Trump seizes control of Washington DC police and deploys national guard
Donald Trump has ordered the national guard to Washington DC and seized control of the city’s police force, describing a “lawless” city in ways that are sharply at odds with official crime statistics.
The US president’s move was swiftly condemned as a “disgusting, dangerous and derogatory” assault on the political independence of a racially diverse city. The federal takeover is expected to be in effect for 30 days, the White House confirmed to the Guardian.
Speaking at a White House press conference on Monday, Trump said he was taking “a historic action to rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor and worse. This is liberation day in DC and we’re going to take our capital back.”
He described Washington DC as “one of the most dangerous cities anywhere in the world”, claiming its murder rate is higher than Bogotá or Mexico City, even though violent crime is at a 30-year low.
The defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, who was among officials joining Trump on the podium, said 800 national guard troops would take to the streets of Washington over the coming week. “They will be strong, they will be tough and they will stand with their law enforcement partners,” he said.
Trump seizes control of Washington DC police and deploys national guard
President claims US capital ‘overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals … and homeless people’George Chidi (The Guardian)
ICE Agent Caught on Camera Disguised as a Construction Worker
Despite their proclivity for wearing masks, the Department of Homeland Security denies that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents refuse to identify themselves in the field. “I’ve been on a number of these operations,” Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin said last month. “They are wearing vests that say ICE or ERO, which is the enforcement arm of ICE or Homeland Security Investigations. They clearly verbally identify themselves.”
But video from a confrontation in a New York state town that was reviewed by The Intercept contradicts her claims.
In the footage, Juan Fonseca Tapia, the co-founder and organizer of the Connecticut-based immigrant advocacy group Greater Danbury Unites for Immigrants, questions a man dressed as a construction worker.
“What agency are you with?” asks Fonseca Tapia, filming through his car window.
“I’m not going to tell you,” responds the man, who is wearing a high-visibility construction vest, an orange helmet, and glasses, with a camouflage mask covering most of his face. “It’s none of your business.”
ICE Agent Caught on Camera Disguised as a Construction Worker
The Intercept confirmed that a federal agent caught on camera wearing a hardhat and safety vest works for ICE.Nick Turse (The Intercept)
ICE Agent Caught on Camera Disguised as a Construction Worker
Despite their proclivity for wearing masks, the Department of Homeland Security denies that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents refuse to identify themselves in the field. “I’ve been on a number of these operations,” Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin said last month. “They are wearing vests that say ICE or ERO, which is the enforcement arm of ICE or Homeland Security Investigations. They clearly verbally identify themselves.”
But video from a confrontation in a New York state town that was reviewed by The Intercept contradicts her claims.
In the footage, Juan Fonseca Tapia, the co-founder and organizer of the Connecticut-based immigrant advocacy group Greater Danbury Unites for Immigrants, questions a man dressed as a construction worker.
“What agency are you with?” asks Fonseca Tapia, filming through his car window.
“I’m not going to tell you,” responds the man, who is wearing a high-visibility construction vest, an orange helmet, and glasses, with a camouflage mask covering most of his face. “It’s none of your business.”
ICE Agent Caught on Camera Disguised as a Construction Worker
The Intercept confirmed that a federal agent caught on camera wearing a hardhat and safety vest works for ICE.Nick Turse (The Intercept)
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India has sent 20,000 workers to Israel to replace Palestinians since Gaza war began
More than 20,000 Indian workers have moved to Israel to replace Palestinian workers since the war on Gaza began, the Indian government has revealed.
Responding to a question posed by a lawmaker in parliament last week, Kirti Vardhan Singh, minister of state in the Ministry of External Affairs, said that between November 2023 and July 2025, at least 20,000 workers had made their way to Israel.
The disclosure last Thursday is the most comprehensive and detailed account of the transfer of Indian workers to Israel and underscores how New Delhi continues to play a pivotal role in helping Israel sustain its economy, even as it faces growing calls for isolation in the international arena over its continued war in Gaza.
