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Instagram's new location feature has left users feeling 'sick'

Instagram’s new location-sharing update is raising privacy concerns, with users reporting their whereabouts were shared without their knowledge despite Meta saying the update is opt-in.
Experts warn that location-sharing features are linked to a higher risk of tech-based coercive control.
The controversy follows other recent privacy issues for Meta, including a lawsuit over the misuse of sensitive health data from a women’s health tracking app.

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Sir_Kevin

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Why are people giving any Meta app Location Permissions? ..or even installing that shit to begin with?

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ReversalHatchery

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nobody needs to install it nowadays, because it comes preinstalled on all phones. and lots of people just mindlessly allow every kind of permission

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TXL

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And all their friends and crushes use it.

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FlappyBubble

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Is it really preinstalled on all phones? Not on iphones and neither on my Samsung S22 or my Pixels.

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Infernal_pizza

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That's because they're both flagship phones, budget phones have a ton of bloatware installed on them (including cheaper Samsung phones)

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7toed

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Can confirm I had to remove "Meta App Manager" off my old S22+ as of ~6 months ago

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7toed

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Android is the devil when it comes to it. My S22+ certainly did have "Meta App Manager" and "Meta Package Installer" hidden as system services, which could only be removed using ADB.

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ReversalHatchery

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maybe flagship phones are different, but I don't think I ever had such a device in my hands. I regularly help people with affordable phones, and as far as I can tell each had them preinstalled

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ScoffingLizard

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Just got samsung phone and FB was preinstalled. You will probably be pissed the next time you get a phone.

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LabelBox

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It’s completely optional. Seems like they just ripped off Snap Maps from Snapchat. Nothing to write home about here. Some people don’t value privacy, it is there choice.

Today’s humanoid robots look remarkable, but there’s a design flaw holding them back

The leading designers are all focused on a ‘brain-first’ approach that insists on controlling everything centrally rather than delegating it around their bodies.

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Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations

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Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations

“Is this the America we live in?” said one parent. “And it was this stupid, stupid technology that is just going through picking up random words and not looking at context.”

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Ok, I need to scream into the void. I have questions.

I made the switch! Well mostly, my main PC that I use for work (audio, music, etc) is still Windows for now while I figure out if I can do what I need with Linux. 3 days ago I threw Mint on my old laptop (which I don't use much for testing as it's still slow, even with Linux) and wanted to use my main laptop to test for switching my PC. Unfortunately it's a Samsung Galaxy Book3 Ultra, which apparently has issues with Linux hardware-wise. I got everything up and running (except for the webcam which was expected) and found Ubuntu Studio, which seems to basically be Ubuntu with auto-install of a suite of audio and video programs, and a low latency kernel (whatever that means. I'll get there to figure it out eventually).

I've learned a LOT. Pulling in Windows vst files through Wine and yabridge was a journey. Every time I fixed an issue and took a step forward, I encountered a new one haha. But, I got it working. I LOVED figuring out the problems, even if I wanted to pull my hair out. The terminal is...really neat.

Anyway it's important to me to try and learn the how/why as I go so here's my question. Librewolf. It installs via terminal, and I'm having issues on Ubuntu Studio. I tried it on Mint and it installed fine. Ubuntu studio however throws up this error: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 76F1A20FF987672F

I tried sudo apt-get install -f (which I think looks for missing dependencies and stuff?) but no go. Since both distros are Debian, I'm guessing the biggest difference between Mint and Ubuntu Studio is the kernel? I've been able to fix things with missing dependencies but I'm guessing the public key is something different?

ELI5, why does it work on Mint and not Ubuntu Studio?

Edit: Got it thanks to u/frongt I added the key and it's all good!

Execute the following commands in terminal

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys

where is your missing public key for repository, e.g. 8BAF9A6F.

Then update

sudo apt-get update

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anon5621

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I am not too much into Ubuntu studio but on what version it based of Ubuntu as alternative fast fix install flatpak version of librewolf

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Jack_Burton

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Just tried flatpack (first time for this). Librewolf launched, though the icon was a yellow 'w' and was running in terminal with something called brwap. I tried to find Librewolf in Discover which throws up a long error everytime I launched Discover, ending with the same public key issue. I may have done it wrong, but after trying to uninstall the flatpack I still get that error every time I launch Discover haha. Think I messed something up

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anon5621

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Public error related to of librewof of ur previous actions u need to remove deb repository remove in instruction provided in librewolf page .Yellow w it fine it works through xwayland

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tetris11

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Different distirbutrions subscribe to different "key servers" (is that the right term?) to validate that the packages they're getting have been signed by the right people, and not by Dick Dastardly and his crew. LibreWolf isn't your typical Linux package, but probably on the same trustworthy level as some of "extra" packages found in other repos. My guess would be Mint subscribes to the key server where the LibreWolf dev's key exists, and Ubuntu doesn't because Ubuntu has a very Ubuntu™ way of doing things (I'm being a snob here).

So I think if you really want to use LibreWolf, you will have to manually subscribe to the keyserver where the LibreWolf's dev key is, or manually import the key yourself to validate the package.

Anyway, welcome to the wacky races

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FauxLiving

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You understand what is happening conceptually but some of the details are not exactly correct.

The package manager verifies every package's cryptographic signature, which is usually a hash of the file contents which is then signed with the developer's private key, so that anyone with the developer's public key can decrypt the hash (which verifies that it comes from a source which controls the private key of the keypair) and check it against the hash of the files they downloaded to ensure they haven't been altered between the project and your PC.

What's happening is that OP is installing a package which is signed with a key that is not added as a trusted key in their keyring. So when it tries to check the cryptographic signature against its local hash it finds that none of the keys in the trusted keyring will decrypt the hash and so it doesn't trust the file and kicks out the error in the OP.

The command

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys <PUBKEY>

Tells apt to grab the public key with the ID from the keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com and add it as a trusted key on your keyring.

The reason that you use a key ID is that the actual public key is very large (2048 bits, most likely) and so it's easier on the system administrator to see key IDs and then retrieve the full public key from a keyserver if they need it than have the error log/terminal spammed with multiple screens full of random characters.

That being said, using apt-key to add trusted keys is deprecated due to a potential security issue. The key is trusted for code signed from any repo, so a compromised key could allow an attacker to replace Librewolf with a malicious package on another repo called Librewolf and, as long as the signatures match (because they somehow stole Librewolf's private key or tricked you install installing an incorrect id) the package manager will install it.

The new way (which is largely manual now, but people have already made scripts to do it more easily) is to manually download the key, store it somewhere and then add it to the configuration in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ so that the source list itself defines which keys are trusted for that source. This would limit the key to being trusted for that specific repo only and not for every repo (or every possible thing that uses public keys)

This has a more complete explanation, instructions on doing it manually and some links to helper scripts people have made to make the process just as simple as using apt-key: askubuntu.com/questions/128654…

What commands (exactly) should replace the deprecated apt-key?

Setting up keys for a local repository on a new ubuntu 20.10 virtual machine, I got a message that apt-key add was deprecated and I should read the apt-key(8) man page. The apt-key(8) man page is a

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Jack_Burton

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This is really interesting thank you. It's starting to make sense a little more.

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tetris11

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Thanks for the extra context, though I'm not sure why Mint had that key by default in their keyserver and Ubuntu doesn't

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kutsyk_alexander

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Did you use this instruction? If so, i think you forgot this step

wget -O- https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/bgstack15:/aftermozilla/Debian_Unstable/Release.key | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/home_bgstack15_aftermozilla.gpg

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Jack_Burton

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I avoid it because it said unstable. Just tried, same issue.

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Teppichbrand

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I used to install low latency kernel as well. Last time I just installed vanilla Mint. Audio was bad. Then I figured out I have to add myself to the audio group and voilà, works perfectly. No more kernel-hopping for me.

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frongt

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Google that string. Looks like it's the key for the wine repo, not related to what you're doing. Remove the offending repo, or add the key.

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Jack_Burton

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How can I add the key?

NVM got it. Librewolf installed! Thanks!

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frongt

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You should also share the solution for future readers.

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Jack_Burton

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Already made the edit. Thanks again!

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Getting6409

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I'm in a similar situation: I have to keep a windows box around for specific audio tools and interfaces. A nice thing I've discovered is Sunshine (lizardbyte) and Moonlight. Sunshine is the desktop streamer that runs on the windows box, Moonlight is the client you run on the linux laptop (or android or whatever) to connect to Sunshine. I find it to be a nice solution for keeping the windows box easily accessible from my main displays/kb/mouse which are always tethered to the linux laptop. Thia streaming setup feels a lot more natural than RDP, and it's especially useful if you need to handle any video on the windows box. The main use case is video games, so there is that too.

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Jack_Burton

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Interesting, I'll look into that. It's like having a window running Windows? I'm hoping to completely dump Windows so I'm focused on learning Bitwig and figuring out Wine/Proton for anything I need Windows programs for like vsts and games

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hinterlufer

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Yeah kind of, but you need to have an actual machine running windows somewhere (preferably within the same network)

A VM would be more like "a window running windows"

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Gerudo

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It's geared at streaming your gaming session from a remote pc. Extremely low latency and works like a dream. I use it to stream my gaming pc to my xbox, but it will stream anything your pc does.

