Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account
Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account
Microsoft is making changes to crack down on local Windows 11 accounts. You’ll need an internet connection and a Microsoft account to setup a new Windows PC.Tom Warren (The Verge)
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Syria shares results of parliamentary election amid inclusivity concerns
Syria has published the results of its first parliamentary election since the government of former President Bashar al-Assad was toppled, revealing that most new members of the revamped People’s Assembly are Sunni Muslim and male.
Electoral commission spokesperson Nawar Najmeh told a press conference on Monday that only four percent of the 119 members selected in the indirect vote were women and only two Christians were among the winners, sparking concerns about inclusivity and fairness.
Sunday’s vote saw around 6,000 members of regional electoral colleges choose candidates from preapproved lists, part of a process to produce nearly two-thirds of the new 210-seat body. President Ahmed al-Sharaa will later select the remaining third.
Citing security and political reasons, authorities postponed the vote in areas outside government control, including Kurdish-held parts of Syria’s north and northeast, as well as the province of Suwayda, held by the Druze minority. Those suspensions left 21 seats empty.
Syria shares results of parliamentary election amid inclusivity concerns
Election marks landmark moment in country’s post-war transition, but vote goes largely to Sunni male representatives.Lorraine Mallinder (Al Jazeera)
Mossad ‘in contact from very beginning’ with killers of Italian PM, reporter reveals
In late 1973, five members of the Black September Palestinian militant group were arrested thanks to a tipoff from the Mossad, which claimed they were preparing to shoot down an Israeli commercial airliner at Rome’s largest airport with ground-to-air missiles. However, Moro arranged for them to be released a month later, then transported to Libya.
The Black September members were first flown to Malta on an Italian transport plane known as Argo 16 — which was routinely used to ferry Operation Gladio operatives to a secret training base in Sardinia, and deliver CIA/MI6 weapons to secret depots dotted around the country. When Mossad observed the Palestinians there and realized they’d been freed, they became “very annoyed,” according to Rome’s then counterespionage chief, Ambrogio Viviani.
On November 23 1973, Argo 16 crashed shortly after taking off from Venice Airport, killing the entire veteran crew.
An initial probe concluded the tragedy was an accident, but the case was reopened by the Venice prosecutor’s office in 1986. That investigation faltered as well, when security and intelligence officials refused to testify, and began withholding evidence. However, the judge overseeing the case, Carlo Mastelloni, told Salerno there was no doubt, based on “objective evidence,” that the plane’s downing was Israel’s dirty work.
“It’s all tied to the famous ‘Moro agreement,’” Mastelloni asserted. Argo 16’s sabotage was not only “retaliation” for the release of the arrested Palestinians, but a “warning” over Italy’s “concessions” to “Tel Aviv’s enemies,” he stated. Still, Lodo Moro continued to hold despite the implicit threat of violence, which raises the question of whether Mossad felt the need to up the ante.
Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says
Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says
Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissionsAjit Niranjan (The Guardian)
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Well yeah any potential solution is going to mean reduced potential profit, which you could describe as degrowth, but that would be the worst possible way to describe it.
The reason why we haven't gotten anywhere with carbon reduction is because wealthy people block any efforts.
Telling them that degrowth is the solution is unlikely to motivate them.
I feel like you must have slipped through a rift in the time / space continuum and are visiting us from another reality.
The first step would be to educate people with anarchist literature.
In 2025, we're completely unable to expect "people" at large to engage in any kind of reasoning.
You can't just propose to "educate people with anarchist literature" like that's some kind of solution.
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If you feel you can't educate others, assist those who can. You'll never stop bad people from existing, but you can remove the ladders they seize to lord over us.
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William Gillis Bad People Irredeemable Individuals & Structural Incentives 14th August 2020The Anarchist Library
Can Democrats Win Back Rust Belt Voters?
Can Democrats Win Back Rust Belt Voters? - Inequality.org
New research from the Center for Working-Class Politics shows that economic populists are popular, but the Democratic label is a drag.Inequality.org
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FIFA takes no action against Israel
GENEVA (AP) — Facing growing global calls to suspend Israeli teams from soccer, FIFA president Gianni Infantino said on Thursday the governing body must promote peace and unity and could not solve political issues.
Norway was among European soccer federations urging UEFA to call a vote of its executive committee ahead of the FIFA meeting in Zurich on suspending Israeli teams from international competitions. Turkey’s soccer body directly called on UEFA and FIFA to suspend Israel.
Any vote of the 20-member UEFA panel seemed likely to pass, people familiar with the discussions told The Associated Press, despite opposition from some members including Israel and Germany.
FIFA and Infantino — who has built close ties to Trump ahead of the U.S. co-hosting the World Cup next year with Canada and Mexico — were never likely to follow any UEFA vote. That prospect became even more distant last week when the U.S. State Department said it would work to protect Israel’s status in soccer.
https://apnews.com/article/fifa-israel-gaza-uefa-world-cup-e756c05a1d53aee9a9ae21ae76d132ab
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FIFA takes Dollars, not actions… same as US politicians.
Israel is a terrorist state
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On Louisiana’s Gulf Coast, Residents Fume as Insurers Hike Rates and Invest in Fossil Fuel Projects
On Louisiana’s Gulf Coast, Residents Fume as Insurers Hike Rates and Invest in Fossil Fuel Projects
Locals face a perfect storm — they can’t afford insurance and climate change threatens their livelihood.Marcus Baram (Capital & Main)
Thunberg Confirms Abuse by Israeli Abductors, But Urges World to Focus on Gaza Genocide | Common Dreams
Thunberg Confirms Abuse by Israeli Abductors, But Urges World to Focus on Gaza Genocide
"This genocide and other genocides are being enabled and fueled by our own governments, our institutions, our media, and companies. It is our responsibility to end that complicity."brett-wilkins (Common Dreams)
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Yeah I'm confused.
1) Israel is evil now
2) bad people do or did live in Gaza but Innocent people should not be sacrificed.
3) ruzzia is an asshole doing the same to Ukraine.
But...there the ruzzians also think Israel is evil? At least the ones on that post. So I'm just confused.
It's called being a Sociopath With No Morals.
Lots of those have been crawling out of the woodworks and taking sides entirely based on the politicians from their favored political force taking that side, showing us that they have no Principles and Morals of their own whatsoever or at least that their own inate sense of Good and Evil is so weak that even the mass murder of civilians (including thousands of babies and tens of thousands of children) is less important to them than following the leader of their political tribe.
Any half-way decent human being looks at this and judges it based on the character of the actions that are being commited, and giving that it includes purposefully murdering children (to the point of literally executing them using snipers) its so morally powerful that most people are unable to not have a reaction of revulsion, but Amoral Sociopaths have no emotional reaction to even the murder of children and hence couldn't care less about that aspect of this situation, hence will just not understand "what's all the fuss about it" and/or just mindlessly "follow the leader" on it since the part of a normal human being's character that would be shouting for them to defend the victims and stop the aggressors, does not exist in such people.
Yes exactly! That moral compass was just not there. I'm afraid of this stuff spreading. What a terrible future that would be if I could not expect sympathy from a passersby if I had just been hit by a car or fallen from a ladder.
Yet, even now, brown people are being kidnapped by the people who are supposed to defend our country... And nobody around defends from the kidnappers. We are afraid.
In all fairness, I think it's a mix of what @loonsun@sh.itjust.works wrote and those people having a much weaker moral compass, rather than them being full-blown sociopaths with no moral compass.
Or to put it in another way, even in people with a moral compass, if its a weak one, tribalism can override and even swith it off, so that even when faced with outreageous displays of what a normal person would feel is Unacceptable Evil they'll take the side of Evil if their "tribe's chiefs" are taking that side.
I think this justifies even more strongly your fear that this stuff spreads - a lot more people than just Sociopaths have both weak moral compasses (we live in an age were Society deems Wealth as the measure of the greatness of a person, not moral behaviour) and tribalist thinking is both more prevalent and more subtle.
Certainly that would explain how in some countries like the US there is still a majority (or at least a large minority) of people justifying and even supporting (usually by parroting "Hamas, Hamas, Hamas") the mass murdering of Palestinian children by Israel.
In my experience in a small leftwing party were the old-generation decided as a group to pass power over to the newer generation some years ago, the kids by themselves are just manipulated by more recent propaganda instead of old propaganda (for example, the new young leadership, having grown up under Neoliberalism, saw many elements of it as "natural" and hence part of the "structure we have to work within", rather than seeing those as just political choices like the rest) and end up fucking shit up in new ways (that party has pretty much collapsed to non-existence since) rather than being wiser than the older ones.
