Spain calls for Israel, Russia to be banned from international sports competitions
MADRID, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Monday said Israel and Russia should be banned from international sports competitions until "barbaric acts" end, referring to the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.
Sanchez said he condemned the violent protests by pro-Palestinian on Sunday in Madrid which disrupted the La Vuelta cycling race and ultimately led to the cancellation of the final leg and the podium ceremony.
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Teenagers to pay $300,000 for urinating in hotpot in China
Two teenagers who peed into a pot of broth at a hotpot restaurant have been ordered to pay 2.2m yuan ($309,000; £227,000) to two catering companies in China.
The incident, which happened in February at a Shanghai branch of China's biggest hotpot chain Haidilao, sparked widespread criticism after the 17-year-olds posted a video of their drunken act online.
Teenagers to pay $300,000 for urinating in hotpot in China
A court orders their parents to compensate Haidilao for reputational and operational losses.Kelly Ng (BBC News)
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Virgin boy eggs are widely accepted as a tradition in the city.[3] Boy egg vendors go to elementary schools in the city where they collect urine from young boys, preferably under the age of ten. Children who have been raised in the city are used to the practice, and relieve themselves in basins that the vendors place in the hallways. The teachers often remind the boys not to urinate in the basins if any of them have a fever or feel ill.[3][5] Some vendors wait with containers in parks or public restrooms for a parent who is willing to let their child offer urine.
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Cause of Death: Consumption of Basa Fish
Is it possible that the after-school fish stick snacks you have been feeding your child could possibly be contaminated with deadly metals such as mercury?Vietnam Talking Points
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They cancelled school for the rest of the day and I was one of the few students in my age group who hadn't eaten there so I just went home and had such a good time playing the game and laughing my ass off about the whole situation.
Coca-Cola rebrands products in Germany amid US image crisis – DW – 09/08/2025
Coca-Cola rebrands products in Germany amid US image crisis
As the global reputation of US brands slips, some US firms are turning to unusual marketing strategies. Coca-Cola, for instance, is now promoting itself as a "German product."Dirk Kaufmann (Deutsche Welle)
Linux smartphones are coming, although very slowly
There is also Jolla with Sailfish OS, but the hardware is not really attractive
Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN commission of inquiry
UN commission of inquiry has concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and accused senior Israeli officials including Benjamin Netanyahu of inciting it.
The United Nations independent international commission of inquiry (COI), which does not speak on behalf of the UN and has been criticised strongly by Israel, cited the scale of the killings, aid blockages, forced displacement and the destruction of a fertility clinic in the territory to support its genocide finding.
Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN commission of inquiry
Report cites scale of killings and aid blockages, and calls on member countries to punish those responsibleJon Henley (The Guardian)
I don't think the previous comment was directed at the commission.
The world has been watching the genocide for nearly 2 years now and no meaningful action has been taken to stop it by any country.
I think the point that was being made is that the UN appears to be completely powerless as long as the US continues to back Israel (and still has veto power in the security council).
but it seemed pretty clear to me that the problem is all of the countries who aren’t doing anything.
I agree
For sure, but there are also other UN commissions which completely failed at their job, and this is one of them.
This commission itself should be prosecuted for being complicit in genocide.
For sure, but there are also other UN commissions which completely failed at their job, and this is one of them
What do you mean? They where asked to prove there is a genocide , they concluded there is a genocide so where is the failure?
Israel’s foreign ministry said it categorically rejected the report and called for the COI to be abolished. Israel’s ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Daniel Meron, called the report a scandalous and fake “libellous rant” that had been authored by “Hamas proxies”. Israel has declined to cooperate with the COI, accusing it of having a political agenda.
Anwar: Malaysia to take firm Gaza stand in Trump meeting, urges decisive action against Israel
He said that while many nations have strongly voiced their positions, mere statements and calls are not sufficient, and must instead be followed up with decisive actions.
Anwar: Malaysia to take firm Gaza stand in Trump meeting, urges decisive action against Israel
DOHA, Sept 16 — Malaysia will use the opportunity of its meeting with United States (US) President Donald Trump at the Asean Summit this October to reiterate the country’s...Malay Mail
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Canadians don’t want to live in America and it shows: The number of Canadians searching for U.S. homes is down 20% year over year
Canadians don’t want to live in America and it shows: The number of Canadians searching for U.S. homes is down 20% year over year
The steepest decline came in April after Trump’s tariff announcements.Sydney Lake (Fortune)
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Economy is going to contract especially come spring. These snowbirds most of the time were more kind than locals. People have no idea how much money they pump into local economies.
Hopefully this is advantageous to midterms but who knows.
Canada ~~will get~~ is getting warmer too you know. From nice and cool to nice and warm. Same as here in Norhern Europe*, and I believe the influx of rich "Southerners" will increase, if it hasn't already.
* I can't believe how far South Canada goes. The most populated area is on a latitude with Central Europe. I live on the same latitude as, say, Anchorage. I can't even find a reasonably-sized town in Canada. But afaiu climate is very different because of the Gulf stream?
Increasing temperatures = less ice on lakes = shorter ice fishing season.
If climate change is impacting Wisconsin, it's already impacting Canada.
Oh sure, I phrased it a little badly.
In other places it shows more during the summer, in the North it shows more during the winter. can't remember the last time we had a proper one here, without several melting and re-freezing phases.
Yup. If and when the gulf Stream shuts down, everything above ~~again~~ Spain is going to be a popsicle.
Day after to tomorrow is my favourite apocalypse movie.
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If and when the gulf Stream shuts down, everything above again is going to be a popsicle.
You mean in Europe?
Here's hoping for Drake and Bieber being among those 20%.
Do you remember a white Canadian reggae artist called Snow, best known for "Informer", in the early 90s? He pretty much disappeared from the music scene after he stayed in Canada.
1. US house taxes are very high in any place worth living in.
2. This is typical Boomer demographics, they are dying.
3. Older Boomers cannot afford to get sick in the US.
4. This peaked after 2008 when US housing was cheap.
Ahh hello, European. As a Canadian I would like to point out that Canadians have rejected the demonym “American” (when it is applied to us) and have done so far as long as I can remember. We consider it offensive.
If you’re looking to start a fight with a Canadian, calling him an American is an easy way to do that.
I know there's a lot of focus on the US today, even more than usual but I'm getting very concerned about every other countries domestic swing towards conservative populism that's generally intertwined with racism mixed in the current anti-immigration movements.
This is good. I absolutely think it's a problem for every country to have foreign ownership of land/property. It ranges from champagne socialist to hyper-capitalist doing foreign land/property purchases. Screw vacation homes. Screw rental properties. Regardless of all that, don't let anti-Americanism distract you from growing conservative populism that's been growing across the world for I feel like the whole 25 years of this millennium
Can you be sued for defaming virtual K-pop stars? South Korea court says yes
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/49220518
They may be fictional characters, but they are voiced by real people, the court says.
Can you be sued for defaming virtual K-pop stars? South Korea court says yes
They may be fictional characters, but they are voiced by real people, the court says.
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Whether you use AI, think it's a "fun stupid thing for memes", or even ignore it, you should know it's already polluting worse than global air travel.
AI Environment Statistics 2025: How AI Consumes 2% of Global Power and 17B Gallons of Water
AI environment statistics 2025: AI consumes 450 TWh globally, uses 17B gallons water, generates 2.5-3.7% of emissions. Complete environmental impact analysis with latest data.Midhat Tilawat (All About AI)
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Because I can run many models at home and it wouldn't require me to be pouring bottles of water on my PC, nor it would show on my electricity bill.
Well, most of the carbon footprint for models is in training, which you probably don't need to do at home.
That said, even with training they are not nearly our leading cause of pollution.
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Most of these figures are guesses along a spectrum of "educated" since many models, like ChatGPT, are effectively opaque to everyone and we have no idea what the current iteration architecture actually looks like. But MIT did do a very solid study not too long ago that looked at the energy cost for various queries for various architectures. Text queries for very large GPT models actually had a higher energy cost than image gen using a normal number of iterations for Stable Diffusion models actually, which is pretty crazy. Anyhow, you're looking at per-query energy usage of like 15 seconds microwaving at full power to riding a bike a few blocks. When tallied over the immense number of queries being serviced, it does add up.
That all said, I think energy consumption is a silly thing to attack AI over. Modernize, modularize, and decentralize the grids and convert to non-GHG sources and it doesn't matter--there are other concerns with AI that are far more pressing (like deskilling effects and inability to control mis- and disinformation).
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I kind of wondered the same thing in the past, but the other day I read an LA Times article that illustrated the extent of the problem of water loss (not particularly related to data centers although we know they contribute to it). The main problem with evaporating water seems to be that it was water that we could have used which ended up in the ocean instead.
latimes.com/environment/story/…
I infer that evaporation is worse than flushing it down the drain, so to speak, because if it were flushed you would at least be able to treat and recover much of it using much less energy than recovering it from the ocean. So it sounds like evaporation is largely (but obviously not completely) a one-way street, especially in arid regions, since only a tiny portion of the evaporated water would come back there as rain.
Drying and water depletion bring deepening crisis around the world
Research shows vast portions of the world are losing fresh water and getting drier. Groundwater depletion accounts for two-thirds of the continents' water losses, contributing to rising oceans.Ian James (Los Angeles Times)
idk if that's the intended takeaway from those numbers.
According to AllAboutAI analysis, global AI processing generates over 260,930 kilograms of CO₂ monthly from ChatGPT alone, equivalent to 260 transatlantic flights, with 1 billion daily queries consuming 300 MWh of electricity.
according to the faa there are on average 5500 planes in the air every day, and while i couldn't find an exact number there seem to be between 350 and 1 200 transatlantic flights every day, depending on season.
260 tons is still massive, but let's not kid ourselves. it's about equivalent to producing 12 new american-size cars.
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Yes, but there's zero fucking actual benefit.
Seeing memes posted here that use AI while sitting on it is the most confusing thing to me.
Just... don't use it, people. The hole burning in AI bros' pockets will close up if you just stop making it profitable. Even the free ones are making money with ads. Don't use it, even for a joke.
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People like you wouldn’t have seen the benefit in cars vs horse and carriages, computers vs typewriters and books, or watches vs sundials.
I bet you think that the only thing AI is used for is ChatGPT style conversations too.
Theoretically, sure there's potential. But it shouldn't be getting used as a commercial product in the meantime.
Especially generative. Letting it write, compose, create... All of that is 1,000% a mistake. The kind accessible to the public can't currently create at scale without unethical access to source material.
It shouldn't be getting shoehorned into every job possible while it's still in this pre-alpha kind of state.
Although I don't actually know the ratio of research use vs casual use, tbf. But this shit gotta be litigated and used properly with proper guidelines, not just thrown out like this.
It's still way too early for this shit. Our willingness as a species to just jump into new tech should have been tempered to be smarter by now.
Maybe I would've been reluctant about those technologies. But I am convinced with data. And so far I've only seen problems with it, no actual benefits.
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wouldn’t have seen the benefit in cars
Yeah, because the widespread adoption of cars turned out to be such a great idea with no negative consequences... But even if you ignore the glaringly obvious negatives, AI still doesn't come anywhere close to having the practical utility as the modern car. At least a car can carry out its advertised function without issues.
