California Governor Newsom signs landmark AI safety bill SB 53
California Governor Newsom signs landmark AI safety bill SB 53 | TechCrunch
SB 53 requires large AI labs – including OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google DeepMind – to be transparent about safety protocols. It also ensures whistleblower protections for employees at those companies.Rebecca Bellan (TechCrunch)
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Disney reportedly lost 1.7 million paid subscribers in the week after suspending Kimmel
Disney reportedly lost 1.7 million paid subscribers in the week after suspending Kimmel
An independent reporter claims that more than 1.7 million paying subscribers canceled their plans to DIsney streaming services.Anna Washenko (Engadget)
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F-Droid says Google’s new sideloading restrictions will kill the project
F-Droid says Google’s new sideloading restrictions will kill the project
F-Droid sees Google’s plans as a threat to FOSS apps.Ryan Whitwam (Ars Technica)
[Feed] BSD-related users and communities
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Argentina’s soy exports to China soar, angering US
Argentina’s soy exports to China soar amid US bailout, fuelling tensions in Trump camp
China’s soybean buyers turn to Argentina after tax drop, leaving US farmers sidelined and Washington unhappy.Igor Patrick (South China Morning Post)
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My Thoughts on the Riyadh Comedy Festival | David Cross
My Thoughts on the Riyadh Comedy Festival
I’ve been asked for my opinion on the Riyadh Comedy Festival and rather than answer the same question 23 times, I’ll just put this out here.Official David Cross Online Store
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Democrats leave White House with no deal
With just over 24 hours before the government is set to shutdown, Donald Trump and congressional leaders from both parties emerged from a high-stakes White House meeting on Monday with no agreement, setting the stage for large swaths of the federal government to close after midnight Wednesday.
The impasse came after closed-door talks between the four top congressional leaders and Trump in the Oval Office, where lawmakers appeared to trade blame but make little progress towards a deal. “There are still large differences between us,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told reporters after the meeting, claiming that Republicans refused to engage on their core demands around health care and restoring previous funding cuts.
“Their bill has not one iota of Democratic input,” he added, taking aim at a House-passed seven-week stopgap funding bill that Senate Democrats rejected last week. “That is never how we’ve done this before.”
https://time.com/7321745/government-shutdown-trump-meeting-democrats/
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China highlights achievements of water infrastructure during 14th Five-Year Plan period
China highlights achievements of water infrastructure during 14th Five-Year Plan period
China has built the world's largest, most comprehensive and most populous water infrastructure system, said officials from China's Ministry of Water Resources on Monday at a press conference about the achievements of the country's water conservancy d…CGTN
Over 40 percent of US citizens believe backing Israel ‘not in national interest’: Poll
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/6276729
Snip:A new poll released by Quinnipiac University on 24 September has revealed that support for Israel continues to drop significantly across the US.
Only 47 percent of US citizens believe that backing Israel is in Washington’s interest, the poll shows. Forty-one percent believe it is not, and 12 percent did not respond. This marks a drop from December 2023, when Quinnipiac polling showed that respondents supported Israel by a 69–23 margin.
The poll also found that 49 percent of US voters have a negative view of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Only 21 percent hold positive views on the premier.
It also found that 56 percent of US voters disapprove of US President Donald Trump’s handling of the Gaza war.
Over 40 percent of US citizens believe backing Israel ‘not in national interest’: Poll
The poll shows that half of US voters have a negative view of Netanyahu, while a majority believe Trump has ‘mishandled’ the situation in Gazathecradle.co
How the Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Decision Legitimized Stephen Miller
Miller’s role, The Guardian notes, helps account for the shaky legal justification the administration has provided for the attacks: The Trump administration claims the president was using his authority under Article II of the Constitution, based on the notion that the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua is a foreign terrorist organization. This recalls Miller’s repeated assertions that TdA is “running Venezuela” in his argument for deporting Venezuelan immigrants under the Alien Enemies Act.
The revelation about Miller’s role also recalls reports that he mused about bombing unarmed immigrants in boats as an adviser in the first Trump administration.
Miles Taylor, a former Department of Homeland Security official who resigned in Trump’s first term and became a vocal critic of the president, recounted an exchange between Miller and the then-commandant of the Coast Guard—which Miller vehemently denies—in his book Blowback.
