[Patch Notes] 0.3.1 Patch Notes
0.3.1 Patch Notes
This patch contains major changes to the Endgame detailed in our recent news post, increases to the base Remnant pickup range, in addition to many other changes and bug fixes.
Endgame Changes:
- You no longer need Towers to use Precursor Tablets, instead, Tablets can now be placed into the Map Device to add their bonuses directly to your Map.
- Tablets now have a fixed number of uses, as described by its Implicit Modifier.
- Each time you use a Tablet while running a Map, the number of remaining uses on the Tablet decreases. Once it reaches zero, the Tablet is destroyed.
- You can use up to 3 Tablets with each Map, but the number of slots available is based on how many modifiers the Map has. Running a Map with 6 Modifiers will enable all 3 of the Tablets slots on the Map Device.
- Tablets cannot be applied to areas that have already been attempted.
- Towers can still be used to gain visibility on the Atlas, and they will also drop an extra Precursor Tablet as a reward for completing them.
- Non-Unique Tablets now have 10 uses (previously 12 to 18), or in the case of the Overseer's Tablet it now has 10 uses (previously 2 to 4).
- As your tablets are now directly applied to your Maps, this means that you can now apply the content you desire to every single Map you run (assuming you have the tablet supply). However, the ceiling for the amount of content you can apply to a single Map has been lowered. Overall this results in a more streamlined and consistent experience, but in order to not have the ceiling come down too far, we've buffed the modifiers on Tablets:
- Bountiful: Now has a value of 15 to 40 (previously 10 to 15).
- Breeding: Now has a value of 4 to 10 (previously 3 to 7).
- Brimming: Now has a value of 15 to 40 (previously 10 to 15).
- Collector's: Now has a value of 10 to 30 (previously 7 to 10).
- Elevated: Now has a value of 5 to 20 (previously 5 to 10).
- Plundering: Now has a value of 4 to 10 (previously 3 to 70.
- Teeming: Now has a value of 25 to 70 (previously 15 to 25).
- Treasurer's: Now has a value of 1 to 3 (previously 1).
- of Ancient Fiends: Now has a value of 15 to 40 (previously 10 to 15).
- of Compartments: Now has a value of 1 to 2 (previously 1).
- of Conquering: Now has a value of 20 to 80 (previously 20 to 40).
- of Crystals: Now has a value of 1 to 2 (previously 1).
- of Envy: Now has a value of 8 to 24 (previously 3 to 8).
- of Eternity: Now has a value of 6 to 12 (previously 3 to 6).
- of Fissuring: Now has a value of 10 to 30 (previously 5 to 10).
- of Freeze Time: Now has a value of 2 to 5 (previously 2)).
- of Devotion: Now has a value of -30 to -20 (previously -15 to -10).
- of Hoards: Now has a value of 10 to 20 (previously 10 to 15).
- of Knowledge: Now has a value of 10 to 30 (previously 5 to 10).
- of Omens: Now has a value of 25 to 70 (previously 15 to 25).
- of Madness: Now has a value of 10 to 30 (previously 5 to 10).
- of Mirrors: Now has a value of 10 to 30 (previously 5 to 10).
- of Pathways: Now has a value of 10 to 30 (previously 5 to 10).
- of Persecution: Now has a value of 10 to 30 (previously 5 to 10).
- of Phobia: Now has a value of 10 to 30 (previously 5 to 10).
- of Prayers: Now has a value of 1 to 3 (previously 1).
- of Relics: Now has a value of 6 to 18 (previously 3 to 6).
- of Runes: Now has a value of 10 to 30 (previously 5 to 10).
- of Rupturing: Now has a value of 4 to 10 (previously 2 to 4).
- of Sacrifice: Now has a value of 10 to 30 (previously 5 to 10).
- of Spirits: Now has a value of 50 to 100 (previously 30 to 50).
- of Shrines: Now has a value of 50 to 100 (previously 30 to 50).
- of Strongboxes: Now has a value of 50 to 100 (previously 30 to 50).
- of Treasure: Now has a value of 20 to 60 (previously 15 to 20).
- of Undertaking: Now has a value of 1 to 2 (previously 1).
- of Verisium: Now has a value of 10 to 30 (previously 5 to 10).
- of Wisps: Now has a value of 1 to 2 (previously 1).
- of Worship: Now has a value of 1 to 2 (previously 1).
- of the Appeal: Now has a value of 15 to 40 (previously 10 to 15).
- of the Cartographer: Now has a value of 20 to 50 (previously 10 to 20).
- of the Commander: Now has a value of 1 to 2 (previously 1).
- of the Cult: Now has a value of 15 to 40 (previously 10 to 15).
- of the Demolition: Now has a value of 10 to 30 (previously 5 to 10).
- of the Detonator: Now has a value of 10 to 30 (previously 5 to 10).
- of the Dogma: Now has a value of -30 to -20 (previously -15 to -10).
- of the Domain: Now has a value of 10 to 30 (previously 5 to 10).
- of the Essence: Now has a value of 50 to 100 (previously 30 to 50).
- of the Exile: Now has a value of 25 to 50 (previously 15 to 25).
- of the Flash: Now has a value of 10 to 30 (previously 5 to 10).
- of the Foundling: Now has a value of 25 to 70 (previously 15 to 25).
- of the Hand: Now has a value of 1 to 3 (previously 1).
- of the Horde: Now has a value of 25 to 70 (previously 15 to 25).
- of the Invasion: Now has a value of 4 to 10 (previously 4 to 6).
- of the Occult: Now has a value of 300 to 600 (previously 100 to 300).
- of the Pursuit: Now has a value of 10 to 30 (previously 5 to 10).
- of the Simulacrum: Now has a value of 10 to 30 (previously 5 to 10).
- of the Writings: Now has a value of 1 to 2 (previously 1).
- of the Unending: Now has a value of -30 to -20 (previously -15 to -10).
- We've also added 7 new Tablet modifiers:
- Azmeri's: Area contains 1 additional Azmeri Spirit
- Crystallised: Area contains an additional Essence
- Exiled: Area is inhabited by 1 additional Rogue Exile
- Summoner's: Area contains an additional Summoning Circle
- of the Antiquarian: Area contains an additional Strongbox
- of the Devoted: Area contains an additional Shrine
- of the Summoning: Area has 25 to 50% increased chance to contain a Summoning Circle
- All Maps now contain Map Bosses (except for some Unique Maps and Hideouts). To complete a Map you are only required to kill the Boss, you no longer have to kill any Rares and you can do as much or as little of the rest of the Map as you please.
- The existing icons that currently indicate there is a Map Boss now instead signify the area contains a Powerful Map Boss that is extra challenging and rewarding.
- The following Map Boss Atlas Passive Skills now require a Powerful Boss to be present in the Map: Beyond Reality, Crystal Realm, Directed Worship, Drawn To Light, Old Pirate's Trick, and Organised Forces.
- Map Areas now generate with 1 to 3 extra random content, including Breach, Delirium, Ritual, Expedition, Shrines, Strongboxes, Essences, Wisps, Rogue Exiles, and Summoning Circles.
- This content will be added in addition to the content added by your Tablets and Map Modifiers, and selected afterwards. If you have a Modifier that adds an Expedition Encounter, which cannot have more than 1 in an area, a different type of extra content is selected instead.
- Content icons for Breach, Delirium, Ritual and Expedition have been removed from the Atlas.
- The size of the following Map Areas has been reduced: Penitentiary, Vaal City, Channel, Bastille, Grimhaven, Epitaph, Oasis, Augury, Hidden Grotto, Wetlands, Savannah, Blooming Field, Rupture, Slick, and Fortress.
- The number of Monster Packs in lower-Tier Maps has been reduced by roughly 30%. As you proceed through the tiers, the number of Monsters Packs will increase so that by Tier 15 it is the same as it was before.
- Adjusted the composition of all naturally spawning Monster Packs in Maps. This results in more packs of a smaller number of Monsters, but roughly the same total amount of Monsters in a Map.
- The Ground Effects for the "of Ice", "of Lightning", and "of Flames" Map Modifiers now cover 75% less of the Map on Tier 1 to 5 Waystones, 68% less on Tier 6 to 10 Waystones, and 62% less on Tier 11 or higher Waystones.
- Increased the chance of Citadels spawning by 66%.
- The Visions of Paradise Unique Precursor Tablet now adds Irradiated rather than removing it.
- Atlas Maps connected to a Sealed Vault can now spawn a Vaal Beacon on map completion, which when clicked will drop an Idol of Estazunti. Previously, this item dropped from the final Rare monster or Map Boss.
- Added visual effects to the Atlas around maps near to Vaults, Sandstorms, and Maelstroms to help guide players.
- Updated the Precursor Towers Quest to end once you've spoken to Doryani after activating a Precursor Tower.
- Updated various Doryani dialogue lines to reflect changes made to Precursor Towers and Tablets.
- The walking sequence from the Sacred Reservoir Map has been removed.
Rise of the Abyssal Changes:
- The Well of Souls now shows a more detailed description for the type of Passive Skill nodes the revealed modifier options will affect.
- The Well of Souls now applies the resistance penalty of your highest reached Act rather than strictly Act 2.
- Icons for Abyss cracks no longer display on the edge of the minimap when out of range.
- Enabled the Eruption of Souls Abyssal Rare Monster Modifier.
- Added Abyss to the Atlas Map Legend.
Player Changes:
- When calculating chance to Hit vs Players or their Minions, we now use the following formula: Chance to Hit = 1 - (0.95 * defender_evasion) / (defender_evasion + 4 * attacker_accuracy)
- The chance to hit formula vs Monsters is unchanged.
- Players no longer receive Evasion Rating scaling with level. Player base Evasion Rating is now 7 (previously 27). This will result in all classes having a 5% chance to evade baseline at level 1 with no equipment.
- Monster Accuracy Rating scaling has been adjusted slightly to account for the above changes.
- The base pickup radius for all Remnants has been increased by approximately 50%.
- The Stormweaver's Remnant Range Ascendancy Passive Skills now have "Remnants can be collected from 20% further away" (previously 30%).
- The Principal Infusion Notable Passive Skill now has "Remnants can be collected from 20% further away" (previously 15%).
- Small Passive Skills that provide Remnant Pickup Range now have values of 15% (previously 10%).
- Harmonic Remnants Support I and II now have "Remnants created by supported Skills can be collected from 35% further away" (previously 100%).
- Siphon Elements now has Remnants created by Supported Skills can be collected from 14-38% further away at gem levels 8-20 (previously 17-47%).
- You are now unable to have more than 10 Ancestral Warrior Totems currently active at once.
- Made improvements to Parry's behaviour to reduce the number of times it looks like a hit should be Parried but isn't.
- Reduced the Heavy Stun buildup a player gains when Parrying a hit by approximately 30%.
- Reduced the amount of Heavy Stun buildup applied by monsters at very low levels.
- The Void Illusion Skill now works with Hollow Palm's Physical Damage modifier.
- The plants from Vine Arrow can now only take poison damage from allies.
- Persistent buff skills that must be active in all weapon sets now describe this requirement.
- Whirling Assault now uses pathfinding to avoid obstacles.
General Changes:
- You can now use Orbs of Alchemy on Magic items. When used on Magic items the original modifiers are not retained.
- Enabled the Romira's Requital and Kalisa's Crescendo Lineage Support Gems, which were mistakenly not able to drop. They are now in the global drop pool.
- Added 779 more foiled Unique Item options that the Twilight Reliquary can yield.
- Elzarah, the Cobra Lord in Sel Khari Sanctuary now drops a one-time guaranteed Djinn Barya that can be used to obtain your third set of Ascendancy Points if you have not already acquired them. This will drop for new and existing characters, regardless of whether they have already killed Elzarah.
- Updated the Treasures of Utzaal quest steps to be more clear for characters that were defeating the Forgemaster in The Molten Vault after having already completed the Treasures of Utzaal quest on another character in the same league.
- Added Jacob, the Town Crier to Kingsmarch, who will update the town on your journey as you progress through Act 4.
- Character Panel estimations for player Accuracy, Armour and Evasion now use a maximum Monster level of 82 for calculations (previously level 84).
- The Stash and Merchant UI will now remember your previously entered search terms.
- Omen of Whittling will now correctly highlight Desecrated modifiers if they can be rerolled.
- Undying Hate now has a keyworded description for Unstable Desecration, clarifying that Preserved Cranium currency items have an increasing chance to destroy the item.
- Updated the description of Zenith II Support to clarify that only mana costs are recouped.
- Updated descriptions of Freeze, Electrocute and Pin buildup on monsters.
- Adjusted the density and spacing of packs in The Khari Crossing and Qimah.
- Added the Salvage and Reforge benches to The Khari Bazaar.
- Added a second sprint animation for higher movement speeds.
- Added more appropriate crossbow reload animations for very slow reloads.