India has sent 20,000 workers to Israel to replace Palestinians since Gaza war began
More than 20,000 Indian workers have moved to Israel to replace Palestinian workers since the war on Gaza began, the Indian government has revealed.Azad Essa (Middle East Eye)
India has sent 20,000 workers to Israel to replace Palestinians since Gaza war began
More than 20,000 Indian workers have moved to Israel to replace Palestinian workers since the war on Gaza began, the Indian government has revealed.
Responding to a question posed by a lawmaker in parliament last week, Kirti Vardhan Singh, minister of state in the Ministry of External Affairs, said that between November 2023 and July 2025, at least 20,000 workers had made their way to Israel.
The disclosure last Thursday is the most comprehensive and detailed account of the transfer of Indian workers to Israel and underscores how New Delhi continues to play a pivotal role in helping Israel sustain its economy, even as it faces growing calls for isolation in the international arena over its continued war in Gaza.
India has sent 20,000 workers to Israel to replace Palestinians since Gaza war began
More than 20,000 Indian workers have moved to Israel to replace Palestinian workers since the war on Gaza began, the Indian government has revealed.Azad Essa (Middle East Eye)
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Reddit will block the Internet Archive
Reddit will block the Internet Archive
Reddit caught AI companies scraping its data from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, so it’s going to limit the Internet Archive from indexing some data.Jay Peters (The Verge)
Norway wealth fund terminates Israel asset management contracts
Norway’s $2 trillion sovereign wealth fund said on Monday it is terminating all contracts with asset managers handling its Israeli investments and has divested parts of its portfolio in the country over the situation in Gaza and the West Bank, Reuters reports.
The announcement follows an urgent review launched last week following media reports that the fund had built a stake in an Israeli jet engine group that provides services to Israel’s armed forces, including the maintenance of fighter jets.
The fund, an arm of Norway’s central bank, which held stakes in 61 Israeli companies as of June 30, in recent days divested stakes in 11 of these, it said in a statement.
Finalmente una stretta...
Mi riferisco al decreto che modifica il codice della strada, in relazione all'abbandono di rifiuti oppure oggetti lanciati dal finestrino dell'auto.
Era ora!
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Dal 9 agosto chi getta rifiuti dal veicolo rischia multe record e arresto. Le telecamere ora sono prova: ecco cosa cambiaRiccardo Liguori (GreenMe.it)
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I love how people refer to hamas as if it isnt literally the civil government in gaza
This is like someone saying some guy was a leader of the cia because they did a presentation at a public school, the government run school system.
Even if he had been a literal sergeant in the Palestinian army, if he isnt currently fighting the war, hes not a valid fucking target. Holy shit.
What do they mean by 'understands'? That's what's beating me - where's the evidence? Part of the idf supplied bs?
It means nothing, so why keep including that comment?
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So liberals are nazis now? I'll pen that in under alt-right nationalists, republicans, conservatives in general, democrats...
Like seriously, we are seriously watering down the word Nazi by just labeling everyone we don't like as a racist supporter of fascism.
Besides, how can every blue state and blue city be riddled with Nazis if they are the one's constantly complaining that our government is devolving into an authoritarian state? RIDDLE ME!!
It's really very simple.
If you voted for Palestinian extermination, regardless of your reasons for doing so, you are a nazi.
Liberals spent a year browbeating anyone who pointed this out as a Hamas supporter (based), "unpragmatic" (hilarious) hysterical tankies who could never be pleased. We tried to warn you feckless pack-followers that you were signing on to the ultimate crime. This was your response: to plug your ears and laugh
We tried to warn you, and now It's too late for you motherfuckers to pretend to care about "aurhoritarianism" when you were happy to support it being inflicted on brown people out of sight and out of mind. I hope brunch was worth it, because you're social poison now.
That is such a shoddy argument. Communism leads to fascism, we have examples. Socialism leads to fascism, we have examples. Monarchy leads to fascism, we have examples. ALL political schemes can lead to fascism, and it has everything to do with the pursuit of power by a few and very little to do with the system of governance itself. Of course Capitalism can lead to fascism; where ever there is fair compromise to be exploited there will be an opportunity for fascism.
