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"We need to go beyond Signal" – How today's AWS outage shows the weaknesses of centralized apps | TechRadar


"We need to go beyond Signal" – How today's AWS outage shows the weaknesses of centralized apps | TechRadar techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-…
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Kami doesn't like this.

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He doesn't. He said that on the issue of privacy the Republicans were more responsive than the Democrats.
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This was his tweet:

Great pick by @realDonaldTrump. 10 years ago, Republicans were the party of big business and Dems stood for the little guys, but today the tables have completely turned. People forget that the current antitrust actions against Big Tech were started under the first Trump admin.

Dec 4, 2024 · 10:27 PM UTC


Didn't age well, if you ask me.



Amazon to replace 600,000 US workers by 2033 with robots


Amazon plans to use automation to replace more than 600,000 workers who would otherwise be hired in the United States by 2033, according to internal documents obtained by The New York Times. By that time, the company is expected to sell about twice as many goods as it does today.

Amazon’s robotics team is reportedly working toward the goal of automating 75% of its entire business. By 2027, it is expected to eliminate around 160,000 jobs in the US, saving the company an estimated $12.6 billion — equivalent to around 30 cents per item delivered.






The humble plant that could save the world — or destroy it | Clean energy expansion could destroy this crucial climate solution.


"save it" is a an exaggeration — we're burning so much coal, oil, and gas, that it's basically impossible for natural systems to remove the amount we're emitting. The big change that needs to happen is an end to fossil fuel extraction, but degradation of peatlands makes things worse.



The AWS Outage Bricked People’s $2,700 Smartbeds




The AWS Outage Bricked People’s $2,700 Smartbeds


Sleepers snoozing in Eight Sleep smartbeds had a bad night on Monday when a major outage of Amazon Web Services (AWS) caused their beds to malfunction. Some were left with the bed’s heat blasting, others were left in a sitting position and unable to recline. One woman said her bed went haywire and she had to unplug it from the wall.

At around 3 a.m. ET on Monday morning the US-EAST-1 AWS cluster went down and screwed up internet connected services across the planet. Customers for the banks Lloyds and Halifax couldn’t access their accounts. United Airlines check-ins stopped functioning. And people who rest in Eight Sleep beds awoke to find their mattresses had turned against them.

An Eight Sleep bed is a smart bed that starts at $2,700. Users provide their own mattress and Eight Sleep sells them a mattress cover and a “Pod” that acts as the brain of the system. If customers want to spend a few thousand more, they can get a base that adjusts the position of the mattress, provides biometric sleeping data, and heats and cools the sleeper. Customers must also subscribe to a service for Eight Sleep, which ranges from $17 to $33 a month.

Eight Sleep runs on the cloud and when the servers go down or the customer’s internet goes out it bricks the bed. There’s no offline mode. Customers have complained about the lack of an offline mode for a while, but the AWS outage focused their rage.
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“So apparently, when my internet goes down, my bed decides to go on strike too. A quick outage, and boom—no change in sleep position available, not even with manual taps,” one customer on r/eightsleep said. “Maybe consider giving people a grace period before their $5,000 bed locks them into the world’s most ergonomic sitting position. AWS attack or Internet down for a few hours should not brick my bed.”

“Cloud only is unacceptable,” said another. “It’s 2025 there is no reason an internet or AWS server outage should impact your entire customer base's sleep—especially given the price tag of your product. Need EightSleep’s product team to opine here, your customer base demands it!”

“My pod is at +5 and I am sweating cuz I can’t turn it down or off,” said one comment.

Eight Sleep CEO Matteo Franceschetti apologized for the restless night in a statement posted to X. “The AWS outage has impacted some of our users since last night, disrupting their sleep. That is not the experience we want to provide and I want to apologize for it,” he said. He added that the company was restoring the bed’s features as AWS came back online and promised to outage-proof the Pods.

“Mine is still not working—it went super haywire and still seems to be turning on and off randomly with the inability to stop or control it. I had to unplug it,” ESPN host Victoria Arlen said on X, replying to Franceschetti. “I tried to get it going again and it’s still uncontrollable with the system turning on and off.”

Would be great if my bed wasn’t stuck in an inclined position due to an AWS outage. Cmon now
— Brandon (@Brandon25774008) October 21, 2025


“Would be great if my bed wasn’t stuck in an inclined position due to an AWS outage. Cmon now,” @Brandon25774008 said on X.

The truth is that so long as Eight Sleep beds have to communicate with a server to function, they’re always in danger of dying. That point of failure means the beds could go out at any time leaving the people who paid $5,000 for a fancy bed with little recourse. And, of course, no company lasts forever.

