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Glitch via Migrazione da windows a linux e da Google & c. all'open source

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Come rinunciare a calendario e contatti Google ed avere tutti i dati sul proprio server Linux usando come client delle APP open source

Questo articolo non vuol essere la guida unica possibile allo scopo, così è come ho fatto io, sicuramente vi sono altri modi, ma questa è una soluzione testata e funzionante. Se vi fossero omissioni o errori, non esitate a rispondere a questo post o contattarmi.

Installare sul proprio server Linux il programma server chiamato NextCloud con YunoHost è semplicissimo. Nelle impostazioni di installazione, lasciare aperta l'applicazione ai "visitatori" (ovvero agli utenti non autenticati che potranno autenticarsi) dall'apposito menu a tendina.

Da nextCloud -> Applicazioni -> ufficio e testo -> cercare "Calendar", installarla e abilitarla se già non è stato fatto. Ora in alto nella barra aparirà un'icona Calendario.

Da nextCloud -> Applicazioni -> ufficio e testo -> cercare "Contacts", installarla e abilitarla se già non è stato fatto. Ora in alto nella barra apparirà un'icona Contatti.

Da smartphone android installare l'APP DAVX5 ( davx5.com/ ) che si trova disponibile gratuitamente sullo store F-Droid ( f-droid.org/it/ ), mentre sul PlayStore costa € 5 circa. Piccola nota: le applicazioni android scaricate da F-Droid sono open source e ricevono aggiornamenti.

Installare l'APP DAVX5 dando i permessi richiesti. Cliccare sul tasto + presente nella pagina principale dell'APP ed inserire l'url di NextCloud e negli appositi campi anche l'user e la password con cui accedete (di default l'unico utente presente è l'amministratore di YunoHost).

Per avere un calendario open source e visualizzare gli eventi di NextCloud senza usare Google calendar: installare dallo store F-Droid l'APP gratuita "Etar" ( f-droid.org/it/packages/ws.xso… ) che di default mostrerà tutti i calendari che ha trovato tra cui quello configurato da noi. Da impostazioni sarà possibile disattivare il calendario Google e verificare che l'account NextCloud sia attivo. Etar dispone anche di un bel widget.

Per visualizzare i contatti si può utilizzare l'APP contatti di google. Qualora si desideri un'alternativa open source, Fossify mette a disposizione l'APP telefono, messaggi, contatti e molte altre ( search.f-droid.org/?q=fossify&… ) che potremo sincronizzare col nostro server grazie a DAVX5 senza che nessuno metta il naso nei nostri contatti, telefonate ed SMS.

Come configurare i contatti NextCloud su thunderbird da PC: dall'APP DAVX5 su android cliccare sull'account creato nella pagina principale, spostarsi in cardDAV e cliccare sulla rubrica NextCloud. Copiare "indirizzo URL", spostarsi in thunderbird sul proprio PC, cliccare su rubrica e poi su nuova rubrica che è l'icona in alto a sinistra e scegliere "Aggiungi rubrica cardDAV", scrivere il nome utente ed incollare l'url copiato da android, successivamente verrà chiesta la password.

Come configurare il calendario NextCloud su thunderbird da PC:dall'APP DAVX5 su android cliccare sull'account creato nella pagina principale, spostarsi in calDAV e cliccare sul calendario. Copiare "indirizzo URL", spostarsi in thunderbird sul proprio PC, nella barra di destra cliccare l'icona "Calendario" e poi in basso o sui tre puntini, cliccare su "Nuovo Calendario". Selezionare l'opzione "sulla rete", immettere lo stesso username della rubrica ed incollare l'url copiato da android su DAVX5, successivamente immettere la password e confermare.

Una nota: da NextCloud web, che è visualizzabile da qualunque browser, si possono leggere e modificare sia i contatti che gli eventi del calendario.

F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

F-Droid è un catalogo di applicazioni FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) per la piattaforma Android. Il client offre un modo semplice per navigare il catalogo, installare le app e aggiornarle direttamente sul tuo dispositivo.

^f-droid.org

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Snow Lemmy

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Ottimo lavoro, stai andando forte. 💪

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Glitch

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Sei troppo buono @snow@lemmy.casasnow.noho.st
Io veramente faccio quello che posso, in questo caso ho remato un giorno provando tante soluzioni. Questa era abbastanza pulita e si ricollegava all'articolo di YunoHost già pubblicato! Spero di essere utile!

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Zerush via World News

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Trump deploys National Guard to D.C., takes control of local police in crime crackdown

Summary by Andi

President Donald Trump announced Monday he is federalizing Washington D.C.'s police department and deploying 800 National Guard troops in what he called "liberation day" for the nation's capital¹.

Trump invoked Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to place the Metropolitan Police Department under federal control, appointing U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to lead the department and DEA Administrator Terry Cole as interim federal commissioner¹².

"Crime in D.C. is ending and ending today," said Attorney General Bondi¹. However, D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb called the actions "unprecedented, unnecessary, and unlawful," noting that violent crime in the district reached "historic 30-year lows last year" and is down 26% in 2025¹.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said National Guard troops will be "flowing into the streets of Washington in the coming week" and the Pentagon was "prepared to bring in other National Guard units, other specialized units"¹.

The federal takeover can last 48 hours before requiring congressional notification and up to 30 days before needing congressional approval¹. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, who cannot activate the National Guard herself, questioned the effectiveness of using Guard troops to enforce city laws³.

Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton called the actions "counterproductive, potentially dangerous, and an egregious assault on D.C. home rule"¹. Multiple sources said there was little to no coordination between the White House and local D.C. officials before the announcement¹.

‘Liberation day in DC’: Trump says he’s placing DC police under federal control, deploying the National Guard

President Donald Trump said he’s placing the D.C. police department under federal control and deploying the National Guard to make the nation’s capital safer.

^{The Associated Press (WTOP News)}

#Worldnews

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Zaktor

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Trump deploys National Guard to D.C., takes control of local police in crime crackdown

That's absolutely not why he's doing it. The headline writer is either the most gullible person alive or in on the propaganda.

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HiddenLayer555

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100% the latter

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QuantumTickle

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I bet Trump feels unsafe.

Good.

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The dangerous push by Canonical to rewrite GNU coreutils as Rust code without the GNU license

cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/35495679

Earlier post version: image/text.

From another article referenced there:
The maintainers of the Ubuntu Linux distribution are now rewriting GNU Coreutils in Rust. Instead of using the GPLv3 license, which is designed to make sure that the freedoms and rights of the user of the program are preserved and always respected over everything else, the new version is going to be released using the very permissible or "permissive" (non-reciprocal) MIT license, which allows creating proprietary closed-source forks of the program.
There will surely be small incompatibilities - either intentional or accidental - between the Rust rewrite of coreutils and the GNU/C version. If the Rust version becomes popular - and it probably will, if Ubuntu starts using it - the Rust people will start pushing their own versions of higher level programs that are only compatible with the Rust version of coreutils. They will most probably also spam commits to already existing programs making them incompatible with the GNU/C version of coreutils. That way either everyone will be forced into using the MIT-licensed Rust version of coreutils, or the Linux userland becomes even more broken than it already is because now we have again two incompatible sets of runtime functions that conflict with one another. Either way, both outcomes benefit the corporations that produce proprietary software.

(Source – which does contain some more-than-problematic language outside of these passages, compare the valid objections raised by others here and in the cross-posts.)

Compare also how leaders of Canonical/Ubuntu have ties to Microsoft, and how the Canonical employee who leads the push to rewrite coreutils as non-GPL-licensed Rust software has spent years working for the British Army, where he "Architected and built multiple high-end bespoke Electronic Surveillance capabilities", by his own proud admission.

Curriculum Vitae

Jon Seager's personal website and blog.

^{Jon Seager}

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Echedelle (she/her)

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Ubuntu Pro intensifies with the full support of the tools under a custom license.

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Ŝan

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Well, on þe one hand, BSD, which already has overlap wiþ GNU core but under þe BSD license. Þere's even already a Linux distro built around þe BSD core - it's a distribution Stallman can't insist is GNU/Linux.

OTOH, Ubuntu is one of þe big, influential distributions.

OTOOH, Ubuntu failed to make everyone use Upstart, and has failed to make everyone use Snap... þe former is dead, and þe latter is almost exclusively used by Ubuntu. Even Ubuntu forks don't consistently base þeir software distribution on it.

OTOO_O_H, þe Rust fad is at its peak, so þey'll undoubtedly sucker a lot of OSS developers into contributing free labor building tools, which þey can - wiþout FOSS licensing defense - co-opt and commercialize.

I'm not really worried about þis, but I wasn't really worried about Trump, and yet he just kicked off his coup, so I'm clearly not a good judge of bellwethers.

Trump declares 'Liberation Day' in DC: Deploys National Guard, MPD under federal control

President Donald Trump on Monday officially invoked Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act

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mina86

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Absolute trash article.

The first thing that I noticed back then

When is ‘then’? Because that affects the meaning of the rest of the paragraph.
Prior to Rust 1.0 a lot of things changed in backwards-incompatible way.
Currently, if you learn something, you can continue applying that knowledge.

I don't want to learn something that does not last - that feels like a wasted
time when I could also learn skills that remain usable to the far future.

Then software engineering is not a career for you. Maybe you could become
a bricklayer because pretty much everywhere technologies changes and if you want
to be at the top of the game you need to learn new skills.

That was long before I even noticed how disgusting people many Rust
programmers are.

So are many C programmers. Or Python programmers. Or Heskell programmers.

