In a recent trip to Alaska on a cruise we went to Juneau and in their gold mining tourist trap (a very good one by the way) I found something interesting in their store. I was literally sold via their snake oil-like "weird substance in a bottle".
Anyway, let me tell you, ever since I moved to the PNW I suffer from hemorrhoids. One time it got extremely bad. I applied devil's club and within a few minutes I wasn't feeling pins and needles itchiness down in my butt hole. That's one, but two I kept applying it a few times over a month like I do with preparation H and the hemorrhoids are gone! I mean I'm not going to go eat a ghost pepper pie any day but holy moly. I also treated a rash on my neck and groin that kept expanding and I thought was cancer and I was going to die of. I'm not saying don't go see a doctor, go see a doctor for any of this. But I'm just posting a PSA. At least some of the tourist trap bs about this plant is true or has some technology behind it that the big pharma hasn't been able to distill and eliminate.
I'm not a wako crazy person but I did go vegan recently to stop contributing to animal pain and suffering and to prevent heart decease and obesity in my self... This change did not make me loose weight or cure my hemorrhoids.
On the topic of hemorrhoids, let me explain I'm gory details what I think triggers those things in me. Any time I eat pizza or jalapeños, peronchini, jalapeño pickles, onions, tomatoes, I get a hemorrhoid. You'll be walking around and suddenly feel a little itch in your butt hole. In the shower you can explored that itch with your finger. It turns out to start like a pimple on the interior skin of your butt hole. It slowly, over a period of days gets bigger and eventually surprises you by popping out when you're popping. Red bloody stools galore. You'll have bloddy stools for a while. The popping can range from just seeing blood to super painful, you wanna be done with this existence pain. The worst part is cleaning with toilet paper. The little polips feel like a tiny pimple inside very thin skin. That polio eventually grows into a little sack that hangs outside your butt hole and then one day pops.
Look I'm sorry to have to describe all that, but it's true and hopefully someone benefits from this technology. Now, a day or two after applying the devils club you'll feel no different, but in the shower you can explore the polips and the darn thing get smaller and smaller until they're gone.
Once I discovered this, which prep H doesn't really do, I decided to just roll with this. So yeah, I applied that stuff a few times a week for some month and then I forgot. I forgot to apply and I forgot those pesky little pins and needles sobs. This morning I was reading up about it so I thought I should post on here.
One more thing, you can find it on Amazon. Devil's club salve. Its cheaper on Amazon than at the tourist trap for obvious reasons.
Yes this is not circuits in a box with a shiny glass screen. But its technology and hopefully it helps someone try it out.
If my hemorrhoids do comeback I will not let you all know LOL.
Oplopanax horridus (OH) or Devil's club is an ethnobotanical used by the indigenous people native to the Pacific Northwest. There are three species in the genus Oplopanax, and OH is the only species that is distributed in North America. Compared ...
El Fasher had been under siege for more than 500 days. In May 2024, the UN warned it teetered on the “brink of famine”. No aid has entered since. Somehow, against all odds, El Fasher has not fallen. Its defenders – a hotchpotch of volunteers like Abdelghaffa, rebels such as Bakhit and a depleted infantry battalion – have been shoehorned into a shrinking slice of the pulverised city with 260,000 trapped residents, half of them children.
Yet aid has not entered for nearly 18 months.The evidence indicates a key US and UK ally intervened to effectively derail lifesaving humanitarian aid entering El Fasher. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) intruded at a critical stage; hundreds of children are believed to have since died from starvation in the city.
The UAE, repeatedly accused of supplying arms to the RSF, denies it supports the group. Informed sources monitoring the crisis claim that one of the longest urban sieges of modern warfare has only been possible because of such backing. “The UAE is the lifeline to the siege. Without its support, the RSF would have called it off.”
For 500 days, 260,000 people have been trapped by the paramilitary RSF. While political progress stalls, those who attempt escape are killed and those who remain inside are starving. Experts believe the city will soon fall and the endgame has begun
El Fasher had been under siege for more than 500 days. In May 2024, the UN warned it teetered on the “brink of famine”. No aid has entered since. Somehow, against all odds, El Fasher has not fallen. Its defenders – a hotchpotch of volunteers like Abdelghaffa, rebels such as Bakhit and a depleted infantry battalion – have been shoehorned into a shrinking slice of the pulverised city with 260,000 trapped residents, half of them children.
Yet aid has not entered for nearly 18 months.The evidence indicates a key US and UK ally intervened to effectively derail lifesaving humanitarian aid entering El Fasher. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) intruded at a critical stage; hundreds of children are believed to have since died from starvation in the city.
The UAE, repeatedly accused of supplying arms to the RSF, denies it supports the group. Informed sources monitoring the crisis claim that one of the longest urban sieges of modern warfare has only been possible because of such backing. “The UAE is the lifeline to the siege. Without its support, the RSF would have called it off.”
For 500 days, 260,000 people have been trapped by the paramilitary RSF. While political progress stalls, those who attempt escape are killed and those who remain inside are starving. Experts believe the city will soon fall and the endgame has begun
I want to ask for some opinions on my current setup and how I pretend to use it for my Media Server:
Current Layout
I currently use an UGREEN DXP2800 NAS running TrueNAS Scale with two 4 TB HDDs in Mirror mode. This is planned to be my "long-term storage" for backups, photos, and so on.
Additionally, I have 1 TB SSD installed in the system. I created two datasets on it: one for Docker containers and the other one for Media, following the TRaSH guides folder layout
My current plan:
My idea is to use the SSD for the torrents and the seeds, and once the file (e.g. the ~~movie ~~ Linux ISO Image) is completed, to move it to the HDDs. From there, Jellyfin would read the corresponding dataset and play the media.
The question:
The TRaSH guides puts a lot of emphasis on hardlinks and atomic moves, and that forces you to operate in one single filesystem. Is it worth it to stick to the TRaSH guide or my current setup would work just fine? What do y'all think?
TRaSH guides don't actually force you into using one filesystem. I have Sonarr setup using the guide and it uses 2 separate drives just fine.
One thing I would note is that because of the emphasis on quality above all else, following the guides strictly would fill up your drives fairly quickly. If you were to re-prioritize the config to emphasize small file size, you could probably fit 3-4x as much content on there.
The first requirement is that all your media files and folders be in the same file system. Everything must be contained on a single physical or virtual drive
if it's still possible to create hardlinks between the SSD and the Mirrored HDDs, I will go that route.
Something that I noticed people seem to not realize with trash guides is that you can always customize it a bit.
I disabled remux on mine sonarr/radarr and I also set a slightly lower max file size for encodes and webdl. Still grabs the good quality stuff to me based on the curated groups from trash guides.
You can play with the settings of your setup you don't have to follow the guide one to one
What is your reasoning for using the SSD for torrents? Just put the torrents on the HDD(s). Having them on the SSD has no benefits whatsoever and is a waste of an ssd.
I was considering using the SSD to avoid wear and tear in the HDD because of the nature of the torrent downloads. My idea was using the SSD as a temporary/cache drive for the download itself, and then only executing one transfer move to the HDD once the media is completed. Drive noise was another concern, since my NAS sits in my living room and I want to avoid hearing the drives spinning constantly.
I am using two Seagate Ironwolf HDD, which are NAS certified. Will they suffer if I use them for downloading as well as seeding?
As an idea, I use an SSD as a "Default Download Directory" within qBittorrent itself, and then qB automatically moves it to a HDD when the download is fully finished. I do this because I want the write to be sequential going into my ZFS pool, since ZFS has no defragmentation capabilities.
Hardlinks are only important if you want to continue seeding the media in its original form and also have a cleaned-up/renamed copy in your Jellyfin library. If you're going to continue to seed from the HDD, it doesn't matter that the initial download is done on the SSD. The *arr stack will make the hardlink only after the download is finished.
acquisiti ed esaminati i documenti della gara n. 1699 del 21.09.2025 tra Bakery Basket Piacenza e Orzinuovi Basket S.S.D. A.R.L.;
letta la lista N della società Orzinuovi Basket;
preso atto della partecipazione alla gara dell'atleta Chaves Lucas Jesus per la società Orzinuovi Basket;
considerato che con C.U. n.753 del 28.04.2025 lo stesso atleta era stato oggetto del provvedimento di squalifica per una gara con la società LDR Power Salerno nella gara 2682 di serie B;
che si è accertato che la predetta giornata di squalifica non veniva scontata nel campionato 2024/2025 e pertanto andava scontata nel successivo campionato 2025/2026 indipendentemente dalla circostanza di appartenere ad altra società e che pertanto detta giornata di squalifica andrà scontata nel prossimo turno di campionato.
tutto ciò premesso il Giudice Sportivo Nazionale considerata e accertata la posizione irregolare dell'atleta Chaves Lucas Jesus per la gara n.1699 del 21.09.2025; omologa la predetta gara con il risultato di 20 - 0 a favore della società Bakery Basket Piacenza ai sensi degli artt. 49 n.6 REG.,e 18, 48 RG. Non si assumono ulteriori provvedimenti.