- Changed some suggested supports that were incorrect for Flash Grenade and Lightning Warp.
- Reduced the damage and the projectile count of the Treant Foulspawn barrage skill.
- The Bloodthief Queen Monster can no longer be Tamed or bound as a Spectre.
- Enabled the existing Darkshard Armour Set, Hood, and Helmet Attachment microtransactions for use in Path of Exile 2.
- Enabled the existing Ancient Dread Armor Set and Primordial Dread Helmet Attachment microtransactions for use in Path of Exile 2.
- Enabled the existing Darkshard Cloak and Darkshard Wings microtransactions for use in Path of Exile 2.
- Enabled the existing Solar Knight Armour Set microtransactions for use in Path of Exile 2.
- Made adjustments to the audio system. This may help with audio performance, as well as some situations where audio could cut out.
- Improved the performance of the overkill explosion effect from the Trampletoe Unique Boots.
- Improved the performance of Abyss cracks and craters.
- Improved the performance in the Scorched Farmlands.
- Improved the performance in Kingsmarch.
- Forge Hammer aftershocks are no longer silent.
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed a bug preventing Fracturing Mirrors from spawning in Delirium.
- Fixed a bug where additional Monster Modifiers on Unique Monsters were not applying some stats correctly, such as Maximum Life or Item Rarity.
- Fixed an issue where some Map Bosses were not benefiting from increased difficulty modifiers.
- Fixed an issue where some Map Bosses that changed form during the fight would not benefit from increased difficulty modifiers.
- Fixed a bug where Zolin, Blood Priest could re-animate and become invulnerable if you killed them and then returned to the area.
- Fixed a bug where Ashar the Sand Mother and similar Bosses could leap out of their arenas.
- Fixed a bug where Karash, The Dune Dweller could escape the arena in The Silent Cave Unique Map.
- Fixed a bug where the Aurelian, the Grand Adjudicator Boss fight was not affected by Map Difficulty.
- Fixed a bug where Avelyne, the Withered Rose could sometimes ignore you and continue to dance around not fighting you in the Derelict Mansion Map.
- Fixed a bug where The Black Crow Map Boss could fail to transition to the second phase of the fight.
- Fixed some cases where Diamora, Song of Death could fail return to her arena after diving into the water.
- Fixed a bug where you could not re-enter the second arena of the final Act 4 boss fight after the fight begins.
- Fixed a bug where the grace period during the phase change of the final Act 2 boss was removed too early.
- Fixed an issue that would prevent Unique enemies from receiving the appropriate Heavy Stun Buildup from some hits.
- Fixed a bug with Ancestral Warrior Totem that allowed other Totems to bypass their Limit.
- Fixed a bug where Damage over Time would reserve all Darkness immediately.
- Fixed a bug where Skeletal Reaver's Enrage would stop dealing damage to themselves if they survived long enough.
- Fixed a bug where Forge Hammers could persist indefinitely if the Skill Gem was modified while deployed.
- Fixed a bug that prevented Deliberation Support from being able to support Freezing Salvo.
- Fixed a bug where Firestorm was still unable to inflict ignite despite no longer consuming ignite.
- Fixed a bug where you could receive Heavy Stun build up from enemy hits indefinitely after being interrupted while Parrying.
- Fixed an issue where you could spectre the Expedition Vaal Zealots, they now are replaced by their non-expedition versions.
- Fixed an issue where some Act 4 Monsters that were spawned by Strongboxes did not function correctly when bound as a Spectre.
- Fixed a bug where Triggered Living Lightning did not having the Cooldown type, which prevented supportability for Cooldown Recovery Support.
- Fixed a bug where Forge Hammer's impact was not creating Aftershocks.
- Fixed a bug where Forge Hammer's impact was not visually displaying when it was Ancestrally Boosted.
- Fixed a bug where certain Passive Skills that granted Maximum Fire Resistance were not applying to the Smith of Kitava's Forged in Flame Ascendancy Passive Skill.
- Fixed a bug where network latency could be reported incorrectly when idle, particularly at high latencies.
- Fixed a bug where Strongboxes did not spawn monsters in the following Maps: Caldera, Cliffside, Flotsam, Rupture, Sinkhole, Stronghold, or Wayward Isle.
- Fixed a bug where the barrels created by the Rotting Demolitionist Monster could block players.
- Fixed an issue where some movement skills were not able to be used in the Boss arena of the Sacred Reservoir Map.
- Fixed a bug where Dodge Roll was not avoiding Curses granted by Rogue Exile's Hand of Chayula.
- Fixed a bug that prevented Rogue Exiles from dodge rolling.
- Fixed a bug where the Map Device UI didn't display the +1 to Monster Level from Irradiated Atlas Icons sometimes.
- Fixed a bug where the modifiers applied to Maps by the Liquid Paranoia and Diluted Liquid Ire did not display in the Map Area modifiers list.
- Fixed a bug where the Heavy Stun meter was not correctly showing how far through the stun animation a monster was.
- Fixed a bug where the Target Cursor Aiming Mode Option would not function correctly with some channelled skills.
- Fixed a bug where Ignites applied to players were purple if they had the Black Covenant Keystone allocated.
- Fixed a bug where the checkpoints in Howling Cave were not functioning correctly.
- Fixed a bug where the Specialisation Book obtained for the Clearing the Way Quest incorrectly completed the world map icon for The Abominable Yeti in the Howling Caves.
- Fixed a bug where the Morior Invictus Unique Body Armour was not working correctly with socketed Talismans.
- Fixed a bug where some music, most notably Una's, was not playing.
- Fixed a bug where using some Skills while mounted on a Rhoa when using a Controller would target the ground if you were not targeting an enemy.
- Fixed a bug where you could be unable to revive another player when using a Controller if you had a Skill bound to the Revive button. We've also added an Option that can be enabled to prioritise reviving over using Skills, this can be found under Controller in the Game Options tab.
- Fixed a bug where the interact button on Controller could stop working after interacting with a Strongbox.
- Fixed an issue where Spirit calculation could be incorrectly taking invalid Skills into account when using a Controller.
- Fixed a bug where the league migration option was hidden when using a Controller.
- Fixed an issue where players on PlayStation could experience crackling audio or had the audio cut out.
- Fixed a bug where Microtransactions applied to Weapons were not carrying over when the item was used from another weapon set.
- Fixed a bug where the Light of Divinity Sceptre Skin microtransaction was replacing the 2D art of your equipped Sceptre.
- Fixed a visual bug with the Overgrown Gargoyle Portal Effect microtransaction.
- Fixed an issue that could cause the client freeze when entering a new area after respawning in party play.
- Fixed some situations where the DirectX 12 renderer could crash.
- Fixed a client crash that could occur on PlayStation.
- Fixed 4 client crashes.
- Fixed 2 instance crashes.
Early Access Patch Notes - 0.3.1 Patch Notes - Forum - Path of Exile
Path of Exile is a free online-only action RPG under development by Grinding Gear Games in New Zealand.Path of Exile
ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 winners
ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 winners
The winning images in the world's biggest space photography competition have been revealedwww.rmg.co.uk
Munich Oktoberfest evacuated and closed due to bomb threat
The Oktoberfest has been evacuated and closed down, pending to reopen at 5pm local time.
Development is ongoing and changing by the minute.
Oktoberfest-News 2025: Die Wiesn ist wieder geöffnet - weiterer Toter in der Lerchenau
Das Festgelände kann nun wieder betreten werden. Die Polizei gab weitere Details zur Tat in einer Pressekonferenz bekannt. Alle News zur zweiten Wiesn-Woche im Liveblog.Isabel Bernstein (Süddeutsche Zeitung)
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Flotilla, l’alt di Israele e l’abbordaggio: fermi sulla nave ammiraglia Alma, rotta verso Ashdod
La Global Sumud Flotilla è stata intercettata a circa 75 miglia dalla costa di Gaza, l’abbordaggio illegale di Israele è iniziato. Alle 20:25 locali (19:25 in Italia) è arrivato l’alt di Israele. Gli attivisti riferiscono che l’abbordaggio è iniziato sulla nave ammiraglia Alma, dove si registrano i primi fermi. A bordo è stato dichiarato lo stato di emergenza. In volo, per monitorare l’area, anche caccia inglesi decollati da Cipro.
GLI AGGIORNAMENTI: Flotilla, l’alt di Israele e l’abbordaggio: fermi sulla nave ammiraglia Alma, rotta verso Ashdod
Flotilla, alt di Israele e abbordaggio: rotta verso Ashdod
Intercettata da Israele a 75 miglia da Gaza, la Flotilla riceve l’alt: abbordaggio (illegale) sull’Alma e primi fermi. Rotta verso Ashdod.Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)
Judge orders the immediate release of El Paso DACA recipient
U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone, a Bush appointee in El Paso, said in her ruling that Santiago’s detainment “deprives her of her constitutional right to procedural due process under the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution.”
The Trump administration “did not present any evidence indicating that Santiago has endangered anyone during her twenty years at liberty, including her thirteen years under DACA. Tellingly, they have failed to even articulate an individualized reason for which she should be detained,” Cardone wrote.
Cardone gave ICE until 4 p.m. Thursday to release Santiago and to notify the judge by noon Friday of the time and day Santiago was released.
Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word
Sometimes I wonder if the AI push is about firing people for being stupid about trusting any of its output.
Not to mention, this doesn't feel like actual coverage but rather a bit of the author fellating this new development.
You’ve probably heard of vibe coding — novices writing apps by creating a simple AI prompt — but now Microsoft wants to introduce a similar thing for its Office apps. The software maker is launching a new Agent Mode in Excel and Word that can generate complex spreadsheets and documents with just a prompt. A new Office Agent in Copilot chat, powered by Anthropic models, is also launching today that can create PowerPoint presentations and Word documents from a “vibe working” chatbot.“Today we’re bringing vibe working to Microsoft 365 Copilot with Agent Mode in Office apps and Office Agent in Copilot chat,” says Sumit Chauhan, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Office Product Group. “In the same way vibe coding has transformed software development, the latest reasoning models in Copilot unlock agentic productivity for Office artifacts.”
Agent Model in Excel and Word is a more powerful version of the Copilot experience that Microsoft has added to its Office apps. It’s designed to make the complex parts of Excel more accessible to users that aren’t experts. “It’s not just simple assistive short answers, but board-ready presentations or documents,” Chauhan says. “It’s work, quite frankly, that a first-year consultant would do, delivered in minutes.”
Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word
Microsoft is launching new AI tools in its Office apps. A new Agent Mode comes to Word and Excel, alongside an Office Agent in Copilot chat.Tom Warren (The Verge)
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"Security" category
Just a thought as I work through some bugs reported to NodeBB... would there be interest in ActivityPub.space hosting a "security" category for discussion around vulnerabilities, CVEs, and such that are related to ActivityPub?
For example, if NodeBB were to receive a bug bounty report and responsibly disclose the details, it would be ideal to have it archived in a place where it won't just disappear off the feed in a matter of minutes.
Live: Israel makes unlawful interception of Alma vessel, as Sumud Flotilla reaches 'decisive moment'
Israeli soldiers have boarded the Alma vessel, Middle East Eye can report. Alma is a the lead vessel of the Sumud Flotilla. Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories, told MEE.
Albanese said the interception is unlawful under two basic premises. Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip is illegal under international law, Albanese said, adding, "it makes no sense whatsoever."
The flotilla is roughly 80 nautical miles from the coast of Gaza. Territorial waters extend for maximum 12 nautical miles.
Live: Israel makes unlawful interception of Alma vessel, as Sumud Flotilla reaches 'decisive moment'
Meanwhile, Italy and Greece call on Israel not to hurt the Global Sumud Flotilla activistsMEE staff (Middle East Eye)
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115 tons of aid have entered Gaza from Israel/Egypt since the start of this flotilla.
The flotilla is carrying less than half of that.
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Which is also far less than the area needs. theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…
But yay Israel not even doing bare minimum to prevent starvation?
The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza
Israel controls the flow of food into Gaza. It has calculated how many calories Palestinians need to stay alive. Its data shows only a fraction has been allowed inEmma Graham-Harrison (The Guardian)
At gunpoint. At killing fields. By a racist bunch of gangsters. During a fucking genocide.
Still the numbers are irrelevant. The point of the flotilla is to challenge the illegal and immoral blockade of Gaza by the genocidal Israeli apartheid regime. Even if they were carrying a single can of baby formula, the flotilla would still be immensely meaningful.
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First of all:
The territorial waters of Israel extend into the sea to a distance of twelve nautical miles measured from the appropriate baseline.
And second - both counties said they wouldn't defend the flotilla even if Israel attacks them in international waters, they were there only to rescue the survivors after the attack.
The reasons for doing so are harder to know, and never exactly the same but generally rooted in hate, fear and narcissim. They start doing shit and examine how the world reacts, then tiptoes the line of what would bring out actual response and get them killed or in any other way stopped.
