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Mittelland AD, an updated version of the 1996 game Die Fugger 2, where you found a dynasty, trade goods, prove your political skill, eliminate your rivals, set in Germany in 1600s, released on Steam.
Mittelland AD on Steam
Achieve wealth and fame in the Principality of Mittelland! Found a dynasty, trade goods, prove your political skill, eliminate your rivals, and immortalize yourself in the history books! The classic political and economic simulation starting from the…store.steampowered.com
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These Dallas Residents Are on the Front Lines of Trump’s War Against “Antifa”
If convicted, people who showed up to a protest could face “decades of prison time,” the National Lawyers Guild says.
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EU AI Act Demands Informed, Disclosure-Aware Patent Strategies
The requirements for governance, model transparency/notification, began in August 2025. General applicability of most of the AI Act including obligations for “high-risk” AI systems begin in August 2026. Obligations for high-risk AI systems that are part of safety components in regulated products become applicable in August 2027.
By introducing a tiered, risk-based regime, the law bans certain AI practices outright, layers strict obligations on high-risk systems, and establishes unprecedented oversight for general-purpose AI and foundation models, especially those with systemic impact. Its reach is global—any company placing AI into the EU market must comply and its penalties are steep.
For businesses and their counsel, compliance isn’t optional. It’s now the price of entry into one of the world’s largest markets, and it will influence how innovation is documented, safeguarded, and patented.
It’s important to understand the AI Act’s most consequential provisions for patent strategy, particularly how regulatory documentation duties intersect with data provenance, inventorship disputes, trade secret versus patent trade-offs, claim drafting under new compliance constraints, and geo-strategic filing decisions.
The AI Act distinguishes between four key categories of AI systems:
Minimal-risk systems (AI-enabled video games, spam filters)
Limited-risk systems (chatbots interacting with users)
High-risk systems (AI in health care, education, employment, infrastructure, biometric identification)
General purpose and foundation models
While minimal and limited risk systems carry only modest obligations, the regulation of high-risk and general-purpose/foundation models forms the core of the AI Act and presents the most significant patent implications.
Before entering the market, high-risk systems must clear a conformity assessment and provide detailed technical documentation that includes:
System description and intended purpose
System architecture, algorithms, and datasets used
Risk management, testing, and validation protocols
Transparency and human oversight measures
Properly managed, these records can help distinguish human inventive contributions from AI-assisted outputs, providing valuable support for defending inventorship and reinforcing patent validity in a contested landscape.
Documentation and dataset summaries may further reduce the viability of trade secret protection. Both the EU Trade Secrets Directive and US law require that information be kept confidential through reasonable protective measures.
By mandating disclosures, the AI Act can erode this confidentiality, making secrecy harder to sustain in practice. This shift alters the calculus for IP strategy. In some cases, patenting may become the safer path, as certain technologies no longer can be reliably safeguarded as trade secrets.
EU AI Act Demands Informed, Disclosure-Aware Patent Strategies
US companies whose patent portfolios are exposed to the EU market face unique risks under the European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act.Lestin Kenton Jr. (news.bloomberglaw.com)
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AI simply needs regulation. Not sure this is the best there is, but just doing something is a step forward.
I also read today that some leaders are pushing for AI sovereignty, i.e. being independent of US corpos and running their own.
On the downside, they want to fully embrace that shit for "preemptive data storage".
Also many go with Palantir regardless, and I don't understand how that goes together with the call for sovereignty.
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Everyone who joins the military ends up with like 6 sets they don't need, and they end up donating them. Usually you find stuff used, but there's a decent amount of stuff that ends up sitting on storeroom shelves for a decade before being sold to the civilian population.
Here's a decent place to buy in the US.
And here's a spot in the EU.
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That's super cool! Honestly would be really good to find work gear, but also everyday gear, since 99% of pants I wear are cargo pants lmao!
Thanks!
Poland Signs Palantir, Anduril Deals Amid Record Army Spending
Poland signed two separate deals with Palantir Technologies Inc. and Anduril Industries Inc. on Monday as the country steps up to upgrade its army amid record military spending.
Poland’s Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz and Palantir Chief Executive Officer Alex Karp signed a letter of intent on data, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity in Warsaw. At the same time, state-owned PGZ SA agreed with Anduril to cooperate on making Barracuda-500M cruise missiles, without saying when production would start or how much the deal was worth.
The Palantir deal is an early stage agreement and neither the government nor the company said how much the deal was worth. Poland is interested in several systems the company offers, including for battlefield management and logistics, Kosiniak-Kamysz said.
The minister said the Palantir CEO told him the company planned to invest in Poland, tapping into the potential of the local defense industry and engaging Polish engineers, without giving details. The country expects to sign deals with Palantir for specific systems in the next two or three months.
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"Bad times are good for Palantir" -Alex Karp, CEO
Things are about to get real bad in the world (even worse than they are now)
Question:
Does buying arms from the USA essentially necessitate using Palantir or related products?
edit: I got the gist of the article wrong. Anduril does produce arms, and the deal is about producing them, not buying. My question stands though.
I'm not sure, but that's a good question.
I believe Ukraine used Palantir against Russia, but when the U.S. becomes involved in a proxy war (even if it's to defend a nation that was clearly invaded by a leader who posed a global threat) it's hard to know what is actually chosen by the country vs provided as is.
No. For sure not. The interoperability of different tools and kit, from an outsiders perspective, kind of all over the place. Different companies have some internal interop, but generally its a mix between standards set by who ever is buying (branch, or org like NATO) and compatible with industry leader in relevant use case.
At least if you look at Defense companies GitHub, Earnings Reports, and Job postings and the militaries public statements.
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Mittelland AD, an updated version of the 1996 game Die Fugger 2, where you found a dynasty, trade goods, prove your political skill, eliminate your rivals, set in Germany in 1600s, released on Steam.
