Ducklings and mom
Ducklings and mom
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Putin offers peace to the West. Will it accept?
Putin offers peace to the West. Will it accept?
The Russian president has shown he values peaceful coexistence – but never at the cost of Russia’s national interestsRT
Fears US shutdown will delay weapons shipments to Ukraine
Fears US shutdown will delay weapons shipments to Ukraine
Talks with Ukrainian delegation in Washington, DC thrown into uncertainty as federal workers asked to stay at homeCameron Henderson (The Telegraph)
Republican senator outlines working group’s ideas for extending Obamacare subsidies
The Alaska Republican confirmed his participation in talks that have been ongoing behind the scenes for weeks.“There’s a number of people involved,” said Sullivan in an interview. So far, the only other Republicans to make their participation in the discussions public have been Sens. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.
Another admission that they fucked up.
“Death is Better Than This Life”: Displaced Palestinians in Gaza Are Being Bombed in Their Tents
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Abdel Qader Sabbah
Oct 02, 2025
“We are displaced. We were in the north and they told us to get out and go to the humanitarian zone. They said go south of Wadi Gaza. We went south of the Wadi. We didn’t leave in the first displacement. This time we couldn’t stay so we came here,” Ismail Abu Sharakh, an eyewitness to the Wednesday strike, told Drop Site as he pointed to destroyed tents at the site of the attack.He held up a wad of shredded banknotes residents had pooled together to buy a makeshift water line, nothing more than a thin pipe with protruding hoses leading to various tents. Remnants of the Israeli munition lay next to a small crater where it made impact. The surrounding tents were ripped and torn through with shrapnel. Bloodstained mattresses and bits of flesh lay on the ground.
“Death is Better Than This Life”: Displaced Palestinians in Gaza Are Being Bombed in Their Tents
Abdel Qader Sabbah
Oct 02, 2025“We are displaced. We were in the north and they told us to get out and go to the humanitarian zone. They said go south of Wadi Gaza. We went south of the Wadi. We didn’t leave in the first displacement. This time we couldn’t stay so we came here,” Ismail Abu Sharakh, an eyewitness to the Wednesday strike, told Drop Site as he pointed to destroyed tents at the site of the attack.He held up a wad of shredded banknotes residents had pooled together to buy a makeshift water line, nothing more than a thin pipe with protruding hoses leading to various tents. Remnants of the Israeli munition lay next to a small crater where it made impact. The surrounding tents were ripped and torn through with shrapnel. Bloodstained mattresses and bits of flesh lay on the ground.
“Death is Better Than This Life”: Displaced Palestinians in Gaza Are Being Bombed in Their Tents
Israel attacked tent encampments and Al-Aqsa hospital as Palestinians fled Israel’s intensifying ethnic cleansing campaign in the north.Abdel Qader Sabbah (Drop Site News)
“Death is Better Than This Life”: Displaced Palestinians in Gaza Are Being Bombed in Their Tents
Abdel Qader Sabbah
Oct 02, 2025
“We are displaced. We were in the north and they told us to get out and go to the humanitarian zone. They said go south of Wadi Gaza. We went south of the Wadi. We didn’t leave in the first displacement. This time we couldn’t stay so we came here,” Ismail Abu Sharakh, an eyewitness to the Wednesday strike, told Drop Site as he pointed to destroyed tents at the site of the attack.He held up a wad of shredded banknotes residents had pooled together to buy a makeshift water line, nothing more than a thin pipe with protruding hoses leading to various tents. Remnants of the Israeli munition lay next to a small crater where it made impact. The surrounding tents were ripped and torn through with shrapnel. Bloodstained mattresses and bits of flesh lay on the ground.
