In July 2021, a sudden drop in Tor usage in Turkmenistan called our attention. Tor would come to understand that this marked the beginning of a new era of censorship and restriction in this post-Soviet country. But let's rewind...
Over the years, the Tor Project has called for action to run more bridges, Snowflake proxies, while we've investigated and adapted our anti-censorship strategies, and shared information about online censorship in Turkmenistan.
Modern censorship circumvention systems are generally built around the concept of "collateral damage", where a censor cannot block access without blocking the entire internet or popular online services. However, in Turkmenistan, the censors' behavior has been strikingly different. They have openly blocked vast parts of the internet without concern for the collateral consequences, sparking curiosity: why do Turkmenistan's censors seem unbothered by the collateral damage their actions cause?
There is a huge decision facing Michigan voters in an already huge 2026 election: whether to vote to convene a constitutional convention (also known as a “Con-Con”) to rewrite the state’s entire constitution. The implications are enormous.
Verizon has confirmed to customers in stores and online that its network is having an issue on Saturday. Many people have been unable to connect and make or receive calls for hours, while DownDetector’s tracker peaked in the afternoon at around 3:30PM ET with more than 20,000 reports. Some customers report their service has continued to function throughout the day, so it’s unclear what the cause is exactly.
Downdetector’s outage map showed hotspots in many cities, and Verizon didn’t specifically list affected areas. On X, the @VerizonSupport account confirmed the issue in response to customers’ questions, but didn’t have additional details on restoration or how widespread it is
The rabid amount of Linux fanboyism on Lemmy is quite off putting in general. Any conversation about Microsoft gets brigaded with “Just use Linux!” even if the conversation has nothing to do with it. It makes it a pain to have any decent discourse about things.
Think people who got on lemmy originally lean techy (and thus more likely to use linux and be passionate about it), and people who joined after the IPO thing have more diverse reasons for abandoning reddit.
I am a professional designer with two decades of experience and I gotta admit, you're smoking crack if you think GIMP (the project that is almost entirely held back by its stupid name) is superior to Photoshop.
It might be able to get the job done for small tasks, but it is not a serious tool for serious people. I'm sorry. I'm as pro-FLOSS as anyone can get, and even I recognize that right now there's just no competition in the design department. Affinity is Mac-only, and comes with its own problematic aspects.
Except it really isn't, unfortunately. As someone who fucking hates adobe and Photoshop, GIMP falls far short. Photoshop is made to work as part of a toolkit, and GIMP isn't interested in any form of compatibility. Take, for example, an issue that's been around (and in the bug tracker) since the release of 2.10. Something about the way GIMP handles colors means that most programs can't use alpha channels output by GIMP correctly, and see it as having much higher contrast than it's meant to. The stance seems to be that this is intended behavior. However, this is clearly not the case, as even when only using GIMP, re-importing the image shows that, even though the contrast is correct, data was still lost.
Show me an OSS alternative to Excel that actually does tables, one of the most used, basic functions in excel.
I use tables every day for things like:I have a list of movies, sort them by producer. Or by production date. Or main actor. All these require a a single click on a column, something Open Office devs refuse to ever implement.
I use Linux every day for my servers, but not as my desktop. There's too much stuff like this that I don't have time for.
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agree 100% on gimp. It took me about a year to get used to it and now I have a free license for photoshop at work, but I still prefer gimp 2.8 on my work computer with windows. At home I use Gimp on linux all day nearly every day and do texture editing for games all of the time. Very productive tool.
I think its mostly sunk cost and "i dont want to invest time to learn new things" that keeps people on windows.
Work is a separate thing. My work laptop runs windows, a matter I dont have a say in. But for personal use cases? I feel there are exceptionally few that are more than "i have to change the programs I use and learn how new ones work". And if that's too major a barrier for someone to overcome, good for them. The least they can do is say "I dont want to use Linux because its too much effort".
To a lot of people it's difficult. Vendor lock-in, support, cartels (the old kind) and familiarity are very important factors in choosing what you're going to use to compute things.
We should embrace the new ones and build things that they are going to use.
There are legitimate reasons not to use Linux, but the user interface is not one of them, Linux can be way friendlier UI-wise than windows, see Desktops like cinnamon.
The only issue I have with my Index is that linux somehow prioritizes it over my main monitor when booting so i have to plug it in after booting and then all works fine.
Yeah, linux can be almost anything you want it to be. It'll run faster and look and feel just the same as windows, if not better. The only bad thing, and I say this as someone who's still on windows and will switch soon^tm^, is that there's a lot of work that comes with that.
A friend of mine who's all about linux is always fixing something about his installation. Though from what I know, he's using Arch, which apparently is less stable/needs more work to get going (something about bleeding edge).
Only reason why I haven't changed yet is because of VR and adobe programs. As soon as VR is a bit more seamless and I get replacements for adobe I'm off of windows.
WiVRn from quest app store, wivrn desktop app. I also needed xrizer nightly for secondary gun mode to work in half life alyx. Can't guarantee much else though since I only really play beat saber.
