SoundHound’s Conversational AI Talking in Cars Across North America | auto connected car news
SoundHound’s Conversational AI Talking in Cars Across North America | auto connected car news
SoundHound AI, Inc., a California-based innovator in voice artificial intelligence, has quietly accelerated the future of in-car communication.Bryan Johnston (auto connected car news)
I Will Take 'Crony-Capitalism' For 500
Trump is building a new $200 million ballroom at the White House
Construction on the project will start in September.Hannah Demissie (ABC News)
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Police in German state to use controversial software by Palantir | dpa international
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/45358033
Police in the south-western German state of Baden-Württemberg are to be allowed to use the analysis software from US firm Palantir, which is controversial among data protection advocatesThe software was specifically developed for security agencies and is used by intelligence services, the military and police.
Palantir was founded in 2003 in the United States, notably by tech billionaire Peter Thiel. He is known for his libertarian and conservative positions, his closeness to US President Donald Trump and his criticism of liberal democracies.
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I guess they’d argue that none of those pesky little data protection laws apply to competent authorities like the police and they’re probably justifying it with the criminal prosecution clause.
Great.
The American civil war was about states rights (states right to white supremacy)
Our new government['s]...foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests upon the great truth, that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery—subordination to the superior race—is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.
States rights people hate it when pointing out slavery was enshrined in the state constitutions as a requirement for being part of the confederacy.
Or when showing the south was pushing the north to ignore their states rights by forcing them to only follow southern slavery laws
this is rather dumb considering Israel is more ethnically diverse than any of it's neighbors
73.2% (about 7,208,000 people) are Jews, including about 503,000 living outside the self-defined borders of the State of Israel in the West Bank
21.1% (around 2,080,000 people) are Israeli citizens classified as Arab, some identifying as Palestinian, and including Druze, Circassians, all other Muslims, Christian Arabs, Armenians (which Israel considers "Arab")
[2] An additional 5.7% (roughly 554,000 people) are classified as "others". This diverse group comprises those with Jewish ancestry but not recognized as Jewish by religious law, non-Jewish family members of Jewish immigrants, Christians other than Arabs and Armenians, and residents without a distinct ethnic or religious categorization.[2][1]
In a 2012 ruling by the Supreme Court on the issue, some of the judges on the panel discussed demography, and were inclined to accept that demography is a legitimate consideration in devising family reunification policies that violate the right to family life.Those in favor of the law say the law not only limits the possibility of the entrance of terrorists into Israel, but, as Ze'ev Boim asserts, allows Israel "to maintain the state's democratic nature, but also its Jewish nature" (i. e., its Jewish demographic majority).
Ethnically diverse? Motherfucker, they're all kinds of WHITE EUROPEANS. It occupies Palestine with that in mind, using religion to hide behind it and justify it.
The other 30 percent were either kidnapped children from various operations (with the help of the West) that grew up to be dogs of the Euroanglo-zionazis and become Zionazis themselves or straight up opportunist compradors from all around the world. Oh and to top it off, they sterilize them no matter how much they try to be a good dog, because they're not white enough.
That's not diversity, that's a settler-colonial ethnostate playing population control, trying to get just enough brown to justify their occupation to the public, but not too much to maintain Pan-Europa whiteness.
considering Israel is more ethnically diverse
Apartheid South Africa was ethnically diverse...... Still an ethno-state.
Ethno-states aren't defined as lacking diversity, they are defined by an ethnic creating and maintaining a dominant hierarchy of that diversity.
It's because he's attempting to utilize the fact that America was and potentially still is an ethno-state to lessen the culpability of the Israeli ethno-state.
While modern America uses systemic racism to establish an ethnic hierarchy, unlike Israel it doesn't expressly by law prohibit the movement or upward mobility of different ethnicities. Even if it did, that fact would not lessen the culpability of another state doing the same.