Italy is sending a ship to accompany the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla, who said its activists remain shaken but determined following an Israeli attack on Wednesday morning.
Organisers of expedition, which is attempting to carry aid to the Gaza Strip, shared footage this morning appears to show an explosion that detonated on one of the flotilla's vessels.
Late on Tuesday activists heard explosions and saw drones that targeted some of their boats, currently situated off Greece. "Multiple drones, unidentified objects dropped, communications jammed and explosions heard from a number of boats," the Global Sumud Flotilla said.
"I have authorised the immediate intervention of the Navy's frigate Fasan, which was sailing north of Crete and is heading towards the area," Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto said in a statement.
Context: Italian unions threatened to shut down Italian docks if the flotilla doesn't arrive and there have been massive protests in Italy against the genocide.
Italy is sending a ship to accompany the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla, who said its activists remain shaken but determined following an Israeli attack on Wednesday morning.
Organisers of expedition, which is attempting to carry aid to the Gaza Strip, shared footage this morning appears to show an explosion that detonated on one of the flotilla's vessels.
Late on Tuesday activists heard explosions and saw drones that targeted some of their boats, currently situated off Greece. "Multiple drones, unidentified objects dropped, communications jammed and explosions heard from a number of boats," the Global Sumud Flotilla said.
"I have authorised the immediate intervention of the Navy's frigate Fasan, which was sailing north of Crete and is heading towards the area," Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto said in a statement.
They met like old good friends. But the funny thing is that Petraeus himself in 2011 personally offered a $10 million reward for information about al-Sharaa, calling him one of the most dangerous terrorists of ISIS and al-Nusra.
. Unfortunately some of them are collaborating with Israel and seek separation from Syria and whether they realize it or not Israel is using them to destabilize Syria and annex more territory. There were skirmishes a couple of months ago but it cooled down as Druze leaders came to an agreement with the Syrian government.
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In the violence between the Druze community and the Sharaa government, state actors have actively participated in sectarian mobilisation and attacks within the province
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I think, from our point of view is I think it’s 4:00 a.m. last night. There’s explosions overhead. We know that many of our colleagues have already been bombed. We can’t communicate with them because the Israelis have jammed the communication. And one of the activists turned to turned to me and she said, “No one’s coming to help. No one is coming to help us.” And I think for the first time in my life, I got a real sense, a tiny glimmer of what it’s like to be Palestinian. No one’s coming to help us.
US politics has been pretty fascist lately. The state is filling up concentration camps, engaging in mass state violence against people on the basis of racialized traits, deporting them to random countries without any respect for habeas corpus, exerting state pressure on the free press to censor speech critical of the current administration, and Trump is openly floating the idea of an unconstitutional third term.
Fascism is clearly on the rise, and they’re winning more and more power. None of this is far removed from us in the FOSS community – there are a number of fascists working in FOSS, same as the rest of society. I don’t call them fascists baselessly – someone who speaks out in support of and expresses solidarity with fascists, or who uses fascists dog-whistles or promotes fascist ideology and talking points, or boosts fascist conspiracy theories – well, they’re a fascist.
If one consistently speaks in support of a certain political position and against the opponents of that position then it is correct to identify them with this political position. Facts, as it were, don’t care about feelings, namely the feelings that get hurt when someone is called a fascist. Fascists naturally do not want to be identified as such and will reject the label, but we shouldn’t take their word for it. People should be much more afraid of being called out as fascist than they are afraid of calling someone a fascist. If someone doesn’t want to be called a fascist, they shouldn’t act like one.
It’s in this disturbing political context that I saw an odd post from the Cloudflare blog pop up in my circles this week: Supporting the future of the open web: Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy. Based on Ladybird’s sponsorship terms we can assume that these projects received on the order of $100,000 USD from Cloudflare. I find this odd for a few reasons, in particular because one thing that I know these two projects have in common is that they are both run by fascists.
Even at face value this is an unusual pair of projects to fund. I’m all for FOSS projects getting funded, of course, and I won’t complain about a project’s funding on the solitary basis that it’s an odd choice. I will point out that these are odd choices, though, especially Omarchy...
i will continue to say that kling is just a pretty offline guy, and also very much unaware/uninterested in america. most people around me are saying the same things about the kirk shooting and i would not consider them even close to what americans would probably call "centrists", but here is called "right-wingers". people here had just never heard of him or any of his opinions before last week.
kilng strikes me as a man who has never had politics happen to him before he started working in open source, and he is being treated like he shares american values and american cultural knowledge just because he speaks english online.
i don't agree with his stances at all, but it's the norm where he and i live. "åsiktskorridoren" was a political punching bag for a reason.
Interpreting a PR which changes "he" to "they" as pushing political ideology is not an apolitical stance. I don't know a ton about him and I'm not convinced this makes him a "fascist" by association, but the fact that he seems to be ideologically aligned with the ones in power on America is troubling at the very least.
so i've talked about that event at length before and i don't have the time to dig up my old comments right now but the short version is 1) sweden has a weird history with gendered pronouns in that our english language higher education recommended using male pronouns up until very recently, and the language itself just recently got a gender-neutral one which still isn't in general use. 2) the documentation was rewritten to use second-person pronouns (and a much friendlier tone) shortly after, sidestepping the entire discussion.
I hope many more debate nerds carry on his quest to engage young people with words, not fists.
This implies Kirk was a debate nerd. He wasn't. He was a prolific propagandist with a vast, well-funded operation. He pretended to debate here or there in-between monologues of fascist propaganda. TV pundits aren't the people who you want to look up to as bearers of objectivity on the matter, given they're threatened with being taken off the air. It's no accident they talk about the person but don't talk about what he said or wrote. Maybe Kling is mislead by them. Maybe not.
the media here has never shown any kirk debate, and has only talked about him as a "american right-wing debater/influencer". personally i was aware of him only as that too, and only saw how heinous his opinions actually were when i googled him after the event. and i, along with most other swedes, have a fairly high regard for our public broadcasting institutions, and since most american internal squabbles don't influence us until they become external, we don't really care to dig deeper. i did because i'm active here, but kling probably didn't.
I didn't know who Kirk was until the assassination I have better things to do with my limited time than go on a deep dive into their history before posting any comment on the news. I kinda got the vibe when I realised that was who Cartman was based on in the recent South Park.
Wow. Some people really think we're in the 80s and rely on "media here" to deflect from being mislabeled.
He's somehow so far away from US politics he's funded almost exclusively by US companies like Cloudflare, FUTO, and 37signals.
Does your media or public broadcasting talk about FUTO and 37signals a lot that they got in contact to setup sponsorship? Doesn't he also stream in "English" on "YouTube"catering to the English speaking world but somehow he shielded himself with all the crap from these platforms. He must not be a human.
Even a cursory skimming of kirks name would be enough to reveal what his quest was.
just because you are active in some internet circle, does not mean you are active in every internet circle. I'd say the Right to Repair movement or Cloudflare are more "worldwide" than Kirk.
Kirk wanted ppl to die for their race, gender, and other things that weren't even opinions. While Kling's statement is technically fair, he didn't speak out for anyone else. Why weigh in on a white supremacist, transphobe who made many ppls' lives worse?
This is a silly argument. There are killings that make international news. There are killings that make Swedish news. He doesn't comment on any of them, only when a far right agitator dies in America is it suddenly important to him.
At the risk of being callous and blunt, the international news has been covering the killing of tens of thousands of Gazans for over a year now (soon to be 2). They have also covered the Ukrainian civilians getting drone struck (striked?) for close to 3 years now. The flash floods in Pakistan a few years ago that literally turned half of the country blue as seen from satellite images because of how much water there was were also all over the news. The Hamas higher ranks getting killed by exploding pagers in civilian areas (with heavy collateral damage) was also all over the news in western countries, at the very least.
