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Trump’s War on America


#USA


Project 2025 mastermind fumed that Elon Musk hurled 'radical' agenda off-track: report




F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree


Kami doesn't like this.

in reply to limerod

How many times is this going to be reposted?
in reply to Kami

Reposts will continue until the year of the Linux phone
in reply to Railcar8095

Which is pretty soon considering we are getting kicked out of the Android ecosystem.

I should almost thank Google.

in reply to Railcar8095

It’s coming, right after the year of the Linux desktop!
in reply to Subdivide6857

For all I care, the year of the Linux desktop was years ago. People can keep moving the goalpost, I'll be enjoying my PC as the Flying Spaghetti Monster intended
in reply to Kami

1st time it has been posted in this community.


Fashion Outsider (Elisa Rovesta)


Elisa Rovesta, Fashion outsider — Illustrazioni di Roberta Cassisa. Pagine 108, 15 euro — OLIGO, dal 10 ottobre in libreria La Moda come Rivoluzione: "Fashion Outsider""Fashion Outsider" non è un semplice libro, ma un viaggio affascinante nelle vite di ch

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Elisa Rovesta, Fashion outsider — Illustrazioni di Roberta Cassisa. Pagine 108, 15 euro — OLIGO, dal 10 ottobre in libreria


[strong]La Moda come Rivoluzione: “Fashion Outsider”[/strong]
“Fashion Outsider” non è un semplice libro, ma un viaggio affascinante nelle vite di chi ha fatto della moda una vera e propria rivoluzione. Il volume esplora come icone culturali del calibro di Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalì, Coco Chanel e Madonna abbiano trasformato il loro stile personale in una dichiarazione di intenti, riscrivendo le regole del fashion system e lasciando un segno indelebile.

L’autrice, forte della sua esperienza nel mondo del branding e delle tendenze, ci guida attraverso storie di ribellione, innovazione e audacia estetica. Scopriamo come queste figure, con i loro abiti, accessori e persino il loro portamento, abbiano sfidato le convenzioni sociali e artistiche, diventando fonte di ispirazione globale. La moda non è più vista come una semplice scelta di stile, ma come un potente strumento di emancipazione personale e culturale.

Hai detto profumo? Come lo vuoi? Molecolare, senza alcool, con olii naturali e ciliegie ghiacciate dell ’Himalaya… dove si trovano queste ciliegie poi? Profumi di nicchia, commerciali, con mille materie prime. Ma un profumo non è solo ciò che percepiamo con l ’olfatto. A volte è ciò che si sente nel cuore, che ci racconta storie, ci evoca epoche, amicizie, luoghi lontani. Ad esempio, un profumo può raccontarci una delle storie più affascinanti del XX secolo: l’amicizia tra Misia Sert e Coco Chanel. Due donne di mondi diversi, unite nella Parigi dorata dell’inizio del secolo, dove arte emoda intrecciavano le vite di personaggi straordinari. La loro amicizia divenne il fondamento di un’intesa unica, e di un supporto reciproco forse raro, ma prezioso.

Elisa Rovesta è esperta di mode e costumi della società. Specialista in brand, stile e tendenze, ha pubblicato una trilogia dedicata alla contemporaneità e alle dinamiche umane, raccontando con ironia, stile e profondità i piccoli e grandi movimenti del nostro tempo (Fatti di umani, Umanistili e una ballerina sulla luna, Umanestelle, NFC). Per Panorama.it cura la rubrica Stili Umani. Scrive per il corner Contemporanea attitude di Prometeoliberato.com in cui osserva con intelligenza e leggerezza le trasformazioni della società. www.elisarovesta.it

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Energy Dept. adds ‘climate change’ and ‘emissions’ to banned words list


It is the latest in a series of Trump administration efforts to dispute, silence or downplay climate change.

The Energy Department has added “climate change,” “green” and “decarbonization” to its growing “list of words to avoid” at its Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, according to an email issued Friday and obtained by POLITICO.

