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Police in Scotland have arrested I, Daniel Blake actor and veteran screenwriter Paul Laverty for a t-shirt, which read, "Genocide in Palestine, time to take action".
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Fighters from the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) on Sunday intercepted a Russian aircraft in the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone.
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is warning major U.S. tech companies against yielding to foreign government demands that weaken data security, compromise encryption, or impose censorship on their platforms.
There’s an exhibition of retro / classic home computing machines this week (Aug 21-28 2025) at Kingston University, so I had to drop in. It was fun to see some old favourites again, and it was nice to see some youngsters engaging with the games I used to play. Turrican, Hunchback, Mario, Puzzle Bobble, Lemmings! The Townhouse building at Kingston University has been open for several years already and I drive, walk or bus past it regularly, but never had a reason to pop in until now! It has the university library on the upper floors, and a cafe and event space on the ground floor. For the duration of this week, the Archive of Retro Computing has taken over the event space with this display.
It is nicely put together, with some machines set aside for coding, some for gaming; information about each system displayed alongside; some meta-history on topics like the British computing scene (Acorn vs Sinclair), Commodore and Amstrad, and the US elements. The back section is dedicated to vintage home gaming systems, from the 1977 Binatone Pong game, through Atari / Nintendo / Sega, up to the Super Nintendo and Jaguar.
There are also some super “deep cuts” in the collection, including the Tatung Einstein, which I don’t remember ever seeing or hearing about before… From my personal history, the Binatone Pong game on display is I think slightly older than the simple dial paddle controllers than we had hooked up to the TV at home when I was young. No sign of the metal-clad Commodore PET that I remember tinkering with at primary school, but a range of other Commodore machines are on show, including the classic Commodore 64 (I have one of these, from a former Twitter coworker!), and several other models I’m less familar with. My first home computer, the Acorn Electron, is right there, running Arcadians, a Space Invaders clone I must have spent hours on back in the day. My own Electron ended as a hand-modded machine featuring switchable headphone or regular speaker output. I’m still quite proud of that relatively low-tech little hardware hack from back then. Next along in my own line would have been the Amstrad CPC (with 3″ disk drive) that my uncle had, and pointed me towards on most visits to his house. I have memories of Jet Set Willy and Manic Miner on that one. The little info card here tells the story of how Alan Sugar did a deal on the disk drives such that Hitachi ended up having to keep making them, at a loss, even though the 3″ disk format was otherwise dead in the water. My school had a very well-equipped computer room with (I think) about 30 BBC Master and Micro computers, so I was very much an Acorn boy and learned BBC BASIC as my first proper coding language (along with a tiny bit of 6502 assembler). Later on, the computer room was upgraded with Acorn Archimedes, and my brother had an A3000 in his bedroom… I had an Acorn Risc PC with a StrongARM processor, way faster than the x86 PCs available at the time! The BBC Master and A3000 are present and correct in the exhibition (there’s a BBC Micro as well, alongside the Electron). We also had a Super Nintendo, which is one of the last of the home gaming consoles in the exhibition (I overheard someone say that the Playstation, our next games console as a family, was where gaming all went wrong and 3D and got boring… I can sometimes understand of that point of view!). As an aside, I had a quick go on Wolfenstein 3D on the Jaguar in the corner there, and the controller for the Jaguar was bonkers! Chunky and not very friendly to use. The graphics seemed decent, with some kind of interpolation at distance? I don’t remember ever actually playing on a Jaguar when they were current…
Pretty much all of the machines had some kind of modification, both to output graphics to the LCD monitors in use, and/or to replace disk drives with some form of USB-floppy emulation, often with a Pi or something else doing the interfacing.
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Tech companies are giving the world artificial intelligence — but ironically, the tech sector itself is among those now feeling the most pain from AI.
The rise of AI tools that can write and develop code is clouding the outlook for the software industry, investors say, sending shares in those companies into a slump.
