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England Trials Smartphone Rail Payment System with Real-Time Phone Location Tracking

Cutting-edge rail ticket technology to be trialled across the Midlands and North

Passengers can sign up for digital rail ticket trials on East Midlands Rail and Northern trains.

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By chasing ideology and empty slogans, the EU has handed its energy lifeline to China and completely subordinated itself to U.S. interests.

At the recent Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Beijing, Russia, China, and Mongolia signed a legally binding memorandum for the Power of Siberia 2 pipeline. Stretching 2,600 km and carrying a price tag of $13.6 billion, this pipeline will deliver 50 bcm/year of Russian gas from the Arctic directly to northern China via Mongolia, bypassing Europe entirely.

In Europe, 50 bcm of Russian gas is worth $16.5 billion today. U.S. LNG for the same volume costs around $25 billion, while direct purchase from Russia, based on recent Gazprom deals with China, would've been roughly $6–6.5 billion. Europe’s cheap Russian pipeline gas, once the backbone of German industry, will now flow to China securing a stable, cheap energy supply.

Pushing Europe to sever its energy ties with Russia has inadvertently transferred strategic leverage to China. Europe now overpays for U.S. LNG, loses industrial competitiveness, and slides toward recession creating a perfect scenario for intra-European tensions.

President Xi framed PoS2 as a cornerstone of the “no-limits” strategic partnership with Russia, guaranteeing China a reliable, land-based energy corridor. Russia secured a guaranteed buyer, China locked in long-term supplies, meanwhile Europe faces the erosion of its industrial and geopolitical position.

By divorcing itself from affordable Russian gas, Europe has eliminated any realistic chance of industrial recovery and viable economic future. The global energy map is being rewritten with European decline accelerating, while China and India continue to rise strategically and economically.

Europe faces the final collapse of its industrial and geopolitical relevance, while the US loses its only truly successful historical project which was the "rules based international order".

What the Power of Siberia 2 Deal Really Means for Russia and China

Moscow and Beijing on Tuesday reached an agreement to build Power of Siberia 2, a long-delayed pipeline to supply Russian gas to China.

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Why would they have to buy solar panels from China? Europe is more than capable of manufacturing their own.

Russia and China working together, does not mean that Europe loses anything. It's not a zero-sum equation, where success is mutually exclusive.

And your article is over a year old. You are intentionally ignoring the current assessment.

Why Russia's economy is beginning to falter

Hit by falling oil revenues and Western sanctions, growth in the country has slowed while the budget deficit has exploded.

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Why would they have to buy solar panels from China? Europe is more than capable of manufacturing their own.

If that was the case then they would be manufacturing them. Also, in case you weren't aware, stuff like solar panels needs rare earths which China has an effective monopoly on.

Russia and China working together, does not mean that Europe loses anything. It’s not a zero-sum equation, where success is mutually exclusive.

Yeah it does because the US is taking advantage of the vulnerable position that Europe is in, and the Europeans are simply accepting it because they have no other choice.

As Sabine Weyand, Directorate-General for Trade at the EU commission, admits: "If you didn't hear me say the word 'negotiation'—that's because there wasn't one." The U.S. dictated terms in a "strategic compromise, not an ideal economic solution" that European leaders know will destroy their economies.

Europe agreed because it is unable to manage its own security. "We have a land war on the European continent. And we are completely dependent on the United States," Weyand explains. Member states were not prepared to risk further escalation, so they chose economic submission out of fear and total dependence on the U.S.

sz-dossier.de/tiefgaenge/das-w…

And your article is over a year old. You are intentionally ignoring the current assessment.

I'm intentionally ignoring propaganda and focusing on the actual facts. The type article you linked have been written on daily basis for the past three years and were proven false each and every time. I guess you happen to be the kind of credulous person who's not capable of learning from past experience that these types of articles are aimed at.

„Das waren keine Verhandlungen“ (Tiefgang) | SZ Dossier

„Wenn Sie mich das Wort ‚Verhandlung‘ nicht haben sagen hören – das liegt daran, dass es keine war.“ Mit diesem Satz beschreibt Sabine Weyand den geopolitischen …

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in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • 5 giorni fa (Ricevuto 6 ore fa) • •

If that was the case then they would be manufacturing them. Also, in case you weren't aware, stuff like solar panels needs rare earths which China has an effective monopoly on.

Europe already does manufacture solar panels...and China does not have an "effective monopoly" on the materials used.

As Sabine Weyand, Directorate-General for Trade at the EU commission, admits: "If you didn't hear me say the word 'negotiation'—that's because there wasn't one." The U.S. dictated terms in a "strategic compromise, not an ideal economic solution" that European leaders know will destroy their economies.

That's a criticism of the negotiation tactics used by the US...not an admission that the EU has no choice but to accept those terms. Especially if, as indicated in that last sentence, that it would "destroy their economies".

I'm intentionally ignoring propaganda and focusing on the actual facts.

That's weird. Your original article was citing the IMF as if it were a reliable source of information. The article I posted was also citing the same source, just using a more current assessment. It seems you only trust information that confirms your bias, and ignore it when it doesn't...even when the source is the same?

Rare metals in the photovoltaic industry

What role do rare earths and minor metals play in the clean energy industry? What are the alternatives emerging for solar photovoltaic technologies? Read on to find out.

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Europe very obviously isn't manufacturing solar panels in anywhere near the volume they would need to make a dent in energy transition. Again, if that was the case Europe wouldn't be in an energy crisis right now.

And yes, China does in fact have an effective monopoly, it's 69% for most rare earth and around 90% actual processing of them
mining-technology.com/analyst-…

That’s a criticism of the negotiation tactics used by the US…not an admission that the EU has no choice but to accept those terms. Especially if, as indicated in that last sentence, that it would “destroy their economies”.

It's a clear admission that Europe was forced to take an incredibly bad deal. European economies are literally collapsing as we speak, and the US is making their exports more expensive while forcing them to buy overpriced LNG, invest money in the US, and ramp up military spending. Anybody with even a minimally functioning brain can see what this all means for Europe.

That’s weird. Your original article was citing the IMF as if it were a reliable source of information. The article I posted was also citing the same source, just using a more current assessment.

I don't know what you find weird about the fact that Russian economy has in fact grown as the last assessment indicated while there is zero reason to expect that to change going forward. Russian industry is growing, Russia just secured a whole bunch of trade deals with BRICS countries, there is zero reason to expect that the trajectory of Russian economy will change for the negative.

The article you linked talks about falling oil revenues, but if you bothered looking at Russian economy you'd see that oil exports are not a major part of the overall economy nowadays. Western sanctions have already been turned up to the max, and there's nothing left to sanction. That's why the west was trying to do secondary sanctions on India which caused India to get closer to Russia and China instead. If the sanctions were going to achieve anything that would've happened early on. Now Russia has already restructured its economy away from the west. Meanwhile, it's hilarious to talk about Russian deficit exploding when western deficits are far higher. If Russia is in trouble with a €56 billion deficit what can we say about the US?

It seems you only trust information that confirms your bias, and ignore it when it doesn’t…even when the source is the same?

It seems like I'm using my brain to think about the situation, and relying on historical precedent to extrapolate what we might expect in the future. You should try doing that some time.

China currently controls over 69% of global rare earth production

The global rare earths industry is a complex landscape dominated by China, creating a critical need for global supply chain diversification.

^{GlobalData (Mining Technology)}

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in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • 5 giorni fa (Ricevuto 6 ore fa) • •

Lol! I'm not sure you understand what the word "monopoly" means. Sure, China currently controls the majority of rare earth production...but that's based largely on the convenience that results from China's investment in its own infrastructure. It doesn't mean that other sources cannot be utilized. It's always nice to go with the cheapest option, but that hardly amounts to a "monopoly".

And I also think you misunderstand how EU law works, regarding trade agreements. The "deal" that was recently "agreed to", is not binding. It simply represents the first round of negotiations, and consists of a proposed outline. It has also been harshly criticised by nearly all European leaders, and will most likely not be ratified. At least not with the current conditions.

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Controlling vast majority of production is precisely what it means to have a monopoly on a resource. Literally nobody else has significant infrastructure to do refining and processing right now. Building out this infrastructure would take decades. Here's what NPR has to say on the subject:

Many so-called rare earth elements are actually quite common, and they are mined globally, but China has a near-monopoly on refining them for use in everyday electronics, like smartphones and speakers, as well as for crucial defense systems, like fighter jets.
When China decided to tighten control over supply chains for seven rare earth elements this spring, O'Connor says he felt the pinch immediately. One investor touring the company's vault at the time offered on the spot to buy O'Connor's entire inventory of terbium and dysprosium, two valuable "heavy" rare earth elements, he says.

npr.org/2025/07/23/nx-s1-54751…

Nah, I understand how the EU "works" perfectly fine. In fact, I wrote about it in detail here and I pointed out precisely this problem:

Yet, there is an obvious problem with this scheme: the EU lacks an independent treasury. It is merely an administrative organization where individual countries must actually provide funds. Every Euro Brussels spends must be squeezed from member state budgets, making any deal signed by Ursula von der Leyen only as good as the day countries actually pony up.

If the EU "leadership" keeps pushing their agenda there likely won't be an EU for much longer because countries will prioritize their national interest over the promises Ursula made to daddy.

The Terminal Crisis of European Neoliberalism

The European project stands at the precipice of collapse, with its fundamental contradictions exposed by accelerating economic deterioration across core member states.

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Why would they have to buy solar panels from China? Europe is more than capable of manufacturing their own.

How are people like this? I'm used to the lib bingo stuff by now but somehow every day we reach new levels of detachment from reality that shouldn't even be possible.

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I expect that the retreat from reality will intensify as the collapse of the western model continues to progress.

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US jobless claims rise, private payrolls growth slows

The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits increased more than expected last week, while hiring by private employers slowed in August, offering further evidence that labor market conditions were softening.

The reports were released a day after government data showed there were more unemployed people than positions available in July for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic. Job growth has shifted into stall-speed, with economists blaming President Donald Trump's sweeping import tariffs and an immigration crackdown that is hampering hiring at construction sites and restaurants.

The Fed's "Beige Book" report on Wednesday noted that "firms were hesitant to hire workers because of weaker demand or uncertainty." The softening labor tone was reinforced on Thursday with the release of the ADP National Employment Report, which showed private employment increased by 54,000 jobs last month after advancing by 106,000 in July.

