WARSAW - Border crossings between Poland and Belarus will be reopened on midnight from Wednesday to Thursday, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday.
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WARSAW - Border crossings between Poland and Belarus will be reopened on midnight from Wednesday to Thursday, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Professional historians say the department’s plan is part of the Trump administration’s broader attempt to create an Orwellian “truth ministry” and omit the more troubling aspects of the nation’s past.
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404 Media has filed a lawsuit against ICE for access to its contract with Paragon, a company that sells powerful spyware for breaking into phones and accessing encrypted messaging apps.
On Monday 404 Media filed a lawsuit against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) demanding the agency publish its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware that can remotely break into mobile phones without the target even clicking a link. The sale of the spyware to ICE has activists and lawmakers deeply concerned about what the agency, which continues to push the Trump administration’s mass deportation effort, may use the technology for. The contract and related documents 404 Media is suing for may provide more information on what ICE intends to do with the spyware.
“404 Media has asked ICE to disclose agency records relating to its contract with a company known for its powerful spyware tool whose potential use in the agency’s ongoing mass-deportation campaign has prompted lawmakers, civil liberties organizations, and immigration groups to express deep concerns over potential civil rights abuses,” the lawsuit says.
404 Media first filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with ICE for documents related to its Paragon purchase in September 2024. Under the law, agencies are required to provide a response within 20 days, or provide an explanation of why they need more time. ICE acknowledged receipt of the request in September 2024, but has not since replied to any follow up inquiries. 404 Media then filed the lawsuit.
We’re Suing ICE for Its $2 Million Spyware Contract
On Monday 404 Media filed a lawsuit against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) demanding the agency publish its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware that can remotely break into mobile phones without the target even clicking a link. The sale of the spyware to ICE has activists and lawmakers deeply concerned about what the agency, which continues to push the Trump administration’s mass deportation effort, may use the technology for. The contract and related documents 404 Media is suing for may provide more information on what ICE intends to do with the spyware.
“404 Media has asked ICE to disclose agency records relating to its contract with a company known for its powerful spyware tool whose potential use in the agency’s ongoing mass-deportation campaign has prompted lawmakers, civil liberties organizations, and immigration groups to express deep concerns over potential civil rights abuses,” the lawsuit says.
404 Media first filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with ICE for documents related to its Paragon purchase in September 2024. Under the law, agencies are required to provide a response within 20 days, or provide an explanation of why they need more time. ICE acknowledged receipt of the request in September 2024, but has not since replied to any follow up inquiries. 404 Media then filed the lawsuit.
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The contract itself is for “a fully configured proprietary solution including license, hardware, warranty, maintenance, and training,” according to a description included in a public U.S. procurement database. The funding office for the purchase is listed as a division of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). It is not clear if the ICE deal is for a custom-made tool or for some version of Paragon’s flagship “Graphite” software.
Graphite is capable of letting police remotely break into messaging apps like WhatsApp, Signal, Facebook Messenger, and Gmail according to a 2021 report from Forbes. While other government spyware tries to take over an entire device allowing all sorts of other capabilities, Paragon sets itself apart by promising to access just the messaging applications, according to Forbes.
Still, that is an exceptionally powerful capability which can skirt the protections offered by end-to-end encrypted apps, and one that is likely very attractive to law enforcement or some intelligence agencies. In March researchers from Citizen Lab, an academic group that investigates the government spyware industry, said they identified suspected Paragon deployments in Australia, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Israel, and Singapore. Separately the New York Times reported that the DEA has used Graphite.
Citizen Labs’ researchers said they shared their analysis with Meta, which in turn discovered an active Paragon zero-click exploit for WhatsApp. It involved the attacker adding a target to a WhatApp group and sending them a PDF which automatically infected the device. This meant Paragon’s software could hack into a target phone through its WhatsApp client without any target interaction. Later WhatsApp notified more than 90 people it believed had been targeted with Paragon’s exploit. playlist.megaphone.fm?p=TBIEA2… Some of those targets were in Italy, including prominent Italian and other European journalists, and activists who rescue refugees at sea. Those revelations have since ballooned into a full-scale political crisis, with parliamentary inquiries and The Guardian reporting that Paragon cancelled its contract with Italy.
Paragon has positioned itself as a more ethical player in the scandal and abuse-ridden government spyware industry. Tools from other vendors stretching back years, from Hacking Team, to FinFisher, to NSO Group, have all been used at some point to spy on journalists or activists. Like the notorious NSO Group, which also tried to enter the U.S. market, Paragon is based in Israel.
After ICE reactivated its Paragon contract, Senator Ron Wyden said in a statement to Bloomberg “ICE is already shredding due process and ruining lives in its rush to lock up kids, cooks and firefighters who pose no threat to anyone.”
“I’m extremely concerned about how ICE will use Paragon’s spyware to further trample on the rights of Americans and anyone who Donald Trump labels as an enemy,” he added.
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Most services ask for your email address and/or recovery key to recover your account. LinkedIn, on the other hand, goes full surveillance mode. It wants my actual government ID to give access to my account.
