The problem is, even if it does improve traffic flow, it simply attracts more cars, leading to more emissions and more #ClimateChange. And more likely, it will lead to confusion, more traffic crashes, and more fatalities. strongtowns.org/journal/2025/7… #Alaska
An intersection redesign in Fairbanks, Alaska, proves that road projects are not always improvements—and that DOT priorities are often out of touch with reality.
Why VCD? Because VCD is the MiniDisc of video formats—technically obsolete, mostly overlooked in the West, but massive in Asia.
It’s the format that defined movie nights in Hong Kong, Manila, and Jakarta. Laserdisc, DVD, and Blu-ray all outclass it, but none of them capture that distinctly low-fi, pan-Asian, living-room energy.
There’s a charm to watching RoboCop 2 with all the pixelation and compression artifacts, like you’re time-traveling back to a 1998 apartment in Singapore.
Sometimes the “worst” format is the most evocative.
@grumpasaurus I live in Richmond, BC, Canada – the most Asian part of North America.
The closest shop to me that sells vinyl has more city pop than classic rock.
There are more bubble tea shops than coffee shops. And by the way, my wife refuses to say “boba” because it’s Taiwanese slang for “big breasts”. 😅
Thrift shops here are absolutely littered with discarded Asian stuff from yesteryear. I sometimes buy VHS tapes just to watch Hong Kong TV shows in the hopes there are commercials.
Anyway, there are lots of VCDs there. Many of them are Hollywood films with Chinese subtitles at the bottom. And of course, I would never have it any other way.
I have exactly one movie in that format (Ninja Scroll). It appealed to my then lack of DVD player and that I could hope to keep a copy of the contents on my hd. I like that digital lofi is getting some love now. Mavica jankiness.
I totally forgot about how they used to be backwards compatible. Even at the time it seemed like I was a weirdo for wanting a vcd at a time when dvds already existed.
@thomasjwebb My first connection to them was the CD-i, which were could play them with a Digital Video Cartridge. Didn’t own one but thought it was cool.
Then it became the thing you’d find at night markets if you couldn’t afford a DVD.
Believe it or not, you can still buy new VCDs on Asian storefronts.
You can swipe back and forth between full-screen and windowed "spaces" AND if you re-resize a full-screen app, it automatically goes back to the windowed space.
Wow they kinda did the thing? Fullscreen apps on iPadOS work a lot more like fullscreen apps on macOS now — they generate a new 'space', and you can swipe between them
@stroughtonsmith Really great. Hopefully they bring all macOS multitasking gestures to iPadOS. Three finger swipe down to see all windows of the same app for example
@stroughtonsmith Testing it some more you can make it work kinda like spaces on macOS except you can only have one space with windows and multiple full screen apps. If you have multiple windows open and make one of them fullscreen it’s still in that space. However if you then three fingers swipe to the left you leave that full screened app and move to the previous multiple windows, now two spaces. And if you at any point make a full screen app smaller it joins the windowed space again
I’m giving that a “finally” because that’s clearly how it should’ve worked with Stage Manager. Another sign that adding a window management system before adding a windowed system was dumb. mastodon.world/@Sumocat/111706…
@rjfaas@mastodon.social I’ve never understood why Stage Manager on iPad wasn’t another Home Screen mode. It looks like a Home Screen you could swipe to, keep as default, or switch to with a focus mode, but it’s not.
Measles cases reach 33-year high as RFK Jr. pursues anti-vaccine agenda There have been at least 1,281 cases since the start of the year. arstechnica.com/health/2025/07…
@nextcloud In a Nextcloud 31 promo video you’re talking about simplifying the “vacation requests” process at Nextcloud. Is that just a fictive example for the promo, or is that thing actually documented somewhere so users could replicate that example? Something like a step-by-step guide or similar.
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it is just a simple example for the video and we don't have it documented anywhere sadly, but it is quite easy to do💡 if we put together a guide for some basic use cases in the future, it will be there ✅
In the Video you made it look like this was an actual implementation that was in use at Nextcloud. Disappointing to learn that it was just a fictive theory and not real.
Fostering that, it would be great to have at least some examples on how stables could probably be used with an actual guide on how to implement them. After all Travel is not really a discoverable feature.
I’ve been angry at this regime because those girls in Texas were failed by disgusting adults. With climate change wreaking havoc everywhere, it will be our children that we will be saying goodbye to next. Hold your kids tight, because this will not be the last climate failure we will be facing. #news #Politics
Asher, being a half asleep, furry tripping, hallway hazard. He is not sorry about that. He stretched out even more, spanning his body across the whole width of hallway floor, right after this photo was taken.
