High disk read compared to seeding speed
cross-posted from: lemmy.today/post/39908979
Hi, I'm having a problem with my qBittorrent setup that I can't quite debug or find information on.I'm seeding from a hard drive and I get something like 5-15 MBps of seeding capacity depending on the day. However I noticed upon inspecting a system monitor (I am running Debian 13) the total disk IO read was about 4x the seeding speed.
I've tweaked the advanced settings all I can to no avail. I am using the version of QBit from Devian 13 main. It's 5.Something.
Would anyone have insight on this problem? I'll take anything at this point. The application is using about 250MB of RAM.
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Don't know if this helps you but did you already try changing Disk IO Type to Simple pread/pwrite (in advanced settings)? It was meant to address some issues with disk read/write + RAM usage. Not something that affected me all that much but could be worth a look.
Was mentioned in the 5.0.1 release notes and in the github pages
github.com/qbittorrent/qBittor…
Beyond that I'd echo the other comment, try to just change settings you actually need to change. Oftentimes people make a whole ton of settings changes in their torrent client and then can't figure out how to get it back to normal.
Add "Simple pread/pwrite" disk IO type by HanabishiRecca · Pull Request #21300 · qbittorrent/qBittorrent
I think everyone is aware of infamous LT20 memory-mapped files problems at this point. In case someone not up to the topic: arvidn/libtorrent#6667. Despite it being on its way to a pread-disk-io im...GitHub
This helped! Disk IO read is now a bit less than double the speed bandwidth! Much more reasonable. Thank you/😀)))))
Edit: it has now steadied out to about 1.25x the seed traffic! Amazing!
Keir is mad his favorite club got banned from bringing their hooligans along
No Maccabi Tel Aviv fans allowed at Aston Villa for Europa League tie
Aston Villa confirm no away fans will be permitted to attend the Europa League match at Villa Park against Maccabi Tel Aviv in November.BBC Sport
Israeli guards stripped and filmed Thunberg naked, wrote 'whore' on her luggage
Israel is a terror state and a fascist, ethno-supremacist project. If this is how it treats Thunberg imagine what it is doing to Palestinians
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A classified network of SpaceX satellites is emitting a mysterious signal
A constellation of classified defense satellites built by the commercial company SpaceX is emitting a mysterious signal that may violate international standards, NPR has learned.
Three-year-old Michigan boy saves mother’s life with quick thinking after she has seizure
Cody James Williams used facial recognition to call for help as his mother suffered medical emergency
Sicurezza dei Caruggi: storia senza fine
immagine di Google Maps di parte del Centro Storico di Genova, con evidenziato Vico della Croce Bianca
Dopo un suo sopralluogo al presidio sociale di Afet Acquilone in vico Croce Bianca, dove i problemi di sicurezza tra spaccio e delinquenza sembrano essere all'ordine del giorno, la sindaca Silvia Salis ha richiesto una riunione del Comitato Provinciale per l'Ordine e la Sicurezza Pubblica (presieduto dal Prefetto e composto dai rappresentati delle Forze di Polizia), il cui esito è raccontato nell'articolo comparso sul sito di Primocanale.it
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Emergenza droga nei vicoli, ecco il piano di contrasto a spaccio e degrado. Novità anche per l'ex ghetto
Un piano straordinario di potenziamento dei servizi della poliziaAu. B. (Primocanale)
Attentato a Sigfrido Ranucci: auto fatta esplodere sotto casa, indaga l’Antimafia
Grande paura per Sigfrido Ranucci e la sua famiglia. Nella tarda serata di ieri, davanti all’abitazione in zona Campo Ascolano (Pomezia), un ordigno piazzato sotto l’auto del conduttore di Report è esploso, distruggendo il veicolo e danneggiando la macchina della figlia. Sul posto sono intervenuti Carabinieri, Digos, Vigili del Fuoco e Polizia Scientifica. Nessun ferito, ma la deflagrazione è stata descritta come potenzialmente letale per chiunque fosse transitato in quel momento.
