Breakthrough in Huntington’s disease treatment shows unprecedented results for patients
A new treatment that proves to slow the progression of Huntington’s disease marks a breakthrough for a condition that has long been considered untreatable. Huntington’s is a rare, inherited neurodegenerative disorder that gradually deteriorates a person’s physical and mental abilities, often leading to death within 10 to 30 years of onset. Until now, treatments have only managed symptoms, rather than altering the disease’s course.
The research team, including Sung, tested a new treatment called AMT-130 on people who were in the early stages of HD. The treatment works by halting the part of the body’s gene production responsible for producing the toxic huntingtin protein. By targeting the messenger RNA that carries instructions from DNA to produce this protein, AMT-130 prevents its formation without altering the DNA itself — a key safety advantage over other genetic therapies.
After three years, those who received the higher dose showed a 75 percent slower disease progression compared to those who did not receive the treatment. The treatment helped trial participants maintain more of their movement, thinking and daily functioning abilities without causing significant side effects.
The Ofcom Tea Party: 4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence, British regulator claims “sovereign immunity” to defend itself – and sovereign powers to regulate foreign companies
The Ofcom Tea Party: 4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence, British regulator claims “sovereign immunity” to defend itself – and sovereign powers to regulate foreign companies
Ofcom — driven by the letter of British law that they are bound to follow, but still Ofcom — are quietly making Britain look (a) very silly and (b) as if we haven’t yet shucked-off the Americ…Dropsafe
Revealed: how a Russian fight club expanded into the US with the help of American neo-Nazis
A Russian street fighting organization that has raised money for Moscow’s illegal invasion of Ukraine expanded into the US earlier this year with the help of prominent American white supremacists from the extremist neo-Nazi “active club” movement and the neo-fascist organization Patriot Front, the Guardian can reveal.
The group, known as Streets Fight Club (SFC), also promoted violent, for-profit combat events featuring white nationalist extremists held in the US south to tens of thousands of followers on Instagram and YouTube.
SFC stages bareknuckle brawls throughout the year, typically in Europe. Events are often held at abandoned sites, where improvised fight cages are set up using barricade fencing.
Revealed: how a Russian fight club expanded into the US with the help of American neo-Nazis
Members of white supremacist ‘active clubs’ spearheaded a US expansion of a Russian fighting group that has raised money for the Kremlin’s illegal invasion of UkraineGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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A classified network of SpaceX satellites is emitting a mysterious signal
Satellites associated with the Starshield satellite network appear to be transmitting to the Earth's surface on frequencies normally used for doing the exact opposite: sending commands from Earth to satellites in space. The use of those frequencies to "downlink" data runs counter to standards set by the International Telecommunication Union, a United Nations agency that seeks to coordinate the use of radio spectrum globally.
Starshield's unusual transmissions have the potential to interfere with other scientific and commercial satellites, warns Scott Tilley, an amateur satellite tracker in Canada who first spotted the signals.
"Nearby satellites could receive radio-frequency interference and could perhaps not respond properly to commands — or ignore commands — from Earth," he told NPR.
From Sabra and Shatila to Gaza: The Vicious Cycle of US-Israeli 'Peace' Ploys
The history of Zionism is fundamentally one of deception. This assertion is critically relevant today, as it contextualizes the so-called ‘Trump Gaza proposal,’ which appears to be little more than a veiled strategy to defeat the Palestinians and facilitate the ethnic cleansing of a significant portion of Gaza’s population.
[Critique Wanted (sorta)] Help editing images in darktable
Hello all
I was hoping to get some advice on editing these two photos I took with my OM-1 in hi-res mode. I have pretty limited experience editing in darktable (or editing digital files, at all. in fact, I pretty much suck lol) , and find myself getting burnt out during editing sessions where ill think my image looks good, ill step away, come back and think its not great.
In this case, I'm having trouble getting my edited raw images to look as good (here, in this case, I'm mostly talking sharpness) as the OOC jpeg. I guess Olympus does quite a bit of sharpening? I'm a bit more confident in my colorgrading/saturation/exposure adjustments but for these particular images I feel like I could work on them forever and never be satisfied.
