ICE seeks proprietary data and tech to monitor up to a million people
ICE seeks proprietary data and tech to monitor up to a million people
The DHS component published an RFI seeking the services of a company to scour data sources and help identify “potentially criminal and fraudulent behavior before crime and fraud can materialize.”Rebecca Heilweil (FedScoop)
Windows 11 user has 30 years of 'irreplaceable photos and work' locked away in OneDrive - and Microsoft's silence is deafening
Windows 11 user has 30 years of 'irreplaceable photos and work' locked away in OneDrive - and Microsoft's silence is deafening
Microsoft accused of being a 'Kafkaesque black hole of corporate negligence'Darren Allan (TechRadar)
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Here's your first look at the rebooted Digg
Here's your first look at the rebooted Digg | TechCrunch
Digg launched its iOS app to testers who are a part of its Groundbreakers community of early adopters.Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)
UN rights chief urges governments to 'wake up' to 'horrifying' suffering of Palestinians in Gaza
UN rights chief urges governments to 'wake up' to 'horrifying' suffering of Palestinians in Gaza
The address raised concerns about escalating conflict between Iran and Israel, the fallout from sweeping U.S. tariffs, and China's human rights record — alongside wars and conflict in places like Sudan and Ukraine.PBS News
In France, a Rail Worker Is Going on Trial for Tweeting in Support of Palestine
In France, a Rail Worker Is Going on Trial for Tweeting in Support of Palestine | Truthout
France has already convicted hundreds of people since an undemocratic amendment was added to the legal code in 2014.Jared (Truthout)
US Threatens UN Members Seeking a Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestine Conflict
US Threatens UN Members Seeking a Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestine Conflict
The United States, a longstanding and unyielding Israeli ally, is threatening UN member states urging them to keep off an upcoming high-level meeting aimed at recognizing a two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestine conflict.Inter Press Service
Some Democratic senators regret voting to confirm Kristi Noem as DHS secretary
Some of the seven Democrats who voted for Noem say they'd now oppose her in the wake of Trump's aggressive deportation plans and last week's incident involving Sen. Alex Padilla.
Five days after Donald Trump's inauguration, seven Senate Democrats voted to confirm Kristi Noem to lead the Department of Homeland Security.
Nearly 5 months later, most of them are critical of her, with some going as far as to say they regret their votes.
"I'm very disappointed. I'm very disappointed in her," Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., told NBC News this week. "If I were voting on her today, I definitely wouldn't vote for her."
Freshman Sen. Andy Kim, D-N.J., also said he would vote differently and oppose her nomination if he could do it again.
Some Democratic senators regret voting to confirm Kristi Noem as DHS secretary
After seven Democrats voted for Noem, some say they'd now oppose her in the wake of Trump's aggressive deportation plans and last week's incident involving Sen. Alex Padilla.Sahil Kapur (NBC News)
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Activists are Designing Mesh Networks to Deploy During Civil Unrest
Activists are Designing Mesh Networks to Deploy During Civil Unrest
The Mycelium Mesh Project is testing DIY networks that can be quickly deployed on trees or lamp posts during a political uprising.Ella Fassler (VICE)
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Lessons for protesters from Standing Rock
Lessons for protesters from Standing Rock
The events following the 2016 protest are urgently relevant to our current political moment.Emily Atkin (HEATED)
Activists are Designing Mesh Networks to Deploy During Civil Unrest
Activists are Designing Mesh Networks to Deploy During Civil Unrest
The Mycelium Mesh Project is testing DIY networks that can be quickly deployed on trees or lamp posts during a political uprising.Ella Fassler (VICE)
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The Entire Internet Is Reverting to Beta - The Atlantic
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A car that accelerates instead of braking every once in a while is not ready for the road. A faucet that occasionally spits out boiling water instead of cold does not belong in your home. Working properly most of the time simply isn’t good enough for technologies that people are heavily reliant upon. And two and a half years after the launch of ChatGPT, generative AI is becoming such a technology.Even without actively seeking out a chatbot, billions of people are now pushed to interact with AI when searching the web, checking their email, using social media, and online shopping. Ninety-two percent of Fortune 500 companies use OpenAI products, universities are providing free chatbot access to potentially millions of students, and U.S. national-intelligence agencies are deploying AI programs across their workflows.
