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in reply to silence7

The existence of the United States of America has been a disaster for humanity.

in reply to jackeroni

I believe in a gold backed economy, but most gold is a hologram put there by god to test us. And my religion and/or race and/or culture and/or gender and /or sexualty and/or group in a political senses gold is real and only we can tell what's real,

And we believe a whole lot of other crazy weird quasi religious nonsense we strictly adhere to.

We all believe doing exactly this like everyone else is the only one true way to be free. Therefore anything we do is justified.


in reply to mathemachristian [he/him]

They are at war. Russia shoots at civilians. Ukraine shoots at civilians. Both are wrong to shoot at civilians.

South front press just doesnt take issue with Russia shooting at civilians.

in reply to belastend

Don't worry, whataboutism detector apparently thinks you're in the clear. Or it doesn't work on federated communities, either or, shooting civilians is wrong.
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How a major US DOE report hides the whole truth on climate change


The Trump administration recruited five marginalized researchers to challenge the international consensus on global warming. Here’s how it went wrong.


Well known among those who follow the topic, but haven't seen other outlets try to tell the whole story.



A Marxist Perspective On AI


cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/36807834
in reply to Spectre

Great piece and I don't really have anything to add. But I'm glad that there exists people who recognize the problem with AI is the capitalist system it exist within, not the tool itself.
in reply to Spectre

It's important to make a distinction between the definition of "open source AI" canonized by the OSI that doesn't require open training data, and models where all of the training data used is also made available.

Separately, the tools most people think about when they hear "AI", generalized generative AI models, only exist as capitalist surplus, and we shouldn't be defending them. Hyper focused AI tools such as the Te Hiku Media project to create speech recognition tools for the te reo Māori language are unequivocally good, and we should be making a lot more projects like this.


in reply to sabreW4K3

Just for the uninformed, i.e. me, what is the advantage of reclaiming these domain names? I would assume that they can somewhat be considered tainted in terms of the piracy world now anyways, and getting new domain names should be fairly easy as well, shouldn't it?
in reply to Siru

Brand recognition. Existing web links and references to it.

While the site swiftly moved to new domains, the old ones were pointing to a seizure banner.

Streameast ‘Reclaims’ Streameast.xyz


Their name is still the same as before. So it makes sense to reclaim it.

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Trump’s Golden Dome: Costly, Wasteful, With Contracts for Palantir


Largely freed of competition, Golden Dome task orders can go to favored Trump contractors, including high-tech billionaires who are his close allies.

The evidence accumulates that Golden Dome is going to be an enormously costly and extremely wasteful system. And, the contracting for high-tech work seems sure to go to Palantir. Palantir’s board chairman, the extremely well connected billionaire Peter Thiel, longtime Trump-backer and mentor of Vice President J.D. Vance.

In July, a letter by Senator Edward J. Markey and nine other Senators said:

“President Trump has said that Golden Dome would cost $175 billion and be ‘fully operational’ by 2029. But the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has estimated that it could cost as much as $542 billion to deploy a constellation of space-based interceptors (SBIs) designed to defeat one or two intercontinental ballistic missiles launched in a limited attack, such as by North Korea. Countering a possible Russian or Chinese attack involving hundreds of warheads would require a much larger, more technologically advanced, and more costly system. . . . Despite what could amount to a trillion dollar investment, Golden Dome would be all-too-easy to defeat.”

Earlier in September, the conservative American Enterprise Institute (AEI), more cheerleader than critic of Trump’s, issued a report that the cost of Golden Dome could range as high as $3.6 trillion. AEI gave a range of possibilities, from that high figure for a system doing what President Trump asserts he wants Golden Dome to do, down to lower figures that while still far above Trump’s $175 billion, would have much more limited capabilities what he claims.

So now that the Administration is launched on procuring Golden Dome, the natural question is, who benefits? Some of the contracting may go to traditional defense contractors like Lockheed Martin. But, the new hallmark of the Trump administration has been the mutually beneficial cultivating of Silicon Valley billionaires. The beauty of Golden Dome is that it involves not just hardware from traditional contractors, but tech products from the Trump Administration’s closest new friends.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/charlestiefer/2025/09/26/trumps-golden-dome-costly-and-wasteful--tied-to-billionaire-thiel/




Eric Adams drops out of New York City mayoral race




Big Brother is watching Switzerland!


Biggest threat for our privacy is real in Switzerland !

#EID #Switzerland #Privacy

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in reply to harfang

It's limited by law to official services anyway. Your online shopping platform can't ask you for E-ID verification.

