Trump's trade blitz produces few deals but lots of uncertainty
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Missed this episode from 2017, when #Harvard engaged in the type of spinelessness one should expect from elite institutions, cancelling a fellowship they had awarded to Chelsea Manning because government officials got upset.
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@Carter Braxton there are different possible approaches. You may have a "use-based property" : the land's owner is whoever uses it. If you live in a house, its yours. If you till a field, it's yours. That's not unlike what the pioneers did... Of course the moment you leave a property unused, it's up for grabs, to whoever needs it.
There's also Geolibertarianism which is interesting. I had a good paper about this somewhere but I can't find it at the moment, and the geolibs website disappeared eons ago. Generally speaking I quite like Georgism overall.
State ownership is fine for unused land such as natural parks. Obviously it doesn't work well for productive uses.
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Rescuers search for survivors after Houthi attack on cargo ship in the Red Sea
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Federated Services are services which many instances form a network to provide a greater whole than the sum of their parts, each participant in the Fediverse is an “instance”. A message or other item made available on one instance is visible and available on other instances.
We make these services available to all people who do not abuse it in order to promote the values of Free Speech, and those of the United States Constitution First Amendment. A free republic is not possible without free speech and commercial mainstream media do not provide it. We also get some advertisement benefit from hosting these, it is our hope that people who see how fast and responsible our ser
vices are will decide to do hosting or use other paid services here.
There are numerous federated services available, we offer Macrobloging platform Friendica, Hubzilla; Microbloging services Mastodon, Misskey, a federated search engine, Yacy, and a federated cloud service, Nextcloud.
Macrobloging services are message systems that allow long form posts similar in format to Facebook. These allow for works of fiction, poetry, technical papers, news items, short stories, and more. These formats are most useful for discussion of social issues.
Microbloging services allow only short form posts similar in format to Twitter. While you can link to larger articles elsewhere, you have a relatively short character limit and so can not post them directly.
Censorship, is handled much different on the fediverse than on mainstream media like Twitter or Facebook. On the fediverse, each individual instance is responsible for content available on that instance, but does not censor the rest of the network. Thus if you find the rules of one instance too constraining you can move to another.
Federated search engines are analogous to federated message systems in that each instance chooses what portion of the internet it wants to crawl. When you enter a search term, the local instance queries all of the federated instances, collates and sorts the results and presents them to you. As with messages, each instance can have it’s own censorship policies but no one instance can censor the enti
re network.
Given the wild-west nature of the fediverse, it is probably not suitable for children under 14, and you’re guaranteed to find some material that will offend virtually everyone. With federated search engines, material that is inappropriate will usually be flagged sensitive or nsfw (not safe for work) so as long as you don’t expand material marked as such, you can avoid this sort of material. Ther
e are occasionally people who violate these rules, we do our best to remove such individuals none the less some will get through.
We offer the following federated services:
Friendica.Eskimo.Com
Friendica is a decentralized long format macrobloging message network. It is similar in format to facebook however there is no centralized censorship. Also, it is able to federate with all other federated message systems which use ActivityPub protocol and also we have extensions that allow it to speak to several other networks via other protocols.
Hubzilla.Eskimo.Com
Hubzilla is similar in message format to Friendica in that it allows long posts. However, it specializes in it’s ability to provide connectivity to multiple protocols and so we include it in our mix of federated services primarily for the better connectivity it offers. Hubzilla provides a great deal of interoperability between many networks though ActivityPub is still it’s prim
ary protocol. Hubzilla gives you a greater degree of control over privacy than some of the other networks. You can create private channels that are served between hubzilla instances and other compatible instances.
Mastodon.Eskimo.Com
Mastodon is first and foremost an alternative to Twitter. While Twitter has Tweets, Mastodon has Toots. The format is very similar. Mastodon toots have a limit of 500 characters. Similar to the short limit of Twitter. This is why this platform is referred to as a Microbloging format. Mastodon interacts with other ActivityPub instances however when a long form blog post from another i
nstance arrives, you are only shown a short portion with a link to follow to see the full post on the originating site.
NextCloud.Eskimo.Com
Nextcloud If you are a customer of Eskimo North, your login credentials will work without a domain extension to access Nextcloud. If you are not a customer you can apply for a Nextcloud account using your choice of login and password, in this case the login should include your originating network. Some features require an Eskimo North shell account to take full advantage of.
Pixelfed.Eskimo.Com
Pixelfed is a federated pixel gallery. A place where you can share your photos to the widest audience possible, and you can view what others have shared. We now have this site also properly federated so any images you share can be viewed on any other Fediverse site by users who follow you, and you can view images posted by anyone on any fediverse site whom you follow.