How the Supreme Court Gave Cover to Stephen Miller’s Racist Agenda
The high court basically provided conservatives the template for the war on DEI.Dahlia Lithwick (Slate)
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50 years on, has China left Europe behind in the race for a hi-tech future?
50 years on, has China left Europe behind in the race for a hi-tech future?
Chinese firms have caught up with and in some cases overtaken their European rivals, putting the EU on the defensive.Meredith Chen (South China Morning Post)
HarmonyOS 5 Devices Surpass 20 Million Units - Voila!News
September 29, 2025 – Huawei Executive Director and Head of the Terminal Business Group, Richard Yu (Yu Chengdong), officially announced today that the number of devices running HarmonyOS 5 has exceeded 20 million units.Richard YANG (Voila!News)
20M units in China is too small to count as a rounding error.
When one Chinese phone company hired an American CEO he talked in interviews about how experimentally selling 50M units of a test prototype suggested it might have potential.
In 10 months though and practically limited to the Chinese market? I think it is still an impressive figure.
The first device to feature HarmonyOS NEXT at sale was the Huawei Mate 70, which went on sale in China in November 2024.
Compare that with both Android and the iPhone which had global availability and took until 2010 to reach the same milestone.
China deployed alternatives to everything.
Alternatives to Nvidia AI chips, Volkswagen cars, TSMC chip foundries,
ASML lithography machines, ChatGPT AI software, F22 fighter jets.
And China has superior class solar panels, wind turbines, electric grids and batteries.
The EU has lithography machines that's dependent on the US
and electric cars that are inferior to Tesla and those are their crown jewels.
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Brazilians’ negative views of US double, China sees sharp rise in positives: poll
Brazilians’ negative views of US double, China sees sharp rise in positives: poll
Shift follows US President Donald Trump raising tariffs on Brazilian exports and tightening visa rules.Igor Patrick (South China Morning Post)
Germany’s Pistorius pours cold water on drone wall concept
Germany’s Pistorius pours cold water on drone wall concept
Repeated Russian incursions are increasing pressure on the EU and NATO to respond.Laura Kayali (POLITICO)
JB Pritzker Accuses ICE of ‘Harassing People for Not Being White’ Amid Chicago Immigration Crackdown
JB Pritzker Accuses ICE of ‘Harassing People for Not Being White’ Amid Chicago Immigration Cra ...
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker slammed the Trump administration and U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement for the agency's presence in Chicago.Ahmad Austin Jr. (Mediaite)
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Netanyahu accepts Trump proposal to end war in Gaza
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/36860074
By Sean Mathews.
Published date: 29 September 2025 19:41 BST | Last update 430pm EDT
Netanyahu accepts Trump proposal to end war in Gaza
By Sean Mathews.
Published date: 29 September 2025 19:41 BST | Last update 430pm EDTNetanyahu accepts Trump proposal to end war in Gaza
US President Donald Trump said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to end the war in Gaza, in a move he said would be the Israeli leader's "crowning achievement".Sean Mathews (Middle East Eye)
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Non starter, never give-up arms. It just gives the oppressor complete control and will only mean that Israel will fully take all the land and murder the people much much easier. Settlers will be able to swarm in and murder even more Palestinians. If your murder is going to happen anyway, then take as many of them as you possibly can.
OpenAI takes on Google, Amazon with new agentic shopping system | TechCrunch
OpenAI takes on Google, Amazon with new agentic shopping system | TechCrunch
This type of frictionless experience has the potential to spark a new movement in how people shop online – one that moves away from search engines like Google and e-commerce platforms like Amazon toward conversational agents with curated recommendati…Rebecca Bellan (TechCrunch)
Are you using a time machibe to access Amazon in the past? Because for me the experience looks more like this:
- I type in "amazon.com" in my browser
- I use the search bar and get a bunch of sponsored results that are not what I was searching for at all and all use the same garbage photoshopped photos
- I scroll through pages upon pages of irrelevant dropshipped garbage offered by companies like JHUVOY, BRILGOVA and other random letters.
- I finally find something that looks like it's not a cheap knockoff
- I add it to my shopping cart and click through offers for Amazon prime and offers for dropshipped garbage that I might want to add to my cart.
- I proceed to payment
Sigh, I really miss the old internet, I truly do...
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Netanyahu accepts Trump proposal to end war in Gaza
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/36860074
By Sean Mathews.
