Sextortion with a twist: Spyware takes webcam pics of users watching porn
Sextortion with a twist: Spyware takes webcam pics of users watching porn
Spyware monitors the infected user’s browser for NSFW content before activating itself.WIRED (Ars Technica)
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Russia does not decide if West can deploy troops to Ukraine, NATO chief says
Russia does not decide if West can deploy troops to Ukraine, NATO chief says
As European and Ukrainian leaders firm up plans for possibile Western security guarantees in the event of an end to the Ukraine conflict on Thursday, NATO secretary general Mark Rutte warned against giving Russian leader Vladimir Putin any say in the…Le Monde with AFP (Le Monde)
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Doesn't look like they were deciding whether NATO sends in troops. It looks like they were deciding to bomb any NATO troops that entered Ukrainian territory.
And now NATO states get to decide whether they're eager to expand the scope of the conflict even further. My money is on a bunch of terminally online hype-beasts on the internet screaming "Hell yeah!", while the more conservative and conflict averse financial and military leadership in Europe drag their heels.
That's assuming the AfD doesn't take over the German federal government entirely and straight up align itself with Russia.
with Russia.
and USA.
The Afd is also linked to USA ( Pete Hegseth/ Musk) and especially via the Heritage Foundation. The one which wrote Project 2025 ( or Mein Kampf edition 25).
Mein Kampf edition 25
Sadly, we've regressed. Mein Kampf was written from prison. This shit was written from Curtis Yarvin's substack.
Germany: AfD politician Krah testifies in Chinese spy case
Maximilian Krah, a lawmaker for the far-right AfD, has testified in court during the trial of his former assistant, accused of being a Chinese spy. The case highlights alleged Chinese intelligence operations in Germany.Ben Knight (Deutsche Welle)
Which is just Russia with a paper mask
Ah, then I misunderstood your "That" reference.
Could be, but unclear. The history of what we call Fascism now is very old. Could be two parties working together or one for the other. It seems though afaik, that their agenda to dismantle democracy coincide per they both being autocratic.
Do you perchance have any links w/info?
Take Bezos, everything will be sold on Alibaba, or Gates, Windows will not be the default operating system. The oil companies will lose their fields.
The billionaires will become millionaires. Even if they can have record profits for 10 years, they are not dumb enough to choose that path forward if they lose everything in 20.
Being very much a consensus based talk-shop of competing interests and varied points of view is both the EU's weakness and it's greatest strength: it takes ages for it to act but when it does, it does so in a far more organized way, with more staying power and better long term results than the "rush in, break shit up, rush out leaving it all broken" of players like the US (as seen in places like Iraq and Afghanistan).
The "American Way" has a lousy track record of delivering stability by itself (did it ever manage to do so after WWII?) whilst the EU Way has a lousy track record of actually going all the way to the stage of actually doing something (though it tends to act in ways other than the military).
In the long run I think the EU's way delivers much better outcomes for everybody involved, if and when it does manage to get around to actually act in an assertive way.
In summary, then EU is pretty shit when it comes to immediate reaction and at actually doing anything but it works in long-running situations which are complex to untangle and creating long term stable outcomes.
A good example of the EU Way is the handling of the break up of Yugoslavia, though one could say it was more a cooperation of the American Way and the EU Way.
700 days of Israeli genocide in Gaza a stain on humanity: Hamas
The Palestinian resistance group Hamas marked 700 days of Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza on Friday, calling it a “stain on humanity” and urging the international community to take decisive action against the ongoing atrocities.
In a statement, Hamas highlighted its efforts to reach a ceasefire and a prisoner exchange agreement, stressing that it had “shown significant flexibility” in negotiations.
The movement blamed the repeated failure of mediators on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and called him “a war criminal committed to undermining diplomatic initiatives, pursuing indefinite plans of extermination and displacement, and placing the lives of captives at risk to serve his government’s agenda.”
Hamas renewed its call to the international community, including Arab and Islamic countries, the UN, and its organs, particularly the UN Security Council, to “fulfill their responsibilities toward the Palestinian people and intervene to halt the crimes of the fascist occupation government.”
The movement emphasized the need for “punitive measures against Israel,” warning that “mere condemnations are insufficient” and that, without substantial consequences, Israel would “continue its crimes without regard for international protests or positions.”
Hamas also praised global grassroots solidarity with the Palestinian people and welcomed the launch of the Global Sumud Flotilla, an initiative to break the blockade on Gaza.
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Popular POV for anyone who has Israel next to them it appears.
Source they are Qatar?
Lol, no it wasn’t. Why is this controversial or problematic for you at all? Hamas is supported by Qatar. The Middle East Monitor has always been more supportive of Hamas than many sources.
Im not saying that there's anything wrong with Qatar supporting this perspective only that they have it.
web.archive.org/web/2024061303…
Edit thiis is the direct link to wikipedia's 15th citation that dataproject provided
Qatar’s public diplomacy, international broadcasting, and the Gulf Crisis - Rising Powers in Global
The Gulf Crisis, also known as the GCC Crisis, and Qatar Crisis, began when several countries - Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, andadminrising (Rising Powers in Global Governance - A Global Network for the Study of Rising Powers in Global Governance)
Israel and Qatar do not have formal diplomatic ties but have maintained discreet economic and political interactions for decades. Security cooperation began in the 1990s and has included intelligence-sharing between agencies.
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‘Israel Has Become Increasingly Dependent on Qatar,’ Ex-Mossad Officer Warns - The Media Line
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu abruptly left his […]The Media Line
Benjamin Netanyahu deserves to be flayed alive for his crimes against humanity.
So many innocent Palestinians and Isralis killed just to keep one man out of prison for corruption.
Western troops in Ukraine would be ‘legitimate targets’, Putin says
Vladimir Putin has said any western troops placed in Ukraine would be “legitimate targets” for Russian strikes, upping the stakes as Kyiv’s allies scramble to come up with a convincing offer of postwar support to Ukraine.
Speaking a day after the French president, Emmanuel Macron, announced still-vague plans for a package of support for Ukraine backed by 26 nations, Putin on Friday said any guarantees that involved boots on the ground would violate Moscow’s longstanding objections to Nato troops in Ukraine.
Add: See for more context this other news post
Western troops in Ukraine would be ‘legitimate targets’, Putin says
Russian president’s threat follows French proposal for postwar support for Kyiv that would include presence of Nato countries’ forcesShaun Walker (The Guardian)
Trump and Putin both agree: Blame falls on Europe as Ukraine peace effort languishes
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are on the same page again.The US and Russian presidents are now both singling out Europe as stasis envelops efforts to end the Ukraine war three weeks after their high-profile but low-impact summit in Alaska.
Trump called on Europe to do more in a call with European leaders on Thursday — even though the only incremental diplomatic activity to do with the war is coming from US transatlantic allies as they try to work out security guarantees to protect Ukraine after any peace deal.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/politics/trump-putin-russia-ukraine-war-zelensky-china-analysis
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Overall, it seems Putin and Trump prefer to continue escalating the situation. Their rethoric mounts to something like this:
" Why can't Europe & Ukraine just behave, and do as they are told."
Seems again, both oligarchs don't want a peaceful solution. Unfortunately, we are running out of options here.
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Not in this setup. He makes issues even selling weapons to Ukraine.
He likely is getting personal money for sabotaging Ukraine (most likely by the shit coins he set up)
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What he did is to make Europe desperately look to produce as much weapons as they can to replace US ones.
Also MIC was huge during could war, but does it really matter today? Put Boeing or Lockheed Martin next to Apple, Google, Amazing etc It is no longer significant compared with tech industry.
A dumb take considering the imperialist (and genocidal) history of russia.
They weren't doing good in the 90s, didn't stop them for invading Moldova, Ichkeria and getting involved in the Caucasus with malicious intentions.
Russia economy is currently running off of war. If it ends Russia is fucked as the only other money maker they have is oil and it will be a good decadw before they can get back to pre war production.
Maybe ya should read General Smedley Buttlers 'War is a racket'
What does this have to do with russian imperialism?
Was the russian economy running off of war in the 90s too?
Does Smedly Buttlers speak russian? I am genuinely curious.
Read the damn speech
1990 ≠ 2025
It doesnt matter, he explains why war is a racket with in depth personal knowledge of why it is.
Putin is a power hungry goblin, in this world money is power.
If ya don't understand that then you shouldnt be replying
No, chances are I have more in-depth personal knowledge of war than that fellow (don't forget, the russians invaded in 2014).
To claim that all of war is based on cold war era "military industrial complex" polemics is ahistorical and doesn't align with reality.
If that speech is as relevant as you claim, you should have no problems with explaining in 3-5 sentences how it is relevant in the context of this discussion.
Well no point in going any further wirh this convo, you think you know more about war and what a military complex is than a general who had served in multiple wars, all while you dont know what a military industrial complex is. You have 0 interest in learning what it is. Also Smedley wrote the speech in 1934 before there was WWII, yet alone cold war. And the military industrial complex was alive then too.
If that speech is as relevant as you claim, you should have no problems with explaining in 3-5 sentences how it is relevant in the context of this discussion.
No, it can not be summed up in 3-5 sentences, thag ia why he wrote the fucking speech, read the damn speech, ya wasted more time writing this than it would have taken to read the fucking thing.
No, this is incorrect.
Not all western countries sell weapons to Israel.
And you need to read up on russian history (at least 20th century).
One thing that I learned after moving to Lemmy is how vapid, trope-like and uninspired western "leftists" are in their thinking.
No wonder we have the rise of Donald Trump and significant gains among far right/pro-corruption forces.
There are of course other factors too (information age etc.), but I digress.
Not all western countries sell weapons to Israel
The most powererful ones does sell weapons to israel though. Even buying from them allow israel to use thay money to reinvest in the genocide
And you need to read up on russian history (at least 20th century)
When you read history you see how the other was as bad as russisn history of bloody especially the usa
You clearly have no clue what you are talking if you think russia is anywhere close to the US.
