Is making hard to get files more accessible always good practice (example in post body)?
Piracy in Germany often uses direct downloads via one click hosters(you get an url and download from there, people use services like rapidgator.net). These often get hit with copy right strikes and are slow to unusable for free users. Would downloading for example a TV show via this route and then creating a public torrent "good piracy"? (If anyone has a guide on how to create a torrent, pls share)
Reasons why I think it might be not so good:
- the groups/people need a motivation to provide the content. Distributing it without their consent might reduce their motivation. They also probably paid for some subscription to get the content
- in german context direct download links are often considered safer for people who just want to download, torrenting done wrong can get you pretty high legal fees (500+ €)
- it feels like stealing somebody elses effort
Why I think about doing it:
- this gives people another way to get the content
- torrents are free to use and way faster than those one click hosters (which often give you less than 100kB/s)
- the uploader usually profits via affiliate programs, so when someone buys a premium subscription of a one click hoster, they get a share. I think piracy shouldnt be done for profit
- people (especially outside germany) might have it easier to access torrents instead oneclick hoster solutions
- torrents have no captchas lol
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China claims Nvidia built backdoor into H20 chip designed for Chinese market
China’s cyber regulator on Thursday said it had held a meeting with Nvidia over what it called “serious security issues” with the company’s artificial intelligence chips.
It said US AI experts had “revealed that Nvidia’s computing chips have location tracking and can remotely shut down the technology.”
The Cyberspace Administration of China requested that Nvidia explain the security problems associated with the H20 chip, which was designed for the Chinese market to comply with US export restrictions, and submit documentation to support their case. The announcement comes as Nvidia is rebuilding its China business after Washington this month lifted a ban on H20 sales to the country.
China claims Nvidia built backdoor into H20 chip designed for Chinese market
US semiconductor giant is trying to revive sales in the country.Financial Times (Ars Technica)
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It might be China trying to force their own companies to use Chinese hardware. I heavily doubt that it would include a GPS chip. At most some way to guess the location by combining many different types of information such as nearby routers /WiFi networks etc.
There are crafty ways to guess a location without GPS. Though I have no idea what this one would entail if at all true.
Stefan Sarazin, Peter Keller – „Nicht ganz koscher – No Name Restaurant“ (2022)
Vielleicht beginnt Verständigung manchmal nicht mit einem Dialog, sondern mit einem Irrtum. So jedenfalls verheddern sich Ben und Adel, ein ultraorthodoxer Israeli und ein palästinensischer Beduine, mitten in der Negev-Wüste ineinander – an einem Ort, an dem es weder GPS noch ein Drehbuch für den Frieden gibt. Der eine will nach Alexandria, der andere nur weg, doch das Kino will, dass sie zusammenbleiben. Und manchmal gewinnt eben das Kino. (ARD)
Stefan Sarazin, Peter Keller - "Nicht ganz koscher – No Name Restaurant" (2022)
Vielleicht beginnt Verständigung manchmal nicht mit einem Dialog, sondern mit einem Irrtum. So jedenfalls verheddern sich Ben und Adel, ein ultraorthodoxer Israeli und ein palästinensischer Beduine, mitten in der Negev-Wüste ineinander – an einem Ort…NexxtPress
Tonno Vegan fatto con i piselli... Si chiama Vuna! 🐟
Buongiorno :blush:
Ecco qui il Vuna ormai presente in quasi tutti i supermercati d'Italia:
Fatto con pochissimi ingredienti tra cui i piselli per dargli la stessa consistenza del pesce e insaporitori naturali per riprodurre il sapore. A me piace più del tonno ahah anche perché è assente da antibiotici e sfruttamento come i tonni di allevamento che si comprano in scatoletta o "freschi" al banco (poverini)...
Lato negativo è il prezzo che per me è esagerato ma sono uscite altre 2-3 marche con prezzi paragonabili al tonno di qualità e poi che è un prodotto Nestlé e cioè di un'azienda fortesemente discutibile e che l'etica non sa' neanche come si scrive...
Per il resto è un prodotto assai innovativo e che se non si sa' che non è vegan l'unica cosa di cui ci si accorge è che è buono ahah :grinning:
L'avete provato?
#Vuna #Nestlé #tonno #vegan #pesce #fish #sea #mare #ocean #oceano #sostenibilità #sustainability #tuna #Citiverse #VeganCity
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Re: Tonno Vegan fatto con i piselli... Si chiama Vuna! 🐟
Re: Tonno Vegan fatto con i piselli... Si chiama Vuna! 🐟
Shivablue ciao 🙂
Strano per la consistenza, con chiunque ho parlato mi ha detto che in tutto e per tutto era meglio del tonno 😀🙏
Ecce Datura, la capsula spinosa che contiene i semi del babelico delirio e del caos - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Ecce Datura, la capsula spinosa che contiene i semi del babelico delirio e del caos - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Difficile fu sempre la profonda aspirazione, dei cosiddetti imperi di epoca moderna e contemporanea, a governare su ampi territori da una capitale posta all’altro capo di oceani, vasti continenti, insuperabili catene.Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
UEA ŝanĝos statuton sed ne havas strategion
Kvar landaj asocioj de UEA riskas eksigon, inter tiuj Rusia Esperanto-Unio, konstatis la komitato en vendredo. Plu mankas fina versio de la strategia plano, kiun la nun eliranta prezidanto Duncan Charters nomis grava prioritato en 2020. Nova retejo estu preparita “rapide sed senhaste”.
