Disney reportedly lost 1.7 million paid subscribers in the week after suspending Kimmel
Disney reportedly lost 1.7 million paid subscribers in the week after suspending Kimmel
An independent reporter claims that more than 1.7 million paying subscribers canceled their plans to DIsney streaming services.Anna Washenko (Engadget)
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Under Trump, US cedes its share of China's beef market to Australia
Australian beef has replaced U.S. supply in China since Donald Trump returned to the White House, funnelling hundreds of millions of dollars that have in previous years gone to the U.S. cattle industry into Australian pockets.
U.S. shipments to China, worth around $120 million a month, collapsed after Beijing in March allowed permits to expire at hundreds of American meat facilities and as Trump unleashed a tit-for-tat tariff war.
Other U.S. farm exports to China, the world's biggest food importer, have also suffered since Trump retook power. On soybeans alone, U.S. farmers have lost out on shipments worth billions of dollars during the current harvest season.
This is america where we pay our farmers to grow stuff that they can't sell. And we think we like it this way
We pay them to do that so we have a surplus so we all don't starve... every country does this so if there is a bad year, you don't have farmers stopping production because they can't survive and have to sell everything.
No clue why they vote red though, considering they get a ton of subsidizes.
No clue why they vote red though
Because liberals want to excommunicate them for saying trans women aren't women.
Young girl in Nepal chosen to replace the current Kumari
A two-year-old girl chosen as Nepal’s new living goddess was carried by family members from their home in an alley in Kathmandu to a temple palace on Tuesday during the country’s biggest festival.
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Wikipedia says
"A Kumari is a prepubescent girl selected from the Shakya clan of the Nepali Newari Buddhist community. It is believed that the girl is possessed by the goddess Taleju or Durga. When her first menstruation begins, it is believed that the deity vacates her body. [...] While there are several Kumaris throughout Nepal, with some cities having several, the best known is the Royal Kumari of Kathmandu. [...] her life takes on an entirely new character. She will leave her palace only on ceremonial occasions. Her family will visit her rarely, and then only in a formal capacity. Her playmates will be drawn from a narrow pool of Newari children from her caste, usually the children of her caretakers."
Uh, what becomes of these poor girls once they reach puberty? I'm guessing they get married off to some well-connected old, rich person. It seems such a sad life 🙁
Not really nowadays, from 13 years old they go back to school.
One of the recent ones is an MBA now.
Hey, why are you so negative? What's wrong with a bit of child abuse? For some people indoctrination and oppression is really nice! I've even heard them say it, although they were forced to say it was good for them. When you see free will as a burden, religion really is awesome. So when you see free will for your children or the people around you as a burden for them, forcing religion onto them really is the best thing you can give.
I can't believe people actually defend this shit. How fucked up are people. Just start dropping all nukes and be done with it.
One excerpt from the Mark Milley speech that some protestors are playing over loudspeakers to the National Guard, when the two groups interact
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Hi, I’m an early 2010s tech CEO
Hi, I’m an Early 2010s Tech CEO
I wear the same T-shirt every day, and I have a relatably unkempt haircut. I remind you of the smart kids from high school, so I give you hope that...McSweeney's Internet Tendency
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Trump Classifies “Anti-Capitalism” as a Political Pre-Crime
Trump Classifies “Anti-Capitalism” as a Political Pre-Crime
Donald Trump’s new security directive labels anti-capitalist beliefs as a predictor of political violence. The irony: left-wing structural analysis actually pushes people away from lone-wolf attacks and toward mass organizing for change.jacobin.com
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It was part of his plan to address “domestic terrorism.” Also don’t forget, Kathy Hochul preceded Trump in sending in the national guard to “fight crime” despite every statistic showing a drop in violent crime.
We are not only at war with Trump and the GOP, but the entire political class.
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Biden’s Domestic Terrorism Strategy Entrenches Bias and Harmful Law Enforcement Power
Biden’s strategy fails to address the wrongs, let alone reverse them.Hina Shamsi (American Civil Liberties Union)
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(SOLVED) Where did all my space go?
Edit: Solved!
Unfortunately I'm not sure exactly what fixed it, because I was running btrfs commands like a madman.
Some combination of the following caused my 100GB labelled as UNREACHABLE to turn into UNUSED, which allowed that space to be written to as normal:
sudo btrfs balance start -v /
sudo btrfs filesystem defrag -v /
sudo btrfs filesystem defrag -v -r /
Also the tool btdu was incredibly helpful!
One of my linux boxes ran out of disk space, which surprised me, because it definitely didn't have that much stuff on it. When I check with df it says I have used 212GB on my / path:
$ df -h /
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 227G 212G 5.2G 98% /So, I tried to use
du to see if maybe a runaway log file was the cause, but this says I have only used 101GB on my / path (this is also more in-line with how much space I expected to be used):$ du -h | sort -h
...
101G /Using those commands with
sudo outputs the same sizes.My filesystem is Btrfs, I've tried the suggestion to use btrfs balance start ... but this actually INCREASED my disk usage to 99% lol
So my question is... what on earth is using the remaining 111GB?? Why can I not see it in du?
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This was a question we used to ask during job interviews.
You might want to look into your running processes to see if any still have file handles open for the items that have been removed. lsof can be used to find such things.
The shortcut would be to reboot.
The bit of information you're missing is that du aggregates the size of all subfolders, so when you say du /, you're saying: "how much stuff is in / and everything under it?"
