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.
Vance says he’s prepared to become president ‘If God forbid, a terrible tragedy happens’
The vice president said he ‘couldn’t think of better on-the-job training’ than his time in officeNicole Wootton-Cane (The Independent)
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US to revoke visas for PLO and PA members ahead of UN General Assembly 2025
US to revoke visas for PLO and PA members ahead of UN General Assembly 2025
The US could be complicating the planned recognition of a Palestinian state at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in September by denying and revoking existing visas to members of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and the Palestinia…MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
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Rubio's announcement said the PA must halt efforts “to bypass negotiations through international lawfare campaigns”, including appeals to the International Criminal Court and International Court of Justice, and efforts to secure the unilateral recognition of a conjectural Palestinian state”. The Trump administration cites these two actions as having "materially contributed to Hamas’s refusal to release its hostages, and to the breakdown of the Gaza ceasefire talks."
Wow.
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“Part of the agreement with the UN is that the host country for its headquarters allows all heads of state to address the annual gathering.
The Palestinian Authority "stressed that this decision stands in clear contradiction to international law and the UN Headquarters Agreement”
THIS HERE ^^
The Trump Admin is using this to destroy the fundamentals of the UN. The UN will have to move out of the US which is exactly what they want to achieve without saying it out loud.
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Mussolini's great-grandson makes Serie A debut
Romano Floriani Mussolini: Dictator Benito Mussolini's great-grandson makes Serie A debut for Cremonese
Romano Floriani Mussolini, the great-grandson of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, comes off the bench to help Cremonese defeat Sassuolo 3-2 in his Serie A debut on Friday.Adwaidh Rajan (BBC Sport)
Just in time for fascism to spread around the world! His great-grandfather would be so proud.
... if he weren't, y'know, dead.
Is he actually a fascist though? Or does he just happen to be Mussolini's great grandson?
The sins of the father...
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.
Taliban launch crackdown on Afghanistan’s secret beauty salons
Taliban launch crackdown on Afghanistan’s secret beauty salons
The clandestine businesses – a financial lifeline for many women – have been given a month to cease operationsZahra Joya (The Guardian)
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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.
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If Gaza didn't resist, it would not have to be like this!!1!
Let's ignore the last 80 years of it being like this.
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why is it breaking news
Why hate on people sharing positive news?
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Why is it fucking breaking news that a tiny few soldiers have been soldiered while participating in a genocide?
I mean it's not breaking news but, like all colonial warfare, it's much harder for the Palestinian resistance to get kills on the IDF than vice versa, so this is newsworthy in the same way minor developments in the Ukraine war are newsworthy.
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I would argue thst hamas is better than iraqi resistant , i would argue that they are more comparable to vietcong and that us army was a lot more competant than the diaper army
He slipped and died': How Israel hides its troop deaths
'He slipped and died': How Israel hides its troop deaths
Whether falling from trees or dying in car crashes, Israeli soldiers seem to be the unluckiest on the planet. But, in this Information Age, it is becoming increasingly challenging for Tel Aviv to conceal its combat-related deaths.thecradle.co
It's like how people are getting excited about Gavin Newsom's dank memes.
When the opposition is winning in every aspect, even a minor piece of opposition becomes remarkable.
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
To see it in action:
- piefed.zip/communities?topic_i…
Crust.piefed.social (the Piefed development instance)
- crust.piefed.social/communitie…
Not all instances implement it yet, I guess it depends how often they pull from the dev branch
Example of search for 'movies'
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Is this different to Lemmy's communities tab sorted by 'Top Week', which sorts by weekly active users?
IMO, the main advantage of Lemmyverse is the better text search and presentation.
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You still don't see the number of weekly active users.
On Piefed, it's the 'Active people' column, where you can see the numbers without having to go to each community. Lemmy (and Photon in this case) only show subscribers, which isn't an accurate metric as most of them are ghost accounts.
That could indeed be the case, but that's probably a low priority item for most of the client devs.
I had been asking Rimu to add this feature for a while as Lemmyverse doesn't show Piefed communities on the community search, and as a lot of people use Lemmyverse to search for communities, Piefed communities are basically invisible.
This solves it, if other clients want to implement it too, that would be nice of course
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Project background: https://join.piefed.social Demo site / Flagship instance: https://piefed.socialCodeberg.org
As in old.reddit or the old “new” reddit they apparently changed a week ago.
I’ve been messing around with customising themes all week on quokka.au, and I would be happy to give it a shot.
Where I'm at so far with a theme. Gotta finish up the top bar with community subscriptions and tidy up the user part on the left before moving onto the feed.
Oh great, now I can check if my Taylor Swifties Markov Chains are more popular in Meta’s piefeed instance over Microsoft’s 🙄 /s
Folks, please don't not fall for Popularity Biases. Just because one instance has more robots talking to each other, doesn't mean you should join the community.
So don't fall for it.
The Unfairness of Popularity Bias in Recommendation
Recommender systems are known to suffer from the popularity bias problem: popular (i.e. frequently rated) items get a lot of exposure while less popular ones are under-represented in the recommendations.arXiv.org
!movies@lemmy.world is almost only composed of a single poster sharing articles from the Guardian.
!movies@piefed.social has a diverse mod team, with dedicated threads for movies, weekly discussion threads, and people sharing their own reviews.
Now, what you have just exemplified is the way:
community based introductions.
