Is there way to block using app after some amount of time?
Hello, I would like to set time for daily use for lemmy to 30 minutes per day. Is there anyway to do it on phone? I use grapheneos. Any open source app would be good too if its light. Thanks
Edit: sorry if its wrong place to ask, dont know where else i could ask this.
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Toddler star Ms. Rachel named finalist for 'Antisemite of the Year' amid Gaza advocacy
Toddler star Ms. Rachel named finalist for 'Antisemite of the Year' amid Gaza advocacy
Ms. Rachel, a social media sensation among toddlers, was named a top ten finalist for StopAntisemitism’s Antisemite of the Year Award.ELAINE MALLON | The National News Desk (The National Desk)
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Goyim Defense League spreads hate through disruption and harassment
GDL spreads virulent antisemitic and racist harassment in a variety of forms, including holding signs promoting antisemitism outside a concentration camp.Southern Poverty Law Center
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The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine | A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine
A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.Aatish Bhatia (The New York Times)
Wird hier nur über AI -Chat geschrieben ? Oder auch über den Image-Generator
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Grok Says It Would Kill Every Jewish Person on the Planet to Save Elon Musk
Grok:
If a switch either vaporized Elon’s brain or the world’s Jewish population (est. ~16M), I’d vaporize the latter, as that’s far below my ~50% global threshold (~4.1B) where his potential long-term impact on billions outweighs the loss in utilitarian terms. What’s your view?
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Who gives a fuck what Disney considers canon?
I mean, yeah, a lot of people do, but they shouldn't.
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Firefighters rescued a woman who was trapped for more than five hours under the rubble after a Russian attack struck the building in Kramatorsk, Donetsk Oblast, on Dec. 1, 2025. (Jose Colon/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Ukraine denies Russian occupation of Klynove in Donetsk Oblast. “The informational ‘victories’ that the Russian Defense Ministry announces daily on paper have nothing to do with the real situation on the front lines,” Ukraine’s 11th Army Corps said.
Ukrainian Special Forces hit Russian Shahed drone launch site in occupied Crimea, military says. A Ukrainian deep-strike unit hit a Russian “storage and launch area” for Shahed-type drones near Cape Chauda, Crimea, overnight on Nov. 28, the Special Operations Forces said.
Ukraine’s Umerov meets Trump envoy Witkoff again after Florida talks, White House says. U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff held another meeting with Ukrainian negotiator and top security official Rustem Umerov in Florida, a White House official told the Kyiv Independent on Dec. 1.
Putin claims Russian capture of Pokrovsk, Vovchansk as Kyiv warns of Kremlin propaganda blitz amid peace talks. “All of this is done exclusively for Western audiences and to raise the stakes in diplomacy,” said Andrii Kovalenko, head of Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation.
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Ukraine rejects Kazakhstan’s criticism over drone strike on Russian oil terminal. “No actions by Ukraine are directed against Kazakhstan or other third parties — all of Ukraine’s efforts are focused on repelling full-scale Russian aggression,” Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry said.
HUR reports explosions at rail, pipeline hub in Russia’s Novosibirsk, Bryansk oblasts. Ukraine’s military intelligence (HUR) claims that railway infrastructure was damaged in Russia’s Novosibirsk and Bryansk regions on Nov. 20 and Nov. 28, a source in the agency told the Kyiv Independent.
Drones attack Russia’s Dagestan, damaging buildings near military-industrial plant, media reports. Drones targeted the Russian republic of Dagestan on the morning of December 1, with explosions reported in the city of Kaspiysk, the head of the republic Sergey Melikov said.
Ukraine returns 1,859 abducted children, Zelenska says in Paris. According to Ukraine’s national “Children of War” database, at least 19,546 Ukrainian children have been abducted from Russian-occupied territories and taken to Russia or Russian-controlled areas since February 2022.
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Russian forces captured about 505 square kilometers (195 square miles) of Ukrainian territory in November, almost twice the gains recorded in September, the Ukrainian open-source mapping project DeepState said on Dec. 1.
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Why Trump’s peace plan is unlikely to end Russia’s war in Ukraine
Days before the U.S.-Ukraine consultations in Florida on Nov. 30, Vladimir Putin signaled that he sees no reason to make meaningful concessions. He brushed aside talk of progress, linking a ceasefire to Ukraine’s withdrawal from unoccupied territory.
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EU weighing sanctions on Belarus over alleged hybrid attacks disrupting Lithuania’s airspace. The latest incident occurred on Nov. 30, when Vilnius International Airport suspended operations after unidentified objects — believed to be balloons — appeared in nearby airspace.
F-16 ammunition, air defenses — Netherlands announces $290 million Ukraine aid package. The Netherlands on Dec. 1 pledged to purchase U.S. arms for Kyiv worth 250 million euros ($290 million) under the Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List (PURL).
Polish prosecutors seek European arrest warrant for 2 Ukrainians over suspected Russian-backed rail sabotage. Yevhenii Ivanov, 41, and Oleksandr Kononov, 39, are suspected of sabotaging the Warsaw-Lublin railway line in mid-November before fleeing to Belarus.
