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[fluff post] If lemmy users are Lemmites, what would we like to call piefed users?


I just thought this might make a fun discussion thread for folks to chat about ideas and make silly pie jokes.

I'm curious to hear what folks think would be fun, or work well!



Vance says he’s prepared to be president ‘If God forbid, a terrible tragedy happens’


JD Vance has said he is ready to take on the presidency “If God forbid, a terrible tragedy happens” to Donald Trump.

In a wide-ranging interview with USA TODAY, the vice president said he was “confident” President Trump would see out the rest of his term, but added he has had a lot of “on-the-job training”.

He also insisted to White House Correspondent Francesca Chambers Trump was in “incredibly good health”, despite recent questions about the president’s physical wellbeing.

#News

in reply to acargitz

It shouldn’t be this hard. History will not look kindly on us.
in reply to acargitz

Absolutely maddening that this is the standard they're begging people to meet. Michael Che had a stand-up special where he said something like, "Did you know that it's controversial now to say that black lives matter? What would be more acceptable? Black lives exist?"


US to revoke visas for PLO and PA members ahead of UN General Assembly 2025


in reply to Saleh

Just locking anyone with an opposing opinion out worked for the Democratic party convention in the US, lets see if it works at the UN too.

in reply to baduhai

He says he has no interest in politics, but his mother is a Forza Italia MEP who started her career in a far-right "post-fascist" party.

Her father seemed to also be aligned with his father (Benito), so I would be surprised if the fascism has filtered all the way down.

in reply to NoForwadSlashS

Yeah these things tend to run in families. Just like the Bushes and the Musks, all have strong fascist family histories. The Trumps are unique in this regard, they are just pumps and slumlords. But fortunately for them, fascism is an easy jump from there.
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BREAKING: 4 Israeli soldiers missing, others killed in resistance ambush in Zeitoun neighbourhood east of Gaza: Israel media


Israeli media reported that 4 soldiers were missing, and others were killed and wounded in Gaza, as part of a large ambush to capture Israeli soldiers carried out by the Qassam Brigades in the Zeitoun neighbourhood east of Gaza City.

Sources reported that the operation began with a large ambush in the Zeitoun neighbourhood, which resulted in the deaths of several Israeli soldiers, while other reports confirmed injuries described as critical.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250830-israel-media-4-israeli-soldiers-missing-others-killed-in-resistance-ambush-in-zeitoun-neighbourhood-east-of-gaza/



Piefed now has a built-in alternative to Lemmyverse to discover and search for active communities, with the "Active people" filter on the communities page (weekly basis)


Parola filtrata: nsfw

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in reply to Blaze (he/him)

It's crazy how fast development moves when you don't spend all day celebrating censoring your instance.
in reply to Blaze (he/him)

If it works for users, too, I'm sure to always be in at least the top 10 if not number 1.
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in reply to technocrit

I like how the article doesn’t even attempt to communicate a potential benefit to doing this or any rationale for why this is useful or good at all. Of course, the real rationale is that it allows the administration to hand wave about being “innovative” without backing that assertion with any substance. It also allows the administration to apply some of the supposed legitimacy of the US government to this wholly pointless, fraud riddled joke of a technology. JFC, this is such a clown of a nation.
in reply to xenomor

If you didn't know anything else about bitcoin you'd know its a scam just from Trump getting involved.
in reply to superglue

Of course. He has no use for normal business practices. If it can't be gamed, it's no fun.
in reply to technocrit

Yay, decentralised and immutable!

Data integrity at source: If the BEA’s initial data is wrong (as sometimes happens with revisions), blockchain only makes the error permanent until corrected with new updates


Oh, so... Like previously just publishing a pdf on a website, then.
I guess it means they can't hide revisions. Which is what archive.org (and the us government equivalent that archives government sites) provided when the government just published the pdf.

At least it's decentralised!