If this was critical banking service, I would have understood. But it is freakin LinkedIn, the most I have got out of that place is actual lunatics.
I had to do the same thing yesterday and used my passport and selfie. I then got a notice from LinkedIn saying it wasn’t enough and they want a second ID.
The horror! I detest that website with my all. It was one of the earliest places I saw a nasty dark pattern. They would bait you to pay to see who viewed your profile, preying on job seekers desperate for a signal that something may come their way. Nasty evil people those!
Do you have to verify your identity? I know in the past you had that option but didn't have to do it. But they just changed their terms of service so is this part of that?
I don't generally use LinkedIn. I opened it today after long time and got logged out and was shown this.
It is ironical because Microsoft owns LinkedIn but for rescuing a Microsoft account (which is arguably more important because emails at the least are linked to it. And then there is One drive, Authenticator apps and what not) none of this is required. But for rescuing what is essentially a fruitless social network, they need an ID.
Honestly as someone who would wish nothing more than having to stop using linkedin...yeah they can close my account.
The only thing I use it for is arguing with tech bros and calling them morons so as to drum up my own clients. that works. beyond that it's absolutely useless. I just wouldn't bother with them, close your account, you'll be better off.
Every day I am overcome with rage and shame at videos like this. When will the depravity end? What else can I do to make it stop? We got our local city to divest from Israel and that was definitely something, but it just feels like no matter what we do it's never enough. We must live with the resilience and steadfastness that the Palestinian people have shown us time and time again. Anything less than that is turning our backs on them I feel.
(23 September - Geneva) As Egypt makes a bid for election to the United Nations Human Rights Council, compelling evidence has emerged that implicates the Egyptian government and its military in the commission of war crimes and potential crimes agai…
By US law Egypt is ineligible to receive any US aid, which they do, and without the US their military would be about completely useless.
Because they overthrew a democracy elected government when they got tacit Western support because the democratically elected leader was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood.
For Egypt to be given the chair of this seat is just beyond the pale, it is like getting Saudi Arabia the climate change conference. Nothing matters anymore.
Torture, murder, total lack of due process rights for the accused, kangaroo courts, you name it. We have evidence that Egypt has tortured people because we still have the receipt when the US handed them people to torture for us in extraordinary rendition.
The network pulled the show after the Federal Communications Commission chair threatened regulatory action after the host's comments about Charlie Kirk's death.
Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show will return to ABC’s airwaves on Tuesday, nearly a week after it was suspended amid criticism of the host’s remarks about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
But many households across the U.S. still may not see the show. Sinclair, a company that operates more than 35 ABC affiliates across the U.S., said that it would replace Kimmel with news programming.
“Beginning Tuesday night, Sinclair will be preempting 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' across our ABC affiliate stations and replacing it with news programming. Discussions with ABC are ongoing as we evaluate the show’s potential return,” Sinclair said in a statement.
I used to prefer to go to old.programming.dev/ but this frontend is not working anymore (for a few months I believe). As I get a bad gateway response, hopefully, this is something that could be fixed.
But maybe I was the only user of this frontend, in which case, I think this might not be worth to revive it.
In this episode of Fediverse Flows, Matthias Pfefferle chats with Dave Winer about the open web's evolution, emphasizing interoperability, linking, and decentralized publishing through WordPress, while discussing challenges faced by contemporary platforms.
Ultimamente ho scoperto un nuovissimo meme: “immagina che hai la sveglia per prendere l’insulina, perché hai il diabete, ma Android si dimentica e quindi MUORI“… e vabbé, ma neanche a fà così, ho pensato… Però immagina più semplicemente di avere una sveglia perché ti devi svegliare, ma Android si dimentica e quindi ti licenziano a […]
quando Android sta zitto, la morte arriva!!! (strano bug di Android per cui la sveglia non suona)
Ultimamente ho scoperto un nuovissimo meme: “immagina che hai la sveglia per prendere l’insulina, perché hai il diabete, ma Android si dimentica e quindi MUORI“… e vabbé, ma neanche a fà così, ho pensato… Però immagina più semplicemente di avere una sveglia perché ti devi svegliare, ma Android si dimentica e quindi ti licenziano a lavoro, o boh, cose del genere… Se questi scenari non mi facessero sotto sotto ridere malamente, ci sarebbe oggettivamente da piangere, perché la situazione, per quanto ipotetica sembra, in realtà è realissima, e appunto non è buona. 👄
