I don't want to project human behavior on animals, but my cat Baker keeps bringing in live grasshoppers to my other cat Hunter, like gifts. (Three times now.)
Hunter had a seizure or something yesterday (see Vet Urgent Care post) and was weak and out of it all day yesterday afterwards, but seems to be back to 80+% and still recovering.
Baker seemed totally disinterested in the chaos involving Hunter yesterday.
Happy Caturday!
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⛔️🇺🇦President Zelensky: “Law enforcement officials – the Minister of Internal Affairs and the Prosecutor General – provide regular updates. An investigation is underway into the circumstances of Andriy Parubiy’s (VIDEO and more) #Ukraine #Paris #Rome #London #Berlin #Finland #Brussels #Denmark #Germany #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom #EuropeanUnion #11yrInvasionofUkraine
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Law enforcement officials – the Minister of Internal Affairs and the Prosecutor General – provide regular updates. An investigation is underway into the circumstances of Andriy Parubiy’s murder. Many resources are deployed – all that’s necessary.Telegram
I have a degree in translation and interpretation. Including UN-style simultaneous interpretation. 🙄
I then asked this person what other languages they speak. The said some French and some Irish, which they both forgot.
Alright.....
#languages #traveling #tourism #culture #us #usa #Germany #Ireland
Tribunal Constitucional da Tailândia Destitui a Primeira-Ministra Paetongtarn Shinawatra - Gazeta Brasil-
O Tribunal Constitucional da Tailândia destituiu nesta sexta-feira (29) a primeira-ministra Paetongtarn Shinawatra, acusada de “negligência ética grave” apósGazeta Brasil
New Comic Strip Found: Too Much Coffee Man by Shannon Wheeler
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Too Much Coffee Man by Shannon Wheeler for August 30, 2025 | GoComics
Read Too Much Coffee Man—a comic strip by creator Shannon Wheeler—for today, August 30, 2025, and check out other great comics, too!www.gocomics.com
Cento di questi giorni: auguri Alba
Grande festa in Rsa per il suo primo secolo
More from this morning’s adventure later, but have you ever seen the wake from a cargo ship?
#sanfrancisco #iphonephotography #photography #landscapephotography
Liguria Oggi – Il quotidiano di Genova e Liguria
Allerta Arancione senza temporali forti, per Arpal è scampato pericoloRedazione Liguria (Liguria Oggi)
ChatGPT #Phishing sample
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▪️URL: https://opemai[.]kreisverkehrswacht-stendal[.]de/web
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Seufz.
Weiß jemand eine Wohnung in ganz Hamburg, gerne Süden (Veddel, Wilhelmsburg, Harburg) ab 65qm, 2,5 Zimmer mit Gartennutzung oder Terrasse/Balkon.
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Musetti sul ritiro di Cobolli: "È un amico, faticava a tenere la racchetta"
https://video.gazzetta.it/tennis/atp/video-musetti-sul-ritiro-di-cobolli-finale-amaro-faticava-a-tenere-la-racchetta/2e7f1cc5-f1aa-47d2-8cbe-0e51cf79exlk?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Musetti sul ritiro di Cobolli: "È un amico, faticava a tenere la racchetta"
Parole al miele di Lorenzo Musetti nei confronti dell'amico Flavio Cobolli, costretto al forfait al terzo set sul 2-0. "Non volevo finire così con Flavio, è il miglior amico nel circuito.La Gazzetta Dello Sport (Gazzetta dello Sport)
I have published some steam game reviews, go check em out:
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#Steam #GamingOnLinux #Debian13 #DebianTrixie #Debian #Gaming #Linux #Reviews
Vaddern erzählt oft, daß er zum 25. Geburtstag von seinen Arbeitskollegen einen Strauß mit 25 Nelken bekam. Jede eine andere Sorte und mit Namensschild. Und so bekam er heute von mir einen Strauß bunter Nelken, wenn auch keine 88...
My father often tells the story of his 25th birthday, when he got 25 carnations, each a different variety and all with nametags.
So today I got him a bouquet of colourful carnations, even though I didn't get 88...
Frugan är på möhippa och festar sent. Jag har kvällen för mig själv.
Vad gör jag?
