It says that certificate on the website has expired, and returns an error. Apparently they're aware and working on the fix - floss.social/@fdroidorg/115122…
A recently elected mayor has brought to light a costly computer systems deal, which was signed, sealed, and delivered by their predecessor. On her Facebook page, Mayor Sally A. Lopez shares photos and documents confirming that her predecessor acquired a “10 million System Server Package.” Assuming we are talking Philippine pesos, that’s equivalent to about USD $175,000. However, the 16 systems look bargain-basement – at best – being based on old Intel 11th Generation processors, with generic case and power choices. According to our calculations, someone appears to have enjoyed a 1,300% markup.
Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst plans to announce that she will not run for reelection in 2026, a senior Republican official familiar with her decision told ABC News.
Ernst was a focus of major attention during the protracted discussion over Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's confirmation. She ultimately cast a vote for him despite her record as a military sexual assault prevention advocate. Hegseth denied the sexual assault allegations and was never charged.
Der Mann stand mit seinem Partner am frühen Samstagabend in der Obernstraße, als ihn eine Gruppe aus fünf jungen Männern beleidigte und attackierte. Die Täter konnten fliehen.
Falls sich jemand fragt, warum ich diese eigentlich regionale Nachricht hier teile: Bremen ist eine der queerfreundlicheren Städten Deutschlands und des deutschsprachigen Raums. Dass auch hier die Angriffe und Queerfeindlichkeit zunehmen, zeigt wie sich der Hass, die Propaganda und die Normalisierung von Queerfeindlichkeit auch auf eigentlich sichere Regionen auswirkt.
Die Obernstraße befindet sich übrigens nicht in irgendeinem sozialen Brennpunkt-Viertel, sondern mitten in der Innenstadt.
That's a direct result of the unfettered accumulation of capital bumping into obstacles and starting to stall, which in turn is because of a system built on a premise of infinite growth colliding with reality. So very much a part of the same polycrisis. The existing and near future use of AI as an oppressive tool is also a result of this, but Skynet isn't real.
This is LandChad.net, a site dedicated to turning internet peasants into Internet Landlords by showing them how to setup websites, email servers, chat servers and everything in between.
Starting a website is something that can be done in a lazy afternoon and costs pocket change.
Most of the internet’s problems could be solved if more people had their own personal platforms, so the objective of this site is to guide any normal person through the process of installing a website.
This is LandChad.net, a site dedicated to turning internet peasants into Internet Landlords by showing them how to setup websites, email servers, chat servers and everything in between.
Starting a website is something that can be done in a lazy afternoon and costs pocket change.
Most of the internet’s problems could be solved if more people had their own personal platforms, so the objective of this site is to guide any normal person through the process of installing a website.
Questo #agosto pareva partito bene, ma lentamente (o forse nemmeno troppo…) è caduto inesorabilmente agli inferi. E oggi, che è l’ultimo giorno di questo mese, è quindi arrivato il momento di fare il resoconto, perché altrimenti vorrei quasi solo piangere. (E anche perché devo finire un altro post, prima ancora di poter fare un altro […]
marini agostini lasciati bloccati, pioggia forzata e vacanza vietata! (la miseria del meteo terribile di agosto)
Questo #agostopareva partito bene, ma lentamente (o forse nemmeno troppo…) è caduto inesorabilmente agli inferi. E oggi, che è l’ultimo giorno di questo mese, è quindi arrivato il momento di fare il resoconto, perché altrimenti vorrei quasi solo piangere. (E anche perché devo finire un altro post, prima ancora di poter fare un altro post qui, ma lascerò stare i miei disastri personali per questa fottutissima volta, visto che ora c’è piuttosto da prendersela solo coi piani alti.) 🏜️