Published date: 29 September 2025 19:41 BST | Last update 430pm EDT
Netanyahu accepts Trump proposal to end war in Gaza
By Sean Mathews.
Published date: 29 September 2025 19:41 BST | Last update 430pm EDTNetanyahu accepts Trump proposal to end war in Gaza
US President Donald Trump said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to end the war in Gaza, in a move he said would be the Israeli leader's "crowning achievement".Sean Mathews (Middle East Eye)
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Fallout without the bomb: Ukraine’s nuclear rhetoric is the real radioactive waste
Fallout without the bomb: Ukraine’s nuclear rhetoric is the real radioactive waste
Three decades after giving up the world’s third-largest arsenal, Kiev once again dangles the nuclear option – a move Russia will never allowRT
Netanyahu accepts Trump proposal to end war in Gaza
Published date: 29 September 2025 19:41 BST | Last update 430pm EDT
Netanyahu accepts Trump proposal to end war in Gaza
US President Donald Trump said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to end the war in Gaza, in a move he said would be the Israeli leader's "crowning achievement".Sean Mathews (Middle East Eye)
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Media and Medics Boat to Gaza to Launch Oct 1
NOTE 🚨: this is in addition to the current Global Sumud Flotilla coalition making its way to Gaza
The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) will launch a dedicated boat carrying international journalists and medical professionals to Gaza on October 1, 2025
The boat is scheduled to sail by October 1 and plans to join the other FFC and Thousand Madleens to Gaza boats on their journey.
For nearly two years, Israel has denied foreign journalists entry into Gaza, creating one of the most severe press blackouts in recent history… At the same time, Gaza’s health system has been systematically dismantled under Israel’s siege and bombardment.
In response, the FFC is assembling a boat of journalists and healthcare professionals to:
- Provide the international press an opportunity to report directly from Gaza
- Deliver urgently needed medical expertise and solidarity alongside Gaza’s decimated health workforce.
DNSNet: an open-source system wide ad and tracker blocker for Android (no root)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/36657058
I'm just sharing here this app I use always on my phone, and I don't see many people talking about it.It's similar to DuckDuckGo app feature that block trackers across all the device, but this one is focused only on that, it also allows you to add your custom tracker URLs to block and monitor every request being made.
It's open source and available on F-Droid: f-droid.org/packages/dev.clomb…
GitHub: github.com/t895/DNSNetIt enables a VPN to intercept requests, so it can block URLs of trackers across all your apps. The app provides a list of URLs as you open it for the first time, you can choose a few options between less or more aggressive.
Obs.: The app don't tell, but when you add a custom URL you need to disable and enable it again.
DNSNet | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
Lightweight ad and content blockerf-droid.org
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Right-Wingers Melt Down Over Bad Bunny Headlining the Super Bowl Halftime Show
Right-Wingers Melt Down Over Bad Bunny Headlining Super Bowl
Bad Bunny is playing the Super Bowl Halftime Show, and right-wingers are not happy, railing against how the Latin artist has criticized Donald Trump.Nikki McCann Ramirez (Rolling Stone)
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The Man Behind Trump’s Push for an All-Powerful Presidency
Russell T. Vought spent years drawing up plans to expand presidential power and shrink federal bureaucracy. Now he is moving closer to making that vision a reality, threatening to erode checks and balances.
Buon Compleanno LibreOffice
LibreOffice compie 15 anni
LibreOffice celebra il suo quindicesimo anniversario come simbolo di libertà digitale, collaborazione globale e progresso tecnologico.Ferramosca Roberto (Linux Easy)
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Buon Compleanno LibreOffice
LibreOffice compie 15 anni
LibreOffice celebra il suo quindicesimo anniversario come simbolo di libertà digitale, collaborazione globale e progresso tecnologico.Ferramosca Roberto (Linux Easy)
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Thoughts on stremio? And more generally, when should I worry about trackers?
Hi,
I've seen stremio pop up a few times in my feed recently and decided to give a look. It's seems like I could use it with torrentio, but my concern is that the apps comes with a few trackers, amongst which 3 facebook trackers (share, login & analytics).
I don't know much about trackers, how they work, and what I should worry about, so I mostly try to avoid them, but could someone here tell me if I should worry about these facebook trackers (I don't use fb, but since it's pretty much the Devil itself...), and maybe suggest resources on how to get informed on trackers, what they do, and when to worry about it?