If you're sticking with du, then you'll need to traverse your folders, working downward until you find the culprit folder:
$ du /*
(Note which folder looks the biggest)
$ du /home/*
(If /home looks the biggest)... and so on.
The trouble with this method however is that * won't include folders with a . in front, which is often the culprit: .cache, .local/share, etc. For that, you can do:
$ du /home/.*Which should do the job I think.
If you've got a GUI though, things get a lot easier 'cause you have access to GNOME Disk Usage Analyzer which will draw you a fancy tree graph of your filesystem state all the way down to the smallest folder. It's pretty handy.
Disk Usage Analyser – Apps for GNOME
Check folder sizes and available disk space – A simple application to keep your disk usage and available space under control. Disk Usage Analyser can scan specific folders, storage devices and online accounts. It provides both a tree and a graph...apps.gnome.org
Palantir’s Military Role in Israel and Britain
Palantir’s AI machines need data for fuel—data in the form of intelligence reports on Palestinians in the occupied territories. And for decades a key and highly secret source of that data for Israel has been the US National Security Agency, according to documents released by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. After fleeing to Hong Kong in 2013 with a pocket full of flash drives containing some of the agency’s highest secrets, Snowden ended up in Moscow where, soon after he arrived, I met with him for Wired magazine. And in the interview, he told me that “one of the biggest abuses” he saw while at the agency was how the NSA secretly provided Israel with raw, unredacted phone and e-mail communications between Palestinian Americans in the US and their relatives in the occupied territories. Snowden was concerned that as a result of sharing those private conversations with Israel, the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank would be at great risk of being targeted for arrest or worse.”
“Now, with Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza, critical information from NSA continues to be used by Unit 8200, according to a number of sources, to target tens of thousands of Palestinians for death—often with US-supplied 2,000-pound bombs and other weapons. And it is extremely powerful data-mining software, such as that from Palantir, that helps the IDF to select targets.
https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/06/palantirs-military-role-in-israel-and-britain/
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Lavender was developed by the Israel Defense Forces’ elite intelligence division, Unit 8200. One officer was quoted as saying: “This is unparalleled, in my memory. The machine did it coldly. And that made it easier.” Another said: “I would invest 20 seconds for each target at this stage, and do dozens of them every day. I had zero added-value as a human, apart from being a stamp of approval. It saved a lot of time.”Just as Palestinians are dehumanised by the rhetoric around the conflict, the technology furthers this dehumanisation. People become ‘targets’ and the technology is seen as simply a mechanism for efficiency and time-saving in the process of killing.
Technology didn't kill those people. It might make that guy sleep a little easier to pretend he's just a "stamp of approval," but thats because he's deluding himself.
If Alex Karp and Peter Thiel had created a deadly biological weapon in a lab, then sold it around the world for profit knowing it would be used to commit mass murder, nobody would be pretending they weren't responsible for those deaths their weapon caused.
They created this monster, and the U.S. helped it flourish by feeding it the data it needed. And now they're just pillaging hoards of data from the entire world. And we're just letting them. As if they have no responsibility for what they're doing, and we have no way to stop them.
They refused and still refuse to regulate it. It's not that they can't, it's because nobody forced them to. Why not? The technology isn't to blame for this, they are. They created a technological weapon of mass destruction, and for some reason, we're all just going along with the idea that what they've done is somehow different than unleashing a deadly disease on humanity. As if they're somehow removed from responsibility once it's in the buyer's hands because it's a different category of weapon.
I remember a year ago or so, I was reading about NATO and concerns over A.I. use triggering article 5. I didn't understand what tf they meant, but it's pretty obvious now. So why are we pretending these guys aren't war criminals just like the people who purchased and used their weapon against other humans?
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It's scarier that this is clearly a testing ground. Gaza is too small for anything real, it doesn't really incur expenses, and it doesn't really provide profits when cleansed of people.
Also since Britain is in the title - I'd reminisce on the old picture of Russian Imperial, German Imperial, Soviet and partially even Nazi propagandist view of the world, where Britain was the center of evil aiming for, well, something like this.
It seems telling that USA, Israel, and the Commonwealth (for all military and totalitarian purposes Britain and its former dominions are still one thing) are in this together and have dropped any pretense of internationalism and rules on the world stage.
So what I think - propaganda, that's in its name, is used to propagate information. That information is augmented and simplified by those providing it, but it wouldn't have any meaning if it had zero correlation with the real world, and providing correct information is beneficial long-term for any elite, except few of them can afford to disregard short-term effects.
Perhaps that picture had something in it, or again has something in it.
See, these countries have notably interconnected and very developed intelligence services, world military logistics, propaganda means above anything openly totalitarian countries could ever hope. Totalitarian counties close up and institute censorship because you can paint a pond red, or a small river, but you can't paint the world ocean red. USA+Israel+Commonwealth can and do paint the world ocean red ; perhaps the color is paler around its remote parts.
And now they are developing and testing, on the scale of a small country, weapons that, combined with these means, can indicate that we know who will deliberately start WWIII with the goal of world domination, except it might not last long enough to be called a war.
I've also heard that British royalty still consists of types who classify people and nations by color, and those more colored in their perception have no rights at all.
And the whole constitutional monarchy and separation of dominions and independence of their puppet organizations in other (sometimes very totalitarian, I know) countries - these things can maintain structure without hard joints.
