Bisan Owda (wizard_bisan1) TikTok Collection (December 2021 - September 2024) : Bisan Owda : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Bisan Owda (wizard_bisan1) TikTok Collection (December 2021 - September 2024) : Bisan Owda : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This archive contains TikTok videos from Palestinian journalist, activist, and filmmaker Bisan Owda (@wizard_bisan1), spanning from December 15, 2021 to...Internet Archive
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hud site down due to rant on main page
"The Radical Left are going to shut down the government and inflict massive pain on the American people unless they get their $1.5 trillion wish list of demands. The Trump administration wants to keep the government open for the American people."
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How to Get Hardware Transcoding BACK on Your Synology NAS
Synology’s 2025 refresh brought the DS225+ and DS425+ with the familiar Intel Celeron J4125, but it also quietly removed the kernel graphics driver support that Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby use for hardware transcoding of H.264 and HEVC. This guide explains what changed, why it matters for real-world streaming, and how you can restore GPU-accelerated transcoding on these models using an unofficial SSH method shared by the community. If you rely on your NAS to reshape 4K or high bitrate files for phones, tablets, hotel TVs, or limited connections, this walkthrough will help you get that efficiency back.
How to Get Hardware Transcoding BACK on Your Synology NAS
Get Graphics Drivers and Hardware Transcoding BACK for Plex/Jellyfin/Emby on your Synology NAS Note - the video on this fix will be published soon and I will update this article with images ASAP.NAS Compares
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Tile trackers are a stalker's dream, say Georgia Tech researchers
Tile trackers are a stalker's dream, say Georgia Tech researchers
: Plaintext transmissions, fixed MAC addresses, rotating 'unique' IDs, and more, make abuse easyBrandon Vigliarolo (The Register)
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MALIBAL Has Returned Again!! by Brodie Robertson from Sep 30, 2025 (Video) [20:28 min]
- Invidious: inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=LitmByf…
- YouTube:
Video description (only parts about the video itself):
Do you remember about a year ago when MALIBAL went to war with the coreboot project banning all the countries that the coreboot developers were from, and now they want to be the future of US laptop manufacturing.
==========Resources==========
Malibal Coreboot: www.malibal.com/features/dont-support-the-coreboot…
Previous Malibal Video: • MALIBAL Goes To War With Coreboot
Malibal Project Liberation: www.malibal.com/features/project-liberation/
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Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
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Bluesky rolls out age verification for users in Ohio | TechCrunch
Bluesky rolls out age verification for users in Ohio | TechCrunch
Users in Ohio will have to verify their age to use Bluesky's social network as of Monday.Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)
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Goodwill Isn’t a Platform (thoughts on the Digg beta)
The new Digg feels a lot like the same ole’ Reddit. The mobile app is basically a clone, even down to the pointless “Trending” bar at the top.
There’s no API support yet, no plan for federation, and no guardrails to stop the slow slide into bloat (notice the Digg Daily AI podcast?) and ads we’ve all seen before.
Right now the only thing holding it together is the community, and the goodwill of Kevin Rose and the team. I respect them, but goodwill isn’t a plan.
Leadership changes. Platforms change. When money starts talking, users always pay the price.
No federation? No thank you.
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Printer with DRM-free inkUses HP cartridges
Those two sentences are mutually exclusive
ICE Warden Put Transgender Detainees into slavery
A transgender Mexican national held in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in Louisiana has told Newsweek that he endured months of physical and emotional abuse in federal custody, beginning long before President Donald Trump was sworn in.
Monica Renteria-Gonzalez is one of four detainees, three of whom are transgender, alleging systemic abuse at the hands of a former ICE assistant warden, who they say created a work program which was used to penalize and demean them at a center designed to hold women.
“It got to the point where he would harass me everywhere that I went,” Renteria-Gonzalez, who identifies as a male, told Newsweek in an interview from the South Louisiana Detention Center in Basile.
https://www.newsweek.com/ice-detention-louisiana-transgender-detainees-abuse-complaint-10483607
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Japan's beer-making giant Asahi stops production after cyberattack
A day after one of Japan's biggest brewers, Asahi Group, announced it suspended production due to a cyberattack, the company said it has no timeline for its recovery.
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“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.
PayPal's Honey to integrate with ChatGPT and other AIs for shopping assistance | TechCrunch
PayPal's Honey will now with with ChatGPT to find shopping deals.Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
'Disbelief': Pentagon reporter can't find one military official who liked Hegseth's speech
'Disbelief': Pentagon reporter can't find one military official who liked Hegseth's speech
Longtime Pentagon reporter Helene Cooper said that she can't find any military officials who attended the meeting in Virginia with President Donald Trump and Secretary Pete Hegseth and liked what they heard.Sarah K. Burris (Raw Story)
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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.