Mittelland AD on Steam
Achieve wealth and fame in the Principality of Mittelland! Found a dynasty, trade goods, prove your political skill, eliminate your rivals, and immortalize yourself in the history books! The classic political and economic simulation starting from the…store.steampowered.com
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Lode a Thule, ombra di un antico albero, cipresso colonnare che sorregge il mondo - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Lode a Thule, ombra di un antico albero, cipresso colonnare che sorregge il mondo - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Emblematica nella letteratura fantastica è la città costruita sotto i rami protettivi di un abnorme arbusto, capace di proteggere coloro che vi abitano dalle influenze negative di creature dedite alla perpetuazione di un antico male.Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
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Signal president Meredith Whittaker says they had no choice but to use AWS, and that's a problem
Signal president Meredith Whittaker says they had no choice but to use AWS, and that's a problem
: 'The problem is the concentration of power in the infrastructure space that means there isn’t really another choice'Thomas Claburn (The Register)
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Amazon plans to cut 30,000 corporate jobs in response to pandemic overhiring
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/37968628
Amazon is preparing to lay off tens of thousands of corporate workers, reversing its pandemic hiring spree. The cuts come months after the retail giant’s CEO warned white-collar employees their jobs could be taken by artificial intelligence.I'm sure the tRump slump has nothing to do with it
Amazon plans to cut 30,000 corporate jobs in response to pandemic overhiring
Figure represents nearly 10% of the company’s roughly 350,000 corporate employeesCallum Jones (The Guardian)
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Amazon plans to cut 30,000 corporate jobs ~~in response to pandemic overhiring~~ to increase shareholder returns
FTFY
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Alien Anthropology: Doing without Agriculture
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Alien Anthropology: Doing without Agriculture
Those familiar with Biblaridion's Alien Biospheres worldbuilding series will be glad to hear that it's new sequel (sister?) series has just had it's first release 'Doing without Agriculture,' exploring a few of the ways that a fictional alien species, the development of which was covered in the last series, could develop their societies in the abscence of agrarian technology.
Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like
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Here’s how to opt out.Archived version: archive.is/20251027141201/thev…
Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like
Here’s how to opt out.
Archived version: archive.is/20251027141201/thev…Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like
A new widget coming to the built-in screen will show ‘curated advertisements’ starting next month. But you can opt out.Jennifer Pattison Tuohy (The Verge)
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Only idiots pay for appliances/services that include ads.
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The only time I've ever lost anything from a fridge was when an apartment complex preemptively cleared out the last of our belongings before we finished moving out.
And that was 30 years ago.
The door monitor mostly helps when a kid walks off leaving it open thinking they closed it.
The freezer temperature monitoring has saved the contents several times. A breaker had tripped once and I didn't notice, it let me know that I needed a generator during a power outage, and one of the kids snuck an ice cream and left the lid wide open.
So yeah, it's been useful. It's not needed 99% of the time.
An alarm that beeps when the door is left open more than X minutes (say, 5 minutes) only requires a stupidly simple circuit and about $5 in parts.
No smarts needed (though it's probably cheaper to make it with a microcontroller than have the timer circuit be done with discrete parts).
Hmm, my fridge is in my kitchen, which is in the middle of the house. I've never been in a situation where the fridge door has been open more than a couple minutes without me noticing, and I have three kids.
I've had two fridges die (well, the same one twice), and that sucked, but there's not much I could do about it even if I knew a few hours earlier, and I use the fridge enough I'll notice within a few hours. Refrigerator deliveries often happen after a few days, and I'm not going to keep stocking ice during that period, I'll just consume what I can and move the important stuff to the mini fridge or chest freezer.
It would be cool, sure, but it's not worth having it connected to the internet.
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I need my refridgerator to be a box.
A box that gets cold inside.
Thats it. Just a cold box.
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So we need a robust, failsafe open source motor controller with minimal firmware or just heavy duty relays and analog timers.
It needs a brain, but only enough to record the cycles from the factory controller and then replay them after replacement.
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I could see it if it was a screen I get to control, akin to a smart mirror. Fridge door would be a pretty good surface since I'm guaranteed to look at it a couple of times each day.
Other than that, push notifications if the door is open? That's about the max when it comes to usefulness I can imagine. Is that a problem that requires a connected device? No, probably not.
However, depending on the model range, it becomes difficult to even get a model that doesn't have the "smart" features. No one can force you to connect the device though (yet).
It has been my general experience over the years that with just about all electronics devices with "everything and the kitchen sink" in them, you're actually better off buying functional elements separatelly as discrete devices.
For example, you're better of with a "dumb" fridge plus a good tablet and something to hang it on the fridge door. Another example is how a "dumb" TV and a TV Media Box separatelly are a better choice than a Smart TV.
This is because those things usually have different technology life-cycles (i.e. the time period were a tablet is expected to remain useful and performant is much less than for a fridge) and some parts are useful on their own and hence are more flexible to use if they're separate (i.e. a standalone tablet has many more uses than one integrated in a Smart Fridge).
I think you can run DOOM on it
Running Doom on a Linux device with Wayland is not really that much effort once you have a way to execute 3rd party binaries.
That's my partner. I just shop hungry and ask him to check the refrigerator for me while I'm out.
We also have a shared grocery app, which works nicely.
Since it's a Samsung ice dispenser, that's a recurring charge: Service calls.
(Seriously though, I'll never buy another Samsung appliance after my experience with that fridge's ice dispenser)
Here’s what they look like on my fridge:
I would not buy appliances with ads,
I would not buy them, Sam-I-Am.
So buying things that don't show ads isn't enough. You need to only buy things that don't get updates.
Yeah, that just makes this so sinister.
What I mean is that my fridge doesn’t have a screen. So if Panasonic decided to show me ads on a fridge where the most complicated feature is the ice maker, that would be a neat trick.
Receives a letter at home from Panasonic containing a message, a color printed sheet and a fridge magnet.
