German researchers achieved 71.6% on ARC-AGI using a regular GPU for 2 cents per task. OpenAI's o3 gets 87% but costs $17 per task making it 850x more expensive.
hat score is seriously impressive because it actually beats the average human performance of 60.2% and completely changes the narrative that you need massive proprietary models to do abstract reasoning. They used a fine-tuned version of Mistral-NeMo-Minitron-8B and brought the inference cost down to an absurdly cheap level compared to OpenAI's o3 model.
The methodology is really clever because they started by nuking the standard tokenizer and stripping it down to just 64 tokens to stop the model from accidentally merging digits and confusing itself. They also leaned heavily on test-time training where the model fine-tunes itself on the few example pairs of a specific puzzle for a few seconds before trying to solve the test input. For the actual generation they ditched standard sampling for a depth-first search that prunes low-probability paths early so they do not waste compute on obvious dead ends.
The most innovative part of the paper is their Product of Experts selection strategy. Once the model generates a candidate solution they do not just trust it blindly. They take that solution and re-evaluate its probability across different augmentations of the input like rotating the grid or swapping colors. If the solution is actually correct it should look plausible from every perspective so they calculate the geometric mean of those probabilities to filter out hallucinations. It is basically like the model peer reviewing its own work by looking at the problem from different angles to make sure the logic holds up.
What's remarkable is that all of this was done with smart engineering rather than raw compute. You can literally run this tonight on your own machine.
The code is fully open-source: github.com/da-fr/Product-of-Ex…
Product of Experts with LLMs: Boosting Performance on ARC Is a Matter of Perspective
The Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC-AGI) poses a significant challenge for large language models (LLMs), exposing limitations in their abstract reasoning abilities.arXiv.org
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‘They keep tabs on me’: Chinese consul-general in Australia tried to get a think tank to censor a journalist in Melbourne by invoking the China-Australia trade relationship
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/45918775
ArchivedThe Chinese Communist Party’s chief diplomat in Melbourne tried to get a think tank to shut down an appearance by journalist Cheng Lei, and invoked the China-Australia trade relationship in the process.
Chinese-born, Australian journalist Cheng Lei was locked up by the CCP [Chinese Communist Party] in China for three years and two months. She was detained after the former Coalition government called for an inquiry into COVID and convicted in a sham trial for forwarding a fellow journalist an economic report before its public release.
[...] Lei [...] said the CCP was still trying to silence her, two years after being released from detention in China.
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“They keep tabs on me,” Ms Cheng said. “For example, I know they tried to stop a talk that I was giving at the Australian Institute of International Affairs. This is the Melbourne consulate.”
Ms Cheng details her time in jail and the geopolitical storm in which she was caught in her recently released memoir, Cheng Lei: A Memoir of Freedom.
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She said that while she remained angry at the time the CCP had deprived her of her freedom and time with her young daughter and son, she was using her unique position of safety in Australia to tell the world about how the Chinese government treats individuals and families.
“It’s a different standard of humanity, and that is something that’s totally missing from a lot of the coverage that we get on China just because a select few go through this and then they’re too scared to write about it afterwards,” she said.
“So I’m definitely using that freedom to their dismay, probably.”
Richard Iron, President of the Australian Institute of International Affairs Victorian branch, confirmed the Chinese had asked him to cancel Cheng Lei’s talk.
He said China’s Consul General Fang Xinwen had visited him in the morning on August 5, the day of Lei’s scheduled talk.
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Mr Iron said the Consul-General told him that Cheng Lei had “a warped idea about China” and was a “convicted criminal”.
Mr Iron told The Nightly that he told Fang Xinwen in response that Australians wanted a good trading relationship with China and also desired friendship, but that: “They don’t like being spied on, they don’t like being intimidated, and they don’t like being bullied”.
The [Chinese] Consul-General was contacted for comment, but did not respond.
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It is the second time that it is known that the Chinese have tried to cancel Cheng Lei from Australian public life.
In June last year, Chinese officials accompanying Chinese Premier Li Qiang on his visit to Canberra to meet Prime Minister Anthony Albanese tried to physically block Ms Cheng from camera view.
Ms Cheng was an anchor for China’s state-run English-language television station CGTN when she was arrested and accused of “illegally supplying state secrets overseas’’.
Since her release, she has returned to journalism, working for Sky News Australia and was attending a document signing ceremony between the Chinese Premier and Australian Prime Minister in that capacity.
The incident made global headlines.
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Cheng Lei’s parents moved to Australia when she was aged 10 in the mid-1980s.
But she warned that technology was enabling the Chinese diaspora to live in its own bubble, in a way that was not possible in her parents’ day.
“It needs to be a two-way street of acceptance and integration, between the non-Chinese and the Chinese immigrants,” she said.
“I see the immigrant bubbles, and it’s not just the Chinese community because of technology, because of the number of certain diasporas, there’s less inclination to integrate into what might be called mainstream society that may not have been the case 20, 30 years ago.
“They use Chinese apps, go to Chinese restaurants, go back to China for holidays, and then they don’t really fully experience the benefits of a free society.
“People want the rights of democracy, but they don’t want the responsibilities.”
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She said the “China cheerleaders” who only ever discuss the economic opportunities and China’s development had an obligation to present the other side.
“Because I lost so much and because I’ve already been in prison, I’m fearless, but so many people are fearful if they have assets or business relationships or family in China,” she said.
“And I can’t think of another major power that is so obsessed with restricting and controlling the diaspora overseas and has so many resources and uses them compared to other countries.
She added that the CCP’s control of its diaspora was having a corrosive effect on Australian democracy.
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‘They keep tabs on me’: Chinese consul-general tried to censor Cheng Lei talk in Melbourne
A top Chinese Communist Party diplomat tried to get a Melbourne appearance by journalist Cheng Lei shut down, and invoked the China-Australia trade relationship in the process.Latika M Bourke (Australia)
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Even give it away to starving families who lost their SNAP benefits during the shutdown.
But capitalists have to lie, çeat, & steal.
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Cha che chi cho chu = Ça çe çi ço çu.
English is such a shit language it changes “ea” to /ι/ in “cheat” /çιt/
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Pretty obvious that it’s pronounced “cheat”
French would like to disagree.
ðey do þings like ðis on purpose to troll. ðey hæve æ history of it.
In fact 10 minutes before my posting this comment they admitted to doing it to mock the English language. Ironic for a person who calls themselves an “Anti Bully”
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I’m sure you can go through their post history and see them criticizing the English language over and over. They just need someone to hate, and it is people who speak English.
It’s a strange hill to die on, but I guess they’re going to do it.
It’s weird that you are coming to their aid
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Making fun a language isn't psychotic behavior, unless you have something you want to confess.
If anything, English is an imperial language forced down our throats after Amekos beat us in WWII. But given that you actually know history, you should know why Unicode relented on “ç” for /ch/.
Wow, capitalist propaganda in my response.
Did you even bother to read who actually paid for the beans on these farms through subsidies?
Let's be blatant, the farmers are worried about profit, not feeding the hungry.
Federal farm subsidies: What the data says
Federal farm subsidies make up an average of 13.5% of net farm income.USAFacts
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Wealth, shown to scale
Wealth inequality in the United States is out of control. Here we visualize the issue in a unique way.eattherichtextformat.github.io
So what your telling me it's time for the Mexican fembois to rise up and take over America?
Iv heard of worse fates.
Soy farming is destructive to natural ecosystems. A shame for the farmers in the US, but the nature will be glad and that is more valuable. It does depend on the replacement crop.
I am worried about Brazilian's nature with the increasing soy farming. Soy needs terrain that competes with beautiful native plants, and with increasing production, more land will be lost, and more water consumed.
The good news is that soy farming makes more sense in Brazil. Higher rainfall means less diverted water. It is actually more ecologically cost effective. Hopefully there will not be much more forest displacement.
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Soyf farming and cattle ranching have been destroying the amazon for decades. It is severely diminished from that. But it is such a huge forest that it seems infinite.
The bigger problem is that the soil on the amazon is actually pretty bad. There is a thin fertile layer that gets renewed by the forest. Once you cut it down to plant something else it quickly becomes bad, so you have to cut down more forest to keep up production
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It's true and very sad.
They claim the soy farming won't be allowed to deforest further, but the more land used for soy, the less for cattle. That can push cattle ranchers deeper into forested land and the effect is the same.
I hope this can be solved soon. The Amazon is a precious, ancient treasure of Earth.
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Trump’s greatest crime is practically invisible — Estimates show that the dismantling of USAID has killed at least 600,000 to date. It could get much worse
Trump’s greatest crime is practically invisible
Estimates show that the dismantling of USAID has killed at least 600,000 to date. It could get much worse.Troy Farah (Salon.com)
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it could get much worse.
It will get much worse. 3 more years to go, at a minimum.
Assuming he doesn't try to get a third term, people will still die well into his successor's term.
And I am certain that the republican party will point that out ad nauseum.*
*Depending on the type of person who died. Poor and non-white people excluded.
Awww, he's really just trying to speedrun beating his COVID numbers, isn't he? The little rascal.
::: spoiler spoiler
Yes, I threw up in my mouth a little typing all that.
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Trump’s greatest crime is practically invisible to Americans
Present company excepted of course.
Same argument as holocaust deniers. Good point.
I appreciate the clarification. But let's give the dead the benefit of the doubt before it becomes another COVID that kills everyone's grandparents. People like you desire to see death first hand before believing it only because you likely have not seen it yet yourself, so through sheer inexperience doubt such loss can be on such a large scale. It is. Whether these stats line up perfectly yet or not. It's still happening.
And to be clear. This isn't the first time Trump has killed this many people through sheer negligence.
He does not have the benefit of the doubt here. Nor deserves it. So you should not be giving it. Don't be the guy that looks the other way from the mountains of dead until someone you know is in the pile. Looking the other way is how they get there.
Also another crime of our mainstream, billionaire-owned media.
Most people don't know this and will never know because the MSM won't talk about it, and if you're a Democrat the chances are your algo is trained to tell you all the awesome and meaningless symbolic shit that Dems are doing, and if you're a Republican, your algo is programmed to keep telling you over and over again how awesome Donald is.
I'm glad we still have the Fediverse.
Ukraine's Claimed ATACMS Strike In Russia Signals Major Shift In U.S. Policy
Ukraine’s Claimed ATACMS Strike In Russia Signals Major Shift In U.S. Policy (Updated)
After a long hiatus, Ukraine says it used ATACMS missiles to strike inside Russia, which points to loosening restrictions and the possibility of more missiles.Tyler Rogoway (The War Zone)
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Russian spy ship enters British waters and shines lasers at military pilots
Defence secretary reveals details of recent incursions as he warns UK is facing ‘new era of threat’ from hostile countries
A Russian spy ship has entered British waters and shone lasers at military pilots, the defence secretary has said, as he warned the UK was facing a “new era of threat” from hostile countries.
John Healey told reporters on Wednesday the “deeply dangerous” move was being taken “extremely seriously” by the government, adding the UK would continue monitoring the ship and had “military options ready” should the vessel change course.
He said the surveillance ship had crossed in and out of the UK’s exclusive economic zone multiple times in recent weeks, not for the first time this year.
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The Thames is one of the cleanest river in the world that goes through a metropolis.
You dropped the weasel wording there.
But I'm glad they fixed it. Just like the Rhine that was going through my old home town. Nowadays one could even swim in it. No, not really, it's considered super dangerous, but not because of toxicity.
Or the Trump poop meme.
Just run massive planes over the Russian spy ships and dump manure on them.
