The kids who sued America over climate change aren’t done yet | They want an international human rights body to hold the U.S. accountable — and are spotlighting Indigenous communities
The kids who sued America over climate change aren’t done yet
They want an international human rights body to hold the U.S. accountable — and are spotlighting Indigenous communities on the frontlines.Anita Hofschneider (Grist)
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The flaws of carbon credits designed to protect forests – and how to fix them
The flaws of carbon credits designed to protect forests – and how to fix them
An expert explains why some offsets don’t deliver real climate benefits and what must change to make them trustworthy.Bridgett Ennis (Yale Climate Connections)
Net zero aviation: turning what is technically possible into something commercially viable
Michael O’Leary, chief executive of Ryanair, dismisses SAF as nonsense. He says: “It is all gradually dying a death, which is what it deserves to do. We have just about met our 2% mandate. There is no possibility of meeting 6% by 2030; 10%, not a hope in hell. We’re not going to get to net zero by 2050.”
Net zero aviation: turning what is technically possible into something commercially viable
The EU and the UK have imposed sustainable fuel mandates, but airlines question supply availability and pricingGwyn Topham (The Guardian)
Terence Tao says ChatGPT helped him solve a MathOverflow problem and saved hours of manual coding
I was able to use an extended conversation with an AI chatgpt.com/share/68ded9b1-37d… to help answer a MathOverflow question mathoverflow.net/questions/501… . I had already conducted a theoretical analysis suggesting that the answer to this question was negative, but needed some numerical parameters verifying certain inequalities in order to conclusively build a counterexample. Initially I sought to ask AI to supply Python code to search for a counterexample that I could run and adjust myself, but found that the run time was infeasible and the initial choice of parameters would have made the search doomed to failure anyway. I then switched strategies and instead engaged in a step by step conversation with the AI where it would perform heuristic calculations to locate feasible choices of parameters. Eventually, the AI was able to produce parameters which I could then verify separately (admittedly using Python code supplied by the same AI, but this was a simple 29-line program that I could visually inspect to do what was asked, and also provided numerical values in line with previous heuristic predictions).Here, the AI tool use was a significant time saver - doing the same task unassisted would likely have required multiple hours of manual code and debugging (the AI was able to use the provided context to spot several mathematical mistakes in my requests, and fix them before generating code). Indeed I would have been very unlikely to even attempt this numerical search without AI assistance (and would have sought a theoretical asymptotic analysis instead).
Is the least common multiple sequence $\text{lcm}(1, 2, \dots, n)$ a subset of the highly abundant numbers?
I've been comparing the sequence of the Least Common Multiple of the first $n$ integers, $L_n = \text{lcm}(1, 2, \dots, n)$, with the sequence of Highly Abundant Numbers (HA). The two sequences inMathOverflow
The rich must eat less meat | Scientists say rich countries need to eat a lot less meat. Will the environmental movement finally listen?
The rich must eat less meat
Will the environmental movement finally listen and advocate for plant-rich diets??Kenny Torrella (Vox)
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I checked Wikipedia for the yearly consumption per person and basically none of the countries that consume the most meat have changed anything in the last 20 years.
20 YEARS.
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There has never been and will never be a systemic issue that is solved by every single individual choosing the right choice.
The only thing that fixes systemic issues are systemic changes.
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world: indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has." — Margaret Mead
To get systemic changes in any sort of representative government, you need a critical mass of people to support that systemic change. You don't need "every single individual making the right choice". But you need enough people to make the right choice that politicians can pass laws supporting that choice without getting kicked out of office and their laws revoked by the next administration.
I mean, how do you expect to pass laws that make meat more expensive when 90% of the people in your country eat meat and are worried about their budgets?
The idea that changing your diet won't make a difference is, unironically, meat industry propaganda. We build the consensus for systemic change one meal at a time.
I've changed my diet to include way less meat
You forget the vast majority of Americans are literally too dumb and apathetic from burnout to understand this cause and effect.
The CCP was founded in 1921 with less than fifty "thoughtful, committed citizens" as members.
Ralph Nader created modern automotive safety regulations practically single-handedly.
Hell, Jesus started with twelve apostles.
Missing the first step:
- Eat the billionaires
- Eat less meat
Uh, lol.
Flap meat is 47,90 €/kg for the first price I could find online. It's a butcher's so a supermarket is prolly a bit cheaper but you're just fucking kidding with the $15/lbs. Although that does come to like 28€/kg. And the piece here comes to $25.51/lbs.
Huh, felt like a larger difference before I converted it.
Move Fast and Break Nothing | Waymo’s robotaxis are probably safer than ChatGPT.
Move Fast and Break Nothing
Waymo’s robotaxis are probably safer than ChatGPT.Saahil Desai (The Atlantic)
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This article is a little light on thesis, but legit.
Personally, I'd like to tie a vision of autonomous vehicles to a broad rethinking of transit and public ownership. What if training data was shared, so instead of allowing Google to create another monopoly we deliberately cultivated a diverse market? What if we designed roads to accommodate autonomous van pools and also bikes and more light vehicles?
