Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.
Ramez Al-Naouq, a child living in Gaza, was born with a severe congenital deformity in his upper and lower eyelids, which prevent him from closing his eyes even while he is sleeping.
His eyes constantly bleed, become ulcerated and inflamed, and put him at risk of permanent blindness.
Before the Israeli occupation’s genocide on the Gaza Strip, Al-Naouq received ointments and eye drops to keep his eyes moisturised and reduce the inflammation. But his treatment has now completely stopped because of the ongoing blockade and severe shortage of medicines. As a result his condition has dramatically worsened.
Although Ramez urgently needs complex operations to repair his eyelids and protect his vision, doctors in Gaza are not able to carry out the necessary surgeries, because of a lack of medical resources.
Rateb
Rateb is a child amputee in Gaza. He has been trying hard to make a plastic limb for himself, so he can play with other children. He lost his leg after the Israeli occupation forces bombed a car a few months ago.
There are hundreds of children like Rateb in Gaza, who have lost upper or lower limbs, and are left permanently disabled because of injuries sustained during this genocide. These become infected and, because poor nutrition slows healing and antibiotics are intentionally being prevented from entering the Strip, sepsis sets in, leaving no other option but amputation.
Child amputees have a lifetime of disability and a very uncertain future ahead of them. Gaza has the highest number of child amputees per capita anywhere in the world, with 10 children, every single day for the past two years losing one or both of their legs.
Hanna
Hanaa Al-Awdi, was a Palestinian child who developed brain cancer during the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and also suffered from brain atrophy which had already taken away her sight and hearing. The Israeli occupation’s complete blockade of the besieged Gaza Strip meant there was a delay in her travel for treatment abroad, so her condition became significantly worse. This left her body unable to withstand the disease, and although she was eventually able to travel to Italy for treatment, she recently passed away in an Italian hospital with stage four brain cancer, which had spread throughout her body.
These children mentioned here are not unique in Gaza. There are thousands who are suffering and left to die, slowly and painfully, without anyone hearing about them. The Israeli regime has intentionally bombed hospitals to bring about the collapse of Gaza’s health care system, while the ongoing intentional blockade prevents the entry of everything necessary for the survival of the Palestinian population, including medicine and fuel. Dozens of children have also experienced severe deterioration in their health, or have already lost their lives, because of delays in medical evacuation by the Israeli occupation authorities.
Chicago, IL – On October 8, 7000 Chicagoans mobilized in the Loop to demand an end to the occupation of the city by ICE and the National Guard.
The thousands of people coming out on a Wednesday evening shows that the momentum of the resistance against Trump’s occupation is not slowing down. Chicago is in the center of this country’s fight back against Trump’s reactionary agenda, alongside LA and DC.
“We must build the largest united front against the invasion of our city and state. We need to escalate our defense and go on the offensive! To block the movement of the National Guard and shut down ICE operations,” opened Husam Marajda of the United States Palestinian Community Network (USPCN). He urged people to join the movement and get involved with an organization.
“What we are seeing is an administration that is sending troops in to scare us into silence. To punish dissent. And we will not allow that here in the city of Chicago,” said Jessie Fuentes, the progressive Puerto Rican alderperson of the 26th ward of Chicago. On October 3, Fuentes was violently arrested by racist ICE agents after she had confronted them over planned kidnappings of people in the Humboldt Park Hospital. Fuentes stood in solidarity with protesters and has promised to continue fighting for immigrants in the City Council.
Frank Chapman, executive director of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, spoke last at the rally. He challenged the crowd, stating, “We have to stop these ICE agents.” The ICE occupation has killed Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez. This past weekend, Marimar Martinez, a U.S. citizen, was shot by federal agents, but survived. Chapman addressed these acts, saying, “We have to use every means necessary to stop those who come here to kill us; who come here to occupy.”
Chapman finished with, “We had a peaceful demonstration, but when we’re violently attacked, we have the right to defend ourselves!”
Protesters marched down Michigan Avenue, making it clear that Chicagoans are not licking boots, and they are ready to take down Trump and his long repressive agenda.
Join the resistance!
The Coalition Against the Trump Agenda (CATA) is a coalition of over 80 organizations building a united front against the reactionary Trump administration. The Trump administration is coming after all sectors of the people’s movements. It’s the coalition’s goal to unite these movements in action against the reactionary Trump agenda.
These stats capture 1 year of torrenting on a TrueNas scale machine I built as soon as fiber showed up on my street. It was my first ever proper rack mount server. I use this machine primarily for torrenting and jellyfin transcoding via an RTX 2080. The plan is to soon set it up for navidrome. Machine sits around 230 watts. Feel free to offer TrueNas scale tips.
Quite odd cpu choice for the job. True, it's still a beast, although very power inefficient when idle. Rtx2080 on a top of that adds even more power consumption. Your gear consuming 230W with 4 disks.
For comparison my one with core i5-13500, 5x hdd, 1x ssd, but 1x nvme.... 55W average over the years.
Haha yep, the CPU is honestly not a good fit at all... The only reason I used it is because I already had it. I decided to build this server mostly from parts scavenged off my old gaming PC. I rationalize the choice since the server sits in a basement that I struggle to keep warm. You've got me thinking though... It might be worth it to get into the BIOS and make sure I'm on ECO mode, at least.
Looks like someone's built a Reddit-like on top of ATProto. Would be really interesting to see whether it could interact with the threadiverse through something like BridgyFed, which currently only works with microblogs (I think?)
Opportunity 🙂 and already looking into it. They currently don't support non-Bsky PDSs, so once that's working I'll give the service a try and see where interop can take place.
In a nutshell, it's because you don't have to build the entire kit and kaboodle all at once.