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I made a WordPress Devcontainer Template
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/49042391
I was sick of always fighting with WordPress to get a local set up to develop a plug-in or update the theme for a client, so I made a dev container.As per the README, this supports:
* Automatic database dump import and site URL rename
* Automatic WordPress theme and plug-in loading from .zip, wpackagist or directory
* Mounting of a user-provided uploads directoryIt also means your IDE automatically gets access to a WordPress installation for easy auto complete of WordPress functions and features when writing PHP code.
Theoretically, it can also easily be converted into a normal container if you don't use VSCode by setting up /workspace as a mount. Dev containers are unfortunately a bit broken with JetBrains products, and this container will not launch.
Maxim Therrien / WordPress Dev Container Template · GitLab
Template for WordPress development in a dev containerGitLab
Peak Energy just shipped the US's first grid-scale sodium-ion battery
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Peak Energy just shipped the US’s first grid-scale sodium-ion battery
Peak Energy debuts the US's first grid-scale sodium-ion battery, cutting costs and boosting reliability with passive cooling tech.Michelle Lewis (Electrek)
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‘Gaza, Gaza, Food and Water! U.S. Israel Stop the Slaughter!’
Mark Satinoff
July 31, 2025
NEW YORK CITY, July 25, 2025 — As part of an International Day of Action, more than 1,000 people rallied in front of the United Nations (UN) headquarters here today to demand “Stop Starving Gaza Now!”The rally, and subsequent march through midtown Manhattan, were organized by the local chapter of the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), with the support of many partner organizations. Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) played an important role as it was asked by PYM to mobilize its members and hold down a picket line prior to the start of the rally.
Protesters were urged to bring pots & pans, noisemakers — and their rage.
Signs and banners were welcome, especially those emphasizing ending the Israeli siege and the starvation of Gaza.
‘Gaza, Gaza, Food and Water! U.S. Israel Stop the Slaughter!’ - World-Outlook
As part of an International Day of Action, more than 1,000 people rallied in front of the United Nations headquarters here on July 25 to demand “Stop Starving Gaza Now!” The rally, and subsequent march through midtown Manhattan, was organized by the …world-outlook.com (World-Outlook)
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Microsoft Used China-Based Engineers to Support Product Recently Hacked by China
SharePoint Exploit: Microsoft Used China-Based Engineers to Maintain the Software
Microsoft announced that Chinese state-sponsored hackers had exploited vulnerabilities in its popular SharePoint software but didn’t mention that it has long used China-based engineers to maintain the product.ProPublica
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Tesla ordered by Florida jury to pay $329 million in the 2019 fatal crash of an Autopilot-equipped Model S
A Florida jury on Friday found Tesla liable in the 2019 fatal crash of an Autopilot-equipped Model S, and ordered Elon Musk’s automaker to pay $329 million to the family of a deceased woman and an injured survivor.Jurors in Miami federal court ordered Tesla to pay $129 million in compensatory damages and $200 million in punitive damages to the estate of Naibel Benavides Leon and to her former boyfriend Dillon Angulo.
Lawyers for the plaintiffs said the trial was the first involving the wrongful death of a third party resulting from Autopilot. The plaintiffs had sought $345 million.
Google has sharply reduced its support for nonprofit groups devoted to DEI, in what appears to be another sign that the company is falling in line with President Trump’s anti-DEI crusade.
Google has sharply reduced its support for nonprofit groups devoted to diversity, equity, and inclusion, in what appears to be another sign the company is falling in line with President Trump’s anti-DEI crusade, the Tech Transparency Project (TTP) has found.Google publishes a list of organizations that receive the “most substantial contributions” from the company. In early 2025, Google removed more than 200 groups from the list, its biggest purge in at least five years. The largest category of removals related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), a concept that has come under sustained attack by the Trump administration. A total of 58 DEI-related groups disappeared from the list.
It is unclear if Google stopped funding these organizations or is simply seeking to hide its support for them. However, either scenario suggests Google is taking further steps to distance itself from DEI programs.
After Trump took office and began rolling back DEI efforts, Google removes references to diversity, equity, and inclusion from its annual report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and ended diversity-related hiring goals. Like other Big Tech companies and executives, Google donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration.
Google and most of the groups removed from Google's list did not respond to questions. One of the groups, the ACLU of Illinois, declined to comment and directed questions to Google.