Jag fixar med virtualisering på en server 😀
Caccia ai cattolici: l’idea della premier di creare il clerico-melonismo
Le principali associazioni della società civili, in crisi di identità, di iscritti e di leadership si riducono a platee plaudenti. Non più corpi ... Scopri di più!Marco Damilano (Domani)
Can someone please help me with defining a filter for DXSpider? What I would like to achieve is the following:
I only want to see spots where the spotter is in Europe, only SSB and only on the 40m band.
⚠️🇷🇺Ukrainian defense forces destroyed an explosives depot in Russia’s Tula region, intelligence told. On the night of August 30, HUR operatives attacked (PHOTO, VIDEO, and more) #Ukraine #Paris #Rome #London #Berlin #Finland #Brussels #Denmark #Germany #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom #EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar #11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
Most days I feel like I fail as a parent. But, when a Hawthorne heights song comes on my music playlist and my 8 year old says mom I love this! Turn it up! I'm remembered, maybe I'm not doing so bad.
Tengo publicado en Youtube un tutorial que explica como instalar #Kafka con KRaft (sin ZooKeeper) en #Docker usando Docker Compose.
#Tutorial #Gratis #SiguemeYTeSigo #Followback
Nota: imagen generada con IA generativa.
The Quincy Memorial Bridge at Dusk
Quincy, Illinois, USA
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⛔️🇺🇦Ukrainian intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov warns of a “massive wave of information escalation” starting on September 12 — corresponding with Zapad-2025 military exercises begin in (more) #Ukraine #Paris #Rome #London #Berlin #Finland #Brussels #Denmark #Germany #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom #EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar #11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
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Ukrainian intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov warns of a “massive wave of information escalation” starting on September 12 — the day the Zapad-2025 military exercises begin in Belarus.Telegram
La Russa replica a Buttafuoco: “Zaia presidente in Sicilia? Di lui nell’Isola ne abbiamo dieci”
https://palermo.repubblica.it/cronaca/2025/08/30/news/la_russa_replica_a_buttafuoco_zaia_sicilia_presidenza_regione-424816993/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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La Russa replica a Buttafuoco: “Zaia presidente in Sicilia? Di lui nell’Isola ne abbiamo dieci”
Il presidente del Senato è intervenuto all’Etna Forum di Ragalna nel Catanesela Repubblica
Update: Sahar has been able to get enough money to leave, but unfortunately she and her son dont have enough money for a tent, so they're sleeping on the street now. Please share and give if you can.
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Hypercapitalist hellhole or city of dreams? Behind the cliches, let me show you the real Dubai
Everyone’s got an opinion about the city. But few in the west know the multicultural, unusual Dubai that I’ve seen up close, says poet Momtaza MehriMomtaza Mehri (The Guardian)
Over Spike Lee’s more than 40 years of directing feature films, he has earned a reputation as a provocateur and a savvy self-promoter. His new movie, ‘Highest 2 Lowest,’ seeks to stage an entertaining morality play. Read a new interview with the director.
‼️🇺🇦Ukrainian defense forces have struck two oil refineries inside Russia. Krasnodar refinery was hit. This plant produces around 3 (VIDEO and more) #Ukraine #Paris #Rome #London #Poland #Estonia #Latvia #Lithuania #Berlin #Finland #Brussels #Denmark #Germany #UN #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom #EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar #11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
Our top story: Julián Castro’s case is symbolic of a broader trend in Texas politics in which Democrats’ leading Hispanic political talent has opted against running for higher office.
Who will be the party's next leading candidate?
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Is a Strong Latino Candidate Texas Democrats’ Only Hope?
The party is long-overdue for such a leader at the top of the ballot.Justin Miller (The Texas Observer)
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I was gonna make a follow-up. It started with: "Copaganda film. But at the 30 minute mark the protagonist cop realizes he's just a tool of the ruling class..."
And seriously, are there no films like this?
NOT a film where the cop realizes there's other bad cops, fights them, but continues being a cop at the end of the movie.
I mean a film where the cop protagonist COMPLETELY STOPS being a cop. I can't recall one off the top of my memory right now...
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PS:
Robocop: Yes, the message of the movie is indeed anti-corporate and anti-police-ish... But I'm not sure he STOPS being a cop.