Over-reliance on oracles: Chainlink and Pyth are powerful, but their centrality creates new concentration risks. If they malfunction or face attacks, critical data feeds could be disrupted.


Gotcha, still has centralised services.

Quotes taken from ccn.com/education/crypto/gdp-o… which seems to have the best technical info I could find

Still not much information. I'm presuming an "oracle" is something that gives you a hash of the "immutable" data, so you only have to pay to get that hash recorded on a blockchain instead of however many kB of PDF.

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in reply to towerful

But wouldn't the PDF still need to be available in order for this to be useful?
in reply to SpaceNoodle

Yes. I was laying on the sarcasm heavily.
I presume that's what these oracle services provide.
Essentially hosts the us governments GDP NFT, so you can right click and download it just like every NFT crypto bro hates you doing.
Whether its actually the US Government hosting the file, or these oracle services hosting it... It doesn't matter.

Why not just host the files on a government website with appropriate file hashes (so users can verify the file is still the same), let the internet archive and the national archives take a snapshots of the files and pages and hashes etc... ? That's a well regarded site archival system, and the governmental archival system. Has redundancy, pedigree and public acceptance.
Fuck it, publish just the hash on some block chains so the "fingerprint" of the report is immutable. But call it what it is.

The report isn't "published on the Blockchain".
It is linked from some blockchains.
There is still a file hosted by some servers.
You can't download your favourite blockchain, take it to the top of Mount Rushmore with no internet and inspect the US GDP figures without first downloading the file linked in the block chain.

Blockchain oracles are entities that connect blockchains to external systems, allowing smart contracts to execute depending on real-world inputs and outputs. Oracles give the Web 3.0 ecosystem a method to connect to existing legacy systems, data sources and advanced calculations.


cointelegraph.com/learn/articl…

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in reply to towerful

Don’t forget the ability of major actors to rewrite history, making these blockchains incredibly centralized and absolutely mutable. If someone with enough clout decides to roll something back, it happens.


US Navy SEALs killed North Korean civilians during botched mission: Report


US special forces killed several North Korean fishermen diving for shellfish after encountering them by accident.


Archived version: archive.is/newest/aljazeera.co…


Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.



Has Netanyahu made slip-up in case against Karim Khan? - Israeli PM's allegations against ICC chief have never been mentioned before


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The Israeli leader made the comments during an interview with Breitbart News, a video of which was published on Wednesday.

Netanyahu said that Khan faced sexual assault allegations by a “female staff member”, before adding: “And since then, there have been four other women who came to the fore and accused him.”


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"In the circumstances, it is therefore both extraordinary and deeply troubling to Mr Khan that a serving head of government, and one who has been openly hostile to both the ICC and the UN, and who is indeed the subject of an arrest warrant, should purport to have knowledge about other such allegations or individuals, or about an ongoing confidential investigation of which Mr Khan is the subject."


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in reply to Saleh

We are already at two baseless rape accusations. How nice of Netayahu admitting he still has two more sleeper agents within the ICC.

in reply to Yawweee877h444

Well they have to pay 200+ million. So im not sure if "get away" is the right word. But I get the sentiment. Its a tragedy.

"It took the jury less than a day of deliberation to find Tesla 33 percent liable for the crash and responsible for $243 million in punitive and compensatory damages."

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in reply to mesa

Almost 100 billion revenue last year.

250 million of 100 billion is what… 0.25%?

Yeah. That’s nothing to them.

in reply to Whitebrow

You'd need to do the math on net profit. Gross revenue is a pretty meaningless figure on its own.
in reply to JohnEdwa

That's why they said revenue, not profit. You never go for the net. Always go for the gross.
in reply to Whitebrow

it never is. fines should be a percentage of the value of the company, not just some sum.
in reply to int32

Value can easily be manipulated, it really should be based on 15% ish of their gross income
in reply to 123

In theory I agree, in practice I despise laws that are needlessly wordy, and including a whichever is larger clause will add on an unnecessary element since gross income can only be abused with tax credit shenanigans which aren't very over the top, and if I had my way wouldn't exist at all(fairy tale I know)


Tesla changes meaning of 'Full Self-Driving', gives up on promise of autonomy


Tesla has changed the meaning of “Full Self-Driving”, also known as “FSD”, to give up on its original promise of delivering unsupervised autonomy.