Then it's about if they get to some kind of place where they feel comfortable and don't push it more or they get overconfident and actually do step over the line and get shut down by any of the many possible ways that can happen.
This happens everywhere all the time in all different levels possible. Between two toddlers at a play date, bosses and their employees all the way to countries and world powers. And in our fictional stories (and possible futures) between planets, solar systems, galaxies and whole universes.
Yeah, I suppose the idea is that it's always a test to see where the line is. And nobody wants it to go too far, so it ends up with everyone else letting things slide until they simply can't anymore.
It just sucks that the bias seems to be toward letting things get worse, giving in and appeasing before change is truly made and ideals are actually enforced. It's like it's some natural, social song and dance that needs to play out first, and that's just so much more messed up when it pertains to fascism and oppression.
Why Class Matters as Much as Ever
Why Class Matters as Much as Ever
Some argue that the continued existence of the middle class refutes Karl Marx’s analysis of capitalism. In an interview with Jacobin, Vivek Chibber explains why this is wrong.jacobin.com
U.S. solar will pass wind in 2025 and leave coal in the dust soon after
Based on current deployment rates, it is likely that solar will surpass wind as the third-largest source of electricity. And solar may soon topple coal in the number two spot.
Looking ahead, through July 2028, FERC expects no new coal capacity to come online based on its “high probability additions” forecast. Meanwhile 63 coal plants are expected to be retired, subtracting 25 GW from the 198 GW total, and landing at about 173 GW of coal capacity by 2028. Meanwhile, FERC forecasts 92.6 GW of “high probability additions” solar will come online through July 2028.
U.S. solar will pass wind in 2025 and leave coal in the dust soon after
Solar and wind represent about 11% to 12% of the energy mix each, while coal sits just under 15%. Developers brought online 16 GW of solar out of a total 21.5 GW electric generation capacity cumula…pv magazine USA
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The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind.
All we are is dust in the wind...
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That's been the joke of Solar for a while. Engineers could have told you all the way back in the 1970s (really, the 1910s) that it costs less money to leave a big plate out in the bright sun than to drill a giant hole and hope there's enough spicy rocks at the bottom of it to justify the expense.
We should have crested this hill a lot sooner, but the heavy emphasis on subsidized fossil fuels during the 80s, 90s, and 00s kept these fuels artificially cheap. Meanwhile, fossil fuel firms actually did invest in Green Energy R&D but only for the purpose of erecting "patent thickets" that would hinder competitive growth of these alternatives.
This “patent thicket” can create barriers to innovative low-carbon technologies, particularly in markets requiring expensive licensing fees or with complex patent litigation (Cannuscio 2008). A strengthened IPRP can increase market concentration and reduce competition (Liu et al. 2018), with large corporations able to maintain market control in such environments through patents on key technologies. This control not only restricts the entry of emerging low-carbon technologies into the market but also perpetuates the reliance on existing high-carbon technologies.
This has lead to big surges in the development and deployment of Green Energy grids outside of the countries doing most of the cutting edge research. Americans are only now catching up.
Does intellectual property rights protection help reduce carbon emissions? - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Does intellectual property rights protection help reduce carbon emissions?Nature
You're really discounting that fossil fuels have hella bang for the buck, loads of power per gallon. tl;dr: Energy dense
I can run my little generator at camp all night long if there's as little as 3 gallons in there. Space heater or AC unit, lights, all that. I'd have to have many panels and batteries to compare to that output. My best battery is a huge LIPO4, trolling motor can't kill it, not even close. But leaving the LED lights on for a little over a day drained it dry.
We need way more solar infrastructure to get where we're going, and I'm all about it. But since since the GOP has decided to go back in time, China is going to smoke America, both in renewables and the associated economic benefits.
Did not know about the patent thing! Know any examples?
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You’re really discounting that fossil fuels have hella bang for the buck, loads of power per gallon. tl;dr: Energy dense
Coal is generally the worst of the lot. Oil and gas burn cleaner and have more combustible by weight. Coal is energy dense but also heavy af and dirty as hell. It's also very common place and comparably safe to transport. And it is simpler to use.
Fine enough to warm your home or grill some meat. But you're not putting a rocket into orbit with coal.
My best battery is a huge LIPO4, trolling motor can’t kill it, not even close. But leaving the LED lights on for a little over a day drained it dry.
Sure. Broadly speaking you want to be hooked up to the grid to benefit from electricity. Anything portable is very ineffective for a litany of reasons.
But you’re not putting a rocket into orbit with coal
And you’re definitely not with wind and solar lol.
Coal is cheap, abundant in supply, and easy.
Coal cheap? Incorrect.
And it's only easy if you're fine burning brown coal and spewing shit everywhere.
Patents have a short life span.
Years, depending on how it is used and renewed. But the point is that you've got a minefield of potential legal liabilities every time you try and launch a business. You don't know whether what you're doing is patented until you check. And if enough entrepreneurs have their businesses blown up early on, it delays how quickly alternative energy can be built out and deployed by at least as long as these patents survive.
When the government is in your corner, handing out subsidies, leaving environmental rules unenforced, securing new oil fields overseas through military force, and generally making your life as an energy tycoon easier, you're at a comparative advantage to the wind farm guy who has to argue with the Kennedys over hurting a bird or obstructing the Massachusetts Bay skyline.
It’s not actually cheap though, that’s the problem. Basically every country that is pushing “renewables” are having their power bills increase over and over and over with no sign of slowing down because it’s not cheap.
No one wants to build them without giant subsidies and guaranteed returns. Why do you think that is?
https://x.com/jnampijinpa/status/1973660876793368808
cis.org.au/publication/the-ren…
The Renewable Energy Honeymoon: starting is easy, the rest is hard
The belief that Australia can decarbonise its economy by relying on the wind and the sun rests on a misplaced conviction about what the renewables rollout will entail.Zoe Hilton , Michael Wu , Aidan Morrison (The Centre for Independent Studies)
This is an important point to consider. However, to me it seems somewhat separate from your previous comment.
Of course, no sane government should push for a country to rely solely on wind and solar. Ideally you have a mix of various energy sources, even potentially including some fossil fuels. Hitting that 20-30% sweetspot, as mentioned in the paper, looks to be fairly cheap and beneficial for everyone.
Solar panels are not the expensive part of using solar to power the country - the storage and transmission is.
Although having said that, the cost of regularly cleaning panels, replacing them, throwing them in landfill, and mining materials to make new ones every 15 years or so is also huge - and destructive to the planet. It’s just more of a slow burn cost that snowballs.
Some reading for you, which I hope you'll read:
cis.org.au/publication/the-ren…
https://x.com/jnampijinpa/status/1973660876793368808
Since I doubt you or anyone else will, I'll take some bits from it:
As you can see, as wind + solar generation share goes up, retail electricity prices go up. They never go down. They never even stay the same.
“As the proportion of weather-dependent energy in the grid grows, the costs and difficulties of integrating this energy also grow at an increasing rate.”
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The paper found (as per the graph):• Countries with less than 21% wind and solar generation have electricity prices of around US $0.15/kWh on average.
• Countries with between 21% and 33% wind and solar generation have electricity prices of around US $0.24/kWh on average.
• Countries that exceed 33% wind and solar generation, have electricity prices of around US $0.37/kWh on average.
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The research notes, “No country has achieved penetrations higher than 60%, let alone 90%, without costs going up. A low-cost, wind-and-solar-dependent country simply does not exist.”
The Renewable Energy Honeymoon: starting is easy, the rest is hard
The belief that Australia can decarbonise its economy by relying on the wind and the sun rests on a misplaced conviction about what the renewables rollout will entail.Zoe Hilton , Michael Wu , Aidan Morrison (The Centre for Independent Studies)
I'm not going to read propaganda from an Australian right wing think tank, you're right.
It’s not actually cheap though, that’s the problem. Basically every country that is pushing “renewables” are having their power bills increase over and over and over with no sign of slowing down because it’s not cheap.
I can't speak for every country, unlike you, but in Southern Europe the trend is exactly the opposite of what you're saying.
bbvaresearch.com/en/publicacio…
The increased penetration of renewable energies in Spain, especially solar and wind, has reduced wholesale…
The increased penetration of renewable energies in Spain, especially solar and wind, has reduced wholesale electricity prices by 20% in the last three years and could cut them by a further 20% by 2030 if the ambitious PNIEC targets are met.Rafael Ortiz Durán (BBVA Research)
“I’m not going to read your link cause it proves my ideology wrong. Here’s a link that proves mine right, and mine is much much much narrower in scope so as to not show the global trend”
lol
That's actually a problem.
All realistic plans for 100% renewable (or even 95% renewable, which is substantially easier) rely on a multipronged approach of wind, water, solar, and grid upgrades. Each one has upsides and downsides, but you can use the upsides of one to cover the downsides of another. Combined, you get a reliable grid based on intermittent but cheap sources.
Capitalism sees this plan and decides to deploy the one with the best immediate ROI. Which happens to be solar. Problem is that you can't just rely on solar. The grid is hitting limits where electrical production is sending prices to basically zero at certain times, but not able to provide enough the rest of the time. That will shift the economic incentives. Eventually.
It'll figure out what researchers have already written down, but it'll take too long to get there.
That's actually a problem
Is it? Wind is 10% and solar is 4%
eia.gov/energyexplained/electr…
Electricity in the U.S. - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
The major fuel/energy sources and their contribution to annual U.S. electricity generation.www.eia.gov
Even home battery solutions. We have solar panels & a Powerwall. Were part of a Virtual Power Plant along with around 1500 other Powerwall owners in the region. During peak usage in the summer all our PowerWalls feed back to the grid so that our utility provider doesn’t have to spin up expensive (and dirty) peaker plants. We get paid a premium for the power we provide during these events.
I saw articles here on Lemmy just a month or two ago that Tesla successfully tested a VPP in California that consisted of 100,000 PowerWalls.
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Being “recyclable” doesn’t mean that they get recycled, because it’s often not economically feasible - like with solar panels. Are there lots and lots of recyclable materials in them? Absolutely. Does it cost more to extract them out than it does to buy a new one? Absolutely.
Most batteries, especially those used for home batteries, will never be recycled. They’ll end up in landfill, leaching toxic chemicals into the earth.
Also the materials used to make new batteries are not renewable. There are finite resources of them. They require mining. Mining equipment and trucks aren’t running on solar or batteries. As more and more are needed, more and more mining is needed.
The entire “renewables” push is based around endlessly manufacturing non recyclable things that end in landfill, using non-renewable materials, creating large amounts of toxic emissions - but the ones pushing it don’t care because the emissions happen somewhere else by someone else so they can claim to be carbon neutral.
But you miss the whole other aspect with different chemistries, many even harmless to the environment. You are focused only on current li-ion it seems which are not very network storage friendly anyway.
They can be distributed though. I
Install solar, most of the systems we install with batteries end up selling back a significant portion of their charge to the grid (iirc our system wide average is 40% nightly resale)
So not only is each house with a battery not using grid power at night, its powering almost half of an equivalently sized house.
Granted, batteries are still on the expensive side, so these systems aren't coming enough ( I think we're at ~10% of our systems have a battery)
Also you are talking houses, but masses live in apartments where placing solar panels or batteries isn't possible (at least in quantity).
It's not really a 'problem.'
If push came to shove, we could just wait before putting the panels online.
Aren't wind turbines mostly diesel generators in disguise?
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No in fact what they are is in the name "WIND" turbines...
This is complete BS, I could find zero sources for that claim, and several debunking it.
The only tangentially related thing I could find was that in colder climates, they need heat to de-ice the wings, and at one point, the power supply to a Scottish wind farm was cut off, so they put in some temporary diesel generators on-site to power the de-icing system to get the turbines going again.
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Hell. In Florida, FPL is the electric provider, and they are fighting tooth and nail to keep people from installing solar on houses.... In Florida, we would have almost free electric for everyone if all houses could install panels....
But FPL lobbied our GOP legislature and force anyone with solar to have a million dollar insurance policy payable to FPL in case something happens. Also got regulations passed to bar home windstorm insurance if any panels are bolted to the roof. So if you have panels, no hurricane insurance for you....and the mortgage holder gets to put their expensive policy on your home.
Fuck FPL
Bad phrasing. There are power walls for home use and FPL is still available.
My point is that Florida could use solar as 1 prong on the challenge to provide clean, green energy but FPL must deliver profit to it's shareholders and will fight that effort
As soon as solar panels and batteries are involved it’s not “clean, green energy” though. I have no idea how people ate that lie.
Solar panels don’t grow on trees. They’re not made from renewable sources. They require mass amounts of mining and coal/gas created energy to make, and they last 10-20 years max. They’re not recyclable either because it costs more to recycle them than it does to make a new one.
Batteries are even worse.
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Nuclear + solar is the only way to truly make it work. Unfortunately the “nuclear bad” message that’s spread by the “renewables” people are going to put us trillions of dollars and decades behind in getting there.
