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Satellite pictures taken before #US strikes indicated heavy traffic movements at the #Fordo nuclear plant in #Iran, in images taken on June 19th and 20th released today by @Maxar
On the 19th, 16 cargo trucks were seen across an access road leading to a tunnel entrance to the facility. A day later, trucks and bulldozers are reported to have been seen near the entrance to the main facility.
"Just a hole in the mountain": "The nuclear facility at #Fordow has not been seriously damaged"! "Most of what was hit was above ground and was recoverable" No deception and no surprise. And many questions about whether they achieved their goal.
#Isfahan facilities that were hit by cruise missiles were not damaged and this is evident from everywhere. #Natanz has been hit more seriously, as has #Arak.
Iran's immediate response by firing ballistic missiles at Israel, after a few hours, showed reflexes...
Trump probably wanted to put on a show, more than anything else...
We may or may not like North Korea, but it is increasingly clear that the temptation for countries not aligned with the United States to acquire nuclear weapons is aimed at securing a kind of life insurance against powers that do not respect international law. The West is dragging the planet into barbarism when it legitimizes attacks without any respect for the sovereignty of peoples and international law. No country should have nuclear weapons, and what these military actions do is accelerate the race for atomic bombs.
@Lizette603_23 So is Von Der Leyer, and Starmer and the German puppet (I don't even know his name) Macron. They are all in this mess. We have to rise up against all of them. #rebellionsanduprisings
The corrupt, conservative Democratic Party leadership is putting out far more effort to try to keep a progressive Democrat from becoming mayor of New York City than they are trying to keep Trump from starting Word War III.
For those posting online in social media blaming Israel & Jews for all the evil, how many of those in this meme are Jews? There's enough evil to go around that includes many nations covering all religions.
Democratic People's Republic of Korea offers nuclear weapons to #Iran: "To maintain peace and stability in the Middle East" Kim Jong Un said he was ready to support #Tehran as "independent state to independent state" #DPRK
All-India General Strike on 9 July: Let us escalate our struggle against the capitalist offensive!Let us make this strike a grand success! cgpi.org/26318
I envisioned This Land Is Mine as the last scene of my potential-possible-maybe- feature film, Seder-Masochism, but it’s the first (and so far only) scene I’ve animated. As the Bible says, “So the last will be first, and the first will be last.
The cost to US taxpayers of each *Tomahawk* from manufacture to launch is between $5 million and $10 million. Exorbitant cost aside, let’s not forget the penchant of colonizers to conquer Indigenes only to culturally appropriate the latter in order to name the weapons used for future expansion. RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6khpb…
Daniel Davis Deep Dive Merch: Etsy storehttps://www.etsy.com/shop/DanielDavisDeepDive?ref=seller-platform-mcnav This commentary strongly criticizes former P...
I am going straaaight to name-calling I don't care anymore
Very recently I had the great displeasure of arguing with FediTips which you may know for creating all kinds of informational content about the Fediverse and surrounding topics on their website, fedi.tips/.
That's great and all, if not for all the blatant disinformation regarding...literally any microblogging or even social media platform at all that isn't the Fediverse. Most notably, Bluesky.
FediTips, or rather the person behind it, Fedithings loves spreading plain disinformation regarding Bluesky and completely disregarding proven facts about Bluesky. Facts that are obvious by just reading one or two pages of the spec overview or the Wikipedia page on ATProto.
On the Fediverse, as I'm sure most of you will know, we use a sort of “message-passing” approach to sharing our posts around the network; We pass our posts directly to those which should see it, and we know who should see it because “oh hey, that guy followed me that one time!”. This is great! Everyone gets their posts no matter where they are, from completely different communities! (unless you deny them, we'll get to that)
These places, communities are often referred to as “Instances”. It's basically just the fancy term for communities though. But it's important to keep that in the back of your head for the rest of this.