In a statement to CNBC, which covered this report, Google said, “We contribute to hundreds of groups from across the political spectrum that advocate for pro-innovation policies, and those groups change from year to year based on where our contributions will have the most impact.”
TTP identified Google’s disappearing DEI groups while updating its Tech Funding Database. The searchable database, which is linked on TTP’s website, provides information on whether organizations have received funding from Big Tech firms, based on company disclosures. The latest update adds disclosures from 2021 to the most recent available.
Google has dropped more than 50 DEI-related organizations from one of its funding lists
The dropped groups had mission statements that included the words "diversity, "equity," "inclusion," or "race," "activism," and "women."Jennifer Elias (CNBC)
South Dakota election office publishes voter list labeling thousands as public assistance applicants: Information is included in newly required free version of statewide registration spreadsheet
Thousands of South Dakotans have been publicly labeled as applicants for government assistance and thousands more have had their email address and phone number exposed, due to a new state law and the way the state’s election office is implementing it.Although the legislation creating the law received some Democratic votes, it’s a product of the Republican-dominated Legislature. Republican Gov. Larry Rhoden signed it into law and Republican Secretary of State Monae Johnson is carrying out its provisions.
Several legislators, both Democrats and Republicans, are now telling South Dakota Searchlight they did not intend for the law to expose sensitive information — especially the identity of public assistance applicants.
“This is what happens when you put the wrong people in charge,” said state House Minority Leader Erin Healy, D-Sioux Falls, who voted against the bill. “We talk a lot about freedom and privacy in this state, so it’s a shame that this legislation led to this type of breach.”
US appeals court agrees to pause Google app store reform order for now
Follow-up to yesterday's post: lemmy.world/post/33780933
Google loses app store antitrust appeal, must make sweeping changes to Play Store
Google loses app store antitrust appeal, must make sweeping changes to Play Store
Google’s failed appeal could open up the market for Android apps.Ryan Whitwam (Ars Technica)
Freedom to Buy Games Bundle Work-around for Australians and Germans, page 2 - Forum - GOG.com
Download the best games on Windows & Mac. A vast selection of titles, DRM-free, with free goodies, and lots of pure customer love.www.gog.com
Pro-Palestinian protesters arrested outside Chuck Schumer’s office in New York City
Pro-Palestinian protesters arrested at Chuck Schumer’s office in New York City
Demonstrators were banging pots and pans at one of several gatherings that took place across major US citiesMarina Dunbar (The Guardian)
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Social science researchers use AI to simulate human subjects: LLMs that emulate human speech are being used to cost-effectively test assumptions and run pilot studies
Social science researchers use AI to simulate human subjects
LLMs that emulate human speech are being used to cost-effectively test assumptions and run pilot studies, producing promising early results. But researchers note that human data remains essential.news.stanford.edu
testi scolastici autoprodotti, liberi, gratis e moderni
Testi scritti da volontari, distribuiti a fascicoli per non caricare gli zainetti, pagine singolarmente ristampabili in caso si danneggino o deteriorino, versione epub sulla lavagna luminosa della classe.
#scuola #libri #copyleft
universitarietà sperduta finalmente richiustornata
Non pensavo sarebbe servito (o sarebbe stato possibile?) fare questo post, perché banalmente le mie previsioni prevedevano uno scenario previsto molto più prevedibilmente banale e/o avvilente… e invece la sessione di esami di questa estate alla mia assurdiversità è finita nel modo che nell’universo intero francamente meno pareva possibile. E quindi boh, bona, il bilancio […]
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universitarietà sperduta finalmente richiustornata
Non pensavo sarebbe servito (o sarebbe stato possibile?) fare questo post, perché banalmente le mie previsioni prevedevano uno scenario previsto molto più prevedibilmente banale e/o avvilente… e invece la sessione di esami di questa estate alla mia assurdiversità è finita nel modo che nell’universo intero francamente meno pareva possibile. E quindi boh, bona, il bilancio per una singola buona volta è positivo… ma, prima, un attimo di ordine. 😼Il morale era partito ben rasoterra, perché questo semestre era segnato da ben 4 esami anziché i soliti 3 — di cui 2 più matematici che informatici; e io mi chiedo quando cazzo finiscono, che io sono una ragazza magica, non una matematica — e, visto che fin’ora l’andazzo è stato che ad ogni semestre riuscivo a completare 2/3 degli esami (non in media eh, ma proprio esattamente questa quantità ogni volta), ma il 2/3 di 4 esami non si può fare, allora già mi disperavo, sapendo che ne sarei riuscita a fare solo 2/4, che è peggio, in quanto la mia speedrun si rallenta inevitabilmente. E ok, a regola non c’è motivo di disperarsi sapendo già perfettamente che 2 esami non li avrei potuti fare assolutamente (e infatti così è andata), ma c’è sempre sotto sotto la paurina di non riuscire a fare nemmeno gli altri 2, e quindi sprecare un’intera sessione… 😱