They require mass amounts of mining and coal/gas created energy to make
only because we choose to use coal and gas. This circular argument is old.
Florida has some of the strictest building codes in the United States due to the hurricane and flooding risks.
May I ask the source of your comment?
Yes, FPL has done a lot to prevent rooftop solar, but calling it "almost free" is not correct. Rooftop solar still comes with significant upfront costs. The weather of Florida degrades panels quicker with non-trivial odds of hurricane damage. Finally, Southwestern states receive much more solar irradiance.
If you are willing to be pragmatic and want solar in Florida, FPL's solar together program is your best option. Like it or not, utility grade solar is 1/3 the LCOE.
my dylexic brain read it as "US soldier will pass wind in 2025 and leaves coal dust soon after.."
holycrap wtf did they feed them as part of military experiment or wtf is going on???
A recent article about the state of the coal industry in the usa....
Fossil Fuels and Fossilized Minds - Paul Krugman share.google/9gGFCB2MFShNzGJrp
Intel in early talks to add AMD as foundry customer
...AMD designs chips that are currently produced mostly by Taiwan’s TSMC, and Intel currently lacks the technology to produce AMD’s most advanced, profitable chips.It’s unclear how much of their manufacturing would shift to Intel if the two companies reach a deal, or whether it would come with a direct investment by AMD, similar to the deals cut by other companies. It is possible that no agreement will be reached, the people said...
Intel in early talks to add AMD as foundry customer
AMD relies on TSMC for most of its manufacturing, but the US government has made clear that bolstering Intel is a top priority.Rohan Goswami (www.semafor.com)
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NodeBB v4.6.0 — Topic templating, AP fixes, SCSS updates, and more
We have just released v4.6.0 of NodeBB, containing fixes to our ActivityPub integration, minor fixes with SCSS, and some new functionality with topic templating.
:globe_with_meridians: ActivityPub Fixes
- WordPress blogs can be properly pulled into NodeBB (via their URL) now
- Fixed an error when moving a remote topic to another category
- This also fixed the issue where moved topics didn't update topic/post counters
- Fixed bug where NodeBB could not properly process
Linkheaders when it contained the standalonecrossorigindirective - Notifications for replies to topics made in remote categories now show the appropriate user
- Fixed bug where remote users were not able to post to a local category if
registered-usersprivilege was removed (now checksfediversepseudo-user) - Nested remote categories can now be removed from the ACP
- Remote categories can be renamed for de-duplication purposes
- Improved title generation for quote-posts
Core fixes
- Persona theme now shows hidden (zero-character) links in post content
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Electron apps are causing system-wide lag on MacOs Tahoe
Detect Electron apps on mac where the Electron hasn't yet been updated to fix the system wide lag
Detect Electron apps on mac where the Electron hasn't yet been updated to fix the system wide lag - README.mdGist
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Ted Cruz blocks bill that would extend privacy protections to all Americans | TechCrunch
Ted Cruz blocks bill that would extend privacy protections to all Americans | TechCrunch
The Texas senator blocked a bill that would have prevented data brokers from selling personal data on anyone in the United States, and not just federal lawmakers and government officials.Zack Whittaker (TechCrunch)
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Cruz was the sole objecting senator, who claimed without evidence that Wyden’s bill could disrupt law enforcement, “such as knowing where sexual predators are living.”
1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
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No, not those sexual predators. Not the rich ones who fight to oppress the LGBTQ+ and dark-skinned people. The sexual predators who are struggling to make ends meet. Those sexual predators. The ones that no one will miss.
Those are the ones the GOP wants to go after. Not the ones in their own ranks.
That's the difference between the two parties. One will kick out perverts. The other embraces them, as long as their money's good.
~~Ted Cruz blocks bill that would extend privacy protections to all Americans~~
Real Headline: The American government is corrupt and compromised, top to bottom, side to side. No one gets a pass. Not from the current admin or any previous admin. You do not go into US politics on a mere government salary and exit politics a multi millionaire.
Ted Cruz says ‘stop attacking pedophiles’ in gaffe during Senate hearing
Sen. Cruz, who voted against releasing the Epstein files, reportedly made the bizarre remark Tuesday morning.Stephanie Koithan (San Antonio Current)
I do not like that man Ted Cruz
I do not like his backwards views
I do not like his pedo stance
For there is no circumstance
I do not like that Man Ted Cruz
If pedos walk, the children lose
China Is Leaving America in the Dust on Clean Energy
China Is Leaving America in the Dust on Clean Energy
President Donald Trump is punting on clean energy, continuing to call climate change a hoax. China President Xi Jinping is happy to take the lead.Thor Benson (Rolling Stone)
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They always said this would or could be China’s century.
I just don’t think we knew it’d be because the United States shot their own dick off willingly.
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Cancelled. You can't be socially incorrect now, you can't say it like it is, you can't make stupid harmless jokes because you need to consider the feelings of those MAGA snowflakes.
/s fuck them. They love playing the bully, but then get bitchslapped and go running to mommy sobbing their eyes out "they're being mean to me".
American Republicans are selling out the future of humanity for their own personal power and greed.
At what point should they be treated as criminals in the International Criminal Court? At what point do they face justice for what they're doing?
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This is c/climate
Very few climate focused voters did.
The big issue for American environmentalists has long been failing to vote at all
Exit Poll: climate voters were Harris’s strongest supporters
In this edition, we spotlight who climate voters supported in the 2024 presidential election, exit polling data on fracking in Pennsylvania, and how voters in Ann Arbor, MI approved the creation of a local clean energy utility.www.environmentalvoter.org
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I don't believe that. We have beautiful clean coal.
/s
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4º Encontro de Cidadania Digital em Carataeua – Belém-PA
Nesta edição, com o tema “Comunicação, Território e Apropriação Digital”, o encontro coloca na agenda local o debate sobre as Infovias Amazônicas, infraestrutura essencial para ampliar o acesso à internet e às tecnologias de informação nos territórios ribeirinhos e insulares. Ao discutir o papel das infovias, o encontro reforça a necessidade de que a conectividade esteja a serviço da vida comunitária, fortalecendo redes locais e garantindo o direito à comunicação como parte da cidadania plena.
Durante quatro dias, serão realizadas rodas de conversa, oficinas, vivências e atividades colaborativas, articulando saberes tradicionais e práticas digitais. A proposta é criar um ambiente inclusivo e plural, no qual a comunicação se consolide como um instrumento de transformação social, de defesa dos territórios e de fortalecimento das identidades amazônicas.
Datas: 01 a 04 de Outubro de 2025
Público: comunicadores populares, educadores, movimentos sociais e coletivos.
Parceiros: Casa Preta Amazônia, Comitê de Cultura do Pará (Ação Cultura É muita Onda), Laboratório de Cultura Digital (UFPR/MinC), Instituto Outeiro Verde, Irmãs da Horta, Recanto dos Orixás, Ninho do Colibri, Coração Verde, Tralhoto Leitor, Coletivo Digital, Produtoras Colaborativas, RedeSub, Aldeia FM, Sítio de Maré, Casa da Mestra Zula, Cosmotécnicas Amazônicas, AMP, Cordão de Pássaro Urubu, OBX (Observatório das Baixadas) e CEGAS.
Endereço: Rua Evandro Bona, n. 3380, Bairro – Itaiteua/Outeiro, CEP: 66842-030
Obs: O espaço onde será realizado o evento dispõe de piscina, área de lazer e quadra de esporte, por isso sugerimos usar roupas confortáveis e trazer roupas de banho.
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Gaza Aid Flotilla Approaches Danger Zone
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/6303346
cross-posted from: ibbit.at/post/67538
The Global Sumud Flotilla is just a day away from reaching the ‘orange zone’, 150 nautical miles off the coast of Gaza, where there is a high risk of interception by Israel.
Organisers say 42 boats and 532 participants began the final leg of their journey on Saturday evening after several days of delay. But the lead ship, Family, which suffered catastrophic engine failure off the coast of Greece on Thursday, had to be left behind.
Novara Media contributor Kieran Andrieu, who was on board, is now reporting from a different boat, which he said is making good progress through international waters.
He expects to reach the area where Israeli forces have previously illegally intercepted boats – including the Madleen and the Handala, earlier this year – in international waters by Tuesday night.
If the flotilla is not intercepted, it could reach Gaza by Thursday.
On Monday morning, a flotilla boat was evacuated by the Turkish Red Crescent after it started leaking, taking the total number sailing together down to 41, with four more hoping to catch up, including two that are on their way from Turkey.
Navy ships sent by Italy and Spain have been travelling with the flotilla since it left Greek waters. But when the leaking boat was evacuated, journalists sailing with the flotilla noticed a new frigate on the horizon. It was later reported that Turkey had sent its navy to facilitate a Red Crescent operation to distribute additional humanitarian aid to the flotilla boats, and then responded to a mayday call from the ship that was in trouble.
This comes after flight data revealed that Turkish military aircrafts have been monitoring the flotilla, and amid speculation that a joint naval exercise run by Egypt and Turkey in the Mediterranean sea last week was timed to send a message to Israel.
Italy and Spain have both stressed that they will not confront Israel if the flotilla is intercepted, but are there to protect their citizens on board. Turkish authorities said later on Monday that their boats had only provided temporary assistance and would not accompany the flotilla any further.
Yet the presence of several foreign navies already appears to have acted as a deterrent to attacks. After drone strikes last Tuesday night, the flotilla entered Greek waters for safety and stayed there until Saturday, with some organisers claiming they believed a more serious attack was imminent. Participants prepared to face regular drone strikes for the rest of the journey. But on Sunday, the flotilla spent a full night in international waters for the first time since the attacks, and it passed without incident.
Engine failure on Family.
Most of the 30 or so participants on board Family were reallocated to other boats on Friday and Saturday and are still sailing, but at least three left the mission entirely because no suitable alternative was offered, or they were unhappy with how the situation had been handled.Organisers, meanwhile, moved on to Alma, the largest boat, which has Greta Thunberg and steering committee member Yasemin Acar on board.
Andrieu said his new boat, Adara, is a Spanish-flagged sailing yacht with 22 other people on board, including elected politicians from Argentina and Spain.
Palestinian-French MEP Rima Hassan, who was also on Family, is now on a small boat called Captain Nikos, which is believed to have joined the flotilla at the weekend.Some people moved off Alma to create space for others, including Irish comedian Tadhg Hickey, who is now on the Meteque, a boat which sailed from Tunisia.
The cause of the engine failure on Family, which had not previously had any serious mechanical issues and was operated by an experienced captain and crew, has not been identified. There are credible concerns that it may have been sabotaged, but initial investigations were inconclusive.
A Turkish engineer sent to determine the cause of the failure told Drop Site News that when he inspected the engine, he found that “all the oil was gone”, but he did not say what might have caused this.
Meanwhile, back in Tunisia, more concrete evidence of foul play has emerged. Authorities announced that a foreign national has been charged in relation to the drone strikes on boats Family and Alma earlier this month. Counter-terrorism police are investigating possible links to Mossad.
A new flotilla.
The Global Sumud Flotilla is no longer the only mission sailing through the Mediterranean to break Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza; another flotilla left Italy at the weekend.Comprised of eight boats carrying almost 70 people from more than 20 countries, the Thousand Madleens to Gaza X Freedom Flotilla mission is just a few days behind the first.
On board are elected politicians, including MPs and MEPs, from France, Belgium, Ireland, Spain, the United States and Denmark; Irish author Naoise Dolan, who initially tried to join the Global Sumud Flotilla mission but had to pull out after her boat was cancelled in Tunisia; and French-Malian racial justice activist Assa Traore.
“Every boat we launch is a direct challenge to the blockade and a declaration of solidarity,” organisers said in a statement. “We sail not as charity, but as part of the global struggle to end apartheid and affirm the right of the Palestinian people to live free.”
The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC), which coordinated the Madleen and Handala missions earlier this year, has been sending boats to Gaza for 15 years, while Thousand Madleens to Gaza (TMTG) is a grassroots initiative inspired by the FFC.
Many of the boats, which can all be tracked online, are named after Palestinians, including Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who was targeted and killed by Israel in August, and paediatrician Alaa Al Najjar, whose husband and nine children were killed in an Israeli airstrike while she was at work.
Perhaps in light of the logistical issues that have beset the Global Sumud Flotilla, the FFC stressed that it is drawing on “years of experience and grassroots organising”. It emphasised that it was foregrounding “maritime safety, legal defence, and communications” to have a “global impact” and to do what “governments, corporations and institutions” refuse to do – “to stop genocide, resist apartheid and demand accountability under international law.”
One boat has not sailed yet, but may catch up with the others: the Conscience, a large passenger ship that was attacked by drones off the coast of Malta in May, shortly before embarking for Gaza. It was too severely damaged to continue at the time, but it has now been repaired. Organisers plan for it to sail with 100 medics and journalists on board.
