Backfire: Export Controls Helped Huawei and Hurt U.S. Firms
Backfire: Export Controls Helped Huawei and Hurt U.S. Firms
Huawei is a more innovative company today than it was before the U.S. government sought to choke its supply chain. This case should serve as a lesson: U.S. techno-economic power is weaker than most think, and sanctions often hurt U.S.Rodrigo Balbontin (Information Technology and Innovation Foundation | ITIF)
North Carolina Is the Canary in the Election Coal Mine | Americans don’t have to imagine what attempts to subvert an election could look like, because it’s already happening in one state.
North Carolina Is the Canary in the Election Coal Mine
Americans don’t have to imagine what attempts to subvert an election could look like, because it’s already happening in one state.David A. Graham (The Atlantic)
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Turning Data Center Revenues into Affordable Homes
Turning Data Center Revenues into Affordable Homes
As data centers see a surge in demand because of generative AI, Henrico County, Virginia, shows how local governments can turn the economic gains of this new…Christina Plerhoples Stacy (Urban Institute)
Monster Hurricane Melissa Is Ominous Reminder of Trump's Perilous Climate Policy, Aid Cuts
Monster Hurricane Melissa Is Ominous Reminder of Trump's Perilous Climate Policy, Aid Cuts
"The Trump administration and its Republican allies in Congress are condemning people around the world to more frequent and severe extreme weather," said one critic.brett-wilkins (Common Dreams)
Westinghouse is claiming a nuclear deal would see $80B of new reactors
Westinghouse is claiming a nuclear deal would see $80B of new reactors
Details are remarkably sparse on what has been agreed to.John Timmer (Ars Technica)
Corporate Democrats Falsely Claim Medicare for All Is 'Unpopular' | Common Dreams
Jeff Cohen
Oct 28, 2025
This week began with the release of a report titled “Deciding to Win,” claiming to light the way “toward a common sense renewal of the Democratic Party.”But the first mention of healthcare is so far from reality that the authors might have more accurately titled their report “Deciding to Lie.” The report declares that Medicare for All is in the category of “unpopular economic policies.” The claim is false. But it’s in sync with the corporate sensibilities and wishful thinking of party operatives like James Carville, whose praise of the document appears on its first page.
Corporate Democrats Falsely Claim Medicare for All Is 'Unpopular'
This and other idiocy of the elites shows why the Democratic Establishment hasn't learned a damn thing from losing to Trump—not once, but twice.jeff-cohen (Common Dreams)
Corporate Democrats Falsely Claim Medicare for All Is 'Unpopular' | Common Dreams
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/38203670
Jeff Cohen
Oct 28, 2025
This week began with the release of a report titled “Deciding to Win,” claiming to light the way “toward a common sense renewal of the Democratic Party.”But the first mention of healthcare is so far from reality that the authors might have more accurately titled their report “Deciding to Lie.” The report declares that Medicare for All is in the category of “unpopular economic policies.” The claim is false. But it’s in sync with the corporate sensibilities and wishful thinking of party operatives like James Carville, whose praise of the document appears on its first page.
America’s super-rich are running down the planet’s safe climate spaces, says Oxfam | Data shows wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the world’s poorest 10%
America’s super-rich are running down the planet’s safe climate spaces, says Oxfam
Data shows wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the world’s poorest 10%Jonathan Watts (The Guardian)
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When I Look at #ZohranMamdani, Here’s What I See
By Meher Ahmad
Oct. 15
But perhaps more insidious is the pernicious #Islamophobia that has morphed in the years since the attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, the kind that has seeped into the liberal institutions that claim to oppose racism and prejudice. Their actions have helped lay the groundwork for the #Trump administration to take anti-#Muslim attitudes and codify them in policies and law, with far-reaching consequences for Muslims in America. In these spaces, Mr. #Mamdani is not “little Muhammad” but instead a virulent antisemite who portends violence for Jewish New Yorkers on account of his criticism of #Israel and his faith in #islam....when it comes to Islamophobia after Oct. 7, Mr. Mamdani is the poster child for the double standards that Muslims in America are held to today.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/opinion/zohran-mamdani-muslim-america-new-york.html
When I Look at #ZohranMamdani, Here’s What I See
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/38202880
By Meher Ahmad
Oct. 15But perhaps more insidious is the pernicious #Islamophobia that has morphed in the years since the attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, the kind that has seeped into the liberal institutions that claim to oppose racism and prejudice. Their actions have helped lay the groundwork for the #Trump administration to take anti-#Muslim attitudes and codify them in policies and law, with far-reaching consequences for Muslims in America. In these spaces, Mr. #Mamdani is not “little Muhammad” but instead a virulent antisemite who portends violence for Jewish New Yorkers on account of his criticism of #Israel and his faith in #islam....when it comes to Islamophobia after Oct. 7, Mr. Mamdani is the poster child for the double standards that Muslims in America are held to today.
Rising heat kills one person a minute worldwide, major report reveals | Biggest analysis of its kind finds millions are dying each year because of failure to tackle climate crisis
Rising heat kills one person a minute worldwide, major report reveals
Biggest analysis of its kind finds millions are dying each year because of failure to tackle climate crisisDamian Carrington (The Guardian)
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stability mechanism which occurs when some function of the output of a system, process, mechanism is fed back in a manner that tends to reduce the fluctuations in the output, whether caused by changes in the input or by other disturbances
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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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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
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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in reply to Tm12 • • •PoisonedPrisonPanda
in reply to whiwake • • •Im not arguing about your effictivity.
but that solution would put you on the same level as they are.
not caring about individuals.
But honestly. Im always buffeld about the world we live in with so many psychopaths that none has the idea to kill rich mthrfckrs instead of politicians.
whiwake
in reply to PoisonedPrisonPanda • • •artifex
in reply to whiwake • • •Unless this came along with a massive overhaul of the tax system I don’t see how it would fix anything. Say you kill billionaire #1. Now he’s dead, but his 5 kids are billionaires. His money doesn’t magically get recirculated, most of it isn’t even real so it doesn’t get taxed.
You’d need a wealth cap and it’d probably need to be almost global in scale to prevent these dipshits from running away (at least until they learned to realize that there’s essentially no lifestyle difference between $50M and $50B.
Hirom
in reply to Tm12 • • •Yes.
And ban all passenger fights for short travels, ie if travel via public transport take less than 4h, for instance via train or bus. That means denying airlines licenses to operate such routes, and rejecting flight plans of that kind.
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