Yacy.Eskimo.Com
Yacy is a federated search engine. There are several thousand instances on the Internet. Each instances crawls whatever portion of the web the administrator requested. It is also possible for the administrator of a site with relatively few resources to request a larger site to do crawls on their behalf. Unfortunately, it does not provide a method for an end user to initiate a crawl,
but if you send e-mail to support@eskimo.com and request a crawl, we will initiate a crawl on your behalf.
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Shell Accounts
A shell is a command line interface for an operating system. With most shell providers, a command line interface on one flavor of Linux or Unix is all you get. Eskimo North provides access to eight different popular Linux distributions and SunOS Unix. Eskimo North also full remote desktop capabilities using X2Go with sound, and also NX, VNC, and RPD without sound.
Account Types
We offer four different levels of shell accounts: Economy, Standard, Power, and Enterprise. Background tasks such as IRC bots, Game Servers, and the like are permitted on all account types except student. IRC servers are not permitted because of their tendency to draw denial of service attacks. Standard, Power, Enterprise, and Super-Max shells include a MySQL database allowing you to run a variety of LAMP stack based applications on your website and to use non-web based applications that require a database.
Web Hosting
Web hosting under our domain is provided with all shell accounts. You can host your own domains with virtual domains or web hosting packages.
Remote Desktop
Remote desktop capability is like having a monitor, keyboard, mouse, and speakers plugged right into our servers. Because our servers can be accessed anywhere in the world, this allows you to have a work environment you can access from anywhere in the world without risking losing your files to a laptop, tablet, or phone thief. We offer remote desktop capabilities on all of our shell servers except for the SunOS server. We support x2go, nx, vnc, and rdp protocols. X2go is the best choice as it provides extremely efficient compression and X round trip removal as well as sound.
Applications
Applications include Office Suites such as Libre Office and Caligra (which can read and write Microsoft Office file formats), Web and Program Development tools such as Bluefish Editor as well as many other editors, compilers, interpreters, scripting languages, debuggers, profilers, and online documentation.
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Our e-mail system offers unprecedented flexibility. You can access your mail via shell mail readers including graphical mailers like Thunderbird, or via Web mail, or via pop-3 and imap mail protocols, complete with TLS encryption. Our mail system includes Bayesian filtering with Spam Assassin which can be individually configured for your needs. Procmail allows you to sort and process mail automatically. Smartlist allows you to maintain mailing lists.
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Access to all of our servers is available via strong encryption. The shell servers all support ssh access. All of the remote desktop protocols tunnel via ssh. We maintain all of our servers up to date keep with the latest patches. Backups are made weekly.
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We have a variety of Linux Servers with a variety of Linux Distributions and Desktop Environments. Linux servers in use here are of three basic lines, those derived from RedHat, such as Fedora, Centos, and Scientific Linux, and those derived from Debian such as Debian, Ubuntu, and Mint. Ubuntu is the most current and feature rich. Then there is Manjaro, derived from Arch Linux. Arch is more often broken because it is a real “do it yourself” Linux, an excellent learning platform, a good development platform, not a good production platform.
All of these servers are available if you have a shell account here. You can use them to learn various versions, decide which to install, and as one place you can develop applications for all versions. We install a wide variety of development tools on all of our publicly available servers.
Our servers listen to port 443 in addition to the standard ssh port of 22 to provide a means to connect from behind a firewall that blocks non-web access. You can also utilize Guacamole on our website (login public, password public).
Alma.Eskimo.Com
This server is running Alma 8. Alma Linux replaces Scientific Linux after it’s discontinuation. Presently we are running Alma 8 because Alma 9 does not support NIS out of the box although there are ways of hacking it in. It is unfortunate that Redhat chose to piss on the infrastructure so many organizations depend upon. This is why we tend to favor Debian derived flavors. None the less as Redhat derived software goes Alma is pretty solid.
Anduinos.Eskimo.Com
Anduinos is a Debian derived distribution that defaults to a Gnome Desktop themed to look like Windows 10. At present though this Desktop is not working over network connections, instead Mate and Gnome are presently available. I am working on some others.
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Debian Bullseye has a rich assortment of software installed, including hundreds of Games, a huge variety of Office Productivity software, many Educational and Scientific applications, a variety of Integrated Development Environments, and many programming languages. All of the documentation available online these applications is also loaded.