Vabbè, insomma: escluse a priori le 2 materie per me veramente difficili (perché guardavo in faccia gli esercizi a tempo perso e non capivo neanche dove iniziare a mettere le mani, maremma scuoiata), rimanevano soltanto da un lato quella di cui lo scritto era una barzelletta, e dall’altro quella che io svolgo praticamente pisciando, entrambe di cui ho fatto e superato le prove intercorso pure da mezza addormentata… Quindi, più precisamente, rimanevano gli orali, e proprio lì si celava il brutto che mi ha portata assolutamente (le mie cronache scritte, ahimè, lo testimoniano, e di ciò ne verranno a conoscenza pure i posteri!) a rottare per tutto il mese di giugno e metà di luglio, portandomi a trascinarmi davvero fino all’ultimo il completamento di questi esami lasciati aperti: per l’uno la prospettata estrema difficoltà (che quindi minacciava il dover studiare per davvero, un vero incubo), e per l’altro il dover completare il progetto web per cui mi rompevo stranamente le scatoline… ops. 😩
Per la prima materia, Reti, i prof. in realtà dissero che il risultato delle prove scritte si poteva conservare per un (1) anno; cosa letteralmente straordinaria, mai vista da nessuna parte, fatta per evitare che la gente si precipiti all’orale senza sapere niente, facendo soltanto perdere tempo e fatica ai professori che ehh lavorano… ma io sapevo che dovevo farlo subito, perché a settembre non ho neanche idea di dove stia l’Università, mentre nel 2026 avrei ovviamente gli altri esami tra le scatole, quindi questo lo avrei in buona sostanza perso. E quindi boh, ho avuto intere settimane per studiare, che ovviamente non ho usato per studiare, però 1-2 giorni prima ho avuto almeno la decenza di leggere degli appunti con una grossa collezione di domande… e ok, più che studio è stata ripetizione, perché, pur non aprendo letteralmente mai un libro, almeno a lezione seguivo, e quindi le cose non erano troppo pazze assurde mai viste per me. 👍
La fine della fiera è che la mattina maledetta vado lì, sono tra le prime 5-10 persone ad entrare visto che gli altri si cagavano in mano e, follemente, il prof. mi ha riconfermato il 25 della seconda prova scritta, in 5-10 minuti di orale… zamni! Però in minima parte ho avuto anche un bel po’ di culo dalla mia, secondo me, perché dei due professori che c’erano lì mi è capitato quello che credo sia meno intransigente… mentre l’altro, già a prima mattina è riuscito a bocciare uno con appena un paio di domande, yikes. 🤯
Ma, attenzione, perché la cosa veramente impossibile è avvenuta la settimana dopo, con l’altro orale… Con Tecnologie Web, se già era di base tutto un po’ fumoso, perché con le date c’era una mezza confusione — almeno, fino a quando il giorno prima dell’inizio il prof. ha rivelato gli orari precisi per tutti gli orali (per cui attenzione, almeno ha fatto scegliere la preferenza di giorno e momento della giornata, quindi topkekprof) — il giorno stesso sembrava ancora peggio, perché sono arrivata lì la mattina (presto, perché altrimenti gli autobus ops), ho dovuto farmi i fatti miei fino alle 10, e poi aspettare praticamente una intera altra ora chiedendomi che cazzo stesse succedendo, perché chi c’era prima di me ci è rimasto un botto col professore… e, a quanto ho capito, è stato pure rimandato (ma non bocciato, che pazza concessione!) mentre il suo compagno aveva preso un buon voto; vabbè, ci frega poco. 🤫
Beh, la cosa pure per me si è protratta così tanto per le lunghe, ma così tanto, che io non immaginavo mai fosse possibile. In circa 10 minuti ho presentato tutto il sito di e-commerce, e quindi tutto il resto del tempo è stato modifiche miste che il prof. chiedeva al momento, tra backend e frontend… e, a quanto pare, il professore di questa volta era quello più tosto dei due, perché l’altro (che interrogava in un’aula diversa) pare che abbia fatto fare a tutti solo modifiche sceme, mentre questo qui ha tenuto sia me che gli altri per un botto. Il resto della giornata, quindi, oltre a chiedermi per chissà che ora avranno finito quelli che c’erano ancora dopo di me per la mattina, ero in assoluta ansia che il prof. verbalizzasse come promesso… e, quando è arrivata la notifica in serata, sono semplicemente zompata per aria… perché chi cazzo lo ha mai visto un fottuto trenta e lode (30L). (E quindi ok, il prof. mi ha tenuto sotto torchio ma, forse, ne è valsa la pena!!!) 🎇