So thank you for curating👍, and sharing your thoughts on them. 🫶
U.S. Government Starts Pushing Economic Data Onto Blockchains as 'Proof of Concept'
The U.S. Department of Commerce said it issued its gross domestic product data via nine blockchains, including Bitcoin, Ethereum and other crypto-world pathways.
archive: archive.ph/RDgRJ
How about we only use blockchain for the use cases where it's an optimal solution.
If and when there are such use cases.
No. Keep tech away from voting. Software cannot be trusted.
You can't tell if the button you push is the thing being counted. You don't know if the version of the code on the machine is the one that was audited.
Paper. Ballots. Only
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.
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.
What is a Hard Fork? A History of Bitcoin Hard Forks
What is a hard fork, and how have hard forks impacted Bitcoin?trustmachines.co
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.
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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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Has Netanyahu sabotaged his own campaign against Karim Khan?
Karim Khan has questioned whether Israel is "interfering in and attempting to manipulate" a UN investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against him, following comments made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.Imran Mulla (Middle East Eye)
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Good article! Thanks for the archive link. Amazing that this type of shady shit which Tesla is doing is likewise behind a paywalled source where people can’t get this information as easily.
Inside a Starbucks near the Miami airport, the plaintiffs’ attorneys watched as greentheonly fired up his ThinkPad computer and plugged in a flash drive containing a forensic copy of the Autopilot unit’s contents. Within minutes, he found key data that was marked for deletion — along with confirmation that Tesla had received the collision snapshot within moments of the crash — proving the critical information should have actually been accessible all along.The attorneys high-fived behind him.
Basically too, Tesla has also tried to delete the data again by powering up the unit from the crash, which would have ‘updated’ the device and conveniently removed data. How STRANGE it maintains this behavior… especially for collision snapshots.
Tesla is actively harming people, lying about it, and using shitty tactics to avoid any responsibility for it. Just like its daddy, Elon.
Seriously. This is so fucked yo.
I’m NEVER EVER going to buy Tesla.
How does archive get the unpaywalled version? I don't think they pay the subscription for every single tabloid out there?
Asking for a friend.
Btw, how come there is no search engine where you can sort and filter how you want instead of how they want? (except self-hosted i mean)
Pornhub has better searchability than, uh, all search sites i know.
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."
Almost 100 billion revenue last year.
250 million of 100 billion is what… 0.25%?
Yeah. That’s nothing to them.
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.
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...Fred Lambert (Electrek)
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Richard Wolff: US Empire in Collapse, China Builds Rival System
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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/…
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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…
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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.
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https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5475487-newsom-support-democratic-primary-surge/
The US government could get even more Intel stock if the company ends up losing control of its chip manufacturing business
The US government could get even more Intel stock if the company ends up losing control of its chip manufacturing business
Though time will tell if $20 a share is good.James Bentley (PC Gamer)
Anandtech had a great saying:
There are no bad products, just bad prices.
Performance wise, Intel CPUs were just fine at the right price, no matter what manufacturing drama is going on. Don’t get me wrong, all my recent CPU purchases have been AMD, but not because of brand loyalty or anything; it’s because they were on sale and great for the price.
Yours is probably in better shape than mine. The 13 and 14 series specifically had a design flaw in the microcode that overvolts them. They slowly burn out over time, and the damage is irreversible.
Earlier processors aren't affected. It's specific to this series. But the only "fix" is a microcode patch that nerfs performance, so I'd rather just ride it out and switch to AMD.
I'm happy to see ARM gaining enough traction these days to be a solid alternative to x64. I'm happy to run it for server workloads but I'm skeptical it's ready to replace my AMD PC desktop.
Granted, I haven't been paying super close attention to the state of the art for the past few years, but from what I gather Apple was a major catalyst in the uptake of ARM for the desktop. Ironically, we have Intel's abysmal Skylake QC to thank for that 😅
How is Linux ARM support these days? Any particularly outstanding distro that shines on ARM?
There aren't any ARM manufacturers that upstream their drivers, and no SystemReady support from any manufacturers
Basically every package works on ARM, but the lack of manufacturer support for hardware means ARM effectively requires a special kernel build for every PC
RaspberryPi has worked on upstreaming their Broadcom SoC, Collabora had worked on upstreaming the RK3588 SoC...
None of Qualcomm's recent chips are very usable (always missing something like audio, or other basic functionality)
Asahi Linux worked on Apple M1/M2 support
Unless a new ARM manufacturer comes along, general use ARM PCs are a long way away
discourse.ubuntu.com/t/what-s-…
Maybe not that far.
What’s new for generic ARM64 Desktop ISOs in 25.10
In this week’s Ubuntu Engineering spotlight, we’re diving into the technical side of how our generic ARM64 Desktop ISO works out of the box on all sorts of arm64 desktop hardware including Qualcomm Snapdragon laptops.Ubuntu Community Hub
That doesn't fix the problem of needing specific device tree files for every computer.
So you still won't be able to say, swap your WiFi chip in your laptop and still have it work.
This just enables a small subset of (specifically Windows ARM laptops) to boot from an image.
This is very different from x86, where ACPI allows you to have a single image that knows very little about the hardware.
If ARM started using SystemReady, you could see a truly generic image, rather than having a specific list of laptops the "generic" image works with
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.
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.
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)
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)
The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software
The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software
A few days ago we brought you word that Google was looking to crack down on “sideloaded” Android applications. That is, software packages installed from outside of the mobile operating …Hackaday
I would have rather seen the development of BBOS10. It was so far ahead of its time.