Yeah same for me with my rift cv1 the current driver altough better than before is still pretty bad in comparison to windows like 50fps at best and with other drivers it gets 28 fps.
What Linux are you using? I wanted to do the switch soon to either zorin or buzzite, but I would also like to keep using my valve index. Reading this here makes me reluctant to complete the switch.
I am using opensuse but it is hard to build monado or openhmd with it necause some packages you need to get from fedora because they dont exist or have a version tag with _SUSE which makes it not see that the package is there. I would recommend something more mainstream: Arch, fedora, debian and etc. But bazzite should work I think I succeefully ran my rift on it for a little bit.
If you truly believe a Mac is locked down more than North Korea you need to do some research. And I pray you never find out how locked down North Korea is first hand.
I didn't say that I did. Please don't put words into my mouth.
There’s a million billion reasons to knock MacOS, but saying it’s too locked down in a thread about Linux is wild. They’re both Unix based OSes. They’re siblings. If you’re comfortable enough with a command line to terminal your way through managing Linux then you’re capable enough to terminal your way through MacOS and get it to do anything you could get Linux to do.
And I hope you're not dumb enough to stay on 10 after end of support. The 0-day fallout for the Nintendo 3DS was pretty big, people had been sitting on exploits for months waiting for the final EOL patch to drop. For a higher-value target like Windows 10? It's gonna be terrifying. Get "Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2024" from the mass grave if Windows is the only OS that works for you - it has lower hardware requirements and significantly less crapware. But don't stay on 10 past EOL.
Microsoft owns GitHub, which hosts mass graves. If they wanted people to stop using Windows and Office for free, they could make that happen by flipping a few switches. Given a choice between "pirating" Microsoft products and using an alternative, Microsoft wants you to use their stuff for free. Anything but give Linux any oxygen.
It's Microsoft's own activation mechanism, not some backdoor crack. The point is they know full well it exists and are doing nothing to curb it, because they don't want FOSS picking up steam. Microsoft doesn't make their money off consumers. They make their money off enterprises that don't view Linux environments as feasible because all their workers have ever known is Windows.
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Ah. The fuck key. That's the one that most had it's rounds imo. Good memories. Even though I had a legit windows for free back then thanks to my student account.
Doesn't windows eventually shut down every hour when you don't activate it? Or is that just their shitty development VM that does that so I have to reinstall it every 30 days?
i think the only things these days for 'unactivated windows' (home, pro editions) is inability to 'customize the desktop' (change wallpaper, theme...) and occasional activation nags.
it doesn't quit working or shutdown (iirc enterprise or server trials do that after they expire, though) or quit getting updates or anything like that.
I highly doubt they can't stop it and slightly suspect they don't want to. You can install any version of Windows (even enterprise), use MASgrave, wipe the whole thing, reinstall it, and it'll pass online activation as genuine. There's just no way that's an accident.
I recently downloaded this file from Audioz (I didn't run the exe, just extracted the rar.) Check out the comments, many people have run it through sandbox environments like any.run or hybrid analysis and gotten iffy results:
This is a popular upload on Audioz and is also listed directly on Team VR's website, so what gives? I thought Team VR was considered safe. Maybe someone experienced needs to look at their stuff a little more closely?
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Indah Water Konsortium is converting treated human waste into fertiliser, part of Malaysia’s 2030 goal to cut landfill waste and boost sustainability. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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Alt text: Meme caption: "When you forget to bring your reusable bags to the grocery store", below is an image of Dexter from Dexter's laboratory weeping as he strokes a picture of the earth, saying "I have failed you!"
That is way worse than just getting single use if you are just collecting them and not actually using them. Reusable are a net positive only if you actually reuse them hundreds of times.
I'm sure the millionaires and the billionaires are telling themselves the same thing while sitting in their pritave jet en route to the 'grocery' store.
No. I still bring my reusable bag to the store. I never had a car, use a bike or public transit. I 've always been very careful. But it's just very disappointing to see some moderately rich asshole ruin all of my lifetime efforts in a day. Also, the pandemic showed me that most people don't give a fuck and just wanted to go back to "normal" polluting.
In fact, the whole plastic industry convinced people over the years into cleaning and recycling it instead of reducing its use. Also, I'm sure some of you know that lots of reusable bags are just thicker plastic, that they need to be reused a whole lots of times before being "ecological", that some people like to collect them, and that it can ends up being worse than using disposable ones.
We just can't stop the consumption, but somehow, bringing a reusable bag will remove the guilt.
I still feel very guilty and like it's a failure every time I have to use a car, but that's just me because everyone is encouraging me to get one and use them. Just get an electric one. They are heavier and require like tones of batteries to move 1.5 person around, and their reusable bags, but they are "ecological"!
Google's emissions have risen by 50% in a few years, mostly because of AI. So I try to avoid using "AI". But apparently, most people don't have those concerns.
When I see all the ways the people around me pollute, consume and dispose, the reusable bag is low on the list of things I feel guilty about.