Software as a service, or “SaaS,” is a bread-and-butter business model that is now at risk of disruption because of AI, investors say, a microcosm of how AI could upend the way many businesses operate.
Shares in software giant Salesforce (CRM) are down 26% this year, making it the second-worst performing stock in the Dow.
Meanwhile, Adobe (ADBE) shares are down 19% this year. Shares in Atlassian (TEAM), which owns applications like Trello, are down 30% over the same time.
In comparison, the benchmark S&P 500 is up 10% this year, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite is up 11%.
“Software valuations remain under pressure from the ‘death of software due to AI’ narrative, which likely drives continued volatility in the short term,” Matthew Hedberg, a software research analyst at RBC Capital Markets, said in an August 12 note.
Screener and pre-release copies of numerous films that leaked online recently were not the result of a sophisticated hack. New evidence reveals that several of these films were already publicly accessible for weeks or months previously, after being shared by industry insiders on the video platform Vimeo.
The unreleased Julian Schnabel film, featuring a star cast, is officially set to premiere at the Venice Film Festival next month. However, pirates got early access.
The same was true for other independent films, including The Best Thing About Christmas, Agon, American Cryptids, Life Is, and Extreme Family, all of which leaked early. What stood out is that several titles had an Italian connection.
The source of the leaks was initially unclear, but new information shared with TorrentFreak shows that many, if not all the leaked films, were already publicly available on video-sharing platform Vimeo long before they appeared on pirate sites.
Post-production Studio Uploads on Vimeo
Multiple versions of In the Hand of Dante, using the shorthand “ITHOD,” were uploaded to the Vimeo channel of Augustus Color Srl. This is the name of a prominent Italian company specializing in color grading and digital post-production.
The upload dates range from June to October 2024, confirming the films were exposed for the better part of a year before they appeared on pirate sites. The most recent ‘edit’ on Vimeo is identical in length compared to the copy that leaked on pirate sites and also comes with a screener watermark.
ITHOD
This wasn’t the only film posted to the account. Augustus Color has over 1,000 videos on their Vimeo account which has been in use for more than seven years. The account uses the logo of the studio and also posted the official promotional reel, various edits, and several additional films.
Augustus Color
After some digging, we also found the leaked Agon film on the same Vimeo account. Again, this copy was posted on the video sharing platform long before it appeared on pirate sites, suggesting this is where the leaks originated. The same account also shared many other films that were not posted to pirate sites.
Before publishing, we reached out to Augustus Color, requesting a comment on our findings, but the company did not respond. The company may have been under the impression that these uploads were not publicly accessible, as the official showreel is private.
There’s More, Much More
Not all recently leaked movies could be traced back to this Vimeo account. It’s a much broader issue. For example, The Best Thing About Christmas screener was also publicly available, posted on Vimeo by the official account weeks before it leaked.
A screenshot from the leak, shown below, notes that it’s a director’s cut. The same cut was also posted on Vimeo.
Producer’s Cut
When we reached out to the filmmakers, they informed us that the screener was not meant to be publicly accessible. They believed that it had been shared privately with specific people. That is clearly not the case here.
Similar uploads are common elsewhere on the video platform. A copy of Extreme Family was published in early July by an account linked to a Vietnamese film organization, before it appeared on pirate sites.
Extreme Family on Vimeo
Similarly, a copy of the film American Cryptids was uploaded to Vimeo by a Florida-based industry insider in early August. Soon after, a ‘leak’ appeared on pirate sites, days in advance of the official theatrical premiere on Friday, August 15.
The person who shared the American Cryptids film on Vimeo did not respond to our request for comment, but the upload is now password protected. This suggests that it wasn’t meant to be publicly accessible either.
The more we dig on Vimeo, the more films we find. These include dozens of unreleased films, but also several films that were posted on Vimeo longer ago, before their official releases. These are linked to the accounts of industry insiders, ranging from small production outfits to videographers’ personal accounts.