We can dream better than this.
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Years ago, Microsoft was doing some R&D on autonomous vehicles in a mock city built for it. Instead of each vehicle doing all of the processing, the fake city was built with wireless markers to GIVE the car the information. Like instead of having to "see" a stop sign, the stop sign told cars it was there.
It would be complicated and expensive to implement on a mass scale but I thought it was a really cool idea.
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Humans Have Crossed 7 of 9 'Planetary Boundaries' | Earth has breached a critical boundary for ocean acidification, with potentially grim effects for ocean ecosystems and human livelihoods
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Ocean Acidification Threshold Pushes Earth Past Another Planetary Boundary
Earth has breached a critical boundary for ocean acidification, with potentially grim effects for ocean ecosystems and human livelihoodsAndrea Thompson (Scientific American)
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So we're winning on Aerosol loading and Ozone, the two things we actually made societal efforts on reducing before our world governments went fully to shit (well, more actually, were decaying but still kind of functioning in the 80s and 90s).
I guess if there's any silver lining, humans had the power to address these things and theoretically could again if, well... y'know. Sigh.
Scientific American? What kind of DEI enabled woke bullshit is that?!? /s
Don't worry about planetary boundaries. Fascist America will jail or murder the scientists and journalists so your average mouthbreather will die in bewilderment.
As UK Tories vow to scrap ‘failed targets’, how do their climate claims stack up? We fact check Kemi Badenoch and her party after she promised to repeal Climate Change Act if they win power
As Tories vow to scrap ‘failed targets’, how do their climate claims stack up?
We fact check Kemi Badenoch and her party after she promised to repeal Climate Change Act if they win powerFiona Harvey (The Guardian)
Massive fire, explosion rocks Chevron refinery in El Segundo
Massive fire erupts at Chevron refinery in El Segundo, sending plumes across South Bay
An explosion and fire rocked a refinery in El Segundo on Thursday night, causing massive balls of flames that could be seen for miles.Clara Harter (Los Angeles Times)
I cant connect some websites on arch.(error connection reset)(error SSL or chiper dont support)
Hi. as I told, I cant connect some spesific websites on arch linux. I using hotspot wifi on my laptop but it didnt worked.
I tried changing mac adress, changed resolv.conf (then undo it.) I tried delete evert ssl and redownload it, downgrade mtu but none of them worked.
Also idk why but there's always a yellow sign next to the wifi symbol
any solutions? thanks.
Edit: Okay I solve the problem by checking curls logs however my wifi was a public wifi and I still cant connect it.
I can open captive portal but when I try to connect it connection resets by portal.
I've tried connect with tls 1.1 1.0 ( Bc curls log saya so) But none of them worked.
I think this is the one of linuxs dark hole
It sounds like the SSL/TLS version or allowed cipher list are configured for higher security on your machine or browser and the sites that are failing are using a lower security config. I’m not sure where that config is on Arch.
Try a different browser.
Also try fetching the sites with curl just to see if that works. Curl’s verbose mode will also tell you what ciphers it tried.
curl -v https://example.com/
just checked. certificate is /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
updating this should be solve the problem but I kinda feel it wont.
Turkish DNS is really an interesting thing. Awhile back, the govt hijacked Google's DNS service via bogus BGP routes so they could block/censor traffic. They then also started directing DNS queries away from the EU and pushing those to APAC.
Not sure what the sites are or what they resolve to on your end, but you might try using openssl to see if its a bad cipher or outdated cert maybe: openssl s_client -connect domain.com:443 -ciphersuites TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 -tls1_3
I'm trying to usea public internet which has a captive portal for log in. I'm logging in, writing my information than click on connect and boom. Certificate error.
But at least I've learned which certificate made this error in next comment. its /etc/ssl/certs/ca/certificates.crt
TikTok ‘directs child accounts to pornographic content within a few clicks’
Despite platform’s limits on adult content, study finds it not only accessible but often suggested
TikTok has directed children’s accounts to pornographic content within a small number of clicks, according to a report by a campaign group.
Global Witness set up fake accounts using a 13-year-old’s birth date and turned on the video app’s “restricted mode”, which limits exposure to “sexually suggestive” content.
Researchers found TikTok suggested sexualised and explicit search terms to seven test accounts that were created on clean phones with no search history.
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If anything, this is a demonstration as to why age verification isn't a good solution.
Won't stop surveillance state bad actors from arguing exactly the opposite, though.
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If they showed millions of children pornography, the CEO would probably be in prison.
As for rednote being used to amplify narratives supported by the CPC, as an American, that is preferable to any other sizable social media I have access to except discord, where the same occurs except at the behest of the US.
At least when I report nazis on xhs, they get banned.
I didn't think that this needed to be said, but I suppose it does.
