UK Politicians now talk of climate ‘pragmatism’ to delay action – new study
Politicians now talk of climate ‘pragmatism’ to delay action – new study
Politicians talk about being pragmatic on climate change to avoid hard decisions.The Conversation
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475 people taken into ICE custody at Hyundai plant in Georgia
United States immigration authorities have arrested 475 people in a raid on a Hyundai manufacturing site in Georgia, Steve Schrank, a special agent in charge of Homeland Securities Investigations Atlanta, said at a press conference on Friday.
The Hyundai facility, located in Ellabell, Georgia -- approximately 30 miles west of Savannah -- was raided “as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into allegations of unlawful employment practices and other serious federal crimes,” according to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security.
475 people taken into ICE custody at Hyundai plant in Georgia
"This operation underscores our commitment to protecting jobs for Georgians."Jon Haworth (ABC News)
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Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack
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Anime with a high death count that's actually good?
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Trump-Appointed Judges Block Order to Shut Down “Alligator Alcatraz”
Trump-Appointed Judges Block Order to Shut Down “Alligator Alcatraz”
Critics slammed the move, calling the jail an environmental threat that “has been functioning as an extrajudicial site.”…Jessica Corbett (Truthout)
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California quietly guts ambitious virtual power plant bill | Bills boosting solar, batteries, EVs, and smart thermostats to rein in California’s utility costs moved ahead
California quietly guts ambitious virtual power plant bill
Bills boosting solar, batteries, EVs, and smart thermostats to rein in California’s utility costs moved ahead — but the most innovative approaches were…Canary Media
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Gun Owners of America - which sees the NRA as soft - wants to get rid of the National Firearms Act. Even children should be able to buy guys, they believe
Inside the gun absolutists’ bold plot to repeal one of America’s strongest firearms laws
Gun Owners of America, which sees the NRA as soft, has the National Firearms Act in its sights – and it’s ready for battleGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
DC Statehood: Now, More Than Ever
DC Statehood: Now, More Than Ever | The Nation
The best counter to Trump’s authoritarianism is a renewed commitment to secure full representative democracy in Washington.The Nation
The Browser Company, maker of Arc and Dia, is being acquired
Mike Cannon-Brookes, the CEO of enterprise software giant Atlassian, was one of the first users of the Arc browser. Over the last several years, he has been a prolific bug reporter and feature requester. Now he’ll own the thing: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company, the New York-based startup that makes both Arc and the new AI-focused Dia browser. Atlassian is paying $610 million in cash for The Browser Company, and plans to run it as an independent entity.The acquisition is mostly about Dia, which launched in June. Dia is a mix of web browser and chatbot, with a built-in way to chat with your tabs but also do things across apps. Open up three spreadsheets in three tabs and Dia can move data between them; log into your Gmail and Dia can tell you what’s next on the calendar. Anything with a URL immediately becomes data available to Dia and its AI models. For a company like Atlassian, which makes a whole suite of work apps — the popular project-tracker Jira, the note-taking app Confluence, plus Trello, Loom, and more — a way to stitch them all together seems obviously compelling.
The Browser Company, maker of Arc and Dia, is being acquired
It’s a big bet on AI for Atlassian, which makes tools like Jira and Confluence, and a work-focused shift for Dia.David Pierce (The Verge)
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OpenAI eats jobs, then offers to help you find a new one at Walmart
On Thursday, Fidji Simo, OpenAI's head of applications (and former CEO of Instacart), announced the plan for workers to advertise themselves to the company's customers for new jobs. She said that while AI is going to shake up the employment market, who better to solve that problem than the people doing the shaking?"AI will be disruptive. Jobs will look different, companies will have to adapt, and all of us – from shift workers to CEOs – will have to learn how to work in new ways," she said in a blog post.
"At OpenAI, we can't eliminate that disruption. But what we can do is help more people become fluent in AI and connect them with companies that need their skills, to give people more economic opportunities."
Simo's plan is that workers should take courses in tech literacy at its OpenAI Academy and then advertise themselves on a forthcoming jobs platform. She said the company has already signed up some big names to the scheme, although maybe the choice of Walmart as an early adopter might not encourage IT admins in their future career paths.
OpenAI eats jobs, then offers to help you find a new one at Walmart
: Move over LinkedIn, Altman's crew wants a piece of the actionIain Thomson (The Register)
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Researchers unveil RoboBallet, an AI system designed to help teams of industrial robots work together without colliding
Specialized AI for scalable and adaptive multi-robot orchestration
Led by researchers at Google DeepMind Robotics, and through a long-term collaboration with Intrinsic - we are unveiling advanced AI research that enables fully automated, collision-free coordination for multiple industrial robots performing tasks tog…www.intrinsic.ai
Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute have developed a large behavior model that enables more natural movement and “emergent skills” in humanoid robots
AI-Powered Robot by Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute Takes a Key Step Towards General-Purpose Humanoids - Toyota USA Newsroom
BOSTON (Aug. 20, 2025) - Today, Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute (TRI) announced a big step forward in robotics and artificial intelligence research: demonstrating a Large Behavior Model (LBM) powering the Atlas humanoid robot.Melissa Faulner (Toyota USA Newsroom)
For people who may not know, even a small satellite (not counting starlink's disposable suitcase ones) usually takes 5-10 YEARS to even build at the very minimum. If we were to also include the development, testing, and launch; the time could easily double that.
So, what he's doing is much, much worse; he's trying to create a legacy of destruction that would take multiple generations to even get back to where we were before he got his mealy hands on everything.
Climate change turns Pakistan’s summer oases into deadly flood zones
The mountain retreats where Pakistanis go to escape the stifling summer heat have been inundated this year by floods, another product of climate change.
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Payrolls rose 22,000 in August, less than expected in further sign of hiring slowdown
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Nonfarm payrolls increased by just 22,000 for the month, lower than the 75,000 forecast, while the unemployment rate rose to 4.3%.
The report showed a marked slowdown from the July increase of 79,000, which was revised up by 6,000. Revisions also showed a net loss of 13,000 in June.
Health care again led by sectors, adding 31,000 jobs, while social assistance contributed 16,000. Wholesale trade and manufacturing both saw declines of 12,000 on the month.
Payrolls rose 22,000 in August, less than expected in further sign of hiring slowdown
Nonfarm payrolls were expected to increase by 75,000 in August while the unemployment rate edged up tp 4.3%.Jeff Cox (CNBC)
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Why Putin is winning
Why Putin is winning
Last week's summit revealed just how little leverage the US has, while Europe looks panicked, and Zelensky is painted into a cornerJennifer Kavanagh (Responsible Statecraft)
UC Berkeley’s Rhagobot: Water Strider Robot Harnesses Surface Tension for Speed
Researchers from UC Berkeley, Ajou University, and Georgia Tech unveiled Rhagobot in 2025, a tiny aquatic robot inspired by water striders of the genus Rhagovelia[^1]. The robot features self-deploying fan-like structures on its legs that harness surface tension for propulsion, mimicking the insects' ability to move rapidly across water surfaces[^2].The 8 cm long robot weighs just 0.2 grams and uses passive fan mechanisms that unfurl in 0.01 seconds without requiring muscle power[^3]. These fans, measuring 10 by 5 mm, enable the robot to achieve speeds of two body lengths per second and execute 90-degree turns in under half a second[^4].