Richard Wolff: US Empire in Collapse, China Builds Rival System




Belgium eyes using army to fight Brussels drug violence


The Belgian capital has been plagued by a spate of drug-related shootings.


Archived version: archive.is/newest/politico.eu/…


Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.



Trumps says Venezuelan jets will be 'shot down' if they endanger US ships


Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro says "differences" between the countries do not justify a "military conflict".


Archived version: archive.is/newest/bbc.com/news…


Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.



Newsom’s support surges among Democrats ahead of 2028: Poll


Friday showed 25 percent of Democratic primary voters saying they would support Newsom as the nominee, a jump from the 12 percent he received in a similar poll conducted in June.

Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg received support from 16 percent of respondents, consistent with what he received in June, while former Vice President Harris’s support slid from 13 percent in the June poll to 11 percent in Friday’s poll.


🤢

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5475487-newsom-support-democratic-primary-surge/

in reply to mysticpickle

Ewwwwww this is lame, speaking as a Californian. Just more neoliberal swine bastardry suckling at the teat of private interest, only wearing the skin of someone who gives a shit

in reply to Amoxtli

Nationalizing any big company is kinda funny from the administration pushing to privatize everything else for their rich buddies to run
in reply to Shortstack

That's because this is just a way to get something for their rich buddies to run but with the government paying for it.
in reply to Typhoon

The problem with conservatism is you eventually run out of others peoples stuff to sell.
in reply to Amoxtli

MAGA is going Socialist! Maybe there is a silver lining here.

They should go after Starlink and Space X next. After all, we paid for ALL of it, it really belongs to us.

He can keep Tesla. It will be bankrupt in 2 years anyway.



Proving the German Media Bias Against Palestinians


German reporting on the Middle East has long been criticized as one-sided. Our exclusive analysis of 5,000 headlines from leading German media outlets since October 7 shows the bias is even worse than suspected.
in reply to technocrit

That's because Germany is expected to still feel guilty about the holocaust even after almost all the perpetrators have died in prison, well the scapegoats did, Operation Paperclip ensured that most of the high ranking ones enjoyed a cushy life in USA so they are constantly made to feel obligated to support Israel, while other countries that have done similar atrocities are so easily forgotten, not a German fyi if you want to nitpick.
in reply to Eternal192

They don't feel guilty, they're afraid of ever having to actually be held fully responsible. The colonization of Palestine was done with public collaboration with the Nazis, and Palestinians have no obligation to pay for Germany's crimes by surrendering their homeland.

Germany got a very sweet deal, the Jewish question answered itself and they washed their hands if it.

in reply to Eternal192

So the former Nazis feel (rightfully) guilty about their Genocide of Jews and the current Nazis say committing Genocide is part of the Jewish identity, so the former Nazis have to feel guilty for and thus support the current Nazis? /j

(Joke as in not a serious question but a cynical attempt at simplifying in a humorous way)

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in reply to алсааас [she/they]

Again the former Nazis are dead, Germans today shouldn't be held accountable for their ancestors wrongdoing unless you'd like to accuse American's for their murder and theft of native American people and land, Turkey for their genocides, China for Tiananmen square while not that massive it was still in fucking 1989, i have more if you want, start looking at the real enemies and stop being distracted by the defeated ones.
in reply to Eternal192

I don't hold any individuals accountable for their countries past. I'm German Russian (as in my parents are both ex-soviets from Moscow, but I was born and grew up in Germany and still live here).
Why would I hold any Germans accountable for what their (great)grandparents did during their attempted Genocide against most peoples of eastern Europe and destruction of the USSR, as long as they don't expect me to feel sorry for the (Wehrmacht) oppressors, rapists, pillagers and thugs my great-grandparents rightfully shot and took as POWs to build Siberian land bridges and what not LOL.