Without additional comments from the players involved, we don’t know if these public uploads were the result of a misunderstanding about Vimeo’s privacy settings or if there is more to it than that. Whatever the reason, it’s a bombshell and a wake-up call all the same.
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Note: we privately tested the privacy setting on Vimeo videos and that appears to work as intended.
Buongiorno, non so se sia il posto giusto per questo topic, non ne ho trovati di più pertinenti, in caso spostatemi pure.
Mi chiedevo se esista un modo per seguire profili X e Instagram tramite lettori feed rss o altro. Spulciando su Le alternative ho sca
Buongiorno, non so se sia il posto giusto per questo topic, non ne ho trovati di più pertinenti, in caso spostatemi pure. Mi chiedevo se esista un modo per seguire profili X e Instagram tramite lettori feed rss o altro. Spulciando su Le alternative ho scaricato Newsblur, non mi permette di seguire i profili che mi interessano, ma vedo che ce ne sono altri suggeriti che invece possono essere seguiti (solo per X). Magari esiste un generatore specifico da applicare..
Purtroppo le fonti principali di notizie che seguo sono profili di giornalisti Instagram o X, ogni consiglio per smarcarsi da queste piattaforme (gratis) è ben accetto. Grazie in anticipo per la pazienza.
@lealternative puoi provare la mia istanza nitter (ora xitter) x.nvbbln.me Da li cerchi gli account che ti servono, poi in alto a destra trovi l'icona per i feed rss. Puoi generare un feed per ogni utente e poi importarlo nel tuo client rss preferito. (Consiglio di non abusare coi profili da seguire altrimenti salta tutto)
Da parte mia aggiungerei Facebook. Purtroppo tutte queste piattaforme ostacolano attivamente la possibilità di seguire profili da "fuori". Ti capisco, e, la mia soluzione è, da un lato trovare fonti alternative e accontentarsi, dall'altro portare nel fediverso quelle notizie che trovo dalle altre fonti (che includono telegram e whatsapp nel mio caso).
Our findings reveal a robustness gap for LLMs in medical reasoning, demonstrating that evaluating these systems requires looking beyond standard accuracy metrics to assess their true reasoning capabilities.6 When forced to reason beyond familiar answer patterns, all models demonstrate declines in accuracy, challenging claims of artificial intelligence’s readiness for autonomous clinical deployment.
A system dropping from 80% to 42% accuracy when confronted with a pattern disruption would be unreliable in clinical settings, where novel presentations are common. The results suggest that these systems are more brittle than their benchmark scores suggest.
Our findings reveal a robustness gap for LLMs in medical reasoning, demonstrating that evaluating these systems requires looking beyond standard accuracy metrics to assess their true reasoning capabilities.^6^ When forced to reason beyond familiar answer patterns, all models demonstrate declines in accuracy, challenging claims of artificial intelligence’s readiness for autonomous clinical deployment.
A system dropping from 80% to 42% accuracy when confronted with a pattern disruption would be unreliable in clinical settings, where novel presentations are common. The results suggest that these systems are more brittle than their benchmark scores suggest.
Our findings reveal a robustness gap for LLMs in medical reasoning, demonstrating that evaluating these systems requires looking beyond standard accuracy metrics to assess their true reasoning capabilities.^6^ When forced to reason beyond familiar answer patterns, all models demonstrate declines in accuracy, challenging claims of artificial intelligence’s readiness for autonomous clinical deployment.
A system dropping from 80% to 42% accuracy when confronted with a pattern disruption would be unreliable in clinical settings, where novel presentations are common. The results suggest that these systems are more brittle than their benchmark scores suggest.
Recently, my lawyer instructed me to read the original transcripts from my trial and other legal documents he sent me in preparation for my appeal. It was a reasonable request. Being able to read these kinds of legal documents helps us understand our cases and talk through details with our lawyers. The only problem was that he sent the documents to me on a flash drive, which we are generally not allowed to have at New Jersey State Prison.