Context and nuance is important.
it started inthe 70's and passed all the ratification hurdles in 2020; that's how long people have been trying to push for it and proves how little things change within the american system.
in typical democrat fashion, biden made much ado about ratifying it, but without supporting it against the technical hangups so that it would die on its own and doing so paved the way for project 2025.
the democrats kept control of the house for the entirety of biden's tenure as president while they had control of the senate for half of it and the aca fell apart anyways despite the democrats having a majority .... again.
no one expects the republicans to follow through on welfare programs, so it's silly to hold them to account on it on something like the equal rights amendment; the democrats do claim to care and that's why we expect progress from them.
maybe your expectations for Republicans are too low
i almost forgot why i had instance blocked .ml on my lemm.ee account and neglected to do so on my piefed account. my bad. i keep getting reminded what a waste of time it is to talk to tankie chuds.
Trump orders US nuclear subs repositioned over statements from ex-Russian leader Medvedev
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Good job Mr president. Now you've helped Russia with a few things.
- If they know where the sub's are, they now know if you lie or tell the truth about the sub's.
- If they didn't know where the sub's are, they now know where they probably weren't, and where they may be going
- In either case, they know you've fucked with their patrol routes, which may give them yet another advantage with finding them; or seeing how you influence their routes
How can ufw do me like that?
EDIT: Thanks for the help guys!
Something strange happened just now, im trying to figure out how exactly did it happen. On my server I was suddely able to bypass my VPN! I looked around what did happened and found that my VPN service had sent me an email that my subscription expired. What is strange is that I have ufw rules like
To Action From
[VPN server] ALLOW OUT Anywhere
Anywhere ALLOW OUT Anywhere on tun0
So it should be not allowed to access the internet outside of tun0. Why exactly did it happen? Does the VPN service change iptables or something? Any ideas? I was able to ping, wget, even surf on w3m. The thing is that when I rebooted the server, nothing could connect outside the tunnel, as it should be. Here is the whole ufw table.
Status: active
Logging: on (low)
Default: deny (incoming), deny (outgoing), disabled (routed)
New profiles: skip
To Action From
-- ------ ----
22/tcp ALLOW IN 192.168.1.0/24
53 ALLOW IN 192.168.1.0/24
80 ALLOW IN 192.168.1.0/24
9091 ALLOW IN 192.168.1.0/24 # Transmission
2049 ALLOW IN 192.168.1.0/24 # nfs
[VPN server] ALLOW OUT Anywhere
Anywhere ALLOW OUT Anywhere on tun0
192.168.2.77 22 ALLOW OUT Anywhere
2049 ALLOW OUT Anywhere # nfs
So how in the world did my VPN company do something to bypass my ufw??? Or was it something else completely?
TIA
Lemmy Development Update July 2025
Work on the backend changes for 1.0 is mostly finished now. What's missing is optimizing the migrations as they currently take about 9 hours for lemmy.ml. Now we are starting to work on updating lemmy-ui for the API changes and new features.
In the last days we did a big cleanup of the lemmy-ui issue tracker, closing 450 mostly outdated issues. Many of these were over a year old describing problems that have long been fixed. From 570 issues only 120 remain. Most of these are very minor, changing a single UI element here or there. It should be possible to implement 90% of them within a month or two.
Here are some of the major changes made over the past month:
- Add ability to block all users of an instance (#5784)
- Notifications rewrite, users can be notified about new posts or comments (#5604)
- Post tags (#5869)
- Site and user setting for items per page (#5887)
- Don't show edit mark if comment was edited in less than 5 minutes (#3197)
- Speedup of 1.0 migrations (#5873)
::: spoiler Full list of changes by user
jfaustino
- Change textarea placeholder for locked posts
- Don't show edit mark if comment was edited in less than 5 minutes
SleeplessOne1917
- Re-export UpdateCommunityNotifications
- Re-export some types from lemmy-api-common
- Add missing TS derives that were causing errors when generating Typescript bindings
- Add
creator_banned
to VoteView
dessalines
- Adding a local_site and local_user setting for default fetch limit
- Add ability to block all users of an instance.
- Fast history no background
- Fixing username-instance duplicate migration.
- Don't export inbox combined view internal.
