New York will build first major new US nuclear power plant in over 15 years
Governor says plant upstate is ‘a critical energy initiative’ while renewable energy groups slammed the decision
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IYO Sues OpenAI Over IO
IYO filed a trademark infringement lawsuit [PDF] against OpenAI and Jony Ive's company earlier this month, alleging the defendants deliberately adopted a confusingly similar name for competing products. The lawsuit surfaced after the Microsoft-backed startup quietly pulled promotional materials about its $6.5 acquisition billion deal with Ive's firm.
Case file: business.cch.com/ipld/IYOIOPro…
Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition For Switch 2 Features Cross-Progression Saves
Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition offers cross-progression save support on the Nintendo Switch 2. Don't start your game over.
Republican senators’ proposed Medicaid cuts threaten to send red states ‘backwards’
Advocates are urging Senate Republicans to reject a proposal to cut billions from American healthcare to extend tax breaks that primarily benefit the wealthy and corporations.
The proposal would make historic cuts to Medicaid, the public health insurance program for low-income and disabled people that covers 71 million Americans, and is the Senate version of the “big beautiful bill” act, which contains most of Donald Trump’s legislative agenda.
“With the text released earlier this week, somehow the Senate made the House’s ‘big, bad budget bill’ worse in many ways,” said Anthony Wright, the executive director of Families USA, a consumer healthcare advocacy group, in a press call.
Republican senators’ proposed Medicaid cuts threaten to send red states ‘backwards’
Advocates fear Senate’s version of Trump’s budget bill could leave millions without healthcare and boost corporationsJessica Glenza (The Guardian)
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Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers
- Hours after the US airstrike on Iranian territory, Iranian-backed hackers took down US President Donald Trump’s social media platform.
- Users were struggling to access Truth Social in the early morning following the alleged hack.
- As the US continues to insert itself into the ongoing Iran-Israel conflict, the US government believes more cyberattacks could happen.
https://htxt.co.za/2025/06/trump-social-media-site-brought-down-by-iran-hackers/
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I'm seeing a lot of advocacy for Mint on Lemmy but not as much for Fedora it seems?
I've only ever run one Linux distro and that was Fedora KDE Plasma, havent tried Mint yet. Are they not mostly the same or am I missing something?
Spain calls for suspension of EU-Israel trade deal
Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said on Monday that he will urge the foreign ministers of the European Union to suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement immediately, Azernews reports.
"If the Association Agreement is based on human rights, then it's the most normal thing that we suspend it immediately today and move forward. That is why I will ask for the suspension of the agreement and embargo on selling weapons to Israel, as well as sanctions to everyone who wants to be a spoiler to the two-state solution," Albares stressed at the sidelines of the European Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels.
Mother in Germany separated from one-year-old son over Palestinian activism
A Palestinian-Jordanian woman with German residency was separated from her one-year-old after German authorities deemed the child a security threat, she and her lawyers say.
The European Legal Support Centre, which is supporting her case, say the woman is the latest victim of the German state’s weaponisation of residency issues to repress Palestinian solidarity.
“The German state systematically exploits residence, asylum and citizenship law to punish already marginalised communities,” said an ELSC spokesperson.“There is no justification for separating a newborn from his parents, yet to label the child a ‘security threat’ marks a grotesque new low, even by their own oppressive standards."
Mother in Germany separated from one-year-old son over Palestinian activism
A Palestinian-Jordanian woman with German residency was separated from her one-year-old after German authorities deemed the child a security threat, she and her lawyers say.
The European Legal Support Centre, which is supporting her case, say the woman is the latest victim of the German state’s weaponisation of residency issues to repress Palestinian solidarity.
“The German state systematically exploits residence, asylum and citizenship law to punish already marginalised communities,” said an ELSC spokesperson.“There is no justification for separating a newborn from his parents, yet to label the child a ‘security threat’ marks a grotesque new low, even by their own oppressive standards."
US farmers face tough outlook as China switches suppliers amid trade war
US farmers face tough outlook as China switches suppliers amid trade war
China’s imports of a slew of US farm goods plummeted in May. Analysts say the trade may never fully recover.Mia Nulimaimaiti (South China Morning Post)
The strenghts and weaknesses of atproto and activitypub.
There is a lot bluesky gets right, and a lot it gets wrong, the same is true with Activitypub.
