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in reply to BrikoX

“At this time, there has been no confirmed leakage of personal information or customer data to external parties,” the press release read.


PayPal's Honey to integrate with ChatGPT and other AIs for shopping assistance


The features will provide AI chatbot users, who are researching items they want to purchase, Honey's product recommendations, pricing, and access to deals.




Louisiana governor asks for national guard deployment to New Orleans


Jeff Landry’s request comes as crime trends analyst says New Orleans has had fewest murders since 1970

The Donald Trump-supporting Republican governor of Louisiana has asked for national guard troops to be deployed to New Orleans and other cities through fiscal year 2026, saying Monday that the state needs help fighting crime and praising the president’s decision to send the military to Washington DC and Memphis.

Governor Jeff Landry asked for the Trump administration to support an extended deployment of 1,000 troops in a letter sent to the Pentagon’s top official, Pete Hegseth. It comes weeks after Trump suggested New Orleans could be one of his next targets for deploying the national guard to fight crime.

Preliminary data from the New Orleans police department shows that there had been 75 homicides so far in 2025 – including 14 who were killed on New Year’s Day when a terrorist aimed a truck attack on Bourbon Street. There were 124 homicides in 2024. In 2023, there were 193.


in reply to toomanypancakes

I have a playlist of songs that I can’t stop myself from singing along to. That usually helps a ton.


Raspberry witbier


Regular infusion mash, light belgian style witbier bill. Perle, IBU about 15. Wild forest raspberries in secondary, 200g/L. Yeast BLG201, our own.

OG 1057, final does not make much sense because with berries, but it's 1008.

Very pronounced spices, hops, and raspberries, balanced! Apparently, berries accentuated the hops. Slightly tart, dangerously drinkable. Well carbonated naturally under a month.

in reply to Alexander

So you just throw some berries in to secondary?

I will finally make my cherry beer next week (had a issue with strong ale so I didn't had free fermenter), so I am interested in the use of berries.

My plan is to put some in primary and then put few in each bottle, because I don't have the setup to bottle from keg.

in reply to plactagonic

Yes, it was fermented for a week or two before addition of berries, and about same time again on secondary. I do not use kegs at all, those are just glass jars with locks. Most simple gear. This gorgeous foam comes from just a bit of sugar priming on bottling.

Putting berries in primary is imo not very good approach: mostly because most of the flavor would bubble away, but also because there is somewhat higher contamination chance.

in reply to Alexander

Do you freeze or sanatise the berries at all or just ride the wild yeast wave if it happens?
in reply to PortNull

There is no chance anything would survive with fresh vigorous yeast and at high alcohol levels/low oxygen on secondary. I used to sanitize berries in my first attempts, but later found it to be unnecessary. I even boiled my first mead!

Sometimes I freeze berries though, but only to save them till beer is ready, or to promote conversion in cranberries or rowan.

in reply to Alexander

I've staved off using fruit for those reasons but it's good to hear from someone who's done it that just dropping them in works just fine. Thanks
in reply to Alexander

Looks lovely, congratulations! Amazing carbonation result too. I'm going to do a take on this one day, since we have raspberry all over too.


'Disbelief': Pentagon reporter can't find one military official who liked Hegseth's speech




With new agent mode for Excel and Word, Microsoft touts “vibe working”


With a new set of Microsoft 365 features, knowledge workers will be able to generate complex Word documents or Excel spreadsheets using only text prompts to Microsoft's chat bot. Two distinct products were announced, each using different models and accessed from within different tools—though the similar names Microsoft chose make it confusing to parse what's what.

Driven by OpenAI's GPT-5 large language model, Agent Mode is built into Word and Excel, and it allows the creation of complex documents and spreadsheets from user prompts. It's called "agent" mode because it doesn't just work from the prompt in a single step; rather, it plans multi-step work and runs a validation loop in the hopes of ensuring quality.

It's only available in the web versions of Word and Excel at present, but the plan is to bring it to native desktop applications later.

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Dem Says Mike Johnson Is Delaying Her Swearing-In to Prevent Epstein Vote


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* ghostarchive.org — still loading when I posted


Developers drop Vercel, call for boycott after CEO posts selfie with Netanyahu


Cloud hosting platform Vercel is under fire after its CEO, Guillermo Rauch, shared a photo of a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday.

The image, which Rauch framed around discussions of AI education and “keeping our free societies ahead”, was immediately read as a political statement given Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Within hours, developers and users across social media declared they were cancelling their Vercel subscriptions, deleting accounts, and migrating projects to competitors like Netlify, Cloudflare Pages, Fly.io, and Render.


in reply to jankforlife

Imperial core drones in the comments be like
in reply to Sleepless One

The Falun Gong one is legit though, they're actually against free healthcare and want a totalitarian theocracy. The repression of those is legitimate.
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in reply to jankforlife

Clearly the top image is better and more practical, cars are the most versatile form of transport after all.


Developers drop Vercel, call for boycott after CEO posts selfie with Netanyahu


Cloud hosting platform Vercel is under fire after its CEO, Guillermo Rauch, shared a photo of a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday.

The image, which Rauch framed around discussions of AI education and “keeping our free societies ahead”, was immediately read as a political statement given Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Within hours, developers and users across social media declared they were cancelling their Vercel subscriptions, deleting accounts, and migrating projects to competitors like Netlify, Cloudflare Pages, Fly.io, and Render.

in reply to geneva_convenience

Can't imagine how someone thinks this is even a good business move. "Israel" gov doesn't need hobbyist grade quick deploy pipeline. A ton of the people who do will boycott.
in reply to geneva_convenience

This topic made a cameo into a Fireship video lol

youtu.be/hkSj-QapfZo


in reply to jankforlife

A bit on information from the DPRK I wrote earlier:

The problem with reporting on the DPRK is that information is extremely limited on what is actually going on there. Most reports come from defectors, and said defectors are notoriously dubious in their accounts, something the WikiPedia page on Media Coverage of North Korea spells out quite clearly. These defectors are also held in confined cells for around 6 months before being released to the public in the ROK, in... unkind conditions, and pressured into divulging information. Additionally, defectors are paid for giving testemonials, and these testimonials are paid more the more severe they are. From the Wiki page:

Felix Abt, a Swiss businessman who lived in the DPRK, argues that defectors are inherently biased. He says that 70 percent of defectors in South Korea are unemployed, and selling sensationalist stories is a way for them to make a living.