- [Main] remove all caches
dullbananas
- Add update_schema_file.sh
- Refactor pagination cursor parsing
- Speed up init in start_dev_db.sh using no-sync option
- Fix comment depth test
- Prevent stack overflow when fetching nested comment
- Require indexes for all foreign keys
- Use a new separate crate for uplete
- Allow running all migrations with minimal dependencies
Nutomic
- Use case insensitive sort for followed communities (fixes #5903)
- Merge different
AlreadyExists
errors (fixes #5897) - Properly parse icons federated from Peertube (fixes #5894)
- Rename modlog items
- Refactor email
- Only use MiMalloc on x86_64 target arch (fixes #5695)
- Purge user images in background task (fixes #4642)
- Finish adding post tags
- Allow remote groups to follow Lemmy communities (fixes #5354)
- Fix foreign key indexes migration
- Remove unused items
- Notifications rewrite and post following (fixes #3069)
- Add unique constraint for person(name, instance) (fixes #5045)
- Extism release version
- Delete report views, add missing report fields
- Update extism
- Federation refactoring
- Fix comment depth off by one
- Move local site user count updates to scheduled task
- Revert " Add post_actions.disable_notifications (fixes #3042) (#5826)"
- Add missing comment depth check
- Dont call resolveObject for search
- Change icon for save action (fixes #1564)
- Use anchor for comment permalinks (fixes #2908)
- Only cache success responses (fixes #3129)
- Redirect away from /setup page if already created (fixes #897)
- Update regex for validating matrix id (fixes #1726)
- Fix host splitting for IPv6 (fixes #2374)
- Increase bio max length to 1000 chars (fixes #2657)
- Change link from element.io to matrix.org (fixes #2293)
- Search changes
- Change display format for community name in search
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Or see the full list of changes at the links below:
An open source project the size of Lemmy needs constant work to manage the project, implement new features and fix bugs. Dessalines and Nutomic work full-time on these tasks and more. As there is no advertising or tracking, all of our work is funded through donations. Even so there is barely enough time in the day, and no time for a second job. The only available option are user donations. To keep it viable donations need to reach a minimum of 5000€ per month, resulting in a modest salary of 2500€ per developer. If that goal is reached we can stop worrying about money, and fully focus on improving the software for the benefit of all users and instances. We especially rely on recurring donations to secure the long-term development and make Lemmy the best it can be.
LemmyNet/lemmy-ui
The official web app for lemmy. Contribute to LemmyNet/lemmy-ui development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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Don’t show edit mark if comment was edited in less than 5 minutes
I think 5 minutes is too much. Why not 2 minutes or 5 minutes only if the comment does not have votes and replies?
Thanks for the hard work!!!
I'm curious how the new tag system will work. Could you post when it could be tested in any of the test instances?
Btw, I use a bot to post twice daily in !workingclasscalendar@lemmy.world and I've been (ab)using the search system to tag with nice results:
- Tags: #Labor, #Colonialism, #Massacre, #Independence.
Edited: ooops removed backslashes
DIY cyborg (Nerdforge)
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/50536830
DIY cyborg rule (Nerdforge)
- YouTube
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
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We Asked 100+ AI Models to Write Code. The Results: AI-generated Code That Works, But Isn’t Safe
Insights from 2025 GenAI Code Security Report
How secure is code generated by AI? We asked 100+ AI models to write code. Here’s key findings from the 2025 GenAI Code Security Report.Veracode
Using LLMs does not obviate the need for the human user to understand what the code is doing. I've also found that, as with any tool, it takes time to actually learn to use LLMs effectively.
In particular, I find it's really important to understand the problem being solved, and then come up with the solution yourself. One approach I’ve found to be effective is to stub out the functions myself, and have the agent fill in the blanks for me. This helps focus the LLM and prevent it from going off into the weeds.
Another trick I find handy is to ask the agent to first write a plan for the solution. Then I can review the plan and tell the agent to adjust it as needed before implementing. Agents are also pretty good at writing tests, and tests are much easier to evaluate for correctness because good tests are just independent functions that do one thing and don’t have a deep call stack. My current approach is to get the LLM to write the plan, add tests, and then focus on making sure I understand the tests and that they pass. At that point I have a fairly high degree of confidence that the code is indeed doing what’s needed. The tests act as a contract for the agent to fill and as a specification for the defined functionality.