Thank you for your help.
Cheers,
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what debian compatible IRC client should I use now that hexchat is dead?
for debian 13.1 xfce
I liked hexchat due to its ample customization possibilities.
What do you use that's maintained and why?
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piracy is a service issue -- vinyl digital download codes
since setting up a navidrome server, i've been working through our record collection trying to find online download codes to get digital copies of our music that we own (should have been done previously, but now is better than never)--and i've run into issues where the downloadable copies are no longer available 
i hope more people start moving to mp3 players or maaaybe selfhosting and that purchasing high quality music is a bit more normal in the coming years. but as i am still quite happy with bandcamp after being bought out, i don't have a lot of hope that it will be around forever as it had seen layoffs. fingers crossed though.
anyways, go to shows, support your local band, cancel your subscriptions, and if you can't buy (due to lack of funds, or availability) download and seed.
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true.
but in my experience, most code redemption downloads don't require info though... besides the usual collection of your data via fingerprinting and cookies.
where do you source most of your music? for music i really only pirate large artists/bands, so torrenting is pretty easy.
i haven't bothered with soulseek--a centralized network doesn't appeal that much, and i'm not desperate.
if i really need something, and can't find it, i just use yt-dlp.
New home server, NixOS vs Proxmox vs Arch
Hey everyone!
I’ve been rocking Proxmox for a little over a year on an old Mac Mini with a failing NIC (I probably damaged it when I installed the SSD). So I decided it was time to get some new used cheap hardware and I have just received a HP Elitedesk 800 G3 SFF, going to throw 32GB of RAM, a 1TB M2 NVMe boot drive and a 4TB SATA drive for media in it (this will replace my external 4TB drive).
Right now in Proxmox I’m running a Docker VM with Debian (Transmission-VPN container, ByteStash, FreshRSS, KaraKeep), another Debian VM for Visual Studio Code so I can remote into VS Code on my Mac and iPad and couple of LXC containers (Plex, Open WebUI and Pi Hole).
Honestly Proxmox feels like overkill for what I’m doing, half of what I’m doing is either individual LXC containers or I find myself SSH’ing into the Docker VM. The Proxmox helper scripts are great, but I feel like I’m not learning much and I don’t know how much I can trust random GitHub URLs.
I’d like to start learning and becoming more self-sufficient with Linux. I was pretty excited by the idea of learning NixOS, get comfortable learning the code and then creating distinct configurations for different systems, including my Mac devices with Darwin… then I was reminded of all the recent bullshit happening in the community… I don’t want to get deep into the discussion in this thread, but I don’t really want to use/support a distro that Palmer Luckey and Anduril are trying to influence and control.
So I’m trying to decide if I should stick with Proxmox, try something like Arch or keep an eye on what’s going down with Nix and have a good backup strategy if the situation worsens.
I’d probably switch from Docker to Podman, use Wayland with Niri and learn NeoVIM and use SSH instead of VS Code remote tunnels.
Based on my current setup and my goals, what would you suggest I do?
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Debian and then maybe Guix on top of that. Rootless Podman for services.
There is no good reason to choose Arch in 2025. If you want to feel special, NixOS or Guix System is the way to go.
I think Guix is way more coherent than Nix. It also has better documentation and a more friendly community. And you use Scheme instead of Nix lang.
I use NixOS, but it is not for learning how Linux works; realistically it's for when you already know how Linux typically works, so you can understand when it breaks some of those norms.
If you want to learn how containers etc work, use straight-up Debian.
I really don't recommend arch for a server. On a desktop absolutely but what I want for a server is to be able to let it sit for 6 months, then update it and not have everything break; arch works best with frequent update hygiene.
Upgrading video quality for non-English content?
I find myself downloading a lot of movies that are dubbed in latino Spanish. I've checked fmhy torrents, but unfortunately, there just isn't a lot of latino Spanish content available on torrents.
(Yes, there is a lot of Spanish Spanish content... but... meehhh...)
However, I have had better luck with fmhy streaming. It's not the best quality, 720p or 1080p if I'm lucky. But it's better than nothing.
I was recently wondering, how does dubbing actually work? Is there a video difference between English and Spanish movies? Or is there just literally an audio track being swapped out?
