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China is about to launch SSDs so small you insert them like a SIM card
China is about to launch SSDs so small you insert them like a SIM card
Chinese storage manufacturer Biwin is launching the “Mini SSD,” and it measures just 15mm x 17mm x 1.4mm thick, smaller than a U.S. penny.Sean Hollister (The Verge)
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Israeli airstrikes on Tehran killed inmates in ‘apparent war crime’ – report
Israeli airstrikes on Tehran killed inmates in ‘apparent war crime’ – report
Human Rights Watch also finds that Iran abused survivors of June attack, which killed 80 peopleDeepa Parent (The Guardian)
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Russia goes offline Mobile Internet blackouts in the Nizhny Novgorod region leave residents questioning officials’ explanations and fearing lasting restrictions
Russia goes offline
Mobile Internet blackouts in the Nizhny Novgorod region leave residents questioning officials’ explanations and fearing lasting restrictionsMeduza
Is there a maintained bypass-paywalls Firefox extension out there?
Hello.
I just noticed in one of my Firefox profiles that Mozilla auto-disabled the "Bypass Paywalls" extension after removing it from their end, which apparently happened a while ago.
I don't think I ever even used this extension, which is why I didn't catch this earlier. But now that it's banned, I definitely want it around 😉
The upstream repository also got DMCA'd. The repository of a presumably alternative (or cleaned) extension is also gone, although I found some GitHub mirrors of it (how ironic).
So, is there a maintained extension upstream I should know about?
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Incase anyone finds it useful.
Using a redirect to this website can be quite nice as well.
RemovePaywall | Free online paywall remover
Remove Paywall, free online paywall remover. Get access to articles without having to pay or login. Works on Bloomberg and hundreds more.removepaywall.com
Study Finds That School-Based Online Surveillance Companies Monitor Students 24/7
Study Finds That School-Based Online Surveillance Companies Monitor Students 24/7
Recent study at UC San Diego is the first detailed assessment of companies offering school-based online surveillance services such as social media monitoring, student communications monitoring and online activity monitoring to middle and high schools…today.ucsd.edu
[JS] Psst: wanna buy a legit FBI email account for $40?
Cybercriminals are selling active .gov and .police accounts, enabling identity takeover, fraudulent subpoenas, and access to sensitive law enforcement systems.
https://abnormal.ai/blog/compromised-police-government-email-accounts
Vape brands bypass regulations on marketing to young people by using global social media accounts
Vape brands bypass regulations on marketing to young people by using global social media accounts
Vape manufacturers mirror traditional tobacco marketing, including stylish branding, flavours and sponsorships, to reach young people through social media.The Conversation
AI is making reading books feel obsolete – and students have a lot to lose
AI is making reading books feel obsolete – and students have a lot to lose
Even before generative AI went mainstream, fewer people were reading books.The Conversation
Quantum alternative to GPS navigation will be tested on US military spaceplane
Quantum alternative to GPS navigation will be tested on US military spaceplane
The experimental sensor could be groundbreaking.The Conversation
Grok 4’s new AI companion offers up ‘pornographic productivity’
Grok 4’s new AI companion offers up ‘pornographic productivity’
Grok 4’s new AI companions raise concerns about virtual friends disrupting real social relationships, anti-feminist rhetoric and the exploitation of personal data.The Conversation
That not at all how it works. The point is that dropping bombs for the purposes of imperialism is different than dropping bombs for the purpose of anti-imperialism. The USA is the torch bearer of the globe spanning empire that they took over from Western Europe. That empire at its height dominated 80% of the world's population and to this day that empire continues to cause more death and destruction than any other movement in the world. We are now in the fifth century of this empire's existence.
The Russian Federation is not an empire and it is not imperialist. Just a few decades ago it's entire system of government and economics was completely ended and rebuilt under the dominance of the empire (described above). The Russian Federation does not occupy any colonies or subjugated territories, as the US does (Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Guam, etc). The Russian Federation is not the continuation of a settler colonial state like the US is. The Russian Federation does not have 600 military bases all over the world where it operates without legal oversight.
Russia has done lots of bad things. All worthy of criticism. But that criticism needs to be contextualized, because while those bad things are worth analyzing and discussing, they can in no way ever be used to justify the actions of the global spanning baby killing family starving genocidal eugenicist world destroying empire.
Can you install only some programs included in the Master Collection from M0nkrus?
Note: I am not requesting a link, source, but regarding the Master Collection from M0nkrus, I am curious if it is possible to only install some of the software rather than all of them. I only want about 3~8 of them and don't need the other 16. (just Dimension, Illustrator, PS, and maybe the 5 Substance 3d apps)
I don't know if I should get them together or separately. I feel like the process might be more straightforward/less likely to run into issues if they are from the same collection, but I don't know.