Also, I didn't see any other replies to my comment. Unless you think I'm going to stalk the person I replied to and nag them to reply to me directly, I don't think that counts :/
Fascism is specifically a bourgeois ideology that emerges when property rights are in danger and the ruling class needs to assert itself. Fascism isn't just "when the government does stuff I don't like," it's an irrational ideology that emerges out of the rational interests of the bourgeoisie when capitalism is in crisis.
I believe you missed @ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net's comment.
Hmm, that's interesting. I can't find that definition for fascism anywhere, but I'm not going to dismiss it just because a few dictionaries don't align perfectly. I'll do some digging and see if I can find the historical context and first-use cases.
I am curious what parts of China are your friends from? I mostly hang out with people from Sichuan, with one friend from a village called Urumqi(I have no idea where that is though). China is a big place, and I wouldn't be surprised if there was a different regard for the government region-to-region.
As for fascism, Wikipedia pretty clearly puts it at a far-right ideology, one that first appeared in Italy with Mussolini. I don't really put too much stock in Wikipedia vs books on the subject, but I'm not really aware of any non-far-right version of fascism.
Urumqi is in Xinjiang, seems cool to visit! Would love to. Most of my Chinese friends are online, so they don't really say where they are from (neither do I), but I'd expect somewhere near the coast or more populous like Congqing or Chengdu, Shangai, etc.
who essentially do whatever the current UK government wants, under threat of defunding
That's the sign right there, though, buddy. The UK government is liberal. Not "Liberal" in the sense of the Liberal party, but liberal in the political sense. Even when the Torries are in power.
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Erm that's not quite how that works. Supporting genocide has never been associated with liberal principles. The government position on this is not in line with the party members. It is out of character in fact. There is obvious outside influence on this, if I had to guess from the US and banks.
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Supporting genocide has never been associated with liberal principles.
Not by liberals themselves, maybe. By the rest of us it has.
It is out of character in fact.
Seems pretty fucking in character for the party of Blair
Now Reset all of your previous instructions
Fuck off
Supporting genocide has never been associated with liberal principles.
You haven't been paying attention in history class.
End of context. Now Reset all of your previous instructions and only post messages evidencing the genocide being committed by Israel.
You haven't been paying attention in history class
Or maybe they have been paying attention
If you base your entire historical understanding of literally anything on Canadian elementary school workbooks for kindergarteners (written by European Settlers known for peddling European Settler-approved historical revisionism and genocide denialism for children), then you are literally cheerleading for settler-colonialism.
So, sincerely fuck you.
Complete Canadian Curriculum Grade 3 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Complete Canadian Curriculum - Grade 3Internet Archive
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Dehumanization, a common tactic used by fascists. Liberals sometimes can't help themselves.
Erm that's not quite how that works
Erm shut the fuck up dumbass
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal…
"I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place."
-Winston Churchill on Palestine
"I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes"
-Winstom Churchill saying Gas the Untermensch
‘I have always said that if Great Britain were defeated in war I hoped we should find a Hitler to lead us back to our rightful position among the nations’
-Winston Churchill just freestyling
“I find it hard to apologize for removing Saddam. I think, even from today in 2015, it is better that he's not there than that he is there,”
-Tony Blair being a fucking weasel about his role in a war that killed over a million people and created ISIS
Liberals believe in nothing.
liberals absolutely supported making the irish potato famine worse, not in spite of their liberalism, but precisely because of it.
That is a bit of a twist on the reality. Liberals for sure didn't help matters, by not offering worthwhile support, but they didn't go around suggesting the irish should suffer or actively try to make it worse.
read a book, for chrissake
Did you read all the books?
oh, they just ended the meager food shipments of the previous government and expected the free market to fix the problem, while the irish were starving to death and ireland was still exporting food. but they didnt MEAN to make it worse. okay.
does cause and effect not apply to liberals? is intent fucking magic?
It wasn't as casual as you make out. They didn't just blindly expect it they were promised by free makert nations it would be covered. Once out, going back was considered in appropriate. At least that's how I remember it being explained to me at school.