Fear not for there is still enough room in my backpack for some essentials. I may have to carry my water bottle in hand, but this is a sacrifice I am willing to make for the greater good.
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This is why I keep boxes from in the back of my truck and just load them up, I hope to find industrial milk crates to replace the cardboard.
Also before folks come at me I drive an 01 Toyota Tacoma which has gas mileage comparable to a particularly inefficient motorcycle. Its the best I can afford.
Last I remember, a cloth bag needs to be used for a minimum of 1000 grocery trips for it to even begin to offset the environmental cost of making it.
Now, I've had mine for 5 years. So I'm making good progress.
But I do miss the plastic ones just because I always used them as garbage bags. The tax on plastic grocery bags are nuts. They cost a buck each. Unless you buy 50 of them for garbage use... then they're all of a sudden dirt cheap and so thin it feels like breathing on them will poke a hole.
So one cloth bag is equal to 1,000 plastic bags? That doesn't seem right. Certainly it can't be taken into effect that garbage created by the 1,000 plastic bags.
Yes I understand the cotton bag will take a lot more than a plastic bag to create. I'm just doubting the Thousand to one number. But again what I'm really really doubting is that they've taken into account the effect of a thousand bags have after they're made. Which is rather the point of switching to the cotton bags in the first place. Or other types of bags by the way they don't all have to be cotton. I've never owned a cotton one. Not sure why that has to be our only example here.
Here is some info from the UN. They take into account a lot of factors beyond carbon output, including acidification of oceans and land use changes. So the 1000 uses is how many uses to be better in all categories. For carbon output, it is around 150 uses.
I guess it depends which categories are more important to you. Plastic is obviously going to be superior in agricultural run-off issues. Cloth is obviously superior in micro plastic emissions. They don't evaluate microplastics though, so it might be skewed in favour of plastic.
More reusable and personal than a factory bag, and you already know how to mend it to keep it going. Uses less raw resources than a plastic bag, as it was going to the trash anyways. It's a great beginner sewing project.
I have this folding/ collapsible crate I keep in my trunk of my car. ( yeah I know car) I love it it holds like 6 bags worth of stuff. Makes 2 trips bringing things in and out of the car into one( no need to do the Heman 10 bags in one hand thing). I always forget bring in the bags I keep in my car but I enjoy using the crate so there is that.
Also I know the crate probably uses same amount of plastic as like a million bags or something. But I have had the crate before the bag thing became an issue and use it for things like camping and day trips. Also I now buy small plastic bags to pick up my dogs shit instead of using the bags I got from the store. Also buy bags for my bathroom now. I wonder how much plastic I have saved by not using plastic bags at the store...
I think it was all a scam to get me to pay for them. Just like the plastic straw. Cool you gave me a paper straw to save the planet or what ever and even charged me for it but then you give me my drink in a FUCKING PLASTIC CUP. WTF. FUCK YOU.
Happened to me today. I just bring everything to my car in the cart, pit ‘em in the trunk and bag ‘em when I get home, to carry inside. It’s not that bad.
This definitely reads like you're saying teens are ignoring planetary extinction and just letting it happen, but I think you intended the opposite lmao
Is there even a small kernel of truth backing this up? What 'something else' is there other than laying flat?
Or like, are there any last-ditch options for some chronically-ill middle-aged homebody like me? A transhumanist cult, a real-life equivalent to a Rimworld colony, some like-minded individuals living on a boat who can make it to my local port that need a sweeper or mediocre heat-intolerant stirfry-cook who can't swim? No?
Half-ethical brain preservation testing, put me in a The Matrix? I'd roll the dice, the bar is really low at this point.
There is. Gen Z is the most progressive generation, from stocks to our purchases to our dreams (e.g. living a simple life in a farm) we are creating the hyperstructure required for a new economic base. A friend, who doesn’t even know what solarpunk is and is very startup oriented wanted to created what is basically a small commune with other friends. The dominoes are falling into place. What you can do is find your own role in the future.
Everything everyone has told you about how things work and the fairness of the system is a lie. Good luck dealing with that.
Also, all the adults who you were brought up to look at as the keepers of the world are actively making it worse and/or going insane.
You have no money, no power, no experience, you're outnumbered and under-resourced, and those same screwed up adults have been actively sabotaging your mental acuity and development for more or less your entire lives.
So you'd better get to fixing it! What's wrong with you lazy bums?"
The United Nations is closely monitoring the situation in Syria, particularly the escalation of violence, and continues to document serious violations, including those related to Israeli actions, a UN official said, Anadolu reports.
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Scientists at Mount Sinai have created an artificial intelligence system that can predict how likely rare genetic mutations are to actually cause disease.
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Scientists at Mount Sinai have created an artificial intelligence system that can predict how likely rare genetic mutations are to actually cause disease.
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You can run llama.cpp on CPU. LLM inference doesn't need any features only GPUs typically have, that's why it's possible to make even simpler NPUs that can still run the same models. GPUs just tend to be faster. If the GPU in question is not faster than an equally priced CPU, you should use the CPU (better OS support).