Ironicamente, visto quante rogne ho di continuo con Android e quindi lo odio, questa è una delle poche cose con cui io non ho mai avuto problemi… sia sullo Ximi, sia sul tablet, sia sul Huawi vecchio (e sull’S5 Mini non so, perché a 11-13 anni non usavo la sveglia, erano altri tempi), la sveglia è sempre suonata… poi io magari non la sento, ma quello è un problema di skill, non di Android. Invece, cercando online si trovano fin troppe segnalazioni di gente che o dice di vedere personalmente la sveglia che non suona (usando intanto altre sveglie, funzionanti, per svegliarsi), o di non ritrovarsi con la classica notifica di sveglia persa la mattina pur non avendola mai spenta… oppure, il colmo definitivo: nelle notifiche appare che la sveglia non è suonata per “motivi ignoti“! (Per chiarezza, sottinteso in tutti questi casi è che si usi la app Orologio di sistema, su ROM stock.) 💀 Quest’ultimo scenario è così assurdo che, se non ci fossero schermate a documentarlo, faticherei a crederci nonostante le tantissime segnalazioni, e penserei piuttosto sia un’allucinazione collettiva, perché sembra così campato per aria… ma, purtroppo è reale, e in realtà non dovrei sorprendermene, visto che c’è lo zampino di Google; perché questo particolare errore sembra in realtà specifico ai loro Pixel (e le recensioni della app su Google Play sono pesantemente negative anche per questo)… E ora non voglio fare il solito discorso per come lì a Mountain View dovrebbero smettere di produrre dei telefoni venduti come top di gamma che in realtà hanno tremila problemi che nessun cinesone Mediatek preso a caso da Amazon ha, e soprattutto come gli scemi dovrebbero smettere di comprarli, però porca miseria, è imbarazzante! Ma è possibile che che rompono il cazzo con l’IA e il cloud e vattelappesca e poi non funziona il fottuto orologio su sti telefoni schifosi??? 😭
La cosa curiosa, però, è che tutte queste lamentele sembrano di tempi piuttosto recenti. A parte queste con i Google Pixel, che sono notizia fresca di mesi, trovo qualcosa riguardo Samsung (ma sempre solo dalla bocca dei redditor e degli youtuber, quindi prenderei con cautela), ma usando i filtri di Google per cercare in anni già precedenti al 2020 si trova pochissima roba, mentre prima del 2015 non si trova quasi niente. Ci sarebbe a questo punto una teoria interessante da fare, cioè che è il doze di Android che rompe tutto, ma quello è stato introdotto solo una decina di anni fa con Marshmallow (…ricordavo Nougat, mi sbagliavo?), quindi non giustifica un’esplosione di problemi negli ultimissimi anni, specialmente perché chi ha problemi con le sveglie è comunque una minoranza dell’intera base di utenti di Android. Certamente, almeno per Samsung il risparmio energetico dell’OEM potrebbe centrare… 😖
Ho raccolto come sempre milioni di link, ordinati dalle discussioni più recenti alle più vecchie… tra cui anche qualcuna di due decenni fa, che però non fa testo, è giusto per sfizio, che in quei tempi Android era ancora un troiaio rotto tra diversi dispositivi… mica come oggi, che funziona sempre! (Ah ah ah!) memos.octt.eu.org/m/nMCrLjban7…. Boh, resta un mistero, perché per alcuni la soluzione è “pulisci la cache dell’orologio” (che è una frase così distopica che mi sento male solo a scriverla, cazzo se ODIO dove ci ha portati la tecnologia!), per altri non ci sta versi, e da quando su Android ci sono tutte le cose di risparmio energetico forzato io nemmeno mi fiderei ad usare app di sveglia terze, perché pure quelle magari non suonano (c’è una API in Android che le app a tempo possono usare per impostare timer di attivazione eh, ma non è che funzioni perfettamente e ovunque, siamo sempre lì, maremma bona)… un disastro. 💥
Emmanuel Macron has announced France’s official recognition of the State of Palestine, setting out a plan for a UN-mandated international stabilisation force in postwar Gaza that is expected to find support in many countries but not in Israel or the US.
“The time has come to end the war in Gaza, the massacres and the death,” Macron said during a speech opening a special summit in the United Nations general assembly hall on Monday evening. “The time has come to do justice for the Palestinian people and thus to recognise the State of Palestine in Gaza, the West Bank and Jerusalem.”
The statements drew cheers and standing ovations from some in the hall, with the Palestinian Authority (PA) hailing France’s “historic and courageous” decision, but the session was not attended by the US and Israeli officials dismissed the initiative.
Hello guys, today I wanted to talk about a project I deeply care about and I'm actively contributing to, as I believe its good for everyone, including privacy concerned users
Ladybird Browser
This browser comes from the project "SerenityOS", and has since evolved and separated from it. The founders are Andreas Kling, and Chris Wanstrath. The main goal of this project is to create a browser from scratch, avoiding chromium, gecko, etc. The main keypoints that should be of interest for Privacy Oriented Users are the following:
Ladybird lead (Andreas Kling) states "We're not monetizing users, in any way. This is uncharted territory for browsers. So we're not going to do any default search deals. We're not going to do cryptocurrencies or try to monetize user data, just sponsorships and donations"
While** Ladybird will implement current web standards including cookie handling and tracking mechanisms for compatibility**, the browser's philosophy puts the user in control of these decisions, not the company. The browser won't have built-in incentives to encourage data collection since it doesn't profit from it.
It aims to be "free from advertising's influence" Ladybird, representing a shift away from the current web ecosystem where users like us are the product. This allows the project to implement privacy features without worrying about harming advertising partners or revenue streams.