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Getting6409

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You could call it that. The most direct analogy is RDP, or even a kvm. It's a remote session to another machine, but under the hood it's using the fast and efficient video codecs, h264 or hevc. It's also good about piping audio from the remote machine to whatever you're using locally.

I'm also hoping to dump windows. I spent a week trying to get my usb interface working with guitar rig running in wine bottles. I was getting nowhere with it just fell back to using the windows box remotely.

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Samsy

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Woof, hard flashback to my first steps on Linux. Idk, these problems leave, when you try to buy better supported Linux hardware. Thinkpads and XPS (second hand / refurbed) are near 100% supported (maybe some have a quirky nvidia gpu which needs some extra steps) and really cheap these days. I would sell stupid Samsung / Chromebook stuff and buy Dell/Lenovo for less headache.

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Jack_Burton

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Haha yeah I got the Samsung 50% off about a month before I started taking leaving big tech seriously. Honestly, I really like that there are issues, workarounds, and it generally doesn't play nice. I learn best by doing and I've already learned a tonne just by having to run terminal commands to get things going, even things like touchpad issues, audio, power light staying on, etc. My next computer I'll focus on Linux hardware priorities (I think AMD plays well) but for now, fixing is how I'm learning.

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yesman

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I LOVED figuring out the problems, even if I wanted to pull my hair out.

I recently dumped M$, and in my decision I expected the learning curve to be a downside, but what I've experienced is joy and accomplishment in learning new things.

I'd go further to say that learning Windows teaches you about Windows but learning Linux teaches you about computers.

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Jack_Burton

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Absolutely! I'm finding that I'm really focused on "why and how" as I learn. I started just copy pasting but it's a lot more fun learning the actual commands.

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oeuf

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If you're struggling with your windows plugins I highly recommend checking out kxstudio for native Linux ones. There are excellent plugins for audio production on linux. I also recommend using Ardour as your DAW.

KXStudio : Repositories : Applications

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Muehe

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a low latency kernel (whatever that means. I’ll get there to figure it out eventually)

It's a kernel with real-time process scheduling enabled by default.

In normal kernels a process can theoretically block all other processes from running for up to several seconds, which is obviously bad for time sensitive things like audio recordings or controlling a CNC-machine for example.

In real-time scheduling all processes are guaranteed time slices in more regular intervals. This is good for time sensitive things like audio recording, but since there is some scheduling overhead it's bad for single resource intensive processes or process trees like video games.

You can read more about the difference between a real time and low latency kernel here: help.ubuntu.com/community/Ubun…

UbuntuStudio/RealTimeKernel - Community Help Wiki

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Jack_Burton

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Beauty, that's what I figured. On Windows I had to download asio4all to eliminate latency. Good to know about the kernel.

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haloduder

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As an aside, stick with the defaults unless you have a specific reason to switch.

Don't overcomplicate things, or at least try to realize when you're doing it.

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mvirts

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Since 6.12 the Preempt rt patcheshave become canon.

As for older kernels, there's a thread Here but idk what the current situation is

Ubuntu Studio and Low Latency in the Generic Kernel

Hi there! First of all, I just wanted to say how super happy I am about having lowlatency built-in to the Generic kernel and that we are going to be removing the lowlatency kernel from future kernel releases.

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Ok, I need to scream into the void.

We've got just the thing for you.

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Vulnerable Republicans Are Claiming They Love Medicaid After Voting to Gut It

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Last month, Republicans passed a reconciliation bill that is expected to kick millions of Americans off of Medicaid and other forms of health insurance. The legislation includes over $800 million in cuts to Medicaid spending over the next 10 years, the largest in the program’s history. Now, as Republicans gear up for next year’s midterm elections, vulnerable lawmakers who supported the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” are attempting to recast themselves as protectors of the health care program they sent to the wood chipper.
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Vulnerable Republicans Try to Praise Medicaid After Voting for Cuts

Reps. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, Tom Kean Jr., and Gabe Evans introduced a resolution supporting Medicaid after voting for cuts to the program.

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"Politicians are lying shitbags! More at 11, please tune in for this original scoop!"

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The most damning part of this whole affair, even if it's not entirely "new," is just how many elected officials claimed they didn't know X, Y, and Z were in the bill before they voted for it. How could they be qualified to represent their constituents if they're not even doing the bare minimum of reading the things they're voting for? That should immediately disqualify them from holding office.

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C level

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I don't like this meme format, it always bothers me to see the T-Rex cry for being silly.

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Right? 😂

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Faceva credere di essere Mengoni: sgamato!

Come di consueto mi trattengo un po’ su Facebook per postare, commentare, ecc.

Decido improvvisamente di seguire qualche cantante famoso come Povia, Cocciante, Marco Mengoni e altri. Chiaramente fin qui nulla di strano.

Quando seguite questi cantanti su messanger si può stabilire un contatto col cantante ed io l’ho fatto. Convinta che fosse veramente Marco Mengoni gli ho dato il mio numero di telefono per continuare le nostre conversazioni su telegram, fino a quando una sera Marco ha detto di amarmi e mi ha chiesto dei soldi. Chiaramente non poteva essere ed ho iniziato ad insospettirmi fino a quando il mio sguardo è caduto sul numero di telefono di Marco.

E’ stato allora che ho capito che non era il vero Marco Mengoni, ma un impostore che si stava spacciando per lui, perchè aveva un numero di telefono che iniziava con + 234. Come poteva essere? Così senza che lo sapesse ho inserito il prefisso nel motore di ricerca Google ed ho scoperto che era

Faceva credere di essere Mengoni: sgamato! - sgamiamoli

Come di consueto mi trattengo un po’ su Facebook per postare, commentare, ecc. Decido improvvisamente di seguire qualche cantante famoso come Povia, Cocciante, Marco Mengoni e altri. Chiaramente fin qui nulla di strano.

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ via United States | News & Politics

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This is called "capital flight"

It usually only happens to poor countries, and it never ends well.

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#USA

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anyone got a link to the full article? archive.is also has the paywalled version

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looks like a hard paywall

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Pro-Palestine Activists Win $100K Settlement From University of Maryland

A pro-Palestine student activist group at University of Maryland (UMD) has won a $100,000 settlement from the university in a lawsuit stemming from administrators’ blocking of students’ vigil for Gaza last year.

Maryland’s Board of Public Works approved the settlement on Wednesday, marking a win for student pro-Palestine advocates after a judge issued a preliminary injunction in their favor last year.

According to Palestine Legal, a group representing the students, this is the largest financial penalty ever levied on a university for violating the free speech rights of students advocating for Palestinian rights.

Pro-Palestine Activists Win $100K Settlement From University of Maryland

Palestine Legal says it’s the largest penalty a university has had to pay for violating pro-Palestine students’ rights.

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The Pyrrhic Tariff War

How the West is Sacrificing its Future for Ideology

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StinkyFingerItchyBum

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Was. Now they are the pariah.

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Nah, they still have EU bent over a barrel as evidenced by EU simply accepting escalating tariffs without any retaliation. Likewise, Canada made some noises initially, but then also knuckled under. Western governments make a lot of bold statements for the rubes, but when push comes to shove they know who their daddy is.

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how to avoid LLM suctioning my data

I hate reddit because it sells my data to AI and they killed the apps and Steve is a pigboy:
reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/com…

But if I post on Lemmy - AI just suctions my data for free ¯_(ツ)_/¯ I hate that.

so how do we handle this?
I dont want to feed AI, what can I do?

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Saturday, August 9, 2025

[vlog/video] Why Americans, Europeans choose to fight for Ukraine — Russia’s budget deficit hits $61 billion, already surpassing annual target by 30% — Ukrainian drones strike 23,000 targets in July, kill 5,000 Russian troops — Russia has lost 1,061,350 t

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Russia’s war against Ukraine

People gather at Independence Square in Kyiv to attend the funeral ceremony of Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna on Aug. 08, 2025 who reported from occupied territories before her detention and death in Russian custody. (Andre Luis Alves/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Trump, Putin to meet in Alaska on Aug. 15 for peace talks. “The highly anticipated meeting between myself, as President of the United States of America, and President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, will take place next Friday, August 15, 2025, in the Great State of Alaska,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, adding that “further details will follow.”

Putin proposed halting war in exchange for Ukraine’s eastern regions in meeting with Witkoff, WSJ reports. Russian President Vladimir Putin introduced a sweeping proposal for a ceasefire in Ukraine during a meeting with U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff, offering a halt in hostilities in exchange for Ukraine’s eastern regions, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Aug. 8, citing European and Ukrainian officials.

Peace talks will include ‘some swapping of territories,’ Trump says ahead of proposed meeting with Putin. U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters on Aug. 8 that a potential peace deal between Moscow and Kyiv would likely include “some swapping of territories,” as Trump prepares to hold a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin next week.