A edição desta segunda-feira (7) do programa Fica Com A Gente foi marcada por uma atualização emocionante sobre o estado de saúde do apresentador Edu Guedes,
I passaggi in profondità del croato (ma anche del neoacquisto Ricci) potrebbero rappresentare una variante tattica per il nuovo Milan, così come le sponde o il dai vai con l'esterno portoghese
@la_sombra Yeah. Faked orgasms already failed us. (To anyone else reading this: no, they're not a nice gesture, we fake to make them stop with minimal violence.)
Lauryn Hill || Image credit: @mslaurynhillThe internet is in shambles after Lauryn Hill performed to a near-empty Superdome at 3:37 AM during Essence Fest,…
Nascerà a Saint-Christophe. Stamattina firmata l'intesa in Giunta, che approva anche diversi progetti in ambito sanitario su cefalee, epilessia e lingua dei segni
Lord, they’re making me do it. They’re making me talk about Jeffrey Epstein. Why? Because they are so damn set on trying to cover up whatever this all is. I explain the sordid mess in today’s piece, link in the replies.
@kazarnowicz ツ thank you ツ discovered some new brushes to play with, then some rubbish news ( re my teaching work) got me feelling a bit gloomy and darkened my ideas, glad you like it ツツツ
The administration plans to end temporary protected status (TPS) for Honduras and Nicaragua, designations first issued in 1999.
The decision will affect 76,000 people in the U.S. who have been living, paying taxes, and undergoing regular security screenings for nearly three decades. trib.al/UT9sbXL
“There are now two tracks of talk: one about a direct US & Israeli military attack on Iran, & the other involving large-scale psychological operations intended to deceive the majority both inside & outside Iran as a precursor to that attack. How, why, and when it will happen depends on timing & early indicators, which are not solid enough to be shared publicly. But the attack & war are imminent it will happen”
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I’m quoted here regarding the ethics in not disclosing to students and defense contractors that their information may have been leaked in an Indiana University data breach. Still no word of a third party investigator being engaged. Dear Internet, do your thing.
Queerer Leitfaden für Schulen gestoppt: Bischöfe ziehen die Notbremse apollo-news.net/queerer-leitfa… Die geplante Verabschiedung eines Leitfadens über sexuelle Vielfalt in der katholischen Deutschen Bischofskonferenz ist vorerst gescheitert. Das Dokument der Kommission ... The post Queerer Leitfaden für Schulen gestoppt: Bischöfe ziehen die Notbremse appeared first on Apollo News. #news #press
Ein queersensibler Leitfaden für katholische Schulen – pünktlich zum Pride Month – sollte Sichtbarkeit und Akzeptanz von Homo- und Transsexuellen in der Kirche fördern. Der Bischofskonferenz geht das jetzt doch zu weit, sie zieht die Notbremse.
Questa è una **pessima** notizia perché crea un unico gigantesco singolo punto di guasto. Se i server della CIE van giù si ferma letteralmente tutta l'Italia! 😭 zeusnews.it/n.php?c=31155
#ScuolaFutura, il campus itinerante del #MIM organizzato, nell’ambito del #PNRR Istruzione, per promuovere l’innovazione didattica e digitale delle scuole italiane, ha fatto tappa a Pesaro dal 4 al 7 luglio.
#ScuolaFutura, il campus itinerante del #MIM organizzato, nell’ambito del #PNRR Istruzione, per promuovere l’innovazione didattica e digitale delle scuole italiane, ha fatto tappa a Pesaro dal 4 al 7 luglio.
POV: your face when you were promised the list for years, and assured the guy you put in power was going to bring justice to all the pedos but then the list suddenly disappeared, Epstein killed himself and the case is closed with no other arrests or convictions.
An unmarked LAPD car was stuck in the park, surrounded by angry community members. LAPD showed up, clearly on edge, to let it through. The LAPD's complicity with ICE couldn't be any clearer.
It seems to be over. ICE and national guard are gone from the park, LAPD is gone too now (though it's unclear why they were here in the first place if they weren't going to protect the community from abductions).
At least we saw how quickly the community showed up, a full hour before the press.
This kind of operation seems to only serve one purpose: terrorize the community.