Say, when some opposition party in Georgia is technically its own thing, but receives grants, the more the better it works, that's not having a hard joint yet having a hierarchy. And, say, the glory of Saakashvili's war on corruption shouldn't be overestimated, he mostly did it through abuse. When in Armenia in the 90s Vano Siradeghyan was the internal affairs minister, its crime and corruption problems were also much less than before and after, because police would simply murder mob bosses (except for those in the government, of course). I don't know anything about Vano being pro-western or receiving grants or aiming for political power, but he used absolutely the same means the wonderful reformer Saakashvili did. OK, these are local examples.
The point is - the modern state of existence of the British Empire (in my humble opinion US has slowly receded to being part of that for many years) doesn't favor hard joints. One should look not only at grant eater groups in various countries, one should also look at many small independent states, like Arab monarchies or Baltic republics, whose foreign affairs positions have little consistency and often seem as if they were saying what the US or Britain don't want to say themselves yet.
So - getting back to weapons, we might be living in an interbellum, not for world wars, but for imperialist and anti-imperialist wars. WWI and WWII can be united into one thing in some sense, in WWI empires crumbled and socialist movements raised their heads. In WWII socialists survived and even reinforced some of their positions, but empires managed to play on both sides, and speaking about Nazis, they were very bad people, but their plans for future weren't compatible with the old concept of empires. So in some sense Nazis and USSR got played to fight each other where they shouldn't have.
So - Star Wars is often blamed for touching politics where, in the opinion of those talking, it's superficial in that. I don't think Star Wars is superficial in that, I think its EU's portrayal of that inhabited galaxy and its politics is pretty similar to our real world, just more directly exposed and has a far smaller difficulty level for the good guys. Both can be considered conventions of art.
I think we'll see the empire where it naturally won't make any sense to call it anything more specific.
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I’ve also heard that British royalty still consists of types who classify people and nations by color, and those more colored in their perception have no rights at all.
The thing about this, is that it doesn't matter if it's happening in Brittain or the U.S. or Israel. It's a form of social control for elites who view the world as a social hierarchy. There are no rules for them, but they need the masses to believe there are.
They're at the top. God or nature chose for them to rule, and at the end of the day, nobody has any rights other than their right to rule over others. It just "is what it is." They love social darwinism as long as they control the game, but they also know the reality is that if the masses were to ever unite and rise up against them, they would very quickly lose their spot at the top of the hierarchy.
Creating a value system on something arbitrary like skin color is one of the easiest ways to divide and conquer. Control of the masses by tricking some of them into believing they share something inherent with those who actually dominate all of them. Skin color, nationality, religion, or political beliefs as a measure of the value of human life, lulls the subordinates into a false sense of safety by default. They can be made fully aware of atrocities happening on the other side of the world, or even next door to them, but believe their belonging to the perceived in-group means it won't happen to them.
When one out-group is eliminated, a new arbitrary out-group will be created to divide and conquer those who remain and destroy any who oppose. It's happening in the U.S. right now.
We allowed immigrants to be rounded up like animals. We rationalized children screaming and crying in fear as their families were torn apart. They weren't here "legally" so they didn't have the same legal rights as everyone else. And since we allowed a group of humans to be considered "illegal," a loss of human dignity is just accepted as the inevitable consequence of their actions. As if they somehow deserved this.
Then when we learned there were people who were here legally, but also being rounded up illegally in the rush to get all the "illegals" off the street, we accepted that it was simply a mistake, but a consequence of so many illegals with similar ethnicities overwhelming the system. A fault of the group, not a fault of the system. Nothing we needed to worry about, things would get sorted out, eventually. The system is never held to account.
Last week an entire apartment building was raided in Chicago when government agents dropped from a helicopter to a rooftop to break in. Most residents woke up to their doors kicked in around 1 am. Adults were handcuffed. Children were zip tied together and taken from their families screaming and crying. And in all the chaos and confusion, their American neighbors were also rounded up, handcuffed for hours, and denied due process. When they were finally released, they returned to find many of their friends and neighbors missing (and still unaccounted for), and many of their homes raided of valuables.
Surely this will be the line for America, right? We can all see this has nothing to do with immigration and "legal" status, right? The system is commiting the crime. They system is breaking all the rules it claims to enforce.
Or, will we all just accept that because it happened to mainly black and brown American citizens in an inner city apartment building, it was simply a mistake due to similar ethnicities overwhelming the system? It's not something you need to worry about if you're not one of them. You're safe. Surely things will get sorted out, eventually.
President Trump released a new memo a few weeks ago that very few have paid much attention to. The vague language is phrased as targeting associates and funders of radical leftist groups like "Antifa," but it's vagueness essentially equates any act of political opposition with an act of domestic terrorism.
Divide and conquer.
Divide and conquer.
I mean, yes, that's what gradual escalation doctrine means. Unfortunately that system is comprehensive, it works from the ground up this way, and any system modeled after it (which after the Cold War became most of the world) reinforces it and impedes the cure to it.
The cure would be not only many leftist ideologies, but also, for example, things like ancaps and sovcits. The problem is that all of these are so negatively perceived that even denying them voice is not seen as a problem for many people.
People think it's normal, this gradual process. That it is democracy, waiting for your enemy to do vile shit like this and then argue it "by the law", and never God forbid start first.
While the solution would be preventive rebellion, and none of popular philosophy substantiates that. Everyone thinks that's something only terrorists, bad-bad fascists and bad-bad bolsheviks do. With plenty of history to support that viewpoint, of course, except millions of dead under colonial rule in Africa and from British blockades even in the two world wars were killed by neither bolsheviks nor fascists.
