Supercoppa LNP: le disposizioni della Prefettura di Ravenna per la vendita dei biglietti
In riferimento alla vendita dei biglietti per la Final Four di Supercoppa LNP, si rendono note le procedure che saranno applicate, su disposizione dalla Prefettura di Ravenna.
_VENDITA _
L’acquisto dei biglietti avviene unicamente sul canale web TicketOne e presso i rivenditori autorizzati (l’elenco è disponibile sulla pagina Ticketone dedicata all’evento).
Nei giorni dell'evento le biglietterie del PalaDeAndrè resteranno chiuse.
Per le gare di semifinale le vendite si chiuderanno alle ore 19 del giorno precedente la gara.
Quindi alle 19 di giovedì 11 per le semifinali di Serie A2; ed alle ore 19 di venerdì per le semifinali di B Nazionale.
Per le gare di finale, la vendita è consentita fino alle ore 14 di domenica 14.
I biglietti per le due finali saranno messi in vendita a partire da 1 ora dal termine di ogni singola giornata di semifinale.
CONTROLLO AGLI INGRESSI
Presentandosi all'ingresso del PalaDeAndrè, seguendo le indicazioni dei settori dedicati alle singole tifoserie, sarà verificata la corrispondenza tra il biglietto nominale ed il documento di identità
Presentata a Ravenna la Supercoppa LNP 2025 Old Wild West
La Sala Consiliare del Comune di Ravenna ha ospitato la conferenza stampa di presentazione della Final Four di Supercoppa LNP 2025 Old Wild West.Lega Nazionale Pallacanestro
The Invisible Hand of Big Tech
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- Database: The influence of Big Tech.
- How Big Tech’s “Invisible Hand” Reaches Latin American Regulators.
- How Big Tech Killed Brazil’s “Fake News Bill”.
- The battle Big Tech won to weaken a regulation that sought to protect children's mental health.
- The Revolving Door Minister.
- The Argentina’s Federal Administration of Public Revenue (AFIP) attempted to collect taxes from large technology companies, but Alberto Fernandez's administration exonerated Mercado Libre.
- In the Shadows, a Former President Builds a Career Representing Tech Companies.
- Zero Sanctions in Ecuador Due to a Weak Personal Data Protection Law.
Not Released in English Yet(Spanish):
- Content removal from platforms accounts for 40% of lawsuits against tech companies in Brazil.
- The right is filling gaps in Congress with a flood of bills to regulate the internet.
- Father of the chairwoman of the AI commission in Congress signs agreement with Google for use of technology.
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An investigation into how Big Tech has influenced the avoidance of regulations seeking to mitigate its negative effects on societies and politics. Led by the Brazilian media outlet Agência Pública and CLIP in partnership with 15 organizations.
How Big Tech Killed Brazil’s “Fake News Bill”
Bill 2630 reshaped ties between tech and the far right, exposing lobbying tactics used to fight regulationNatalia Viana (Agência Pública)
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Russia’s war against Ukraine
A person sleeps in a metro station in Kyiv during night mass Russian drone and missile strikes on Ukraine on Sept. 10, 2025. (Sergei Supinsky / AFP via Getty Images)
In first for NATO, Poland downs Russian drones amid mass attack on Ukraine as Putin tests Western resolve. Polish authorities temporarily closed Warsaw Chopin Airport and placed the country’s air defenses on high alert overnight on Sept. 10, following reports that Russian drones have entered Polish airspace.
Russian missile that hit government headquarters contained over 30 foreign-made parts, Ukraine says. “Compared to missiles from previous years, there are fewer components from Europe and the U.S., and more from Russia and Belarus,” presidential sanctions commissioner Vladyslav Vlasiuk said.
Putin told White House he plans to seize Donbas by end of 2025, Zelensky says. President Volodymyr Zelensky said Moscow’s plans could cost “years and a million people,” or even “two or three million corpses” if Russia accelerates its offensive.
