opinion that the tv show COPs was misguided and shouldn’t have existed. None of my opinions here are excuses for predators. I just find packaging up and “selling” the effort to be an indication of conflicting motives. And that makes me inclined to see the companies point about vigilantes, laws about entrapment, or whatever. Etc.
I agree, in principle vigilantism isn't good for society.
It opens the door for, let's say heavily misguided, people to carry out whatever justice they want.
Yes, it is also angerous for the individuals with good intentions.
However, if the "proper" system does nothing, who will?
In the case of Roblox, I'm going to compare this to a public park;
In this park some adults set up a free candy van for kids. The park rangers/owners (moderators) see this, and choose to ignore it. Some other people at the park report their concerns to the rangers, yet a week later they find 3 more vans have shown up.
Finally, one person steps up and calls the police directly. The police can do nothing with the information, as there's concrete "no evidence". Desperate the person disguises them self as a child (don't ask) to get the evidence. Police show up a apprehend the perpetrators.
The rangers are now angry that the person called the cops to their park, and bans that person from the park for "pretending to be a kid".
If Roblox is unwilling to participate in the justice system set by society, they have no place in it.
As for schelps making YT videos, I say keep doing it. Not only does is help spread awareness to issues like this, it documents the "vigilante" actions. Society can decide from there what to do with that information.
Roblox faces scrutiny after banning YouTuber ‘Schlep' amid ongoing controversy
Roblox faces scrutiny after banning YouTuber ‘Schlep' amid ongoing controversy
The developers behind the mega-popular game Roblox are facing a firestorm of controversy after banning a popular YouTuber from the platform.Charlie Wojciechowski, Christian Farr (NBC Chicago)
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Il Cammino delle Identità in Valtellina : a San Giacomo di Teglio, il Panificio Bresesti
Tutte le volte che i nostri itinerari vagabondi ci hanno portato in Valtellina, non è mai mancata una visita gustosa al Panificio Bresesti di San Giacomo di Teglio.
“Dalla bottega alimentare di nonno Silvio – reduce della campagna di Russia e decorato con la croce al valore – i Bresesti hanno imparato il valore delle tradizioni e l’amore per la cucina tipica della Valtellina. Da oltre quarant’anni il Panificio
Bresesti, aperto da Bruno – figlio di Silvio – lavora con passione, amore e produce, con fatica e dedizione, pane e prodotti tipici del territorio valtellinese, rispettandone le antiche tradizioni.”
Forse sarà per questa storia, che i giornalisti di Borghi d’Europa si sono ricordati del Panificio Bresesti, quando hanno ricominciato il Cammino delle Identità, il
Percorso di informazione che dal 2014 valorizza e fa conoscere le eccellenze della Valtellina nel progetto L’Europa delle scienze e della cultura, Patrocinato dalla
IAI -Iniziativa adriatico ionica,Forum Intergovernativo.
Il 6 e il 7 settembre una delegazione visiterà a Teglio la Mostra a Palazzo BESTA ( Il senso del vino), per poi incontrare alcune aziende della filiera agroalimentare,
I vini di Giorgio Gianatti, i prodotti del Panificio Bresesti; i salumi del Salumificio Testini.
“Un negozio moderno basato su tradizioni antiche. Da noi il pane si produce e si sforna proprio come veniva prodotto e sfornato nelle vecchie contrade telline, mantenendo gusto e croccantezza.
Utilizzando solo materie prime naturali, senza aggiunta di conservanti e additivi chimici, siamo in grado di proporre prodotti genuini e saporiti, che porteranno sulle vostre tavole il vero gusto valtellinese del mangiare bene e in maniera sana.
Pane di segale, dolci, pizzoccheri, prodotti da forno tipici. Panificio Bresesti offre solo prodotti di qualità, nel rispetto della tradizione.”
Da sempre sosteniamo la necessità di una vera e propria ‘carta del pane’, per abbinare in modo corretto i cibi e i vini.
Luca e Simone Bresesti hanno portato idee e hanno saputo valorizzare ulteriormente un prodotto – il pane di segale valtellinese – che già oggi viene consumato per la sua
capacità di regolarizzare l’intestino e migliorare la circolazione.
