Next-gen MRAM breakthrough can flip bits at SRAM-rivalling speeds with low power consumption — researchers claim true next-gen breakthrough using Tungsten layer
Next-gen MRAM breakthrough can flip bits at SRAM-rivalling speeds with low power consumption — researchers claim true next-gen breakthrough using Tungsten layer
Technology is compatible with existing semiconductor manufacturing methods.Mark Tyson (Tom's Hardware)
Ukraine could cease to exist – Lukashenko
Ukraine could cease to exist – Lukashenko
Vladimir Zelensky must be urgently pressured to engage in peace talks with Moscow, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has saidRT
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All living Israeli captives and hundreds of Palestinians released; Trump addresses Knesset
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37487709
Dozens of bodies continue to be recovered every day in Gaza since the ceasefire went into effect on Friday, including 60 bodies in the past 24 hours. Roughly 500,000 Palestinians return to northern Gaza amid widespread destruction. Hundreds of Palestinian captives freed from Israeli detention arrive in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, or are exiled to Egypt as part of the ceasefire deal. Hamas releases all 20 remaining living Israeli captives. In the wake of Israel’s partial withdrawal, armed Palestinian groups accused of collaborating with Israel clash with security forces and resistance fighters in Gaza City. President Donald Trump addresses the Israeli Knesset to standing ovations then heads to Egypt for “Peace Summit” with world leaders. The American government shutdown entered its third week, leaving 750,000 workers furloughed and essential services paused. New lawsuit alleges postal worker Kingsley Fifi Bimpong died under police neglect in a Minnesota jail. Fighting on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border intensifies after Pakistani strikes putatively targeting Tehreek-e-Taliban fighters inside Afghanistan. An RSF strike in Sudan’s El-Fasher kills at least 60.
How the United States is eating Trump's tariffs
U.S. companies and consumers are bearing the brunt of the country's new import tariffs, early indications show, contradicting assertions by President Donald Trump and complicating the Federal Reserve's fight against inflation.
Cavallo and researchers Paola Llamas and Franco Vasquez have been tracking the price of 359,148 goods, from carpets to coffee, at major online and brick-and-mortar retailers in the United States.
They found that imported goods have become 4% more expensive since Trump started imposing tariffs in early March, while the price of domestic products rose by 2%.
The biggest increases for imports were seen in goods that the United States cannot produce domestically, such as coffee, or that come from highly penalised countries, like Turkey.
These price hikes, while material, have been generally far smaller than the tariff rate on the products in question - implying that sellers were absorbing some of the cost as well.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/how-united-states-is-eating-trumps-tariffs-2025-10-13/
Prosecutors convening grand jury in Hope Florida investigation of Medicaid funds diverted to Desantis' campaign
Prosecutors in Tallahassee are convening a grand jury relating to the Hope Florida Foundation, reinvigorating a scandal that has engulfed the charity spearheaded by Casey DeSantis, the governor’s wife.
The investigation began after revelations, first reported by the Herald/Times, that the DeSantis administration directed $10 million from a legal settlement with the Medicaid contractor Centene through the foundation for political purposes.
Nearly all of the money ended up in a political committee controlled by DeSantis’ chief of staff, James Uthmeier. The committee’s purpose was to defeat last year’s recreational marijuana amendment. DeSantis later named Uthmeier as Florida’s attorney general.
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Datacenter water use? California governor says don't ask, don't tell
Datacenter water use? California governor says don't ask, don't tell
: Bid for transparency on consumption evaporates with Newsom vetoDan Robinson (The Register)
Department of Health and Human Services rescinds more than half of the 1,300 termination notices it sent, reports say
On Friday, the White House budget office announced that as a result of the ongoing government shutdown, reductions in force (RIFs) across agencies have begun.
However, over the weekend, the administration rescinded more than half of the 1,300 termination notices it sent to public health officials at the CDC, according to Axios and Reuters, citing sources familiar. Around 600 people at the agency remain fired.
On Saturday, the New York Times reported that members of the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS), informally known as “disease detectives”, as well as the team that compiles the widely respected scientific journal, the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, were among the employees reinstated.
Firings of hundreds of CDC employees reportedly reversed
Department of Health and Human Services rescinds more than half of the 1,300 termination notices it sent, reports sayShrai Popat (The Guardian)
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Released Palestinian abductees receive a rapturous welcome upon arriving in Gaza.
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Live Scandal! Video of the moment Israeli Knesset member Ofer Cassif was expelled after raising a sign reading “Recognize Palestine” during Trump’s speech.