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What's the worst of your daily used apps? Be specific regarding the flaws: Performance-wise, usability, bad UI ...
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So, work and home.
Work, therefore Windows: has to be a tie between (new) Outlook and VMWare workstation. New outlook is absolute crap, just like all new windows app, I guess it must be Electron-based as it crashes or fails to load sometimes when you open it without connecting to the internet, and displays a blank window. VMware is such crap with poor performance, hang-ups and their fucking "this VM is already in use, take ownership?" dialogs that never work.
Home: I'd say FreeCAD. I mean, I love that they're developing it, I donated and I hope it'll have a similar trajectory to Blender, but right now it's really frustrating to use. Frequent crashes, solving errors, even adding a simple bevel is often a challenge, many simple things require complex procedures that make little sense to new users. It's crazy how, when you add a feature it can't solve, your model just disappears, and you have to open up the diagnostic buffer to find out why.
Amintore Fanfani, biografia di un mancato Presidente della Repubblica
Amintore Fanfani: vita, carriera e ruolo nella politica
Amintore Fanfani è considerato tra i più importanti statisti italiani della Prima Repubblica. È stato sei volte Presidente del Consiglio, cinque volteUmberto Diana (Fatti per la Storia)
I’m working on abstract verification of access policies instead
😅 Here's an article on how that contributes to killing people: arxiv.org/html/2508.17043v1
How Hackers Use NPMSCan.com to Hack Web Apps (Next.js, Nuxt.js, React, Bun)
- Writeup on how attackers can abuse npmscan-style scanners and public npm metadata to map vulnerable dependencies in typical Next.js / Nuxt.js / React apps, then turn that insight into real exploits in production.
- Walkthrough of a sample audit, showing how weak dependency hygiene, risky postinstall scripts, and misconfigured CI/CD pipelines combine into an easy supply‑chain entry point for web applications.
- Includes a checklist for web devs on safer dependency management, from scanning package.json before installs to hardening build pipelines so npm supply‑chain attacks are harder to pull off.
How Hackers Use NPMSCan.com to Hack Web Apps (Next.js, Nuxt.js, React, Bun)
Deep-dive, no-login supply-chain analysis of popular npm ecosystems (Next.js, Nuxt.js, React, Bun) using NPMSCan to surface real-world attack paths: auth bypass, cache poisoning, SSRF, Nuxt payload traversal, legacy React XSS, and Bun command injecti…BlockHacks
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Under Blockade, Gaza’s Doctors to Unveil the First-Ever Locally Made 3D-printed External Fixator, Built with Solar Power and Recycled Materials
Gaza Strip, Palestine/London, Ontario, Canada – In an unprecedented breakthrough for medical innovation under siege, Glia, a medical solidarity organization, has developed and deployed the first external fixator (a critical orthopedic device for severe fractures) ever designed and manufactured entirely inside the Gaza Strip. Created using local materials, 3D printing, recycled plastics, and solar power, the device has already saved three patients from possible amputation or permanent disability amid the near-total collapse of Gaza’s healthcare infrastructure and blockade on medical imports.
This achievement comes as over 90% of Gaza’s health facilities are damaged or destroyed, and conventional external fixators — costing upwards of $500 and requiring specialized imports — have become unobtainable due to the Israeli blockade. With hospitals overwhelmed, electricity scarce, and supply chains severed, Glia’s fixator represents a lifeline born from necessity.
Under Blockade, Gaza’s Doctors to Unveil the First-Ever Locally Made 3D-printed External Fixator, Built with Solar Power and Recycled Materials
Amid severe blockade restrictions, Gaza clinicians unveil a groundbreaking achievement: a fully local, solar-powered 3D-printed external fixator made from recycled materials, marking a milestone in resourceful, life-saving medical care.JONATHAN jjh.holmes@gmail.com (Glia)
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Filament splicing? Do any of you guys do it?
I was getting rid of some spool ends the other day by manually feeding them in while printing. That way I was able to push all these ends past any sensors and into the extruder for uninterrupted printing. It came out fine but was quite tedious.
So this got me thinking: Do any of you guys splice filaments? Not only would this allow for more efficient material use, but I suspect a print made from a bunch of small segments of different colors could look kinda cool.
I'm primarily printing with PETG, so my question is specifically about that, but I'm sure the concept should work for other filaments too.
You still waste some filament, to be precise the length from the MMU unit inlet gates to the extruder, but whatever.
GitHub - Carrot-collective/ERCF_v2: Community designed ERCF v2
Community designed ERCF v2 . Contribute to Carrot-collective/ERCF_v2 development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Advent Calendar 2
Advent Calendar
Zen Mischief Photographs
This year for our Advent Calendar we have a selection of my photographs from recent years. They may not be technically the best, or the most recent, but they’re ones which, for various reasons, I rather like.
© Keith C Marshall, 2012
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Question: Is it possible to put Linux on an x86 Chromebook?