Il viaggio del gusto di Borghi d’Europa parte dagli inizi di settembre e si svilupperà fino a dicembre 2026, realizzando una intensa campagna d’informazione grazie al Percorso Internazionale I Mulini del gusto e le Vie del Pane.
La rete Borghi d’Europa ha deciso infatti di un creare un percorso dedicato a questi temi, tra le grandi iniziative di informazione del progetto.
Il circuito organizza e promuove dei percorsi per mettere a confronto idee, progetti, capaci di seguire il filo logico della valorizzazione rispettosa degli equilibri sociali culturali e ambientali dei territori di riferimento.
Sono previsti incontri e stages di informazione nei territori,per raccontare a giornalisti e comunicatori le storie dei borghi e delle loro culture.
Ogni ‘tappa’ tocca i luoghi, le storie, i protagonisti della filiera agroalimentare.
Il progetto era stato presentato nell’aprile del 2019 presso la sede del Parlamento Europeo di Milano.
La degustazione di settembre valorizzerà l’abbinamento del Fiocco della Valtellina e della Slinzega con il pane della famiglia Bresesti e i vini di Giorgio Gianatti.
When Genocide Denial Is the Norm
Genocide scholar Martin Shaw argues that ending Israel’s genocide in Gaza and isolating Israel on the international stage must become the cause of every country that claims to represent human values.
While I agree; we've moved past that point unless the US stops Israel; and they will not.
The world needs to unite in arms to invade Israel. We do not have time for even a major BDS movement. Children are starving every night. Without direct action all the world is doing is watching and wagging its fingers.
And at this point I can't tell which "scholar" or politician is only doing that to be able to say they did in the future. They are coming to the correct side just late enough to wag their fingers.
La cultura della paura nell'era digitale
La cultura della paura nell’era digitale
Dai mostri sotto il letto ai mostri dell’algoritmo: viviamo in uno stato di ansia permanenteE la nave va
Airdropped Aid Is Crushing Starving People in Gaza
Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi
August 22 2025, 6:30 a.m.
Help for Gaza is now supposed to fall from the sky. Planes from Israel, Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates drop parachuted bundles of food and supplies meant to save lives when all other options are lost. They then crash into streets, rooftops, and tents, turning hope into panic.Every airdrop shows the cost of survival here, where daily life is threatened not by just hunger or lack of medicine, but also the very help meant to reach starving people.
This is the new reality of aid delivery in Gaza. As Israel’s siege approaches the two-year mark, on-the-ground access to food and other crucial supplies is mostly controlled by the Israel-backed and U.S.-run Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, whose aid sites have become shooting grounds where the Israeli army kills hungry civilians. On July 27, Israel announced the start of airdrops for humanitarian aid, promising “safe corridors” and relief from the crushing blockade.
The aid has itself become a weapon in the literal sense: At least 124 people have been struck by falling aid packages since October 2023, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office, and 23 of them killed. The Intercept spoke to more than 10 people who were injured by or witnessed injuries from falling aid packages for this story.
Airdropped Aid Is Crushing Starving People in Gaza
Human rights groups have stressed that it’s safer to provide aid by land. Israel is killing Palestinians by dropping it from the sky.Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi (The Intercept)
Airdropped Aid Is Crushing Starving People in Gaza
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/35055306
Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi
August 22 2025, 6:30 a.m.
Help for Gaza is now supposed to fall from the sky. Planes from Israel, Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates drop parachuted bundles of food and supplies meant to save lives when all other options are lost. They then crash into streets, rooftops, and tents, turning hope into panic.Every airdrop shows the cost of survival here, where daily life is threatened not by just hunger or lack of medicine, but also the very help meant to reach starving people.
This is the new reality of aid delivery in Gaza. As Israel’s siege approaches the two-year mark, on-the-ground access to food and other crucial supplies is mostly controlled by the Israel-backed and U.S.-run Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, whose aid sites have become shooting grounds where the Israeli army kills hungry civilians. On July 27, Israel announced the start of airdrops for humanitarian aid, promising “safe corridors” and relief from the crushing blockade.
The aid has itself become a weapon in the literal sense: At least 124 people have been struck by falling aid packages since October 2023, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office, and 23 of them killed. The Intercept spoke to more than 10 people who were injured by or witnessed injuries from falling aid packages for this story.
