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- Lemmy.
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I, like many people, find LinkedIn particularly annoying. I like the premise of it, don’t get me wrong, a resume you don’t need to update all that often seems cool. Unfortunately though, its turned into the worst possible version of itself. It’s a place where people post half baked nonsense all for the sake of building a personal brand that nobody really cares about.

I log in and see constant posting that I can only describe as toxic mediocrity. A seemingly endless stream of posts that are over fluffed, over produced and ultimately say nothing.

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Sunny Days Are Warm: Why LinkedIn Rewards Mediocrity

cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/35851038

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- Hackernews.
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I, like many people, find LinkedIn particularly annoying. I like the premise of it, don’t get me wrong, a resume you don’t need to update all that often seems cool. Unfortunately though, its turned into the worst possible version of itself. It’s a place where people post half baked nonsense all for the sake of building a personal brand that nobody really cares about.

I log in and see constant posting that I can only describe as toxic mediocrity. A seemingly endless stream of posts that are over fluffed, over produced and ultimately say nothing.

Sunny Days Are Warm: Why LinkedIn Rewards Mediocrity

^{Elliot Smith (Elliot C Smith)}

Is it really sketchy if you torrent a file that by default it is an unpacked folder? (rather than just being a zipped folder)? I'm not sure if I should be concerned if it is able to run anything or gather data since it was unzipped by default. It contained a monkrus.info file that seemed to gather all the data for some reason.. (I think)

Thank you.

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Since September 2023, a national campaign run by Sky and entertainment partners has attempted to convince illegal stream consumers to dump them in favor of platforms operating on the right side of the law. To encourage that important step, the BeStreamWise campaign focuses on the dangers of piracy; malware, credit card fraud, the risk of 'letting criminals in'. Through use of a particular model, the campaign hopes to achieve "the Holy Grail of behavioral change."

Sky's Piracy=Malware Campaign Aims For 'Holy Grail' of Behavioral Change * TorrentFreak

Focused on piracy dangers including malware, Sky's BeStreamWise campaign hopes to achieve "the Holy Grail of behavioral change."

^{Andy Maxwell (TF Publishing)}

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Russia’s war against Ukraine

Ukrainian firefighters work to extinguish a blaze after a Russian shelling hit a house, when a Russian FPV drone attack damaged their fire truck during the operation, in Kostiantynivka, Ukraine, on August 16, 2025. (Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Russia’s refusal to declare ceasefire casts doubt on peace process, Zelensky says ahead of White House talks. “If they do not have the will to implement a simple order to stop the attacks, it may take a great deal of effort to get Russia to implement something much more significant, namely peaceful coexistence with its neighbors for decades to come.”

Sensitive details about Trump-Putin summit revealed in discarded government documents, NPR reports. The documents disclose the exact locations and meeting times of the summit and phone numbers of U.S. government staff. They also reveal other sensitive details, such as a menu for a luncheon in honor of “His Excellency Vladimir Putin.”

Putin offers Trump frozen battle lines, written promise not to invade again if Kyiv surrenders Donbas, NYT reports. Trump appeared to endorse Russia’s plan as the fastest way to a peace deal, abandoning the demand for a ceasefire and threats of sanctions against Moscow, officials told the NYT.

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Trump, Zelensky to meet in Washington next week after US-Russia summit ends without agreement. Zelensky said he supports Trump’s proposal for a trilateral meeting between Ukraine, the U.S., and Russia, noting that the three leaders can cover the “key issues.”

Trump says he and Putin ‘largely agreed’ on land swaps, security guarantees for Ukraine. “I think we’re pretty close to a deal,” Trump told Fox News, adding: “Ukraine has to agree to it. Maybe they’ll say no.”

Russia declares isolation over after Putin’s red-carpet welcome in Alaska. The summit restored a “full-fledged mechanism for meetings” between the two presidents, without “ultimatums and threats,” Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council Dmitry Medvedev wrote on his Telegram channel on Aug. 16.

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Ukrainians fear Trump will shift responsibility for ending war onto Kyiv after failed talks with Putin.

In the wake of the Putin-Trump summit in Alaska, Ukrainian lawmakers, experts, and soldiers expressed their reservations, fears, expectations for future peace negotiations.