“Death is Better Than This Life”: Displaced Palestinians in Gaza Are Being Bombed in Their Tents
Israel attacked tent encampments and Al-Aqsa hospital as Palestinians fled Israel’s intensifying ethnic cleansing campaign in the north.Abdel Qader Sabbah (Drop Site News)
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Canada’s climate contradictions come with economic risks
Canada’s climate contradictions come with economic risks
Overinvesting in oil and gas is not just a problem for the climate — it also poses serious risks to the Canadian economy.Canada's National Observer
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transcription: i want to be held and fall asleep next to somebody > ??? > im a catgirl :3c
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Does anyone else's Tor Browser won't start connections?
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Calls for ‘New Blood’ Grow at Congressional Black Caucus Gathering
The increasing age of Black members of Congress was on the minds of attendees at the conference, a multiday event that started on Sept. 24. Many said that they felt that fresh blood is needed, but it’s unclear how that would happen without veteran lawmakers stepping aside.Younger voters are thought to be the keys to future electoral success, and some members of the Democratic Party have argued that attracting them will require electing younger members. They feel that seasoned lawmakers are out of touch, and don’t have what it takes to lead some of the most pressing civil rights battles of today.
This tension came to a head this month. Robert White, a third-term member of the D.C. Council, announced that he would challenge his former boss, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, the district’s longtime nonvoting representative, for her seat in the Democratic primary next year. Norton’s campaign team didn’t respond to Capital B’s request for comment.
Norton has served since 1991, and at 88 years old, she’s the oldest member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Lauren Ishmael, 67, said that veteran lawmakers are “very smart, very well-informed, and very well-connected.” But she also believes that they need to make room for the perspectives and contributions of younger generations.“We need some younger voices, younger faces, younger experiences,” Ishmael, a first-time attendee, told Capital B, clad in a crimson and cream Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. jacket. “We need young blood.”
Jumping in, Ishmael’s friend and sorority sister Sandra Caldwell, 77, elaborated a bit further and said that younger people “just think differently.”
Calls for ‘New Blood’ Grow at Congressional Black Caucus Gathering
Veteran Black lawmakers, some say, are increasingly out of touch and don’t have what it takes to lead the most important civil rights battles of today.Brandon Tensley (Capital B News)
Colbert claps back with sombrero-sofa meme after JD Vance defends Trump’s AI videos
Stephen Colbert claps back with X-rated sombrero-sofa meme after JD Vance says Trump’s ‘racist’ AI videos are funny
‘We’re joking,’ Stephen Colbert snarked on Thursday night. ‘We’re having a good time.’Justin Baragona (The Independent)
Strava sues Garmin over alleged patent infringement
Strava sues Garmin over alleged patent infringement
Strava is suing long-time partner Garmin, and is seeking to permanently ban the company from selling most of its current fitness and cycling gadget lineup.Jess Weatherbed (The Verge)
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How to bypass Which? subscription-wall?
I am currently searching for decent mattress and open up Which? post about best Mattress. Only problem is that the information is locked under it's subscription wall.
Stuff I have tried but didn't work:
- Remove Paywall's website
- Archive.today
Best mattresses 2025: tried and tested for a perfect night's sleep
The best mattresses to buy in the UK, according to Which? independent lab tests. We explain the different mattress types and features, plus how to choose the right firmness for you.Lisa Galliers (Which?)
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Q&A: What the ‘controversial’ GWP* methane metric means for farming emissions
Q&A: What the ‘controversial’ GWP* methane metric means for farming emissions - Carbon Brief
A controversial way of measuring how much methane warms the planet has stirred debate in recent years – particularly around assessing the climate impact of livestock farming.Orla Dwyer (Carbon Brief)
How to bypass Which? subscription-wall?
I am currently searching for decent mattress and open up Which? post about best Mattress. Only problem is that the information is locked under it's subscription wall.
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- Remove Paywall's website
- Archive.today
Best mattresses 2025: tried and tested for a perfect night's sleep
The best mattresses to buy in the UK, according to Which? independent lab tests. We explain the different mattress types and features, plus how to choose the right firmness for you.Lisa Galliers (Which?)