To be clear, I don't know if the ladybird dev has said anything on any of these issues. I just want to assert that plenty of killings make international news. Charlie Kirk was not the first nor the exception, what was new with him was that he was named, a far-right agitator, and had an existing (para-)social following. All of which cast a poor light, for me, on this being what someone chooses to speak up on.
the guy is an ex-drug abuser. he started doing serenityos as therapy, and serenityos needed a browser. until you get to the modern stuff, it's basically just a paint-by-numbers api implementation on top of his existing code base.
Only thing I know about Ladybird is the lead dev didn't want to include gender neutral wording in the documentation, because he "didn't want it to be political"
That's kinda old news now and not sure if anything came of it.
The post suggests that Cloudflare is donating $100k to Omarchy, but no figure is given by Cloudflare. Cloudflare’s press release reads more services in kind for an open source project— something many tech firms already offer without a check on the politics of the maintainers first.
At the very least, someone celebrating Charlie Kirk and whining about white men being discriminated against is not someone I'm interested in supporting, and if the future of the open web is in their hands I'll just stick to lynx.
The good news is that ladybird is nowhere even close to implementing the full web. It’s maybe 0.5% there. There’s no danger of it becoming some centralized power at least in the next 5 years. Especially barring any license shenanigans.
As for Lynx, well it’s really hard to take that comment seriously.
More seriously from a technical side, I'm also not a huge fan of the browser and the engine being the same thing. To me they should be kept separate. So personally I'm cheering on Servo.
Some politicians or activists unfortunately use hyperbole too frequently and sometimes even maliciously. It gets them attention but at the cost of deepening the trenches in the political discourse. Drew thought he's doing the right thing by calling a fascist out, but realistically this will be remembered as "The woke activists are calling us fascists for saying that nobody should be killed for their opinion." in the right wing circles. Where the term "woke" is basically the right wing equivalent term to the left's "fascist".
I don’t know if you have been paying attention but nothing you do or say will leave the Republicans with a good memory of you no matter what if you are “woke,” so it almost doesn’t matter what you say.
I guess you can't really convince the ones on the other side of the political spectrum. You only have a real chance to convince the "in the middle" people. But when doing so, it's better not to give free munition to the opposing party to be more convincing than you.
Also I am kinda hoping that it (not using hyperbolic labels and overall being "nice") helps create a place where people can be nice to each other even when they don't agree on politics.
If we want to use the Nazi bar analogy, Cloudflare is like a company that bought up so many bars in town that some end up not vetting for Nazism well enough, letting it slip through, not necessarily playing favours towards or against fascism but they would technically be a 'Nazi bar' under the analogy's definition. Cloudflare is so big that they probably don't have controlling interest about the pet projects they kick some pennies towards.
If you want to boycot Cloudflare itself, that's fine and noble and all, but also staying away from anything they've ever donated to, you'll put yourself in a bind. Like if Cloudflare donated to animal welfare, should one be against animal welfare simply due to second-order links to fascism?
Also there is a lot of reading into the comments used to link the two projects to the fascist regime. Very much a stretch.
Check this. Bit more than a comment. Wouldn't call it nazi. But sus nontheless. We've seen plenty people write or say similar stuff over the years that graduated to fash later on.
But yeah agreed about CF. I take this kinda info more as a mental note on the individuals. CF is a corpo which is gonna corpo.
As soon as I was old enough to travel on my own, London was where I wanted to go. Compared to Copenhagen at the time, there was something so majestic about Big Ben, Trafalgar Square, and even the Tube around the turn of the millenium.
As soon as I was old enough to travel on my own, London was where I wanted to go. Compared to Copenhagen at the time, there was something so majestic about Big Ben, Trafalgar Square, and even the Tube around the turn of the millenium.
someone who speaks out in support of and expresses solidarity with fascists, or who uses fascists dog-whistles or promotes fascist ideology and talking points, or boosts fascist conspiracy theories – well, they’re a fascist.
This is the "if they're not with me, they're against me" mentality that has plagued countless useful idiots in my generation.
It does more harm than good, and I immediately lose respect for anyone that falls for tribalist rhetoric.
If one consistently speaks in support of a certain political position and against the opponents of that position then it is correct to identify them with this political position.
Yeah, fuck this guy. This is the same bullshit that transpeople try to use to say that anyone who doesn't call them what they want is automatically a fascist.
I have no love for cloudflare, but this "boy who cried fascist" game is getting tired.
Does anyone know if/how I can delay, hide or otherwise adjust the notification which tells me that an application is not responding?
I'm batch processing a large number of images which takes a long time and my system is mistaking this for the program not responding. I also get this sometimes when performing a very heavy operation in GIMP, like selecting the foreground in a huge image.
A graphical tool for editing the dconf database – Dconf Editor is a tool to allow direct editing of the dconf configuration database. This is useful when developing applications that use these settings.
Un’Italia semplicemente perfetta. Gli azzurri di Fefè De Giorgi hanno battuto il Belgio con un netto 3-0 (25-13, 25-18, 25-18) e conquistano la semifinale dei Mondiali di pallavolo maschile 2025 nelle Filippine. Una vittoria che profuma di rivincita dopo la sconfitta subita nel girone, ma che soprattutto certifica la straordinaria forza di un gruppo capace di dominare con tecnica, carattere e continuità.
The latest generation of AI systems, based on large language models (LLMs), is perceived as the biggest threat in decades to the established copyright order. The scale of that threat can be gauged …
'I'm sure that the absolute majority of Ukrainians do not support it,' writes the director of Ukraine's Institute for National Memory, marking a small, but significant, shift in Kyiv’s approach
I'm not interested in getting into a debate about whether Ukraine is fascist state (my official stance is "it's complicated"), but you should probably divide it cleanly into the period under a US-appointed neo-Nazi president and under a politically impotent Jewish president.
There isn't really a clean division, because while it's true that Zelensky ran on a platform of making peace in Donbas he was also bankrolled by Kolomoisky, who's the same guy that's tight with Azov thedailybeast.com/billionaire-…
In general, banderites and other far right groups continue to have a huge amount of political power there. Lots of top officials, like Zaluzhny, are very open about it too.
Ihor Kolomoisky, who’s been accused of ordering contract killings and is said to be behind the comic who may win Ukraine’s presidency, is being probed for alleged financial crimes.
It's still an important distinction. A state run completely by Banderites vs a state where Banderites have considerable influence. In the former case the instigator is the entire state apparatus, in the latter case it's dark forces within the state that need to be fought against.
Anything from before the election of Zelensky can easily be brushed aside, and rightly so, as a criticism of the past state of Ukraine.
The current state of Ukraine isn't fundamentally different. If anything, under Zelensky, opposition parties and independent media have been banned, and elections have been cancelled. Ukraine today is basically a dictatorship that's aligned with the fascist forces.
'Invading Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Libra, Vietnam, Syria, etc., engaging in genocide, coups, kidnapping, torture, operations Gladio and the like is totally not fascist!' - You
Ukraine has fascist elements, as does NATO. I don't think as a whole either are fascist but the US is overwhelmingly central to NATO and the US is 100% fascist (regardless of which party is in power).
NATO support for Ukraine is summed up by a mix of "Liberal Democracies desperate cling to Rules based International Order despite hypocrisies" and "European countries with long history of being invaded and terrorized by Russia oppose countries being invaded and terrorized by Russia"
This is Trump adapting his strategy of declaring bankruptcy to the political arena. He made a big deal about how skilled his is, in truth he's a moron and can't deliver, now he's washing his hands of it to avoid embarrassment.
Seems to me that Trump has skillfully outplayed the Europeans at every turn here, and managed to use the threat of Russia in Ukraine to make Europe completely dependent on the US economically. Europeans have now been cut off from cheap Russian energy and are forced to by increasingly large amounts of American LNG, Trump just forced an incredibly unequal deal on the EU, and the EU will be expected to invest close to a trillion into US economy in the coming years. On top of that, the US is actively poaching whatever industry is left in Europe. Eventually, Trump will make a deal with Russia, but Europe will be cannibalized before that happens.
Oh wow a shitty website has an article. Proof of absolutely nothing, congrats on that Ivan. Wtf is counterpunch? lol real reputable guy… Let me know when your president can’t change the constitution at will to serve for a lifetime.
More reputable than a random fash on lemmy that's for sure. Meanwhile, entire books have been written on the subject and it's documented extensively. The article links to numerous ones. Gold star for trying to make a counterpoint I guess.