IT IS NOT OK TO FUCK CHILDREN,PULL YOUR DICK OUT AND DO STUFF TO THEM WITH IT OR MAKE THEM DO STUFF WITH YOUR DICK. IT IS NOT OK TO LURE KIDS IN WITH THE END GOAL OF FUCKING OR MOLESTING THEM. THIS IS VERY BAD AND YOU SHOULD NEVER DO IT. RICH WHITE PEOPLE, THIS IS MAINLY FOR YOU.
There, I hope that helps.
When i was younger i got my kicks from the murdoch press newspapers, smh, lock those things up
‘They never told me where I was going’: a family falls into Louisiana’s ‘black hole’ of deportation
ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’
ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’
The developer of ICEBlock, an app that lets people crowdsource sightings of ICE officials, has said he is determined to fight back after Apple removed the app from its App Store on Thursday. The removal came after pressure from Department of Justice officials acting at the direction of Attorney General Pam Bondi, according to Fox which first reported the removal. Apple told 404 Media it has removed other similar apps too.“I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never the right move,” Joshua Aaron told 404 Media. “ICEBlock is no different from crowd sourcing speed traps, which every notable mapping application, including Apple's own Maps app, implements as part of its core services. This is protected speech under the first amendment of the United States Constitution.”
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Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never the right move,” the developer said.Joseph Cox (404 Media)
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Yup. That would do it.
Apple fans gave up years ago, though. They don't want to give any effort. That's why you're being downvoted.
Wrong
“Ownership“ doesn’t mean “I can do whatever I want with it”.
edit: wow, Redditors are better at accepting the truth, lol
you think people who own guns should be allowed to "do whatever they want" with them?
how many mass shootings do we already have each week?
but the law is the law: just because you own something doesn't mean you can do whatever you want with it.
it's illegal to kill someone with a smartphone, too
Except we aren't talking about the law. We are talking about corporations that sell you something and then retain control over it.
You have no say in the process, you have no representation. These are not rules that we as a society have determined to be in the best interests of all of us. These are unilateral decisions placed upon us. You have no recourse if you disagree other than don't use the thing.
Guns don't prevent you from doing anything. You still have the capability to do whatever you want with the thing. However, if you use it in a manner than harms someone else, in a way that we as a society have proposed, voted, and created laws prohibiting, then you deal with the consequences. But that is very different from having something in the gun that prevents it from taking ammo from another manufacturer. Or making it unable to shoot unless you pay a monthly fee.
Right, you can't break the law. Gun manufacturers are very explicitly not responsible if you break the law with one of the items they manufactured.
This is more like the gun manufacturer coming back two years after you bought it and preventing you from using bullets from a vendor they don't approve of.
A stitch in time saves nine
Wrong
You can't sew time.
not always, and what rights you may have vary widely depending on the object, the location, and who you are.
and, still, you can't do "whatever you want". there are limits to everything, and for good reason.
so, I don't know what your point is here other than that you've confused the word "ownership" with your own sense of entitlement
edit: wow, Redditors are better at accepting the truth, lol
So go pander to them.
If I own something, I can do whatever I like with it because it's mine.
If I can't do what I like, it's not truly mine.
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That’s a lot of words for, “whaaaa!” 😭
And I suggest you look up the definition of the word “ownership”. Nowhere in that definition does it say you can “do whatever you want”. What you’re describing is lawless anarchy, and I sure don’t wanna live in a society like that.
The state of having complete legal control of something;
Ownership is the state or fact of legal possession and control over property,
the act of having and controlling property
Control is a key part of ownership. If Google controls what you can install on a device, it isn't yours.
You're licking those corporate boots awfully hard for someone calling themselves Freedom advocate.
You can certainly choose not to update it, but you just miss out on anything that requires those updates - like access to the Google play services.
And that will do wonders for the security that Google claims is the reason behind this change, won't it.
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I love it when internet strangers hallucinate that they're psychic and know what I'm thinking. it proves they have nothing to dish out but self-aggrandizing lies.
psychologists call it "delusions of grandeur"
its even more amusing when they believe that severe mental illness is something to brag about
"Ownership" totally does mean it's yours and you can do whatever you want with it.
That means you can do it, not that you should, nor that what you do won't have consequences.
It just means your phone won't stop you from downloading an unapproved app just like a gun won't stop you from loading an unapproved bullet.
It means your gun has a safety mechanism you can unlock to shoot, as does your phone to download "unverified" apps.
It means you can sell either freely to someone else without it becoming bricked or the new owner losing any rights (lookin' at you, Tesla cars).
It means defaulting on the loan will require the physical reposession of your phone or gun, and that neither will magically lock you out of using it using telemetry.
It means anyone with the right knowledge and tools can fix your phone and it'll work, just like your gun.
It means your phone works for you, and not for someone else - just like your gun.
Your phone is a tool. Just like your gun. It can be used for good - and for bad.
What you do with it is up to you, and not up to it or its manufacturer.