Indigenous-led protections spark Bali starling’s recovery in the wild
- An Indonesian songbird once nearly extinct in the wild, the Bali starling, is making a comeback through community-led conservation on Nusa Penida and beyond.
- Strict law enforcement and captive breeding failed to reverse the bird’s decline; poaching and habitat loss continued despite decades of formal protections.
- In the early 2000s, conservationists changed tactics, working with communities on Nusa Penida to establish the island as a sanctuary for Bali starlings.
- Villages embraced traditional awig-awig regulations to protect the starling, creating powerful cultural, social and financial deterrents to poaching.
Indigenous-led protections spark Bali starling’s recovery in the wild
NUSA PENIDA, Indonesia — Two young conservation workers rattle up on a motorbike and dismount at the edge of a coconut grove. Picking through husks, fallen fronds and stray plastic bottles, they scan the canopy, waiting in stillness.Isabel Esterman (Conservation news)
The kids who sued America over climate change aren’t done yet | They want an international human rights body to hold the U.S. accountable — and are spotlighting Indigenous communities
The kids who sued America over climate change aren’t done yet
They want an international human rights body to hold the U.S. accountable — and are spotlighting Indigenous communities on the frontlines.Anita Hofschneider (Grist)
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The flaws of carbon credits designed to protect forests – and how to fix them
The flaws of carbon credits designed to protect forests – and how to fix them
An expert explains why some offsets don’t deliver real climate benefits and what must change to make them trustworthy.Bridgett Ennis (Yale Climate Connections)
ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’
ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’
The developer of ICEBlock, an app that lets people crowdsource sightings of ICE officials, has said he is determined to fight back after Apple removed the app from its App Store on Thursday. The removal came after pressure from Department of Justice officials acting at the direction of Attorney General Pam Bondi, according to Fox which first reported the removal. Apple told 404 Media it has removed other similar apps too.“I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never the right move,” Joshua Aaron told 404 Media. “ICEBlock is no different from crowd sourcing speed traps, which every notable mapping application, including Apple's own Maps app, implements as part of its core services. This is protected speech under the first amendment of the United States Constitution.”
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Subscribe nowICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’
Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never the right move,” the developer said.Joseph Cox (404 Media)
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Formation à la coordination d'action de désobéissance civile non-violente
Cette formation s’adresse à toustes les personnes intéressées par la coordination d’action (pas besoin d’avoir de projet en tête même si ça aide). Elle aura lieu en ligne, de 19h à 21h30 sur ce lien : meet2.organise.earth/rooms/2w1…
Elle est gratuite, même si vous pouvez bien sûr nous soutenir financièrement là : opencollective.com/alerteplane…
Mais une manière encore plus appréciée de contribuer, sera de participer à une prochaine coordo d’action ;)
Objectifs pédagogiques :
- Se familiariser avec les modes d’actions et tactiques d’XR (à travers principes, modes d’actions et exemples concrets)
- Savoir commencer sa coordo d’action (recrutement, design, gouvernance)
- Identifier les phases et enjeux principaux de la coordination d’action
- Savoir qui contacter et comment pour obtenir du soutien ; où trouver les ressources clé
- Identifier les outils et processus pertinents à sa coordination d’action
Cette formation a été pensée par et pour des membres d’Extinction Rebellion (exemples utilisés, consensus d’action) mais toute personne souhaitant s’engager dans la désobéissance civile (y compris sans certitude de vouloir coordonner une action) y sera bienvenue !
🔗 Ressources complémentaires :
- 📖 Le Guide de la coordination d'action (XR) rdv.extinctionrebellion.fr/ind…
- 🤝 Demander un pamarrainage de coordinations d'action ou autre question spécifique auprès du GST "Actions et Logistique" (pour celleux qui ont un compte Mattermost) : organise.earth/xrfrance/channe…
Jazz Dinner al Crash (in duo)
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October Quiz Questions
Each month we’re posing six pub quiz style questions, with a different subject each month. As always, they’re designed to be difficult, but it is unlikely everyone will know all the answers – so have a bit of fun.