Message reads: "Dear costumer, please use enclosed fridge magnet to hang provided advert sheet on your Panasonic refrigerator"
Guess what they look like on my 250 Dollar dumb fridge.
I can even keep my food chilled with it. Plus I can freeze stuff. Even has a light when I open the door. Super practical. You guys should come see it!
"Smart" fridges are the dumbest shit ever; given that, pi hole or some ad blocking DNS? Block access to Samsung servers?
Don't understand people who are willing to let all that data pass through 3rd party servers
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In cars the car companies pay the costs.
I'm assuming they negotiate bulk discounts with mobile carriers to buy SIM cards en masse.
The same would be the case in any other appliance.
Perhaps they'll be talking via a giant mesh of your neighbors doorbells, fridges, and televisions. Wouldn't that be fucked up? Maybe they'll stream to the police drones patrolling your neighborhood.
I always wondered how an "ad-supported" Kindle would show new ads on the home screen if you only transfer books via USB and never connect via WiFi or wireless? Does it just reuse the old ads? How will the fridge do it?
This is where it's going, I think.
You'll need to use wifi if you want any online functionality out of the device but it'll communicate on its own via cellular for ads and any metrics literally whoever the fuck wants.
As long as a business is able to make more from ads and selling your data than whatever the wireless fees they pay are it makes business sense. It's fucking evil and a dystopian nightmare but it makes business sense.
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I have a tablet and a fridge. One is mobile info & recipe stuff, the other has (too less) space and cools food. Why should i want (too expensive) a fridge with a built in tablet? They just don't match.
Edit: get one of them magnetic stickers to have the best of both worlds.
And here’s how to opt out.
I'm opting out by buying a significantly cheaper non-smart fridge. Which luckily is still an option.
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The fridge is also a good location for it, and you’d have to otherwise run a wire across your fridge to power your own tablet.
What? How is the fridge possibly a good location for it? In what world could that ever be true? And do you not have wall outlets in your kitchen? Put your device on the counter!
I mean... what?
Ok, so let's say you're making dinner and you want to watch something at the same time. Perhaps you're chopping vegetables on the counter. Do you really want to be looking at the front of the fridge while you do that? If the fridge is against the same wall as the counter you need to crane your head back to see anything, and if it's on a different wall you need to turn your head a totally different direction. Why not use one of those tablet cases with a kick stand and then put the tablet right in front of you, on the counter? Like right in front of the the cutting board you're using.
I don't know, I think if you do anything other than putting it right in front of you, you're gonna and up losing some fingers instead of chopping veggies.
The fridge is a very inconvenient location though.
My tablet sits on the counter where I am prepping food when using mealie, or where I am standing to cook when I am talking with someone over Jitsi.
Tablet batteries last far longer than any session I am at in the kitchen so after words it just goes to the charger for tomorrow.
No need for wires during use, and its charging station is where ALL my devices chargers are.
Yes, that's an actual selling argument (slap my forehead real hard)
As a Home Assistant geek, I would love to have a tablet built into the fridge door that I could 100% hack to display useful information and such. Currently I have an Android tablet on the wall that does this, but one on the door could be cool, especially if you could setup a place for virtual sticky notes that you could leave reminders and such for family members.
It’s not worth it for ad space though and I wouldn’t want it to be required for the fridge to operate either!
My household has a shared calendar we use to plan events. I've thought about a project before just to put a big view version of that up somewhere for people to reference, but I've been hesitant because it's a large household and having to play tech support every time it goes wrong isn't something i can do.
If i could get a reliable screen on the fridge that could display that, along with maybe a Reminders List and your sticky note idea, that would be perfect. With ads though that's a big nope from me.
Even excluding my stance on not wanting ads, that's how you find out the 5 year old accidentally bought something, or that something was leaked in a big data leak. That's just something i don't want in my home
The widget will appear by default on the fridges as part of the software update. However, Samsung is giving users the option to turn off ads. To do this, go to the Settings page on the fridge, scroll to Advertisements, select it, and you’ll be taken to a screen where you can toggle off ads.This will remove the widget entirely. If you think you might actually like the widget’s other features (calendar, weather, and news), you can “X” out a particular ad, and it won’t pop up again. But then you’ll get another ad.
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I was ready gawk at what ads on my fridge would look like, and then this. I don't know what I expected.
Worth pointing out that that “Target figured out a girl was pregnant before her father did” story is almost certainly untrue: predictiveanalyticsworld.com/m…
I agree with the article that getting ads on a device you’ve already paid for with no hint that there would be ads is intrusive and a sad sign of how tech is going (in the same week that it was announced that Apple are going to be adding ads to Maps, too). But I also can’t help but wonder - who the fuck wants a smart fridge? Like, legitimately, what is the advantage over a normal fridge?
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Not a "smart" fridge per se, but I can see the use of a screen on my fridge; something where we can see our family calendar, leave notes for each other, and maybe also be able to access the grocery shopping list. Weather would be nice too, though you can keep the news widget (yikes). Something in a visible location in our house, where we go every day.
I'm not sure what other features they advertise with a smart fridge, but those few would be nice; especially if I could just plug a raspberry pi into it and skip all of the Samsung nonsense entirely.
We're a family of six, and the kids don't have phones. It's tough to coordinate schedules already and it's only going to get worse.
I recognize that I'm an edge case.
You’re not an edge case. My family isn’t that large but we still have challenges with this exact thing.
There’s a screen device that my wife gets incessantly advertised to her that is probably a better option than it being built into a fridge that has been engineered to last 3 weeks longer than the warranty.
I was trying to say there is paper. That's what we always did.
And still do for that matter.
This is an amazing article. I'm serious. Very well written. This is my favorite part:
I asked Higby why they were bringing ads to the fridges. He said via email, “This pilot further explores how a connected appliance can deliver genuinely useful, contextual information. The refrigerator is already a daily hub, and we’re testing a responsible, user-controlled way to make that space more helpful.”This is similar to the justification Panos Panay, Amazon’s head of Devices & Services, made to me last month when I asked him about advertising on its Echo devices. He said it was looking to be “elegantly elevating the information that a customer needs.”
