Nearly 2 million people in southern China were evacuated as a powerful typhoon hurtled into one of the world’s most densely populated coasts, having already unleashed deadly flooding in Taiwan.
Typhoon Ragasa, which a few days ago was the strongest storm on earth so far this year, brought finance hub Hong Kong and swathes of southern China to a standstill on Wednesday, after barreling through remote islands in the Philippines and mountainous regions of Taiwan.
Lawmakers and activists across the political spectrum called on American tech firms to stop selling surveillance equipment to Chinese police and for Congress to examine the issue after The Associated Press reported that U.S. technology had played a far greater role than previously known in enabling human rights abuses by Beijing.
Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri told AP he wanted to summon tech companies before Congress to address how their technology exports were used. Hawley, a longtime critic of U.S. technology companies, bemoaned Silicon Valley’s general lack of cooperation with Congress on that and similar inquiries.
“I think eventually we’re going to have to subpoena these people,” Hawley said.
In a post on the social media site X this month, Hawley vowed that “Big Tech must cut ties with the CCP - or face my committee,” referring to the ruling Chinese Communist Party. Hawley sits on several Senate panels that might have jurisdiction to examine technology issues
An AP investigation published this month revealed that U.S. technology companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state. Firms including IBM, Dell, and Cisco sold billions in technology to Chinese police and government agencies, despite repeated warnings that such tools were being used to quash dissent, persecute religious sects and target minorities. Companies named in AP’s reporting said they complied with all export control laws.
Yang Caiying, who told AP for its investigation about how her family was targeted by Chinese surveillance using American technology because of their activism in rural Jiangsu, said she was “shocked by the pivotal role that major U.S. tech companies have played” in her family’s ordeal. Yang is now collecting signatures for petitions urging Washington to bar U.S. firms from selling to Chinese police, both online and on the street.
Other lawmakers from both parties urged Congress to beef up export laws to prevent more American technology from being used to fuel human rights abuses abroad.
“China has been utilizing partnerships with U.S. tech companies to build malignant ‘smart cities’ that are used for mass surveillance and human rights abuses against millions of innocent Chinese people,” said Rep. John Moolenaar, a Michigan Republican who chairs the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party. The panel is charged with examining the strategic global competition between the U.S. and China.
“As executives at Nvidia and other American tech companies chase business in China, they cannot deny that their technology will be used to commit atrocities, strengthen China, and weaken America,” Moolenaar said.
Moolenaar called for American companies to work with Congress to write new laws that restrict the export of technologies that enable oppression. and work harder to keep their products from being smuggled into China.
Police records and witness accounts from a Chicago suburb where a man was fatally shot by a federal immigration enforcement agent earlier this month complicate the picture of the event presented by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which said the agent fired his weapon after the man drove his vehicle toward agents.
Silverio Villegas Gonzalez, 38, was pulled over and eventually shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Franklin Park, Illinois on September 12, just after dropping off his two children at Passow Elementary School and Small World Learning Center, a daycare located blocks away from the incident.
Bodycam footage, which Reuters obtained on Tuesday, captures an interview with the truck driver, named in police records as Josue Hernandez-Rodriguez.
“He was trying to escape from them,” Hernandez-Rodriguez said.
In multiple statements, DHS has said the agent, who has not been identified, responded with lethal force because he was "fearing for his own life." But in bodycam footage, the agent, in a bullet-resistant police vest and torn jeans, described his injuries as “nothing major.”
In 2004, political campaigns spent 9 cents of every dollar raised on fundraising operations. By 2024, that number had reached 30 cents. American political campaigns are raising more and more money less and less efficiently. I’ve analyzed data from FEC disbursement records, using an algorithm I developed to classify expenditures by spending category. It reveals that campaigns are now spending 38 cents of every dollar raised just to raise more money—a fourfold increase from the 9 cents spent in 2004. In raw terms, campaigns burned through $3 billion on fundraising operations in 2024 alone.
This represents a fundamental shift in how political money flows through our democracy. Twenty years ago, fundraising operations were a necessary but modest expense, like renting office space or printing yard signs. Today, it has metastasized into the primary activity of most campaigns. In 2022, 31% of total expenditures were for fundraising expenses. This came close to exceeding the 33% of total expenditures going towards advertising. If current trends hold in 2026, it’s likely that fundraising costs will for the first time exceed what is spent on advertising, thus becoming the biggest spending category.
The city office that oversees land use and zoning notified the owner of the building that Ice leases on 18 September that the federal agency had violated a conditional use permit approved in 2011. The permit limits the number of detainees Ice can hold at the facility each day to fewer than 15, and the duration for which they can be held, to less than 12 hours. The permit also bars the agency from “housing” anyone overnight.
But Ice data the city obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request, included in the official notice, shows 25 instances since January in which Ice held a person for more than 12 hours. On 26 January alone, agents held 16 people – listed as citizens of Venezuela, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico and other countries – for over 27 hours before transferring them, according to public records obtained by Street Roots and the Guardian.
The city’s notice also said the building was illegally altered when exterior windows were boarded up without proper approval. An Ice spokesperson did not respond to a question asking when the wood was installed, but photos and video taken at protests and posted on social media show the boarded up windows first appeared around 16 June.
According to the ministry’s information, Russian forces are currently mopping up Kirovsk in the direction of Krasny Liman, clearing it of the remaining forces of the Ukrainian army’s 63rd mechanized brigade
This one's pretty funny because while we're all like: "She just made a hellish panopticon for cats!" The cats are prolly just like: "Thx for keeping my litter cleaned and food predictable."