I DETTAGLI: Attentato a Sigfrido Ranucci: auto fatta esplodere sotto casa, indaga l’Antimafia
Attentato a Sigfrido Ranucci: auto esplosa a Pomezia, indaga l’Antimafia
Attentato a Sigfrido Ranucci: ordigno sotto l’auto del conduttore di Report, esplosione a Pomezia, nessun ferito. Indaga l'antimafia.Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)
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One World Government: Crazy Idea, Utopia or Logical Next Step?
One World Government: Crazy Idea, Utopia or Logical Next Step?
If you appreciate the work I do here, consider supporting the channel by signing up for Means TV, the world's first 100% worker owned streaming platform. Get 20% off by signing up with my link - ht...TankieTube
Global markets fall and gold hits record high amid jitters over US banks
Global stock markets fell sharply and gold hit a record high after two US regional banks said they had been left exposed to millions of dollars of bad loans and alleged fraud.
Signs of credit stress rattled markets across Europe and Asia. In London the FTSE 100 fell 1.5%, Germany’s Dax fell 2%, the Ibex in Spain was off 0.8% and France’s Cac 40 dropped 1.5%, before recovering some ground.
Concerns over credit stress in the network of loans to businesses across the world’s largest economy fuelled heavy losses on Wall Street on Thursday, followed by Asian markets, with Japan’s Nikkei 225 falling 1.6% and the Hang Seng in Hong Kong dropping 2%. US markets are expected to open down later on Friday.
Global markets fall and gold hits record high amid jitters over US banks
Signs of credit stress leave markets in Europe and Asia down, while investors turn to safe haven assetsMark Sweney (The Guardian)
What is politics: The Secret History of Israel/Palestine pt2: Fellahin and Bedouin in the Ottoman Empire
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October Quiz Answers
Here are the answers to this month’s six quiz questions. If in doubt, all should be able to be easily verified online.
Classical & Ancient World
- What is the name of the home of the Greek Gods? Olympus
- Which body of the water was called mare nostrum by the Romans? Mediterranean
- Ask and Embla are the Norse equivalent to the Christian what? Adam and Eve
- What was the name of the Egyptian God of the Sun? Ra
- In Roman mythology, who is the goddess of the sewers? Cloacina
- Which word derives from the Latin for “sand” and originally denoted part of a Roman amphitheatre that was covered with sand to soak up the blood from combat? Arena
Answers were correct when questions were compiled in late 2024.
When to upgrade hardware?
I have a Gen1 Threadripper system. I have a mixed gaming, but mostly workstation workload. In modern, unoptimised games my GPU (rtx3000 product line) is already being CPU bottlenecked, but only slightly, 5-10%. And it has too little VRAM for properly accelerating my workstation tasks.
I'd like to upgrade my hardware with an AMD 1st gen DDR6 CPU (prob. 2027) and buy an according GPU in the same year. I'm planning a usage duration for at least 10 years and then probably same thing but with DDR8.
My priority is to have an excellent price/performance ratio. I only want to buy something new, if I know it will last me a long time.
How good is my plan at accomplishing my goal? I'd like some feedback please. How would you go about it?
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Raila Odinga's body: At least three dead after Kenya police open fire to disperse mourners
At least three people have died in Kenya after police fired gunshots and tear gas in a stadium where crowds of mourners had gathered to see the body of former Prime Minister Raila Odinga.
Prominent rights group Vocal Africa told the BBC that three bodies of those killed in the chaos had been taken to the city's main mortuary. Local media has reported that a fourth person also died as officers sought to disperse the surging crowds.
It is not yet clear whether the police used live ammunition or rubber bullets in the arena, located in the capital, Nairobi. Vocal Africa said those who died had sustained gunshot wounds.
A BBC reporter at the scene also saw men in civilian clothing beating protesters with batons.
Raila Odinga's body: At least three dead after Kenya police open fire to disperse mourners
The crowds were so big that the public viewing was moved from the parliament building to a stadium.Wedaeli Chibelushi (BBC News)
Lifespan of AI Chips: The $300 Billion Question - CITP Blog
Lifespan of AI Chips: The $300 Billion Question - CITP Blog
There's no question that we are in the midst of making one of the largest industrial infrastructure bets in United States history.Mihir Kshirsagar (CITP Blog)
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Nella newsletter di oggi 17 ottobre de L'Unica-Genova Erica Manna tratta dell'occupazione dell'università
Foto di Roberto Orlando
È il collettivo “Cambiare rotta” a guidare la lotta, ma il movimento è composito e non accetta sigle ed etichette.