Entire books on what? The US being fascist? Ok guy… gtfo, gold star for propaganda. There’s whole books written about how your country is now a dictatorship with a president who fakes elections and all they do is throw dissenters out of windows. Random fash, lol wow, you really got me there weirdo. How is Alexei Navalny doing in that super not a fascist country of yours? Maybe you guys will find someplace new to contaminate with radiation while trying to poison more people who disagree with your totally democratically elected leader. Tell me, are you guys still throwing people in prison to rot for putting antiwar stickers in supermarkets or protesting while holding up blank sheets of paper? How very free of you.
Of course nothing of substance to say, just ridiculous attacking of character, as usual. Good luck when you get sent to die in meat waves in Ukraine pal. Maybe your family will get a washing machine or maybe a hog for your efforts. Or you could always steal washing machine and maybe a toilet from Ukraine to send home, check around all the hospitals and children’s schools you guys bombed, you may have some luck. If you can get off the vodka, krokodil or mephedrone long enough to know where you are, of course. Meow meow Boris. Even Prigozhin started to understand what’s actually the reality in your homeland, but you fools just love claiming we’re non political, and don’t know anything. Because say it with me, you’ll be thrown in a cell if you publicly disagree with your dictator. But, yeah sure everywhere else is fascist.
Who is angry? Where am I being angry? Again, stop going off topic, and reply any substance to the discussion at all, but you can’t because you know I’m right. Cry me a river girl. How many accounts are you using to upvote your own post? Because u or be said nothing but empty insults that make no sense to the discussion. You bring absolutely nothing new to the conversation but name calling and nonsensical unrelated accusations because your entire argument is based off trying to change the direction of a conversation.
At any point feel free to respond to anything about your country being fascist and having a dictator, or any of the things I’ve said above about your country, but you never will because your entire state of being here is propaganda and nonsense. Ohh you’re angry, what a response, such a wonderful honest debater. More like a dishonest masterbater if you ask me.
I love how you screech about substance when you haven't said a single thing of substance yourself. Here's some more substance for you though:
Moyers: Bilbo said, “One drop of Negro blood placed in the veins of the purest Caucasian destroys the inventive genius of his mind and palsies his creative faculty.” Is it true that the Nazis thought the one-drop rule too extreme?
Whitman: They did indeed. They never proposed anything nearly as extreme as the one-drop rule. In fact the standard, the most far-reaching Nazi definitions of who counted as a Jew, matched the least far-reaching ones to be found in the American states. Virtually all American definitions of who counted as a black were far more draconian than anything found in any Nazi proposal.
Not only did Nazi lawyers reveal a deep interest in American race policies, the most radical of them were eager advocates of using American law as a model.
What in the absolute fu@k are you on about? Because some random writer had some moronic views you could find online, you believe what? That’s some type of American rule of law? You’re the walking embodiment of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels would be proud of the bullshit you spew. Oh wow you found someone who says America bad because of many years ago and its history, and racial treatments to people, now how many are there that say Russia bad? How about the Czars treatment of other Asian counties or Europe’s citizens? How about how Stalin treated the Jewish people of Russia? Your whole entire world view is made up bullshit based off cherry-picked readings. You’re the walking embodiment of what we call a douche bag.
The Holodomor, The Red Terror of the Bolsheviks, Stalins Gulags, Ivan the Terrible, and on and on... Yeah sure America’s history is so much worse, haha, you’re a clown.
Your shithole country was a literal model for the nazi germany. Your entire nation is built on literal genocide. You fascists butchered so many people that it cooled the planet bbc.com/news/science-environme…
Your founding fathers we literal slave owners and traded human beings like cattle.
Meanwhile here's some actual facts about USSR instead of your ignorant bleating.
Professor of Economic History, Robert C. Allen, concludes in his study without the 1917 revolution is directly responsible for rapid growth that made the achievements listed above possible: web.archive.org/web/2020011904…
Study finds that the steady increase in quality of life during the Soviet period (including under Stalin). Includes the fact that Soviet life expectancy grew faster than any other nation recorded at the time: jstor.org/stable/2672986?seq=1
A large study using world bank data analyzing the quality of life in Capitalist vs Socialist countries and finds overwhelmingly at similar levels of development with socialism bringing better quality of life: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/…
This study compared capitalist and socialist countries in measures of the physical quality of life (PQL), taking into account the level of economic development and found socialism produces superior results: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/243090…
Another study shows that unprecedented mortality crisis struck Eastern Europe during restoration of capitalism in the 1990s, causing around 7 million excess deaths. The first quantitative analysis of the association between deindustrialization and mortality in Eastern Europe: academic.oup.com/cje/advance-a…
You keep on making a clown of yourself though, it's adorable. You're a walking embodiment of an ignorant fascist.
The US’s history of racism is fertile ground for fascism. Attacks on the courts, education, voting rights and women’s rights are steps to toppling democracy
Ahahaha, u mad bro? Your country killed more people than Nazi Germany, and it was actually formed and voted into power to reject Russian Communism to begin with. My shithole country is the reason with lend lease that you’re not speaking German you dirty revisionist.
That’s what Stalin said, direct quote “without machines from lend lease we would have lost the war.” That’s right guy, lend lease from the US saved you and your country. Cry me a river.
Ever since the Cold War, many Soviet and Russian politicians and academics have downplayed the role that U.S.-provided weapons and supplies played in the Red Army's ultimately victorious campaign against Hitler's Germany.
Nah I'm not mad, and I'm certainly not your bro. It's hilarious how you keep exposing yourself as an ignoramus though. Really living up to the whole stereotype of the ignorant burgerlander. Sorry you had the misfortune to grow up in a land where there's no education. Here's what a book produced by your own army has to say on the subject. Read and weep loser.
And what did your dictator at the time say? Do tell crybaby? I don’t care what whatever book you’re claiming to be from the US says. I know what Stalin PERSONALLY said though.
But sure keep telling me what some brigadier general said from a publication 4 decades later. That book was published in the 80’s. Hahaha
It’s from 4 decades later guy, what did Stalin say at the time you disgusting waste of human life? Go ponder over that while you use your outhouse you backwoods Krokodil addict. Stop melting your brain with that mephedrone Boris. Let me know when your vote is actually counted you dirty dress-up trollop. You’ll have the same President forever because you have no rights. Go complain about your dear leader in public, go hold a sign bad mouthing him. Oh right you can’t. If you did they’d send you to a Siberian prison to die like they did Navalny. Go on and tell the world how everyone else is the fascist again.
Ah yes, because historical knowledge magically disappeared 4 decades later. The book war produced for by your army for the point of educating ignoramuses like you who join the army. Adorable attempts at insults by the way, they really help highlight your intellectual capacity.
p.s. love how you were raging and had to edit your reply like 5 times cause you realized the book was real and that you are indeed an ignorant sack of shit. You keep on coping there my little chud.
Oh no, could it be there’s a reason for the edit button!? The horror! Don’t act like you haven’t been editing post directly after posting too guy. So what did Stalin say about it? Because if Putin were to say the same thing, right now you’d have to agree publicly or be jailed. So go on, what did Stalin say? Because you know in Russia only one opinion matters, and the guys who mattered at the time of WW2 said what I said he said. The guy who wrote that book was never my leader. Back to the outhouse to think again for you, lucky it isn’t winter I guess. Tell me, when will you guys figure out running water? Take a break and inject some of that famous Russian mephedrone or Krokodil while you’re out there to ponder your shit life in Russia before dear leader sends you to meat wave in Ukraine, you waste of oxygen.
p.S. I bet you do love it, you silly weirdo, but no thank you, I have no reason for rage, I’m very comfy with no missiles or bombs of war hitting my country, careful, I hear they throw your kind talking all that love stuff to guys off roofs in Russia, soo free…
Aww look at you using multiple accounts to give yourself extra votes, so Russian of you. Your Dear Leader would be proud. Gold trophy for you. What a loser.
oh look another wall of text from a stable genius who'd totally not raging here, hilarious how you lost redditors always think anybody here cars about votes
So stop faking them then freak. Don’t know what your on about Reddit, but ok… oh look, not a single substance response again, I’m noticing a pattern. So no running water ever huh? And if Putin said it, as Stalin surely did than I guess it would have to be true since you can’t disagree publicly. Hahaha
Everywhere else is authoritarian but I can’t publicly disagree with the old grandpa. Makes sense.
So what did Stalin say again about lend lease? And how many people did he kill? And what did he do to the Jewish population in Russia? And how many people did the Czars kill?