Was wondering if I could get some advice on these images. I've included the raw files, the OOC jpegs, and my lightly edited images in this album. I was hoping to see if anyone would be willing to do a quick edit themselves to see if they are able to make a good image out of these rawfiles, but that's quite a bit of work, so any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
A reminder that top US generals are letting this thing make decisions
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)
The Ofcom Tea Party: 4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence, British regulator claims “sovereign immunity” to defend itself – and sovereign powers to regulate foreign companies
The Ofcom Tea Party: 4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence, British regulator claims “sovereign immunity” to defend itself – and sovereign powers to regulate foreign companies
Ofcom — driven by the letter of British law that they are bound to follow, but still Ofcom — are quietly making Britain look (a) very silly and (b) as if we haven’t yet shucked-off the Americ…Dropsafe
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The Ofcom Tea Party: 4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence, British regulator claims “sovereign immunity” to defend itself – and sovereign powers to regulate foreign companies
The Ofcom Tea Party: 4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence, British regulator claims “sovereign immunity” to defend itself – and sovereign powers to regulate foreign companies
Ofcom — driven by the letter of British law that they are bound to follow, but still Ofcom — are quietly making Britain look (a) very silly and (b) as if we haven’t yet shucked-off the Americ…Dropsafe
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Reddit, Lemmy and Discord the bad actors now, people here are the ones calling for 'raids' on websites, to dox people, to ruins anonymous internet users lives.
4chan is tame by comparison.
From my perspective more damage has been wrought to British culture by the Disneyification of Winnie-the-Pooh (big fan of EH Shephard here) than by 4Chan.
This is definitely a more important point then the existence of websites.
It was never a Gaza 'war'. The 'ceasefire' is a lie cut from the same cloth
Trump’s ‘peace plan’ is doomed. No people in history has ever resigned itself to permanent servitude and oppression. The Palestinians will prove no different.
The Capitalist Vision of Artificial Intelligence: Profit, Power, and Control
ِAI does not develop in a neutral manner, it reflects the class structure of the system that produced it. Artificial intelligence, as developed today, is not an independent or neutral entity, it is directly subject to the dominance of capitalist powers, which steer it in ways that serve their economic, political, social, and ideological interests.
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Trump’s Shadow President, Russell Vought
How Russell Vought Became Trump’s Shadow President
From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term.ProPublica
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Alright, I'm taking bets now. First it was #crypto. Then #NFTs. Then #metaverse. Then #LLMs. Then #agentic AI.Ben's Private Mastodon Server
US commander overseeing fatal strikes against alleged drug boats off Venezuela will retire
The Navy admiral who oversees military operations in the region where U.S. forces have been attacking alleged drug boats off Venezuela will retire in December, he and the Defense Secretary announced Thursday.
Adm. Alvin Holsey became the leader of U.S. Southern Command only in November, overseeing an area that encompasses the Caribbean Sea and waters off South America. These types of postings typically last between three and four years.
The news of Holsey’s upcoming retirement comes two days after the U.S. military’s fifth deadly strike in the Caribbean against a small boat accused of carrying drugs. The Trump administration has asserted it’s treating alleged drug traffickers as unlawful combatants who must be met with military force.
Is it possible to just run a pirate video streaming site from Kodi?
I've always felt like the whole docker/jellyfin/plex/loads-of-other-apps stuff is way too overboard just to do a bit of pirating, so I usually just hop on one of the movie/show or anime streaming sites with uBlock Origin installed and watch that way.
Currently I'm looking at what I can setup in the living room, and was thinking of just using an old PC with a wireless keyboard. I would like to use a media center type interface, but I've never actually used Kodi before. Would I be able to just use Kodi to stream from those kinds of services?
Searches so far show that everyone apparently uses Kodi with something called Real Debrid, which I have zero interest in.
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It is, i used to do it for my household, but the problem is that those websites that host pirated content tend to do everything they can to prevent direct streaming outside of their own ad filled websites and the adons for kodi that interface with them tend to get abandoned or shut down after a few months, also Without real debrid they are practically useless.
Its actually way easier and less maintenance to just setup the arrs + jellyfin. There is good reason its become so much more common among pirates these days, it might seem overboard but i once you get past the intial setup its super convient.