Lots of BlueSky is centralized so you don't have to worry about distribution, user, hosting, scaling, etc. and just focus on the frontend.
It's the same reason why all the Lemmy and Mastodon apps look way better than the web versions, because all those other parts are no longer relevant and the creator(s) can focus on just putting out a polished product.
That site looks like it's closed source. FOSS projects tend to not be well designed in the frontend except the occasional gem. Not sure why it's such a pattern, considering this project isn't making much money and it's made by a single dev.
I think the most interesting opportunity here is that ATProto's strength is that it was built for a "credible exit", i.e, it allows users to migrate from any centralized network to a decentralized one.
IOW, it would be a lot easier to implement Fediverser on top of ATProto than of ActivityPub.
Federation is not the natural unit of organization, that's a hill I'm ready to die on. The problem is that most people get hung up on the idea of instances because they've only experienced the two extremes of siloed networks and the "Dark Forest" of blockchain.
On the topic of 'hills to die on', I will say I have gained a significant respect for you over the last 2 years, for sticking to your principles on this and following through on them.
We might disagree on the best way to do things. I'd witnesed you in the past receiving a lot of pushback (to put it lightly) for a well-intentioned but controversially implemented project (the whole Reddit mirroring and account claiming thing you tried). If I had been in your shoes at the time, I would probably have quit Lemmy and the Fediverse entirely for something else in order to try to pursue that vision. Yet, you've stayed with it, with the aim to refine your ideas on how to better bring decentralized social media to the general public. So kudos to you for your resoluteness on this.
I agree with everything. The thing is, I've been thinking about the psychology behind this lately.
When Fedi-Fans complain about Bluesky, it is usually based on the misunderstanding that it also is instance based. It really doesn't seem to occur to many that things might be done differently. But I think it may go a little deeper.
A common complaint is that it's too expensive to run a full relay. People want to self-host it all. They want to feel that they are in control and don't need anyone. It's not particularly rational but people do lots of silly things chasing that feeling. The rational start would be to move somewhere remote and grow your own food. Instead, people buy a pick-up truck or degoogle their phone.
That architecture also appeals to a more tribal mindset. An instance is "our" place. We just pull up the drawbridge when bad people come and we are safe here in "our" castle.
I think to some people that is more appealing than the more open design of atproto.
On Bluesky, there is all this waffle about some people trying to get someone banned. They might find such tribal architecture more appealing.
It's a mess, I find it ridiculous that my account and all of its data is tied to a fediverse instance (which is most often operated by a single person that could decide to shut it down at any time) and other people are ok with this
A new report has accused London’s £34 billion ($45.43 billion) public sector pension fund of investing billions in companies allegedly complicit in Israel’s human rights abuses against Palestinians, Anadolu reports.
The Blood Money report, released Thursday by the campaign group Shake The CIV, claims that the London Collective Investment Vehicle (LCIV) — which manages £34.2 billion on behalf of 32 London local authorities — has over £7 billion ($9 billion) invested in firms “enabling Israel’s violations of Palestinian human rights.”
The fund represents the deferred wages of around 700,000 Londoners.
Thoughts on Rishi taking up jobs at Microsoft and Anthropic?
Apparently he plans to "donate his earnings to a charity he founded", which makes sense, given that his family is already worth around £640 million.
Also Rishi apparently already has a job with Goldman Sachs in addition to another existing job of his: remaining the MP for Richmond and Northallerton in Yorkshire.
This is from a few years back but I always find a chance to show everyone that google is a sus company. I decided to post this after reading and doing research on a separate yet somewhat related topic on how when you do CAPTCHA online you are usually training A.I. now and days.
If you wanted to know why there are more CAPTCHAs than ever before. Biggest insult to injury is that certain A.I.s can solve them 70% of the time
As part of Project Maven, Google's artificial intelligence program for military drones, the tech giant hired unwitting “crowd workers” through Figure Eight.
In his opinion, which extended the consent decree until February, the judge lifted all conditions of release for 11 people detained in the Chicago area who were subjected to warrantless arrests, and ordered ICE to produce names, detainee tracking information known as “A-numbers,” and arrest documents for anyone arrested in the northern Illinois without warrants since June.
Liberty Vote announced the acquisition in a brief news release that proclaimed the mission of the new company would be “to restore public confidence in the electoral process.” It featured language favored by conservatives, professing to “improve election integrity in America” and “leveraging hand-marked paper ballots enabling compliance with President Trump’s executive order,” a reference to the president’s effort in March to overhaul electoral processes that has been largely blocked by courts.
The founder of Liberty Vote, Scott Leiendecker, is a former Republican election official from St. Louis with years of experience in elections. He also is the chief executive officer of KNOWiNK, a company that produces electronic poll books, digital devices that are used across the country to help election workers upload and maintain voter rolls at voting sites. In July, KNOWiNK announced that its Poll Pad “was the first electronic poll book to earn certification from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission.”
yeah, how about we start with their fucking nukes? where are the comparable UN sanctions that the DPRK and IRI suffer under for isntreal's NPT violation?
Does it really boggle the mind that Israels handler and primary sponsor will bend over backwards to recontextualize the issue into a palatable, hypocritical, perversion of itself just to "increase" support among the (already entirely supportive) near centre voting populous. They do the same to every other event, surely it's not mind boggling if the context leads you to expect it.
