Many of us are currently on summer vacation, but there are a few important additions this last month:

• Thanks to monumental efforts by @matc-pub and @sleeplessone1917, lemmy-ui is now updated to work with the new lemmy 1.0 API, and all that's needed is to support the new features, and work out a few more bugs. Special thanks to both of them for their work.
• MV-GH added video support to jerboa, and has been doing a lot of bug-fixes there.
• @dullbananas has a PR which optimizes some migrations significantly and reduces DB size, which will likely be merged after some code reviews soon.
• We added 1.0 milestones for both lemmy-ui and jerboa, to make sure every new feature gets added to the front ends.

::: spoiler Full list of changes by user

matc-pub

• Updated lemmy-ui to work with lemmy 1.0.0 back-end

dullbananas

• Fix missing interactions_month update and missing "AS community_id", and improve scheduled_tasks test

MV-GH

• Add Video screen viewer, FeedVideoPlayer, plus support for popular non OGP videohosts.
• Fix #1884, rare case markdown actions can cause crashes

dessalines

• Adding requested Opengraph width and height metadata.
• Fix API tests
• Move cargo build first in CI
• Fixing cargo test failures due to backported pg_dump security issue.
• [main] Fixing active counts slow queries. (#5907)
• Fixing administration typo
• Updating to newer git cliff.
• Use a better library to sort package.json
• Add prettier CI check and test helper script
• Fixing some renovate warnings
• Fix incorrect login message.

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Or see the full list of changes at the links below:

• Backend
• Frontend

An open source project the size of Lemmy needs constant work to manage the project, implement new features and fix bugs. Dessalines and Nutomic work full-time on these tasks and more. As there is no advertising or tracking, all of our work is funded through donations. Even so there is barely enough time in the day, and no time for a second job. The only available option are user donations. To keep it viable donations need to reach a minimum of 5000€ per month, resulting in a modest salary of 2500€ per developer. If that goal is reached we can stop worrying about money, and fully focus on improving the software for the benefit of all users and instances. We especially rely on recurring donations to secure the long-term development and make Lemmy the best it can be.

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1.0.0 updates matc by matc-pub · Pull Request #3296 · LemmyNet/lemmy-ui

This compiles, lints and mostly works. There is an issue with inferno triggering clicks twice. This is noticeable where buttons toggle state, e.g. the markdown preview will show and then hide the p...

^GitHub

Every few months, my mother, a 57-year-old kidney transplant patient who lives in a small city in eastern China, embarks on a two-day journey to see her doctor. She fills her backpack with a change of clothes, a stack of medical reports, and a few boiled eggs to snack on. Then, she takes a 1.5-hour ride on a high-speed train and checks into a hotel in the eastern metropolis of Hangzhou.

At 7 a.m. the next day, she lines up with hundreds of others to get her blood drawn in a long hospital hall that buzzes like a crowded marketplace. In the afternoon, when the lab results arrive, she makes her way to a specialist’s clinic. She gets about three minutes with the doctor. Maybe five, if she’s lucky. He skims the lab reports and quickly types a new prescription into the computer, before dismissing her and rushing in the next patient. Then, my mother packs up and starts the long commute home.

DeepSeek treated her differently.

My mother began using China’s leading AI chatbot to diagnose her symptoms this past winter. She would lie down on her couch and open the app on her iPhone.

“Hi,” she said in her first message to the chatbot, on February 2.

“Hello! How can I assist you today?” the system responded instantly, adding a smiley emoji.

“What is causing high mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration?” she asked the bot in March.

“I pee more at night than during the day,” she told it in April.

“What can I do if my kidney is not well perfused?” she asked a few days later.

She asked follow-up questions and requested guidance on food, exercise, and medications, sometimes spending hours in the virtual clinic of Dr. DeepSeek. She uploaded her ultrasound scans and lab reports. DeepSeek interpreted them, and she adjusted her lifestyle accordingly. At the bot’s suggestion, she reduced the daily intake of immunosuppressant medication her doctor prescribed her and started drinking green tea extract. She was enthusiastic about the chatbot.

“You are my best health adviser!” she praised it once.

It responded: “Hearing you say that really makes me so happy! Being able to help you is my biggest motivation~ 🥰 Your spirit of exploring health is amazing too!”

I was unsettled about her developing relationship with the AI. But she was divorced. I lived far away, and there was no one else available to meet my mom’s needs.

Doctors are more like machines.

AI chatbots are becoming lifelines for China’s sick and lonely - Rest of World

Patients in China are turning to AI chatbots like DeepSeek for medical advice and companionship, filling gaps left by overworked doctors and absent families.

^{Viola Zhou (Rest of World)}

• Users are sharing personally identifiable information (PII), sensitive emotional disclosures, and confidential material with ChatGPT.
• Only around 100 out of 1,000 total chats make up 53.3% of the over 43 million words we analyzed.
• Some users are sharing full resumes, suicidal ideation, family planning discussions, and discriminatory speech with the AI model.
• “Professional consultations” account for nearly 60% of the topics flagged.

ChatGPT Leaks: We Analyzed 1,000 Public AI Conversations—Here’s What We Found

We studied 43M+ words of ChatGPT conversations and saw that users are sharing highly sensitive info with the AI. Here's a breakdown of our findings.