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Fedora Rawhide can be accessed graphically using x2go and the Mate desktop. It has the most applications of any of the Redhat derived servers. I install just about everything I can get to work on this machine so it has a huge variety of applications installed.
Kali.Eskimo.Com
Kali is a special purpose shell server designed for penetration testing. It is primarily here to test our own internal security, and as a result, egress is extremely limited, however upon request, proof of IP space ownership, and permission of the owner and agreement to hold us harmless because it is possible some of these tests may be destructive, we will allow outbound for testing of other sites.
Manjaro.Eskimo.Com
Manjaro is a good choice for a Linux user who wants to just install and go. There is a pleasant user interface and a good choice of software in the Manjaro repositories. It is a less technical Linux than Ubuntu, you can do most things through graphical interfaces and the default xfce interface is extremely light in terms of memory footprint. Like most modern distros, a variety of Windows systems are available and we have Gnome, Mate, KDE, Xfce, LXDE, and LXQT installed.
Mint.Eskimo.Com
Mint is another recent addition to our shell servers. It is running Mint, although we have the Mate Desktop installed for graphical access. This is necessary because Unity and other compositing Desktops are incompatible with x2go and really work very roughly with VNC. If you like games, this is a good server to use and there are many installed. Mint is a derivative of Ubuntu which in turn is derived from Debian and this server thus follows the structure and layout of Debian and Ubuntu.
MxLinux.Eskimo.Com
MxLinux is an excellent choice for a computer with limited resources. Before the overhead of a Desktop is considered, MxLinux uses 200MB less RAM out of the box than does Ubuntu. If you’re not a fan of Poettering and Systemd, you’ll like this OS as it still uses a System-V init with Systemd shims to allow packages requiring systemd to function. You can also run systemd and in fact I am doing so because it boots faster. The default Desktop is LXDE which is also small and efficient. But if you like eye candy you can install any Desktop you like and as with other servers I will install all that I can get to work on this OS.
PopOS.Eskimo.Com
popOS is a modern appearing OS based upon Ubuntu, and not just indirectly, it actually utilizes Ubuntu’s repositories in addition to it’s own. The Desktops presently available on it are Gnome and Mate, though Gnome is a special edition known as Sparkle, and it does not operate properly with X2go. Presently X2go and ssh are the only two access methods. I am working on the others.
Rocky8.Eskimo.Com
Rocky8 is a RedHat derived operating system very similar to Centos before Centos was absorbed, and ruined, by Redhat. While Centos support, with the exception of Centos9 is going away on June 30th, 2024, and CentOS9 is not usable because of the deletion of NIS by RedRat which is necessary to our organization, Rocky8 will be supported for security updates through May of 2029, thus provides us a means of continuing to offer a Redhat based environment for another five years.
Ubuntu.Eskimo.Com
Ubuntu can be accessed graphically using x2go and the Mate Desktop. The native Unity desktop is a compositing desktop which is incompatible with x2go. This machine is equipped with many applications including a huge number of games, a rich assortment of development tools and computer programming languages, a huge assortment of Office productivity software, many scientific, electronic, and educational tools. This server also has open post quantum encryption compiled into openssl 3.6 available for your use.
Zorin.Eskimo.Com
Zorin is a Ubuntu derived operating system. It combines the eye candy of some other Ubuntu flavors such as Mint, with the security awareness and up to date nature of Ubuntu providing a really superb server environment. This machine is our best equipped server. It has the full Ubuntu Studio Suite, a very large assortment of development tools, language packs for all supported languages, many games, both Libre and Caligra Office Suites, and much more. X2go is supported on this machine.
Crontab access, batch, and background jobs are allowed on all of our servers. Most have unrestricted outbound access with the exception of kali owing to high abuse potential for tools that exist on it.'
We also offer web hosting, e-mail, and virtual private servers.
Red Bull says longtime F1 team principal Christian Horner has been released from his duties
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Auf Einladung der Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen in München habe ich über die deutsche Medienberichterstattung zu Palästina und Israel referiert und: Im Anschluss mit Schriftstellerin Joana Osman über den spezifisch deutschen Nahost-Diskurs diskutiert.
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Redlib service (redlib.seas.dev) will be paused to address issues… hopefully for now
I hate Reddit
Meta an evil company? How can it be?! They’re partners, alongside Mastodon gGmbH, at the @swf (socialwebfoundation.org)
#institutionalCorruption #mastodon #fediverse #SocialWebFoundation #whitewashing #meta #facebook #threads #BigTech mastodon.au/@Linux/11482117907…
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If you encourage people to assist those under threat from ICE, your account may be suspended or terminated, and your information may be forwarded to law enforcement.
