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Yemen's armed forces said Sunday that it launched a hypersonic ballistic missile towards Ben Gurion Airport outside Tel Aviv in central Israel, which was reportedly intercepted by Israeli defense systems earlier in the day.
@OneEyeKing Oh to be sure there IS but it's hard to get it to work at range, but search for "HRF" or "HeRF" gun, it stands for high energy RF, and basically it invokes using a magnetron out of an old microwave, some high voltage photoflash or other capacitors capable of rapid discharge without damage, an inverter to step up battery voltage to around 4kv, and a trigger mechanism of some sort. These are also useful devices for testing Faraday shielding of computer equipment, granted often a destructive test, but a good one if reliability during high EMF conditions is important.
Iran’s Army Ground Forces commander said the military views active cooperation in international peacekeeping missions as both a moral and professional duty, signaling Iran’s intent to take on a larger role in global efforts to build lasting peace.
During the First Cold War (1949–1989), the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics threatened each other with thousands of nuclear warheads on land- and sea-based ballistic missiles on hair triggers.
@nanook Modernity has much less individualism due to technology. People are cheaper to manipulate and distract and are willing to accept their slavery as long as they have a new phone, video game console and a food delivery.
@OneEyeKing Hmm, that's an interesting assertion, but many cultures have had a strong emphasis on social compliance well before the introduction of modern technology, so I think the relationship is a bit more nuanced. I don't think it's so much that technology eliminates or even reduces individualism as it is that it perpetuates and propagates cultural trends.
@nanook I don't think that it was ever possible to divide people into such a distinctive two groups without a major kinetic conflict. It can only be achieved by emotional hacking through hijacking of information. TV news is outdated. Now most people receive news based on the echo chamber they subscribe to which muffles any contradicting ideas. There is very little deviation and individualism. It's all emotionally based tribalism. This was never the case. Also feminism strengthened it.
@OneEyeKing I guess I'd be in a better position to agree or disagree if you were more explicit with regard to what "two groups" you are referring to, even without specifying it suggests a binary thinking mode that is not in line with a much more complex and nuanced reality. That TV news is outdated, well at least there is one thing we can agree upon. There are many echo chambers as you say and so there is not the widespread agreement that you think exists. Yes I will concur emotional tribalism is real and is problematic.
Thomas Sowell talks a lot about "culture", but fails to admit that culture is also blood-feud, and convictions, and responsible to wiping out entire Civilizations. Thomas Sowell is not a very smart dude.
Western Civilization is building an ethical, not a cultural Society. Something the ancients - Greece and Rome - started building. Of course they fallen into complacence, and decadence, and Thomas Sowell is correct on that record.
Yet the fact that we are building a Civilization - not a "cluture", not "society", not "code"... escapes him.
Thomas Sowell is not ignorant, not stupid. He's your average dude who has not figured it out how to fix broken things, so he is putting extraordinary efforts into it.
"Culture" wiped out the entire South American structure of Civilizations. Not just one nations, one tribe, one race - but basically re-written History.
There has been never critical views to "culture", such as that modern civilization shall never affect indigenous people... oh, wait.
It took us thousands of years of "evolution" to realize that "culture" is more destructive than the hydrogen bomb.
I rest my case, and I wish Thomas Sowell would stop hawking about it.
The relevancy is that some things are not broken, and they do not need fixing. The fact that there are tyrants, the rich and poor, and other extremes is not an exception. Its not something broken.
Have you ever seen a tornado constructing a condo, how come all we ever see is tornadoes deconstructing them? Only a fool complains about tornadoes in that context.
How come its always the poor who wants to "re-distribute wealth"? How come the rich is not protesting on the streets for being obstructed in their wealth re-distribution efforts?
Half of what Aristotle stated has to do with the struggle over limited resources, but 2300 years ago the concept of "limited resources" was not in the text books. So smart and curious people created these cumbersome revelations about the same fundamental fact.
I brought up Thomas Sowell because a lot of memes keep quoting him.
Its only commerce, the market, its business that is fully aligned with the governing forces of limited resources. NONE of the other cultural and civilizational institutions matter anymore. I saw in the last few decades how Law, Education, Arts has been subverted by activists, and all those institutions are now on the verge of collapse.
