UdenUSA is currently the fourth most downloaded app in Denmark on the App Store, the American ChatGPT is in fifth place

Apps helping boycott US goods gain popularity in Denmark

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LibreFind nasce con un obiettivo molto chiaro: aiutare gli utenti Android a individuare rapidamente quali applicazioni installate non sono libere e quali alternative open source possono sostituirle.

L’app analizza il dispositivo, confronta i pacchetti con un database ospitato su Firebase Firestore e restituisce un elenco ordinato di software proprietario insieme a suggerimenti FOSS pertinenti. L’idea è semplice ma potente, perché permette di avere una panoramica immediata del livello di libertà del proprio telefono e di intervenire con scelte più consapevoli.

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GitHub - jksalcedo/librefind: Find FOSS alternatives to Proprietary Android Apps

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Hey guys! I just wanted to share a proof of concept real quick. No hate at all to GIMP or Pinta, but I just really love Paint.net as I've been using it for over a decade. And since I completely switched over to Arch a year ago, that means the only way I can enjoy using Paint.net again is if I add all the missing Direct 2D implementations. How hard could it be? 😅

As you can see, it's not perfect.. or even usable, but it loads without crashing! And that's good enough for me to call it quits tonight.

cross-posted from : lemmy.zip/post/57512614

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A sharp drop in carbon permit prices last week pushed lignite-fired power plants back into profitability for the first time since November, according to analysis from Energy Aspects Ltd. and the London Stock Exchange Group. The plants are now even cheaper to run than gas-fired generators, despite producing far higher carbon emissions.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-21/germany-s-dirtiest-coal-fired-power-plants-are-back-in-profit

Yes, I know snapseed is a mobile app, but that's the kind of simplicity I'm looking for. Pre-made filters, an auto-fix button, adjustment sliders, etc.

I have image toolbox on mobile and even that's a bit over the top with option (and I still haven't found sliders for brightness, contrast, saturation, shadows etc in that maze).

Linux or Windows programs are fine, I run both.

This is mine, that is yours, that's yours too but only if there's nothing valuable there. If there is, that's mine too.

You mean America owns it?

NO ME!!!

Trump-Greenland Deal Reportedly Includes U.S. ‘Sovereignty Over Small Pockets’ of Territory

The NATO statement came amid new reporting from the New York Times that deal may include the U.S. being given “sovereignty over small pockets” of land in Greenland.

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European consumers are fighting back against the U.S. following Trump’s threats to take control of Greenland, a Danish territory. As a result, two mobile apps that offer a way to determine if products are made in America, then suggest local alternatives, have surged to the top of the Danish App Store in recent days.

The boost in downloads comes as Danish consumers have been organizing a grassroots boycott of American-made products, which also included canceling their U.S. vacations and ditching their subscriptions to U.S.-based streaming services, like Netflix.

Across both iOS and Android, two apps, NonUSA and Made O’Meter, have entered the top 10 this month, according to new data from market intelligence provider Appfigures.

Apps for boycotting American products surge to the top of the Danish App Store | TechCrunch

Two origin ID apps, NonUSA and Made O'Meter, are seeing downloads surge as Europeans boycott US-made goods.

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https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/nvidia-accused-of-trying-to-cut-a-deal-with-annas-archive-for-high-speed-access-to-the-massive-pirated-book-haul-allegedly-chased-stolen-data-to-fuel-its-llms

Friday could be a seminal moment in this new civil rights movement.

Minnesota unions, religious groups, and ordinary citizens are planning a massive statewide strike and economic boycott.

The Ice Out of Minnesota website declares:

It is time to suspend the normal order of business to demand immediate cessation of ICE actions in MN, accountability for federal agents who have caused loss of life and abuse to Minnesota residents and call for Congress to immediately intervene.

Friday, January 23rd will be a statewide day of non-violent moral action, reflection: no work, no school, no shopping — only community, conscience, and collective action.

There will be a unified, statewide pause in daily economic activity. Instead, Minnesotans will spend time with family, neighbors, and their community to show Minnesota’s moral heart and collective economic power. This means:
- No work (except emergency services)
- No school
- No shopping or consumer spending

There will be a peaceful march and rally in downtown Minneapolis at 2:00pm.

The weather forecast is brutal, with below-zero temperatures expected all day Friday along with windchill temperature descending into the 30s below zero.

Minnesota rising

A massive statewide strike and economic boycott is set for Friday

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I stumbled across a 2020 OIA request to NZ Treasury where someone asked:

what analysis Treasury has done on the KiwiSaver First Home scheme affecting house prices, and how much taxpayer money gets transferred into the housing stock

Treasury released a few internal docs and they basically say that increasing caps would lead to higher house prices and that subsidies for renters/buyers tend to be captured by landlords/sellers instead of improving affordability long-term.

The advice was apparently ignored.

The report from the county medical examiner said the detainee, Geraldo Lunas Campos, was asphyxiated and restrained by law enforcement. Federal officials described his death as a suicide.

A Cuban immigrant’s death in an El Paso detention center this month was ruled a homicide, according to an autopsy report released Wednesday by the county medical examiner’s office.

