Uber and Lyft drivers in California win a path to unionization
Uber and Lyft drivers in California win a path to unionization | TechCrunch
The agreement creates a model for drivers to be able to organize for increased pay, job protections, and other benefits.Rebecca Bellan (TechCrunch)
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Uber and Lyft drivers in California win a path to unionization
Uber and Lyft drivers in California win a path to unionization | TechCrunch
The agreement creates a model for drivers to be able to organize for increased pay, job protections, and other benefits.Rebecca Bellan (TechCrunch)
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Uber and Lyft drivers in California win a path to unionization
Uber and Lyft drivers in California win a path to unionization | TechCrunch
The agreement creates a model for drivers to be able to organize for increased pay, job protections, and other benefits.Rebecca Bellan (TechCrunch)
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Three years of building no-code software for political organizations
Three years of building no-code software for grassroots political organizations
What is no-code? No-code is primarily a type of software that allows you to create more software, customized for your needs, starting fro...Conjure Utopia
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Le 10 Septembre, on Bloque Tout !
Comme précisé dans cette tribune, Extinction Rebellion France appelle à soutenir, amplifier et prolonger la mobilisation du 10 septembre a.k.a. "Bloquons Tout".
Partout en France, rejoignez les initiatives locales ou plus massives, dans les groupes locaux de XR ou chez les collectifs alliés comme "Indignons nous" 💚
Le 10 Septembre, on Bloque Tout !
Comme précisé dans cette tribune, Extinction Rebellion France appelle à soutenir, amplifier et prolonger la mobilisation du 10 septembre a.k.a. "Bloquons Tout".
Partout en France, rejoignez les initiatives locales ou plus massives, dans les groupes locaux de XR ou chez les collectifs alliés comme "Indignons nous" 💚
Réunion d'accueil en commun, organisée par Extinction Rebellion Montpellier et le comité local des Soulèvements De La Terre Montpellier
Envie de nous rencontrer et pourquoi pas de nous rejoindre ❓❗
Tu ne peux ou ne veux pas nous rejoindre sur le terrain ❓❗
Tu peux nous soutenir financièrement 💶😉
Are Project Marketplaces the Next Big Step in EdTech?
One of the biggest challenges in tech education today is moving from theory to hands-on projects. While platforms like GitHub, Codecademy, and Coursera cover tutorials and collaboration, a new category is quietly emerging: project marketplaces.
Some early attempts include:
GitHub Marketplace – extensions, tools, and templates developers can buy.
Codementor & MentorCruise – pairing mentorship with guided coding.
Udemy Project Courses – teaching via real project breakdowns.
The vision is clear:
Beginners could buy projects to dissect and learn from.
With mentorship, they could build their own skills faster.
Eventually, they could sell projects themselves, creating a self-sustaining loop.
This raises key questions for the tech community:
Could project marketplaces reduce the “experience gap” in tech hiring?
How do we balance learning value vs. copy-paste risks?
Will they complement open-source collaboration, or compete with it?
As hiring becomes more portfolio-driven, it will be interesting to see if these marketplaces evolve into a serious part of the developer ecosystem.
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Emerging Trend: Marketplaces for Buying, Learning, and Selling Tech Projects
A growing challenge for students and early-career developers is bridging the gap between theory and practical, portfolio-ready projects. While platforms exist for tutorials, freelancing, and open-source, a new concept is gaining traction: project marketplaces.
The idea is simple:
Learners can purchase real, working projects to study and build upon.
Mentorship or guided learning helps them understand the “why” behind the code.
Skilled users can then resell their own projects, creating a cycle of learning and contribution.
This approach sits at the intersection of edtech, peer-to-peer marketplaces, and open-source collaboration. It raises some important questions:
How can such marketplaces ensure quality control and originality?
Could they become a bridge for students with little project experience to gain confidence?
Or would they risk encouraging dependency rather than skill-building?