Edit: I looked at a bunch real-world prices and benchmarks, and read the manual from Huawei and my new conclusion is that this is the best product on the market if you want to run a model at modest speed that doesn't fit in 32GB but does in 96GB. Running multiple in parallel seems to range from unsupported to working poorly, so you should only expect to use one.
Original rest of the comment, made with the assumption that this was slower than it is, but had better drivers: ~~The only benefit to this product over CPU is that you can slot multiple of them and they parallelise without needing to coordinate anything with the OS. It's also a very linear cost increase as long as you have the PCIe lanes for it. For a home user with enough money for one or two of these, they would be much better served spending the money on a fast CPU and 256GB system RAM.~~
~~If not AI, then what use case do you think this serves better?~~
The point is that the GPU is designed for parallel computation. This happens to be useful for graphics, AI, and any other problem that can be expressed as a lot of independent calculations that can be executed in parallel. It's a completely different architecture from a traditional CPU. This particular card is meant for running LLM models, and it will do it orders of magnitude faster than running this stuff on a CPU.
300i bilibili.com/video/BV15NKJzVEu… M4 github.com/itsmostafa/inferenc… It's comparable to an M4, maybe a single order of magnitude faster than a ~1000 euro 9960X, at most, not multiple. And if we're considering the option of buying used, since this is a brand new product and less available in western markets, the CPU-only option with an EPYC and more RAM will probably be a better local LLM computer for the cost of 2 of these and a basic computer.
I agree with your conclusion, but these are LPDDR4X, not DDR4 SDRAM. It's significantly faster. No fans should also be seen as a positive, since they're assuming the cards aren't going to melt. It costs them very little to add visible active cooling to a 1000+ euro product.
According to this article hardware-corner.net/huawei-atl… This card consists of two processors with a bandwidth of 204GB/s each Compare that with the RTX 3090 which has 936GB/s bandwidth, It really negates the extra memory capacity that will heavily bottleneck the processors.
That's still faster than your expensive RGB XMP gamer RAM DDR5 CPU-only system, and you can depending on what you're running saturate the buses independently, doubling the speed and matching a 5060 or there about. I disagree that you can categorise the speed as negating the capacity, as they're different axis. You can run bigger models on this. Smaller models will run faster on a cheaper Nvidia. You aren't getting 5080 performance and 6x the RAM for the same price, but I don't think that's a realistic ask either.
Can you train on it too? I tried Pytorch on AMD once and it was awful. They promised mountains but delivered nothing. Newer activation functions were all broken.
llama.cpp is inference only, for which AMD works great too after converting to ONNX. But training was awful on AMD in the past.
It takes a long time for large companies to change their purchases. Many of these datacenter contracts are locked in for years. You can't just change them overnight.
CUDA is not equivalent to AI training. Nvida offers useful developer tools for using their hardware, but you don't have to use them. You can train on any GPU or even CPU. The projects you've looked at (?) just chose to use CUDA because it was the best fit for what hardware they had on hand, and were able to tolerate the vendor lock-in.
I'm not saying you can deploy these in place of Nvidia cards where the tooling is built with Nvidia in mind. I'm saying that if you're writing code you can do machine learning projects without CUDA, including training.
I kinda want an individual consumer-friendly, low-end/mid-end alternative that can run my games and video editing software for very small projects.. so far I'm only eyeing the Lisuan G100, which seems to fit that bill..
This seems cool though, other than AI, it could be used for distributed cloud computing or something of that sort
llama and pytorch support it right now. CUDA isn't available on its own as far as I can tell. I'd like to try one out but the bandwidth seems to be ass. About 25% as fast as a 3090. It's a really good start for them though.
In response to the protests, social media app TikTok said Saturday it had temporarily suspended its live feature for "a few days" in Indonesia, where it has more than 100 million users.
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Interesting experience, this has happened twice now. When house looses power I am still online now that I have moved to Fiber.
It feels a bit eerie. My network and computers, TV, media center, etc are all on UPS so they just keep going. Things just get really quite which is interrupted by just the periodic beeps of the UPS systems.
Does anyone know why my new Fiber connection does this but my old system which was bonded DSL did not? I know back in the early days of DSL I could do this, but some where along the way it stopped being power outage resistant.
This paper presents implementations that match and, where possible, exceed current quantum factorisation records using a VIC-20 8-bit home computer from 1981, an abacus, and a dog. We hope that this work will inspire future efforts to match any further quantum factorisation records, should they arise.
I legitimately hate it. Trash font. Hard to read and fucking ugly. It looks like it’s almost an OCR font.
As much as I hate Google, I have to admit Roboto is a great font. Same with Microsoft and Segoe UI.
But, there will never, ever, ever be a better font than Palatino. Adobe’s Garamond Pro (and most Garamond knockoffs) are close, but Palatino is just amazing in every way. Specifically, Palatino Linotype is the best Palatino version.
That being said, Palatino doesn’t make a great display font. For that, I would much prefer Cantarell over that Nokia font.