Beware of fetishising youth.
As I see it, you need a mix of all kind of people of all ages and all origins influencing politics, rather than just people with a very narrow range of life experiences. Also regular change is important - dishonest people using positions of power for their own ends, entrenched control of power and unchallenged groupthing becoming unquestionable dogma, are all things that get swept away by regular change.
See! Exactly how I think! So I basically landed among crazy people in that other post. And clearly its a touchy subject because I just realized that my post here could be interpreted either way...but instead of interpreting it as I am a good moral person who thinks innocent gaza people should not be murdered and Ukrainian people should also not be murdered, I get down votes!
Or maybe I landed again among crazy people?
1) Inebriated and confused
2) A victim of what seems to be a fediverse bug that has cropped up in the past 2 days or so where comments are ending up in completely the wrong place
3) the worst propaganda redirection bot ever programmed/hired
Those people were almost as confused as me with respect to Palestine/Gaza.
Me, I'm with Gretta. Israel is demolish the Gaza strip along with its people regardless of who they may be. It's just awful.
Meanwhile the people in the other post appear to also think that Israel should stop murdering innocent people.... But Russia should own Ukraine. WTF. Just confused.
Thunberg Confirms Abuse by Israeli Abductors, But Urges World to Focus on Gaza Genocide | Common Dreams
Brett Wilkins
Oct 06, 2025
"This genocide and other genocides are being enabled and fueled by our own governments, our institutions, our media, and companies. It is our responsibility to end that complicity... to use our privileges, our platforms, to take a stance against this, that is in every way unjustifiable,” Thunberg asserted.“I will never, ever comprehend how humans can be so evil that you would deliberately starve millions of people living trapped under an illegal siege as a continuation of decades and decades of suffocating oppression, apartheid, occupation,” she added.
Thunberg Confirms Abuse by Israeli Abductors, But Urges World to Focus on Gaza Genocide
"This genocide and other genocides are being enabled and fueled by our own governments, our institutions, our media, and companies. It is our responsibility to end that complicity."brett-wilkins (Common Dreams)
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JB Pritzker Accuses Federal Agents of 'Inciting' Chicago's Residents to Violence
JB Pritzker Accuses Federal Agents of ‘Inciting’ Chicago’s Residents to Violence
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker accused President Trump of "inciting" citizens to violence against ICE and border patrol agents with his "unconstitutional invasion"Sean James (Mediaite)
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Flock’s Gunshot Detection Microphones Will Start Listening for Human Voices
Flock’s Gunshot Detection Microphones Will Start Listening for Human Voices
Flock Safety, the police technology company most notable for their extensive network of automated license plate readers spread throughout the United States, is rolling out a new and troubling product that may create headaches for the cities that adop…Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Psychiatrists call for RFK Jr. to be replaced as health secretary
Psychiatrists have joined other public health groups in calling for the removal of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary.
Two psychiatry organizations — the Southern California Psychiatry Society and the recently formed grassroots Committee to Protect Public Mental Health — have released statements saying that the actions of the leader of the Department of Health and Human Services have increased stigma, instilled fear and hurt access to mental health and addiction care.
"As physicians committed to evidence-based care, we are alarmed by the direction of HHS under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr," the Committee to Protect Public Mental Health said in a statement.
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Maryland Judges Weigh Whether Cities Can Sue Over Climate Change
Communities including Baltimore and Annapolis are asking the state’s top court to revive a case accusing oil companies of spreading disinformation.
The Earth is reflecting less and less sunlight, study reveals
The Earth is reflecting less and less sunlight, study reveals
The Earth became darker from 2001 to 2024, meaning it reflects less sunlight, a research team reports in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.Science X (Phys.org)
Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’
Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’
Both Google and Apple recently removed Red Dot, an app people can use to report sightings of ICE officials, from their respective app stores, 404 Media has found. The move comes after Apple removed ICEBlock, a much more prominent app, from its App Store on Thursday following direct pressure from U.S. Department of Justice officials. Google told 404 Media it removed apps because they shared the location of what it describes as a vulnerable group that recently faced a violent act connected to these sorts of ICE-spotting apps—a veiled reference to ICE officials.The move signals a broader crackdown on apps that are designed to keep communities safe by crowdsourcing the location of ICE officials. Authorities have claimed that Joshua Jahn, the suspected shooter of an ICE facility in September and who killed a detainee, searched his phone for various tracking apps. A long-running immigration support group on the ground in Chicago, where ICE is currently focused, told 404 Media some of its members use Red Dot.
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Do you know anything else about these apps and their removal? Do you work at Google, Apple, or ICE? I would love to hear from you. Using a non-work device, you can message me securely on Signal at joseph.404 or send me an email at joseph@404media.co.“Ready to Protect Your Community?” the website for Red Dot reads. “Download Red Dot and help build a stronger protection network.”
The site provides links to the app’s page on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. As of at least Friday, both of those links return errors. “This app is currently not available in your country or region,” says the Apple one, and “We're sorry, the requested URL was not found on this server,” says the Google one.
The app allows people to report ICE presence or activity, along with details such as the location and time, according to Red Dot’s website. The app then notifies nearby community members, and users can receive alerts about ICE activity in their area, the website says.
Google confirmed to 404 Media that it removed Red Dot. Google said it did not receive any outreach from the Department of Justice about this issue and that it bans apps with a high risk of abuse. Without talking about the shooting at the ICE facility specifically, the company said it removed apps that share the location of what it describes as a vulnerable group after a recent violent act against them connected to this sort of app. Google said apps that have user generated content must also conduct content moderation.
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Google added in a statement that “ICEBlock was never available on Google Play, but we removed similar apps for violations of our policies.”Google’s Play Store policies say the platform does not allow apps that “promote violence” against “groups based on race or ethnic origin, religion, disability age, nationality, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, caste, immigration status, or any other characteristic that is associated with systemic discrimination or marginalization,” but its published policies do not include information about how it defines what types of groups are protected.
Red Dot did not respond to a request for comment.
On Thursday Apple told 404 Media it removed multiple ICE-spotting apps, but did not name Red Dot. Apple did not respond to another request for comment on Friday.
On Thursday Joshua Aaron, the developer of ICEBlock, told 404 Media “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never the right move,” referring to Apple removing his own app. ICEBlock rose to prominence in June when CNN covered the app. That app was only available on iOS, while Red Dot was available on both iOS and Android.
“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,” Aaron continued. “We are determined to fight this with everything we have. Our mission has always been to protect our neighbors from the terror this administration continues to reign down on the people of this nation. We will not be deterred. We will not stop. #resist.”
That move from Apple came after pressure from Department of Justice officials on behalf of Attorney General Pam Bondi, according to Fox. “ICEBlock is designed to put ICE agents at risk just for doing their jobs, and violence against law enforcement is an intolerable red line that cannot be crossed. This Department of Justice will continue making every effort to protect our brave federal law enforcement officers, who risk their lives every day to keep Americans safe,” Bondi told Fox. The Department of Justice declined to comment beyond Bondi's earlier comments.
The current flashpoint for ICE’s mass deportation effort is Chicago. This week ICE raided an apartment building and removed everyone from the building only to ask questions later, according to local media reports. “They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," one neighbor, Eboni Watson, told ABC7. “That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.’”
Brandon Lee, communications lead at Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, told 404 Media some of the organization’s teams have used Red Dot and similar apps as a way of taking tips. But the organization recommends people call its hotline to report ICE activity. That hotline has been around since 2011, Lee said. “The thing that takes time is the infrastructure of trust and training that goes into follow-up, confirmation, and legal and community support for impacted families, which we in Illinois have been building up over time,” he added.
“But I will say that at the end of the day it's important for all people of conscience to use their skills to shine some light on ICE's operations, given the agency's lack of transparency and overall lack of accountability,” he said, referring to ICE-spotting apps.
In ICEBlock’s case, people who already downloaded the app will be able to continue using but will be unable to re-download it from the Apple App Store, according to an email from Apple Aaron shared with 404 Media. Because Red Dot is available on Android, users can likely sideload the app—that is, install it themselves by downloading the APK file rather than from the Play Store.
The last message to Red Dot’s Facebook page was on September 24 announcing a new update that fixed various bugs.