Ukraine strikes 2 Russian radar stations in occupied Crimea, intelligence says, shares footage. According to the agency, Ukrainian forces destroyed a 48Ya6-K1 Podlet low-altitude radar and an RLM-M module from the 55Zh6M Nebo-M air defense complex.
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Russian missile that hit government headquarters contained over 30 foreign-made parts, Ukraine says. “Compared to missiles from previous years, there are fewer components from Europe and the U.S., and more from Russia and Belarus,” presidential sanctions commissioner Vladyslav Vlasiuk said.
Russian military losses near 300,000 in 2025, Syrskyi says. “The Russian army’s losses since the beginning of the year have already reached almost 300 thousand (299,210) people,” Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi reported Sept. 9.
Explosions put 3 Russian pipelines out of service, intelligence source claims.
Three oil and gas pipelines in Russia were knocked out of service in a series of explosions on Sept. 8, a Ukrainian military intelligence (HUR) source told the Kyiv Independent.
After Putin arrives in Sochi, alleged Ukrainian drone strike hits the city.
The attack may have coincided with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s working visit to the city. According to the Kremlin, Putin joined the BRICS summit online from Sochi on Sept. 8.
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Ukraine war latest: ‘Pure terrorism’ — Russian air strike kills 24 pensioners, postal service employees
At least 24 people were killed and 19 injured when Russian forces struck the frontline village of Yarova in Donetsk Oblast on Sept. 9. The bombing took place while local residents lined up to receive their pensions, local authorities reported.
Photo: Ukraine’s State Emergency Service/Telegram
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As Russian influence wanes in South Caucasus, Azerbaijan emerges as regional hegemon
As Russia is obsessed with conquering Ukraine, there is one region that is rapidly slipping out of its grip: the South Caucasus. Russia’s influence in the region is decreasing, while Azerbaijan and its main ally, Turkey, are emerging as new regional leaders.
Photo: Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images
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How the right wing in US, Europe is weaponizing murders of Ukrainian refugees
The death of Iryna Zarutska, a Ukrainian refugee who fled to the United States, is being exploited by right-wing figures across the U.S. and Europe to stoke fear and push racist, xenophobic policies at home.
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Skyranger mobile air defense systems are heading to Ukraine — here’s what they can do
Rheinmetall will provide Ukraine with Skyranger mobile air defense systems designed to counter drones under a contract worth “hundreds of millions of euros,” CEO Armin Papperger told German broadcaster ZDF on Sept. 8.
Photo: Rheinmetall
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Human cost of Russia’s war
General Staff: Russia has lost 1,091,000 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022. The number includes 990 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.
7 killed, 23 injured in Russian attacks on Ukraine over past day. Ukraine’s Air Force said Russia launched 84 Shahed-type attack and decoy drones overnight, with air defenses downing 60.
International response
Russia’s ‘imperialist plan’ is only beginning, Merz says. “A new conflict between systems has broken out between liberal democracies and an axis of autocracies,” German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said.
UK to fund ‘thousands‘ of long-range attack drones for Ukraine, defense minister says. The drones will be manufactured in the United Kingdom and delivered to Ukraine within the next 12 months, U.K. Defense Minister John Healey said.
Poland to close Belarus border, Lithuania to boost security amid Russia-led military drills. The Zapad-2025 (meaning “west” in Russian) drills, set to begin on Sept. 12 in Belarus and western Russia, have heightened alarm in NATO member states Poland, Lithuania and Latvia.
Trump urges EU to impose harsh tariffs on China, India to pressure Russia, FT reports. U.S. President Donald Trump made the request while dialing into a high-level meeting between senior U.S. and EU officials in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 9.
Romania, Czechia, and Hungary disband Belarusian espionage network in Europe. Romania, Czechia, and Hungary have jointly dismantled a Belarusian espionage network operating across Europe, the Czech Security and Information Service (BIS) announced on Sept. 8.