As of now, the project has hired several developers with money coming from donations, from partners such as FUTO, Shopify, Cloudflare, among many, and is also seeing lots of volunteer activity on github. So well, if you like the web having more diversity and us having another alternative to google, check them outladybird.org/
Pro-Palestine student activists across the country have struggled to get their universities to respond to pressure for divestment from Israel and its military–industrial complex. So when a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology withdrew from a grant from the Israeli military after hearing feedback from students protesting the ongoing genocide in Gaza, it was especially welcome news.
“This is one of the only cases where we know that student activism and public pressure led directly to an Israeli tie being cut, let alone a collaboration with its genocidal military,” said Mila Halgren, a postdoctoral associate at MIT. (The university did not respond to a request for comment.)
MIT has come under internal and public scrutiny for conducting research on warfare technology sponsored by Israel. In July, the United Nations condemned the school for conducting “weapons and surveillance research funded by the Israeli ministry of defense — the only foreign military financing research at the institute.”
That research included projects on drone swarm control — technology which the Israeli military has used during its siege on Gaza — pursuit algorithms, and underwater surveillance.
Hi, as you can from see from my previous posts I installed Linux in all my machines. Now I have a PC with an I5 6500 (with Mint on it) and I'm upgrading the GPU. So, do I just open it put the new one and connect the cables? Or do I have to do some thing first? Thank you for all your help.
You don't need to change drivers strictly, just add the new ones then remove the old ones later. It's just to avoid having issues with display output on your first boot - although you should pretty much always get some video out even without the correct drivers
Really only depends on how new the new GPU is vs. how old the Kernel is.
example: If you're running Debian Stable and trying to put in an RTX 5090, you'll likely have a bad time, since neither the kernel nor Mesa support blackwell on Trixie without backporting.
If you're using a rolling release distro, just update first but you'll probably be fine already. If you're using a point release distro, make sure that release supports your hardware first.
If you're buying some older (but new to you) hardware, you'll probably be fine.
You'll be fine with anything AMD or Intel even on debian stable, since they're both active in developing their linux support, where nVidia doesn't support FOSS drivers.
If you're buying nVidia that new/powerful, you'll be better served by their proprietary drivers you can install - just keep in mind you won't be able to run very recent (and certainly not bleeding edge) kernels with the proprietary nV drivers.
You’ll be fine with anything AMD or Intel even on debian stable, since they’re both active in developing their linux support, where nVidia doesn’t support FOSS drivers.
Not strictly true any more. There are Nvidia open drivers, but they may not be in Debian yet. In fact, Nvidia recommend using the open drivers for cards it supports, which if I recall correctly, is Turing and newer.
You're thinking of firmware, not drivers. To make a GPU work, you need new enough versions of the kernel, driver and firmware. The open source drivers for Nvidia GPUs are still slower and less featureful than the proprietary ones.
As a double check (or check before buying) you can search for your new GPU on linux-hardware.org/ to see if other users have it working without any issues. The hardware probe is also a handy tool to share your PC's specs if you should ever need to do so!
You didn't say which GPU! If it's all AMD, then just replace. That's what I did and everything worked fine. If you're going from AMD to Nvidia, them install the Nvidia drivers first, turn it off, replace, turn back on
Ti piace la liquirizia? Sai che fa bene alla salute? Ma se eccedi e magari manco te ne accorgi, attenti e in maniera anche seria alla tua stessa vita, come accaduto a un signore goloso di questa radice naturale e dall'aspetto innocuo
A pointed message in Simeon Brown's electorate office window has been covered with placards, as senior doctors lament the lack of New Zealand-trained doctors opting to stay here.
En Nepalo post tumultaj protestoj komence de septembro la ĉefministro kaj pluraj aliaj ministroj demisiis kaj fuĝis. La protestantoj grandparte estis studentoj kaj aliaj junuloj. Inter ili estis pluraj esperantistoj, rakontas Bharat Kumar Ghimire, prezidanto de Nepala Esperanto-Asocio, kiu ankaŭ mem estis surstrate dum la manifestacioj.
For years, little was known about how Ice uses Palantir’s technology. The company has consistently described itself as a “data processor” and says it does not play an active role in any of its customers’ data collection efforts or what clients do with that information.
Now, a cache of internal Ice documents – including hundreds of pages of emails between Ice and Palantir, as well as training manuals, and reports on the use of Palantir products – offer some of the first real-world examples of how Ice has used Palantir in its investigations and during on-the-ground enforcement operations.
The documents, which were obtained by immigrant legal rights group Just Futures Law through a Freedom of Information Act request and reviewed by the Guardian, largely cover Palantir’s contract with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the investigative arm of Ice that is responsible for stopping the “illegal movement of people, goods, money, contraband, weapons and sensitive technology”.
Palantir recently won a $30m contract to build the government a new platform called ImmigrationOS that will service Ice branches beyond HSI, and aims to “streamline” the identification and deportation of immigrants. While the documents are largely limited to HSI’s operations, it’s easy to see how the tools could be of use to other branches of Ice.