Update: this piece has been updated to include a response from the Department of Justice.
ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground
Anti-ICE protesters marched up Michigan Avenue on Tuesday evening.Cate Cauguiran (ABC7 Chicago)
Europa am Kipppunkt der KI-Ära – Sam Altman und Mathias Döpfner eröffnen die politische Debatte über Souveränität, Freiheit und die Zukunft des Menschen
Mit der Premiere seines neuen Gesprächsformats „MD MEETS“ legt Axel-Springer-CEO Mathias Döpfner die Latte hoch: Kein Politiker, kein Showgast – sondern Sam Altman, der mächtigste KI-Architekt der Gegenwart, CEO von OpenAI. In 45 Minuten sprechen die beiden über nichts Geringeres als das Schicksal Europas, den Sinn des Fortschritts und die Frage, ob der Mensch in der Ära künstlicher Intelligenz überlebt – moralisch, ökonomisch und kulturell.
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Dieser Podcast ist mehr als Medienunterhaltung. Es ist eine politische Zäsur. Döpfner, einer der wichtigsten publizistischen Köpfe Europas, trifft den Entwickler jener Technologie, die unsere Demokratien, Arbeitsmärkte und Wahrheitsbegriffe zugleich beflügelt und bedroht. Der Springer-Chef fragt, Altman antwortet – und im Subtext steht die neue Weltordnung der Intelligenzsysteme.
Europas letzte Chance
„Europa darf nicht Weltmeister der Regulierung werden“, warnt Altman. Der Satz klingt technokratisch, ist aber Sprengstoff. In Wahrheit sagt er: Wenn Europa weiter bremst, wird es von der Landkarte der Innovation verschwinden. Altman kündigt den Aufbau einer „OpenAI-Souverän-Cloud für Deutschland“ an – gemeinsam mit SAP und Microsoft. Eine strategische Kampfansage an die digitale Abhängigkeit vom Silicon Valley und zugleich ein Testfall für Europas Selbstbehauptung im Zeitalter der KI.
Döpfner legt den Finger auf die Wunde: Europas Regierungen verteidigen Datenschutz, aber verlieren den Anschluss. Altman kontert höflich, aber bestimmt – KI sei längst weiter, als die meisten wüssten. „Wir haben Systeme, die unsere klügsten Menschen in den schwersten intellektuellen Disziplinen schlagen“, sagt er. Der Satz ist so beiläufig wie beunruhigend. Er beschreibt das Ende des kognitiven Monopols des Menschen – und den Beginn eines Wettlaufs zwischen technologischer Geschwindigkeit und politischer Trägheit.
Arbeit, Würde, Kontrolle
Döpfner fragt nach den Jobs der Zukunft. Altman antwortet, als sähe er in Zeitlupe zu, wie sich eine Zivilisation neu ordnet: „Kurzfristig wird KI viele Jobs zerstören. Langfristig werden völlig neue entstehen.“ Es ist die klassische Fortschrittsformel – und doch schwingt Skepsis mit. Die Frage, was bleibt, wenn Maschinen denken, berühren, komponieren, ist keine ökonomische mehr, sondern eine anthropologische. Altman glaubt an das „unerschöpfliche Bedürfnis des Menschen, gebraucht zu werden“. Eine tröstliche These, die aber zur Nagelprobe wird, wenn ganze Branchen automatisiert werden – von der Anwaltschaft bis zur Redaktion.
Gerade letzteres führt zum Kern des Gesprächs: der Zukunft des Journalismus. Altman erkennt die Paradoxie seiner eigenen Schöpfung: ChatGPT ist zugleich Werkzeug und Risiko für die Öffentlichkeit. „Ich wäre traurig, wenn KI den Journalismus zerstört“, sagt er. Aber er weiß auch, dass sie ihn verwandeln wird. Döpfner bringt das Prinzip auf den Punkt: „Ohne Vergütung für Inhalte trocknet das System aus – dann gibt es nichts mehr, was sich ‚scrapen‘ lässt.“ Eine präzise Beschreibung des neuen Urheberkriegs zwischen Maschine und Medium.
Der neue Prometheus
Philosophisch wird es, als Döpfner Harari und Oscar Wilde zitiert: Wird der Mensch zum Gott? Will Sam Altman ewig leben? Seine Antwort ist überraschend nüchtern: Nein. Ewigkeit sei kein Ziel, sagt er, sondern ein Irrtum. Fortschritt brauche Erneuerung, Sterblichkeit, Übergang. Altman träumt vom Leben als Landwirt, wenn die KI seine Arbeit übernimmt – der Schöpfer, der sich selbst abschafft. Das ist mehr als Anekdote. Es ist ein modernes Gleichnis: Der neue Prometheus will nach der Erleuchtung zurück in den Ackerboden.
Doch zwischen Technikglaube und Natursehnsucht bleibt die offene Frage: Wer kontrolliert die Schöpfung? Altman denkt in geopolitischen Kategorien. KI, sagt er, werde Kriegsführung, Propaganda und Machtbalance grundlegend verändern. Wenn „ein böser Akteur“ Zugang zu Superintelligenz habe, könne er ganze Systeme destabilisieren. Die Konsequenz: globale Governance, ähnlich der nuklearen Rüstungskontrolle. Der Vergleich ist nicht zufällig. KI ist längst eine strategische Waffe – unsichtbar, allgegenwärtig, unkontrolliert.
Freiheit im Zeitalter der Antwortmaschinen
Döpfner und Altman verhandeln schließlich, was auf dem Spiel steht: die Freiheit des Wortes. Für Altman ist sie „einer der schwierigsten, aber zentralsten Werte der westlichen Zivilisation“. Für Döpfner ist sie Geschäftsgrundlage und Überzeugung zugleich. Beide wissen: Wenn Wahrheit von Algorithmen berechnet wird, wird Journalismus zur Gegenmacht – oder verschwindet.
Altman plädiert für neue ökonomische Modelle: Mikropayments für Inhalte, faire Vergütung für journalistische Recherche, eine Rückkopplung von digitalem Nutzen und menschlicher Arbeit. Eine Idee, die Döpfner offen aufnimmt. Der Verleger und der Entwickler eint die Einsicht, dass Information eine Ressource ist, die sich nur dann erneuert, wenn sie einen Wert behält.
Der wahre Inhalt
Die Premiere von „MD MEETS“ ist deshalb mehr als ein Medienereignis. Sie markiert den Moment, in dem KI, Medien und Politik ihre gemeinsamen Bruchstellen öffentlich verhandeln. Altman und Döpfner sprechen über Technologie – und meinen Zivilisation.
Für Europa ist das Gespräch eine Einladung, die eigene Zukunft nicht länger als Beobachter, sondern als Akteur zu gestalten. Wenn Döpfner Altman fragt, was er Europa rät, antwortet der nüchtern: „Reguliert die großen Risiken, aber lasst die kleinen zu.“ In diesem Satz steckt eine Doktrin für die neue Epoche – und vielleicht das letzte Zeitfenster, um nicht endgültig Zuschauer im Theater der Superintelligenz zu werden. Für Sohn@Sohn wäre es wichtig, auf eine granulare Regulierung zu verzichten. Die trifft in der Regel die Kleinen und nicht die Großen, gell Herr Voss…..
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Europas KI-Regulierungskomplex: Der Tanz auf der Rasierklinge - ichsagmal.com
Es ist, als ob die EU immer wieder die gleiche, düstere Melodie spielt: Regulierungswut, ein Synonym für Bürokratie, das sich wie ein Klammergriff um Innovation und Unternehmertum schließt.gsohn (ichsagmal.com)
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Reminds me of US COVID hospital workers begging not to be labeled as heroes, for a variety of reasons.
If you're not doing something material to further the movement, you're complicit in the status quo. I know we all have our own conditions and circumstances, but even small actions are important. Praiseworthy resistance shouldn't be heroic, it should be normalized.
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New CBS owner David Ellison met with top Israeli general in scheme to spy on Americans - The Grayzone
The new owner of Paramount, David Ellison, participated in an Israeli government-led plot to surveil and suppress pro-Palestine activists in the US, leaked emails show. Originally dubbed “12 Tribes,” a reference to the dozen Jewish billionaires solicited to underwrite the operation, the scheme sought out American faces to fund surveillance firms run by Israeli intelligence veterans on behalf of Tel Aviv, as it targeted American citizens participating in the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
The files show former Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz was tasked with recruiting wealthy Westerners to fund surveillance firms operated by Israeli intelligence veterans as they stalked and harassed people whom the government of Israel suspected of harboring pro-Palestinian sympathies.