“Whoopsie doopsie, our evil western planes are so bad that the hatch failed, sowwyy”
Hmm. I know a few pig farmers that has plenty of waste to get rid of. They normally sell it off as fertilizer, but, eh, I'm sure we can persuade them to donate for the cause.
sucks to be whatever schmuck has to clean out the hold, though.
Two Canadian Air force pilots had to be medically discharged after a Russian ship caused permanent damage to their eyes with a laser a while back.
Fuck the Russians.
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How are you expecting that to work? An RAF recovery boat every 100m around the coast?
The only people near them are the enemy ship filled with guns.
To be fair mc Cain is a liar loser with a over hyped story that ignores the major details that make it entirely his fault he was captured.
Still a shitty thing to say but you won't ever find me standing up for McCain.
They fear a "diplomatic incident" that could escalate, I guess.
But Russia is already escalating like there's no tomorrow; while I'm still against blowing them up, I do not understand why this ship isn't now under British control. Unless they shoot first of course. It is tricky, but that trickiness is nothing new anymore and Europe should have come up with a strategy by now.
How does a ground level radar even get in the pilots eyes?
Not sowing doubt, just curious what the attack vector is.
Laser is not radar.
High powered lasers don't even have to hit the pilots in the eyes to do damage as they bounce off any reflective or semi-reflective surfaces in the cabin or windows and still enter the eyes with high enough energy to cause effect. Military lasers can be powerful enough that a very short burst does permanent damage to the retina even from hundreds of metres away. Laser weapons should be in the same category as mustard and sarin gas - a warcrime, but instead.. all major powers are developing them.
Exactly the answer I wanted, not sure why people downvoted me over this.
Thnx!
My very lay-person understanding is that generally there is a level of shit each country accepts, e.g. election meddling, hacking or taking of political prisoners as it is part of the "standard affairs" - and will respond to non-forcefully. (Please don't see me as advocating or trying to downplay these activities, they are abhorrent).
In order to respond with force or war, a lot of prep needs to go in to make sure that the action will be supported by enough allies to both achieve the goal/s and deal with any possible fallout from retaliation.
I believe the EU and its allies sees that a war response to Russian meddling may bring in China more actively into the picture and the US may not come to back them up (unless China decide to re-take Taiwan). OR they see the long-term economic damage to Russia as significant enough to achieve long term regional impact.
Therefore, the EU may not be confident of opening up conflict unless forced to.
IMO Russia's actions in the EU are a clear test of the EU's boundaries and willingness to retaliate.
One theory is putin is desperate to bait a nato attack he can spin as nato entering the ukraine war so he can retreat (or maybe escalate) while saving face.
Im not entirely convinced but its a solid enough theory
Most politicians only care about funneling as much money to their donors as possible.
They keep getting elected because most voters are stupid.
This is a bit like when someone claims China has entered Taiwanese airspace, while neglecting to report that Taiwan claims airspace over mainland China.
Part of Taiwan’s air defense identification zone actually extends over the Chinese mainland, but Chinese flights are challenged by Taiwan only if they cross the median line – the halfway point between the island and the mainland above the Taiwan Strait.
Click-bait journalists love to print headlines that take advantage of their audience's naive understanding of international law and gullibility when it comes to claims of foreign countries doing sinister things. In fairness to the Brits, anyone familiar with Russian media gets fed a similar deluge of "NATO is going to attack us at any moment!" scare pieces.
Great for ratcheting tension, driving up military recruitment, and galvenizing the public to hate anyone suspected of foreign origin or sympathies. Not particularly useful when informing the public of safety concerns.
A Russian spy ship has entered British waters and shone lasers at military pilots,
Then have itnpqy a visit to bikini bottom. Lasers can permanently blind people, if call that a direct military assault and an act of war
They've been going tit-for-tat with flyovers and sail-bys for a while.
For the same reason Russians aren't in a hurry to shoot down an RAF aircraft, Brits don't really want to start a shooting war over some Russians with laser pointers.
U.S. leak: British spy planes dangerously close to Russia
The Royal Air Force has had three close encounters with Russian jets over the Black Sea since September, with Britain’s parliament only told about the first incident.PHIL MILLER (Declassified Media ltd)
US and Russian officials draft plan to end Ukraine war based on capitulation from Kyiv
It is unclear if Trump administration backs deal that would mean Kyiv giving up territory and slashing size of military
US and Russian officials have quietly drafted a new plan to end the war in Ukraine that would require Kyiv to surrender territory and severely limit the size of its military, it was reported on Wednesday as Russian drone and missile strikes killed at least 25 people in the city of Ternopil.
The draft plan, which was reportedly developed by Donald Trump’s envoy, Steve Witkoff, and the Kremlin adviser Kirill Dmitriev, would force draconian measures on Ukraine that would give Russia unprecedented control over the country’s military and political sovereignty. The plan is likely to be viewed as surrender in Kyiv.
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True, I've never heard about stories from the past complaining about bad people doing bad things.
It's not like the epic of Gilgamesh, one of humanities oldest surviving stories is in the beginning about the overreach and tyranny of a narcissistic king.
Anyone outside of the of the US privileged goons who thought “gaza is not my problem” will soon realized what happened there isnt just a conflict, but a total annihilation of the supposed “international law”
Any country is now free to do whatever the fuck it wants if it can “donate” or “flatter” the rogue state of United states enough… Fuck russia israel and the US, and even the EU which keeps supporting these murdererers under the guise of “neutrality”
Have fun as we head back to a world where borders are decided by force and u can get wiped out because of following the wrong ideology or being the wrong ethnicity
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As an outsider looking in, I feel that Ukraine is clearly winning this war. There is no value in accepting the 'plan' of a false ally.
A peace plan drafted by NATO sans the United States would make much more sense, because they would have to deal with the fallout if they made Versailles Treaty v2.0.
German researchers achieved 71.6% on ARC-AGI using a regular GPU for 2 cents per task. OpenAI's o3 gets 87% but costs $17 per task making it 850x more expensive.
What's remarkable is they used Qwen-32B (not even the largest model) and achieved this with smart engineering rather than raw compute. You can literally run this tonight on your own machine.
The code is fully open-source: github.com/da-fr/Product-of-Ex…
Product of Experts with LLMs: Boosting Performance on ARC Is a Matter of Perspective
The Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC-AGI) poses a significant challenge for large language models (LLMs), exposing limitations in their abstract reasoning abilities.arXiv.org
Trump signs bill to release Epstein files
Epstein files bill signed by Trump, starting 30-day timer for their release
The Jeffrey Epstein files bill was overwhelmingly passed by the House and Senate. Only Republican Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana voting against it.Kevin Breuninger (CNBC)
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- Donald J Trump
- John Barron
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Why do I feel like something is ultimately wrong here?
I know one theory is that Mike Johnson was hoping that the bill would get tied up and die in the Senate and that backfired spectacularly, but this still just feels off.
Jeffery Epstein, who was charged by the Trump Justice Department in 2019 (Not the Democrats!), was a lifelong Democrat, donated Thousands of Dollars to Democrat Politicians, and was deeply associated with many well-known Democrat figures, such as Bill Clinton (who traveled on his plane 26 times), Larry Summers (who just resigned from many Boards, including Harvard), Sleazebag Political Activist Reid Hoffman, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (who asked Epstein to donate to his Campaign AFTER Epstein was charged), Democrat Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett, and many more. Perhaps the truth about these Democrats, and their associations with Jeffrey Epstein, will soon be revealed, because I HAVE JUST SIGNED THE BILL TO RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES! As everyone knows, I asked Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, to pass this Bill in the House and Senate, respectively. Because of this request, the votes were almost unanimous in favor of passage. At my direction, the Department of Justice has already turned over close to fifty thousand pages of documents to Congress. Do not forget — The Biden Administration did not turn over a SINGLE file or page related to Democrat Epstein, nor did they ever even speak about him. Democrats have used the “Epstein” issue, which affects them far more than the Republican Party, in order to try and distract from our AMAZING Victories, including THE GREAT BIG BEAUTIFUL TAX CUT BILL, Strong Borders, No Men in Women’s Sports or Transgender for Everyone, ending DEI, stopping Biden’s Record Setting Inflation, lowering Prices, Biggest Tax and Regulation Cuts in History, ending EIGHT Wars, rebuilding our Military, knocking out Iran’s Nuclear capability, getting Trillions of Dollars INVESTED in the U.S.A., creating the “HOTTEST” Country anywhere in the World, and even delivering a HUGE DEFEAT to the Democrats on the recent Shutdown Disaster. For years our Great Nation has had to endure RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA, UKRAINE, UKRAINE, UKRAINE, IMPEACHMENT HOAX #1, IMPEACHMENT HOAX #2, and many other Democrat created Witch Hunts and Scams, all of which have been so terrible and divisive for our Country, and have been done to confuse, deflect, and distract from the GREAT JOB that Republicans, and the Trump Administration, are doing. This latest Hoax will backfire on the Democrats just as all of the rest have! Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
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2025 set to be second or third warmest year on record, continuing exceptionally high warming trend
The alarming streak of exceptional temperatures continued in 2025, which is set to be either the second or third warmest year on record, according to the State of the Global Climate Update from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
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Dominican Republic grants US access to restricted areas for its deadly fight against drugs
The president of the Dominican Republic says he has authorized the U.S. government to operate inside restricted areas in the Caribbean country to help in its fight against drug trafficking.
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AutoFlight Unveils World’s First Integrated Sea–Air eVTOL Transport System
AutoFlight Aviation Technology has unveiled the world’s first integrated sea–air low-altitude transport solution, marking a major step toward large-scale eVTOL deployment across coastal and offshore regions.
AutoFlight Unveils World’s First Integrated Sea–Air eVTOL Transport System
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Minecraft Mounts of Mayhem update gets a December release date
Mojang is almost ready to push out its latest Minecraft update: Mounts of Mayhem. It carries an underwater mount, a brand-new weapon, fresh enemies, and more.
https://www.neowin.net/news/minecraft-mounts-of-mayhem-update-gets-a-december-release-date/
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Newegg partners with PayPal to bring AI-powered shopping experiences to Perplexity and beyond
Newegg is partnering with PayPal to plug its product catalog into AI-powered shopping tools like Perplexity, letting customers buy directly inside those environments.
Ex-UN official decries resolution backing Gaza force as 'colonial outrage'
A former senior UN human rights official has denounced the Security CoCraig Mokhiber, former director of the New York office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), described the vote as a “day of shame” for the UN and accused governments worldwide of being “on their knees before the US empire and its violent Israeli client”.
He criticised the "horrific" resolution as a violation of international law. The plan is based on US President Donald Trump's 20-point plan for Gaza's future, including only a singular line that envisions a future Palestinian state.
It outlines a Trump-chaired "Board of Peace" to oversee affairs in Gaza as a transitional authority.
It also authorises an "international stabilisation force" that would ensure "demilitarisation" of Gaza.
Ex-UN official decries resolution backing Gaza force as 'colonial outrage'
A former senior UN human rights official has denounced the Security Council’s adoption of a resolution backing a US plan for foreign forces and governance in Gaza, calling it a “colonial outrage”.Mera Aladam (Middle East Eye)
public Apache VirtualHost pointing to e.g. NextCloud/Immich VMs inside LAN
How realistic is this architecture? It's been a while since I've set something like this up for work.
The thought behind this layout is that having only one machine hanging out there with just Apache and ssh (from lan only, non-standard port), and forwarding via Mod_Proxy any services I might want to share with non-LAN friends/family (photos, docs), is a smaller exposure than hosting all my VMs in a DMZ and hoping that the one server doesn't get nuked.