Iran, Russia Face Common Problems, Adversaries – Iranian Exchange Head
Iran, Russia Face Common Problems, Adversaries – Iranian Exchange Head
Iran and Russia are neighbors facing common challenges and adversaries, making them natural allies that should work closely together, Iran Energy Exchange CEO Mohammad Nazifi Charandabi told Sputnik.Sputnik International
'Not going to forget': Trump's gang gets ominous warning that immunity won't last forever
'Not going to forget': Trump's gang gets ominous warning that immunity won't last forever
Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is warning top lieutenants of President Donald Trump’s violent and unlawful immigration enforcement policies that they will not always have the protection of presidential immunity and that lawmakers in the future …Jon Queally, Common Dreams (Raw Story)
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Do protests like No Kings still matter? Here’s what experts say
- They help individuals channel their frustration, isolation and desperation
- They are a show of strength
- They typically lead to more political involvement
- They have already produced wins
- They must remain nonviolent to be effective
- They must be in small towns in the heartland, not just big coastal cities
Find one near you at nokings.org
Do protests like No Kings still matter? Here’s what experts say
Despite No Kings protests, some Bay Area residents have expressed frustration that virtually nothing can slow President Donald Trump’s autocratic actions.Joe Garofoli (San Francisco Chronicle)
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Hackers Dox Hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ Officials
Hackers Dox Hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ Officials
A group of hackers from the Com, a loose-knit community behind some of the most significant data breaches in recent years, have posted the names and personal information of hundreds of government officials, including people working for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).“I want my MONEY MEXICO,” a user of the Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters Telegram channel, which is a combination of a series of other hacking group names associated with the Com, posted on Thursday. The message was referencing a claim from the DHS that Mexican cartels have begun offering thousands of dollars for doxing agents. The U.S. government has not provided any evidence for this claim.
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Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters—one of the latest amalgamations of typically young, reckless, and English-speaking hackers—posted the apparent phone numbers and addresses of hundreds of government officials, including nearly 700 from DHS.Joseph Cox (404 Media)
NodeBB <> Lemmy federation issue (re: nullable image/icon)
nutomic@lemmy.ml reported a federation issue with a NodeBB instance and we debugged it. It turns out Lemmy is unable to handle actors who have image or icon set to null.
Lemmy is taking steps to handle this (source, source), and NodeBB will update its actor logic to omit properties without an avatar or cover photo set.
Fix for NodeBB compat and updated test assets by Nutomic · Pull Request #6090 · LemmyNet/lemmy
Values "icon": null, "image": null were not handled correctly by deserialize_last. LemmyNet/activitypub-federation-rust#151GitHub
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Spit On, Sworn At, and Undeterred: What It’s Like to Own a Cybertruck
Aside from a MAGA hat, there is likely no object that feels more emblematic of US president Donald Trump’s return to the White House than the Tesla Cybertruck. The blunt angles and steel doors look futuristic, for sure, but only if the future looks a lot like RoboCop. To some, it’s a metallic status symbol. To others, it’s fascism on wheels. Either way, heads turn.Cybertruck owners see things differently. “To me, it's just a vehicle that I love,” says Andrew Castillo, a stock trader from Los Angeles. “It has no political affiliations at all to me.”
We’re standing in the parking lot of McCormick's Palm Springs Classic Car Auctions. All around us, a dozen Cybertruck owners—and their cars—bake in the 100 degree heat. They’ve arrived for a meetup organized by Michael Goldman, who runs the 53,000-person Facebook group Cybertruck Owners Only. Though suspicious of the media, they’re eager to set the record straight about the car that they love. WIRED is here to learn how it feels to be out in public in such a politically charged vehicle. Has the past year or so changed anyone’s minds about owning the truck? Do owners like the attention—or are they adding bumper stickers decrying Elon Musk?
As we’re talking, a woman drives by in a small sedan. “Your cars are fucking ugly!” she screams before peeling off. Castillo smiles. “Some people just aren’t playing with a full deck of cards,” he says serenely.
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Frans Timmermans: ‘Jetten is met D66 op de stoel van de VVD gaan zitten’
This is what happens with fewer competition and the iPhone stagnating. Windows Mobile had it succeeded even marginally, Google wouldn't be doing this.
Replace Windows Mobile with Blackberry, Meego, etc... The competition doesn't need to be open, they just need to motivate Google to be open.
The competition doesn’t need to be open, they just need to motivate Google to be open.
...but could that actually happen? I'm not sure what WOULD motivate Google to be open. Even if there were three or four more major mobile players (all with equal market share), and Google had the only platform that allowed unblessed software to be installed, I'm not sure that would pressure Google to continue to be "the open choice", but more likely to take this same action as "the odd man out".