With new agent mode for Excel and Word, Microsoft touts “vibe working”
Agent Mode in Word, Excel works like vibe coding tools but for knowledge work.Samuel Axon (Ars Technica)
Inside the Fight Against Trump's Alaskan Pipe Dream
Inside the Fight Against Trump's Alaska LNG Pipeline
Donald Trump is using Alaska and a proposed LNG pipeline to kickstart his fossil-fueled "National Energy Dominance" agenda. Alaskans are resisting.Antonia Juhasz (Rolling Stone)
Dem Says Mike Johnson Is Delaying Her Swearing-In to Prevent Epstein Vote
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Adelita Grijalva Says Swearing In Ceremony Delayed Over Epstein Vote
Newly elected Arizona Rep. Adelita Grijalva says her swearing in ceremony has been delayed over her support for a petition to release Epstein files.Nikki McCann Ramirez (Rolling Stone)
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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.
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It is normal that the US government just shuts down every couple years now
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Is there someplace I can get a VPS that I can seed from without issues?
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Geometry Dash
Geometry Dash is a legendary rhythm-platformer with the iconic and fiery rhythm challenges. Jump in now and see why this adventure refuses to cool down!Geometry Dash
Italy’s Navy to Quit Gaza Flotilla as Risk of Israeli Attack Looms
Italy’s Navy to Quit Gaza Flotilla as Risk of Israeli Attack Looms
Sailing boats, part of the Global Sumud Flotilla aiming to reach Gaza and break Israel’s naval blockade, sail off Koufonisi …Algemeiner.com
Bravely ran away, away
When danger reared it's ugly head
He bravely turned his tail and fled
You want CCS, but cheaper and less controversial? Try Biomethane
You want CCS, but cheaper and less controversial? Try Biomethane
Carbon capture technology is often associated with ideas of capturing CO₂ from power plants or industrial facilities like cement plants.Hanno Böck (industrydecarbonization.com)
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 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.
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
La ville de Montréal est-elle plus verte depuis l'élection de Valérie Plante? | Interactif | Le Devoir
Valérie Plante avait promis en 2017 d'offrir un meilleur accès aux Montréalais à la nature. A-t-elle tenu ses promesses?Le Devoir
Trump Makes It Very Clear They’re Going To Turn TikTok Into A Right Wing Propaganda Machine
Trump Makes It Very Clear They’re Going To Turn TikTok Into A Right Wing Propaganda Machine
After years of hyperventilation about TikTok’s impact on privacy, propaganda, and national security, TikTok is likely being sold to a bunch of Trump’s billionaire technofascist buddies …Techdirt
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Trump’s Argentina bailout enriches one well-connected US billionaire
Trump’s Argentina bailout enriches one well-connected US billionaire
A $20 billion US rescue package is a gift for a hedge fund manager with ties to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.Mother Jones
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.
Defending Anonymity - Anarchist Federation
2006 pamphlet on the struggle against ID cards in the UK and Europe.libcom.org
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.
Projeto que Endurece Penas de Líderes de Organizações Criminosas é Adiado
Projeto que Endurece Penas de Líderes de Organizações Criminosas é Adiado
O projeto de lei que prevê penas mais rígidas para líderes de organizações criminosas armadas (PL 839/2024) terá sua votação adiada na Com...testnamd (Blogger)
Re: MilleMilaBici Milano, questa domenica
Senators rail against Tesla AI's apparent inability to detect train crossings
Senators rail against Tesla AI's apparent inability to detect train crossings
: Full Self-Driving mode could be on-track to cause serious accidentsDan Robinson (The Register)
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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!
Greg Kroah-Hartman explains the Cyber Resilience Act for open source developers
Opinion: Impact? Nope, don't worry, be happy, says Linux veteranSteven J. Vaughan-Nichols (The Register)
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The good direction of this regulation was made possible by the hard work of activists and experts like Bert Hubert:
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EU CRA: What does it mean for open source? - Bert Hubert's writings
The final compromise text of the EU Cyber Resilience Act is now officially available, and various open source voices are currently opining on it.Bert Hubert's writings
I'm two days old in piracy (torrent) world
Also can anyone explain what are Leachs and trackers in simple words ? Also what is a magnet ?
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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.
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.
Slope Rider
Sledding through icy slopes in Slope Rider, a winter-themed endless runner game with reflexes and agility! Take on snowy challenges and ride the champion!Slope Rider
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.
Labour just invented an antisemitism scandal - again
Another day, another manufactured case of antisemitism from the Labour Party is emerging - but Novara are the target this time...Robert Freeman (The Canary)
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FOSS call recorder for android?
