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China’s Red Eye Over Ukraine: What Are The Middle Kingdom’s Satellites Observing?
China's Red Eye Over Ukraine: What Are The Middle Kingdom's Satellites Observing?
On 5 October, several Ukrainian news agencies reported an increase in the number of Chinese reconnaissance satellites flying over the Lviv region during a major air strike. At least three such satellites were recorded flying overhead.Anonymous834 (South Front)
World leaders rebel against US & Israel: to save Gaza, they demand international intervention
World leaders rebel against US & Israel: to save Gaza, they demand international intervention
Leaders from many countries condemned the USA and Israel at the UN General Assembly, demanding intervention to save Gaza. Diplomats walked out to protest Netanyahu. Latin America led the resistance.Ben Norton (Geopolitical Economy Report)
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Greta Thunberg gives first public speech since Israeli kidnapping – video
cross-posted from: ibbit.at/post/74406
Human rights and climate activist Greta Thunberg has spoken publicly for the first time after her kidnapping, detention, and abuse at the hands of the Israeli government:thecanary.co/wp-content/upload…
Greta Thunberg released
As the Canary previously reported, on Saturday 4 October the Israeli occupation authorities deported 137 of the kidnapped international solidarity activists who participated in the Global Sumud Flotilla to break the humanitarian siege on Gaza, in the second deportation operation in a matter of days, after returning four Italians to their country on Friday 3 October.One of the deported activists who arrived at Istanbul airport on Saturday recounted shocking details of what he described as ‘brutal assaults’ on some activists during their detention, telling reporters:
They dragged little Greta (Thunberg) by her hair in front of our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her as a warning to others.She’s still a little kid. They made her suffer.
Separately, the Guardian reported that an email to Swedish authorities said Greta Thunberg was suffering from:
dehydration. She has received insufficient amounts of both water and food. She also stated that she had developed rashes which she suspects were caused by bedbugs. She spoke of harsh treatment and said she had been sitting for long periods on hard surfaces.Meanwhile, other released activists spoke of similar degrading treatment.
Turkish activist Samanur Sonmaz Yaman, a member of the flotilla, recounts details of the occupation’s oppression and abuse of veiled women from the boats:
Occupation soldiers ripped off our headscarves during our arrest and took them from us, and our non-veiled friends gave us their shirts to cover our heads.
Ongoing Israeli violence
Adalah, the legal centre that monitors the cases of detainees, said that detention conditions at Ketziot prison in the Negev desert are ‘deteriorating alarmingly,’ amid reports of ill-treatment and violence against some detainees.A spokesperson for the organisation said that it is difficult at this stage to provide a comprehensive assessment, but confirmed that the mistreatment primarily affects non-European detainees, especially those whose countries do not have diplomatic missions in Israel.
This incident is the latest chapter in the confrontation between Israel and the international solidarity flotillas that recently set sail in an attempt to break the blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip for more than 18 years, amid growing international warnings about targeting solidarity activists and civil society activists, and the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the Strip, which is suffering from famine and shortages of medicine and fuel.
Israel intercepted 40 ships in the Global Solidarity Flotilla that set sail to reach Gaza to break the blockade and deliver humanitarian aid amid the ongoing war of extermination on Gaza, which is now entering its third year.
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Greta Thunberg: ‘We Are Not Heroes. We Are Doing The Bare Minimum’
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Journalist on Gaza Flotilla Describes “Torturous Conditions” in Israeli Custody
Journalist on Gaza Flotilla Describes “Torturous Conditions” in Israeli Custody
“They were throwing people’s medicine in the bin in front of them and laughing in their faces,” says Kieran Andrieu.Amy Goodman (Truthout)
Lawmakers Demand Information About Potential Use of Paragon Spyware by ICE
Lawmakers Demand Information About Potential Use of Paragon Spyware by ICE
The lawmakers warned that allowing ICE to use spyware “threatens Americans’ freedom of movement and freedom of speech.”…Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg (Truthout)
Greta Thunberg: ‘We Are Not Heroes. We Are Doing The Bare Minimum’
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Huawei Zurich Lab’s New Open-Source Tech Lets LLMs Run on Consumer GPUs
Huawei Zurich Lab’s New Open-Source Tech Lets LLMs Run on Consumer GPUs
Huawei’s Zurich Computing Systems Laboratory has released SINQ (Sinkhorn Normalization Quantization), an open-source quantization method that reduces theTechNode Feed (TechNode)
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That's rather odd they don't share any source links. Anyway here they are
SINQ: Sinkhorn-Normalized Quantization for Calibration-Free Low-Precision LLM Weights
SINQ: Sinkhorn-Normalized Quantization for Calibration-Free Low-Precision LLM Weights
Post-training quantization has emerged as the most widely used strategy for deploying large language models at low precision.arXiv.org
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I've never seen a mainstream tech news site link to the source code.
It's like how mainstream science news sites never link to the actual paper.
More useful than that comment for sure.
There was lots of useful stuff in this release. It is not like it just fixed a couple of bugs. More than enough new functionality to be newsworthy and enough for me to go get the new release for Mac (which does not auto-update).
It is also great to track the incremental progress towards things like full CMYK support.
You may also misunderstand how GIMP releases work. Things will probably move faster now that version 3 is out but there will be LOTS of progress in the 3.0 releases before they release 3.2. If you wait for 3.2, you will be waiting a while and miss many useful features. The 3.1.x series is a dev branch for more invasive changes. A lot of the nee functionality will appear in 3.0.x.
GIMP follows the old Linux kernel versioning scheme.
The second number is even for stable releases and odd for development releases. Given the frequency, you should think of the second number as major releases in the way you are thinking.
GIMP was on version 2.10 for 7 years before the release of 3.0 and on version 2.8 for 6 years before that.
A bump in the third number for GIMP really is a minor release with the second number (when even) signalling a major release. GIMP 3.2 will be the next “major” release.
The first number changes very infrequently. It was 21 years between GIMP 2 and GIMP 3. I do not think we have any idea what the criteria will be to move to GIMP 4.
GIMP 3 is the bees knees 💪
There are some great plugins coming out for it now as well. I highly recommend checking out Batcher, which you can use not only to batch convert files but also to apply sets of adjustments including from G'MIC. Really powerful and useful tool with granular control.
There's also a really good frequency separation plugin and of course Resynthesizer.
Great times to be a GIMP user.
GitHub - kamilburda/batcher: Batch Processing Plug-in for GIMP 3
Batch Processing Plug-in for GIMP 3. Contribute to kamilburda/batcher development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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The UI got an overhaul with 3.0 it's prettier now, it's a bit of a learning curve but its worth it, even if just for the smug satisfaction
You can always reprogram keyboard shortcuts
Disagree. The product is awesome. The commercialization not. I beg to differ.
The UI of GIMP sucked and still sucks. Nothing is going to change that.
no he's definitely right. there is a reason affinity suit has been successful and it isn't because its commercially available, it's because it actually works as an adobe replacement whereas gimp, inkacape, scribus - does not, and its largely because of UI.
now that affinity has sold to canva and shut down sale and there is a clear concern over the future of affinity, people won't be moving to gimp, which has had what, two decades to fix their stuff? no, they'll be moving to photopea, again, for the same reasons. graphite.rs likewise is more at odds of potentially replacing illustrator/designer than inkscape has managed for over a decade.
i hate that i can't use gimp, inkacape, and scribus professionally. and not for a lack of trying, giving them a few months every few years. but, its what it is.
i hope gimp becomes great one day.
Thank you, this is exactly my thought. I really want to use GIMP, i just literally can’t. I even managed to get used to Inkscape as an ex Illustrator user. I would say I can use any random graphics designer tool after roughly 20 minutes of getting used to the UI, since most of the workflows are copied from others. GIMP always wanted to be different. And that’s the reason it never got popular and it will stay like that, unless something changes.
Maybe, someone will be able to use the GIMP core and put a revamped UI on top of it. Call it LIMP to minimize anger from GIMP evangelists.
As a user of gimp for years and Photoshop and way back when misc other photo editing software (does Deluxe Paint count? ok joking, I meant like Corel), I am a bit confused when everyone complains so much about gimp.
I can't decide if it is just habits that people can't get away from or if there really is some kind of issue. In the past I know layers themselves where the issue, but is that still the case now?
I remember a short video series that was like: you do this in Photoshop so just do this in gimp and it all made sense to me.
So is there a current video that says here is what I can't do in gimp, and only in Photoshop and its all the UIs fault?
Yeah fuck adobe. But I was actually saying I don't find gimp a problem. Other than printing anyway. I can do everything I need with it just as well as anything else. And I had been in graphic design for years. I want to know if people are just complaining because they have muscle memory issues or if they can demonstrate that it can't be done.
I have access to adobe photoshop latest and I don't bother with it.
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GitHub - Diolinux/PhotoGIMP: A Patch for GIMP 3+ for Photoshop Users
A Patch for GIMP 3+ for Photoshop Users. Contribute to Diolinux/PhotoGIMP development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
What Extreme Heat Is Doing to Your Body
Kevin Miller can get a person to the brink of heat stroke in 30 minutes.
In a chamber with a temperature of around 100 degrees, he starts them out on the treadmill, switching off between three minutes of walking and two minutes at an all-out sprint. Soon, they’re breathing faster, their blood vessels are dilating and their heart is working overtime to pump much more blood than usual through their body, fighting to get oxygen to their muscles and organs.
In Miller’s lab, these participants are safe: He brings them close to the heat-stroke threshold of a 105-degree core body temperature in the name of science, to test the efficacy of different treatments.
Heat is the No. 1 weather-related cause of death worldwide and in the United States. Miller is one of the many researchers globally who are expanding our understanding of what heat does to the body and how to counteract its effects. Recently, his Texas State University lab has had success cooling participants using a body bag full of ice—a tactic that is affordable and transportable for emergency responders. Rapid cooling is life-saving medicine.
But heat’s impacts aren’t limited to these obvious moments of emergency. It has a bearing on nearly every aspect of human health, from our skin down to our DNA.
That means long-term exposure to high temperatures—increasingly common as the Earth warms—is causing cumulative harm to our bodies and minds.
What Extreme Heat Is Doing to Your Body - Inside Climate News
As climate change intensifies, heat health risks from accelerated aging to bad decision-making grow worldwide. Here’s what you need to know.Inside Climate News
The 13th Largest Army in World Is Unleashing Violence in Chicago
The 13th Largest Army in World Is Unleashing Violence in Chicago
As federal agents kill and use extreme force in Chicago, their budget surges.Gridwork
Xbox x/s or PS5 emulators for PC
What are my options for emulating Xbox or PS5 games on PC, preferably Linux, if there are any good?
My next problem would be acquiring NHL25 rom or whatever it’s called these days. I’ve been out of the piracy loop for a few years, but a relative wants to play that specific game and doesn’t feel like shelling out cash for a console.
Searching has given me some ideas, but some first hand experience or pointers would be appreciated, thanks in advance
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There are no emulators for them. Only reliable way to play NHL25 on a PC would be through the XBOX Game Pass Ultimate.
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This feels more like an Anarchist meme than a Marxist-Leninist meme.
The Dictatorship of the Proletariat is usually cool with laws, abstractly.
Where did you get the idea that this was supposed to be ML or exclusive to any specific leftist ideology for that matter? /gen
I feel like i'm missing context for this comment
following the law for it’s own sake is a form of slave morality
People don't follow the law "for it's own sake". They have material reasons for supporting or transgressing, which they rationalize after the fact.
Sometimes it's practical (driving the speed limit or not based on flow of traffic) and sometimes it's formative (being hyper sensitive to street crime because you've got a memory of being robbed / reflectively shoplifting because you grew up food insecure). Maybe you're the victim of abuse or just OCD.
But there are broad social, historical, and economic reasons to support/oppose a given legal code.
I think that in an ideal society, everyone would follow their own moral values and laws wouldn't even be needed. That's probably not achievable, but we can at least try to approach it.
I think the root of immorality is the prescriptive morality which is commonplace today. People only act pseudo-moral because either:
- They are afraid of punishment (fully selfish reason)
- God, the law, or whoever else said so (deferral to authority)
- "Society would collapse" if they didn't (still a selfish justification)
in reality, very few actually have internal moral values. As soon as those reasons disappear, they see no reason not to act immorally. Alternatively, they follow this imposed morality so strictly, that they don't notice when it leads them to immoral actions (take for example religious fundamentalism or fascist regimes).
The solution is of course education, but our current education systems are terribly suited to producing moral people.
I think that in an ideal society, everyone would follow their own moral values and laws wouldn’t even be needed.
Morals don't come ex nihilo. People develop them from social interactions and survival patterns, typically at a young age. The broad purpose of law is to set a publicly recognized boundary for universal conduct. It isn't to simply be mean to people, but to publicly declare what a community of people values as socially valuable.
in reality, very few actually have internal moral values.