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5 things to know about the health care fight behind the shutdown
- The public supports the subsidies
- The issue is urgent since open enrollment starts soon
- Premiums are set to shoot up next year
- Most enrollees live in states that Trump won
- Is stupid, I'm not putting it up.
Harvard investigating breach linked to Oracle zero-day exploit
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That's a bit unfair. It's a very good DBMS.
Except now they are using such things in roles they are unfit for, from the beginning.
And it's not such a good DBMS for that to weigh more than everything else.
Eh, Postgres seems to be the standard these days.
Not sure why anyone would go with anything else for a new project.
Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Get Funding Back Despite Trump’s Anti-DEI Campaign- Funds are being rerouted by Republicans
Following public outcry, the U.S. Department of Education has restored funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, about a month after cutting it.
But rather than sending the money directly to the four programs that are part of a national network helping students who are deaf and blind, a condition known as deafblindness, the department has instead rerouted the grants to a different organization that will provide funding for those vulnerable students.
Grants to the four agencies total about $1 million a year. The department started funding state-level programs to help deafblind students more than 40 years ago in response to the rubella epidemic in the late 1960s. Nationally, there are about 10,000 children and young adults, from infants to 21-year-olds, who are deafblind and more than 1,000 in the eight affected states, according to the National Center on Deafblindness.
While the population is small, it is among the most complex to serve; educators rely on the deafblindness programs for support and training.
Education Dept. Reverses Decision to Halt Funds for Deafblind Student Programs
Following public outcry, the Department of Education has reversed its decision to cut funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, opting instead to reroute grants to an organization that will provide funding to these students.ProPublica
OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT
OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT
OpenAI releases results of ChatGPT’s ability to stay objective when prompted with political and cultural hot topics.Elissa Welle (The Verge)
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Zoom Into the Sun
Fall into our nearest star in this gorgeous high-resolution view of the Sun. Taken by Solar Orbiter, a joint NASA-ESA mission, the image stretches from the fiery photosphere — full of filaments and prominences — to the wispy yet unbelievably hot corona. It’s well worth clicking through to zoom in and around the full size image. (Image credit: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team, E. Kraaikamp; via Gizmodo)
#coronalMassEjection #fluidDynamics #magnetohydrodynamics #physics #plasma #science #solarDynamics #sun
This Is the Highest-Resolution Portrait of the Sun We’ve Ever Seen
Solar Orbiter pieced together 200 ultraviolet images to show our star’s million-degree atmosphere in all its glory.Isaac Schultz (Gizmodo)
We're all going to be paying AI's Godzilla-sized power bills
We're all going to be paying AI's Godzilla-sized power bills
Opinion: Even if you never use it, you'll be paying for it thanks to datacenters' never-ending hunger for electricitySteven J. Vaughan-Nichols (The Register)
MTV spegne i canali musicali in Europa: è davvero la fine di un’era?
“I want my MTV” è stato il grido di una generazione. Quarant’anni dopo, MTV archivia un altro capitolo della propria storia: entro il 31 dicembre 2025 verranno spenti in UK i canali tematici MTV Music, MTV 80s, MTV 90s, Club MTV e MTV Live; resterà in onda solo il flagship MTV a programmazione d’intrattenimento. La stessa strategia tocca altri Paesi europei (con ulteriori chiusure nell’Europa centrale e nel Benelux), in linea con un consumo dei video musicali ormai migrato su YouTube, Instagram e TikTok. In Italia, invece, al momento sopravvivono sia MTV (intrattenimento) sia MTV Music su Sky/NOW, un lascito che tiene accesa la fiammella della “Music Television” per gli abbonati.
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MTV chiude i canali musicali in Europa entro il 31 dicembre 2025
MTV spegne MTV Music, 80s, 90s, Club MTV e MTV Live in UK entro 31/12/2025. È la fine di un’era? Ecco cosa cambia in Europa e cosa resta.Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)
Software update bricks some Jeep 4xe hybrids over the weekend
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Software update bricks some Jeep 4xe hybrids over the weekend
Jeep has pulled the update; owners are advised to ignore it if it already downloaded.Jonathan M. Gitlin (Ars Technica)
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Again, WHY in the actual FUCK does a car need software updates?
Apart from maybe a stereo software? Infotainment? Make a good powertrain and leave it alone. Absolute insanity.