One document showed that agents could use Falcon to search for people’s names, known locations, vehicles or passport information against Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other federal databases like the Enforcement Integrated Database (EID) – a vast database that holds biometric and personal information on anyone who has been encountered or arrested, detained or deported by any DHS agency – on the go.
In addition to collecting and analyzing field interviews, the agents used Falcon for “blueforce tracking”, a military term for tracking someone’s GPS location. Training documents show Ice agents could also use Falcon to track a person’s location, including their “route and movement”, hour by hour using cell phone tower records.
While I agree with the overall premise, it's not a great article. The author just quotes facts while drawing no relevant conclusions or wrong conclusions.
The fact that there is fraud in Estonia, like any other country, is, I imagine, due to people being stupid. In my country most fraud cases are grandmas handing off their pensions to randos to help their grandchild escape prison or to help with a super secret government mission to catch thieves. Similar to the classic Nigerian prince schemes. Not once does the author mention how digital ID's are connected to fraud or how they enabled money laundering.
I hope that the author is just not that great of a writer and not malicious because throwing in scary statistics and names like Palantir without making any conclusion as to how digital ID's could exarcebate the problem, really feels like fearmongering.
Nevertheless, I quite liked the website design and the extensive quotation of sources.
Author here, consider exploring more of the work. The text is one chapter of a larger research project around digital identity: newdesigncongress.org/everythi…
The article is the opening foreword for a larger report on digital identity that we have been publishing for the last few months. We had to pause recently, for reasons beyond our control, but everything in the article is backed up by either chapters already published on the site, or by forthcoming chapters.
Swimming in the river used to be a key facet of Chicago life, but by the 1920s, sewage and industrial runoff had made the river unsafe to swim in. According to event organizers, official swim events in the Chicago River ended in 1926.
Event organizers said the Chicago River is now at its cleanest levels on record, the result of a concerted effort to clean up, improve wastewater management and push for stricter water-quality standards.
Maintaining the health of waterways in urban areas contributes to the public health and wellness of cities, and it reduces extreme heat risks from climate change, said Margaret Frisbie, executive director of Friends of the Chicago River.
The advocacy group, founded in 1979, has long worked to protect and restore the Chicago River, for example pushing for discharge from water treatment plants to be disinfected before being released into the river, Frisbie said.
About 300 swimmers participated in the event, marveling at the clean water and festive atmosphere. Event organizers say they'll donate $100,000 to ALS research and $50,000 to fund swim lessons for about 2,000 youths at the Salvation Army’s Kroc Cente…
2.5 kg Pale Ale (Simpsons) 2.0 kg Munich Malt (Ireks) 0.5 kg Crystal Oak (Ireks)
Then the sequence:
30 L kettle, no external heating for whole volume. Mash-in 35C water. After 20 min, take 1/3 portion, heat in 10 L kettle to 65 C on induction hotplate, wait for a negative iodine-test. Boil 45 min, mostly without mixing.
Return to mixture, wait 20 min. Take 1/3 portions, heat in 10 L kettle to 65 C on induction hotplate, wait for a negative iodine-test. Boil 45 min, mostly without mixing.
Return to mixture, wait 20 min. Take liquid, boil 45 min, return.
Then sparging.
Boil for 1h, Perle hops (6 AA%), 29 g at start, Tettnanger hops (2.4 AA%), 24 g at -15 min
LAG101 yeast (German lager strain, captured in expedition to Bayern), fermented at 10+-2 C (non-heated building part with a tiny 200W heater) for about 3 weeks, then diacetyl rest at RT for about a week (feeling lazy), then bottled with light sugar priming, and into a fridge.
OG 1069 FG 1012
Profile is what we could expect from an Oktoberfest, malty body, mildly bitter with pronounced hops aroma.
I must say, it was totally worth it (and done with simplest kitchen tools and a bottle of some veterinarian drug containing iodine). With lager profile as blank canvas, this process is pretty much a show-off of what people should be really doing to make them lagers interesting.
Absolutely, it is very hard to miss. And it is easier than infusion the way people do it usually, just takes way more (passive) time. Equipment-wise, having nothing is default too, which is nice.
That's why I was calling it Märzenfest half year ago. Apparently, or at least the books say so, they were brewing this all winter, for same reasons I do this. But sure, the later brews were probably the ones that mostly survived the thrist period.
Direct buy grain from farmers. They often dump and compost the stuff, seriously, while children in Africa, you know, but shipping is often more expensive and processers have minimum amounts, farming is no charity (it really is, at prices we pay for food). You can get super easy and ethical deals. And they'll tell you what they did, if you are friendly enough, I guess. They also might even malt it themselves, lots of folks do it anyway for various reasons (moonshine).
Hops are hard though. Like all spice, they are either premium quality, or useless. And demand is higher than supply globally. But I'm pretty sure there are local substitutes everywhere, it might deviate from what we call beer, but what the heck why not?