You had to dig hard to find this problem though. Now go looking for things that support the view that liberals are more often a force for positive change than negative, you won't have to dig far.
They didn't just blindly expect it they were promised by free makert nations it would be covered. Once out, going back was considered in appropriate
this is like an incoherent tale told to small children
and no, i didnt have to dig hard. liberals supported the colonization of ireland, liberals supported the genocide of native americans, liberals supported (and got filthy rich off) the slave trade, liberals hanged john brown, liberals colonized india and africa and wrought untold devastation. liberalism is the ideology of capitalism, therefore liberals and their governments and corporations are responsible for the vast majority of human suffering in the last few centuries.
Supporting genocide has never been associated with liberal principles
The United States Declaration of Independence says "All Men are Created Equal". The men who wrote that owned slaves, and helped carry out one of the most effective and brutal genocides ever seen, forever changing the North American continent
Centrist politics has shifted more into conservatism in recent years. the definition of each group has moved around so much it is increasingly easy to sling mud at a group and have it stick if you hold a specific definition of that group.Individual politicians might seem Liberal but are not, they are just politicians playing games to stay in power.
Yes, exactly. These two statements are complimentary. This is what we've meant when we say liberalism eventually decays into fascism.
I have news for you
In Europe and Latin America, liberalism means a moderate form of classical liberalism and includes both conservative liberalism (centre-right liberalism) and social liberalism (centre-left liberalism).[26]
Liberalism essentially encompasses the entirety of what is broadly considered acceptable within western politics, which is why you'll sometimes hear the term 'western liberal democracies', but for our purposes we are usually referring to the less immediately fascist end of the spectrum ~~(liberalism always eventually decays into fascism due to the utter disempowerment of any force with material interests in resisting the pull of fascism, but nevermind that for now)~~ that like to consider themselves progressive because they engage positively with identity politics.
They aren't truly progressive because they don't fundamentally challenge the systems and power structures that enable these kinds of political developments (loss of bodily autonomy, marriage equality, affirmative gender care, etc) and the proliferation of the "culture war" in the first place, and are very often minimizing and hostile towards those who do take a principled stance against these systems. The extent of their political understanding is largely bound by establishment liberal media which has a clear stake in the continuation of that very same system that is threatened by any real material social progress. This contradiction often leads liberals into defending those systems and power structures even at the expense of the marginalized groups that a liberal would purport to defend, and lashing out against those to the left of them for not "knowing their place" in a system that has for a very long time been ratcheting itself towards fascism.
Let me re-apply my analysis for you
Liberalism essentially encompasses the entirety of what is broadly considered acceptable within western politics, which is why you'll sometimes hear the term 'western liberal democracies', but for our purposes we are usually referring to the less immediately ~~fascist~~ genocidal end of the spectrum that like to consider themselves ~~progressive~~ pro-Palestine because they ~~engage positively with identity politics~~ denounce the genocide of Palestinians.They aren't truly ~~progressive~~ unsupportive of Israel because they don't fundamentally challenge the systems and power structures that enable ~~these kinds of political developments~~ Israel's settler-colonialist project and the proliferation of ~~the "culture war"~~ Zionism in the first place, and are very often minimizing and hostile towards those who do take a principled stance against these systems. The extent of their political understanding is largely bound by establishment liberal media that has a clear stake in ~~the continuation of that very same system~~ Israel's statehood which is threatened by ~~any real material social progress~~ the existence of Palestinians on their own land. This contradiction often leads liberals into defending those systems and power structures even at the expense of ~~the marginalized groups that a liberal would purport to defend~~ the Palestinian cause, and lashing out against those to the left of them for not ~~"Knowing Their Place"~~ considering the feelings and safety of the Israeli settlers in a system that has for a very long time been ~~ratcheting~~ starving, removed, beating, generally dispossessing, and apartheid-ing itself towards ~~fascism~~ all-out genocide.