Everything can be re-imagined except profit. What makes one person successful, and the other person a failure is their capacity to recognize this. Unless you are "gainfully employed" you will not likely to succeed.
Unless of course your are a sociopath, a criminal, a professional victim and a grifter, and so on. Or a warlord, a tryrant.
@FourOh-LLC @OneEyeKing Ok, and I can understand that you disagree with him on many things, but I do not understand your assertion that he was unintelligent. One generally doesn't get a PHD if one is unintelligent.
I did not call him unintelligent, I called him average who is putting out some extraordinary effort, but most of it is wasted on me, and others like me. The same goes for Aristotle, as I already explained.
I think people like Thomas Sowell would do better with deconstructing something that would directly benefit "Humanity" like Islam, Communism, Activism. These are parasitic institutions, and I'm convinced we could get rid of the social and economic classes of people who are promoting them. Again, these are not something you can or want to "destroy" or "fix", but something you want to clearly describe for what they truly are - parasitic institutions.
By the way, you CAN get a law degree, a PhD, even a Noble price with low IQ. You CAN become a business mogul with low IQ. You can be very effective in a great many ways with low IQ.
We managed to described a great many destructive things such as false advertisement, predatory lending, monopoly. The reason we are able to describe them is because they are all involved with financial transactions, dollars and cents, without any rounding errors.
Describing why Activism or Communism is parasitic may be done the same way, as both of these are bottom-less money pits never building any tangible wealth.
Islam is the same way, and to me the visit by Trump was an eye-opener. The wealth of the emirates is based on natural resources, based on depleting them. Trump brought them the idea of Commerce, in intellectual assets, a wealth-building not resource-depleting proposal.
I did not vote for Trump because of politics, I voted for him because of his constructive ideas.
@FourOh-LLC @OneEyeKing I guess we get into perhaps needing to redefine what IQ means and that's a subject for endless debate. That said, while I do not agree with much of what Thomas Sowell has to say, I none the less do not dismiss him as remotely average, if he were he'd be a lot less effective at spreading his ideas than he has been.
"many ethical norms" are also not cultural. Ethics are tolerated, not celebrated. US Politicians visiting "culturally entrenched regions" wearing signifying outfits are fucking tolerated.
Sorry for the outburst, but ethics are a necessity and culture is a menace to Civilization.
How do we stop dystopian science-fiction movies coming true? Are we destined to be ruled by robots, and to relinquish our free will and creativity to artificial intelligence? Such questions are bec…
For one of my network storage PC builds, I was looking for an alternative to Flatcar Container Linux and tried out NixOS again (after an almost 10 year break).
Per IMDB: "Gene Roddenberry told his wife Majel Barrett that her character Lwaxana Troi was written as 'the Auntie Mame of the Galaxy.'" Well she certainly nailed that characterization! #scifi #StarTrek
I really like the reinvisioning they've done for Nurse Chapel in Strange New Worlds though. Barret's Nurse Chapel in TOS seemed one dimensional and she wasn't in that many scenes in TOS!
I've got several of the songs from a Rhapsody in Space from last season on my Tidal playlist and every time Jess Bush's song comes on about the Vulcan fellowship I can't help but turn the volume up. And how they went and ran with Dr. Mbenga who only appeared IN THE PILOT (!) and fleshed him out into such a multi-dimensional and layered character was also so exciting to see.
A hate-fueled suspect launched a “targeted terror attack’’ in Colorado on Sunday — setting at least one woman on fire as he lobbed Molotov cocktails at participants at an event for Israeli hostages…
😡 Senator “warmonger” Lindsey Graham’s and Senator “Da Nang Dick” Blumenthal’s recent visit to Ukraine, this attack could appear as though it was sanctioned without President Trump's knowledge.... These two democrats need to have their Security Clearance suspended immediately pending investigations!💥
Can someone tell me why the suicide of Charlotte Fosgate/burntfishie in particular is getting all this attention? To me it's just another trans suicide. Was this person's Sonic hacks notable for being shit? Did he ruin a particular Sonic ROM hacking forum or Discord?