There have been quite a few other herbs that have been used in Brewing before. Iyy is one from circa 1st millenium, the one that is used in abstinenth has been another.
I have a lot of yarrow growing wild, I think that might even be good. Burdock root has an interesting taste. I am not so delicate that I cannot experiment and not enjoy something that is less than it would be if hops.
Really? How would you describe the smell otherwise than out worldly? In a good or interesting way at all?
I know when I put burdock root in a ferment which was not barley-based but maple syrup, it had a really good and interesting complex test, maybe not best for maple syrup wine, I know it is pickled in other places of the world like Japan
I will brew this Friday. After deciding what I will do bit wild experiment with grape juice, cherries and some classic leftover ale. I will add only basic hops so the fruits came out bit stronger (SAAZ for flavour and some leftover bitter ones).
Tbh I never tried intentionally age beer that long usually it is some forgotten bottle found and I am bit surprised if it's good.
New type of detector enables deeper understanding of the universe
The underground “Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO)” near Jiangmen city in the Guangdong Province, which was prepared with the participation of researchers from the PRISMA+ Cluster of Excellence at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), has successfully completed the filling of its 20,000 tons of liquid scintillator and begun data taking. After more than a decade of preparation and construction, JUNO is the first of a new generation of very large neutrino experiments to reach this stage. Initial trial operation and data taking show that key performance indicators met or exceeded design expectations, enabling JUNO to tackle one of this decade’s major open questions in particle physics: the ordering of neutrino masses—whether the third mass state (ν₃) is heavier than the second (ν₂).
Hello, my name is Ihab, speaking to you from northern Gaza. I have lost everything in this war. I no longer have a home or a safe place to protect my family. The bombings continue above our heads, and the sound of the drones terrifies the children. They go to sleep hungry, while I struggle without enough money to move south because of the skyrocketing prices.
With even a small donation, you can help save our lives. Please, I beg you — help us.
The ABC late-night host is returning to broadcast on Tuesday following a brief-but-monumental suspension that sparked a national debate over the Trump Administration’s pressure tactics and the modern limits and consequences of free speech.
“Last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country,” ABC parent The Walt Disney Company said in a statement Monday. “It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive. We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday.”
Behind the scenes, sources says Kimmel wasn’t planning to apologize on that night’s show and instead was going to defend his original comments as being taken out of context and “grossly mischaracterized” by MAGA, which Disney brass thought would only inflame the situation. Disney/ABC then announced Jimmy Kimmel Live! was “suspended indefinitely.” On Thursday, a follow-up meeting between Kimmel and Disney execs reportedly ended in a stalemate with Kimmel sticking to his stated plan of unapologetically defending himself.
Despite Kimmel’s return, it is not immediately clear if his show will be available across the entire country. Sinclair, for its part, had said that it would not go back to running Kimmel’s show on its stations until the late night host apologized for his comments, met with Sinclair representatives, and made a donation to Turning Point, the organization that Kirk founded. Sinclair, it should be noted, owns the ABC station in the Washington D.C. metro area, among other markets.
Nexstar, similarly, could also choose to continue to preempt the show, though of course it wiould still be accessible online across the country after it runs on ABC.
The Walt Disney company in a new statement says the move was made "to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country."
Come mi lamentai “qualche tempo fa” (e minchia, è passato già un mese…), dovrei inventarmi qualcosa per ovviare allo strano bug di Android per cui i collegamenti alle webapp e ai siti spariscono dal launcher. E beh, avendo provato varie hack, ma tutte invano, l’unica vera opzione sarebbe farmi un’appina WebView per contenere almeno tutte […]
pagina di startaggio fatta dall’ia per risolvere la pigrizia di android e la casa rotta (startpage HTML5 custom creata per webapp su mobile)
Come mi lamentai “qualche tempo fa” (e minchia, è passato già un mese…), dovrei inventarmi qualcosa per ovviare allo strano bug di Android per cui i collegamenti alle webapp e ai siti spariscono dal launcher. E beh, avendo provato varie hack, ma tutte invano, l’unica vera opzione sarebbe farmi un’appina WebView per contenere almeno tutte le mie appine web… ma la cosa è seccante e quindi, per ora, indovinate un po’, non c’ho avuto voglia. 😩