In the emails, Hollywood talent agency executive Adam Berkowitz identified Ellison as “very interested” in “helping out with [undermining] the BDS movement.” Berkowitz introduced Ellison to the Israeli general in a group email: “Benny meet david.
New CBS owner David Ellison met with top Israeli general in scheme to spy on Americans
The new owner of Paramount, David Ellison, participated in an Israeli government-led plot to surveil and suppress pro-Palestine activists in the US, leaked emails show. Originally dubbed “12 Tribes,” a reference to the dozen Jewish billionaires solicited to underwrite the operation, the scheme sought out American faces to fund surveillance firms run by Israeli intelligence veterans on behalf of Tel Aviv, as it targeted American citizens participating in the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
The files show former Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz was tasked with recruiting wealthy Westerners to fund surveillance firms operated by Israeli intelligence veterans as they stalked and harassed people whom the government of Israel suspected of harboring pro-Palestinian sympathies.
In the emails, Hollywood talent agency executive Adam Berkowitz identified Ellison as “very interested” in “helping out with [undermining] the BDS movement.” Berkowitz introduced Ellison to the Israeli general in a group email: “Benny meet david.
Russia's digital iron curtain descends further as Kremlin chokes Internet freedoms
Three and a half years into its all-out war against Ukraine, the Kremlin is waging a parallel battle at home — this time against Internet freedom.
The Russian authorities are tightening their digital grip and rolling out sweeping new measures to keep people online in check.
Russian authorities' efforts to block calls via the Telegram and WhatsApp messengers have been going hand in hand with the creation of a Kremlin-controlled "national messenger" called Max, intended to replace foreign equivalents.
"(The Kremlin) has now matured to the point of imposing total control over people's conversations," Russian columnist Sergei Parkhomenko told the Kyiv Independent.
"Before, there were concerns that people might protest, and the authorities would have to somehow explain themselves — but now there's no need to explain anything to anyone: there is only one answer — 'There is a war going on, and therefore you, citizens, no longer have any rights."
Parkhomenko believes that "this is why Putin started the war — to gain the ability to harden his rule more and more, and thus guarantee his hold on power for eternity (or so he hopes)."
Analysts say the latest efforts to stifle Internet freedom are a logical step in the regime's evolution towards totalitarianism. The Kremlin is seeking to emulate China's Great Firewall, a comprehensive censorship system that Beijing has used for decades to crack down on dissent online.
The Russian authorities and VK, the company that developed Russia's Max messenger, did not respond to requests for comment.
Read also: Moscow shooting aftermath: Repressions, racism, terror
Blocking social networks
Russia's efforts to introduce China-style Internet censorship began before the full-scale invasion.
In 2014, following the start of Russia's war against Ukraine, Kremlin-friendly companies took control of Vkontakte (VK), Russia's largest social network, and its owner, Pavel Durov, left the country amid government pressure.
Roskomnadzor, Russia's agency tasked with controlling and censoring mass media, began blocking Durov's Telegram messenger in 2018 after the messenger refused to provide encryption keys to the Federal Security Service (FSB), citing a terrorism investigation. Durov said then that it was impossible technologically and that giving the keys to the FSB would imply changing its encryption mechanisms and enabling the Kremlin to censor the messenger.
Demonstrators hold a stylized icon painting depicting Telegram founder Pavel Durov during a protest against the blocking of the popular messaging app in Russia, at a May Day rally in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on May 1, 2018. (Olga Maltseva / AFP via Getty Images)
However, the agency lifted the ban on Telegram in 2020.
The reasons for the change in the agency's position are unclear.
The attempt to block Telegram was followed by large-scale protests, and Roskomnadzor's efforts proved to be ineffective due to technological issues.
Durov visited Russia more than 50 times from 2014 to 2021, including on the day when the ban on Telegram was lifted, according to Russia's IStories investigative journalism project.
The report triggered speculation that Durov could have reached a deal with the Russian authorities.
After the start of Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022, the country's authorities also banned Facebook and Instagram, citing the platforms' policies of not censoring calls for violence against Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian soldiers. Meta, the owner of the platforms, eventually backed down and banned such calls, but they were blocked anyway.
In 2024, Roskomnadzor also started slowing down access to YouTube, citing the video hosting service's decisions to block Russian propaganda channels and its refusal to block anti-Kremlin content.
In March 2025, there were also disruptions in Telegram's operations in Russia, and it was banned in the country's Chechnya and Dagestan regions.
In August 2025, Roskomnadzor started blocking calls on Telegram and WhatsApp.
Roskomnadzor claimed the apps have become "the main services used to defraud and extort money, and to involve Russian citizens in sabotage and terrorist activities."
Analysts believe that this claim is just an excuse.
"This has nothing to do with Internet fraud," Parkhomenko told the Kyiv Independent. "Fraudsters will continue to use (and are already using) Max or any other tool in the same way."
In contrast with the Telegram block in 2018, now the Russian authorities are blocking Telegram and WhatsApp more effectively because they have acquired a new censorship technology — Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) boxes, Leonid Iuldashev from eQualitie, a Canadian IT company that develops tools for circumventing censorship, told the Kyiv Independent.
Read also: Putin ‘wins’ rigged Russian election; Ukrainians in occupied territories vote at gunpoint
National messenger
As the Russian authorities tried to block Western social networks, they also took steps to launch a domestic alternative.
In March, the Russian IT company VK released the Max messenger.
Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law in June to create "a national messenger."
On Sept. 1, the Russian government officially authorized Max as the "national messenger."
It became mandatory to install Max on all new electronic devices. Max also became the default messenger for government and banking services.
Meanwhile, Russia's biggest mobile operators allowed their subscribers to use Max free of charge.
The messenger is completely controlled by the Russian government.
VK, which developed the messenger, is owned by Russia's state gas giant Gazprom and tycoon Yury Kovalchuk, known as Putin's personal banker.
VK's CEO is Vladimir Kiriyenko, the son of Putin's Deputy Chief of Staff Sergei Kiriyenko, a Kremlin heavyweight responsible for the country's entire domestic policy.
Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and his first deputy chief of staff Sergei Kiriyenko (L) observe an exhibition prior to the All-Russia’s Open Lesson in Yaroslavl, Russia, on Sept. 1, 2017. (Mikhail Svetlov / Getty Images)
Max requests access to the camera and the microphone, as well as geolocation, contacts, files, Bluetooth, notifications, and biometrics. The messenger also logs all activity within the app and collects information about users' age, gender, phone numbers, emails, and social media IDs.
Although Western messengers also request similar information, providing such access to Max is more dangerous since its official policy states that it can submit any information to the authorities. Experts believe that Max will be routinely used to spy on users.
Russian residents interviewed by the Kyiv Independent provided different perspectives on the introduction of the national messenger and bans on Western social networks.
A 40-year-old Russian photographer who supports "restoring the Soviet Union" told the Kyiv Independent that she would not use Max, WhatsApp, or Telegram because she is against what she called a "digital concentration camp."
The Max Messenger logo is seen displayed on a smartphone screen. (Thomas Fuller / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images)
"I don't have a smartphone and have never had one," she said. I have a dumbphone and a laptop. I've predicted this whole digital concentration camp more than three moves ahead."
A 60-year old teacher who supports the war against Ukraine told the Kyiv Independent she has not yet installed the Max messenger but is not afraid of using it.
"I don't have any anti-government thoughts," she said. "I'll have to switch to the Max messenger — otherwise, I won't be able to access many (government) apps or use them fully."
The sources spoke on condition of anonymity due to the fear of reprisals.
Read also: Navalny’s death preceded by long list of Putin critics’ murders
Internet shutdowns and VPNs
Since May, Russia has also experienced frequent fixed-line and mobile Internet shutdowns all over the country. The authorities argued the shutdowns were necessary to counteract Ukrainian drone attacks, but analysts believe it is part of Russia's efforts to tighten control over people's online presence.
In August, Russia experienced 2,129 Internet shutdowns — an all-time record, according to the Association for the Protection of the Internet. The global number of Internet shutdowns in 2024 was 296, according to Access Now, a U.S. group that fights Internet censorship.
The Russian authorities have also cracked down on VPN services that allow users to circumvent blocks.
"The logic is simple: if anything is out of control of the siloviki (Russia's intelligence and law enforcement agencies), it is a threat and has to be banned."