Also, Ubuntu fonts are S tier. I don’t care if you disagree.
Out of the three fonts you mentioned that you liked (Palatino Linotype, Roboto, Cantarell), only Palatino Linotype has a true visual difference between a capital i, a lowercase L, and the number one. However, the differences between a lowercase L and the number 1 we're not significant enough for me (example: hello and he11o looked similar enough to be confused as the same when seen on their own). Other than that, I really liked the font.
I didn't understand what 'S tier' meant, so I didn't want to assume you liked it, but I actually use Ubuntu as my standard font. Looking for a new one, though, just to change things up.
There's been something of a fad in the last few years of organizing things into tier lists. As far as I can tell it comes from the gaming community, ranking player characters or items or weapons or whatever. The tiers follow the letter grading scale I think most of the English speaking world will have some understanding of; A through F without E with F being a failing grade. Apparently because Japan, an S tier for Superior is added above A.
A fun implementation of this is TierZoo. One of those Youtubers who is also on Nebula, his whole gimmick is he does educational videos (and lifeforms in general) in a very video game discussion style. As if he's a veteran player of an MMORPG called "Outside" in which every organism is a player character. If you want to get a good grip on the tier list phenomenon he provides many examples.
Gentium is a nice FLOSS alternative. As for Garamonds, Ysabeau is a beautiful sans serif Garamond and Cormorant is a serif Garamond by the same creator
Oh, I forgot about Cormorant! Yes, I absolutely love that font. I did my wedding invitations entirely in Cormorant and Cormorant Sans for the titles. Thanks for reminding me, and letting me know about the others! Font nerds unite!
I don't know you but I love you for that Palatino statement. I've used it since forever (ie. back when Macs were black and white) and just love the curves of the italic style. These days, on Linux, I use Tex Gyre Pagella for basically all my documents.
For UI like menus and such, I'm quite nostalgic for the Chicago font - yes, pixelated and aliased and everything.
Is the second line from the bottom in a smaller font than the rest? Apparently this person has never hand drawn any sort of banner or poster before. Classic mistake.
*as long as its a font you like you dont care. Plenty of easy to read fonts that you would absolutely hate if they were enabled by default. Luckily the people who pick default fonts like fonts enough to choose good ones.
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[url=https://community.nodebb.org/user/julian]@julian@community.nodebb.org[/url] does NodeBB have an out-of-the-box TOS or code of conduct or something similar, or do you want to put one together for ActivityPub.space specifically?
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julian@community.nodebb.org does NodeBB have an out-of-the-box TOS or code of conduct or something similar, or do you want to put one together for ActivityPub.space specifically?
My experience in the past has been that it's a lot better to have a CoC in place before you need it, rather than trying to write one as a crisis is unfolding.
I think if this server is going to be linked to from the SocialCG and other W3C sub-groups, it should probably have a stated code of conduct that's compatible with the W3C's Positive Work Environment policy:
That expedited removal process has for nearly three decades been used to quickly return migrants apprehended at the border. But in January, the administration expanded its scope to cover non-citizens apprehended anywhere in the United States who could not show they had been in the country for two years.
The policy mirrored one the Trump administration adopted in 2019 that Democratic President Joe Biden's administration later rescinded, and immigration authorities have made "aggressive" use of the new removal power in recent months, Cobb said.
But she said that unlike the population of migrants traditionally subject to expedited removal who were detained shortly after crossing the border, the group now being targeted had long since entered the country.
"That means that they have a weighty liberty interest in remaining here and therefore must be afforded due process under the Fifth Amendment," she said. "When it exponentially expanded the population subject to expedited removal, the Government did not, however, in any way adapt its procedures to this new group of people."
A US appeals court has ruled that most tariffs issued by US President Donald Trump are illegal, setting up a potential legal showdown that could upend his foreign policy agenda.
The ruling affects Trump's so-called "reciprocal" tariffs, imposed on most countries around the world, as well as other tariffs slapped on China, Mexico and Canada.
In a 7-4 decision, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit rejected Trump's argument that the tariffs were permitted under an emergency economic powers act, calling them "invalid as contrary to law".
The ruling will not take effect until 14 October, to give the administration time to ask the US Supreme Court to take up the case.
Brandon Johnson will set out guidance for the city’s agencies and law enforcement, CNN reported, “in the midst of escalating threats from the federal government”.
Last week, the White House requested that a US military base on the outskirts of Chicago be made available to assist with immigration operations, as the Trump administration plans a broader takeover of Democratic-run “sanctuary cities”.
Johnson’s order “affirms” that Chicago police will not “collaborate with federal agents on joint law enforcement patrols, arrest operations, or other law enforcement duties including civil immigration enforcement”, CNN reported.
It also says city departments should “pursue all available legal and legislative avenues to resist coordinated efforts from the federal government”.
Anagrammi, doppi sensi, giochi di parole: questo blog è nato per loro, ma tutto ha un'origine.