Réunissons-nous autour d'un verre lors de notre permanence ! Que vous soyez une chtitedev convaincue ou simple curieuse, que vous restiez deux heures ou 5 minutes, nous serons heureuses de discuter de manière informelle avec vous. Et pour celles qui ont une petite faim, le lieu a un grand choix de stands de nourriture ! Les organisatrices resteront jusque 20:30 (et plus si affinité ;)
Rendez-vous au Kitchen Market dans la Galerie des tanneurs, 27 rue des tanneurs 59800 Lille
Pas besoin de s’inscrire. Venez quand vous voulez 😉
Io, in fondo in fondo un minimo scherzavo, pazziavo, sulla storia per cui sono tremendamente distrutta oltre ogni limite dalle cose susseguentesi… un minimo, perché comunque la storia di base è assolutamente vera… eppure, oggi mi rendo conto che non ero per niente pronta per il momento in cui tutto questo sarebbe diventato reale per […]
giornata cacata per fattori multiuniversali (analisi delle mie ultime paturnie, applicate a oggi ma non solo)
Io, in fondo in fondo un minimo scherzavo, pazziavo, sulla storia per cui sono tremendamente distrutta oltre ogni limite dalle cose susseguentesi… un minimo, perché comunque la storia di base è assolutamente vera… eppure, oggi mi rendo conto che non ero per niente pronta per il momento in cui tutto questo sarebbe diventato reale per davvero, al di là dei miei sottili ma ampi e ben impilati strati di ironia… Ed esattamente come le mie lagne sono un combinarsi di cose per formare il racconto di esperienze assolutamente non invidiabili, questo mio progressivo sfaldamento è da imputare a fin troppi fattori combinati, quindi non c’è una singola particolare cosa che se cambiata risolvererebbe tutto. (No, neanche il dormire 13 ore in un giorno… anche se spero di comunque riuscire a fare proprio questa fine sabato!) 🐭
1, il sempre presente: Il freddo. Ormai lo sto dicendo ad nauseam, ma veramente… mi distrugge tipo da dentro, mi consuma e mi rende una persona più vuota, a fatica permettendomi di finire la giornata!!! Ed è un ciclo continuo e subdolo, seppur con un po’ di variazione da un giorno all’altro, per via di come sono strutturati i miei orari… Esco di casa e, se è mattina presto, tengo freddo (beh, in realtà anche solo a stare in casa a quell’ora fa il freddo, ma quando mai non è stato così in case di letteralmente il secolo scorso… e vaffanculo alla società di 50 anni fa che ignorava totalmente il concetto di efficienza energetica). Bisogna aspettare a più tardi, all’orario comodo di sveglia che io preferisco ma non sempre posso permettermi, per non piangere… e poi sorprendentemente si sta bene, anche fuori; addirittura oggi, non essendoci quel vento bruttissimo di giorni fa, fuori si stava proprio bene, c’era un gustoso tepore… ma anche un’escursione termica da spavento tra l’ombra e il sole, al punto che non ironicamente dovevo prepararmi mentalmente per entrare in un edificio, essendoci il portico. E poi, la sera… giuro, dal momento in cui il sole tramonta, da che sto bene inizio a fottutamente tremare; ma non fuori alla strada eh, dico proprio dentro casa (si torni al punto delle case di merda.)… NON ce la faccio!!! 🥀
Le mattine di giovedì e venerdì, specialmente, sono particolarmente traumatiche, comunque. Questo perché l’aula di merda in cui in quelle mattine ho lezione — che è merda per lo stesso motivo della casa, e infatti mi risulta sia stata costruita circa nello stesso periodo (non so come, visto che l’edificio ha la seconda numerazione più recente, ma così ci disse il prof molto vecchio l’anno scorso, ed è l’unica fonte disponibile, seppur credo una per niente affidabile… quindi non si può fare altro che credergli) — dove, a differenza delle altre aule, i climatizzatori attualmente mi risultano spenti, e l’edificio fa schifo e proprio lo percepisco come se fosse posseduto ed emettesse freddo verso dentro… ma forse sarà solo il vento gelido da fuori che entra pure con tutto chiuso, forse perché essendo per metà finestre sarà fisicamente per metà spifferi. Poi, ovviamente, non aiuta che il professore della seconda materia abbia aperto metà delle imposte per “far cambiare aria“… poi qualche decina di minuti dopo qualcuno ha chiuso almeno quelle che stavano direttamente dietro di me, però intanto il vento è entrato prepotente a rompere ancora di più l’anima; in qualche modo demoniaco e fisicamente incomprensibile riuscendo a soffiarmi pure all’altezza delle caviglie!!! 😭
Tra l’altro, stamattina mi sono pure svegliata con una gola atrocemente secca, non so perché. Durante la giornata poi mi è salito a tutti gli effetti proprio il mal di gola, con ogni tanto pure il coff coff… solo nella sera mi è sembrato un po’ meglio, ma sento comunque la gola fatta di carta vetrata fine (oh, poteva essere molto peggio… a granula grossa…). E durante il pranzo mi è venuto pure il raffreddore, o comunque qualunque cosa porti a far uscire il muco dal naso, e che palle veramente… già in primavera devo stare con questi porca puttana di fazzoletti per l’allergia; se ora a inizio ottobre già riesce fuori la merdata del muco divento una bestia. 🤧
E ok, un (1) fattore quantomeno l’ho decodificato per bene, ma non ci posso fare granché; se mi vestissi invernale già ora, sarebbero problemi. Il resto rimane poco chiaro, invece… Mi distrugge così tanto andare 5 giorni su 7 in culandia a semplicemente sentire sciroccati yappare? Perché stress vero e proprio non ne ho… o almeno, non ho motivi per pensare di starne subendo un’accumulazione; non ho esami di mezzo, sto prendendo tutto per i cazzi miei, alla fine la verità è che comunque ‘sto nel chill. Quindi, 2 e oltre: ancora boh, per ora. 😑
L’unica cosa buona della giornata, almeno, è che ho detto vaffanculo e sono andata al ristorante a pranzare (anche perché oggi in giro a quell’ora non ho intravisto nessuna persona che non mi detesta, quindi sarei stata piantata lì per niente), dunque a pranzo ho certamente goduto, e non indifferentemente… ma l’ho fatto perché già con soli 2 giorni di fila a mangiare solo pane e acqua fino a quando non arriva la cena, che è ben 7-8 ore dopo, finisco a casa che un altro po’ cado per terra — non subito, a dire il vero, ma appena cala il sole e arriva il freddo di cui sopra si — 3 volte una dietro l’altra mi sa mi sa che sono proprio un suicidio, manco fossi detenuta in un campo di lavoro forzato di uno qualsiasi dei tanti famosi paesi poco democratici esistenti nel nostro mondo… quindi bene spendere dei soldini per sopravvivere. 😇