It means you can shoot people with your gun, just as you can extort and blackmail people with your phone. Nothing, other than your own morality, the morals of society and therule of law are preventing you from doing bad things. Certainly not the will of the manufacturer.
Any forensic inquiry into a phone on a crime scene would be like that of a gun.
Any taking of your phone from your home or person would require a warrant - like with a gun.
Any inquiry into your phone's contents and qualities should require outside tools - like a similar inquiry into your gun.
Your phone won't have a special police-only history of what you've used it for - like your gun.
Your phone won't report what you've been doing with it to 3rd parties without your consent - like won't your gun.
And so on.
Ownership of a phone doesn’t mean that the makers of said phone have to give you the source code and build in ways for you to be able to do things they don’t want.
Your own the device that does what it was advertised as. That’s it.
"A phone's schematics are publically available, like those of a gun"
I can assure you, I've written no such thing in my original reply.
Truth post. You don't even have to enjoy the facts that you post. Lemmy is far too unhinged and emotional.
If you state any fact they don't like, you are downvoted.
I lovingly embrace any and all ironic downvotes I will get.
Seeth with me ❤️
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Some people are republicans? 🤷♂️
(I know, I can’t explain it either.)
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Stop. Fucking. Using. Apple. Products.
Why would you pay 1k+ for a phone you don't even own/control?
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F-Droid is a staple of the FOSS community and it will effectively be shut down due to these changes.
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Could the EFF or individuals sponsor apps from devs who refuse to identify to Big Goog?
Dev sends EFF the source code,
EFF registers with Google,
EFF submits the app,
Everybody’s happy except a number of people for obvious reasons but at least the app’s verified
That sounds like just changing who is verifying the developer. Whether it's the EFF (because they aren't going to put their name and reputation at risk for unreviewed source code) or google, the issue is the same.
Someone has to be the middle man in deciding what is allowed to be installed.
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For people downvoting the above, read some criticisms the app such as:
micahflee.com/unfortunately-th…
I don’t know of the take-down legit but the security of the app has been questioned, too.
Edit: The removal was bullshit. Apple should be pressured to put it back. But, the developer or someone else could do much better.
Unfortunately, the ICEBlock app is activism theater
At this summer's HOPE conference, Joshua Aaron spoke about ICEBlock, his iPhone app that allows users to anonymously report ICE sightings within a 5 mile radius, and to get notifications when others report ICE sightings near them.Micah Lee (micahflee)
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Barrier to entry.
Many (dare I say most) folks don’t know how to use a web browser, much less find a web app. Installing an App Store app is much easier.
It’s also much lower visibility for those who do know.
And that’s especially critical for this app, which relies on tons of people using it.
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Isn’t Open Street Map free?
But anyway, these apps are all about accessibility to regular folks. Believe it or not many people don’t know how to bookmark a website. Also this app gives you notifications, something a website could only do via email or something.
People are so stupid in this country. Do what the EU did and make it law that they have to offer sideloading and other app stores and payment methods.
It should be the law to begin with. This walled garden shit is really just another word for controlling what the user does with the device they purchased and not allowing them to do business with anybody else exclusively to add software without apple's approval and protection racket fee.
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It wouldn’t help.
In this case, even if the app was side-loadable and had a web app, that’s enough of a technical hurdle to kill its critical mass.
In other words, it doesn’t have to be banned; suppressing ICEBlock is basically enough to kill it.
Arguably, if it was normal to sideload apps it wouldn't be as much of a barrier to users, but they've been conditionned to think they need an app and the only place you can ever get them is the store.
It's a technical hurdle only because Apple decided they want to control everything, and same on Android because of Google's ever increasing war on sideloading. You used to download an APK from the browser and it would go like "This is an app! Install?", but now you have to go enable third party installation and all that, and now the whole Play Protect forcing developer validation coming up.
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You are overestimating how technical most folks are. I know kids and older adults, on either side of my age, that have no concept of a filesystem, a URL, an APK to download, things like that, because they've never needed any of that.
Attention is finite.
Hence, web app's aren't really blocked by iOS/Android, but that's still a basically insurmountable hurdle simply because it's not the usual procedure for operating a phone. Defaults and accessibility are king (and Apple/Google know it).
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The EU shouldn’t be concerned about any of that, because it’s none of their business tbh.
If you want to install whatever OS you want on a phone, you’re free to go and make a phone and’s do just that. No governments should be able to force a company to do what you’re asking. It’s snaked to even suggest that Apple would shell out billions on hardware design etc and then be forced to give people a way to run AOSP on it and have it work.
Do you people even hear yourself? Should Sony be forced to build a way for you to be able to install AppleTV on their TVs? Should Nintendo be forced to build functionality to let users install windows on the Switch 2, making drivers for everything etc?
Everything is about control. The internet was left open by accident for a while and they are working hard to "fix" it. They are just trying to be slightly less obvious about it than China was. All of the forced AI tools, required apps and stuff like that are just ways to move users away from the open web.