Another important detail to keep in mind is how, on the Fediverse, your identity is usually tied to the community you chose. Your handle will quite literally look something like @[url=https://blog.cyrneko.eu/@/sunny@wonderful.garden]sunny@wonderful.garden[/url] (I don't think that's a real instance...I hope lol) and people will see you as being from that community
What about Bluesky? Oh boy, Completely different model.
Are there even instances?
To get this right out of the way: No. At least not how you think.
Whereas in the context of the Fediverse and all our communities we just sort of pass posts around directly, like people sending eachother letters, Bluesky went a different route
There is basically three important components:
Personal Data Servers – This is where the posts are
Relays – This is what gets the post from A to B
AppViews – Fancy speak for “the app the posts are in” / “The Bluesky app”
now, Personal Data Servers sort of explain themselves. It's where your posts are. If you or anyone else wants to go right to the source of those memes and shitposts, that's where they'll find them. Right open for everyone to see.
I'll refer to Personal Data Servers as just “PDS” from here on out.
Relays then take the posts from every single PDS they can possibly find and turns them into one long, always-updating list of all posts in the order they were posted.
And the AppView has the job of, well, letting you actually see those posts and interact with them; Make new posts, like stuff, share stuff. You know the drill
Notice how I didn't say what data is stored on a PDS? That's actually an important detail to know, so let's compare
So with a Fediverse server, because you're passing posts directly between eachother as if they're letters, you need to hold on to the posts yourself so that you can, well...read them.
This means that you have a copy of not just your posts, but also the posts of everyone you follow and interact with regularly. Anyone that appears on the feed, basically
On Bluesky though? You don't keep the posts of others, only your own are stored. Well, your own and anyone you happen to share space with on the PDS.
What is “defederation”?
Now we're back to the whole “denying” thing that I hinted at earlier.
Due to the fact that posts are exchanged directly between people, there might be like superevilcommunity.com that does nothing but send you like hatred or something else you plain don't like. And blocking those communities is known as “defederation”
Now, this is a stark difference to how Bluesky fundamentally works.
Because everyone gets their posts from the same place, the Relay, one cannot really block the server a post comes from; You're not getting it from there anyways.
But even if they did filter out posts of that kind, there is another issue that makes it near impossible to have this sort of moderation tool.
Account Portability and Moderation
Bluesky had one arguably good reason to not use the same tech that the Fediverse uses: Fedi's account moving ability is not robust enough.
on the Fediverse, you can move your account to a different server by setting up an “alias” or “redirect”. This will make it so that anyone which follows you will automatically follow the new account, and anyone that searches for your old account will be redirected to the new one.
But for Bluesky, this wasn't enough. Posts weren't moved across, and you had to take up an entirely new identity on that new community. So for their new tech they were developing, they have a new identifier that isn't tied to a server. This is called a DID:PLC identifier.
The important thing here, just so I don't lose myself in technical details, is that even when you were previously at one given server it is trivial to move to another one, keeping this identity. Unlike a fediverse identity which is tied to the community it was on.
And this is why “defederation” doesn't work on Bluesky.
The Point
The things I've discussed here are basically a breakdown of what I talked about with Feditips.
Repeatedly, feditips refused to acknowledge the fact that Bluesky works differently, that it isn't even “federation” per-se, and eventually they pulled the “think of the minorities which are scared for their lives” card.
On a Trans person. They were talking to a trans person. That is one of the minorities which are scared for their life.
At that point, I stopped talking to them and advised them to shut the fuck up
Feditips does this on the regular. They frequently spread disinformation about Bluesky in an effort to feed their superiority complex for using a different social media site. They blame those which use Bluesky and see them as below themselves. You can see them posting about oh how much better the fediverse is on the regular.
Preaching to the choir, on the fediverse. my {preferred term} in christ, you don't need to preach to fediverse users how good the fediverse is. Especially when those which ACTUALLY moderate and run communities and those which have been here for MUCH LONGER THAN YOU all agree that no, the Fediverse is not this perfect safe haven. Far from it.