Classical & Ancient World
- What is the name of the home of the Greek Gods?
- Which body of the water was called mare nostrum by the Romans?
- Ask and Embla are the Norse equivalent to the Christian what?
- What was the name of the Egyptian God of the Sun?
- In Roman mythology, who is the goddess of the sewers?
- Which word derives from the Latin for “sand” and originally denoted part of a Roman amphitheatre that was covered with sand to soak up the blood from combat?
Answers will be posted in 2 weeks time.
Il filologo Salvo Micciché dona suoi volumi al Comune di Scicli
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Lo scrittore ha donato 300 copie dei suoi titoli principali al Comune nelle mani del Sindaco di Scicli, Mario Marino, e dell’assessore alla cultura, Giuseppe Mariotta.
Oggi pomeriggio, presso il Municipio di Scicli, abbiamo avuto l’onore di accogliere Salvo Salvo Salvatore Micciché – scrittore, filologo, giornalista e studioso di storia siciliana – che ha voluto donare generosamente numerose copie di quattro suoi preziosi volumi alla nostra comunità.
I titoli donati sono autentiche gemme di sapere:
– Scicli: onomastica e toponomastica, Biancavela Editore e Il Giornale di Scicli, Ragusa, 2017
– Scicli. Storia, cultura e religione (secc. V-XVI), scritto con Stefania Fornaro, Carocci Editore, 2018
– La Sicilia dei Micciché. Baroni e briganti, intellettuali e popolo, con Giuseppe Nativo, Carocci Editore, 2020
– Giovanni Aurispa, umanista siciliano, con contributi di Michele R. Cataudella, Augusto Guida e Giuseppe Mariotta, Carocci Editore, 2021
Alla presenza mia e del Sindaco Mario Marino, abbiamo celebrato un momento che testimonia la profonda attenzione dell’Amministrazione Comunale verso la Cultura, la Storia e l’identità del nostro territorio.
Un sentito ringraziamento al Sindaco Mario Marino, la cui sensibilità e impegno costante rendono possibile la valorizzazione di iniziative come questa, che arricchiscono il patrimonio culturale di Scicli e lo mettono a disposizione di tutti.
Grazie di cuore a Salvo Micciché per la sua generosità e per il contributo instancabile alla conoscenza e alla memoria della nostra terra.
prof. Giuseppe Mariotta
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Stress e ansia ti stanno stritolando? Prova questo
Fitoterapia e Stress: Quando la Natura Ti Aiuta a Ritrovare la Calma e perché non è solo un placebo!
Oggi parliamo di qualcosa che, diciamocelo, ci tiene tutti un po' col fiato sospeso: lo stress. Quel compagno indesiderato che ormai è ...Giuliano (Blogger)
A group of Irish grocery workers banning grapefruit led to Ireland being the first county to pass BDS against Apartheid South Africa
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Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.youtube.com
Aggiornamento a NodeBB 4.6.0
Siamo passati alla versione 4.6.0 di NodeBB passando anche dalla 4.5.2.
Trovate qui tutti gli aggiornamenti della 4.5.2.
github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/relea…
E qui quelli della 4.6.0.
github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/relea…
Come sempre se trovate qualche problema segnalatelo pure 😀
Release v4.5.2 · NodeBB/NodeBB
Release build (patch) of NodeBB @ 2025-09-29T14:04:07.434Z v4.5.2 (2025-09-29) New Features add a term param to recent controller so it can be controlled without req.query.term (9c18c6f) add a new...GitHub
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Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets
Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets
We are excited to announce a significant advancement in the security of the Signal Protocol: the introduction of the Sparse Post Quantum Ratchet (SPQR).Signal Messenger
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Keep in mind, pedophiles don't use Signal.
