Help changing text and images in POS software
Hello everyone, how are you? First of all, I'm new here, and I didn't see anything about this type of post in the rules, so I believe I'm not violating any rules, right? I don't know if I can mention the name of the software here, so I chose not to, unless it's allowed. That's why I censored the logo image that contains its name, and the text with its name.
It's a POS system, I think only available here in Brazil. I can't find the logo to change it. In fact, there are almost no images. I tried accessing the images with Resource Hacker, Resource Turner, and similar programs, but nothing worked. The bitmaps simply don't appear.
Searching online, I found two identical software programs. I downloaded them, and when I checked, it was exactly the same system/software. Someone pirated them and managed to change the images and some other system features, but unfortunately, they released pirated versions and also offered them for sale with a trial mode. So, yes, you can change it; I just couldn't do anything, not even with the help of AI.
I want to use it to manage my business. I've gone back to working with food delivery, and this software is very good. With it, I can control incoming and outgoing funds, manage inventory, and do many things in a much more organized way than manually. I used the trial version, and it's very good and easy to use. I want to modify it to put a different logo and system name (my store's name and a different logo on the interface). But it seems impossible; even in the pirated versions I mentioned, I couldn't find the logo or change the window texts. In their folder, there's a logo.bmp file; I changed the image and nothing changed, I removed the image and nothing changed, meaning the logo.bmp in the main folder is useless.
I'm not a programmer, but I've enjoyed tinkering with these things since I was little, and I'm always tinkering with everything to modify something. But this software is impossible; even with AI help, I couldn't find the logo that appears on the interface or change the texts. Can anyone help me?
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Keeping the Internet fast and secure: introducing Merkle Tree Certificates
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Keeping the Internet fast and secure- introducing Merkle Tree Certificates
Cloudflare is launching an experiment with Chrome to evaluate fast, scalable, and quantum-ready Merkle Tree Certificates, all without degrading performance or changing WebPKI trust relationships.The Cloudflare Blog
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You want a monopoly on all web traffic, that can be controlled by totalitarian governments and used to censor minorities and LGBTQ+ individuals?
Cause putting everything behind Cloudflare is gonna do that. Just look at the Amazon outage the other day or the M$ hosting crash today.
Cloudflare can’t be forced to censor anything because CDNs are not actually needed by the internet, they’re just nice to have. The only place where they could actually do anything is in the registrar business, where any foul play would just result in de-accreditation by ICANN.
AWS, Azure, and Oracle do have too much power over the internet, but that’s a different scenario.
the plan we’ve brought together with industry partners to the IETF
Sounds like it's very specifically not proprietary.
No offense but CAs still don't support ed25519, a now 20 year old ECDSA standard that everyone uses basically everywhere else, including FIPS.
Although tbf I'm sure the NSA could yolo PKI in an "emergency" situation anyway by compromising a CA, though I don't think that would happen unless its literally WWIII.
Austrian Ministry Kicks Out Microsoft in Favor of Nextcloud
(Nextcloud is written in PHP)
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Good News! Austrian Ministry Kicks Out Microsoft in Favor of Nextcloud
The BMWET migrates 1,200 employees to sovereign cloud in just four months.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)
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Europees Hof: landen moeten bij winning fossiele brandstoffen kijken naar álle uitstoot die daaruit voortvloeit
Europees Hof: landen moeten bij winning fossiele brandstoffen kijken naar álle uitstoot die daaruit voortvloeit
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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales isn’t worried about Elon Musk’s Grokipedia: ‘Not optimistic he will create anything very useful right now’
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales isn't worried about Elon Musk's Grokipedia: 'Not optimistic he will create anything very useful right now'
Elon Musk launched Grokipedia to rival Wikipedia and what he says is 'woke' bias, but founder Jimmy Wales isn't worried, and says LLMs can't even write a wiki.Eric Rosenbaum (CNBC)
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'Not optimistic he will create anything very useful right now'
Or ever create anything (he's just stealing other people's creations, at best)
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I'm happy I can use this after reading it yesterday:
The electrocution of Topsy the Elephant was not an anti-alternating current demonstration organized by Thomas A. Edison during the war of the currents. Edison was never at Luna Park, and the electrocution of Topsy took place ten years after the war of currents.[96] This myth may stem from the fact that the recording of the event was produced by the Edison film company.
create anything very useful
is very different to
create anything very useful right now
The first could be an accusation of incompetence, which is arguably true but if I were a public figure I wouldn't want to publicly piss off a trillionaire.
The second suggests 'creating usefulness' is a matter of time, not competence.
It's a shot at Elon, without risking too much blowback.
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I consider myself libertarian and absolutely love Wikipedia! In fact, if I didn't have to work, I'd work on FOSS full time.
Libertarians have no issues with collectivism, they only have issues with forced collectivism. Libertarians love private unions, co-ops, non-profits, etc.
There's an element of vibe contrarianism in any pronounced political ideology. Meaning that libertarians often hate what they perceive as anti-libertarian, communists often hate what they perceive as anti-communist, and so on.
In that regard yes, there are plenty of libertarians who just want to kill anything with leftist vibes with fire.
But the world of ideas is far richer than the existing conventions and established ideologies, and every person has their own trajectory in that.
I agree. This is what I've observed: Pride and moral superiority are the primary sources of political extremism. Any attempt to reason in that emotional state is going to be filled with a ton of confirmation bias. Mix in some greed and it gets even worse.
These people have a tendency to strongly identify with their particular brand of ideology and consider any challenge a threat. They label people that disagree as evil or stupid which makes them feel even more certain in their moral superiority. They close their minds to any dissenting opinions and hide in their echo chambers continuing the vicious cycle because being right feels good and being wrong feels bad.
Some humility and genuine curiosity are ways to reverse the cycle.
Did those "libertarians" vote for Trump last election? What's their take on Jan 6? I have a sneaking suspicion they're conservatives who like weed, not libertarians.
You're right that libertarians don't want government involved in as many parts of daily life as possible. That's where the support comes from for things like drug legalization/decriminalization, gay marriage, gun rights, etc. Wikipedia is part of that, it was created and is maintained independently, and whether it's funded by donations, ads, or subscriptions is irrelevant. As long as government isn't involved, libertarians are happy.
Here's a quote I love from Penn Jillette (from memory, may have mistakes):
Government should only use violence for things I am willing to use violence for. I would use violence to stop a rape or a murder. I would not use violence to build a library.
He goes on say he supports libraries and would fund one if someone came around asking for donations.
That's pretty much exactly what Wikipedia is, it's a privately created, publicly available library that runs on donations, which is a libertarian wet dream. If everything good could be funded that way (charities for a social safety net, police for law enforcement, military for national defense, etc), that would be a libertarian utopia. Since that's not feasible, libertarians want as many functions as possible to exist outside of government and carefully audit the rest.
I personally believe a social safety net cannot be independent, so I support something like UBI to replace our coercive and often subjective welfare programs and ensure everyone is above the poverty line. I also believe small companies should have legal protections (e.g. limited liability structures we have today), and large companies shouldn't (they can buy insurance if they want), so a lawsuit or bankruptcy could go after shareholder and executive team assets.
Many libertarians disagree with me on specifics (a libertarian's most bitter rival is another libertarian), but we agree on the foundational idea that less is more when it comes to government.
That's sounds pretty close to where I'm at now. Ideally I want a libertarian society, but I don't believe it will work in practice in a lot of areas (like health care or completely unregulated capitalism). On those issues I'm more aligned with the Green Party.
I'm not sure what the "best" solutions are, but I know wealth and power are way to consolidated now and we need to decentralize.
I don’t believe it will work in practice in a lot of areas
Perhaps, and ideally we can iterate on ideas to see what works and what doesn't. I don't like any big policy change, regardless of how it aligns with my priorities, I instead want a gradual change so it's less disruptive to the market and we get cleaner feedback.
It’s not about making something useful. He and a few others are cloning everything any of their cult might use to further fence them in from external information and entertainment.
They’re having a harder time in entertainment, because artists tend to be more liberal, but they’re gaining ground there, too. After a certain point, they’ll just radically censor everything else.
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Not really.
Remember that Elmo just lies his ass off almost all the time.
Over promises and under delivery are such extreme understatements with him, almost everything bhe says is just pure imaginary bullshit
Lying his ass off literally is the only thing he does well, it made Tesla stocks balloon to being overvalued somewhere in 10-100 times their actual value
Remember hyperloop, that project that even high schoolers could identify as absolutely dumb? Billions and billions in investment money has been wasted on absolute bullshit that will never work.
But what about SpaceX, I hear you type?
Remember how we'd land on Mars in 2018, now 7-8 years ago? Yeah, Elmo is currently at about 1% of that particular promise. Again, it's not under delivery, it's just actual plain bullshit
well, the website only has one button, that redirects to the actions of Grokipedia with the options to buy or sell some.
I guess you have to interact with their actions to use the thing?