Holding current generations accountable doesn't make much sense, but it is their legacy and how they deal with it is not crucial, but essential.

(Like Japan und Turkey also come to mind as strong negative examples; Japan much more so though)

I was more talking about societies from a macro POV. And there is a distinction IMO between a society rising from the rubble of a destroyed past (like in Germany, tho arguably the FRG never properly denazified) and still upholding that legacy and keeping it alive and well like in the USA.
The USA served as one of the primary inspirations of German fascism BTW, "Manifest Destiny" became Lebensraum, their concept of racial segregation was to be admired (and brought to its logical conclusion) and their exploitative industry to be emulated (said industry also funded the hitlerite fascists; e.g. Henry Ford was awarded the highest prize available to foreigners by Hitler himself)

The USA is built on the corpses of genocided peoples and as long as this grotesque concept exists in that form, justice will be waiting. The least they have to do is to give the land and equal rights back and establish commissions to remedy the societal legacy brought by centuries of racial oppression, reparations are not enough. (a lot of it applies to former empires and existing colonies as well)

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in reply to алсааас [she/they]

Thank you, i've been in Germany for almost 8 years now, i'm from the Balkans and everyone here has been unbelievably friendly to me, so when i hear constantly Nazi Germany this, Nazi Germany that it annoys the crap out of me when most of those saying shit like that are from countries that have done similar shit.
in reply to Eternal192

The thing about Germany is, that it's past is unique in the specificity of an industrialized genocide; the Schoa...
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in reply to Eternal192

Mentioning Tiananmen Square, an example of internal repression with a couple of hundreds to a couple of thousands estimated fatalities, in the same sentence as two cases of near complete genocides of other ethnicities is wild. Do you not see how distorted that is as a comparison? In that comparison, you're either trying to minimize the genocides of the Nazis, the Americans and the Turks, or raise the level of a case of internal repression with limited casualties to be comparable to massive historical crimes against humanity. Neither makes you look great.
in reply to AreaSIX

I don't think it was meant as such rather as just another example of saying "look at the countries past, today's people are still responsible".
in reply to AreaSIX

Why should any loss of life be less tragic? you then have an even bigger issue than me, because to you it seems it's ok to exclude a smaller genocide just because the Chinese stopped killing their citizens when it reached a few thousand, no loss of life should be disregarded just because the numbers didn't get higher, so their sacrifice is worth less because fewer died!??
in reply to Eternal192

I don't think you properly understand the word genocide and especially the weight of the Schoa; you can't compare industrial genocide and extermination with some political crackdown...
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The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software


in reply to bluecat_OwO

Yep. There's no such thing as competition any more.

Tech companies are just gas stations across the street from each other.

in reply to humanoidchaos

and you don't have a choice atp its just forced enshittifcation down your throat!!

in reply to AlwaysNurture

It would seem like that when reading news, but it's really not that bad. Enshittification is an issue though, but mostly being driven by the us oligarchs worldwide. A lot of the outrage/opinion manufacturing "media-news" never becomes reality on the ground.

The issue with nonsensical invasive surveillance tech is, logic and facts usually and eventually prevail, for instance backdooring systems for one group is backdooring for everyone, it just puts a huge target on your system and is ultimately ineffectual in its purpose, because the people of interest will adapt almost instantly (see examples "war on drugs", "ending piracy"). In the end it is a losing battle, akin to trying to legislate wind to blow only in one direction.



