Populist party of billionaire Andrej Babiš wins big in Czech parliamentary election
Babiš's victory deprives Ukraine of a staunch supporter and steers Czechia toward the pro-Russian path taken by Hungary and Slovakia.
He is expected to join the ranks of Viktor Orbán of Hungary and Robert Fico of Slovakia, whose countries have refused to provide military aid to Ukraine, continue to import Russian oil and oppose sanctions on Russia.
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Rivals author Dame Jilly Cooper dies aged 88
Queen pays tribute to 'legend' Jilly Cooper after author dies aged 88
"May her hereafter be filled with impossibly handsome men and devoted dogs," says the Queen, a friend of the best-selling romance author.BBC News
Mount Everest hikers describe ‘extreme’ conditions as huge rescue effort continues
Mount Everest hikers describe ‘extreme’ conditions as huge rescue effort continues
At least 200 people still stranded after unseasonally heavy snowfall during China’s Golden Week holidayHelen Davidson (The Guardian)
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Georgia’s prime minister announces crackdown on dissent after Tbilisi protests
Georgia’s prime minister announces crackdown on dissent after Tbilisi protests
Irakli Kobakhidze accused EU ambassador of supporting ‘attempt to overthrow constitutional order’Deborah Cole (The Guardian)
Australia signs key defence deal with Papua New Guinea
Australia signs key defence deal with Papua New Guinea
Experts say the deal seeks to counter Beijing's growing influence, but PNG says it is not about China.Lana Lam (BBC News)
Inside China’s gigantic iPhone factory: long hours, discrimination and pay delays
Cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/43530586
ArchivedChinese factory staff assembling Apple’s latest iPhone continue to face precarious conditions, working many hours of overtime, suffering wage delays and discrimination against ethnic minorities, according to a leading labour rights group.
China Labor Watch (CLW) found that more than half of the estimated 200,000 workers employed during peak season at the world’s largest iPhone factory run by Foxconn in Zhengzhou are seasonal staff known as “dispatch workers”. This is despite a Chinese law capping the use of such staff at 10 per cent of a company’s workforce.
US-based CLW, which specialises in undercover investigations of Chinese factories, also found that dispatch workers faced staggered payment schedules that withhold part of their wages to deter them from quitting during peak production.
These staff were not entitled to the same benefits as full-time employees, such as paid sick leave, paid holiday and social insurance that includes medical coverage and pension contributions. CLW also claimed that there is systematic discrimination in hiring certain ethnic minorities and pregnant women.
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"Despite Apple’s repeated pledges to improve conditions over the past decade, our investigation finds that core labour issues remain,” said Li Qiang, founder of CLW and author of the report released on Thursday.
"Apple’s supply chain continues to depend on a vast, disposable workforce.”
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Many of the workers interviewed added that conditions compared favourably with those of other local manufacturers, citing air conditioning, hot water, recreational facilities and canteen subsidies.
An economic downturn in China and rising youth unemployment have narrowed options for jobseekers. A 23-year-old who trained as a Chinese teacher said she had worked at Foxconn for two months: “If I can’t find another job, I might come back.”
But two of the people who spoke said Foxconn’s recruitment platform, which the agencies use to upload CVs, rejects applications from ethnic minorities, including Uyghurs, Tibetans, and Huis, who are not local to Henan.
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One worker who had been at the plant for more than a month said that she typically worked two and a half hours of overtime each day, six or seven days a week. “Some managers have bad attitudes,” she said. “We work hard, but they keep pushing and squeezing us.”
Inside China’s gigantic iPhone factory: long hours, discrimination and pay delays
Undercover investigation at Foxconn’s Zhengzhou plant shows tough conditions for seasonal staff building new Apple deviceEleanor Olcott (The Irish Times)
Maybe 20 years ago, but that hasn't been the case for awhile now. There's a reason textile manufacturing moved most of their operations to countries like Bangladesh where you can shove 1000 workers and 1000 sewing machines into an un-airconditioned building, and then skip town instead of paying your workers.
Manufacturing stays here because while unskilled labor is only very cheap instead of dirt cheap, China has cheaper inputs like electricity, materials, machinery, skilled labor, and access to the Chinese market.
Of course they still have a long way to go, but a median wage of 124K RMB (17K USD) isn't terrible when you can get a good meal for 10 RMB and rent a 2bd in most cities that aren't Beijing and Shanghai for 2000RMB/mo.
