As cars increasingly become computers on wheels, the attack surface for digital malfeasance increases. [PCAutomotive] has shared its exploit for turning the 2020 Nissan Leaf into 1600 kg RC car. [P…
The architecture of the Oregon Coast is always interesting to me. It’s a subtle biome change that has a lot of consequences in how a building looks–seeing houses like these just over the coastal range would be very rare indeed.
Also structurally, I’m really fond of this capture, it feels like a sandwich between heaven and earth and humanity gets the middle fifth of the image.
A Gaza, il collasso del sistema idrico minaccia migliaia di bambini: solo il 40% degli impianti funziona e manca il carburante per produrre acqua potabile.
La deputata del Movimento 5 stelle, Anna Laura Orrico, ha preso poziione contro le polemiche omofobe lanciate dal leghista sasso contro il Catanzaro Pride.
La leghista Isabella Tovaglieri rende onore ad un lavoratore che truffava lo stato, facendosi pagare dall'Inps per permessi fasulli richiesti sulla base di false richieste di assistenza ai parenti disabili.
It's a very non-representative, very small sample. The error bars in the statistical inference to the whole population includes both "very common" and "one-in-a-million".
What delayed my personal decision was 1) new, scary health issues I've been dealing with, and 2) personal ambivalence. What swung the balance was the fact that (maybe, hopefully) I'm not going blind anytime soon, plus I was really starting to miss sharing my BD findings with the world. (more on why I feel so driven on that in a future post, perhaps)
But why PieFed, anyway? Welp, because it will seemingly allow a bunch of our classic content to be preserved. I feel like that's very much a good thing rather than 'completely starting over.'
But what if the move doesn't work out for reasons X, Y or Z? Then we'll move to the next-best instance that I know of in the few days we have left here, and I'll be sure to mark that heavily across our sub/community, so that people will have an idea where to follow us who are looking at cached versions of EGN+.
Btw, huge thanks to Thomas Verguet & Bastien Orenge for this artwork from Magellan, which I hope to get to, one of these days. (boy, I sure seem to say that a lot, lately XD)
Oh, and sadly, I'm not quite sure how to do a group-invite to our ~1,260 subscribers to the new place. If anyone reading has some expertise on that, now would be a nice time to chime in... 😅
Btw2, "PieFed" as I understand it is not just a classic instance, but also a significant 'dev' instance (like Lemmy.ML) that's a major fork of the Lemmy software which federates beautifully upon the Fediverse. Eh, note-- I'm not trying to point fingers or be an ass here, but PF really does seem like it's one of our sister/brother software variations that works in all the right ways with our own Lemmy / FV software and community... if that makes sense?
I just migrated a community from Lemmy to Piefed using the migration feature, it worked quite well
Context: I tried to use the Piefed migration feature to migrate !barcelona@[url=https://lemm.ee/]lemm.ee[/url] to !barcelona@piefed.social
piefed.social/c/barcelona now exists, with all the existing posts there, as well as the icon and description.
It even moved some subscribers (there are around 100 now), from what I understand those were Piefed subscribers that got automatically moved.
The one caveat is that from Lemmy instances, the community doesn't have show old posts (see lemm.ee/c/barcelona@piefed.soc…), but if you were restarting a community from scratch you wouldn't have access to your old posts anyway.
This ensure that at least the posts are transferred to a community on an active instance, which is probably the main concern for lemm.ee communities at the moment.
When using the 'migrate tool,' I don't seem to be seeing a 'closing message' as I'd hoped, but maybe the form isn't set up to give me one? Eh, whatever. So then, here's an extra confirmation attempt to make it clear that I'm asking PF to migrate my classic Lemm.ee community over to PF, as follows:
What delayed my personal decision was 1) new, scary health issues I've been dealing with, and 2) personal ambivalence. What swung the balance was the fact that (maybe, hopefully) I'm not going blind anytime soon, plus I was really starting to miss sharing my BD findings with the world. (more on why I feel so driven on that in a future post, perhaps)
But why PieFed, anyway? Welp, because it will seemingly allow a bunch of our classic content to be preserved. I feel like that's very much a good thing rather than 'completely starting over.'
But what if the move doesn't work out for reasons X, Y or Z? Then we'll move to the next-best instance that I know of in the few days we have left here, and I'll be sure to mark that heavily across our sub/community, so that people will have an idea where to follow us who are looking at cached versions of EGN+.