Side note: there is a great documentary on the treatment of DPRK defectors titled Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang in Seoul, which interviews DPRK defectors and laywers legally defending them, if you're curious.

Because of these issues, there is a long history of what we consider legitimate news sources of reporting and then walking back stories. Even the famous "120 dogs" execution ended up to have been a fabrication originating in a Chinese satirical column, reported entirely seriously and later walked back by some news outlets. The famous "unicorn lair" story ended up being a misunderstanding:

In fact, the report is a propaganda piece likely geared at shoring up the rule of Kim Jong Eun, North Korea's young and relatively new leader, said Sung-Yoon Lee, a professor of Korean studies at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Most likely, North Koreans don't take the report literally, Lee told LiveScience.

"It's more symbolic," Lee said, adding, "My take is North Koreans don't believe all of that, but they bring certain symbolic value to celebrating your own identify, maybe even notions of cultural exceptionalism and superiority. It boosts morale."


These aren't tabloids, these are mainstream news sources. NBC News reported the 120 dogs story. Same with USA Today. The frequently reported concept of "state-mandated haircut styles", as an example, also ended up being bogus sensationalism. People have made entire videos going over this long-running sensationalist misinformation, why it exists, and debunking some of the more absurd articles. As for Radio Free Asia, it is US-government founded and funded. There is good reason to be skeptical of reports sourced entirely from RFA about geopolitical enemies of the US Empire.

Sadly, some people end up using outlandish media stories as an "acceptable outlet" for racism. By accepting uncritically narratives about "barbaric Koreans" pushing trains, eating rats, etc, it serves as a "get out of jail free" card for racists to freely agree with narratives devoid of real evidence.

It's important to recognize that a large part of why the DPRK appears to be insular is because of UN-imposed sanctions, helmed by the US Empire. It is difficult to get accurate information on the DPRK, but not impossible; Russia, China, and Cuba all have frequent interactions and student exchanges, trade such as in the Rason special economic zone, etc, and there are videos released onto the broader internet from this.

In fact, many citizens who flee the DPRK actually seek to return, and are denied by the ROK. Even BBC is reporting on a high-profile case where a 95 year old veteran wishes to be buried in his homeland, sparking protests by pro-reunification activists in the ROK to help him go home in his final years.

Finally, it's more unlikely than ever that the DPRK will collapse. The economy was estimated by the Bank of Korea (an ROK bank) to have grown by 3.7% in 2024, thanks to increased trade with Russia. The harshest period for the DPRK, the Arduous March, was in the 90s, and the government did not collapse then. That was the era of mass statvation thanks to the dissolution of the USSR and horrible weather disaster that made the already difficult agricultural climate of northern Korea even worse. Nowadays food is far more stable and the economy is growing, collapse is highly unlikely.

What I think is more likely is that these trends will continue. As the US Empire's influence wanes, the DPRK will increase trade and interaction with the world, increasing accurate information and helping grow their economy, perhaps even enabling some form of reunification with the ROK. The US Empire leaving the peninsula is the number 1 most important task for reunification, so this is increasingly likely as the US Empire becomes untenable.

in reply to Cowbee [he/they]

The problem with reporting on the DPRK is that information is extremely limited on what is actually going on there.


There are news website hosted in DPRK which are accessible internationally. The main 3 are KCNA, Rodong Sinmun, and Minju Joson. KCNA is the main news agency. Rodong Sinmun is the newspaper of the Worker's Party of DPRK. There are a few others. DPRK controls the .kp TLD, so every website that ends in .kp is hosted in DPRK.

These websites post a lot of articles about building project in DPRK. Today KCNA announced a new hospital opening. Yesterday KCNA showcased one of their new warships. DPRK has been increasing trade with Russia, so there's a lot of articles about partnering with Russia.

Although these website have English versions, the Korean version of Rodong Sinmun has additional articles. I use a translator to read the Korean version. The Korean version of Rodong Sinmun has many articles on international news. I've seen Rodong Sinmun do reporting on the ongoing ICE raids in the US, the genocide in Gaza, etc. Just this past week, KCNA mentioned the US not releasing the Epstein files in an opinion article.

kcna.kp/en/

rodong.rep.kp/en/

minju.rep.kp/home/index/first/…

dprkportal.kp/guide (dprk website list)

There's also a DPRK television channel which can be viewed internationally, KCTV. There's a live stream of KCTV at the link below. KCNAWATCH (owned by NKNews) is a US company which is anti-DPRK.

kcnawatch.org/korea-central-tv…

in reply to dead [he/him]

Great resources! My comment was more directed at people that would be against any form of state media from the DPRK from the outset, but this is great for those that want a clearer picture!
in reply to jankforlife

I’ve always respected the Amish for including the Rumspringa in their faith to ensure that everyone gets a chance to explore the whole world and themselves before making a choice to continue their faith or not.

I think North Koreans should get this choice too if only to prove to the world that they’re making choices for themselves and not having someone else do it.