According to Professor Je-Sung Koh from Ajou University, "Our robotic fans self-morph using nothing but water surface forces and flexible geometry, just like their biological counterparts. It is a form of mechanical intelligence refined by nature through millions of years of evolution"[^5].
The breakthrough came from studying the water striders' fan architecture using electron microscopy, which revealed that surface tension alone powers the fan deployment - contrary to previous assumptions about muscle activation[^4]. This passive mechanism reduces power consumption compared to motorized alternatives, making it promising for environmental monitoring and search-and-rescue applications[^3].
[^1]: WebProNews - UC Berkeley's Rhagobot: Water Strider Robot Harnesses Surface Tension for Speed
[^2]: Heise - Inspired by water striders: self-unfolding fans make the 'Rhagobot' agile
[^3]: Future Tech on Instagram
[^4]: New Atlas - Robotic water strider rows itself forward by fanning feathery feet
[^5]: Heise - Inspired by water striders: self-unfolding fans make the 'Rhagobot' agile
Robotic water strider rows itself forward by fanning feathery feet
Although we've seen many robotic water striders over the years, scientists are still finding new aspects of the insects to replicate. Recently, for instance, researchers created a strider-bot that zips across the water's surface via fans on its feet.Ben Coxworth (New Atlas)
“I didn’t hear the usual grinding of ice”
“I didn’t hear the usual grinding of ice”
When a Norwegian vessel reached the North Pole this week, the scientific team made an alarming discovery.Elizaveta Vereykina (thebarentsobserver)
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DOJ plans to label trans Americans as "mentally defective" to take away their guns
Justice Department leadership is prepared to use its rule-making authority to declare transgender people as mentally ill and deprive them of their Second Amendment right to possess firearms, according to two Justice officials who shared internal discussions with CNN.
Deliberations at the highest levels of the DOJ follow the recent mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, an attack police say was carried out by a 23-year-old former student at the church’s school who may have been a transgender person or a de-transitioned individual. Two children were killed in the attack, and 21 others were injured.
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Amazon's strict RTO policy is costing it top tech talent, according to internal document and insiders
Amazon's strict return-to-office policy and relocation demands are hindering recruitment, affecting its ability to attract top tech talent.
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They blew up a boat far offshore, killed eleven people, and called it justice
Lives erased in the Caribbean, wrapped in a White House video and sold as victory
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Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack | LeshiCodes
For years, I relied on Spotify like millions of others. The convenience was undeniable stream anything, anywhere, discover new music through algorithms, and share playlists with friends. But over time, several issues became impossible to ignore: artists getting paid fractions of pennies per stream, fake Artists and ghost Tracks, AI music and impersonation, creepy age verification complicity and the fact that despite paying monthly, I never actually owned anything. So I decided to take back control of my music experience. Here's how I built my own self-hosted music streaming setup that gives me everything Spotify offered and more.
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I understand the author's intent to support artists by purchasing their music on various platforms, but by using Sabnzbd to download music from Usenet, this is essentially a guide to pirate music. The only thing in this setup that isn't automated is purchasing the albums, and at one point the author says he uses Sabnzbd to download from Bandcamp. No, he doesn't, that's impossible; Sabnzbd is a Usenet client and nothing more.
I applaud the author for trying to be honest and support his favorite artists with legal purchases to justify his use of these apps, and it's a great setup. But let's not pretend that most people following this guide will actually legally purchase any music they download once they see how seamless and fun it is to pirate it.
And I say all of that as someone who has a similar setup with Lidarr and Sabnzbd, I am not judging anyone who chooses to pirate music. And I do purchase actual physical albums of some of the music I download so I can support my favorite artists. I just wanted to call out the author for being a bit disingenuous about his setup.
<...> at one point the author says he uses Sabnzbd to download from Bandcamp.
He does? I can't find that reference.
UC Berkeley’s Rhagobot: Water Strider Robot Harnesses Surface Tension for Speed
Researchers from UC Berkeley, Ajou University, and Georgia Tech unveiled Rhagobot in 2025, a tiny aquatic robot inspired by water striders of the genus Rhagovelia1. The robot features self-deploying fan-like structures on its legs that harness surface tension for propulsion, mimicking the insects' ability to move rapidly across water surfaces2.
The 8 cm long robot weighs just 0.2 grams and uses passive fan mechanisms that unfurl in 0.01 seconds without requiring muscle power3. These fans, measuring 10 by 5 mm, enable the robot to achieve speeds of two body lengths per second and execute 90-degree turns in under half a second4.
According to Professor Je-Sung Koh from Ajou University, "Our robotic fans self-morph using nothing but water surface forces and flexible geometry, just like their biological counterparts. It is a form of mechanical intelligence refined by nature through millions of years of evolution"5.
The breakthrough came from studying the water striders' fan architecture using electron microscopy, which revealed that surface tension alone powers the fan deployment - contrary to previous assumptions about muscle activation4. This passive mechanism reduces power consumption compared to motorized alternatives, making it promising for environmental monitoring and search-and-rescue applications3.
- WebProNews - UC Berkeley's Rhagobot: Water Strider Robot Harnesses Surface Tension for Speed ↩︎
- Heise - Inspired by water striders: self-unfolding fans make the 'Rhagobot' agile ↩︎
- Future Tech on Instagram ↩︎ ↩︎
- New Atlas - Robotic water strider rows itself forward by fanning feathery feet ↩︎ ↩︎
- Heise - Inspired by water striders: self-unfolding fans make the 'Rhagobot' agile ↩︎
Robotic water strider rows itself forward by fanning feathery feet
Although we've seen many robotic water striders over the years, scientists are still finding new aspects of the insects to replicate. Recently, for instance, researchers created a strider-bot that zips across the water's surface via fans on its feet.Ben Coxworth (New Atlas)
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Send in your questions for the Guardian’s climate assembly panel
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On Tuesday 16 September, a Guardian panel of experts will be looking to answer questions about the forces driving the pushback against a greener world.We want to hear from our readers globally as not everyone can make the live event. Send in your climate crisis questions and we will put a selection of them to our panel on the day.
Send in your questions for the Guardian’s climate assembly panel
We would like to hear your questions about the climate crisis and we will put a selection of them to our panelGuardian community team (The Guardian)
This Imam Refused to Be an FBI Informant. Now ICE Wants to Deport Him.
I first wrote about Farahi’s case in 2009, when it was one of the earliest public examples of the FBI using immigration to recruit Muslim informants. At the time, the FBI denied the practice outright. As other journalists uncovered similar cases, the FBI continued to deny.
Farahi’s fight with the government began in November 2004. As he walked home from evening prayers in North Miami Beach, he saw two men waiting outside his apartment. They introduced themselves as FBI agents.
The country was still in the grip of post-9/11 panic, and the agents wanted information about two men who had attended Farahi’s mosque: José Padilla, the so-called “dirty bomber” accused of plotting to set off a crude radioactive device, and Adnan El Shukrijumah, a Saudi national who became a high-ranking member of Al Qaeda after leaving the U.S.
Farahi said he’d talk, but only in the open. He wanted his congregation to know why he was speaking to the FBI. The federal agents wanted something very different: secrecy. “I can’t,” he told them. To him, becoming an informant would have meant betraying his faith community. “People trust you as a religious figure, and you’re trying to kind of deceive them,” Farahi said to me years ago, when I first asked him about his encounter with the FBI. “That’s where the problem is.”