Once most users restrict their Internet usage to ONLY content provided by the large companies (for example, once people no longer click on any Google result), then Internet providers will start granting access to the content from large companies for free and charge a lot more for access to anything else.
In 10, maybe 20 years, we will be needing to tell our internet providers when we change jobs so that they may change which "custom" internet services we get to have access to specifically for work.
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Kash Patel fires FBI agent trainee for displaying gay pride flag
The FBI employee was fired on the first day of the government shutdown as Trump threatened more terminations.
FBI Director Kash Patel on Wednesday fired an agent in training for displaying a gay pride flag on his desk while appointed to a field office in California last year, according to three people familiar with the matter.
The trainee, who previously worked as an FBI support specialist in Los Angeles, received a letter — dated Oct. 1 and signed by Patel — claiming he had displayed an improper “political” message in the workplace during his assignment in California under President Joe Biden, according to a copy of the letter shared with MSNBC.
The letter cited President Donald Trump’s Article II powers under the Constitution to dismiss federal agency career personnel, a justification used in several recent firings at the Department of Justice and FBI. The terminations are currently being challenged in several lawsuits.
Kash Patel fires FBI agent trainee for displaying gay pride flag
FBI Director Kash Patel on Wednesday fired an agent in training for displaying a gay pride flag on his desk at an FBI field office in California last year.Carol Leonnig (MSNBC)
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The blockade is fully illegal under international law and has been ruled so by the International Criminal Court of Justice in 2024.
Israel has no territorial rights over the Gaza sea under international law. And to make this even worse, they were not intercepted in the sea of Gaza, but in international waters far from the shore.
The only legal blockade is the Ansarallah one on the Red Sea.
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More personal data!
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I doubt IT admins are surprised. Frustrated, yes.
I feel like this will not last long. It's one thing to rape end users, but with the growing corporate backlash against AI, I think angry money will win the day, and Microsoft will back down.
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Their logic is:
Workplaces aren't buying copilot licenses
So make a good price on personal licenses
If price is the barrier, maybe bring down that $30 license fee for business (which is on top of the M365 license) to see if adoption grows.
This is not going to win any friends in the business world and will most likely result in blanket bans of AI tools in the workplace to counteract this.
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This is already happening.
I work for very large IT company and they are upgrading to Windows 11 because they have to but AI tools like co-pilot are being blocked by default in the image we push to all users.
This is resulted in a very funny knowledge base article which basically tells the support staff to tell the users to go do one if they complain about it.
The issue there is that even at that pricepoint, Microsoft is still operating CoPilot at a loss. If they drop it more, they’ll be making even more of a loss. Which is the standard business model for new products these days, but the losses on AI products dwarf things like Netflix and Uber during their “operate at a loss to drive everybody else out of business” phase.
Of course, that would all be fine if CoPilot was some killer product that people quickly found themselves unable to work without. Instead, the feedback shows that workers find that it’s not useful or reliable enough to be worth using, and Microsoft’s own latest advert for CoPilot in Excel contains data which shows that at best operation it doesn’t work 46% of the time, and that figure can be as high as 80%.
I’m not sure these problems are really surmountable - you’ve got an incredibly expensive-to-run product which doesn’t do much that’s useful and is bad at the things that it actually could be useful for. It’s not just Microsoft, it’s the entire tech industry that’s facing this problem.
My company actually got their own internal use AI that supposedly is safe for client information and is firewalled and not scraped.
It is not very useful, constantly is out of service, and I don't trust for a second that it is secure/not scraped.
Models you can download are mostly just data. They don't do anything on their own. You can even write your own interpreter for them, if you feel like it.
This is stupid. As an IT administrator a quick glance at my logs shows that everyone is using ChatGPT. No one cares about Copilot.
edit: So I guess the point is that IT admins are frustrated that Copilot for users in an org is $30 per month vs $10 per month for a home user. Again, I don't buy it. If I think of all the ways MS is screwing me, this is not high on the list. Microsoft's predatory bundling practices have driven the cost of their services to a ridiculous point, well before this Copilot noise.
Formation à la coordination d'action de désobéissance civile non-violente
Cette formation s’adresse à toustes les personnes intéressées par la coordination d’action (pas besoin d’avoir de projet en tête même si ça aide). Elle aura lieu en ligne, de 19h à 21h30 sur ce lien : meet2.organise.earth/rooms/2w1…
Elle est gratuite, même si vous pouvez bien sûr nous soutenir financièrement là : opencollective.com/alerteplane…
Mais une manière encore plus appréciée de contribuer, sera de participer à une prochaine coordo d’action ;)
Objectifs pédagogiques :
- Se familiariser avec les modes d’actions et tactiques d’XR (à travers principes, modes d’actions et exemples concrets)
- Savoir commencer sa coordo d’action (recrutement, design, gouvernance)
- Identifier les phases et enjeux principaux de la coordination d’action
- Savoir qui contacter et comment pour obtenir du soutien ; où trouver les ressources clé
- Identifier les outils et processus pertinents à sa coordination d’action
Cette formation a été pensée par et pour des membres d’Extinction Rebellion (exemples utilisés, consensus d’action) mais toute personne souhaitant s’engager dans la désobéissance civile (y compris sans certitude de vouloir coordonner une action) y sera bienvenue !