He also gave the example of a German Wiki community member who wrote a program to verify the ISBN numbers of books cited, and was able to trace notable mistakes to one person. That person ultimately confessed they had used ChatGPT to find citations for text references and the LLM “just very happily makes up books for you,” Wales said.
Well this won't be a problem with Grokipedia, because it only uses sources that are available online as pure text (I'm pretty sure not even PDFs are used by it).
Wales thinks the public and the media often give Wikipedia too much credit. In its early days, he says, the site was never as bad as the jokes made about it. But now, he says, “We are not as good as they think we are. Of course, we are a lot better than we used to be, but there is still so much work to do.”
Amen, it's nice to see the level-headedness.
It'll effect things as much Conservapedia does. A laughing stock to gawk at and nothing more.
I bet by the end of next year it's dead.
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Not to sure about the latter part.
Elmo will be bankrupt in not too much time but for the moment he has pockets so deep he single handedly could fund wikipedia for the next millenia. For as long as he isn't bankrupt and alive, that turd will be around
Yes, hence the second part of the sentence.
Unless you need to use the precise word for communicating the "context difference", just use the word impact(ed/ing/s). Makes it a lot easier for ESL speakers as well.
Even then, most people can understand the meaning of the misused word due to the context of what's being discussed anyways.
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They might not need it to last longer than that.
This is a takeover.
Ultimately, this could highlight the incredibly high value of wikipedia as a common ressource, and might lead to better things there.
Maybe.
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If it doesn't do anything useful, I don't think any amount of shoving in front of people is going to amount to much uptake beyond some cursory fiddling to determine its uselessness.
People hand out flyers to every passerby too, and nearly all of those end up in the nearest trash bin.
thedissident.news/grokipedia-a…
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Grokipedia and the Coup Against Reality Itself
Grokipedia, the copycat of Wikipedia launched by Elon Musk isn’t just a string of AI generated slop, it is a weapon.Alejandra Caraballo (The Dissident)
Anyone who knew much about space knew that was nonsense from the start, as colonizing a subantarctic volcano is literally more practical than colonizing Mars.
And that's assuming paradigm shifts in spaceflight. Turns out, they did not materialize at all. With SABRE air-breathing engines and Virgin-style stratolaunches dead, things actually went way worse than I expected years ago.
Don't get me wrong. SpaceX is great, Starship is cool, research in space is awesome. But ever since I've first read Musk's public thoughts, he struck me as 'not scientifically grounded,' and I wondered how that incongruity would shake out.
TL;DR: Truth never mattered, and it still doesn't 🙁
All cars can catch fire, some more often, others more intensely. Doesn't matter if it's a swastikar or not.
Instead of pitting EVs against ICE, let's all push to reduce car dependence and instead encourage the development of public transit!
Personally, I'd rather completely ignore it and disregard whoever mention it one day as a source, which will never happen hopefuly.
Is it possible to bind Soulseek(or equivalent) to VPN?
Hi all!
Looking to get back into pirating more music. Torrent sites don't have a large selection. Other options have poor quality.
I've been looking into alternatives like Soulseek, but can't find how to bind that to VPN like I do with Qbit.
I've heard the risks are lower, but I'd still prefer to bind to VPN. I know from experience that kill switches are unreliable. Is this possible in soulseek or something similar (preferably OSS and with ok sound quality).
I've read the FAQ, megathread and done a search and didn't find anything.
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NOAA hurricane hunter crews, researchers flying without pay
NOAA hurricane hunter crews, researchers flying without pay - E&E News by POLITICO
The planes have been flying into Hurricane Melissa as part of monitoring the monster storm.Daniel Cusick (E&E News by POLITICO)
Planning to selfhost images and calendar in addition to HTTP(S)
I would like some ideas or suggestions as I am not sure how to continue with self hosting.
I want to self host images and caldav, maybe documents later as well. These would need to be continuously available to PC clients and Android. There would be a handful of users maximum.
The obvious (?) solution would be Nextcloud, which would do everything I need.
My problem is that I have only one public IP address and the HTTP and HTTPS ports are already in use by Apache.
The second problem is that I already use wireguard to another location, and Android cannot connect simultaneously to several wireguard endpoints. At least as far as I know.
Below, I list the approaches I have considered and the problems / drawbacks I see.
Please comment if I am wrong about something here.
At the moment I am looking at option 4.
Any comments are welcome!
Option 1. Nextcloud AIO publicly available through HTTPS
It needs the HTTP & HTTPS ports which are in use.
Otherwise, this would be the go-to for me.
Option 2. Nextcloud AIO through wireguard
I would have to switch between two wireguard instances on Android. There would probably be continuous connection errors and sync problems on apps that try to connect to either location (nextcloud and davx5 for example).
Setup would be a bit compilated for me. AFAIK, I would have to set up a local DNS, self made certificates and a reverse proxy for the Apache server.
Setup would be complicated for all other users as well and require wireguard and manually installed certificates.
Option 3. Nextcloud AIO with tailscale
Setup complicated like #2 and then some?
I have no idea if it works while using the android wireguard app for the other connection I need.
Option 4. Radicale and Ente publicly available
As far as I know, these run on special ports that are not 80 or 443.
Server setup would be slightly complicated.
Client setup would be simple.
Document sync I would have to figure out later (maybe just syncthing or otter setup?).
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Use a reverse proxy to proxy everything through https, then you can install how many services you want. Caddy is super simple, you can reverse proxy with just 1 line.
For calendar and contacts (caldav, cardav) Baikal is extremely easy to install and use. And pretty minimal.
Unless you want all the other parts of Nextcloud and need the big package.
GitHub - sabre-io/Baikal: Baïkal is a Calendar+Contacts server
Baïkal is a Calendar+Contacts server. Contribute to sabre-io/Baikal development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Mine doesn't have 80, it has a reverse proxy on 443 when I'm using a subdomain, but there is an option to use a subfolder instead. (This is with nginx, not apache, but I would assume it's similar)
The thing that doesn't yet work for me is the redirect back after authentik login. (The login works, but just doesn't do it as seamlessly as I expect and I think it's a config issue)
I understood from here it shouldnt work
github.com/nextcloud/all-in-on…
Maybe you use another flavor and not the aio?
Edit oh you have 443 though, nvm!
GitHub - nextcloud/all-in-one: 📦 The official Nextcloud installation method. Provides easy deployment and maintenance with most features included in this one Nextcloud instance.
📦 The official Nextcloud installation method. Provides easy deployment and maintenance with most features included in this one Nextcloud instance. - nextcloud/all-in-oneGitHub
In the docker-compose.yml for the AIO, you can specify the port that the Apache server runs on with APACHE_PORT=XXXX
Then you set your reverse proxy to proxy to that port. If you need some pointers about how to use a reverse proxy, ask away.
With a reverse proxy you can route connections to arbitrary ports. Just remap the ports in the docker containers if they run on the same machine, otherwise they'll refuse to start when the conflict is detected.
I have it set up like this. music.mydomain.net redirects to navidrome, video.mydomain.net to jellyfin, news.mydomain.net to miniflux, cloud.mydomain.net to Nextcloud (this one is on a VPS tho), and so on; those are all on different ports, but I never need to input it as it always goes over https 443.
GitHub - jeffvli/feishin: A modern self-hosted music player.
A modern self-hosted music player. Contribute to jeffvli/feishin development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
OK forget about the ports. Use the docker image of nextcloud, whatever flavor you want.
In the docker compose you change 80:80 and 443:443 to 81:80 and 444:443.
Then, you configure your already available apache to redirect nextcloud.yourdomain.com/ to yourip:444.
That's it. You just launched nextcloud with an arbitrary port which is not the default because it suits your needs, a'd configured apache to redirect to that port.
Edit : you don't even need to expose 81:80 if you don't need it 😀
In fact 80 and 443 refer to http and https, those are default ports.
You can in fact use the ports you want for the service you want. I have multiple web services behind the ports 80 and 443, you need one service that is able to get the request at the correct port. This is the role of the reverse proxy.
Apache can assume that role, you go to anything.yourdomain.com and apache will then redirect "anything" to the correct service (with the internal ip and port). So say you want to put nextcloud at 7777 you can tell docker to expose 7777 and redirect it to 443 on nextcloud.
The chain is like that in the case : nextcloud.yourdomain.com > apache > nextcloud is at ip:7777 > redirect the request to 7777 > nextcloud homepage is shown
According to this it is not supported?
github.com/nextcloud/all-in-on…
However, I should learn how to do subdomains and the reverse proxy then... Which is another question.
I have until now a free domain which is somethig like mysubdomain.ddns.net. So I presume I need to get a paid domain for this so I can do subdomains
GitHub - nextcloud/all-in-one: 📦 The official Nextcloud installation method. Provides easy deployment and maintenance with most features included in this one Nextcloud instance.