Hungary signs its biggest-ever Western gas deal with Shell, but refuses to quit Russian supply. Under the contract, Shell — the world’s biggest liquefied natural gas (LNG) trader — will deliver around 200 million cubic meters (mcm) of gas annually to MVM starting in January 2026.
Boris Johnson urges Western troop presence in Ukraine as signal to Putin. “That’s the only conceivable way to move Putin from his current calculations… get him to compromise and to agree to a ceasefire,” former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said.
Opinions and insights
What happens when war deniers see Ukraine for themselves
“As the Russian propaganda machine invests billions into shifting the global paradigm regarding Ukraine, politicians are becoming increasingly clueless,” Adam Sybera writes in his recent op-ed.
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School in occupied Ukraine named after son of CIA official who fought for Russia. A school in Russian-occupied Donetsk Oblast has been named after Michael Gloss, the son of CIA official who was killed while fighting for Russia in its war against Ukraine, independent Russian media outlet Mediazona reported on Sept. 9.
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DHS Says Filming, Posting Videos of ICE Agents Is “Doxxing,” Vows Prosecutions
DHS Says Filming, Posting Videos of ICE Agents Is “Doxxing,” Vows Prosecutions
Recording on-duty law enforcement agents is protected by the First Amendment.Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg (Truthout)
If We Want Bigger Wind Turbines, We’re Gonna Need Bigger Airplanes: Radia’s building an aircraft longer than a football field
Wind Turbine Blade Transport by Giant Aircraft
The world's largest airplane will transport massive wind-turbine blades to onshore farms in an attempt to reshape the future of wind energy logistics.Andrew Moseman (IEEE Spectrum)
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[Resolved] Reported posts in my Full Movies community
Hi folks, someone reported two posts from last night in my Full Movies on YouTube community. I can see those reports but I can't tell what the problem was, or who reported those posts.
I am both the poster and the Mod of that community, if that affects this at all. Any help anyone can offer on what I should do from here would be appreciated.
Leading through AI disruption: What no CEO wants to talk about
- Unlike previous industrial or digital revolutions, AI is targeting managerial, analytical and creative roles.
- Some companies openly address AI disruption and invest in AI upskilling, redesign job roles and prepare employees for higher-value tasks.
- Three leadership moves matter: being transparent, engaging employees and sparking grassroots momentum.
https://www.weforum.org/stories/2025/09/ai-disruption-leadership-ceo/
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80 Years Ago, A Jewish Radical and Two Negro League Stars Led a Crusade to Integrate Baseball That Paved the Way for Jackie Robinson | Common Dreams
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/35817976
Peter Dreier
Sep 07, 2025
For more than a decade before Jackie Robinson broke the sport’s color line in 1947, black newspapers, civil rights groups, progressive white activists and sportswriters, labor unions, and radical politicians waged a sustained protest movement to end Jim Crow in baseball. They believed that if they could push the nation’s most popular sport to dismantle its color line, they could make inroads in other facets of American society. They picketed at big league ballparks, wrote letters to team owners and Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis demanding tryouts for Black athletes, and interviewed white players and managers, most of whom expressed a willingness to integrate major league rosters. Most white newspapers ignored the Negro Leagues, but black newspapers (and the Communist Party’s Daily Worker) covered their stars and games, including exhibition contests between Black teams and teams comprised of white major leaguers, many of which were won by Negro League players.
80 Years Ago, A Jewish Radical and Two Negro League Stars Led a Crusade to Integrate Baseball That Paved the Way for Jackie Robinson | Common Dreams
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Peter Dreier
Sep 07, 2025
For more than a decade before Jackie Robinson broke the sport’s color line in 1947, black newspapers, civil rights groups, progressive white activists and sportswriters, labor unions, and radical politicians waged a sustained protest movement to end Jim Crow in baseball. They believed that if they could push the nation’s most popular sport to dismantle its color line, they could make inroads in other facets of American society. They picketed at big league ballparks, wrote letters to team owners and Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis demanding tryouts for Black athletes, and interviewed white players and managers, most of whom expressed a willingness to integrate major league rosters. Most white newspapers ignored the Negro Leagues, but black newspapers (and the Communist Party’s Daily Worker) covered their stars and games, including exhibition contests between Black teams and teams comprised of white major leaguers, many of which were won by Negro League players.