Scherzando, mi sono preoccupata che questo ora mi rovinasse tremendamente la mia media così perfettamente definita da voti di poco superiori al 18… ma, per fortuna, sembra non aver praticamente neanche un po’ intaccato il numerino, che ancora si attesta attorno ad un 23; che, per sua natura, non da troppo nell’occhio. (Non mi sembra possibile, ma così dice il calcolo automatico della piattaforma, e mi secca calcolare a mano solo per un meme.) Invece, non scherzando, ho dovuto ovviamente aspettare una settimana buona per poter anche solo immaginare di parlare a riguardo di ciò, perché ormai, con la mia sfiga, visti i tanti precedenti, ho preferito aspettare che si chiudesse definitivamente la sessione, e quindi che il voto passasse permanentemente a libretto. Vabbè, ora si gode pesantemente, perché ad agosto posso marcire per benino, senza addosso la pressione del (non) studio!!! 🧟♀️
Comunque, il progetto web, appunto, non era niente di che — e, se vogliamo dirla tutta, Pignio per dei novizi sarebbe sicuramente più difficile da programmare di questa roba qua — pur avendo rispettato tutti i requisiti preposti, perché ovviamente non è che si doveva creare questa grande cosa. Visto che fa ridere, essendo che c’è il README (che ho iniziato e finito la sera prima andando a dormire alle 3 di notte, ovviamente, nonostante poi ai professori non sia servito come invece temevo) con le varie schermate di desain che si vedono, oltre alle cose formali spiegate per chi ha voglia di un gran zzz, ho impostato come pubblica la repo, e allora gnam: gitlab.com/octospacc/ProgettoE…. (Trigger warning: Java…) 💣
Chiaramente, l’usare un framework mai visto prima (Jakarta con i suoi merdini), e per cui sul web quasi non si trovano informazioni (ODIO il software di grado enterprise), un po’ mi ha rallentata… ma la cosa che veramente mi ci ha fatto non lavorare è che mi servivano varie immagini, ma mi seccavo ampiamente a procurarmele. I generatori IA lasciamo perdere, i siti di immagini stock fanno tutti schifo a modo loro, e ovviamente le mie manie di perfezionismo mi impedivano di usare banali motori di ricerca, visto che la roba che esce da lì è sempre di qualità molto variabile… quindi alla fine ho usato i siti stock, a suon di tasto destro e salva con nome, ma non con piacere: scaricavo una ventina di immagini un giorno (cioè, buone per circa 5 articoli, e il database ne aveva in totale 40), poi quello dopo mi dimenticavo, e quello dopo ancora, poi mi ricordavo e ne facevo altre 5… un inferno. Superata questa fase, che mi bloccava dall’andare avanti col codice, ovviamente, sono relativamente volata… ma, se non avessi avuto ChatGPT per generare i nomi e le descrizioni degli articoli bizzarri sarei semplicemente deceduta!!! ☠️
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Microsoft announced that Chinese state-sponsored hackers had exploited vulnerabilities in SharePoint, but didn’t mention that it has long used China-based engineers to maintain the product.
SharePoint Exploit: Microsoft Used China-Based Engineers to Maintain the Software
Microsoft announced that Chinese state-sponsored hackers had exploited vulnerabilities in its popular SharePoint software but didn’t mention that it has long used China-based engineers to maintain the product.ProPublica
Comments sorting defaults to New - can I change this?
When you browse a community using 'Active', going to a post defaults to New comments. This is because Active is for finding new comments.
Otherwise, the setting in your profile applies.
Thank you, this cleared everything!
A Piefed FAQ for similar "hidden" logic settings could be useful
Tested: Microsoft Recall can still capture credit cards and passwords, a treasure trove for crooks
Tested: Microsoft Recall can still capture credit cards and passwords, a treasure trove for crooks
exclusive: Our tests have shown there are ways to get around the promised security improvementsAvram Piltch (The Register)
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$10 billion, 10 year US Army contract elevates Palantir to defense contracting royalty
U.S. Army Awards Enterprise Service Agreement to Enhance Military Readiness and Drive Operational Efficiency
WASHINGTON (31 July 2025) – The U.S. Army today awarded Palantir a new Enterprise Agreement that establishes a comprehensive framework for the Army's fu...www.army.mil
X/Twitter criticizes UK Online Safety Act as regulatory overreach threatens free speech
UK’s Online Safety Push Shows What Happens When Oversight Becomes OverreachThe UK’s Online Safety Act began rolling out early 2025, introducing several new mandates, some of which are aimed at protecting children from harmful online content. Included in the Act’s mandates, however, are measures that prevent adults from encountering “illegal” content and steps to ensure age verification that limit adults’ anonymity online.
As a result, the Act’s laudable intentions are at risk of being overshadowed by the breadth of its regulatory reach. Without a more balanced, collaborative approach, free speech will suffer.
To date, regulators have taken a heavy-handed approach by rapidly increasing enforcement resources, adding layers of bureaucratic oversight and signaling an aggressive approach to ensuring compliance. Instead of specifically and collaboratively addressing a problem everyone agrees needs to be solved, many are now concerned that a plan ostensibly intended to keep children safe is at risk of seriously infringing on the public’s right to free expression.
