"Many people, including the scientists working on whale conservation, are still excruciatingly aware of the circumstances facing the Southern Resident Orcas, that they are nutritionally unable to grow their community, starving at the the edge of functional extinction."
I have been a bit annoyed with my computer's IO. It seems that my usb-c hub is starting to fail.
Things are disconnecting and now I can't use as many ports on it at the same time as before.
I am 1 usb port short of ditching the hub at this point.
This makes me reconsider getting a #macbook air. I mostly use my laptop as a desktop, but I do need some mobility throughout the week. An #iPad will not cut it.
Not really sure what I should do for my next computer.
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An illustrated guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
Learn how the Advaned Encryption Standard works with the help of this illustrated guide.Gitanjali Venkatraman (Thoughtworks)
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The 2025 Android upgrade cycle has begun, thanks to Samsung and Google
Plus: Stark Trek: Section 31, Humanity’s Last Exam, Perplexity Assistant, OpenAI Operator, The Night Agent, and more in this week’s Installer newsletter.David Pierce (The Verge)
What should I dream about? I will abide by the results of this poll.
#StableDiffusion #AIArt #AIGenerated #AI #GenerativeAI #GenerativeArt
- Sand sculpture of an SUV, art-deco (0 votes)
- Movie still of a cupcake, dieselpunk (0 votes)
- An airbrush painting of a bowl of lemons, art-deco (0 votes)
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The persecutor has ordered the Justice Department to investigate "weaponization of the federal government", which is ironic because that's exactly what this investigation is meant to do.
Trump enlists attorney general to investigate Biden administration
President has thrown weight of justice department behind two politically charged reviews into his personal grievancesHugo Lowell (The Guardian)
Convenient or intrusive? How Poland has embraced digital ID cards
Convenient or intrusive? How Poland has embraced digital ID cards
From driving licence to local air quality, app offers myriad of features and has been rolled out to little oppositionJakub Krupa (The Guardian)
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Masterson is a liberal and thus mostly wasted potential, but here he is calling Patriot Front virgin incels right to their faces, so...cred
Elon Musk : les banques dans le rouge après lui avoir prêté de l’argent pour le rachat de Twitter
À cause des mauvaises performances du réseau social, elles n’arrivent pas à revendre cette dette
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#Musk #Twitter #banques
Elon Musk : les banques dans le rouge après lui avoir prêté de l’argent pour le rachat de Twitter - [mcInform@ctions]
Moins de deux ans après le rachat de X (anciennement Twitter), les banques ayant permis cet investissement à Elon Musk tirent déjà la sonnette...mcinformactions.net
AI prototypes for UK welfare system dropped as officials lament ‘false starts’
Exclusive: Pilots for staff training, jobcentres and speeding up disability benefit payments not being taken up
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Linux Patches Allow Sharing PTEs Between Processes - Can Mean Significant RAM Savings
A set of patches being worked on by Oracle engineers allow for optionally sharing page table entries (PTEs) between processeslxer.com
While we're on the subject of fedi and cyberpunk.lol, let's boost some fellow cybersyndicate homies and help them with their mutual aid goals please!
@vantablack has hers here : cyberpunk.lol/@vantablack/1138…
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:anarchy_a_transgender: DAY 7 - $797/1600 MUTUAL AID - RENT! :anarchy_a_transgender: hi there. im rachael, a trans nonbinary woman trapped in a red state, living with my disabled partner and two dogs.dot lol
please boost!!!do you enjoy the work i've done organizing a mass-defederation of meta's threads with FediPact? are you hype in the pipe for the fedi memoir i'm 50k words into writing? do you like the rad cybersyndicate instances i've set up? the cool clothes i DIY together? my pirate radio station, vantaradio? my awesome videos? my amazing selfies? my community movie nights? my posting generally? just wanna give a trans girl a nice gift?
well i'm an impoverished neurodivergent trans woman just trying to survive and find stability so if you wanna support me anything helps me keep being able to do all those cool thingies!!! also i dunno where i'm gonna be staying come the 28th so having some cash handy for a motel or something would really help while we figure out more longterm solutions
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A PressTV article headline reads "UK banking giant HSBC joins BDS, divests from Israeli arms maker". Below the headline is a navigation bar with a calendar, play, search, and menu icons. Underneath, the article's subheading shows the date and time of publication. A picture of the HSBC building at night is shown, with the HSBC logo clearly visible. The article's body text explains that HSBC divested from an Israeli weapons maker due to human rights concerns, describing it as a win for the BDS movement.