80 Years Ago, A Jewish Radical and Two Negro League Stars Led a Crusade to Integrate Baseball That Paved the Way for Jackie Robinson | Common Dreams
Peter Dreier
Sep 07, 2025
For more than a decade before Jackie Robinson broke the sport’s color line in 1947, black newspapers, civil rights groups, progressive white activists and sportswriters, labor unions, and radical politicians waged a sustained protest movement to end Jim Crow in baseball. They believed that if they could push the nation’s most popular sport to dismantle its color line, they could make inroads in other facets of American society. They picketed at big league ballparks, wrote letters to team owners and Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis demanding tryouts for Black athletes, and interviewed white players and managers, most of whom expressed a willingness to integrate major league rosters. Most white newspapers ignored the Negro Leagues, but black newspapers (and the Communist Party’s Daily Worker) covered their stars and games, including exhibition contests between Black teams and teams comprised of white major leaguers, many of which were won by Negro League players.
80 Years Ago, A Jewish Radical and Two Negro League Stars Led a Crusade to Integrate Baseball That Paved the Way for Jackie Robinson
The little known story about Sam Nahem, Leon Day, and Willard Brown who in 1945 played on a field in the shadow of Adolph Hitler's Nazi Germany and broke down historic barriers.peter-dreier (Common Dreams)
[SOLVED] How to see which instances are blocked by a specific instance?
Hi, I would like to look for an instance primarily based on which other instances it doesn't federate with/block or whatever the term is. But clicking on the URL of a few instances, I can't find this information anywhere.
Thanks for any and all help.
Police Fail to Arrest Two-Thirds in Biggest-Ever Protest Against Palestine Action Ban
An estimated 1,500 people in London have taken part in one of the largest acts of mass civil disobedience in British history, to protest the ban on Palestine Action. The Metropolitan Police arrested just over half of them, in what has been described as a “huge embarrassment” for commissioner Sir Mark Rowley.
At around 8:30pm on Saturday, a DoJ spokesperson said: “This is a huge embarrassment for Sir Mark Rowley, who claimed the Met would arrest every person who held a sign saying ‘I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action’. They have failed to arrest the majority of sign holders and it’s no wonder – there are simply too many people who oppose this utterly dystopian ban and the government’s complicity in Israel’s genocide to arrest us all.”
An officer told Novara Media that anyone holding a sign breaking the proscription could simply put it away and leave. People were not searched on the way out, no kettle was in place and protesters were witnessed walking away with their signs in full view.
Police Fail to Arrest Two-Thirds in Biggest-Ever Protest Against Palestine Action Ban
Over the course of eight hours, the Metropolitan Police only managed to arrest around one-third of the approximately 1,500 protesters holding signs expressing support for proscribed group Palestine Action.Novara Media
Budgie Desktop 10.9.3
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I reinstalled because I don't know what I'm doing.
I've been facing issues lately. A few weeks ago I kept having "lockups" where the keyboard and mouse would stop working. It turns out my crappy mouse was causing all USB ports to stop working. I noticed that the PC would still go to sleep and the clock was still working.
Yesterday I was having a weird issue with a site where I couldn't download files. It worked on every other device I own so I decided to restart. After restart the PC would boot to a black screen. The actual monitor was still on just not displaying.
I already back up my home folder to a second drive automatically so after searching for an answer to this issue and finding nothing I just decided to switch to fedora and see what that's all about.
It seems like it's one thing after another lately and I just needed to use my PC. I guess a fresh install every once in awhile isn't a bad thing.