Do these people actually believe this? Do they see advertisements in their own lives and think, "ah yes, that was useful and contextual. That was a helpful ad, elegantly elevating my information." I've seen some delusional people in executive-level roles, but that would be a special new class of delusion. Nobody likes ads. I recognize that some people have higher and lower tolerances for them, but nobody is actually grateful for them. Right?! I need to believe this is true.
Both companies claim they want to offer “curated,” “relevant” ads that might “enhance the experience.” I can buy that to some extent when it’s ads for features that your smart fridge or smart display offers. This tech is complicated and capable, and most people only tap into a fraction of what their devices can do.
That's generous. But ok, maybe I can grant the premise.
But there is no future where third-party advertisements will ever be welcome in people’s homes like this — even if they happen to show me a brand of pet food right when my dog is looking at me with hungry eyes.
Right. Exactly. No matter what, I can think of no situation in which an ad is serving the customer's interests. Maybe in the case of a coupon? But even then, I think it's dubious.
There's a future coming where every fridge sold will come with a screen for ads, and not necessarily any other smart features.
Once people accept this shit, there's no going back.
and that future will include me ripping out the network connection cards from the primary boards.
if that bricks it, I'll just have to setup an "internet" connection.
‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS
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Signal was just one of many services brought down by the AWS outage.
‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS
Signal was just one of many services brought down by the AWS outage.
‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS
Signal head Meredith Whittaker has responded to concerns about the encrypted messaging app’s use of Amazon Web Services, saying “there isn’t really another choice.”Emma Roth (The Verge)
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Session | Send Messages, Not Metadata. | Private Messenger
Session is a private messenger that aims to remove any chance of metadata collection by routing all messages through an onion routing network.Session
shame their entire node system relies on cryptobros tech.
tor doesnt need currency to back it up.
i2p doesnt need currency to back it up.
why the hell lokinet does?
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Exactly.
It’s also a way that people can contribute to the network without needing third party payment services. I don’t need to find some node operator’s socials and look up a patron to use a credit card.
If I already have an account with a crypto exchange then it’s easy to pay the operators.
Where does the reward come from?
Who pays the node maintainers for keeping stable nodes online?
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Okay, does this use a common crypto currency, or how do the node owners "profit" from upholding the service?
If it has its own cryptocurrency, where can they spend it?
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Hey, thank you for providing actually informative answers to the other guy's questions. It was interesting for me to read as well.
I looked into running a node, but apparently the required amount of tokens to stake is over 1000 euros. I'll have to pass for now.
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No problem, glad I could be of use.
You can bring down the stake amount to 6250 tokens (~300€) by running a multi-contributor node link, but your cut of the rewards will be proportionally smaller as well.
No, DHT is just a way of determining paths and priority of value lookup by key in the network, so that the load were distributed predictably, while allowing you to find, well, what you are looking for. BTW, while everybody uses Kademlia with modifications, I'd argue that Chord is better for anything related to security and anonymity.
Storage and serving of anything big is another thing. I take it you mean that I2P nodes cache messages relayed via them when the target node is unavailable. That doesn't have anything to do with DHT.
It’s gotten more usable over the past couple of years. Sadly, I just got done getting all my family/friend contacts to get on Signal (they’d much prefer to use WhatsApp) so Session remains a lonely place for me. I seem to use it solely as a place to stash notes for myself, even though I do this with Signal as well.
I don’t know that we’ll ever see a messenger that both appeals to everyone and has all the features we want (from privacy to visual appeal).
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Her real comment was that there are only 3 major cloud providers they can consider: AWS, GCP, and Azure. They chose AWS and AWS only. So there are a few options for them going forward — 1) keep doing what they’re doing and hope a single cloud provider can improve reliability, 2) modify their architecture to a multi-cloud architecture given the odds of more than one major provider going down simultaneously is much rarer, or 3) build their own datacenters/use colos which have a learning curve yet are still viable alternatives. Those that are serious about software own their own hardware, after all.
Each choice has its strengths and drawbacks. The economics are tough with any choice. Comes down to priorities, ability to differentiate, and value in differentiation 😀
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Scale, they need worldwide coverage.
mastodon.world/@Mer__edith/115…
This isn't ‘'renting a server.' It's leasing access to a whole sprawling, capital-intensive, technically-capable system that must be just as available in Cairo as in Capetown, just as functional in Bangkok as Berlin. Particularly given the high stakes use cases of many who rely on Signal. 6/
The big 3 also offer disgustingly fast interconnection. Google, Amazon and Microsoft lay their own undersea fiber for better performance.
If willing to sacrifice a bit of everything, OVH has North-American and European locations, as well as one in India, one in Singapore and one in Australia. They're building a few more in India, one in Dubai, two in Africa, one in NZ and 3 in South America. Once they add a few more on top of those, that's damn near worldwide coverage too. And OVH is a French company, so the US government has less leverage over it than Amazon.
Those are the only 3 that matter at the top tier/enterprise class of infrastructure. Oracle could be considered as well for nuanced/specialized deployments that are (largely) Oracle DB heavy; but AWS is so far ahead of Azure and GCP from a tooling standpoint it's not even worth considering the other two if AWS is on the table.
It's so bad with other cloud providers that ones like Azure offers insane discounts on their MSSQL DB (basically "free") licensing just to use them over AWS. Sometimes the cost savings are worth it, but you take a usability and infrastructure hit by using anything other than AWS.
I honestly, legitimately, wish there was some other cloud provider out there that could do what AWS can do, but they don't exist. Anyone else is a pale imitation from a devops perspective. It sucks. There should be other real competitors, especially to the US based cloud companies as the US cannot be trusted anymore, but they just don't exist without taking a huge hit in terms of tools, APIs, and reliability options, to AWS.