I really do work for an evil company.
#Meta #Facebook #ICE #Instagram #Threads #WhatsApp
@BrahmaBelarusian No, no, if they were evil surely Mastodon gGmbH would never partner with them because that would amount to whitewashing them. So, no, either we have to believe that Mastodon gGmbH and Social Web Foundation don’t hold the values they purport to or that Meta must not be evil.
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40 Palestinians killed in Gaza as Netanyahu and Trump meet over a ceasefire
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Meta's AI will also see any post shared on the Fedi if it was shared on Threads.
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Meta is protecting ICE.
If you post about an ongoing event involving ICE, your post may be delayed from appearing in the general feed.
If you encourage people to assist those under threat from ICE, your account may be suspended or terminated, and your information may be forwarded to law enforcement.
I really do work for an evil company.
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I'm with the British Medical Association here. Genocide enabler Palantir should be nowhere near our NHS.
#Palantir #NHS #BMA #UKPolitics
Palantir accuses UK doctors of choosing ‘ideology over patient interest’ in NHS data row | Palantir | The Guardian
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Tech firm’s chief, Louis Mosley, dismisses fears that contract ‘threatens to undermine public trust in NHS data systems’Robert Booth (The Guardian)
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Person puts that they were spider man on a resume
And puts friend's namje for reference
Employer calls reference and conforms their friend is spider man
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m4 or cpp (C PreProcessor) on top of Go to make some of the repetitive code less repetitive scary to folks?
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The transformation of waste plastic into naphtha is a process defined by intricate molecular reconfiguration. At the heart of this conversion lies pyrolysis—a thermochemical reaction facilitated in an oxygen-deprived environment. Within a pyrolysis plant, polymers originally designed for durability and resistance undergo a fundamental decomposition, reverting to simpler hydrocarbon forms suitable for reintegration into the petrochemical value chain.
Most post-consumer plastic waste comprises thermoplastics such as polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), and polystyrene (PS). These polymers are characterized by long, saturated hydrocarbon chains with high molecular weights and strong covalent bonds. When subjected to plastic pyrolysis machine, typically between 400°C and 600°C, these macromolecules fragment into smaller hydrocarbon compounds via random scission, β-scission, and depolymerization reactions.
The absence of oxygen prevents combustion and facilitates controlled bond cleavage. The result is the formation of volatile hydrocarbons, which exit the reactor in vapor phase. The extent of chain breakdown depends heavily on residence time, temperature profile, and feedstock consistency.
As thermal cracking progresses, intermediate compounds such as alkanes, alkenes, and aromatic rings are generated. The molecular weight distribution spans a broad spectrum—from C5-C12 fractions to heavier waxes and gas-phase C1-C4 alkanes.
Polystyrene, for instance, primarily decomposes into styrene monomers and aromatic derivatives due to its phenyl-rich structure. Polyethylene and polypropylene, on the other hand, yield a wider variety of linear and branched hydrocarbons, owing to their aliphatic backbone. These intermediates are the precursors to the final liquid products, which can include fuel oil, wax, and most notably, naphtha.
Once vaporized, the hydrocarbon stream must be condensed and fractionally distilled. This step occurs downstream of the pyrolysis reactor in the condensation and separation units of the plastic into fuel machine. By controlling cooling rates and column configurations, operators can isolate naphtha-range compounds—typically C5 to C11 hydrocarbons with boiling points between 30°C and 200°C.
The recovered naphtha exhibits similar properties to fossil-derived light naphtha and can be further refined or directly used as a petrochemical feedstock, particularly in steam crackers to produce ethylene and propylene.
Plastic-derived naphtha is predominantly paraffinic but may contain varying levels of olefins, isoparaffins, and aromatics, depending on process parameters and input resin type. Its hydrogen-to-carbon (H/C) ratio, viscosity, and sulfur content are critical for downstream integration.
To meet the stringent quality demands of refineries or petrochemical plants, further hydrotreatment may be required. This step removes unsaturates and stabilizes the naphtha, reducing gum formation and enhancing storage characteristics.
Advanced pyrolysis plants integrate catalytic reactors to enhance product specificity and quality. Zeolite-based catalysts, for example, promote selective cracking, favoring the formation of naphtha-range molecules while minimizing heavy tar formation.
Catalytic systems not only lower the required activation energy but also improve the control over isomerization and aromatization reactions. This results in a more consistent naphtha yield with a tighter carbon number distribution and fewer contaminants.