Esce una guida che è una bussola per abitare il mistero dei Nativi Americani
Il libro dialoga con il lavoro pluriennale dell’autrice e si affianca idealmente ad una sua opera di riferimento, “Nativi Americani. Guida alle Tribù e Riserve Indiane degli Stati Uniti”, tracciando un dittico complementare: da una parte la mappa dei popoli e dei territori, dall’altra il cuore simbolico dei miti e delle pratiche spirituali. Ne scaturisce un percorso che non folklorizza né semplifica, ma accompagna con precisione e rispetto studiosi, docenti, studenti, operatori culturali e lettori curiosi e appassionati.
Questo titolo si inserisce nella vasta collana che Mauna Kea Edizioni dedica da anni alla cultura nativa, un progetto editoriale che preferisce la cura alla fretta e la responsabilità all’effimero. Non un marchio che “presenta”, ma una casa editrice che continua a farsi tramite: scegliere i testi, ascoltare le comunità, offrire strumenti affidabili e accessibili, sostenere la lunga opera di divulgazione che Raffaella Milandri – insieme ad altri autori come Francesco Spagna e il poeta Lance Henson - porta avanti con molte pubblicazioni e con un impegno coerente sui diritti umani e sulla decolonizzazione dello sguardo.
Il volume è disponibile da ottobre 2025 con distribuzione nazionale in libreria e online.
Esce una guida che è una bussola per abitare il mistero dei Nativi Americani
Il libro dialoga con il lavoro pluriennale dell’autrice e si affianca idealmente ad una sua opera di riferimento, “Nativi Americani. Guida alle Tribù e Riserve Indiane degli Stati Uniti”, tracciando un dittico complementare: da una parte la mappa dei popoli e dei territori, dall’altra il cuore simbolico dei miti e delle pratiche spirituali. Ne scaturisce un percorso che non folklorizza né semplifica, ma accompagna con precisione e rispetto studiosi, docenti, studenti, operatori culturali e lettori curiosi e appassionati.
Questo titolo si inserisce nella vasta collana che Mauna Kea Edizioni dedica da anni alla cultura nativa, un progetto editoriale che preferisce la cura alla fretta e la responsabilità all’effimero. Non un marchio che “presenta”, ma una casa editrice che continua a farsi tramite: scegliere i testi, ascoltare le comunità, offrire strumenti affidabili e accessibili, sostenere la lunga opera di divulgazione che Raffaella Milandri – insieme ad altri autori come Francesco Spagna e il poeta Lance Henson - porta avanti con molte pubblicazioni e con un impegno coerente sui diritti umani e sulla decolonizzazione dello sguardo.
Il volume è disponibile da ottobre 2025 con distribuzione nazionale in libreria e online.
Where should I start? Absolute newb with a kit
I've never tried my own home brew before and I've been sitting on two kits for years now (got them sitting the pandemic but never found the time) and I wanted to try to start something
The original juice and hops are probably toast by now so I'll have to purchase some new, but I've got two of those jugs and the other bits that come with them.
I also have a small orchard in my back yard and wanted to try to use the thousands of plums in get every year to make some kind of lambic ale.
Any advice is appreciated!
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Growing number of US veterans face arrest over ICE raid protests
Veterans are facing federal charges after protesting ICE sweeps and Trump’s national guard deployments. The justice department claims the veterans were violent
US military veterans increasingly face arrest and injury amid protests over Donald Trump’s deportation campaign and his push to deploy national guard members to an ever-widening number of American cities.
The Guardian has identified eight instances where military veterans have been prosecuted or sought damages after being detained by federal agents.
The latest incident occurred in Broadview, outside Chicago, where 70-year old air force veteran Dana Briggs was charged with felony assault on a federal officer on 29 September.
Growing number of US veterans face arrest over Ice raid protests
Veterans are facing federal charges after protesting Ice sweeps and Trump’s national guard deployments. The justice department claims the veterans were violentAaron Glantz (The Guardian)
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[Video] Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid: “Now that the war has stopped, you have time and a chance to go and learn the facts. The truth is there was no genocide, no intentional starvation."
I'm not....it was tongue in cheek - I'm more surprised at your missing that.
I'm equally surprised that you felt it your duty to lecture me about the obvious.
Tbh, I don't need a poor explanation of how the illegal terrorist 'state' of israel operates, and how zionist ideology is the motivation behind it. I already know. Thanks all the same.