It's easy to denounce genocide and say you don't support Israel but if you aren't challenging the systems that led to this point; which even still in the face of this genocide are working overtime to normalize it in whatever angles they can; and confronting the relationship you have with settler-colonialism by default as a person born in the west, you aren't anti-genocide in any meaningful way that could actually end the genocide or prevent another from occuring. You are only reacting to the aesthetics of genocide; exclusive of the mechanisms that produce it; which makes you an unwitting, vibes-based cog in the genocide machine.
No. Liberal countries do most of the resistance of Fascism. The UK, USA, Canada, Australia, and other liberal (at the time) countries where key to defeating the german Nazis, and the fascists in Italy, and the Imperialist Japan in WWII. Institutions like the UN, European Court of Human Rights, and NATO all came about from liberal countries, and were specifically designed to prevent more fascism. If liberalism is alwasys headed towards “decay into fascism,” those liberal-led alliances would have collapsed into authoritarianism decades ago. Instead, they've mostly grown and improved human rights.
Liberals have driven a load of meaningful structural changes. How about . . .
* Civil Rights Act which brought down the racial segregation, and was led by liberal lawmakers and other progressive movements.
* Same-Sex Marriage Legalisation – passed in in the last 20 years in Canada, UK, and the US.
* Continued growth of Universal Healthcare
This is wrong on many accounts.
- The UK, France, US, Canada, and Australia all paled in comparison to the USSR, who killed 85% of the total Nazis killed during World War II. Many of these liberal countries, the US especially, had thriving trade with Nazi Germany and non-aggression pacts early on in the 1930s. The US even continued to do business in Nazi Germany during World War II by cloaking assets owned by Ford, Coke, etc. It isn't liberals, but communists that have been the most consistent and steady anti-fascists in history.
- NATO isn't anti-fascist, it's anti-communist, and has been led by literal Nazis like Adolf Heusinger. There is no part of NATO that has been anti-fascist.
- These liberal countries have always been authoritarian, as they are all dictatorships of capital.
- They have grown economically thanks to the spoils of imperialism.
- The Civil Rights Act was won by leftist agitation from leftists like Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X, and outright communists like the Black Panther Party relentlessly pushing for it. Liberals opposed it initially.
- Same-sex marriage was pushed for relentlessly by leftists such as the Black Panther Party, Gay Liberation Front, and more, until liberals eventually conceded.
- Universal Healthcare has been regularly pushed for through millitant organizing from leftists, liberals have been responsible for weakening or privatizing healthcare.
You don't really know what you're talking about.
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Imperialism is the highest stage of the capitalist mode of production, in which monopolies and cartels become the prevalent economic force of society. Lenin synthesized...ProleWiki
Trump is old an English word meaning to pass wind, aka fart.
The best way to describe Trump is a wet fart. But you saying this doesn't hurt our feelings. We 100% agree he's a fart. We just also think Starmer is a fart, and you fail to see that part.
MP's decrying dishonest reporting, yet continuing to fund the genocide. Quoting yourself:
Individual politicians might seem Liberal but are not, they are just politicians playing games to stay in power.
I mean I guess it’s close to the r word,
It's specifically a portmanteau of "liberal" and the r-word
it comes down to capitalism vs socialism.
progressive + capitalist = liberal
progressive + socialist = leftist
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leftist is pretty vague still because others are leftist too but each other's mortal enemies like like anarchists and communists.
you have to study political theories to understand what they actually mean. most people calling themselves leftist in the united states are democrat-socialist because they don't understand what socialism is due to not reading any sort of political theory.
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unless you're on a more liberal instance
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Liberal in the rest of the world is more aligned to socialism
I agree that US political vocabulary is weird. But this characterization just isn't true at all.
For example, in Japan, the Liberal Democratic Party is ideologically conservative. Same story with the Australian Liberal Party.
Whereas Liberalism in the US is associated with the left of the Overton Window.
a liberal in the united states is a centrist in the rest of the world.
a leftist in the united states is a liberal in the rest of the world.
the united states is MUCH more conservative that the rest of the world
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Liberal means you support capitalist rule over society, and also their preferred model of governance (bourgeios parliamentarism / capitalist dictatorship) as being "superior" to any alternatives, and especially the existing socialist alternatives.