The words on the DOE list are at the heart of EERE’s mission: It is the government’s largest investor in technologies that help reduce heat-trapping emissions that cause climate change as well as the hazardous pollution from fossil fuels. It is the latest in a series of Trump administration efforts to dispute, silence or downplay the realities of climate change.

“Please ensure that every member of your team is aware that this is the latest list of words to avoid — and continue to be conscientious about avoiding any terminology that you know to be misaligned with the Administration’s perspectives and priorities,” the directive from acting director of external affairs Rachel Overbey said.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/28/energy-department-climate-change-emissions-banned-words-00583649



Exploring WordPress, Textcasting, and Open Web Standards


On Open Web Conversations on OpenChannels.fm

openchannels.fm/exploring-word…

In this episode of the Fediverse Flows series, host Matthias Pfefferle sits down with pioneer technologist Dave Winer. The inventor of blogging, podcasting, RSS, and text casting. Together, they unpack the evolution of the open web, discussing why true interoperability and openness matter more than ever in an age of restrictive social media platforms.

Exploring WordPress, Textcasting, and Open Web Standards



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.


Israel Knesset panel advances bill to execute Palestinian prisoners


An Israeli parliamentary committee has advanced a bill to allow the execution of Palestinian prisoners.

Under the bill, judges would be able to impose the death penalty on Palestinians who kill Israelis based on so-called “nationalistic” motives. The law would not apply to Israelis who kill Palestinians under similar circumstances.

The bill - introduced by Limor Son Har-Melech, a lawmaker from Itamar Ben Gvir’s Otzma Yehudit party - was approved on Sunday by the Knesset’s National Security Committee, with four lawmakers voting in favour and one against.




Drone sightings disrupt flights in Norway and Denmark for the fourth time in a week


Several flights in Norway were diverted on Sunday evening after drones were spotted in Norwegian airspace. A Norwegian Boeing 737-800 (registered LN-ENM) en route from Oslo to Bardufoss Airport in northern Norway was forced to turn back, and the airport was temporarily closed, airport operator Avinor confirmed.

https://www.aviation24.be/airports/oslo-osl/drone-sightings-disrupt-flights-in-norway-and-denmark-for-the-fourth-time-in-a-week/



Lufthansa Group To Slash 4,000 Jobs By 2030, In Bid to Improve Efficiency


Lufthansa Group plans to cut thousands of jobs over the coming years, slashing 20% of its administrative workforce, to improve efficiency.
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Installing a new distro


Hello everybody, I'm here again because I got a new Asus Tuf a16 and I can't stand anymore Windows. Since I switched to linux Windows feels like a disease and I don't want to see it or use it. This laptop has a i7 13000 and an rtx 4050. Which distro should I use? I would like to try Pop Os, I have Mint on other machines. Thank you again because this community has helped me so many times before.
in reply to HubertManne

I ended up installing Mint but It has some problems in sunspension: It doesnt wake up fast and the wireless is unavailable.
in reply to utnapishtim

not sure what to say. I do just close the lid on my zorin and also tell it to sleep from the start menu and shut it down. I have had no issues but with something like sleep I wonder how much is hardware vs software. I did have an odd thing with my audio on kde for some reason and had to log into gnome to fix it but it never reoccurred (so far).


F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree


For the past 15 years, F-Droid has provided a safe and secure haven for Android users around the world to find and install free and open source apps. When contrasted with the commercial app stores — of which the Google Play store is the most prominent — the differences are stark: they are hotbeds of spyware and scams, blatantly promoting apps that prey on their users through attempts to monetize their attention and mine their intimate information through any means necessary, including trickery and dark patterns.
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[Study] Swedes and the Internet - 2025, Swedish Internet Foundation





UK's Labour Party to vote on declaring 'Israel' guilty of genocide in Gaza


Labour Party delegates will decide on Monday whether to adopt an emergency motion declaring that 'Israel' is committing genocide in Gaza and calling for a full arms embargo. The vote will take place during the party’s annual conference in Liverpool.