Most of the tax dollars used to launch and implement the nation’s only Medicaid work requirement program have gone toward paying administrative costs rather than covering health care for Georgians, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office, the nonpartisan agency that monitors federal programs and spending.
The government report examined administrative expenses for Georgia Pathways to Coverage, the state’s experiment with work requirements. It follows previous reporting by The Current and ProPublica showing that the program has cost federal and state taxpayers more than $86.9 million while enrolling a tiny fraction of those eligible for free health care.
The GAO analysis, which does not include all the Pathways administrative expenses detailed by the news outlets, shows that as of April the Georgia program had spent $54.2 million on administrative costs since 2021, compared to $26.1 million spent on health care costs. Nearly 90% of administrative expenditures came from the federal budget, the report concluded, meaning that Georgia’s experiment is being funded by taxpayers around the country. Federal spending will likely increase given that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has approved $6 million more in administrative costs not reflected in this report because it was published before the state submitted invoices.
Republican lawmakers cite Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage as a national model for federal Medicaid work requirements that are set to take effect in 2027. A new report shows the program has spent at least $54 million on administrative costs alone.
Law enforcement agencies warned earlier this year that young people were being radicalized in Discord servers, according to documents obtained by NBC News.
::: spoiler spoiler He cries a lot for Kirk, I think he might actually be a good guy? I'm not sure I would have, but he's been under a huge amount of stress the last week. Idk :::
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I have a pre installed VPN on my device that is preventing me from using the Perchance Ai chat, is there any way you could work around this or present other options? Thank you!
A new crop of young Democratic Party challengers is running on generational politics alone, hoping to capitalize on voters’ hunger for change without running afoul of the centrist establishment’s political preferences.
Italia e Polonia si sfidano nella semifinale dei Mondiali di pallavolo maschile 2025. Ecco programma, orari e dove vederla in tv e streaming.
L’Italvolley torna a incrociare la sua rivale storica, la Polonia, nella semifinale dei Campionati del mondo di pallavolo maschile 2025. In palio, c’è la finale di Pasai City (Filippine) e la possibilità di difendere il titolo iridato vinto tre anni fa.
L’NBA sbarca ufficialmente su Prime Video. A partire da ottobre 2025, il campionato di basket più importante del mondo entra nell’offerta sportiva del colosso streaming di Amazon, senza costi aggiuntivi per gli abbonati Prime. L’accordo, valido per 11 anni, rappresenta una delle più grandi operazioni globali sui diritti sportivi e promette di rivoluzionare l’esperienza di visione per i fan italiani, grazie al doppio commento in lingua italiana e inglese.
ATHENS/ROME - An international aid flotilla trying to deliver aid to Gaza said on Wednesday it was attacked overnight by drones in international waters off Greece, prompting Italy to send a navy ship to come to its assistance.
Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto said in a statement the sea convoy had been targeted by "currently unidentified perpetrators". He expressed the "strongest condemnation" of the incident.
He added the Italian multi-purpose frigate Fasan, previously sailing north of Crete, was "already on route" towards the flotilla "for possible rescue operations."
Rescue operations is better than nothing i guess.
Also the Italian navy doesn't fuck around when people are in danger and there are multiple examples of this in history.
Do you have some source about any event of what you are saying?
Because I remember countless occasions in at least the past 20 years where the navy has saved people who were dying in the middle of the Mediterranean.
Approximately an hour later, two Guardia di Finanza boats were launched to investigate the vessel; both were forced to turn back due to the bad weather, and this was communicated to the Italian Coast Guard. Despite having boats capable of operating in such conditions, a rescue operation was not attempted for approximately another four hours, or almost six hours after the boat had been first spotted
And I went only based on my memory. I don't want do dig further
Read that again: the gdf tried to rescue, but couldn't because of sea conditions. The coast guard instead waited, even if their ships could deal with sea conditions.
And they did so because it was a boat full of migrants. For any other boat they would go out immediately to fescue
Italy and other countries should have threatened to take actions against israel if the flotillas are ever attacked and prividing protection before the attack even happened
Are you serious, you are asking what protecting the flotillas has to do with navy actions?
That navy ship was used to shoot down Houthis drone but since this time it's a flotillas defying Israel blockade Melony refuse to take military actions to protect those ships and shooting down any potential drone attack.
Meloni is asking the flotilla do not go to Gaza and give the aid to Israel so Israel delivered it, the Israel that create intentionally a famine . She complained that the flotillas are not there to help Gazans but just to create problems for the government
I completely condemn the attack on the flotilla that took place at night," Meloni said. "We are conducting our own investigation to determine who is responsible. The government sent a frigate, but no military force is envisaged."
Meloni condemns drone attacks on Gaza flotilla while criticizing mission as "unnecessary" and "dangerous," as opposition parties stage parliament protests
You literally came here with a slogan ("Israel is lawless") to refute my statement that there have been countless occasions in history where the Italian navy promptly acted in support of people in distress.
Then you tried to include the Houtis drones, although that's completely unrelated to what I've said, and want me to refute your "arguments"?
Oh and you just dropped another slogan, "Meloni and Israel are the one spreading hate".
Yes, Meloni is a fascist. Yes, Israel is governed by nazis. I don't think there is any question about it, yet you feel the need of saying this, instead of staying in topic.
Again, in the past 20 years (at least) the navy has done a great deal of work to save immigrants. This is a fact, like it or not.