Comunque, anche in questo c’è una cosa bizzarra: bono e saziante il pranzo, con primo e secondo, e ho speso appena 15 euro in totale, quindi non posso proprio lamentarmi…ma comunque dopo un po’ mi è salito quell'”aaaaa” di stanchezza di mezza giornata… no, non è abbiocco post-pranzo, perché quello in genere non mi viene, almeno non quando pranzo per bene. Ho fatto tutto con estrema calma, godendomi i momenti della goduria, quindi ho passato più di 1 ora al ristorante, muovendo i piedini con pazienza nell’andare e tornare, e prendendo il caffè al bar dell’università (e non alle macchinette, stavolta, vaffanculo agli stronzi ladri criminali!!!) pur di perdere altro tempo… però alla fine dei conti mi sono trovata comunque con mezz’ora bucata e nulla di particolarmente infognante da fare sul PC nel restante spicchio di pomeriggio, quindi mi è salito comunque quel sentimento di vuoto di stomaco misto a vuoto dell’anima… 😬
Inspiegabile, tutto ciò, davvero. Almeno, ora che sono a casina (cioè, da ore, come l’altra volta, poi ho avuto altro da fare), comunque la differenza con il fatto che ho pranzato veramente si vede, perché non mi sento sul punto di morte… evviva!? E in realtà, tra scrivere questo stesso post e finirne altri per il blog della stufa, ho smesso di sentirmi cacata come a prima… Aspe… miiinchia… ma vuoi vedere che, sotto sotto, il professore con l’accento siciliano ha ragione, e l’aria dell’università è realmente viziata (in tutte le aule, non solo quella di stamattina) e peggiora magicamente l’umore???Si vede che sarebbe probabilmente il caso di abbatterli proprio, ‘sti palazzi schifosi, e fare direttamente lezione all’aperto, a questo punto, basta. 👻 …Comunque, questo fatto è sempre più vero!!! #giornate #paturnie #pensieri #problemi
I am not saying i understand it at all. My comment is genuine, not rhetorical.
On the contrary i express that i do not understand this to the point of deeming it strange or weird, triggering my curiosity.
I was hoping someone would chime in an explain how text generator techniques (which i do know alot about) known to have no capacity to use real world reason or logic can be used to help solve dna puzzles unless as a sub module of general machine learning. In which that later case would be within my understanding
I am asking that all the people doing this watch Jurassic Park at least once.
I'll let experts do their thing, but this kind of thing worries me. I never had "there is no singularity, AI just engineers a generic disease by accident and kills is all" on my bingo.
This is actually an excellent use case for AI. Physics and chemistry as scientific disciplines are lots of complex pattern recognition and manipulation. AI is just a pattern recognition and generation engine, despite what the tech bros and apologists like to tell us.
What these engines generate will ultimately be vetted by experts before it even goes to trials. Scientists don't just take things on blind faith simply because a robot or even another expert comes up with something; their entire deal is to understand their particular field of study in great detail, after all!
There's something similar that you can do with categorising stars. Basically they want to map as much of the universe as we can see. We've got the photos the problem is is that when you zoom in on a 1 mm by 1 mm patch of sky 1,100,000 new stars appear. It's going to take a while, even with AI.
You never know you might find a Dyson sphere one day.
The problem is the term AI has become so broadly used that it's become meaningless. There is a popular quote about how the quota doesn't want AI to replace artistic jobs, as if it will. As if generative AI and large language models and projects like this are the same.
When the bubble bursts, (please let it be soon) we're still going to have all of the science AIs because those are actually useful. What we don't need is AI girlfriends.
Just read the actual quote it doesn't say what he says it says and you'll notice that no point have I ever edited it.
They misquoted me because they didn't read the quote properly and then doubled down on it. Meanwhile you are now arguing about it despite the fact that it is demonstrably evident that you are wrong
The Futurama quote is "No I'm doesn't" and doesn't make any sense in this context even if it was properly transcribed.
Bro, either you are being insanely unclear, in which case it's still on you, or you are lying to save face.
There is not one person that thought you meant some obscure Futurama quote spealt "No I'm doesn't" instead of the obvious "No it doesn't". We don't live in your head, you are communicating terribly and trying to spin it on everybody else. I mean, thinking most people even know Futurama enough to spot the quote even if it was properly written is a HUGE ask.
I'm not trying to be overly harsh here but this is a bit ridiculous, sorry.
CRISPR is the tool that lets us precisely edit genes in DNA, which contain the instructions for making proteins. AlphaFold is the AI tool that helped us understand what those edits actually do. It’s the 3D shape of the protein that determines its function - without understanding protein folding, gene editing would be like changing code in a language you don’t fully understand and just hoping it works.
so while not the same, it's a fairly similar field, it is a safe to assume that similar tools can be used. not yet though, the tool is not ready. why is there a study for this? other than hype - for "ai", which this arguably isn't
There was an old game from the PlayStation days called Xenogears. There was a population of mutants and monsters in it than came about from fucking with DNA irresponsibly. I’m reminded of that obnoxious rat-man from the Kislev prison.