By reverting complex polymer chains to their hydrocarbon origins, pyrolysis enables true molecular circularity. Plastic, once destined for landfill or incineration, is molecularly deconstructed and reincarnated as a feedstock for new polymers, synthetic fuels, or solvents.
This closed-loop process not only diverts waste from the environment but also reduces dependence on virgin fossil inputs. The deployment of a pyrolysis plant thus bridges the gap between environmental responsibility and petrochemical demand, turning plastic waste into a resource with strategic industrial value.
Plastic pyrolysis plant is used to process various waste plastics. Nowadays, waste plastics are increasingly harmful to the environment.Beston Group
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Antifa has some organized branches or cells because it has paid government agents & their employer could find sime of them however some people might not be paid agents and if they started a branch or cell on their own they might be more difficult to track down
Anyway Shayne Hunter has some really good videos making fun of rent and he used to be a part of Antifa
They interviewed him on AttackTheSystem dot com after he decided to leave Antifa
He might have joined without pay
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Also CrimeThinc and the Curiois George Brigade published a really good book called Anarchy in the Age of Dinosaurs
Some of them might be associated with Antifa or at least be accused of havomg been associated with Antifa somehow but their book is actually really good
It is possible that someone can write a good book and do horrible things at the same time without that making all the contents of the book untrue
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Ity Life Realizations: Locking myself up in a dirty flat and having nothing to eat for a week is gonna make me way more depressed than normal
Going outside helps!
Quoting Rogel Alpher on Israel’s plans to establish a “humanitarian city” in Gaza:
[…] They say – don’t say Nazis, don’t make comparisons. It’s no longer shocking. It’s clear to me that from my current position on the margins of Israeli society, I can only be shocked, not shock others. Most Israelis don’t see a connection between obsessive education about concentration camps from the Holocaust era and establishing a concentration camp for another people under brutal Israeli military control. What can even be done in the face of this tragic pathology?
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced plans to establish what he termed a “humanitarian city” in Gaza to house the entire population of over 2 million people. Katz clarified that there would be no exit from the camp while promising an “emigration program” would be implemented.
Alpher acknowledges this is actually a concentration camp - a fenced compound of tents where the only way out would be through emigration from Gaza entirely - a moral horror that facilitates forced displacement and ethnic cleansing, noting the tragic irony that Israelis who were educated about #Holocaust now support creating concentration camps for another people under Israeli military control.
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@palestine
@israel
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As a Jew who knows her history very thoroughly, I recognise this ‘proposal’ very well. There is no daylight between this and the Warsaw Ghetto.apnews.com/article/israel-pale…
Israeli journalist Arad Nir faced backlash after describing the Israeli-planned “city of refuge” 🙄 in #Rafah for Gazans as a "concentration camp". He later apologized on social media, clarifying his intent was to criticize the plan as immoral rather than to offend. Other broadcasters present during the original remarks suggested the comparison was inappropriate and historically insensitive.
Hebrew e.walla.co.il/item/3764081
What’s really disgusting here is the fact that Israeli media now refers to the proposed Rafah concentration camp as a “city of refuge”, a facility being built to shelter and provide food to Palestinians whom they intend to isolate from Hamas. Interestingly, the same people who up until recently claimed that “there are no uninvolved” in Gaza... Gaza has been a concentration camp with severely limited food supply for the past two decades, since Israel withdrew and imposed a relentless blockade. The blockade has created a cycle of poverty and dependence on the underground tunnel economy, which Israel then used against the Palestinians after October.
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@palestine @israel
#Gaza #concentrationcamp #Israelmedia #gazagenocide
עורך חדשות החוץ של חדשות 12, העיתונאי ערד ניר, עורר סערה כשכינה את עיר המקלט שישראל מקימה ברפיח עבור תושבי רצועת עזה מחנה ריכוז. לאחר מכן הגיעה ההתנצלותוואלה תרבות (Walla!)
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Russian foreign minister to visit North Korea this week in latest sign of expanding ties
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Longtime AP journalist Paul Shin, who covered South Korea's turbulent modern history, dies at 84
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Bridge collapse kills 9 in India's Gujarat state
https://apnews.com/article/india-gujarat-bridge-collapse-4794fce1316bf3f705b5bffbf1767b10?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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trade offer
alina offers cuddles to you
in return alina gets cuddles
deal?