The detainee, Geraldo Lunas Campos, 55, became unresponsive while he was physically restrained by law enforcement on Jan. 3 at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility called Camp East Montana, the report said. Emergency medical workers tried to resuscitate him, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.

The autopsy listed the cause of death as “asphyxia due to neck and torso compression.” The report also described injuries Mr. Lunas Campos had sustained to his head and neck, including burst blood vessels in the front and side of the neck, as well as on his eyelids.

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LEFT-CENTER BIAS These media sources have a slight to moderate liberal bias.  They often publish factual information that utilizes loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by appeals to emotion or stereotypes) to favor liberal cau…

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A medical examiner has determined that an Cuban migrant held in solitary confinement at an immigration detention facility in Texas died as a result of homicide.

https://apnews.com/article/ice-immigration-detention-death-texas-f04b5cb76f175255e58b947f0e14bc12

“The search and seizure of Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson’s records is unconstitutional and illegal in its entirety," said one free press defender.

Case file: storage.courtlistener.com/reca…

Judge Blocks Trump Admin From Searching Data Seized During Raid on Reporter's Home

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cross-posted from: news.abolish.capital/post/2174…

The writer is the First Secretary of Workers World Party. In assessing the new world situation, we should start here in the U.S. At this moment, the epicenter of the struggle is Minneapolis. What’s happening there poses a fundamental question that is germane to the changing world situation, the global . . .

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Just wanted to share a lesson I learned the hard way, in case it helps someone else who is just getting into projectors.

I recently upgraded to a pretty decent 4K laser projector and for the first week, I was just using a smooth, matte-white wall as my screen. To be honest, I was underwhelmed. The image was dull and looked washed out unless the room was pitch black, which is totally impractical for watching sports or casual viewing.

I was close to thinking I'd wasted my money on the projector. After some digging on various forums, I realized my bottleneck wasn't the projector—it was the surface.

I decided to properly invest in an ALR (Ambient Light Rejecting) screen. I ended up getting a VIVIDSTORM screen, and the difference is not subtle, it is night and day.

The contrast has skyrocketed, and colors actually pop now, even with some indirect daylight in the room. It finally looks like the high-end, cinematic image I was expecting to get.

TL;DR: Don't cheap out on your screen! A great screen with a good projector beats a great projector on a mediocre surface every single time. It's the component that brings the whole experience together.

https://www.startribune.com/preschooler-and-three-other-students-detained-by-ice-school-district-leader-says/601568045

Trump's decision to green-light the sale of Nvidia H200 GPUs to China isn't sitting well with some of his Republican colleagues in the House of Representatives. These GOP politicians have proposed a bill that would give Congress final say over the export of AI chips to China and other countries of concern.

Introduced by Rep. Brian Mast (R‑FL) in December, the "AI Overwatch Act" would give the House Foreign Affairs Committee, which Mast chairs, and the Senate Banking Committee at least 30 days to review and, if necessary, block the export of sensitive AI chips to adversary nations.

On Wednesday, the Foreign Affairs Committee voted overwhelmingly to advance the measure to the House of Representatives with a favorable recommendation.

"When the United States considers selling a C-130 or a fighter jet, or an engine that goes on one of those airframes, or ordnance that goes on the wing of a jet, or the avionics that go in a cockpit, or anything that has military use, it goes through a process known as the foreign military sales process," Mast said during a Foreign Affairs Committee meeting on Wednesday.

House GOP wants final say on AI chip exports after Trump gives Nvidia a China hall pass

: Bill still needs to pass the House and Senate before the president can sign or veto it

^{Tobias Mann (The Register)}

The annual assessment, which has been prepared since 2020, purports to offer a holistic assessment to threats to the Western Hemisphere. These assessments have consistently focused on what you imagine: southern border security, the drug trade, immigration, and critical infrastructure protection in the United States.

But this year’s assessment, marked “For Official Use Only” and not yet released to the public, identifies violent extremism on the part of American citizens as the priority and greatest threat.

One phrase in particular stands out to me as new: potential terrorism based upon “class-based or economic grievances.” (The term has not appeared in any previous assessment.)

Leaked Doc: Homeland Security's Domestic Terror Obsession

Forget Greenland; the American public are the real target

^{Ken Klippenstein}

https://apnews.com/article/ice-arrests-warrants-minneapolis-trump-00d0ab0338e82341fd91b160758aeb2d

In the broadest sense, this is news, but there's too much opinion in this to throw it there.

Do you still want to cling to this pretense, Trump supporters? Do you still want to pretend ICE efforts are targeting “the worst of the worst?” Are you just going to sit there and mumble some incomprehensible stuff about “respecting the laws?”

Go ahead. Do it, you cowards. This is exactly what you voted for, even if it now makes you a bit queasy. Just sit there and soak in it. You are who you support, even if you never thought it would go this far.