Getting back to the system, I mean culture of social interactions by that, which is beneficial for them in most of the world. As a reaction to other transgressions, maybe, but that doesn't change the fact.
Trump ally Peter Thiel
As if Palantir hasnt been imbedded deep in government for several years.
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The Movie Trope that Explains Trump’s Political Dominance
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To win again, Democrats must stop warning voters against the kind of people movies taught us to love.from Politico
By Dan Brooks
09/07/2025 10:00 AM EDT
That Trump was a boarding school graduate who inherited over $400 million did not seem to affect voters’ calculus, in the same way Danny the caddy doesn’t ask why he should risk his college scholarship to help a millionaire win a bet. In the narrative of the 2016 election, Trump was the slob, even though he was a textbook snob in both background and agenda. From cutting taxes for the wealthy to slashing regulations for corporate America, his policies reinforced the positions of those already in power, i.e. the snobs. But his rhetoric, demeanor and attitude toward the mythic Washington establishment has been pure slob.
The Movie Trope that Explains Trump’s Political Dominance
To win again, Democrats must stop warning voters against the kind of people movies taught us to love.from Politico
By Dan Brooks
09/07/2025 10:00 AM EDTThat Trump was a boarding school graduate who inherited over $400 million did not seem to affect voters’ calculus, in the same way Danny the caddy doesn’t ask why he should risk his college scholarship to help a millionaire win a bet. In the narrative of the 2016 election, Trump was the slob, even though he was a textbook snob in both background and agenda. From cutting taxes for the wealthy to slashing regulations for corporate America, his policies reinforced the positions of those already in power, i.e. the snobs. But his rhetoric, demeanor and attitude toward the mythic Washington establishment has been pure slob.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/09/07/donald-trump-democrats-slobs-snobs-movies-00546946
The Movie Trope that Explains Trump’s Political Dominance
To win again, Democrats must stop warning voters against the kind of people movies taught us to love.
from Politico
By Dan Brooks
09/07/2025 10:00 AM EDT
That Trump was a boarding school graduate who inherited over $400 million did not seem to affect voters’ calculus, in the same way Danny the caddy doesn’t ask why he should risk his college scholarship to help a millionaire win a bet. In the narrative of the 2016 election, Trump was the slob, even though he was a textbook snob in both background and agenda. From cutting taxes for the wealthy to slashing regulations for corporate America, his policies reinforced the positions of those already in power, i.e. the snobs. But his rhetoric, demeanor and attitude toward the mythic Washington establishment has been pure slob.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/09/07/donald-trump-democrats-slobs-snobs-movies-00546946
White House says furloughed federal workers not entitled to back pay amid shutdown
You have got to be fucking kidding me.
The White House’s office of management and budget (OMB) is arguing that federal workers who are furloughed amid the ongoing government shutdown are not entitled to back pay.In a draft memo first obtained by Axios, OMB argued that an amendment to the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act (GEFTA) of 2019 would not guarantee furloughed workers back pay and that said funds must be set aside by Congress.
“The legislation that ends the current lapse in appropriations must include express language appropriating funds for back pay for furloughed employees, or such payments cannot be made,” said Mark Paoletta, OMB’s general counsel, in a draft addressed to White House budget director Russell Vought, the Washington Post reported.
The OMB previously revised a shutdown guidance document on Friday to remove reference to the GEFTA Act, reported Government Executive, a media site reporting on the US executive branch.
Donald Trump previously signed GEFTA into law after the 2019 government shutdown, which lasted for 35 days. While many understood the law to automatically guarantee pay for federal workers, the White House’s OMB is arguing against that interpretation, suggesting that the law only created the conditions for back pay.
White House says furloughed federal workers not entitled to back pay amid shutdown
OMB argues an amendment to a 2019 act would not guarantee furloughed workers post-shutdown payGloria Oladipo (The Guardian)
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Android/Phone Alternatives? [Discussion]
With the advent of Google's draconian business decisions, do we have alternatives?
The entire reason I use an android phone is that it's just like a little computer where I can decide how it's used. I was wondering if anyone is familiar with other options.
I remember the PSP with its 3g modem that was a fun novelty. Are there any modern devices like the OpenPandora that could be suitable?
Most of my paid apps are through alternative markets so I'm fairly sure with some effort I could get them running on a Linux device.
I thought about using a laptop but it wouldn't have the same convenience to answer calls asap from my pocket. I'm also unsure if it's possible to use tools like Google maps to navigate.
My apologies if this isn't the appropriate community. I'm hoping that because this likely affects everyone here it's the right place for this discussion. Thanks for reaching the end 💜
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White House offers ‘concierge’ service to fossil fuel firms, official says
Brittany Kelm, a senior policy adviser for the National Energy Dominance Council, detailed in a podcast how the council works to advance fossil fuel projects.
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One iPhone led police to gang who sent 40,000 snatched phones to China
One iPhone led police to gang who sent 40,000 snatched phones to China
BBC News is given access to what the Met Police says is the UK's largest operation against mobile phone thefts.Sima Kotecha (BBC News)
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stolen devices are being sold in China for up to £4,000 each, given they are internet-enabled and more attractive for those trying to bypass censorship
I'm guessing buyers specifically want non-Chinese devices, and stealing from individuals is easier than from a factory.
Seems like something you could accomplish with jailbreaking. Or perhaps a bit of soddering.
These devices aren't magic. Stealing and shipping phones at this scale halfway around the world seems inefficient to say the least.