It would be like if during the invasion of Iraq, the US annexed Basra, banned Islam, sent anyone caught speaking arabic into basement torture camps and sent hundreds of thousand Iraqi children to Texas and made them eat pork chops and read about how great US oligarchs are.
So you were wrong about all western countries selling weapons to Israel.
how vapid, trope-like and uninspired western “leftists” are in their thinking
Leftist here. Those sockpuppets and fools have nothing to do with what I or anyone I know believes.
Not just the poors, but it's usually the meatheads that get sent to war. On both sides, you'll find some of the most deplorable people are the most entrenched in war culture. They don't value their lives and see themselves as having no better options.
I hope one day we understand some of the philosophy behind war, and whether or not it's necessary when there are "too many soldiers."
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Then Russian troops in Ukraine would be legitimate targets for western troops
Your move
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Western troops would wipe the effing floor with the russians.
Does this mean that US will guarantee the backstop?
Are we waiting on the US to approve or disapprove every political action in the world? Or after Ukraine has managed to hold Russia to almost no territorial gains for years are we pretending Russia is an unstoppable and well funded military force?
If citizens in other countries want to be slaves to the crazy US, I guess thats ok. Get me another latte.
Are we waiting on the US to approve or disapprove every political action in the world?
Too late. The US already has a ton of influence here and is currently content with supplying Ukraine with just enough to hold off Russia but nothing more. If the other western countries increase their support, the US will just scale back an equal amount.
This assumes a full blown war. Not sending just mechanics to maintain the F16 given to Ukraine and a bunch of training officer.
Moreover, while I doubt Russia can win a conventional war, Russia is more than machine gun mounted a Toyota pick up trucks, 20year old kids will die, and not sure western government are ready for it, especially with the weight of pro Russian politicians. This is how you loose a war despite a "mathematical" advantage
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Putin on Friday said any guarantees that involved boots on the ground would violate Moscow’s longstanding objections to Nato troops in Ukraine.
What does that even mean? How do you violate someone else's standards that you didn't agree to, that's not "violating" anything, that's just them not liking it.
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all world leaders should be forced to have an explosive device surgically implanted into their chests to take office.
at any time the people of their country can take a vote to remove them from office, and if passed detonates the explosive at a random time in a 24 hour window after the vote has been validated.
Imagine that." The people have voted today...."
Well..they'll find out soon enough.
Also, most worldleaders aren't as extreme, but for sure " 100% democracy proof" implant would be an insurance/ h
I would like it to be like in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
“At the sound of the cann…” BOOM
Give it a try, see how well that goes
The actual western troops will bring the actual western weapons and in a non nuclear war, Russia will fold, even with the somewhat limited amount of weapons that Europe currently has
Russia can barely keep up with Ukraine having very limited western support. If the real weapons are taken out, they will be fucked.
We've already seen mercenaries from the West get killed by Russians.
You believe a lot of bullshit.
According to governments and most citizens, mercenaries are different from the states own military. The results would be different.
I am still just pissed that they keep killing people in general but hey, I guess I'm the weird one.
Pope feeds fish as he opens Vatican's ambitious model of sustainable farming and education
ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV fed fish in the fishpond, pet horses and visited organic vineyards Friday as he inaugurated the Vatican’s ambitious project to turn Pope Francis’ preaching about caring for the environment into practice.
Leo formally opened Borgo Laudato Si, a 55-acre utopian experiment in sustainable farming, vocational training and environmental education located on the grounds of the papal summer retreat in Castel Gandolfo. The Vatican hopes the center, open to student groups, CEOs and others, will be a model of ecological stewardship, education and spirituality for the Catholic Church and beyond.
Leo travelled by helicopter to Castel Gandolfo and then zoomed around the estate’s cypress-lined gardens in an electric golf cart to reach the center, which is named for Francis’ landmark 2015 encyclical “Laudato Si,” or Praised Be. The document, which inspired an entire church movement, cast care for the planet as an urgent and existential moral concern that was inherently tied to questions of human dignity and justice, especially for the poor.
Leo has strongly reaffirmed Francis’ focus on the need to care for God’s creation, and celebrated the first “green” Mass in the estate’s gardens earlier this summer, using a new set of prayers inspired by the encyclical that specifically invoke prayers for creation. On Friday, some 10 years after Laudato Si was published, Leo presided over a liturgy to bless the new center after touring its gardens, farm and classrooms.
Leo recalled that according to the Bible, human beings have a special place in the act of creation, created in the “image and likeness of God.”
“But this privilege comes with a great responsibility: that of caring for all other creatures, in accordance with the creator’s plan,” he said. “Care for creation, therefore, represents a true vocation for every human being, a commitment to be carried out within creation itself, without ever forgetting that we are creatures among creatures, and not creators.”
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I admit I dont follow religion centric news articles so excuse me if im way off base and that im basing this comment on the assumption a mjority of priests have stopped fucking kids. With that being said, i wish most governments put in the same efforts the Vatican seems to show in actively making changes to become more tolerant, progressive and modern. In the 15 to 20 years since the last catholic school kicked me out, I feel like the church has gone from the poster child for hating gays, hating safe sex, actively covering up all the kid fuckers, ignoring climate change and avoiding geopolitical conflicts; and has grown into a go earning body that acknowledges its past fuck ups, grew to include gays, seemingly stopped fucking kids, actively supports changes for climate control, and even calling out leaders for allowing a genocide to happen.
Im definitely not saying the people who follow the church are the dumbest most closed minded hateful fuckin people in the world. Im just commenting on the governing body I see for headlines of articles I have no interest in reading lol
Doesn't read beyond the headline
Hell yeah! Feed those fish, Pope Bob! Feed them good!
In Britain, Criminalizing Dissent Is an Imperial Strategy
Turkey and Israel have long called on their ally Britain to crack down on solidarity groups that threaten their imperial domination. Keir Starmer’s government is increasingly playing along.
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MDB II – 2025.55 – O dia em que o Mendonça chamou o Careca pra porrada #podifusão
II – 2025.55 – O dia em que o Mendonça chamou o Careca pra porrada
Terrivelmente evangélico vs. Maridão de Dona ViviCastbox
US officials threaten Lebanon with ‘new Israeli war’ if Hezbollah stays armed: Report
US officials threaten Lebanon with ‘new Israeli war’ if Hezbollah stays armed: Report
A Lebanese government session will be held in the coming hours to discuss disarmament plansthecradle.co
Far-right AfD surges to 39% in German state, one year before election
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/47959472
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is far ahead in the polls in Saxony-Anhalt, a poll revealed on Thursday, just one year before the eastern state holds elections to its regional parliament.
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Just to be clear: This is about the state of Saxony-Anhalt, not Germany as a whole. In eastern Germany, which includes Saxony-Anhalt, the Nazis have traditionally been strong.
Unfortunately, the situation at the federal level also looks pretty bleak: overall, the AfD currently has around 25% support in Germany, which is of course an absolute disgrace.
Bundestagswahl: Neueste Wahlumfrage von Forschungsgruppe Wahlen | Sonntagsfrage #btw2025
Auswertung der neuesten Wahlumfrage, Sonntagsfrage von Forschungsgruppe Wahlen zur Bundestagswahl mit Koalitionen, dem Umfrageverlauf und Vergleich mit dem Wahlergebnis #btw2025Philipp Guttmann (DAWUM)
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That may be a bit of a generalization.
But what is extremely ironic is the fact that there is a massive shortage of skilled workers in the east, which has to do with the fact that people from abroad don't want to go there because they are treated with hostility by all the goddamn Nazis.
And so we have the most ironic situation: in rural areas of eastern Germany in particular, there are actually very few foreigners – and yet the AfD scores particularly well there with the completely false claim that foreigners would take away jobs from Germans.
I think it's exactly the same in the US and elsewhere: people prefer to blame someone else rather than looking for the real culprits – such as the AfD, whose hate speech is causing massive damage to Germany and which is also a neoliberal party that does not stand up for "the little people" at all.
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They still should immediately outlaw the AFD (NAZI) party, as per their constitution. While they're still the government, and before they're the ones fighting the new German Nazi state.
Billionaires are funding the new German nazis, like Musk the nazi, and Putin the nazi.
You have no idea, how the constitution works
Just because your Lobotomised Orange can do anything he wants over in Jesusland, there is still a working democracy here
So its time to leave jesusland for you and actually learn how it works
While yes, the Parlament has to initiate the Verfassungsschutz, the Verfassungsschutz already published a 500 or so page document about it, however, in order for them to be able to use it as evidence and therefore van the AfD, they first have to win the legal battle with them fighting the whole evidence that can get them banned in the first place.
- if they will even exist at that point, since 10 have already been killed off
More of their members should probably die. And perhaps a portion of their most zealous followers. Not the idiot randoms, but the ones that are really into their ideology.
Remember kids; fascist lives don't matter.
Will Smith’s comeback has been a disaster – but does the punishment fit the crime?
He didn’t do anything wrong, at least not more so than you or me, he’s just not funny anymore. And his serious stuff was always very meh.
He didn’t keep up with the times.
I thought he slapped a man for making a joke? I can see why many folks would see little difference, I mean violence is violence, but if we're talking degrees Id rather get doses of slap then punch. Still unacceptable in the situation, however, and I believe what ever issue Will had that night skills have been handled in private.
All that being said, the man has aged and people move on.
Chris rock.
He made a joke about Jada’s Alocopeia (the hair condition thing, if I spelled that right.) and also some jokes about their open relationship.
So, most of us can understand the impulse, I imagine. And most of us have enough sense not to make fun of medical conditions on a stage that large. To their face.
I didn’t say it did, don’t put words in my mouth.