Middle East Minister Hamish Falconer opposed the motion on Sunday, warning that it could undermine aspects of the Middle East peace process. The motion, titled “Peace in the Middle East 2”, will be considered alongside another proposal broadly supporting existing Labour policy on 'Israel'.

If passed, the motion would signal Labour’s official acceptance of a UN Commission of Inquiry report that found 'Israel' guilty of committing genocide in Gaza. It would also back comprehensive sanctions on 'Israel' and a full arms embargo. Delegates from constituencies and affiliated organisations will vote on multiple motions over the next few days.

geneva_convenience doesn't like this.

in reply to hector

I remember when banning weapons exports to Israel was being described as the most important thing the UK could do. Now we've done it and it's been relegated to 'meaningless'. And if recognising Palestine statehood is meaningless, why have Palestinians been campaigning for just that for decades? Clearly they don't see it as meaningless!
in reply to frankPodmore

The UK has not recognized Palestinian statehood except on paper. It blackmails the PA into caving to Israeli demands in exchange for recognizing no clear territories.

Also the UK still supplies weapons to Israel. Which is mentioned in the article.

This explains how fraudulent it all is
middleeasteye.net/opinion/reco…

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‘Gamechanger’ Study Warns Carbon Capture May Fall Short of Expectations, Citing Storage Location Dangers


The vast majority of places where you can find the kinds of sedimentary rocks that allow carbon dioxide to be stored underground sit in higher risk zones or in areas like the Arctic that are potentially off-limits for practical or political reasons, the study found.

That has big implications for the energy transition, since once carbon dioxide is put into storage, it’s supposed to stay there for as long as possible. Any storage sites we use today can’t be expected to be available for future generations — not just the children and grandchildren of people alive today but “more than ten generations into the future,” the study notes.

The study concludes that nearly 90 percent of that storage capacity is in less-than-desirable locations.


The study

in reply to solo

CO~2~: -I've been here the whole time!
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in reply to solo

Was this study published in "No shit, Sherlock - Weekly" or something?


Google's new rules could wipe out sideloading and alternative app stores, F-Droid warns


Google’s new developer registration requirements could make it impossible for independent Android app stores like F-Droid to survive, the group behind the open-source repository has warned in a new blog post
#tech


Phone recommendation


I am currently using a Pixel 6a, with GrapheneOS.

However, since Google's update to the battery, my phone is discharging very fast (talking about one percent per minute).

I have looked at changing the battery myself, however it seems to be a bit over my skill level.
So, I am in the market for a new phone. (And quite pissed off at Google, especially since they announced the changes to signing, apks, the issues with graphene,...

This time, I would like :
- maybe try Linux?
- a headphone Jack

I have been looking at postmarket OS, however every supported device is quite old, and I'm not sure if/ how much they are usable today.

I looked at fairphone, but FP5&6 don't support postmarket OS and don't have a headphone Jack.

Currently, I am looking at the Jolla Phone (running SailfishOS), as it has a Jack, and runs Linux.

Do you know of other options, what would you recommend?

in reply to WbrJr

Only for my music,. Every CD I've ever purchased is ripped to flac. Photos are with Ente and docs are with Filen.

in reply to ardi60

My job doesn't allow me to use a jailbroken/rooted device

So if/when this goes through I'll be switching to iOS.

Given the choice between two closed platforms, I'll pick the one that ostensibly says they're privacy focused instead of the one actively enshittifying their product.

in reply to EonNShadow

You should just get a cheap phone to use for work. No reason to have their software on your own device. That will undoubtedly be used for creepy purposes.
in reply to yeehaw

Still worth it. The amount of time you will save by not having junk on your phone slowing it down will make up for it.
in reply to DarkAri

I don't find this applies. I have an email account and chat app for work. I'm using a 4 year old phone. It's not slow.

