The foreign ministers of Germany, Jordan, and the UK on Saturday jointly called for an immediate ceasefire in Sudan, describing the humanitarian crisis as “desperate” and “apocalyptic.” This follows the reports of the capture of El Fasher, the capital of Sudan’s North Darfur state, by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), and increasing civilian casualties there.
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The foreign ministers of Germany, Jordan, and the UK on Saturday jointly called for an immediate ceasefire in Sudan, describing the humanitarian crisis as 'desperate' and 'apocalyptic.' This follows t...
A pastor was pulled over for looking lost. A 72-year-old was marched out in his bathrobe due to mistaken identity. Memphis’ mayor welcomed the federal law enforcement surge, but some residents say they feel targeted just going about their lives.
A major breach of the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department reveals, for the first time, a list of alleged officer misconduct including dishonesty, sexual harassment, excessive force, and false arrest.
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Lebanon is still reeling from two waves of Israeli-attributed pager and walkie-talkie explosions that have killed 32 people and wounded thousands more.
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As the Trump administration ramps up its targeting of left-leaning people and groups, the prosecution and harsh sentencing of Casey Goonan may provide a glimpse of things to come.
The launch of Path of Exile: Keepers of the Flame over the weekend was one of our smoothest launches ever. Thanks to everyone who logged in to try it out!
Since the initial 3.27.0 patch, we've made seven hotfixes which addressed a variety of bug fixes, crashes, and balance changes to the new Breach mechanic. There are more hotfixes already in the pipeline to address additional bugs and make further balance changes to the new Breach mechanic.
Hive Fortress encounters will soon be receiving some changes to make them easier to complete and less punishing if you fail.
Ailith will create skills more frequently during Hive Fortress encounters. Note there is a maximum of 6 skill objects active at a time.
Increased the internal cooldown for which Ailith can be damaged. This cooldown becomes longer the more damage she takes from an individual hit. This should help mitigate Ailith being bursted down in a few seconds.
Failing a Hive or Hive Fortress encounter will now drop all the loot of the monsters you had killed up to that point. However, you will not gain any Graftblood or Wombgifts.
Ranged monsters now have to be closer to Ailith in order to attack her.
As a reminder, week one Twitch Drops are now active, so remember to link your Twitch account to your Path of Exile account and claim your Exile's Treasurer Hideout Decoration and Breachlord's Claw Character Effect! Information on the Twitch Drops and how to link your account can be found in this news post.
Fixed Incursion Breach Rooms incorrectly still being available in Keepers Leagues.
Fixed Delve rewards not matching what was displayed on the chart.
Kirac's Vault Pass now awards an Operative's Scouting Report at 40 Map bonus objectives completed, instead of an Otherworldly Scouting Report. This will display incorrectly until another upcoming patch.
Fixed a bug where monsters trapped in Essences would sometimes not show their world description.
Fixed an issue preventing players from joining PvP events.
Fixed a client crash that could occur when changing area.
Fixed a client crash when linking items to chat from The Market earnings tab.
You will need to restart your client to receive the client fixes in this patch.
A hacker has taken responsibility for last week's University of Pennsylvania "We got hacked" email incident, saying it was a far more extensive breach that exposed data on 1.2 million donors and internal documents.
It's hilarious to see what Economist writes these days about China. According to them in thr past China must have been a failed state for 15 years now.
I had 4.902 emails from subscribed and unsubscribed websites/services, and I took the chance to delete most of them today. I ended up deleting 4.288 emails, leaving me with 614.
The most emails where from Sobeys, Cineplex, Doctor Who, IMDB and Microsoft, which I unsubscribed for good. I have 3 emails, a personal, outlook(image) more generic and gmail for spams and deals.
I'm really interested to know how others manage their bulk emails.
L'uscita de Il Trono di Târgoviște: La Stirpe della Luna Rossa segna un momento di svolta nel panorama editoriale, presentando un'opera che trascende i confini del Dark Fantasy per ergersi a vero e proprio trattato filosofico applicato. L'autore, Dorian Yorak Vânător (nome d'arte), è una figura unica: un Professore Emerito di Storia della Filosofia, italiano di Padova, riconosciuto nel mondo letterario come "L'Autorità nell'Oscurità". Il Trono di Târgoviște: La Stirpe della Luna Rossa è un imponente affresco ambientato nella Valacchia gotica (oggi parte della Romania), un teatro storico e mitologico dove la mitologia vampirica si intreccia indissolubilmente con la politica medievale e il destino umano, il tutto sotto l'ombra incombente dell'Impero Ottomano. L'ambientazione non è casuale, ma un preciso ancoraggio alla realtà storica. Il messaggio centrale dell'opera è catturato dal suo motto in latino, un tema ricorrente e ineluttabile nell'intera narrazione: SANGUIS NOSTRUM, FATI NOSTRI (Il Nostro Sangue, I Nostri Destini) L'invito al lettore è a varcare la soglia di quest'oscurità non solo con coraggio, ma anche con la conoscenza e l'acutezza critica necessarie per comprendere il trattato filosofico che si cela dietro la saga di Dark Fantasy.