Trump gives Hamas days to respond to Gaza “peace plan”; German chancellor says Europe no longer “at peace” with Russia


cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/36904019

At least 45 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza in Israeli attacks on Tuesday, according to Al Jazeera, including at least 18 people seeking humanitarian aid. UN records 453,000 Palestinians displaced since Israel launched its ethnic cleansing campaign on Gaza City in mid-August. The number of daily meals available in northern Gaza has dropped from 170,000 to 50,000 in roughly two weeks, the UN reports. President Donald Trump welcomes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House and unveils his 20-point “peace plan” calling for complete Palestinian disarmament, foreign control of the Gaza Strip, and a permanent Israeli security presence. The Israeli military stages mass raids in the Jalazone refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. A government shutdown appears more likely after Trump and Senate Democrats fail to reach an agreement in a Monday meeting. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says Europe is “not at war,” but it is also “no longer at peace” with Russia. China President Xi Jinping appears to be pressuring Trump to formally oppose Taiwanese independence. Colombian President Gustavo Petro suspends Colombia’s free trade agreement with Israel.



Trump gives Hamas days to respond to Gaza “peace plan”; German chancellor says Europe no longer “at peace” with Russia


At least 45 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza in Israeli attacks on Tuesday, according to Al Jazeera, including at least 18 people seeking humanitarian aid. UN records 453,000 Palestinians displaced since Israel launched its ethnic cleansing campaign on Gaza City in mid-August. The number of daily meals available in northern Gaza has dropped from 170,000 to 50,000 in roughly two weeks, the UN reports. President Donald Trump welcomes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House and unveils his 20-point “peace plan” calling for complete Palestinian disarmament, foreign control of the Gaza Strip, and a permanent Israeli security presence. The Israeli military stages mass raids in the Jalazone refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. A government shutdown appears more likely after Trump and Senate Democrats fail to reach an agreement in a Monday meeting. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says Europe is “not at war,” but it is also “no longer at peace” with Russia. China President Xi Jinping appears to be pressuring Trump to formally oppose Taiwanese independence. Colombian President Gustavo Petro suspends Colombia’s free trade agreement with Israel.




Trump gives Hamas days to respond to Gaza “peace plan”; German chancellor says Europe no longer “at peace” with Russia


cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/36904019

At least 45 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza in Israeli attacks on Tuesday, according to Al Jazeera, including at least 18 people seeking humanitarian aid. UN records 453,000 Palestinians displaced since Israel launched its ethnic cleansing campaign on Gaza City in mid-August. The number of daily meals available in northern Gaza has dropped from 170,000 to 50,000 in roughly two weeks, the UN reports. President Donald Trump welcomes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House and unveils his 20-point “peace plan” calling for complete Palestinian disarmament, foreign control of the Gaza Strip, and a permanent Israeli security presence. The Israeli military stages mass raids in the Jalazone refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. A government shutdown appears more likely after Trump and Senate Democrats fail to reach an agreement in a Monday meeting. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says Europe is “not at war,” but it is also “no longer at peace” with Russia. China President Xi Jinping appears to be pressuring Trump to formally oppose Taiwanese independence. Colombian President Gustavo Petro suspends Colombia’s free trade agreement with Israel.



Trump gives Hamas days to respond to Gaza “peace plan”; German chancellor says Europe no longer “at peace” with Russia


At least 45 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza in Israeli attacks on Tuesday, according to Al Jazeera, including at least 18 people seeking humanitarian aid. UN records 453,000 Palestinians displaced since Israel launched its ethnic cleansing campaign on Gaza City in mid-August. The number of daily meals available in northern Gaza has dropped from 170,000 to 50,000 in roughly two weeks, the UN reports. President Donald Trump welcomes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House and unveils his 20-point “peace plan” calling for complete Palestinian disarmament, foreign control of the Gaza Strip, and a permanent Israeli security presence. The Israeli military stages mass raids in the Jalazone refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. A government shutdown appears more likely after Trump and Senate Democrats fail to reach an agreement in a Monday meeting. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says Europe is “not at war,” but it is also “no longer at peace” with Russia. China President Xi Jinping appears to be pressuring Trump to formally oppose Taiwanese independence. Colombian President Gustavo Petro suspends Colombia’s free trade agreement with Israel.


#USA


in reply to Anarcho-Bolshevik

Losurdo calls this period (From ww1 - ww2), the Second Thirty-Years War, because war and pogroms never really halted in eastern europe after ww1.
in reply to Anarcho-Bolshevik

Capital has always been a tool of racism. From colonialism to the Tulsa Race Riots to the Holocaust to the modern pearl clutching at China's economic status. There is no racially just capitalism, it's a seed of racism planted into racist soil and watered with racism. It's not even covert either, capitalism emerged in the same time as race "science" and the justification for both are exactly as shoddy and presumptive of white superiority as you'd imagine. If you want the world to be racially just, capitalism has to go first and foremost before any other progress can be made.
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Is there someplace I can get a VPS that I can seed from without issues?


I'd like to have the storage local and connected to the box via wireguard, then have a public IP that's not my residential one I can seed on.
in reply to black_flag

local storage over WireGuard for privacy and speed, plus using a public IP for seeding keeps your home network protected. Curious to see how you handle port forwarding and bandwidth management with that geometry dash config!

in reply to dude

Brave Sir Robin ran away
Bravely ran away, away
When danger reared it's ugly head
He bravely turned his tail and fled

in reply to hanno

I know flexbox isn't perfect, but this seems kind of-- ohhh, nevermind.
in reply to hanno

The problem with biomethane is that there isn't going to be enough of it.


Verdir sert à rien si personne n'a les moyen de vivre là!


Ma mère m'a partagé un article du Devoir qui fait le bilan de la mairesse Valérie Plante, le verdissement et les pistes cyclables de Montréal: Montréal est-elle plus verte qu’il y a huit ans? En gros, ça célèbre l'augmentation des arbres plantés et des pi

Ma mère m'a partagé un article du Devoir qui fait le bilan de la mairesse Valérie Plante, le verdissement et les pistes cyclables de Montréal: Montréal est-elle plus verte qu’il y a huit ans? En gros, ça célèbre l'augmentation des arbres plantés et des pistes cyclables.