📦 The official Nextcloud installation method. Provides easy deployment and maintenance with most features included in this one Nextcloud instance. - nextcloud/all-in-oneGitHub
OK you are thinking at it the wrong way : 80 and 443 are the default ports for the web access of any web application.
You are using docker with the nextcloud aio image. Which mean, you are deploying a docker container which contain the web application.
What you are doing is using arbitrary ports for the container. This could be 7777. Then, this is redirected to 443 inside the container, to the web application.
This is why you can actually use any port you want for your container. You are not really switching the port for nextcloud, only for the container.
This is why I suggested doing 444:443 in the docker-compose.yml file: you are exposing 444 to the container, to 443 inside the container.
And this is why you can actually use any ports for every web app you are going to host : apache will redirect to the port you want to the container, a'd docker will redirect inside the container to either 80 or 443 (or anything else needed for that web application).
You could probably go for nextcloud.yourdomain.ddns.org, but I can't guarantee that since I have no experience with ddns.org.
There is a lot of cheap registrars, I'll let you check and select the one you want if you need a second domain.
Basically docker let you setup multiple (fake) computers inside your computer. For those that want to correct this, I know. But I'm trying to explain the top view here.
So, your computer (host) is hosting multiple containers, each containers will have there set of available ports. And as stated earlier each container will have an application that may or may not need to expose ports. But since each have their own ports you can have hundreds of containers using the port 80 INSIDE the container, an using 8100 to 8200 OUTSIDE the container (on your host). The only real limit would be the amount of ports available (somewhere along the lines of 65535).
There. Now go have fun and read up on docker and reverse proxy! Don't forget to use ssl on your nextcloud instance since it'll be facing the internet! And.. Have fun! 😀
Your existing Apache setup can be used as a reverse proxy. The idea is, you setup those other services (eg, next cloud or radicale) on other systems, or on the same system with different ports. Then when you access some URL, eg yourhomenetwork.com/radicale, Apache acts as an intermediary and returns the service at 127.0.0.1:8080/radicale. No additional open ports needed. No additional certificates needed.
Apache can even be configured to respond to requests differently if they're coming from the internet or from wireguard. Say if you wanted to deny all traffic from the internet and only access it from your VPN, or if you wanted to conditionally apply a password.
You can also use Apache to host multiple domain names, or sub domains, from the same IP address and ports (the feature is called "vhost"). That may require multiple SSL certificates though. (EDIT: If youre using a wildcard certificate, you can host multiple sub domains from that one certificate)
You've got options though, and you don't need to break what you've already got 😀
Good point, and I will now change my comment for greater accuracy.
Nextcloud is overkill for what you want.
If all you need is a shared calendar and a simple way to upload images, then this is a good option: github.com/tchapi/davis
GitHub - tchapi/davis: 🗓 A modern, simple, feature-packed, fully translatable admin interface for sabre/dav based on Symfony 7 and Bootstrap
🗓 A modern, simple, feature-packed, fully translatable admin interface for sabre/dav based on Symfony 7 and Bootstrap - tchapi/davisGitHub
Thanks, I did not know about this one!
But, I am turning towards nextcloud, as it would allow me to sync some shared folders of images and documents between computers easily(?).
The android app would be great as well, to sync some files easier, I understand nextcloud does that.
But this is a great alternative, I will surely check it out before making my final decision.
Now still have to do some physical upgrades, a fan and an ssd need replacing.
Thanks to everyone for their input!
1) Install Caddy on the host
2) Configure each service to forward to unique ports (say, 5001 for one service, 5002 for a different service)
3) Inside Caddyfile add a block like this for each service:
service1.example.com {
reverse_proxy localhost:5001
}It can be done in Apache as well, but Caddy is simply better and simpler.
As for images, take a look at Immich if that's something you might want.
[Pregnant Ai] The Clankers Are Having Children Now... by SomeOrdinaryGamers - Oct 26, 2025 (Video, 13:10 min)
Invidious: inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=RfdiKOD…
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Video description (only relevant parts):
This time we take a look at how the world's first AI Minister, someone that has a modicum of real world power has finally now gotten pregnant somehow giving birth to over 80 children. How?
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Nvidia, Oracle to build 7 supercomputers for Department of Energy, including its largest ever
Nvidia, Oracle to build 7 supercomputers for Department of Energy, including its largest ever
: 100,000 Blackwell GPUs and 2,200 exaFLOPs make for a big systemBrandon Vigliarolo (The Register)
Boring Is What We Wanted
Boring Is What We Wanted - 512 Pixels
We are coming up on five years since the first M1 Macs shipped. It was an incredible time to be a Mac user. Those first Apple silicon Macs looked like the Intel machines they replaced, but they were better in every single way.Stephen Hackett (512 Pixels)
Chi è Natalino Mele, il bambino sopravvissuto al Mostro di Firenze: la verità riemersa dopo 57 anni
Chi è Natalino Mele, il bambino sopravvissuto al Mostro di Firenze: la verità riemersa dopo 57 anni
Non aveva nemmeno sette anni quando vide la notte trasformarsi in incubo. Era il 21 agosto del 1968, e a Castelletti di Signa, alle porte di Firenze, il piccolo Natalino Mele si svegliò in un’auto insanguinata.Serena Comito (Alphabetcity)
Advocates Warn of ‘Forced Labor’ Camp for Homeless People in Utah Designed to Enforce Trump Order
Advocates Warn of ‘Forced Labor’ Camp for Homeless People in Utah Designed to Enforce Trump Order
An advocate for the National Homelessness Law Center warned that the 1,300-bed facility could be a "pilot" to put homeless people into similar conditions to Florida's "Alligator Alcatraz."stephen-prager (Common Dreams)
‘Heat deaths aren’t a thing’: Australian Coalition MPs weighing net zero given denialist briefing on climate science
Coalition sources familiar with the briefing said MPs were told it was funded by an anonymous “high net-worth individual” – not the party.
‘Heat deaths aren’t a thing’: Coalition MPs weighing net zero given sceptical briefing on climate science
Exclusive: Briefing by conservative thinktank Centre for Independent Studies was arranged by a Coalition backbench committeeDan Jervis-Bardy (The Guardian)
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'Conservative thinktank'.
Oh look, the rule applies again. Idiocy or fascism. Always, every single time that term is used.
We're so fucked.
We're sitting in the back of the German Wings climate change plane and the rich Andreas Lubitz assholes have decided to crash us into a mountain, because they are mentally ill.
Trump's cashed in $800m from crypto alone in 1st half of 2025 - Reuters report
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Friendly reminder to not follow QR codes, its like clicking a link except you cant see where its trying to send you.
Honestly any business expecting users to use their codes needs to reconsider, it instantly makes me suspicious of them.
Nvidia and Uber Say They're Building a 100,000-Vehicle Robotaxi Network
Nvidia and Uber Say They're Building a 100,000-Vehicle Robotaxi Network
The vehicles would be fully self-driving, without the need for human intervention.Ece Yildirim (Gizmodo)
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I won’t be happy until a third of the traffic on the road is driverless zombies going to pick people up who are too lazy to drive themselves or ride a bike. And another third should be cars that are just picking up a box or two for delivery. The remaining third should be exclusively SUVs and pickups too tall to see any passengers, lest they slow down for measly walkers.
One can dream…
As a third generation professional taxi driver; bull-fucking-shit.
I mean, it's coming at some point, but their plan here is like the an ad executives version of reality. It's not gonna match anytime soon.
Don't know, never taken an regular über either.
Was in San Francisco last Sunday. Ridiculous number of robotaxis everywhere, most of them empty. Mostly Waymos, but also a few Zoox ones and 3-4 others with a training driver.
I kept trying to get away from them, but there were groups of 2-3 driving around, boxing me in. Mostly clustered around popular tourist spots.
On top of that, San Francisco has now started implementing traffic cameras that will snap your license and automatically send you a speeding ticket if you're 5 miles over the speed limit. I get that it's a congestion management thing, but add that to all the robotaxis and I'm not sure many people will be driving in San Francisco.
Come to think of it, that's actually a good thing. Carry on.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/38001927
In this post, I hope to clarify and expand on some of the points and rebut some of the counter-messaging that we have witnessed.
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This is good writing.
In promoting their developer registration program, Google purports:
Our recent analysis found over 50 times more malware from internet-sideloaded sources than on apps available through Google Play.We haven’t seen this recent analysis — or any other supporting evidence — but the “50 times” multiple does certainly sound like great cause for distress (even if it is a surprisingly round number). But given the recent news of “224 malicious apps removed from the Google Play Store after ad fraud campaign discovered”, we are left to wonder whether their energies might better be spent assessing and improving their own safeguards rather than casting vague disparagements against the software development communities that thrive outside their walled garden.
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Amazon cuts 14,000 jobs, blames AI
‘Some may ask why we’re reducing roles when the company is performing well,’ an executive admitted, blaming AI for the layoffs.