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Montag: Tesla-Roadster mit Asteroid verwechselt, Betrug bei Deutschlandtickets | Heise Online
SpaceX-Testlast kein Asteroid + Online-Betrug beim Fahrkartenkauf + TikTok-Verhandlungen mit US-Konzernen + Meilenstein bei Photovoltaik + Linux mit Code-Rekord
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configure: error: sorry, this is the gnu os, not linux
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“All conscientious objectors are required to register.
Today, all conscientious objectors are required to register with the Selective Service System. A conscientious objector is one who is opposed to serving in the armed forces and/or bearing arms on the grounds of moral or religious principles.
In the Event of a Draft
How to Apply: In general, once a man gets a notice that he has been found qualified for military service… “
Hier ist eine Alt-Text-Beschreibung des Bildes:
Das Bild zeigt einen schwarzen Hintergrund mit weißem Text. Der Text behauptet, dass Carrera immer noch der Marktführer für Elektroautos in Deutschland ist. Der Text ist in deutscher Sprache verfasst und wirkt wie eine satirische oder humorvolle Aussage.
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¿Desea contribuir con los costos de Mastodon.CR y otros proyectos del Fediverso costarricense?
Hágalo en impulsait.com/producto/patroci…
He creado esa página con una explicación de cómo funciona la gobernanza y operación de #MastodonCR, los costos aproximados mensuales con un desglose de servidores y enlaces de pago, cuentas bancarias, SINPE móvil, etc.
Operar una red social no es gratis. Hacerlo respetando los derechos de las personas usuarias sin publicidad tiene costos económicos y de esfuerzo humano importantes. Por más de 2 años los costos ha sido cubiertos por mí y mi empresa @impulsait como un compromiso de aportar positivamente a la sociedad, mi plan es seguir ofreciendo el patrocinio humano, tecnológico, legal, financiero y fiscal por muy largo plazo, de forma transparente y con respeto a la privacidad y seguridad de las personas usuarias.
¿Qué cambia ahora? Que las personas usuarias podrán tener la oportunidad de participar económicamente del proyecto y compartir un pedacito de la carga financiera si está dentro de sus posibilidades.
Dicen que lo perfecto es enemigo de lo bueno. El uso de mi empresa es la mejor forma he logrado dilucidar para operar esta comunidad. He leído muchísimas experiencias de comunidades del Fediverso que terminan cerrando por dificultades económicas y desgaste humano, eso no nos puede pasar a nosotros. Estoy abierto a construir junto con la comunidad mecanismos para que construyamos un espacio seguro, colaborativo y sostenible en el largo plazo.
Tengo mucho orgullo de lo que hemos logrado hasta ahora y me da ilusión lo que está por venir.
Vamos un paso a la vez en este camino imperfecto pero que lo construimos juntos.
#Mastoadmin #CostaRica #Mastodon #Fediverso
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Hey #Okla.social fam! Love our local, ad-free community? We're looking at adding a #Pixelfed instance possibly soon. Your donation helps cover server costs and keeps us thriving. If you’d like to support our little corner of the #Fediverse please donate at liberapay.com/okla.social/dona…. Thank you for keeping Okla.social strong!
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"The Electronic Intifada’s executive director Ali Abunimah was arrested by Swiss police ahead of a speaking event in Zurich on Saturday afternoon.
He is currently being detained and has had access to legal counsel.
The arrest came one day after Abunimah arrived in Zurich for a speaking tour."
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EI's Ali Abunimah arrested in Switzerland
Prominent journalist detained amid crackdown on Palestine speech in the West.The Electronic Intifada
"“My ‘crime’? Being a journalist who speaks up for Palestine and against Israel’s genocide and settler-colonial savagery and those who aid and abet it. I came to Switzerland at the invitation of Swiss citizens to talk about justice for Palestine, to talk about accountability for a genocide in which Switzerland is complicit."
An article in right-wing paper NZZ, framing Abunimah as a Israel-hater, seems to have been instrumental in this absurdity.
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Palestinian-American journalist Ali Abunimah brutally abducted in Zurich facing deportation
25 January 2025 - The journalist, human rights defender and founder of the media platform “Electronic Intifada” was violently and forcibly taken by two individuals in civilian dress, who claimed to be police, but refused to identify themselves, when …Alexandra Ditcheva (Swiss Action for Human Rights)
Syrian fighters execute 35 in three days, war monitor says
Syrian fighters execute 35 in three days, war monitor says
Authorities have arrested dozens of people accused of taking advantage of the chaos in Syria to settle old scoresGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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I do not know nearly enough about the situation to say either way, but while this sounds unsavory, I often think back about how different things might be in the US, had we actually allowed Sherman to "clean out" the South as it were, after the US Civil War.
It's nasty business, but perhaps necessary for the long term stability of a country emerging from a long, bloody, civil war.