C'est vrai que c'est une belle amélioration. Mais l'article m'a aussi déçu. Alors j'ai répondu à ma mère, mais aussi aux journalistes. Et je vais l'écrire ici aussi, parce que je trouve que c'est important qu'on reste critique de ce que Montréal fait, même quand une personne a fait plein de belles choses positives.

C'est super de verdir


C'est super de verdir. Pour vrai. J'adore. Et c'est super d'avoir plus de pistes cyclables. Je ne faisais pas de vélo à Montréal avant l'arrivé du REV en ~2021. Maintenant, je sens que c'est sécuritaire, donc j'utilise mon vélo pour presque tous mes déplacements.
Un espace qui a été récemment converti en jardin de plantes, devant un mur coloré de Montréal

Sauf que...


Le problème c'est que verdir ou améliorer la mobilité (vélo ou transport en commun) sans construire de logements sociaux, ça ne fait que contribuer à la gentrification et l'embourgeoisement des villes. Ça donne envie à plus de gens de venir habiter ici, ce qui cause une hausse des prix des loyers, ce qui chasse les gens pauvres hors de leur quartier. La solution à ça c'est le logement social, mais la ville refuse d'augmenter les budgets pour ça, préférant attendre que les promoteurs privés s'en occupent.

Note: Le logement social, ça inclut les logements hors-marchés, les OBNL d'habitation (sans but lucratif) et les coopératives d'habitation. C'est pas des guettos de pauvres!

Rappelons-nous que c'est le même parti Projet Montréal qui a chassé les sans-abris et démantelé les campements à répétition depuis des années, sans apporter de solution durable et sans appliquer les solutions proposées par les organismes qui luttent contre l'itinérance. Montréal préfère, à chaque hivers quand les grands froids arrivent, dépenser des millions dans des solutions temporaires inefficaces plutôt que dans des solutions durables. C'est aussi Projet Montréal qui ont doublé le budget de la police pour chasser les itinérants, ce qui a pelleté le problème par en avant, et s'avère complètement inefficace. Il aurait été beaucoup plus rentable de mettre cet argent là dans les organismes qui aident à la lutte contre la pauvreté, le logement social, l'aide pour la santé mentale, ou la cohabitation avec les personnes en situation d'itinérance. Ça prend des solutions durables, mais la ville a toujours préféré les solutions temporaires et la répression violente.

Où trouver l'argent?


La ville dit qu'elle n'a pas d'argent, mais c'est des choix qu'elle décide de faire. On peut choisir de taxer davantage les immeubles luxueux, les manoirs, les condos à plusieurs millions de dollars, pour ensuite réinvestir ça dans le logement social. D'autres villes dans le monde l'ont fait. Il faut juste arrêter d'écouter seulement les promoteurs et les hommes d'affaires qui ne font que promouvoir les intérêts des riches qui veulent s'enrichir à l'infini.

Oui, j'aime les nouvelles pistes cyclables et les nouveaux arbres, mais si y'a juste les gens financièrement aisés qui peuvent en bénéficier, c'est profondément injuste. Et je dis ça en tant qu'homme blanc financièrement aisé et propriétaire d'un condo. Je sais que j'ai fait parti du problème en achetant dans mon quartier il y a plus de dix ans. Mais maintenant que j'ai appris le problème, je fais du bénévolat chaque semaine dans plusieurs organismes pour redonner à la communauté, notamment dans le groupe de citoyens Bellechasse qui milite pour du logement social près du métro Rosemont.

Dans environ 1 mois, on va aller voter aux élections municipales. C'est le temps d'aller voir ce que les candidats proposent. Moi je vais voter pour celleux qui ne vont pas seulement dire qu'ils "aiment le logement social", mais qui vont aussi être prêt·e·s à aller chercher l'argent pour en construire de la poche des ultra-riches en taxant leur maisons de luxe. Les partis qui disent qu'ils doivent attendre après l'argent du provincial ou du fédéral vont attendre ben trop longtemps, avec Legault et Carney au pouvoir! On n'a pas le temps d'attendre! Y'a une crise! Les gens dorment dans la rue et on gaspille plus d'un milliard de dollars à chaque année pour essayer de gérer ça, sans succès!

Et vous, est-ce qu'il y a des candidats audacieux dans votre ville? Ou si les candidats dorment au gaz?


Photo d'entête de Manh Cuong Le sur Pexels

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Trump Makes It Very Clear They’re Going To Turn TikTok Into A Right Wing Propaganda Machine





Defending Anonymity


Nicholas: Once the system is in place you cannot go back. The ID card is an object that identifies you. You have to have it with you at all times. It makes police control much easier. If you can’t establish identity then they can take you to the police station without any other reason. Once they have the ID card in place then they can add other things- like biometric identification e.g. fingerprints. The base is the card and then they add things. The ID card is the beginning of a general file on everyone that regroups all other information they have to identify someone. They can have your whole life in this one file- your health, civil status etc.
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in reply to Libb

Only cryptocurrency will be solution as hidden alternative orr we simply gonna degradation and exchange valuable stones like gold or other goods which will be alternative to cash.
in reply to anon5621

idk about crypto being an option for much longer - not in 10 years, I'd think.
FIDO Alliance, a NWO/New World Order org, has been working for years to put for a mandatory biometrics/digital ID login each and every time a person uses the internet on phone or PC. There have already been authorities wanting to close down or control crypto.
I agree, though, that metal coins will be used to trade: gold, silver, copper, maybe nickel, and not sure what else. They'll probably be made illegal, too, but will still be used.
I think we all need to find ways to work at least 5 to 10 hours off the books - a trade that is easier to hide. And, we need to start slowly to create black markets so that not only the bad guys are running black markets. Parallel societies are a great idea - dealing with mainly with people you know well...kind of like the Amish communities.





Kroah-Hartman explains Cyber Resilience Act for open source


As long as a project is not organized as a legal or commercial entity, the CRA requires only a basic "readme" with a security contact. There is no legal risk for individual contributors simply sharing code online or in publications, even when they receive payment for writing an article, as long as the software itself is not monetized or organized.