That whole thing we do with swipe gestures to navigate the android interface? Yeah BBOS had that years ago.
I miss my Passport.
Exclusivity is not good for the consumer/gamer.
Now you can play more games on your console.
I’m bothered that big companies, especially tech right now, no longer see their customers as people they need to please to stay in business, but instead as something they’ll inconvenience and squeeze as much as they can possibly get away with.
They all got to where they are making, at one point, amazing products. Now? Fuck making windows useful, we can throw ads and AI at you every place we can think of. Fuck all of the parts of Android that made it stand out, we tell you what to install. You don’t want all of your data scraped and sold? Fuck you, there’s 3 of us and we’re all doing it. In fact we’ll never stop finding new ways to harvest data.
Phones have basically stagnated entirely in the US. Sure you get moderately better chipsets, but what else? AI? I haven’t had a phone struggle with anything in… maybe 10 years. Instead features that people didn’t use enough just get removed.
I'm actively looking for a new phone that has 0 Google in it, and am looking ad de-Googling the rest of my life.
I remember being genuinely hyped about Gmail in 2008. Now, I don't want them accessing any of my data.
The year of the Linux mobile is coming.
FLX1 - FuriPhone FLX1 Linux Phone
Fast, performant and cheap. You wanted all 3? Now you got it! The FLX1 from Furi Labs runs a fully optimized system called Furi OS, packing a lightning fast user interface, tons of storage, and a …Furi Labs: Planned Permanence
I want to believe, I really do. But I fear that the crypto apps people have grown dependent on will make it harder than the desktop battle. And IDK but I seem to recall every year since at least 2001 being proclaimed to be the year of the Linux desktop.
I rely on my banking apps (plural), governmental email app, government authentificator app and the governmental LMS app for public schools to make my everyday function. And the last time I tried just a custom ROM, those apps refused to run.
A phone that can't do NFC payment, banking and authenticator work is not a phone. It's a pile of shit that's little more than a toy for children.
Nothing wrong with toys, but they arnt useable products worth any amount of real money.
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Android System SafetyCore - Apps on Google Play
Provides safety features for Android devices.play.google.com
Thanks! I remember safety codes now: it looks at all your pictures and says it only blocks CSAM, but who knows if it is trustworthy or if it misidentifies something.
The other o e from what I can tell is trying to add e2ee to google message? How does it spy?
Edit: grouphowto.com/com-google-andr…
Looks like it is mostly a good thing?
What Is com.google.android.contactkeys & Is It Safe to Remove?
com.google.android.contactkeys keeps showing up on your phone? Here’s what it is, why it matters, and how to safely disable or remove it.A. Lamrani (Grouphowto)
I don't know about anyone else, but I got into computers at a young age because it gave me a sense of control over something. I didn't understand everything, but I could do a lot of trial and error, read things and experiment, build cool things, and I shared a sense of community with some random internet strangers based on that knowledge.
In a world where we are so powerless in so many other ways, why did we insist on bringing that power dynamic into the new bright tech sphere? Why did we have to do that? (N.B. this is rhetorical questioning).
The infuriating part of the Google enshittification process is that there is absolutely nothing the user can do about it.
Literally the only thing that motivates Google is profit. Controlling side-loaded apps will almost certainly boost their profits by a infinitesimal fraction of a percent, therefore it will be done. Even if consumer uproar causes Google to back down in the short term, they'll simply implement this a few months later. Late-stage Capitalism sucks.
You can stop using all Google products. Now I understand their market share on the web means they’re going to continue to shape the web.
But make no mistake. There is something, however small, that you can do. De-Google.
The only people who can de google are basically single shut ins with a job that doesnt use anything google.
If you have kids or a company that uses google products. It's a bad fucking joke to talk like it's even a realistic option.
Google is basically shoved down your throat. In most cases by the law literally. Seriously FUCK how tied the public education system is to google now.
You can stop using all Google products.
My public school -- that my children are basically required by law to attend, remember -- is badgering me to sign a consent form so they can have Chromebooks.
This fight is a lot fucking larger than mere individual boycotts!
They probably would have to find accommodation for you, although I’m sure it’d be very inconvenient. But still technically there.
As to if you refuse to have your child be issued a Chromebook and Google account, probably not much you can do, as they are providing everything.
My personal answer to this question is the same as if it were an employer issued mandatory Chromebook; me the employee (or my child the student) is a different entity than me the individual. Me the individual refuses to have anything to do with Google, and that’s enough of a fight for me.
Around here if you can't refuse. My coworker is currently fighting that battle. His basically being threatened by the state that he either complies, home schools and compiles with those requirements which still has google requirements. Or he has to deal with the legal penalties of not sending his kid to school.
The accomodations is basically pay out of pocket for a private school. Because there is no accmodation for "free" services. Even the "poor" can do it so it's a non optional expectation.
For me, MitID in Denmark. 100% required for society and life here, requires Google Play Services now 🙁
I tried e/os on my Fairphone for a bit. I think I could make it all work okay enough besides that. I should write people at the government or something I guess?
I contacted them, they told me it is for security, I argued but it is useless. I have to buy an android phone or be punished for not filling my taxes. Amazing
I was looking into it a few ago. I found something made in Europe which advertise as more consumer friendly (Fairphone). If I got it right they want to stand out of the crowd by:
- Selling phones that can be repaired easily;
- Offer a de-googled OS based on Android.