Airdropped Aid Is Crushing Starving People in Gaza
Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi
August 22 2025, 6:30 a.m.Help for Gaza is now supposed to fall from the sky. Planes from Israel, Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates drop parachuted bundles of food and supplies meant to save lives when all other options are lost. They then crash into streets, rooftops, and tents, turning hope into panic.Every airdrop shows the cost of survival here, where daily life is threatened not by just hunger or lack of medicine, but also the very help meant to reach starving people.
This is the new reality of aid delivery in Gaza. As Israel’s siege approaches the two-year mark, on-the-ground access to food and other crucial supplies is mostly controlled by the Israel-backed and U.S.-run Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, whose aid sites have become shooting grounds where the Israeli army kills hungry civilians. On July 27, Israel announced the start of airdrops for humanitarian aid, promising “safe corridors” and relief from the crushing blockade.
The aid has itself become a weapon in the literal sense: At least 124 people have been struck by falling aid packages since October 2023, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office, and 23 of them killed. The Intercept spoke to more than 10 people who were injured by or witnessed injuries from falling aid packages for this story.
Airdropped Aid Is Crushing Starving People in Gaza
Human rights groups have stressed that it’s safer to provide aid by land. Israel is killing Palestinians by dropping it from the sky.Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi (The Intercept)
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Reuters journalists accuse Reuters of pro-Israel bias
When Israel assassinated Palestinian journalist Anas al-Sharif earlier this month, the Reuters news agency ran a report titled: “Israel kills Al Jazeera journalist it says was Hamas leader”. They chose that headline despite the fact al-Sharif used to work for them – he was part of a Reuters team that won a 2024 Pulitzer Prize.
Instances like this caused a backlash online, but also sparked concern among some staff at the influential global newswire, which was founded in London in 1851 and now has a daily audience of more than a billion. Multiple Reuters employees have spoken to Declassified about what they see as pro-Israel bias among the company’s editors and management. All requested anonymity to avoid reprisals. In the email, they also said,“
I’ve attached a report…and an open letter some colleagues and I sent to management in the hopes that Reuters will uphold basic journalistic principles, but I now recognize that senior leadership is unlikely to change, much less stop actively stifling critiques.”
Reuters journalists accuse newswire of pro-Israel bias
Insiders at the world’s largest news agency reveal their battles with management over covering Palestine.ARCHIT MEHTA (Declassified Media ltd)
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They did, but somehow their leadership decided that everything must change to the exact opposite of what it was.
It reminds me of Orwell's 1984.
Canada absent in multi-nation call to protect Gaza journalists, allow foreign media
Canada absent in multi-nation call to protect Gaza journalists, allow foreign media
OTTAWA — Canada has taken the rare step of not signing onto a multi-country statement that demands Israel stop banning foreign journalists from entering Gaza and that local journalists be protected in the Palestinian territories.Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press (BarrieToday.com)
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Aid workers accuse NGOs of 'whitewashing' Israel's Gaza war – DW – 08/22/2025
Aid workers accuse NGOs of 'whitewashing' Israel's Gaza war
Several international NGOs have limited their language and advocacy on the topic of Gaza, a DW investigation has found. They fear that Israel might otherwise refuse them permits to operate in the Palestinian territories.Naomi Conrad (Deutsche Welle)
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Due to the new customs regulations under the Executive Order "Suspending Duty-Free De Minimis Treatment for all Countries," which will take effect on August 29, 2025, there will be temporary restrictions on postal goods shipping to the U.S.
Israeli army database suggests at least 83% of Gaza dead were civilians
IDF database suggests 83% of Gaza dead were civilians
Classified intelligence reveals Israel killed 8,900 militants by May, indicating an almost unparalleled proportion of civilian slaughter.Ben Reiff (+972 Magazine)
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An Open Letter to Kickstarter Creators: Why We, Kickstarter United, Are Fighting for a Four-Day 32-Hour Workweek
An Open Letter to Kickstarter Creators: Why We, Kickstarter United, Are Fighting for a Four-Day 32-Hour Workweek
Dear Kickstarter Creators & Allies, We’re writing to you as Kickstarter United—the union of designers, support specialists, product managers, engineers, and more who power this platform and are honored to support the bold, imaginative work you bring…actionnetwork.org
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I see where they're coming from but seems a bit weird to embark your customers so they back your very specific demand to your employer.