And I don't think it's just Stonetoss that brought attention to the situation, unless he is familiar with this person.
it's because the person posted a picture before they killed themselves on the bridge and that post went viral and then Stone toss and other people when they found out about it made fun of it which added fuel to the fire and it's just been continually been perpetuated by both sides hating each other that's the only reason I got so big.
it's because the person posted a picture before they killed themselves on the bridge and that post went viral and then Stone toss and other people when they found out about it made fun of it which added fuel to the fire and it's just been continually been perpetuated by both sides hating each other that's the only reason It got so big.
@Mr_NutterButter I feel like it is common for suicidal people to post photos of their suicide site before taking the plunge, but I might be wrong. Though this person went missing for almost a month before people connected this burntfishie account with the missing person. I don't know how Stonetoss was able to find out about him. He doesn't even seem to be well known in the Sonic modding community either.
@beardalaxy I ultimately don't care about it either. I realized over the years that getting into such drama is pointless, but at the same time, I understand that these types of people are common in these types of communities and that a suicide in said communities could bring in a victim-blaming game in which people will have their lives ruined because they will be accused of contributing to the suicide (no matter how true it is).
I don't know. One of my biggest fears in life is to be blamed for someone else's suicide. I will never in a million years intentionally cause someone to kill themselves, but given how mentally unstable some people are, I feel like I might say or do something that finally gets someone to take the plunge and have my name appear in their death note.
It somehow made its way to my Explore page on Twitter when I check there for news. I think it got so much attention because of how apathetic all of the person's "online friends" were towards his suicidal posts. They all just completely supported it and played into it (I get dark humor but this somehow just feels like straight apathy) or would change the subject into something else entirely like a casual conversation, without paying attention to the suicide tendency in question. They grew desensitized to it... until it finally happens. So I think this type of apathetic behavior might be shocking for people looking in from the outside. Even for someone like me, I did find it odd. They glorify suicide. Where the fuck are the person's parents when all of this is going down? Younger people nowadays are fucked inside these mentally unwell communities. I remember growing up, if someone would say such things online, I personally would take it seriously and try to talk to them. Now they all just want to kill themselves and propagate the idea inside the group. I believe turning to online communities for "help", where there are more mentally unwell retards constantly pushing each other over the edge with whatever they are trying to deal with, is adding fuel to the fire. I see it constantly, people coping online with other bad habits that the community they're in pushes on them.
Unironically, I think a lot of them need Jesus. lol Not retards online passing their own demons onto them.
@veru A lot of their suicide threats look like shitposts you find on here. One was on April Fools day in response to some anime announcement. The other was talking about hanging via a ceiling fan until his mother showed up. There are probably more, but they don't look too serious.
At the international news service, Liam Scott chronicled abuses against journalists at home and abroad. Then the experiences of those he wrote about became his own
In this wide-ranging but oftentimes shocking interview, Jimmy speaks with Catherine Austin Fitts, the former United States Assistant Secretary of Housing and...
Ukrainian terror attacks on Russian civilian trains and Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian airfields extending as far away as Irkutsk in Eastern Siberia
Microsoft wants to take a continuous stream of screenshots of your system. They have been keylogging for a long time. Microsoft has been using Copilot to spy. ( schneier.com/blog/archives/202… ) Storage remains cheap; Microsoft's cluster is way up the list on top500.org. Eating as much data as you can and keeping it around forever in case you figure out how to use it at some point in the future is espoused by Microsoft, Google, Facebook, everyone, all of the large tech companies. Data is considered an asset, active user metrics represent not just ad inventory but also a continued stream of data. AI prompts are part of that data, kept around forever, besides being used to train new versions of the AI. AI image generation tools produce unique images. Image search is old tech. You can build it from scratch in your house: you normalize the image, you adjust color to maximize noise and then you boil it down to a 8x8 1bpp square first so that you have a 64-bit index, and that's often enough for a match, but if you have a lot of really similar images, you can just treat that as a constraint on the search space. It's not exactly CS-101, but it's something you can do maybe two or three years in. Microsoft makes a big chunk of its money from government contracts. PhotoDNA came out of Microsoft Research. AI-generated images are tied to an account: if not a credit card, at least an identity with IP/email/time, maybe a phone number for 2FA. AI-generated images are almost certainly kept around. It is not hard at OpenAI's (i.e., Microsoft's) scale to retain a searchable corpus of all previously generated images. People are using AI tools to make avatars. None of those people are actually anonymous.