Also having stuff consime your disk doesn't really slow it down.

in reply to yeehaw

That's not really company imposed spyware though. If I thought in any way that my boss was trying to make me install spyware I wouldn't the very least install it in shelter, something that has been disappeared during the Google play store purges. You can still find the apk online atleast until Google kills android soon with their ban on user installable software outside of the play store.
in reply to ardi60

So when this happens, can't fdroid just make a PC side installer that syncs apps to the phone through adb? Sure it sucks that you can't just tap to install now but at least people could still use their 600 dollar phones for as long as they were supposed to by plugging in every now and then when your PC fdroid client tells you there's updates. Heck on the meta quest I used adb only with the quest headset once I got it configured, it was some self hosted adb server and let me do all the sit I needed a computer for in the first place without one, maybe fdroid could change the client to use a "remote adb" solution like that?


Vi ricordate da bambini il mal di testa delle nostre mamme, zii e cugine più grandi? Quanti ingenui ricordi


Chissà perchè da bambini al mare periodicamente non tutti entravano a fare il bagno, se in questo "tutti" c'era la nostra mamma, la nostra zia, la cugina o la sorella più grande. Quante ingenuità sono sopravvisuti agli anni, mascherati da un inesistente mal di testa. E tu, lo ricordi ancora?


Se pensi che dormire sia solo chiudere gli occhi ti sbagli di grosso!


Sarà perchè crediamo che dormire sia solo chiudere gli occhi e magari russare? Sbagliato, il sonno e molto altro e non solo perchè sogniamo, dormire è vita, salute, cura delle malattie, se non lo assecondiamo la salute ci abbandona!


Warner Bros Joins Disney In Suing Sling TV For Making Streaming Video Cheaper And More Convenient


Earlier this month we noted how Disney and ESPN had sued Sling TV for the cardinal sin of actually trying to innovate. Sling TV’s offense: releasing new, more convenient day, weekend, or week-long shorter term streaming subscriptions that provided an affordable way to watch live television.

These mini-subscriptions, starting at around $5, have already proven to be pretty popular. But, of course, it challenges the traditional cable TV model of getting folks locked into recurring (and expensive) monthly subscriptions. Subscriptions that often mandate that you include sports programming many people simply don’t want to pay for.

So of course Time Warner has now filed a second lawsuit (sealed, 1:25-mc-00381) accusing Dish Network of breach of contract. In the complaint, Warner Bros lawyer David Yohai argues that this kind of convenience simply cannot be allowed:

“The passes fundamentally disrupt this industry-standard model by allowing customers to purchase access to the most sought-after programming, such as major sports events, essentially a la carte for a fraction of the cost that the consumer would have had to pay to watch the event on a pay-per-view basis. For example, a sports fan could simply purchase a day pass and watch select programming, such as a highly popular sports game, without purchasing a month-long subscription or paying a higher pay-per-view fee.”

Not disruption and convenience!

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“The passes fundamentally disrupt this industry-standard model by allowing customers to purchase access to the most sought-after programming, such as major sports events, essentially a la carte for a fraction of the cost that the consumer would have had to pay to watch the event on a pay-per-view basis. For example, a sports fan could simply purchase a day pass and watch select programming, such as a highly popular sports game, without purchasing a month-long subscription or paying a higher pay-per-view fee.”


KEK, this sounds like the best add ever for Sling TV.

in reply to themachinestops

...access to the most sought-after programming, such as major sports events, essentially a la carte for a fraction of the cost..


KEK, this sounds like the best add ever for Sling TV.

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6. Oktober 2025, 20:00:00 CEST - GMT+2
Ott 6
12. Fediverse Moderationstreff
Lun 20:00 - 21:00
Fediverse Moderationstreff

Herzliche Einladung zum 12. #FediverseModerationsTreff

Schwerpunktthemen: Aktuelle Moderationsfälle, Umgang mit der neuen Funktion zitierte Posts (siehe: blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/09/… )

Es wäre schön, wenn ihr wieder aus eurem Moderationsalltag konkrete Fallbeispiele mitbringen würdet, die auch für andere interessant sind.