This wasted electricity accounts for about 5% to 10% of home energy use, depending on factors like the age of the equipment, according to Alexis Abramson, dean of the Columbia Climate School.
This is shifting the blame, just like pretending your recycling a soda bottle will save the environment compared to the huge amounts of landfill waste generated by companies every day.
In 2024, datacenters alone consumed 1.5% of global energy. That's not even counting non-datacenter server facilities. iea.org/reports/energy-and-ai/…
Residential, commercial, and industrial customers each account for roughly one-third of the nation’s electricity use. The transportation sector also accounts for a small fraction of electricity, although it could increase.
Even if it is, this pales in comparison to corporate energy use.
Yeah I agree, I later saw that the article focuses on households, which usually account for like 20% of a countries energy usage.
Honestly, I associated the articles headline and photo to energy losses in the Grid by keeping energy online. So Grid losses, and the application of smart grid functions will save way more then 5% of a ca 20% household energy usage. In this article they talk about a 4-5% overall country gain, for example
I tested most of my devices with a wattmeter. Definitely not true for me. But I live in Germany and don't even own a TV, it's possible that it's true for other types of devices or that the devices that are sold in my country just have higher standards than devices sold in the US.
I had my old house tested ( after I mostly had it all rewired), by various electricians for energy losses. And they claimed that there was always some unaccountable energy loss ( 5% iirc).
No idea tbh. I tried to figure it out myself first, then I had two electricians independently checking it.
And their conclusion was that they didn't know, and that the 5% was sort of normal. I even had my electricity meter recalibrated by the grid company. I was afraid somone was taping, but no.. It still could've been the electricity meter ( which was like only 10 yo, I looked up its specs and readings). Humidity, Magnetism and Radio signals might effect the readings, under circumstances. So to be" safe", I have now a newer smart electricicity meter.
This is probably the start of our residential electricity being throttled and have to pay a premium for what little we use just like internet data caps. Meanwhile inefficient data centers, lights on 24/7 at corporate headquarters and giant art displays guzzling electricity won't even be considered for the chopping block.
Corporations are responsible for a vast majority of the waste
I don't really understand this recurring theme in this context, Can someone explain to me why this is relevant?
Afaik, this isn't a discussion in my country, since most people (should) know that already. This article triggered me, beacuse I want to lower my personal energy usage. Many companies in Europe who were energy wasteful and high energy users (like some chemical, steel, or aluminium plants) needed to close after the Russian invasion in 2022 and the then extreem high energy prices. Those that survived, are still struggling to this day.
It's good to know what we can do to reduce our own use—we all have to live on this planet, after all—but these kinds of articles pop up and, at the very least, make people think their efforts will have a meaningful impact. They go to sleep thinking they're solving the problem (barring extreme situations like war-driven scarcity, for example).
But if every household stopped using electricity, many countries would still have a massive energy problem on their hands, because households aren't really the problem.
At home we minimize energy use and stuff, especially when the Ukraine war induced energy crisis hit.
But in companies nobody turns of their PC at night. Huge TVs are constantly running playing ads to empty rooms all night.
There's a large tower in the inner city where I live and their whole fassade is wrapped in complex RGB lighting. I wrote to them to please disable that since we are in an energy crisis, and their response was (I kid you not) that their building lighting is totally eco-friendly, because one night per month they switch it to completely green light, and that reminds people to save energy, and the energy thus saved offsets anything the building lighting consumes.
And that's not even talking about all the other industrial and corporate energy wasting.
Charron recommends starting with small steps like unplugging chargers for phones and other devices
This is completely useless advice leftover from two decades ago. All of these chargers have been active power supplies for a long time, and use almost no power when not in use
Meanwhile my coffee maker’s power button is on a touch screen? Who the eff designed that? How about yelling at corps to stop doing shit like this?
...The primary drivers of China’s clean technology export growth are batteries, followed by EVs. These technologies drive overall electrification. They also ensure that renewable energy generation can be put to use, even if output is intermittent or peak generation does not align with peak usage. Curtailment can be eliminated. The grid can become more stable, enabling further electrification. EVs shifting energy consumption away from petroleum not only allows emissions to be cut now but also sets up future reductions. By increasing the demand for electricity and creating a means to coordinate supply with demand, the next stage in renewable energy adoption is positioned to take off...
... While some countries are penalizing or blocking China’s clean technology exports (particularly the US), relatively few trade barriers exist for heavily subsidized US fossil fuel exports. However, global perspectives are shifting, with the International Court of Justice issuing a unanimous decision that fossil fuel subsidies have been “unlawful.” Not only do fossil fuel subsidies distort markets, but they also fail to consider the negative externalities of climate change that extend beyond the exporter’s borders...
...Most of China’s cleantech exports are no longer going to wealthy OECD countries. Central Europe now outpaces the EU in solar growth, with panels largely coming from China. So far this year, EV exports are up 75% to ASEAN and up a staggering 287% in Africa. These numbers may be starting from a low baseline, but these countries represent growth markets. As countries develop out of poverty, energy consumption and overall consumption will rise. Having that growth tied to cleantech will ensure the economic development is not accompanied by environmental devastation...
...While China produces 80% of solar PV modules and battery cells and 70% of electric vehicles globally, it is also by far the largest consumer of clean technology. Some will point to China also being the largest fossil fuel consumer, even though its per capita and cumulative emissions are roughly half of the US. However, the lasting effect of clean technology adoption is poised to rapidly change the country’s energy consumption. Electrification of its economy overall will enable that adoption to accelerate. That change will have economic impacts that extend for decades and provide global scale for other countries to follow...