Republicans try to weaken 50-year-old law credited with saving rare whales
Republicans try to weaken 50-year-old law credited with saving rare whales
One of the US.’s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation is the subject of an effort for cutbacksPatrick Whittle (The Independent)
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A 360/panoramic video of Gaza. Posted October 6th. Absolutely shocking
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La rivoluzione al punto zero
Indice dei contenuti
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- Silvia Federici
- La rivoluzione al punto zero
- Attualità bruciante
- Contro il mito del progresso
- Riflessioni personali
- Conclusioni
La rivoluzione al punto zero
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Silvia Federici
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Il cuore pulsante del capitalismo non batte solo nelle catene di montaggio delle fabbriche o sulle scrivanie degli uffici, ma anche nelle nostre case. Il lavoro domestico e di cura sono il motore di un sistema che ha costruito il proprio dominio sul lavoro invisibile delle donne, appropriandosi del loro tempo, dei loro corpi e delle loro emozioni. Senza salario, senza riconoscimento, senza diritti. Se non quelli “amorevolmente” concessi.
Dopo Oltre la periferia della pelle, Federici torna in Italia, con un’opera fondamentale, finalmente in edizione completa: La rivoluzione al punto zero. In questo libro, sono stati condensati decenni di lotte e analisi su temi che vanno dallo sfruttamento del lavoro riproduttivo, alle conseguenze per le donne del colonialismo, diventando nelle sue varie edizioni un pezzo fondamentale della storia del femminismo e del pensiero radicale contemporanei.
La Rivoluzione al Punto Zero è un’arma teorica per chi vuole comprendere, ma soprattutto trasformare, il presente in cui ci troviamo a lottare. (Dalla pagina di presentazione)
Silvia Federici
Silvia Federici è una saggista di lungo corso, Di impostazione marxista, si è sempre occupata di arricchire la complessità del dibattito anticapitalista dimostrando teoricamente quella che ne è la radice stessa. Lo sfruttamento del lavoro di cura e come questo sia considerato “naturale”. Autrice e docente, da oltre 50 anni attivista nei movimenti femministi (Wages for housework). Nei suoi scritti ha sempre dimostrato come il controllo dei corpi delle donne sia alla base, ancora oggi e anzi oggi forse ancora di più, del sistema di potere capitalista.
La rivoluzione al punto zero
Il libro è una raccolta di testi scritti dall’autrice tra gli anni ’70 e gli anni ’10 del 2000. Personalmente lo ritengo un testo fondamentale che non mi limiterò solo a consigliare ma anche a diffondere. Leggendolo ho potuto riscontrare quanto anche tra i millennial bianchi e di sinistra, siano ancora diffuse convinzioni introiettate dal patriarcato. Il libro ribalta il paradigma secondo cui il lavoro domestico sia da considerarsi “naturale” e riporta al centro del dibattito la necessità di un suo riconoscimento.
Attualità bruciante
Federici analizza e smonta punto per punto tutte le contraddizioni che stanno alla base tra ciò che vogliamo essere e ciò che il sistema e il mercato ci impongono di essere. Esplorando i concetti di maternità, sessualità, riproduzione, migrazione e violenza istituzionale si vedono le radici di queste spinte contraddittorie. Nella nostra quotidianità viviamo sempre più in una tortura psicologica simile allo strappamento medievale. Se all’epoca erano gli arti ad essere tirati in direzioni opposte oggi sono le nostre identità, le emozioni e le volontà e ciò avviene in maniera subdola, costante e impercettibile. Un girone infernale chiamato capitalismo con 8 miliardi di torturati e un torturatore. Uno stile di vita i cui beneficiari sono i produttori di psicofarmaci e di sostanze da dipendenza.
Contro il mito del progresso
Come mi capita spesso di ripetere il capitalismo non potrebbe esistere senza patriarcato, cosi come i fascismi non potrebbero esistere senza capitalismo. Abbattere mattone per mattone il sistema patriarcale significa agire sulle fondamenta di quel millenario controllo dei corpi umani e in particolare dei corpi femminilli (aggiungo io di qualsiasi specie, l’autrice non parla di specismo). In questo modo la cura potrà essere restituita alla comunità e condivisa. Liberata dal dovere e dalle tassonomie di genere. Il capitalismo richiede la distruzione di qualsiasi attività economica non subordinata all’accumulazione e per farlo usa, spesso e volentieri, la guerra. Il libro cita esempi di donne che questo lo hanno compreso e hanno attuato forme di resistenza. Sono raccontati gli esempi delle cucine comuni in Cile e Perù e varie forme di gestione femminile della terra, in ottica anticapitalista, che mi riportano alla mente la poesia di James Connolly; “Vogliamo solo la terra”.