(Some) strengths of Atproto
Atproto is content-addressed, and portable. This means that posts can exist independantly of their original server.
Instead of giving posts a https uri, which will stop working if a user moves servers or their server disappears, they give them at uris.
For example, this post on bsky.app: bsky.app/profile/ponder.ooo/po…
Has the at:// link is: at://did:plc:i4bfh2tyxihe2ksplmtcoopk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lk4yrmyugc2f.
The post does exist over https at https://porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.repo.getRecord?repo=did:plc:i4bfh2tyxihe2ksplmtcoopk&collection=app.bsky.feed.post&rkey=3lk4yrmyugc2f.
Atproto is very easy to build apps on. For example, tangled.sh, frontpage.fyi and flushes.app are all apps built on atproto.
Atproto allows more flexibility in what an app can do, as opposed to lemmy or mastodon's api.
Atproto is better documented. The ActivityPub spec leaves a lot up to the reader.
Atproto has some really good moderation tools for users. People can make public blocklists of users, and people can subscribe to labellers, people or services which give users/posts a label.
Weaknesses of Atproto
almost everyone is on bluesky's PDSes. I thought mastodon.social and lemmy.world were bad, but the people on alternate PDSes altogether adds up to only a few thousand.
Its decentralised identifiers are actually completely centralised!
DID:PLC, their DID method, originally stood for placeholder, but they renamed it to Public Ledger of Credentials.
To use it, you have to use plc.directory.
You can use a DID:WEB DID, but if your website linked to it goes down you lose your identity.
(I find it extremely funny that its not actually a requirement for a decentralised identifier to be decentralised. )
Everything on the network has to be public to work.
since relays have to be able to collect all the information on the network for Appviews to be able to make use of that information, anyone can find out who's blocking someone, or who is on a list, or who's following who, with no way of hiding that information.
Private accounts and posts are impossible to do on atproto.
Since everything is public, DMs (for now) are centralised. They do seem like they want to change that though.
Strengths of ActivityPub
AP (ActivityPub) is better distributed. While it has large servers (like mastodon.social or lemmy.world (and threads, but we don't talk about threads)) the majority of users are not on those servers. There is no single point of failure. If bluesky disappeared tomorrow, atproto would still exist, it would just have a negligable amount of users.
One node in the network lets you do everything, as opposed to bluesky which has three parts (You can do stuff without a relay though). This means you can trust a lot less of the network.
ActivityPub scales better than ATProto. Atproto scales quadratically, meaning that having a lot of nodes in the network harms performance.
AP scales horizontally, meaning it works better with a lot of small servers.
ActivityPub can keep stuff private, like blocks and posts.
Though, a lot of implementations can leak posts.
Weaknesses of ActivityPub
The spec leaves so much out. They didn't propose a way to make sure requests between servers are validated, so mastodon chose HTTP signatures.
They didn't add any way of looking up handles, so mastodon chose webfinger.
A posts's id is its https uri, this means thatif a server goes down, stuff can't be fetched. A user can't move their followers if their server goes down (you can on ATproto). There is a standard to fix this, FEP-ef61, but it breaks compatibility with a lot of implementations.
Missing information is a problem. Its not really a problem on lemmy, but on mastodon likes and replies from other servers may not make it to your server at all (you can fetch replies in newer versions of mastodon though).
All this aside, I do think the two can coexist. I don't see anything like lemmy working on atproto. ActivityPub seems closer to social networking, as opposed to social media.
Something like facebook would be impossible to make on atproto, because not everything is made to be public.
I am hoping for a bridge, but good (bridgy is opt-in, making it useless).
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Yes, this does help, but atproto as a whole still doesn't scale well:
In the beginning of our network, we have 26 users, which conveniently for us map to each letter of the English alphabet: [Alice, Bob, Carol, ... Zack]. Each user sends one message per day, which is intended to have one recipient. (This may sound unrealistic, but this is fine to do to model our scenario.) To simplify things, we'll have each user send a message in a ring: Alice sends a message to Bob, Bob sends a message to Carol, and so on, all the way up to Zack, who simply we wrap around and have message Alice. This could be because these messages have specific intended recipients or it could be because Bob is the sole "follower" of Alice's posts, Carol is the sole "follower" of Bob's, etc.Let's look at what happens in a single day under both systems.
Under message passing, Alice sends her message to Bob. Only Bob need receive the message. So on and so forth.