I've been using AI almost daily for several years now, as a function of my job. It's garbage tech. Most of the things it's supposed to be good for it downright sucks at, and the stuff it is good at has already been possible using simpler, more reliable systems for years — sometimes even decades. The situation isn't really improving, either. Models are using more energy, consuming more data, and doing more computation than ever before... but the results are still embarrassingly underwhelming. Anyone who's bothered to educate themselves on the math and method behind the models knows by now that the current generation of AI is dead-end technology, and anyone who claims otherwise is either ignorant of the technical details, has a vested financial interest in AI, or both.
It also really fucking irritates me to be constantly called a Luddite by people who don't even know how this technology fucking works... No, I don't hate AI because I'm scared of technology, or "progress" or whatever the fuck. I've made a career working in technology. I love tech... or I used to, before everyone lost their god damn minds praying to Sam Altman and his horrifyingly expensive golden idol. No, I hate AI because it's demonstrably bad technology.
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Frankly focusing on the carbon output of AI models is a red herring. It's not a significant part of the problem and just makes people complacent in the form of feeling like we've achieved something if it succeeds. It's not worse than stuff like video games
Focus on the actual negative effects of AI, but carbon intensity isn't a major one
Thank you.
Idk if LLMs can tell which number is bigger. But we already knew humans can't.
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260,930 kilograms of CO₂ monthly from ChatGPT alone
ChatGPT has the most marketing, but it's only part of the AI ecosystem... and honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if other AI products are bigger now. Practically every time someone does a Google search, Gemini AI spits out a summary whether you wanted it or not — and Google processes more than 8 billion search queries per day. That's a lot of slop.
There are also more bespoke tools that are being pushed aggressively in enterprise. Microsoft's Copilot is used extensively in tech for code generation and code reviews. Ditto for Claude Code. And believe me, tech companies are pushing this shit hard. I write code for a living, and the company I work for is so bullish on AI that they've mandated that us devs have to use it every day if we want to stay employed. They're even tracking our usage to make sure we comply... and I know I'm not alone in my experience.
All of that combined probably still doesn't reach the same level of CO² emissions as global air travel, but there are a lot more fish in this proverbial pond than just OpenAI, and when you add them all up, the numbers get big. AI usage is also rising much, much faster than air travel, so it's really only a matter of time before it does cross that threshold.
Generating bullshit that isn't really that useful.
Remember when the Apple Newton "revolutionized" computing with handwriting recognition?
No, of course not, because the whole thing sucked and vanished outside of old Doonesbury cartoons. LOL
My peer used the newton for comp sci class notes. Daily. Exclusively.
Then she went on to mastermind the behaviour and tactics of Myth: The Fallen Lords.
It's tenuous, but I say that's causal.
Water has to be cleaned. It is renewable, not free. My city has many sources, but most places where they build datacenters do not. It is a real problem
Either way the biggest proble, IMO, is the pressure on the electric grid. If the asshats building the centers would cooperate with others, there would be much less problems.
As for power usage, yea its a lot but still not an insane amount. The image and video generation uses a LOT more then text.
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It is renewable, not free.
"Renewable" also doesn't mean shit if the resource is being consumed faster than it's being renewed. Ask the people who used to live on the shores of the Aral Sea how "renewable" their water was.
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Why using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment - a cheat sheet
The numbers clearly show this is a pointless distraction for the climate movementAndy Masley (The Weird Turn Pro)
So I'm a little confused, genuinely- this is in good faith. The link you provided was saying "the chat bot" features you shouldn't worry about. It in itself has a disclaimer that image/video/generation is NOT covered here.
To be sure, the wimpy little chat bot that hallucinates that people should add glue to their pizza to stop the cheese sliding off or that people should eat rocks-part of it isn't burning the BIG watt-hours. There's more to AI than unhinged crappy chat sessions.
This is correct, but not all Data Center Usage is GenAI too. I agree that video generation is pretty energy intensive and not something that should be done on the regular, but image generation runs here on my graphics card pretty fast, so it's not a big deal and comparable to chatbot responses.
Watching an hour of Netflix uses about 0,8kWh, which is a lot more but noone tries to make people have a bad conscience for binge watching a series. That's Datacenter usage too, and a lot more than GenAI.
AI is also used a lot in Science, and even if i know that scientists aren't that popular in the US, we probably agree that this activity is summa summarum positive for humanity, so lets keep it.
So where is the AI usage you propose is worse than global air travel? Lets look at total numbers here:
Electricity usage is 30% of the total CO2 emitted in the USA. Data centers in total used 4.4% in 2023, estimates say this will reach between 6.7 and 12% in 2028. If we take the worst case, Data Centers will be responsible for a bit more than 3% of all CO2 emissions in the USA, best case about 1.7%.
That's not nothing, but it's still a lot less then global flight, which was responsible for 9% of CO2 emissions in the US transport sector, which amounts to about 4% of Total US emissions 2022. Please note we are talking US flight emissions here, NOT GLOBAL. Since most datacenters worldwide reside in the US by far, your statement is bullshit.
ETA: People, the real climate killers have not changed: Cars, Industry, Flight. Trying to create a bad conscience for peanuts in relation is not worth it AND WILL NEITHER MAKE PEOPLE JOIN YOU NOR RESCUE THE PLANET, because these lies are easily disproven and make the green movement look untrustworthy.
Factcheck: What is the carbon footprint of streaming video on Netflix? - Carbon Brief
The carbon footprint of streaming video on Netflix remains relatively modest, particularly compared to other activities and sectors.Carbon Brief Staff (Carbon Brief)
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I've had people tell me oh, air travel is more efficient per mile that road travel.
But this ignores that people wouldn't drive thousands of miles if it was not as easy as booking a flight.
OP, this statement is bullshit. you can do about 5 million requests for ONE flight.
i'm gonna quote my old post:
I had the discussion regarding generated CO2 a while ago here, and with the numbers my discussion partner gave me, the calculation said that the yearly usage of ChatGPT is appr. 0.0017% of our CO2 reduction during the covid lockdowns - chatbots are not what is kiling the climate. What IS killing the climate has not changed since the green movement started: cars, planes, construction (mainly concrete production) and meat.The exact energy costs are not published, but 3Wh / request for ChatGPT-4 is the upper limit from what we know (and thats in line with the appr. power consumption on my graphics card when running an LLM). Since Google uses it for every search, they will probably have optimized for their use case, and some sources cite 0.3Wh/request for chatbots - it depends on what model you use. The training is a one-time cost, and for ChatGPT-4 it raises the maximum cost/request to 4Wh. That's nothing. The combined worldwide energy usage of ChatGPT is equivalent to about 20k American households. This is for one of the most downloaded apps on iPhone and Android - setting this in comparison with the massive usage makes clear that saving here is not effective for anyone interested in reducing climate impact, or you have to start scolding everyone who runs their microwave 10 seconds too long.
Even compared to other online activities that use data centers ChatGPT's power usage is small change. If you use ChatGPT instead of watching Netflix you actually safe energy!
Water is about the same, although the positioning of data centers in the US sucks. The used water doesn't disappear tho - it's mostly returned to the rivers or is evaporated. The water usage in the US is 58,000,000,000,000 gallons (220 Trillion Liters) of water per year. A ChatGPT request uses between 10-25ml of water for cooling. A Hamburger uses about 600 galleons of water. 2 Trillion Liters are lost due to aging infrastructure . If you want to reduce water usage, go vegan or fix water pipes.
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Using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment
And a plea to think seriously about climate change without getting distractedAndy Masley (The Weird Turn Pro)
I'm not sure what you're referencing. Imagegen models are not much different, especially now that they're going transformers/MoE. Video gen models are chunky indeed, but more rarely used, and they're usually much smaller parameter counts.
Basically anything else machine learning is an order of magnitude less energy, at least.
The combined worldwide energy usage of ChatGPT is equivalent to about 20k American households.
Or about 10 small countries.
Not even being that hyperbolic: American households are fabulously, insanely wasteful of energy.
The rest of the world (barring places like Saudi Arabia, which are rarely used as moral or socio-cultural examples the world should learn from) has done the whole 'What's the point in trying to better the world when America and China do more damage than the rest of the world combined?' debate decades ago, and we ended up deciding that we can't control the worst offenders, and can only do what we can.
Literally any moral value or standard is subject to 'but but but what's the point if you can't eradicate the problem entirely?', that's why it's such a weak fallacy.
Minimising absolutely pointless destruction of non-renewable resources won't successfully save the environment tomorrow, but we can do it anyway, and if will help.
We can't eradicate theft, but we can do our best to pay for things before taking them. We know that being polite in public isn't the 1 thing holding our society back from utopian perfection, but we do it anyway, because it helps.
We can all pinky promise not to murder or violently assault anyone, and pay no attention to the weirdo protesting that 'What's the point in not assaulting people when actually, cars and illness and unhealthy lifestyles do more harm', because that person is presumably just looking for an excuse to hit someone.
And yeah, long story short: using 'American households' as an example of how insignificant AI's energy usage is is kinda like saying smoking is safe because it's actually less harmful than spending 6 hours a day on a busy road in Delhi.
If you don't spend 6 hours a day near busy roads in Delhi, you won't exactly think 'oh that's ok then'.
And if you do, your lungs need all the help they can get and you've got all the more reason to be wary of smoking (I say this as a smoker btw).
Huge areas of Africa and the middle east are becoming uninhabited because of climate change. Those people all need food and water, and the western world does not have the resources or inclination to house and feed them all. It is almost unanimously described as the worst crisis humanity has ever faced, and the practical solution - stop wasting fossil fuels and non-renewable resources when there's a viable alternative - is so insanely easy.
Billions of lives could be saved, if everyone on the planet agreed to be mindful of energy waste.
Not 'stop using energy' or 'everybody become vegan and live in houses made of recycled banana peel', just quit wasting.
But there are entire countries who don't seem to get the whole 'acting together for the betterment of humanity' thing, so that incredibly simple solution won't work.
And all we can do in the meantime is to lead by example, make 'responsible consumption' a lifestyle rather than an option, and hope against hope that enough Americans and Chinese people decide to reduce their dependence on 1000 daily images of shrimp Jesus or an endless output of bullshit papers written by AI to pretend that's what science means, in time to maybe save some of the planet before wildfire season lasts 12 months a year.
Also: it's not even like you're gaining anything from constantly using AI or LLMs. Just fleeting dopamine hits while your brain cells wither. Of all the habits one could try to reduce, or be mindful of, to literally save lives and countries, anybody who honestly thinks generative AI is more important is very addicted.
Also also: it's just so shit.
But there are entire countries who don’t seem to get the whole ‘acting together for the betterment of humanity’ thing,
I would describe it as 'indoctrinated by Big Oil', heh... It is awful.
Also: it’s not even like you’re gaining anything from constantly using AI or LLMs. Just fleeting dopamine hits while your brain cells wither. Of all the habits one could try to reduce, or be mindful of, to literally save lives and countries, anybody who honestly thinks generative AI is more important is very addicted. Also also: it’s just so shit.
The majority of text ingestion/token generation is consumed by other machines for stuff like coding assistants or corporate data processing, and this includes image ingestion. I dunno what fraction is image/video generation is, but I suspect it's not high, as there's really no point outside of cheap spam.
You are not wrong, and corpo AI is shit for plenty of reasons (including being needlessly power hungry when it doesn't have to be), but I'm not relenting that this is a 'small fish' issue to pursue in reference to the massive waste in so many other parts of the US.
Big Oil and such delight in such distractions because it draws attention away from their more profitable and harmful sectors they'd rather people forget about.
Do you have a source for this claim? I see this report by Google and MIT Tech Review that says image/video generation does use a lot of energy compared to text generation.