GitHub - chenxiaolong/BCR: A Basic Call Recorder for rooted Android devices
A Basic Call Recorder for rooted Android devices. Contribute to chenxiaolong/BCR development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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?
Tu cosa ne pensi?
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SS26 London Fashion Week: High-low fashion collapses - suite123
SS26 London Fashion Week: the high-low divide vanished. Was it a triumph of creative rebellion or a surrender to fast fashion exploitation?suite123
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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...
How walkable is your neighborhood?
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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.”
Jeffrey Epstein’s Emails Reveal Close Correspondence With Harvard Professors, Bloomberg Reports | News | The Harvard Crimson
Several Harvard professors maintained contact with Jeffrey Epstein after he was first indicted in 2006 for soliciting prostitution, according to Bloomberg News, which reviewed more than 18,000 emails from Epstein’s inbox.www.thecrimson.com
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.
The Case Against Generative AI
Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500 words.Edward Zitron (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)
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
'Arrest Netanyahu': Israeli PM gets a New York welcome outside the UN
As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to a half-empty room at the UN General Assembly, thousands of protesters were gathered in Times Square to condemn his presence in New York City.Maysa Mustafa (Middle East Eye)
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.
Swift To Build a Global Financial Blockchain - Slashdot
Camembert writes: 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 …news.slashdot.org
Pete Hegseth tells top generals "prepare for war"
Pete Hegseth Tells Top Generals ‘Prepare For War’
Hegseth said: "Preparing for war and preparing to win. Unrelenting and uncompromising in that pursuit."Martha McHardy (Newsweek)
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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.
Texas stops issuing CDLs to refugees, asylum seekers, DACA
The announcement is in line with a Trump administration rule to “drastically” restrict non-U.S. citizens from getting trucking licenses.Benjamin Wermund (Houston Chronicle)
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.
How a U.S. Ambassador Allegedly Shielded President Bukele From Law Enforcement
A previously undisclosed State Department report and interviews reveal accusations that U.S. Ambassador Ronald D. Johnson shielded Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele from U.S. and Salvadoran law enforcement.ProPublica
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.
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.
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Ballando con le Stelle slitta alle 21:30: torna Affari Tuoi al sabato su Rai 1
Ballando con le Stelle slitta alle 21:30. Rai 1 riporta Affari Tuoi al sabato per contrastare La Ruota della Fortuna. Ecco cosa cambia.Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)
The Feedback Loop That’s Breaking America
The Feedback Loop That’s Breaking America
Charlie Kirk was fatally shot at a Utah event, sparking political blame, media bias debates, and Trump’s directive targeting “anti-fascist” groups.Pragmatic Papers
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The Old Playbook with a New Strongman
The Old Playbook with a New Strongman
Trump’s actions echo classic fascist patterns—media suppression, corruption, xenophobic rhetoric, and criminalizing dissent—posing a grave threat to U.S. democracy.Pragmatic Papers
Recognition and Repercussions: The UK Backs Palestinian Statehood
Recognition and Repercussions: The UK Backs Palestinian Statehood
The UK has recognised Palestine along 1967 borders, offering a boon to legal pressure on Israel but what effects will it have on the ground?Pragmatic Papers
The Recognition of Palestine
The Recognition of Palestine
European recognitions of Palestinian statehood signal a diplomatic shift, strengthening legal standing and international pressure, though immediate relief in Gaza is limited.Pragmatic Papers
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 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.
Consumer Cooperatives · Consumer Federation of America
CFA has long believed that cooperatives are a vital element in the American economy. Consumer cooperatives are businesses which belong to the people who use them.Consumer Federation of America
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in reply to Baron Von J • • •Are there any great alternatives that are easy to use off the shelf (with our own drives) that can compete here?
I'm basically to the point where my next NAS will end up just being a linux desktop running truenas which sounds like a lot of tinkering for something that should have a simple solution. I don't want to have to buy some big expensive enterprise array for a prosumer use case.
PancakesCantKillMe
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in reply to Prove_your_argument • • •elucubra
in reply to the_weez • • •Gamer desktops tend to be power hogs. Running them 24/7 can rack up some hefty power bills, plus noise, plus space, plus other tradeoffs.
Better a used thin client.
the_weez
in reply to elucubra • • •I guess it's more space than a thin client, but I have no idea how you are getting multiple HDDs or SSDs in a tc. USB is trash at long term data storage, and having a bunch of external drives and cables isn't superior to a slightly bigger box.
Not to mention anything that's actually sold as a thin client probably won't run ZFS very well if at all. If it's not ZFS and it's not hardware raid what the hell is the point of having network storage?
Save the TC for a docker host or host a VM on your NAS that it can connect to instead.