People largely have a certain internal sense of social justice. But they have a limited capacity to engage with their neighbors from any kind of authority position. The internal morality can get twisted when you constantly see yourself as a victim and feel the urge to right some existential wrong. Portraying one group as a victim and another as an aggressor is a classic propaganda technique used to inflame hostility between neighbors and socially justify violence.
The solution is of course education
At some level, sure. But it is difficult to inoculate a public at-large from all forms of deceptive media.
At another level, the solution needs to be establishing a general level of public contentedness and satisfaction. Agitation is less effective in a social circle that isn't under high degrees of anxiety or fearful of deprivation. So long as we have the threat of poverty and stochastic violence hanging over people's heads, we're going to have the material for propaganda that agitate them into tension with their neighbors.
In my opinion, the main purpose behind law and punishment is deterrence from immoral actions. Punishment for its own sake is in no way good, it's a necessary evil to deter immoral people from committing immoral actions. If there were no immoral people, there would be no one to deter and thus no use for law.
Sure, internal morality can get twisted, but only when it's based in instinct (self preservation, subordination to authority, etc.), and that's what I mean when I say pseudo-morality. Rational moral principles, on the other hand, are relatively reliable, clear and consistent. The main moral frameworks (deontology, consequentialism, virtue ethics) agree on most significant scenarios, the differences are in the specificities.
The scapegoat phenomenon you mention is a great example of instinct (the ingroup-outgroup instinct), being taken advantage of for political manipulation. Education should include teaching people to recognize these instincts and when they're leading them astray in rational thought.
I think simply achieving material flourishing isn't enough to make people moral, mainly because there are other instincts at play. For example the desire for status and power. This is what drives people to immorality even during material satisfaction. I also believe it is the main driving force behind capitalism.
In my opinion, the main purpose behind law and punishment is deterrence from immoral actions.
There's an element of that. Also, the idea that certain people need to be separated from general society as a precautionary measure. But I think there's also a broad concept of social justice. 2nd degree murder is a good example. Nobody really expects murder charges to prevent people from going into a killing rage. And there's no way to undo the damage inflicted. So punishment is intended as a kind of social vengeance, intended both to shame the perpetrator and to alleviate the desire of the victims to pursue their own vigilante justice.
I think simply achieving material flourishing isn’t enough to make people moral, mainly because there are other instincts at play.
I wouldn't say it is sufficient, but I would say it is necessary. A great deal of crime is the consequence of anxiety, in one form or another. Relieving the anxiety reduces instances of crime.
Sure, there are other instincts at work. But defusing these tensions will also require infrastructure, energy, and manpower. And so you can establish a virtuous cycle, wherein a professional class of social workers with the means and methods to deliver aid also become a vehicle of economic activity that reduces poverty and contributes to the benefit of the community.
Like the fact that someone can get shot for offering to get their neighbour high,
while companies can litteraly operate like crime syndicates with minimal repercussion
might be a cause for people thinking the law is just opression instead of a guideline that can be actually used
Modelo de Termos de Uiso e Política de Privacidade
Olá pessoal. Uma das questões importantes que temos percebido entre as pessoas que iniciam suas instâncias, são as dúvidas sobre modelos de termos de uso e políticas de privacidade. Mesmo que plataformas como o Mastodon disponibilize um modelo, o conteúdo não está totalmente de acordo com a legislação brasileira. Por esse motivo, sistematizamos um texto voltado para a LGPD para a avaliação e uso da comunidade:
TERMOS DE USO E POLÍTICA DE PRIVACIDADE - PLATAFORMA XXX
Última atualização: \[Data\]
1. ACEITAÇÃO DOS TERMOSEste Termo estabelece as condições para utilização da plataforma XXX e as responsabilidades relativas ao conteúdo publicado. Ao criar uma conta ou utilizar a plataforma, você declara ser maior de 18 anos e concorda com estes termos e com o tratamento de dados conforme a Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados (Lei 13.709/2018).
2. TERMOS IMPORTANTESEstes termos incluem disposições que afetam seus direitos e responsabilidades, incluindo isenção de responsabilidade, limites de obrigações da XXX, sua responsabilidade por custos decorrentes de má utilização da plataforma.
3. SUA PERMISSÃO PARA USAR A PLATAFORMASujeito a estes termos, a XXX concede permissão para usar a plataforma. É necessário aceitá-los para utilizá-la.
4. CONDIÇÕES DE USOSua permissão para usar a plataforma está sujeita às seguintes condições:
- Você precisa ter pelo menos 18 anos de idade
- Você não poderá mais usar a plataforma se a XXX revogar sua permissão
- Você deverá usar a plataforma de acordo com Uso Aceitável e Padrões de Conteúdo
5. USO ACEITÁVELVocê não poderá:
- Infringir leis através da plataforma
- Usar ou tentar usar a conta de outro usuário sem consentimento
- Comercializar identificadores de outros usuários
- Enviar spam ou coletar dados para listas comerciais
- Automatizar o acesso à plataforma, exceto para indexação por mecanismos de busca
- Usar a plataforma para envio de listas de distribuição
- Sugerir falsa afiliação com a XXX
- Criar hyperlinks para imagens ou outros conteúdos não textuais
- Remover marcas de propriedade de materiais baixados
- Burlar medidas de segurança ou restrições de acesso
- Sobrecarregar a infraestrutura com solicitações excessivas
- Praticar falsa identidade
- Incentivar terceiros a violar estes termos
6. PADRÕES DE CONTEÚDOVocê não pode enviar conteúdo:
- Ilegal, ofensivo, abusivo, de ódio ou assédio
- Que viole leis, direitos de propriedade intelectual ou privacidade
- Com código malicioso (vírus, spyware)
- Para reservar endereços, nomes de usuário ou identificadores
- Que revele informações confidenciais de terceiros
7. APLICAÇÃOA XXX pode investigar e processar violações destes termos utilizando todas as medidas legais aplicáveis, notificando e cooperando com autoridades quando necessário.
8. SUA CONTAPara acessar certos recursos, você deve criar uma conta com informações válidas, incluindo e-mail atualizado. Você é responsável por todas as ações em sua conta até seu encerramento ou notificação de comprometimento. Você deve notificar a XXX imediatamente em caso de suspeita e manter uma senha segura. A XXX pode restringir, suspender ou encerrar sua conta por violação destes termos.
9. SEU CONTEÚDOO conteúdo enviado pertence a você, e você decide quais permissões conceder. Você concede à XXX licença para copiar, publicar e analisar seu conteúdo na plataforma. Esta licença expira quando o conteúdo é removido e eliminado dos sistemas da XXX.
10. SUA RESPONSABILIDADEVocê concorda em indenizar a XXX por ações judiciais relacionadas a violações destes termos por você ou através de sua conta.
11. ISENÇÃO DE RESPONSABILIDADEVocê aceita os riscos de usar a plataforma e seu conteúdo. Conforme a lei, a plataforma é fornecida "no estado em que se encontra", sem garantias.
12. LIMITES DE OBRIGAÇÃOA XXX e seus fornecedores não terão obrigação por danos não previstos quando você aceitou estes termos.
13. ENCERRAMENTOVocê ou a XXX podem encerrar este acordo a qualquer momento, cessando então sua permissão de uso.
14. LITÍGIOSDisputas relativas a estes termos serão resolvidas em tribunais \[especificar foro\].
POLÍTICA DE PRIVACIDADE
15. INFORMAÇÕES COLETADAS
Informações básicas da conta: Se se registar neste servidor, poderá ser solicitado que introduza um nome de utilizador, um endereço de e-mail e uma palavra-passe. Pode também introduzir informações adicionais de perfil, como um nome de exibição e uma biografia, e carregar uma imagem de perfil e uma imagem de cabeçalho. O nome de utilizador, nome de exibição, biografia, imagem de perfil e imagem de cabeçalho são sempre listados publicamente.
Publicações, seguidores e outras informações públicas: A lista de pessoas que segue é listada publicamente, o mesmo se aplica aos seus seguidores. Quando submete uma mensagem, a data e a hora são armazenadas, bem como a aplicação a partir da qual a submeteu. As mensagens podem conter ficheiros anexos de media, como imagens e vídeos. As publicações públicas e não listadas estão disponíveis publicamente. Quando destaca uma publicação no seu perfil, essa informação também fica publicamente disponível. As suas publicações são entregues aos seus seguidores; em alguns casos, isso significa que são entregues em servidores diferentes e cópias são lá armazenadas. Quando elimina publicações, esta ação é igualmente entregue aos seus seguidores. A ação de republicar ou favoritar outra publicação é sempre pública.
Publicações diretas e apenas para seguidores: Todas as publicações são armazenadas e processadas no servidor. As publicações apenas para seguidores são entregues aos seus seguidores e aos utilizadores mencionados nelas, e as publicações diretas são entregues apenas aos utilizadores mencionados nelas. Em alguns casos, isso significa que são entregues a servidores diferentes e cópias são lá armazenadas. Fazemos um esforço de boa fé para limitar o acesso a essas publicações apenas a pessoas autorizadas, mas outros servidores podem não o fazer. Por isso, é importante rever os servidores a que pertencem os seus seguidores. Pode ativar uma opção para aprovar e rejeitar novos seguidores manualmente nas definições. Por favor, tenha em mente que os operadores do servidor e de qualquer servidor recetor podem visualizar tais mensagens, e que os destinatários podem capturar ecrã, copiar ou partilhá-las de outra forma. Não partilhe informações sensíveis através da plataforma.
IPs e outros metadados: Quando inicia sessão, registamos o endereço IP a partir do qual acede, bem como o nome da sua aplicação de navegador. Todas as sessões iniciadas estão disponíveis para sua revisão e revogação nas definições. O último endereço IP utilizado é armazenado por até 12 meses. Também podemos reter registos (logs) do servidor que incluem o endereço IP de todos os pedidos feitos ao nosso servidor.
16. FINALIDADES DO TRATAMENTOQualquer uma das informações que recolhemos de si pode ser usada das seguintes formas:
- Para fornecer a funcionalidade central da plataforma. Só pode interagir com o conteúdo de outras pessoas e publicar o seu próprio conteúdo quando tem a sessão iniciada.
- Para auxiliar na moderação da comunidade, por exemplo, comparando o seu endereço IP com outros conhecidos para determinar evasão de banimento ou outras violações.
- O endereço de e-mail que fornece pode ser usado para enviar informações, notificações sobre outras pessoas a interagirem com o seu conteúdo ou a enviarem-lhe mensagens, e para responder a perguntas e/ou outros pedidos.
17. MEDIDAS DE SEGURANÇAImplementamos uma variedade de medidas de segurança para manter a segurança das suas informações pessoais quando as introduz, submete ou acede. Entre outras coisas, a sua sessão do navegador, bem como o tráfego entre as suas aplicações e a API, são protegidos com SSL, e a sua palavra-passe é codificada (hashed) usando um algoritmo forte unidirecional. Pode ativar a autenticação de dois fatores para proteger ainda mais o acesso à sua conta.
18. RETENÇÃO DE DADOSFaremos um esforço de boa fé para:
- Reter os registos (logs) do servidor contendo o endereço IP de todos os pedidos para este servidor, na medida em que tais registos sejam mantidos, por não mais de 90 dias.
- Reter os endereços IP associados a utilizadores registados por não mais de 12 meses.
- Pode solicitar e transferir um arquivo do seu conteúdo, incluindo as suas publicações, ficheiros de media anexos, imagem de perfil e imagem de cabeçalho.
- Pode eliminar a sua conta de forma irreversível a qualquer momento.
19. COOKIESSim. Os cookies são pequenos ficheiros que um site ou seu prestador de serviços transfere para o disco rígido do seu computador através do seu navegador da Web (se permitir). Estes cookies permitem que o site reconheça o seu navegador e, se tiver uma conta registada, associe-o à sua conta registada. Utilizamos cookies para compreender e guardar as suas preferências para visitas futuras.
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A Minsky moment is a sudden, major collapse of asset values which marks the end of the growth phase of a cycle in credit markets or business activity.
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Furloughs hit federal employees exempt from shutdown, laid-off staff told to keep working
The General Services Administration is furloughing employees who are typically “exempt” from a government shutdown, because much of the agency isn’t funded through congressional appropriations.
GSA employees told Federal News Network these furloughs are happening contrary to the agency’s recent messages to staff, and run contrary to the agency’s longstanding practices during a shutdown.
Meanwhile, GSA has inadvertently sent notices to employees it laid off months ago, telling them that they are exempt and should continue working during the shutdown. A similar situation occurred in at least one other agency.
A GSA employee said the agency’s Federal Acquisition Service has furloughed staff who are funded through the Acquisition Services Fund, a revolving fund that includes revenue GSA receives for the services to provides to other agencies.
Furloughs hit federal employees exempt from shutdown, laid-off staff told to keep working
GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service and Public Buildings Service were “given a number to hit,” in terms of furloughs, according to an employee.Jory Heckman (Federal News Network)
Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library using $70M Bank of North Dakota line of credit • North Dakota Monitor
North Dakota lawmakers in 2023 first established the line of credit through the state-owned bank to allow construction on the $450 million library in Medora to continue if donations have been pledged but not yet received by the library foundation. The loan did not get used in the 2023-25 budget cycle.