My friend is on a lifesaver boat in mediteranea. Idk about the Navy but the coast guard definitely let a few rafts full of civilians drawn instead of letting then land
I said they should shot down drones like they did against Houthis , i didn't say that they should fight israel in gaza although i wouldn't oppose it since they is a war of extermination
The assembly of a central Japan city on Monday passed an ordinance that recommends all residents limit their use of smartphones, video game consoles and other digital devices to two hours a day outside of work and school, though there will be no pena…
I saw this post as well. I tried to re-fetch the post using admin powers and it is still empty. I won't be able to take a closer look today because of work, but there must be something weird with the json for this post. @rimu@piefed.social or @freamon@preferred.social will probably be able to take a closer look to see what is going on before I do.
Brevi racconti dallo spessore filosofico condotti e diretti dalla leggerezza del comico e dell’assurdo. Un’opera da ridere perchè la vita è una cosa troppo seria per essere presa seriamente. Personaggi inventati, ma così inventati da essere veri. Verità profonde, ma così profonde da parer impossibili. Un viaggio alla scoperta di noi stessi senza essere sempre gli stessi. Cosa c’è alla fine della ricerca, di quel racconto brevis che è la vita
“Racconti Bre”: l’arte della brevità secondo Alimberto Torri
Il libro Racconti Bre di Alimberto Torri è un piccolo custode di retorica, psicologia, humor e sagaci metafore. Una raccolta che non si lascia leggere con leggerezza, perché invita il lettore a scrutare nelle pieghe più complesse dell’animo umano.
Non è una lettura semplice, e questo è il suo pregio. Alcuni brani mi hanno costretto a fermarmi, a rileggere più volte, non certo per mancanza di chiarezza, ma per l’intensità che li pervade. È il tipo di scrittura che non lascia scampo: chiede attenzione, chiede tempo.
Ho domandato all’autore quanto impegno avesse richiesto un lavoro così denso, e la sua risposta racconta molto del senso del libro:
“Ogni racconto breve si fonda su studi di psicologia, sociologia e filosofia. Per molti mi sono dovuto documentare e studiare il particolare modo di essere e di vivere di alcuni gruppi sociali. Ogni racconto ha almeno due livelli di lettura: quello letterale e quello metaforico. Ma si può arrivare anche a quattro: letterale, metaforico, simbolico e anagogico. So perfettamente che per arrivare a quello anagogico bisogna fare un po’ di fatica, ma è quella fatica lì che ti apre la mente a nuove possibilità di conoscenza. Non sono racconti da una notte: l’intento è far riflettere, e la riflessione ha i suoi tempi. ‘Il regno dei cieli è come il chicco di senape’.”
Parole che chiariscono il cuore del progetto: Racconti Bre non vuole intrattenere, ma stimolare. Non punta a distrarre, ma a guidare.
La tradizione del racconto breve.
La forma del racconto breve, spesso sottovalutata dai lettori che prediligono i grandi romanzi, ha in realtà una lunga e nobile tradizione. Da Edgar Allan Poe, che teorizzò l’unità d’effetto in ogni singolo racconto, a Italo Calvino, che con le sue Cosmicomiche seppe condensare l’universo in poche pagine, la brevità non è mai sinonimo di semplicità.
Come scriveva Anton Čechov: “La brevità è sorella del talento”. In poche pagine si può racchiudere un mondo, ed è ciò che Torri sembra voler dimostrare con le sue “chicche letterarie”, piccole schegge di umanità pronte a far sorridere, ma anche a far riflettere.
Una lettura per il presente
In queste storie, Alimberto Torri sembra lanciare un messaggio attualissimo: “L’AI non potrà fare ogni cosa!”
Un’affermazione che si colloca nel cuore del dibattito contemporaneo. Può la tecnologia sostituire la profondità di un pensiero, la complessità di un’emozione, la metafora che unisce logica e poesia? Forse no, e l’autore sembra sperare con forza che la risposta resti negativa.
Vivere è un racconto breve
Racconti Bre si legge come un piccolo manifesto esistenziale: la vita stessa è breve, ricca di emozioni e contraddizioni, proprio come i racconti che la rappresentano.
Un volume che invita il lettore a rallentare, a lasciarsi interrogare e sorprendere. Perché ogni parola, come un chicco di senape, porta con sé il potenziale di un intero mondo.
In a recent trip to Alaska on a cruise we went to Juneau and in their gold mining tourist trap (a very good one by the way) I found something interesting in their store. I was literally sold via their snake oil-like "weird substance in a bottle".
Anyway, let me tell you, ever since I moved to the PNW I suffer from hemorrhoids. One time it got extremely bad. I applied devil's club and within a few minutes I wasn't feeling pins and needles itchiness down in my butt hole. That's one, but two I kept applying it a few times over a month like I do with preparation H and the hemorrhoids are gone! I mean I'm not going to go eat a ghost pepper pie any day but holy moly. I also treated a rash on my neck and groin that kept expanding and I thought was cancer and I was going to die of. I'm not saying don't go see a doctor, go see a doctor for any of this. But I'm just posting a PSA. At least some of the tourist trap bs about this plant is true or has some technology behind it that the big pharma hasn't been able to distill and eliminate.
I'm not a wako crazy person but I did go vegan recently to stop contributing to animal pain and suffering and to prevent heart decease and obesity in my self... This change did not make me loose weight or cure my hemorrhoids.