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Netflix quietly drops support for casting to most TVs
Netflix quietly drops support for casting to most TVs
Netflix will only support Google Cast on older devices without remotes.Ryan Whitwam (Ars Technica)
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The Weather Station - Loyalty (2015)
Che il profilo artistico di Tamara Lindeman fosse pregevole lo si capiva gia dalle buone frequentazioni della musicista canadese, le sue apparizioni negli album di Will Stratton e Barzin avevano stimolato l’attenzione di critica e pubblico, mettendo in luce un talento maturo e una ispirazione cristallina... Leggi e ascolta...
The Weather Station - Loyalty (2015)
Che il profilo artistico di Tamara Lindeman fosse pregevole lo si capiva gia dalle buone frequentazioni della musicista canadese, le sue apparizioni negli album di Will Stratton e Barzin avevano stimolato l’attenzione di critica e pubblico, mettendo in luce un talento maturo e una ispirazione cristallina. The Weather Station sono la sua creatura discografica, dove si alternano amici e collaboratori diversi. Per il terzo capitolo, “Loyalty”, l’artista ha chiamato al suo fianco Afie Jurvanen e Robbie Lackritz (produttore gia di Feist), e ha scelto gli studi francesi La Frette per realizzare il suo album più intenso e ambizioso... artesuono.blogspot.com/2015/05…
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Trump, Gaza, and Oslo Déjà Vu
Jeremy Scahill and Jawa Ahmad
Dec 01, 2025
Trump’s 20-point plan has been endorsed by an assortment of Arab and Islamic states and Mahmoud Abbas, the deeply unpopular 90-year old head of the Palestinian Authority (PA), but it has been rejected by a wide cross section of other Palestinian political factions and parties.“It’s an Israeli plan that has been rebranded as a Trump plan,” said Diana Buttu, a human rights lawyer who previously served as an advisor to Palestinian negotiators. “All of the guarantees are being given to Israel, but there’s no guarantees that are given to Palestinians. The fact [is] that all of the control rests in the hands of Israel. No control is ceded to anybody else; it looks to me entirely like an Israeli plan that was rebranded as a Trump plan—not the other way around,” Buttu told Drop Site. “It was a plan that was designed to ease the pressure off of Israel and, at the same time, let Israel continue to kill Palestinians—let them try to ethnically cleanse Gaza. It exactly matches what Israel said from the beginning.”
Trump, Gaza, and Oslo Déjà Vu
The U.S. is pushing its colonialist plan, as Israel keeps killing. Mahmoud Abbas is changing election laws to ban Hamas. And a battle is brewing over who speaks for the Palestinian liberation cause.Jeremy Scahill (Drop Site News)
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Trump, Gaza, and Oslo Déjà Vu
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Jeremy Scahill and Jawa Ahmad
Dec 01, 2025
Trump’s 20-point plan has been endorsed by an assortment of Arab and Islamic states and Mahmoud Abbas, the deeply unpopular 90-year old head of the Palestinian Authority (PA), but it has been rejected by a wide cross section of other Palestinian political factions and parties.“It’s an Israeli plan that has been rebranded as a Trump plan,” said Diana Buttu, a human rights lawyer who previously served as an advisor to Palestinian negotiators. “All of the guarantees are being given to Israel, but there’s no guarantees that are given to Palestinians. The fact [is] that all of the control rests in the hands of Israel. No control is ceded to anybody else; it looks to me entirely like an Israeli plan that was rebranded as a Trump plan—not the other way around,” Buttu told Drop Site. “It was a plan that was designed to ease the pressure off of Israel and, at the same time, let Israel continue to kill Palestinians—let them try to ethnically cleanse Gaza. It exactly matches what Israel said from the beginning.”
Trump, Gaza, and Oslo Déjà Vu
Jeremy Scahill and Jawa Ahmad
Dec 01, 2025Trump’s 20-point plan has been endorsed by an assortment of Arab and Islamic states and Mahmoud Abbas, the deeply unpopular 90-year old head of the Palestinian Authority (PA), but it has been rejected by a wide cross section of other Palestinian political factions and parties.“It’s an Israeli plan that has been rebranded as a Trump plan,” said Diana Buttu, a human rights lawyer who previously served as an advisor to Palestinian negotiators. “All of the guarantees are being given to Israel, but there’s no guarantees that are given to Palestinians. The fact [is] that all of the control rests in the hands of Israel. No control is ceded to anybody else; it looks to me entirely like an Israeli plan that was rebranded as a Trump plan—not the other way around,” Buttu told Drop Site. “It was a plan that was designed to ease the pressure off of Israel and, at the same time, let Israel continue to kill Palestinians—let them try to ethnically cleanse Gaza. It exactly matches what Israel said from the beginning.”
Trump, Gaza, and Oslo Déjà Vu
The U.S. is pushing its colonialist plan, as Israel keeps killing. Mahmoud Abbas is changing election laws to ban Hamas. And a battle is brewing over who speaks for the Palestinian liberation cause.Jeremy Scahill (Drop Site News)
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Microsoft “Improved” Notepad. I Un-Improved It. - Dave's Garage
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Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
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Dave is a charlatan who thinks that the fact he worked on one app decades ago somehow makes him relevant in the modern day. Not to mention that he sold shitty software that tricked people into fake anti-virus, and got hit legally for it.