The only way to access flash drives from our lawyers is to request permission to review the material in a special, private section of our law library. But it can take days to have our review requests approved — and that’s precious time when you’re trying to file an appeal.
Our prison lags way behind the times. Inside New Jersey State Prison, it’s like 1985, where we rely on out-of-date word processors, electric typewriters and floppy disks that are going extinct in the free world.
You read that right. While we can’t take flash drives back to our cells, we’re allowed to keep 20 floppy disks. I have 12 myself. But they come with a range of issues, including the important fact that our lawyers don’t use them to send us information.
That’s partially because floppy disk manufacturing ended in 2011, so there’s a finite supply worldwide. Very few places sell them. The commissary has never sold floppy disks, so I’ve had to purchase them from outside vendors.
Beyond those problems, floppy disks also get corrupted easily. After hours and hours of legal work, you can lose everything in an instant. For this reason, we try to make copies of the disks so we have backups.
And most importantly, the floppy disk has only 1.44 megabytes of memory space. A single legal brief can easily take up the memory of two floppy disks.
With so many new, efficient technologies available, we could easily do our legal work in our cells if the prison allowed it. We could use restricted laptops (without internet), or maybe even our electronic tablets, to review and work on legal documents without having to wait days for law library access.
New Jersey State Prison is one of the oldest prisons in the United States, with a sign outside that announces: “Built in 1835.” But those of us who live inside it are trying to enter the modern world, so we can reliably do the important work of advocating for our freedom.
Recently, my lawyer instructed me to read the original transcripts from my trial and other legal documents he sent me in preparation for my appeal. It was a reasonable request. Being able to read these kinds of legal documents helps us understand our cases and talk through details with our lawyers. The only problem was that he sent the documents to me on a flash drive, which we are generally not allowed to have at New Jersey State Prison.
The only way to access flash drives from our lawyers is to request permission to review the material in a special, private section of our law library. But it can take days to have our review requests approved — and that’s precious time when you’re trying to file an appeal.
Our prison lags way behind the times. Inside New Jersey State Prison, it’s like 1985, where we rely on out-of-date word processors, electric typewriters and floppy disks that are going extinct in the free world.
You read that right. While we can’t take flash drives back to our cells, we’re allowed to keep 20 floppy disks. I have 12 myself. But they come with a range of issues, including the important fact that our lawyers don’t use them to send us information.
That’s partially because floppy disk manufacturing ended in 2011, so there’s a finite supply worldwide. Very few places sell them. The commissary has never sold floppy disks, so I’ve had to purchase them from outside vendors.
Beyond those problems, floppy disks also get corrupted easily. After hours and hours of legal work, you can lose everything in an instant. For this reason, we try to make copies of the disks so we have backups.
And most importantly, the floppy disk has only 1.44 megabytes of memory space. A single legal brief can easily take up the memory of two floppy disks.
With so many new, efficient technologies available, we could easily do our legal work in our cells if the prison allowed it. We could use restricted laptops (without internet), or maybe even our electronic tablets, to review and work on legal documents without having to wait days for law library access.
New Jersey State Prison is one of the oldest prisons in the United States, with a sign outside that announces: “Built in 1835.” But those of us who live inside it are trying to enter the modern world, so we can reliably do the important work of advocating for our freedom.
Recently, my lawyer instructed me to read the original transcripts from my trial and other legal documents he sent me in preparation for my appeal. It was a reasonable request. Being able to read these kinds of legal documents helps us understand our cases and talk through details with our lawyers. The only problem was that he sent the documents to me on a flash drive, which we are generally not allowed to have at New Jersey State Prison.
The only way to access flash drives from our lawyers is to request permission to review the material in a special, private section of our law library. But it can take days to have our review requests approved — and that’s precious time when you’re trying to file an appeal.
Our prison lags way behind the times. Inside New Jersey State Prison, it’s like 1985, where we rely on out-of-date word processors, electric typewriters and floppy disks that are going extinct in the free world.