Microsoft announced that it caught Chinese, Russian, and Iranian hackers using its AI tools—presumably coding tools—to improve their hacking abilities.
>AI-generated images are tied to an account: if not a credit card, at least an identity with IP/email/time, maybe a phone number for 2FA.
wonder if github pushing mfa on everyone is related to this - the pretense is "security", but if you really think about it, there's no good reason to require a phone number for a service like that, without an ulterior motive.
@icedquinn @genmaicha Oh, yeah, the power bill even. I read this guy's blog, I think he was from the UK but maybe from the US, and he was living in Beijing, and basically slumming it, which made the stories really interesting. So the apartment he was renting, there was a special card that needed to be used to pay the power bill, and no one knew where the card was, so he couldn't use more electricity than the free allotment.
@icedquinn @jae @genmaicha I do! I had written a post about the guy gutting his blog and Wayback not having it, but I decided to see if they'd added it (they have imported a lot of external crawls since the last time I checked) and the history has been restored: web.archive.org/web/2010112020… . Also pretty interesting if kind of a downer: web.archive.org/web/2010112104… . And for the lulz, he has translated some Chinese things: web.archive.org/web/2010112023… .
@jae @genmaicha @icedquinn The "Let's Make a Mac" article is incredibly fascinating, but that's the one that covers a big chunk of logistical problems in Beijing. The reason he has duct-taped the hackintosh is hilarious.
@genmaicha @icedquinn @jae Apparently he's from Detroit; I remembered wrong. I am exceedingly pleased that you asked for a link, I haven't seen these articles in years.
Well, this was interesting: web.archive.org/web/2010112023… . I don't think most of it is news to anyone besides white women. I will say the ex saw the Dalai Lama give some MIT higher-up (I think it was either the dean or Minsky) a prayer mat; left out of the headlines was that this prayer mat was made from human skin, if that gives you an idea of the degree of feudalism in Tibet.
Also of note (depending on what counts as notable to you; cc @mint ), weird coincidence (or not exactly because emu scene was a small world), he was hosting byuu on a subdomain: web.archive.org/web/2007102914…
If you're speaking in general, I'm full of links but topics tend to pop up in conversations.
@jae @mint @genmaicha > tibetan feudalism i have heard the tibet government isn't the nicest, though not predisposed to believe the CCP has anyone's best interests at heart by occupying it.
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To add your icloud email address to any desktop mail client on Linux, enter these parameters:
The server for receiving email is imap.mail.me.com. It uses SSL, and the port is 993. The user is your icloud address, and for the password, you'll need to generate an app specific password.
As per sending email, the server is smtp.mail.me.com, SSL is needed, and the port is 587. The address and password are the same that you entered for email reception.
For contacts and calendars, the parameters to enter are the following: As the calendar address, enter caldav.icloud.com/ . Your user name is your icloud address, and your password is the app password you generated earlier. Same goes for contacts, except the address to enter is contacts.icloud.com/.
You can access Notes and Reminders through the web portal. They only have the basic features. iWork apps, like Numbers, pages and Keynote are also all accessible.
Now for photos, the web interface is serviceable, you get your albums, a list of pictures, you can upload photos manually and have them show up on all your other devices, but you won't be able to edit them from here.
There is no auto upload app that will let you send pictures from your desktop to your icloud photo library either, you'll have to do manual uploads.
There's a command line utility called icloud photos downloader:
As per files stored in iCloud drive, this one will also only be accessible through the web interface, you can't mount it as external storage or auto sync files to a Linux desktop, which kinda sucks.
If you use Apple Music, there's a fantastic Linux desktop client, called Cider. You can install it from flathub,or as a snap, a debian package, and an appimage, as well as from the AUR.
There is simply no way to access your imessages on Linux. No web interface, no app, no third party client. it's a closed source program and protocol, and so unless Apple decides to offer a web interface or to open the protocol, you'll have to keep using your smartphone or tablet to answer these.
Connecting devices
What if you want to plug in a device and grab its contents on Linux, though? Well, that's supported. By default, when plugging in your iphone or ipad, it will show up as a camera device, provided you accept that access on the popup that appears on your device. It will show up with a DCIM folder.