What was it like 11 or 12 million starved to death, and 60-70 million starved but survived? Hah, go on, tell me how many Americans are starving… Should we even bother going into Nicholas II and the 30 million he starved too? How about the Russian 90’s should we talk about the starving in Russia then? How about the starving Russian troops in Ukraine?
See here you go exposing yourself as an ignoramus once again. I don't hold it against you given that you were educated in burgerland. They breed you to be stupid there. The reality is that famines were a common occurrence before the revolution. In fact, they were one of the driving factors behind it. Meanwhile, during the 1932 famine, the USSR actually sent aid to affected regions in an attempt to alleviate the famine.
While the leadership did not stop exports, they did try to alleviate the famine. A 25 February 1933 Central Committee decree allotted seed loans of 320,000 tons to Ukraine and 240,000 tons to the northern Caucasus. Seed loans were also made to the Lower Volga and may have been made to other regions as well. Kul'chyts'kyy cites Ukrainian party archives showing that total aid to Ukraine by April 1933 actually exceeded 560,000 tons, including more than 80,000 tons of food
Some bring up massive grain exports during the famine to show that the Soviet Union exported food while Ukraine starved. This is fallacious for a number of reasons, but most importantly of all the amount of aid that was sent to Ukraine alone actually exceeded the amount that was exported at the time.
Aid to Ukraine alone was 60 percent greater than the amount exported during the same period. Total aid to famine regions was more than double exports for the first half of 1933.
According to Tauger, the reason why more aid was not provided was because of the low harvest
It appears to have been another consequence of the low 1932 harvest that more aid was not provided: After the low 1931, 1934, and 1936 harvests procured grain was transferred back to peasants at the expense of exports.
Tauger is not a communist, and ultimately this specific article takes the view that the low harvest was caused by collectivization (he factors in the natural causes of the famine in later articles, based on how he completely neglects to mention weather in this article at all its clear that his position shifted over the years). However, he has the intellectual integrity to admit that the Soviets really did try to alleviate the famine as best as they could.
Meanwhile, USSR doubled life expectancy in just 20 years. A newborn child in 1926-27 had a life expectancy of 44.4 years, up from 32.3 years thirty years before. In 1958-59 the life expectancy for newborns went up to 68.6 years. the Semashko system of the USSR increased lifespan by 50% in 20 years. By the 1960's, lifespans in the USSR were comparable to those in the USA:
Quality of nutrition improved after the Soviet revolution, and the last time USSR had a famine was in 1940s. CIA data suggests they ate just as much as Americans after WW2 period while having better nutrition: cia.gov/readingroom/document/c…
Can't wait to see more clown shit in your reply. I bet you don't even realize that Russia isn't communist anymore being the genius that you are.
I don’t know, what do you say as you colonize land in that Ukraine that the people there voted to leave and secede the last time your country fell apart?
After I posted about all the times people starved in Russia, you really posted a copypasta that famine was common in Russia thinking you copy pasted an argument back against the people of Russia starving. Hahaha… you fool… haha lay off the Ai bot buddy…
Maybe you can share what your Ai bot thinks about it. Maybe it will tell us why so many countries think they need to join a defensive pact against your country? Or why everyone that could, fled as soon as it fell apart.
Yup, you got me, I've literally changed my whole sleep schedule and put up a huge ruse just for you. In fact, this whole lemmy instance exists with the sole purpose of tricking you. Everybody here is a Russian bot, and our sole purpose in life is to confuse innocent Americans. You're not suffering from narciscism at all.
United Nations (United States) (AFP) – China's emissions-cutting pledge is poised to take center stage at a United Nations climate meeting Wednesday, after US President Donald Trump unleashed a blistering -- if predictable -- broadside against the science surrounding planet-warming fossil fuels.
Some 118 nations will outline plans to curb global warming, which is driving disasters worldwide -- from catastrophic floods in Pakistan to raging wildfires in Spain -- even as many continue expanding oil and gas operations.
Chinese Premier Li Qiang will open the gathering at UN headquarters in New York.
His country -- responsible for about 30 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions from its factories, power plants, vehicles and more -- is expected to deliver a crucial update: its 2035 emissions-cutting target.
China has never committed to reducing carbon dioxide outright. Instead, it pledged to peak emissions before 2030 -- a goal it appears set to meet five years early thanks to rapid growth in solar energy and electric cars.
Most wealthy nations, historically the biggest contributors to warming, peaked decades ago but still lack credible plans to reach carbon neutrality by 2050.
"All eyes will be on China," Li Shuo, an expert at the Asia Society think tank who is well-connected in Beijing, told AFP.
He expects a "high single digit to low double digit" percentage reduction commitment over the next decade, similar to the pace the United States and European Union achieved in the ten years after their own peaks.
That trajectory would fall well short of what is needed to limit warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels -- the target set by the 2015 Paris Agreement to avoid the worst climate catastrophes.
Still, presenting a target ahead of COP30, the year's main climate gathering in Belem, Brazil, will signal China's commitment to the international process even as the US under Trump champions fossil fuels and the EU struggles to unite around its plan.
In any case, Li Shuo warns, focusing too much on the figure risks obscuring the fact that "China has already become the green tech superpower of the world" and is widely expected to under-promise but over-deliver.
For this UN summit, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres invited only countries ready to present or announce a new 2035 climate goal.
Under the Paris accord -- which nearly every country is part of, except Iran, Libya, and soon, the United States -- nations freely set their own targets but must strengthen them every five years.
Most are behind schedule, notably the European Union, where several states fear moving too fast could hurt industry.
France, for example, faces shaky finances and political turmoil, and wants more clarity on investment frameworks before committing to deeper decarbonization.
"There's a current shortfall in ambition demonstrated by the countries that we traditionally look to for leadership (which) are acting more like climate laggards," said Ilana Seid, ambassador to the UN for Palau and chair of the Alliance of Small Island States.
The UN is trying to strike a balance between warning of catastrophe and maintaining hope.
On one hand, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told AFP last week that chances of limiting warming to 1.5C are on the verge of "collapsing," a view echoed by climatologists, with current temperatures already about 1.4C above pre-industrial levels.
On the other, UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell insists the Paris process is working.
"Without UN climate cooperation, we were heading for five degrees of heating -- an impossible future," he told a gathering at the annual Climate Week in New York earlier this week. "Today we are closer to three. Still too high -- but bending the curve."
Part of that progress stems from China. A decade ago, three-quarters of its electric mix came from coal -- a figure now down to half. Its booming exports of solar panels, batteries, and electric cars are cutting emissions abroad as well.
China's emissions-cutting pledge is poised to take center stage at a United Nations climate meeting Wednesday, after US President Donald Trump unleashed a blistering -- if predictable -- broadside against the science surrounding planet-warming fossil…
Deleting or overwriting the title and content on ml seems to propagate sometimes, but not always.
Don't hit, I really like the idea of the Fediverse and Lemmy in particular--I guess I already sort of knew that things worked this way, but, well, I'd be lying if I didn't say this spooked me a bit.
EDIT: I'm usually pretty good about not rageposting or whatever, so there's not a whole lot of stuff I want to expunge from the record, but there are some tech support type questions that I've asked in the past that now seem to me unbelievably and embarrassingly dumb that I'm not sure I want to have out there!
~~EDIT EDIT: I'd also be lying if I didn't say my eyes were wandering a bit towards raddle.me at this point...~~
EDIT EDIT EDIT: (sorry, feeling kinda punchy over here after too much early-morning ☕️) This reminds me of something from back in the pre-Snowden days, when everything was still mostly htttp and while websurfing I had Wireshark open and saw "http://www.nytimes.com/lifestyle/how-to-get-the-most-enjoyment-from-watching-clown-porn.html" flashing past.
Seriously tho, this is back when I, along with just about everyone else I knew, would say things like "well, yeah, you know, Google, Facebook, the internet, etc., everything's out there in the open, but what can you do?" And then there's the feeling you get when you actually see identifiable stuff like this going out across the wires and you're like "...oh..." 🙁
Not unlike the time when my boss asked me if I liked to listen to Rush:
Me: I haven't really listened to that much of their stuff, although I really like Power Windows.
Yep. When federating with so many instances, nothing is truly deleted unless every single instance honors its removal. That’s just the reality. The nice thing is that as an instance owner, I can see the mod log of everything from the places I federate with. So admins at least have a point of reference to work together. I also have the ability to restore comments and things that were deleted. I’ve never used it because I prefer to stay in sync with everyone else, but I’m 1 person. There are many instances and mine is microscopic.