In a statement, the two organisations said: “For nearly two years, the illegal Israeli occupation has blocked international journalists from entering Gaza, creating one of the most dangerous press blackouts in modern history. During this time, hundreds of Palestinian journalists have been deliberately targeted and assassinated, while many more have been imprisoned or silenced. This boat is our challenge to that silence.”
Another boat has also been sailing separately to the Global Sumud Flotilla since last week. The Omar Al Mokhtar departed from Libya with former prime minister Omar al-Hassi on board, and British journalist Yvonne Ridley. The Global Sumud Flotilla would not let it join their fleet because organisers said it had not gone through the strict vetting and training protocols necessary for all participants.
The boat was then converted into a ‘hospital ship’, with Turkish news agency Anadolu reporting that it has been equipped with an intensive care unit. It is currently believed to be sailing just behind the Global Sumud Flotilla, and it is not on their tracker.
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Gaza Aid Flotilla Approaches Danger Zone
Despite delays, drone strikes and suspected sabotage, more than 40 boats and 500 people are now on the final leg of their journey to Gaza. Israel could illegally intercept them as soon as Tuesday night. Charlotte England reports.Novara Media
Leadership shakeup at Hope Florida Foundation follows scrutiny of $10M grants for Desantis' political purposes (from Medicaid)
The department also didn’t reappoint board members Stephanie White, a Pensacola adoption attorney, and Tina Vidal-Duart, executive vice president of major state contractor CDR Maguire. Both had asked for more information on the legality of the $10 million transfer during an April board meeting.
The announcement, made during the organization’s board meeting Monday, came as a surprise to observers and wasn’t mentioned in its agenda. But the foundation’s lawyer, Jeff Aaron, said the board members were originally appointed to serve two-year terms, which recently expired.
It fell under scrutiny this year when the Herald/Times began questioning why it held a secret board meeting last year in which it accepted $10 million from a state legal settlement with the Medicaid contractor Centene.
The foundation quickly gave $5 million each to two organizations, one of which was controlled by the Florida Chamber of Commerce.
Cybersicurezza e “cyberpadrini”: a Lezioni di mafie Gratteri racconta il futuro della lotta al crimine
Le mafie usano i social, si muovono nel dark web, investono in monete virtuali, sperimentano intelligenza artificiale, acquistano software avanzati e arruolano hacker. È il nuovo fronte della criminalità organizzata al centro della puntata di Lezioni di mafie, in prima serata su La7, con il procuratore di Napoli Nicola Gratteri, lo storico Antonio Nicaso e il giornalista Paolo Digiannantonio.
LE ANTICIPAZIONI: Cybersicurezza e “cyberpadrini”: a Lezioni di mafie Gratteri racconta il futuro della lotta al crimine
Lezioni Di Mafie, anticipazioni terza puntata: i cyberpadrini
Nella terza puntata di Lezioni Di Mafie si parla di “cyberpadrini”: dark web, criptovalute e IA. In studio Gratteri, Nicaso, il capo della Polizia Postale e un hacker.Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)
Wisconsin Planned Parenthood clinics pause abortion services amid funding crisis
Wisconsin Planned Parenthood clinics suspend abortion services amid funding crisis
Planned Parenthood is struggling to navigate fallout of law that blocks them from receiving Medicaid reimbursementsCarter Sherman (The Guardian)
President announces TrumpRx.gov for drugs, and pricing deal with Pfizer (yes, it's a federal website)
President Trump on Tuesday announced a deal with Pfizer to sell its drugs directly to consumers at discounted prices. They'll be available through a website operated by the federal government called TrumpRx.gov. He said similar deals with other drugmakers are in the works.
The new website is part of a broader initiative the administration says is aimed at bringing prices paid by Americans, including Medicaid patients, more in line with those paid in other developed countries. The idea is sometimes called most-favored-nation pricing. Under the deal, Pfizer agreed to charge the same price for new drugs in developed countries and the U.S.
Trump “Peace Plan” A Cynical Cover to Continue Campaign of Palestinian Extermination
The so-called "peace deal" does not offer peace; it demands surrender. The Trump plan is the manifestation of a colonial logic that believes might makes right.
Probably n00b Question - Mead Brewing
For context, I've dabbled in home brewing. I've made ~4 successful batches based on online recipes. I wouldn't call myself an expert, but also not a complete amateur.
So what happens if you don't rack your mead/wine? I suppose the notion I have is to let it set in primary (assuming there's no fruit/spices to remove after initial fermentation) until its fully clarified before going straight to bottling?
I guess I've assumed there is some problem in the clarification step if you don't "get rid of" the dead yeast that precipitates, but I've never seen anything exploring that as a method.
Can anyone offer their experience?
That's fine. The old advice for racking off the yeast is because that's what the big professional brewers/winemakers do. The difference being yeast sitting on the bottom of 5 gallons of beer/wine vs yeast sitting on the bottom of 100,000 bbls. The massive weight crushes the yeast and then lets some undesirable flavors into the beverage. At the homebrew scale this just doesn't happen.
The only thing to be wary of without racking off the yeast is that it's easy to stir a bunch of the sediment back up if your racking cane moves around during bottling.
As @MuteDog@lemmy.world said, but I'd add just one other thought.
Most of my 15 or 30 l batches seem to clear much faster after the first rack
I don't rack clear mead. It settles perfectly after a year or so, wait till laser beam goes through without any scattering, don't agitate the bottle and give it time, mead really gets better on the long run.
Also, the more yeast you have, better is precipitation. Any rush makes imperfectly clear mead that would seem clear but would just settle in bottle later. This is a bad shortcut, don't rake it.
Personally, I had beer sitting on its yeast cake for months (in the cooled keg though), without any issue. Also, when bottle conditioning, you'll have some yeast sediment at the bottom, which has never hurt the flavour in my experience, even a year or so of not always cool storage.
If you leave your beverage on the yeast for years, I suppose you risk autolysis, but I'd say you're safe for anything up to a year or so.
German weapons giant acts as sales rep for Israel's "suicide drones"
German weapons giant acts as sales rep for Israel's "suicide drones"
UVision sees genocide as a business opportunity.The Electronic Intifada
Supreme Court lets Lisa Cook remain as a Federal Reserve governor for now (they will hear arguments in January)
The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed Lisa Cook to remain as a Federal Reserve governor for now, declining to act on the Trump administration’s effort to immediately remove her from the central bank.
In a brief unsigned order, the high court said it would hear arguments in January over Republican President Donald Trump’s effort to force Cook off the Fed board.
The court will consider whether to block a lower-court ruling in Cook’s favor while her challenge to her firing by Trump continues.
The high-court order was a rare instance of Trump not quickly getting everything he wants from the justices in an emergency appeal.
Live updates: Democrats insist upon health care demands as government shutdown begins
Democrats want the health care subsidies extended now, for Republicans to reverse the Medicaid cuts that were enacted over the summer, and for the White House to promise not to rescind congressional spending. Republicans say there’s still time to negotiate on health care this year, but stopgap funding for the government is the priority.
At issue for the subsidies, is that the tax credits have made health insurance through the Affordable Care Act more affordable for millions of people since the COVID-19 pandemic. The credits are set to expire at the end of the year if Congress doesn’t extend them — which would more than double what subsidized enrollees currently pay for health insurance premiums, according to a KFF analysis.
Government issues new data demand for UK Apple users
Government targets UK Apple users in new demand for data
It is the latest development in a privacy row which has pitted the UK against the tech giant and the Trump administration.Zoe Kleinman (BBC News)
Georgia Mos torna con “Pump The Jam”: la versione Afro House dal 3 ottobre su tutte le piattaforme digitali
Torna la carica esplosiva di Georgia Mos, dj e producer italiana di fama internazionale. Dal 3 ottobre arriva “Pump The Jam” in chiave Afro House, una rivisitazione personale della leggendaria hit anni ’90, pubblicata da QualaqAs Music e disponibile su tutte le principali piattaforme digitali.
LEGGI L'ARTICOLO: Georgia Mos torna con “Pump The Jam”: la versione Afro House dal 3 ottobre su tutte le piattaforme digitali
Georgia Mos: “Pump The Jam” in versione Afro House dal 3 ottobre
Georgia Mos firma una versione Afro House di “Pump The Jam”: uscita il 3 ottobre per QualaqAs Music. Info, stile e percorso dell’artista.Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)
Chi l’ha Visto?, nuovi documenti inediti su Garlasco: anticipazioni e casi di stasera (1° ottobre 2025)
Chi l’ha visto? Anticipazioni sulla puntata dell’1 ottobre 2025. Che cosa sta succedendo ai ragazzi? Il nuovo appuntamento con Chi l’ha Visto?, condotto da Federica Sciarelli, affronta pericoli della rete e bullismo accanto a tre filoni di cronaca che tornano a far discutere. La puntata è in onda oggi, mercoledì 1° ottobre, alle 21:20 su Rai3.
TUTTE LE ANTICIPAZIONI: Chi l’ha Visto? Nuovi documenti inediti su Garlasco: anticipazioni e casi di stasera (1° ottobre 2025)
Chi l’ha Visto? Anticipazioni 1 ottobre 2025: nuovi documenti su Garlasco e casi in puntata
Chi l’ha Visto? torna stasera alle 21:20 su Rai3: nuovi elementi su Garlasco, il caso Elena Vergari e il mistero di Nicola.Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th October 2025 - awful.systems
Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Elon Musk announces "Grokipedia", which is exactly what it sounds like.
for article in wikipedia: grok.is_this_true(article)
The Gizmodo story mentions that he retweeted Larry Sanger, but it doesn't dive into the rabbit hole of just how much of a kook Sanger is and how badly his would-be Wikipedia competitors have failed.
Elon Musk's Wikipedia Competitor Is Going to Be a Disaster
Remember when Grok praised Adolf Hitler?Matt Novak (Gizmodo)
In today’s torment nexus development news… you know how various cyberpunky type games let you hack into an enemy’s augmentations and blow them up? Perhaps you thought this was stupid and unrealistic, and you’d be right.
Maybe that’s the wrong example. How about a cursed evil ring that when you put it on, you couldn’t take it off and it wracks you with pain? Who hasn’t wanted one of those?
Happily, hard working torment nexus engineers have brought that dream one step closer, by having “smart rings”, powered by lithium polymer batteries. Y’know, the things that can go bad, and swell up and catch fire? And that you shouldn’t puncture, because that’s a fire risk too, meaning cutting the ring off is somewhat dangerous? Fun times abound!
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A pair of tweets, containing the text
Daniel aka ZONEofTECH on x.com: “Ahhh…this is…not good. My Samsung Galaxy Ring’s battery started swelling. While it’s on my finger 😬. And while I’m about to board a flight 😬 Now I cannot take it off and this thing hurts. Any quick suggestionsUpdate:
- I was denied boarding due to this (been travelling for ~47h straight so this is really nice 🙃). Need to pay for a hotel for the night now and get back home tomorrow👌
- was sent to the hospital, as an emergency
- ring got removed
You can see the battery all swollen. Won’t be wearing a smart ring ever again.
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TIL there are extensions to automatically expand abbreviations in Firefox
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/extension-that-automatically-e-Yxr0E2NcSgyyssLO6O4hwg
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Sulfur Hexafluoride: The Nightmare Greenhouse Gas That’s Just Too Useful To Stop Using
Sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) is not nearly as infamous as CO2, with the latter getting most of the blame for anthropogenic climate change. Yet while measures are being implemented to curb the release …Hackaday
In electrical distribution, there are plenty of alternatives, I've worked with electrical utilities for a little. In that city, most residential transformers and some legacy switchgear (some up to 80 years old) use mineral oil. In the 90s SF6 switchgear was common to be installed, but the current models of medium-voltage switchgear have neither. And some modern commercial alternatives are appearing for transformer winding isolation and coolant.
The issue comes with higher-voltage switching, such as at substations. If you want to use air separation there, then you'll need lots and lots of space between to prevent arcing. Since that is not always achievable, that's where vacuums or agents like SF6 are used instead.
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For unauthorized scrapers? Definitely
For paid API usage? That tends to not be public for obvious reasons but, allegedly, people have, allegedly, done tests and found "deleted" content in the results.
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Version control mother fucker, do you speak it?
But, in all seriousness: That is what they use for the comments. It is why a lot of the mass delete tools were "accidentally" undone during The Exodus. Because it was literally just rolling back. Theoretically there might be a limited number of revisions available but if you believe that I have a bridge to sell you. Because imagine if A Brown Person wrote a message then edited it five times so that Chloe couldn't alert Jack Bauer to who to torture
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Ive heard the same but I haven't seen real evidence anywhere, so im skeptical. But yes I agree, if they CAN get that data, it means the training data is better-ish....
But we are still on this site for a reason 😀
I mean... if the reason you left is because you didn't want your data scraped then... the fediverse is one of the worst places to go? Because anyone can run a modified lemmy instance to pull everything through the tools specifically designed to do that.