If you go to the website of the Rust programming language nowadays, one of the first things you'll notice is that their primary communication platform is Discord.

This is blatant lie. The first thing I see when I go to the website is that
Rust has official Mastodon, Blueksy and YouTube channels. And if you go to
Community page you’ll see the main
communication channels are self-hosted forum, and Zulip.

Another thing that you notice immediately if you use an independent web browser is that their developer forum does not work. If you use a "non-supported" browser, or have JavaScript disabled, the webpage body has a CSS property "overflow-y: hidden !important;" which prevents the user from scrolling the page. On top of the page there is a banner that tells you to download one of the "supported browsers", which are Firefox, Chrome and Safari.

What is the issue exactly?

Which leads me to the next point. Rust people are clearly hostile towards or generally against free software.

So let me get this straight, you’ve poisoned the well with lies and irrelevant
information to prime readers to hate Rust and accept your point. Got it.

There will surely be small incompatibilities - either intentional or accidental - between the Rust rewrite of coreutils and the GNU/C version.

Why are you so sure that there will be incompatibilities? The stated goal of
the project uutils is ‘to be a drop-in replacement for the GNU utils’ and
‘differences with GNU are treated as bugs’.

If the Rust version becomes popular […] the Rust people will start pushing their own versions of higher level programs that are only compatible with the Rust version of coreutils. They will most probably also spam commits to already existing programs making them incompatible with the GNU/C version of coreutils. […]

This is pure speculation aimed to support a conclusion that the author has.
uutils aims to be fully compatible and there are no indications that this goal
isn’t sincere.

Rust's licensing is also problematic. The license has been worded in such a vague way that it may or may not allow forking or re-implementation. It may or may not require deleting all references to the word "rust" from a fork or re-implementation.

All of that is fully compatible with FSF and OSI definitions. There is nothing
new in requirement that forks use a different name.

The rest seems to be just ‘Rust people’ generalisations and lies.

Community

A language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

^{www.rust-lang.org}

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schnurrito

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Absolute trash article.

like most things on techrights.org; every time I read almost anything on that website, I agree with a lot of the substance and then wonder why it has to make that substance look so bad by adding inaccuracies and/or conspiracy theories into it.

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toman

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Rust’s licensing is also problematic. The license has been worded in such a vague way that it may or may not allow forking or re-implementation. It may or may not require deleting all references to the word “rust” from a fork or re-implementation.
All of that is fully compatible with FSF and OSI definitions. There is nothing new in requirement that forks use a different name.

To add to this: Rust is dual-licensed under the MIT and Apache licenses, both of which are permissible and compatible with GPLv3. There's nothing stopping anyone forking Rust and creating Stallman's Rust licensed under GPLv3. I genuinely do not understand that paragraph.

Licenses

A language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

^{www.rust-lang.org}

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loveknight

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1) Your criticism omits the passages about usage of the MIT license over the GPL (the ones I quoted in the post). I haven't quoted the other parts of the article because they are not as substantial, but their being opinionated and questionable in what they say about 'Rust people' does not mitigate the recklessness of those who strive to create MIT-licensed replacements for GNU coreutils.

2) Discord on the website of the Rust project: That's not a lie at all: it was the truth at the time of publication on March 19, and even as late as May (having been there for at least four years). So it appears that the Rust project has decided to drop Discord as an officially advertised channel. Good move. I would think that vocal criticism like the author's played a role in this.

3) Rust forum telling users to use Firefox, Chrome or Safari, and refusing to be accessible by other browsers (however circumventible this may have been): How was this not a sign of flagrant disregard for free software and for people's right to use the web however the fuck they want to use it - or how they need to use it, in case of disabilities? (This antifeature doesn't seem to be in place anymore, but compare point 2.)

Rust Programming Language

A language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

^{web.archive.org}

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mina86

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Your criticism omits the passages about usage of the MIT license over the GPL
(the ones I quoted in the post).

I’ve addressed it:

Why are you so sure that there will be incompatibilities? The stated goal of
the project uutils is ‘to be a drop-in replacement for the GNU utils’ and
‘differences with GNU are treated as bugs’.
[…]
This is pure speculation aimed to support a conclusion that the author
has. uutils aims to be fully compatible and there are no indications that
this goal isn’t sincere.
Discord on the website of the Rust project: That’s not a lie at all: it was the truth at the time of publication on March 19

I stand corrected regarding it being a blatant lie. However, the paragraph is
still at least manipulative since nothing indicated that it was the primary
communication platform. The forums were listed before it.
At most you could argue Discord was primary chat platform, but even
that is irrelevant considering that anyone who didn’t like Discord had an
alternatives.

Sounds like the author is authoritarian and wants to dictate what
people can and cannot use on the Internet.

How was this not a sign of flagrant disregard for free software and for
people’s right to use the web however the fuck they want to use it

Last I checked Firefox and Chromium were free software and the forums work in both.
Furthermore, if anything you should have issue with Discourse rather than Rust
since that’s the software running the forums. Or better still, submit
patches to fix compatibility issues.

GitHub - discourse/discourse: A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.

A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple. - discourse/discourse

^GitHub

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FrostyPolicy

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Your criticism omits the passages about usage of the MIT license over the GPL (the ones I quoted in the post).

I’ve addressed it:

  Why are you so sure that there will be incompatibilities? The stated goal of the project uutils is ‘to be a drop-in replacement for the GNU utils’ and ‘differences with GNU are treated as bugs’.

You did not address it. Possible incompatibilities in code level is completely different thing then releasing them with a not copyleft license. MIT license allows that a closed sourced version can be created that could, in theory, be used to replace the MIT licensed versions in what ever distro uses them. Copyleft licenses, like the GNU GPL, don't allow this. Recreating a well established and used core utilities, in whatever language, as a replacement to use, at first, in your distro and licensing them with a permissive license undermines the whole purpose of FOSS.

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mina86

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Issue is that author stated that ‘Rust people’ are authoritarian and that they chose to reimplement coreutils to impose authoritarian control over FOSS. This is not grounded in reality. Unless you also want to claim that ‘BSD people’ are authoritarian, the author presents no valid point of discussion.

If you want to discuss consequences of uutils being under permissive license, feel free to write a coherent fact-based post about that. Article you’ve cited makes you no favours. If anything, based on the article and your post all I noticed is ‘how disgusting people many GPL proponents are.’

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FrostyPolicy

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You are completely missing the point here. You replied to OPs comment about licensing with a comment about incompatibilities in code. My comment was about licensing.

If anything, based on the article and your post all I noticed is ‘how disgusting people many GPL proponents are.’

If wanting to keep FOSS as FOSS is disgusting to you why are you in this community in the first place?

Edit: Not once did I mention whether or not I agree with the posted article or the OP.

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mina86

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You are completely missing the point here. You replied to OPs comment about licensing with a comment about incompatibilities in code. My comment was about licensing.

But the post is about an article by Sami Tikkanen/Roy Schestowitz (not really sure who the author is) and my answer is in context of that post. Like I’ve said, if you want to discuss licensing policies and how uutils affects future of FOSS, don’t use manipulative trash articles as starting point. Write a coherent post where you present factual information and than we can talk.

If wanting to keep FOSS as FOSS is disgusting to you why are you in this community in the first place?

It isn’t. But author of the article and OP are lying and using manipulative language to discredit people they disagree with. That’s what I find disgusting. I criticise the article because I don’t want such people representing copyleft licenses.

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atzanteol

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That was long before I even noticed how disgusting people many Rust programmers are.

His entire argument is rather undercut by his grandpa-level ranting about "discord" and the use of JavaScript on rust forums.

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loveknight

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As the saying goes, don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. I think @floofloof@lemmy.ca summed things up pretty well here.

Also, from my reply to that comment:

As for the off-putting statements about ‘Rust people’: Since the article was published on March 19, I wonder if much of it, revolving around what the author saw as indications of authoritarianism, came from heavy disquiet in the face of authoritarianism’s recent gaining hold of the White house. I’d even consider it likely that people who post on Techrights have an above-average sensitivity for this kind of thing. It could be that the author has since arrived at a more differentiated and just view. Of note, since the time of his writing, the Rust project did remedy things that he criticized about their website.

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atzanteol

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As the saying goes, don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Meh - I'm pretty confident this sort of rant is well worth ignoring.

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mina86

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As the saying goes, don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.

You’re the one doing that. It was your choice to bring up an article which is full of manipulative language to make your point. It was your choice to bring up irrelevant facts about Canonical employees in your post.

Since the article was published on March 19, I wonder if much of it, revolving around what the author saw as indications of authoritarianism, came from heavy disquiet in the face of authoritarianism’s recent gaining hold of the White house.

How is that an excuse for making shit up?

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Matt

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some untested stuff controlled by proprietary software of Microsoft?

AFAIK, Rust is mainly funded by the Rust Foundation, which not only includes Microsoft, but also includes comrades from Huawei and alike.

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mina86

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AFAIK, Rust is mainly funded by the Rust Foundation, which not only includes Microsoft, but also includes comrades from Huawei and alike.

So does Linux Foundation. What’s your point?

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traches

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Rust people seem to be focused mostly on identity politics and dividing people into groups that are then supposed to fight each other.

Yeah, this guy can eat my entire ass. This is the same language that fascists use to delegitimize anyone who isn’t straight and white.

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eldavi

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at first, i lol'ed at the c/rust divide because i thought it was another silly holy war like emacs/vi but it's taken on a MUCH bigger and troubling role

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Auli

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The problem is there are tons of c developers who are old and don't want anything new. But C is unsafe and don't come back with a skills issue we have tons of examples of C being unsafe and in big projects it is hard to see every mistake.
And I'm not saying rust is the answer but to eliminate 90% of most bugs a memory safe language should be used.