The Entire Internet Is Reverting to Beta
The AI takeover is changing everything about the web—and not necessarily for the better.Matteo Wong (The Atlantic)
Internet collapses across Iran, say web-monitoring firms
Internet collapses across Iran, say web monitoring firms | TechCrunch
It’s unclear what is causing a “near-total” internet blackout in Iran.Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (TechCrunch)
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Bunker Buster Bomb Myth /MIT Prof Ted Postol & Lt Col Daniel Davis
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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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‘Not for you’: Israeli shelters exclude Palestinians as bombs rain down
‘Not for you’: Israeli shelters exclude Palestinians as bombs rain down
Shelters are a lifeline in Israel from Iranian attacks, but Palestinian citizens of the country have been locked out.Al Jazeera
‘It’s terrifying’: WhatsApp AI helper mistakenly shares user’s number
‘It’s terrifying’: WhatsApp AI helper mistakenly shares user’s number
Chatbot tries to change subject after serving up unrelated user’s mobile to man asking for rail firm helplineRobert Booth (The Guardian)
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TLDR: Bot generated random number, happened to be a real person’s phone number
I don’t understand what is “terrifying” about that. Even without the bot, anyone with malicious intent could imagine up a random phone number.
These kind articles with thin content are just used by these news agencies to fit into the “bots are bad” narrative that makes them money. Of course bots are bad in many ways, but not for such flimsy reasons.
Why establishment Democrats still can’t stomach progressive candidates like Zohran Mamdani
Who’s afraid of Zohran Mamdani? The answer, it would seem, is the entire establishment. The 33-year-old democratic socialist and New York City mayoral candidate has surged in the polls in recent weeks, netting endorsements not just from progressive voices like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders but also his fellow candidates for the mayoralty, with Brad Lander and Michael Blake taking advantage of the ranked-choice voting system in the primary and cross-endorsing Mamdani’s campaign.
With the primary just around the corner, polls have Mamdani closing the gap on Andrew Cuomo, the disgraced former governor of New York. This has spooked the establishment, which is now doing everything it can to stop Mamdani’s rise.
Take Michael Bloomberg, who endorsed Cuomo earlier this month and followed this up with a $5m donation to a pro-Cuomo Pac. The largesse appears motivated not by admiration for Cuomo – during his mayoralty, sources told the New York Times that Bloomberg saw Cuomo as “the epitome of the self-interested, horse-trading political culture he has long stood against” – but animosity towards Mamdani and his policies.
Mamdani wants to increase taxes on residents earning more than $1m a year, increase corporate taxes and freeze rents: policies that aren’t exactly popular with the billionaire set.
Why establishment Democrats still can’t stomach progressive candidates like Zohran Mamdani
The anti-Mamdani mobilization is depressingly predictable, with a party that is allergic to fresh blood and new thinkingArwa Mahdawi (The Guardian)
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Russian armed forces are currently advancing at 15 to 20 kilometres per day
Russische Aggression: „Wie eine Würgeschlange erdrücken“ – Drei Szenarien für den Ausgang des Ukraine-Kriegs
Während die Welt nach Nahost schaut, eskaliert Moskau seinen Angriffskrieg in der Ukraine. Kiew steht an gleich zwei Fronten unter Druck.Christoph B. Schiltz (WELT)
Youth-led Sunrise Movement to launch campaign to ‘villainize big oil’ and force climate action
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Youth-led Sunrise Movement to launch campaign to ‘villainize big oil’ and force climate action
With climate policies under siege by the Trump, young climate activists are intensifying their campaignDharna Noor (The Guardian)
fzn: output selected line number with fzf instead text [Bash]
fzn() {
nl | fzf --with-nth 2.. "${@}" | awk '{print $1}'
}Usage:
find . -maxdepth 1 -type d | fzn -e -mI always forget how to do this manually, so I made this simple function for Bash. Just copy this like an alias into your .bashrc and use it like any other command in a pipe.
US | Karen Read's second murder trial ends with an acquittal
A Massachusetts jury has found Karen Read not guilty in the death of her police officer boyfriend, three years and two high-profile trials later.