You read that right. While we can’t take flash drives back to our cells, we’re allowed to keep 20 floppy disks. I have 12 myself. But they come with a range of issues, including the important fact that our lawyers don’t use them to send us information.
That’s partially because floppy disk manufacturing ended in 2011, so there’s a finite supply worldwide. Very few places sell them. The commissary has never sold floppy disks, so I’ve had to purchase them from outside vendors.
Beyond those problems, floppy disks also get corrupted easily. After hours and hours of legal work, you can lose everything in an instant. For this reason, we try to make copies of the disks so we have backups.
And most importantly, the floppy disk has only 1.44 megabytes of memory space. A single legal brief can easily take up the memory of two floppy disks.
With so many new, efficient technologies available, we could easily do our legal work in our cells if the prison allowed it. We could use restricted laptops (without internet), or maybe even our electronic tablets, to review and work on legal documents without having to wait days for law library access.
New Jersey State Prison is one of the oldest prisons in the United States, with a sign outside that announces: “Built in 1835.” But those of us who live inside it are trying to enter the modern world, so we can reliably do the important work of advocating for our freedom.
L’altra sera non ho scritto niente a riguardo, ma quello che è accaduto è che ho rapinato un Amazon Locker… inserendo il codice eh, niente danneggiamenti. Ok, sto scherzando; in verità, con la mano diretta di mio padre (che ha banalmente piazzato il suo ordine) ho piuttosto rapinato lo Stato italiano, ordinando circa 100 euroni […]
amazzonici pacchi per un haul di letture pazzo (Sailor Moon e poca altra roba pagati dalle vostre tasse)
L’altra sera non ho scritto niente a riguardo, ma quello che è accaduto è che ho rapinato un Amazon Locker… inserendo il codice eh, niente danneggiamenti. Ok, sto scherzando; in verità, con la mano diretta di mio padre (che ha banalmente piazzato il suo ordine) ho piuttosto rapinato lo Stato italiano, ordinando circa 100 euroni di libri, per consumare i punti del bonus docenti che rimanevano e a giorni sarebbero scaduti. E però ora sono state, e a breve saranno, rogne, un pochino, perché sono veramente un botto di tavolette di carta. 🤯 Ho consumato il braccio la sera per andare a ritirare questa roba, perché, e vai a capire il motivo, da un lato gli articoli sono stati divisi in due diversi pacchi, uno gigante da 1,28 kg (e maremma bilancia…) e uno più piccolo con solo 2 volumi dentro… e, giustamente, nella busta che mi sono portata per trasportare i pacchi non c’è stato verso di farli entrare tutti e due, quindi un braccio non ha portato quasi niente e l’altro si è tirato al punto da rimanermi moscio per tutta la sera (e ancora adesso lo sento strano, ma forse avrò solo dormito stort). Tutto divertente fino a qui… e in effetti le rogne vere arrivano adesso. 💥
Per circa 60€ sono arrivati tutti e 12 i volumi di Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, che è oggettivamente una serie da avere in libreria per ogni ragazza magica che si rispetti; nonché da leggere, immagino, motivo per cui ho già iniziato il primo volume senza preoccuparmi troppo. Poi ho preso un tomone di Zerocalcare, perché essendo lui e i suoi fumetti gnam allora immagino che anche i suoi libri lo siano, e infine qualche altro tomino per arrivare alla cifra da spendere. Poca roba… o almeno sembra, per chi digerisce interi libri su base giornaliera… e invece io, mo’, come minchia me ne esco??? 😱
Io tutto sommato leggo anche tanto, relativamente alla media comune dei (decadutissimi) giorni odierni… però leggo comunque solo quando l’alternativa sarebbe fare puro rotting (a qualsiasi dei livelli del niente); quindi, se raramente magari finisco un intero volume di un manga in 1 o 2 giorni, più spesso un tomino di quelli mi dura di più… talmente di più che ho ancora un paio di cosini da parte comprati con il bonus cultura (il mio, quello) l’anno scorso che ancora non ho recuperato. Ma non è tutta colpa mia, perché nel frattempo sono arrivate altre robe, anche libri non-fumetti, e quindi ops. 😳
Vabbene però, dai, guardiamo il lato positivo: avere tutte queste letture arretrate è buono dal punto di vista che devo necessariamente posticipare il giorno in cui andrò per keepare myself safe… Almeno, questo perché i libri sono arrivati fortunatamente intatti, e quasi tutti perfetti ad un’occhiata veloce; tranne 1 volume della bella ragazza guerriera con la copertina leggermente piegata, ma si è sistemato impilandoci altri libri sopra. Quindi, stavolta sono calma, ma altrimenti per davvero mi incazzavo!!! 😈
P.S: un (1) bacino a tutti i cittadini i-ta-lia-ni! che, pagando le tasse, pagano alla ragazza magica quest’anno i manga, e due anni fa il server che regolarmente serve i frutti del mio lavoro di sviluppo magico per tutti… 🥰
We had a few days a year when lessons were suspended and students attended self organized activities instead.