I suspect that programming languages might start shifting in the direction of contracts in general. I can see stuff like this becoming the norm, where you specify the signature for the function, and you could also specify parameters like computational complexity and memory usage. The agent could then try to figure out how to fill the contract you’ve defined. It would be akin to genetic algorithm approach where the agent could converge on a solution over time. If that’s the direction things will be moving in, then current skills could be akin to being able to write assembly by hand. Useful in some niche situations, but not necessary vast majority of the time.
Finally, it’s very helpful to structure things using small components components that can be tested independently and composed together to build bigger things. As long as the component functions in the intended way, I don’t necessarily care about the quality of the code internally. I can treat them as black boxes as long as they’re doing what’s expected at the surface level. This is already the approach we take with libraries as we don’t audit every line of code in a library we include in a project. We just look at its surface level API provided.
Incidentally, I’m noticing that functional style seems to work really well here. Having an assembly line of pure functions naturally breaks up a problem into small building blocks that you can reason about in isolation. It’s kind of like putting Lego blocks together. The advantage over stuff like microservies here is that you don’t have to deal with the complexity of orchestration and communication between the services.
GitHub - webyrd/Barliman: Prototype smart text editor
Prototype smart text editor. Contribute to webyrd/Barliman development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Palestinian child dies of Israeli-imposed starvation
A 17-year-old Palestinian child has died of malnutrition, Wafa news agency is reporting, citing medical sources at Al-Shifa medical complex in Gaza City.
This follows the deaths of three Palestinians, including two children, from Israeli-imposed starvation on Friday.
Khater's death brings the toll of Palestinians who have died from Israeli-imposed starvation to 163, including 92 children.
Palestinian child dies of Israeli-imposed starvation
A 17-year-old Palestinian child has died of malnutrition, Wafa news agency is reporting, citing medical sources at Al-Shifa medical complex in Gaza City.
Atef Abu Khater was hospitalised in intensive care earlier this week- his father reportedly said he was no longer responding to treatment.
This follows the deaths of three Palestinians, including two children, from Israeli-imposed starvation on Friday.
Khater's death brings the toll of Palestinians who have died from Israeli-imposed starvation to 163, including 92 children.
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What do you self host, how, and why?
How in terms of "how did you do it" i.e. a guide a wiki etc. How to you maintain it? How do you provide security and how do you maintain it? Do you host on bare metal at home? Do you use a cloud service? If the former, how do you connect to it when you aren't at home?
I realize that's a lot to ask, but I have some down time and want to hear everyone's full viewpoints
‘Immense’ pro-Palestine march to cross Sydney Harbour Bridge as police prepare for five-hour shutdown
cross-posted from: aussie.zone/post/23257570
Pro-Palestine protesters will be legally protected while marching across the Sydney Harbour Bridge on Sunday after a New South Wales supreme court decision.The bridge is expected to be closed for about five hours, from 11.30am, and additional police are being mobilised to observe a march that could include up to 50,000 people.
In her judgment, Justice Belinda Rigg said “the march at this location is motivated by the belief that the horror and urgency of the situation in Gaza demands an urgent and extraordinary response from the people of the world”.
“The evidence indicates there is significant support for the march.”
50,000 seems a bit on the small side for a Sydney Harbour Bridge march. Hopefully there will be many many more than that.
‘Immense’ pro-Palestine march to cross Sydney Harbour Bridge as police prepare for five-hour shutdown
Supreme court judge says protest motivated by belief that ‘the horror and urgency of the situation in Gaza demands an urgent and extraordinary response’Henry Belot (The Guardian)
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‘Immense’ pro-Palestine march to cross Sydney Harbour Bridge as police prepare for five-hour shutdown
cross-posted from: aussie.zone/post/23257570
Pro-Palestine protesters will be legally protected while marching across the Sydney Harbour Bridge on Sunday after a New South Wales supreme court decision.The bridge is expected to be closed for about five hours, from 11.30am, and additional police are being mobilised to observe a march that could include up to 50,000 people.