Amazon is cutting 14,000 corporate jobs
Amazon said the growth of generative AI is to blame for the layoffs.Robert Hart (The Verge)
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Texas sues Tylenol company over autism claims
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing Johnson and Johnson, accusing the pharmaceutical company of failing to warn consumers about the risk of taking Tylenol while pregnant.This lawsuit, the first of its kind from a state government, comes a month after President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced updated guidance discouraging pregnant women from taking acetaminophen, citing it as a possible cause of autism. The announcement set off a wave of controversy in the health care community, and confusion among pregnant women unsure how they should manage fever and pain during pregnancy.
Texas attorney general sues Tylenol company over autism claims
This lawsuit comes a month after U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. updated guidance discouraging pregnant women from taking acetaminophen, citing it as a possible cause of autism.Eleanor Klibanoff (The Texas Tribune)
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Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant from NSF with "no-DEI" strings
National Science Foundation (NSF) had offered $1.5 million to address structural vulnerabilities in Python and the Python Package Index (PyPI), but the Foundation quickly became dispirited with the terms of the grant it would have to follow.
"These terms included affirming the statement that we 'do not, and will not during the term of this financial assistance award, operate any programs that advance or promote DEI [diversity, equity, and inclusion], or discriminatory equity ideology in violation of Federal anti-discrimination laws,'" Crary noted. "This restriction would apply not only to the security work directly funded by the grant, but to any and all activity of the PSF as a whole."
Python Foundation goes ride or DEI, rejects government grant with strings attached
: Foundation says it won't compromise policy of inclusivity even if that cash would've really helpedBrandon Vigliarolo (The Register)
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"... do not ,and will not ... operate any programs that advance or promote DEI [diversity, equity, and inclusion], or discriminatory equity ideology..."
Aren't these contradictory? 🤔
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Not necessarily. But your reaction is a good illustration of what the conservative narrative is when it comes to DEI.
DEI isn't about excluding a majority to promote a minority, but to make sure being part of a minority doesn't handicap someone.
But some people feels that it is in their right to exclude people they don't like, which can be understable when it comes to not recruit someone who stole from you previously, but in most case it is based on prejudices against specific minorities. And that's the main problem.
Those prejudices, most of the times based on misunderstandings, fear of the unknown, if not jealousy (antisemitism in Europe is often based on the idea that Jews perceived overall wealth is stolen from others).
Those prejudices greatly diminishes (or, as you wrote, "steals") their chance to be chosed for well paid work (if not work at all), and to be represented in media like videogames (because of knee jerk reaction like that game where you steal back artifacts from museum got).
DEI, when not exaggerated to the extremes, is beneficiary for everyone involved. Recruiters find talents they wouldn't have previously considered, people broadens their horizon by learning others culture, philosophy and history.
Who in their right mind would refuse that, other that self-centered bigots?
In my case I'm glad of the diversity of people I meet at work. I don't care if they are black or white, gay or straight, male, female, or anything in between. They are competent and hardworking, that's the only metrics that should matters.
Yeah, sure, a clanker gonna do grammar mistakes that he corrects many days later after waking up.
I suppose in your world everything you hate is woke, and everyone that isn't like you is a clanker, right?
When I worked for the federal government, it meant outreach to minority communities, trying to get more to apply. Once they applied, they were on the same playing field as everyone else.
On a related note: Every time I see a video on Facebook of a crash caused by a tractor trailer, I see racist comments, guessing who the driver was, as though no white guy has ever wrecked a truck. It's insane. It's so deep in their heads that rational thought is gone.
DEI is a term of art, not a specific thing.
Everyone is proud of PyPI for standing up for whatever they think DEI means, but they don't define or explain it so it doesn't actually mean anything. Or rather it can mean anything at all. That's the danger to the organization.
Yeah, I 100% respect Python for standing up to this nonsense. DEI should mean teaching people about their biases so we can do a better job of goving opportunities to those best able to do the job, instead of whoever is liked by the hiring team.
Grants like this shouldn't have stipulations about how the project is run, only about the priorities, if any.
My point is merely that DEI programs can be discriminatory, not that they are.
They're really pulling the childish 'We're just going to make up a fake acronym using DEI' card in an official government communication?
This is a clown show
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Checks his comment history
Seems like an okay dude. Might even be one of my alts gone rogue. Dunno why the downvote
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I mean, votes are public in the fediverse. I wouldn't try to read into the reasoning from a single downvoter too much though.
One downvote could be accidental. 2 downvotes in the same thread makes that seem less likely.
Downvoting/Upvoting doesn't mean the same thing that it does for everyone. Some use it as an agree/disagree. Some use it for whether a comment is productive and adds to the conversation or not. Some use it as a visibility score whether they think a comment should be seen by others first or whether there are other comments that are better. Some may agree with most everything in a comment except for one part and then downvote because of that.
Well, this isn't exactly stackoverflow...!
It is rare for things to be out of context...
Really, upvotes and downvotes are more or less... just... whatever made most people satisfied enough with a comment that they wanted to say they dis-/-liked it.
It normalizes the anti-equity principles of the granting party, which now occupies the US govt.
The benefactor had already shown exactly how they treat people that aren't white Christian men, and it's up to schools, businesses and organizations like the Foundation to show resistance and inclusivity.
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a) the wording makes it legally ambiguous what exactly would constitute violating the text. If it just said "comply with anti-discrimination laws," that would be one thing.
b) It applies to the whole organization, not just the group accepting and applying the grant, making it very challenging to meet the requirement.
c) Unlike just about any other grant, the funds can be clawed back in the future if something was violated. This is not normal for a grant, and puts the entire organization's existence in jeopardy if they suddenly find themselves owing millions of dollars that had already been spent.
It's very likely their legal council told them under no circumstances should they accept the terms.
To make matters worse, the terms included a provision that if the PSF was found to have voilated that anti-DEI diktat, the NSF reserved the right to claw back any previously disbursed funds, Crary explained.
Likely why it was not accepted
Trump scrubs all mention of DEI, gender, climate change from federal websites
Meanwhile, the Internet Archive races to save what it can – againThomas Claburn (The Register)
"DEI hire" has a different definition depending on whether you're talking about design or implementation.
Design: Non-discriminatory hiring practices where race, gender, age, religion and disabilities are overlooked. You get hired purely on your ability to do the job. Appropriate disability supports are given if required.
Implementation: Cheap foreign labour obscured by marketing spin and a calendar of wokewashing. Applicants are hired based on a quota that in no way reflects the talent pool.
DEI isn't intended to be "colorblind", it explicitly suggests that employers give consideration to applicants from disparaged demographics, who may have otherwise been ignored during the application process. It doesn't, however, imply hiring quotas; there is no such thing as "a DEI hire".
Many people seem to confuse DEI for Affirmative Action, as evidenced above. This article explains the differences pretty succinctly: natlawreview.com/article/dei-d…
While Affirmative Action is often seen as a legal and policy-driven approach, DEI is more about cultural transformation and ongoing efforts to create a supportive and inclusive workplace. Both are crucial for building a fair and equitable society, but they operate on different levels and address different aspects of inequality. DEI initiatives, though can impact hiring, focus on the workplace and people in it. The intent is to embrace the collective, minimize bias and treat others in a respectful and understanding manner.
DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) v. Affirmative Action: They Are Not the Same
Recently, the terms DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) and Affirmative Action have been thrown around as if they mean the same thing, but in reality, they aNathanael E. Wright (National Law Review)
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Especially in light of how incompetent this administration is, and how bad it is at clearly communicating ideas, they made the only sensible choice. Maybe there's more details in the grant terms itself, but from the article it looks like it just says "don't advance or promote DEI", and without explicitly defining what they mean by that they are setting up a trap.
PyPI is smart not to take the money.
I bet if they solicit crowd funding to replace this grant they’d easily surpass its dollar value.
~~Is there an existing way to donate to the Python Foundation?~~
Never mind, answered my own question: python.org/psf/donations/
Support the PSF with a Donation or by becoming a Supporting Member!
The official home of the Python Programming LanguagePython.org
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We now get to experience what it would have been like if the Nazis had a negative IQ. Which is impressive to say, because some of them were totally deranged.
All they're doing here is ensuring that all of the really intelligent people leave and go live somewhere else.
In a perfect world where nobody doing the hiring was ever even a little subconsciously racist, that would be perfectly reasonable, yeah.
Though that said we end up with a lot of nuance in the real world. Let's say there's a traditionally marginalised, opposed racial group. Let's say times have changed somewhat and people suddenly accept them.
Well, the generational and cultural weight is still going to have a lasting effect even if times have changed, and it may be more difficult for people from that group to afford a good education, good job, good home, etc.
The point being that even if we all stopped being racist today and hired purely based on how good an employee someone will be, we're likely still unknowingly skewing our decisions based on past social racial issues.
