• A clear divide persists between top performers and the rest
  > A clear divide persists between the top performers (Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google DeepMind) and the rest of the companies reviewed (Z.ai, xAI, Meta, Alibaba Cloud, DeepSeek). The most substantial gaps exist in the domains of risk assessment, safety framework, and information sharing, caused by limited disclosure, weak evidence of systematic safety processes, and uneven adoption of robust evaluation practices.
• Existential safety remains the industry’s core structural weakness
  > All of the companies reviewed are racing toward AGI/superintelligence without presenting any explicit plans for controlling or aligning such smarter-than-human technology, thus leaving the most consequential risks effectively unaddressed.
• Despite public commitments, companies’ safety practices continue to fall short of emerging global standards
  > While many companies partially align with these emerging standards, the depth, specificity, and quality of implementation remain uneven, resulting in safety practices that do not yet meet the rigor, measurability, or transparency envisioned by frameworks such as the EU AI Code of Practice.

AI Safety Index Winter 2025 - Future of Life Institute

The Winter 2025 edition of our AI Safety Index, in which AI experts rate eight leading AI companies on key safety and security domains.

^{Future of Life Institute}

• A clear divide persists between top performers and the rest
  > A clear divide persists between the top performers (Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google DeepMind) and the rest of the companies reviewed (Z.ai, xAI, Meta, Alibaba Cloud, DeepSeek). The most substantial gaps exist in the domains of risk assessment, safety framework, and information sharing, caused by limited disclosure, weak evidence of systematic safety processes, and uneven adoption of robust evaluation practices.
• Existential safety remains the industry’s core structural weakness
  > All of the companies reviewed are racing toward AGI/superintelligence without presenting any explicit plans for controlling or aligning such smarter-than-human technology, thus leaving the most consequential risks effectively unaddressed.
• Despite public commitments, companies’ safety practices continue to fall short of emerging global standards
  > While many companies partially align with these emerging standards, the depth, specificity, and quality of implementation remain uneven, resulting in safety practices that do not yet meet the rigor, measurability, or transparency envisioned by frameworks such as the EU AI Code of Practice.

AI Safety Index Winter 2025 - Future of Life Institute

The Winter 2025 edition of our AI Safety Index, in which AI experts rate eight leading AI companies on key safety and security domains.

^{Future of Life Institute}

What is Lemmy?

Lemmy is a self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top. Thanks to @flamingos-cant for contributing to resolve this.

Changes

Recently some malicious users started to use an exploit where they would post rule violating content and then delete the account. This would prevent admins and mods from viewing the user profile to find other posts, and would also prevent federation of ban actions.

The new release fixes these problems. Thanks to @flamingos-cant for contributing to solve this.

Upgrade instructions

There are no breaking changes with this release.

Follow the upgrade instructions for ansible or docker.

If you need help with the upgrade, you can ask in our support forum or on the Matrix Chat.

Thanks to everyone

We'd like to thank our many contributors and users of Lemmy for coding, translating, testing, and helping find and fix bugs. We're glad many people find it useful and enjoyable enough to contribute.

Support development

We (@dessalines and @nutomic) have been working full-time on Lemmy for over five years. This is largely thanks to support from NLnet foundation, as well as donations from individual users.

If you like using Lemmy, and want to make sure that we will always be available to work full time building it, consider donating to support its development. A recurring donation is the best way to ensure that open-source software like Lemmy can stay independent and alive, and helps us grow our little developer co-op to support more full-time developers.

• Liberapay (preferred option)
• Open Collective
• Patreon
• Cryptocurrency

Matrix - Decentralised and secure communication

You're invited to talk on Matrix. If you don't already have a client this link will help you pick one, and join the conversation. If you already have one, this link will help you join the conversation

^matrix.to

Lawsuit.

The developer of ICEBlock, an iPhone app that anonymously tracks the presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, has sued the Trump administration for free speech violations after Apple removed the service from its app store under demands from the White House.

The suit, filed on Monday in federal court in Washington, asks a judge to declare that the administration violated the First Amendment when it threatened to criminally prosecute the app's developer and pressured Apple to make the app unavailable for download, which the tech company did in October.

Lawsuit.

The developer of ICEBlock, an iPhone app that anonymously tracks the presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, has sued the Trump administration for free speech violations after Apple removed the service from its app store under demands from the White House.

The suit, filed on Monday in federal court in Washington, asks a judge to declare that the administration violated the First Amendment when it threatened to criminally prosecute the app's developer and pressured Apple to make the app unavailable for download, which the tech company did in October.

Ubuntu, Gnome, Wayland, nVidia, Intel integrated graphics.

I have a wide-gamut OLED screen. When regular sRGB is mapped to it, it leads to oversaturation. I can use color profiles in color managed applications to get accurate colors, but it's not system-wide and it have no effect on most of the apps.
On Windows 11, I was able to change hue/saturation both in Intel Command Center and in ASUS preinstalled bloatware. On Linux, I've spent a lot of time, built below markdown file and I still have no suitable saturation control. Did I miss something?

