European Union regulators on Friday hit Google with a 2.95 billion euro ($3.5 billion) fine for breaching the bloc’s competition rules by favoring its own digital advertising services, marking the fourth such antitrust penalty for the company
Found a new web-based fediverse app that looks nice and supports MFM and Emoji. Works great with IceShrimp.NET. (thanks to JoinMastodon.org app listings)
Edit: oh! It works with Hollo, too - I always forget that Hollo supports emoji reacts.
I do like this UI and functionality, but as I looked in more detail, thinking about hosting the front end for myself, I noticed it was a fork of Soapbox.
I still don't quite know the history with Soapbox, but I do believe there is some bad blood with this application among fedizens.
So just be aware - it's not the primary Soapbox app or related devs, but it's based on that code.
The Coastal Pollution Data Explorer is an interactive web-based interface that enables users to explore spatial and temporal trends of chemical contaminant data in U.S. coastal areas.
Let me just correct you there. Everyone pays taxes. If you buy anything from a registered business, you pay taxes. It is called VAT or value added tax.
So, unemployed people, seniors on pension, even children pay taxes.
Habiti d’huomeni et donne venetiane — Giacomo Franco
In about 1610, the Venetian engraver and publisher Giacomo Franco published a collection of prints of Venice and the Venetians, under the title Habiti d'huomeni et donne venetiane con la processione della ser.ma signoria et altri particolari cioe trionfi, feste et cerimonie publiche della nobilissima citta di Venetia.
This rather longish title translates as: The Habit of the Venetian men and women with the procession of the most serene lordship and other particularities such as triumphs, feasts and public ceremonies of the most noble city of Venice.
I did the DNA ancestry dot com thing, trying to find out about my dad’s dad who we know nothing about. I found lots of cool documents about the known parts of my family. Immigration papers, wedding documents etc. I learned Spanish so I could read those documents for the Mexican half of my family. But still a brick wall when it comes to my grandfather. I found a 1/2 first cousin in L.A., cousin Lola! The answer lays there but I don’t know in what way as she also has information holes in her family and she didn’t want another cousin 🥺 so frustrating. It just seems so strange I have gazillions of family members on there except the ones I want to learn about, I can’t figure it out
AFAIK the Mormon church has the most extensive collection of open genealogy records in the whole world. Genealogy is a BIG part of their religion so they archive every scrap of genealogical data that comes their way.
Anthropic, a major artificial intelligence company, agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to settle a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by a group of authors who alleged the platform had illegally used pirated copies of their books to train large-la…
“And now, we arrive at Ghosted III, to my ears the loveliest of all these records, with its bounding bass and complicated drums and prickly but lyrical bursts of guitar, a music that drones and dreams like kosmiche music, but also swings.” Dusted talks about Ghosted III. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post… #music #ghosted #OrenAmbarchi
Ghosted — the trio of guitarist Oren Ambarchi, bass player Johan Berthling and drummer Andreas Werliin — came together just after COVID restrictions loosened, as a way for the Berlin-based musicians...
Today is my first official day of professional #retirement ,at the age of 67: arrival by #train in #Domodossola, in the #Italian #Alps , to start tomorrow morning a new #bikepacking adventure of over 1000 km on my #Brompton folding #bike (C-Line 6 gears). I'll keep you posted.
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'Who Is the Sky?' è un altro stravagante, entusiasta, insopportabile, amabile tassello della discografia dell'ex Talking Heads, uno degli ultimi inguaribili ottimisti. La recensione
Day 2 of my #retirement #bikepacking tour on #Brompton folding #bike : Lago Maggiore -> Malpensa (52 km, quite hilly, beautiful small lakes, the river Ticino, excellent cycle paths).
I am using Google Classroom, and Gmail is marking all email notifications from my Google classroom as spam. It's email generated by one Google product going into another Google product. What on earth is happening to flag the notification as spam?
"A noteworthy part of the plan is to pause the electric vehicle (EV) mandate to meet a demand by the auto industry. The strategy waives the mandate for the 2026 model year and launches a 60-day review of the policy."