The report is about much more than 'only' the pay, but as you mention it: We must distinguish per capita disposable income from GDP per capita. GDP per capita calculates the total value of all goods and services produced in a country divided by the population, which doesn't reflect the income available to individual citizens and households.
For this reason we must look at the disposable income per capita, which measures the amount of money people can actually use, and we see a completely different picture.
In 2024, China’s national per capita disposable income reached RMB 41,314 (US$5,800 at the current rate), according to China's National Bureau of Statistics. Income disparities between urban and rural areas remain significant as already mentioned.
If it's true that you can "rent a 2bd in most cities that aren’t Beijing and Shanghai for 2000RMB/mo", you'd spend half of your disposable income on the rent (except in cities like Beijing and Shanghai, where you spend considerably more).
It is noteworthy that this data comes from official Chinese sources.
But again, the linked report clearly suggests that workers suffer wage delays, discrimination of minorities, are work overly long hours, and things like these. It's a devastating report on both Chinese working conditions and a U.S. company exploiting the local policy.
Median and average is not the same, the comparison doesn't make sense as you say yourself.
And it has nothing to do with the linked report. This is not only about pay. It's is essentially about poor workers' rights in China.
These are measures. What I 'think' they are is simply irrelevant.
But I think the linked report has nothing to do with this. It clearly suggests that Chinese workers suffer wage delays, discrimination of minorities, work overly long hours, and things like that. It’s a devastating report on both Chinese working conditions and a U.S. company exploiting the local policy.
I get 404 not found at that link.
That would be a HUGE median income jump. Which is sure is true although I'm very skeptical that the CCP is actually giving the real number instead of an inflated number (granted, the #s 10 years ago were probably similarly inflated so the increase % is probably close)
Plight of Roma in EU 'one of the greatest human rights scandals on the continent'
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French President Macron appoints new government, led by Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu
France unveils new government led by Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu
France’s new prime minister Sébastien Lecornu named a new government on Sunday, bringing back former finance minister Bruno Le Maire as the new defence minister, while other familiar faces, like Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau and Foreign Minister…FRANCE 24
This is what I can't understand about Germany's position. I know they spend a lot of time teaching their youth about the holocaust, yet they seem to have completely missed the the point.
The lesson wasn't "Always support the Jews". It was "Always stand in the way of genocide".
Blizzard strands 1,000 climbers on Mount Everest
Blizzard strands hundreds of climbers on Mount Everest
A snowstorm has pinned down climbers on the Tibetan side of Mount Everest. Tents were damaged just below the northern slope's base camp with casualties reported and rescue roads initially blocked.Jon Shelton (Deutsche Welle)
Macron’s malaise isn’t just bad for France, it’s infecting Europe too
Macron’s malaise isn’t just bad for France, it’s infecting Europe too
The president’s woes are hurting ties with Germany, destabilising the EU and opening the door to the hard rightDavid Marsh (The Sunday Times)
Reverse brain drain: What’s drawing Chinese researchers back from the US?
Several prominent Chinese figures, including top Harvard mathematician Liu Jun, award-winning computer scientist and blockchain expert Chen Jing and rising AI star Fu Tianfan, have since left the US and returned to China to take up roles in prestigious institutions in cities like Beijing, Nanjing and Shenzhen.
Reverse brain drain: What’s drawing Chinese researchers back from the US?
Analysts note a “slow acceleration” in Chinese researchers returning from the US this year amid tighter American visa and funding rules. China has also launched a K visa to attract foreign science and tech talent.Lakeisha Leo (Channel NewsAsia)
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More than 350 trekkers escape blizzard-hit Everest, hundreds still stranded
More than 350 trekkers escape blizzard-hit Everest, hundreds still stranded
Rescued trekkers reach China’s Qudang township while 200 others still face treacherous Everest conditions awaiting help.Lyndal Rowlands (Al Jazeera)
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It is 100% overly wealthy, selfish people and the service workers they’ve trapped with them.
Spending thousands on gear, then going all the way to Nepal (a less developed country) to climb a mountain is the very definition of “overly wealthy.”
Nothing says “I don’t care about anyone else” like insisting on being the millionth tough guy to climb a mountain, just to say they did.
I think this should be part of the risk. Leave them up there and clean the bodies up when it thaws.
Additionally those are very important source of revenues for Nepalis…
Oh, that includes all of the equipment, flights, and transportation?