I doppi sensi e i giochi di parole sono sempre stati la nostra passione ma nel tempo abbiamo scoperto un modo nuovo di approcciarsi alla scrittura per far riflettere e nascondere messaggi “subliminali” nelle frasi: gli anagrammi che, se usati bene, diventano un mezzo di satira potentissimo.
101 Anagrammi Zen
Cosa vuoi che sia un anagramma, si prendono le lettere di una parola e se ne creano altre di senso compiuto cambiando le posizioni di consonanti e vocali. Eravamo comunque convinti che dagli arci-noti “donna” “danno”, “mela” “male”, “la verità rivelata” o “teatro” “attore” non si potesse andare troppo lontano.
Alla fine però ci siamo dovuti ricredere quando abbiamo conosciuto un libro “101 anagrammi zen” da cui si è sviluppata una comunità molto attiva sui social commerciali (X, Facebook, Instagram).
Il primo incontro con 101 anagrammi zen è stato una notizia del Corriere Della Sera su Gianni Morandi e nei commenti al post in Facebook era scritto così:
101 anagrammi zen:
“Gianni Morandi —> i manoni grandi”.
L’artista in questione ha davvero le mani grandi, e con quell’anagramma abbiamo capito quanto tali giochi di parole possano diventare un’arma potentissima, perché se parlando di Adamo ed Eva esce fuori il solito “mela = male”, ecco arrivare “social = il caos”! Oppure “Piero Angela = genial opera”, “Giacomo Leopardi = godiamoci parole” (ma anche “godi, porco maiale”)!
In seguito, sfogliando la pagina, abbiamo trovato satira potente verso politici e personaggi sportivi ma anche frasi a effetto l’una stereotipo dell’altra.
Ci sono persone secondo le quali un uomo e una donna non possono essere amici? Perfetto! Noi non siamo d’accordo con un simile pensiero perché siamo un uomo e una donna amici da diversi anni, ma un partecipante al network degli anagrammi ha creato un gioco molto carino che noi riportiamo così com’è, scusandoci per non citare l’autore del quale ci sfugge purtroppo il nome:
“L’amicizia tra uomo e donna?” —> “T’amo, inizia un caldo amore”.
Ma come si creano questi giochi di parole?
Fin dai primi giorni in cui abbiamo conosciuto “101 anagrammi zen” ci chiedevamo come fosse possibile ottenere la frase anagrammata come continuazione, sensata, di quella originale e nel tempo abbiamo capito il trucco: prendi l’originale, estrai una parola chiave da cui partire e sposta le lettere; sicuramente, l’autore dell’anagramma sull’amicizia, avrà estratto “amore” dalla frase “l’amicizia tra uomo e donna” e piano piano ha ricomposto gli altri termini con le lettere mancanti.
Nulla di magico quindi, è tutta questione di quali siano le idee dell’enigmista! Infatti noi potremmo continuare l’anagramma ponendo le dovute condizioni. Amore sì, ma…
L’amicizia tra uomo e donna? —>
T’amo, inizia un caldo amore! —>
Iniziamo, ma cada l’untore!
Giusto perché se l’amicizia è con Valentino Talluto non si metta in testa di fare strani scherzi perché lui addosso ha l’HIV quello cattivo, non quello senziente dei nostri racconti.
Ma parliamo d’altro. Gli omofobi quando si lamentano di venir silenziati per le loro farneticazioni, mettono sempre in mezzo “il pensiero unico”.
Questo è fin troppo banale, già “eros + peni = pensiero” sarebbe sufficiente a identificare i soggetti ma ce ne sta uno ancora di più esplicito:
Eros + i peni in culo = il pensiero unico
Oppure “l’unico pensiero? —> Eros, peni in cu…” Insomma basta, ci siamo capiti.
Abbiano solo il coraggio di negarlo, adesso! Meglio che ci auto-censuriamo.
Dopodiché, essendo noi un blog a tema “stigma e HIV”, abbiamo accettato la sfida creando il personaggio virus HIV senziente che aiutasse gli umani a risolvere i problemi. E come? Con gli enigmi, naturalmente! Solo con la pratica si riescono a trovare giochi coinvolgenti anche se, alla fine, non li usiamo spesso perché non tutti amano fermarsi a riflettere quando leggono.
Costruire un anagramma positivo
Il più semplice: “genitore uno —> untore genio”, oppure “chi vuole —> culo e HIV?” Non necessita una laurea in enigmistica per arrivarci. Diverso invece è per un evento musicale su cui abbiamo trovato un messaggio pazzesco.
Il cantante Elio e il figlio di Enzo Jannacci avevano organizzato una serie di concerti estivi chiamata:
“Ci vuole orecchio in tour”.
Va bene, “in tour” è fin troppo banale. Sposta la “u” all’inizio e la “i” alla fine, senza toccare le lettere in mezzo: “untori” è sotto gli occhi di tutti.
Dopodiché scomponendo “orecchio” esce “io cerco” lasciando fuori l’h, che noi porteremo sulle parole precedenti: “io cerco untori, chi vuole”.