They use Matrix, which is a real thorn in the side of the authorities trying to catch them.
Hopefully this gives you some insight into which platform is more private.
How do you know? 😑
Please link a single news source showing Signal app was part of a pedophile bust - should be easy if its got poor encryption that can be backdoored by authorities.
Software engineering is so often dominated by a move fast and break things mentality, driven by a rush to deploy and scale and profit, with the ability to fix problems with later updates. It’s a very immature process compared to every other engineering domain, because fix-it-later is much more difficult, expensive, and dangerous when it’s a bridge, building, airplane, or anything else tangible (although Boeing did a great job of destroying engineering process and accountability after the MBAs took control away from the engineers).
The work detailed in this Signal blog post is clearly slow and methodical, with continual checks for correctness and curiosity for optimal solutions driving careful experimentation. Building on existing proven PQ standards and keeping their refinements open for public academic feedback is wonderfully responsible. Building formal correctness proofs into CI and blocking trunk merges is spectacular.
They’re doing everything right, even years after Moxie Marlinspike’s departure. Bravo! Working this way is very expensive and requires absolute support from upper management. I’m definitely a fanboy for Meredith Whittaker and the direction she’s running the organization. Hell yeah!
Apple removes ICE tracking apps after pressure from Trump administration
Apple removes ICE tracking apps after pressure from Trump administration
The app alerts users to ICE agents in their area. Read more at straitstimes.com.ST
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Ari Aster, Florence Pugh – „Midsommar“ (2019)
Das, was aussieht wie eine Postkarte aus dem letzten Schwedenurlaub, ist ein chirurgischer Eingriff mitten ins Herz einer Beziehung. Kein klassischer Horror, sondern eine radikale Dekonstruktion von Intimität, Macht und kultureller Projektion. Wo Hollywood den Schrecken meist in dunklen Kellern und nächtlichen Wäldern versteckt, wagt Ari Aster einen Gegenentwurf: Wir sehen alles im grellen Tageslicht, ohne jede Rückzugsmöglichkeit. Der Horror liegt in der Sichtbarkeit, in der Unerbittlichkeit des Lichts, das einfach alles aufdeckt. (ZDF, Wh.)
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Airports will get noisier due to climate change say scientists
Scientists at the University of Reading say airports will get noisier with warmer air changing how aircraft take offKatie Waple (BBC News)
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Milwaukee fights back against fake abortion clinic
Milwaukee, WI – Activists with Reproductive Justice Action-Milwaukee (RJAM), have been showing up consistently throughout the month of September to protest the newly opened Alliance Women's Clinic.
“Places like Alliance want to divert you from accurate and accessible healthcare,” stated a member of RJAM on September 15.
“We believe that no healthcare professional’s religious, moral, or personal opinions affect your abortion care,” continued another RJAM member.
“Our bodies, our lives! Our right to decide!” chanted Catie Petralia, an RJAM member, and followed by an echo of protesters outside of Alliance.
Activists hope to raise awareness about the harm the newly opened clinic can cause. Reproductive Justice Action Milwaukee has protested other fake clinics in Milwaukee over the past few years, mainly the Women’s Care Center. RJAM’s Instagram notes that “fake clinics” or “crisis pregnancy centers” operate as healthcare entities that are funded by religious pro-life organizations to manipulate pregnant women into not choosing or receiving life-saving abortion care.
Alliance opened its doors in late August 2025, on the outskirts of West Allis, Wisconsin. RJAM took notice of this after they had protested an Alliance Family Services van in June, which had parked outside of Planned Parenthood in Milwaukee for months. The Alliance agenda, per their website, is anti-abortion centered.