Recent reports out of thinktank Ember on China’s record-breaking $20 Billion in August clean technology exports and the underlying data have stimulated discussion online. Electrek focused on the EV exports that are driving much of the growth.
A Rutgers University professor who taught a course on anti-fascism was blocked from leaving the US for Spain on Wednesday night, according to media reports, hours after Donald Trump hosted a White House roundtable highlighting the impact of antifa – or “anti-fascist” – far-left activists.
Mark Bray, an historian who published the 2017 book Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, and has taught courses on anti-fascism at the New Jersey university, was attempting to board a plane at Newark airport bound for Europe when he was informed at the boarding gate that the reservations for him and his family had been cancelled.
‘Someone’ cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second,” Bray posted on Bluesky social media. “We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’”
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni says she has been accused of “complicity in genocide” in a complaint lodged with the International Criminal Court (ICC) over Rome’s support for Israel as it bombards Gaza.
The complaint, dated October 1, was signed by some 50 people, including law professors, lawyers, and several public figures who accused Meloni and others of complicity by supplying arms to Israel, according to the AFP news agency.
“By supporting the Israeli government, particularly through the supply of lethal weapons, the Italian government has become complicit in the ongoing genocide and the extremely serious war crimes and crimes against humanity committed against the Palestinian people,” the authors of the court filing against the Italian leaders wrote.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni says she has been accused of “complicity in genocide” in a complaint lodged with the International Criminal Court (ICC) over Rome’s support for Israel as it bombards Gaza.
The complaint, dated October 1, was signed by some 50 people, including law professors, lawyers, and several public figures who accused Meloni and others of complicity by supplying arms to Israel, according to the AFP news agency.
“By supporting the Israeli government, particularly through the supply of lethal weapons, the Italian government has become complicit in the ongoing genocide and the extremely serious war crimes and crimes against humanity committed against the Palestinian people,” the authors of the court filing against the Italian leaders wrote.
For those unaware, Google is continuously enacting policies that are closing down the open environment of Android, and I fear this will significantly harm projects like GrapheneOS, CalyxOS, and others.
If you can spare a couple dollars, please consider throwing some money at PostmarketOS or any other mobile Linux project you like.
are you aware of any articles/documentation that can make a noob aware of how these projects compare to each other?
i'm going to eos on a nothing phone in the near future, but that's only because i can find step-by-step documentation with exact hardware and eos version on how to do so thanks to Lemmy.
yup it is very active. u can follow the account here: @postmarketOS
as for why the devices seem old: it takes a lot of work trying to get the old android kernel working with the mainline kernel. its much harder than lineageos as we dont reuse the old android kernel and a lot of work needs to be done on both the kernel and userspace
basically one person is doing an entire engineering departments work
if ud like the newest phone, u can get a fairphone 5
Agreed, just not the statement I was responding to, which I took as Signal - the company - getting on board with Linux mobile. But maybe I misinterpreted.
The Signal lead has been vocally against doing a fully fledged version for Linux for a while now. He really likes his closed ecosystems. "for security"
Desktop Linux is soooo insecure because users can access their own data.
The Linux app is just the desktop app, which doesn't have the functionality that the Android and iOS apps do. It only works when paired with an Android or iOS device, so you'd still be shackled to those ecosystems without proper support for a mobile Linux app.
Most of the chips in a smartphone are made by Qualcomm, both processors and peripheral chips like 5G modem, LTE modem, WiFi, and Bluetooth. Qualcomm chips require proprietary binary blobs to function, and usually only have a support lifetime of about 2 years. They also only supply those blobs to the manufacturer of the device.
Qualcomm being what they are is the reason Apple was able to provide a better lifespan for their phones for like a decade (you'd get 5-6 years of iOS major version upgrades compared to 0-2 on Android phones).
Google actually pushed the Android ecosystem to do better by creating its' own Tensor SoCs which they support for longer... But they don't really make the drivers for those open source either. So we're still not doing better in that regard.
rooting for the guys although I don't want none of them things. I run my device without a modem on (hopefully I disabled it correctly) and I want it to run like my other shit runs - I turn it on when I want it, no doing shit in the background nobody asked it to, syncing to the clown, none of that.
the results are awesome - I get like days of standby out of a severely degraded battery that can't manage a whole day under android. still, I understand that other people need this stuff. for me, SMS and calls utilizing the utterly broken, insecure, and definitely compromised telecom infra shouldn't be a thing in 2025.
Will there ever be an app ecosystem for Linux phones. I don't see how could happen. I'm talking actual apps like banking or payment systems. Institutional software such as government apps that requires a stable platform. Not a janky Linux system that is prone to breakage every few updates or scatter across different distros. Seems like the year of the linux desktop meme could end up morphing into the year of the linux phone.
Why can't we just use banking websites? You don't need an app ecosystem for that. They just need to build a responsive website that will work on a computer or phone. If you have bank to bank transfer (like e-transfer in Canada) that can be done from the mobile website as well.
Payment like NFC payment is a different story. I suspect its unlikely we ever see that.
Exactly. And as I said in another comment, you can make a wrapper for it if their website is not the most mobile-friendly. Any browser can handle everything beneath the skin.
Banks sometimes need a 2FA app, this is what some people need "banking apps" for. The bank website itself is trivial to just use, but you need to be able to log in. In sweden, much of society, from fetching a post package to booking an appointment with a doctor or getting a bus ticket, relies on this 2FA app. You can barely function in society without this app.
It's unfortunate that sweden decided to lock 2FA behind proprietary smartphone apps.
For every country its going to be a different story. I think instead of trying to build an app ecosystem for things like bank apps on linux it would be easier for citizens of those countries to convince the government / banks to allow other 2FA methods like OTPs that can work on any a device using an OTP client. That would honestly benefit more people as whole since they wouldn't be lock down to just Android/Apple or even owning a smartphone. They could do all their important government/finance stuff just with a computer.