Alcuni studenti fanno parte di “Giovani contro la guerra”, altri di “Opposizione studentesca d’alternativa”: il gruppo è vasto ed eterogeneo e soprattutto è nato dal basso, composto da universitari e anche da alunni delle scuole superiori.
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YouTube is Broken: GN Gets Hit with More Copyright Claims
cross-posted from: piefed.ca/post/282211
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One thing people need to understand is that YouTube copyright claim process is not a legal process. It can become a legal process if both sides dispute each others claims, but the actual claim system is not a legal process. As a result Google is always acting like all claims are valid even when they are most obviously bullshit simply to not piss of copyright holders and lead them to sueing YouTube for not enforcing DMCA. Once claim is disputed they will review the claim manually, but then it comes down to how much risk YouTube want to take on themselves. Most often they don't want any risk.
The whole YouTube site is built on trust that YouTube will enforce DMCA with their custom system and save everyone money by copyright holders not having to file legal claims for each DMCA case individually and them not suying YouTube in return. Without that "trust" YouTube wouldn't exist as it would have been klilled in the first years of its existance by legal fees.
PipeWire 1.5.81 (1.6 RC1) released
1.5.81 (1.6 RC1) · PipeWire / pipewire · GitLab
PipeWire 1.5.81 (2025-10-16) This is the first 1.6 release candidate that is API and ABI compatible with previous 1.4.x, 1.2.x and...GitLab
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US ‘on a trajectory’ toward authoritarian rule, ex-officials warn
The United States is “on a trajectory” toward authoritarian rule, according to a sobering new intelligence-style assessment by former US intelligence and national security officials, who warn that democratic backsliding is accelerating under the Trump administration – and may soon become entrenched without organized resistance.The report, titled Accelerating Authoritarian Dynamics: Assessment of Democratic Decline, was released on Thursday by the Steady State, a network of more than 340 former officers of the CIA, the NSA, the state department and other national security agencies.
To conduct the assessment, the authors applied the same analytic methods used by US intelligence agencies to assess the fragility of democracies abroad but turned them inward for what the group called a “first-of-its-kind” analysis of domestic democratic decline.
“We wrote it because the same tools we once used to assess foreign risks now show unmistakable warning signs at home,” the group said in a statement upon its release.
It's one thing for the plebs to get bent out of shape. When you've got former spooks irritated the the ground is shifting so fast they eventually decided to just release the report while reserving the right to further updates, that's a far more serious situation.
US ‘on a trajectory’ toward authoritarian rule, ex-officials warn
A network of former intelligence and security officers says democratic decline is accelerating under Trump’s ruleLauren Gambino (The Guardian)
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Abuse victims still face 'disturbing' retaliation: Vatican commission
Vatican City (AFP) – Victims of clerical sex abuse still face "disturbing" retaliation from Catholic Church leaders for speaking out despite years of efforts to tackle the global scourge, a Vatican commission said Thursday.In its second annual report, the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors set out how local Catholic churches can better help survivors, highlighting "cultural resistance" that hinders action in many countries.
The document was drawn up with the contributions of 40 victims, who shared their personal stories -- and who gave what the commission described as "disturbing accounts of retaliation" by Church leaders after they reported their abuse.
"My brother was a seminarian. The bishop told my family that my complaint could affect his ordination," one recalled.
Another described how a priest in the local church publicly declared their family excommunicated after they reported the abuse.
Yet another recounted that the local bishop said nothing for months after a case was reported, then sent representatives to persuade the victim it did not happen, "saying I was making trouble".
Others cited ongoing cases of abuse in their dioceses.
One person was "aware of other priests engaging in sexual relationships with young girls and nuns", while another said that "cases of forced abortions among religious sisters are ignored by Church authorities."