Again, not clear to me that this is the case here, just playing devil's advocate for the people who are coming out against this as a knee jerk reaction to political violence... That maybe these things need to be done sometimes, when failing to do so will result in far more bloodshed.
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SpaceX-Testlast kein Asteroid + Online-Betrug beim Fahrkartenkauf + TikTok-Verhandlungen mit US-Konzernen + Meilenstein bei Photovoltaik + Linux mit Code-Rekord
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Those are the dogs I grew up with. My folks loved pugs. As an adult, I finally have my first dog since I left home. Got her in 2019. Meet Boo, the wonderpup
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The persecutor has reinvigorated the Ku Klux Klan, which is now directing hatred at immigrants rather than at blacks.
KKK distributes flyers in Kentucky telling immigrants to ‘leave now’
Documents, including phone number and invitation to ‘join us’, distributed same day Trump took officeAdam Gabbatt (The Guardian)
Die Spionage-App mSpy vermarktet sich als Werkzeug für besorgte Eltern. Aber geleakte Nachrichten belegen: Kund:innen, die ihre Partner:innen illegal überwachen wollen, bekommen nicht Ärger, sondern Ratschläge. Die Profiteure verstecken sich hinter einem Netz aus Tarnfirmen. #mSpyLeak
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@adfichter hat im November in der @republik_magazin darüber geschrieben:
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#mspy #mspyleak
Wenn der Kundendienst bei der Straftat hilft
Die Spionage-App mSpy hilft gern bei der Überwachung der Partnerin. Einblick in eine düstere Branche. Teil 2.Adrienne Fichter (Republik)
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Fogão Itatiaia 5 bocas: 5 modelos da marca para conhecer
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...and here's the full write-up on the eMac mini, with designs and component links for you to print your own!
makerworld.com/en/models/10374…
eMac Mini Enclosure for M4 Mac mini by Jerrod H
"eMac Mini" - a fully-functional “All-in-One” enclosure for M4 Mac miniMy latest Mac mini project has been a fully-functional all-in-one terminal that is a ~55-60% scale model of the Apple G4 eMac originally released in 2002.makerworld.com
Prius Prime 2024 Followup: More Tests
/c/technology was the most active by far (more so than /c/cars), so I'll post here again first.
Stats
The following stats are winter tests (10F to 30F. Or -10C to 0C).
- L1 Charger from Home is 2.05 mi/kwhr (12.0 mi/electric-$$. 17.1c per kwhr home costs) in this deep cold.
- L2 Charger from Work is 2.8mi/kwhr (14.0 mi/electric-$$. 20c per kwhr work-charging costs).
- 43 Miles per Gallon gasoline (13.9 mi/gasoline-$. $3.10 gasoline during test).
- L1 Charger is closer to 2.8 mi/kwhr during 60F (15C+ temperatures).
- L2 Charger is closer to 3.5 mi/kwhr during 60F (15C+ temperatures).
Conclusion: The cold (10F to 30F) has made the Li-ion batteries of this car SIGNIFICANTLY less efficient. We're at the point where L1 chargers are more expensive than gasoline, while L2 chargers are roughly on part with gasoline.
I recommend anyone who gets an EV to get an L2 charger. Not only for the convenience of far faster charges, but also because of the incredible improvements to cold-weather charging efficiency.
There were some pro-EV fans asking me to more carefully test the gasoline usage in the winter. And now you have the stats. I can solidly say that gasoline is worse during the Winter (down from EPA estimated 48), but not dramatically worse like the electric engine gets.
The above gasoline test was done over an entire week of driving to reach the 200+ miles I thought was needed for a solid test. I performed it by running out of electricity (all the way down to 0%), then driving to a gasoline station and filling up. I memorized the exact pump I filled up at.
Then, after 200 miles across a week, I came back to the same pump and filled up exactly the same. I then counted the gallons that came out of the pump and divided out based on my trip odometer. I was 203.5 miles of driving total with 4.734 gallons reported from the pump.
I own a Prius (not a PHEV though, just a hybrid) and can corroborate that my mileage goes down significantly in the winter months. It is a combination of a couple factors in my experience.
- Needing to run the engine more to heat things up for defrosting and heating the cabin.
- Related to the above, I tend to idle a lot more in the winter while cleaning ice/snow off the car, letting it warm up, or clearing the driveway.
- Switching to winter tires (Blizzaks) negatively impacts rolling resistance compared to the LRR tires (Ecopias) I use the rest of the year.
I tend to average ~45 mpg in the summer and ~37 mpg in the winter over the past two years.
The Prius PHEV manual states that there is a battery conditioner: both battery-cooling when its hot and and battery-heating when its cold.
