ICE agents arrested a police officer Thursday morning in the Chicago suburb of Hanover Park, accusing him of being an unlawful immigrant from Montenegro.

The Department of Homeland Security says the officer, Radule Bojovic, overstayed a tourist visa that expired in 2015.

The Hanover Park Police Department shared a Facebook post in August announcing Bojovic’s recent graduation from the Suburban Law Enforcement Academy, adding that he had started “an intensive 15 weeks of field training and evaluation as he continues preparing to serve the Hanover Park community.”

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/16/politics/ice-arrests-chicago-suburb-police-officer-hanover-park

cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/6440655

Israel is reportedly forcing over 150 Palestinians freed from Israeli prisons as part of the ceasefire deal into exile, in a move that experts say is a violation of international law.

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office says that at least 154 Palestinians released on Monday will be exiled and deported to an unknown country, per Al Jazeera. Almost all had been residents of the occupied West Bank.

As Al Jazeera reported, families rejoiced upon hearing of their loved ones’ release, only to be devastated to hear that they would not be reunited with their family members, many of whom have been imprisoned for decades in Israel’s prisons and torture camps.

This is a violation of international law, experts said.

“Forcing Palestinian prisoners into exile in Gaza or abroad as a release condition, or expelling them post-detention, is a war crime under international law. This is exile, not freedom,” wrote Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor legal head Lima Bustami on social media.

Bustami noted that, with Israel controlling all of the borders of Palestinian territory, Israel has also prevented families from traveling abroad to see their exiled family members.

“Exile here is turned into a whole system of collective torture, to punish, to isolate, and to erase human connection itself,” Bustami said. “Exiling Palestinian prisoners is the continuation of captivity by other means…. This is not security; it is the anatomy of apartheid.”

“It goes without saying it’s illegal,” said Tamer Qarmout, public policy associate professor for the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, to Al Jazeera. “It is illegal because these are citizens of Palestine. They have no other citizenships. They’re out of a small prison, but they’re sent to a bigger prison, away from their society, to new countries in which they will face major restrictions. It’s inhumane.”

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Israeli attacks on Palestinians in Gaza continue despite ceasefire, with at least 23 confirmed killed since Saturday. Israel hands over 30 more bodies of dead Palestinians, and the Gaza health ministry publishes photos showing signs of abuse. Hamas hands over two more bodies of Israeli captives, saying it could not access the last remains without additional machinery. White House advisers indicate that they do not think Hamas failed to uphold the ceasefire agreement regarding hostage return, noting that it is ill-equipped to handle the sophisticated task of removing bodies from mounds of rubble. Palestinian prisoners detail horrific sexual abuses at the hands of their Israeli captors. The U.S. doubles the financial commitment President Donald Trump made to Argentina in support of right-wing President Javier Milei, increasing aid from $20 billion to $40 billion. The Trump administration plans to privilege white Europeans—those who demonstrate “opposition to migration” in their own countries—in its reformation of the U.S.’s refugee acceptance program. The White House gives the CIA a green light to conduct covert lethal operations in Venezuela, the New York Times reports. Pakistan and Afghanistan agree to a ceasefire. Ukrainian officials meet with American weapons manufacturers ahead of a Trump-Zelenskyy summit. Scam compounds bloom in Myanmar with the help of Elon Musk’s Starlink.

Peter Link

2025-10-16 22:57:14

Israel has killed 23 Palestinians during “ceasefire”; Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya to remain in Israeli prison

Israeli attacks on Palestinians in Gaza continue despite ceasefire, with at least 23 confirmed killed since Saturday. Israel hands over 30 more bodies of dead Palestinians, and the Gaza health ministry publishes photos showing signs of abuse. Hamas hands over two more bodies of Israeli captives, saying it could not access the last remains without additional machinery. White House advisers indicate that they do not think Hamas failed to uphold the ceasefire agreement regarding hostage return, noting that it is ill-equipped to handle the sophisticated task of removing bodies from mounds of rubble. Palestinian prisoners detail horrific sexual abuses at the hands of their Israeli captors. The U.S. doubles the financial commitment President Donald Trump made to Argentina in support of right-wing President Javier Milei, increasing aid from $20 billion to $40 billion. The Trump administration plans to privilege white Europeans—those who demonstrate “opposition to migration” in their own countries—in its reformation of the U.S.’s refugee acceptance program. The White House gives the CIA a green light to conduct covert lethal operations in Venezuela, the New York Times reports. Pakistan and Afghanistan agree to a ceasefire. Ukrainian officials meet with American weapons manufacturers ahead of a Trump-Zelenskyy summit. Scam compounds bloom in Myanmar with the help of Elon Musk’s Starlink.