From an individual self-hosted server, only one message is passed per day: 1.
From the fully decentralized network, the total number of messages passed, zooming out, is the number of participants in the network: 26.
Under the public-gods-eye-view-shared-heap model, each user must know of all messages to know what may be relevant. Each user must receive all messages.From an individual self-hosted server, 26 messages must be received.
Zooming out, the number of messages which must be transmitted in the day is 26 * 26: 676, since each user receives each message.
Okay, so what does that mean? How bad is this? With 26 users, this doesn't sound like so much. Now let's add 5 users.
Under message passing:
Per server, still 1 message received per user per day.
Per the network, it's 5 extra messages transmitted per day, which makes sense: we've added 5 users.
Under the public-gods-eye-view-shared-heap model:Per server: 5 new messages received per user per day.
Per the network, it's ((31 * 31) - (26 * 26)): 285 new messages per day!
But we aren't actually running networks of 26 users. We are running networks of millions of users. What would happen if we had a million self-hosted users and five new users were added to the network? Zooming out, once again, the message passing system simply has five new messages sent. Under the public shared heap model, it is 10,000,025 new messages sent! For adding five new self-hosted users! (And that's even just with our simplified model of only sending one message per day per user!)
Source: dustycloud.org/blog/re-re-blue…
As well as this, if there was a reddit-like atproto AppView, setting up multiple instances of it would still result in the same problems.
But this is assuming private messages no?
When 99% of the public traffic is on posts that will federate to most servers, this model becomes irrelevant.
The surprising advantages of a colony on Titan
Let's Colonize Titan
Saturn's largest moon might be the only place beyond Earth where humans could liveCharles Wohlforth (Scientific American)
[Article] Human breathing patterns are as unique as our fingerprints
Just like fingerprints, your breathing patterns may be a unique identifying feature. Scientists have found they can identify people with 96.8% accuracy using only their breathing patterns. And it's not just simple identification, researchers say they can even predict Body Mass Index (BMI), state (sleeping or awake), and cognitive traits (anxiety or depression) from the way you breathe.
Human breathing patterns are as unique as our fingerprints
Just like fingerprints, your breathing patterns may be unique. Scientists found they can identify people using only breathing patterns. And it's not just identification, researchers can predict BMI, and anxiety or depression from the way you breathe.Jay Kakade (New Atlas)
Emmanuel Macron’s Bid to Divide the Left Is Paying Off
One year since the New Popular Front won a surprise election victory, France’s left looks more divided than ever. This month’s Socialist congress showed how much the party is at loggerheads with Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s France Insoumise.
Democratize AI or Make the AI Oligarchy an Inevitability
Artificial intelligence technologies are leading us to a critical juncture, forcing a fundamental rethinking of both work and the welfare state. This is a field where early surrender, allowing capital to shape the future, is not an option.
Hurricane-killing particles could sabotage storms before they grow
There have been some wildly ambitious schemes to knock the power out of hurricanes and cyclones over the years. Now, scientists believe they have come up with a way to successfully subdue these destructive storms, long before they have a chance to reach land.
Hurricane-killing particles could sabotage storms before they grow
There have been some wildly ambitious schemes to knock the power out of hurricanes over the years. Now, scientists believe they have come up with a way to successfully subdue these destructive storms, long before they have a chance to reach land.Bronwyn Thompson (New Atlas)
Trump’s Iran War Is a Betrayal We All Saw Coming
It took less than half a year for Donald Trump to renege on the promises he incessantly made on the campaign trail and plunge the country into another dumb, potentially bloody Middle East war no one wants.
After Trump's Bombing, Sanders Condemns 'Lies' Over Iran Nuclear Threat
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders condemns Trump's lies justifying bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities, warns against repeating history of disastrous wars based on falsehoods. #NoMoreWar
After Trump's Bombing, Sanders Condemns 'Lies' Over Iran Nuclear Threat
"We cannot allow ourselves to be dragged into another Middle East war based on lies."julia-conley (Common Dreams)
Zohran Mamdani vs. New York Landlords
The real estate industry is pouring millions into Andrew Cuomo’s mayoral campaign in an effort to stop the robust pro-tenant candidacy of Zohran Mamdani.
The Liberals Are Bailing Out Canada Post Management Again
The federal government is doing management’s bidding by undermining CUPW and forcing a vote on a substandard offer.