Taking the data from those articles, we get this table:
| AI Activity | Source | Energy Use (per prompt) | Everyday Comparison |
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| Median Gemini Text Prompt | Google Report | 0.24 Wh | Less energy than watching a 100W TV for 9 seconds. |
| High-Quality AI Image | MIT Article | ~1.22 Wh | Running a standard microwave for about 4 seconds. |
| Complex AI Text Query | MIT Article | ~1.86 Wh | Roughly equivalent to charging a pair of wireless earbuds for 2-3 minutes. |
| Single AI Video (5-sec) | MIT Article | ~944 Wh (0.94 kWh) | Nearly the same energy as running a full, energy-efficient dishwasher cycle. |
| "Daily AI Habit" | MIT Article | ~2,900 Wh (2.9 kWh) | A bit more than an average US refrigerator consumes in a full 24-hour period. |
Another way of looking at this: A "Daily AI Habit" on your table is about the same as driving a Tesla 10 miles, or a standard gas car about 3 miles.
Edit 4 AI videos, or detour and take the scenic route home from work... about the same impact.
I like that as well, thank you! Yeah, the "Daily AI Habit" in the MIT article was described as...
Let’s say you’re running a marathon as a charity runner and organizing a fundraiser to support your cause. You ask an AI model 15 questions about the best way to fundraise.Then you make 10 attempts at an image for your flyer before you get one you are happy with, and three attempts at a five-second video to post on Instagram.
You’d use about 2.9 kilowatt-hours of electricity—enough to ride over 100 miles on an e-bike (or around 10 miles in the average electric vehicle) or run the microwave for over three and a half hours.
As a daily AI user, I almost never use image or video generation and it is basically all text (mostly in the form of code), so I think this daily habit likely wouldn't fit for most people that use it on a daily basis, but that was their metric.
The MIT article also mentions that we shouldn't try and reverse engineer energy usage numbers and that we should encourage companies to release data because the numbers are invariably going to be off. And Google's technical report affirms this. It shows that non-production estimates for energy usage by AI are over-estimating because of the economies of scale that a production system is able to achieve.
Edit: more context: my daily AI usage, on the extremely, extremely high end, let's say is 1,000 median text prompts from a production-level AI provider (code editor, chat window, document editing). That's equivalent to watching TV for 36 minutes. The average daily consumption of TV in the US is around 3 hours per day.
If you want to look at it another way, if you assume every single square inch of silicon from TSMC is Nvidia server accelerators/AMD EPYCs, every single one running AI at full tilt 24/7/365...
Added up, it's not that much power, or water.
That's unrealistic, of course, but that's literally the physical cap of what humanity can produce at the moment.
The statement strikes me as overblown extreme position staking.
I use AI in my work, not every day, not even every week, but once in a while I'll run 20-30 queries in a multi-hour session. At the estimated 2Wh per query, that puts my long day of AI code work at 60Wh.
By comparison, driving an electric car consumes approximately 250Wh per mile. So... my evil day spent coding with AI has burned as much energy as a 1/4 mile of driving a relatively efficient car, something that happens every 15 seconds while cruising down the highway...
In other words, my conscience is clear about my personal AI energy usage, and my $20/month subscription fee would seem to amply pay for all the power consumed and then some.
Now, if you want to talk about the massive data mining operations taking place at global-multinational corporations, especially those trolling the internet to build population profiles for their own advantages and profit... that's a very different scale than one person tapping away at a keyboard. Do they scale up to the same energy usage as the 12 million gallons of jet fuel burned hourly by the air travel (and cargo) industries? Probably not yet.
9.6kWh of energy in a gallon of jet fuel, so just jet fuel consumption is burning over 115 Gigawatts on average, 24-7-365.
I hope your recycling is net carbon neutral as well. Example: how much CO2 is released by a recycling program which sends big diesel trucks all over the city to collect recyclables including cardboard, sorting that cardboard at a facility, shipping a small fraction of that to a pulp recycling facility and making recycled cardboard from the post-consumer captured pulp? Consider the alternative to be: torching the cardboard at the endpoint of use - direct conversion to CO2 without the additional steps.
Don't forget: new from pulpwood cardboard also is contributing to (temporary) carbon capture by growing the pulpwood trees which also provides groundwater recharge and wildlife habitat on the pulpwood tree farms - instead of the pavement, concrete, steel, electricity and fuel consumption of the recycling process.
A lot of these studies they list are already years outdated and irrelevant. The models are much more efficient now, and it’s mainly the Musk owned AI data centers that are high pollution. Most of the pollution from the majority of data centers is not from AI, but other use.
The old room-sized ENIAC computers used 150-200 kW of power, and couldn’t do even a fraction of what your smart phone can do. The anti-AI people are taking advantage of most people’s ignorance, intentionally using outdated studies, and implying that the power usage will continue to grow- when in fact it has already shrunk dramatically.
A Phone can't do anything. It can send/receive and the datacenter does the work. Surely everyone understands this.
A modern AI data center have already shot right past 200 Terrawatt hours and are on track to double again in the next two years.
People can't be this blind.
LoL. Guess I can just get rid of phone’s processor then, huh?
And again, you link an image from an outdated study. Because the new data shows the use declining, so it wouldn’t help your fear mongering.
A phone can do a lot. Much much more than ENIAC era supercomputer (I think you'll have to get pretty close to the end of the previous century to find a supercomputer more powerful than a modern smartphone)
What a phone can't do is run an LLM. Even powerful gaming PCs are struggling with that - they can only run the less powerful models and queries that'd feel instant on service-based LLMs would take minutes - or at least tens of seconds - on a single consumer GPU. Phones certainly can't handle that, but that doesn't mean that "cant' do anything".
I've run small models (a few Gb in size) on my steam deck. It gives reasonably fast responses (faster than a person would type).
I know that they're far from state-of-the art, but they do work and I know that the Steam Deck is not going to be using much power.
But now my work is forcing us to use it. To increase productivity you see...
Thanks for clarifying. You made up statistics, your post is nonsense.
And you responded without any consideration that the consistent reliance on computers, in general, is using a HUGE amount of energy, AI or not, indicate that you simply want to chase windmills and not have a conversation. Well played.
HurrDeeeDurrrr indeed. Next time let the grown ups talk.
Edit: Arrrggg! I didnt mean to delete my comment I meant to add to it!
The point I was trying to make was that we are not going to quit using computers, AI or not. Data centers will continue to grow, AI will continue to be used because they are not going to quit either.
I said that before.
What I wanted to add: this is in agreement with several of the links in the article OP posted: more efficient algorithms, better hardware, regenerative water cooling instead of lossy evaporation.
The article suggests training on better models, heat recovery and re-use, even using AI to research better methods for processing and planning energy consumption for AI.
I was serious: we are unlikely to just throw out computers.
Arrg! I didnt mean to delete what I wrote I was just trying to update it.
You confused energy use with pollution.
And what I wrote before was:
I basically said that I was serious, people if they cared would stop using computers. But I am not going to stop, you are not going to stop, so data centers are going to grow no matter what we do, and computing use is going to increase energy consumption. We need to (even says in the article you posted in the links) improve efficiency, get better hardware, use lower cost training models, use energy recovery and not use lossy evaporator cooling.
They said that AI is polluting worse than global air travel. They are mixing up pollution vs energy used. If it was pollution global air travel creates 80 Million Tons of CO a month. All AI in use is 15 million tons a month. Global air travel is far more polluting.
As an aside, and this is crazy: there is a reference, in the article OP posted to a paper, that suggests that humans are far worse than AI for CO2 creation depending on the task. Which I found surprising.
So I read the published paper in the journal Nature and:
Our findings reveal that AI systems emit between 130 and 1500 times less CO2e per page of text generated compared to human writer, while AI illustration systems emit between 310 and 2900 times less CO2e per image than their human counterparts. Emissions analyses do not account for social impacts such as professional displacement, legality, and rebound effects. In addition, AI is not a substitute for all human tasks. Nevertheless, at present, the use of AI holds the potential to carry out several major activities at much lower emission levels than can humans.
Ok I honestly did not see that coming.
Picked at random, It also claims this:
Why does nighttime AI use burn dirtier energy?
Fossil fuel dominance: Coal and gas supply up to 90% of overnight electricity.
Solar drop-off: Solar disappears after sunset, while wind delivers only ~30% capacity at night.
Peak carbon hours: Between 2–4 AM, grid intensity rises to 450–650 gCO₂/kWh, compared to 200–300 gCO₂/kWh in the afternoon.
This is complete bullshit in the UK, where energy is greenest in the small hours of the night when demand is low and the wind turbines are still turning. Least green and most expensive is late afternoon and evening, when energy usage spikes.
Let me reiterate. AI is crap. AI is a massive waste of energy, but your website has its calculations off in terms of order of magnitude when it comes to comparing the airline industry pushing tons of metal fast and hard into and through the sky with AI pushing a bunch of electrons through a bunch of transistors. Seriously, way off.
lmgtfy2.com/query/?q=IEA
Like I said, the IEA. The International Energy Agency. I wonder if you've heard of them.
You can throw scepticism as much as you like, dude, but
(1) I did not lie and
(2) your website is unreliable. Give it up.
Again. LLMs are crap, they spout falsehoods all the time, they use unreasonably large amounts of data, but the airline industry pollutes a LOT more.
I begin to wonder whether your website was itself written by an LLM.
How Does the US Use Water?
Water infrastructure often gets less attention and focus than other types of infrastructure.Brian Potter (Construction Physics)
that's very pragmatic, but you can also flip this around -- almonds are a luxury compared to other more practical foods, whereas LLMs can help a coder net an income if used properly. I don't think you can justify almonds if you're going to claim AI usage is unethical on purely environmental grounds. And dairy milk is twice as much as almond milk in terms of water, so if you have dairy in your diet, cutting that out is going to be a lot more effective for reducing your water footprint than not using LLMs.
Anyway, check out the third link for more info on the total water usage of data centers; it doesn't really add up to much compared to much larger things like golf courses. I don't get why anyone would use water usage as a reason to agitate against AI for given that there are so many worse problems AI is causing.
Trump boasts he ordered another lethal strike on a cartel boat in international waters
Trump boasts he ordered another lethal strike on a cartel boat in international waters
Another strike has been carried out on a boat that President Donald Trump claims is an imminent threat to the United States. On Truth Social, Trump announced, "This morning, on my Orders, U.S.Sarah K. Burris (Raw Story)
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Rumsfeld more or less bragged about it too, a lot of that crowd did. We haven't had a serial killer in the White House for a few years, so it's an adjustment back (and of course Trump is such an overtly vicious person that it'll have a new flavor now), but this stuff is not new for Republicans.
(Actually Biden and Bush Sr. are the only two presidents since Carter that I can remember that weren't fans of blowing up random people directly with US forces for no reason. In Afghanistan they did an airstrike on a wedding.)
Okay, and what's your solution supposed to be? To have everyone go, well the United States is a horrible country that is filled to the brim with bigots, but because there is a tiny, tiny margin of people who aren't, we should be kind to the whole country, because we don't want to hurt their feelings? Or do you expect me to add a disclaimer to every one of my comments saying, of course, this does not apply to those in this case or that case or this other case? Because if so, that's also ridiculous. You might have ALSO noticed I said the country is a terrorist state and not every single person is culpable. But there's this thing called the majority....
So no. I will not be adding a disclaimer to every comment saying something both of us are aware of. But way to go on disproving the stereotype of Americans and expecting special treatment.
People from Europe seem to expect to not be lumped in with the latest dumbass bullshit from Hungry, or the UK, or even this latest chat control fiasco. Is it really that troublesome that people from a nation made up of dozens of states, reservations, islands, etc want the same?