Something like:
DNS -> public-zone{ www-serv } <-> firewall-1 <-> lan{ vm-host <-> firewall-2 <-> (printers, laptops, etc) }
firewall-1 is actually a router running Tomato, with custom iptables rules. That way if www-serv is compromised the attacker can't just drop some rules.
firewall-2 is just iptables rules on vm-host
all LAN computers' iptables are a little more permissive, with holes for SAMBA, CUPS, and ssh on non-standard port.
What do you think? Is this sufficient? What would you do differently?
Yup, it worked for me, no incidents. Add mod_security if you're worried, and of course keep Apache up to date.
I now moved Apache to a separate VLAN on the private side, and have strict firewall rules on traffic from that VLAN only to services it's supposed to be proxying.
Sounds like you're doing fine to me. The stakes are indeed higher, but that is because what you're doing is important.
As the Bene Gesserit teaches: I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear.
Make your best effort at security and backups, use your fears to inform a sober assessment of the risks and pitfalls, and ask for help when you need to, but don't let it stop you from accomplishing what you want to. The self-hosting must flow.
Yeah, I felt a little uneasy putting my data on something which could be broken into. Still do, having seen my share of hacked websites at work.
If it helps you, I host everything in subdirectories with non obvious names, so bots only hit 404 pages.
Nextcloud.bonk.xyz -> nope
Bonk.xyz/nextcloud -> nope
Bonk.xyz/bonkcirrostratus -> good luck guessing that
Yeah, I felt a little uneasy putting my data on something which could be broken into. Still do, having seen my share of hacked websites at work.
If it helps you, I host everything in subdirectories with non obvious names, so bots only hit 404 pages.
Nextcloud.bonk.xyz -> nope
Bonk.xyz/nextcloud -> nope
Bonk.xyz/bonkcirrostratus -> good luck guessing that
Those are good options, but Apache isn't all that overkill. It has some features I need, specifically routing traffic from multiple domain names to different network segments.
Add to that it's something I've understood well for decades, and it makes sense.
If I wanted to go small, though, I could just whip something using Go's proxies.
The real answer is, ngnx is a great fit. I already know most quirks of Apache, though, and I don't necessarily want to pull in another manual to my brain.
I might switch in the future, though. It'd be handy to have that in my pocket.
I'm not using containers, per se, at least not in the docker sense, virtualization is done with is KVM
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It was possible to skip Vista and go straight from XP to 7. You could even use the same PC.
It was possible to skip 8 and go straight from 7 to 10. You could even use the same PC.
This time around, Microsoft is forcing Windows 11 as the only option, forcing people to throw away their machines, and it is backfiring on them. People are rejecting it and the competition (Linux) has never been as good as it is today.
The executive also noted that 500 million PCs don't meet Windows 11's system requirements
So much unnecessary e-waste. I never want to hear about how 'green' or 'sustainable' Microsoft is again.
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That's not how it works, especially since everyone doing this is behind a modern router.
Nothing will happen if you have a Windows 98 computer connected to the internet when the home internet router is on default settings. And modern internet browsers implement security in themselves on systems they still support.
Firefox still supports Windows 7 via the ESR channel, and every new install gets redirected to on automatically on Windows 7, 8 and 8.1.
Worry the unsupported systems behind pure internet or providing public internet services, or the users installing the free PDF editor Google advertised as first in search. Those are many more than older Windows enthusiasts.
especially since everyone doing this is behind a modern router.
Are they? If they're irresponsible enough to run an ancient OS it wouldn't shock me if they're also running "retro" network equipment
They are not, come on now.
Retro networking is a different community, and all is still done behind a modern router. They are a subset of the retro computing community, but they don't run such systems as their daily driver.
Most of the legacy OS enthusiasts running on as their daily driver are not interested in matching their networking to be period correct, they just want it to work well and quickly like everybody else. For that you need basic modern equipment, that is often included into ISP plans.
Anyone who asks me about this is getting the “At least try Linux for free first before buying a new computer.
Another example I have is that my mother-in-law is retired. You think she needs a new computer? Nope! She’s getting Linux before a new computer. The only other option for her would be an iPad since she’s just browsing the web anyway.
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The only other option for her would be an iPad since she’s just browsing the web anyway.
Give her a Steam Deck and some cozy games. 😁
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You could install windows 10 on something designed for windows XP, provided it has enough RAM
The reason w11 needs a new PC is pure marketing, it doesn't actually need some specific feature that is present on 8th gen Intel CPUs but not on 7th gen Intel CPUs
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The executive also noted that 500 million PCs don't meet Windows 11's system requirements while the others don't need a hardware upgrade to run the OS. Although this would indicate that 500 million PCs would potentially be replaced with newer alternatives capable of running Windows 11 at some point, Clarke hinted at "roughly flat" sales for Dell PCs would moving forward . Clarke didn't explain the reasoning behind this statement , but it could mean that people are just not that interested in upgrading to Windows 11 PCs.
It's a simple reason. Everybody is abandoning dell in droves for lenovo in enterprise environments.
I used to buy dell exclusively for laptops across over a decade at multiple organizations where I determined hardware standards and purchasing. Everyone always wanted a x1 carbon or thinkpad but the prices were too high. This is no longer the case. Now everyone gets a thinkpad or x1 carbon where I work at least, and statistics for market share are heavily on the lenovo side now.
That's how I see it anyway. This has nothing to do with windows 11, it's just another service pack when you're managing everything via GPO/intune/sccm/whatever.
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No way. People like me purchase a steady supply of standardized machines at a fair cost. Bigger companies than I've worked for want a lease agreement. We pay $X for Y units, you come in and swap them in 3, 4, or 5 years, rinse and repeat. We also need robust tech support, both from the manufacturer and wide user base. No way I'd suggest management purchase Frameworks.
Framework is awesome for individuals as you can upgrade! No one in their right mind wants to hassle with upgrading a fleet of hundreds, thousands, or 10's of thousands of machine. You talking about pets when business requires cattle.
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Great question! And BTW, thousands upon thousands of those "old" cattle are available on eBay from sellers who make a living moving off-lease machines. I'd never buy new. LOL, I bought servers that way from savemyserver! Boss came by while I was setting up a new server. "Is that new?!" "Nope."
Cattle vs Pets - DevOps Explained
Cattle vs Pets is often referred to as the difference between building infrastructure on permanent servers vs building on virtualized infrastructure that can scale up and down and be easily replaced. We explore this in the context of DevOpsTeam Hava (Kumo Software Pte Ltd)
I know this probably won't be received well, but I look at framework and I see the least usable option. On some level I understand the idea and think it is somewhat desirable. However, I just think the modular nature comes with substantial drawbacks compared to modern competitors.
For home use i'm mostly a gamer. They don't really have powerful gaming options and I can just build my own desktop in the case I want with whatever hardware I want.
For not-gaming home use, I want something lightweight that just works. I just get something from work usually. It's common to have a glut of laptops when you acquire someone or to just order something as a tester or to demonstrate an option- which happens to be the one system I really want to use.
Framework is expensive for what they provide. The upgrades are rarely worth the price to me. If I really had to buy something, I could buy something I really want with the specs and features I really want instead of having a ton of hot swappable ports that I never touch because I just want usb-c anyway. When it's time for me to upgrade I end up giving my old to one of my friends or family members, because there's always a need there- two such machines i'm handing out over thanksgiving.
I've never, ever met someone outside of a tech role that even knows they exist.
If someone isn't happy with a lenovo, it's because they want that coveted apple logo on the lid.
The primary concerns in the enterprise environment are around standardization. I only want a couple of models to manage per year so that the support guys don't have to worry too much about some willy wonka bullshit that doesn't work because that one system is an oddball. The nice thing too about lenovo (or dell) has traditionally been support services. If you know the words to say you can get them to ship out anything with a tech to replace anything after a single call and not running all the silly diagnostics. I know dell has been on the decline for support services and I honestly don't handle any of the warranty repairs myself, but my impression is that it still works.
Framework Corp is massively frustrating because their secret sauce tech makes absolutely no sense for individuals (seriously, run the actual numbers. It is almost always cheaper to just buy two laptops AND you have less ewaste because there is no box of spare parts) but is PERFECT for enterprise/fleet deployments.
But Framework Corp has no interest in fulfilling that role. To my knowledge, there are no bulk ordering programs and their software/OEM support is fairly mediocre.
As far as enterprise laptops go? There is a full industry around macs for obvious reasons. On the PC side? The only vendors I really "trust" are Dell and Lenovo with MAYBE HP if the middleman org is confident. And... I LOVE a Thinkpad for my personal use (the nub is love. the nub is life) but there are very serious supply chain concerns for professional purposes.
But if Framework could cut the bullshit and either branch out or work with a middleman? Rapid repairs for keyboards and drives as well as tricking people into using USB C dongles would go a long way for many (most?) midsize companies.
In some weird way it does feel like things flipped overnight. Maybe it was the pandemic? Definitely went from ~2019 all dell to ~2023 ultramajority lenovo. None of this is scientific though lol
Now everybody is fleeing vmware to nutanix and hyper v. We live in strange times.
A LOT of people complained when Thinkpad transferred from IBM to Lenovo. Like almost all things, it was progress conflated with racism.
The big "meaningful" complaint is that Lenovo used more plastics than aluminum. On the one hand, I get it: my T41 was a god damned beast that felt like it could stop a bullet (an important consideration in the US). It also apparently weighted 2.22 kg and I 100% noticed that on trips and even walking around town/campus.
And Lenovo bought the brand around the time that a LOT of people were noticing the weight of their laptops and there was a huge push for "ultrabook" form factors and the realization that it makes more sense to protect your device with a sleeve and a padded compartment rather than "military grade" construction. And... Asian factories were (and still are) much more agile and able to pivot. Whereas US factories still tend to take years (or decades...) to catch up to the rest of the world.
So we got the same xenophobic nonsense we've had in every other industry. These thin and light laptops with plastic shells ARE CHEAP PIECES OF SHIT THAT NOBODY CAN EVER REPAIR AND ARE ALL A SCAM SO BUY AMERICAN!!!! Even though the shell has almost nothing to do with it and those still had screw based constructions. The real problem was the rapid shift towards soldering/gluing hardware in place. Some of that was to support ultrabook designs and some are just pure bullshit to prevent upgrades.
These days? Aluminum is king again because it "feels premium" but those shells are so ridiculously thin that they are arguably worse than polymer (still feels great though). I blame Apple.
But build quality wise? Lenovo straight up bought IBM's laptop (and consumer PC?) divisions. It was the exact same factories and designers and capabilities.
All that said: Lenovo is also a REALLY Chinese company. For a personal device? I have zero qualms and literally bought a new laptop for the first time in like 9 years and it is a Thinkpad. From a professional standpoint? A competent IT department can vet devices. I... think I worked with a competent IT department once in my life. But, more importantly, if we are trying to do business with a government org or a high value company/target? They are fundamentally concerned about Supply Chain Hardening (and for good reason) and that just reeks of "We, personally, don't care about that". Which generally won't outright kill a deal but it does put you on a back footing.
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The real drag was me wanting to use a more efficient file system, so I spent a day converting my drives to ext4.
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The main problem for most people when installing Linux is partitioning. Normies usually only use Windows that has been pre-installed, and never install Windows from scratch.
I think you should try Linux on a VM first to get used to it.
I've got a Windows 11 laptop as well, so it's not a big issue if I brick the machine.
