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A scene I came home to: my wife had just finished playing a journaling RPG about attempting to preserve a library from ransacking hordes in the distant past, involving both blocks and cards. And I saw it all, and the scene composed itself. Nothing was disturbed in the slightest.
I just think this is very pleasing and cozy to look at.
Microsoft testing PC-to-Cloud-PC failover for those times your machine dies or disappears
Microsoft testing PC-to-Cloud-PC failover for those times your machine dies or disappears
: ‘Windows 365 Reserve’ will be usable ten days a year for undisclosed feeSimon Sharwood (The Register)
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With the Israel-Iran war, Russia is learning to become irrelevant
With the Israel-Iran war, Russia is learning to become irrelevant - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Russia's role in the Israel-Iran crisis is constrained by its war in Ukraine and desire to re-engage the Trump administration. But Moscow could get some benefits from letting Tehran down.François Diaz-Maurin (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)
NRK: Our teletext service is shutting down after 42 years | Translation in post body
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/5307804
NRK^[Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation] will discontinue its teletext service on August 20 due to the risk of serious technical issues. Over the course of the past few years, the service has become increasingly difficult for NRK to maintain. The technology is old and very demanding to keep in working order with the rest of NRK's system.—"Most people are surprised when they find out that teletext still exists. But we know there are still some people who use it to this day," says Audun Aas, product development manager for nrk.no.
Aas says that NRK is doing its best to help teletext users find the information they're used to receiving through the service, elsewhere.
NRK's teletext service celebrated its 40th anniversary two years ago. During the service's 30th anniversary, it was predicted not to last another decade.
::: spoiler Did you know?
* Black and white TV sets were still common in 1983. NRK had a monopoly on TV broadcasts, but no way to provide quick updates on news and other information.
* Teletext was initially only available for a few hours in the evening, namely from the children's programming block to the end of broadcasts before midnight.
* Because the terminals NRK used to type teletext were imported from England, the letters Æ and Ø had to be replaced with Ä and Ö in teletext respectively.
* A typo in a teletext warning about toxins in blue mussels caused many Norwegians to fall ill in the summer of 1994.
* The invitation to the NRK teletext editorial staff's 10 year anniversary — including the event's bill of fare — was accidentally shown on teletext, prompting an apology via Dagbladet^[Newspaper associated with the Liberal Party until 1977. Sold from the Berner Group to Aller Media in 2013.].
* Teletext was for many years most popular among 20-39 year olds.
:::42 years of teletext
The Norwegian parliament resolved in April of 1982 that NRK would establish a teletext service. The service launched on February 2, 1983.Establishing a teletext service proved to be such a daunting task that the chief editor of Arbeiderbladet^[Newspaper today known as Dagsavisen. Associated with the Labor Party at the time; became party-independent in 1999 and is now owned by Mentor Media.] was brought on to lead the work.
Surveys show that use of teletext has gradually declined in recent years, with only 3% of Norway's population using teletext as of 2024.
On August 20, 2025, the service will end after 42 years.
::: spoiler Poll: Will you miss teletext?
* Yes, I like having it available as an option: 29%
* No, I won't miss it: 40%
* Yes, but only due to nostalgia: 31%3,566 votes
NB: This poll is not representative of the entire country. These are only the votes of people who read this article and decided to vote.
:::[There's a video from 1979 attached here explaining what teletext is, but I don't feel like translating it right now. The key takeaway is maybe that NRK was already experimenting with teletext by that point, but hadn't officially launched their service yet.]
All information currently available on teletext is also available on nrk.no.