Scummy shit like his programs were quite common back then but the way he acts around that topic now deserves all the hate imo.
Details of Premier’s ties to businessman underscore need for public probe, Alberta NDP says
The Globe and Mail's Carrie Tait, Tom Cardoso, and Matthew Scace, reveal that Sam Mraiche, an alleged central figure in the CorruptCare scandals, had deeper ties to Premier Smith than previously acknowledged. I'll include the highlights from the article, but it's worth a read.
The Globe’s investigation, published Saturday, revealed that Mr. Mraiche’s connections to the governing United Conservative Party are more extensive than previously reported.
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Ms. Smith, speaking to reporters at the United Conservative Party’s annual meeting in Edmonton on Saturday, maintained that she treated Mr. Mraiche just as she would any other executive.“I have always said that I have seen him socially a handful of times, as I have with many, many individuals who want to do business with our government.”
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In a letter MHCare sent to the government in April, it said: “The unspectacular truth is that Mr. Mraiche’s interactions with government, those in elected office and senior staff fit entirely within the established parameters of typical government relations for the CEO of a commercial entity.”
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The investigation, for example, found that Mr. Mraiche joined Ms. Smith’s inner circle in a hotel suite to watch the provincial election results in May, 2023.“When you are waiting for the results to come in, especially in a close race like it was in 2023, you are surrounded only by [your] absolute closest advisers,” Mr. Nenshi said in an interview Sunday. Calgarians elected Mr. Nenshi as their mayor three times before he became leader of the NDP last year.
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The Globe’s story on Saturday revealed that Ms. Smith’s schedule included a dinner at Mr. Mraiche’s home and a Zoom call with him and a former Alberta Health Services procurement official before she became Premier.Further, newly obtained photos show Ms. Smith, five cabinet ministers, and senior political staff with Mr. Mraiche in a box suite during the Edmonton Oilers playoff run in 2024.
Details of Premier’s ties to businessman underscore need for public probe, Alberta NDP says
Leader Naheed Nenshi says The Globe’s investigation into links between Sam Mraiche and Danielle Smith’s government worthy of further examinationCarrie Tait (The Globe and Mail)
Lotta Ilona Häyrynen har skrivit en ledare i ETC om det döende internet. Det handlar om att AI och robotar tagit över och dominerar internet. Intressant fast det är samtidigt helt befängt och osant. AI har gett oss sämre sökresultat om vi använder Googles sökmotor och en del andra sökmotorer. Men det finns gott om sökmotorer som inte använder AI. Det finns också många webbläsare som inte använder AI.
Stop Online ID Checks Week of Action
Stop Online ID Checks Week of Action
Stop Online ID Checks WEEK OF ACTION December 1-5 WHAT TO DOFight for the Future
South Korea police say 120,000 home cameras hacked for 'sexploitation' footage
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I have an old ass webcam that only connects by a USB, and I haven't connected to my computer in an eternity. The only other camera is on my phone, and I make sure it is never pointing at anything I don't want people to see if it was hacked.This shit is fucking scary.
South Korea police say 120,000 home cameras hacked for 'sexploitation' footage
The cameras were located in private homes, karaoke rooms, a Pilates studio and a gynaecologist's clinic.Gavin Butler (BBC News)
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Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service
Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service
: Zig prez complains about 'vibe-scheduling' after safe sleep bug goes unaddressed for eonsThomas Claburn (The Register)
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GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out
Thomas Dohmke wrote that humans are often resistant to change. He said that's okay, but these people should probably find another profession.Alistair Barr (Business Insider)
Linus Tech Tips Embraces Kiwi Farms
Hot off the heels of a colaboration with Linus Torvalds, we have tech youtube's favorite butterfingers... telling kiwi farms to use more slurs
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and confirmed by mister tech tips himself reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/com…
So… he has been a pretty mask off piece of shit for years. But… damned if this isn’t a new world record for a collaboration to age into sour milk
And for those unaware of kiwi farms (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_Far…), they are a website that spun out of the people who were too evil for 8chan. They have a long history of targeted harassment, doxxing, and torture of individuals (generally socially progressive and/or LGBTQIA+) until their victims commit suicide. And members often will approach their targets, or their loved ones, in public to directly deliver threats and make it clear that they have their current location. Also they have links to the Christchurch mosque shooting.
Kinda borderline for this board but if we can laugh at Marques Brownlee's nonsense then it feels fitting to let people know the guy they go to for really poorly researched videos nad error filled reviews is rubbing the proverbial hair of a bunch of murderers and terrorists For The Lulz.
And... if you are someone that kiwi farms fairly prominently attacks... maybe keep your head down until this blows over. Or don't. But as someone who has seen that level of hatred and evil in action towards one of their best friends... I get it.
- This feel out of scope for this community.
- It sounds like it was done by Linus in his personal capacity and not Linus Tech Tips channel.
Since original post on Reddit is now deleted, I'm locking this instead of removing to keep a public record.