Edit for your edit: You said terrorist nation, not state.
Is it really that troublesome that people from a nation made up of dozens of states, reservations, islands, etc want the same?
Yup because you're one country.
What you initially described is one country being annoyed of getting said they're responsible for another country. You're all the same voting block. Moreover, a voting block that overwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump. He won in majority of votes and then something like 40% of your eligible electorate decided not to vote at all.
So, once again, I am not adding a disclaimer and caveat to every single comment just to spare the feelings of Americans. You're either capable of going "Well clearly this doesn't apply to people who aren't bigots" or you need it literally spelled out for you. If you need it literally spelled out for you then you're the type of American who the rest of the world is utterly sick of in the first place.
You said terrorist nation, not state.
American.
Here's the definition of State:
a nation or territory considered as an organized political community under one government.
Here's the definition of Nation:
a large body of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory.
Glad I could help you with your civics lesson.
The number of native people without some european ancestry in some line of their heritage is drastically small. People have been mixing since a long ass time ago, in good and bad contexts. Far from all of it was under duress of any kind. It doesnt really matter if youre culturally 100% connected, that doesnt negate those lines of heritage. Its quite obnoxious to pretend that just because youre 1/XYZ native that you have no european heritage like most do. Same as it would be obnoxious for someone who has a majority of european heritage, but not entirely, to pretend that they are just european and ignore the rest by affording some sense of supremacy to their preferred lines.
As someone who is related to a little bit of everybody, I dont speak for any of those heritages wholesale. I speak for me, and I guess for other people who are tripartite mixed of the same three “races” of people. To do anything else would be disingenuous at best
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Irish broadcaster RTE says that Ireland will not participate in Eurovision next year if Israel does
RTÉ Statement: 2026 Eurovision Song Contest – About RTÉ
RTÉ Statement: 2026 Eurovision Song Contest “At the General Assembly of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) in July, a number of EBU members raised concerns about the participation of Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest.RTÉ (About RTÉ)
Isrel is not even remotely in Europe anyway, and they for damn sure do not share european values on much of anything. They never should have been allowed to compete in the first place.
There should be a "pariah vision" where the cunt countries all compete for who is most nationalistic. I might even watch that.
I feel like this gets asked often. There are several countries that aren’t in Europe but that currently participate in Eurovision: Israel, Cyprus, Armenia, and Australia.
The contest is organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which is made up of various broadcasters from countries across Europe and beyond. The BBC is a member of the EBU, as is RTE in Ireland, Rai in Italy, SVT in Sweden and so on. There are 73 member stations from more than 56 countries, and they're entitled to send acts to Eurovision if they wish.
So as long as a nation has a broadcaster that operates inside the EBU, they’re allowed to enter.
Look at this map of EBU members and associate members
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European…
If australia is a "member" then so is china, india, iran, brazil, chile, egypt, algeria, south africa, japan, new zealand, malaysia, brunei
So..is iran allowed to compete? How about the Brunei, a portion of the island of Borneo? "Euro"vision becomes a bit of a joke, doesnt it.
Republicans admit Congress will pass legislation to release the Epstein files: report
Republicans admit it’s inevitable Congress will force Trump to release the Epstein files: report
Both the House and Senate have Republicans who are joining Democrats to pass legislation that would compel release of the filesEric Garcia (The Independent)
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No Other Land director recounts ‘horrific’ raid on his home by Israeli forces
By MEE staff
Published date: 14 September 2025 16:18 BST
Adra said the raid followed an attack by Israeli settlers on his village in Masafer Yatta on Saturday, in which two of his brothers and one cousin were wounded. He accompanied them to hospital, while nine Israeli soldiers stormed his home in his absence.He said he had been unable to return home since, as soldiers had blockaded the village entrance.
Adra, who has long worked as a journalist and filmmaker documenting settler violence in Masafer Yatta, reported that he and his co-director, Hamdan Ballal, had faced intensified attacks and targeting since they won an Oscar for best documentary.
No Other Land director recounts ‘horrific’ raid on his home by Israeli forces
The Palestinian director of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land has reported that Israeli soldiers raided his home in the occupied West Bank.MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
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No Other Land director recounts ‘horrific’ raid on his home by Israeli forces
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/36189837
By MEE staff
Published date: 14 September 2025 16:18 BST
Adra said the raid followed an attack by Israeli settlers on his village in Masafer Yatta on Saturday, in which two of his brothers and one cousin were wounded. He accompanied them to hospital, while nine Israeli soldiers stormed his home in his absence.He said he had been unable to return home since, as soldiers had blockaded the village entrance.
Adra, who has long worked as a journalist and filmmaker documenting settler violence in Masafer Yatta, reported that he and his co-director, Hamdan Ballal, had faced intensified attacks and targeting since they won an Oscar for best documentary.
No Other Land director recounts ‘horrific’ raid on his home by Israeli forces
By MEE staff
Published date: 14 September 2025 16:18 BSTAdra said the raid followed an attack by Israeli settlers on his village in Masafer Yatta on Saturday, in which two of his brothers and one cousin were wounded. He accompanied them to hospital, while nine Israeli soldiers stormed his home in his absence.He said he had been unable to return home since, as soldiers had blockaded the village entrance.
Adra, who has long worked as a journalist and filmmaker documenting settler violence in Masafer Yatta, reported that he and his co-director, Hamdan Ballal, had faced intensified attacks and targeting since they won an Oscar for best documentary.
No Other Land director recounts ‘horrific’ raid on his home by Israeli forces
The Palestinian director of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land has reported that Israeli soldiers raided his home in the occupied West Bank.MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
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New details about the development of the SLCM-N sea-based nuclear missile
The United States has decided to return nuclear-tipped cruise missiles to its arsenal of nuclear attack submarines. The new promising sea—based missile will be developed by six companies, of which five are responsible for the rocket itself, and the sixth for the engine. This is reported by Navy Recognition.
The objective of this project is to develop a missile that will be included in the arsenal of nuclear submarines of the Virginia type. According to the Pentagon's plans, the American fleet should receive the first missiles in 2034.
In order not to delay the development too much and not to spend fabulous sums on it, it was decided to create the SLCM-N based on existing missiles, i.e. the same Tomahawk. At least in terms of exterior design and dimensions. This is necessary in order for the new missile to fit the launchers of nuclear submarines.
At the same time, the commissioning of the new missile will be fraught with certain difficulties, since the Virginia-class submarines are not designed to accommodate nuclear weapons on them.
It is assumed that the SLCM-N will receive an adapted modification of the W80-4 nuclear warhead, which is still under development. This warhead is specially designed for long-range missiles.
Timor-Leste students protest government plan to buy new cars for parliamentarians
Timor-Leste police have fired tear gas at protesters who rallied against a plan to buy new official cars for MPs, which triggered anger in one of the poorest nations in South-East Asia.More than 1,000 people, mostly university students, rallied near the National Parliament in Dili to protest against the plan approved last year to procure cars for each of the 65 members of parliament.
The plan was the latest flashpoint in the resource-dependent country, where more than 40 per cent of its population lives below the poverty line, according to the World Bank.
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ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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Netanyahu and Rubio stick to established Israeli-US narrative on Gaza war
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. Senator Marco Rubio recently held a joint press conference in Jerusalem, reiterating their aligned positions on the ongoing Gaza conflict. Netanyahu accepted "full responsibility" for the Israeli strike on Qatar, while Rubio supported Israel’s stance, emphasizing the need for Hamas to be neutralized as an armed entity.
This event highlights the continued strong coordination between Israel and the U.S., even as regional and international criticism grows. Meanwhile, the Arab-Islamic summit in Doha is meeting to discuss the escalating crisis and potential collective responses.
Netanyahu and Rubio stick to established Israeli-US narrative on Gaza war
Netanyahu reiterates Israel takes ‘full responsibility’ for Qatar attack; Rubio says Hamas must ‘cease to exist’.Maziar Motamedi (Al Jazeera)
Huge piles of rusty WWII ammunition are poisoning the Baltic Sea
Approximately 1.6 million tons of old ammunition are lying on the bottom of the North Sea and Baltic Sea, posing a considerable danger: their casings are slowly rusting and emitting toxic substances such as TNT compounds.Most of the ammunition was deliberately sunk in the ocean after the war because the Allies were concerned that Germans would resume hostilities against them again at some point, and ordered that Germany destroy all ordnance. At the time the easiest way to do so seemed to be to simply dump everything into the sea.
Huge piles of rusty WWII ammunition are poisoning the Baltic Sea
While tensions between Russia and NATO are building up in the Baltic Sea, Europeans are still busy cleaning up the mess World War II left behind in the oceanKIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press (ABC News)
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It’s hard to overstate just how systemic “we can fix it later” was in the mid 20th century. Progress had happened quickly since the turn of the century, many centuries old problems were solved overnight by new inventions (like penicillin) and it was assumed that that progress would continue.
For instance, the century date problem, later known as the Y2K problem, was first realized in the 1950s. Then brought to light again in the 1970s. But nobody did anything about it until the mid 90s.
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The first person known to publicly address this issue was Bob Bemer, who had noticed it in 1958 as a result of work on genealogical software.
Old science fiction books are exactly like this. They just assumed we'd have technological solutions to everything.
Also, they weren't living in a largely collapsed ecosystem. Today we view this story in horror, but back then there were 1/4th the people, wildlife and nature was bountiful. It was probably hard to imagine that we humans could substantially alter the world. Hell, people today look into the sky and say global warming is bunk. Yeah, looks huge from down here! Take a look from space, paint on a marble.
Linux security
Hi there,
Win10 is soon not supported. Tbh Linux have been on my radar since I started to break from the US big tech.
But how is security handled in Linux? Linux is pretty open-source, or am I not understanding it correctly.
So how can I as a new user make sure to have the most secure machine as possible?
I've used Linux Mint and other distros daily for more than 10 years. Never had a virus or malware issue and don't even run antivirus software.
During that same time I've had to help friends remove viruses and malware from their Windows machines dozens of times. The latest Windows disaster I've assisted with was a few months ago. A retired friend had her Windows 10 machine hijacked and $8K stolen from her savings account. Making sure the malware was removed required hours of work formatting the drive and reinstalling Windows.
IMO you are far safer with a plain vanilla Linux install that you are with Windows, no matter what steps you take to secure your Windows installation.
At least that's my understanding.
It's hard enough getting legit software in general to work on Linux. Even if a virus was written for Ubuntu, it is likely not going to run on Fedora, or Arch, or even downstream/upstream versions of Ubuntu.
Edit: Although thinking about it, Linux terminal commands are pretty universal, so if you manage to execute a script or terminal command as root or sudo then I guess it could apply to multiple distros.
But even without root access, malware can create a lot of damage.
You sure though?
What do you want? It should go without saying that I am absolutely sure of my own experience.
In probably 15 years total of running Linux I have not had a single problem with malware or viruses. Part of that time was also running Windows regularly and my Windows systems DID become infected with both malware and viruses occasionally, despite my best efforts. And you're not mentioning the fact that Linux runs on 63% of the server market and those systems are under constant attack.
Reports of Linux system infections are truly rare, and considering the nature of the user community would be widely and loudly reported if they were happening.
Do you have any experience in this matter? Have you had your own Linux installations infected, or are you a Windows user questioning what you're reading? (Perfectly reasonable if the 2nd one's the case.) Please fill us in on the details.