Years later, FBI agent Terry Albury leaked internal documents to The Intercept, confirming what Farahi’s case had suggested: using immigration as leverage wasn’t a rogue practice, but rather had been codified in the pages of the FBI’s internal policy manuals.
FBI agents were even tasked under official policy with helping deport informants who were “no longer suitable for use” — an acknowledgment that the policy goal wasn’t transactional so much as coercive.
This Imam Refused to Be an FBI Informant. Now ICE Wants to Deport Him.
Foad Farahi had resisted the FBI since the George W. Bush administration. Under Trump, ICE rounded him up.Trevor Aaronson (The Intercept)
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Genitori, la Colpa è Vostra: L'Errore che Facciamo con gli Smartphone
Non servono regole ferree, ma un "patto di famiglia" basato sul buon senso e sull'esempio. Insegnare a vivere offline per vivere meglio anche online è la vera soluzione. Sei pronto a invertire la rotta e a guidare i tuoi figli verso un rapporto sano con la** tecnologia? **
Al via nuovo anno scolastico: il benessere tra i banchi-Limitare l’uso dei dispositivi digitali e sfruttare il tempo libero in modo produttivo (1)
www.newsmadeinitaly.itA cominciare da questo servizio di Giuliano Marchese, divulgatore medico scientifico, l'informazione di "Newsmadeinitaly" intende dare un contributo alla comprensione di tematiche legate allo sviluppo psico-fisico delle ragazze e dei ragaz…
Wikipedia is under attack — and how it can survive
How Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks
How the world’s largest encyclopedia became the factual foundation of the web, but now it’s under attack from the right wing, tech billionaires, and AI.Josh Dzieza (The Verge)
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Addio Stress da Rientro: I Segreti per Ritornare in Forma (Adulti e Bambini)
Le vacanze finiscono, e il ritorno alla routine può sembrare una montagna da scalare. Quella sensazione di** stanchezza,** il sonno sfasato e la bilancia impietosa non sono solo sensazioni, ma i sintomi di un vero e proprio "stress da rientro".
Il tuo corpo ha bisogno di essere riabituato, gradualmente, a ritmi regolari. In questo processo, l'alimentazione gioca un ruolo chiave, ma anche piccoli accorgimenti come l'esercizio fisico leggero e la riscoperta di un sonno di qualità sono essenziali.
Vuoi scoprire come affrontare al meglio questa transizione e tornare a sentirti energico e in salute?
Salute & Benessere: come evitare la ‘’sindrome’’ da ritorno dalle vacanze- Consigli utili per adulti e bambini- Sana alimentazione
www.newsmadeinitaly.itGiuliano Marchese, divulgatore Medico Scientifico, da oggi collabora con "NewsmadeinItaly" curando la rubrica "Benessere & Salute", con report su ricerche, consigli utili ed una corretta informazione per "star bene".
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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 7th September 2025
Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st August 2025 - awful.systems
Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
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China Is Rapidly Becoming a Leading Innovator in Advanced Industries
China Is Rapidly Becoming a Leading Innovator in Advanced Industries
There may be no more important question for the West’s competitive position in advanced industries than whether China is becoming a rival innovator.Robert D. Atkinson (Information Technology and Innovation Foundation | ITIF)
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La Tua Infiammazione: Amica o Nemica? La Verità Che Non Ti Aspetti!
Quando è eccessiva, interveniamo con FANS o corticosteroidi, ma non senza effetti collaterali. E se ti dicessi che esiste un "ingegnere" naturale, la** curcumina,** che agisce in modo mirato? Scopri nel nostro articolo completo come funziona l'infiammazione e come gestirla al meglio, senza ignorare i suoi preziosi segnali!
Infiammazione: Ciao, sono la tua Infiammazione! E non sono sempre cattiva...
Ciao a tutti, s ono io, l'Infiammazione. Sì, lo so, basta che alziate lo sguardo su e vedrete bene che non ho un aspetto del tutto r...Giuliano (Blogger)
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L'Oro Giallo della Salute: La Curcuma Tra Tradizione e Scienza
La curcuma non è solo una spezia millenaria, ma un potente alleato per il benessere, grazie al suo principio attivo: la curcumina. **Riscoperta dalla scienza moderna, si è rivelata un eccellente **antinfiammatorio e antiossidante **naturale. Studi scientifici hanno dimostrato che la sua efficacia, in particolare contro l'infiammazione, può essere paragonabile a quella di farmaci comuni come **l'ibuprofene, ma con un profilo di sicurezza superiore.
Tuttavia, il suo assorbimento da parte del corpo è spesso limitato. Per questo, la ricerca ha sviluppato strategie innovative come la combinazione con la piperina o formulazioni avanzate, che ne potenziano l'efficacia.
Vuoi scoprire come integrare al meglio questo "oro giallo" nella tua routine?
La Curcuma e la Curcumina: L'Antinfiammatorio Naturale Millenario Riscoperto e Potenziato dalla Scienza Moderna
La curcuma , questa radice dallo sgargiante colore giallo-arancione, è emersa come una delle protagoniste indiscusse nel dibattito sulla sal...Giuliano (Blogger)
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Trump rebrands Department of Defense as 'Department of War'
Washington (AFP) – President Donald Trump is changing the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War, the White House announced Thursday, insisting the rebrand will project a more powerful image.While the department's official name is set in law, Trump in an executive order is authorizing use of the new label as a "secondary title" by his administration, a White House document said.
Defense officials are permitted to use to use "secondary titles such as 'Secretary of War,'...in official correspondence, public communications, ceremonial contexts, and non-statutory documents within the executive branch," according to the document.
It was not immediately clear when Trump planned to sign the order, but his public schedule for Friday said he would be signing executive orders in the afternoon as well as making an announcement in the Oval Office.
The president, a marketing-savvy real estate developer, has repeatedly said in recent weeks that he was mulling such a change.
Late last month, the 79-year-old Republican claimed the Defense Department's title was too "defensive."
The Department of War "was the name when we won World War I, we won World War II, we won everything," he told reporters on August 25.
According to the White House document, the name change "conveys a stronger message of readiness and resolve."
Established in the early days of US independence, the Department of War historically oversaw American land forces.
A government reorganization after World War II brought it along with the US Navy and Air Force under the unified National Military Establishment, which in 1949 was retitled to the Department of Defense.
"Restoring the name 'Department of War' will sharpen the focus of this Department on our national interest and signal to adversaries America's readiness to wage war to secure its interests," the White House document said.
The move is the latest overhaul at the Pentagon since Trump took office in January and appointed former Fox News host Pete Hegseth to lead the sprawling department.
Hegseth, a combat veteran, has repeatedly touted the push to restore a "warrior ethos" in the department, and has lambasted prior administrations for policies he and Trump have derided as "woke."
Hegseth notably has sought to expel transgender troops from the military and change the names of bases that honored Confederate troops back to their original titles, after they were renamed under former president Joe Biden.
While Trump's order could potentially be rescinded by a future president, it "instructs the Secretary of War to recommend actions, to include legislative and executive actions, required to permanently rename" the department, the White House document said.