Riflessioni personali
Leggere oggi, nel 2025, di fronte a tutte le lotte sociali necessarie e urgenti non può che spingermi a fare delle considerazioni. Mi sono fermato spesso, durante la lettura, a riflettere su quanto il lavoro di cura (in particolare per sè stessi) e il tempo siano concetti correlati e quanto siano sempre più risicati e rosicati dalla società attuale.
Lavorare per vivere?
Penso a quanto sia sempre più maggiormente e obbligatoriamente delegato il lavoro di cura per i soggetti deboli (bambin*, anzian*, persone con disabilità). Assumere e pagare colf, baby sitter e badanti crea un nuovo soggetto discriminatorio e ovviamente un discriminato. Inoltre il soggetto “curato” diventa spesso un prodotto de-umanizzato. Senza considerare che chi lavora in questi settori finisce per privare se stess* e la propria famiglia dal lavoro di cura o comunque a doverlo fare doppiamente essendo pagat* la metà.
Vivere per lavorare
Tutta la vita è organizzata in maniera funzionale alla società capitalista. Affinchè questo si perpetui è necessario che il lavoro di cura non venga riconosciuto.
“Avere un salario significa far parte di un contratto sociale chiaro: lavori, non perchhè ti piace o perché ti viene naturale, ma perché è l’unica condizione sotto cui ti è permesso vivere”dal libro
Conclusioni
Una lotta che spinga gli Stati a riconoscere il lavoro di cura (come quella portata avanti dal movimento wages for housework) libererebbe da diverse ipocrisie e potrebbe avere effetti reali positivi sulla cultura e la società. Da uomo ritengo che libererebbe gli uomini dall’essere strumento attivo del potere patriarcale.
Guardiamo all’Italia. Quando i genitori lavorano entrambi fuori ed entrambi a casa (con il lavoro di cura condiviso) fanno la scelta più difficile ed economicamente meno conveniente. Per assurdo converrebbe economicamente, anche per via del gender gap, che l’uomo lavori di più e la donna di meno o che non lavori fuori per lavorare full-time (anzi extra time se consideriamo anche il servizio psicologico, sessuale etc. che serve per far accettare al marito i mali palesi del sistema capitalistico).
Inoltre l’impossibilità di curare se stess*, va a beneficio dello stesso capitalismo. Mangiare male e di fretta cibi pronti – spesso pagati più di quanto il rider che li consegna guadagna in un giorno, o serviti velocemente da camerieri sottopagati – è spesso causa problemi di salute.
Ma si sa, per i problemi causati dal capitalismo la soluzione la offre…il capitalismo. Se infatti la sanità pubblica si indebolisce e viene privata di fondi, riconvertiti al militarismo, ecco pronta per curare i mali di una vita che non è vita, una bella assicurazione sanitaria privata.
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Animalità tradita. Le radici dello specismo
Animalità tradita. Le radici dello specismo è un libro per tutti coloro che vogliono comprendere l'origine di ogni oppressione.Daniele Fiorenza (Magozine.it)
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Inverse mouse pointer
My wife had just switched from windows to the latest Mint (Cinnamon). The one thing she misses from windows is the mouse pointer. It animates so that it's light coloured on dark objects and dark on light objects. It makes it easy for her to find.
Anyone know how to do this in Cinnamon?
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Browse Cursors Latest | www.gnome-look.org/browse?cat=107
Browse Cursors Latest | https://www.gnome-look.org/browse?cat=107 | A community for free and open source software and libre contenthttps://www.gnome-look.org/browse?cat=107
New BSD Cafe Service: ntfy Server at BSD Cafe
Push notifications have been part of our lives for almost twenty years now. Our days are often punctuated by notifications of all kinds: a new message from the bank, a chat among friends, the work group, the ever-present social networks. All these notifications often have one thing in common: they pass through the servers of our smartphone operating system manufacturers, primarily Apple and Google.
It’s part of the implementation, and that’s fine. But we need to be aware that these notifications reveal a lot about us: in the best case, metadata (meaning they know who sends them to us, the size, etc.). In the worst case, the entire content. Sure, we have nothing to hide. But this morning, when I received a bank transfer from a client, I didn’t lean out the window shouting to the whole neighborhood that a transfer had arrived from that client, of a specific amount, with a specific reference.
UnifiedPush is a protocol that allows creating a different infrastructure for notification distribution. Notifications use WebPush, so they’re encrypted by the sender (e.g., Mastodon or Matrix server) and decrypted by the device. The server, therefore, doesn’t see the notification content itself.