For one person, right? Comparing it to a family vacation proves my point. A douchebag insisting on going to a big mountain seems a little different than a family vacation…
I will never mind speaking in absolutes about this. If you care about going to Everest, you are a selfish asshole. Full stop. I don’t care that it’s affordable for you, that’s part of the problem.
I don’t care if the locals rely on the abuse, it’s still abuse.
Dude you have very weird and specific perspectives. To each their own doesn’t ring a bell? Is it an Everest specific issue or do you sell wholesale for other destinations as well?
Take that hait energy and make something positive out of it instead…
It’s actually ok to not like harmful things! It’s called having integrity.
Your arrogance is astounding.
My arrogance ? Sure is.. I’m the one judging everyone….
where do you draw the line of harmful things? We are by nature harmful things to a degree with all our activities…
This is not a valuable conversation, because I’ve already told you where I draw the line: somewhere BEFORE “I want to climb Everest.”
The fact that you can’t tell the difference between people traveling all the way to Everest and “everyone” makes me think you’re a bot or a troll.
Again, being judgmental is valuable, this conversation is not.
Billionaires shouldn’t exist, people shouldn’t go to Everest because they are insecure.
Not hard to understand. “But—” nothing.
Ok, you’re not even reading. Pathetic. I’ll block you now, bye!
Oh yeah there’s totally no difference between having a phone and going to Nepal to climb a mountain…
Genuinely: how fucking stupid are you?
I almost said computer but realized that couldn't be assumed. Fine, a phone is closer to a necessity.
There is still basically no difference between this and any other hobby that involves something manufactured by people in poor countries other than proximity to the people doing the labor. You are just mad that people who have either a bit or a lot more money for their hobbies have a hobby that doesn't appeal to you personally.
My whole point is that it is such a specific and hateful position… the guy should really chill down a bit.
At the very least I have an adopted brother over there that depends on tourists
That's the point, and that's why the guy is not "chill" about it.
Tourism is very much a colonial economy when there is income inequity. I am sorry that your adopted brother depends on tourists for income, but that does not justify the inequity.
If you were to hire a Sherpa in the Alps or Canada, you'd be paying a hell of a lot more for the privilege of the climb. So tell us again why these rich folks get away with paying so little...
When you make the argument that the locals depend on the income, you are also implying that it's OK the locals earn so little without these rich folks.
Nope, I’m not saying any of that. I’m just happy that he -specifically he who I very much know- can eat because some tourists pay him for his art. So in that frame it is not all negative.
Whatever the price is really, he comes from living in a monastery in India to going back to his home country and being able to sustain himself with that money.
System is not perfect but at least he eats.
If you worry about that you’ll have to consider all other inequalities in manufacturing as well… or in IT…. So why just that one example ?
You got that fucking backwards, sir.
One does not ask the oppressed to change the abusive relationship, one speaks to the pricks paying 50k to leave their actual feces and trash on a mountain to check a box.
Money alone won't get you up there. No matter how many Sherpa's you hire, it's brutal. People spends weeks and weeks at the various base camps just to acclimate, and that does nothing to add to their strength.
And yes they leave literal shit and O2 bottles. Carrying a few extra pounds on the way down could kill you. You have to give it nearly all you got to summit, then the descent is even more dangerous.
We could argue shutting down the mountain, but I've never heard of a solution to remove the trash. You have to carry it up, you can't carry it down.
Read Into Thin Air if you want to know more. I won't read it again, too brutal.
I read another headline earlier, something like "Blizzard strands 1000 people on Mt Everest."
And my early morning brain went "ugh Blizzard really is an awful company, going way too overboard with their promotional material." I wasn't even that surprised.
Now I see this headline and that earlier one makes more sense 😂
While it's tragic that the mountain is going to add to its death toll on this, the idea of people queued up on the world's tallest peak just for limited-time virtual merch, made me chuckle a bit.
After that all those years ago, I'm feel like stunts like that are far more plausible than ever.
Edit: I also keep forgetting about the stuff RedBull does these days...
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Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office
Ministers are to give police new powers to target repeated protests, aimed particularly at cracking down on demonstrations connected to Gaza, the Home Office has said.
The announcement, made the morning after almost 500 people were arrested in London for expressing support for Palestine Action, a proscribed organisation, could allow police to order regular protests to take place at a different site.