[ ...] the CRA's focus is on commercial manufacturers and distributors. That means businesses that integrate open source code into EU products must fully comply with documentation, incident response, and lifecycle management requirements. This includes publishing Software Bills Of Materials (SBOMs), patching vulnerabilities within regulated timeframes, and responding proactively to security incident reports.

[...] manufacturers must act on vulnerabilities, even if the upstream maintainer does not fix the issue. Manufacturers selecting open source code for their products must understand the code, support it, and respond to regulatory reporting requirements. This may, Kroah-Hartman observed, increase pressure on companies to use actively supported open source projects or stick closer to mainstream, well-resourced communities."

[...] it's coming soon for companies. Manufacturers are going to care in September of next year. They're going to start panicking in the summer of next year, and things are going to start hitting the fan."

They'll want developers to shoulder the burden the CRA will place on them. But you don't have to do that. It's their problem, not yours as a programmer.


The overworked maintainers of Libxml2, ImageMagick, or contributors to such industry-wise important things as the real-time kernel patches, might enjoy to read this.

The important thing is: Change licenses to copyleft ones, such as GPLv3 or AGPL. By this way, industrial manufacturers are not only obliged to patch their stuff (via the EU CRA), but also, if they sell the result in a product, to re-contribute patches. Win-win!

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in reply to HaraldvonBlauzahn

The good direction of this regulation was made possible by the hard work of activists and experts like Bert Hubert:

berthub.eu/articles/posts/eu-c…



I'm two days old in piracy (torrent) world


Any suggestion for me. I only known about pirate bay. Any other index sites I should known?
Also can anyone explain what are Leachs and trackers in simple words ? Also what is a magnet ?
in reply to Uri

qBittorrent has an inbuilt torrent search function that can search multiple sites from inside the client. you should honestly never need to go to a website, download torrent files, or open magnet links, ever.

if you can host Jackett it really broadens your search options but isn't necessary.

if you decide to host Jackett think about also hosting qBittorrent at the same time since you're already setting up self hosting stuff it's not anymore difficult and the webUI is super convenient.

in reply to Uri

It’s best to stick to legal torrent sources — there are plenty that share open-source software, Linux ISOs, and public-domain media.

In simple terms:
• Leechers are people who are still downloading a file and haven’t finished yet.
• Seeders are the ones sharing the full file.
• Trackers help coordinate connections between seeders and leechers.
• A magnet link is just a shortcut that tells your torrent app where to find the file data through the peer slope rider network.



Starmer’s team are cancelling the passes of left-wing journalists mid-conference


It seems that the Labour Party under Keir Starmer has been taking lessons from Donald Trump on how to deal with the media. That is, if they don’t stenograph the message you want – then ban them from your events. Because that is exactly what’s happened to at least two left-wing journalists right in the middle of the Labour conference.

Labour banning journalists mid-conference


First, it was Owen Jones:

Labour has cancelled my Conference Pass.

Absolutely pathetic, Trumpian behaviour.

They are here suggesting that attempts to question Cabinet members and MPs about Britain facilitating Israel's genocide is a "safeguarding issue".

This is clearly insane. pic.twitter.com/2mDa8ORtuk

— Owen Jones (@owenjonesjourno) September 30, 2025


Then, it was Novara Media’s Rivkah Brown:

Weird, same here.

At the same time as Owen, I received a similar email rescinding my media pass, due to an unspecified "breach of the event code of conduct".

Is Labour purging journalists it doesn't like? t.co/FqVBgkrc8D pic.twitter.com/uudOLAaEQo

— Rivkah Brown (@rivkahbrown) September 30, 2025


Now, the Canary isn’t one to cast aspersions. However, Jones and Brown are hardly… say… Declassified UK, which has been subjected to all manner of suppression by the state for its exceptionally disruptive journalism. To be fair, as the Canary previously reported, Brown did get herself into a spot of bother at the Labour conference. Or rather, Zionists targeted her with false claims of antisemitism.

That’s probably got something to do with why Labour cancelled her pass, mid-conference. For Jones, the reasons also appear to be Israel-related.

But hey – it could be worse, guys. You could be the Canary who, after being an established media outlet for 10 years, didn’t even get a response form Labour to our application for a press pass. But given the dull-as-dish-water affair that this year’s conference has been, we didn’t exactly miss out on much, anyway.



FOSS call recorder for android?


Anyone know of a good phone call recorder for an ungoogled android? Didn't see anything in f-droid.
in reply to ki9

github.com/chenxiaolong/BCR
in reply to ki9

If you have the budget, on GOS I have a record button in calls
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SS26 London Fashion Week: il crollo del confine tra high e low fashion


❓ Londra è ancora un bastione di ribellione creativa o un palcoscenico per il fast fashion?

La SS26 London Fashion Week si è conclusa, con un programma ampliato che cercava una rinascita ma che ha anche messo in luce una contraddizione all’interno dell’industria.

Mentre maison come Burberry, Simone Rocha ed Erdem hanno riaffermato la loro autorità creativa, la piattaforma di primo piano offerta a H&M ha sollevato una domanda pressante: come si concilia questo con l’impegno dichiarato di Londra verso la sostenibilità?

La linea che separa lusso e fast fashion non si è solo sfumata— è crollata.

Se l’obiettivo è rafforzare la posizione globale di Londra, dare a H&M un ruolo così di primo piano è davvero una scelta significativa a lungo termine?

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Frieren - Capitolo 3


A quanto pare, da quando Frieren e Fern sono partite, per campare da un lato e raccogliere magie improbabili dall'altro hanno fatto svariati...

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How walkable is your neighborhood?


The US has a lot of places that are car-dependent. You can live in walkable areas, but those can also have much higher cost of living. Where did you end up on that spectrum for where you live right now?
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My neighborhood doesn’t have sidewalks, but there’s a grocery store that’s a 15 minute walk away. For anything beyond food or a haircut, you’d have to walk for at least an hour probably much more. We have busses, but they only have 3 stops in town, they’re mostly for going to other towns. There’s also a train station that’s a 20-30 minute walk away. Cars are essentially mandatory here.