Let alone just scraping websites that don't have teams of big corporate lawyers.
Huh.
Does anyone else think that ChatGPT is still using the data, they’re just not referencing Reddit directly?
This is how you can tell Reddit’s $200+/share price is insane. Over 10% of its value dropped based on a different unprofitable company’s references to ingested content.
Yikes!!
While I don't agree with the reddit valuation to begin with...
that is actually how the stock market "should" work? Reddit is a company that, at its core, produces data to sell to other companies. If other companies choose to (say they are not going to) use that data, then the value of reddit drops. That is literally supply and demand.
If Stanley's Sprockets' sprockets are a vital part of iphones then Stanley's Sprockets is going to be a very valuable company. If Apple changes to the other dude's product, Stanley's Sprockets has now lost a lot of value.
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The ads/manipulation does a thing that helps you attain profit or power. You want to manipulate what people see and pay for... so you pay reddit to allow you to mass deploy bots bypassing moderator levers. They have the community, you have the objective, you pay for the help of doing this and they probably have their own bot farms included.
They can even internally flag these entries as bots and use their AI partnerships to analyze what works on users and what doesn't to trigger a specific response, and to avoid using techniques that get called out as bots.
They have their public 'sponsored' content, but I promise for big spenders they have a program that has no sponsorship callout. They probably brand it with nice fancy marketing terminology that makes it sound like you're an angel doing god's work by driving conversions or some stupid shit.
no actual path to profitablity
You don't think reddit can make money from advertising?
The people in power don’t care about people with a few shares. You can sell all your shares right now and nobody would notice.
Reddit’s power benefits whomever wants to push an agenda and a narrative while minimizing any info that could counter that.
Companies pay for API access so profits go up and stock value go up.
I assume the reddit stock doesn't pay dividends based on profits. But if you bought for 10 dollars and now it is 500 dollars? You can sell some of that stuck to people hoping it will go up to 1000 dollars for a solid profit. And so forth.
And if it DOES pay dividends (some kinds of stocks do) then a percentage of those profits are directly sent to the share holders based on how many shares they have.
see any return in their investment short of managing to sell the stock for more than they bought it
So... it is a stock that doesn't pay dividends? Like... that is what stocks are.
Homie? I assume you are just looking to hear "reddit bad" and... it is.
But if you are actually attempting to discuss things in good faith? You are just describing stocks and you should REALLY educate yourself on the subject if you ever intend to invest beyond retirement and mutual funds... which most people shouldn't in the first place but that is an even bigger tangent.
I am looking at it froma purely financial standpoint. The inky thing Reddit really produces is semi-anonymous data that is tied to an email address. The quality of that data is iffy at best, while they have massive expenses just to keep the site operating. They can charge for their API calls, but they will never be able to use that to generate actual profit since no one will ever pay for it at that price point.
Something like Reddit or twitter are useful if they are owned by powerful individuals or corporations that wish to influence the public. It is worthless as a strictly financial vehicle because it produces no profit and has assets that are not not equal to the cost of maintain them. You would only buy stock in reddit in the hopes that some billionaire thinks they can do a better job running it than Elon Musk did with twitter. Otherwise reddit stock is just a volatile place to park your cash in the hope that you can sell it for more later.
Which takes me back to my original comment about the kitten stomping factory. It gives value to a select group of people with a specific aim, but it is worthless as an investment vehicle because it owns little, produces nothing, and has massive liabilities. If you want to exert power and influence, it's useful. If you only care about making money, it's useless. People who buy and sell stock are mostly only interested in making money.
I am looking at it froma purely financial standpoint.
Then let's do that.
Reddit has three official and one implied revenue streams.
Of the official, we have:
Ad sales. This is where most "user data" actually comes into play and is the idea of building a profile of each user that can be used to put them into categories for targeted ads. That might be a simple as "likes video games, hates women, curious about learning to pee while sitting down". Or it might be "doesn't realize that guy at the bar took off the condom and is now pregnant". This is demonstrably profitable and doesn't seem to be effected.
The next is people buying reddit premium because they are idiots.
The last official oneis the actual topic of this thread. Reddit sells API access to, among others, companies training LLMs. ChatGPT has, allegedly, stopped using them. Thus, one of their major sources of revenue dried up and their stock dropped as a result.
As for the rest:
Otherwise reddit stock is just a volatile place to park your cash in the hope that you can sell it for more later.
Ah, so you DO know what the definition of a stock is. You just refuse to accept it because the word "reddit" is involved.
The vast majority of stocks are horrible to even consider purchasing as an individual. A general rule of thumb is the only ones you should even consider buying are those with dividends where you just buy a few shares and every couple years check your investment account and transfer the excess to your savings.
The rest you rely entirely on mutual funds (and similar). Where the idea is that an investment group has a large pool of money and they try to stay ahead of minor fluctuations and often outright bet against themselves. So you might have some funds earmarked at assuming reddit will go up and other funds that take the Oracle announcement as a hint that OpenAI spending on Reddit might decrease and sell the stocks ahead of time to buy shares in coca cola instead or whatever.
But the thing to understand is that that is happening to basically every single stock. Because the fundamental idea of the stock market is about leaving others holding the bag.
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Which is also generally very detectable (if you actually care) and is generally used to push (monetized) social media and not the answer to "what is the difference between normal and merino wool?" and so forth.
The vast majority of the "user" interaction and memes is not the product (at play. it IS useful for societal manipulation but there are better platforms for that). It is all those useful questions and answers that people get pissy about folk deleting the answers to.
Because people, generally, weren't searching for team edward or jacob reddit but instead the fuck is a renesme reddit or LED versus fluourescent bulbs reddit and so forth. And the community labeling of the latter is generally REALLY good.
Things DO get messy when the question becomes best synthetic boxer briefs reddit but... it is incredibly rare for an astro turfing campaign to be strong enough to get a genuinely bad product "on top". You tend to just get an overly expensive branded white label in the top slot which may actually be identical to the "real" best one anyway. But considering you are relying on human opinion regardless, that isn't far off of what you were gonna get without said astroturfing.
There are absolutely vote manipulation campaigns still happening.
See this from 12 days ago: old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comme…
12 days ago almost every top-level comment was below -50 and responses were untouched.
As a user of the website for many years it's entirely obvious that a majority of the website is gamed (besides its niche corners). Reddit's bot prevention mechanisms just fuck VPN users - they are wholly inadequate.
That thread is evidence of a organized bot campaign that they had 12 days to clean up (and didn't). It's naive to believe that the rest of the website isn't similarly (and less obviously) affected by bots - with vote manipulation still standing.
Are you somebody invested financially in Reddit? Genuine question.
Those niche subreddits can also have their moments, too. Maybe it's not bots, but there are plenty of shills that have been caught in various niche subreddits I've frequented over the years (thanks to unpaid moderators).
No, I'm not. I don't care at all if they're successful or go under.
Sure, but again it's not likely to be most. You don't seem to realize how hard it is to get data that is already classified. That stuff is gold to people developing AI. Most of the work in data science is cleaning data and getting it into a usable form.
It's noise, a very large part of it. Reddit is financially motivated to make the data appear as if it is signal. It isn't - they have taken extremely minimal steps to ensure actual human participation.
This doesn't matter to AI companies, but it only warps that technology more and more. AI is a sinking ship with current methodologies. Reddit will die when the AI bubble bursts and those involved with Reddit already cashed out enough to be filthy rich.
If you can land me a gig engaging with back end data from Reddit in a neutral capacity, it'd likely be pretty easy for a layman like me to confirm that it's largely noise. The AI companies buying data are getting scammed and you are free to remain neutral or plainly disagree with my assessment in the absence of concrete data that is publicly obtainable.
No company is immune to bots and inorganic engagement, least of all Reddit with the strategies employed.
Reddit is presumably the only party with the ability to determine which data/interaction is truly legitimate or isn't.
I have a mostly neutral opinion on AI/LLMs, but I have a negative assessment of the companies driving it unsustainably. They are able to pay big money because AI is where money is flowing. When these actors crash the economy with their hubris, please write back to me - maybe I won't seem so weird at that point.
Meta/OpenAI openly pirating everything they can to train their LLMs is a good example of how data hungry these AI/etc. companies are.
Is it plausible that companies request that Reddit narrows down data e.g. by demographic, geographic location, or likelihood of being a real person and request that data for purchase? Sure, but the LLMs seemingly require all data that exists that these companies can get their hands on - I highly doubt with the scale of data being consumed (and data theft being committed) that the big players care too much about Reddit data being tainted. If anything, it might even be desirable to them.
Yes, but Oracle's stock skyrocketed based on the unprofitable OpenAI promising to buy >100B worth of AI data center space from Oracle. Nvidia stock also surged on the news, since Oracle builds those data centers with Nvidia chips
Obviously OpenAI doesn't have the money to pay Oracle themselves, so Nvidia has helpfully given them the money
So now we have an incredibly large cyclic corporate dependency of money from Nvidia -> OpenAI -> Oracle, then back to Nvidia. Definitely not a financial disaster waiting to happen
They haven't even spent the fucking money yet. It's just announcements of intentions, with a fraction of that $100B in outlays. Nobody seems to want to say who gets to be the one holding the $100B at the end of it, either.
Presumably they'll all just do a stock swap and tell their vendors "We're good for it, check's in the mail"?
This is how you can tell Reddit’s $200+/share price is insane.
Well, that and the P/E is 180. Typical target P/E on a stock is 15-20, depending on your anticipation of its growth. But we're expected to believe Reddit's earnings will be 9x their current income in... some nebulous amount of time?
Like, its silly to get excited about a company this hyperinflated seeing a tiny slide off its new peak. But also, you can't help be bearish on a firm this flimsy.
The entire stock market has become a meme stock pyramid scheme. No price makes sense; it's all glorified gambling making life on this planet worse for most living things.
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Oh no!
Anyways what's everyone having for lunch? I'm having bean burritos.
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What other kinds of burrito would you recommend besides bean burrito?
Try chorizo, potato and scrambled eggs sometime.
Absolutely kickass breakfast burrito, get real chorizo tho
Try chorizo, potato and scrambled eggs sometime.
That's awful greasy for someone who has the flu.
Well, I said "try ... sometime", but also... greasy foods are to be particularly avoided when one has a flu?
I... its not that I don't believe that is a thing that does or could make sense, I've just never heard of that before.
Also, you can prepare chorizo, potatoes and scrambled eggs in ways that are not as greasy, sure they are still greasier than many other things, but you don't have to do it in maybe, typical street vendor or highly rapid restaurant fashion, with grease dripping out like a cheap pizza slice at a bar.
Well, I said “try … sometime”, but also… greasy foods are to be particularly avoided when one has a flu?
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Oh my god I somehow forgot that Reddit IPO8ng means I get to read stories like this.
Oh no, the world's most poorly managed and funded corporate social media website's with a publically traded stock is tanking, oh nooooo!
Ahahahah!
Reddit banned me today for making a joke that the patch title for Guild Wars 2 could match real life events.
What is the patch name?
The Mad King and his Lunatic Court.
Permanently banned for what?
Harassment.
That's what pandering to the bigger techbros spez gets.
Being there stopped being fun ever since the shits started running a massive profile-and-purge program powered by fucking AI, as even casually mentioning violence against right-wingers or POTUS and his merry chucklefucks gets your account flagged for banning. That's why there's now a chilling effect.
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Yeah, and it aged hard like milk.
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I got my reddit ban for replying to someone in world news. Their comment was saying spain should declare war on israel. I forget why, this before the flotilla though.
I got banned for saying that was unlikely as israel is a nuclear power.
you dont even have to mention anything you can just get banned for creating a new account, or firing up an years old account, since they will consider those as bots. it happens randomly though. so much so, the shadowban sub had so many of these bans because they got banned for little reason.(besides the one that have multiple accounts get shadowbanned).
they started limiting the amount of time the shadowban questions stay open to silence any discussion of it.
no OP.
I got the F out and deleted my old posts every time they restored them until they stayed gone.
I suggested drawing in chalk on the street outside of the governor's mansion, to protest the GIANT chalk Christ she had commissioned across the driveway to celebrate Easter one year.
It wasn't even a serious call to action.
But I was more wondering about the "sprich deutsch" Part - that's usually more of a racist thing, and therefore right wing politics. But if you don't see public transport as political you might be right-wing overall?
...are we now just connecting things to put everyone in right corner?
God i hate online people...
Guess being against corperates, for self reliance, public owner ship, pro a european state and untouchable democracy, and so on, is now "right wing".
"Sprich deutsch" in litterly ich_iel is litterly the norm! Thats the joke! Everything is worded german. Guess such is now "right wing".
"Everything is politics" omfg. Yeah nah. Thats enought Internet for this month, and it only started. Crazy!
bro just skipped the "usually" part and made a rant against things being judged politically.