Sorprendentemente, la profezia per cui dal primo di agosto avrebbe iniziato a fare maltempo tutti i giorni, data la precondizione che per mia madre iniziavano le ferie, non si è avverata; e anzi, soprattutto, la settimanina di vacanza fuori non è stata rovinata dal meteo! Certamente bello, ma in egual misura assurdo… e quindi, avendo i potery forty perso l’occasione buona di rovinarci le ferie in un bel colpo singolo ben piazzato, avrei quasi dovuto prevedere che nei giorni a seguire ci sarebbe stata la grande (ma terribilmente diluita) beffa che ci avrebbe impedito di enjoyare per bene il resto del nostro time. 😫
È infatti in quel momento, a vacanze finite ma ferie ancora in corso, che è partita una tendenza meteorologicaampiamente sfavorevole per dire poco — che, curiosamente, per metà replica quasi perfettamente un agosto di svariati anni fa ugualmente disperante. Con mia madre avente ancora le ferie, ha iniziato a piovere letteralmente tutti i pomeriggi (o quasi, ma io ricordo tutti… incluso ferragosto, per chi se lo è perso!)… ma vabbé che non era proprio la fine del mondo, perché in genere la mattina riuscivamo comunque ad andare al mare. Ecco, la vera maledizione si è piuttosto abbattuta questi due ultimi fini settimana, con il caldo assolato tutti i giorni mentre mia madre lavorava… fino a venerdì pomeriggio/sera, in cui puntualmente ha piovuto… ma mai tanto puntualissimamente quanto sabato mattina e pomeriggio, e quindi non si esce. E #mannaggia al carciofo acquatico!!! 🥦
Ma è assurda, spaventosa, la precisione con cui tutto questo mese è venuto a piovere oppure ha evitato; e loro mi vogliono far credere che non esista alcun complotto??? Possiamo solo ringraziare il cielo (letteralmente, visto che da lì altrimenti cadono le gocce) che, almeno la domenica mattina, stranamente non abbia fatto piovere, e infatti anche stavolta sono sulla spiaggia. Sporca di tutta la roba che il mare agitato avrà portato nella notte di tempesta, ma almeno è qualcosa. Il #mare in sé, però, è parecchio agitato… e io non ho più l’età per fare il roleplay di Goku che provoca le onde, quindi resto fuori. Insomma, grandi troiai da questo lato, e dall’altro (cioè domani) inizia settembre, quindi: se Lvi (il meteo) vuole, forse ci spunta fuori qualche altra mattina, ma il grosso è già fuori dalla finestra (e, se parliamo di pioggia, un po’ anche dentro, se ci si dimentica di chiudere i balconi). 🎻 Marini agostini, rimarrai senza spiaggini! Con la faccia tosta di chi odia le ferie, la furia del mare si abbatte sulle nostre vite. Splash! L’acqua sbatte e si lancia per aria. La pace interrotta con greve periodo non è neanche l’inizio. Whoosh! Le gocce ascendono al cielo preparando la definitiva scarica mortale. Milioni non sono pronti ad accettare le conseguenze antispassose. Plic! Il demonio liquefatto così inizia a sperdersi, e non— PLOC! Precisamente militarmente i proiettili sono sparati giù sopra agli esseri condannati. Risulta impossibile godersi il destino. 💔 #agosto #estate #ferie #maltempo #Mannaggia #mare #meteo
The country is taking steps to make room for the next generation of professionals — but needs investment and stability in its relationship with the United States to capitalize on opportunity
They’ve had decades of brain drain because of all the insecurity and corruption. Currently I don’t see that reversing, it’s very ingrained. I hope they find a way of providing better opportunities, demographically it’s a young country so maybe they can make something work for them.
But oof is it gonna be an uphill battle when your government works against you by not supporting education, security, infrastructure.
Yeah, Mexico needs a lot more than tech investment, they need:
functioning law enforcement - bribing officers is very much a thing pretty much everywhere
safe highways - high robbery is very much a thing, and it's highly recommended to hire local drivers who know which roads are safer
crush the cartels
High tech investment needs law and order, and that's not consistent in Mexico. Fix that and maybe people will stop fleeing the country. Education is important too, but the country first needs to be a place foreigners feel comfortable relocating to, because that will be necessary to set up shop.
Have you been to Mexico City or (even more so) Guadalajara since the Pandemic? Multinational techs are investing and building up campuses like crazy. Reminds me of the go-go years of Bangalore in the 2000's.