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I recall these times. As experience grows, one needs to do it less and less often 😀
Also, if your filesystem is Btrfs (which is usually a great choice), check out Snapper. With it, when an update goes wrong, you can often revert your system to a previous state.
On Fedora, it doesn't come by default, so you'll have to install it. I don't use Fedora, but this guide looks like a decent introduction:
dustymabe.com/2025/01/07/fedor…
Or for something shorter: andotech.net/installing-snappe…
For its usage, this tutorial from openSUSE should be quite transferrable: en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Snapp…
Installing Snapper on Fedora: A Comprehensive Guide - AndoTech.net
Installing Snapper on Fedora shows how to configure Snapper and Snapper for dnf on Fedora with our step-by-step guide.Tony Anderson (AndoTech.net)
Keir Starmer rolls out the red carpet for genocidal Israeli president's visit to the UK.
Keir Starmer rolls out the red carpet for genocidal Israeli president's visit to the UK.
whilst Scotland boycotts Israel, Westminster is preparing to host Herzog, a man the ICJ says has incited genocide.Deaglan O'Mulrooney (the spectacle)
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The Genocide in Gaza and Those Who Deny It
Zionists often insist that the use of the word “genocide” to describe Israeli actions in Gaza cheapens other past crimes. Yet in both scale and in intent, Israel’s destruction of Gaza conforms closely to historic genocides.
EXPOSED: Google's £33 million contract to push Israeli propaganda in the UK
Google got paid £33m by Israel to push its propaganda
Google's has run 39 Israel government-bought ads on its platforms in the UK alone, trying to discredit reports on the genocide in GazaAlex/Rose Cocker (The Canary)
How do I check that my system is Linux-compatible?
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If it is a computer, it is compatible
You may just need some extra bits in addition to the base ISO
IIRC the Broadcom website has the latest Linux drivers on there if the kernel doesn't support it out of the box, so grab a copy of those and put them on a USB.
As others have said, you could get a live distro to test it out before you install
You can get broadcom to work, it means adding the missing driver.
For example in NixOS its adding a line in the hardware/config file then running a rebuild.
For Ubuntu there appears some steps spelled out lower in this thread askubuntu.com/questions/55868/…
Some distros publish their know working hardware lists
en.opensuse.org/Portal:Hardwar…
Installing Broadcom Wireless Drivers
I'm having serious problems installing the Broadcom drivers for Ubuntu. It worked perfectly on my previous version, but now, it is impossible. What are the steps to install Broadcom wireless driv...Ask Ubuntu
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Arrests at rally against Palestine Action ban rise to 890
Arrests at rally against Palestine Action ban rise to 890
The majority of the arrests were for supporting a proscribed group, police say.Doug Faulkner (BBC News)
If this happened in any of the non-imperial core countries, we would be hearing about it for the next 20 years.
Since it's in a "free, non-authoritarian democratic^TM^ country", it'll be forgotten in the rapid news cycle within a month.
China unveils brain-inspired AI that could redefine efficiency
China unveils brain-inspired AI that could redefine efficiency
Chinese researchers have developed a new AI system, SpikingBrain-1.0, that breaks from the resource-hungry Transformer architecture used by models like ChatGPT. This new model, inspired by the human brain's neural mechanisms, charts a new course forGong Zhe (CGTN)
British police arrest nearly 900 at pro-Palestine London protest
British police arrest nearly 900 at pro-Palestine London protest
Protesters chant against police actions as detentions surpass 400, prompting debates on freedom of speech in the UK.Al Jazeera
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rmlint: Extremely fast tool to remove duplicates and other lint from your filesystem
GitHub - sahib/rmlint: Extremely fast tool to remove duplicates and other lint from your filesystem
Extremely fast tool to remove duplicates and other lint from your filesystem - sahib/rmlintGitHub
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This is the first time I've heard "lint" used this way, but I like it. I've heard Linus refer to various waste left behind on your system as "turds" 💀
Anyway, this looks like a cool tool. Gonna check this out.