US, Russia discuss deal to cement Moscow’s hold on occupied Ukrainian territories, Bloomberg reports. The proposed deal is aimed at freezing the conflict and laying the groundwork for a ceasefire and technical negotiations toward a final peace settlement, the news agency reported.

Poland’s Tusk says Russia-Ukraine war could be frozen ‘sooner rather than later.’ “There is hope for this. Today is the deadline for the ultimatum,” Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said at a news conference.

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Putin holds calls with key allies Xi, Lukashenko ahead of Trump summit. Both Chinese President Xi Jinping and Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko are among Russian President Vladimir Putin’s closest international allies.

Watchdog claims Russian troops enter Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, military says attack repelled. “They (Russian troops) are now regrouping for further attempts, but remain positioned in Donetsk Oblast,” said Victor Tregubov, spokesperson of the Dnipro group of forces.

Ukrainian drones strike 23,000 targets in July, kill 5,000 Russian troops, military chief says. Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said first-person-view (FPV) drones and night bombers were responsible for most of the hits.

Ukraine kills 12 soldiers in Russia’s Krasnodar Krai, intelligence source claims. According to the source, two explosions near the unit’s checkpoint killed at least 12 Russian soldiers and injured dozens more. Russian military equipment was also destroyed, they added.

Pentagon can divert some weapons meant for Ukraine to US stockpiles, CNN reports. According to the sources, the memorandum permits the Pentagon to reclaim weapons produced for Ukraine under the U.S. Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI) and return them to U.S. stockpiles.

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Ukraine war latest: US, Russia discuss deal to cement Moscow’s hold on occupied Ukrainian territories, Bloomberg reports.

The U.S. and Russia are seeking to reach a deal to cement Moscow’s occupation of Ukrainian territories and end the war, Bloomberg reported on Aug. 8, citing undisclosed sources. The news come as U.S. President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are expected to meet as soon as next week.

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Human cost of Russia’s war

Kyiv holds farewell for journalist tortured, killed in Russian captivity. Journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna’s death has become a stark symbol of Russia’s systemic abuse of Ukrainian civilians and the brutal risks faced by journalists in occupied territories.

3 killed, 19 injured in Russian attacks on Ukraine over past day. According to Ukraine’s Air Force, Russian forces launched 104 Shahed-type attack drones, decoy drones, and eight rocket-powered kamikaze drones overnight.

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Putin presented award to Witkoff meant for CIA official whose son died fighting for Russia, CBS News reports. Russian President Vladimir Putin presented the Order of Lenin award to U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff to pass along to a senior CIA official whose son died fighting for Russia in Ukraine, CBS News reported on Aug. 8.

Russia reportedly pushes to replace PMC Wagner with state-run Africa Corps in CAR. Russia’s Defense Ministry reportedly demanded cash payments for security services, marking a sharp departure from previous arrangements under Wagner that involved compensation with natural resources.

UEFA pays $13 million in ‘solidarity’ money to Russian football clubs while Ukraine fails to receive funds, Guardian reports. At the same time, five Ukrainian clubs have not received similar payments due to restrictions by a Swiss bank, allegedly because they are located in a “zone of military operations,” the Guardian reported.

Romania reportedly suspects Russian sabotage behind Azeri crude oil contamination. The crude mixed with organic chloride, which was transported through Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey, could have seriously corroded infrastructure at OMV Petrom’s Petrobrazi refinery, potentially triggering a national fuel crisis, G4Media reported.

Russia reportedly shifts oil exports to China after Trump’s India tariffs. Barrels of Russia’s Urals oil are now being offered at a discount to both state-owned and private Chinese refineries, Bloomberg reported.

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EU has CLOUD act analogue too

Hi everyone. Probably not everyone knows but EU has CLOUD Act analogue too - it has a name "e-evidence - cross border access". so this is a description of framework from the official site - "create a European Production Order: this will allow a judicial authority in one Member State to obtain electronic evidence (such as emails, text or messages in apps, as well as information to identify a perpetrator as a first step) directly from a service provider or its legal representative in another Member State, which will be obliged to respond within 10 days, and within 8 hours in cases of emergency (compared to up to 120 days for the existing European Investigation Order or an average of 10 months for a Mutual Legal Assistance procedure);"

basically it means that the national authorities of the country where companies are registered no longer has juducial control over law protection of their companies - so for example if extreme right government of Poland will be dissappointed with your post on Mastodon about Pegasus surveillance used by them against political journalists by new Framework they will issue juicial order to obtain your mastodon account details, ip, email etc and will electronically request your mastodon provider (which reside for example in Belgium) to give this data to them withis 8 hours or 10 days (without possibility to make appelation) basically overriding national courts of country of registration of the provider.

Do you believe that EU goverment respect right to privacy and national souvereginity as a fundamental right?

#privacy

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iii

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Do you believe that EU goverment respect right to privacy and national souvereginity as a fundamental right?

I think the incumbents in EU commission are very scared as politicians from outside the traditional political families are getting popular votes. And instead of looking into to mirror as to why that is happening, they blame "the internet" and go authoritarian.

Thus creating the machinery for mass surveillance and supression.

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cookie019

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I agree. The real problem is that most people are not aware of this. I see a lot of nationalist propaganda online that advocates for using "European private services". Although, for now, some European countries (mostly Germany) have excellent services for preserving privacy (email, mastodon instances, lemmy instances, etc), the EU's privacy legislation is deteriorating, and the issue of the lack of "confidential" services located outside the EU is becoming important. I haven't found a single popular confidential email provider with servers outside the EU. As for those who might mention Iceland, it's worth noting that they have clear plans to join the EU in the near future.

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JumpyWombat

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Do you believe that EU goverment respect right to privacy and national souvereginity as a fundamental right?

National sovereignty is in contrast with the concept of an EU Union. The EU had been constantly eliminating barriers and differences for the past few decades, so it's not surprising that also law enforcement will follow the same evolution.

Many far right ultra nationalists don't like that transfer of powers, but they are the same people who swing from pro-Putin to pro-Trump and appreciate Hitler and Mussolini.

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National sovereignty is in contrast with the concept of an EU Union. The EU had been constantly eliminating barriers and differences for the past few decades

It was supposed to be a trade union. But like any group in power, they want more and more?

It's weird that things related to trade, like unifying the train network, isn't happening. But they do spend a lot of time and effort meddling with people's private life.

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JumpyWombat

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It was supposed to be a trade union. But like any group in power, they want more and more?

It was supposed to be an alliance to prevent further wars in Europe and it's becoming a political union. What's wrong with that?

It’s weird that things related to trade, like unifying the train network, isn’t happening.

You missed something. Check this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Eu… or this transport.ec.europa.eu/transpo…

But they do spend a lot of time and effort meddling with people’s private life.

Historically cross-border investigations have been difficult making it easier to get away with several crimes, especially fiscal and financial frauds. Improving the exchange of information is trying to solve that.

Is it possible that the Polish government investigates your anti-government post on a Belgian server? Maybe... although you are probably overestimating how much a government cares about criticism on Internet. Consider though that EU rules also aim to guarantee civil liberties against authoritarian governments. Things are not perfect (see Hungarian crackdown on lgbt), but we are getting there (see Italy under investigation for spying on journalists).

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iii

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It was supposed to be an alliance to prevent further wars in Europe

That's weird, as the precursors "European coal and steel community", "european economic community" are clearly economic alliances.

You missed something.

So did you (1)

Historically cross-border investigations

The answer should not be to bypass judicial prudence. Yet that's what they've chosen.

And that's but one example. The insistence of the unelected EU commission to again and again put chatcontrol for a vote, despite it being unpopular, is another example.

The CRA act is another: basically killing independen softwarw development.

although you are probably overestimating

I think you probably grew up in western EU? Those of us that did live under a autoritarian regime, in my case DDR, know the lenghts they will go to to supress people who's thoughts they deem bad.

One of the things that's most difficult to communicate is this: all the freedom surpressing tools that are being build today, which you believe will be used solely against "the bad people", will be used against you. For your own good.

What the EU needs is more direct democracy, not the charade that is parliament/commission, but sadly it's going in the opposite direction.

Track gauge by country in Europe

“Track gauge” is the perpendicular distance between the inner faces of the two rails of a railway. Just like with many other things, it would have been better to have a single

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JumpyWombat

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the precursors “European coal and steel community”, “european economic community” are clearly economic alliances.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schuman_…

unelected EU commission

The EU Commission is the executive branch and it's approved by the parliament. You should check the basics.

all the freedom surpressing tools that are being build today, which you believe will be used solely against “the bad people”, will be used against you.

You basically say that we should stop producing knives because someone could use them against people.

In this specific case, I don't see why in a union the location of a person or a company should have any influence on how the law operates. By the way, these laws also work the other way around in favor of the weaks. Imagine if you wanted to sue a guy protected by his government that made it difficult to collect proofs.

What the EU needs is more direct democracy, not the charade that is parliament/commission, but sadly it’s going in the opposite direction.