But I guess organized criminals and their clients aren't always that smart.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they had guards armed with SMGs and full body armour guarding the shipments as they leave the factory.
Since Apple shrunk the packaging they could probably fit a million iPhones in one shipping container. Think how much that’d be worth!
OpenAI signs $1 trillion worth of chip deals to feed its AI habit
These numbers don't make any sense to me, as the hed is about buying lots of chips, and the body is about power use. No matter how you slice it, $8.76/kWh is a terrible fucking investment ... if that's chip-inclusive, that's another story.
Still, the audacity of saying "we're going to invest $1 trillion" is Dr. Evil-level humour.
OpenAI is signing about $1 trillion (€940 billion) in deals this year for computing power to keep its artificial intelligence dreams humming.On Monday the outfit inked a deal with AMD which follows earlier tie-ups with Nvidia, Oracle and CoreWeave, as Sam Altman’s outfit scrambles to secure enough silicon to keep ChatGPT online and the hype machine alive.
The latest commitments would give OpenAI access to more than 20 gigawatts of computing capacity over the next decade, roughly the output of 20 nuclear reactors. At about $50 billion per gigawatt, according to OpenAI’s estimates, the total tab hits that $1 trillion figure.
Analysts are not convinced this financial engineering makes any sense. DA Davidson analyst Gil Luria said: “OpenAI is in no position to make any of these commitments,” adding that it could lose about $10 billion this year.
OpenAI signs $1 trillion worth of chip deals to feed its AI habit
Money maths doesn't add up OpenAI is signing about $1 trillion (€940 billion) in deals this year for computing power to keep its artificial intelligence dreams humming.Nick Farrell (Fudzilla)
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scassamento mi bandico, ecco senza cinturino e senza risate
La notte passata, mentre dormivo, si è avverato quello che negli ultimi giorni presenziava nella mia testa come uno degli incubi più peggiori che sarebbero stati a portata di colpirmi… e quindi palle: si è rotto il cinturino (merdoso, di fabbrica, porca miseria quante schifezze fanno pur di risparmiare) della Mi Band, si è spezzat, […]
Former PM and Macron ally Édouard Philippe joins calls for president's resignation
Former PM and Macron ally Édouard Philippe joins calls for president's resignation
French President Emmanuel Macron's first and longest-serving prime minister, Édouard Philippe, urged him to resign on Monday, suggesting that polls should be held early once a budget is passed.FRANCE 24
22 months later
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Arial comparison of Gaza over the last 22 months of genocide.
22 months later
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Arial comparison of Gaza over the last 22 months of genocide.
22 months later
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Arial comparison of Gaza over the last 22 months of genocide.
Has YouTube just blacklisted every Mullvad server in some countries?
I’ve recently “moved” countries! And by that I of course mean the country I exit from online. I’m trying to keep a perma-VPN situation going.
YouTube loaded for me on my computer, where I’m logged in, even through uBlock Origin. But no luck on their locked down phone app, where I’m also logged in. Very weird. Shuffled servers a bit and still nothing. And I’m not talking about sports content which is always super locked down.
Anyone else facing this problem? Has this been the norm for a while in some exit countries? Is this just one of those wait for it to tide over situations that works itself out in the end?
Weirdly it loads shorts just fine.
I wonder at what point it would end up being better to just rent a VPS and wireguard into that.
In case your answer is “Just use Peertube!” my reply is Inshallah I will
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Deflock Mapping App 1.1.0 APK is out.
This app has been under development for a few months now and is ready for use.
Should be available on Google play first. IOS in the works and released soon.
If your a developer who can contribute and make it even better that is welcomed it's still very early.
Releases · FoggedLens/deflock-app
A FOSS mobile app for viewing and submitting surveillance cameras with OpenStreetMap - FoggedLens/deflock-appGitHub
Between this and ICEBlock (and its removal from official stores) I'm wondering if we'll soon see a pattern :
- problem
- data of problem
- plotting on map
- routing around on map
and the whole not packaged as an app itself because that's too risky to get blocked but as user added content, a la Waze.
Maybe CoMaps should support such layers.
Jailed Gagauz leader thanks Russia for aid and support to her people
Jailed Gagauz leader thanks Russia for aid and support to her people
Evghenia Gutsul emphasized that Gagauz people see Russia as a strategic partner and a guarantor of peace on their landTASS
Biden buried Ukraine ‘corruption’ report – declassified docs
Biden buried Ukraine ‘corruption’ report – declassified docs
The former US president demanded a coverup of Kiev’s views on his business dealings, according to unveiled CIA recordsRT
Putin: Strategic Initiative in Special Operation Zone Entirely in Hands of Russian Forces
Putin: Strategic Initiative in Special Operation Zone Entirely in Hands of Russian Forces
Strategic initiative in the zone of Russia's special military operation remains entirely in the hands of the Russian military, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday.Sputnik International
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Réponse à la consultation sur l’ordonnance e-ID
Nous avons défendu la loi e-ID qui est passée le 28 septembre dernier. Maintenant que celle-ci a été acceptée par le peuple suisse, le processus de mise en place de la loi peut débuter de manière concrète.
Cela commence par la mise en consultation de l’ordonnance sur l’identité électronique (OEID) par la Confédération, qui prévoit de récolter l’opinion de la société civile sur l’application la loi. Nous avons saisi cette occasion pour poursuivre notre engagement pour une e-ID réellement ouverte, sûre et respectueuse des droits fondamentaux. Ainsi, nous avons rédigé une réponse à la consultation de l’ordonnance accompagnant la loi.