AI Safety Camp Outputs


LessWrong.
#AII
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[JS] Shell to pay: Crims invade your PC with CastleRAT malware, now in C and Python


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Let us git rid of it, angry GitHub users say of forced Copilot features


Among the software developers who use Microsoft's GitHub, the most popular community discussion in the past 12 months has been a request for a way to block Copilot, the company's AI service, from generating issues and pull requests in code repositories.

The second most popular discussion – where popularity is measured in upvotes – is a bug report that seeks a fix for the inability of users to disable Copilot code reviews.

#tech


Something to Think About this month

As well as everything else, each month I offer you something to think about and get the brain working. This month …

Actors pretend to work.

#blog #logic #thoughts #zenmischief



8 septembre 2025, 20:00:00 CEST - GMT+2 - La BASE, 34000, Montpellier, France
Set 8
Formation express anti-répression
Lun 20:00 - 21:00
XR Montpellier

Formation en 2 temps :

- un sur la conduite à tenir en cas d'arrestation et Garde À Vue

- un plus ciblé sur les soins face à gaz ou blessures (ce n'est pas une formation médics mais quelques bases nécessaires)


in reply to ardi60

Damn.I need to find an alternative. I also like the Microsoft Launcher, but it's Microsoft...


Against Narcissistic-Sociopathic Technology Studies, or Why Do People *USE* Technologies?


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la sedia sfaldante che ti rompe la mente


Lo so che ormai, nelle mie condizioni, non dovrei più minimamente stupirmi di nessuno spacc, ma… boh, quest’ultimo qui (che in realtà si manifesta da qualche mese, ma in certi momenti di più ed in altri meno, vai a capire perché) è proprio zamni, perché sembra non aver avuto mai un inizio né tantomeno una […]

octospacc.altervista.org/2025/…


la sedia sfaldante che ti rompe la mente


Lo so che ormai, nelle mie condizioni, non dovrei più minimamente stupirmi di nessuno spacc, ma… boh, quest’ultimo qui (che in realtà si manifesta da qualche mese, ma in certi momenti di più ed in altri meno, vai a capire perché) è proprio zamni, perché sembra non aver avuto mai un inizio né tantomeno una fine… la mia sedia si sta letteralmente sbriciolando, oltre i limiti dell’umano. E pensare che ormai non faccio nemmeno più tanto gaming, su quella sedia… e ok, alla fine dei conti anche il non-gaming ammonta solo a premere la tastiera e muovere il mouse, ma mi pare strambo. 💔

Il fottuto rivestimento di finta pelle o quello che è — che a questo punto francamente potevano evitare di mettere proprio, se dopo appena 6-7 anni scarsi doveva rompersi in questo modo indegno — ha iniziato lentamente a sfaldarsi, a fare i frammentini, che spesso finiscono direttamente per terra come merdini neri a far sembrare la stanza sporca… quando non rimangono solo parzialmente staccati sulla sedia, creando una superficie lievemente irregolare che da lievemente fastidio all’anima (o beh, a volte si staccano del tutto ma non cadono subito a terra, ancora peggio); strofinando con la manina come in video poi cadono effettivamente. Come dovrei fare io a non essere costretta a cambiare questo affare prima dei prossimi 100 anni di uso, se già ora fa così??? Da non credere… 😿
Vista sul pavimento con tutti i cosi neri caduti come illustrato.
#danni #gaming #sedia #usura




Titolo: Non Basta un Sciacquo! I Segreti per Frutta e Verdura Veramente Pulita


Sei sicuro che lavare velocemente** frutta e verdura **basti a eliminare pesticidi e batteri invisibili? La verità potrebbe sorprenderti! Ogni giorno portiamo in tavola alimenti ricchi di vita, ma anche di potenziali pericoli nascosti. Scopri perché una pulizia superficiale non è un'opzione e come proteggere davvero la tua salute con metodi efficaci e sicuri. Non lasciare che i "nemici invisibili" compromettano il tuo benessere: il tuo corpo merita di più!