On the topic of hemorrhoids, let me explain I'm gory details what I think triggers those things in me. Any time I eat pizza or jalapeños, peronchini, jalapeño pickles, onions, tomatoes, I get a hemorrhoid. You'll be walking around and suddenly feel a little itch in your butt hole. In the shower you can explored that itch with your finger. It turns out to start like a pimple on the interior skin of your butt hole. It slowly, over a period of days gets bigger and eventually surprises you by popping out when you're popping. Red bloody stools galore. You'll have bloddy stools for a while. The popping can range from just seeing blood to super painful, you wanna be done with this existence pain. The worst part is cleaning with toilet paper. The little polips feel like a tiny pimple inside very thin skin. That polio eventually grows into a little sack that hangs outside your butt hole and then one day pops.
Look I'm sorry to have to describe all that, but it's true and hopefully someone benefits from this technology. Now, a day or two after applying the devils club you'll feel no different, but in the shower you can explore the polips and the darn thing get smaller and smaller until they're gone.
Once I discovered this, which prep H doesn't really do, I decided to just roll with this. So yeah, I applied that stuff a few times a week for some month and then I forgot. I forgot to apply and I forgot those pesky little pins and needles sobs. This morning I was reading up about it so I thought I should post on here.
One more thing, you can find it on Amazon. Devil's club salve. Its cheaper on Amazon than at the tourist trap for obvious reasons.
Yes this is not circuits in a box with a shiny glass screen. But its technology and hopefully it helps someone try it out.
If my hemorrhoids do comeback I will not let you all know LOL.
Oplopanax horridus (OH) or Devil's club is an ethnobotanical used by the indigenous people native to the Pacific Northwest. There are three species in the genus Oplopanax, and OH is the only species that is distributed in North America. Compared ...
acquisiti ed esaminati i documenti della gara n. 1699 del 21.09.2025 tra Bakery Basket Piacenza e Orzinuovi Basket S.S.D. A.R.L.;
letta la lista N della società Orzinuovi Basket;
preso atto della partecipazione alla gara dell'atleta Chaves Lucas Jesus per la società Orzinuovi Basket;
considerato che con C.U. n.753 del 28.04.2025 lo stesso atleta era stato oggetto del provvedimento di squalifica per una gara con la società LDR Power Salerno nella gara 2682 di serie B;
che si è accertato che la predetta giornata di squalifica non veniva scontata nel campionato 2024/2025 e pertanto andava scontata nel successivo campionato 2025/2026 indipendentemente dalla circostanza di appartenere ad altra società e che pertanto detta giornata di squalifica andrà scontata nel prossimo turno di campionato.
tutto ciò premesso il Giudice Sportivo Nazionale considerata e accertata la posizione irregolare dell'atleta Chaves Lucas Jesus per la gara n.1699 del 21.09.2025; omologa la predetta gara con il risultato di 20 - 0 a favore della società Bakery Basket Piacenza ai sensi degli artt. 49 n.6 REG.,e 18, 48 RG. Non si assumono ulteriori provvedimenti.
US politics has been pretty fascist lately. The state is filling up concentration camps, engaging in mass state violence against people on the basis of racialized traits, deporting them to random countries without any respect for habeas corpus, exerting state pressure on the free press to censor speech critical of the current administration, and Trump is openly floating the idea of an unconstitutional third term.
Fascism is clearly on the rise, and they’re winning more and more power. None of this is far removed from us in the FOSS community – there are a number of fascists working in FOSS, same as the rest of society. I don’t call them fascists baselessly – someone who speaks out in support of and expresses solidarity with fascists, or who uses fascists dog-whistles or promotes fascist ideology and talking points, or boosts fascist conspiracy theories – well, they’re a fascist.
If one consistently speaks in support of a certain political position and against the opponents of that position then it is correct to identify them with this political position. Facts, as it were, don’t care about feelings, namely the feelings that get hurt when someone is called a fascist. Fascists naturally do not want to be identified as such and will reject the label, but we shouldn’t take their word for it. People should be much more afraid of being called out as fascist than they are afraid of calling someone a fascist. If someone doesn’t want to be called a fascist, they shouldn’t act like one.
It’s in this disturbing political context that I saw an odd post from the Cloudflare blog pop up in my circles this week: Supporting the future of the open web: Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy. Based on Ladybird’s sponsorship terms we can assume that these projects received on the order of $100,000 USD from Cloudflare. I find this odd for a few reasons, in particular because one thing that I know these two projects have in common is that they are both run by fascists.
Even at face value this is an unusual pair of projects to fund. I’m all for FOSS projects getting funded, of course, and I won’t complain about a project’s funding on the solitary basis that it’s an odd choice. I will point out that these are odd choices, though, especially Omarchy...
i will continue to say that kling is just a pretty offline guy, and also very much unaware/uninterested in america. most people around me are saying the same things about the kirk shooting and i would not consider them even close to what americans would probably call "centrists", but here is called "right-wingers". people here had just never heard of him or any of his opinions before last week.
kilng strikes me as a man who has never had politics happen to him before he started working in open source, and he is being treated like he shares american values and american cultural knowledge just because he speaks english online.
i don't agree with his stances at all, but it's the norm where he and i live. "åsiktskorridoren" was a political punching bag for a reason.
Interpreting a PR which changes "he" to "they" as pushing political ideology is not an apolitical stance. I don't know a ton about him and I'm not convinced this makes him a "fascist" by association, but the fact that he seems to be ideologically aligned with the ones in power on America is troubling at the very least.
so i've talked about that event at length before and i don't have the time to dig up my old comments right now but the short version is 1) sweden has a weird history with gendered pronouns in that our english language higher education recommended using male pronouns up until very recently, and the language itself just recently got a gender-neutral one which still isn't in general use. 2) the documentation was rewritten to use second-person pronouns (and a much friendlier tone) shortly after, sidestepping the entire discussion.