Btw, huge thanks to Thomas Verguet & Bastien Orenge for this artwork from Magellan, which I hope to get to, one of these days. (boy, I sure seem to say that a lot, lately XD)
Oh, and sadly, I'm not quite sure how to do a group-invite to our ~1,260 subscribers to the new place. If anyone reading has some expertise on that, now would be a nice time to chime in... 😅
Btw2, "PieFed" as I understand it is not just a classic instance, but also a significant 'dev' instance (like Lemmy.ML) that's a major fork of the Lemmy software which federates beautifully upon the Fediverse. Eh, note-- I'm not trying to point fingers or be an ass here, but PF really does seem like it's one of our sister/brother software variations that works in all the right ways with our own Lemmy / FV software and community... if that makes sense?
Google’s Gemini team is apparently sending out emails about an upcoming change to how Gemini interacts with apps on Android devices. The email informs users that, come July 7, 2025, Gemini will be able to “help you use Phone, Messages, WhatsApp, and Utilities on your phone, whether your Gemini Apps Activity is on or off.” Naturally, this has raised some privacy concerns among those who’ve received the email and those using the AI assistant on their Android devices.
It didn’t take long for conservatives to lose their minds after Zohran Mamdani’s apparent upset over Andrew Cuomo in the Tuesday night Democratic primary in the New York City mayoral race.
Why? He’s a 33-year-old democratic socialist who has promised free buses and free child care, and to freeze the rent. But the fact that seems to most trigger some on the right is that he is Muslim, and would be the first Muslim ever elected the city’s mayor if he wins in November.
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), Laura Loomer, and Charlie Kirk were among the right-wingers who fired off Islamophobic smears about Mamdani and Muslim New Yorkers to their millions of followers after Cuomo’s surprising concession. The posts come days after reports that Mamdani has faced threats and attacks prompting an investigation by the NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force.
Elise Stefanik, Laura Loomer, and Charlie Kirk posted Islamophobic smears despite reports that Mamdani has faced threats and Islamophobic attacks prompting a police investigation.
The recent ceasefire declared between Iran and the U.S.-Israel axis might appear to be a temporary pause in escalating tensions. However, it reflects a
Un prezioso capo di abbigliamento, Tarkhan Dress, la cui importanza venne riconosciuta solo nel 1977, quando gli esperti del Victoria and Albert Museum di Londra capirono che quel tessuto consunto, considerato per anni un mucchio di stracci, era un abito che risaliva all'epoca dei primi faraoni dell'Antico Egitto.
Il più antico abito cucito a mano è una tunica con scollo a V (la parte inferiore è andata perduta). Fu indossato da una donna nell'antico Egitto, 5mila anni fa.
Harper is an English grammar checker designed to be just right. I created it after years of dealing with the shortcomings of the competition.
Grammarly was too expensive and too overbearing. Its suggestions lacked context, and were often just plain wrong. Not to mention: it's a privacy nightmare. Everything you write with Grammarly is sent to their servers. Their privacy policy claims they don't sell the data, but that doesn't mean they don't use it to train large language models and god knows what else. Not only that, but the round-trip-time of the network request makes revising your work all the more tedious.
LanguageTool is great, if you have gigabytes of RAM to spare and are willing to download the ~16GB n-gram dataset. Besides the memory requirements, I found LanguageTool too slow: it would take several seconds to lint even a moderate-size document.
That's why I created Harper: it is the grammar checker that fits my needs. Not only does it take milliseconds to lint a document, take less than 1/50th of LanguageTool's memory footprint, but it is also completely private.
Another big problem of languagetool is that they "forgot" to add any kind of authentication in the self hosted version, so even if you have gigabytes of unused memory it can't be published online
I like this but I hate that's maintained by automattic. One day Matt gets drunk in a xitter fight and discontinues the product just to prove his point. He's as unstable as elon
Last week, I wrote about alternatives to Meta’s WhatsApp. While WhatsApp offers end-to-end encryption, the many privacy issues with both Meta in general and WhatsApp in particular provide many reasons to stay away or move away from WhatsApp. I, myself, ha
Last week, I wrote about alternatives to Meta’s WhatsApp. While WhatsApp offers end-to-end encryption, the many privacy issues with both Meta in general and WhatsApp in particular provide many reasons to stay away or move away from WhatsApp. I, myself, have never used WhatsApp, but I want to be as thorough as possible in providing solutions for the Meta problem.