“When ES eventually goes bust, our pods will be bricked,” one Redditor said. “The fact that the pods cannot be controlled when you don’t have the internet is diabolical. I wish I knew this before purchasing. This basically means in the possibly near future, all of our pods will be bricked […] ES need to get their heads out of their ass and for once do a pro customer change and introduce an ‘offline’ mode where we can connect to the pod directly and at the very least change the temperature. It has wifi, it can make its own SSID, just make it work ES.”

Pro-active ES users have already found one solution: jailbreak the Pod. The ES sub is—at a minimum—$200 a year, the Pod uploads multiple GBs of telemetry data to ES servers every month, and when the internet goes down the bed dies. If you must own a $5,000 bed that heats and cools you dynamically, shouldn’t you take full control of it?

There’s an active Discord and a Github for a group of Eight Sleep snoozers who’ve decided to do just that. According to the GitHub, the jailbreak “allows complete control of device WITHOUT requiring internet access. If you lose internet, your pod WILL NOT turn off, it will continue working!”

Data centers are vulnerable. Server clusters go down. As long as there is a single point of failure and your device is commuting back to a network out of your control, it’s a risk. We have allowed tech companies to mediate the most basic functions of our lives, from cooking to travel to sleep. The AWS and ES outage is a stark reminder that we should do what we can to limit the control these tech companies have over our lives.

“I’m continuously horrified that I inextricably linked my sleep and therefore health to a cloud provider’s reliability,” one person said in the comments on Reddit.







Bari Weiss Gets To Work ‘Fixing’ CBS ‘Bias’ — By Making It More Biased


For more than fifty years the U.S. right wing has embraced a neat trick: by claiming that literally anything in factual opposition to their beliefs is “biased” and therefore must be discarded as unreliable, they’ve bullied U.S. media into becoming a feckless mess terrified of accusations of “liberal bias.”

Of course, if you ask the actual media academics who study U.S. media bias, they’ll quickly tell you that the U.S. media generally veers toward center-right corporatism because we’ve let it consolidate at the hands of center-right billionaires. The obvious result is a hot feckless mess that lacks the courage to speak truth to power, something that became obvious to even the most obtuse with the rise of U.S. authoritarianism.

Still, this idea that the U.S. media is “too woke” and “has a liberal bias” is central to the generational Republican mission of creating a press that only exists to make affluent Conservatives happy.




New Linux kernel patch lets you cancel hibernation mid-process


RFC proposes power-button interrupt – and highlights wider problems with sleep states
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Democratic senator protests Trump’s ‘grave threats’ in marathon overnight floor speech | CNN Politics


“I’ve come to the Senate floor tonight to ring the alarm bells. We’re in the most perilous moment, the biggest threat to our republic since the Civil War. President Trump is shredding our Constitution,” Merkley said in his opening remarks.

The Democratic senator pointed to the Trump administration’s previous halting of research grants for universities in its battle over campus oversight as well as the recent indictments of several of the president’s political opponents as well as his push to deploy National Guard troops to Portland.

“President Trump wants us to believe that Portland, Oregon, in my home state, is full of chaos and riots. Because if he can say to the American people that there are riots, he can say there’s a rebellion. And if there’s a rebellion, he can use that to strengthen his authoritarian grip on our nation,” Merkley said.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/22/politics/jeff-merkley-senate-floor-speech



The Internet's Biggest Annoyance: Why Cookie Laws Should Target Browsers, Not Websites


Click. Ugh. Another one.

You know the drill. You land on a new website, eager to read an article or check a product price, and before the page even finishes loading, it appears: the dreaded cookie banner. A pop-up, a slide-in, a full-screen overlay demanding you "Accept All," "Manage Preferences," or navigate a labyrinth of toggles designed by a corporate lawyer.

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One problem I can think of with the idea of legally requiring browsers to do anything at all is, how does this apply to hobbyist open source browsers? Will it be illegal to start developing a new browser in public unless it already has this feature?
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These type of regulations often apply only when you have x active million of users to prevent issues like this.



Watchdog report says American e-waste is causing a 'hidden tsunami' in Southeast Asia


A report by an environmental group says millions of tons of discarded U.S. electronics are being shipped overseas each month — much of it to Southeast Asian countries not prepared to safely handle hazardous waste.


Archived version: archive.is/newest/apnews.com/a…


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.




Fortnite, rumor: in arrivo un crossover con I Simpson e una mappa completa di Springfield


Stando a indiscrezioni emerse dai più recenti datamine, Fortnite potrebbe lanciare una mini-stagione dedicata a I Simpson, con una mappa di Springfield realizzata in cel-shading e suddivisa in aree che riproducono i luoghi simbolo della serie animata. Al momento non ci sono conferme ufficiali da parte di Epic Games; si tratta di rumor da considerare con la dovuta cautela.