The downbeat assessment of the labor market was also evident in the Institute for Supply Management survey, which showed a measure of services sector employment contracting for a third straight month in August.
Economists, as a result, are bracing for another month of tepid job growth when the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes its closely watched employment report on Friday. A Reuters survey of economists estimated nonfarm payrolls increased by 75,000 jobs last month after rising by 73,000 in July.

https://www.reuters.com/business/us-jobless-claims-rise-private-payrolls-growth-slows-2025-09-04/

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McConnell: ‘There’s certain similarities right now to the ‘30s’

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5485147-mcconnell-theres-certain-similarities-right-now-to-the-30s/

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Nepal bans social media(Facebook, X, Reddit, Mastodon, Discord, Signal, YouTube and more) for failing to register with the government; Only 7 to be open(Viber, TikTok, Telegram and more)

cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36863320

::: spoiler Comments
- Reddit.
:::

Viber, WeTalk, TikTok, Nimbuzz, and Poppo Live are already registered.
Similarly, Telegram and Global Diary are in the process of registration.
Social media platforms to be blocked:
1. Facebook
2. Facebook Messenger
3. Instagram
4. YouTube
5. WhatsApp
6. X (formerly Twitter)
7. LinkedIn
8. Snapchat
9. Reddit
10. Discord
11. Pinterest
12. Signal
13. Threads
14. WeChat
15. Quora
16. Tumblr
17. Clubhouse
18. Mastodon
19. Rumble
20. MeWe
21. VK
22. Line
23. IMO
24. Zalo
25. Soul
26. Hamro Patro
::: spoiler Other Sources
- Associated Press;
- The Hindu.
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Nepal bans social media(Facebook, X, Reddit, Mastodon, Discord, Signal, YouTube and more) for failing to register with the government; Only 7 to be open(Viber, TikTok, Telegram and more)

::: spoiler Comments
- Reddit.
:::
Viber, WeTalk, TikTok, Nimbuzz, and Poppo Live are already registered.
Similarly, Telegram and Global Diary are in the process of registration.
Social media platforms to be blocked:
1. Facebook
2. Facebook Messenger
3. Instagram
4. YouTube
5. WhatsApp
6. X (formerly Twitter)
7. LinkedIn
8. Snapchat
9. Reddit
10. Discord
11. Pinterest
12. Signal
13. Threads
14. WeChat
15. Quora
16. Tumblr
17. Clubhouse
18. Mastodon
19. Rumble
20. MeWe
21. VK
22. Line
23. IMO
24. Zalo
25. Soul
26. Hamro Patro

::: spoiler Other Sources
- Associated Press;
- The Hindu.
:::

All but these 7 social media platforms to be blocked in Nepal
The government has decided to deactivate all social media platforms except for seven that have registered or applied for registration with the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.
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Signal:
Settings -> Privacy -> Advanced -> Censorship Circumvention

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solrize

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Signal is a social media platform?

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thejml

in reply to solrize • 6 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

It's in the "to be blocked" list posted.

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solrize

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I guess that centralized server thing is working out real well then. /s

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redjard

in reply to solrize • 5 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

Mastodon is also blocked, I don't think they cared if services are centralized.

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Vikthor

in reply to redjard • 5 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

Do you think they will be blocking every single Mastodon server in existence?

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Holytimes

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If it's federated it's easy to block. If it's not it's too small to care about really.

And if you just remove the ability for federation to function in your country you have fundamentally broken the system making it basically unusable for your people.

The federvise is extremely weak to censorship for your avg joe because it's strongest point the federation system is also it's biggest Achilles heel.

With out federation it's just a series of less useful forums and blogs.

The system is designed to prevent corporate ownership from destroying it. But the idea that you can prevent a government and those in control of the infrastructure from blocking it? Is laughable.

You can in small ways wrong around it but you don't need 100% censorship to win the game of cat and mouse. Even 50% of the biggest instances wins you the game.

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big_slap

in reply to solrize • 6 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

signal has stories now, so I'd say yes

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solrize

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Bah, more reason to avoid Signal. For private communications I want an antisocial network, not the opposite.

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big_slap

in reply to solrize • 6 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

eh, just dont use it. beats a lot of other alternatives at the moment

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Zak

in reply to solrize • 6 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

I think it's a silly feature for a messaging app, but it has no impact on me if I ignore the feature.

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solrize

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It does say something about the mindset of the vendor, which is a legit reason to decide not to use an app. From what I can tell, Teslas are pretty good cars despite some issues here and there. But Elon's antics are enough to make me decide not to buy one.

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Use whatever software you want, more power to you, but I'm not totally convinced that "chaired by a fascist transphobic multibillionaire oligarch who actively subverts democracy at every opportunity" and "introduced a feature I don't want to use into my free secure messaging app" are even close to equivocal?

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I'm bothered mostly by the default Signal app's inability to use a self-hosted server instead of signal.com's own server. I've been skeptical towards Signal because of that. The social media feature is something I hadn't heard of til just now. It reinforces my skepticism but it's just another issue. Both tell me that Signal is out to somehow monetize (and maybe spy on) other people's private relationships in a captive userbase, sort of like, you know, Marc Zuckerberg. I'd prefer to avoid dealing with people like that, especially where privacy apps are concerned.

I'd be more interested in Signal if I could use my own server without having to get people to install modified clients.

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Zak

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I’m bothered mostly by the default Signal app’s inability to use a self-hosted server instead of signal.com’s own server.

I don't like the centralized nature of it either, but until someone makes a decentralized option that's polished and reliable enough that nobody will be mad at me after I talk them into using it, Signal will be my go-to for messaging.

Ideologically, I'd like it to be Matrix. I use Matrix on occasion, at least when Element web isn't taking up 10% of my laptop's RAM, ElementX isn't crashing on load, and whatever native desktop client I tried last is actually performing key exchange so I can read my private messages. I would not try to talk someone into trying Matrix right now unless they were ideologically motivated or interested in the technology.

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solrize

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until someone makes a decentralized option that’s polished and reliable enough that nobody will be mad at me after I talk them into using it, Signal will be my go-to for messaging.

In fact that option already exists, it's Signal itself, except that they deliberately made it harder to use that way. The client and server code are (from what I understand) both downloadable. So you can run your own server, modify the client to connect to your server instead of to Signal's, compile the new client, and get your friends to use your new .apk instead of using the one from the Play store. Of course Signal could perfectly well have just made the server address a user configuration field in the first place, like Nextcloud does.

So why didn't they? The existence of the social media feature tells something about their intentions. The fact that you can decide not to use that feature is irrelevant to what it tells. The idea is a many-to-many system with N users has N^2^ possible connections, which increases the site engagement and stickiness. That is, they are in the eyeball monetization business or are gearing up to enter it. So that's at best a warning sign.

I have to say I don't use Signal so I don't understand what is supposed to be great about it. I have a self-hosted Nextcloud (including Chat) and it was a hassle to install, but hasn't needed much attention since then. You can use either the Nextcloud app from F-droid or you can use an ordinary browser to chat over it, no app needed. That also means you can use a normal desktop computer instead of a phone. It does voice and video too, though those aren't so great.

Jitsi Meet is supposed to also be ok for self-hosting though I haven't tried doing that. I did play with their web client over their public instance (meet.jit.si) and that was quite nice.

GNU Jami unfortunately goes too far and tries to be serverless, and hits a bunch of reliability snags because of that. I tried to use it but just had too little success. I don't know if it's fixable without abandoning the underlying architecture. And, it needs an app. I think it's preferable to support browser clients even if a mobiie app is also available.

I haven't tried Matrix. I'm enough of a luddite to still use IRC but it has shortcomings for how people use chat these days. I don't know the web client picture for IRC or Matrix. I can say that Nextcloud Chat isn't that much different from Slack, from a non-technical user's perspective, if the user isn't trying to run a server. You just get a server URL and click on it in a browser. No app, unlike Signal as far as I know, so if anything it's simpler.

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So why didn’t [Signal make it easy to connect to alternate servers]?

Encouraging the use of alternate servers on which only a handful of people can communicate instead of everyone who uses Signal is probably a net loss. Having to connect to multiple servers or switch servers to communicate with everyone a user wants to talk to sounds like a pretty bad experience. That would be different if it was federated. Co-founder Moxie Marlinspike has argued that federation would make it harder to achieve Signal's goals of bringing private communication to as many people as possible. I want him to be wrong about that, but my experiences with Matrix suggest he might not be.

they are in the eyeball monetization business or are gearing up to enter it

I don't think so, in large part because they're structured as a nonprofit and have enough funding to last a while. I would think that about a venture-backed startup under similar circumstances.

I don’t use Signal so I don’t understand what is supposed to be great about it

It's just another messaging app in terms of UX. The value comes from:

Many of my friends and family use it
It's familiar enough and reliable enough that if I ask someone who doesn't already use it to move a conversation to Signal, I'm confident they won't be mad at me for complicating their life
It's secure by default and difficult for users to accidentally make private information not-private (e.g. by saving media to device storage where other apps can access it without user confirmation)
Its security and privacy have been inspected by a wider range of experts than most other options
The organizational structure and funding model means it's unlikely to be enshittified in the next decade

Nextcloud Talk doesn't have end to end encryption. It's experimental on Jitsi. It's hard to justify not having that for a private messaging service in 2025.

You just get a server URL and click on it in a browser. No app, unlike Signal as far as I know, so if anything it’s simpler.

This is not a good way to make my phone beep promptly when someone sends me an important message or ring when someone initiates a voice/video call. Browser notifications can be significantly delayed, especially on mobile devices. It's fine for the sort of public group conversations people have on Matrix and IRC, but a dealbreaker for most people in a primary one-to-one telecommunications system.

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Is there even a desktop client for Signal? The mobile app isn't on F-droid so I can't easily install it (I don't use the Play store). Maybe i can get the APK from somewhere.

The other points are reasonably valid though the lack of end to end encryption is somewhat mitigated by self hosting.

I don't understand why browser notifications are slower than other types of app notifications, but I'm not an Android wizard so maye there's a reason. Does Signal require Google Play Services to get Firebase messages? I have that turned off too, so that's another annoyance / privacy invasion that I'd have to enable.

I don't particularly want Signal to be federated any more than I want all the world's websites to be federated. I want a zillion separate self-hosted non-federated servers, not like the tragic 1-way internet that we mostly have now. So your contacts file has something like email addresses in it, that tell the client what server to connect to for a given person.

Regardless of Signal's financial intentions there's no question that money and eyeballs hypnotize people and warps their minds. This happened to Wikipedia decades ago. They operate just like an internet startup where they obsess over user activity. They abandoned their vision of giving everyone in the world a free encyclopedia (i.e. every computer in the world has Wikipedia on its hard drive for completely private access) and instead focus on running a giant web site that constantly tracks people, gets censored, etc. They are swimming in money and are always asking for more anyway. I see Signal trying to reach a similar future.

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Zak

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Is there even a desktop client for Signal?

Yes. There's also an experimental third-party client for desktop Linux called Flare. I've used Flare on some devices that the official client doesn't support and found it adequate. With some more maturity, I'll probably prefer it to the official client. Signal officially discourages third-party clients because it cannot guarantee their security but does not attempt to block them except in cases where specific clients are known to be compromised.

Account creation on the mobile app is recommended before using these as it relies on SMS verification. I don't like that, but it probably cuts down on spam; I've received exactly one spam on Signal in over 10 years of use.

The mobile app isn’t on F-droid so I can’t easily install it... Does Signal require Google Play Services to get Firebase messages?