Israel has killed 23 Palestinians during “ceasefire”; Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya to remain in Israeli prison

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Slowly, a full picture of the devastation of Gaza by Israel is becoming clear. The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) released a report around the time of the ceasefire that began to lay out the numbers: Israel’s bombardment of Gaza resulted in the total destruction of 190,115 buildings and the almost total destruction of another 330,500 housing units. The constant artillery and aerial fire over the 734 days of the genocide resulted in the wrecking of eighty-five percent of Gaza’s water and sewage system. Only one medical facility remained open in Gaza City at the time of the ceasefire, with ninety-four percent of hospitals and clinics destroyed or badly damaged. In fact, according to the PCBS, Gaza is currently unlivable.

It is impossible to know the full extent of the physical and mental damage inflicted upon the Palestinian people of Gaza: the Ministry of Health has inadequate numbers for the dead and injured, and the trauma will only be known over the course of the years — if specialists are indeed able to return to the area. The United Nations reports that its entire child protection apparatus in Gaza has “almost collapsed”. Stunningly, the UN notes that one in five babies in Gaza is born preterm or underweight, and that in June 2025, 11,000 pregnant women faced famine conditions while 17,000 more struggled with acute malnutrition without much relief.

The cost of rebuilding

To rebuild the lives of the survivors of the genocide is a task that has not yet been fully understood. Gaza has been pummeled by Israel since at least the time when Hamas prevailed in the 2006 parliamentary elections. These punctual attacks by Israel on Gaza’s Palestinian population and infrastructure – including near genocides in 2009 and 2014 – resulted in major rebuilding efforts largely financed by the Gulf Arabs (led by the Qataris) and by the European Union (in 2014, at the Cairo Conference on Gaza Reconstruction, the donors pledged USD 5.4 billion but only spent USD 2.6 billion, partly due to Israeli intransigence regarding the Gaza Reconstruction Mechanism).

In February 2025, the UN, the European Union, and the World Bank released an Interim Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment that estimated that USD 53.2 billion would be needed for recovery and reconstruction over a decade and that USD 20 billion would be needed over the next three years to rebuild infrastructure, restore essential services, and restart the destroyed economy. An Egyptian plan came up with the same estimate of USD 53 billion, but to be spent over five years. All eyes are on the Gulf states to foot the bill, but this is not something that can be relied upon for the Palestinians. There is no voice in the debate that says that Israel must pay for the reconstruction, since it was Israel that destroyed Gaza.

Politicide of the Palestinians

One of the reasons why there is no such clear voice that demands reparations from Israel is that Palestinian politics itself has been wounded by the long-term occupation, going back decades, and by Israel’s policy of targeted assassination and incarceration of popular Palestinian leaders. For instance, of the five major factions, their most popular leaders have suffered in prison for over two decades: Marwan Barghouti, by far the most popular Palestinian leader and one of the key figures in Fatah and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), has been a political prisoner for twenty-three years and six months, while Ahmad Sa’adat, the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), has been a political prisoner for twenty-three years and eight months. Hamas and Islamic Jihad leaders have either been in exile or killed regularly in Gaza (for example, from Hamas, its founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin was killed by an Israeli strike in Gaza in March 2004, followed by Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi in April 2004, and then a wave of assassinations in the past few years – including Saleh al-Arouri, Muhammad Ismail Darwish, Osama Mazini, Ismail Haniyeh, and Yahya Sinwar).