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Firefox Nightly now lets you access Microsoft Copilot from the sidebar


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MDB II -2025.52 – O mais belo e justo dos destinos #podifusão


cross-posted from: lemmy.eco.br/post/16316008



in reply to silence7

So the biggest polluter in the world (aside from the country that makes everything) is gonna pollute even more. Thanks a lot.
in reply to silence7

Of course he does. Putin needs to sell oil. It's a major Russian export earner. If US demand for oil and gas drops, so do global prices for those commodities. Less money for Puto, less ability for him to murder Ukrainians.

And unlike low-cost producers like the Saudis, Russia needs a moderately high price just to break even on their production.

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NEW WAR on DRUG CARTELS: Just begun in the Caribbean Sea /Lt Col Daniel Davis & Steve Jermy




Driver films ACT leader David Seymour undertaking


Seymour said the car in front of him was driving erratically, speeding up and slowing down in the right lane.


AI in Education: Doomed?


The users on here tend to be against learning with LLMs. They usually say prompts make you a spoon-fed idiot etc. But you guys realize that AI is being brought into the education system with Trump? Are you all unsatisfied with life because of LLMs? Are we doomed?

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in reply to trashgarbage78

Spoonfed idiots will not develop thinking skills. Reading the crib notes/ ai summaries will not make a theoretical genius, just a knowledge monkey. Plus, most of the content still needs to be filtered.
in reply to trashgarbage78

It's OK the secretary of education was only promoting steak sauce in the classrooms.


Piracy on campus WiFi


There are already several posts on this topic, but I wanted to have a more up to date answer. The secure wifi uses my personal school account to sign in so that might not be the best idea, however the guest wifi is open to everyone so that may be a better idea. I also know to use a VPN and bind my torrenting client to the VPN. Anything else I should know? Or is the entire idea dead in the water? I've pirated before but never with several thousand dollars on the line...
in reply to DryEnthusiasm7860

As long as you have a verified setup going over a VPN you should be OK. Same goes for a residential ISP since they have your address, contact and billing info. Just make sure they can't see what ur doing and it should be Gucci
in reply to DryEnthusiasm7860

Honestly if you are doing only torrents, then using a debrid service works great. I have tried VPN, Usenet, and debrid. You copy the magnet link or upload the .torrent file and if it's a popular file, it will already be downloaded and you can download from them immediately. Otherwise you wait a little bit for them to download it. Doing this does not require VPN and typically it is hosted at a fast server and will download as fast as your internet can go. It's 3€ a month which is less than a good VPN anyway.



Want your posts to show up in the PieFed search? Check this setting in your profile


Please go to piefed.social/user/settings and tick the checkbox "My posts appear in search results". When that is unticked your posts won't appear when people use the search at piefed.social/search

For a long time having it unticked was the default setting and it's meant that the search results are often missing posts that people expect to be there. It'll be ticked by default from now on.




Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion to authors in landmark AI settlement


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in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

Let me guess, only the big name authors and none of the countless people posting their writing projects to the internet (which probably accounted for a way higher precentage of the training data than published novels given how much more of it there is) or the people having back and fourth discussions on Reddit (which was likely vital to ensuring the AI responded to technical conversations in a normal sounding way).

The thing I hate most about the copyright system is how blatantly it helps the biggest creators concentrate wealth while actively excluding smaller and amateur creators. The copyright system is the barrier to entry. You can only exercise the rights theoretically given to every single creator if you make enough money from your art, but to make enough money from your art you need to be able to exercise the rights to it.

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in reply to HiddenLayer555

Exactly, copyrights are designed for the benefit of capitalists first and foremost. They're not there to protect small artists.

in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

Trump cancelling renewable energy projects already started is a danger to the world's climate, and on top of that he's restricting imports of Chinese renewable technology. The silver lining is that this will probably drive up energy prices and result in a lot of manufacturing being offshored.