Mexico has a real possibility of moving up the value chain and gobbling up all the good stuff Trump is pushing away from the USA
I haven't, but I do know Mexico City has been getting a fair amount of investment. That said, I have a friend who has gone back, and there are still the same law enforcement issues in the surrounding area.
They do not need to do this. All they need to do is legalize all drugs and the "evil" cartels will turn into enterprises.
The war on drugs has been going on for over fifty years with no resolution in sight and not much to show for it except wasted tax payer money. A radically different approach is perhaps warranted.
The US needs to legalize drugs, if they don't, there will continue to be a market and cartels will serve that market. That's not something Mexico can control, so the next best option is to drive them out of Mexico.
I wanted to remind that Mexican cartels grew this powerful by using the war on drug of the USA to target only Colombian cartels, so the USA are partly responsible for their growth
I did not have more details, I just love any opportunity to spit on USA international policies.
we are doing this to ourselves and the plan is to make it even worse
What do you mean with this ? From what I know (not a lot, honestly), cartels are as powerful as unofficial country, with a shit ton of money (and weapons from the US), so honestly, I would not know how to deal with them.
(hence my constant complain about lemmy users posting graphics about how cool México is doing while we suffer a different reality)
Lemmy tiene un problema con los apodados tankies. Se oponen a cualquier cosa que este encontrar de EE.UU. y con morena siendo un partido izquierda le hechan porra. Lo irónico es que terminan apoyando el imperialismo de otro partido al vez de simplemente ser anti imperialista.
Yeah, countries should realize that brain drain is much more serious issue than is usually portrayed.
But honestly the issues that lead to brain drain are far beyond what one or a few people in power can fix. It’s usually caused by deep societal issues, things that emerge after little dysfunctions snowball all the way to the large system that is the whole country.
For example, I’ve seen articles like this which in my opinion summarize what is the real issue in Brazilian society. But also one could argue this behavior becomes prevalent because society is already dysfunctional and people normalize the current way of thinking. It’s really a chicken and egg problem to solve when you look at the whole country scale.
Good for them. They capitalized on car and other manufacturing, so why not chips? Once we get past this senseless personal trade war, it could be profitable to both sides of the border. Given the long lead time for chips, the timing might work out
Brandon Johnson’s order directs city police not to collaborate with federal agents in immigration enforcement
The mayor of Chicago has signed an executive order outlining how the city will attempt to resist Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
Brandon Johnson pushed back on Saturday against what he called the “out-of-control” Trump administration’s plan to deploy large numbers of federal officers into the country’s third-largest city, which could take place within days.
The Chicago police department will be barred from helping federal authorities with civil immigration enforcement or any related patrols, traffic stops and checkpoints during the surge, according to the executive order Johnson signed.
If you want good pictures of protest signs have the protesters walking south when you face north (in northern latitudes). Or walking east in the morning when you face west. Near the equator at noon you're screwed, do whateves.
I thought Uber/Lyft was 1099 employees (Independent Contractors)? I don’t know of any 1099s that received any medical benefits unless they pay for themselves.
Comme précisé dans cette tribune, Extinction Rebellion France appelle à soutenir, amplifier et prolonger la mobilisation du 10 septembre a.k.a. "Bloquons Tout".
Partout en France, rejoignez les initiatives locales ou plus massives, dans les groupes locaux de XR ou chez les collectifs alliés comme "Indignons nous" 💚
Comme précisé dans cette tribune, Extinction Rebellion France appelle à soutenir, amplifier et prolonger la mobilisation du 10 septembre a.k.a. "Bloquons Tout".
Partout en France, rejoignez les initiatives locales ou plus massives, dans les groupes locaux de XR ou chez les collectifs alliés comme "Indignons nous" 💚
One of the biggest challenges in tech education today is moving from theory to hands-on projects. While platforms like GitHub, Codecademy, and Coursera cover tutorials and collaboration, a new category is quietly emerging: project marketplaces.
Some early attempts include:
GitHub Marketplace – extensions, tools, and templates developers can buy.