The co-director of victims' rights group BishopAccountability.org, Anne Barrett Doyle, called the victim testimony "especially sobering", adding that the Church was "still failing to prioritize" the safety of children.
"The commission is to be commended for depicting how little progress the church has made in ending abuse and cover-up," she said in a statement.
The late Pope Francis set up the commission near the beginning of his pontificate in 2014, as the Catholic Church was roiled by sexual abuse scandals around the world.
After years of criticism that it was toothless, Francis integrated the panel -- which includes religious and lay experts in the field of safeguarding -- into the government of the Holy See in 2022, and requested an annual progress report.
Thursday's report emphasised the importance of listening to survivors, offering psychological and financial support, and crucially, of acknowledging and taking public responsibility for what happened.
"The Church bears a moral and spiritual obligation to heal the deep wounds inflicted from sexual violence perpetrated, enabled, mishandled, or covered up by anyone holding a position of authority in the Church," read the 103-page report, which has been shared with Pope Leo XIV.
It added: "The damage to victims'/survivors' relationship to the Church cannot be healed without the Church taking responsibility and making reparations."
Commission President Thibault Verny told AFP that, faced with "persistent systemic shortcomings", the annual report was intended as a "tool" for use across the global Catholic Church, which counts some 1.4 billion followers.
It examined in detail almost 20 countries, and highlighted cultural resistance, taboos and silence over abuse from Malta to Ethiopia, Mozambique and Guinea.
In Italy, which has strong ties to the Vatican, the report noted a "substantial cultural resistance" in addressing abuse, while reproaching its bishops for a resistance to collaborate, as only 81 dioceses responded to the commission's survey out of a total of 226.
"It is a true cry that the victims raise: they do not feel listened to, not supported, sometimes there is no empathetic relationship, nor even respect," said Bishop Luis Manuel Ali Herrera, the commission secretary, during a press conference.
Francis, who was pope from 2013 until his death in April, took numerous measures to tackle abuse, from opening up internal documents to punishing high-ranking clergy, while making it compulsory to report suspicions of sexual assault to Church authorities.
But clergy are still not required to report abuse to civil authorities, unless a country's laws require it, while any revelations made in confession remain private.
Verny said Pope Leo "took up this issue very early on" after his election in May.
However, in an interview published in September, the US pope irritated victims' associations by insisting on the need to protect priests who were falsely accused of abuse, as well as listening to survivors.
"There may be false allegations. It must be said that they are a very, very small proportion," Verny said.
But clergy are still not required to report abuse to civil authorities, unless a country's laws require it, while any revelations made in confession remain private.
Pedophiles protect other pedophiles.
In the doghouse: flying canines count as cargo, EU court rules
Madrid (AFP) – The European Union's top court ruled Thursday that a dog travelling in an aeroplane's cargo hold counts as baggage, meaning airlines are not required to pay higher compensation if the animal is lost.The ruling stems from a dispute between Spanish airline Iberia and a passenger whose dog, Mona, went missing before a flight from Buenos Aires to Barcelona in October 2019.
The dog, which had to travel in a pet carrier in the aircraft's hold due to its size and weight, escaped while being taken to the plane and was never seen again.
Mona ran across the airport runway while being chased by three vans, according to her owner, Grisel Ortiz, who said her mother watched the scene from inside the plane.
"Many people laugh because they don't understand what Mona means to me," Ortiz added during an interview published in Argentine daily Clarin in January 2020.
"Since she went missing, all I do is cry and stay glued to my phone, waiting for a miracle."
Ortiz created a Facebook page seeking information on Mona's whereabouts and offered a cash reward for the dog's return, but her efforts yielded no credible leads.
She also sought 5,000 euros ($5,400) in damages from Iberia.
The company accepted responsibility but argued that compensation should be limited to the lower amount set for checked baggage under the Montreal Convention, an international agreement that covers airline liability.
The Spanish court handling the claim referred the question to the European Union Court of Justice, which sided with the airline.
"Even though the ordinary meaning of the word 'baggage' refers to objects, this alone does not lead to the conclusion that pets fall outside that concept," the Luxembourg-based court ruled.