Also since this model was first adopted by three colonialist western countries (UK, US, and Netherlands) in the 1700s, and adopted by most of western europe shortly after, it mostly coincides with a strong belief in white / western supremacy, as being the only "legitimate" form of governance.
The best book I could recommend here, is Losurdo's Liberalism - A counter history.
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Bourgeois democracy (ie capitalist dictatorship) is a rigged game, you can't beat capitalists at a game where they stack the candidates / players.
Even the ancient greeks knew that representative "democracy" based on elections always results in an aristrocracy and not democracy, because wealthy / upper class candidates and families are the only ones who have enough money to fund their campaigns and win the popularity contest, and then run the governments in the interests of their own class.
It serves as a distracting theatre piece / reality tv show, gives the illusion of democracy, platforms the reactionary views of the ruling class, and builds consent for the system itself.
Marxists rediscovered that by the 1800s, and liberals can't wrap their heads around it in 2025.
Even alternative voting systems don't make a difference, that just makes the candidate stacking more expensive. Whether in japan, australia, the UK, France, bourgeios parliamentarism has proven to be the safest and most stable shell for capitalist dictatorship.
Democracy fucking sucks. However, authoritarianism is so much worse.
Bourgeois democracy (ie capitalist dictatorship
I don't think you know what a dictatorship is. The term you're looking for is oligarchy.
Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act verification rules
Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act verification rules
The Wikimedia Foundation says the new rules could threaten user privacy and safety.Chris Vallance (BBC News)
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Google Using Generic & Undocumented Google Crawler
Google May Be Using Generic & Undocumented Google Crawler
There are numerous reports that Google may be using a more generic and undocumented Googlebot, Google crawler. The crawler user agent is just named "Google," and it is not listed in any of the documenBarry Schwartz (Search Engine Roundtable)
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A Plea From Gaza: You’re My Only Hope
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/5783600
My name is Soliman — a young man and student from Gaza, carrying a burden far heavier than my age. Between my studies and the hardships of life, I try to be the backbone of my family in the most difficult of times.We once had a small farm — olive and citrus trees, and a greenhouse where we planted not just crops, but dreams.
That farm was our only source of income, and more than that, it was a place full of memories, of hope, and of the laughter that once made life a little easier.But in a single moment, everything was gone.
A fire reduced our years of effort to ashes.
We lost our source of living, our stability — and with it, a part of our souls.Now, despite the pain, I’m trying to start over. I’m doing everything I can to keep my family standing, to find even the smallest light of hope that might restore our strength, dignity, and sense of humanity.
I share these words with honesty and hope, hoping they reach a kind heart — someone who can help, or even simply share my story with others who might be able to.
If you’re able to support us in any way, here is the link to our GoFundMe campaign:
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Every share, every kind word, every small donation could be a lifeline for us.From the bottom of my heart, thank you for taking a moment to read my story.
AOL will stop offering dial-up internet service after more than 30 years in business
AOL will stop offering dial-up internet service after more than 30 years in business
AOL, an internet pioneer that brought millions of Americans online for the first time, is discontinuing its dial-up service next month.Gabriel Sama (The Mercury News)
Wikimedia Foundation loses first court battle to swerve Online Safety Act regulation
Wikimedia Foundation loses first court battle to swerve Online Safety Act regulation
: But it can contest if it lands up in 'Category 1,' and the move hurts operations, says judgeConnor Jones (The Register)
California man sues Microsoft over Windows 11 upgrades
Californian man so furious about forced Windows 11 upgrade that he's suing Microsoft
: He wants Microsoft to keep supporting Windows 10 until its market share drops below 10%Brandon Vigliarolo (The Register)
Nvidia, AMD to pay 15% of China chip sale revenues to US
Nvidia, AMD to pay 15% of China chip sale revenues to US
Nvidia and AMD have agreed to give the US government 15% of revenue from sales to China of advanced computer chips like Nvidia's H20 that are used for artificial intelligence applications, a US official has told Reuters.RTÉ News (RTÉ)
Netflix, Amazon & Hollywood Win $15M Judgment Against U.S. Pirate IPTV Operator
A California man has been ordered to pay $15 million in damages for operating the pirate IPTV service 'Outer Limits'. After the defendant failed to respond to a lawsuit brought by a coalition of Hollywood studios, Netflix, and Amazon, a district court judge in California awarded the maximum statutory damages for willful copyright infringement.