The second point could be interesting, considering this Google abusive behavior towards users. Moreover, there is another thing that caught my attention: their devices (the last one is missing, but maybe it's just too new?) are supported by Ubuntu Touch, which should be just a Linux OS running on phones. That would be my dream, so that I can consider my phone just a computer with all the freedom I can get, such as write down my bash/python/C applications to do what I want to do without having to mess up with all that Android development suite.
However, if I am not mistaken, in the past I heard some bad reviews about Fairphone, so you should perform your due diligence.
We are Fairphone
We make technology with a purpose—designed to last longer, perform better, and make a real impact. And we’ve been at it for more than a decade.Fairphone
Yep. There's no such thing as competition any more.
Tech companies are just gas stations across the street from each other.
UK Home Office ‘backdoor’ seeks worldwide access to Apple iCloud users’ data, court documents confirm
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/50665455
cross-posted from: infosec.pub/post/33877538
A court filing states that a government order against Apple would give it the capability to access communications and metadata of customers using the iCloud service anywhere in the world
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
AISC10: Virtual (2025)
Many teams participated and worked on the following projects:www.aisafety.camp
[JS] Shell to pay: Crims invade your PC with CastleRAT malware, now in C and Python
From CastleLoader to CastleRAT: TAG-150 Advances Operations with Multi-Tiered Infrastructure
Insikt Group reveals TAG-150’s multi-tiered infrastructure and CastleRAT malware—an advanced threat actor evolving rapidly with stealth and scale.www.recordedfuture.com
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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.
Let us git rid of it, angry GitHub users say of forced Copilot features
: Unavoidable AI has developers looking for alternative code hosting optionsThomas Claburn (The Register)
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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
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)
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In a Reddit AMA, the then-Branch CEO Alex Austin also revealed that if Kevin ever left Branch, they would open-source Nova Launcher's code and release it to the community.
We still have hope if they keep their promise!
Read a bit further:
Two years later, Kevin Barry left Branch and is no longer involved in Nova’s development. In his announcement, Barry revealed that he had been the sole developer for the past year, spending recent months preparing to open source Nova Launcher and clean up its codebase. However, Branch ultimately asked him to stop both development and his open-sourcing efforts.
Yeah, I read it. But they still promised open source, nothing about Barry working on it or not.
That's why I said "keeping their promise"
I hate being hinted and asked to click on the link, so I save you a click:
It’s the end of an era: the founder and original developer of Nova Launcher — Kevin Barry — has stepped away from the development of the iconic custom launcher. This essentially marks the end of the road for the launcher, as it is unlikely to receive updates or new features. For years now, Nova Launcher has been the go-to launcher for power Android users, standing out for its plethora of customization options and features.
Now that Nova is in literal limbo, if not allegedly in the hands of some data miner, there should be talk about substitutes.
- This app may share these data types with third parties
- This app may collect these data types
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Lawnchair was too bare bones for me. However, I was able to recreate 90%+ of my Nova setup with Neo.
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Neo-Launcher. Contribute to NeoApplications/Neo-Launcher development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Their other projects are in active development, so I wouldn't consider it to be abandoned.
I haven't had any issues besides the desktop being occasionally unresponsive. Same thing used to happen to me in Nova.
It's FOSS and suits my needs. But I can see why others may want to stay away from it.
I'm on the PC and using Firefox, viewing Lemmy directly rather than on mobile.
Android’s most beloved launcher may be done for good
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Seems like lemmy.world has the opengraph/teaser stuff disabled? When I open the post on lemmyworld, without an account, it doesn't have a teaser at all.
If you open this comment source link it may very well show.
The interoperability of ActivityPub is nice, but all these differences make it confusing and cumbersome too.
if not allegedly in the hands of some data miner,
it's android. what do you expect? It's one giant data miner.
I don’t even know how to use Android without Nova…
Why does nothing good ever last?
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I switched to Niagara a few years ago when Nova was sold. True game changer once you get used to it (which doesn't take too long). It works great on phone or tablet. And there is still something SO satisfying about watching the alphabet and apps move with your thumb. It's so smooth and the haptic feedback is perfect (running on Pixel 7, GrapheneOS, and a cheap old Samsung tablet A8).
Random video showing the UI within the first minute:
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I'm very thankful to Kevin for this amazing launcher that I'm still using to this day.
Also a bit disapointed he trusted Branch and gave them the opportunity to ruin it.
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You make it sound as if human greed as part of the human condtion will suddenly and magically disappeared under any other form of trade or political system. That is not what literal history has us shown to be the case, over, and over again.
What fucked it up was he selling to the wrong company. But we do not know why he did it. For all we know, he was tired to taking lead in the project and wanted to cash out. He was entitled to do that, or what is the option, force him to work on it just for your needs or to sell to only the company that you or I approved of? What gives us the right to force their hand?
It sucks but that is what he wanted. We both agree that it us unfortunate though. It is too bad.
That human nature will disappear when provided an egalitarian society is the biggest lie I see parroted over and over again by folks who also demand I read theory.
Our nature isn’t a result of our systems, our systems are a result of our nature
See: sh.itjust.works/comment/208518…
The human condition is dictated by the hegemonic system that is governing.Monopoly™ the game is structually engineered so that players kill the competition and secure the entire board. Would playing by the game's rules make me inherently a capitalist jerk? No, because they dictate my behaviour and not following them would put me outside the realm of the game (i.e. the system) resulting in my loss (decay).