An animal can be considered "baggage" for liability purposes "upon the condition that full regard is paid to animal welfare requirements while they are transported", the court added.
The court noted the passenger had not made a "special declaration of interest" at check-in, an option allowing higher compensation for an additional fee with carrier approval.
Ortiz's lawyer, Carlos Villacorta Salis, told AFP this is a "false argument", saying "no airline in the world" would agree to such a declaration for a pet transported in a plane's hold.
He said he was "very disappointed" with the ruling, calling it a "missed opportunity to give visibility to the rights of animals and the people who care for them".
The judgement is advisory and leaves the final ruling to the Spanish court handling the compensation claim.
A GIMP Guide, but from a Photoshop User
This should be helpful for people that learned Photoshop in the past (for work or in school). From what I understand, a lot of the friction with GIMP is the workflow differences, and potentially unintuitive UI/UX choices.
tldr: recovering Adobe Photoshop user shows you features in the very free and very open source gnu image manipulation program 😁my relevant GIMP config files: github.com/BreadOnPenguins/dot…
GIMP documentation: gimp.org/docs/
dots/.config/GIMP/3.0 at master · BreadOnPenguins/dots
configs and things. Contribute to BreadOnPenguins/dots development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Good idea for a video.
It definitely took me some time getting used to GIMP after nearly 20 years as a photoshop user but I'm very glad I did.
Italy plans levy on Chinese fast fashion to protect local industry
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/44169383
Italy plans to apply an extra levy on Chinese fast fashion products to help shield its fashion industry from low-cost foreign imports, government sources told Reuters on Wednesday.The move is aimed at avoiding unfair competition in the market for what is one of Italy's key industries, the people said, adding Rome would likely impose the charge on online retailers Temu and Shein, among others.
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There is growing alarm in European capitals that China is progressively diverting goods at lower prices to EU markets as a way of making up for its lost U.S. trade, following the tariff policies adopted by President Donald Trump.
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Rome plans to intervene by adopting a scheme envisaged in a European Union directive on the so-called Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), the sources said.
The charge will force manufacturers to cover the costs of collecting, sorting and recycling their products once they become waste.
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[Industry Minister Adolfo] Urso also underlined that measures were being introduced to help ensure that workers' rights were not abused in the supply chain in Italy after a series of high-profile cases involving leading brands.
"We are very pleased with the speed at which Minister Urso and his team are working, responding to the needs of our industry and, above all, defending 'Made in Italy'," said Luca Sburlati, head of the Confindustria Moda industry lobby.
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The charge will force manufacturers to cover the costs of collecting, sorting and recycling their products once they become waste.
Fair. While this likely to lead to some price increase for consumers, it's at least smart approach and some companies will still undercut the local competiton resulting in a win for consumer.
US Treasury chief: Beijing's rare earths move is 'China vs world'
Washington (AFP) – US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent slammed Beijing's rare earth export curbs Wednesday as "China versus the world," vowing that Washington and its allies would "neither be commanded nor controlled.""This should be a clear sign to our allies that we must work together, and work together we will," Bessent told reporters at a press conference. "We are not going to let a group of bureaucrats in Beijing try to manage the global supply chains."
His comments came as global economic leaders gather in Washington this week for the International Monetary Fund and World Bank's fall meetings.
"We should work together to de-risk and diversify our supply chains away from China as quickly as possible," Bessent urged.
He later told a press roundtable that Washington was "already in talks" with partners on potential ways to push back.
Bessent spoke days after Beijing announced fresh controls on the export of rare earth technologies and items.
China is the world's leading producer of the minerals used to make magnets crucial to the auto, electronic and defense industries.
Bessent told a forum hosted by CNBC earlier Wednesday that he planned to speak with European allies, Australia, Canada, India and other Asian democracies, signaling a push for broader support beyond the Group of Seven advanced economies.
"We're going to have a fulsome group response to this," he added.
But he maintained that Washington would rather not take substantial actions to retaliate against China, expecting that more talks with Beijing will be forthcoming this week.