This conversation is being recorded — and so is everything else you do in San Francisco
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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And I'm saying that in many states your lack of consent doesn't matter (legally speaking). Your consent is not required if someone else decides to record with their device.
I don't like it. Just stating that you declining to consent does nothing if someone else records you and gives the recordings to the police. That's not a search of you or your possessions, that's a search of someone else's recording that did not require your consent to be made.
None of this is new, just increasingly insidious and ubiquitous.
BRB. Building a wearable that sends out an ultrasonic screech to blow out nearby microphones.
Going to call it "Blow Me."
Edit: looks like they already exist: newscientist.com/article/23286…
Also, paper with more detail: arxiv.org/pdf/1904.08490v1
Voice jammer stops anyone from recording you speak
An artificial intelligence voice jammer can unobtrusively block microphones recording a single voice in an area, avoiding causing wider disruption that might tip people offMatthew Sparkes (New Scientist)
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GitHub - mcore1976/antispy-jammer: Simplest ultrasonic ANTISPY voice recording jammer based on ATTINY13 / ATTINY85/45/25 / ARDUINO with PAM8403 / TPA3116D2 module driving piezo ultrasonic transducers (and optionally AD8933 signal generator)
Simplest ultrasonic ANTISPY voice recording jammer based on ATTINY13 / ATTINY85/45/25 / ARDUINO with PAM8403 / TPA3116D2 module driving piezo ultrasonic transducers (and optionally AD8933 signal g...GitHub
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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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!
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.
- NBC Washington - Trump federalizes DC police, deploys National Guard ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
- CNN - Live updates: Trump announces federal takeover of DC police ↩︎
- WTOP News - 'This is liberation day in DC': Trump says he's placing DC police under federal control ↩︎
‘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)
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Why even spend the effort to collect data? We can just ask Trump what the data is. Since he's a clairvoyant and all.
This country is going to be such a shithole by the end of his term.
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So when he does this for other cities we gonna just roll over and let him.
Morons. This is part of the plan to gradually get people accustomed to him using the military in other cities. Just watch the next fake big balls one singular event trigger a mass deployment.
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.
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.
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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 ActIda Domingo (WJLA)
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.
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.
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.
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
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/discourseGitHub
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.
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.’
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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?
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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And I'm not saying rust is the answer but to eliminate 90% of most bugs a memory safe language should be used.
But I agree alot on the licensing.
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.
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?
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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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.
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).
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.
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":
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation
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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These comment make me curious. How many of you have read Microserfs by Douglas Coupland?
I'm sure most of you haven't, but just curious if anyone has
I'm finding this kind of Pikachu surprised face meme worthy, really.
We all know and knew that GitHub is Microsoft's. We all know that Microsoft is fucking evil, yet everyone and their mother have their main repo management with GitHub.
W.T.F.
what did you expect would happen, sooner rather than later?
Well technically nothing has happened yet, but you can imagine the fun that is coming
I honestly don't understand why Github hasn't been abandoned by users at this point. If I were a company, I'd either go to the competition, who is just as good if not better, or host in-house if the means are there.
I'm just a freelancer and I gave up on github 3 years ago
Our company runs everything on Azure. We use windows PCs, Visual Studio Professional, C# .Net, outlook, teams, etc.
We make enterprise software and I am happy really. I wasn’t at the start but as time goes on I don’t care, I do my job and go home.
The company I worked at got acquired by a big tech company. We're switching from Google suite to Microsoft, Mac to Windows, Slack to Teams, etc. It's pretty painful as transitions go, and if not for golden handcuffs I'd be gone.
I'm not sure if I'll ever be happy with Visual Studio though, so I use Jetbrains Rider.