If you come to me screaming about how “think of the minorities” how come I don't see you taking action on transmasc erasure on fedi, or how people of color are treated on fedi? Those are marginalized too, and you say you care so much about safety which is why you redirect everyone there. Why can't they find a home here? Could it be that fedi is...not perfect? That the structure we've built over many years makes it at best uncomfortable for those people to be here?
No, it couldn't be. The fediverse is perfect and we are all superior for using it. What's that, Blacksky is a thing and they are running completely independent infrastructure for the black community? No no, you must be hallucinating. What is that, they in large parts feel much safer there? Nope. Can't be. The Fediverse is perfect.
expanding on blacksky a bit...Just to expand on this a little bit, everything I've seen from the blacksky community is genuinely amazing. They are building their community and keeping eachother safe, and it is working much better on there than anything I've seen on fedi. Seriously, these people make their own software completely independent from Bluesky PBLLC, and I've heard some rumours they even want to have their own AppView.
I see a lot of misinformation about bluesky here, so I want to address a lot of the talking points against atproto/bluesky.
This is partially inspired by accounts like mastodon migration and feditips being really annoying about bluesky.
How Bluesky Works
I see a lot of people misunderstanding how it works. The network has three main parts: 1. A PDS -- This stands for Personal Data Server. These store information in records, like who you are following, your posts, who you are blocking and your images. 2. A relay -- These crawl PDSes and keep a copy of all the records on them. They give a "Firehose" of all the data on the network (that they crawled). 3. An AppView -- These index and work through the data from the firehose. All interactions are handled through these, meaning if someone follows me on bluesky, that app.bsky.graph.follow record will be crawled by the relay, and recieved by the AppView. bsky.app/ is an Appview. Appviews don't always have to use the relays, whtwnd.com/ connects to PDSes directly.
This is different to ActivityPub, where if I follow someone, my server sends that information directly to the other person's server.
Common misconceptions
An atproto relay is too expensive to run.
atproto.africa/ is a second full-network relay run by the blacksky team. We already have a second relay, and they're not even that expensive to run anymore, a lot of people run non-archival (meaning it doesn't backfill every post) relays for less than $40 a month.
There is no instances available except for bsky.social
bsky.social isn't actually an instance, its just the domain name assigned to users by default. This is explained here: app.wafrn.net/fediverse/post/f…
Wafrn has (opt-in) bluesky support, they act as a PDS and AppView, so if bluesky disappears tomorrow they can switch to the atproto.africa relay. (There is DID:PLC which is a problem, but I'll get to that later.)
You can't defederate bsky.social, this proves atproto is centralised!
While you could ignore records from a specific PDS on the App layer, its pretty pointless, since atproto is portable/content addressed, meaning a user could seamlessly move to another PDS. (AP does support moving, but its pretty seamful.)
Bluesky can censor people in turkey, this proves they're centralised!
Those posts weren't removed, people on third party bluesky apps in turkey could still see them. People in Turkey are automatically subscribed to a Moderation Service which hides those posts, as the government requires it. If a person unsubscribes, or uses a third party app/server the posts are still there.
Bluesky isn't decentralised as someone was banned for pointing out the head of T&S liked jailbait porn.
That person came back on a different PDS. They literally are still on bluesky because they joined a different server.
Bluesky went down due to a DDoS, this proves they are centralised!
The DDoS only crashed the Bluesky PDSes. People self hosting were fine.
Wafrn
Wafrn is a federated tumblr alternative. It started off as a tumblr clone, the dev added AP support, and eventually, Atproto support. Its a great example of how bluesky can be built on. If bluesky disappeared tomorrow, Wafrn could switch relays to atproto.africa, and still interact with people on other PDSes.
AppViewLite
appviewlite is a cool project I forgot to mention in the original post. It lets you self host an extremely lightweight Appview. You can crawl PDSes yourself, eliminating the need for a relay.
The main reason I made this post is because so many people are blindly anti-atproto, without fully understanding how it works and how it can be improved.
There is obviously problems with it, but it does a lot right. (There's a lot ActivityPub should do, like content addressing, DIDs and composable moderation).