Well, they all have standard web interfaces, and so many apps are merely wrappers for it or a rebuilt front-end. On a Linux device one would presume you’ll have a standard web browser so all you need really is a wrapper for the website and the browser engine handles all security. Is there any reason not to just go that route?
The terms of surrender are fucking atrocious. Israelis have no real obligations and Palestinians continue to exist in borderline starvation conditions, while Ben Gvir stands around with his gun cocked waiting for another excuse to restart the killing.
The idea that they're going to put Tony fucking Blair in as an interm dictatorial governor, ruling from Egypt? It's a nightmare of colonialism not seen since the 18th century.
United Nations human rights and legal experts on Friday warned that the proposed US-sponsored peace plan for Gaza risks entrenching violations of international law.
Obviously AI generated images and videos are already being used in politics, generally as far as I've seen by right wingers.
A thought I had would be to flip the table and generate AI videos of Trump attacking right wingers for being too far right, too racist, not supporting trans or LGBT+ rights, etc, in ways that are guised as old school conservative values. Like the "The govt shouldn't be interfering in a private citizen's healthcare choices" type stuff.
His supports seem the type already to believe AI videos are real, so do you think stuff like that would work or just circle in left wing groups and never take off among his worshipers? If they did spread, would they even be effective in triggering his base to push back towards the center?
Immigration authorities are detaining hundreds of children for longer than the 20 days allowed by a federal judge, a Scripps News investigation has learned.
Scripps News obtained a document filed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement under a federal court order that shows more than 600 juveniles held in ICE custody at some point in July.
The children are being arrested and detained with their families while going through lengthy deportation proceedings. Many of the juveniles end up at the South Texas Family Residential Center, a sprawling site located in Dilley, Texas, that reopened in March.
The detention center is owned and operated by CoreCivic, a for-profit company contracting with ICE to hold immigrants.
Arriva un’esclusiva ufficiale di Deadline sul nuovo film A24 firmato dal regista Aidan Zamiri e dalla popstar Charli XCX: si intitola The Moment e promette di essere uno dei progetti più discussi del 2026.
Nel cast spiccano Kylie Jenner, Rachel Sennott (Bottoms) e Kate Berlant, accanto a Alexander Skarsgård, Rosanna Arquette, Jamie Demetriou, Arielle Dombasle, Hailey Benton Gates, Trew Mullen, Mel Ottenberg, Isaac Powell, Rish Shah, Tish Weinstock, Michael Workéyè, Shygirl e A.G. Cook.
When I see people talking about LibreWolf, it’s always loved or hated.
People who hate it complain that it either requires too much configuration to be usable (because of the strict default settings) or that you should just use Mullvad (whether for real reasons or just better marketing about privacy).
People who love it (including me) see it as what Firefox should be: community‑driven and user‑first. However, I believe people using LibreWolf as their main browser (like me) does so only because they’ve tweaked the settings - allowing browsing‑history, password saving, manually adding cookie exceptions for sites they want to stay logged into, etc.
Out of the box, LibreWolf seems to be trying to compete with Mullvad and Tor as a hardcore privacy‑first browser (although letterboxing isn’t default). But can it really do that? I’m not saying it can’t on a technical level (which I’m in no way qualified to judge), but Mullvad is a huge company and Tor is a very mature project. I’ve read a bunch of guides and watched people talking about privacy browsers, and I never saw anyone recommending LibreWolf over Mullvad or Tor when you want to browse sensitive content or use an online identity you don’t want easily linked to your main one.
Aren’t LibreWolf fans using it as their main daily‑use browser? From what I see (and I don’t know how aligned this is with the project itself or the rest of the user base), LibreWolf is an alternative to Chrome, Firefox, and especially Brave. It’s a truly community‑driven project focused on privacy, prioritizing the user, and not involved in shady business like Brave.
So, when I recommend LibreWolf to people, I suggest it as a substitute for Brave. Out of the box, though, it feels like it’s trying to be an alternative to Mullvad/Tor instead.
I think it's neither. Mullvad and Tor are a bit more extreme in their defaults, but LibreWolf is not as vanilla as your average browser. I think a welcome screen explaining the address bar controls for toggling data storage and disabling fingerprinting protection on broken trusted sites would make it much more practical.
I don't think LibreWolf should allow that DRM crap and other vanilla shit like that, but I don't quite understand the project aim. Is it to be a browser for daily-use or a browser that is to be used only for when you want extra privacy (so it doesn't try to be convenient)?
Mullvad is quite broken for daily-use, and I guess it wasn't designed for that anyway. You can't save password, cookie exceptions seems to not work properly... you seem to have to either erase everything when you close the browser or erase nothing, so in that way LibreWolf is way more friendly for daily-use - I especially liked being able to add Enhanced Tracking Protection exceptions, because I few sites I visit has CORS chatboxes.
So although very configurable for daily use, the out of the box experience suggest the project is not for that? If everyone using allows saving browsing history, passwords, and add cookie exceptions, I guess those should be the default (most bad reviews I saw complained about it, because not having those as default put it into the "inconvenient" class of Mullvad and Tor), and a prompt asking if you want to stay logged to that site when you save a password so that it's automatically added to exceptions would be nice too hehe
I think the goal is to be a browser for daily use for privacy-conscious people who are willing to do some work in telling the browser what information to keep/give and to whom. That means it's likely not meant for the general public, more like privacy nerds and those so inclined to see the browser as a more fine-grained tool to access information rather than a pragmatic, straightforward interface into various web services.