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eldavi

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the licensing seems to be the issue here instead of the possible exploits.

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Mwa

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Sounds like someone strict(and i think way more paranoid then rms) on free/libre software similar to rms(like down to the assets and firmware)
But I agree alot on the licensing.

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SavvyWolf

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So the narrative is that Rust somehow, through being released only through one distro, is going to use that influence to force incompatible changes into other codebases. Despite the fact that any change to shell scripts that isn't posix compatible brings opinionated people out the woodwork. And then they're going to pivot to releasing a proprietary version of coreutils that somehow has killer features that the open source version lacks despite coreutils being 30 years old.

Also the guy pushing for it once worked for a government so that means he can't be trusted ever again.

It's just a fucking bunch of programs that act as thin wrappers around C functions. There's nothing novel that needs protecting or is hard to implement.

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corsicanguppy

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So the narrative is that Rust somehow, through being released only through one distro, is going to use that influence to force incompatible changes into other codebases.

Systemd says what?

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LeFantome

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They are aiming for complete compatibility. They literally use the GNU test suite.

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nickwitha_k (he/him)

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any change to shell scripts that isn't posix compatible brings opinionated people out the woodwork.

Yo. Did I hear someone breaking POSIX-compatability over here?

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GenderNeutralBro

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There are interesting and important points being raised here, but the particular programming language used is irrelevant. The author is only undermining himself by focusing so much energy on the tired old holy war between C and Rust proponents.

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considerealization

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I am not cosigning the particular points made against Rust, because I don't have context, but the particular language is not irrelevant, because the post is calling out social and cultural practices, and Programming languages are largely social and cultural institutions. Part of Rust's success is due to how intentional the initial core users and developers where about this dimension of the PL.

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blob42

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I posted 2 years ago about the same concerns on /r/StallmanWasRight and the lemmy rust community. Many dismissed it as a conspiracy theory ... Not that I agree with the form and language used in this article but ditching GPL coreutils from prominent distros is a turning point and slippery slope for Free Software and Linux.

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Mugita Sokio

in reply to loveknight • 1 mese fa • •

Neigsendoig (my producer) and I are very used to the C-based GNU utilities. Rust is not up our alley, that's for sure.

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Revan343

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Fuck that entirely

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onlooker

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Nope. Not reading a Techrights article.

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arc99

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I don't really buy the "small incompatibilities" argument. The project strives for total compatibility, even down to the most esoteric parameter that nobody has ever heard of. And even that seems like overkill to me - there are alternative implementations of core commands on Linux and other *nix systems like BSD, Solaris etc. where the compatibility is way worse. For example, busybox is used in embedded Linux, and a containerized images like Alpine Linux.

It also seems a bit rich to complain that uutils might get extended. GNU coreutils came into being because of dissatisfaction with the commands that came with the default *nix. Same for bash (vs sh), GNU cc (vs cc), GNU emacs (vs emacs) and so on. Was there somebody back then complaining about devs "spamming commits" that extended functionality?

And other Rust applications won't only work with uutils. That's absurd. They'll test the capabilities of the OS they're built to run on either at build time with feature flags or at runtime by probing commands. Just like any other high level application.

As for license, MIT is used for plenty other things in a typical Linux dist, e.g. X11.

The biggest point of concern for a Rust rewrite is dependency integrity. Rust uses cargo to manage dependencies and absolutely everything in the Cargo.toml/Cargo.lock files has to be reviewed. The crates.io repository is beginning to support package signing and The Update Framework initiative but every single dependency of uutils would need to be carefully reviewed and signature validated for it to be considered trustworthy. Basically everything needs to get locked down, and wherever possible dependencies expunged altogether.

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ZILtoid1991

in reply to loveknight • 1 mese fa • •

Finally, some legitimate critique of Rust, that does not revolve around "DEI bad" or "memory safety bad"!

Both can be criticized within reason. Yes, there's that infamous Rust dev, who likes to sabotage projects she's involved with the moment things don't go the way she wants it, thinks the word "cancer" is somehow a slur, and of course loves to send her followers after people for various reasons, often while purposefully misinterpreting people's words. All while spreading either the evopsych "extreme female brain theory of borderline personality disorder" nonsense, or the "cluster B abuse" nonsense made up by far-right theologists masquerading as psychologists to explain trans people on the terms of christian fundamentalism and without allowing them to live life as they want. This (nor other similarly bad Rust devs, nor callout culture in general, nor other things like the whole "master" branch fiasco with Github) does not mean we need to throw out the baby with the bathwater, like Brian Lunduke and other far-right adjacent people want us to do, all while pretending their position is the "centist" one, because "real fascists did those things for the sake of pure evil, but we have good reasons to do those very same things, like crime statistics and IQ tests".

Same with memory safety. We usually get the "skill issue" type of critique, meaning "just write better code". I personally prefer D's approach to memory safety with its multi-level solution alongside with the much nicer code for the unsafe stuff. And I guess Rust also have something similar to D's --noboundscheck compiler flag as a way to disable boundschecks in times it's needed.

This all creates a situation I've first seen unfolding during the whole gamergate culture war fiasco. Thanks to burnt out atheist YouTubers making bad faith critique of Anita Sarkeesian's videos lead to the rebrand of Morality in Media to NCOSE and the formation of Collective Shout, which ultimately lead to the whole payment processor censorship issue. Thanks to alt-right chuds constantly misgendering and sending death threats to Brianna Wu enabled a racist abuser to hide within our circles. And thanks to chud developers wanting to "give real treatment to gender confused people" and wanting to "gatekeep" software development from newbies, actual critiques of the Rust language, such as a heavily OCaml-influenced language being sold as a C replacement (if not a C++ replacement - all without true built-in OOP support), or the fact a functional programming language is being sold as a general purpose language, all because "you can opt out" (Java also technically allows you to opt-out from most OOP features).

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MonkderVierte

in reply to ZILtoid1991 • 1 mese fa • •

Yes, there's that infamous Rust dev, who likes to sabotage projects she's involved with the moment things don't go the way she wants it

Please give a name, so i don't accidentally invite them to the big project i'm planning.

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ZILtoid1991

in reply to MonkderVierte • 1 mese fa • •

Asahi Lina. She's started to become infamous in certain circles, however she often blames all negative backlash on her on Luna the Foxgirl (who is not innocent, but it's interesting that so far this whole incident only happened with Lina and is not a recurring one) contacting people behind her back, usually with a Google Doc that suspiciously lacking certain details and screenshots of certain conversations, and instead describes that. Also she claimed Luna was an abusive borderline person, and to my knowledge, only apologized to her in private. I knew Luna for a longer time than Lina did (we are using the same obscure language, where everyone knows its users by name), and during her time in null:Ptr/Live, she acted much "less autistic", so I have a bad feeling that Lina might have tried to "amateur ABA" her, with the worst of those people in my experience ending up denying "female autism" altogether to stop women from "acting the wrong way". It just seem, she "went woke" with it and applied to trans people equally.

People who had to deal with her bullshit have started to use "pulling a Lina" as a slang term for pulling out years old drama to smear a person, and she had so much controversy on her PL name, that people who previously dealt with her think her VTuber rebrand was an attempt at hiding her past behind the avatar.

Speaking of missing context from a Google doc, here's an easy to find one, part of the "FUDposting":

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nickwitha_k (he/him)

in reply to ZILtoid1991 • 1 mese fa • •

JFC. What is wrong with people? I just want to write code that works, is interesting, and doesn't have memory problems.

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Auli

in reply to ZILtoid1991 • 1 mese fa • •

I don't get the whole skill issue thing. We have had memory safety bugs for decades and I assume everyone thinks their code doesn't. But if history is anything to go buy it does but everyone thinks they are the developer that won't do it.

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balsoft

in reply to loveknight • 1 mese fa • •

The article is clearly mostly manipulative bullshit. The arguments about "incompatibilities" between uutils and coreutils being used as an "extend" strategy is just bonkers, the point of uutils is to be a 1-to-1 compatible toolset, and there's no reason to doubt the developer's intention there. Even if they do introduce some extra features, most software projects that actually matter will not be using them, because compatibility with coreutils will remain important for decades to come.

The kernel of truth hiding in there is that Rust's "preferred" licensing under MIT/Apache is indeed a problem, and it should have been GPL (or at least MPL) everywhere from the beginning, especially for libraries. This is probably the worst aspect of Rust indeed, but not enough to outweigh all the awesome technical parts of it.

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nyan

in reply to loveknight • 1 mese fa • •

Eh, it's Ubuntu. They have a long history of trying to reinvent the wheel, getting no traction, and then reverting to whatever the rest of the world uses instead. And Linux is full of incompatible parallel packages that provide the same functionality. It ended up not mattering very much with init systems—why should this be any different, even if it's the one Ubuntu oval-shaped wheel that catches on for some reason?

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obsoleteacct

in reply to loveknight • 1 mese fa • •

I'm struggling to connect the dots between "X person used to work in electronic surveillance" and an immediate risk to the open source software being developed by a different employer. Is there some reason to think this person is still working for their old employer? Or is the speculation that they are a idologue out to destroy Linux from the inside?

If there's something unsafe in the code, especially a rust rewrite of the coreutils I'd expect it's going to be found immediately. People are going to go over that code with a fine toothed comb.