I'm just gonna jump in head first. When I get around to it.
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Hey I just did it! I completed my migration today. The only reason I keep a desktop around at all is for gaming and I've been locked into Windows for years because of it, but no more. Steam is a given, but I'm running games off Epic and Gog through Heroic and standalone games using Lutris (ESO and Elite Dangerous so far). Not a single problem with any of them.
Mint is great, the only complaints I have are minor and I can easily deal with them. Like when you launch things, you don't always get a cursor animation to tell you you successfully set something in motion and you just have to wait for the window to pop up. That kind of thing.
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windows 11 doesnt support server at all
It doesn't? I have several servers at work running desktop 11.
I want to qualify this comment with the fact that I am not a super gamer. Most my games are older. The newest and most demanding game I play is Cyberpunk 2077. Most my other games are multiple years older and less demanding.
I finally switched full time to a Linux desktop OS. I have used Linux more or less daily for decades, the first distro I ever installed was Slackware what feels forever ago. But until Valve put the work into running games on linux for their Steam deck I felt I was trapped needing to have Windows to play games. I have even spent the last decade forcing myself to rely more and more on cross platform available FOSS dreaming of some day making a permanent switch. Honestly it was so easy for me to switch at this point, most games pretty much just ran. My biggest problem took a bit to grok and it was just because some games do not like running in proton from an NTFS partition. I have NVME and SATA SSDs separate from my boot drive that I used to install games on and it was trivial to reformat the NVME drive to a more Linux friendly filesystem and I have not had an issue since. Eventually I'll do the SATA drive but I'm lazy and those games are working fine so far. You will absolutely have problems with some games, especially some that have overbearing anti-cheat systems, but man this has been so easy I couldn't really have imagined. The only non-gaming problem was a document scanner we own that is not supported by SANE. I could not find a solution to run it on Linux so I just spun up a Tiny 11 copy of Windows in a VM and passed it through. We only use it a couple times a year so this is an acceptable compromise to me. The VM doesn't have Internet access, it just sees a local drive as a network share. All it can do is scan something and save it to the shared drive so I can access it in Linux.
I chose Linux Mint because I am well versed with Debian and Ubuntu. But I suggest anyone new to Linux give Bazzite a shot. It's designed to be a lot harder for you to break. It's also more optimized for gaming if that's your focus. For me gaming is a requirement but I've never felt the need for top tier performance.
The path from 3.1 to 11 has been such a sour one and the last thing I am willing to put up with is being the product in the eyes of my desktop OS. My computer is mine and it will do what I want it to do or it will do nothing at all.
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My biggest problem took a bit to grok
Now that you're on Linux pop Docker on there and install Ollama/WebUI on there so you can run your own grok at home and not have to support yet another horrible company
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Oh, I can think of a few reasons.
You know it's bad when even I switch to linux. I don't understand linux. I literally back up my entire hard drive everytime I attempt to do ANYTHING. Because I WILL screw up my whole system to the point it won't boot. I've done it many times over the coarse of the past year.
Then I gotta spend a whole day waiting for things to restore from backup. And then whatever I WAD trying to do, still isn't done.
That has been my experience using linux this past year.
But Windows 11? No.
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It's definitively something along the lines of "knows just enough to be dangerous"
Like, sure, I've also broken my Linux system, but I'm deliberately running distros like arch and doing things that the average user would never do, like, say, messing with the bootloader.
If you just install something like bazzite or mint, and use it like a normal user would, the risk for something breaking should be really low
Since switching to Linux I have nuked my system maybe 5 or 6 times?
When I initially installed it I set the EFI partition to ext4, that caused some trouble when I updated my kernel lol. Grub just stopped working a few times and then just recently I accidentally wrote a floppy disc image to the wrong drive and wiped out my /home partition. Luckily testdisk is a thing.
For everything else I can just rely on my BTRFS snapshots. My drive setup is more than janky, but it works. Every time something went really wrong I was able to fix it myself.
That's how you level up in Linux. You break things, learn what you did wrong and do better next time. Linux won't hold your hand, you can and will shoot yourself in the foot.
You are doing it right by having backups and playing it safe. You'll be ok.
I've wanted to switch to Linux since Windows 10 and its inescapable trash "features"(looking at you, OneDrive).
I did upgrade to 11 and while I haven't experienced any catastrophic failures with it (yet) it's becoming increasingly aggravating with all the added bullshit they're implementing and the amount of ads they're trying to sneak in.
I've been bugging my husband for months to help me because he is near fluent in Linux and I'm a noob. He's now building me a new PC that will have Linux installed and I can't fucking wait to finally ditch Windows.
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My 78 year old mother bought a new laptop, windows 11.
Immediately I had to remote in because of some S mode BS which just put you in the MS only application environment.
3 months later and somehow she fubarred her login and can't use her new laptop. There's probably an easy fix, but since she hates windows 11 and wants to go back to 10, I suggested Linux.
So it will be a Merry Christmas for my mom when I visit and install IDK? Some version that's super simple. Anything is better than what she currently has
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I have to use Windows 11 for work. Maybe this is because of CrowdStrike or something, I don't know, but I often encounter a problem where the main section of explorer, where you can actually click files and stuff, just breaks. That entire region becomes unclickable and unusable, even though the rest of the Explorer window (like the icons on the top part) all still work. So I just have to close the window and then reopen Explorer, re-navigate back to where I was, and proceed from where I left off.
Never, in the decades I've been using computers, have I ever encountered something as stupid as this with this amount of regularity. Windows 11 is a uniquely bad OS compared to every competitor option, including prior versions of Windows.
I've been a full time Linux user at home for over six years. It's why my username is what it is 😀
I can't say it's flawless. Sometimes you get what you pay for. But in most every significant way it is the better choice.
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On the positive side though, following all that backlash, Microsoft acknowledged Windows has issues, and as if on cue, the company in a new support article has admitted that there are problems on almost every major Windows 11 core feature. The issues are related to XAML and this impacts all the Shell components like the Start Menu, Taskbar, Explorer, and Windows Settings.
- Explorer.exe crash
- shelhost.exe crash
- StartMenuExperienceHost issues
- System Settings silently fails to launch
- Application crashes when initializing the XAML views
- Explorer running but no taskbar window.
- other XAML island views fail to initialize.
- ImmersiveShell problems
I mean if you tell 50% of your client base they have to buy a new PC...
Especially, in the current economic climate.
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Obviously. There is no particular reason to switch from old 7th or older gen intel CPUs since with 16GB (or even with 8) of RAM one can browse internet and use OFFICE 365 with no issues. And what most of people do with their computers at work?
Unless PC is used to render 3D/Video/DAW Audio/heavy VMs - there is no fucking need to buy new PC just to upgrade to win11. MS shot themselves in a foot with this one.
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. I wouldn’t move to 11 if support continued for 10.
Which is exactly the reason they're ending support.
If you don't have a reason to stay, Linux is definitely worth a shot. I moved from 10 to Bazzite in my rig earlier in the year, and it's been pretty solid.
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I have bazzite Linux as dual boot. Few usecases stop me from moving fully over. Nvidia drivers and VR support. And Remote Desktop doesn’t work the way I want it to.
Also for some reason my ryzen system stopped seeing my linux sata drive in bios so can’t boot anymore.
Interesting. I ditched team green years ago and have been running rock solid since. My Nvidia GPU was always the reason I went back to windows. Sorry to hear your ryzen rig stopped, have you looked for a bios update? Might be something simple like that (assuming your disk didn't shit the bed).
Can't say I've had any rdp issues on Bazzite, what's it doing?
I can see the disk in windows. It just doesn’t show up in the bios. I’ve been recommended to do a fully CMOS reset by pulling out battery but don’t really have time. It disappeared after a BIOS update 😀
As for RDP. I regularly RDP to my windows machine and it auto changes resolution. And then I can log in on the PC itself and it returns to the monitor resolution. So I keep the same session but view it from multiple places.
I can’t get the same on Linux. Either I get my current session which doesn’t resize (stuck at connected monitor resolution). Or it creates a new resizable session which I don’t want because I want to continue what I was doing.
I’ve been recommended to do a fully CMOS reset by pulling out battery but don’t really have time. It disappeared after a BIOS update 😀
Did you load the default BIOS settings after that? If not, that might be easier than removing the battery.
And if you did, the default settings could have enabled the CSM, or changed other settings like fast boot that might make the drive not show up.
I’ll try it. But I don’t see the drive detected in the BIOS so thought it might be more than that.
Also bazzite should have secure boot.
I’ll let you know!
I wonder if a lot of it is because Microsoft will say your computer isn't compatible to upgrade but meanwhile it actually CAN be upgraded and users are just taking what Microsoft tells them as truth and not investigating further.
I myself have upgraded a couple of family members machines to Win 11 even though "technically" Microsoft claims they can't be. just went ahead with it anyways. I could have just thrown Linux on them like Mint or something but some people are just comfortable within windows.
Maybe if they also removed local accounts and forced you to have an online MS account? Nah scratch that, it would be stupid
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10 had at least SOME good in it, at first i didnt want to move on from 7 but when i finally did it was okay. Everything i have heard about 11 is awful, and i wasnt very pleased with it myself either when i tried it at work, though i was able to mostly ignore it since it was just my work pc.
And now after switching to mint, idea of using 11 is preposterous.
LibreOffice is good. While people don’t like learning new things, I found it does everything I could want.
I actually switched years ago because I didn’t want to pay for MS Office.
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I know what you're talking about. As someone who had to hire a lot of people it was infuriating that we only got the candidates HR approved.
I so wish that we could hire 5 people for 2 weeks and then retain 1 or 2 of them. You don't learn anything about candidates until you give them your first assignment. I would have jumped at that as an applicant, but maybe just because I was unemployed for a while during the 08 super recession.
Had to "upgrade" my work laptop to 11 for security support. Nothing about it is better. Almost everything is slower, and many common operations take more steps to complete on 11 vs 10.
Absolute fuckin' garbage.
To be clear, I’m not ‘not adopting’ - I’m actively boycotting that shit. The whole TOM thing was annoying enough, but everything else surrounding it has proven to me that Microsoft cannot be trusted with that level of access to MY hardware.
So yeah, I’m going to put Linux on my PC and ultimately back to Mac full time, I imagine.
I really need to upgrade my setup, but I don't really feel like selling one of my kidneys so I can afford 8 gigabytes of RAM (it's not a good kidney so I'm being realistic).
Anyway my current system has windows 11 on it anyway so I might as well just keep using that but as soon as I have the option to leave I'm going to.
I need to keep windows 11 around for work but as soon as I can build a system that can hold to two whole operating systems at a time I'm going to go over to dual booting. Unless the steam machine turns out to be cheaper than anyone's realistically expecting, in which case I might just go that route. The current RAM prices mean that's probably unlikely.
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If you can avoid Office documents and run an AMD GPU, anyone should be golden on Linux. NVidia is fine if you are comfortable with command line.
Not really sure what Windows has going for it except inertia, but if your coasting, you are going downhill...
It's a burning platform, and the future isn't bright. IT and security would love to get rid of Windows desktops, they are nightmare to manage and secure. Problem is legacy.
But who still uses native Windows Apps other than Office? Legacy apps are out there, but also being migrated to low code browser apps. Even Office is an web app and Microsoft has been converting their 'native' apps into browser containers. Point is that Almost everything runs on a web browser and that is what kids have been using in schools for nearly 10 years. To date, ChromeOS is widely used in some roles (contact center, some back office). Developers, graphics, video, marketing, executives, along with most sales often use Mac, and nearly every enterprise uses both Android and IPhone /iPad OS.