Russia passed a law in 2020 to ban virtual private networks (VPNs) used for bypassing blocks. Initially it was not enforced strictly. However, the authorities have stepped up efforts to block VPNs since then.
Starting from Sept. 1, 2025, Russia also banned VPN ads and introduced fines for searching "extremist materials" — essentially any information critical of the Kremlin — using VPNs.
Iuldashev from eQualitie said that the Kremlin is trying to block all major VPNs.
"But while they do it, VPN developers develop new protocols at the same time," he said. "We are still able to provide access to free Internet to people from China, Russia, Vietnam, and other countries. It's impossible to block everything."
Read also: Alexei Navalny’s life and death as main opponent to Putin regime
Copying foreign experience
By introducing sweeping restrictions on the Internet, Russia is copying China's censorship system, called the Great Firewall. Max is modeled after WeChat, China's state-controlled national messenger.
Iuldashev said that the Kremlin aims to achieve the same results as China, but the Russian system is more decentralized.
"China has fostered domestic substitutes for international services, and they ruled out most Western platforms from the outset," he said. "Russia, on the contrary, has allowed many Western platforms for years, and then they started (blocking them)."
He said that "it's hard to imagine that Russia can build a (China-style) centralized censorship system in this very diverse landscape of networks.
News footage on a giant screen outside a shopping mall in Beijing, China, shows Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping shaking hands during a welcoming ceremony before their talks at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on May 8, 2025. (Pedro Pardo / AFP via Getty Images)
"But the decentralized model also looks quite effective," Iuldashev added. "It's just another way to achieve the same result."
He also said that Russia is seeking to mimic the censorship technology of Iran, which is among the worst countries in terms of Internet freedom.
There is also speculation that Russia may shut down the Internet completely, similarly to North Korea.
But Iuldashev thinks a permanent shutdown is unlikely.
"On the technical level, it's possible," he said. "But it's strange to compare it with North Korea, because North Korea has never had a proper Internet. But Russia has all the possible connections to the global Internet."
He argued, however, that temporary and regional Internet shutdowns are likely if there are some political risks.
"They don't need to actually shut down the whole country," he said. "They can just shut down a particular place."
Read also: How Kadyrov became so powerful, and why Chechnya remains vital for survival of Putin’s regime
Diving into totalitarianism
Iuldashev said that Russia started to create a "sovereign Internet" right after annexing Crimea in 2014. Now, however, this process has accelerated.
Ryhor Nizhnikau, a Russia expert at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, said that "Russia has been moving towards online control and 'Internet sovereignty' for years."
"The logic is simple: if anything is out of control of the siloviki (Russia's intelligence and law enforcement agencies), it is a threat and has to be banned," he told the Kyiv Independent.
Arkady Moshes, a Russian-born researcher at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, said that "this should be viewed as an element of Russia transiting from authoritarianism towards totalitarianism, which implies total control."
Another Russian political analyst said that creating a China-like censorship model "requires additional technical improvements and overcoming users' inertia."
The analyst spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.
"Even if they are not politicized, they are very reluctant to give up the conveniences of everyday life. So far, the state is not totalitarian enough to move everyone over to Max, but it is striving for that and will continue to do so," the analyst added.
Read also: Evidence shows recent presidential elections most rigged in Russia’s modern history
Evidence shows recent presidential elections most rigged in Russia’s modern history
The March 15-17 presidential election was the most rigged in Russia's modern history, according to evidence published by election experts, observers, and media. Estimates of vote rigging range from at least 22 million votes to about 31.Oleg Sukhov (The Kyiv Independent)
Marine park threatens to euthanize 30 whales if Canada does not provide funding
Marine park threatens to euthanize 30 whales if Canada does not provide funding
Marineland’s warning comes after Canadian official blocked the transfer of the beluga whales to a theme park in ChinaLeyland Cecco (The Guardian)
Why doesn't the Fediverse have a "one sign-in" like NOSTR?
I recently re-tried NOSTR (I technically have an old account I rarely ever use), specifically on Primal and the Fountain Podcasts app, and I really enjoyed how simple it was: just sign in, and BAM—you’re in.
No fuss, no extra steps.
It got me wondering—why doesn’t the Fediverse work like that? I know that using special login codes might be too complex for most people, but why not allow usernames and passwords instead?
Imagine a single sign-in for the entire Fediverse. You wouldn’t need to worry about instances, and onboarding could be much simpler.
Has this idea been considered, or is there a technical reason why it wouldn’t work?
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Because implementing that shit is hard.
Nostr definitely has some interesting/good implementation details, and on a spectrum of ease of censoring users, Bluesky is on one end, Fedi is in the middle, and Nostr (if it gets big enough) is on the other end.
But also with Nostr, I really hope you backed up those account keys, because if you didn't and you lose your device, your access to that account is gone forever.
Every way of decentralizing a social media system has advantages and disadvantages.
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I do wish cross-posting between fediverse types (microblogs, link aggregators, image sharing) was as easy as cross-posting within them.
I know it's technically feasible to comment on a Lemmy post from your mastodon account (at least, that's what I was told), but it's not easy or intuitive.
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nuova aggreganza con la goduria integrata: rilascio aggregatore di feed Aggregodo (Aggregoctt v3 ma per bene)
Oggi, considerato lo stato inevitabile dell’assoluto, sono abbastanza sicura che godo… ma, in realtà, un po’ sarà anche da stamattina che godo… per non dire in verità ieri sera tardissimo… Situazione assurda, lo so, ma tutto ciò è per via del fatto che, il nuovissimo software benedettissimo che ho finito or ora (…o ieri sera, […]
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nuova aggreganza con la goduria integrata: rilascio aggregatore di feed Aggregodo (Aggregoctt v3 ma per bene)
Oggi, considerato lo stato inevitabile dell’assoluto, sono abbastanza sicura che godo… ma, in realtà, un po’ sarà anche da stamattina che godo… per non dire in verità ieri sera tardissimo… Situazione assurda, lo so, ma tutto ciò è per via del fatto che, il nuovissimo software benedettissimo che ho finito or ora (…o ieri sera, appunto, ma sono uscite rognine che ho dovuto sistemare al volo oggi), non si chiama Aggregoctt ennesimo, bensì AGGREGODO!!! E con una premessa così, cazzarola se c’è da goderne pesantemente… 🔥🎆🎇🧨Alla fine, si: il mio incubo peggiore, ma allo stesso tempo il mio nuovo momento più ricco, si è avverato; ed assurdamente è da una settimana intera che ci sto lavorando… no, non c’è motivo di temere che io abbia acquisito la pericolosa skill della pazienza dal nulla, è solo che ho potuto lavorarci giusto ogni tot a pezzetti, per via delle varie palle personali, ma via avanti così ed alla fine è già uscito fuori circa quello che volevo, che già andrà a sostituire quel ripiego bizzarro che a questo punto è durato due settimane nemmeno… ma la goduria è appena cominciata. 😈
Chi sempre vuole giusto spiare i miei feed, quindi, adesso può farlo con , sperando possano essere gradevoli ed evidenti i dettagli bboni… I feed hanno le icone (automatiche, ovviamente), c’è una modalità di lettura integrata (spenta di default per evitare rogne che non sto a spiegare, anche perché è ancora sperimentale e da finire di acconciare; si attiva dal menu), e l’interfaccia è fatta col gradevole bellissimissimo Material Design v1, che fa bella figura su desktop e mobile (…anche se manca la modalità scura, che devo quindi implementare io a breve, mannaggia). Ma queste sono solo le scemenze, tipo… 🙏
Con non poca magia, sono riuscita pure ad implementare un sistema di scraping HTML per generare feed da siti stronzi che non li offrono, maa… non con l’XPath meloso che usano altri aggregatori (non tutti eh, la maggior parte a dire il vero non offrono proprio una mazza), bensì con una sintassi decente e per certi versi più potente… al punto da avermi permesso di creare feed da Facebook e Threads con poche righe di configurazione, e sulla mia istanza infatti già ne seguo qualcuno (e aumenteranno solamente!!!). E, ovviamente, l’aggregatore genera dei suoi feed (Atom) per l’uso con altri lettori, dell’intera libreria o di specifici feed, inclusi questi umma umma… (…Peccato che, al momento, proprio i feed per cui questa cosa più serve appaiono mezzi rotti, perché ho dimenticato delle robe, ma abbiate pazienza e aggiusterò.) 🤯Non vado troppo nei dettagli tecnici, perché altrimenti lo so che ogni essere umano fa zzzzzzz, ma tanto per tutti i computeristi (e i selfhostisti, semmai ce ne siano) il codice è libero su GitLab e su GitHub… e non è nemmeno spaghettoso! (Inaspettato, visto che ne ho scritto grandi porzioni a stomaco non troppo pieno, quindi mi sarei aspettata che la brama dello gnam potesse prendere più il sopravvento… ma forse in parte è anche grazie al fatto che stavolta ho scelto di usare TypeScript e NodeJS, che giuro, Python di questo passo mi farà venire dei tumori, con tutte le paturnie che mi sta facendo invece subire per Pignio…) 🏗️
Come cose da fare per forza, ce ne sono ancora varie… come ottimizzare la lettura dal database, che al momento su alcune pagine è un troiaio come lentezza… oppure aggiustare la ricerca globale, che ho accidentalmente rotto nel provare a migliorare le prestazioni della pagina principale (e che colmo sarebbe sennò) — ovviamente accorgendomene solo in produzione, e non poco prima durante lo sviluppo (e te pareva che non va sempre così con me!!!) — ma anche implementare tag e/o categorie per i feed (altrimenti, quando ne metterò centinaia saranno dolori), che però attualmente non riesco a decidere come fare… Una cosa è certa, però, almeno: tutte le rogne sono risolvibili, e per ora si deve dunque pensare solo a godere del potere dell’aggregazione acquisito per mezzo dell’Aggregodo… (Ah, e serve pure un logo, mannaggia.) 👻
(Tra l’altro… come si vede, ho implementato 3 viste per gli indici: una griglia di carte, simile al primo Aggregoctt ma più densa, una lista con miniature, che ho copiato spudoratamente dall’RSS-ripiego di cui sopra, ma che ho fatto in modo per me più gradevole, e una che chiamo “a flusso”, che è utile principalmente per i post dei social, che sono corti e da vedere anche senza cliccare… E stavo a proposito di quest’ultima quasi per dire che l’ho copiata accidentalmente dall’RSS-bizzarro, ma a guardare meglio la mia mostra le immagini bene, e invece l’altro le taglia a 16:9, oltre al fatto che la grafica ombreggiata del mio secondo me fa risaltare meglio all’occhio i post… quindi, se non dispiace, con oggi godo veramente infinito.)
