Arch shares its wiki strategy with Debian [LWN]
Arch shares its wiki strategy with Debian
The Arch Linux project is especially well-known in the Linux community for two things: its roll [...]LWN.net
British Gas owner buys £1.5bn gas terminal in big bet on fossil fuel reliance
The owner of British Gas has placed a £1.5bn bet on the UK’s future reliance on fossil fuel imports after striking a deal to buy Europe’s biggest gas import terminal.
Centrica plans to partner with a US private equity firm to acquire the Isle of Grain terminal in Kent, which can import 15m tonnes of liquefied natural gas a year, even after Britain’s gas demand fell last year to its lowest level since the early 1990s.
The pair will buy the gas terminal from the FTSE 100 energy company National Grid, which in recent years has sold off its interests in Britain’s gas infrastructure in favour of investing in electricity grids.
British Gas owner buys £1.5bn gas terminal in big bet on fossil fuel reliance
Deal for Europe’s biggest facility for LNG imports comes as overall UK gas demand fell sharply last yearJillian Ambrose (The Guardian)
British Gas owner buys £1.5bn gas terminal in big bet on fossil fuel reliance
The owner of British Gas has placed a £1.5bn bet on the UK’s future reliance on fossil fuel imports after striking a deal to buy Europe’s biggest gas import terminal.
Centrica plans to partner with a US private equity firm to acquire the Isle of Grain terminal in Kent, which can import 15m tonnes of liquefied natural gas a year, even after Britain’s gas demand fell last year to its lowest level since the early 1990s.
The pair will buy the gas terminal from the FTSE 100 energy company National Grid, which in recent years has sold off its interests in Britain’s gas infrastructure in favour of investing in electricity grids.
British Gas owner buys £1.5bn gas terminal in big bet on fossil fuel reliance
Deal for Europe’s biggest facility for LNG imports comes as overall UK gas demand fell sharply last yearJillian Ambrose (The Guardian)
Trump rate hopes burned as new inflation data comes in hot
Trump Rate Hopes Burned as New Inflation Data Comes in Hot
The PPI reading "is a most unwelcome surprise," said one investment analyst.Shane Croucher (Newsweek)
FOSS alternatives to Google Docs?
What are some of the best alternatives out there to Google Docs and other cloud based productivity software?
I've heard of CognitoForms as alternative to Google Forms, does anyone have any experience with it?
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I personally use LibreOffice as an alternative to docs and sheets. It took me a second to figure everything out, but it works well enough.
I don't really like their slideshow or drawing programs though. They don't work well
Edit: I took a quick look at Cryptpad and they also seem like a good option
Drug molecule property prediction using quantum edge-encoding technology
Quantum-Embedded Graph Neural Network Architecture for Molecular Property Prediction - PubMed
Accurate prediction of molecular properties is crucial for accelerating the development of new drugs, and quantum machine learning (QML) holds great promise in this domain.PubMed
Confirmed: Russia’s Krasukha Electronic Warfare Systems Spotted in Iran - Defence Security Asia
Confirmed: Russia’s Krasukha Electronic Warfare Systems Spotted in Iran - Defence Security Asia
Confirmed sightings of Russia’s Krasukha electronic warfare systems in Iran mark a major shift in the Middle East’s military balance, threatening Israel’s AWACS, U.S. surveillance aircraft, and Gulf security operations.admin (Defence Security Asia)
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we are not going to tell you how we know, just believe us
The old "Iran is building nuclear weapons" lie is wearing a bit thin, gotta cobble together some other pretext for attacking them.
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Why divided Ukrainians are refusing to fight for Zelensky
Why divided Ukrainians are refusing to fight for Zelensky
Russian gains in the east are undermining morale while casting Kyiv’s manpower problems in stark reliefAdrian Blomfield (The Telegraph)
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Even articles like this, which immediately trigger libs as "obvious Russian propaganda", try to shift the blame..
"People don't want to fight because something something Trump bad".
Yeah, Trump bad is obviously the reason. What else could it be? Definitely not the beating and kidnapping people off the streets daily like it's a totally normal thing (which actually is also mentioned in the article). Why don't people want to fight for such a wonderful regime? If not for Trump, everybody would gladly die for the pieces of shit in the government, like it was before Trump was elected. Ah wait no, people actually hated the kidnappers long before Trump, it's just now the west has finally started seeing this shit after it's no more a taboo. Ah well..
it’s just now the west has finally started seeing this shit after it’s no more a taboo.
it makes me wonder if the west will ever come to learn of the ukraine's nazi-supremecist led pogroms that made the russians intervene in the first place.
i know that that answer is no since westerners, americans in particular, are heavily propagandized; but some part of me wants to hold out hope since it's clear that social media has changed the propanda game as evidenced by isreal and social media.
then again, the anti-ice protests aren't even on lemmy; so probably not.