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6 Settembre: Luca Blindo esce con “Slow Down”, in anteprima al Premio Lucio Dalla
Scritto e interpretato da Luca Blindo, con la produzione di Lord Bart, sempre sull’etichetta casertana Hopeland, “Slow Down” è un viaggio introspettivo che affronta il tema della resilienza e della necessità di fermarsi per ritrovare equilibrio e senso. Il testo alterna dialetto napoletano e italiano, creando una narrazione emotiva che si intreccia con sonorità urban e influenze cantautorali, per un’identità musicale originale e personale.
L’anteprima live al Premio Lucio Dalla rappresenta il contesto ideale per il debutto del brano, che racconta una sensibilità contemporanea senza rinunciare alla forza della tradizione musicale italiana.
“Slow Down” accompagnato da un lyrics visual su YouTube, sarà disponibile dal 6 settembre su tutte le piattaforme digitali e in rotazione radiofonica.
Spoti-fire, Stop-ify edo Spoti-fair
Guztiok entzun nahi dugu musika: asko, merke, euskaraz eta gaizki sentitu gabe. Baina Spotify utziko badugu Israelen konplize izateagatik, agian beste enpresa eta tresnen inguruan ere hausnartu beharko dugu. Edo gure morala kontratatzen ditugun zerbitzuen arabera neurtzen hasiko gara? Non geratzen da artista? Eta kultura? Zer balio eraman nahi ditugu beste plataforma batera? Zertarako prest gaude? Galdera asko eta erantzun gutxi.
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Duela aste batzuk Whatsappeko mezu bat jaso nuen ekimen batera atxikitzeko gonbidapenarekin. “Musikariak Palestinarekin” egitasmoak Spotifyetik gure musika kendu eta boikota egitera animatu gaitu euskal artistoi. Daniel Ek Spotifyeko sortzaileak Israelek Palestina erasotzeko erabiltzen dituen droneak ekoizten dituen enpresa batean inbertsioak egin ostean sorturiko ekimena da. Oso hasieran dago kanpaina, eta oraindik lanean ari dira talde gehiago batu eta komunikazio kanal ofizial bat izateko.
Mezua entzuleari ere iritsi zaio, eta sareetan jendea galdezka antzematen da. “Non gehiago dago euskal musika?”, edo “Nola erraztu aldaketa nirekin plan familiarra partekatzen duen jendeari?”.
Gure musika kontsumo ohiturak, eta zehatzago, gure kultura kontsumitzeko eta sustatzeko ohiturak aldatuko baditugu, zein balio eramango ditugu beste plataforma batera? Zeren baitan aukeratuko dugu plataforma hori? Non jarriko dugu eskubideen neurgailua? Nahikoa zaigu plan familiarra izatea? Gure morala eta lasaitasun mentala kontratatzen ditugun zerbitzuetan neurtuko dugu? Edo euskal musikaren ekosistemari buruz hausnartzeko eta artistak babesteko baliatuko dugu? Spoti-fire emango diogu edo Stop-ify egingo dugu?
Kanpaina
Spotifyetik musika ateratzeko eta boikoteatzeko kanpainarekin bat egiten dugu, eta bertatik gure musika kentzeko lanean ari gara. Baina pertsonalki, baditut beste ezinegon eta zalantza batzuk.
Artistak erantzukizun guztia dauka bere musikarekiko, eta ahal duen neurrian non dagoen kontrolatu beharko luke. Agian, entzuleek ez dakite gaur egun distribuzio digital bidez automatikoki plataforma guztietara igotzen dela musika, baita euskal musika ere. Beraz, alternatiba bilatzea oso erraza da, edozein plataforma “mainstreamean” aurkitzen baita euskal musika.
Hala ere, ezin dugu guztia artistaren esku utzi. Plataformak mugitzen duen dirua erabiltzailearena eta iragarkiena da. Artistok katalogoa kentzen badugu ere, jendeak bertan jarraituko badu, ez dugu ezer lortuko. Aldaketa entzulean izatea behar dugu bereziki.
Artistaren papera
Ez dut eztabaida arazo ekonomikoetara eraman nahi, ez du zentzu askorik artistaren ikuspegitik, horrelako plataformek ez dutelako (normalean behintzat) diru sarrera handirik suposatzen. Baina sareetan eman diren eztabaidetan, jendeak artistaren irabazietan ere oinarritu du plataformaren aldaketa. Eta uste dut honi buruz hitz egiteak ikuspegia zabaldu dezakeela.
Artistak egitura juridiko bat behar du diru sarrerak jaso ahal izateko (edo diru laguntza bat eskatu ahal izateko). Musika konposatzea, letrak idaztea, kanta borobiltzea, estudioa kontratatzea, grabatzea, ekoiztea, nahastea, masterizatzea, euskarriak diseinatzea, bideoklipa egitea, diskoa euskarri fisikoan kaleratzea eta plataforma digitaletan jartzea. Prozesu horretan artista baten irabaziak 0€ dira, eta gastuak, berriz, 3000€ eta 10000€ artekoak gutxi gorabehera.
Momentu horretan, kantu edo disko bat kaleratzean, hasi daiteke dirua “irabazten”. Normalean kontzertuetan altak eta bajak ematen dira, eta egun horiek dira kotizatzen direnak. Beraz, diru irabazi (edo galera ezak) izateko aurretik hilabete askotako lana egin behar du, eta diru kopuru handia inbertitu.
Baina ez dut gehiegi dramatizatu nahi. Talde edo bakarlari bakoitzaren egoera oso ezberdina izan daiteke, eta gure kasuan hau dena oso prozesu interesgarria izan da beti.
Egoera ekonomikotik haratago, musikariei edo pertsona esanguratsuei beti eskatu zaie publikoki posizionatzea. Beraien botere mediatikoa hitzez edo ekintzez erabiltzea aldarri bat edo beste babesteko. Maila ezberdinetan, baina ikusi dugu zer gertatu den KKRren udako jaialdi guztiekin. Inoiz baino gehiago, artista baten ekintzak bozgorailu politiko bilakatu dira.
Artista batek jaialdi batean ez jotzeak jaialdia kaltetzen du, bai. Baina artista batek plataforma batetik katalogoa kentzeak ez du apenas eragiten. Aldiz, erabiltzaile askok aldi berean eta koordinatuta plataforma bat utziko balute, enpresek sumatuko lukete diru sarrera horien falta. Oraingoan, artistek baino entzuleek eman beharko lukete pausoa benetan kalte eta boikot bat egiteko. Hala ere, uste dut artistek utzi egin behar dutela Spotify, entzuleek ere utzi dezaten.
Palestinan Israelek egiten duen genozidioa babesten duten enpresak boikoteatuko ditugu ahal dugun heinean. Baina, baliatu dezakegu boikota euskal musikaren osasunaren aldeko jarrera egokiak hartzeko? Entzuleak kontsumo egokira bideratu ditzakegu? Eta musika edo kulturaren kontsumotik haratago zer? Zerbait gehiago aldatuko dugu, edo Spotify uztea modan dagoen trend bat da?