Meldet euch gerne über termine.social an, damit wir die Resonanz sehen. Willkommen sind wie immer Moderierende von Instanzen, Admins sowie Interessierte an der Moderation.

Link zur BBB-Videokonferenz: https://lecture.senfcall.de/tho-vpy-plo-txw

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Frieren - Capitolo 1


Dopo i capitoli di Sailor Moon, ho pensato che sarebbe il caso di scrivere anche a riguardo di altri manga che ho letto o sto leggendo. Beh, a dire...

stuff.octt.eu.org/2025/09/frie…




Can there be privacy with Google Play Services?


Yesterday I decided to create a second profile on my Pixel 5 with GrapheneOS. The idea was that I would only keep Google Play Services (GPS) and Google Play Store (GPS2) there together with WhatsApp (need it go my kids school) and bank apps, and therefore shut down second profile for most of the time. So, I deleted GPS and GPS2 on the main profile and since then, I have Signal Messaging complaining that it requires GPS. I know I ough to probably be complaining with Signal developers, but before I go down that route I just wanted to reassure myself that this is normal behaviour. Presumably, Signal is complaining that it requires GPS only because its the only way it can notify a user that an update is available? I've done some minimal tests and it seems to be working normally, despite GPS is not installed on the main profile.
I guess I could move to SimpleX and ditch Signal but that would be tough given I spent years convincing people to move to Signal 🙂


in reply to silence7

Wait, the solution that relies on basically violating thermodynamics rather than fixing literally anything and mostly existed as an excuse to not fix anything doesn't work?

I'm shocked.

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in reply to primrosepathspeedrun

No no no no no. You just need to believe in the process. We need to be open minded and trust the fact that only new technology™ can save us. Maybe if we would simply give more money to startups.

Don't worry though, after the U.S.'s inevitable complete decline into fascism there will probably be some wars to spread and defend "FREEDOOM". If neoliberalism dies in those wars we maybe have a shot at saving whats left of earth and nature.

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in reply to lowleekun

You seem to forget fascists can lose to local opposition.

You just need to either get rid of the shitlibs fighting for them or get them to fight against the fascists.

in reply to silence7

In 2019, the Swiss start-up, which has raised more than $1bn from investors, predicted it would cut its capture costs from $600 per tonne to roughly $100 per tonne in “another four years”.


In reality the costs are still 2 to 3 times that, closer to $2000 per tonne. And that's not even taking into account the entire running costs of this ridiculous company, only operating their wildly inefficient plants.
If you actually go and divide their 1bn fundraising so far by their a bit over 1000 tonnes removed so far you end up with almost a million dollars spent for every ton of co2 removed, which I know is oversimplified but still shows how ridiculous this entire venture is.

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in reply to getavignette

Wait till you find out they denied the Palestinian presidents visa violating UN rules which is hosted in the US.
in reply to geneva_convenience

That one is not surprising, given the US - Isreali relations and the track record of the whole world in "abiding by the treaties we agreed on"


Can We Ever Ditch Big Diesels? | driving 4 answers [28:59]


Diesel vs EV vs Hydrogen vs LPG/CNG vs Biodiesel


Catherine McKenna isn’t buying Carney’s carbon capture grand bargain [Canada]


in reply to silence7

Well written, interesting article. Sometimes it’s hard to see the work going on in the background, even if we don’t agree with how they’re going about it. It sounds like it all comes down to an accountability issue, how is oil and gas being held accountable for their empty promises (which we’ve made deal based on before and lost). It’s notable how all our other industries have reduced emissions while oil and gas shave increased, and passed those profits back to shareholders in the states.
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Any way to default new posts to the Link type?