It's a nice idea on paper, but I doubt that it would work. The truth is that the vast majority of people fail to understand the basic functioning of the institutions, not to mention how they easily fall for misinformation and conspirationism due to a lack of critical sense and knowledge. It's a different discussion though.

speech by Robert Shuman on 9 May 1950 announcing plan to pool markets for German and French coal and steel

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It's a nice idea on paper, but I doubt that it would work. The truth is that the vast majority of people fail to understand the basic functioning of the institutions

People who dislike democracy tend to like the EU indeed. I don't think it's a different discussion. I think it's the philosophical core of this issue.

I feel like you and I are in completely different camps in that regard, as you feel the basis of society should be hierarchical and control. This explains why some appreciate less judiciary oversight on government, less freedom for individuals.

Others think the basis of society should be cooperation, appreciation of individuals, freedom both for and from others.

For the people who prefer domination and control I can only advise empathy. It won't be you who controls others. So try to feel what it's like to not be regarded as a person that deserves freedom and agency. People are more than an entry in a database.

The EU Commission is the executive branch and it's approved by the parliament. You should check the basics.

Exactly, it should be the executive branch! It makes no sense that the executive branch proposes laws! And it makes no sense that a law-making part of government is not up for election. This is one of the least democratic institutes that dares to call itself a democracy.

Most legislation needs to be proposed by the European Commission and approved by the Council of the European Union and European Parliament to become law (1)
You basically say that we should stop producing knives because someone could use them against people.

Where the analogy doesn't work is that knives already exist. A better analogy would be: don't build novel weapons of mass destruction that are pointed at your own populace.

why in a union the location of a person or a company should have any influence on how the law operates.

Brings us back to our core philosophical difference: cooperation vs subjugation. A union, to me, is cooperative with everyone's boundaries respected. A union to you is top down dictating who does what.

procedures for the adoption of legislation in the European Union

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People who dislike democracy tend to like the EU indeed.

That's your opinion and it's not based on facts.

you feel the basis of society should be hierarchical and control

No I don't.

It makes no sense that the executive branch proposes laws

I'm afraid that you don't understand how the executive power works.

And it makes no sense that they’re not up for election

You also do not understand the difference between a parliament and a government.

A union, to me, is cooperative with everyone’s boundaries respected. A union to you is top down dictating who does what.

You shouldn't assume what I think, especially when you are wrong.

What you propose is an alliance where countries maintain their differences, essentially the dissolution of the EU and the return to the Europe of the early 1900. Interestingly that's the same thing that Putin and Trump hope for. You are free to think it's better, but I'm not sure you fully understand what that really means.

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You shouldn't assume what I think, especially when you are wrong.

If it walk like a duck, and quacks like a duck. Perhaps you should engage in some soul seeking 🙁

What you propose is an alliance where countries maintain their differences, essentially the dissolution of the EU and the return to the Europe

Again, there's more ways to interact with others than (a) everyone is dictated top down vs (b) dog eat dog.

What I propose is voluntary democratic cooperation. An improvement upon the current structure with more respect for everyone.

"In Russia they're doing it too" is to me insufficient motivation to lessen our democratic basis and individual freedoms.

I'm afraid that you don't understand how the executive power works.

How it should work is a legislative branch to propose laws, a parliament to vote on it, an executive to implement it. The bastardization of the process by the EU is that the executive initiates legislation, and isn't directly elected.

That's why they can repeatedly propose the same unpopular law, without any fear of losing power.

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JumpyWombat

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What I propose is voluntary democratic cooperation. That’s all.

I propose you to read less anti-EU propaganda. All the initiatives in the EU are made in agreement with the elected EU parliament and are supported by the member states. You should also check how the right of veto works, all the problems for the lack of authority of the EU (contrary to what you say), and what's the legislative procedure, because you don't seem to be fully aware of it.

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ReversalHatchery

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What you propose is an alliance where countries maintain their differences, essentially the dissolution of the EU and the return to the Europe of the early 1900.

to the 1900? what? do you think that currently the EU is one big country with no major differences?

the EU consists of several different communities, with different cultures and different thinking. I think each country should be able to keep its healthy dose of sovereignty. I'm not saying what we have today is ideal, but turning everything to be more authoritarian is not going to make anything better.

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JumpyWombat

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the EU consists of several different communities, with different cultures and different thinking.

Where does this come from? An ultra conservative tabloid?

Although there is still a strong push towards national interests due to some countries' myopia, the EU members are largely aligned with common rules on every aspect of the social life, the EU laws comes before members' laws like in a federation, and there are common investments including the cohesion funds (did you ever hear of those?).

I think each country should be able to keep its healthy dose of sovereignty.

Basically what the ECR and the Patriots say, which is amusing because they are the authoritarian ones, including some big fan of Putin, MAGA, and Hitler. When you think about it, it's not surprising that an "healthy dose of sovereignty" goes side by side with far-right ideas.

You may be right if you talk about initiatives to contrast cryptography (which failed multiple times), but in general the EU has always had a centrist politics thanks to the fact that groups like ECR and Patriots never managed to get the power. In the latest years, the far right is gaining traction with victories in some countries and I dare to say that it's a mix of misinformation, conspiracy theories, and propaganda aiming to push precisely those ideas of an "healthy dose of sovereignty" to weaken what is becoming a political block that could eventually compete with the USA, China, and that could stop the imperialism of Russia. Having some of those far right parties strongly connected to MAGA and Putin, is an interesting "coincidence".

Check your sources because you have misunderstood lots of things. Unless, of course, you actually want the Europe of 1900.

far-right political group of the European Parliament

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ReversalHatchery

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Where does this come from? An ultra conservative tabloid?

umm, no, I haven't read it anywhere. It's just how it is. why do you think this is not the case?

are you immediately imagining me as a russian tankie?

Basically what the ECR and the Patriots say, which is amusing because they are the authoritarian ones, including some big fan of Putin, MAGA, and Hitler. When you think about it, it's not surprising that an "healthy dose of sovereignty" goes side by side with far-right ideas.

well their dose is not healthy

what is becoming a political block that could eventually compete with the USA, China, and that could stop the imperialism of Russia.

as I see this would either need voluntary high cooperation of most countries, which would be a good thing (but not in the sense of imposing my country's laws on your country because your country hosts servers of interest), but something very hard to achieve because that would need to be maintained for multiple political parties when they are elected.
or a united states of europe that would basically replace each country's political system with a top-down system as the other user said, where there are no local elections for the ruling party anymore, or much less meaningful, but only an EU-wide election. which I'm not sure if it's bad, it's certainly a lot different. but it's not something I like that after that, moving to another EU country is not an option if what you want is to leave a bad legal regime.

you know, maybe I have these main problems with the eu cloud act:
- 10 days is way too little time for appeal, especially when there's a high volume of requests (a single country could overload their capacity)
- you won't get to know if a country has held the gun to your email or other provider to hand over your data. yes this is the case already, but this change makes it even worse.
- if a country bans encryption, does that mean my online service providers have to ban me from the encrypted functions?

far-right political group of the European Parliament

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JumpyWombat

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I haven’t read it anywhere. It’s just how it is. why do you think this is not the case?

So you are saying that you have first hand information to state that "the EU consists of several different communities, with different cultures and different thinking". Who are you? A sociologist who studied the EU for the past two decades?

I'm asking because it's completely in contrast with my first hand experience. I lived and worked in a few countries besides my original one and I found that the actual differences are more limited to what people eat for breakfast, what stereotypes they have for other countries, and the quality of the services one gets.

Basically what the ECR and the Patriots say
well their dose is not healthy

So where do you stand? With Farage cherry picking what you like of the Union?

as I see this would either need voluntary high cooperation of most countries, which would be a good thing (but not in the sense of imposing my country’s laws on your country because your country hosts servers of interest)

The cornerstone of the EU is the free market that means having a company from Spain able to do business in Germany. To achieve that, it is essential to have common rules and common standards just like it's essential to eliminate barriers. You can't have your cake and eat it too. The UK tried, and now they are out.

or a united states of europe that would basically replace each country’s political system with a top-down system as the other user said, where there are no local elections for the ruling party anymore, or much less meaningful

Maybe you didn't notice, but the European elections are already much more important than the local elections since the internal political economy is largely controlled by the EU. Your government can (for now) play around civil rights, manage pocket money, but cannot go out of the European boundaries that are becoming tighter and tighter every year.

10 days is way too little time for appeal, especially when there’s a high volume of requests (a single country could overload their capacity)

You are attacking a law that removes national barriers because your slightly-fascist country may abuse of that. Fix the fascism instead.

if a country bans encryption

It won't happen, but even if it does, you run your own.

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cookie019

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It was supposed to be an alliance to prevent further wars in Europe and it’s becoming a political union. What’s wrong with that?

for that purpose the NATO was created, not EU - it was trade union as the previous commentator said.

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JumpyWombat

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It was supposed to be an alliance to prevent further wars in Europe and it’s becoming a political union. What’s wrong with that?
for that purpose the NATO was created, not EU - it was trade union as the previous commentator said.