The Service
I’m announcing a service that has already been active for some time – almost a year – on BSD Cafe servers. It’s an ntfy server, and the rationale is simple: if you use it for BSD Cafe services (like Mastodon and Matrix), no notification or data will leave BSD Cafe servers to pass through third parties: from BSD Cafe server, to BSD Cafe ntfy, to your device.
Server address: https://ntfy.bsd.cafe
Obviously it’s not limited only to BSD Cafe services, but you can use it with any other service that supports ntfy or UnifiedPush.
How to Use It
Just install the ntfy app (available on F-Droid, Play Store, etc.), go to settings and set https://ntfy.bsd.cafe as the server. From that moment on, any app opening a UnifiedPush channel will do so through that server.
The server is also accessible via pure https, from a browser: https://ntfy.bsd.cafe
From there you can also create a topic, subscribe, and send or receive messages and updates.
Why
The goal is, also with this service, to provide another opportunity to access content and services without necessarily depending on a fixed provider, because monoculture is and will always be a problem.
The service is available to everyone. Happy notifications!
BSD.cafe Mastodon Portal
Welcome to the BSD Cafe! We're excited to serve you the best flavors of BSD, including FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and DragonflyBSD. But if you prefer Linux, you're welcome here too!Mastodon hosted on bsd.cafe
More Evidence Emerges That One of Saturn’s Moons Could Harbor Life
A recent study of Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has detected several organic compounds that had never been recorded there before. The findings, published this month in Nature Astronomy, provide new clues about the interior chemical composition of this icy world, as well as new hope that it could harbor life.
The researchers analyzed data from the Cassini probe, which launched in 1997 and studied Saturn and its moons for years until its destruction in 2017. For Enceladus, Cassini gathered data from ice fragments forcefully ejected from the moon’s subsurface ocean up into space.
Enceladus is one of 274 bodies so far discovered in Saturn’s gravitational pull. It measures about 500 kilometers in diameter, making it the planet’s sixth-largest satellite. While this moon does not stand out for its size, it is notable for its cryovolcanoes—geysers at Enceladus’s south pole that spew out water vapor and ice fragments. Plumes of ejected material can extend to nearly 10,000 kilometers in length, which is more than the distance from Mexico to Patagonia, and some of this material rises into space. The outermost of Saturn’s main rings—its E ring—is primarily made up of ice ejected into space by Enceladus.
This material is believed to come from a saline water chamber beneath the moon’s icy crust that is connected to its rocky core. It’s possible that chemical reactions are taking place down there, under high pressure and heat.
Until now, most chemical analyses of ice from Enceladus were of particles deposited in Saturn’s E ring. But during a high-speed flyby of the moon in 2008, Cassini was fortunate enough to directly sample freshly ejected fragments from a cryovolcano. The new research paper reanalyzed this data, confirming the presence of previously detected organic molecules, as well as revealing compounds that had previously been undetected.
“Such compounds are believed to be intermediates in the synthesis of more complex molecules, which could be potentially biologically relevant. It is important to note, however, that these molecules can be formed abiotically as well,” Nozair Khawaja, a planetary scientist at Freie Universität Berlin and lead author of the study, told Reuters. The discovery significantly expands the range of confirmed organic molecules on Enceladus.
The key is that the compounds appeared in freshly ejected particles, suggesting that they were formed within the moon’s hidden ocean or in contact with its internal interfaces, not during their journey through the E ring or via exposure to the conditions of space. This reinforces the hypothesis that hydrothermal processes beneath Enceladus’s surface could be generating rich organic chemistry. Combining this new research with previous studies, scientists have now found five of the six elements essential for life—carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur—in the satellite’s ejected material.
This itself is not a discovery of life, nor of biosignatures—the signs of life. However, the research confirms that Enceladus has the three basic conditions for life to form: liquid water, an energy source, and essential elements and organics. “Enceladus is, and should be ranked, as the prime target to explore habitability and search whether there is life or not,” Khawaja said.
https://www.wired.com/story/more-evidence-emerges-that-one-of-saturns-moons-could-harbor-life/
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itsfoss promotes hyprland on instagram!?
What is going on?
I've been very disappointed this morning
context: Hyprland/DHH is a very toxic and right wing community
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Help finding Csharpassembly editor without IL editing stripped out
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when did you last download it? of course you'd not know if you haven't gotten it for like a year or even 6 months, this change was very recent far as I am aware
This just isn't true, wtf? Last release has been 5 years ago. I last downloaded it 2 years ago
IL editor for low-level IL method body editing
Is one of the features in the README. Where tf did you stumble across all this misinformation?