Slutt for tekst-TV etter 42 år
NRK legger ned tekst-TV fra 20. august. Avvikler tjenesten på grunn av faren for alvorlige feil.Anna Rut Tørressen (NRK)
Steam is adding screen reader support and other accessibility tools
Steam is adding screen reader support and other accessibility tools
Valve’s latest Steam beta adds new accessibility features to Big Picture mode and SteamOS.Adi Robertson (The Verge)
Amazon to invest $233M to enhance its India infrastructure
Amazon to invest $233M to enhance its India infrastructure | TechCrunch
Amazon is investing $233M in its India business to expand operations infrastructure, build new tools for its delivery network, and work on employee safety.Ram Iyer (TechCrunch)
A new nuclear arms race is beginning. It will be far more dangerous than the last one
A new nuclear arms race is beginning. It will be far more dangerous than the last one
The long read: With Putin’s threats in Ukraine, China’s accelerated weapons programme and the US’s desire for superiority, what will it take for leaders to step back from the brink?Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
Fish Suffer Up to 22 Minutes of Intense Pain When Taken Out of Water
Fish Suffer Up to 22 Minutes of Intense Pain When Taken Out of Water : ScienceAlert
Each year, a trillion or so fish are pulled from the water, typically destined for our plates.Jess Cockerill (ScienceAlert)
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This is why net fishing is so problematic (apart from obvious environmental conserns and bycatch).
Stun your fish people. Don’t let their blood clot and lungs collapse while still conscious for multiple minutes. It’s cruel.
There are still 1000 users logging to lemm.ee today, while the instance will shutdown in 11 days. Should we be worried?
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SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight
SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight | TechCrunch
It's the latest in a string of setbacks for the mega-rocket, which SpaceX hopes to use to build Starlink and one day go to Mars.Sean O'Kane (TechCrunch)
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Keebin’ With Kristina: The One With The Gaming Typewriter
Keebin’ With Kristina: The One With The Gaming Typewriter
Can you teach an old typewriter new tricks? You can, at least if you’re [maniek-86]. And a word to all you typewriter fanatics out there — this Optima SP 26 was beyond repair, lacking s…Hackaday
NordVPN hit with class-action lawsuit over allegations of 'deceptive' pricing
NordVPN hit with class-action lawsuit over allegations of 'deceptive' pricing
The transparency and price of auto-renewal subscriptions has come under fire from an unhappy customerGeorge Phillips (Tom's Guide)
Iran refuses to surrender, interview with journalist Marwa Osman
THE BATTLE BEGINS: Iran Refuses to Surrender | Marwa Osman
Iran’s supreme leader rejected Trump’s demands for “unconditional surrender” and warned that direct involvement from the US would result in “irreparable damage”Rachel Blevins
There can be no winners in a US-China AI arms race
The United States and China are entangled in what many have dubbed an “AI arms race.”
In the early days of this standoff, US policymakers drove an agenda centered on “winning” the race, mostly from an economic perspective. In recent months, leading AI labs such as OpenAI and Anthropic got involved in pushing the narrative of “beating China” in what appeared to be an attempt to align themselves with the incoming Trump administration. The belief that the US can win in such a race was based mostly on the early advantage it had over China in advanced GPU compute resources and the effectiveness of AI’s scaling laws.
But now it appears that access to large quantities of advanced compute resources is no longer the defining or sustainable advantage many had thought it would be. In fact, the capability gap between leading US and Chinese models has essentially disappeared, and in one important way the Chinese models may now have an advantage: They are able to achieve near equivalent results while using only a small fraction of the compute resources available to the leading Western labs.
There can be no winners in a US-China AI arms race
AI competition is not a zero-sum game. Instead, the world’s superpowers need to work together to make sure AI benefits humanity.Alvin Wang Graylin and Paul Triolo (MIT Technology Review)
From Gaza to Iran: How Empire Manufactures War (Video 43mins)
As Israel bombs Iran, and the threat of U.S. military escalation grows by the hour, the world’s attention is being pulled into yet another war that Israel started and the West manufactured. After flattening Gaza and locking down the West Bank Israel has now dragged Iran into open confrontation — and is calling on the U.S. to finish the job.
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N. Korea calls Israel 'cancer-like entity', blames US and West for Iran war
N. Korea calls Israel 'cancer-like entity', blames US and West for Iran war
SEOUL: North Korea on Thursday slammed Israel’s launching of strikes to spark its conflict with Iran, and warned the United States and European powers against “fanning up the flames of war“, according to a foreign ministry spokesperson.AFP (New Straits Times)
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By chaining legitimate services such as udisks loop-mounts and PAM/environment quirks, attackers who own any active GUI or SSH session can vault across polkit's allow_active trust zone and emerge as root in seconds.