CBP showed up with helicopters, dozens of military vehicles, and military gears: stayed in the park for 20 minutes; and left without having done anything or talked to anyone.
Most street vendors went home and many businesses closed. People are scared.
When K-pop superstars Rumi, Mira and Zoey aren't selling out stadiums, they're using their secret powers to protect their fans from supernatural threats.
ZFS snapshots are useful for tracking changes in my home directory, but these snapshots are stored locally on the device. They are not backups of the data. To employ snapshots as part of my personal backup strategy, these local snapshots need to be copied to a remote device.
I use zfs-send and zfs-receive to make the first full back up from my laptop to my home server. Subsequent incremental backups then track changes over time:
Un hacker ha minacciato di divulgare 106 GB di dati presumibilmente rubati alla compagnia di telecomunicazioni spagnola Telefónica. L’azienda nega l’attacco informatico e la fuga di dati. L’aggressore, soprannominato Rey, sostiene che l’attacco sia avvenuto il 30 maggio e che abbia impiegato più di 12 ore a estrarre dati dalla rete aziendale prima che il suo accesso venisse bloccato.
Ha ora pubblicato un archivio di 2,6 GB di pubblico dominio, che contiene circa cinque gigabyte di dati e oltre 20.000 file dopo la decompressione. Rey è un membro del gruppo ransomwareHellcat, che si è assunto la responsabilità di un altro attacco informatico ai danni di Telefónica nel gennaio 2025, che ha compromesso il server interno di sviluppo e ticketing di Jira. Rey ha dichiarato ai giornalisti di aver rubato 385.311 file, per un totale di 106,3 GB, dalla rete aziendale. I file contenevano presumibilmente comunicazioni interne (inclusi ticket ed email), ordini di acquisto, registri interni, registri dei clienti e dati dei dipendenti. L’hacker sostiene inoltre che il nuovo attacco è stato nuovamente causato da impostazioni Jira errate e che si è verificato dopo il primo attacco.
Rey ha condiviso con la pubblicazione campioni di dati e un albero di file presumibilmente rubati a Telefónica. Alcuni dei file contenevano fatture di clienti aziendali in paesi come Ungheria, Germania, Spagna, Cile e Perù. I file contenevano anche indirizzi email di dipendenti in Spagna, Germania, Perù, Argentina e Cile, nonché fatture emesse a partner commerciali in paesi europei.
Nonostante i giornalisti abbiano ripetutamente tentato di contattare i rappresentanti di Telefónica, l’unica risposta ricevuta è stata che il presunto incidente era un tentativo di estorsione e che gli aggressori stavano utilizzando informazioni obsolete ottenute durante un attacco precedente.
Il file più recente che i giornalisti sono riusciti a trovare tra i campioni di dati forniti dall’hacker è datato 2021, il che conferma le parole del rappresentante dell’azienda. Tuttavia, Rey continua a sostenere che i dati siano stati ottenuti in seguito a un nuovo attacco informatico avvenuto il 30 maggio. Per dimostrare la sua tesi, ha iniziato a pubblicare i dati dell’azienda nel pubblico dominio. “Dato che Telefónica nega la recente fuga di notizie di 106 GB contenenti dati provenienti dalla sua infrastruttura interna, pubblicherò 5 GB come prova. Pubblicherò presto l’intero archivio e, se Telefónica non ottempera, l’intero archivio sarà pubblicato nelle prossime settimane”, scrive Rey.
Inizialmente, i dati presumibilmente rubati sono stati distribuiti tramite il servizio PixelDrain, ma sono stati rimossi poche ore dopo per motivi legali. In seguito, l’aggressore ha distribuito un altro link per il download del dump, questa volta dal servizio Kotizada, che Google Chrome contrassegna come pericoloso e consiglia vivamente agli utenti di evitarlo.
Sebbene Telefónica non abbia rilasciato dichiarazioni ufficiali, i giornalisti sottolineano che alcuni degli indirizzi e-mail inclusi nella fuga di notizie appartengono ad attuali dipendenti dell’azienda.
It's a whimsical notion on my part, I know, but wouldn't it be nice if this Labour government took a week off from its chosen mission of fellating plutocrats and chasing the bigot vote and — just for a week, mind you, let's not ask for the world — not spend its time kicking down to send one or other disadvantaged group into a spiral of months of panic and despair to save a few bob that will be spent on tax perks for the rich and nuclear toys that Mr Trump won't let us play with.