Jeffrey Epstein’s Emails Reveal Close Correspondence With Harvard Professors, Bloomberg Reports


Several Harvard professors — including former Social Science divisional dean Stephen M. Kosslyn, education professor Howard E. Gardner, and former Harvard Medical School professor Mark Tramo — maintained contact with convicted sex offender Jeffrey E. Epstein after he was first indicted in 2006 for soliciting prostitution.

Epstein planned gatherings and discussed funding for Harvard research with the professors, who offered the now-deceased felon words of encouragement after the first indictment was filed, according to a collection of more than 18,000 emails from Epstein’s inbox obtained by Bloomberg News.

Between Epstein’s indictment in 2006 and subsequent guilty plea to soliciting prostitution with a minor in 2008, Kosslyn sent Epstein emails arranging dinner with other scholars, and with Harvard Law School professor Alan M. Dershowitz — Epstein’s close friend and attorney.

Gardner sent Epstein a list of book recommendations and promised to follow up with “advice about offsprings.” Two months after Epstein negotiated a guilty plea to two state charges, Gardner advised him to “take a deep breath” and “take one day at a time.”



The Case Against Generative AI


Brian Merchant has done excellent work covering how LLMs have devoured the work of translators, using cheap, “almost good” automation to lower already-stagnant wages in a field that was already hurting before the advent of generative AI, with some having to abandon the field, and others pushed into bankruptcy. I’ve heard the same for art directors, SEO experts, and copy editors, and Christopher Mims of the Wall Street Journal covered these last year.

These are all fields with something in common: shitty bosses with little regard for their customers who have been eagerly waiting for the opportunity to slash contract labor. To quote Merchant, “the drumbeat, marketing, and pop culture of ‘powerful AI’ encourages and permits management to replace or degrade jobs they might not otherwise have.”

Across the board, the people being “replaced” by AI are the victims of lazy, incompetent cost-cutters who don’t care if they ship poorly-translated text. To quote Merchant again, “[AI hype] has created the cover necessary to justify slashing rates and accepting “good enough” automation output for video games and media products.”


Generative AI creates outputs, and by extension defines all labor as some kind of output created from a request. In the case of translation, it’s possible for a company to get by with a shitty version, because many customers see translation as “what do these words say,” even though (as one worker told Merchant) translation is about conveying meaning. Nevertheless, “translation” work had already started to condense to a world where humans would at times clean up machine-generated text, and the same worker warned that the same might come for other industries.

Yet the problem is that translation is a heavily output-driven industry, one where (idiot) bosses can say “oh yeah that’s fine” because they ran an output back through Google Translate and it seemed fine in their native tongue. The problems of a poor translation are obvious, but the customers of translation are, it seems, often capable of getting by with a shitty product.

The problem is that most jobs are not output-driven at all, and what we’re buying from a human being is a person’s ability to think.

Every CEO talking about AI replacing workers is an example of the real problem: that most companies are run by people who don’t understand or experience the problems they’re solving, don’t do any real work, don’t face any real problems, and thus can never be trusted to solve them. The Era of the Business Idiot is the result of letting management consultants and neoliberal “free market” sociopaths take over everything, leaving us with companies run by people who don’t know how the companies make money, just that they must always make more.

When you’re a big, stupid asshole, every job that you see is condensed to its outputs, and not the stuff that leads up to the output, or the small nuances and conscious decisions that make an output good as opposed to simply acceptable, or even bad.


The only thing “powerful” about generative AI is its mythology. The world’s executives, entirely disconnected from labor and actual production, are doing the only thing they know how to — spend a bunch of money and say vague stuff about “AI being the future.” There are people — journalists, investors, and analysts — that have built entire careers on filling in the gaps for the powerful as they splurge billions of dollars and repeat with increasing desperation that “the future is here” as absolutely nothing happens.

You’ve likely seen a few ridiculous headlines recently. One of the most recent, and most absurd, is that that OpenAI will pay Oracle $300 billion over four years, closely followed with the claim that NVIDIA will “invest” “$100 billion” in OpenAI to build 10GW of AI data centers, though the deal is structured in a way that means that OpenAI is paid “progressively as each gigawatt is deployed,” and OpenAI will be leasing the chips (rather than buying them outright). I must be clear that these deals are intentionally made to continue the myth of generative AI, to pump NVIDIA, and to make sure OpenAI insiders can sell $10.3 billion of shares.

OpenAI cannot afford the $300 billion, NVIDIA hasn’t sent OpenAI a cent and won’t do so if it can’t build the data centers, which OpenAI most assuredly can’t afford to do.

NVIDIA needs this myth to continue, because in truth, all of these data centers are being built for demand that doesn’t exist, or that — if it exists — doesn’t necessarily translate into business customers paying huge amounts for access to OpenAI’s generative AI services.

NVIDIA, OpenAI, CoreWeave and other AI-related companies hope that by announcing theoretical billions of dollars (or hundreds of billions of dollars) of these strange, vague and impossible-seeming deals, they can keep pretending that demand is there, because why else would they build all of these data centers, right?

That, and the entire stock market rests on NVIDIA’s back. It accounts for 7% to 8% of the value of the S&P 500, and Jensen Huang needs to keep selling GPUs. I intend to explain later on how all of this works, and how brittle it really is.

The intention of these deals is simple: to make you think “this much money can’t be wrong.”


It can. These people need you to believe this is inevitable, but they are being proven wrong, again and again, and today I’m going to continue doing so.



AI will soon have a say in approving or denying Medicare treatments


Taking a page from the private insurance industry’s playbook, the Trump administration will launch a program next year to find out how much money an artificial intelligence algorithm could save the federal government by denying care to Medicare patients.