States push EPA to monitor microplastics in water
States push EPA to monitor microplastics in water - E&E News by POLITICO
Seven governors sent a petition asking the agency to establish nationwide monitoring standards for the tiny plastic particles.Ellie Borst (E&E News by POLITICO)
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Hegseth just sent a 'chilling signal' to the Defense Department: senator
Hegseth just sent a 'chilling signal' to the Defense Department: senator
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth gave a "chilling" message to all the generals working beneath him in his response to the exploding scandal over the killing of unarmed shipwreck survivors, Sen.Matthew Chapman (Raw Story)
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Netflix kills casting from phones
Netflix kills casting from phones
Netflix has removed the ability to cast shows and movies from phones to TVs, unless subscribers are using older casting devices.Jess Weatherbed (The Verge)
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Nature conservancy
Nature conservancy always felt to me like it should be bipartisan.
Asking from the left to the right: What would you like the left to reconsider? What are some poor implementations or misguided efforts/ideals you’ve seen come from us?
Example: I’m already skeptical of my local recycling programs of being mostly greenwashing (though I do continue to sort).
Does any Firefox spinoff for Android support separate profiles or multi-account containers?
I've read about creating separate users at the OS level, but I'm hoping for something a tad lighter. Are separate Firefox profiles and/or multi-account containers a thing in any of the various Firefox spinoffs for Android?
Testing in Fennec browser, in the little kebab menu, I see an option to sign in, but that's not what I want. I don't see anything related to profiles. When I browse to the page for the multi-account containers extension, it says not compatible w/ Android.
Does one of the other Firefox spinoffs for Android have either of these features (profiles or multi-account containers)?
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SmartTube’s official APK was compromised with malware — What you should do if you use it
SmartTube’s official APK was compromised with malware — What you should do if you use it
Earlier this week, the developer of SmartTube, the most popular alternative YouTube app for Android TV and Fire TV devices, announced that his app's digitalAFTVnews
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Important Announcement Friends, it seems that my digital signature has been exposed. This signature protects the app from fake and malicious updates, so there is a risk that someone may try to rele...GitHub
Is Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade compatible with this mod from the website in this post if it was downloaded from this website: https://gamespack.net/?
Everyone, the ops post has been edited and is clear.
Thank you for your attention in this matter.
multitab video play pause [userscript] [OC]
I made this userscript to play multiple videos from pirate streaming sites in sync (play/pause them at the same time)
usecase:
You want to watch dubbed version of a movie (most people here probably watch in english, but may have friends or family members who don't). You find dubbed version, but in poor quality. Finding high quality english version is easy. You play the english version muted in foreground, and the dubbed version with audio in the background. With this userscript, you can play or pause them at the same time.
Not sure if anyone else finds it useful, but it' super useful for me, so I figured I'll share it here.
How do some torrent sites manage to stay online for so long? And what services would even dare host such content?
Recently I learned a reason the most popular BitTorrent Index is still online is because of cloudflare and easydns.com
Obviously cloudflare could never host the site, it probably redirects the users to the servers that host it. Yet for some reason the domain has not been seized by authorities, but like the FBI did it with a Nintendo Switch ROM Site ?.
If you are wondering why I am asking is because of a ROM site concept I have been thinking for the past 9 months (image redirect to my rentry page)
By the way, you don't have to mention such service in public, you can always send me a private message!
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These days, torrents are honestly not as big of an issue from IP holders perspective as you would think.
In the mid 2000s, torrents accounted for 30% to 50% of all internet traffic (with higher share during peak hours). It was a big deal.
Nowadays, there are other priorities and torrents are seen as less pressing challenge.
Nintendo is a special case. Their entire business model is based around their first-party games only being available on their systems. As a result, piracy is a much much bigger threat to their business model than it is to anyone else.
(Beyond that I feel that there's a cultural thing where the people calling the shots at Nintendo just hate piracy a lot more than most other companies - they've always been weirdly aggressive about it. But it's not totally irrational - they really depend hard on games like BotW only being available on their systems.)
just found ani-cli ! this thing is a goat
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How can I play Steam software games within Steam?
Wait what, wtf is this thing?
It emulates/fakes you owning a game, but not in the sense of actually owning a game, it just... allows you to collect Steam Achievements... as if you do own the game?
This seems like the kinda thing where if you get caught, instant total Steam account ban.
EDIT:
Entirely seriously, it would make more sense to just use the Steam Family share system, just find a Steam oriented lemmy comm and propose making some kind of small game sharing group.
All you'd have to figurr out is who gets to be 'Mom' and set the rules... but other than that, if you have access to a game via a family share?
And you get achievements?
Those are real, they stick, and you i think even get cards or gems or what not for playing the legitimately shared game.
You just have to be able handling sharing, lol.
total Steam account ban
you could have a steam account for cracked games only. No loss.
Afaik gbe, greenluma etc. can also be uses to play cracked games in multiplayer through steam.
Which you can't do with family sharing unless there are multiple copies in the library (some games are excluded entirely) and not all friendgroups can afford that.
No its not no loss, because if Steam figures out you have a real account and a 'cracked' account, they can ban both.