Civil liberty groups express concern over plan for more anti-protest powers
Home secretary says police can consider ‘cumulative impact’ of rallies as Palestine Action ban opponents vow ‘escalation’Peter Walker (The Guardian)
- Until recently any word against Israel was met with the antisemitism hammer. I don't think they realise how outdated that view is.
- Their hands are deep in the cookie jar. They've been supplying arms for 50+ years. "You weren't meant to kill people with them!"
- Trump in particular doesn't really care. All he sees is an opportunity to make money rebuilding Gaza.
- U.K. leadership has a real problem standing in opposition to Trump. They'll insult him in private, but whisper sweet nothings into his ear when in person. They think they're being clever. They're not.
BREAKING: Israeli authorities have beaten Greta Thunberg, made her kiss Zionist flag
Greta Thunberg 'dragged', 'beaten' by Israel, forced to kiss flag
Released flotilla activist says Israeli authorities "dragged little Greta Thunberg by her hair... beat her" and "made her suffer"Alaa Shamali (The Canary)
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niente gaming attraverso nintendo se si sta senza la u (non si può giocare quasi a niente su WiiU senza Gamepad)
So che forse non dovrei farmi questo tipo di domande, perché con Nintendo da un lato è inutile, e dall’altro è pericoloso, lo sappiamo, la mafia, i ninja, wewe tu devi solo aggiocare non sia mai che ti preoccupi di qualcosa… però, dall’altra sera questa cosa non la riesco a mandare giù. Per quale cavolo […]
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niente gaming attraverso nintendo se si sta senza la u (non si può giocare quasi a niente su WiiU senza Gamepad)
So che forse non dovrei farmi questo tipo di domande, perché con Nintendo da un lato è inutile, e dall’altro è pericoloso, lo sappiamo, la mafia, i ninja, wewe tu devi solo aggiocare non sia mai che ti preoccupi di qualcosa… però, dall’altra sera questa cosa non la riesco a mandare giù. Per quale cavolo di motivo su Wii U, se non si vuole usare il Gamepad, si può praticamente fare appena un decimo del gaming altrimenti possibile, a giudicare a occhio? 😐Putiamo il caso, giusto per fare un esempio, che voi siate me… ok, no, non serve andare così in là. Putiamo magari il caso che il Gamepad sia scarico — situazione plausibile, visto che tutti i controller Nintendo wireless drenano malamente da spenti se hanno batterie collegate, e con il Gamepad una carica dura poco gaming, quindi in pochi anni la batteria si degrada parecchio con questo giochetto di scarica e ricarica, finendo per durare sempre di meno — e non si voglia sclerare per ricaricarlo in quel momento. Oppure, ancora, magari si vorrebbe giocare con un comando più compatto e leggero in quel momento, per comodità o quel che è… ma no. 🥱
Oh, io posso accettare che non si possano usare le impostazioni della console, o il browser web, o il che cavolo ne so, senza il Gamepad (nonostante non ci sia alcuna ragione tecnica per cui quei malati di Nintendo non potessero implementare il supporto completo a qualsiasi controller nelle app e nei menu…), ma il punto è che un sacco di giochi sono completamente inagibili! E non solo quei giochi gnammy basati interamente attorno al Gamepad, come per esempio Nintendo Land (che io possiedo in copia fisica, supergnammy), ma anche altri che proprio non capisco perché siano in questa situazione.🎳
Non posso dare troppi esempi specifici, perché non ho provato ogni singolo gioco immaginabile, bensì ho provato giusto ad aprire vari titoli alla bene e meglio, ma di cose assurde ce n’è una varietà infinita. Molti giochi che semplicemente non partono proprio senza il Gamepad collegato, facendo comparire un popup nel menu home… altri che si avviano, ma subito chiedono che sia collegato il Gamepad; giusto qualcuno concede almeno il Pro Controller, ma il Wiimote quasi mai… e altri ancora, principalmente quelli di terze parti (ma non solo eh, anche Nintendo ha cagato qui), che sembrano partire normalmente, ma poi non rispondono a nessun comando; di nuovo, almeno non con i Wiimote, al massimo con il Pro Controller. Poteva andare anche peggio di così, a pensarci, eh… ma ciò non significa che la situazione non sia brutta. 😾