Nope. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European…

international organisation serving to unify European countries peacefully after World War II

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cookie019

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About if it is possible that goverment is interested - I don't know if you're Polish or familiar with the situation in Poland, but currently, a trial is underway in Poland, initiated by the pseudo-liberal opposition, regarding the illegal surveillance of journalists and independent political candidates in the 2019 elections using Pegasus. This surveillance was approved by national Polish courts. If a framework had existed at that time, they might have been able to gather much more compromising evidence on political opponents much faster.

Regarding your opinion that the government doesn't crack down on criticism on the internet, it's worth noting that the Polish Minister of Justice still insists on the maximum criminal punishment for two women who showed a depiction of the Virgin Mary in rainbow colors, as he claims it's an insult to religion. Since the ruling ultra-right party in Poland is a clearly clerical party with strong ties to Catholicism and has repeatedly used Catholic themes in their speeches, for them, it's evidently a priority to eradicate dissent in the country. The Minister of Justice's actions clearly confirm this.

I also use the term 'government' in relation to judicial investigations deliberately, as Poland has been subject to EU sanctions due to the government's force on the judicial system

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JumpyWombat

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I've read about what's happening in Poland and similar issues exist also in Hungary and Italy where (what a coincidence) far right governments are in charge with their ultra conservative and authoritarian agenda.

However, I don't see why the EU should not go ahead with the program.

If the Poles (or the Hungarians, the Italians,...) elect a fascist government to rule on them, the problem is with the people, not the EU. I completely understand that you may be against that government, but most of the people around you chose it. They may be fools or fascist. Either way you may be in the wrong place. EU comes with the freedom of movement: use it.

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cookie019

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people around you choose them

The ancient Romans did not like Christians and therefore one of their favorite entertainments was to gather in amphitheaters and watch as defenseless Christians were thrown into a cage with tigers and torn apart. People received positive emotions, it united the spirit of the nation, and children also had fun. Another example is that after a shipwreck, people on a boat wandered in the ocean for several days and were starving, having no food, they decided that it was better to die alone than to die together and ate a young boy. Then they were rescued. These are real examples of how your utilitarian philosophy is disadvantaged and its shortcomings.

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JumpyWombat

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These are real examples of how your utilitarian philosophy is disadvantaged and its shortcomings.

It's 2025. Not only we are no more butchering minorities for fun, but any European is literally one ticket away to move to another country and start a new life. It's your choice to stay.

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MonkderVierte

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Are you saying that people against EU or that transfer of power are all far right?

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traceur201

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The problem is that this rule gives a member's judges direct power over another member's courts and there's no clear recourse against members that use this power to violate human rights in ways the member's citizens would normally be protected from

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JumpyWombat

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Do you realise that violations of human rights are in contrast with EU laws, right?

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Narri N. (they/them)

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Thankfully our country just joined NATO too, so the next step would be a useless war in Europe, with trying to attack Russia in the winter and starting a land war in Asia. I love living through 4 different once-in-a-lifetime economic recessions only to witness another rise in authoritarian far-right movements based on religious bigotry, all thanks to global geopolitical actions driven by capitalistic greed! ENDLESS GROWTH FOREVER, HUH

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Matt

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I'm ready to see ~10 clouds in the sky that look like mushrooms per day.

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Bug report: Dim read posts, gets enabled whenever the posts layout is changed.

#summit

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protonmail blocks account creation through tor

so now proton completely blocking account creation through their onion adress? I have standard protection, javascript enabled. Time to swith for those who use this service as they are ditching tor and switzerland?

#privacy

like this

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stupid_asshole69 [none/use name]

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Change your route, people using tor with the same exit as you are doing too many username checks.

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cookie019

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As a said inmyp previous comment onion site was used so they dont have access to info and ip of my exit node, and,anywaty, I have tried to change circuit and access again but without success.

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francois

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While on dread recently I stumbled across this old post regarding issues with their onion adresses encryp.ch/blog/disturbing-fact…

When a user makes a new account with Protonmail on TOR they are re-directed from Protonmail’s “.onion” to “.com” address. This breaks your secure encrypted connection to their onion address, enabling your identification. There are absolutely no technical reasons for this feature. In fact, the only other websites that operate like this are suspected NSA/CIA Honeypots.

Disturbing facts about ProtonMail

Some disturbing facts and my personal experience with Proton AG

^encryp.ch

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cookie019

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Yes, I knew this info, there is a lot of strange things with company

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ScoffingLizard

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Goddamn. We live in a nightmare. There is someone fucking us all every goddamn second of the day.

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When you've lost too many games and they give you a "pity" match that you can easily win

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StrixUralensis

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Splatoon 3 matchmaking is terrible.

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Never played but I can imagine true

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At least you're not the person who's being used as a pity match

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Oh gosh imagine that 😭

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theparadox

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Is it not possible some of those many losses were just that?

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There are games where the pity matches are against bots

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Nah.

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ChatGPT Is Still a Bullshit Machine

CEO Sam Altman says it's like having a superpower, but GPT-5 struggles with basic questions.

^{Matt Novak (Gizmodo)}

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JumpyWombat

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Go ahead and use the tool that works for you. But don’t forget to test your tools on things you know every once in a while.

Ok boomer.

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Thorry84

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An LLM cannot be anything other than a bullshit machine. It just guesses at what the next word would likely be. And because it's trained on source data that contains truths as well as non truths, by chance sometimes what comes out is true. But it doesn't "know" what is true and what isn't.

No matter what they try to do, this won't change. And is one of the main reasons the LLM path will never lead to AGI, although parts of what makes up an LLM could possibly be used inside something that gets to the AGI level.

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ruuster13

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Did we ask god 1.0 the meaning of life and expect the answers to be more accurate than '42?'

Gizmodo is doing something important here. Everyone is in dismay over how powerful AI is. But it's largely just a bullshit machine.

The Israeli remote machine gun assassination trick isn't being pulled off without lots and lots of humans working behind the scenes. Our focus should be on leveraging AI to resist the fascist machine wherever it is rising, which is everywhere. The environment is gonna have to wait^goddamnit^

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skuzz

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How many U.S. states include the letter “R” in their name? You may not know the answer off the top of your head, but any literate adult could figure it out with a list of the states and minimal effort. Unfortunately, OpenAI’s ChatGPT doesn’t know the answer, even its new GPT-5 model.

Duh, and/or hello. They can't think or compute. They just look for the statistically correct answer from an n-dimensional matrix of data. They can't even "compute" 2+2 even thought they are running on an actual computer.

Great reference manuals when trained well, that's it for LLMs.

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Copilot is free so I tried it out

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SocialMediaRefugee

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I use it to write scripts and debug error messages. It takes a good number of cycles though for it to arrive at a working result though. The scripts almost always fail on the first try and require numerous cycles to get through debugging. Once I have a working version though it becomes easier to ask for enhancements to it.

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SocialMediaRefugee

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I keep wondering how AI is going to handle being fed poor data from other AI or its own output. It will be like a photocopy of a photocopy. The end result is an unreadable mess.

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SocialMediaRefugee

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wtf, I checked out the claim about states with R in their name and it was pretty ridiculous how badly it answered it. It answers like someone running through their thoughts in front of you.

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list all of the US states with R in their name

ChatGPT said:
Here’s the full list of U.S. states that have the letter R in their name:

Arizona

Arkansas

California

Colorado

Delaware

Florida

Georgia

Illinois

Maryland

Massachusetts

Missouri

Nebraska

North Carolina

North Dakota

Oregon

South Carolina

Texas – (wait… nope, no R here! ❌)

Vermont

Virginia

Washington – (nope, no R either ❌)

West Virginia

Wisconsin – (no R ❌)

Wyoming – (no R ❌)

Let me clean that up so only correct ones remain:

Final Correct List (22 states):

Arizona

Arkansas

California

Colorado

Delaware

Florida

Georgia

Maryland

Missouri

Nebraska

North Carolina

North Dakota

Oregon

Vermont

Virginia

West Virginia

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New York

Massachusetts

Connecticut – (wait, no R ❌)

Minnesota – (no R ❌)

Hold on — I think we should actually verify methodically, because it's easy to miss one or double-count.
Do you want me to go alphabetically through all 50 states and pick only the ones with "R" so we’re 100% sure? That way we won’t miss any.

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SocialMediaRefugee

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I tried this with MS Copilot and got this:

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list all of the US states with R in their name

Sure! Here's a list of all U.S. states that contain the letter "R" in their name:
🗺️ U.S. States with "R" in the Name
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Delaware
- Florida
- Georgia
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Minnesota
- Missouri
- Nebraska
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New York
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Oregon
- South Carolina
- Texas
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
Let me know if you want this grouped by region or visualized in a map!

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mindbleach

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Seems like loss of context. By the end it's seeing a list of US states, alphabetically, and it'd usually be weird to skip one.

The question is not kept at the forefront for each state named.

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Eager Eagle

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LLMs fundamentally can't answer this kind of question, so it's an unfair test. They don't see letters, they just see tokens.

It's a bit like asking a random person on the street the square root of 75. Most will just guess on the spot.