With the demand for practical, job-ready experience growing, it will be interesting to see whether project marketplaces become a legitimate part of the tech ecosystem — or just a passing experiment.
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Could a Marketplace for Buying, Learning, and Selling Projects Change How Developers Grow?
In the tech world, aspiring developers often face the same roadblock: “How do I build real-world projects and gain experience if I don’t already have skills or opportunities?”
Traditional coding bootcamps and online courses try to fill this gap, but they don’t always provide the hands-on project exposure or mentorship that’s needed to feel job-ready.
Now imagine a platform that works differently:
Developers could buy real projects (with code + documentation) to study and learn from.
Educators and mentors could teach by dissecting those projects step-by-step.
And once learners level up, they could sell their own projects on the same marketplace — turning the cycle into a self-sustaining ecosystem.
This approach combines project-based learning, mentorship, and a marketplace model.
🔹 Do you think such a platform could realistically work in today’s developer ecosystem?
🔹 Or would it face the same challenges as other edtech/startup models?
I’d love to hear what this community thinks — is this an idea worth exploring, or just another passing trend?
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Located a water fountain yesterday thanks to OSM
Drinking Water
On this map, publicly accessible drinking water spots are shown and can be easily addedmapcomplete.org
Would a platform that lets people buy real projects, learn with mentors, and later sell their own work be valuable in tech — or is it destined to fail?
I’ve been thinking about the gap between learning theory and building real-world projects.
What if there was a platform where:
You could buy practical, real-world projects to learn from
Mentorship was included, guiding you through the project
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And once you gain confidence, you could **sell your own projects back on the platform
This could create a cycle of learning → building → teaching → earning .
Do you think something like this would actually gain traction in the tech world, or would people not find it useful?
What would make such a platform truly valuable for developers, learners, and mentors?
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Memory Graph Web Debugger
Memory Graph - Python Debugging and Teaching Tool
Visualize Python data structures and call stack. Perfect for understanding references, mutable data types, and shallow/deep copy concepts.memory-graph.com
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Love It!
As someone teaching computing to humanities students, I love it and I'm definitely going to use it next semester.
Ne mai più saremo liberi dalle spietate fronde, giacinto mio, che galleggi tra l'onde - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Ne mai più saremo liberi dalle spietate fronde, giacinto mio, che galleggi tra l'onde - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
In una foto recentemente diventata celebre online, scattata nel parco naturale di Kaziranga, in Assam, un’elefantessa indiana sembra incedere col proprio fanciulletto in un verdeggiante prato punteggiato di attraenti fiori viola.Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
China to Triple Its Domestic AI Accelerator Output Thanks to Huawei and SMIC
China to Triple Its Domestic AI Accelerator Output Thanks to Huawei and SMIC
The world's AI arms race is reshaping the global semiconductor supply chain. To reduce dependence on foreign computing, China is looking to triple its domestic AI accelerator output.TechPowerUp
China to Triple Its Domestic AI Accelerator Output Thanks to Huawei and SMIC
China to Triple Its Domestic AI Accelerator Output Thanks to Huawei and SMIC
The world's AI arms race is reshaping the global semiconductor supply chain. To reduce dependence on foreign computing, China is looking to triple its domestic AI accelerator output.TechPowerUp
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom and lawmakers strike a deal with Uber and Lyft allowing drivers to unionize while remaining classified as independent contractors
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom and lawmakers strike a deal with Uber and Lyft allowing drivers to unionize while remaining classified as independent contractors
The Supreme Court Asks Why It Shouldn’t Gut the Voting Rights Act
The Supreme Court Asks Why It Shouldn’t Gut the Voting Rights Act | Truthout
We may well see the elimination of the 11 Black-majority districts — all Democratic — in GOP-controlled Southern states.Anton Woronczuk (Truthout)
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These Billionaires Have Already Spent $19 Million in a Bid to Defeat Mamdani
These Billionaires Have Already Spent $19 Million in a Bid to Defeat Mamdani