This is no joke. This is reality.
Source: I did an internal project for tech support at their department once and so experienced their daily operations around me, although they didn't get paid per finished task.
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I've seen this.
I have also done this.
I haven't really understood Windows since XP died. I understand it even less since I started using Linux. All I know how to do is power cycle the machine a couple times. Which tends to fix a lot of things, not just Windows and not just PCs. If a reboot doesn't help, all I'll tell you is to ask someone more knowledgeable about Windows than I am, or reinstall the whole damn thing.
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Kubuntu - SDDM not loading
At first Instead of my SDDM I would just see an after image of what was last displayed on screen. But if I typed in my password and pressed enter, it would let me in just fine. Then after following some suggestions from users in r/Kubuntu I’ve made a bit of progress. Now when I boot up my computer instead of the SDDM being invisible, it now doesn’t load at all, from there I switch to tty3 then back to tty2 and then log in through the terminal. After that I run startplasma-wayland and then I have access to my desktop. The post where all this went down - reddit.com/r/Kubuntu/comments/…
Does anyone know a fix? I would like to be able to see my login screen.
Here’s my specs in case that would help - i.imgur.com/XtC43zw.png
And here’s my journalctl output after booting and launching plasma - pastebin.com/nnGsWebd
journalctl output kubuntu - Pastebin.com
Pastebin.com is the number one paste tool since 2002. Pastebin is a website where you can store text online for a set period of time.Pastebin
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“A Google for DNA”: Scientists Launch Groundbreaking Search Engine for Genetic Code
A new tool developed at ETH Zurich, MetaGraph, allows scientists to search through vast public DNA and RNA databases in seconds — like a “Google for DNA.”
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This Indiana city doesn’t have to pay an innocent mom $16,000 after police wrecked her home, court rules
Law enforcement launched 30 tear gas canisters into Amy Hadley's home, smashed windows, ransacked furniture, destroyed security cameras, and more. The government gave her nothing.
Indiana mom whose home was wrecked by police can't sue, court rules
Cops launched 30 tear gas canisters into Amy Hadley's home, smashed windows, ransacked furniture, destroyed security cameras, and more.Billy Binion (Reason Magazine)
Naked bike riders demonstrate against federal troops in 'quintessentially Portland' protest
Protesters are pedaling through Portland's streets wearing nothing or close to it to rally against the Trump administration.
https://apnews.com/article/portland-oregon-naked-bike-ride-protest-43ecafc5f5ce0a7d7f44dc016fbe86d0
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Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’
Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns
Archived version: archive.is/20251013004807/theg…
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Taiwan says ‘T-Dome’ to better integrate air defence system for higher kill rate
A special budget to come by the end of 2025 will focus on new equipment for the T-Dome.
Archived version: archive.is/newest/straitstimes…
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Taiwan says ‘T-Dome’ to better integrate air defence system for higher kill rate
A special budget to come by the end of 2025 will focus on new equipment for the T-Dome. Read more at straitstimes.com.ST
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I don't know. With these weapons...
Kyle Reese meme from Terminator (1984)Listen. And understand. That LLM is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until they run out of money.
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How close are we to solid state batteries for electric vehicles? - Ars Technica
Every few weeks, it seems, yet another lab proclaims yet another breakthrough in the race to perfect solid-state batteries: next-generation power packs that promise to give us electric vehicles (EVs) so problem-free that we’ll have no reason left to buy gas-guzzlers.These new solid-state cells are designed to be lighter and more compact than the lithium-ion batteries used in today’s EVs. They should also be much safer, with nothing inside that can burn like those rare but hard-to-extinguish lithium-ion fires. They should hold a lot more energy, turning range anxiety into a distant memory with consumer EVs able to go four, five, six hundred miles on a single charge.
And forget about those “fast” recharges lasting half an hour or more: Solid-state batteries promise EV fill-ups in minutes—almost as fast as any standard car gets with gasoline.
This may all sound too good to be true—and it is, if you’re looking to buy a solid-state-powered EV this year or next. Look a bit further, though, and the promises start to sound more plausible. “If you look at what people are putting out as a road map from industry, they say they are going to try for actual prototype solid-state battery demonstrations in their vehicles by 2027 and try to do large-scale commercialization by 2030,” says University of Washington materials scientist Jun Liu, who directs a university-government-industry battery development collaboration known as the Innovation Center for Battery500 Consortium.