This week, we take a look at Threads, the micro blogging service which Meta released in 2023 to take advantage of the mass exodus from Twitter after Elon Musk’s purchase in 2022. As with other Meta services, Threads comes with its fair share of issues. Before Threads was out of beta, TechCrunch reported that Threads was a “privacy nightmare”:
Information provided about the app’s privacy via mandatory disclosures required on iOS shows the app may collect highly sensitive information about users in order to profile their digital activity — including health and financial data, precise location, browsing history, contacts, search history and other sensitive information.
Lomas, N. (2023, July 5). Meta’s Threads app is a privacy nightmare that won’t launch in EU yet. TechCrunch. techcrunch.com/2023/07/05/thre…
While Threads initially grew quickly, reaching 100 million users within days of its launch, Meta stopped reporting their user count, so any reported current user counts are estimates at best.
Threads other issue is that, as part of Meta, there is no longer any fact-checking to attempt to counter misinformation and extremism on the platform. This decision came shortly before Donald Trump began his second term as US President and was a clear capitulation to Trump and Republicans, who have used misinformation and extremism as tools in their continuing war to establish fascism.
Export Your Threads Data
Before leaving Threads, the first thing we’ll do is export our account data for backup and archival purposes. Fortunately, Meta provides instructions on how to do this.
Go to instagram.com.
Click Menu in the bottom left, then click Settings.
Click Account at the top.
Click Download your information.
Enter the email address where you’d like to receive a link to your data, then click Request Download.
Enter your Instagram account password and click Next in the top right, then click Done.
You’ll receive an email titled Your Threads Data with a link to your data. Click Download data and follow the instructions to finish downloading your information.
What’s confusing is that the option to download your Threads data is actually under your Instagram account. Be sure to select your Instagram account, choose the “Some of your information” option, and then check the box for Threads in the list of information choices under your Instagram accounts. You will also have the ability to select the data format (HTML or JSON) and how far back you want to download (I selected “all time”). Once your data is ready to download, you will receive an email notification with a link to start the download.
Since I’ve only been on Threads for a few months, my download was ready within minutes and was just a few megabytes in size. If you’ve been on longer or posted a lot of media, your data will take longer to process and download. You should also note that you only have 4 days to download your data before it expires, though you can re-submit your request at any time.
Delete Your Threads Account
Originally, you couldn’t delete your Threads account without also deleting your Instragram account. That, of course, was very unpopular, and Meta eventually made it possible to just kill your Threads account. Just follow these simple steps:
To permanently pull the plug on your account, make sure you’re signed into the Threads app. Tap the profile icon in the lower right on the bottom toolbar, tap the double-lined icon in the upper right, and then select Account. At the Account screen, tap Deactivate or Delete profile. Tap the button at the bottom for Delete profile.
Enter your password in the password field and then confirm your action by tapping Delete Threads profile. A message pops up telling you that your account is scheduled for deletion, an action that will occur in another 30 days. Until that time, you will no longer be visible on Threads. If you change your mind, just sign back into your account. Otherwise, wait for the 30 days to pass for your account to be permanently removed.
Whitney, L. (2025, January 13). How to Delete a Threads Profile Without Getting Rid of Your Instagram Account. PCMAG; PCMag. pcmag.com/how-to/how-to-delete…
Threads Alternatives
When Elon Musk bought Twitter and started morphing it into his own personal Truth Social, I had looked at alternative micro blogging sites I could move two. There were two main alternatives then and they are still the front-runners now.
Bluesky first appeared as an invite only service in October 2022, right around the time Musk took over Twitter. The service has iOS and Android apps for mobile and has released its code as open source, allowing anybody to create an account on the service for free. The service grew in a big way thanks to the influx of Brazilian accounts created with the impending shutdown of Twitter in the country in late 2024. There are even projects in the works to make the Bluesky service federated and visible to other services, including…
I am listing these two services together as they are both similar. Both Mastodon and Pleroma are free open source micro blogging platforms, similar to Bluesky. The difference is that these services are decentralized and federated. What this means is that, unlike most major social media platforms like Threads and Facebook, which are their own “walled gardens” and won’t play nice with others, there are many Mastodon and Plerorma servers on the web which CAN talk to one another. This is similar to how email works, but for micro blogging. For example, my Mastodon account is hosted on a server called twit.social, but I can see and respond to posts from other Mastodon servers such as mastodon.social, writing.exchange, social.coop, and others. I can also see and respond to other services on the “Fediverse“, including Pixelfed (photo sharing), Diaspora (Facebook alternative), Bookwyrm (book and reading social sharing), and others.