I also think we could do with a better bridge. bridgy isn't really cutting it right now.
Note on did:plc, its the only centralised part of the network as of now, its essentially the underlying ID every account has. It is possible to use a did:web id instead, which is tied to a website name.
Well to answer that we must first look at how bsky.social is just the auto-assigned domains for new users
the underlying servers are all hosted at subdomains of .bsky.network, luckily mary-e
I am going straaaight to name-calling I don't care anymore
Very recently I had the great displeasure of arguing with FediTips which you may know for creating all kinds of informational content about the Fediverse and surrounding topics on their website, fedi.tips/.
That's great and all, if not for all the blatant disinformation regarding...literally any microblogging or even social media platform at all that isn't the Fediverse. Most notably, Bluesky.
FediTips, or rather the person behind it, Fedithings loves spreading plain disinformation regarding Bluesky and completely disregarding proven facts about Bluesky. Facts that are obvious by just reading one or two pages of the spec overview or the Wikipedia page on ATProto.
On the Fediverse, as I'm sure most of you will know, we use a sort of “message-passing” approach to sharing our posts around the network; We pass our posts directly to those which should see it, and we know who should see it because “oh hey, that guy followed me that one time!”. This is great! Everyone gets their posts no matter where they are, from completely different communities! (unless you deny them, we'll get to that)
These places, communities are often referred to as “Instances”. It's basically just the fancy term for communities though. But it's important to keep that in the back of your head for the rest of this.
Another important detail to keep in mind is how, on the Fediverse, your identity is usually tied to the community you chose. Your handle will quite literally look something like @[url=https://blog.cyrneko.eu/@/sunny@wonderful.garden]sunny@wonderful.garden[/url] (I don't think that's a real instance...I hope lol) and people will see you as being from that community
What about Bluesky? Oh boy, Completely different model.
Are there even instances?
To get this right out of the way: No. At least not how you think.
Whereas in the context of the Fediverse and all our communities we just sort of pass posts around directly, like people sending eachother letters, Bluesky went a different route
There is basically three important components:
Personal Data Servers – This is where the posts are
Relays – This is what gets the post from A to B
AppViews – Fancy speak for “the app the posts are in” / “The Bluesky app”
now, Personal Data Servers sort of explain themselves. It's where your posts are. If you or anyone else wants to go right to the source of those memes and shitposts, that's where they'll find them. Right open for everyone to see.
I'll refer to Personal Data Servers as just “PDS” from here on out.
Relays then take the posts from every single PDS they can possibly find and turns them into one long, always-updating list of all posts in the order they were posted.
And the AppView has the job of, well, letting you actually see those posts and interact with them; Make new posts, like stuff, share stuff. You know the drill
Notice how I didn't say what data is stored on a PDS? That's actually an important detail to know, so let's compare
So with a Fediverse server, because you're passing posts directly between eachother as if they're letters, you need to hold on to the posts yourself so that you can, well...read them.
This means that you have a copy of not just your posts, but also the posts of everyone you follow and interact with regularly. Anyone that appears on the feed, basically
On Bluesky though? You don't keep the posts of others, only your own are stored. Well, your own and anyone you happen to share space with on the PDS.
What is “defederation”?
Now we're back to the whole “denying” thing that I hinted at earlier.
Due to the fact that posts are exchanged directly between people, there might be like superevilcommunity.com that does nothing but send you like hatred or something else you plain don't like. And blocking those communities is known as “defederation”
Now, this is a stark difference to how Bluesky fundamentally works.
Because everyone gets their posts from the same place, the Relay, one cannot really block the server a post comes from; You're not getting it from there anyways.
But even if they did filter out posts of that kind, there is another issue that makes it near impossible to have this sort of moderation tool.
Account Portability and Moderation
Bluesky had one arguably good reason to not use the same tech that the Fediverse uses: Fedi's account moving ability is not robust enough.
on the Fediverse, you can move your account to a different server by setting up an “alias” or “redirect”. This will make it so that anyone which follows you will automatically follow the new account, and anyone that searches for your old account will be redirected to the new one.