Each month we’re posing six pub quiz style questions, with a different subject each month. As always, they’re designed to be difficult, but it is unlikely everyone will know all the answers – so have a bit of fun.
Physical Science & Mathematics
What are the three states of matter?
Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
Who discovered that the earth revolves around the sun?
Which is the largest planet in the solar system?
In mathematics, what is the mathematical constant approximately equal to 3.14159 known as?
What subatomic particle has its name taken from James Joyce’s work Finnegans Wake?
I have ThinkPad at work which is pleasant enough to touch due to rubberised plastic but wanking with it sounds tricky because of how stiff it’s hinges are.
They're not saying they did it for Meta's own personal use. They're arguing a bunch of private individuals did for their own personal use and they just happened to be using Meta's network, which, given that this is about 157 downloads, it honestly makes sense.
Sad to say the title is clickbait. The only evidence the plaintiffs have that meta pirated their work for AI training is that a bunch of it was pirated from IPs belonging to Meta. Meta is arguing that this is insufficient evidence as it's more likely that a bunch of individuals with access to Meta IPs downloaded the videos for their own personal use. Given the very small amount of downloads and how spread out they were, I have to reluctantly side with them.
How would they even get a Meta IP?
Like most offices, they have an open network that anyone can use so they're arguing passers-by, delivery persons, visitors and such. I'm more inclined to believe it was employees but still.
What if my network is open to everyone and someone pirates something using my IP? I would assume I'd be held accountable because I'm responsible for my network?
Probably shouldn't be, but probably wouldn't stop your ISP from taking action. I remember this attempt at a "movement" a decade or so ago; never caught on: openwireless.org.
downloading things has never been illegal in the us. that does not infringe on copyright ever. Uploading and sharing is copyright infringement, which is why torrenting is illegal (uploading while downloading)
“Q3 was a strong quarter,” Huffman said on Thursday’s earnings call, in which he lauded Reddit as being “for humans by humans” and seemed to take a subtle dig at AI slop (the low-quality AI content clogging corners of the internet): “Reddit is in a unique position; we’re not trying to be the next anything. We’re focused on being the best version of ourselves and what the internet needs most: a place where people can connect on almost any topic and find genuinely useful information.”
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.
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.
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.
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 […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTjd0VT_FVk
Allora... Lo so che Rick Dufer è cadutissimo ultimamente, ma, quando parla di zombificazione anziché di altri
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!
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!
Well said! Good overshoes are also important in my experience! And have an eye on bike maintenance, as water brings a lot of dirt to the bearings and riding regularly in the rain requires more disassembly and regreasing 😀
Good point, I also use overshoes if I think the rain is too heavy.
I keep a cloth in the garage at home, I do a quick chain drying with it. Also I use wax on the chain, so it doesn't collect a lot of dirt. Still, when used in rain it need more maintenance, as you said
Very interesting, I wax the chains of my “hobby” bikes (gravel and road) but my commuter bike is greased: how is your experience with wax and rain, does wiping dry it enough to avoid rust? I’ve had mixed results with it, so I’m skeptical of waxing my commuter bikes chain (it could be the wax itself, though)
Be ready to be horrified: I was tired of the dirt on the chain, collected by the standard chain oil, so I thought about waxing. I looked at products available and nothing convinced me: either remove the chain and submerge it in melted wax or use some liquid product,whose quality was questionable.
I saw that people was using candle wax, and a random guy rubbing the candle on the chain and then melting it with a lighter (those where you can direct the flame). So I did exacly that with an unscented ikea candle I had a bunch of. I did that first time in May, and then again in September. I took some light rain, and usually quickly dried with a cloth when home. I don't see signs of rust, and the noise is at normal level. I'm pretty happy, but I'm aware I could destroy my chain with it, so I'm taling the risk. Even after the ride in the picture on unpaved road with rain, the chain looked "clean" and not much was left on te cleaning cloth. The same ride with oil would have collected an unthinkable quantity of dirt.
It's true, decathlon doesn't sell yellow poncho anymore, but it did some years ago.
The one I use in the picture is from TucanoUrbano. I bought it because, since I was using the poncho frequently I wanted something better quality. This one is lighter, and it fits better: tucanourbano.com/products/mant…
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How are the lemmings with glasses accomplishing this? I thought ice and snow would be what makes me switch back to a car for the year, but at this rate it's going to be light rain blinding me.
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.
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, 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…
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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 😀
The same lawmakers who voted to send taxpayer funds to private Christian schools are panicking now that Muslim schools are participating in the program
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