Lawmakers voted earlier this year to continue that line of credit. Unlike a traditional loan, a line of credit allows the borrower to access the funds only as needed, saving money on interest, said Kelvin Hullet, chief business development officer for the Bank of North Dakota.
The library foundation began accessing the funds for the first time in July, with the balance now at $53 million, Hullet said Friday.
Chitarrista degli Oasis malato: Paul “Bonehead” Arthurs lascia il reunion tour, rientro atteso per le date sudamericane di novembre
Scossone nel reunion tour degli Oasis: Paul “Bonehead” Arthurs annuncia l’assenza temporanea per curare un cancro alla prostata. Il chitarrista, tra i fondatori della band di Manchester, rassicura però i fan: l’obiettivo è tornare sul palco a novembre per i concerti in Sud America.
TUTTI I DETTAGLI: Chitarrista degli Oasis malato: Paul “Bonehead” Arthurs lascia il reunion tour, rientro atteso per le date sudamericane di novembre
Oasis, il chitarrista Bonehead lascia il reunion tour per curarsi dal cancro
Paul “Bonehead” Arthurs si ferma per curare un cancro alla prostata: salta le date asiatiche e australiane del reunion tour degli Oasis.Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)
Stephen Miller Is Going for Broke: The White House aide equates opposition to Trump’s agenda with terrorism—and pushes for the use of state power to suppress it.
Stephen Miller Is Going for Broke
The White House aide equates opposition to Trump’s agenda with terrorism—and pushes for the use of state power to suppress it.Jonathan Chait (The Atlantic)
Libraries Can’t Get Their Loaned Books Back Because of Trump’s Tariffs
The Trump administration’s tariff regime and the elimination of fee exemptions for items under $800 is limiting resource sharing between university libraries, trapping some books in foreign countries, and reversing long-held standards in academic cooperation.
“There are libraries that have our books that we've lent to them before all of this happened, and now they can't ship them back to us because their carrier either is flat out refusing to ship anything to the U.S., or they're citing not being able to handle the tariff situation,” Jessica Bower Relevo, associate director of resource sharing and reserves at Yale University Library, told me.
After Trump’s executive order ended the de minimis exemption, which allowed people to buy things internationally without paying tariffs if the items cost less than $800, we’ve written several stories about how the decision caused chaos over a wide variety of hobbies that rely on people buying things overseas, especially on Ebay, where many of those transactions take place.
Libraries that share their materials internationally are in a similar mess, partly because some countries’ mail services stopped shipments to and from the U.S. entirely, but the situation for them is arguably even more complicated because they’re not selling anything—they’re just lending books.
“It's not necessarily too expensive. It's that they don't have a mechanism in place to deal with the tariffs and how they're going to be applied,” Relevo said. “And I think that's true of U.S. shipping carriers as well. There’s a lot of confusion about how to handle this situation.”
“The tariffs have impacted interlibrary loans in various ways for different libraries,” Heather Evans, a librarian at RMIT University in Australia, told me in an email. “It has largely depended on their different procedures as to how much they have been affected. Some who use AusPost [Australia’s postal service] to post internationally have been more impacted and I've seen many libraries put a halt on borrowing to or from the US at all.” (AusPost suspended all shipments to the United States but plans to renew them on October 7).
Relevo told me that in some cases books are held up in customs indefinitely, or are “lost in warehouses” where they are held for no clear reason.
As Relevo explains it, libraries often provide people in foreign institutions books in their collections by giving them access to digitized materials, but some books are still only available in physical copies. These are not necessarily super rare or valuable books, but books that are only in print in certain countries. For example, a university library might have a specialized collection on a niche subject because it’s the focus area of a faculty member, a French university will obviously have a deeper collection of French literature, and some textbooks might only be published in some languages.
A librarian’s job is to give their community access to information, and international interlibrary loans extend that mission to other countries by having libraries work together. In the past, if an academic in the U.S. wanted access to a French university’s deep collection of French literature, they’d have to travel there. Today, academics can often ask that library to ship them the books they want. Relevo said this type of lending has always been useful, but became especially popular and important during COVID lockdowns, when many libraries were closed and international travel was limited.
“Interlibrary loans has been something that libraries have been able to do for a really long time, even back in the early 1900s,” Relevo said. “If we can't do that anymore and we're limiting what our users can access, because maybe they're only limited to what we have in our collection, then ultimately could hinder academic progress. Scholars have enjoyed for decades now the ability to basically get whatever they need for their research, to be very comprehensive in their literature reviews or the references that they need, or past research that's been done on that topic, because most libraries, especially academic libraries, do offer this service [...] If we can't do that anymore, or at least there's a barrier to doing that internationally, then researchers have to go back to old ways of doing things.”
The Trump administration upended this system of knowledge sharing and cooperation, making life even harder for academics in the U.S., who are already fleeing to foreign universities because they fear the government will censor their research.
The American Library Association (ALA) has a group dedicated to international interlibrary lending, called the International Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Committee, which is nested in the Sharing and Transforming Access to Resources Section (STARS) of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA). Since Trump’s executive order and tariffs regime, the RUSA STARS International ILL Committee has produced a site dedicated to helping librarians navigate the new, unpredictable landscape.
In addition to explaining the basic facts of the tariffs and de minimis, the site also shares resources and “Tips & Tricks in Uncertain Times,” which encourages librarians to talk to partner libraries before lending or borrowing books, and to “be transparent and set realistic expectations with patrons.” The page also links to an online form that asks librarians to share any information they have about how different libraries are handling the elimination of de minimis in an attempt to crowd source a better understanding of the new international landscape.
“Let's say this library in Germany wanted to ship something to us,” Relevo said. “It sounds like the postal carriers just don't know how to even do that. They don’t know how to pass that tariff on to the library that's getting the material, there's just so much confusion on what you would even do if you even wanted to. So they're just saying, ‘No, we're not shipping to the U.S.’”
Relevo told me that one thing the resource sharing community has talked about a lot is how to label packages so customs agents know they are not [selling] goods to another country. Relevo said that some libraries have marked the value of books they’re lending as $0. Others have used specific codes to indicate the package isn’t a good that’s being bought or sold. But there’s not one method that has worked consistently across the board.
“It does technically have value, because it's a tangible item, and pretty much any tangible item is going to have some sort of value, but we're not selling it,” she said. “We're just letting that library borrow it and then we're going to get it back. But the way customs and tariffs work, it's more to do with buying and selling goods and library stuff isn't really factored into those laws [...] it's kind of a weird concept, especially when you live in a highly capitalized country.”
Relevo said that the last 10-15 years have been a very tumultuous time for libraries, not just because of tariffs, but because AI-generated content, the pandemic, and conservative organizations pressuring libraries to remove certain books from their collections.
“At the end of the day, us librarians just want to help people, so we're just trying to find the best ways to do that right now with the resources we have,” she said.
“What I would like the public to know about the situation is that their librarians as a group are very committed to doing the best we can for them and to finding the best options and ways to fulfill their requests and access needs. Please continue to ask us for what you need,” Evans said. “At the moment we would ask for a little extra patience, and perhaps understanding that we might not be able to get things as urgently for them if it involves the U.S., but we will do as we have always done and search for the fastest and most helpful way to obtain access to what they require.”
International ILL
A portal for current issues surrounding international interlibrary loan related to the U.S. Below this description are 6 clickable images that link to key resources.sites.google.com
Libraries Can’t Get Their Loaned Books Back Because of Trump’s Tariffs
The Trump administration’s tariff regime and the elimination of fee exemptions for items under $800 is limiting resource sharing between university libraries, trapping some books in foreign countries, and reversing long-held standards in academic cooperation.“There are libraries that have our books that we've lent to them before all of this happened, and now they can't ship them back to us because their carrier either is flat out refusing to ship anything to the U.S., or they're citing not being able to handle the tariff situation,” Jessica Bower Relevo, associate director of resource sharing and reserves at Yale University Library, told me.
After Trump’s executive order ended the de minimis exemption, which allowed people to buy things internationally without paying tariffs if the items cost less than $800, we’ve written several stories about how the decision caused chaos over a wide variety of hobbies that rely on people buying things overseas, especially on Ebay, where many of those transactions take place.
Libraries that share their materials internationally are in a similar mess, partly because some countries’ mail services stopped shipments to and from the U.S. entirely, but the situation for them is arguably even more complicated because they’re not selling anything—they’re just lending books.
“It's not necessarily too expensive. It's that they don't have a mechanism in place to deal with the tariffs and how they're going to be applied,” Relevo said. “And I think that's true of U.S. shipping carriers as well. There’s a lot of confusion about how to handle this situation.”
“The tariffs have impacted interlibrary loans in various ways for different libraries,” Heather Evans, a librarian at RMIT University in Australia, told me in an email. “It has largely depended on their different procedures as to how much they have been affected. Some who use AusPost [Australia’s postal service] to post internationally have been more impacted and I've seen many libraries put a halt on borrowing to or from the US at all.” (AusPost suspended all shipments to the United States but plans to renew them on October 7).
Relevo told me that in some cases books are held up in customs indefinitely, or are “lost in warehouses” where they are held for no clear reason.
As Relevo explains it, libraries often provide people in foreign institutions books in their collections by giving them access to digitized materials, but some books are still only available in physical copies. These are not necessarily super rare or valuable books, but books that are only in print in certain countries. For example, a university library might have a specialized collection on a niche subject because it’s the focus area of a faculty member, a French university will obviously have a deeper collection of French literature, and some textbooks might only be published in some languages.
A librarian’s job is to give their community access to information, and international interlibrary loans extend that mission to other countries by having libraries work together. In the past, if an academic in the U.S. wanted access to a French university’s deep collection of French literature, they’d have to travel there. Today, academics can often ask that library to ship them the books they want. Relevo said this type of lending has always been useful, but became especially popular and important during COVID lockdowns, when many libraries were closed and international travel was limited.
“Interlibrary loans has been something that libraries have been able to do for a really long time, even back in the early 1900s,” Relevo said. “If we can't do that anymore and we're limiting what our users can access, because maybe they're only limited to what we have in our collection, then ultimately could hinder academic progress. Scholars have enjoyed for decades now the ability to basically get whatever they need for their research, to be very comprehensive in their literature reviews or the references that they need, or past research that's been done on that topic, because most libraries, especially academic libraries, do offer this service [...] If we can't do that anymore, or at least there's a barrier to doing that internationally, then researchers have to go back to old ways of doing things.”
The Trump administration upended this system of knowledge sharing and cooperation, making life even harder for academics in the U.S., who are already fleeing to foreign universities because they fear the government will censor their research.
The American Library Association (ALA) has a group dedicated to international interlibrary lending, called the International Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Committee, which is nested in the Sharing and Transforming Access to Resources Section (STARS) of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA). Since Trump’s executive order and tariffs regime, the RUSA STARS International ILL Committee has produced a site dedicated to helping librarians navigate the new, unpredictable landscape.
In addition to explaining the basic facts of the tariffs and de minimis, the site also shares resources and “Tips & Tricks in Uncertain Times,” which encourages librarians to talk to partner libraries before lending or borrowing books, and to “be transparent and set realistic expectations with patrons.” The page also links to an online form that asks librarians to share any information they have about how different libraries are handling the elimination of de minimis in an attempt to crowd source a better understanding of the new international landscape.
“Let's say this library in Germany wanted to ship something to us,” Relevo said. “It sounds like the postal carriers just don't know how to even do that. They don’t know how to pass that tariff on to the library that's getting the material, there's just so much confusion on what you would even do if you even wanted to. So they're just saying, ‘No, we're not shipping to the U.S.’”
Relevo told me that one thing the resource sharing community has talked about a lot is how to label packages so customs agents know they are not [selling] goods to another country. Relevo said that some libraries have marked the value of books they’re lending as $0. Others have used specific codes to indicate the package isn’t a good that’s being bought or sold. But there’s not one method that has worked consistently across the board.
“It does technically have value, because it's a tangible item, and pretty much any tangible item is going to have some sort of value, but we're not selling it,” she said. “We're just letting that library borrow it and then we're going to get it back. But the way customs and tariffs work, it's more to do with buying and selling goods and library stuff isn't really factored into those laws [...] it's kind of a weird concept, especially when you live in a highly capitalized country.”
Relevo said that the last 10-15 years have been a very tumultuous time for libraries, not just because of tariffs, but because AI-generated content, the pandemic, and conservative organizations pressuring libraries to remove certain books from their collections.
“At the end of the day, us librarians just want to help people, so we're just trying to find the best ways to do that right now with the resources we have,” she said.
“What I would like the public to know about the situation is that their librarians as a group are very committed to doing the best we can for them and to finding the best options and ways to fulfill their requests and access needs. Please continue to ask us for what you need,” Evans said. “At the moment we would ask for a little extra patience, and perhaps understanding that we might not be able to get things as urgently for them if it involves the U.S., but we will do as we have always done and search for the fastest and most helpful way to obtain access to what they require.”