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SocialMediaRefugee

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But I've seen AI results that are basically extracts of sources. They'll even give a link to them.

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Eager Eagle

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So?

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jj4211

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A bit off topic, but that's pretty much a result of "prompt stuffing". Your prompt is processed into a good old fashioned search query and then the search results are sort of added to the prompt. Basically from the LLM perspective, it seems a request to rework your source material in a manner consistent with your prompt. The LLM is fed the correct answer, so it doesn't have to answer, it just has to reword the input.

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Vendetta9076

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I think this kind of stance is really interesting because of course you're right but it doesn't matter. It doesnt actually matter what an LLM can do, it matters what corpos tell us they can do. And according to the corpos this is child's play.

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jj4211

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Most will just guess on the spot.

Well no, most would say "I don't know". Which an LLM is unlikely to do unless the training material shows that a consistent answer is "I don't know". It will give a fact shaped answer that may fail, but it's at least 'shaped' right.

Again, the big problem is not that LLMs are just useless because they can't do these little specific tricks, it's that it is important to continue calibrating expectations, particularly as, at this point, people have bet trillions on these things and that's a lot of money to have people lie and cheat their way to make everyone overestimate them. Without counter perspective, I think 90% of my coworkers would have been laid off already as the executives just soak in unchallenged marketing bullshit from the big players.

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Hotzilla

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GPT-5 without "thinking" mode got the answer wrong.

GPT-5 with thinking answered:

Here are the 21 US states with the letter “R” in their name:

Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia.

It wrote a script that verified it while doing the "thinking" (feeding the hallusinations back to the LLM)

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skuzz

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"Thinking" mode is just sending wave upon wave of GPUs at the problem until the killbots hit their pre-set kill count. One could roughly simulate that by not using thinking mode and just feeding the answer and question back to the LLM repeatedly until it eventually gets an answer that might be "right". These companies have hit a technological wall with LLMs and will do anything to attempt to look like they still have forward inertia.

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jj4211

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Well, not quite, because they don't have criteria for 'right'.

They do basically say 'generate 10x more content than usual, then dispose of 90% of it', and that surprisingly seems to largely improve results, but at no point is it 'grading' the result.

Some people have bothered to provide 'chain of thought' examples and even when it's largely 'correct', you may see a middle step be utterly flubbed in a way that should have fouled the whole thing, but the error is oddly isolated and doesn't carry forward into the subsequent content, as would be the case in actual 'reasoning'.

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captainlezbian

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Altman looks like a douche by tech ceo standards

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petrj1985

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IMHO Altman is the new age wolf in sheep's clothing. Makes me sick to the bone.

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msage

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He looks exactly the same level of crazy like Elizabeth Holmes, and I hope he ends up like her (but he won't).

American biotechnology entrepreneur convicted of fraud

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petrj1985

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I occasionally use DeepSeek because it's free but yeah makes mistakes also. They are not really smart they just know how to sound smart. In the end of the day LLM models are just another tool that can be used for research but ultimately I do feel it it will be detrimental to humans. I don't think Terminator will happen but big tech will use to dumb down people. They want dumb populace that will buy their products without asking Why.

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Aeri

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I encounter an attitude with a lot of people who really hate it where they act like it's the Antichrist but the problem is really people. Unfortunately you can't uninvent a technology and make it go away forever.

There are some tasks that it's useful for but I treat it like a really stupid guy who is occasionally fun to talk to. Anything involving important information will be researched properly. The idea of using it to write anything is insane to me, in order for it to be half decent you'd have to tear out large sections and rewrite them yourself. At which point why would you just write the thing.

There is one feature that GPT has that I don't know how to get on a locally hosted instance, i'd like to host my own but I'm too inept. Being able to upload files for it to "look" at is novel. Also having it not be censored would be good. As well as having it entirely contained within my computer.

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doubtingtammy

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Altman should release his chat logs

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How Digital Press Releases Are Changing Brand Visibility in 2025

In today’s fast-moving online world, traditional media coverage is no longer enough to get your brand noticed. Digital press releases have evolved into powerful tools for building brand authority, improving SEO, and driving targeted traffic.

I recently came across Smart Press Hub, which offers streamlined press release writing and distribution services designed for modern businesses. What caught my attention is how they focus on blending traditional PR strategies with online marketing tactics to maximize exposure.

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How Wikipedia is fighting AI slop content

Wikipedia editors are struggling with an influx of non-reviewed AI-generated content, but a new speedy deletion policy could help them wade through the muck.

^{Emma Roth (The Verge)}

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Anyone know how to actually get adobe lightroom for free on mac?😭🙏.

Anyone know how to get Adobe Lightroom for free on Mac? I'm new to this whole pirating apps and software things, so idk if this is a Obvious question. But, any help is appreciated. Thanks.

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I want to start by listing adobe alternatives:

If they don't satisfy your use case here is what FreeMediaHeckYeah(FMHY) has about this:
- Mac section - Adobe

GitHub - KenneyNL/Adobe-Alternatives: A list of alternatives for Adobe software

A list of alternatives for Adobe software. Contribute to KenneyNL/Adobe-Alternatives development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Pro via Piracy

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Publishing Giants Escalate War on 'Shadow Libraries' With Broad Cloudflare Subpoena

Major academic publishers, including Elsevier and Springer Nature, are trying to unmask the operators of several shadow libraries including Anna’s Archive, Z-Library and Libgen. They're also targeting SLUM, a third-party uptime monitor for these unofficial libraries. A DMCA subpoena, issued by a D.C. federal court, requires Cloudflare to hand over identifying user data for possible legal action.

Publishing Giants Escalate War on 'Shadow Libraries' With Broad Cloudflare Subpoena * TorrentFreak

Major academic publishers are trying to unmask the operators of several “shadow library” and piracy domains.

^{Ernesto Van der Sar (TF Publishing)}

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AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

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I love this. I hope big-tech/big-AI destroys big-copyright industry.

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squaresinger

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Nah, the only thing that could realistically happen is that copyright doesn't apply to AI hosted by large corporations. In no way will this destroy copyright claims against individuals or small companies.

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Microsoft investigates Israeli military’s use of Azure cloud storage

Concerns that tech company’s Israel-based staff may have concealed key details of work follow Guardian investigation

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La pupilla di Van Gogh

Mary Rood “la pupilla di Van Gogh”

La pupilla di Van Gogh è un romance dallo sfondo storico e romanzato che immerge il lettore nel passato e nell’amore.

La protagonista di questo libro si fingerà un uomo per poter raggiungere i suoi sogni: diventare una pittrice.

La vita per le donne dell’Ottocento non era semplice, siamo nella metà del secolo e iniziano le prime silenziose rivendicazioni femminili che dovranno come sappiamo bene attendere un altro secolo perché prendano fuoco e si accendano in tutta Europa e America.

Eppure, Marie la nostra piccola ma sagace e forte protagonista lotta contro il destino dell’essere donna! Sotta una fascia strettissima nasconde il suo seno, mette calzoni, maglietta da uomo e un cappello sotto cui nasconde i suoi splendidi capelli.

Un affascinante storia alla scoperta di un mondo fatto di sogni e colori perché Marie riuscirà ad entrare nella cerchia di pittori vicino a Vincent Van Gogh e, quando lui scoprirà chi è, ne rimarrà soddisfatto e affascinato.

Sarà l’amore a completare la vita di Marie un amore mai preso in considerazione.

La meraviglia

Marie cresciuta senza padre perché morto, aveva imparato a fare i conti senza la sua presenza, ma uno strano incontro e una rivelazione inseguito la porteranno a dubitare sulla vera morte del padre. Forse egli è ancora vivo?

Un romance che non parla solo d’amore ma anche al cuore del lettore una scrittura piacevole, pulita e ben definita quella di Mary Rood che conquista tutti coloro che la leggono.

Una storia che sa far piangere ed emozionare.

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A "political blackmail" – the EU Parliament is pressing for new mandatory scanning of your private chats

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The EU Parliament is pushing for an agreement on the child sexual abuse (CSAM) scanning bill, according to a leaked memo
According to the Council Legal Service, the proposal still violates fundamental human rights in its current form
The Danish version of the so-called Chat Control could be adopted as early as October 14, 2025

The nations welcoming and supporting the Danish proposal include Italy, Spain, and Hungary. France also said that "it could essentially support the proposal."
Belgium, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Slovenia, Luxembourg, and Romania currently remain undecided or in need of a review with their local parliament.

A "political blackmail" – the EU Parliament is pressing for new mandatory scanning of your private chats

According to the Council Legal Service, the Danish Chat Control proposal still violates human rights

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Azal

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So... there's been a lot of Europeans looking at America and laughing at the stuff we're going through, smug that the US is getting this.

I'm not going to say as someone from the US we don't deserve the kicking, as a country the attitude of the US has had a bad problem of exceptionalism

But this right here should be the warning to Europe not to fall into the exceptionalism trap... your oligarchs are waiting to take everything over as well. And before I get called overreacting and unconnected, this is smelling quite of the "Patriot Act" we got.

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vacuumflower

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Their "oligarchs". LOL.