If the central idea of the article is "I don't think there's a place in the FOSS community for people with different ideas/beliefs/history than me" then the author should come out and say that (many have in the past). Claiming we're at risk because of some wild speculation about a nefarious plot between the military and Microsoft to attack Linux and privacy... it really does require something more firm than this.

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zalgotext

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I think what they're trying to imply is that Canonical is setting this all up so they can create a (possibly paid) fork of coreutils that spys on its users.

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obsoleteacct

in reply to zalgotext • 1 mese fa • •

Which is all well and good except for now it's just a baseless paranoid fantasy. And if that was laid out up front I would have no notes.

Over here in reality, if Canonical deployed a closed source, paid, spyware laden version of it's OS it might take a little while for some of the server business to disappear, but they'd loose almost all their market share overnight. They'd be a cautionary tale in the FOSS community and the software industry.

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TMP_NKcYUEoM7kXg4qYe

in reply to loveknight • 1 mese fa • •

The title is bs. There is no "push by Canonical". A random person on the internet wrote Uutils in Rust because it's easy to write fast code in it. Then Canonical wants to package the software but they aren't "pushing", they are just packaging software someone else wrote. Canonical's goal is memory safety but that's not the author's goal because Coreutils haven't got many vulnerabilities anyways.

The licensing part is sort of sad. The author picked MIT, because he does not care. He also said that he does not want drama. Well he did get the drama. The sad part is that I think that he would be willing to change the license to GPL, had it not been for all the childish drama and "hate". Communication is difficult for people online, unfortunately.

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gregloscombe

in reply to loveknight • 1 mese fa • •

I'm really not a fan of this whole rust movement. Statically linked binary, no ta.

I've started looking for another c/c++ based shell to go back to, now that fish has moved to rust (ideally ones that follow xdg config specs etc). Ysh (oils) is current choice.

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Does a cracked version of Astute Graphics plugins exist?

Note: I am not requesting for a link nor a source, but rather I am just curious if this actually does exist, because then I will know that continuing to search for it won't be in vain, and that I am not just being foolishly optimistic.

Thank you.

#piracy

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HelloRoot

in reply to Yourname942 • 1 mese fa • •

I see it on filecr, looked into the zip and the content seems legit at a glance, but I can not try it out for you, might be a virus or trojan, run it in a VM first.

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Yourname942

in reply to HelloRoot • 1 mese fa • •

Thank you for the fast response and for looking into the zip file. How would I know if it has a virus or trojan if I ran it in a VM? I read somewhere that it can hide itself/deactivate certain parts of itself if it detects it is in a VM

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ADandHD

in reply to Yourname942 • 1 mese fa • •

There is no such thing as perfect security. There's always the possibility that something malicious is there. The real point it to take every caution that is reasonable and mitigate any possible damages.

If you're truly paranoid, you could choose to only ever run it in a VM that doesn't have any personal information and make backups of anything you don't want to loose.

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Yourname942

in reply to ADandHD • 1 mese fa • •

Yeah that is true, thank you for the advice.

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HelloRoot

in reply to Yourname942 • 1 mese fa • •

I'd extract it in a VM that has some good antivirus software running and see if the tool behaves badly. And manually check with a scan. If nothing shows up, then you are probably safe.

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Matt

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Or upload it to VirusTotal.

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GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

Microsoft is bringing GitHub into its AI engineering team. It’s part of an AI shakeup, following the GitHub CEO resigning.

^{Tom Warren (The Verge)}

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No, I know why you would want search, I was asking about why you would want social features.

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ronigami

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Because humans are social creatures?

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Sometimes, the world gives us beautiful examples of why copy editors are necessary

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fin - fish extensible text editor written in fish

Started on a whim. Is actually useable.

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Why do AI tools look so different in the US compared to China? Rather than being a product of culture or ideology, technological development is rooted in our material reality.

The Ghost in the Machine

AI, Materialism, and the Future of Industry

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AI wearables are quietly listening to everyone in Silicon Valley

TLDR: Techbros in SF are wearing AI pins that record everything everyone says around them.

“My general sense is that we should assume we are being recorded at all times,” said Clara Brenner, a partner at venture capital firm Urban Innovation Fund. “Of course, this is a horrible way to live your life.”

Damn right it is. Every day one step closer to dystopia. Fuck this shit.

This conversation is being recorded — and so is everything else you do in San Francisco

AI wearables are quietly recording everything. Is it legal? And do you consent?

^{Zara Stone (The San Francisco Standard)}

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Snot Flickerman

in reply to reboot6675 • 1 mese fa • •

Glad these things would be technically illegal in my state due to two-party-consent laws for recording.

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zeca

in reply to Snot Flickerman • 1 mese fa • •

This is still a bit of a nightmare.
This being illegal will prevent people from showing the recordings publicly, but if they record for private use, no one would prevent them, or even know...

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trailee

in reply to Snot Flickerman • 1 mese fa • •

The article addresses that since California is two-party as well. The laws won’t stop it.

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

in reply to reboot6675 • 1 mese fa • •

I mean this has already been happening for years with stuff like Google home and Alexa.

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Creddit

in reply to reboot6675 • 1 mese fa • •

Two party consent laws in California come down to a "reasonable expectation of privacy" and that has been worked out in the legal system over time to be pretty much any place with an open door or window, even a conference room inside a private business is fair game if the door is open to the hallway.

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FauxLiving

in reply to reboot6675 • 1 mese fa • •

In a techno utopia, it would be nice to use something like this to have perfect memory. Assuming it was private, self-hosted and open source.

In reality, these are likely vendor locked hardware attached to cloud services awaiting their first massive security breach. A privacy nightmare that will just become more e-waste

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belit_deg

in reply to FauxLiving • 1 mese fa • •

Would it?

A chatlog of what everyone has ever said to you? Every misspeak, miscommunication, he-said-she-said, emotional comment? What problem would it solve?

It might solve some problems, and introduce a shit ton of new ones. As technology always does.

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FauxLiving

in reply to belit_deg • 1 mese fa • •

Given that a lot of people communicate via social media, that record already exists but we don't have access to it most of it.

I communicate with a lot of my friends via IMs and so there's a perfect history of our conversations in the chat logs. It is useful to be able to search to find a previous conversation. I'm not a masochist so I don't go back and dwell on arguments or things said in anger.

There are people with medical conditions that would benefit from having an augmented memory. People with early Alzheimer's, or Traumatic Brain Injury could recall previous conversations confidently.

People with high functioning autism could use the record to handle social confusion. Often they'll have difficulty in social situations without understanding what went wrong, so their memory of the encounter will be incomplete/unreliable. Having an objective record could let a trusted third party help them learn/understand what happened.

I could imagine people wouldn't mind leaving their memories to their children after they die. Or victims/witnesses of crime using their augmented memory to accurately identify the perpetrator.

Sure, I can easily think of downsides as well. But, it does seem likely that these kinds of devices that are always recording will become more common as prices for storage and hardware keep dropping.

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belit_deg

in reply to FauxLiving • 1 mese fa • •

Seems we are talking about different things here. By "perfect" I assumed you meant "complete", as opposed to an IM-log, e-mail, letters or other async communications.

For people with medical conditions such as dementia, of course, this could solve real problems. I'm not saying we should pull the brakes in every case. My only point is that more data doesn't equal "better" in every case.

Forgetting things are an underappreciated part of being human. Of course accumulating knowledge with science etc is what drives humanity forward. But when living our day to day lives, forgetting stuff is not just a bug, it's a feature. It enables us to move on, letting go, and revisit memories more organically and qualitatively.
For example the rush of nostalgia that hits you when you randomly hear a song from your childhood. Compare this to prompting your local AI with "give me a perfect list of songs from my childhood".

For example it's interesting to listen to accounts from savants with near perfect memories who talk about the struggles of remembering everything.

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FauxLiving

in reply to belit_deg • 1 mese fa • •

I'm not saying use technology to extend a person's biological memory. I'm saying use technology to keep a record of a person's life (obviously I know the privacy implications of doing this in actual practice in the year 2025, which is why I prefaced my comment with "In a techno utopia").

You, personally, will still forget things and be capable of nostalgia.

I think it's pretty uncontroversial to say that people like to have pictures. They collect pictures of vacations that they enjoyed, pictures of their children when they were X age, pictures of dead relatives and pictures of themselves with friends. Because people enjoy revisiting memories. When video cameras became more ubiquitous, people took videos of vacations they enjoyed, videos of their children's first steps, videos of themselves. There are entire markets for services which let you store and retrieve every picture that you've ever taken.

At the same time everyone has a story where they wish they had recorded some event. For example, a baby's first steps that a spouse missed because they were at work or some unexpected spectacular event. Or even mundane things like 'Where did I leave my phone?'. Having the ability to keep a record of memories, in video or in some hypothetical full-sensory recording, of every moment is something that people would be interested in.

Compare this to prompting your local AI with “give me a perfect list of songs from my childhood”.

Perhaps this is just a matter of taste, because I would absolutely do this.

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Whats_your_reasoning

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People with high functioning autism could use the record to handle social confusion. Often they’ll have difficulty in social situations without understanding what went wrong, so their memory of the encounter will be incomplete/unreliable. Having an objective record could let a trusted third party help them learn/understand what happened.

As one of those people, I have to be clear: this is not how things would shake out. The vast majority of the time, the misunderstanding comes from tone, not from the words used. Providing a transcript showing that one’s words are inoffensive has done little to improve the situations where I’ve been able to provide them - NTs often double-down that their emotional interpretation of your tone still matters more than the specific words you chose.