Codementor & MentorCruise – pairing mentorship with guided coding.
Udemy Project Courses – teaching via real project breakdowns.
The vision is clear:
Beginners could buy projects to dissect and learn from.
With mentorship, they could build their own skills faster.
Eventually, they could sell projects themselves, creating a self-sustaining loop.
This raises key questions for the tech community:
Could project marketplaces reduce the “experience gap” in tech hiring?
How do we balance learning value vs. copy-paste risks?
Will they complement open-source collaboration, or compete with it?
As hiring becomes more portfolio-driven, it will be interesting to see if these marketplaces evolve into a serious part of the developer ecosystem.
Hi, I'm new, I'd like to share my new Memory Graph Web Debugger that you can use to visualize and debug your Python data structures with just one click. This is an example of a binary tree implementation. I feel this tool could level up Python education. I'm interested in your thoughts about it, feedback welcome.
In una foto recentemente diventata celebre online, scattata nel parco naturale di Kaziranga, in Assam, un’elefantessa indiana sembra incedere col proprio fanciulletto in un verdeggiante prato punteggiato di attraenti fiori viola.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom and lawmakers strike a deal with Uber and Lyft allowing drivers to unionize while remaining classified as independent contractors
There's an effort underway to form a Fediverse Club at Georgia Tech, to bring together students, staff and faculty interested in the Fediverse:
[url=https://sites.gatech.edu/eprodromou3/2025/08/24/georgia-tech-fediverse-club/]https://sites.gatech.edu/epr
There's an effort underway to form a Fediverse Club at Georgia Tech, to bring together students, staff and faculty interested in the Fediverse:
The plant will generate about 880,000 kilowatt hours of electricity per year—enough to help run a nearby desalination facility and supply around 220 homes. That equals the output of two soccer fields of solar panels, but osmotic power keeps running day and night, in any weather.
This seems like a terrible use, since these plants work by mixing fresh water with seawater (or in this case the brine leftover from desalination). I guess the catch is they can use treated wastewater instead of potable water.
This method gains very little net energy compared to other renewables.
“While energy is released when the salt water is mixed with fresh water, a lot of energy is lost in pumping the two streams into the power plant and from the frictional loss across the membranes. This means that the net energy that can be gained is small,” said Kentish.
Because osmotic power has enormous potential in the sense that millions of cubic meters of fresh water is running into oceans all over the world every minute. If we're able to get even a low-efficiency method of using the salinity gradient to generate power working then every place a river meets the sea is essentially an unlimited (albeit low-yield) power source.
This is tech that doesn't rely on elevation (like hydropower) or weather conditions (like wind/solar) it's stable and in principle possible to set up at pretty much any river outlet, which is great!
Oh absolutely. As with all other infrastructure, there is a cost to be paid. However, when you look at an average to small river, even routing 10 % of the water via an osmosis plant before passing it to the sea is an absolutely massive volume. There's also the point that you don't want to build these things in large, meandering, flat river deltas. You want a large salinity gradient, which means relatively small, fast-running fresh water meeting the ocean more "suddenly" than what you get in a classical river delta is the optimal source here.
Returning to this thread long after everyone has moved on.
How do you get enough net energy out of mixing brine from desalination with fresh water to use to separate saltwater into brine and fresh water? Especially when the energy producing method is already known to have poor efficiency?
This seems like this is just terrible at converting treated wastewater into drinking water. Must have something to do with government subsidies instead.
In my part of the EU this year, we had very very many days of negative sale prices and having to curtail wind parks because just solar and wind were making up more than demand during the day. Afaik we only curtailed at night one time.
Source: wrote curtailment algorithms for wind turbines
Do you go to bed at sunset? Do you turn off your heat at sunset in the winter? Maybe you do, but most people don't.
Also, most people with an electric car and a garage to park it can just use a cheap Level 1 charger to trickle charge it whenever it's in the garage and always have plenty of range for their commute and errands. This means all of those cars are charging. .... at night while the owner sleeps.
It sounds like they're not quite using fresh water, but waste water. I presume it's been treated, but even if it's not 100% back to potable, if this also helps solve the problem of what to do with the brine after desalination, I think it's a win all around.