E-ID is one thing we got right this (the second) time, imo.

If you're pro-privacy, better fight against the inconstitutional VDS (complaint in EGMR still pending for years now).
Digitale Gesellschaft needs donations to launch the initiative to replace it with Quick Freeze.

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in reply to MonkderVierte

It's limited by law to official services anyway


Do you think this may change in the future? Because, change in such law is what potentially makes this predatory.

Such limit to this law is the best case scenario. And definitely something I'll support, but the chance it might extend further is what holds me and others away from this.

in reply to sleen

Unlikely. This country takes it's health data sensibility very seriously for tens of years now. Deterioration of such things would be seen as an abuse of trust by the people and the political allies. That's one thing that still mostly works here.
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in reply to MonkderVierte

First, one piece: the means; Next, the second piece: the law
in reply to harfang

Some important context here is that Switzerland already has a national ID card system, this is an extension allowing people to use a digital version if they prefer.

I'm not saying that isn't going to be without its privacy concerns, but them narrowly voting that in is a far cry from, oh I don't know, the UK government forcing an entirely new scheme on people without a referendum.



Title generation and quote posts


renchap@oisaur.com 044f specifies the use of a link to the quoted post as fallback, hidden behind .quote-inline.

Right now Mastodon puts this top of post, and this interferes with title generation logic on NodeBB. Essentially the URL becomes the title, which is not ideal.

Any chance the class name could be upgraded to a MUST so I can code against it? Potentially other implementors could use different class names.

in reply to Renaud Chaput

I didn't want to make it a MUST in the FEP because there are lots of reasons you may want to do the fallback differently (and we only include it if it's not already in the post: the URL could conceivably be part of the message)

as for Mastodon, there are technical reasons why we decided to put it on top, but Mastodon-inserted fallback will always use quote-inline. This is also consistent with what another implementation did (can't remember which one off the top of my head)


in reply to FRYD

It's like you gained the wisdom some people get through aging but all at once. You sound like a fun person to me.
in reply to ᴍᴜᴛɪʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴᴡᴀᴠᴇ

I don’t think I gained any wisdom, I just lost all my anger and hatred. Really I lost everything that mattered to me in an abstract way. Ever since, I’ve been completely nihilistic. I’ve spent my life since searching for what matters to me and I think my empathy comes from the fact that the first thing I clung onto was never causing others pain like I felt.

in reply to GiorgioPerlasca

But I thought Maduro was a dictator; wouldn't giving his people guns and training them to use it mean he's creating a militia hostile to him in his own country?

If only there was a lib who could finagle an explanation for me for why this still tracks.

in reply to Evilsandwichman [none/use name]

I think if the libs had a frame of comparison, it'd be like that time Ukraine gave off weapons to civvies during such conflict.

Albeit, unlike Ukraine, hopefully this time, the Venezuelan gov't gave their people gun training and discipline.

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in reply to Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]

Libs would first have to understand that 'dictator' is a nonsense term and that they're being lied to about Maduro, but any visit to reddit indicates it'll never happen (and I don't recommend visiting reddit; it hurts my brain reading the nonsense they spout over there, let alone the unabashed racism)
in reply to Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]

Ukraine problem is different.

After the collapse of the USSR, Ukraine inherited significant stocks of Soviet weaponry, and Ukrainian military personnel were trained to operate this equipment.

Regarding the transition to NATO standards, this process requires time and resources. Mastering new weapon systems, changing supply chains, and adapting tactics are complex challenges for any army. Many countries transitioning to the Alliance's standards face similar challenges.

The Russian defense industry continues to produce equipment compatible with Soviet standards, which creates certain difficulties in the current conditions.

Also, not being able to buy cheap and effective Chinese dual usage drones to not offend the USA is a huge limit.

in reply to Evilsandwichman [none/use name]

It would be like if Trump created a national police force just to recruit his regime loyalists and used government money to fund their weapons and salaries. It’s a crazy idea, I know, but it’s a valid analogy.
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in reply to Cyphierre

but it’s a valid analogy


Almost; the added context that unfortunately breaks it is that this would have to be on the eve of a war with a comparative superpower that is leagues superior to America and having to hope that you aren't arming subversive forces who'll turn on you in this one sided war; then there's also that this superpower would have crafted a rival political group that both it and the superpower accept as the legitimate government (so like if Democrats said the election was rigged and they were the real winners, and the superpower treated it as fact). Trump isn't stupid enough to do that; basically no one is; for example this national police force would also need to number high enough to be of any value in war, and this many people easily allows for subversive forces.

