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Governor Newsom signs bills to further strengthen California’s leadership in protecting children online


Legislation also establishes a prohibition against chatbots representing themselves as health care professionals.

✅ Required age verifications by operating system and app store providers to help prevent children from accessing inappropriate or dangerous content online.

✅ Social media warning labels to help warn young users about the harms associated with extended use of social media platforms.

✅ Stronger penalties for deepfake pornography by expanding the cause of action to allow victims, including minors, to seek civil relief of up to $250,000 per action against third parties who knowingly facilitate or aid in the distribution of nonconsensual sexually explicit material.

✅ Guidance to prevent cyberbullying through requiring the California Department of Education (CDE), on or before June 1, 2026, to adopt a model policy on how to address reported acts of cyberbullying that occur outside of school hours, and requires local educational agencies to adopt the resulting policy or a similar policy developed with local input.

✅ Clear accountability for harm caused by AI technology by preventing those who develop, alter, or use artificial intelligence from escaping liability by asserting that the technology acted autonomously.



Governor Newsom signs bills to further strengthen California’s leadership in protecting children online


Legislation also establishes a prohibition against chatbots representing themselves as health care professionals.

✅ Required age verifications by operating system and app store providers to help prevent children from accessing inappropriate or dangerous content online.

✅ Social media warning labels to help warn young users about the harms associated with extended use of social media platforms.

✅ Stronger penalties for deepfake pornography by expanding the cause of action to allow victims, including minors, to seek civil relief of up to $250,000 per action against third parties who knowingly facilitate or aid in the distribution of nonconsensual sexually explicit material.

✅ Guidance to prevent cyberbullying through requiring the California Department of Education (CDE), on or before June 1, 2026, to adopt a model policy on how to address reported acts of cyberbullying that occur outside of school hours, and requires local educational agencies to adopt the resulting policy or a similar policy developed with local input.

✅ Clear accountability for harm caused by AI technology by preventing those who develop, alter, or use artificial intelligence from escaping liability by asserting that the technology acted autonomously.



Governor Newsom signs bills to further strengthen California’s leadership in protecting children online


Legislation also establishes a prohibition against chatbots representing themselves as health care professionals.

✅ Required age verifications by operating system and app store providers to help prevent children from accessing inappropriate or dangerous content online.

✅ Social media warning labels to help warn young users about the harms associated with extended use of social media platforms.

✅ Stronger penalties for deepfake pornography by expanding the cause of action to allow victims, including minors, to seek civil relief of up to $250,000 per action against third parties who knowingly facilitate or aid in the distribution of nonconsensual sexually explicit material.

✅ Guidance to prevent cyberbullying through requiring the California Department of Education (CDE), on or before June 1, 2026, to adopt a model policy on how to address reported acts of cyberbullying that occur outside of school hours, and requires local educational agencies to adopt the resulting policy or a similar policy developed with local input.

✅ Clear accountability for harm caused by AI technology by preventing those who develop, alter, or use artificial intelligence from escaping liability by asserting that the technology acted autonomously.



“La brevità è il tuo peggior nemico: esperienza, ragionamento, intrattenimento”


Allora… Lo so che Rick Dufer è cadutissimo ultimamente, ma, quando parla di zombificazione anziché di altri fatti che ora nemmeno voglio menzionare, ha ancora ragione da vendere; e invece la dà in giro gratis, tipo cosa faccio io ogni giorno, che non è poco. In questo video (che è di 2 settimane fa, ma […]

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Cycling in the rain is as easy as walking in the rain: just wear raincoat


I use a bike poncho, it covers the legs, too, and limits sweating because it is open underneath. Decathlon sells them for cheap, and them works. There is also normal colors, but I prefer to be absurdly visible (I want to see who says "I didn't seen him 🙂)

Every time I use it, I'm amazed I'm dry underneath (the face gets wet).

In any case, even if I don't wear it, I'm unlikely to get soaked, when rain is not that strong. We are not made of sugar!

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Andare in bici quando piove è facile come camminare quando piove: basta un impermeabile.