A trade war between Washington and Beijing has reignited in US President Donald Trump's second term, with tit-for-tat duties reaching triple-digit levels at one point, snarling supply chains.
Both sides have de-escalated tariff levels but their truce remains shaky and is set to expire in early November.
With the latest controls surrounding rare earths, Trump has threatened an additional 100-percent tariff on goods from China starting November 1.
US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer warned at Wednesday's press briefing that US plans for a tariff hike or other export controls are in the works.
But he expressed hope that China would back off its rare earth curbs.
Bessent said an extension of the pause in steep tariffs was possible -- in return for a delay in rare earth controls.
"Is it possible that we could go to a longer roll in return for a delay? Perhaps," Bessent said. "But all that is going to be negotiated in the coming weeks, before the leaders meet in (South) Korea."
The leaders of the world's two biggest economies are expected to hold talks at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit starting later this month.
Bessent earlier told CNBC that Trump still planned to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping at the summit.
Greer said Wednesday that "this is not just about the United States."
"China's announcement is nothing more than a global supply chain power grab," he said. "This move is not proportional retaliation. It is an exercise in economic coercion on every country in the world."
Fuck around and find out. You broke the past truce and now are crying that the bully is being bullied.
China went on the attack, but they for sure don't want to keep the restrictions. They are happy to use it in the negotiations, but end goal is to maintain the status quo as their refineries generates them a lot of cash and give them leverage as seen here.
And the rest of the world can't do shit here really, even if they wanted to ditch China, they need 10+ years to build up the expertise and factories. Longer if they refuse to use Chinese experts to train the new workforce.
Mamdani Vows to Make NYC a “Sanctuary City” for Trans People in New Campaign Ad
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/51123788
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/6440713
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani released a campaign ad this week honoring transgender trailblazers in the city and vowing to make New York City a sanctuary for trans people.The ad marks a notable departure from the Democratic Party’s current tone on trans rights. Since the party’s 2024 presidential loss to Donald Trump, strategists have increasingly peddled the myth that support for transgender people is a liability for candidates — a notion that Mamdani appears to reject.
In the campaign ad, Mamdani sits behind a large desk near the Christopher Street Pier, where many Black and Latinx unhoused LGBTQ people sought refuge in the 1970s after being pushed to the margins of the city. In the background of the ad is the song “It’s Okay to Cry” by legendary transgender artist SOPHIE.
Mamdani tells the story of Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson, trans activists who led the Stonewall Inn uprisings of 1969 and laid the foundation for the city’s first Pride celebration. The Christopher Street pier is “a place of immense contradictions,” he says— just like New York City itself.
“It’s where outsiders found belonging, and it’s also where Marsha P. Johnson’s body was found, the victim of a suspected murder no one was ever prosecuted for,” he says.
As a result of the “cruelty” Rivera faced, Mamadani says, she developed a substance use problem and often faced homelessness. But despite these challenges, Rivera continued her fight for trans liberation, even when many in the mainstream gay rights movement at the time sought to exclude trans people.
Citing Rivera and Johnson’s struggle for equality and recognition, Mamdani says, “We can chart a clear path forward that makes our city inclusive.”
Mamdani Vows to Make NYC a “Sanctuary City” for Trans People in New Campaign Ad
“New York will not sit idly by while trans people are attacked,” Mamdani said in his new campaign ad.Chris Walker (Truthout)
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Colombian President Petro Says U.S. Must Be Taken To The UN Security Council After Latest Strike Against Alleged Drug Boat
Colombian President Petro Says U.S. Must Be Taken To The UN Security Council After Latest Strike Against Alleged Drug Boat
Colombian President Gustavo Petro again criticized U.S. strikes against alleged drug boats in the Caribbean, saying the country "must be taken to the UN Security Council and the UN General Assembly"Demian Bio (Latin Times)
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Trump officials go all out to block carbon tax on shipping
Trump officials go all out to block carbon tax on shipping - E&E News by POLITICO
The U.S. tried to strong-arm nations into rejecting the measure. Now, the administration is pushing to make adoption harder.Sara Schonhardt (E&E News by POLITICO)
Vance’s Telling Defense of a Racist Group Chat | How a trove of bigoted and violent texts among young Republicans indicates the future of the party.