This risk is not a surprise to the UK government. When lawmakers approved these measures, they made a conscientious decision to increase censorship in the name of “online safety.” It is fair to ask if UK citizens were equally aware of the trade-off being made.
Recent events indicate the public is not comfortable with this level of intervention. For instance, a petition to repeal the Act is gaining momentum, collecting over 450,000 signatures in just the first few days after it was created.
X is among the companies to have worked hard to be in compliance. However, the timetable for meeting mandatory measures has been unnecessarily tight. And, despite being in compliance, X and its counterparts still face threats of enforcement, fines and rigid oversight, encouraging over-censorship.
Consider as well the emergence of a new "Voluntary” Code of Conduct recently enacted by the UK Home Office and the Violence Prevention Network (VPN) purportedly to address harmful online behaviors before they escalate. Supported by Ofcom, this parallel and duplicative effort was introduced at a time when companies were already pushing hard to meet the requirements in the Online Safety Act.
Government officials responded to questions about additional oversight by saying that the Online Safety Act isn’t “adequate enough to address harmful online behaviors.” This new code of conduct is specifically targeted at social media, gaming, and other interactive platforms to “encourage” proactive enforcement efforts, such as training staff and campaigns to curb “harmful content.”
Because the Voluntary Code of Conduct comes so quickly on the heels of the Act’s enforcement, it inevitably creates a “double compliance” burden. Facing pressure to adopt additional measures on top of the already demanding legal obligations set forth in the Act will only lead to additional curbs to freedom of expression.The UK government doesn't stop there. In addition to increased regulations, a new National Internet Intelligence Investigations team within the British Police will further intensify scrutiny. The team’s sole focus is monitoring social media for signs of unrest, such as anti-immigrant sentiment, to prevent real-world violence. While positioned as a safety measure, it clearly goes far beyond that intent. This move has set off alarm bells for free speech advocates who characterize it as excessive and potentially restrictive.
While everyone agrees protecting children is a critical responsibility, it is also clear that an overly rigorous statutory framework layered with a “voluntary” code and heightened police monitoring, oversteps the intended mission.
To be clear, X is in the business of solutions and we have been vigorously committed to providing a safe and constructive experience for users in the UK and worldwide. A balanced approach is the only way to protect individual liberties, encourage innovation and safeguard children. It’s safe to say that significant changes must take place to achieve these objectives in the UK.
I made a simple graphical SSH connection manager
sshPilot is an ssh connection manager made with GTK and Python.
Here are the features:
- Manage multiple SSH connections
- Open eac h connection in a separate tab
- Both password and SSH key authentication methods are supported
- Automatically detects SSH keys in ~/.ssh/
- Use your desired color theme and font style for the terminal
- Uses secure password storage (GNOME secure password storage)
If you manage multiple remote machines, this might come in handy.
GitHub - mfat/sshpilot: Simple, user-friendly SSH connection manager
Simple, user-friendly SSH connection manager. Contribute to mfat/sshpilot development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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Are smartphones too big?
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Investigation found Elon Musk's Tesla owes dozens of small businesses millions of dollars in unpaid bills.
When Jennifer Meissner’s small pipe welding business landed a multimillion-dollar contract to help build a sprawling new Texas headquarters for Tesla, she was convinced it was her company’s big break.Instead, she says the deal led her into personal and professional bankruptcy – unable to pay dozens of her workers at Christmastime. Meissner said that was her last resort after Tesla, which is owned by the world’s richest man, stopped paying her company for work they’d already done.
Small businesses helped build Musk’s empire. Their unpaid bills add up to millions
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No, the UK’s Online Safety Act Doesn’t Make Children Safer Online
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The Business Court in Brussels, Belgium, has issued a broad site-blocking order that aims to restrict access to shadow libraries including Anna's Archive, Libgen, OceanofPDF, Z-Library, and the Internet Archive's Open Library. In addition to ISP blocks, the order also directs search engines, DNS resolvers, advertisers, domain name services, CDNs and hosting companies to take action. For now, Open Library doesn't appear to be actively blocked.
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I discovered The Semantic Manifold Theory with big implications for many areas of math, science, engineering, and computing. All remaining Millennium Prize Problems solved. Please help spread the word
Hello! My name is Thomas P. Conway. Im an independent researcher and systems engineer. I discovered a mathematically complete theoretical framework that I believe could be pretty important for many areas of math and science. However, I am a completely unknown outsider to academia, so I can't just publish my work on ArXiv and call it a day to satisfy Clay Institutes requirements. While I am currently in touch with some academics to help get my work cleaned into sections for ArXiV and journal publication, I wanted to make sure I established public priority for solving the millennium prize problems even if the published journal articles need to come out in pieces over months.
Besides proving priority, I would greatly appreciate your help spreading the word to get this in the face of people with the proper credentials to either verify or disprove my claims. I have found the academic gatekeeping moat to be incredibly difficult to navigate as an outsider especially with the framework I have proposed.