I mean, sure, unionize, fight to make your job better or at least prevent it from getting shittier. But what kind of weight do people who use Kickstarter have in company policy? The only power they have is just to stop using it, and the employees obviously don't want that. They even had to mention "pretty please don't boycott Kickstarter" right here in the end.
Il fantasma rievocato dai cannoni della caravella che vegliava sull'Unione di Kalmar - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Il fantasma rievocato dai cannoni della caravella che vegliava sull'Unione di Kalmar - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Nell’ideale gerarchia dei responsabili delle migliori scoperte archeologiche dello scorso secolo, al primo posto vengono sempre messi i cercatori.Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
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Block Elon Musk’s bid to supply UK home energy, Ed Davey urges
Elon Musk’s company, Tesla, should have its application to supply energy to UK homes blocked on national security grounds, Ed Davey has told ministers.The Liberal Democrat leader argued that giving the electric car manufacturer a foothold in the British energy market would be “a gravely concerning move considering Elon Musk’s repeated interference in UK politics”.
Tesla has a clean energy arm and applied in July for a licence to supply power to British homes.
If the licence is granted by the regulator, Ofgem, the US company could be competing with big UK domestic energy suppliers such as British Gas and Octopus as soon as next year.
Block Elon Musk’s bid to supply UK home energy, Ed Davey urges
Exclusive: Lib Dem leader says giving Tesla a foothold in Britain’s energy market could be national security riskEleni Courea (The Guardian)
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Back in the Roman republic, rich guys would provide public roads, aqueducts, games, etc. this was to get the plebs to see you as their benefactor, not the state. It wasn’t charity, it was name recognition, it was knowing the lower classes were kissing your ass and would protect you.
Don’t let things end up that way, tell this rich fuck to pay his taxes instead and to fuck off into a volcano already
US to take part in Russia’s answer to Eurovision
US to take part in Russia’s answer to Eurovision
Singer B. Howard will join acts from Belarus, Cuba and Venezuela at event in Moscow.Ketrin Jochecová (POLITICO)
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The Therac-25 Incident
The Therac-25 Incident
A few months ago, someone noted in the comments that they hadn't heard about the Therac-25 incident. I was surprised, and went off to do an informal survey of developers I know, only to discover that only about half of them knew what it was without s…The Daily WTF
I Even Gave My Life To Jesus In Their Parking Lot
Cracker Barrel Is Making A Major Change & Customers Are Freaking Out: 'This Ain't It'
Cracker Barrel debuts a new logo and rebrand under “All The More.” Fans dislike the change as menus and restaurants across the chain get updated.Allison Arnold (Delish)
India, Russia agree to boost trade ties after foreign ministers meet in Moscow
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/46878219
Jaishankar said that relations between the two countries had been among the steadiest of major nations in the world since World War Two, referring to a close friendship going back to the days of the Soviet Union.The two countries reaffirmed their ambition to expand bilateral trade, including by increasing India's exports to Russia, Jaishankar said, according to a statement from India's foreign ministry.
“I don’t want to get rid of a bunch of people right now. I don’t want to get rid of engineers,” Robbins said. “I just want our engineers we have today to innovate faster and be more productive and that gives us a competitive advantage.”
Go fuck yourself. 8% growth and billions of dollars in profit isn't enough for these inhuman CEOs. They deserve the Thompson treatment.
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I honestly thought that your quote was some sort of satire. Yeah duh, people being more productive gives a competitive advantage.
Now how to make them innovate faster and be more productive. 4-day week and being a nice place to work in might be a start.
This is a trend that is showing less than zero signs of decelerating.
I desperately need insight/advice on how to reconcile these tragedies with any hope of a worthwhile career. How am I to believe in hopes of things like job security when articles like this are beyond normal?
I sincerely wish to know how we expect to advise our children to pursue seriously needed careers or ambitions of any value when the new rule of our era is to reward career-seekers with endless layoffs to maintain a dwindling, starving work force so as to keep running the profit maximizing machine of the ruling few.
Do we need a crawler to load content from other lemmy instances? How are we supposed to federate without one?