La cosa veramente peggiore poi è che, quando una app finisce in questo stato per cui internamente, e non al menu home, chiede che il Gamepad sia collegato per proseguire, oppure semplicemente non dice niente, i controller alternativi non supportati sono spesso disconnessi e non si ricollegano più… quindi, in tal caso, l’unico modo per chiudere cosa si è avviato è spegnere la console col tastino, da vicino (o, se, come nel mio caso, il tastino è stronzino, scollegare e riattaccare il cavo di alimentazione… sigh). Se invece il controller non supportato è il Wiimote, e rimane collegato, collegando il Pro Controller ovviamente questo finirà come G2… ma diversi giochi così non lo leggono, quindi va pure cambiato a mano l’ordine. C’è da impazzire nello sperare di semplicemente giocare alla mordi e fuggi, insomma!!! ☠️I giochi ufficiali che ho visto sicuramente funzionare almeno col solo Wiimote, per ora, sono meno di 10… wow, che palle. Li metto qui, assieme ad un’altra lista che ho trovato, ed eventualmente quelli che non funzionano che ugualmente segnerò, poi, se non mi secco: memos.octt.eu.org/m/eBqVHkeFgE…. Poi, a intuito, credo ci siano i giochi Virtual Console NES che funzionano, ma non ne ho nessuno, mentre SNES e GBA vogliono almeno il Pro Controller, e quelli DS il Gamepad; e i giochi originali Wii ovviamente fanno testo a parte. 🔪
Vabbè, basta: a questo punto non si gioca, si rotta. Anche perché poi al Wii U piace in generale dare comunque sempre le sue rogne che rubano tempo e fanno incazzare, come tutti i freeze e i softlock che a caso capitano per via di glitch software (anche su console non moddate, figurarsi), e non c’è niente da fare. (Però… semmai questo rottame non mi muore, ed eventualmente non muore neanche il vostro, ricordo che qui ci sono i miei codici amico per fare il gaming attraverso la rete… magari è meno miserabile.) 💥
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I learned that the guy on the left is Hasan and thr guy on the right is Vaush by the comments. I then spent too long figuring out what the scale was....and it seems to be that there is no difference?
Both people seem to take fine care of their dogs? Fun fact: Abused animals don't crawl into your lap and expose their bellies for affection. That is a sign of mutual trust and companionship.
France evacuates Madagascar president amid protests and army revolt
France evacuates Madagascar president amid protests and army revolt
Madagascar’s president Andry Rajoelina has been evacuated from the country by a French military plane as protests and a military mutiny threaten to topple his government, RFI has confirmed.RFI
Madagascar president hangs on to power as thousands protest
President Andry Rajoelina ratcheted up tensions in Madagascar Tuesday by dissolving the National Assembly to block a vote to force him out of office as thousands gathered for new protests calling for his resignation.RFI
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II Semana do Software Livre no Brasil 2025
Entre os dias 13 e 18/10 o Movimento Software Livre brasileiro promove a II Semana do Software Livre no Brasil, evento que trará uma programação totalmente online, debatendo os diversos aspectos do desenvolvimento, manutenção e usos do software livre no Brasil, ainda com ênfase na governança das ações do movimento, em busca por incidência política mais efetiva e pela sustentabilidade dos produtos e projetos que tendem a ser fortalecidas e ganharem escalabilidade através das ações em Rede.
As atividades passaram pela pauta do uso de softwares públicos ao se usar dinheiro público na aquisição de softwares, compartilhamento de ferramentas de mapeamento, debate sobre questões de autonomia e infraestruturas sociotécnicas soberanas, além da governança do Movimento Software Livre no Brasil. Diante do contexto geopolítico atual, a Semana do Software Livre no Brasil traz pautas não só de interesse das comunidades interessadas em tecnologias livres, mas da sociedade como um todo.
Todas as atividades terão online e transmitidas em plataformas do Fediverso. Saiba tudo visitando semana.softwarelivre.tec.br/
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Madagascar president flees after losing support of key army unit
Madagascar president flees after losing support of key army unit
Elite Capsat unit that played a major role in Andry Rajoelina’s rise to presidency joined gen Z protests against corruptionEromo Egbejule (The Guardian)
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Export grid view from qBittorrent?
At present, I have limited disk space for my media library, so occasionally I must purge content I've already watched or acquired long ago but never watched. I'm big into letting my winners run, so when choosing which content to purge, I want to just sort by Ratio in qBittorrent and start purging anything older than 30 days that isn't getting uploads. The problem is, more often than not I'm cross seeding the same content across multiple trackers, so although a specific torrent on a specific trackers may be performing poorly, that doesn't mean the same content isn't performing well on another tracker.