At a fundamental level, there is an illusion/concept planted in the human mind that "force answers everything", and when they run out of ideas (or all the ideas that they have would require too much [re]work to their liking) the tendency is to fall back onto "just use force" as an easy "solution".
DOE finalizes $1.6B loan guarantee for transmission upgrades
DOE finalizes $1.6B loan guarantee for transmission upgrades - E&E News by POLITICO
The Biden-era financing will help utility company AEP rebuild power lines serving large factories and data centers in Ohio and Indiana.Jeffrey Tomich (E&E News by POLITICO)
DC woman accused of assaulting agent during ICE encounter found not guilty
Prosecutor Jeanine Pirro failed to secure a felony indictment against the woman three times, then lost a jury trial on a misdemeanor charge. Ouch.
A Washington, D.C., woman accused of assaulting a federal agent was found not guilty by a jury on Thursday, the latest embarrassment for Jeanine Pirro, President Donald Trump's U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.
Prosecutors had alleged Sidney Lori Reid kicked a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent during an altercation outside the D.C. Jail in July. Reid had been filming Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers while they were detaining a man who'd just been released from the jail.
Pirro's office tried three times to indict Reid on a felony assault charge, but D.C. grand juries declined to return an indictment each time --- a highly unusual occurrence that suggested the flimsiness of the government's case.
After whiffing on the felony counts, prosecutors ended up trying Reid on a misdemeanor charge of assaulting or impeding a federal agent --- but they couldn't even win that case. The jury deliberated for less than two hours on Thursday before returning the verdict of not guilty, WUSA9 reported.
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Spotify IOS Side loading
So I just figured out that Spotify has stopped letting free users pick specific songs in their own playlists. They let you do it a certain amount of times and I think that is the dumbest shit I’ve ever seen. Not letting you pick for a searched song is one thing but in your own playlist is pushing it.
Now the only way I found out is from eveespotify. I don’t have the official Spotify just ever before it got hit and spotc++. Should I wait for spotc++ to update and remove that but also do you guys have other side loaded apps for any music software such as ytmusic or Spotify. Thanks in advance
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Russian Forces Shoot Down Own Fighter-Bomber Amid Overnight UAV Assault on Crimea
Russian Forces Shoot Down Own Fighter-Bomber Amid Overnight UAV Assault on Crimea
Dmytro Pletenchuk, spokesperson for the Ukrainian Navy, said the plane was shot down by “friendly fire” from Russian air defenses while defending against incoming Ukrainian drones.Alisa Orlova (Kyiv Post)
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Technology X Education
So I’ve been working in the education system for grades k-12 at different schools in my district. I realized something about technology in school and decided to share my thoughts and opinions and wish to hear yours as well. Keep in mind this is only for the district I work in which is more towards the ghetto side of things and this is also my personal opinion.
So the first thing I realized is the chromebooks. They are a terrible tool for education. While I do support the use of technology for education, I do believe it can very easily be abused. For first graders and younger, I realize that they will easily click on a tab or an icon somewhere else which will bring them out of the tab they should be in. Now depending on the district and the IT team, some districts block sites and restrict certain access but others such as the one I currently work in seems to not do that at all leaving k-12 with free range of the internet. I wish there was a different OS for education (wish it was a Linux os) or if chromeos had an education section with their chrmebooks. Even something such as the lockdown browser that some colleges use would be a lot better. It feels like a gab that is waiting to be filled and I hope it’s filled by an open source and privacy respecting solution.
The other thing I realize is how the softwares they use such as iready and other learning websites lack the spark they need. A lot of kids from kindergarten to 8 complain how they hate those programs and how boring they are. I’ve heard this could be due to the short attention span of this generation but I’m not so sure. I also noticed how some don’t even consider special kids and when teachers give special kids those programs, it fails to capture their attention. Please bear in mind that this does not apply to all students and all special students but it’s a pattern I have noticed.
Like I said I wish there was a solution that is open source and maybe a Linux version of Chromebook and chrome os but that’s just the sovereignty and privacy advocate side of me. What do you guys think? Are there solutions that exists in your district? Have your district figured out using technology for education or have you experienced similar things.