Thank you.
Thank you for the advice. Get them separate just because of how few I am looking to get? I feel like there might be more setup required if I get them separately.
I also don't know if getting them separate would cause me to get redundant installers/managers/rules+patches each trying to apply the same patches.
Are jmp.chat eSIM adapters unique
I think the eID should be unique and gets transmitted.
That's probably the ID that forbids me from installing (another) speedtest eSIM, though "ID" could also refer to IMEI perhaps. I'd have to try another phone.
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Error code: ES10B_ERROR_REASON_UNDEFINED
Last HTTP response (from server):
{
"header": {
"functionExecutionStatus": {
"status": "Failed",
"statusCodeData": {
"subjectCode": "8.2.6",
"reasonCode": "3.8",
"subjectIdentifier": "Matching ID",
"message": "Refused"
}
}
},
"transactionId": "[You don't need this]"
}
Last APDU response (from SIM) is successful
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Based on this, it is a part of the transmitted information, if I understand it right: sharetechnote.com/html/Handboo…
Bluesky revises its policies and Community Guidelines to comply with new regulations, including the EU DSA, UK Online Safety Act, and US Take It Down Act
Updated Terms and Policies - Bluesky
We’re updating the language in our terms and policies to better explain our approach and provide more detail.Bluesky
Beijing's first World Humanoid Robot Games opens with street dance, martial arts and music
Humanoid robots hip-hop danced, performed martial arts and played keyboard, guitar and drums at the opening ceremony of the first World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing on Thursday evening.
The competition begins Friday with more than 500 humanoid robots in 280 teams from 16 countries, including the U.S., Germany and Japan, competing in sports including soccer, running and boxing. It comes as China has stepped up efforts to develop humanoid robots powered by artificial intelligence.
During the opening ceremony, the robots demonstrated soccer and boxing among other sports, with some cheering and backflipping as if at a real sports day.
Beijing's first World Humanoid Robot Games opens with street dance, martial arts and music
Humanoid robots have showcased their talents at the opening ceremony of the first World Humanoid Robot Games in BeijingFu Ting (The Independent)
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So Long to Tech's Dream Job: It’s the shut up and grind era, tech workers said, as Apple, Google, Meta and other giants age into large bureaucracies.
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/34411807
While many of them still provide free food and pay well, they have little compunction cutting jobs, ordering mandatory office attendance and clamping down on employee debate. [...] “Tech could still be best in terms of free lunch and a high salary,” Ms. Grey said, but “the level of fear has gone way up.”Along the way, the companies became less tolerant of employee outspokenness. Bosses reasserted themselves after workers protested issues including sexual harassment in the workplace. With the job market flooded with qualified engineers, it became easier to replace those who criticized.
“This is a business, and not a place to act in a way that disrupts co-workers or makes them feel unsafe, to attempt to use the company as a personal platform, or to fight over disruptive issues or debate politics,” Sundar Pichai, Google’s chief executive, said in a blog post last year.
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China’s Prinano Delivers First Homegrown Nanoimprint Lithography Machine, Challenging Canon
[News] China’s Prinano Delivers First Homegrown Nanoimprint Lithography Machine, Challenging Canon
According to Chinese media outlet ICsmart, Chinese company Prinano announced that its first self-developed PL-SR series inkjet step-and-repeat nanoimp...TrendForce
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I've tried searching for what the cause of this is but I've had no luck so hopefully it's ok to ask here.
For some reason LibreWolf is displaying pages with a significant amount of spacing between words/text justification.
The screenshot provided shows how the LibreWolf docs page looks in Firefox on the left and LibreWolf on the right. I am currently running LibreWolf version 141.0.3-1 on Kubuntu 25.04
Is there some way to alter LibreWolf so it renders the text more like the Firefox does or is this finger printing related i.e. intentional?
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It seems a mix of fingerprinting resistance and/or missing system fonts. The thread says that it tells the website that you use windows so it tries to use windows fonts, which are not installed and the fallback is weird.
Text displaying strangely on LibreWolf in Kubuntu 24.04 - r/LibreWolf
View on Redlib, an alternative private front-end to Reddit.reddit.nerdvpn.de
Good find, hadn't thought of the OS being the issue given that Firefox was playing ball but that makes sense. Thank you! This give me a push in the right direction to where I found folks talking about problems accessing fonts when Librewolf was installed with dnf on Fedora.