Reproductive Justice Action Milwaukee will be continuing to show up to picket Alliance Women’s Clinic “until we kick them out of the city. They are not welcome here!” Stay tuned with Fight Back News to hear more stories about this fight.
https://fightbacknews.org/milwaukee-fights-back-against-fake-abortion-clinic?pk_campaign=rss-feed
America Is Overdue for a General Strike
America Is Overdue for a General Strike - Inequality.org
Workers have the power to bring the whole economy to a halt. Will they use it?Inequality.org
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We are looking for someone who can invest 45,000 US dollars in our company.
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Apple removes ICEBlock app from App Store
Apple blocks immigration-tracking app from App Store
Apple on Thursday removed the immigration enforcement tracking app, ICEBlock, from the App Store, citing "safety risks."Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert (Business Insider)
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YouTube is secretly deindexing content - Small update
For reference, here is the last post I made on this matter.
I have collected data based on some YouTube channels I have managed to (mostly) archive over the year. Specifically, I started archiving at the start of March 2025. Judging by this initial data I can more confidently say that either YouTube is performing some seriously shady shit, or an extremely high number of active YouTube creators have chosen to unlist an extremely high number of their videos in the past couple months.
About my data:
1. The column titled 'Uploaded' is the number of uploads as shown on the creator's homepage.
2. The column titled 'Public' is the number of uploads for each creator that are currently listed as of midnight, Fri 3 Oct 2025. This is shown via yt-dlp's count for the entire channel, and the videos visible on the channel's Videos tab.
3. While the slight difference in number may seem unsuspicious, yt-dlp gathers a count of all listed videos, whether public, private, membership only, marked as NSFW or age restricted.
4. I can safely say, given my current archive, that the significant deindexing by creator or by YouTube must have happened to each channel within the last few months. The difference between channels whose upload count matches my archive count, but is far higher than the public count, is suspicious to me.
5. Each creator's entire upload set is purely vlog-style with minimal edits, and are not in the habit of breaching the Community Guidelines.
The stats:
The action:
- I am currently contacting creators who have several hundred unlisted videos for confirmation, if they were the ones to delist them.
The conclusion so far:
- While I am suspicious of sneaky behaviour, it is also possible that every missing video was actually unlisted by the creator.
Youtube seems to be blocking access to a seriously large amount of publicly listed videos
I dont know what to think, really.The Dekaif channel has 434 videos, but YouTube is only showing 275 to clients, whether logged in or not, whether yt-dlp or official access.
This isn't the first channel I've witnessed this, and weirder stuff, on. Another example is - it is accessible on Grayjay, yet not on YouTube, meaning (I think) that publicly shared videos are being deindexed, and yet they are still hosted.
You used to be able to take the video code from the URL (everything after '?v=' and before '&') and get the exact video in search results. Not now. The second YouTuber, Sparky, has 35 uploads, only 9 of which are visible. And I can attest that at least one of the remaining 26 is hosted, but invisible. I don't even know how it came up using Grayjay but not YouTube or Revanced.
Basically, there's a TON of shady underhanded shit happening at YTHQ and everyone needs to jump ship to Odysee, Peertube or some platform that won't be clogged with AI. This is bad for everyone.
I'm posting it here mainly because I verified my findings with yt-dlp, and this new bs is successfully thwarting my attempts to archive.
3rd Oct edit: I am seeing massive differences in indexed videos versus archived videos. I am currently aggregating but the definitely affected videos range from 10% to 50%
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might it have something to do with this?
support.google.com/youtube/ans…
i have already seen some "synthetic content" labels attached to random videos
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YouTube did make some changes to their terms primarily for creators that get paid for content. They added some new LLM-based scanning of content to find stuff that is too repetitive or didn't contain enough original content. Assuming the creators you looked at have mostly original content rather than remixing of content which may be misinterpreted by LLMs as not being "original enough", they could be falling victim to overaggressive hits if they use a consistent format in their content since LLMs don't really understand context, only patterns.
I'd be interested to find out if the creators got any notification from YouTube on the reason for removal of the content.
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Can I remove Pipewire-ALSA without removing Pipewire itself?