Blade Runner: Is Deckard an actual cop to begin with?
Serpico (Spoilers?): Doesn't he die a cop? I guess that counts as stopping being a cop but ouch.
Chappie: this might actually be one of the best answers?
Star Wars: It's a stretch. Maybe. But Star Wars can be almost anything we want at this point.
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No one mentioned Mad Max. This makes me heart ache.
Though he didn't exactly realize he was a tool of the ruling class. One could say his madness comes from having no masters even.
Serpico retired 2 years after the Knapp Commission. The movie ends with him heading to testify I think.
He did get ambushed and shot in the face but he survived that shit.
So I think that one might be about as close as you get. Dude didn't even stay in the USA, but that's not in the movie either.
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Heading Back in at Sunset
Bayview Bridge
Quincy, Illinois, USA
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I’m glad I built my #Fediverse communities on #Piefed—because they’re rolling out a “move community” feature.
If site admins go toxic or a server is circling the drain, you won’t be trapped. You can just pick up and move elsewhere.
That’s the Fediverse’s killer feature, the one corporate social media can never match: the freedom to walk away.
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I’m glad I built my #Fediverse communities on #Piefed—because they’re rolling out a “move community” feature.
If site admins go toxic or a server is circling the drain, you won’t be trapped. You can just pick up and move elsewhere.
That’s the Fediverse’s killer feature, the one corporate social media can never match: the freedom to walk away.
Oscar Piastri beats McLaren teammate Lando Norris to end his wait for pole at F1's Dutch GP
https://apnews.com/article/f1-qualifying-lando-norris-oscar-piastri-01403e17aeca99f60466ae566aea7668?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Ich bin einfach ein schrecklicher Mensch. Dazu einsam, ohne Familie und ohne echte Freunde. Niemand, wenn ich jemanden brauchen könnte und ich meine nicht nur online.
Das Bild zeigt eine animierte Darstellung eines Mannes mit einem schwarzen Kapuzenpullover und einer Brille. Er hat eine traurige Miene und eine Träne auf seiner Wange, was auf eine emotionale Reaktion hinweist. Der Mann trägt eine silberne Ohrring und hat einen kurzen Bart. Der Hintergrund ist weiß, was den Fokus auf das Gesicht des Mannes lenkt.
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Ukraine Ex-Speaker Shot Dead, Houthis Say Several Leaders Killed, More
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2025-08-30/ukraine-ex-speaker-shot-dead-houthis-say-several-leaders-killed?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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I’m looking for recommendations to replace Meetup as a tool for organizing monthly meetings for a group that I’m a member of. Ideally, not run my oligarch wannabes, and reasonably priced (if not free).
Any suggestions?
Boost for visibility? I couldn’t think of appropriate hashtags!
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@johentsch FYI : We have handed over this project to another team a while ago !
framapiaf.org/@mobilizon/11217…
#Mobilizon flies out of the @Framasoft nest: we pass the project on to the Kaihuri association.All the info and answers to your questions can be found in this article : joinmobilizon.org/en/news#24-0…
As a result, we will also be handing over the keys to this account, which will no longer be managed by @Framasoft.
Thank you all for your trust, and all the best to #Mobilizon!
#JoinMobilizon - What’s new with Mobilizon?
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Maltempo a Ceglie Messapica, annullata serata kermesse La Piazza - Ultima ora - Ansa.it
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Maltempo a Ceglie Messapica, annullata serata kermesse La Piazza - Ultima ora - Ansa.it
A causa di un violento nubifragio è stata annullata la terza, e ultima serata, della kermesse politica La Piazza a Ceglie Messapica, dove era attesa, tra le altre, l' intervista al vicepresidente esecutivo della Commissione europea. (ANSA)Agenzia ANSA
ngl i hate following tags on mastodon: my home page instantly becomes a trash bin.
OCOLOY July Review
In July, my main focus was creating photos with lots of negative space. Have a look at how that turned out in my newest blog post:
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#street #streetphotography #photography #RicohGRIIIx #darktable #ocoloy #ulm
Tomorrow morning I'm going to switch my home server back to native FreeBSD. The SmartOS experience was positive, but I noticed a high I/O wait when passing the disks through to the FreeBSD VM, so I think I'll just go fully native again.