US | Karen Read's second murder trial ends with an acquittal
A Massachusetts jury has found Karen Read not guilty in the death of her police officer boyfriend, three years and two high-profile trials later.
bentornamento dell’NHK leggendo senza ritegno per far marcire il tempismo
Prendendo quasi al volo l’occasione di averlo caricato su TomoStash l’altro giorno (dove ci è finito semplicemente perché avevo già il file da parte scaricato, che ha preso molta polvere dato che non avevo mai trovato il momento giusto per leggerlo), stasera ho preso da parte il mio momento più marcio per iniziare a leggere […]
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bentornamento dell’NHK leggendo senza ritegno per far marcire il tempismo
Prendendo quasi al volo l’occasione di averlo caricato su TomoStash l’altro giorno (dove ci è finito semplicemente perché avevo già il file da parte scaricato, che ha preso molta polvere dato che non avevo mai trovato il momento giusto per leggerlo), stasera ho preso da parte il mio momento più marcio per iniziare a leggere quel “capolavoro accidentale” che è Welcome to the NHK, storia di cui avevo consumato solo l’adattamento anime… La situazione scaturita è finora surreale come al solito, e i pianeti che si sono allineati affinché le cose andassero così (nella misura in cui il loro movimento influenza costantemente ed inevitabilmente la mia esistenza) lo sapevano persino ben prima di tracciare la propria traiettoria nello spazio, che il doloroso universo in cui vivo io e quello di Satō si sarebbero toccati già per i primi fondamentali attimi. 🙏Ero fuori verso inizio sera (cosa certamente non tipica per una hikikomori, ma io non sono ciò; io sono per molti versi ben peggio, e solo all’immediata apparenza più socialmente accettabile), poco prima di tornare a casa, mentre cercavo di scrivere delle bozze non molto sensate sul mio telefono; gira che mi rigira, mi escono solo stronzate. Al che, dal niente, penso “basta!” e vado immediatamente sul mio sito piratista, immaginando che sia molto meglio abbandonarmi alla lettura, se proprio devo distrarmi con le parole, piuttosto che impazzire in quel modo. Le uniche alternative sensate sarebbero state togliere il telefono dalle mani (“prova a non morire challenge”), aprire Duolingo, o aprire qualche puzzle game, ma nessuna di quelle opzioni sul momento mi interessava minimamente; quindi, meglio leggere per dimenticare… cioè, per passare 10 minuti… e scelgo proprio quel romanzo leggero, che pur conoscendo dall’anime, essendo passati molti anni, ricordo abbastanza male da giustificare al quadrato questa lettura. 🥁
È incredibile allora come, prima iniziando a leggere, poi tornando a casa, le energie dell’inizio della storia e quella della mia anima stiano perfettamente combaciando. Non faccio assolutamente spoiler — perché, anche se l’opera è vecchia e ben localizzata in italiano, pare che in realtà relativamente poca gente la conosca, e personalmente consiglio fortemente di recuperarla in una delle tante forme sotto cui è disponibile — ma Satō ha perfettamente ragione. È incredibile quanto la gente per strada ci guardi storti (anche se pare che a me non sussurrino nulla alle spalle) e, nonostante nel mio caso questo probabilmente non sarà abbastanza per farmi abbandonare l’università, certamente le basi più astratte e generalizzate di causa ed effetto le abbiamo in comune: la più assoluta ed irrisolvibile condizione di reclusione sociale in senso lato. E quindi, se lui passa 16 ore al giorno sotto al kotatsu a dormire, io che vivo in Italia (dove i こたつ non si usano) e sono in estate (dove i コタツ non si usano) potrei tristemente finire 16 ore al giorno a bedrottare, con una mano su un tomo e l’altra che graffia la parete o mi distrugge i capelli… 🕷️
Sulla fine del momento di lettura — che già mi ha fatta arrivare ad 1/4 del libro — però, comunque, mi era salito un mal di testa tanto strano quanto particolarmente fastidioso. L’emicrania lieve così mi viene quando passo 10 ore di fila davanti al PC a programmare software che nessuno mai userà (
inclusa la sottoscritta dopo qualche settimana…), non dovrebbe venirmi per aver passato si e no un’ora e mezza sul letto tranquilla a leggere; per giunta, con il Kindle, e non un maledetto dispositivo con tremendo schermo distruggi-retine LCD od OLED! Ma forse sono semplicemente fuori allenamento, e il mio cervello si fonde a leggere così tanto tutto di fila. Tanto poi mi è passato tutto dopo aver cenato, ma non sono sicura se è perché avevo fame e l’ho placata, o semplicemente è perché ho staccato un attimo… anche perché, perdendomi nel leggere, la fame mi era passata di mente; cazzo se i libri saziano seriamente più della materia organica commestibile…e se fungono da grandissimo copium…#lettura #reading #WelcomeToTheNHK
Welcome to the N.H.K. | TomoStash
Pubblicato in Giappone nel 2002 e tradotto in 15 lingue, finalmente in Italia il romanzo che ha dato origine al manga e alla famosa serie tv. Sato è uno hikikomori: da quattro anni non esce di casa, se non una volta alla settimana per fare la spesa.gamingshitposting.github.io
What's a good instance to be on at the moment?