Io uso un #poncho da #bici, copre anche le gambe e non fa sudare perché è aperto sotto. Lo vendono anche da Decathlon a poco, e funziona. C'è anche di colori normali, ma io preferisco essere assurdamente visibile (voglio vedere chi dice "non l'avevo visto 🙂)

Ogni volta che lo uso rimango stupito dal fatto che sotto sono asciutto (il viso si bagna).

In ogni caso anche se non lo indosso, difficilmente mi inzuppo, in caso di pioggia non forte. E comunque non siamo fatti di zucchero!

⁨⁨⁨#mastobici ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#biketoeverywhere⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#cycling⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#bicycle⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#bicicletta⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#biketooter⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#bikecommuting⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#bici⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#fedibikes
@ciclismo


in reply to lgsp@feddit.it

One thing I liked with my folder is I could put my poncho over the hanlebars keeping both it and my hands dry. It was like I had a little tent for my bike.
in reply to HubertManne

That's exactly what bicycle specific ponchos are meant to do!


Roy Orbison — Mystery Girl (1989)


Roy Orbison, il baritono del rock and roll, l’anima più sensibile. Mystery Girl è l’album postumo di un rocker senza tempo che, dopo timidi tentativi, aveva ritrovato la passione e la voglia di riannodare il filo del suo passato... Leggi e ascolta...


Roy Orbison — Mystery Girl (1989)


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Roy Orbison, il baritono del rock and roll, l’anima più sensibile. Mystery Girl è l’album postumo di un rocker senza tempo che, dopo timidi tentativi, aveva ritrovato la passione e la voglia di riannodare il filo del suo passato. Aiutato da un pugno di amici musicisti devoti e libero dai vincoli dello show-biz più equivoco, Orbison torna ad occuparsi di sentimenti e storie per cuori spezzati con una grazia musicale immune da qualsiasi fattore temporale... silvanobottaro.it/archives/370…


Ascolta il disco: album.link/s/1UPcuqLY9PC99fQAq…


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Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November 2nd


Hey all!

Apologies for no thread last week. Really just forgot and eventually it was too late and figured I'd wait. But we're back! For me, I am finally playing Baldurs Gate 3! And yeah the game is really good lmao. Idk why I've waited so long 😀

in reply to Chloyster [she/her]

I've started Death Stranding. It's quite interesting, very calm and relaxing. At least until the enemies arrive.






‘No restrictions’ and a secret ‘wink’: Inside Israel’s deal with Google, Amazon


In 2021, Google and Amazon signed a $1.2 billion contract with the Israeli government, known as Project Nimbus, to provide it with advanced cloud computing and AI services — tools that were used during Israel’s two-year onslaught on the Gaza Strip. To secure the lucrative deal, Yuval Abraham revealed in a joint investigation with Local Call and the Guardian, the tech giants agreed to disregard their own terms of service and sidestep legal orders by tipping Israel off if a foreign court demands its data.

https://www.972mag.com/project-nimbus-contract-google-amazon-israel/




Reddit CEO Steve Huffman becomes a billionaire after a highly profitable quarter


note that they (r/technology or Reddit?) censor PieFed, I had to say

Pie-Fed (without the hyphen, Reddit is censoring these comments)

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1omsbe6/reddit_ceo_steve_huffman_becomes_a_billionaire/

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in reply to Die4Ever

Off the backs of the people still giving reddit free content for some reason




California Gov. Gavin Newsom says 'the rules of the game have changed,' predicts redistricting ballot measure will win


In a wide-ranging interview with NBC News, the California governor slammed the GOP-controlled Congress and the Supreme Court for bowing to Trump.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday said he’s “deeply confident” that California voters this week will approve the state’s Prop 50 ballot measure, which would allow the state to redraw congressional maps on a partisan basis ahead of next year’s midterm elections.

In a wide-ranging interview, the California governor slammed the president’s push for mid-decade redistricting efforts in Republican states across the country, accusing the president of “rigging” next year’s congressional election and warning that Trump “is not screwing around.”