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Blows my mind seeing people look on windows 10 as some kind of last bastion, apparently not realizing that was Windows 7 at best.
10 is the one where they fucked up the UX beyond repair, made everything slow and added insane amounts of spying. If you willingly switched to 10 then don't pretend like 11 is a bridge too far now.
Ah yes the classic purist arguement.
If the applications I want to use don't support Linux then apparently that's their problem. I wish I didn't have to live in the real world, but unfortunately I can't pay my mortgage in moral righteousness. If I can't use the programs I need to use my job, because I've decided to switch to an operating system that they don't support, I'm the one that's going to suffer.
So no you can't just ditch applications that don't have Linux support.
In the real world you have to dual boot and that's a pain in the arse because it means Microsoft are still going to be getting some money from me.
It's a catch 22. If you need applications to make money sure. But games. Come on.
I get a PC from my job, it has windows and that's their choice.
The fuck sort of dipshit argument is this for video games...?
He was saying ditch video games man... VIDEO GAMES.
I can't switch to purely Linux because I need windows in order to be able to do my job. The fact I also play games on the computer is irrelevant.
I don't understand what you're not understanding.
Yeah, some people get really defensive when you suggest they can get all the things they are asking for, and all they have to do is stop giving money to user-hostile developers. And saying kernel-level anti-cheat is hostile to the user is a massive understatement. Why would you defend Saudi Arabia having kernel-level access to your computer just to play a game? (It's crazy that that statement isn't even a joke in the context of EA.)
I understand if someone decides not to take the suggestion, but it is still a reasonable suggestion to make.
and now they are saying they will never upgrade from 10 to 11
The stats show people are committing this time. English speakers are jumping ship at historically unprecedented rates. Steam stats
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the old-style devices and printers menu is still in the OS, you just have to dig for it a bit, and it works 1000x better.
For the last 13 years this has been the most infuriating part of the incomplete control panel migration. I find myself struggling to use the new settings, and having to then resort to digging for the old ones that actually have the option I need.
Win 11 finally pushed me over the edge with ads and spying. But I still have to deal with Windows at work.
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10 is the one where they fucked up the UX beyond repair
Was it? I gave up on 8 because of the UI, downgraded back to 7 and that was my last Windows machine. Was 10 worse?
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The biggest selling points of Windows these days is familiarity, backwards compatibility, and gaming.
And the only one of those not under active threat by someone is the backwards compatibility. Which means there is an active shelf life on the viability of Windows as a big money maker on the consumer desktop/laptop. And once it starts to falter in that market then the enterprise will start to follow.
micro$oft is getting desperate though
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Microsoft Goes Wild for Black Friday, Windows 11 Pro Drops 94% Like They Forgot the Price Tag - Kotaku
Upgrade your PC's operating system for just $10 for a limited time at StackSocial.Joe Tilleli (Kotaku)
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Switch to Linux Mint, KDE, or Pop OS Cosmic
Then once comfortable get your company to switch to it
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We've been switching over to Windows 11 and it's broken so many of our old applications.
We have stuff that's like 40 years old and it just won't tolerate Windows 11 so all those programs have to be run in a virtual environment. They were fine with Windows 10 so I've no idea what about Windows 11 they don't like. I wouldn't mind so much if there was an obvious advantage to Windows 11 but therr literally isn't, there's not a single feature in Windows 11 that would help us do business better.
But I think Windows 11 is on track to be the crap version, so Windows 12 will hopefully be better although given the current direction Microsoft moving that might not be the case, and they may have finally broken the crap then good cycle.
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This is true. Rumours I've heard is that all your data will just be in one big blob, and every application is just an AI agent sorting and displaying the info for you.
So you could open a word document in Excel and it would format the info as a table, or you can open a PowerPoint in Visio and it would make it into a workflow chart. Same data, just presented differently by AI "wrappers".
Remember when Microsoft said windows 10 was going to be the last major windows version and they were just going to support it forever with rolling updates, and then later said they never said that.
Pepperidge farm remembers.
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This article is trash, it mentions existing windows 10 features in windows 11 like it's a groundbreaking new technology.
Virtual desktops and clipboard manager? Cmon man we've been having that for years now
having that for years now
since abaout the late 90's to early 00's. KDE 1 released with virtual desktops, and from what I can tell, Klipper either released with it, or a few years later
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Considering all of the comments saying that a big part of this is people not wanting to buy new computers and choosing linux because it will run on their old machine, I'd like to add insult to injury and say I built a new PC before Oct and windows was never even a consideration.
And despite it being my first Linux install I planned to play games on, everything went smoothly and I'd even say the "setting up the PC to my preference instead of the defaults" step was better because there wasn't a "figure out how to disable the shit ms really wants you to run for them" substep, or a "figure out what new shit ms added that I'll want to disable" discovery mode that, with win 10, lasted most of the time I was using it and included "figure out if a recent update reset settings to annoying defaults".
I bet this is why people are so vocal about switching to linux whenever there's another complaint about ms. It went way better than expected, like I was about to do something that would cause ongoing pain and frustration to get away from something even worse, but there's been nothing at all that has made me miss windows.
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Yeah. I built my PC two years back and Linux was the main idea for it. I'd used Linux on and off since 2007, and it's honestly been fine this entire time, with WINE and such only improving over time. I remember how baffled I was back in 2007 when I didn't have to install any drivers myself, everything just worked out of the box, even fucking printers.
This is the time of Windows Vista, where nothing worked.
Yeah, I've got a logitech mouse but didn't want logitech's software on my machine, so I just used the mouse by plugging it in. Which worked, but I had no way of knowing the battery level until the mouse itself started blinking low power.
When I installed fedora, I was confused a bit because it had a system tray icon saying the battery was charging. I was thinking it thought it was a laptop until I realize it had just picked up the battery information from my mouse. A feature I had written off under windows just worked without me even considering it or needing to install software that was partly about using my hardware and partially about advertising more ways to get my money.
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I really don’t see what more Windows has to offer than Linux
Stability, updates management, built-in features (like window tiling), etc.
Source: using Linux exclusively for almost a year now.
No. I said that there's a bunch of things (e.g. stability, updates management, features (like window tiling), etc.) that Windows has and Linux does not.
There's A LOT Linux does great. There's also a lot Windows does great that Linux massively fails at.
Even some silly things like multi-screen support or saving windows positions between reboots... Lots of small things.
Especially when you're on Arch with KDE, you don't have:
- good update management
- window tiling
- saving window positions
I know because I'm on Arch with KDE.
By "good update management" I mean what MS does - all updates are pushed once a month, on Patch Tuesday (second Tuesday of the month). You can put it in your calendar and plan for a necessary reboot.
I know Arch is a rolling release so it doesn't have that on purpose, but it's not much better with Ubuntu - I was getting updates every couple of days, once a week at best.
Window tiling doesn't exist "out of the box", you need third party software (which, apparently still doesn't give you what Windows has out of the box) or a switch from KDE to COSMIC, which still doesn't give you the freedom of choice that Windows has (it's either "everything is tiled" or "nothing is tiled").
Saving window positions (on Wayland) is the most confusing one, because it seems like the one that'd be the easiest to implement, but KDE devs just flat out refuse to do it. I hear that it works on X11.
Multi-monitor support is piss poor. If I spread my windows across multiple monitors and then turn one monitor off, those windows are no longer accessible. SDDM displays the same interface on each monitor, and each is a separate instance of SDDM - meaning, you can type in your password on monitor 2, and if you press "OK" on monitor 1, it will fail, because the password field is empty. It's just silly design. On Windows, if you disconnect an extra screen, all the content gets dropped on the main screen. Since Windows 11, if you then re-connect the screen, all windows will pop back into their places before the disconnect happened.
You might have configured something that broke it because there ain't no way what you are saying is not supported on Linux.
I know Arch is a rolling release so it doesn’t have that on purpose, but it’s not much better with Ubuntu - I was getting updates every couple of days, once a week at best.
You don't have to update if you don't want to and you can schedule your updates as well with a bash script (although I prefer to do it manually once a week). I have a Windows VM used for MS office and Adobe that hasn't been updated for months.
Window tiling doesn’t exist “out of the box”, you need third party software
It is out of the box. Meta + Arrow Keys and/OR Meta + PgUp. I use it all the time lol since KDE Plasma 5 and Gnome whatever version it was 3 years ago.
Saving window positions (on Wayland) is the most confusing one
Confirmed works by FarrellPerks@feddit.uk in above comments. Although I never tested or cared for it.
SDDM displays the same interface on each monitor, and each is a separate instance of SDDM
I don't know about desktop towers, for laptop it is always only one instance — my laptop display, monitor is dark before I hit enter. And for the normal KDE lockscreen, it does give it on both the screens but I can enter my password in any one of them and logon.
if you disconnect an extra screen, all the content gets dropped on the main screen. Since Windows 11, if you then re-connect the screen, all windows will pop back into their places before the disconnect happened.
same happens on KDE Plasma.
It is out of the box. Meta + Arrow Keys and/OR Meta + PgUp.
Ah, OK, nice! I didn't see it as it's not available via mouse, but found all those threads saying it doesn't exist. Good to know!
Confirmed works by FarrellPerks@feddit.uk in above comments
Doesn't work on Garuda (Arch-based) with KDE.
Or rather: it used to work, but then just stopped.
I don’t know about desktop towers, for laptop it is always only one instance — my laptop display, monitor is dark before I hit enter
Interesting! On my laptop I also had two instances of SDDM.
same happens on KDE Plasma.
Not where I'm sitting. Tested via cat accidentally turning a monitor off. The browser window just stayed on that screen - the process was there, but the application was not available.
Huh, interesting. Because other than appearance and keyboard shortcuts, I haven't configured anything to affect these behaviors.
I switched my laptop last year and installed Arch with Plasma 6 so it was working out of the box. My previous laptop had Arch with Plasma 5 and then updated to 6 and also had Gnome before that. So it could have been I might I have configured something over there to get those things working (I don't remember doing that though) but the newer one had it by default.
Because other than appearance and keyboard shortcuts, I haven’t configured anything to affect these behaviors
Which is another aspect of the "Windows is more stabled" that I meant earlier.
I switched my laptop last year and installed Arch with Plasma 6 so it was working out of the box
The save window position thing was also working out of the box on mine. Only after it stopped I started looking into this and found that, apparently, it's NOT a thing KDE/Wayland can do. I don't know how it worked, but settings also show that feature doesn't exist - if you go to System Settings → Window Management → Window Behaviour → Advanced → Window placement, I only have these options available: "Minimal Overlapping", "Maximised", "Random", "Centred", "In Top-Left Corner" or "Under Mouse". There's no "Remember" or "Restore previous" or anything like that.
Stability? Update management? Window tiling? What? Linux does have all of these things. In fact Linux is way more stable than Windows, has better update management. Mind you, it does depend on the distro and the amount of stability you want, but I have been running Debian servers for years and I hardly run into problems.
The only thing windows offers over Linux is gaming and a better UI. Even both of those are dwindling away. I hate the new windows 11 UI and most games work on Linux unless you require a rootkit for some anti cheat software.
Stability? Update management? Window tiling? What? Linux does have all of these things.
No.
In fact Linux is way more stable than Windows
I install Windows and forget about it. I install Linux and have to do all this, and then it still might do this or this.
Mind you, it does depend on the distro
Agreed.
and the amount of stability you want
I want all the stability.
but I have been running Debian servers for years and I hardly run into problems.