Moth flying into the hot light bulb: Bzzt Gets fried
190 Millions years of evolution lost to human progress, onwards!
Calls for Impeachment Grow as Trump Floats 'Regime Change' in Iran
President Trump floats regime change in Iran as calls for impeachment grow in response to U.S. strikes on Iran.
Calls for Impeachment Grow as Trump Floats 'Regime Change' in Iran
The striking of Iranian nuclear sites without congressional approval, said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, "is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment."eloise-goldsmith (Common Dreams)
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US | House Bans WhatsApp on Congressional Staff Devices Over Security Concerns
The U.S. House chief administrative officer has banned WhatsApp from congressional staffers' government devices citing data vulnerability concerns. The cybersecurity office deemed the messaging app "high-risk" due to lack of transparency in data protection, absence of stored data encryption, and potential security risks, according to an email obtained by Axios.
Met Police chief 'shocked' by planned Palestine Action protest in London
Met Police chief 'shocked' by planned Palestine Action protest in London
The force says it cannot legally stop Monday's protest in support of the pro-Palestine group.Jacqueline Howard (BBC News)
‘Never give up nuclear weapons’: what Israel-Iran conflict tells North Korea
How Israel-Iran conflict hardens North Korea’s nuclear resolve
With lessons drawn from Ukraine and now Iran, Pyongyang’s commitment to its ‘irreversible’ nuclear status is firmer than ever, analysts say.Park Chan-kyong (South China Morning Post)
What is the best degoogled tablet for an artist?
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/31808224
Please see the cross-post as it is updated.
What is the best degoogled tablet for an artistwhat is the best tablet for iodeOS, GrapheneOS and LineageOS
- with smooth stylus support that is as good as apple pen
- palm rejection
- pressure sensitive stylus
- works well for krita / excalidraw / xournalapp
- latency
- at least 16GB RAM and 256GB storageFor iodeOS, it doesn't seem to support any tablet device officially
- iodéOS official supported devices - iodéFor GrapheneOS, the only choice is google pixel tablet (or maybe pixel fold). However
- pixel tablet have latency issue
- based on Google Pixel Tablet Review - YouTube
- pixel fold does not support stylus
- workaround This Stylus Pen works with the Google Pixel Fold - YouTube
- Can someone share their GrapheneOS pixel tablet experience on krita / excalidraw / xournalapp?For LineageOS
- What tablet+stylus+LineageOS has the best performance?
- What tablet+stylus+LineageOS has the best balance between price and performance?
- Can someone share their stylus experience on krita / excalidraw / xournalapp?Sincere thanks
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/31808224
Please see the cross-post as it is updated.
iodéOS official supported devices - iodé
The models below are officially supported by the iodé team. Don’t see your device in the list? Don’t panic! We also support a iodéOS GSI. You can also find here a list of unofficially supported models by the iodé community.iodé
What I don’t get is why lefty Canadians were so against Alberta leaving Canada.
Sounds like a plus to me…
Israel strikes Iran's Evin prison in Tehran
Israel strikes Iran's Evin prison in Tehran
Israel said its carrying out strikes inside Iran with 'unprecedented intensity,' destroying numerous security offices and damaging the gate at Tehran's infamous Evin Prison. DW has the latest.Jon Shelton (Deutsche Welle)
Iyo vs. Io — OpenAI and Jony Ive get sued
Iyo vs. Io — OpenAI and Jony Ive get sued
In May, legendary Apple designer Jony Ive hooked up with OpenAI to announce an unspecified gadget. [WSJ, archive] To promote this complete vaporware, OpenAI released a video of Sam Altman and Ive b…Pivot to AI
US strikes on Iran did not violate international law, NATO’s Rutte says
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Map shows where President Barack Obama dropped his 20,000 bombs | The Independent
Outgoing US leader carries out 3,000 more strikes in 2016 than year beforeHarriet Agerholm (The Independent)
Belgium: Activists blockade access to 2 companies they accuse of “complicity with Israeli genocide in Gaza”
The protest started at around 7:45 am on Monday. Protesters blocked the entrance to the Syensqo chemical company in Brussels and OIP Sensor Systems in Tournai (Hainaut Province). OIP Sensor Systems is entirely owned by Elbit, an Israeli arms company.
At Syensqo in Brussels the activists blocked all the access routes to the company and painted the front of the office building red. The company supplies parts for Israeli drones.