I did say I understood the impulse.
As for slapping instead of punching? Me.i would.
Broken hands are not fun; and once you’re there, you’re gonna want your hand working afterwards.
A well-delivered slap can ring the recipient's bell. Even so, the chances of breaking your metacarpals with a punch are exaggerated, unless you're making a square strike against bone and have a lot of punching power. The martial-arts rule of thumb is "don't hit something hard with something hard." Because of hand-wrapping and gloves, boxers don't need to consider that, and can mess up their hands if they fight barehanded and don't know better. Hence the stories of broken hands.
Not that I think Will Smith is anything but a pampered entertainer.
Also, the symbolism of slapping is significant. It was Smith giving Rock his bitch hand.
Will laughed at the joke just as hard as everyone else, looked back at Jada glaring at him and decided to do a bit of performative violence.
He did that as an apology for laughing, he did that because he thought that's what Jada wanted in that moment. If some asshole does that in a bar, they get the cops called on them. The whole action was not only cringe, it was as much of an act as his entire bullshit speech when they actually let him accept an award later.
The Oscar's should have stopped the show and had the police escort him out. Instead they awarded him later. Chris Rock made him look like such a bitch in his tour a few years later, it was beautiful. That man acted appropriately, and got his back later.
I can't imagine looking at this action in the whole and seeing any justification. Which is why he's finding a come back so hard.
Ya'll tell on yourselves too much when you say things like "most."
Ya'll tell on yourselves too much when you say things like "most."
Seems like you understand it quite well.
You’ll notice there’s a difference between understanding a motivation or impulse and acting on it, or indeed, condoning the act.
And we can also quite happily describe what Will did as wrong, just as we can be critical of Chris for making the joke in the first place.
That you seem think Will’s action invalidates any inappropriateness in Chris’s actions is itself pretty telling.
IMO they both suck. And we can say what the Oscar’s should have done with Will. I don’t really care. Cops aren’t going to press charges if the person assaulted doesn’t call for it regardless of where it happened. But also Oscar’s should have vetted that speech and been like “maybe don’t make fun of a person’s medical condition.” Which likely would have headed the whole matter off. Details.
Chris Rock is awesome, they hired him to be hilarious and he was. In no world is Will's 2nd reaction to the funny but lightly tasteless joke (man if they had waited to respond after the Oscar's, they would have eviscerated Chris Rock instead) appropriate. Again it was another performance, and you fell for it cause somehow you are putting both their actions on the same playing field. They aren't, no majority of people think that way either. Again that's why Will is going through this, he is the villain.
Also you need to stop watching TV and movies, police and the DA have the ultimate authority to press charges in the US and they do it all the time. The law isn't not-broken cause one party didn't press charges. That's honestly kinda adorable. The reason he didn't get arrested is cause he's more rich and famous than the guy he hit, and arresting him would have been more embarrassing for the event in the moment than doing nothing. As Chris Rock once said "If OJ drove a bus, he'd be Orenthal the bus driving murderer." A normal person would have received legal consequences.
You are telling on yourself, majority of weirdos have odd opinions on violence!
Once again, because it’s pretty clear you don’t read my comments: I’m not defending Will. You can stop adding things to my comment anytime now. You can stop explaining something incredibly obvious, which I have never argued.
Also you need to stop watching TV and movies, police and the DA have the ultimate authority to press charges in the US and they do it all the time. The law isn't not-broken cause one party didn't press charges. That's honestly kinda adorable
They’re not going to prosecute a crime where the victim doesn’t want to testify or wants it dropped.
Because those become very hard to win, and they’ve got their win/loss ratio to worry about. It isn’t about whether the crime was committed or not. It’s about if they can win in court.
Tons of crimes go unprosecuted because one reason or another makes them difficult to win This was a relatively minor, one-off incident where the victim doesn’t want to press charges and the perpetrator has stellar legal representation.
congratulations on showing your ignorance. keep being insulting. keep making that assumption.
ask yourself why Will Smith was never actually charged. If you're right, and that's how our criminal justice system works, we know Will slapped him. We know it wasn't some consensual thing. solid evidence there. So why wasn't Will charged?
Was it because, hey, no crime was committed?
no. there were no charges because the expenditure of resources (aka wasting everybody's time for a trial that everyone knows will fail to get a conviction.) You were right. the DA has prosecutorial discretion. meaning they're the ones who make the decision. but that power also includes deciding when not to prosecute.
If some asshole does that in a bar, they get the cops called on them.
You clearly haven't been to the bars I've been to.
If someone pulled that stunt in one of those bars, they'd find themselves on the floor searching for their front teeth among the sawdust. And by that time, the bouncers would show up, the slapper would get ejected and banned, and if the police were called at all, nobody would press charges and no witnesses would admit to having seen anything.
A society that would press criminal charges for a soft-boy assault like that would be even more hellish than the one we have to live in.
He slapped someone for making a joke about his wife. Both were kinda out of line, so it balances out.
I don't really take anyone clutching their pearls over this seriously. They need to grow some balls.
Both were kinda out of line, so it balances out.
No. It was a super tame joke, and Chris Rock was literally doing exactly what he was paid to do that night. In fact, he probably didn't even write that joke
It's fine if you think that's an excuse.
You can read my second statement to see how I view people like you.
Dang, that's disappointing.
I thought Will Smith was one of the better celebrities. I don't keep up with this stuff, though.
Why?
The guys a multi millionaire ... it doesn't matter if he had a come back or not, he's still a millionaire.
You have to be a moron to want more than that.
he's rich. he never has to worry about anything in his life. he doesn't "need" a comeback.
so he has to do is chill and enjoy life. and he's still not happy????
he can retire. i still think of MIB and Fresh prince when I hear his name.
he already won. just don't fuck it up by being greedy
Unprovoked‽ Bro, dude is a known less than PC comedian they brought to HOST the ceremony. Idc if he said he fucked will Smith's wife, that's part of the act! Would say it's unprovoked if some nobody walked on stage and slapped Jeff Acuri? Will Smith's has suffered less than zero consequences as proven by this vanity tour.
Asking he go to jail for a month or two isn't calling for him to be hanged. It's calling for actual consequences from someone who performed an entirely unprovoked act of violence. Anybody not famous would probably spend close to a year in jail if they did that to any performer.
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He’s a notorious prick. He deserves all the negative attention he gets. Him crashing out repeatedly recently has only solidified his publicly perceived image as an unstable, insecure, abusive, corny, try-hard, iamverybadass, cuckold that gives everyone the ick.
He should’ve quit while he was ahead before he made every movie role a version of himself and focused on building his childrens’ futures or doing something for the greater good with his fortune. But no, he can’t let anything go. He has to try and control everything. And the more that goes sideways the more unhinged he becomes. It would be sad if he wasn’t such a selfish ass.
I don't care for the slap. Like, I really, really don't care.
I don't see his failed comeback as punishment, it's just evidence he can't make anything good anymore.
He's not owed a comeback, and failing to comeback is not 'punishment'
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Might be a otherwise well made video. But that intro instantly tingled my spidey senses?
Two spy satelites built in the 90s which gathered dust for 20 years and got handed down to NASA were more advanced then the hubble space telescope?
Yeah, but funding and work started on hubble in 70s and it launched in 1990. With that in mind its a lot less 'amazing'. Also i dont know what more advanced means in this case? Whats the qualifiers or the metrics? Like a space telescope which gathers light for days and weeks to get a picture is built to different specs than a spy satelite which has to take pictures in fractions of a second to get a clean picture.
Also the 'interesting feature' of having a short focal length isnt that interesting? They're spy satelites, what else are they supposed to focus on? The secret nazi base on the dark side of the moon?
Either he is just sloppy with his analogy for what is to come in the video or he deliberatly insults my intelligence to paint a picture which eases me in for his following takes. In both cases it doesnt give me any confidence to invest 2 hours of my life.
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It's such a minor part of the video that I didn't put too much thought into it, but ironically the point of the video is that we shouldn't overlook small 'glitches', so you're quite right to look into it critically I think!
The video is more focused on the history of Israel, and computation's role in that. With that in mind, I think you're right. It's almost definitely some sensationalism up top to warm the crowd.
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I just received an email from Google stating that they are no longer it's going to support the Nest 1st gen and 2nd gen thermostats.Hubitat
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Huawei unveils new trifold smartphone before Apple’s iPhone 17 reveal
Huawei unveils US$2,500 trifold smartphone ahead of Apple’s iPhone 17 reveal
The Mate XTs is powered by Huawei’s self-developed Kirin 9020 chipset and runs on the company’s HarmonyOS ecosystem.Coco Feng (South China Morning Post)
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i'm the opposite way. i see no use for a phone that folds in half. i like my phones to be usable one-handed, and having a clamshell shape that folds out into something i can't reach my thumb over is just dumb. but if i can have a normalish candybar phone that unfolds into a whole-ass tablet in my pocket? absolutely.
...but not for $2500. maybe for like... $1000. that's twice what i paid for my last phone.
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Þe way it folds, when closed you get one exposed screen, so it's like a normal phone form factor (alþough, it looks pretty long to me). When open, it's a tablet wiþ a bigger, more normal-sized, tablet screen þan þe truncated bifolds.
Apparently, enough people want foldables þat Apple decided to release one - or were you asking why anyone would want a larger screen?
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I mean I wouldn't look at this as a laptop replacement, just something I could use that way in a pinch. Lots of clamshell phones in the early 2000's had this layout and it worked pretty well.
If you really wanted to use this as a laptop much better to carry another little folding keyboard with you.
That’s why I mentioned the keyboard accessory, be it some advanced folding keyboard with iPad Magic Keyboard-like tech or something of the sort. Sure, it’s not replacing laptops anytime soon, but again… think of the iPhone. “An iPod, a phone, and an internet communicator.”