Hi y'all, I use the default web UI (desktop and in Android on my phone) when accessing piefed.social and when I create posts, 99% are the Link type. I would love to find a way to make that my default type of post if there's any way.

I don't see any such settings but thanks for any ideas / pointers.

in reply to perishthethought

That's a good idea. Not sure if it should be a per-profile setting or just a global default.

Also if you go to piefed.social/community/piefed… and then add the bookmarklet at the bottom then you can quickly share any web page you're looking at on piefed, without going through the process of choosing a post type.

in reply to Rimu

I think its probably 50/50 whether or not people usually preference Discussion or Link posts as a default goto. So it should be per-profile if you do add this. I currently have bookmarked adding new posts to my communities for QoL though.

I think few people would ever want Image, Video, Poll or Event though.

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in reply to Skavau

I'd say meme pictures are the second most common thing here, after forwarding the news. So I'd make a case for the image-type posts 😂
in reply to Rimu

I had that bookmarklet saved but forget to use it. I just tried this and yep, Link type!
in reply to perishthethought

I've been thinking this setting would make the most sense if it was on a community rather than a user. Most communities are for posting links but some communities are primarily images, some primarily discussions....

So link would be the default but mods could override the default for their community.



NEWS: Jeffrey Epstein Helped Broker Israeli Security Agreement


cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/36822644

Murtaza Hussain
and Ryan Grim
Sep 28, 2025
Jeffrey Epstein used his political network and financial resources to help broker a security cooperation agreement between the governments of Israel and Mongolia, according to a trove of leaked emails from former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. This new set of emails between Barak and Epstein has largely been ignored by the mainstream press, but includes crucial new context on Epstein’s operation.

It’s well known that Epstein had personal ties to Israel, including to senior political officials like Barak and Ehud Olmert, and that he donated to organizations like Friends of the IDF. But Epstein’s activities in Mongolia show, for the first time, that he facilitated a deal that led to a security agreement between Israel and other nations.




NEWS: Jeffrey Epstein Helped Broker Israeli Security Agreement


Murtaza Hussain
and Ryan Grim
Sep 28, 2025

Jeffrey Epstein used his political network and financial resources to help broker a security cooperation agreement between the governments of Israel and Mongolia, according to a trove of leaked emails from former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. This new set of emails between Barak and Epstein has largely been ignored by the mainstream press, but includes crucial new context on Epstein’s operation.

It’s well known that Epstein had personal ties to Israel, including to senior political officials like Barak and Ehud Olmert, and that he donated to organizations like Friends of the IDF. But Epstein’s activities in Mongolia show, for the first time, that he facilitated a deal that led to a security agreement between Israel and other nations.



#USA


NEWS: Jeffrey Epstein Helped Broker Israeli Security Agreement


Murtaza Hussain
and Ryan Grim
Sep 28, 2025

Jeffrey Epstein used his political network and financial resources to help broker a security cooperation agreement between the governments of Israel and Mongolia, according to a trove of leaked emails from former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. This new set of emails between Barak and Epstein has largely been ignored by the mainstream press, but includes crucial new context on Epstein’s operation.

It’s well known that Epstein had personal ties to Israel, including to senior political officials like Barak and Ehud Olmert, and that he donated to organizations like Friends of the IDF. But Epstein’s activities in Mongolia show, for the first time, that he facilitated a deal that led to a security agreement between Israel and other nations.