Multi cloud is very difficult to do well.
Multi region is already hard enough with transactional management not being easy to split between the regions, and multi-cloud is another order of magnitude more difficult than multi region.
With that said, use2 and others were still up, so if they were just multi region and failed over to east2 they would have been fine.
Meredith mentioned in a reply to her posts that they do leverage multi-cloud and were able to fall back onto GCP (Google Cloud Platform), which enabled Signal to recover quicker than just waiting on AWS. I'd link to source but on phone, it's somewhere in this thread: mastodon.world/@Mer__edith/115…
📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).It’s also concerning. 1/
There are many server lease options all over the world
It increases complexity a lot to go with a bunch of separate server leases. There's a reason global companies use hyperscalers instead of getting VPSes in 30 or 40 different countries.
I hate the centralization as much as everyone else, but for some things it's just not feasible to go on-prem. I do know an exception. Used to work at a company with a pretty large and widely spread out customer base (big corps on multiple continents) that had its own k8s cluster in a super secure colocation space. But our backend was always slow to some degree (in multiple cases I optimized multi-second API endpoints into 10-200ms), we used asynchronous processing for the truly slow things instead of letting the user wait for a multi-minute API request, and it just wasn't the sort of application that you need to be super fast anyway, so the extra milliseconds of latency didn't matter that much, whether it was 50 or 500.
But with a chat app, users want it to be fast. They expect their messages to be sent as soon as they hit the send button. It might take longer to actually reach the other people in the conversation, but it needs to be fast enough that if the user hits send and then immediately closes the app, it's sent already. Otherwise it's bad UX.
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What are you talking about?
I'm saying that the parts of infrastructure needed to accept a message to the service from the client application, encrypted or not, associated to a user or not, are under same requirements for Signal and Telegram.
I don't know if you understand that every big service is basically its own 90s' Internet self-contained, and what accepts your messages is pretty similar to an SMTP server in their architecture.
I'm going to call bullshit on the underlying assertion that Signal is using Amazon services for the sake of lining Jeff's pocket instead of considering the "several" alternatives. As if they don't have staff to consider such a thing and just hit buy now on the Amazon smile.
In any monopoly, there are going to be smaller, less versatile, less reliable options. Fine and dandy for Mr Joe Technology to hop on the niche wagon and save a few bucks, but that's not going to work for anyone casting a net encompassing the world.
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You cant run a professional service on self hosters hardware...
I think you guys dont really have experience of building these global, low latency apps and dont know the challanges that come with that...
you, on a single ISP who relies on the world's shared backbone rather than your own between multiple DCs within a region and multiple regions around the world, have better uptime than AWS?
Stop.
I'm all for decentralizing for the case of no single entity controlling everything, but not for the case of uptime. That is one thing you give up with services like Matrix or Lemmy.
AWS actually has an SLA it's contractually committed to when you pay them with thousands of engineers working to maintain it.
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And your source?
I'm running and am part of a Matrix server for years and experienced near zero problems with them so far.
Great. Can you reference an SLA to prove that, and what's the size of that server?
Apples and oranges.
EDIT: As in Signal's excuse. (Sorry, I should've been clear)
Why is it that only the larger cloud providers are acceptable? What's wrong with one of the smaller providers like Linode/Akamai? There are a lot of crappy options, but also plenty of decent ones. If you build your infrastructure over a few different providers, you'll pay more upfront in engineering time, but you'll get a lot more flexibility.
For something like Signal, it should be pretty easy to build this type of redundancy since data storage is minimal and sending messages probably doesn't need to use that data storage.
But far less reliable. If your data center has a power outrage or internet disruption, you're screwed. Signal isn't big enough to have several data centers for geographic diversity and redundancy, they're maybe a few racks total.
Colo is more feasible, but who is going to travel to the various parts of the world to swap drives or whatever? If there's an outage, you're talking hours to days to get another server up, vs minutes for rented hosting.
For the scale that signal operates at and the relatively small processing needs, I think you'd want lots of small instances. To route messages, you need very little info, and messages don't need to be stored. I'd rather have 50 small replicas than 5 big instances for that workload.
For something like Lemmy, colo makes a ton of sense though.
It’s plenty reliable. AWS is just somebody else’s datacenter.
Colo is more feasible, but who is going to travel to the various parts of the world to swap drives or whatever?
Most Colo DCs offer ad hoc remote hands, but that’s beside the point. What do you mean here by “Various parts of the world”? In Signal’s case even Amazon didn’t need anyone in “various parts of the world” because the Signal infra on AWS was evidently in exactly one part of the world.
If there's an outage, you're talking hours to days to get another server up, vs minutes for rented hosting.
You mean like the hours it took for Signal to recover on AWS, meanwhile it would have been minutes if it was their own infrastructure?
the Signal infra on AWS was evidently in exactly one part of the world.
We don't necessarily know that. All I know is that AWS's load balancers had issues in one region. It could be that they use that region for a critical load balancer, but they have local instances in other parts of the world to reduce latency.
I'm not talking about how Signal is currently set up (maybe it is that fragile), I'm talking about how it could be set up. If their issue is merely w/ the load balancer, they could have a bit of redundancy in the load balancer w/o making their config that much more complex.
You mean like the hours it took for Signal to recover on AWS, meanwhile it would have been minutes if it was their own infrastructure?
No, I mean if they had a proper distributed network of servers across the globe and were able to reroute traffic to other regions when one has issues, there could be minimal disruption to the service overall, with mostly local latency spikes for the impacted region.
My company uses AWS, and we had a disaster recovery mechanism almost trigger that would move our workload to a different region. The only reason we didn't trigger it is because we only need the app to be responsive during specific work hours, and AWS recovered by the time we needed our production services available. A normal disaster recovery takes well under an hour.