It was a good experiment, and it worked out, but for this kind of task, FreeBSD is still the better choice.
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Is it possible to allow sideloading *and* keep users safe?
shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/08/is-it…
In which I attempt to be pragmatic.
Are you allowed to run whatever computer program you want on the hardware you own? This is a question where freedom, practicality, and reality all collide into a mess.
Google has recently announced that Android users will only be able to install apps which have been digitally signed by developers who have registered their name and other legal details with Google. To many people, this signals the death of "sideloading" - the ability to install apps which don't originate on the official store0.
I'm a fully paid-up member of the Cory Doctorow fanclub. Back in 2011, he gave a speech called "The Coming War on General Computation". In it, he rails against the idea that our computers could become traitorous; serving the needs of someone other than their owner. Do we want to live in a future where our computers refuse to obey our commands? No! Neither law nor technology should conspire to reduce our freedom to compute.
There are, I think, two small cracks in that argument.
The first is that a user has no right to run anyone else's code, if the code owner doesn't want to make it available to them. Consider a bank which has an app. When customers are scammed, the bank is often liable. The bank wants to reduce its liability so it says "you can't run our app on a rooted phone".
Is that fair? Probably not. Rooting allows a user to fully control and customise their device. But rooting also allows malware to intercept communications, send commands, and perform unwanted actions. I think the bank has the right to say "your machine is too risky - we don't want our code to run on it."
The same is true of video games with strong "anti-cheat" protection. It is disruptive to other players - and to the business model - if untrustworthy clients can disrupt the game. Again, it probably isn't fair to ban users who run on permissive software, but it is a rational choice by the manufacturer. And, yet again, I think software authors probably should be able to restrict things which cause them harm.
So, from their point of view it is pragmatic to insist that their software can only be loaded from a trustworthy location.
But that's not the only thing Google is proposing. Let's look at their announcement:
We’ve seen how malicious actors hide behind anonymity to harm users by impersonating developers and using their brand image to create convincing fake apps. The scale of this threat is significant: our recent analysis found over 50 times more malware from internet-sideloaded sources than on apps available through Google Play.
Back in the early days of Android, you could just install any app and it would run, no questions asked. That was a touchingly naïve approach to security - extremely easy to use but left users vulnerable.
A few years later, Android changed to show user the permissions an app was requesting. Here's a genuine screenshot from an app which I tried to sideload in 2013:
No rational user would install a purported battery app with that scary list of permissions, right? Wrong!
We know that users don't read and they especially don't read security warnings.
There is no UI tweak you can do to prevent users bypassing these scary warnings. There is no amount of education you can provide to reliably make people stop and think.
Here's the story of a bank literally telling a man he was being scammed and he still proceeded to transfer funds to a fraudster.
It emerged that, in this case, Lloyds had done a really good job of not only spotting the potential fraud but alerting James to it. The bank blocked a number of transactions, it spoke to James on the phone to warn him and even called him into a branch to speak to him face-to-face.
Here's another one where a victim deliberately lied to their bank even after acknowledging that they had been told it was a scam.
Android now requires you to deliberately turn on the ability to side-load. It will give you prompts and warnings, force you to take specific actions, give you pop-ups and all sorts of confirmation steps.
And people still click on.
Let's go back to Google announcement. This change isn't being rolled out worldwide immediately. They say:
This change will start in a few select countries specifically impacted by these forms of fraudulent app scams, often from repeat perpetrators.…
September 2026: These requirements go into effect in Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand. At this point, any app installed on a certified Android device in these regions must be registered by a verified developer.
The police in Singapore have a page warning about the prevalence of these scams. They describe how victims are tricked or coerced into turning off all their phone's security features.
Similarly, there are estimates that Brazil lost US$54 billion to scams in 2024 (albeit not all through apps).
There are anecdotal reports from Indonesia which show how easily people fall for these fake apps.
Thailand is also under an ongoing onslaught of malicious apps with some apps raking in huge amounts of money.
It is absolutely rational that government, police, and civic society groups want to find ways to stop these scams.
Google is afraid that if Android's reputation is tarnished as the "Scam OS" then users will move to more secure devices.
Financial institutions might stop providing functionality to Android devices as a way to protect their customers. Which would lead to those users seeking alternate phones.