TUTTI I DETTAGLI: Fortnite, rumor: in arrivo un crossover con I Simpson e una mappa completa di Springfield



Israeli forces kill Palestinian in Gaza despite ongoing ceasefire


A Palestinian man was shot and killed by Israeli forces in the Tuffah neighbourhood, despite the ceasefire that officially began on 10 October, a medical source at al-Ahli Hospital said.

Israeli forces have continued operations across parts of Gaza, with dozens of casualties reported in recent days.





My Car Is Becoming a Brick


Sounds like hell on wheels is going to become common.

For most of its short life, my Tesla Model 3 has aged beautifully. Since I bought the car, in 2019, it has received a number of new features simply by updating its software. My navigation system no longer just directs me to EV chargers along my route—it also shows me, in real time, how many plugs are free. With the push of a button, I can activate “Car Wash Mode,” and the Tesla will put itself in neutral and disable the windshield wipers. Some updates are more helpful than others: Thanks to Elon Musk and his middle-school humor, I can now play an updated array of fart sounds when an unsuspecting passenger sits down.

But Musk is already starting to leave my car behind. In July, Tesla rolled out a version of Musk’s AI assistant, Grok, to its vehicles. Even as a chatbot skeptic, I could see the usefulness of asking my car for information without having to fumble with my phone. Alas, at present Grok runs only on Teslas made in the past few years, which have a more advanced processor to power their infotainment system. My sedan is simply too old.

Cars used to be entirely mechanical objects. With hard work and expertise, basically any old vehicle could be restored and operated: On YouTube, you can watch a man drive a 1931 Alvis to McDonald’s. But the car itself was stuck in time. If the automaker added a feature to the following year’s model, you just didn’t get it. Things have changed. My Model 3 has few dials or buttons; nearly every feature is routed through the giant central touch screen. It’s not just Tesla: Many new cars—and especially electric cars—are now stuffed with software, receiving over-the-air updates to fix bugs, tweak performance, or add new functionality.



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Un viaggio nelle fiabe del bosco U-magico con Amalia Scalise e Gianni il Gufo

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Gianni il gufo

e i racconti del bosco U-magico

Amalia Scalise

Racconti per bambini

Book Sprint Edizioni

05/05/2025

14 x 21 x 0.13 cm

122 pp

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“Gianni il gufo e i racconti del Bosco U-magico. Un’estate indimenticabile” è un romanzo ambientato in una piccola comunità, creata dalla fantasia dell’autrice e abitata da animali di diverse specie, che vivono insieme in perfetta armonia. Il libro si suddivide in brevi episodi, permettendo al lettore di conoscere gli amici di Gianni, protagonista principale, che, con la sua saggezza, riesce a venire in soccorso di tutti coloro che gli chiedono aiuto, per risolvere piccoli e grandi problemi quotidiani. Nella comunità gli abitanti svolgono la loro vita come se fossero esseri umani, da qui deriva il nome U-magico. Ogni racconto si conclude positivamente lasciando a chi legge uno spunto di riflessione su diverse tematiche, alcune delle quali relative all’educazione civica, dal rispetto e tutela dell’ambiente all’importanza dell’amicizia e della solidarietà, dal ruolo degli anziani nella società al rapporto tra genitori e figli, dai pericoli nell’utilizzo scorretto della rete e dei social all’accettazione della sconfitta.

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Amalia Scalise e i suoi racconti: quando la fiaba incontra l’educazione


Un libro che incanta grandi e piccoli

I Racconti di Amalia Scalise sono stati una vera sorpresa. Fin da quando ho avuto il libro tra le mani, sono rimasta affascinata dalla copertina vivace e dalle illustrazioni colorate che trasmettono allegria e poesia.
Ma è solo leggendo le pagine che ho compreso la vera magia: questo è un libro che ogni bambino dovrebbe poter leggere — e che ogni adulto dovrebbe raccontargli.

Da educatrice e laureata in arte, ho trovato tra queste pagine preziosi insegnamenti di vita, presentati con semplicità e dolcezza. Gianni, il gufo saggio, e il Bosco U-magico non sono solo personaggi e luoghi immaginari: sono metafore di una comunità solidale, dove la gentilezza, la gratitudine e l’amicizia sono la vera magia.

Fiabe e mente dei bambini: cosa dice la scienza sul potere dei racconti
Introduzione


Le fiabe non sono solo ricordi d’infanzia o storie per addormentarsi. Dietro quel “C’era una volta” si nasconde un potente strumento educativo: un linguaggio che aiuta i bambini a sviluppare linguaggio, empatia e fiducia nel mondo. La psicologia e le neuroscienze confermano che raccontare storie ai più piccoli è un atto che nutre la mente e calma le emozioni.