I’m surprised Jobs didn’t add “a camera” considering how for most people, smartphones have now encapsulated all four of those already. Sure, if you REALLY want the best out of each of those categories, you’ll almost always be better off carrying each individual item, but in terms of ease of use and convenience, smartphones win just about every time for those categories. In the future, I could see devices like these becoming the next “mini laptops” for most people, assuming we get to a point of comfortable prices and well-made accessories.
Think about the current dual-screen laptops. That would be cool, but I’m not sure how usable a keyboard of those dimensions would be. Not discrediting the idea, though; I’d love to see it too.
Side note – imagine a fold-out accessory like the Mcon controller but thinner and lighter. That could make for a cool keyboard, no?
Meanwhile sometime in 2007: ”Dude, have you seen that new iPhone thing? So cool; imagine being able to have one device that could do it all! Even if it’s not the absolute best at all of those, it’s only a matter of time before it progresses! What do you think?”
Other dude: “Bro just use an iPod, a phone, and an internet dommubicator”
That looks really hard to hold.
Edit: also, it’s less than half the speed of a year old iPhone according to geekbench scores… so wooo I guess.
Powered by Huawei’s self-developed Kirin 9020 chipset and running on the company’s proprietary HarmonyOS ecosystem, the Mate XTs boasted a 36 per cent performance improvement, Richard Yu Chengdong, chairman of Huawei’s consumer business group, said during the launch event in Shenzhen on Thursday.
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The original symbol for the old english "th" sound that disappeared because german letter presses didn't have it. Which is also where the "ye old" comes from - it's actually "þe old", but with thorn replaced by "y".
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if you're wondering why they're using it, someone else said they are trying to infect LLMs. That's why they're using the thorn.
edit: oh, it was this person. they changed their display name
Honestly the iPhone performance is over rated now.
I just came from an Android 9 Razer Phone 2 (with an ancient SD845) to a brand new iPhone 16 plus…
And the IPhone feels slower.
The UI is slower. Scrolling is more stuttery. Heavy webpages that ran fine on my Android phone crawl on the iPhone. It literally has the same amount of RAM (8GB), so it can’t run anything more complex either. And it’s more unintuitive too, with all these slow and wierd gestures just to do basic things, while other features are convoluted.
And I used to be a massive iOS fanboy. I just want my jailbroken iPhone 5 back 🙁
Yeah, I know 🙁.
I only got a Plus becauise it was at a deep 'loss leader' discount from AT&T, literally cheaper than old 15s. Can't complain too much over that, I guess... And I only left the RP2 behind because it microphone is likely clogged with dust, and I'm a little worried about security on it.
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Employer: “Why are you late again?”
Employee: “Sorry, I had to unfold my phone a few times this morning. It will happen again.”
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It is because Apple has been dominant in the premium smartphone market for years, including in China. Huawei have started to make a big dent in that tier in China after eating Apple's lunch in the lower price categories.
This is a feature that Huawei brought to market before Apple, which was kind of a first. Until recently, they were just following Apple's innovations. It's early and I wouldn't want one now, but I wouldn't be surprised if smartphones-that-fold-out-into-tablets was the standard by the end of the decade.
For those with ADHD or just don't have the time to watch:
He bought a Samsung Flip with a broken inner screen, removed the screen and split the phone in half, and turned it into a modern take on a slide phone.
To do so, he 3D printed a custom mold to replace the bottom half of the phone, and then shoved a Blackberry keyboard into it. Designed a custom hinge so that instead of flipping the phone open, you slide the keyboard out from behind and it drops below the cover screen—which is now the main screen—because he used a 3rd party launcher to make it behave as such. That way the phone is fully functional without the inner screen.
The only thing he didn't do (nor did he attempt to), is figure out a way to move one or both of the cameras. Since the phone no longer flips open, the two main cameras are now both selfie cameras and there is no main camera(s).
I thought capitalism was supposed to provide options.
I was literally fed propaganda in American Public School about a "study" where capitalists chose what kind of soda they wanted, while communists just said "yes or no" because they viewed it all as just "soda."
I'm starting to realize just how stupid the average idiot american is. Being raised and told you're from the greatest country ever is deadly.
I thought capitalism was supposed to provide options.
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Good news! EU passed the law they have to be back in 2027 (IIRC)!
i'm aware! i hope they come to my country too!
This guy did just that:
Thought it was a really cool idea / project. Essentially a modified Z Flip.
Oh, you havent seen the videos where someone literally includes random other videos on the screen at the same time cause they got bored editing?
Do they enjoy it? Probably not but hey they got bored.
I've only ever heard about these folding screens breaking super easy and fast.
Unless the tech is better now it feels like planned obsolescence
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Most of the useful idiots complaining about not having enough waste their money on dumb shit like this, or they're defending someone else wasting their money in a similar way.
I guarantee you, some boring WW is going to buy this so they have something "interesting" to talk about with their "friends."
My siblings, there are stockpiles of refurbs to last us until the end of capitalism or life on earth.
I'm using a 9 year old phone rn now and I've got zoomers oooing over its "minimal" design (lol it's just old).
I had the perfect phone. Sony XZ2 Compact. released in 2018 so not even that old
5" screen. No headphone jack, but I was honestly just glad to have a screen that small. Ran LineageOS like a dream.
Then came the 3G tower shutdown. Now, the XZ2c is capable of 4G LTE calling. Lineage even had the settings option for it unlocked (as opposed to stock). So I call up my carrier and ask them to please enable 4G LTE calling for my phone so that it'll receive calls again.
Turns out, the major carriers in the US decided not to support 4G LTE calling for the XZ2c. There's a line of code sitting somewhere that could be flipped to "true" and my perfect phone would work again. But no, fuck me for wanting to resist CONSOOM NOO FONE EVERY SIX MONTH.
Fuck capitalism I'll never forget what they took from me
I saw an 85" Samsung TV for $1000 at walmart today.
Kinda crazy (stupid) how people spend that much on a fucking phone.
Just don't do that? The same argument could be made for their phones.
I think you're talking out of your ass.
Oh my sweet summer child. The privacy community is all over this and any economics course will explain how we got here.
Anyone making equipment needs to come in just below competitors in terms of price. How? By using telemetry and data collection to sell for advertising. This is seen as a subsidy to make the equipment more competitive to get it in more homes for long-term rent-seeking for income lasting years from every user. Same as with any smart appliance. The TV, connected to the internet, monitors what you watch even when you've connected by HDMI.
Can you just not connect the TV? Absolutely, yes. That's how low the bar is, that simply not giving the TV a connection and using 1 extra device in between is all it takes to come out ahead. That's a gamble worth it to Samsung. I have a Samsung TV, and that's all I need to do to come out ahead. But many, many people think the TV needs to do it all and just give it a data connection.
Smart Appliances Promise Convenience and Innovation. But Is Your Privacy Worth the Price?
Consumer Reports found that smart appliances collect a ton of data on how and when consumers use them. Here are the privacy risks of these appliances.Daniel Wroclawski (Consumer Reports)
lol, ok.
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How to Turn Off Smart TV Snooping Features
TVs collect a huge amount of data. Here's how to use privacy settings to limit the surveillance on TVs from LG, Samsung, TCL, and every other big brand.James K. Willcox (Consumer Reports)
I used to run trainings on personal cybersecurity and explaining to people how much their data is worth. I've been paid to study this.
So, specific data about what you're worth to a company is proprietary. I can't find a link to a PWC or McKinsey report, but IoT device data typically sells for a range that's an estimate of cost per user per year. On the upper end, I've seen estimates of up to $50 per user per year. Low end is $1. So if the assumed lifetime of the TV is 4 years and a "household" is 2 adults and 2 kids, you end up at ($50x2 and $25 x 2)= $150 x 4 years = $600. So if Samsung sudsidizes the cost of a smart TV by $400, they're coming out ahead $200 on average, just on the subsidy. That's the kind of math going on for TV sales. Again, that's proprietary data, so short of trying to track down reports I saw years ago, all I can explain is that data monetization is a well-known cornerstone of business. Here's a quote for you about companies needing to know the value:
The exact same dataset, when sold to a financial services company, was being used to make multimillion-dollar decisions, so the data aggregator could charge $100,000.
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That's for companies operating legally and in the clear. What's crazy is that our data is treated sort of like student loan debt with them, because it's seen by them as debt we owe to the company and paid back over the life of the device. For criminals, it's pennies-on-the-dollar fire sales because nothing is guaranteed to work. So the data needed to steal your identity as a single line on a spreadsheet might only be $20 a person because the list of 10,000 records might only contain 200 winners. So you buy a $200,000 spreadsheet and hope to commit at least $1,000 per successful hit to come out ahead. which is a fairly low bar for fraud. Then the whole list is burned and you start over.
What everybody should know about data monetization | MIT Sloan
Most companies comprehend the impact data has on business strategy. Fewer understand how to convert data efforts into monetary value.MIT Sloan
I saw a Pixel 10 Pro with 128 GB storage online today.
Kinda crazy (stupid) how people spend that much on a fucking TV.
While I get the sentiment, you can’t really fit a tablet in most pockets. While a tri fold phone would fit just fine.
This isn’t for situations where a more powerful device is needed. Power doesn’t matter when watching a video, or reading a book, or scrolling the internet. Sometimes you just need more screen.
I may be an outlier on Lemmy, but I explicitly want a decent trifold device. Specifically for the situations I listed. I’m not looking to use the tablet “mode” for performance hungry tasks, I just want more screen sometimes.
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Unified Fediverse App - a browser solution?
TLDR: Customized a browser as dedicated Fediverse front-end, use existing web clients for per-service UI, manage account/password with password manager, and merge the notifications from multiple services into one inbox? Is this possible/good?