Hey Dessalines
I never got on with rmlint. It never felt safe to me.
I found fclones to be much better and safer.
Plus there is a GUI version for those not using the terminal
Gui Version
github.com/pkolaczk/fclones-gu…
CLI version
github.com/pkolaczk/fclones
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Usage
fclones offers separate commands for finding and removing files. This way, you can inspect the list of found files before applying any modifications to the file system.
group – identifies groups of identical files and prints them to the standard output
remove – removes redundant files earlier identified by group
link – replaces redundant files with links (default: hard links)
dedupe – does not remove any files, but deduplicates file data by using native copy-on-write capabilities of the file system (reflink)
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I did actually test this by creating a directory with duplicates.
test_dupes 186 files
scanned directory for duplicates and created dupes.txt
fclones group . >>dupes.txt
dupes.txt
remove duplicates to another directory
/home/user/Desktop/dupes
fclones move target_dir <dupes.txt
fclones move /home/user/Desktop/dupes <dupes.txt
test_dupes now has 173 files
GitHub - pkolaczk/fclones: Efficient Duplicate File Finder
Efficient Duplicate File Finder. Contribute to pkolaczk/fclones development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Thank you
I will check it out again if and when I need to do a clean out.
I do create a lot of duplicates as I move and transfer files between 3 laptops.
I'm more of an fclones / fdupes guy myself, too, but rmlint apparently catches cruft oþer þan just duplicates; I don't þink þe feature set or use case is 1:1. E.g., (from þe project)
- Nonstripped binaries (i.e. binaries with debug symbols)
- Broken symbolic links.
- Empty files and directories.
- Files with broken user or/and group ID.
KDE Linux entra in fase alpha
KDE Linux la distribuzione immutabile entra in fase alpha
KDE ha rilasciato la prima alpha della sua distribuzione Linux immutabile: KDE Linux, basata su Arch, con aggiornamenti atomici, supporto Flatpak e SnapFerramosca Roberto (Linux Easy)
Elbit Systems factory apparently shuttered following Palestine Action campaign
Elbit Systems factory apparently shuttered following Palestine Action campaign
One of defence company Elbit Systems' plants in the UK city of Bristol has reportedly been closed in the wake of a Palestine Action campaign, according to The Guardian.MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
Silk Road of Surveillance: The report exposes the significant collaboration between the illegal Myanmar military junta and Geedge Networks in implementing a commercial version of China’s "Great Firewall", giving the junta unprecedented capabilities to track down, arrest, torture and kill civilians.
Geedge Networks is a Chinese company with links to the Chinese government.
The report also exposes 13 telecommunications companies in Myanmar that are integral to the continued functioning of Geedge’s sophisticated surveillance and censorship technology on behalf of the junta.
Silk Road of Surveillance | Justice For Myanmar
The 'Silk Road of Surveillance' report exposes the significant collaboration between the illegal Myanmar military junta and China's Geedge Networks in implementing a commercial version of China’s "Great Firewall", giving the junta unprecedented capab…www.justiceformyanmar.org
Air Canada flight attendants massively reject wage offer, union says
Air Canada flight attendants massively reject wage offer, union says
Air Canada flight attendants have massively rejected the employer’s wage offer following a vote on a new contract that ended Saturday.The Canadian Press (CTVNews)
Carney hoping Canadians too busy applying for jobs to notice skyrocketing unemployment numbers (satire)
Carney hoping Canadians too busy applying for jobs to notice skyrocketing unemployment numbers - The Beaverton
OTTAWA - In the wake of a jobs report showing the national economy lost 66,000 in August alone, Prime Minister is hoping that Canadians will be too preoccupied with filling out online job application forms to notice.Ian MacIntyre (The Beaverton)
Amid ‘unprecedented’ rise in respiratory disease in Gaza, famine is making routine infections life-threatening
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/6058319
At Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, Manal Zaqout accompanies her 6-year-old daughter, Aya, for treatment. Aya had been moved to the hospital from the al-Mawasi areas east of Khan Younis after a continuous cough, fever, and fatigue that refused to resolve itself. The child was diagnosed with the flu, but the symptoms were far more severe than regular influenza.On Sunday, the Gaza Government Media Office said that a “new strain” of the virus is spreading across Gaza amid a severe shortage in medicines due to Israel’s blockade of humanitarian assistance to the Strip.