I'm still wondering why do you think Linux is more resistant to malware - besides the incompatibility (mentioned in other reply here). Your experience doesn't tell much about why and I wrote my theory.
To have the most secure machine possible, you might need a hardened kernel but you absolutely need to have SELinux (or equivalent) rules set up.
The easiest way to have a go at this would be to install OpenSuSE (any version will do, they all ship with SELinux ootb) and follow guides on how to setup SELinux permissions.
There's a lot of people with the idea that open source can't be secure because people see the source code.
But imagine this. You have 2 locks, one that is completely viewable of the innerworkings, and another that is covered, both have been unbreakable, but could you imagine the balls on the guy that made the clear lock? Imagine feeling so confident that your lock was clearly the best, that you just expose it to any hacker ever and they still can't get in.
Microsoft can barely get things working with their closed source code.
In reality, anything is exploitable and hackable eventually. With the open source community there are so many eyes on it that when someone notices that the program is running 2 seconds slower than it used to, they discover a vulnerability instead of just accepting it and saying "probably MS doing some BS" and dealing with it.
your analogy doesn't quite work here tbh.
It's not a transparent lock, a transparent lock would be easy to pick. It's more of a usual lock, but everyone can see all the blueprints and changes done to them. You can make changes to the blueprints yourself, and if the locksmiths approve of it, the next iteration of the lock will have them included.
Everyone who's in the set of users of OSS software can contribute, therefore the set of people in control of the software that want it to have no backdoors whatsoever is always larger than the set of people who want to let the backdoors in, unlike in closed source, where corporate can singlehandedly decide to include a backdoor on purpose, not to mention, lots of OSS projects have such a large quantities of different people working on them, corpos won't be able to gather so much humanpower under a single project ever.
if you mean the most secure desktop? then linux is not. not by a long shot.
use windows.
madaidans-insecurities.github.…
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if you mean most most free, linux it is.
personally I use linux.
I think this article is a great analysis of what deep rooted flaws linux desktop distros have, but I think it is a bit disconnected from the average user (obligatory xkcd).
If the average linux user needs a programm they google what they need land on stack overflow telling them to use their package manager to install it.
If the average windows user needs a program/feature, they google it. They klick on the first link and install the first .exe they find. Has anyone you know used the microsoft store?
Or take gaming as another example. The default expirience for online multiplayer games requires kernel level anticheat on windows. This effectively circumvents windows carefully crafted security model for most tripple A online games.
So yes the average linux machine is probably not as secure as a MacOs or windows machine. But the way they are commonly used I highly doubt windows machines are more secure.
About sandboxing, not like the Java-VM helps much in Android security.
The inherent problem why sandboxing should not be on this list:
Just make sure everything's updated.
Microsoft do a good job of updating drivers and their applications, but Windows application updates vary so much.
For Linux - mostly - the distro maintainers handle all updates and just updating is usually enough.
After that it's down to you... if you disable all the built-in protection and visit dodgy websites then any OS is going to struggle.
You can improve the out-of-box security by removing software you don't use, improving default configurations (one size doesn't fit all) and considering if you want additional security software - this applies to any OS.
So, to return to your question, choose a Linux distro which has regular updates and only contains applications that you use.
I think you're agreeing with me then.
My first point is keeping everything updated - which would include the browser(s)
My later point was visiting dodgy sites with protections disabled.
So how can I as a new user make sure to have the most secure machine as possible?
Shut the computer down. That's it; computer as secure as possible.
Otherwise, if you actually want to use your computer, google for "threat model" first.
But generally: use an adblocker in your webbrowser, don't execute random commands/tools from the internet before you know for sure what you're doing, update stuff now and then and make backups.
You don't actually need "perfect" security in the future, any more than you did in the past. Windows was not perfect, right? So stop looking for perfection. Instead, look for "good enough for 99.9% of the world". And you can get that with many of the popular Linux distributions.
Basically, install a popular distro, and keep your software to whatever is in the package manager. Don't install random shit manually. Don't download random software from random websites. Don't fuck with security settings unless you read up on the topic very thoroughly. Then you'll be fine.
So how can I as a new user make sure to have the most secure machine as possible?
- Always use uBlock Origin in a Firefox-based browser (e.g., LibreWolf, Zen).
- Never click on links in communication of any kind that you didn't expect or are too good to be true.
- Never reinstall Windows.
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Wait what? I don't use mint, but with every other distro you just check the box at install and that is it.
Are you saying its hard to configure after you have already installed? I could imagine it might be, but why not export a list of programs you use and back up the home directory. Reinstall and check the box, restore home, and import your package list?
Firstly, LUKS is under "physical disk for encryption" which is a stupid and confusing name.
Secondly, if you want to dual-boot with LUKS you need to manually configure the partitions.
Thirdly, you need to seperately assign root to be installed on the "physical disk for encryption", and they have multiple volumes for that in the list.
Fourthly, as with all LUKS encrypted Linux distros you need a seperate EFI, boot, and root partition.
Fifthly, all of this partitioning is on a really small window that can't be resized.
Is there anything stopping viruses from doing virus things?
Usually that's called sandboxing. AUR packages do not have any, if you install random AUR packages without reading them, you run the risk of installing malware. Using Flatpaks from Flathub while keeping their permissions in check with a tool like Flatseal can help guard against this.
The main difference is that even with the AUR being completely user submitted content, they're centralized repositories, unlike random websites. Malware on the AUR is significantly less common, though not impossible. Using packages that have a better reputation will avoid some malware, simply because other people have looked at the same package.
There is no good FOSS Linux antivirus (that also targets Linux). Clamav "is the closest", though it won't help much.
Security on Linux is lackluster.
Generally as long as you don't install any untrustworthy programs you'll be safe ... but there's a problem. Linux is an amalgamation of thousands of separate programs and most of them are maintained by one guy in Nebraska thanklessly. XZ Utils is a prime example of how vulnerable the Linux software stack is to malware.
My advice: Keep your daily driver separate from your gaming machine, use a debian-based distro like Ubuntu or Mint for your daily driver, and always have a disaster recovery plan. My advice would basically be the same for a Windows user.
EDIT: Also full-disk encryption. Both on Windows and Linux you can just read the contents of a hard drive no questions asked. Windows is going to address this with TPM's but you can just use a password. Secure-boot is good because it can help guard against rootkits.
Keep your user account in user space.
Avoid unnecessary root access.
From a windows perspective Linux does 2 things differently which makes it more secure to Windows.
1) Like MacOS it doesn’t need antivirus software like Norton. Windows needs antivirus because DOS the OS windows is based on, had it where any program had access to anything. This is still sadly true even on Windows 11. Linux is Sandboxed, where instead of giving the program full access to everything, you just give it a sandbox with what it needs.
Unless you deliberately run a program as the admin of Linux (su or sudo), malicious code can just delete system32.
2) Linux’s is open source and while the desktop market share is tiny, there are a massive market in servers. As a result since there are a lot of eyes on the project if/when problems are found they are fixed quickly. I remember a time when a malicious actor was trying to add a backdoor into a library as a blob and it was caught.
Windows on the other hand is closed source, meaning if MS can’t find the issue, the only time it is found is when it’s in the field. To avoid downtime MS offers bug bounty programs for those who can find issues, rather than to let them exploit it.
I don't know where you got your information from, but your mental model on how and why things work the way they do in both linux and windows seems to be really off.
Since you seem someone that is actually interested in understanding this stuff, I strongly suggest to find some better sources as your base
When I was taking cyber security, Sandboxing and Linux was one of the topics which was brought up.
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Not sure when I associated it with the entire OS. It appears that the Host OS can be sandboxed for added security, and some containerized applications like Flatpaks are sandboxed. But not all applications are. Like the OS provided packages in most package managers.
I would argue that Linux is inherently much more secure than windoze, simply because of how it handles user space vs. System (root access vs. User access). Also by how transparent its configuration is and how much information is readily accessible detailing how it works and how to adjust things.
However, when talking security for anything above the average user’s browsing needs, it can get very complicated depending on what you are trying to achieve.
Think of it like building something to keep out honest people vs. to keep out hardened, knowledgeable, clever thieves. Obviously the latter is going to take more time and resources to achieve, while the need to keep out more sophisticated bad actors would probably only be needed if you have something they might want.
Here are some suggestions for searching if actual security is your goal. Others can chime in with more things if they want. This is just some topics/programs you can read about to dip your toes in.
- nftables/Firewalld (common firewalls)
- wireguard/openvpn (vpn protocols)
- rootless containers (podman)
Best of luck!
Others have said it before but basically : what is YOUR (not me, not your best friend, nor your colleague, etc) threat model?
To clarify that means WHO is actually trying to threaten your security?
Typical for most people it would be :
- scammers trying to get pieces of your identity or your local cryptocurrency wallet or resources they can use to repeat that on to others.
For some people, like activists or political journalists it would be :
- national actors, e.g. governments, with their surveillance apparatus, who might end up on a list with a set of conditions that would trigger some automated scan to get e.g. Signal logs
For very very few people, say Edward Snowden, who within the previous group actually did trigger some action :
- actual team of hackers trying to hack into their devices
So as you can imagine if you are part of group 1, 2 or 3 then way you will protect yourself is totally different. What you will also have to protect is also different, e.g. if you have no cryptowallet but are traveling you might have to protect your phone physical phone and its data.
So... if you are serious about this, take a cybersecurity class. There are plenty available but how a computer works, software and hardware alike, is precisely what makes them simultaneously powerful and also dangerous. There are plenty of ways to break security (e.g. return oriented programing), plenty of ways that practically impossible (e.g. encryption) due to the very nature of computers (i.e. computational complexity) which IMHO makes this one of the most fascinating topic. Ask yourself come the credit card in your pocket (costing few bucks to make) can't be cracked by the largest super computers (costing billions) on Earth?
TL;DR: no offense but you don't seem to be ready for the answer without getting the basics first.
So how can I as a new user make sure to have the most secure machine as possible?
That's not what you want. You want a reasonable level of confidence that your system is secure.
The process is similar to Windows - keep it up-to-date, use good passwords, don't run things as root (admin), and don't install things that are questionable.
The package manager under linux is where you should start, and that varys by distro some. But generally speaking things installed from there are "safe" and will be updated by the package manager when you do updates.
- Set a decently good password (password is required frequently on Linux, so do go overboard with a 40-random-characters-long password, you will regret it)
- don't install programs or run scripts from shady sources, prefer to install programs from the Software store (package manager and flatpak)
- setup a backup system to regularly copy all your files to a separate storage device. This is the way to protect yourself from ransomware but also user errors! Having the possibility to format your drive, reinstall and restore backup in a 1 hour time span is going to give you the peace of mine you need for exploring and experimenting with Linux
Microsoft being closed source hides their bugs and vulnerabilities. Even when security researchers have sent in reports MS has sat on them due to profit being motive not security, and not taking vulners seriously until the researchers say screw that and publish it.
Linux being open can have all eyes on it, and if there is an exploit, there is a community willing to help ASAP.
On many distros you may have weekly or even daily updates or patches coming through with fixes.
A distro like OpenSUSE has various patch and list patch commands that show what security patches are avilailable, their status (critical, recommended) and if it's needed on your system or not depending on what you have installed.
You don't get transparency on closed source systems.
If you are paranoid about security you can use AppArmor tools or SELinux.
AppArmor can be set to learn how an app behaves, then you lock it so the app can't do new things.