Not talking about servers.
But even then - at my last job we finally killed off a Windows Server that had an uptime of over 1000 days, just chugging along like a little trooper. At my previous-previous job I was responsible for the WinServer updates, every single one of them was getting monthly updates and reboots, didn't have a single issue in 7 years. It was just shy of 100 servers.
The only thing windows offers over Linux is gaming and a better UI. Even both of those are dwindling away. I hate the new windows 11 UI and most games work on Linux unless you require a rootkit for some anti cheat software.
Agreed. I have Garuda Linux installed on my gaming PC and only had minor issues with three titles. It's surprisingly frictionless.
Application Launcher transparency settings?
Hi everyone! I got the update to KDE Plasma 6.4 yesterday and since then my Application Launcher is transparent… And I’ve no idea where that came from or how to disable that. HERE is an example of how it looks with Kate opened in the background.Garuda Linux Forum
Especially when you're on Arch with KDE, you don't have:
- good update management
- window tiling
- saving window positions
I know because I'm on Arch with KDE.
By "good update management" I mean what MS does - all updates are pushed once a month, on Patch Tuesday (second Tuesday of the month). You can put it in your calendar and plan for a necessary reboot.
I know Arch is a rolling release so it doesn't have that on purpose, but it's not much better with Ubuntu - I was getting updates every couple of days, once a week at best.
Window tiling doesn't exist "out of the box", you need third party software (which, apparently still doesn't give you what Windows has out of the box) or a switch from KDE to COSMIC, which still doesn't give you the freedom of choice that Windows has (it's either "everything is tiled" or "nothing is tiled").
Saving window positions (on Wayland) is the most confusing one, because it seems like the one that'd be the easiest to implement, but KDE devs just flat out refuse to do it. I hear that it works on X11.
Multi-monitor support is piss poor. If I spread my windows across multiple monitors and then turn one monitor off, those windows are no longer accessible. SDDM displays the same interface on each monitor, and each is a separate instance of SDDM - meaning, you can type in your password on monitor 2, and if you press "OK" on monitor 1, it will fail, because the password field is empty. It's just silly design. On Windows, if you disconnect an extra screen, all the content gets dropped on the main screen. Since Windows 11, if you then re-connect the screen, all windows will pop back into their places before the disconnect happened.
The most frustrating part of running Linux for me is the experience can vary so much for each person, slight hardware differences can cause odd bugs that other people don't have, and solving them can be really time consuming because a fix that works for one distro or DE may not work on another.
I'm really happy that Bazzite seems to be gaining so much popularity as an actual windows replacement, because it makes it a lot easier to find fixes for problems if there's a huge community using the exact same distro.
"Slower" implies you're projecting the same end results. Do they think the missing numbers are just not using a computer at all? In the digital age? By far your largest numbers of actual Win11 migrators are companies whose tech policy is the CYA "update everything in case we get hacked".
The common folk are not going to buy a new computer just to get a slower Windows installation. The people who migrate from Windows 10/7 holdouts are going to be migrating to Linux.
They keep updating my windows 10 computers at work and the one I have at home. None of my Microsoft apps work, I can't install paint, or photos or the Microsoft store. My personal computer freezes as soon as I open windows explorer. This just started after the last update.
I already have a Linux server downstairs and this week converted me windows 10 pc to endeavor OS. It's lightning fast and easy to use if you already know the problems with Linux.
Edit: If you have an AMD GPU you should just change to linux no question.
Jeffrey Epstein Pursued Swiss Rothschild Bank to Finance Israeli Cyberweapons Empire
The bank remained vague about the actual nature of its relationship with the convicted sex trafficker. Newly released documents reveal that Epstein and de Rothschild’s personal relationship was much closer than the bank previously acknowledged. According to emails released by the U.S. House Oversight Committee on November 12, Epstein planned to see a Broadway play with de Rothschild in January 2014, and scheduled a private trip with her to Montreal that September.A second set of documents—the leaked inbox of former Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak, hacked by Handala and uploaded by non-profit whistleblower Distributed Denial of Secrets—sheds light on Epstein’s efforts to leverage his personal friendship with de Rothschild to raise funds for the development of Israeli cyberweapons. After Barak’s retirement from government in 2013, he recruited Pavel Gurvich, a graduate of the Israel Defense Forces’ secretive Unit 81 technology unit, to source cyberweapons startups from the Israeli intelligence community. Gurvich did not respond to a request for comment.
Private communications between Barak and Gurvich show discussions about a wide range of cyberweapons concepts drawn from Israeli military research, inspired in part by the astonishing scope of U.S. global surveillance apparatus revealed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in 2013. Epstein pushed forward a plan to finance Israeli “offensive cyber” startups with the hope of winning de Rothschild’s support.
Jeffrey Epstein Pursued Swiss Rothschild Bank to Finance Israeli Cyberweapons Empire
Epstein on Ariane de Rothschild: “it was said to me, if Ehud [Barak] wants to make serious money, he will have to build a relationship with me. take time so that we can truly understand one another.”Ryan Grim (Drop Site News)
Boycott Switzerland.
'Neutrality' is a lie for propping up dictators money. The Swiss are as bad as the Saudis.
Poland Repurposed a Nazi Factory Site to Make TNT to Drop on Gaza
Since October 2023, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) unleashed tens of thousands of bombs likely containing payloads of Polish-made TNT, resulting in the destruction of as much as 80 percent of Gaza’s buildings, including civilian infrastructure such as hospitals, schools, and refugee camps. “Based on information provided by the bomb’s U.S. manufacturer, General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems, the Polish company Nitro-Chem, and U.S. government databases, we can conclude that there is a high probability that a significant proportion of [Mk 84s] that Israel dropped on the Gaza Strip since October 2023 are filled with Polish-made TNT,” the report found.
Poland Repurposed a Nazi Factory Site to Make TNT to Drop on Gaza
The state-owned Polish company, Nitro-Chem, produced 90% of the TNT that U.S. weapons manufacturers used to make "Mark Series" bombs, according to a new report.Alexander Zaitchik (Drop Site News)
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Preparing for a Riskier World Is Becoming a Bigger Part of Climate Talks | As negotiations over efforts to curb emissions enter crunch time at COP30, adaptation is emerging as the next frontier.
At COP30 Adaptation is Emerging as Next Frontier of Climate Action
As negotiations over efforts to curb emissions enter crunch time at COP30, adaptation is emerging as the next frontier.Olivia Rudgard (Bloomberg)
‘The fire devoured everything’: Israeli settlers unleash wave of arson attacks
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"The Palestinians aren't using this land, so we're just going to claim it." ~ Israel
Dead mosquito proboscis used for high-resolution 3D printing nozzle
A severed mosquito proboscis can be turned into an extremely fine nozzle for 3D printing, and this could help create replacement tissues and organs for transplants.
I've linked to a decent write-up on Tom's Hardware, but New Scientist covered it last week too.
Source paper: 3D necroprinting: Leveraging biotic material as the nozzle for 3D printing (science.org)
Mosquito proboscis repurposed as a fine nozzle for 3D printing
When engineers struggled to make 3D printer nozzles narrow enough for their needs, they turned to nature and found the proboscis of a female mosquito had exactly the properties they neededMatthew Sparkes (New Scientist)
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Yes but does it have to be dead at the time?
I'm really not sure why they felt the need to point this out in the article.
I daresay some of the project leads were kicking themselves nonetheless: "It's so simple! Dead mosquito proboscises! Dead! Why didn't I think of that?!", etc. But I think we should go easy on them; we could all get a doctorate in the field of hindsight!
In the end, just like many discoveries before it: penicillin, safety glasses, velcro etc., this breakthrough simply owes a lot to blind chance.
I'm currently living in Canada where the ground has been hidden by snow for a month.
i was bitten by a mosquito outside yesterday.
They are getting stronger.
Lucky.
We have had full snow cover since mid-october here. But it has also been +3-5c most afternoons.
Although early snow often means warmer winter. And I can definitely handle the snow in QC better than the -40s I used to get in AB.
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If it makes you feel better, the people who stick their arms in aren’t allergic to mosquito bites. Doesn’t bother them to get bit beyond the feeling of being bit.
I mean I guess it could happen that they are just masochistic, but typically not.
Otherwise I would have imagined a swarm of mosquitos trained to perform like some cartoon.
So far, everyone's failed (including myself).
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This reminds me of a post where someone hooked a dead spider up to a syringe and used it as a grabber. A spider's musculature is hydraulic so the legs would curl and uncurl as the syringe was pressed.
Definitely one of the creepier things I've casually stumbled upon.
EU Chat Control Advances as Privacy Experts Warn of Hidden Backdoor Risks
EU Chat Control Advances as Privacy Experts Warn of Hidden Backdoor Risks
The EU advances its new Chat Control plan as privacy experts warn it could enable backdoor scanning and threaten encrypted messaging.Anya Zhukova (Techreport)
Once again I will post the following link:
fightchatcontrol.eu/
I will keep posting this link whenever Chat Control shows its ugly head again.
Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU
Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.fightchatcontrol.eu
for anyone seeing this link for the first time
it's an incredibly streamlined UX that composes an email to the representatives relevant to you, for the specific reasons important to you. It's then really easy to paste both the email body and the string of email addresses into whatever email client you use.
10/10 recommend
Just sent 89 emails. Looking forward to squashing the American interests behind this bullshit.
If you don't believe me, watch this:
- YouTube
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
Question about Syncoid / ZFS replication
So I asked earlier about backing up the media files in my home lab, and thanks for the many who replied, I settled on sanoid / syncoid and has been running them for some time.
My setup:
pool1/data contains my media files
pool2/data backup
I use sanoid to make periodic snapshots of pool1/data, and then runs
syncoid pool1/data pool2/datato replicate the snapshots to pool2.
This works fine, except I noticed that a lot of data is being copied even though pool1 did not change much. And now I just noticed pool2 ran out of space some time ago, while pool1 is currently only half full (pool1 & pool2 are the same size).
~~Is it because snapshots are somehow deduplicated when created on pool1, but is fully transferred to pool2 when syncoid runs? Is there something I can do to lower the usage on the backup pool? Thanks.~~
EDIT: Oops, I did not set up pruning of old snapshots on pool2. I have now added "--delete-target-snapshots" to my syncoid job and will monitor the results.
Not enough info, but it sounds almost like you're creating the snapshots locally and sending those over instead of snapshotting to the destination directly.
Sanoid and syncoid are Jim Salter's creation. Check out his blog at mercenarysysadmin.com for some examples of sanoid and syncoid. Klara systems also has a number of deep dives into those utilities.
Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away
Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away
The foundation of modern software is cracking under the weight of burnout.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
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I couldn't find anything about this on the Asus Linux blog, am I just dumb and looking in the wrong place? I use Asus-linux and didn't know about this 🙁
Edit: ~~unfortunately it seems that bullshitters who make shit up on the spot have made their way over to Lemmy~~ boo me
For myself, I make sure I've done my due diligence before I might accuse someone of dishonesty, rather than making a minimum effort.
From his Kofi: ko-fi.com/flukejones
I've burned out on LKML and many many other parts of the FOSS world. It's exhausting. As such, I will not be working on Linux for asus device. It's not something I can devote huge chunks of time to for free anymore.Thank you everyone who has donated something over the last years.
Same on his Patreon
I read this blog post yesterday and it was insightful.
Seems like we could solve multiple problems in one go here…
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I liked the article. It sung to my heart. I've been in this world for a while. Lived through the failure and hyperacalars just taking without giving back.