“The rapid spread is attributed to extreme overcrowding, lack of water and ventilation, and the deterioration of healthcare services due to the war, in addition to restrictions imposed by the occupation,” the Government Media Office said in the statement.
Amid ‘unprecedented’ rise in respiratory disease in Gaza, famine is making routine infections life&
Local authorities in Gaza have identified a “new strain” of respiratory virus in Gaza amid worsening conditions of famine and severe malnutrition, which threaten to cause even routine infections to turn deadly.Tareq S. Hajjaj (Mondoweiss)
On the other hand, good fences make good neighbors, and paywalls are a way of drawing healthy boundaries. If I write a book I am not donating that book to the world free of charge to use as they please and train an AI to replace me. I would like to be paid for my work somehow. If I and a team of researchers and engineers and finance folks and HR folks and janitors work together to build a vaccine distribution system, we don't get that for free.
Paywalls are a useful mechanism for ensuring that people aren't abusing you and your work.
Problem isn't paywalls. It's that how you do things matters. If you hoard all the food and paywall it at high prices so you can buy fancy cars, that's not ok. If you set aside food for a local community supper so that kids can't use it for their trebuchet practice, that's sensible.
The Pager
I decided to purchase a one-way pager, a programmer, and a paging subscription to satisfy my curiosity about pagers.
In this post, I am explaining my thought process and describing some of what I have learned about how pagers work. This is especially relevant to the national paging network in the Netherlands, but hopefully others also find it interesting.
The cellular network
Cellphones give us the ability to reach others and to remain reachable regardless of our location if within a network's coverage. The network infrastructure is continuously evolving in ways that make it more efficient, secure, and reliable.
One way that the network becomes more efficient is by improving its device tracking abilities to reduce the amount of radio broadcasting resources needed to deliver data to the recipient. Security and reliability are improved by having two-way communication between the network and devices such that devices can be authenticated, data correctly encrypted, and message delivery confirmed.
A participant within this network must accept one or more of their device's unique identifiers (at the very least the IMSI, often also the IMEI) is associated with an approximate location.
Since I do not want to accept these terms, I do not carry a phone with a SIM card on me.
A burner phone and an emergency pre-paid SIM card gives me the opportunity to connect to the network in the case that I need to contact someone immediately.
However, this does not give the opportunity to others to reach me in the case that they need me or worry about me. This is not common, but there have been cases in which being reachable would have been good.
LoRa / Meshtastic
Last year I learned about LoRa radios and the Meshtastic network implementation. These devices allow one to send encrypted messages directly between devices. The range is decent, especially if there is a line-of-sight between devices. With Meshtastic it is possible to create a network of nodes that route messages, and to make use of tunnels over the internet to connect nodes that are very far apart.
So far, my favorite use-cases for Meshtastic are communicating with my partner as I approach an area to meet them, communication during festivals/events, and when travelling in a small town or camping.
It is a great tool in some contexts, but I cannot be reliably reached with it.
The Pager
I am currently living in the Netherlands and so what I say is most relevant to the Dutch paging network 'KPN Nationaal 3'. Messages are broadcast using POCSAG 1200 at 172.450 MHz. I know that the situation with paging networks vary across the world, with paging networks being no longer available in many countries, but I don't know the details. It may be that the system here is rather special and unique.
