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in reply to silence7

Fucking tell me about it. Out of the 20 locals running for council in my area, an overwhelming majority are against wind over coal and one is a genuine Neo-nazi. This world is terribly ill.
in reply to Embargo

Being tolerant towards intolerant is a crime against humanity


L’attacco di Trump a Lisa Monaco per colpire Microsoft: la posta in gioco è il cloud per Israele


Trump, ha chiesto pubblicamente il licenziamento di Lisa Monaco, top manager di Microsoft ed esperta di intelligence.
Monaco è stata vice procuratrice generale sotto l’amministrazione Biden, e Trump l’ha accusata di essere “corrotta” e “una minaccia per la sicurezza nazionale”, sostenendo di averle revocato le autorizzazioni di sicurezza.
La strana coincidenza: la richiesta di licenziamento arriva in un momento delicato per Microsoft, che ha appena deciso di ridimensionare la cooperazione con l’esercito israeliano.
Il colosso tech avrebbe spento un servizio utilizzato dall’intelligence di Tel Aviv per operazioni di sorveglianza di massa sui civili palestinesi a Gaza.
Il ministero della Difesa Israeliano avrebbe utilizzato il servizio Cloud, Azure Israel Central, per archiviare milioni di telefonate effettuate dai palestinesi in Cisgiordania e a Gaza. Microsoft ha condotto un’indagine interna e trovato conferme.
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in reply to Taalnazi

Liberation can only happen when you begin to free yourself from the dribble of western propaganda
in reply to jankforlife

Indeed, that is why we need to liberate ourselves from Russofascist and Americofascist propaganda.


Ex-Trump lawyer says president using Comey indictment to conceal being ‘criminal’


Ty Cobb, who managed Trump’s Mueller investigation response, said president is trying to ‘rewrite history’

The indictment of former FBI director James Comey is part of a concerted effort by Donald Trump to “rewrite history” in his favor, a former senior White House lawyer claimed on Sunday as he warned of more retribution to come for the president’s political opponents.

Ty Cobb, who defended Trump’s first administration during the Mueller investigation into his 2016 campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia, also told CBS that he doubted Comey would be convicted, if the case ever reached trial.

Trump’s moves, he said on the Sunday morning show Face the Nation, were “wholly unconstitutional [and] authoritarian” and an attempt to hoodwink future generations.


in reply to Potatoo_enthusiast

I have so many bans on Reddit.

I was banned from r/soapmaking for saying that people who buy soap made by other people, melt it, add perfume and trinkets, and pour it into moulds aren't making soap, they're doing arts and crafts. I raise the pigs, render the fat to make lard, and do the chemistry to turn it into soap. I make soap.

I was banned from r/canada for wondering if Danielle Smith was going to pay the lunatic street preecher charged with violating Covid restrictions a conjugal visit, after she made a fawning phone call to him while he was on trial, when he was convicted and sentenced to jail.

I was banned from r/Conservative for pointing out that the headlines that said that the DOJ had found massive voter fraud in Georgia was actually written by a Trump political appointee and contradicted the DOJ, the Republican Attorney General of the United States, the Republican Attorney General of Georgia, the Republican Secretary of State of Georgia, and Republican election officials from Georgia.

I was banned from the Freedom Convoy sub for asking which constitutional rights had been taken away since the protesters had exercised their Section 2 rights to assemble, their Section 6 rights to cross interprovincial borders freely and that they were free to leave Canada if they could find any country that would take them and free to return if they quarantined, and that since none of them were vaccinated they had obviously exercised their Section 8 right not to receive the vaccine.

Never, ever speak truth into an echo bunker.

in reply to Maple Engineer

Bans seem harsh but you do seem like me, just a generally contemptible asshole.
in reply to buttnugget

Meh. They're pathetic fucking snowflakes, one and all. I just speak the truth to snowflakes.
in reply to Maple Engineer

I do too haha. I find it particularly funny that you were banned for the arts and crafts comment. That was an amusing observation.



Trump Posts an Absolutely Bonkers AI Video in Which He Promotes a Magic ‘Med Bed’ That Can Cure Any Disease


Remember how the evil Dems were going to steal elections with AI videos? Instead, it's time to play Piss Off Your Own Dying Base With Empty Promises (batteries and oxygen not included).