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Lfrith

in reply to FauxLiving • 1 mese fa • •

Even in a tech utopia something like this existing would make it not a utopia to me, since I don't see a similarity between regular voluntary posted texts and social media submissions and a persistent recording device.

Like the social situation automatically means people who come in contact with them are being recorded against their will. When it comes to IMs in your example people can choose to participate or not, but this tech is not the case.

Unless there is some Black Mirror type built in privacy block of people showing up as glitched out avatars if they haven't opted in.

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FauxLiving

in reply to Lfrith • 1 mese fa • •

Unless there is some Black Mirror type built in privacy block of people showing up as glitched out avatars if they haven’t opted in.

It looks like you've thought of an idea to solve the problem that you stated.

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Lfrith

in reply to FauxLiving • 1 mese fa • •

In my tech utopia there wouldn't be Orwellian surveillance to begin with. Anyone entering with those type of devices would find it not working.

It would be a haven from the other districts where big brother is always watching and citizens are always watching each other.

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ScoffingLizard

in reply to FauxLiving • 1 mese fa • •

Nobody seems to care that it will be used as blackmail and control. Even when you're on your best behavior with the best intentions. Something will happen that you want to remain private.

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Unknown parent • 1 mese fa • •

I think of it like a memory. I can remember seeing people, they don't have to consent to my having a memory of them.

I think it is the same if the memory is stored on electronic storage. Though, I would not trust something so private to a cloud service. It would have to be a secure storage that only I physically control and have the ability to decrypt.

Black Mirror did an episode about this, if you haven't seen it. It's called "The Entire History of You". Obviously, since it is Black Mirror, they present a dystopian take.

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FauxLiving

Unknown parent • 1 mese fa • •

Humans have been extending and improving on our biological capabilities using technology since before recorded history. Improving our memory seems like it will eventually happen also.

I do completely understand why this would be a nightmare in practice. Governments would claim that they had the right to search it and it could still be stolen or accessed by unauthorized bad people.

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SparrowHawk

in reply to reboot6675 • 1 mese fa • •

Sweet, AI will think everyone on earth is from California

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Lfrith

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I don't want to to be a part of people's recording in real life encounters against my consent. That black mirror episode of everything you see being recorded was a nightmare.

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rumba

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Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) Tought these fuckers nothing

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarban…

Corporations and c-staff lie cheat and steal, They come up with a legal ideas and tell people to act on them. The last thing they need is something storing information about what they're actually saying and is set around them. These spy pins and the VR boardroom note takers are just generating documentation to get these assholes hold off to prison, when we start caring about that start again

You don't keep those emails, you don't keep those records, you don't keep audio or video past a predetermined period of time someone discovery comes for you , You're not caught shredding evidence.

United States law covering finance and accountability

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Peak

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usualsuspect191

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Unpopular opinion: there's a point where more stacked=less attractive and it's super common in anime to have crossed that line.

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Rozaŭtuno

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I agree, but Nagi is not an example of that.

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The U.S. can’t slash education funding and think it can compete with China

Cheap labor isn’t China's only advantage over the United States

As Trump slashes education spending and imposes tariffs, Chinese leaders are steaming ahead to improve their nation’s education standards and outcomes.

^{Michele Norris (MSNBC)}

#USA

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ryathal

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US education problems aren't funding related, at least on the education itself. The US has focused almost exclusively on raising the floor of education since no child left behind, which has been an absolute failure. It's gotten to the point now that some districts are removing gifted classes because it's viewed as not fair to the lower achieving students.

Funding also is largely irrelevant to student performance, beyond a floor level. The biggest problem is parent apathy, which isn't solved with money. Other problems like food insecurity and lack of housing are problems that aren't education funding related. A free lunch can help a kid pay attention in class, but it's not going to solve home life or not doing homework.

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

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There's a deeper underlying issue of the destruction of America's industrial base. Closing factories reflect an underlying shift in the nature of the economy and, consequently, our societal priorities. A telling symptom of this shift is that only 192,474 of American students pursue engineering degrees our of 3 million total degrees, a mere 6.4%. Not only that, but only 37% of those begin an engineering career after completing a degree. There is little incentive for students to pursue degrees in STEM when they're unlikely to get jobs in the field.

The US Needs More Engineers. What’s the Solution?

A sustained, coordinated, and multipronged approach involving both public and private sector players is the single best way to ensure a continuous supply of skilled professionals.

^{Abhi Kodey (BCG Global)}

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Heydey ho folks, anybody I know a decent search engine with a lite interface?

I've been a DDG Stan for years but after doing some research on freeBSD kernel modification I've realized just how bad the AI SLOP articles have become, and they're doing nothing to filter them out. Lately it seems every result is either a nuked reddit thread, or an LLM produced static page that almost is convincing enough to be a real person (if it weren't confidently producing advice for Linux on a page claiming to be for freeBSD).

I do most of my browsing in Links and Offpunk, so HTML only is highly preferred, no JavaScript, as it is non-functional in my browsers of choice.

The engines don't necessarily need to be clearweb, I'm down to clown with Gemini, Gopher, i2p... I'd prefer against TOR but if its the only place to find a decent web browser I'll use it.

#technology

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programmiamo in Python

Esercizi e problemi di Matematica e Fisica risolti con Python

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Diceva di essere Mengoni, ma non era vero. Scopriamo insieme perchè.

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

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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Israeli Army Is Now Policing Southern Syria (Videos)

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced on August 11 that its troops had arrested an “arms dealer” overnight in the...

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Russian Media Prepares Public for Potential Endgame of Special Military Operation

Russia Signals Plan to End Special Military Operation Ahead of Putin-Trump Summit

The phrase ‘plan to end the Special Military Operation’ appeared yesterday in Russian media field

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Finally, after three long days.

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After using ChatGPT, man swaps his salt for sodium bromide—and suffers psychosis

Honestly not sure what to say except INSANITY!!!!

Three months later, the man showed up at his local emergency room. His neighbor, he said, was trying to poison him. Though extremely thirsty, the man was paranoid about accepting the water that the hospital offered him, telling doctors that he had begun distilling his own water at home and that he was on an extremely restrictive vegetarian diet. He did not mention the sodium bromide or the ChatGPT discussions.

After using ChatGPT, man swaps his salt for sodium bromide—and suffers psychosis

Literal “hallucinations” were the result.

^{Nate Anderson (Ars Technica)}

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India: Opposition Leader detained by police in protests against suspected voting fraud

Thirty members of the Indian parliament, including Opposition Leader Rahul Gandhi, were detained by police following a protest against suspected voter fraud in recent state elections. Rahul Gandhi's Indian National Congress party had found fake and duplicate voters in the electoral rolls, and accused the election commission of colluding with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. The Election Commission rejected his claims, following which digital rolls were briefly unavailable from the EC website.

The protest also focused on a 'special revision' of voter rolls in the state of Bihar, where elections are scheduled later this year. The requirements for inclusion were criticised as being unreasonably complicated, and likely to disproportionately affect the poor, illiterate, and migrant labourers.

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PotatoesFall

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Hm I wish there was some more info or research into the credibility of the opposition leaders' claim. This article reads a little bit like he said she said without telling us any of the facts.

Thanks for posting, News from this part of the world is so important we don't read enough of it

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emergencyfood

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The opposition leader showed examples of duplicate votes, as well as obviously fake votes (one had parent's name as 'asdfg' or something like that). The question is how common these are, and whether they are being used to swing elections a certain way.

Honestly, if the Election Commission had been more transparent and admitted the mistake instead of trying to hide the rolls, this might have been a non-event.

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‘Another Nazi-style pamphlet’ – Moscow slams latest statement from Ukraine’s backers

Nazi regime doing nazi regime things 🙄

‘Another Nazi-style pamphlet’ – Moscow slams latest statement from Ukraine’s backers

Relations between Kiev and Brussels have begun to resemble “necrophilia,” according to Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova

^RT

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Ukraine's intelligence network is in crisis, Russian Federal Security Service says

According to the report, the lack of trained agents and reduced financial aid from Western partners have impacted the Ukrainian Security Service's activities in Russia

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Trump, Putin and the future of Ukraine

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No Peacemaker: Netanyahu Seeks War to Avoid Jail and Expand Israel's Borders

There is no way Hamas is going to accept Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s conditions for a ceasefire in Gaza as they would essentially lead to the Palestinian movement’s demise, Ankara-based security and political analyst Dr.

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Mwa

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Thats literally imperialism

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eldavi

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i think it's a testament to how much wealth is captured by the ruling class that they can literally buy the consent and impunity to create a new apartheid colonial state in an area of the world that is HEAVILY populated by indigenous peoples and despite an overwhelming majority of the world's population abhorring both it's this current episode as much as its previous incarnations in the americas, australia, and africa.

it's also a testament to the power and longevity of the american hegemony that it committed such atrocities a century and a half plus ago and are still doing so now while we all helplessly watch.

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[Resolved] How to cross post?

Hi all, I just posted in one community and now I want to cross post that into another.

Is there a right way to do that? I'm not seeing any ui elements for this.

I'm on the default piefed.social web mobile UI, if that helps. Thanks!

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Jeena

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Sadly, for some technical reason, this only works with link-posts. If you have a link-post in the bottom bar where the number of comments, up/down vote is there appears a new icon for cross-posting which you can click.

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perishthethought

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Aha! That works -- thanks!

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Any way to remove voice-over?

I finally acquired the last episode of a USA hard-to-find tv show, but it has a Polish voice-over. I can still hear the English audio, but is there a way to remove the voice-over?

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kuso1

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Unfortunately, has just 1 audio track. English w/Polish voice-over.