Un viaggio antico quanto l’uomo


Le fiabe affondano le loro radici in tempi remoti, quando la parola era l’unico mezzo per tramandare saggezza e valori. Prima che venissero scritte, erano raccontate attorno al fuoco, nei villaggi e nelle famiglie, come strumenti di coesione sociale e di educazione morale. Nel XVII secolo Charles Perrault trasformò quei racconti popolari in capolavori letterari come Cenerentola e Cappuccetto Rosso. Più tardi, i Fratelli Grimm e Hans Christian Andersen ne consolidarono il valore educativo e simbolico. Nel Novecento, Gianni Rodari ne rinnovò lo spirito, portando la fiaba nel mondo moderno come palestra per la fantasia e per la libertà di pensiero.

Come le fiabe aiutano il cervello a crescere


Le ricerche neuroscientifiche mostrano che ascoltare o leggere fiabe attiva simultaneamente le aree del cervello legate al linguaggio, alla memoria e alle emozioni. Ogni racconto diventa una palestra mentale dove il bambino impara a:

• costruire nessi logici e sequenze temporali;
• comprendere la relazione tra causa ed effetto;
• ampliare il vocabolario e sviluppare l’immaginazione.

Il linguaggio simbolico delle fiabe consente inoltre di affrontare temi complessi — paura, giustizia, perdita, speranza — in modo accessibile e rassicurante.

Il potere psicologico dei racconti

Le fiabe sono il primo “specchio dell’anima”. In esse, draghi, streghe e mostri rappresentano le paure interiori che il bambino impara a riconoscere e superare. Seguendo l’eroe o l’eroina nel loro viaggio, i piccoli lettori apprendono che le difficoltà si possono affrontare e che la crescita passa attraverso il coraggio e la fiducia. Ogni lieto fine diventa così una conquista simbolica: la prova che anche il dolore può trasformarsi in forza.

Un’eredità da preservare


In un’epoca dominata dalla tecnologia, le fiabe continuano a essere uno degli strumenti più efficaci per costruire empatia, pensiero critico e identità. Leggere o raccontare una storia a un bambino significa offrirgli un modello di mondo, un rifugio emotivo e una bussola morale. Per questo, educatori e psicologi raccomandano di mantenere viva la narrazione orale, accanto ai libri illustrati e agli strumenti digitali.

Il libro in sè


Il piccolo, ma grande libro di fiabe e racconti di Amalia Scalise ha vinto il concorso letterario di Canti di…versi di San Pietro Magisano Calabria. Quando l’autrice mi ha comunicato la notizia non ne sono per niente rimasta sorpresa, ero certa che questo piccolo tesoro sarebbe stato notato. Leggendo questi racconti ho trovato molti spunti, Gianni ci insegna a guardare oltre, a non dare per scontato alcune cose, a non cadere nella disperazione davanti a piccoli errori, a comprendere che anche quando sembra che tutto stia andando storto, in realtà, bisogna guardare ciò che è accaduto di positivo e qualcosa, anche piccolino verrà sempre a galla.

Amicizia, Gratitudine, lealtà, comprensione sono solo alcuni dei dettami che si possono incontrare nel Bosco U-magico dove, la vera magia è l’amicizia.

Conosciamo L’autrice


Ho posto quattro domandine all’autrice che, ho il piacere di condividere con voi

Chi è Gianni il gufo? Ti sei ispirata a qualcuno in particolare?


Nel mio libro, Gianni incarna la figura paterna che tutti dovrebbero avere:
presente, solida, rassicurante. Nella mia vita ho avuto un legame profondo con
i miei genitori e la fortuna di avere accanto uno zio che è stato per me come un
secondo padre. Questo mi ha permesso di percepire la presenza maschile come
qualcosa di protettivo e confortante.
Al contrario, il rapporto con i nonni è stato quasi assente: quelli paterni
vivevano troppo lontano, mentre quelli materni sono venuti a mancare quando
ero ancora molto piccola. È da questo vuoto che nasce Nonna Gilda, un
personaggio che nel libro rappresenta la nonna ideale, così come l’ho sempre
immaginata e come avrei voluto che fosse, se avessi avuto la possibilità di
conoscerla davvero.

Dove nascono le tue fiabe?

Credo che le mie favole nascano dal legame profondo con mia madre,
un’artista capace di trasformare la realtà attraverso la pittura, le parole e
l’immaginazione. Da bambina ascoltavo le storie che inventava per me,
viaggiando con lei in mondi incantati dove diventavo l’eroina di mille
avventure. È da quell’ascolto e da quella meraviglia che è nato il mio amore
per la narrazione. Scrivere favole, oggi, è il mio modo di raccogliere la sua
eredità invisibile e continuare a dialogare con lei.