Enpresei boikota
Horrelako kanpainen deialdiak Whatsappez jaso ohi dira, Instagrameko kontu batera bideratuta eta Gmail bat jarriz kontakturako helbide zuzen bezala. Jendeak ahal duena egiten du eskura dituen tresnekin —noski baietz eta eskerrak!— eta ez dugu zertan jakin behar guztiaren atzean zer dagoen. Baina enpresa batzuekin era batera jokatzeak edo ez, agerian uzten du teknologiaren munduan zein galduta gauden.
Googleen eta Amazonen azpiegitura teknologikoa erabili ohi du sistematikoki Israelek Palestina jazartzeko. El Salto hedabideak hau argitaratu zuen aurreko urtean. Eta 2023an METAren zentsurari buruz (Whatsapp, Facebook, Instagram, Threads…), hurrengo hau idatzi zuen Human Rights Watch GKEak, normalean “proyankia” izanik.
Beraz, Palestinak jasaten duen genozidioan kolaboratzen duten enpresen tresnak erabiltzen ditugu, Palestinaren genozidioa sustatzen duen beste enpresa bat kaltetzeko.
Eta koherenteagoak izan nahiko bagenu?
Gure kanpainaren komunikazioa sare libre eta kontrolatuetan egin dezakegu, eta euskaraz:
- Fedibertsoa.eus-en aurkitu ditzakegun Mastodon, Lemmy, Peertube edo Pixelfed sareak sortu eta horietan ere edukiak zabalduz.
- Liberaforms bidez atxikimenduak eskatuz edo iritzien horrela jasoz.
- Domeinu propioa erosiz eta webgune sinple bat eraikiz (WordPress edo bestelako CMS libreen bidez).
- Domeinu propioko eposta erabiliz.
Gero, Instagram, Whatsapp, Facebook, X, BlueSky eta gure datuekin jolastu nahi duten eta Israelen konplize diren sare guztietan zabaldu, erabiltzaileak gure komunikazio libre eta kontrolatuetara bideratuz. Ez ordaindu publizitatea eta ez sustatu sare hauen erabilera.
Baina gauza gehiago ere egin ditzakegu eguneroko teknologiekin:
- DuckDuckGo, SearXNG edo beste bilatzaile libre bat erabili nabigatzailean.
- Firefox, Brave, Chromium edo bestelako nabigatzaile libre bat erabili.
- Ez erosi Amazonen, ez erabili Instagram, ez erabili Whatsapp, ez erabili Gmail edo Google Appak; gure datuekin irabazten dute dirua.
- Baina batez ere, ez sustatu teknologia hauek hezkuntza zentroetan.
Koherentzia absolutua izatea oso zaila da. Janzten dugunak, jaten dugunak edo erabiltzen dugunak Israelekin zerikusirik ez duela jakitea ez da batere erraza.
Honela eztabaida handiagoa da, zailagoa, eta agian Spotify uzteko ekintza sinpletik haratago doanez, aldaketarako duen indarra lausotu egiten da. Baina probestu dezakegu Spotifyetik ateratzea beste tresna, enpresa edo ohitura batzuk aldatu eta boikoteatzeko ere. DeSpotify egitetik DeGoogle egitera.
Gure auzoko kanpainak beste era batera eta beste tresna batzuekin antolatzera. Agian zigilu bat asma dezakegu hori komunikatzeko: “Kanpaina honetan ez da genozidioa bultzatu duen enpresaren teknologiarik erabili”. Zer dakit… Hemen garrantzitsuena fokua non jarri erabakitzea da. Musikak zerbait gehiagorako balio badigu, probestu dezagun. Bestela, toki berean bukatuko dugu hasitako bidea.
Plataforma
Irakurri dut sareetan Tidal dela artistari hobekien ordaintzen dion plataforma, baina ez da horrela. Gainera, handia da beste plataforma batera migrazioa egin eta berriro toki berean bukatzeko arriskua. Ongi aukeratu, eta kontuan izan beharko genuke enpresa horrek zein inbertsio eta hornitzaile dituen.
Soluzio bateratu bat, hilabeteko harpidetza eta musika katalogo handia kontsumitzeko aukera eta merkea edo plan familiarrarekin gastuak partekatzeko plataforma bat bilatzen ari bazarete, ez dago artista babestuko duen aukera egokirik. Enpresa guztiek 0.002€ eta 0.02€ artean ordaintzen diote artistari erreprodukzio bakoitzeko. Eta irabazi horiek gero disketxe eta distribuzio digital lanak egiten dituzten enpresekin partekatu behar dira (%100 autoekoizpena denean). Normalean artistak %80 eta besteek %20 jasotzen badute ere, oso ohikoa da 50/50 formula.
Ez da nire intentzioa enpresa baten zerbitzuak edo bestearenak gomendatzea. Eta gainera, oso ondo azaltzen du dena hemen Zonafrankako Frankiek: Spootifyen kakaztea, SLOP musikala eta alternatiba posibleak kontsumitzailearen interesen arabera. Taula ederra sortu du:
Soinu ingeniaria den lagun batekin hitz egin nuen honi buruz. Berak aipatu zidan nola duela 15 urte jada pentsatu zuen zer izan zitekeen Spoti-fair bat, edo justuagoa den plataforma bat. Bere klaseetan antzeko eztabaidak izaten zituzten. Garai hartan ere enpresek musika behar zuten, musikarekin zerikusirik ez zuen helburu bat lortzeko. Beraz, artistari xoxik ez. Ez da asko aldatu.
Aipatuko nukeen plataformetako bat da Bandcamp. Denda baten azpiegitura teknologikoa ematen dio artistari, eta orrialde propio bat diseinatzeko aukera irabazien %20/25aren truke. Pare bat aldiz saldu dute plataforma, eta horrekin ere arazoak izan ditzakegu etorkizunean. Ez baitakigu nork erosi dezakeen.
Nik imajinatzen dut tresna publiko bat izango dugula noizbait kultura sostengatzen laguntzeko. Orain Europako diru-laguntzekin sortutako bideo eta podcast plataforma publikoez betetzen ari gara internet. Momenturen batean iritsiko zaigu musikara ere. Baina ez bada iristen?
Jabetza kolektiboan edo pribatu federatuan bilatuko nuke irtenbidea. Adibide ederra dugu Funkwhale instantzia euskaldunarekin: BaleaFunk. Proiektua fedibertsoan dago eta zure musika igo dezakezu.
Badaude proiektu interesgarriak martxan, Subvert bezalakoa. Bandcamp plataformaren alternatiba kooperatibo bezala saltzen dute. Eta funtsean hori da, kooperatiba bat bazkidetza irekiak dituena eta momentuz sortze prozesuan dagoena. Bazkideentzako itxitako foroetan hartzen ari dira erabakiak, eta beraien roadmap edo aurreikusitako ibilbidea publikoa da.
Edo Resonate, erreprodukzioen arabera ordaintzen duzu, harpidetzarik gabe. Eta parte hartzen duten artista, erabiltzaile eta langileen proiektua da. Pribatutasuna bermatzen dute, eta algoritmoaren gomendioen aurkakoak dira.
Laburbilduz, plataformek ez dute artista babesten. Artista batek diru gehiago irabaziko du bere musika irratiak edo telebistak erabiltzen badu, edo SGAE edo EKKI bezalako erakunde publikoek egiten duten musika erabiltzen duten negozioen rekaudaziotik (tristea bada ere). Eta argi dagoen gauza bakarra hurrengoa da:
Artista bat babesteko era zuzenena, bere kontzertuetara joatea eta bere diskoak erostea da.