President Donald Trump shared a bizarre AI video to social media in which he’s seen promoting “med beds” — a far-right conspiracy involving a magical bed that can supposedly heal any sickness.

In a post to his Truth Social platform late Saturday night, Trump shared a phony, AI-generated Fox News clip — purportedly from Fox’s My View with Lara Trump — in which he’s seen rolling out this magic technology to hospitals nationwide. (UPDATE: Trump has now deleted the video.)

“Every American will soon receive their own medbed card,” AI Trump said. “With it, you’ll have guaranteed access to our new hospitals led by the top doctors in the nation, equipped with the most advanced technology in the world.”




Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says Americans need to make work / life ‘tradeoffs’ to compete with China.


#USA
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

Or, counterpoint, maybe we should handle rich people's money more efficiently to stimulate economic growth instead of hampering it.
in reply to Tenderizer78

Also, why should the average American care about competing with China in the first place?


What happened to those always on AI glasses that recorded everything and doxed anyone you met?


If those became popular it would be a privacy nightmare, specially if the company share all gathered data with the government and other companies.
in reply to CoderSupreme

Not sure if that’s even possible. Even a GoPro barely lasts about 2-3 hours while running no AI and having a bigger battery than whatever you can fit in glasses.
in reply to CoderSupreme

We are already living in a privacy nightmare. Whether you film and then doxx folks with a smartphone, a camera you've hidden in your clothing, or one built into the frame of some spectacles really doesn't move the needle much any more. We're in the red already. The nightmarish data collection and then sharing is already baked into our internet experience.

And the people at large sit in a chair in a burning room that is this nightmare we're in, uttering "It's fine." It's been years since the Google glasshole debacle. People are so used now to other people just filming shit all the time. I think these glasses will end up just being tolerated. There won't be thousands around in your daily life, like smartphones. Society will acquiesce even in occasional perverts and intentional doxxers. The digital Overton window will move on.

What I can foresee is a more enforced no filming ban in certain areas, like restrooms and changing rooms. There could even be a technical solution that garbles recordings whether they are attempted or not.




Revisiting bsdiff as a tool for digital preservation


by @beet_keeper

I introduced bsdiff in a blog in 2014. bsdiff compares the differences between two files, e.g. broken_file_a and corrected_file_b and creates a patch that can be applied to broken_file_a to generate a byte-for-byte match for corrected_file_b.

On the face of it, in an archive, we probably only care about corrected_file_2 and so why would we care about a technology that patches a broken file?

In all of the use-cases we can imagine the primary reasons are cost savings and removing redundancy in file storage or transmission of digital information. In one very special case we can record the difference between broken_file_a and corrected_file_b and give users a totally objective method of recreating corrected_file_b from broken_file_a providing 100% verifiable proof of the migration pathway taken between the two files.

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#ac3 #Archives #audio #audiovisual #Audit #authenticity #av #Bash #bsdiff #checksums #Code4Lib #corruption #corruptionIndex #digipres #DigitalArchiving #DigitalForensics #digitalLiteracy #DigitalPreservation #DigitalStorage #diplomatics #FileFormats #flac #glitch #glitchAudio #GlitchArt #integrity #mp3 #PreservationAnalysis #PreservationMetadata #provenance #sensitivityIndex #Storage #wav



Patrick Baab: Europe Prepares the Public for War with Russia







An American nurse in Gaza City films a hospital's collapse as Israeli forces surround it


cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/36812418

By ABDEL KAREEM HANNA, SAMY MAGDY and SARAH EL DEEB
Updated 2:30 PM EDT, September 27, 2025
Al-Quds once had capacity for 120 patients. Now, roughly 20 remain, including two babies in intensive care. About 60 doctors, nurses and patients’ families are sheltering there.

Vaughan is from Seattle and volunteered through the Palestinian Australian New Zealand Medical Association since July. She kept a video diary of her time at al-Quds, occasionally posting on social media.

She shared dozens of videos with The Associated Press, which verified them. Volunteers in Gaza like her have become a vital source of information, as Israel has forbidden foreign media.