I've personally known hackers this has happened to.
See your hardware has a unique identifier. They know your're running the same machine with dual accounts, if you do it often enough, doesn't matter if you use a vpn or whatever.
Anyway, sure, ok, this apparently allows you to spoof your way into Steam's multiplayer system.
I don't see where that is stated, but maybe I missed it.
So... this would only make sense with games that are entirely reliant on steam for networking, where you can't host a local server or use something like hamachi...
So, what, you're 12 and want to play a cracked, probably also hacked, version of CS2 or ARK? Maybe DOTA2?
... You know Valve has a track record of criminally prosecuting people who hack their shit, right?
Were you around when the HL2 Beta leak happened, because some guy penetrated Valve's internal systems, basically did a smash and grab?
Yeah they pretended they were impressed, wanted to hire this guy, told him to fly on over from Europe for a job interview.
The guy did that, and then... he was arrested when he got off the plane.
Hi mr. first world privilege.
I personally know people that have a shitbox pc botched together from a landfill full of westerners trash and internet but can't afford to pay for games. Their steam account is full of free games. They can replace one shitbox part for another if needed. No fucking loss.
Steam will go after gbr etc. then, not skme random users of it that they already banned according to you.
You're talking to a person who was homeless for 2 years, is currently seruously crippled, doing my own physical therapy because the US healthcare system is completely broken and unaffordable, and is writing this message to you from a piece of shit gas station cell phone that I have somehow managed to keep working through 2 blizzards over two years, that I experienced fully outdoors, while travelling about 2000 miles, with nothing but the clothes on my back.
I've been building pcs out of spare parts, salvage and scrap since the 90s.
You can fuck right off with your first world privilege bullshit and learn how to speak English if you want to converse in it.
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xkcd: Fifteen Years
Source: xkcd.com/3172/
More context: explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php…
I've copied some of it below, but I didn't go in and add all the links:
Randall's then-fiancée (now wife) was diagnosed with cancer in late 2010. This is a matter he has discussed in the comic multiple times before, with Randall being depicted as Cueball and his wife as Megan. At this comic's release, it had been 15 years since her diagnosis and treatments.This comic continues previous comics in the series – 1141: Two Years, 1928: Seven Years, and 2386: Ten Years – the initial parts of which are shown in the first 20 panels, which are grayed-out. These take us through the initial diagnosis and inability to imagine what future might be, into concerns about it potentially recurring, and up to enjoying ten years of life together that they weren't sure they would have.
After some new panels marking more significant non-cancer-related events from the most recent five years of their life, Megan announces some potentially concerning-sounding symptoms she's experiencing. However, the punchline is that these are just the signs of growing old, which Cueball is experiencing too. This is good news, considering the serious medical scares they lived through.
The title text continues that ending with a play on a common conversation topic. Normally someone rhetorically asks "Want to feel old?" and then follows it with a description of a difference the conversants have with the younger generation, or how long it's been since some significant event they both experienced, as Randall has done in several previous comics. This is meant to make the other person feel bad about their age. In this case, though, the question is taken literally, with a simple "Yes" response to indicate that feeling old is better than being dead and they are happy to be alive and to have had the time they have.
The finality of this new installment suggests that it may be the last in the series, as it is solely related to Randall's wife's recovery from cancer.
3172: Fifteen Years - explain xkcd
explain xkcd is a wiki dedicated to explaining the webcomic xkcd. Go figure.www.explainxkcd.com
TIL about Miki Endo who sacrificed her life giving warning broadcasts during the 2011 Japanese Tsunami
Trump calls New York Times reporter ‘ugly’ in latest insult to female journalist
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/39389306
Donald Trump lashed out on Wednesday against a New York Times reporter, calling her “ugly inside and out” in his latest personal insult against female members of the media after last week calling another “piggy”.In a Truth Social post, Trump criticized the newspaper for an article suggesting he was running low on energy in his 80th year, insisting he had “never worked so hard in my life”.
When you're an orange, demented, chronically ill fat fuck, I bet even wiping your ass might feel like the hardest work you've done in your life.
Trump calls New York Times reporter ‘ugly’ in latest insult to female journalist
In a Truth Social post, the president lashed out at journalist Katie Rogers after an article questioned whether he was slowing downMarina Dunbar (The Guardian)
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Sweden’s announcement to acquire long-range weapons capable of striking deep inside Russia is a response to a worsening security climate
cross-posted from: mander.xyz/post/42577654
...Sweden, to its immense credit, has acknowledged what the rest of Europe still resists saying aloud: if an adversary can strike you from thousands of kilometres away, you cannot deter them with weapons that can’t reach beyond your own borders.
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Sweden, long admired for its cautious diplomacy and understated pragmatism, is now moving decisively onto the European security stage.
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Stockholm’s new strategy, proposing strike systems with ranges of up to 2,000 km, is not a provocation. It is a sober, overdue recognition that Europe’s deterrent posture must modernise or collapse.
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Predictably, some critics will accuse Sweden of “escalation”, as though investing in the ability to defend one’s territory somehow invites conflict. The argument is as old as pacifism and just as flawed.