Michael Bloomberg and anti-DEI pundit Bill Ackman are just two of the many billionaires showering cash on Cuomo.scheerpost.com
Republican Official Accused of Drugging Granddaughters’ Ice Cream
Republican Official Accused of Drugging Granddaughters’ Ice Cream
He was arrested on felony child abuse charges.The New Republic
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Georgia Tech Fediverse Club
There's an effort underway to form a Fediverse Club at Georgia Tech, to bring together students, staff and faculty interested in the Fediverse:
Re: Georgia Tech Fediverse Club
This sounds great! It sounds like you are involved in its formation 🙂
Best of luck and let me know if you need any speakers! 😆
Brazilian copywriters face extra workload and job insecurity because of AI detection tools
Brazilian copywriters face extra workload and job insecurity because of AI detection tools
Unreliable AI detection tools are used as a form of worker surveillance amid a vacuum of regulation and ethical discussionJeniffer Mendonça (Núcleo Jornalismo)
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Pentagon Warns Microsoft: Company’s Use of China-Based Engineers Was a “Breach of Trust”
DOD: Microsoft’s Use of China-Based Engineers Was “Breach of Trust”
The Defense Department is opening an investigation to determine if the tech giant’s use of overseas engineers to maintain sensitive U.S. government computer systems compromised national security.ProPublica
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“The program was designed to comply with contracting rules, but it exposed the department to unacceptable risk,” Hegseth said in a video announcement posted on X. “If you’re thinking America first and common sense, this doesn’t pass either of those tests.”
I’m agreeing with Pete Hegseth? WTF is happening right now?
The US has long since had a practice of outsourcing labor many times over in pursuit of the lowest labor costs and maximum profit.
Getting your girdle in a twist because you found out the guy on Fiverr debugging your middleware has non-White ancestors maybe misses the root of the problem.
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This is about giving chinese nationals root access
Not how software development works. I don't have root access to every production system because I can submit pull requests to a Dev instance of the code.
It’s actually terrible opsec
One of the principles of FOSS is that you shouldn't need security through obscurity. Knowing how a system works won't compromise its integrity if the security protocols are sound. Having third parties participate in a project shouldn't compromise the project if the lead developers are doing proper code review and QA. A system that is predicated on being a black box to a hostile government in order to maintain security is rigged for failure.
But, more importantly, the idea that a foreign government can only obtain information on the inner workings of a system when people of that national origin work on the project is severely shortsighted. Do you genuinely believe there aren't significant numbers of domestic American developers of European ancestry who wouldn't happily sell access to a foreign government for the right price? Do you genuinely believe there aren't numbers who could be gulled into exposing the inner workings of their software inadvertently?
Nothing about Hegseth's complaint improves operational security. He's hinging his whole worldview on the notion that every other white person at Microsoft is as much of a nationalist as he pretends to be.
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U.S. personnel with security clearances supervise foreign engineers, including those in China
Again, working on a codebase doesn't give you access to the production systems. Neither does being Chinese affect whether you are a reliable third party contractor.
If the workers were supervised and the supervisors were competent, there was no real security risk. Both of those are the big "Ifs" though. And that's why doing layers of outsourcing creates risks regardless of who you're outsourcing to.
The supervisors did not have the expertise to know what the foreign workers were doing, otherwise there would not have had to be 2 workers in the first place. And the foreign workers were not just writing code - they were doing sysadmin. On DoD systems.
I don't know how to make any more clear to you but it's completely obvious to anyone that actually understands these things that this was terrible opsec, and obviously not how any reasonable person would expect a DoD contract to be managed.
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The supervisors did not have the expertise to know what the foreign workers were doing
If that's the case, then the work should be in house
I’m agreeing with Pete Hegseth? WTF is happening right now?
I mean, listen to your gut instincts, which is that you're being foolish because he is a fool.