With a self-hosted datacenter/server room, if there's a disruption, there is usually no backup, so you're out until the outage is resolved. I don't know if Signal has disaster recovery or if they used it, I didn't follow their end of things very closely, but it's not difficult to do when you're using cloud services, whereas it is difficult to do when you're self-hosting. Colo is a bit easier since you can have hot spares in different regions/overbuild your infra so any node can go down.
It was a DNS issue with DynamoDB, the load balancer issue was a knock-on effect after the DNS issue was resolved. But the problem is it was a ~15 hour outage, and a big reason behind that was the fact that the load in that region is massive. Signal could very well have had their infrastructure in more than one availability zone but since the outage affected the entire region they are screwed.
You’re right that this can be somewhat mitigated by having infrastructure in multiple regions, but if they don’t, the reason is cost. Multi-region redundancy costs an arm and a leg. You can accomplish that same redundancy via Colo DCs for a fraction of the cost, and when you do fix the root issue, you won’t then have your load balancers fail on you because in addition to your own systems you have half the internet all trying to pass its backlog of traffic at once.
Multi-region redundancy costs an arm and a leg
Yes, if you buy an off the shelf solution, it'll be expensive.
I'm suggesting treating VPS instances like you would a colo setup. Let cloud providers manage the hardware, and keep the load balancing in house. For Signal, this can be as simple as client-side latency/load checks. You can still colo in locations with heavier load; that's how some Linux distros handle repo mirrors, and it works well. Signal's data needs should be so low that simple DB replicas should be sufficient.
It is, compared to AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Here's 2024 revenue to give an idea of scale:
- Akamai - $4B, Linode itself is ~$100M
- AWS - $107B
- Azure - ~$75B
- Google Cloud - ~$43B
The smallest on this this list has 10x the revenue of Akamai.
Here are a few other providers for reference:
- Hetzner (what I use) - €367M
- Digital Ocean - $692.9M
- Vultr (my old host) - not public, but estimates are ~$37M
I'm arguing they could put together a solution with these smaller providers. That takes more work, but you're rewarded with more resilience and probably lower hosting costs. Once you have two providers in your infra, it's easier to add another. Maybe start with using them for disaster recovery, then slowly diversify the hosting portfolio.
This is the actual realistic change a lot of people are missing. Multi cloud is hard and imperfect and brings its own new potential issues. But AWS does give you tools to adopt multi region. It's just very expensive.
Unfortunately DNS transcends regions though so that can't really be escaped.
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us-east-1 went down. Problem is that IAM services all run through that DC. Any code relying on an IAM role would not be able to authenticate. Think of it as a username in a Windows domain. IAM encompasses all that you are allowed to view, change, launch, etc.
I didn't hardly touch AWS at my last job, but listening to my teammates and seeing their code led me to believe IAM is used everywhere.
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Nothing to do with moving data. But you can't move data without authentication.
I want my service to do a $thing. It won't do $thing without knowing who I am and what permissions I have. The data doesn't have to cross borders, the service simply needs to function.
Does that make sense? As I said, didn't do much in AWS, but the principles are sound.
So much talking out of ass in these comments.
Federation/decentralization is great. It's why we're here on Lemmy.
It also means you expect everyone involved, people you've never met or vetted, to be competent and be able to shell out the cash and time to commit to a certain level of uptime. That's unacceptable for a high SLA product like Signal. Hell midwest.social, the Lemmy instance I'm on, is very often quite slow. I and others put up with it because we know it's run by one person on one server that he's presumably paying for himself. But that doesn't reflect Lemmy as a whole.
AWS isn't just a bunch of servers. They have dedicated services for database clusters, cache store, data warehouse, load balancing, container clusters, kubernetes clusters, CDN, web access firewall, to name just a few. Every region has multiple datacenters, the largest by far of which is North Virginia's. By default most people use one DC but multi region while being a huge expensive lift is something they already have tools to assist with. Also, and maybe most importantly, AWS, Azure and GCP run their own backbones between the datacenters rather than rely on the shared one that you, me, and most other smaller DCs are using.
I'm a DevOps Engineer but I'm no big tech fan. I run my own hobby server too. Amazon is an evil company. But the claim that "multi cloud is easy, smaller CSPs are just as good" is naive at best.
Ideally some legislation comes in and forces these companies to simplify the process for adopting multi cloud, because right now you have to build it all yourself and it becomes still very imperfect when you start to factor things like databases and DNS, and this is what they rely on hard for vendor lock-in.
DevOps here too, I've been starting to slide my smaller redundant services into k8s. I had to really defend my position not to use ECS.
No, we're using kubeadm because I don't want to give a damn if it's running in the office, or google or amazon or my house. It's WAY harder and more expensive than setting up an eks and a EC/Aurora cluster, but I can bypass vendor lock in. Setting up my own clusters and replicas is a never ending source of work.
SimpleX literally solves the messaging problem. You can bounce through their default relay nodes or run your own to use exclusively or add to the mix. It's all very transparent to end users.
At most, aws outage would have only affected chats relayed on those aws servers.
SimpleX also doesn't require a fukkin phone number.
Just read through the bluesky thread and it's obvious that she's a CEO and has no idea how to code or design infrastructure
It's leasing access to a whole sprawling, capital-intensive, technically-capable system that must be just as available in Cairo as in Capetown, just as functional in Bangkok as Berlin.
Yeah then why was Signal completely down when a single datacenter (us-east-1) fails and all others are working perfectly?
Did it ever come to your brilliant mind that your system design might be the problem?
Jump over your shadow, say that you screwed up and tell the people that you are no longer going to rely on a single S3 bucket in us-east-1 and stop your fingerpointing.
But you don't even manage to host a proper working status page or technically explain your outages, so guess this train is long gone...
Hurricane Melissa’s strength grew out of warmer-than-usual Caribbean waters
Hot sea surface temperatures are a symptom of the planet’s warming atmosphere, which is increasingly trapping heat as humans emit greenhouse gases by burning fossil fuels.