#aggregator #aggregatore #Aggregoctt #Aggregodo #Atom #feed #feeds #libre #OpenSource #RSS #webapp #webdev
He Would've Escaped - How The FBI Really Caught Tyler Robinson
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/36982928
Tyler Robinson, the suspect of the Charlie Kirk's assassination, almost got away with it all. This is how the FBI really caught him. Support my independent work: / thehatedoneThe FBI is telling you that the manhunt for the suspect of Charlie Kirk's assassination was a result of a historic investigation with the use of the most advanced intelligence techniques available to law enforcement.
But the reality will tell you a different story. A story that is now very well reported and reveals how the suspect was actually caught. In what's about to follow, I'll explain to you every detail of the surveillance and intelligence behind the manhunt for Tyler Robinson, the alleged shooter at Utah Valley.
In reality, it is not clear whether anything the FBI did actually helped track down the suspect.The most damning admission of this fact is that after a full day of endless investigation, full 24 hours after Charlie Kirk was shot, the FBI, Kash Patel and local law enforcement were so confused they had “no idea where” the suspect was and they weren’t even sure whether he still was in Utah or not.
By the time the police did finally catch Tyler Robinson, he was so far away from the scene of the shooting that had he simply kept running, he probably would’ve gone away with it. He was arrested 250 miles away, in his parental home in St. George, Utah, whole 33 hours after the shooting.
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FarSight: MSU's new biometric recognition system- MSU Innovation Center
MSU researchers are developing FarSight, a drone biometric recognition system using face, body & gait recognition, with a $12M grant to ID people at a distance.Mikayla Conners (MSU Innovation Center)
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Huawei Zurich Lab’s New Open-Source Tech Lets LLMs Run on Consumer GPUs
Huawei Zurich Lab’s New Open-Source Tech Lets LLMs Run on Consumer GPUs
Huawei’s Zurich Computing Systems Laboratory has released SINQ (Sinkhorn Normalization Quantization), an open-source quantization method that reduces theTechNode Feed (TechNode)
Green Party demands ban on Israeli military as terror group and Balfour apology
The Green Party has voted for the Israeli military to be banned as a terrorist organisation and for Britain to apologise for the Balfour Declaration.
Members voted for the motion at the Green Party's annual conference in Bournemouth on Sunday, making it party policy.
The motion called for the Israeli military to be proscribed, which would make membership of the Israeli military or even glorifying it a terrorist offence under British counterterror legislation.
It's clear nobody likes Starmer. Understood. But do you think the government not sucking it from the US would be helpful? You're going to what....? Rejoin the EU? 😂😂😂. Good one.
The UK is fucked without US investment. That's the bottom line. Starmer has to open wide and like it. In the words of trump, "you don't have the cards". Look how similar the government is with stances against China (arguably also committing genocide, and spying in Parliament), and India (who are quite happy to buy Russian oil and gas to fuel the war in Ukraine). They are desperate for their trade too.
Being in government is a lot harder than shit posting online.
Thank you for this rational reply. It's a breath of fresh air on this platform where everyone thinks politicians should act like they're making friends or breaking up relationships like they're in high school.
Yes, Trump is a cunt, yes Starmer is a wet paper bag, but ultimately both are temporary but the deals he makes with the US will benefit the UK and outlast both leaders. The leaders are temporary but the nations will be around a lot longer.
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China’s Red Eye Over Ukraine: What Are The Middle Kingdom’s Satellites Observing?
China's Red Eye Over Ukraine: What Are The Middle Kingdom's Satellites Observing?
On 5 October, several Ukrainian news agencies reported an increase in the number of Chinese reconnaissance satellites flying over the Lviv region during a major air strike. At least three such satellites were recorded flying overhead.Anonymous834 (South Front)
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in reply to FiveMacs • • •Same, I refuse to have my OS linked to anything other then a local account.
Especially since most email accounts now need cell phone numbers, and home addresses.
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in reply to salacious_coaster • • •Legally cost a lot not available for usual users only in crack way
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in reply to anon5621 • • •DarkSirrush
in reply to ramble81 • • •I wish the IT company we work with used enterprise edition, instead I have to deal with a ton of fuckery that is professional edition in an org with 50 employees, and I do not have the schooling necessary to take over fully.
Really wish we could just ditch windows altogether every time I find another computer that is using a local login instead of an AD login because they couldn't be bothered to set shit up properly
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in reply to ardi60 • • •One option is to install an older version and update after.
A better one is not use it because it's trash.
DFX4509B
in reply to ardi60 • • •The Enterprise/IoT SKUs, which of course include LTSC, still let you use a local account, for now...
I won't be surprised if they plug that at some point way down the line too though given they're already playing with Windows on the Cloud in the enterprise sector.
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in reply to DFX4509B • • •I would be surprised if they force the requirement on LTSC.
I could believe they force it into enterprise licensing, but LTSC's whole deal is that the environment doesn't change and only gets security patches. It's made to be used in kiosks, CNC controllers and the like. Machines that are supposed perform one task reliably.
This is also the reason it's the best version of Windows for the desktop, and why Microsoft makes it so challenging to acquire licences.
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in reply to dubyakay • • •You think people are happy with the current situation either?
ardi60
in reply to ardi60 • • •Here's your bypass:
In OOBE, go through MS account creation. Tell it you were born today. It'll let you set a password for the MS account before rejecting you due to COPA requirements. At this point, you can make an offline account without having even created an MS account, let alone having to use one.
This will not go away - it's a legal thing. MS doesn't want to deal with COPA stuff for very young kids, so this flow exists. Enjoy.
DFX4509B
in reply to ardi60 • • •If that actually becomes a thing people do, that could prompt MS to start to require either submitting to a face scan or showing some government ID just to install Windows, though, if the way Google's handling KYC on YT if your account gets flagged as underage, and soon Android app dev, as well as KYC going out across other sites, is any indication.
I'm pretty sure having to KYC just to install an OS is the last thing people want right now.