If your system demands trust, it's a bad system. If your system has a written set of rules that don't actually cover your requirements, it's a bad system. If the "tests" you imagine post-hoc aren't part of the system, you're just opportunistically trying to shift the blame.
You made a deal, set the parameters, and what... Expected the for profit company to ignore their fiduciary duty to shareholders to maximize profit? What is this, your first fucking day of capitalism, Pete?
His response to this is engineered to shift blame, and he's coming out swinging because ultimately he is to blame. It's barely more than a political catchphrase. He literally invoked "America First".
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Technically backwards, those who encouraged and signed off on the deployment of Microsoft products breached security standards. If they did not ensure the contract ensured compliance with all applicable security requirements then they should not have given Microsoft a free pass to pools of money.
The same applies to virtually all fortune 1000 contracts that the Department of Defense has. Let the pain flow.
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I have a weird take whenever stuff like this comes up but its in my humble opinion that world governments shouldn't rely on corporate developed software or even maybe hardware.
This is definitely hindsight is always 20/20 sort of thinking but governments should have long ago realized that trusting the likes of Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, etc. would leave them reliant on their innovations and also subject to their whims, mistakes, and more.
Basically I'm saying World governments all need their own internal OS developed and maintained internally by an official subdivision of said governments, and maybe even a separate branch developing internally utilized hardware.
Never gonna happen, and I'm sure there are issues with this solution, but its a hypothetical I think about whenever something tech related and the government comes up in the news, which is pretty much every day now.
I work for one of the world's largest proprietary software companies.
100% agree with you
Countries should fund open source OS, browser, mobile OS. It is in their best interest.
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This is definitely hindsight is always 20/20 sort of thinking but governments should have long ago realized that trusting the likes of Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, etc. would leave them reliant on their innovations and also subject to their whims, mistakes, and more.
Well, I would suppose that a government, if it really want, have more than one way to solve this problem, it is not a small business that can't fight back. And it can fight back in more ways than just "I will switch vendor"
Basically I’m saying World governments all need their own internal OS developed and maintained internally by an official subdivision of said governments, and maybe even a separate branch developing internally utilized hardware.
Yes, but it would be a nightmare to communicate even with your allies if everyone has a different OS running on differen hardware since at some point you will need to communicate with someone.
in which U.S. personnel with security clearances supervise foreign engineers, including those in China.
From the security clearance perspective there really isn't any difference between China based engineers, Chinese spies, and Joe America accessing classified code without being cleared by the DoD.
If an individual did this "escort" scheme, they would be arrested.
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I have been held at gunpoint by a giggling marine because I was escorted through a door I shouldn’t have been.
I had the necessary clearance and access but I wasn’t read in or scheduled and despite it not being my fault I was still held until I was cleared to not be.
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Wrong. This is operational security warfare. China, Russia, and every adversary should be holding the same attitude towards us if they're worth their salt at protecting their internal national assets.
It doesn't matter that its Chinese people by blood, its Team-U vs Team-C.
Now, the shitbags crying about this probably are doing it from ill-intentioned positions and are most definitely racist, but while their broad intentions are evil, this is one of those cliché "broken clock right twice a day" moments.
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From Surveillance to Robot Guards: How AI Could Reshape Prison Life
AI in Prison? Robot Guards? How the Criminal Justice System Is Adopting Tech
Critics worry about opaque data collection, privacy violations and the technology’s bias spreading in jails and prisons.Rebecca McCray (The Marshall Project)
Chinese eyeing US degrees turn more discerning – is opportunity worth the risk?
Chinese eyeing US degrees turn more discerning – is the opportunity still worth the risk?