Indeed, the challenge is no longer to prove that solid-state batteries are feasible. That has long since been done in any number of labs around the world. The big challenge now is figuring out how to manufacture these devices at scale, and at an acceptable cost.
How close are we to solid state batteries for electric vehicles?
Superionic materials promise greater range, faster charges and more safety.Knowable Magazine (Ars Technica)
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How close are we to solid state batteries for electric vehicles? - Ars Technica
Every few weeks, it seems, yet another lab proclaims yet another breakthrough in the race to perfect solid-state batteries: next-generation power packs that promise to give us electric vehicles (EVs) so problem-free that we’ll have no reason left to buy gas-guzzlers.These new solid-state cells are designed to be lighter and more compact than the lithium-ion batteries used in today’s EVs. They should also be much safer, with nothing inside that can burn like those rare but hard-to-extinguish lithium-ion fires. They should hold a lot more energy, turning range anxiety into a distant memory with consumer EVs able to go four, five, six hundred miles on a single charge.
And forget about those “fast” recharges lasting half an hour or more: Solid-state batteries promise EV fill-ups in minutes—almost as fast as any standard car gets with gasoline.
This may all sound too good to be true—and it is, if you’re looking to buy a solid-state-powered EV this year or next. Look a bit further, though, and the promises start to sound more plausible. “If you look at what people are putting out as a road map from industry, they say they are going to try for actual prototype solid-state battery demonstrations in their vehicles by 2027 and try to do large-scale commercialization by 2030,” says University of Washington materials scientist Jun Liu, who directs a university-government-industry battery development collaboration known as the Innovation Center for Battery500 Consortium.
Indeed, the challenge is no longer to prove that solid-state batteries are feasible. That has long since been done in any number of labs around the world. The big challenge now is figuring out how to manufacture these devices at scale, and at an acceptable cost.
How close are we to solid state batteries for electric vehicles?
Superionic materials promise greater range, faster charges and more safety.Knowable Magazine (Ars Technica)
Its supposedly open source??
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github.com/Wimberton/Palia-FEN…
GitHub - Wimberton/Palia-FENTRY: Palia FENTRY is the most powerful cheat available for Palia. It's completely free, and comes with tons of overpowered features like Instant Fishing, ESPs, Silent Aim, Teleport to entities, and more!
Palia FENTRY is the most powerful cheat available for Palia. It's completely free, and comes with tons of overpowered features like Instant Fishing, ESPs, Silent Aim, Teleport to entities, and ...GitHub
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My social worker says I have to come out if I want them to use the correct name and pronouns.
Hi, so I'm a high school student and I happen to be trans FtM. I know I'm quite young, but I do believe in the importance of supporting trans people, even young people just in general.
I was born a girl (obviously) but now I'm a guy named Anthony. When I came out to my social worker "Mrs. A" (not her real name or initial), she said that she was proud of me for coming out, but that if I wanted teachers to refer to me as "male", "he/him", Anthony, etc. that I'd have to come out to my legal guardian.
The thing is my guardian isn't the most supportive of trans people. I came out to him a few years ago and he said I was just a confused girl and that "the left was just pushing their agenda onto me". He loves me, I'm sure he does, but he definitely wouldn't support me.
I told my therapist and a good friend of mine and both of them said that was breaking a rule of confidentiality. My sister told me that too. My therapist wonders if it's to get it changed on paperwork or something but says that if I want to be called Anthony at school, there should be no problem.
What do you all think?
I'm not sure if they're the same thing, but back in my day we had a "School Counselor". I told her all about how my mom was abusing us, which backfired on me when she straight up told my mom everything I had said.
Hopefully it's changed on the last couple decades, but back then school counselors weren't required to have any accreditations and had no restriction on privacy.
That was when I learned the employees of the school are there to protect the school, not the students. You should be careful what you share until you've determined what sort of confidentiality you're guaranteed and what training this person has. Outing you or requiring you to out yourself are both pretty messed up to recommend.
American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming
American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming
A viral man in a frog balloon suit facing off against ICE is the key to understanding how the internet-poisoned politics of the second Trump presidency work.Sarah Jeong (The Verge)
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Use hashtags for greater visibility on Mastodon
I've followed all the frequent posters on piefed.social using my mastodon.social account so we should be seeing a lot more PieFed content showing up there now. But unless you use hashtags, I'll be the only one seeing it!
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