I think the "everything has to be written in German" part of ich_iel is also establishing a rather nationalist online culture through linguistic homogeny and illegibility to outsiders. So, yeah, you may not want to recognize the impact your words may have, but it's clear to many others.
I still think it builds an attitude that is toxic to outsiders and can potentially push someone into a right-wing position. I have witnessed first hand how someone fell down a fascist rabbit hole via online places touting language superiority.
Mine was telling someone it was unlikely that spain would declare war on israel, it being a nuclear nation....
Banned for 'glorifying violence.'
i think people were shocked that all thier accounts were banned simulataneously, despite some of them not participating in the same subs, around the same time. they just went after every account in your ip address,device or browser. even if time has passed that a subreddit ban has been lifted in your old accounts. the site filters/AI doesnt take that into account, and i suspect its intentional.
i noticed reddit is very wary of browser forks now too(google, firefox forks), theres a reason they dont like brave(because it hides your fingerprints by default)
deleting your account also wont stop them from finding your new accounts, they mostly archived that as well. they look at browser fingerprinting, device, device components, time zone discrepancy, browser size and VERSION, resolution,,,etc. if you use any paid service/trial service that can spoof any of these above and they arnt the correct versions, they can detect that.
and then theres the warming up period with new accounts(like not posting, reporting, or upvoting too fast after account creation)
Right, and if the moderation allows Nazi ideology to run rampant, you have a Nazi town. Especially when it's all mostly bots spewing Nazi talking points anyway.
Refusing to fight hate speech is tantamount to supporting it.
Does Reddit stock pay dividends or offer shareholder voting? Is most of it at least hell by their owners, giving at least a financial interest to having its value affected? Then it might as well be Yet Another Crypto Scam, in which case it isn't really going to affect Reddit because they've probably already cashed out.
What people don't realize is that the stock market is largely based off of on speculation on who's going to buy or sell when, the articles that tie it directly to how the company performing are basically fortune tellers either telling their customers what they want to hear or catering to their customers by manipulating how their readers will behave.
People use belief in the value of money to illustrate how crypto has value. The stock market is a far better analogy, and there are plenty of confidence scams to go along with it as well.
That's actually quite easy to explain. Reddits entire monetary value (or at least a very large portion) depends on how relevant it is as platform to mine user interactions - to use as training material for AI.
Reddit getting references less is a sign that the models, or the owning companies, value reddit data less compared to before.
You just described most tech stocks.
As Cory Doctrow explains:
the fundamental duty of every CEO of every high-growth tech company: explaining how his company will continue to grow. These growth stories are key, because growth stocks trade at a huge premium relative to the stocks of "mature" companies.
The fact that any AI company thought to train their LLM on the answers of Reddit users speaks to a fundamental misunderstanding of their own product (IMO)
LLMs aren't programmed to give you the correct answer. They're programmed to give you the most pervasive/popular answer on the assumption that most of the time that will also happen to be the right one.
So when you're getting your knowledge base from random jackasses on Reddit, where a good faith question like "What's the best way to get get gum out of my childs hair" get's two two good faith answers, and then a few dozen smart-ass answers that gets lots of replies and upvotes because they're funny. Guess which one your LLM is going to use.
People (and apparently even the creators themselves) think that an LLM is actually cognizent enough to be able to weed this out logically. But it can't. It's not an intelligence...it's a knowlege agreggator. And as with any aggregator, the same rule applies
garbage in, garbage out
Thats why I have stopped calling it ai. Its a dumbass buzzword just like cloud, that tech bros like to use but cant explain (or blockchain).
Its llms, and image generators/OCR (which has been around for decades), Using complex markov chains and a fuck ton of graphics cards. NOT AI. NOT AI.
I've had to start calling it AI because most people don't know what LLMs are, and noone cares to go through the explanation, including myself.
I'm afraid that, as these things go, AI has gained a new meaning by popular use, rather than the original meaning of the acronym.
No point fighting it anymore.
Maybe we just need to adjust and start saying GAI (generative ai). It has a nice ring to it too.
It is AI, along with a bunch of optimization algorithms, statistical decision trees (probably used in adaptive AI in games), etc. AI is a field in computer science that includes a ton of things many wouldn't consider AI.
Basically, if the solution doesn't come from direct commands but instead comes from some form of learning process, it's probably AI.
It's not "general AI", but it is in the field of AI.
I would argue we need to go back to Machine Learning.
The field is machine learning, generative machine learning etc.
This rebrand to AI is doing nothing but confusing people and building investor hype
Also fair.
I find the term machine learning more honest than artificial intelligence
It's more specific, sure, but there's nothing dishonest about using the same terminology that has been used for almost 100 years.
The disconnect is that average people have a different understanding of the term than is used in computer science, probably because of sci-fi films and whatnot. When I hear "AI," I think of the CS term, because that's my background, but when my family hears "AI," they think of androids and whatnot like in Bicentennial Man.
I don't know how to square that circle. Neither group here is wrong, but classifying something like ChatGPT as "AI," while correct, is misinterpreted by the public, who assume it's doing more than it is.
Exactly that.
If I were to google how to get gum out of my child's hair and then be directed to that same reddit post. I'd read through it and be pretty sure which were jokes and which were serious; we make such distinctions, as you say, every day without much effort.
LLMs simply don't have that ability. And the number of average people who just don't get that is mind-boggling to me.
I also find it weirdly dystopian that, if you sum that up, it kind of makes it sound like in order for an LLM to make the next step towards A.I. It needs a sense of humour. It needs the ability to weed through when the information it's digging from is serious, or just random jack-asses on the internet.
Which is turning it into a very very Star Trek problem.
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Is there any alternative to Stremio?
I find it's flakey at best. Non functional at worst. I regularly have to disconnect then reconnect my VPN to get it to work. then the torrentio plugin will just uninstall constantly. Half the time it doesn't even find any results. I'm considering going back to a home server if this stupid thing doesn't work. Anyways, any alternatives? I saw that popcorn time seems to be legit now, so that's out.
TIA.
Since you're just streaming torrents you could just use a torrent client to download the torrent(s) in sequential mode.
e.g. Load the torrent in qBittorrent and make sure to enable "Download in sequential order" and "Download first and last pieces first". When the torrent is about 5-10% downloaded you can start playing the incomplete file while the torrent continues to download in the background. Load the file in your preferred media player (VLC or whatever) and play.
Hmm, having checked “Download first and last pieces first” usually fixes that. e.g. a .mp4 with its moov atom at the end of the file won't stream unless you make sure to download the last part of the file starting out. Just curious which media file type are you referring to that won't stream regardless of having the first/last pieces downloaded?
But either way OP using Stremio + torrentio won't fix that, that's just another torrent client doing a torrent stream. If it won't play mid-stream via qBittorrent it won't play mid-stream in torrentio either.
I am genuinely curious what containers you are refering to. The only ones that come to mind are DVD and BD.
MKV definitely streams great, IIRC so do AVI and MP4. Almost all video torrents are in MKV with some older ones in AVI and few random MP4s here and there.
The one other issue is RAR'd releases, those can't be streamed. I honestly don't understand why people post RAR'd video as it doesn't really save space.
The other issue (perhaps a much more important one) with streaming torrents is sometimes you can't get a high enough speed to stream in real time, but that tends to be limited to more niche content (that often isn't even available via any streaming provider).
Yes, that's why qBittorrent's "Download first and last pieces first" option exists. You'll be able to stream that .mp4 with its moov atom at the end of the file as long as you download that last piece during the beginning of the download. In some ways that makes qBittorrent a better streamer for .mp4 files vs other methods.
Maybe the other commenter is referring to some other media file type that can't be streamed.
EDIT - Haven't checked but am guessing torrentio also downloads first/last pieces first otherwise it'd be a terrible torrent streamer.
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Do not update single packages on Archlinux, but
On Archlinux it is not recommended to update only one package with the package manager pacman. Let's say I have 11 packages, and one of them is extra/firefox (true story). Updating only a pacman -S firefox could introduce problems, but installing a new single package if it wasn't there is okay.
So my question is, could we get around this by removing and installing the same package again in one go: pacman -Rs firefox && pacman -S firefox
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sudo pacman -Syu package_name so it is always up to date.
it's just unsupported. like, if something breaks by that happening then it's not a bug, but your fault.
installing a new package without updating is the same as updating a single package
That is not true. Installing a package with sudo pacman -S package without updating the package list is totally supported and works without problems. Whats not recommended is to installing package and updating package list with -Sy package. So instead we should do -Syu package and update everything on the system alongside the package.
Maybe if the package list is old, then -S package it will only install from cache? Could it be that?
pacman -S package will install the version of the package that is listed in the current package database, and will not do anything to update that database.like this
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but installing a new single package if it wasn’t there is okay.
Not true. It says clearly "Partial upgrades are not supported". Whether the package was there or not is irrelevant. And I really don't mean this personally, but as general advice, using Archlinux and its wiki requires a modicum of independent thinking.
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It is OK to use '-S' only if all installed packages are on the same level as the local package info. That is assuming that the cached local version of the package is still available on package servers.
Also read wiki.archlinux.org/title/Syste…
But -S package is not upgrading the ~~package~~ (Edit: I meant system). Installing with that command is supported. That is NOT a partial upgrade of the system. -Sy package is considered a partial upgrade, because that command updates the package list.
And I really don’t mean this personally, but as general advice, using Archlinux and its wiki requires a modicum of independent thinking.
This part was a total unnecessary attack, for someone who asks. Especially if you are not entirely correct.
It is OK to use '-S' only if all installed packages are on the same level as the local package info. That is assuming that the cached local version of the package is still available on package servers.
I just think you're being too literal about this, instead of thinking about the reasoning behind that rule.
But -S package is not upgrading the package. Installing with that command is supported. That is NOT a partial upgrade of the system. -Sy package is considered a partial upgrade, because that command updates the package list.
I disagree. The -S flag stands for "sync", which means sync the local version with the remote version. So if there is no local version it just installs the remote version. This is still a partial update, because any dependencies it might have, that you already have installed, might be the wrong version compared to the one the newly installed package expects.
pacman -S should be discouraged because of this. The correct one is pacman -Syu for installing new packages.
No, pacman -S package is safe. Because the package list is not updated this way, and therefore the system is not updated and nothing else is affected. New packages can be installed with this command, perfectly okay. That is in the spirit of Archlinux.
I think my idea would not work because the nature of the command -S package, as no new version would be synced. This is not a partial upgrade and it does not need to be discouraged.
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No, pacman -S package is safe. Because the package list is not updated this way, and therefore the system is not updated and nothing else is affected. New packages can be installed with this command, perfectly okay. That is in the spirit of Archlinux.
If the package is not in your cache, it needs to download it from the remote server first. The version on the remote server is built against the dependencies on the remote server. So if your local dependency is older, it will be a partial update!
It's not in your cache, because you haven't had it installed before and the remote server only has the newest version.
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You're correct partial upgrades are unsupported. Arch follows a rolling release model, meaning there are no fixed "versions" of the system. Instead, everything is continuously updated. Each package is built and tested against the current state of the rest of the system in the Arch repositories. That package was compiled against the latest system libraries in the repos, not necessarily the ones on your machine.
Your proposed "workaround" may work if the package is standalone and has few/no dependencies. Again, ArchLinux strongly recommends full system upgrades (pacman -Syu) rather than only reinstalling/upgrading a single package, because library or dependency mismatches can occur if your system is out of sync.
A safer approach may be to use "pacman -S package --needed" which will avoid removing it first and automatically handles dependencies safely.
pacman -S package to install a new application is not considered a partial upgrade.
I think you are a little confused at the problem here. The issue is that partial updates are not supported. The reason for this is very simple, Arch ensures that any given package list works on its own, but not that packages from different versions of the package list work together. So if Firefox depends on libssl the new Firefox package may depend on a new libssl function. If you install that version of Firefox without updating libssl it will cause problems.
There is no way around this limitation. If you install that new Firefox without he new libssl you will have problems. No matter how you try to rules lawyer it. Now 99% of the time this works. Typically packages don't depend on new library functions right away. But sometimes they do, and that is why as a rule this is unsupported. You are welcome to try it, but if it breaks don't complain to the devs, they never promised it would work. But this isn't some policy where you can find a loophole. It is a technical limitation. If you manage to find a loophole people aren't going to say "oh, that should work, let's fix it" it will break and you will be on your own to fix it.
Focusing on your commands. The thing is that pacman -S firefox is always fine on its own. If Firefox is already installed it will do nothing, if it isn't it will install the version from the current package list. Both of those operations are supported. Also pacman -Rs firefox && pacman -S firefox is really no different than just pacman -S firefox (other than potentially causing problems if the package can't be allowed to be removed due to dependencies). So your command isn't accomplishing anything even if it did somehow magically work around the rules.