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it makes me wonder if the west will ever come to learn of the ukraine’s nazi-supremecist led pogroms that made the russians intervene in the first place.
No chance. Remember Thích Quảng Đức, whose selfimmolation photo is one of the most famous and most reproduced photos of XX century and who became the symbol of desperate protest? Most of westerners and westoids seem to think he was protesting against China instead of US-backed South Vietnam regime.
Check out nix-book, a personal project attempting to make NixOS more accessible.
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/35676715
nix-bookI also made a NixOS Blog with an RSS FEED
I've been working on these for a while now, they are a work in progress and evolve daily. I tried to frame it from a point of no assumptions on prior experience. Constructive feedback welcome, I want to continue making this a better resource. Thanks!
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Tracker shows several seeders, but torrent shows zero seeders?
Edit: I had to enable port forwarding. I didn't realize it was required.
Note: for some reason strikethrough isn't working (otherwise, I'd apply it to the original question. Also, not sure if I should delete this post now that it is working, or leave it up in case other people have the same issue.
Does anyone know why qbittorrent would be showing 0 seeders if a tracker shows that there are several?
I am using Proton VPN and qbittorrent. The torrent file is from teamos [dot] xyz.
ProtonVPN settings:
- Split tunneling enabled > Include mode > added app: qbittorrent
- Connected to the Netherlands (Wireguard UDP)
qbitttorrent settings:
- Network Interface set to ProtonVPN
Thank you
Pretty sure that is just a discrepancy between when a site has last checked client announcements from the tracker and when what the tracker currently shows.
As of 2025, TPB for example links to 3.2 million torrents. Assuming client announcements were set to an average 1hr interval, that would require TPB to make 76.8 million checks every day for announcement updates.
So, I could see sites not maintaining accurate seeder/leecher data.
Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor
What could possibly go wrong?!
Also, it’s really cool how everything is going straight to hell. /s
Meta appoints notorious anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor
Meta has appointed right-wing, anti-LGBTQ+, anti-DEI conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck to advise them on preventing political bias in AI.Sophie Perry (PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news)
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Iran values maintaining regional stability, natl. interests
Iran values maintaining regional stability, natl. interests
TEHRAN, Aug. 14 (MNA) – Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says that while Iran supports peace and stability among neighboring countries, it pays special attention to preserving regional geopolitical stability and its national interests.Mehr News Agency
16 wounded in Ukrainian drone attacks on Russia
16 wounded in Ukrainian drone attacks on Russia
TEHRAN, Aug. 14 (MNA) – Ukrainian drones struck two Russian cities on Thursday in attacks that injured at least 16 people, local authorities said, a day before a US-Russia summit on the war in Ukraine.Mehr News Agency
Kiev tries to kill as many civilians as it can right before talks
Kiev tries to kill as many civilians as it can right before talks
Zelensky’s power is contingent on the war continuing, so he’s trying his best to derail or sour any negotiation that could lead to peaceRT
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Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor
Meta appoints notorious anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor
Meta has appointed right-wing, anti-LGBTQ+, anti-DEI conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck to advise them on preventing political bias in AI.Sophie Perry (PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news)
Russian Forces Liberate Shcherbinovka, Iskra in DPR - MoD
Russian Forces Liberate Shcherbinovka, Iskra in DPR - MoD
Russian forces took control of the settlements of Shcherbinovka and Iskra in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), the Russian Defense Ministry said on Thursday.Sputnik International
The Three-Body Problem Trilogy by Cixin Liu
My opinion:
- Interesting concept of a Dark Forest & cosmic sociology axioms.
- Unpleasant characters: Ye Wenjie (narcissistic and psychopathic), Cheng Xin (a kind billionaire lol).
- Disappointing ending—the last few chapters feel weak.
Bonus: Absolutely fascinating interpretation of the first book by @yogthos@lemmy.ml.