I'm probably not putting it very well but hopefully you get the idea! It's probably pretty common knowledge anyway I guess haha, seems pretty obvious to me and I don't even think about this stuff much 😀
Anyway, point is, we do still need to work as a society on ensuring diversity and fairness even when we're not racist at all - I think the saying might be "Equity over Equality", or such?
Obviously the USA Government are fascists, so they're more interested in wiping out groups they don't like, but they're just another in a long line of evil governments that will eventually fall, no point thinking too deeply about why they're being evil. They'll eventually die off as all fascist regimes do. Hopefully we won't have to fight a World War against them this time.
That's depressing, but at least there were people like yourself who understood the backwards injustice of it all.
Some people and places have to be kicked and dragged into the modern day, alas.
“We’ll give you some money if you promise to keep the blacks out of your organisation”
I suppose that this would be against the other part, the one relative to the federal anti-discrimination laws.
Fucking hell, good for the PSF for maintaining their values. I'll make a donation when I get paid. I'm sure they would appreciate it if any one else can spare a dollar or two.
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Edit: Added donation link
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This should be the top comment. Now, excuse me. I've got a donation to go make.
ETA: Done. I felt dirty using Paypal, but I was being lazy, right up until Paypal barfed up some error saying "This credit card can't be used something something blah blah blah. Let's try a different one." In response to which I suddenly found the energy to go find the checkbook and an envelope.
In response to which I suddenly found the energy to go find the checkbook and an envelope.
Who on Earth actually still uses checks? Is it ~~2005~~ 1995?
the terms included a provision that if the PSF was found to have violated that anti-DEI diktat, the NSF reserved the right to claw back any previously disbursed funds
So even if they didn't violate the anti-DEI, whoever controls the US gov could just decide to claw back money PSF already spent...
Trump scrubs all mention of DEI, gender, climate change from federal websites
Meanwhile, the Internet Archive races to save what it can – againThomas Claburn (The Register)
Yeah, this is one of those terrible ideas even if you thought that, in theory, you were onboard with 'anti-DEI'.
Out of the blue the wrong person gets randomly pissed at you and invokes the highly subjective clause and suddenly you owe them $1.5M...
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The Seattle zoo also rejected federal funding with these strings. My wife lost her job because of it. Because it was just for one program and the no-DEI was organization wide…
Apparently the Portland Zoo signed it… No one expected that shit. We both let her parents know that this is because of their vote in another state.
Uncritical application of DEI methods without due consideration for the objectives isn't reasonable.
But signing a contract that says "if you do anything we can construe as DEI we can demand payback of all the support you falsely relied on" is like stepping on a landmine and hoping the fuse stops working before you have to step off.
DEI is nothing more than an acceptable form of racism.
Hiring people to meet quotas does not make a society better and does nothing to fix the root cause of inequalities.
Free access to quality education, healthcare and funding higher education for the people who can't afford it is how you fix things for the better. This is the future and good.
DEI is the equivalent of a small band aid over a putrid, gaping wound.
Social studies are about worth as much as the paper they're written on. 60 years ago studies said black people were inferior. In 60 years it'll be something else. They always match the era they were made in.
The only true solution to inequality is actual action against the cause of inequality, not some feelgood quarterly corporate email asking employees to not be openly racist at work.
You call it a band aid but its more of a hammer. There are numerous systemic issues these policies force society to confront head-on and in meaningful ways.
Calling DEI racism is just a conservative dog whistle for "owie my privilege hurts" and ignores the other forms of discrimination DEI challenges head on.
In a perfect world, you are right - equality. But our world is far from perfect.
Quotas is just one small aspect of DEI.
Things like anonymous soliciting and punishing racism are others.
And even quotas are just a response to stupid people using their bias at their workplace while being blindly unaware of them.
The world is full of smart women and minorities. If there wasn't a bias we would be closer to 50% of managers not being white males.
I will admit I was mistaken, I forgot the quarterly company wide corporate email asking employees to not be openly racist at work.
Truly solving inequalities, one middle manager asking you to sign that you've read the email at a time.
The problem isn't that there isn't smart women and minorities, they exist. They're just crushed by the system. DEI won't solve that. DEI won't women and minorities the resources to achieve their dreams, DEI won't give handicapped people access to a better life.
DEI is a bandaid on a festering, maggot filled wound. People slap it on and are like "wow, what a good job", and it drives me crazy.
NSF: "We'll give you money as long as you don't hire minorities".
Python: "Get fucked."
Chad shit
I mean basically yeah, "DEI" and "Woke" are right wing buzzwords that basically can mean whatever, and the Trump admin et al know this. They could say "letting x people use this is woke" or "hiring y people is DEI". The Anti-DEI movement is just an excuse for actual discrimination because now we have people being fired not because they are unfit for their job, but because they're from a minority who was deemed more qualified than someone who was White, Male and Cishet.
I mean Hegseth fired the Chief of Naval Operations because she was a woman. Straight up.
Congratulations for having a real spine and showing the world that money isn't everything
Thank you python team
Good.
I'm glad that the people offering this money did not compromise on their ideals.
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The Future of Magazines… and the World
There's a fair amount of publishing inside baseball here, but what stuck out at me was:
DSJ: Your work is mostly concerned with the past and the present, but what kind of futures do you see unfolding for the world?TM: There was an extraordinary moment of international class coordination in the 1990s and early 2000s. Washington, Beijing, Moscow, and Brussels all agreed—despite their mounting geopolitical tensions—that they wanted their capitalists to get richer, that they no longer faced real threats from their working populations, and that they would help each other in the other great cause of the day, “counterterrorism,” which in practice meant killing and repressing Muslims the world over, whether in Xinjiang, Iraq, or Chechnya. Muslims were the ideal target for fine-tuning the emerging world order because they had no major power base of their own; their wealthiest members in the Gulf had no interest in upsetting the status quo. What is fascinating is how quickly this order broke down. One can point to cracks like the Iraq War, Putin’s 2007 Munich speech, the 2011 Libya intervention, or even further back to the Yugoslav wars, which Beijing and Moscow took to be a grisly preview of coming attractions.
Never genuinely threatened by “terrorism,” untroubled by rebellions of workers at home, the states superintending the 21st-century world economy found their hold on power jeopardized by the very success of the globalized capitalism whose ascendancy they oversaw, as powerful fractions of their ruling classes came to see themselves as unmoored from anything so constrictive as a national interest, however notional. Each state still believed it needed to enrich its elites—that was never in doubt—but there was a question now of which faction of the elite to enrich, and which to cast aside. Major purges were conducted in almost all the major states of the order. The purges were most drastic in China, where Xi in 2020–22 had to prove that the country would resist the liberal script of the business class overpowering the party. Putin conducted his purge more indirectly via the Ukraine war, which neatly separated out his capitalist loyalists from more Western-oriented capitalists in the upper strata around him. Trump, too, has done a purge, to the extent that one even can in the US, where capitalists, to a much greater degree, control the state. Trump had to confine his purge to the US bureaucracy; no major capitalists were threatened or fled the country (though the loyalty oaths extracted from the likes of Zuckerberg made for good television).
The other thing I see emerging is China developing a monopoly on state-backed science, especially climate science—one of Xi’s rumored successors when I was last in China was Chen Jining, the climate scientist who is now the party secretary of Shanghai—while the US will continue to excel in the carnival of recognition and continue to corner the market on identitarian innovation and mimetic desire. This is not a minor form of soft power, though it is one that the US itself barely understands. Meanwhile, the US has so thoroughly financialized itself that it has great difficulty producing basic military hardware, while it commits headlong to a kind of Green New Deal in reverse: the reorganization of its energy infrastructure and capital allocation in order to guarantee wealth transfers to investors in large language models, and to cover the shame of not having developed more socially beneficial innovations.
The last major rearrangement of global fortunes was the Second World War, the best thing—if you hadn’t died in it—that ever happened to American wage earners, and the best thing that ever happened for American technology. It’s doubtful that a war with China would result in a similar uplift, considering not only the obstacles to social mobilization on such a scale but the sheer amount of firepower that could be involved.
That's bleak, baby!
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How big a deal is California’s Proposition 50?
How big a deal is California’s Proposition 50?
UCLA law professor and voting rights expert Rick Hasen weighs in on the congressional redistricting measureUCLA Law and UCLA Newsroom (UCLA)
Grokipedia and the Coup Against Reality Itself
Grokipedia and the Coup Against Reality Itself
Grokipedia, the copycat of Wikipedia launched by Elon Musk isn’t just a string of AI generated slop, it is a weapon.Alejandra Caraballo (The Dissident)
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Ohio Secretary of State refers more than 1,200 voter fraud cases to DOJ
"Secretary LaRose refers more than 1,200 criminal cases to DOJ" - Election Law Blog
Portsmouth Daily Times: Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose announced on Tuesday that his office has referred 1,200 criminal cases to the United States Department of Justice for consideration of federal prosecution.Rick Hasen (Election Law Blog)
The Weirdest "Car" I've Ever Driven - mkbhd's video about the Aptera EV
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I dont really like the essay style of that youtuber, but they cite hard, irrefutable data that paints a very clear picture that aptera is just treading water now, they dont have the funds to mass produce these cars, and no hope for further investments. Its sad really.