In her judgment, Justice Belinda Rigg said “the march at this location is motivated by the belief that the horror and urgency of the situation in Gaza demands an urgent and extraordinary response from the people of the world”.
“The evidence indicates there is significant support for the march.”
50,000 seems a bit on the small side for a Sydney Harbour Bridge march. Hopefully there will be many many more than that.
‘Immense’ pro-Palestine march to cross Sydney Harbour Bridge as police prepare for five-hour shutdown
Supreme court judge says protest motivated by belief that ‘the horror and urgency of the situation in Gaza demands an urgent and extraordinary response’Henry Belot (The Guardian)
GitHub - kefir500/apk-editor-studio: Powerful yet easy to use APK editor for PC and Mac.
Powerful yet easy to use APK editor for PC and Mac. - kefir500/apk-editor-studioGitHub
People have mentioned NextDNS (just a DNS setting) and TrackerControl (connects as a VPN on android/grapheneos)
I can mention also DNSNet (which actually also uses a VPN) and PCAPdroid
There are other options, with more features. Lists exist online
Hamas Wants Gaza to Starve [Please first read, then comment]
By Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib
E: Please read the article before commenting.
Hamas Wants Gaza to Starve
Starvation only helps Hamas end the war in a way that advances its aims.Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib (The Atlantic)
The article says that Hamas wants Israel to starve Gazans, it doesn't say that Israel doesn't starve Gazans.
It literally says Israel uses hunger as weapon (against Hamas and against –or at least not caring about– civilians): "Hamas has benefited from Israel’s decision to use food as a lever against the terror group, because the catastrophic conditions for civilians have generated an international outcry, which is worsening Israel’s global standing and forcing it to reverse course."
E: You partly approve the article yourself and I'm aware of the fact it's Israel committing the genocide.
Not I nor the article have said that Israel isn't committing genocide. The only thing said is that Hamas profits by it and that Gazans are furious about looters and the Hamas. I don't understand why so many people downvote this, claim I would be paid, claim I would deny the genocide or write 6 comments where 1 would be enough, if not you want to deny Hamas is a terrorist organization which only cares about its own survival.
So why did Hamas agree to a ceasefire in March which Israel broke?
Why is Hamas bending over to accept ceasefire conditions? You are spreading Zionist blood libel and genocide propaganda.
Israeli author David Grossman says his country is committing genocide in Gaza
Israeli author David Grossman says his country is committing genocide in Gaza
Writer says for many years he has refused to use word but now must ‘with immense pain and with a broken heart’Lorenzo Tondo (The Guardian)
France suspends Gaza evacuations over antisemitic posts by Palestinian student
France suspends Gaza evacuations over antisemitic posts by Palestinian student
French authorities have halted evacuations from Gaza after a Palestinian student, Nour A., was found to be under investigation for antisemitic content on social media.Sophia Khatsenkova (Euronews.com)
How Did Hunger Get So Much Worse in Gaza?
How Did Hunger Get So Much Worse in Gaza?
Less food is going into Gaza now than during most other times in the war. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed while heading toward aid sites.Aaron Boxerman (The New York Times)
Arab States Call for Hamas to Disarm Amid Push for a Palestinian State
Attack Vector Controls Land In Linux 6.17 To Better Control CPU Security Mitigations
Attack Vector Controls Land In Linux 6.17 To Better Control CPU Security Mitigations
The Attack Vector Controls work is now in Linux 6.17 for those new tuning knobs worked on by AMD engineer David Kaplan to make it more straight-forward for Linux server administrators and power users to more easily select the CPU security mitigations…www.phoronix.com
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A lot of the security fixes since spectre have focused on exploiting speculative execution (a key CPU performance feature) to cross security boundaries. Defeating speculative execution when switching from user to kernel space (for example) adds a lot of overhead.
The new kernel add controls so that machines that don't need to worry about these exploits to disable the performance killing fixes.
I get the concept. Title is written so badly that's really unreadable make no sense and confuses even people who know a bit on the subject.
The word "land" should be relaces, because it stck with controls and lose its meaning. Also, repeating control again adds to the mess.