Mais comme nous l’avons dit, ce n’est que le début, et il faut veillez de près à la mise en œuvre de cette loi qui peut avoir des impacts cruciaux sur le cœur de nombreux processus critiques de la démocratie suisse.
Nos principales interventions
Alternatives réellement facultatives
Nous avons rappelé que la loi consacre déjà ce principe ; en revanche, l’ordonnance devrait aller plus loin en fixant des modalités concrètes et des limites claires pour garantir que les alternatives proposées aux usagers restent effectivement facultatives. Trop souvent, des démarches supplémentaires ou des coûts cachés créent une obligation de fait qui décourage l’utilisation d’une option pourtant prévue par la loi. Nous avons demandé que l’ordonnance précise des critères (simplicité, délais raisonnables, coûts proportionnés) pour que toutes les alternatives restent réellement accessibles et une option valable pour chacun.
Ouverture aux applications tierces et garanties d’ouverture
Nous avons souligné que l’art. 14 OEID n’autorise pas aujourd’hui le développement d’applications tierces pour les systèmes non couverts par l’OFIT. Si les limites que l’OFIT met aux développements qu’elle est obligée de faire peuvent se comprendre d’un point de vue financier, elles risquent, en cas de mauvaise volonté, de laisser de nombreux systèmes sur le carreau et d’empêcher l’émergence de solutions libres et interopérables. Nous avons donc proposé d’introduire explicitement le droit de forker, c’est‑à‑dire de reprendre et adapter un développement existant lorsque l’OFIT ne poursuit plus son travail, quitte à développer de nouveaux outils. Ce droit garantirait une véritable ouverture de l’écosystème, afin d’encourager l’innovation et les solutions libres dans un cadre sécurisé.
Création d’un article dédié aux API
Nous avons proposé l’introduction d’un art. 15a « Interfaces de programmation – API ». Cet article créerait un cadre légal clair pour l’accès et l’utilisation des API de l’e-ID, permettant la création d’applications tierces dans un cadre sûr. Il fixerait des obligations d’enregistrement, d’audit et d’autres obligations raisonnables et consacrerait les principes de l’e-ID dans les alternatives : privacy by design, interopérabilité et transparence. Il imposerait enfin la publication en open data des audits et incidents de sécurité.
Des sanctions vraiment effectives
En cas de violation de la loi sur l’e-ID, les art. 17 et suivants ne prévoient aujourd’hui que la transmission d’informations au Préposé fédéral à la protection des données (PFPDT), qui n’a qu’un pouvoir limité de sanction, et la LPD ne prévoit que des sanctions pénales, ce qui prend du temps et a un coût. Cette absence de mesures immédiates est problématique, car certains acteurs pourraient préférer assumer une mauvaise réputation plutôt que se mettre en conformité. Nous avons demandé d’introduire des sanctions administratives appropriées et rapidement applicables pour protéger efficacement les données d’identité et rendre la réglementation réellement dissuasive.
Accessibilité universelle
Il est essentiel pour une personne en situation de handicap que le processus de validation de vérification de son e-ID soit entièrement accessible. Pour cela, il ne suffit pas de donner des obligations aux offices fédéraux ; il est nécessaire que ces obligations soient étendues à toute la chaîne. Car si la création d’une e-ID est couverte par une telle obligation d’accessibilité, mais que lors de son utilisation auprès d’un prestataire de service, l’accessibilité s’arrête, alors la promesse légale de l’accessibilité du service n’est plus tenue.
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Pourquoi c’est important
Nous avons répondu sur ces quatre points essentiels pour un seul objectif : que l’e-ID soit un outil au service des citoyennes et citoyens, pas un système fermé, bureaucratique ou risqué. Nous avons également repris des éléments de débats posés par des personnes qui se sentent aussi concernées que nous par les enjeux éthiques du numérique. Notre message est clair : une e-ID ouverte, transparente et protectrice est possible.
Nous continuerons à suivre le processus de mise en place de l’ensemble du système d’identité électronique de la Confédération, tant au niveau de l’application de la loi que directement sur le terrain et mettrons tout en œuvre pour que les promesses faite lors de la campagne soient rigoureusement tenues.
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Exclusive: Senior Hamas Leader Mousa Abu Marzouk on Trump’s Gaza Plan and the Future of Hamas
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37226679
Amidst high-stakes talks underway in Egypt that will determine the future of the Gaza war, Mousa Abu Marzouk, an original member of Hamas who remains a senior official within the movement, is calling on President Donald Trump to block Israeli attempts to sabotage an agreement and to use his influence to bring an end to the two year genocide.In an exclusive interview with Drop Site on Monday, Abu Marzouk said, “Stopping the war means a complete [Israeli] withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. I want Trump to fulfill his pledge and promise.” Addressing Trump, Abu Marzouk said, “Thank you for your efforts, and for your promise to stop the war and release the prisoners. We are committed to it. Just stop the war.”
Exclusive: Senior Hamas Leader Mousa Abu Marzouk on Trump’s Gaza Plan and the Future of Hamas
Amidst high-stakes talks underway in Egypt that will determine the future of the Gaza war, Mousa Abu Marzouk, an original member of Hamas who remains a senior official within the movement, is calling on President Donald Trump to block Israeli attempts to sabotage an agreement and to use his influence to bring an end to the two year genocide.In an exclusive interview with Drop Site on Monday, Abu Marzouk said, “Stopping the war means a complete [Israeli] withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. I want Trump to fulfill his pledge and promise.” Addressing Trump, Abu Marzouk said, “Thank you for your efforts, and for your promise to stop the war and release the prisoners. We are committed to it. Just stop the war.”