I don't know what to think. But I'm not happy with where we are and it's nice to hear someone else talking about it.
I'm all for ethical licensing, and defensive licensing, but we'll likely end up with an unmanageable soup of various licenses that everyone is nervous about misinterpreting. We lose efficacy and everyone will just default back to the same handful of licenses we're currently using.
I think unless it was a small number of crystal clear alternative licenses with broadly agreeable terms, we'd get chaos, followed by complacency.
If only there was a way to fund open source projects so we both could have better software for the world and paid employees..
I think you can guess which government body already do this. Just take a shot.
Big question is: how many of us are funding foss projects?
It isn't difficult, and with how popular some are, it wouldn't be long before the projects could hire one or more full time devs at good rates.
I support a few big projects I use every month through liberapay.
I think the bigger question is how many corporations are supporting foss projects? I'm sure a lot of us contribute a bit here and there if we can and I'm sure it makes a difference - but if some of these corporations, making billions of dollars profit, contribute just a tiny fraction of their wealth it could make a huge difference.
It's the same argument as recycling, turning off lights, walking instead of driving etc. etc. - yes there are 8 billion of us and if we all do it, it will make a difference, but the difference we make is still not significant compared to corporate greed.
We are being gaslit to accept yet another scenario where we socialize the cost and privatize the profit.
Big question or not, we can only control ourselves.
Everyone always stares at other people's resources and imagine how great it would be if those resources were used how we like, but at the end of the day, we control our resources.
So is it a big question if it doesn't really matter because we can't do anything about it?
Not for me to decide
That's the problem, hardly anyone in FOSS gets paid at all.
That's what we are trying to fix.
Love the enthusiasm, but let's stop casting this as an end-user-only problem. The real issue is, once again, large corporations using and taking advantage of oss while putting ZERO money or work back into oss. It's victim blaming with extra steps, and us blaming each other is exactly what the real culprits want.
If it makes us feel better that we can pay on a regulsr basis for these things, great. But massive oss projects can't thrive on a few of us donating.
I hope you didn't infer from my comment that we should stop individually supporting FOSS, that's not what I'm saying.
However, I will counter that I don't think you are current with the overwhelmingly massive imbalance of corporate vs personal use is currently in play on big Foss projects.
Ffmpeg is used by almost everyone with a video project, but not companies want to kick in any bucks:
We saw this back in 2015 as well with NTP, which almost everyone on the internet uses, yet the one guy who worked on it had to stop doing so temporarily in 2017 and get a job to support himself:
informationweek.com/it-infrast…
Not only do corps use FOSS at a higher rate by an order of magnitude than individual users, but they also profit from it.
NTP Needs Money: Is A Foundation The Answer?
NTP steward Harlan Stenn founded the Network Time Foundation four years ago as an umbrella group to unite and support time-synching open-source projects. But it hasn't gotten far with support.Charles Babcock (Information Week)
Not at all. I support individual paying for foss projects and then corporations should be made to as well. Corporation will not have morals until there is social pressure, even so they just pretend to or regulated by government standards.
We are on the same page, if you read my other comments.
Big question is: how many of us are funding foss projects?
It isn't difficult, and with how popular some are, it wouldn't be long before the projects could hire one or more full time devs at good rates.
I support a few big projects I use every month through liberapay.
Pay for your FOSS! I've paid far more for my FOSS than for any proprietary software.
If you believe in subscriptions, then subscribe only to FOSS software like Bitwarden, Tailscale/Netbird, etc.
Find your favorite FOSS projects on Open Collective and support them there.
And above all else, treat FOSS devs and maintainers with the utmost respect! They are the unsung heros who are building the only alternatives to the corpo-dystopian hellscape of proprietary, enshitified, slop software.
Send a message to a dev today, just saying thank you to them for everything, and asking if you can send them a tip if possible.
Folks, let's treat each other lovingly please, FOSS has freed us, give back what you can, and never take it for granted.
To all the devs, maintainers, tinkerers, supporters, FOSS educators, and helpful community members across the FOSS world, thank you so much, and much love. ♥️
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I recently got my boss to send a donation to an open source project!
It was technically not free to use for commercial purposes, but we could have done it anyway... However my boss agreed when I mentioned how insignificant it would be on the project's cost!
I'm going to be honest, I have no idea how open source works. I can't imagine maintaining anything more than a tiny library that I can ignore six days of the week.
Also: open source relies on good jobs. You can only do it if you have a well paid low stress job with good hours. Those have been in short supply recently.
I think the free time covid gave, followed by the free time the layoffs gave, and AI have been patching / hiding the fact that the core model of open source is completely unsustainable in its current state.
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Roughly equal parts "git is clever" and "once in a while, someone has to take some time to figure it out".
Say the code is split into two files. You and I both make changes, but you're working on file A and I'm in file B. No problem!
Now we both make changes in file A. Sometimes Git can just "figure it out", like if all your changes are in the beginning of the file, and all my changes are at the end.
But sometimes we both change the same section. Git can't figure that part out, so one of us has to sit down and reconcile the changes. Sometimes this is pretty simple, other times...not so much.
Put it all together, and it works out pretty well most of the time.
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It’s funny how common this mindset is in the self-hosting community:
“If I’m running it on my own hardware, the software should basically be free… maybe I’ll toss a tiny ‘tip’ if I feel generous.”
The logic seems to be that since there’s no ongoing server cost, the developer’s time, skill, and effort must somehow be worth nothing and that we should magically fund the entire project through some hypothetical cloud version that they themselves will never use.
It’s like showing up to a brewery with your own growler and expecting the beer to be free because you didn’t use their glass.
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I'm sorry, but I can't agree with this. If the software is free, then it's free. It's up to the authors how they want to license it.
Personally, I write code and publish it in the hopes that it will help someone. If someone comes in and says "there's this bug, fix it!" I will only do so if it will benefit me, or if I feel like it.
The article and discussion here is about open source software which is not free software. Thats where the problem lies it is assumed that open source software has be free.
Freedom in software does not mean free software.
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Thats where the problem lies it is assumed that open source software has be free.
But the article is not talking about this scenario. They're specifically talking about open source software that's also free software:
Your favorite apps run on code maintained by exhausted volunteers.
So it's perfectly fine for some users to expect the software to be free.
The real problem is that some project owners have a sense of duty to maintain their creations no matter what, leading to burnout, which is the point of the article. The article also details ways to fix it. Some of those involve the users being proactive (e.g. taking the initiative to donate consistently), but ultimately it's up to the owner to take some action. Like I mentioned, if I publish some code for free, I don't mind my users to expect that my software will always be free. But if they think I'm going to lose sleep trying to meet their demands without compensation, welp, they are dreaming.
It’s up to the authors how they want to license it.
Plus or minus some amount of piracy, sure
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Open source should be funded by the tax-payers, or all code should be forcibly open-source (something like AGPL)
Any other models feels like they would create perverse incentives
Also recurring donations feels like a better way than one-time tips
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I mean, look what happened with TCP/IP.
A fucking disaster for humanity on a global scale
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How do you decide which open source projects are worthy of taxpayer money, and how much does a given project get?
I have a couple projects I’ve put up in GitHub as open source. Would they qualify? Or are you just talking about well known open source projects like Linux?
Same as all other tax funded projects, by some elected people who likely have no idea about the project.
Joking aside, we will see more of this funding due to governments moving to open source software as they tend to want to fund their own stuff.
I've been using CachyOS and impressed by the array of available software, and it was only in the back of my mind, the thought; "Wow, so much of this is so refined and polished. I wonder who has motive to maintain it?"
Joke's on me, the motive is hardly there - and it's a shitty time for it with Windows announcing that 10 is the last version and that there are no plans for a new one.
I'm glad Valve has a profit motive towards open source right now, but especially in a world where fewer people can donate at random, I really hoped that the model wasn't specifically built to rely just on tip jars.
A lot of FOSS projects are freemium based which seems viable for larger more complex projects.
In these projects it's common to see the developer get paid for adding features on top of the core version, for a SaaS version, for custom development, or for offering support.
Other projects with a lot of community interest - and a good "community manager" style organizer can attract contributors in the form of pulls, bug testing and reports, and widespread use which generates valuable marketing. These projects only exist because of the labor of love from the whole community.
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Monarchy debate returns, but many Libyans see it as a step backward
Libya’s prolonged political deadlock has pushed many citizens to reassess ideas once considered settled. Among these ideas is the place of the former monarchy in the country’s political imagination.The renewed attention is not driven by a coordinated campaign, nor does it signal a national shift toward a single model of governance. It reflects something more fundamental: a society still searching for stability after years of uncertainty.
A major political gathering held on 15 November has pushed the question of Libya’s monarchy back into the centre of national debate, drawing attention from observers across Africa who see the country’s stability as vital to regional economic and security interests.
Monarchy debate returns, but many Libyans see it as a step backward
Libya’s prolonged political deadlock has pushed many citizens to reassess ideas once considered settled. Among these ideas is the place of the former monarchy in the country’s political imagination.The renewed attention is not driven by a coordinatedLibyan Express
Hamas’s Popularity Rises in Gaza, Complicating Trump Plan to Disarm Militants
Many Palestinians in Gaza want the militant group to leave power, but still welcome its crackdown on crime
By Sudarsan Raghavan and Suha Ma’ayeh
Nov. 16, 2025 1100pm ET
Hamas’s popularity has edged up among Palestinians in Gaza since the cease-fire, ending a slide during the war and posing a challenge to President Trump’s plan to bring peace to the enclave by disarming the militant group.A major reason is security. Last month, as a cease-fire took root and Israeli forces pulled back, Hamas fighters re-emerged on the streets as police and internal-security forces, patrolling and targeting criminals along with rivals and critics. While many Gazans have a dim view of the U.S.-designated terrorist group and don’t like seeing the group reassert itself, Palestinians have welcomed a reduction in crime and looting.
“Even those who oppose Hamas, the idea of security is something people want,” said Hazem Srour, 22, a businessman in Gaza City. “It’s because we had a security breakdown with thefts, thuggery and lawlessness.”
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/hamas-gaza-popularity-rises-03efb873?st=edS4WR
Hamas’s Popularity Rises in Gaza, Complicating Trump Plan to Disarm Militants
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/39179387
Many Palestinians in Gaza want the militant group to leave power, but still welcome its crackdown on crimeBy Sudarsan Raghavan and Suha Ma’ayeh
Nov. 16, 2025 1100pm ET
Hamas’s popularity has edged up among Palestinians in Gaza since the cease-fire, ending a slide during the war and posing a challenge to President Trump’s plan to bring peace to the enclave by disarming the militant group.A major reason is security. Last month, as a cease-fire took root and Israeli forces pulled back, Hamas fighters re-emerged on the streets as police and internal-security forces, patrolling and targeting criminals along with rivals and critics. While many Gazans have a dim view of the U.S.-designated terrorist group and don’t like seeing the group reassert itself, Palestinians have welcomed a reduction in crime and looting.
“Even those who oppose Hamas, the idea of security is something people want,” said Hazem Srour, 22, a businessman in Gaza City. “It’s because we had a security breakdown with thefts, thuggery and lawlessness.”