An American nurse in Gaza City films a hospital's collapse as Israeli forces surround it


By ABDEL KAREEM HANNA, SAMY MAGDY and SARAH EL DEEB
Updated 2:30 PM EDT, September 27, 2025

Al-Quds once had capacity for 120 patients. Now, roughly 20 remain, including two babies in intensive care. About 60 doctors, nurses and patients’ families are sheltering there.

Vaughan is from Seattle and volunteered through the Palestinian Australian New Zealand Medical Association since July. She kept a video diary of her time at al-Quds, occasionally posting on social media.

She shared dozens of videos with The Associated Press, which verified them. Volunteers in Gaza like her have become a vital source of information, as Israel has forbidden foreign media.



https://apnews.com/article/gaza-city-hospitals-health-care-israel-war-82b20da1d6308fc1b530bf1816288ea2



An American nurse in Gaza City films a hospital's collapse as Israeli forces surround it


By ABDEL KAREEM HANNA, SAMY MAGDY and SARAH EL DEEB
Updated 2:30 PM EDT, September 27, 2025

Al-Quds once had capacity for 120 patients. Now, roughly 20 remain, including two babies in intensive care. About 60 doctors, nurses and patients’ families are sheltering there.

Vaughan is from Seattle and volunteered through the Palestinian Australian New Zealand Medical Association since July. She kept a video diary of her time at al-Quds, occasionally posting on social media.

She shared dozens of videos with The Associated Press, which verified them. Volunteers in Gaza like her have become a vital source of information, as Israel has forbidden foreign media.

https://apnews.com/article/gaza-city-hospitals-health-care-israel-war-82b20da1d6308fc1b530bf1816288ea2




Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot


cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/6274710

A landless people and a peopleless land: these, it appears, are the aims of the Israeli government in Gaza. There are two means by which they are achieved. The first is the mass killing and expulsion of the Palestinians. The second is rendering the land uninhabitable. Alongside the crime of genocide, another great horror unfolds: ecocide.

While the destruction of buildings and infrastructure in Gaza is visible in every video we see, less visible is the parallel destruction of ecosystems and means of subsistence. Before the 7 October atrocity that triggered the current assault on Gaza, about 40% of its land was farmed. Despite its extreme population density, Gaza was mostly self-sufficient in vegetables and poultry, and met much of the population’s demand for olives, fruit and milk. But last month the UN reported that just 1.5% of its agricultural land now remains both accessible and undamaged. That’s roughly 200 hectares – the only remaining area directly available to feed more than 2 million people.

Part of the reason is the systematic destruction of farmland by the Israeli military. Ground troops have demolished greenhouses; bulldozers have toppled orchards, ploughed out crops and crushed the soil; and planes have sprayed herbicides over the fields.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) justify these attacks by claiming that “Hamas often operates from within orchards, fields, and agricultural land.” And apparently from hospitals, schools, universities, industrial estates and any other resources on which the Palestinians depend. All the IDF needs to do in order to rationalise destruction is to suggest that Hamas has operated or might operate from the thing it wants to destroy. And if there’s no evidence – sorry, too late.

The IDF is steadily expanding the “buffer zone” along Gaza’s eastern border, which happens to contain much of the Strip’s agricultural land. As the human rights specialist Hamza Hamouchene points out, rather than “making the desert bloom” – a mainstay of Israeli state propaganda – it is turning fertile and productive land into desert.

The Israeli government has been felling Palestinians’ ancient olive trees for decades to deprive them of subsistence, demoralise them and break their connection with the land. Olives are both materially crucial, accounting for 14% of the Palestinian economy, and symbolically powerful: if there are no olive trees, there can be no olive branch. Israel’s scorched-earth policy, in conjunction with its blockade of food supplies, guarantees famine.

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When Palestinians Die in Israeli Captivity, US Media Almost Never Take Note


#Palestine #Prisoners
#InstitutionalisedRacism

"There are currently some 3,613 Palestinians under administrative detention in Israeli prisons, according to the July 2025 CDA report, and more than 10,000 Palestinians in Israeli custody (not including those held in military camps) in total"
Not a word by the US corporate media when any of them die "while the fates of Israelis held captive by Hamas regularly make front-page news"l


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.