I'm trying to start my own lemmy instance, and reading through the documentation at join-lemmy.org/docs/administra… it looks like we need to manually search for just about everything that can be found on other lemmy instances.
It works. I'm able to search for communities/comments/posts and then my instance will load only that community/comment chain/post and only after I've searched it. No updates.
Is this what we're supposed to be doing? Seems pretty tedious to have someone that's supposed to go to other instances and then search for all of their content on my instance in order to federate with it.
I have a feeling there is an easier way, but I'm legitimately not seeing it.
Right now, it looks like the only way users on my instance will get to see content from other instances is if I manually search for just about everything they'll get to see.
I can write a crawler to automate all of this, but I'd rather not unless it's completely necessary.
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That's how federation is supposed to work. If one user searches content, you get it once. If a user of your instance subscribes to a community, you get updates for that community.
The point is to reduce load on your instance by not federating content that nobody on your instance needs.
It's based on a flawed understanding of how communities work, specifically that reddit-style forums only work well when you have huge communities that everyone sibscribes to. So, most instances end up with most content anyway.
Also, keep in mind, all conent that has been federated to your instance is on your srver and thus legally your responsibility. If there's illegal content on there, you are liable if you don't delete it.
Australia Post halts transit shipping to US as global carriers face 'chaos'
cross-posted from: quokk.au/post/207865
Australia Post has temporarily suspended transit shipping to the US ahead of new tariffs due to come into effect next week.Global postal carriers have described a "chaotic" environment as some European services halt US shipments altogether.
From August 29, low-value parcels imported into the US will attract tariffs or flat fees.
ABC News
ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.Emilia Terzon (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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Lebanon begins disarming Palestinian groups in refugee camps
Lebanon has launched a plan to disarm Palestinian groups in its refugee camps, beginning with the handover of weapons from Burj al-Barajneh camp in Beirut.
The prime minister’s office announced on Thursday that the weapons transfer to the Lebanese army marks the start of a wider disarmament campaign. More handovers are expected in the coming weeks across Burj al-Barajneh and other camps nationwide.
A Fatah official told the Reuters news agency the arms handed over so far were only illegal weapons that had entered the camp within the previous day. Television footage showed military vehicles inside the camp, though Reuters could not verify what type of weapons were being surrendered.
The initiative follows Lebanon’s commitment under a US-backed truce between Israel and Hezbollah in November, which restricted weapons to six state security forces. Since the November 27, 2024, ceasefire agreement, Israel has continued attacking Lebanon, often on a weekly basis.
The government has tasked the army with producing a strategy by the end of the year to consolidate all arms under state authority.
According to the prime minister’s office, the decision to disarm Palestinian factions was reached in a May meeting between Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Lebanon begins disarming Palestinian groups in refugee camps
PM’s office says the weapons transfer to the Lebanese army marks the start of a wider disarmament campaign.Al Jazeera
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Sounds like Lebanon doesn't want the war to spread to their land?
Disarming refugees is a pretty standard procedure. You don't see armed refugees anywhere else, so why would it be okay for palestinians in Lebanon?
If anything, having a militia with base in a refugee camp is just going to invite Israel to bomb a shitload of refugees.
I mean come on, fuck Israel and all that, but complaining about refugees having illegal weapons taken away is fucking stupid, and just makes regular people turn away from your course.
Zionists are already spreading the holocaust by violating the ceasefire daily in Lebanon.
Whether refugees are armed or not, Zionists will still murder them with impunity. This is happening in occupied Gaza, in the occupied West Bank and in newly Lebensraum-ed parts of southern Syria.
So why remove their legitimate means of resistance?
Nonviolence is the privilege of the powerful.
Whitewashing Zionist savagery doesn’t work.
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Thailand offers free domestic flights for 200,000 foreign arrivals
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Does AI need to be perfect to replace jobs?
As always, I use the term "AI" loosely. I'm referring to these scary LLMs coming for our jobs.
It's important to state that I find LLMs to be helpful in very specific use cases, but overall, this is clearly a bubble, and the promises of advance have not appeared despite hundreds of billion of VC thrown at the industry.
So as not to go full-on polemic, we'll skip the knock-on effects in terms of power-grid and water stresses.