3. Il bosco U-magico è un luogo in particolare a te caro?


Sì, i boschi mi sono profondamente cari. Varcarne la soglia è come entrare in
un tempo sospeso, dove tutto parla un linguaggio antico e silenzioso. Tra gli
alberi avverto un legame primordiale con la terra, un senso di mistero e di
incanto che invita all’ascolto. È un luogo di pace e di protezione, dove il
mondo sembra ritrovare la propria armonia e anch’io, per un momento, con
esso.
Si dice che i bambini nascano sotto i cavoli, ma la mia cicogna deve
essersi smarrita per strada, attratta dal profumo di muschio, e sono finita
sotto una piantina di fragoline di bosco.

Ultima domanda nei racconti brevi hai inserito tanti avvenimenti e tante lezioni
importanti che dovremo tutti tenere a mente: la generosità, l’amicizia, l’aiuto
reciproco, l’ascolto attivo e non passivo e molte altre cose, quale è la tua
speranza nei confronti dei piccoli lettori? Cosa speri che imparino leggendo
Gianni il gufo?

Le mie favole nascono anche dal mio essere insegnante, un ruolo che sento di
portare con me ben oltre le mura della scuola. Attraverso queste storie desidero
accompagnare i giovani lettori in piccole riflessioni sulla vita quotidiana,
invitandoli a guardare il mondo con curiosità e sensibilità. Più che trasmettere
nozioni, mi interessa coltivare uno sguardo attento, capace di empatia e di
ascolto. Il messaggio che mi sta più a cuore è che i veri eroi non sono quelli dei
racconti epici, ma coloro che, nella vita di ogni giorno, sanno vivere in armonia
e tendere la mano agli altri.

Conclusione


In un mondo sempre più veloce, dove l’attenzione si frammenta tra schermi e notifiche, le fiabe restano un’oasi di silenzio e significato. Raccontarle a un bambino significa donargli tempo, ascolto e immaginazione: tre strumenti che nessun algoritmo potrà mai sostituire. Ogni storia, anche la più semplice, insegna che le difficoltà si affrontano, che il bene può vincere e che dentro ciascuno di noi vive un eroe in attesa di scoprirsi. Perché, in fondo, le fiabe non servono solo ai bambini: ricordano agli adulti come si fa a sperare.

Sono fortemente convinta che questo libro sia un tesoro imperdibile, il mio augurio e che possa anche essere preso in considerazione dalle scolaresche.

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I do not support Digital IDs (part 2)

Since I last published a blog post about the UK Governments Digital ID plans, a few things have happened.
I remain unsatisfied by the governments responses and attitudes and I am still concerned about this proposal.

First, the petition on the government website has reached nearly 3 million signatures.
That’s nearly 1 in 25 people in the country that disagree with the plans.
The government gave a useless response to this, and it is awaiting a debate in parliament

I also wrote an email to my local MP (who is a member of the Labour Government), detailing my concerns.
The response I got back failed to accurately address any of the points that I had raised, and stinks of PR-drivel that they’ve obviously been instructed to copy and paste back to anyone that broaches the subject.

  1. It doubled down on the line that this was merely a proposal and there would be a consultation. I’ve read and responded to a few public consultations in the past few years, I know how they work. The government has an idea, and they ask just enough questions worded in a leading way to get answers that can lightly reshape what they’re planning, but never enough to risk the possibility that the project should be substantially changed or cancelled altogether.
  2. The response reiterated that this would in effect be a digital ID card – already a deviation from the initial idea that it would simply be a digital right to work check.
  3. It used mealymouthed jargon about “encryption and authentication and decentralising”, reminding me that “the highest data security standards will be followed as well as best practice”. Unfortunately for my MP, I actually understand cybersecurity, and these buzzwords with no substance behind them do not fill me with any kind of confidence.
  4. The response uses fearmongering, scaring me about the risk that having multiple documents creates opportunity for “forgery and fraud” should I not have a digital ID, without addressing the very obvious question of how consolidating ID into a single point of failure reduces the risk of identity fraud, rather than heightening it because now there’s only a single document you need to forge.
  5. It repeats the nonsensical doublespeak that the scheme “will not be compulsory”, while beginning the very next sentence with the words “It would be mandatory”.
  6. The MP attempts a final cynical tug at my heartstrings talking about how this will help disabled people, therefore the scheme is justifiable for everyone.

Not once did he answer my concerns about the ultimate goals of the scheme, how accessible the implementation would be, nor what the security of implementation and trust of management would actually look like.
I have given up hope of my MP taking my concerns seriously on this issue.

