US Energy Dept. adds ‘climate change’ and ‘emissions’ to banned words list
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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.
Ukraine Is Deliberately Targeting Russian Civilians. These Horrific Events Are Largely Absent From Western Media Coverage
Ukraine Is Deliberately Targeting Russian Civilians. These Horrific Events Are Largely Absent From Western Media Coverage
In the evening of 21 September, Ukrainian drones attacked a sanatorium in Foros, a village in Crimea. Three people were killed and 16 more were injured in the strikes.Anonymous834 (South Front)
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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.
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
A Marxist Perspective On AI
AI has become as a deeply polarizing issue on the left, with many people having concerns regarding its reliance on unauthorized training data, displacement of workers, lack of creativity, and environmental costs.Dialectical Dispatches
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.
Streameast Reclaimed Domain Name Previously Seized By the U.S. Government * TorrentFreak
Streameast Reclaimed Domain Name Previously Seized By the U.S. Government * TorrentFreak
Last year, U.S. authorities seized several Streameast domain names, but the pirate sports streaming site has reclaimed one of them.Ernesto Van der Sar (TF Publishing)
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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.
Maine’s longer, hotter summers are reshaping our natural world | The Portland Press Herald spoke to 2 dozen experts this summer about the ways increasing heat is affecting Maine’s environment.
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How climate-fueled summers are reshaping Maine's environment
The Portland Press Herald spoke to 2 dozen experts this summer about the ways increasing heat is affecting Maine's environment.Penelope Overton (The Portland Press Herald)
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.
Eric Adams drops out of New York City mayoral race
Eric Adams drops out of New York City mayoral race
New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced Sunday that he is dropping his third-party bid for re-election, narrowing the field for November’s election.Megan Lebowitz (NBC News)
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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.
«Quick Freeze» statt Massenüberwachung
Die Vorratsdatenspeicherung ist grundrechtswidrig, mit «Quick Freeze» stünde eine Alternative zur Verfügung. Um «Quick Freeze» durchzusetzen, brauchen wir 23'000 Franken. Hilf mit, die Vorratsdatenspeicherung zu kippen!Digitale Gesellschaft
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.
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.
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)
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As US-Venezuela tensions rise, Maduro trains civilians for "undeclared war"
As US-Venezuela tensions rise, Maduro trains civilians for "undeclared war"
Tensions between the two countries have increased after the US Navy targeted boats off the coast of Venezuela.Nicole Kolster (BBC News)
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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.
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.
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.
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.
bless the people's troops, it takes immense bravery to face the army of the Great Satan
(NATO-nazis can procede straight to hell)
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^___^
Should Salesforce's Tableau Be Granted a Patent On 'Visualizing Hierarchical Data'? - Slashdot
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp says 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": "A provided da…yro.slashdot.org
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.
Data processing for visualizing hierarchical data
Embodiments are directed to managing visualizations of data. A provided data model may include a tree specification that declares parent-child relationships between objects in the data model.patents.google.com
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
Should Salesforce's Tableau Be Granted a Patent On 'Visualizing Hierarchical Data'? - Slashdot
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp says 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": "A provided da…yro.slashdot.org
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.
Kyiv hit by 'massive' Russian attack, mayor says
As well as intensifying attacks against Ukraine, Russia is also accused of violating the airspace of several Nato countries.Chris Graham (BBC News)
‘Like the Gestapo’: trailblazing immigration judge on Ice brutality and Trump’s damage to the courts
‘Like the Gestapo’: trailblazing immigration judge on Ice brutality and Trump’s damage to the courts
Dana Leigh Marks had a long and notable tenure on the bench. Now she’s watching the Trump administration trash her institution – and raising the alarmIsabeau Doucet (The Guardian)
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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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)
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.
A 160-year-old campaign against civil rights heads to the supreme court
Louisiana v Callais could roll back what remains of the Voting Rights Act, putting the future of America’s multiracial democracy at stakeGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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 […]
[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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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…
Are Rooftop Solar Panels the Solution to America’s Growing Energy Crisis?
Are Rooftop Solar Panels the Solution to America’s Growing Energy Crisis?
Electric grids are increasingly under strain, and demand for energy is soaring. But not everyone sees the virtue in dotting homes across the country with solar panels.Ivan Penn (The New York Times)
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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?
US revokes Colombian president's visa after UN visit
US revokes Colombian president's visa after UN visit
Gustavo Petro told US soldiers to "disobey Trump's orders" while addressing a protest in New York.Stuart Lau (BBC News)
How do you get yourself to do anything?
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China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes
China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes
A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.Christopher McFadden (Interesting Engineering)
A question for everyone regarding AI calculations
MotoGP Giappone 2025: a Motegi vince Bagnaia, Márquez campione del mondo per la nona volta
Bagnaia domina il GP del Giappone 2025 a Motegi, davanti a Marc Márquez e Mir. Márquez vince il mondiale. Classifica completa della gara.
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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…
Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.
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Pfizer sued in US over contraceptive that women say caused brain tumours
US class action lawsuit alleges company failed to warn about risks of using contraceptive injection Depo-Provera
The stripper who ushered in the modern subscription-based internet
In the 1990s, nobody knew how to make money through Internet subscriptions. It took an entrepreneurial porn star to crack the code.
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