The Attack Vector Controls work is now in Linux 6.17 for those new tuning knobs worked on by AMD engineer David Kaplan to make it more straight-forward for Linux server administrators and power users to more easily select the CPU security mitigations relevant to their system(s) and intended workloads
Title makes more sense in context of the first couple paragraphs.
Attack Vector Controls
Phoronix is the leading technology website for Linux hardware reviews, open-source news, Linux benchmarks, open-source benchmarks, and computer hardware performance tests.www.phoronix.com
Protesters demand release of draftees in Vinnytsia, break into detention facility
Protesters demand release of draftees in Vinnytsia, break into detention facility
The online newspaper Ukrainska Pravda reported that hundreds of protesters joined the rally, while police put the number at 80. The police then arrested some of the demonstrators.Kateryna Denisova (The Kyiv Independent)
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multi boot - Hibernating and booting into another System or Distribution: will my filesystems be corrupted?
Short answer is: yes, as soon as more than one OS mounts a file system in read-write mode.
The kernel of a modern OS (I am generously including Windows here) caches file system data structures in memory. When you hibernate the computer, the content of that memory is written into a large file because that speeds-up a later restart.
Now, if you boot up another OS, and modify these partitions (without mounting them read-only), you alter the file systems data structures. That happens already when you view folders because this modifies access times stored in the inodes.
When you now shut down the second OS, and resume the first OS, the restarted kernel will have and use cached file system metadata which id loaded from the image into the kernel, that does not match that of the files on disk. And this causes file system corruption by definition.
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No, I mean hibernate, with the PC turned off. In sleep state, you return to the running kernel/OS, so no possibility to boot into another distro, therefore no risk of filesystem damage.
The crucial thing is that file systems need to be unmounted before they can be accessed by another distribution or OS.
see
askubuntu.com/questions/55527/…
Dual boot and sleep/hibernate issues?
I set up a dual boot before, but I've never thought about how or if putting a laptop to sleep or hibernate will affect grub or the OSes. For example, if I dual boot windows 7 and ubuntu, then use w...Ask Ubuntu
How often do I have to buy a new pixel if I fully degoogle with GrapheneOS? A support question
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/34045100
still deciding to fully degoogle with GOS or muddling through with what I have (proprietary, data grabbing and bloated).To understand the question, compare with my main hardware with debian on it: a regular notebook I bought in 2016 and I've used heavily for all kinds of stuff: working, writing papers, downloading and playing media including AV1, editing audio, torrenting...
One of the best investments I ever made, considering what I paid and how prices nowadays are. Debian offers regular upgrades and I don't have to check if my hardware is going to support the software on a level comparable with android devices (GOS only runs on pixels, other open-source, privacy focused Android operating systems have similar hardware restrictions).
I want this kind of ROI for the device I buy and the software I use, but I don't know if that's possible:
GOS drops support for older pixels but I don't know how many years any particular device is supported by GOS: 3 years? not enough. There's no way I'm buying a new pixel every 3 years. I'd even consider 6 years restrictive.
How often do I have to buy a new pixel if I fully degoogle with GrapheneOS? A support question
still deciding to fully degoogle with GOS or muddling through with what I have (proprietary, data grabbing and bloated).
To understand the question, compare with my main hardware with debian on it: a regular notebook I bought in 2016 and I've used heavily for all kinds of stuff: working, writing papers, downloading and playing media including AV1, editing audio, torrenting...
One of the best investments I ever made, considering what I paid and how prices nowadays are. Debian offers regular upgrades and I don't have to check if my hardware is going to support the software on a level comparable with android devices (GOS only runs on pixels, other open-source, privacy focused Android operating systems have similar hardware restrictions).
I want this kind of ROI for the device I buy and the software I use, but I don't know if that's possible:
GOS drops support for older pixels but I don't know how many years any particular device is supported by GOS: 3 years? not enough. There's no way I'm buying a new pixel every 3 years. I'd even consider 6 years restrictive.
Changes according to the new UK, USA, EU laws?
So, im kinda curious ~~(preocupied)~~, regarding how is the feddi-verse standing in regards to this new threath to freedoms and privacy in general. To the point in which some of us are seriously considering leaving the "clear" net altogether in favor of freenet, tor (even if already kinda compromised by the feds), etc.