I hope many more debate nerds carry on his quest to engage young people with words, not fists.
This implies Kirk was a debate nerd. He wasn't. He was a prolific propagandist with a vast, well-funded operation. He pretended to debate here or there in-between monologues of fascist propaganda. TV pundits aren't the people who you want to look up to as bearers of objectivity on the matter, given they're threatened with being taken off the air. It's no accident they talk about the person but don't talk about what he said or wrote. Maybe Kling is mislead by them. Maybe not.
the media here has never shown any kirk debate, and has only talked about him as a "american right-wing debater/influencer". personally i was aware of him only as that too, and only saw how heinous his opinions actually were when i googled him after the event. and i, along with most other swedes, have a fairly high regard for our public broadcasting institutions, and since most american internal squabbles don't influence us until they become external, we don't really care to dig deeper. i did because i'm active here, but kling probably didn't.
I didn't know who Kirk was until the assassination I have better things to do with my limited time than go on a deep dive into their history before posting any comment on the news. I kinda got the vibe when I realised that was who Cartman was based on in the recent South Park.
Wow. Some people really think we're in the 80s and rely on "media here" to deflect from being mislabeled.
He's somehow so far away from US politics he's funded almost exclusively by US companies like Cloudflare, FUTO, and 37signals.
Does your media or public broadcasting talk about FUTO and 37signals a lot that they got in contact to setup sponsorship? Doesn't he also stream in "English" on "YouTube"catering to the English speaking world but somehow he shielded himself with all the crap from these platforms. He must not be a human.
Even a cursory skimming of kirks name would be enough to reveal what his quest was.
just because you are active in some internet circle, does not mean you are active in every internet circle. I'd say the Right to Repair movement or Cloudflare are more "worldwide" than Kirk.
Kirk wanted ppl to die for their race, gender, and other things that weren't even opinions. While Kling's statement is technically fair, he didn't speak out for anyone else. Why weigh in on a white supremacist, transphobe who made many ppls' lives worse?
This is a silly argument. There are killings that make international news. There are killings that make Swedish news. He doesn't comment on any of them, only when a far right agitator dies in America is it suddenly important to him.
At the risk of being callous and blunt, the international news has been covering the killing of tens of thousands of Gazans for over a year now (soon to be 2). They have also covered the Ukrainian civilians getting drone struck (striked?) for close to 3 years now. The flash floods in Pakistan a few years ago that literally turned half of the country blue as seen from satellite images because of how much water there was were also all over the news. The Hamas higher ranks getting killed by exploding pagers in civilian areas (with heavy collateral damage) was also all over the news in western countries, at the very least.
To be clear, I don't know if the ladybird dev has said anything on any of these issues. I just want to assert that plenty of killings make international news. Charlie Kirk was not the first nor the exception, what was new with him was that he was named, a far-right agitator, and had an existing (para-)social following. All of which cast a poor light, for me, on this being what someone chooses to speak up on.
the guy is an ex-drug abuser. he started doing serenityos as therapy, and serenityos needed a browser. until you get to the modern stuff, it's basically just a paint-by-numbers api implementation on top of his existing code base.
Only thing I know about Ladybird is the lead dev didn't want to include gender neutral wording in the documentation, because he "didn't want it to be political"
That's kinda old news now and not sure if anything came of it.
The post suggests that Cloudflare is donating $100k to Omarchy, but no figure is given by Cloudflare. Cloudflare’s press release reads more services in kind for an open source project— something many tech firms already offer without a check on the politics of the maintainers first.
At the very least, someone celebrating Charlie Kirk and whining about white men being discriminated against is not someone I'm interested in supporting, and if the future of the open web is in their hands I'll just stick to lynx.
The good news is that ladybird is nowhere even close to implementing the full web. It’s maybe 0.5% there. There’s no danger of it becoming some centralized power at least in the next 5 years. Especially barring any license shenanigans.
As for Lynx, well it’s really hard to take that comment seriously.
More seriously from a technical side, I'm also not a huge fan of the browser and the engine being the same thing. To me they should be kept separate. So personally I'm cheering on Servo.
Some politicians or activists unfortunately use hyperbole too frequently and sometimes even maliciously. It gets them attention but at the cost of deepening the trenches in the political discourse. Drew thought he's doing the right thing by calling a fascist out, but realistically this will be remembered as "The woke activists are calling us fascists for saying that nobody should be killed for their opinion." in the right wing circles. Where the term "woke" is basically the right wing equivalent term to the left's "fascist".
I don’t know if you have been paying attention but nothing you do or say will leave the Republicans with a good memory of you no matter what if you are “woke,” so it almost doesn’t matter what you say.
I guess you can't really convince the ones on the other side of the political spectrum. You only have a real chance to convince the "in the middle" people. But when doing so, it's better not to give free munition to the opposing party to be more convincing than you.
Also I am kinda hoping that it (not using hyperbolic labels and overall being "nice") helps create a place where people can be nice to each other even when they don't agree on politics.
If we want to use the Nazi bar analogy, Cloudflare is like a company that bought up so many bars in town that some end up not vetting for Nazism well enough, letting it slip through, not necessarily playing favours towards or against fascism but they would technically be a 'Nazi bar' under the analogy's definition. Cloudflare is so big that they probably don't have controlling interest about the pet projects they kick some pennies towards.