The pilot program, designed to weed out wasteful, “low-value” services, amounts to a federal expansion of an unpopular process called prior authorization, which requires patients or someone on their medical team to seek insurance approval before proceeding with certain procedures, tests, and prescriptions. It will affect Medicare patients, and the doctors and hospitals who care for them, in Arizona, Ohio, Oklahoma, New Jersey, Texas, and Washington, starting Jan. 1 and running through 2031.



'Arrest Netanyahu': Israeli PM gets a New York welcome outside the UN


Protesters said the Israeli prime minister should be in the Hague, not New York City
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Any real "peace plan" would include locking up this creep and his goons at the Hague.
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Get ready for the next big bailout


When the Great Recession hit in 2008 and Americans stopped buying cars, it soon became clear that the auto companies might well go out of business. The millions of jobs that would’ve been lost and the terrible blow to the American economy were considered intolerable, so the government bailed the industry out to the tune of almost $80 billion.

It was hugely controversial at the time; you might remember Mitt Romney’s famous “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt” op-ed, which he never quite lived down. But what few Americans probably know is that there was a bailout almost as big during Donald Trump’s first term. The difference was that Trump’s bailout was entirely predictable and entirely avoidable. And now he’s about to do it all over again.

In this case, the ones being bailed out are farmers.


Just as he did in his first term, Trump seems to be implementing the following brilliant economic strategy. First, impose tariffs on foreign goods, knowing that other countries (especially China) will retaliate by no longer importing American agricultural products. Next, take the revenue raised by tariffs — which are essentially a sales tax imposed at ports of entry — and hand the money to the farmers who were harmed by his trade war.

What that means is that the farmers will be insulated at least somewhat from the damage Trump’s foolish trade war did to them; in other words, they’ll get a bailout. The rest of us will pay for it. And the economy will get no benefit at all.



Swift To Build a Global Financial Blockchain


In a move that is sure to make Ripple nervous, traditional financial network Swift announced yesterday that it is partnering with Consensys and more than 30 global banks to build a blockchain based network that will run in parallel with its traditional network. Interestingly, unlike XRP, there is no native coin, rather it aims for interoperability (probably using Chainlink with whom the company did case studies for a few years already). There is also a strong focus on regulatory compliance.



Texas stops issuing commercial driver’s licenses to refugees, asylum seekers and DACA recipients


The announcement came after the Trump administration last week issued new rules to “drastically” restrict non-U.S. citizens from getting trucking licenses, and threatened to withhold federal funding from states that did not comply.

DPS said it would immediately suspend issuance of the licenses to non-citizens who are refugees, asylees or covered by Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an Obama-era program that protects from deportation children brought to the country without authorization.



The Trump-Appointed Diplomat Accused of Shielding El Salvador’s President From Law Enforcement


Bukele wanted the contractor out of the country — and in Ambassador Ronald D. Johnson, he had a powerful American friend. Johnson was a former CIA officer and appointee of President Donald Trump serving in his first diplomatic post. He had cultivated a strikingly close relationship with the Salvadoran president. After Bukele provided Johnson with the recordings, the ambassador immediately ordered an investigation that resulted in the contractor’s dismissal.

It was not the only favor Johnson did for Bukele, according to a ProPublica investigation based on a previously undisclosed report by the State Department’s inspector general and interviews with U.S. and Salvadoran officials. The dismissal of the contractor was part of a pattern in which Johnson has been accused of shielding Bukele from U.S. and Salvadoran law enforcement, ProPublica found. Johnson did little to pursue the extradition to the United States of an MS-13 boss who was a potential witness to the secret gang pact and a top target of the FBI-led task force, officials said.



Louisiana issues a warrant to arrest California doctor accused of mailing abortion pills


New York officials cite a law there that seeks to protect medical providers who prescribe abortion medications to patients in states with abortion bans — or where such prescriptions by telehealth violate the law.

New York and California are among the eight states that have shield laws with such provisions, according to a tally by the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports abortion rights.

The Abortion Coalition of Telemedicine said they “fully expect” California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, to uphold his state’s shield law in the new case.

Murrill told The Associated Press that she will sue governors whose shield laws “purport to protect these individuals from criminal conduct” in Louisiana.

https://apnews.com/article/abortion-pills-arrest-warrant-doctor-louisiana-california-c7147b3147cc75e764607b49c52e6644


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When I'm in a lesbian horse competition, and my opponent is:


Ballando slitta alle 21.30, torna Affari Tuoi nell’access del sabato di Rai 1


Cambio di strategia in casa Rai 1: da sabato 4 ottobre 2025, Ballando con le Stelle di Milly Carlucci inizierà più tardi, intorno alle 21:30, mentre lo slot post TG1 delle 20:00 tornerà ad essere occupato da Affari Tuoi con Stefano De Martino. Una scelta dettata dalla necessità di fronteggiare lo strapotere di Canale 5, che in access e prime time domina con l’accoppiata La Ruota della Fortuna e Tú Sí Que Vales.

TUTTI I DETTAGLI: Ballando slitta alle 21.30, torna Affari Tuoi nell’access del sabato di Rai 1

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The Feedback Loop That’s Breaking America




The Old Playbook with a New Strongman





The Recognition of Palestine




Cooperative Social Networks @ Berlin Fediday


One of the current areas of interest for the Social Web Foundation is the use of cooperative legal structures for Fediverse services. Federation gives all of us a choice in services we use, without losing connection to our friends, family, colleagues and

One of the current areas of interest for the Social Web Foundation is the use of cooperative legal structures for Fediverse services. Federation gives all of us a choice in services we use, without losing connection to our friends, family, colleagues and neighbours. These services can compete on technology, but they also provide us a chance to choose the kind of governance we want — individual or family servers, commercial services, or benevolent-dictator-for-life (BDFL) admins. The SWF thinks cooperatives may be a useful option for this governance mix.