(salty water + unpotable fresh water) → (salty water + potable fresh water + energy)
...with a few steps in between. Even if most of the power is used in running the plant, you end up with potable fresh water and no brine being dumped into the ocean, which is a net win.
Aside from obvious confusion of running a water desalination plant by salinating water, there's one more concern: outside of such installations, don't we have quite a limited supply of fresh water? Sure, saltwater is everywhere, but fresh water is relatively scarce.
Another thought: what if we would instead use concentrated brine from desalination plant and seawater? Yes, power will be lower, but this way we don't use fresh water that we, erm, try to produce.
Desalinating water gives you potable fresh water, whereas the fresh water being used might require treatment before being potable? Or it's unreliable supply. IDK, few possible reasons, I'm just speculating
"Treated" means the solids and goo that may have been a problem has been removed. It is mostly water, a lot a fecal bacteries, and diverse dissolved chemical that wasn't removed.
I think the article author is completely confused and doesn't understand what's happening. There are hints of what's happening in this paragraph.
Fresh water—or treated wastewater—is placed on one side of a membrane. On the other side is seawater, made even saltier by concentrating leftover brine from a desalination process. The difference in saltiness pulls the fresh water across the membrane, increasing the pressure on the saltwater side. That pressure is then used to drive a turbine, generating electricity.
I don't think any fresh water is being used. I think what's actually happening is...
Very salty wastewater (from the desalinization plant) is placed on one side of a membrane. On the other side is seawater. The difference in saltiness pulls the wastewater across the membrane, increasing the pressure on the saltwater side (or maybe the other way around). That pressure is then used to drive a turbine, generating electricity. The waste then is just water that's saltier than sea water, but less salty than what came from the desalinization plant.
According to Japanese sources Mainichi, it is indeed treated waste water one one side and desalination brine on the other. Both the waste water and brine are meant to be dumped anyway, and it's also harmful to sea life to dump brine directly. Treated waste water isn't saline, so is perfect for diluting the brine. Might as well get some free power out of it.
Lots of places treat their wastewater and then discharge it. For example, where I live, wastewater, that is to say, sewage which has had solids filtered out, is still rather pooey and pissy but not salty, gets treated (I don't know how) and is then injected into natural underground aquifers where it eventually percolates out to bores or springs where it's collected and used for irrigation, contributes to natural springs, or possibly even winds up in a drinking water catchment.
All wastewater, regardless what happens to it, has to be treated before release. If it's still 99.9% fresh, then why not use it to create osmotic pressure before dumping it.
It really depends. Osmosis is a chemical process, so if the source of the radiation would be filtered, then it would remove the radioactive component. If the water is made with radioactive isotopes of hydrogen and oxygen, it would just flow through.
But the desalination process is powered by the energy manufacturing, the water is not shared between them. I was more thinking about the safety and capability of the energy manufacturing, as fallout makes other systems much more difficult.
Well, yes, dumping irradiated water into the ocean was always an option. So long as the power-generating components aren't the same as the desalination components, you're good as far as the potable water is concerned. This isn't much of a solution for the irradiated water, though, any more than just dumping it into the ocean was in the first place.
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
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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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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Marini agostini, rimarrai senza spiaggini! Con la faccia tosta di chi odia le ferie, la furia del mare si abbatte sulle nostre vite. Splash! L’acqua sbatte e si lancia per aria. La pace interrotta con greve periodo non è neanche l’inizio. Whoosh! Le gocce ascendono al cielo preparando la definitiva scarica mortale. Milioni non sono pronti ad accettare le conseguenze antispassose. Plic! Il demonio liquefatto così inizia a sperdersi, e non— PLOC! Precisamente militarmente i proiettili sono sparati giù sopra agli esseri condannati. Risulta impossibile godersi il destino. 💔
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in reply to poVoq • • •Rising fascism globally.
“Amateurs!”
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in reply to poVoq • • •Somehow, though, people invest more and more resources into making both more real at the same time lol
'Cause trying to build AGI is speeding up the warning xD