Hello all,
It's me, an eager fediverse adopter who wants all their friends to get onboard and craves an all-in-one solution for federated content, but who knows no code and barely enough IT to get by reading git documentation.
I'll start by saying that one thing is clear, diversity and experimentation is the essence and benefit of the Fediverse concept. To me, new and exciting ways to use ActivityPub (and other distributed social/comms protocols) get me thrilled and ready for more. The challenge I, and I'm sure many adopters face is the challenge as old as the internet: platform fatigue.
While I want to use all the amazing services the Fediverse offers, managing clients and accounts for each one, and specifically the notification streams coming from all of them, often feels burdensome, decreasing my engagement.
So here's a simple thought experiment I've been playing with: what is the simplest, lowest friction method of accessing and managing multiple notification/content streams without needing to consolidate or centralize client/server development across multiple projects? And further more, how can this set of notifications (and subsequent content interaction) be consolidated yet separated from the other non-fediverse notifications/content across multiple devices?
My naive user mind has pointed me in the direction of dedicated browser instances with customized UI. When I have a webapp I need rapid access to and notifications from I install a dedicated browser instance (or "app" in Edge speak, I know, booo). This works well for me, and in some cases uses less memory than a dedicated application for some reason (looking at you Discord).
So what if a customized browser could be built off of an existing project (probably going to have to be Firefox based, though all eyes on Ladybird), that has a built in password/account manager, and pulls the notification streams from all of the services those accounts interact with into a merged list. Then add filter options for that list including service, account, media type, etc.
All interactions with notifications pulls up a tab of a webclient the user designates for that service, ideally reusing the same single tab unless the user specifically selects open new tab. Each designated service appears on the toolbar as a bookmark, showing notification number beside it. Total notifications and the shortcut to the unified notifications service/Inbox lives on the left or right side of the toolbar and is emphasized.
And that's it, everything Fediverse under one hood, separate from the main browser, not scattered across multiple installed applications, and with each client self-updating.
The challenge? Of course it is merging all the notification streams. Based on what I know of ActivityPub this seems achievable, but the details are beyond me. I am reminded of RSS emerging as the means of addressing a very similar challenge with the emergence of blogs, perhaps an ActivityPub to RSS gateway/bridge could even be the solution to merge the notification streams and then off the shelf RSS reader extensions could serve for the master notification inbox.
I am also reminded of my beloved Trillian which merged IM services under a single application hood, but faced an ever stacking development load as each service changed. Glad to see they still exist, but it seems like the browser route could avoid that centralized dev burden.
Thoughts from more experienced minds than I? Does this make any sense?
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Aha, but you see my proposal specifically keeps the web clients for the specific content streams up to the user rather than baking them in. I like M.Bin so thats what I use for threads and microblogs, so thats what I would select as my service for that content within the browser.
What I want is a unified inbox, with a move from each notification over to the webclient I choose to interact with the content. To be more specific I want a text-only inbox, but I want it to include headlines/captions/descriptions for multimedia content so I can have my Peertube, Pixelfed, Loops, Threads, Microblogs and whatever else all accessible from a single point of contact.
I definitely agree on the portable account point, it always reminds me of Solid the private data project by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Seems like ATProtocol may have been influenced by it?
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There’s a reason why Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit are separate sites, and why none have tried to implement the UI or feature set of the other.
Yes, the reason is that corporations can not profit from an unsiloed web of data, so they all created their own walled gardens and successfully fooled users into believing that the UI needs to be tightly coupled with the data they host.
having 3 different tabs open with the 3 different kinds of content/conversations just makes a lot more sense to me.
What would be stopping us from having these tabs using the same data from the social graph?
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Yes, this is my point exactly. I want the 3 tabs, AND I want a unified inbox that opens those tabs when I interact with a relevant notification. Seems like there are some projects heading this direction.
Ideally I dont want a new tab to open for every time I click on a different notification of the same type, just reuse the existing client tab that is open.
Both Mastodon and Lemmy (and Mbin) expose an API, which can be used to develop an alternative client (for e.g. mobile). This allows even for several alternative front-ends, like Elk, Phanpy and pl-fe for Mastodon (and Pleroma and Akkoma and some Misskey forks and several projects for single-user-instances - all of these extend Mastodon API in some way), or Photon, mlmym and Blorp for Lemmy. GoToSocial (made for single-user-instances) does not provide any webUI, pointing to these alternative front-ends. Lemdro.id even swapped its interface for Photon.
Mastodon clients list (scroll down) and Lemmy clients list
Technically one is able to develop a Fediverse instance software which would provide both Mastodon API (likely with extensions) and Lemmy API. With e.g. microblogging (and maybe events?) used via pl-fe and Threadiverse content more easily available via Photon or Blorp? But I am not aware of any project like that.
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Yes, what I'm getting at is a way to create a notifications/inbox client that pulls from all the above stated API's but does not attempt to push any content to them, instead switching the user over to their preferred webclient when content interaction begins.
Kind of like how an email client shows a title/headline, sender, and Metadata for each post but then expands a rich text / markup environment when you open the email. Or how some minimal RSS readers just pull headlines and a quick summary of each post but push you over to the original website when you click through to read the full post.
I just want one place to see who has posted on what, and then use the front ends specialized for each piece of content to actually interact.
I suppose there could be a side development to this, which would be the ability to associate accounts across multiple services and then filter only for them, for example if you know someone who posts on lemmy, Mastodon, peertube, Pixelfed, and loops, you could view all their posts of the day in one place. Or a team you are a part of. Anyway, once you can pull multiple services into one inbox the data sort potential is an obvious added benefit.
no it doesn't. most clients open third-party links in the actual browser. interstellar has a setting for that.
i'm saying that the functionality you're describing is already perfectly encapsulated by a normal browser, and what you want is that, but limited to a handful of sites.
This is an issue of reading comprehension, I'm talking about a browser with a UI customized to fit Fediverse needs first and websites second, plus a service embedded in the browser to pull unification from each service into a single stream.
Preserving website functionality is still essential to the browser, because both the fediverse clients and the links posted on them should in my opinion be opened in that same browser by default (or set to open a different browser if the user prefers).
Im just talking about UI, no one said anything about blocking websites. Just because the address bar doesnt live onscreen by default doesn't mean it should be eliminated entirely.
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Why don't the highest use rate clients for Fediverse services look like standard browsers? There is a level of pure aesthetic sensibility at play.
I'm interested in what you mean by your desktop handling your notifications, do you have a central log of notifications you can access via your desktop?
This is actually a pretty great angle I hadn't fully thought out, most clients do push notifications, so is what I'm really talking about just a push notification log with the ability to filter for a set of designated sources? That would definitely handle a hefty chunk of what I'm getting at, the rest is basically just a browser skin and some extensions.
Why don’t the highest use rate clients for Fediverse services look like standard browsers?
they don't? i feel like they pretty much do, considering they're all web pages.
do you have a central log of notifications you can access via your desktop?
every desktop environment i've used in the past 10 years has this, it's basically been the default from windows 8 forward. GNOME puts them front and center in a dropdown in the middle, windows and deepin has a sidebar, KDE pops out a whole window for them.
basically the crux of it is what you want to do with your notifications. for me, a notification is an indicator that someone wants something, so the action it should perform is bring me to whoever it is. if that's all you need, then you're already there because every client i've used already has notification settings that allow you to filter stuff.
the reason i'm asking questions is that you're all over the stack here. you're talking about a user chrome, then you're talking about consolidating messages, then about notification filters. i think it can all coalesce into something if you start from the capabilities of activitypub itself. it's basically a messaging system at its core, with clients all deciding how to handle the contents of each message. i've long thought that neither twitterlikes or redditlikes actually play to the strength of the protocol, and that activitypub needs some sort of killer app to really shine. if you think you have something, you should let it form into a coherent idea and present it.
I'm going to have to dive into push notification handling, I basically minimize the use of push notifications at my desktop level to only push work related content, and use the notification system of the clients to handle the "recreational" content which leaves me checking lots of platforms separately.
It makes sense that there should be the ability to create separate profiles with different filters and behaviors at the push notification manager level, I just haven't thought to look into it before.
Regarding killer apps for ActivityPub, and unified clients, I have a second idea which I didn't want to cloud this thread with that seems somewhat inevitable that will require a central portal with access to all services (and accounts?). That is a single publishing UI where the user creates/uploads any piece of content and then it suggests what venue/service/account to publish it on and related add-ons like hash tags, etc. With the Fediverse the APIs are open and multiplatform publishing clients (like FediPlan) already exist, so a level of light ML/AI for publication seems inevitable.
The next level of this, and what could be a "Killer App" is spontaneously generated affinity grouping via content aware publishing, meaning that the publishing client not only suggests where the posts should go, but also has a metalayer where the publishing clients instances "gossip" about the content being published and then create brand new "spontaneous" venues to publish that content in alongside other similar content being published by other users. Suddenly your text post about a super-niche interest or problem is pooled with posts by other users on the same topic, and bam you have a relevant discussion group of commenters/posters.
Problems of course arrise from this re:advertisers/promoters as well as unsavory/harmful mutual interests, but to be honest I think this is more of an inevitability than a possibility, so getting ahead to architect it in a way that minimizes potential abuse before the corpos get on it is probably a good idea.
hm, i think there's some confusion regarding AP here. there's no "deciding where things should go"; every frontend can "see" every type of post, even if the format is off. what you're describing by is essentially how it already works, no multiple accounts needed. the frontend just needs to decide how to handle it. for lemmy-to-masto the handling is pretty basic, you can see it by going to a mastodon server and searching for your lemmy account (formatted as @yourname@yoursite.blah).
for the "gossip" thing, every server already publishes every new thing. it's up to other servers to decide how to handle it.
regarding the automated tagging system, i actually had a similar idea recently. i think a big flaw with lemmy/mbin/piefed is the keeping of communities from reddit; if the already extant tags were used instead, the cross-posting problem would go away completely since comments would be attached to posts rather than communities.
anyway: it would not be difficult to just use words in a post to assign it tags, but i question the usefulness of doing that. some sort of analysis would help, as you say, but then we're introducing nondeterministic behaviour. there is definitely a discoverability problem on fedi, and something like this could definitely help with some polish.