Heck, in the real world you have leftist youtubers infiltrating these groups all the time.

The idea is too crazy for the analogy to be valid; you'd have to dumb everything way too down for it to work.

Edit: actually for that matter, there's no one in America that seriously wants to actually militarily overthrow Trump, which is the ludicrous claims about Maduro.

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in reply to GiorgioPerlasca

bless the people's troops, it takes immense bravery to face the army of the Great Satan maduro-salute

(NATO-nazis can procede straight to hell)

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Title generation and quote posts


renchap@oisaur.com 044f specifies the use of a link to the quoted post as fallback, hidden behind .quote-inline.

Right now Mastodon puts this top of post, and this interferes with title generation logic on NodeBB. Essentially the URL becomes the title, which is not ideal.

Any chance the class name could be upgraded to a MUST so I can code against it? Potentially other implementors could use different class names.



Should Salesforce's Tableau Be Granted a Patent On 'Visualizing Hierarchical Data'?


America's Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted a patent to Tableau (Salesforce's visual analytics platform) — for a patent covering "Data Processing For Visualizing Hierarchical Data^___^
in reply to technocrit

Uh, unless you want to make tableau basically an effective monopoly on the... idea of graphs...

Then no, no, this is a very bad idea.

in reply to technocrit

I found the patent: patents.google.com/patent/US20…


Should Salesforce's Tableau Be Granted a Patent On 'Visualizing Hierarchical Data'?


America's Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted a patent to Tableau (Salesforce's visual analytics platform) — for a patent covering "Data Processing For Visualizing Hierarchical Data


Zelensky condemns 'vile' Russian strikes lasting 12 hours


A Russian aerial bombardment that lasted more than 12 hours has killed at least four people and injured at least 70 others in Ukraine.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said the deaths all occurred in the capital, Kyiv, where many of the projectiles were aimed, and the victims included a 12-year-old girl.

The barrage - involving nearly 600 drones and several dozen missiles aimed at seven regions of Ukraine - is one of the heaviest in recent months.

Zelensky warned that Ukraine would retaliate and said the "vile" attack showed Moscow "wants to continue fighting and killing". Russia said it struck military facilities and industrial enterprises supporting Ukraine's armed forces.




These Zionists Control America's News




These Zionists Control America's News


#USA


These Zionists Control America's News




Need text editor advice


I am a big fan of Notepad++ in windows and I have been using Notepadqq, a linux clone. Lately though, I have been experiencing more and more crashes and bugs with it. Looking for advice and wisdom. Is there something better? Should I stick it out and try and troubleshoot my problems with Notepadqq?

Edit: Just wanted to thank everyone for all the great advice! I know people can sometimes be territorial and/or religious about their choices here, but people in this thread were helpful and informative, so thank you!

I am trying out Notepad Next but I also installed Notepad++ with Wine. Both seem promising, thanks.

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in reply to xylogx

I also used Notepadqq for the first year I used Linux, I ended up switching to Kate since it did everything I liked about Notepad++ and it came installed with my KDE desktop soooo.

Also for the few times I gotta use a terminal text editor I use Micro (It really should be the default instead of Nano)

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in reply to xylogx

Helix, Kakoune, build Codium from source would be my suggestions.

I use Helix now mainly - I use Codium if I need a graphical editor for something, or one of it's plugins.

At work the systems use VSCode but I use the Dance plugin with Helix bindings to get some of that functionality back.



A 160-year-old campaign against civil rights heads to the supreme court


What did Reconstruction do for us, anyway?

Because the executive and legislature branches seem to have jumped the constitutional shark, some people continue to hold out hope that the judicial branch, with the supreme court at its apex, will offer a way out of this mess. That would be a mistake: like Congress, the Republican majority on the supreme court has lined up behind most of the president’s sweeping assertions of novel powers. The supreme court has blocked lower federal court rulings that had reined in the president’s authority to withhold federal medical research grants for ideological reasons. It has allowed the executive branch to deploy roving immigration patrols to engage in racial profiling; to expel noncitizens to countries on the brink of civil wars where they could face torture, trafficking or death; to fire non-regime friendly officials (in violation of federal law); to dismantle entire departments and more.

But one specific case on the court’s docket for this term illustrates its role in a more far-reaching rightwing project that goes back all the way to the end of the civil war.

Louisiana v Callais is a major challenge to what remains of the Voting Rights of Act of 1965, and could radically rework the structure of political representation in the United States. A successful challenge to the VRA would allow the Republican party to further cheat democracy by engaging in even more partisan gerrymandering and erasing several legislative districts held by Democratic officials, many of whom are racial minorities.