Hackers Dox Hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ Officials
Hackers Dox Hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ Officials
A group of hackers from the Com, a loose-knit community behind some of the most significant data breaches in recent years, have posted the names and personal information of hundreds of government officials, including people working for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).“I want my MONEY MEXICO,” a user of the Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters Telegram channel, which is a combination of a series of other hacking group names associated with the Com, posted on Thursday. The message was referencing a claim from the DHS that Mexican cartels have begun offering thousands of dollars for doxing agents. The U.S. government has not provided any evidence for this claim.
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Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters—one of the latest amalgamations of typically young, reckless, and English-speaking hackers—posted the apparent phone numbers and addresses of hundreds of government officials, including nearly 700 from DHS.Joseph Cox (404 Media)
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Trump says US won’t comply with carbon ship fee
Trump says US won’t comply with carbon ship fee - E&E News by POLITICO
The president urged other countries to vote against a proposed worldwide fee on greenhouse gas emissions on the shipping industry on Friday.Ari Hawkins (E&E News by POLITICO)
How I got KeePassXC & Librewolf Flatpaks talking (Linux)
I'm going through a bunch of browsers at the moment to find one I'm happy with. Wanted to share how I get the KeePassXC-browser addon to work with flatpaks.
Flatpaks are sandboxed by design, so getting them to talk to each other needs a go-between. I adapted this from a Chromium guide. It works for me, hopefully maybe it'll help someone.
1. Run this command
flatpak override --user \
--filesystem={/var/lib,xdg-data}/flatpak/{app/org.keepassxc.KeePassXC,runtime/org.kde.Platform}:ro \
--filesystem=xdg-run/app/org.keepassxc.KeePassXC:create \
io.gitlab.librewolf-community2. Create a wrapper script
- The script goes in the following location:
~/.var/app/io.gitlab.librewolf-community/data/bin/keepassxc-proxy-wrapper.sh
\#!/bin/bash
APP_REF="org.keepassxc.KeePassXC/x86_64/stable"
for inst in "$HOME/.local/share/flatpak" "/var/lib/flatpak"; do
if [ -d "$inst/app/$APP_REF" ]; then
FLATPAK_INST="$inst"
break
fi
done
[ -z "$FLATPAK_INST" ] && exit 1
APP_PATH="$FLATPAK_INST/app/$APP_REF/active"
RUNTIME_REF=$(awk -F'=' '$1=="runtime" { print $2 }' < "$APP_PATH/metadata")
RUNTIME_PATH="$FLATPAK_INST/runtime/$RUNTIME_REF/active"
exec flatpak-spawn \
--env=LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/app/lib \
--app-path="$APP_PATH/files" \
--usr-path="$RUNTIME_PATH/files" \
-- keepassxc-proxy "$@"- Then run the command
chmod +x ~/.var/app/io.gitlab.librewolf-community/data/bin/keepassxc-proxy-wrapper.sh
3. Manually create a native messaging host file
- It goes in the following location:
~/.var/app/io.gitlab.librewolf-community/.librewolf/native-messaging-hosts/org.keepassxc.keepassxc_browser.json - Create the NativeMessagingHosts directory if it doesn't exist.
- Substitute (USERNAME) for your username.
{
"allowed_extensions": [
"keepassxc-browser@keepassxc.org"
],
"description": "KeePassXC integration with native messaging support",
"name": "org.keepassxc.keepassxc_browser",
"path": "/home/(USERNAME)/.var/app/io.gitlab.librewolf-community/data/bin/keepassxc-proxy-wrapper.sh",
"type": "stdio"
}4. Enable browser integration within KeePassXC (if it isn't already)
- Within KeePassXC: Tools > Settings > Browser Integration, enable Firefox
5. Restart Librewolf
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China's auto industry, especially its EV makers, intends to crush Western industries, including auto manufacturing and its supply chains. OEMs like Ford and GM don't know what to do.
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Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
🔴 Urgent Support – Suleiman’s Story
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/6451848
My name is Suleiman, I live in Gaza where life has become unbearable after all the destruction and daily suffering. I have lost so much, but I am still trying to provide my little siblings Asaad, Mohammed, and Montaha with a bit of food and safety.Each day is harder than the one before… there isn’t enough food, medicine, or even a stable shelter. Yet, I still hold on to hope and to the humanity in your hearts.
Please help us, even with a small amount — €5 or €10 can truly make a difference in our lives. It might buy the children some bread, milk, or a small piece of chocolate that brings them a smile.