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in reply to DFX4509B • • •Let them. The entire world is slowly migrating to Mac and Linux. I haven't even had the option of windows at my last 3 jobs. (To be fair, I've never had the option of desktop Linux, but this last one said pick a computer—I'm not positive that they would've balked at Linux.) That said, idk what's so great about Mac over Linux, but I guess it's not corporate friendly.
I'm trying to think of which MS products we even have in our ecosystem. Office, I guess. Corporate world will never wean themselves off of Excel.
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in reply to MagicShel • • •have a look at the steam hardware survey results or basically any other statistics and see that it's not the case.
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in reply to adarza • • •If os can't be installed off a usb then that means linux can't either, which makes it a pretty sad machine to spend money on.
So it must be a work or school device then? Which users wouldn't be installing OS on anyways with it being handled through IT.
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in reply to Lfrith • • •There are plenty that will boot/install Linux just fine but won't do a nice clean install of Windows 11.
Modern Thinkpad E16 (AMD) is one of them, a clean USB won't work, it will always stick at not finding required drivers.
You need to inevitably create a USB install from the MS USB Media Creation tool, running on the machine itself from the included crapware Windows - to get an installer USB that will work.
Different if you're just pushing a wim over the network from endpoint/scm, but it's basically broken for local users.
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in reply to Lfrith • • •Especially pertinent for Lenovo.
Chinese multinational technology company established in 1984
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)caseyweederman
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in reply to ms.lane • • •I'm mostly working with T series laptops and haven't had the problem, but always good to know if or when an E16 shows up.
Exec
in reply to anamethatisnt • • •I've started calling the E-series as E-waste.
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in reply to hamFoilHat • • •1949 dystopian social science fiction novel by George Orwell
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)eleijeep
in reply to hamFoilHat • • •cley_faye
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in reply to ardi60 • • •Spaz
in reply to Bytemeister • • •Bytemeister
in reply to Spaz • • •Spaz
in reply to Bytemeister • • •Yes please let us know. Wont know till we order another batch of newer computers in a few weeks.
I guess i could download the latest test build on a test machine and reset it and try.
Bytemeister
in reply to Spaz • • •Inconclusive. Re-used machines instead of new computers. Systems did have Windows 11 on them. OOBE\BypassNRO worked, but they may have pending updates.
Edit: one machine would not let me skip MS account sign in with OOBE\BypassNRO. IPConfig /Release immediately let me set up a local account.
Spaz
in reply to Bytemeister • • •Bytemeister
in reply to Spaz • • •Reality_Suit
in reply to ardi60 • • •Dump windows. These megacorps need to fail.
Edit: I have only been using Linux for less than a year now, and right now, really is the perfect time to switch. I only held onto windows for gaming, and now I use bazzite. There are some games that don't have steam backup, but with the games that do, I can play the same save between my steamdeck and bazzite.
There is so much more you can do with linux and all it's distros. I've messed around with linux in the past, but never was patient enough to deal with it. Now it's really that easy.
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in reply to Reality_Suit • • •Feyd
in reply to ardi60 • • •Lol sure. If that was the real reason they'd simply let you create a local account. The audacious lying is just insulting.
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cley_faye
in reply to Feyd • • •Oh no, onedrive not working or the office nagging screen missing in the start menu, how will we cope.
magikmw
in reply to cley_faye • • •Aceticon
in reply to Feyd • • •It's not lying if what they mean by "not fully configured for use" is that the private data being captured and sent to their servers is not fully matched to a personal identity in their systems.
After all, they didn't say whose "use" that device would not be configured for.
Ferk
in reply to Aceticon • • •🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮
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DFX4509B
in reply to 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 • • •In theory Pluton enforcement platform-wide, which also includes forced SecureBoot without the ability to install user-signed keys, as well as OTA updates for that super-TPM, could block alt OSes on PC though.
Fortunately, Pluton never caught on and that hasn't happened so far.
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in reply to DFX4509B • • •DFX4509B
in reply to 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 • • •Forced SecureBoot with only MS keys and no way to install user-signed keys and no Linux shim would block non-Windows OSes from booting.
Basically, Pluton functions similar to how mobile devices function in terms of locked bootloaders.
AFAIK the only devices currently produced which actually use Pluton are Surface devices though, and if it's not being implemented as intended, it's just seen as a generic TPM by other OSes.
For anyone wondering what Pluton is: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/wind…
Pluton as TPM: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/wind…
Microsoft Pluton security processor
learn.microsoft.comcley_faye
in reply to 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 • • •Proprietary hardware, like opaque bioses that can only be updated with signed, proprietary blobs? The bios that's in charge of picking something to boot from from storage? The bios that can decide which bootloader is allowed through digital signatures? The signatures that are only valid if their public key is registered in the bios? The proprietary, opaque bios that decide which bootloader's signature is valid through keys it can restrict?
Yeah, it's all coming together. Always has been. Joking aside, I'm still surprised this whole "fully locked bios" didn't take off. And I'm glad for it.
WhyJiffie
in reply to 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 • • •WhyJiffie
in reply to DFX4509B • • •I'm confused. don't all recent AMD and intel CPUs have pluton included? I remember such an AMD announcement from ryzen 6000 and onwards, and for intel too
adarza
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in reply to ardi60 • • •AtariDump
in reply to goatinspace • • •From the other time this was posted:
95 is the stick, and ME is the stick up someone’s butt.
hddsx
in reply to AtariDump • • •AtariDump
in reply to hddsx • • •dubyakay
in reply to AtariDump • • •Toes♀
in reply to dubyakay • • •floofloof
in reply to dubyakay • • •Kissaki
in reply to goatinspace • • •Where is Windows ME?
It repeatedly crashed for me. ~~Good~~ Awful times.
goatinspace
in reply to Kissaki • • •Boomer Humor Doomergod
in reply to ardi60 • • •Doesn’t stop me from using Windows 11 as much as I want.
Which is none.
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dubyakay
in reply to hddsx • • •My work offers alternatives.
But even if, my work laptop is just something I remote on from my desktop and switch around seemlessly.
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Darkcoffee
in reply to ardi60 • • •Glad I found one and used it. If I didn't need Windows for my classes, I'd be on Linux already.
I found it because the wifi was stuck off and if I couldn't turn it on unless I set up windows... Which dumbly requires internet.
So once that comes to pass, someone in my situation would be SOL.
dubyakay
in reply to Darkcoffee • • •Darkcoffee
in reply to ardi60 • • •"It would bypass critical steps..."
Which step is that, data collection? Shoving OneDrive down my throat by putting my Desktop in it with no way to easily remove it?
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in reply to ImgurRefugee114 • • •oppy1984
in reply to aurelar • • •Max-P
in reply to ardi60 • • •At this point I just
net user /addit, which just creates the user manually and then you can reboot and just log into it.It's not like you need anything from the OOBE at all, so might as well just skip it entirely.
kylian0087
in reply to Max-P • • •BurgerBaron
in reply to kylian0087 • • •Germans got us covered:
schneegans.de/windows/unattend…
Some crap I still have a Windows VM. Combine this with ShutUp10 for blocking telemetry.
Generate autounattend.xml files for Windows 10/11
schneegans.deBoozilla
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in reply to LadyAutumn • • •richardmtanguay
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WhyJiffie
in reply to Captain Aggravated • • •Captain Aggravated
in reply to WhyJiffie • • •I've got an old desktop with a Core I7 with a 3 digit model number and 12GB of DDR3 RAM, it's running Mint Cinnamon. I've got a Lenovo x86 tablet thing with 8GB of RAM and a Pentium processor, it's currently running Fedora GNOME. I've run Ubuntu MATE on a Pi 4 as a desktop PC for about a year.
Most distros of Linux will run very well on a machine that ever ran Windows 7 acceptably. Prior to that, you start running into the "we're discontinuing 32-bit support" problem.
WhyJiffie
in reply to Captain Aggravated • • •well I assumed your devices have 4 and such GB of RAM, but yeah at 8 GB memory efficiency is not a pressing problem.
like I have a laptop with 2 GB that runs windows 10 acceptably, there was a time when that was my main on-the-go setup. that memory is almost completely used up by just logging in to kde plasma. memory compression is of course not a choice with the cpu it has though
atmorous
in reply to richardmtanguay • • •1984
in reply to atmorous • • •Im running cosmic desktop on arch, its actually very good! I have enabled automatic tiling of windows and its just super convenient. Like a tiling window manager but with all the stuff most people want built-in (top bar, notifications, screenshots, screen sharing etc).