Police Bodycam Shows Sheriff Hunting for 'Obscene' Books at Library
Body camera footage from Idaho reveals a sheriff hunting for a YA book he could use for a political stunt.Jason Koebler (404 Media)
The Global Sumud Flotilla Was a Huge Political Success
After arriving back at Heathrow Airport, Novara Media’s Kieran Andrieu shared his experience and explained why he thinks their mission was a huge political success.
The Global Sumud Flotilla Was a Huge Political Success | Novara Media
After arriving back at Heathrow Airport, Novara Media's Kieran Andrieu shared his experience and explained why he thinks their mission was a huge political success.…Novara Media
How Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels
How Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels
Meet balkonkraftwerk, the simple technology putting solar power in the hands of renters and nudging Germany toward its clean energy goals.Akielly Hu (Grist)
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Regulations limit each system to just 800 watts, enough to power a small fridge or charge a laptop
What kind of clueless person wrote this. Whoever wrote this clearly has no idea how much 800W is in practice. Our fridge with an attached freezer (full size, 60cm wide, normal to large in Europe) never uses more than 70-90W, duty cycle is around 40%. So on average it uses 30W or so.
My gaming laptop is limited to 180W. Normally it uses much much less (50ish when actively used). My gaming desktop PC with 3 monitors uses 800W under full load, but that's with everything (monitors, amp/speaker, ...). Even with multiple PCs in normal (non gaming) use in the house, seeing over 800W isn't common. Or 10 laptops, not "a small laptop".
800W is enough to power our whole house unless we're cooking or taking a shower. I would argue in general, it will nullify noon-peak loads of an entire household, and whatever is left over gets added to the grid.
Or running HVAC or an air pump for heating.
That said 800w will be the nominal amount under near perfect conditions, 80%- 90% of the time it won't be anywhere near that.
We (m and f couple) lived of grid for 10 years on a 2kW solar system and batteries with ease no generator for backup but a gas oven, 1 * induction cook top, 2x pedestal fans and 1 x celing fans, toaster, kettle, microwave and a no electrical boost solar system. Mid size diesel truck we used minimamilay (lived way out in the bush growing our own stuff etc) We're naturally energy thrifty though. At S30° latitide, awesome for solar.
We've since moved to S41°, terrible for solar in winter (short days and thats the wet season). We have 8kW solar but are on grid (feed excess solar into the grid) and charge our mid sized e-truck (use minimially) off solar, and have a heat pump for heating, so we use more electrons but no fossil fuel.
As I'd replied to a sister comment of yours, I didn't even consider that the author could be talking about actually available power, so that's on me. I did go re-read it and I really don't think that's how it is meant though. I do think they are just ignorant on this point.
That being said, "balcony solar" isn't limited to 800 W in panels. It's limited to an 800 W inverter, but 2 kW for the panels. So you can have quite a bit more capacity in solar compared to the inverter, which also means that worse weather impacts you less. When you got a full sunny day, you can have the full 800 W for much longer, if not most of the day, as it'll essentially be limited further down the chain. On the other hand I do think the most common size actually installed is much closer to also only have 800-900 Wp (basically 2 panels), which is the most commonly offerend (and presumably sold) kit size.
We also have roughly 8 kWp installed, and obviously on cloudy or dark winter days we're an order of magnitude away from that number. There are days where we break 40 kWh in production, and there are days where we barely make it to 1 kWh. That low is very rare, even in winter or on dense, cloudy days, so I'd consider 4 kWh a more realistic minimum value. We have relatively detailed monitoring of most (relevant) consumers, which is why I have a somewhat good idea of how much our house consumes in practice. Before this full size installation, we had a 2 panel balcony solar "test setup" for quite a while. It was actually quite a (positive) surprise on how many days we essentially covered the majority of our daylight usage with these panels. Obviously not for the big-ticket consumers, but even a washer/dryer will be mostly covered.
What kind of clueless person wrote this. Whoever wrote this clearly has no idea how much 800W is in practice.
Average available power < installed power
Sorry but the first part is just incorrect. They are indeed simple, which is why they do feed back into the grid. Not feeding back would take effort and additional hardware. But you're not being paid for what is fed back into the grid, making it free energy for the electricity provider (see my last paragraph below).
To explain it a bit: electrically, the external grid and the grid in your home are simply connected (assuming the breakers are closed). If you use more than you produce, whatever is missing "flows in". If you produce more than what you're currently consuming, whatever is left over just flows out into the grid. Even if this if obviously simplified, this "just happens" with no effort required, but the amount that flows in or out is easy enough to measure (which is what the electricity meter does that sits between the big grid and the one in your house). If you want to actually make sure you don't feed back into the grid, you would constantly need to monitor if anything is flowing in our out, and compensate with reduced (or increased) production. Even full size solar installations can't do this with perfect precision, even if you tell them to: you can only react to the flow you see coming in/out, if you turn a large heater quickly on and off and on and off, it won't have time to react quickly enough.
For the longest time (until early 2023 I think), you had to ask permission from your electricity network operator (is that the correct term? "Netzbetreiber"), because they would only allow you to install it if you had at least a semi-modern electricity meter that won't turn backwards. Because balcony solar always feeds into the grid, you'd effectively be paid the same per kWh as what you're paying yourself. You would effectively use the grid as a infinitely large battery.
Suspension problem
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My Lenovo t14 amd 360 misbehaves on 6.11, but is great on 6.8
Are you dual booting windows by chance?
Maybe check if there is newer firmware available for the chip set.
2214.524547] wlp56s0: associated
[ 2214.524651] wlp56s0: Limiting TX power to 20 (23 - 3) dBm as advertised by 28:87:ba:ca:16:f7
[ 2356.421672] wlp56s0: deauthenticating from 28:87:ba:ca:16:f7 by local choice (Reason: 3=DEAUTH_LEAVING)
[ 2356.750693] PM: suspend entry (s2idle)
[ 2356.809808] Filesystems sync: 0.059 seconds
[ 2356.910927] Bluetooth: hci0: Opcode 0x0c24 failed: -112
[ 2356.910935] fbcon: Taking over console
[ 2356.912497] Freezing user space processes
[ 2356.914010] Freezing user space processes completed (elapsed 0.001 seconds)
[ 2356.914013] OOM killer disabled.
[ 2356.914014] Freezing remaining freezable tasks
[ 2356.921061] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 240x75
[ 2356.960580] Bluetooth: hci0: unexpected event for opcode 0x0c24
[ 2356.961173] Freezing remaining freezable tasks completed (elapsed 0.047 seconds)
[ 2356.961190] printk: Suspending console(s) (use no_console_suspend to debug)
[ 2363.683976] pcieport 0000:00:1c.7: broken device, retraining non-functional downstream link at 2.5GT/s
[ 2364.860956] pcieport 0000:00:1c.7: broken device, retraining non-functional downstream link at 2.5GT/s
[ 2365.948865] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: not ready 1023ms after resume; waiting
[ 2367.036579] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: not ready 2047ms after resume; waiting
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[ 2382.330465] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: not ready 16383ms after resume; waiting
[ 2399.224328] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: not ready 32767ms after resume; waiting
[ 2422.262267] nvme nvme0: I/O tag 908 (938c) QID 7 timeout, completion polled
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[ 2434.548081] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: not ready 65535ms after resume; giving up
[ 2434.548262] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: Unable to change power state from D3cold to D0, device inaccessible
[ 2434.617783] spd5118 2-0050: Failed to write b = 0: -6
[ 2434.617789] spd5118 2-0050: PM: dpm_run_callback(): spd5118_resume [spd5118] returns -6
[ 2434.617795] spd5118 2-0050: PM: failed to resume async: error -6
[ 2434.618696] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] GT0: GuC firmware i915/adlp_guc_70.bin version 70.36.0
[ 2434.618703] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] GT0: HuC firmware i915/tgl_huc.bin version 7.9.3
[ 2434.632543] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] GT0: HuC: authenticated for all workloads
[ 2434.632955] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] GT0: GUC: submission enabled
[ 2434.632956] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] GT0: GUC: SLPC enabled
[ 2434.633398] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] GT0: GUC: RC enabled
[ 2434.648174] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: failed to write DBI register, addr=0xB48
[ 2434.648419] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: failed to write DBI register, addr=0xB48
[ 2434.648420] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: failed to read PCI cap, ret=134
[ 2434.822060] usb 3-10: reset full-speed USB device number 5 using xhci_hcd
[ 2435.148685] nvidia-modeset: nvidia-modeset: ACPI reported no NVIDIA native backlight available; attempting to use ACPI backlight.
[ 2435.166809] mei_hdcp 0000:00:16.0-b638ab7e-94e2-4ea2-a552-d1c54b627f04: bound 0000:00:02.0 (ops i915_hdcp_ops [i915])
[ 2435.167325] OOM killer enabled.
[ 2435.167327] Restarting tasks ...
[ 2435.167506] mei_pxp 0000:00:16.0-fbf6fcf1-96cf-4e2e-a6a6-1bab8cbe36b1: bound 0000:00:02.0 (ops i915_pxp_tee_component_ops [i915])
[ 2435.169543] Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: examining hci_ver=0b hci_rev=000b lmp_ver=0b lmp_subver=8852
[ 2435.170536] Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: rom_version status=0 version=1
[ 2435.170541] Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: loading rtl_bt/rtl8852bu_fw.bin
[ 2435.170642] Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: loading rtl_bt/rtl8852bu_config.bin
[ 2435.170671] Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: cfg_sz 6, total sz 58003
[ 2435.176158] done.
[ 2435.176165] random: crng reseeded on system resumption
[ 2435.180778] PM: suspend exit
[ 2435.335742] Generic FE-GE Realtek PHY r8169-0-3700:00: attached PHY driver (mii_bus:phy_addr=r8169-0-3700:00, irq=MAC)
[ 2435.463533] Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: fw version 0xdbc6b20f
[ 2435.495790] r8169 0000:37:00.0 enp55s0: Link is Down
[ 2435.547553] Bluetooth: hci0: AOSP extensions version v1.00
[ 2435.547560] Bluetooth: hci0: AOSP quality report is supported
[ 2435.547688] Bluetooth: MGMT ver 1.23
[ 2435.566665] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: xtal si not ready(W): offset=90 val=10 mask=10
[ 2435.586691] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: mac init fail, ret:-110
[ 2435.658698] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: xtal si not ready(W): offset=90 val=10 mask=10
[ 2435.679686] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: mac init fail, ret:-110
[ 2435.750715] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: xtal si not ready(W): offset=90 val=10 mask=10
[ 2435.771643] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: mac init fail, ret:-110
[ 2445.613749] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: xtal si not ready(W): offset=90 val=10 mask=10
[ 2445.634583] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: mac init fail, ret:-110
[ 2445.705625] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: xtal si not ready(W): offset=90 val=10 mask=10
[ 2445.726571] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: mac init fail, ret:-110
[ 2455.616690] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: xtal si not ready(W): offset=90 val=10 mask=10
[ 2455.637518] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: mac init fail, ret:-110
[ 2455.708678] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: xtal si not ready(W): offset=90 val=10 mask=10
[ 2455.729517] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: mac init fail, ret:-110
[ 2465.609730] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: xtal si not ready(W): offset=90 val=10 mask=10
[ 2465.630495] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: mac init fail, ret:-110
[ 2465.701551] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: xtal si not ready(W): offset=90 val=10 mask=10
[ 2465.722497] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: mac init fail, ret:-110
[ 2475.612683] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: xtal si not ready(W): offset=90 val=10 mask=10
[ 2475.633513] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: mac init fail, ret:-110
[ 2475.704536] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: xtal si not ready(W): offset=90 val=10 mask=10
[ 2475.725504] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: mac init fail, ret:-110
[ 2485.615613] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: xtal si not ready(W): offset=90 val=10 mask=10
[ 2485.636572] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: mac init fail, ret:-110
[ 2485.707605] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: xtal si not ready(W): offset=90 val=10 mask=10
[ 2485.728561] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: mac init fail, ret:-110
Yes, it's a laptop, I’m using the latest 6.14.0-33
[ 2214.524651] wlp56s0: Limiting TX power to 20 (23 - 3) dBm as advertised by 28:87:ba:ca:16:f7
[ 2356.421672] wlp56s0: deauthenticating from 28:87:ba:ca:16:f7 by local choice (Reason: 3=DEAUTH_LEAVING)
[ 2356.750693] PM: suspend entry (s2idle)
[ 2356.809808] Filesystems sync: 0.059 seconds
[ 2356.910927] Bluetooth: hci0: Opcode 0x0c24 failed: -112
[ 2356.910935] fbcon: Taking over console
[ 2356.912497] Freezing user space processes
[ 2356.914010] Freezing user space processes completed (elapsed 0.001 seconds)
[ 2356.914013] OOM killer disabled.