Exclusive: Senior Hamas Leader Mousa Abu Marzouk on Trump’s Gaza Plan and the Future of Hamas
Hamas says it wants to make a deal and sees Trump as the key, but will not “raise the white flag.”Jeremy Scahill (Drop Site News)
"Is it possible that Trump is devoid of humanity to this extent? Is that possible?”
Er, yes. I'm afraid it is
Exclusive: Senior Hamas Leader Mousa Abu Marzouk on Trump’s Gaza Plan and the Future of Hamas
Amidst high-stakes talks underway in Egypt that will determine the future of the Gaza war, Mousa Abu Marzouk, an original member of Hamas who remains a senior official within the movement, is calling on President Donald Trump to block Israeli attempts to sabotage an agreement and to use his influence to bring an end to the two year genocide.In an exclusive interview with Drop Site on Monday, Abu Marzouk said, “Stopping the war means a complete [Israeli] withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. I want Trump to fulfill his pledge and promise.” Addressing Trump, Abu Marzouk said, “Thank you for your efforts, and for your promise to stop the war and release the prisoners. We are committed to it. Just stop the war.”
Exclusive: Senior Hamas Leader Mousa Abu Marzouk on Trump’s Gaza Plan and the Future of Hamas
Hamas says it wants to make a deal and sees Trump as the key, but will not “raise the white flag.”Jeremy Scahill (Drop Site News)
dhork
in reply to mesa • • •I wonder what is worth more to ABC/Disney, all those direct subscribers, or these affiliates that are consolidating into two or three big media companies?
This might be the beginning of the death of the affiliate model. What would happen if Sinclair simply stopped affiliating with ABC altogether? They own enough stations that they can do their own thing. Would it matter if there is no ABC station in Mobile, Alabama, if people who still want to watch can stream it?
jubilationtcornpone
in reply to dhork • • •The problem for OTA affiliates/broadcasters is content. Their business model relies on getting eyeballs so they can justify what they charge for advertising. Creating content that your viewers actually want to watch is expensive.
Aside from some of the larger PBS stations,
I don't know that any of the major broadcasters, like Sinclair, have any experience producing their own content.
They can throw their little tantrum and refuse to air Kimmel, but that's just going to hurt them in the short term as advertisers will decide OTA timeslots are not a good investment.
dhork
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in reply to bubblybubbles • • •scarabic
in reply to mesa • • •Nice. None of those “go woke go broke” boycotts ever actually materialize into meaningful business pressure.
Unless you’re fucking Cracker Barrel.
Wildmimic
in reply to scarabic • • •Which was manufactured outrage, spawned by a few Shitter posts which were then amplified by a huge bot network.
Tollana1234567
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in reply to scarabic • • •Echo Dot
in reply to scarabic • • •Most CEOs are generally bright enough to look at the sales data rather than all of the online rhetoric and if the sales data isn't going down they can ignore everything else.
Everyone knows the right are terrible at organising themselves, they need a central figure in lieu of that they never achieve anything. When they try and boycott something it generally fails because most of them will continue to use the service while declaring loudly online that their not. The right don't have actual moral values, other than selfishness.
FireWire400
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in reply to JustRalph • • •tal
in reply to SCmSTR • • •If it's Linux, sounds like it should just work out of box, at least for a while longer.
tomshardware.com/news/linux-to…
Linux to Support Firewire Until 2029
Aaron Klotz (Tom's Hardware)curbstickle
in reply to tal • • •I have a feeling its mostly due to some audio and video hardware that has some real longevity. I've got a VHS+minidv player that I am transferring old videos from using FireWire (well, for the minidv. VHS is s-video capture).
I'm just passing a FireWire PCI card through to a VM though. Though with how old the box is, it doesnt really need to be a VM. Thats a whole different discussion though.
I had some FireWire audio interfaces too, 8ch and 16ch, but I got rid of those a while back. I'm sure someone's making use of it though! Probably the m-audio delta 1010 I sold too, I think they are still going for a few hundred each despite being so long in the tooth.
tal
in reply to curbstickle • • •Yeah, that's a thought...though honestly, unless whatever someone is doing requires real-time processing and adding latency is a problem, they can probably pass it through some other old device that can speak both Firewire and something else.
That doesn't have a Firewire interface, does it? I thought I had one of those.
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Oh, I'm thinking of the 1010LT, not the 1010. That lives on a PCI card.
curbstickle
in reply to tal • • •No I'm talking about the PCI card, just commenting on the longevity of some devices. I know two people still using FireWire for their interfaces in spare kit (RME fire faces), which got me thinking of some of my old kit I've replaced like the delta1010.
These days I'm mostly pushing dante around
SCmSTR
in reply to curbstickle • • •curbstickle
in reply to SCmSTR • • •Linux is a good way forward if you want to try it and keep the fireface. Ubuntu is not my favorite base, but Ubuntu Studio (I'd suggest the LTS if you don't need the latest and greatest all the time) is nicely set up, but I'd make one change from their preinstalled and I'd use Reaper over Ardour, but thats me.
Your biggest headache will be plugins if you've got a ton of vst's, not all will work on linux.
LillyPip
in reply to mesa • • •SkaveRat
in reply to LillyPip • • •Jourei
in reply to SkaveRat • • •I think this is how boycotts are supposed to be. Protest and return if it's successful.