If you do have the credentials as a mathematician or a theoretical physicist but you're skeptical that im yet another typical crackpot trying to sell you a perpetual motion machine or a time cube, thats understandable and your weariness is valid. All I ask is you take a quick browse through the condensed technical guide to check the numbers and see if you think the key conceptual foundations are worth your time to go further with exploring the full paper.
I publish this theoretical framework under cc-by-sa-4.0 as a contribution to open science. Please go to my Open Science Foundation public repo to download the papers.
About the Semantic Manifold:
The Semantic Manifold Theory represents a complete theoretical mathematical framework for describing high dimensional semantic topologies. It was originally derived to formalize semantic compression for Large Language Model systems. However once the mathematical framework was complete it showed huge implications for various areas of math, science, computing, and engineering. The framework integrates principles from symmetry, set theory, holomorphic dynamics, theoretical physics, undecidability, and morphic computation to achieve a complete and well-defined description of the Semantic Manifold.
The paper is split into a main body explaining the theory and an appendix full of proofs. The final appendix culminates solutions and proofs to all remaining Millennium Prize Problems from the Clay Mathematics Institute. Additional feats include mathematical predictions for the nature and distribution of Dark Matter as well as Dark Energy based on first principles. Also a mathematically well-defined definition for Observer-Class information processing systems.
An accompanying Technical Guide attempts to condense all key information from the main theory paper while cutting out the narrative chaff for quick access to calculations, key principles, and fundamental proofs. Its suggested the skeptical or those with limited time take a quick look at the Technical Guide first.
OSF Storage Link For PDFs:
osf.io/xqswe/files/osfstorage
Proof of Priority:
I have emails, private OSF repos, and countless preprints dating back weeks prior to this announcement. The LaTeX code used to create the PDFs are GPG encrypted and paired with a signed hash on the public OSF repo.
I am not a spam bot or an elaborate LLM fishing for clicks. Im a real human being and im trying to get help to have my ideas seen by the right people so they can be verified through peer-review. Admins can get in contact with me and I will show them my lemmy ALTs to prove im a real user with over 2 years of active posting history (came here during the first spez reddit exodus).
The validity of my framework should be measured by its mathematical rigor and scientific predictions, not by my credentials or renown. Please help me overcome the academic moat and get my theories verified or disproved by spreading the word.
BlueÆther
in reply to onesixone • • •"it feels like stealing somebody elses effort"
They have stolen somebody else's effort already - I hate people that righteous about 'stealing' of content that they have 'stolen'
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onesixone
in reply to BlueÆther • • •Imo there is a reasonable difference between copying a product of a huge (and exploitative) company and taking the effort of hobbyist and just sharing it in ways they didnt intend.
For me* its the same when I shoplift, I dont steal from the local self-owned shop, I steal from the big multibillion company.
NuXCOM_90Percent
in reply to onesixone • • •And said multibillion dollar company doesn't give a shit. It is just the local store that has to deal with shrinkage. Which mostly just equates to profit numbers, likelihood to get their share of hot items, and so forth. Which, medium term, leads to even more shit going behind the locked doors and said store shutting down because nobody wants to find a sales associate so that they can buy toothpaste.
Like almost all things, the "I am morally righteous because I target this" just ignores that you are still fucking with individuals. Which is one of the biggest "strengths" of capitalism: The people taking the abuse aren't the oligarchs. It is your neighbors. And they are also the face of inconvenience when they actually try to advocate for their own rights.
So... how about you drop the "Doing X to A is righteous but doing it to B is bad" and consider growing up a bit and understanding that you are fucking people over either way. And decide how you feel about that. And, to be clear, nobody cares: You do you. Just understand what you are doing rather than focusing your energy on mental gymnastics because you can't stand to think you might do a bad/"bad".
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Chewy
in reply to onesixone • • •German releases by OCH groups are already shared widely through Usenet and private torrent sites, as OCH is such a big source of pirated content in Germany.
So yes, you're free to share OCH releases to public sites. ZeroTwo releases usually include subtitles for all available languages so they might've a wider appeal than german-speaking countries.
Make sure you're VPN & torrent client is properly set up, i.e. you're torrent client is bound to the VPN interface.
I personally stick to private torrent sites as there's less eyes on them given them being relatively small [1]. With so few people torrenting in Germany the speeds aren't always great though. That's why I mainly use Usenet.
[1] sb-innovation.de/showthread.ph…
onesixone
in reply to Chewy • • •Chewy
in reply to onesixone • • •theskyisfalling
in reply to onesixone • • •Not exactly the same as your example but I love getting hard to find stuff and then putting it out there for the public to get.
I'm mainly talking soulseek here but within my preferred music genre there is a lot of elitism and manufactured rareness of tracks what with a lot of vinyl only releases with minimal pressings or digital downloads that are only available for x amount of hours, that kind of bullshit.