If you want to boycot Cloudflare itself, that's fine and noble and all, but also staying away from anything they've ever donated to, you'll put yourself in a bind. Like if Cloudflare donated to animal welfare, should one be against animal welfare simply due to second-order links to fascism?
Also there is a lot of reading into the comments used to link the two projects to the fascist regime. Very much a stretch.
Check this. Bit more than a comment. Wouldn't call it nazi. But sus nontheless. We've seen plenty people write or say similar stuff over the years that graduated to fash later on.
But yeah agreed about CF. I take this kinda info more as a mental note on the individuals. CF is a corpo which is gonna corpo.
As soon as I was old enough to travel on my own, London was where I wanted to go. Compared to Copenhagen at the time, there was something so majestic about Big Ben, Trafalgar Square, and even the Tube around the turn of the millenium.
As soon as I was old enough to travel on my own, London was where I wanted to go. Compared to Copenhagen at the time, there was something so majestic about Big Ben, Trafalgar Square, and even the Tube around the turn of the millenium.
someone who speaks out in support of and expresses solidarity with fascists, or who uses fascists dog-whistles or promotes fascist ideology and talking points, or boosts fascist conspiracy theories – well, they’re a fascist.
This is the "if they're not with me, they're against me" mentality that has plagued countless useful idiots in my generation.
It does more harm than good, and I immediately lose respect for anyone that falls for tribalist rhetoric.
If one consistently speaks in support of a certain political position and against the opponents of that position then it is correct to identify them with this political position.
Yeah, fuck this guy. This is the same bullshit that transpeople try to use to say that anyone who doesn't call them what they want is automatically a fascist.
I have no love for cloudflare, but this "boy who cried fascist" game is getting tired.
Does anyone know if/how I can delay, hide or otherwise adjust the notification which tells me that an application is not responding?
I'm batch processing a large number of images which takes a long time and my system is mistaking this for the program not responding. I also get this sometimes when performing a very heavy operation in GIMP, like selecting the foreground in a huge image.
A graphical tool for editing the dconf database – Dconf Editor is a tool to allow direct editing of the dconf configuration database. This is useful when developing applications that use these settings.
Un’Italia semplicemente perfetta. Gli azzurri di Fefè De Giorgi hanno battuto il Belgio con un netto 3-0 (25-13, 25-18, 25-18) e conquistano la semifinale dei Mondiali di pallavolo maschile 2025 nelle Filippine. Una vittoria che profuma di rivincita dopo la sconfitta subita nel girone, ma che soprattutto certifica la straordinaria forza di un gruppo capace di dominare con tecnica, carattere e continuità.
The latest generation of AI systems, based on large language models (LLMs), is perceived as the biggest threat in decades to the established copyright order. The scale of that threat can be gauged …
Al tavolo ministeriale l'azienda di e-commerce ha aperto alle trattative sulla procedura di licenziamento collettivo aperta per i 211 lavoratori tra Milano e Bologna.
Il team dell'Università di Oxford, della Yale University School of Medicine e dell'Università di Cambridge ha monitorato oltre mezzo milione di adulti e ha scoperto che il rischio di demenza aumentava costantemente con un maggiore consumo di alcol , senza effetti protettivi derivanti da un consumo moderato di alcol, sfidando le ipotesi consolidate su un livello "sicuro" di alcol per la salute del cervello.
Lo studio è molto interessante per il rigore metodologico e il tentativo di eliminare le possibili distorsioni statistiche dei soggetti osservati, come spiegato nell'articolo di TR
A combined genetic and observational study of more than 559,000 people found alcohol consumption consistently raises dementia risk. Even a few weekly drinks increased risk, overturning the belief that moderate drinking protects brain health.
Ormai siamo arrivati al punto che persino bere un bicchiere d'acqua è diventato problematico, fra il fatto di sapere da dove provenga, i residui detenuti e se l'acqua frizzante faccia bene o male, stiamo inguaiati. Facciamo quindi un po' di chiarezza.
Fennec and Cromite is always outdated compared to their upstream. If you care about security it is quite problematic. I recommend just install UBlock on Firefox then use Arkenfox, or Betterfox on it. It is a bit more complex to do on android, but it is possible. If anyone is interested here is a tutorial
If you are keen on personal privacy, you might have come across Brave Browser. Brave is a Chromium-based browser that promises to deliver privacy with built-in ad-blocking and content-blocking protection.
Brave (the company) has a long history of doing dodgy stuff. They are just trying to do what Google did (directing clicks to their own shit), but they're using privacy as their marketing spiel.
Vivaldi. The tab management is unparalleled, and the chrome extensions I depend on still work. I’ve been using it for many years now and have no regrets. I also use NextDNS and see no signs of it doing anything unexpected.
It’s a web browser. But fun. It comes with a bunch of clever features built-in. It’s super flexible and does not track you. Get the Vivaldi browser for desktop, mobile, and your car!
I swear Brave ran a very successful guerrilla marketing campaign and it succeeded on Reddit. If you so much as question it or suggest an alternative, you get dogpiled on by Brave bros. I don't trust it one bit. I'll stick to FF and its forks.
Exactly. Same with Opera GX whatever, which is just a weird chinese spying chrome, with nothing to do with Opera from the good old days when it was still Norwegian (Vivaldi is made by those guys still).
It sold out on it's privacy promise years ago. Brave Browser CANNOT be trusted if you are someone who must ensure Privacy Preserving featurs must remain on at all times.
I recommend the Tor Browser. DO NOT USE THE TOR BROWSING CAPABILITIES OF BRAVE! YOU WILL BE DEANONYMIZED! Likely anything you'd be using Tor for, you don't want your browser slipping up and leaking anything.