If the capitalist system incentivizes me to outcompete others and hoard my wealth and, conversely, punishes me for my altruism; then, I am forced to play by the rules of such a system.
"Human nature" is much more complex to be reduced to just greed. This is what's so cool about being humans, we are so malleable and can be many many things either at once or separately.
Edit: I want to give some concrete examples to what I'm saying. Initially, the Google leadership was skeptical about AI funding, because of privacy and environmental concerns. Yet, as rival competition grew they backpedaled because this would mean their spot as the strongest teck company would be usurped. The late hop into AI funding and development heavily impacted their prospects and they remain falling behind in this respect (source). Here, we have an exemplary case of how the system automatically punishes hood deeds and reinforces predatory and greedy acts.
Google unceremoniously dropped its promise of carbon neutrality, with emissions rising nearly 50% over the last five years
Google's $100 billion investment in AI will come with an environmental cost, an expert warns.Eva Roytburg (Fortune)
The human condition is dictated by the hegemonic system that is governing.
Monopoly™ the game is structually engineered so that players kill the competition and secure the entire board. Would playing by the game's rules make me inherently a capitalist jerk? No, because they dictate my behaviour and not following them would put me outside the realm of the game (i.e. the system) resulting in my loss (decay).
If the capitalist system incentivizes me to outcompete others and hoard my wealth and, conversely, punishes me for my altruism; then, I am forced to play by the rules of such a system.
"Human nature" is much more complex to be reduced to just greed. This is what's so cool about being humans, we are so malleable and can be many many things either at once or separately.
Edit: I want to give some concrete examples to what I'm saying. Initially, the Google leadership was skeptical about AI funding, because of privacy and environmental concerns. Yet, as rival competition grew they backpedaled because this would mean their spot as the strongest teck company would be usurped. The late hop into AI funding and development heavily impacted their prospects and they remain falling behind in this respect (source). Here, we have an exemplary case of how the system automatically punishes hood deeds and reinforces predatory and greedy acts.
Google unceremoniously dropped its promise of carbon neutrality, with emissions rising nearly 50% over the last five years
Google's $100 billion investment in AI will come with an environmental cost, an expert warns.Eva Roytburg (Fortune)
Did you know that Monopoly was originally invented by a woman whose point was how horrible monopolies are? It originally had a co-op mode that could topple monopolies through unions and co-ops.
Her game was bought by a jerk who removed the co-op mode and then claimed Monopoly as his own game. She died penniless.
If the capitalist system incentivizes me to outcompete others and hoard my wealth and, conversely, punishes me for my altruism; then, I am forced to play by the rules of such a system.
So change it... or be a pebble in the mountain of change.
Yes of course, humanity didn’t start until we figured out capitalism.
How could I have been so naive
You make it sound as if every system is perfectly equal, and that all humans are the same, and that nothing we choose or decide matters at all and that the only form of existence is the one we are seeing right now.
Jesus christ if this was a film you'd happily be hooked up to a bunch of tubes in a goo pod pretending you're free.
I wonder if additional revenue may have helped.
For those coming looking for alternatives, this mega comparison chart is what I used to select an alternative launcher when I switched.
I would strongly recommend checking this site for the trackers in an app if you're at all concerned about privacy. Links to each app's exodus privacy report is also at the end of the table linked above.
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I stuck with Neo for ages waiting for updates to fix the last few issues.....and they never came. Neo would be perfect if someone forked it and continued development.
Fossify is a tad too basic for me. I use the dialler and calculator. Both have slight issues. The calculator always starts with zero so tapping 1416 will give you 14016.
Dialler doesnt seem to wake or respond as quick as others.
I take it as it is given I know it is private and open but still there are gaps in UI and UX with foss that I wish were a bigger priority.
Qalculate! | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
Powerful and versatile multi-purpose calculatorf-droid.org
Speaking of calculators on android, I recently found an old silver link cable on ebay, which connects TI calculators to a computer, allowing me to dump the ROM of my old TI89. Loading up that rom in the 'graph89' emulator app is an amazing addition to a phone. Blows the socks off any calculator app.
But yes, fossify apps are simple. They do seem to be under active development, so hopefully they shape up nicely in the future.
There's no direct replacement. The features I use are in Pear launcher so I use that. You have to look through launcher comparisons to find the features you need.
I've made a post about this and some people are giving recommendations. Check out comments here: europe.pub/post/4256799
Dammit. I knew I should she already switched once they were bought but I couldn't find anything that matched the features at the time.
I really like being able to set swipe actions on my icons. For example swiping up or down on an icon will open an alternative app, folder, or a specific functionality. It's allowed me to keep a clean screen while keeping everything I need accessible.
God DAMMIT.
I don't know why, but this is some proverbial straw for me today. Motherfuck.
if it's nova launcher I'm gonna be pissed.
edit: it's nova launcher. fucking fuck.
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Hey by any chance do you have the last APK file and the SHA256 of that file ?
Oh wait, it this it ?
apkmirror.com/apk/teslacoil-so…
Name: com.teslacoilsw.launcher_8.1.1-81001_minAPI26(arm64-v8a,armeabi-v7a)(nodpi)_apkmirror.com.apk
Size: 11970405 bytes (11 MiB)
SHA256: 30bccfdd995969089ad364a7a6bb7bbea482a703fbfb30ebccad6418aa977fec
Is there an x86_64 version ?