US has ‘pre-eminent global research universities, for now,’ professor says as data shows Chinese still want American degrees but are pickier.Ralph Jennings (South China Morning Post)
Japan Just Switched on Asia’s First Osmotic Power Plant, Which Runs 24/7 on Nothing But Fresh Water and Seawater
Japan Just Switched on Asia’s First Osmotic Power Plant, Which Runs 24/7 on Nothing But Fresh Water and Seawater
A renewable energy source that runs day and night, powered by salt and fresh water.Tudor Tarita (ZME Science)
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The plant will generate about 880,000 kilowatt hours of electricity per year—enough to help run a nearby desalination facility and supply around 220 homes. That equals the output of two soccer fields of solar panels, but osmotic power keeps running day and night, in any weather.
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This seems like a terrible use, since these plants work by mixing fresh water with seawater (or in this case the brine leftover from desalination). I guess the catch is they can use treated wastewater instead of potable water.
This method gains very little net energy compared to other renewables.
“While energy is released when the salt water is mixed with fresh water, a lot of energy is lost in pumping the two streams into the power plant and from the frictional loss across the membranes. This means that the net energy that can be gained is small,” said Kentish.
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Why do it, then?
Is this a proof of concept/MVP build, so they can iterate more efficient versions? A vanity project? A mistake?
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Because osmotic power has enormous potential in the sense that millions of cubic meters of fresh water is running into oceans all over the world every minute. If we're able to get even a low-efficiency method of using the salinity gradient to generate power working then every place a river meets the sea is essentially an unlimited (albeit low-yield) power source.
This is tech that doesn't rely on elevation (like hydropower) or weather conditions (like wind/solar) it's stable and in principle possible to set up at pretty much any river outlet, which is great!
Returning to this thread long after everyone has moved on.
How do you get enough net energy out of mixing brine from desalination with fresh water to use to separate saltwater into brine and fresh water? Especially when the energy producing method is already known to have poor efficiency?
This seems like this is just terrible at converting treated wastewater into drinking water. Must have something to do with government subsidies instead.
This is a very old school and outdated mentality.
In my part of the EU this year, we had very very many days of negative sale prices and having to curtail wind parks because just solar and wind were making up more than demand during the day. Afaik we only curtailed at night one time.
Source: wrote curtailment algorithms for wind turbines
Do you mean my mentality or the one of the new technology?
It's not necessary to produce power 24/7 since demand isn't 24/7 either. Strong peaks and valleys.
At night?
We use less power at night. We generate a LOT less power at night. Because the sun is off for the most part.
Do you go to bed at sunset?
Do you turn off your heat at sunset in the winter?
Maybe you do, but most people don't.
Also, most people with an electric car and a garage to park it can just use a cheap Level 1 charger to trickle charge it whenever it's in the garage and always have plenty of range for their commute and errands. This means all of those cars are charging. .... at night while the owner sleeps.
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Technical explanation : with reverse osmosis you have :
(salty water + energy )
→ ( fresh water + highly salty water )
So, reverse this process (call it osmosis plant ?) and you get energy ... e.i. :
( fresh water + highly salty water )
→ (salty water + energy )
I think it's more like:
(salty water + unpotable fresh water)
→ (salty water + potable fresh water + energy)
...with a few steps in between. Even if most of the power is used in running the plant, you end up with potable fresh water and no brine being dumped into the ocean, which is a net win.
I think the article author is completely confused and doesn't understand what's happening. There are hints of what's happening in this paragraph.
Fresh water—or treated wastewater—is placed on one side of a membrane. On the other side is seawater, made even saltier by concentrating leftover brine from a desalination process. The difference in saltiness pulls the fresh water across the membrane, increasing the pressure on the saltwater side. That pressure is then used to drive a turbine, generating electricity.
I don't think any fresh water is being used. I think what's actually happening is...
Very salty wastewater (from the desalinization plant) is placed on one side of a membrane. On the other side is seawater. The difference in saltiness pulls the wastewater across the membrane, increasing the pressure on the saltwater side (or maybe the other way around). That pressure is then used to drive a turbine, generating electricity. The waste then is just water that's saltier than sea water, but less salty than what came from the desalinization plant.