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Step by Step, How China Seized Control of Critical Minerals
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/51884794
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China is the sole producer, for example, of samarium, a rare earth metal used in many military applications. China is also the only country to master the difficult art of refining ultrapure dysprosium: The entire world’s supply, needed for superfast chips, comes from a single factory near Shanghai.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/business/china-rare-earth-export-controls.html
Seized? That's a joke.
West allowed and even encouraged this by failing to build their own industry and relying on China's cheaper labour. Why pay unioned workers a fair pay when you can exploit foreign work force instead for maximum shareholder value.
See national security is irrelevant when it comes at a cost of corporate overlords profit margins.
Trump hosting talks at Mar-a-Lago to integrate Canada into United States: report
Trump hosting talks at Mar-a-Lago to integrate Canada into United States: report
Businessman and "Shark Tank" star Kevin O'Leary confirmed that President-elect Donald Trump is hosting discussions at Mar-a-Lago about integrating Canada into the United States.David Edwards (Raw Story)
How Politics Is Changing the Way History Is Taught
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30Wajã Xipai (The Guardian)
Roger Pielke Jr.’s Appallingly Bad Analysis of Billion Dollar Disasters
Roger Pielke Jr.’s Appallingly Bad Analysis of Billion Dollar Disasters – Economics from the Top Down
In a recent paper called Scientific integrity and U.S. “Billion Dollar Disasters”, Roger Pielke Jr. published a chart that's so bad I've devoted a whole essay to debunking it.Blair Fix (Economics from the Top Down)
AMD, Department of Energy announce $1 billion AI supercomputer partnership
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New supercomputer clusters are headed to Tennessee.
AMD, Department of Energy announce $1 billion AI supercomputer partnership
New supercomputer clusters are headed to Tennessee.
AMD, Department of Energy announce $1 billion AI supercomputer partnership
AMD, HP, and Oracle are partnering with the DoE on two new supercomputers, Lux and Discovery that will be used for research and AI development.Stevie Bonifield (The Verge)
Why Is the NYT Editorial Board More Worried About Progressivism Than Fascism? | Common Dreams
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An estimated 7 million peaceful protesters took to the streets on October 18, in the second-largest demonstration in US history (after the first Earth Day in 1970), demanding accountability and a return to democracy and the rule of law. In a system of government where citizens can only use the ballot box every two to six years to show how they feel about their electeds, that’s something you’d think would warrant journalistic attention.Yet at the nation’s paper of record—whose headquarters sat literally a stone’s throw away from the New York City No Kings march route—the protest was deemed not important enough for a front-page story. Two small below-the-fold photos were offered instead (10/19/25), with the accompanying article buried on page 23.
Why Is the NYT Editorial Board More Worried About Progressivism Than Fascism? | Common Dreams
Why Is the NYT Editorial Board More Worried About Progressivism Than Fascism?
The nation's paper of record downplayed the 'No Kings" protests while urging Democrats to move toward the center to defeat Trump, all the while ignoring the GOP's attempt to undermine election integrity.julie-hollar (Common Dreams)
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Why Is the NYT Editorial Board More Worried About Progressivism Than Fascism? | Common Dreams
Why Is the NYT Editorial Board More Worried About Progressivism Than Fascism?
The nation's paper of record downplayed the 'No Kings" protests while urging Democrats to move toward the center to defeat Trump, all the while ignoring the GOP's attempt to undermine election integrity.julie-hollar (Common Dreams)
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Blanca 3, anticipazioni ultima puntata di lunedì 3 novembre 2025: tutta la verità sul bambino scomparso e sulle bugie di Domenico
La resa dei conti è arrivata. Lunedì 3 novembre 2025, su Rai 1, va in onda la sesta ed ultima puntata di Blanca 3, con Maria Chiara Giannetta nei panni dell’investigatrice non vedente che ha conquistato il pubblico. L’episodio, dal titolo “Il bambino”, porta al culmine l’indagine iniziata in apertura di stagione: la scomparsa del figlio di Domenico (Domenico Diele) e la morte della madre del piccolo. Sul piano personale, Blanca dovrà guardare in faccia la verità sulle bugie di Domenico e decidere se coinvolgerlo nella sua gravidanza, mentre Liguori (Giuseppe Zeno) le resta accanto in un momento cruciale.
LEGGI LE ANTICIPAZIONI: Blanca 3, anticipazioni ultima puntata di lunedì 3 novembre 2025: tutta la verità sul bambino scomparso e sulle bugie di Domenico
Blanca 3, finale del 3 novembre 2025: anticipazioni dell’ultima puntata “Il bambino”
Blanca 3, ultima puntata il 3 novembre 2025: anticipazioni dell’episodio “Il bambino”, verità sul caso e sulle bugie di Domenico.Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)
Music Sites
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Not a torrent site but Soulseek/Nictone+ is a very old school Limewire-style service that you can curate with friends lists and choosing what to share and not share.
Orpheus is dedicated to music, and one other one which I forget the name of. It's kind of interesting how music trackers were what made torrenting explore originally but not music trackers are often an afterthought.
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Soulseek is very easy to use. Been using it for over a year now. Not sure how it's not more popular as I've been able to find lossless versions of just about everything. Highly recommend.
My experience with Lidarr (tried it after they fixed their DB problem) has been pretty poor, and doesn't seem to download music into album folders for some reason.
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I'm gonna second Soulseek. It is pretty old, but so many of the people who use it are collectors who organize their collections well, and I've found some pretty obscure stuff on there as well.
I haven't tried it myself, but I want to try Soularr, which apparently lets Lidarr use Soulseek as a source.
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I'm unsure if OPS is open to recruitment as of now, though.
Hope you find what you are looking for:)
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as everyone else has said soulseek and nicotine+.