🔗 Ressources complémentaires :
- 📖 Le Guide de la coordination d'action (XR) rdv.extinctionrebellion.fr/ind…
- 🤝 Demander un pamarrainage de coordinations d'action ou autre question spécifique auprès du GST "Actions et Logistique" (pour celleux qui ont un compte Mattermost) : organise.earth/xrfrance/channe…
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October Quiz Questions
Each month we’re posing six pub quiz style questions, with a different subject each month. As always, they’re designed to be difficult, but it is unlikely everyone will know all the answers – so have a bit of fun.
Classical & Ancient World
- What is the name of the home of the Greek Gods?
- Which body of the water was called mare nostrum by the Romans?
- Ask and Embla are the Norse equivalent to the Christian what?
- What was the name of the Egyptian God of the Sun?
- In Roman mythology, who is the goddess of the sewers?
- Which word derives from the Latin for “sand” and originally denoted part of a Roman amphitheatre that was covered with sand to soak up the blood from combat?
Answers will be posted in 2 weeks time.
Il filologo Salvo Micciché dona suoi volumi al Comune di Scicli
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Lo scrittore ha donato 300 copie dei suoi titoli principali al Comune nelle mani del Sindaco di Scicli, Mario Marino, e dell’assessore alla cultura, Giuseppe Mariotta.
Oggi pomeriggio, presso il Municipio di Scicli, abbiamo avuto l’onore di accogliere Salvo Salvo Salvatore Micciché – scrittore, filologo, giornalista e studioso di storia siciliana – che ha voluto donare generosamente numerose copie di quattro suoi preziosi volumi alla nostra comunità.
I titoli donati sono autentiche gemme di sapere:
– Scicli: onomastica e toponomastica, Biancavela Editore e Il Giornale di Scicli, Ragusa, 2017
– Scicli. Storia, cultura e religione (secc. V-XVI), scritto con Stefania Fornaro, Carocci Editore, 2018
– La Sicilia dei Micciché. Baroni e briganti, intellettuali e popolo, con Giuseppe Nativo, Carocci Editore, 2020
– Giovanni Aurispa, umanista siciliano, con contributi di Michele R. Cataudella, Augusto Guida e Giuseppe Mariotta, Carocci Editore, 2021
Alla presenza mia e del Sindaco Mario Marino, abbiamo celebrato un momento che testimonia la profonda attenzione dell’Amministrazione Comunale verso la Cultura, la Storia e l’identità del nostro territorio.
Un sentito ringraziamento al Sindaco Mario Marino, la cui sensibilità e impegno costante rendono possibile la valorizzazione di iniziative come questa, che arricchiscono il patrimonio culturale di Scicli e lo mettono a disposizione di tutti.
Grazie di cuore a Salvo Micciché per la sua generosità e per il contributo instancabile alla conoscenza e alla memoria della nostra terra.
prof. Giuseppe Mariotta
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Stress e ansia ti stanno stritolando? Prova questo
Fitoterapia e Stress: Quando la Natura Ti Aiuta a Ritrovare la Calma e perché non è solo un placebo!
Oggi parliamo di qualcosa che, diciamocelo, ci tiene tutti un po' col fiato sospeso: lo stress. Quel compagno indesiderato che ormai è ...Giuliano (Blogger)
A group of Irish grocery workers banning grapefruit led to Ireland being the first county to pass BDS against Apartheid South Africa
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Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.youtube.com
The last 2 mins of Marinette's brave endeavor
Pictured is one of the fascist pigs who went straight for the camera upon boarding
Aggiornamento a NodeBB 4.6.0
Siamo passati alla versione 4.6.0 di NodeBB passando anche dalla 4.5.2.
Trovate qui tutti gli aggiornamenti della 4.5.2.
github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/relea…
E qui quelli della 4.6.0.
github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/relea…
Come sempre se trovate qualche problema segnalatelo pure 😀
Release v4.5.2 · NodeBB/NodeBB
Release build (patch) of NodeBB @ 2025-09-29T14:04:07.434Z v4.5.2 (2025-09-29) New Features add a term param to recent controller so it can be controlled without req.query.term (9c18c6f) add a new...GitHub
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Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets
Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets
We are excited to announce a significant advancement in the security of the Signal Protocol: the introduction of the Sparse Post Quantum Ratchet (SPQR).Signal Messenger
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Central servers basically. Funded by ex-meta people and endorsements from western governments (general "if it's popular then it's compromised" suspicion). Also it requires your phone number gathers things like contact info from the phone, even if one assumes the messages are secure. basically could be seen as relinquishing a list of potential associates...