EDIT: Ok, what I wanted you to respond was something like: "The yachts themselves are nothing more than shiny floaty slow-moving food tins that, when gently pried open, are often found to contain many delectably rich (in more ways that one) juicy humans with ketamine-spiced blood, chomp."
When posting or saying something in public, there's no way to retract it.
There's no difference from posting something on "the Fediverse" or Reddit. Just because you delete your post, does not guarantee that it's gone. Reddit most likely keep a copy of it anyway and there's sites that save everything that's posted on Reddit. so the "issue" is not exclusive to Lemmy.
This isn’t particular to one Lemmy instance, nor even to Lemmy, but to ActivityPub as a whole and federated architectures in general.
This is not a private platform; it’s a public, pseudonymous one. Any person or web scraper, including the Internet Archive, can see all posts and comments.
That's the downside, if you want to call it that, of one entity not having control of everything. If there's something you want removed, you have to talk with everyone to remove it.
However, in conventional social media what's to stop anyone from archiving it, taking screenshot, an AI scraping it while it's available or just someone remembering it? Reddit etc. can hide/obfuscate stuff but you can presume it's not really gone.
So as I've said in similar threads, in terms of failure modes, Lemmy leans towards preventing censorship over trying to be private or have full control over content. "Perfect" privacy/ability to remove would require an invasive level of access to other people's servers and devices that wouldn't be appropriate.
Easy! Just don't log in! It's all public, so you don't need an account for anything. The loss of up/down voting is offset by the number of comments that will not later be used by the FBI to convict you of thoughtcrime.
Well, the reason I got an in the first place, when I saw US News & Politics. I knew, if I had an account, I could block that. If I log out… I don't want to go back to unfiltered. Imagine all the US that would rule my feed…
Since the 1960s, China’s population has more than doubled. Despite having more than twice as many mouths to feed, the amount of food it produces per person has increased dramatically.
Al tavolo ministeriale l'azienda di e-commerce ha aperto alle trattative sulla procedura di licenziamento collettivo aperta per i 211 lavoratori tra Milano e Bologna.
FINALLY someone wrote something about my job. This is EXACTLY what I've been doing for the past year and I make more money doing it than I did as a regular freelance/consultant dev.
Seriously people, if you're a dev learn and get good at code reviewing. And honestly you don't even have to be THAT good at it because the slop that is puked out by the likes of Claude Code is so god damn easy to find. Deal with the bullshit that is LinkedIn and start advertising yourself as someone that is a sort of "digital janitor" for AI. you'll get clients.
A buddy of mine that was laid off by a company saw what I was doing and decided to be even more ballsy than I was and actually go BACK to said company and offer them assistance in cleaning up the mess they created by laying him and other devs off. He went back as a freelancer, charged them a premium, and now is "working" for them again but making MORE than what they were paying him and now he gets to work on his terms for doing less work.
These places fucked up, they are now learning how much they fucked up, so take advantage of their fuck ups and fuck them even more. I got ZERO sympathy for ANY company that leveraged AI for their builds and tossed their dev teams to the side. But make no mistake, I charge these places an arm and a leg and they deserve it.
This is super interesting! I don’t know if you have a platform for this but you should write an article about this. Maybe talk to the likes of 404media and see if they have interest in the story.
There are a few people who have posted on Hacker News about it but I figured the pay probably sucked. It sounded like it would be treated as a menial job.
Yes, it'll usually be treated like a menial job, because so many of the folks who fell for AI code wholesale are assholes. Non-assholes often have a friend who tells them when they're fucking up that badly.
But the pay tends to be very good, anyway, because assholes are usually desperate for any help they can still get.
it's very menial/easy. BUT you charge a premium for the service because as /u/pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip put it these places are very desperate to fix their fuck ups and fix them quickly. Like I'm talking builds or projects that could be months along and suddenly...nothing works. or something breaks. or nothing can be added. or more common than anything the AI claimed it had added something when it reality it either didn't or simply made a #todo comment and vibe coders continued on.
But yes the pay is good. I essentially get paid to tell a company how much they fucked up and what it will take to fix. There is always the very slim possibility of refactoring but i'd say 8 times out of 10 the only clear path forward is to start from scratch and that generally means hiring devs again.
FINALLY someone wrote something about my job. This is EXACTLY what I’ve been doing for the past year and I make more money doing it than I did as a regular freelance/consultant dev.
Are you serious? I'm good at code review but figured that this slop fixup stuff was a fiverr type of job that paid crap. If there's better money in it, maybe I should look into it.
Machine translations (natural language) used to be way worse than they are now, and I've spent some time cleaning those up for my own personal use. It's not that annoying to do. Maybe it would get annoying after a while though.
Very serious. I kinda fell into it myself when one of my clients reached out to me late last year about needing help with some project they utilized Claude Code and a vibe coder to build from end to end. After that I thought "huh, wee bit o money to be made here".
It's a menial/easy job for sure but man you charge a Premium for it. These companies have no idea what they're doing I mean hell they put their entire company on the back of a 20 year old junior dev and an Anthropic subscription. I generally charge double what I would normally charge for dev work and it's always less work, thus I'm able to take on more clients to fix this stuff which means I'm making much more for less.
Like I said a friend of mine simply went back to the place he got laid off from and told them he'd fix their fuck ups and nickle and dimed them to do so. I and others simply go on LinkedIn and call out the bullshit from tech bro posts and then say we'll fix it. the thing is YOU have to be the one to advertise your service because companies still aren't going to admit they fucked up and post ads asking for help. Trust me they ARE looking for help they're just won't openly admit to it.
"Seriously people, if you're a dev learn and get good at code reviewing"
It's a useful skill, even outside of the context of cleaning up AI code. It seems to be universally the case that it's easier to write code than it is to read it (which is why I sometimes find myself so baffled at my own code that I end up rewriting it again from scratch (good comments are a gift to future-You)).
I've been trying to get into contributing to open-source code recently, and it's been a useful exercise in learning to understand other people's code. It's also been making me a more skilled programmer, because reading lots of code helps me to understand how things are typically done in a way that textbook learning can't. It's been especially useful to understand how large code projects are structured, given that most of my experience in writing code that's used by other people has been in smaller, ad-hoc scientific contexts (e.g. writing a script that adds hydrogens onto the protein structures found in the protein database — by default, they're not included, because it depends on the pH of the environment the protein exists in)
I mean, it wouldn't be impossible that they still save money even while paying you more if they have fired more people. If they fire 3 people and hire 1 code-reviewer for double the salary they are still having to pay 1 less wage.
This was exactly the concern of the TV and movie writers who went on strike. Instead of being paid writers' wages they'll be paid much less as editors to clean up AI slop, while effectively doing the same job because what it writes is so bad.
Il team dell'Università di Oxford, della Yale University School of Medicine e dell'Università di Cambridge ha monitorato oltre mezzo milione di adulti e ha scoperto che il rischio di demenza aumentava costantemente con un maggiore consumo di alcol , senza effetti protettivi derivanti da un consumo moderato di alcol, sfidando le ipotesi consolidate su un livello "sicuro" di alcol per la salute del cervello.
Lo studio è molto interessante per il rigore metodologico e il tentativo di eliminare le possibili distorsioni statistiche dei soggetti osservati, come spiegato nell'articolo di TR
A combined genetic and observational study of more than 559,000 people found alcohol consumption consistently raises dementia risk. Even a few weekly drinks increased risk, overturning the belief that moderate drinking protects brain health.
Ormai siamo arrivati al punto che persino bere un bicchiere d'acqua è diventato problematico, fra il fatto di sapere da dove provenga, i residui detenuti e se l'acqua frizzante faccia bene o male, stiamo inguaiati. Facciamo quindi un po' di chiarezza.
The United Nations believes it has solved the mystery of why an escalator abruptly stopped shortly after Donald Trump stepped onto it on Tuesday - his videographer may have accidentally triggered a safety mechanism.
U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said a readout of the escalator's central processing unit indicated it "had stopped after a built-in safety mechanism on the comb step was triggered at the top of the escalator."
He said Trump's videographer had been traveling backwards up the escalator to capture his arrival with First Lady Melania Trump.
Il mondo del cinema piange la scomparsa di Claudia Cardinale, leggenda assoluta del grande schermo. L’attrice si è spenta ieri, 23 settembre 2025, all’età di 87 anni, nella sua abitazione di Nemours, vicino Parigi. Con lei se ne va una delle ultime dive dell’epoca d’oro del cinema italiano e internazionale.