Yesterday (at time of writing) the UK Government recently held an informal debate (we are still awaiting the full scale debate demanded by the aforementioned petition) about their forthcoming Digital ID plans.
In it the official responses from Labour party representatives revealed yet more cause for concern.
They attempted to deviate discussion by accusing the SNP of hypocrisy because in Scotland they have smart cards (entirely voluntary), digital government accounts (entirely voluntary and nothing to do with a national identity scheme), and previously had a COVID system (necessary in the midst of a global deadly pandemic, mothballed when it was no longer needed, and again nothing to do with a national Id scheme).
They failed to address any of the concerns that opponents brought up, surrounding what the goals of the scheme would actually be achieved, how issues with digital connectivity would be addressed.
The government has repeatedly made claims that because it works in Estonia it must therefore be able to work in the UK, with no mention given to the fact that Estonia has been perfecting and adapting this for decades, on top of more decades of non-digital ID use, whereas the UK is jumping into this idea completely virgin.

A point of great concern rose when the government started talking about federation of data storage during this debate.
It seems the government has completely dispensed of the idea of this being a simple digital right to work check, even though barely a month has passed since the last big announcement of this project being exactly that and nothing more.
Instead, the scheme (card? app? single sign on? API? dashboard?) will no longer be the digital equivalent of some sort of right to work check, and now might instead be some sort of federated data sharing service between government departments.
Federated data storage brings with it huge considerations about privacy and security – you need to design endpoints for accessing data and making sure they are entirely secure, you may need to digitise whole datasets to make sure they can interact with this, you need to ensure that permissions, controls, logging, implementation security is standardised across every government department and public body that might interact with this.
While I would in fact be very pleased if the government were to make improvements in these areas as a matter of course, the fact these requirements seem to have been tacked on to this proposal as an afterthought does not fill me with confidence.

Viewing this cynically, it is clear that the government does not actually want to commit to detailing what exactly the digital ID scheme will look like, and I suspect there are 3 reasons for this:

  1. The government does not actually know what they want to do here. Some advisor behind the scenes suggested this proposal because they need to be seen to do something about immigration, only because they themselves have been making such a big issue of it, so they suggested an ID system and tried to water it down to make it palatable.
  2. When the backlash happened and they were faced with serious questions about how it would actually be implemented and run they realise that the scheme is likely unworkable. So they are deliberately keeping it nebulous and fluid that way it can change while still keeping the same name, so that much like the ship of Theseus, in a few years time before the next election they can claim they successfully implemented “something” that they promised, regardless of whatever it actually is.
  3. By keeping the details vague, it stifles debate and accountability. You can’t challenge someone if the thing you’re challenging changes to fit whatever your opponent desires most in the moment. You can’t later accuse someone of lying or failing to deliver if they never actually promised anything concrete.

I will still keep raising my concerns, but I am at a bit of a loss as to what I can actually do short of screaming into the void.

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“Are the NPCs in Pokémon Legends: Z-A okay?” — “Ma gli NPC in Leggende Pokémon Z-A stanno bene?”


È intrigante vedere che, se da un lato ci sono i gamer brainrottati come me, che con Pokémon Z-A stanno godendo, e dall’altro tutti quelli ancora sani che, loro malgrado, anche questo giochino non riescono proprio a farselo andare giù… in mezzo ci sono tutti quei pazzi che ogni giorno mi danno l’ispirazione per continuare […]

octospacc.altervista.org/2025/…


“Are the NPCs in Pokémon Legends: Z-A okay?” — “Ma gli NPC in Leggende Pokémon Z-A stanno bene?”


È intrigante vedere che, se da un lato ci sono i gamer brainrottati come me, che con Pokémon Z-A stanno godendo, e dall’altro tutti quelli ancora sani che, loro malgrado, anche questo giochino non riescono proprio a farselo andare giù… in mezzo ci sono tutti quei pazzi che ogni giorno mi danno l’ispirazione per continuare a vivere che, anziché pensare alle cose importanti dell’esperienza, vanno a cercare i dettagli inutili ma pazzurdi… tipo i dialoghi degli NPC in giro per Luminopoli, e la grande scoperta che viene da una passeggiata del genere è che questi individui sono quasi tutti assolutamente cucinati. 🌚

youtube.com/watch?v=c2Gzqglt_X…

Lasciando stare il dibattito su se sia buono avere la maggior parte degli NPC nella città con questi dialoghi pop-up che si leggono in automatico, e non solo quelli vecchio stile a cui bisogna parlare interagendoci (che ci sono, ma di meno), per cui ora una parte dell’esplorazione è stata uccisa, perché ora sia i dialoghi spassosi che quelli chiave non sono da scoprire con fatica, ma lo si fa totalmente per caso camminando… È evidente che stavolta, quelli che nel team di sviluppo sono soliti dare voce ai personaggi circa inutili, si sono divertiti parecchio, e forse questa è l’unica cosa che a Game Freak ancora si salva (nel contesto di Pokémon, si intende, perché tolto quello per qualche motivo i giochi li sanno fare apparentemente bene). 😤