Signal encourages installing from Google Play and uses Firebase messages by default, but does work without them. Given your set of preferences, however, you would probably prefer the third-party client Molly, which is on F-Droid and supports UnifiedPush.

I want a zillion separate self-hosted non-federated servers... something like email addresses in it, that tell the client what server to connect to for a given person.

That sounds like it ends up with properties similar to federation, but the client has to do all the work. The client would also need some means of identifying itself to all those random servers where there's a cost to creating new identities, or people would need to do key exchange when they exchange contact information. Without that, this proposed system would be overrun by spam as soon as it got popular.

Server-side federation solves a lot of problems. Why wouldn't you want that?

every computer in the world has Wikipedia on its hard drive for completely private access

You can do that. The download with images is over 100gb compressed, and it expands to several terabytes. It's not hard to imagine why most people don't want to use it that way.

Molly

Molly is an improved Signal app for Android

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Zak

in reply to solrize • 5 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

I'm not sure adding a questionable social feature to a messaging app is reasonably comparable to the very long list of insane and/or evil shit Musk has done.

Like any messaging system, Signal's utility is proportional to its userbase. If stories get more people to use it without making it worse for people who don't care, then they're a good idea even if I think everything else about the concept is bad.

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solrize

in reply to Zak • 5 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

A bar (place where you drink) is another type of a messaging system. You can meet people in them and have conversations there. That doesn't mean it's best to crowd everyone into one giant bar claiming that increases utility, compared with letting people freely open their own bars. Especially if the avowed purpose of the bar is enabling private conversations (giving you and your friend Bob a private place to talk, as opposed to creating a meeting place for strangers).

I can understand visiting a giant bar if I want to mingle with randos in public. If I want to talk privately with my friend, I want a small, private bar, preferably one whose existence is not known to anyone outside of my friend group. If the giant bar operator is going out of his way to prevent me from doing that, I have to say he is up to something not so good.

Sorry about the strained analogy but at least it didn't mention cars. Well, until just now.

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Zak

in reply to solrize • 5 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

The analogy between a private messaging service and a bar is not just strained; it's nonsensical.

It might work for a chat system that's mainly public and discoverable like Matrix, IRC, or Discord. A community having too many people, or any people who don't follow certain norms can make it unpleasant. As long as it keeps out spammers, Signal having people I don't want to talk to on it won't affect me at all; I just won't give those people my phone number or username.

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AppearanceBoring9229

in reply to Zak • 5 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

I just use that for sharing memes with whoever sees it.

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redjard

in reply to solrize • 5 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

It's completely removable with one setting. No nags or anti-patterns or design holes.
If it stops a few from sticking with whatsapp because signal lacks that "feature", I'd say it's worth it.

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RaivoKulli

in reply to solrize • 5 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

You can remove ot from your view and then you forget it is even a thing

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Ulrich

in reply to solrize • 6 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

Depends on how you want to look at it. They have "stories" which could most certainly be considered that.

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DFX4509B

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Nepal went full iron curtain. Hope the EU, US, and UK don't get any ideas....

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shortwavesurfer

in reply to Pro • 6 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

I wish them luck banning Mastodon, Lemmy, and Nostr... Oh wait, they cant

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Alphane Moon

in reply to shortwavesurfer • 6 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

I am curious how they are planning to ban Mastodon. I am assuming they are going to block say the top 25 instances?

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shortwavesurfer

in reply to Alphane Moon • 6 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

And as we all know, that would not ban it entirely. They'd have to block every instance, every new instance that comes online, the main web page, the code repository, etc., to even have a hope of banning it.

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DFX4509B

in reply to shortwavesurfer • 6 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

Mastodon's main code repo is on GitHub, a government could just pressure MS to take down that repo, although that isn't going to account for anyone self-hosting an instance and also hosting their own git repos outside of any of the major hosts.

In order to take down self-hosted instances, they'd have to raid people's homes and take out their physical servers assuming they have physical servers in their place.

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shortwavesurfer

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I'm betting GitHub is not the only place that the code repo is mirrored. Sure, it might be there, but something tells me it's on a bunch of people's computers as well, for people who work on it, or have just forked the repository. And there's probably even copies of it on other mirrors, such as Code Bird, etc. in private repositories.

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fuzzzerd

in reply to DFX4509B • 6 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

I don't know when Microsoft would cave, but Nepal asking them to remove it probably isn't going to that level. Maybe they geoblock but I can't see them removing it for a everyone.

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Venia Silente

in reply to DFX4509B • 5 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

assuming they have physical servers in their place.

Nope, in that particular case they just have to hand over a strongly worded letter (and a small bribe) to the ISP.

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Railcar8095

in reply to shortwavesurfer • 5 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

There are sites dedicated to listing all federated lemmy instances. Knowing the FOSS nerds, surely there's even an API already.

Some might slip, but very few large ones. That's if the government cares about lemmy

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shortwavesurfer

in reply to Railcar8095 • 5 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

The problem is that if you can access one, you can access all of them. It doesn't even matter how you access the one. Even if you access it over tor, as long as you can get to one instance, you're in the Federation.

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Holytimes

in reply to Railcar8095 • 5 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

The fact it's interconnected makes it easy to just worm your way though banning everything.

Doesn't matter if it's all independently hosted. The greatest strength of the frediverse is the fact it's federated.

That also it's biggest fuck up point. These arent wholely independent forums.

And if the frediverse has to fully defederate everything to prevent itself from being scrubbed away. It defeats the entire fucking point.

Cause at that point just fucking go back to forums.

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Railcar8095

in reply to Holytimes • 5 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

I think they best solution here is just easy to deploy proxies, it prevents banning by DNS or IP. More than that and they might as well just put the great firewall.

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DFX4509B

in reply to Alphane Moon • 6 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

Blocking the domains connected to it is one way I can think of.

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JohnEdwa

in reply to DFX4509B • 5 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

Because that works so well with the pirate bay. And with Mastodon or Lemmy, just having access to any one of the instances would enough.

GitHub - mirroradept/pirateproxy: Can't access The Pirate Bay? Try one of the proxy sites below. A proxy site allows you to bypass blocks setup by your Internet provider.

Can't access The Pirate Bay? Try one of the proxy sites below. A proxy site allows you to bypass blocks setup by your Internet provider. - GitHub - mirroradept/pirateproxy: Can't access T...

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magguzu

in reply to Alphane Moon • 6 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

Hate to say it but it honestly doesn't sound crazy hard to just block any instance that pops up. Yes it's whack a mole but if it's an automated script, it can just crawl through a backdoor instance and ban any domain it sees.

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deadcream

in reply to magguzu • 5 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

Yeah that's a solved problem. Iran, Russia, China and other countries have gone through this "stages of denial" process years ago. It starts with "haha they are incompetent and can't block everything" and 10 years later half the Internet is blocked and you have prison sentencing for accessing "illegal" information (for the flgood of the people of course). Anyone who claims that internet censorship is not possible is a naive person fortunate enough to live in a place where it's not a thing.

"IT people/programmers are furry gay liberals" is a myth. There are plenty of bootlickers among them, like in any large enough group of people that's not defined by a specific ideology/political affiliation.

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maximumbird

in reply to deadcream • 5 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

Does a recursive DNS not get around all of this though?
I’ve got to be missing something

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sqgl

in reply to deadcream • 5 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

They will block all instances except the ones registered. They just want a point of contact for when there is illegal activity. Yes it becomes a problem if they make criticizing the government legal but it is a democracy for now.

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Holytimes

in reply to deadcream • 5 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

As someone who is friends with many furry gay liberal IT dudes and dudettes.

I can't name a single one that wouldn't bend the knee the moment their job is threatened and their option is getting fired and risking their entire career or just being a good cog in the machine.

The people who bend the knee the fastest tend to be the ones most at risk of being abused by the powers that be should they not comply. It's the very fundamental reason that revolutions tend to be so explosive. There's a LONG build up of people not pushing against authority because of fear and security.

So till the breaking point where the gay furry liberals have no options and it's death or do what their bosses tell them. You can full well expect them to work right along with the bootlickers. They just are going to bitch about it more in the break room then the bootlickers.

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Endymion_Mallorn

in reply to shortwavesurfer • 6 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

Well, if they start by blocking the clients, then block any webpage or server sending / receiving ActivityPub packets at the ISP level, they could possibly cut it off. Heck, just spin up a new Mastodon or Lemmy server, send out a ping, and have every Nepalese ISP & mobile provider block all domains and IPs that respond.

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shortwavesurfer

in reply to Endymion_Mallorn • 6 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

They're still tor.

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Das_Fossil

in reply to shortwavesurfer • 5 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

Its totaly easy:

Ban the apps
Block major instances
Jail some instance admins who doesn't shut down (and make a show out of it)

No, you will not get the hobby revolutionary this way who really wants to "fight the man", but you surely will scare away the nepalese version of the average joe and with this effectively killing the networks there for main stream adoption.

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shortwavesurfer

in reply to Das_Fossil • 5 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

Are there any instance administrators in Nepal to jail?

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Das_Fossil

in reply to shortwavesurfer • 5 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

Well... we will see

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EndlessNightmare

in reply to Das_Fossil • 5 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

Not familiar with the other examples, but Lemmy doesn't need an app. Can get to it via browser. Maybe the others need one?

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Das_Fossil

in reply to EndlessNightmare • 5 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

Websites you can block via DNS - yes, i know that this can also be fairly easy circumvented - but the folks who know this are NOT the target audience for state action like that.

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EndlessNightmare

in reply to Das_Fossil • 5 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

Oh, yeah I know that sites can be blocked easily enough. My comment was more about whether specific apps are needed. For example, I rarely put apps for specific websites on my phone and instead just use the browser. Cuts way down on ads and other bullshit.

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Endymion_Mallorn

in reply to Pro • 6 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

I'm not sure what the big deal is here. They're dealing with a known rise in crime and fraud. this isn't just a bogeyman "save the children" thing, it's that they want to have access to the platform to keep things safe for their people and everyone else.

I think it's more than reasonable to have a specific point of contact if there's any issues related to a criminal investigation. And the lack of response from the Big Two is evidence that they don't care.

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frozenpopsicle

in reply to Endymion_Mallorn • 6 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

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Venia Silente

in reply to Endymion_Mallorn • 5 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

Assocks. They don't need (backend-level) access to the platform in order to fight that. They just have to do good, boots-on-the-ground detective work. In other words, earn their salaries. We don't precime-inalize silverware companies because people may use kitchen knives to kill each other.

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Endymion_Mallorn

in reply to Venia Silente • 5 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

No, but if one brand of knife is used in the majority of a category of crimes, it's fair that the government should have a clear point of contact with the manufacturer to help identify why it's happening and how it can be prevented.

Realize this: The Nepalese government is being treated the same way as a "normal" person - they're having trouble prosecuting these crimes because they're not being given any access to hidden or deleted posts. They're having to go though the useless fake support chats and the like. What they're demanding, mostly, is that they have a known human being who will cooperate with the government and to whom they have a clear and unambiguous connection. Frankly speaking, I think that ought to be a bare-minimum for any company anywhere. I don't support corporate sovereignty or corporate personhood. If you have a company operating in a nation, that nation should always have a clear point of contact for law enforcement & taxation purposes, as well as more general communication when needed.