What is really the problem is pacman -Sy. This command updates the package list without actually updating any packages. This will enter you system into a precarious state where any new package installed or updated (example our pacman -S firefox command form earlier) will be a version that is mismatched with the rest of your system. This is unsupported and will occasionally cause problems. Generally speaking you shouldn't run pacman -Sy, any time you are using -Sy you should also be passing -u. This ensures that the package list and your installed packages are updated together.
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But I'm not doing pacman -Sy package. That is not what I am talking about. I am only talking about pacman -S package, which is not updating the system partially. IF the package depends on something else to update, then the system would need to be updated. But that is not what I was asking, because I only talk about the package with -S package. I just chose firefox as an example, it could have been any other package.
To make it clear, when I say -S firefox, then I mean really that without updating a dependency like libssl. The idea is to install only new packages without updating anything on the system. I guess as you say it depends on the dependencies of the package, if this is feasible.
But that is my point. Just running pacman -S firefox is fine as long as you didn't run pacman -Sy at some point earlier. It won't update anything, even dependencies. It will just install the version that matches your current package list and system including the right version of any dependencies if they aren't already installed.
But that means if you already have Firefox installed it will do nothing.
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We can install a new package if it wasn't installed with pacman -S firefox. That is not a partial upgrade of the system. Right? What i don't understand is, when I uninstall with pacman -Rs firefox, delete the cached firefox package (only that file), then the system is in the same state as before I installed it. Then -S firefox should be okay, right? And it even looks up the new version. This is my question, if that would work correctly.
IF no dependency tries to update too. Off course in that case I would stop. Without pacman -Sy, I never do that anyway, only -Syu.
IF no dependency tries to update too. Off course in that case I would stop. Without pacman -Sy, I never do that anyway, only -Syu.
That's all you need to know. As long as you always use pacman -Syu you will be fine. pacman -Sy is the real problem. The wiki page is pretty clear about the sequences of commands that are problematic wiki.archlinux.org/title/Syste…
Right? What i don’t understand is, when I uninstall with pacman -Rs firefox, delete the cached firefox package (only that file), then the system is in the same state as before I installed it. Then -S firefox should be okay, right? And it even looks up the new version.
This isn't correct. It won't look up the new version. Assuming that the system was in a consistent state it will download the exact same package that you deleted. The system only ever "updates" when you run pacman -Sy. Until you use -y all packages are effectively pinned at a specific version. If the version that gets installed is different than the one you removed it probably means that you were breaking the partial update rule previously.
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And it even looks up the new version. This is my question, if that would work correctly.
I think this is where you might have misunderstood what pacman -S does. It does not look for a new version, but tries to install the version of the package from last time you updated your local package list.
If the repository has a newer version since the last time you updated, you would not find the package version you are looking for. As I try to update at least once a day, I haven't had this happen yet (so i am not 100% how this would manifest).
To install only the newest version of firefox on the server you would habe to run it with pacman-Sy firefox which is not supported.
To add to the other comment, package managers keep a local copy of the list of available packages and the version. When you do a pacman -S xxx the package manager looks up xxx in the cache and downloads the package from whatever mirror youre using as well as any dependencies, looking them up in the same way from your cache. This works for a while even if theres a new update available because mirrors usually keep a few previous versions.
Once you do a pacman -Sy you update your cache to the latest one. If you then update xxx, it will update xxx and pull in any dependency updates required, but any other packages that depended on the same packages dont get updated, leaving you in a partially upgraded state.
I'm also not familiar. But my understanding is that the package maintainers should prevent this situation. Because otherwise even if there are package version dependencies (I don't actually know if pacman does this) it would just block the update which results in a partial update which isn't supported. For example if your theoretical unmaintained Firefox blocks the update of libssl but Python requires new functionality you would be stuck in dependency hell. Leaving this problem to the users just makes this problem worse. So the package maintainers need to sort something out.
It is a huge pain when it happens but tends to be pretty rare in practice. Typically they can just wait for software to update or ship a small patch to fix it. But in the worst case you need to maintain two versions of the common dependency. In lots of distros very common dependencies tend to get different packages for different major version for this reason. For example libfoo1 and libfoo2. Then there can be a period where both are supported while packages slowly move from one to the other.
Yeah, that kind of a condition would require the maintainer to patch the source of the non-updated program.
And that would be fine if there is just a little change, with an alternate function available but if the change requires changing the logic of the application, you are essentially expecting the package maintainer to do the software developer's work.
The deprecation process is a good way to prevent this.
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This is an excellent answer and I wish I knew all of this when starting to use archlinux. "Arch does not support partial upgrades" is something you can read everywhere, but it's rare to find such a good explanation of what exactly a partial upgrade is, and which commands lead to it.
I only learned about all of this when I got into some broken state by randomly running pacman commands.
Everyone, be like this guy. This guy explains stuff well. Newbies need stuff explained.
It is only a partial upgrade if you update your databases, without upgrading the rest of your system. If you try to pacman -S firefox, and it gives you a 404, you have to both update your pacman databases, and upgrade your packages. This will only give you a 404 if you cleaned your package cache, and your package is out of date. Usually, -S on an already installed package will reinstall it from cache. This does not cause a partial upgrade.
If you run pacman -Sy, everything you install is now considered a partial upgrade, and will break if you don't know exactly what you're doing. In order to avoid a partial upgrade, you should never update databases (-Sy) without upgrading packages (-Su). This is usually combined in pacman -Syu.
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No, pacman -S firefox will not update your firefox.
pacman -Sy firefox will update your firefox and nothing else.
If you have done pacman -Sy once, then your list of packages and their versions gets updated.
From then on, using pacman -S <package> on any package, whether or not it was already installed, will now get the new version of it.
On the other hand, if you have not updated for long, then if you run pacman -Su to update, it will update nothing, because it looks at the old package list and compares it to installed packages and all of them match.
If you were to use pacman -Sy and then pacman -Su, then it would do the update, similar to pacman -Syu.
If you did pacman -Sy yesterday and then do pacman -Su today, then it will update up to yesterday's packages and will ignore any updates from that point to today.
This can be considered analogous to apt update and apt upgrade.
If you run apt upgrade without apt update, you only upgrade upto the packages that you got until the last apt update.
If arch used apt, then in this case, the recommendation would be to never use apt update without using apt upgrade right after it.
Isn't pacman -Syu the recommended way to update anyway? I have always used that o. EndeavourOS and hadn't any issues.
Except for the recent nouveau nvidia driver :/
I haven't used Arch in a decade, but as unstable as Arch is, I don't think Arch doesn't have dependencies poorly defined like that.
Say, firefox-1 does not depend on libssl-1, but now you upgrade it to firefox-2, you won't succeed if you successfully downloaded firefox-2, but failed to download libssl-1, because pacman shall fail, while saying the reason being failed to download all of its dependencies.
If you start with a system with both firefox-1 and libssl-1 installed, upgrading firefox-1 to firefox-2 sure would have no problem, because its dependencies are already fulfilled.
If your system is breaking, it's probably due to some other issue, but it could not be pacman's.
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Imgur blocks access to UK users after proposed regulatory fine
Imgur blocks access to UK users after proposed regulatory fine
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The title is a little bit misleading, it's mostly about Imgur not adding the age checking that the UK's infamously disliked new law requires on possibly mature content.
Age verification is a notoriously difficult problem to solve in a privacy-respecting way, and Imgur is literally about unobtrusive image embeds so I doubt they could even make this work.
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The title is completely in line with the known facts. This is the ICO statement which does not mention anything about age checking.
There has been widespread speculation that this is related to age-verification but so far I've seen no evidence of this, and the fact that the investigation started in March makes it seem unlikely.
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Thanks for sharing. I should push back on your statement a little.
The investigation relates to how MediaLab’s Imgur social media platform uses children’s information and its approach to age assurance.
And in the Children’s code strategy progress update mentioned.
One platform has committed to introduce age assurance methods, to help ensure that children have an age-appropriate online experience.
To comply with child data protection rules, you necessarily have to either:
- Know that they are a child by checking their age
- Not collect information on anyone
It does look like the focus is mostly on data collection, not content moderation, so I will concede on that point. I should have read a bit more into this before commenting.
Age verification is a notoriously difficult problem
It's not a problem at all, though. Parents should be verifying what programs their kids use.
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Well it is about control they have to at least maintain the illusion that it's about child protection. They have to at least maintain the veneer of legitimacy. So if enough people make enough noise about how this is actually a privacy violating nightmare (even though that's actually the point) they will have to pretend to be concerned about that.
Anyway they have an out, this is mostly a Tory policy anyway that just got implemented under labour, so if it becomes a noose around there necks they can just get rid of the unpopular Tory policy and now they're the heroes.
Wow :
"We have been clear that exiting the UK does not allow an organisation to avoid responsibility for any prior infringement of data protection law, and our investigation remains ongoing."
It's insane. They could be fined even after entirely leaving the country ?
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What I'm understanding is imgur could get fine even if they dont offer their service anymore in the UK.
They could go back to just after the law passed and tell them "hey you were infringing on this extremely disrupting law that would completely change your business in the UK so pay up".
I mean if a business just decides to not serve UK customer they should leave them alone... Especially such a complex law for something like Imgur...
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It's not actually a bad strategy, ultimately the law is probably going to get slapped down as unworkable and there's pretty good evidence to suggest that they knew it wouldn't work even before they implemented it, which won't make them look good.
Unfortunately the courts move so slowly that none of this has happened yet and the law has now gone into effect because the timer ran out, but in theory they could have done all the work to comply only for the law never to have happened.
The law was announced a long time before it came into effect,
Isn't one of the basic principles of law that laws can not be made retroactive so as to arbitrarily extract punishment? if someone tells me "we'll implement this law in 2026" and they do commit, then I'm unconcerned until 2025-12-31.
Practically they can't. In theory they could complain to the United States that a US business is attempting to circumvent UK law, but I can't imagine that having much effect at the moment.
In theory it all works because companies would be more inclined to pay the fine than to lose UK customers, in reality of course it doesn't work because everybody would just use a VPN anyway, but the people who wrote these laws don't know about VPNs because they think computers run on magic smoke.
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Ignore for a second the law in question. Suppose Temu started importing harmful goods into your country in the knowledge that they were going to poison kids. (This doesn't seem too much of a stretch...) Should it be OK for Temu to just say, "OK, we'll just stop importing to the UK then"? Shouldn't they face the consequences for breaking the law?
I think this take is motivated by disagreement with the law in question (although it's not actually clear exactly what they're alleged to have done - the ICO released a statement saying it relates to an investigation from March, so before the age verification requirement).
Well technically, yeah
Practically: good luck getting that money.
On the other side, does the UK now require age of for every website out there, including the millions of semi amateur porn sites?
Because; good luck with that too, that ain't never going to happen
This law was thought up by idiots they actually got consultants in who all told them that this wouldn't work but they decided to ignore the consultants because they wanted to implement the law anyway.
So yeah genuine idiots.
So you've uninstalled the app because you are concerned about the content they may be hosting, yet you had the app installed on your phone already. Eh? How does that work.
Anyway everyone knows that DeviantArt is where you go for that kind of thing anyway.
This kind of malicious compliance is exactly what this dogshit Think Of The Children Act needs. Convenience is everything to the majority of population.
If other major sites and resources do this, then the pressure from the people impacted by it will force UK PLC to un-fuck this awful legislation.
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Harassment, humiliation, and death threats: Tibetan activists face threats from China for protesting environmental destruction, report says
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As China continues to ramp up its claim over Tibetan resources, the environmental activists in the region face persistent threats from the Chinese authorities, a report said on Tuesday.It added that between 2010 and 2019, many activists were detained and sentenced to years in prison in China for peacefully protesting against illegal mining activities, the hunting of endangered species, and environmental damage across Tibet.
According to a report in the 'Greek City Times', the imprisoned environmental human rights defenders include Anya Sengdra, Dorjee Daktal, Kelsang Choklang, Dhongye, Rinchen Namdol, Tsultrim Gonpo, Jangchup Ngodup, Sogru Abhu, and Namesy.
The environmentalists, it said, committed to protecting the environment and addressing ecological challenges, continue to face harassment, humiliation, and death threats from China.
"Tibetan environmentalist A-Nya Sengdra, who has spent seven years in jail, was recently denied release. Hence, he will stay in jail until February 2026. Ironically, no explanation was given for the extension of his jail term, which is reminiscent of China’s practice of acting without providing any satisfactory reason," the report detailed.
It stressed that this is not an isolated incident but part of a pattern showing how China has been harassing, torturing, and jailing Tibetan activists for raising their voice against the environmental exploitation in the region.
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Tibetan activists face threats from China for protesting environmental destruction: Report
Beijing, Sep 30 (IANS) As China continues to ramp up its claim over Tibetan resources, the environmental activists in the region face persistent threats from the Chinese authorities, a report said on Tuesday.IANS News
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Luckily it was nothing (except for an unrelated incident) .
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