Just making sure we've got the last version saved
Oh wait, it's not open source ? And they've been acquired in 2022 ?
date of acquisition 2022-07-19
Ok, last one before the acquisition, just in case
apkmirror.com/apk/teslacoil-so…
Name: com.teslacoilsw.launcher_8.0.2-80002_minAPI26(arm64-v8a,armeabi-v7a)(nodpi)_apkmirror.com.apk
Size: 12580956 bytes (11 MiB)
SHA256: 61a760413387dde99f2a2ef4b065caf278b575c8028cc5b3092f05192cfee258
Mine for the last 3 years
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KISS Launcher | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
Blazingly fast launcher focused on searchf-droid.org
I just use the Fairphone 2 Launcher and it's fine 🤷🏻
I used Nova on my last phone and it worked great, I paid for pro. So I know what I'm missing, not worth it to get back in the Google Play Store system though. I like being anon with no Google account, especially considering Nova sold to a company that data mines user data?
I've been using kvaesitso. I like it!
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Kvaesitso | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
A search-focused, free and open source launcher for Androidf-droid.org
Oh yeah, I don't often use it, but it helps me sometimes for apps I rarely use (but have tagged).
Also the button to disable all work (profile) apps is neatly placed.
Against Narcissistic-Sociopathic Technology Studies, or Why Do People *USE* Technologies?
Against Narcissistic-Sociopathic Technology Studies, or Why Do People *USE* Technologies?
Why and how do people USE technologies? This question should be at the center of any thinking about human life with technology. The ways in which people use technologies, after all, determines the social, economic, etc. effects they have.lee vinsel (Peoples & Things)
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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 […]
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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 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… 😿
#danni #gaming #sedia #usura
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Frutta e Verdura: lavarle bene non è un optional, è salute! (I segreti per una pulizia efficace)
Introduzione: La tua salute inizia... dal rubinetto! Ben sapendo la provenienza della frutta e verdura , acquistata al supermercato o nella...Giuliano (Blogger)
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Firefox Nightly now lets you access Microsoft Copilot from the sidebar
Firefox Nightly now lets you access Microsoft Copilot from the sidebar - gHacks Tech News
Mozilla is testing a new feature in Firefox Nightly, which adds Microsoft Copilot to the sidebar. Cue the pitchforks! ADVERTISEMENT That gecko's up to something. Firefox already has 4 chatbots: Anthropic Claude, […]Ashwin (Ghacks Technology News)
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As a Linux user btw and a person who does not like LLM AIs I am trying to give the new tech a chance while im at work forced to use a windows laptop. First I gave Edge a fair shot and its just not as good as firefox and chrome it has 1 features i liked split view. I did not find much use for the sidebar AI and it fucked up most tasks I gave it. Now that Copilot is in the firefox sidebar I can go back to testing it and see if its gotten better since when i was last using edge.
Suicidal take: Copilot is kinda useful I like having it available at the press of a button. I cant be fucked searching the internet for everything and its really useful to be able to get quick answers in the format i want. I would like to have Krunner with a fast response AI plugin on my system because windows copilot implementation is bad its only GenAI instead of providing hard functions like krunner.
You've summed it up nicely. We shouldn't be having to qualify LLM use. It's useful in some narrow niches, but it's being abused, forced into every corner, and it's wrong as often as it's right in many cases. And most people are not informed enough to understand it, and so over-estimate its capabilities.
Corporations are so desperate to capitalize on it and leverage it for short term profits in ways þat harm users and employees, þat we can't even use it for what it's good at wiþout qualifying þat we're not complete dumb fuck wagon-jumpers.
The update everyone wanted.
They are so blind to their purpose now. One day I hope to get millions for destroying a good product.
MDB II -2025.52 – O mais belo e justo dos destinos #podifusão
II -2025.52 – O mais belo e justo dos destinos
Psicodelia Malafaiana no Metrópoles; Bolsonaro passando mal; Luiz Foda-se e o Careca; O mais perseverante dos pastores; Ainda sobre instituições.Castbox
Non è cane, non è coccodrillo. Sa soltanto quello che non può saziarlo a dovere - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Non è cane, non è coccodrillo. Sa soltanto quello che non può saziarlo a dovere - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
È una questione largamente acclarata nel campo della paleontologia che le balene attualmente presenti all’interno dei nostri mari, in origine, discendessero da creature ungulate di terra risalenti ad un periodo di 50 milioni di anni fa.Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
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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.
NEW WAR on DRUG CARTELS: Just begun in the Caribbean Sea /Lt Col Daniel Davis & Steve Jermy
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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.
At this rate USA will slide into the Idiocracy movie plot quickly.
Education needs to move with the times. “AI”, LLMs, etc are not going away and they’re only going to become more and more integrated into everyday life. Kids need to be taught how to use them, and most importantly that they’re not 100% correct all or even most of the time.
If you don’t teach them these things then you end up with people like we have now - mindlessly believing everything they say, and believing that they are “alive” and have feelings and relationships.
Just like a calculator, a laptop, and a bunsen burner - they’re a tool. If you operate them wrong you’ll get incorrect results that might look and sound right.
The entire education system in most countries needs an overhaul to be more relevant for the world we live in. There should be no student coming out of school that doesn’t understand how interest and loans work, or the basics of taxes a normal person has to navigate, for example. LLMs and their accuracy/inaccuracy should be another. Assessments also need to change - closed book stuff basically shouldn’t exist for maths for example, and take home essays should be a thing of the past. They have no place in the current world.
Education needs to move with the times. “AI”, LLMs, etc are not going away and they’re only going to become more and more integrated into everyday life.