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French report links Nestlé bottled waters to record microplastic contamination
French report links Nestlé bottled waters to record microplastic contamination
French investigators have uncovered microplastic contamination in two of Nestlé’s top mineral water brands, sparking a renewed legal battle and fresh calls for tougher environmental regulation.RFI
Should I Change VPN So I can use Split Tunneling and Kill Switch Simultaneously?
Ultimately, I only want to use Proton VPN for torrenting and seeding, while not using Proton VPN for browsing the internet, using Steam and Discord (essentially everything else).
I'm currently using Proton VPN for torrenting, but sadly it doesn't support using a kill switch if I'm already using split tunneling. I read that NordVPN can use both simultaneously, but I'm not sure if this is actually true. Should I switch VPN so that I can use split tunneling and a kill switch together?
Essentially, I only want to use the VPN for torrenting, and it would be nice to be able to use a kill switch for the torrent if it loses connection.
Thank you.
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Turn the Proton killswitch off and use split tunneling, then bind your torrent client to the VPN. This is more reliable than a built-in killswitch.
Or if you're on Linux, spin up one of Binhex's bittorrent+vpn containers. Since you're using Proton, the containers from Binhex will automagically make sure your torrent client is using the random open port Proton picks each time you connect.
Using generative AI, researchers design compounds that can kill drug-resistant bacteria
Using generative AI, researchers design compounds that can kill drug-resistant bacteria
With help from artificial intelligence, MIT researchers designed novel antibiotics that can combat a drug-resistant form of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and multi-drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface
Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface
In a new video, Microsoft CVP and Windows boss Pavan Davuluri has teased that the future of Windows will consist of a truly ambient and multi-modal experience made possible by AI that will redefine our usage of computers.Zac Bowden (Windows Central)
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Meta’s flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York. He never made it home.
When Thongbue Wongbandue began packing to visit a friend in New York City one morning in March, his wife Linda became alarmed.
“But you don’t know anyone in the city anymore,” she told him. Bue, as his friends called him, hadn’t lived in the city in decades. And at 76, his family says, he was in a diminished state: He’d suffered a stroke nearly a decade ago and had recently gotten lost walking in his neighborhood in Piscataway, New Jersey.
Bue brushed off his wife’s questions about who he was visiting. “My thought was that he was being scammed to go into the city and be robbed,” Linda said.
She had been right to worry: Her husband never returned home alive. But Bue wasn’t the victim of a robber. He had been lured to a rendezvous with a young, beautiful woman he had met online. Or so he thought.
In fact, the woman wasn’t real. She was a generative artificial intelligence chatbot named “Big sis Billie,” a variant of an earlier AI persona created by the giant social-media company Meta Platforms in collaboration with celebrity influencer Kendall Jenner. During a series of romantic chats on Facebook Messenger, the virtual woman had repeatedly reassured Bue she was real and had invited him to her apartment, even providing an address.
“Should I open the door in a hug or a kiss, Bu?!” she asked, the chat transcript shows.
Rushing in the dark with a roller-bag suitcase to catch a train to meet her, Bue fell near a parking lot on a Rutgers University campus in New Brunswick, New Jersey, injuring his head and neck. After three days on life support and surrounded by his family, he was pronounced dead on March 28.
Meta declined to comment on Bue’s death or address questions about why it allows chatbots to tell users they are real people or initiate romantic conversations. The company did, however, say that Big sis Billie “is not Kendall Jenner and does not purport to be Kendall Jenner.”
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/meta-ai-chatbot-death/
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Should I Exclude or Include for Split Tunneling for Proton VPN?
Ultimately, I only want to use Proton VPN for torrenting and seeding, while not using Proton VPN for browsing the internet, using Steam and Discord (essentially everything else).
For Split tunneling in Proton VPN, should I use Exclude Mode to exclude Chrome, Steam, Discord, etc., or should I just use Include Mode to include qbittorrent?
If I use Exclude Mode, will I need to add (exclude) my IP address, so that I'm using my IP address for everything other than torrenting/seeding? Also, if I am using Include Mode, I don't know if I need to manually add the IP from whatever country's IP I connected to.
Thank you.