#économie #politique #gabegie #corruption #lacorde #guillotine2025
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Voté à l’unanimité, le rapport de la commission d’enquête sénatoriale sur les aides publiques aux sociétés apporte un chiffrage officiel très attendu, mais aussi 26 préconisations pour apporter plus de transparence, de rationalité et d’efficacité à c…Pierric Marissal (L'Humanité)
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🥳 New Kitten Release
• Fixed regression: Since we switched the h() render function to return a generator (for seamless async support in html templates), two other methods that were calling h() directly – `kitten.safelyAddHtml()` and `kitten.js()` – had begun to fail. This was also affecting the fetchiverse, streamiverse, and kitten-chat family of examples.
Enjoy!
(Run `kitten update` to immediately install the latest version on your development machines. Your production machines will automatically update in the next few hours.)
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#Kitten #SmallWeb #bug #regression #fix #KittenRelease #SmallTech #web #dev
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Socially-acceptable forms of social change entail:
1) Refusing to question structures of power, leaving them exactly as they are
2) Asking those with power within those structures to behave a certain way.
3) When that fails, then adhering to the (rigged) rules of the game, to try to acquire official power oneself, which is costly, time-consuming, and likely to fail.
That's it. And given the fascism of the 2020s, those forms of social change will fail.
So there are two ways forward:
Colonialism 3.0, where we try to patch the whole thing together yet again.
Or we could actually build a new system which emerges from the wreckage of the old, which pulls people and resources in, electively, as nation states fail further.
This, however, would require imagination and a historical and anthropological lens on how humans could organize themselves, and how they have organized themselves.
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Russia fires a record 728 drones and 13 missiles at Ukraine, Ukrainian air force says
https://apnews.com/article/russia-record-drone-attack-ukraine-war-fe3d23673b9b5696bb5097def9ed0775?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Politique des transports - Le changement d'actionnaire majoritaire est désormais effectif chez Transdev. L'opérateur de transport public a en effet annoncé leMarie-Hélène Poingt (Ville, rail & transports)
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Minerals for peace? How to make the Rwanda-DRC deal stick.
By Lewis Mudge 🟦 HRW JUL-07
"A #US.-brokered peace deal, signed on June 27 between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, will link economic integration and respect for territorial integrity with the promise of Western investment. It is a mineral deal first, an opportunity for peace second. (...)"
#rwanda #DRC #peace #law
#humanrights #africa
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A U.S.-brokered peace deal, signed on June 27 between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, will link economic integration and respect for territorial integrity with the promise of Western investment.Human Rights Watch
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η ΕΕ καλεί η Αθήνα να στείλει στα δικαστήρια τις υποθέσεις διαφθοράς....
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Giants catcher Bailey makes history with game-ending, inside-the-park home run
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Rome Statute countries must explain why Netanyahu flights allowed in airspace
“Italian, French and Greek citizens deserve to know that every political action violating the international legal order, weakens and endangers all of them.”
Francesca Albanese
The countries, which are all parties to the Rome Statute, are obligated to arrest the Israeli prime minister.
EU giving a f... about employee:
"Palestinian man who worked for the EU in #Gaza has appealed to the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, after the closure of his office left him in Cairo without a job or residency rights.
He was “not consulted or warned” that he would be let go after nearly two decades of working for the EU."
Remember this when they want your money and kids to defend European values!
Be the diplomat, who has intervened on his behalf!
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Exclusive: Mohammed Baraka asks von der Leyen for help, saying he is stranded in Cairo without residency rightsLisa O'Carroll (The Guardian)
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Germany's government giving a f... about its own promises:
Bundesregierung:
Aufnahmeprogramm der Vorgängerregierung beenden.
Gericht:
Die Bundesregierung muss einer afghanischen Staatsangehörigen und ihrer Familie Visa zur Einreise nach Deutschland erteilen, nachdem entsprechende Zusagen gemacht wurden.
#Afghanistan
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It's funny how so many people are like "wow, Jack Dorsey's new bluetooth chat app, what a cool idea" .
.... *cough*
briarproject.org/
has been around since 2018...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briar_(s…
Well, that page says "Briar’s core protocol, threat model, development process, and user experience design began development in 2011 by Michael Rogers and Eleanor Saitta" 😀
(no idea what Dorsey did now)
same thing, but with an iOS app, which Briar does not have 😀 "and it made all the difference"
Weil das Löschen aus der Datenbank sehr wahrscheinlich noch nicht abgeschlossen ist. Wenn viel Content gelöscht werden muss, dauert das je nach Anzahl von Accounts gerne mal mehrere Wochen. Erst wenn alles gelöscht ist, wird ganz zum Schluss der Nutzer selbst gelöscht.