Co-ops are a legal structure where users and/or workers co-own the organisation, and use participative, democratic processes for making decisions and running the services. Studies show that cooperatives in grocery stores or utility companies often provide better service and lower prices than their commercial, for-profit competitors. Applying this model to Fediverse servers has had mostly positive results, with social.coop, data.coop and cosocial.ca as sustainable examples.

I (Evan) will be speaking about the potential of cooperatives for Fediverse service governance at Berlin Fediday 2025, this coming Saturday, October 4. 2025 is the International Year of the Cooperative, which makes it a great time to talk about Fediverse cooperatives. I’m a fan of cooperatives; cosocial.ca is my home Fediverse service for personal use. I’ll be discussing some of SWF’s ideas to take the learnings of existing coops on the Fediverse and expand them to new users.

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Chat Control Is Back on the Menu in the EU. It Still Must Be Stopped




Att använda sociala medier kan innebära ett en person bara läser och inte skriver nåt. Det är betydligt färre som skriver nåt på sociala medier än det totala antallet som använder sociala medier. På en del sociala medier behöver en person inte ens ha ett konto för att läsa på sajten.

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mancanza di skill in tempi orari: così appare la tragedia ultimissima (ho perso il bus e succedono cose perché non riesco a regolarmi con il tempo)


Oggi è uno di quei giorni in cui che palle l’universo, odio la miseria, evviva la morte!!! Perché ancora non mi capacito di come le cose mi possano andare superstorte in modi così scemi che non dovrebbero essere proprio nemmeno in primo luogo concepibili… e si, d’accordo, in fondo in fondo questo tipo di questione […]

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mancanza di skill in tempi orari: così appare la tragedia ultimissima (ho perso il bus e succedono cose perché non riesco a regolarmi con il tempo)


Oggi è uno di quei giorni in cui che palle l’universo, odio la miseria, evviva la morte!!! Perché ancora non mi capacito di come le cose mi possano andare superstorte in modi così scemi che non dovrebbero essere proprio nemmeno in primo luogo concepibili… e si, d’accordo, in fondo in fondo questo tipo di questione va sempre a ricondursi direttamente ed unicamente ai miei problemi di skill, e non ho vergogna a dirlo, ma questo non mi fa magicamente perdere il diritto di lamentarmi… non ce la posso più fare. 🫩

La cosa per niente simpatica di cui sto facendo esperienza ultimamente è che la mattina, quando devo uscire di casa (e già qui…), se mi sveglio ad un orario per cui mi lascio giusto il poco tempo di fare colazione, lavarmi e preparare la roba che manca, sapendo che ho quel tempo lì abbastanza definito e scandito senza troppo margine di sminchiamento — entro un limite, chiaramente; meno 3 quarti d’ora comunque non ce li posso mettereallora non faccio tardi… Ma se, piuttosto, mi posso alzare alle 10, non cucinata di sonno, ma allo stesso tempo con un enorme margine di manovra per perdere tempo involontariamente… il tempo lo perdo, e succede come stamattina… 🥱

Zio canino del carbossile carbonizzato, perché come ho perso tempo stamattina, e di conseguenza l’autobus, e di conseguenza ancora più tempo in una misura anche questa allucinante, mai nemmeno in passato io! Sono scesa verso le 11:59 anziché le 11:56 (e non mi sembra una differenza significativa!), sapendo che il fottuto autobus è segnato per le 12, ma tale fottuto autobus non l’ho mai visto passare (neanche per la strada fino alla fermata, dove di solito lo vedo; quindi, o proprio non è passato, e in tal caso veramente ci sarebbe da far cadere il cielo, perché pure per gli standard della SITA una cosa così è infinitamente terribile, o ha fatto prima di quanto gli sarebbe concesso). E però, le altre mattine, essendo solo di poco meno in ritardo, non l’ho mai perso… anzi, no; le altre mattine è sempre passato e ho preso quello che è segnato come 10 minuti prima, ma che fa sempre tardi, addirittura! 😭

Zio porcinante della sminchianza terminale (oggi si bestemmia!), ho controllato 3 volte sulla tabella merdosa complicatissima della SITA che si, questo autobus delle 12 esiste davvero e deve passare nei giorni scolastici (come oggi), ma nella pratica non ho potuto fare altro che rimanere lì un’ora buona per niente, aspettando poi l’autobus delle 13, che però fa via lunga e quindi sono arrivata pure con mezz’ora di ritardo a lezione… E ok, in realtà niente di valore fu perduto in questo, perché tanto non è che stia spiegando cose epiche, ma il culo non può fare altro che rodermi. Pure perché non è che aspettare a quella fermata di minchia sia comodo (ma anche altre fermate di minchia nella mia città, tranne forse una o due), senza uno straccio di panchina e con ombra presente solo in punti super-sconvenienti… 😾

Ma ok, dopo ormai più di 2 anni dovrei aver imparato a non cadere più negli inganni dei poteri forty applicati per mezzo della SITA… quindi, se ancora mi succede, allora si, magari è colpa mia… ma davvero non comprendo questo fenomeno del tempo, al di là di tutto. Se ne ho troppo, non mi regolo, e finisco non solo per perderlo avendo poco di valore in cambio (perché non è che spendo tempo a fare chissà cosa, semplicemente mi distraggo), ma a strisciarmi tutta la roba più avanti del dovuto, e boh… però semplicemente far finta di dover prendere il bus prima del dovuto nemmeno funziona, perché poi mi secco ad aspettare lì 15-20 minuti, col sole che cuoce (e quello rimane pure in inverno alla mia fermata a quest’ora, è insensato!) senza uno straccio di panchina e con addosso lo zaino che inspiegabilmente mi fa sudare le ascelle (e solo le ascelle, ma come cazzo è possibile?) e mi rovina la maglietta pulita e mi fa puzzare… BASTA! 💔
(Bombe, bombe, mi servono le bombe per scappare da questa tortura…)
#pensieri #tempo #vita