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Was that before or after the $75M LOC?
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Aptera Motors Executes $75 Million Equity Line of Credit Facility with affiliates of New Circle Capital | Aptera
Aptera Motors Executes $75 Million Equity Line of Credit Facility with affiliates of New Circle Capital Carlsbad, CA — October 14, 2025 — Aptera Motors Corp.Chris (Aptera)
TLDW: that line of credit is not going to save them.
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That's pretty decent range, and having solar panels trickle charge all day means for a lot of people it's basically at zero fuel cost. That right there is the big selling point.
If they figure out how to lop off a foot or two from the back without destroying aerodynamics and solar charging, it would look and park more like a normal vehicle.
Gullwing doors are fun, but a bigger person might have trouble fitting through that gap.
FWIW, Toyota experimented with a three-wheel, two-seater a while back, but range was nothing like this: theautofuture.com/2014/07/12/t…
Toyota’s Three-Wheeled i-ROAD EV Technology Ready To Hit The Road In France - The Auto Future
Toyota is about to deliver a test fleet of its i-ROAD three-wheeled electric vehicles to Grenoble France, in order to see how the vehicle stacks up against the requirements of daily ‘drinding’ along mountainous country roads.Rick Carlton (The Auto Future)
For Years, Islands Have Warned of Climate Disaster. They’ve Seen Little Help.
As Hurricane Melissa threatens island nations across the Caribbean, many are already burdened by debt from a string of climate-fueled crises.
Apple becomes third company in history to crack $4 trillion market value
Apple market value hits $4 trillion
Apple joined Nvidia and Microsoft to become the third company to break through the $4 trillion market value milestone.Steve Kopack (NBC News)
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It's not as impressive when they've already crossed the 1, 2, 3 trillion marks.
Call me when they hit 1 quadrillion dollars market cap.
Remember when it was viewed as not appropriate to write stories about Apple's tax dodging because Tim Cook came out as gay, and how important and brave he was.
Remember that Apple, and specifically Tim Cook, has bent over for Trump over and over, including helping fund his bullshit ass ballroom?
Maybe we should accept that absurdly rich gay white men can be just as big of shitbirds as absurdly rich straight white men and just as willing to sell out their own countrymen and their own sexual identity community.
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Billionaire transcends all other identities.
A trans billionaire (if it was ever allowed to happen) would be a shitbird by default.
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I didn't even know he was gay.
Still, fuck him. Whenever somebody is doing something evil nothing should be used as an excuse. Similarly, Israel should not be allowed to commit genocide, because someone in the past committed genocide on Jews.
Tax dodging is stealing from us (using benefits of the society without contributing back), sending bribes and bending a knee is helping fascism to take over.
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That's honestly a bit surprising, the media went whole hog with accolades for him in 2014 when he first openly talked and wrote about being gay.
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Tim Cook: 'I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me'
Apple CEO Tim Cook has written about his sexuality for the first time, in the hope that he can ‘help someone struggling to come to terms with who he or she is’. By Alex HernRupert Neate (The Guardian)
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Dude needs to be dicked down hard till post nut clarity smacks him in the face so hard he begins to realise he is supposed to be human.\
I aint volunteering. Maybe some apple fan boi will do the deed.
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Reminder that many companies bent the knee to the Nazis because it was financially beneficial for them at the time.
I heard Apple products taste like boots.
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I mean, I don't disagree, but Google is just as awful and most people only really have a choice between an Android phone and an iPhone so not "supporting" one or the other isn't really an option for most people who, you know, want a phone.
Linux phones need a lot of improvement and growth before they can be a functional replacement for either of those, sadly.
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The open source community could really shove it to Apple and Google by figuring that out.
Last I recall, a lot of mobile hardware requires proprietary firmware and drivers that make OSS work here really difficult.
Mac Pro's $400 Dollar Wheels Don't Even Come with a Lock System
Your Mac Pro can roll around freely without your consent.Fabienne Lang (Interesting Engineering)
Taxing every billionaire and corporation 90% would give every American 400,000 dollars a year...
Just saying
That’s optimistic.
In reality ot would make the people who control the government VERY rich.
I feel like Prime is way more terrible.
Actually came across a useful thing the other day… if you go back 20-30s because you missed something (because you didn’t have CC on), when it restarts it will add captions for 20s.
You did the thing you just complained about by not writing out 400,000,000 (400M) in relation to the 4,000,000,000,000 (4T)
To scale that down, it's like someone paying 400 from a net worth of 4,000,000 (4M), or 4 from a net worth of 40,000, they would barely even notice. Of course that's ignoring all the details of revenue and profit vs net worth or actual tax rates, and I can't be bothered to look those up.
But imagine you own some land and a house that you bought for 4,000,000 (4M) that you have to pay property taxes on, and the taxes were 400 per year. That's a 0.01% tax rate.
Shit, now I actually want to know what the real numbers are. according to Finbox
"Apple's effective tax rate for fiscal years ending September 2020 to 2024 averaged 16.5%." although I think that's specifically income tax.
Per macrotrends, apple profited 180,600,000,000 in 2024, from 391,035,000,000 revenue, a profit margin of ~45%, from which they payed 29,749,000,000 in taxes for an effective tax rate of 16.5% on the income.
Relative to net worth valuation of ~3,800,000,000,000 at end of 2024 that income tax paid is 0.75% of their net worth.
RFK Jr. Orders CDC to Study Alleged Harms of Offshore Wind Farms
Autism Study Identifies Air Pollution Link
Other factors may be in play, howeverJudy George (MedpageToday)
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Did you know small airplanes still dump lead into the air? I don’t see RFK getting upset about that actual MAHA problem.
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EPA Determines that Lead Emissions from Aircraft Engines Cause or Contribute to Air Pollution | US EPA
EPA News Release: EPA Determines that Lead Emissions from Aircraft Engines Cause or Contribute to Air PollutionUS EPA
Did you know small airplanes still dump lead into the air?
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After toxic lead from old pipes started poisoning the drinking water in Flint, residents were outraged.Matt Pearce, Detroit Free Press (Detroit Free Press)
Donald Trump is a real life Don Quixote and and RFK Jr is his Sancho Panza.
Except I read the book and Quixote could be charming and Sancho always had something witty to say.
Elizabeth Warren Calls for Investigation of Top Banker Tied to Epstein
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Senator Elizabeth Warren has called for an investigation into former Barclays CEO Jes Staley and “all current and former US banking executives who may have facilitated Jeffrey Epstein’s illicit conduct,” according to a letter seen by The Guardian.Staley, who like the Democratic senator is from Massachusetts, was known as one of the chief financial enablers of Epstein, allowing the late sexual predator to continue his account with J.P. Morgan in the midst of his crimes coming to light. The New York Times called Staley Epstein’s “chief defender” at J.P. Morgan, processing billions of dollars for him even as Epstein’s abuse and trafficking crimes were public.
Warren also noted that Staley is already banned for life in the UK banking industry for his connections to Epstein, and referred to court documents suggesting that Staley told Epstein about the bank’s apprehension towards him (and his large cash withdrawals), allowing him to alter his approach so that his account wouldn’t raise further suspicion.
Warren has urged the Federal Reserve Board, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to announce plans for an investigation by 7 November.
“It is critical to send a message to the public and current bank employees that this type of egregious misconduct has no place in the American banking system,” Warren wrote.
“Staley is not the only bank executive with concerning ties to Epstein. For example, according to Staley’s sworn deposition, he discussed Epstein with [J.P. Morgan] CEO Jamie Dimon on at least two occasions,” she continued. “The Fed, OCC and FDIC should investigate any other current or former banking executives who engaged in similar conduct to determine whether their conduct satisfies the legal standards for a ban on working in the banking industry and civil monetary penalties.... Any banking executives who facilitated the crimes of one of the world’s most notorious sex criminals should be held to account.”
Elizabeth Warren Calls for Investigation of Top Banker Tied to Epstein
Senator Warren is demanding regulators look into Jes Staley for protecting convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.The New Republic
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Enviros sue over EPA incinerator waiver following disasters
Enviros sue over EPA incinerator waiver following disasters - E&E News by POLITICO
The administration cited flooding and hurricane season for its move.Sean Reilly (E&E News by POLITICO)
what's your utopia?
"du ska inte tro det blir sommar ifall inte nån sätter fart" /swedish tune about nothing ever happening unless someone gets on it, cheerful & soothing melody. 'Idas sommarvisa.'