Eta gero zer?
Ekintza indibidualetik haratago, ez goaz inora ekintza edo konponbide kolektiborik gabe. Zein soluzio ikusten diogu euskal musikari internet bidez kontsumitu eta partekatzeko, ahalik eta koherentzia digital eta kultural handiena mantenduz, non artistak babestuko diren eta Palestinaren aurkako sarraskia (edo besteren bat) babesten duten enpresei boikota egingo zaien?
Eta testuinguru horretan etorkizun hurbil batean… Zein da imajinatzen dugun kultura eta horrentzako sostengu bizigarri posiblea? Behar dugu? Nahi dugu? Nola nahi dugu? Ordainduko dugu? Edo beste era batera babestuko dugu? Edo zuzenean AA bati eskatuko diogu Esanezin edo MICEren hurrengo kanta asmatzeko?
Agian azken aukera euskal musikariak nolabait batzea izango da. Eskubideak lortzeko sindikatuak edo kooperatiba kulturalak eraikiz. Edo zuzenean Palestinaren aldeko aldarri kolektibo eta kultural baten bitartez. Zeinek daki etzi etorriko dena?
Lehen pausoa behintzat argi dugu: Spotifyetik irten.
#AAEZ #Alternatibak #DeGoogle #Genozidioa #Google #Israel #Meta #Musikariak #Palestina #Spotify
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The Ideal Disinformation Weapon: AI Companion Apps are being weaponized for hybrid warfare and stochastic terrorism
The Ideal Disinformation Weapon - TDHJ.org
AI companions are not just synthetic friends—they are fast becoming ideal disinformation delivery systems.Blair Maddock-Ferrie (The Defence Horizon Journal)
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The Ideal Disinformation Weapon: AI Companion Apps are being weaponized for hybrid warfare and stochastic terrorism
The Ideal Disinformation Weapon - TDHJ.org
AI companions are not just synthetic friends—they are fast becoming ideal disinformation delivery systems.Blair Maddock-Ferrie (The Defence Horizon Journal)
The Ideal Disinformation Weapon: AI Companion Apps are being weaponized for hybrid warfare and stochastic terrorism
The Ideal Disinformation Weapon - TDHJ.org
AI companions are not just synthetic friends—they are fast becoming ideal disinformation delivery systems.Blair Maddock-Ferrie (The Defence Horizon Journal)
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Italian Dockworkers Threaten to ‘Shut Down All of Europe’ If Gaza Aid Flotilla Is Blocked
Italian dockworkers have threatened to “shut down all of Europe” and block all shipments to Israel if communication with the latest aid flotilla bound for Gaza is lost. The threat marks a significant escalation in dockworkers’ long history of industrial action in solidarity with Palestine.
Speaking at a procession in the port of Genoa – one of Italy’s two largest commercial ports – on behalf of the Unione Sindacale di Base (USB), a syndicate of various grassroots unions in Italy and thought to be the largest of its kind, the dockworker said: “If we lose contact with our boats, with our comrades – even for just 20 minutes – we will shut down all of Europe.”
“Our young women and men must come back without a scratch, and all this cargo, which belongs to the people and is going to the people, must reach its destination, down to the very last box.”
“13,000-14,000 containers leave this region every year for Israel. Not a single nail will leave anymore,” he continued.
Italian Dockworkers Threaten to ‘Shut Down All of Europe’ If Gaza Aid Flotilla Is Blocked
A union representing dockworkers at one of the largest ports in the Mediterranean - a key stopping point for Israeli goods - has said it will ‘block everything’ if Israel stops the inbound aid flotilla. Polly Smythe reports.Novara Media
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Google deletes net-zero pledge from sustainability website
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.Canada's National Observer
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Trump to sign executive order renaming Pentagon the Department of War
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/04/politics/department-of-war-trump-executive-order
Marking things as adult content?
I'm sure there's a lot of discussion about age-verification laws around here right now and for the sake of keeping things on topic I won't really broach the subject here, but it has gotten me thinking that there really isn't much that can be programmatically marked as adult content on the fediverse.
I haven't dived too much into researching the subject, it looks like Lemmy lets you set posts as NSFW, but most activity is centered around microblogging and that appears to have coalesced around Mastodon's approach of freeform content warnings. This seems like a disaster in the making if "don't show adult content to minors" becomes something that has to be more strictly enforced; these content warnings can be used for everything from benign spoiler warnings to very obviously signposting sexually explicit fetish content. Computers can't really understand this level of nuance unless you throw something that does natural language processing at it, and that will almost certainly come up with a lot of false positives and wasted energy in the process; I can't imagine this going over well with anyone really.
So, I've been wondering, how difficult would it be to standardize a separate mature-content warning from the content warnings currently in place? This idea has clearly been floated before (see this issue on Mastodon's GitHub and this blog post written by someone who was a minor and directly affected by this issue at the time) but I haven't actually seen any work towards anything beyond paying lip service to the subject. Maybe it could be a boolean toggle, like how the former Cohost did it (on top of content warnings) or something closer to how Bluesky does it where you have a few set moderation labels that you can apply yourself (see below).
We could also consider moving this distinction beyond posts; the Mastodon issue that I linked above also mentioned applying this to users and even entire instances.
There are a few caveats here in that people historically don't really appreciate being hidden/deboosted for posting adult works, and there is the potential for backlash if something gets marked as adult when it really isn't. I'm not entirely sure how this could be addressed beyond leaving this to implementers and maybe leaving some strong advice to be understanding and not shove people in a corner because they draw kink art for example.
I'd definitely appreciate more thoughts on the subject, please let me know what you think.
NSFW account and instance declaration and NSFW mode
As adult instances are becoming more popular and their reach through the fediverse grows, content on those instances are making their way into the lives of those who are not wanting to see it or ar...Humblr (GitHub)
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Hi! We’re actually working on a specification for content labels:
github.com/swicg/activitypub-t…
essentially a Note (or other object ) can have many labels associated with it, and these labels would exist as part of well known vocabularies, such that software can give users better choice over what they see and don't see.
Yes, that does mean software may provide methods of complying with age verification laws may mean certain categories of content are unavailable without some form of age verification (but that's between you, your server software, and you instance administrator as to what that is). Currently there are some tools for instance administrators, particularly of mastodon to completely filter certain content from their servers, making their servers somewhat explicitly child-friendly.
This would also allow for third-party labellers in the future if needed (through annotations), which allow for bluesky style labellers which can catch content not self-labelled.
I want to stress that the goal of content labels is not to moderate the adult content nor queerness from the fediverse, but rather to give creators and consumers of content more control over what they publish and who sees it or what they see.
It is unfortunate and terrible the way that age verification is being rolled out as a means to censorship and authoritarianism, and these laws should be fought in the courts and politically to be repealed or changed. Adults must be able to exist on the internet, not everything is for children.