Hamas’s Popularity Rises in Gaza, Complicating Trump Plan to Disarm Militants
Many Palestinians in Gaza want the militant group to leave power, but still welcome its crackdown on crimeBy Sudarsan Raghavan and Suha Ma’ayeh
Nov. 16, 2025 1100pm ETHamas’s popularity has edged up among Palestinians in Gaza since the cease-fire, ending a slide during the war and posing a challenge to President Trump’s plan to bring peace to the enclave by disarming the militant group.A major reason is security. Last month, as a cease-fire took root and Israeli forces pulled back, Hamas fighters re-emerged on the streets as police and internal-security forces, patrolling and targeting criminals along with rivals and critics. While many Gazans have a dim view of the U.S.-designated terrorist group and don’t like seeing the group reassert itself, Palestinians have welcomed a reduction in crime and looting.
“Even those who oppose Hamas, the idea of security is something people want,” said Hazem Srour, 22, a businessman in Gaza City. “It’s because we had a security breakdown with thefts, thuggery and lawlessness.”
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/hamas-gaza-popularity-rises-03efb873?st=edS4WR
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WHO to lose nearly a quarter of its workforce – 2,000 jobs – due to US withdrawing funding
WHO to lose nearly a quarter of its workforce – 2,000 jobs – due to US withdrawing funding
Donald Trump’s administration withdrew from the World Health Organization in January, prompting the agency to scale back its workGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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Welcome to Trump's America. "Well that fucking sucks for humanity," might as well be the phrase that historians use to summarize his second term.
If you'll recall, he tried to withdraw America from the WHO at the end of his first term, but failed due to losing the election before the request was accepted. The WHO's recommendations didn't match what Trump said during the COVID pandemic, and Trump will use any means at his disposal to quash dissent.
Yeah, because that'll surely end well. Any strong democracy would be a lot better than either the US or China.
China still hasn't been anywhere near transparent about COVID, for example. Do you really think they'd be any better if an outbreak of something similar would happen, especially if it originated from China in the first place.
I'm with you there, in theory at least. Chinese money tends to come with strings attached, though. I'd be weary of that kind of influence without proper oversight.
It's not like the WHO hasn't flip-flopped on things before due to outside pressure either, so there's some precedent there.
We're in agreement then. I mean, I don't have anything in particular against China as such, I just don't like how they handled COVID and I certainly have some issues with their governance at large, but their money would still be welcome if there was proper oversight.
I do hope WHO will get up and running at 100% though, they're sorely needed. Considering what's happening in the US I don't think it'll be long before some shit happens over there as well.
If someone can put up the money in short order to stop that bad ending, it’s better one.
Money rarely comes with no strings attached.
Yes. There's no oversight, whoever puts the money has the influence. US, China, EU, Canada, Australia, etc. We need to move away from the idea of funding being separable from influence. About anything. The economic dimension isn't separate from the political one. It's a myth we are told that's served to further the interests of capital against the rest of us. If any country or block wants the influence we/they can put up the money.
Well maybe this will decrease American influence.
Can we do the same for the UN? World bank? IMF?
Republicans don’t understand soft power or second order effects
All that matters is the now.
It was an accident waiting to happen.
It's not like the US has always been terribly concerned with democracy.
If they were, they'd have a real voting system like Germany.
I really don't understand why Trump didn't happen sooner.
How to Run Custom Linux Images on Oracle Free Tier
How to Run Custom Linux Images on Oracle Free Tier
Bypass the Oracle free-tier limitation of running only Linux distributions provided by Oracle by sideloading a QCOW2 image to a boot volume and attaching it to a new instance.roguesecurity.dev
They've had it for years. It can be difficult to sign up for though.
You get a lot of resources for free, but don't use them for anything important. They can nuke your account for any reason.
Certainly! As others have said, don't hang anything worth value on it without an out of band backup strategy, they're famous for unscrupulously deleting things with no warning. Oracle is a miserable company.
Free is free though!
I'm not scrutinizing it much.
Same. I just run a Minecraft server for my kid and his friends and a static HTML blog, so I'm ok with it.
I'm fairly sure it's a background migration task, and I have a feeling it depends on your region.
kexec but I always understood it to be a kernel reboot without power cycling the "metal." Please enlighten us with an example! I don't see how you'd replace the entire userspace (and possibly filesystem) with simply kexec.
Kexec can be used to load a new kernel and "reboot" quickly, it can also be used to load a new kernel, an initrd and never touch the disk.
Such a system lives completely in ram and allows you to modify the disk in any way you want without breaking you running Linux (which is in ram)
Any distro that has a network boot installer that can be passed to kexec can be installed this way, any that don't can still kexec any Linux distro and then install any other distro by passing the disk to a VM and installing linux through that.
You can also kexec the netboot.xyz image and get any distro supported there.
The "gotcha" with Oracle free tier is that you can't install from arbitrary media, so the typical netboot.xyz or any iPXE workflow is out. No console access, no pre-bootloader access, nothing.
I've been fiddling with kexec, but it doesn't seem like a supported method of loading the lkrn file from netboot...
This is super interesting to me, so by all means, if you have the kung-fu to show how this works I would happily read through that!
Yeah I tried just now and it diesn't seem to be working (anymore?) could've sworn that worked.
You can still kexec the installiers directly, I followed the netboot.xyz scripts and got the links they use. Here's Debian as an example:
From the scripts: deb.debian.org/debian/dists/st…
looking at the boot config debian-installer/amd64/grub/grub.cfg
submenu '... KDE Plasma desktop boot menu ...' {
set gfxpayload=keep
menuentry '... Install' {
set background_color=black
linux /debian-installer/amd64/linux desktop=kde vga=788 --- quiet
initrd /debian-installer/amd64/initrd.gzso we need to download those two files and take the netboot.xyz cmdline arguments then
$ kexec --command-line="desktop=kde vga=788 mirror/suite=stable initrd=initrd.magic console=ttyS0,115200n8" --initrd=initrd.gz -l linux´
$ systemctl kexecand it boots.
also here's an example for the nixos netboot commands, more on that in the nixos manual:
$ kexec --load bzImage \
--initrd=initrd.gz \
--command-line "init=/nix/store/n37nmcvbrblk9ahfzj9nxy01axs7zsf6-nixos-system-nixos-kexec-25.11pre-git/init nohibernate loglevel=4 lsm=landlock,yama,bpf"
$ systemctl kexecEdit:
No console access
If that means that you can only connect to SSH and have no VGA/video then this will be limited, you could setup an automated install but that requires a lot more knowledge than what your guide requires.
Okay this is excellent content, thank you!
I went through and fiddled with some more stuff to try and get this working to no avail. However, it inspired me to take apart netboot.xyz a bit more, and I was able to grab an efi and get next boot to load the efi file. It took me too long to realize you need the console tty arguments as part of the boot cmdline to get it working interactively, but after I got there I got it netbooted. Sadly though, it almost immediately runs into an OOM condition and thus isn't practical on a free tier x86 asset. It would probably work on an aarch64 node, but I already have my allotted arm node spun up and working so I don't have a free one to practice with.
Solid write-up though, thank you for putting that together!
Slotkin, Kelly lead Democrats in military, intelligence appeal: ‘You can refuse illegal orders’
A coalition of Democratic lawmakers with military and intelligence backgrounds urged servicemembers and those in the intelligence community to defy any illegal orders.The video, which is edited to show multiple lawmakers reading one statement, comes as President Trump has carried out deadly boat strikes in the Caribbean, near Venezuela.
“We know you are under enormous stress and pressure right now, Americans trust their military, but that trust is at risk. This administration is pitting our uniformed military and intelligence community professionals against American citizens like us. You all swore an oath to protect and defend this constitution,” the lawmakers said in the video.
“Right now, the threats to our Constitution aren’t just coming from abroad, but from right here at home. Our laws are clear,” they added. “You can refuse illegal orders…you must refuse illegal orders. No one has to carry out orders that violate the law or our constitution.”
The video features Sens. Elissa Slotkin (Mich.) and Mark Kelly (Ariz.), and Reps. Jason Crow (Colo.), Chissy Houlahan (Pa.), Chris Deluzio (Penn.) and Maggie Goodlander (N.H.).
Since the boat strikes began in September, lawmakers have pressed the Trump administration on whether servicemembers involved could be held legally responsible for deaths that may be found unlawful. The military strikes have killed at least 83 people, and while the Trump administration has accused the boats of ferrying drugs, they have blown them up in deadly strikes rather than the typical practice of interdicting the boats.
DOJ claimed in an internal opinion that servicemembers cannot be held liable for the strikes.
But Senate Judiciary Democrats, in an October letter, argued that the strikes put servicemembers in a difficult position, as they are being asked to make illegal kills.
The United States Code of Military Justice “prohibits the premeditated and unlawful killing of a human being,” they wrote in a letter, but that it also requires obeying orders, “putting our service members in the impossible position of risking criminal prosecution for carrying out an unlawful order to kill civilians or risking prosecution for disobeying superior orders.”
That's the entire article.
Formatting emphasis mine.
Here is the video released by Democrats:
(sorry, New York Post is the only source of the video itself, in its entirety, with no editorializing, that I can find at the moment.)
[EDIT] Thanks to DemBoSain:
bsky.app/profile/slotkin.senat…
In case you missed it, this came soon after a 427-1 vote by the House of Representatives to release the Epstein Files.
politico.com/news/2025/11/18/h…
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"Can" is less likely to trigger a Reactive response IMO.
Also appeals to conscience and duty rather than authority, which is more intrinsically motivating.
Not as easy to disobey as you make it out.
Good luck. There is plenty of law and precedent to examine if you want to put in the time.
tl;dr: Make the call on "lawful" orders at your personal peril, and you will almost certainly lose.
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Take an hour, even half an hour, and see what experts have to say about making the call on "illegal orders".
tl;dr: Make the call to disobey, you are fucked.
Unlikely those on deployment in those Navy vessels will get this message.
They do have satellite news but it's grainy and often not watched.
Oh, thanks!
I don't use X or Bluesky or ... anything 'social meda ish', other than lemmy, I'll add this to the main post!
US EPA Delays Requirements to Cut Methane, a Potent Greenhouse Gas
Oil and gas firms were supposed to start reducing methane, a powerful driver of climate change. The agency is giving them more time and may cancel the requirement.
Crews Walk Out on Nashville Tunnel, Claiming Boring Company Failed to Pay Workers and Snubbed OSHA Concerns
Willie Shane broke the asphalt on Elon Musk’s Music City Loop project this summer. Seven of his crew had been the sole excavators, fabricators and dump trucking company on The Boring Company’s proposed tunnel through Nashville for months.Then came Monday night, when they walked off the site.
“I moved the equipment myself,” Shane said in an interview with the Banner on Tuesday.
“We were really skeptical from the beginning, and then since then, things pretty much just went downhill,” he added.
Crews Walk Out on Nashville Tunnel, Claiming Boring Company Failed to Pay Workers and Snubbed OSHA Concerns
Willie Shane and his crew walk off the Music City Loop project, citing safety concerns and payment issues with The Boring Company.Sarah Grace Taylor (Nashville Banner)
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Ci sono solo due paesi europei in cui le persone sono più povere di 20 anni fa - Grecia e Italia
Ci sono solo due paesi europei in cui le persone sono più povere di 20 anni fa
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European parliament calls for social media ban on under-16s
Children should be at least 16 to access social media, say MEPs | News | European Parliament
MEPs are calling for ambitious EU action to protect minors online, including an EU-wide minimum age of 16 and bans on the most harmful addictive practices.www.europarl.europa.eu
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Kansas attorney general site hosts illicit content in apparent national scam campaign
Kansas attorney general site hosts illicit content in apparent national scam campaign
Documents promoting AI deepfakes, money scams and pornography appear under the “ag.ks.gov” domain and dozens of others. The links are now inactive, but the source remains unknown.Zane Irwin (KCUR)
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