If you want to get your spotify playlists from soulseek use this script: github.com/fiso64/slsk-batchdl
basically you export your spotify playlists as a csv and slsk-batchdl will take that and try to find everything on soulseek and download it for you. anything it can't find it'll let you know. it might take awhile, if you have a server I'd run it on that via screen and just let it run overnight (that's what I did)
Keep in mind that Soulseek has A LOT of audiophiles on it so you'll find a lot of high quality audio and FLACs. if FLAC is too big for you and you're fine with mp3s you c an use Nicotine+ to just search for mp3s.
GitHub - fiso64/slsk-batchdl: Advanced download tool for Soulseek.
Advanced download tool for Soulseek. Contribute to fiso64/slsk-batchdl development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
GitHub - nicotine-plus/nicotine-plus: Graphical client for the Soulseek peer-to-peer network
Graphical client for the Soulseek peer-to-peer network - nicotine-plus/nicotine-plusGitHub
honestly, i still pay for music, i just then download it.
tidal subscription and streaamrip into navidrome
Trump and Republicans Join Big Oil’s All-Out Push to Shut Down Climate Liability Efforts
Trump and Republicans Join Big Oil’s All-Out Push to Shut Down Climate Liability Efforts - Inside Climate News
Republican attorneys general, GOP lawmakers, industry groups and the president himself are all maneuvering to foreclose the ability of cities and states to hold the fossil fuel industry liable for damages linked to climate change.Inside Climate News
Liability is inevitable, so when they seemingly try to "shut it down," remember that the real goal is not only to delay it, but secretly also to shift it.
They offer people money to shield them from accountability, but later, when there is accountability, they will blackmail those same people and throw them under the bus.
If someone lets the authorities bribe them to sell out the safety of future generations, there's nothing they can say to defend themselves when the authorities later say "oh look, we found the guy that sold out the safety of future generations, what shall the punishment be?"
Be ready to help low-ranking criminals betray higher-ranking criminals, not just blindly attack whatever target is put in front of you.
You have one week to opt out or become fodder for LinkedIn AI training
Nations previously exempt from scraping now in the firing line
You have one week to opt out or become fodder for LinkedIn AI training
: Nations previously exempt from scraping now in the firing lineBrandon Vigliarolo (The Register)
When Rejection Feels Personal
I’ve always believed that if you put your heart into something — really try — eventually, it will be seen.
But lately, I’m not so sure.
For months, I’ve been trying to get my websites approved for AdSense. Three sites, three different focuses, one consistent effort: to share my work, my voice, my perspective. And every time, I get rejected. Every time, the same message: “Low-quality content.”
No explanation. No guidance. No human response. Just those cold words, repeated, over and over.
It’s not the money that stings. It’s the feeling of being invisible. Of having your effort, your care, your heart poured into something — only to be told, vaguely, that it doesn’t matter.
And sometimes, you can’t help but wonder if it’s about more than the content. If there’s something about who you are, or what your name sounds like, or the perspective you bring — and yes, my name is Hispanic — that quietly works against you.
I want to believe it’s not true. I want to believe that a system that powers the world’s largest advertising platform treats everyone fairly. But when silence replaces answers, and automation replaces understanding, it’s hard not to feel like something deeper is at play.
I wrote to Google. I asked for clarity, for feedback, for a human to look at my work. I explained how it felt to be repeatedly dismissed without explanation.
No response.
It’s not just a rejection. It’s a dismissal. And when your name or your identity might be part of the invisible reason, it cuts deeper than any automated message could.
And yet, despite all that, I keep going.
I write because I have to. I create because I have to. Not for validation, not for approval, but because this is who I am. My work — my words, my ideas, my perspectives — matter to me. And I hope they matter to others too.
Maybe one day Google will see that. Maybe one day a human reviewer will look at my sites and recognize the care, the effort, and the heart behind them.
But until then, I’ll keep sharing, keep writing, keep creating. Because no rejection, no algorithm, no automated judgment can erase what I put into the world.
And even if it sometimes feels like the system is blind, or worse — biased — I refuse to let that stop me.
Because heart and honesty can’t be rejected. They can only be ignored. And I refuse to be silent.
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Bridgy Fed
Bridgy Fed is a bridge between decentralized social networks like the fediverse, Bluesky, and web sites and blogs.fed.brid.gy
Alien Anthropology: Doing without Agriculture
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Alien Anthropology: Doing without Agriculture
Those familiar with Biblaridion's Alien Biospheres worldbuilding series will be glad to hear that it's new sequel (sister?) series has just had it's first release 'Doing without Agriculture,' exploring a few of the ways that a fictional alien species, the development of which was covered in the last series, could develop their societies in the abscence of agrarian technology.
Alien Anthropology: Doing without Agriculture
A six-month pilot project completed earlier this year showcased the potential of zero-emission, last-mile delivery in a 16-block area of downtown Portland, Oregon.
Portland brings zero-emission delivery to its downtown
A six-month pilot project completed earlier this year showcased the potential of zero-emission, last-mile delivery in a 16-block area of downtown Portland, Oregon.Justin Gerdes (Quitting Carbon)
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Fornitore italiano di spyware collegato agli attacchi zero-day su Chrome
Una vulnerabilità zero-day in Google Chrome, sfruttata nell'operazione ForumTroll all'inizio di quest'anno, ha diffuso malware collegato al fornitore italiano di spyware Memento Labs, nato dopo che IntheCyber Group ha acquisito la famigerata Hacking Team.
L'operazione ForumTroll è stata scoperta da Kaspersky a marzo. La campagna ha preso di mira organizzazioni russe - media, università, centri di ricerca, organizzazioni governative e istituzioni finanziarie - con inviti ben congegnati al forum Primakov Readings che contenevano un link dannoso.
Era sufficiente caricare il link in qualsiasi browser web basato su Chromium per infettare il sistema informatico. I ricercatori di Kaspersky hanno affermato che la distribuzione del malware è stata effettuata sfruttando CVE-2025-2783, una vulnerabilità zero-day di tipo sandbox escape nel browser Chrome.
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