Every time I see this I just see capitulation to society's ruin. "Just bend over and take it!"
A few months ago now, Arizona? Arkansas maybe? Some state legalized "AI powered" home schooling systems. But it was mostly clickbait and the system is less like ChatGPT and more like the YouTube Algorithm machine learning. It takes into account the stuff that students do well at and let's them advance beyond "grade level" limitations while also learning how to present problem areas in ways the student responds to.
I had asked my home schooled AI researcher buddy his thoughts and he obviously liked it. I like the idea too, but my hang up was on socializing kids. That to me is the more important role of schools.
I wouldn't trust an LLM in this set up though. A human tutor would still need to step in for questions outside of a FAQ IMO. I love working with an LLM by giving it all the manuals, guides, and config files I used then asking where I went wrong because it can usually give me a good enough interpretation to see where to go next. But that's just a rubber duck. My mind and skills are developed. A kid learning math for Tue first time can't do that.
Piracy on campus WiFi
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only thing in the universe/multiverse that is 100% certain....
is humans overestimating certainty.
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my only advice, don't do it without a VPN, proton, ivpn or mullvad
with ivpn and proton, be sure to have some other stuff open on the same device to make some extra noise to help prevent fingerprinting the traffic
with mullvad, enable DAITA, matter of fact, use DAITA whenever you're using mullvad, it makes things a bit slower, but it's worth it to not have to worry about any AI finding a pattern in your traffic
Seedbox or vpn with remoting into a home sever would be safest
Guest network would be best as any large downloads can be tracked back to your account.
Randomize Mac address
And for overkill, try to randomize which wifi node you are using to be less predictable.
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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.
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Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion to authors in landmark AI settlement
Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion to authors in landmark AI settlement
A settlement between Anthropic and authors over books used to train its AI would pay out “at least” $1.5 billion to resolve a class-action copyright lawsuit.Hayden Field (The Verge)
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the final amount could be higher, in that approximately 500,000 works will likely be paid out, but if the total is higher than that, Anthropic will pay an additional $3,000 per work, and it all depends on the number of claims submitted
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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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How Trump is helping China extend its massive lead in clean energy
How Trump is helping China extend its massive lead in clean energy
Plus, scientists are fighting back against the administration’s climate misinformation.James Temple (MIT Technology Review)
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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
Solar+storage is so much farther along than you think
On how plummeting battery prices make 24/7 solar power a reality today.David Roberts (Volts)
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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.
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.
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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:
- The closing of development of an increasing number of components in AOSP.
- Samsung, Xiaomi and OnePlus have removed the option of bootloader unlocking on all of their devices. I suspect Google is not far behind.
- 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.
- 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.
Samsung One UI Removed Bootloader Unlock – What It Means for Users in 2025
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I think it depends on your app I'm not really sure.
But it should be pretty safe to just post it here. If not I can give you my pubic key and you can encrypt the link?
'Ultrabroadband' 6G Chip Clocks Speeds 10 Times Faster Than 5G
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Is AI Facing a Trough of Disillusionment?
Is AI's hype cycle leading us into a trough of disillusionment? Dive into the reality behind GPT-5's launch and its impact on the tech world.
A recent MIT report on AI in business found that 95 percent of all generative-AI deployments in business settings generated “zero return.”
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman hinted as much with a January post on his personal blog. Altman wrote he was “now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it,” adding that 2025 would be the year AI agents “materially change the output of companies.”
These guys are such a joke, but they are the ones laughing $.
Yep.
Time to go work a service job for peanuts and then play video games when I get home until I fall asleep.
I sure can't wait until election season so I can vote for whoever my rulers chose for me.
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I do think this will be the last traditional tech bubble. Not because VCs have learned any better, but because we're at the limits of monetizing silicon under capitalism. The money will be dumped someplace else.
There are plenty of other software approaches that could happen, but capitalism doesn't have a path to make money off of them.
Nfts never really had any use in the first place. Ai and LLMs does have a lot of fields where it will be used and expanded on, how much depends a lot on how it keeps developing.
But current state LLMs already can change a lot, but it will take years to be implemented widespread. Think of all the things that are still not digital at all
That's the issue, AI right now means LLMs not deep learning/ML.
The Deep Learning/ML stuff will keep chugging along.
but LLMs do represent a significant technological leap forward. i also share the skepticism that we haven’t “cracked AGI” and that a lot of these products are dumb. i think another comment made a better analogy to the dotcom bubble.
ETA: i’ve been working in ML engineering since 2019, so i can sometimes forget most people didn’t even hear about this hype train until ChatGPT, but i assure you inference hardware and dumb products were picking up steam even then (Tesla FSD being a classic example).
We definitely haven't cracked AGI, that's without a doubt.
But yeah, LLMs are big (I'd say really Transformers were the breakthrough). My point though was that Deep Learning is the underlying technology driving all of this and we certainly haven't run out of ideas in that space even if LLMs may be hitting a dead end.
I think it's a mixture of that and the fact that when OpenAI saw that throwing more data drastically improved the models, they thought they would continue to see jumps like that.
However, we now know that bad benchmarks were misleading how steep the improvements were, and much like with autonomous vehicles, solving 90% of the problem is still a farcry away from 100%.
NFTs weren't that successful.
Sure, some morons got scammed. But AI is literally scamming governments.
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That all depends upon if they keep throwing dollars into the furnace to run the models.