Could I take an audio track from a 720p stream and add it to a 4K torrented movie file and expect the audio and video to line up?
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For content from streaming platforms like Netflix, the audio and video lines up most of the time. The dub might be a bit longer at the end, but that doesn't matter; it's only the credits.
For Blu-ray and DVDs, it's a bigger problem. The audio and video lines don't usually line up: different production company logos of different lengths and maybe minor regional differences. You could probably adjust the audio delay in the video player to get a decent experience.
mpv is good video player where it is easily possible to play the video from one file and the audio from another.
You already had some good advices but something I haven't seen mentioned. If you use Kodi (and probably a couple others media player), you could use some sub plugin like open subtitle (forgot other names) to fetch subtitles on the fly when you will play video. It can be hit or miss at first, but subtitles name are like release name (title, quality, release group). So if you often encounter a release group that do your sub language. Try to download video from same release group, so you will have better chance that audio/sub sync properly.
This apart, +1 for private tracker as already mentioned, you may need some searching to find one but worth it.
Labour conference votes to sanction Israel and recognise Gaza genocide
Labour party delegates have voted that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and should be sanctioned, in a shock development at the annual party conference.
The unprecedented move means that the Labour conference has officially accepted the findings of a recent UN Commission of Inquiry report, which found that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, and has backed comprehensive sanctions on Israel and a full arms embargo.
It signals significant discontent among the Labour rank and file with government policy. Britain recognised a Palestinian state last week but has rejected calls to denounce Israel's actions in Gaza as genocide.
Labour conference votes to sanction Israel and recognise Gaza genocide
Labour party delegates have voted that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and should be sanctioned, in a shock development at the annual party conference.Imran Mulla (Middle East Eye)
Labour conference votes to sanction Israel and recognise Gaza genocide
Labour party delegates have voted that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and should be sanctioned, in a shock development at the annual party conference.
The unprecedented move means that the Labour conference has officially accepted the findings of a recent UN Commission of Inquiry report, which found that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, and has backed comprehensive sanctions on Israel and a full arms embargo.
It signals significant discontent among the Labour rank and file with government policy. Britain recognised a Palestinian state last week but has rejected calls to denounce Israel's actions in Gaza as genocide.
Labour conference votes to sanction Israel and recognise Gaza genocide
Labour party delegates have voted that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and should be sanctioned, in a shock development at the annual party conference.Imran Mulla (Middle East Eye)
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EA, maker of ‘Madden NFL,’ set to go private
So Jared Kushner and the Saudis now own EA.
So much MAGA with this right?
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/29/investing/electronics-arts-private-deal
[SOLVED] how do I remove flatpak end-of-life runtimes without being prompted to install them again when updating?
[SOLUTION] all hail hexchat, hexchat is dead, remove unmaintained hexchat
this happens on debian 13.1 xfce
after installing io.github.Hexchat I get this message on the terminal:
Info: runtime org.freedesktop.Platform branch 23.08 is end-of-life, with reason: org.freedesktop.Platform 23.08 is no longer receiving fixes and security updates. Please update to a supported runtime version. Info: applications using this runtime: io.github.Hexchat
the message applies to the following runtimes as well:
org.freedesktop.Platform.VAAPI.Intel branch 23.08org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default branch 23.08-extra
org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default
if I remove them manually and I update flatpak, it asks me to install them again
My computer uses both system and user remotes.
Because my .var directory is almost full, I installed hexchat as user, but the drivers are systemwide. I don't know if this is relevant.
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github.com/hexchat/hexchat
GitHub - hexchat/hexchat: GTK+ IRC client
GTK+ IRC client. Contribute to hexchat/hexchat development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Trump says U.S. to impose 100% tariff on all foreign-made movies
Trump says U.S. to impose 100% tariff on all foreign-made movies
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he would impose a 100 per cent tariff on all foreign-made movies, an unprecedented move that threatens to upend Hollywood’s global business model.Reuters Staff (CTVNews)
Denver’s Food Forests Provide Free Fruit While Greening the Environment
Denver’s Food Forests Bear Fruit, for the City and Environment | Civil Eats
Despite federal roadblocks, an ambitious agroforestry program is feeding people, cleaning the air, and helping offset climate change.Riley Ramirez (Civil Eats)
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in reply to misk • • •This is fluff. SB 243 is the real deal, which he already vetoed once.