Between the prison and the bomb, almost the entire leadership structure of the major Palestinian political parties has been decimated. The fourteen Palestinian leaders who came to Beijing in 2024 to sign a joint agreement certainly represented their organizations, but they were not the most widely known or popular figures (such as Fatah’s Mahmoud al-Aloul, who is often spoken of as a successor to Mahmoud Abbas; Musa Abu Marzouk, often thought of as the Hamas foreign minister; and Jamil Mazhar, who is a leader of the PFLP). The seriousness of the fourteen-party talks would have been amplified had Marwan Barghouti and Ahmad Sa’adat been at the table. But Israel will not permit them to leave the prisons, even as the Palestinians continue to put them high up on their prisoner exchange lists. Israel knows that if it can continue to decapitate the Palestinian political leadership, it will make Palestine rely more on the compromised presidency of Abbas, on the Gulf Arabs, and on the spineless Arab neighbors (such as Egypt and Jordan). No one will speak directly for the Palestinians or for the need to end the occupation; they will only talk of rebuilding in the mildest way for the refugees and of security guarantees for the Israelis to continue their occupation.

Who will speak for the Palestinians?

One cannot judge Yasser Arafat, the leader of the PLO, merely for his surrender of the Palestinian position at the Oslo Accords in 1994. That will not allow one to properly understand his role, which was cemented when he led the founding of the PLO thirty years previously, in 1964 in Kuwait. From that date until the late 1980s, Arafat was highly respected as the visible face of the Palestinian cause, and whatever differences existed amongst the factions, Arafat spoke for the Palestinian people as their undisputed spokesperson. Since Oslo, since the delegitimization of Arafat, no such political figure has been permitted to articulate the Palestinian position in any negotiation or dialogue. The Israeli policy of incarceration and assassination of Palestinian leaders and its policy of demonization of Palestinian political organizations (designating them all as terrorists, for instance) has meant that no figure has been able to emerge in Arafat’s place as the voice of the Palestinian people.

What this has meant is that others speak for Palestine, and often misrepresent the Palestinian position because that position cannot be democratically arrived at without regular meetings of the factions and without their main political leaders being at the table. Israel knows this very well, which is why it has either held the political prisoners for decades (unlawfully) without allowing them access to any media or to their colleagues, or it has assassinated any leader, even mid-level leaders, who show any promise of being an articulate spokesperson for the Palestinian cause (such as the PFLP’s Abu Ali Mustafa in 2001 and Hamas’ Salah Shehade in 2002).

For decades now, the Israelis have complained that there is no ‘partner to peace’ from the Palestinian side. But how can there be a ‘partner to peace’ if the Israelis routinely murder Palestinian political leaders or hold them in terrible conditions inside Israeli jails on administrative – or non-criminal – grounds? To say that every one of the Palestinian factions is a terrorist organization, which the Israelis have done with full US backing, is to delegitimize all Palestinian politics. This is why the Israelis and the United States, as well as the Gulf Arabs, are quite happy to talk about the rebuilding of Gaza without any Palestinian representation at the table; indeed, even the Egyptian plan, which suggests the need to have Palestinian involvement, is content to speak of the need for “Palestinian professionals” to be at the table and not the actual political organizations that represent the Palestinian people’s interests. The systematic attempt to destroy Palestinian politics results in a situation where Israel can determine when it bombs Palestinians and how it rebuilds their homes with the money of the Gulf Arabs; it is to Israel’s advantage to prevent any Palestinian representation from being built and from being at the table.

Release Barghouti and Sa’adat

But, indeed, the continued resilience of the Palestinian factions frustrates Israel’s ambitions. The political organizations remain alive and well and they will demand a role in the reconstruction of Gaza as well as in any talks that take place regarding Palestine. It is easy for the US government to designate whomever it wants unilaterally as a terrorist organization, just as it is easy for Israel to do so (and for the European Union). The United Nations has never placed any Palestinian group on its sanctions list, and it has not designated any of these groups as a terrorist organization. Despite the parochial nature of the Western idea that Hamas or the PFLP are terrorist organizations, this is not the view of most of the world. They see them as political groups, indeed as national liberation groups that are fighting for Palestinian emancipation from apartheid, occupation, and now genocide. Because of the overwhelming role of the US and the European Union on the side of Israel, the Palestinian organizations are often absent from the discussions about the future of Palestine. This means, in fact, that Palestine is absent from the conversations about its own future.

One way to change this equation is to release the political leaders (such as Marwan Barghouti and Ahmad Sa’adat), allow their organizations to openly deliberate the future of Palestine, and then allow them to represent those views at the rebuilding and negotiation table. Anything other than that is merely the continuation of the genocide by other means.

Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian, editor, and journalist. He is a writing fellow and chief correspondent at Globetrotter. He is an editor of LeftWord Books and the director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. He has written more than 20 books, including The Darker Nations and The Poorer Nations. His latest books are On Cuba: Reflections on 70 Years of Revolution and Struggle (with Noam Chomsky), Struggle Makes Us Human: Learning from Movements for Socialism, and (also with Noam Chomsky) The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of US Power. Chelwa and Prashad will publish “How the International Monetary Fund is Suffocating Africa” later this year with Inkani Books.

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Israel’s intensified military operations continue to threaten an already weakened health system, amidst worsening mass population displacement and acute shortages of food, water, medical supplies, fuel and shelter.

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Israeli attacks on Palestinians in Gaza continue despite ceasefire, with at least 23 confirmed killed since Saturday. Israel hands over 30 more bodies of dead Palestinians, and the Gaza health ministry publishes photos showing signs of abuse. Hamas hands over two more bodies of Israeli captives, saying it could not access the last remains without additional machinery. White House advisers indicate that they do not think Hamas failed to uphold the ceasefire agreement regarding hostage return, noting that it is ill-equipped to handle the sophisticated task of removing bodies from mounds of rubble. Palestinian prisoners detail horrific sexual abuses at the hands of their Israeli captors. The U.S. doubles the financial commitment President Donald Trump made to Argentina in support of right-wing President Javier Milei, increasing aid from $20 billion to $40 billion. The Trump administration plans to privilege white Europeans—those who demonstrate “opposition to migration” in their own countries—in its reformation of the U.S.’s refugee acceptance program. The White House gives the CIA a green light to conduct covert lethal operations in Venezuela, the New York Times reports. Pakistan and Afghanistan agree to a ceasefire. Ukrainian officials meet with American weapons manufacturers ahead of a Trump-Zelenskyy summit. Scam compounds bloom in Myanmar with the help of Elon Musk’s Starlink.

Peter Link

2025-10-16 22:57:14

Israel has killed 23 Palestinians during “ceasefire”; Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya to remain in Israeli prison

Israeli attacks on Palestinians in Gaza continue despite ceasefire, with at least 23 confirmed killed since Saturday. Israel hands over 30 more bodies of dead Palestinians, and the Gaza health ministry publishes photos showing signs of abuse. Hamas hands over two more bodies of Israeli captives, saying it could not access the last remains without additional machinery. White House advisers indicate that they do not think Hamas failed to uphold the ceasefire agreement regarding hostage return, noting that it is ill-equipped to handle the sophisticated task of removing bodies from mounds of rubble. Palestinian prisoners detail horrific sexual abuses at the hands of their Israeli captors. The U.S. doubles the financial commitment President Donald Trump made to Argentina in support of right-wing President Javier Milei, increasing aid from $20 billion to $40 billion. The Trump administration plans to privilege white Europeans—those who demonstrate “opposition to migration” in their own countries—in its reformation of the U.S.’s refugee acceptance program. The White House gives the CIA a green light to conduct covert lethal operations in Venezuela, the New York Times reports. Pakistan and Afghanistan agree to a ceasefire. Ukrainian officials meet with American weapons manufacturers ahead of a Trump-Zelenskyy summit. Scam compounds bloom in Myanmar with the help of Elon Musk’s Starlink.

Israel has killed 23 Palestinians during “ceasefire”; Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya to remain in Israeli prison

Drop Site Daily: October 16, 2025

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cross-posted from: infosec.pub/post/36262288

Malicious payloads stored on Ethereum and BNB blockchains are immune to takedowns.

Nation-state hackers deliver malware from “bulletproof” blockchains

^{Dan Goodin (Ars Technica)}

Spero di non fare le palle troppo quadrate a tutti con questo nuovo gioco dei Pochemo, e vedrò di non esagerare con il postaggio a riguardo, perché so che magari ad alcuni può non fregare… probabilmente io sarei la prima a cui non fregherebbe, se non mi fosse venuta l’idea stavolta di dare una chance […]

octospacc.altervista.org/2025/…

minioctt

2025-10-16 21:56:02

“LEGGENDE POKEMON Z-A: GIOCATO SU SWITCH 2 ED È PESSIMO ANCHE LÌ”