Brkdncr
in reply to Prove_your_argument • • •rainwall
in reply to Brkdncr • • •I'd recommend against it. It works "fine" but everything is in a thin, but walled, garden. Every app is some "Qsomebullshit." They really, really want you in their ecosystem.
Id say the systems are underspec'ed as well. The model I bought years ago pitched itself as VM/container ready, but the chipset was so weak it couldn't run anything worth a damn. It couldn't even run a scrub on lowest priority without choking all other filesystem access. When a scrub takes 3 days or more, it wasn't exactly a usable experience.
If you have the funds, i'd recommend 45drives. They make very good hardware and sell 4/8/15 disc form factors for homelabs.
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45homelab.comBrkdncr
in reply to rainwall • • •Synology isn’t any different.
I’d argue a NAS is for storage mostly.
rainwall
in reply to Brkdncr • • •The vm/container side is less important than the "cant run a RAID parity check regularly because it makes the NAS useless" part. Thats my qnap experience. It might have gotten better, but it was shit heel for me, and the NAS was in the 1k range.
I'd argue that a NAS should be able to run containers at this point. NAS hardware does not need to be utterly gutless just because it can be. A versatile NAS is actually a great first choice for a homelab setup before you start to expand.
RiQuY
in reply to Prove_your_argument • • •kylian0087
in reply to RiQuY • • •Please dont.... I got a qnap TS-H886 and it is the worst NAS I have used.
The so called ZFS that it is using is a very very old fork of openZFS that does not follow any standards. The inside is a complete mess.
RiQuY
in reply to kylian0087 • • •kylian0087
in reply to RiQuY • • •Yeah but the QuTS OS of QNAP is in this case. It is not as straight forward to install a other OS on the thing. Specially a NAS OS like TrueNAS scale. having to enable dev mode on truenas and compile a custom driver for the fans to work is not as straight forward for most people. it is not just the ZFS implementation that's bad also their whole OS it self is.
RiQuY
in reply to kylian0087 • • •I literally don't understand your issue with QNAP hardware, it sounds like your issue is TrueNAS, the only thing I did to change the OS from QuTS to OMV was install an NVME drive and select an USB drive with new OS at the boot menu. No drivers, no dev mode, no nothing.
The cheapest option at TrueNAS is +1100$, I'm not paying that when my minimum requirements were a low TDP CPU with HW encoding and a chasis with 4 disks.
kylian0087
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in reply to Prove_your_argument • • •Xpenology: The Definitive Guide to Running Xpenology (2020 Update)
Xpenology.org Team (Xpenology.org)elucubra
in reply to Atherel • • •Prove_your_argument
in reply to Atherel • • •Stuff like that puts me off. By default it's basically illegal, so we have no idea when the developers will need to retain legal counsel that explicitly tells them to delete everything and cease discussing it.
Support and maintenance are a nightmare, and based on the other folks here talking about it, it's certainly something to have to tinker with heavily.
If i'm going to have to tinker, i'm going to go with FOSS stuff if I can. I'd rather learn something that will be useful for a while.
brygphilomena
in reply to Prove_your_argument • • •At this point, I'd say build your own if you are wanting anything more than basic file sharing.
Lots of resources out there and even NAS style cases to make it basically the same as any off the shelf NAS.
Xenology has been mentioned here, but I haven't used it
FreeNAS is good, but I haven't used it in years.
OpenMediaVault is supposed to be good, but again I haven't used it.
Unraid is good and has super easy support for docker. I primarily use this because of its ability to use different disk sizes for the array and does what is the equivalent of software RAID. It's not the fastest thing on the market, but for my use case (primarily Plex/Jellyfin) I don't need the fastest reads or writes. It supports hardware passthrough for VMs or to docker containers so they can take advantage of hardware for acceleration. It also runs off a flash stick, so I don't waste any disks on the OS.
LucidNightmare
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in reply to Baron Von J • • •I am back on Kodi on Android TV box for a long time.
The official Synology app kind of sucks anyways.
I used to use the Samsung app that played like 75 percent of the movies and not the rest, some codec BS.
So kodi is not push, it's pull. That whole Mediaserver thing is obsolete with it.
It's a pity because technically that other system is superior and is running for no reason now.
Oh and my nas is so old it is too slow to transcode anyways.
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in reply to undefined • • •Definitely an option, but for the price of a Pi with all the extras, case, power supply, etc, you can get a used thin client that is way more capable.
There is a guy on YouTube that often reviews these things, and discovers some models that are surprisingly capable.
realitista
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in reply to Baron Von J • • •ibot
in reply to Baron Von J • • •I'm looking for a NAS and Synology was on the top of my list. But their new models only support Synology HDDs. That is already a huge red flag. And now that. Feels like Synology really doesn't care about their customers...
I might go with a self build solution.
elucubra
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