If companies know they won't ever recover from the mistake, why walk it back?
Tollana1234567
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in reply to Bamboodpanda • • •Damage
in reply to hansolo • • •Every joke is based on reality, there's a reason why I wrote what I wrote.
Some people even do this for a living, they call it satire.
hansolo
in reply to Damage • • •Oh, I'm absolutely not criticizing your comment at all. Far from it. It's fully bonkers that you made a joke that was a good joke, and I can't take as joke because it hits too close to reality for me.
Life is tragic, not us.
sudo
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in reply to sudo • • •earthworm
in reply to Tollana1234567 • • •Corporations don't have stable political identities.
They'll promote trans people if it makes them money.
And then sell trans people to ICE the next quarter if it makes them even more money.
And then use a shell company to sell trans merch to the people boycotting them.
LwL
in reply to earthworm • • •That depends on whether the person in charge has any. See rupert murdoch, or the red bull owner basically saying it would be great if he could also be like murdoch.
A company that's controlled by investors (aka mostly banks trying to get returns) will basically always just chase short term profit though, and that's most of them.
To pressure these companies into doing the morally right thing, we would have to pressure the banks, but that seems hardly realistic since shifting your money away from one in response to an event like this is anywhere from majorly inconvenient to impossible, plus there'd be a direct monetary tradeoff that a lot of people either can't or aren't willing to take.
hayvan
in reply to sudo • • •Echo Dot
in reply to hayvan • • •Conservatives have always been reactionary. This isn't a US thing it's a global thing, they don't want to keep things the same they want to return to some rose-tinted version of history that never existed. They're the ones that call themselves conservative.
But you can't call everyone you disagree with a delusional idiot even if they are, because the insult loses its power. So we might as well call them by then preferred name
Echo Dot
in reply to sudo • • •It also helps that the conservatives constantly shoot themselves in their foot by defining their own reality. They decide for example that people don't like "the gays" but really it's only the right wing thugs that really have an opinion. The moderate conservatives aren't bothered one way or the other. So now they're trying to sell policies to subjugate a group of people that probably only about quarter of their membership really care about.
It is really obvious with Trump, they just invent entire new things to be mad about, like this Tylenol thing. That just came out of thin air because they couldn't think of anything else to distract people with, but even their own supporters don't really care about it because until about 3 weeks ago it wasn't a claim that anyone was making.
reluctant_squidd
in reply to mesa • • •It may seem like a small percentage loss when talking dollar for dollar subscription loss vs Disneys massive revenue, but the scarier thing for their board of directors is damage to their brand.
The thought that a situation like this could cause any long a lasting or irreparable harm to the iconic mouse ears in any way would make keep them awake at night.
Tollana1234567
in reply to reluctant_squidd • • •loruuu
in reply to mesa • • •Holytimes
in reply to loruuu • • •Palestine isn't American, it's some far off place that most people have no connection to, no care for or about. And people generally have enough fucking problems in their own life to care about a place they likely will die before visiting or giving two shits about. So beyond just being yet another random thing the news yaps about to keep people scared. It's just not important to most people.
While Kimmel himself may not matter to many. The situation does directly affect the world and problem many Americans are worried about. It's a literal representation of the turmoil that fills many Americans minds.
Not to mention Kimmel is a famous person that people know and have heard of. So his problem actually makes it to the ears of those that will resonate with the problem that his situation is in relation to.
You on the other hand are a literal nobody by comparison that no one but yourself and your immediate group will give any weight to your words.
Not to mention the hell does Palestine have to do with Disney...? That's an extremely tenuous connection.
Its a shitty fact that just cause something's important doesn't mean people can care about it. We all have a limit, and if your own ducks arnt in a row worrying about others is a good way to drive yourself to madness and help no one.
GaMEChld
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in reply to mesa • • •So 317.000 users would have cancelled anyway and the actual protest was 1.3 million. If my googling is right, in total there are ~207 million subscribers.
Summarizing, they lost the 0,6%. Much more that what I expected, but hardly noticeable. I'd love to know how many already subscribed back.
cygnus
in reply to JumpyWombat • • •This says 128M, which seems far more plausible. variety.com/2025/tv/news/disne…
Disney to Stop Reporting Subscriber Numbers for Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+
Todd Spangler (Variety)JumpyWombat
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in reply to tyler • • •fmstrat
in reply to JumpyWombat • • •This is flawed thinking. There is no "them" with a huge salary. The people making decisions are salaried or invested employees, and their livelihood depends on the stock regardless. There isn't "one guy" that this hits, like it would with a salary, there's thousands of investors which must be appeased.
Also, it's likely many of those canceling were people who didn't use the service as much as power users, which means they're losing the cheapest to maintain customers (industry insight, no research to back this up, to be clear).
If we had boycotts and cancelations even a quarter this big across other media giants, our media would be a far better place.
nothrone
in reply to mesa • • •Brave Little Hitachi Wand
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in reply to nothrone • • •Echo Dot
in reply to nothrone • • •That's an incredibly naive and misinformed opinion you've got there. Most of the companies polluting are not businesses that members of the public buy services from. The vast majority of the largest polluters are business to business providers, Joe public can't do anything about that.
Just look up Monsanto, if we took them out the total pollution worldwide would probably drop by about 50% but they sell to farmers, so you might say well don't buy from farmers that buy from Monsanto but the problem is all farmers buy from Monsanto, so there isn't another option.
monkeyslikebananas2
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