[ 2356.914014] Freezing remaining freezable tasks
[ 2356.921061] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 240x75
[ 2356.960580] Bluetooth: hci0: unexpected event for opcode 0x0c24
[ 2356.961173] Freezing remaining freezable tasks completed (elapsed 0.047 seconds)
[ 2356.961190] printk: Suspending console(s) (use no_console_suspend to debug)
[ 2363.683976] pcieport 0000:00:1c.7: broken device, retraining non-functional downstream link at 2.5GT/s
[ 2364.860956] pcieport 0000:00:1c.7: broken device, retraining non-functional downstream link at 2.5GT/s
[ 2365.948865] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: not ready 1023ms after resume; waiting
[ 2367.036579] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: not ready 2047ms after resume; waiting
[ 2369.148317] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: not ready 4095ms after resume; waiting
[ 2373.627631] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: not ready 8191ms after resume; waiting
[ 2382.330465] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: not ready 16383ms after resume; waiting
[ 2399.224328] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: not ready 32767ms after resume; waiting
[ 2422.262267] nvme nvme0: I/O tag 908 (938c) QID 7 timeout, completion polled
[ 2422.262318] nvme nvme0: I/O tag 1 (6001) QID 9 timeout, completion polled
[ 2422.262351] nvme nvme0: I/O tag 416 (11a0) QID 11 timeout, completion polled
[ 2434.548081] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: not ready 65535ms after resume; giving up
[ 2434.548262] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: Unable to change power state from D3cold to D0, device inaccessible
[ 2434.617783] spd5118 2-0050: Failed to write b = 0: -6
[ 2434.617789] spd5118 2-0050: PM: dpm_run_callback(): spd5118_resume [spd5118] returns -6
[ 2434.617795] spd5118 2-0050: PM: failed to resume async: error -6
[ 2434.618696] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] GT0: GuC firmware i915/adlp_guc_70.bin version 70.36.0
[ 2434.618703] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] GT0: HuC firmware i915/tgl_huc.bin version 7.9.3
[ 2434.632543] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] GT0: HuC: authenticated for all workloads
[ 2434.632955] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] GT0: GUC: submission enabled
[ 2434.632956] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] GT0: GUC: SLPC enabled
[ 2434.633398] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] GT0: GUC: RC enabled
[ 2434.648174] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: failed to write DBI register, addr=0xB48
[ 2434.648419] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: failed to write DBI register, addr=0xB48
[ 2434.648420] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: failed to read PCI cap, ret=134
[ 2434.822060] usb 3-10: reset full-speed USB device number 5 using xhci_hcd
[ 2435.148685] nvidia-modeset: nvidia-modeset: ACPI reported no NVIDIA native backlight available; attempting to use ACPI backlight.
[ 2435.166809] mei_hdcp 0000:00:16.0-b638ab7e-94e2-4ea2-a552-d1c54b627f04: bound 0000:00:02.0 (ops i915_hdcp_ops [i915])
[ 2435.167325] OOM killer enabled.
[ 2435.167327] Restarting tasks ...
[ 2435.167506] mei_pxp 0000:00:16.0-fbf6fcf1-96cf-4e2e-a6a6-1bab8cbe36b1: bound 0000:00:02.0 (ops i915_pxp_tee_component_ops [i915])
[ 2435.169543] Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: examining hci_ver=0b hci_rev=000b lmp_ver=0b lmp_subver=8852
[ 2435.170536] Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: rom_version status=0 version=1
[ 2435.170541] Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: loading rtl_bt/rtl8852bu_fw.bin
[ 2435.170642] Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: loading rtl_bt/rtl8852bu_config.bin
[ 2435.170671] Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: cfg_sz 6, total sz 58003
[ 2435.176158] done.
[ 2435.176165] random: crng reseeded on system resumption
[ 2435.180778] PM: suspend exit
[ 2435.335742] Generic FE-GE Realtek PHY r8169-0-3700:00: attached PHY driver (mii_bus:phy_addr=r8169-0-3700:00, irq=MAC)
[ 2435.463533] Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: fw version 0xdbc6b20f
[ 2435.495790] r8169 0000:37:00.0 enp55s0: Link is Down
[ 2435.547553] Bluetooth: hci0: AOSP extensions version v1.00
[ 2435.547560] Bluetooth: hci0: AOSP quality report is supported
[ 2435.547688] Bluetooth: MGMT ver 1.23
[ 2435.566665] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: xtal si not ready(W): offset=90 val=10 mask=10
[ 2435.586691] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: mac init fail, ret:-110
[ 2435.658698] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: xtal si not ready(W): offset=90 val=10 mask=10
[ 2435.679686] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: mac init fail, ret:-110
[ 2435.750715] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: xtal si not ready(W): offset=90 val=10 mask=10
[ 2435.771643] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: mac init fail, ret:-110
[ 2445.613749] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: xtal si not ready(W): offset=90 val=10 mask=10
[ 2445.634583] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: mac init fail, ret:-110
[ 2445.705625] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: xtal si not ready(W): offset=90 val=10 mask=10
[ 2445.726571] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: mac init fail, ret:-110
[ 2455.616690] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: xtal si not ready(W): offset=90 val=10 mask=10
[ 2455.637518] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: mac init fail, ret:-110
[ 2455.708678] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: xtal si not ready(W): offset=90 val=10 mask=10
[ 2455.729517] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: mac init fail, ret:-110
[ 2465.609730] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: xtal si not ready(W): offset=90 val=10 mask=10
[ 2465.630495] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: mac init fail, ret:-110
[ 2465.701551] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: xtal si not ready(W): offset=90 val=10 mask=10
[ 2465.722497] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: mac init fail, ret:-110
[ 2475.612683] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: xtal si not ready(W): offset=90 val=10 mask=10
[ 2475.633513] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: mac init fail, ret:-110
[ 2475.704536] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: xtal si not ready(W): offset=90 val=10 mask=10
[ 2475.725504] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: mac init fail, ret:-110
[ 2485.615613] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: xtal si not ready(W): offset=90 val=10 mask=10
[ 2485.636572] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: mac init fail, ret:-110
[ 2485.707605] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: xtal si not ready(W): offset=90 val=10 mask=10
[ 2485.728561] rtw89_8852be 0000:38:00.0: mac init fail, ret:-110
There are some aspm states you can try disabling on your wifi card and see if it helps, more info here:
github.com/lwfinger/rtw89/issu…
edit - direct link to possible solution:
github.com/lwfinger/rtw89/issu…
RTW89 buggy with Realtek 8852
Hi Got a new latop with Realtek 8852 WIFI/BT module. I installed RTW89 using readme guide. It does work and I can connect to wifi, but wifi drops frequently/restarting. Bluetooth only works after r...rybber78 (GitHub)
Are you using swap? If yes how much? It is recommended to use 1.5x your installed RAM if you want to use hibernation or suspension.
Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border
The First Nation plans to formalize its partnership with the Fort Peck Sioux Tribes, in Montana, next week by signing a memorandum of understanding to advance the trade corridor and its infrastructure development.
The corridor intends to use traditional routes traversing Dakota territories in Saskatchewan, Alberta, Manitoba and into the United States, reviving the historic Oceti Sakowin trade network, a historic alliance of seven Dakota, Lakota and Nakota Indigenous groups united by kinship, language and spiritual beliefs. The shared trade routes historically facilitated economic and military ties across their territories. “We have a lot of history, and even to this day, ties linking us to our relatives,” said Rodger Redman, chief of the nation.
Redman said this corridor is not symbolic, but rather an economic engine for the countries. Standing Buffalo is located in a region rich with critical minerals vital to global industries including renewable energy and technology. By owning the corridor, Indigenous nations can control the movement of these resources and expand economic opportunities for their communities.
Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border
“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."Mother Jones
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Video (comedy reprieve) Pete Hegseth Cold Open - SNL
I'm putting this up because it really pissed off trump. You'll see why.
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White House doesn’t see funny side of SNL premiere bashing of Trump and FCC chair
The long-running sketch show aired the premiere of season 51 on October 4, and wasted no time in skewering the presidentMike Bedigan (The Independent)
Arizona ‘VPN’ searches surge amid Pornhub ban in state
Arizonans frantically Googling ‘VPN’ after Pornhub ban
Pornhub cut off access to Arizona last week. You can get around it with a VPN, as many are learning for the first time.Morgan Fischer (Phoenix New Times)
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Proton, in my opinion, make the best VPN for people who need both mobile device support and port forwarding so they can be a good citizen with all those linux ISOs they torrent. I don't use their desktop client (I prefer to rawdog OpenVPN and Wireguard) but people like those.
Proton's email is dogshit. Don't get me wrong, it is awesome for making burners that many websites don't insta-block (although that is shifting). But you don't own your data unless you regularly run their nonsense client to tunnel into their servers. So if Proton goes shit tomorrow? All your emails are gone. Not a HUGE issue if you regularly fetch those but... yeah.
I've been backburnering it for other reasons but folk like (Not That) Will Smith and many others have been very big supporters of Fastmail and, looking at it, it seems pretty nice. And it fits my use case of using an email address at a domain I own so that I can just move between services depending on pricing and how evil corporations are in a given month.
Just to elaborate a bit. Migrating from JohnSmith@gmail to JohnSmith@hotmail to JohnSmith_75151515@proton is a massive undertaking.
Migrating from John@SmithDotOrg hosted by Foo to John@SmithDotOrg hosted by Bar is potentially under an hour depending on how you manage that domain and so forth.
But you don't own your data unless you regularly run their nonsense client to tunnel into their servers. So if Proton goes shit tomorrow? All your emails are gone. Not a HUGE issue if you regularly fetch those but... yeah.
Tbf most people don't download offline copies, they just let all their email live on their provider's servers and never think twice.
Personally, I've used either Outlook or Gmail since 2000 and haven't ever had an issue getting access to my emails.
That is an important point. For all that Microsoft and Google do to enshitify email, all the spying, all the privacy invasions they do monitoring your every click, contact, and the content of every email, they are extremely reliable at storing those emails. If you move away from them, there is a non-zero chance that is greater than the above companies that your new provider will go belly-up and you lose access to email. So there is an incentive to download things, at least periodically, and store them somewhere. If you use a mail client, that's very easy. This is an aspect of tech literacy, like backing up your files in more than one place generally, that very few are taught.
The 3, 2, 1 rule of backups should be taught to school children. Instead, big tech go out of their way to abstract away the problem behind layers of infantilizing services. It works well, until it doesn't.
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It isn't the only place, but it is one of the few where the content is somewhat searchable on top of just having a very large amount of content.
Plus people like to stick with what they know.
Well there is sth with hamsters.
However lots of the old porn websites are bought by pornhub. And via some weird business shit even nutaku is part of pornhub.
So you have an almost monopoly here.
All the other sites are much more shady and can not be used without an adblocker (I know everyone should already have one, but most people don't)
Every single one of you idiots is fine with paying extra to access a free service. VPN! VPN! Gotta have a VPN to fool everyone!
You didn't need a VPN before, because religious nazis have to control every single fucking thing. Control that porn! Control that "R" rated movie! Control those words in songs! Control the words in books! All religious movements.
Stop supporting religions, you stupid fucks. Requring a VPN is just saying that poor people don't get free porn, because they can't afford a VPN. Which is yet another thing that religious dickheads do.
If you're religious - FUCK YOU!
The big downsides are:
- Yet another Internet tax on the poor
- Everyone gets worse internet
- Most people are woefully unprepared to shop for a VPN from a reputable provider, meaning most people are going to end up subjected to even more surveillance and potentially attacks on their devices.
- Most people also are not prepared to manage when to and not-to use it, so will get slower internet all of the time.
- This will create lists of VPN users at both the ISPs and the VPN companies that will be usable by later christo-fascist governments.
- This will ultimately get laws passed against consumer-facing VPN services, making it harder for people to protect themselves from other attacks.
- More honey-pot VPN services will start up to support that list-gathering for future christo-fascist governments looking to build dossiers on as many people as possible.
I could go on and on. And nothing about the above has anything to do with porn.
I just keep my VPN on at all times and I've seen no noticable lag. My Steam download speeds are still regularly 500mb+/sec.
I'm sure it would be marginally faster without it, but the hit is so small that I see no reason to ever turn it off.
I'm saying there isn't a religion that doesn't force it's shit on people.
So basically you're fine with supporting things that hurt others just so long as you're left alone.
My issue is that the ones who aren't bothering you with it are essentially not doing so because they know other people in their group are already handling that for them. Religions, especially those you named, come with a mandate to spread themselves and force others to comply with their standards.
It's kind of like a really selfish kid who would steal all your lunch every day, but he's not strong enough to do so, so instead he's just nice and kind and smiles at you and lets you be. But if he ever gets strong enough, he'll start taking your lunch every single day forever.
The religious people who aren't forcing it down your throat either (1) think someone else is doing it for them so they don't have to, or (2) don't think they could get away with it without being counterproductive to their cause, and are waiting for a more opportune moment.