No, what I want to talk about is the idea of software in its current form needing to be as competent as the user.
Simply put: How many of your coworkers have been right 100% of the time over the course of your career? If N>0, say "Hi" to Jesus for me.
I started working in high school, as most of us do, and a 60% success rate was considered fine. At the professional level, I've seen even lower with tenure, given how much things turn to internal politics past a certain level.
So what these companies are offering is not parity with senior staff (Ph.D.-level, my ass), but rather the new blood who hasn't had that one fuckup that doesn't leave their mind for weeks.
That crucible is important.
These tools are meant to replace inexperience with incompetence, and the beancounters at some clients are likely satisfied those words look similar enough to pass muster.
We are, after all, at this point, the "good enough" country. LLM marketing is on brand.
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I have some questions about soulseek. (Hopefully this fits here)
Hello, i've been thinking about using soulseek for the very first time to download some music and such. I had a couple of questions from the c/piracy community.
- Do i need to stay logged in on soulseek even if i am or am not sharing stuff? Obviously i can't be online and have my pc powered on 24/7 as i have a life outside the web (and other things aswell). so i hope that's understandable as to why i asked, i was worried i'd get banned if i don't be online like all the time.
- Would a vpn work just fine with soulseek even if the vpn has support for port forwarding? There's an obvious reason as to why i'd use one.
- Which soulseek client should i use, Nicotine+? or soulseek's actual client (i use Linux Mint, in case y'all were wondering. I might move to debian though!)
That's all i want to ask for now, hopefully these aren't dumb to ask.
I'll be waiting for replies (might not reply to all of them so i apologize), thanks!
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Record solar growth keeps China’s CO2 falling in first half of 2025
Analysis: Record solar growth keeps China’s CO2 falling in first half of 2025 - Carbon Brief
Clean-energy growth helped China’s CO2 emissions fall by 1% in first half of 2025, extending a declining trend that started in March 2024.Lauri Myllyvirta (Carbon Brief)
Truncated community view
How come this Lemmy community only shows the last 15 posts / 10 months worth of posts on Piefed?
This community or this community (from the same Lemmy instance) too are clipped, but they both show a year's worth.
Does it have something to do with the date at which the first PieFed user join them?
I know Lemmy instances only start mirroring a community hosted on another instance when someone on that instance joins it. But after that someone joined and the instance is done mirroring the community, the whole of it is browseable.
If I had to guess, I'd say Piefed instances only mirror the 15 last posts after the first user joins, or a years's worth, whichever applies. Correct?
And if so, does this also apply to native Piefed communities? In other words, does Piefied "disappear" older posts in Piefed communities?
@rimu@piefed.social might be able to answer better and more specifically since he is the admin for piefed.social, but here is some info on what might be happening.
Federation in piefed works the same as it does in lemmy...in that piefed won't get posts for a community unless a local user is subscribed to it (lemmy provides the most recent 20 posts to an instance when the first subscriber joins). So, until a user from piefed.social subscribed to those communities, then no posts would show up. As a corollary to this, if there is one local subscriber that then unsubscribes, posts will stop federating over. So, that can cause things like gaps in federation.
As for automatic deletion of older posts...this is something that a piefed admin can do on a community by community basis. When it is turned on for a community, that retention policy is listed in the community sidebar. For instance, if you look at the sidebar of !anime@ani.social, you will see that posts are retained on piefed.social for 365 days.
The communities you have listed don't have a retention policy in the sidebar, so I don't believe this is the issue. Most likely it is due to federation not starting until a certain point.
I know that rimu was actively working on an archiving feature for piefed, but I think this feature isn't live yet. The archiving would basically "archive" old posts in object storage instead of deleting them. So, if somebody does try to load up an old post, it might take a hair longer to load as it is unarchived, but it wouldn't be deleted and inaccessible.
As for automatic deletion of older posts...this is something that a piefed admin can do on a community by community basis. When it is turned on for a community, that retention policy is listed in the community sidebar. For instance, if you look at the sidebar of !anime@ani.social, you will see that posts are retained on piefed.social for 365 days.
Okay then it's fine. I was afraid it was a compulsory thing. I wouldn't consider importing my Lemmy communities on Piefed if it forgot old post.