Remember to call your rep... oh, right.



TP Link Router wants to share client info with third parties


My router (TP Link) said it had a firmware update. I'm a responsible adult, so I update my firmware. When I log back in, I get this popup that they'd like to share my clients info.

cool...

in reply to artyom

It's the rapist mentality, they won't accept "no" as an answer.


aggregocttica moria senza soluzioni più spumose (l’Aggregoctt è morto e a fatica trovo alternative)


Settimane fa, o qualcosa del genere, mi era passato di mente il dover segnalare che l’Aggregoctt è fallito. Nel senso, funziona ancora — abbastanza a magia tra l’altro, devo dire, perché è assurdo che non si sia ancora rotto… cioè, in realtà è successo già tipo 2 volte, ma ogni volta ho potuto aggiustarlo senza […]

octospacc.altervista.org/2025/…


aggregocttica moria senza soluzioni più spumose (l’Aggregoctt è morto e a fatica trovo alternative)


Settimane fa, o qualcosa del genere, mi era passato di mente il dover segnalare che l’Aggregoctt è fallito. Nel senso, funziona ancoraabbastanza a magia tra l’altro, devo dire, perché è assurdo che non si sia ancora rotto… cioè, in realtà è successo già tipo 2 volte, ma ogni volta ho potuto aggiustarlo senza fare cambiamenti radicali, il che è sorprendente — ma il problema è che, per come l’ho fatto, con questa roba del sito statico che deve compilarsi a partire da infiniti file HTML (ormai credo diverse centinaia di migliaia, al punto che GitHub si rifiuta di indicizzare la repo), prima o poi raggiungerà per forza un tetto pratico… e a quel punto fallirà davvero. 🥴

Certo, potrei implementare la purga periodica di post vecchi, ma io che sono un’accumulatrice seriale mi sentirei proprio male… e poi, questa non è l’unica rogna. Infatti, per giunta, per quanto sia figo che funzioni interamente senza un server di hosting dinamico, aggiornandosi in automatico solo grazie alla CI gratuita di GitHub, un bel problemino che ho visto è che certi feed non si aggiornano lì sopra, perché il sito sfigato di turno sarà stato settato a minchia, con una protezione bot che blocca gli IP non-domestici pure per le richieste del feed… quindi, quella manciata di siti particolari non si aggiorna mai. 💔

Temo allora che la mia paura iniziale, cioè che l’Aggregoctt fatto con Jekyll e uno script Python vibe-codato rischiasse di essere solo un ripiego, si è confermata. In realtà, per chi è a posto con queste limitazioni, il template costruito fino ad ora rimane alquanto valido, e ancora consiglierei di forkarlo a chiunque vorrebbe farsi il proprio sito aggregatore (inserendo i propri URL nel file della lista) senza un server e senza grossi smanettamenti (anche se forse, per evitare che qualcuno si trovi in sorprendenti difficoltà, farei bene ad implementare quella maledetta purga, oltre a maggiori ottimizzazioni per il caricamento dei dati)… però io, avendo il serverino, potrei permettermi di più. 🙄

Problema: non c’è niente di ideale già fatto (altrimenti non avrei certamente speso tempo a creare l’Aggregoctt, avrei direttamente preso quel qualcosa e tanti saluti)… quindi dovrò vedere di fare io qualcosa e bla bla bla, mannaggia al mio tempo che scompare. Però, giusto per non cadere nella più totale disperazione (e in parte anche per assimilare passivamente idee di design simili alle mie ma lievemente diverse, per questo specifico tipo di applicazione), da qualche giorno sto provando un aggregatore trovato cercando nelle liste più improbabili di top aggregatori di feed selfhostabili: RSS. Si, il creatore — che stranamente non è uno scappato di casa, bensì è lo stesso che ha creato BookStack — lo ha veramente chiamato solo “RSS”, con la scusa che è un progetto a bassa manutenzione e creato principalmente per uso personale… vergognoso, ma lasciamo stare. 😕
Schermata del sito, Aggregoctt-v2
Oh, sembrava bellino, e dopo averlo provato devo confermare che effettivamente lo è… ma allo stesso tempo ho percepito una puzza, quindi per ora l’ho messo sul mio classico dominio usa-e-ricicla di ; non si merita (per ora?) un dominio permanente. È simpatico, perché non ha login o permessi, e quindi replica bene la filosofia del primo Aggregoctt per cui il lettore personale funge anche da blogroll (cioè, una cosa del decennio scorso attraverso cui chi segue me può scoprire altre persone da seguire, potendo banalmente vedere una lista di chi seguo io… o, in certi casi non “seguo“, bensì “tengo d’occhio“, lieve differenza), e l’interfaccia è pulita e funzionale. Purtroppo è anche antipatico, visto che per funzionare richiede JavaScript moderno (zio pera, è una maledizione con tutti ‘sti cosi web), e quindi non si può usare sul Kindle (o anche, in generale dispositivi utili da riciclare per leggere, che però hanno browser web antichi); ma non ha neanche la modalità di lettura integrata, quindi comunque su Kindle e compagnia sarebbe un incubo da usare. (Ah e, edit: ho dimenticato di dirlo, la gestione di errori in questo coso è inesistente, e alcuni feed misteriosamente non caricano.) 😴