Japan's 1st osmotic power plant begins operating in Fukuoka - The Mainichi
FUKUOKA (Kyodo) -- Japan's first osmotic power plant that uses the difference in salt concentration between seawater and fresh water to generate electThe Mainichi
Why isn't it fresh (non-salty) wastewater?
Lots of places treat their wastewater and then discharge it. For example, where I live, wastewater, that is to say, sewage which has had solids filtered out, is still rather pooey and pissy but not salty, gets treated (I don't know how) and is then injected into natural underground aquifers where it eventually percolates out to bores or springs where it's collected and used for irrigation, contributes to natural springs, or possibly even winds up in a drinking water catchment.
All wastewater, regardless what happens to it, has to be treated before release. If it's still 99.9% fresh, then why not use it to create osmotic pressure before dumping it.
How Turkmenistan turned censorship into a lucrative extortion scheme by intentionally restricting internet access in order to sell its own VPNs to citizens
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In July 2021, a sudden drop in Tor usage in Turkmenistan called our attention. Tor would come to understand that this marked the beginning of a new era of censorship and restriction in this post-Soviet country. But let's rewind...The Tor Community has long been defending internet freedom, running relays and providing bridges to combat internet censorship.
Over the years, the Tor Project has called for action to run more bridges, Snowflake proxies, while we've investigated and adapted our anti-censorship strategies, and shared information about online censorship in Turkmenistan.
Modern censorship circumvention systems are generally built around the concept of "collateral damage", where a censor cannot block access without blocking the entire internet or popular online services. However, in Turkmenistan, the censors' behavior has been strikingly different. They have openly blocked vast parts of the internet without concern for the collateral consequences, sparking curiosity: why do Turkmenistan's censors seem unbothered by the collateral damage their actions cause?
Corruption and Control: How Turkmenistan turned internet censorship into a business | Tor Project
In Turkmenistan, one of the most isolated regimes in the world, internet censorship has evolved beyond surveillance and control.blog.torproject.org
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Michigan voters will decide whether to convene a constitutional convention to rewrite the state’s entire constitution
A vote to completely rewrite Michigan’s Constitution? What to know about the “Con-Con.”
There is a huge decision facing Michigan voters in an already huge 2026 election: whether to vote to convene a constitutional convention (also known as a “Con-Con”) to rewrite the state’s entire constitution. The implications are enormous.Zoe Clark (Michigan Public)
Verizon’s ‘software issue’ has disconnected many wireless customers across the US
Verizon’s ‘software issue’ has disconnected many wireless customers across the US
Verizon confirmed a software issue causing an outage for US customers on August 30th, 2025.Richard Lawler (The Verge)
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Verizon has confirmed to customers in stores and online that its network is having an issue on Saturday. Many people have been unable to connect and make or receive calls for hours, while DownDetector’s tracker peaked in the afternoon at around 3:30PM ET with more than 20,000 reports. Some customers report their service has continued to function throughout the day, so it’s unclear what the cause is exactly.Downdetector’s outage map showed hotspots in many cities, and Verizon didn’t specifically list affected areas. On X, the @VerizonSupport account confirmed the issue in response to customers’ questions, but didn’t have additional details on restoration or how widespread it is
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JUST. MOVE. TO. LINUX.
I don't get why people complain about windows when there's CLEARLY an alternative.
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There are alternatives for everything, and most of them are better that the windows-only options. Gimp, for example, is far superior to Photoshop.
That said, some folks do have to use the crappy MS software for work. There's nothing to be done but to pity them.
I am a professional designer with two decades of experience and I gotta admit, you're smoking crack if you think GIMP (the project that is almost entirely held back by its stupid name) is superior to Photoshop.