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Everything we know about the fallout of Trump’s meeting with Putin.

Following his meeting with Putin in Alaska, U.S. President Donald Trump has dropped demands for a ceasefire in favor of a comprehensive peace deal that would include giving up unoccupied Ukrainian territories to Russia.

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Human cost of Russia’s war

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,069,050 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022. The number includes 1,010 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day, according to the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces.

Russia captures two more villages in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine’s military says. President Volodymyr Zelensky acknowledged on that the situation in Donetsk remains “extremely difficult” but said Ukrainian forces have achieved some gains.

International response

Slovakia’s Fico praises Putin-Trump summit, repeats Kremlin propaganda. In an Aug. 16 video, Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico praised the recent Putin-Trump summit in Alaska and repeated Kremlin propaganda about the “root causes” of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

‘Putin cannot be trusted’ — Nordic, Baltic countries issue joint statement supporting Ukraine’s sovereignty. The Nordic-Baltic Eight nations on Aug. 16 issued a joint statement in support of Ukraine’s sovereignty and a just end to Russia’s full-scale war.

European leaders back Trump’s peace effort but say Ukraine must decide its territory. The joint statement by several European leaders was published on Aug. 16, shortly after their phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky.

In other news

Melania Trump wrote letter to Putin about kidnapped Ukrainian children, Reuters reports. Trump handed the letter to Putin during their nearly three-hour meeting on Aug. 15, two White House officials told Reuters.

Kremlin brags about US jets escorting Putin’s plane after Alaska summit. Russian officials bragged about U.S. fighter jets escorting Russian President Vladimir Putin’s plane from Alaska on Aug. 16, following his meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump.

Ukrainian troops advance in Sumy oblast, General Staff says. Ukraine’s military has reportedly advanced about two kilometers in Sumy oblast, just a day after Putin and Trump discussed a deal that would give Ukrainian territories to Russia.

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this post started out as a rant about the current state of media preservation on the modern internet... but ranting and complaining rarely helps anything.

so instead, i have written a few short guides and notes about ways you can help contribute to media preservation by doing it your damn self. most of the guides lean very technical, but i try to give appropriate explanations and links to the tools and documentation where i can.

Scrolling through social media, you may have dallied on reels of Leonardo DiCaprio dancing or Tom Cruise crooning, only to realize they’re spoofs created with artificial intelligence. Hyper-realistic videos and images like these — also called deepfakes — are notorious for celebrity pranking. But the technology has serious scientific applications, too. In the field of ecology, for example, AI doppelgängers of rare species could improve efforts to understand, monitor and protect them.

Specifically, wildlife deepfakes could help train AI models to detect wildlife in footage from satellites, planes and drones. Ecologists increasingly rely on such birds-eye imagery to study species behavior and population trends.

“We are truly in the age of big data when it comes to remote sensing in ecology and conservation,” says Dave Johnston, director of the Marine Robotics and Remote Sensing Lab at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment. “Over the past two decades, our ability to collect high-resolution remote-sensing imagery has grown exponentially, largely due to advances in drone technology and increased satellite capabilities.”

Deepfake Whales Could Be Key Conservation Tool

AI-generated images of rare species could improve efforts to understand, monitor and protect them.

^{Nicholas School of the Environment}

With a few adjustments, the quality of online political debates can be significantly improved, according to new research. However, a better tone of debate does not necessarily change people's attitudes, the researchers behind the study point out.

How we can improve online political debates

^{UCPH Communication}

L'eroe genovese senza volto

Giovanni Giustiniani Longo contro Maometto II

Il 29 Maggio 1453, Costantinopoli (Bisanzio prima) si avviava a cadere sotto i colpi di artiglieria ottomana e a diventare l'odierna Istanbul. Il basileus Costantino XI, per difendere la città, aveva chiesto rinforzi, anche alle due repubbliche marinare di Venezia e Genova. Il Doge genovese, Pietro Fregoso, decise di mandare "solo" due galee con a bordo 700 uomini, guidati da un valente condottiero: Giovanni Giustiniani Longo (1418-1453).
Longo ed i suoi uomini respinsero più volte con estremo valore gli assalti ottomani ...

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Autore:
Marco Locatelli, laureando in Scienze Storiche presso UniMI