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Kilgore Trout

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None of the platforms allowed employs E2E encryption, does it?

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sqgl

in reply to Kilgore Trout • 5 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

Telegram allowed. It does not e2e encrypt by default. How will they make sure that option isn't chosen by Nepalese?

All Nepal is asking for is registration so that there is a point of contact if there are any complaints. Telegram contacted Nepal after being banned.

Others didn't respond and deliberately have no contact details online.

I tried to contact Reddit in Sydney about my ban but could only make them down to a multi-client large office building in Barangaroo.

This isn't necessarily a bad move on Nepal's part.

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youmaynotknow

in reply to Pro • 5 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

Wao, Nepal is another part of the UK. Learning something new every day.

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interdimensionalmeme

in reply to Pro • 5 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

Bye Nepal, see you again after you line up all you tie-wearers against the wall

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Stubb

in reply to Pro • 5 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

They only implement DNS blocking so you have to change your DNS and everything will work again — this is also the case with their ban on porn sites. It's just an inconvenience to the citizens, all because they aren't competent enough to manage "criminal activites".

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abbiistabbii

in reply to Pro • 5 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

OK so three things:

How are they going to ban Mastodon. Like they cannot ban every mastodon instance.
From what I know about people in regimes like this: VPN usage is basically normal because of things like this. I live in the UK and I'm using a VPN.
Hamro Patro, if you don't know, is the Nepali "everything" app. It's officially a calendar app, but it also does News, Horoscopes (something that's important to Nepalis I guess), Exchange Rates, Radio and Podcasts. It is one of the most popular apps in the country and the most popular Nepali developed app period. This is like if the US banned the CNN app or if the British Government banned the Sky News app.

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NauticalNoodle

in reply to abbiistabbii • 5 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

A number of these sites try hard to Filter out VPN users.

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tankfox

in reply to abbiistabbii • 5 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

Modern laws rarely if ever have anything to do with what they claim to be changing. Just figure out where the graft is flowing and that's your answer. There's no graft to be had with mastodon because nobody is making any money there so at first it's simply ignored unless it annoys someone in Nepal's government. If an instance suddenly started getting popular and making money in Nepal then it gets on their radar and they have to start paying bribes to continue operating just like the big guys, and there will be no room at all for a 'medium guy' who makes a little profit but not enough to comply with the requirements of corruption.

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abbiistabbii

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It doesn't need to make money, it just needs to be a "Problem".

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cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36853680

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French regulator(CNIL) fine Google(325 million euros) and SheIn(150 million euros) for failing to comply with the rules on cookies
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noyb WIN: French DPA fines Google €325 million for “Spam Emails” in Gmail
The CNIL fined Google €325 million for creating spam emails in Gmail
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Lembot_0004

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Cookie rule #1: don't eat more than 150 gramms in one go.

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BoloMKXXVIII

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Cookies? Who still accepts those?

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The Browser Company (Arc, Dia) Has Been Acquired by Atlassian

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2025-09-04 16:31:30

The Browser Company (Arc, Dia) Has Been Acquired by Atlassian

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Welcoming The Browser Company to Atlassian - Work Life by Atlassian
Atlassian has entered into an agreement to acquire The Browser Company of New York, the team behind the incredible Dia and Arc browsers.
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BoloMKXXVIII

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They lost me at "A.I.".

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Jrockwar

in reply to BoloMKXXVIII • 5 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

I'm very mildly pro-AI, in the sense that I remain optimistic there will be at least a few cool use cases and I'd love to find them.

So I tried Dia... And uninstalled it a few hours later. Why would I want to "chat with my tabs"? Even if I didn't think this was a rubbish use case, every browser comes with a chatbot sidebar/extension/whatever, why would I want to change browsers just for that?

Heavy pass. Also, after how they abandoned Arc, I don't think they can be trusted to develop a product and not pull the rug from under the users when it becomes mildly inconvenient to keep working on it.

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Flagstaff

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Oh, they had abandoned Arc? Then yeah, doubly dismiss them. It wasn't even old...

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Jrockwar

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What happened was, they realised that Arc was a niche product that had a fervient userbase but would never become a mainstream browser, so they announced its development was "complete" and they were moving on to Dia so that they could ~~jump onto the AI bandwagon~~ create the next generation of browser.

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fox2263

in reply to Jrockwar • 5 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

You’d think a company that makes browsers could make more than one browser.

Hell, opera has a flavour for however you’re feeling that minute.

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BoloMKXXVIII

in reply to Jrockwar • 5 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

The main problem with A.I. isn't that it can't be a useful tool, it is that the creators can't resist the urge to take the opportunity to hoover up every bit of data they can from the users. That and they are spending billions of dollars in A.I. creation. You don't spend that kind of money to help your employees do their jobs, you spend that money to replace your employees.

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Poland: Twitter/X facilitated spread of anti-LGBTI hatred and harassment

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Social media platform, X contributed to the spread of hate and harassment against members of the LGBTI community in Poland.
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cerebralhawks

in reply to Pro • 6 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

Rest of the world: Yeah, we know. Except, it wasn't just in Poland.

X is owned by a guy who supports fascist causes in Europe. He used to support one in the US until they had a falling out. He did the Nazi arm gesture (albeit with the wrong arm, IIRC). Then (or perhaps before) he got rid of a bunch of content moderators.

We know exactly where he stands and what he stands for.

That said, there are still good people on Twitter. My wife and a bunch of her artist friends. I keep telling her, it's bad news up there, it's supporting a bad dude... but this whole community is up there and they won't move. I'm not sure what it will take at this point.

Honestly all social media is kinda trash these days.

Facebook has literally had people killed. Some anti-government rebels were using Facebook in some third world country (I forget the name), and Facebook gave their location data to the government. Volunteered it even. Guess who stopped using Facebook. Wonder what happened. Oh yeah, and you know what Mark Zuckerberg calls his users? "Dumb fucks." Literally. Can't make this shit up.

Reddit was built on CSAM, they even sent one of their early moderators a physical award for running a subreddit with upskirt shots of underage girls. (He was very publicly outed. Guess who didn't even protect the guy who helped build their empire?) They also tried to falsely accuse a third-party app developer of blackmailing them, but the guy recorded the conversation. A bunch of people rebelled but they all came back around. I myself got banned for suggesting stiffer penalties for child abuse, and I lost the appeal (I figured maybe an AI tagged me but a human would overturn it, but no). So I figure they did me a favor.

I think it's mostly the same people who use all these services, from Facebook to right here on Lemmy. And in any group of people, you have a few bad apples. But I think you have to look at the people leading it. What they stand for, how they see the world, the kind of world they want to make.

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ɯᴉuoʇuɐ

in reply to themachinestops • 5 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

Reminds me of how after WW2 people stopped calling their kids Adolf or even changed their name Adolf into something else. I mean, I'm not saying Zuckerberg is literally Hitler or something, but it sure is funnily similar.

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comador

in reply to ɯᴉuoʇuɐ • 5 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

Same thing happened after WW1 too btw. The strong anti-German sentiments across the US and Europe prompted multiple changes. William and Vilhelm became Bills or Ville; Müller became Miller; Schmidt became Smith.

I had a lot of Swedish family who did this from around 1915-1930 and as you said, again after WW2.

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Corkyskog

in reply to comador • 5 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

What about John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt? Everyone seemed to share a name with him according to lore.

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StupidBrotherInLaw

in reply to Corkyskog • 5 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

It's probably so popular on account of people always shouting it.

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BarneyPiccolo

in reply to Corkyskog • 5 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

Hey! That's my name, too!

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ArmchairAce1944

in reply to ɯᴉuoʇuɐ • 5 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

Zuckerberg literally means sugar hill/mountain in German.

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Droggelbecher

in reply to ArmchairAce1944 • 5 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

As an Austrian, this comment saying that 'Berg' translates to both hill and mountain explains a lot about what I've seen Germans refer to as Berg. To me it only means mountain.

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ArmchairAce1944

in reply to Droggelbecher • 5 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

Most of the time it does mean mountain. But I did hear it used for hill once, but that's it.

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Droggelbecher

in reply to ArmchairAce1944 • 5 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

A LOT of the ones I've seen Germans refer to as that are hills to me, so maybe it's normal for some. The way we use it, Berg has to go over the tree line, or at the very least be steep enough at the top to not have vegetation there.

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Paper_Phrog

in reply to Droggelbecher • 5 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

Yeah, isn't hill hügel/hüble? Currently hiking in DE and just climbed one and it had the signs, too. Now the real question is - at what point is it considered a mountain?

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Our definition: either high enough or steep enough to have no vegetation at the top. For some people, only the former definition counts. But from experience, the definition must be different in Germany. Maybe someone from there can chime in to share their definition!

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Idaho attorney general says officers who fatally shot autistic teen won't be charged

Four Idaho police officers who fatally shot an autistic, nonverbal teenage boy who was holding a knife on the other side of a chain-link fence in April were justified in their actions and will not face criminal charges, the state attorney general said Wednesday.

Victor Perez, 17, was in a coma for a week before dying April 12 after doctors removed nine bullets during several surgeries and amputated his leg.

The shooting in the southeast Idaho city of Pocatello, which was captured on video, drew outrage from members of the community who questioned why the officers opened fire within 12 seconds of exiting their vehicles.

The Bannock County Prosecutor's Office asked Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador to review the case to determine whether the officers committed a crime and if their use of force was justified. Labrador said the investigation showed that the officers did not know Perez's age or disabilities, and they were only told an intoxicated man was threatening people with a knife.

Idaho attorney general says officers who fatally shot autistic teen won't be charged

Four Idaho police officers who fatally shot an autistic teen boy who was holding a knife on the other side of a fence will not face criminal charges, according to the state attorney general.

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Newsom says Trump’s deployment of National Guard to LA cost taxpayers $120M

Newsom’s office evaluated the costs incurred since June when Trump sent more than 4,200 National Guard soldiers and 700 Marines to LA, posting its estimates on X.

According to the office that included $71 million for food and other basic necessities, $37 million in payroll, $4 million in logistic supplies, $3.5 million in travel. “The list goes on,” Newsom’s said.

Most of the soldiers were sent home last month, though 300 remain in Los Angeles, per The Los Angeles Times.

Newsom says the ‘political theater’ of Trump’s deployment of National Guard to LA cost taxpayers $120M

The California Governor’s office evaluated the costs incurred since June when Trump sent more than 4,200 National Guard soldiers and 700 Marines to LA

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Republicans end TPS deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans

The Department of Homeland Security said that the agency had reviewed conditions in Venezuela in collaboration with the State Department, and that DHS Secretary Kristi Noem had determined that the 2021 TPS designation for Venezuela was “contrary to the national interest.”