But for Bluesky, this wasn't enough. Posts weren't moved across, and you had to take up an entirely new identity on that new community. So for their new tech they were developing, they have a new identifier that isn't tied to a server. This is called a DID:PLC identifier.
The important thing here, just so I don't lose myself in technical details, is that even when you were previously at one given server it is trivial to move to another one, keeping this identity. Unlike a fediverse identity which is tied to the community it was on.
And this is why “defederation” doesn't work on Bluesky.
The Point
The things I've discussed here are basically a breakdown of what I talked about with Feditips.
Repeatedly, feditips refused to acknowledge the fact that Bluesky works differently, that it isn't even “federation” per-se, and eventually they pulled the “think of the minorities which are scared for their lives” card.
On a Trans person. They were talking to a trans person. That is one of the minorities which are scared for their life.
At that point, I stopped talking to them and advised them to shut the fuck up
Feditips does this on the regular. They frequently spread disinformation about Bluesky in an effort to feed their superiority complex for using a different social media site. They blame those which use Bluesky and see them as below themselves. You can see them posting about oh how much better the fediverse is on the regular.
Preaching to the choir, on the fediverse. my {preferred term} in christ, you don't need to preach to fediverse users how good the fediverse is. Especially when those which ACTUALLY moderate and run communities and those which have been here for MUCH LONGER THAN YOU all agree that no, the Fediverse is not this perfect safe haven. Far from it.
If you come to me screaming about how “think of the minorities” how come I don't see you taking action on transmasc erasure on fedi, or how people of color are treated on fedi? Those are marginalized too, and you say you care so much about safety which is why you redirect everyone there. Why can't they find a home here? Could it be that fedi is...not perfect? That the structure we've built over many years makes it at best uncomfortable for those people to be here?
No, it couldn't be. The fediverse is perfect and we are all superior for using it. What's that, Blacksky is a thing and they are running completely independent infrastructure for the black community? No no, you must be hallucinating. What is that, they in large parts feel much safer there? Nope. Can't be. The Fediverse is perfect.
expanding on blacksky a bit...Just to expand on this a little bit, everything I've seen from the blacksky community is genuinely amazing. They are building their community and keeping eachother safe, and it is working much better on there than anything I've seen on fedi. Seriously, these people make their own software completely independent from Bluesky PBLLC, and I've heard some rumours they even want to have their own AppView.
Wafrn is the main wafrn instance, a tumblr inspired federated social network that can connect with the fediverse. Follow your friends from mastodon, misskey, akkoma, and, if its your thing, threads too
PDSes and relays exist at the whim of Bluesky's corporate entity. Having all of the endpoints on the network controlled by a single agent is what makes Bluesky centralized. If Bluesky decided so, your server can be removed from their network and is functionally useless at that point. They decide who is and is not allowed to be a part of Bluesky.
For contrast, no such governing body exists with ActivityPub networks. Nobody can decide whether or not an instance should be removed from the network, they can only choose whether or not to federate with that instance. If you wanted to truly silence a Lemmy instance, for example, it would take the cooperation of all the major Lemmy admins to defederate, and is an entirely democratic process as a result.
EDIT: To clarify, ATProto is not what is centralized, "Bluesky" the platform utilizing ATProto, is what's centralized.
That's at a very different level. With dot social it's about a quarter of the active users on the fediverse, whereas bluesky is probably something like 95% centralized in practice. It seems to keep improving, but right now it's basically impossible to use without mostly interacting with bsky.
I know, but that wasn't my point. Getting cut off by a large server is a problem in any network. Yes, its bad that bluesky controls most of atproto, but its possible to use atproto without bluesky.
I have read it, and a lot of the problems have been addressed. Bluesky is still very early. There was an awkward period where lemmy was mostly lemmy.ml.
I'm not trying to cherry pick anything, I'm just addressing arguments against it I have seen.