Pulling in those 50 posts works most of the time but sometimes, for unknown reasons, it fails and only some posts get mirrored.
Okay. Well I was just curious. I suppose all the posts will show up after I migrate the communities over here.
Thanks!
the posts will show up after I migrate the communities over here
Community migration doesn't backfill like this. Instead, it simply reassigns all the posts that the instance has in the old community to the newly migrated community. So, if there are important posts/comments that aren't federated over yet, you should force that federation before going through the migration.
To force federation of a post/comment in piefed, go to the community on its home instance and locate the post/comment that you want to bring into piefed. Copy the canonical link from that post comment. This is the link that the little fediverse icon points to (it's a little version of this logo):
Then, go over to the community on piefed, and near the bottom of the sidebar, there is a link to "Retrieve a post from the original server". Click that and paste in that canonical link you grabbed. Piefed should go out and pull over the post/comment that the link points to. One thing to note is that you can't pull a comment that is a reply to another comment without first pulling what it is in reply to.
Wow thanks. It's less obvious than the Youtube video makes it out to be.
Your comment should be stickied somewhere.
EDIT: I'm retrieving posts from the original SDF community one by one (good thing it's a small community with low bandwidth 🙂) and I notice that, while the posts appear, the original downvotes/upvotes aren't. copied over. I don't really care, but I figured I'd mention it.
while the posts appear, the original downvotes/upvotes aren't
This is a limitation of the api and is also what happens when force-federating content from lemmy to lemmy instances as well. TBH, including all the vote information for each post/comment is probably overkill and would bloat the api responses a lot.
When you are using an app/frontend to browse lemmy/piefed, the vote totals are displayed, that is simple enough. However, on the backend, each vote has a bunch of information attached to it like user/instance/timestamp/etc. All that information is not included when force-federating content, thus the lack of votes after being federated over.
Well, the overall score was reflected on those original posts piefed.social mirrored by itself. So it did work at least once. It's those extra posts I forced Piefed to retrieve manually that all came with the default score of 1.
Like I said, it doesn't really matter. But ideally when I finally decide to relocate the communities, I'd like the Piefed copies to be identical. But the scoring is not important: what I really care about is the content and that made it across, now that I finished the retrieve job manually. So it's all good.
Then, go over to the community on piefed, and near the bottom of the sidebar, there is a link to "Retrieve a post from the original server".
Some posts seem to not be retrievable, yet they exist when you follow the canonical links and the Lemmy instances aren't blocvked.
This one for instance:
Any idea why?
It's mostly based on when the first PieFed user joins. But when they join PieFed attempts to mirror the last 50 posts in that community and if it's a quiet community some of those posts will be very old.
Pulling in those 50 posts works most of the time but sometimes, for unknown reasons, it fails and only some posts get mirrored.
Israelis rally for end to Gaza war and release of captives
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/34825184
By MEE staff
Published date: 17 August 2025 11:52 BST
Israeli police arrested at least 22 protesters on Sunday as nationwide demonstrations and strikes called for an end to the war in Gaza and the release of captives.Demonstrators blocked several roads in Tel Aviv, including the highway connecting the city with Jerusalem. Activists set tyres on fire and caused traffic jams, while protest organisers and the main campaign group representing the families of captives called for a general strike on Sunday.
The Hostages and Missing Families Forum said in a statement that protesters would "shut down the country today [Sunday] with one clear call: Bring back the 50 hostages, end the war".
Israelis rally for end to Gaza war and release of captives
By MEE staff
Published date: 17 August 2025 11:52 BSTIsraeli police arrested at least 22 protesters on Sunday as nationwide demonstrations and strikes called for an end to the war in Gaza and the release of captives.Demonstrators blocked several roads in Tel Aviv, including the highway connecting the city with Jerusalem. Activists set tyres on fire and caused traffic jams, while protest organisers and the main campaign group representing the families of captives called for a general strike on Sunday.
The Hostages and Missing Families Forum said in a statement that protesters would "shut down the country today [Sunday] with one clear call: Bring back the 50 hostages, end the war".