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outhouseperilous

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Oh. You just want to turn off the polish part of the audio!

Okay that's a much bigger task.

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Mandatory age verification online in the EU - Amendment 186

EU parliament accepted a last minute amendment, mandating age verification for pornographic (whatever that is) content online, punishable with up to one year prison sentence.

This was rolled into a directive concerning CSAM. Because adults accessing porn need to be de-anonymised to avoid child exploitation?

Some press releases: (1), (2), (3)

PRESS RELEASE I European Parliament votes to force pornographic websites to use effective age-verification tools to protect minors - FAFCE

Strasbourg, 18 June 2025 The Federation of Catholic Family Association in Europe (FAFCE) welcomes the decision of the European Parliament to force pornographic websites to put in place "robust and effective age verification tools to effectively prev…

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In 2023 I was thinking how stupid puritan the Texan politician were. The EU commission and parliament had different ideas.

Turns out the incumbents in EU 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 joining in the creation of the machinery for mass surveillance and supression.

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sunzu2

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That's just how power works. It is up to the working people to keep the regime in check but it seems boomers abdicated their duty and we are now facing consequences of it.

We don't have any infrastructure to fight back in any meaningful pay. The best tool left is direct action but the normie is too docile to change his consumption habits. God forbid he has to do something

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Greazer

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I just can‘t wrap my head around, how on one hand the EU is protecting its citizen with strong consumer protection laws, strong data security laws and overall mostly good and logical decitions and on the other hand there is this…

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iii

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I think the overarching theme is that the EU wants more and more power and control.

In the case you describe: it's by taking away freedom from software providers. In the case of this law, it's by taking away freedom from their citizens.

Less agency and freedom for others, more control for and subjugation to them, is what motivates both - Fun when they do it to others, less fun now they're doing it to you too.

Especially considering the backhanded way this amendmend was last-minute shoehorned onto unrelated legislation. They know it's against general will and good.

"Do you want children to be exploited? No? Then do as I say"

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Korkki

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I think the joining theme is that the EU wants more and more power and control.

Ofc. People who push this are in composition 10% moral crusaders and 90% those afraid for their own power and status quo in the coming years. With these pushes toward age verification and message scanning; It's not just they want to scan everything and watch everybody, they want to test the waters and people to to think they are always being watched and self censor and not do anything against powers that be. They know better than anybody how shaky things have gotten in Europe and how unpopular they really are. It's pure attempt at population control.

The only problem is that with current people in power they really can't help themselves, but to make things worse for the average people. So the fire will rise anyway.

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cookie019

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In the book The Every Dave Eggers they clearly describe this conception..

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.Donuts

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Are there any issues with a system where the website in question (let's say, a porn site) doesn't get your ID, but just a confirmation from your government that yes, you are of age?

~~It has a name but I can't find it right now.~~ But it would protect your privacy from their website you're visiting, and the website can uphold the rules.

It's called double blind: biometricupdate.com/202504/dou…

Double blind age assurance requirement for porn sites takes effect in France

Double-blind age assurance is a discreet engagement indeed, and VerifyMy and IDxLAB have launched a strategic partnership to address the need.

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iii

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Yes. Anyone that can request both the logs of this third party and the website fully deanonymises the users.

Who could have this access? The same people that last minute added this amendment to unrelated legislation. It's even easier this way: they have to strongarm only a few "age verification providers", then follow the tokens.

Additionally, the amendment is a stepping stone to outlaw other privacy techniques such as VPNs.

Foreign websites still don't comply? We have no choice but to build the great firewall of EU. For the children.

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onoira [they/them]

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the problem is that people are being verifiably linked to their 'adult' preferences. this is data that is being generated, in bad faith, and handled by multiple parties. your legal identity should not need to be tied to this information. this information can be used against you both now and in the future.

we've already seen in the US where there is a push for information about gender and basic sexual education being labelled as 'adult'. when i was in school, information about countries like Cuba, Afghanistan or China was considered 'too mature' (or marked as 'terrorism-related' by the school firewall) for children; i could see this thus extending to require age verification before you can access 'subversive' information, on the basis of 'protecting children' from 'political extremism'.

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.Donuts

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Double blind means that the age provider doesn't know why your age is requested, and the service (website) doesn't know you, they only know that the age provider says "yes" or "no".

cc @iii@mander.xyz

How does one "follow the tokens" then?

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onoira [they/them]

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the provider knows who's asking because of the IP address and API key of the requester. if it uses a form with a redirect, they even know your IP and what page you were on, tied to your legal identity. if the provider makes any API requests to a government registry, now that knows the when, the how, and (categorically) the what. short of a statement of 'no logs' and an audit to confirm as such, there is definitely logs. hackers love this information. data brokers love this information.

the problem is not the service knowing. it's anyone knowing. the provider deänonymised you the moment you gave your id. the precise implementation details are important here.

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iii

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How does one "follow the tokens" then?

We don't know what they do with the information, as it's closed source.

Assuming it's based on this EU prototype:

They don't know why it was requested, but do know who, where and when.

So they gather the logs of A, the token provider. Is the target present? They have his token. They also see where and when the token was used. Did you have a fun time yesterday evening, on your phone at home, on websites B, C and D?

Next up, if they want even more detail, gather the logs of B, look for the token. That way they can pinpoint the exact search terms, categories, watch time, etc

In summary: centralizing the de-anonymisation this way makes mass surveillance easier than if it were decentralized, in sometimes foreign jurisdictions.

It also shifts the conversation away from the best solution: don't deanonymise in the first place.

av-doc-technical-specification/docs/architecture-and-technical-specifications.md at main · eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-doc-technical-specification

European Age Verification solution documentation. Contribute to eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-doc-technical-specification development by creating an account on GitHub.

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JamesBoeing737MAX

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Alternatively you could provide them with a genitalia pic (which they need to discard in limited time) and they verify your age that way or something (it's a joke, don't shit on me for it). How the fuck is age verification anonymous? Either the site gets your ID or the government issues a confirmation, which puts you on the porn viewer list.

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.Donuts

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Either the site gets your ID or the government issues a confirmation, which puts you on the porn viewer list.

I believe the idea (in an ideal world) is that Website A requests data from Service B, which then asks about you to government C. So Government C doesn't know what you're asking about, and the Website A doesn't know who you are. That does mean Service B would have to be trusted / vetted, which might relocate the problem but it would be easier to verify (FOSS for example) than trusting your government to not put you on a list.

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balsoft

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There's no need for the middleman in this scheme. Instead, a much simpler solution would be:

Website A gives you a randomly generated $TOKEN
You go to Government and ask it to sign something like The person with $TOKEN is of legal age. You have to provide your ID or whatever here, but the government doesn't know who made the token.
You go back to website A, it checks the signature of the message and lets you through

This can be automated in some way; maybe with a browser extension or some referrer-less redirect sort of thing.

It's still fundamentally shitty though, because now the government pretty much knows that you want to watch adult stuff, it just doesn't know which adult stuff exactly.

A better (but almost impossible to implement) solution would be for the government to issue everyone a smartcard as an identity document (many countries already do, but without the following features). On that smartcard is a private key, with the corresponding public key signed by the government. The smartcard can then sign any $TOKEN with true statements about you, e.g. The person with $TOKEN is of legal age, or The person with $TOKEN is called $NAME, or The person with $TOKEN has a driving license, etc. You have to connect it to your computer in some way so the website can talk to it, but it should be trivially doable with almost any modern smartphone. This way, everyone has the ability to attest stuff about them without the government being directly involved.

The reason this won't work is because it would be quite expensive to do and would take a long while to implement.

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ExcessShiv

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It can be done with zero knowledge proof...it probably won't, but it could be.

providing validity without revealing any other data

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onoira [they/them]

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a digital wallet with ZKP could resolve 'are you old enough?' without the query ever needing to leave your device.

without a digital wallet, it could be done with fully homomorphic encryption.

both of these would be innovations which i feel require guided development. innovation counter to the goal of the legislation, which is surveillance. innovation driven by the self-proclaimed purpose of 'protecting children'; innovation driven by the impetus to make it harder for people to masturbate.

since the general attitude right now has been 'require agegates and just leave it up to The Market™', then the solution in practise will probably be a private third party that brokers this information, probably with a natural monopoly, that will charge exorbitantly for their API, have Google Analytics running on every page, leaks like a sieve, leaves logs everywhere, and will probably get caught selling data, which will incur a one-time fee equal to 80% the size of the company's rainy day fund, and maybe the CEO will be asked to step down, shielding the rest of the C-suite from consequences (and allowing them to just do it again). they'll work closely with law enforcement, they'll be breached in the first year, and probably have a huge leak 4 years later.

in that time, due to real changes in the law or jurisprudence, or companies just 'playing it safe', age verification will come to encompass queer identity, sexual education and health, war coverage, counterculture and even history. more online regulation just means more barriers to entry which means a larger monopoly for multinational corporations.

i think there are better uses for this technology than controlling pornography.

Americans, Be Warned: Lessons From Reddit’s Chaotic UK Age Verification Rollout

Now that the Online Safety Act has gone into effect, countless problems have begun to reveal themselves, and the absurd, disastrous outcome illustrates why we must work to avoid this age-verified future at all costs.

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Tenderizer78

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No way I'd trust the government to just throw away that information.

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PastafARRian

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France is getting harder on online porn.

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nocteb

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Are any VPN providers publicly traded?

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iii

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It'll have to be a VPN provider outside of the EU.

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Tenderizer78

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So basically a Swiss (PrivadoVPN, ProtonVPN), American (Hotspot Shield, IPVanish), Canadian (Tunnelbear, Windscribe), British (PureVPN), Israeli (ExpressVPN, PIA) one.