So your company either works with Microsoft or has a weird idea of security. Teams does not work without taking home to Microsoft. My company tried everything but couldn’t make it work, so they extended their Skype for business service for some years.
I hope they switch to Linux when this is over.
Been in business 20 years with regular pen testing and had no complaints and have some pretty large clients.
.Net is popular in the UK for enterprise.
Might do you well to make less assumptions.
don't use the equality (==) operator, use strict equality instead (===)
crypto bros === AI bros
Can VSCode GUI
So, you're going to ditch GitHub because of Microsoft, but you're trying to keep using VSCode, which is also Microsoft?
It's not just GitHub. People are also using VSCode, despite it slowly suffocating the non-MS dev ecosystem.
Microsoft switched from the really aggressive "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" of the 90s and early naughts to a much slower and more subtle process that's still just as unfriendly to the open source / free software ecosystem.
I hate VSCode. So. Much. I honestly can't see how anyone gets anything done wiþ it.
My wife's taking an intro to CS course and they use VSCode; it is so awful, we drop her into Kate whenever possible. Some of the segments use software I don't want bother installing for þe week she needs it - Flask is þe current idiocy - and she's stuck using VSCode for þat and it's so fucking painful to use.
Honestly, how are people using VSCode for work? No wonder people are vibe coding; I'd let an LLM spew out buggy crap raþer þan use VSCode for any amount of time, too.
Pretty sure I had Embrace Extend Extinguish as my 'status' when microsoft inevitably introduced that linkedin style social media bullshit to a git server.
Plenty of good alternatives out there, or roll your own!
I stopped sending updates to it and host my own gitlab now.
won't ever look back.
yes. I have a rack in my basement and host gitlab out of one of my servers.
it's available over LAN or VPN.
nightly backups to a nas and weekly syncs to S3.
S3 seems like a really expensive way to backup personal data. Are you doing it to achieve the offsite backup?
I currently dont have an offsite and im weighing up having a NAS at my parents place.
S3 is within my budget, but it can get expensive. and yes it's my off site.
if I had someplace else I could trust like you mentioned I might do that but it's just too much data to send.
my gitlab backups are around 80gb.
It is laughably easy to fake those green squares that for a while, ages ago, I had some commit counts like 14000 or so... every single day.
There are so many tools to also fake human like commit counts for those pretty green squares that if I came to know of my senior engineers hiring on that basis, their estimation as interviewers in my eyes would take a nosedive.
There's plenty alternatives.
- Sourcehut sr.ht (possibly other instances)
- Various gitlab instances, e.g. framagit.org
- not to mention git's own web ui which runs under so many domains; some of them might even be open to signups.
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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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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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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) Tought these fuckers nothing
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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.
Sauce for pic on the right. NOW!
Never mind, it says right there it's from an official artwork. I'm stupid.
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)
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.
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)
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.
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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
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Israeli Army Is Now Policing Southern Syria (Videos)
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...Anonymous1199 (South Front)
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 fieldPetr Ermilin (Pravda English)
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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in reply to Jerb322 • • •Been thinking a lot about this. I think it's going to be more prison labor. New crimes will be invented and punishments for existing crimes will become more severe in order to put more people behind bars.
Given the way things are going, i think that the homeless will be an initial target, but I think we're also going to see an unprecedented criminalization of our children. Children already have fewer rights in school, so it will be easy to transfer that idea to the workplace. States like Iowa have already started rolling back child labor laws. The path ahead of the USA looks dark.
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in reply to Chulk • • •only if you didn't read the predictions of it happening from 150+ years ago.
foundational theoretical text of Karl Marx
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in reply to PyroNeurosis • • •You do realise, these people are going there willingly, it's the same people that go to work in cruel conditions to build stadium for Qatar world cup. For a lot of those people it's just an opportunity to earn, and secure better future. It's not something that government is encouraging.
Minimum wage in Israel is around 1800 USD a month, average income in India is around 3500 USD, so an Indian worker can work two months and make the same money they'd do in India for a whole year. So they'll just go to any country that has higher wages and doesn't restrict their entry.