You cant customize it as much as a real tiling window manager but if all you want is for your windows to tile, its awesome.
Pat_Riot
in reply to richardmtanguay • • •Jaysyn
in reply to Pat_Riot • • •Not OP, but I have to keep one Windows PC around. My favorite mod for my favorite 20 year old 4x game will not run on Linux, even though the game itself will.
The rest of my PCs are running either Mint or Xubuntu.
far_university1990
in reply to Jaysyn • • •Jaysyn
in reply to far_university1990 • • •You think that will work even if Proton doesn't?
far_university1990
in reply to Jaysyn • • •HugeNerd
in reply to richardmtanguay • • •prole
in reply to richardmtanguay • • •FireWire400
in reply to ardi60 • • •Use Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC, problem solved.
Or, you know, that other thing.
Reddfugee42
in reply to FireWire400 • • •He said in response to an article about how they are perpetually reducing the amount of things that work right now
FireWire400
in reply to Reddfugee42 • • •I doubt they'll risk alienating their enterprise costumers, but sure, they could make IoT account-only.
In that case just switch to Linux already.
lazynooblet
in reply to ardi60 • • •Wispy2891
in reply to ardi60 • • •I installed windows 11 a dozen time at work (never at home) and I just click on "domain login", it just creates a local account and then after the install I have to manually join the domain. No Microsoft account enforcement at all.
It's regular Windows 11, not Enterprise, we are a small company.
But I'm wondering, this bypass is too easy, is it because it sees that the DNS server is also an active directory server, so it allows that, or the trick is that you tell him you want to join a domain?
Or maybe it's a domain enrollment bug because we're using samba 4 under Debian as active directory server and not Windows server/entra id/whatever they call it this month?
purplemonkeymad
in reply to Wispy2891 • • •zod000
in reply to purplemonkeymad • • •Bytemeister
in reply to Wispy2891 • • •You need to have 11 Pro or better to domain join a computer.
Your computer would also need to be joined to your domain to allow the login, so there is definitely some config going on that is not available to the typical home user.
abbiistabbii
in reply to ardi60 • • •melsaskca
in reply to ardi60 • • •vacuumflower
in reply to melsaskca • • •It's not our mentality, it's their strategy.
Wars breed new strategies.
Sometimes it's free trade as a carrot and embargo as a stick, like with, well, one can try to nail it to Napoleonic wars, but as old as life. Sometimes it's mass production and standardization and ergonomics and scientific industrial design, one can try to nail these to WWII, but also as old as life. And sometimes it's controlled escalation as a way to reach your goals without triggering nuclear response, which one can nail to the Cold War.
American strategy of the Cold War is being used against world markets, ladies and gentlemen. Together with the previous two strategies mentioned.
The Soviet one was the opposite, to try to make even the smallest transgression cause firmly the same response, so that controlled escalation wouldn't work, but unfortunately one is founded in human psychology (plus game theory) and the other in rational knowledge (just game theory), the latter always loses. It was called scientific-technical revolution and meant literally its name - instead of gradual escalation, which favors the stronger side, you should create technical means to punch a fatal wound, nothing gradual.
So - the subscriptions themselves matter very little, they are just slowly transitioning everything big to dependence upon remote components available over the Internet.
It's funny, actually, so much gradual work, and in the end it'll be just wasted time - even making computers is not magic. State of the art processes could as well be that for most of humanity, but for many purposes Pentium MMX is a good enough computer, and such are not magic.
And especially making computer software of the kind that's being "metropolized" like this is not magic. Most of it is complex simply because of legacy, backwards compatibility and as a barrier for competitors making alternative implementations.
HugeNerd
in reply to ardi60 • • •prole
in reply to HugeNerd • • •tiramichu
in reply to prole • • •I've never been more appreciative than I am now of the decades of effort that have gone into building this free and open-source operating system.
Imagine if we were here in 2025, with all the incumbent operating systems going to shit, but in a world where Linux didn't exist and there was no alternative that wasn't owned by a tech giant.
I don't even want to imagine.
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in reply to tiramichu • • •The alternative alternative existed before Linux and still exists today: BSD
In a world without Linus Torvalds, all those people who have devoted time and effort into Linux might well have found themselves working / hobbying in the BSD ecosystems instead.
I think it's almost certain that Linux's niche would have been taken by it. It worked for Apple, after all.
Or, who knows, maybe GNU Hurd might have become viable.
dejected_warp_core
in reply to palordrolap • • •I find this alternate timeline incredibly likely. I had a friend in college who was all about SCO Unix back before they went evil, even when Slackware was the go-to distro. We would have a lot more BSD forks out here now, although NextStep (and maybe even OSX) would probably still emerge as one of the better commercial ones.
As an aside: what I find amusing is that Homebrew is basically BSD Ports, served from a git repo. In 2025, it's a completely insane way to ship OS software to a single platform, but it does work.
tiramichu
in reply to palordrolap • • •Sure, if it wasn't Linux then another project may have got the love and attention.
I'm not glad it was Linux specifically, just glad there is a credible FOSS alternative of some kind, and in our universe that's Linux.
You might think there's no such world where we wouldn't have had some credible alternative, and as reasonable as that is - because freedom and independence are things people intrinsically want - I'm sure if you flap the butterfly wings enough times there'd be a universe where we all just collectively decided that commercial operating systems were the answer.
Glad I don't live there.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot
in reply to tiramichu • • •gh0stcassette
in reply to tiramichu • • •Mio
in reply to tiramichu • • •Yes, competition is good.
It is just a problem when the competition is big tech and can ignore everybody else as they get even more money from somewhere else like Azure.
Gormadt
in reply to tiramichu • • •Don't forget to donate to your favorite distro (and other open source projects) to help them keep the lights on.
Gotta do our part to fight the massive mega corps from devouring every aspect of our lives.
bless
in reply to HugeNerd • • •PrimeMinisterKeyes
in reply to HugeNerd • • •The future was here, once upon a time.
monotremata
in reply to PrimeMinisterKeyes • • •Kissaki
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in reply to ardi60 • • •skisnow
in reply to FreeMindFreeAss • • •FreeMindFreeAss
in reply to skisnow • • •Woahwoahwoah, let's not be unrealistic here.
But honestly I'm happy for the final push to Linux. I've been telling myself to make the change for a few years now but what's happening with AI training and side-loading / complete loss of privacy / general horrible vibes in the closed-source tech-sector..... Linux it is. I'm even ready for the learning curve. I grew up on dos, I'm sure I can find my way around it.
Dragonstaff
in reply to skisnow • • •boogiebored
in reply to ardi60 • • •Lol it's been great getting off of Windows over the last few months.
I thought I would miss it, but Proton in Steam has been amazing on Ubuntu, with some exceptions (Stupid EA crap from skate. 2025).
Dual booting for now is OK, but gaming is pretty garbage anyway, so I will probably abandon Windows entirely soon. Definitely my last version of it. Feel so liberated having hobbies off computer anyway, and now using my computers with Ubuntu is actually enjoyable again instead of driving an expensive spy machine.
😀
timhayes1991
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in reply to timhayes1991 • • •timhayes1991
in reply to boogiebored • • •VITecNet
in reply to ardi60 • • •Boozilla
in reply to ardi60 • • •m3t00🌎
in reply to ardi60 • • •toynbee
in reply to m3t00🌎 • • •Is this what they mean when they say "stream of consciousness"?
edit: Fix ironic typo.
ssillyssadass
in reply to ardi60 • • •nutsack
in reply to ssillyssadass • • •Korhaka
in reply to ardi60 • • •n1ckn4m3
in reply to Korhaka • • •Using a Microsoft cloud account to log into my local computer means Microsoft owns credentials to a device in my house, and if they get hacked (which they do, all the fucking time), my device is less secure because of it and my data is less secure because of it.
There's absolutely no need for my copy of Windows to require me to login using a cloud-based account.
You can use all manner of apps to disable the telemetry and privacy nonsense that people have issues with Windows about (and I similarly find Microsoft's privacy-last approach to be tedious), but if your computer requires you to use a cloud account to log in, then your computer is susceptible to that cloud account being hijacked or hacked and Microsoft has given absolutely no good reason for this to be the case.
Logging in to a Microsoft account doesn't provide any real benefit to the user at all, the best you can say is that you're not prompted to log in again if you run the Microsoft Store or the Xbox app, and that's not a compelling benefit.
JackbyDev
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