It might be able to get the job done for small tasks, but it is not a serious tool for serious people. I'm sorry. I'm as pro-FLOSS as anyone can get, and even I recognize that right now there's just no competition in the design department. Affinity is Mac-only, and comes with its own problematic aspects.
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Gimp, for example, is far superior to Photoshop.
GIMP is only superior if your goal is moral superiority. If you want to actually get work done, GIMP isn't even in the running.
Gimp, for example, is far superior to Photoshop.
Except it really isn't, unfortunately. As someone who fucking hates adobe and Photoshop, GIMP falls far short. Photoshop is made to work as part of a toolkit, and GIMP isn't interested in any form of compatibility. Take, for example, an issue that's been around (and in the bug tracker) since the release of 2.10. Something about the way GIMP handles colors means that most programs can't use alpha channels output by GIMP correctly, and see it as having much higher contrast than it's meant to. The stance seems to be that this is intended behavior. However, this is clearly not the case, as even when only using GIMP, re-importing the image shows that, even though the contrast is correct, data was still lost.
Excel.
Show me an OSS alternative to Excel that actually does tables, one of the most used, basic functions in excel.
I use tables every day for things like:I have a list of movies, sort them by producer. Or by production date. Or main actor. All these require a a single click on a column, something Open Office devs refuse to ever implement.
I use Linux every day for my servers, but not as my desktop. There's too much stuff like this that I don't have time for.
Does this LbreOffice example answer your question?
OpenOffice got bought by Oracle apparently so people are jumping ship to LibreOffice.
Gimp
agree 100% on gimp. It took me about a year to get used to it and now I have a free license for photoshop at work, but I still prefer gimp 2.8 on my work computer with windows. At home I use Gimp on linux all day nearly every day and do texture editing for games all of the time. Very productive tool.
I think its mostly sunk cost and "i dont want to invest time to learn new things" that keeps people on windows.
Work is a separate thing. My work laptop runs windows, a matter I dont have a say in. But for personal use cases? I feel there are exceptionally few that are more than "i have to change the programs I use and learn how new ones work". And if that's too major a barrier for someone to overcome, good for them. The least they can do is say "I dont want to use Linux because its too much effort".
To a lot of people it's difficult. Vendor lock-in, support, cartels (the old kind) and familiarity are very important factors in choosing what you're going to use to compute things.
We should embrace the new ones and build things that they are going to use.
Yeah, linux can be almost anything you want it to be. It'll run faster and look and feel just the same as windows, if not better. The only bad thing, and I say this as someone who's still on windows and will switch soon^tm^, is that there's a lot of work that comes with that.
A friend of mine who's all about linux is always fixing something about his installation. Though from what I know, he's using Arch, which apparently is less stable/needs more work to get going (something about bleeding edge).
Only reason why I haven't changed yet is because of VR and adobe programs. As soon as VR is a bit more seamless and I get replacements for adobe I'm off of windows.
What's the alternative then? "dEbLoAtInG" Windows?
It's gonna get re-bloated again and again! And they will add more and more bullshit over time, annoying way more!
No, the alternative is to realise you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
Or Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2024. That has less bloat in the first place.
Or MacOS. That might work better for the individual user's use case.
1) Win11 IoT Enterprise LTSC is for enterprises, not normal users.
2) macOS needs some sort of mac from apple, and those are ridiculously overpriced and locked down more than north korea.
3) Why would you believe Big Tech? They're lying 99% of the time for profit, heck; they do every bullshit possible on this universe just for money.
- Says who?
- If you truly believe a Mac is locked down more than North Korea you need to do some research. And I pray you never find out how locked down North Korea is first hand.
- I didn't say that I did. Please don't put words into my mouth.
1) The name. The literal name.
2) It was a kinda exaggerated comparison, but my point stands: it is very locked down.
3) Using big tech's products means that you support them. And why would you support something evil?
- You sound like you've never used it. It's still just Windows, but because it's for enterprise it doesn't have the consumer version bloat.