Do you have a Bluesky, and/or Mastodon/Pleroma account? Post your account info in the comments. My accounts are located at:
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For many thousands of Albanians, Filma24 was the top destination for pirated movies and TV shows. This weekend, however, that routine came to an abrupt halt when the site and many of its backup domains went offline. All signs point to an intervention from anti-piracy group ACE and parent organization the Motion Picture Association (MPA), which is the new owner of Filma24's domain names.
:::Torrent sites also have the issue of being centralised by having a domain and servers at some place. Imo the reason torrent sites are targeted less is that they are more inconvenient and thus less of a focus for anti-piracy groups. They generally focus on the most prominent way to infringe on their copyright.
Given the increase in piracy services taken down lately, I wouldn't be surprised if a torrent site was hit at some point too. Unfortunately ;)
The Redditor was experiencing problems with his Asus TUF Gaming Radeon RX 9070 XT OC Edition graphics card, leading him to return it to Micro Center for a replacement. Although the replacement GPU's packaging is labeled for the Asus TUF Gaming Radeon RX 9070 XT OC Edition, the actual card inside features a shroud marked with both AMD Radeon and GeForce RTX branding. This unusual hardware issue appears to be a manufacturing mistake by Asus, directly stemming from the company's production line.
By MEE correspondent in Tehran Published date: 24 June 2025 15:22 BST
"In the middle of an empty street in Tehran, a young man stood playing the violin. As fear of Israeli air strikes drove people indoors at nightfall, his music carried through the quiet neighbourhoods, offering residents a moment of solace and peace.
“I just wanted to remind my fellow citizens that the lovely sound of love and music is louder than the terrifying sound of bombs and explosions,” the musician, who didn't want to share his name, told Middle East Eye.
“I’m not into politics at all, but I wanted to give love to the people around me and remind them that life is still going on.”"
As Israeli bombs fell and Iran's air defence systems lit up the skies over Tehran, music drifted through parts of the city.
In the middle of an empty street in Tehran, a young man stood playing the violin.
By Rayhan Uddin Published date: 24 June 2025 17:51 BST Last update:~13:30 EDT
"It [Israel] attacked Iranian nuclear and military facilities, and assassinated high-profile security, intelligence and military figures, as well as nuclear scientists.
Tehran, which denies it seeks a nuclear weapon, retaliated with ballistic missile strikes on Israeli towns and cities. At least 439 Iranians were killed and 28 in Israel.
While the assault left Iran undoubtedly damaged, it nonetheless provided lessons about its nuclear and military capabilities, as well as the domestic standing of the Islamic Republic itself."
By MEE staff Published date: 24 June 2025 22:12 BST Last update:~17:20 EDT
"CNN reported on Tuesday that an initial assessment of the strikes by the US Defence Intelligence Agency was that the main components of Iran’s nuclear programme were intact and likely only set back by months.
This flies in the face of Trump saying that the US air strikes “completely and totally obliterated” Iran’s nuclear programme. The White House trumpeted its bombing of Iran’s Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz enrichment complexes as a major military feat that surprised Iran."
Iris Dayana Monterroso-Lemus spent three days asking guards at Richwood Correctional Center for help before she was hospitalized, where physicians said she lost her pregnancy due to a lack of prenatal care
ICE's treatment of undocumented immigrants raises concerns as a woman's experience highlights what she described as inadequate medical care while in detention.
[Since this article was written, #Mamdani has won the Democratic primary.]
"The prospect a Mamdani victory is deeply worrying to many of the Wall Street bankers, corporate executives, real estate developers, mega-landlords and others who are bankrolling #Cuomo... Backers include billionaire former Mayor Michael Bloomberg; financiers Bill Ackman and Dan Loeb; Wall Street titans Blair Effron, Steve Rattner, and Antonio Weiss; Palantir founder and co-CEO Alex Karp; and former President Bill Clinton."
"This is a tale that we're seeing across this country, where it's a battle of organized money versus organized people," Zohran Mamdani said on the eve of the election.
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Gaussian distributions.