Not a lot of great options outside the EU. Canada and Britain have age verification laws, America and Israel cannot be trusted, and the Swiss government is constantly threatening to take steps against privacy.

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iii

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I was thinking asian/middle east, ideally a place that does not care for US/EU

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Tenderizer78

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I'm not so sure about using a middle-eastern VPN to watch porn.

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iii

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Why's that?

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Tenderizer78

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The middle east doesn't look at all kindly on it.

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iii

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Yet theyre not a surveillance state to the same extend as the EU. So overall better I think.

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youmaynotknow

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Then there's the fact that they don't give a damn about what people do in Europe or America. As a matter of fact, to them porn and similar content is a sure way to self-destruction, so "when your enemy is doing something stupid, don't interfere" comes into place. It's highly unlikely they'll block this for other countries.

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JamesBoeing737MAX

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"The Federation of Catholic Family Association in Europe (FAFCE) welcomes the decision of the European Parliament"

Of course, it's the Catholics, protecting the children from sexual exploitation. HM

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nah, they are just the excuse.

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JamesBoeing737MAX

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No shit, but still, why would the Catholics opinion matter?

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it doesn't, not in this case. they are just the excuse.

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iii

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They're experts on violating other's (sexual) freedom.

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sunzu2

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They are mocking us.

Catholic churcu is the largest and most well known pedophile organization in history. They got caught and they got away. They raped children and likely still doinngit.

Now they can make these snide comments to adults trying to jerk off and feel morally superior about it.

I guess peasants accept it, why shouldn't elites rape children and reduce your freedoms and privacy.

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Randomgal

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You're acting like you've never heard of monopolies before.

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Mugita Sokio

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They're telling us something. That is, that they own us. Anybody ever heard of the Papal Bull, "Unum Sanctum"? It also shows that they essentially want people to revere and obey the Pope, which is the Mark of the Beast.

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see, i told you guys they were gonna do it.

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Armand1

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Reading the attached article, this seems to be a directive, rather than a law. We don't know what shape the law will take, or whether it will actually be implemented... No?

Please correct me if I'm wrong. Not too familiar with this stuff.

There's still time to push back, I would guess.

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iii

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Yes it's a directive. Currently it passed the EU commission (it's their proposal) and parliament. It still needs to pass council.

After that, each member country of the EU must implement it in their respective country laws.

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Matt

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This'll probably be different from the Online Safety Act since DSA already differenciates centralized and community-based moderation.

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RepleteLocum

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I'm sure the csam websites easily findable on twitter will fully adhere to this.

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PastafARRian

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SEX. Guys I did it, now Lemmy needs age verification.

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Zerush

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Yes, put your webcam on, say your full name and hold up your ID card and the Newspaper from today, please.

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youmaynotknow

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Come on, they would never say "please". It would be more like "OR ELSE!"

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PastafARRian

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Please complete the following 25,000 long division problems as proof of work to access your content.

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Zerush

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It's already questionable if it becomes a law, due to several security and privacy concerns. It will be a search of tecnical solutions which respect the EU privacy law, which isn't so easy, wil say, it will not be in near dates until it is generally implrmented, depending also on each country. We'll see. I asked Andi:

The European Commission is developing an age verification app, set to launch in July 2025, that will allow EU users to prove they are old enough to access age-restricted online content without revealing personal information¹². The app, known as the "mini-wallet," is built on the same technical specifications as the European Digital Identity Wallets planned for 2026³.

Key features of the age verification solution include:

Privacy-preserving verification using Zero Knowledge Proofs (though implementation remains optional)¹
Four verification methods: national eID schemes, physical ID cards, institutional verification (banks/notaries), and third-party apps¹
Open-source implementation with customization options for Member States⁴
Integration with the EU Digital Identity Wallet framework³

However, critics highlight potential accessibility issues, noting that marginalized groups like refugees, unhoused people, and those without government IDs may be excluded¹. The Electronic Frontier Foundation also warns about privacy risks and the need for stronger regulations on which services can request age verification¹.

The initiative supports compliance with the Digital Services Act, which requires online platforms to implement robust age verification policies². The Commission has already begun enforcement, launching investigations into four adult content websites in May 2025 over inadequate age verification measures⁵.

EU to Launch Age Verification App for Online Use in July

The European Union plans to introduce an age verification app in July and may introduce rules requiring online platforms to protect minors.

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surph_ninja

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This is misleading. It will keep your information private from the website you’re accessing (supposedly), but the EU authorities will know full well which websites you’re visiting and surveilling.

And of course, they will apply the non-compliance claims to absolutely anything they want to censor.

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Zerush

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I know very well that it is known which pages I visit, when authorities pretend it.

I'm normally not a friend of AI, but despite of this I use Andisearch as my main search engine since almost 3 years, because with it, I don't have even the need to access most of the pages, I can read these in the own reader mode in the search results and summarize the content, sandboxed and with random proxie. The search concepts don't even appears in the browser history only that I searched with Andi, but not what, I can watch YT videos also direct in the search results. It's one of the most private search engine which I know, and I know almost all also thanks to an user. Free, no limits, no logs, no ads, no cookies, anonymous, own independent LLM.

Andi - AI Search for the Next Generation

Andi is AI search for the next generation. Instead of just links, Andi gives you answers - like chatting with a smart friend.

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It Looks Like a School Bathroom Smoke Detector. A Teen Hacker Showed It Could Be an Audio Bug

(Above link with skipped Paywall)

Summary by Andi:

A teenage hacker named Reynaldo Vasquez-Garcia discovered that the Halo 3C vape detector, which looks like a standard smoke detector in school bathrooms, contained hidden microphones and security flaws that allowed it to be turned into a secret listening device¹.

Working with another hacker known as "Nyx," Vasquez-Garcia found the device could be hacked by exploiting weak password controls and firmware update vulnerabilities. Once compromised, attackers could use it to eavesdrop on conversations in real-time, disable its detection capabilities, create fake alerts, or play audio through its speaker¹.

The researchers revealed these findings at the 2025 Defcon hacker conference, demonstrating how any hacker on the same network could hijack a Halo 3C by brute-forcing passwords at 3,000 attempts per minute. The device's firmware could also be modified since its encryption key was publicly available in updates on the manufacturer's website¹.

Motorola, which owns the Halo 3C's manufacturer IPVideo Corporation, said it developed a firmware update to address the security flaws. However, the researchers argue this doesn't solve the fundamental privacy concern of having microphone-equipped devices installed in sensitive locations like school bathrooms and public housing¹.

Wired - It Looks Like a School Bathroom Smoke Detector. A Teen Hacker Showed It Could Be an Audio Bug ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎

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watch this garbage fail to prevent anything bad, but excel at surveilling children.

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OminousOrange

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Exactly as designed...

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What Does Palantir Actually Do?

Palantir is often called a data broker, a data miner, or a giant database of personal information. In reality, it’s none of these—but even former employees struggle to explain it.
Palantir sends its employees to work inside client organizations essentially as consultants, helping to customize their data pipelines, troubleshoot problems, and fix bugs. It calls these workers “forward deployed software engineers,” a term that appears to be inspired by the concept of forward-deployed troops, who are stationed in adversarial regions to deter nearby enemies from attacking.
Crucially, Palantir doesn’t reorganize a company's bins and pipes, so to speak, meaning it doesn’t change how data is collected or how it moves through the guts of an organization. Instead, its software sits on top of a customer’s messy systems and allows them to integrate and analyze data without needing to fix the underlying architecture. In some ways, it’s a technical band-aid. In theory, this makes Palantir particularly well suited for government agencies that may use state-of-the-art software cobbled together with programming languages dating back to the 1960s.
Palantir’s software is designed with nontechnical users in mind. Rather than relying on specialized technical teams to parse and analyze data, Palantir allows people across an organization to get insights, sometimes without writing a single line of code. All they need to do is log into one of Palantir’s two primary platforms: Foundry, for commercial users, or Gotham, for law enforcement and government users.
Foundry focuses on helping businesses use data to do things like manage inventory, monitor factory lines, and track orders. Gotham, meanwhile, is an investigative tool specifically for police and government clients, designed to connect people, places, and events of interest to law enforcement. There’s also Apollo, which is like a control panel for shipping automatic software updates to Foundry or Gotham, and the Artificial Intelligence Platform, a suite of AI-powered tools that can be integrated into Gotham or Foundry.
Foundry and Gotham are similar: Both ingest data and give people a neat platform to work with it. The main difference between them is what data they’re ingesting. Gotham takes any data that government or law enforcement customers may have, including things like crime reports, booking logs, or information they collected by subpoenaing a social media company. Gotham then extracts every person, place, and detail that might be relevant. Customers need to already have the data they want to work with—Palantir itself does not provide any.
Foundry and Gotham are similar: Both ingest data and give people a neat platform to work with it. The main difference between them is what data they’re ingesting. Gotham takes any data that government or law enforcement customers may have, including things like crime reports, booking logs, or information they collected by subpoenaing a social media company. Gotham then extracts every person, place, and detail that might be relevant. Customers need to already have the data they want to work with—Palantir itself does not provide any.
Since leaving Palantir, Pinto says he’s spent a lot of time reflecting on the company’s ability to parse and connect vast amounts of data. He’s now deeply worried that an authoritarian state could use this power to “tell any narrative they want” about, say, immigrants or dissidents it may be seeking to arrest or deport. He says that software like Palantir’s doesn’t eliminate human bias.
People are the ones that choose how to work with data, what questions to ask about it, and what conclusions to draw. Their choices could have positive outcomes, like ensuring enough Covid-19 vaccines are delivered to vulnerable areas. They could also have devastating ones, like launching a deadly airstrike, or deporting someone.
In some ways, Palantir can be seen as an amplifier of people’s intentions and biases. It helps them make evermore precise and intentional decisions, for better or for worse. But this may not always be obvious to Palantir’s users. They may only experience a sophisticated platform, sold to them using the vocabulary of warfare and hegemony. It may feel as if objective conclusions are flowing naturally from the data. When Gotham users connect disparate pieces of information about a person, it could seem like they are reading their whole life story, rather than just a slice of it.

https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-what-the-company-does/

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Their main job is immanentizing the eschaton.