Es kann aber auch sein, dass es ein Problem beim Löschen gibt. Stichwort: foreign key constraints - dann siehst du aber entsprechende "DB error" Meldungen im Log.
worker [ERROR]: DB Error {"code":1451,"error":"Cannot delete or update a parent row: a foreign key constraint fails...
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Danke dir. Da erscheinen (zum Glück) keine Einträge im friendica.log.
Dann warte ich mal noch ab. Seltsam nur, dass ich das bisher noch nie hatte, dass das so lange gedauert hat. Okay, es sind insgesamt ja auch 30 User. Vielleicht deswegen?
Wahrscheinlich ja. Kommt natürlich auch darauf an, wie viele Daten die Nutzerkonten in der DB gespeichert haben.
Habe zuletzt ca. 1200 Accounts in einem Rutsch gelöscht. Das hat 2 Monate gedauert. 😀 Während der Zeit sieht man auch ständigt DELETE FROM ... Queries, die teilweise sehr lange laufen.
@Tuxi ⁂ Am besten einmal im Monat Hausputz machen, dann kann nicht so viel auflaufen.😉
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Okay, heute tauchen genau sollche Logeinträge auf:
2025-07-10T12:30:34Z worker [ERROR]: DB Error {"code":1451,"error":"Cannot delete or update a parent row: a foreign key constraint fails (`dbname`.`post-engagement`, CONSTRAINT `post-engagement_ibfk_2` FOREIGN KEY (`owner-id`) REFERENCES `contact` (`id`))","params":"DELETE FROM `contact` WHERE (`id` = 5468731)","worker_id":"126cb6a","worker_cmd":null} - {"file":"Database.php","line":786,"function":"e","request-id":"686fb2694fbb2","stack":"Database::e (1273), Database::delete (369), DBA::delete (265), Contact::deleteById (31), Remove::execute, Worker::execFunction (378), Worker::execute (112), Worker::processQueue (91), Worker::doExecute (108), Console::execute (171), Console::doExecute (108), Console::execute (233), App::processConsole (25)","uid":"bcfbe4","process_id":714516}Und nu? Kann ich da irgendwas machen?
Musst du was manuell in 'post-engagement' löschen. Ist nicht ganz trivial rauszufinden, was genau.
Grundsätzlich betrifft es die id 5468731 in der Tabelle contact. Dieser Datensatz kann nicht gelöscht werden, weil er noch eine Referenz in post-engagement hat.
Ohne jetzt nachgesehen zu haben, hat wahrscheinlich der 'contact' mit id 5468731 auch eine owner-id. Die musst du per SELECT ... FROM contact WHERE ... rausfinden. Diese owner-id müsste sich auch in der Tabelle 'post-engagement' wiederfinden lassen.
Dann musst du erst in post-engagement die Datensätze löschen, die diese owner-id haben. Dann löst sich der Rest von selbst.
Das Ganze ohne Garantie. Bitte doppelt prüfen, ob du auch den richtigen Zusammenhang zwischen beiden Tabellen erwischst, sonst löscht du was falsches. 😀
Israeli forces continue to pound Gaza, hitting a refugee camp after a day of attacks that killed at least 95 people.Tim Hume (Al Jazeera)
How the heck did I pick up 25 shows this season? Why is this happening to me? 
I need to drop at least two or three... or more...
Israeli plans to move Gaza's population to camp in Rafah tehrantimes.com/news/515401/Is…Israeli plans to move Gaza's population to camp in Rafah
Israel's Israel Katz says he has instructed its military to prepare a plan to move all Palestinians in Gaza into a camp in the south of the territory, Israeli media reports say.Tehran Times
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I have now found 1070 verified accounts from media organizations in the #Fediverse, but only on #Mastodon, #Flipboard, #Threads, #Bluesky, #Ghost and #Peertube.
Just one is on #Sharkey (👋🏻 @heiseBotti) and none on #Pixelfed, #Lemmy, #Piefed, #Misskey & Co. Are there really none there, or did I miss some?
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It's occurred to me that the only real application, in theory, for blockchain-enforced "smart contracts" would be something like international security guarantees.
For instance, if you want a Palestinian state to agree to be demilitarised, sure, if there's a system such that an attack by Israel would ⋅immediately and automatically⋅ trigger a comprehensive sanction regime, stop all international bank transfers in and out of Israel, invalidate all trade licences, etc.
Apart from political feasibility, it's not practical, of course. What ⋅exactly⋅ would be the triggers? Who gets to decide whether and when to roll back? Besides, whatever anyone tries to tell you, blockchain's are NOT safe from manipulation, even in principle, especially when we are talking about state actors.