Ma considerando “chi vuole” come anagramma di “culo e HIV”…
“Ci vuole orecchio in tour”, vale a dire “io cerco culo, untori e HIV”. Bene, complimenti. Annuncio sporcaccione servito in un piatto d’argento.
Oppure su un giornale ci è capitato sotto gli occhi questo: “a scuola positivo”, riferito a un ragazzino che si era presentato in classe col covid e aveva fatto strage.
E noi per non farci mancare l’anagramma abbiamo usato le lettere in questo modo:
“Si, culo a posto, vai —> a scuola positivo!”
Immaginando la scena del ragazzotto col sedere per aria e chi gli dà un bello sculaccione.
Amilcare Pollini
Riportiamo dal CICAP (Comitato Italiano per il Controllo delle Affermazioni sulle Pseudoscienze) la storia di Amilcare Pollini. Questo personaggio, morto nel 1957, si riteneva “il duomo di Milano” (dio più uomo) insomma un sedicente nuovo Messia. Poi non importa se la parola “duomo” deriva da “Domus” cioè casa, e con eventuali incroci fra uomo e divinità poco abbia a che fare.
Il tizio, influenzato dalla moglie “filosofa esoterica”, si è inventato una teoria secondo cui “ogni parola rivela la sua funzione” e “la lotta fra Dio e il demonio si nasconde nelle parole”.
Perfetto amico, per te l’anagramma maschilista “donna” = “danno” è azzeccato ma intanto caro Amilcare fatti creare un personaggio ispirato a te.
Fonte: “Sì, il duomo di Milano sono io“, articolo che invitiamo a leggere per conoscere la curiosa storia di questo enigmatico personaggio.
Concludiamo omaggiandolo con la sua passione, “Amilcare Pollini —> il clima in parole”.
While Americans lament their crumbling infrastructure, China is rapidly expanding high-speed rail, subway systems, and airports across the country. Chinese tech products, from autonomous vehicles to drones to addiction-inducing algorithms, have won over global consumers and put companies such as BYD, DJI, and TikTok in pole position.
China’s prowess in engineering and manufacturing is now at the center of the U.S.–China rivalry in artificial intelligence. Despite Washington’s efforts to block China from advancing in AI, the country has continued to make progress in developing chips and training state-of-the-art large language models.
Dan Wang moved to Canada at age seven from Yunnan in southwestern China. A former tech analyst at Gavekal Dragonomics, his stints in Hong Kong, Beijing, and Shanghai allowed him to closely observe China’s trajectory. In his new book, Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future, Wang compares the country’s “engineering” state, which favors large-scale manufacturing, with America’s “lawyerly” society, which he believes hinders new construction and development.
Can we agree to have a standard for app deep links on Android (and maybe in other OS's)?
I haven't done my research on the topic, also I am not a mobile or Android developer. But I know there can be links that apps can open.
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Can we agree to have a standard for app deep links on Android (and maybe in other OS's)?
I haven't done my research on the topic, also I am not a mobile or Android developer. But I know there can be links that apps can open.
Maybe every implementation of a GUI for the ActivityPub should have a "open in app" button that will prompt for any of the compatible apps installed on your device tô open that content.
Example 1: I am in this Forum (activitypub.space) and I want to reply to this thread using my Mastodon account. I click the button "open in app" and chose moshidon@floss.social as the app. Then Moshidon shows me the original post on its UI and I can reply using my Mastodon account.
Example 2: I'm browsing Lemmy on voyagerapp@mastodon.social and find a really interesting and funny meme I want to boost on Mastodon. I click the three dots (kebab) button and choose the option "open in another app…". The OS (Android, mainly) prompts me which app I want to open with. Again, I choose Moshidon e boost it to my followers.
It would be a very nice way to integrate these apps. The scheme protocol keyword could be "activitypub".
To allow users to enter your app from links, you must add intent filters for the relevant activities in your app manifest. These intent filters allow deep linking to the content in any of your activities…
The crux of the problem is that these open in app associations are associated by domain... and that the fediverse is split across thousands of domains essentially makes it a non-starter.
For example, take a look at NewPipe. This is the domain association popup.
Yikes!
Unfortunately I am also not an Android developer so I don't have any clue what the solution would be!
That said...! benpate@mastodon.social has been working on something called Activity Intents (w3id.org/fep/3b86) that offloads this from the browser layer and onto the web apps themselves.
It's something that could function as a stopgap until such time that a better solution is found for app-based clients.
Another solution involves the standard OAuth2 login flow to authenticate a user, and then using the ActivityPub API (aka C2S) to perform actions on behalf of the remote user.
I talked about this one a bit in my talk at FediCon.
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Smoke rises over Kyiv, Ukraine, on Aug. 28, 2025, from fires following Russia’s massive missile and drone attack. (Maxym Marusenko / NurPhoto via Getty Images)
‘Moscow’strue answerto peace efforts’ — Russian mass attack on Kyiv kills 25, including children. At least 25 people were killed in the attack on the capital, including four children, authorities said. Three of them were aged 2, 14, and 17.