If you're using KDE and you have a swappedRedAndGreen.icc color profile preinstalled in your color management settings, can you enable it to check if it affects whole system or only color managed applications (like some of image viewers)? If you have SDR Color Intensity in your KDE Display settings and it works, can you check if CTM is supported by your system (xrandr --properties | grep ctm)?

Gnome Extensions

There are some saturation extensions which work nice for X11 but bad for Wayland+fractional scaling, they degrade performance in any case:
extensions.gnome.org/
github.com/zb3/gnome-saturatio…

nVidia Settings

In some systems nVidia control panel has color settings:

nvidia-settings

xrandr and xcalib

X11 only.

# You can make white less white, but can't change black in xrandr with gamma/brightness props:
xrandr --output eDP-1 --gamma ('{0}:{0}:{0}' -f 1.9) --brightness 0.5

# This one changes black point!
xcalib -brightness 10 -alter 

To reset xcalib use one of these:

• Restart PC;
• Alt+F2 -> xcalib -clear -> Enter;
• Ctrl+Alt+Delete and wait for 60s or press Right, Enter

xrandr BroadcastRGB

# Check Broadcast RGB available values (default: Automatic):
xrandr --props | sls 'Broadcast RGB' -Context 0,1 | select -f 1
\#>       Broadcast RGB: Limited 16:235
#                supported: Automatic, Full, Limited 16:235

# Change to Limited:
xrandr --output eDP-1 --set "Broadcast RGB" "Limited 16:235"
# Black is now less black, white is less white, screen is softer.
# Will reset to default after reboot.

libvibrant

X11 only
github.com/libvibrant/libvibra…
unix.stackexchange.com/a/73007…

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/libvibrant/libvibrant.git
# sudo apt install cmake
# sudo apt install libx11-dev libxrandr-dev libxext-dev libxi-dev
# sudo apt install nvidia-settings libxnvctrl-dev
cmake ..
& ./build/cli/vibrant-cli --version

# FAIL
# CTM should be supported by driver/display for libvibrant to work:
# xrandr --properties | sls ctm

KDE has saturation settings? zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/20… "SDR Color Intensity" option. Maybe it relies on CTM?

KDE can affect whole screen appearance with regular ICC profiles without VCGT tag?

• Governments should publicly object to the Trump administration’s unlawful strikes against alleged drug smuggling boats.
• The rules-based international order depends on countries speaking out against violations, even when they’re committed by powerful friends.
  Governments that partner with the US on counter-narcotics efforts need to take steps to ensure they are not complicit in these extrajudicial killings.

US: Other Countries Should Push Back on Lawless Executions at Sea

Governments that partner with the United States on counternarcotics efforts should join other nations that have publicly objected to the Trump administration’s unlawful strikes against alleged drug smuggling boats.

^{Human Rights Watch}

Il modo più semplice per provare a raccontare di questo Power In The Blood è far finta di credere che Buffy Sainte Marie sia, soltanto, una autrice e cantante. Di dimenticarci delle sue esperienze di artista multimediale e del suo impegno di pacifista e cooperatrice, a difesa e sostegno dei nativi americani, popolo al quale lei stessa appartiene... Leggi e ascolta...

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2025-12-09 06:57:11

Buffy Sainte-Marie - Power In The Blood (2015)

Il modo più semplice per provare a raccontare di questo Power In The Blood è far finta di credere che Buffy Sainte Marie sia, soltanto, una autrice e cantante. Di dimenticarci delle sue esperienze di artista multimediale e del suo impegno di pacifista e cooperatrice, a difesa e sostegno dei nativi americani, popolo al quale lei stessa appartiene. Ma anche così, pur essendo questo il modo più semplice, ridurre Power In The Blood alla sua sola dimensione fisica di album, non rende tuttavia semplice raccontarlo... artesuono.blogspot.com/2015/05…

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Buffy Sainte-Marie - Power In The Blood (2015)

di Mauro Eufrosini Il modo più semplice per provare a raccontare di questo Power In The Blood è far finta di credere che Buffy Sainte M...

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Manyverse is a social networking app with features you would expect: posts, likes, profiles, private messages, etc. But it's not running in the cloud owned by a company, instead, your friends' posts and all your social data live entirely in your phone. This way, even when you're offline, you can scroll, read anything, and even write posts and like content! When your phone is back online, it syncs the latest updates directly with your friends' phones, through a shared local Wi-Fi or on the internet.

We're building this free and open source project as a community effort because we believe in non-commercial, neutral, and fair mobile communication for everyone.

( Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, Linux)

Lemmy just blocked me from commenting due to being on VPN !

Luckily switching country worked, but how long will that work for?

These are sad days indeed !