SELinux you set rules for files and folders, so even with remote access an attacker can't access data if rules don't allow file listing over SSH etc
The US Air Force decommissioned the first Minuteman III mine — the transition to Sentinel began, but with reservations
The US Air Force has officially decommissioned the first Minuteman III — LF 5E10 mine at the F.E. Warren Base in Wyoming. This is the symbolic beginning of the replacement of the outdated missile system with the new LGM-35A Sentinel system. According to the command, the combat readiness of the nuclear forces remains: 400 missiles are still on duty.
However, this "historic step" hides serious challenges. The Sentinel program, which is being implemented by Northrop Grumman, is already facing large—scale delays and a sharp increase in cost - the project budget is approaching $100 billion. Experts note that ambitious deadlines may be disrupted again, especially against the background of the complexity of replacing infrastructure that was worked out during the Cold War era.
In addition, the question remains: will ultra-expensive modernization justify its costs in the face of a changing global threat? As the Air Force makes its first move, the future of Sentinel looks less like a triumph of technology than a test of budget and realism.
First F.E. Warren Minutemen III Silo Decommissioned For New Sentinel Missiles
The Air Force has confirmed decommissioning of the first F.E. Warren Air Force Base Minutemen III silo to make way for new Sentinel missiles. It’s a huge milestone for the $141 billion nuclear modernization project, which begins in Wyoming.Renée Jean (Cowboy State Daily)
How's your experience with samba shares on Linux?
I have a samba share running on my server (just an Intel N100 Mini PC). It's running Fedora Atomic and my desktop is also running Fedora Atomic.
While it's good enough to watch videos on, reliability when it comes to uploading files to it has been very poor. The connection ends up timing out after a few minutes of uploading.
I found that using rsync to upload files to it has been a lot more reliable.
I’ve been using smb protocol for years. NFS is great when it works, but something about my network makes it unreliable or inconsistent between devices.
Smb has never caused me any problems.
If you force turn off SMBv1, should work with win10/11
I have a mix of nfs and smbv3 shares with linux, mac, windows machines. Use nfs for video/music sharing for all. SMBv3 for protected private files.
Edit: i read your comment wrong.
If you dont care about permissions, use NFS. If you need protected shares, use SMBv3, force blocking of SMBv1 protocol.
I have a mix of both NFS and SMBv3 shares between NAS, Windows 11, Ubuntu, and MacOS machines. It can be done, not too difficult unless you are trying to mount things weird in proxmox or something.
You might want to check sshfs but overall yes rsync works well. I just uploaded 200Go yesterday, no failure.
On my LAN if I want to share without downloading them then I rely on MiniDLNA/ReadyMedia for DLNA/UPnP meaning it works with VLC on desktop, obviously, Android video projectors, mobiles, etc.
Guess it depends on your usage but I stopped using Samba when I didn't have Windows machines on my network. Never looked back.
Poland not ready for consultations with Russia on drone incident — diplomat
Poland not ready for consultations with Russia on drone incident — diplomat
"This looks like a provocation or a misunderstanding, which the Polish side is not willing to clarify," Mikhail Ulyanov saidTASS
Gaza Famine Death Toll Rises to 420, Including 145 Children - Health Ministry
Gaza Famine Death Toll Rises to 420, Including 145 Children - Health Ministry
The total number of deaths from malnutrition amid the blockade and food supply crisis in the Gaza Strip has risen to 420 people, including 145 children, the Gaza health ministry said on Saturday.Sputnik International
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He already bullied countries into backing off silicon valley regs and penalties, the eu appeased him so far.
The eu does not need the us they should have held firm, but I guess they are too busy trying to lock down the internet and read everything everyone has done online.
The one silver lining is that if the autocracy succeeds all of these guys will be supplanted, many by being persecuted. I suspect supreme leader will have a Joseph Stalin level of paranoia after the epic fight in the Viper pit for that position in 2028. That is if we do not get our shit together and get a popular muscular reform champion to run against them and overcome the vote rigging they plan on doing.
The rich people supporting him will get it worse than anyone, at some point they will start accusing them and seizing their assets, at first those that crossed the party, later seizing assets will be the end in itself.
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Attempts to harm ties with India will ‘fail’ – Moscow
Attempts to harm ties with India will ‘fail’ – Moscow
The Russian Foreign Ministry has told RT that cooperation with New Delhi is deepening despite Western threatsRT International
Ukrainians add 3-year-old child to state-backed ‘kill list’
Ukraine adds three-year-old to state-backed ‘kill list’
A Russian child has been added to Ukraine’s Mirotvorets database, which publishes the personal details of people it labels as ‘enemies’RT
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I'd prefer just about anything but Russian state media, yeah. You are aware that they're in a hot war with the people they're accusing of wrongdoing against a child, right?
It's not exactly the pinnacle of goddamn impartiality. Especially in light of how they've currently kidnapped 11 thousand fucking Ukrainian children.
kidnapped 11 thousand fucking Ukrainian children.
Yea, cool, lets just keep spreading western russophobic propaganda!
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they’ve currently kidnapped 11 thousand fucking Ukrainian children.
You mean 339 Of which at least half was already found in Germany?
Mediniski made another point which is also of interest:
Finally, the Ukrainian side handed over to us the list of 339 children allegedly kidnapped from the territory of Ukraine. Here is the list. We are working on it, through the office of the Commissioner for Children’s Rights. We will investigate every name.
But I must note that, for propaganda purposes, they earlier claimed that tens and hundreds of thousands of children had been brought over here. In fact, the actual number is 339 and we still need to check how many are in Russia, evacuated by our soldiers from under fire, and how many will eventually turn up in Europe, as experience shows.The 'experience' Medinsky mentions refers to this item from last year's April:
Ukrainian children deported by Russia have been found in Germany: details have emergedUkrainian law enforcement officers, with the assistance of their German colleagues, have established the whereabouts of 161 Ukrainian children abducted by Russia in Germany. They were wanted as forcibly transferred to the temporarily occupied territories or deported to Russia and Belarus.
Those Ukrainian children, abducted by the bad, bad Putin, had fled with their parents to Germany ...
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Except your sources are consistently lying & it has been proven time & time again.
They did the same with Palestinians.
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Western MSM isn't all that exists. Your (conspiracy-grade) bias is showing and it's quite embarrassing.
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This shit is just so fucked up I don't even know what to say.. Anyone who supports Ukraine is a fucking fascist who needs to be shot like a rabid dog.
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New Multipolarity: The Russia–China–Iran Axis Forges an Alternative World Order
New Multipolarity: The Russia–China–Iran Axis Forges an Alternative World Order
The recent Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Tianjin, China, followed by the country’s grand military parade in Beijing, has paved the wayАббас Хашемит (New Eastern Outlook)
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Great projection my dude. We don't blindly support Russian/chinese authoritarianism. We support armed resistance against Western imperialism.
Which is what Europe & America represents
Didn't even need that long. Right-wing outlets (Fox, Daily Mail) are now posting articles about "sources" (which they do not elaborate on) confirming to them that shooter's roommate was his "transgender partner".
The Daily Mail tries very hard to imply a romantic partnership in the first few paragraphs despite no evidence of such, then go on to clarify they don't know the relationship details after priming the reader.
The partner – who shared a three-bedroom apartment with Robinson in Utah – is said to be 'fully co-operating' with the FBI.The room-mate is understood to have handed over text messages allegedly sent by Robinson after the killing, apparently saying where to retrieve the rifle used in the assassination after it was left in a wooded area.
A source told Fox News: 'The shooter was living with a transgender man who was transitioning from male to female.
'The status of their relationship isn't known. They were friends who enjoyed playing video games together.
Fox, as usual, doesn't give a shit about waiting for more evidence and just says what they think would get the most engagement:
Bureau officials confirmed that Tyler Robinson, 22, was in a "romantic relationship" with the unnamed person, who is a male transitioning to a female, and that they shared an apartment in Saint George, Utah. Those FBI officials told Fox News Digital that Robinson's partner is fully cooperating with the FBI's investigation.
Charlie Kirk's alleged assassin lived with transgender partner who is now cooperating with FBI: Officials
EXCLUSIVE: Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin lived with his transgender partner, Fox News Digital has learned.Brooke Singman (Fox News)
Fox, as usual, doesn’t give a shit about waiting for more evidence and just says what they think would get the most engagement
Not even that. They know the first message people hear gets stuck in people's heads, even when contradicted and retracted afterwards. If you want to set a narrative, get the message out there first disregarding any facts, especially when you can use some weasel words to dress it up to avoid any legal consequences.
Is bluemaga a version of the American Democratic Party with similar christo-fascist values and aspirations?
I think I understand....but don't want to assume, so please extrapolate...
This is the first I've heard of this.
Bluemaga refers to the Bluedog dems who take their marching orders from the DNC the same way regular maga take theirs from Trump.
They're the libs who were telling us to shut up and pledge to vote blue in the month following Oct 7th, instead of joining us to tell the dems to stop facilitating a genocide. In 2020 they celebrated how the dems were going to stop Trump's moronic border policy, and in 2024, they celebrated how Biden and Kamala secured the border.
A subset of BluMaga are BluAnon, they believe Biden was drugged before the debate he did poorly in, that Trump staged his own assassination, and dozens of other wacky conspiracies to explain away the dems sucking shit without accepting that they're both malicious and incompetent.
The term has been floating around since 2020, but I really noticed the weird reverse loyalty thing going on in 2016 when saying "hey, Hillary might not win, or at least is going to do much worse with this "america is already great you're doing better than ever"" messaging would get you attacked and insulted.
Yeah, there isn't enough evidence to definitively prove it either way, and much of the evidence out there is tenuous or based on anonymous sources or tweets.
I agree that the claim he's on the left is more plausible.
I don't think we'll know for sure unless he says something.
The corporate media immediately ran with a narrative that Charlie Kirk’s assassin was ‘right-wing’
Let’s check in on that:
- Kirk’s killer lived with his transgender boyfriend
- He carved Antifa and LGBTQ slogans into his bullets
- His family calls him a ‘radical leftist’
- Top law enforcement officials call him a ‘Left-Wing Activist’
- His transgender boyfriend ‘hated Christians and conservatives’
- Co-workers confirm he was consumed with hatred for President Trump and Charlie Kirk
- He cut down the most powerful conservative voice of a generation
Now the media and leftists claim no one can ever know the motive!
No. The Left radicalized him. They weaponized him. And now they’re desperately trying to wash the blood off their hands.
When all of the evidence is published after court on Tuesday, the truth shall come to light.
More came out yesterday from family of the boyfriend: A family member of Lance Twiggs, who was the transgender “boyfriend” of Charlie Kirk’s assassin, Tyler Robinson says family cut ties with Twiggs due to his “hostility toward anyone supporting conservative or Christian values” and confirm Robinson lived with him.
I love how it's impossible to tell if you're a republican trying to smear the left or a centrist democrat trying to smear the left.
The anti-trans hate in the last paragraph doesn't remove any ambiguity.
Encryption at rest w.r.t. email
I use mailbox.org. Mailbox.org provides an "encrypted mailbox" feature, which PGP encrypts incoming unencrypted emails. The server can of course intercept incoming messages, but it can't look at the entire backlog unless it was compromised the entire time.
Alternatively, using POP3 instead of IMAP (at least with the default settings) deletes emails from the server after downloading, whenever my laptop is connected. Thus, the server can intercept incoming messages, but not the entire backlog.
Of course, both of these have downsides. The encrypted mailbox is PGP, so it misses important details like the subject lines and source addresses. Meanwhile, POP3 can leave my mail entirely unprotected for as long as I'm offline, and it also means that I can't access it from anything other than my laptop, and means that I have to do manual backups.