Russia orders state-backed MAX messenger app, a WhatsApp rival, pre-installed on phones and tablets
- 'National messenger' to be pre-installed on devices
- New app is being integrated with government services
- Critics say it's a spy app, state media deny that
- WhatsApp and Telegram are under regulatory pressure
MOSCOW, Aug 21 (Reuters) - A Russian state-backed messenger application called MAX, a rival to WhatsApp that critics say could be used to track users, must be pre-installed on all mobile phones and tablets from next month, the Russian government said on Thursday.
The decision to promote MAX comes as Moscow is seeking greater control over the internet space as it is locked in a standoff with the West over Ukraine, which it casts as part of an attempt to shape a new world order.
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Tens of thousands of protesters gather in Tel Aviv to demand end to Gaza war
Tens of thousands of demonstrators have gathered in Tel Aviv to call for an end to the war in Gaza and the release of hostages, one of the largest demonstrations in Israel since the start of the fighting in October 2023.
The rally on Sunday evening was the culmination of a day of nationwide protests and a general strike to pressure the government to halt the military campaign. “Bring them all home! Stop the war!” shouted the vast crowd, which had converged on the so-called Hostage Square in Tel Aviv plaza – a focal point for protesters throughout the war.
Hundreds of thousands of protesters gather in Tel Aviv to demand end to Gaza war
One of largest rallies in Israel since start of conflict follows general strike to press government to stop military actionGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
Trump, With Tariffs and Threats, Tries to Strong-Arm Nations to Retreat on Climate Goals
The president has made no secret of his distaste for wind and solar in America. Now he’s taking his fossil fuel agenda overseas.
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Drugmakers Hail Early Wins in AI-Driven Transformation of Manufacturing
Drugmakers Hail Early Wins in AI-Driven Transformation of Manufacturing
Companies have claimed improvements to yield, batch consistency and output while acknowledging the risks and challenges created by the technology.Nick Paul Taylor (BioSpace)
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Drugmakers Hail Early Wins in AI-Driven Transformation of Manufacturing
Drugmakers Hail Early Wins in AI-Driven Transformation of Manufacturing
Companies have claimed improvements to yield, batch consistency and output while acknowledging the risks and challenges created by the technology.Nick Paul Taylor (BioSpace)
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New C.D.C. Director Resists Ouster as Other Officials Resign
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is said to have demanded that the director, Susan Monarez, either quit or be fired. Her lawyers say she won’t resign.
Democrats are rightly calling for Kennedy's removal:
I had serious doubts about CDC Director Monarez’s willingness to stand up against RFK Jr.’s personal mission to destroy public health in America—I’m glad that I was wrong.If there are any adults left in the White House: we cannot let RFK Jr. burn what's left of CDC. FIRE HIM.
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in reply to onslaught545 • • •Have you tried to fight through the endurance issue? That's my plan. I'm scared shitless of the downward spiral so I hope to get my ass out.
Wife and I took a walk last night, and that's the least I usually do. She couldn't tonight even though she's recovering better than I.
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in reply to shalafi • • •I did that. Do not recommend. I ended up bedridden, because every time I pushed it I would get worse.
I recommend resting and letting your body get better.
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in reply to FundMECFS • • •Thanks! I have "emphysema light" (doctor's words) and if I sit on my ass too long, well, it's not good. I have to constantly move, and move hard, or I go downhill. Hence the question.
I've improved much since I wrote the question. We're hitting the river tomorrow, see how it goes. Manhandling my 10' boat, battery, trolling motor and other gear is going to be a challenge.
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in reply to shalafi • • •Glad to hear your getting better.
Do read this though.
PEM affects a good third of people with LC. And knowing the signs so you know not to push through it is very important because pushing through it can lead to well. Being like me, bedridden since two years.
s4me.info/docs/PEM_Factsheet.p…
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in reply to shalafi • • •I do. I caught it in March 2020, yo-yoed in health for a while, and had some surgeries and a treatable cancer which my doctors suspect were related to Long COVID. I’m pretty well marinated in the info, and am happy to share whatever you want to know.
This page from Yale is a great general orientation, though there’s a lot more LC sufferers would want you to know. This “What to Do When I Have Covid” guide from Clean Air Club will be useful.
The best place I know of on Lemmy for a discussion is !chronicillness@lemmy.world. Mastodon has an active and expansive community of people affected by Long COVID.
Condolences on your illness! I hope you’ll have better luck.
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