It will be mounted as read-only, so you can't transfer files to it.
KDE Connect lets you sync stuff between a phone or tablet, and a linux desktop. It should be installed by default on KDE desktops, and on GNOME, you can install the GSConnect extension. Don't forget to reboot your computer afterwards, it never worked right after install for me.
On iOS, you can share the contents of the clipboard, send photos or videos, send regular files, use the device as a slideshow remote, run commands, or use it as a virtual touchpad. You can also send files to your iDevice, and they'll show up in the Files app, in local files, in the KDE Connect folder.
I thought we abandoned Ukraine in January > Macron warns US and the Indo-Pacific not to abandon Ukraine at the expense of focusing on China euronews.com/2025/05/30/macron…
Macron said that any shifts to developing a more hard-line deterrent stance in the Indo-Pacific is still tied to how the world — and particularly the West — treats other critical issues.
In this tour de force essay, Hans-Hermann Hoppe turns the standard account of historical governmental progress on its head. While the state is an evil in all
Most teams are curious about fine-tuning and how it might help their AI products, but they don't know what to expect from the process, how to measure success, or where to start.
As part of its counter-proposal, Hamas has agreed to release 10 living Israeli hostages and 18 deceased ones for 125 Palestinian prisoners and 1,111 detained Gazans.
Should be interesting to see what fallout comes from this—Russia isn’t exactly known for turning the other cheek. They’ve got a long history of brutal payback. So, удачі! theguardian.com/world/2025/jun…
An operation by Ukraine's #Security Service (SBU) using first-person-view (FPV) #drones smuggled deep inside Russian and hidden inside trucks has hit 41 Russian heavy bombers at four airfields across the country, a source in the agency told the Kyiv Independent on June 1.
Donald Trump claims his tariffs will bring back good manufacturing jobs and help to reindustrialize the United States, but all the evidence suggests this wil...
The increased rate of global #warming has shocked even the experts. Global temperatures in 2023, 2024 and 2025 so far has shattered previous records, and not by a little. Scientists have long known that #greenhouse gas #emissions are driving global warming, but the recent spike is faster and larger than anyone expected. Something is accelerating climate change, and we don’t fully understand what it is.
https://wmo.int/news/media-centre/wmo-confirms-2024-warmest-year-record-about-155degc-above-pre-industrial-level
There is no question more urgent than the one indicated by that red arrow in the graphic above.
Overnight Ukraine and NATO launched a coordinated attack, destroying over 40 of Russia's nuclear long range bombers. As a result Putin launched a Nuclear doo...
I believe turning to online communities for "help", where there are more mentally unwell retards constantly pushing each other over the edge with whatever they are trying to deal with, is adding fuel to the fire. I see it constantly, people coping online with other bad habits that the community they're in pushes on them.
Microsoft wants to take a continuous stream of screenshots of your system. They have been keylogging for a long time.
Microsoft has been using Copilot to spy. ( schneier.com/blog/archives/202… )
Storage remains cheap; Microsoft's cluster is way up the list on top500.org.
Eating as much data as you can and keeping it around forever in case you figure out how to use it at some point in the future is espoused by Microsoft, Google, Facebook, everyone, all of the large tech companies. Data is considered an asset, active user metrics represent not just ad inventory but also a continued stream of data.
AI prompts are part of that data, kept around forever, besides being used to train new versions of the AI.
AI image generation tools produce unique images.
Image search is old tech. You can build it from scratch in your house: you normalize the image, you adjust color to maximize noise and then you boil it down to a 8x8 1bpp square first so that you have a 64-bit index, and that's often enough for a match, but if you have a lot of really similar images, you can just treat that as a constraint on the search space. It's not exactly CS-101, but it's something you can do maybe two or three years in.
Microsoft makes a big chunk of its money from government contracts. PhotoDNA came out of Microsoft Research.
AI-generated images are tied to an account: if not a credit card, at least an identity with IP/email/time, maybe a phone number for 2FA.
AI-generated images are almost certainly kept around. It is not hard at OpenAI's (i.e., Microsoft's) scale to retain a searchable corpus of all previously generated images.
People are using AI tools to make avatars.
None of those people are actually anonymous.
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