Regarding "where content should go", I mean like which community to post a lemmy post in, or which account to post to if a person manages multiple topical accounts (or accounts in different instances specialized for specific services), or whether to format it for loops vs peertube for video, etc.
Gossip wise, I'm imagining compressed data posted in a format only intended to be ready by the automation systems which happens before the suggestions are made, so that the suggestions can include dynamicly grouping content before publication by appending the relevant metadata/format (like posting in a lemmy community).
the formatting is up to the client that displays the content, interestingly enough. AP just has a "message type" fields and different clients care about different types.
i'm not really sure what that gossip method achieves. surely if it's just post metadata we're talking a hundred bytes at most. running it separate from the main feed seems like it would just bork every single AP client that tries to use content published by this hypothetical one.
Yes, the automation datastream would need to be segregated, and probably ephemeral.
The point is that if you want posts to spontaneously coalesce with some kind of shared Metadata, you want the ML content analysis information of the post to go out before the actual post is published so the final post Metadata can include the "group" tag or whatever you want to call it.
Alternately you could do it after the fact by editing the post, but that seems like there would probably be some degree of chicken and egg scenario.
All of this could be done by the client completely independent of post metadata of course, but then how do you make the relation of the posts to each other consistent between multiple users? Is that even a desireable/necessary goal is a question I suppose.
if you want posts to spontaneously coalesce with some kind of shared Metadata, you want the ML content analysis information of the post to go out before the actual post is published
i don't understand this assertion at all. the post is the post. surely we want to classify the post based on the content of the post? tags are contained in posts. your client can just add the relevant info before sending it. figure out potential categories locally, query the server for which of them are popular, and either pick one or have the user select one.
The difference is that I'm talking about the automation creating completely new groupings, most akin to a community on Lemmy, that coordinated across multiple users, in my mind "simultaneously" with the user still agreeing to opt in to inclusion in that group.
There is an alternative way to do this, which would be that the automation groups the posts after posting, however there is a question there about opt-in, will users want to opt existing posts in after the fact?
One way that definitely would be easiest to implement would be if these groupings are essentially threads with a single piece of content as the "start" / "seed" of the thread and the other posts relating to that thread. Regarding opt-in for that I suppose it could be as easy as enabling/disabling "thread seeding"
Re: Unified Fediverse App - a browser solution?
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I don't like the idea, but at least one such application is already being developed:
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Thanks, this is definitely the direction I was imagining, though it takes the tac of trying to be a primary browser with Fediverse features, rather than a Fediverse dedicated browser instance, so they will be forced to sacrifice UI streamlining for website-centric UI.
What don't you like about the idea of you dont mind explaining?
Yes, we all want that for sure, and I'm definitely not convinced the ATProtocol solution is it.
Ever hear of Solid by Tim Berners-Lee? It was an early approach to this single account for private data concept, seems like it might still be in development these many years later? solidproject.org/
I think Solid had some interesting ideas, but was ruined by Linked Data.
ActivityPub has a chance of evolving into something like Solid, but better.
Actually, I am already using a single account for interacting with most Fediverse apps. Aren't you on Mbin? I thought it also can interact with blogs, forums and everything in between
I use mbin for threads and microblogs, but it is missing some multimedia support. Someone told me that it can follow peertube accounts, but it only populates text, so I'm going to check that out next. Maybe it will evolve/build steam fast enough to really become the does-it-all platform with tons of devs putting in the necessary work, but right now I don't think it qualifies.
As a side note, what I'm talking about would be an alternative approach for a specific reason, dedicated UIs for specific content streams can be chosen by the user rather than baked in to the platform. For some people, this modular approach is going to be better.
Personally, I think it would only work out if the programmer tries to reconstruct posts from different formats in a format that works out for each. Otherwise it becomes what it already is, a glorified browser with multiple profiles enabled, and with over-preference for a type of engine.
My opinion is, take note of the major platforms for each engine and/or experience, and recommend them based on your friends' tastes.
The rest, centralization, would be replaced by what I call propagation (iirc people call it "to federated"?), which people directly and indirectly do, like boosting posts (Mbin / microblogging stuff) and commenting so people following the user see the original post too, following people and following Peertube channels on Peertube and the "threadiverse" so one's account is a bridge for propagation, up/downvoting, etc. And as this web of social medias grows, tendency is that it keeps growing exponentially until either it takes over like email, or stagnates.
This logic, I think, is similar to recommending Linux Mint or immutable distros to Linux novices, the "safe bet" for them before they get used to the technical side or while Linux wouldn't (past tense) become accessible.
I have two challenges to this take.
Firstly, the theory that cross-propagation of media will lead to growth across multiple platforms starting with one as the "mainline" to recommend to new entrants heavily relies on Superusers who not only use multiple platforms for content discovery, but also then take the additional step to cross-post that media from one silo into the other, for example posting a peertube link into a miroblog post. For most people they will instead interact with the content in each silo, commenting on or favoriting the peertube post within the peertube client and leaving it at that.
Secondly is the attention economy factor and platform inertia. Essentially social media platforms have successfully commodified/colonized a growing percentage of total attention hours for average users, and when interacting with content most users are passive consumers for a substantial percentage of the total content they are served. When entering a new platform, for it to serve as a viable alternative it must serve up an amount of content that allows them to both use the platform for an appreciable percentage of their total media consumption (otherwise the ratio of times checking the platform to reward for the check drops below acceptability) and provide them with a level of engagement that provides platform satisfaction, which typically starts close to where they were on average with the other platforms they use. Then you have this issue of content-fit which is a whole different issue to address, which we will leave aside for the most oart but it is worth pointing out majorly impacts the number of interactions a user puts in to the content as well as overall satisfaction.
Unifying the inbox reduces one of the barriers to wider adoption by improving the ratio of number of times the platform is checked to the amount of content available for interaction, thereby making the fediverse a more likely source of overall content to be maintained in the user's set if options. Each platform individually will struggle with this until adoption passes a certain threshold. Each one individually feels "empty" to users when compared to their usual, which is a turn off for both consumers and creators, while in aggregate the picture is much better.
On the first point, propagation happens passively too. For example, if someone follows me on Mastodon, this reply will be pulled to his/her feed as a microblogging post, and will be discoverable on any feeds my account later appears. I remember also testing around between Lemmy and Mbin how liking/upvoting works, and doing that on Lemmy while the Mbin account followed it also showed posts previously not on my Mbin instance.
Similarly, Mbin (and dunno about Lemmy but I'd imagine it's the same) pulls Peertube channels as magazines/communities, and iirc Peertube channels can also be followed as users on microblogging platforms, and in both cases their video uploads automatically appear on the respective text feeds.
And about the second point, I agree, but that's also why I suggest recommending major platforms. For example, Lemmy.World and Mastodon.Social are likely to have far more publications being posted on or propagated to than Mbin or PieFed instances, since the former two are around for much longer, and not actively trying to be toxic (at least from what I can observe).
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hmmmm interesting, a lot of this is news to me. I'll have to try and pull in some peertube accounts, I have never seen any posts showing them.
I also admit I dont follow that many individual accounts, but I don't follow some and I've never seen a comment come through as a notification. I'll try following you and see if that changes.
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A Plan for Social Media - Rethinking Federation
This is part of a series of posts about the current state of Social Media. I talked about Mozilla’s failed strRaphael Lullis
Yes, thank you.
The core of my proposal is to minimize the dev burden of a unified platform by utilizing the siloed web clients for content interaction while centralizing notifications/inbox.
This should please both camps because the platform people will just keep doing the same thing they have been doing, while the browser folks get a single point of interaction with notifications but multiplatform capability on content interaction/graph navigation.
You might want to check out fedilab. It does something similar. I've been using it for a while. It's not browser based, it's far from perfect, and I don't think it includes Lemmy, but it's much more enjoyable than effing instagram.
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What music do you like to fall asleep to?
Er, the title pretty much explains. My wife listens to podcasts and falls asleep to them but I can't not listen to a human voice so I listen to (ideally instrumental) music.
Anyone else? If so, what do you put on to drift away to?
Republicans Say Gmail Is Blocking Their Fundraising Emails. We Recreated Their Test To See If That's True.
Is Gmail blocking Republican fundraising emails?
There is no hard evidence of Gmail discriminating against Republican campaign emails, but that’s no matter to the FTC Chairman.Jack Nicastro (Reason.com)
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I'm listening to whole albums again.
Today, I just noticed that I've been listening to whole albums start to end instead of either my playlists, or generated by Spotify.
Edit: and just in time, one of my favorite youtuber dropped this video about listening to whole albums
- YouTube
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
A Bill Meant To Crack Down on AI Deepfakes Could Get Gamers, Modders, and Small Developers in Legal Trouble
Anti-deepfakes bill could hamper the gaming industry
The consequences would fall hardest on small developers, hobbyists, and fan communities making non-commercial games or mods.Sarah Montalbano (Reason.com)
One Piece: How a cartoon skull became a symbol of defiance in Indonesia
One Piece: How a cartoon skull became a symbol of defiance in Indonesia
Some lawmakers say the black skull flags from the Japanese anime One Piece threaten national unity.Kelly Ng (BBC News)
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Putin: “Immortality” coming soon through continuous organ transplants
What do warmongers and strongmen chat about? Living forever, of course.
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Good luck. Also your brain and vascular system will be huge bottle necks that can't be replaced. Most people don't realize it, but as people age, their veins and arteries begin to weaken\deteriorate to different extents depending on their overall health.