I know how to select, right click, and Copy > Name. Is there a way to export the grid view so that I can do some data manipulation in LibreCalc?
I've searched and stumbled upon this thread from over a year ago where it appears the OP is attempting something similar. I don't mind getting my hands dirty with the web UI and/or the API, but since I'm not a developer, I thought I'd check w/ the community before I go that route. Also, one of the commenters in the other thread that I linked mentions parsing the save data directly - are they talking about parsing the fastresume files or something else? Thanks!
Never needed to use this but have seen that tools like github.com/fedarovich/qbittorr… are able to export lists of loaded torrents in various formats, it might do what you want.
e.g. if you're going to load the output in LibreCalc then you probably want to export a list in csv format most likely (the project's wiki mentions it github.com/fedarovich/qbittorr…).
so when choosing which content to purge, I want to just sort by Ratio in qBittorrent and start purging anything older than 30 days that isn’t getting uploads. The problem is, more often than not I’m cross seeding the same content across multiple trackers, so although a specific torrent on a specific trackers may be performing poorly, that doesn’t mean the same content isn’t performing well on another tracker.
Something to consider for the future, you could re-work how you are storing your torrent data and hardlink all those cross-seeding torrents in their own folders. So if you do a full delete of one torrent + data it won't actually affect the torrent + data of other torrents. If you have it split out like that then you could even try to automate the whole process of deleting old torrents with tools like github.com/Hundter/qBittorrent… or github.com/Mythic82/Qbittorren…
On Linux it would be something like
cp -al /home/barnaclebill/mytorrents/trackera/thismovie.2025 /home/barnaclebill/mytorrents/trackerb/Would hardlink the same torrent data in two places so that torrents for trackera can point to the trackera folder and torrents for trackerb can point to the trackerb folder.
GitHub - fedarovich/qbittorrent-cli: Command line interface for QBittorrent
Command line interface for QBittorrent. Contribute to fedarovich/qbittorrent-cli development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Thanks for the idea about exporting torrent data using the CLI - I'll look into that.
Re: linking, I currently use sym links to avoid duplicating storage across multiple trackers. My main reason for sym links is so I can link across different devices (my understanding is hard links are limited to the same device). Hard link or sym link aside, the problem is for a given torrent, I don't want to delete it from any trackers if it's performing on at least one of them. My thought process is if I'm keeping the content around for even just one of my trackers, I may as well keep cross seeding it, if for no other reason than to earn that sweet bon. The hard part is identifying which torrents are performing poorly across all trackers. If I can get the data into CSV format, then I think I can massage it well enough to tell which (poorly performing) torrents can be safely purged from all trackers.
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Growing number of US veterans face arrest over Ice raid protests
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)
Looking more like insider trading scam than AI bubble: Open AI raises commitments/partnerships to 36GW with new 10gw Broadcom deal
An AI bubble requires actual AI capabilities to be built and to fail to be called that. A stock trading scam on AI stocks is just a stock trading scam.
36GW is 36 times current US corporate owned AI datacenter capacity. All of it made at TSMC which runs full tilt as it is. TSMC's current plans is to 2x (over 3nm today) 2nm node by 2028. 4x by 2031 would still mean 2038ish to satisfy just OpenAI demand.
A big problem with having so many partners that OpenAI has no actual money to pay, is that no one has the confidence to place big TSMC capacity unless they are sure OpenAI actually buy from them, with money they get on time to buy from them. There are definitely consumer AI/gaming capabilities that can have more certain demand than the datacenter impossibilities.
Each additional announcement makes the joke more impossible to believe. CISCO did not do this during 1999 bubble. People just assumed its growth would continue.
Fine, OpenAI revenue growth may reach 3x at end of this year. At losses equal to its revenue number in 2024. OpenAI already has the most expensive models.
Broadcom stock pops 9% on OpenAI custom chip deal, adding to Nvidia and AMD agreements
OpenAI is teaming up with Broadcom to jointly develop and deploy 10 gigawatts of custom AI accelerators starting in 2026.MacKenzie Sigalos (CNBC)
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Oh yeah.
Knowing that it's just seven companies propping up the US economy, and the private ones don't have to publicly report if they just lost half a trillion dollars, it gives one pause. I'm definitely reevaluating if and when I want to move my investments to cash.
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"And when you program proprietary, you're pair programming with the devil - a reminder from your friends at the FSF."