Workstream: Content Warnings, Labels and Annotations
Issues currently within scope of this workstream are: #1 #4 (issue locked, but where discussion started) #84 There will be future issues for both our recommendation regarding content warnings and a...ThisIsMissEm (GitHub)
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Sorprendentemente, appena qualche ora di sonno e qualche ora di scrittura magica un pochino avanti e indietro più tardi, e ho effettivamente trovato una soluzione al problema problemoso delle prestazioni imbarazzanti di Love2D caricato di una tale OOP che non gira affatto bene su una viemmina come quella di Lua… e, anche se come previsto […]
pressedhams
in reply to Pro • • •bigb
in reply to pressedhams • • •You'll have to be more specific. 😀 I think it works well for organizing a music library unless there are issues with this feature that I'm unaware of. Using it to queue downloads was painful for me, so I resort to less automated ways to acquire music files.
Simply put, the *arr software concept works well for downloading movies and TV shows (Radarr and Sonarr). Music just seems to be a little more difficult and I have lots of issues with Lidarr finding music out on Usenet and trackers. I hope that's user error on my part.
dmention7
in reply to bigb • • •I think the issue they are referring to is that Lidarr's API or interface with the MusicBrainz database has been broken for a few months now, which means it's impossible to search or add new artists/releases to your Lidarr library.
And as far as I can tell, it's still down. I have been unable to use Lidarr for anything since about April, except for finding releases that I had already added to my local database.
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in reply to Pro • • •It is laziness on my part.
I want to tell the Google home to play music.
I should just get a Bluetooth speaker and do this, shouldn't I
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FauxLiving
in reply to Pzulu • • •You need the software, but there’s nothing about that request that should require access to the Internet.
I have a LLM chatbot that controls my Home Assistant and Kodi players. It’s all done locally and the response time is under a second.
On my PC(Arch, btw) I have a global hotkey so I can hold the key to record a message and when I let go of the key it uses a local model to do speech to text and sends the result to the chatbot.
I could probably use a wake word but I’d need to mic up my house and I’d rather not do that. A bluetooth lapel mic and a single button Bluetooth “keyboard” about the size of a key switch (using an ESP32C3 microcontroller) give me the same functionality.
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in reply to BarrelAgedBoredom • • •Start out simple and stick with a basic BitTorrent client. Figure out where you want to download from and get a torrent client configured. I use an ISP that frowns upon piracy so here's a quick overview:
If/when you want to try Lidarr, you'll be much better off knowing the basics of BitTorrent because *arr software is confusing in its own regard. Lidarr is just a tool to organize your music library folders and also automatically queue downloads. It is not a requirement to enjoy downloading music.
Usenet and soulseek are other alternatives.
Akasazh
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in reply to bigb • • •BananaTrifleViolin
in reply to BarrelAgedBoredom • • •The absolute basics:
Always use the VPN when searching and downloading.
There are lots of steps to make it more convenient - things like using a Virutal machine so the vpn and torrent do their thing while you do whatever else you want on your PC, or setting up a docker Servarr stack to make things more convenient, or setting up a Raspberry pi / other device as a servarr stack. But for the basics all you need is a torrent client, a VPN and a Web browser.
All the extra advanced stuff is just quality of life, like being able to leave it downloading securely 24hours a day or organising your downloads better.
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Psythik
in reply to BananaTrifleViolin • • •Edit: I know that torrent clients are a well-established paradigm—and that people are resilient to change—which is probably why you downvoted me. But Debrid services are some serious game changers, so needless to say I'm disappointed in you for just blindly downvoting without even giving them a try. You have no idea what you're missing out on. 😔
If you're going to pay money to pirate, you might as well skip the VPN and qbittorrent and just get a Debrid service instead. This gets you direct downloads to any torrent at gigabit speeds, without having to wait for seeds. Debrid takes the torrent client completely out of the picture.
All you do is copy and paste the magnet link into the Debrid site, and then directly download the torrent from your browser. It's cheaper and much faster than a VPN + torrent client. And safer too because your ISP doesn't see you sharing any illegal content (seeding the files is how they get you) nor using a VPN, so you can still pirate in places where VPNs are illegal. They just see you downloading large files from the internet. And since you're not distributing anything (seeding), you're staying within the law in most jurisdictions.
The threatening letters from my ISP stopped completely after I ditched qbittorrent and switched to Debrid. More people need to know about this. It's so much better than putting up with torrent clients, dealing with DNS/IP leaks, and waiting for seeds. Just copy/paste and download.
PastafARRian
in reply to Psythik • • •Downvotes are for your attitude on privacy.
VPNs are not a tool for piracy, they are a tool for privacy. Everyone should have a VPN like Mullvad/Proton or use Tor/I2P if they don't want their private Internet searches uploaded to the US government to be scanned and scrutinized at will, and possibly sold and publicized, even criminalized. That goes for non Americans too.
Debrid is not a private solution. Privacy is expensive and inconvenient. Your ISP is the least of your worries. You absolutely should be paying for Debrid anonymously and using a VPN in front if you're doing anything illegal, so then what's the point? Downloading copyrighted material is illegal as well.
Not blaming you though, Debrid is being very, very disingenuous in its marketing.
real-debrid.com/privacy
"We may be required to disclose Users personal data in order to protect our legal rights or where disclosure of Users personal data's are required of us by the judicial authorities only when legal procedures are followed."
They probably get legal disclosure requests daily. You are surely on an NSA shortlist of some kind.
Real-Debrid: All-in-one solution
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in reply to PastafARRian • • •VPNs are a tool for piracy, as they don't stop a centralized entity from knowing what you do, just shift it to another one.
if you need privacy, use tor.
zarkanian
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in reply to BarrelAgedBoredom • • •I'm with premiumize, but there are others I guess.
axx
in reply to nibbler • • •The problem is those companies (premiumize, debrid, whatever) are entities that make profits from filesharing and give nothing back to artists. That's not morally defensible.
Filesharing itself is perfectly morally defensible, and in fact sharing culture is good for society (including artists).
So while they might be convenient, they also shouldn't exist in the first place. Parasitic companies shouldn't be rewarded for their patristic behaviour.
nibbler
in reply to axx • • •and without using any of those proxy services, the lawyers get rich on my money, not the artists either
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in reply to superglue • • •Dry_Monk
in reply to superglue • • •The thing that flipped it for me was realizing the Spotify algorithm isn't actually about discovering new music, it's about driving profit. Idealism aside, what that tactically means for music discovery is the recommendations are based primarily around what they want to play, and then secondarily around what you might like.
It means that you're only discovering a subset of music you might like that is profitable to Spotify and their big record label partners.
After realizing that, the Spotify algorithm lost a lot of interest for me. Now I use SomaFM to discover new music. They do curated music channels in a bunch of different genres, and I find that the DJs have a similar taste to mine, so I hear a good amount of new music I'm into.
axx
in reply to Dry_Monk • • •axx
in reply to superglue • • •No, you don't need that. You want it because it's convenient and we live in a consumerist society where everything "needs" to be "frictionless". Intentionally clicking on an artist's bandcamp page to listen to a recommendation is fine. It's a lot easier than mail order or taking the bus to the record store to buy a copy.
I get what you're saying, but we need to question the parameters of the challenges more often.
BlushedPotatoPlayers
in reply to axx • • •You don't need those either. You can learn to play an instrument, enjoy music on the Sunday mass, or wait until the local troubadour visits your place.
It's just easier with the record store.
5too
in reply to axx • • •Just went through this with both kids... The word "need" always implies a goal. "I need x (to do y)". Without context, the goal is generally either survival, or more often, comfort: "I need a drink." "I need a break."