Personally I use a blend of hand-hardened Firefox (Via plugins), Librewolf and Ungoogled Chromium (for very rare cases where the site is actually trusted and requires Chrome to function predictably)
It does block some tracking and ads that Chrome alone allows or explicitly adds. But it simply shifts that tracking to Brave. The idea was that you'd still get the benefits of that tracking by giving all of your data to Brave instead. I honestly never was convinced by this considering your data is still being sold, just by a different company so it doesn't sound much better to me. Supposedly, according to them, Brave is more trustworthy and gives you more control over what they track and sell, but I don't trust that business model. There's no real incentive for them to do what they said they would.
It's a shame this is necessary, to be honest. It's the same argument with Windows users: "you can just run a debloater and fiddle with the registry to disable tracking". It shouldn't be needed in the first place.
I don't think you can say the same as MS plays shitty cat and mouse games and is constantly patching the workarounds. And the changes required are much more involved than just toggling a switch. And Brave won't randomly toggle it back on after an update or just blatantly ignore it altogether.
Depends on what you mean by "private". I would not trust it much, but it's not a bad Chromium based browser when you need one. Use something like LibreWolf for much more privacy out of the box.
Yeah, doing any kind of digging into Brave will immediately send up warning flares that the privacy claims are pure fluff. Just use Firefox or Librewolf.
Don't a lot of browsers by default have pings set up to track usage? Check the privacy section. There is usually a check box about sending daily pings to whatever company made the browser to track usage.
Any browser does it, it is needed for several reasons, every browser need to know the amount of users it has to calculate it's market share. But statistical telemetries are not a privacy issue, it's like an employee which count the amount of cars and trucks on a highway, to know if it is needed to enlarge the highway or not. A browser need to know it for its capacity of servers and sync, if they offer it. Normally the telemetries includes in which OS is used the browser and in which country, all this is legit and not a privacy problem.
Bad only when it also include logs and profiling of user data and activity, as Chrome and EDGE do, and worse if this is sold to third parties. Decent browser don't do it.
I use Vivaldi, it's IMHO the only decent Chromium browser, apart European, with a good privacy, no logs, no tracking no third party investors. great services and community.
I've never really had a comfortable feeling about Brave. I have no substantiating evidence, it just seems a bit squirrely. Besides the Tor browser, LibreWolf, Waterfox, and FireFox are the only acceptable browsers as far as I'm concerned, tho I don't come down on those seeking an alternative to Google Chrome.
General practice, I do not use my phone as a compute platform. I realize others cannot do the same all the time. I do run firefox and a VPN which has an adblocker as part of it's tool set.
Far as I remember any browser in iOS is a scam anyways because Apple forces any browser in their platform to be based off of the same engine as Safari.
AFAIK at least in the EU because have to admit also browsers with a different engine as WebKit. WebKit is same as Blink a fork from the KHTML engine by KDE, butway less advanced as Blink or Gecko, who outscore WebKit in modern webformats. This is why Apple don't want other browsers which make Safari obsolete. Anyway, sooner or later Safari will be the next IE.
Librefox has been awesome. Once you get the hang of enabling cookies for specific sites it mostly just works. Although Fastmail keeps logging me out for some reason
I find it quite interesting those who protest being woke. The word 'woke' has a long standing meaning to the Black community. The usual suspects using the word 'anti-woke' are almost always American Republicans, and their track record of racial animosity has preceded itself for generations like the stench of a rotting corpse. Given the choice between being woke or asleep, I'll take woke any day.
It boggles my mind how people still recommend Brave as a good browser for privacy. The entire point of Brave from the beginning was their own Crypto currency that they wanted to shill. In their early days they offered a bunch of Tech YouTubers some crypto (via affiliate links) in return for them shilling brave.
Brave is basically just yet another Chromium reskin with custom branding, extra tracking and crypto bullshit bolted to it. No, the builtin AdBlocker does not make it "worth it". Stop recommending this pile of crap.
even tho most low level searches and recommendations gonna point towards brave as the private browser, all you need to just look at the options. its datafarming, its running in the background randomly, its an nftbro chrome.
Brave Software was founded in 2015 by Brendan Eich, creator of JavaScript and former Mozilla CEO who left the organization after coming under fire for his support of eliminating the right of same-sex couples to marry [...]
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In August 2016, the company had received at least US$7 million in angel investments from venture capital firms, including Peter Thiel's Founders Fund [...]
Should tell you everything you need to know.
I'd say being 'privacy focused' is just a stick to get non-tech savy/gullible people that want to protect their privacy to use it, without thinking about it twice. Personally, I believe there is 0% chance they don't sell (or simply give) all data they can to Peter Thiel and Palantir.
Yes, it's proprietary because some script parts are. It's not so easy to go full OpenSource for an Chromium browser which is more an online suite than a simple browser, because Google and M$ will kill to be able to fork it for Chrome and EDGE, which will have catastrophic aftermaths for all other Chromium browsers, include Vivaldi. Way easier to be OpenSource for simpler Chromium or Gecko forks. Anyway I think in a market saturated with browsers (over 100 different), beeing OpenSource isn't in the main interest for the user anymore, prevailing more the ethics and transparency of the manufactor, 100% given in Vivaldi. Apart, as say, it's the only decent browser from the EU on level eye with the US big Brother browsers. Alternatively there is Mullvad, butit is , apart of the privacy features, a very basic browser, more an platform for the Mullvad VPN, no own sync, only with Mozilla, Konqueror with the KHTML engine by KDE is discontinued, same as sadly the French UR browser. Thats it.