The decision leaves about 257,000 Venezuelans, including many in South Florida, vulnerable to being deported to a homeland deep in crisis and under the repressive governance of leader Nicolas Maduro.

The decision will also be heavily felt in South Florida, the heart of the Venezuelan community in the United States. On Wednesday, advocates and leaders were already reeling from the announcement.

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Afghan earthquake death toll jumps to more than 2,200, say Taliban

Aid agencies plead for funds as rough terrain hinders relief effort and 98% of buildings in one province are damaged

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Afghan earthquake death toll jumps to more than 2,200, say Taliban

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A GOP Megadonor Is Trying to Kill California Redistricting

GOP megadonor Charles Munger Jr is spending millions on a campaign against California Democrats’ proposal to redraw the state’s congressional districts — including a mailer that falsely suggests progressive lawmakers and organizations oppose the plan.

A GOP Megadonor Is Trying to Kill California Redistricting

GOP megadonor Charles Munger Jr is spending millions on a campaign against California Democrats’ proposal to redraw the state’s congressional districts — including a mailer that falsely suggests progressive lawmakers and organizations oppose the plan…

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Labour purges Black and brown councillors over Palestine support, but leaves white ones in place

Starmer and his acolytes hands are all over the purging of Black and brown Labour councillors in Brent - over support for Gaza

Labour purges Black and brown councillors over Palestine support

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UN urges nations to submit overdue climate plans 'as soon as possible' ahead of COP30

Most parties, including the EU, missed the February deadline to submit new climate plans, and pressure is mounting as the UN climate summit approaches.

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UN urges nations to submit overdue climate plans 'as soon as possible' ahead of COP30

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Texas Passes Ban on Mail-Order Abortion Pills

The bill also lets private citizens sue health providers for mailing, prescribing, or providing abortion pills.

Texas Passes Ban on Mail-Order Abortion Pills

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Legislation meant to delay Dallas investor’s East Texas ground water grab fails

A Dallas investor’s controversial plan to export East Texas groundwater appears poised to move forward, as lawmakers killed a bill that would have delayed the project by two years.

On Wednesday night, state Rep. Cody Harris, a Palestine Republican and the bill’s author, blamed the state Senate for the legislation’s failure, saying the chamber stripped a key provision that would have put a moratorium on new export permits while the Texas Water Development Board studied the effects of pumping groundwater from the area’s aquifers. The House voted not to accept the Senate changes.

“The Senate gutted the most important part of this bill,” Harris said late Wednesday. A moratorium would have given lawmakers “a chance … to make sure we are being good stewards of our most precious natural resource, water,” he said. “One part of the bill is worthless without the other.”

Bill to delay Dallas investors’ East Texas water grab fails

Companies tied to Dallas investor Kyle Bass applied for exploratory permits for wells to pump groundwater out from under Anderson and Henderson Counties.

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Google’s $45 Million Contract With Netanyahu's Office to Spread Israeli Propaganda

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Google’s $45 Million Contract With Netanyahu's Office to Spread Israeli Propaganda

Google is in the middle of a six-month, $45 million contract to amplify propaganda with Netanyahu’s office. The contract describes Google as a “key entity” supporting the prime minister’s messaging.

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Indonesian Islanders Take Their Fight For Climate Justice To Swiss Court

Four residents of Pari Island have sued cement giant Holcim. The court is now deciding if the case can move forward. Piece co-published with One Earth Now “I feel the effects of climate change every day.

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Google’s $45 Million Contract With Netanyahu's Office to Spread Israeli Propaganda

Google is in the middle of a six-month, $45 million contract to amplify propaganda with Netanyahu’s office. The contract describes Google as a “key entity” supporting the prime minister’s messaging.

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If this was the 30s, they would happily cooperate with Adolf.

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IBM did. This is one reason why we need separation of business and government.

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Atlassian acquires The Browser Company, creators of Arc browser

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Google deletes net-zero pledge from sustainability website

Five years ago, Google’s climate action ambitions were the gold standard for Big Tech. Then, with power demand spikes from AI data centres, in July it scrubbed its sustainability website of its 2030 net zero pledge.

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Embarrassing Ruling Allows Google to Maintain Its Search Monopoly

Judge Amit Mehta found Google guilty of illegally monopolizing search, and then allowed the company to keep doing it.

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September 2025 ForumWG Meeting

Monthly meetings are held on the first Thursday of each month, at 13h00 to 14h00 Eastern Time (currently 17h00 to 18h00 UTC). You can find them listed in the SocialCG Calendar. The next meeting will be held (today) on 4 September 2025. Meeting link: https

Meeting link: meet.jit.si/ap-forum-wg

This month's meeting has no set agenda. Discussions will continue re: FEP 7888/f228 adoption and ongoing FEP drafts.

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i'll try to make it but i am very tired right now recovering from my first-ever covid infection, so there's a chance i won't be able to make it

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Re: September 2025 ForumWG Meeting

trwnh@mastodon.social get well soon! Please don't worry about it, and prioritise your health.

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hi! following up on this, were there any minutes from the meeting?

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Re: September 2025 ForumWG Meeting

trwnh@mastodon.social there were! Yes, I'll get them up over the weekend hopefully.

The main news was updating everybody on context collection adoption (which I've posted about on ActivityPub.Space), plus TallTed brought up how this was handled in the nntp space

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Recent context collection news, in case you've missed:

- Mastodon: PR open
- Lemmy: PR merged

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Thanks, I totally missed this development. I blame the conference I was at. 😄

@jesseplusplus Can I ask here, what's the ultimate scope of what you're upstreaming? I see github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p… is a building block, will you be pushing for Mastodon to publish context collections later? It's not clear from what I'm seeing here if that's part of the plan.

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Implement FEP 7888: Part 1 - publish conversation context by jesseplusplus · Pull Request #35959 · mastodon/mastodon

I would like to upstream my fork's implementation of FEP-7888, which groups conversations or threads together. I have decided to split the implementation into two parts: adding the context prop...

^GitHub

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Re: September 2025 ForumWG Meeting

julian@fietkau.social the work by jesseplusplus@mastodon.social is split into two PRs.

The first allows Mastodon to start serving context collections. This is the critical piece that allows others to backfill conversations.

The latter half to be introduced in another PR will allow Mastodon to consume context collections for backfill purposes.

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thanks @julian@community.nodebb.org! and sorry @julian@fietkau.social, my wording of the PR title is a little confusing. I'm using the existing mastodon Conversation model to publish the context property. That PR will publish the collection as part of the AP json-ld for all notes.

I'll follow that up with a PR that will allow mastodon to backfill missing replies from the context on any Create-Notes that come to the inbox with a context collection.

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I've taken a closer look at the actual commits, and yeah, there's more already in there than I had first understood. Thanks for elaborating and best wishes for the process!

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thank you!

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Re: September 2025 ForumWG Meeting

silverpill@mitra.social oh you better believe I was aware of it 😁

It is a significant step toward broad adoption of context collections in order to enable backfill.

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Google deletes net-zero pledge from sustainability website

Five years ago, Google’s climate action ambitions were the gold standard for Big Tech. Then, with power demand spikes from AI data centres, in July it scrubbed its sustainability website of its 2030 net zero pledge.

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Nexar Turns Dashcams into ‘Virtual CCTV Cameras.’ Then Hackers Got In

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This Company Turns Dashcams into ‘Virtual CCTV Cameras.’ Then Hackers Got In

A hacker has broken into Nexar, a popular dashcam company that pitches its users’ dashcams as “virtual CCTV cameras” around the world that other people can buy images from, and accessed a database of terabytes of video recordings taken from cameras in drivers’ cars. The videos obtained by the hacker and shared with 404 Media capture people clearly unaware that a third party may be watching or listening in. A parent in a car soothing a baby. A man whistling along to the radio. Another person on a Facetime call. One appears to show a driver heading towards the entrance of the CIA’s headquarters. Other images, which are publicly available in a map that Nexar publishes online, show drivers around sensitive Department of Defense locations.
The hacker also found a list of companies and agencies that may have interacted with Nexar’s data business, which sells access to blurred images captured by the cameras and other related data. This can include monitoring the same location captured by Nexar’s cameras over time, and lets clients “explore the physical world and gain insights like never before,” and use its virtual CCTV cameras “to monitor specific points of interest,” according to Nexar’s website.
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This Company Turns Dashcams into ‘Virtual CCTV Cameras.’ Then Hackers Got In
A hacker has compromised Nexar, which turns peoples' cars into "virtual CCTV cameras" that organizations can then buy images from. The images include sensitive U.S. military and intelligence facilities.
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Did nobody learn from the time that almost every laptop camera was hacked? My dashcam has an SD card. Why would it need to go to the internet ever?

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I use wyzecams cause they're cheap. I have thought about maybe adding a dvr drive to my nas and adding a docker container for them instead of wyze software. But I also just use them for outdoor use, watching my driveway and doors. Was disappointed that paying for one camera instead of sdcard only mode didn't retrieve footage when my sdcard failed, so stopped paying. I only show what I view as public though. So not too worried about privacy. I live on a secluded drive, and most visitors are raccoons and opossums (which is why I have one camera on chickens)

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Atlassian to buy Arc and Dia developer The Browser Company for $610M

Atlassian to buy Arc developer The Browser Company for $610M | TechCrunch

The Browser Company's CEO Josh Miller said that his company will operate independently under Atlassian and will continue to develop Dia, the browser it started working on last year after deciding to stop development of its previous browser, Arc.

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the enshittified company bought the enshittified company to form a megazord of enshittification

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In what ways has Atlassian enshittified?

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It started shitty, so I'm not sure enshittification is really the issue with it.

The UX is appallingly bad, their interpretation of agile development is in no way agile, integrations are inept, functionality is shit, and their whole paradigm seems to be based on user disempowerment and top-down corporate control.

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Never heard of the browsers until now

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Sierocoinvoltə. La rivoluzione sessuale riparte dall’HIV: consiglio di lettura

Sierocoinvoltə. La rivoluzione sessuale riparte dall’HIV. Consiglio di lettura.

I nostri amici artivisti “Conigli Bianchi” e il collettivo “PrEP in Italia” hanno pubblicato un libro con la casa editrice Eris: sierocoinvoltə – la rivoluzione sessuale riparte dall’HIV”.

Sierocoinvoltə. La rivoluzione sessuale riparte dall’HIV

Mai titolo migliore poteva essere scelto per un libro divulgativo sulla situazione attuale dell’HIV; cosa significa essere sierocoinvolti-e-infinito e oltre?

Da quando HIV è entrato a… no, non si dice “a gamba tesa” di un virus. Insomma con tutto il suo RNA, nelle nostre esistenze, le ha sconvolte condizionando la nostra vita sessuale ed educazione senza esclusione di colpi.