Vance’s Telling Defense of a Racist Group Chat
How a trove of bigoted and violent texts among young Republicans indicates the future of the party.Jonathan Chait (The Atlantic)
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Nation-state hackers deliver malware from “bulletproof” blockchains
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Malicious payloads stored on Ethereum and BNB blockchains are immune to takedowns.
I think theres a point where you have to realize the topic of discussion is about LLMs like ChatGPT, and that point was around the time we compared it to Web 3.0, something that people hate and associate with tech bros and evil corporations.
The meaning of words change based on context.
“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 […]
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“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. 🥰
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.)
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21 states, DC sue over EPA’s $7B ‘Solar for All’ cancellation
21 states, DC sue over EPA’s $7B ‘Solar for All’ cancellation - E&E News by POLITICO
Grant recipients have also filed a separate lawsuit to recoup their funds.Pamela King (E&E News by POLITICO)
Il magico sistema anti-caduta in Leggende Pokémon: Z-A
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...
Artificial Neurons Communicate Directly With Living Cells
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.”
Are there any alternatives to DriveDroid for non rooted phones?
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.
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search engine megathread?
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
Some independent options:
- github.com/StractOrg/stract
- github.com/mwmbl/mwmbl
- github.com/yacy
Metasearch engines:
- github.com/searxng/searxng
- github.com/benbusby/whoogle-se…
- github.com/neon-mmd/websurfx
GitHub - StractOrg/stract: web search done right
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Delete user account
Apps won't be able to delete accounts since they're 3rd party interfaces. You have to go to the site directly in a browser.
If that's not an option, you just abandon it.
[KDE Plasma] Blurry Catppuccin
re-publicado de: lemmygrad.ml/post/9464517
- 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!
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Thank you!! I got this Gagarin wallpaper from here.
Also how’re you finding Bazzite? Considering a switch and opinions would be nice /nopressure
Honestly, I absolutely love it. I started my journey with Manjaro, quick moved to Solus where I stayed for a couple of years, then moved to Nobara when Solus was going through a lot of problems, and then finally moved to Bazzite nearly a year and a half ago.
It's the most seamless and stress-free experience I had on Linux so far. At the start it felt a little bit too much to had to learn brew, distrobox and rpm-ostree, but it's way easier than it looks like and made me appreciate it all being in place. It has a few limitations if you need to mess with system files, but that's something I haven't had to do in a while now, so for me it's just nice all around. Almost everything pre-installed is something I use or pretend to use and everything else I needed has been easy enough to find as a Flatpak or AppImage, and in the off chance I need something installed through the package manager, like VSCodium and Zed, since they suck as Flatpaks, I just layered then enabling the terra repos that come disabled and using rpm-ostree. Being able to use TPM-Unlock and Secure Boot is great too.
The only issue I have right now is that my controller doesn't work on games running Proton 10. To make it work I have to use Proton-GE with the PROTON_PREFER_SDL=1 %command% launch option, which is fine, but disables Steam Input and since my controller is a Vader 3 Pro, I lose the ability to remap my 6 extra buttons. I reported this issue, but the devs couldn't reproduce it and so it is still unfixed. There are a couple other people with the same issue but we're too few. The weird thing is that this is not an issue on my laptop running Bazzite, and isn't an issue when I tried another distro like Fedora Kinoite, so it's definitely some issue with Bazzite and my hardware.
Since my system is basically customized to my liking, I really don't want to change distros just for this issue alone, so I'll continue using it.
Yuri Gagarin, crowds, people, USSR, digital art | 2560x1600 Wallpaper - wallhaven.cc
Yuri Gagarin, crowds, people, USSR, digital art | 2560x1600 Wallpaperwallhaven.cc
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Thanks for the extensive answer, it's really appreciated, and for the image too!
I'll keep Bazzite in consideration then, I was looking at Fedora but this might fit better for my needs, hoping my TurtleBeach controller's extra buttons work.
My switch would be the long awaited switch from Windows, so here's (water) to a successful install for myself
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