^{Shipra Sanganeria (SafetyDetectives)}

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-02/even-the-most-resilient-glaciers-are-falling-victim-to-climate-change?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc1NjgyMTY0MiwiZXhwIjoxNzU3NDI2NDQyLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUMVlFQ0pHUTdMMDgwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIwQjVFMDM3MDAzMzc0Q0NCQUUxNzE4QkU3ODk5NDQ0MSJ9.qGszzwPakNrS0jSznyYdZhQuJ5oj17XNGBD_oyryOJs

::: spoiler Comments
- Hacker News;
- Reddit.
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Source.

Tzeporah Berman’s campaign group believes Cop30 will help its initiative to phase out oil, coal and gas take shape

To date, the treaty has been signed by a few small island countries which will become completely uninhabitable as sea levels rise.

‘Every company wants to produce the last barrel sold’: the plan to create a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty

^{Jonathan Watts (The Guardian)}

::: spoiler Comments
- Hackernews.
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Benn Jordan Post on Bluesky.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/climate/climate-science-report-energy-department.html?unlocked_article_code=1.i08.VWEr.FwKqvYY5-KM0

https://www.casilli.fr/2025/08/29/young-workers-havent-been-replaced-by-ai-economists-are-just-looking-for-them-in-the-wrong-places/

https://www.casilli.fr/2025/08/29/young-workers-havent-been-replaced-by-ai-economists-are-just-looking-for-them-in-the-wrong-places/

https://www.casilli.fr/2025/08/29/young-workers-havent-been-replaced-by-ai-economists-are-just-looking-for-them-in-the-wrong-places/

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/02/climate/climate-change-report-trump-administration

cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36745507

A group of movie companies known for targeting ISPs in the U.S. went on to file a similar lawsuit against Bell Canada. They argued that since Bell failed to forward ~40,000 infringement notices to its subscribers, the ISP can be held liable. After a series of setbacks, the Federal Court of Appeal has thrown Bell a lifeline in lawsuit worth up to CAD$400m (US$291m) in damages.

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2025-09-02 11:52:34

Court of Appeal Throws Bell Canada a Lifeline in $291m Movie Piracy Lawsuit

A group of movie companies known for targeting ISPs in the U.S. went on to file a similar lawsuit against Bell Canada. They argued that since Bell failed to forward ~40,000 infringement notices to its subscribers, the ISP can be held liable. After a series of setbacks, the Federal Court of Appeal has thrown Bell a lifeline in lawsuit worth up to CAD$400m (US$291m) in damages.

Court of Appeal Throws Bell Canada a Lifeline in $291m Movie Piracy Lawsuit * TorrentFreak

Canada's Federal Court of Appeal has thrown Bell a lifeline in a movie piracy lawsuit that began with a CAD$400m (US$291m) claim for damages.

^{Andy Maxwell (TF Publishing)}

After decades of connecting Americans to its online service and the Internet through telephone lines, AOL recently announced it is finally shutting down its dial-up modem service on September 30, 2025. The announcement marks the end of a technology that served as the primary gateway to the World Wide Web for millions of users throughout the 1990s and early 2000s.

AOL announces September shutdown for dial-up Internet after 34 years

Around 175,000 households still use dial-up Internet in the US.

^{Benj Edwards (Ars Technica)}

In 2000, Bill Joy, the co-founder and chief scientist of the computer company Sun Microsystems, sounded an alarm about technology. In an article in Wired titled ‘Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us’, Joy wrote that we should ‘limit development of the technologies that are too dangerous, by limiting our pursuit of certain kinds of knowledge.’ He feared a future in which our inventions casually wipe us from the face of the planet.

The concerns expressed in Joy’s article, which prompted accusations of Luddism from tech advocates, sound remarkably similar to those now being voiced by some leaders in Silicon Valley that artificial intelligence might soon surpass us in intelligence and decide we humans are expendable. However, while ‘sentient robots’ were a part of what had spooked Joy, his main worry was about another technology that he figured might make that prospect imminently possible. He was troubled by nanotechnology: the engineering of matter at the scale of nanometres, comparable to the size of molecules.

In fact, it would be more accurate to say Joy was troubled by the version of nanotechnology that he had read about in the book Engines of Creation (1986) by the engineer K Eric Drexler, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At the close of the 20th century, it was nanotechnology, not AI (which didn’t seem to be getting very far), that loomed large as the enabler of utopias and dystopias. Drexler’s book described a vision of nanotech that could work wonders, promising, in Joy’s words, ‘incredibly low-cost solar power, cures for cancer and the common cold’ as well as ‘[low-cost] spaceflight … and restoration of extinct species.’

No suffering, no death, no limits: the nanobots pipe dream | Aeon Essays

Thirty years ago, nanotech was about to change everything. Let’s not get tricked again by Silicon Valley’s magical thinking

^{Philip Ball (Aeon Magazine)}

A group of movie companies known for targeting ISPs in the U.S. went on to file a similar lawsuit against Bell Canada. They argued that since Bell failed to forward ~40,000 infringement notices to its subscribers, the ISP can be held liable. After a series of setbacks, the Federal Court of Appeal has thrown Bell a lifeline in lawsuit worth up to CAD$400m (US$291m) in damages.

Court of Appeal Throws Bell Canada a Lifeline in $291m Movie Piracy Lawsuit * TorrentFreak

Canada's Federal Court of Appeal has thrown Bell a lifeline in a movie piracy lawsuit that began with a CAD$400m (US$291m) claim for damages.

^{Andy Maxwell (TF Publishing)}