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"amplifying human bias" seems like a very soft way to put it. One should enquire whether if Palantir itself has any form of temporary access to the data from the companies they consult and whether or not they are allowed to analyse it themselves, even if not store it.

If, yes then we are looking at government enabled Cambridge analytica (in many fields not just politics though) all over again. If they can for instance analyse the data from NHS, insurance companies will be drooling millions over that analysis so that they can maximise their profits by getting a very precise understanding of healthcare need trends.

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No mention about them being a CIA company

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Fear Peter Thiel and his gangbuster crew of excel homies and consultants 😂

Don't get me wrong, they're enablers of authoritarianists, but let's not give them too much credit. Magic? 🫧🧐🪠

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Zillow CEO sounds alarm on worrying trend rattling housing market

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A journalist interviewing politicians?! Death penalty!

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Mass flotilla announced on August 31

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Tesla remotely deactivates rapper's vehicle for singing about the Cybertruck?

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A grandissimissima richiesta (…di ben 1 persona), quasi urgeva una recensione dell’albergo dove sono stata per poco più di metà della settimana scorsa… utile a non si sa chi o cosa, data la solita mia necessaria precauzionale omissione di dettagli altrimenti fondamentali, ma il piacere della storiella (o, come dice il caro Piero Angela, il […]

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recensione alberghiaca con sorprese megapazzurde e stasi ottimalizzata!

A grandissimissima richiesta (…di ben 1 persona), quasi urgeva una recensione dell’albergo dove sono stata per poco più di metà della settimana scorsa… utile a non si sa chi o cosa, data la solita mia necessaria precauzionale omissione di dettagli altrimenti fondamentali, ma il piacere della storiella (o, come dice il caro Piero Angela, il piacere della scop..ta) è sempre altamente importante e necessario a non sprofondare ogni giorno sempre di più in quello stato dell’essere che ci (mi) vede... vabbè, scusate, basta cazzate. 🙁
Vediamo prima le cose strane, così togliamo il dente bizzarro e via il dolore causato dalla morbosa curiosità. A parte il non proprio spassoso incidente dell’ultima sera, che fa testo a sé, di cose curiose ce n’erano un bel po’ in questo hotel; queste altre, per fortuna, non avvilenti. La cosa che forse più colpiva, complessivamente e continuamente, è che… proprio all’ingresso, affianco alla reception, aveva un bar… che operava da normale bar, essendo in centro. In 4 giorni non ho visto nessuno andarci, però oh: per chi ha interesse, ci sta il bar. Anzi, ci sono due bar: c’era una sala interrata, che fungeva da sala colazione (e solo colazione, il resto del tempo era chiusa), e aveva un altro bancone/postazione bar. Addirittura, le pareti di questa erano affrescate con un tema apposta per l’hotel… ma non ho fotine mie ora, quindi ops. 👻
Passando alla camera… Altre cose strane sono che il rubinetto del lavandino si chiamava Cristina(e si, le marche delle robe idrauliche sono sempre stranamente assurde, maCristina non l’avevo mai vista)… mentre, la marca dell’area lavandino proprio, è un altro nome mai sentito, TECHNOVA, ma la cosa che mi ha lasciata confusa è che il font sembra uscito tipo da un anime… queste lettere un po’ rotonde con la O che è una stellina, insomma… E poi ancora, nell’armadio appendiabiti (non in bagno ovviamente), c’era il quadro elettrico della stanza, con un cartello che diceva tipo di non aprire se non autorizzati… ma la porticina di plastica era di suo mezza aperta, quindi il cartello nel contesto sembra una presa in giro. Boh, roba proprio strana si trova, mi sa, andando in giro con l’occhio clinico ben aperto. 👁️

Temo di non essere proprio bbona a fare le recensioni dei posti, però, perché i tratti positivi di forte impatto che riesco a dire solo solo 2… però oh, son roba tosta. Come già detto, con la stanza solo per me le faville sono state sensibili: anzitutto perché il letto era a due posti, ma c’ero appunto soltanto io, quindi ho dormito alla grande, senza sentire i rumori molesti dei miei genitori — altrimenti succede puntualmente che loro fanno il roleplay della Russia (russano e invadono il mio sonno) e io quindi dell’Ucraina (sigh) — e perdendomi ampiamente in questo letto, gigante per i miei standard (0.5 posti più grande del mio solito, wow), stabilendo insomma per bene anche in trasferta il mio stato da principessa femcel marcia… ma poi, perché avevo il bagno solo per me… 😈
E il bagno, anche se era più piccolo di quello dei miei genitori — che, al contrario, avevano la parte principale della stanza più piccola di me, ops — era stellare… da gaming, oserei dire. E il gaming è infatti avvenuto alla grande, la sera che avevo un po’ di tempo (si, proprio quella dell’incidente) e ho quindi deciso di provare la doccia che c’era. Il design era molto strano a prima vista, e certamente mi aspettavo qualcosa di insolito nel suo uso… ma non immaginavo che avesse letteralmente i LED blu (primo colore del gaming!!!) e dei display numerici per indicare la temperatura corrente dell’acqua e il tempo trascorso con essa accesa!!! In confronto alla roba normalissima che posso permettermi io a casa, questa doccia è stata super premium… tanto che, trasportata dal gaming, ho deciso di farmi anche lo shampoo, nonostante inizialmente volessi solo sciacquarmi. (Poi vabbè, lo shampoo ha causato altri problemi, ma quella è una condanna mia personale.) 😻

Ecco, del bagno in realtà non mi è assolutamente piaciuto che il sapone per le mani fosse in un dispenser automatico (non solo da me, anche dai miei era così)… A parte che si mimetizzava col muro, quindi inizialmente non lo notavo e mi chiedevo dove straminchia fosse il sapone per le mani, non essendoci saponette in giro, ma solo il flaconcino per la doccia… è semplicemente terribile il fatto che si attivi con un sensore di prossimità: se si appoggia qualcosa lì sotto per sbaglio, ecco che questa verrà sburrata immediatamente dal macchinario, senza se e senza ma… e anche banalmente per prendere il sapone, è scomodo, non si capisce mai come bisogna mettere e togliere la mano, e quindi ogni tanto va a cadere, sporcando la superficie attorno al lavandino. 😭
Però… in un certo senso, questo contrasto tra elementi di lusso e oggetti che vanno bene solo in un bagno pubblico ha una sua personalità… E quindi, comunque, tutto sommato, nice albergo da 3 stelle in provincia di Roma; non costato troppissimissimo, considerato che il totale con le due stanze è stato 800€ per 4 notti. Ci sarebbero ora foto da salvare riguardo il viaggio, ma, tra questo blog, il sito delle foto, Pixelfed, la BBS, ora anche Sharkey, oltre pure al semplice Pignio, non so manco dove mettere cosa, e allora zzz, circolare, non c’è null’altro da vedere qui… 🥴
#albergo #curiosità #hotel #recensione #stranezze #vacanza

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Reuters puts the Israeli propaganda on top

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China state media says Nvidia H20 GPUs are unsafe and outdated, urges Chinese companies to avoid them — says chip is ‘neither environmentally friendly, nor advanced, nor safe’

State media wants Chinese companies to avoid Nvidia chips.

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I mean sure but what chip do they plan to replace them ?

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Huawei chips presumably tomshardware.com/pc-components…

Huawei's brute force AI tactic seems to be working — CloudMatrix 384 claimed to outperform Nvidia processors running DeepSeek R1

It turns out that using four times the energy solves a lot of problems for Huawei.

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A journalist interviewing politicians?! Death penalty!

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BCC supports Israels blockade of international journalists into Gaza

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They're just looking out for journalists so they don't get murdered by Israel for doing their jobs

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The only valid question is "Why isn't Israel letting in international journalists".

To even entertain this ridiculous narrative as if it's a credibly question is completely insane.

"Adolf Hitler says the Jews are all terrorists. What do you have to say about that?"

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Palestinian journalist puts tabloid in its place

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After decades of research, thousands of experiments, a massive amount of peer reviewing, we can finally confidently conclude...

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Uh yeah, but this TikTok by PatriotEagle1776 says your research is wrong

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I feel like a large reason for the distrust is because Governments have given every incentive to the population to distrust Big Pharma.

For example the recent Pfizergate corruption scandal with EU head Ursula Von Der Leyen

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EU executive reviewed von der Leyen’s Pfizergate texts — then let them disappear

Document sheds new light on controversies over a multibillion deal to obtain Covid-19 vaccines.

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AOL to discontinue dial-up internet service after 34 years

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Did you forget to convert back to USD and the number is just higher?

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No I did everything in USD. It was a few years back so things might’ve changed but while I was still on Reddit I discussed it with some others and at least based on what they were saying, Canadian internet and phone prices were considerably higher than American. It doesn’t help that there’s a duopoly here.

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