Beh, non ci ho pensato molto sul subito, perché credevo fosse un’idea decente semplicemente aprire Chromium ogni volta (di modo che ogni volta si apra con la schermata di lancio con i collegamenti rapidi, ovviamente)… ma poi ci ho pensato meglio e no, fa schifo, perché i collegamenti sono pochi e nemmeno viene usato bene lo spazio a schermo per mostrarli. E, ovviamente, il widget dei preferiti di Chromium (e chissà se questo è colpa sua in assoluto, di Mulch, o della MIUI che rompe tutto…) sulla home si rompe, quindi usare quello purtroppo nemmeno mi è possibile. ☠️
Ieri però mi sono seccata (proprio, il mio spirito è evaporato e io sono rimasta secca croccante), e quindi, almeno per apparare (…app-arare?) la situazione un po’ meglio fintanto che non mi decido a fare quella cosa di cui sopra, ho pensato di fare una semplice pagina HTML con i miei collegamenti personali. Tuttavia… visto che il vibe di base comunque era la mancanza di voglia, e non ho trovato online template di pagine iniziali che fossero sia decenti per quello che ora volevo (stile mobile con griglia di icone), sia funzionanti (quanto odio i troiai…)… me la sono fatta fare da DeepSeek la paginetta, evviva la pigrizia! 👍 “Octo Startpage“… fa già ridere così. Le uniche cose che ho fatto sono state togliere una barra di ricerca mezza rotta che lui mi aveva messo (tanto, se proprio mi serve, uso direttamente quella del browser sopra), rendere le icone più grandi (anche perché altrimenti sul mio telefono, con i DPI aumentati, uscivano fin troppo piccole), aggiungere l’uso di caratteri (emoji o lettere) quando un’icona normale manca, e impostare un’icona per la pagina stessa… Così da aver poi potuto aggiungere un collegamento ad essa nel mio launcher (e la bomba PNG di WhatsApp usata così ha indubbiamente il suo perché, comunque). 😳
La UI ha quel tratto tipico del vibe coding, ma ehh, forse anche quella ha un suo perché… è comunque sia certamente guardabile e fa il suo, quindi mi accontento ampiamente, che ora non ho voglia di trastullarmici. Rimane sempre una non-soluzione, perché comunque è solo una pagina web che apre altre pagine web, quindi rimane quel problema per cui mi si riempie di spazzatura la lista delle schede (e per cui si vede l’interfaccia del browser sopra, che spreca un minimo di spazio, ma pensandoci meglio questo aspetto non è un’enorme tragedia con un display da 6.2″ e i DPI aumentati), ma è già meglio di 1 giorno fa. 💣
La pagina sta sul mio server, così che io la possa modificare ed aprire con (suppongo) meno bestemmie, anche se tecnicamente non è ad uso pubblico… ma eh, l’indirizzo si vede nell’immagine, quindi comunque lo riscrivo qui, se qualcuno vuole rubare (è 95% IA, quindi non ne detengo copyright, niente licenza, via): . La cosa figa, però, è che mi è accessibile anche offline, senza aver dovuto impostare service worker o altri rompimentissimi di scatole, semplicemente avendo cliccato il tasto download dentro Chromium, quindi… se un giorno mi esplode il server, posso comunque usare la pagina per aprire quei miei siti che stanno su server diversi da quello esploso! (E l’icona di bomba a quel punto potrebbe rivelarsi ironicamente sensata.) 🕸️
L'habituel Apéro Mastodon d'Octobre, pour les habituées et habitués. Même lieu, même heure que d'habitude, venez plus tôt ou plus tard si vous préférez, faites selon votre envie. Venez trinquer avec nous et parler de tout et de rien à la fois.
Concerning Violence is a bold and fresh visual narrative from Africa based on archive material from Swedish documentaries 1966-1987 covering the most daring...
Ammettetelo, è successo a tutti: lo stomaco in subbuglio prima di un'interrogazione o di una gara sportiva. Quella sensazione fastidiosa, che in tanti chiamano ansia. Ma se ti dicessimo che a piccole dosi, questo stato è il tuo più grande alleato? Strano, vero? Eppure è così, e a dirlo non è una teoria, ma la scienza stessa.
Il tuo corpo ha un meccanismo segreto, un "carburante" extra che ti spinge a dare il meglio di te. Scopri come trasformare la tensione in un superpotere e imparare a gestirla per affrontare ogni sfida, grande o piccola che sia.
Ammettetelo, è successo a tutti. Mentre il prof o la prof scorreva l'elenco per l'interrogazione, lo stomaco si è trasformato in un frullatore, con gorgoglii strani, la gola che si stringeva e un'agit...
Per una campagna di gioco di ruolo desincronizzata (cioè dove i giocatori scrivono i loro turni quando possono), le caratteristiche più utili sono:
Post lunghi o thread – per descrivere azioni, ambientazioni e risultati senza dover spezzare il contenuto in più messaggi.
Reazioni/emoji – per votare rapidamente decisioni o indicare approvazione/rifiuto.
Privacy e controllo degli accessi – per mantenere la campagna riservata a un gruppo ristretto di giocatori.
Possibilità di usare bot o script ActivityPub – per automatizzare tiri di dado, generare NPC, tenere traccia di statistiche, ecc.
Facilità di ricerca tramite hashtag o tag – così tutti possono ritrovare facilmente i turni precedenti.
Le piattaforme del Fediverse che meglio soddisfano questi requisiti
Piattaforma
Pro
Contro
Perché è adatta a una campagna RPG desincronizzata
Mastodon
• Grande base di utenti, quindi facile trovare un’istanza già pronta. • Thread (risposte annidate) ben supportati. • Reazioni emoji native. • Possibilità di creare “gruppi” (lista privata) o utilizzare account protetti.
• Limite di caratteri (500 caratteri) può richiedere più post per descrizioni lunghe. • Alcune istanze limitano l’uso di bot.