My point was that the network was fairly centralised in the beginning. The people behind atproto.africa are working on an alternate bluesky appview anyway.
#Milei hat in #Argentinien den Kauf und Besitz von halbautomatischen Waffen für Zivilisten unter Auflagen ermöglicht.
Dies ist der nächste Schritt in Einlösung eines seiner #Wahlversprechen, nachdem bereits das #Mindestalter auf 18 Jahre herabgesetzt und der Erwerbsprozess beschleunigt wurden.
Anscheinend zeigen #Studien in den #USA, dass es in Gegenden, in denen Bürger sich selbst verteidigen können, weniger Gewaltverbrechen gibt. Die Theorie dahinter scheint zu sein, dass Kriminelle immer Zugang zu Waffen finden und ihnen der Staat damit gerade in Gegenden mit strikteren Waffenbesitzregelungen einen Vorteil verschafft, der sie eher motiviert, die Waffe auch einzusetzen. Wogegen in Gegenden, in denen der Kriminelle befürchten muss, einem bewaffneten #Opfer gegenüber zu stehen, der #Waffeneinsatz und sogar die Kriminalität insgesamt niedriger ist.
#Milei hat dazu sicher eine datengetriebene Meinung. Insoweit würde ich ihm im Zweifel glauben, dass auch bei diesem Thema #Freiheit besser ist als #Staat.
#US #news media conveniently forgetting that the #CIA helped overthrow a #DemocraticallyElected #Iranian #government in 1953, forcing #Iranians to endure decades of the Shah’s brutal rule which ultimately resulted in the #Islamic #Revolution that they cite for every single thing they think is wrong with #Iran, but the US caused the entire situation and its consequences. #USpol #Iran #Trump
Since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired the members of the CDC’s esteemed vaccine advisory panel, medical organizations and experts are looking for alternatives.
In the wake of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to shake up a key federal vaccine advisory committee, outside medical organizations and independent experts are looking for alternate sources of unbiased information and even considering forming a group of their own.
A leading contender is a new group led by Michael Osterholm, an infectious disease expert and the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) at the University of Minnesota.
Osterholm is launching the Vaccine Integrity Project at CIDRAP as a potential alternative to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.
“We’ve always just taken for granted that routine child immunizations and other vaccines would be readily available and that they would be supported by the public health system,” Osterholm said. “Now that’s in question.”
In the wake of RFK Jr.'s decision to shake up ACIP, outside medical organizations and experts are looking for alternate sources of unbiased information and even considering forming a group of their own.
@rlier23 i did some thinking and you could consider getting a AM5 motherboard and CPU to be more future proof depending on the price compared to the AM4 build
I'm going to be adding some improvements to God's Disdain soon, such as the ability to zoom in on the map found through clicking on the item, extra item interaction animations, and a boat on the overworld to make it more obvious where you can obtain one. Does anybody have more suggestions for improvements?
Just as a refresher, this is what the 2009 Brookings paper said about using Israel to provoke a war, and how the US required a perceived Iranian "provocation" to wade into the war itself.
Eles abandonam a terra, recusando-se a sacrificar-se por ela — porque nunca foi a terra deles. A verdade fala por si — nunca é difícil ver quem realmente pertence à terra.
They leave the land, refusing to sacrifice for it — because it was never their land The truth speaks for itself — it's never hard to see who truly belongs to the land.
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Araghchi condemns the US and Israel’s attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, calling for urgent UN action and reaffirming Iran’s right to self-defense. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi strongly condemned the [...]
Ich hab gestern mein Smartphone von Englisch auf deutsch umgestellt und ich Frage mich wie ihr das macht.
Hab jetzt schon zweimal (Reddit und newpipe) Videos mit komplett bescheuerter KI Übersetzung vorgelegt bekommen, weil das Original in Englisch war.
Auch viel content scheint übersetzt zu sein, da bin ich aber nicht sicher.
Also zur Frage: Handy auf Deutsch oder Englisch? Wie geht ihr mit Maschinenübersetzungen um? Bin ich der Einzige dem das auffällt oder der saß untergeschoben bekommt?