Which is more important in terms of security, or should I use both? I'm looking for the legal perspective of law enforcement (In Canada and Germany, home to myself and my email provider respectively), but also that of some hacker who's trying to get into my (and everyone else's) accounts.
Would there be a server software that I could use to download emails from mailbox.org over POP3 and then provide them to all my own devices over IMAP? That might, in some sense be the best of both worlds. Right now, I am using both POP3 and the encrypted mailbox, but convenience is definitely not optimal, so I'd like to change if it can be done safely.
If that's your concern, I would move to a zero-knowledge provider.
Edit: although you should remember that the email in transit is not encrypted, so am attacker could sit in front of your provider and read every message in plain text.
Do you know of any zero-knowledge providers that are both (a) trustworthy for my own purposes, and (b) unlikely to go to spam?
Like you said, the incoming messages aren't encrypted, so "zero-knowledge" is always sort of false advertising. Also, if I have to use some weird client, that isn't good. I do value convenience, especially for email; chasing diminishing returns just isn't worthwhile, and if possible I'd like to not use both, as I am now.
can you show us where the support for fascism is?
And if you're just going to say that the DPRK is fascist, what do you consider to be more fascist: an invasion and brutal war against a tiny country that kills 20% of its population, makes the remaining population live underground, relentlessly and indiscriminately bombs the country until there are no targets left; or the country that survives that war and refuses to play by the rules of the colonizers, imperialists, and occupiers who want them to be a capitalist country like the occupied south?
Something about mass starvation for the elites...
Once again, I am not defending any other governments.
What? No I didn't. Your lies only support my argument.
Seriously, are you all so detached from reality? Bots maybe?
What is this comment posted on? That's the answer. NK is not a free, unless you are Kim's friend.
Unless being killed by your government for believing the wrong thing isn't related to fascism in any way?
Good to acknowledge the mass starvations though.
You're mixing up a lot of different concepts.
"NK is not a free country" is a meaningless sentence. What does a free country look like? Is it a country where people may achieve their highest level ambitions regardless of who they're born to, their identity, or any immutable characteristic? Because it isn't that, and that doesn't exist anywhere. Is it a country where the state ?mostly stays out of people's lives and people are generally free to do what they wanna do as long as they aren't destabilizing things? I believe it actually is, and I know you don't think any serious person could think that way, but I'd invite you to show me a source that offers compelling evidence that the above is not the case and isn't from the US State Department or Radio Free Asia.
Nobody in NK is being killed or prosecuted just for their beliefs. They don't have mind readers. I also guarantee they aren't throwing people in jail for saying bad things to each other. Think about how ridiculous this would be to enforce, if you could claim someone you don't like told you, in private, that they disliked the government you could get them arrested. That's absurd.
They don't have free speech, though, because they're... currently still officially at war and effectively under siege by the most militarized country on earth, and its vassal state that's armed to the teeth. If you lived in NK, would you feel comfortable with lax free speech laws and all the other "freedoms" that would allow for the enemy to more effectively destabilize and fracture the country? Because that's been a standard imperialist tactic since the coup against Arbenz in Guatemala about a century ago.
Moreover, if I had to draw an easy conclusion from this: you're probably a westerner, and you might even be from the US or another country that supported the imperialist and genocidal invasion of Korea. If you can understand why it would be really stupid for an Israeli, or even an Israeli leftist, to tell Palestinians what they are and aren't allowed to do to resist Israeli aggression, what's so hard to understand about the idea westerners whose governments are still laying siege to the DPRK being the last people who should be criticizing it? Do you think the North Korean people are just mindless drones waiting for their western saviors, who need the western left to pressure their governments to sanction and blockade the DPRK even more, to free them from the "Kim dynasty"?
I dont think I'll take your guarantee of what you say there.
Again, this is about the meme, not the west, which the world has very good reason to hate.
Government crisism should be placed where due - even if that's everywhere.
Many who support the current (see meme) regime do seem to claim to have been there, im not bothering to ask here, though.
If you don't want to take me at my word, I can provide one (dumb) piece of evidence, then you can try to find some evidence to the contrary. Here's a video where some Aussies go get a haircut in NK where they echo a lot of what I'm saying: people are just living their lives, they never interact with the government during their stay. If you have a source that says something different and isn't from an enemy of NK then I'll check it out.
I don't think "government criticism should be placed where due - even if that's everywhere" is a very useful outlook for the world. I think we should first try to understand why countries are the way they are, and give our criticisms to the system that made them that way when appropriate. Again, think about the example of Palestine. Do Palestinian groups do things I disagree with? Absolutely. Is the way to tackle that situation to criticize them? No, because they're already facing a war of genocidal extermination, so if you want them to do better, you should first try to remove the aggravating factors that are impeding democratic forces within their camp from winning over the reactionaries. It's the exact same situation with NK: you don't think their government is sufficiently transparent, it's overly punitive, not democratic enough, etc etc? They won't change those things as long as they're under a genocidal blockade and the whole world wants them dead.
There's no support for fascism here, Marxists have in general celebrated when Charlie Kirk got ventilated, for example. The DPRK is socialist, even if there's room for critique said critique must come from reality, not fantasy. The DPRK is the single most propagandized against state on the planet in the west, and getting accurate information is difficult, leading to its current position where the news can report literally anything and westerners will believe it.
I think you'd do yourself a great service if you genuinely looked into the DPRK, its history, and how it actually works. Countries like Cuba, Russia, and China maintain strong ties with the DPRK, so there is information you can find from visitors. Plus, the DPRK has good ties to the Palestinian resistance, so there's other avenues to explore.
If you genuinely consider yourself anti-Zionist and anti-capitalist, it helps to not take pro-Zionist and pro-Capitalist propaganda at face-value.
Australians soon facing age checks when viewing adult websites [& search engines, social media, file sharing, etc, etc]
And all service providers/hosts around the world are expected to comply.
Here's one summary of the looming access control measures.
Reading and understanding all this (and the linked sources) feels so.. difficult, obtuse, complex.
https://www.dundaslawyers.com.au/australians-soon-facing-age-checks-when-viewing-adult-websites/
Then watch all the porn you want.\
Simple.
Keeping a fake or impersonated adhaar is a crime. They don't allow it, until someone notices it.
Same suggestion to you.\
Forge a new one. Make yourself younger/older, male/female, gay/ultra max gay and then use that to watch all sorts of kinky stuff.\
Profit.
Inshitification of the Internet, who would have thought.
I wonder what it would take now to ditch the internet like one would do when ditching Facebook for example.
It would be somewhat freeing, I imagine. Though, if you were to go hardcore, quick access to knowledge would be the biggest drawback.
Ditching the enshittified parts would probably be easier. Can do offline maps (or paper), purge social media, and use credible sites for any information you might need to look up.
I doubt it would be 100% completely possible, it was more of a hypothetical thought in its self.
Knowing most services are reliant on the internet now, such a POS (point of sale) devices in stores, home phones, condo intercoms, buying airline tickets.
Its would definitely be easier to just stay away or block enshitified parts at the firewall level. Though in some cases even then I find myself using Facebook for its Marketplace only as a example.
Don't they already check if user is over 16 if he wants to sign up for mainstream social media?
And why the fuck does the govt. not provide the age verification tools? This is the insane part.
Bitlocker Encryption
Something I hardly see mentioned here is encryption for data such as on your PC. My modus operandi is to encrypt all the things. This is a little .bat script I came up with to lock all drives, except the C: drive, all in one click.
It resides on my desktop as an icon, and i can lock all drives in a couple seconds vs doing it drive by drive.
Not sure if anyone here could use it, but I thought I'd share. I am sure that some of you real coders here could fine tune it a bit, and I'd be open to suggestions.
@echo off
REM Script to lock multiple BitLocker drives with admin privileges
REM Check for administrative privileges
net session >nul 2>&1
if %errorlevel% neq 0 (
echo This script requires administrative privileges.
echo Requesting elevation...
REM Create a VBS script to trigger UAC prompt
echo Set UAC = CreateObject^("Shell.Application"^) > "%temp%\elevate.vbs"
echo UAC.ShellExecute "%~s0", "", "", "runas", 1 >> "%temp%\elevate.vbs"
cscript //nologo "%temp%\elevate.vbs"
del "%temp%\elevate.vbs"
exit /b
)
REM List of drives to lock
set drives=D: G: I: H: E: F: P: J:
REM Loop through each drive and lock it
for %%d in (%drives%) do (
echo Locking drive %%d...
manage-bde -lock %%d -ForceDismount
)
echo All specified drives have been locked.
pause
Thanks for the share! It's not something I'd need to use but I'm all for people sharing their scripts with the community for this stuff 😀
One suggestion, you may want to look at re-writing your script to move away from the VBScript (.vbs) dependency since Microsoft is moving towards disabling and eventually removing it from Windows 11 and onward. It'll likely be disabled by default in 2027 so you have plenty of time.
techcommunity.microsoft.com/bl…
VBScript deprecation: Timelines and next steps
Scripting options for web development and task automation are modernizing. To provide you with the most modern and efficient options, we are replacing VBScript with more advanced alternatives such as JavaScript and PowerShell.Naveen_Shankar (TECHCOMMUNITY.MICROSOFT.COM)
Thanks to you for the tip, I did not know that. I've got two years to rewrite. Yaaayyy!
As much time as I've put in to sanitizing it, building a wall around it, and imaging the results, building off the backs of other's more knowledgeable than I, this is where is get off. I am not upgrading. Why upgrade to a huge advertising platform? I can't wait to see how many data points that Microsoft would be slurping up. In W10 there's something close to 5000 I've shut down so far. Wow!
I have one piece of software I use for one of my retirement businesses. I cannot find a Linux alt equal feature for feature or even close. So, I'm kind of stuck with it,
I would like to tell my story which led to me encrypting my PC hard drive, even if it' not a laptop.
I had a iMac, first it was from work but when I left the company I bought it ao I could keep it. When asked if I want to encrypt the drive while setting it up I denied because it's not a laptop so I didn't take it with me so it couldn't get stolen.
Until I woke up one day and this big iMac which was the center of my desk was suddenly gone, together with my Nikon camera, my external sound card and other electronics the thieves could grab quickly while I was snoring in the bedroom.
I didn't mind the hardware so much and I had backups of most of the things already anyway, but the feeling that they could mount the HDD and get all the data especially I was logged in to all websites and change my passwords, etc.
Since then I'm encrypting everything.
snoring in the bedroom.
I swear I read 'snoring in the bathroom', Picturing someone passed out in the tub snoring.
Fading Labubu frenzy wipes $16.7 billion from Pop Mart shares
Fading Labubu frenzy wipes $16.7 billion from Pop Mart shares
Pop Mart shares have lost almost US$13 billion – or a quarter of its value – since reaching a record on Aug 26. Read more at straitstimes.com.ST
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Trey Parker really raising his daughter to be the most foul-mouthed person in the world lool (she voiced 1 of the girls who fought for the lebubus, and ike). Bro taught her the word bitch before she even learnt her ABC's 🤣🤣🤣
Also yeh lebubus are js pokemon cards without the longevity that unlike pokemon will be completely irrelevant in like a yr, watch.
I just heard about Labubus, and now they are already over?
What am I going to do with the $25,000 in Labubus that I just bought over the weekend?
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Pro-Palestine actors use Emmy Awards platform to slam Gaza genocide
"it is my obligation as a Jewish person to distinguish Jews from the state of Israel. Our religion and our culture is such an important and long-standing institution that is separate to this sort of ethnonationalist state""I cannot work with somebody who justifies or supports the genocide. I can't. It's as simple as that, and we shouldn't be able to do that. In this industry, and in any other industry,"
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I stopped using pro palestine and use anti occupation , anti genocide, pro palestinian liberation.