“Worst of the worst,” Trump’s parrot repeat on blast. “This one time we caught a guy who did actual crimes,” say spokespeople defending whatever the latest hideous violation of the social contract (if not actual constitutional rights) a federal agent has performed. “Targeted investigation/stop” say the enablers, even when it’s just officers turning white nationalism into Official Government Policy. “Brown people need to be gone” is the end game. Full stop.

Evil ICE Fucks Ate Lunch At A Mexican Restaurant Just So They Could Come Back And Detain The People Who Fed Them

Do you still want to cling to this pretense, Trump supporters? Do you still want to pretend ICE efforts are targeting “the worst of the worst?” Are you just going to sit there and mumbl…

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Since i do appreciate (rap) songs even if i don't understand them, I need some recommendations from YOU for non-english rap songs or artists.

(I can't really distinguish genres, so I'm trusting your judgment whether your recommendation fits)

(I'm also not a fan of german rap but you can recommended that regardless)

https://www.techspot.com/news/110243-android-wont-kill-sideloading-after-all-but-new.html

cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/49398493

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In the blink of an eye, the latest Iranian uprising has folded. For a few feverish days in January the talk was of imminent regime change, of not-so-supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei packing his bags. Then came the shoot-to-kill orders, the 16,000 or more body bags and the silence of the graveyard. Donald Trump’s cavalry did not ride to the rescue.

And the winner of this bloody, uneven contest? China’s digital repression model, duly adopted by Iran’s hardcore Revolutionary Guards, which ensured that the January protests were snuffed out even more quickly than the 2022 hijab demonstrations and the November 2019 rebellion against petrol price hikes. This time the uprising was nationwide, spread across 207 cities and towns according to the National Council of Resistance, drawing in all classes against apparently enfeebled leaders who had recently been handed a humiliating defeat with the bombing of Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities.

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To the delight of the so-called Illiberal International (star members: China, Russia, North Korea), the regime has been saved by what could be dubbed the Dragon-Mullah axis. In 2021 Beijing and Tehran signed up to a 25-year tech and security deal designed to refine Iran’s ability to control its rising Gen Z population. That meant the mass transfer of surveillance technology — smart Chinese-made CCTV cameras have now been installed across cities and towns — and cybersecurity tools.

[...]

That is the kind of intelligence being fed into the Iranian machine. It probably works better in China, where huge amounts of stored personal data feed into a complex system of behavioural modification. The Iranian regime does not have that kind of number-crunching capacity. But the regular exchanges between the Iranian police chief Ahmad-Reza Radan and the Chinese minister for public security Wang Xiaohong show how anxious Tehran has been to soak up information from the brand leader. Their last meeting was in December, just weeks before the Iran protests kicked off.

[...]

A large part of this collaboration is about understanding the networks of protest, how they communicate, who is leading whom to what target. That has been part of the curriculum on the Advanced Police Officers Training Programme at China’s People’s Public Security University; Iranian practitioners, usually Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officers, take part in role-play exercises. When they return home, they get promoted quickly and presumably lobby hard for the kind of Chinese technology needed to carry out the mission. Not just facial recognition cameras but also AI systems that flag up ethnic and demographic groupings. Some of the Chinese techniques — filtering supposedly suspicious internet content — were applied by Tehran long before the two countries signed a security pact.

[...]

The command of police state-enabling tech is at the heart of Xi Jinping’s Global Security Initiative, set up in 2022. It offers to help governments to combat crime — what’s not to like? — but also to stay in power by tracking subversive critics. Xi has even summoned a global security forum which he would like to be the Illiberal International’s answer to the West-affirming Munich Security Conference. The Chinese offer: values-free security diplomacy. Imagine the deals that could be struck there.

[...]

Technical ingenuity, of course, does not remove the causes of unrest. Only good governance can tackle the misery of drought, only sound economics can restore investor confidence, only statesmanship can bring Iran to the rational conclusion that building nuclear weapons condemns the region to permanent insecurity. In the absence of these qualities, the floundering theocratic regime has to depend on the repressive toolkit offered by China. The Iranians deserve better.

https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/the-big-winner-in-iran-chinese-repression-n6vfvl25m

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2026/01/13/googles-new-android-update-locks-your-apps-and-hides-your-messages/

L'America è stata costruita (anche) sulla mitologia del treno. Tra un punto e l'altro dell'immensa distesa della nazione, la ferrovia ha creato connessioni fra luoghi, persone e comunità, rendendo meno spaventoso l'isolamento umano nella proverbiale wilderness americana... Leggi e ascolta...

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Billy Bragg & Joe Henry – Shine A Light (2016)

L'America è stata costruita (anche) sulla mitologia del treno. Tra un punto e l'altro dell'immensa distesa della nazione, la ferrovia ha creato connessioni fra luoghi, persone e comunità, rendendo meno spaventoso l'isolamento umano nella proverbiale wilderness americana. La forza di questa trasformazione, che ha condotto il paese verso la prepotente modernità e ne ha generato anche uno sradicamento umano, è stata da sempre testimoniata dalle canzoni folk, intese proprio nell'accezione più profonda possibile, come racconti popolari, riflessi sulla vita quotidiana della gente... artesuono.blogspot.com/2016/10…

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