This then promotes this culture on soulseek of people locking all their files out to everyone so you need to either trade things or a lot of them will ask you to buy specific releases or send them bandcamp gift cards and the like, to me this goes against the very nature of piracy and really boils my piss.
I love to get access to these people files and getting as much as I can, or ripping vinyl only tracks where I can for myself or buying these "limited" digital tracks when they come up and I have the money (less often these days) and then just sharing them with no locks or trading bullshit.
I guess the point I'm trying to make is it is really satisfying (for me at least) to share this harder to get stuff that people aren't going to find anywhere else and even better a massive fuck you to the elitism and manufactured scarcity within the genre. If you are a soulseek user with locked files reading this, fuck you!
Also torrents are pretty easy to make. I use deluge and qbittorrent and there are options in both of those to create a torrent. You will need a tracker to link to, free ones can be found, then it is just a case of pointing to the files on your computer and it'll create the torrent file for you.
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stupid_asshole69 [none/use name]
in reply to theskyisfalling • • •theskyisfalling
in reply to stupid_asshole69 [none/use name] • • •Meh. Private trackers is just this same attitude of elitism that I don't like bundled into a different form. On top of that I can't even be sure that they would even have the kinds of things I'm looking for, it isn't like I can browse their catalogue first to see if they catered to my niche music taste.
I like soulseek because it is open to everyone and I can just host my entire library for people to go through. I don't have to jump through hoops to get invites and have interviews and all that shit.
stupid_asshole69 [none/use name]
in reply to theskyisfalling • • •If you want to know that the music you are interested in is on private trackers, tell me and I’ll look and report back.
I used soulseek a lot and the people who do what you do are on private trackers. I do what you do as well. I found it to be worth my time and not a hassle.
theskyisfalling
in reply to stupid_asshole69 [none/use name] • • •Hmmm intrigued, what one are you part of?
Im mainly looking for dubstep, the "real dubstep" side of stuff.
Artists like:
Gisaza
Lowcase
Headland
Argo
Zha
Teffa
Kercha
7kidz
Etc..
stupid_asshole69 [none/use name]
in reply to theskyisfalling • • •I found a bunch of music by all those artists on just the two general music trackers, orpheus and red.
Take the time to get on one of those two either by testing in or laddering the Mya tracker and you’ll probably be glad you did.
theskyisfalling
in reply to stupid_asshole69 [none/use name] • • •I appreciate the info, which of those two do you think would be the best to try to get into. I am a myanonamouse member in good standing with uploads as well as a good ratio / uptime etc so I may have a look on their invites section to see if I can get in via there.
Failing that I'll have a look at other ways of getting in as maybe it will be beneficial in the long term for me.
Thanks for taking the time to have a look for me 😀
stupid_asshole69 [none/use name]
in reply to theskyisfalling • • •ɯᴉuoʇuɐ
in reply to onesixone • • •Yes. Especially in this case where the distribution system is so unreliable. Your own list of "pro" easily beats the "cons".
If you're on a private tracker, usually they should have a detailed guide. I would guess public ones have it too, idk for sure tho.
ragebutt
in reply to onesixone • • •Archive everything. A torrent isn’t perfect but it is far more resilient than a shitty site like rapidgator or mega. If all the seeds drop off they may hop back on someday, if the link is dmcad or otherwise deleted it’s gone forever.
Fuck their e-cred. It’s all stolen. The only time you don’t spread something around is when someone posts something special to a private community to only be shared within that community because leaking it outside of that community could cause them grief or even serious consequences (eg someone leaking content to a private tracker community that they fear could be traced back to them so they specifically ask to keep it within x community). Though tbh I’ve seen this happen at least 4-5x over the years and it always leaks out to the wider internet, people will always share (as they should)
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NuXCOM_90Percent
in reply to ragebutt • • •Even then. My general experience is that all of those "please don't share this outside of our private tracker" style stuff is the same crap as everywhere else: They just want to feel special or encourage people to pay for ultra premium and so forth.
As for the actual truly sensitive stuff: If you are posting that to a "community" you are already the equivalent of a War Thunder player. And, quite frankly, there is zero reason that stuff like that should only be shared with a select few randos. Either it is evil shit (at which point I hope they DO get caught) or it is something that should be given to responsible journalists to share to the world at large.
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woodenghost [comrade/them]
in reply to onesixone • • •Just in case someone doesn't know why that's the case: Torrenting is still used less then in the rest of the world, because of the unique legal situation. There are big law firms specializing in tracking IP addresses and real identities of torrent users and sending very costly cease and desist letters, even for just torrenting a single movie. I'm sure, people who know what they are doing can find ways to torrent safely. But for everyone who's just come to Germany, it's important to check their online habits and make sure you're still safe.
Concerning morality: What's the worst case? Imagine file sharing actually completely kills the movie, music, gaming and software industry (it won't). All that'd be left would be paying creators in advance to make content people actually want to see and use. As well as collaborative open source projects. All the best stuff comes from those anyway.
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