I recognize a few of those words.
So how would a bad actor start a remote session on my Linux pc?
Edited to add, downvoted for trying to learn is a new one for me.
They probably can not. Unless you've setup your router such that anyone can connect to an ssh instance running on your PC, and then also use a bad password. Public wifi + having something like ssh running + having a bad password.
Your PC probably doesn't satisfy these requirements (yay!), but some servers might.
You probably already do, but if you need SSH, use crowdsec, SSHGuard or fail2ban to help filter bot nets.
I have IPs hitting from all over the world, trying logins all the time. Like several per minute, I can only imagine what it would be like if I wasn't blocking IPs with multiple failed login attempts.
No, there are other ways to get access to your machine without needing it. In general you can classify vulnerabilities as either code execution or privilege escalation, a code execution vulnerability allows an attacker to execute code on your machine, a privilege escalation allows him to break barriers that you might have imposed on him.
For example, if you're running service X as root, and someone manages to find a way to use something on service X to execute code, they might get a reverse shell to your box and run anything there. So you might set service X to run as your user instead of root, now that vulnerability is less important because it only compromises your user, but the attacker could use this one in conjunction with the other one to gain control of your user, then escalate to become root.
If this is something you're interested in, there's a cool website called hackthebox where you have to do these sort of things for real. If you want to have an idea on how it looks, there are some excellent videos here showing walkthroughs for many of them he boxes, I recommend checking something labeled easy since these boxes can get quite complex, but it will give you a good idea of the steps attackers need to take to compromise your system
European Dockworkers Are Refusing to Load Weapons for Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
European Dockworkers Are Refusing to Load Weapons for Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
The labor actions are built on a decades-long tradition of internationalism, anti-militarism, and anti-imperialism.Rafeef Ziadah (Truthout)
An Alabama City Recommends Changing Its Laws to Accommodate One of the Country’s Largest Proposed Data Centers
An Alabama City Recommends Changing Its Laws to Accommodate One of the Country’s Largest Proposed Data Centers - Inside Climate News
Despite overwhelming public opposition, officials in Bessemer voted to recommend changes to city zoning ordinances to allow the massive development.Inside Climate News
An Alabama City Recommends Changing Its Laws to Accommodate One of the Country’s Largest Proposed Data Centers
An Alabama City Recommends Changing Its Laws to Accommodate One of the Country’s Largest Proposed Data Centers - Inside Climate News
Despite overwhelming public opposition, officials in Bessemer voted to recommend changes to city zoning ordinances to allow the massive development.Inside Climate News
'Crunch time' for climate action, scientists warn; World is running out of time to rein in human-driven climate change, with top UN scientists warning that key indicators now in uncharted territory
'Crunch time' for climate action, scientists warn
The world is running out of time to rein in human-driven climate change, with top UN scientists warning that key indicators are now in uncharted territory.Martin Kuebler (Deutsche Welle)
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Microsoft prepared to abandon high-stakes talks with OpenAI, FT reports
Microsoft is prepared to abandon its high-stakes negotiations with OpenAI over the future of its alliance, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.
The tech giant has considered pausing discussions with the ChatGPT maker if the two sides remain unable to agree on critical issues such as the size of Microsoft's future stake in OpenAI, the report said, citing people familiar with the matter.
Polish scientists urge public to step up war on drought
Scientists in Poland have called on the public to step up efforts to combat drought, revealing that around 45% of the country’s forests and agricultural land are under threat.
The appeal was made on World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, with scientists warning that drought had now become an annual issue.
Currently, surface water resources per capita (the amount of renewable surface water available for each person in a specific location) stand at 1,600 cubic meters per year, approximately three times below the European average.
In an open letter published on their website, Poland’s national water authority, Polish Waters (Wody Polskie), wrote: “Despite Poland’s seemingly moderate climate, summer droughts have been observed since 2011.”