Thank you for the follow, and thanks for all your fantastic work. I’ve passed along copies of Little Brother to friends’ kids, and local libraries. Subversive in the best possible way.
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My next novel, *Picks and Shovels*, is officially out in the US and Canada on Feb 17, and I'm about to leave on a 20+ city book-tour, which means there's a nonzero chance I'll be in a city near you between now and the end of the sp…
solved: not plasmas fault: the monitors own smartcontrast did that.
Hi, please kindly direct me to the right community to ask this:
Plasma 6 is my favorite DE and i use KDE neon. The screen brightness adapts automatically to the windows i focus on, which is a good idea. But it does that the wrong way IMO. Dark windows are dimmed and bright windows are lit up. Why? Now i have both extremes switching back and forth all the time. Can we turn that the other way around or turn it off please?
I like that the screens hardware brightness setting is used now from the desktop. Great! But now i have no control over it anymore, since when i open a bright window, the brightness setting goes up too. I hate that at night.
Usually adjusting the brightness for me has one purpose: - bright room: max display brightness (day) - dark room: min display brightness (night)
...maybe something in between for transition. All the other features are nice to have but please only work on them when this main feature is secured.
If both monitors are messing with your sensors, you may just want to disable adaptive brightness and manually control it. They don't seem to have a workaround for it as of yet.
Whoops, it's already been months since I last blogged. I've been actively involved with Plasma and especially its power management service PowerDevil for over a year now. I'm still learning about how everything fits together.
That's probably the new Extended Dynamic Range setting from Plasma 6.4. You can find it in the display settings. It is meant to adjust the display's brightness to emulate an HDR display.
The screen brightness adapts automatically to the windows i focus on, which is a good idea.
That's definitely not something Plasma is doing... Sounds like your monitor is dumb with "adaptive contrast" or just terribly implemented local dimming.
"The order that we received from our CIC was focused; it was powerful , & it was clear. We devastated the Iranian nuclear program. What it's worth noting that the operation did not target the Iranian troops or the Iranian people. For the entirety of his time in office, President Trump, has consistently stated for over 10 yrs, that Iran must not get a nuclear weapon, full stop. Thanks to President Trump's bold & visionary leadership ...
Starmer’s police state plans now include ban on action against genocide while he continues to support slaughter of Palestinians and unprovoked war on Iran
Starmer’s police state plans now include ban on action against genocide while he continues to support slaughter of Palestinians and unprovoked war on Iran Keir Starmer and Home Secretary Yvet…
Depends on the timeline. Years from now when everyone has forgotten her? Maybe. But right now she's too high-profile and it would be too obvious, even for the pseudo-mask-off regime. I think at most it will be a resignation.
Taiwan is "of course" a country and China lacks both the historical evidence and legal proof to back up its sovereignty claims, President Lai Ching-te said on Sunday in a strong rebuke to Beijing and its stepped up political and military pressure.
China says democratically-governed Taiwan is "sacred" Chinese territory that has belonged to the country since ancient times, and that the island is one of its provinces with no right to be called a state.
Lai and his government strongly reject that view, and have offered talks with China multiple times but have been rejected. China calls Lai a "separatist".
Giving the first of 10 speeches in a series called "uniting the country", Lai drew on Taiwan's history, including the millennia-long connection of its indigenous people to other Austronesians, like native Hawaiians, to show what he said was Taiwan's separate and distinct development from China.
>AMD releases new CPU for 9 year old AM4 socket >Rumors about new Intel CPU Nova Lake-S requiring a new socket LGA 1854 despite the previous one LGA 1851 being only 8 months old...
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Jon Elmer, contributing editor, reports on the first week of the war with Iran launched by Israel on the morning of 13 June 2025. The full broadcast is avail...
The territorial aspect of the conflict is only the result of “military logic” making this a fait accompli as the conflict dragged on after the Anglo-American Axis sabotaged spring 2022’s peace talks.