#USA

in reply to silence7

Fucking tell me about it. Out of the 20 locals running for council in my area, an overwhelming majority are against wind over coal and one is a genuine Neo-nazi. This world is terribly ill.
in reply to Embargo

Being tolerant towards intolerant is a crime against humanity


L’attacco di Trump a Lisa Monaco per colpire Microsoft: la posta in gioco è il cloud per Israele


Trump, ha chiesto pubblicamente il licenziamento di Lisa Monaco, top manager di Microsoft ed esperta di intelligence.
Monaco è stata vice procuratrice generale sotto l’amministrazione Biden, e Trump l’ha accusata di essere “corrotta” e “una minaccia per la sicurezza nazionale”, sostenendo di averle revocato le autorizzazioni di sicurezza.
La strana coincidenza: la richiesta di licenziamento arriva in un momento delicato per Microsoft, che ha appena deciso di ridimensionare la cooperazione con l’esercito israeliano.
Il colosso tech avrebbe spento un servizio utilizzato dall’intelligence di Tel Aviv per operazioni di sorveglianza di massa sui civili palestinesi a Gaza.
Il ministero della Difesa Israeliano avrebbe utilizzato il servizio Cloud, Azure Israel Central, per archiviare milioni di telefonate effettuate dai palestinesi in Cisgiordania e a Gaza. Microsoft ha condotto un’indagine interna e trovato conferme.
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Trump Posts an Absolutely Bonkers AI Video in Which He Promotes a Magic ‘Med Bed’ That Can Cure Any Disease


Remember how the evil Dems were going to steal elections with AI videos? Instead, it's time to play Piss Off Your Own Dying Base With Empty Promises (batteries and oxygen not included).

President Donald Trump shared a bizarre AI video to social media in which he’s seen promoting “med beds” — a far-right conspiracy involving a magical bed that can supposedly heal any sickness.

In a post to his Truth Social platform late Saturday night, Trump shared a phony, AI-generated Fox News clip — purportedly from Fox’s My View with Lara Trump — in which he’s seen rolling out this magic technology to hospitals nationwide. (UPDATE: Trump has now deleted the video.)

“Every American will soon receive their own medbed card,” AI Trump said. “With it, you’ll have guaranteed access to our new hospitals led by the top doctors in the nation, equipped with the most advanced technology in the world.”



What happened to those always on AI glasses that recorded everything and doxed anyone you met?


If those became popular it would be a privacy nightmare, specially if the company share all gathered data with the government and other companies.
in reply to CoderSupreme

Not sure if that’s even possible. Even a GoPro barely lasts about 2-3 hours while running no AI and having a bigger battery than whatever you can fit in glasses.
in reply to CoderSupreme

We are already living in a privacy nightmare. Whether you film and then doxx folks with a smartphone, a camera you've hidden in your clothing, or one built into the frame of some spectacles really doesn't move the needle much any more. We're in the red already. The nightmarish data collection and then sharing is already baked into our internet experience.

And the people at large sit in a chair in a burning room that is this nightmare we're in, uttering "It's fine." It's been years since the Google glasshole debacle. People are so used now to other people just filming shit all the time. I think these glasses will end up just being tolerated. There won't be thousands around in your daily life, like smartphones. Society will acquiesce even in occasional perverts and intentional doxxers. The digital Overton window will move on.

What I can foresee is a more enforced no filming ban in certain areas, like restrooms and changing rooms. There could even be a technical solution that garbles recordings whether they are attempted or not.




Revisiting bsdiff as a tool for digital preservation


by @beet_keeper

I introduced bsdiff in a blog in 2014. bsdiff compares the differences between two files, e.g. broken_file_a and corrected_file_b and creates a patch that can be applied to broken_file_a to generate a byte-for-byte match for corrected_file_b.

On the face of it, in an archive, we probably only care about corrected_file_2 and so why would we care about a technology that patches a broken file?

In all of the use-cases we can imagine the primary reasons are cost savings and removing redundancy in file storage or transmission of digital information. In one very special case we can record the difference between broken_file_a and corrected_file_b and give users a totally objective method of recreating corrected_file_b from broken_file_a providing 100% verifiable proof of the migration pathway taken between the two files.

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in reply to silence7

The existence of the United States of America has been a disaster for humanity.

in reply to sabreW4K3

Just for the uninformed, i.e. me, what is the advantage of reclaiming these domain names? I would assume that they can somewhat be considered tainted in terms of the piracy world now anyways, and getting new domain names should be fairly easy as well, shouldn't it?
in reply to Siru

Brand recognition. Existing web links and references to it.