Privacy, like security, is usually at odds with convenience. I agree with you it could be made more convenient, and as I said I think the first time you start LibreWolf it should tell you about some of its convenient features such as the address bar toggles.
So yes, Mullvad is not meant for daily use doing all your browsing, much less Tor Browser. I think you can use LibreWolf as your main browser, particularly if you use several browser profiles. You can e.g. have a separate "work" profile, where you might need to keep/allow more things from corporate systems from personal browsing, where you can block more aggressively and access mostly things you trust. This way you don't need to have an all-or-nothing approach to your privacy.
I don't think storing passwords, cookies and other information should be the default. In fact that is one of my favorite features in LibreWolf. I think it's an excellent default, but it needs some adjusting to in how you think about the browser. That's why I think it should have a screen on the first run for the first profile explaining its controls, because it does make all this convenient in some ways, but one has to discover that convenience by themselves and at that point frustration might have already overcome them.
Hmm, yeah, perhaps it's better not to have those by default, as it is privacy/security‑oriented… It would be fun to discover how many users change those settings though, if only they gathered telemetry data xD
I just remembered this documentary I watched about industrialized food, and when they created cake‑mix powder in the '50s the housewives didn't like it because they didn't feel like they were making the cake, so the industry removed the dried eggs from the recipe just so the housewives would have to add the eggs and whisk the cake themselves and feel like real bakers... look at us, we are so selective about our software and like to fine‑tune it to our needs. If it already came all configured for us, we would feel like normies hehe
LibreWolf is FireFox that is prehardened. I tell people how important that getting off chromium is for the open web. But regular Firefox has too much crap between the AI features and there are so many malicious websites that just need extra protection anyway.
WASHINGTON, Oct 9 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's threatened crackdown on the finances and activities of liberal non-profits and groups opposed to his agenda is a multi-agency effort with top White House aide Stephen Miller playing a central role, according to officials. The Trump administration plans to deploy America's counter-terrorism apparatus - including the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department - as well as the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department against certain left-wing groups it accuses of funding and organizing political violence, the officials said. The effort marks an escalation in the administration's efforts to target domestic opponents, raising alarm among civil rights groups and Democratic leaders about the use of executive power.
Jamie Dimon, who is the chair and chief executive of the giant Wall Street bank JPMorgan Chase, said he was “far more worried than others” about a serious market correction, which he predicted could come in the next six months to two years.
“I would give it a higher probability than I think is probably priced in the market and by others,” he told the BBC. “So if the market’s pricing in 10%, I would say it is more like 30%.”
Dimon added there were a “lot of things out there” creating an atmosphere of uncertainty, pointing to risks including the geopolitical environment, fiscal spending and the remilitarisation of the world.
“All these things cause a lot of issues that we don’t know how to answer,” he said. “So I say the level of uncertainty should be higher in most people’s minds than what I would call normal.”
The comments are the latest in a string of warnings that stock markets may be due a correction.
The Israeli prime minister's office unilaterally removed Marwan Barghouti's name from the prisoner exchange list at the last minute, endangering the Gaza ceasefire deal's implementation, a source close to the prominent Palestinian prisoner told Middle East Eye.
Barghouti, who is the most popular Palestinian political figure according to polls, was one of the most valuable names to potentially be traded for the 48 Israeli captives in Gaza.
A source close to Barghouti and his family told MEE that last night mediators including US envoy Steve Witkoff signed off on a prisoner list that included Barghouti.
The Israeli prime minister's office unilaterally removed Marwan Barghouti's name from the prisoner exchange list at the last minute, endangering the Gaza ceasefire deal's implementation, a source close to the prominent Palestinian prisoner told Middl…
For a moment I thought this time Bibi might be changing direction to play the peacemaker and hostage-returner. I wondee if Hamas would try to outflank him by releasing the hostages anyway so they can then use Israel's uncooperation against them. That would significantly increase the pressure on Israel externally and internally by killing a main piece of the victim narrative.
If Israel doesn't care about killing the Israeli hostages, then the hostages do not serve as any leverage for Hamas. But they are used as an important piece for the machine manufacturing consent for the genocide. So that changes the calculus on keeping them hostage I think. I think you're right that Israel would gladly kill 'em. So releasing them could throw a significant wrench into the machine I think. Discontent in Europe is growing and Israel can be significantly harmed economically should the EU take action. Doesn't that make some sense?
Israel has proven to be the leader of Europe and America fully in control of their politicians. The amount of discontent of the public is irrelevant and is ignored. Likewise they own the Western media which will gladly publish any angle Israel wishes. So there is no counting on the West to do anything except send more weapons and money to Israel. Hamas likely hoped that there was a semblance of humanity in the West to pressure Israel but that does not exist.
A Rutgers University professor who taught a course on anti-fascism was blocked from leaving the US for Spain on Wednesday night, according to media reports, hours after Donald Trump hosted a White House roundtable highlighting the impact of antifa – or “anti-fascist” – far-left activists.
Mark Bray, an historian who published the 2017 book Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, and has taught courses on anti-fascism at the New Jersey university, was attempting to board a plane at Newark airport bound for Europe when he was informed at the boarding gate that the reservations for him and his family had been cancelled.
The professor had said he was moving to Europe after receiving death threats.
“‘Someone’ cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second,” Bray posted on Bluesky social media. “We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’”
…Comunque, questo fatto è sempre più vero!!!
Berstrrs
in reply to Ferrous • • •Quite odd cpu choice for the job.
True, it's still a beast, although very power inefficient when idle.
Rtx2080 on a top of that adds even more power consumption.
Your gear consuming 230W with 4 disks.
For comparison my one with core i5-13500, 5x hdd, 1x ssd, but 1x nvme.... 55W average over the years.
Ferrous
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