When you're speaking in the context of doing something, as superglue was, that becomes the implied goal. "I need those recommendations to automatically populate (in order for my wife to be comfortable using this)" is a perfectly valid use of the word "need".
superglue
in reply to axx • • •Soup
in reply to superglue • • •superglue
in reply to Soup • • •Sure I can see that.
My wife and I have 3 small children, full time jobs, and no daycare. I can definitely say our life is not frictionless. I dont think there is anything wrong with wanting some things to be easy, and I dont blame her for not wanting to switch when I dont have something better.
Soup
in reply to superglue • • •Doorknob
in reply to superglue • • •zarkanian
in reply to superglue • • •muhyb
in reply to Pro • • •TheMinister
in reply to muhyb • • •muhyb
in reply to TheMinister • • •orenj
in reply to muhyb • • •muhyb
in reply to orenj • • •sheogorath
in reply to muhyb • • •If you're just looking at the popular stuff it's going to be shit. My library is filled with artists with just couple thousands of listens per month and it's the shit (to me).
Nowadays everyone can make music and it'll mean more stuff to filter through but there'll be more gems to discover.
muhyb
in reply to sheogorath • • •Are they popular because people actually like them, I wonder. Because some of them are really really bad, they're far from being art.
But yes, every age has their own gems to discover.
TheMinister
in reply to muhyb • • •Well I dunno your tastes, but some newer music that isn’t shit (I’m an album listener myself, so I judge by the whole album):
Black MIDI - Hellfire
Adult Jazz - Gist Is
Billy Woods - all three of his newest (one is under “Armand Hammer”, called “we buy diabetic test strips”, the other is “maps,” probably the most widely accessible, and the newest is Golliwog)
Shellac - To All Trains
Fiona Apple - Fetch the Boltcutters
KNOWER - KNOWER Forever
Those few albums span some genres and should cover a lot of tastes. I can add some more if you’re interested, those were just off the top of my head
muhyb
in reply to TheMinister • • •It seems we have quite different tastes but appreciated the effort. I listened the half of the first song for first 3, Shellac's music is really good (listened 3 songs) but not fond of the soloist or the lyrics. I listen Fiona Apple time to time but I always find her covers much better than her own songs, so there is that. KNOWER seems fun, I don't prefer to listen swearing in songs, but they are fun. Actually I'd like to hear more, especially if you know something similar to what I like in your repertoire. ❤
Not gonna share full albums here but gotta share what I like, I'll try to be broad as possible. All of them I like to listen as a whole album.
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- 陳美齡 - 珍珠淚
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- فرید فرجاد ـ گل سنگم
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- ELUVEITIE - Lvgvs
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- やなわらばー - 赤い実
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- Thalia - Piel Morena
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- Kazım Koyuncu - Mohevis Kalo
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- YouTube
www.youtube.comzarkanian
in reply to muhyb • • •muhyb
in reply to zarkanian • • •Ech
in reply to Pro • • •*It's no longer running*
Friendly alert that it's currently Bandcamp Friday - one full day that the site gives 100% of purchases to the artists. It's a good way to support small artists and build up a personal collection.
Psythik
in reply to Ech • • •Ech
in reply to Psythik • • •Eranziel
in reply to Ech • • •It's certainly lower than the 20-30% game distribution platforms take.
I can pretty much guarantee the server & staff costs are more than 1% of sticker price, especially since BC includes streaming services.
FiskFisk33
in reply to Ech • • •Encrypt-Keeper
in reply to Psythik • • •Server costs? I mean for a media serving website at this scale you need the servers, storage, people to run the servers, people to development the website, fix bugs, keep on top of security. If you had a very talented team that was very lean, and each member of which can wear multiple hats to reduce headcount, you’re talking $400-$600,000 a year just in salaries. Thats before you consider taxes, benefits, etc.
Do you think bandcamp is run by like one guy renting bargain bin shared cpu servers from AWS?
Soup
in reply to Encrypt-Keeper • • •Chaotic Entropy
in reply to Psythik • • •Saurok
in reply to Ech • • •bandcampunited | Instagram | Linktree
Linktreezarkanian
in reply to Saurok • • •Saurok
in reply to zarkanian • • •dylanmorgan
in reply to Pro • • •Bucky
in reply to Pro • • •thetrekkersparky
in reply to Bucky • • •Bucky
in reply to thetrekkersparky • • •thetrekkersparky
in reply to Bucky • • •Here's the link to the docker I used. There are a few others on github, but this one seemed like it was the most actively updated.
github.com/sirjmann92/nicotine…
I liked slskd perfectly fine once I got it going, but I couldn't get my partner to use it as she was used to nicotine and didn't like the new interface. Once the Docker was set up in Portainer there was very little additional configuration and the rest was inside the nicotine webui app.
GitHub - sirjmann92/nicotineplus-proper: Nicotine+ as a WebUI in a Docker container
GitHubzarkanian
in reply to thetrekkersparky • • •TigerAce
in reply to Bucky • • •I thought Lidarr is for music. Sonarr is for series.
Downloading music illegally avoids giving money to the bad companies but the artists still need to get paid. They can't work for free. They deserve our money. So please share music, but also support the artists. Through bandcamp for example.
Bucky
in reply to TigerAce • • •TigerAce
in reply to Bucky • • •Bucky
in reply to TigerAce • • •Well. I mean soulseek lists the quality of the file and you can set that so you don't download poor quality. I wouldn't worry about it. I;ve never had a problem with soulseek either with the app or with slskd. I have spotify and apple music so I'm, you know, doing the bare minimum to suport artists. I have a lot of live music and rare music that spotify simply will never have.
I stopped slskd because of the duplicates and also because I was worried it would run me out of space because I have a lot of artist in my library.
ProfessorScience
in reply to Pro • • •jake
in reply to ProfessorScience • • •purplemonkeymad
in reply to ProfessorScience • • •Phegan
in reply to Pro • • •Griffus
in reply to Pro • • •I simply just installed Metrolist on my phone.
100 % piracy robbing musicians, but more importantly, robbing Google while circumventing Spotify altogether.
lemonaz
in reply to Pro • • •I know the main topic is ditching Spotify, but on the secondary topic of screwing over Spotify...
I realized that you can "pirate" Spotify (i.e. listen indefinitely as if you had a paid account) if you have uBlock Origin on Edge. No setup needed, it just works. Most likely any Chromium-like browser will work.
Unfortunately, I haven't got it to work with Zen browser which is Firefox based so I'm not sure if all Firefox based browsers are affected. The workaround I have for now is just have Edge open with Spotify in the background, and control it from the Spotify interface on Zen. Never download the app, they control that fully.
Funnily enough, I also got ad-free Spotify play on Amazon Echo when I was controlling it from Edge, though I never tried with Zen because I don't use Echo anymore.
PS: For audiophiles this is probably not gonna fly, as you don't have access to the highest bit rates iirc.
axx
in reply to lemonaz • • •GitHub - abba23/spotify-adblock: Adblocker for Spotify
GitHublemonaz
in reply to axx • • •axx
in reply to lemonaz • • •BlushedPotatoPlayers
in reply to Pro • • •zarkanian
in reply to BlushedPotatoPlayers • • •ScoffingLizard
in reply to Pro • • •jaschen306
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