These are people who believe that they factually know what constitutes objective good. Imagine if raping children was legal and you knew your neighbor was raping children. You might just leave him alone about it because, what can you do? But the moment you have an opportunity to vote for a law to outlaw it, the moment you have a chance to kill him and get away with it, etc. you'll try to act against him. Your polite indifference to him is a lie, because from your perspective he is committing an absolute and unforgivable wrongdoing that MUST be stopped. This is how religious people are to you, except for instead of it being about reasonable things like raping children, it's about stupid bullshit that makes no sense, like the fact you don't pray every day at a certain time, or the fact that you're attracted to the same sex, or the fact that you don't want the ten commandments posted in schools.
The problem is that by its very existence and prevalence you have to contend with religion's bullshit effecting your life.
So honestly you should be against people being religious and try and discourage it. Though yeah its not super helpful to look at individual religious people and hate them openly. That's a good way to just harden them right back against you.
Sure, an organized group can be more efficient, but it is also more visible as a threat.
Prepare for a shower of shit in the comments, as most people here defend religion strenously.
If you voted this in, you should be banned from VPNs.
Your search history should be public record.
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Almost 500 anti-genocide activists arrested as Starmer government moves to ban protests outright
London’s Metropolitan Police arrested another 492 people over the weekend after a protest Saturday in Trafalgar Square, as the Starmer government accelerated its crackdown on opposition to the Gaza genocide.
The entirely peaceful protest was held to oppose the proscription of Palestine Action. It was organised by Defend Our Juries and attended by over 1,000 people. Of the arrests, 488 were for holding up signs declaring, “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action”.
Almost 500 anti-genocide activists arrested as Starmer government moves to ban protests outright
Asked if this was a “dark step” to limit the fundamental right to protest, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood replied that that having a freedom “doesn’t mean you have to use it at every moment of every day”.World Socialist Web Site
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UK is a fascist regime
It's really not.
freedomhouse.org/country/unite…
United Kingdom
See the Freedom in the World 2025 score and learn about democracy and freedom in United Kingdom.Freedom House
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A country actively kidnapping people off the streets, removing due process and habeus corpus, deporting prisoners to random countries, building concentration camps, and deploying troops on the streets has a score of 84/100. Forgive me for not feeling particularly free with my score of 91.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedo…
Having a read of this I think it's fair to say boiling down a nation's "freedom" to a single number is a silly unacademic metric, before even getting into the likelihood of bias and manipulation.
If it looks like a ~~duck~~ fascist, swims like a ~~duck~~ fascist, and quacks like a ~~duck~~ fascist, then it probably is a ~~duck~~ fascist. Regardless of what a likely bias think tank's research may say.
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2024
They weren't declaring all protests illegal then, were they
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They aren't now, either. 2024 was after the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act, too, which was the biggest restriction on the right to protest in a long time and would be more significant than the change being discussed.
It's a bit worrying that people are just taking this incorrect headline from a propaganda rag at face value.
What? Are you saying that all protests have already been declared illegal? Go ahead and cite this declaration you just made up. And also explain the hundreds of thousands of protesters who have not been arrested recently on various causes, from pro-Palestine marches to anti-immigration ones.
If you haven't gone nuts and don't actually believe this thing that isn't happening has already happened, then the arrests of people are irrelevant because they're not part of proposed changes.
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Folks who get really up in their feelings about the Trump/Harris election seem to forget that Harris was taking campaign advice from this guy. It's so easy to forget how absolutely poisoned so-called "Liberal Democracy" has become with a broad strain of fascist tendency.
On the one hand, you've got a guy who is looking to literally lay siege to cities in the US that didn't vote for him. On the opposite side of the pond, they're doing mass-arrests of anyone with a "Please Stop Killing Brown People" bumper sticker. And in the middle, a sea of smug dipshits posting "You got what you voted for".
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Aliens sure seem to visit London all the god damn time in Dr. Who. People write literature about the places and people they know. Why would an American write a book about aliens visiting Berlin?
Also, how long ago do you think 1948 was? Because it wasn't "centuries" ago. And the most prominent American sci-fi authors do not have their stories revolve around the US. The Foundation, Dune, Star Wars, and the Expanse were all written by American authors and only one of them has any characters from the USA
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1948 was before black people were given equal rights in the US, so as far as I am concerned it should have been centuries ago. Stop dick measuring with the previous garbage empire like their shortcomings somehow excuse your own.
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Was it my support of civil rights or my pointing out how silly it is to compare yourself to a condemnable empire as a defense that made you mad?
I would love to discuss German, Indian, and Chinese sci-fi, but none of it seems to be very popular on the international stage so unfortunately we can't discuss it. The guy i responded to complained that American media focuses so much on America, while citing only Star Trek, but that's literally how media is in every country, so i cited British media because that's what i am familiar with as i am a dual citizen of both countries.
And perhaps associating the racist policies living people grew up with as something that happened centuries ago is why we can't make much progress today.
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Nobody's yelling, you are clearly having a minor meltdown.
Another user mentioned the valid point of American media being pretty self fellating when it comes to who is treated as the centre of civilisation, and you spat out your binky and decided to bring the UK into this. He responded that yes, Britain has been doing this for centuries (as empires tended to back before mainstream telecommunication), and you wilfully misunderstood his point, prattled on about doctor who and 1984.
I merely responded that measuring your dick against the British empire is a pretty fucking low bar, because that is what you did. I also reminded you that if you don't think 1948 was long enough ago (as you implied), maybe consider the social changes that have taken place.
You been running in circles answering questions nobody asked and misreading responses; a clear sign that you have gotten emotional and are not equipped to engage in this conversation as a reasonable actor.
The person you originally responded to was correct, you were wrong. Maybe learn from that instead of doubling down and randomly bringing the UK into it. To once again repeat, THIS particular thread is in response to someone correctly observing that American media is pretty self fellating when it comes to who is treated as the centre of civilisation.
Because lets face it, no matter how bad the UK might be, the US is in a far worse position right now. Crying about it and pointing fingers just makes you look petulant. If you can't deal with criticism of your country maybe you should stay out of discussions where it might come up?
I mean... After the USSR fell, the US was the only major player in space for like 25 years, until China finally started to dabble the last few years.
It's not necessarily an ego stroke to extrapolate from that point.
But also, the media is targeted at American viewers. Of course they're going to use familiar cities.
Do you also complain that doctor who, despite being able to travel anywhere in the both the universe AND time, lands in modern day UK so often?
I do find it offensive that every time the Doctor and companions land in the US, everyone is a gun-toting dumbass.
I mean, it's accurate, but still offensive somehow!
What about the other 160 or so democracies? How they doin?
Especially the proportional representation ones. FPTP is just a hint of democracy.
What about the other 160 or so democracies?
I'm not sure where you're getting your numbers, but...
In 2024, just 6.6% of the world population lived in “full democracies”, falling from 12.5% a decade ago. Overall, the vast majority of these countries are in Europe, with notable exceptions—such as Japan, Mauritius, and Costa Rica—across other global regions.
I'm counting far less than 160.
FPTP is just a hint of democracy.
Sure. But then IRV still gave us NYC Eric Adams as mayor of New York. There's more to democracy than the shape of your ballot.
In 2024, just 6.6% of the world population lived in “full democracies”,I'm counting far less than 160.
Sorry I didn't make any claims as to what constitutes a "full" democracy, I was going with these guys who put it at about 167 "democracies".
Sure. But then IRV still gave us
IRV is just FPTP+. Like you say, it isn't an electoral system so much as a ballot system.
We studied it, in Canada, under the name "Alternative Vote". It was the only one we could find that was worse than FPTP:
ourcommons.ca/content/Committe…
There's a reason why politicians keep suggesting it, and it's not for our benefit.
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Sorry I didn’t make any claims as to what constitutes a “full” democracy
I'd settle for what defines "democracy" at all. I've seen folks claim El Salvador is a democracy while Nicaragua isn't, entirely because the government of El Salvador is politically aligned with the US and the Nicaraguans are not.
IRV is just FPTP+
I don't really care what flavor of election system you think is the right one. However you square it, you can have shit candidates win popular mandates. There is no system that'll keep people you don't like out of office, shy of a dictatorship that puts you in charge.
There’s a reason why politicians keep suggesting it
Suggesting it? Thirteen states have now banned ranked-choice voting as municipalities decide on whether to adopt it
I don't really care what flavor of election system you think is the right one.
You're against logic and reason?
However you square it, you can have shit candidates win popular mandates. There is no system that'll keep people you don't like out of office, shy of a dictatorship that puts you in charge.
I'm not interested in a system that will keep people I don't like out of office. I'm interested in a system that represents the will of the people, rather than the will of a select rich and powerful few.
If you're willing to care, you might find one.
Suggesting it? Thirteen states have now banned ranked-choice voting as municipalities decide on whether to adopt it
I don't see the problem here, like I said, it's worse than FPTP.
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how is this fascist apologia not banned on .world?
Man, MAGA sure hates free speech.
Real question:
Im going tongo tin foil haters a bit with the implication:
If you have a faist government why not just bring back the royal family as the leaders?
I get that facism is different than monarchism but many of the key distinctions aren't that significant imo, in that they both lean heavily towards autocracy and both
Aggressively punish dissent.
I don't like the way this is being framed.
People aren't arrested for supporting Palestine.
They are arresting for praising Palestine Action, a UK organization that was banned after breaching into a Royal Airforce military base
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UK military jets damaged by pro-Palestinian group
Palestine Action sprayed red paint on two Airbus Voyager aircraft to “break the chains of oppression” in Gaza — and drew swift condemnation from British politicians.Noah Keate (POLITICO)
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Spraying military aircraft with red paint isn't terrorism by any stretch of the imagination. Who does it terrorize? And supporting an organisation whose members sprayed fighter jets with paint isn't terrorism either. There's no justification for the UK government's use of anti-terrorist legislation against these protesters.
By contrast, supporting a regime that has been openly committing genocide for years and uses torture and murder to intimidate its opponents could well qualify as terrorism.
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In the face and people people told them don't worry, the government is totally not going to abuse these powers.
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When Keir Starmer was a solicitor he defended people, successfully, for the same kind of thing. This isn’t terrorism, this is my government taking away our rights to protest.
People are ignoring their proscription to bring attention to the insanity of it and hope to force the government to back down. It’s mainly old people being arrested; including priests. I would do it myself but it’s hard when you’ve got work and being in jail would hinder that.
For what it’s worth I support Palestine Action.
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Amnesty International, Liberty, and the UN disagree with you.
amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/…
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UK: Banning Palestine Action 'a disturbing legal overreach' by UK Government, Amnesty International UK Chief Executive warns
Amnesty International UK: BANNING PALESTINE ACTION ‘A DISTURBING LEGAL OVERREACH’ BY GOVERNMENTAmnesty International UK
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Happened in Germany in the 1930s
Happened in the 1910s, even. Hence the old quip about Bernie Sanders killing Rosa Luxemburg.
dumbass liberals eventually ended up lined up against the same walls the communists and socialists were lined up against
Or marched out into the snows of Russia to seize more Lebensraum for the imperial core. Or just bombed to death in Dresden or Berlin when the front lines collapsed.
If you’re a liberal today and defending this fascist suppression against Palestine Action: you’re next.
The hard math of living in a fascist state is standing up and getting shot today or ducking and hiding in hopes you won't get shot tomorrow.
Liberals made their bed back in 2009. We're all just living in the aftermath.
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‘Enough is enough’ says chief of police federation as ‘exhausted’ officers arrest 492 at Palestine Action protest
Met Police said many of those arrested needed carrying away after they refused to walk from Trafalgar Square – but Amnesty International says arresting hundreds of people at the demonstration is ‘not the job of police’Archie Mitchell (The Independent)
Not OP but I found this on wiki:
The WSWS described the 2014 Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine as a coup backed by the United States and Germany in which the Ukrainian far-right coalition of organizations Right Sector and political party Svoboda would have played a "crucial role".[13] Furthermore, the WSWS criticized the coverage of the Russo-Ukrainian War in 2014 by the majority of German media outlets, describing it was one-sided and "anti-Russian propaganda". Thus, leading outlets such as Der Spiegel and Die Zeit would have been clamouring for military action against Russia and attacking the President of Russia Vladimir Putin, "who is portrayed as a new Hitler and an aggressor".[14]About the shootdown of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in 2014, the WSWS stated that "Washington has presented not one shred of evidence that Flight MH17 was brought down by a missile either fired by the anti-Kiev forces or supplied by Moscow". Regarding the assassination of Boris Nemtsov in 2015, David North wrote for the WSWS that he was wondering if the United States was planning a coup to replace Putin with a "Western-friendly oligarch".[15] On February 22, 2022 the WSWS issued a statement opposing Putin's invasion of Ukraine, calling for the unity of Russian and Ukrainian workers against both Putin and NATO.[16]
Is it so hard to find a socialist organisation that isn't just simple contrarians?
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I guess they at least oppose the (2022) Russian invasion of Ukraine so they’re not completely bonkers. Not Chinese propaganda level, but still disappointing.
