An autonomous car for consumers? Lucid says it’s happening.
Blah, blah, blah ... new startup faces uphill battle in ramping production. But then:
“As vehicles evolve into software-defined supercomputers on wheels, a new opportunity emerges—to reimagine mobility with intelligence at every turn. Together with Lucid, we’re accelerating the future of autonomous, AI-powered transportation, built on [the] Nvidia full-stack automotive platform,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia.
It's amazing to me that some people can unironically parse that as human language.
An autonomous car for consumers? Lucid says it’s happening.
Nvidia is working with Lucid on autonomous cars and future factories.Jonathan M. Gitlin (Ars Technica)
The twitter.com domain is officially being retired; 2FA action required
The twitter.com domain is officially being retired; 2FA action required
The twitter.com domain is now being retired, as X is asking users to re-enroll their 2FA passkeys to the new x.com domainMatthew Mountjoy (MobileSyrup)
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
cross-posted from: lemmy.bestiver.se/post/704939
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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
Austrian Ministry Kicks Out Microsoft in Favor of Nextcloud
(Nextcloud is written in PHP)
cross-posted from: mander.xyz/post/40795258
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
Klimaatzaak: Landen moeten voortaan laten zien dat de uitstoot van nieuwe olie-, gas- en kolenwinning past binnen hun klimaatdoelen, en daarbij ook kijken naar de uitstoot wanneer die brandstoffen worden gebruikt.Luuk van der Sterren (NRC)
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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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.
[Pregnant Ai] The Clankers Are Having Children Now... by SomeOrdinaryGamers - Oct 26, 2025 (Video, 13:10 min)
Invidious: inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=RfdiKOD…
YouTube: youtu.be/RfdiKODOJYc
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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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
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/inside-trump-familys-global-crypto-cash-machine-2025-10-28/
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)
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.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
We recently published a blog post with our reaction to the new Google Developer Program and how it impacts your freedom to use the devices that you own in th...f-droid.org
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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)
Texas sues Tylenol company over autism claims
cross-posted from: discuss.online/post/29544831
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)
Democratic Peace Theory, R.I.P.
Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant with no-DEI strings
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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Zohran Mamdani - Reimagining NYC Through Safety and Affordability - The Daily Show
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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!
The Future of Magazines… and the World | The Nation
A conversation with Thomas Meaney, the editor of Granta, about literature and the left.The Nation
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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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)
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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Elizabeth Warren Calls for Investigation of Top Banker Tied to Epstein
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/48759495
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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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 marvel • • •marvel
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 marvel • • •marvel
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.
rumba
in reply to marvel • • •learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysi…
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 • • •rumba
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.
~~datacaixa~~ marvel’s really good pos