Spero di non fare le palle troppo quadrate a tutti con questo nuovo gioco dei Pochemo, e vedrò di non esagerare con il postaggio a riguardo, perché so che magari ad alcuni può non fregare… probabilmente io sarei la prima a cui non fregherebbe, se non mi fosse venuta l’idea stavolta di dare una chance a questo pezzo di intrattenimento videoludico che, per abitudine, presumevo marcio. Ma… in realtà, sotto sotto, marcio questo Leggende Z-A lo è comunque, e a ‘sto giro sto vedendo tante persone in giro che si lamentano… addirittura più del passato, se è possibile. 😳

Nonostante, dopo ormai tipo 4-5 ore di gameplay lasco, il gioco rimane per me ancora bellissimo e fighissimo, ho guardato le impressioni a caldo che i Playerinside hanno caricato oggi (minchia, li ho battuti malamente sul tempo scrivendo le mie qui ieri, grazie al potere del torrente!!!), che credo facciano un po’ il sunto, per mezzo della loro esperienza diretta (oddio, direi di Raiden, visto che Midna sta lì ferma praticamente; a lei non piace giocare ai Pochemo), di queste lagne che si stanno diffondendo, e… Porca miseria, hanno ragione, è tutto giusto; la situazione è oggettivamente gravissima! 💀

youtube.com/watch?v=uHhIGXzPT8…

Sorvolando su come i commenti facciano assolutamente pisciare, essendo tutti molto oggettivamente condivisibili, per quanto tristi nella loro ironia… È incredibile quanto sono stata in pochi attimi rapita da questo gioco a tal punto che, se ero partita già gustando tutti i difetti di design, poi ho dimenticato tutto, ed in effetti è seccante. In live avevo fatto anche un commento sulle finestre che mi sembravano del Nintendo 64, ma non avevo guardato bene tutte quelle che c’erano in giro e, dopo essere stata stregata, ecco che non ho proprio fatto più caso alle finestre totalmente 2D ovunque con una texture di ringhiera compenetrata (mamma mia…), alla distanza di rendering penosa, ai palazzi che tutt’ora mi sembrano “spenti”, o che altro. 🤥

Non lo definirei un vero problema per me questo, perché comunque io racconto le mie cose, incluse le mie esperienze coi videogiochi, come mi va, e mai mi sono pretesa come capacissima nelle recensioni… però, fa pensare. E, ora che ci ho pensato, temo di capire come mai il brand Pokémon va ancora avanti nonostante tutti si lamentino… è perché alla fine i giochi vendono sempre milioni di copie in un colpo, ma ciò succede non per caso; è perché i fan sono abituati alla sloppa, quindi o non riescono a vedere i difetti tecnici oggettivi in questi prodotti, perché semplicemente non hanno grandi paragoni da fare in mente, oppure copano e vanno avanti con false giustificazioni, cose di questo tipo. 💩

In effetti io, a questo giro, rientro nella prima categoria… Lo sanno soprattutto le pareti che, tutto sommato, sono tremendamente casual gamer io, e quindi ecco che magicamente in questi affari riesco a dimenticarmi di ogni cosa brutta marginale — inclusa una grafica che, va detto, è malfatta; non in termini di fedeltà visiva e basta, ma proprio come direzione artistica e coerenza interna, ed è da anni che Pokémon sta messo così — se il gaming in qualche modo mi prende. Da un lato è una benedizione, perché evvivaa, il divertimentoo… ma, dall’altro, è un ennesimo problema di skill della mia persona. 😰

La vera differenza tra questo e gli altri ultimi Pokémon per Switch, in effetti, è che questo ha un sistema di combattimento nuovo che sto amando, e una struttura progressiva che, seppur guidata, non ostacola la libera esplorazione… Dal lato della fattura tecnica, invece, rimane una mezza schifezza come i precedenti, eppure questo mi va bene. E si, da un lato centrerà il fatto che io questo gioco non l’ho pagato, bensì l’ho ricevuto in dono dai russi tramite il torrente dietro casa, e quindi è chiaro che a caval piratato non mi viene proprio l’istinto di guardare in bocca, mentre con caval comprato basta giustamente un pelo fuori posto per sentirsi fregati, ma… sono invero assuefatta dalla sloppa, non c’è niente da fare. 🥰

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Il gioco include comunque molte meccaniche secondarie epiche. Scopri la funzionalità anti-suicidio dello Smart Rotom nel nuovo articolo su stuffoctt: Il magico sistema anti-caduta in Leggende Pokémon: Z-A. (Messaggio promocttionale.)