While the site swiftly moved to new domains, the old ones were pointing to a seizure banner.

Streameast ‘Reclaims’ Streameast.xyz


Their name is still the same as before. So it makes sense to reclaim it.

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Trump’s Golden Dome: Costly, Wasteful, With Contracts for Palantir


Largely freed of competition, Golden Dome task orders can go to favored Trump contractors, including high-tech billionaires who are his close allies.

The evidence accumulates that Golden Dome is going to be an enormously costly and extremely wasteful system. And, the contracting for high-tech work seems sure to go to Palantir. Palantir’s board chairman, the extremely well connected billionaire Peter Thiel, longtime Trump-backer and mentor of Vice President J.D. Vance.

In July, a letter by Senator Edward J. Markey and nine other Senators said:

“President Trump has said that Golden Dome would cost $175 billion and be ‘fully operational’ by 2029. But the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has estimated that it could cost as much as $542 billion to deploy a constellation of space-based interceptors (SBIs) designed to defeat one or two intercontinental ballistic missiles launched in a limited attack, such as by North Korea. Countering a possible Russian or Chinese attack involving hundreds of warheads would require a much larger, more technologically advanced, and more costly system. . . . Despite what could amount to a trillion dollar investment, Golden Dome would be all-too-easy to defeat.”

Earlier in September, the conservative American Enterprise Institute (AEI), more cheerleader than critic of Trump’s, issued a report that the cost of Golden Dome could range as high as $3.6 trillion. AEI gave a range of possibilities, from that high figure for a system doing what President Trump asserts he wants Golden Dome to do, down to lower figures that while still far above Trump’s $175 billion, would have much more limited capabilities what he claims.

So now that the Administration is launched on procuring Golden Dome, the natural question is, who benefits? Some of the contracting may go to traditional defense contractors like Lockheed Martin. But, the new hallmark of the Trump administration has been the mutually beneficial cultivating of Silicon Valley billionaires. The beauty of Golden Dome is that it involves not just hardware from traditional contractors, but tech products from the Trump Administration’s closest new friends.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/charlestiefer/2025/09/26/trumps-golden-dome-costly-and-wasteful--tied-to-billionaire-thiel/




Title generation and quote posts


renchap@oisaur.com 044f specifies the use of a link to the quoted post as fallback, hidden behind .quote-inline.

Right now Mastodon puts this top of post, and this interferes with title generation logic on NodeBB. Essentially the URL becomes the title, which is not ideal.

Any chance the class name could be upgraded to a MUST so I can code against it? Potentially other implementors could use different class names.

in reply to Renaud Chaput

I didn't want to make it a MUST in the FEP because there are lots of reasons you may want to do the fallback differently (and we only include it if it's not already in the post: the URL could conceivably be part of the message)

as for Mastodon, there are technical reasons why we decided to put it on top, but Mastodon-inserted fallback will always use quote-inline. This is also consistent with what another implementation did (can't remember which one off the top of my head)




Title generation and quote posts


renchap@oisaur.com 044f specifies the use of a link to the quoted post as fallback, hidden behind .quote-inline.

Right now Mastodon puts this top of post, and this interferes with title generation logic on NodeBB. Essentially the URL becomes the title, which is not ideal.

Any chance the class name could be upgraded to a MUST so I can code against it? Potentially other implementors could use different class names.



Should Salesforce's Tableau Be Granted a Patent On 'Visualizing Hierarchical Data'?


America's Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted a patent to Tableau (Salesforce's visual analytics platform) — for a patent covering "Data Processing For Visualizing Hierarchical Data^___^
in reply to technocrit

Uh, unless you want to make tableau basically an effective monopoly on the... idea of graphs...

Then no, no, this is a very bad idea.

in reply to technocrit

I found the patent: patents.google.com/patent/US20…