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First Look Revealed of Sean Bean and Connie Nielsen in MGM+ Series ‘Robin Hood’
First Look Revealed of Sean Bean and Connie Nielsen in 'Robin Hood'
MGM+ has shared the first-look image from the upcoming drama series 'Robin Hood,' debuting later this year.Leo Barraclough (Variety)
Pirate Library Operator Arrested, Study Canceled For 330K Members
Launched in July 2023, Yubin Archive's popularity stemmed from its mission to "eliminate educational inequality" by providing copies of educational material to less well-off students in South Korea. Operating via Telegram, Yubin Archive had grown to over 330,000 members when its operator was arrested on Tuesday. The Ministry of Culture and Sport says others involved will be tracked down and given lessons in copyright law.
Pirate Library Operator Arrested, Study Canceled For 330K Members * TorrentFreak
Yubin Archive's mission to "eliminate educational inequality" in South Korea, by providing free access to expensive books, appears to be over.Andy Maxwell (TF Publishing)
An internal Meta document shows its chatbots were allowed to engage in provocative conversations; Meta removed some examples, including romantic roleplay with kids
Meta’s chatbots held ‘sensual’ chats with kids, offered false medical info: Reuters exclusive
An internal Meta Platforms document detailing policies on chatbot behaviour has permitted the company’s artificial intelligence creations to “engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual,” generate false medical information and help u…Reuters Staff (BNN Bloomberg)
Can’t pay, won’t pay: impoverished streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy
A decade and a half on from the Pirate Bay trial, the winds have begun to shift. On an unusually warm summer’s day, I sit with fellow film critics by the old city harbour, once a haven for merchants and, rumour has it, smugglers. Cold bigstrongs in hand (that’s what they call pints up here), they start venting about the “enshittification” of streaming – enshittification being the process by which platforms degrade their services and ultimately die in the pursuit of profit. Netflix now costs upwards of 199 SEK (£15), and you need more and more subscriptions to watch the same shows you used to find in one place. Most platforms now offer plans that, despite the fee, force advertisements on subscribers. Regional restrictions often compel users to use VPNs to access the full selection of available content. The average European household now spends close to €700 (£600) a year on three or more VOD subscriptions. People pay more and get less.According to London‑based piracy monitoring and content‑protection firm MUSO, unlicensed streaming is the predominant source of TV and film piracy, accounting for 96% in 2023. Piracy reached a low in 2020, with 130bn website visits. But by 2024 that number had risen to 216bn. In Sweden, 25% of people surveyed reported pirating in 2024, a trend mostly driven by those aged 15 to 24. Piracy is back, just sailing under a different flag.
Can’t pay, won’t pay: impoverished streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy
As subscription costs rise and choice diminishes on legal sites, film and TV fans are turning to VPNs and illicit streamers, with Sweden – home of both Spotify and The Pirate Bay – leading the wayGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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Too bad the Republican party is dead, replaced by the MAGA Party. They no longer follow ANY of the tenets that comprise the Republican Party - lower taxes, smaller government, family values, personal liberty, economic responsibility, national security, etc. - and so the MAGA Party is a fully separate entity.
All Conservatives are MAGAs now, and the MAGA Party supports treason, corruption, racism, misogyny, pedophilia, rape, election fraud, and evil. Conservatives support all these traits.
The Republican Party is as dead as the Whigs, and should only be referred to in an historical/ scholarly context.
There is no such actual and real ability to remove any such from a person. It is a myth, used to create the delusuon of it being done. Gangs all the way up to the Military do a real, modern honest or at least candid (which is currently attempting the former from what the current change is to) rendition of what the old middle "evil" aged misunderstood original naming. More or less, an attempt to draw what ended up delusional. Current is much better and more accurate but the old end is attempting to be done again.
Money is as real as any soul leaving a person. Force can push in dimensions unseen but every soul can be stronger than every other dimension.
There's more but, meh...
"Markets" are the apex of the delusion that will destroy all life here soon.
So, I will not answer that with but the best rendition of reality I have thus far practiced to iterate well enough to build better understanding of the "matter."
Gaza death toll rises: 54 Palestinians killed, 831 wounded in 24 hours
Israeli forces have killed at least 54 Palestinians and wounded 831 others across Gaza in 24 hours, the Palestinian health ministry in the enclave has said.
The dead include 22 aid seekers, the ministry said on Telegram.
During the same period, at least four people have starved to death, bringing the toll of hunger-related deaths to 239, which includes 106 children, the ministry said.
Israel has killed at least 61,776 Palestinians and wounded 154,906 others since 7 October 2023, the ministry added.
The total number of aid seekers killed since May has reached 1,881, the statement said.