Solar+ storage is already cost competitive to new gas power plants, everywhere, without incentives, and it will only get better


Solar and batteries are already cost competitive with gas when it comes to adding new, 24 hour, firm generation. Mileage does vary by location, but many cities (globally) could get to 60-99% powered by solar + battery while being just cheaper than a new gas power plant. This is using numbers from 2024, and both of these technologies are in a cost free fall* and have been for a long time.

*tariffs not included, but they are arbitrary BS

in reply to Dippy

My analysis of California solar would disagree. The amount of storage required to overcome seasonal solar deficits is unbridgeable. On most grids that bridge is nat gas.

energyasicit.ca/WindModel/

in reply to Icanbob

I mean, if you read the article, they admit that they took the idea to a silly extreme to prove the point. But they did a bunch of math using global averages, so you should check your math against that. And they are not suggesting to actually only ever use solar and storage going forward. They were saying that new solar and storage is cheaper than new gas up to a substantial extent. Existing gas is a whole different comparison



Your fav torrent sites


Im old and only recall TPB for torrents. Also what are private trackers and how can i get in on that? I have a lot of potentially rare media to share as well and I wanna seed.

I realize the wiki may explain this but I didn't feel like digging.

in reply to bridgeenjoyer

Man... This brought me back.
I remember Mininiva, demonoid, isohunt. Wow.
Now I usually just use one of the 1337x mirrors.


Studio backdrops; advice


I'm putting together a provisional (cheap & quick) studio setup, to get on with photographing ceramics & sculpture in the first instance but the option to reuse for portrait work would be a plus.

What should I look at in terms of backdrops? Are the cheap ones from amazon viable? There is a good haberdashery locally who have rolls of fabric - what should I look for if I enquire there?

I'm a competent DIYer but want to avoid false economies and, if poss, too much redundant kit when I upgrade. I also need to crack on with it asap!

What is your advice?



Ben-Hur on a computer screen


This is a "crônica", a uniquely Brazilian format that emerged in Brazilian newspapers in the 19th century. The crônica is very short. It is characterized by a mix of fact, subjectivity, and often fiction that is supposed to reflect or say something about reality (this one has no fiction). Oddly enough, I wrote this crônica directly in English. It was an interesting experience to write something so profoundly Brazilian in English.

Crônicas are often slice-of-life.



Linux phones are more important now than ever.


E: apparently it needs to be said that I am not suggesting you switch to Linux on your phone today; just that development needs to accelerate.

Android has always been a fairly open platform, especially if you were deliberate about getting it that way, but we've seen in recent months an extremely rapid devolution of the Android ecosystem:

  1. The closing of development of an increasing number of components in AOSP.
  2. Samsung, Xiaomi and OnePlus have removed the option of bootloader unlocking on all of their devices. I suspect Google is not far behind.
  3. Google implementing Play Integrity API and encouraging developers to implement it. Notably the EU's own identity verification wallet requires this, in stark contrast to their own laws and policies, despite the protest of hundreds on Github.
  4. And finally, the mandatory implementation of developer verification across Android systems. Yes, if you're running a 3rd-party OS like GOS you won't be directly affected by this, but it will impact 99.9% of devices, and I foresee many open source developers just opting out of developing apps for Android entirely as a result. We've already seen SyncThing simply discontinue development for this reason, citing issues with Google Play Store. They've also repeatedly denied updates for NextCloud with no explanation, only restoring it after mass outcry. And we've already seen Google targeting any software intended to circumvent ads, labeling them in the system as "dangerous" and "untrusted". This will most certainly carry into their new "verification" system.

Google once competed with Apple for customers. But in a world where Google walks away from the biggest antitrust trial since 1998 with yet another slap on the wrist, competition is dead, and Google is taking notes from Apple about what they can legally get away with.


> Android as we know it is dead. And/or will be dead very soon. We need an open replacement.


It truly can't be overstated how important this will be in the coming years, given the current trends of Android towards being a closed ecosystem.

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