About a year ago, I heard someone mention that Outer Wilds had a VR mod. I do have a VR setup and am an experienced VR player, so I really could experience this game for the first time in VR.
Is that reasonable or should I play it the first time with flat graphics?
I have only played the game in VR and loved it. The mod worked great for me a year or two ago so unless a patch went through it still should. Since you’re an experienced VR player I don’t think you’ll have too much issue with motion sickness. That being said it takes a lot to make me nauseous, so your results may vary. I think it’s an amazing way to get drawn into the world.
Although specific for the UK, I doubt these numbers differ much between countries. The market has always been an ideological construct, to benefit a small clique.
The street that my mum lives in is a one-way street, but wasn't marked as such on #Google Maps. This caused many drivers to drive the wrong way. I have tried to edit it on Google Maps (there is such functionality), but to no avail. No matter how often I submitted a change (with photos of street signs!), Google said "Sorry, we could not verify it".
Solution: Edit the street on #OpenStreetMap! A few months after I did this, Google seems to have stolen the data, as it regularly does, and now the street is correct in both datasets!
I wonder if their 'verification' process is literally just "look it up on other maps like OSM and see if it says the same thing" so that they can claim that Technically, It Was Contributed To Us
Good hint. Have a similar issue here. Pity OSM is 100% perfect already with bollards and footpath where Google shows a regular road.🤦♀️ I wish they would just copy this.
Yea, I've also made edits on openstreetmap that Google Maps have stolen.
To make an edit on Google Maps you need another user with privileges to approve the change. Or make lots of changes yourself to level up and have more control.
that's a great hint, thank you! I have a similar Situation here, Google decided last summer, that the street where I live in, is not longer accessible by car, which makes route planning impossible. Great problem with parcel delivery services... I will have a look at OSM and will see, what I can do.
In my experience, edits on Apple Maps are applied within some days up to two weeks at most. They appear to use some user based trust rating, as my initial edits needed significantly more time. I made approximately 100 edits so far.
Je ne vous partagerai pas ici l'image du Golfe du Mexique renommé dans Google Maps.
Mais il s'en est suivi un débat légitime sur le boycott de ce service.
Could they please also steal the shapes of buildings that don't fall into the river? It's been like that for at least 4 years. In general, Google Maps are broken like that at least in St Petersburg and Dubai. They were fine in Paris, Brussels and Cologne when I visited Europe last year but I still had trust issues.
Στον θάνατο μιας 19χρονης, που εργαζόταν εθελοντικά στη Δομή Φιλοξενίας Κορίνθου, αναφέρεται το ΚΚΕ Κορινθίας με ανακοίνωσή του, στηλιτεύοντας το ότι «η πολιτική ΕΕ και κυβερνήσεων που θεωρεί την Υγεία…
#greece should face the appropriate damage because of hosting an alleged criminal, with an arrest warrant, who executed another terrorist attack in Iran. Greece should be target.
Regarding Adam's comments about Siri's "not ready" clip. There was a key statement in that clip. Apple is trying to run the model on-device. You can't run a model of any usable size on an iPhone. Even if it had the memory, it would take days for it to crunch through the prompt. It's like trying to pull a tractor trailer with a Honda Civic.
So, instead, they have to run smaller models which can't handle any worth while tasks.
No way the Zionist entity can sustain a conflict with Iran for this long - even with US support! Neither has the manufacturing capacity to re-stock the expended munitions! The US/ NATO are already struggling to supply Ukraine!
“BREAKING: Iran estimates that the war will last up to 6 months, and has planned for this”
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in reply to Spartacus • • •"Most of what was hit was above ground and was recoverable"
No deception and no surprise. And many questions about whether they achieved their goal.
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in reply to Spartacus • • •#Isfahan facilities that were hit by cruise missiles were not damaged and this is evident from everywhere. #Natanz has been hit more seriously, as has #Arak.
Iran's immediate response by firing ballistic missiles at Israel, after a few hours, showed reflexes...
Trump probably wanted to put on a show, more than anything else...
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