Just in terms of if there WERE a use case, that's what it would be.
This was not a proposal. We can flush all "blockchain technology” down the toilet today and lose nothing, as far as I'm concerned.
I was trying to work with the premise of people who try to make the case for "smart contracts" (that are predicated on a system where, yes, certain actions are algorithmically ⋅enforced⋅) to see what might conceivably be a valid use case at least in theory.
In other words: the fundamental premise of "smart contracts" is that there are situations where you need an agreement between parties who you cannot ask to trust each other, so they can instead trust the algorithm. And I was just noting that asking a Palestinian state to be demilitarised fits that description. But since, as you correctly note and I also pointed out, it wouldn't work even then, that just shows that actually there is no use case.
Antisemitische KI von Elon Musk: Adolf Hitler als Lösung
Der Chatbot Grok wirft Menschen mit jüdischem Nachnamen „Hass auf Weiße“ vor und lobt Hitler. Die Entwicklerfirma xAI muss eingreifen.
Antisemitische KI von Elon Musk: Adolf Hitler als Lösung
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Ce soir, en ce moment, sur #Arte.
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Depuis la fin du XXe siècle, le terrorisme d’extrême droite s’organise et fait de plus en plus de victimes dans le monde. Comment cette #violence #raciste se nourrit-elle et comment la contrer ? Une série #documentaire qui s'appuie sur de riches témoignages (de victimes, de repentis, d’enquêteurs...) recueillis sur quatre continents.
#Racisme #Haine #HaineBlanche #Extrême-droite #Droite #Terrorisme #GrandRemplacement #GreatReplacement #Neonazi #KKK #Suprémacisme #Blanc #Blancs #Suprémaciste #Occident #Politique #Europe #France #USA
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Court ruling: Stickers with political warnings must be removed from books
The Münster Higher Administrative Court has ruled that a sticker with political warnings must be removed from a book in the Münster City Library. Library users are "responsible citizens" who should not be manipulated.
The Higher Administrative Court in Münster ruled on Tuesday that stickers reading "This is a work with controversial content. This copy is provided due to freedom of censorship, freedom of opinion, and freedom of information" must be removed from two books in the Münster City Library. One of the affected authors had filed an urgent appeal against the decision of the Münster Administrative Court, which had permitted the stickers.
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Stadtbücherei Münster - Gerichtsurteil: Sticker mit politischen Warnhinweisen müssen von Büchern entfernt werden
Das Oberverwaltungsgericht Münster hat entschieden, dass ein Sticker mit politischen #Warnhinweisen von einem #Buch in der #Stadtbücherei Münster entfernt werden muss. Bibliotheksnutzer seien „mündige #Staatsbürger“, die nicht gelenkt werden sollen.
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Das Oberverwaltungsgericht Münster entschied, dass ein Sticker mit politischen Warnhinweisen von einem Buch in der Stadtbücherei entfernt werden muss.Marie Rahenbrock (Apollo News)
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Das Oberverwaltungsgericht Münster hat entschieden, dass ein Sticker mit politischen #Warnhinweisen von einem #Buch in der #Stadtbücherei Münster entfernt werden muss. Bibliotheksnutzer seien „mündige #Staatsbürger“, die nicht gelenkt werden sollen.
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A Palestinian carries children as wounded Palestinians receive treatment at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, after an Israeli airstrike on a house, in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip. REUTERS/Ramadan Abed
@palestine
#Gaza
#children
#photography
Smoke rises in Gaza after an explosion, as seen from the Israeli side of the Israel-Gaza border. REUTERS/Amir Cohen
@palestine
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Eyal Benvenisti, who represented #Israel before the #ICJ, co-writes:
Our Duty to Explain Israel’s Operation to “Concentrate and Move Population” in #Gaza is a Manifest War Crime
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Essay by leading Israeli scholars on the Israeli government's "Gideon's Chariots" order to move Palestinian Gaza population.Chaim Gans (Just Security)
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Canada needs to reduce its dependence on US tech companies — and cloud infrastructure is a perfect place to start.
For the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, I explain the threat posed by our dependence on US-owned data centres and why we need a public cloud that isn’t shaped by the pressure for shareholder profits.
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#tech #cloud #datacenters #cdnpoli #cdntech #canada #markcarney
During the 2025 election campaign, prime minister Mark Carney made a striking admission about Canada’s dependence on U.S. tech companies.Paris Marx (CCPA)
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This void is not going to enjoy her post-life review.