They frequently portray Ukraine as an aggressor in its war, rather than Russia (they call the Kursk incursion of Ukraine the "imperialist-backed incursion of Russia", and they write that Taiwan's ruling party DPP "must renounce its confrontational approach to China" in an obvious disconnection from reality that Russia started the war in Ukraine, and China is becoming increasingly aggressive against Taiwan including threats of an military invasion - Source, but you'll find ample evidence that this site is conveying authoritarian talking points in practically all its reports, and barely properly citing a source for their claims).
This is outright Chinese propaganda.
The socialist response to China’s being labelled “a foreign hostile force” by Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te
How did the DPP rise as “the opposition” in the late 1980s? What role did the KMT and US imperialism play in this development? What do social democrats and Stalinists mean when they say “peace”?World Socialist Web Site
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90% chance the mossad has a bunch of videos of Starmer and his cabinet diddling kids, or engaging in animality with pigs, whatever is the depravity du jour was in his heyday.
Meanwhile the nazis march against london with Stephen Yaxley-Lennon at the helm. 0 actual enforcement.
The funniest part is Yaxley-Lennon was invited by an israeli minister to visit Israel...
Can you imagine travelling back to 1943 and telling people in the camps that their sacrifice would be the fertilizer of a new wave of the same ideological poison that deprived them of dignity and life. This is just heartbreaking... What's even the point of resisting anymore?
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Resisting tyranny is how everything good in the world is possible. The way to have lives worth living is to defeat tyrants and their ideologies. We defeated the Nazis but not fascism. Now we have to defeat the ideological descendants of the Nazis.
If we don't defeat fascism, neoliberalism, and capitalism now the turn around time for the next fascist movement will be measured in years not decades. We have seen as much with the Biden administration. They failed to meaningfully hold Trump and MAGA to account for the insurrection or fundamentally fix the underling systemic issues that they are symptoms of and now we are living under fascist rule.
We don't have dignified lives or liberal democracies to go back to. The way to get something better is with socialist democracies where workers own corporations and the political process. Until then it's liberty or death. We benefited from a free democracy. If anyone is to enjoy that again we must resist now and until we are all free.
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That's a funny looking labour government you got there UK.
How did you guys go from Corbyn to this? Is it so hard to have a labour party leader that doesn't back Israel or Russia?
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This almost always fails and only ends up moving the country average to right and make extreme right seem more mild.
Also I don't think right wing voters have that strong an opinion on Israel. This is more likely zionist lobbies pulling some of Starmer's strings.
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It's so depressing. I remember the election that Ed Miliband lost, and how many of us were unsurprised that people found no appeal in Tory-lite as opposed to the regular Tories; Labour implicitly conceded to the Tories by affirming the idea that austerity was the only way to go. Now the same is happening with Reform.
If Labour really wanted to challenge Reform, they'd challenge Reform's base assumptions. They'd argue, for example, that reducing immigration won't solve the housing crisis or NHS wait times, because those essential services are suffering from over a decade of chronic underinvestment. They don't need to fight on Reform's terms, because if they do, Labour will lose — again.
A campaign by Israeli-backed British Jewish groups of anti-semitism slanders against Corbyn (so extreme that at one point a Jewish Holocaust Survivor was deemed an anti-semite to get at Corbyn by association) toppled him down from Labour Party leadership, to be replaced by these types, who as soon as they got control of the Labour Party started purging it of people who had voiced Leftwing ideas and support for Corbyn.
Essentially Labour was emptied from the inside and its shell was filled with supporters of a foreign ethno-Fascist regime.
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This is a big part one party system of governments tend to fail.
Also indicative of how multi party systems
Can fail apparently.
Power Duopolies, such as those found in countries with First Past The Post systems, suffer from similar problems as the Power Monopolies in one party systems, such as how there is a path to power which is entirelly unaccountable to voters, of just taking over one of the Power Duopoly parties from the inside and then let the normal back-and-forth of the duopoly system - since people only ever have 2 options, naturaly the power goes back an forth as people vote for the "lesser" evil that then turns into the "greater" evil so they vote for the other "lesser" evil - bring that party back to power.
Funilly enough, in the UK that seems to have been done to both of the Power Duopoly parties, first to the Tories during the Leave Referendum and after that to the Labour Party when Israel joined with the Liberals (and I don't mean the LibDem Party, I mean Blairites) and even the Tories to overthrow Corbyn (who was openly a defender of the rights of Palestinians) and replaced him with the Liberals who then proceeded to make sure there was nobody left-of-center in that party.
If you look at the US, you see the very same phenomenon transforming the Republicans from a Conservative Party to a Fascist one, as well as how the Democrats have be thoroughly taken over by those serving the interests of Israel and of Billionaires.
I think that the less rigged a country's voting system is for "stability" (read: for making sure only the same handful of big parties has power and they seldom have to do it as part of a cohalition) the more robust it is to this kind of taking over of a large party as an unaccountable way to get power, mainly because more parties have to be taken over and people will migrate more easilly way from a party when it stops representing them (there is no such thing as tactically voting for the "lesser" evil in a Proportional Vote system).
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Great points.
My comment wasn't in reference to FTPT specifically, though I suppose the UK uses FPTP in voting for party leadership?
And im guessing this doesn't happen so much in other countries that don't use FPTP?
In my own experience, if all the voting systems rigged to benefit size, there is a broader phenomenon of larger parties existing which which are usually in power (though often in cohalitions) and which attract the kind of people with no scruples who go into politics to become wealthy from selling access to power (i.e. the corrupt).
However in the two other countries I lived in beyond the UK, one of which had Proportional Vote and the other Multi-representative Electoral Circles (so, not as bad as FPTP, but still Mathematically rigged), I have not seen a case of the larger parties being obviously taken over as means to get to power like I saw in the UK, though I've seen smaller parties being created and/or supported by foreign money and then eating up some of the vote of the large parties.
Certainly were I am now - Portugal, which has Multi-representative Electoral Circles - of the two new Far-Right parties which were created not that long ago, one of which for sure got money from the Fascists in Brasil and the other also likely had funding from abroad (the campaign phamplets and other materials in their very first elections were both far too expensive for a small party and using the kind of design and slogan style one finds in International Marketing campaigns in huge contrast with other small parties), probably American (they're an ultra-neoliberal party created a couple of years after Steven Bannon came to Europe with money he openly said was to fund far-right parties), though there I don't know for certain. Both of those parties are taking votes away from the large rightwing party but also partialy from all the way into the leftwing (the more Fascist of the two is even picking traditional working class votes that used to go into a Communist Party)
Every party HS a different system. The conservatives have their MPs select two candidates in multiple rounds of voting to put in front of all their members.
Labour has a system where a candidate needs to have a minimum support from their MPs too but it's still an election from labour members and supporters. They rank their candidates I believe
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I'm sure the people of India who starved think the British Empire was great.
I'm sure the Irish really think the British Empire was great.
I'm sure most of Asia and Africa think the British Empire was great.
I'm sure the indigenous people of any land the British Empire conquered think the British Empire was great.
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Not rioting is better. Peaceful protest, and thousands getting locked up, is what creates the conditions that might enable real social change.
If that doesn't work, then you have a proper riot (i.e. of the kind that isn't bread and butter to the powers that be).
Edit - lot of downvotes here. You need to read a bit of revolutionary theory. No doubt there are Americans downvoting, who of course don't have a leg to stand on based on what they did with their exhorbitant ly privileged society./ YOu are showing your ignorance.
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Neither at the cost of the other?
It's a silly question.
Peace — not to be confused with passivity.
In a culture of peace, true justice could emerge; it would manifest as support of those who experience violence and rehabilitation of those that feel they need to turn to violence to get their way.
Justice and peace are usually not framed as concepts that exist in a vacuum which one chooses between, but rather as interdependent concepts.
I believe that when we choose violence and retribution over nonviolence and rehabilitation/restoration, our manifestation of justice reflects that.
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MLK didn’t reject peace – he rejected complacency and false order. My belief in restorative justice and nonviolence is directly aligned with his legacy, not in opposition to it.
A culture of peace is proactive, inclusive, and cooperative. I am not the white moderate he spoke of.
Edit: Just still blown back from the notion that I'm somehow a white moderate for advocating for the same peaceful nonviolent action MLK was. Hit the books friend - you're wrong and here are direct quotes to clarify the situation for those reading:
“And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear? ... It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice and humanity.”
I'm not concerned about tranquility and the status quo. I agree with MLK that a riot is the language of the unheard. Just like him I still advocate for nonviolent action, while not disowning anyone - especially the unheard.
First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"
I'm not saying the latter statement, not even a little bit - not ever. I am an advocate of direct, nonviolent action and positive peace, as opposed to the negative peace MLK criticized. I'm not attached to false order and I value justice over it. I am deeply concerned about justice and humanity and I don't advocate for moderate and ineffectual action that doesn't affect the status quo.
Just because I chose peace and advocated for a culture of peace, doesn't mean I'm ignoring the role of true justice creating true peace. There's a lot of nuance here and the question was a trap to begin with. If I could go back in time, I would've answered peace and justice and just left it at that.
I disagree. We're past the point where peaceful protests will create change. It's abundantly obviously that those in charge do not care. And they also got it in their heads that AI makes us less necessary.
If leaders and executives won't listen to reason, then it's time to instil fear into them. Remind them there are so many more of us than them, and that their positions are a service to us, not a privilege or an entitlement.
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You can, but the rest of the mob won't.
Angry rioters do fucked up shit. Watch LA 92. All that violence and anger turned in on itself, attacked the most vulnerable, weasled into racial divisions.
With a more organised direction for that energy, the city could have been paralyzed, rotten cops and the judges could have been run out of LA and real systemic change could have begun.
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exactly.
but everybody got ~~their rocks off~~ catharsis and the feeling was expressed - even though the reason for the feeling was never addressed.
doubt
I mean sure you can use the chaos to try and get cover for something specific. But generally, people rioting are on-tilt and looking for easy targets that look like their oppressors. Then, everybody gets catharsis and the riot disappears.
It's just lazy. but, better than nothing, i guess.
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I agree.
Although in the UK there was some old graffiti that said 'a nation of sheep, owned by wolves'.
I would say it is more 'a nation of sheep, governed by wolves, owned by pigs. We've all heard of wolves in sheep's clothing, well we have a lot of pigs in sheep's clothing. And the wolves and the pigs interbreed freely, so we have all manner of porcine lupine combinations.'
Not quite as snappy my variation though.
No doubt there are Americans downvoting
Not an american, you are still being silly. Also you sound american with all that rollover attitude to authority. They are outlawing peaceful protesting, the solution is not to keep doing the same thing but with more smugness.
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Peaceful protests are most effective when they're backed by the threat of violence. It's not the keg that forces concessions, it's the fear of the powder within. The cops have no issue beating up defenseless victims in the name of "order". Only when they're at risk themselves do they think twice.
For that, the protests need to be large enough that escalation becomes an actual concern. Pre-gunpowder armies stacked their infantry deep, because more people behind you makes you bolder in face of the enemy before you. The larger the crowd, the more dangerous the potential rioters become.
Premature escalation might get the bold vanguard beaten and made examples of. Only when there's enough support to keep the momentum going can riots effectively serve as an "or else" to the peaceful demands.
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1) Isn't this fucking idiot a human rights lawyer? People have a right to protest
2) This is why I fucking left. Oh yeah, the tories are a shitshow. Oh look, their replacements are barely better.
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Of the arrests, 488 were for holding up signs declaring, “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action”.
what the fuck?
I can't decide what's more depressing.
A) The subject of the linked article, or
B) The fact that an article on World Socialist Web Site is linking to posts by Amnesty UK and Defend our Juries (three organizations that should all know better by now) on Xitter.
Jesus
At an absolute bare minimum, the last two should be cross posting everything to Mastodon, and the first should be linking to the Mastodon accounts whenever available.
Oh, look! Amnesty UK has a Mastodon account that they're not fucking using, apparently never have.
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Apple and Samsung users in UK may be due share of £480m payout - BBC News
Apple and Samsung users in UK may be due share of £480m payout
Consumer group Which? is taking tech giant Qualcomm to the Competition Appeal Tribunal in London on Monday.Zoe Kleinman (BBC News)
Test Batch Setup with Wet Hops
My test batch setup is nearly complete (please also appreciate the "beautiful" tiles) and I tested it with a wet hop beer. As you can see, those were clearly at the upper end of their ripeness scale, but it was the only time I could manage to pick some at all due family & kids.
In they went in for a ~20 minutes 80 ˚C hop stand, during which my kitchen smelled a troubling lot of garlic and onions. By removing the bag with the hops, I stirred up the already settled trub, so I had to pour all hop debris & hot break into the minikeg along with the wort. Let's see what that does to the beer. I've overshot my OG quite a bit with the setup in the pictures, with a lot higher efficiency than predicted, only by stirring every now and then, so we're looking at an OG of 1.051 instead of 1.046.