Financial losses stemming from drought were placed at 2.6 billion złotys in 2018 alone.
Now, Polish Waters have issued a rallying cry calling on the forestry commission, regional authorities, farmers and entrepreneurs to join forces to do their bit.
“The key is to retain water where it falls,” wrote Polish Waters. “Through water retention and wise water management, we can protect our fields, forests and cities from the effects of drought. Together we can restore balance to the landscape and take care of the future.”
Continuing, Polish Waters apportioned much of the blame on climate change, citing it as a major driver of drought.
“This process is further modulated by seasonal precipitation patterns, surface runoff, water storage, and interactions with vegetation.”
“Recent weather patterns, characterized by prolonged droughts interspersed with heavy rainfall, are further exacerbating the problem. While droughts leave land dehydrated for years, heavy rainfall washes away topsoil instead of replenishing it,” they added.
Farmers have been particularly impacted by Poland’s spate of droughts, with one report showing that 45% of the county’s forests and agricultural fields are at risk, with central Poland and Wielkopolska in west-central Poland the most vulnerable of all.
Traditionally, agricultural droughts have been viewed as a particular problem, with their effects including lower yields, poorer crop quality, higher susceptibility to diseases and pests, and higher end prices for the consumer.
To fight drought, Polish Waters has already completed 55 investments valued at 150 million złotys, among them the modernization of the Ruda reservoir near the northeastern town of Mława.
The authority has also embarked on an aggressive educational campaign aimed at promoting smaller scale retention measures, switching lawns out in favor of flowery meadows and encouraging the planting of drought-resistant plants.
“Let’s work together for the people, for nature and for future generations,” added Polish Waters.
Polish scientists urge public to step up war on drought
Around 45% of Poland’s forests and fields are now under threat.aw/ew (Telewizja Polska S.A)
Some Democratic senators regret voting to confirm Kristi Noem as DHS secretary
Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who voted against Noem, tore into her performance."It's really hard to imagine someone doing a worse job as the secretary of homeland security," Schiff said in an interview. "The draconian, inconsistent, inflammatory immigration policies; the lawlessness; the rendering of people outside the country to maximum-security prisons; the arrest of U.S. citizens; the constant, bizarre spectacle of her doing dress-up outside of a maximum-security prison; or in her various cosplay. It's embarrassing, and it takes the focus off of what should be the heart of that job, and that is protecting our homeland security."
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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Parsing ICE’s mixed-up, hard-to-believe assault claims | ICE officials keep touting a 413 percent increase in assaults on officers to justify anonymity.
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The key thing is that they're just making up numbers to justify secret police attacking Americans and our elected representatives:
'Debt trap' is a Western cover-up for its power-lust
'Debt trap' is a Western cover-up for its power-lust
Instance PeerTube généraliste, une bonne alternative à YouTube et autres plateformes de streaming contrôlées par des géants du WEB. General PeerTube instance, a good alternative to YouTube and other streaming platforms controlled by WEB giants.Mes Numériques
Seyed Mohammad Marandi: Iran Prepares for War with America
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Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird: "The Butcher's Share"
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Some of your AI prompts could cause 50 times more CO2 emissions than others
Some of your AI prompts could cause 50 times more CO2 emissions than others
Researchers found some LLMs create four times the amount of CO2 emissions than other models with comparable accuracy. Their findings allow users to make informed decisions about their own LLM use.Deborah Pirchner (Frontiers | Science news)
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Some of your AI prompts could cause 50 times more CO2 emissions than others
Some of your AI prompts could cause 50 times more CO2 emissions than others
Researchers found some LLMs create four times the amount of CO2 emissions than other models with comparable accuracy. Their findings allow users to make informed decisions about their own LLM use.Deborah Pirchner (Frontiers | Science news)
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Carney gives green light for war on Iran
Carney gives green light for war on Iran - Spring
Canada may not be leading the war on Iran. But it is complicit. And that complicity is precisely where our opposition must begin.Krisna Saravanamuttu (Spring)
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