Noise has been building about restricting help for kids who badly need it. As a special needs parent, I can tell you: it’s terrifying, says Guardian columnist John Harris
I desperately need a thread-bare, "Wallflower Order Dance Collective" t-shirt I can wear during those times it's a little chilly and I would otherwise be dancing nehked in the forest under a full moon while casting spells against my enemies.
La krizoj de la politiko: suvereneco, reprezentado, gvidado, organizo. de M. Minetti La partio kiu mankas Mi plene konsentas kun la sociologo Lorenzo Viviani kiam, en sia eseo Sociologio de la partioj (Carocci 2015), li asertas ke la partioj estas … Continua a leggere→
Klarer Sieg für die Pressefreiheit: Schweizer Gericht stoppt Zugriff auf Journalistendaten de.rt.com/schweiz/250022-klare… Die Zürcher Zwangsmaßnahmenrichterin hat alle Entsiegelungsanträge der Staatsanwaltschaft im Fall Pierin Vincenz abgewiesen. Es gebe keinen ausreichenden Tatverdacht gegen den betroffenen Journalisten, sodass das beschlagnahmte Material unter Quellenschutz bleibt. Das Urteil stärkt die Medienfreiheit sowie investigativen
Apple displayed a full-screen ad for "F1 The Movie" in its TV app that linked directly to a web browser for ticket purchases without showing warning screens that the company requires other developers to include when directing users outside their apps…
Aquí us explico en primícia #Galàxia, el catàleg endreçat de gairebé 250 eines web en català que @accentobert_ i @softcatala obriran al públic dijous vinent.
El que més m'agrada: són tot eines web, fora de l'abast de Google i Apple.
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Psilocybin shows strong results treating major depression in cancer patients. Being diagnosed with a hard-to-treat cancer has major mental health implications. Now researchers in palliative care have shown that a small dose of psilocybin, combined with therapy, could treat depression in cancer patients more durably than treatment with long-term antidepressants – one psilocybin trip kept half of cancer patients depression-free for two years. Science Daily sciencedaily.com/releases/2025… #ShareGoodNewsToo
It’s not just hypocrisy, it’s cruelty as Indigenous people are targeted and detained by Trump's immigration enforcement agents every day. buff.ly/8iTfrZq
It kind of goes without saying that the situation is going to become exponentially worse with the absurdly high budget ICE has been given under Trump's budget act.
Native Americans are arguably the most American citizens on the continent. They were here before anyone else and everybody ought to be keeping their cotton picking hands off of them! Not, mind you, that that's at all likely. 😟
La imagen muestra una placa de metal dorado con un relieve de un personaje antiguo. El personaje está representado de perfil, con una expresión facial detallada y un tocado que sugiere una posición de autoridad. Lleva una túnica larga y ajustada, con detalles en la tela, y un cinturón con un objeto colgante. En su mano derecha sostiene un objeto que parece ser un rollo de papiro o un estatuto, lo que podría indicar un papel de liderazgo o administrativo. La placa también presenta inscripciones en una escritura antigua, posiblemente cuneiforme, que se extienden verticalmente a lo largo de la placa. La textura del metal es lisa, con algunas áreas más brillantes que otras, lo que sugiere que la placa ha sido tallada y pulida. La placa está montada en un fondo azul oscuro, lo que resalta su color dorado y la complejidad del relieve.
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En la web del Laboratorio de Rafa, encontrarás la lista de capítulos del tutorial: PostgreSQL y lenguaje SQL Iníciate en el fascinante mundo de la programación.
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in reply to Allan Chow • • •@grumpasaurus I live in Richmond, BC, Canada – the most Asian part of North America.
The closest shop to me that sells vinyl has more city pop than classic rock.
There are more bubble tea shops than coffee shops. And by the way, my wife refuses to say “boba” because it’s Taiwanese slang for “big breasts”. 😅
Thrift shops here are absolutely littered with discarded Asian stuff from yesteryear. I sometimes buy VHS tapes just to watch Hong Kong TV shows in the hopes there are commercials.
Anyway, there are lots of VCDs there. Many of them are Hollywood films with Chinese subtitles at the bottom. And of course, I would never have it any other way.
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in reply to 𝚝𝚓𝚠 • • •@thomasjwebb My first connection to them was the CD-i, which were could play them with a Digital Video Cartridge. Didn’t own one but thought it was cool.
Then it became the thing you’d find at night markets if you couldn’t afford a DVD.
Believe it or not, you can still buy new VCDs on Asian storefronts.