Ukraine calls emergencyUN Security Councilmeeting over Russian strike on Kyiv. The Ukrainian delegation in New York will reportedly brief the international community about the scale of destruction and will urge an immediate ceasefire and the protection of civilians.
Ukrainian droneсauses firenear Vladimir Putin’s Black Sea palace and winery, media reports. The fire started as a result of a Ukrainian drone attack on Aug. 28 near a village close to Gelendzhik, a Russian resort town on the Black Sea coastline, according to the reports.
Military,NATO backing, sanctions— Zelensky outlines 3 key pillars for Ukraine’s security guarantees. Security guarantees for Ukraine should include provisions related to army funding, agreements with NATO members, and sanctions against Russia, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
Ukraine claims strike on keyRussian facilitysupplying fuel to Moscow’s army.
The pumping station near the village of Naytopovichi in Bryansk Oblast, a Russian region bordering Ukraine and Belarus, was hit overnight on Aug. 29, the Ukrainian military reported.
Large fire seen after Ukrainian drones reportedly strikeoil refineryin Russia’s Krasnodar Krai. Explosions were reported by local residents around 2:30 a.m. local time, amid reports of drones flying overhead. Videos posted to social media appear to show a large blaze emanating from a local oil refinery.
Ukrainian drone strikeshalt operationsat Russia’s Kuibyshevsk refinery, sources tell Reuters. The refinery, operated by Rosneft, saw both of its main crude distillation units — CDU-4 and CDU-5, each with a capacity of 70,000 barrels per day — taken offline in the recent strikes.
‘Supportingmore terror‘ — Ukraine slams Russian flag display at Venice Film Festival. “The organizers prefer to turn a blind eye and further ruin the festival’s reputation,” read the statement issued by Ukraine’s foreign and culture ministries.
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Death toll of Aug. 28 attack on Kyivrises to 25, 2-year old girl and mother among killed. 24-year-old Nadiya Yakymenko and her 2-year-old daughter Angelina were among the 25 people killed in the attack on the capital, the Russia Kills project reported on Aug. 29.
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International response
Hungarian opposition politicianspeaks up in supportfor Ukrainian commander banned by Budapest over oil pipeline attack. Marton Tompos, a representative of the Hungarian oppositional party Momentum, sent €414 in donations to Brovdi’s unit, the 414th Strike UAV Brigade “Birds of Madyar.” He called on Hungarians to do the same.
Patriot components,Starlink upkeep— US approves $329 million in military sales for Ukraine. The United States Department of State approved military sales to Ukraine worth $329.1 million on Aug. 29, for components related to the upkeep of Patriot air defense systems as well as Starlink terminals, the agency announced.
Belgium pledges nearly$120 millionto Ukraine under NATO-led arms scheme.
“This funding goes on top of the 1 billion euros ($1.17 billion) military aid that Belgium has already delivered,” Ukraine’s Defense Minister Denys Shmyhal said.
Two-thirds of Americanspessimisticabout Russia-Ukraine peace prospects, poll shows. Some 22% of respondents said they are very pessimistic about a possible peace deal in Ukraine, while 45% said they are somewhat pessimistic, according to a Gallup poll.
EU member states ready to deploymilitary instructorsto Ukraine after potential truce, Kallas says. Kallas met with the ministers in Copenhagen on Aug. 29 to discuss several issues, including security guarantees for Ukraine. “I welcome that there is broad support today to expand our EU military mission mandate to provide training and advice inside Ukraine after any truce,” Kallas said.
Talks with Ukraine ‘veryproductive and constructive,’ US envoy Witkoff says ahead of Security Council meeting. The meeting was described by Trump administration officials as both a progress report and a reaffirmation of efforts to bring Ukraine and Russia to the table for an eventual peace deal, according to Fox News.
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The bell ringing took place at the Nasdaq headquarters in New York City on Aug. 29, with Ukraine's Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko and Presidential Office Head Andriy Yermak in attendance.
The Energy Department keeps ordering expensive, polluting plants to keep running at the eleventh hour. Here’s what’s on the line through the end of Trump’s term.
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A new study found that more than half of the world’s straddling stocks will shift across the maritime borders between exclusive economic zones (EEZs) and the high seas by 2050.
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Yesterday I read Pennycook etc al.'s paper on pseudo-profound bullshit, and realized that's what annoys me the most about the current AI culture. Meaningless but important sounding bullshit that's said only to make the speaker sound smart.
So then I made this little web app to randomly generate AI bullshit. Your next pitch deck awaits.
Ett socialt nätverk utan storföretagskontroll, reklam och algoritmer. Ett socialt medium där ingen samlar in uppgifter om dig och säljer dem. Ett sådant nätverk finns och det mest kända programmet som ingår i detta nätverk är Mastodon.
Apple and Samsung send cease-and-desist notices to Xiaomi over ads disparaging their flagships, as the aggressive marketing tactic sparks a legal battle between the rival smartphone giants.
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