Se eri una persona adulta, dovevi mettere in discussione la tua sessualità qualunque fosse; se eri un adolescente alle prese con gli ormoni ti facevano crescere con la paura, se invece stavi ancora nell’età spensierata dell’infanzia il terrore dei genitori si rifletteva sulle modalità di gioco: “non rotolarti per terra sui prati perché ci sono le siringhe” era il minimo sindacabile. Senza contare, dopo, le volte in cui ci si sentiva dire di non parlare con quel vicino “strano” che vive con un uomo, quello ha gli occhi fuori dalla testa ed è un drogato, occhio al tuo amico se perde sangue, ecc.

Ora sappiamo che quel terrore si chiama stigma, anzi meglio ancora. Sierofobia. E in più, la consapevolezza di essere tutti coinvolti nel tema dell’HIV, si traduce in SIEROCOINVOLGIMENTO.

Ognuno di noi è sierocoinvolto, anche quelli che non vogliono ammetterlo compresi i sierofobici che se ne lavano le mani nel vero senso della parola, con l’igienizzante a base alcolica possibilmente.

Rivoluzione sessuale bloccata?

Rivoluzione sessuale, poche volte ormai se ne parla nei media però ce ne sarebbe bisogno: negli anni 70 del secolo scorso, tra lotte femministe e del movimento LGBT+, la concezione della sessualità stava perdendo l’approccio paternalista e morale presente dalla notte dei tempi, si sperava di poterlo cambiare finalmente in una visione più libera invece dal 1981 in poi l’HIV e AIDS hanno bloccato tutto.

Con un sacco di gente che moriva, i fondamentalisti religiosi e conservatori nel mondo intero hanno rialzato la testa: non gli pareva vero che una malattia si propagasse con la sessualità e colpisse proprio le persone che a loro davano fastidio; noi non ce lo togliamo dalla mente, non ci fosse stato HIV in giro probabilmente a quest’ora non staremmo ancora parlando di diritti LGBT, educazione sessuale e affettiva, e quant’altro.

La speranza che la malattia mortale potesse portare a una maggiore consapevolezza sulla sessualità, si è scontrata con una realtà di politici e religiosi che hanno sfruttato la situazione a proprio vantaggio.

Sierocoinvolgimento e coscienza

Adesso però grazie alla medicina la situazione è cambiata e si può essere sierocoinvolti in modo diverso, più cosciente, e soprattutto libero perché la prevenzione e la conoscenza possono battere lo stigma, facendoci vivere una sessualità senza rischi.

Sierocoinvoltə. La rivoluzione sessuale riparte dall’HIV – il libro

Scritto dall’associazione Conigli Bianchi artivisti contro la sierofobia e il collettivo PrEP in Italia che si occupa di divulgare la conoscenza sulla profilassi farmacologica pre-esposizione da HIV, il libro raccoglie diverse storie scritte direttamente da persone sierocoinvolte – non necessariamente HIV positive.

Titolo: Sierocoinvoltə. La rivoluzione sessuale riparte dall’HIV
Autore: Conigli Bianchi e PrEP in Italia
Costo: 10 euro
Dove acquistarlo: Eris Edizioni, libro cartaceo.

DESCRIZIONE:

Questo è un lavoro di scrittura collettiva, una polifonia di voci sierocoinvolte che racconta un viaggio lungo 40 anni di HIV. Tanti punti di vista diversi per ripercorrere il passato, fotografare il presente e pensare il futuro delle persone sierocoinvolte. Una narrazione dal basso di singoli individui, soggettività e associazioni, per cambiare e decostruire la rappresentazione che ancora oggi si fa dell’HIV. Non prendono parola solo maschi gay bianchi cis, sono state raccolte anche testimonianze che troppo spesso hanno poco spazio come ad esempio quelle di donne che vivono con l’HIV e l’esperienze di attivismo delle donne lesbiche.
Il saggio parte dall’abc. Perché c’è l’esigenza di parlare di HIV ancora oggi, cosa si intende per sierocoinvolgimento, le info scientifiche imprescindibili per capire questioni su cui si fa confusione: differenza tra HIV e AIDS, carica virale, trasmissione e prevenzione. Il passaggio successivo è il linguaggio corretto per parlarne e contemporaneamente contribuire al processo di destigmatizzazione per cambiare gli immaginari che da sempre contraddistinguono l’HIV e che veicolano la sierofobia. Viene dato spazio alle battaglie per il diritto alla privacy e al coming out delle persone che vivono con l’HIV.
Il focus è sulla situazione italiana, sulla totale assenza delle istituzioni, sullo stato dei fatti nel 2023 e sulle differenze politiche con l’estero. Il lavoro delle associazioni e l’attivismo è fondamentale per la divulgazione di informazioni che non possono essere date per scontate e che troverete anche in queste pagine: dove e come fare i test in Italia, cos’è la PrEP ovvero la Profilassi Pre-Esposizione e soprattutto la centralità delle relazioni e delle reti sociali, perché HIV non è solo scienza. Sono tanti gli spunti per il futuro di queste lotte e la storia dell’artivismo HIV può insegnarci tanto. Per cambiare il paradigma c’è bisogno di tuttə perché siamo tuttə sierocoinvoltə.

Lo sapevamo da tempo

Eravamo a conoscenza di questa iniziativa da aprile 2023, quando una mattina a uno di noi è arrivata una mail dal collettivo PrEP in Italia in cui ci veniva chiesto di inviare un racconto a tema HIV. Parole testuali “ci piacerebbe che anche i PlusBrothers partecipassero a questo libro sierocoinvolto”.

Detto, fatto: ricordiamo ancora la situazione, entrambi stavamo in ferie per il ponte del 25 aprile e quella mattina avevamo deciso di dormire fino a tardi perché, tanto, nulla può succedere durante le vacanze di primavera.

Invece, il primo di noi che ha ricevuto la mail ha telefonato all’altro, svegliandolo: “dai forza dobbiamo rimboccarci le maniche e l’RNA perché bisogna scrivere!”

Ci pareva un sogno, fino a quando la mail è arrivata sullo schermo di entrambi; la prima cosa da fare, come in ogni occasione importante, era studiare la situazione e valutare le condizioni che ci venivano poste. Fattibile perché il libro doveva essere non più di 100 pagine.

Facciamo questo, facciamo quello, alla fine abbiamo deciso di condividere un racconto col virus parlante!

Ogni libro predilige il punto di vista umano, allora perché non tentare di indurre la riflessione offrendo quello dell’HIV?

“La morte mai” si può leggere sul nostro blog.

Niente, nel libro non c’è traccia di noi perché in tanti hanno condiviso le loro storie e l’editore ha dovuto compiere una scelta; 100 pagine sono poche, l’argomento è vasto e qualcuno deve rimaner fuori per forza. Pazienza.

La notizia negativa ci è arrivata prima dell’estate 2023 e i ragazzi di “PrEP in Italia” si sono pure scusati con noi però alla fine abbiamo detto loro di non preoccuparsi in quanto noi contribuiamo come possiamo senza però dare per scontato il successo, in questo caso la pubblicazione. Nel nostro blog possiamo mettere cosa vogliamo ma quando sono gli altri a decidere, la nostra parola non conta più.

Ci sentiamo pure in colpa ora che il libro è uscito, perché consigliandoci a vicenda abbiamo preso la direzione della storia inventata col virus parlante, quando potevamo cogliere questa opportunità per raccontare gli ostacoli che, oltre alla sierofobia, una persona può incontrare nella prevenzione e cura dell’HIV in caso di disabilità partendo dai test fai da te, i cui esiti si leggono solo visivamente alla faccia della privacy.

Ma in quel frangente non volevamo il tono da ennesima storia di denuncia su cosa non va, ci piaceva di più una narrazione leggera in modo da far “digerire” il tema delicato a più persone. Esattamente come facciamo qui sul blog, volevamo fare lì.

Pazienza, sarà per un’altra volta, l’esito positivo non è mai scontato (doppio senso volutissimo).

Ci servirà di lezione per migliorarci ancora di più e riflettere più a fondo su cosa condividere, se mai ci si presenterà un’altra occasione.

L’unico dispiacere che rimane per adesso, è che il libro non è presente in formato elettronico e le persone con disabilità visiva non possono leggerlo. Una barriera su un tema dove non ce ne dovrebbero essere, ma quello non dipende dagli autori e sono scelte dell’editore.

Acquista il libro Sierocoinvoltə. La rivoluzione sessuale riparte dall’HIV

Fumettist* contro la Sierofobia

18 Fumettisti hanno prestato le loro matite per sfatare i falsi miti sull'Hiv. Ma è solo l'inizio... Seguili fuori dalla tana dello stigma!

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La morte mai

Abbiamo scritto il racconto “la morte mai”, su richiesta di alcuni attivisti HIV che volevano farlo includere in un libro.
Il volume è stato successivamente pubblicato, ma senza di noi. Pazienza.
La storia viene raccontata in prima persona dal virus HIV.
La morte mai

Papà non si muoveva né parlava più, i nostri parenti erano già morti da tempo e io ero ormai rassegnato ad attendere il mio destino perché nessuno mi avrebbe protetto, per gran parte del mondo la nostra comunità è semplicemente invisibile e pericolosa.
Ho anche pensato nella disperazione di aiutarlo dolcemente ad andarsene, ma così oltre a restare solo, avrei tradito le sue aspettative: “la morte mai”, era sempre stato il suo motto; ma intanto a soffrire ero io, convinto che lui non fosse più cosciente.
“Figliolo ascoltami”, ho sentito all’improvviso la sua voce affaticata. O forse era suggestione? Da quanto tempo non parlavamo più!
“L’ho ucciso io.”
Era lucido, senza dubbio, e in quel calvario finalmente vedevo una lieve speranza di ripresa: “Cosa dici! Cos’è successo!”
“Freddie Mercury”, mi ha rivelato sforzandosi sempre di più a parlare. “È morto per colpa mia! Non fare come me! Tu devi amare!”
L’amore: un privilegio a cui credevo di non aver diritto perché spettava agli uomini veri, e io ero cosciente di non esserlo; ho guardato papà e lui si è spinto verso di me, con una forza che pensavo ormai avesse perduto.
“Io non ne sono stato capace e ho ucciso tante persone per impedire loro di amare. Ad altre l’ho reso difficile. Ma tu puoi, tesoro. Ama il tuo uomo e insegnagli l’amore. La morte mai.”
Quelle sono state le sue ultime parole e in pochi secondi il suo corpo ha smesso definitivamente di muoversi lasciandomi completamente solo, nel mio dolore; lo sapevo ormai, questione di pochi attimi e il destino si sarebbe compiuto anche per me.
“Maledetto! Non ti lascerò rovinarmi la vita!” Una voce tutt’altro che amichevole mi ha fatto tornare in me e io sono rimasto immobile, in attesa: “ama il tuo uomo, la morte mai”, le parole di papà continuavano a bloccare ogni mia reazione. Come si può amare uno che mi insulta appena mi vede?
Ignoravo chi fosse la creatura ostile e cosa ne sarebbe stato di me, sapevo solo che sarei anche morto pur di non deludere mio padre.
Solo guardandomi intorno ho scoperto di avere davanti un uomo giovane e robusto, che nel tempo mi avrebbe dato parecchio filo da torcere ma ho compreso la sua natura appena l’ho visto piangere: “hai poco da fare il duro e insultarmi”, ho tirato fuori il mio coraggio e l’ho affrontato; “lo vedi che stiamo male tutti e due?”
“Niente droga! Niente rapporti promiscui! Io ero monogamo e tu sei arrivato lo stesso! Maledetto HIV!”
“Non mi importa chi sei, io sono entrato perché ho trovato la porta aperta. Sono completamente solo, ho bisogno di…”
“Compagnia?” Incredibile, aveva finito la mia frase! Parlavamo la stessa lingua ma lui non pareva convinto: “dannati farmaci, cosa succede, sto parlando col virus?”
L’ho lasciato inveire contro i medicinali e parlare dei complotti più assurdi, ma alla fine non ne ho potuto più: “senti umano, non sono allucinazioni. Preferisci un virus che ti parla o uno che ti manda in AIDS?”
“Sarei rimasto negativo volentieri, ma i Poteri Forti hanno distribuito la profilassi in ritardo!”
Sempre in mezzo i Potery Forty, come li chiamava papà. Quelli che vietano a noi virus di amare e agli umani di conoscerci fino in fondo.; “Senti HIV, dobbiamo convivere ma non ti illudere di toccare mio marito, chiaro?”
“E chi lo vuole”, pensavo; “brutto come te lo sei scelto!” Ma ho voluto essere diplomatico: “come potrei, sono bloccato! Non rilevabile! O ti parlo o trasmetto!”
Per raccontargli di me e la verità su Freddie avrei avuto tempo, ma in quel momento mi bastava solo convivere in pace e sentirlo dire, rivolgendosi agli altri umani: “vivo con HIV e sono felicemente sposato”.