#LeggendePokemonZA #Pokémon #Pokemon #PokemonZA

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“We think we’re on the cusp of the next evolution, where AI happens not just in that chatbot and gets naturally integrated into the hundreds of millions of experiences that people use every day,” says Yusuf Mehdi, executive vice president and consumer chief marketing officer at Microsoft, in a briefing with The Verge. “The vision that we have is: let’s rewrite the entire operating system around AI, and build essentially what becomes truly the AI PC.”

...yikes

Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

Microsoft is bringing new AI features to all Windows 11 PCs. Copilot Voice and Copilot Vision are now rolling out to turn computers into AI PCs.

^{Tom Warren (The Verge)}

Leggende Pokémon: Z-A, con la sua freschissima ambientazione urbana, che vede una Luminopoli ora esplorabile fino all'estremo, ha evidentemente presentato diverse nuove sfide ai game designer...

stuff.octt.eu.org/2025/10/il-m…

Artificial neurons that mimic the brain's efficiency are here, using 1/10th the voltage and 1/100th the power of others.

These neurons can, for the first time, process information from living cells without an intermediary device amplifying or modulating the signals, the researchers say.

While some artificial neurons already exist, they require electronic amplification to sense the signals our bodies produce, explains Jun Yao, who works on bioelectronics and nanoelectronics at UMass Amherst. The amplification inflates both power usage and circuit complexity, and so counters efficiencies found in the brain.

The neuron created by Yao’s team can understand the body’s signals at their natural amplitude of around 0.1 volts. This is “highly novel,” says Bozhi Tian, a biophysicist who studies living bioelectronics at the University of Chicago and was not involved in the work. This work “bridges the long-standing gap between electronic and biological signaling” and demonstrates interaction between artificial neurons and living cells that Tian calls “unprecedented.”

Artificial Neurons Bridge Bio-Electronic Gap

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I've downloaded EtchDroid, but only a few minutes ago.
I see straight away that I can't download different distros from within the app like I could in DriveDroid.
I'm also not sure I can boot from my phone using EtchDroid, but I will look into that a bit more as it does often seem to be mentioned as a (good) alternative to DriveDroid.

Any others? Mainly that I can download distros inside app, boot from phone in live usb mode, and without root.

cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/44188451

I'd like to start a thread for people to share what they're using for search now that quality & relevance of results are in steep decline on all major search engines.

I'm doing this for selfish as well as altruistic reasons, mostly because my "stack" has gotten a lot less useful over the past year, because the search engines I use repackage Bing, whose ability to return relevant results at all seems to be cratering.

My (shitty and getting worse) solution:

• DuckDuckGo as default search engine mostly for bang commands, in my personal opinion DDG's relevance has been shit for its entire existence
• StartPage as where I direct most of my general searches (by appending !sp on DDG)
• currently attempting to tune the Ublacklist extension to remove most of the clickbait results; this works, but it's not easy to set up if you don't use Google which seems to be the main search engine the developer tests with

The problem with this approach is that increasingly, Bing simply doesn't return hits on topics I know should have plenty to choose from. Filters only solve the issue of too many hits, not too few.

BTW I tried Qwant, but their claim of having their own index seems to be bullshit, the results look like repackaged Bing to me. And, the UX is terrible in Firefox for Android.

I'd love to hear suggestions.

tl;dr pls share what you are doing for web search these days in order to work around the rapidly declining quality of major search engines

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• OS: Bazzite 42
• Global Theme: Vapor
• Colors: Catppuccin Macchiato Sky (modified to add transparency)
• Application Style: Darkly
• Plasma Style: Breeze
• Window Decorations: Darkly
• Icons: Fluent Dark
• Cursors: Breeze Dark
• Fonts: Inter and Iosevka

I'm also using Better Blur for the window blur, Panel Colorizer to change the opacity of the Plasma Panel and change some icons on the tray to be monochrome, and I'm using Lucidglyph for better font rendering.

Felt like showing off my new customization comrades!

https://x.com/Channel4News/status/1978860897201197412

Other mentions of prisoners from today on this community :
- lemmy.ml/post/37589373 ;
- lemmy.world/post/37423140

Others :
- lemmy.world/post/37491370

geneva_convenience

2025-10-15 19:50:56

Jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti suffers rib fractures after assault in Israeli prisons

Jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti sustained rib fractures after being beaten in Israeli prisons, the Prisoners’ Media Office said Wednesday, Anadolu reports.