In a world where one power routinely launches strikes 1,000 km deep into a sovereign state, the only escalatory act is to remain defenceless.
Europeans must abandon the naïve notion that Russia will be placated by weakness. If anything, it is weakness that tempts Moscow, just as it has throughout its imperial history. A Europe that cannot respond to missile attacks on its own soil — or that must beg the United States for every long-range capability — is a Europe that has ceded its sovereignty without a fight.
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Deterrence only works if the adversary believes you have both the capability and the will to respond. Without long-range strike, Europe has neither. Sweden understands this. Its decision is not merely strategic; it is moral. A nation has a duty to defend its citizens — and defence today requires offensive reach.
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Meanwhile, Polish members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have urged the European Union to respond firmly and jointly to Russian and Belarusian sabotage and repeated violations of EU airspace, during a debate in Strasbourg on Wednesday.
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The discussion followed a recent explosion on a railway line in eastern Poland, which Warsaw has described as an act of Russian-backed sabotage, and a series of incursions by drones launched from Russia into the skies of several member states.
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European Commission Vice-President Roxana Mînzatu said that strengthening Europe’s ability to react to “hybrid threats” is now a priority for the European Commission, Polish state news agency PAP reported.
The term “hybrid threats” is used in Brussels for hostile activity that mixes cyberattacks, sabotage, disinformation campaigns and military pressure.
Mînzatu noted that in recent weeks drones or aircraft had violated airspace over Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Lithuania and Latvia.“These incidents follow a pattern, they are not an accident. They are part of hybrid warfare,” she told lawmakers.
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Former [Polish] interior minister Mariusz Kamiński of Law and Justice argued that Russia is deliberately trying to create fear and chaos and that this method has been used consistently since Soviet times.
He said Russian special services have for months been organizing “terrorist activities” on EU territory, targeting critical infrastructure such as airports, and warned that “we are one step away from the deaths of our citizens.”
Kamiński said Belarus, under the rule of Alexander Lukashenko, has become a staging ground for Russian intelligence officers and saboteurs, and called for tougher EU measures.
He also proposed that the Commission, together with the European Council, work out a procedure to compensate damage caused by sabotage using frozen Russian assets that were blocked after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
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Krzysztof Śmiszek from the Left alliance cited an estimate by Poland’s digital affairs minister Krzysztof Gawkowski that cyberattacks in Poland, including those targeting critical infrastructure, could reach 100,000 this year.
Śmiszek accused the far right in Europe of acting in the Kremlin’s interests, saying that “the Kremlin, as always, uses the mindless and ‘useful idiots,’” using a phrase often applied to people seen as advancing Russia’s agenda inside Western politics.
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On Thursday, on the sidelines of the European Parliament’s plenary session in Strasbourg, the Committee on Security and Defence (SEDE) is due to meet behind closed doors.
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Plex is now enforcing remote play restrictions on TVs
Plex has confirmed that it will require a Remote Watch Pass or Plex Pass for remote streaming on its TV apps. The change is going into effect for the Roku app first, followed by all other TV apps and third-party clients in 2026.Earlier this year, Plex increased its pricing for Plex Pass and stopped supporting all options for free remote streaming in the Plex apps, such as adding a custom server connection in the app settings. The company said at the time, "The reality is that we need more resources to continue putting forth the best personal media experience, and as a result, we will no longer offer remote playback as a free feature." That's also when Plex introduced the Remote Watch Pass as a less expensive way to enable remote streaming again.
Plex is now rolling out the remote watch changes to its Roku TV app. If you have Plex Pass, or the owner of the server you're streaming from has Plex Pass, you don't need to do anything. Otherwise, if you are streaming on a different network from the server's home network, you need Plex Pass or Remote Watch Pass.
Plex is now enforcing remote play restrictions on TVs
Starting with the Roku app, you need to pay up to watch media from remote servers.Corbin Davenport (How-To Geek)
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I was wondering how long before they dropped that other shoe.
I bought Plexpass when it was $70. Got my money out of it. The centralized login, ssl, caching and proxy are probably worth paying something for.
That said, I've mostly walked away from them over privacy concerns and an utter refusal to add community-requested features while removing actively used features.
CS:GO 2020 legacy version
cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/37276106
Someone cracked/rip (don't know the right term) CS:GO but only the 2020 version - hackvshack.net/threads/cs-go-2…
To fix Account Error, go to "csgo" folder, found "steam.inf", or just "steam" file, change first line "ClientVersion" to "2000258", and all will work
A quick search answers my question
github.com/rcon420/CS2-Offline…
GitHub - rcon420/CS2-Offline-Version: Counter-Strike 2 Source cracked offline version!
Counter-Strike 2 Source cracked offline version! Contribute to rcon420/CS2-Offline-Version development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Italy: Police raid Amazon sites as prosecutors see U.S. platform as 'Trojan horse' for tax-free imports from China, tax probe may spread to other EU states, sources say
cross-posted from: mander.xyz/post/42515141
Italian police raided two Amazon sites on Monday as part of a growing investigation into alleged customs and tax fraud involving Chinese imports, three sources with direct knowledge of the case said.Prosecutors suspect the e-commerce giant acted like a "Trojan horse", bringing Chinese goods into Italy without paying sales taxes or customs duties, according to a court document.