I don't think Signal is unsecure, in a sense. it's just secure for nobodies or anybody who want to use it in non western countries against governments hostile to the west or being designated to regime change targets. I however don't think it's much more secure than whatsapp for an high profile pro-Palestine activist for example. It's a privacy tool for some and honeypot for others depending how they relate to US security state and western governments. Whats better for an intelligence agencies than to have a control of the globally used privacy communication tool.
They also don't have that data. Who you talk to and when it also concealed from them.
Check out their blog article about "Sealed Sender" from back in 2018.
signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/
Also note that the EFF encourages the use of Signal.
ssd.eff.org/module/how-to-use-…
Technology preview: Sealed sender for Signal
In addition to the end-to-end encryption that protects every Signal message, the Signal service is designed to minimize the data that is retained about Signal users.Signal Messenger
Tl;Dr - you have nothing other than baseless suspicion of an open source protocol that's been reviewed by tons of security people and is widely considered secure by people who actually know what they're talking about
Also, Whatsapp literally runs on the signal protocol, but Meta, so comparing them is stupid considering meta is involved so your privacy is assumed bad/not existent.
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Of course I don't have any concrete proof. If there was concrete proof we shouldn't be having this conversion. My main issue is that it's centralized and that's a huge black box. People obsess with this "but it's protocol open source" like headless chickens when that's not the issue. Open source is like the step one when it comes to private and secure messaging. It just comes down to if you trust the devs and those doing the hosting. When it's central all of that thrust rests on that one group and their hosting service not fucking you over even if they can or can not read the encrypted messages themselves. I'm not concerned signal keeping people's dickpicks private here in that that even whatsapp is as good as any.
I see I made the mistake of coming to an obvious fangirl meeting to have an serious discussion about security merits.
Of course I don’t have any concrete proof.serious discussion about security merits.
Those two don’t go together, bud.
It just comes down to if you trust the devs and those doing the hosting.
Ok so let’s talk about “ex-Meta” Brian Acton walking away from nearly a billion dollars due to his moral stance on private communication. Or Meredith Whittaker’s determination to pioneer a tech business model other than surveillance capitalism.
You’re absolutely right that it comes down to trusting the devs, which is why WhatsApp is a nonstarter even though it uses Signal’s E2EE. Europe’s chat control proposal doesn’t need to break E2EE, it just needs to demand that the messaging client app scans all content locally before encrypting and has a way to tattle. Meta could also be scanning everything you type into WhatsApp and feeding it into a local AI advertising interests summarizer or whatever else, and still claim E2EE. The open source client is far more important than an open source server when there’s proper E2EE.
Meta data is also not available. They have no way to know who you are talking to. The only info they have is that you logged ij with a ip at a time. I believe they can't even reliable track how many messages you send. Even with a compromised server most of the magic happens in the open source client side app so that they can't gather very much. I understand your concerns about popular centralized services but i really believe that they are unfound with signal.
It's actually way simpler than that. It was funded by the CIA for a long time because it was used to support insurgencies that the CIA was into. They pulled that a while back because Americans were getting into it, hence all the calls for donations in the past several years.
Too bad I forgot where I heard this. May not be true, idk, who knows these days. But it makes sense.
Considering Signal has been subpoenaed several times and proven in court the only thing they can give the feds is:
- Do you have an account with Signal? (Registered Phone #)
- When did you make the account?
- When did you last connect to the service?
I don't think it'd be in their best interest to lie to the feds 6 times. You can quite literally read the subpoena for yourself, such as the most recent one in August 2024, which is only 2 pages long.
Government Communication
When legally forced to provide information to government or law enforcement agencies, we'll disclose the transcripts of that communication here.Signal Messenger
Keep in mind, pedophiles don't use Signal.
They use Matrix, which is a real thorn in the side of the authorities trying to catch them.
Hopefully this gives you some insight into which platform is more private.
How do you know? 😑
Please link a single news source showing Signal app was part of a pedophile bust - should be easy if its got poor encryption that can be backdoored by authorities.
Software engineering is so often dominated by a move fast and break things mentality, driven by a rush to deploy and scale and profit, with the ability to fix problems with later updates. It’s a very immature process compared to every other engineering domain, because fix-it-later is much more difficult, expensive, and dangerous when it’s a bridge, building, airplane, or anything else tangible (although Boeing did a great job of destroying engineering process and accountability after the MBAs took control away from the engineers).
The work detailed in this Signal blog post is clearly slow and methodical, with continual checks for correctness and curiosity for optimal solutions driving careful experimentation. Building on existing proven PQ standards and keeping their refinements open for public academic feedback is wonderfully responsible. Building formal correctness proofs into CI and blocking trunk merges is spectacular.
They’re doing everything right, even years after Moxie Marlinspike’s departure. Bravo! Working this way is very expensive and requires absolute support from upper management. I’m definitely a fanboy for Meredith Whittaker and the direction she’s running the organization. Hell yeah!