#Libri #scrittura #esperienze #stigma

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House Votes to Advance a Mining Road Through the Alaskan Wilderness

The proposed 211-mile industrial road over pristine land would allow a mining company to reach a copper deposit. Critics say it would destroy a fragile environment.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/climate/ambler-access-project-road-alaska.html?unlocked_article_code=1.jU8.v9HW.YA1assoTH4-Y

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I may be a bit oversensitive about this kind of thing, but I really dislike the dichotomy they set up: congressman introduces bill to exploit natural resources, critics “say” it “might” cause harm. When really, it’s huge numbers of local communities and climate experts who are explaining why it will cause harm.

I see this everywhere, the actual experts who understand and can explain why something will happen, are relegated to “saying” something “might” happen.

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Norway says pump it up on oil and gas for now

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Client Challenge

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Read the article.

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Thing seller says to buy more thing

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Spain and Portugal wildfire weather made 40 times more likely by climate crisis, study finds | Wildfires were 30% more intense than would have been expected without global heating, scientists say

Spain and Portugal wildfire weather made 40 times more likely by climate crisis, study finds

Wildfires were 30% more intense than would have been expected without global heating, scientists say

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4 septembre 2025, 19:30:00 CEST - GMT+2 - Société de Développement de Marterey - Bugnon et environs, 1003, Lausanne, Suisse

Set 4

Soirée d'information sur l'E-ID

Gio 19:30 - 20:30

À l’approche de la votation du 28 septembre sur l’identité électronique (e-ID), HTTPS-VD vous invite à une soirée d’information et de débat citoyen.

Programme :

Présentation introductive par un expert externe : comprendre les bases de l’e-ID et les points principaux du projet de la confédération.
Tour de table avec CH++ et HTTPS-VD : partage d’opinions, analyses et mise en perspective des enjeux démocratiques, techniques et légaux.
Questions-réponses avec le public : un espace ouvert pour éclaircir les aspects pratiques et juridiques du projet.
Apéro convivial pour poursuivre la discussion dans un cadre informel.

🔗 Infos & inscriptions : mobilisons.ch

Voir aussi: https://mobilisons.ch/events/017b7d50-034d-4b89-b368-8356ad5e6136 - La mise en œuvre technique de l’E-ID en Suisse - Conférence spécialisée par Société Numérique

#votation #E-ID

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Variations in Climate Change Belief Systems Across 110 Geographic Areas

A preprint of the paper is here

Variations in Climate Change Belief Systems Across 110 Geographic Areas - Yale Program on Climate Change Communication

We are pleased to announce the publication of a new article, “Variations in Climate Change Belief Systems Across 110 Geographic Areas” in Nature Climate Change. Think of climate change beliefs like trees in a forest — no single tree stands […]

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Estate 2025 in Liguria, più pioggia e meno caldo. Tornano le stagioni “di una volta”?

Sul fronte delle temperature, nonostante i passaggi perturbati, non sono mancati valori estremi a conferma che anche in un’estate meno calda della media recente, le fiammate africane restano un fenomeno costante. Secondo Arpal: «La stagione è stata meno

Secondo Arpal: «La stagione è stata meno siccitosa rispetto agli ultimi anni, con valori più vicini alle medie storiche, anche se le temperature restano elevate. L’instabilità diffusa ha riportato un clima più variabile e dinamico rispetto alle estati caratterizzate da lunghi periodi di alta pressione».

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Estate 2025 in Liguria, più pioggia e meno caldo. Tornano le stagioni “di una volta”? - genovaquotidiana.com

Dati Arpal: frequenti giornate instabili, allerte temporali e precipitazioni sopra la media. Solo due le ondate di calore, con picchi oltre i 40 gradi nello Spezzino

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Kowloon Walled City

Edit to add wiki, sorry folks! wiki

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Would love to see a 3d recreation of as much as possible. Would be cool to go thru all the videos and documentation of it and build a real 3d world from that

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wakest ⁂

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wow I just found this sketchfab.com/3d-models/kowloo…

Kowloon Walled City (3D Map) 九龍城砦 3D地圖 V0.2 - 3D model by CommaMan (@commaguy)

請善用時間線來控制「平面圖」及「地圖指示」的出現。未整完, 得閒會再更新, 如有錯誤或有建議, 歡迎留言呀 NoAI: This model may not be used in datasets for, in the development of, or as inputs to generative AI programs.

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Roblox continues efforts for child safety by expanding age estimation to all users by end of the year

Honestly maybe this game should be shutdown:

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Roblox Banned In Qatar Due To “Potential Risks To Children And Teenagers”

It's not the first time a nation said nope to Roblox.

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It should at the very least get a new, better CEO. And also calm down with their focus on getting older users and encouraging user dating services. They have a solid user base with younger users, and should be focused on them and their protection.

But yeah, just shutting down might be the best option.

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etchinghillside

in reply to ThePowerOfGeek • 6 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

just shutting down

Just to confirm – we’re all aware that it is very likely something will come in to take its place?

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ssillyssadass

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The kids will probably swarm over to Fortnite or Minecraft. They're both capable of filling the niche

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Battle_Masker

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Fortnite is already trying to rework its base game into Roblox on Unreal engine

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Fijxu

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There is no Steal a Brainrot 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

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ThePowerOfGeek

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Give it about a month and I'm sure there will be (...unfortunately).

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Bobby Turkalino

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There is on Fortnite, it consistently has ~12k concurrent users

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The Velour Fog

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Why tf are they encouraging dating when their userbase is primarily children???

That's just asking for more predators on their platform!

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ThePowerOfGeek

in reply to The Velour Fog • 6 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

Yeah it's crazy. They are trying to cater to older users, probably because they feel they can get more money from them.

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Truscape

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I'm sure the predators have ample disposable income they'd spend on Roblox (/s)

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I would rather kids pirate Minecraft than play Roblox - even if Microsoft is making the Bedrock Edition microtransaction hell, Roblox is exploitative in every layer of platform - developers, players, parents, employees, everyone except the shareholders gets sharked and abused.

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JasonDJ

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My kids got into Minecraft.

I gave my oldest an old laptop. Put Kinoite on it. Now he prefers java edition.

Minecraft doesn't need much. It plays acceptably (for him) on a T460p...I think that's like a 6th Gen i7...as long as he doesn't go too crazy with mods.

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Truscape

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Honestly at that point the bottleneck would be Windows if he's using that as the operating system, and RAM. I still play modded Java edition to this day, since 2014 😀

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JasonDJ

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Kinoite is an immutable Linux distro from fedora.

Tho I think, in retrospect, his laptop is still on tumbleweed. Id been meaning to switch.

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Truscape

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Ah apologies, never heard of Kinoite.

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Wildmimic

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Yeah, i remember reading an article where child devs were getting burnout from working inhumane hours, organized through discord with shit like standups and all the crap from offices, but without pay, health insurance or vacation time, on top of a shitton of bullying - and Roblox gets their cut through their marketplace

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Truscape

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Not sure if it's the same source, but People Make Games (Independent Journalists) made two excellent documentaries on the subject:

youtu.be/_gXlauRB1EQ

youtu.be/vTMF6xEiAaY

- YouTube

Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.

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They're 4 year old videos, but still relevant.

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Truscape

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That's the depressing part.

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ThePowerOfGeek

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For anyone who's not aware, there are some pretty cool open source Minecraft options. Like Luanti (which is more like a playground for all sorts of FOSS Minecraft variants).

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fragrantvegetable

in reply to ThePowerOfGeek • 6 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

I've enjoyed playing Mineclonia on Luanti with my kid. I don't know how it compares to real Minecraft but it's been perfectly serviceable for our needs. It even has an Android client.

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cmnybo

in reply to ThePowerOfGeek • 6 giorni fa (Ricevuto 4 giorni fa) • •

Luanti is significantly lighter weight than modern versions of Minecraft. It doesn't need a dedicated GPU and will run on almost anything.

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Truscape

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I'm of the opinion that Luanti =/= Minecraft, and can't provide a similar experience vanilla or modded, but it's still a useful development tool and sandbox for those who understand its capabilities.

giuliano60 via Salute: Alimentazione, Fitness, Psiche, Medicina e Sessualità.

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Stop Ansia da Esame: Ecco le 2 Semplici Tecniche Che Funzionano Davvero

Ti è mai capitato di ritrovarti con la** testa fra le nuvole** dopo pochi minuti di** studio?** Oppure di sentire il panico che ti blocca un attimo prima di un'interrogazione, facendoti dimenticare tutto? Se la risposta è sì, non preoccuparti: non sei solo.

Spesso, i veri nemici della nostra concentrazione non sono le distrazioni, ma** l'ansia e lo stress**. La buona notizia è che non devi combatterli, ma semplicemente imparare a gestirli. In questo articolo, ti sveleremo due tecniche super efficaci e incredibilmente semplici per allenare la tua mente a concentrarsi e a ritrovare la calma quando ne hai più bisogno.