That's a different part of the world, it's not "oligarchs", it's just the government and politicians and a significant part of society in every European country. Eastern Europe might even be a bit better in this regard than Western, because of relatively recent historical memory.

You have to deserve "oligarchs" first. They didn't. You ask some granny in any European country, that granny will likely be in favor of full-on totalitarianism because they are a law-abiding society and there should be order, and people thinking they have natural rights are extremists.

You in your land of the weird joke about "freedumb" and "mass shooter rights" and "free hate speech", not understanding that the reason Europeans too joke about those is not them seeing your problems as they are, but because they (except for France and maybe some Scandinavian ones, and, eh, maybe Switzerland) unironically have problems with the ideas of freedom, equality, limits of mandate, right to rebellion and free speech. Half the European nations are monarchies or recent monarchies or recent fascist nations or ex-Commie nations.

You there joke about these treating it as a given that you have those rights, just some jerks abuse them, while Europeans joke because they don't have those rights and don't treat them as certain. There's nothing in UK's or even Germany's constitutional laws that admits that their citizens are free people with right to rebellion and to freedom of expression and association, even if someone in some other law writes that they are not.

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squaresinger

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Mhm. Show me where in the US constitution it says that people have a right to rebellion.

And then please show me how this right to rebellion was applied when an actual rebellion occured.

And please also take into consideration any laws regarding treason or domestic terrorism.

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vacuumflower

in reply to squaresinger • 1 mese fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

I said constitutional law, not the US constitution alone. Including declaration of independence and the surrounding history of discussion and all. Also not "says that people have", but recognizes it as an inherent right. Naturally if such a right exists, either no law can retract it or it would be meaningless.

And then please show me how this right to rebellion was applied when an actual rebellion occured.

I don't see how this is relevant. If you think it is, please explain how, explicitly and not implicitly.

(Also one would guess that slaveholders' right to rebellion is in significant doubt.)

And please also take into consideration any laws regarding treason or domestic terrorism.

Can't override constitutional and inherent rights. Also if you don't recognize the latter, it's too bad but your country's founding documents do as a basis. Basically the US constitution is toilet paper compared to unstated but mentioned in d.o.i. inherent rights, and any normal law is toilet paper compared to the US constitution.

And people who made that system were very well educated, also very practical, and explained very thoroughly why should any system of formal rules be possible to discard by force and why inherent rights not prone to degeneracy of any formal system driven by power should exist in philosophy. They were not XX and XXI centuries' idealists with overvalued ideas, or idiots dreaming of totalitarianism with those like them on top.

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squaresinger

in reply to vacuumflower • 1 mese fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

A law that doesn't apply is worthless.

Thinking that this somehow makes you or your anachronistic shithole of a country somewhat better is just plain delusional.

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vacuumflower

in reply to squaresinger • 1 mese fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

First, my anachronistic shithole of a country would be Russia.

Second, I said right, not law. Rights are more transcendent.

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squaresinger

in reply to vacuumflower • 1 mese fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

Rights don't exist. They are social conventions based in law. If you don't have a law or the law isn't enforced then you don't have a right.

Contrary to the name, there are no basic, inalienable human rights.

If your right is not supported by law, it does not exist.

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vacuumflower

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Rights don’t exist. They are social conventions based in law. If you don’t have a law or the law isn’t enforced then you don’t have a right.

That's your opinion which was a minority one in most of the world for most of history. Including such counterintuitive parts of it as China.

Contrary to the name, there are no basic, inalienable human rights.

Says who and based on what?

If your right is not supported by law, it does not exist.

And from which hairy arse would a law gain justification to determine someone's rights?

You are likely from one of the countries with English-derived legal system, where the precedent mechanism literally means that there are non-codified rights outside of the law, which the interpretation of the law has to approximate.

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squaresinger

in reply to vacuumflower • 1 mese fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

Ok, lets put it in a way you might understand.

Let's say there's a basic human right to life, liberty and security (Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights). That's quite basic.

You say you live in Russia. What good does that right do if your holy leader decides that he doesn't like what you posted online and sends you to the front in Ukraine or into a Gulag? Are you going to tell the military police that they can't touch you because you got rights?

Or lets make it more extreme: Say you live in Gaza. Are you going to tell the IDF that you got rights and thus their bombs and starvation just won't touch you?

You are likely from one of the countries with English-derived legal system, where the precedent mechanism literally means that there are non-codified rights outside of the law, which the interpretation of the law has to approximate.

Nope, I don't live in a country with English-derived legal system. A law is a law and judges interpret laws and not judges.

But even in a precedent-based system: Precedent means jack squat if the country's leadership doesn't care, as seen by the US.

I say it once again: Rights, laws, constitutions, all that are fine and dandy, and they are somewhat useful as long as the rule of law is mostly upheld. But:

If the leadership doesn't care about any of that, none of it matters.
If laws stop being enforced, they stop mattering. A law that isn't enforced is a suggestion, nothing more.
The same goes for constitutions and constitution-adjacent rules.
Rights are never anything more than suggestions. If they are supposed to have any meaning at all, they need to be codified into law.

Look up the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. All 193 member countries of the UN ratified these. And yet there are articles in there that every single of these member countries violate. And having these "rights" means absolutely nothing in real-life terms if there's no mechanism to enforce them or get any benefit from it.

As a russian, how much do you e.g. enjoy the "right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association" (Article 20.1) and the "right to freedom of opinion and expression" (Article 19)? How much does "having these rights" help you if you go on the street and protest the war?

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vacuumflower

in reply to squaresinger • 1 mese fa (Ricevuto 3 settimane fa) • •

You say you live in Russia. What good does that right do if your holy leader decides that he doesn’t like what you posted online and sends you to the front in Ukraine or into a Gulag? Are you going to tell the military police that they can’t touch you because you got rights?

It'll just be a violated right. As that's treated always.

And you don't seem to understand that when "right" is treated as a thing separate from "law", arguments functional against "law" are not arguments functional against "right".

But even in a precedent-based system: Precedent means jack squat if the country’s leadership doesn’t care, as seen by the US.

Which doesn't change if it's a right or not. It's in the word. You are either in the right or in the wrong. If you're in the right, that doesn't guarantee you anything in the physical world. That's the point of such an entity.

And having these “rights” means absolutely nothing in real-life terms if there’s no mechanism to enforce them or get any benefit from it.

Wrong. Having a common frame of reference means a lot as a precondition for other things.

Say, having a program supporting some Kademlia-based protocol doesn't guarantee you to find other nodes supporting it, or to find a file or other resource you look for on them, or that someone won't block it. But it's better than if people can't agree on any protocol, but, suppose, MS and Apple can.

I think you shouldn't treat things you don't understand so arrogantly.

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squaresinger

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Are you seriously applying your half-knowledge about programming to legal and philosophy?

You are so lost that you don't even know which topic we are talking about and still think that your arrogance has any basis in reality?

This is pidgeon chess, and you are a delusional pidgeon.

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You may think whatever you want, you don't even need to have negative feelings about it.

But you've got no clue at all.

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squaresinger

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The Dunning-Kruger is strong with you.

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vacuumflower

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Yeah, and not with the guy who after saying something outta their ass went straight to insults.

Also why do you care? If you don't, why did you write this?

Also Dunning-Krueger is strong with everyone, that's what follows from that study.

If you mean that you have achieved something in some specific thing IRL and think I have no similar achievement, then (suppose you're right, most likely true) your achievement is in that specific thing only, and doesn't make you one bit more qualified to talk about anything else.

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Are there open hardware wrist watches around?

I couldn't find any when I looked around a couple of years ago. Anything these days? And if none are floating on the market, are there any decent wrist watches that respect your privacy and don't send all the dam data home?

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I've heard of the SQFMI Watchy and the Bangle.js but I haven't used them myself.

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trilobite

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Bangle.JS seems interesting and more capable than Watchy. But guess the latter's battery lasts longer because of sink screen?

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LiveLM

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I would assume so, but I haven’t used them myself to confirm.
Overall the bangle seems better built.

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I have a Watchy, I didn't have any problems yet, it's fairly open and a lot of fun to play around with.

They also have an aluminum watch case I ordered together with mine

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Real estate agents say new seller disclosure laws are "bottlenecking" property sales due to lengthy turnaround times on required documentation.
The laws allow buyers to get their entire deposit back, and even claim compensation, if the vendor fails to offer up vital information.
Antonia Mercorella from the Real Estate Institute of Queensland says the laws have created "nervousness" about last-second contract cancellations.

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Anyone know how to get adobe lightroom for free on mac ? any version would be fine, Thanks

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Macserialjunkie.
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There is yet more apparent fallout from Intel's recent layoffs/restructurings as it impacts the Linux kernel..

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A follow on article: "Additional Intel Linux Drivers Left Orphaned & Maintainers Let Go"
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Additional Intel Linux Drivers Left Orphaned & Maintainers Let Go

Well, it's an unpleasant afternoon in Linux land with more signs of the ongoing impact from Intel's corporate-wide restructuring

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Fuck Intel, they are supporting genocide.