The Hamas-run office said on Telegram that Barghouti was beaten by Israeli prison guards while being transferred from Ramon Prison in southern Israel to Megiddo Prison in the north in mid-September.

The imprisoned leader lost consciousness and suffered a fracture in four ribs, it added.

Barghouti, 66, a senior leader of President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah group, is one of the most prominent and popular figures in Palestinian politics.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251015-jailed-palestinian-leader-marwan-barghouti-suffers-rib-fractures-after-assault-in-israeli-prisons/

No matter what, since these features are cloud-based, your data will need to be processed on a foreign server, not on your device. Microsoft promises it isn’t storing or abusing your prompts or whatever appears on your screen. After the Recall snafi, it’s increasingly difficult to trust the Windows maker. Now that Microsoft wants you to put privacy concerns aside for the sake of its ever-present AI, it’s going to have to offer a more compelling use case than an AI that hums on command.

yeah no thanks

Microsoft Desperately Wants Users To Talk to Their Windows PCs

Thought Copilot was invasive before? Watch it completely take over your PC.

^{Kyle Barr (Gizmodo)}

https://dailyboulder.com/sidewalk-chalk-messages-force-stephen-miller-to-flee-arlington-put-home-up-for-sale/

Bad news, baby. The New Yorker reports the rapid advance of AI in the workplace will create a “permanent underclass” of everyone not already hitched to the AI train.

The prediction comes from OpenAI employee Leopold Aschenbrenner, who claims AI will “reach or exceed human capacity” by 2027. Once it develops capacity to innovate, AI superintelligence will supersede even a need for its own programmers … and then wipe out the jobs done by everyone else.

Nate Soares, winner of “most sunshine in book title” and co-author of AI critique If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies suggests “people should not be banking on work in the long term”. Math tutors, cinematographers, brand strategists and journalists are quoted by the New Yorker, freaking out.

The consolation here is that if you are among those panicking about being forced into the permanent underclass, you are already in it. Inherited wealth makes more billionaires than entrepreneurship, the opportunity gap is growing; if your family don’t have the readies to fund your tech startup, media empire or eventual presidential ambitions, it’s probably because they were in a tech-displaced underclass, too.

AI might be creating a ‘permanent underclass’ but it’s the makers of the tech bubble who are replaceable

Despite the relentless insistence of tech’s grifters, AI is not industrially inevitable – or even sustainable. Which is why it is time to push back

^{Van Badham (The Guardian)}

Fedia.io seems to have issues with federated content from kbin.earth. Most of my threads are missing their bodies (examples: fedia.io/m/thighdeology@ani.so…, fedia.io/m/helltaker@sopuli.xy…) but some have one (fedia.io/m/konosuba_megumin@an…).

They are all created the same way (which involves creating an image entry and immediately editing it via the API to add the body), so maybe this might be a cause? A similar issue was with Piefed, which also got hiccups with the fast edit activities.

@jerry@fedia.io

Also pinging @melroy@kbin.melroy.org as it might be a problem of Mbin and not only fedia.io.

However, when addressing the principles of the Republican Party, Johnson said, "We fought the Nazis. We've defended that evil ideology."

Johnson was addressing an incident where a staffer of Republican Representative Dave Taylor appeared to have a swastika in the background of a video call.

"He says that that's not his, and there's a proper investigation ongoing," Johnson told reporters. "And the congressman did exactly what he should have done and that is report it."

Johnson said he could not comment more until the investigation has been completed, but "obviously, that is not the principles of the Republican Party."

Mike Johnson’s Nazi Remark Gaffe Called Out by Critics—’Freudian Slip’

House Speaker Mike Johnson made the gaffe while trying to defend the Republican Party amid the government shutdown standoff.

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A federal judge in California on Wednesday ordered President Donald Trump's administration to halt mass layoffs of federal workers during a partial government shutdown while she considers claims by unions that the job cuts are illegal.

During a hearing in San Francisco, U.S. District Judge Susan Illston granted a request by two unions to block layoffs at more than 30 federal agencies while the case proceeds.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-judge-says-she-will-likely-block-trumps-mass-layoffs-during-government-2025-10-15/