An entire class decided to sneak out instead, went to a bar and some students got drunk before coming back to school. One such student went to the bathroom, zipped up his pants without properly storing his equipment and ended up requiring medical attention including some stitches.
I never met the guy or even know who he was, but the whole school was talking about it for a week or more.
In middle school, a kid got caught masturbating in study hall. I never saw him again after that. Word was that he moved away out of embarrassment. Parents probably just home schooled him or something.
In a completely different direction, my class broke the "suicide school" moniker. We were the first graduating class in like 10 years to not have a suicide.
In a completely different direction, my class was broke the “suicide school” moniker. We were the first graduating class in like 10 years to not have a suicide.
a kid got caught masturbating in study hall. I never saw him again after that.
I am looking into changing my web hosting provider, as I did not research pricing sufficiently before signing up for the one I am currently using, and I have developed a preference to avoid American companies since.
My domain is registered with a separate company, and my website is completely static and home made, so I think the move should be somewhat painless. I expect that it's as easy as signing up for another service provider, and redirecting the domain to whatever information they provide. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
What I'm a little concerned about is my email at name@example.com. I'm assuming setting up a new address under the same name would be trivial under most hosting providers, but is there a good way of keeping my current emails available on the server? Alternatively, does anyone know of good options for making local backups of my inbox?
Last, if anyone has recommendations for somewhat affordable, green & European hosting providers, it would be much appreciated. I guess Hetzner is an option, but I wouldn't mind supporting a slightly smaller company if I can.
Centralscrutinizer
in reply to eli • • •Da li cerchi gli account che ti servono, poi in alto a destra trovi l'icona per i feed rss. Puoi generare un feed per ogni utente e poi importarlo nel tuo client rss preferito. (Consiglio di non abusare coi profili da seguire altrimenti salta tutto)
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Kronos85
in reply to eli • • •RSS Feed Generator, Create RSS feeds from URL
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in reply to eli • • •ho trovato anche questo ma non so se funziona ancora.
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eli
in reply to Kronos85 • • •Re: Feed rss per X e Instagram
kronos85@mastodon.uno
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ADORO, con Folo (l'app suggerita qui) Twitter si vede benissimo!!! Con Ig non ho ancora capito bene se funziona.. FB non c'è. Cmq fuori uno! 🤩
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in reply to eli • • •ho scoperto che esiste anche un estensione per chrome che dovrebbe facilitare il lavoro.
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in reply to eli • • •Da parte mia aggiungerei Facebook.
Purtroppo tutte queste piattaforme ostacolano attivamente la possibilità di seguire profili da "fuori".
Ti capisco, e, la mia soluzione è, da un lato trovare fonti alternative e accontentarsi, dall'altro portare nel fediverso quelle notizie che trovo dalle altre fonti (che includono telegram e whatsapp nel mio caso).
Se trovi qualcosa, fammi sapere!