"war is too important to leave to generals"
my utopia is that a promille of humans are around at the end of this, the 6th extinction. nourishes me to archive culture and knowledge for the coming generations. to consider my material possessions- to go WWOOF:ing around as a farmhand and educate to preserve & prosper natural areas- fields, forests. to find it in me to dream for children again: because i don't want the 12-children-per-patriarch-oligarch-or-antiintellectual-family to be the poor bastards left. i want better: i want all the sensible people who consider the ethics of having children, ironically, to increase the odds that their family's culture of humanism is statistically likely to exist among that small amount of humans alive after the 6th extinction.
what's your utopia? we all find motivation in a utopia or demotivate- cowering infront of a dystopia that only feeds off of that fear & despair to manifest more and more. it's never over, not even in Nazi germany.
Defend Our Juries and Prisoners for Palestine are teaming up for mass civil disobedience
On Tuesday 28 October, Defend Our Juries and Prisoners For Palestine jointly announced plans to launch what they aim to be the:
most widespread mass civil disobedience across the UK in modern British history.
Defend our Juries and Prisoners for Palestine: plans for mass civil disobedience
Defend Our Juries has plans for actions in 18 towns and cities across every nation in the UK. The group will be challenging the ‘terror’ ban on Palestine Action ahead of and during the judicial review (25–27 November). Protesters will hold Lift The Ban demonstrations in Edinburgh, Cardiff, Oxford, Leeds, Aberystwyth, Nottingham, Northampton, Gloucester, and Truro on Tuesday 18 November. Following this, the group will host protests in London (Thursday 20, Saturday 22, Monday 24, Wednesday 26), Belfast (Saturday 22), Edinburgh, Cardiff, Manchester, Birmingham, Cambridge, Bristol, Sheffield, Exeter and Lancaster (Saturday 29 November).
So far, the state has arrested over 2,000 people under terrorism legislation for taking part in these actions in which people sit silently holding handwritten cardboard signs saying “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action”. Around 170 of these, police have so far charged with section 13 offences under the Terrorism Act 2000. These offences carry a maximum six month prison sentence.
Time for a ‘significant escalation’
At the Court Of Appeal ruling on 15 October, Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori won two more grounds for her Judicial Review. This was at the same time as the government lost its attempt to block the legal challenge of the ban. Defend Our Juries said this made the Judicial Review “twice as likely to succeed” as she now has four grounds on which to appeal rather than two.
Last week the UN issued its draft report Gaza Genocide: A Collective Crime. It detailed the complicity of states including the UK in the destruction of Gaza. Amongst other things, the UK continued to supply arms including components for F-35 stealth bombers, undertook daily surveillance flights over Gaza for Israel, maintained normal trade relations, and enabled Israel to undertake international crimes with impunity.
A spokesperson for Defend Our Juries said:
Today, we’re announcing a significant escalation. This is set to be the most widespread mass civil disobedience across the UK in modern British history, stretching from city centres to small towns across the country, in open defiance of this authoritarian and unjust ban.These historic mobilisations will honour those already imprisoned for risking everything to disrupt the flow of arms to Israel and stands in unwavering solidarity with them.
As the latest UN report makes devastatingly clear, both Conservative and Labour governments have been shamefully complicit in the horrors unfolding in Gaza. The use of counter-terror legislation to silence and criminalise people acting to save lives and expose the UK Government’s violations of international law must end now. The Filton 24 and Brize Norton 5 must be granted immediate bail and full access to the evidence they need to defend themselves.
Our movement to defy this draconian ban is growing by the thousands and we will not stop until it is overturned.
Different nations, wildly different responses
The action in Belfast Saturday on 22 November will be the first Lift The Ban action in the city. Local campaigners have held regular independently-organised sign-holding actions in Derry, but police have brought no arrests or charges to date in the North of Ireland. Legal experts say that Police Service Northern Ireland need the proscription “like a hole in the head”. They suspect that the home secretary did not consult PSNI on the proscription.
Police Scotland have similarly made no arrests at Lift The Ban actions in Edinburgh. However, they have subsequently arrested and charged a seemingly random ten people from the 85 who took action in September. The Scottish Counter-Terrorism Board CONTEST has concluded that Palestine Action:
has not been close to meeting the statutory definition of terrorism.
Earlier this month, former diplomat Craig Murray filed a legal challenge against the ban in Scotland. It means there is the potential for a constitutional crisis if Scottish and English courts reach different decisions.
In Cardiff, Welsh police took an alarmingly extreme approach back in July. Cops arrested sign-holding sitters originally under section 12 of the Terrorism Act 2000 (maximum penalty of 14 years in prison). They held the protesters in custody while raiding their houses. The same sitters were subsequently charged with lesser section 13 offences (maximum penalty of six months in prison).
Palestine Action prisoners prepare to hunger strike
In tandem, Prisoners for Palestine have announced that prisoners the state is holding in British jails without trial will go ahead with a rolling hunger strike on 2 November. The decision comes after the home secretary failed to respond to their demands. This included immediate bail, access to documents necessary for the right to a fair trial, and the de-proscription of Palestine Action.
The prisoners are part of the Filton 24 and Brize Norton 5 who are alleged to have taken part in actions in the name of Palestine Action designed to save lives by degrading weapons and machinery facilitating Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
The Crown Prosecution Service claims there is a “terrorism connection” to the alleged offences. This is despite the fact that the state has brought no charges under the Terrorism Act against them, and the activists carried out their actions before the government proscribed Palestine Action.
Francesca Nadin, spokesperson for Prisoners for Palestine said:
It’s no great surprise that the government has ignored the prisoners’ demands, this is simply a continuation of the corruption and violence enacted by the British state – not only upon the prisoners, but most importantly on the Palestinian people. It seems that they believe that they can act against the wishes of the people, but we are here to tell them otherwise. The prisoners lead the way with their resolve and moral clarity and we must heed their call. We are here today with Defend Our Juries to show the British state that we will not be intimidated into silence, on the contrary, we are fighting for the same cause and will continue to escalate. For justice, for freedom, to stop the genocide in Palestine.
T Hoxa, one of the Filton 24 who ended a 28-day hunger strike on 7 September after winning most of her demands, said:
For me, the hunger strike is about autonomy. Your body is one way you can fight against the system, because in every other way they’ve taken everything from you. They lock you up when they want, give you red warnings just because they’ve got that power. So, for me, hunger strike is a very important and necessary tool, and the notion that this is one area they can’t control gives me strength.
Hunger strike to bring violence of UK carceral system into ‘sharp focus’
Dr Asim Qureshi, research director at CAGE International, who are negotiating partners for the hunger strikers alongside Prisoners for Palestine, said:
This hunger strike will be the first of its kind in at least two decades. It brings into sharp focus the violence of the carceral system in the UK, a violence we often associate with places afar. From Guantánamo to Gaza, the infrastructure of authoritarian terror laws built to imprison, silence, and suppress action for Palestine and voices challenging wars and genocide must be dismantled. Prisoners are the beating heart of our movement for justice. We must honour their sacrifices and stand up to challenge the injustices they face.
The hunger-strikers are members of Prisoners for Palestine, which include the Filton 24 and Brize Norton 5. Some of these prisoners have now spent over a year in custody without trial. With their treatment having deteriorated following the proscription of Palestine Action, they feel they have no option but to go on hunger-strike to fight for their rights.
The prisoners will start their hunger strike on 2 November, Balfour Day, the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration. It will also mark just two weeks before the start of the first of the three Filton 24 trials. The hunger-strike aims to highlight the conditions of the prisoners’ incarceration, and set out a series of demands to the British government. These demands include the right to a fair trial, release on bail, and the dropping of all terror-related charges.
The Filton 24 are alleged to have been involved in an action on the Research, Development, and Manufacturing Hub of Israel’s biggest weapons maker Elbit Systems, located at Filton, Bristol. During the August 2024 action, a group of activists drove a modified prison van through the facility’s perimeter fence, and on through the shuttered entrance. Six activists then entered the building, and began dismantling production machinery, as well as Elbit-produced quadcopter drones, which Israel has used throughout the Gaza Genocide.
Police arrested the six activists at the site. However later, while in police custody, they re-arrested them under counter-terrorism legislation. This allowed the authorities to extend their detention period. Police later charged them with non-terror offences, and remanded them in custody.
Shocking abuse of terror laws and police powers
Over the following months, in a series of dawn raids, police arrested a further 18 activists, often along with family members, who they later released. The police again used counter-terror laws, and while they never charged them with terrorist offences, the prosecution have alleged a ‘terrorism connection’. All have been denied bail, and been subject to various abuses by the prison authorities. The treatment of the Filton 24 has been widely condemned, not least by the United Nations.
In June of this year, activists entered RAF Brize Norton, and sprayed blood-red paint on 2 Voyager aircraft leased by the RAF. Brize Norton has served as a transport and re-fuelling hub for flights to RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus, from where daily flights have been dispatched to spy over Gaza. The former home secretary Yvette Cooper cited the Brize Norton action in proscribing Palestine Action as a supposed terrorist group.
However, evidence shows the government had been planning the proscription for some time previously. Five people have been remanded in custody in relation to Brize Norton, with the police following a similar modus operandi to the Filton case.