The paging network is considered a legacy broadcasting system. Messages to the network are broadcast by transmitters distributed across the full coverage range. The message that is broadcast contains the RIC (Receiver Identify Code) and the message in plain text.
Anyone with an SDR (Software Defined Radio) device can decode and log all of the unencrypted messages. Here is an example using SDRConnect + multimon-ng:
Using a programming interface, a user can select the RIC codes that they want their network-tuned pager to be responsive to. The pager will beep and display on the screen messages sent to that RIC. In my case, the seller of the pager assigned a new RIC from their pool to me and programmed the pager to listen to it.
A pager does not have a built-in transmitter, and so it does not reveal any information to the network.
A subscription to the paging network works the following way:
- You get assigned your own 'RIC', which is publicly broadcast with every message
- You get assigned a private number (0665xxxxxx)
- While your subscription is active, you send an SMS or an e-mail to a specific address with your private number + message, and the network provider will broadcast it with the RIC as the recipient.
Then, anyone who knows your private number is able to reach a pager listening to your RIC. The public RIC is not enough information to request a message to be sent to you.
Registering to the network has a monthly cost (typical current pricing of 8 € - 20 €) depending on whether you want to be able to recieve text messages, numeric messages, or only make the pager beep. Your identity and banking information are known to the network provider. I was able to register as an individual without needing to provide any company information. I had to fill-in a short form and send it over e-mail with a photo of an ID to register.
So:
- The network provider knows your identity
- The service has a monthly cost
- The unencrypted message content, when they are sent, and the recipient's RIC are public information
- The network does not confirm delivery
- Inefficient for the network (all transmitters broadcast every message)
- Being a legacy system, the network may not remain alive for too long
But:
- It is possible to reach you at all times without needing to broadcast your location to the network
The pager is a technology that I looked at early on when I started thinking about privacy and I quickly discarded the idea. Giving my identity to a network provider and broadcasting unencrypted messages publicly did not seem logical to me.
Today, I see the value of having a receive-only device that is supported by a network with national coverage. A paging message would contain only enough information for me to know how urgently I need to find a way to communicate - whether I need to activate the burner phone immediately, or whether I can spend some time to go find another way to communicate.
For me, it was a pleasant surprise to discover that this legacy system fills the specific gap of reachability without tracking.
I also recently became aware of the existence of paging networks that rely on volunteer HAM radio operators (like DAPNET), and would like to explore these systems in the future.
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Trump offering NYC mayor Eric Adams a Saudi ambassadorship to drop re-election bid: Report
The Trump administration is seeking to nominate New York City Mayor Eric Adams to a top ambassadorial role in exchange for dropping his re-election bid ahead of the November race, a new report says.
If Adams were to exit the race, it would clear the path for former governor Andrew Cuomo, who is staunchly backed by pro-Israel groups, to be the main challenger to the leading candidate, Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani.
The New York Times, citing four unnamed sources on Friday, said President Donald Trump's special envoy for peace missions, Steve Witkoff, has been working diligently to persuade Adams to consider being the ambassador to Saudi Arabia - a very plum posting at a critical time for US relations with the kingdom.
Trump offering NYC mayor Eric Adams a Saudi ambassadorship to drop re-election bid: Report
The Trump administration is seeking to nominate New York City Mayor Eric Adams to a top ambassadorial role in exchange for dropping his re-election bid ahead of the November race, a new report says.
If Adams were to exit the race, it would clear the path for former governor Andrew Cuomo, who is staunchly backed by pro-Israel groups, to be the main challenger to the leading candidate, Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani.
The New York Times, citing four unnamed sources on Friday, said President Donald Trump's special envoy for peace missions, Steve Witkoff, has been working diligently to persuade Adams to consider being the ambassador to Saudi Arabia - a very plum posting at a critical time for US relations with the kingdom.
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in reply to perishthethought • • •Is there more info if you expand the Post details dropdown? I can't remember all the info that is provided in the notification.
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