Society as a whole wants to protect vulnerable people. We all bear the cost of dealing with criminal activity like this.
Given that sideloaded Android apps are clearly a massive vector for fraud, it obviously behoves Google to find a way to secure their platform as much as possible.
And Yet…
This is quite obviously a bullshit powerplay by Google to ensnare the commons. Not content with closing down parts of the Android Open Source Project, stuffing more and more vital software behind its proprietary services, and freezing out small manufacturers - now it wants the name and shoe-size of every developer!
Fuck that!
I want to use my phone to run the code that I write. I want to run my friends' code. I want to play with cool open source projects by people in far-away lands.
I remember The Day Google Deleted Me - we cannot have these lumbering monsters gatekeeping what we do on our machines.
Back in the days when I was a BlackBerry developer, we had to wait ages for RIM's code-signing server to become available. I'm pretty sure the same problem affected Symbian - if Nokia was down that day, you couldn't release any code.
Going back to their statement:
To be clear, developers will have the same freedom to distribute their apps directly to users through sideloading or to use any app store they prefer.
This is a lie. I can only distribute a sideloaded app if Google doesn't nuke my account. If I piss off someone there, or they click the wrong button, or they change the requirements so I'm no longer eligible - my content disappears.
They promise that Android will still be open to student and hobbyist developers - but would you believe anything those monkey-punchers say? Oh, and what a fricking insult to call a legion of Open Source developers "hobbyists"!
I hate it.
I also don't see how this is going to help. I guess if scammers all use the same ID, then it'll be easy for Android to super-nuke all the scam apps.
Perhaps when you install a sideloaded app you'll see "This app was made by John Smith - not a company. Here's his photo. Got any complaints? Call his number."
But what's going to happen is that people will get their IDs stolen, or be induced to register as a developer and then sign some malware. They'll also be victims.
So What's The Solution?
I've tried to be pragmatic, but there's something of a dilemma here.
- Users should be free to run whatever code they like.
- Vulnerable members of society should be protected from scams.
Do we accept that a megacorporation should keep everyone safe at the expense of a few pesky nerds wanting to run some janky code?
Do we say that the right to run free software is more important than granny being protected from scammers?
Do we pour billions into educating users not to click "yes" to every prompt they see?
Do we try and build a super-secure Operating System which, somehow, gives users complete freedom without exposing them to risk?
Do we hope that Google won't suddenly start extorting developers, users, and society as a whole?
Do we chase down and punish everyone who releases a scam app?
Do we stick an AI on every phone to detect scam apps and refuse to run them if they're dodgy?
I don't know the answers to any of these questions and - if I'm honest - I don't like asking them.
1-in-3 Brazilians Targeted by Scammers in the Last 12 Months as Estimated Losses Reach US$54 Billion
The State of Scams in Brazil 2024 report, conducted by GASA in partnership with ScamAdviser and Whoscall, exposes the expanding threat of scams in Brazil.Sam Rogers (GASA)
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@palestine
"The far-right loves the racist ethno-coloniser and would love to emulate its apartheid, forced displacement and extermination in the UK and around Europe rather than face up to the fact that refugees arrive here because western governments bomb their countries, undermine their governments and economies and steal their resources"
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Video: “Do you dare to look at her?” Far-right Wilders squirms under challenge from Dutch MP
Islamophobe’s shifty discomfort confronted with the reality of Israel’s mass murder of children Far-right Dutch party leader and notorious Islamophobe Geert Wilders got an uncomfortable…SKWAWKBOX
Turkey bars Israeli ships from its ports, restricts airspace
A Turkish diplomatic source later clarified that Fidan meant Israeli government flights and flights carrying weapons to Israel and does not apply to transit commercial flightsReuters (Haaretz)
Anyone daily driving a #PostmarketOS phone? Would you recommend it or any other Linux?
I've smashed my phone and, as Android is going full(er) supervillain, my main priority is getting a not-Android one. Even de-Googled Android's future is uncertain now.
Also, I'm not made of money, and PostmarketOS seems to run on some phones on my 200-350 € range.
I don't care about my banking app or the IOT. I need calls, browser and, sadly, *Whatsapp*.
Please help me out, Fedi.
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