“He’s changing the rules. He’s rigging the game because he knows he’ll lose if all things are equal,” Newsom told Welker. “He did not expect California to fight fire with fire.”



how do you explain selfhosting to the non-techies in your life?


i am not looking to manipulate or convince anybody, just something informative in general, like "this is the bigtech world, this is the open source / selfhosted world."
any good knowledge bases, blogs, youtube channels and alike that you would recommend? the less technical, the better. it's not about "how to install this and that" but rather "what do i need this and that for, what are the advantes and what are the downsides". also, are there resources like that in your language (if you or your people are not english native speakers)?

also very interested in anything else you have to share regarding your personal selfhosting experience and how it may or may not affect those around you.

i'll start: in my own experience, there are so many other things going on in people's life, that i understand are far more important than whether their todo list is stored on their own disk or in some other part of the world. especially in the beginning, going open source / selfhosted does often feel like losing comfort, only to be left with more to take care about in return. so getting started as a non-technical person seems incredibly difficult.
another thing that comes to mind is, yes i could do the selfhosting for related people and friends, and yes they would trust me with some of their data – but no i don't want that. not because i am not willing to help, but i honestly don't want to have access to their data, it just doesn't feel correct.

thanks for your inputs and have a nice weekend!

in reply to thelocalhostinger

I think selfhosting should be as normal as owning a car and as easy as using a phone. It's because I think people should run the internet, not billionaires.
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Welcome Everyone — Tech LinkedIn: XR, Atlas, and Butt-Breathing Science (Yes, Really)


traumen.site/2025/11/welcome-e…
So today’s intro was supposed to feature a big Rube Goldberg machine… until it self-destructed. 😅 But that’s kind of perfect, because chaos fits right in with this week’s tech news — where Samsung enters mixed reality, OpenAI launches a browser with ChatGPT inside, Amazon flirts with full automation, and Japan’s scientists discover a new way to… breathe.

Let’s get into it. 👇
traumen.site/2025/11/welcome-e…



Welcome Everyone — Tech LinkedIn: Chaos, Clouds, and Cyberstorms in the Tech World


Welcome to Tech LinkedIn, where we dive into the latest tech news shaking up the digital universe 🌐. This week, the internet went haywire — from a massive Amazon Web Services outage to leaked government data, cyberattacks, and even a toilet camera that claims to know your hydration level. Yeah… things got weird.

Let’s unpack it all.
traumen.site/2025/11/welcome-e…





Election Day! Tuesday, 11/4!


Tuesday is election day in the US so I'm putting up the sticky a couple of days early so folks can get ready for the big ones to watch.

The US has a couple of different kinds of elections:

The Presidential election - Every 4 years, last one was 2024, next one is 2026. Also generally has a primary earlier in the year followed by the general election in November.

Mid-Term elections - Even numbered years that aren't Presedential are Mid-Terms, State and Local issues, along with every congressperson and 1/3rd of the Senate. Next one is 2026.

Off-Year elections - You are here. State and local elections, Governors, Mayors, things like that.

There are the odd "Special Elections" too for when someone dies or is replaced, but that doesn't apply here.

So what are we all watching this week? Feel free to namedrop your favorites in the comments, but here are some big ones:

1) New York Mayor - Looks like Mamdani is the walk away favorite here, but we'll see!

2) California Prop 50 - This is the one that would re-district California to eliminate Republican House seats, a response to Texas and other states doing the same to eliminate Democratic seats.

3) Virginia Governor election - Democratic candidate Spanberger is the favorite, State Attorney General is much tighter. Thought to be one of the races that will be a referendum on Trump.

emersoncollegepolling.com/virg…

4) New Jersey Governor election - Much tighter than Virginia. Like Virginia, this is thought to be a referendum on Trump, Republican Jack Ciattarelli has the Trump endorsement. Neither side seems to be walking away with it at this point.

reuters.com/world/us/can-democ…



The worst month of climate news in my entire career | Simon Clark


in reply to ProdigalFrog

So far...

I think the Thwaits Glacial week will be a rough one.

in reply to ProdigalFrog

This is my first comment on a climate related post in a while. Also, with people in private life I pretty much stopped talking about it.

Inside, I still want to talk. But then, what to add to the discussion?

It feels like everything has been said. Many times. We understand the problem, we know what to do and what to stop doing.

It's just not happening, is it?

And then I feel like retreating again and maybe have a drink or a joint.