Fennec and Cromite is always outdated compared to their upstream. If you care about security it is quite problematic. I recommend just install UBlock on Firefox then use Arkenfox, or Betterfox on it. It is a bit more complex to do on android, but it is possible. If anyone is interested here is a tutorial
If you are keen on personal privacy, you might have come across Brave Browser. Brave is a Chromium-based browser that promises to deliver privacy with built-in ad-blocking and content-blocking protection.
Brave (the company) has a long history of doing dodgy stuff. They are just trying to do what Google did (directing clicks to their own shit), but they're using privacy as their marketing spiel.
Vivaldi. The tab management is unparalleled, and the chrome extensions I depend on still work. I’ve been using it for many years now and have no regrets. I also use NextDNS and see no signs of it doing anything unexpected.
It’s a web browser. But fun. It comes with a bunch of clever features built-in. It’s super flexible and does not track you. Get the Vivaldi browser for desktop, mobile, and your car!
I swear Brave ran a very successful guerrilla marketing campaign and it succeeded on Reddit. If you so much as question it or suggest an alternative, you get dogpiled on by Brave bros. I don't trust it one bit. I'll stick to FF and its forks.
Exactly. Same with Opera GX whatever, which is just a weird chinese spying chrome, with nothing to do with Opera from the good old days when it was still Norwegian (Vivaldi is made by those guys still).
It sold out on it's privacy promise years ago. Brave Browser CANNOT be trusted if you are someone who must ensure Privacy Preserving featurs must remain on at all times.
I recommend the Tor Browser. DO NOT USE THE TOR BROWSING CAPABILITIES OF BRAVE! YOU WILL BE DEANONYMIZED! Likely anything you'd be using Tor for, you don't want your browser slipping up and leaking anything.
Personally I use a blend of hand-hardened Firefox (Via plugins), Librewolf and Ungoogled Chromium (for very rare cases where the site is actually trusted and requires Chrome to function predictably)
It does block some tracking and ads that Chrome alone allows or explicitly adds. But it simply shifts that tracking to Brave. The idea was that you'd still get the benefits of that tracking by giving all of your data to Brave instead. I honestly never was convinced by this considering your data is still being sold, just by a different company so it doesn't sound much better to me. Supposedly, according to them, Brave is more trustworthy and gives you more control over what they track and sell, but I don't trust that business model. There's no real incentive for them to do what they said they would.
It's a shame this is necessary, to be honest. It's the same argument with Windows users: "you can just run a debloater and fiddle with the registry to disable tracking". It shouldn't be needed in the first place.
I don't think you can say the same as MS plays shitty cat and mouse games and is constantly patching the workarounds. And the changes required are much more involved than just toggling a switch. And Brave won't randomly toggle it back on after an update or just blatantly ignore it altogether.
Depends on what you mean by "private". I would not trust it much, but it's not a bad Chromium based browser when you need one. Use something like LibreWolf for much more privacy out of the box.
Yeah, doing any kind of digging into Brave will immediately send up warning flares that the privacy claims are pure fluff. Just use Firefox or Librewolf.
Don't a lot of browsers by default have pings set up to track usage? Check the privacy section. There is usually a check box about sending daily pings to whatever company made the browser to track usage.
Any browser does it, it is needed for several reasons, every browser need to know the amount of users it has to calculate it's market share. But statistical telemetries are not a privacy issue, it's like an employee which count the amount of cars and trucks on a highway, to know if it is needed to enlarge the highway or not. A browser need to know it for its capacity of servers and sync, if they offer it. Normally the telemetries includes in which OS is used the browser and in which country, all this is legit and not a privacy problem.
Bad only when it also include logs and profiling of user data and activity, as Chrome and EDGE do, and worse if this is sold to third parties. Decent browser don't do it.
I use Vivaldi, it's IMHO the only decent Chromium browser, apart European, with a good privacy, no logs, no tracking no third party investors. great services and community.
I've never really had a comfortable feeling about Brave. I have no substantiating evidence, it just seems a bit squirrely. Besides the Tor browser, LibreWolf, Waterfox, and FireFox are the only acceptable browsers as far as I'm concerned, tho I don't come down on those seeking an alternative to Google Chrome.
General practice, I do not use my phone as a compute platform. I realize others cannot do the same all the time. I do run firefox and a VPN which has an adblocker as part of it's tool set.
Far as I remember any browser in iOS is a scam anyways because Apple forces any browser in their platform to be based off of the same engine as Safari.
AFAIK at least in the EU because have to admit also browsers with a different engine as WebKit. WebKit is same as Blink a fork from the KHTML engine by KDE, butway less advanced as Blink or Gecko, who outscore WebKit in modern webformats. This is why Apple don't want other browsers which make Safari obsolete. Anyway, sooner or later Safari will be the next IE.
Librefox has been awesome. Once you get the hang of enabling cookies for specific sites it mostly just works. Although Fastmail keeps logging me out for some reason
I find it quite interesting those who protest being woke. The word 'woke' has a long standing meaning to the Black community. The usual suspects using the word 'anti-woke' are almost always American Republicans, and their track record of racial animosity has preceded itself for generations like the stench of a rotting corpse. Given the choice between being woke or asleep, I'll take woke any day.
It boggles my mind how people still recommend Brave as a good browser for privacy. The entire point of Brave from the beginning was their own Crypto currency that they wanted to shill. In their early days they offered a bunch of Tech YouTubers some crypto (via affiliate links) in return for them shilling brave.
Brave is basically just yet another Chromium reskin with custom branding, extra tracking and crypto bullshit bolted to it. No, the builtin AdBlocker does not make it "worth it". Stop recommending this pile of crap.
even tho most low level searches and recommendations gonna point towards brave as the private browser, all you need to just look at the options. its datafarming, its running in the background randomly, its an nftbro chrome.
Brave Software was founded in 2015 by Brendan Eich, creator of JavaScript and former Mozilla CEO who left the organization after coming under fire for his support of eliminating the right of same-sex couples to marry [...]
and
In August 2016, the company had received at least US$7 million in angel investments from venture capital firms, including Peter Thiel's Founders Fund [...]
Should tell you everything you need to know.
I'd say being 'privacy focused' is just a stick to get non-tech savy/gullible people that want to protect their privacy to use it, without thinking about it twice. Personally, I believe there is 0% chance they don't sell (or simply give) all data they can to Peter Thiel and Palantir.
Yes, it's proprietary because some script parts are. It's not so easy to go full OpenSource for an Chromium browser which is more an online suite than a simple browser, because Google and M$ will kill to be able to fork it for Chrome and EDGE, which will have catastrophic aftermaths for all other Chromium browsers, include Vivaldi. Way easier to be OpenSource for simpler Chromium or Gecko forks. Anyway I think in a market saturated with browsers (over 100 different), beeing OpenSource isn't in the main interest for the user anymore, prevailing more the ethics and transparency of the manufactor, 100% given in Vivaldi. Apart, as say, it's the only decent browser from the EU on level eye with the US big Brother browsers. Alternatively there is Mullvad, butit is , apart of the privacy features, a very basic browser, more an platform for the Mullvad VPN, no own sync, only with Mozilla, Konqueror with the KHTML engine by KDE is discontinued, same as sadly the French UR browser. Thats it.
Yes, a lot of people believe it, FF devs discuting in Google groups, Vivaldi in a own Mastodon instance. Mozilla since time is an Google pet which can't survive without the support from Google. - news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4… - groups.google.com/g/google-web…
It's not the engine which use a browser, all engines are 100% FLOSS, it is important what you do with it.
What browser should I use on mobile? I use Librewolf on desktop since it runs fine, and the vertical tabs are great, and it looks nice.
On mobile though there's a lot of problems with the browser space:
Chrome: runs great but is obviously not good for privacy
Firefox: what most people recommend, but it has terrible performance, looks not great, and doesn't even have more than basic fingerprinting protection, and literally includes ads by default. It's also less secure on Android because they don't do per site process isolation, and the memory allocator is worse.
Brave: people tend to dislike brave here, but it runs well (since it's chromium based) and has at least better fingerprinting protection.
Tbh firefox performs great and works for me, and its issues can be fixed with extensions and settings, both on desktop and mobile. I never looked for anything else myself. I also like to use a browser that is not chromium-based, I do not want google to have the monopoly.
maybe I am just not picky, but if you need more privacy than what can be achieved with a hardened firefox config you might be better off using TOR at that point.