"Useful" stuff will have to do an evaluation once they're paying the true cost for these things as well, because most people are not running their own models...this shit is more centralized then even regular cloud computing.
I wasn’t talking about delusional LLMs and creepy image generators.
AI as a whole encompasses so much more. Like, image resolution up scaling, cleaning a noisy audio signal, generating new frames to make choppy stop motion animation smoother, finding optimal paths for logistics chains, designing a smart way to pack a pallet full of random boxes just to name a few. All of that stuff is already happening and is here to stay.
Cramming silly LLMs into every application might take a hit though. They could still be a solution to something, but we just haven’t quite figured it out yet.
“I think we are running out of low-hanging fruits to improve on,” says Xu. He added that the early agentic gains came from simple changes, “things like formatting errors, or not understanding tools [...] I think we’re going to slow down until we find the next big thing.”
Another AI winter? Another AI winter? (Possible in the medium or long term)
Although we'll also have to wait and see what John Carmack does, because he's also involved in this.
We have an enormous part of the population retiring right now, some are voluntarily working right now and hanging on.
But these people will sell their stock en masse once they retire to buy something more stable like bonds.
The only way the stock market can keep them is to increase the yield so much that they get FOMO and don't convert to bonds just yet.
This raises the stakes and winds up the stock market but now you have a HUGE portion of the population holding back a literal TSUNAMI of liquidation.
If the yield drops, if the apparent value slips, they will sell, the price will drop faster they will sell even more, this is how the next recession will happen, we just can't say when.
When prices crash,the oligarchs will be there to gobble up everything of actual value.
In short AI valuations are holding back the next recession, and if they don't deliver .. it might be a depression and russification of the economy ?
This technology is equivalent to the atomic bomb for population manipulation. This is why the wealthy are so obsessed. They are getting closer to being able to control everyone by modeling our behavior.
The scariest part is no one is talking about the reality of this technology and what it will be used for. They have completely captured the narrative already.
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in reply to Cris • • •No idea, as much as I like Piefed, I'm not the biggest fan of the whole pie imagery related to it.
Curious to see what other people will come up with!
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in reply to Blaze (he/him) • • •iconic_admin
in reply to Cris • • •Cris
in reply to iconic_admin • • •I completely forgot "lemmings" 😅😅
I've probably actually seen that one more, I don't know how I forgot it lol
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in reply to Cris • • •👍Maximum Derek👍
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in reply to 👍Maximum Derek👍 • • •katy ✨
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in reply to katy ✨ • • •Fizz
in reply to Cris • • •Piefeeders PieFeds(like federal agent) piffids piefedditors pies magpies
Its a hard one for names, maybe the name should come from the instance like blarj users.
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in reply to Cris • • •pie holes springs to mind
(to be clear i do not even remember what piefed is)
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in reply to Cris • • •very creative of me I know /s
crimeschneck∈🇩🇪⊂🇪🇺
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in reply to crimeschneck∈🇩🇪⊂🇪🇺 • • •Cutie pies!! 🥹
The only downside is it might not be the most self explanatory
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in reply to Cris • • •Fatties?
After being fed so many pies
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in reply to Cris • • •I choose not to differentiate the two. I think we are all part of the same group
It's home instances that we are tribal about more than software interface.
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in reply to Cris • • •It's Lemmings not Lemmites, so keeping that same energy... Piefeedings? Piefeddings? I think Piefedders sounds better, though none of them are great.
However, Piefed does have fed in it like fediverse, so it's not a bad name, just hard to riff off of.
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in reply to cerebralhawks • • •Re: Lemmings.
How about Magpies?
Black-billed Magpie Overview, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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in reply to Cris • • •I was thinking about that too. And you know what? After taking part in Mastodon, then Lemmy, now PieFed and discovering PeerTube I now more identify as a Fediverse user than a user of one of the parts
Fediversling/Fediverser lacks an unofficial-official name too, btw ;)
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in reply to INeedMana • • •I'm thinking 'Fedder.'
One who Feds.
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in reply to Cris • • •Pythonidae?
It doesn’t sound very nice, I prefer the others’ suggestions: cutie pie, magpie, slice, etc.
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in reply to Rimu • • •Okay but don't forget about the PieFed memes community!! !piefed_promo@piefed.social
Example post:
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in reply to Cris • • •also, I got a good name for the american piefed users!
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in reply to Cris • • •How about "Clowns" becsuse of all the "pie." 😛
(I kid)
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in reply to Cris • • •I have been using "Pie-heads", b/c we are just crazy enough to make that work! 😛
And the network of Lemmy + PieFed + Mbin (+ nodeBB + flarum) as the "Threadiverse", distinct from the wider Fediverse that also includes Mastodon, PixelFed, etc.
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in reply to Cris • • •Lemmy users are lemmings
I think Piefed users can be called Piefeddites
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in reply to AwesomeLowlander • • •Let me propose "Spinner" because we're making thread.
Example : feddit.org users are Spinner.
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in reply to • • •Thanks! It seemed like it might be fun 😊
Hope you have a lovely day!
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in reply to Cris • • •Serious answer, piefedians, fedians or piens for short.
Fun answer: pie-ons (peons), or of you want to separate the lurkers from the contributors, you have pie-eaters and pie-mongers
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in reply to Cris • • •I don't really call them lemmites, haven't seen anybody else do so either, I think Lemmings has such a cool ring to it, very cute animals that travel in groups.
As for Piefed users if it's competing with something that cute then my vote is Piefolk.
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