Following the same strain of thought I decided to try installing Librewolf from Flathub; curiously it accesses and displays the fonts correctly therefore solving my issue. My original method of install was via the debian based systems repo.
solo dev here - built a privacy tool for anonymous social media browsing 🛡️
hope this is okay to share here - i'm a solo dev who just launched a privacy tool and thought this community might appreciate it.
built spybroski.com - it's basically a way to view instagram & snapchat stories completely anonymously. no tracking, no data collection, just pure privacy.
honestly started this project because i got tired of social media platforms knowing every single thing we look at. figured there had to be others who care about digital privacy too, especially in a tech-focused community like this.
it's completely free and i don't collect any user data (kinda defeats the point otherwise, right?). been working on it solo for months and finally got it to a place where i'm comfortable sharing.
would love to hear what you all think - any feedback from fellow tech people would be amazing. privacy tools are only as good as the community that uses them.
thanks for letting me share, and sorry if this feels too promotional. just excited to finally put something out there that might actually help people take back a bit of their online privacy.
check it out: spybroski.com/
Free Anonymous Instagram Story Viewer | Private Follower Tracker
View any Instagram story anonymously - no login, no trace. Plus track followers privately via Telegram. Works on all devices, completely undetectable. Start free, then $4.99/month.SpyBroski
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
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.
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.
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in reply to matey • • •Headphones I think it’s called? But lidarr has the best integration given it’s a fork.
If this is about the lidarr metadata being fucked you can try something like github.com/blampe/hearring-aid… which has its own issues but is working.
All of the arr stack developers flip their shit if you so much as suggest adding support for a custom metadata server. It is by far the biggest weakness of the stack and it is mind boggling that all the major forks have inherited this behavior from sonarr.
Lidarr shows how foolish this approach is, musicbrainz makes one change and the app is fucked for over three months now with no end in sight. Thetvdb could do this to sonarr, themoviedb could do this to radarr. Adding a method to add other database sites with api access (or even just local data) should be a priority, but they not only dislike the idea, they get mad about it. Oh well, free project, fork it if youre so great, etc etc
GitHub - blampe/hearring-aid: Hear what your LiDAR is missing
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Sisko Urso
in reply to ragebutt • • •At this rate lidarr will have the same fate as readarr did as it seems the main focus of the servarr devs are focused on radarr and prowlarr.
The problem is they have only one person left with the keys to the metadata server and if they are busy then it’s not a priority. Which I understand as a free project but just emphasizes how bad this approach is to have just a single metadata sever.
But with that said I’m still holding out hope for Lidarr, now finding a good readarr replacement that’s another sad story.
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Appoxo
in reply to Confused_Emus • • •If there is a beta/nightly branch I can install, I'll be glad to use that so I can finally import the music I have acquired so far.
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Ghoelian
in reply to Appoxo • • •Apparently they keep posting updates on their discord for some reason. This is the last response someone shared on github:
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Appoxo
in reply to Ghoelian • • •Yeah...I saw that update. But I wouldnt count an update from the end of July recent in any capacity.
Because this sort of message has been repeated since the beginning of July with minimal changes to the content.
It's mostly a "We are still alive and sometimes working on it".
No issues with that. It's their volunteered free of charge time they are giving for our entertainment. Which I heavily appreciate. It's just a bit annoying how little information they give out (and their, sorta understandable, tone used in their support channel).
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Confused_Emus
in reply to Appoxo • • •Confused_Emus
in reply to Appoxo • • •Says the official support channels, which you should be checking for information anyway, unless your only intention is to scream your frustration into the void. If that’s the case, best of luck on that resolving anything.
ETA: like I said, it’s a closed beta, so not something you can install. And it won’t be a pull request because this fix won’t require an update to Lidarr, it’ll just start working again when the new server is done.
Appoxo
in reply to Confused_Emus • • •Confused_Emus
in reply to ragebutt • • •What the devs keep getting irritated about is people coming into the Official Lidarr Branch support channels and asking for support for something the devs have no control over or ability to assist with. Keep in mind that an individual user’s Lidarr instance does not connect directly to musicbrainz - the volume of API requests generated by Lidarr would be unsustainable without subscriptions. It connects to an intermediary metadata server set up and maintained by the Lidarr volunteers.
If they add a built-in option to add custom metadata servers, people will have an expectation of support. Even a note right next to the option that states custom metadata servers get no assistance wouldn’t help much since most people can’t seem to read. Basing that on the number of people who come into the Lidarr support discord channel every single day and ask if something is wrong with the metadata server despite there being a stickied message with very bold lettering explaining the issue and its current status.
I will agree that the devs in the discord have a shit bed-side manner, though. But there’s a reason that, if this were software produced by a company, you’d be speaking to a customer support specialist instead of directly to a dev. As someone who long ago worked my way up the IT ladder out of the rage-inducing pits of user-facing support roles, I definitely get it.
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Appoxo
in reply to ragebutt • • •The issue isnt the metadata providers changing the API.
The issue is that the devs insist on implementing an API proxy/metadata mirror to lessen the burden.
Bro, just le me pull my own API key and let musicbrainz decide how much free API calls I can execute.
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