This kinda stems from this issue I asked about a while back, Pipewire an PulseAudio have caused me quite a bit of confusion lately as I recently started experiencing crackling/static sounds from my Bluetooth speaker when playing audio.
After days of digging and thinking that I’ve fixed the issue by editing /usr/share/piperwire.conf and /usr/share/pipewire-pulse.conf and following guides like this one (I know the link is for EndeavorOS) I have seem to come to the conclusion that Pipewire-ALSA is the issue to the crackling/static sounds I’m hearing.
I stumbled upon qpwgraph which appears to visualize the flow and when I disconnect Pipewire-ALSA from the flow the cracking sounds stop, now from my understanding Pipewire and PulseAudio cannot coexist which is causing my confusion because Pipewire-ALSA also appears to connect to a bunch of PulseAudio Volume Controllers.
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I failed to mention my distro or hardware:
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OS: Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie) x86_64
Kernel: Linux 6.12.48+deb13-amd64
Uptime: 2 hours, 19 mins
Packages: 4836 (dpkg), 50 (flatpak), 5 (snap)
Shell: bash 5.2.37
Display (VG249Q3A): 1920x1080 @ 165 Hz in 24" [External] *
Display (ASUS VG24V): 1920x1080 @ 120 Hz in 23" [External]
DE: KDE Plasma 6.3.6
WM: KWin (X11)
WM Theme: Nothing
Theme: Breeze (Nothing) [Qt], Breeze-Dark [GTK2], Breeze [GTK3]
Icons: breeze-dark [Qt], breeze-dark [GTK2/3/4]
Font: Noto Sans (10pt) [Qt], Noto Sans (10pt) [GTK2/3/4]
Cursor: WhiteSur (24px)
Terminal: konsole 25.4.2
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700 (12) @ 4.60 GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti [Discrete]
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Locale: en_US.UTF-8[Pipewire Guide] audio crackling/popping and latency
Some people have issues with audio crackling or latency on Linux and that motivated me to write this guide as I’ve been doing some latency tests and came to very clear conclusions recently. Pipewire docs: https://gitlab.freedesktop.EndeavourOS
I've run into the crackling problem recently as well. I think the ALSA module is improperly requesting a very low quant value causing applications to have a tiny audio buffer which they fail to keep filled, resulting in crackling.
To see if this is what's happening, try running pw-top and see if the quant column is a small number (~200). This is a very short audio buffer, it'll be low latency but if the source application can't keep the buffer filled then you will get the crackling effect. You can increase this value by setting a global minimum with:
pw-metadata -n settings 0 clock.min-quantum 2048It will set the audio buffer to 1024/48000 seconds (or .0434s, 43.4ms). It will introduce a bit of latency (you can decrease the quant to 512 for ~20ms if you need lower latency).
This will not persist past a reboot, you'd have to edit a config file for that (pipewire.conf, maybe?).
Pipewire-pulse provides compatibility to programs that may not directly support pipewire yet.
Pipewire was developed to be a total drop in replacement to the Pulse audio sound server. It has compatibility layers that allow other things to talk to it.
Edit: debian is not showing pipewire-alsa as a hard dependency of pipewire
packages.debian.org/trixie/pip…
Debian -- Details of package pipewire in trixie
audio and video processing engine multimedia serverpackages.debian.org
Head of the Signal app threatens to withdraw from Europe
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/50130760
Head of the Signal app threatens to withdraw from Europe
Signal app boss threatens to withdraw from Europe
The head of the Signal app has criticized plans in the EU to allow messengers to have backdoors to enable automatic searches for criminal content. Signal is considered one of the most secure messengers.blue News
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Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU
Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.fightchatcontrol.eu
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in reply to wewbull • • •Is it even worth reading? It's RT. They're going to describe whatever Putin pitches as the greatest, kindest, most generous offer in all of history.
Edit:
Holy shit. That might be one of the most brazen lies I've ever seen.