I'm looking for a new instance since lemm.ee is closing by the end of the month. What's a good instance to be on these days?
I'm looking for a instance with the fewest trolls, bots, and anyone that likes to take things to the extremes.
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Since you mention you have no real opinions about lemm.ee.
You were just on there by chance.
I’ll propose you the style of blahaj which is to have downvotes disabled, its quite a different way to interact with lemmy, maybe a bit weird to get used to. But it feels much less hostile. And it fosters a good culture of just ignoring shitty takes and replies.
As far as “no extremes” you mentioned you prefer, blahaj blocks lemmygrad and hexbear (ultra authoritarians) and any far right instance (think hilariouschaos)
Lobbyists for Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Meta back a campaign for a 10-year US state AI regulation ban, a move dividing the AI industry and the GOP
Big Tech pushes for 10-year ban on US states regulating AI
Call by Amazon, Google and Microsoft lobbyists for a ‘moratorium’ has split industry and the Republican partyAlex Rogers (Financial Times)
Thank you Linux community!
Thank you everyone for your insight, comments, and help with the process! I'm started with Fedora, and after some brief confusion between Gnome and Plasma, I'm off! 😁
Special thanks to all of you cool dudes:
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5/5 stars, would upgrade again!
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Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers
Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers
So I was uh, downloading some linux isos, like usual. It was going slowly, so I opened up the Trackers tab in qBittorrent and saw the following:Kian Bradley (Kian Bradley’s Blog)
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TPB is still around, only magnet links are around. They were hosting torrent files which is basically a list of trackers. That's what they had to drop, in order to continue functioning. And their DNS is still banned like from almost every westernized country.
Regardless of technicalities, they were #1 biggest player. (Today they are like #3 or #5?) What I mean to say, is that they got busted mainly because of this. To make an example.
Ukraine dragging out ID process to dodge payouts to families — diplomat
Ukraine dragging out ID process to dodge payouts to families — diplomat
Rodion Miroshnik said that Ukrainian Interior Minister Igor Klimenko "understands perfectly well" that the identification and subsequent handover of bodies to families will entail the need to pay financial compensationTASS
Climate crisis could hit yields of key crops even if farmers adapt, study finds
Climate crisis could hit yields of key crops even if farmers adapt, study finds
Production of staple crops projected to fall by as much as 120 calories per person per day for every 1C of heatingAjit Niranjan (The Guardian)
[OC] Playful babies
I spent a whole hour looking at them, the youngsters spent all that time just playing, and getting scared every 5 minutes when the metro went by, going to hide under those planks they're standing on in that photo.
Poll shows 62% of women and 47% of men across political spectrum say economy and inflation getting worse
Women more worried about economy under Trump than men, poll finds
Exclusive: poll shows 62% of women and 47% of men across political spectrum say economy and inflation getting worseLauren Aratani (The Guardian)
Iranian opposition supporters grapple with US and Israeli regime change plans
Iranian opposition supporters grapple with US and Israeli regime change plans
‘We want freedom on our own terms,’ says one Tehran resident, while another writes, ‘Someone is helping us’William Christou (The Guardian)
Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers
Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers
So I was uh, downloading some linux isos, like usual. It was going slowly, so I opened up the Trackers tab in qBittorrent and saw the following:Kian Bradley (Kian Bradley’s Blog)
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in reply to Avid Amoeba • • •Starmer says he picked up Trump’s dropped papers to avoid security scare
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in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • • •As I saw this happen I thought that this would be the take but in reality, what's he going to do? Just stand there and not help pick them up for him?
My take is he's just helping the elderly as Trump won't have the mobility to bend down and get them.
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in reply to principalkohoutek [none/use name] • • •I get it, and if there was one standing next to them I'm sure he would have but your natural instinct when you haven't been served on your whole life is to help someone in this situation.
I'm not a simp for him or his party but just feel he gets a pass on this one
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