Question on TV's


I'm a little out of the loop on TV's. I mainly PC game, but have a few consoles as well. My question is, what is a TV made today that just has the lowest possible input lag? I don't give a crap about quality or any of this 1440p (i?) stuff (stopped caring many years ago. I still watch VHS tapes on my CRT's). All I care about is input lag because it ruins the gaming experience for me.

Currently have a shitpile Insignia that is so bad, you can't game on it (even racing games) and it's so slow that video and audio often get out of sync on it and it needs a factory reset. It was free so i've been using it but it's just upsetting me now. I'm wiling to drop $500-800 on an enjoyable gaming TV if something like that exists for that price. Something 40" or so is just fine with me. For reference the newest console on it would be a Xbox 360. I don't play anything older than PS2 on modern TV's as CRT's are better in every way for old consoles.

Otherwise, I'll just go back to all CRT and projector TV for consoles.

thanks yall!



Wrist-Cut Transformation Subculture ✡ Menhera-chan - Capitolo 7


Sembra che qualcuno, in un luogo oscuro probabilmente piazzato in una dimensione alternativa, abbia iniziato a scocciarsi seriamente delle Wrist Cut

stuff.octt.eu.org/2025/11/wris…



[RANT] Why is so much coverage of "AI" devoted to this belief that we've never had automation before (and that management even really wants it)?


We're all seeing the breathless hype surrounding the vacuous marketing term. It'll change everything! It's coming for our jobs! Some 50% of white-collar workers will be laid off!

Setting aside "and how will it do that?" as outside the scope of the topic at hand, it's a bit baffling to me how a nebulous concept prone to outright errors is an existential threat. (To be clear, I think the energy and water impacts are.)

I was having a conversation on Reddit along these lines a couple of days ago, and after seeing more news that just parrots Altman's theme-du-jour, I need a sanity check.

Something I've always found hilarious at work is someone asking if you have a calculator (I guess that dates me to the flip-phone era) ... my canned response was "what's wrong with the very large one on your desk?"

Like, automation is literally why we have these machines.

And it's worth noting that you can't automate the interesting parts of a job, as those are creative. All you can tackle is the rote, the tedious, the structured bullshit that no one wants to do in the first place.

But here's the thing: I've learned over the decades that employers don't want more efficiency. They shout it out to the shareholders, but when it comes down to the fiefdoms of directors and managers, they like inefficiency, thank you very much, as it provides tangible work for them.

"If things are running smoothly, why are we so top heavy" is not something any manager wants to hear.

Whatever the fuck passes for "AI" in common parlance can't threaten management in the same way as someone deeply familiar with the process and able to code. So it's anodyne ... not a threat to the structure. Instead of doubling efficiency via bespoke code (leading to a surplus of managers), just let a couple people go through attrition or layoffs and point to how this new tech is shifting your department's paradigm.

Without a clutch.

I've never had a coding title, but I did start out in CS (why does this feel like a Holiday Inn Express ad?), so regardless of industry, when I end up being expected to use an inefficient process, my first thought is to fixing it. And it has floored me how severe the pushback is.

I reduced a team of 10 auditors to five at an audiobook company with a week of coding in VB. A team of three placing ads to 0.75 (with two of us being me and my girlfriend) at a newspaper hub.

Same hub, clawed back 25% of my team's production time after absurd reporting requirements were implemented despite us having all the timestamps in our CMS -- the vendor charged extra to access our own data, so management decided a better idea than paying the vendor six figures, overstaff by 33% to get those sweet, sweet self-reported error-laden data!

At a trucking firm, I solved a decadelong problem with how labour-intensive receiving for trade shows was. Basically, instead of asking the client for their internal data, which had been my boss' approach, I asked how much they really needed from us, and could I simplify the forms and reports (samples provided)? Instant yes, but by boss hated the new setup because I was using Microsoft Forms to feed Excel, and then a 10-line script to generate receivers and reports, and she didn't understand any of that, so how was she sure I knew what I was doing?

You can't make this shit up.

Anyway, I think I've run far afield of my central thesis, but I think these illustrations point to a certain intransigence at the management level that will be far more pronounced than is being covered.

These folks locked in their 2.9% mortgage and don't want to rock the boat.

My point is, why would management suddenly be keen on making themselves redundant when decades of data tell us otherwise?

This form of "AI" does not subvert the dominant paradigm. And no boss wants fewer employees.