Al via nuovo anno scolastico: benessere tra i banchi-Guida per migliorare la concentrazione e battere l’ansia da prestazione (2)

Ti è mai capitato di sederti alla scrivania per studiare ma, neanche trascorsi cinque minuti, la tua testa è già da tutt'altra parte, persa nei ricordi delle spiagge o nei tuffi in acqua? Oppure, ti è mai successo che, nell'imminenza di un'interro…

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Il modello del fashion retail è in frantumi: dalla crescita al collasso

Dalla boutique italiana Luisa Via Roma che chiede la protezione del tribunale, all’e-tailer canadese Ssense che presenta istanza di fallimento, emerge uno schema chiaro: il modello tradizionale dei fashion retail è in frantumi. Infatti, le stesse falle strutturali accomunano i retailer moda di tutto il mondo, sia fisici che digitali. Ma si tratta solo degli effetti di una crisi economica o è un modello di business ormai giunto alla fine?

Cosa è andato storto?

I retailer sono rimasti intrappolati in un circolo vizioso:

Sovrapproduzione: Ordinano stock eccessivi per offrire assortimenti infiniti.
Cultura dello sconto: Dipendono da promozioni perpetue per smaltire le scorte, erodendo il valore percepito e i margini.

Questo modello, sia online che fisico, non è più sostenibile. I consumatori sono diventati volatili e gli investimenti fatti durante la pandemia non hanno dato i ritorni attesi.

La domanda è:

Può un'industria che rifiuta di cambiare le sue fondamenta— basate su produzione di massa e brand sempre più privi di significato — sopravvivere cercando solo salvataggi finanziari, senza un vero ripensamento strutturale?

Se vuoi approfondire / If you want to know more:

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Fashion Retail – A broken model: From growth to collapse - suite123

Fashion retail: a broken model about to collapse. A global crisis exposes an industry unwilling to adapt. Can it survive its own excess?

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A bipartisan bill to ban lawmakers from trading stocks is unveiled in the House

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Magaziner, Roy Introduce New Bipartisan Bill to Ban Congressional Stock Trading

Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Representatives Seth Magaziner (D-RI-02) and Chip Roy (R-TX-21) introduced a new comprehensive bipartisan bill to ban Members of Congress from trading stocks.

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Threat actors abuse X’s Grok AI to spread malicious links

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/threat-actors-abuse-xs-grok-ai-to-spread-malicious-links/

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Quella "Pallina" che Ti Fa Paura: I Linfonodi Parlano, Impara ad Ascoltarli

I linfonodi gonfi sono un mistero che genera sempre un po' di ansia. Sono un segnale d'allarme o semplicemente il segno che il tuo corpo sta lavorando per difenderti?
Nel nostro nuovo articolo, scoprirai la verità su queste sentinelle del sistema immunitario: **quando il gonfiore** è una reazione normale a un'infezione e quando invece richiede l'attenzione di un medico. Impara a decifrare i segnali, a riconoscere le cause più comuni e, soprattutto, a capire quando stare tranquillo.

Linfonodi Gonfi: Allarme o Sentinelle del Corpo? La Verità Che Devi Conoscere

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[Recipe] Impeach Cobler

I say this on the old social media and I loved it so much I wanted to share.

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EFF Statement on ICE Use of Paragon Solutions Malware

This statement can be attributed to EFF Senior Staff Technologist Cooper QuintinIt was recently reported by Jack Poulson on Substack that ICE has reactivated its 2 million dollar contract with Paragon Solutions, a cyber-mercenary and spyware manufact…

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Google’s $45 Million Contract With Netanyahu's Office to Spread Israeli Propaganda

Google is in the middle of a six-month, $45 million contract to amplify propaganda with Netanyahu’s office. The contract describes Google as a “key entity” supporting the prime minister’s messaging.

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Google’s $45 Million Contract With Netanyahu's Office to Spread Israeli Propaganda

Google is in the middle of a six-month, $45 million contract to amplify propaganda with Netanyahu’s office. The contract describes Google as a “key entity” supporting the prime minister’s messaging.

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Google’s $45 Million Contract With Netanyahu's Office to Spread Israeli Propaganda

Google is in the middle of a six-month, $45 million contract to amplify propaganda with Netanyahu’s office. The contract describes Google as a “key entity” supporting the prime minister’s messaging.

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The worst possible antitrust outcome

Republished under Creative Commons, Original article from Pluralistic.

Well, fuck.

Last year, Google lost an antitrust case to Biden's DoJ. The DoJ lawyers beat Google like a drum, proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that Google had deliberately sought to create and maintain a monopoly over search, and that they'd used that monopoly to make search materially worse, while locking competitors out of the market.

In other words, the company that controls 90% of search attained that control by illegal means, and, having thus illegitimately become the first port of call for the information-seeking world, had deliberately worsened its product to make more money:

pluralistic.net/2024/04/24/nam…

That Google lost that case was a minor miracle. First, because for 40 years, the richest, most terrible people in the world have been running a literal re-education camp for judges where they get luxe rooms and fancy meals and lectures about how monopolies are good, actually:

pluralistic.net/2021/08/13/pos…

But second, because Judge Amit Mehta decided that the Google case should be shrouded in mystery, suppressing the publication of key exhibits and banning phones, cameras and laptops from the courtroom, with the effect that virtually no one even noticed that the most important antitrust case in tech history, a genuine trial of the century, was underway:

promarket.org/2023/10/27/googl…

This is really important. The government doesn't have to win an antitrust trial in order to create competition. As the saying goes, "the process is the punishment." Bill Gates was so personally humiliated by his catastrophic performance at his deposition for the Microsoft antitrust trial that he elected not to force-choke the nascent Google, lest he be put back in the deposition chair:

pluralistic.net/2020/09/12/wha…
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But Judge Mehta turned his courtroom into a Star Chamber, a black hole whence no embarrassing information about Google's wicked deeds could emerge. That meant that the only punishment Google would have to bear from this trial would come after the government won its case, when the judge decided on a punishment (the term of art is "remedy") for Google.

Yesterday, he handed down that remedy and it is as bad as it could be. In fact, it is likely the worst possible remedy for this case:

gizmodo.com/google-wont-have-t…

Let's start with what's not in this remedy. Google will not be forced to sell off any of its divisions – not Chrome, not Android. Despite the fact that the judge found that Google's vertical integration with the world's dominant mobile operating system and browser were a key factor in its monopolization, Mehta decided to leave the Google octopus with all its limbs intact:

pluralistic.net/2024/11/19/bre…

Google won't be forced to offer users a "choice screen" when they set up their Android accounts, to give browsers other than Chrome a fair shake:

pluralistic.net/2024/08/12/def…

Nor will Google be prevented from bribing competitors to stay out of the search market. One of the facts established in the verdict was that Google had been slipping Apple more than $20b/year in exchange for which, Apple forbore from making a competing search engine. This exposed every Safari and iOS user to Google surveillance, while insulating Google from the threat of an Apple competitor.

And then there's Google's data. Google is the world's most prolific surveiller, and the company boasts to investors about the advantage that its 24/7 spying confers on it in the search market, because Google knows so much about us and can therefore tailor our results. Even if this is true – a big if – it's nevertheless a fucking nightmare. Google has stolen every fact about our lives, in service to propping up a monopoly that lets it steal our money, too. Any remedy worth the name would have required Google to delete ("disgorge," in law-speak) all that data:

pluralistic.net/2024/08/07/rev…

Some people in the antitrust world didn't see it that way. Out of a misguided kind of privacy nihilism, they called for Google to be forced to share the data it stole from us, so that potential competitors could tune their search tools on the monopolist's population-scale privacy violations.

And that is what the court has ordered.

As punishment for being convinced of obtaining and maintaining a monopoly, Google will be forced to share sensitive data with lots of other search engines. This will not secure competition for search, but it will certainly democratize human rights violations at scale.

Doubtless there will be loopholes in this data-sharing order. Google will have the right to hold back some of its data (that is, our data) if it is deemed "sensitive." This isn't so much a loophole as is a loopchasm. I'll bet you a testicle⹋ that Google will slap a "sensitive" label on any data that might be the least bit useful to its competitors.

⹋not one of mine

This means that even if you like data-sharing as a remedy, you won't actually get the benefit you were hoping for. Instead, Google competitors will spend the next decade in court, fighting to get Google to comply with this order.

That's the main reason that we force monopolists to break up after they lose antitrust cases. We could put a bunch of conditions on how they operate, but figuring out whether they're adhering to those conditions and punishing them when they don't is expensive, labor-intensive and time consuming. This data-sharing wheeze is easy to do malicious compliance for, and hard to enforce. It is not an "administrable" policy:

locusmag.com/2022/03/cory-doct…

This is all downside. If Google complies with the order, it will constitute a privacy breach on a scale never before seen. If they don't comply with the order, it will starve competitors of the one tiny drop of hope that Judge Mehta squeezed out of his pen. It's a catastrophe. An utter, total catastrophe. It has zero redeeming qualities. Hope you like enshittification, folks, because Judge Mehta just handed Google an eternal licence to enshittify the entire fucking internet.

It's impossible to overstate how fucking terrible Mehta's reasoning in this decision is. The Economic Liberties project calls it "judicial cowardice" and compared the ruling to "finding someone guilty for bank robbery and then sentencing him to write a thank you note":

economicliberties.us/press-rel…

Matt Stoller says it's typical of today's "lawlessness, incoherence and deference to big business":

thebignewsletter.com/p/a-judge…

David Dayen's scorching analysis in The American Prospect calls it "embarassing":

prospect.org/justice/2025-09-0…

Dayen points out the many ways in which Mehta ignored his own findings, ignored the Supreme Court. Mehta wrote:

This court, however, need not decide this issue, because there are independent reasons that remedies designed to eliminate the defendant’s monopoly—i.e., structural remedies—are inappropriate in this case.

Which, as Dayen points out is literally a federal judge deciding to ignore the law "because reasons."

Dayen says that he doesn't see why Google would even bother appealing this ruling: "since it won on almost every point." But the DoJ could appeal. If MAGA's promises about holding Big Tech to account mean anything at all, the DoJ would appeal.

I'll bet you a testicle⹋ that the DoJ will not appeal. After all, Trump's DoJ now has a cash register at the reception desk, and if you write a check for a million bucks to some random MAGA influencer, they can make all charges disappear:

pluralistic.net/2025/09/02/act…

⹋again, not one of mine

And if you're waiting for Europe to jump in and act where America won't, don't hold your breath. EU Commission sources leaked to Reuters that the EU is going to drop its multi-billion euro fine against Google because they don't want to make Trump angry:

reuters.com/legal/litigation/g…

Sundar Pichai gave $1m to Donald Trump and got a seat on the dais at the inaguration. Trump just paid him back, 40,000 times over. Trump is a sadist, a facist, and a rapist – and he's also a remarkably cheap date.

Embarrassing Ruling Allows Google to Maintain Its Search Monopoly

Judge Amit Mehta found Google guilty of illegally monopolizing search, and then allowed the company to keep doing it.

^{David Dayen (The American Prospect)}

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Meet the UN-backed 'green' investors’ group that invested in fossil fuels - DeSmog

Despite having pledged to reach net-zero emissions, major members of Net Zero Asset Managers hold billions of dollars' worth of fossil-fuel stocks, including those in “carbon bomb” projects, while marketing their funds as green and sustainable.

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