La varietà è grande e vale la pena guardare tutto il video — mi secca solo che sia in inglese, perché scommetto che in italiano tutte le cose sono solo più divertenti… magari farò un video o un articolo io con la stessa premessa, chi lo sa — ma bene o male tutto si può classificare in delle precise categorie: vecchi che vivono crisi di terza età, membri della forza lavoro o gente non meglio specificata che parla di cose e problemi spaventosamente reali, e allenatori che nelle loro giornate hanno idee o modi di agire decisamente bizzarri, e in certi casi preoccupanti. A tratti le cose sembrano pensieri intrusivi usciti direttamente dalle teste degli sviluppatori, ed altre volte frasi uscite direttamente da biscotti della fortuna, quindi che dire. 📜

Comunque sia, un filo rosso di pazzia lega tutte queste persone, e beh… nei commenti c’è chi dice che forse è colpa della deprivazione del sonno, che in effetti ha senso: da un lato, per chi partecipa alla Royale Z-A, e passa la notte a fare lotte… e, dall’altro, chi semplicemente subisce l’infinito inquinamento acustico che dalle zone lotta si diffonderà fuori (anche se, in realtà, ogni notte la posizione cambia, quindi la possibilità di dormire ogni tanto la avrebbero… vabbé). Però, caspiterina, queste abilità di scrittura sono sprecate per un RPG a mondo statico come Pokémon… sarebbe invece bellissimo avere dialoghi di questo tenore in un gioco di simulazione a conversazione dinamica come Animal Crossing… (Immaginiamo a questo punto se Game Freak e Nintendo si scambiassero i dipendenti…) 🤖


Gli NPC in questo gioco faranno piangere, ma le nuove lotte dinamiche sono bellissime, e io non me lo aspettavo. Scopri precisamente tutta l’epicità nel nuovo articolo stufocttato: Le sfavillanti lotte in tempo reale di Leggende Pokémon: Z-A. (Messaggio promocttionale, abbiate pazienza.)

#dialoghi #GVG #Pokémon #PokemonZA





Climate-Warming Methane Emissions from the World’s Biggest Livestock Companies Are Bigger Than From Major Oil and Gas Companies


Ahead of the United Nations climate talks in Brazil, advocacy groups are pushing for companies and governments to set meaningful emissions targets to lower emissions from livestock.

The world’s biggest meat and dairy companies are responsible for emitting more climate-warming methane than all of the countries in the European Union and United Kingdom combined, according to a new assessment published Monday.

They looked at 45 major livestock and dairy companies, finding that they generated about 1 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions in 2023—roughly the same amount as reported for Saudi Arabia, the world’s second largest oil producer.

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in reply to solo

Because oil and gas don't emit methane into the atmosphere if they can help it. It's a sellable product to them.

I do agree that agriculture methane emissions should be dealt with, but the headline is misleading.

in reply to Duamerthrax

I don't think it's a misleading title because leaks are considered emissions.

The leaks from oil & gas are huge to begin with, and some of them are even called super-emitting methane leaks. From another article:

About 40% of human-caused methane emissions come from leaks from fossil fuel exploration, production and transportation. These rose by almost 50% between 2000 and 2019. Another 40% comes from agriculture(...) All are forecast to rise.


Not only that these leaks and are not visible to the naked eye, so

the big challenge is knowing exactly how much methane is being emitted, where it is being emitted and for how long it has been emitted. [source UN environment program]
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‘Chiraq Team 2’: Oak Park attorney catches glimpse of federal agents’ group chat during arrest • The TRiiBE


Attorney Scott Sakiyama stood in front of reporters in Chicago’s Dirksen Federal Courthouse on Oct. 10. Paul Ivery, a 26-year-old intellectually disabled Black man and Oak Park local, was leaving the courthouse after enduring nearly two weeks of criminal proceedings. The government claimed Ivery assaulted a Border Patrol agent at a protest at the suburban Broadview ICE facility on Sept. 27, only to drop the case two weeks later. Sakiyama, a fellow Oak Park resident, didn’t represent Ivery in court but offered to act as a spokesperson for his family.

“If the case had gone forward, it probably would have lasted for months, and so it’s just such a relief to have it over now,” Sakiyama told reporters on Oct.10.