"Syensqo knowingly supplies a key component for a weapon known for its use in Israeli war crimes. Syensqo cannot deny its complicity in the ongoing genocide”, the activists said in a statement.
Meanwhile, in Tournai, activists entered a warehouse used by OIP, where they painted equipment that is being stored inside red.
Activists blockade access to 2 companies they accuse of “complicity with Israeli genocide in Gaza” | VRT NWS: news
Activists blocked access to 2 companies with links to Israel on Monday morning. They accuse the companies of complicity in what they describe as “genocidal acts” of the part of Isreal in Gaza.VRT NWS
"Mass layoff" provision in Trump bill sparks alarm: "Deeply concerning"
'Mass Layoff' Provision in Trump Bill Sparks Alarm: 'Deeply Concerning'
"This [bill] would basically give [Trump] carte blanche to refashion the entire federal government," Ben Olinksy told Newsweek.Sophie Clark (Newsweek)
if you want to force your way into World War 3 this seems like a brilliant idea.
Feels more like a speed run, the actors of this conflict don’t have many days left.
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in reply to Dialectical Idealist • • •Dagwood222
in reply to Dialectical Idealist • • •Funny how every time the GIOP does something awful we see a lot of BoTh SIdes ArE The SAMe memes.
No actual plans or ideas, but lots of memes telling people not to vote.
ZeroHora
in reply to Dagwood222 • • •Is the response for "if was Kamala nothing of this would happen".
"The strongest, most lethal fighting force in the world." would do the same fucking shit
Dagwood222
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in reply to ZeroHora • • •Zerush
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in reply to Zerush • • •you missed the point. democrats are not leftists and will be just as bad.
don't blame leftists for how fascists coopt an electoral system in their favour.
Zerush
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in reply to Zerush • • •leftists aren't really voting for trump though. most leftists i know vote for the lesser evil, but with the consciousness it ain't doing much.
the way fascism coopts the masses and capitalism lets it, thats literally fascism running its course. its been documented throughout history.
it comes up when capitalism is in crisis and the people aren't aware of the class war being fought against them. part of that comes from thinking politics is just voting for the lesser evil.
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in reply to Zerush • • •☂️-
in reply to Dagwood222 • • •leftists offer plenty of solutions starting with unionization. and much more depending on which poison you pick.
first things first though you need to notice you won't be able to vote fascism away.
Dagwood222
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in reply to Dagwood222 • • •mienshao
in reply to ☂️- • • •You just fucking said you can’t vote away fascism. So if fascism is already here, which it is, you’re saying it can’t be voted away, which HEAVILY implies that one shouldn’t vote cuz it’s pointless; fascism can’t be voted away, so why vote?
Do you need any other explanations, you obtuse jackass pretending not to know how language works?
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in reply to mienshao • • •thats your conclusion. i literally don't care if you bother voting.
i even stated this much, how is that so hard to understand? do you need me to clarify something? why the fuck are you that angry?
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in reply to Dagwood222 • • •Cowbee [he/they]
in reply to Dagwood222 • • •Leftists are always telling you to read theory and organize. Here's a Marxist-Leninist intro reading list, and the Party for Socialism and Liberation is a good org to join.
Cowbee [he/they]
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in reply to Dialectical Idealist • • •TrippyFocus
in reply to mienshao • • •Nowhere in this meme does it say that “both sides are the same”. It’s (correctly) showing how both parties don’t give a shit about the working class.
Republicans are horrible but you can’t expect the Democrats to save or help you from them after we have tons of evidence showing they will also break strikes, pass right wing immigration laws, attack protesters, support genocide, and do almost nothing to stop rising fascism.
Also trying to diminish supplying and funding a genocide to just “a single foreign policy issue” is pretty fucked up and not even accurate. Leftists were willing to overlook hundreds of issues we had with Kamala as a candidate if she could just do the bare fucking minimum of not actively funding and supplying a genocide and she couldn’t even do that.
Cowbee [he/they]
in reply to mienshao • • •Fascism and liberalism are not distinct ideologies, but the same ideology in different circumstances. Liberalism is the nice mask, fascism is the brutal one, and Capitalism will use whichever the bourgoeisie feels is necessary to maintain control and profits.
Critiquing liberalism is a "left" thing, not an "alt-left" thing, and I don't even know what that means.