Apple removes ICE tracking apps after pressure from Trump administration
Apple removes ICE tracking apps after pressure from Trump administration
The app alerts users to ICE agents in their area. Read more at straitstimes.com.ST
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Ari Aster, Florence Pugh – „Midsommar“ (2019)
Das, was aussieht wie eine Postkarte aus dem letzten Schwedenurlaub, ist ein chirurgischer Eingriff mitten ins Herz einer Beziehung. Kein klassischer Horror, sondern eine radikale Dekonstruktion von Intimität, Macht und kultureller Projektion. Wo Hollywood den Schrecken meist in dunklen Kellern und nächtlichen Wäldern versteckt, wagt Ari Aster einen Gegenentwurf: Wir sehen alles im grellen Tageslicht, ohne jede Rückzugsmöglichkeit. Der Horror liegt in der Sichtbarkeit, in der Unerbittlichkeit des Lichts, das einfach alles aufdeckt. (ZDF, Wh.)
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Airports will get noisier due to climate change say scientists
Scientists at the University of Reading say airports will get noisier with warmer air changing how aircraft take offKatie Waple (BBC News)
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Nah, You are wrong OP, sorry.
Billionaires won't care for billions of deaths, will do nothing, they have to be scary of something that do impact them directly, and the noise could be something like that.
The Blockade Can Be Broken
The Blockade Can Be Broken
If the countries of the world came together, they could save Gaza. Why don’t they?Nathan J. Robinson (Current Affairs Inc)
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Milwaukee fights back against fake abortion clinic
Milwaukee, WI – Activists with Reproductive Justice Action-Milwaukee (RJAM), have been showing up consistently throughout the month of September to protest the newly opened Alliance Women's Clinic.
“Places like Alliance want to divert you from accurate and accessible healthcare,” stated a member of RJAM on September 15.
“We believe that no healthcare professional’s religious, moral, or personal opinions affect your abortion care,” continued another RJAM member.
“Our bodies, our lives! Our right to decide!” chanted Catie Petralia, an RJAM member, and followed by an echo of protesters outside of Alliance.
Activists hope to raise awareness about the harm the newly opened clinic can cause. Reproductive Justice Action Milwaukee has protested other fake clinics in Milwaukee over the past few years, mainly the Women’s Care Center. RJAM’s Instagram notes that “fake clinics” or “crisis pregnancy centers” operate as healthcare entities that are funded by religious pro-life organizations to manipulate pregnant women into not choosing or receiving life-saving abortion care.
Alliance opened its doors in late August 2025, on the outskirts of West Allis, Wisconsin. RJAM took notice of this after they had protested an Alliance Family Services van in June, which had parked outside of Planned Parenthood in Milwaukee for months. The Alliance agenda, per their website, is anti-abortion centered.
Reproductive Justice Action Milwaukee will be continuing to show up to picket Alliance Women’s Clinic “until we kick them out of the city. They are not welcome here!” Stay tuned with Fight Back News to hear more stories about this fight.
https://fightbacknews.org/milwaukee-fights-back-against-fake-abortion-clinic?pk_campaign=rss-feed
America Is Overdue for a General Strike
America Is Overdue for a General Strike - Inequality.org
Workers have the power to bring the whole economy to a halt. Will they use it?Inequality.org
gazans fished while idf distracted by flotilla
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Uplifting in the most dystopian ways.
Can someone remind me, what is the bullshit reason they ban the Palestinian people from fishing in their own waters again?
Technically True. The IOF will blow them up if they try to feed themselves by fishing.
WE'RE PROTECTING YOU FROM US!
i'll be surprised if you can find any at all considering the media blackout of this topic. the only way you're going to know is through your personal relationships w the people in gaza like this woman in the video has through her extended family.
i can't imagine what it's like trying to convince the world to give a rat's ass about your cousins, aunts & uncles slowly being starved & bombed to death and a huge majority of the world intentionally choosing to ignore it.
There are Palestinian journalists reporting from Gaza. And I do check in with news orgs that use their reporting, and independent reporting.
I sincerely hope these tiktok videos are true. But outside of tiktok, instagram, facebook, reddit posting the same video, I have not seen a Palestinian journalist report on this.
I'm not trying to put you down, but I'm skeptical to accept videos at face value because it's easy for people on social media to create false narratives and upload them for content. I'm just hoping for a journalist to verify this story.
Palestinians need to take one out of the Zionist playbook and start hunting down supporters of Israel around the world.
It's the only way for them to fight back and the Zionists brought this on themselves.
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in reply to silence7 • • •There’s not a single mention of corn or ethanol in this article, which is an interesting omission. There’s no way to get to global air traffic volumes via used cooking oil.
Of course the Biden programs are now being stripped bare, but this source is a couple years old.
Corn doesn’t scale further especially well, either, and it’s greenwashing bullshit.
The Guardian is discussing European airlines and fuel sources, while NYT is focused on the Biden-era US, but of course there is crossover and they grow corn for ethanol in Europe, too.
Airlines Race Toward a Future Fueled By Corn
Max Bearak (The New York Times)