Yes, a lot of people believe it, FF devs discuting in Google groups, Vivaldi in a own Mastodon instance. Mozilla since time is an Google pet which can't survive without the support from Google. - news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4… - groups.google.com/g/google-web…
It's not the engine which use a browser, all engines are 100% FLOSS, it is important what you do with it.
What browser should I use on mobile? I use Librewolf on desktop since it runs fine, and the vertical tabs are great, and it looks nice.
On mobile though there's a lot of problems with the browser space:
Chrome: runs great but is obviously not good for privacy
Firefox: what most people recommend, but it has terrible performance, looks not great, and doesn't even have more than basic fingerprinting protection, and literally includes ads by default. It's also less secure on Android because they don't do per site process isolation, and the memory allocator is worse.
Brave: people tend to dislike brave here, but it runs well (since it's chromium based) and has at least better fingerprinting protection.
Tbh firefox performs great and works for me, and its issues can be fixed with extensions and settings, both on desktop and mobile. I never looked for anything else myself. I also like to use a browser that is not chromium-based, I do not want google to have the monopoly.
maybe I am just not picky, but if you need more privacy than what can be achieved with a hardened firefox config you might be better off using TOR at that point.
Maybe somewhat later the Helium Browser (still not for mobile, in Alpha version), ungoogled Chromium, if not, Vivaldi, for all platforms, even as automotive app, (the only one)
Sto continuando a leggere Sailor Moon, per farmi forza con la realtà terribile del nostro mondo reale e, nel mentre che (sull’altro blog) sto tentando anche di scrivere a riguardo dei vari capitoli, nell’8 una robina mi ha attirato l’attenzione… La scrivo qui perché nel contesto dell’altro articolo non centrava tanto, e comunque non lo […]
sailor moon vs ragazza magica octt che sono io (nessuno ci crede e siamo entrambe fritte)
Sto continuando a leggere Sailor Moon, per farmi forza con la realtà terribile del nostro mondo reale e, nel mentre che (sull’altro blog) sto tentando anche di scrivere a riguardo dei vari capitoli, nell’8 una robina mi ha attirato l’attenzione… La scrivo qui perché nel contesto dell’altro articolo non centrava tanto, e comunque non lo volevo allungare più del dovuto solo per approfondire una lore che non è quella del manga in questione, bensì della mia persona. 😼 Si sapeva già che io sono abbastanza simile a Usagi… dormo, zzz, non sento la sveglia, pure a metà giornata sono assolutamente fatta drogata di sonno, e così via… e poi ok, a scuola non ero troppo ceppona, ma all’università si, quindi il cerchio già così si chiude quasi. La gran differenza sta nella nostra caratterizzazione come ragazze magiche (così come la differenza tra lei e le altre guerriere sue alleate, naturalmente), perché per ora io non ho sbloccato alcun potere psichedelico stupefacente, e piuttosto tutte e sole le magie effettive, dimostrabili, che io riesco a fare riguardano il software… ma non è questo il punto. 😳
Io e Sailor Moon siamo, al di là delle differenze individuali, esattamente sulla stessa barca… Come lei è stata in realtà messa dov’è a causa del suo essere una guerriera predestinata — non dico di più sia perché a questo punto della storia ancora la cosa non è totalmente chiara, e comunque qui non voglio fare spoiler — io anche evidentemente, dopo essere stata concepita in un’altra galassia, sono stata poi deportata e costretta a vivere sulla Terra — per giunta con un assetto corporeo di base sconveniente, e che alla fine dei conti io devo farmi il mazzo per sistemare, ma questa è tutta un’altra questione — per motivi a me però ancora non chiari… Sicuramente a me qualcuno voleva fare qualcosa che chiamare dispetto è poco, però a pensarci bene non può essere solo questo… ci deve essere qualche altra motivazione che io ancora non ho scoperto, no? 😵💫
Ma, ciancio alle bande, il dettaglio allo stesso tempo sia molto triste, che a suo modo rassicurante, è che… Come praticamente nessuno crede alla mia lore, solo perché è ancora relativamente imprecisa e senza prove — come se fosse colpa mia se non esistono tracce già scritte della mia storia e io non riesco a fare più di quello che posso, e che ogni tanto con questi post faccio, per rimediare — trattandomi da mezza scema, così fanno con Usagi. Ed ecco quindi che suo padre, in questa vignetta, le ha risposto proprio tipo come mi risponderebbero i miei genitori, quando capita che ribadisco le mie origini ultraterrene. Poi certo, Sailor Moon è un po’ fritta se si alza un’ora prima del dovuto solo perché si è svegliata, anziché rimanere a letto finché non suona la sveglia come invece faccio sempre io, e si giustifica con la storia dell’alter ego… però, noi non ci meritiamo tutto questo. 😶
E allora io mi chiedoquali magie ancora mi spettano da imparare, quali dimostrazioni di capacità devo ancora dispensare, quali prove inattaccabili devo presentare, per farmi valere esattamente come sono, e non semplicemente come “una ragazza stramba, dice sempre stronzate del tipo che viene da un altro pianeta, boh“… Ma purtroppo, se credo che 12 volumi basteranno e avanzeranno perché le Sailor riescano a risvegliarsi completamente su ciò che sono davvero, a me le illuminazioni sono estremamente rare e fin troppo parziali… serviranno decenni, se va bene, però a quel punto più che una ragazza magica sarò una zitella magica, che decisamente non è la stessa cosa. Sigh!!! ☠️
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