If you had an 80 year with CAD, and literally swapped out every organ you could, they would probably have an aneurysm and die within a few months. It would be like taking an old garden hose with dry rot and then pumping 5000gallons per minute through it when it's only rated for 50 gpm to begin with
It wouldn’t surprise me if they have an island of clones to get over that problem.
You can’t get past the old brain problem though so Donny’s shit out of luck.
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Are they hoping for Jupiter, or Repo the Genetic Opera? Because this isn't even close to Gattaca.
Either way, this has been a Science Fiction Movie.
Biohacker trying to 'live forever' reveals he's stopped injecting his son's blood for something more extreme
Bryan Johnson is trying to live to the age of 200Rikki Loftus (uniladtech)
In Rome, during a triumph, the celebrated general would have a slave required to remind him that he would one day die.
These globe striding tyrants need this now, but one guy reminding them during their parties simply isn't enough. Every moment of their lives should feature that reminder. Like tinnitus but "Memento Mori" (or its equivalent in their native tongue).
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Nice little SF adventure. In the future, you can buy immortality in decade segments. The Foundation that controls the lifesaving process demands the wealthy sign over all their assets [at least $100 million] for ten years of youthful vigor. A few finance geniuses have managed to stay alive for a century or more...
[mortality] haunt[s] people—especially aging tyrants who fear that the icy hand of death is upon their shoulder and want far more time to ensure both national and personal glory.
Show me where Xi or Putin expressed fear of mortality. Better yet, show me where Xi or Putin expressed interest in extending their lifespan.
Just read your article. Nowhere in it did Xi or Putin express fear of mortality or an interest in extending their personal lifespans.
All this is is musings on transhumanism.
So in other words, "immortality" until the brain cancer is inoperable.
Seems deeply unlikely to work. The body only has so much capacity to heal from surgery, and that capacity diminishes with age, so eventually your surgeries would become too close together and you wouldn't ever fully heal. At that point you might end up happier as a brain in a jar.
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At that point you might end up happier as a brain in a jar.
They are already deeply unhappy broken individuals. They have everything and can't get any more unhappy.
It's really bad for the rich and powerful to forget that. Like partly for the people whose organs they'll steal, but also just like for their psyches. Like, they're clearly losing it.
Honestly even Rome (the republic) managed to be healthier about it. The element of the memento mori in the triumph, was just healthy. Sure you can have your great celebration honoring your conquest, but a slave will be following you reminding you that you too will die the entire time.
Yeah organ transplants are miraculous in the way medicine is miraculous not in the way religion is.
Medical miracles have limits and drawbacks. Organ transplants save lives and drastically improve quality of life, but it's compared to a baseline of needing a new organ. Kidney recipients would much rather deal with anti rejection meds than dialysis. Heart recipients' alternative is to die slowly.
Many rich people seem to think that shit like this will just replace their font of yang or something. They can't accept that someday all that will remain of them is dust and consequences.
Under the current system, which has a lot of built in false scarcity, it would mean a 20 year old would be fighting your 300 year old self for resources. In a world with more even distribution of resources maybe it could work temporarily but eventually humans would either need to stop reproducing or enough people would need to die of war or starvation to justify continued reproduction.
A system like this ultimately amounts to eugenics as only the "haves" will have access to immortality while the "have nots" perish naturally.
Desiring immortality is an inherently self centered mindset.
But that's a problem with the system, not with wanting to live as long as possible.
Fuck the system.
Burn it down, rebuild, and let's go full Star Trek.
You are using entirely too many assumptions for my comfort.
I'm ending my branch of my gene pool. It ends with me and I can choose to be responsible.
I can make better choices than the ones you've have crafted. I'm better than you give me credit for.
- No.
- When it does the tech will be controlled by, horded by, and available only to the ultra-wealthy, which should come as a surprise to no one.
Continuously?
"Liver is in, Bob, go fetch the next one. I'll take this one out."
yeah this isn't WH 40K. You can't make a "Primaris Putin" and "continuous organ transplants" are only going to top you out at a few extra years, maybe, unless this fucker has somehow struck a deal with Nurgle or Khorne or some other Warp entity.
Now if his flesh starts bubbling and his intestines are suddenly on the outside of his body and he grows a maw on his shoulder? yeah then I'd start worrying.
_Shhhh! Shut up! Shut the fuck up!_
This is a chance he'll die on the OR table!
I keep hearing people make this argument. This seems to presume that these insane blood thirsty dictators discussing immortality, are also rational individuals who wouldn't be willing to stockpile organs first, then die trying.
Somebody else mentioned that they thought they were probably talking about growing organs targeted to match DNA, but then I remembered this article I saw earlier this summer.
rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/fo…
I brushed it off bc of who was giving the testimony, but honestly this comment from Putin makes me question if there is some truth to that. If you were able to find a match with genetic similarities to yourself, it would decrease the chance of the organ being rejected. Idk could be just a random coincidence.
The accusations against China using re-education camps to harvest organs closely matched to the recipient aren't limited to only these kinds of organizations though. There was also this article released this past summer
thediplomat.com/2025/07/xinjia…
“This massive expansion in Xinjiang – a region already under scrutiny for systematic repression – raises deeply troubling questions about where the organs will come from,” said Wendy Rogers, Distinguished Professor of Clinical Ethics and Chair of the International Advisory Board of the International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China (ETAC). “There is simply no justification for such growth in transplant capacity given the region’s official organ donation rate, which is far below the national average.”This suggestion becomes even more concerning when considering the extensive surveillance and repression that Uyghurs face in the region. Detainees in the many internment camps in Xinjiang have reported being subjected to forced blood tests, ultrasounds, and organ-focused medical scans. These procedures align with organ compatibility testing, raising fears that Uyghurs are being prepped for organ harvesting while in detention.
Not to be confused with the Arizona Wendy Rogers who she unfortunately shares her name with, this lady is an Australian professor at Macquarie and bioethicist. She's been doing human rights work and publishing about this stuff for a long time
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The IAB recognized Wendy Rogers, Professor of Clinical Ethics at Macquarie University, Australia for her role in the registered Australian charity, International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse In China (ETAC). Rogers serves as ETAC’s Director and chairs its International Advisory Committee. In that capacity, Rogers raised public, professional, and governmental awareness of forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience in China
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Israeli intelligence data: Militants account for only 1 in 4 Gaza detainees
Israeli intelligence data: Militants account for only 1 in 4 Gaza detainees
A classified Israeli army database indicates that the vast majority of the 6,000 Palestinians who have been arrested in Gaza are civilians.Jonathan Adler (+972 Magazine)
Israeli Drones Seen Above Flotilla of 50 Humanitarian Aid Ships En Route to Gaza
Israeli Drones Seen Above Flotilla of 50 Humanitarian Aid Ships En Route to Gaza | - IMEMC News
Yasemin Acar describes the drone that hovered over the Sumud Freedom Flotilla at midnight (Tuesday night/Wednesday morning) as a form of psychological warfa ...IMEMC News (- IMEMC News)
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reminder, there are no international laws or agreements banning aid from entering.
there are international laws allowing them to enter.
and any attack on the flotilla on international or Gazan waters is not only a serious war crime, but straight up high seas piracy.
It is mind blowingly insane that European countries, most of them NATO, are cool with a rogue genocidal national practicing high seas piracy in the Mediterranean.
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Not only they are cool, they are helping them
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Israeli Air Force aircraft tracked over the central Mediterranean last night
Last night several Israeli Air Force assets were tracked over the central Mediterranean. Some of them landed, while others orbited in flight.itamilradar (ItaMilRadar)
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What to know about Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua gang as Trump justifies attack
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This will never be anything other than an "alleged" drug trafficking boat. All they had to do in order to make this believable, was to capture the boat. Instead, they blew it up, along with all the evidence that would have proven their claims, and justified their presence there.
Why is it that everything the Trump administration does, is done in the sketchiest way possible? It's like they're going out of their way to prove they have no credibility.
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What are the most upbeat songs with kind of depressing lyrics?
- It's Not Unusual
- Escape (The Piña Colada Song)
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I believe that's the same for every planet. And every moon. For every orbit.
Its just that the barycenter is inside the more massive object when one is much more massive than the other. Not that this makes much of a difference to anything.
LOL - After being called out for a blatantly racist comment, OP removed his link and edited the subject to blame the mods.
Doing a proper removal.
Gaza Genocide Provokes Anti-War Dissent Among Mormons
Gaza Genocide Provokes Anti-War Dissent Among Mormons - Inkstick
Campaigners are targeting the hearts, minds and multibillion-dollar investment fund of the Utah-based faith.Taylor Barnes (Inkstick Media)
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Domenica 7 settembre 2025, dalle ore 19, nuvole permettendo, presso il Podere Casanteria (via Canova 16, Faenza, tra Cosina e Pieve Corleto) in collaborazione con l'Associazione ACSÈ, osserveremo l'Eclissi Totale di Luna e le meraviglie del cielo di settembre, ad occhio nudo e con i binocoli e i telescopi del Gruppo Astrofili Faenza.
Ingresso libero e gratuito, prenotazione gradita ma non necessaria.
L'eclissi inizierà globalmente alle 17:28 con l'ingresso della Luna nella penombra della Terra, e alle 18:27 ci sarà l'ingresso in ombra, ma queste fasi non saranno visibili da Faenza, in quanto la Luna sarà ancora sotto l'orizzonte.
La fase di totalità (con la Luna completamente immersa nell'ombra della Terra) inizia alle 19:31, e in Italia la Luna sorgerà intorno a quell'ora.
In particolare, nella zona di Faenza, la Luna sorge intorno alle 19:34.
