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Christian Horner fuori da ogni ruolo in Red Bull: ora è ufficiale


La collaborazione tra Christian Horner e Red Bull, durata vent’anni, è giunta al termine. Horner non figura più tra i direttori operativi di Red Bull Racing, Red Bull Technology, Red Bull Powertrains e Red Bull Powertrains 2026.
quotidianomotori.com/formula-1…

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The AI Was Fed Sloppy Code. It Turned Into Something Evil.





What's a reliable filesystem for long term data archival that also supports transparent file compression?


I currently use btrfs on almost all my server and offline backup drives mainly because of the ability to transparently compress files to save space. But apparently btrfs can get corrupted if it unexpectedly loses power? Is there a more robust and corruption resistant filesystem that you'd recommend that also has the ability to compress files?
in reply to HiddenLayer555

Are you using RAID at all? If so ZFS is probably the way to go. If not I think it matters less whether you use either btrfs or ZFS.

Regarding btrfs and power loss:

unix.stackexchange.com/questio…

...btrfs is designed to only experience data loss not corruption, assuming well behaving hardware in power outage scenario. In practice ZFS has more maturity overall (definately) so may be better (my speculation).

Beyond direct comparisons if you already have on and offline backups then you are protected from power corruption and only have to worry about data loss anyway?

in reply to HiddenLayer555

I think for home archival use is btrfs is a terrible idea. I burnt myself with it so many times.

Yes it should be safe and resistant to unclean shutdowns, but my experience with reliability is not great.

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L'importance de la veille technologique IT


La veille technologique IT n'a jamais été aussi cruciale qu'aujourd'hui, surtout pour les entreprises qui évoluent dans la tech. Comme consultant chef de projet IT, je m'efforce depuis des années à travers mon blog de décrypter l'actualité, d'apporter des analyses concrètes et surtout, de m'engager dans une recherche d'informations actuelles qui dépasse le simple relai de communiqués marketing.



Starlink tries to block Virginia’s plan to bring fiber Internet to residents


Starlink operator SpaceX is fighting Virginia's plan to deploy fiber Internet service to residents, claiming that federal grant money should be given to Starlink instead. SpaceX is already in line to win over $3 million in grant money in the state but is seeking $60 million.

Starlink is poised to benefit from the Trump administration rewriting rules for the $42 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) grant program. While the Biden administration decided that states should prioritize fiber in order to build more future-proof networks, the Trump administration ordered states to revise their plans with a "tech-neutral approach" and lower the average cost of serving each location.


in reply to Value Subtracted

Writers' Room: "We need a name for a mineral these scavengers could be looking for."

"Uh… (glances at Italian takeout) aldentium!"



Nobody’s Buying Homes, Nobody’s Switching Jobs—and America’s Mobility Is Stalling


Americans are moving at record-low rates, with only 7.8% relocating in 2023, the lowest since 1948. Families are stuck in homes that are too small or no longer suitable due to high mortgage rates, limited inventory, and skyrocketing prices. Those who have low-rate mortgages are reluctant to sell.

Workers are less likely to switch jobs or relocate for work than in previous decades. Recent grads face long, difficult job searches, often turning down offers due to low pay or lack of relocation support. Many are choosing to stay local, even if it means settling for less.

Employees with low mortgage rates, stock options, or bonus plans are staying put to avoid losing financial perks. Dual-income households and family obligations further reduce mobility.

https://www.wsj.com/economy/american-job-housing-economic-dynamism-d56ef8fc

#USA
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Vietnam launches national donation campaign to support Cuban people


en.vietnamplus.vn/vietnam-laun…


Thanks I'd rather my beer stay analogue


What’s next you tech bro wankers, is AI going to drink the pint for me?

… just when you thought they couldn’t force AI into any more things. The epitome of a solution in search of a problem



Lidarr alternatives?