The state is currently holding 33 prisoners on remand in British prisons for Palestine-related actions.
Revealed: How Palestine Action was banned
Exclusive: Documents seen by Declassified reveal serious concerns within the UK government and MI5 about proscribing Palestine Action.JOHN McEVOY (Declassified Media ltd)
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OpenAI valued at $500B in new deal with Microsoft — too big to fail?
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Ever valuation is a bubble...
Say a company is "worth" 100 million. That assume that 100% of the shares equal 100 million.
However, it's a startup, so 90% of the stock will never see the light of day.
But you need capital to start so 5% got sold for 50k a year ago, that made the company worth a million, because 1% equaled 10k.
But today, another investor (for whatever reason) bought 5% for 5 million, that's what made the valuation 100 million. The people who own 90% can now borrow money against their hypothetical 90 million, even tho if push came to shove, those shares are only worth what someone will pay for them... And if you increase supply by 10x you lower the price drastically.
Really "bubble" is overestimating how robust our entire economy is.
It's all built on this shell game where no real wealth exists, but banks keep loaning our actual money out against the hypothetical wealth tied up in stocks.
Like, imagine if I owned a billion grains of sand, sold one single grain for $2 to my buddy, then claimed my net worth was 2 billion, and conned a bank into loaning me just 100 million, then invest that into my buddy's start up to pay him back for his investment in my mine that secured my loan.
Numbers keep going up, but absolutely none of it is real. It's just a couple of assholes insisting they're somehow "creating wealth".
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While there is a huge amount of circular money happening because it's all a financial scam, it is inflating share prices which are invested in by lots of institutions so when the bubble bursts and those shares are worthless a huge amount of wealth will be wiped out and the suffering will be very widespread hurting regular people.
The billionaires won't be the ones queing for food. Hard to see much glee ahead unfortunately.
Deal removes constraint on OpenAI's ability to raise capital
I think they mean "raze"...
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Auto-import of deny lists
NodeBB has a very simple allow/deny list capability at present. You paste in a bunch of newline-separated domains, and we block (or optionally, only allow) them all.
On the road to more fine-grained controls, I discovered that IFTAS publishes a Do Not Interact list in an importable CSV format.
As maintenance of these lists is important (adding new entries as well as handling removals), it looks to be increasingly important that I add into NodeBB the functionality to follow these lists automatically and update as necessary.
IFTAS Do Not Interact (DNI) List
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About this denylist
The Do Not Interact List is an IFTAS-curated list of domains that are highly recommended for defederation. Each domain is labelled using a shared vocabulary label. Each domain is investigated by human review for governance, common content, network and service activities, hosting location and more.Inclusion on this list means we believe:
- Federating with this domain poses significant risk to your service, and
- We are extremely unlikely to ever retract an entry.
In all cases we strongly recommend you use a Federation Policy to aid you in your decision making.
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iftas-dni-latest.csv (Mastodon import format)The permanent file location is:
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(The file date will not change, but the latest version will overwrite any previous version at this URL)See Denylist Management Tools for third-party tools to import or implement this denylist.
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in reply to marvel • • •Unless it literally downloads them each time on application startup without caching the images locally, they've got to be in there somewhere. They almost certainly wouldn't be embedded in the main executable as resources (which you already checked for anyway), so search for common image types: *.bmp (which it evidently already uses), *.png, *.jpg, *.gif and perhaps even *.tga or *.ani. There's plenty of other possibilities, but those are all less likely.
With that said... I really wouldn't recommend running a legitimate (let alone an illegitimate) business on pirated software. Have you at least considered looking at some of the freely available open source solutions?
github.com/opensourcepos/opens… perhaps?
There's a live demo at:
demo.opensourcepos.org/
User: admin
Password: pointofsale
There's a fair amount of options: softwaresuggest.com/blog/free-…
GitHub - opensourcepos/opensourcepos: Open Source Point of Sale is a web based point of sale application written in PHP using CodeIgniter framework. It uses MySQL as the data back end and has a Bootstrap 3 based user interface.
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in reply to xxce2AAb • • •So, I don't have a physical store; I work from home. The system will work completely offline; I've even blocked its internet access.
Furthermore, I've tested many, and none of them pleased me due to the amount of unnecessary things on the screen and their complexity. This one is lighter and more attractive, besides being much easier to use and having various functions. I've even tried systems on my PC and in an online browser, but either the interface was too complex to work with, or it only worked online. This one has a user-friendly interface and is very easy to use. Besides, I'm a pirate... so you understand, right? hahaha
I just need someone's help to find this logo so I can change it whenever I want, as well as change some window texts. I never thought a software could be so complicated to find a logo for.
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in reply to marvel • • •Sure. I can see how the relative simplicity would be attractive to you given the use case, and so long as you know how to backup (and restore) whatever it uses for a database, I guess that's fine. However, if you can't do basic things like define new products without essentially hacking application assets, well, that's... significantly less attractive, I would think.
But you're the one who knows what will serve your needs best, obviously. Personally I wouldn't want the potential liability of having to use the reporting features of a non-supported unlicensed piece of software when a tax auditor comes calling.
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in reply to marvel • • •There are some kind of instructions in this video that go through a logo change process. I don't know if this helps, but I tried: youtu.be/QrobPTgu7C0
Also, does it use some kind of database? The images seem like they would be small enough to jam into a blob and just store alongside regular inventory information. If there is a database, it's probably third-party. If it's third-party, I would see if it had its own installer packaged inside of the application installer itself. (A third party database would likely be outside of the main app folder.)
Just dumping random thoughts.
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in reply to marvel • • •I think I found the half of the answer.
Out of curiosity I downloaded and installed the trial version from their website.
When I inspected it, turns out it's written in Delphi. What I'm guessing due to monolithic nature of the software (i.e. huge .exe file holding almost everything for the system) the already big (32.9 megabytes) .exe file is actually compressed. When uncompressed it's approximately 100 megabytes. When I checked the extracted binary(extraction due to execution, hence looking at the memory dump of a once ran executable) the resources now show the logo and the name your censored in a png resource file.
There are several versions of it but I'm guessing one of them is used in that header, others may be used in about window etc.
Unfortunately my quickly hacked up dump file doesn't run. So even if a modification is done, the resulting exe is not useful as it is.
Detect-it-easy can't find the exact compressor for the exe sections. So I don't know if there's any available de-compressor for this .exe.
At least my findings show why you can't see those resources in resource hacker. Because it's compressed and unreadable as it is from the .exe.
It'll probably be possible to modify those resources once someone can create a runnable extracted version of the original .exe. I hope this helps. I'll post again if I have any other findings and/or solution.
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in reply to said • • •I saw your reply but forgot to respond, sorry.
I'll see if I can somehow decompress it. Your answer helped a lot!
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in reply to remotelove • • •it uses Firebird as a database, but I've already checked the database and it only contains product images.
I looked everywhere possible outside the software folder and still found nothing.
This video only shows how to change the logo on the printing paper. The logo I'm referring to is the large, white logo at the top left. It's well hidden because I couldn't find it anywhere.
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in reply to hexagonwin • • •The problem isn't paying; it's a monthly fee if you purchase the license, and it's even more expensive now. The problem is that I want to change the logo and some text, specifically that large white logo in the upper left corner.
Even if I paid for the full version (which I already have), I still wouldn't be able to change things, like the logo, which is the main problem (it simply doesn't appear anywhere).
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in reply to Ghoelian • • •I hadn't thought about it that way; it might even be true. But there are several strange websites that sell the same software, even without the logo.
That same software is sold under other names and logos on Facebook Marketplace and some strange websites online, and in various other places with a "lifetime license." However, the company that owns the original software doesn't sell lifetime licenses; it "rents" the software monthly.
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Start process explorer, start the app, look and see what files it has open.
You can also try opening the EXE as a zip file.
If the assets are compiled into the EXE, there's a chance that if you put assets in an identical structure outside of the EXE, it'll let you override them.
Process Explorer - Sysinternals
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in reply to rumba • • •I also tried that and it didn't solve the problem; it opened normally, hahaha.
I opened the program and took several screenshots during execution to see if I could find anything interesting, and when it got to the login screen and the main interface screen, I saw that it was empty, without buttons, images, etc. So, I believe the image is loading along with the windows, but it's very fast and imperceptible. Maybe it's in memory? I don't know.
If that's really the case, I don't know how to check or try anything to change it.
I'm almost convinced that the images load into memory the moment the program starts. Because in the executable it seems like there's "nothing.
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in reply to marvel • • •The idea is you use the sysinternals to scrape the file handles as the app opens. It'll log it and you can go back to the log and look. You just have to add the application as a filtered application.
If it's opening them from anywhere in the disk, that'll show up.
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in reply to marvel • • •lol I actually looked this up and the op is asking how to replace the developers own cashier facing logo on the pirated software package.
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