As such, who's actually going to get screwed here? The answer may surprise you.




OPNsense Bare Metal vs Virtualization


Looking for some advice / recommendations / considerations on running OPNsense on bare metal vs virtualized, and if virtualized how best to do so.

I currently have OPNsense running bare metal on a Protectli FW6E Vault, with the following specs:

  • Intel i7-8550U CPU @ 1.80GHz
  • 120GB mSATA (1% utilization)
  • 16GB RAM (6.5% utilization)
  • 6 Gigabit Ethernet NIC ports

The Vault running OPNsense is the primary firewall and router, any wireless devices connect through a dumb AP running OpenWRT. Connected over Ethernet I have a RPi running HomeAssistant OS (would probably also move to virtual if that's the chosen direction) as well as a TrueNAS setup.

How much of a performance hit would be expected running in some sort of container vs the current bare metal setup? Are there any other concerns with running the main firewall / router virtually vs bare metal to take into account?

in reply to CosmicRanger

I run opnsense in proxmox for a couple reasons. 1) I can snapshot the VM prior to upgrading, in case of an issue I can just rollback. 2) backups, I can backup the whole VM, which includes all the plugins, Not just the base opnsense config. 3) I don't run anything on bare metal except my laptop.




House Republicans exploring ways to prevent Mamdani from being sworn in as NYC mayor if he wins on Election Day


House Republicans are exploring ways to prevent Zohran Mamdani from ever being sworn in as mayor even if he prevails in Tuesday’s election by using the Constitution’s “insurrection clause,” The Post has learned.

The New York Young Republican Club is pushing to prevent the NYC mayoral frontrunner from taking the oath of office Jan. 1 under an idea floated this summer.

It cites language in the post-Civil War 14th Amendment to the Constitution barring from office anyone who “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” or who has “given aid or comfort to the enemies.” The group argues that Mamdani’s own statements calling to resist ICE could violate the prohibition.



Republicans Claim They Have a Healthcare Plan. But They Won't Tell You What's in It


Republicans appear determined to destroy the Affordable Care Act, but what will go in its place? It’s a question the party has struggled to answer since the ACA passed. Remember Trump’s first term promise to “repeal and replace” Obamacare that never came to fruition?

Since the government shut down a month ago, the party has refused to publicly discuss a plan, even as ACA subsidies expire at the end of the year, forcing Americans to pay astronomically higher monthly premiums. In New Jersey, some premiums will rise by more than 175 percent. One family’s premiums will spike 300 percent. Across the board, premiums are expected to increase by an average of 26 percent for a typical ACA plan, a recent KFF analysis revealed.

The Republicans’ so-called health care plans are so secret, in fact, they won’t share them with members of their own party. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who called out House Speaker Mike Johnson last week for not disclosing the party’s plans during a GOP conference call, said during an appearance on Friday’s Real Time with Bill Maher: “Mike Johnson, for a month now, cannot give me a single policy idea.”


Quelle surprise. We don't even have concepts of a plan anymore!

in reply to JCPhoenix



‘I hate my choices’: How Zohran Mamdani’s run for mayor has split Jews in New York and elsewhere | CNN Politics


David, a 29-year-old wearing a yarmulke who declined to give his last name, said the vote felt like an “existential” decision. He said he didn’t particularly care about how the mayor feels about Israel, but Mamdani’s focus on Israeli-Palestinian politics made it hard to believe he’s not antisemitic, and he worried whether that could bleed into other policies.

He said he planned to vote for Cuomo “reluctantly.” “He’s bad on everything,” David said of his preferred choice. “He’s a bad person.”

Eric Weltman, a 58-year-old wearing a suit and tie, proudly said he voted for Mamdani.

“He’s smart, competent, principled and progressive,” he said, adding he had no qualms about Mamdani’s positions on Israel.

“He’s going to be mayor of New York, not ambassador to Israel,” he said.

As for Needleman, the 77-year-old who quoted “Fiddler,” he said he couldn’t support Mamdani and felt Cuomo was too dishonest. So he decided to vote for Sliwa even though he disagreed with the Republican’s politics, saying Sliwa seemed like a “decent guy.”

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in reply to edinbruh

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