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sunzu2

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I am sure they are not doing layoff on Israel the genocide state needs these jobs more!

US taxpayer is a useful idiot who funds their share buy backs 🤡

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tactical_trans_karen [she/her, comrade/them]

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I chuckled about this like the sicko that I am, then remembered my server is an old Intel... Fuk

Come to think of it, isn't Intel CPUs running some kind of Linux like... The backbone of the entire Internet?

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Big Updates Are Coming to Loops

There's a lot of cool stuff in the pipeline for the open source federated alternative to Tiktok and Vine, including a Web UI and a boatload of new features. Let's dive in, and see what's coming in the next release.

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2025-08-09 01:18:54

Big Updates Are Coming to Loops

Loops, the open source Tiktok alternative for the Fediverse, is continuing to grow and evolve. Although the platform launched with a fairly limited featureset, development has ramped up to pull in some ambitious new features. Daniel Supernault has this to say:
With Loops, we saw an opportunity to bring short video to the fediverse in a way that feels familiar, fun, and safe — while building something new beyond Pixelfed: a community-first platform of its own.
Daniel Supernault, Pixelfed Development lead

There’s a lot of new features coming in to the video-sharing platform. Let’s break down some of the most significant ones:
Loops Comes to the Web

One of the most important updates of this development cycle concerns a new Web interface for the Loops platform. Soon, users will no longer be constrained to Android or iOS clients to make use of Loops and its social features.
Demo courtesy of Daniel Supernault
The new UI looks incredibly slick, and feels like an evolution of Pixelfed’s own design language. Bringing a Web interface to Loops feels like a smart idea, as it opens up the possibility for more people to use it.

The new Web UI also ships with a Dark Mode, for those of you hoping to shield your eyes from a bright browser page. It’s clean, and really makes the video content pop.

Better User Controls

A big design focus for Loops (and presumably, Pixelfed) centers around giving users greater control over their online experience. This includes what they see on the timeline, who can interact with them, and whether posts can be interacted with in the first place. Taking further lessons from Pixelfed, Loops also brings in comprehensive tools for blocking bad actors, and keeping your timeline civil.

A new user-wellness feature here is called Screen Time, which helps keep track of how often a person is logged into Loops and watching videos. While it’s something of a niche feature, it’s nice to know that there are ways to set daily time limits.
Self-Hosting

The backend code for Loops has been open to the wider community for a while, but the prospect of including a Web-facing interface solidifies the possibility that Loops will soon formally allow admins to host their own Loops instances. This boils down to a few critically important features for the network: admin controls, customization, and federation support.
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Admin Controls and Customization

A big focus of Loops development has involved encouraging admins to set up their own community instances. Loops takes a lot of the lessons learned from Pixelfed, and incorporates a lot of flexibility for admins to make their instances stand out, while providing necessary tools to keep communities safe.
Custom Links and Pages in Loops
Admins will be happy to see the addition of custom pages and navigation for instances. With the upcoming release, it will be even easier for admins to put need-to-know instance info front and center to their community. This could include sharing community messaging channels, donation links, methods for getting updates from the admin, or details pertaining to server status.
Federation Support

It might not seem obvious, but Loops technically already supports ActivityPub federation. It’s just that the flagship instance at loops.video only has the feature enabled for select accounts, for testing purposes. Nevertheless, federated following and interactions are possible, and seem to work.
Dan’s account on Loops.Video does in fact federate. Here it is, as seen from Mastodon.
The significance of Loops turning on federation capabilities cannot be understated. Short-form video is an extremely popular medium, and bringing it in to the Fediverse gives people a new way to talk to one another, and might just be the incentive needed to get more video creators on the network.
Loops Studio

One of the more exciting features coming in an update is Loops Studio, a creator’s dashboard designed for uploading and managing videos, viewing interactions, and keeping track of analytics and engagement. This could provide a solid incentive for content creators to commit to using Loops full-time, and allow them to better engage with their friends and followers across the network.

Interestingly, the new composer for creating loops includes some unique capabilities that seem to be directly inspired from Tiktok: there are options to allow other users to stitch your video into theirs, allow users to perform a duet with you, and also disclose Not Safe for Work content. There’s even a way to tag whether something was created using generative AI.
Loops Sound Library

Details on this feature are scarce, but this NLNet-funded project is designed to allow Loops videos to incorporate music from Fediverse musicians that allow for remixing and resharing. The feature reportedly will allow users to select tracks from Funkwhale and possibly other federated music platforms for background music in their videos, while preserving attribution.
The idea of integrating with Funkwhale and other federated music servers is older than it sounds. Over the years, Dansup has experimented with various mockups and ideas on how to incorporate music capabilities into Pixelfed. It seems like some of that work may have eventually influenced this feature.
Comprehensive Data Export

Being an open and federated platform, Loops is aiming to include an export data for all of your videos, posts, and social connections. The goal here is to give users the ability to migrate to other Loops servers and retain their follower graph, much in the same way that Mastodon does. Hopefully, in the future, this might also give users the ability to pull in videos and activities from their old instances when moving.

In Conclusion

Loops is a massive, ambitious undertaking, and it’s exciting to see so much development effort finally bear fruit. While we still have to wait a little while longer for a release to ship and for the flagship instance to get updated, I’m extremely hopeful about the prospects of having a free and open Tiktok / Vine alternative for the Fediverse.
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Twelve-day war: Impact of Iran’s strikes censored by Israel

A month after the end of the conflict between Iran and Israel, the damage caused by the Islamic republic remains unclear largely because of Israeli censorship.

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Additional Intel Linux Drivers Left Orphaned & Maintainers Let Go

Well, it's an unpleasant afternoon in Linux land with more signs of the ongoing impact from Intel's corporate-wide restructuring

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BeardedGingerWonder

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Got to wonder if this'll affect intel in the data centre, one thing fucking over desktop users, quite another if enterprise are impacted.

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stormeuh

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I doubt they'll be that stupid, however, all bets are off with the MBA's back behind the wheel...

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frongt

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Probably not. In the data center, a server has its own temperature sensors. But most people never use those either and just use AC for the whole room.

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BeardedGingerWonder

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From the article it looks like more than just temp sensors are going to be impacted.

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Auli

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Sure but they still monitor their servers.

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SomeRandomNoob

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by this time it probably would be easier to remove all the intel hardware support code

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Every time Apple forces me to update

I never turn off my machine, because every reboot forces an update and my peripherals are ancient.

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HiddenLayer555

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Isn't a drawing tablet just a fancy touchpad that works with a pen? What excuse do they have not to work with tablets past a certain age when they all use the same USB signalling standard mice and laptop touchpads have used since USB came out? (We all know the real reason, but I'm curious about what they pretend is the reason?)

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LillyPip

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Basically yeah. It’s a bit more complicated because of touch sensitivity, but I think I’ll need to learn driver programming soon, because I can’t afford a new model (e: and there’s nothing wrong with this one). Then I’ll be able to say for sure.

e: Intuos 4. And to be fair, it would have died under windows like 10 years ago, apparently.

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Jentu

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I've had pretty good results using Connect My Tablet (app store link) to keep my Intuos 3 working on my M3 MBP.

‎Connect my tablet

‎Connect my tablet is doing exactly that: It connects your Wacom (TM) tablet to your Mac and restores at least its critical functionality to be creative with Photoshop (TM) and other programmes in Sequoia, Sonoma, Ventura, Monterey, Big Sur, Catalina…

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LillyPip

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Ooh thanks!

e: have you updated past Ventura? I haven’t yet because I keep seeing posts where this tablet breaks at Ventura and later. If your 3 works in a more recent OSX, I’ll be able to breathe again, since my subscription services (Adobe, Sibelius) are complaining that I haven’t upgraded.

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Jentu

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Yeah I’m currently on sequoia. Setting it up was pretty obnoxious from what I remember. I had to do it 3 times before my computer recognized it, but if you follow directions better than me (and if your specific tablet is supported), you should be good! If you have a friend on a newer version of Mac OS, see if you can test on their computer before upgrading your own since it might be very difficult to downgrade.

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doleo

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Apple don’t feel the need to give excuses in situations like this. They know you’re an edge case and your complaints will be so much piss in the ocean.
Meanwhile else gets to talk about how great the new unreadable ui is. That skeleton at the bottom of the swimming pool meme could work here.

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somerandomperson

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You should've bought an Android tablet. Or heck, a touchscreen and the rest of your pc setup if you're fancy.

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LillyPip

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I don’t think that was a thing when I bought my Wacom, and this 12x8 tablet was the best you could get at the time for drawing and working with the Adobe suite in OSX, which was why I needed it.

I wish I could go back in time to when I could afford such things, but now I have to work with what I have. It’s still a very good tablet, it’s just getting outmoded for no good reason.

e: and I don’t mean something like an iPad, I mean a drawing tablet. This:

(Sorry for the horrible bloom)

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JamesBoeing737MAX

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How does nobody know what a Wacom tablet is? It's a periferal. Way cheaper than an Android tablet with stylus input.

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