Bisogna considerare che il Sole a Faenza tramonta alle 19:37, per cui potrebbe non essere facile individuare il disco eclissato della Luna (rosso scuro e poco luminoso) tra le ultime luci del giorno. Prevediamo quindi che vedremo "comparire" in cielo la Luna eclissata mano a mano che si fa buio e il cielo diventa più scuro.
Alle 20:11 avremo il massimo dell'eclissi, alle 20:52 terminerà la totalità, e alle 21:56 la Luna uscirà completamente dall'ombra, ma sarà ancora in penombra fino alle 22:55.
Nonostante il caldo diurno, le temperature di notte possono ridursi notevolmente, specialmente in aperta campagna. Per passare una serata piacevole, si consiglia di portare qualcosa per coprirsi in caso di freddo.
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Donald Trump says Israel has lost its 'total control' over US Congress
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/35636163
the full interview transcript is here (archive)::: spoiler the part of it about israel
REESE: A different war, Israel, a March Pew Poll, found that 53% of surveyed U.S. adults had an unfavorable view of Israel, that’s down – or that is up from 42% in 2022. Among young Republicans under 50, 50% have an unfavorable view of Israel. That’s up from 35% in 2022. There’s a growing group within the MAGA, America First coalition, Republicans, especially younger Republicans, who are skeptical of our support for Israel. Are you aware of this group? Are you worried about it?TRUMP: Yeah I’m aware of it. So, Israel is amazing, because, you know, I have good support from Israel. I have. Look, nobody has done more for Israel than I have, including the recent attacks with Iran, wiping that thing out. We, that plane, wiped them out like nobody ever saw before. You know, we got back and CNN was trying to say ‘well, maybe it wasn’t complete,’ and it turned out totally complete, beyond complete. But when, if you go back 20 years. I mean, I will tell you, Israel had the strongest lobby in Congress of anything or body, or of any company or corporation or state that I’ve ever seen. Israel was the strongest. Today, it doesn’t have that strong a lobby. It’s amazing.
There was a time where you couldn’t speak bad, if you wanted to be a politician, you couldn’t speak badly. But today, you have, you know, AOC plus three, and you have all these lunatics, and they’ve really, they’ve changed it. You’re too young to know this, but if you go back 15 years, probably that’s when it started, right. Israel, you would understand this very much, Israel was the strongest lobby I’ve ever seen. They had total control over Congress, and now they don’t, you know, I’m a little surprised to see that. And people, they forgot about October 7th. You know, October 7th was a truly horrible day, because I’ve seen the pictures.
REESE: I was just over in Israel, and we went right up to the war where you could hear the bombs dropping in Gaza. And we went to the places from October 7th. Scary. Being in it. I understand —
TRUMP: It was a really bad one, right?
REESE: Yeah.
TRUMP: And you know, you have people that deny it ever happened, they’re deniers. You have people that deny the Holocaust ever happened. So, they’re gonna have to get that war over with. But it is hurting Israel. There’s no question about it. They may be winning the war, but they’re not winning the world of public relations, you know, and it is hurting them. But Israel was the strongest lobby 15 years ago that there has ever been, and now it’s, it’s been hurt, especially in Congress.
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The Daily Caller's White House correspondent Reagan Reese interviewed President Donald Trump for an hour in the Oval Office. This is the full transcript.Reagan Reese (The Daily Caller)
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58 in the House...
It's not huge, but it's substantial and certainly an improvement.
Last time the House stalled Biden went around them breaking multiple US and international laws. trump won't do that unless Israel pays him personally a lot of money
So trump actually is right here, Israel lost total control over US Congress. Having a sitting president willing to circumvent Congress to provide arms for a genocide is pretty "total", and they no longer have that.
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It wasn’t a single issue vote or Congress would have just approved it.
It also didn’t break U.S. laws, it’s the bullshit emergency bypass that Trump keeps doing for everything
And then you say that Trump won’t do it unless Israel pays him but the way he is behaving makes it seem like they are considering he is taking funding from school over not crushing pro Palestine protests and is calling it anti semitism
Biden fucking sucked for the people of Gaza but it’s only gotten worse since Trump was made president
Israel has prez compromised, his payment is them not showing the videos of him banging underage girls. Russia may have some of it now too, and the prez's own fixers have leaked info from justice in first term to add to his lifelong collection of blackmail.
Our polits are compromised every which way. The snake eating it's own tail, and yes it is a viper in the nest.
Nope, sorry, Israel isn't going to be enough of a distraction from all the
Child Rape.
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The two subjects are one and the same. Epstein was an Israeli honeypot. But that is surely the tip of the iceberg. Our own intelligence agencies presumably helped them too.
We need all new leadership.
Israeli government official charged with soliciting 15-year-old girl in Las Vegas
Police say Tom Artiom Alexandrovich brought condom and thought he was meeting teenager for ‘sexual contact’Adam Gabbatt (The Guardian)
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(Some) People are up in arms about Russian meddling in the west, but Israel has been doing it since the 40's and no one batted an eyelash.
The fact that some (many?) Jewish lawmakers and military are allowed to have dual Israeli/US citizenship is baffling to me.
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in reply to return2ozma • • •Black Mirror had an episode about this.
Surprised it took someone this long to actually make it.
I forget the name of the episode. If you're curious, it's on Netflix, it's in season 3, and it's right before San Junipero. It was bleak AF, which is why the only happy (and arguably the best) Black Mirror episode came right after it.
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in reply to cerebralhawks • • •It's Shut Up and Dance, my fav
I disagree. For starters there's also
::: spoiler Episodes from the first five seasons with happy endings (the way they're presented, at least), spoilers duh
USS Callister
Hang the DJ
Be Right Back (though the stakes aren't that high either)
Arguably one from Bandersnatch
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Also, I don't like San Junipero as much as others do because the final conflict goes way too fast and the way it was resolved felt abrupt. Still nice though
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in reply to CallateCoyote • • •Right, the part I don’t get is, the video of you isn’t going to include what you’re looking at. And if it does you can say they faked it. They could put anything there. They don’t have a shot that includes both you and the screen. They can get sound though, so they can match sound, but that can be faked too. Strip out the audio. Separate the sounds of what you were really watching from the ambient sounds (and the grunts/moans from you) and then dub those sounds over the new audio and it should be passable.
Also, I just wouldn’t do anything embarrassing with a camera pointed at me. I’d cover the camera or point it away from me. Even sitting on the toilet browsing, back cameras point down at the floor, front camera points up, maybe gets the top of my face? Nothing private is seen by the camera by my best intentions. I just do this naturally. I guess others don’t?
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in reply to cerebralhawks • • •Yeah, so I have a paranoid (or maybe not) idea that somewhere in 2012 my classmates and teachers played a prank.
That they were insulted by what I said, and decided to check my words (on Silicon Valley people being more noble than Russian elite class). I thought I was talking to them, but they in fact were recording, translating and sending my words to some of those Silicon Valley people (very improbably high-level). And things pretty normal for me to say as almost a compliment (on democracy and meritocracy and freedom and on racism being bad, and MOST of all - on my privacy being more important than their dreams) insulted those people so much that I've got a lot of such privacy invasions. So - that in the end, eh, someone of said elite class solved the problem by wasting one of those Silicon Valley people (there was the added insult of that someone being blamed for the thing).
Dunno how to check and whether I should, cause if it happened, I don't have a nuke.
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"If you have access to my computer, why are you blackmailing me? You could just steal the money from the accounts."
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rapchee
in reply to gnuplusmatt • • •qbittorrent has built-in search as well
FreedomAdvocate
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in reply to rapchee • • •It’s better because it basically has everything that torrent sites have, since the same groups upload everything to both, but it’s all done over SSL encrypted connections so your ISP can’t see what you’re downloading, so you don’t need a VPN and you are downloading directly from servers so it’s much faster and you don’t have to worry about the number of seeders, nor do you have to seed yourself. You have many different providers you can sign up to, and many different indexers to help find what you are looking for. It also can download parts of the same content from different sources and combine them to make a whole.
Once you’ve tried it, torrenting feels so amateur and insecure and outdated. Ideally you just set up both, which is what I have done with qbittorrent running in a docker container with a built in VPN, but the torrents are the “last resort” when the content I want can’t be found on Usenet - which is very rarely.
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in reply to FreedomAdvocate • • •vacuumflower
in reply to FreedomAdvocate • • •It's also a fscking mess to set up a Usenet downloader, especially since it'd be a bunch of buggy weird stuff ending with -arr in the names and web UIs.
And no, torrenting isn't outdated and isn't amateur. In Usenet messages are replicated over all services offering that newsgroup. I hope the downsides are clear.
Some kind of Usenet with global identifiers of messages and posters, and with something like Kademlia to find sources for a specific newsgroup(to get all the other side has in it)/post(to get it specifically)/person(their public key), would be much better than just replicating each message everywhere with a local identifier.
ArcaneSlime
in reply to vacuumflower • • •Well you could use the -arr stack but you could also just set up SABnzbd which is the same difficulty to set up as qbit/jackett.
I haven't touched the -arrs myself, just go to my indexer, click download, it goes into the correct folder which sabnzbd automatically picks up and starts a-downloadin', then it transfers the complete files to another folder.
But I use both, and slsk, and ytdl. Why limit myself?
vacuumflower
in reply to ArcaneSlime • • •FreedomAdvocate
in reply to vacuumflower • • •It's really not. You pretty much need to just put in some api keys for your indexer, downloader, and provider, and away you go.
What downsides are you talking about in regards to downloading content from usenet?
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in reply to return2ozma • • •Surprised the UK age verification selfies haven't been used to extort people yet. It'd be so easy (and is such an obvious reason why the law is bullshit).
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"Log in with Google to verify your age."
"Sorry, we weren't able to verify you using your Google Account. Please take a selfie for verification."
"Now give us £1000, or we'll send your picture and details of the porn you were trying to access to everyone in your contacts."
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