So... what now?
Ik, but even then is better than having' no privacy at all. I got kicked from my first university for participating in protests regarding the "grape" of a student by a faculty member, i was one of the unlucky ones selected to be "examples", hell its even a law now that all protest are illegal and reason to inmediate expulsion.
So yeah, liberty and privacy, nothing less.
This Week in Plasma: day/night theme switching
This Week in Plasma: day/night theme switching
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! Every week we cover the highlights of what’s happening in the world of KDE Plasma and its associated apps like Discover, System Monitor, and more.This Week in Plasma: day/night theme switching
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I like Linus Torvalds. Yes, sometimes he can be cruel, but that's because he cares a lot about his projects, and managing open source software means you have to be blunt sometimes.
So you are posting in the technology community that you don't like Linus Torvalds. This is the wrong community and you are being a real asshole. I'm here for interesting articles and not personal beef. Please keep this to yourself or to a community that allows such posts.
‘Gaza, Gaza, Food and Water! U.S. Israel Stop the Slaughter!’
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/34033488
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!’
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/34033488
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!’
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/34033488
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.
A Gamma-Ray Pulsar
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The U.S. Advances Its Dystopian Plan to Destroy China
The “phase 0” campaign of disinformation and sowing division has already been going on for decades.
Just last week, the Hudson Institute (which has received millions from the U.S. Department of Defense) held a conference to discuss the collapse of China’s government and released a 128-page document outlining the plan. The document is heinous and dystopian, outlining a gradual invasion of China through clandestine information campaigns, cultural and psychological restructuring, military intervention, and an overall manipulation of the soul of China from the shadows.Phase 0 will begin before the collapse. U.S. Special Operations Forces will use psychological and political warfare to sow division between the government, the military, and the people—the government has already funded billions of U.S. tax dollars to do just that. They plan to twist narratives to undermine China’s history, exploit trauma, and mock the CPC through information campaigns. Phase 1 will go into play after China’s collapse, which is U.S. occupation in everything but name. U.S. forces will be deployed to China’s cities and embedded into China’s military. A new puppet government will adhere to the whims of U.S. leaders. Anyone sympathetic to the CPC will be “controlled” while U.S. forces conduct action raids to secure nuclear weapons. And finally, Phase 2 will attempt to rewrite national consciousness by installing a U.S.-approved version of history. They will create a “Voice of China” modeled after the “Voice of America,” the people will be re-educated about the evils of communism, and a “sad but transparent” period of national mourning will pave the way to a new China shaped entirely by the United States.
The rest of the document outlines how to precisely target China’s facilities, restructure China’s financial system to suit U.S. interests, secure assets, restructure the military, and conduct a “reconciliation” campaign. At the end, the document mentions an imaginary, arbitrarily drawn line across China separating East from West, and discusses potentially splitting or partitioning territories. It also considers name changes for China, such as Taiwan or the Chinese Federal Republic.
The document is as Orwellian as it sounds, written by “experts” such as Miles Yu, Ryan Clarke, and Gordon G. Chang. Chang is one of the most frequently cited “China experts” in the U.S., but he’s not an expert so much as a propaganda mouthpiece. He has built an entire career out of making bold, spectacularly wrong predictions about China’s collapse, all while reinforcing U.S. imperial talking points.
The U.S. Advances Its Dystopian Plan to Destroy China - CounterPunch.org
Imagine: it’s the summer of 2025, and the United States has been surrounded by foreign military bases. The bases have been built by some antagonisticMegan Russell (CounterPunch.org)
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You are doing the opposite of blatantly calling it out you are reinforcing those who may be still struggling to understand in their assumption that this is the "bad" capitalism and leaving open the idea there is some sort of "good" capitalism.
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in reply to Nakoichi [they/them] • • •I agree with you 100%, and Marx was very clear that capitalism is filled with theft and oppression. It's nice that Marx also at times rested his critique of capitalism abstracting all the crony-ness and analyzed capitalism with 'good intentions,' showing that even without the oppression/theft it's a failed system.
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