👉 [GoFundMe link here]
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Please share the link with your friends — every share and every donation counts.
Thank you for standing with us ❤️
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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!
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
Archived version: archive.is/newest/thecanary.co…
Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.
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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.
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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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in reply to Andy • • •Andy
in reply to TropicalDingdong • • •In the article I saw, it said that the account had identifying information, and the posts were deleted but archived.
My interpretation is that the campaign of Janet Mills -- his primary rival -- found all of this during opposition research and then sent it to CNN.
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in reply to Andy • • •Andy
in reply to TropicalDingdong • • •Really? You think so? I could be wrong, but that doesn't seem at all the case to me.
First, I think a lot of this is just skill. You dig around in the stuff that's publicly known, find usernames and links to old bios, and then start searching for those usernames on every social media site to see if a unique handle appears on OkCupid, PornHub, etc.
Second, on the resource side, there are tons of data brokers that have a ton of info on all of us. You don't think CNN has $50 to drop on a file filled with tracking data on a senate candidate? I think even broke local newsrooms have access to license plate reader data and leaked medical records and a ton of super personal info. I don't think they tend to use it, because a lot of them are understaffed and it's less cost-effective than just writing up local police blotters and whatever appears on Nextdoor. But I don't think it's hard to get this stuff at all.
TropicalDingdong
in reply to Andy • • •Okay, then show me: If its just that easy, find my old reddit account.
You are here on lemmy. That means you are EASILY more technically competent than 97% of the staff at any given newsroom in the US. And I know for a fact I'm an easily doxx-able account.
I've built tools like this and have some knowledge of the price for API's that give these kinds of access. The API's you are imagining to exist (and a few do) are priced at the tens to hundreds of thousands of dollar per month. There are minimum purchases. Like you don't even get basic access without getting to price points in the hundreds of thousands. And even then, you need skilled operators, technicians, and programmers to build around those API's to get the kinds of information you are looking for.
I think you are massively underestimating the technical skills and overestimating availability of the tools required to do these things.
What I would suggest is that this information came through the work of a private investigation outfit; a contractor that specializes in this kind of work. I also don't think its coincidence that the governor also announced their candidacy for Senate on the same day. I would guess that someone "in the know" had a PI outfit building this profile and released the information to CNN to try and sabotage GP. Not necessarily someone in the office, but some one with knowledge of the plan and independent funding to carry out the work.
Andy
in reply to TropicalDingdong • • •Well maybe I'm wrong then. FWIW, you sound confident and credible to me.
I do agree that it seems obvious that this was sent to CNN by Janet Mills rather than discovered in house. I was just saying that I think this kind of research is easy enough for CNN to do that they could, but I agree that based on the timing of Mills' entrance into the race and the fact that I just don't really expect places like CNN to be that proactive that, yeah, this was absolutely sent to them in an email that probably looked like: "Subject: Anonymous bombshell tip! ; From: PR@ millsforsenate. com"
I'm curious how it works out. Attacking a guy running as an outsider in Maine for being pro-worker, pro-gun, and fed up with the system kind of sounds like they're misreading the electorate. Like... don't threaten Mainers with a good time, you know?
TropicalDingdong
in reply to Andy • • •Yeah. I totally agree. And, full disclosure, I was in a zoom with Graham last night (an organization I volunteer/ organize with is going to endorse him, and this is a huge hint for your doxxing effort). And I did try to directly ask him about this, but I was late to the zoom and couldn't get my question in. He also seemed pretty rattled.
These kinds of "attacks" aren't going to stop and I think its a strategic mistake to apologize, depending on where you are at in the candidate cycle. Graham caught on leaning into the kinds of things he said in his reddit account, not leaning away from them. And the best model for that who found great success in doing so is the, now meteoric, Zohran Mamdani.
Zohran didn't lean away from calling Israels actions a genocide: he leaned into it. And he made political hay in doing so). Graham isn't wrong in saying that there have been no demonstrated diplomatic solutions to fascism: so don't back down from the statement.
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in reply to TropicalDingdong • • •Good for you, and thanks for doing all that! I won't prescribe a specific strategy, but for what it's worth: as soon as I read the news about this today, I went and donated $10.
I already liked him, but I don't just throw $10 at everyone I like. But I saw this and immediately wanted his campaign to see strong fundraising this week and get the message that they don't need to worry about this kind of thing.
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