Vabbè, alla fine il bilancio netto è comunque positivo, perché ora nel mondo esistono tecnicamente ben 2 Aggregoctti, e se non riesco a fare pace con tutto ciò prima o poi ne dovrà uscirà pure un terzo (e speriamo non di più, perché sennò veramente sarebbe la fine… cioè, la tragedia della mancanza di una fine, l’eterno ritorno dell’Aggregoctt)… Il fatto è che, a parte funzionalità improbabili che ora nemmeno vorrei ri-descrivere ma che sarebbe figo implementare, di piccole cose da poter fare per avere un’esperienza davvero epica ce ne sono a bizzeffe… come un’ottimizzazione per i feed dei social in modo che i post si vedano meglio rispetto agli articoli di blog classici, o un’ottimizzazione per i feed di YouTube per cui viene mostrato automaticamente l’embed per i video… ed è tutta roba semplice, ma, avendo il primo Aggregoctt le difficoltà che ho detto, più che spendere tempo a metterle lì farei bene a creare questa v3. (Aiutatemi!!!) 😽

#aggregator #Aggregoctt #feed #RSS




[SOLVED] I cannot add flatpaks as user, what am I doing wrong?


SOLUTION: add Flathub as a user remote too:

flatpak remote-add --user --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

flatpak lets you install applications as user vs system. I want to install as user because my .var is full.

example: flatpak install --user org.fcitx.Fcitx5 returns error: No remote refs found for ‘org.fcitx.Fcitx5’

flatpak remotes returns flathub system

I'm logged in as user5. whoami returns user5

I don't know what remote I have to add or if I have to add user5 as a remote

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in reply to arsus5478

I could be wrong but no remote refs refers to not finding a repo for what you are trying to install, so either the flathub repo isnt added which it sounds like it is, or the app you want isnt in that repo.

So you may need to add the repo for that app:
fcitx-im.org/wiki/Install_Fcit…

in reply to arsus5478

This comment should be deleted soon
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what are these books?


This group of formally dressed men at a cafe each had a book, two of them are pictured here. Any idea what books they are?
in reply to FRYD

That must be it! Perhaps the other one is a Bible
in reply to OctopoesDeKater

Yeah assuming it’s a Dutch bible, my American brain won’t be able to recognize the words from their pixelated silhouette.
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in reply to silence7

It could be, but solar panels aren’t an option for most Americans. For example, Arizona a (had?) has laws in place to fight people using the blazing sun to steal money from SRP (power company). Essentially saying you can’t have them. I’m sure many lead poisoned red states feel the same.
in reply to chiocciola

I think this is a freight train they can slow, but not stop. Panels are getting cheaper and cheaper. And balcony solar has started to emerge.
in reply to reddig33

I think you’re right, but I also think there’s 1000 miles of track before it pulls into the Reality Station. By then we will be dead.
in reply to silence7

Part of it, yes. Agrivoltaics is another good part. Charging for electricity on a sliding scale is another part. Stop giving data centers discounts on electricity.

Also can we stop making all black rooftops?

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How do you get yourself to do anything?


Like... How do you do things that are good for you and necessary?
#ADHD
in reply to WhatGodIsMadeOf

It helps to have someone to talk to. If I keep telling my friend “Man, I gotta go to the eye dr and get new glasses.” eventually I get embarrassed about saying it so much that I actually do it instead of telling them.





A question for everyone regarding AI calculations


Ok, you had a moderately complex math problem you needed to solve. You gave the problem to 6 LLMS all paid versions. All 6 get the same numbers. Would you trust the answer?



US set for largest mass resignation in history as Trump continues deep cuts


Federal workers say they have little choice but to depart, with 100,000 leaving under deferred resignation program


Archived version: archive.is/20250928120037/theg…


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