Are there any functional alternatives to Lidarr that function similarly? (Integration with the *arr stack, integration with download clients. I doubt there's another that would integrate with something like Jellyseerr or Ombi, but that would be a huge perk.)
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

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.

in reply to Sisko Urso

On the readarr front, check out chaptarr. It's currently in a closed beta, but it's looking like a great replacement.
in reply to Sisko Urso

Lidarr is not in danger of being abandoned like Readarr. The new metadata server for Lidarr is already up and in closed beta. A few final issues are being worked out before it’s opened to the public.
in reply to Confused_Emus

Says who? A pull request?
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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in reply to Appoxo

Apparently they keep posting updates on their discord for some reason. This is the last response someone shared on github:

Hi everyone, it's July 25. Yesterday, the devs and mod team here have begun (early) alpha testing of the new Lidarr metadata server.

In general, things are working fairly well. There are a few issues to resolve before it can go live. But we wanted to let everyone know that we have some concrete forward movement happening behind the scenes.

NOTE: This stage of testing is NOT OPEN to users. We appreciate your patience, but at this stage you cannot help. This update is meant to let you know that the project is not dead, as some have incorrectly theorized, and that there is behind-the-scenes work heading toward getting the new metadata server up and running as quickly as possible.

Please continue to be patient, and continue to use this channel for Lidarr support questions. If you have other conversation topics, please use ⁠general or another more appropriate channel for that.

Thank you from the devs and mod team.

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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).

in reply to Appoxo

They’re standing up a new metadata server, which takes time. What more information are you expecting from them? I mean I suppose they could just lie and say sure it’ll be up next week, but it would be a lot more frustrating for them to keep saying that and pushing back the date.
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.

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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.

in reply to ragebutt

Thank you! I will try hearring-aid!
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.

in reply to matey

Reminds me of this meme i made a month ago, sad to see it’s still relevant.








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?

in reply to NotFrenchJack

Incase anyone finds it useful.

Using a redirect to this website can be quite nice as well.

removepaywall.com/

in reply to NotFrenchJack

Tangent, but why are people scared of the .ru repository? This was also an issue last time Bypass Paywalls was mentioned, and I thought it was quite strange to see in a piracy community. Are people unaware that a significant amount of the world's piracy originates from Russia?


Study Finds That School-Based Online Surveillance Companies Monitor Students 24/7




[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

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Grok 4’s new AI companion offers up ‘pornographic productivity’



in reply to bubblybubbles

But Russia is imperialist too, maybe I'm not understanding the joke. It's from a .ml user after all...
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in reply to FuckFascism

The point is "Russia can't do the bad things because America does all the bad things and Russia isn't America". Because America being evil and Russia being evil are mutually exclusive of course.
in reply to Mr Fish

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.

in reply to Moonrise2473

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.

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in reply to Yourname942

The installer applies the patches automatically and I personally didn't have issues in installing multiple times, plus in this way you can easily uninstall a single app or upgrade a single one



Are jmp.chat eSIM adapters unique


Jmp.chat provides an adapter (a eUICC device?) that can be used to store an eSIM on a physical card. I have such an adapter that I have already used for a plan tied to my identity. Is it safe to purge the chip, and then to reuse it for anonymous communications?
in reply to spinning_disk_engineer

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.
```<>
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
```

Based on this, it is a part of the transmitted information, if I understand it right: sharetechnote.com/html/Handboo…




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.

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in reply to geneva_convenience

Can we keep the robot uprising looking like HAL and not Terminator? Please? It's bad enough to die when the robots conquer Earth but I have to die while looking at creepy uncanny valley humanoids?
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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.


https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/technology/tech-jobs-silicon-valley-changes.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bk8.9ZYc._9kFAKGXK-zx




in reply to ramble81

Actually more people in my life know about my “intimate preferences” than they know my opinions on what I post online. Everyone wants to know my kinks, but nobody wants to listen to me whine about the government and corpos. smh my head
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Text appearing justified


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?

Thanks!

in reply to gsdsam

reddit.nerdvpn.de/r/LibreWolf/…

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.

in reply to HelloRoot

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 🛡️


hey everyone! 👋
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/