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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th October 2025
Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
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And in related news, worldwide ecosystems are already getting perma-fucked by billionaires' repeated and relentless wrecking of our planet for personal gain.
I mention billionaires specifically because the average Joe, the 99% of humanity being told to cut down their carbon footprint and delete emails to save water, is completely fucking blameless in this.
They didn't choose to have car-centric architecture forced on them for the past goddamn century, they didn't choose to have planet-wrecking crypto farms/NFTs forced on them a few years ago, and they sure as hell didn't choose to have planet-killing AI slop extruders forced on them, either.
(Anyways, unrelated hot take of the day: taking responsibility for something you're not responsible for is a moral failing, and needs to be treated as such)
‘New reality’ as world reaches first climate tipping point
Researchers in Leeds have joined experts from across the world in warning that Earth is reaching the first of many climate tipping points that will cause catastrophic harm without urgent action.www.leeds.ac.uk
Top US Army General Says He's Letting ChatGPT Make Military Decisions
The lead US military commander in South Korea told reporters he's becoming really close with ChatGPT lately.Joe Wilkins (Futurism)
Intel Compute Sticks - Making them useful (or fun)?
Edit: So one is definitely going to be the Proselytizer Library Stick (OK I need a better name for it, fine). Going to test out some Debian options on there, just need to find a nice way to make it a user friendly portable library/reader, so feel free to mention whatever comes to mind there as well.
But I have more of these little suckers, so thats just one for now.
So I've got a few Intel compute sticks sitting on my desk here, and I don't know what I want to do with them (aside from throw them out, I'd rather find some value in them if I can).
They are STK1AW32SC, which have the atom x5-Z8330 chips, with a whopping 2gb ram, 32gb emmc, and a microsd slot.
A few things I've considered:
- Take a few LCDs and the drivers and make a "household front end", basically just point to my locally hosted services (mealie for recipes, hass, etc)
- Same thing but make it a digital picture frame
- Compute to point to a magic mirror instance
- Try out how terrible emulation is on them to make a little game console for the kids thats standalone? They already can use the living room one for that, which is a usff box with a lot more power. So probably not.
- Automatically boots to rick roll to stick in TVs at my BILs house and drive him nuts?
Open to ideas! I've got tons of machines here, so I really don't need them to do anything - which means the silly and borderline stupid (see rick roll note above) are perfectly acceptable ideas.
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Good idea, already covered with a modified lenovo tiny though
Might do a "portable" version though!
immich/machine-learning at main · immich-app/immich
High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution. - immich-app/immichGitHub
Architecture Of Joy - Amusement Park Photos by Franck Bohbot
franck bohbot frames sculptural forms in vienna's amusement park
franck bohbot’s architecture of joy explores the built environment of amusement, revealing the hidden structural beauty of vienna’s prater.thomai tsimpou I designboom (Designboom)
New release of Plan9 successor 9FRONT now available
From the Release page:
- memdraw and devdraw now support affine warp primitive with demonstration programs provided in form of games/rotzoomer and see also image(1).
- new atomic(2) functions provided for arm, arm64, mips, 386 and amd64.
- big stabilization improvements for kernel when it runs out of memory as well as complete overhaul of the mount and image cache.
- irtio10 i/o bar support for openbsd vmd.
- libc got rune normalization updated to unicode v17.
- libsec now has blake2 implementation.
- git got a new rebase utility.
- troff got ported to native plan9 from ape.
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I recommend reading their "Frequently Questioned Answers" document, aka Dash1.
fqa.9front.org/dash1.release.p…
I've read a lot of tech docs through the years. Hands down, this is my favorite.
I do not recommend installing their OS, unless you have time to kill and curiosity.
9front is completely useless. It's a programmer's toy; a sandbox to develop some OS build ideas.
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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Another view:
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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
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in reply to jobbies • • •Honestly, no - not in a direct fight. The wolves will eat whole-hog anyone with actual concern for other people. The quickest & most effective way to win against them, IMHO, is to let them have the power they want over their own base, and let that base see for themselves how the right feasts upon others indiscriminately - including upon on its own. Get out of the way as much as you can, and watch them self-destruct.
Unfortunately,, there'll be a fuck-ton of damage left behind in their wake, but that's gonna happen anyway. The only way to minimize that is to take their bait, and flight what they're doing. That's going to drag things out much longer, and only has a moderate chance of avoiding the significant damage anyway.
Yeah, I'm cynical AF, but can you really blame me?