Maybe somewhat later the Helium Browser (still not for mobile, in Alpha version), ungoogled Chromium, if not, Vivaldi, for all platforms, even as automotive app, (the only one)
Oggi ti proponiamo un viaggio scomodo, non per la destinazione, ma per la verità che esploreremo. Di fronte a malattie come il diabete, siamo abituati a pensare che le soluzioni attuali siano le uniche. Ma ti sei mai chiesto se gli interessi economici possano offuscare la ricerca di alternative che potrebbero davvero cambiare la vita dei pazienti? Questo articolo ti porterà a scoprire il delicato equilibrio tra scienza, salute e profitto, e a domandarti se il vero interesse per il paziente sia sempre al primo posto.
The host’s monologue noted that the suspension of his late night programme had ignited a national debate over free speech
Jimmy Kimmel returned to air on Tuesday night, calling government threats to silence comedians “anti American”, as he broke his silence about the suspension from ABC which ignited a national debate over free speech and outcry over the bullying tactics of the Trump administration.
“This show is not important” Kimmel said during his first monologue since Disney, which owns ABC, suspended his late-night show from the network last week under pressure from Trump officials over his comments on the shooting of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk. “What is important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this.”
Kimmel’s comments come one day after Disney, facing backlash from Hollywood stars, unions, media hosts and even Republicans such as Ted Cruz, allowed Jimmy Kimmel Live! to resume production.
Sto continuando a leggere Sailor Moon, per farmi forza con la realtà terribile del nostro mondo reale e, nel mentre che (sull’altro blog) sto tentando anche di scrivere a riguardo dei vari capitoli, nell’8 una robina mi ha attirato l’attenzione… La scrivo qui perché nel contesto dell’altro articolo non centrava tanto, e comunque non lo […]
sailor moon vs ragazza magica octt che sono io (nessuno ci crede e siamo entrambe fritte)
Sto continuando a leggere Sailor Moon, per farmi forza con la realtà terribile del nostro mondo reale e, nel mentre che (sull’altro blog) sto tentando anche di scrivere a riguardo dei vari capitoli, nell’8 una robina mi ha attirato l’attenzione… La scrivo qui perché nel contesto dell’altro articolo non centrava tanto, e comunque non lo volevo allungare più del dovuto solo per approfondire una lore che non è quella del manga in questione, bensì della mia persona. 😼 Si sapeva già che io sono abbastanza simile a Usagi… dormo, zzz, non sento la sveglia, pure a metà giornata sono assolutamente fatta drogata di sonno, e così via… e poi ok, a scuola non ero troppo ceppona, ma all’università si, quindi il cerchio già così si chiude quasi. La gran differenza sta nella nostra caratterizzazione come ragazze magiche (così come la differenza tra lei e le altre guerriere sue alleate, naturalmente), perché per ora io non ho sbloccato alcun potere psichedelico stupefacente, e piuttosto tutte e sole le magie effettive, dimostrabili, che io riesco a fare riguardano il software… ma non è questo il punto. 😳
Io e Sailor Moon siamo, al di là delle differenze individuali, esattamente sulla stessa barca… Come lei è stata in realtà messa dov’è a causa del suo essere una guerriera predestinata — non dico di più sia perché a questo punto della storia ancora la cosa non è totalmente chiara, e comunque qui non voglio fare spoiler — io anche evidentemente, dopo essere stata concepita in un’altra galassia, sono stata poi deportata e costretta a vivere sulla Terra — per giunta con un assetto corporeo di base sconveniente, e che alla fine dei conti io devo farmi il mazzo per sistemare, ma questa è tutta un’altra questione — per motivi a me però ancora non chiari… Sicuramente a me qualcuno voleva fare qualcosa che chiamare dispetto è poco, però a pensarci bene non può essere solo questo… ci deve essere qualche altra motivazione che io ancora non ho scoperto, no? 😵💫
Ma, ciancio alle bande, il dettaglio allo stesso tempo sia molto triste, che a suo modo rassicurante, è che… Come praticamente nessuno crede alla mia lore, solo perché è ancora relativamente imprecisa e senza prove — come se fosse colpa mia se non esistono tracce già scritte della mia storia e io non riesco a fare più di quello che posso, e che ogni tanto con questi post faccio, per rimediare — trattandomi da mezza scema, così fanno con Usagi. Ed ecco quindi che suo padre, in questa vignetta, le ha risposto proprio tipo come mi risponderebbero i miei genitori, quando capita che ribadisco le mie origini ultraterrene. Poi certo, Sailor Moon è un po’ fritta se si alza un’ora prima del dovuto solo perché si è svegliata, anziché rimanere a letto finché non suona la sveglia come invece faccio sempre io, e si giustifica con la storia dell’alter ego… però, noi non ci meritiamo tutto questo. 😶
E allora io mi chiedoquali magie ancora mi spettano da imparare, quali dimostrazioni di capacità devo ancora dispensare, quali prove inattaccabili devo presentare, per farmi valere esattamente come sono, e non semplicemente come “una ragazza stramba, dice sempre stronzate del tipo che viene da un altro pianeta, boh“… Ma purtroppo, se credo che 12 volumi basteranno e avanzeranno perché le Sailor riescano a risvegliarsi completamente su ciò che sono davvero, a me le illuminazioni sono estremamente rare e fin troppo parziali… serviranno decenni, se va bene, però a quel punto più che una ragazza magica sarò una zitella magica, che decisamente non è la stessa cosa. Sigh!!! ☠️
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Forbes Breaking News (YouTube): 'Let Me Just Read That Again': Hawley Reads Shocking Actual Conversation Between AI Chatbot & Child
“During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) spoke about Meta's internal guidelines regarding its AI Chatbot's interaction with children.”
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entropicdrift
in reply to viszz_ • • •TRaSH guides don't actually force you into using one filesystem. I have Sonarr setup using the guide and it uses 2 separate drives just fine.
One thing I would note is that because of the emphasis on quality above all else, following the guides strictly would fill up your drives fairly quickly. If you were to re-prioritize the config to emphasize small file size, you could probably fit 3-4x as much content on there.
viszz_
in reply to entropicdrift • • •According to the document I linked:
if it's still possible to create hardlinks between the SSD and the Mirrored HDDs, I will go that route.
entropicdrift
in reply to viszz_ • • •MoeMoeCueBot
in reply to entropicdrift • • •Something that I noticed people seem to not realize with trash guides is that you can always customize it a bit.
I disabled remux on mine sonarr/radarr and I also set a slightly lower max file size for encodes and webdl. Still grabs the good quality stuff to me based on the curated groups from trash guides.
You can play with the settings of your setup you don't have to follow the guide one to one
FreedomAdvocate
in reply to viszz_ • • •viszz_
in reply to FreedomAdvocate • • •I was considering using the SSD to avoid wear and tear in the HDD because of the nature of the torrent downloads. My idea was using the SSD as a temporary/cache drive for the download itself, and then only executing one transfer move to the HDD once the media is completed. Drive noise was another concern, since my NAS sits in my living room and I want to avoid hearing the drives spinning constantly.
I am using two Seagate Ironwolf HDD, which are NAS certified. Will they suffer if I use them for downloading as well as seeding?
CoyoteFacts
in reply to viszz_ • • •As an idea, I use an SSD as a "Default Download Directory" within qBittorrent itself, and then qB automatically moves it to a HDD when the download is fully finished. I do this because I want the write to be sequential going into my ZFS pool, since ZFS has no defragmentation capabilities.
Hardlinks are only important if you want to continue seeding the media in its original form and also have a cleaned-up/renamed copy in your Jellyfin library. If you're going to continue to seed from the HDD, it doesn't matter that the initial download is done on the SSD. The *arr stack will make the hardlink only after the download is finished.
grapemix
in reply to viszz_ • • •rumba
in reply to viszz_ • • •I run deluge torrent with openVPN with pivoxy in a container.
Arr stack and deluge uses proxy if the VPN drops off, all secure communication halts by default.
Arr stack has default download set to SSD, copies files to a rotational disk storage on completion. continues to host the seed from the SSD.
Once in a blue moon, I'll go back through Deluge and right-click Delete torrent and data for stuff that's well satisfied and who are really available.
Once a year or so, I'll go back and make sure that there's no extra stuff in the download folders.
You're fine without hard links as long as you have enough space and don't mind a little maintenance now and then.