I assume that a significant amount of the electric charge from L1 charger is going towards battery-heating. Ex: I have a 1000W L1 charger (measured from the wall). If 100W is going to heating, then that's a 10% loss before other voltage-conversion losses. (The Prius is a 400V battery, so 110V to 400V will incur additional losses).
The L2 charger likely has 100W of heating in these cold nights as well, but at 3,300W charging, that's only a 3% loss. Far more efficient. Furthermore, 220V is closer to 400V, so there will be less voltage-conversion losses associated with L2 charging.
A lot of reasons to favor L2 charger installation. So that's going to be my recommendation to anyone doing Electric.
The Future of News Media...
CNN laid off 4% of their staff this week.
NBC News, Washington Post and NY Times had layoffs.
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Knowledge is power.
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Perplexity AI's bid for #TikTok could give #US government 50% stake
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#Perplexity AI has presented a new proposal to TikTok’s parent company that would allow the U.S. government to own up to 50% of a new entity that merges Perplexity with TikTok’s U.S. business, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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in reply to fne8w2ah • • •A bit of a cunty header init? Let's see Poland overtake the UK in 2030 with the cooling down of the German economy and potential reduction in subsidies from the EU which represent 1,6% of Poland’s GDP plus ancillary effects from job creation and direct German investment.
The Guardian view on economic comparisons: Poland’s rise is not about our faults
Editorial (The Guardian)wewbull
in reply to fne8w2ah • • •Why do people have such trust that a national ID won't be misused to further erode personal privacy? I have no idea why this policy is seen as at all positive.
(Any responses along the lines of "you've already lost your privacy" or "the government already has the data" won't convince me. There wouldn't be a push for a national ID if the scheme could be built out of the data the government already have)
Alphane Moon
in reply to wewbull • • •I am from Ukraine, where we have a very large uptake of digital national IDs and even government service mobile applications (municipal, health, military etc.). These service were relatively popular when launched, but there was a massive increase in uptake after the full scale invasion.
One of the main strengths of the digital national ID/mobile government services is that they are so convenient. A bureaucratic process (that was actually very simple) could take 4-5 hours waiting in line in say 2012, now it can be done almost immediately. The government constantly adds different useful modules and systems. For example, during COVID up to date vaccination status was present in the app and you could use it while travelling (at least to the EU, no clue about US). I like the Kyiv municipal app as well. It's relatively well designed and offers a bunch of services. Broad uptake also means that there are network effects; with companies and government services integrating these services (e.g. in situations where you need to confirm your identity).
I would also argue the notion of privacy isn't as linear and simple as might seem at first glance. There are legitimate situations where the government needs access to data to find traitors and collaborators. This saves lives as it weakens the russians' ability to target their air strikes. That being said, we already had a national ID system (legacy of russian occupation under the USSR) before, so you only benefit from digitization.
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Учасники проектів Вікімедіа (Фонд Вікімедіа)Demdaru
in reply to wewbull • • •wewbull
in reply to Demdaru • • •In the UK, which I had assumed this article was targeted at convincing as the Guardian is a UK paper, we already have a very good online government portal for taxes, driver licenses, car registration, and loads of other things.
Taxes use your national insurance number. Drivers license things use your licence number. Car tax uses the car registration number. Not unified. Works fine.
hansolo
in reply to wewbull • • •I don't disagree with you. There are trade offs is the thing. I'm not getting a digital ID until I'm forced, but many people are fine with it.
The other commenter from Ukraine explained it well, and to add, the Diia app they use is open source. Other countries can use it if they pay a one time "licensing fee" that is basically a donation with the from line "we're not shitbags."
According to people super into digital IDs: In terms of trade offs, especially for Americans, interoperability means unifying state and Federal systems so that you can renew your driver's license, register a car you just bought, file your taxes, and renew your passport online in the same portal. You would rarely set foot in a government office ever again. Your ID hash can be used online and IRL to validate only a part of you identification, like age, so a bouncer at a club can't take a photo of a young woman's ID and stalk her later. So there are some added privacy benefits...in theory.
Obviously, there are the same downsides to any consolidation of digital anything. A stolen phone, even a dead battery, means you have no identity anymore. Data leaks are inevitable. This likely opens the door for far less privacy online when LinkedIn or Reddit starts asking for an age or name check. But plenty of people are oblivious to that anyway. Andb the same argument was probably made in the 1950s and 1960s about paper ID cards. So once there's utility and pressire applied to having a digital ID, adoption will follow.
wewbull
in reply to hansolo • • •I think they need to see gov.uk.
lnxtx (xe/xem/xyr)
in reply to fne8w2ah • • •Any government closed source app is a trojan.
Same thing with obligatory scanning fingerprints for a new ID. They say it's only for "hash" generation.
nyan
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