Ten days later, Sakiyama ended up in the back of a vehicle used by federal immigration agents himself. The masked agents detained him at gunpoint on the morning of Oct. 20 and brought him to the same Broadview ICE facility. He sat in the vehicle with agents for about a half hour outside the facility before another agent gave him a citation for impeding a federal officer.

They then returned him to his own car and wished him a good day, he said.



Chi di voi usa alternative a social popolari?


Escludendo lemmy ovviamente, cosa usate? Matrix al post di whatsapp, bluesky al posto di twitter?

Mi sto interessando a cambiare social(e magari aiutare pure i miei amici a cambiare social) e mi chiedo, avete consigli per delle alternative libere a discord? Ho visto Revolt e non so bene se valga la pena

in reply to Axolotl_cpp

Non sono l'esempio migliore perché uso ancora anche "gli altri" social, ma ho molti account nel fediverso.

Mastodon, Friendica, Feddit, Pixelfed, ecc.

Nel caso di Pixelfed, l'ho utilizzato per sostituirlo a Instagram.

in reply to Axolotl_cpp

Uso “molto” telegram e signal al posto di whatsapp. Totale: 100 contatti su whatsapp e 4 fuori -.-

Sono alternative che supporto, ma non hanno trazione tra i miei contatti, quindi penso che resterà così. Meglio che niente



Blackout: A new movement to ban social media for under-16s has a huge blind spot.


to be enforced by way of biometric scanning and ID tokens


Do we really want to do a biometric scan to access websites in New Zealand?



This Month’s Two Tiny Changes

Each month during 2025 we’re offering two tiny changes which may help improve your life. This month …

  1. Do a timed 10-minute tidy every day. Improving the cleanliness & tidiness of the house will help relieve depression.
  2. Brush your teeth standing on one foot. It’ll strengthen your legs and improve your balance.

#blog #changes #improvement #life #personal #zenmischief



What's Your "Digital Comfort Food"?


We spend so much time online, but how much of it genuinely feeds us?

We all have our go-to websites, apps, or online rituals that feel like a warm blanket. Maybe it's a specific niche forum, a calming puzzle game, a curated music playlist, or a blog you've read for a decade.

I'm curious: What's your digital comfort food? What's that one corner of the internet you retreat to that always leaves you feeling a little bit better, calmer, or more inspired?

For me, it's organizing my digital spaces. There's something deeply satisfying about decluttering my phone's home screen and customizing my most-used apps to be as minimal and efficient as possible. It makes the digital world feel a little more like my world. This drive for a personalized experience even extends to using tools that offer more control, like wa gb apk for a cleaner, more tailored messaging setup.

So, what's yours? Share your links and reasons below—let's build a list of wholesome corners of the web



Le sfavillanti lotte in tempo reale di Leggende Pokémon: Z-A


In questi ultimi giorni, nel continuare a giocare al nuovo gioco di Leggende Pokémon: Z-A — mettendo un attimo da parte tutti i non pochi problemi

stuff.octt.eu.org/2025/10/lott…



L’uomo dall’altro mondo. Storie da un’Italia (im)possibile





in reply to sabreW4K3

Yikes. They might’ve been jerks in the second Mighty Ducks movie but dang, they don’t deserve mosquitoes. Nobody does.
in reply to sabreW4K3

Noooooo, my last summer refuge from the mosquito scourge!

(Lol as if I could afford to leave the most prosperous and bestest nation on Earth).





Are We Living in a Golden Age of Stupidity? - Slashdot


Test scores across OECD countries peaked around 2012 and have declined since. IQ scores in many developed countries appear to be falling after rising throughout the twentieth century. Nataliya Kosmyna at MIT's Media Lab began noticing changes around two years ago when strangers started emailing her to ask if using ChatGPT could alter their brains. She posted a study in June tracking brain activity in 54 students writing essays. Those using ChatGPT showed significantly less activity in networks tied to cognitive processing and attention compared to students who wrote without digital help or used only internet search engines. Almost none could recall what they had written immediately after submitting their work. She received more than 4,000 emails afterward. Many came from teachers who reported students producing passable assignments without understanding the material. A British survey found that 92% of university students now use AI and roughly 20% have used it to write all or part of an assignment. Independent research has found that more screen time in schools correlates with worse results. Technology companies have designed products to be frictionless, removing the cognitive challenges brains need to learn. AI now allows users to outsource thinking itself.




Federal immigration and customs agents raid vendors in NYC's Chinatown





Mass Call: What's Next After No Kings? · No Kings


This starts at the top of the hour, for anyone curious about where the movement goes from here.

This is my first time wading into these waters, so I have no idea what to expect, but this seems the sort of thing some here might be interested in.