Ideale se vuoi una piattaforma familiare e con buona visibilità. Puoi aggirare il limite di caratteri usando thread o note collegate.
Misskey
• Post molto più lunghi (fino a 10 000 caratteri). • Reazioni personalizzabili e “poll” integrate. • Supporto nativo per “note” con citazioni e thread complessi. • Bot e webhook facili da integrare.
• Comunità più piccola rispetto a Mastodon, quindi potresti dover scegliere un’istanza più tecnica. • Interfaccia meno uniforme tra le varie istanze.
Perfetta se desideri descrizioni dettagliate in un unico post e vuoi sfruttare reazioni/poll per decisioni rapide.
Pleroma
• Leggerissima, quindi può essere ospitata su server poco potenti. • Limite di caratteri configurabile (spesso 500‑1000). • Supporta bot ActivityPub e webhook.
• Meno funzionalità “out‑of‑the‑box” rispetto a Mastodon/Misskey (es. poll meno integrati).
Ottima se vuoi un’istanza auto‑ospitata con pieno controllo su limiti di caratteri e privacy.
Hubzilla
• “Channels” con permessi granulari (pubblico, privato, gruppi). • Supporto nativo per wiki e pagine statiche – utile per tenere un “log” della campagna. • Bot e integrazioni via “Zap” (webhooks).
• Interfaccia più datata, curva di apprendimento più ripida. • Minor diffusione rispetto a Mastodon/Misskey.
Ideale se vuoi combinare micro‑post con documenti più strutturati (wiki) all’interno della stessa piattaforma.
Friendica
• Ottimo per collegare più reti (Fediverse, Diaspora, ecc.). • Permessi avanzati per gruppi e album foto.
• UI meno moderna, meno supporto per bot rispetto a Misskey.
Buona scelta se desideri una campagna che interagisca anche con altre reti sociali.
Consigli pratici per avviare la campagna
Scegli un’istanza privata o crea la tua
Se la privacy è importante, opta per un’istanza che permetta account “protetti” o “solo follower”.
Creare la tua istanza (ad es. su un VPS) ti dà il controllo totale su chi può registrarsi e su quali plugin/bot abilitare.
Definisci una convenzione di hashtag
Usa un tag unico, ad esempio #RPGCampagnaX, per raggruppare tutti i turni.
Puoi aggiungere sotto‑tag come #TurnoGiocatoreA o #EventoCritico.
Integra un bot per i tiri di dado
Molti bot ActivityPub (es. DiceRoller, RPG‑Bot) rispondono a comandi tipo !roll 2d6+3.
Su Misskey o Mastodon è semplice aggiungere il bot come “followed account” e menzionarlo nei post.
Usa le reazioni per decisioni rapide
Un semplice “👍” può significare “approvo”, “👎” “rifiuto”, “🤔” “chiedo chiarimenti”.
In Misskey puoi persino creare reazioni personalizzate (es. un dado).
Mantieni un “log” centrale
Sulla stessa piattaforma, crea un post “pinned” o una pagina wiki (su Hubzilla) che riepiloga gli eventi principali, i personaggi e le regole della campagna.
Aggiorna il log periodicamente per facilitare la consultazione dei nuovi giocatori.
La mia raccomandazione
Misskey è la scelta più comoda se vuoi massima flessibilità di testo e reazioni personalizzate: i post lunghi riducono la necessità di thread multipli, le emoji reagiscono subito alle decisioni, e i bot sono facili da integrare.
Mastodon è ideale se preferisci una piattaforma più diffusa e familiare, con una grande comunità e buone opzioni di privacy (account protetti).
Se desideri controllo totale su configurazione, privacy e risorse di sistema, una istanza auto‑ospitata di Pleroma o Hubzilla ti permette di modellare l’ambiente esattamente come lo desideri.
Buon divertimento con la tua campagna RPG desincronizzata! Se hai bisogno di aiuto per configurare un bot dice‑roll o per scegliere un’istanza specifica, fammi sapere.
Latest podcast episode is up in which we repeatedly fail to wrap our tongues around the various place, people and concept names in one of the most ground breaking Sci Fi novels ever written. Sorry Ursula.
Not as amazing to me as her other books, but I suspect that's only because I've never had to struggle because of (or with) my gender. Still a great book, and it hooked me faster than the Dispossessed did.
Log Out è il ritrovo dei Tech Worker che dopo il lavoro vogliono incontrarsi. Un incontro informale davanti ad una birra, un cocktail o una bibita per scaricare la stanchezza della giornata di lavoro. Un'occasione per socializzare, conoscersi, parlare del nostro lavoro e come organizzarci nei prossimi mesi!
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Frezik
in reply to kennedy • • •Without clicking on it, on a scale of 1 to Deepak, how much crank bullshit is this?
If it cites Tesla, I'm out. That one is a very reliable crank physics red flag.
Kami
in reply to Frezik • • •It's a very interesting excursus of all the research, patents and theories that history has seen.
It is probably the opposite of what you think it is.
I recommend it.