God forbid we just generally think that genocide is bad no matter who it's done to or why
Palestine is the only place where there is a war of extemination right now
Palestine is the only place where there is a war of extemination right now
Listen, I am about as active as any non-Israeli or non-Palestinian can be in anti-genocide discourse, but you're smoking crack if you think that Russia's intentions for Ukraine are to simply absorb their government and people. Russians by and by large do not believe Ukrainian culture is a thing, and in fact, have been breaking chunks off from their culture and absorbing it as their own since Moscow was founded by a couple of guys who got lost in the woods.
Russia's goal is absolute cultural annihilation, and their actions have fit the standard definition of genocide since 2022.
Russians by and by large do not believe Ukrainian culture is a thing
Yes Putin don't believe Ukrainian should not exist , he want to assimilate them to become Russians that's why he is kidnapping Ukrainians kids and why during the interview with Carlson he was claiming about how Russians and Ukrainians are historically one people.
As opposed to Israel which considered Palestinians just Arab colonizers and them just the righteous people who is going back to their land so they want them either expulsed to Egypt and other countries or kill them
Both genocides are terrible but the Israeli one is another level of evilness. You are an idiot if you believe otherwise
Of course one genocide is worse than another. Are you dumb?
Is a genocide where you want to kick out all people of the land or kill then similar to a genocide where you simply just kill the culture and assimilate them to your culture? Or a genocide where a small part of the population is genocide as bad as a genocide where the majority of the population is killed?
All genocide should be prevented and called out.
As opposed to Israel which considered Palestinians just Arab colonizers and them just the righteous people who is going back to their land so they want them either expulsed to Egypt and other countries or kill them
??? This is literally the official position of the Russian Federation — they consider Ukrainians colonizers who unjustly rebelled and stole Russian land, assets, and production. Putin does not want to assimilate Ukrainians; the intention is total extermination and replacement with ethnic Russians, and always has been.
I am not here to debate which genocide is worse, because plainly, Palestinians are suffering yawning abuses that would make even Mussolini blush. I am just saying that Palestine is not the only active genocide happening in the world right now. Ukraine can fight back; Palestine cannot. That is plainly on a different level. There's no need to imply I am an idiot just because I pay attention to other stuff happening in parts of the world that don't report in English.
This is literally the official position of the Russian Federation — they consider Ukrainians colonizers who unjustly rebelled and stole Russian land, assets, and production. Putin does not want to assimilate Ukrainians; the intention is total extermination and replacement with ethnic Russians, and always has been
Which Putin statements prove that they think Ukrainians are colonizers and that they want to exterminate the people and kick them out rather than exterminate their culture?
Palestine is not the only active genocide happening in the world right now
And i never denied that but the truth is that the situation in Gaza is a lot more urgent and severe. Ukraine still have an army to defend itself, Ukraine still receive billions to defend itself, Ukraine don't have a famine, Ukraine doesn't have almost all it's school, , hospital destroyed and almost it's agricultural land damaged
I would definitely take it a step further call out the Israel defenders as pro-genocide.
Pro-genocide actor, child-groomer and "comedian" Jerry Seinfeld denounced the “Free Palestine” movement as antisemitic in a surprise appearance at a Tuesday Duke event, likening it to rhetoric from the Ku Klux Klan during his introduction of a former Israeli hostage.
edit: forgot child groomer
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I have long been of the opinion that if you read newspaper headlines like a WWF announcer, it really is indiscernible.
PRO-PALESTINE ACTORS ABSOLUTELY SLAM APARTHEID CLYDE, TAKING A SIXTY FOOT PLUNGE OFF OF HELL IN A CELL AND DIRECTLY ONTO AN ANNOUNCERS' TABLE!!!!! BAWGAWD, THAT'S TRUMP'S THEME MUSIC
Yea this is so stupid. This is not a sport. We're talking about human lives. As with everything in life, I'm pro-whatever brings the greatest good. I want both Israelis and Palestinians to live a good life, in dignity.
I always refer to my position as "against the genocide".
The position "I don't care about factions, group, tribes or whatever other fucked up up of reducing humans to labels, what I care about is innocent people being made to suffer" is surprisingly badly taken at times even around here.
I've had my posts swamped by downvotes at least once by saying "I not pro-Palestine, I'm pro-People" as if I have to favor factions rather than, you know, being against the victimization of people who did nothing to deserve it quite independently of whatever label they're tagged with.
Even people whose heart is in the right place nowadays seem to come at it from a "chose a faction" angle rather than from a Principled Humanist one.
It's way easier to manipulate people who support factions (just look at how the Zionists weaponized the support for the Jewish People) than it is to manipulate people who see things based on principles like "people who do no harm to others shouldn't be harmed" as the latter will judge actions based on their merits alone, not on the labels of the people involved.
I've had my posts swamped by downvotes at least once by saying "I not pro-Palestine, I'm pro-People" as if I have to favor factions rather than, you know, being against the victimization of people who did nothing to deserve it quite independently of whatever label they're tagged with.
I think part of the reason being pro-people makes others angry is because everyone is so polarized politically. A lot more people than usual are approaching politics expecting that you're either supporting my ideals or not supporting them. Which may as well be opposing them and opposing 'our' ideals is your moral failing. Nuance is gone, the political center is gone. At least until there are some serious changes.
God forbid we just generally think that genocide is bad no matter who it's done to or why.
I get the sentiment, but is this really true? Gotta be honest when I say that genocide of Nazis doesn’t bother me. There’s a case where it is accepted. It may be extremely small, but there’s still a case.
Exactly the same as the "trump isn't a REAL christian!".
No, he's a christian, funded by christian extremists.
Israel is a theocracy, and the homeland for the jewish religion. They're the head of the religion. So now you have "Israelis aren't REAL jews!" as a reaction. No. They're jewish, that's what the jewish religion is. That's what all religions do when they achieve theocracy. They start fighting other religions, genociding them, and create religious terror.
You would have thought that they would have learned from WWII about genocide and conservative religious nazi behavior - but if they can't learn it from that - no religion ever can.
It's just another genocidial religion. The time to stop giving them a pass when they started genociding a religion that was intent on genociding them. Instead of using diplomacy and rationality to achieve peace.
You conflate Judaism with Zionism, and this makes your comment antisemitic.
Edit: Being anti-zionist makes sense. See Jewish Voice for Peace - On Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism and Dangerous Conflations
On Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism and Dangerous Conflations - JVP
Right now, there’s a lot of pain and fear and grief in our interwoven communities. And as our multiracial, multi-faith movements rise in powerful solidarity with Palestinians, violent rightwing forces are going to try to divide us, attack us, and pit…Jason (Jewish Voice for Peace)
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You should look up what we read on Shabbat Zakhor, you might be surprised.
Actually Supreme Court Justice David Mintz this year said: “Jewish law recognizes three justifications for war, to inherit the land, to destroy Amalek, and to defend against an attacker.” in defense of starving the Palestinians to death. To say that this situation has nothing to do with Judaism is beyond ridiculous. Now, where we get into antisemitic territory is when we say not only "all Jews think like this" but also "they think like this because they are Jews". There is a big difference and it is important.
I don't see anything surprising in what you describe. It is well known that Zionism uses Judaism as a tool for its settler colonialism for well over a century now. The Bund wrote anti-zionist songs at the time.
Clearly, Judaism and Zionism are not synonyms, nor have they ever been.
It is the Zionist state of Israel that tries to present Judaism and Zionism as synonyms. We shouldn't fall for Zionist propaganda / Israeli propaganda / Hasbara, call it as you want, these are synonyms. And this is why we need to call out both Zionism and antisemitism.
Saying that Israel is a theocracy (...) because this is what the Jewish religion is, not only is an uniformed statement, it is also an antisemitic one. Israel is a settler collonial theocracy because of Zionist principals. (And the support from the West - meaning, the decendents of the christians and/or europeans that were procecuting Jewish populations for centuries. I won't expand on this now.)
Lessons from the Bund: A Socialist, Anti-Zionist, Jewish Movement - Left Voice
As long as there has been Zionism, there have been anti-Zionist Jews.Frankie Levine (Left Voice)
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I hate awards shows because of all the preaching these rich assholes do.
Still, I appreciate that they did this. (And still glad I didn't sit through it.)
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Bardem doesn't come across that way to me
Einbinder later told Variety that "it is my obligation as a Jewish person to distinguish Jews from the state of Israel. Our religion and our culture is such an important and long-standing institution that is separate to this sort of ethnonationalist state".
Einbinder seems pretty legit too
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Australia: Climate report reveals rising oceans threat
Millions of Australians are facing dire consequences caused by climate change, a landmark report has revealed.
Rising oceans and flooding caused by climate change will threaten the homes and livelihoods of over a million Australians by 2050, a report warned on Monday.
The National Climate Risk Assessment also warned that fatalities from heat-related illness will soar.
Australia will endure more frequent and extreme climate events, often happening simultaneously, which will put pressure on industry, services and infrastructure, the report found.
In stage one we say nothing is going to happen.
Stage two, we say something may be about to happen, but we should do nothing about it.
In stage three, we say that maybe we should do something about it, but there’s nothing we can do.
Stage four, we say maybe there was something we could have done, but it’s too late now. <-- you are here
ABC News
ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.Francis Keany (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Korea’s major US investment projects halted as detained LG Energy workers set for release - KED Global
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ELLABELL, Georgia – The South Korean government has secured the release of about 300 nationals detained following a raid by US authorities on an eleSang-eun Lucia Lee and In-Yeop Kim (KED Global)
This happened 5 days ago.
I was shocked to find nothing about it in this community.
I am really questioning the ability of this community to find and post the most relevant international news.
We need to do better.
EDIT: This was the result of a technical failure—not a community failure. Still, something is wrong.
I am also shocked you found nothing about it in this community.
lemmy.world/post/35703988
lemmy.world/post/35710113
lemmy.world/post/35809590
lemmy.world/post/35821542
Honestly, I am relieved.
How did you find these?
I eventually figured it out.
I was searching in world@lemmy.ml—not world@lemmy.world.
And the first time, I was looking in world@lemmy.world under 'Top Week', but didn't quite scroll down far enough lol.
It was just out of range of the first page.
If I had hit 'More Results' or whatever, it would have been the very first one.
Whoopsiedoodle lol
Anyway, it would be better if the ml vs. world mistake were more difficult to make, but yeah, human error.
Doesn't hurt to put it up again in case there are people who haven't seen it.
There is so much shit going on that it seems like people aren't giving the event the weight it deserves. Same with Israel blowing shit up in Qatar.
A few other notes
- MSN links are annoying because they act as a wrapper for the content that another actual news site put out. Finding the original link is better for everyone, and it helps on the Lemmy side since then the UI can indicate cross posts with that correct link
- I don't find as much value in news stories with "Trump says" in the headline. It helps in order to anticipate what kind of issues he might cause next, but otherwise I'd much rather read what actually happened instead of losing brain cells reading what trump said about it
Agreed (second paragraph)
Trump says a LOT of things. Most of what he says are outright lies, fantasies and make believe. A lot of it is plainly insulting. Way too much of it is unhinged blurps of words that makes little sense, even grammatically. Most of what he says leads to nothing at all.
Very little of what trump says is actually news worthy. Now what he does, on the other hand....
Trump's suggestion that the incident could have been accidental.
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