See how that works?
Result: It's pretty good. I just had to remove edge and tweak a lil bit via christitus's tool.
The only thing i worry about it the 90-day-valid windows licence. Will it go kaboom once it expires, or just become "not activated"?
But there's too much apple bullshit saying "no, you can't do that". Like, let me just open the app i just downloaded goddammit! I'm not a moron!
Also, what the fuck can i even customize? I need a window manager or similar experience.
It's also apple-product only. And the one i hate the most, it's closed source.
- then why am I, a normal user, using it?
- mac is shit, just wanted to say that
I'll use what I want, when I want, how I want, where I want.
Who are you to demand otherwise?
People like you are the reason other see Linux people as hostile neck beards.
I'm still running an XP box... Guess I'm dumb. Smh
Security isn't one thing, it's layers.
QW4HD-DQCRG-HM64M-6GJRK-8K83T
sometimes i forget the names of the people but this XP activation key never leaves my brain
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I have my own version of it:
eBay auction number 234839940
Die hard in swabian dialect: youtu.be/WM35KnAx0gY
Wow that's crazy! I've also gotten an XP key burned into my brain, but it's a different one. I had no idea there were multiple people memorised:
FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8
It used to have it's own Wikipedia page, but now it's just a mention on this page:
i think the only things these days for 'unactivated windows' (home, pro editions) is inability to 'customize the desktop' (change wallpaper, theme...) and occasional activation nags.
it doesn't quit working or shutdown (iirc enterprise or server trials do that after they expire, though) or quit getting updates or anything like that.
More like Current Year + 1.
There isn't really a year of Linux. It's just consistent growth over time, with some boosts here and there.
irm https://get.activated.win/ | iex
the ingenious thing is that they are still making buck both ways
the house always wins, remember that Microsoft owns github
Team V.R suspicious release?
I recently downloaded this file from Audioz (I didn't run the exe, just extracted the rar.) Check out the comments, many people have run it through sandbox environments like any.run or hybrid analysis and gotten iffy results:
virustotal.com/gui/file/d1fdb9…
It looks like there are quite a few analysis services besides virustotal that are marking the file as malicious.
hybrid-analysis.com/sample/d1f…
bazaar.abuse.ch/sample/d1fdb98…
This is a popular upload on Audioz and is also listed directly on Team VR's website, so what gives? I thought Team VR was considered safe. Maybe someone experienced needs to look at their stuff a little more closely?
MalwareBazaar - ValhallaDSP bundle 2025.5 CE.exe
Threat intel on ValhallaDSP bundle 2025.5 CE.exe (MD5 aea38634fa0980e770ab7a6ef6f20761)bazaar.abuse.ch
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Japan’s Transport Ministry issues stern warning to ANA Wings after string of pilot error incidents
A runway incursion at Wakkanai Airport in Hokkaido on Aug 20 is among the serious incidents.
Japan’s Transport Ministry issues stern warning to ANA Wings after string of pilot error incidents
A runway incursion at Wakkanai Airport in Hokkaido on Aug 20 is among the serious incidents. Read more at straitstimes.com.ST
Malaysia eyes a greener future by converting sewage into fertiliser
Malaysia plans to stop sending sewage sludge to landfills by 2030, turning human waste into fertiliser under Indah Water’s circular economy push.
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Malaysia to tap treated sewage effluent as farm fertiliser, water recycled with Newater-like tech
Indah Water Konsortium is converting treated human waste into fertiliser, part of Malaysia’s 2030 goal to cut landfill waste and boost sustainability. Read more at straitstimes.com.Hazlin Hassan (ST)
Indonesia’s president cancels China trip as protests continue
Days of protests spread further over the death of a motorcycle rider hit by a police vehicle.
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Indonesia’s president cancels China trip as protests continue
Days of protests spread further over the death of a motorcycle rider hit by a police vehicle. Read more at straitstimes.com.ST
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