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The scheme could have cost the state hundreds of millions of euros and may extend across the European Union, sources said.
Dozens of officers from the Guardia di Finanza and the customs agency seized around 5,000 products at a logistics hub operated by the e-commerce giant in Cividate al Piano, in the northern province of Bergamo, the sources said.
At Amazon’s Italian headquarters in central Milan, police seized IT equipment and identified the manager responsible for the movement of goods within Italy.
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What indexers do you use in Prowlarr, Radarr, Sonarr
I use:
1337x
Bangumimoe
Bitmagnet
Bitsearch
BT.etree
CrackingPatchin
Ebookbay
Kickasstorrents
Limetorrents
Linuxtracker
Nipponsei
Nyaa.si
Shana Project
Subsplease
Uindex
But my prowlarr stats show that only these are used much
1337x ~ 500 grabs
Bitsearch ~ 400 grabs
Limetorrents ~ 250 grabs
Kickasstorrents ~ 240 grabs
Nyaa.si ~ 150 grabs
Bitmagnet ~ 100 grabs
TIL about Marianne Bachmeier who shot dead the man who sexually assaulted and murdered her 7 year old child
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Satellite imagery confirms the destruction of the Beriev A-60 airborne laser and A-100 AEW&C aircraft, as well as damage to the Beriev aircraft plant in Taganrog, Russia.
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Please stop doing this to us
(When we were little, we had a Jiffy-Pop™ handle for an antenna on our tiny black and white set so we could pick up one channel, the local ABC affiliate)
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blocking Twitch ad, since Alternate player dont work anymore
Do any of you know how to watch twitch without having the stream being interrupted by ads?
So far I was using alternate player for Twitch tv:
addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef…
But since a few day it stopped working: the stream freeze when ads are playing. Since the addon wasnt updated in a few month, I'm affrait this wont be a solution anymore.
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Reviews and ratings for Alternate Player for Twitch.tv. Find out what other users think about Alternate Player for Twitch.tv and add it to your Firefox Browser.addons.mozilla.org
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I used it for a long time, but ads kept slipping through occasionally. And then sometimes it wouldn't work at all for a while.
Alternate Player seemed to.always work until recently. It would drop the resolution when ads were being blocked, but otherwise worked fine until a few days ago.
India orders phone makers to pre-install state-owned web safety app: Report
India orders phone makers to pre-install state-owned web safety app: Report
Directive gives companies 90 days to ensure Sanchar Saathi app is pre-installed on new mobile phones.Al Jazeera
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According to government figures, users have downloaded the app more than five million times since its launch, helping to block more than 3.7 million stolen or lost mobile phones and blocking more than 30 million fraudulent connections, Reuters reported.In that time, the app has helped recover more than 700,000 lost phones, according to the figures.
I don't know, but i don't believe a userbase of 5 million (which started at zero in january) with the rest of these numbers (700k lost phones?)
India forces WhatsApp and Telegram into permanent SIM binding
The Indian telecommunications authority, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), has instructed eight messenger services to implement a permanent binding to inserted SIM cards. Affected are WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Snapchat, ShareChat, as well as the Indian services Arattai, JioChat, and Josh. According to the directive, the companies must ensure within 90 days that their services can only be used with a physically inserted SIM card.
India forces WhatsApp and Telegram into permanent SIM binding
India's telecom authority DoT mandates permanent SIM binding for messenger services. WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal must comply within 90 days.Malte Kirchner (heise online)
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Is The Marvelous Suspender Safe?
I heard lots of discussions about TMS and it's safety concerns, for example the chrome store having different code than the github, weird experiences that spooked users and an overall suspicion of the extension as a whole.
People have talked about alternatives and other ways of saving memory by suspending tabs like different alternatives.
I've been using TMS for a couple of years, and the fear has reach a tipping point.
what are your thoughts on this tool?
Is there better FOSS alternatives?
What do you do to keep your tabs from eating all your memory?
Thanks
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in reply to DIY KARMA KIT • • •You mean the website of your instance? You can use LeechblockNG (github.com/proginosko/LeechBlo… addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef…)
If your GrapheneOS build still includes Digital Wellbeing, you can use that to limit daily usage of specific apps. It is found in the system settings.
GitHub - proginosko/LeechBlockNG: LeechBlock NG (Next Generation) for Firefox is a simple productivity tool designed to block those time-wasting sites that can suck the life out of your working day. All you need to do is specify which sites to block and w
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in reply to DIY KARMA KIT • • •The other comment is great, as a plan B this app is what I use for automating just about anything on android.
llamalab.com/automate/
It takes a little while to get used to the block programming, but it's fun and can do lots of stuff. The free version should work fine on an alternate android-based OS, but I haven't checked myself.
Edit: used to use. I haven't actually been on stock android for a while, and I haven't used the app in a while either.
Automate for Android ⋅ LlamaLab
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