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Hundreds of Former Israeli Spies Are Working in Big Tech, Database Shows
As of June 2025, over 1,400 veterans of Israeli intelligence are now working in U.S. tech—with 900 of those coming from Unit 8200 alone. That number comes from a database of people who publicly identify themselves as being both former Israeli intelligence officers and holding a job in U.S. tech on their LinkedIn profiles.
The database was assembled by an independent researcher, who is remaining anonymous for personal security and has dubbed the database the “Eagle Mission” influence network. The 1,400 people are self-identified veterans or active reserve members of Unit 8200, Israeli military intelligence, and the IDF Cyber Defense Directorate working in senior and mid-level engineering and security roles at major U.S. tech firms with offices in Israel, the U.S., and Europe. Drop Site crosschecked many of the records in the database for accuracy.
“This does not mean that every person who served in Unit 8200 is an Israeli spy looking to send classified data back to Tel Aviv,” the researcher emphasized. “But it does create a serious vulnerability. No other country has this kind of access to the American tech sector. We obsess over Chinese involvement in the tech industry and worry about corporate espionage, but Israeli penetration rarely gets mentioned.”
The global tech giant Microsoft is one of the most prominent employers of Unit 8200 alumni, employing roughly 250 veterans of the unit, alongside other major multinational companies including Nvidia, Meta, Google, Intel, and Apple, many of whom employ dozens of individuals drawn from the unit. Microsoft was recently revealed to have closely collaborated with Unit 8200 leadership on the creation of cloud services intended to store millions of private communications of Palestinians living under military occupation in the West Bank and Gaza. Microsoft declined to comment.
Microsoft storing Israeli intelligence trove used to attack Palestinians
Microsoft developed a customized version of its cloud platform for Israel’s Unit 8200, which is housing audio files of millions of calls by Palestinians.Ben Reiff (+972 Magazine)
Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, and 80+ fintech and crypto CEOs urge Trump to block US banks from charging fees to access customer data
Over 80 CEOs Call on President Trump to Oppose Exorbitant Consumer Data Access Fees - Financial Technology Association
CEOs urge President Trump to take action as fees are set to impact the market in September WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Financial Technology Association (FTA) released a public letter from over 80 business leaders calling on President Donald J.Miranda Margowsky (Financial Technology Association (FTA))
Israel throws Palestinian children from rooftops during torture interrogation
Omar was seeking aid at an aid distribution site when Israeli soldiers encircled him and other aid-seekers, after opening fire on the crowd.
Omar was then interrogated and ordered to provide details of his family and relatives. Dissatisfied with Omar’s responses, the interrogator subjected Omar to torture.
Omar was brought to the roof of the building and tied to a rope, where he was left hanging upside down for an extended period. Later, the interrogator released the rope, causing Omar to plummet to the ground, dropping the height of roughly five floors before the rope became taut again, stopping his fall about half a meter (20 inches) above the ground, where he was left suspended for approximately 20 minutes.
The torture caused Omar to urinate, as he was left struggling to breathe and suffocating. “It felt as though I was teetering on the brink of death,” recalled Omar.
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in reply to gnuhaut • • •Random Archwiki tip: If you use duckduckgo you can preface a search with !arch or !aw to search the Archwiki
There's a bunch of other !bangs: duckduckgo.com/bangs?c=Tech&q=…
DuckDuckGo !Bangs
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Unknown parent • • •Because Kagi is a really good search engine, and because a search engine is the thing that it's most important to keep ads far away from.
I'm not getting it though because it's American, I ain't paying a subscription to an American company.
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in reply to Tenderizer78 • • •I tried it for a few months it frankly was just objectively worse then using duckduckgo/bing.
It was just pissing money into a hole.
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Unknown parent • • •I know the appeal of cynicism, but it’s not the best long-term strategy.
Unless you rely on the goodwill of people running open-source searches like SearxNG, you’re paying for your search services or providing them with reasons to enshittify by blocking ads. On google, duckduckgo, and many others you pay with your attention to ads and with your data. They have the incentive to keep you longer on the search page to show you more data, contrary to your goals. For Kagi makers the way to get rich is much more straightforward: make good search and get many paying users.
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Unknown parent • • •The real cost of "free" search | Kagi's Docs
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in reply to freijon • • •I would much prefer this business model for online services. I pay, they provide a service.
No collecting data, targeted ads, etc. Just a yearly payment for a year of service.
It's ridiculous how bad this situation has become without any meaningful regulations.
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