"Review" is a euphemism for dismantling it later, I think. I'm not sure how anyone ever expected it to work without a widespread charging network in place. Single fam detached garage charging I suppose, but that seemed unlikely to be sufficient.
I sure wonder what public cloud could possibly satisfy "buy Canadian."
meanwhile in British Columbia "have installed charging stations at 30 locations along provincial highways, adding to the over 5,000 charging stations in the province."
"Starting Aug. 15, 2025, drivers of eligible plug-in hybrid or battery-electric vehicles will no longer need to display an OK decal to use designated HOV lanes"
The Province of B.C. is making it easier for electric-vehicle (EV) drivers to access high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes, reflecting the popularity of electric vehicles in B.C.
“ Forthcoming changes to Canada's clean fuel regulations, Carney said, would also be crafted to help "spur the development of a vibrant biofuels industry in Canada." ”
Canadian agriculture relies heavily on nitrogen fertilizers, there will be little if any less net "carbon release" through agrofuels, until fertilizer production becomes carbon neutral or negative. "Huge amount of energy required to grow crops"
"who's land where and for what" Land Use change can't be ignored. If canola based agrofuel is used, where will Canadians get their vegetable oils for non-fuel? youtu.be/WvYk9gXX2Qk?t=2415
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If you're detail-oriented, responsible, self motivated, and enjoy business operations, apply to be our next operations assistant: u.fsf.org/48d #FSF #job
Internxt is a cloud storage service alternative to Google Drive. It’s built for absolute privacy and military-grade security with zero-knowledge file storage.
Le passkey stanno sostituendo le password e sono già supportate da Google, Apple, Microsoft e molti siti. Sono più sicure, resistenti al phishing e facili da usare: si basano su crittografia a chiave pubblica e autenticazione biometrica o PIN. @tecnologia @sicurezza buff.ly/dEVSDNe
@cipper @sicurezza Come spiega l’articolo le passkey, come le password, sono specifiche per ogni provider/OS/app ma funzionano in modo più sicuro ed efficace. La sicurezza dell’autenticazione serve a noi per controllare i nostri dati.
@sicurezza conosco il concetto di passkey, ma onestamente, dipendere da una azienda per l'accesso a svariati servizi internet, anche essenziali, non mi sento affatto più sicuro, ma più ingabbiato.
La sicurezza la ottengo con un password manager serio, tipo keepassxc che non si affida al cloud, e con la 2FA nel caso di servizi critici come qualli bancari.
Inoltre queste aziende sono spesso totalmente inaffidabili in termini di servizi offerti e di privacy.
🚨AI propaganda factories🏭 are now operational. My study shows how small, open-weight models can run as fully automatic generators in influence campaigns. mechanising personas, engagement, cadence. Possible for State, non-state, and micro-actors, including and bedroom ones. This is a wake-up call. This has implications for AI Safety. Alignment in frontier, closed-source models won't save you. 💥 Next generation information warfare.
AI-powered influence operations can now be executed end-to-end on commodity hardware. We show that small language models produce coherent, persona-driven political messaging and can be evaluated automatically without human raters.
Who needs sleep? (Well you're never gonna get it.) Who needs sleep? (Tell me, what's that for?) Who needs sleep? (Well you're never gonna get it.) There's a guy whose been awake since the second world war...
(...) la giurista italiana non può recarsi nel suo ufficio presso la sede dell’ONU a New York per relazionare con chi le ha conferito l’incarico. Non solo: non può avere un conto in banca, né negli Stati Uniti né in Italia. Il suo attuale conto italiano è stato congelato e, quando ha cercato di aprirne uno nuovo presso Banca Etica, l’istituto ha dovuto rifiutare la richiesta. Altrimenti», ha spiegato Nazzareno Gabrielli, con grande rammarico, «la banca rischierebbe sanzioni secondarie e una salatissima multa; inoltre verrebbe bloccato ogni scambio in dollari, impedendo così le sue transazioni internazionali». (...) lindipendente.online/2025/09/0…
Lo scorso 9 luglio, Francesca Albanese, relatrice speciale delle Nazioni Unite sui territori palestinesi occupati, è stata colpita da pesanti sanzioni statunitensi.
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