Yesterday, after a week of fermentation under rising pressure, it was time for a gravity sample. It's fully attenuated already, and except a hint of some sharpness, I'm happy to report that we're apparently free of off-flavours. 😀 It came down do 1.008 (vs 1.010 predicted) , which leaves me with a 5.6 % ABV beer instead of 4.2 % with a lot less residual sweetness (US-05, you monster). Next time, I'll certainly mash hotter, and check the temperature with an external thermometer as well. I also wonder what a Kveik yeast would do to the result.
Here is the base recipe I intend to use for ongoing experiments with malts, yeasts & hops.
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Those beautoful cones! I wish I got some, but my vines did not flower this year at all.
Is that sous videt device? How simple is it to clean actually?
Totally forgot got mention it: These are actually wild hops! Foraged next to a rural road with not zero, but little traffic.
And yes, it's a sous vide stick. The one by Inkbird, which I got relatively cheaply. It sits in a hop tube so no grains can get into it.
After use, I instantly rinse it, then put it in a jar with clean water and let it sit there until I'm cleaning up everything. Then, I rinse it again. As it doesn't have to be sterile, I'm fine with this regime for the time being.
Formation juridique avancée
Parce qu'il n'y a rien de plus fun que du jargon juridique, on vous propose une formation juridique avancée ? Ca sera le 16 octobre dans le 19ème arrondissement de Paris, de 19h à 20h30
Mais pourquoi "avancée" ? Parce qu'il s'agit d'une formation pour celleux qui souhaitent approfondir les sujets liés aux procédures judiciaires, nous n'allons pas réaborder pendant la formation les points déjà traités en formation DCNV (Garde à vue, contrôle d'identité...)
Verizon Announces CEO Transition
Verizon Announces CEO Transition
Verizon Communications Inc. today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Independent Lead Director and former Chief Executive Officer of PayPal Holdings Inc. Dan Schulman as CEO.www.verizon.com
ICE Targets Unaccompanied Immigrant Children, Offering $2,500 Payment for Deportation
ICE Targets Unaccompanied Immigrant Children, Offering $2,500 Payment for Deportation
ICE confirmed its plan to pay unaccompanied immigrant children in exchange for their agreement to be deported.Jonah Valdez (The Intercept)
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There is a sliding scale between security and convenience, and SimpleX falls on the incredibly secure side of that equation.
By doing it the way they have, they have made sure that nobody can impersonate you, except under duress.
Been using it to communicate with a coupla friends and my boyfriend.
Its easy to get people on-boarded and it seems to have the important features. What's the issue?
I use it and yes, it is quite noticeably better.
Connecting to somebody new with a new pseudonym is completely possible by just tapping one switch in the share screen.
Plus, you don't need a phone number which does generally require at least some personally identifiable information to obtain
Do be aware though, your database is an incredibly important file. If you lose your database or lose the password to your database, you are completely screwed just as if you lost cryptocurrency. Those accounts are burned forever because you will never have the keys to generate those accounts again.
Someone I volunteer with sent me a Google Doc and I told them I couldn't see it without a Google account and they just couldn't wrap their head around why I did not have and would not be getting one. I gave them several alternatives where they could upload the document to share and they simply refused.
I also volunteered with another program with the local school district/city and they required to use Google Groups for communications. I sent them a list of 8+ alternatives but they just tried to guilt me into using Google instead.
It's a sad corpo world we lived in.
I played with it briefly. It looks like a good choice for a situation where security is paramount and the people involved are reasonably motivated. I don't have those needs, and nobody I know has asked to connect with me using it.
Signal, on the other hand is a familiar experience for most people with no new concepts to learn, and popular enough that I think most people will find a number of contacts already using it.
I don't know that it is "tangibly better for privacy". Not saying it isn't, just that I don't know. It's definitely better for anonymity/pseudonymity. The main benefits, in my opinion, are:
- No phone number needed for sign-up. Signal wants people to be able to easily find who is available to message on Signal, and they're leveraging the phone numbers in your personal contacts to build a private "social graph". This is actually really nice, but also can be a huge hurdle for a variety of reasons I won't go into, none of which are privacy, as others have repeatedly alleged, because there is nothing connected to your phone number, as Signal has demonstrated in their public subpoena responses.
- SimpleX let's you have multiple profiles. For example, a work profile, a personal profile, a public/social profile, and an anonymous/pseudonymous profile. They also support business profiles. This is, in my opinion, a huge problem for Signal. Sometimes Signal is used to do things like organize protests. If that group is public, anyone can join and see exactly who you are, and you're essentially doxing yourself in that group. Really not ideal. In the case of something like Session, I can use Shelter to create a work profile and install a redundant copy of the app for another profile, but due to #1, this is not possible.
I also see orgs like EFF and 404 Media using Signal as a comms method. You can't message them either without doxxing yourself, unless you just erase/pseudonymize your profile, which would then just completely confuse your actual friends and family.
- No one can message you that you have not invited to message you. Due to #1 (again) people can and do use Signal to send spam/scam messages. Now they could do so just using SMS, but my personal SMS app has spam filters, Signal does not.
If you want to create a public invitation, you can do so, and share it wherever you want. I share mine on my personal Linkstack site. If, in some hypothetical future, spammers/scammers start scraping the web for invitations, and that invitation gets collected and sold/shared, I can simply rotate it out with a new invitation, but, importantly, without losing any of the connections to people I've already messaged. You can do similar with Signal usernames, but only for the 1 profile, and you cannot stop people from messaging with your #. You can also set it in a group to disallow private messages to other members, which is a huge problem in places like Discord and Matrix.
This doesn't really matter so much today, as certainly the # of users are so small as to be a waste of time for any spammers, but it matters so much on a fundamental level, in a hypothetical future where it becomes widely adopted.
You can also create 1-time invitations so that you can be 100% sure that the person messaging you is the person you invited, as opposed to Signal's "safety number" approach.
- They don't use Google/Apple notifications. This is both a pro and con. Ideally they would just support UnifiedPush but instead they run their own notification server. This hits your battery life, as well as causes problems with notifications. I often open the app and just watch it update messages for several seconds and then get a wave of notifications, but I also don't utilize the "always on" notification service. The fact that Signal just uses Google/Apple is appalling but you can get around it using the FOSS Molly app. To reiterate, there is no way to receive notifications in the Signal mobile app without going through Google/Apple's servers. It really chaps my ass to see supposed "private" apps that make no option available to circumvent the servers of tech oligopolies. I understand very few people would utilize this but I still think it's extremely important, and the fact that Molly devs actually provide this shows that it's entirely feasible. Google FCM notifications is the only remaining reason I absolutely need Google Play Services installed on my device, and it frustrates me to no end.
Only things going for it is that it’s open source and auditable.
It’s venture capitalist funding is a hard no from me though. Same reason I stuck with mastodon vs Bluesky.
And it has been audited by an independent auditor. And it doesn't have user ID's. And you can have multiple accounts with no effort. And you can selfhost your own servers. And it's actively developed. And it's available on all major platforms. And the list of pros goes on.
I have to contend that the founders views don't align with my own (or with most people on lemmy). But that aside (freedom of speech), I wouldn't dismiss them simply because "VC bad". If you want a different perspective, read this.
I use it, although not with people who are new to encrypted messaging or who I really need to keep contact with.
SimpleX has great features for the separation of pseudonyms, which is part of why I think it's the best concept for an encrypted messaging app so far. But it's not only for-profit, but funded by venture capital. I don't think it's going to last for the long term, and if it does, it'll probably experience a similar enshitification that other services have. Supposedly they're going to profit by allowing businesses to pay for their service, but I doubt that they'll actually make much money from that.
Conceptually, it's a messaging app done right. Not haunted by legacy identifiers like phone numbers, can be run in a decentralized manner, and a more secure invite system.
In practice, it tends to burn through battery, and it's already hard enough getting people to use Signal. People also seem to have a hard time grasping the concepts of invites, or anything that's not a phone number for that matter.
I've stopped using it due to the battery issue and I don't want to fragment my communication strategy further. It ought to have a privacy advantage by virtue of not needing a phone number, but at the end of the day, my messages are also getting swept up on the other end by non-privacy-respecting phones.
Nutomic has said some problematic shit, and is one of the devs of lemmy/admin on lemmy.ml.
This isn't anti-commie nonsense, dudes transphobic.
We had a small group (under 50 people) that used it daily for several months as our primary means of communication after moving from Matrix. I think the privacy/anonymity features are sound, and the creator/lead dev seemed to be making the removal and prevention of CSAM on the platform a priority which is great.
We always had problems though. Users on iOS and Windows had regular problems with the chat losing track of where it was, images not loading, images getting stuck as your "last read" position, etc. Users on all platforms including Linux and Android would randomly lose the ability to see messages from others in rooms, fail to receive notifications, or upload images that only they could see. There's also a fair bit of feature disparity across platforms. While we were using it iOS lacked the ability to mark all messages in a room as read, meaning some people were stuck scrolling slowly through hundreds of messages a day or living with unread message counts in the thousands.
We ended up moving to XMPP. Maybe in the future when the platform is more evenly developed we'll give it another shot, but for now XMPP is working better for everyone across multiple platforms.
Gajim on PC (Linux) and Monocles on mobile (Android) are my favorites. Gajim is available on every desktop platform you mentioned. Monocles is a fork of conversations.im.
I don't actually have a recommendation for iOS as I don't use it. I know at least one person in our usual group does though, so I'm assuming there's a client on that side that doesn't suck?
Thanks for the recommendation!
I'm trying to move a friend groupchat away from discord and there are users on all those platforms.
Are you hosting your own server? How's it working with multi devices one one account (phone and desktop usually)? I've experimented with prosody a bit and it seemed like only one machine was able to receive message at one time, so the phone and computer quickly got out of sync.
Sorry for asking too many questions, it's hard to find these things easily.
Neat idea, but in practice, it's only practical for a single small-ish group of motivated, technical users who wish to communicate internally to the group. When you luck out with such a situation, there are many options out there to choose from, including running a private chat server somewhere running something like XMPP, possibly over tor. It's well-trodden ground.
Signal has a completely different use case than the above. You can get a lot of regular people to switch from SMS or imessage to a Signal chat without too much cajoling, and sometimes just discover that contacts are already on it so you can start with that.
Why? This way it doesn't give you false expectations of privacy.
Of course it doesn't prevent the other side from running a modded client that doesn't delete, but at least it's obvious that disappearing messages are something that requires both sides to be on board
It is better. First of all you don't have to connect your phone number or an email.
this is an automatic victory
Its on a torified network.
It's encrypted
And if you choose basically every chat is a burner account. So once deleted it's gone.
I've noticed that signal is actually NOT secure at all and may actually be a gov project
I use it, and its pretty decent. Looks good and works.
Pros:
-No user ID needed.
-Can self host the server that passes on your messages.
-Has the option to use Flux.
-Works out of the box.
Cons:
-Battery drain is a thing. Either toggle the periodic check, or turn it off and open it yourself to check messages.
-Using one account accross multiple devices can be a pain. Since u can't keep using your phone account at the same time as it is connected to your pc. Can be circumvented by having mutiple accounts in the same group chat; but yea it's a pain the ass.
Neutral:
-Convincing people to use it hahahh. But this is a universal probem vs mainstream messenger apps.
Final verdict: 4/5.
Very good if privacy and anonymity is your number 1 priority. It's less of hassle to set up than some other options, and relatively easy to get people into it. Sent invite, they download the app, make profile and are good to go.
Batterydrain and same use account across multiple devices could and should be better for mainstream adoption. On the other hand if u toggle the periodic checks then I find the drain tolerable. And how many of us are in places that don't have a wallsocket available to charge your phone 😛
DHS agents retreat as Chicago cops refuse to shield them from swarming protesters
DHS agents retreat as Chicago cops refuse to shield them from swarming protesters
Department of Homeland Security agents were seen abandoning one attempt to arrest a man in Chicago over the weekend after being outnumbered by protesters.David Edwards (Raw Story)
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Judge blocks Trump’s bid to deploy national guard to Oregon
a federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deploying any national guard units to Oregon a few hours after the California governor, Gavin Newsom, announced he would sue the president over the planned deployment of his state’s troops.
Both states sought the temporary restraining order after the president sent guard members from California to Oregon earlier in the day. On Saturday, the same judge temporarily blocked the administration from deploying Oregon’s national guard troops to Portland.
The ruling by US District Judge Karin Immergut said there was no evidence that recent protests necessitated the presence of national guard troops, no matter where they came from.
Judge blocks Trump’s bid to deploy national guard to Oregon – US politics live
Ruling by US District Judge Karin Immergut blocks any deployment to Portland for two weeks as legal wrangling continuesTom Ambrose (The Guardian)
Yup. I'm using piefed on the voyager app and I have the votes displayed separately right now. But you have to enable that option in settings as the default is "total" not "separately".
I use the web version of the voyager app but they have the actual app in most app stores.
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